An informing book on the subject of laces giving historical, artistic,
utilitarian and commercial points of interest. “Many of the book’s
illustrations are derived from that wonderful storehouse of treasures,
the South Kensington museum.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Not so valuable or satisfactory as the older, more expensive works, but
will fill the needs of the average library both for history and
identification purposes.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 79. Mr. ’09.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1460. D. 17, ’08. 80w.
“Is timely as well as filled with a recondite learning and a refinement
of taste equally rare.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Its style is colloquial and its text is arranged with an eye to easy
assimilation. The book belongs to the get-wise-quick class, but its size
and arrangement make it a convenient handbook for household use, and as
such it may be recommended.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 414. S. 19, ’08. 280w.
=Lowndes, Mrs. Marie A. Belloc-.= Pulse of life: a story of a passing
world. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–2771.
“The story deals with the tangle of evil and good within a small social
circle, in present England. A group of men and women belonging to the
Roman Catholic nobility are the actors, and the action is complicated by
the introduction of a Russian element. The tale is of the world,
emphatically worldly and of doubtful profit.” (Outlook.) “Like most
women, the author is happiest in her portraits of women. The slight
portrait of the trained nurse, with her professional interest, and real
indifference, is one of the best things in the book, which shows
throughout refinement and distinction.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“This book has dignity and a certain amount of remote interest, but it
is almost inhuman in its curious lack of spontaneity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 318. Mr. 14. 260w.
“Never was a book more unluckily named; the title serves as a perpetual
reminder of just what this long, solid, carefully written novel
lacks—the pulse of life.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 199. F. 25, ’09. 350w.
“An admirable example of what may be called well-bred fiction. It has
elements of tragedy, of pathos, and of humor, but something of technical
ability is wanting to give these various elements their proper emphasis
and place. No lover of good fiction will fail to find enjoyment in its
clever pages.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 128. Mr. 6, ’09. 340w.
“There is much to interest the novel-reader but there is nothing to
amuse him. The atmosphere is somber and the effect is unhappy, leaving
the reader to ask, Of what use is it all?”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 533. Mr. 6, ’09. 120w.
“In spite of its many good points the book is not successful as an
artistic whole. It is disjointed, the style is often diffuse and clumsy,
and the realism is not the natural effect of lifelike description, but a
quality consciously striven for by the author, even at the expense of
some lapses from good taste.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 260w.
=Lowndes, Mrs. Marie A. Belloc-.=^{[9]} Uttermost farthing. $1.25.
Kennerley.
A keen, self-controlled American diplomat and the cultured, neglected
wife of an English millionaire have loved for years but repressed their
feelings, then give way to them and leave Paris together for a week of
secret happiness. En route the woman dies of heart disease and the
complicated consequences which follow this tragic end tax to the utmost
the resourcefulness of the diplomat, who lives an incredibly clever lie
to save the woman’s honor.
* * * * *
“The passionate conventionality underlying this novel is justified by
careful art and strong human interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 361. S. 26. 120w.
“The story is remarkably well written, with grave, restrained power and
pathos and an emotional tensity that is sustained with no little skill
at a high pitch to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 523. S. 4, ’09. 300w.
=Lownhaupt, Frederick.= Investment bonds, their issue and their place
in finance: a book for students, investors, and practical
financiers. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–36725.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Compares very favorably with Greene’s ‘Corporation finance,’ the
standard work on this subject, and its less technical treatment adapts
it better for the general reader, though it is of value to the trained
man as well.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 105. Ap. ’09. ✠
“In his discussion and illustrations the author displays a comprehensive
and up-to-date knowledge of the facts of financial history.” T: W.
Mitchell.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 210. Jl. ’09. 270w.
“It will make a strong appeal to that large class of young men who
during the business hours of the day are busy with the routine of office
and financial work, but who through reading are seeking a broader view
and a better basis for the exercise of judgment—the young men who will
fill a large part of the important business positions of the future.” F:
A. Cleveland.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 44. Ap. ’09. 300w.
“The treatment given to the subject in some parts is less effective than
it would be if the textual matter were better organized; that is, it
does not readily yield to analysis. These, however, are not serious
defects. The informational value of the contribution must give it a
permanent place in the literature of finance.” F: A. Cleveland.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 6. Ja. 14, ’09. 310w.
“It is probably the best general treatment of the subject available, but
it is to be regretted that the author has not attempted a more thorough
discussion of some of the general principles involved.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 168. Mr. ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Lownhaupt’s excellent little book is not comparable with competent
financial advice—which includes much hardly to be put into print—and yet
it may fill a useful niche in the library of a student, whether he is
pursuing his course in academic shades or in the haunts of bulls and
bears.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 136. Mr. 6, ’09. 200w.
=Lucas, Sir Charles Prestwood.=^{[5]} Historical geography of the
British colonies. 6v. v. 5, pt. 2. *$1.10. Oxford.
8–14683.
=v. 5, pt. 2. Egerton, Hugh E.= Canada: historical.
9–8767.
A history of Canada treated in three parts: Book 1 covers the pre-Union
period to 1841, closing with a chapter on the early history of the
Maritime provinces; Book 2 deals with the practical realization of the
union of the two Canadas, now Ontario and Quebec, and the early
operation of responsible government; Book 3 considers briefly the
Dominion of Canada from 1871 to the present day.
* * * * *
“Professor Egerton has maintained an admirable proportion in his
treatment of the field assigned him. A number of maps are distributed
through the volume; but those purporting to represent the railways of
the Dominion are most misleading. According to these there is in Canada
but one railway and its connections—the Canadian Pacific railway.” Adam
Short.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 349. Ja. ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 2.)
“In his previous writings Mr. Egerton has been far from exhibiting close
adherence to the received British view. In his book he is driven to a
somewhat colourless statement of the orthodox Canadian view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 237. Ag. 29. 450w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 2.)
“He has written by far the best history of Canada available. It is
clear, scholarly, comprehensive and well-informed. From a literary point
of view, his general abstinence from comment and speculation is a
distinct failing, while if the work is to be judged as a school-book, we
imagine that boys would prefer the more glowing and discursive style of
‘picturesque’ historians of the old school, to that of these austere and
encyclopædic pages.” T.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 409. Ap. ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 2.)
“To one who has a general idea of events in Canada in the last century
and a half it will be an excellent guide.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 372. S. 19, ’08. 160w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 2.)
=Lucas, Sir Charles Prestwood.=^{[7]} History of Canada, 1763–1812.
*$4.15. Oxford.
9–16814.
“Deals with selected phases of North American history, from the
inauguration of British government in Canada, after the treaty of Paris
of 1763, to the close of Sir James Craig’s administration in June,
1811.” (Am. Hist. R.) “It is not so much a narrative of Canadian history
as an analysis, exceedingly acute and scholarly, of the causes and
consequences of certain events that mark the period.” (Nation.) “There
are a couple of appendices: the first of which contains the text of the
Treaty of 1783, and the second, which is a natural sequel, contains a
summary of the proceedings connected with the settlement of the boundary
between Canada and the United States. The volume is enriched by a number
of excellent maps.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“From a literary point of view the volume is quite successful, the
author is careful as to his facts and the narrative of events is simple,
direct and interesting.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 840. Jl. ’09. 820w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 120. D. ’09.
“His ‘History of Canada’ not only deals adequately with a critical
period in colonial history, but is also enlightening and convincing.” G.
B. Hertz.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 812. O. ’09. 760w.
“His work is sharply defined from all previous attempts to write a
history of this period; it corrects a number of errors into which
previous historians had been led, because they lacked the original
documents now available.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 17. Jl. 1, ’09. 400w.
“Sir C. P. Lucas has enjoyed advantages in his official capacity which,
even though he wrote less well than he does, would make his colonial
histories valuable. Occasionally he packs his pages so full of facts
that they leave little more impression on the mind than the reading of a
dictionary of dates or a summary of geography.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 3. My. 22, ’09. 470w.
+ =Spec.= 102: 347. S. 4, ’09. 30w.
=Lucas, Clarence.= Story of musical form. *$1.25. Scribner.
9–35335.
An untechnical treatise. The author “begins by showing the necessity for
form in music, and then treats of rhythm, melody, and scale, including
exotic scales, tonic and dominant, and their implications, cadences,
phrases, and sentences, which last involve a word on leading motives. He
explains counterpoint, imitation, canon and fugue. Curiously enough,
then, equal temperament is the next subject; it is a prelude to a brief
discourse on harmony. The more detailed exposition of form is preceded
by remarks on purity of style. Then Mr. Lucas describes song form,
variation forms, rondo and sonata forms.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 80. Mr. ’09. ✠
“Most books on musical forms are, unfortunately, so technical, so dry,
so crammed with details, that the general reader shuns them. For this
reason one must welcome Mr. Lucas’s volume.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 96. Ja. 28, ’09. 450w.
“He rambles on more or less entertainingly or suggestively, and says
many interesting things; also, not unnaturally, some on which issue
might be taken with him.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 270w.
“It is written with such sprightliness and vivacity that it entertains
while it instructs the reader; at the same time, it is so clear that it
can hardly fail to direct the reader to paths in the domain of music
which he never trod before.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 292. F. 6, ’09. 240w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.=^{[10]} One day and another [essays]. *$1.25.
Macmillan.
9–35861.
The twenty-six kindly little essays upon everything under the sun which
fill this little volume will make good pick-up reading for odd moments.
You may choose what you will; roses, men and affairs, old tales,
pigeons, dogs, literature or, now and again a bit of pleasant
moralizing, the author has a word for every mood.
* * * * *
“Good for reading aloud.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 78. N. ’09.
+ =Dial.= 47: 390. N. 16, ’09. 300w.
“Excellent as these exercises in fancy may be in themselves, a whole
volume of them brings satiety.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 546. D. 2, ’09. 350w.
“Mr. Lucas is at his best when he is chatting about some quaint book or
character which he has met and delighted in, and which he is pretty sure
that the reader has not met.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 706. N. 13, ’09. 500w.
“Most pleasantly humorous and friendly, is his new volume of essays.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 514. O. 30, ’09. 70w.
“Censure would be beside the point, as there is nothing to censure.
Serious appreciation would be equally out of place, as it would spoil
the effect of these essays to take them too seriously. We have here
pleasantness quintessentialised. It is a book to keep upon the table. If
it were put up on the shelf, it would probably never get taken down,
which would be the greatest of pities.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 510. O. 23, ’09. 120w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed.^{[11]} Some friends of mine: a rally of
men. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–27283.
A companion volume to “The ladies’ pageant.” Mr. Lucas assembles for his
“rally” men whom he groups under the following heads: Chance
acquaintance; Urban humorists; The country gentlemen; Good servants; Two
cricketers; The simple minds; Two borrowers; Human divines; The law; The
healers; Nimrod’s heroes; The champions; The adventurers; Wild Irishmen;
The masters; Monk and lover; Six painters; The poets; The talkers; Two
book worms; Collectors; The patriots; Teachers of youth; The gentle;
Last of all. Under each head he introduces sketches of men taken from
the writings of literature from Plutarch’s time to the present.
* * * * *
“A large part of this material will be absolutely new to the average
reader, who will find this volume, if the least witty, far from being
the least interesting of the Lucas anthologies.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 465. D. 1, ’09. 160w.
“Mr. Lucas’s modest volume contains a fine collection of pages apt for
reading aloud.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 576. D. 9, ’09. 230w.
“Full of amusement and instruction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 659. O. 23, ’09. 10w.
“Is as pleasant a book as has come from the press for many a day. There
is not a dull extract in it. It is like a gathering of entertaining and
odd people, with every one of whom the reader would like to make
acquaintance.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 851. D. 18, ’09. 1250w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.=^{[9]} Wanderer in Paris. *$1.75. Macmillan.
9–24643.
The unrestraint of the title is everywhere apparent in Mr. Lucas’s
entertaining book. His impressions are those of an outsider in the
recording of which there has been preserved the freshness of the first
sensations; while from the point of authenticity, his wanderings afford
material that will interest and instruct tourists who know their Paris
well. The art galleries, curio shops and the external beauties of the
city call his best descriptive powers into use.
* * * * *
“It presupposes some knowledge of history, literature and art, but is
redeemed from guidebook aridity by the graceful personal touch.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 78. N. ’09.
“In spite of too much quotation of Carlyle’s ‘French revolution,’ the
book is readable, though defaced by a terrible number of misprints,
French and English.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909. 2: 180. Ag. 14. 350w.
“To grasp and retain the very essence of the charm of the places he
visits, and to convey an intimate sense of that quality to his
readers,—this is the difficult task Mr. Lucas accomplishes. His books
are not for the specialist, though the specialist should enjoy them; nor
for the tourist’s valise, though they are in a sense guide-books,
idealized guide-books. The catholic interests of their author embrace
the diverse tastes of a multitude of readers.” M. A. Havens.
+ =Dial.= 47: 508. D. 16, ’09. 1650w.
“Mr. Lucas is the best possible guide for the super-traveler. He seems
never to have forgotten anything that he has once read, and he has all
his resources on tap at the right moment; yet one never feels a sense of
suffocation from his profusion.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 636. O. 16, ’09. 250w.
“Here is joined to many of the useful services of the guide, the charm
which belongs to mellow style and regnant humor.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 353. O. 14, ’09. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 596. O. 9, ’09. 200w.
“Is a bit dull and insular and perfunctory and compares not well with,
for instance, the ‘Walks’ of M. Georges Cain.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 840. D. ’09. 170w.
“He has keen insight, and his frequent ‘hittings off’ of French traits
and French character and his occasional comparisons of Gallic and
British are apt and telling.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 514. O. 30, ’09. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 760. D. ’09. 140w.
“The cause of the book’s shortcomings may be perceived at a glance. To
modern people there is nothing so strange in modern Paris that a mere
description should entrance us. Paris Mr. Lucas has never ceased to look
at as an outsider looks; he has not got to the secret of its charm,
fascination and enchantment.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 259. Ag. 28, ’09. 1250w.
“Of course there are passages which will provoke any Englishman who
knows Paris at all well to dissent, but it is to be remarked that all
these deal with matters of opinion, not of fact. We have read a good
deal about Paris, but nothing in the not too scientific spirit which has
given us so much pleasure as this book. The illustrations by Mr. Dexter
are very effective, in our opinion because they combine extreme
clearness with a certain pallor in the brightness of the lighting in a
manner truly characteristic of Paris.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 239. Ag. 14, ’09. 2400w.
=Lucas, St. John.= Rose-winged hours. *$1.40. Longmans.
“An anthology intended as “a garland of familiar flowers.” Out of some
two hundred and fifty pieces, forty-four come from Shakespeare, eighteen
from Donne, fourteen from Sir Philip Sidney, thirteen from Campion,
eight from Herrick, five from Michael Drayton, and four from Samuel
Daniel. Of the moderns, the two Brownings are represented by twenty, W.
S. Landor by nine, Shelley by seven, Wordsworth by five, and Tennyson by
four pieces.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“As an anthology the book is far above the average.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 815. D. 26. 160w.
=Dial.= 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Many of the best things are here and none but the best. It would have
been better to exclude altogether so small a handful of living poets if
it was necessary to exclude a dozen others whom we could name.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 144. Ja. 30, ’09. 100w.
“It is a very attractive selection.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 786. N. 14, ’08. 100w.
=Lucy, Henry W:=^{[7]} Sixty years in the wilderness: some passages by
the way. *$3. Dutton.
9–22718.
“The wilderness of Mr. Lucy’s title is the wilderness of brick and
mortar and multitudinous human beings struggling for existence, fighting
for fame and fortune.” (N. Y. Times.) “His specialty has been his
reports of parliament.... He takes the right points and gives them just
the proper prominence. And he is admirably equitable in his treatment of
party matters. The virtue of English political life on which he enlarges
in this volume, the personal friendliness which is unshaken by the
storms of party, is exemplified by his method.... For a book dealing
almost wholly with politicians, their ways and their doings, the element
of political opinion is amazingly small.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“We heartily commend this pleasant book.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 462. Ap. 17. 520w.
“Written in a brisk and effective style, though with many of the lapses
and inelegances of the current journalistic manner, ‘Sixty years in the
wilderness’ is likely to meet with such favor as to encourage the issue
of a second volume.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 91. Ag. 16, ’09. 1200w.
“Humor and lightness of touch are Mr. Lucy’s outstanding
characteristics. It is these characteristics that will secure for Mr.
Lucy’s autobiography its widest acceptance.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 365. Ag. 12, ’09. 850w.
“Good nature, a gentle humor, absence of bitterness or of style that
bites—these are the qualities which the writer has long identified with
his name, and they mark this latest book of his.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 52. Jl. 15, ’09. 90w.
“A cheerful book, and pleasant reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 405. Je. 26, ’09. 1300w.
“There are some passages, we must own, which it might have been better
to omit. But the volume is eminently readable.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 582. Ap. 10, ’09. 340w.
=Lutz, Mrs. Grace (Livingston) Hill-.=^{[10]} Phoebe Deane. †$1.50.
Lippincott.
9–25180.
When the fates endowed Phoebe Deane with a love of beauty and a delicate
refinement that craved books, and a pleasant environment they offset
their kindness by leaving her, orphaned in a New York state farm house,
a drudge dependent on the bounty of her half brother and his
sharp-tongued wife. The dismal life the young girl led here is pictured
in an appealing and pathetic fashion, and when a wicked old widower, who
is their neighbor, begins to persecute her with his attentions and she
is made the object of false scandal to further his suit it seems that
she must marry him and lose all hope of happiness. But the man who is
worthy of her rescues her at the right moment and all is well. The time
of the story is 1830, and there is a vague historical background.
* * * * *
“A pretty wholesome story of the frankly artificial kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 627. O. 23, ’09. 180w.
=Lützow, Franz H. H. V.=^{[8]} Life and times of Master John Hus. *$4.
Dutton.
9–23750.
A painstaking biography of Bohemia’s famous national hero, Jan Hus. “In
this goodly volume of about four hundred stately octavo pages we have a
picture of the real Hus drawn by a patriotic hand, impartially
presented, with the opinions of friend and foe carefully analyzed, and
all religious bias eliminated.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“We hope that this book will find many readers; it is the record of a
great and glorious life, the details of which have been unduly ignored
by western Europe.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 666. Je. 5. 820w.
=Ind.= 67: 1140. My. 18, ’09. 110w.
“It is written in a spirit of ardent admiration for the man who stands
in the author’s mind as the chief representative of their common
fatherland, yet with admirable temper and evident anxiety to do justice
to all reasonable opposition.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 436. N. 4, ’09. 620w.
“Had Count Lützow been less impartial, his work might be passed with
slight notice. Writing in the spirit he has, it is hard to see how any
reader can follow the narrative without a tribute to its logic and sense
of justice.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 485. Ag. 14, ’09. 1000w.
“Though it suffers somewhat from repetition and amassed detail, is yet
scholarly and reliable and is the best English life there is of Hus.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 559. O. ’09. 300w.
“A volume of standard worth.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 917. Ag. 21, ’09. 320w.
“A learned historian, whose competence has been shown by earlier English
works, he writes our language with ease and accuracy, though we would
have wished that a more careful reading of the proofs had removed some
slight blemishes and some errors in the printing of Bohemian names.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 478. O. 16, ’09. 1950w.
“In this volume he has added to his reputation by placing before English
readers a well-informed and pleasantly written account of one of the two
episodes in the history of Bohemia which have special interest for this
country, and both of which have stood in need of being retold in English
from the Bohemian standpoint.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 202. Ag. 7, ’09. 1200w.
=Lyman, William Denison.=^{[8]} Columbia river: its history, its
myths, its scenery, its commerce. (American waterways.) **$3.50.
Putnam.
9–15979.
Belongs to the “American waterways” series and gives an authoritative
narrative of the series of events in the history of the Columbia and
presents the remarkable scenic features from the headwaters to the mouth
of the river.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 18. S. ’09.
“It is in all respects an excellent book.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 829. O. 7, ’09. 250w.
“He writes with the historical sense. At the same time he has by no
means neglected the scenic aspects of his subject.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 540. O. 2, ’09. 110w.
“For the most part, we find him trustworthy, and hold his book to be not
only fascinating but thoroughly studied and packed with valuable
knowledge.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 207. S. 2, ’09. 170w.
“Prof. Lyman tells the story exceedingly well. He is very full and
precise in his presentation of what may be called the early history of
the Columbia valley.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 600w.
“We advise all visitors to the Seattle fair to familiarize themselves
with Mr. Lyman’s book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 160w.
=Lynd, Robert.=^{[11]} Home life in Ireland. *8s. Mills and Boon.
A book written “with the laudable object of showing that the differences
and contrasts and quarrels of Irishmen are not essential, as resulting
from an ineradicable difference of race, but temporary and curable. Mr.
Lynd has strong hopes that with the allaying of these causes of
dissension the future of Ireland will be different from the past, and
that a new patriotism will combine all the forces of the nation into a
noble harmony by resolving the present discords.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This is a book full of interesting gossip—in the main, too, a very fair
book. In most of his estimates of classes we agree with Mr. Lynd;
regarding the landlords we fancy that he has no great store of knowledge
at first hand, and takes his cue from the political press.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 488. O. 23. 830w.
“We naturally have said more about points of difference than about
points of agreement; but our criticisms do not touch the real value of
the book. It is the work of a close and interested observer. Keep the
grain of salt at hand and all will be well.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 652. O. 23, ’09. 480w.
=Lynde, Francis.= King of Arcadia. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–6573.
An enclosed valley in the middle Rockies is the scene of the story in
which a young irrigation engineer, representing the interests of the
farmer wars against a cattle king, a Virginian of true Southern type,
who is greedy for the isolation of his vast tract of grazing land. The
story grows into unity through the influences that are brought to bear
upon the ambitious southerner to relinquish his selfish scheme and to
transform his tract into a sure-enough kingdom of Arcadia, and the
leisurely but definite progress sustained by the engineer in his wooing
of the Arcadian king’s daughter.
* * * * *
“A dramatic, well told tale, full of adventure and mystery.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 27. S. ’09. ✠
“It all makes an entertaining, good-humored, and perfectly superficial
story, well supplied with dramatic incident, and told, for the most
part, in a form of dialogue too smart to bear much relation to ordinary
human speech.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 264. Ap. 16, ’09. 240w.
“The sentiment does not go very deep, the characterization is on the
surface, but the incidents are many, and the story has a wholesome
atmosphere of activity, determination, courage and manliness.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 764. Ap. 8, ’09. 200w.
“There is the breath of out-of-doors in every page, while the general
tone of the novel is clean and wholesome.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 726. Ap. 24, ’09. 230w.
=Lyndon, Lamar.= Development and electrical distribution of water
power. *$3. Wiley.
8–11462.
A book for engineers whose “object is to show the relations between the
available water power, the works and machinery for developing it, and
the final use to which the energy will be put. Accordingly, the author
first explains the nature of the hydraulic development, including dams,
canals and flumes and water-wheels; then the features of the electrical
equipment, including dynamos, transformers, conductors, pole line,
lightning protection, switching and controlling apparatus, and finally
describes two foreign and seven American developments as typical of the
results of the study.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Lyndon’s book possesses some features of novelty, and the work
should be of particular interest to those engineers whose activities do
not tend to give them knowledge and experience in the trend of hydraulic
and electrical power developments.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 74. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
“The volume brings together in compact form a large amount of
information previously available only in technical journals.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 308. Mr. 13, ’09. 240w.
=Lyon, Harris Merton.= Sardonics: sixteen sketches. $1.25. Stuyvesant
press.
9–12878.
A book of unpleasant sketches material for which, manipulated according
to the school of realism, has been selected from wretched, degraded
walks of New York life. “Take for instance such a story as the one
bearing the laconic title, ‘In the Black-and-Tan.’ It pictures with such
pitiless frankness the promiscuous, unclean, befuddled crowd who
constituted a lively evening at Yellow Mamie’s, that you fairly smell
the reek of whiskey and rank tobacco.” (Bookm.) “In a number of the
stories, notably the opening one, ‘The father,’ in which a man who had
deserted his wife and child tries years afterward to make things up with
the son, there is clever sketching of character in broad outlines.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“There is much strength, much grimness, and a good deal of irony packed
away in these sixteen brief sketches, which in spite of a certain
youthful crudeness, are more promising than the maturer work of many a
successful writer. Mr. Lyon has something of the Maupassant attitude
toward life.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 79. Mr. ’09. 500w.
“They are faithful enough pictures of the fetid and sodden life that
ferments and rots in the deeps of a big city, and they are written with
considerable skill, although at times the straining after effect is too
manifest.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 28. Ja. 16, ’09. 150w.
=Lyons, A. Neil.=^{[9]} Sixpenny pieces. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of “the lower phases of life from the consulting-room of an East
End doctor. These tersely written sketches of the patients of Dr.
Brink—an outspoken, kindly, and capable man, who contrives to make an
income of 1,200 l. a year out of the modest sixpences his patients pay
him—are full of humor and pathos, sometimes rather painful in their
realism, but never wanting in sympathy and tolerance.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“He conveys the impression that he has lived among the people whom he
describes, so intimate is his knowledge of their modes of thought and
speech, so swift and certain is his touch in picturing their
peculiarities.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 93. Jl. 24. 210w.
“The author’s deep sympathy never obviously expressed but all-pervading,
his unusual power of observation, the humor and the penetration shown,
make the book of unusual value, while the occasional over-audacity or
flippancy of expression never for a moment conceals the seriousness of
the work.”
+ =Atlan.= 104: 684. N. ’09. 240w.
“The reader can concern himself with the misery of it if he likes.
Otherwise, the humor is the obvious thing. The stories are all cleverly
written and show keen observation and a graphic pen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 499. Ag. 21, ’09. 170w.
“He is an artist, yet his human concern for his material is always
discernible under his occasionally relentless handling. For the few
false notes in the book the poor in it are not responsible.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 21. Jl. 3, ’09. 400w.
=Lyons, Andrew W.=^{[5]} Grammar of lettering. *$2.50. Lippincott.
9–15107.
“We can commend this book very heartily to those who are interested in
lettering on a large scale, such as sign-writing, mural inscriptions,
etc. They will find in it not only a very clear account of the
principles on which the form of letters depends, but also a practical
course of construction in the actual writing, or rather painting, of the
letters themselves, and a full account of the materials and implements
to be used.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“More useful for sign-painters than for architects or art students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 173. Je. ’09.
“It should be in the library of every school of art and architecture in
the country.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 21. Ja. 2. 140w.
“It is thus a book for the sign-writer and student in Trade schools,
rather than for the art student and architect, who should be interested
in the history and philology of the alphabet and of literal forms.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 332. My. 16, ’09. 100w.
“It is a useful volume in spite of the misnomer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 243. Ap. 17, ’09. 90w.
M
=Maartens, Maarten.=^{[7]} Brothers all. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–21861.
A collection of stories dealing with Dutch peasant life which the author
“presents in a most repellent aspect. They are nearly all quite odious
people in these short stories—morose, stupid, and rigidly, offensively
Calvinistic; lumpish country folk, hard, dishonest business men,
repulsive clerics.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“The grimly facetious turn of most of the sketches is less successful
than the soberer and more sympathetic vein of a few.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 56. O. ’09.
“The tales are of unequal merit, but on the whole it cannot be said that
the author shows at his best in them. Though he can sentimentalize on
occasion, we cannot help feeling that he is often out of sympathy with
his subject.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 435. Ap. 10. 120w.
“Differs little from its predecessors—unless perhaps, as it makes
smaller display of his versatility, and over-represents a type of
humorous tale in which he does not excell.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 163. Ag. 19, ’09. 330w.
“Though these stories concern themselves with people of small horizons
and isolated communities where the great tides of life do not wash, yet,
being so true and so living, they reach out and touch each of us,
fulfilling the title under which they appear.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 453. Jl. 24, ’09. 420w.
“A volume of short sketches of Dutch peasant life admirably drawn,
largely painful, but good reading because they give a sense of truth and
reality.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 124. Jl. ’09. 70w.
“The motives of the tales are far-fetched, the procedure seems
artificial, the humour strained. There is not even the glamour of local
colour.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 373. Mr. 20, ’09. 160w.
“But quite apart from the fact that the author has here resorted to the
highly reprehensible device of exploiting the imaginary sufferings of
children in order to play upon the heartstrings of his readers, he has
done his fellow-countrymen a grave disservice by the well-nigh
continuous disparagement of his portraiture.”
− =Spec.= 102: 268. F. 13, ’09. 1000w.
=Maartens, Maarten.=^{[11]} Price of Lis Doris. †$1.50 Appleton.
9–28113.
Lis Doris, the son of a Dutch grocer, looks out upon the world with an
artist’s eye, rejoicing in the colors of his first soap bubbles and
making surreptitious sketches on his father’s wrapping paper. Yetta, the
minister’s daughter, loves the artist’s soul in him and mothers and
encourages it, finally marrying a man of wealth that Lis may have the
money for an education. Unconscious of the price, he becomes the artist
she dreamed of; but, before he has shown his work, her jealous husband
comes to him and tells him the secret, claiming as a return that Lis
shall let him have the credit for painting the pictures that he may win
his wife’s respect and thus make her happy. Lis pays the price and
condemns himself to be a painter of the portraits he hates and to give
up his real life as a painter of nature and the great out of doors. Thus
he and Yetta sacrifice their lives for each other and nothing comes of
it save the momentary revelation of their great love in the end and
their hope of love and eternal life.
* * * * *
“In places there is a regrettable straining after thrilling effects but
no imperfection can blind the reader to the charm of the author’s humour
and satire.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 522. O. 30. 220w.
“The book is sunny with a delightful humor and filled with character
studies that are inimitable, running the scale of the social chord from
high to low. Every page is rich with human life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 742. N. 27, ’09. 1250w.
“Strong and picturesque as his studies are, they arouse the suspicion
that it is not merely because they are Dutch that they seem unfamiliar
to us. There is something disproportionate in their semblance of life,
they are in some instances distorted from their true outline, whether
wilfully to suit the purpose of the plot, or unconsciously through the
limitations of Mr. Maartens’ powers of expression.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 506. O. 23, ’09. 600w.
=Mabinogion.= Wonder stories from the Mabinogion, by E: Brooks.
(Classic stories for boys and girls.) †$1.25. Penn.
8–15724.
A volume of Welsh wonder tales, full of heroic adventure and
supernatural incidents. The stories had their origin as early as the
fifth or sixth century.
* * * * *
“It is better illustrated and cheaper in price, and also in appearance,
than Lanier’s. The latter is preferable for a library that can have but
one.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 311. D. ’08.
“The present book seems to have been carefully done and should find a
considerable audience.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1475. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=McArdle, Fred, and Helmholtz, Henry=, eds.^{[6]} Air brake text for
engineers and firemen: a complete treatise on the Westinghouse and
New York air brake and signal systems, air brake practice and train
handling. $2.50. McArdle & Helmholtz.
9–9355.
“The work contains a treatise on all of the old air brake equipment,
in addition to a complete description and treatise of the latest
Westinghouse and New York equipments, which are briefly explained
and cover all the points necessary to qualify the engineman to pass
a thorough examination on air brake operation and train
handling.”—Preface.
=McArdle, Fred, and Helmholtz, Henry, eds.=^{[6]} Locomotive text for
engineers and firemen: a complete treatise on the engine, electric
headlight and standard code of train rules. $2.50. McArdle &
Helmholtz.
9–9356.
Aims to assist the inexperienced engineman as well as those more
advanced in the service in becoming more proficient in the care and
management of the locomotive. The first part deals with locomotive
firing; the second with locomotive injectors, and the third with the
standard code of train rules and signals.
=McAulay, Allan.=^{[10]} Eagle’s nest. †$1.50. Lane.