A volume of generous proportions lavishly illustrated, presenting not
“the pageant of a summer only but the whole pageant of the renaissance
in France.” From art folios, archaeological dictionaries, forgotten
pamphlets, ancient manuscripts and musty memoirs of historical societies
the author has gleaned architectural, historical and topographical
information concerning the Loire country which he has worked into
attractive form for the traveler to whom he dedicates his book.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 172. Je. ’09.
“The pages of Mr. Lees lead us to fear that he went to Touraine without
that general knowledge which should have been the foundation of a book
instructing others.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 582. My. 15. 1100w.
“Few travel books afford more pleasant entertainment than this
delightful sketch of sojourns.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 235. O. 1, ’09. 270w.
“This volume is one of the best of its class, adequate, sane and
helpful.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1246. Je. 3, ’09. 160w.
“Mr. Lees is not a pictorial writer, and occasionally he trips up in his
syntax, but he tells his story without affectation, and he strikes a
fair balance between description and history.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 628. Je. 24, ’09. 200w.
“A book that is in many respects more complete and more interesting than
any of its predecessors. Its especial value consists in the fact that
its author has had access to many châteaux now in the hands of private
owners who permit no public invasion of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 387. Je. 19, ’09. 520w.
“He writes with knowledge, sometimes enthusiastically, at others
critically. To those who contemplate a tour in this charming region his
book is the best preparatory course they could have as a guide for the
eye and mind.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 604. My. 8, ’09. 200w.
“There cannot be a better testimonial to the book’s merits than the fact
that its pages are turned with interest, its illustrations studied with
delight, by people of a foreign language, yet who are, after all, its
most capable critics, under those very summer skies of beautiful
Touraine.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 465. S. 25, ’09. 270w.
=Lees, George Robinson.=^{[5]} Witness of the wilderness, the Bedawin
of the desert: their origin, history, home life, strife, religion,
and superstitions in their relation to the Bible. $1.25. Longmans.
9–16832.
A work of apologetic, historical and archaeological importance which is
based upon personal observation supplemented by the best contemporary
authorities. “Mr. Lees’ main purpose is to draw attention to the
resemblances between modern Arab life and the occasional glimpses which
the Old Testament, and, less profusely, the Gospels, throw upon the
character, morals, manners, and customs of these tribes. He also
discusses briefly the nature and effects of Mahometanism; and tells us
how far the Bedouin accepts its tenets and practices its code.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“A charming little book.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 248. My. ’09. 460w.
“This book exhibits at least once a vice not easily forgiven, in a
tendency to an allegorical interpretation which quite equals that of the
ancient Alexandrian theologian Origen.” C: R. Gillett.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 159. Mr. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Leete, Frederick De Land.=^{[6]} Every-day evangelism, personal,
trained, co-operative. $1. West. Meth. bk.
9–7953.
The evangelistic side of a pastor’s and layman’s everyday Christian
mission is set forth practically in this volume. It sounds the
individual note in the work of the world’s redemption and so emphasizes
personal responsibility.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.=^{[12]} New poems. *$1.50. Lane.
Poems into which rare vision, deep insight, and symbolism enter so
largely that it “is idle to measure these delicate, impalpable things
with the yard stick of a cold and practical criticism, or to arraign Mr.
Le Gallienne because he gives us too much fairy food and too little
meat; the more surely he trusts his instinct as to what he shall give
us, the truer artist he proves himself.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“When all is said, however, these war songs, once read, will not allure
again. It is a paradox that in a borrowed form, as that of Omar of
Hafiz, Mr. Le Gallienne is able not only to move us with the spell of
art but to express his own feeling far more convincingly than he
expresses it in the group of love poems in the present volume. Here is
everything but form, but the unaccountable something needed to
crystalize passion into art. Once only, perhaps, does it enforce itself
inevitably, in that strong, but-aloe-tinctured, sonnet, ‘I heard a liar
say my love doth cease.’” J. B. Rittenhouse.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 693. N. 6, ’09. 2200w.
“It is both easy and difficult to be severe with Mr. Le Gallienne. It is
easy, because he can be so very irritating. It is difficult for much the
same reason that it is difficult to be severe with a pretty child who is
tiresome. His preciosity is often quite unendurable, yet his best
effects lie so near to preciosity that it seems unreasonable to ask him
to be less precious.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. O. 16, ’09. 850w.
=Legge, Ronald.=^{[6]} Hawk: a story of aerial war. $1.50. McBride, J:
9–12618.
Love, intrigue and war are involved in this story which demonstrates the
theory that attack by air-ship is a possibility at the present moment.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 352. Je. 5. ’09. 430w.
=Lehár, Ferenc.=^{[6]} Merry widow: a novel founded on Franz Lehár’s
Viennese opera, “Die lustige witwe,” as produced by Henry W. Savage.
†$1.50. Dillingham.
9–11258.
A novelization of the opera which of necessity omits something of the
fun and frolic which have captivated large audiences.
* * * * *
“To those who are not familiar with the original it will appear merely a
poorly written and illogical hodge-podge of sentimental romance and
cheap humor.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 387. Je. 19, ’09. 80w.
=Lehmann, Rudolph Chambers.= Complete oarsman: with chapters by T. S.
Kelly, R. B. Etherington Smith, and W. H. Eyre. *$3. Jacobs.
8–36772.
A handbook which is the result of careful scientific study of the
subject and which discusses the history, growth, art, forms of rowing
and rowing principles, and famous crews and regattas. The book is fully
illustrated.
* * * * *
“A very complete English manual.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 79. Mr. ’09.
“Mr. Lehmann has a combination of qualities for his task believed by us
to be unrivalled. Almost each time that we have found something we
thought wrong we have remembered that we were in pages by Mr. Kelly or
Mr. Etherington Smith.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 123. Ag. 1. 1300w.
“There is a most interesting chapter on the style adopted by countries
other than our own.” R. P. P. Rowe.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 137. Ag. 1, ’08. 1600w.
=Lenygon, Francis.=^{[10]} Decoration and furniture of English
mansions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. *$10.
Scribner.
“An interesting account of the decorations and furniture assembled in
No. 31, Old Burlington Street, by a firm with which the author is
connected. The house was built by Lord Hervey in 1720, and passed into
various hands. At present it appears to be the home of various admirable
examples of English decoration and furniture. The book is divided into
chapters dealing with the successive periods of furniture from that of
the early English renaissance—tapestries, wood panelling, plaster
ornamentation, paintings, damasks, gesso-work, carpets, and other
matters. It is plentifully illustrated with handsome photographs, and
contains a useful catalogue of reference books.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Mr. Lenygon has a tasteful knowledge of his subject, and his treatise
should prove serviceable to many amateurs and collectors.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 303. S. 11. 200w.
“The text imparts no small knowledge of the decorative work of the great
architects whose genius for these lesser things is often overlooked, and
also of the manufacture of tapestries, carpets, lacquer, mirrors, and
other accessories.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 519. D. 16, ’09. 200w.
“Embracing as the illustrations do every imaginable class of domestic
decoration and furniture ... they should prove of great value to the
designer and craftsman of to-day.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 163. Ag. ’09. 200w.
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 199. Ag. 14, ’09. 950w.
=Leonard, Mary Hall.= Grammar and its reasons. *$1.50. Barnes.
8–12816.
“A series of chapters, not only on the parts of speech, inflection,
construction and similar topics but also on questions connected with the
teaching and the general significance of the subject, such as the place
of grammar in the school course and the like.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Not complete enough for a treatise, but a helpful tool for ready
reference.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 17. Ja. ’09. ✠
“The best feature is the quotations with which the several chapters
open. The book itself lacks any very distinctive characteristic, and its
scholarship does not appear to be always of the best.”
− + =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 40w.
“The discussions are uniformly plain and clear, marked by good common
sense and a disposition to simplify the study as much as possible.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 309. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
=Lepelletier, Edmond.=^{[6]} Paul Verlaine: his life—his work; tr. by
E. M. Lang. *$3.50. Duffield.
A “life” written by Verlaine’s friend from boyhood. “M. Lepelletier
maintains that Verlaine’s supposed extreme depravity was a legend
created and encouraged by himself, the product of a poet’s imagination
poisoned with alcohol and morbidly reacting against his real desires for
good.... Verlaine’s extraordinary Bohemian life is told fully,
sympathetically, and tenderly. Perhaps it is too apologetic on the
whole, and with too much of the theory that genius excuses or condones
vice.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The English version is fluent and agreeable to read, except for some
obvious Gallicisms, necessary, ‘for the purpose of space,’ to abridge
the original. The translator lacks education. The book would be more
satisfactory, for the English reader at any rate, if it included a good
selection of the fine verse which gave Verlaine a reputation in spite of
his disorderly career.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 558. My. 8. 250w.
“We take leave of our gifted, bad, sad, mad brother, thanking M.
Lepelletier for his generous, loyal work, which will achieve its aim
because it will probably be accepted as the standard on its subject, and
the translater for an able and literary achievement of a by no means
easy task.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1138. N. 18, ’09. 270w.
“It is a valuable contribution to the history of French poetry. It
contains, moreover, some vivid pictures of French literary society of an
earlier day where many a figure now famous is pictured in their early
years of struggle.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 782. N. 6, ’09. 550w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1073. D. 11, ’09. 200w.
“Failure fully to perceive and disengage one side of Verlaine’s
personally constitutes the one serious defect in a work that is
otherwise a wholly admirable interpretation of a great poet whose life
involved the extremes of glory and misery.” W: A. Bradley.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 757. D. 4, ’09. 2100w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 755. D. ’09. 90w.
“No other book reveals so much of Verlaine’s life and poems as this
does.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 470. Ap. 10, ’09. 280w.
=Leroux, Gaston.= Perfume of the lady in black. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
9–6576.
“M. Gaston Leroux’s new tale of the detective cleverness of Rouletabille
presupposes familiarity with his earlier ‘Mystery of the yellow room.’
Same heroine, same villain, same hero, same detective, same admiring
commentator. The new story begins where the old one left off, but the
scene is shifted, and the criminal is more infernally clever than ever.
The ‘dénouement’ taxes our credulity somewhat, but that does not matter,
as we have the full benefit of the mystery and its intricacies nearly
all the way.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Is no better than its predecessor, and it is no worse; which implies
neither high praise nor serious disparagement.” Rupert Ranney.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 199. Ap. ’09. 450w.
“Those who read the original story will find the sequel fully as good of
its kind.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 764. Ap. 8, ’09. 160w.
“‘The perfume of the lady in black’ can be described as inferior to the
‘Mystery of the yellow room’ and yet remain a tale of mystery and
‘ratiocination’ very far above the average.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 282. Mr. 18, ’09. 200w.
“It is a cleverly contrived and, barring the tendency of the
superhumanly ingenious young newspaper detective to relapse into absurd
and semi-hysterical sentiment, well-written detective story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 160. Mr. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Leroy-Beaulieu, Pierre Paul.= Collectivism: a study of some of the
leading social questions of the day; tr. and abridged by Sir Arthur
Clay. *$3. Dutton.
9–7580.
The translation and abridgment of a book that “has been regarded as the
acutest and most searching analysis of the various communistic and
socialistic schemes, and in particular, while allowing the waste
inevitable under any exaggerated system of competition, it shows with
remorseless logic the inability of collectivism to meet the laws of
supply and demand in domestic exchange, and still more emphatically in
foreign trade.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“While it is not a profound or sympathetic presentation of its subject
it is nevertheless a virile, well written criticism, and one adapted to
set to thinking any who would thoughtlessly abandon the advantages of
our present form of economic organization.” H: R. Mussey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 198. Jl. ’09. 350w.
“Making proper allowance for his bias, one may trust the descriptions
and definitions of this writer as fairly representative.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 301. My. 1, ’09. 90w.
“Sir Arthur Clay has done a good work well in abridging and translating
‘Collectivism.’ To those who talk loosely of socialism as at least a
tendency in the right direction and as the necessary step of progress or
evolution, the clear thinking and wide knowledge of Leroy-Beaulieu’s
treatise may be strongly recommended. Such doubting minds will here meet
with facts.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 361. Ap. 8, ’09. 180w.
“The book truly possesses cosmopolitan virtues as well as suitability to
a subject of permanent interest. It is this quality of solid worth which
distinguishes the book from many other concurrent publications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 332. My. 22, ’09. 250w.
=Outlook.= 91: 817. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 128. Jl. ’09. 50w.
“Most warmly do we commend this admirable work to the study of all who
seek to understand the development of a controversy which in our own
country has only just begun.”
+ + =Spec.= 102: 267. F. 13, ’09. 780w.
=Lethaby, William Richard.=^{[9]} Greek buildings represented by
fragments in the British museum. *$4.20. Scribner.
9–15533.
A three part work dealing with the Temple of the Ephesian Diana, the
Tomb of Mausolus and the Parthenon.
* * * * *
“It is difficult to see why the book was written, or rather published,
at least in this form. The whole volume makes the impression of being in
the form of rough notes on points that happen to have interested the
writer, intended to be worked out properly later. As is natural in a
book of this sort, misstatements are frequent, and the serious student
must be warned against them.”
− =Nation.= 89: 219. S. 2, ’09. 700w.
=Spec.= 100: 345. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Any one who will take this little tractate to the museum and study the
remains by its help will certainly learn much.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 981. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.
=Letters= from G. G.^{[11]} **$1. Holt.
9–27269.
A little volume of refreshing, entertaining letters that perpetuate a
real platonic friendship between a Nice Girl and a Youth. They write of
“love and life and death; of dogs, of themselves, and one another; of
mice and men and modern instances; of trifles light as air; of all that
one does and hears in the course of a day’s work, and hands on because
it means a laugh or tear; of all that goes to make people and their
lives.”
* * * * *
“They are quite commonplace, entirely on the surface, dealing with the
trifling facts of life, rarely and superficially only, with ideas or
emotions.”
− =Ind.= 67: 1210. N. 25, ’09. 230w.
“For the entertainment of an idle hour one could hardly find in a day’s
search a more engaging book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 751. N. 27, ’09. 210w.
=Letters=^{[10]} written by a gentleman in Boston to his friend in
Paris, describing the great fire, with introductory chapters and
notes by Harold Murdock. *$5. Houghton.
9–23233.
“The present volume blends direct historical narrative with much
imaginative detail. Mr. Murdock writes here on the basis of personal
experience reinforced and amplified by documentary evidence. An
introductory chapter describes Boston as it was on the eve of the great
disaster.” (Nation.) The edition is limited to 500 copies.
* * * * *
“One must admire the skill with which he has used his material.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 241. O. 1, ’09. 300w.
“The story of the great fire is told with considerable amplitude by an
observant, active, and well-informed anonymous citizen, who seems to
have retained his sense of humor and of literary style in the midst of
the general calamity.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 332. O. 7. ’09. 180w.
“As fiction the letters are good, but the mind of their supposed writer
is of a time twenty-five years later. ‘The’ Boston fire still lacks a
historian at once accurate, comprehensive, and entertaining. Unless he
can be as entertaining as Mr. Murdock he may as well refrain from
writing and allow ’1872’ to become the accepted chronicle.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 569. S. 25, ’09. 1600w.
=Letts, W. M.=^{[8]} Diana dethroned. †$1.50. Lane.
9–35848.
“A story of two families—English country families—and a picture of
English country life and the people who move in it. The central figure
is a healthy kind of Diana, indeed, and the central male figure—Robin,
of the other house, with whom she is in love—is a masterly etching of
the negatively virtuous type—the type that so appeals to a maternal
woman and brings her so much sorrow by its childish weaknesses.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Story of the transformation of a girl, ‘half vestal, half schoolboy,’
who responds only to the moods of nature, into a woman who accepts her
heritage of love, pity and self-sacrifice. The charm of the story lies
not so much in its character analysis as in its appreciation of English
outdoor life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09.
“Its integral charm resides in the quiet artistry of the telling, and
the consistently gracious atmosphere in which it moves.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 64. Jl. 17. 130w.
“Glints of wit and humor are not lacking. A little worldliness invades
the pastoral. Wisdom and even piety have their say in wholly unaffected
fashion. The threads of the tissue are drawn together just a little
loosely, but the interest does not die out.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 122. Ag. 5, ’09. 320w.
“A substantial piece of work, and it is well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 481. Ag. 7, ’09. 200w.
“This story, well written though it is, makes anything but exhilarating
reading.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 202. Ag. 14, ’09. 180w.
=Levering, Julia Henderson.= Historic Indiana: being chapters in the
story of the Hoosier state from the romantic period of foreign
exploration and dominion through pioneer days, stirring war times,
and periods of peaceful progress, to the present time. **$3. Putnam.
9–5241.
A brief account of what is “most memorable, striking, and picturesque in
the past and present-day history of Indiana.” It includes the various
phases of development of the commonwealth—the foreign dominion on the
Wabash, the plain tale of early settlers, Indiana’s salient part in war,
the development of her natural resources and the position that she has
come to assume among the states in provisions for education, and the
enactment of liberal laws.
* * * * *
“A decided credit to the author and to the state.” J. A. Woodburn.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 860. Jl. ’09. 450w.
“A distinct contribution to western history, though with some
unfortunate omissions.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 141. My. ’09.
“Such volumes have their legitimate use in popularizing the knowledge
reached at the time of publication.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 104. Ag. 16, ’09. 110w.
“While in general Mrs. Levering only retells a well-known story, her
narrative notes a number of matters which, if ever mentioned, have been
forgotten or not sufficiently recognized.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 581. Je. 10, ’09. 1000w.
“Her treatment of the development of the Hoosier state and her study of
the pioneer period are upon such broad lines that they will be of value
to all for whom the titanic struggles that have made a nation out of a
wilderness are matters of interest. It is true she is guilty of too many
adjectives, and her constructions are often slovenly. In her account of
the immigration, moreover, she has failed to give that complete picture
of the development of the state which seems to have been her intention.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 118. F. 27, ’09. 850w.
“No one could desire a more informative review of the conditions
attending the transformation of the ‘western country’ from an
Indian-infested wilderness into a region of prosperous and progressive
commonwealths. She would be more convincing were she less uniformly
eulogistic.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 816. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w.
=Levitt, Dorothy.=^{[5]} Woman and the car; ed. with introductory
articles by C. Byng-Hall. **$1. Lane.
9–18567.
Written by a noted amateur woman motorist this volume “contains the
results of her own practical experience, and is full of advice, written
in a simple, chatty style, for women motorists, whether beginners or
experts. She considers the questions of the cost of the car and its
upkeep, the best ways of dressing, how to manage the mechanism of a car,
gives practical instructions about driving, and about how to avoid and
how to mend troubles, and devotes several chapters to motor manners,
expenses of motoring and the growing popularity and usefulness of the
small car. The volume is copiously illustrated.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 17. S. ’09.
“This is a practical little volume, yet not in the least degree
technical.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 406. Ap. 3. 220w.
“A useful and interesting handbook.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 309. My. 15, ’09. 160w.
=Lewis, Caleb.=^{[12]} Almost fairy children; or, The cozy evenings of
brother and sister. †$1.25. Bobbs.
9–22622.
A dozen stories told to two children by an old fisherman whose cozy
cabin lured the listeners to it night after night.
=Lewis, Frank Wesley.=^{[7]} State insurance, a social and industrial
need. *$1.25. Houghton.
9–8934.
Based upon a study of workingmen’s insurance and old-age pensions in
continental Europe, this work discusses the desirability of state
insurance, analyzes the most important laws now in operation, outlines
the problems connected with it for our own country and offers
suggestions for their solution.
* * * * *
“The book is argumentative rather than expository, is well written,
popular and very readable. For the student Henderson’s ‘Industrial
insurance’ is perhaps more valuable because of its greater wealth of
material.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 141. My. ’09.
“The author concludes in favor of state insurance, but his conclusions
lack definiteness and directness.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 606. N. ’09. 280w.
“In general the author’s position is sound, although he is often
visionary and impracticable. Moreover, he has undue reverence for the
economy of the state and the honesty of its officials (p. 50). The work
is somewhat discredited by what seems an unwarranted attack upon what
the author calls existing institutions.” M. H. Robinson.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 161. Je. ’09. 550w.
“The book is intended for the public rather than the economist and does
not pretend to be either a thorough or a scientific treatment of the
subject. But it can well be recommended to the general reader who
desires a clear, sympathetic, and sane statement of the reasons in favor
of workingmen’s insurance—a subject about which a greater knowledge on
the part of the public is much to be desired.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 650. N. ’09. 500w.
“Altogether, Mr. Lewis has made out a strong case. He does not
strengthen it, however, by presenting mere estimates of outlay for poor
relief (p. 20), when the census statistics are available; or by using
rickety estimates of the distribution of wealth in the United States (p.
15); or by citing unreliable enthusiasts and sensationalists as
authorities or ‘Competent observers.’”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 188. Ag. 26, ’09. 300w.
“There is nothing socialistic or doctrinaire about Mr. Lewis’s
arguments. They are orthodox to the last degree, and convincing to those
willing to be convinced.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 534. S. 11, ’09. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 110w.
=Lewis, Lawrence.= Advertisements of The Spectator; with appendix of
representative advertisements now for the first time reprinted, and
an introductory note by G: Lyman Kittredge. **$2. Houghton.
9–16896.
A study of the literature, history and manners of Queen Anne’s England
as they are reflected in the commercial columns of The Spectator, as
well as an illustration of the origins of advertising.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 418. O. 9. 1200w.
“His work is done with neatness and a stroke of the Addisonian humor.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 482. Ag. 26, ’09. 270w.
“We recommend all who know the ‘Spectator’ only as it is stript of its
commercial, literary, and theatrical notices, to read this unique work
which will lead them the way to a ‘Spectator’ doubly charming from the
commentary furnished by its advertisements.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 442. S. 18, ’09. 430w.
“But, pleasantly as Mr. Lewis fulfils the promise of his sub-title, the
value of his book would be considerably greater had he not seen fit to
isolate the ‘Spectator’ from its predecessors and contemporaries. It is
particularly to be regretted that he has neglected the ‘Tatler,’ which
serves even better than the ‘Spectator’ to answer some of the problems
that beset a student of the Queen Anne periodical considered as a
business enterprise.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 98. Jl. 29, ’09. 230w.
“There is much diversion and considerable instruction to be found in
this book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 441. Jl. 17, ’09. 1100w.
“No student of eighteenth-century society should neglect these
advertisements.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 10. O. 16, ’09. 180w.
“We must be content with thanking Mr. Lewis for his excellent execution
of an excellent idea.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 690. O. 30, ’09. 1300w.
=Lewis, Myron Henry.=^{[10]} Waterproofing: an engineering problem.
*50c. Eng. news.
A paper read “before the Municipal engineers of the City of New York,
which explained in a general way the necessity for waterproofing, the
various methods of doing the work, the details of the different methods,
and the specifications for waterproofing adopted by various companies or
suggested by the author.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“On account of the importance of the subject and the scarcity of
literature in reference to it, this pamphlet is one that every engineer,
contractor and builder should have.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 247. S. ’09. 160w.
“The paper is a good summary of information regarding the present state
of the art.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 308. S. 11, ’09. 100w.
=Lewis, William Draper=, ed. Great American lawyers: the lives and
influence of judges and lawyers who have acquired permanent national
reputation, and have developed the jurisprudence of the United
States; a history of the legal profession in America. subs. 3/4 cf.
Contributors’ ed. 8v. v. 1. $7.50. Winston.
7–21395.
A cooperative work which when completed will include brief biographies
of ninety-six men. “Its aim is to provide, by means of a series of
biographical sketches, a comprehensive view of the development of the
jurisprudence of the United States, and also to afford a clear
understanding of the influence exercised by American judges and lawyers
in shaping the life of the nation.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“By no means devoid of interest to the intelligent layman. In the
somewhat perplexing task of selecting the subjects for the sketches, the
editor, on the whole, has shown excellent judgment.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 145. F. 11, ’09. 1400w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 230w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For the most part, the authors of the different papers have been
content to rely on secondary sources for their information; and the
majority of them betray a tendency to eulogize rather than to draw
judicially impartial portraits. There is also noticeable in certain
cases a cheerful disregard for the findings of modern historical
research, with respect more particularly to pre-revolutionary
conditions. But apart from these limitations and an occasional lapse
into dullness, little fault is to be found. Some of the sketches,
moreover, possess literary charm.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 337. F. 13, ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Library=^{[7]} of southern literature; comp. under the direct
supervision of southern men of letters; Edwin Anderson Alderman,
Joel Chandler Harris, editors in chief, C: W. Kent, literary editor.
15v. per set $80-$200. Martin & Hoyt co., Atlanta, Ga.
9–7940.
Resembling the “Warner library” somewhat in plan this work when
completed will include fifteen volumes. Each author represented is given
a biographical sketch which precedes examples of his work. “The critical
and biographical introductions have been carefully prepared under the
supervision of Prof. Charles W. Kent of the University of Virginia, and
with the cooperation of a formidable array of college presidents,
congressmen, clergymen, and other distinguished people.” (Nation.) The
first two volumes, the only ones to appear so far, include forty
authors.
* * * * *
“Like all subscription works, this one is made ‘to sell,’ but it is
fairly obvious that salability has not been the only end in view, and
that ideals of intelligent writing and sound judgment have informed the
entire plan.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 330. My. 16, ’09. 380w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“These volumes from Dixie follow the model set by the late Mr. Warner’s
series, and follow it well.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 12. Jl. 1, ’09. 170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Lieckfeld, G.=^{[5]} Oil motors: their development, construction and
management: a handbook for engineers, owners, attendants, and all
interested in engines using liquid fuel. *$4.50. Lippincott.
9–27951.
A descriptive work with evidence of practical experience. “The motors
described are particularly those adapted for portable work, such as for
airships, automobiles and traction engines, with a few references to
engines like the Diesel. The latter part of the book is given over to
notes on erection and attendance of engines and some explanation of the
causes of peculiarities of operation and remedies for them.” (Engin.
Rec.)
* * * * *
“On the title page it is described as ‘a handbook for engineers, owners,
attendants and all interested in engines using liquid fuels.’ In
endeavoring to serve three masters at one time, all three have been
scantily and to some extent unsatisfactorily treated. The translation
has not been done particularly well.” L. S. Marks.
− + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 3. Ja. 14, ’09. 730w.
“The arrangement of the subject matter ... is to be commended.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 526. Ap. 17, ’09. 320w.
“There are several important omissions in the book.”
+ − =Nature.= 80: 246. Ap. 29, ’09. 360w.
=Lighthall, William Douw.=^{[8]} Master of life: a romance of the five
nations. $1.50. McClurg.
A romance of “woods and waters and prehistoric scenes” which deals with
the League of the five nations, or Iroquois, founded by Hiawatha. It
pictures the red man’s mind, life, and melancholy; interprets his
mysticism, his chivalry and his reverence; and reveals his heroism, his
broad thought and his gentle heart.
* * * * *
“As a picture of life among the different tribes of Indians, their
customs in peace and in war, the book has much merit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 498. Ag. 21, ’09. 110w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.=^{[11]} Dominant dollar. †$1.50. McClurg.
9–24327.
Portrays “some curiosities in character and custom ... and just these
keep the reader’s attention, in spite of an inward protest against
another beautiful girl face on the cover. The power of money is shown to
be for good, and that in unusual ways.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09. ✠
“It is a strong, wholesome, clean-cut piece of work, so strong and
finished that the assurance of unusual capacity it gives makes doubly
deplorable the untimely death of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 694. N. 6, ’09. 180w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 50w.
=Lillie, Frank Rattray.=^{[5]} Development of the chick. *$4. Holt.
8–34623.
“The arrangement of the material and the plan of the book are in general
much the same as in other embryological treatises, and embody the
conventional ideas regarding the presentation of the subject to
students. An introduction, dealing briefly with certain of the general
biological principles on which any study of embryology depends, prepares
the way for the detailed consideration of the course of the
developmental processes in the chick. The account begins with the
formation of the egg, and follows this with the detailed description of
the development of the embryo and its organs day by day up to the time
of hatching of the chick.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“To attract any special attention, a book of this kind must be markedly
superior to others in the same general category. This requirement is
well fulfilled by Professor Lillie. The superiority of the present work
lies rather in the manner of treatment than in the matter discussed. The
few minor inaccuracies of statement which the reviewer has noted have
without exception been upon points where the author relied on some
statement in the literature of the subject rather than upon his own
observations.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 267. Ap. 16, ’09. 270w.
“Will be heartily welcomed; for there has long been need of a new
textbook or a thorough revision of the best old one.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 120. F. 4, ’09. 170w.
“The beginner, having worked through the book and some or all of the
literature, will have gained a very erroneous idea of what modern
embryology really is. One of the handsomest books available for
embryological study, and it will be indispensable in every laboratory,
though we should not care to regard it as a text-book of embryology for
the student in quest of the scientific principles underlying animal
development.” B.
+ − =Nature.= 80: 271. My. 6, ’09. 1200w.
“While exhaustive and painfully erudite in detail, the work is not
technical in expression and is easily intelligible to the general reader
as well as to the student of embryology.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 50w.
“The book contains the inevitable errors of a first edition.” L. W.
Williams.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 217. Ag. 13, ’09. 870w.
=Lincoln, Abraham.=^{[9]} Anthology of the epigrams and sayings of
Abraham Lincoln; collected from his writings and speeches; ed. by
Francis D. Tandy. 75c. Tandy.
8–30961.
An anthology of the sayings of Lincoln from his authenticated writings
and speeches. The selections are made from “The complete works of
Abraham Lincoln” with a reference at the end of each indicating volume
and page from which it is taken.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 66: 985. My. 6, ’09. 40w.
=Lincoln, Abraham.= Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: being extracts from the
speeches, state papers, and letters of the great president; (ed. by
Marion Mills Miller.) **50c. Wessels.
8–30717.
The authenticity of these extracts is emphasized by a supplementary line
giving source and date.
* * * * *
“Not the least valuable, though possibly the smallest volume in the
year’s crop of Lincoln books.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 465. D. 16, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13. ’09. 130w.
=Lincoln= centennial medal. **$5. Putnam.
8–34130.
“Contains an actual medal with Lincoln’s head on the obverse, and on the
reverse the date of the Emancipation proclamation (January 1st. 1863),
with a facsimile of the President’s signature. The medal is from the
hands of M. Jules Édouard Roiné of Paris, and is certainly an admirable
piece of work. The volume contains a paper by Professor George N. Olcott
on the origin and symbolism of the medal, an essay by Mr. Richard Lloyd
Jones on the purpose and character of the centennial celebration, and
some of Lincoln’s characteristic utterances,—his ‘Farewell address’ at
Springfield, the Proclamation itself, the famous letter to General
Hooker notifying his appointment to the chief command of the Army of the
Potomac, &c.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 46: 117. F. 16, ’09. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 60w.
“This medal is so altogether pleasing that one is tempted to cut it out
and let the book find its own fate. The ‘Characteristic utterances’ of
Lincoln, being seven and very brief, are scarcely enough.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 110w.
=Spec.= 102: 101. Ja. 16, ’09. 140w.
=Lincoln=, Abraham, tributes from his associates, with an introd. by
the Rev. William Hayes Ward. 60c. Crowell.
“The list of contributors contains many famous names, among them those
of George William Curtis, Major Gen. Howard, George S. Boutwell,
Frederick W. Seward, Thomas L. James, Frank B. Carpenter, Theodore L.
Cuyler, Grace Greenwood, and Gen. Egbert L. Viele. In his introduction
to the reminiscences the Rev. Dr. William Hayes Ward lays stress upon
the fact that notwithstanding the views of a large number of persons are
presented there is nothing in any of them that breaks the harmony of the
whole. From every point of view Lincoln is noble.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 66: 262. F. 4. ’09. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 200w.
“Not important as a permanent addition to literature, but interesting
and valuable as an interpretation of a great and enigmatical character.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 293. F. 6, ’09. 60w.
=Lincoln, Jonathan Thayer.=^{[10]} City of the dinner-pail. **$1.25.
Houghton.
9–26312.
A first-hand discussion of the labor situation from the manufacturer’s
point of view. The author who is an employer of labor emphasizes the
need of a better social understanding between the man who buys and the
man who sells labor. The chapters are: The city of the dinner-pail: The
average American citizen and the labor problem; The man and the machine;
The time-clock; Trade-unionism and the individual worker; and The city
of luxury. Mr. Lincoln affirms that something must restore the
individuality which, in the course of industrial evolution, has been
losing out thru unionism, and the increasing use of machinery.
* * * * *
“Even if there is no addition to knowledge it is something to discover a
business man who can interpret the real meaning of trade unions, read
the employers a lesson of patience, and keep his faith in the soundness
of national life.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 421. N. ’09. 60w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 77. N. ’09.
“Its agreeable style, its spirit of reasonableness, and its tone of
reality, make it a welcome contribution to the literature of the labor
question and of social problems in city life.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 337. N. 1. ’09. 360w.
“But what is all too rare, either in sociological essays or in technical
treatises, is the quality which we find in this book, namely literary
excellence. Taken as a whole, the book is one which every true lover of
democracy and of the perpetuation of our social institutions will find
benefit in reading.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 40. O. 14, ’09. 400w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 983. O. 28, ’09. 350w.
“The relations between labor and capital are discussed with marked
intelligence and fairness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 629. O. 23, ’09. 400w.
“This is a book that will help to solve what is called the labor
problem, because it will give to the employer and the employee a better
understanding of each other.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 599. N. 13. ’09. 240w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 160w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby.=^{[11]} Keziah Coffin. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–24450.
“Trumet, Cape Cod, is the setting of Mr. Lincoln’s new novel. Keziah is
a female ‘Cy Whittaker.’ She was deserted by a worthless husband who,
she asserts contrary to general opinion, is not dead. She is, therefore,
not free to marry the man who loves her. There is also a second love
story in the book.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The humor lacks something of the spontaneity of his former work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 650. O. 23, ’09. 60w.
“It is a simple tale of simple people, in whom, nevertheless, runs the
red blood that makes plain, every-day life a strong story in the hands
of a strong writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 751. N. 27, ’09. 180w.
“Is rich in Cape Cod character, and Keziah’s shrewd remarks on human
nature are keenly amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 30w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby.=^{[6]} Our village. **$1.50. Appleton.
9–11524.
A group of sketches with the author’s familiar Cape Cod setting. They
are as follows: Our house; A Cape Cod clambake; The old maids; The
school picnic; Our oldest inhabitant; Teacher; A Christmas memory.
“Dreamy stories of foreign-bound vessels that never returned, romances
that were nipped in the bud, and oft-repeated yarns of ancient mariners
are among the author’s recollections.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 188. Je. ’09.
“An interesting memory book of New England customs and scenes, and
should be very popular with readers who are familiar with the New
England of a former generation.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1344. Je. 17, ’09. 60w.
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 902. My. 22, ’09. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 292. My. 8, ’09. 130w.
=Lindsay, C. H. A. Forbes-.= Washington: the city and the seat of
government. (Photogravure illustrated books.) $3. Winston.
8–27374.
“History and description, and sufficiently minute details concerning our
governmental machinery, are relieved with numerous agreeably tinted
photographic views of principal buildings and places of interest. The
pages that treat of journalism in Washington, the educational
institutions of the city, the Library of Congress, and other matters
relating to learning and literature, are especially inviting. The
chapter on the social life of the capital is also good reading, but
(best of praise) too short.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A compact, useful, and also ornamental volume.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 462. D. 16, ’08. 170w.
“The author has managed to put into a comparatively small book a mass of
information which is at once accurate and attractively propounded.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 900. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“The ground has been recently travelled over by other writers, who are
more entertaining and less inaccurate than is the present author.”
− =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 17. Ja. 9, ’09. 180w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 21. Ja. 2, ’09. 150w.
=Lindsey, William.=^{[10]} Severed mantle. *$1.35. Houghton.
9–27996.
Provence in the time of the troubadours is re-created in this volume. In
the story of Raimbault, the lad who adopts the severed mantle of his
patron Saint Martin, to remind him of his vow to live a life of love and
purity, the author has shown that the troubadour of the twelfth century
took life earnestly and dreamed great dreams. He carries the boy through
hardship and adventure but leaves him true to himself, and true to his
dual not divided, allegiance to God and to his lady.
* * * * *
“Mr. Lindsey has successfully reproduced the life of this period with
its atmosphere of mystery and intrigue, love and mysticism.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 962. N. 27, ’09. 250w.
“There are not a few traces of the tyro in the present performance. It
is a creditable ‘tour de force,’ but it is far from a masterpiece.
Whatever the book has of intrinsic interest is due to Mr. Lindsey’s
happy bits of translation from the Provençal song of the period.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 573. D. 9, ’09. 400w.
“In all these passes you may follow young Raimbault, knight of the old
romance. He is merely a modern copy, of course, but the copy is not
ill-done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 622. O. 23, ’09. 430w.
=Lipman, Jacob Goodale.= Bacteria in relation to country life. (Rural
science ser.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–27113.
A discussion of bacteria, their structure and growth, their connection
with the problem of health and comfort, and their uses in relation to
air and water, sewage, soil fertility, barnyard manure, milk and dairy
products, food preservations, and fermentation.
* * * * *
“An excellent, semi-technical treatise, pronounced by an expert the best
yet published.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 17. Ja. ’09.
+ =Nation.= 88: 230. Mr. 4, ’09. 230w.
“It may be recommended to all those who desire to obtain a general
knowledge of the functions of bacteria and the important ‘rôle’ they
play in relation to daily life, while the intelligent agriculturist will
find a large amount of Information which should aid him in his work.” R.
T. Hewlett.
+ =Nature.= 81: 63. Jl. 15. ’09. 670w.
“Very thorough and painstaking account.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 130w.
=Spec.= 102: sup. 158. Ja. 30, ’09. 110w.
=Lloyd, Alfred Henry.= Will to doubt: an essay in philosophy for the
general thinker. (Ethical lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–13764.
“This book which ‘might be described as an introduction to philosophy,’
though it is ‘addressed quite as much to the general reader or rather to
the general thinker, as to the prospective student of technical
philosophy,’ is an attempt to show that ‘the contradictions, duplicity,
and vacillation’ of the human experience, by preventing any ‘fatal
digression’ from reality, enable us through our doubts ‘to believe in
the very things we doubt’; and that ‘doubt is essential to real
belief.’” (Int. J. Ethics.) “The largest portion of the book is given up
to an examination, first of the ordinary, then of the scientific views,
and the usual confusions and contradictions inherent in experience are
set forth.” (Philos. R.)
* * * * *
“A masterly essay in philosophy written by one who is evidently
thoroughly at home in philosophic thinking. He aims to appeal to the
general reader as well as the student of philosophy, and there is a
freshness and individuality about his style that is attractive; but the
discussion is too fundamental and abstract, and the reasoning too close,
and the philosophical view-point too new to allow the book to be of
great value to any but the trained student.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 314. Ap. ’09. 750w.
“Some assumptions, which play no unimportant part in the argument of the
book, receive no satisfactory examination, and no reasons are given for
supposing them to be true. This defect, coupled with a plentiful use of
some unintelligible distinctions, and the lack of definition of the
meaning, and consequently in the use of some words, make the book
exceedingly obscure and unconvincing, and as ‘an introduction to
philosophy’ practically worthless. So many of its assertions may mean so
many different things.” A. R. Ainsworth.
− =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 259. Ja. ’09. 400w.
“The whole book is interesting, and I confess to a pretty general
sympathy with the doctrines expressed therein. I would mention the
treatment of contradiction and of the continued life of humanity as
especially good. On the other hand, I seriously doubt whether this book
will prove illuminating to the general thinker not already trained in
philosophy.” J. A. Leighton.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 665. N. 19, ’08. 770w.
“Prof. Lloyd’s argument is interesting, and is ably, if not always
convincingly, developed, but suffers from his somewhat perverse and
strained efforts after brilliance of style.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 534. Ap. 9, ’08. 250w.
“Though often interesting, and sometimes suggestive, must nevertheless
be characterized as lacking in clearness of statement and in accuracy of
reasoning. One great virtue, however, must be conceded to it; it is not
stereotyped, and even in its faults, which are great, it avoids the
academic commonplaces.” G. N. Dolson.
− + =Philos. R.= 17: 668. N. ’08. 470w.
=Lloyd, Arthur.=^{[5]} Every-day Japan. *$4. Cassell.
9–15392.
A thoro acquaintance with Japan during twenty-five years of residence
there renders the author’s account intimate and authoritative. He
enumerates the conditioning elements in the national development, naming
loyalty as the great national asset; discusses the national policy;
sketches Japanese characteristics and leads the reader to form an
intelligent opinion upon the handling of Japanese problems.
* * * * *
“A good corrective to the many volumes by superficial observers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 17. S. ’09.
=Nation.= 88: 420. Ap. 22, ’09. 220w.
“No one could be more kindly, more sympathetic, more appreciative of all
that is best in the national character and most attractive in the
national life: But he is not blind to Japanese faults.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 504. Mr. 27, ’09. 440w.
=Loane, M.=^{[7]} Englishman’s castle. $2. Longmans. W9–152.
A volume of essays founded upon practical experience of the author’s
work as nurse among the poor—“a record of her ‘cases,’ interspersed with
the morals to be drawn from them.” “They are pictures of the home life
of the underpaid and the unemployed who make up a very large percentage
of the English people, and they show a great prevalence of want and
wretchedness throughout the country. One of the lessons they convey to
the intelligent reader is that the conditions in which the industrial
classes of England are placed are full of peril to the country, and that
the future of the country probably depends quite as much on what shall
happen to its working people as upon any other influence to which it
shall be subjected.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 173. Je. ’09.
“New light on old questions is always welcome, and it is precisely this
that Miss Loane is able to supply.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 152. Ag. 7. 240w.
“Miss Loane’s book makes a pretty thorough exposition of the people with
whom she deals. Nobody in England knows this people better than she
does, nobody has studied them at closer range and with greater
intelligence, and nobody has written about them in a more effective
fashion. She sets before the statesmen and philanthropists of England
the real inwardness of their greatest problem.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 389. Je. 19, ’09. 550w.
“A human document which supplies the concrete instances demanded to
enforce the general principles laid down by Mrs. Bosanquet. It is a pure
accident that the two books have appeared together, and yet one is so
exactly complementary of the other that it is difficult not to feel that
the genius of accident determined to strike a shrewd blow against the
cult of pauperism.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 422. Mr. 13, ’09. 1100w.
=Locke, James.=^{[10]} Plotting of Frances Ware. †$1.50. Moffat.
9–14414.
A story of political intrigue against the Russian government. There
appears on the scene of a Harvard archeologist’s researches, way off in
Turkestan, an escaped convict. The scientist and his sister befriend the
refugee who in turn draws the girl, all unconscious of crime, into his
plots. He weds her, involves her heavily in his scheme, and finally
himself falls victim to treachery while the wife is saved by the British
consul.
* * * * *
“A swiftly moving straightforward story, not too harrowing to the
feelings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09.
“It makes a straightforward and highly interesting story, swift and
logical in movement, and not too harrowing to our feelings.” W: M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 181. S. 16, ’09. 250w.
“[The heroine] is fairly enmeshed in a tangle of plotting and
counter-plotting and criss-cross intriguing, which the author has
contrived with a good deal of cunning. But he does not seem to possess
many other of the novelist’s qualifications.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 329. My. 22, ’09. 200w.
=Locke, William John.= Septimus. †$1.50. Lane.
9–562.
The keynote of this story is a “sort of grownup Simple Simon solemnly
carrying water in a sieve, so to speak, and makes you rather proud of
him for so doing.” (Bookm.) He is an eccentric young Englishman, a
mathematician, an inventor and an impractical, tender hearted visionary.
As for the woman of the tale—“she is really the modern young woman. And
perhaps you have seen her learn the lesson of life—exchange the goddess
for the woman. It is a marvelous change, and so far as the memory of the
present writer runs has not been attempted before as Mr. Locke has
attempted it.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A quaintly humorous story of far more than ordinary literary merit.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 54. F. ’09. ✠
“It is all Mr. Locke’s huge joke, and it is good fun.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 193. F. 13. 250w.
+ =Atlan.= 103: 711. My. ’09. 1100w.
“Let us place it unhesitatingly above such earlier books as ‘Derelicts,’
and ‘Where love is,’ but just as surely below ‘The morals of Marcus
Ordeyne,’ and ‘The beloved vagabond.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 594. F. ’09. 1550w.
“The satisfaction which we get from this, as from Mr. Locke’s other
recent novels, is intellectual rather than emotional, and is of the
keenest sort.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 263. Ap. 16, ’09. 310w.
“It is even better than some of his very early productions. But the
present tendency is to proclaim it as a sort of masterpiece, a crowning
glory around the pinnacle of his recently achieved fame. A good many
people of fair average intelligence will take this contention seriously.
And that will be an infinite pity.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ =Forum.= 41: 180. F. ’09. 2500w.
“His creations are whimsical to a degree, the situations bizarre, yet we
love them too much to laugh at them; his people are eccentric in their
goodness and in their weakness, but they are not absurd, and we succumb
at once to the elusive but very enchaining charm of Septimus.’”
+ =Ind.= 66: 699. Ap. 1, ’09. 300w.
“It all makes up a pleasant fantasia, perhaps, rather than a novel in
the ‘strenuous’ sense now commonly attached to the term; and for this,
one is inclined to say, so much the better.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 117. F. 4, ’09. 440w.
“An achievement which marks him as the successor of Du Maurier and the
heir—along with that other wise man, William de Morgan—of the mantle of
Thackeray.” H. I. Brock.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 36. Ja. 16, ’09. 970w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“Once more Mr. William J. Locke has given us one of his slight, but very
engrossing, tales.”
+ =No. Am.= 189: 783. My. ’09. 180w.
“The book as a whole is perhaps a little lighter and less thoroughly
worked out than ‘The beloved vagabond,’ but it is a rare romance, most
delightful even when closest to the fantastical, abounding in
cheerfulness, surprising in its turns of wit and action, and quietly
optimistic in its kindliness and its recognition of the unselfish side
of humanity.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 107. Ja. 16, ’09. 300w.
“‘Septimus’ affords so much real entertainment that the reader will
hardly be inclined to cavil at some disappointments.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 211. F. 13, ’09. 950w.
“We find Mr. Locke an unequal artist. He is an idealist, but he is
afflicted with spasms of unnecessary realism.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 135. Ja. 23, ’09. 900w.
=Lodge, George Cabot.=^{[8]} Herakles [dramatic poem]. **$1.25.
Houghton.
8–33151.
A poetic drama constructed about Herakles, his madness, his labors and
the deliverance of Prometheus. “It is not so much a stage-play, but
rather a poem, which the poet has chosen to cast in dramatic form.”
(Dial.)
* * * * *
“The poem as read is satisfying to the lover of noble thought and lovely
imagery. Whether it be really a dramatic development, I cannot be so
sure; but still the drama is a remarkable achievement, and one of which
we may well be proud.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 47: 69. Ag. 1, ’09. 650w.
=Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“Here also is the smell of the academic lamp. The blank verse moves with
dignity, but the poet is stirred by memories of Hellenic legends, not by
life. The Hellenic dramatists felt life in the legends—we in this piece
get the glamour only.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 80w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.=^{[6]} Ether of space. **75c. Harper.
9–13944.
A new volume in Harper’s “Library of living thoughts” which gives in
compact form the conclusions of Sir Oliver Lodge’s investigation of the
nature and properties of the ultra-material luminiferous medium. His
chapters scientifically lead up to and justify the idea of the reality
and substantiality, and vast though as yet largely unrecognized
importance, of the ether of space.
* * * * *
“A clear, succinct account, written for readers having a knowledge of
the elements of physics.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 78. N. ’09.
“Nobody can write in a way better suited to the popular comprehension
than Sir Oliver Lodge, when he chooses, and the little book before us is
a model of clear exposition.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 158. Ag. 7. 580w.
“It may be unreservedly commended.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 206. S. ’09. 70w.
“A most entertaining book on the fascinating branch of physics he terms
‘The ether of space.’ The book furnishes much material for thought, and
has been handled in an entertaining as well as scholarly manner.” Mary
Proctor.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 397. Je. 26, ’09. 1400w.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 5. My. 22, ’09. 70w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Immortality of the soul. (Eng. title, Man
and the universe.) *$1. Ball pub.
8–29637.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
Reviewed by St. George Stock.
=Hibbert J.= 7: 451. Ja. ’09. 1600w.
“We believe that the average man, in whose throat the dogmatism of both
sides has begun to stick, will read the book with gratitude, not as
offering a solution of the difficulty, but as letting in light.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 996. D. 12, ’08. 1050w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Science and immortality. **$2. Moffat.
8–28409.
A group of essays which discuss the persistence of personality after
death proving the immortality of the soul by scientific evidence. The
book is divided into four parts: Science and faith; Corporate worship
and service; The immortality of the soul; Science and Christianity.
* * * * *
Reviewed by D. C. Macintosh.
=Am. J. Theol.= 13: 632. O. ’09. 600w.
“His opinions are of much interest and will afford help and inspiration
to many.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 17. Ja. ’09.
“There is nothing notably new in the way of argument, and much of it
comes suspiciously near to what may be termed special pleading.”
− =Dial.= 46: 22. Ja. 1, ’09. 400w.
“His complete failure to exemplify the ideals of scientific method, and
to satisfy the cravings of the intelligent among the audience to which
he appeals, must be evident to one who reads the book itself, even
without careful analysis and without special search for the basis of the
author’s conclusions.” H. R. M.
− =Nation.= 87: 657. D. 31, ’08. 1700w.
“It very promptly appears, of course, that the author is prepared to
accept as evidence in the case certain so-called ‘occult experiences’
which most other scientists reject offhand. The book as a whole is
stimulating to the thoughtful and open minded, and if it fails to appeal
either to orthodox scientist or orthodox religionist it is in the nature
of these two that they should be deaf to appeals.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 569. O. 17, ’08. 2100w.
“An extremely valuable contribution to the literature of the present
important crisis in modern thought.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The value of Sir Oliver’s admirable volume ... does not lie in any
striking originality of thought, but in the fact of its existence as a
rational mediation between science and religion.” G. C. Mars.
+ =No. Am.= 189: 458. Mr. ’09. 2100w.
“The book is throughout suggestive, and ought to be of real help to
those who are puzzled how to preserve their spiritual faith in an era
whose advancing knowledge has done so much to destroy their old creeds.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 151. Ja. 23, ’09. 770w.
=Loliée, Frédéric.=^{[11]} Life of an empress (Eugénie de Montijo);
English version by Bryan O’Donnell. *$4. Dodd.
9–8738.
A biography of Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, facts for which
have been gained from people who knew her, from letters and diaries.
* * * * *
“The claim to original information that the French author makes in his
preface must be viewed with a critical eye. A great many mistakes are to
be noted; and about many other passages there is much to be said by way
of doubt.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 678. N. 28. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 657. O. 23, ’09. 40w.
=Lombroso, Cesare.=^{[11]} After death—what? Spiritistic phenomena and
their interpretation; rendered into English by William S. Kennedy.
**$2.50. Small.
9–28193.
In entering the field of spiritistic and psychic phenomena after an
“honorable career” in criminal anthropology that placed him to the
forefront of social pathologists, the author’s momentary hesitation, due
to prejudice, gave way to candid conviction that there was truth to be
revealed and that it was his duty to reveal it. He surveys the whole
field of spiritistic phenomena from their first appearance in savage
tribes and early civilized races down to present-day races. He treats of
telepathy, clairvoyance, auto-suggestion, mesmerism, premonition,
identity, doubles, haunted houses, tricks and biology of the spirits.
* * * * *
“He is deservedly regarded as a singularly original and independent
thinker, of absolute intellectual fearlessness, and possessing a happy
facility for rendering his views in a language understandable by the
untrained mind. All these traits are in evidence in his latest book,
dealing with a subject of more universal interest than any of which he
has formerly written. The more carefully one reads his book, the
stronger must the impression grow that the marvels which he recounts
with such boundless enthusiasm are in reality the work not of an
intermediary between this world and the next, but of an uncommonly
clever and resourceful trickster.” H. A. Bruce.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 258. N. ’09. 1350w.
“A volume which, considered logically or charitably, should receive the
solace of neglect. Presents through three hundred and fifty pages an
amazing exhibition of credulity, which it is difficult to reconcile with
the author’s unassailed reputation, and his recognized contributions to
complex aspects of modern science.” Joseph Jastrow.
− =Dial.= 47: 284. O. 16, ’09. 1600w.
“It is unfortunate that a lack of logical connection characterizes the
book—the chapters following one another in no definite order; while the
translation is mediocre, and there are a number of errors noticeable in
the spelling of proper names. These faults aside, the book has very
decided interest. The book is filled with ‘cases’ that are of interest,
and will repay a careful perusal.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 538. O. 2, ’09. 450w.
“Without any prejudice one wonders after a reading of this book whether
the author did not give undue credence to many of the stories here set
forth. The reviewer is sorry that after a careful reading of this latest
contribution to spiritistic literature he fails still to be convinced
that many or most of these extraordinary happenings are not clever
tricks of deception.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 621. O. 23, ’09. 1100w.
“The book is interesting, entertaining, even at times amusing, but it is
not convincing.”
− + =Outlook.= 93: 830. D. 11, ’09. 390w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 763. D. ’09. 120w.
=London, Jack.=^{[10]} Martin Eden. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–22752.
When twenty-one, Martin, uncouth and untutored, a sailor round the world
before the mast, rescues a San Francisco society man from a street
assault, he is brought into this man’s home and there learns of books,
poetry, and the ideal things of life. Held to his task by his love for a
girl who seems the embodiment of taste and culture, he battles against
all odds, wrests from the world an education and tries to wrest from it
a living by writing of the things which life has shown him and with
which his brain is seething. But the way is hard and his tools are
crude, his friends, his tradesmen, and at last even his love turn from
him because he cannot become a conventional money getter. Then comes a
dazzling literary success. At once they flock about him and offer all
they refused him in the days of need. But his disillusionment is
complete and in his bitterness he weakly throws away all that his
strength has won.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 92. N. ’09.
“This lack of comprehension of his own limitations is the conspicuous
fault of his latest volume. The fault lies not so much with the plot,
which is of the thinnest, as with a distorted perspective of life.” F:
T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 30: 279. N. ’09. 1100w.
“It is unfortunate that Mr. London could not invest his hero with the
attributes that awaken sympathy, so that we might at least mourn the
abrupt termination of his career.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 47: 386. N. 16, ’09. 630w.
“It seems best to accept this story not as real history, but as an
earnest and truthful record of what Mr. London might have been if he had
been Martin Eden instead of being limited by himself. Whatever the
readers of this story may think of Mr. London’s views of life, the
passionless courage with which he sets down the failure of such views to
satisfy the eternally human heart commands respect for him.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 980. O. 28, ’09. 1650w.
“Such of the reading mob that may be attracted to his history are likely
to discern a good deal of autobiography therein, and to be stirred
piquantly by its daring adumbrations of various well-known proper
names.”
− =Nation.= 89: 406. O. 28, ’09. 650w.
“Aside from any value in this connection as a human document, what the
book chiefly shows is that Mr. London, who writes so eloquently about
the ‘primordial beast’ and seems to our far from primordial eyes to
understand something about the beast in question, is quite at sea when
he tries to write about that ordinary society which is variously
described as decent, as respectable, as cultured, or as good, and, in
his language, as bourgeois.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 631. O. 23, ’09. 750w.
“It is not a very sane or well-balanced book, but there is much
wholesome truth in it.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 633. O. 23, ’09. 250w.
“Is, to be entirely frank, tedious.”
− =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 40w.
=Long, Charles Massie.=^{[5]} Virginia county names. *$1.50. Neale.
8–36778.
An analysis of the county nomenclature of Virginia showing how its one
hundred counties were named.
* * * * *
“Dr. Long has written a very entertaining story in tracing the names of
the Virginia counties.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 285. My. 8, ’09. 180w.
“Dr. Long shows in an interesting way how these names reflect to a
certain extent the thoughts and feelings of historic Virginians.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 383. S. ’09. 80w.
=Long, John Luther.= Felice. †$1. Moffat.
8–28990.
A story of the Italian quarter of Philadelphia in which the father of
hungry children steals bread, is arrested, and in time finds a friend
and champion in Martinos, a barber, who secures the prisoner’s release
and becomes his patron saint.
* * * * *
“It is told with much delicacy and sympathy, and has a pleasing foreign
atmosphere.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 25. Ja. ’09. ✠
“We do not recall that the word Christmas is employed in the story of
‘Felice,’ but the atmosphere of that blessed and somewhat emotional
season is about it.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 67. Ja. 21, ’09. 200w.
“Mr. Long has evidently been at some pains to make this a dialect story,
and that this fact is evident rather mars an otherwise delightful piece
of work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 8. Ja. 2, ’09. 190w.
“The bare outline of the story does not convey in the least an idea of
its moving pathos or its entertaining humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Longueville, Thomas.=^{[5]} Curious case of Lady Purbeck: a scandal
of the 18th century; by the author of The life of Sir Kenelm Digby.
$2. Longmans.
“The author of ‘The life of Sir Kenelm Digby’ has made a very vivacious
tale out of the woes of the first (and last) Lady Purbeck, the wife of
Buckingham’s brother, and the daughter of Sir Edward Coke and Lady
Elizabeth, his spouse.... Poor Lady Purbeck, who was a very mild sinner
with great excuses, was fated to become a public sacrifice to the
moralities when notorious offenders walked about unabashed.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The doing of this piece of investigation must have been a pleasure, the
reading of it is not uninteresting. But there are many questions better
worth while.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 178. O. ’09. 360w.
“It must be confessed that his later chapters are somewhat lacking in
personal interest.” F. C. M.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 617. Jl. ’09. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 304. My. 15, ’09. 400w.
“Fascinating volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 536. Ap. 24, ’09. 420w.
“The slight tale was well worth telling when the writer possesses such a
gift of crisp and precise English.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 578. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Holiday touch, and other tales of undaunted
Americans. †$1.25. Holt.
8–29333.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“They touch life lightly and at queer angles, but always with good humor
and optimism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 55. F. ’09.
“They are little tales of life all the year around, warranted to please
the most unpleasant man at any season. Mr. Loomis has a cork genius that
floats his imagination high above the weariness of this world while
laying his scenes in the midst of it.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 639. Mr. 25, ’09. 250w.
“He who reads them will laugh many times.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 7. Ja. 2, ’09. 110w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Just Irish. $1. Badger, R: G.
9–10469.
An account of Mr. Loomis’s travels in Ireland, intended as such, not as
amusement. Considerable local color is given by incidents, but the book
is more a recital of facts than readers of “Cheerful Americans” might
expect. The facts given pertain chiefly to the social, rather than the
industrial condition of the Irish of to-day. There is no attempt to
exploit Irish ways for the amusement of the rest of us—the tone being
thoroly sympathetic and appreciative.
* * * * *
“Slight, humorous sketches of travel experiences.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 17. S. ’09. ✠
“He makes no profession of serious dissertation; he writes only to
amuse. The various scenes of Irish life which fell under his notice, the
people with whom he came in contact, the experiences which befell him,
are told in his breezy, jocular style with good effect.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 395. Je. ’09. 600w.
“Mr. Loomis had a perfectly good time in Ireland, and he loves to talk
about it. Moreover, every one who gets the book will love to read about
it, for though the author complains that he did not find that ready wit
and repartee in the Irish which he had expected, he keeps his own sense
of fun.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 303. My. 15, ’09. 670w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.=^{[12]} Little Maude and her mamma. †50c.
Doubleday.
9–28267.
Three humorous, bedtime stories in which little Maude and her mamma
figure respectively in a runaway, a shipwreck and a fire. Poise on the
part of the child, together with the mother’s ready acquiescence, to a
point approaching imbecility gives the story its humorous touch.
=Lorenz, Rev. Edmund Simon.=^{[8]} Practical church music: a
discussion of purposes, methods and plans. **$1.50. Revell.
9–10979.
“A compact, well-written encyclopedia which can be made of practical
value if studied by pastors, choir leaders and music committees. Members
of choirs might profit by reading such chapters as treat of church
solos, choir rehearsals, and the serious import of the service which
they lead. The first appendix gives a list of books helpful in the study
of church music and of hymns, the second devotes more than a dozen pages
to titles of chosen music for choir and solo use, and the third gives
outlines and subjects for song sermons and services.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Is specially praiseworthy because, from cover to cover, the author
never forgets that church music should be an act of worship; at the same
time he is broad enough, while discriminating against rubbish, to value
in its place the ‘gospel song.’”
+ =Ind.= 67: 145. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
“Mr. Lorenz knows very well what he is talking about. He is not troubled
with many artistic scruples in his discussion of church music, and he
has taken pains to clear himself of any old-fashioned ideas about
dignity and ideals. From the author’s point of view his book is highly
successful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 464. Jl. 31, ’09: 670w.
“If we disagree with every position Mr. Lorenz takes up as regards
church music it is by no means to assert that his book might not have a
value for others who would agree. We can only say that we should
carefully avoid the church which should adopt it as a handbook.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 267. Ag. ’09. 150w.
=Lorenzini, Carlo.= Adventures every child should know: the marvellous
adventures of Pinocchio; ed. by Mary E. Burt; from an original
translation by Augustus G. Caprani. (Every child should know ser.)
**90c. Doubleday.
9–4295.
An immortal Italian classic for children which relates the adventures of
the little wooden puppet, Pinocchio. “The book is an allegory, and an
incentive to action and thought, a guide to self-control, self
government, self-determination.... It is a child’s book, a teacher’s
book, a parents’ assistant, a guide to common sense, a book of fun, a
serious book, a fairy-tale, a treatise on ethics.” (Translator’s note.)
* * * * *
“Its concise style and picture words are well calculated to hold the
attention of children. A few scenes in the book, however, might be
considered too gruesome for the child mind.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 192. Ap. 3, ’09. 270w.
=Lorenzini, Carlo (C. Collodi, pseud.).=^{[10]} Pinocchio: the
adventures of a little wooden boy; tr. by Joseph Walker. †$1.
Crowell.
9–24941.
A new translation of this captivating Italian juvenile story, for which
the translator has prepared a brief introduction including a word about
the author and an outline of the allegory.
=Lorraine, Rupert.=^{[7]} Woman and the sword. 75c. McClurg.
A swashbuckling romance set in the times of the Thirty years’ war in
which the action centers about the rescue of a spirited English girl
from the clutches of a villainous Austrian count who had taken advantage
of her moment of pique to abduct her. Her rescuer is a middle aged
soldier of fortune who traverses nearly the half of Europe to end the
girl’s misery and to punish the crime-sodden count.
* * * * *
“A stirring tale.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 120w.
“The story as a whole, like so many of its school, is read with
interest, and—perhaps ungratefully—ridiculed in the cold light of later
judgment.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 238. S. 9, ’09. 180w.
“While it is frankly written to pass the time for the idle reader, it is
neither common place in workmanship nor negligible in material.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 451. Jl. 24, ’09. 250w.
=Louis, Henry.=^{[9]} Dressing of minerals. *$8.50. Longmans.