The book is divided into two parts, namely the General relations of
auriferous deposits and the Geographic distribution of gold. “The
longest and most valuable section of the book is occupied by an account
of the geological structure and mining history of all the chief
goldfields of the world. This part of the work occupies 544 pages. The
goldfields are classified by continents. Those of Europe are described
first, and in proportion to their economic importance receive longer
notice than those of Australia and South Africa. The longest section is
that on the goldfields of North America.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“Though many geologists may be disposed to differ from the author in
some of his conclusions as to the formation of good ores, they will be
no less grateful to him for this valuable and trustworthy summary of the
voluminous gold literature issued during the past twenty years.” J. W.
G.
+ − =Nature.= 81: 34. Jl. 8, ’09. 730w.
“The book is well written, and while it contains much of interest it is
doubtful whether it fills any great and pressing need which is not
already occupied by other works.” W. R. Crane.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 57. Jl. 9, ’09. 450w.
=Maclaurin, Richard Cockburn.=^{[12]} Light. (Columbia univ. lectures.
The Jesup lectures, 1908–1909.) *$1.50. Columbia univ. press, N. Y.
9–18151.
“This book, while not comprehensive enough to serve as a text-book, will
meet the requirements of those who wish to acquaint themselves with the
experimental part of the work that has given us our modern theory of
light. The subjects are treated in the following order: (1) Early
contributions to optical theory, (2) Color vision and color photography,
(3) Dispersion and absorption, (4) Spectroscopy, (5) Polarization, (6)
The laws of reflection and refraction, (7) The principle of
interference, (8) Crystals, (9) Diffraction, (10) Light and
electricity.”—Science.
* * * * *
“They are popular in their mode of presentation and at the same time
abreast of the latest developments in the science of optics.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 523. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
“The style of the book is clear and concise, and should prove invaluable
to the large body of teachers of physics throughout the country. They
will find in it much that is scarcely touched upon in the ordinary
textbooks and their appreciation of the difficulties of presenting such
a subject in the technical language will put them in that sympathetic
frame of mind that helps so much toward the understanding of a writer.”
Mary Proctor.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 708. N. 13, ’09. 850w.
“The author’s standing as a physicist is a sufficient guarantee that the
book is free from errors, and the subject is treated in a very readable
manner, free from mathematics and requiring little or no previous
knowledge of the subject on the part of the reader. It brings the
subject down to date, or as much so as can be expected in a popular
treatment.” R. W. Wood.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 768. N. 26, ’09. 170w.
=Maclear, Anne B.= Early New England towns: a comparative study of
their development. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and
public law. v. 29, no. 1.) *$1.50. Longmans.
8–18393.
“Gives in some detail an account of the institutional life of a
Massachusetts town of the seventeenth century, by means of a comparison
of the institutions of five of the earliest of these towns—Salem,
Dorchester, Watertown, Roxbury, and Cambridge.”—Eng. Hist. R.
* * * * *
Reviewed by H. E. E.
=Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 197. Ja. ’09. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 570w.
=McMahan, Mrs. Anna Benneson.=^{[12]} Shakespeare’s love story,
1580–1609. **$2.50. McClurg.
9–27050.
A charmingly illustrated book whose text has grown out of the privilege
that the author has taken of selecting a few of Shakespeare’s sonnets
from their arbitrary setting by the original publisher and of placing
them between the lines of the pages that we know of Shakespeare’s
wooing.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 47: 466. D. 1, ’09. 150w.
=McMurry, Charles Alexander.= Special method in reading in the grades;
including the oral treatment of stories and the reading of classics.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
8–33789.
“This book is a combination of two earlier volumes both of which deal
with special method in reading.... In the present form the book will be
found to contain in the main three lines of treatment of the subject. In
the first place, it is a plea for the teaching of reading in all grades
for the sake of its content. Secondly, several chapters are devoted to a
consideration of the technique of teaching reading to beginners; and
thirdly, the book contains a course of study in reading for each of the
grades together with illustrative lessons.”—El. School T.
* * * * *
“Contains a large amount of suggestive and helpful material.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 317. Mr. ’09. 60w.
“The bibliographical material of the book is extensive and valuable.”
+ =El. School T.= 9: 390. Mr. ’09. 460w.
“Even if he has been a little inclined to draw the subject toward
himself, his book contains a good many useful hints and observations,
particularly so with reference to the primary teaching of reading—to say
nothing of the advantage of having the entire matter once worked out and
exhibited.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 297. Ag. 5, ’09. 140w.
“The fact that Dr. McMurry speaks with the enthusiasm of conviction and
experience should make this work stimulating to primary instructors.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 415. Ap. 22, ’09. 140w.
=Macnaughtan, S.= Three Miss Graemes. $1.50. Dutton.
9–35443.
“The reader makes the acquaintance of three aristocratic and rather
superb young ladies, who might be mermaids as far as their knowledge of
English society goes. They are chaperoned by a mean and affable lady of
title who, though a farcical figure, is portrayed with considerable
knowledge of a class who collect acquaintances much as a philatelist
collects postage stamps. The author might have spared us that figure,
unaccountably dear to fiction, the ass who poses as a literary
genius.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Skilful character portrayal and the contrasts the plot provides make
the main interest in a slight and somewhat vague story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 114. Ap. ’09.
“Humour, irony, and pathos distinguish the first eighty pages of this
novel; but there is a noticeable drop when the scene shifts from a
Scottish island to London.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 100w.
“Though it lacks the directness and artistic finish of ‘The expensive
Miss Du Cane,’ the story has the quaint daintiness of its own heroines
and is a pleasant companion for an idle hour, its very gentle verbosity
having a certain soothing quality.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 171. F. 18, ’09. 230w.
“The book’s interest and charm lie in the author’s remarkable skill in
the portrayal of character and in the cleverness with which she carries
on the contrast between the unworldliness of the three girls and their
London surroundings.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 71. F. 6, ’09. 540w.
“A story which chiefly impresses us by its grace and beauty, though
there is a certain hiatus in the presentment which requires either
courage or obtuseness on the part of the reader to overcome.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 118. Jl. 25, ’08. 320w.
“It is clever satire of its acidulated kind. Admirers of Miss
Macnaughtan’s earlier work—among whom we desire to be reckoned—will
regret that she should have deviated so far from the paths of geniality
in which her engaging talents have hitherto been most conspicuously
displayed.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 754. My. 9, ’08. 550w.
=MacNutt, Francis Augustus.= Bartholomew de las Casas: his life, his
apostolate, and his writings. **$3.50. Putnam.
9–2758.
A biography which seeks to “assign to the noblest Spaniard who ever
landed in the western world, his true place among those great spirits
who have defended and advanced the cause of just liberty, and, at the
same time, to depict the conditions under which the curse of slavery was
first introduced into North America.” The author includes the events
that best illustrate the character-development of this sixteenth-century
historian of early Spanish America, missionary worker, and staunch
friend of the Indians.
* * * * *
“The interest and utility of this able biography is enhanced by its
appendices.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 108. Ap. ’09. 900w.
“Is pleasantly written, contains good portraits and a map, and shows
careful study of the writings of Las Casas, but does not really add very
much to our knowledge of him.” W. L. G.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 830. O. ’09. 290w.
“A fascinating story of Las Casas and his publishers have given the
story a material form that is a delight to the eye.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 254. Jl. 29, ’09. 400w.
“The book is an impartial, entertaining record of one of the most
important periods of the world’s history. Best of all, Mr. MacNutt has
succeeded in fusing a human interest into the dry facts of history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 304. F. 20, ’09. 520w.
“The book is in many ways so satisfactory that one lays it down with a
distinct feeling of regret that lack of thorough and careful study has
prevented it from being really good.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 388. Ap. 15, ’09. 800w.
“Mr. MacNutt makes him a most vital and interesting figure.” W: A.
Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 94. F. 20, ’09. 470w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 507. Ap. ’09. 70w.
“He has spared no pains in making it as authentic and as complete as the
thoroughgoing study of documents and books could ensure.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 503. Mr. 27, ’09. 450w.
=Macphail, Andrew.=^{[10]} Essays in politics. *$1.80. Longmans.
A group of Canadian essays in politics dealing with such subjects as the
patience of England, Canada’s patent-law, her last political election,
commerce, a neighbor’s view of the United States, and British diplomacy
in relation to Canada.
* * * * *
“No one will agree with the author in everything, and all will be
pleased by the way in which he puts his paradoxes—as they will seem—at
points where his opinions are not shared. We heartily commend Mr.
Macphail’s essays, and do not fear that anyone will adopt his opinions
as a whole.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 124. Jl. 31. 300w.
“The book is well calculated to offset aggressive publications that
assume preferential tariffs as the indispensable basis of federation.
There is much in it that rings clear and true.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 383. O. 21, ’09. 530w.
“We can best sum up what we feel about this suggestive and admirable
book by saying that if we could have our way we would oblige every
cabinet minister at home and throughout the nations of the empire to
read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest it. Though we may not agree with
it in all its details, we are thoroughly at one with the spirit by which
it is inspired.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 418. S. 18, ’09. 2000w.
=McPherson, Logan Grant.=^{[6]} Railroad freight rates in relation to
the industry and commerce of the United States. **$2.25. Holt.
9–13047.
A book for the general public and younger railroad men which furnishes
clear, first-hand information on the present freight rate system and
tells how it has been evolved. Preparation for this exposition of the
effect of freight rates of the railroads upon the industry and commerce
of the United States has taken the writer to every part of the country
to interview shippers, representatives of commercial organizations and
officers in charge of the traffic departments of railroads.
* * * * *
“Though somewhat biased in favor of the railroads, it will be a very
serviceable volume for students and should be added to large libraries
already having Haines’ ‘Railway corporations as public servants’ and
Noyes’ ‘American railroad rates.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 44. O. ’09.
“There are several chapters in this volume of particular interest
because of their wealth of information. Their main value lies in the
extensive data which has been collected rather than in the deductions
that are drawn. The volume unfortunately lacks logical arrangement of
the subjects discussed.” G. G. Huebner.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 622. N. ’09. 470w.
“It must be admitted that the book is interesting in spite of its
defects, for it contains many concrete details in the way of unofficial
information gleaned from interviews and intercourse with railway men. On
the whole, the book cannot be regarded as a safe guide for the student;
neither is it of much real value to those who can detect its defects and
erroneous conclusions.” C. W. Doten.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 2: 228. S. ’09. 900w.
“Exhaustive volume.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 658. S. 16, ’09. 400w.
“Few would be inclined to dissent from these conclusions and Mr.
McPherson has rendered service in furnishing much new data upon this
vexed problem. The work is not fortunately arranged. This is very
noticeable despite a serviceable index and a detailed table of
contents.” L. C. Marshall.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 479. Jl. ’09. 500w.
“While his study is condensed, and in some respects incomplete ... he
has added much to our knowledge of the subject by simplifying for the
layman, with great success a very complex system of rate adjustments.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 357. O. 14, ’09. 1200w.
“Takes up the economics and laws of a subject more vexed than any other
among present problems, and treats it worthily. Mr. McPherson has a rare
talent of compressed and yet luminous exposition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 674. O. 30, ’09. 570w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 110w.
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.=^{[10]} Waverley synopses: a guide to the
plots and characters of Scott’s Waverley novels. 50c. Crowell.
9–21669.
The third of Mr. McSpadden’s series of synopses of great authors. The
plan of the book is to place the various stories in their proper
historical sequence, to give a cast of characters and an outline of the
plot. There is a general index.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 47: 241. O. 1, ’09. 40w.
“The work has been done with care and intelligence, and presents such a
clear review and summary of the immense mass of Sir Walter’s work as
will make it especially valuable for students of English literature in
high schools and colleges.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 576. S. 25, ’09. 180w.
=Macvane, Edith.=^{[8]} Black flier. †$1.50. Moffat.
9–14216.
A motor-car story ingeniously piecing together a series of exciting and
unexpected happenings. A young man at the moment of his marriage finds
an error in the license, hastens off to have it corrected, meets with an
accident, is picked up by a young woman, in spite of expostulations is
carried off in a motor car to the Scottish border, and there seems
powerless while she registers his name as that of her husband. The woman
flees while he is charged with the theft of her car. How these events
end his intended marriage and start him along another path of romance is
the concern of the tale.
* * * * *
“The book does not carry conviction with it. Nevertheless, it is
destined to be widely read and popularly enjoyed, because it does give
an exhilarating illusion of the rush and swirl of a mad flight, the
breathless onward plunge through space, the fascination of limitless and
lawless speed.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 647. Ag. ’09. 470w.
“One of the most fascinatingly ingenious comedies that we have
encountered in the fiction of recent years.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 46. Jl. 16, ’09. 470w.
“It takes some effort on the part of the would-be time squelcher to
swallow whole this initial situation, but, what with an ever-present
sense of its comedy, notwithstanding its distressfulness to her
characters, and a good, swinging style, the author has made it
entertaining.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 464. Jl. 31, ’09. 600w.
=Macvane, Edith.= Thoroughbred. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–8813.
Deals with a trying situation between husband and wife. The husband,
cashier of a large trust company, is accused by the real criminal, the
president of the institution, of misappropriating a half million
dollars. The “thoroughbred” wife takes a hand in the game, and tho she
makes a few false moves, checkmates the malefactor and saves her
husband’s reputation.
* * * * *
“Its plot is well made, its action rapid, and its emotional atmosphere
kept at a high figure. Nevertheless it is an entirely artificial story,
and, while there is nothing in it that might not happen any day, its
inspiration has come from other novels and not from real life.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 146. Mr. 13, ’09. 160w.
=Madách, Imre.= Tragedy of man; tr. from the Hungarian by W: N. Loew.
$1.50. Arcadia press.
A drama which in dealing with Adam in his various reappearances since
the garden of Eden days deals not with the life of one man, or of the
nation, but with mankind as a whole. “The hero is Adam, the eternal type
of humanity. The work displays the whole history of man, not merely his
past, but his present, and even his future. We witness the whole process
of man’s development, up to the time when the human race will be
extinguished, and its earthly home become frozen and uninhabitable. Seen
through the eyes of the poet, that history appears a huge, grim tragedy.
The problem for the poet to solve was, how to compress such an immense
subject within the narrow limit of a single drama.” (Introd.)
* * * * *
“Few books are better calculated to enlarge our continental narrowness
and to teach us to respect the intellect and genius of less progressive
races.” Bolton Hall.
+ =Arena.= 41: 254. F. ’09. 670w.
“A faithful translation of the great classic, so far as its argument is
concerned, but as for reproducing it in English as a poem, the work of
Mr. Loew is a failure.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1035. My. 13, ’09. 200w.
“The poet—at least in this version—has not succeeded in imparting any
real life to the shifting characters that crowd his canvas. No one ever
appears really to want anything or to do anything. It is all talk; and,
as to the English, not very good talk.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 98. F. 20, ’09. 1000w.
“There is not, it must be confessed, much poetry in the English version,
but a perusal of even a portion of this great poem is worth while for
its demonstration of the intellect and genius of the Hungarian people.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 40: 123. Jl. ’09. 100w.
=Maennel, Dr. B.=^{[9]} Auxiliary education; the training of backward
children; translated by Emma Sylvester. **$1.50. Doubleday.
9–24001.
Discusses the rise and development of schools for defectives, plan for
admitting pupils, the parents, health of pupils, traits, the
organization of an auxiliary school and classification of pupils, the
program, course of study, methods of teaching, discipline, preparation
of pupils for church, relation of state towards schools, the teachers
and the principal, the pedagogical value of the schools, and the
education of exceptional children in the United States.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Blue bird: a fairy play in five acts; tr. by
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.20. Dodd.
9–8584.
“Written with charming simplicity, and telling a story admirably suited
to childish interests and understanding, this play makes an equally
strong appeal to adults by its imaginative symbolism, its freshness of
humor and observation, and the inventive spirit which animates its
parable. It deals with the dream adventures of Tyltil and Mytil, the
children of a wood-cutter who are commissioned by the fairy Bérylune
(the very counterpart of an old neighbor, Madame Berlingot) to go in
quest of the Blue Bird whose possession will enable man to discover the
hidden souls of animals and things, and so deprive them of their last
vestige of independence.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The child’s naïve point of view is well sustained.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 174. Je. ’09.
“To attract the attention of young people to the romance and the wonders
of science, while telling an ingenuous story of fairies and magic, is no
easy task; but it is one M. Maeterlinck has accomplished, and that
without letting his desire to be instructive fetter the freedom or
gaiety of his fancy.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 163. Ag. 7. 1100w.
“Is certainly a very charming piece. It makes as real and as intense an
impression as did any of M. Maeterlinck’s earlier successes.” E: E:
Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 46: 296. My. 1, ’09. 1500w.
“This fairy play, ostensibly written for children, obviously like many
another of the kind intended for grown-ups, is pure joy and optimism.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 765. Ap. 8, ’09. 420w.
“It is possible that some of the original charm of this fascinating
vision may have been lost in the translation, but enough remains to
prove it a masterpiece of its kind. Only genius could charge a nursery
tale with so much significance without robbing it of its childlike
character.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 366. Ap. 8, ’09. 900w.
“The play is literature—and poetry—of great power and charm; it is cast
in dramatic form not through caprice but through the inherent demands of
the theme. The translation merits praise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 207. Ap. 10, ’09. 1200w.
“Unimaginative and literal-minded people are warned off these premises;
they will find nothing but nonsense here; but those who like ‘The little
white bird’ and ‘Peter Pan’ will delight in the poetic beauty and
freshness of feeling of this modern fairy play.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 69. My. 8, ’09. 330w.
“We are sure that children would delight to have it read to them, just
as a fairy story of strange creatures that appear natural in the fresh
imagination of children.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 792. Je. 19, ’09. 150w.
=Magnus, Laurie.=^{[9]} English literature in the nineteenth century:
an essay in criticism. *$2. Putnam.
9–35847.
Not so much a history of English literature between 1784 and the present
day as a survey of that literature as a whole and an essay in its
criticism.
* * * * *
“Will be valuable as a supplementary work for advanced students in
English literature rather than as a textbook.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 79. N. ’09.
“Mr. Magnus’s style is scarcely satisfying; the issues are apt to be
obscured by conscientious epigram and rhetorical exuberance; but the
book shows qualities of care and thoroughness, though its conclusions
too often engender a spirit of controversy rather than of conviction.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 204. Ag. 21. 800w.
“On the whole it may be said by way of general stricture, he hardly
seems to be at the most advantageous point of view somehow. Not only is
his formula too cramped; he is almost too much of the thing he
criticises to be a thoroly safe critic. The merit of the book consists
in its ‘aperçus’ and flashes of insight which are at times exceedingly
penetrating.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 710. S. 23, ’09. 320w.
“With Victorian literature in general, he is heartily sympathetic and at
the same time discriminating. In dealing with individual writers he is
direct, specific, and vivid. The failure of Mr. Magnus to bring into
strong relief the main currents of literature in his period is due, in
the first place, to the lack of political and philosophical ballast, and
in the second to an almost total neglect of foreign influences, arising
from a wish to prove the independence of English literature.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 143. Ag. 12, ’09. 1050w.
“The book is distinctly adapted to those readers who already have a
pretty wide acquaintance with English literature. For the student to
whom the ground is unfamiliar there is the double bewilderment of a
multitude of names not met with often enough to become fixed in the
mind, and casual references to matters biographical and literary that
need to be known as a condition precedent to the enjoyment of such
incidental criticism.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 534. S. 11, ’09. 1200w.
“We do not know of any book dealing with the same subject in which the
reader, anxious to improve his knowledge of modern literary history,
will gain more. We cannot accept all Mr. Magnus’s dicta.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 352. S. 4, ’09. 150w.
=Mahabharata.= Bhagavad gítá “The songs of the master”; tr. with an
introd. and commentary by C: Johnston. $1. C: Johnston, Flushing, N.
Y.
8–18365.
A trustworthy English version of a poem embodying the essence of
Vedantic philosophy. The translation is accompanied by a general
introduction and separate introductions to each of the eighteen books of
the Gítá.
* * * * *
“Mr. Johnston’s judgments at the outset are not such as to inspire
confidence in his guidance. With courageous independence he takes no
heed of predecessors. The difficulty of the translator, of course, lies
in the philosophical terms. Mr. Johnston evidently desires to make his
version intelligible and interesting to English readers. He therefore
strives to avoid all technicalities, but he is landed consequently in
frequent vagueness and inexactitude. With the ethical and religious
vocabulary Mr. Johnston is far more successful, and his deep sympathy
with some of the fundamental conceptions of the poem makes his
interpretations full of suggestiveness.” J. E. Carpenter.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 700. Ap. ’09. 2850w.
“Can be recommended as the most satisfactory version of the ‘Bhagavad
Gítá’ in the English language. It would be possible to point to a good
many passages in which, in the opinion of the present reviewer, he has
not used the best equivalent for the technical terms of the Sanskrit or
has failed to reproduce the force of the original.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 400w.
“Those who wish to know something at first hand of the essence of
Vedantic philosophy will find this fine translation, with its admirable
expository commentaries, a convenient and satisfactory little volume.”
J. H. Coates.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 445. Ag. 15, ’08. 2200w.
=Mahaffy, John Pentland.=^{[11]} What have the Greeks done for modern
civilization?: the Lowell lectures of 1908–09. **$2.50. Putnam.
9–27603.
A brief, popular summary of the author’s study regarding the influence
of Greek civilization upon modern life, showing his conclusions
regarding the modern world’s political, social, literary, artistic, and
philosophical heritage from the Greeks.
* * * * *
“These lectures have all the popular qualities and charm of style that
characterize the author’s earlier writings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 121. D. ’09.
“He seems to be lecturing to the intelligent workingmen in a mechanics’
institute, or the ‘young ladies’ of a fashionable boarding-school. The
broad and deep handling of his theme is also somewhat hampered by the
cut and dried academic divisions into which the lecturer divides his
subject. It is impossible for Professor Mahaffy to write anything that
is not informing, and these lectures, thin and superficial as they must
needs be as adopted to the audience the lecturer considered he was to
address, are interesting.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 784. N. 6. ’09. 750w.
“We have dealt at greatest length with his chapters on literature and
art since they most invite to controversy, and we have touched most on
those few points in which we have been presumptuous enough to disagree
with the famous Irish scholar whose book has fascinated us.” Christian
Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 720. N. 20, ’09. 1750w.
“These lectures are a valuable contribution to the discussion now going
on in the interest of the culture studies which suffer in the pursuit of
bread-and-butter studies.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 516. O. 30, ’09. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 763. D. ’09. 70w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.=^{[6]} Harvest within: thoughts on the life of
the Christian. **$1.50. Little.
9–15066.
A collection of the scattered, occasional thoughts and reflections of a
lifetime bearing upon the conception summed up in “Because I live, ye
shall live also.” The underlying theme of the work is the mystical
relation of the individual life of the Christian man, and the corporate
life of the Christian church, to the life of God in Jesus Christ.
* * * * *
“A book of this kind from the pen of a distinguished layman will exert
an influence among wide circles that would be impervious to the
professional divine.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 683. Ag. ’09. 550w.
“A work of devout and disjointed meditations, springing from a narrow
and inflexible creed. It must be chiefly of interest to those who share
its convictions.” J: Bascom.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 72. Ag. 1, ’09. 1100w.
“They are all marked with deep piety, and some of them show clearly that
they were written by one with a very great knowledge of the Bible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 420. Jl. 3, ’09. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 60w.
“We thank Captain Mahan for a piece of self-revelation which is in a
high degree edifying and interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 792. N. 13, ’09. 420w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Naval administration and warfare: some general
principles, with other essays. **$1.50. Little.
8–31976.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“They contain admirable statements of fact and opinion from the
viewpoint of an authority in naval art and history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 80. Mr. ’09. ✠
“The general reader will not care for the first chapters, dealing with
our Board of admiralty and the United States navy department.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 11. Ja. 2. 1300w.
“His method, which, as somebody has said, is to deal with a few large,
plain, simple ideas, contributes to render his work intelligible and
interesting to the lay mind in a measure very much beyond the degree in
which this quality is usually found in books of experts.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 681. F. ’09. 700w.
“While every product of Capt. Mahan’s fertile pen deserves careful
reading, this latest collection of essays possesses the added merit of
exceptional timeliness.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 94. Ja. 28, ’09. 800w.
“The chapter which deals with the organization of the navy department is
by far the most important, particularly so as it deals with a subject
that is now so very much before the country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 40. Ja. 23, ’09. 1000w.
“Each essay conveys sound information in an entertaining, readable way.
It is a volume of essays easily read and well worth reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 888. D. 19, ’09. 420w.
+ =Spec.= 102: 60. Ja. 9, ’09. 800w.
=Major, Charles.=^{[11]} Gentle knight of old Brandenburg. $1.50.
Macmillan.
9–26322.
This gentle knight is fat and a wondrous beer drinker, but nevertheless
he plays a heroic role in the love story of the Princess Wilhelmina of
Prussia, beloved sister of Crown Prince Fritz who was later to become
Frederick the Great. Both are cordially hated by their father, the weak,
bad-tempered old king who is the prey of Austria’s spies; whose
persecution of the sweet princess and whose terrible treatment of
courtiers form a strange and complicated story. The hero, kidnapped by
the king’s agents for his giant regiment, wins the king by his
fearlessness, the princess and her brother by his loyal friendship and
at last by a series of complications worthy of the author of “When
knighthood was in flower,” wins his heart’s desire.
* * * * *
=Makower, Walter.= Radioactive substances: their properties and their
behaviour. (International scientific ser.) *$1.75. Appleton.
8–33947.
“The author’s aim in writing this volume is to present the chief
phenomena and theories relating to radio-activity in a concise and
simple form.... All branches of the subject are treated in this book.
Beginning with chapters on the nature of gaseous conductivity and on the
methods of measurement employed, the author goes on to describe the
discovery of the radio-active substances, the nature of the radiations
they emit, the emanations, the active deposits from the emanations, and
their successive transformations. In the concluding chapters the
activity of substances in general and the mechanism of radio-active
changes are briefly discussed.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“A popular treatment in comparison with Rutherford’s works but full and
scholarly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 142. My. ’09.
“That there is room for such a book there can be no doubt. Nor is the
book wanting in matter not to be found elsewhere, or only discoverable
with difficulty. We have discovered only two clerical errors.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 794. D. 19. 1450w.
“It can be studied with profit before taking up Dr. Le Bon’s treatise in
the same series.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 120w.
“In summarising work on points about which there is difference of
opinion the author shows a commendable caution, and his verdict usually
appeals to one as safe. The book constitutes a valuable addition to the
literature of radio-activity, and can be recommended to those interested
in that fascinating subject.” J. A. M.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 157. D. 10, ’08. 470w.
“To one at all interested in the progress of physical science this
volume will well repay a careful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 594. O. 9, ’09. 330w.
=Mallet, Bernard.= Thomas George, earl of Northbrook, G. C. S. I.: a
memoir. $5. Longmans.
9–14131.
Sketches Lord Northbrook’s family history, his early life, his early
private secretaryships, his work in the capacity of Civil lord of the
admiralty in Lord Palmerston’s government, of Under secretary at the
India office, War office, and Home office, etc; treats at length the
period of governor-generalship of India; and devotes the last chapters
to his relation to the affairs of Afghanistan and Egypt.
* * * * *
“He was clear, calm and consistent, almost methodical in his
statesmanship; and this book resembles its subject.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 613. Ap. ’09. 340w.
“Mr. Bernard Mallet has admirably performed a most difficult task.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 507. O. 24. 1800w.
“Mr. Mallet writes a plain style, even a trifle stiff at times, but he
spares eulogy and evidently purposes to tell the truth.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 439. Ap. 29, ’09. 470w.
“The very attempt which he makes to recognize [Lord Northbrook’s grave
defects of temperament and imagination, of judgment and insight]
candidly yet with such discretion as not to detract from the
impressiveness of the picture which it is his business to present, gives
the work the note of insincerity inseparable from such an undertaking
conceived and approached in such a spirit.” W: A. Bradley.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 7. Ja. 2, ’09. 400w.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 116. Ja. 23, ’09. 300w.
“The book is well proportioned, it is written with unerring taste, it is
graceful, and, above all, it succeeds in giving a clear picture of its
subject.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 736. N. 7, ’08. 2000w.
=Mallock, William Hurrell.= An immortal soul. †$1.50. Harper.
8–31158.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“From the novelist’s standpoint Mr. Mallock’s book is a clever piece of
work, full of action, sparkling dialogue, and vivid pictures of
character and manners. He manages the mystification element dramatically
enough to make the story not a bad second to ‘Jekyll and Hyde.’ From the
philosophical point of view his close is rather impotent.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 685. F. ’09. 580w.
“Readers who do not expect this sort of thing in a novel may well
complain that he does not play the game, and will be justified if their
quest is for entertainment only. But if they are sufficiently serious of
mind to enter into the spirit of the author’s speculations, they will
give, if anything, a more absorbed attention to his psychological
discussion than to the fictive framework in which it is set.” W: M.
Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 84. F. 1, ’09. 700w.
“Much of the time we might fancy ourselves in a laboratory rather than a
studio. Yet the story is not without a leisurely, whimsical, well-nigh
Peacockian flavor.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 67. Ja. 21, ’09. 440w.
“A story which at no stage fails to hold, both in point of plausibility
and deep intellectual interest. Of the supplementary characters it is
proper to say that they are far more than ordinarily well done, and that
the arguments of science and of the church are fairly presented.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 250w.
“We read on, won by the thoroughness of his work.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 107. Ja. 16, ’09. 400w.
“A really clever romance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 122. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“The book is extremely interesting. It will bore the matter-of-fact,
distress the orthodox, and send the inquisitive to works on psychology.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 360w.
“The net result of this dovetailing of alleged scientific fact with
fiction is extremely artificial.”
− + =Spec.= 102: 100. Ja. 16, ’09. 700w.
=Mallory, Herbert Samuel.=^{[7]} Tempered steel. $1.50. Fenno.
9–13967.
A story set in the time of the strife between Stephen and Matilda for
the English crown. “One hears the cry of battle, and the clash of lances
in single combats, and there are maidens in trouble and renegade
Knights. The story will make one think of Tennyson and his ‘Idylls of
the king,’ and the characters will at once remind one of Lancelot and
Guinevere, Modred and Arthur, Paolo and Francesca.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
“If the reader—steeped in naturalism—declines to see much reality in the
characters, he is nevertheless entertained in an agreeable and
workmanlike manner.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 450. Jl. 24, ’09. 200w.
=Maltzahn, Curt L. W., baron v.= Naval warfare: its historical
development from the age of the great geographical discoveries to
the present time; tr. from the German by J: Combe Miller. *75c.
Longmans.
“The Admiral’s treatise is founded upon lectures he delivered at the
German naval academy, of which he for a time was the head. It gives the
history of naval development from the earliest times to the present,
from the point of view of one who believes thoroughly in the strong
navy. With respect to his own country, the Admiral says: ‘The backbone
of all success is a navy powerful for combat.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“He is especially competent to treat naval warfare from the German point
of view, and what he says is of interest, in presenting the case of
those who urge a great navy as necessary to a nation, which is largely
engaged in commerce. When these war scares and bugaboos become
recognized as figments of the imagination and treated as maladies, this
little book will find its true place, for it is a symptom rather than a
treatise.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 333. Ap. 1, ’09. 550w.
“An excellent translation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 230w.
=Manchester, Arthur Livingston.= Twelve lessons in the fundamentals of
voice production. (Music students’ lib.) $1. Ditson.
8–33831.
A students’ handbook of the essentials of good tone-production, teaching
the recognition of the conditions, comfort and firmness which accompany
the producing of good tones.
* * * * *
“A beginner in the study of voice culture may find valuable help in the
handy and sensible little treatise.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 869. Ap. 22, ’09. 90w.
=Nation.= 88: 368. Ap. 8, ’09. 180w.
=Manly, John Matthews, comp.=^{[7]} English prose (1137–1890). *$1.50.
Ginn.
9–12184.
A companion volume to Manly’s “English prose” and, like it, is intended
chiefly for use in a general survey of English literature. It is such an
anthology of poems important either historically or for their intrinsic
merits, as will permit a teacher to make his own selection in accordance
with his tastes and the needs of his class. Whole selections rather than
excerpts have been chosen in order to show sustained power and control
of organic structure.
* * * * *
“A convenient volume for the small library wishing to have a compendium
of representative examples and for any library that has many student
demands.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 45. O. ’09. ✠
=Dial.= 46: 375. Je. 1, ’09. 60w.
“In the absence of cheap and reliable single texts, such books make a
valuable acquisition for student or even general reader.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 298. Ag. 5, ’09. 80w.
“All things considered—abundance, variety, interest, range, compactness,
and legibility—this is decidedly the most useful thing of its kind in
the field.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 283. S. 23, ’09. 320w.
=Mannix, Mary Ellen.=^{[5]} Cupa revisited. 45c. Benziger.
9–8573.
“Introduces young folk to the Californian Indian as he is to-day; and
incidentally gives them a lesson in history by drawing their attention
to the contrast between the Indian’s condition to-day and that which he
enjoyed while the missions flourished.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
=Cath. World.= 89: 260. My. ’09. 40w.
=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).=^{[10]}
Italian highways and byways from a motor car; with pictures by
Blanche McManus. $3. Page.
9–13515.
“In the space of 370 not over closely printed pages, diversified by
Blanche McManus’s suggestive illustrations, we are hurried from the
Genoa Riviera to Naples by way of Tuscany, round through Romagna to
Venice, Lombardy, and back to Piedmont.... The book is full of helpful
hints, not only regarding byways to seek out, but when these have been
sought and found, other directions of a more practical nature concerning
distances and inns, garages, and gasolene.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The information is of necessity fragmentary and unrelated. It all has a
somewhat rushed, sixty-miles-an-hour effect.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 822. O. 7, ’09. 350w.
“The illustrations are always interesting, those in colors being
particularly striking.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 442. S. 18, ’09. 130w.
“It may well be a literal ‘vade mecum.’”
+ =Nation.= 89: 24. Jl. 8, ’09. 200w.
=Mantzius, Karl.=^{[6]} History of theatrical art in ancient and
modern times; authorized tr. by Louise von Cossel. 5v. v. 5. *$3.50.
Lippincott.
5–18107.
=v. 5.= Great actors of the eighteenth century.
“The fifth volume maintains the reputation of the work, and is rightly
styled, inasmuch as the time of which it treats was more an age of
acting than of dramatic fecundity, ‘Great actors of the eighteenth
century.’ The players covered in this survey include Carolina Neuber,
Konrad Ekhof, Schröder, Iffland, and Adrienne Lecouvreur among
continental celebrities; and such persons of mark on our own stage as
Betterton, Cibber, Anne Oldfield, Quin, Macklin, and Garrick.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Herr Karl Mantzius knows, as few men do, how to write interesting stage
history—knows how to arrange and group his material, and also how to
conceal scholarship that is wide and thorough under a style of
delightful vivacity. Herr Mantzius is a little unfair to our comedy of
the eighteenth century, and indulges, we venture to think, in rather
hasty generalizations. Our old comedy writers seem to annoy him by their
lack of ‘architetonic mastership.’ Here we seem to strike upon a certain
defect of sympathy in an historian who is otherwise admirably catholic
in his taste.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 474. Ap. 17. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)
“If the historical acumen of Dr. Mantzius is occasionally dimmed and his
sense of proportion dwarfed by Germanic influence, he is nevertheless a
painstaking student who has made the history of his craft his life-work.
His work is almost monumental; indeed, it should find a place in the
dramatic alcove of every library, for in no other single work has so
much information concerning the stage been brought within reach of the
student and thoroughly indexed.” H. C. Chatfield-Taylor.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 122. S. 1, ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 5.)
“As an interesting, chatty conspectus the book will be useful to the
casual reader; to the student of the stage it offers little save
collocation of accepted opinion on the great names of three national
stages. The translation is uneven; usually it is competent, but at
moments the pronouns squint badly.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 334. O. 7, ’09. 350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Karl Mantzius is a painstaking historian of the dramatic stage, and his
voluminous history is a serviceable work. As a history of English acting
in the eighteenth century, Mantzius’s few chapters are woefully
deficient.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 269. My. 1, ’09. 1500w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Sat. R.= 107: 758. Je. 12, ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Manucci, Niccolo.= Storia do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653–1708; tr.
with introd. and notes by W: Irvine. (Indian texts ser.) ea. *$3.50.
Dutton.
8–17330.
“With the support of the Government of India and under the ægis of the
Royal Asiatic society the elaborate ‘Storia do Mogor,’ sent to Europe by
Niccolao Manucci more than two hundred years ago, now first reaches the
public as he wrote it, allowing for the change from Portuguese and
French and Italian into English.” (Acad.) “Manucci’s story is an
exceedingly valuable contribution to the literature of India, less on
account of its historical data, however, than for the light it throws on
the social conditions of Hindustan and the early missionary efforts of
the Roman Catholic church.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It was well worth the research and trouble, for the work is unique in
its way, is valuable to students of India, and indispensable to the
historian or collector.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 922. S. 21, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Except for the unquenchable charm of French prose, Manucci’s original
memoirs are as superior in interest to Catrou’s adaptation ‘after the
model of the Greek and Latin historians’ as the ‘Collects’ are to
Knight’s ‘Family prayers.’ When it comes to a question of veracity,
there is even less room for argument.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 147. Ag. 10. 2850w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The merits and attractions of the book far outweigh its faults. As a
history, it is full of obvious defects; as a picture of certain aspects
of Indian life at the close of the seventeenth century and the beginning
of the eighteenth, it is wonderfully vivid and real.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 690. Je. 6. 2250w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Mr. Irvine has spent ten years to good purpose over the work.” G. Le
Strange.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 369. Ap. ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Mr. Irvine’s footnotes are a mine of information on the subject-matter
of the text.” G. Le S.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 406. Ap. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The book is full of good stories and keen-sighted observation of
character and manners. As a picture of Mogul life in the seventeenth
century, not only at court, but in camp and in the bazars, it is unique;
and readers of all kinds, as well as historians, will be grateful to Mr.
Irvine for recovering this long-lost author and delivering him from the
ingenious disguise of Father Catrou. The authenticity of the
illustrations seems incontrovertible. Even in black and white they are
an interesting addition to an extremely valuable work.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 254. Ag. 23, ’07. 1750w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“It is essentially a book for the student rather than the casual reader.
The translator’s notes, which exhibit wide knowledge and exhaustive
research, add greatly to the value of the work.” Forbes Lindsay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Mapes, Victor.=^{[8]} Partners three: a novel. †$1.25. Stokes.
9–8997.
A story “neither tragical, comical, historical, criminal, sociological,
nor even romantic-comical-sociological” (Nation.) purporting to be told
by a convict serving sentence in Sing Sing for counterfeiting. The
incidents chosen out of the latter’s past experience are connected with
a benevolent man, a waif who had been picked up in Switzerland and the
narrator himself. These are the “partners three.”
* * * * *
“The whole affair has a freshness of savor for which the dutiful
follower of current fiction must be grateful.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 101. Jl. 29, ’09. 430w.
“An idyl of kind hearts that are more than coronets.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 360w.
=March, John Lewis.= Theory of mind. **$2. Scribner.
8–25725.
“The theory, in brief, is that all essential traits are in the nature of
impulses and instincts; that psychology must be written wholly in the
terms of such instincts and impulses, and that we may use such terms as
ideal impulses, home-building impulses, and other specialized impulses,
to account for every phase of social, personal, or material
action.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“For the general student of psychology it will carry but moderate
meaning and less conviction.”
− =Dial.= 46: 54. Ja. 16, ’09. 270w.
“The book as a whole impresses the reviewer as essentially a piece of
closet thinking. The earlier chapters strike her as open to considerable
criticism from the philosopher, the psychologist, and the scientist; but
the later chapters seem worthy of the attention of the student of social
psychology and of ethics.” E. K. Adams.
− + =J. Philos.= 6: 361. Je. 24, ’09. 1050w.
=Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. March offers a new solution of the riddle of mind and matter—a
solution which is admirable for ingenuity and may well commend itself to
the serious student of such problems in right of qualities of logic and
common sense.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 214. Ap. 10, ’09. 1000w.
=Marden, Orison Swett.= Peace, power and plenty. **$1. Crowell.
9–4136.
Another helpful book that preaches the gospel of optimism and love in
their potential aspect. Some of the chapter headings are suggestive:
Power of the mind to compel the body; Poverty, a mental disability; The
law of opulence; Character-building and health-building during sleep;
Health through right thinking; Why grow old?; The miracle of
self-confidence; Destructive and constructive suggestion; Worry, the
disease of the age; Fear, the curse of the race; Good cheer—God’s
medicine; and “As ye sow.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 80. Mr. ’09.
“The book as a whole cannot fail to be helpful to the general reader,
especially to young men and women and those who are becoming discouraged
after long grappling with the grave perplexities of present-day life.”
B. O. Flower.
+ =Arena.= 41: 595. Ag. ’09. 2800w.
“Teaches in sententious, forceful style the wisdom of compelling the
thoughts to keep always in lines of sanity, harmony, brotherly love, and
aspiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 47. Ja. 23, ’09. 160w.
=Marden, Philip Sanford.=^{[12]} Travels in Spain. **$3. Houghton.
9–29222.
While mainly the record of a wide-awake traveler’s experiences during a
springtime journey from Gibraltar across the Spanish peninsula this book
is valuable for the historical and art information running thru its
pages. For the prospective tourist in Spain, there is an introductory
chapter on “Spanish travel.” The volume is generously illustrated with
pictures of the author’s own making.
* * * * *
“To the stay-at-home traveller, no less than to him of more adventurous
mood, the book may be commended.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 514. D. 16, ’09. 180w.
“Art and history and legend, city and country are described in a manner
that will make the book of value to whoever follows its author’s
itinerary.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1146. N. 18, ’09. 130w.
“Vividness, indeed, is not wanting in his description of a most
inspiring country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1078. D. 11, ’09. 150w.
=Margolis, Max Leopold.= Holy Scriptures with commentary. Micah. 75c.
Jewish pub.
9–3898.
The first volume in a series of commentaries intended primarily for the
teacher, the pupil and the general reader who need help to obtain an
understanding of the Scriptures, at once reliable and Jewish.
* * * * *
“The translation is good and the comments good enough to make us wish
for more.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 644. O. ’09. 130w.
“Professor Margolis’ name is a guarantee of the high quality of the
scholarship at the basis of this volume. But his attitude toward the
textual and the historical criticism is unexpectedly timid. The text of
Micah needs much correction, but receives little. The unity of the book
is here maintained, though surrendered by practically all recent
commentators.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 287. Ap. ’09. 150w.
=Mario, Jessie White.=^{[12]} Birth of modern Italy: posthumous papers
of Jessie W. Mario; ed., with introd., notes, and epilogue, by the
Duke Litta-Visconti-Arese. *$3.50. Scribner.
The memoirs of an Englishwoman who married an Italian patriot. They are
full of the spirit of the Italian revolution, and amount, in reality, to
a memoir of Mazzini. “Madame Mario follows the career of Italy’s
arch-patriot from his birth to his death, and, as is natural in a woman
of English birth, dwells especially upon the years of Mazzini’s exile in
England.” (N. Y. Times.) The volume gives inside information from the
view point of the revolutionary party of the events from 1830 to 1870.
* * * * *
“The latest book on this engrossing theme, by the late Signora Mario, is
at once attractive yet unsatisfactory. Signora Mario’s prejudices are
manifest in her book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 356. S. 25. 1450w.
“Her last volume which has been admirably compiled by Duke Litta, is
less autobiographical than those of us who knew Signora Mario would like
to have it. To make her acquaintance through her books is to feel the
very pulse of the cause to which she consecrated herself. Through her
veins throbbed the great Emotion which has the lifeblood of the Italian
Risorgimento.” W: R. Thayer.
+ =Nation.= 89: 564. D. 9, ’09. 2700w.
“If the course of the stream of events is lost among the shifting
scenery and higgledy-piggledy incidents, the scenes and the incidents
themselves are interesting and often vivid. This is especially the case
with Madame Mario’s reminiscences.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 692. N. 6, ’09. 650w.
=Mariti, Giovanni.=^{[8]} Travels in the island of Cyprus; tr. from
the Italian by Claude D. Cobham; with contemporary accounts of the
sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta. *$1.25. Putnam.
“This second edition is increased and improved by translations of
contemporary accounts of the final sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta,
written respectively by Giovanni Pietro Contarini and Count Nestor
Martinengo.”—Eng. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“Mariti was an industrious traveller, but not a very scientific or
over-well-informed recorder. His geographical description is rather
curious than valuable.” D. G. H.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 620. Jl. ’09. 200w.
“The narrative is minute and careful in its description, and evidences
the mind of the trained observer and of a painstaking recorder.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 398. Je. 26, ’09. 270w.
=Marius, G. Hermine.=^{[12]} Dutch painting in the nineteenth century;
tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$3.75. Lippincott.
9–9583.
“Beginning with a brief review of the prosaic eighteenth century, so
barren of art production in Holland, the author gives a most eloquent
account of the great revival of painting in the nineteenth century,
inaugurated by Israels and Jongkind and carried on by Mesdag, Mauve, the
brothers Maris and others less celebrated. Due consideration is also
given to the romanticists, of whom Ary Scheffer was the chief, and to
the minor interpreters of genre and landscape subjects, but it is in the
chapters on the great Hague school that the interest of the volume
culminates.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“The editing is careless and there is only one index, of artists’ names
without dates, which restricts the book’s usefulness in reference work.
This is the only book available in English on nineteenth century Dutch
art as a whole.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 80. N. ’09. ✠
“That three good books on Dutch painting should appear
simultaneously—each, it is to be feared, to the detriment of the other
two—is a striking illustration of the keen competition in the literary
market. Of these the best is perhaps the one from the pen of Hermine
Marius, but it is unfortunately considerably spoiled by the inadequacy
of the translation, which throughout retains a foreign ring.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 37: 253. My. ’09. 160w.
=Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 40w.
=Markham, Christopher Alexander.=^{[10]} Pewter marks and old pewter
ware, domestic and ecclesiastical. *$7.50. Scribner.