A work for the psychologist, student of psychical research and student
of religious phenomena, that traces the various phases of healing from
Mesmer, who looked upon the art as wholly material, to Mrs. Eddy who
teaches its spiritual basis and connects it with religion.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 124. D. ’09.
“Displaying a wide knowledge of his subject, the author has stated his
conclusions impartially and convincingly, and any one who desires a
clear bird’s-eye view of this disputed question can not do better than
consult the book under review.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 967. N. 27, ’09. 280w.
=Outlook.= 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 70w.
“It is not the least merit of Mr. Podmore’s excellent book that he has
pruned his material into perfectly manageable proportions. The power of
the mind over the body and the reality of what is called ‘suggestion’
are very important matters. We cannot name any work which is more likely
to set the public right than this book by Mr. Podmore. He accepts the
minimum of what is likely to be true, and in the circumstances that is
an advantage.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 421. S. 18, ’09. 1450w.
=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Complete poems; with a critical study by Charles
F. Richardson. lea. $3. Putnam.
A complete edition of Poe conspicuous for its critical editorial
material, illustrations, and typographical excellencies.
* * * * *
“The simple, sensuous, mystical, yet picturesque, quality of Poe’s
verse, its elegant aloofness, contrasted with its human thrill, are all
suggested in the photogravures.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“We cannot agree with Professor Richardson when he maintains that ‘Poe
is the American world author.’”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 745. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Last letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen
Whitman; ed. by James A. Harrison. In Commemoration of the hundredth
anniversary of Poe’s birth, January 19, 1909; pub. under the
auspices of the University of Virginia. **$2.50. Putnam.
9–4554.
“It is to be regretted that these letters are so fragmentary, but enough
remains to show that a very real attachment certainly existed between
Poe and Mrs. Whitman, altho it never culminated in marriage.... As to
the literary character of this correspondence, it represents the
outpourings of a poet. Wildly extravagant expressions of endearment are
mingled with gloomy forebodings and morbid self-distrust.” (Lit. D.) The
volume also contains reprints of the request for the banns of marriage
between Poe and Mrs. Whitman and a contract made in view of the marriage
transferring certain bank stocks.
* * * * *
“It is difficult to share Professor Harrison’s enthusiasm for these
letters.” W. B. Blake.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 119. S. 1, ’09. 370w.
“It is a characteristic memorial and as such forms an appropriate
contribution to the literature of the Poe centenary.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 562. Ap. 3, ’09. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 132. Mr. 6, ’09. 100w.
=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Tales; centenary ed. *$2.50. Duffield.
8–31689.
Includes the following seven of Poe’s most weird tales: The fall of the
house of Usher; The masque of the red death; The pit and the pendulum;
The black cat; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar; The gold-bug; and
The murders in the Rue Morgue. A particularly suggestive illustration in
color has been prepared for each story by E. L. Blumenschein.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 45: 465. D. 16, ’08. 130w.
“The spirit of the tales as written by Poe has been caught by the
artist, who accents the grewsome and the weird.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1463. D. 17, ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
“The volume is extremely attractive.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 108. Ja. 16, ’09. 130w.
=Poincaré, Lucien.=^{[9]} Electricity, present and future; tr. by
Jasper Kemmis. *7s. 6d. Sisley’s, London.
9–31014.
“The first part of the book is occupied with theoretical matters, the
main outlines of the theory of magnetism and of induction being clearly
expounded. Then follow two chapters on generating machines and motors, a
fairly long chapter on the transmission of energy, and finally two short
chapters on electro-chemistry and electric lighting.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“On the theoretical side of all these matters M. Poincaré, of course
speaks with authority, and his explanation of the subjects of which he
treats is both clear and good. Yet it seems to us that the book fails
somewhat in not being sufficiently detailed for the technician, while
for the general reader, who merely wishes to pick up an acquaintance
with such matters at an easy cost, it is too technical.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 158. Ag. 7. 190w.
“We think the whole book, excellent though it is in many respects, would
be greatly improved by simplification and a frank abandonment of the
philosophic aims which have helped to inspire it and which have given
rise, we think, to such defects as it possesses. Never was an index more
curiously compiled since someone wrote, ‘Mill, on liberty: do., on the
Floss’ in a book catalogue.” Maurice Solomon.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 482. F. 25, ’09. 800w.
“M. Poincairé’s omniscience, however, breaks down sadly in several
scientific points, where there are bad mistakes as to facts. But these
blunders are as nothing to the wild freaks of the translator who has
muddled and mangled M. Poincairé’s text.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 796. D. 26, ’08. 920w.
=Pollard, A. F.=, ed.^{[8]} British empire, past, present and future.
*5s. League of the empire, London.
In the interests of imperial unity Mr. Pollard offers this informing
exposition of the facts about the past, present and future of Great
Britain. “Mr. Pollard’s book is mainly history, though he devotes a good
many pages to the needs of the future.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“This volume, which claims to have a primarily educational purpose,
seems to be very thoroughly done, and the spirit maintained throughout
is calm and fair.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 140w.
“An admirable guide for schools and popular purposes.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 22. Jl. 3, ’09. 100w.
=Poole, Cecil Percy.=^{[6]} Gas engine. *$1. Hill pub. co.
9–8824.
Not a complete treatise on the gas engine, but a text that presents “the
principles governing the salient features of gas-engine construction and
operation in as simple a manner as possible.” “The subjects dealt with
are the methods of operation of four-cycle and two-cycle engines,
empirical calculations of pressures and temperatures, water jacketing,
valves and valve gears, ignition, carburetters and vaporizers,
governing, care and management of engines, and finally some power and
efficiency calculations.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“Jones’ ‘Gas engine’ is preferable for the student, being more complete,
but this text may be sufficient in libraries where the demand is for
rudimentary information.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 21. S. ’09.
“Apart from this table mania the book is practical, useful and concise.
In many places it is too concise, and in no place is it in any way
comprehensive. On the whole the book can be recommended to those who,
having some knowledge of the steam engine, desire to know how the
ordinary gas engine works.” L. S. Marks.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 9. My. 13, ’09. 460w.
“The impression of the book as a whole is that the author has tried to
cover too much ground in 100 pages. The book seems rather unbalanced.”
− + =Engin. Rec.= 59: 588. My. 1, ’09. 320w.
=Porritt, Edward.=^{[7]} Sixty years of protection in Canada.
1846–1907. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–10472.
A polemical presentation of the thesis that “protection to home
industries is today more firmly entrenched in Canada than in any other
country in the Anglo-Saxon world.”
* * * * *
“Not merely a full and vigorous statement of his position, but it
contains a great mass of well arranged and well digested statements of
fact. Mr. Porritt’s sketch of the rise of the national policy is
extremely interesting and valuable. He has followed it through the
available sources with great industry.” James Mavor.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 333. Je. ’09. 1500w.
“We cannot doubt Mr. Porritt’s sincerity. We can only extend to him our
sympathy in his strange hallucination.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 668. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Porritt tells the most instructive, if scarcely edifying, story. We
cannot follow its course, but we commend it to the attention of our
readers.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 192. F. 1, ’08. 220w.
=Porter, Gene Stratton (Mrs. Charles Darwin Porter).=^{[12]} Birds of
the Bible. *$2. West Meth. bk.
9–29323.
An unusual bird book in which the author in two chapters on “The time”
and “The place,” respectively, furnishes a historical and geographical
setting for her study of what “Moses recorded in history, what Solomon
said in his wisdom, what David sang in ecstasy and what Job cried out in
his agony.” Her chapters are, beginning with the third: The birds of the
poets; The birds of “Abomination”; The dove; The eagle; The sparrow; The
ostrich; The cock and hen; The hawk; The quail and partridge; The
bittern; The swallow; The peacock; The stork; The raven; The pelican;
The pigeon; The crane; The owls. Heavy plate paper, numerous fine
illustrations and an imitation of wood binding contribute to the
attractiveness of the volume.
=Porter, Gene Stratton (Mrs. Charles Darwin Porter).=^{[8]} Girl of
the Limberlost. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–35787.
A successor to “Freckles” that cannot be recommended too highly. It
traces the struggle of a young girl for an education against the odds
put up by a grim, sour mother. The Limberlost swamp in which the girl
fearlessly hunts rare moths, thru the sale of which to earn her way thru
high school, enters into the woof and fiber of the story. It seems
symbolic of the mire and loneliness, of the cocoon state from which by
heroic endeavor she emerges a wonderful creature of spiritual lights and
colors. The regeneration and rejuvenation of the mother and a charming
romance leave nothing of story unity to be desired.
* * * * *
“Recommended for older girls.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 57. O. ’09. ✠
“It is a good story for young girls.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 501. Ag. 21, ’09. 130w.
=Porter, Sarah Harvey.= Life and times of Anne Royall. *$1.50. Torch
press.
8–37342.
A review of the life and times of a pioneer woman journalist. Widowed at
forty-three she found herself deprived of her husband’s property and,
thrown upon her own resources, turned to writing as a means of
livelihood. “Mrs. Royall was known throughout the country for about
forty years, during which she figured as traveler, author, editor, and
agitator, and if we were to accept what we regard as the unjust estimate
put upon her by some of her contemporaries we should add that she also
figured as a beggar, blackmailer, and common scold. She lived from 1769
to 1854, and was a worker almost to the end of her life; it was only
four months prior to her death that she issued in Washington the final
number of her paper known as ‘The huntress.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Miss Porter has followed Mrs. Royall’s erratic course with commendable
thoroughness. She has taken a fair view of Mrs. Royall’s
characteristics, but she has exaggerated her importance.” G. H.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 622. Ap. ’09. 450w.
“A sympathetic and, from the nature of the subject, often amusing
biography of an exceedingly quaint, racy and vigorous personality.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 82. N. ’09.
+ =Ind.= 66: 869. Ap. 22, ’09. 170w.
“The thorough and scholarly way in which the author has handled the mass
of material at her command is distinctly worthy of notice.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 766. My. 1, ’09. 470w.
“Excellent story of her life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 179. Mr. 27, ’09. 960w.
“Miss Porter has proved herself an able and sympathetic biographer of
this delightfully human and interesting woman.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 561. O. ’09. 300w.
“Miss Porter’s work is valuable as a contribution to historical detail,
and it is written with a vivacity and conviction that would have won the
approval of Mrs. Royall herself.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 863. Ap. 17, ’09. 340w.
=Spec.= 102: 620. Ap. 17, ’09. 170w.
=Post, Emily (Mrs. Edwyn Main Post).=^{[11]} Title market. †$1.50.
Dodd.
9–25632.
A story that “shows, in a way that holds the interest, certain aspects
of international marriages which, if not actually new, afford, at least,
some unfamiliar variation of a familiar theme; it takes us to Italy, and
gives us numerous pleasant pictures of the sunshine and laughter and the
glamour of Rome; and it has, besides, an ingenious plot in which an
unscrupulous nobleman intrigues to gain the hand of an American heiress,
and incidentally breaks the laws of Italy by smuggling out of the
country a priceless Madonna of Raphael to the end that an enemy who
stands between him and the girl he wants may be charged with the crime
and imprisoned.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Like Mrs. Burnett’s ‘The shuttle,’ the story is somewhat melodramatic,
but as an exposition of the philosophy of international marriages shows
both sides of the shield much more fairly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 92. N. ’09.
“The author seems desirous of saving time, economising space; she
eliminates description and detail over and over at times when detail and
description would add substantially to the story’s strength and
interest. Nevertheless, ‘The title market’ is one of the books of the
current month that can be recommended with the pleasant assurance that
people will come back to you afterward and tell you how much they liked
it.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 67. S. ’09. 400w.
Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 341. D. ’09. 240w.
“In spite of its happy moments, we close the book with a general sense
of one superfluous volume the more.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 461. N. 11, ’09. 220w.
“The book is by no means of sustained excellence, and there is a curious
flavor of the amateur to it, considering Mrs. Post’s more than slight
apprenticeship to the trade of writing, but it has good stuff in it. The
book is an advance on Mrs. Post’s previous work, and also a promise of
better things to come.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 723. N. 20, ’09. 360w.
“Emily Post treats an old theme flattering to our national pride with
some freshness. The story flows smoothly until the American heiress
returns to her American lover, but the closing scenes are rather too
well arranged to be convincing.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 50w.
=Potter, Mary Knight.= How Richard won out. †75c. Wilde.
8–32394.
The story of how a lame boy, fatherless and motherless, makes good in
the eyes of two aunts who discountenanced the father’s marriage.
=Potter, Mary Knight.=^{[11]} Richard in camp. †75c. Wilde.
9–25971.
Richard and his cousin Rosamond spend part of a summer vacation in the
Adirondacks. The opening of school brings their happy out-door life to
an end. Later, at the Christmas holiday time, Richard returns to the
woods for a week in a winter camp.
* * * * *
“A wholesome boys’ book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 805. D. 18, ’09. 20w.
=Potter, Thomas.= Concrete: its uses in building, from foundations to
finish. 3d ed. rev. and enl. *$3. Van Nostrand.
9–9634.
“To those concrete engineers, and there are many in this country, who
think that concrete as a building material was not used extensively
until the last decade, this book should be commended. Its first edition
was published in 1877 and many of the processes and systems described in
the latest edition are retained from that time. In addition the history
of the use of the material in ancient times and more particularly in
England the middle of the last century is very complete.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“It should have considerable value for the small builder of straight
concrete work. There is an attempt to enter somewhat into the matter of
the theory of concrete mixing and designing and a slight reference to
reinforced concrete, but this portion is quite evidently out of the
author’s scope and of very little value.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 4. Ja. 14, ’09. 200w.
“Could all recent designers have been acquainted with the history
recorded in this book, it is certain that fewer mistakes would have
marred our records of the last few years. Deserves a place beside
Sabine’s ‘Cement and concrete.’”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 111. Ja. 23, ’09. 550w.
“Mr. Potter’s pages promise to be invaluable not only to builders and
architects, but to landowners, on whose estates so much work, from
cattle-troughs to cottages, can often be carried out to advantage in
concrete.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 154. Ja. 30, ’09. 620w.
=Poulton, Edward Bagnall.= Essays on evolution, 1889–1907. *$4.
Oxford.
8–35865.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 83. Mr. ’09.
“The present collection of essays will be of interest alike to the
general reader and to the special student of evolutionary problems.” F.
B. Sumner.
+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 185. Ap. 1, ’09. 2540w.
“The essays form a powerful reinforcement of what is properly and
distinctively called the Darwinian theory of evolution, and should tend
to reassure those weaker brethren who have allowed themselves to be
persuaded or terrified into losing confidence in the work of the two
great founders of rational evolutionary doctrine.” F. A. D.
+ =Nature.= 79: 302. Ja. 14, ’09. 980w.
“Professor Poulton’s book is one that may be commended to the general
reader as well as to his colleagues. His exposition is lucid, and his
method truly philosophical, for everywhere he tries to see the part in
the light of the whole.” E. H. Hollands.
+ =Philos. R.= 18: 449. Jl. ’09. 1500w.
“If any points may be selected for special mention from a treatise whose
general excellence is so high, they are the evidence advanced tending to
place the Mullerian theory of common warning coloration on a firmer
basis, and the extension of its applicability to a greater number of
cases at the expense of the Batesian theory of mimicry.” J. P. McM.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 109. Ja. 15, ’09. 1300w.
=Powell, Addison M.=^{[8]} Echoes from the frontier. **$1. Wessels.
9–19058.
A slight volume of frontier verse dedicated to “those who hearken to the
‘wild’s calling.’” Such themes inspire the verse as an Alaska river,
Alaska mountains, the sheep hunter, the white silence, the California
hills, the mule train packer, etc.
=Powell, Addison Monroe.=^{[12]} Trailing and camping in Alaska. **$2.
Wessels.
9–30411.
A narrative that has grown out of a scout and trail-maker’s ten years
spent in exploring, hunting and prospecting in Alaska. The author “sees
everything and sees well” in this northern wonderland where latent
possibilities are nursed into being by strong men with large hopes,
initiative and courage. It is an informing description of the country
and of the life of its pioneers.
=Powell, Lyman Pierson.=^{[5]} Emmanuel movement in a New England
town: a systematic account of experiments and reflections designed
to determine the proper relationship between the minister and the
doctor in the light of modern needs. **$1.25. Putnam.
9–35440.
A brief, popular statement of the scope, principles and clinical
experiments of the Emmanuel movement as conducted by Mr. Powell in
Northampton, Mass.
* * * * *
Reviewed by J. L. Gillin.
=Am. J. Soc.= 15: 267. S. ’09. 220w.
“More easily understood by the average reader than Worcester’s ‘Religion
and medicine’ and useful as a supplement, but in no way supersedes it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 108. Ap. ’09.
=Outlook.= 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 90w.
“Throughout the book there is a notable absence of the exaggeration and
straining for effect which so often accompany the propaganda of any new
cult. Mr. Powell’s conservatism makes his conclusions the more
convincing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 582. My. ’09. 1050w.
=Spec.= 103: sup. 493. O. 2, ’09. 140w.
=Powell, Lyman Pierson.=^{[12]} Heavenly heretics. **$1.25. Putnam.
9–29856.
Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, William Ellery Channing, Horace Bushnell
and Phillips Brooks are the “heavenly heretics” treated here. The author
calls in the testimony of contemporary listeners, analyzes specific
sermons, and thru the gateway of analysis leads on to each man’s general
philosophy of life and states the salient facts and illustrative
incidents that have helped each to influence the religious life of his
contemporaries.
=Pownall, Charles A. W.= Thomas Pownall, M. P., F. R. S., governor of
Massachusetts Bay, author of The letters of Junius: with a
supplement comparing the colonies of Kings George III and Edward
VII. *$5. Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, London; for sale by W:
Abbott.
9–9266.
A sketch of the life and times of a man who “played an important, but
almost forgotten, part in America during the seven years’ war and in the
Parliamentary battles against Bute and Grafton and North.... To most
readers the heart of the work will be in the two chapters which
elaborate an old argument to prove that Pownall wrote the ‘Letters of
Junius.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
“There was room for a brief biography of Governor Pownall. But it is to
be feared that Mr. Charles Pownall has to a large extent defeated his
own end by developing the career of his kinsman to the prodigious length
of some 460 pages. Mr. Charles Pownall boldly describes his kinsman as
‘author of “The letters of Junius,”’ his theory being that Francis wrote
them at Pownall’s dictation. The theory seems to us to break down
absolutely in the important matter of style.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 283. Mr. 6. 1000w.
“It is unfortunate that the author shows little skill in the art of
narration, and allows himself to wander off into long disquisitions on
colonial history and allied topics, which detract seriously from the
value of his book.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 331. My. 16, ’09. 250w.
“Mr. Pownall has written the life of an interesting and important
figure, and has given a new impetus to an old controversy.” W. L. Grant.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 375. Ap. ’09. 1300w.
“It must be added that Mr. Pownall shows no special skill in the art of
narration, and that he swells his book to an uncomfortable size by
entirely unnecessary excursions into American history.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 306. Mr. 25, ’09. 2450w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.=^{[5]} Railways and nationalization. 2s. 6d. King, P.
S., & son, London.
“Mr. Pratt writes in support of the thesis that nationalization of
railways, under any of its forms, ‘is unnecessary, undesirable and
impracticable as regards any applications thereof to the United
Kingdom,’ whatever defense of the principle may be urged in other
countries with other economic and political conditions. This said,
enough said. The topics treated are inevitable: state railway finance;
state vs. private management; effects upon politics and upon labor;
probable terms of acquisition; comparison of English and continental
rates, services, and conditions of traffic; what English railways have
done; their present situation; how other countries have been led to
adopt state ownership—all treated from the point of view that out of the
nationalization Nazareth nothing good can come; at least not for
England.”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“The main interest of the book for Americans lies in its lucid
exposition of British traffic conditions and grievances, and the
proposed remedies for the latter.” V: S. Clark.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 40. Ap. ’09. 240w.
“As a piece of economic journalism, dealing with a current problem and
intended to influence the popular mind, the book has merit. It is
timely; it furnishes recent data.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 237. Ap. ’09. 180w.
“He has done for this subject what Prof. Meyer did for the subject of
municipal ownership of public utilities. It is not a treatise, nor a
consideration of principles, but frankly is a brief held for the
opposition. This is both its strength and weakness.” E: A. Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 572. O. 17, ’08. 1300w.
=Pratt, James Bissett.= What is pragmatism? *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–5136.
Six lectures somewhat recast by the author since delivering them at the
Glenmore summer school. They form a popular and informal presentation of
pragmatism (not presupposing any prior knowledge on the subject) for
those who find themselves unable to accept the pragmatic view. The
chapters are: Meaning and method in pragmatism, The ambiguity of truth,
The pragmatic view of the truth relation, Pragmatism and knowledge,
Pragmatism and religion, The “practical” point of view, Index.
* * * * *
“Among the anti-pragmatists Professor Pratt is known as one of the
clearest and cleverest writers. On the whole the present volume supports
and enhances this reputation. Professor Pratt’s style is delightfully
free and easy, and some readers, especially the pragmatic ones, may find
that this applies also to some of his criticisms.” A. W. Moore.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 477. Jl. ’09. 770w.
“Clear; forcible and mainly to the point. Not as interesting as James’
‘Pragmatism,’ but should be read by those wishing to ‘hear the other
side.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 108. Ap. ’09.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 610. N. ’09. 170w.
“The book contains a number of shrewd critical observations and its
style is enjoyable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 202. S. ’09. 60w.
“Mr. Pratt ably refutes all the arguments of the pragmatists which he
examines. What he does not do, but which he might have done, is to make
us realize that they are practically the same argument all the time.” A.
Schinz.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 20: 117. O. ’09. 1500w.
“Professor Pratt’s book is a most welcome and timely contribution to the
discussion of pragmatism. It is an excellent summary of the current
arguments against pragmatism, written in a very attractive style. On a
few fundamental questions, Professor Pratt’s discussion seems to me to
fail in being convincing.” H. T. Woolley.
+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 300. My. 27, ’09. 1650w.
Reviewed by P. E. M.
=Nation.= 88: 456. My. 6, ’09. 280w.
“This critique, lucid, keen, kindly, and ingratiating itself by its
bright and genial style, deserves to be read as widely as the three or
four volumes by distinguished but discordant pragmatists which thus far
have exclusively occupied whatever of public attention has been
attracted to their showy philosophy.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 818. Ap. 10, ’09. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 512. Ap. ’09. 80w.
=Pratt, Lucy.=^{[6]} Ezekiel. †$1. Doubleday.
9–14825.
A wondrous wise little negro boy is the chief figure among the group of
Hampton institute children who work and play thru these pages. His
progress and setbacks on the road to wisdom are representative and
intensely human. His stories, wonderful to the ears of his companions,
reveal the negro’s spirit of make-believe, his superstition and love of
rhythm.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 28. S. ’09. ✠
“A reserve and control, a withholding of comment, letting the child in
word and deed betray his own imaginative, sensitive personality, show
great artistic skill, while the human sympathy underlying the artistic
appreciation gives a large quality to the work.”
+ =Atlan.= 104: 683. N. ’09. 80w.
“Feminine sentiment can do no more for the pickaninny than it has done
in Lucy Pratt’s ‘Ezekiel.’”
+ =Nation.= 89: 206. S. 2, ’09. 210w.
“One may feel at times that she rather overemphasizes a didactic note in
her effort to gain sympathy for the negro race at large. The book is
thoroughly delightful and fresh, and the reader who does not welcome
Ezekiel into the gallery of children in literature must be hard hearted,
indeed.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 420. Jl. 3, ’09. 200w.
=Prelini, Charles.= Graphical determination of earth slopes, retaining
walls and dams. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–28615.
Consists mainly of graphical methods of solving problems concerning the
slopes of earth embankments, the lateral pressure of earth against a
wall, and the thickness of retaining walls and dams. Graphical methods
of Culmann, Rebhann, Weyrauch, Blanc and others have been used; the
course of the discussion is similar to that followed by Professor Senesi
of Italy.
* * * * *
“The text should commend itself to the attention of instructors.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 665. D. ’08. 200w.
“The proof reading has been hastily done, as is evident by the
discrepancies between cuts and text and by the corrections required in
following the derivation of the formulas.” C: L. Crandall.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 693. D. 17, ’08. 640w.
“The short chapter on dams is probably likely to be of least use outside
the classroom, while that on earth slopes is well above the average in
general interest.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 594. N. 21, ’08. 130w.
“The book should prove especially useful to civil engineering students
during their final college year.” T. H. B.
+ =Nature.= 81: 393. S. 30, ’09. 500w.
=Preuss, Arthur=, ed. Study in American freemasonry. *$1.50. Herder.
8–29606.
A study based upon Pike’s “Morals and dogma of the ancient and accepted
Scottish rite,” Mackey’s “Masonic ritualist,” “The encyclopaedia of
freemasonry,” and other American masonic and standard works. The author
“seeks to show that freemasonry is by no means the harmless social and
benevolent organization it appears to be, but rather an insidious and
dangerous enemy of true faith and upright morals.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A more liberal exercise of compression, pruning, and elimination would
have made the book more compact and, therefore, more readable. Dr.
Preuss seems to weaken his case now and again by unduly pressing some
inference based upon some passing remark from a masonic source.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 108. O. ’08. 1050w.
“Mr. Preuss takes his antagonist somewhat too seriously.”
− =Nation.= 88: 63. Ja. 21, ’09. 140w.
=Preyer, David C.= Art of the Netherland galleries. (Art galleries of
Europe ser.) *$2. Page.
8–30912.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Is more than a mere guide to the collections of paintings in Holland.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 254. My. ’09. 80w.
=Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 50w.
“A mildly entertaining book by an author with no charm of well-formed
literary style, with apparently no profound convictions, no original
philosophy of art and life, but with an equipment of generally sound
ideas as to the relative standing of the Dutch painters, and with an
indubitable fund of information on various aspects of his subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 638. D. 24, ’08. 370w.
“A part of the liveliness of tone is due to the author’s marked
predilections and readiness to indulge his enthusiasms, thereby
communicating to the reader something of his own feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 1100w.
=Prichard, Harold Arthur.=^{[11]} Kant’s theory of knowledge. *$2.15.
Oxford.
9–24195.
“This book is an attempt to think out the nature and tenability of
Kant’s Transcendental Idealism, an attempt animated by the conviction
that even the elucidation of Kant’s meaning, apart from any criticism,
is impossible without a discussion on their own merits of the main
issues which he raises.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Prichard’s volume is more of a rarity as a vigorous manifesto in
favor of this new realism than as an addition to that multitude, which
no librarian can number, of books about Kant’s philosophy. Yet, though
Mr. Prichard is evidently more interested in realism than in Kant, his
book, within the limits chosen, has some singular merits, even as a
commentary on the ‘Kritik’; and in certain ways it should be more
serviceable to students of that obscure classic than any existing
English writing.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 213. S. 2, ’09. 750w.
“Throughout the book the author’s analysis and his criticism seem to me
almost always correct, excellent, and helpful, yet, though some of the
chapters certainly should have been published as articles. I cannot help
asking, why they all were published as a book? It is hardly a book for a
student beginning Kant. Finally, as an attack on idealism and as a
defense of realism, the book loses much of its force by keeping so
closely to the letter of Kant’s critique instead of dealing with his
main problems apart from their artificial setting.” W. T. Marvin.
+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 653. N. ’09. 2550w.
=Priest, George Madison.=^{[12]} Brief history of German
literature; based on Gotthold Klee’s “Grundzüge der deutschen
literaturgeschichte.” **$1.50. Scribner.
9–28542.
A study of German literature from the earliest times down to the present
day which is essentially the embodiment of “an attempt to reproduce
Professor Klee’s manual for the benefit of English readers.” At the same
time the author has aimed to prepare a book suited to the needs of the
English reader rather than to offer a faithful translation of the German
work.
* * * * *
“A model of comprehensiveness for its size.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1137. N. 18, ’09. 100w.
=Prince, Morton=, ed.^{[5]} My life as a dissociated personality, by
B. C. A.; with an introd. by Morton Prince. *50c. Badger, R. G.
9–5248.
Contains (1) an account of the different phases of multiple personality
as they appeared to the subject after restoration to health, and (2) an
account of co-conscious life written by the same subject in one of her
states of dissociated personality.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 46: 333. My. 16, ’09. 80w.
=Prindle, Edwin Jay.= Patents as a factor in manufacturing. (Works
management lib.) $2. Eng. mag.
8–31843.
“The author of this volume disclaims any intention of making the
inventor or the manufacturer his own patent attorney. His book,
therefore, omits any consideration of the fine legal technicalities of
patent law, but instead takes up the broader subjects with which every
manufacturer or engineer having to do with patents ought to be
reasonably familiar.... Of the seven chapters of the book, Chap. 4,
relative to infringements, and Chap. 6, on the patent relations of
employer and employee, are particularly worthy of commendation for their
usefulness to engineers.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Every chapter is of interest, and the book as a whole can be most
highly commended.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 174. F. ’09. 250w.
“We do not recall anywhere so systematic and complete a presentation of
patent law for the layman in small compass as is here given. The book as
a whole is a meritorious and useful one.” C. G. Barth.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 691. D. 17, ’08. 120w.
“For the general reader the book is instructive and entertaining as well
as authoritative. For the young engineer it is much in a nutshell and he
should read it many times until its contents are absorbed.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 707. D. 19, ’08. 320w.
“Should be of value to the public which it addresses.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 100w.
=Prout, Ebenezer.= Instrumentation. (Music students’ lib.) 75c.
Ditson.
Prepared for students who wish to gain a knowledge of the proper
blending of orchestral instruments, their compass and capabilities, and
everything connected with this branch of musical art. “Instead of
commencing with a catalogue of all the instruments used in the modern
orchestra ... it has been thought better to begin with an orchestra of
strings alone, and to teach first how they are to be used. The various
wind instruments are then added by degrees to the strings, until at
length the full orchestra is reached. The subjects of balance of tone
and contrast are then treated; next the instrumentation of vocal music,
and of concertos, and other instrumental solos; and a few general
principles conclude the volume.” (Preface.) Numerous examples are given
from the works of the masters.
* * * * *
“Is particularly timely now.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 72. Ja. 21, ’09. 400w.
“The book is an excellent one to set on the music-shelf for reference
beside Krehbiel’s ‘How to listen to music.’”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 266. Ag. ’09. 160w.
=Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor).=^{[11]} My day:
reminiscences of a long life. *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–28141.
Over seventy years are traversed in this sketch that leans more to the
personal aspects of history than to autobiography. From her early days
in Virginia to the exciting days before and during the war, and on to a
rebel’s struggle in starting life anew in the North after the war had
ended and had left him with nothing but a ragged uniform, a sword, a
wife and seven children. The sketch fixes some of the emotions and some
of the vital experiences that entered woof and fiber into the structure
of a past generation.
* * * * *
“One welcomes with enthusiasm so delightful, graphic and interesting a
record of days that are past, and whose memory is well worth preserving,
as Mrs. Roger A. Pryor’s ‘My day: reminiscences of a long life’ proves
to be.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1139. N. 18, ’09. 210w.
“The only deficiency in a work which must be widely read and much
referred to is the absence of an index.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 1080. D. 11, ’09. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 657. O. 23, ’09. 40w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 754. D. ’09. 130w.
=Pumpelly, Raphael=, ed. Explorations in Turkestan, expedition of
1904; prehistoric civilizations of Anau, origins, growth, and
influence of environment. (Carnegie institution of Washington,
Publication no. 73.) $10. Carnegie inst.
9–2519.
The results of a study of prehistoric man based upon the remains that
can be found in the central plateau of Asia. The volumes deal chiefly
with the exploration of two mounds near the city of Anau, about half way
between the Caspian and the City of Merv.
* * * * *
“These volumes with their wealth of illustrations are a worthy
counterpart to the magnificent series of volumes on Susiana edited by
DeMorgan.”
+ + =Ind.= 66: 424. F. 25, ’09. 670w.
“These volumes are very interesting in many ways. They are monumental
contributions to a subject of great importance in the history of a
section of mankind, and quite worthy of the institution whose imprint
they bear.” C: R. Gillett.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 194. Ap. 3, ’09. 900w.
=Punch, London.= Poems from Punch; ed. by Francis C. Burnand. 40c.
Caldwell.
8–26006.
“This collection of Poems from ‘Punch’ has been drawn almost entirely
from verses published in that periodical during the first twenty-five
years of its existence (1841–65), years which bridge the gulf between
the latest work of Hood and the earliest contributions of Sir Francis
Burnand himself.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“As a whole the volume is scarcely exhilarating, and Sir Francis
Burnand’s introduction might well have comprised matter more definite
and of wider interest.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 816. D. 26. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 70w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1466. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
“For the serious poems in ‘Punch’ little can be said when they are
twenty or sixty years old.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 144. Ja. 30, ’09. 120w.
“The poems vary greatly both in quality and in subject-matter.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 304. F. 20, ’09. 780w.
=Purvis, J. B.=^{[9]} Through Uganda to Mount Elgon. $1.50. Am. Tract.
Conducts readers thru nearly the whole of the East African Empire, and
gives glimpses of countries and peoples. It includes an informing
presentation of problems of race and color, civil and military
questions, and commercial and missionary enterprises.
* * * * *
“We have no hesitation in saying that his book has permanent value. The
later chapters (xii-xvi) will be found most interesting by the
anthropologist.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 93. Jl. 24. 440w.
“Mr. Purvis went beyond the now almost beaten track, and his book should
be read by all interested in mission work.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 203. Ag. 14, ’09. 160w.
“Mr. Purvis has much to say about various matters in Uganda, principles
and details of administration, &c. We prefer to give no opinion on these
matters, but we certainly think that what he says is worth considering.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 316. Ag. 28, ’09. 500w.
=Putnam, Bertha Haven.=^{[5]} Enforcement of the statutes of
labourers, during the first decade after the black death, 1349–1359.
(Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law. v.
32.) *$4.50. Longmans.
8–32654.
“Miss Putnam has endeavored to answer two questions much disputed among
students of English economic and social history: first, were the
provisions of the statute of laborers legitimate, and secondly, were
they effective?... The essay rests upon a remarkably fine basis of
documentary material obtained after long search in the Public record
office, London, and here printed in part in an appendix of documents
occupying 463 pages, or twice the number of the thesis itself.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The interest of the book is sustained by a persuasive literary style
and by a workmanship which is admirable in several respects.” J. F.
Baldwin.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 799. Jl. ’09. 620w.
“A very scholarly study of administration.” R. V. Phelan.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 27. Ap. ’09. 1200w.
=Ind.= 66: 1298. Je. 10, ’09. 280w.
“Quite apart from her main purpose of showing the operation of the
system set up to enforce the statute of laborers she has accomplished an
exceedingly useful result in calling attention to sources misplaced or
unknown and of orienting the entire mass of material necessary for a
further investigation of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 520. N. 26, ’08. 450w.
=Spec.= 103: sup. 715. N. 6, ’09. 120w.
=Putnam, George Rockwell.= Nautical charts. $2. Wiley.
8–28865.
A series of lectures delivered at Columbia university. Includes an
account of nautical surveying and chart-making, historical notes, and
explanation of the use of charts. “The book is written in non-technical
language to as great an extent as is feasible. The general reader will
find it clear and concise.” (Science.)
* * * * *
“Bears the characteristics of a semi-popular work. But it is clear and
instructive as far as it goes, and the fact that it leaves the wish that
the author had taken time to go more into detail may be due to his
success in engaging the reader’s interest. That the book deserved to be
written is further grounded in the fact that there exists no general
writing on nautical charts.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 31. Mr. 18, ’09. 200w.
“Unnecessary alike to the hydrographer and the sailor, this little book
may yet prove attractive to the curious in maritime matters.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 659. D. 31, ’08. 120w.
“A valuable addition to books dealing with hydrographical surveying.” H.
C. Lockyer.
+ =Nature.= 79: 365. Ja. 28, ’09. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 352. Je. 5, ’09. 250w.
“For mariners, yachtsmen, surveyors and shippers it is of special
interest. The expert in the lines treated will find it valuable in
furnishing a good general view of the subject by any expert. The book is
up to date, is written in an interesting manner, and yet is especially
to be commended for laying emphasis upon matters which are really
important to the users of charts, rather than the matters which are
merely interesting.” J. F. H.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 766. N. 27, ’08. 860w.
Q
=Querido, Israel.=^{[11]} Toil of men. **$1.35. Putnam.
The wretched, sordid life of some Holland slaves of toil is portrayed in
this story. Whether it be the sodden, passion-seized man or woman, or
the creature whom grim toil has plunged into stupor, the author
reproduces the type with marvelous realism. There is no progress, no
development in the story; it ends where it began. It is a cross section
of actual life, among the very animals of human society, sharply
scrutinized and clearly analyzed. It contains a description of a thief’s
passion for stealing that has no parallel. The book suggests Zola and
Gorky.
* * * * *
“Able translation. In striking contrast with the deplorable human
element is the beauty of the setting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 493. O. 23. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 652. O. 23, ’09. 40w.
“Much that must seem coarse appears in the tale. It is grim, but never
uninteresting, and some of the descriptions of nature in varying moods
are beautifully written.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 729. N. 20, ’09. 380w.
=Quick, Herbert.=^{[12]} American inland waterways. **$3.50. Putnam.
9–31048.
“The present work is not only a description of places, but a work on
commerce and transportation. Among the eighty fine illustrations most
represent harbors, docks, levees, and elevators. The writer, in fact,
may be said to hold a brief for the waterways as means of
transportation, as against, or rather supplementary to, the railways. He
suggests a plan for a system of water communication coextensive with the
continent and he states, with many arguments in support of his thesis,
the country’s ‘bitter need for better transportation facilities’ as
likely best to be met by ‘a more complete use of our inland waterways as
a complementary system of free highways to carry the tonnage which in
good times the railways can not bear.’”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 39: 1080. D. 11, ’09. 210w.
“Mr. Quick’s text is of the sort which stirs the blood of Americans with
either imagination or patriotism, and makes a hardly less convincing
appeal to that class—neither small nor uninfluential—which is moved most
by thrills of the pocket nerve.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 763. D. 4, ’09. 770w.
=Quick, Herbert.=^{[10]} Virginia of the air lanes. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–26671.
Miss Virginia Suarez, cruising above the Gulf of Mexico in her uncle’s
aërostat, the Roc, steps into a helicopter while its inventor is
explaining the mechanism. Unintentionally she touches the wrong lever,
the intricate machinery is started in motion, the helicopter rises from
the deck, and before the startled bystanders can prevent, the little car
with its one occupant shoots off into space. So this exciting tale of
adventure in mid air begins. Succeeding chapters tell of Virginia’s
rescue by Theodore Carson, of the perfection of his own invention, the
aëronef, of his fight with the girl’s uncle for the monopoly of the
skies, and of the final happiness of the young people. The time of the
story is, naturally, some few years hence.
* * * * *
“The author enables you to interpolate several bright, irresponsible
hours into the drab calendar of your days.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 719. N. 20, ’09. 500w.
=Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas.=^{[9]} True Tilda. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–35790.
A youthful heroine with nine years to her credit pursues her shrewd,
energetic way thru the pages of this story. Tilda is a circus girl and
when the story opens is lying in a hospital ward impatiently biding the
healing of a bruised thigh-bone. With true sleuth cleverness she pieces
together the incoherent sentences murmured by a dying woman near her,
takes advantage of a half hour granted for an airing and slips away,
steals a wronged child from a prison orphanage, and with the aid of
coal-stokers, show-people, bargemen, a “Pooh-bah” of the wharf, and a
determined lady bountiful conducts the child to his home and brings
justice upon the head of a depraved orphanage superintendent.
* * * * *
“A story with much originality, an abundance of strong human interest,
and full of the charm of the unexpected and unusual.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 54. O. ’09. ✠
“The touch of the poet is felt throughout the book, and the description
of some of the waterways over which the children travel would alone make
it worth reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 357. S. 25. 220w.
“Although a book about children, it is distinctly designed for their
elders to read, and is one of the happiest of the author’s whimsical
inventions. So much humor, entertaining adventure, and unconventional
life is not often packed within a single pair of covers.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 237. O. 1, ’09. 250w.
“Is not at his best in ‘True Tilda.’”
− =Ind.= 67: 550. S. 2, ’09. 160w.
“The plot is simply all that it needs to be. The unlucky thing is the
sketchiness and inclusiveness of the persons. ‘Q’-land is peopled with
creatures of paper and ink as well as of flesh and blood; a large
number, more particularly, of figures bearing the mark of ‘Boz.’ It is
not so much that ‘Q,’ like De Morgan, thinks in terms of the
middle-Victorian novelist, as that his brain seems to be persistently
haunted by the spooks of Gadshill.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 329. O. 7, ’09. 450w.
“There is something of a treat in store, so long as [the readers] will
only leave the thing they call their critical sense behind them.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 386. S. 25, ’09. 1000w.
“A very delightful and genial book and the best tribute that we can pay
to its many merits is to say that it suffers from its brevity.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 650. O. 23, ’09. 1250w.
=Quinn, Daniel.= Helladian vistas. $1.50. Daniel Quinn, Yellow
Springs, O.
8–30697.
“In effect this is rather a book of travel, a sort of
personally-conducted tour. We are taken to the Acropolis of Athens, to
an Athenian cemetery, to the regions about Mycenae, and to the vale of
Tempe. We are also shown the Olympic games, and, so far as may be, the
mystic rites of Elevsis are unfolded to us. But it is to those places to
which our classical studies less often lead us that our author oftenest
conducts us—to ‘The land of the Klephts,’ to ‘Mega Spelaeon or the
Monastery of the great cave,’ to ‘The Phaeaks’ island,’ to Zakynthos
(‘The flower of the East’), and to other localities, among which Arkadia
and Mesolonghion are not to be forgotten. History, ancient, medieval and
modern, mingles with the description of natural scenery and
characterizations of the people.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
“The ‘tone’ is a delightful one and even those who are not classical
students will find the book full of interest.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 375. Ja. ’09. 250w.
“Is very entertaining reading.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 693. F. ’09. 130w.
“Neither grace nor fashion in the narrative ... neither thoroughness nor
learning. A due regard for the quick and the dead should have allowed
these brief and breathless essays to remain in the holy sleep of the
magazines where they first appeared.” J. G. Winter.
− =Class. J.= 4: 336. My. ’09. 130w.
“Some of the essays are very readable.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ =Class. Philol.= 4: 335. Jl. ’09. 130w.
“We may prophesy that when this book once gets into circulation it will
receive high praise.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 868. Ap. 22, ’09. 460w.
R
=Radau, Hugo=, ed. and tr. Letters to Cassite kings from the Temple
archives of Nippur. (Babylonian expedition of the Univ. of
Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform texts, v. 17, pt. 1.) $6. Dept. of
archaeology, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phil.
8–33646.
“Contains 103 letters—mostly fragmentary—of the Cassite period (about
1750 to 1210 B. C.), dealing with the business and other official
affairs of the chief temple at Nippur. This collection forms a
supplement to the two volumes, also on the business affairs of the
Nippur temple during the Cassite period, which have been so admirably
published by Professor Clay of the University of Pennsylvania.”
(Nation.) “Dr. Radau has added an unusually full introduction of over
150 large pages, which gives evidence of careful study of the texts.
There is a full index of names of persons, professional and gentilic,
places, houses, gates, temples, rivers, canals and gods.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Radau is a young and capable scholar, and this volume is of great
value for its texts and translations, and considerable of its
discussions. What we criticise are matters of judgment and in part of
courtesy.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 636. Mr. 25, ’09. 800w.
“Altogether the introduction, though giving evidence of much study and
showing the ingenuity and learning of the author, is marked by hazardous
hypotheses that will not endure a critical test; and it would have been
far better if Dr. Radau had confined himself to a summary of the actual
data to be gleaned from these letters.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 338. Ap. 1, ’09. 800w.
=Raffety, Charles W.=^{[8]} Introduction to the science of
radio-activity. *$1.25. Longmans.
9–35781.
“A concise and popular account of the properties of the radio-active
elements and the theoretical conceptions which are introduced by the
study of radio-active phenomena.” “The book is divided into three parts:
a descriptive part of eight chapters, a theoretical part of eight
chapters, and a practical part of five chapters. An appendix contains a
summary of the several rays and radio-active elements. The index is very
good.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“A clear and logical account. Not exhaustive but useful as an elementary
reference work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 21. S. ’09.
“The arrangement is such as to introduce unnecessary obscurity into the
subject. We note several inaccuracies and misstatements.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 72. Jl. 17. 670w.
“Is so written that lay readers will find little or no difficulty in its
study.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 56. Jl. ’09. 130w.
“The book forms an excellent introduction to the subject; yet, one
cannot but feel the needlessness of a book of the scope of this one,
when we have Makower’s ‘The radioactive substances,’ Bottone’s ‘Radium,’
and Levy and Willis’ ‘Radium.’ The value of even a popular treatise
could be enhanced by the addition of references to the literature.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 62. My. 13, ’09. 130w.
“The book can be heartily recommended to mathematical, as well as
non-mathematical, readers who desire an acquaintance with the subject of
radio-activity.”
+ =Nature.= 81: 485. O. 21, ’09. 330w.
=Ragg, Rev. Lonsdale.=^{[10]} Church of the apostles; being an outline
of the history of the church of the apostolic age. *$1.40.
Macmillan.
“An attractive and discriminating sketch of the spread of Christianity
in the first century. Mr. Ragg has not confined himself to canonical
sources, but has included in his survey the whole field of the earliest
Christian literature and other contemporary materials.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“His study of the primitive church shows him to be a well-read and
discriminating scholar with a strong literary sense. The indices are
full and useful. On some critical matters Mr. Ragg’s positions do not
altogether satisfy.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 617. O. ’09. 300w.
“The positions taken are generally intelligent though not always
critical. There is a curious disagreement between pp. 7 and 284.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 34: 288. O. ’09. 70w.
“It is not his knowledge or his style that we feel bound to criticise;
it is his point of view and the way in which he has approached his
work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 574. N. 6, ’09. 230w.
“It is a careful piece of work, which may be read with pleasure and
profit. We cannot always accept Mr. Ragg’s explanations.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 387. S. 11, ’09. 280w.
=Railway signal association.= Railroad signal dictionary; comp. by
Braman B. Adams and Rodney Hitt under the supervision of the
following committee: C. C. Anthony, Azel Ames, jr., J. C. Mock. $6.
Railroad age gazette.
8–23071.
An illustrated vocabulary of terms which designate American railroad
signals: their parts, attachments and details of construction, with
descriptions of operations and some illustrations of British signals and
practice.
* * * * *
“Altogether the authors have accomplished a very difficult and
ungrateful task in highly commendable manner. If it should reach a
second edition, as is to be hoped, there will be opportunity for
simplification and shortening, and for covering also European practice.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 32. Mr. 18, ’09. 650w.
“Really the first complete textbook on modern signal apparatus. Because
of its completeness and the care which has been taken to make all of the
descriptions clear and simple in wording, the book is of value alike to
the trained signal engineer, the operating officer who knows the
functions of signals but not the details of their operation, and the
student who is ignorant of first principles.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 279. S. 5, ’08. 320w.
=Raine, William MacLeod.=^{[6]} Ridgway of Montana. †$1.50.
Dillingham.
9–11151.
A story in which a loveless engagement is terminated for the hero when
he falls in love with the girl-wife of his septuagenarian business rival
and for his fiancée when she realizes her insincerity in permitting
masterful force whetted by predatory greed to substitute for ideal manly
requirements. A rough struggle for mining rights and a fight for life in
a mountain snow storm and avalanche, emphasize the western quality of
the story.
* * * * *
“A brisk, melodramatic story of big things and big men. The story is
well told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 344. My. 29, ’09. 170w.
=Rainsford, Rev. William Stephen.=^{[12]} Land of the lion. **$3.80.
Doubleday.
9–29437.
“Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford, the well-known former rector of St. George’s,
in New York, recently spent thirteen months in East Africa, hunting big
game, and his book describes in detail, and with many pictures from
photographs, the things he did and saw and heard about in that
huntsman’s paradise. Keen on the scent for game though Dr. Rainsford is,
it is not the mere butchery that engrosses him. Among the divers
excursory speculations and reflections that the book contains is a
little homily on the degeneration of the rhinoceros under the too-easy
conditions of his modern life.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The literature of African hunting, already abundant, is increasing in
these days; but a more variously interesting book for the stay-at-home
general reader than Dr. Rainsford’s will not soon make its appearance.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 516. D. 16, ’09. 200w.
“This admirable narration is written with candor, simplicity, and an
absence of rhetorical effort. The hunting-incidents are graphic and
convincing from their very boldness in description.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1080. D. 11, ’09. 110w.
“He tells hunting stories that are vivid and thrilling, describes
picturesquely the varied country through which he traveled.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 788. D. 4, ’09. 240w.
“Rather unusual illustrations from photographs by the author complete
the volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 758. D. ’09. 100w.
=Rambuteau, Claude Philibert, comte de.= Memoirs of the Comte de
Rambuteau; ed. by his grandson; tr. from the French by J. C. Brogan;
with an introd. and notes by Georges Lequin. *$3.50. Putnam.
9–5497.
“A record of the experiences of the Chamberlain of Napoleon I. This
admirable master of ceremonies saw the Emperor in his familiar and
every-day relations, and gives in this volume an animated account of the
way the court entertained officially and publicly, as well as the way it
informally amused itself.” (R. of Rs.) “If he does not show us a
Napoleon ‘intime,’ he at least gives us glimpses of the warrior at
leisure, and of the ways in which he spent it.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“In spite of some imperfections the translation reads smoothly, and must
have entailed a great deal of labour.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 129. Ja. 30. 800w.
“In the later pages of the ‘Memoirs’ is a detailed analysis of the
improvements which Rambuteau introduced in Paris as prefect. To students
of Parisian history this will be particularly interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 230. Ap. 1, ’09. 380w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“The translation is edited with the usual care of American and English
publishers and has a sufficient index. Few mistakes can be charged to
the translator.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 64. Ja. 21, ’09. 520w.
“While the Comte de Rambuteau is not primarily a raconteur and has
little of the French volatility, the light and intimate touch which
constitutes the usual charm of memoirs, he has a keen sense of values
and knows how to analyze a character or an epoch, so that his
reminiscences, as dictated in old age to his grandson, are full of
material for the historian.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 784. D. 19, ’08. 1600w.
“Chiefly valuable in the incidental light thrown upon the Emperor.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 382. F. 20, ’09. 70w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 128. Ja. ’09. 80w.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 144. Ja. 30, ’09. 950w.
“Unhappily the light which they throw on Napoleon’s life and character
is neither very new nor very penetrating.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1101. D. 26, ’08. 280w.
=Ramsay, Rina.= The straw. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–5527.
“Called ‘The straw’ in reference to a gentle girl, weak of will, who
allows herself to be sacrificed to a vicious brute, thereby in the end
bringing about a murder tragedy, the mystery of which is solved only by
the very last words of the book.” (Outlook.) “As a brisk, graphic,
panoramic picture of English country life of to-day among the gay and
reckless hunting set, with the tingling excitement of breathless,
break-neck dashes after the hounds, disastrous tumbles and broken limbs,
the book certainly achieves what the author meant it to.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Although this novel may be read appreciatively as a Leicestershire
hunting and racing romance, it is more interesting and imaginative than
such a description would imply.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 284. Mr. 6. 100w.
“A book which just misses deserving a place in the class of stories that
we mentally catalogue as ‘worth while.’ Its weakness lies in the plot
construction.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 29: 77. Mr. ’09. 480w.
“Is the best riding romance that has appeared lately, if indeed there
ever was another like it. The book abounds in that peculiarly flagrant
wit of society people who have no reputations worth preserving.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1083. My. 20, ’09. 280w.
“The zest of the book lies in the crisp, racy style, and in the fact
that one is kept most of the time in the saddle, galloping furiously
after the hounds.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 418. Ap. 22, ’09. 230w.
“A very fair rainy night’s entertainment, indeed. The persons in the
drama are by no means stock figures, and the drama itself is made of
good material rather skillfully and effectively developed.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 310w.
“Miss Ramsay’s story provides a singularly fresh and pleasing
entertainment for those of us who are jaded with much reading of
fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 140w.
“The story has action, color, and out-of-doors atmosphere, and will
attract a large class of readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 534. Mr. 6, ’09. 120w.
=Ramsay, Sir William.=^{[5]} Essays, biographical and chemical.
*$2.50. Dutton.
9–10278.
Fourteen essays as follows: Historical essays: The early days of
chemistry; The great London chemists: 1, Boyle and Cavendish; 2, Davy
and Graham; Joseph Black: his life and work; Lord Kelvin; Pierre Eugène
Marcellin Berthelot; Chemical essays: How discoveries are made; The
Becquerel rays; What is an element? On the periodic arrangement of the
elements; Radium and its products; What is electricity? The aurora
borealis.
* * * * *
“On account of their lucid and delightful style the essays make
excellent reading aside from the valuable information which they
convey.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 48. O. ’09.
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 158. Ag. 7. 130w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 367. Ag. 12, ’09. 250w.
Reviewed by C. Simmonds.
+ =Nature.= 81: 122. Jl. 29, ’09. 970w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 306. My. 15, ’09. 750w.
“We hope the book, which is pleasantly written, and calls for no
technical knowledge in the reader, may have a wide circulation, for the
indifference of our politicians and public officers to science is one of
the most dangerous features in the state.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 82. Ja. 16, ’09. 320w.
“The most attractive essay of the whole is ‘Lord Kelvin.’”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 640. Ap. 24, ’09. 500w.
=Ramsay, Sir William Mitchell.= Luke the physician and other studies
in the history of religion. *$3. Armstrong.
9–13276.
“This bulky volume bears the simple title ‘Luke the physician’ on its
back, but only the first hundred pages are directly concerned with that
evangelist and with Harnack’s vindication of his authorship both of the
Acts and of the third Gospel; the remaining three-fourths of the book
consists of reviews, lectures, and magazine articles on subjects
connected with Asia Minor, the New Testament, and early Church
history.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 588. N. 13. 750w.
“They form a rather miscellaneous collection, those dealing with
Lycaonia in the fourth century probably carrying most weight. The
illustrations are admirable.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 288. Ap. ’09. 80w.
“The bias of Professor Ramsay’s estimate of Luke, however, does not
detract from the great value of his careful descriptions of the physical
conditions of Asia Minor and their influence on its political and
religious history, nor from the indebtedness under which all students
are placed by his study of the monuments and inscriptions of that
interesting meeting-place of East and West.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 196. F. 25, ’09. 420w.
“He is a little too fond of throwing stones at ‘prejudice,’ and needs
occasionally to look to his own windows.” E. S. D.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 271. My. 1, ’09. 240w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 250. F. 27, ’09. 400w.
“Whatever Sir William Ramsay writes has a deep interest and a real
fascination, even though his theories seem at times to be a little
fantastic or extreme. His attitude towards modern criticism of the Bible
is, as his readers know, strongly reactionary.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 132. Ja. 23, ’09. 1000w.
=Rankin, George A.=^{[10]} American transportation system: a criticism
of the past and the present, and a plan for the future. *$1.50.
Putnam.
9–28107.
The author probes to the disease of the American railway system, shows
what attempts have been made to eradicate it, and then offers remedial
suggestions that have grown out of careful investigation of the system
as it is operated. For the wrongs of accident, waste, dishonesty,
inefficiency, and corrupt influence upon American life, the author maps
out a constructive policy that will lessen accidents, serve all classes
impartially, require a fair return to capital invested, provide sound
and stable securities and at all times be free from politics.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 100w.
=Rankin, (James) Reginald (Lea).= In Morocco with General d’Amade.
*$2.50. Longmans.
8–34793.
A newspaper correspondent’s account of the operations of the French army
in Chaóuiya during the early part of 1908. “For the military student who
will do a little sifting for himself, there is valuable first-hand
information. The author has nothing but praise for the French soldier in
action. Campaigning in a wild country like Morocco provides temptation
for the soldier, and especially, one may suppose, for the Latin soldier
of excitable temperament. Major Rankin, writing from close observation,
gives the lie direct to those hostile critics who have made accusations
of cruelty or barbarity against the French troops.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Besides detailed accounts of the campaign, in which the author is loyal
to the French, there is valuable information about the country, its
inhabitants, resources and future.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 108. Ap. ’09.
“It is a sufficiently good book to make one resent its not being much
better, so far as craftsmanship goes. Its value is considerable; but its
right appreciation makes too great a demand upon the reader’s patience.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 12. Ja. 2. 270w.
“On the whole, a readable and useful volume.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 171. F. 18, ’09. 650w.
“A very clear and comprehensive account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 38. Ja. 23, ’09. 800w.
“The book gives a good idea of the campaign and the lives of the people
affected by the fighting.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 6. N. 21, ’08. 220w.
“The attractive attributes of ‘A Subaltern’s letters to his wife’
reappear in this,—the literary efficiency, the botanical knowledge which
makes us see the colour and smell the scents of the ground over which we
follow him, and the ability to read history in language, architecture,
and human faces.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 999. D. 12, ’08. 1850w.
=Rasmussen, Knud.= People of the Polar north; compiled from the Danish
originals and ed. by G. Herring. *$5. Lippincott.
8–36704.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The book is not only a valuable contribution to the study of primitive
folklore, but is at the same time highly interesting as a portrayal of
Polar life. The entire book is fascinating reading.” W. S. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 211. Jl. ’09. 400w.
“While pointing out slight errors, we gladly acknowledge that Mr.
Herring has capably discharged a difficult editorial task. He has had to
choose his material, without help from the author, from two separate
books—a collection of the northern folk-lore and a narrative of travel;
and we wish that he could have kept these two subjects more completely
apart. It is a pity that so large a volume is not furnished with an
index, as the table of contents is far from complete.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 18. Ja. 2. 1050w.
“This work deals in a very thorough fashion with the psychology and
culture of the three distinct branches of the Eskimos which make up the
population of Greenland.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 311. Ja. 14, ’09. 1100w.
“The artist of the expedition has a gift of portraiture, and succeeds in
showing the individuality and humanity of the native people in a way
which makes the illustrations very sympathetic interpreters of the
text.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 433. Ap. 3, ’09. 570w.
“He is a careful and scientific inquirer, but he is also alive to the
romance of this ultimate people, and he has a gift of vivid and
memorable description.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 134. Ja. 23, ’09. 1500w.
=Rastall, Benjamin McKie.=^{[6]} Labor history of the Cripple Creek
district. (Bulletin of the Univ. of Wis., no. 198. Economics and
political science ser. v. 3, no. 1.) 50c. Univ. of Wis.
8–14740.
“This is an accurate, scholarly account of the two spectacular conflicts
between capital and labor that have occurred in an extremely rich mining
district located in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, nine thousand or
more feet above sea level. The monograph divides itself into two parts.
The first, comprising four chapters, deals with the strike of 1893; the
second, covering six chapters, describes the important struggle of
1903–1904.”—Econ. Bull.
* * * * *
“The volume, however, lacks scholarly finish and smacks too greatly of
the easy flowing, and at times careless, newspaper style of composition
so frequently found in popular accounts of such matters.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 628. N. ’08. 90w.
“As a careful narrative of an industrial war, stubbornly and bitterly
fought on both sides, and as a stirring chapter in the history of the
American labor movement, this monograph will be of interest to all
students of industrial conditions.” W: Kirk.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 212. S. ’08. 880w.
“The author exhibits throughout, however, such fairness and good
judgment in weighing contradictory testimony as to give entire
confidence in the accuracy of his narrative. He may justly be said to
have put upon record a definitive account of the two disturbances. The
main point of interest in any account of the miners’ strikes of the West
is the explanation of the violence and terrorism by which they have been
almost uniformly characterized. Unfortunately Dr. Rastall has considered
this aspect of his subject less fully than would have been desirable.”
G: E. Barnett.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 379. Je. ’09. 320w.
=Rawlings, Gertrude Burford.=^{[5]} Coins and how to know them.
*$1.50. Stokes.
9–2023.
A book “for collectors and others newly taking up the study” which
supplies a demand for a general and comprehensive introduction to the
science of numismatics. It offers “concise epitomes of the coinages of
ancient Greece and Rome, of the British Islands and their dependencies,
and of the United States.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 109. Ap. ’09.
“To those who wish to obtain a general knowledge of the various classes
of numismatics, we can recommend a perusal of this work. Though the
subject has been treated somewhat tersely, the information throughout is
accurate. It is singularly free from those misstatements which often
detract from the value of handbooks of this description.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 220. Ag. 21. 700w.
“The arrangement undoubtedly corresponds more closely to the
chronological sequence; but it is somewhat disturbing not to have the
same order as that adopted in the standard books and museum collections,
because this handbook is in no wise independent of them.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 263. S. 16, ’09. 250w.
=Spec.= 101: sup. 811. N. 21, ’08. 530w.
=Rawnsley, Rev. Hardwicke Drummond.=^{[8]} Round the lake country.
*$1.50. Macmillan.
“The places and sights of which Canon Rawnsley writes in his latest
volume ... lie for the most part upon the extremities of the lake
district, on the coast of Lancashire north of the sands. Of the
lily-woods of Arnside and the seabirds’ nesting-place near Muncaster he
writes with genuine enthusiasm, as of Gowbarrow and Aira Force, in the
business of securing which for the public under the direction of the
National trust he took a large and praiseworthy part.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“There are few people who, however well they know the lake country, will
not know more after reading these essays.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 94. Jl. 24. 520w.
“Though of less value, no doubt, than his ‘Literary associations of the
English lakes,’ this book should be pleasant reading for leisurely folk
who like to go on imaginary journeys, maps in hand.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 489. N. 18, ’09. 320w.
“Is little more than ornamental reporting. The book is put together with
so little care that not only do repetitions of matter scarcely varied in
form occur, but paragraphs are copied and even a whole chapter bodily
lifted from an earlier work of the author’s, which is advertised in this
volume.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 6. Jl. 17, ’09. 200w.
“All through we have delightful descriptions, written with the
enthusiasm of a true lover of the country, of lake country landscapes,
whether foregrounds or distances.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 982. Je. 19, ’09. 280w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Bridge builders. †$1.50. Little.
9–3333.
Against her favorite Quebec background Miss Ray writes a story in which
mingle romance and the building of the ill-fated Quebec bridge. The
sprightly young heroine, Jessica West, is the daughter of a new-rich
Arizona miner, and is dubbed Miss Woolly-West by a group of conservative
English people who “look upon her as a species of natural curiosity, as
exotic as a mastodon.” Her friendships, romances, and social triumphs
are entertainingly recounted.
* * * * *
“Will interest girls of high school age.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 92. Mr. ’09. ✠
“An interesting group, even if a little conventional, with no great
moral or religious struggles, but with active life lit by beams of
humor.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 822. S. ’09. 230w.
“The style is admirable, the product of good taste and a cultivated
mind, and the book is written from intimate knowledge of the scenes and
social conditions which it portrays. It is the sort of book that may be
read with much quiet satisfaction.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 183. S. 16, ’09. 210w.
“Miss Ray has unusual insight into human nature, and among American
novelists her skill in the depiction of character is notable. And in
this respect she has done in this book the strongest and most
interesting work that has come from her pen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 302. My. 15, ’09. 200w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.=^{[10]} Janet at odds. †$1.50. Little.
9–25391.
In this, the fifth of the “Sidney” books, a group of the young people,
already familiar to readers of the series, spend the summer of the
tercentennial at Janet’s house in Quebec. They take part in the
pageants, entertain a “Lady” from England, and have all the good times
that Miss Ray’s boys and girls know how to have. Janet, placed between
two groups of friends, the old and the new, finds it hard to conform to
the social standards of both. In the end she is true to her higher
ideals and learns that the differences between the Canadian and American
are not so fundamental after all.
* * * * *
“Is one of the natural human stories of girl life—and boy life,
too—which Anna Chapin Ray always writes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 597. O. 9, ’09. 160w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. D. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Ray, Perley Orman.=^{[7]} Repeal of the Missouri compromise. *$3.50.
Clark, A. H.
9–7530.
“Takes issue with the opinion held by all the leading historians of this
country that Stephen A. Douglas was the original instigator of the
repeal. The conclusion to which he comes is that it was Senator David R.
Atchison of Missouri who was chiefly responsible for the bringing
forward of the Kansas-Nebraska bill with all its momentous
consequences.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The investigation of the western antecedents of the Kansas-Nebraska
bill was decidedly worth while. If Dr. Ray has not attained a new point
of view, at least he has presented a fresh and suggestive account of the
Missouri factional struggle between 1852 and 1854, and he has
established successfully the contention that there was a popular demand
in the trans-Mississippi country for the organization of the Nebraska
territory.” Allen Johnson.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 835. Jl. ’09. 620w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 179. Je. ’09.
“The author has spared no effort to get together all the available
material, and fortifies his statements with abundant footnote references
to the authorities on which he relies.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 212. Jl. ’09. 270w.
“We think Professor Ray attaches too great importance to the
recollections of W. C. Price. Men who have outlived their influence
habitually exaggerate their earlier exploits.” F. H. Hodder.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 120. S. 1, ’09. 2000w.
“A sound piece of historical work and a contribution of first-rate
importance.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 385. O. 21, ’09. 400w.
“A careful study. Mr. Ray has brought forward so much evidence, and has
marshaled it so well, that his conclusions will merit at least
respectful attention from historians hereafter, while his investigation
into the causes of the repeal throws some new light upon that firebrand
piece of legislation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 174. Mr. 27, ’09. 250w.
“It is an undeniable fact that Dr. Ray, in the volume before us, has
exposed the influence of individuals and of facts to which no previous
writer has given adequate attention.” W. A. u.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 527. S. ’09. 550w.
=Read, C. Stanford.= Fads and feeding. *$1. Dutton.