“The chief interest of the book lies in the description of Japanese
elementary education, and the methods used in moral education. The child
begins by simple lessons on ordinary virtues, such as order and
punctuality; then follows instruction in home relations and loyalty, and
then he passes on to more detailed lessons of daily conduct, such as
friendship, honesty, kindness, generosity, modesty, courage, and
manners. All these virtues are illustrated by tales and examples. Later
on the children have lessons on the higher social virtues, such as
patriotism, co-operation, honour, tenacity of purpose, public duty. It
is enjoined on the teachers that, in addition to the formal lessons,
every opportunity should be taken of instilling these and similar
precepts into the minds of the children.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 171. Ag. 7, ’09. 1200w.
“His qualifications for the task of making Japanese education
intelligible to Englishmen are incontestable. Moreover, he combines a
singular gift of lucid exposition in the English language with a
knowledge of our national life and circumstances, which enable him to
appreciate the points requiring special explanation, and to render them
easily intelligible. From the technical point of view alone the book
should be valuable to those engaged in educational work, whether as
administers or as teachers.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 815. N. 20, ’09. 1500w.
=Kimball, Dexter Simpson, and Barr, John Henry.=^{[12]} Elements of
machine design. *$3. Wiley.
9–24920.
“A book that aims to give the college student the general principles of
an engineering subject without going into practical details. It deals
chiefly with the theory of equations pertaining to machine elements, and
gives very brief descriptions of the nature and functions of those
elements. Much of the subject-matter is commonly taught in a course on
the mechanics of materials. As stated in the preface, ‘the treatise is
in no sense a handbook neither is it a manual for the drafting
room.’”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The book is intended primarily for engineering students, but it will
also prove of interest to the practicing designer.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 428. N. ’09. 270w.
“The book is doubtless well adapted to the needs of the particular
students for whom it was prepared, but as a working reference for
designing machinery it is too meager, while as an introduction to design
it seems too voluminous.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 559. N. 13, ’09. 240w.
=Kimball, Sumner Increase.=^{[12]} Joshua James: life-saver. (True
American types.) *60c. Am. Unitar.
9–25284.
The fourth volume in the “True American types” series. It is a biography
of a life-saver, a simple, unpretentious man, who for sixty years
rendered the United States devoted, heroic service in one of her
life-saving crews. While exploiting the courage of one man the sketch
represents one phase of our national character little known, to which
the element of authority is added thru the fact that the writer has been
general superintendent of the life-saving service since its inception.
* * * * *
“The reader is brought into intimate touch with a career of
unpretentious heroism which deserves to rank high among the inspiring
annals of human endeavor, endurance, and sacrifice.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 450w.
=King, Basil.=^{[5]} Inner shrine: a novel of to-day. †$1.50. Harper.
9–12616.
A French-Irish girl born into an illustrious French family is the
heroine of this story which opens on the eve of a duel between her
American husband and a lying Frenchman who had cast reproaches upon her
good name. The husband is killed and the incidents of the story (which
changes scene from Paris to New York) following a season of deep remorse
grow out of her splendid struggle to prove her worthiness. Thruout this
portion of the story are traced three developments her own, that of the
Frenchman who after long months is led to restore her good name, and
that of a wooer who in spite of evidences to the contrary believes for a
time the Frenchman’s slander.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 187. Je. ’09.
“Throughout is a certain remoteness from actuality, which makes one
wonder whether the author really knows the life of which he is writing,
or whether he is making up the wicked people, and the good who play the
dangerous game.”
+ − =Atlan.= 104: 681. N. ’09. 750w.
“A story that is better written than the substance of it deserves, and
for all its good writing is apt to seem needlessly long drawn out.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 526. Jl. ’09. 370w.
“It is certainly a striking novel, although highly artificial and even
tricky. Its chief merits are cleverness of invention and dramatic
effectiveness; its defects are found in its unconvincing
characterizations and its failure to make certain important features of
the action seem plausible.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 370. Je. 1, ’09. 480w.
“It is not a well-constructed book; it is not a pleasant book; it is not
even a plausible book—and yet it is one of those books that will be read
and discussed and considerably overrated because, with all its faults,
just a few of the characters do possess the merit of a living
personality, the power of direct personal appeal.” Philip Tillinghast.
− + =Forum.= 41: 619. Je. ’09. 400w.
=Ind.= 67: 424. Ag. 19, ’09. 80w.
“The dialog is clever and the story one to be enjoyed by all who care
for a bright, briskly told narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 350. S. 4, ’09. 300w.
“There are interesting situations in this story, there are even
brilliant bits of dialogue, but there is little in its actual content,
whether of incident or interpretation, to arouse anything approaching
emotion in the reader who looks upon fiction as a responsible art.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 489. My. 13, ’09. 500w.
“It makes a strong, dramatic, promising start, which, despite that it is
a very readable and entertaining book, is not fully sustained to the
close.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 670w.
“The tale is tense, dramatic, full of striking situations, and
brilliantly told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 381. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“The double problem is handled cleverly, and the book holds the
attention closely, although it neither charms nor amuses.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 389. Je. 19, ’09. 280w.
“The mainspring of the story is, it will be seen, a scandal; the whole
savor of it, beneath its agreeable perfume of style, is that of operabox
and smoking-room morality. Its issues, its persons, are essentially
trivial.” H. W. Boynton.
− =Putnam’s.= 6: 493. Jl. ’09. 300w.
“A novel of undeniable power. The plot is skillfully developed, and the
style serves to heighten the interest of the narrative.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 120w.
=King, Charles.=^{[5]} Lanier of the cavalry; or A week’s arrest.
†$1.25. Lippincott.
9–7831.
Once more General King chooses a war setting for his story. It concerns
a wronged young cavalry lieutenant about whom is woven a web of intrigue
and mystery directly traceable to jealousy and debt.
* * * * *
“If one does not care greatly for the finer arts of fiction he can spend
a pleasant hour over the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 261. Ap. 24, ’09. 200w.
=King, Franklin Hiram.=^{[8]} Ventilation for dwellings, rural schools
and stables. *75c. Franklin H. King, Madison, Wis.
8–37680.
Treats the facts upon which successful ventilation depends, and the
application of theoretical conclusions to practical problems facing the
parent, the teacher and the farmer. It is illustrated with diagrams and
views of buildings.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 44. F. ’09. ✠
“The volume may be commended specially to parents, teachers, and stock
owners.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 127. Ap. 1, ’09. 80w.
=King, Georgiana Goddard.= Way of perfect love. $1.25. Macmillan.
8–27521.
A symbolic poem which is “a decorative composition, half pastoral, half
lyric masque, done after the manner of the early Renaissance
painting.... The Duchess, we should fancy, is the adventurer who leaves
her enclosed gardens where her handmaidens bedeck and shield her and
where the Duke would fain shelter her from all experience, to go with
the unknown and unfelt, with the Wayfarer to try life.... Hers is the
modern nature to which renouncement is negation and atrophy, but which
learns and grows only by absorption and assimilation, and ultimately
finds its vocation in the administrative life of ceaseless growth and
readjustment and therefore allies itself with the Duke, the man of
science and the modern.”—No. Am.
* * * * *
“The value of the poem is quite aside from whatever may be the chosen
parable, and lies in the delicacy and carefulness of its workmanship and
in the wealth of its fancy.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 425. F. 25, ’09. 300w.
“Who knows and loves the great era of Italian painting will find the
hours spent in reading this poem not unlike a stroll into the placid
background of an Umbrian painting. It is no light pleasure for the
moment to be led from the dust and din and clatter of our modern life
into this ‘flowery nunnery.’” L. C. Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 930. D. ’08. 1300w.
“A poem of refinement and genuine poetic feeling. Its greatest fault is
lack of simplicity.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 550. N. 7, ’08. 350w.
=King, Gertrude.=^{[6]} Landlubbers. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–8575.
A story of the experiences of an Illinois school teacher and a bibulous
Englishman who are left behind on a wrecked ocean liner. The fight for
life against odds complicated by the rescue of the ship’s adventuress
from a boat that had put to sea on the night of the catastrophe,
furnishes thrills for readers who enjoy hair breadth escapes from death.
* * * * *
“Undoubtedly will give just great pleasure to that considerable section
of the American reading public which has a liking for wild, impossible,
nightmarish ocean tales of love and adventure, for it is out of that
sort from beginning to end, with an eye-opener, a thrill and a cold
shiver for every page.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 600w.
=King, Henry Churchill.=^{[7]} Laws of friendship, human and divine.
(Haverford library lectures.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–8407.
“It is one of the first articles in the creed of Oberlin’s president,
Dr. Henry Churchill King, that the prime purpose and highest end of life
is the cultivation of friendship with God and man; and this little book
of his states the laws governing this friendship as they were formulated
in the author’s lectures at Haverford college, in the course known as
the Haverford library lectures. To Dr. King ‘the problem of friendship
is the problem of life itself’; and the essentials of true friendship
are, first, integrity and breadth and depth of personality; second, deep
community of interests; third, mutual self-manifestation and answering
trust; and, fourth, mutual self-giving.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“It is written with Dr. King’s well-known lucidity, and will doubtless
be read widely and with great profit.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 500. Jl. ’09. 80w.
“Inspiring yet practical and suggestive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 171. Je. ’09. ✠
“The book is inspiring and helpful.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 329. My. 16, ’09. 340w.
=Educ. R.= 38: 315. O. ’09. 30w.
“A good book for an age little given to seeing visions or indulging in
dreams. It treats its great theme, human and divine, ‘con amore,’ yet
without rapture.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 52. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
=King, Henry Churchill, and others.= Education and national character.
*$1.50. Religious education assn.
Thirty-three addresses selected from a larger number given at the fifth
convention of the Religious education association. “Among the
contributors are such men as President King, Professors Peabody,
Stewart, Coe, Votaw, Drs. Abbott and Gladden, Dean Hodges, and others
well known. ‘Our national need,’ President King affirms, ‘is a religious
need.’ The moral and social principles inseparable from religion receive
an equal emphasis in this volume.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“They present important aspects of the religious life of America in a
strong and suggestive way.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 144. F. ’09. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 91: 382. F. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.=^{[6]} Glass house. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–6846.
A story about a woman who towards middle age takes to story-writing and
neglects her three children. “A wealthy business man, who has a grudge
against her husband, an unsuccessful architect, schemes to carry off the
woman’s young daughter on his yacht to Europe, and also contrives a plan
by which he hopes to foil the hopes and ruin the budding success of the
architect. The latter’s acumen prevents the success of this design, and
a fifth-rate actor, who has picked up a speaking acquaintance with the
girl, ends his villainous plot with regard to her. And then the wife and
mother decides to reform and declares she will never write again.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is a book that is worth reading and then putting aside to be read
many times again. The finish of her writing is always literally ‘ad
unguem.’” H. T. Peck.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 405. Je. ’09. 1100w.
“The book is not without an occasional crudity, but its net results
might well be envied by many another contemporary writer of wider and
bigger reputation.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 614. Je. ’09. 750w.
“If the moral is not loudly demanded by the public, the fable at least
is mildly readable.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 122. Ag. 5, ’09. 300w.
“A pretty story, written with considerable skill, but drawing its
inspiration from the author’s imagination rather than from knowledge of
real men and women.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 180w.
“A sympathetic novel, one of the best in our opinion that Mrs. Kingsley
has written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 80w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.=^{[11]} Star of love. †$2. Appleton.
9–27029.
The life of Queen Esther, the star of love, at the corrupt court of
Xerxes is here pictured in a vivid fashion that well supplements the
Bible story. The benign influence of the gentle Hebrew maiden over the
dread king who lives in suspicion of intrigue and deception is
charmingly shown, and she appears in glowing contrast to the wily queen
mother, the wife of Hamon, and others of the court. She is true to
herself and her love, be it in the royal gardens of ease, or on the day
of dread and danger when she faced her enemies with her little son in
her arms and a prayer to the one God on her lips. There are eight
illustrations by Arthur E. Becher in soft oriental tones.
* * * * *
“An absorbing romance.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 110w.
“Miss Kingsley will add materially to an already wide and favorable
reputation by this latest novel.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 782. N. 6, ’09. 280w.
=Kingsley, Rose Georgina.= Roses and rose-growing; with a chapter on
“How to grow roses for exhibition,” by the Rev. F: Page-Roberts.
*$2. Macmillan.
Agr9–1598.
“To amateurs and professional cultivators who wish to inform themselves
as to what is latest and best in regard to roses, we can cordially
recommend this modest volume. Miss Kingsley brings to her task literary
skill, and a fair experience in the selection and cultivation of roses,
for both of which she is indebted to the late Charles Kingsley of
Eversley.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The color plates in this book are exceptionally accurate and
beautiful.” S. A. Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 46: 367. Je. 1, ’09. 230w.
“All garden lovers may welcome this instructive and charming book.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1032. My. 13, ’09. 140w.
“She has made good use of the standard books, new and old, and has
succeeded in preparing an attractive handbook such as Kingsley himself
would have been delighted to use.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 147. F. 11, ’09. 280w.
=Spec.= 101: 1062. D. 19, ’08. 130w.
=Kinross, Albert.= Joan of Garioch. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–29337.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The story is harmless and too well written to be classed with cheap
melodrama, but it has no literary quality or particular merit.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 25. Ja. ’09.
“He has done better work, but this is of its kind excellent. Some time
elapses before we are well in the saddle, as the plot is jointed in
sections.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 715. D. 5. 140w.
“Although the love-interest is kept well in the background, there are
all sorts of romantic compensations for this defect, and the interest of
the story does not flag in a single chapter.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 263. Ap. 16, ’09. 270w.
“Is an important story, marking as it does a new level for the novel of
adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 230w.
“It is possible to read the adventurous part of the book and merely
glance at the romance. On these conditions the novel may be recommended
to those who are interested in the Lettish rising, and Russian politics
generally.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 24. Ja. 2, ’09. 170w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.=^{[12]} Abaft the funnel. *$1.50. Dodge, B. W.
9–28704.
“A gleaning of hitherto uncollected papers—stories and
sketches—contributed to Anglo-Indian periodicals in the years
1888–1890.... Inquiry reveals ‘Abaft the funnel’ to be what it seems, an
exhumation of material which Kipling had doubtless reckoned safely
buried in the files of the Allahabad ‘Pioneer’ or elsewhere.... They
contain the crude substance of the Kipling, who, in his young twenties,
took the world by storm. The ‘Plain tales’ and the other early volumes
were made up of precisely such stories as these—many of them written
hastily as newspaper fillers.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“If it is only occasionally we find the Man Who Was at his best, ‘Abaft
the funnel’ offers many illustrations of the old Kipling at his worst.”
− + =Bookm.= 30: 319. D. ’09. 1450w.
“The thirty papers collected under the title ‘Abaft the funnel’ stand as
they originally came from his hurried pen. Most of them are sketches
rather than tales, and of slight intrinsic value.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 460. N. 11, ’09. 400w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.=^{[10]} Actions and reactions. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–26138.
The eight stories which are gathered into this volume are unrelated in
subject, but each bears the unmistakable mark of its author, and each is
followed by a poem which to a certain extent reflects the spirit, if not
the sense, of the prose preceding it. The tales are entitled: An
habitation enforced; Garm—a hostage; The mother hive; With the night
mail; A deal in cotton; The puzzler; Little foxes; and The house
surgeon. They range geographically from England to India, and, in
characters, from men to our dumb brothers.
* * * * *
“A casual collection of reprints which as a whole do not adequately
represent Kipling’s genius.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 133. D. ’09. ✠
“There is hardly a tale in this volume which is not unmatchable in its
kind, in its alertness, knowledgeableness, the quick understanding of
human nature revealed by every scrap of dialogue.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 453. O. 16. 1700w.
“Without doubt the new book offers excuse for the sneering references
that have been common of late years: ‘the work of a talented writer who
was once a genius.’ As for the verse, it is Kipling at his worst. But
there are two stories that offer the perfect Kiplingite a ray of hope.”
− + =Bookm.= 30: 321. D. ’09. 370w.
“The rough, swift force is gone, the youthful cynicism, and the
journalistic dash. The ‘actions and reactions’ of his latest volume
would have been recorded by the young Kipling in a tenth the space here
employed. They are the careful product of a responsible middle-aged
practitioner.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 460. N. 11, ’09. 380w.
“The old vigor, the old heart-searching eye, and the old bold phrase
that strips naked what the eye has seen and flashes it clean-cut full
upon you—all here are unimpaired; pervaded somehow with a subtler
essence, an intangible nexus which holds within itself things too dim
for words, yet real enough for feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 670. O. 30, ’09. 800w.
“Mr. Kipling is as successful as usual in his new book. It is the
combination of strength and tenderness that makes Mr. Kipling’s work
remarkable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 3. O. 16, ’09. 1300w.
“Happily the riddle-reading powers of his admirers are not seriously
taxed in his new volume of stories, and the poems in which, after his
wont, he sums up the tendency and moral of each of his stories are more
than usually incisive and illuminating.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 564. O. 9, ’09. 1150w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.=^{[5]} Kipling stories and poems every child should
know; ed. by Mary E. Burt and W. T. Chapin. **$1.20. Doubleday.
9–11260.
Another volume in the “What every child should know” series. The editor
has skimmed the cream of Kipling’s poems and juvenile stories, making a
collection of virile classics rich in local color and full of alimental
qualities.
* * * * *
“A very useful volume for the small library that cannot afford the
complete books, and for teachers of primary and grammar grades.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 191. Je. ’09. ✠
+ =Dial.= 47: 24. Jl. 1, ’09. 130w.
“Here the two editors have trampled on worthy material and have pieced
it together in most artificial fashion.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 67: 1359. D. 16, ’09. 70w.
“The editor has doubtless been actuated by excellent motives, but it is
unfortunate she did not set at defiance the demands of teachers, and aim
only to satisfy the children.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 1020. D. 4, ’09. 150w.
“Undoubtedly they have some rich material here, but that is Kipling’s
fault; he cannot be harmed by the commonplace remarks at the head of the
selections, printed in excruciating type, and serving as superfluous
connective tissue.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 538. D. 2, ’09. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 798. D. 18, ’09. 110w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.= With the night mail: a story of 2000 A. D.;
together with extracts from the contemporary magazine in which it
appeared. **$1. Doubleday.
9–8570.
A tale which chronicles a trip from London to Quebec by dirigible
balloon during the hours of a single night in the year 2000 A. D.
Kipling’s quick imagination copes bravely with the struggle of the
numerous flitting packets to keep well to their five-thousand foot
lanes, and the excitement of a storm during which a fellow liner
succumbs to its fate and is swallowed by the Atlantic. The narrative “is
filled with a strange technical jargon, relieved by some remarkably
vivid passages of description.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Here all the terms are unknown not merely to literary men but to
everybody of this generation, yet the story is readable and
comprehensible enough. Kipling does not rely upon the knowledge of his
readers, but on their intelligence.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 814. Ap. 15, ’09. 280w.
“The story is a good enough one of its kind. It is a pity that he is so
destitute of ideas that in the interval of two years and a half since
‘Puck of Pook’s hill’ he has been able to prepare no better apology for
a book.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 364. Ap. 8, ’09. 160w.
“The conviction is strongly borne in upon you that this man is hardly
less seer than artist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 216. Ap. 10, ’09. 420w.
“Absorbing short tale.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 253. Ag. ’09. 120w.
=Kirbye, J. Edward.= Puritanism in the South. *75c. Pilgrim press.
8–36696.
Correcting at the outset the historical inaccuracy that the Puritan was
in New England and the Cavalier in the South, the author shows that the
colonial south contained Puritans, Huguenots, Cavaliers, German, Irish,
Scotch and French. He shows that the difference between North and South
originated in the differing land systems, the farm and the plantation,
which affected their social, intellectual and religious ideals. He
discusses conditions in Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia,
and answers, in closing, the question, What is Puritanism in the South?
* * * * *
“The style is journalistic, and the matter is determined by temporary
interest rather than historical value. It is scarcely necessary to point
out minor mistakes in a volume which is not to be taken as serious
history and which has no index.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 186. O. ’09. 350w.
=Kirk, John.=^{[5]} Biographies of English Catholics in the eighteenth
century; ed. by J. H. Pollen and Edwin Burton. *$2.75. Benziger.
9–14581.
Intended as a continuation of Dodd’s “Church history.” There are some
thousand sketches. “The names, arranged in alphabetical order, belong to
every conspicuous rank of society, those of the clergy and gentry
predominating. Many of the names have rich historical associations,
stretching back far beyond the bad days of the reformation.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“His great mass of biographical notes are now published and will be of
prime value to whoever is destined to carry out the work. Even in their
present shape they assist us to form a fair idea of the conditions of
English Catholics from the days of Anne down to the close of the penal
times.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 244. My. ’09. 280w.
=Spec.= 101: 1063. D. 19, ’08. 60w.
=Kirk, William=, ed.^{[11]} Modern city: Providence, Rhode Island, and
its activities; a collection of essays by members of the faculty of
Brown university. *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–26166.
Presents the physical characteristics, the racial element, the
commercial and industrial growth, the labor conditions, and the
governmental, financial, educational, aesthetic, philanthropic, and
religious activities of a typical American city. The work is less a
complete description of any one city than a survey of its distinctive
characteristics.
* * * * *
“Chapters on ‘Population,’ ‘Labor,’ and ‘Finance,’ to mention such as
are of interest to the economist, are good, while that on ‘Industry’ is
lamentably weak—mostly eighteenth-century history. There is, in fact,
throughout the book, a rather uncertain wavering between historical fact
and present-day conditions which not only is disconcerting in this
description of a ‘modern city’ but also results in some unfortunate
gaps.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 651. N. ’09. 180w.
“It should prove a valuable collection of ‘mémoires pour servir.’”
+ =Nation.= 89: 353. O. 14, ’09. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 776. D. 4, ’09. 320w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.=^{[6]} Mexican trails. **$1.75. Putnam.
9–7928.
“An account, admirably and fully illustrated, of what is loveliest, most
picturesque, and most interesting, historically and from other points of
view, in Mexico; and it is a result of a three years’ residence in the
country and of long horseback tours over a large part of the Republic.
The author knows Mexican life and character from intimate personal
experience, and, being a veteran and accomplished writer, his pen does
full justice to the many-sided charm of his subject.”
* * * * *
“Gives a very good idea of local conditions and of the status of Mexican
Indians.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 171. Je. ’09.
=Ind.= 66: 1240. Je. 3, ’09. 80w.
“The narrative is refreshingly free from statistics and chapters on the
financial resources of the country and the political situation. As an
artist is said to catch the expression of his model, so Mr. Kirkham has
succeeded in portraying the individuality, the elusive spirit of
Mexico.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 516. N. 25, ’09. 500w.
“It is rather a pity he does not give us a fairly full record of his
Mexican days instead of a series of glimpses of the life and scenery
with which he came in contact. But he might have written much more fully
about the impressions he enjoyed while he was roaming about in
localities not often visited by Americans.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 198. Ap. 3, ’09. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 765. Je. ’09. 50w.
“Altogether, this is a book to be read.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 494. O. 2, ’09. 170w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Philosophy of self-help. **$1.25. Putnam.
9–4135.
Auto-suggestion is the means of self-help which the author uses thruout
this presentation. He reviews the body of truth which constitutes the
normal field of the mind’s activity; considers at length the nature and
activity of the mind and its relation to the body; and concludes with
such logical deductions and inferences as may be drawn with reference to
mind building and character forming, thru a practical application of the
principles discussed.
* * * * *
“The philosophy is idealistic and inspiring to a degree and the last
third of the book, which presents the philosophy in detail, will bear
rereading.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 427. S. ’09. 130w.
“One is glad at last to find a book written not only in tolerably good
English, but also with a precision of thought, a sequence of ideas that
are understandable, and answerable, and withal, a book typical of the
movement for which it stands. Mr. Kirkham expounds a practical
philosophy, a popular philosophy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 244. Ap. 17, ’09. 800w.
=Kirkland, Winifred.=^{[10]} Introducing Corinna. **$1. Revell.
9–24329.
A story of a college girl after college days are over that gives an
account of Corinna Sargent’s year as head mistress of Bramley Hall.
Corinna, a typical girl-graduate, brings all her ingenuity, and tact to
bear on the problem of managing a difficult set of girls not much
younger than herself. Through her understanding of girls, she succeeds
where those older and wiser than she have failed.
* * * * *
“Librarians and mothers should welcome such a charming, straightforward
romance. For several years we have met with no story so fresh, so frank,
so picturesque, and so holding in its sympathetic, distinctive
portrayal.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1365. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
“It is just the ‘romance’ for a ‘betwixt and between’ girl.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1027. D. 4, ’09. 40w.
“The plot is defective in places, but the general tone is wholesome.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
=Kirkpatrick, Edwin Asbury.=^{[9]} Genetic psychology: an introduction
to an objective and genetic view of intelligence. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“The plan underlying the work is that of coining in one exposition the
underlying types of behavior of our own complex mentality and the
antecedent and simpler varieties characteristic of the structurally
simpler organisms. There thus results a conception of behavior as a
consistent and expanding procedure, and of the mental factor in it as
again an organic principle in a still larger whole. Nor is this left
vague and generic; it is coördinated with the amœba and the insect and
the fish and fowl; it binds dog and ape with these, and these with
men.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A helpful contribution to the equipment for presenting to the young
idea some adequate notion of its own ancestry and conditions.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 23. Jl. 1, ’09. 200w.
“We could not wish a more wisely balanced, better adapted introduction.
The classification and interpretation of instincts are doubtless
somewhat more scholastic in their sharp distinctions than the facts
allow.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 210. S. 2, ’09. 200w.
=Kitton, Frederick George.= Charles Dickens. *$3.50. Appleton.
To the material which Foster drew upon for his biography a third of a
century ago has been added for this “life” a considerable amount of new
material including Dickens’s private correspondence.
* * * * *
“To his work there is introduced a number of intimate touches from the
hand of the novelist himself which give it a unique flavor.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“It is in its total effect an abridgment of the work of his predecessor:
What it suppresses—the intimate comment and criticism of Dickens’s bosom
friend—is of the highest interest and value; what it adds—a few scraps
of information and letters—does not contribute any new and important
‘fact of life or character.’”
− =Nation.= 87: 607. D. 17, ’08. 780w.
Reviewed by Stephenson Browne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 598. O. 24, ’08. 2000w.
“A fascinating life fascinatingly told, and one which no lover of
Dickens can leave unread without depriving himself of a great pleasure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
“Mr. Kitton is an enthusiast; he could not be more offensively
panegyrical if Dickens had died last week. Unfortunately he has very
little humor, and a great knack at quoting the passages from Dickens’s
letters, and dwelling upon the incidents of his career, which idolaters
might choose to ignore.” H. W. Boynton.
− =Putnam’s.= 5: 493. Ja. ’09. 430w.
=Kitts, Eustace J.=^{[7]} In the days of the councils. *10s. 6d.
Constable, A., and co., London.
A book whose “substance and core is a careful setting forth of the
various methods for terminating the schism proposed or followed at one
time or another, coupled with a clear enumeration of the difficulties
that thwarted each new effort in behalf of religious peace and unity.
The documentation is not always entirely satisfactory, owing to the
circumstance that the author, although his studies have carried him back
to the original sources, leans largely upon the excellent secondary
works dealing with the period, and frequently yields to the temptation
of referring undisputed facts to them.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“A sound and painstaking, though a by no means original, work. But
though even-tempered as the historian should be, Mr. Kitts pays the
price for this cold merit by his failure to endow his leading
personalities with the warm breath of life.” Ferdinand Schevill.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 801. Jl. ’09. 620w.
“Instead of the coat of many colours that this picturesque adventurer
deserved, has produced a sorry piece of patchwork. Here was an author
who was setting out to rewrite Bryce and Creighton without either grace
of style or accuracy of statement. First of all, Mr. Kitts has given his
book a double-barrelled title, and both barrels miss fire. By all means
let him complete the story, but let him spare his readers the jumble of
second-hand quotations and irrelevant facts with which his first is
crammed.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 214. F. 13, ’09. 1000w.
“It is just, sensible, and competent, and it is put together with
workmanlike skill which would do credit to a professional historian. The
kind offices of some friend might have saved Mr. Kitts’s book from such
slight slips, which occur chiefly when he goes outside his own period,
and we mention them only in order that they may be removed in a later
edition. They do not seriously interfere with the special interest and
value of the book. His book is written with vigour and freshness, and he
retains the reader’s interest throughout.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 635. Ap. 24, ’09. 1400w.
=Klein, Charles.=^{[5]} Music master; novelised from the play as
produced by David Belasco. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–7830.
A novelized version of the play in which David Warfield has achieved his
greatest success. It turns upon a wife’s desertion of her husband, a
German musician, her flight to America with their child, and the
father’s struggle with poverty during twenty years of searching for the
lost daughter.
* * * * *
“Novelization of the play, indifferently well done.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09.
“It is a readable tale, and though occasionally verbose, will probably
appeal to a large circle of readers.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 240w.
=Klein, Charles, and Hornblow, Arthur.=^{[12]} Third degree. †$1.50.
Dillingham.
9–29769.
A strong, impressive arraignment of the abuses in this country of the
police system. The son of an old New York family marries a girl of
character, but one whose parentage is unworthy the recognition of the
husband’s family. They disown the son; he sinks into dissipation and
debt; and is finally accused of murder. He becomes a victim of the
police officials, but is saved from the “chair” by his clear-headed,
stout-hearted wife who believes absolutely in his innocence, and whose
wit and good sense enable her to win against the tremendous odds imposed
by the law.
=Kleiser, Grenville.= How to develop power and personality in
speaking; with an introd. by Lewis O. Brastow. **$1.25. Funk.
9–703.
A handbook, particularly valuable to the student of homiletics, which
gives suggestions and exercises under the following heads: Power and
personality in speaking, How to develop physical power, How to develop
the speaking voice, How to build a vocabulary, Power in English style,
How to develop the imagination, Dramatic power in speaking, How to train
the memory, Power of illustration, Power in conversation, Power in
extemporaneous speaking, Power in holding an audience, Power in prayer,
and Power in service and repose. Part 2 contains helpful selections for
study and practice.
* * * * *
“Practical manual of instruction in pulpit oratory.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 78. Mr. ’09.
“We take pleasure in heartily recommending this volume to all persons
interested in the subject discussed.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 393. Mr. ’09. 320w.
+ =Ind.= 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 50w.
“Though the book is designed to be especially helpful to ministers, its
sound and fundamental method should make it generally useful.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 415. Ap. 22, ’09. 130w.
“Whoever examines the book, however, will find that any person desirous
of increasing his power as a public speaker may benefit greatly from Mr.
Kleiser’s practical instructions and suggestions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 114. F. 27, ’09. 210w.
=Knapp, Margaret Lizzie.= But still a man. †$1.50. Little.
9–4954.
A story whose keynote is found in Pope’s line “A minister—but still a
man.” The hero is a young man just turned out of the theological
seminary into the world. He finds his niche in a small valley town,
serves and stimulates his parish, and suffers the usual small-town
persecutions. The real concern of the story is the mission of the one
woman in opening this hero’s eyes to the height, the depth and the
fulness of love which when understood swept away a great cloud of
resentment and hatred that had hung over his life.
* * * * *
“The religious tone is dominant but not unpleasantly obtrusive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 91. Mr. ’09. ✠
“It gains a strong hold upon us by its naturalness, its earnestness, its
variety of character and incident, its gleams of poetry and humor, and
its clear, unaffected style.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 182. S. 16, ’09. 300w.
“There is much excellent work in the depiction of these strongly
individualized characters. Her story of Gordon Dale’s first parish is
one of strong human interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 116. F. 27, ’09. 200w.
=Knight, Charles Robert.= Animals of the world for young people; with
an introd. by Tudor Jenks. **$2. Stokes.
8–31036.
“Here are described all the existing mammals, with the exception of
those that are very rare and almost unheard of nowadays, and in his
introduction Mr. Jenks, after giving the scope of this work, outlines
briefly the general structure and anatomy of the animals treated in the
volume. There are forty full-page coloured plates, which represent two
hundred animals.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“An interesting and instructive book.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 502. Ja. ’09. 70w.
“The text is concise.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1480. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=Knight, Edward Frederick.= ^{[7]} Awakening of Turkey: a history of
the Turkish revolution. *$3. Lippincott.
9–35780.
A detailed account of the Turkish revolution which confirms other
authentic reports and which “contains some new material, such as the
diary of Niazi Bey after he had declared the revolution and taken to the
hills at Resna; and it differs essentially from some of the Times
telegrams in its testimony as to the later character of the Committee of
union and progress.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A well written, timely work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 16. S. ’09.
“Mr. Knight is almost Thucydidean in his minute account of what Niazi
did and said during the two weeks of insurrection.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 188. Ag. 26, ’09. 320w.
“It is no slight to Mr. Buxton’s interesting volume, entitled ‘Turkey in
revolution,’ to say that Mr. Knight’s work is the most thorough account
that has appeared in the English language.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 500. Ag. 21, ’09. 1350w.
+ =Outlook.= 92: 825. Ag. 7, ’09. 350w.
“Mr. Knight says all that an extreme partisan could to justify
everything that the revolutionary party has done to establish the
military despotism which has taken the place of the rule of the Sultan
Abdul Hamid. His knowledge ... has not saved his work from glaring
inconsistences. There is, however, some value in Mr. Knight’s
description of the secret society which with the co-operation of local
freemasonry fomented the revolution by means of assassinations which Mr.
Knight gladly justifies as necessary to its work.”
− + =Sat. R.= 107: 726. Je. 5, ’09. 380w.
“We notice a few mistakes in the book. In spite of a certain provocative
tone which we think unnecessary in the circumstances—for are we not all
friends of Turkey now?—Mr. Knight’s book is to be heartily recommended
as a piece of clear and informing narrative worthy of his reputation.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 858. My. 29, ’09. 1900w.
=Knopf, Siegmund Adolphus.=^{[9]} Tuberculosis: a preventable and
curable disease; modern methods for the solution of the tuberculosis
problem. **$2. Moffatt.
9–17599.
“The book is intended not so much for physicians as for philanthropists,
social workers. publicists, teachers, consumptives and the people at
large. Besides the fundamental chapters explaining the sources of
infection and the modern methods of treatment, there are sections on the
duties of the physician, the duties of municipal health authorities, of
state and federal authorities, of employers, school teachers, educators,
newspapers, clergymen, charity organizations and ordinary
citizens.”—Survey.
* * * * *
“Not so specialized and comprehensive as the N. Y. Charity organization
‘Handbook’ (now out of print) and less informing on the technical side
than Newsholme’s ‘Prevention of tuberculosis,’ but better adapted for
general reading than either and perhaps the best work in print for
popular use. It should be on the shelves of every public library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 43. O. ’09.
“Dr. Knopf’s book is quite as optimistic as that of Dr. Otis. If the
book is to be read, as seems to have been the intention, by tuberculosis
patients, it is too bad that it was not made a little lighter. The heavy
calendered paper makes it weigh several pounds.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1208. N. 25, ’09. 170w.
“The validity of what this author has to say can scarcely be called in
question, for there is no more zealous student of tuberculosis in
America, or for that matter in Europe.” I. W. Voorhees.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 464. Jl. 31, ’09. 800w.
“It deals in a thorough and most satisfactory manner with one of the
most important problems of the human race.” G: M. Kober.
+ =Science=, n. s. 30: 447. O. 1, ’09. 1600w.
“It is clearly, and interestingly written, conveying throughout the
impression of well-balanced judgment on all disputed questions, and of
very wide familiarity with all branches of the subject. The book will
certainly be of the greatest value as a storehouse of information such
as would be needed by those who are to speak on the subject of
tuberculosis, or to undertake any portion of the educational campaign.
It is curious that less than half a page is devoted to the subject of
nutrition, and about the same space to rest, while the value of fresh
air is admirably illustrated in scores of pages and from every point of
view.” R: C. Cabot.
+ − =Survey.= 22: 678. Ag. 21, ’09. 1000w.
=Knott, Cargill Gilston.= Physics of earthquake phenomena. *$4.75.
Oxford.