“Heretofore Mr. Lang and his wife have dealt largely with folk-lore and
legendary romance; now they find it necessary to turn to reality. As a
trade-mark, they adhere to the rainbow nomenclature, but ‘The red book
of heroes’ claims to be history, wherein the lives represented are
marked by two dominant characteristics, honor and courage.” (Lit. D.)
Accounts of such heroes as Florence Nightingale, John Howard the
philanthropist, Hannibal, Father Damien, the apostle of the lepers, the
Marquis of Montrose, the little Abbess, and others.
* * * * *
“The children who get so charming a book should be delighted.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 523. O. 30. 60w.
“The editor is now prompted to exploit the heroic in actual history, and
this first attempt is very inviting.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1364. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
“The young reader will gain much inspiration from these careers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1020. D. 4, ’09. 140w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 60w.
“It would surely be an abnormal child who would not welcome ‘The red
book of heroes’ among his Christmas gifts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 130w.
“Mrs. Lang has a very pretty story-telling gift of her own, while Mr.
Lang does his part in giving the books a background of scholarship.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 601. N. 13, ’09. 140w.
“In things of every kind which are to be pleasant in the using, skilful
mixing goes a long way. As for the ingredients, they are of the best
quality and plentiful.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 718. N. 6, ’09. 750w.
“It is not quite as easy reading as the ‘Story of the magic Persians,’
but the sketches hold a mint of information, with enough action and
idealism mixed in to keep the interest of any child.” B. L. Israels.
+ =Survey.= 23: 376. D. 18, ’09. 60w.
=Lang, W. H.= Australia. (Romance of empire ser.) *$2. Stokes.
8–22307.
A narrative written by a surgeon who spent twenty years in the Hume
district on the borders of Victoria and New South Wales. “There are
touches of geology, ethnology and mythology about his chapters which
serve to leaven the purely adventurous side of his narrative. The doings
of the early settlers and explorers, of convict, colonist and
bushranger, are described by one who has an irrepressible love of
Australia, ‘a great gem, flashing in the crown of the king.’ To him
Australia has only one drawback—want of water, but that she is making
good by means of artesian boring.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“He possesses considerable knowledge of the country he writes about. We
must therefore confess to some disappointment that his work is marred in
the earlier chapters by discursive remarks, typographical errors, and
other mistakes, some of which might have been avoided if he has seen the
volume through the press himself.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 641. My. 23. 1100w.
“In conception and treatment the volume falls short of being either
historical or descriptive, and apparently aims to set forth only the
unusual and the striking in the history of the Australian continent. His
style is a bit crude, but his presentation of scenes and incidents is
often quite vivid.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 230w.
“Although apparently always conscious that he is writing for the young,
has done Australia well.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 732. Je. 6, ’08. 130w.
=Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray=, ed.^{[10]} Treatise on zoology. pts. 1 and
7. ea. *$5.25. Macmillan.
=Pt. 1.= Introduction and protozoa.
An introduction concerned with the definition of zoology is followed by
a series of separate treatises by various biologists which aim to give a
general outline of the entire subkingdom protozoa from a zoological
point of view.
=Pt. 7.= Appendiculata. Third fascicle, Crustacea.
“The book preeminently is a zoological treatise, dealing with the purely
zoological side of the matter: morphology, anatomy, embryology and the
systematics. With regard to this, it is a complete success, and should
be used, by zoologists, not only by the side of other textbooks, but is
apt to supersede the latter, thus becoming, for the present time, the
standard text-book on crustaceans.”—Science.
* * * * *
“It may be said at once that in no previous work has the phylum of the
protozoa been so thoroughly and adequately treated, or better
illustrated. The student in this department of zoology will find it
indispensable. The articles are accurate and trustworthy, and the
criticisms of the work of others just.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 185. Ag. 14. 1050w. (Review of pt. 1, 1st
fascicle.)
“As a basis for more specialized work in different lines of protozoan
research, the book has a greater value than any of the others of more
limited scope that have appeared in the last few years. Unfortunately,
as with all such collaborated works, the various groups of protozoa are
not equally well presented, and the treatment of some of the topics
indicates plainly that the authors are writing from a library rather
than a laboratory knowledge of the subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 285. S. 23, ’09. 450w. (Review of pt. 1, 1st
fascicle.)
“This volume worthily upholds the high standard attained in its
companion fascicle, with which it forms a comprehensive treatise on the
protozoan of outstanding excellence.”
+ − =Nature.= 80: 152. Ap. 8, ’09. 1150w. (Review of pt. 1, 1st
fascicle.)
“Dr. Calman’s volume is especially strong in the morphological and
systematic aspects of carcinology. With the yearly increasing output of
research, the trustworthy text-book becomes more than ever necessary,
and the modern English student is fortunate with sets of Lankester’ and
‘Sedgwick’ on his shelves.” G. H. Carpenter.
+ =Nature.= 80: 361. My. 27, ’09. 1100w. (Review of pt. 7, 3d
fascicle.)
“Anybody desiring to get any information within the range as defined
above will surely find it here, and not only this, but he will find the
account given up to date.” A. E. Ortmann.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 766. N. 26, ’09. 800w. (Review of pt. 7, 3d
fascicle.)
“All of the articles are fairly clear and well-written expositions of
the structures and modes of life of the several types of Protozoa, but
with the exception of the sections on Mycetozoa and Radiolaria there is
little that is new or above the average of an ordinary textbook, while
there are few references to literature later than 1906. The paper is
altogether too thick and clumsy however, making a heavy and poorly bound
volume, which will never stand the wear of ordinary use.” G. N. C.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 888. D. 17, ’09. 580w. (Review of pt. 1, 1st
fascicle.)
=Lathbury, Eva.=^{[6]} Long gallery. †$1.50. Holt.
9–14515.
A leisurely story of English life thru whose romance is traced the
influence of dead ancestors whose portraits hang in the long gallery of
Southern Court. Mystery weaves its spell about the characters, including
two brides, their mothers, and the men who wooed them. The mystery,
heart tragedies, and memories all seem to lie dust covered in an old
play room in the Court until a dying woman’s servant draws them out into
the light.
* * * * *
“The book is distinguished by subtle characterization and much
imagination of a delicate and whimsical variety.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 55. O. ’09.
“A story of unusual quality, written with uncommon distinction of style.
The book possesses few elements of popularity, but it will hold the
discriminating reader as much by its finesse of style as its interesting
play and interplay of characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 409. Je. 26, ’09. 500w.
“The story is at times involved, but it is well told, it shows creative
power, imagination, sincerity, and its ideas are essentially of human
interest.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 8. S. 4, ’09. 110w.
=Lathbury, Eva.=^{[12]} Sinking ship. †$1.50. Holt.
9–29256.
A story of the stage, tense, introspective, in which three generations—a
granddaughter, a mother and daughter—struggle to give expression of
their temperamental individuality. We have the impossible grandmother
with her love for stage tinsel, frumpery and flash, which, in her last
moments, turn into grinning horrors; the mother, half mad with inner
revolt against idyllic productions with their fancy dresses and scenic
effects, who clutches at a young dramatist’s play, built up about her,
and creating for her a “new skin which she slips into”; and the
daughter, Sibyl, who symbolizes the new stage that is to grow out of the
old one with its mist and shadow, who says: “Some day, some day very
soon, the theater will give up to us, and we shall paint the truth
there; we’re growing tired of pretense. Some day the false gods will be
turned out and the true God will come in.”
* * * * *
“With keen penetration and merciless portrayal Miss Lathbury delineates
in vivid scenes the characters of the actress herself and of her mother,
daughter, and husband, who are all on the stage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 764. D. 4, ’09. 200w.
“The book is so wordy that its intention is nebulous: and Miss Lathbury
makes very little of what seemed a promising contrast between the three
women.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 508. O. 23, ’09. 350w.
=Latifi, Alma.=^{[10]} Effects of war on property; being studies in
international law and policy; with a note on belligerent rights at
sea, by J: Westlake. *$1.50. Macmillan.
War9–23.
“This is not a study of the entire field indicated by the title. Five
studies present various phases of the law of war as applied to property.
Especial emphasis is placed on topics hitherto little treated by writers
on international law. The method of treatment is practical rather than
jural. The chapters indicate the field covered: Property of enemies and
neutrals on land; Effects of conquest on property; Property of enemies
and neutrals at sea; Exceptions to the rule of capture of property at
sea; Inviolability of private property at sea.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The last two chapters constitute the chief contribution made, though
there are many points in the other chapters on which interesting
evidence is presented from the Spanish-American, South African and
Russo-Japanese war.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 427. S. ’09. 120w.
=Nation.= 89: 124. Ag. 5, ’09. 300w.
“His failure to make use of the large body of precedents collected by
Mr. Moore in his ‘International arbitrations’ and in his ‘International
law digest,’ and the omission, apparently, to examine at first hand the
cases growing out of the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars
blemish an otherwise valuable series of studies on the effects of war on
property. The lack of a table of the cases discussed and cited makes the
book defective also as a law manual.” G: W. Scott.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 548. S. ’09. 1000w.
=Latimer, Robert Sloan.=^{[12]} Liberty of conscience under three
tsars. **$1.50. Revell.
“An account of the advance made in the Russian empire since the Crimean
war toward the ideal of personal liberty in matters of religion. The
Czars referred to are Alexander II., Alexander III., and Nicholas II.,
who is now on the throne.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Will be found serviceable on account of its broad outline of the
history of the origin of the Russian sects, and their treatment by the
Russian government, which is the Orthodox church. The book is not
intended for serious students, but for the general public—the English
general public, more by token, and, to judge from its sentimental tone,
chiefly for its women.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1267. D. 2, ’09. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 764. D. 4, ’09. 170w.
=Spec.= 103: 316. Ag. 28, ’09. 290w.
=Laughlin, Clara Elizabeth.= Death of Lincoln. **$1.50. Doubleday.
9–3344.
A detailed account of Lincoln’s death, the events leading up to it,
Booth’s life, the plot, the assassination and the penalty.
* * * * *
“The author possesses an admirable style and has threaded together the
facts and evidence in her possession in such a manner as to make an
absorbingly interesting volume.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 393. Mr. ’09. 130w.
“The readers of this volume, be they young or old, will have a far more
‘realising sense’ than it is likely they have already of the conditions
which made possible the assassination and the consequence.” Montgomery
Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 84. Mr. ’09. 1100w.
Reviewed by E. E. Sparks.
+ =Dial.= 46: 298. My. 1, ’09. 200w.
=Ind.= 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 40w.
=Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 20w.
“A remarkably vivid and dramatic piece of work, and without desecrating
the sanctity of the scene or descending to melodrama, she has placed the
events of the last few hours of Lincoln’s life on earth so
sympathetically before us that we seem to have been with that hushed
company.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 450w.
=Laughlin, James Laurence.=^{[12]} Latter-day problems. **$1.50.
Scribner.
9–28275.
Professor Laughlin discusses scientifically the following economic
subjects and uses language sufficiently untechnical to be understood by
all: The hope for labor unions; Socialism a philosophy of failure; The
abolition of poverty; Social settlements; Political economy and
Christianity; Large fortunes; The valuation of railways; The guaranty of
bank deposits; The depositor and the bank; Government vs. bank issues.
* * * * *
“Professor Laughlin’s book is clear, keen, scholarly, suggestive; but it
has the defect which often characterizes the product of the study: it
shows greater familiarity with economic theories than it does with the
actual facts of modern industrial life.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 350w.
=Launay, Louis de.= World’s gold: its geology, extraction, and
political economy; tr. by Orlando Cyprian Williams; with an introd.
by Charles A. Conant. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–32340.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The most comprehensive book to be had on the subject of gold production
and its relation to the world’s economy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 141. My. ’09.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 719. My. ’09. 280w.
“His work on gold may be read with much interest, whether the reader be
geologist, miner, metallurgist, or economist. The translation has been
done with accuracy and judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 292. Mr. 6. 400w.
“While M. De Launay is both interesting and reliable in the sections of
his book dealing with the geology, the distribution, and the mining and
extraction of gold, he is much less reliable when he deals with the
politics and economics of the gold question.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 589. Mr. 18, ’09. 530w.
Reviewed by W. H. E.
+ =J. Geol.= 17: 192. F. ’09. 110w.
“He is caught tripping in his economic thinking by Mr. Conant.” L.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 305. My. ’09. 380w.
“This is a wonderfully complete tho concise essay on a subject about
which accurate information has not always been easily accessible. The
work is well and fluently translated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 983. D. 26, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 109. F. 27, ’09. 400w.
“A singularly useful and lucid manual for the student alike of the
geology, the extraction, and the political economy of gold.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 63. Ja. 9, ’09. 430w.
“Professor DeLaunay’s book is valuable for its detailed and presumably
accurate description of the geological and technical features of the
subject, but it would be greatly improved by the elimination of its
puerile economics.” J. F. Johnson.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 545. S. ’09. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 253. F. ’09. 100w.
“Taken as a whole, the work is well and logically written and fairly
accurate in facts and figures. It is a work which will be read with
interest by both technical and non-technical readers, and especially by
those interested in the financial aspect of money and metals.” W. R.
Crane.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 300. F. 19, ’09. 300w.
=Spec.= 102: sup. 638. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.
=Launspach, Charles W. L.= State and family in early Rome. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
9–2061.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“A readable and generally interesting book for those with tastes similar
to his own. As he appears, however, to be quite ignorant of the present
state of discussion and criticism in the investigation of his subject,
it must be said in all candor that his work has no value for the
student.” S. B. P.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 375. Ja. ’09. 240w.
“It is a lawyer’s treatment of one department of Roman law—the relation
of the family to the state; and we know not where an intelligent student
could find a better exposition in brief of a long and thorny subject. We
congratulate the author on his sound and sensible book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 193. F. 13. 750w.
“Regarded as the production of an amateur this book is both laudable and
interesting; but it is difficult to see why it should be published.” W.
A. G.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 394. Ap. ’09. 300w.
=Laut, Agnes Christina.=^{[12]} Canada, the empire of the North; being
the romantic story of the new dominion’s growth from colony to
kingdom. *$2.50. Ginn.
9–26653.
Miss Laut’s story begins with the early discovery and exploration of
North America and proceeds swiftly and accurately to the Confederation
of 1867. “To re-create,” says Miss Laut, “the shadowy figures of the
heroic past, to clothe the dead once more in flesh and blood, to set the
puppets of the play in life’s great dramas upon the stage of
action,—frankly, this may not be formal history, but it is what makes
the past most real to the present day.” It is to the realistic
conception of her task that the author owes the dramatic quality of this
work.
=Laut, Agnes Christina.= Conquest of the great Northwest; being the
story of the adventurers of England known as The Hudson’s bay
company; new pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and
western states. 2v. *$5. Moffat.
8–31815.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“It will serve a distinct use in the field of popularized history, but
it is not always convincing, and the serious student will turn to Mr.
Burpee’s volume for the sober recital that, while less entertaining,
confines itself within the exact region of facts.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 16. Ja. ’09.
“Compared with the mass of original documents which Miss Laut has
managed to unearth ... the foundation of the earlier histories appears
meagre and inadequate.” L. J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 46: 139. Mr. 1, ’09. 1450w.
“The fascination of exploration and of the wild life of the wilderness
could hardly be more vividly portrayed than in ‘Conquest of the great
Northwest.’”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1399. Je. 24, ’09. 650w.
“The first complete history that has been written of a body of men who
had sole possession for hundreds of years of a territory larger than the
whole of Europe.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 106. Ja. 16, ’09. 580w.
“To fill out the picture is all very fine, but it is hazardous; and we
think Miss Laut in particular might show more caution. In truth, an
adherence to the bare words of her sources would have given often
vividness enough.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 142. F. 11, ’09. 470w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 124. Ja. ’09. 210w.
=Law, Robert.=^{[11]} Tests of life: a study of the First epistle of
St. John; being the Kerr lectures for 1909. *$3. Scribner.
“This work, not primarily homiletic in its interest ... is a historical
and doctrinal exposition of the First epistle of John, and originally
constituted the Kerr lectures for 1909 at the Glasgow college of the
United free church. The style, structure, aim and authorship of the
epistle are discussed briefly, but the main purpose seems to be to
expound its teaching. The method chosen is not that of continuous
comment. Passages that deal with the same theme are grouped into one
treatment, and critical notes are inserted from time to time.”—Am. J.
Theol.
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 13: 649. O. ’09. 150w.
“This work is a serious and well-proportioned commentary. He is
over-inclined to detect later theology in the epistle.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 357. My. ’09. 70w.
=Lawson, Andrew Cowper.= California earthquake of April 18, 1906:
report of the state earthquake investigation commission. 2v. v. 1,
in 2 pts. $17. Carnegie inst.
=v. 1.= Part one contains an account of the geology of the coast system
of mountains, a complete discussion of the San Andreas rift and
assembled phenomena attending the San Francisco earthquake. Part two
includes a discussion of the greater havoc of earthquakes in the soft
ground sections, general effects of the earthquake in question, and a
comparison of it with other seismological disturbances in the same
region.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 88: 174. F. 18, ’09. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The illustrations are by far the most informing and the most
interesting photographs of the earthquake which have been published.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 526. S. 26, ’08. 410w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Lawton, Frederick.=^{[6]} Third French republic. *$3.50. Lippincott.