“Mr. McAulay has chosen a period and conditions which are new to us in
fiction. The eagle’s nest is Corsica, and it is the Corsica of
Napoleon’s young days. The hero, however, is not Napoleon, but his
friend Domenico Tirolani, who becomes involved in the intrigues which
grew up in the island after the French occupation.... The character of
the young Bonaparte is deftly kept in tone with that of the Napoleon who
was to be evolved from him. The love-interest also is excellent and
pathetic.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The author’s familiarity with past conditions of Corsican life is
remarkable, and his story is spirited and interesting. Nor does it
affect the interest in any way that is tragic. We should describe the
book, in fine, as a brilliant ‘tour de force.’”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 325. S. 18. 120w.
“This happy art, added to a fine dignity of construction, puts the novel
quite above the too fluid current of modern historical romance.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 434. N. 4, ’09. 270w.
“The beginning of a Corsican story provides distinct thrills and is not
without promise of sustained interest. The author, however, seems to
have wearied of his task just as the climax was in sight.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 525. S. 4, ’09. 400w.
“‘Allan McAulay’ is greatly to be congratulated on turning his faithful
study of a generally neglected period of Napoleon’s early career to such
fruitful purpose. For this is one of those illuminating and stimulating
romances which set people reading history.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 692. O. 30, ’09. 830w.
=Macaulay, Mrs. Fannie C. (Frances Little, pseud.).=^{[11]} Little
Sister Snow. **$1. Century.
9–27380.
A charming story about a little Japanese maiden written by the author of
“The lady of the decoration.” In early childhood Yuki Chan resolves upon
drowning a naughty kitten, but is interrupted in her plan by an American
boy. When she grows up, after her parents have engaged her to a
middle-aged Japanese officer, the American youth returns and she falls
in love with him. There is much of pathos and sweet womanliness in her
quiet struggle to overcome this impossible love, in portraying which the
author uses great delicacy of touch.
* * * * *
“In revelation of character and Japanese bearing the story bears the
mark of verisimilitude.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 133. D. ’09. ✠
“Thanks to a perfect understanding on the author’s part of the boundary
line between pathos and tragedy, tenderness and sentimentality, this is,
for English readers at all events, an admirable story.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 489. O. 23. 140w.
“Full of charm and beauty, this little book has a message for the
thoughtful far beyond its more obvious motive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 721. N. 20, ’09. 420w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 50w.
“A charming story of modern Japan.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 924. D. 4, ’09. 170w.
=McCabe, Joseph.=^{[11]} Iron cardinal; being the romance of
Richelieu. *$3.50. McBride, J:
A personal story of the Cardinal de Richelieu. “Mr. McCabe frankly
admits, both in the subtitle and in his preface, that he has maintained
a special point of view throughout his book; he presents Richelieu’s
character and career in a light as romantic as even Bulwer-Lytton
ventured to throw on the hero of his recurrently popular drama.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“Upon the whole our impression remains that the author has fallen
between two stools. While not sufficiently equipped or enough interested
to treat of Richelieu as the European statesman, he has not concentrated
himself with adequate care upon the literary and romantic aspects of his
subject.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 66. Jl. 17. 700w.
“The complete life of this wonderful man remains to be written.
Meanwhile this less serious and far less voluminous study of his
character, with its many portraits and other attractive features, is
welcome.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 511. D. 16, ’09. 210w.
“There is evidence of more kindliness, more human feeling, in this book
than we are accustomed to look for in the character of Richelieu. It is
a fresh and interesting conception of the man, and as such merits a
secure place in literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 640. O. 23, ’09. 900w.
“This one contains more genuine history than most of them, but there is
no reference to authorities and no means of checking the statements made
except through a general allusion to a large number of works dealing
with Richelieu.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 824. Je. 26, ’09. 780w.
“Mr. McCabe’s study of the life and career of Richelieu is to some
extent a satisfactory book. It is certainly interesting. One cannot help
expressing regret that so lively and interesting a book on a subject so
important and absorbing should be marked by defects so easily avoided,
defects which matter all the more perhaps because it is not every reader
who will be aware of them.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 60. Jl. 10, ’09. 1850w.
=McCarthy, Callaghan.=^{[10]} Causes of poverty. *2s. King, P. S., and
son, London.
9–5476.
A work that emphasizes less the maladjustment theory of poverty than the
physiographic and social causes looked at from a national standpoint.
“The present volume, says Mr. McCarthy, ‘might be described as an effort
to evolve a mental picture of the world we live in, to behold before us
a working model of this earth and all its belongings, and to realise,
from an examination of that model, the causes responsible for human
poverty.’” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The presentation of the problem as one of exchange is suggestive, but
Mr. McCarthy’s treatment of it is magniloquent rather than
illuminating.”
− =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 400w.
“Even if the proportion of unproductively consumed income has been
overstated, Mr. McCarthy has written an interesting and suggestive study
of poverty looked at from the standpoint of the nation as a whole.” C.
C. Carstens.
+ − =Survey.= 22: 802. S. 11, ’09. 430w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.=^{[11]} God of love. †$1.50. Harper.
9–28000.
Florence the beautiful and her gorgeous, pleasure loving, quarrelsome
Florentines form the setting for the story of the love of Dante and
Beatrice. A note tells us that the archives of the Abbey of Bonne
Aventure in Poitou have yielded to the author this version of the
greatest love story of all Italy, the story of the obscure young poet,
the beautiful etherial girl and their great love which to the end was of
the spirit. A wicked suitor, a hard father, and the wild times in which
they lived brought about the early death of Beatrice and left Dante, in
the words of his chronicler, in “a kind of moral torpor in which all
sense of things righteous and things evil was confused.”
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Gorgeous Borgia: a romance. †$1.50. Harper.
9–5203.
A night, a morning, an afternoon and an evening in the life of Cæsar
Borgia, are depicted here, tho many moons apart. It is a tale of his
cruelty, his tyranny, his professed loyalty to Italy, and his one great
passion, the love for Lavinella Orsini. The great Borgia woos her in
ignorance of her lineage, while in turn she knows not that he is the
tyrant of a rival house. When her people elect her to slay the hated
Borgia, she little dreams that it is her lover. The story is true to
history in its plots and betrayals, and its delineation of lawless,
sensual Roman life.
* * * * *
“His book does not suggest an intimate knowledge of Cæsar’s times. The
events of history are very cavalierly dealt with.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 677. N. 28. 150w.
“An exciting tale.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1034. My. 13, ’09. 220w.
“As a story, the book is weak, its slender thread of a plot being
over-weighted with long pages of description and narrative. As a
historical picture, an attempt to revivify the mad, strenuous, shameless
life of the time, it is hardly more successful, although now and then
there is a brilliant page.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 145. Mr. 13, ’09. 230w.
“Mr. McCarthy knows how to tell a story well, and, with considerable
allowance for the bad taste the characters leave in the mouth of the
reader, the tale itself is a good one.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 120w.
“There is plenty of brisk incident, but the spirit of the renaissance is
hardly renewed in these pages.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 765. D. 19, ’08. 200w.
=MacCartney, Mervin.=^{[5]} English houses and gardens in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. *$6. Scribner.
“Consists of a selection of birdseye views of English country houses,
made for the most part by Dutch engravers at the end of the seventeenth
century and the beginning of the eighteenth, admirably reproduced by
means of photography.... The period is a fascinating one, the houses,
though in some cases Tudor, being chiefly of the time of Inigo Jones and
Wren, and either the work of those masters or of their pupils and
followers; while at no time, perhaps, has garden design reached so high
a level.... There is an interesting introduction, the greater part of
which is devoted to garden design; and in addition there is a short
description of each plate, containing much useful information.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The material the author had to draw upon was large, and he has made an
excellent selection. We notice one or two slight misprints. While the
plates reproduce with remarkable fidelity both the spirit and detail of
the originals, the considerable reduction in scale is a distinct loss.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 470. Ap. 17. 440w.
“To those who desire to get a strong impression of the formality and
dignity of life in the good days of Queen Anne and the neighboring
periods, we recommend this volume.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 151. F. 11, ’09. 200w.
=McCasland, Charles Orville.=^{[6]} Right and riches. $1.50. Wilbur
pub.
8–18383.
A scientific study of wealth in its relations to producer, consumer and
society; the cause of want and its amelioration; the nature and laws of
money and the dangers of our centralised system of banking and corporate
control; the elements of collective prosperity and individual success.
* * * * *
“Taking things as they are and allowing Mr. McCasland his definitions of
terms, it is hard to find any flaw in his reasoning. The trouble with
the book lies in the fact that it is too technical for the ordinary
reader, and scholars may not be willing to acknowledge Mr. McCasland as
an authority.” R. E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 41: 395. Mr. ’09. 500w.
=McClelland, Thomas Calvin.=^{[8]} Mind of Christ: an attempt to
answer the question what did Jesus believe? **$1.25. Crowell.
9–21685.
In the following chapters the author sets forth in simple speech the
belief of Jesus: Jesus’ idea of God; Jesus’ idea of himself; Jesus’ idea
of man; Jesus’ idea of religion; Jesus’ idea of sin; Jesus’ idea of
salvation; Jesus’ idea of prayer; Jesus’ idea of immortality; The proof
of Jesus’ idea of God; How a man may know Jesus’ God; The seriousness of
believing in the fatherhood of God.
* * * * *
“The theology involved in it is distinctively modern, and it is luminous
both in thought and in expression.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 762. D. ’09. 60w.
=McClung, Robert Kenning.=^{[12]} Conduction of electricity through
gases and radio-activity. *$1.50. Blakiston.
9–29406.
A combined text-book and laboratory manual that aims to present in
simple form the fundamental facts of the subject and explanatory
theories, accompanied, where possible, by the description of suitable
experiments. The desire has been uppermost to give a student a working
knowledge of the main facts and principles of the subjects.
=MacColl, Alexander.= Working theology. **75c. Scribner.
9–6470.
A body of doctrine for the orthodox layman which has resulted from a
revision and readjustment of old ideas subjected to the present-day
examination and criticism of traditionary dogmas. The chapters are: The
religious attitude toward the newer conceptions of truth; God the loving
Father, Man the erring child; Divine providence in the play of cosmic
processes; Prayer in a world of law; Miracles in a scientific age; The
Bible in the light of modern revelation and inspiration; The sense of
sin in modern life; The great gospel of the cross; and Things to come.
* * * * *
“In general the spirit is that of honest facing of difficulty. The
volume is calculated to help many toward a ‘theology that will work.’”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1298. Je. 10, ’09. 200w.
=McComb, Rev. Samuel.=^{[12]} Making of the English Bible; with an
introductory essay on the influence of the English Bible on English
literature. **$1. Moffat.
A work whose purpose is not to give a history of the English Bible, but
to point out in the light of recent investigation the debt that the
latest revision owes to its predecessors, and to estimate the
contributions to it from all sources. Contents: William Tindale—the
father of the English Bible; The contribution of Miles Coverdale; The
contribution of the Genevan version; The contribution of the Bishop’s
Bible; The Roman Catholic contribution; The contribution of the
authorized version; The contribution of the Anglo-American version.
* * * * *
“Though popular in style and treatment, it will be of most use to the
student of the text.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 78. N. ’09.
“The story is succinctly told, yet with emphasis where it belongs, and
with sufficient illustration by way of parallel texts and exhibition of
relationships.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 362. O. 14, ’09. 140w.
“It is not clear to what the sub-title of this book refers. There is no
essay on the influence of the English Bible on English literature.
Otherwise the volume is admirable.” E. S. D.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 400w.
=McComb, Rev. Samuel.=^{[10]} Power of self-suggestion. **50c. Moffat.
9–14535.
“A small volume containing an address which reviews in the spirit of the
movement connected with the Emmanuel church the varieties of aid to be
derived from a vigorous and confident appeal to the best within
one.”—Dial.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 18. S. ’09.
=Dial.= 47: 24. Jl. 1, ’09. 50w.
=McCook, Rev. Henry Christopher.=^{[12]} Ant communities and how they
are governed: a study in natural civics. **$2. Harper.
9–27978.
A distinctly informing work that covers mainly those phases of ant life
that are developed around ants’ behavior as social animals. A secondary
feature of the book is the indication of parallels, more or less
distinct, between the communal actions of ants considered simply as
natural history, and the communal actions of man, considered in their
relations to the highest welfare of the race.
* * * * *
“This is a fresh and original book. A book delightfully written and
delightfully illustrated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 964. N. 27, ’09. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 806. D. 18, ’09. 850w.
=Outlook.= 93: 830. D. 11, ’09. 200w.
=McCord, Peter B.= Wolf: the memoirs of a cave dweller. $1. Dodge, B.
W.
8–33782.
Purported to be the transcript of an old priest’s work in piecing
together meagre scraps of information concerning the cave dwellers. It
is in the form of a cave-dweller’s autobiographical sketch and throws
light on this half man, half animal tribe, and the development which
characterized its evolutionary progress.
=MacCorkle, William Alexander.= Some Southern questions. **$1.75.
Putnam.
8–36695.
“Mr. MacCorkle, who is an ex-governor of West Virginia, has a good deal
to say about the negro in his series of valuable papers on Southern
questions. He accepts the localization of the negro in the South as a
permanency, and dismisses all kinds of colonization talk as idle. The
Southern whites want and need the negro, he maintains. Considerable
space is given to a record of Southern efforts for negro education. The
repression of the negro vote is admitted, but the author maintains that
the best Southern opinion insists only upon an intelligence
qualification, and wishes to disfranchise the ignorant white as well as
the black.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“A man’s desire to preserve his own utterances is easily understood. To
understand our difficult social and race problems we need careful
studies—not after-dinner oratory. This indicates the strength and
weakness of the book.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 720. My. ’09. 100w.
=Ind.= 66: 485. Mr. 4, ’09. 120w.
“Although Gov. MacCorkle’s oratorical style may belong to a past age,
his political views are decidedly modern.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 221. Mr. 4, ’09. 460w.
“Is entitled to special consideration as witness of what these problems
actually appear to the South to be and of the angle in which the South
as an active and practical entity looks at them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 78. F. 6, ’09. 640w.
=McCormack, Mary Anna.=^{[11]} Spool knitting. *$1. Barnes.
9–18381.
Tells of the numerous articles that can be made out of the cord or flat
web that is made by knitting worsteds over pins stuck into an empty
spool.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 44. O. ’09.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 503. Ag. 21, ’09. 90w.
=McCullough, Ernest.=^{[6]} Engineering work in towns and cities. 2d
ed. $3. Clark, M. C.
8–28611.
“In the first edition of this book the author divided his subject-matter
into two parts, for the technical and for the non-technical reader,
placing the two treatments of each sub-division at opposite ends of the
book. In this second edition, just issued, this scheme has been
abandoned and all the matter on any one subject is to be found at one
place. While removing one of the assumed virtues of the old edition—the
benefit of the book to non-engineering city officials—this scheme tends
much toward the general betterment of the work and makes it more in
keeping with its title. Various other changes might be noted, but they
are of a somewhat minor character.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The typography is extremely poor.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 146. D. ’09.
“In its field the work can be commended.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 537. My. ’09. 180w.
“The general impression of the second edition is that, while not
differing materially in its matter from the first, the arrangement is
much more useful and there is an absence of a certain colloquial style,
brought about probably by the removal of many not altogether appropriate
chapter heading quotations.” C. G. Barth.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 691. D. 17, ’08. 180w.
“Taken as a whole, the book will probably be more helpful to an engineer
undertaking to manage for the first time the engineering department of a
small city than anything else that has been published.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 475. O. 23, ’09. 330w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.=^{[7]} Alternative. †$1.25. Dodd.
9–10493.
A light-weight story of a father and son in which the son improves upon
his father’s generation and ideals. Having squandered their fortune Van
Pyckes senior sees continuance of his life of ease only thru a wealthy
marriage. The son halts before the alternative to such a scheme which
presents itself in the idea of entering upon a business career. He
chooses the latter course, pursues his own domestic ideas about marriage
and witnesses a father’s agitation over the fact that his son should be
the first of the old family of Van Pyckes to do any work.
* * * * *
“Another book whose atmosphere fails to carry conviction.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 100w.
“The farcical swing with which he carries his story swiftly through
makes amends for defects in construction and characterization.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 200w.
“It is an airy little tale, full of amusing situations and crisp,
delightful dialogue.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.=^{[11]} Truxton King: a story of Graustark.
†$1.50. Dodd.
9–24451.
“Truxton King, big, handsome, good-natured and young, ranges over the
face of the earth looking for romance and adventure and finding none,
until at last he comes to the natural home of such things—Graustark.
There he jumps over the palace wall and meets Prince Robin, and first
sets eyes on the heroine.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This most recent addition to the Graustark series will be welcomed by
all those who have made the acquaintance of that stirring little
principality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 636. O. 16, ’09. 280w.
“Those who like exciting tales of intrigue, adventure, and heroism of
the Zenda school may look here for such a one, and not look in vain.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 170w.
=Macdonald, Duncan Black.= Religious attitude and life in Islam: being
the Haskell lectures on comparative religion delivered before the
University of Chicago in 1906. *$1.75. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–5544.
Ten lectures which outline the religious attitude and life of Muslims,
as opposed to the systematic theology of Islam. The author has turned to
the occult for interpretative analogies. He makes himself clear as to
his own stand, stating that he is driven to regard telepathy as proved,
that the proof of telekinesis—the movement of objects at a distance
without contact, approaches certainty; but that there is no satisfactory
proof of communication by discarnate spirits. By means of his analogies
he sketches the essential outlines, leaving it to the future to make
additions and corrections.
* * * * *
“A scholarly study from original sources; of limited appeal to the
average reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 18. S. ’09.
“Altogether the volume is an excellent book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 185. Jl. ’09. 90w.
“We are indebted to Professor Macdonald for a valuable exposition of one
phase of Moslem thought, and we would suggest that the value of his work
would be increased by distinguishing between the three sections of
Islam, the Semitic, the Aryan, and the Berber. It is only the Aryan that
has developed mysticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 164. Ag. 19, ’09. 950w.
“Prof. Macdonald gives a deeply interesting view of the religious life
in Islam.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 177. Mr. 27, ’09. 700w.
=Macdonald William.=^{[11]} Dry-farming: its principles and practice.
**$1.20. Century.
9–27125.
Sets forth in a straightforward way the principal facts of the new
branch of agricultural science known as dry-farming or dryland
agriculture. It deals with the conservation of soil moisture during long
periods of dry weather by means of tillage together with the growth of
drought-resistant plants.
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to agricultural literature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 120. D. ’09.
“We believe that this is the first book to be published on the subject.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 80w.
=Macdonnell, Anne.=^{[12]} In the Abruzzi. *$2. Stokes. W9–26.
A record of a pilgrimage in a land, “strange, uncouth, primitive, little
distant from Rome in mileage, incalculably distant in everything else.”
The author “discourses of past and present, of brigands and the simple,
unquestioning faith of the mountaineers, of their singers and
improvisatori, their folk-lore, repeating several legends well worth
adding, on account of their charming ‘naïveté’ clothing simple wisdom.”
(Ind.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 79. N. ’09.
“Interesting from beginning to end.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 516. D. 16, ’09. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1143. N. 18, ’09. 180w.
“Her book is by no means a mere guide-book, but is full of information
on all sorts of subjects. We should have indeed nothing but praise for
this volume, which, as we have said, is within its limits excellent, if
it were not for two matters which go far to spoil its worth. Painstaking
and sincere as Miss Macdonell’s work is, it seems to us quite lifeless.
The book has some queer mis-spellings and translations.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 179. F. 6, ’09. 780w.
=McDougall, William.= Introduction to social psychology. *$1.50. Luce,
J: W.
9–8413.
A presentation which presupposes no familiarity with psychological
treatises, but which aims to provide students of all social sciences
“with the minimum of psychological doctrine that is an indispensable
part of the equipment for work in any of these sciences.” The author
discusses the conceptions of instinct and of instinctive processes;
elaborates the principle that all emotion is the affective aspect of
instinctive process; combats the current view that imitation is to be
ascribed to an instinct of imitation; and interprets Mr. Shand’s
doctrine of the sentiments; and applies it to the description of the
organization of the life of emotion and impulse. The second part of the
book treats “The operation of the primary tendencies of the human mind
in the life of societies.”
* * * * *
“A work for students and general readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 79. N. ’09.
“He has no great acquaintance with social facts, and hence the second
section of the book ... offers far less than the first section.” E: A.
Ross.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 438. S. ’09. 250w.
“This book has both charm and originality. It forms, in fact, as fresh
and stimulating a contribution to psychology as has been made by any
writer in recent years.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 754. D. 12. 1600w.
“All in all, Mr. McDougall’s book is well fitted to render a great
service to students of the social sciences by giving them a correct
psychological point of view and the indispensable minimum of modern
psychological doctrine.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 168. Je. ’09. 900w.
“Mr. McDougall has made good his claims to a fresh and original
treatment of his subject. Whether he is presenting new material or
elaborating familiar themes, his grasp is sure and his exposition
lucid.” G: E. Vincent.
+ =Hibbert J.= 7: 930. Jl. ’09. 930w.
“My quarrel with Mr. McDougall will not be so much with what he says,
nearly all of which I find excellent, as with some omissions to which he
himself points.” Frank Granger.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 512. Jl. ’09. 1250w.
“The author’s psychology is notably sound, his mode of procedure
thoroughly scientific, his illustrative examples happy and his
criticisms cogent and moderate in tone.”
+ =Nation.= 99: 331. O. 7, ’09. 630w.
“In bringing together emotion and instinct, Mr. McDougall has made an
original contribution to psychological science of the highest value and
importance, and even if he does not succeed in carrying his
fellow-psychologists all the way with him in his identification of the
two, he will have set the problem of their relation in a form which is
itself at least half the solution. The book is full of close reasoning,
but is written in so lucid a style that it makes very pleasant reading.
Its importance is more than academic; there are political theorists at
the present day who would do well to take some of its teachings to
heart.” W: Brown.
+ =Nature.= 80: 245. Ap. 29, ’09. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 499. Ag. 21, ’09. 520w.
“The most disappointing chapter in the book to the reviewer has been
that on development of self-consciousness.” G: H. Mead.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 385. D. 15, ’08. 2800w.
=McElroy, John.=^{[10]} Struggle for Missouri. $2. National tribune
co., Washington, D. C.
9–19864.
A work of historical significance that gives in swift narrative the
story of the struggle between Unionists and Secessionists in Missouri
for the supremacy in the early sixties.
* * * * *
“The author shows just familiarity with his subject and his story is
entertaining and instructive, in spite of the fact that he writes as a
partisan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 280w.
=MacFadyen, Allan.= Cell as the unit of life, and other lectures; ed.
by R: Tanner Hewlett. *$3. Blakiston.
9–22255.
“The volume consists of four courses of lectures delivered by Dr.
MacFadyen at the Royal institution, whilst he was Fullerian professor of
physiology there. They are entitled ‘The cell as the unit of life,’
‘Cellular physiology,’ ‘Recent methods and results in biological
inquiry,’ and ‘Toxins and antitoxins.’ A final lecture on ‘The effects
of physical agents on bacterial life’ is included.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Will be ranked as one of the most important recent works dealing with
interesting problems of modern physical science and medicine from the
materialistic view-point.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 397. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“The whole series is characterized by clearness of thought and accuracy
of statement, and the subject-matter is presented in an attractive form.
It is some years since these lectures were delivered, but under the
careful editorship of Prof. Hewlett they are as valuable now as when
first uttered.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 170. F. 6. 600w.
“For those who are interested in getting at the present position of
progressive biologists with regard to the mystery of life and its
theoretic and scientific explanations, Professor MacFadyen’s book will
have a distinct appeal.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 102. Ja. 14, ’09. 550w.
“The treatment is popular in the best sense of the word and without
reference to the literature.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 82. Jl. 22, ’09. 220w.
“The style is always interesting, and the book may well claim to form an
introduction to a study of some of the fundamental problems of biology,
if not to biology itself.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 123. Ap. 1, ’09. 550w.
“The difficult task, undertaken ‘con amore,’ has been well performed by
the editor, and a very readable and acceptable, although from its very
nature somewhat out-of-date, ‘introduction to biology’ lies before us.”
G. N. C.
+ − =Science, n.s.= 29: 667. Ap. 23, ’09. 400w.
=McFadyen, John Edgar.= Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians;
with notes and comments. (Interpreter’s commentary on the New
Testament, v. 6.) $1.50. Barnes.
9–4565.
“The commentaries of Lyman Abbott on the gospels, Acts, and Romans,
first published 1875–88, are now continued in this volume, published
under the joint general editorship of Dr. Abbott and Professor McFadyen.
The Corinthian letters are assigned, though not positively, to 57 A. D.
McFadyen inclines to the view that our I Cor. is the painful letter
referred to in II Cor., and that II Cor. is one epistle, not a
combination of two or more. Galatians he holds to have been written
probably about 55 A. D., which view practically implies the acceptance
of its North-Galatian destination.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The notes are copious and skilfully wrought into a continuous expanded
paraphrase. The use of the Authorized Version, even to its printing of
each verse as a paragraph, is unfortunate.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 288. Ap. ’09. 120w.
“The strength of the work lies in its appreciation of the apostle’s
thought. It gives in a more popular form such exposition as one would
find, say, in the ‘Expositor’s Greek Testament.’” S. J. Case.
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 67. Jl. ’09. 180w.
+ =Outlook.= 91: 535. Mr. 6, ’09. 560w.
=Macfall, C. Haldane.= Beautiful children immortalized by the masters;
ed. by T. Leman Hare, **$5. Dodd.
9–28434.
“Contains fifty full page illustrations in colors of unusually good
reproductions of famous paintings of children. The author in his text
has not attempted technical criticism of the pictures, but has told
entertainingly the history of the painters and the sitters and has
filled in the background with some account of the times they lived
in.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is unfortunate that in an art-book the publishers have not avoided
using different styles of type on the same page, but for the rest these
beautiful children are in a beautiful setting.” Algernon Tassin.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 344. D. ’09. 380w.
“The colored plates delightfully carry out the color schemes in the
originals from which they were derived.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1353. D. 16, ’09. 70w.
“Written, if not exactly down to the child’s level, yet in a simple and
easy vein. The reproductions are generally good, though we notice
occasionally the messiness that almost inevitably goes with this form of
printing in its present state of development.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 583. D. 9, ’09. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 801. D. 18, ’09. 130w.
=Macfarland, Charles Stedman=, ed.^{[12]} Christian ministry and the
social order: lectures delivered in the Course in pastoral functions
at Yale divinity school, 1908–1909. *$1.25. Oxford.
9–15877.
A volume of lectures on social questions dealing “with the relation of
the minister to human society and indicating the definite, concrete
tasks and problems which face the Christian ministry.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“This work is a valuable contribution to social science, indicating the
desire of modern theology for a comprehensive grasp of social problems
by the ministry.” S. E. Rupp.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 621. N. ’09. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 646. N. 20, ’09. 300w.
Reviewed by J: H. Holmes.
+ − =Survey.= 22: 848. S. 25, ’09. 1550w.
Reviewed by Graham Taylor.
=Survey.= 22: 854. S. 25, ’09. 950w.
=McFarlane, Arthur E.=^{[11]} Redney McGaw: a story of the big show
and the cheerful spirit. †$1.50. Little.
9–28951.
The story of a typical New York street gamin who joins a circus just to
be transported to a farm out West where he hoped to join a chum.
Hardships of earning his living are offset by the excitement of the life
and such thrills as result from saving a panther-tamer, preventing a
train-wreck and a wild ride on an elephant. The human quality in circus
folk is brought out, also their wit and intelligence.
* * * * *
“His philosophy under trying circumstances is healthy for young
readers.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1366. D. 16, ’09. 30w.
“Since the days when James Otis’ ‘Toby Tyler’ was so enthusiastically
received by juvenile readers, there has been no more refreshing circus
story than ‘Redney McGaw.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1020. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
“It would make anybody laugh to read of the enforced battle between the
two tramps.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13. ’09. 120w.
“Mr. McFarland writes with the easy pen of the journalist and the keen
observation of a Kipling.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 40w.
=McGhee, Zach.= Dark corner. **$1. Grafton press.
8–34812.
“A story of the uplifting of a lot of rural folk by educational means.
The hero is a schoolmaster, who, in addition to being a young man of
remarkable intelligence and energy, is now and then extremely
entertaining by reason of the humorous views he takes of persons and
things with which he comes in contact. A feature of Mr. McGhee’s little
volume is the dedication of his story to ‘men of talent, strength,
energy, and culture,’ who ‘pursue lives of toil, poverty, and obscurity
that they may brighten the minds, ennoble the souls, and increase the
opportunities of other men’s children.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“With many rawnesses and roughnesses, it is in some inscrutable way a
very likable little story.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 200. F. 25, ’09. 280w.
“He has pictured some interesting bits of Southern life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 180w.
=MacGowan, Alice.=^{[12]} Wiving of Lance Cleaverage. **$1.35. Putnam.
9–27261.
A story set in the Tennessee mountains that tells of the clashing
temperaments of a young husband and wife while they “are fighting it
out” and learning to agree. “The difficulties that beset Lance and
Callista before they reached a happy married haven are of general human
interest, but in the case of the hero, take on especial coloring from
his temperament—which is distinctly a Tennessee mountain product....
With Callista it is otherwise. Hers is the case of many a spoiled beauty
who does not know how to cook.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 134. D. ’09.
“There are most excellent character portrayals all along the way.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 600. D. 16, ’09. 250w.
“Contrasted with the hothouse atmosphere of so much of the fiction of
the day and with the subtleties and complexities of its characters this
story of children of nature, simple, strong, direct, is as refreshing as
a lung-filling breath of their own mountain air.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 726. N. 20, ’09. 300w.
=MacGrath, Harold.=^{[8]} Goose girl; with illustrations by André
Castaigne. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–22181.
A narrative of love and adventure in which the main interest centers in
a peasant girl, who tends geese in the German state of Ehrenstein. The
daughter of the Duke of this principality had been abducted when a child
by a band of gypsies and after sixteen years of search was supposed to
be found. Further developments proved that it was not the reigning
princess but the goose girl who was the stolen child.
* * * * *
“A harmless tale which has a touch of romantic charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 56. O. ’09. ✠
“The genre is beginning to show signs of wear, the mechanism of its
romance is beginning to creak; it is time for the invention of something
new.”
− =Ind.= 67: 550. S. 2, ’09. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 501. Ag. 21, ’09. 200w.
=Macgregor, Mary.= Romance of history: The Netherlands. (Romance of
history ser.) **$2. Stokes.
9–5227.
A story of the Netherlands for boys the material for which is freely
acknowledged to have been drawn from Motley’s “Dutch republic” and
Prescott’s “Philip II.”
* * * * *
“The lurid details of the Inquisition and general style make it less
suitable for children’s than for young people’s or even adult’s
reading.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 95. Mr. ’09.
“Mrs. MacGregor writes very well, and her book ... will be an excellent
introduction to the fuller studies of Prescott and Martin Hume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 53. Ja. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Mach, Edmund Robert O. von.= Art of painting in the nineteenth
century. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–34260.
“French, German, British, and American painting are discussed, each in a
separate chapter; Italy, Spain and the Netherlands are classed together
in one chapter; Russia, Denmark, and Scandinavia in another. A book of
170 pages covering so large a field implies that little more than brief
sketches of principal names has been possible. But the preface warns us
not to expect ‘art-criticism, nor clever and pithy sayings,’ so we need
not be misled. There are thirty-two full-page illustrations.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A convenient handbook.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 233. Ap. 1, ’09. 130w.
“A good example of over-condensation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 335. F. 13, ’09. 120w.
=McIsaac, Isabel.= Hygiene for nurses. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–25736.
Discusses with generous use of quotations from good authorities such
subjects as food, air, soil, water, sewage, garbage, causes and
dissemination of disease, personal, household and school hygiene,
hygiene of occupation, disinfection and quarantine.
* * * * *
“Though intended as a first book for nurses, these chapters ... are not
too technical, and equally important, for the housekeeper. They are
scientific, clear and very practical.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 292. D. ’08. ✠
“Much of the information is good, but there is far more of it than the
average nurse may be expected to comprehend; nor will she be able to use
many of the directions unless she already knows too much to need the
book.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 529. N. 26, ’08. 120w.
=Mack, Arthur Carlyle.=^{[9]} Palisades of the Hudson. *75c. Palisade
press.
9–25288.
A slight volume, fully illustrated, dwelling upon the formation,
tradition, romance, historical associations, natural wonders and
preservation of the Palisades of the Hudson.
* * * * *
“Probably nowhere else will one find in convenient compass so much
information on this subject.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 540. O. 2, ’09. 100w.
=Mackail, John William.=^{[5]} Springs of Helicon: a study in the
progress of English poetry from Chaucer to Milton. **$1.25.
Longmans.
9–7035.
Contains the substance of the author’s two official courses of lectures
delivered in 1906 and 1908 at Oxford. The subject suggests “that all
European poetry is connected with and indebted to Greece; and that
English poetry especially is indebted to the Grecian stream, from which
it has borrowed, directly and indirectly, at three turning points of its
development. These three stages which Professor Mackail has selected in
order to study the growth and progress of English poetry as a phase of
life, are embodied in Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton. Each of these is
treated at considerable length in an essay abounding in erudite, broad,
and luminous criticism.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“An excellent review of the general movement in English poetry as
exemplified in Chaucer, Spenser and Milton.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 173. Je. ’09.
“His gift is for detailed appreciation; it is because his book is not
concerned with the progress of poetry that it is worth reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 640. My. 29. 680w.
“Professor Mackail is learned and technical without being pedantic; he
has to convey subtle appreciations of the supra-sensuous and intangible
in terms proper to concrete expression; but he manages to express
intelligibly what he wants to say, and he has always something to say
that is worth listening to.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 252. My. ’09. 420w.
“In the end, Professor Mackail’s work is rather to be valued for its
general suavity of tone than judged in accordance with the correctness
or originality of its separate ideas.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 444. Ap. 29, ’09. 960w.
“He does not touch the vital heart of the poetry, nor does he bring it
to the point of contact with real life; his criticism does not
stimulate, and for purely academic analyses, covering no new ground,
there can be little demand.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 195. Ap. 3, ’09. 400w.
“Essays which are not only penetrating and learned, but which give one
the thrill and delight of work which has a universal quality.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 408. S. ’09. 470w.
“The immensity of the subject is a difficulty, but the present volume
proves the author’s ability to compress a vast amount of good matter
into a small space without distorting proportions or confusing his
meaning—a rare gift.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 691. My. 29, ’09. 1200w.
“Professor Mackail’s mellifluous prose rises often to eloquence, but it
escapes the defect of that quality and is never vapid or obscure. He
coins memorable phrases, but he eschews paradox. Last, and it is a high
merit in a modern critic, he avoids the kind of pseudo-scientific jargon
in which some scholars choose to expound their views. He is never
forgetful of the dignity of English prose.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 818. My. 22, ’09. 1900w.
=Mackail, John William.=^{[10]} Swinburne: a lecture delivered before
the University on April, 30, 1909. *35c. Oxford.
A tribute to Swinburne the student, the poet, the man.
* * * * *
“Perhaps it is early yet to give his poetry the full meed of praise and
at times Mr. Mackail seems over-cautious, but then it is the way of the
world to hesitate before it lays the laurel wreath on the grave of
mortality become immortal.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 409. S. ’09. 500w.
“It it an admirable piece of criticism. It abounds with good
things,—many of the lecturer’s own, some chosen with rare insight from
the utterances of others.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 865. My. 29, ’09. 230w.
=Mackay, Constance D’Arcy.=^{[12]} House of the heart and other plays
for children; designed for use in the schools. *$1.10. Holt.
Ten plays suitable ethically, dramatically, and educationally, for
public school performances. The plays contain lessons in manners and
morals, and are so simple in setting and costumes that, with the full
directions accompanying the text, any teacher can stage them
successfully.
* * * * *
“A practical little volume for home or school use.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 798. D. 18, ’09. 60w.
“The collection is really worth having for constant use.” B. L. Israels.
+ =Survey.= 23: 376. D. 18, ’09. 130w.
=Mackay, Mrs. Helen Gansevoort (Edwards).=^{[5]} Houses of glass:
stories of Paris. **$1. Duffield.
9–9473.
“The sketches are all of Parisian life, about stupid and lovely women of
the half-world and their sordid or tragic stories, the intrigues of
clever women of the social world and the attempts of silly American
women to tiptoe around the edge of the pit and look down into it without
getting their feet muddy. They are told with dramatic effect, and the
author has a very good knack for making vivid a scene or a character
with an illuminating phrase or sentence.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Frankly, they are wonderfully well done, these short sketches in the
Maupassant manner—although, of course, they are not quite Maupassant in
quality.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 320. My. ’09. 550w.
“While one may honestly admit a difference of opinion regarding the
importance of the subject-matter of this collection of stories and
sketches, there can be no question about their vividness of portrayal
and their mastery of technique.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 397. Ap. ’09. 730w.
“The best things in the book, artistically, are some of the short
impressionistic sketches of phases of life in the restaurants or the
streets. Their illusion of Parisian life and scene is unusually good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 240. Ap. 17, ’09. 200w.
“The literary artistry of the book is of a distinctly high order.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 814. Ap. 10, ’09. 70w.
=MacKaye, Percy Wallace.=^{[12]} Poems. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–31271.
Mr. Mackaye knows the trick of setting words aflame to kindle a wondrous
soul afire. His art is broad, as this volume attests. From his epic ode
read at Fort Ticonderoga, July 6, 1909, and his “Sistine eve,” in which
the dramatis personae are figures in the paintings by Michelangelo and
Botticelli on the ceiling and walls of the Sistine chapel, to his dainty
lyrics seems only a step for this singer who is instinct with melody.
* * * * *
“No one can read the Ticonderoga ode without a sense of the presence of
a large and free imagination. While the ‘Sistine eve’ has a rare beauty
of feeling and phrase. The courage and unconventional handling are
admirable, but the work is occasionally rough and inharmonious. Mr.
Mackaye has abundance of material and the highest aims; he needs more
patience and restraint to give his work that touch of art without which
genius is crippled.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 651. N. 27, ’09. 210w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Ode on the centenary of Abraham Lincoln.
*75c, Macmillan.
9–4103.
A poem delivered before the Brooklyn Institute of arts and sciences at
the Academy of music, Brooklyn, New York, February, 1909. “The
idea—parallel between the birth in the manger at Bethlehem and that in
the rude Kentucky cabin—is as good as it is old, and the opening lines
which picture the wilderness about the cabin, the frozen night, the
voices of the wild creatures that break the wintry silence just miss
being really impressive.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Its regular rime and meter are well suited to its subject, and both
thought and feeling find original expression in its lines.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 490. Mr. 4, ’09. 170w.
“Despite the stirring swing of the lines here and there, it must be said
that as a whole he has not succeeded in fusing the humbler details of
Lincoln’s life with the elevation of his general theme.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 90w.
“Of large Miltonic sound it fails to measure up to the requirements of
the case in the article of matter.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 83. F. 13, ’09. 160w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.=^{[5]} Playhouse and the play, and other
addresses concerning the theater and democracy in America. *$1.25.
Macmillan.
9–10640.
In an introduction Mr. Mackaye says: “The vital problems which confront
the drama in America to-day are not questions of dramatic art: they are
questions which concern the opportunities for dramatic art properly to
exist and to mature. Primarily, they are not æsthetic questions; they
are civic questions.... They are questions which concern, on the part of
dramatic artists, liberation; on the part of the public, enlightenment.”
His five addresses are: The playhouse and the play, dealing with
conditioning influences of the theatre upon the drama: The drama of
democracy, showing a possible goal for our native drama; The dramatist
as citizen, treating the civic status of the dramatist’s profession;
Self-expression and the American drama, emphasizing need of leadership;
Art and democracy, dealing with art as public service.
* * * * *
“Visionary but suggestive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 173. Je. ’09.
=Ind.= 67: 93. Jl. 8, ’09. 230w.
“It is well that they should be offered in this convenient form, for—and
this will be admitted even by those who do not agree with all his
conclusions—they are full of interesting and pregnant matter.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 469. My. 6, ’09. 750w.
“There is a great deal of earnest thought and a sincere devotion to the
drama to be found in Mr. Mackaye’s book. But it leaves the reader cold,
for many of the reforms urged are purely Utopian.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 290. My. 8, ’09. 600w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 767. Je. ’09. 140w.
=McKeever, William Arch.= Psychologic methods in teaching. $1.
Flanagan.
9–8597.
A three part work which tells a teacher what to see, how to interpret
the thing seen, and how to conduct the teaching so as to produce the
best results for the child. Part one discusses the principles and
methods of teaching; part two treats of the special branches of
instruction; and part three presents the subject of moral instruction.
=McKenzie, Robert Tait.=^{[12]} Exercise in education and medicine.
*$3.50. Saunders.
9–19600.
“In the present volume there is nothing of the propagandist movement to
beguile puny muscle or tight purse strings. A definition and
classification of exercise is given in the first chapter, followed by
the physiology of exercise and the use of massage and passive motions.
Exercise by apparatus and the German system of physical training are
outlined in detail, and a comparison is made with the results of such
modifications as are in most prominent use in America. An interesting
account is given of the jiu jitsu or ‘soft business of Japan.’... The
chapters on ‘Playgrounds and municipal gymnasiums,’ ‘Physical education
in schools,’ and ‘The physical education of mental and moral defectives’
may be read with profit.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 764. D. 4, ’09. 380w.
“This book represents a distinct advance in the literature on physical
exercise. It is well written, and interesting. It contains a good deal
of material of scientific value.” T: A. Storey.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 716. N. 19, ’09. 1250w.
=Mackinlay, Malcolm Sterling.= Garcia the centenarian and his times: a
biography. *$4. Appleton.
9–9291.
“The biographer presents a brief sketch of the elder Garcia and his
activity in Spain, Italy, Paris, and England, and the circumstances in
which Manuel and his two sisters, Maria and Pauline, afterward the great
singers Malibran and Viardot-Garcia, were brought up—breathing the very
atmosphere of opera house and concert hall. There is naturally much
space given to the visit of the family to New York in 1825, when the
father brought the first Italian opera company that ever came to this
country.” (N. Y. Times.) “He gives us an interesting account of Garcia’s
method as a teacher, and illustrates his modesty, courtesy, patience,
and humour by some characteristic anecdotes.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 459. Ap. 11. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 259. Mr. 11, ’09. 770w.
“He has presented a record of this remarkable life, as well as of the
two remarkable sisters, that will be an important addition to musical
biography.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 41. Ja. 23, ’09. 800w.
“To sum up, the new matter contributed by Mr. Mackinlay might have
furnished forth a magazine article, but affords no excuse for the
publication of a volume of three hundred and thirty pages.” C. L. G.
− + =Spec.= 100: 618. Ap. 18, ’08. 1750w.
=Maclaren, J. Malcolm.=^{[8]} Gold: its geological occurrence and
geographical distribution. *25s. Mining Journal, London.