“A mass of information which all collectors of old pewter will find of
utmost value. While disclaiming any intention of going deeply into the
history and other aspects of pewter work, which have been fully dealt
with by other writers, he gives in the preliminary sections a brief
historical survey of the craft, followed by descriptive accounts of
domestic and ecclesiastical pewter, together with some useful notes on
the manufacture, composition, cleaning and repairing of pewter.”—Int.
Studio.
* * * * *
“Scholarly work.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 273. S. 4. 1200w.
“From the collector’s point of view, the value of the book centres in
the concluding four sections occupying more than half the volume, for
these contain important lists which should be of material service to him
in making selections.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 162. Ag. ’09. 180w.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.=^{[8]} Life of Admiral Sir Leopold
McClintock, K. C. B. *15s. Murray, John, London.
“A worthy and affectionate record of the facts of Sir Leopold’s life”
(Sat. R.) which follows him “from his starting to join the
‘Samarang’—with a bag of marbles and a bottle of apple-juice in his
bag—till his retirement.” (Spec.) It is as the discoverer of the fate of
Franklin and the creator of Arctic sledge-traveling that Sir Clements is
chiefly known.
* * * * *
“Sir Clements makes just complaint of the many errors committed during
the relief expeditions; but on one point his strictures are unjust. With
this reservation, we think this book by far the best ever written on the
Franklin search. The story groups itself naturally round the discoverer
of the record; the style is lucid and vigorous; and the illustrations
and maps are well chosen.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 410. Ap. 3. 1300w.
“He has done the work—and no other living man could have done it—with
fine affection and with sailorlike modesty. The tribute to a great
Englishman’s memory is worthy.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 564. My. 1, ’09. 500w.
“Admirable narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 21. Jl. 3, ’09. 300w.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.=^{[7]} Story of Majorca and Minorca.
*7s. 6d. Smith, Elder, London.
A history of the past and present of the two islands, Majorca and
Minorca, which will serve as a guide-book for the tourist, and an
illuminating text for the student. The author “has set before us with
simplicity and enthusiasm the deeds of the brave islanders, and of those
whom war and politics have driven to their coasts. He writes always as
one who remembers the beauty of the landscape and the manifold
associations of church and castle.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Sir Clements Markham has delved into the records with results which he
sets forth simply and unpretentiously. His volume will be useful to the
many visitors to these romantic islands, and particularly to the student
of Mediterranean history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 730. Je. 5, ’09. 120w.
“The tale of these two islands, which have played their part upon the
stage of history, was well worth telling, and it has been well told by
Sir Clements Markham in an unpretentious little work. We wish the author
had read his proofs with greater care, and preserved a better uniformity
in the spelling of names.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 617. Ap. 17, ’09. 1300w.
=Marks, Jeannette Augustus.= English pastoral drama from the
restoration to the date of the publication of the “Lyrical ballads”
(1600–1798). *$1.50. Stechert.
9–2006.
Summarizes the history of the pastoral as a literary form, from the lost
idylls of Stesichorus, B. C. 600, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus thru
Virgil, Calpurnius and Baptista Mantuanus to Spenser and the
acclimatization and naturalization of the pastoral drama in England.
* * * * *
“The one complaint to be urged against her volume is that it too often
reads like jottings from a notebook.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 23. Ja. 2. 350w.
“The earlier and more general chapters are feeble and sophomoric. The
latter part of the book ... has some value in so far as it gives brief
notices of plays that very few even among professed students of the
drama have read. The most valuable section of the book is the
bibliography in the appendixes.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 562. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 410. Jl. 25, ’08. 660w.
“A needful though not highly important work for students of English
literature. Scholarly volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 863. Ag. 15, ’08. 130w.
“The book as a whole is too much like an annotated catalogue to make
easy and agreeable reading, whilst it is not sufficiently complete to
make a really useful catalogue.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: sup. 6. My. 2, ’08. 320w.
=Marks, Jeannette Augustus.= Through Welsh doorways. **$1.10.
Houghton.
9–7949.
Eleven excellent stories ranging from the humorous to the pathetic. One
tells of an ambitious townsman who after thirty years of failure to win
an election secures it finally by presenting the town with its first
hearse. Then follows a period of rivalry between the Wynnes and the
Joneses over the matter of the first funeral—each having a member at
death’s door. One other story looks in upon a dying man who wishes above
all else to hear the cuckoo note once more. Being “over early for the
cuckoo” the aged wife patiently practices the note among the hills,
returns to her garden and softly sings it, granting to Davie his dying
wish.
* * * * *
“They have the charm of the new and remote and are well written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09.
+ =Atlan.= 104: 687. N. ’09. 30w.
“Too quiet and sombre perhaps to exert a wide appeal, yet unmistakably
the product of a rare and finished art.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 403. Je. ’09. 450w.
“This small volume is quite worth while.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 727. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.
“The author has done her work well. If you like quaint and sympathetic
sketches of out of the way folk—if the ‘Bonny brier bush’ and its
company please you, you should find these Welsh doorways worth looking
into.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 10, ’09. 400w.
“The tone of the book is refined, tender, and eminently full of the
grace of truth.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 20*. My. 1, ’09. 120w.
=Marks, Jeannette Augustus, and Moody, Julia.=^{[6]} Little
busybodies: the life of crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other
busybodies. (Story-told science.) 75c. Harper.
9–10975.
Here is set down what five children learn on a journey in search of
locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, dragon-flies, May-flies,
leaf-hoppers, lace-wings, caddis-worms, butterflies, beetles, bees,
wasps and numerous other six-legged creatures. Story interest is
combined with the wonders of insect life.
* * * * *
“Entertaining story. The children’s questions and remarks break up the
instruction in a manner that may serve to hold the child’s interest, but
that becomes annoying to the grown-up and suggests possible confusion.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 191. Je. ’09.
“Either as a treatise on certain insects or as a story book it is an
insult to a normal child’s intelligence or imagination.”
− =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 70w.
“The whole assemblage of incidents and facts is well managed and falls
naturally into the author’s purpose. The technical knowledge conveyed is
accurately as well as pleasingly given. There is really nothing to
criticise seriously, only here and there a questionable slip.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 124. Ag. 5, ’09. 370w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 807. D. 18, ’09. 70w.
=Marks, Lionel Simeon, and Davis, Harvey Nathaniel.=^{[10]} Tables and
diagrams of the thermal properties of saturated and superheated
steam. *$1. Longmans.
9–17588.
Includes six tables as follows: “the first gives the properties of
saturated steam for even Fahrenheit degrees, the second gives the same
properties for even pounds, and the third gives the properties of
superheated steam.... Tables 4, 5 and 6 will be found convenient in the
solution of certain problems and several pages are devoted to an
explanation of their use. The last 20 pages of the book are devoted to a
discussion of the sources from which the matter for the tables was
taken.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 6: 155. Ag. ’09. 350w.
“The book is commendable in every respect, and it will prove an
invaluable companion to those who have to make accurate computations in
which the properties of steam are involved.” W: Kent.
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 11. Ag. 12, ’09. 800w.
“A remarkably well arranged and complete utilization of the results of
the latest investigations on the properties of steam.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 250. Ag. 28, ’09. 270w.
=Marquand, Allan.=^{[7]} Greek architecture. (Handbooks of archaeology
and antiquities.) *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–8999.
A handbook with full bibliography, 400 illustrations, list of
abbreviations and index. The subjects treated are as follows: Materials
and technique; Forms; Proportions; Decoration; Composition and style;
Monuments.
* * * * *
“A scholarly treatment by an authority and a valuable addition to the
literature of archaeology.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 174. Je. ’09.
“The book will, however, be very useful to students, who will not easily
find elsewhere so much information about Greek architecture in so small
a compass.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 245. Ag. 28. 370w.
“One who already knows the styles and the general history of Greek
architecture will find the work valuable, interesting, instructive, and
suggestive. It would seem to be primarily intended for such a student,
and not for a beginner.” W: C. Poland.
+ − =Class. J.= 5: 94. D. ’09. 750w.
“The illustrations are unusually good.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 314. O. ’09. 20w.
“The long needed book on Greek architecture is now before us. First
principles, which some might slightingly regard, are now thoroly dealt
with.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1247. Je. 3, ’09. 500w.
“The power of condensation and lucid arrangement could not be shown in a
more striking degree than this work presents. Professor Marquand has
done his work so clearly, so well, and so completely that the student
receives from his book quite enough to serve as a clue of Ariadne in
finding his way through the labyrinth.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 1074. Je. 19, ’09. 400w.
“Altogether the book, composed of clear, concise, straightforward
statements even on such points as still remain open to dispute, contains
much valuable information and is singularly free from theoretical
opinion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 430w.
“Professor Marquand’s book is a disappointment. It is unpedantic,
detailed, long and very dull. It takes up practically the same matters
twice or thrice and says nothing that the reader can remember
afterwards.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 259. Ag. ’09. 200w.
“Heavy to the hand and heavy in style. It is not a book of general
discussion, but of reference, valuable to the archæologist, the
architect, and the student of history.” E. F. Baldwin.
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 597. N. 13, ’09. 150w.
“One looks in vain for anything but the severest succession of
well-authenticated facts set down like carefully arranged paving stones
of equal size and equal importance. The effect is depressing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 264. Ag. 28, ’09. 270w.
“Professor Marquand has marshalled his facts, diagrams, and photographs
admirably, and the mass of information is put clearly and accessibly
before the reader.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 924. D. 4, ’09. 110w.
=Marriott, Charles.= Kiss of Helen. †$1.50. Lane.
“The story told in this novel is a love story in which none of the
elements of lovemaking commonly so-called enter. It is the essence, the
inward flame we are given, the first, fresh, utterly new meeting of man
with absolute woman. Woman only possible now, after ages of fragmentary
sketches. It is a story, moreover, in which the personal equation of
each reader will affect his interpretation. Joan will mean to him, in
the last analysis, what woman means to him when he forgets women.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Though the novel has no ethical label, it leaves an impression of a
good word said on behalf of the innocence which disregards conventional
morality.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 180w.
“Inordinately clever novel. A shining feature of the book is the
exceeding freshness and lustre of the conversations. In them, as in
narration and in comment, banality has no tiniest part.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 337. Ap. 1, ’09. 550w.
“In breadth of outlook, in a deeper comprehension of modern life and the
elements which are now in process of evolution, it is an immense advance
upon ‘The column.’ It is a book singularly worth while.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 29. Ja. 16, ’09. 850w.
“The ordinary reader will feel merely provoked by the whimsical
perversion of sentiments, which have on the whole a moral foundation,
here set forth. It is a pity that Mr. Marriott should not have a more
worthy gospel to preach.”
− =Spec.= 100: 754. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
=Marriott, Charles.= Spanish holiday. *$2.50. Lane.