Miss Moorhouse has searched the writings of Pepys’s contemporaries for
material that would confirm accounts given in the famous diary. Out of
the diary itself and the additional matter she has produced an
illuminating account of the personality of Pepys, his private and public
life, his work as Secretary of the Admiralty, and his contribution to
literature.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 20. S. ’09.
“Although we have expressed doubt respecting Miss Moorhouse’s estimation
of some of Pepys’s characteristics, we can congratulate her on having
produced an excellent picture of the complete man as exhibited not only
in the diary but also in his life’s work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 610. My. 22. 1050w.
“Well known as is the immortal diarist there was certainly a place for
Miss Moorhouse’s admirable life and appreciation of Samuel Pepys.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 426. Ag. 19, ’09. 650w.
“We should have been glad to have a much-needed bibliography of Pepys
included here, some footnotes, and an adequate index. For the rest, we
welcome this volume as a substantial sign of a reviving and better
informed interest in a man who has many holds upon our interest.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 140. Ag. 12, ’09. 1800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 350. Je. 5, ’09. 750w.
“Miss Moorhouse’s book is more entertaining and soundly informative than
any other yet written on Pepys, not excepting Wheatley’s ‘Samuel Pepys
and the world he lived in.’ Writing sympathetically, yet with keen
discrimination, Miss Moorhouse makes no attempt at undue laudation of
Pepys, but graphically portrays him as he unquestionably was.” H. A.
Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 92: 607. Jl. 10, ’09. 3800w.
=Morawetz, Victor.=^{[7]} Banking and currency problem in the United
States. *$1. North American review pub. co.
9–2543.
Discusses the banking problem of our country and the means of providing
safeguards against stringent markets and panics. His plan includes an
argument based upon the principle of the central bank.
* * * * *
“The best book on the subject for the average reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 106. Ap. ’09.
“A number of somewhat questionable views are propounded in the earlier
part of the book. The popular reader, for whom the book is doubtless
intended, will not in the main, however, be led far astray by the
introductory pages.” H. P. Willis.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 366. D. ’09. 680w.
“Mr. Morawetz is to be credited with a sincere and able discussion of a
difficult subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 366. Je. 12, ’09. 800w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 559. S. ’09. 130w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. (Studies of religious dualism,
sixth ser.) **$1.25. Putnam.
9–6859.
Ten essays concerned chiefly with religion and philosophy, also with
literature in its religious and philosophical bearing. The titles are:
The forest philosophy of India; The Bhagavad Gitâ; Saint Augustine;
Pascal; Sir Thomas Browne; Bunyan; Rousseau; Socrates; The apology; and
Plato.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 107. Ap. ’09. (Review of v. 6.)
“His power of analysis compels admiration even when we dissent most
emphatically from the results which it reaches.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 89: 675. Ag. ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 6.)
“That the high standard of the series is here maintained, if not indeed
raised even higher, goes almost without saying. Readers of the earlier
volumes cannot afford to neglect this latest.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 267. Ap. 16, ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by W. B. Blake.
=Dial.= 46: 388. Je. 16, ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 6.)
“They presuppose, possibly, a rather extended knowledge on the part of
the reader, but they bear the undisputed marks of scholarly criticism.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 728. Ap. 24, ’09. 520w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Nation.= 88: 221. Mr. 4, ’09. 80w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Of his merits—and they are many and fine—it is no longer necessary to
speak; the defect in his work may be suggested best by a quotation from
an earlier essay in the third series: ‘For we have put away the
imagination as one of the pleasant but unfruitful playthings of youth.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 159. Mr. 20, ’09. 240w. (Review of v. 6.)
“It is not too much to say of him that more than any other American
writer of his time he holds the professional attitude of the critics who
have made criticism a department of literature.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 419. Je. 19, ’09. 950w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Scholarly, artistic, analytical studies.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 250. Ag. ’09. 60w. (Review of v. 6.)
=More, Sir Thomas.=^{[8]} More’s millennium, rendered into modern
English by Valerian Paget. $1.50. McBride.
8–32403.
More’s “Utopia” rendered into modern English from the translation of
Ralph Robinson.
* * * * *
“An excellent piece of work, making this classic accessible to the
general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 64. F. ’09.
“The present volume merits wide circulation.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 606. Ag. ’09. 140w.
=Morgan, Anna, comp.=^{[6]} Selected readings designed to impart to
the student an appreciation of literature in its wider sense.
**$1.50. McClurg.
9–15868.
An anthology of prose selections, monologs, poetry, scenes and dialogs,
etc., selected with a view to offering the reader a wide range of the
best literature that is well-adapted for recital work.
* * * * *
“Not in any respect superior to the many similar volumes already in use,
but contains considerable material not found in them, making it useful
in libraries having a large demand for such volumes.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 81. N. ’09.
=Dial.= 46: 408. Je. 16, ’09. 40w.
=Morgan, Mrs. Mary Ella.= How to dress a doll. 50c. Altemus.
8–26000.
Fully illustrated this little book prepared by an experienced teacher of
sewing gives instruction that can be followed by any child in the matter
of doll dressing.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 32. Ja. ’09. ✠
“The book is so written as to make the subject not only plain but
interesting to the child.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 396. O. ’08. 100w.
=Morley, Arthur.=^{[8]} Strength of materials. *$2.50. Longmans.
9–18585.
“While the method of treatment follows wellestablished lines in the
main, especial attention is given to a number of subjects which have
hitherto been accorded little or no attention in books on the strength
of materials. Among these are: The strength of rotary disks and
cylinders; the bending of curved bars, with applications to hooks;
rings, and links; the strength of unstayed flat surfaces, and the
stresses and instability arising from certain speeds of loaded machine
shafts.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“Though prepared primarily for the instruction of engineering students,
this work will be found very useful to practicing engineers.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 173. F. ’09. 240w.
“In a word, the book must be considered an excellent piece of work. Few
there are, even among those already skilled in strength of materials,
who would not find a careful reading of this book an invigorating and
profitable experience.” L. J. Johnson.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 12. Ag. 12, ’09. 670w.
“The book is a valuable addition to the library of the engineer who has
to undertake the calculation of the stresses and strains in machinery
and structures.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 65. Mr. 18, ’09. 400w.
=Morris, Charles.=^{[12]} Home life in all lands. Bk. 2. **$1.
Lippincott.
7–28638.
=Bk. 2.= Manners and customs of uncivilized peoples.
In this second journey, instead of peeping into the huts and hovels of
men and nations, the author takes his readers “into the palaces of the
kings, the grand dwellings of the chiefs and rulers, the splendid halls
in which courtiers and people gather to do homage to their head-men or
chiefs.”
=Morris, Gouverneur.=^{[11]} Putting on the screws. **50c. Doubleday.
9–28153.
A commuter with a wife and nine children finds himself confronted with
the problem of supporting a poverty-stricken aunt, an actress who
announces that unless she can prevail upon his generosity she must go to
the home for aged women. How the family opens its arms to her, and is
kind to her and goes into debt to care for her during a long sickness
and how she finally reveals the fact that she is wealthy beyond
comprehension and that her cynical and misanthropic spirit directed her
in a scheme of testing the family for mere goodness—is all happily set
down.
* * * * *
“A dainty and pretty story with humorous side lights here and there.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 50w.
=Morris, William, and Bax, Ernest Belfort.=^{[7]} Socialism, its
growth and outcome. 50c. Kerr.
“Covers the history of socialism in its relation to social history. It
traces the development of society in ancient, mediaeval and modern
times.” (Survey.) “It is not hard to distinguish Bax’s assertion that
socialism shall succeed civilization as civilization succeeded
barbarism, and to hear Morris add that not until socialism makes all
architecture municipal can we hope to have beautiful cities.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 322. My. 22, ’09. 170w.
“The little volume presents a brief though comprehensive view of social
evolution and merits a reading by those who are interested in that
historical school begun by Karl Marx.” W. B. Guthrie.
+ =Survey.= 22: 406. Je. 12, ’09. 140w.
=Morrison, Arthur.=^{[10]} Green ginger. †$1.50 Stokes.
9–24894.
A “budget of funny tales and yarns.” “They rely for their humor largely
upon the juxtaposition of incongruous ideas. In most of them the
precise, somewhat pompous, and most respectable Britisher is carried
with every plausibility into unusual and absurd situations.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 92. N. ’09. ✠
“These short stories have probably all appeared in magazines, and some
of them are so slight that they might well have been left there. On the
other hand, we should have been sorry to miss others.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 435. Ap. 10. 200w.
“Short stories that are all bubbling over with good-humored fun.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 549. S. 18, ’09. 200w.
“It would be easy to multiply instances of Mr. Morrison’s versatility,
but we have said enough to indicate the high quality of the
entertainment provided in this excellent volume. We must not omit to
mention how complete is his mastery of the Essex dialect, and with what
a genuine gift of impersonation he varies the dialogue to suit the
character of the speaker.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 309. F. 20, ’09. 900w.
=Morrison, Charles Edward.= Highway engineering. $2.50. Wiley.
8–26022.
“The book has been prepared for second year students in the Department
of civil engineering at Columbia university, and is intended to
emphasize those basic principles which are essential to good highways.”
(Engin. Rec.) “The volume contains, with some exceptions, about all that
one could expect to find in a text-book for ordinary classes in civil
engineering.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The chapters that can be most severely criticized are those on asphalt
and wooden pavements—with these branches the author shows himself not
entirely familiar.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 5: 413. Ap. ’09. 450w.
“The general arrangement of the book is satisfactory. The subject is
well presented, and from the literary point of view is generally well
done. On the whole it cannot be said that Mr. Morrison’s book is an
ideal text-book upon highway engineering.” S. Whinery.
− + =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 428. O. 15, ’08. 940w.
“In most respects it seems well adapted for the purpose for which it is
written, but it can be criticized for not giving proper references to
many of the quotations which are used in the work, and for the insertion
of specifications which in some cases are open to criticism. The work,
as a whole, reflects the atmosphere of the study of the subject rather
than that of field work.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
“It contains a great deal of useful information, especially to engineers
having to deal with roads in new countries. The elementary principles of
road-making are clearly set out, and copies of specifications suitable
for different classes of roads are given.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 336. Ja. 21, ’09 700w
=Morse, Margaret Fessenden.= On the road to Arden. **$1. Houghton.
9–7948.
The journey of a modern Rosalind and Celia to a Forest of Arden. They go
merely to “enjoy the wilderness and to take nothing from it.” That they
find their Orlando and Oliver is to be expected; that they meet them
unexpectedly at various points in their wanderings is surprising to
Celia, while to Rosalind it is but the working out of a quietly made
plan. For was not Orlando the hero of her steamer romance, and would not
Celia disapprove unless she could personally conduct Rosalind’s wooing?
Birds and flowers and awakening woods form an exquisite setting to the
tale.
* * * * *
“Pleasant little story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09. ✠
“The story is written in the light, happy style befitting a summer’s
idyl. The pages are enlivened by comments on passing men and women that
are both amusing and entertaining.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 729. Ap. 24, ’09. 200w.
“Seems like a bit taken out of real life; its people are delightful, its
situations are diverting, and the scenes in which its quaint comedy is
enacted are extremely dainty and full of charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 350w.
“A double love story very agreeably and whimsically told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
=Morse, William Francis.=^{[12]} Collection and disposal of municipal
waste. $5. Municipal journal.
9–6510.
“Part 1 gives a preliminary historical sketch of the work done in
American communities from 1885 to the present time.... Part 2 describes
the various methods of waste disposal in American towns by
incineration.... Part 3 describes the disposal of waste by British
high-temperature refuse destructors. Part 4 discusses the disposal of
waste by reduction and extraction processes, and gives descriptions of
many forms of apparatus used for this purpose. Part 5 discusses the
revenue to be derived from waste materials, and describes the various
methods of its utilization.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“A text that will be found of timeliness and importance by municipal
engineers, and officials charged with the maintenance of sanitary
conditions.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 540. My. ’09. 280w.
“We believe it will long stand as the most complete exposition of the
first quarter-century of the evolution of garbage and refuse disposal in
America. The arrangement of the volume is in some respects poor. Another
minor fault of the book is due to the fact that the author has not quite
cleared his mind of the old misconceptions as to the relation of garbage
disposal to public health.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 46. N. 18, ’09. 1150w.
=Morton, Francis T.=^{[12]} Roman Catholic church and its relation to
the federal government. *$2. Badger, R: G.
9–29963.
A brief history of the Roman Catholic church whose object is to set
forth its claims, objects and purposes in the past as exemplified in the
older countries where it has held sway for centuries and also to show
its position in the United States at the present time.
=Moses, Barr.= Dreaming River. †$1. Stokes.
9–3051.
“The tale is that of a young and singularly ill-balanced poet who lives
hermit-wise in a lonely farmhouse called Dreaming River. To him comes
for protection a girl of sixteen, a penniless orphan, who turns to him
as her only kin in obedience to the last wish of her dying father. The
growth of love between them, perturbed by blizzards and cyclones, both
without and within, makes up the rest of the story, which ends with
Dorothy’s surrender.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“This little story would be negligible were it not for its underlying
theme, which possesses sufficient psychologic interest to save the
discussion of the work from the pettiness of breaking a butterfly.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 144. F. 11, ’09. 260w.
“Sometimes the author’s manner of telling the story grows a bit
monotonous, because he has depended too much on mere narrative. But he
has written, nevertheless, a charming little tale.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 118. F. 27, ’09. 270w.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Henrik Ibsen: the man and his plays. *$1.50.
Kennerley.
8–33031.
“A comprehensive summary of a considerable body of literature on Ibsen,
which will be very useful to those junior students of the Norwegian
dramatist who have neither time nor opportunity to consult the original
authorities. It contains a sufficiently full sketch of his life;
detailed, if not always clear, synopses of his plays; a variety of
selected comment and interpretation, mostly of a highly laudatory
description; and a liberal proportion of the author’s individual views,
which, though sometimes extravagant in their enthusiasm, often evince
strong common sense and a power of discrimination never found in the
fanatical worshipper.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Supplements Gosse’s biography, containing more matter about Ibsen’s
writings, but is not so interesting or well written.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 175. Je. ’09.
“The special merit is the thoroughness with which it reflects the recent
literature of the subject. Altogether, Mr. Moses has made a useful book,
adequate in scholarship and sound in judgment.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 192. Mr. 16, ’09. 260w.
“There is, in fact, no other book of its size in English that contains
so much information about Ibsen as this.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1400. Je. 24, ’09. 180w.
“Like many other disciples of Ibsen; Mr. Moses is prone to exaggerate
both the achievements and the influence of the master, but he does
recognize some of his limitations. The interest of this book suffers
much from the author’s crudities of style.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 609. D. 17, ’08. 480w.
“A particularly level-headed and illuminating study of the Norwegian
dramatist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 370w.
“The chief critical merit of Mr. Moses’s book is that he has emphasized
Ibsen’s constant mental and spiritual dependence on his own country.” G.
I. Colbron.
+ =No. Am.= 189: 621. Ap. ’09. 1000w.
“The book is an example of the kind of critical biography which, if it
is well done, is the most profitable form of dealing with men of letters
and artists. The treatment shows close and conscientious study of the
different aspects of Ibsen’s work.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 773. Mr. 3, ’09. 600w.
=Motley, John Lothrop.=^{[6]} History of the United Netherlands from
the death of William the Silent to the Twelve years’ truce—1609; new
ed. 2v. $3. Harper.
A new edition in strong binding for library purposes.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 67: 144. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 464. Jl. 31, ’09. 80w.
=Mott, John Raleigh.= Future leadership of the church. $1. Y. M. C. A.
8–31484.
The results of a careful and systematic study of the problem of decrease
in the rank and file of young men entering the ministry. “Mr. Mott’s
present appeal sets forth the problem, its urgency, the obstacles, the
favoring influences, and the propaganda called for.... The time has
come, in Mr. Mott’s view, for every Christian denomination in its
official assembly to determine upon a plan to meet the crisis of a short
supply of leaders that will secure effective backing from its entire
membership. Supplementary to the book is a sheaf of pithy pamphlets in
which eminent men appeal persuasively to students for the claim and the
opportunity presented by the Christian ministry.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 46. F. ’09.
“The volume is closely packed with relevant facts ... and so stated as
to constitute an argument of the most compelling kind.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 585. Mr. 13, ’09. 240w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 126. Ja. ’09. 110w.
Reviewed by Graham Taylor.
=Survey.= 22: 853. S. 25, ’09. 380w.
=Moulton, Mrs. Louise Chandler.= Poems and sonnets; with an introd. by
Harriet Prescott Spofford. $1.50. Little.
8–35957.
* * * * *
A one volume edition of Mrs. Moulton’s poems including all contained in
three former volumes.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 46. F. ’09.
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 179. Ag. 14. 530w.
“So many other voices have borne witness both to the beauty of the
poet’s character and to the exquisite artistry of her lyrics and
sonnets, that even friendship may hardly be said to exaggerate in this
instance. Certain it is that no writer stands higher upon the roll of
our woman poets than the gracious personality which this volume
discloses.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 48. Ja. 16, ’09. 160w.
=Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“Mrs. Moulton’s verse suffers somewhat from reading in mass; its
saccharine taste becomes cloying after a while.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 652. D. 31, ’08. 100w.
Reviewed by J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 56. Ja. 30, ’09. 1400w.
“Her appeal is obvious and simple, and if she rarely reaches the
heights, she walks on a pleasant upland where many can follow.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 20. Jl. 3, ’09. 40w.
=Mowry, William Augustus.= Recollections of a New England educator.
*$1.50. Silver.
8–33790.
Reminiscences covering the years from 1838–1908 and constituting a
history of education in America during that period. “His book is not an
autobiography, but a simple narrative of the progress of educational
methods and conditions as he has observed them and been a part of them
from the time he entered the district school at the age of four years
until the present time. It covers all grades of education and the author
endeavors to show by constant comparison how tremendous has been the
growth and improvement throughout the entire curriculum.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Mowry’s experiences ... are entertainingly presented.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 117. F. 16, ’09. 260w.
“His book is admirable reading and will be a valuable addition to the
literature of American education.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 425. Ap. ’09. 100w.
“A book to be studied rather than one to be read.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 428. F. 25, ’09. 160w.
“Far from being the dry record of a typical pedagog, the recollections
are a bright, chatty account of contemporaneous educators and
educational movements.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 306. F. 20, ’09. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 3. Ja. 2, ’09. 180w.
“His reminiscences, while certainly not without biographical interest,
really give the material for an extremely suggestive comparison between
the educational conditions in this country fifty, sixty, and seventy
years ago and those at the present time.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 511. Ap. ’09. 90w.
“It is fortunate that these reminiscences have been preserved, for they
will serve to aid students to get into touch with original impressions
of an important period in American life.” F. A. Manny.
+ =School R.= 17: 650. N. ’09. 450w.
=Moyer, James Ambrose.= Steam turbine: a practical and theoretical
treatise for engineers and designers, including a discussion of the
gas turbine. $4. Wiley.
8–37678.
“The book commences with a short history of the art, and a condensed but
very clear chapter on the elementary theory of heat, in which special
attention is given to the entropy-temperature diagram. This is followed
by chapters on nozzle and blade design; on the mechanical losses in
steam turbines; and on stresses in rings, drums and disks. The subject
matter of these chapters, treating solely of theory and design, is
concisely and very clearly explained; but, to the average engineer, the
most interesting and directly valuable part of the book will be the
chapters on current practice.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“Better than Neilson on economics and on details of American design, but
less full in treatment of the low pressure turbine.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 107. Ap. ’09.
“The author had had unusual facilities for obtaining information
regarding the latest results in turbine engineering through his
professional connections, and he has embodied these gleanings in a
well-ordered and concise but comprehensive text that merits the
attention of educators and practicing engineers.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 170. F. ’09. 420w.
“It is rather hard to place this book of Mr. Moyer’s. While excellent in
many ways, it would scarcely do for use by students in engineering nor
yet is it a handbook for the average operating engineer. In most cases,
he does not lay before the reader the experimental data on which he
bases his results. Were these presented it would materially increase the
value of the book.” A. G. Christie.
− + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 32. Mr. 18, ’09. 950w.
“The author has certainly carried out this subject in a most
satisfactory manner.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 335. Mr. 20, ’09. 300w.
=Mügge, M. A.=^{[9]} Friedrich Nietzsche: his life and work. *$3.
Brentano’s.
9–14446.
A biography founded upon Frau Foerster-Nietzsche’s “Leben.” It contains
a valuable Nietzschean bibliography, also a chronological epitome of all
Nietzsche’s writings.
* * * * *
“As compared with Mr. Mencken’s study, the present work shows a marked
superiority in respect both of scholarliness and philosophic insight.
The style, too, is more to our taste.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 69. Jl. 17. 300w.
“He gives a full and interesting account of Nietzsche’s strangely varied
life; he has provided a really admirable bibliography.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 425. Mr. 13, ’09. 250w.
=Muir, John. Stickeen.= **60c. Houghton.
9–6875.
The story of one terrible Alaska storm-day which the author spent in
exploring a glacier. Flying clouds with their rain-floods, ice-cliffs,
the majestic ice-cascade, a vast glacier with its tremendous crevasse
are the awe-inspiring elements that the author and Stickeen, a daring
midget of a dog, battle with for their lives during a few perilous
hours. Stickeen’s courage, his big wise fears on the brink of a yawning
abyss, his almost human agony when his master dares the ice bridge, his
bravery in following after many remonstrances, and his wild joy over
deliverance from death hold the reader breathless thru the short 73
pages.
“A stirring tale, exquisitely told; will be liked by older children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 149. My. ’09. ✠
“This little story of a man, a dog, a storm, and a glacier, is full of
the glamour that belongs to the heroic-in-little.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 37. Jl. 8, ’09. 300w.
“It is a notable little story, although so brief, having as much appeal
for lovers of the wild as for students of dog nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 197. Ap. 3, ’09. 440w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 253. Ag. ’09. 70w.
=Mulhall, Mrs. Marion McMurrough.=^{[12]} Explorers in the new world
before and after Columbus; and the story of the Jesuit missions of
Paraguay, with pre-Columbian maps. *$2.25. Longmans.
“Opens with a résumé of the voyages of the adventurers who ante-dated
Columbus, covers the explorations of later times by centuries, and in
other chapters deals with the military and naval operations of Europeans
in South America. Her final chapter, entitled, ‘Rise and fall of the
Jesuit missions,’ is largely the fruit of original research in the
Vatican and elsewhere. An interesting feature of Mrs. Mulhall’s book is
its display of pre-Columbian maps, including reproductions of Edrisi’s
planispheres, which are preserved in the Bodleian library at Oxford, and
the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The contents of the volume hardly fulfil the promise of its title. A
few pages are indeed devoted to the ‘Predecessors of Columbus,’ but the
Spanish and Portuguese navigators who carried on his work are absolutely
ignored, and it would be vain to search for a reference to such
well-known explorers as John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Frobisher, Davis,
or Hudson apart from discoverers of more recent times, J. Cook,
Vancouver, and Ross. The account which the author gives of the
‘Predecessors of Columbus’ is, moreover, misleading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 102. Jl. 24. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 765. D. 4, ’09. 100w.
“Her book is rather a strange compound. Her pages are packed with facts
about adventurers some of whose records are not easily available, and
the compilation shows much industrious reading.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 176. Ag. 7, ’09. 200w.
“Mrs. Mulhall conducts us along many picturesque byways of history.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 171. Jl. 31, ’09. 400w.
=Müller, Johannes.=^{[12]} Hindrances of life; tr. by F. F. Strecker.
*$1.50. Kennerley.
The hindrances to making the best in life come true are, in the
experience of Dr. Müller, grief, fear, worry, lack of assurance, doubt,
and the other self in us. These drawbacks to accomplishment, and hence
to happiness, the author discusses with insight, and offers helpful
suggestions for overcoming their harassing conditions.
=Müller, Margarethe.= Carla Wenckebach, pioneer. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–29596.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“However excellent a German biography she might have given us, she has
certainly succeeded in presenting in English a very engaging picture of
a strong and inspiring character.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 116. F. 16, ’09. 250w.
“It may be truthfully said that the book is much more than a mere
biography. It is a charming bit of writing and a gentle and kindly
sketch.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 97. Ja. ’09. 70w.
=Ind.= 67: 308. Ag. 5, ’09. 30w.
“A generous and affectionate tribute.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 122. F. 27, ’09. 160w.
“A fascinating portrait-biography of a fascinating woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 819. Ap. 10, ’09. 450w.
“The book is very well written. It will be valuable in high school,
normal school, and college as well as in private libraries.” F. A.
Manny.
+ =School R.= 17: 575. O. ’09. 930w.
=Mumford, Eben.=^{[12]} Origins of leadership, pa. *50c. Univ. of
Chicago press.
9–21602.
“Leadership is considered first in its relation to the science of
sociology and to the social process. It is discussed in both its innate
and acquired aspects and its evolution is traced through the
associations of some of the lower animals, of children, and, in
particular, of hunting people, the main problem being to show its
relation to the development of personality and the various
institutions.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 608. N. ’09. 330w.
“Its eighty-seven pages can not be accounted a very weighty contribution
to the subject. Nevertheless, the author has made a useful preliminary
study which might easily be expanded into a much-needed monograph on
leadership in primitive society.” Hutton Webster.
+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 416. Jl. 22, ’09. 240w.
=Mumford, James Gregory.= Surgical memoirs, and other essays. **$2.50.
Moffat.
8–28080.
“A collection of papers and addresses written during the last decade,
beginning with a sketch of ‘The history of surgery,’ embracing accounts
of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Pare, Haller, John Hunter, and Lister.
A summary follows of ancient achievements in surgery and biographical
essays on Cooper, Brodie, Warren, and Bigelow; and the rest of the
volume contains addresses to nurses, brief papers on ethics and medical
education, and other random papers.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Taken as a whole, the book ... is written with too ready a pen, but is
nevertheless pleasant reading and will be useful to many to whom a more
scholarly work would be unwelcome.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
“His book is as interesting to the layman as to the members of his own
profession.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 31. Ja. 16, ’09. 760w.
“His pages are distinguished by a broad toleration, eminent
fair-mindedness, and when opportunity offers, a sturdy preachment of
lofty professional standards.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 318. O. 9, ’09. 220w.
=Mumm, Arnold Louis.=^{[7]} Five months in the Himalaya: a record of
mountain travel in Garhival and Kashmir. *$6. Longmans.
9–35862.
Contains an account of the author’s ascent to the top of Trisul, an
elevation of 23,406 feet. “The party, after exploring the mountains and
valleys of Garhwal, passed on into Kashmir and spent some time there.
Mr. Mumm’s volume contains admirable reproductions of photographs taken
at the time, the illustrations including four panoramas, twenty-four
full-page plates, forty-seven collotypes, and two maps.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 81. N. ’09.
+ =Nation.= 89: 281. S. 23, ’09. 470w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
“Mr. Mumm has written a circumstantial account of an arduous expedition
that will hold a high rank in the annals of mountaineering.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 452. Jl. 24, ’09. 420w.
“The book affords a very full idea of the character of the peaks and
valleys, the passes and people in the Himalaya; an idea which is
assisted by the many admirable illustrations.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. Jl. 17, ’09. 350w.
“The book is full of interesting things, besides the mountaineering
narratives. One great charm of the volume is to be found in the
magnificent photographs of mountain scenery.”
+ =Spec.= 102; sup. 1006. Je. 26, ’09. 200w.
=Mummery, A. F.= My climbs in the Alps and Caucasus; new ed. *$5.
Scribner.
1–18807.
“Mrs. Mummery gives the public a few pages of extracts from the last
letters received from her husband when in Kashmir, which will be read
with interest. They must confirm the belief that his death was caused by
a sudden avalanche rather than any more avoidable accident in a rash
attempt. For the rest the text of the book is identical with that of the
previous edition.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“No more direct and vigorous narrative of the incidents of mountain
travel or hard climbing, of a bivouac with Caucasian shepherds, or a day
on the Chamonix Aiguilles, can be found on our bookshelves.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 225. F. 20. 600w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 119. F. 27, ’09. 340w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 49. Ja. 9, ’09. 300w.
=Munby, Alan Edward.=^{[8]} Introduction to the chemistry and physics
of building materials. *$2. Van Nostrand.
9–27410.
“An elementary description of the chemical, physical and geological
phenomena that must be understood before a good knowledge of the
properties of building materials can be gained. The text is extremely
elementary, as a rule, but will nevertheless prove desirable reading for
undergraduates in technical schools and others who wish to secure some
general information on the subject without a prolonged study of the
sciences named. While the book was prepared primarily for the British
reader, recent advances in the technology of cements made in the United
States are mentioned in it.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“As preliminary reading it has a field.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 3. Jl. 15, ’09. 300w.
“It will be found to supply in convenient form information rather
difficult to obtain readily from any other source.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 139. Jl. 31, ’09. 130w.
“The book will not be so useful to the uneducated or self-educated
builder and mechanic as to the one who has had a smattering of school
science but is not able to apply it to his work. The use of British
names for stone and other building materials impairs the value of the
book for the American public.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 286. S. 23, ’09. 270w.
“In spite of a few minor points like these, the book as a whole is well
written, and admirably adapted to the class for whom it is intended. It
deserves to take a permanent place among the textbooks upon the subject,
and in future editions the points referred to will no doubt receive
attention.” H. B.
+ − =Nature.= 81: 62. Jl. 15, ’09. 420w.
“The volume is inclusive and explicit in its treatment of the subject,
and it furnishes all who are engaged in engineering and technical trades
with an excellent work of reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 555. S. 18, ’09. 270w.
=Munford, Beverley Bland.=^{[12]} Virginia’s attitude toward slavery
and secession. **$2. Longmans.
9–28220.
“Both before and since the civil war it has been almost universally held
in the North that Virginia was strongly pro-slavery in sentiment as well
as hostile to the Union. Mr. Beverley B. Munford now presents the view
that the state was strongly anti-slavery in sentiment, and at the same
time friendly to the Union, and that the influences which finally
impelled Virginia to secede must be traced to other causes. Mr. Munford
marshals an imposing array of historical documents and brings to the
support of his position facts which it would be found extremely
difficult if not impossible to gainsay.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“A candid and temperate examination of all the events and currents of
sentiment and opinion leading up to the war.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 746. N. 27, ’09. 900w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 764. D. ’09. 100w.
=Munro, William Bennett.= Government of European cities. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
9–7553.
An introduction to the study of European city governments which explains
the structure and functions of city government in three European
countries—France, Germany (the Prussian system is outlined as
representative of the German type) and England—and contrasts these with
the functions of city government in the United States.
* * * * *
“It is a book which will prove a great benefit to the serious-minded
reader interested in municipal government; but it will probably be used
mostly as a reference or textbook in colleges and universities. The
style is sometimes too involved for rapid reading—many sentences needing
to be broken up and recast.” Howard Woodhead.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 122. Jl. ’09. 1400w.
“One of the best studies on municipal government, more scientific than
Shaw’s.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 143. My. ’09.
“Dr. Munro’s book is the most important recent addition to the
literature of comparative municipal government. It should be read by
everyone interested in local government and its improvement.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 609. N. ’09. 400w.
“We are disappointed with this volume. Dr. Munro does not seem to have
kept clearly before him the difference of law and practice between
Prussia and many of the states of the German empire, or between England
and the rest of the United Kingdom. The other defect noticeable in the
book, which has, however, features of interest, is the general avoidance
of the subject of local taxation, upon which (after all) municipal
government rests.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 558. My. 8. 1100w.
“While not cast in so popular form as Shaw’s earlier volumes on the same
subject (with which one very naturally compares it) nevertheless it is
better fitted for educational classes and for use as a work of
reference.” C. R. Woodruff.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 265. S. ’09. 920w.
“Obviously, a book of this character is more suitable for reference than
for general reading; but this is more on account of the mass of details
which the author found it necessary to present, notwithstanding his
admirable condensation, than through any fault of style or method of
presentation.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 60. My. 13, ’09. 880w.
“Dr. Munro’s work, scholarly, full and clear, should satisfy curiosity
as to British, French and Prussian municipal methods.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1345. Je. 17, ’09. 380w.
“A valuable addition to this literature.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 160. Ag. 19, ’09. 350w.
“The methods of these two excellent books [Goodnow’s Municipal
government and Munro’s] upon municipal government are so different and
so mutually complementary that whoever desires either will desire both.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 642. O. 23, ’09. 520w.
“The work which he has done is on the whole the most comprehensive,
accurate, painstaking and thorough work which has been done in the
English language on the subjects which are treated.” F. J. Goodnow.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 315. Je. ’09. 650w.
“Such a body of knowledge is of the greatest value to all students of
comparative administration.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 254. Ag. ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Munro’s examination of the duties and function of this checking and
revising body [the Prussian ‘Magistrate’] is quite the best part of his
book, and well worth close attention. English readers will naturally
find a criticism of our own methods of local government more interesting
than that of strangers. The present criticism is a little
disappointing—too much ground is covered; too little space given to
essential details.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 4. S. 25, ’09. 1200w.
“His observations and criticisms are useful, though we are not prepared
to allow that the American system, at least in its results, is better
than ours.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 284. Ag. 21, ’09. 130w.
=Münsterberg, Hugo.=^{[6]} Eternal values. **$2.50. Houghton.
9–14408.
A translation by the author of his German edition in which he has left
out side issues that connected the work with particular German movements
and has made additions that refer to recent American discussions. The
purpose of the volume is to answer the relativist in his theory that
everything is relative, that everything is good only for a certain
purpose, for a certain time, for a certain social group, for a certain
individual; to show that relativism and skepticism are wrong, that
idealism is justified by true science and true philosophy, and that “one
may stand with both feet on the rock of facts and may yet hold to the
absolute values as eternally belonging to the structure of the world.”
* * * * *
“So speaks the book, a book sure to attract attention. So runs Professor
Münsterberg’s interesting logism, always ingenious when not also
brilliant, and in the freedom of it he has successfully transformed the
world of values, making that world meet the demands of his selected
principle of identity, so long known as the principle of the formal
logic and so useful as the fundamental working hypothesis of all
positive science.” A. H. Lloyd.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 634. O. ’09. 1350w.
“The work is likely to be called for on account of the author’s
reputation but only those schooled in metaphysical and philosophic
thought will find it intelligible.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 81. N. ’09.
“Only those schooled in philosophic and metaphysical reasoning will find
the book intelligible, and they will declare its method unphilosophical.
The book is really a statement of the author’s personal convictions
regarding the construction of the moral universe.”
− =Bib. World.= 34: 143. Ag. ’09. 70w.
“Will interest the same set of readers who in this country are
accustomed to follow the author’s more philosophical contributions.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 338. N. 1, ’09. 270w.
“Of all the services which Professor Münsterberg has rendered the
thinking public in this country this volume is the most worthy and
enduring.” A. U. Pope.
+ =Ind.= 67: 879. O. 14, ’09. 1100w.
“The book is very hard reading. Altogether, the ‘Eternal values’ cannot
but add to Prof. Münsterberg’s reputation as a profound if not very
original thinker.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 798. D. 18, ’09. 780w.
=Outlook.= 93: 878. D. 18, ’09. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 255. Ag. ’09. 100w.
=Münsterberg, Hugo.=^{[12]} Psychology and the teacher. **$1.50.
Appleton.
9–28281.
“Professor Münsterberg says that one does not study a time-table to
decide whether to travel north or south, but, after deciding where to
travel, studies the table to discover how to go; so one cannot learn
from psychology what the aims of teaching are; but, after deciding on
the aims, one can learn from psychology the means. So he divides his
book into three parts; the first, which he calls the Ethical part, is on
the ‘Aims of the teacher’; the second, which he calls the Psychological
part, is on the ‘Mind of the pupil’; and the third, which he calls the
Educational part, is on the ‘Work of the school.’ In other words, he
presents what he regards as the philosophy that underlies teaching, then
the mental facts with which the teacher has to deal, and finally certain
conclusions regarding practical questions.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is largely advice, partly sermonizing, together with some sound
exposition of wholesome texts; and the whole, if well shaken and
frequently taken, should prove an efficient corrective for much weak
sentiment and weaker thinking that passes for wisdom at educational
meetings.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 338. N. 1, ’09. 470w.
“A volume of importance.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 878. D. 18, ’09. 160w.
=Münsterberg, Hugo.=^{[5]} Psychotherapy. **$2. Moffat.
9–12057.
“Takes up the phenomena blindly used and as blindly misused in the
various systems of ‘mental healing’ and ‘faith cure,’ frees them from
mysticism, fanaticism, and fraud, and presents them as they are, with
their possibilities and limitations definitely formulated and in some
measure explained.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“While not technical, neither is it popular, and it will not be directly
helpful to the average reader. A book for the special student and for
ministers and physicians engaged in the work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 175. Je. ’09.
Reviewed by J. D. Stoops.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 623. N. ’09. 380w.
“No more concrete and valuable application of the larger problem appears
on the vista of our present interests than that which affects the
attitude toward the maintenance of human health, which means sanity; and
Professor Münsterberg’s book finds its significance as a worthy and
wholesome influence to this end.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 46: 292. My. 1, ’09. 1600w.
“The book will, without doubt, be widely read, and will increase in
marked degree the interest of the public in psychotherapy.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 189. Ag. 26, ’09. 2200w.
“In some senses the most important of the many volumes that have come
from his industrious pen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 271. My. 1, ’09. 1050w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 644. N. 20, ’09. 210w.
“It is a pity that the book is intended to serve for propaganda to so
many classes. A book frankly addressed to physicians, and another
frankly addressed to the layman would have been safer and more
acceptable.” Adolf Meyer.
− =Science=, n.s. 30: 150. Jl. 30, ’09. 2200w.
=Murphy, Agnes C.=^{[12]} Melba. **$2.75. Doubleday.
A story of Melba’s life in which the reader is permitted to run up the
great diva’s ladder to fame, and to learn the trials and hardships
endured at every round. The biography is “brought down to the spring of
1908, all her tours and her appearances being related in detail, and
with a number of personal anecdotes that illustrate her energy, her
ambition as an artist, her kindheartedness and straightforwardness, and
especially her interest and the unselfishness in aiding young artists to
success.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is far from being a critical biography. It is a fervent and devoted
eulogy.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 702. N. 13, ’09. 750w.
“Independently of its subject, however, the book throws a good deal of
light on the psychology of musical hero-worship. Personally we have a
distaste for these ‘lauds of the living,’ but in this case they are
animated by a perfect sincerity and redeemed by a most engagingly
unconscious humour.” C. L. G.
+ =Spec.= 103: 686. O. 30, ’09. 1550w.
=Murphy, Edgar Gardner.=^{[8]} Basis of ascendancy: a discussion of
certain principles of public policy involved in the development of
the Southern states. *$1.50. Longmans.
9–17972.
“In this volume Mr. Murphy endeavors to formulate the great race
question, as the South must see it for her present comfort and future
security. Back of all the issues of the moment, he declares, ‘as they
may express themselves in this or that phase of definite legislation or
of accepted custom, there lies the question of fundamental attitude.
Where two social or racial groups,—a stronger and a weaker,—find
themselves in inevitable contact upon the same soil, what elementary
principles shall ultimately determine the policies of the state?’”—R. of
Rs.
* * * * *
“His earlier volume, which was published five years ago, together with
the present book, may interest those people who care for philosophic
speculation on such matters and do not insist on practical proposals.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 236. Ag. 28. 130w.
“It seems to be not so much left over material, as surplus
philosophizing, which Mr. Murphy here utilizes. For the work is almost
pure abstraction. With all of his philosophy, if we understand it, it
would be impossible for us to agree; but we can at least recognize a
brave and generous spirit in this Southerner writing primarily for
Southerners.”
− =Nation.= 89: 57. Jl. 15, ’09. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 210w.
“It is a good book for both sides in the controversy to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 566. S. 25, ’09. 1400w.
“A tone of courteous, firm conviction expressed in scholarly, elegant
style is characteristic of all his writings. Calmness and logic
characterize in a high degree his latest book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 160w.
“Its tone is sympathetic and kindly, but it is difficult reading, and
its 248 pages are full of intricate phrasing and over-elaboration.” M.
W. Ovington.
+ − =Survey.= 23: 169. N. 6, ’09. 950w.
=Murray, John Clark.= Hand-book of Christian ethics. *$2.25. Scribner.
9–5890.
“Tends toward an important simplification, perhaps an entire
reconstruction, of Christian dogmatics. No theory can stand except by
vindication in practical tests. Professor Murray carries into his
discussion from its outset an ethical conception of religion. Viewing
religion as attachment to God with the will, his definition of the
ethical ideal of Christianity as revealed in Jesus is ‘the realization
of God’s will with regard to man.’ This is then exhibited in its
pre-Christian evolution, in its New Testament presentations, in its
development in individual life and character, in the church, the family,
the state, and, finally, in general and special methods of moral
culture.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“While the work fails to do justice to many problems growing out of a
genetic study of morality, it is an unusually excellent discussion of
the subject from the point of view with which most clergymen are
familiar, and is especially valuable because it expounds morals in terms
of defensible psychology.” G. B. Smith.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 471. Jl. ’09. 500w.
“An excellent summary.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 143. F. ’09. 30w.
“Comprehensiveness, insight, discrimination, and lucidity characterize
the discussion throughout. Here and there one is disposed to question.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 247. Ja. 30, ’09. 340w.
“The book is a sensible presentation of the subject. It is well written
and well arranged, and will be of great service to the student and
general reader desiring an introduction to the study of Christian
ethics.” Frank Thilly.
+ =Philos. R.= 18: 549. S. ’09. 1400w.
=Musselman, Rev. Hugh Thomas, and Tralle, Rev. H. E.= The
Sunday-school teacher’s school. *40c. Am. Bapt.
The first part of this handbook written by Mr. Musselman discusses the
work and organization of the Sunday school; the second part by Mr.
Tralle deals with its conduct and equipment.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 176. Je. ’09.
=Musset, Paul Edme de.= Mr. Wind and Madame Rain; tr. with permission
of the author by Emily Makepeace. (Harper’s young people ser.) †60c.
Harper.
9–35180.
A nursery tale composed of material gathered from the unconnected
folk-lore recitals of Breton peasants.
* * * * *
“A cheap reprint that will serve for ordinary use and has the advantage
of being lighter in weight. The story is based on legends of Brittany,
is full of action and narrated with great charm and simplicity.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 64. F. ’09. ✠
“An enchanting tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 631. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
N
=Nagel, Oskar.= Mechanical appliances of the chemical and
metallurgical industries: a complete description of the machines and
apparatus used in chemical and metallurgical process for chemists,
metallurgists, engineers, manufacturers, superintendents and
students. *$2. Oskar Nagel, P. O. box 385, N. Y.
9–567.
“In this work the author discusses in great detail all the important
types of machines and appliances which are of direct interest to
industrial chemists and metallurgists, giving descriptions of those used
in this country which he considers to be of the highest
standard.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“No other work in English deals with the subject matter here considered,
and it is therefore a welcome addition to our technical literature.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 174. F. ’09. 220w.
“Its value is mainly descriptive. The book as a whole is well arranged
and well written, and the explanations are reasonably clear and concise.
It will be of value to anyone wishing to get an idea of the arrangement
and operation of any of the numerous appliances described.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 33. Mr. 18, ’09. 460w.
“The book is weak in two points: First, while some chapters, and
especially the description of American-made machinery, are smooth and
easy reading, the English in other chapters is bad. In many cases it is
difficult to get at all at the sense of the text. Second, the book is
essentially descriptive, written from the standpoint of the mechanical
engineer who builds machines for chemical industries. The fundamental
physico-chemical principles on which a thorough understanding of the
operation of these machines must ultimately depend are lost sight of.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 195. F. 13, ’09. 250w.
=Nascher, Ignatz Leo.=^{[7]} Wretches of Povertyville: a sociological
study of the Bowery. $1.25. Jos. J. Lanzit, 227 So. Green st.,
Chicago.
9–14830.
A description of the Bowery—the backbone of Povertyville—with special
emphasis upon the vicious phases of life found there. The author calls
it “a hell such as Dante could never conceive of, a hell without a river
Lethe to bestow hell’s only blessing, forgetfulness.” The barrooms,
dens, dance halls, opium joints, etc. are reviewed and their habitués
presented in all their sin-sodden repulsiveness.
* * * * *
“The author has no apparent object or literary skill and the book is
filled with repetition.”
− =Ind.= 67: 147. Jl. 15, ’09. 40w.
“His information is useful only to the police and social workers, all of
whom already possess it ten times over. For everybody else it is either
revolting or viciously attractive. The ‘Practical measures’ suggested in
the closing chapter are loosely thought out. They suggest a smattering
knowledge of criminology blended with a great deal of shrewd but
one-sided observation.”
− =Nation.= 88: 628. Je. 24, ’09. 130w.
“The author is an excellent guide—he tells everything, all that he knows
and anybody knows, and even more mayhap, both of the past and present;
and pleasantly, with a rhythm in his talk, does he tell his story. But,
be you no slummer,—as slummers go—you will find here meat for thought,
deep and profound.”
+ =Survey.= 22: 723. Ag. 28, ’09. 570w.
=Nathan, Sir Nathaniel.=^{[12]} Economic heresies: being an unorthodox
attempt to appreciate the economic problems presented by “things as
they are.” *$3. Houghton.
9–14519.
The author’s heresy consists, he states in thinking that “the formulae
deduced by orthodox economists are inadequate,” and that “efforts of
society to bring about a better state of things must not be hampered by
an unquestioning acquiescence in a body of doctrine deduced from
imperfect observation of some of the facts attending a bygone and
rudimentary stage in the economic history of the world.” “The author is
against the orthodox economists—a term which is now of very vague
import—and he is against the socialists in their ‘new creed of
collectivism.’ He is, however, in favour of that particular form of
socialism which thinks it can regulate trade, not by free exchange, but
by that variety of considerations which go to prompt a scientific
tariff.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“His restatement of the controversies between free trade and protection,
socialism and individualism are especially illuminating and impartial.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 122. D. ’09.
“Sir Nathaniel’s acquaintance with American economics, so far as one can
judge from this book, seems largely confined to Henry George, Upton
Sinclair, and W. J. Bryan. The best part of this vigorous treatise is
the analysis of socialism.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 437. N. 4, ’09. 1300w.
“We cannot ourselves reconcile what appear to us to be irreconcilable
opinions, but we recommend the work as typical of the frame of mind
which rejects the aid of general principles, and considers every project
on what are called ‘the merits of the case,’ a euphemism for much of the
unscientific thinking by which the world is now troubled.”
− =Spec.= 103: sup. 715. N. 6, ’09. 220w.
=National association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis.=
Campaign against tuberculosis in the United States; including a
directory of institutions dealing with tuberculosis in the United
States and Canada; comp, by Philip P. Jacobs. $1. Charities pub.
com.
8–27800.
“A comprehensive and useful directory of the sanatoria, hospitals,
dispensaries, and associations which exist wholly or in part to combat
this plague. Canada, Porto Rico, the Philippines, and Hawaii are
included; there is no mention of Mexico, but Cuba stands perhaps
prophetically between Connecticut and Delaware. In part the book, whose
compilation is attributed to Philip P. Jacobs, is a revision of the
directory which Miss Brandt prepared four or five years ago. About
seventy pages are devoted to brief statements of the legislation of
states and municipalities concerning notification, expectoration, and
other matters.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 263. N. ’08. ✠
“The estimate of the extent to which these laws are enforced is not very
satisfactory, and seems to be largely guess-work, as, indeed, it must
be. The copious index would be even better if it contained the names of
all the places.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 147. F. 11, ’09. 200w.
=Nearing, Scott, and Watson, Frank D.= Economics. *$1.90. Macmillan.
8–27507.
“Of the 500 pages only 40 are devoted to the theory of distribution.
There is no analysis of value and price; no mention of diminishing
returns (except in one passage enumerating exploded dogmas); no
treatment of money and credit, international trade, or foreign exchange.
In place of these topics—which are indeed somewhat hackneyed, like
matter and mind in metaphysics—the student is offered a rich and varied
mass of economic material, derived from publications of the
administrative bureaus at Washington, from President Roosevelt’s
messages, from current periodical literature, and from works on
‘practical economics.’ The only economic theorist whose works receive
serious consideration is Professor Patten. The evident purpose of the
authors is to acquaint the student with as many facts as possible,
without troubling him too much with underlying principles.”—J. Pol.
Econ.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 199. Ja. ’09. 200w.
=Dial.= 45: 301. N. 1, ’08. 40w.
“The general conception of a work on economics is an excellent one, and
there are, scattered throughout the work, a great many excellent and
original contributions which give promise of good work in the future;
but it must in honesty be said that there are multitudinous evidences of
the ‘prentice hand’ in the actual execution of the plan.” T. N. Carver.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 2: 24. Ap. ’09. 470w.
=Educ. R.= 37: 209. F. ’09. 30w.
=Ind.= 67: 304. Ag. 5, ’09. 140w.
“This book should be welcomed by those teachers of economics who are in
revolt against the ‘refinements’ of modern theory. It must be admitted
that there is a need for textbooks of this character. The book would
interest [students] in spite of an unfortunate literary style,
characterized at times by a frisky frivolity, at times by an utterly
hopeless pedantry.” A. S. Johnson.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 706. D. ’08. 950w.
“To those who think that economics can be taught only by giving chapters
of facts about pretty much everything in general the book is commended.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 559. S. ’09. 100w.
“The lively and journalistic treatment of these vital present-day
problems ought to impress the student with the importance and vitality
of the whole subject of economics and should add much to the interest of
classroom work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 300w.
=Neeser, Robert Wilden.=^{[7]} Statistical and chronological history
of the United States navy, 1775–1907. 2v. *$12. Macmillan.
9–6970.
These two volumes cover about one-third of Mr. Neeser’s work which when
completed will appear as follows: (1) Administration of navy department,
and events and dates of reference in United States naval history; (2)
Engagements, expeditions, and captures of vessels of war; (3) Captures
of merchantmen; (4) A complete record of every vessel’s service and
fate; (5) American privateers, 1772–1862; the state navies, 1775–1783;
and the confederate navy, 1861–1865. “Volume 1 is preliminary to the
remaining volumes, and consists of a remarkably exhaustive bibliography
of the history of the American navy.... In volume 2, which contains
Parts 1, 2, and 3, of the work, is disclosed the author’s unique method
of treating naval history.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Neeser has accurately described his book in the preface as ‘a
comprehensive reference work of our naval history.’ It is also an
immense guidebook to the field of history of which it treats. The
execution of so extensive and erudite a work requires the rare qualities
possessed by Mr. Neeser, patient and painstaking scholarship and
unlimited industry and enthusiasm.” C: O. Paulin.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 831. Jl. ’09. 700w.
“A comprehensive reference book of unusual merit, particularly fitted to
meet the needs of public libraries and students of naval history.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 329. My. 16, ’09. 300w.
“As a work of reference the two books now before us are indispensable to
every library and newspaper office and for any student who has hereafter
to deal with naval questions. In giving accurate and complete
information as to the history of the navy, together with a full analysis
of the sources consulted, Mr. Neeser has undoubtedly been successful in
filling a great need.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 12. Jl. 1, ’09. 330w.
+ =Spec.= 103: 206. Ag. 7, ’09. 400w.
=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.=^{[10]} Man-song [poems]. *$1. Kennerley.
9–25225.
Here is poetry, virile, full of red blood, man’s blood, quivering with
his passion, singing in his triumph quite untrammeled by convention of
thought or usage. The sweep of it carries the reader with it, the
elemental male is singing of life and achievement, giving glowing
tribute to love and to generation. There are twenty-five poems on such
subjects as: Woman-wine, love cry, nuptial song, April theology,
lonesome in town and the song of the turbine wheel. Then follow two
dramatic poem dialogs called The fugitive glory and The passing of the
lion.
* * * * *
“In spite of blemishes to be found in ‘Man-song,’ there is an
unmistakable sincerity in its pages. More than that, there is the lyric
intensity of a naïve and passionate human voice.” Bliss Carman.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 724. N. 20, ’09. 1250w.
=Nevill, Ralph Henry.= French prints of the eighteenth century. *$5.
Macmillan.
9–3354.
“In addition to a reliable account of the best surviving line engravings
produced in the three decades before the fall of Louis XVI, the author
calls up many a vivid picture of the society that, with all its faults,
was the most cultivated and brilliant in Europe in the eighteenth
century.” (Int. Studio.) “There are two main parts of the book: An
account of the lives and work of the great line-engravers and makers of
color-prints, with some general suggestions for amateur collectors; and
a catalogue of the most important French engravings of the eighteenth
century, grouped under an alphabetical arrangement of artists’ names,
and accompanied by brief descriptions, and notes on the various states.”
(Dial.) Illustrations and index.
* * * * *
“Half of Mr. Nevill’s work is taken up with ‘Detailed descriptions of
the most important French engravings executed in the eighteenth century
together with notes on their various states;’ and it is this part of it
which will be most often consulted. Unfortunately, it is not so good as
it might be.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 18. Jl. 3. 880w.
“An excellent guide to a little-known division of an art of which almost
nothing has been written in English.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 233. Ap. 1, ’09. 220w.
“Combining with a thorough grip of his subject a mastery of literary
style rare amongst art critics, Mr. Nevill has done far more in his new
volume than its title implies.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 336. F. ’09. 330w.
“A good elementary handbook of the subject and something better; for it
is agreeably written and contains much of anecdotal interest.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 313. Mr. 25, ’09. 440w.
=Nevill, Ralph Henry, and Jerningham, Charles E. W.=^{[5]} Piccadilly
to Pall Mall: manners, morals, and man. *$3.50. Dutton.
9–1983.
A survey of the manners and morals of fashionable London during the
latter half of the Victorian era. “In a sense it is an essay on city
life and its modern developments. The changes in London are the changes
that are going on in all cities which are in touch with modern growth.
Social life, political life, the life of the theatre, the court, the
club, the tavern, the modern flat, and the old mansion are all
comprehended. There is a chapter on morals not in a moralizing vein. One
who knows London will find delight in ‘From Piccadilly to Pall Mall.’ A
stranger to the great city will find in the book much valuable
information.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“As a whole, the contents of the book are varied and entertaining,
though not of uniform refinement.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 331. My. 16, ’09. 150w.
+ − =Nation.= 89: 74. Jl. 22, ’09. 320w.
“The book is remarkably well written and the authors are sure of their
facts, as well as sympathetic and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 126. Mr. 6, ’09. 450w.
“Though in the nature of things [the anecdotes and stories] are not new,
they are well put and brightly told, and serve to make the volume quite
a readable one.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 435. Ap. 3, ’09. 1000w.
=New= golfer’s almanac^{[10]}, carefully compiled and computed on an
ingenious astronomical basis for the year 1910 made up by W. L.
Stoddard, with sundry pictures by A. W. Bartlett, **90c. Houghton.
9–26303.
Aims to do for the golfer what the Old farmer’s almanac does for the
agriculturist. It contains a calendar and reliable weather predictions
for every month, besides an entertaining miscellany of golfing
literature and information.
* * * * *
“Among the humorous booklets of the season, [it is] one of the
wittiest.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 520. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 799. D. 18, ’09. 110w.
=Newbolt, Henry John.=^{[5]} New June. **$1.35. Dutton.
A story of Richard II’s court whose characters are modern in speech and
dress. “He puts into the mouths of his characters the language of
to-day, and is at no pains to introduce the ordinary paraphernalia and
Wardour street trappings of the writer of historical romance. He tells
of joustings, of battles, of journeyings by land and by water, of
warfare and intrigue, and he pictures these things as if they were
happening in our midst.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Newbolt makes a spirited plea for his method, which, however,
hardly convinces us. Apart from this, Mr. Newbolt’s slice from history
is astonishingly virile and imaginative.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 403. Ap. 3. 260w.
“A story that is not only historically true but that rings true to the
reader. Such is the witchery of his pen that the illusion is preserved
throughout, and the effect upon the reader is not so much that he has
been looking upon a skilfully designed pageant as that he has been
actually taking part in heroic happenings.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 436. Ap. 3, ’09. 400w.
“Speaking for ourselves, we are not greatly concerned to impugn the
truth of Mr. Newbolt’s psychology in view of the charm and eloquence of
his presentation. He has set before us many of the most dramatic
incidents of a highly romantic reign in an engaging guise without doing
violence to its main historical outlines.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 586. Ap. 10, ’09. 950w.
=Newman, Ernest.=^{[12]} Hugo Wolf. (New lib. of music.) *$2.50. Lane.
8–16557.
“Mr. Ernest Newman’s elaborate monograph on Hugo Wolf is divided into
two parts,—the first dealing with his life, and the second with his
works. The former makes of necessity very painful reading. Hugo Wolf,
who was the son of an unsuccessful Styrian leather-merchant, was denied
the qualities which make either for success or content. His school life
was unhappy, he was dismissed from the Vienna Conservatoire for
insubordination, and his temperament rendered it absolutely impossible
for him to make a livelihood by teaching, hack-work, or musical
criticism.... Mr. Newman’s elaborate analysis of the songs, operas, and
other compositions of Hugo Wolf is based on an intimate acquaintance
with the scores which is only possible in a thoroughly accomplished
musician.”—Spec.
* * * * *
+ =London Times.= 6: 354. N. 22, ’07. 1700w.
“Mr. Newman is one of the most ardent of Wolf’s admirers and his book is
by far the most comprehensive biography of the man and study of his art
that has appeared in English. It is also the ablest and best, although
it must be recognized that Mr. Newman’s position is to a considerable
degree that of a special pleader.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 723. N. 20, ’09. 870w.
“From his estimate of Wolf as the foremost song-writer of all time it is
possible to dissent energetically: but there is no gainsaying the
ability and enthusiasm with which he supports his claim. He is an
uncompromising but a convinced partisan.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 339. F. 29, ’08. 650w.
=Newsholme, Arthur.= Prevention of tuberculosis. *$3. Dutton.
8–33920.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“It is untechnical, scholarly and in a measure popular, though not
adapted to the uneducated reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 19. Ja. ’09.
“A bibliography of perhaps one hundred and fifty titles, in which we
note Ruchle for Ruehle, makes no pretence to completeness, but will be
found useful.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 120. F. 4, ’09. 400w.
“The book is free from technicalities, and may be commended to the
notice of all those interested in the national question of the
prevention of tuberculosis, and in the public health.” R. T. H.
+ =Nature.= 79: 422. F. 11, ’09. 700w.
“Dr. Newsholme has done a great service to the nation. His book should
be read, and read carefully, by every man in a position of
responsibility, however great or however limited that responsibility may
be.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 23. Ja. 2, ’09. 560w.
=Newte, Horace W. C.=^{[12]} Sparrows: the story of an unprotected
girl. $1.50. Kennerley.
Mavis Keeves’ London experiences as a bread winner provide the author
with material for “an exact and unrelieved picture of the temptations
and trials of friendless youth.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Photographic preciseness in delineation—which makes the assertion that
several of the characters have their prototypes in real life almost
unnecessary—renders the story undesirable for general home reading.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 341. Mr. 20. 170w.
“The author shows a thorough knowledge of the life of which he writes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 40w.
“The first half of the book is skillful and interesting, filled with
vivid descriptions and promising a realistic novel not unlike George
Moore’s work. But Mr. Newte has seen fit to introduce sentimentality and
to cater to the conventional prejudice which looks for a ‘happy ending,’
and, in consequence, his novel fails to achieve the significance which
it might well have had. His canvas is crowded with characters, all
sketched in with decisive strokes. In spite of its defects the book has
many elements of interest and merit.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 360w.
=Newton, Joseph Fort.= David Swing, poet-preacher. *$2. Torch press.
8–37339.
A sketch of the “eloquent and lovable and thoroughly human teacher of
the multitudes that used on Sundays to throng Central music hall in
Chicago.... The comparatively humble origin of the man, his simple,
almost Spartanlike upbringing, his determination to get an education in
spite of insufficient means, his inward call to the ministry, a call
obeyed with much diffidence and self-doubting, his growth in greatness
of soul, and his final bursting of the bonds of creed and the trammels
of dogma,—all this, and more, is well recounted by Mr. Newton.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Mr. Newton has well filled a gap in our biographical literature.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 192. Mr. 16, ’09. 300w.
“Mr. Newton’s work will perhaps find less favor with the average reader
than it would have found if the views of the great Chicago preacher had
been more concisely stated and illustrated in the words of the preacher,
and the facts of his life, his work, his associations, etc., more fully
unfolded.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 253. Jl. 29, ’09. 450w.
“The portrait has been drawn with care, with intelligent analysis of its
subject’s mental and spiritual qualities, but affection and personal
enthusiasm have often pushed the pencil.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 303. Mr. 25, ’09. 230w.
“It is a pity it could not have been written and published earlier, for
it is excellently done—an affectionate but just and discriminating
appreciation, a friendly but distinctly honest analysis and criticism.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 193. Ap. 3, ’09. 800w.
=Nibelungenlied=;^{[11]} tr. from the Middle High German by Daniel B.
Shumway. *$2. Houghton.
9–27926.
A literal translation of the Nibelungenlied that aims at accuracy and
avoids the error, often made by prose translations, of being too
continuous and in condensing too much. An introduction prefaces the
translation in which Professor Shumway compares the poem with the Iliad,
its rediscovery and restoration to the world of literature, the
Scandinavian sources of the story, the story itself, opposition to the
mythological interpretation, historical elements introduced during the
fifth century, variation from the Norse version, the strophic form, the
language and the character of the poem and its place in German
literature.
=Nichols, Starr Hoyt.= Breath of the world. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–34151.
More than three hundred and fifty sonnets are included in this volume
touching upon patriotism, evolution, philosophy, the supernatural, love,
men and affairs, animals, birds, flowers, and the author’s convictions
and feelings concerning life and nature.
=Nicholson, Meredith.=^{[11]} Lords of high decision. †$1.50.
Doubleday.
9–28248.
The Pittsburg of to-day, with its smoke which even besmirches some of
its characters, forms the background for this story of Wayne Craighill,
to whom wealth and position have brought nothing but a notorious
reputation for dissipation and drunkenness. A girl who is a nobody from
the anthracite country scorns him so hotly that his flirtatious advances
change to admiration; and for her he remakes himself, learns to work
with his hands, and to lead a clean life until he feels that he can look
the world in the face. Then he claims her love. There are many other
characters and many dramatic scenes and complications which round out
the plot.
* * * * *
“Who are ‘the lords of high decision?’ Let the questioner go to the
novel for his answer, and so gain the blissful experience of losing
himself in a book—a book from which he will rise with the sense of
having gathered something that will abide.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 729. N. 20, ’09. 450w.
=Nicolay, Helen.=^{[12]} Boys’ life of Ulysses S. Grant. †$1.50.
Century.
9–26306.
Authentic historical facts of Grant’s life are here served up to young
readers with all the sauce of a gifted story-teller’s art. A book for
every young school boy’s library.
* * * * *
“Miss Nicolay adequately supplements history.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1363. D. 16, ’09. 40w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 636. O. 16, ’09. 80w.
=Nation.= 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 785. D. 11, ’09. 130w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson.= “Ian Maclaren;” the life of the Rev. John
Watson, D. D. **$2. Dodd.
8–33799.
A sketch of John Watson, the man, preacher, writer and lecturer,
emphasizing his breadth of sympathy, kindliness, humaneness and broad
liberality respecting theological questions.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 107. Ap. ’09.
“On the whole, Dr. Robertson Nicoll has done his work well.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 220. F. 20. 750w.
“It is all highly interesting and worth reading; but does not, for some
reason, have that indescribable quality of the ‘inevitable,’ the best
possible, the complete and final, which the great biographies seem to
possess.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 87. F. 1, ’09. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 80w.
“Admirable biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 771. D. 12, ’08. 860w.
“An admirably written biography of a lovable and admirable man.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 148. Ja. 23, ’09. 500w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 492. Ja. ’09. 740w.
=Spec.= 101: 1000. D. 12, ’08. 580w.
=Nicolson, John T., and Smith, Dempster.= Lathe design for high- and
low-speed steels: a treatise on the kinematical and dynamical
principles governing the construction of metal turning lathes; with
notes to guide the purchaser in the choice of a tool and many
examples from practice. *$6. Longmans.
9–8784.
“In this extensive treatise, covering some 400 large pages, the authors
have attempted to lift the design of metal-cutting lathes to a high
level of scientific engineering; and every phase of the subject has
apparently had its share of careful attention, even to the limitations
put upon the practical designer by commercial considerations.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“It is characterized by thoroughness of treatment and comprehensiveness
of scope, and should be in the possession of every designer of lathes
and boring mills.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 664. D. ’08. 330w.
“The book cannot be considered in all respects an unqualified success,
though it shows throughout painstaking effort; and more particularly as
numerous American engineers and machine designers are aware of the
exceeding simple manner in which Mr. Taylor’s still active associates
handle the subject of speeds, feeds, and power for lathes and other
machine tools, by means of slide-rules embodying the formulas entering
into the solutions of the problems implying these elements.” C. G.
Barth.
− + =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 691. D. 17, ’08. 730w.
“While the book may be of greater usefulness to the designer of large or
roughing out lathes than it is for the small sizes, it is safe to say
that no other book has been published that approaches this in either its
scope or in its scientific treatment of the whole subject.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 58: 679. D. 12, ’08. 460w.
“It is an admirable example of the way in which scientific research in
our engineering schools can be applied to advance and improve the great
manufacturing industries of the country.” T. H. B.
+ =Nature.= 80: 33. Mr. 11, ’09. 560w.
=Niven, Frederick.= Lost cabin mine. †$1.50. Lane.
9–9250.
“This is a story of the Far West, and is full of exciting adventures and
of bloodstained combats. The hero is not the man who tells the story,
but his companion, known as ‘the Apache Kid,’ who has committed a
mysterious crime which prevents his ever returning to his family in
England. The Apache Kid is, however, possessed of indomitable courage,
great generosity, and unselfishness; in fact, of all the virtues
necessary to the hero of this sort of romance.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The book should be read by lovers of good fiction.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 641. N. 21. 100w.
“It is good material of its kind, quite familiar, to be sure, but
welcome none the less after a respite of several years.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 764. Ap. 8, ’09. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 134. Mr. 6, ’09. 240w.
“The author is to be congratulated on having succeeded in making his
sensational episodes really exciting, and also on the convincing nature
of the catastrophe which overwhelms the ‘Lost cabin’ and the mine.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 136. Ja. 2, ’09. 110w.
=Nolloth, Charles Frederick.=^{[8]} Person of our Lord and recent
thought. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“Mr. Nolloth’s plan is to take those parts of the New Testament which in
the opinion of the most liberal critics are allowed to rank as genuine,
and from this irreducible minimum to show that a picture of our Lord’s
personality may be formed similar in all its main features to what the
church has believed and taught. Such a plan involves a review of almost
all the points on which controversy exists with regard to the gospels;
the reader who has digested this book will be well up in the
difficulties and problems of modern criticism.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“In dealing with the ‘sources’ he discriminates between the evidential
values to be assigned to the Synoptists and the Fourth gospel, but in
such a manner as to prove plainly that he entertains no doubt as to
Johannine authorship or the historical validity of the narrative. Of
Philo he says ‘there is no doubt that he was acquainted with Christ and
Christianity.’ There is no warrant whatever for this statement.” R.
Roberts.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 945. Jl. ’09. 1800w.
“A very useful handbook, so good that it deserves to rank as a companion
volume to Dr. Sanday’s. If his style, straightforward and clear as it
is, lacks the winning charm which marks everything that Dr. Sanday
writes, he is equally well versed in the theories of German critics and
fully as fair in his treatment of them; his book, too, is more of a
unity; it is written on one subject and adheres methodically to it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 250. F. 20, ’09. 300w.
=Norris, Frank.=^{[7]} Third circle. †$1.50. Lane.
9–15089.
Sixteen stories gathered from various magazines to which the author
contributed during the ten years following 1891. “Nearly all of them
have their scenes laid in the San Francisco of the last decade of the
nineteenth century and give brief glimpses of life, sudden snatches of
light and color, as the author saw them in his walks about the city.
None is of much importance in itself, but all are of interest in the
view they give of a novelist in the making.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Not equal to the author’s more mature work, but entertaining, and
interesting as showing his early versatility and realistic bent.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 56. O. ’09.
“The sketches here presented are rather journalistic than literary.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 206. Ag. 21. 100w.
“As they stand, they display not so much growth as versatility. They are
extremely clever, and, with three or four exceptions, patently
‘magazinable.’”
+ =Nation.= 88: 607. Je. 17, ’09. 620w.
“All of them show more or less of those qualities of close observation
and vivid rendering which made distinctive his later novels.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 339. My. 29, ’09. 140w.
“In its sixteen tales one can trace the unfolding of his mental
qualities and see them gradually increasing in force and clarity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12. ’09. 160w.
“The stories do not show Mr. Norris at his best, but they were well
worth collecting. The author had the seeing eye and the gift of
conveying vividly what he saw.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 264. Ag. 28, ’09. 70w.
“The book, altogether, is well worth reading, even though the sketches
are unequal.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 425. S. 18, 09. 180w.
=North, Lawrence.= Syrinx. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–6851.
A “fantastic and unreal” story of a girl who remained a minx in spite of
her voracious zest for musty Greek texts in the manuscript room of the
British museum. “It is impossible to note any steadying influence which
her profound knowledge of Greek may have had upon her character. In
fact, she is able to make use of that knowledge to accent her
capriciousness, and her absorption of the Greek spirit makes her only so
much the more of a siren. So it is no wonder that she mows her way
triumphantly through the hearts of artists and savants alike in a
veritable triumph of bluestockingism—or maybe it is only the same old
sirenism, after all.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“This is an interesting, almost an important story. Three purposes are
fulfilled in it. It expresses hints of a new social manifestation; it
preserves (in difficult circumstances) an air of sanity and reality; and
it inspires in a reader the desire to know what will happen.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 433. Ap. 10. 220w.
“It is a sparkling tale, perfectly fantastic, diabolically clever,
ornamented with descriptions that remind one of ‘Ouida’ in her most
opulent verbal moods, and with dialogue that recalls ‘The green
carnation.’” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 369. Je. 1, ’09. 380w.
“The book has a freshness of touch and manner and an individual attitude
toward the world that are quite engaging. There is much clever talk
while the portrayal of the two chief characters, the heroine and a
middle-aged scholar who is one of her suitors, is very interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 194. Ap. 3, ’09. 250w.
“A clever book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 373. Mr. 20, ’09. 320w.
=Norton, Dora Miriam.=^{[6]} Freehand perspective and sketching. $3.
Dora M. Norton, Pratt institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.
9–7582.
A book that “presents essentially the course of study that has been
developed at Pratt institute. The author’s aim is to give the student a
foundation of definite knowledge and practice sufficient to make him
master of principles and methods. The volume is intended to be a text
book for high, normal, and technical schools and colleges, and also a
work of reference for supervisors and teachers of drawing, while
draughtsmen and artists, whose training in perspective has been
insufficient, will also find it valuable.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A good text for schools above the grades and a useful reference work
for teachers and artists.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 143. My. ’09.
“The book, which is attractively illustrated with great practical
detail, covers its subject comprehensively and will be found a thorough
guide in pictorial representation of common objects, interiors,
buildings and landscapes.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 60w.
“A clear, concise, and simple exposition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 265. Ap. 24, ’09. 130w.
=Norwood, Gilbert.=^{[7]} Riddle of the Bacchæ: the last stage of
Euripides’ religious views. *5s. Univ. press, Manchester, Eng.
“The interest of Mr. Norwood’s book ... lies in the way in which, by
applying Dr. Verrall’s methods to the plot of the play and the character
of Dionysus, he first shows up difficulties and inconsistencies, some of
which have hardly been noticed before, or perhaps have not received due
consideration, and then produces his own startling theory, which, he
claims, is the great solvent of all the perplexities, the clue to ‘The
riddle of the “Bacchæ.”’ This is really the gist of the book.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Mr. Norwood is generally clear, and abounds in illuminating thoughts.
He has added a full bibliography (running to twenty-three pages) of
writings on Euripides, and for this every scholar will offer his sincere
thanks. In fine, though his style and English are sometimes poor, and
misprints are too numerous, he has done a very good piece of work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 740. Je. 13. 480w.
“It may be said of him, as he himself says of Verrall about another
matter: ‘Dr. Verrall is pushing subtlety too far.’ But his book should
be read by all students of Euripides.” C. F. Castle.
+ − =Class. Philol.= 4: 337 Jl. ’09. 650w.
“Is a very welcome addition to the bibliography of Euripides, and a
scholarly and interesting piece of work.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 565. My. 2, ’08. 1700w.
=Spec.= 101: 544. O. 10, ’08. 1000w.
=Nott, Charles Cooper.= Mystery of the Pinckney draught. **$2.
Century.
8–33815.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“It is to be regretted that so much time and labor, by a man of such
ability as Judge Nott, should have been wasted in a mistaken cause.” Max
Farrand.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 592. Ap. ’09. 1050w.
Reviewed by R. E. Bisbee.
=Arena.= 41: 510. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“Will interest all historical students.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 306. F. 20, ’09. 130w.
“His book is not convincing in itself, and is marred by remarkable
omissions.”
− =Nation.= 88: 282. Mr. 18, ’09. 1700w.
“Chief Justice Nott’s argument is a fine example of the higher criticism
and a large contribution to the story of how the constitution grew. It
is as convincing as anything could be with such materials to work from.
But Justice Nott admits inconsistencies, which, indeed, it is his chief
function to reconcile.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 146. Mr. 13, ’09. 1100w.
“It may be questioned whether historians will accept Judge Nott’s
conclusions as final; but he certainly has made out a stronger case for
Pinckney than any one has hitherto suspected possible. His book deserves
to be, and doubtless will be, thoughtfully pondered by every student of
the American constitution.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 338. F. 13, ’09. 340w.
=Noyes, Alexander Dana.=^{[8]} Forty years of American finance: a
short financial history of the government and people of the United
States since the civil war. 1865–1907. **$1.50. Putnam.
9–13622.
The second and extended edition of “Thirty years of American finance.”
“The interest attaching to the present edition lies chiefly in its
treatment of the episodes culminating in the Northern Pacific corner,
the silent panic of 1903, and the collapse of 1907.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 147. D. ’09.
“A very interesting and serviceable narrative of a period of American
finance marked by movements and events full of the greatest significance
to the American people.” R. V. Phelan.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 623. N. ’09. 420w.
“For the preparation of his new chapters, Mr. Noyes possessed rich
material of his own.” W. C. Mitchell.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 370. D. ’09. 540w.
“Coming from so well recognized an authority as Mr. Noyes, makes the
book distinctly the best available account of the interesting period
leading up to the recent panic. As the writer states, his book is a
history, not an economic treatise. The analysis, study, and
interpretation of the course of events has yet to be made.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 482. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“Here they will find the facts marshaled with all the skill of a trained
financier and a brilliant journalist, who knows how to make the subject
not only clear to the ordinary reader but illuminating and instructive
to the student of commercial history and economics.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 180w.
“It adds to the author’s invaluable history ... an accurate,
dispassionate, and well-reasoned account of the decade that ended with
the panic of 1907.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 106. Jl. 29, ’09. 1450w.
“Mr. Noyes has hardly sufficient consideration for the men of affairs
whose plans went awry under influences so beyond foresight or control,
and it is necessary, therefore, to make allowances for his point of
view. Nevertheless, his book remains the best of its class.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 400w.
“The new work measures up to the high standard of the earlier one and
will likewise be indispensable to the student of American finance.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 566. S. ’09. 60w.
=Noyes, Alfred=, ed. Magic casement: an anthology of fairy poetry;
with an introd. by Alfred Noyes. *$2. Dutton.