A book “not technical, historical, abstruse or recondite, but a book
describing in simple language Japan as it was, is, and will be.” It
omits Japan’s recent material development, its politics and political
parties; it does deal with Japanese morality, religion, art, the
constitution, home life, the army and navy, and the financial position
of the country.
* * * * *
“It is similar in scope and treatment to, but more concise than Dyer’s
‘Dai Nippon.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 175. Je. ’09.
“Too much is attempted in this book.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 429. S. ’09. 200w.
“On the whole, the author has done well to give us one more book about
Japan.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 23. Jl. 1, ’09. 300w.
“Mr. Montgomery shows no superior scholarship or insight into the genius
of the people, and he has neither discovered any new sources of
information nor been especially diligent in collecting what was known
before. His style is dull and his observations commonplace and often
repeated. But the book is comprehensive in its scope, moderate in tone
and nowhere difficult to understand.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 1243. Je. 3, ’09. 100w.
“We miss the firmness of touch and accuracy of perspective belonging to
the long resident. He shows very clearly that he has not mastered the
results of the archaeology and philology of Munro or Batchelor.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 633. Je. 24, ’09. 350w.
“Writes with abundant knowledge of his subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 352. Je. 5, ’09. 900w.
“If the point of view were only as good as the cover, and if the English
were only as irreproachable as the press-work! Yet the book is withal
too ingenuous for condemnation, and young Mr. Gigadibs, with his little
liberalities, is rather engaging than otherwise.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 415. S. ’09. 500w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 9. S. 4, ’09. 430w.
“We do not set ourselves against his optimistic views. Much that he says
is true beyond all question. Mr. Montgomery has written a very
interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 303. Ag. 29, ’08. 200w.
=Montgomery, Lucy Maud.=^{[10]} Anne of Avonlea. $1.50. Page.
9–22941.
A sequel to “Anne of Green Gables.” “‘Anne of Avonlea’ contains much the
same gentle charm that made ‘Anne of Green Gables’ so delectable a book.
Anne is now past sixteen, which is evidently maturity in Prince Edward
island, and begins to teach school in the place where she herself was
taught. Her old chums are similarly occupied in nearby villages; and she
and they, with several of the old characters and some new ones, continue
their hushed, secluded, leisurely lives in a way calculated to yield the
reader, weary of the steam riveter and the automobile, the career and
the fad, a refreshing sense of peace.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Has much of the charm of the earlier book but, while it will be enjoyed
by older girls, it is scarcely suitable for a juvenile collection.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 134. D. ’09. ✠
“The book is as simple as a daisy, and if not quite as bewitching as the
first we were given, the fault is doubtless with ourselves rather than
the little flower.” Margaret Merwin.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 152. O. ’09. 350w.
“It is by no means a great work but is rather a somewhat commonplace
story of a school teacher of some imagination.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1355. D. 16, ’09. 170w.
“If the fancy is sometimes exaggerated, it is not in the least morbid,
but walks always in lock-step between fun and common sense.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 212. S. 2, ’09. 270w.
“The story will surely be read.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 130w.
=Moody, William Vaughn.= Faith healer. **$1. Houghton.
9–1588.
A psychotherapeutic play which resembles the author’s “Great divide”
“only in its use of symbolism, its contemporaneous significance, its
compact, pregnant, and occasionally eloquent dialogue, and its dramatic
interest.” (Nation.) “It depicts with great skill the aesthetic
mediocrity and the irrepressible idealism characteristic of certain
middle western communities, and has caught the spirit of the
literalistic and yet idealistic type of religion that has made many a
community in the middle west a garden for sects.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A play of excellent literary values, masterly in its use of symbolism
and appealing strongly to the imagination.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 143. My. ’09.
Reviewed by E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 330. N. 1, ’09. 700w.
“The play would be stronger if it were clearer in meaning and purpose,
more definite in argument and declaration. A thoughtful and suggestive
work, which, whether it wins success upon the stage or not, will make a
strong appeal to the imagination of all intelligent readers. In literary
expression, it is exceedingly felicitous, not only in the
appropriateness of the dialogue to the personages concerned, but in the
melody of the more oratorical passages.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 175. F. 18, ’09. 660w.
“It is closely written, with many individual lines of great beauty. But
the drama, as a whole, has not the straight, direct appeal of ‘The great
divide.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 112. F. 27, ’09. 800w.
“The play is more than a picture; it is a symbol; and somehow the
symbolism is not persuasive. A great many readers will have the feeling
that ‘The faith healer’ is chiefly interesting as a ‘tour de force.’”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 536. Mr. 6, ’09. 420w.
=Moody, William Vaughn.=^{[10]} Great divide: a play in three acts.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
9–35853.
This successful three-act play is here issued in book form dedicated to
Henry Miller. Shorn of its stage accessories, the play makes excellent
reading, and the great division between western ideals, morals, and
conventions and those of New England is well brought out in the tale of
the crude man who marries his wife by force and then makes himself
worthy of her, and the wife who suffers long and makes the man suffer as
expiation for her wickedness, so characterized by herself, in loving him
under such conditions.
* * * * *
“The brutal situation on which the plot turns is more prominent in the
book than on the stage and makes unpleasant reading.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 80. N. ’09.
Reviewed by E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 330. N. 1, ’09. 1000w.
“It proved to be one of the most successful and effective plays of
recent years on the stage, and it does not lose its emotional power in
the printing.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 932. O. 21, ’09. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 387. O. 21, ’09. 350w.
=Moore, Edward Crozier S.=^{[7]} Sanitary engineering: 3d ed. *$14.
Lippincott.
9–29219.
“This third edition is even more voluminous and complete than either of
its predecessors. Many pertinent alterations and additions have been
made and much out-of-date matter has been omitted. The chapters on
sewage purification and refuse disposal have been recast and enlarged
owing to the rapid advances which have been made in these fields in
recent years, and a résumé of the reports of the Royal commission on
sewage disposal, 1898–1908, has been added. This work is in two volumes,
the first dealing with sewerage and draining, and the second with sewage
disposal and refuse destruction.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The two hundred and more pages on sewage treatment seem to be by far
the most useful part of the book for American engineers.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 8. Jl. 15, ’09. 420w.
“This work expresses essentially the viewpoint of British engineers,
but, taken as a whole, it is one which will continue to find a place of
great usefulness in the libraries of sanitary engineers in this country.
The revised edition is naturally of more value than its predecessors, as
the data it contains are of more modern application. The work shows
signs of careful editing and is profusely illustrated throughout.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 55. Jl. 10, ’09. 600w.
“Is likely to prove of especial value to American engineers in their
study of the multiplying problems of sewage disposal.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 396. Je. 19, ’09. 150w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.=^{[6]} Georgian pageant. *$3.50. Dutton.
9–22290.
“This book may not inaptly be summed up as a revolt against ‘Boswell’s
Johnson,’ and against those writings of Macaulay which derive their
colour and inspiration from it.” (Spec.) The studies are concerned with
the Burneys, the Thrales, Dr. Johnson, the Gunnings, Goldsmith, Sheridan
and Rev. James Hackman.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 80. N. ’09.
“Mr. Moore’s is no trivial knowledge of the subjects he handles, and he
sets it forth with a vivacious pen. His wit is abundant, if sometimes
rather boyish, but so is his spleen; and his prejudices, though they
undoubtedly help to give colour to his writing, do not serve
proportionately to advance his theses. In all these studies the writer
has a thesis to maintain, which he works up to with no little skill, and
always holds his reader, if he does not invariably convince him. But
this thesis is often subordinated to Mr. Moore’s pet prejudices—an
inordinate exaltation of Goldsmith and an implacable hatred of Boswell.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 489. Ap. 24. 1200w.
“Even where he is not convincing he is suggestive and original. The book
is excellent reading.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 186. S. 16, ’09. 240w.
“The most probable motive for the writing of this book was not the
vindication of the fame of a fellow-countryman. It was rather Mr.
Moore’s desire for an opportunity to show his own cleverness.”
− =Ind.= 67: 709. S. 23, ’09. 320w.
“Altogether his book is more entertaining than the average writing of
the kind on the comedy of the eighteenth century.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 570w.
“He has a witty way with him, an ironic touch which is perhaps a trifle
overdone—sarcasm is amusing, but a bit dangerous when too frequently
resorted to. The book is none the less hugely entertaining, and merits a
place on the shelf devoted to histoires intimes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 398. Je. 26, ’09. 1100w.
“Mr. Moore knows every inch of the ground, and he possesses the
novelist’s gift of seizing the essential situation; but a love of
paradox and contradiction leads him occasionally into excesses which it
is not easy to pardon.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 309. F. 20, ’09. 530w.
=Moore, John M.=^{[8]} Etchings of the East. *$1. Pub. house M. E. ch.
So.
9–25126.
A member of the editorial staff of the Christian advocate has recorded
in this series of letters the results of his study of the people,
methods of missionary work and the results of missionary labor in Japan,
Korea, China and India. It is published “with the earnest hope that some
new interest in the non-Christian peoples may be awakened and that some
new missionary effort will be put forth as a result of the reading of
these letters.”
=Moore, Mabel.=^{[10]} Days in Hellas: rambles through present-day
Greece. **$2. Jacobs.
“With a kindly feeling toward modern Greece, and a reverential respect
for the past, the author views that land with a curious commingling of
the ancient and the present times. Mount Pentelcos, for instance, is
seen with its ‘twice-scarred brow,’ the one scar caused by the
emissaries of Pericles, the makers of the Parthenon, and the other scar
made by ‘Marmor limited,’ a modern company engaged in supplying the
world with Pentelic marble. The delineation of Greek character leaves
little to be wished for, in spite of the modest statement in the
author’s preface that ‘the present volume is not offered in any sense as
a study of Greek life or Greek character.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The publisher should have employed a reader of some classical knowledge
to correct the proper names, which the author gives in shocking forms.
The book is not without some merit.”
+ − − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 93. Jl. 24. 470w.
“Miss Moore has satisfied us that the lay reader who enjoys a medley of
Greek life, with its gods and heroes mixed with its modern aspects, more
than he does a treatise on archæology will find pleasure in this
charming book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 234. O. 1, ’09. 180w.
“When she does tell of the things she did and the sights she saw it is
always in an unconventional way, with nothing whatever of the tourist
flavor discernible even between the lines.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 673. O. 30, ’09. 330w.
“This book adds nothing to our knowledge of Greece, nor did Miss Moore
see very much of the country. She really need not fear that her book
will ‘face the vicissitudes of the unknown future’ for long.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 760. Je. 12, ’09. 120w.
“Miss Moore evidently has plenty of humour, plenty of good sense, and is
quite capable of sentiment, always gracefully expressed, when occasion
demands. It is most excellent reading.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1009. Je. 26, ’09. 210w.
=Moores, Charles Washington.= Life of Abraham Lincoln for boys and
girls. **60c; (Riverside literature ser.) *25c. Houghton.
9–1383.
A book whose purpose is to give to children an understanding of the
great life of Lincoln, an appreciation of the simplicity and purity of
his literary style, and a love of the man. It is a faithful, simple,
dignified portrayal of a life without a false note, a life whose
seriousness is everywhere leavened with humor.
* * * * *
“Admirably adapted for pupils of the eighth grade and older, and also
good for home reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 96. Mr. ’09. ✠
“The life is accurately and pleasantly written, and the youth of America
will find it both agreeable and profitable reading.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 531. My. ’09. 50w.
“For school use, especially from the fifth to the eighth grades, this
brief and interesting life can be recommended without reservation.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 30w.
Reviewed by J. B. Rittenhouse.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 110w.
=Moorhouse, E. Hallam.=^{[6]} Samuel Pepys: administrator, observer,
gossip. *$3. Dutton.