“Consists of a tasteful and judicious selection of the fairy fancies of
English poets from Shakespeare onwards, including among the more modern
Mr. Kipling, Fiona Macleod, and Mr. G. K. Chesterton. It is but right
that some of the editor’s own work should find a place here also, since
he may be regarded as among the contemporary prophets of Fairyland and
the book is the richer for the presence—among other pieces from the same
pen—of ‘Sherwood’ and ‘The dream fair’ the latter an extract from the
dainty and inimitable ‘Forest of wild thyme.’”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Mr. Noyes’s introduction ... despite its charm and humour, seems to us
scarcely called for.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 571. N. 7. 170w.
“Delightful book.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 372. Je. 1, ’09. 60w.
“Will be a splendid addition to the bookshelves of any children’s room.”
M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1363. D. 16, ’09. 100w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1017. D. 4, ’09. 90w.
“A good volume of verse.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 278. Mr. 18, ’09. 110w.
“An excellent anthology for old as well as for the ‘mediumly’ young.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 70w.
“That the work of editing and collecting has been done by Mr. Alfred
Noyes is, perhaps, the book’s best indorsement.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 199. Ap. 3, ’09. 110w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= William Morris. (English men of letters.) **75c.
Macmillan.
9–5502.
A biography of one hundred and fifty pages in which one poet’s work is
appraised by a brother poet. More attention has been paid to the poetic
spirit of Morris, to the discovery of the real self in his poetry, than
to the vital facts in his career.
* * * * *
“Will serve admirably where as extensive a work as Mackail’s is not
needed.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 81. Mr. ’09. ✠
“It must be stated frankly that his attitude toward his subject is
sometimes puzzling, and is often in doubt regarding the sympathy and
admiration which he affirms.” W. E. Simonds.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 141. Mr. 1, ’09. 900w.
“As a revelation of the poetic mind the book is disappointing, for the
reason that, although it contains quite a deal of Morris, it contains
scarcely any of Noyes.” Walter Clayton.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 175. F. ’09, 1250w.
“Mr. Noyes has written a life of William Morris in a tone of almost
lyrical enthusiasm.” P. E. M.
+ =Nation.= 88: 243. Mr. 11, ’09. 4650w.
“Within the limits imposed by the series this monograph is the most
valuable and interesting comment on Morris which has yet appeared.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 360w.
“In place of Mr. Mackail’s ripe dignity or Pater’s virile subtlety or
Mr. Symons’ delicacy or Mr. Yeats’ distinction, he has nothing but a
gushing admiration for some of Morris’ work, a plainly perfunctory
acquaintance with the rest and an abounding facility in coining shoddy
metaphors.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 629. My. 15, ’09. 1200w.
“When all is said, Mr. Noyes has made a not unworthy contribution to the
literature of criticism. His faults are, at worst, the faults of youth,
and, like youth, will easily correct themselves.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 265. F. 13, ’09. 1950w.
=Nursey, Walter R.=^{[6]} Story of Isaac Brock: hero, defender and
saviour of upper Canada, 1812. (Canadian heroes ser.) **$1.50.
McClurg.
A story for boys and girls which sketches graphically the campaign of
1812 which saved Canada to the British crown.
* * * * *
“Graphic and vigorous account. Will be interesting alike to adults and
young people.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 122. D. ’09.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 785. D. 11, ’09. 80w.
O
=Oakley, E. Clarence.=^{[7]} Dyke’s Corners. $1. Badger, R: G.
9–14215.
A story which records the sleuth mission of a photographer’s “magic
box,” an invention which when used with the camera lays bare in the
resulting photograph the true character of the people reproduced. The
villain is run to cover and the heroine’s secret is read by means of it.
* * * * *
“It is not remarkable. The literary world would not have suffered if it
had never been written, and would pass away none the less happy (or
miserable) by not reading it. But it is simple, in places charming.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 469. Jl. 31, ’09. 90w.
=Obenchain, Eliza Calvert (Eliza Calvert Hall, pseud.).=^{[10]} Land
of long ago. †$1.50. Little.
9–24960.
Another instalment of short stories constructed from material in the
storehouse of Aunt Jane’s memory. In this volume the entertaining
narrator of Sally Anne’s experiences gives her opinions among other
things on the subject of modern divorce. She says: “The partin’ of
husbands and wives is one new-fangled way I can’t git used to”; and
quotes a good friend as saying: “If folks’d only forsake their sins as
easy as they forsake their husbands and their wives nowadays, this’d be
a sanctified world.” The stories are: A ride to town; The house that was
a wedding bee; The courtship of Miss Amaryllis; Aunt Jane goes
a-visiting; The marriage problem in Goshen; An eye for an eye; The
reformation of Sam Amos; In war times; and The watch meeting.
* * * * *
“Quite equal to the earlier volume.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 90. N. ’09. ✠
“Her recollections are both pathetic and humorous.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 635. O. 16, ’09. 230w.
“Tales that are brimming over with human nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 626. O. 23, ’09. 200w.
“Bubbling good humor is combined in a marked degree with an appreciation
of nature, and with an insight into the fundamental spiritual qualities
of the average man and woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 150w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Sir Walter Raleigh. (Heroes of American
history.) **$1. Harper.
9–4550.
A concise, graphic sketch of Raleigh’s life, including the many romantic
episodes that early take root in every school child’s imagination.
Raleigh, the boy, courtier, promoter of discovery and colonization,
sharer in the victory of the “invincible Armada,” the victim of
Elizabeth’s wrath, discoverer of Guiana, and Raleigh accused of
conspiracy and imprisoned are characterized true to history.
* * * * *
“He is graphic, and there is every effort to be accurate.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1363. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
“Writing, with his customary fullness and picturesque knowledge.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 130. Mr. 6, ’09. 650w.
=Oberg, Erik.= Handbook of small tools, comprising threading tools,
taps, dies, cutters, drills, and reamers, together with a complete
treatise on screw-thread systems. $3. Wiley.
9–565.
“The first seven chapters are devoted to screw thread systems, methods
and principles of thread cutting, threading tools, threading dies, hand,
taper, tapper, screw machine taps, hobs and die taps and their
principles of construction. These chapters form a valuable treatise on
screw threads and are by far the most useful portions of the book.
Chapters 8 and 9 are devoted to plain and side milling cutters and
miscellaneous cutter information. Chapter 10 deals with reamers, and
chapter 11 with drills, counterbores, hollow mills and lathe
mandrels.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“It is unquestionably the best book that has appeared on the subject of
small tools.” W: W. Bird.
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 22. F. 18, ’09. 430w.
“The text is concise and clear. The book is one that should be in the
library of every machine and tool designer as well as the expert
tool-maker.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 111. Ja. 23, ’09. 300w.
=O’Brien, Richard Barry.=^{[7]} Dublin castle and the Irish people.
*7s. 6d. Paul (Kegan), Trench, Truebner & co., London.
9–22289.
“A condensed historical account of English administration in Ireland,
with all its machinery and personnel, not omitting the ways in which it
impinges upon the feelings of Irishmen.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The subject is dry, yet the laboriously compiled information is shot
through with flashes of national spirit and with stories to the point.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 384. Ap. 15. ’09. 100w.
“Prejudiced it is, frankly, but it cannot be called unfair, for it is
full of documentary details, it is free from malice and intentional
misrepresentation, it abounds in authentic statistics. Naturally it is a
useful book, in which the whole Irish question is set forth as clearly
as possible. It will take its place on the shelves of the student of
contemporary history as an invaluable book of reference. But it is a
book to be read, too. It is interesting and vivacious from the very
first page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 361. Je. 12, ’09. 900w.
“The book is most skillfully constructed, alike in its statements and
its omissions, to appeal to the English Liberal mind. Mr. O’Brien is
careful never to define his terms: his business is not to think clearly,
but to write effectively, with an eye to people who never think.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 631. My. 15, ’09. 1500w.
=O’Brien, Mrs. Sibyl Wilbur.= Life of Mary Baker Eddy. $3. Concord
pub. co.
8–24841.
A sketch which defends Mrs. Eddy against the attacks made in the account
of her life published in McClure’s magazine last year.
* * * * *
“Many of her statements are manifestly and sweetly false, but doubtless
she is unaware of this. The worth of the book consists in the simplicity
of the author’s faith, and in her ability, therefore, to present Mrs.
Eddy in a character suitable to the belief of her ‘students.’”
− + =Ind.= 66: 100. Ja. 14, ’09. 640w.
“There is little doubt that such a biography will eminently satisfy
hardened Christian Scientists. That it will have any effect in
converting the unbelieving, or that it satisfactorily answers the
disagreeable charges brought against Mrs. Eddy as the ‘mother’ of
Christian Science is seriously open to doubt.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 596. O. 24, ’08. 1000w.
=Ogden, Henry Neely.= Sewer construction. $3. Wiley.
8–29346.
“This volume is not intended to discuss sewer design, but is written to
supplement an earlier work on that subject by the same author. Beginning
with an interesting chapter on the manufacture of terra-cotta pipe, the
author discusses at length the construction of brick and concrete
sewers, manholes, catch-basins, siphons, screens, bell-mouths,
foundations, house connections and other such details of sewerage work.
Drawings and descriptions of existing structures are given, and the
effectiveness of these designs in meeting actual conditions after
several years’ service is discussed.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“There are comparatively few errors in the text. This book is written
primarily for the student and the engineer confronted with these
problems for the first time; but in spite of the elementary nature of
much of the subject matter, it is a book which engineers who have been
designing and building sewers for many years can well afford the time to
read, and should have at hand for reference.” H. P. Eddy.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 689. D. 17, ’08. 250w
“A book which gives an excellent and comprehensive view of current
practice in the construction of sewerage systems. The chapter on screens
might have been enlarged to advantage by reference to sewage screening
in Germany.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 595. N. 21, ’08. 320w.
“Outstanding features of the book are the large number of well-produced
diagrams and drawings, illustrative of a great variety of constructional
work carried out in various towns in America, and the numerous
references, which the engineering student will find very useful.” E:
Ardern.
+ =Nature.= 80: 5. Mr. 4, ’09. 130w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.=^{[12]} Old Clinkers: a story of the New
York fire department. †$1.50. Small.
9–27992.
Thru several thrilling experiences on the fire-boat Hudson, the author
traces the struggle of Captain Keighley, “Old Clinkers,” the commander
of the boat, to keep the crew from “playin’ politics,” a game that was
threatened by the formation of a “benevolent association” known as
“Jigger jumpers.” The captain’s clean stand is revealed in the
following: “Here’s the firemen—the same breed as the policemen—an’ yuh
never hear a word against ’em. Why? ‘Cause our work’s too hot fer a
grafter—an’ too hot fer a politician—an’ too hot fer a ‘Jigger,’ unless
he’s a fireman first an’ a ‘Jigger’ after.”
* * * * *
“The book is remarkably well done, with bits of penetrative psychology
here and there, enjoyable alike for their terseness and their truth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 260w.
=Olcott, William Tyler.=^{[11]} In starland with a three-inch
telescope: a conveniently arranged guide for the use of the amateur
astronomer. **$1. Putnam.
9–27584.
A handbook whose convenience of arrangement is its chief claim to
usefulness. The author “has found by experience that what the student
most needs when he is observing with the telescope, is a page to glance
at that will serve as a guide to the object he desires to view, and
which affords concise data relative to that object. The diagrams
therefore direct the student’s vision, and the subject matter affords
the necessary information in each case.”
* * * * *
“A little book that will prove very convenient to the amateur
astronomer, even if equipped with nothing better than a good
opera-glass.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 340. N. 1, ’09. 50w.
“Many books have been written on the subject, but none are quite as
convenient for the student’s practical needs as the one lately compiled
by William Tyler Olcott. The latter part of the book ... contains many
valuable hints for the observer.” Mary Proctor.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 671. O. 30, ’09. 320w.
=Old= masters: one hundred examples of their work chosen from European
galleries and reproduced in colour, with notes on the pictures. 2v.
*$8. Dutton.