A hundred colored reproductions of pictures by the old masters of
Holland, Flanders, Germany, Italy and England, with explanatory text.
* * * * *
“We have no doubt that this book will achieve the object which the
publishers have in view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 368. S. 25. 850w.
“To possess these treasures is a delight, but to possess them in a
setting that destroys whatever of excellence the reproduction has
attained is a tragedy. Much might be said of the quality of the
reproduction, but these prints do not stand on their merits; they fall
by the serious error which the publisher made in mounting them on gray
paper. As a matter of fact, these reproductions are not above the
average either in fidelity to the originals or in intrinsic beauty.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 588. Mr. 18, ’09. 450w.
“Considering the good quality of the reproductions, the work is
remarkably cheap.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 338. F. ’09. 150w.
“The results as a whole have been remarkably successful and the
collection is very instructive and interesting. The text is unusually
adequate. The commentator has occasionally been unable to resist the
temptation to gush, which has overcome so many art critics. But the
pictures are the thing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 638. D. 24, ’08. 270w.
“The accompanying notes are informing and are written in a dignified
style, and the truly sumptuous volumes are valuable material for the
most ambitious art library.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 220w.
“The notes on the pictures are concise, but with considerable
information of the kind which stimulates to further study in the
biographies of the artists represented, and in the histories of national
and international art.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 335. F. 13, ’09. 120w.
=Old= yellow book; source of Browning’s The ring and the book in
complete photoreproduction; with tr., essay, and notes by C: W.
Hodell. *$7. Carnegie inst.
8–24883.
A photo-facsimile copy of the original “square old yellow book” in
“crumpled vellum” from which Browning gathered material for his great
poem, “The ring and the book,” and which he bequeathed to Balliol
college, Oxford.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1908, 2: 396. O. 3. 1100w.
“Mr. Hodell writes a fascinating essay of comparison between the source
and the artproduct, the whole being concluded by topical notes, 541 in
number, the result of much scholarly and painstaking research.” A. B.
McMahon.
+ =Dial.= 45: 344. N. 16, ’08. 1700w.
“Unfortunately the accredited expositor has in this instance brought to
his task a quite uncommon ignorance of the three languages that might
have been helpful to him and his readers.” L. F. Peirce.
+ − =Mod. Philol.= 6: 487. Ap. ’09. 4000w.
“The plan of the work can be heartily commended. In his essay Mr. Hodell
has summed up the substance of the matter with considerable skill,
although not every one will go with him in his excessive admiration for
Browning, or set the emphasis just as he sets it.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 198. F. 25, ’09. 1350w.
“Seeing that a few blemishes, due to creases in the original book, have
been removed, and that the pages have been re-numbered, it seems a pity
that the present book was not properly guillotined before being issued
to the public.”
+ − =Nature.= 79: 279. Ja. 7, ’09. 150w.
“It is quite as noteworthy mechanically as for its scholarship and the
enthusiasm of its maker.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 507. S. 19, ’08. 750w.
“It would be impossible to exaggerate the great interest of this
publication. The duty of reviewers obliges us to state that such parts
of the translation from the Italian as we have examined—and among them
the love-letters—bristle with curious, almost inexplicable, errors and
defects.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 107: 16. Ja. 2, ’09. 1050w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.=^{[7]} Antonio. **$1.30. Century.
9–19188.
A story of struggle and sacrifice in which a young monk is the heroic
figure. On the day that the monasteries of Portugal were suppressed and
the monks sent from them, Father Antonio makes a vow to devote his life
to the restoration to power of his order. That he may earn money to buy
back the monastery from the government he serves an apprenticeship to an
Oporto wine merchant, becomes invaluable to his employer, and finally
achieves the first step toward the success of his plan. Hand in hand
with his struggle to free himself from the clutch of usurers is the
strife between the man and the monk over the love of a girl.
* * * * *
“A strong and delicately wrought story and a picture of a modern
Catholic saint fit to hang beside Carmichael’s ‘Life of John William
Walshe.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 56. O. ’69. ✠
“The literary craftsmanship and imaginative contents of this long novel
are both of a high order.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 8. Jl. 3. 140w.
“A work of fiction with a spiritual appeal.”
+ =Atlan.= 104: 686. N. ’09. 210w.
“Obviously, the story has numerous faults. Yet these objections are more
than counterbalanced by the welcome fact that here is a book not written
in accord with any of the popular formulas.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 644. Ag. ’09. 470w.
“Is of fascinating interest.”
+ =Cath. World.= 90: 102. O. ’09. 550w.
“One of the most masterly and moving books of fiction that are often to
be met with.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 181. S. 16, ’09. 400w.
“A striking effort of the imagination, sustained to the end.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 549. S. 2, ’09. 170w.
“A story touched with an unusual charm and revealing literary skill far
beyond the average.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 429. Jl. 10, ’09. 520w.
“The accounts given us in this book of Antonio’s financial difficulties
are rather tedious and a little confused. The end, however, if not quite
convincing, is at any rate interesting.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 210. Ag. 7, ’09. 150w.
=Olin, Helen Remington.=^{[10]} Women of a state university: an
illustration of the working of coeducation in the middle West.
**$1.50. Putnam.
9–28280.
Nowhere has coeducation flourished as it has in the middle west. The
author’s investigations have been pursued in the University of
Wisconsin, where, during the past forty years, all of the typical middle
west conditions favoring coeducation have been called into existence.
The author uses Wisconsin’s history as an illustration of the higher
education of women in public as opposed to private institutions, and she
shows the relation of this education to public service, and its claim to
public support.
* * * * *
“The book as a whole will command the attention of college women and
educators.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 122. D. ’09.
=Oliver, Samuel Pasfield.=^{[8]} Life of Philibert Commerson; ed. by
G. F. Scott Elliot. *10s. 6d. Murray, John, London.
9–29831.
The first biography of Philibert Commerson published in English. His
expeditions in the interests of science are the most interesting part of
the sketch. “Had Commerson lived, he would have left a name second only
to that of Linnæus among the eighteenth-century naturalists, for besides
his vast knowledge he had a rare insight into the interrelations of
animals and plants in nature, and their dependence on, and adaptation
to, local geological and physical conditions. He was too clearly an
evolutionist, and with his vast knowledge and extraordinary personality
might well have changed the history of biology by causing the acceptance
of that idea even in the eighteenth century.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“We commend this book, which sympathetically relates the incidents of
his life, to all who care to read of noble, self-sacrificing work, for
Commerson may be described as a martyr in the pursuit of botanical
science.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 335. S. 18. 350w.
“Commerson was indeed a great man, and his life is ably and attractively
pieced together by the late Capt. Oliver from evidently very fragmentary
material. Undue stress is laid throughout on Commerson’s qualities as a
collector as compared with his qualities as a great thinker.” J. S. G.
+ − =Nature.= 80: 430. Je. 10, ’09. 770w.
=Spec.= 102: sup. 642. Ap. 24, ’09. 280w.
=Omar Khayyam.=^{[10]} Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; rendered into English
verse by E: Fitzgerald; ed., with introd. and notes by Reynold
Alleyne Nicholson. *$2.50. Macmillan.
A beautifully illustrated edition of the Rubaiyat with whose text has
been included a scholarly introduction and helpful notes by the lecturer
in Persian in the University of Cambridge.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 47: 462. D. 1, ’09. 60w.
“Is edited with a greater scholarship than the other [new editions].” W.
G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1357. D. 16, ’09. 90w.
=Nation.= 89: 570. D. 9, ’09. 50w.
=On= the gridiron, and other stories of outdoor sport, by Jesse Lynch
Williams, S. Scoville, jr., J. Conover, W. J. Henderson, and Paul
Hull.^{[11]} (Harper’s athletic ser.) †60c. Harper.
9–25182.
These sixteen stories of college and preparatory school life deal with
football (under the old rules), hockey and other winter sports or
amusements and show the boy in those moments which make for victory or
defeat in both score and character building.
=On= track and diamond, by George Harvey, Van Tassel Sutphen, James M.
Hallowell, J. Conover, and S. Scoville, jr. (Harper’s athletic ser.)
†60c. Harper.
9–10040.
A book which gives intimate pictures of “the struggles and triumphs of
baseball, the cinderpath, the river, and the tennis-court at school and
college.” Its spirit is that of clean, wholesome, live sportsmanship.
* * * * *
“Bright stories ... full of spirit and fair play.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 192. Je. ’09.
“The yarns themselves, without being remarkable, are of the kind which a
boyish reader may well find both entertaining and—moral. One suspects
that the moral idea was somewhat prominent in the compiler’s mind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 216. Ap. 10, ’09. 200w.
=O’Neill, Rose Cecil (Mrs. H. L. Wilson).=^{[8]} Lady in the white
veil; with il. by the author. †$1.50. Harper.
9–12877.
“A young man just landed after a long sojourn abroad stands mooning
before his old home in Stuyvesant square. A lady in a white veil emerges
from the supposedly deserted house beckons him into her carriage, and
drives him off into a tangle of fun and mystery.... A lunatic, with the
engaging habit of locking people in cellars and closets; a fat Uncle
Dodson, who plays the violin and rather fancies himself as a Sherlock
Holmes; an ingenious gamin, and a lost Titian figure in the story. It is
excellent fooling, and as a mystery story which does not take itself
seriously very good reading, indeed for the dog days.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It must be regretfully stated that she has written a very poor book. It
is quite impossible to discover why such a book should have been written
at all.” G. I. Colbron.
− =Bookm.= 29: 641. Ag. ’09. 340w.
“We have not had a story with more illusive charm, that was more
innocent, or tearfully witty, since ‘The loves of Edwy.’”
+ =Ind.= 67: 423. Ag. 19, ’09. 80w.
“The author has a spontaneous humor which is most diverting, and while
her characters are not particularly true to any accepted theories of
human nature, they are very amusing and likable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 337. My. 29, ’09. 180w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.=^{[6]} Governors. †$1.50. Little.
9–14415.
An intrepid, unconquerable magnate of finance lays a trap for four of
his millionaire friends by getting them to attach their signatures to a
paper which will render them parties to an illegal conspiracy. When they
waken to the real import of what they have done they make a desperate
attempt to steal the document. A daughter and niece of the original
conspirator play neat hands in a game that turns into one of hearts.
* * * * *
“He fails to convince us of the reality of the atmosphere of American
frenzied finance in these pages.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 120w.
“In the interval one learns much about Americans and American affairs
which will be considered new and curious even to the natives. He is a
born story-teller. His characters say and do things, and there is no
dullness anywhere.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.
“The interest is kept at a high pitch, although the situations are not
always convincing.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 406. Je. 26, ’09. 170w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.=^{[10]} Jeanne of the marshes. †$1.50.
Little.
9–26148.
A lively tale of love and intrigue in which the hero masquerades as a
Norfolk fisherman, while the heroine, young, beautiful and suffering
from ennui out of all keeping with her youth, takes his measure and
finds that he tallies with her idea of a man. While their affairs are
shaping themselves along unconventional lines the younger brother of the
masquerader is playing host to the girl’s step-mother and other
Londoners among whom a conspiracy shapes itself and in which an
underground passage plays an important part.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Missioner. †$1.50. Little.
7–41581.
A young man who determines to devote his money and his time to
philanthropic work selects for the field of his service a model English
village, the possession of a young woman of social prominence. He is
repulsed by her, and ordered out of the town, when suddenly she is
fascinated by his manliness and earnestness. Shadows of her past life
cross the path of their romance, but they are dispelled and happiness is
the final portion.
* * * * *
“Not since Mr. Oppenheim wrote ‘A prince of sinners’ have we read so
excellent a story from his pen. True, ‘The missioner’ is inferior to the
earlier work, but the hero is a character much stronger and more
convincing than have been most of his predecessors.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 41: 605. Ag. ’09. 340w.
“Is vivacious in dialogue, and full of scenes bright and sometimes
lurid.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 100w.
“Mr. Oppenheim’s character drawing is not very careful; but he does not
leave us time to reflect on this drawback. And he deserves the praise of
always inculcating morality, though the ideals of some of his good
people are not always sufficiently strict in detail.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 839. Mr. ’09. 380w.
“The story, as a whole, leaves the impression that a more leisurely
handling would have resulted in better work.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 143. F. 11, ’09. 260w.
“Should please his old admirers and make for him new friends.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 19. Ja. 9, ’09. 230w.
=Oppenheim, James.=^{[10]} Doctor Rast. $1.50. Sturgis & Walton.
9–24254.
The author’s first book of fiction. It is set in the Ghetto and portrays
the influence of a young Hebrew doctor upon varying types of his people.
Mr. Oppenheim seems near by kin to Israel Zangwill, not only in
nationality but in ideals, sentiments and estimates of practical
service.
* * * * *
“The author’s style is too exuberant, but his pathetic and humorous
sketches are brimming over with real life.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 92. N. ’09. ✠
“The book is an epic of the modern doctor, the large-hearted fighter of
the modern city-battle.” Graham Berry.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 393. D. ’09. 830w.
“The tales which make up this volume represent one of the most
successful types of magazine story.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 461. N. 11, ’09. 300w.
“Mr. Oppenheim is well dowered with the emotionalism and the idealism of
his race, and he has given them stirring expression in the character of
Doctor Rast, and in the power and majestic beauty of many of his
word-pictures of East Side hearts and lives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 595. O. 9, ’09. 200w.
=Orcutt, William Dana.= Spell. †$1.50. Harper.
9–2773.
Florence furnishes the setting for this story whose scenes are enacted
during the honeymoon of a young scholar and his “society girl” wife. The
interest centers in a literary undertaking in which the husband’s
collaborator is an intellectual young woman, the friend of the wife. The
wife’s devotion to her husband and loyalty to her friend suffer no
diminution even tho she recognizes the affinity which is creating for
her friend a spell which cannot be resisted. At the point of sacrificing
herself for her husband’s and her friend’s happiness she learns that the
former’s love for her had never wavered, and that the friend had
idealized a master-spirit that had departed at the book’s completion.
* * * * *
“The ‘spell’ is fairly convincing, the ending satisfactory and the
intellectual atmosphere and conversation pleasing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 92. Mr. ’09. ✠
“A pleasant story, which might find its place, not unworthily, on the
shelf with other Italian stories by let us say, Richard Bagot and Marion
Crawford.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 410. Je. ’09. 1400w.
“The novel is well written, and exhibits both artistic feeling and
delicate analytical power; its chief fault is that it lacks sufficient
substance for a novel of its length.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 265. Ap. 16, ’09. 230w.
“But the fact remains that their sorrows and their joys leave us rather
cold, because after all they are merely the joys and sorrows of some of
the author’s friends and not of our own.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 617. Je. ’09. 500w.
“It is unfortunate that the theme of this well-written story is so
limited in its appeal. The descriptions, especially of the Laurentian
library, are redolent of actuality, but the psychology of the principle
characters is at times tangled to the point of tedium.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 337. Ap. 1, ’09. 230w.
“There is a great deal of conversation, and much of it is neither
especially interesting in itself nor of vital importance to the story.
Most of it also is so dignified in manner and so precise in expression
as to lack the quality of naturalness. But an air of erudition and
refinement pervades the book and gives it a distinction not often found
among American novels.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 88. F. 13, ’09. 460w.
=No. Am.= 189: 921. Je. ’09. 180w.
O’Reilly, Michael Francis (brother Potamian), and Walsh, James
J.^{[9]} Makers of electricity. *$2. Fordham univ. press.
9–22923.
A biographical history of electricity for whose preparation the
controlling idea has been to provide brief yet reasonably complete
sketches of the lives of the great pioneer workers in electricity. These
men are: Peregrenus, and Columbus, Norman and Gilbert, Franklin,
Galvani, Volta, Coulomb, Hans Christian, Oersted, André, Marie Ampère,
Ohm, Faraday, Clerk Maxwell, and Lord Kelvin.
* * * * *
“The biographical plan which the authors have adopted enables them to
combine in pleasing and harmonious form three important fields of
knowledge: science, history, and religion.”
+ =Cath. World.= 90: 386. D. ’09. 580w.
=Orr, James.= Resurrection of Jesus. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
9–7108.
A restatement of the grounds of belief in the fact of the resurrection
made in view of the “changed form of assault on this article of
Christian faith in recent years.” The chapters discuss the present state
of the question as compared with the past, the nature of the
resurrection as miracle, the gospel narratives and critical solvents;
the credibility of the witness—the burial, the Easter message, and the
post-resurrection; the significance of the appearances—the risen body;
the apostolic church—visional and apparitional theories; neo-Babylonian
theories—Jewish and apocryphal ideas; and doctrinal bearings on the
resurrection.
* * * * *
“We have sometimes found ourselves differing seriously in opinion from
Professor Orr. But with the thesis that is set forth in the volume
before us we are in entire agreement.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 550. O. 10, ’08. 340w.
=Orrock, John Wilson.=^{[8]} Railroad structures and estimates. *$3.
Wiley.
9–11747.
Covers briefly the estimates pertaining to the general subjects that
enter into the practice of the average railroad engineer. “There is
given a summarized description of numerous railway structures, with the
information as to costs, weights and quantities of material, etc., and
in some cases particulars as to the items and unit prices upon which the
costs are based. In many cases a lump sum is given for total cost; in
others, there is a cost per unit (per square foot for buildings, or per
lineal foot for trestles of varying heights, etc.).” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 47. O. ’09.
“A large part of the contents deals with subjects of direct interest to
engineers of all branches, architects, and contractors, and the work
will prove as valuable to them as it will to the particular class for
which it has been primarily prepared.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 665. Je. ’09. 200w.
“The book relates largely to Canadian practice (and presumably Canadian
prices). The book is a very useful one (in spite of its weak point in
the omission of matter on estimating), but the user should thoroughly
appreciate the necessary limitations of any book dealing with the
‘uncertain quantity’ of prices and costs.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 6. Jl. 15, ’09. 820w.
“The book is a timely one, of value not only to the young engineer, but
to the older practitioner. This work is, therefore, a pioneer in this
line and should be in the hands of anyone interested or engaged in
railroad construction.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 167. Ag. 7, ’09. 440w.
“A book of this sort then should find its best value in suggesting
methods of cost estimation, and in analyzing the constituent parts of
costs. This book is somewhat uneven from this standpoint, some chapters
having the elements of cost well classified, while others are very
general, as in the costs of tunnels where a short table of costs per
lineal foot is quoted from Drinker’s rather ancient treatise. The
criticism applies perhaps to the difficulty of the subject rather than
to inferiority of treatment.” C. F. Allen.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 411. S. 24, ’09. 500w.
=Osborn, Chase Salmon.=^{[6]} Andean land (South America). **$5.
McClurg.
9–14200.
Two volumes based upon widely sought information which tells in simple
manner “some things of South America and the people that vitalize its
thirteen countries and that give routes of travel and such suggestions
as the author found valuable in travelling in South America from Panama
to Patagonia and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.” The work is fully
illustrated.
* * * * *
“The book is encumbered with guide-book statistics and, on account of
recent progress, the travel information is somewhat out of date, but the
remarks on South American trade are worthy of especial note.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 47. O. ’09.
“They are decidedly not up to the standard of recent books on South
America, being neither so entertaining as Ruhl’s ‘Other Americans,’ so
informing as Martin’s ‘Five republics,’ or so accurate as Keane’s ‘South
America.’ As an aid to travellers, however, the work is of doubtful
value. Mr. Osborn’s remarks on our trade with South America are
important and deserve to be widely read.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 104. Jl. 29, ’09. 400w.
“When he gets down to the subject proper of his book Mr. Osborn skips
from one topic to another with such abruptness and frequency that one is
tempted to suspect that his volumes are almost a literal transcription
of his notes.” Forbes Lindsay.
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 479. Ag. 7, ’09. 650w.
“He has written a work intended for the general reader, for the tourist,
and for the business man, who wishes to understand the South American
markets.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 8. S. 4, ’09. 500w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 67: 201. Jl. 22, ’09. 160w.
=Osborne, William Hamilton.= Red mouse. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–559.
This story which starts out to be a melodramatic tangle of intrigue
ending in murder develops into a story of the “plots and counter-plots
of New York practical politics.” A district attorney engages “in a
determined effort to close up a huge gilded gambling house that is
protected by a powerful ward boss. The incidents of the story dealing
with this struggle furnish a graphic picture of the way in which law,
politics, and personal interests sometimes get tangled up in New York.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“One of the easiest books to riddle with criticism. But it is not nearly
so easy to lay it aside unfinished if one has once given it a fair
chance to grip the interest, for it is a real story and the work of a
man who possesses the real knack of telling a story.” Rupert Ranney.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 598. F. ’09. 840w.
“The general verdict will doubtless be that it does not contain a dull
page and, regarded merely as a means of recreation, fulfils its mission
to the letter.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 390. Mr. 6, ’09. 210w.
“The conventionality of the characters alone would not much matter,
since the story has a good deal of life, but the conventionality of the
point of view is tiresome.”
− =Nation.= 88: 256. Mr. 11, ’09. 200w.
“Although it deals with matters of sensational character, the author has
handled them with a restraint and a sense of artistic values that put
the story above the average of current novels. [The political part] of
the novel is very well done, indeed, compact, cleverly knit together,
vivid, convincing. The love story is not so well handled, for the author
has not succeeded in making either the prosecutor or his lady love
attractive.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 32. Ja. 16, ’09. 270w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Infatuation. (Eng. title: Harm’s way.) †$1.50.
Bobbs.
9–7335.
An impressionable young daughter of a railroad president returns to New
York after a season in Washington with a belt full of scalps, not in the
least daunted to number among them the scion of an old Washington family
and a baron. She discovers her real idol on a cheap theater stage,
becomes infatuated, runs away with him, marries him and thru her wit,
loyalty, common sense and courage arouses the manliness in him; develops
him out of the common into the sphere of higher art, and brings about a
reconciliation with an infuriated father.
* * * * *
“Looked at as a study of the actor’s life, with all its weaknesses of
character, trials, troubles, bohemianism, and grubbiness, the novel must
be pronounced successful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 91. Jl. 24. 130w.
“It is unfortunate that a book with many good qualities should be marred
as this is by more than a suspicion of vulgarity, and by something less
than the strictest artistic probity. Here he had a subject worthy of his
best efforts, and he has shirked the hard work of following it through
honestly to the end.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 406. Je. ’09. 950w.
“The story is not remarkable. It is what the story means that is worth
while. In all probability he has hit upon the real explanation of why
more bad men are not reclaimed in marriage and why so many good ones
turn bad in it.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 761. Ap. 8, ’09. 700w.
“Mr. Osbourne’s assumptions are false, his presentation of the facts of
life is false, and his conclusions the falsest of all the whole
misrepresenting tale.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 300w.
“Phyllis Ladd is really two persons in Mr. Osbourne’s literary hands and
neither person is very convincing. Occasionally it would seem that the
author has tried to sail nearer to the ‘shores of impurity’ than was
very necessary or artistic.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Osborne has a bright and easy way of writing, a facility in the
rendering of dialogue and a knack of individualising his people, and
these keep us entertained, though we should prefer to have them
exercised over a less well-worn theme.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 233. Ag. 21, ’09. 230w.
=Osgood, Irene.= Servitude.^{[5]} †$1.50. Estes.
8–20137.
“A wildly imaginative historical novel, in which the author presents her
conception of the slavery to which Christians were subjected in Algiers
in the early years of the nineteenth century. It deals chiefly with the
Captain of the brig Stella Marina, which, while proceeding from Leghorn
to Barcelona in the spring of 1815, is captured by a Barbary pirate, and
with an American girl, who, at the time the Captain begins his
servitude, is residing temporarily in Algiers in the house of the
British consul.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The author fails to produce a real human character or characteristic.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 200w.
“Even a sensitive reader who would shudderingly put this book aside,
half read, must feel that Irene Osgood is an author whose future work is
to be watched with interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 401. Je. ’09. 420w.
“Reads as if it had been written during her senior year at a young
lady’s seminary.”
− =Ind.= 66: 1344. Je. 17, ’09. 70w.
“Whoever takes the story seriously will become greatly excited as he
reads of the adventures and hardships the Captain and the beautiful
American undergo; those who do not take the story seriously will get
their money’s worth out of it in the form of amusement with its weird
plot, its bizarre characters, its uncanny situations, and other outputs
of the author’s untrained and untrammeled fantasy.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 297. My. 8, ’09. 130w.
=O’Shea, Michael Vincent.=^{[12]} Social development and education.
*$2. Houghton.
9–26315.
“The object of the present work is to reconcile these two methods [the
Rousseau method of unrepressed development of individuality and the
Locke method of parental authority] so as to produce the best result.
The child is to be trained and restrained but not stunted or tyrannized
over. Professor O’Shea divides his work into two parts in the first of
which we find a profound and detailed analysis of ordinary child nature,
with its inherent passions and predilections, good and bad. In the
second, part of the treatise the education of the child is taken up from
a national, social, and educational standpoint.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“A valuable study of child nature which should appeal to all those
charged with the care and culture of young people.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 123. D. ’09.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 636. O. 16, ’09. 400w.
“Among those who would be interested in such a book as Professor
O’Shea’s there are many who are specially interested in the training of
children in school.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 878. D. 18, ’09. 290w.
=Ostrom, Henry.= Crisis in church work. *50c. West. Meth. bk.
8–29366.
“The nature of the crisis and its contributing causes are discussed in
this book, and an attempt is made to discover the ‘lost key’ to
successful church work. The discovery is ‘Evangelism.’ Revivalism
receives considerable attention, and its relations to organization and
inspiration are set forth. A chapter is given to the Experimental
religion. The viewpoint of the book is religious not social.”—Ann. Am.
Acad.
* * * * *
“The author has missed a splendid opportunity to analyze more
comprehensively the crisis in the church through his failure to consider
that want of confidence which depends upon the social lethargy of the
church. A more adequate presentation of the subject is greatly to be
desired.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 462. Mr. ’09. 100w.
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.=^{[11]} Fundamental principles of chemistry: an
introduction to all text-books of chemistry. *$2.25. Longmans.
9–15888.
“An attempt to set down in exact and formal, but as far as possible,
non-technical, language those fundamental laws or principles which are
manifested in chemical phenomena, as they are at present known;
according to its subtitle it is an Introduction to all text-books of
chemistry; it is especially a guide to the teacher, but it is equally
useful to all who wish to acquire a philosophical knowledge of the
subject. It presupposes but a little knowledge.... The subjects are
treated in a severely logical manner; definitions are given first, and
the terms thus defined are always used with rigid adherence to these
meanings.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“It will serve only for those already possessing a wide knowledge of
physics, and a good deal of chemistry.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 561. N. 6. 530w.
“It is clear and attractive in style, and is well adapted to clear the
mind of many vague and indefinite notions. The book is to be commended
to all who wish a fundamental knowledge of chemical principles, and will
prove a permanent aid to the right interpretation of many chemical and
physical phenomena.” A. H. Sabin.
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 34. O. 14, ’09. 1450w.
“It is a very remarkable work, full of suggestions and inspiration. The
book is a guide for the teacher or advanced student rather than an
introduction for beginners. But, in its way, it is a masterly work.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 672. D. 11, ’09. 330w.
“It is one of the most satisfying of all the writings of this prolific
author in the field of physico-chemical science. Every candidate for the
doctorate would profit by its reading. Every modern teacher will
recognize its value and see that a copy is in his library.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 364. O. 14, ’09. 160w.
=Oswell, George Devereux.= Sketches of rulers of India. 4v. ea. *70c.
Oxford.
9–12402.
“These biographical essays are studies in the military and
administrative history of India from Clive to Mayo. As is said in the
prefaces, they are based on well known larger biographies, many of which
are included in the ‘Rulers of India’ series.” (Am. Hist. R.) In the
first volume are included sketches of the principal figures of the
Mutiny era: Dalhousie, Canning, the Lawrences, Clyde, Strathnairn, Mayo,
Nicholson, and Havelock. The second volume treats of “The Company’s
governors” from Clive and Hastings to Colvin. The third deals with the
period 1786–1856, during which India was freed from the anarchy which
had prevailed for centuries thru the raids of wars between the states.
The fourth treats of famous Indian incidents from the reign of the
Buddhist monk and emperor, Asoka, to the Sikh ruler, Ranjit Singh.
* * * * *
“Mr. Oswell’s work will have small value for the investigator or for any
well-informed reader of Indian history. It may be questioned whether
Forrest’s investigations have been utilized by the author. Such
comments, however, should not obscure the real value of these volumes,
which is considerable. They are excellent studies in hero-worship for
the boy who has or ought to have an interest in the history of the
British empire; and teachers of modern history will gladly add these
books to their lists of collateral reading for undergraduate classes.
Taken as a whole there is a lack of discrimination in the estimates
made; but the author’s point of view is clear. He writes for the most
part as the enthusiastic defender of the group of brilliant men whom he
has selected.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 607. Ap. ’09. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A wise choice of interesting incidents and anecdotes gives a vivid
personality to the subjects of the various sketches. Considering the
educational aim of the work it is strange that none of the volumes
contains maps or indexes.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 195. F. 25. ’09. 600w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Some of these names mean but little to the average reader. This is all
the more reason why books of this kind are welcome.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 951. D. 5, ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Otis, Alexander.=^{[5]} Hearts are trumps: a novel of love and
laughter. $1.50. McBride, J:
9–10042.
A rollicking comedy which has its beginning in a New York newspaper
man’s swapping identities with a clergyman. An exchange of berths
results in Basil Plympton’s sleepily donning the clergyman’s clothes and
being hurried out into the night at the wrong destination, conducted to
a country home in the Berkshires and precipitated into a remarkable
series of happenings involving a sermon and the marriage of the daughter
of the house to a scoundrelly actor. He himself, hero and defender,
falls in love with the girl, weds her, then finds himself in the unique
position of performing a mock ceremony between his wife and the actor
whose rascality he later exposes. Humorous incident abounds with no end
of surprises and complications.
* * * * *
“A pleasant comedy of errors.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1344. Je. 17, ’09. 160w.
“Is very lightweight reading. The situations arising from these
conditions are as artificial and story-bookish as the conditions
themselves.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 293. My. 8, ’09. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
=Otis, Edward Osgood.=^{[9]} Great white plague, tuberculosis. **$1.
Crowell.
9–24474.
A practical, popular consideration of tuberculosis intended mainly for
the enlightenment of the layman. It presents in untechnical language the
important aspects of the plague in the light of present-day knowledge.
The author gives its causes and results; tells what action is being
taken to stamp it out; shows what part the individual may take in the
crusade against it; and gives the patient specific directions for
eating, sleeping, breathing, and daily habits and exercise.
* * * * *
“It would have been more effective in some places if it had
illustrations, and the economic basis for the conflict with disease
might have been more fully treated. But on the whole it is an excellent
book for the purpose.” C. R. Henderson.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 420. N. ’09. 80w.
=Ind.= 67: 1207. N. 25, ’09. 150w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 150w.
“To present a summary of the world’s knowledge of tuberculosis in such
delightful form is no easy task. To write a summary so concisely and
intelligently and so clearly that even a school child can read and
understand is a more most difficult task. For the performance of this
most difficult task Dr. Otis is to be highly congratulated.” L. R.
Williams.
+ =Survey.= 23: 247. N. 20, ’09. 1300w.
=Otis, William Bradley.=^{[7]} American verse, 1625–1807: a history.
**$1.75. Moffat.
9–7329.
“Includes all important American verse from the ‘Nova Anglia’ of William
Morrell, in 1625, to the publication of the ‘Columbiad,’ in 1807.... Dr.
Otis has grouped the verse of this period under five main chapter
headings—Historical verse, Religious verse, Political and satirical
verse, Imaginative verse, and Translations. The chapter on Political and
satirical verse is subdivided into Political satire, Social and personal
satire, and Patriotic verse, while the chapter on Imaginative verse is
treated as Narrative, Pastoral, and Descriptive, and as Moral and
Didactic.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Valuable for special students for its bibliographic data but not
recommended for the average public library because of its limited scope
and the several works already in use that are more popular and cover a
larger field.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 177. Je. ’09.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 187. Jl. ’09. 180w.
+ =Dial.= 47: 52. Jl. 16, ’09. 60w.
“Dr. Otis, in his history, has given the first thorough study of
seventeenth and eighteenth century American verse. That which makes the
book of special value is the fact that it is not an anthology, but is an
interpretative study, through the literature of the time of political,
religious, and social conditions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 143. Mr. 13, ’09. 750w.
“A valuable study of early literary conditions.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 422. Je. 19, ’09. 120w.
=Owen, Frank Allen.=^{[8]} Dyeing and cleaning of textile fabrics: a
handbook for the amateur and the professional; based partly on notes
by H. C. Standage. $2. Wiley.
9–5485.
A useful handbook containing recipes for numerous processes that may be
attended to in the home including dyeing, bleaching, cleaning and
renovating.
* * * * *
“Clear, well arranged and provided with a good, full index.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 178. Je. ’09.
“It is a matter for regret that the book should have been published in
its present form. It contains many trustworthy and useful recipes for
the removal of stains, the cleaning of gloves, etc., but these are
associated with so much useless and even misleading matter that their
value is greatly discounted.” W. M. Gardner.
− + =Nature.= 81: 5. Jl. 1, ’09. 200w.
=Ozaki, Yei Theodora.=^{[12]} Warriors of old Japan, and other
stories. **$1.25. Houghton.
9–29630.
Who shall say how much in these tales Madame Ozaki, wife of the Mayor of
Tokio owes to her English education, how much to her Japanese
story-telling gift and how much to the fascination of Japanese
folk-lore, legendary history, fairy tales and myths? All, however,
become assets in these stories of valor, conquest, loyalty and faith
which are told with simple directness of narrative peculiar to Japanese
tales.
* * * * *
“They appeal to children and to the student of folk-lore alike.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1078. D. 11, ’09. 120w.
P
=Packard, Winthrop.=^{[8]} Wild pastures. **$1.20. Small.
9–16426.
A New England pasture is the haunt in which the author gains the nature
impressions set down in these eleven essays. In the first he watches the
“June morning miracle” of the coming of the dawn; then come the
following chapters: Stalking the wild grape; The frog rendezvous; A
butterfly chase; Down stream; Brook magic; In the Ponkapoag bogs; Some
butterfly friends; The resting time of the birds; The pond at low tide;
How the rain came.
* * * * *
“Worthy to stand beside the work of Burroughs, Torrey and Dallas Lore
Sharp.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 47. O. ’09. ✠
“The book is satisfactory for not attempting too much, and accomplishing
what it attempts delicately and well.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 76. Ag. 1, ’09. 230w.
“His eyes see much, as do the eyes of all who love nature; and he
describes well.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 372. Ag. 12, ’09. 60w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.=^{[11]} John Marvel, assistant. †$1.50.
Scribner.
9–28122.
“Mr. Thomas Nelson Page is not afraid of the melodrama, and he not only
introduces this element generously but uses it effectively. He tells the
story of a young Southerner who wastes his time and his early fortune at
the university, speculates, gets heavily in debt, is jilted, goes west,
opens an office as a lawyer in a rushing manufacturing town, promptly
begins a new romance of the heart, and gets into serious complications
with the politics and commercial element of the town. There is a strike
involving various exciting incidents and a happy ‘dénouement.’ The story
is told with spirit, and is the best that Mr. Page has written of late
years.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Mr. Page rather subordinates the story of the discussion of corrupt
civic conditions, and some of the characters are types, not persons.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 134. D. ’09. ✠
“A thoroughly readable novel, albeit one that exhibits several loose
ends, and is rather disjointed in construction.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 386. N. 16, ’09. 300w.
“Except that the unity of the story is somewhat destroyed by constant
shifting from the first to the third person, the novel commands our
attention and approval.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 966. N. 27, ’09. 160w.
“This story is written in that florid and ingenious style which yet
survives in Dixie. The multiplicity of minor characters and scenes gives
an effect—kaleidoscopic, perhaps, rather than panoramic, but certainly a
vivid presentation—of various aspects, social, moral, and political, of
current American life.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 541. D. 2, ’09. 350w.
“An interesting and straightforward story. A good deal of Mr. Page’s
material is somewhat unconvincing and the story frequently has a tinge
of conventional melodrama, but the scenes of the strike are effectively
presented, and the novel has plenty of action to hold the reader’s
interest.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 636. O. 23, ’09. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 650. O. 23, ’09. 70w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 120w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Robert E. Lee: the Southerner. **$1.50.
Scribner.
8–30716.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Interesting as a eulogistic study from the southern viewpoint, but
almost negligible as a biography.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 47. F. ’09.
“With the best of intentions he has written a biography of General Lee
that would be admirable if it might be judged by the canons of fiction.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 18. Ja. 7, ’09. 1100w.
“Mr. Page, writing with enthusiasm, writes also with spirit, and he has
spared no pains to make his story what it should be. Unfortunately he
has not much of the judicial temper.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 467. Mr. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Paget, Stephen.=^{[5]} Faith and works of Christian science; by the
writer of “Confessio medici.” *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–10964.
The author of “Confessio medici” sets forth what he calls the fallacies
of Christian science and shows that it is passing from consolidation to
disintegration. The “unreality” theories which Christian scientists hold
concerning matter, pain and disease he combats, often quoting and
attempting to confound passages from “Science and health.” He discusses
Mrs. Eddy, gives cases of healing and cases of failures to heal, and
finally argues that common-sense and Christian science are incompatible.
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 13: 499. Jl. ’09. 100w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 178. Je. ’09.
“The author is no dogmatist. This aspect of mind renders the book all
the more convincing, and we feel sure that it may fill a useful place in
refuting the pretensions of Christian ‘scientists.’” R. T. H.
+ =Nature.= 81: 513. O. 28, ’09. 530w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 290w.
“He is not free from the besetting sin of controversialists, the sin of
pressing his case too hard. His examination of the faith of Christian
science might well have been softened and compressed; there is too much
repetition, explanation, and exposure of the nonsense which it propounds
as philosophy; it would have been more effective if the quotations had
been longer and the comments shorter.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 514. N. 6, ’09. 240w.
=Paine, Ralph Delahaye.=^{[11]} Ships and sailors of old Salem: the
record of a brilliant era of American achievement. *$3.50. McClurg.
9–16435.
From log books, sea journals, and other hitherto unpublished manuscripts
have been gathered narratives of the first American voyages to Japan,
India, the Philippines, Guam, Cape of Good Hope, Sumatra, Arabia and the
South Seas. Between the years from the revolution to the war of 1812 the
port of Salem was the most important seat of maritime enterprise in the
new world; for here were the headquarters of a race of sailors who
fostered the spirit of American commerce in its adventurous aspect. It
is of these sailors and their achievements that the author writes.
* * * * *
“The maritime story of Salem is an epic, and one of the most interesting
in American history; for Mr. Paine’s volume is not alone a study in
Salem records, it is a valuable contribution to the national history.
There are few more engaging books for a winter evening around the fire
than this record of ‘the brave days of old.’” G: P. Upton.
+ =Dial.= 47: 451. D. 1, ’09. 1250w.
“Mr. Paine has extracted enough chronicles, narratives, descriptions,
and statistics to fill a large volume, every page of which is alive with
interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 718. N. 20, ’09. 830w.
“The book is a worthy memorial of bold and hardy seamen and of a great
foreign commerce no longer carried on in American bottoms.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 140w.
=Palgrave, Francis Turner.=^{[9]} Golden treasury, selected from the
best songs and lyrical poems in the English language and arranged
with notes. $1.50. Macmillan.
A new one volume edition of Professor Palgrave’s “Golden treasury.” For
the convenience of readers it is published in handy pocket form.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 147. D. ’09.
“The notes, a little cloying in style, display a good deal of knowledge
and taste which was uncommon in former years, and now—partly, perhaps,
through Palgrave’s efforts—seem like the endorsement of recognized
reputations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 69. Jl. 17. 160w.
“It is the best selection of lyrics that we have despite the fact that
the editor’s judgment did not in the second series display the unerring
quality that was exemplified in the first.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 290. O. 16, ’09. 50w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 542. O. 2, ’09. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 89: 282. S. 23, ’09. 100w.
=Palmer, Abram Smythe.= Ideal of a gentleman; or, A mirror for gentle
folks; a portrayal in literature from the earliest times. **$1.50.
Dutton.
“As the editor says, his anthology has become something like a
‘cyclopaedia of gentlehood,’ ranging over ‘a field of flowers so wide
and extensive that it includes at one extreme the Egyptian moralist,
Ptah-hotep, B. C. 3300, and at the other Mr. William Watson.’ The book
is divided into sections devoted to various aspects of the subject—such
as ‘The herald’s gentleman,’ ‘Wealth and work,’ ‘Manners and good
breeding,’ ‘The poet’s gentleman,’—and each receives abundant
illustration in the extracts which Dr. Palmer has gathered
together.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“No better book of extracts can be imagined on the subject, and even the
most miscellaneous of readers can hardly fail to find amongst its
sources something new to him.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 818. D. 26. 200w.
“It is a sort of book that, while rather appalling in its entirety, is
very pleasant to dip into at odd moments. And if the masculine rising
generation could be induced to read a little of it every day it would
doubtless have a desirable effect upon their manners and characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 802. D. 26, ’08. 200w.
“It is well worth looking into, if only for the amusement which it
provides.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 630. O. 24, ’08. 1300w.
=Palmer, George Herbert, and Palmer, Alice Freeman.= The teacher:
essays and addresses on education. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–32424.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 19. Ja. ’09.
“The entire volume has a breadth of view and of interest and a charm of
style such as few books on education possess.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 22. Ja. 1, ’09. 350w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 986. D. 26, ’08. 50w.
“If Mr. Palmer’s ideas, however true and helpful, are not remarkably
original or profound, they borrow some distinction from the medium
through which they are put forth, a style of limpidity, suavity, and
familiar elegance.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 630. D. 24, ’08. 650w.
“Illuminating volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 381. F. 20, ’09. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 511. Ap. ’09. 60w.
“After having for years sent students and teachers to various magazine
and pamphlet sources to work upon articles by Professor Palmer, the
substance of which no one else has afforded us, we now have brought
together those of his educational writings ‘which may have some claim to
permanent interest.’” F. A. Manny.
+ =School R.= 17: 278. Ap. ’09. 550w.
=Parabellum, pseud.= Banzai! †$1.50. Baker.
9–965.
A story which grows “out of the looting of Japanese shops in San
Francisco in 1907, and the voyage around the world made by the American
fleet in 1908. It begins with a series of mysterious and totally
unexpected attacks on Manila, on San Francisco, and other points along
the Pacific coast, and ends with a great battle fought between the
Japanese and American armies among the Blue mountains of Oregon.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“While somewhat crude in literary expression and lacking in unity of
treatment, it has considerable dash and vividness and holds one’s
attention to the close.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 55. F. ’09. ✠
“Viewed apart from its political significance it will be found an
exceedingly entertaining and spirited narrative that is second to none
treating of the imaginary war of the future that has appeared since the
late Frank R. Stockton published ‘The great war syndicate.’ But it is
not easy to look at it purely as a work of fiction.” Beverly Stark.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 599. F. ’09. 1000w.
“It lacks unity, while the introduction of a new set of characters in
nearly every chapter is confusing. The bringing about of more amicable
relations between the two nations will hardly be accomplished by
literature of this kind.”
− =Lit. D.= 38: 729. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.
“The translator has done his work smoothly, but without quite ridding
the text of a foreign flavor.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 90. Ja. 28, ’09. 90w.
“The vision is quite vivid. So much so that even though you are not
given to alarmist views on the so-called Yellow Peril, you may find
yourself momentarily, at least, caught by the spell.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 81. F. 13, ’09. 1900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
=Parker, Edward Harper.= Ancient China simplified. *$3. Dutton.
9–8736.
The author “has simplified ancient China and pictured the important
phases of its life in a most satisfactory fashion. From his book it is
possible to obtain fairly clear conceptions of China’s civilization,
government, social customs, literary attainments, and religious
conditions as far back as 872 years before Christ, and in these days,
when China is of so much importance in the commercial and political
worlds, no intelligent person can feel indifferent as to the past.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 39. Ja. 9. 900w.
“We fear we have not found that the book fulfils the claim made by its
title; but we gratefully acknowledge that, whatever the form of the work
may leave to be desired, we have never seen collected together under one
cover so much valuable information concerning the China of the past.” T.
L. Bullock.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 107. Ja. ’09. 1700w.
“The present historian has unfortunately divested his story of about all
the human touches which even the ancient sources contain, which is too
bad.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 324. F. 11, ’09. 220w.
“Though as a whole the book will appeal only to the special student,
there is much of general interest in it.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 252. Mr. 11, ’09. 420w.
“An instructive and very interesting book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 19. Ja. 9, ’09. 420w.
“The arrangement of the work is admirable, the chapters are brief,
distinctly Chinese names are introduced gradually, and repetition is
skillfully used as an aid to memory.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 976. D. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Parker, Eric.= Highways and byways in Surrey. (Highways and byways
ser.) $2. Macmillan.
8–37734.
Personal impressions unite with guide book material to produce a volume
valuable for its descriptions of natural beauties, historic interests,
and special plants and animals whose habitats are in these parts.
* * * * *
“Decidedly one of the best in this excellent series. Wherever you dip
into Mr. Parker’s book you will find information pleasantly retailed,
and we cannot discover that he misses much. He does not, however, seem
to know the beautiful village of Felday.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 158. F. 6. 750w.
“There is scarcely a note in English life which is not struck by Mr.
Parker in his entertaining pages.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 539. Mr. 11, ’09. 370w.
“His record has all the leisureliness and lightness of the free
pedestrian. Altogether it is delightful reading of its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 574. D. 10, ’08. 280w.
“The sketches make it possible to appreciate the beauty of the highways
and byways in Surrey without visiting them.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 158. D. 10, ’08. 120w.
“It would be a real service if such books as this were to set out half a
dozen footpath plans of such districts, where the traveller, if he do
but know how, may walk for days and scarcely set his foot upon the
turnpike. Both the illustrator and the author give us so much to be
grateful for that one would only mention the desire for a more definite
sense of county character as a counsel of perfection.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 80. Ja. 16, ’09. 1200w.
“A very charming book both to dip into and to read. The secret of that
charm is largely to be found in the fact that the author has had a just
understanding of the limits of his work, and, aiming neither too high
nor too low, has exactly hit the mark.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 21. Ja. 2, ’09. 1400w.
=Parker, George Augustus.=^{[8]} Out of the depths. $1.25. Reid pub.
8–34599.
By a curious coincidence here is a story of the same title as a recent
one by George R. Varney. The latter refuted the claims of Christian
science while this novel by Mr. Parker follows a young man’s restoration
to health thru Christian science treatment.
* * * * *
“The story is fairly well written, but is incomparably inferior as
literature and as romance to ‘Paul Anthony, Christian,’ which, in our
judgment, is the best Christian science novel that has appeared. Quite
beyond the author’s limitations as a writer of fiction, this volume
contains elements of weakness for propaganda purposes that will make it,
we think, of doubtful value.”
− + =Arena.= 41: 606. Ag. ’09. 480w.
“It is good enough as propagandism, but as fiction it is clumsy and
futile in construction, uninteresting in its story, dull and stilted in
style, and without merit in its depiction of character.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 128. Mr. 6, ’09. 100w.
=Parker, George F.=^{[10]} Recollections of Grover Cleveland. **$3.
Century.
9–26972.
A biography of a thoroly personal character which is sympathetic and
also exact. It begins with the boyhood days of Cleveland, passes in
review his early struggles in Buffalo that shaped his democratic
tendencies, deals with his long political service, and covers the
closing days of his life at Princeton; it also includes an estimation of
his place in history, and an appreciation of his achievements and
character.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 123. D. ’09.
“His book is judiciously and temperately written. It does not degenerate
into mere eulogy. Nevertheless, it lacks a sense of proportion and does
not bring a strong light to bear upon any particular phase of Mr.
Cleveland’s character.” H. T. Peck.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 391. D. ’09. 700w.
“Mr. Parker’s book is not intended as a formal biography, but it answers
every purpose of a biography from the political side, and it presents
the real Grover Cleveland with great skill.” C. H. Cooper.
+ =Dial.= 47: 382. N. 16, ’09. 1200w.
“This is the man whose life Mr. Parker traces, in a somewhat haphazard
order at times, but lucidly and with knowledge of his subject. He is no
Boswell, to ride roughshod over the sensibilities of the living.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1315. D. 9, ’09. 1050w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 686. O. 23, ’09. 200w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1078. D. 11, ’09. 150w.
“Although thoroughly reminiscential, the book is not light and gossipy,
or of a newspaper or magazine flavor, but a careful presentment of a
great public character as seen by his intimates. The tone and attitude
throughout is admiring, respectful, almost reverential; and possibly the
book is open to criticism on the score of not being sufficiently
critical.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 458. N. 11, ’09. 3200w.
“It is a revealing document which shows us a real man, idealized
somewhat, but generally quite convincing, whose aims, ambitions,
motives, habits of mind, mental calibre, methods of thought, moral
standards, and personal life are plainly exhibited.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 605. O. 16, ’09. 1400w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 805. D. 11, ’09. 1500w.
“Easily the most important volume of biography among the publications of
the autumn season.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 636. N. ’09. 190w.
=Spec.= 103: 797. N. 13, ’09. 380w.
=Parker, Sir Gilbert.=^{[10]} Northern lights. †$1.50. Harper.
9–24321.
Fearlessly does the author handle a series of strong situations in this
his recent book of seventeen short stories. They are tales of Canadian
life, and fall into two groups: the first five are reminiscent of
“border days and deeds,” “of days,” the author says, “before the great
railway was built which changed a waste into a fertile field of
civilization”; the remaining stories “cover the period passed since the
Royal Northwest mounted police and the Pullman car first startled the
pioneer, and sent him into the land of the farther north or drew him
into the quiet circle of civic routine and humdrum occupation.”
* * * * *
“Virile and dramatic and have a decided charm; excellent for reading
aloud.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 92. N. ’09. ✠
“Scarcely more than four [of the stories] show enough invention to be
called successful, though the dialogue in them is vivacious and true to
type.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 423. O. 9. 240w.
“The be-all and the end-all of these tales does not lie in their
chronicle of suffering and tragedy and brutal impulses, but rather in
the unexpected gleams of kindness and mercy and human kinship that
suddenly, in almost every one of the stories, diffuses a glow of
tenderness that well justifies the symbolic title of ‘Northern lights.’”
F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 281. N. ’09. 160w.
“Tales that are vigorous and strong and written in the manner the author
had before his knighthood sweated so much of the pigment out of his
life-colored words.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1262. D. 2, ’09. 370w.
“It seems pretty clear that Sir Gilbert has been persuaded to exhume
these specimens of his early work for commercial reasons. The stories
are not dull, they are as good as the ordinary specimens of their
‘genre.’”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 488. N. 18, ’09. 310w.
“Contains very little that can add to the reputation of Sir Gilbert
Parker. The material is such that a very poor story teller may not quite
spoil it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 607. O. 16, ’09. 300w.
“A better or stronger volume of short stories has not been published for
a long time.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 317. O. 9, ’09. 160w.
“The most interesting feature of these stories, from a literary point of
view, is the easy sureness and truth of their outlines. There is not a
finished picture among them, but there is not a sketch that does not
afford a finely finished picture.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 445. O. 9, ’09. 800w.
“A collection of stories, told with Sir Gilbert Parker’s wonted power.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 610. O. 16, ’09. 30w.
=Parker, Lottie Blair.=^{[6]} Homespun: a story of some New England
folk. †$1.50. Holt.
9–14824.
With a New England village for a setting the author portrays intimately
several distinct types of its inhabitants. There are two brothers
between whom exists a feud over the line which divides their respective
farms; there is a meek and long suffering sister who knuckles down to
the abuse put upon her by the wife of one of the brothers; there is the
wife herself who sends her boy, the idol of her heart, to medical
college and sees him turned out a trickster; there is the patient manly
fellow who achieves self-made distinction; there is the village justice
who fully lives up to his calling; and there is the fine-spirited
heroine besides other clearly drawn and true-to-life characters.
* * * * *
“An engaging story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 56. O. ’09.
“The story is pleasantly sentimental and entertaining throughout.” W: M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 183. S. 16, ’09. 160w.
“A story which, with all its crudeness, has its engaging features.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 212. S. 2, ’09. 380w.
“It is a fine study of rustic life, full of Yankee humor. The characters
are well drawn and easily recognized as products of the soil. And in the
development of the plot, the author has shown skill in working out her
story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“By the author of the successful plays ‘Way down East’ and ‘Under
Southern skies,’ and presumably that is why it has been published, for
there is no other discoverable reason apparent as you read it.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 300w.
=Parkin, George Robert.=^{[5]} Sir John A. Macdonald. (Makers of
Canada.) Morang & co., Toronto.
8–6972.
Throws less light upon private life than upon “the dominant part that
was played in the creation and building up of the young Dominion.”
(Nation.) The author’s “business is with the larger issues, the wider
atmosphere, in which the statesman moved who, more than any one else,
embodied the spirit and purpose of the Canadian people.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“An admirable proportion is maintained in the treatment of the different
periods. The manner and style of the volume are worthy of its subject.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 524. My. 1. 880w.
“Of the twenty-odd volumes so far issued in the ‘Makers of Canada’
series, this life of Macdonald stands easily among the best. Dr. Parkin
has avoided many of the faults of earlier volumes, and has given us a
thoroughly sane, reasonably impartial, and very readable biography of
the Canadian statesman.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 447. My. 14, ’08. 1400w.
“There is, of course, in this volume much that an English reader will
find it difficult to appreciate. There are some things which he will
hardly understand.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 492. O. 2, ’09. 290w.
=Parkinson, Edward Kneeland.=^{[9]} Guide to the country home. *$1.
Outing pub.
9–28785.
A practical discussion of such subjects relating to the country home as
the choice of a location, winter planning, tools, stock and its
treatment, crops, and how to plant them, the orchard, the market garden,
the kitchen garden, bees, trees, lawns and shrubbery, and the harvest.
* * * * *
“It gives distinctly practical advice on a great variety of important
items.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 592. O. 9, ’09. 150w.
=Parmelee, Maurice.= Principles of anthropology and sociology in their
relations to criminal procedure. (Citizens lib. of economics,
politics, and sociology.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22622.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The argument is too clear and convincing to be ignored and it will make
its appeal to all lawyers who have any insight whatever into the modern
requirements in respect to the treatment of criminals.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 548. Ja. ’09. 180w.
“The discussion is solid, the author’s viewpoint usually sane.
Unfortunately there is no index. Mr. Parmelee is to be congratulated for
having covered so large a field in a manner so satisfactory.” Carl
Kelsey.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 215. Ja. ’09. 580w.
“All of this manifestation of deficiency in philosophy, psychology and
the fundamental principles of science is very unfortunate, because it
discounts what the author says in regard to some practical problems in
criminology. Among those well worthy the careful attention of those in
authority are his discussions of individualization of punishment, the
criminal law, and his criticism of the jury system.” F. W. Collier.
+ − =Arena.= 41: 394. Mr. ’09. 780w.
“In his suggestions for the reform of criminal procedure Mr. Parmelee
has put his finger on most of the weak points of the present system. He
has perhaps passed over with too slight emphasis two of its most
conspicuous shortcomings, the abuse of appeals and the exaggerated part
played by the lawyer in criminal trials in America.” U. G. Weatherly.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 344. D. ’08. 520w.
“This work will be particularly welcome to the student of comparative
criminal procedure.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 178. Mr. ’09. 220w.
“Space does not permit of pointing to a few minor inaccuracies in Mr.
Parmelee’s text. The book is certainly one of the most important
contributions to the subject which has ever appeared in English, and we
know of no other work which has so carefully gone over the whole field
in review. It is commended to the careful attention alike of lawyer,
social worker, legislator, teacher and intelligent layman.” F. M.
McLean.
+ + − =Survey.= 23: 97. O. 16. ’09. 1700w.
“The volume is an exceedingly interesting and accurate summary of the
results of the studies of European criminologists and of existing
systems of procedure. Such works are needed.” Mason Trowbridge.
+ =Yale R.= 17: 457. F. ’09. 430w.
=Parr, Harriet (Holme Lee, pseud.).= Legends from fairyland. †$1.50.
Lippincott.