Two chapters in which the fundamental principles and methods of
radioactive inquiry are explained and followed by chapters on radium in
the earth’s surface, the effects of radium as a factor in terrestrial
thermodynamics, an inquiry whether the same cause of instability may in
any degree account for the more general movements of the ocean bed which
were first referred to by Darwin, and specialized problems of the
mountains and problems of earth-heat in general.
* * * * *
“Suffers from the defects to all books which are written with one
purpose and rewritten with another. When it comes to be expanded into a
book, its provisional character is rather disagreeably evident, and the
fact that the author barely touches upon the place of thorium in the
scheme produces in the mind of the lay reader the suspicion that there
are gaps left unfilled in the main argument which may make his
assimilation of the rest of the reasoning useless. We have thought it
best thus to mark at the outset the limitations of the book; for the
rest, we have nothing but praise for Prof. Joly’s treatise. To use the
book for future reference the reader is almost compelled to make a fresh
index for himself.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 157. Ag. 7. 900w.
“It is necessarily easy to criticise a work of this character. Almost
all its conclusions are involved in assumptions. Yet the fundamental
position is sound. The book is full of suggestion and new lines of
thought. It will compel interest, and should do much to encourage and
direct investigation into what cannot fail to be a richly fruitful
field.”
+ − =Nature.= 81: 152. Ag. 5, ’09. 1550w.
=Jones, Dora Duty.=^{[11]} Technique of speech. **$1.25. Harper.
9–27292.
A work whose course is shaped by the rudimentary defects in American
voices and one in which the author applies the mechanism of speech to
the study of English diction. Pure pronunciation, she claims, lies at
the basis of clearness of speech and of resonance of voice in speaking
and singing. She teaches thru analysis of the organs of speech the
conscious control of the vocal organs, and offers carefully selected
studies in articulation and enunciation.
* * * * *
“Is obviously the result of careful study, experience, and practice—the
outcome, in fact, of years of actual experience as a teacher—[and] seems
worthy of indorsement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 743. N. 27, ’09. 500w.
=Jones, Forrest Robert.=^{[5]} Gas engine. $4. Wiley.
9–4148.
“The scheme of Mr. Jones’ book is unusual in several respects. The
general consecutive order is stated by the author to be ‘descriptive,
operative, testing for faults, theoretical, results of trials.’ The
first two-thirds of the book are rather for the operator than for the
student; it is not till near the end that pressure-volume diagrams are
explained and gas-engine cycles considered. A very considerable body of
practical operating experience is placed before the reader, though this
experience appears to have been with automobile and other gasoline
engines rather than with larger gas engines.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“A good semi-technical treatise.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 170. Je. ’09.
=Engin.= D. 5: 293. Mr. ’09. 230w.
“The first chapter is confused in its arrangement. The author does
better in dealing with operating and other details than in the more
general parts of the subject. Here and elsewhere there is a curious but
not very successful treatment of illustrations. On the whole, this book
is a useful contribution to gas-engine literature, but only from the
operative standpoint. In that particular it occupies a place by itself.”
L. S. Marks.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 43. Ap. 15, ’09. 1400w.
“The text is very clear and the illustrations unusually good.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 699. My. 29, ’09. 250w.
=Jones, Harry Clary, and Anderson, John Augustus.=^{[12]} Absorption
spectra of solutions of certain salts of cobalt, nickel, copper,
iron, chromium, neodymium, praseodymium, and erbium in water, methyl
alcohol, ethyl alcohol and acetone, and in mixtures of water with
the other solvents. $3.50. Carnegie inst.
9–9963.
“Gives results for about 1,200 new and different solutions. Besides
publishing the maps of the spectra, an analysis of the bands has been
undertaken for the purpose of comparison with Beer’s law.” (Nation.)
“The principle which underlies the whole research is that the absorption
spectrum of a solution consists simply of the superposed absorption
spectra of all the molecular species present in the solution.”
(Science.)
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 89: 40. Jl. 8, ’09. 180w.
Reviewed by A. B. Lamb.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 565. O. 22, ’09. 1400w.
=Jones, Henry.=^{[12]} Idealism as a practical creed; being the
lectures on philosophy and modern life delivered before the
University of Sydney. *$2. Macmillan.
Studies in idealism delivered as popular lectures to an Australian
audience. They teach “not quite the idealism of Berkeley, nor of Kant,
notwithstanding the Categorical imperative; but a still more sublimated
and spiritualized idealism than that of Hegel, even, whose teaching is
so thoroughly assimilated by the author, an idealism made up of the
teachings of Hegel and Carlyle, of Wordsworth and Browning; an idealism
in which mind, that has so large a part in the idealism of Hegel, is
dominated by spirit.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“Were the counsels of perfection so engagingly presented for our
consideration in this volume only acted upon, this world would be a
different sort of world,—indeed, a veritable Utopia.” Mary Lloyd.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 620. N. ’09. 420w.
“Generous and well-inspired lectures. It is to be hoped that this
powerful presentation of the case for idealism will receive the
attention it deserves from a generation largely inclined to take up with
the ‘hybrid schemes’ whose impotence Professor Jones denounces. In
reading the sheets for the press, the author has apparently been
hurried.” A. S. Pringle-Pattison.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 8: 198. O. ’09. 3250w.
“We cannot imagine a method better calculated to interest his hearers in
the practical value of philosophy than that which Professor Jones has
adopted. His philosophical style is more eloquent than that of any
modern writer, except, perhaps, Professor Santayana. He has much of
Professor Royce’s wistful graciousness, though his tone is more
masculine. While he is stimulating, he is also persuasive, an infrequent
and most valuable combination.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 419. S. 18, ’09. 1550w.
=Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.= What does Christmas really mean? a sermon begun
by John T. McCutcheon, continued by Jenkin Lloyd Jones. 50c. Forbes.
9–20219.
The story of the real meaning of Christmas which a mother tells to her
little boy who thinks that the day was set apart only for holiday
sports, presents, and goodies to eat.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 499. Ja. ’09. 70w.
=Dial.= 45: 466. D. 16, ’08. 70w.
“The lesson of the book cannot fail of being useful in this day and
generation when Christmas loses so much of its true significance in the
worldly side of the festival that is so much accented.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1355. D. 16, ’09. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 798. D. 18, ’09. 50w.
=Jones, Rev. John Peter.= India, its life and thought. **$2.50.
Macmillan.
8–30291.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The fourteen papers that make up Dr. Jones’s inviting book are
independent studies upon one great theme, put together, apparently at
haphazard. It is precisely the sort of a book to ‘dip into.’” A. K.
Parker.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 640. O. ’09. 550w.
“Will contribute to a better understanding of India than many of the
books of travel now available.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 43. F. ’09.
+ =Ind.= 67: 762. S. 30, ’09. 210w.
“This is _the_ book on twentieth-century India.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 38: 386. Mr. 6, ’09. 310w.
“To all who desire to learn something of the conditions and
characteristics of [the Indians’] life and thought, it will prove
exceedingly helpful.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 17. Ja. 7, ’09. 230w.
“His book is not altogether satisfying because, as in the productions of
others in the same field of endeavor as himself, the missionary point of
view is allowed to predominate to the almost total exclusion of every
other. The ordinary reader will find too much of the ‘thought’ and not
enough of the ‘life’ of India in Dr. Jones’s book.” Forbes Lindsay.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 45. Ja. 23, ’09. 1200w.
“A well-digested description and analysis of the great Oriental land
which, however much we may study it, will always be a puzzle to western
thought.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 887. D. 19, ’08. 540w.
“Particularly interesting at the present moment is Mr. Jones’s first
chapter, on India’s unrest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 252. F. ’09. 90w.
“This is a profoundly interesting book throughout.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 65. Ja. 9, ’09. 250w.
=Jones, Philip Lovering.=^{[5]} Restatement of Baptist principles.
**50c. Am. Bapt.
9–9475.
A clear, concise, every way fine statement of the structural Baptist
principles by one who has been connected with the American Baptist
publication society for twenty years and the book editor for sixteen.
=Jones, Rufus Matthew.=^{[7]} Studies in mystical religion. *$3.50.
Macmillan.
9–35860.
“A book tracing the witness and weighing the evidence of mystical
experience from its first Christian sources to the end of the English
Commonwealth.... Mr. Jones traces the mystic sense from its first
sources in primitive Christianity, as it is offered in St. John the
Evangelist and St. Paul, through the ministry and organization of the
early church; he shows the rebound to prophecy in Montanism ... he
counts among the elements borrowed from Greek philosophy the influence
of Plato, the immense sway of Plotinus and the neo-Platonic school; he
sets forth—slightly, of necessity—the mystic elements in the teachings
of the Church Fathers ... and, after two chapters devoted to Dionysius
the Areopagite and to John Scotus Erigena, he turns entirely to the
mystical outpouring as it affected those spiritual groups that spread
over mediaeval Europe, the Waldenses, the spiritual Franciscans, the
Friends of God, the Brotherhood of the Common Life, the Lollards, the
Anabaptists, the Family of Love, etc.”—No. Am.
* * * * *
“An unprejudiced and sympathetic account, full of charm and interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 77. N. ’09.
“Dr. Jones is free from this one-sidedness. The incompleteness of his
book, is due to another cause—his exclusive interest in the Protestant
mystics and their spiritual forerunners. The essays in this volume are,
within these self-chosen limits, very helpful towards an understanding
of mysticism.” W. R. Inge.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 8: 208. O. ’09. 900w.
“Among recent books on the subject, Dr. Jones’s volume is pre-eminent
for its clear, sane and sober criticism of the various aspects of
mysticism.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1344. Je. 17, ’09. 700w.
“In a second edition, Professor Jones will, no doubt, revise the text so
as to remove certain inconcinnities and infelicitous statements. While a
truly scientific treatment of mysticism is still a ‘desideratum’ the
spirit in which this book is written and the information it contains
cannot but prove profitable.” Nathaniel Schmidt.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 20: 103. O. ’09. 2300w.
“In a collection of essays these structural defects are not so serious
as they would be in a systematic treatise, and there can be no question
that Mr. Jones’s sympathetic appreciation of mystical types of thought
and his ability to present them succinctly and in popular form are
certain to secure for his book the attention and recognition of many
readers.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 514. N. 25, ’09. 580w.
“Is the writer justified in giving the word mysticism such a wide use?
Exceedingly interesting and valuable book.” E: S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 455. Jl. 24, ’09. 900w.
“It is a book of wide and conscientious research, solid and steady
structure and noble aim. The style, considering the difficulties of the
subject and the kind of reading and study in which the author must long
have been immersed, is clear and definite, free of any attempt to dazzle
or confuse.”
+ =No. Am.= 189: 915. Je. 09. 550w.
“The one criticism which I could wish to urge does not seriously affect
either the structure or the workmanship of the book. Dr. Jones’s
interest is in that inwardly spiritual religion which is always new,
always creative, sometimes revolutionary, because of its sense of
immediate relationship with God; and such religion (with ample
historical precedent for the usage) he calls mystical. But does not the
term mysticism lose in usefulness by being applied so widely? The book
is written with clearness and quiet dignity. It is animated throughout
by breadth of fine and kindly sympathies, and by a sense of the
character of religion as a light and a power that from within controls
all the social fulfilments of our nature.” G. J. Blewett.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 663. N. ’09. 1250w.
“A popular book dealing from an unprejudiced standpoint with the
historical heresies is very much wanted just now. For such reading Mr.
Rufus Jones has whetted the appetite of all those into whose hands his
‘Studies’ may fall.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 346. S. 4, ’09. 1550w.
=Jones, Russell Lowell.=^{[7]} International arbitration as a
substitute for war between nations. *5s. Univ. press., St. Andrews,
Scotland.
A monograph that received the first of five prizes offered by Andrew
Carnegie upon this subject. The author “believes that war has been and
will continue to be the only means of settling certain differences among
states; thus, ‘When two nations are brought face to face; when the
expansion of either, means injuring the other, and both are equally
determined to protect their trade interests and their markets, their
political aims and ideals, then there remains but the sword to determine
which shall go on. Arbitration can never decide these huge questions of
progress and evolution.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“He handles many of the writers on the subject without gloves. After an
examination of some of the instances of arbitration in a manner
decidedly superficial, considering the point he seeks to make, he
concludes ‘in no single case—with only one notable exception [Alabama
claims]—has the difference to be solved been in any way dangerous to the
peace of the country concerned.’ This volume has neither a table of
contents nor an index.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 196. Ja. ’09. 180w.
“The book needs ‘pruning’ severely. It has the faults of most prize
essays. Despite them, this can be recommended as a good book on a most
difficult subject, and one which is marked, as Dr. Bosanquet says it is,
by learning, straightforwardness and common sense.” G. C. Rankin.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 516. Jl. ’09. 1000w.
“It is written in a stilted, disconnected fashion and in a tone that is
excessively complacent.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 168. Mr. ’09. 120w.
“Naturally it is largely occupied with a review of the past: in this
review Mr. Jones appears to keep a level judgment. And he is as
temperate in his anticipations as in his judgments.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 27. Jl. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Jones, William Henry Samuel.=^{[12]} Malaria and Greek history; to
which is added The history of Greek therapeutics and the malaria
theory, by E. T. Withington. *5s. University press of Manchester.
9–15882.
“This volume has a direct interest as a study in Greek history, an
indirect as a contribution to the campaign which is being carried on
against disease as produced by external causes, the struggle for
existence in which, as Mr. Jones puts it, disease parasites are
competitors with man. Mr. Jones deals separately with non-medical and
medical authorities, and brings an imposing array of testimony from
them. Yet we cannot help feeling how many are the gaps. Our knowledge of
Athens and Athenian life is great; but what do we know of Boeotia? Yet
it is probable that the low-lying country round Lake Copais suffered
much more from the malaria trouble than did Attica.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Is in substance a pamphlet issued in the interest of the anti-malaria
propaganda; and, since it manages to suggest that Pericles, Alexander
the Great, and Philopoemen died of the disease, and that it was St.
Paul’s ‘thorn in the flesh,’ it probably will be a good pamphlet.” W. S.
Ferguson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 115. O. ’09. 620w.
“This brief, but both learned and suggestive book is a welcome study in
the by-ways of Greek literature.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 366. S. 25. 780w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 386. O. 21, ’09. 650w.
“He has accumulated and arranged a large amount of information on a very
important subject.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1009. Je. 26, ’09. 140w.
=Jordan, David Starr.=^{[5]} Fate of Iciodorum: being the story of a
city made rich by taxation. **90c. Holt.
9–11245.
An allegory which exposes the very anatomy of protection. Dr. Jordan
shows how a little French town, Iciodorum, develops its manufacturing
industries by means of an octroi or tariff; how a tax makes prohibitive
wares from other cities; how high prices result in stripping the poor of
their little and giving it to the rich; “by reducing the problem to its
simplest terms, he shows us the repulsive reality that our Congressional
orators have been decking with fine phrases about the prosperity of the
laboring man, luxuries for the wage-earner, and defence of the American
home against the low standard of living that has made Europe a vast
poorhouse.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 195. Je. ’09.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 185. Jl. ’09. 110w.
=Dial.= 47: 52. Jl. 16, ’09. 80w.
“Clever satire.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1401. Je. 24, ’09. 140w.
“Critics of protection will be glad to meet protectionist argument in
such peculiarly delicious form; and perhaps persons not yet committed to
either side of the tariff question may find in the little story a saving
measure of enlightenment.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 308. My. ’09. 170w.
“An amusing little fable. After reading this book, no man who wishes to
get at the fundamental theory of protection can plead ignorance.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 388. Ap. 15, ’09. 720w.
“The republication is a timely as well as an interesting occurrence. The
book, on the whole, is a picturesque and not unconvincing treatment of
the tariff question.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 216. Ap. 10, ’09. 600w.
“A delightful and amusing satire.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 109. My. 15, ’09. 100w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= Higher sacrifice. 80c. Am. Unitar.
8–23287.
The higher service that grows out of higher education is Dr. Jordan’s
theme. “To know and to do is the basis of the highest service.”
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 466. D. 16, ’08. 40w.
=Jordan, David Starr.=^{[11]} Religion of a sensible American. *80c.
Am. Unitar.
9–23502.
Originally a contribution to the “Hibbert journal” in its series
covering the religious experiences of “sensible” men of different
nations, this essay sets forth the religion of Wilbur Wilson Thoburn who
was professor of binomics in Stanford university at the time of his
death in 1899. It is the religion that justified itself in swaying the
lives of young men and women “towards noble thoughts and sturdy
righteousness,” the religion that appeared in deeds rather than words, a
religion expressed “in terms of life.”
* * * * *
=Dial.= 47: 291. O. 16, ’09. 100w.
=Jordan, David Starr, and Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.=^{[5]} Scientific
aspects of Luther Burbank’s work. *$1.75. Robertson.
9–279.
Two papers setting forth the character and value of Luther Burbank’s
work. “The first author quotes largely Mr. Burbank’s own words, his own
account of results attained, and simply credits the gardener with an
artist’s genius in putting into practice the principles of Darwin. Dr.
Kellogg tells us the same things, cites many of the same facts by way of
illustration, declares that Mr. Burbank has brought to light no new
principle, but has excelled all other experimenters among plants by his
delicacy of touch, his boldness, and the magnitude of the scale on which
experiment is conducted. Each author contributes also a ‘vorwort,’ or
introductory note; the first a biographical appreciation, the second
more nearly prefatory.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It would have been largely increased in usefulness if revised to record
Mr. Burbank’s later achievements and to correct some popular notions.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 171. Je. ’09.
“The book is interesting as recording the judgment of two distinguished
zoologists upon the work of the most famous gardener of the world.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 300. My. 1, ’09. 220w.
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 560. Ap. 3, ’09. 200w.
“Both of these authors are capable of giving the public, lay and
professional, a fair statement of Luther Burbank’s best work, which
shall be up with the times, and creditable to all concerned. This little
republication leaves much to be desired.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 542. My. 27, ’09. 250w.
+ =Nature.= 80: 337. My. 20, ’09. 440w.
“It is a real relief to find his work taken seriously and analyzed in a
scientific spirit by men who thoroughly appreciate its possibilities.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 80w.
=Jordan, Rev. W. G.=^{[10]} Biblical criticism and modern thought; or,
The place of the Old Testament documents in the life of to-day. *$3.
Scribner.
“This volume has grown out of a series of nine lectures given at Queen’s
University in 1906–7. It now comprises fourteen chapters. It is in the
main an effort to justify the position of historical criticism against
such charges as those made by Orr, in his ‘Problem of the Old
Testament.’”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“It is a piece of work that makes its appeal to the educated layman and
the more intelligent of the clergy. It is not, however, altogether easy
reading; the somewhat detailed and polemical character of the discussion
on the one hand and, on the other, the lack of coherence among the
fourteen chapters make its perusal something of a task.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 643. O. ’09. 430w.
“The task is on the whole well done and the volume should do good
service, though it is not altogether easy reading.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 431. Je. ’09. 70w.
“The book is apologetic in its purpose. The ground traversed is familiar
to all professional students of the Old Testament and nothing very new
or original from their point of view is to be found in Professor
Jordan’s discussions. What is required, however, in a work of this
character is thorough familiarity with the processes and results of
contemporary scholarship, and this demand is amply satisfied.” Kemper
Fullerton.
+ − =Bib. World.= 34: 139. Ag. ’09. 770w.
“Altho the book is somewhat discursive and loosely connected, it
nevertheless has real value and will serve well a good cause in helping
many to see how reasonable and how advantageous to the religious life
the work of biblical criticism has been.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 982. O. 28. ’09. 650w.
“Perhaps the best chapters in the book are those devoted to ‘Struggles
and survivals’ and ‘Historical development.’ The least satisfactory part
of the book is that dealing with ‘The message of the prophets,’ partly,
to be sure, because here we expect the most. Yet as an aid to a better
understanding of critical methods and results, this book has genuine
value.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 360. O. 14, ’09. 500w.
“It will repay a careful and detailed study.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 386. S. 11, ’09. 170w.
=Jordan, William George.=^{[12]} Crown of individuality. **$1. Revell.
9–25752.
Seventeen “straight-from-the-shoulder talks.” The triumphant note in the
first essay which gives the title to the collection is sounded in the
following suggestive sentences: “When God ‘created man in His own image’
His first gift to him was dominion. The greatest dominion is over
self.... Individuality is the only real life. It is breathing the ozone
of mental, moral, spiritual freedom.... Individuality is the complete
self-acting man and unity of man’s whole mind, nature, heart and
life.... Let us realize that the four guardians of the crown of
individuality are Right, Justice, Truth, and Love.”
=Jourdain, M.= Old lace: a handbook for collectors; an account of the
different styles of lace, their history, characteristics and
manufacture. *$4.50. Scribner.
9–5254.
A fully illustrated handbook that places more importance upon the
technical and artistic side of the subject than upon the historical.
“Though this book treats elaborately of design and style, the human
interest is not wanting, for, if we are not told much of the lords and
ladies who wore the lace, we are brought into touch, even if indirectly,
with the women who worked it.” (Spec.) “The book shows a very true
appreciation of the exquisite beauty of the delicate craft, as well as a
most intimate acquaintance with the history of the development of needle
point and bobbin lace from the early 16th century to the present day.
Copious notes giving the names of the authorities consulted, and a
glossary of technical terms, add to the value of the volume.” (Int.
Studio.)
* * * * *
“Preferable to Lowes’ ‘Chats on old lace.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 16. S. ’09.
“Has several distinctive merits of its own, the chief being the care
with which it traces the influence of contemporary art and design upon
the development of lace and that of different countries and schools on
each other, and the arrangement in chronological order of the excellent
illustrations.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 169. Ap. ’09. 130w.
“It is just this treatment of the technical aspects of the subject,
always a vital matter to collectors, which will give the present book a
special place in the English literature of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 240. S. 9, ’09. 850w.
“The illustrations of the book will be an especial joy to all who are
interested in old laces. There are pictured 163 examples, from
photographs, on ninety-five full-page plates.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 288. My. 8, ’09. 760w.
“The book is very useful for reference and is not dull, though the style
is careless and not always grammatical.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 113. Ja. 23, ’09. 800w.
“A valuable addition to our knowledge of this somewhat intricate
subject.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 228. F. 6, ’09. 340w.
=Joyce, George Hayward.= Principles of logic. *$2.50. Longmans.
9–9817.
“The work adheres to traditional Aristotelian and scholastic principles,
but it differs as much from the conventional text-book as a dried
specimen in a botanical museum differs from a vigorous living plant.”
(Cath. World.) “Of the two parts of the work, the first lies beyond
praise and censure, being a slightly modernized, dogmatic restatement of
the orthodox ‘Logic of thought.’” (Nation.) “The inductive method is
assigned six full chapters in which are discussed the relation of formal
logic to scientific research; the function of observation and
experiment; methods of inductive inquiry; the scope of scientific
explanation and hypothesis; the methods of quantitative determination
and the elimination of chance; and the estimation of probabilities.
These subjects make up the second part of the work, and constitute
‘Applied logic’ as it stands in Father Joyce’s treatment.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“With its assistance a scholastic student is equipped to present himself
at any modern university examination and to hold his own in the
concursus.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 830. Mr. ’09. 650w.
“As a specimen of bookwriting and of bookmaking, this text-book deserves
high praise.” W. H. Kilpatrick.
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 308. O. ’09. 570w.
“A particularly well-knit piece of work, informed and directed
throughout by a distinct and conscious philosophical conception which,
whatever one may regard as its adequacy, is at any rate firmly grasped
and applied with much logical keenness and vigor.” A. K. Rogers.
+ =J. Philos.= 6: 387. Jl. 8, ’09. 600w.
“Writing for beginners, Father Joyce is clear, simple, and lavish with
illustrations. The student prejudiced against mediaeval Latin cannot do
better than turn to this book for an exposition of the subtlest, most
closely knit, most treacherous of Occidental philosophies. And, if he
will keep an eye open for sophistries, he will learn much about the art
of clear thinking that is not to be picked up in the schools of the
renaissance.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 222. Mr. 4, ’09. 440w.
=Judge= West’s opinion, reported by a neighbor. **$1. Revell.
8–30146.
The optimistic views of a man whose mind is “like a springy hillside,
always adrip with ideas.” He gives his opinions on such subjects as
life, evolution, fancied miseries, pains of memory, bad conscience and
death. He says “Half of the misery of life is in dodging mere shadows.”
* * * * *
“Very human, very lovable, and very interesting he proves himself, with
his wide fund of knowledge about all sorts of curious things, upon which
he draws to adorn his arguments.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 8. Ja. 2, ’09. 220w.
=Judson, Katharine Berry.=^{[5]} Montana: “the land of shining
mountains.” **75c. McClurg.
9–10477.
A school reader which in outline sketch presents some of the romantic
and picturesque scenes from the early history of Montana.
* * * * *
“Makes good use of the romantic and picturesque elements and furnishes
good material for school work. The illustrations are poorly executed but
interesting, the paper poor, the typography and binding good.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 96. N. ’09.
“A rather unique bit of historical work.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 303. Ag. 5, ’09. 30w.
=Jüptner von Jonstorff, Hanns.= Heat energy and fuels; pyrometry,
combustion, analysis of fuels and manufacture of charcoal, coke and
fuel gases; tr. by Oskar Nagel. *$3. McGraw.
9–3099.
“After describing the various forms of energy, as mechanical, heat
electromagnetic, chemical and radiant, the author discusses in detail
the chemical technology of heat and fuels. However, the treatment is
more largely of an engineering nature than chemical. Three of the
chapters are devoted to pyrometry, four to combustion, ten to solid
fuels and six to liquid and gaseous fuels. The book contains much data
relating to the manufacture of artificial fuels. This material is
presented in the form of tables and of illustrations of practical
equipments.”—Elec. World.
* * * * *
“The book is intended for use in engineering schools, but much of the
information is arranged so as to be of value to practising engineers.”
+ =Elec. World.= 53: 582. Mr. 4, ’09. 150w.
“It will be found of great value, however, by chemists, metallurgists
and practicing engineers, not only because of its concise statement of
fundamental principles, but on account of the very large amount of
carefully tabulated data it contains, much of which is new and not
otherwise readily available.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 419. Ap. ’09. 200w.
“A work by a man whose name is associated with much important research
in his field, and who is in other ways eminently well qualified to
undertake the work. The work of the translator and of the proofreader
have been done so poorly as to render certain parts of the book almost
unintelligible.” L. S. Marks.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 29. Mr. 18, ’09. 1000w.
“The chapters on artificial fuels are especially interesting.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 526. Ap. 17, ’09. 330w.
=Jusserand, Jean A. A. J.=^{[12]} Literary history of the English
people. 3v. ea. *$3.50. Putnam.
7–35185.
=v. 3.= “M. Jusserand continues in this third volume the subject of the
second, a period which is described as ‘From the renaissance to the
civil war.’ Nearly three-fourths of the five hundred and sixty-four
pages are given to Shakespeare, his predecessors and contemporaries.
Then we have what is called ‘The aftermath,’ describing the literary
activities of the English people from Shakespeare’s retirement down to
the limit of the period.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The fundamental excellence of this work is the perspective which the
foreign birth and training make more practicable if they be not
indispensable to it. But given this advantage, let it not be forgotten
what an immense labor goes to its realization. A work of which Frenchmen
may be proud and for which we of the English tongue must be grateful.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 786. D. 11, ’09. 890w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The review is rapid, as, indeed, it was bound to be, but it seems
complete; we miss no name of importance.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 609. O. 16, ’09. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)
K
=Kagay, Daniel Martin.=^{[12]} Eastside boys. $1. Roxburgh pub.
9–27743.
Does not deal with boys from the East Side of New York as the title
might lead the reader to suppose but from the manufacturing district of
a certain town called Albion. It is a faithful portrayal of the American
youth, his pranks, jealousies, friendships and good times.
=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).=^{[9]} Found by the circus.
†$1. Crowell.
9–30320.
A laughter-producing story of a lively youngster, Joey Carter, who is
visiting a prim maiden aunt. Aunt Jane takes Joey to the “Great and Only
Circus,” where once under the spell of the new sights and sounds she
forgets her nephew who, tired and sleepy, crawls under the seat of the
monkey wagon and is carried to the next town. How the affable and
jewelled-bedecked showman makes capital of the lost boy and later
craftily detains the frantic Aunt Jane as an added attraction to the
“Great and Only” is amusingly portrayed.
* * * * *
“The story is an excellent and amusing picture of life behind the scenes
in an old-fashioned circus.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 535. S. 11, ’09. 230w.
=Kaplan, Jacob Hyman.=^{[8]} Psychology of prophecy: a study of the
prophetic mind as manifested by the ancient Hebrew prophets. *$1.50.
Julius H. Greenstone, 915 N. 8th st., Philadelphia.
8–34134.
“In Part 1, ‘What is a prophet?’ the author undertakes to correct
certain popular misconceptions as to the nature and function of
prophecy. This task occupies about one-half of the book and is but a
popular statement of the commonly accepted results of scholarship
concerning this subject. Part 2 briefly disposes of ‘Prophetic genius.’
pointing out its analogies to human genius in general and describing the
prophets as ‘the perfected embodiments of the Hebrew genius, that is,
they were the political, economic, social and religious geniuses of
Israel all in one.’ In Part 3, the theme of the book ‘Psychology of
prophecy,’ is taken up. Here are discussed in succession ‘Prophetic
call’; ‘Premonition, prescience, and prediction’; ‘Revelation’; ‘Dream,
vision and audition, ecstasy’; and ‘Inspiration.’ The book gathers up
and presents in accessible and interesting form a large amount of
material on these subjects not otherwise easily obtained.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“It is to be heartily recommended to all students of these subjects as
the best discussion yet put forth.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 485. Jl. ’09. 180w.
“This is an excellent summary of the facts accessible to us regarding
the nature of Hebrew prophecy.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 140. F. ’09. 60w.
=Kaye, John Brayshaw.=^{[12]} Trial of Christ, in seven stages; a
poem. *$1. Sherman, French & co.
9–28123.
A poem that gives, besides the meager details of the Gospels, the
probable facts of the procedure, language and conduct of everything that
was concerned in the trial of Christ. The seven stages of the poem are:
The betrayal, arrest, and hearing before Annas; Before Caiaphas; Before
the Sanhedrin; Before Pilate; Before Herod; Again before Pilate; The
crucifixion.
=Keep, Austin Baxter=, comp. History of the New York Society library;
with an introductory chapter on libraries in colonial New York,
1698–1776. $7.50. Scribner.
8–34672.
The authentic story of the discouragements and difficulties endured in
the establishing of the Society library in New York. “The compiler has
made diligent and exhaustive search in all sorts of records, official
and other, and especially in the minutes and account books of the
library and the journals of the day, until it is hardly in exaggeration
to say that he must know more of the actual condition of the library at
any given date than any one then living could have known it.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“The value of the work to the local historian and genealogist is of
course paramount, but it is also of importance as a study in library
organization.... On the side of library administration, however, the
character of the library’s collections and the policy pursued in making
them, the use of the library, its extent and nature, the equipment of
the institution, etc., there is disappointingly little.” W. D. Johnston.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 85. Jl. ’09. 320w.
“Had the subject been one of national importance or interest, sources
could not have been studied more carefully. But for all his literary
skill and his long array of facts and personages, one is conscious
throughout the narrative that there is something decidedly artificial
about it all—that the author is engaged in a kind of ‘tour de force.’”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 197. F. 25, ’09. 180w.
“This information, painfully and patiently gathered, he has conveyed in
a surprisingly agreeable and interesting manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 798. D. 26, ’08. 670w.
=Keith, Marian.=^{[12]} Treasure Valley. $1.50. Doran.
8–32386.
A village story with plenty of characterization and a slight plot. “It
is about two men, warm friends both of whom are beggared by the same
villain, who come together again years afterward in a village in
Ontario, where one of them finds the sweetheart who has been waiting for
him all the years and the other finds peace and content after bitterness
and sorrow. But the people who live in Treasure Valley, where nearly all
the action takes place, are delightfully quaint, as amusing as any that
have appeared in fictional pages in a long time.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The plot is somewhat vague and entirely negligible. If one is not too
particular about artistic effects he can find recompense in the book’s
frank and lively humor.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 210w.
=Keller, Albert Galloway.= Colonization: a study of the founding of
new societies. $3. Ginn.
8–18742.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The book is of value to the thoughtful general reader quite as much as
for the purposes of a college class—a value enhanced by a small but
well-selected bibliography.” H. P. Judson.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 861. Jl. ’09. 650w.
“Best extant treatment of the subject from the newer, sociological point
of view.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 43. F. ’09.
“He has made a clear, readable history. The dry bones are not reshaped
out of scientific recognition by the personality of the author, but they
are vitalized by his sane and frequently sage interpretations. As
treating a special topic of the broad subject of sociology the book will
be welcomed both inside and outside of the university.” A. E. Jenks.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 536. Ja. ’09. 1000w.
“The discussion of the monopoly systems is especially to be commended.
The last two chapters are the most valuable contributions made by the
book. Much of the material presented is available elsewhere. For the
average college student, however, the book fills a real need. It is
readable and concise enough to be used as a valuable book for
supplementary reading.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 197. Ja. ’09. 200w.
“Within its scope, and with special reference to its view point it forms
a valuable contribution to the general literature of the subject, while
for American readers it has distinct value and must hold a place by
itself till a more comprehensive study, based on further research, shall
displace it.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 42. Ap. ’09. 830w.
“Its style is not unattractive, its arrangement is good, and its
standard of accuracy is high.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 413. Ap. 22, ’09. 370w.
=Kelly, Florence Finch (Mrs. Allen Kelly).=^{[5]} Delafield affair.
†$1.50. McClurg.
9–7041.
“The scene is New Mexico, the action ranging over the desert and the
plains from a great ranch to the nearest market town, and involving the
use of all the weapons of the country—lariat, six-shooter, quick-thrown
knife, to say nothing of the strong right arm and the steady fist of the
Anglo-Saxon. The plot provides the piquant situation of an avenger hot
on the trail of an enemy, who all the time is, unknown to him, his
trusted friend and the confidant of all his schemes.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Of chief interest for its picture of political and social conditions in
the Southwest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 187. Je. ’09.
“The story moves with the rush of a reckless ride across the ‘mesa’ to
its inevitable end. It is told with animation.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1032. My. 13, ’09. 150w.
“Altogether it is a tale more than likely to cause the unsuspecting
reader who picks up the book, thinking merely to kill an odd half hour
before going to bed, to sit up a great part of the night.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 136. Mr. 6, ’09. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
=Kelly, Florence Finch (Mrs. Allen Kelly).=^{[12]} Rhoda of the
Underground. $1.50. Sturgis & Walton.
9–29503.
As the title suggests this story turns back to war times. A Southern
girl comes under the spell of “Uncle Tom’s cabin,” and thereafter
enlists her sympathy and energy in the cause of helping fugitive negroes
over the Underground railway to Canada. Story interest and dramatic
situations abound.
=Kelly, Myra (Mrs. Allan Macnaughton).=^{[11]} Golden season. **$1.20.
Doubleday.
9–24016.
“The intention here seems to be the genial satirizing of conditions in a
normal co-educational college in New York city and the Boswellized
Johnson is a certain Elizabeth. In effect, the satire is caricature, and
the geniality is of a hard kind nurtured by fibs and by joy in the
confounding of others—the fibs and the joy of Elizabeth. Upon a chapter
like that of the mothers learning to play kindergarten games, caricature
sits easily and extracts a smile without any great pain. But the
humorousness of lying is no greater in college affairs than in financial
ones.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“There are a host of minor characters who are delightfully amusing, or
gently pathetic figures, finely drawn, alive and true. They are of more
value than the incidents, amusing though some of these last be, and of
far more value than the principals. There is a subjectiveness in Miss
Kelly’s style which has always been characteristic of her work, but
which is now growing into a mannerism it would be wise to check.” J.
Marchand.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 266. N. ’09. 730w.
“The initial chapters are somewhat disappointing, it is true, for the
author’s rightful field is unquestionably among her small East side
citizens. But Elizabeth improves upon acquaintance, and it is safe to
predict that no reader will close the volume without a kindly feeling
for this fun-loving girl.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 962. N. 27, ’09. 200w.
“A whole volume of commercial trickery is gloomy, and so is this one as
a whole, amusing in sundry spots though it be.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 356. O. 14, ’09. 120w.
“The story of the college life is told with great vivacity, and whether
or not the faculty of any school would claim it as its own from the
description given by the writer’s facile pen, the reader chortles with
glee and hopes that it is all true, every word.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 597. O. 9, ’09. 250w.
“Amusing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 651. O. 23, ’09. 10w.
=Kelly, Myra (Mrs. Allan Macnaughton).= Rosnah. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–32646.
“Miss Kelly’s tale is concerned with the adventures of a young Irish
heiress who impersonates the daughter of an irascible old general just
returned from long Indian service. His children have been sent home in
their early years and have grown to manhood and womanhood practically
strangers to their parents as well as to each other. The situation is
farcical, but it has unpleasant elements of which Miss Kelly seems
unaware.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A pleasant story of Irish country life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 25. Ja. ’09. ✠
“A story of modern Ireland, with a commendable richness of local
colouring, an abundance of diverting brogue, and incidentally some
aspects of the economic problems confronting Irish landlords.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 77. Mr. ’09. 360w.
“We have read Myra Kelly’s work with interest but it will hardly be
accepted with the same enthusiasm as her short stories of the lower East
side.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 984. D. 26, ’08. 110w.
“Some of the characters are well drawn, and there is a pleasant
Hibernian flavor to the dialogue and many of the minor events. But the
story as a whole is loosely written and appears to have been thrown
together in haste. It will not add to her reputation.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
“The story is written with humor and sprightliness, and contains
interesting pictures of Irish life among those of her people who love
Ireland and hate her oppressors.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 108. Ja. 16, ’09. 140w.
=Kelman, John, jr.=^{[5]} From Damascus to Palmyra. *$6. Macmillan.
9–18449.
“Mr. Kelman has a fine subject in attempting to realize and describe the
romantic history of Palmyra, the past and present of Damascus and other
places, the weird Syrian desert, the temples, tombs, and other memorials
of bygone Empire. The description of the mental and physical effect of
the desert on the western traveller would alone lend the book a certain
distinction.... Mr. Kelman’s literary touches are often richer in true
Eastern colour than the coloured illustrations themselves, and the book
loses nothing in attractiveness from the fact that it was ready for the
press before the recent changes in Turkey had taken place. Hence it
enjoys the curious distinction of being the last of the countless
records of the impression which Oriental rule of the older days made
upon the mind of the modern traveller from the west.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“The book is eminently readable from end to end, and not only readable,
but also scholarly. One or two pardonable slips may be pointed out.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 492. Ap. 24. 1250w.
“Mr. Kelman had an almost embarrassing wealth of material to draw upon
both from books and personal observation; he has made an admirable
selection, and worked it up effectively.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 802. D. 26, ’08. 170w.
=Kemp, E. G.=^{[11]} Face of China. **$6. Duffield.
Thru a comparison of the trying conditions attending travel in China in
1893 and the comfortable ones apparent to-day, Miss Kemp shows what
advancement has been made in the country along commercial, political,
social and educational lines.
* * * * *
“A brightly written book of sprightly adventure, the pages of which are,
however, disfigured by slovenly English and inaccuracy as to facts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 491. O. 23. 650w.
“A very inviting book.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 455. D. 1, ’09. 320w.
“She writes pleasantly, but a longer residence would have taught her
that reform does not necessarily follow edicts deprecating malpractice;
while more careful inquiry would have enabled her to assure herself that
his Majesty’s government, while scrupulously fulfilling their promises
in regard to opium, desire only proof that China is doing her part.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 666. N. 27, ’09. 250w.
+ =Spec.= 103: 650. O. 23, ’09. 550w.
=Kenealy, Arabella.= Whips of time. †$1.50. Little.
9–7440.
A story built up about an experiment made in the interests of science to
prove that environment is a greater factor in development than heredity.
A doctor exchanges two babies at birth; in the keeping of the murderess
he places the baby of the woman of culture and rank, and to the latter
gives the criminal’s offspring. Not only does his experiment fail, but
Nemesis invades his household and dire is the vengeance.
* * * * *
“An interesting, and, on the whole, original story. The author’s taste
for melodrama is throughout conspicuous.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 97. Ja. 23. 130w.
“Belongs to the class of books that make no pretensions to high literary
value, and are accepted at their face value by the general public, whose
verdict is therefore just about commensurate with their real worth.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 647. Ag. ’09. 400w.
“The story is not a pleasant one, but its mechanism is skilfully put
together, and it is made the vehicle of a strong human interest.” W: M.
Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 183. S. 16, ’09. 250w.
“Dr. Kenealy has treated her psychological problem in a human way and
has shown much ingenuity in so complicating the story as to keep the
issue long in doubt. There is skill also in the development of
character, especially of the several young people concerned, and humor
in the portrayal of odd English country types.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 174. Mr. 27, ’09. 230w.
“The characters in the book, evil and good, noble and simple, are
excellently drawn, and though in fact the novel is sensational, it is
well conceived and well written.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 20*. My. 1, ’09. 200w.
“There is plenty of incident in the story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 248. F. 20, ’09. 180w.
=Kennedy, Charles Rann.= Winterfeast. †$1.25. Harper.
8–36392.
A viking homestead in Iceland furnishes the scene for this tragedy of
the eleventh century. Suspending during nearly a score of years the
retribution demanded for a lie, the time comes for its mission of evil
to be fulfilled. It is presaged by the half human cries, the storm and
thunder which on Winterfeast bode only sorrow, by the evil Ufeig who
reveals to an apparently peaceful household the treachery of its
stalwart son Valbrand, who had lied to his brother in order to win the
latter’s sweetheart. The merciless Nemesis strikes blow upon blow
leaving only stunned quiet in her wake.
* * * * *
“A tragedy of great power and strong moral tone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 43. F. ’09.
“It is simpler in its main lines than even that of ‘The servant in the
house,’ but there is a perpetual by-play of allusions, a twisting of
motives, a complication of misunderstandings that play about the
fundamental structure of the plot as the angled and twining ornament of
a Gothic cathedral plays about the pillars and arches. To suggest the
idea of ornament may, however, be more or less misleading, so clear and
rapid and unadorned is the language of the play, and so strictly are the
classic unities preserved.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Atlan.= 103: 73. Ja. ’09. 3000w.
“It is quite evident from the tenor and the tone of the drama that he
intended to make a tragedy; and it is just as evident, upon studious
consideration, that he succeeded only in making a melodrama. The play
has considerable literary merit, and is well worth reading. It is
written in a sort of William Morris prose, eloquent with connotative
archaism. It reveals a great deal of poetic feeling,—a strong sweep and
a frequent grandeur of emotion.” Clayton Hamilton.
− + =Forum.= 41: 26. Ja. ’09. 2000w.
+ =Ind.= 66: 427. F. 25, ’09. 280w.
“It is a play of powerful imagination and excellent literary and
dramatic workmanship, which will well repay the attention of the
intelligent reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 636. D. 24, ’08. 50w.
“He has erred in execution, not in intention. He has made Fate too
capricious, so much so that its caprice becomes a perverted law of his
drama. The moment came for his characters to take Fate into their own
hands, and they did not do it; thereafter they cease to interest as
human beings. But his aim was high, even his partial accomplishment a
sign of better things on the American stage.” W. P. Eaton.
− + =No. Am.= 189: 294. F. ’09. 1700w.
=Outlook.= 91: 336. F. 13, ’09. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 256. F. ’09. 60w.
=Kennedy, James Boyd.=^{[8]} Beneficiary features of American trade
unions. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and
political science. Ser. 26, nos. 11–12.) pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
9–4493.
“An excellently worked out intensive study of the benefit features of
American trade unions. The work describes systems of insurance against
death and disability, sick, out-of-work and superannuation benefits, and
the methods of administration of these varied forms of relief.” (Ann.
Am. Acad.) “The local unions are not included, except where it is
necessary to show the development of national systems out of local
practices or where the conduct of a national system restrains or makes
use of local agencies.” (Econ. Bull.)
* * * * *
“Best presentation of the subject in print.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 140. My. ’09.
“The author has made a valuable addition to the literature on the
American trade union.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 185. Jl. ’09. 80w.
“The monograph has a good index and it serves the purpose of an
authentic and valuable guide to the beneficiary activities of all
national unions.” J: R. Commons.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 140. Je. ’09. 370w.
=Kennedy, Mrs. M. G.=^{[11]} Our boys and girls: how to interest and
instruct them in Bible study. 75c. Wilde.
9–25951.
Gives to Sunday school workers the benefits of a life time of study and
practice along the lines of efficient Sunday school service. It deals
with the common needs of the average teacher.
=Kennelly, Arthur Edwin.=^{[7]} Wireless telegraphy and wireless
telephony. (Present day primers.) 2d ed. **$1. Moffat.
9–10505.
For the new edition the text of the 1906 work has been revised to
include the results of progress made in wireless telegraphy during the
past three years, and adds an account of wireless telephony.
* * * * *
“One of the best works for the general reader, clear, untechnical,
authoritative. More complete than Massie’s book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 195. Je. ’09. ✠
“Those interested in these modern forms of communication will find in it
a clear, scientific, easily comprehended, and non-mathematical treatment
of the subjects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 56. Jl. ’09. 70w.
“Is written for the general reader as well as for the technical
student.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 985. My. 6, ’09. 110w.
“If the reader really does read and digest the book he may pass for a
very fair authority on wireless in a large and respectable circle.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 524. S. 4, ’09. 1300w.
=Kent, Charles Foster.= Historical Bible for schools and colleges. 6v.
ea. **$1. Scribner.
=v. 1.= Heroes and crises of early Hebrew history.
8–17902.
“The first volume of a series covering both Testaments and intended to
make ‘the most valuable constructive results of modern biblical
discovery and research’ accessible in ‘popular practical form.’ Volume 1
presents the biblical material in Professor Kent’s own translation,
analyzed into its constituent sources which are arranged in parallel
columns when they narrate the same event, and are provided with brief
introductory and explanatory notes.”—Bib. World.
=v. 2.= The founders and rulers of united Israel from the death of Moses
to the division of the Hebrew kingdom.
8–21946.
“Volume 2 follows close upon the heels of Volume 1. Characterized by the
same aim, method and arrangement as its predecessor, it ought to put the
student in intelligent possession of the main facts and forces operative
in the pre-prophetic period of Israel’s history.”—Bib. World.
=v. 3.= Kings and prophets of Israel and Judah from the division of the
kingdom to the Babylonian exile.
9–14411.
“This third volume of the ‘Historical Bible’ covers that period in Old
Testament history that is richest in literary and spiritual
achievements.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“As a teachers’ handbook, the work is open to criticism at one point. At
the end of each section is a paragraph entitled ‘Aim and teachings,’ in
which the author sums up the more important religious truths of the
narrative. If these could have been put a little more suggestively, or
interrogatively, rather than dogmatically, the student would be
stimulated to discover for himself what the author has now discovered
for him.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 319. Ap. ’09. 220w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“An excellent text for use in schools, Bible classes or by individual
students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 15. Ja. ’09. (Review of v. 1.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 15. Ja. ’09. (Review of v. 2.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 16. S. ’09. (Review of v. 3.)
“The plan of the series seems well adapted to the needs of those for
whom more elaborate and technical presentations are confusing.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 149. Ag. ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 221. S. ’08. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The volumes are thus to be heartily recommended. They present an
adequate translation, illuminating historical notes, and a sane
religious application.” I. G. Matthews.
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 426. Je. ’09. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It can be unreservedly recommended to the teacher and student who are
willing to do a little actual work in order to secure a just
appreciation of the Old Testament.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 70. Jl. ’09. 50w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ =Ind.= 66: 708. Ap. 1, ’09. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“These handbooks will be found helpful in the study of the history of
the Hebrew nation and the development of its religious beliefs, and are
adapted to those for whom Professor Kent’s ‘Student’s Old Testament’ is
too elaborate and involved.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 39. Ja. 14, ’09. 180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Nation.= 89: 412. O. 28, ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This series puts into the hand of the English-speaking reader the
generally accepted results of the criticism of the Old Testament.” E. S.
Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Their translations of the text retain the best features of the common
version, and, by embodying the results of modern scholarship, lessen the
reader’s dependence on commentaries, as is desirable in a manual for
popular use. For this it seems admirably planned.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The way in which the history and the prophecy are made mutually
illustrative is excellent, and the whole book is likely to be very
useful to the student.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 490. O. 2, ’09. 350w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Keppel, Frederick.=^{[12]} Christmas in art. **$2.50. Duffield.
9–27931.
“The work of the well-known connoisseur of prints and engravings. The
many illustrations are chiefly reproductions of rare prints of the
Nativity by fifteenth and sixteenth century artists; but there are some
more familiar pictures. Each is accompanied by a paragraph of comment,
skilfully contrived to bring out its essential quality or especial point
of interest. The text discusses, in rambling, informal fashion, the
pictures and their artists, Christmas music and poetry, and quaint
Christmas customs in many lands.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 47: 465. D. 1, ’09. 90w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1353. D. 16, ’09. 100w.
“There are rare examples of German and Spanish masters, and one or two
charming cuts from miniatured manuscript.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 609. D. 16, ’09. 110w.
“A particularly interesting collection of reproductions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 801. D. 18, ’09. 150w.
“The collection of Mr. Keppel is a Paradise of dainty devices, a mine of
priceless and imperishable delights.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 839. D. ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Keppel’s text not only contains valuable information on the art
side of his subject, but is a genial, discursive essay on Christmas. Not
the least interesting pages of the book record personal boyhood
reminiscences of Christmas in Ireland.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 786. D. 4, ’09. 130w.
=Kerr, Estelle M.= Little Sam in Volendam. **$1.25. Moffat.
9–7135.
In verse and pictures is told the story of a little boy’s trip thru
Holland where windmills, wooden shoes and caps abound.
* * * * *
Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 498. Ja. ’09. 40w.
“The pictures and rhymes will please many youngsters, although they are
somewhat stilted in conception.” M. J. Moses.
− + =Ind.= 65: 1471. D. 17, ’08. 20w.
“The children will like the rhymes which give an idea of the life of the
children in Holland, and the difference between the customs there and in
America.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 50w.
“Miss Estelle M. Kerr has written verses, not so very well, but made the
pictures in very good style.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 38: 767. D. ’08. 30w.
=Kershaw, John B. C.= Electro-metallurgy. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van
Nostrand.
9–5181.
Gives an account of the industrial developments of electro-metallurgy
for the student of limited knowledge of chemistry or electrical science.
The subjects considered are: Aluminum; gold and silver refining; calcium
carbide and acetylene gas; carborundum; copper extraction and refining;
ferro-alloys, graphite; electrothermic reduction of iron and steel; lead
refining; calcium, carbon bisulphide; carbon tetrachloride; magnesium;
phosphorus; silicon; nickel; sodium; zinc; detinning of tin plate.
* * * * *
“This book gives us the impression that it was written and published
before the author was quite ready with his materials. Notwithstanding
this, Mr. Kershaw has produced a book which contains a large amount of
interesting information.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 135. Ja. 30. 680w.
“He presents in this work much matter that will be found of interest by
those who desire to have correct information regarding this modern
utilization of electric energy.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 53. Ja. ’09. 180w.
“The political economist will find this book very suggestive.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 38. Ja. 23, ’09. 160w.
“The author has collected much valuable information in this rapidly
developing field.”
+ =Phys. R.= 28: 231. Mr. ’09. 80w.
=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of highway bridges and the calculation
of stresses in bridge trusses. *$4. Eng. news.
8–32509.
“In some 550 well-printed pages the author covers the entire field,
including the superstructure and the substructure on the one hand, and
trusses and arches of steel, reinforced concrete and timber on the
other. The book begins with a chapter on loads and weights of highway
bridges, where much of the information is compiled from many sources. It
abounds in tables and diagrams, and will enable the engineer to estimate
the weight of any beam or truss bridge he is likely to attempt to
design.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“As the first book on the specific subject of highway bridges that has
been published for some time, it is deserving of the most careful
consideration.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 535. My. ’09. 450w.
“It is a matter of regret that the author’s treatment of the subject, in
general, seems to be content with expounding current practice in
ordinary highway bridge building, without making a more serious effort
to elevate that practice. A little more painstaking care in writing
would make the book, in parts, easier reading, and more harmonious with
his mathematical work.” A. W. Buel.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 13. F. 18, ’09. 2550w.
“It deserves attention because it is the only modern American book
devoted to highway bridges exclusively, and in many ways these bridges
differ from the much studied and discussed railway structures. The
author has succeeded in bringing together in one volume much information
on highway bridges, and while the whole has not been welded together
into a homogeneous mass, his book will prove of value to students and
engineers interested in highway bridge building.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 167. F. 6, ’09. 500w.
“This book meets a distinct want, and it will be especially useful to
the young designer, in view of the fact that the author has given
special attention to the problem of the design of the substructure,
which is usually quite neglected in books on bridge design.” T. H. B.
+ =Nature.= 81: 393. S. 30, ’09. 500w.
=Key, Ellen K. S.= Century of the child. **$1.50. Putnam.
9–5891.
A work which has gone thru more than twenty German editions. The author,
a well-known champion of woman’s emancipation, severed her connection
with this movement twelve years ago, and since has turned her energies
to the broadening of woman’s conception of her natural mission of wife
and mother. Her chapters, as follows, are characterized by originality,
revolutionary insight, and ethical purpose: The right of the child to
choose his parents; The unborn race and woman’s work; Education;
Homelessness; Soul murder in the schools; The school of the future;
Religious instruction; Child labor and the crimes of children.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 140. My. ’09.
“Mrs. Key’s program for an ideal education, though acknowledged as a
‘mere dream,’ is an interesting forecast of the education of the
future.” N. M. S. Nearing.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 208. Jl. ’09. 220w.
“It is unfortunate that the author’s most radical views, and those that
are likely to be thought subversive of morality, are set forth in the
opening chapter, which concerns marriage and parenthood; for many
readers will be turned aside at this point and miss the chapters on
education which are the most valuable part of the book.” C. L. Hunt.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 325. My. 16, ’09. 1200w.
“The book contains wise and weighty words which seem well calculated to
make mothers and fathers think.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 560. Ap. 3, ’09. 400w.
“Many of Ellen Key’s ideas are familiar to us, and are found in practice
in our schools. Many others are most radical. But the whole book
breathes a love for the child, a respect for his individuality, and a
sincerity that are most attractive.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 75. Jl. 22, ’09. 300w.
“Her argument is not always all that could be desired. It is often
sloppy in method and expression, and it lacks the clear-cut, incisive
manner of the logical mind. She has observed much and read widely, but
she has often lacked discrimination in the one and has been too
credulous in the other. Her statements, for instance, about certain
developments in America will doubtless be convincing enough in Germany,
but in this country will not enhance the credibility of her statements
about things elsewhere. To American readers she will seem often to be
beating a man of straw, because here the woman movement has taken a
different direction from that which it is following in Germany.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 128. Mr. 6, ’09. 1000w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 511. Ap. ’09. 180w.
“Nobody will regret a study of Mrs. Key’s book. It is suggestive,
interesting, and earnest even if somewhat chimerical.” K. L. Maurice.
+ − =Survey.= 22: 680. Ag. 14, ’09. 920w.
=Khuddakanikaya.=^{[5]} Sayings of Buddha, the Iti-Vuttaka: a Pali
work of the Buddhist canon for the first time translated, with an
introd. and notes by Justin Hartley Moore. (Columbia univ.
Indo-Iranian ser., v. 5.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
9–4569.
“The first translation into an Occidental tongue of the ‘Sayings of
Buddha.’ The date and author of the original are unknown, but internal
evidence shows that the collection cannot have come from Buddha himself
and it is impossible to surmise how much, if any, is authentic tradition
of his words.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Adds an interesting volume to our literature of Buddhism, and one of
considerable value to students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 132. My. ’09.
“A translation of this has been a desideratum. The English of the
translation is well enough, but a very considerable number of errors of
interpretation and some of fact compel the judgment that the task was
undertaken before the writer was fully prepared for his task.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 385. Ap. 15, ’09. 90w.
“Evidently the form in which it comes to us, with its wearisome
repetitions, is mnemonic. As one of the canonical books it is
indispensable to the student and is not without interest for the general
reader.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 193. Ap. 3, ’09. 230w.
=Kidd, Benjamin.= Individualism and after; the Herbert Spencer lecture
delivered in the Sheldonian theatre on the 29th May 1908. *35c.
Oxford.
9–7554.
“The central thesis of the lecture is that, in the thought and life of
the western world, an organic view of society has been rapidly
displacing the individualism which was dominant until well after the
middle of the nineteenth century. Accompanying this development there
has been, as he shows, a rapid and continuous extension of the functions
of government, and an abandonment of the doctrine of unqualified
competition. Herbert Spencer is taken as the chief representative of
individualism.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Kidd pronounces, as it were, the funeral oration over
individualism. This has, of course, often been done before, but no one
has done it better than Mr. Kidd.” C. A. E.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 345. D. ’08. 150w.
“Even while accepting Mr. Kidd’s leading contentions, one feels the need
of a more exact definition and a closer criticism of the terms and
conceptions which he so freely uses.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 215. S. 3, ’08. 460w.
=Kidd, Dudley.=^{[7]} Kafir socialism and the dawn of individualism:
an introduction to the study of the native problem. *$2.75.
Macmillan.
8–24294.
A scientific study of the relation of the Kafir to the white government
whose main thesis is that interference with tribal institutions is
undesirable and mischievous. The first part of the treatise looks at the
natives as they are and notes that their attitude is essentially
socialistic. “The latter half of Mr. Kidd’s book is a plea for a truly
constructive native policy based on a correct understanding of native
needs.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“While many of Mr. Kidd’s conclusions are open to question, he has
provided a noteworthy contribution to an important subject. The two
things which he appears to us to lack are a certain imaginative insight
(for, with all his experience, he fails to understand the native as
Livingstone or Mary Kingsley understood him), and—strange as this may
seem, in view of some parts of his book—a sufficient respect for the
process of evolution.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 726. Je. 13. 1000w.
“To separate Mr. Kidd’s useful suggestions from the mass of tedious
verbiage in which they are concealed would be a thankless task. The one
redeeming feature of the book is the fact that from the various
anecdotes and from the quotations from scientific writers the popular
reader may possibly gain the conception that the Kafirs as subjects of
Great Britain should be treated with at least some knowledge of their
habits and customs.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 180. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“We commend this book as the most widely informed, well-balanced, and
sympathetic study of the native problem that we have met with.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 708. My. 2, ’08. 1450w.
=Kidder, Frank Eugene.=^{[6]} Building construction and
superintendence, pt. 1, Masons’ work. 9th ed., rev. and enl. $6.
Comstock.
9–9631.
“This new edition embodies all of the old matter, with the exception of
obsolete descriptions and discussions, and has added thereto much that
is modern. By far the greatest advance in masonry construction since the
original edition of the book has been in the line of fireproofing and in
concrete and reinforced concrete, so that it is natural that the most
pronounced revision and addition should be in the chapters treating
these subjects.... In addition to these additions revisions have been
made in the discussions of caisson and cantilever foundations, needing
and underpinning and bricks and brickwork. Over 400 new drawings have
been added and the tables and appendices amplified.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 61. O. ’09.
=Engin. D.= 5: 664. Je. ’09. 300w.
+ =Engin. N.= 51: sup. 61. My. 13, ’09. 300w.
“In the revision Professor Nolan has taken up the work with a full
understanding of the secrets of the success of the book and has not
attempted to change its character.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 644. My. 15, ’09. 170w.
=Kikuchi, Dairoku, Kurai no na.=^{[12]} Japanese education: lectures
delivered in the University of London. *5s. Murray, John, London.