“May interest those who are in search of facts about women dissociated
from the political, social, and literary movements of their times.”
(Nation.) The two volumes include the Egyptian women, the Greek woman,
the Roman woman, the woman of the renaissance, the woman in the convent,
Englishwomen of the Tudor period, Englishwomen of the Stuart period, the
women of the time of Louis XIV and Louis XV, women of the salons, women
of the French revolution, Englishwomen of the eighteenth century, women
of the time of the French empire, and literary women of the nineteenth
century.
* * * * *
“The value of Mr. Reich’s work is marred by passages which reveal
narrowness of view and prejudices; otherwise it would be an
authoritative contribution to sociology.” A. R. Marble.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 124. S. 1, ’09. 1800w.
“Although first-hand sources have been drawn upon, readers familiar with
other compendia of the history and literature of classical antiquity,
the middle ages, and the renaissance, and of France and England in the
following centuries, will find little that is new in this book.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 580. Je. 10, ’09. 480w.
“While this work must be accorded a high place in the reference library
of the historian, it may as well be admitted at once that it is chiefly
interesting to the casual reader in this country on account of the final
chapter, that on ‘Woman in America.’ As to the merits of the views
expressed therein there will be a wide divergence of opinion.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 425. Jl. 10, ’09. 1500w.
“There is no question as to the interest he has imparted to the subject,
for he writes with picturesque vigor, and never hesitates to inject into
descriptions of either ancient or modern life his own individual
prejudice or opinion. That makes lively reading, and keeps the reader on
the alert.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 278. O. 2, ’09. 800w.
“There is no learning in the book except such as any literary hack might
display who was intelligent enough to collect at the Museum the
traditions about ancient women and the ordinary accounts of the position
of women in ancient and mediaeval times. Such a book as this accuses him
of a want of serious purpose.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 3. N. 21, ’08. 1550w.
=Reinsch, Paul Samuel, ed.=^{[6]} Readings on American federal
government. *$2.75. Ginn.
9–12092.
A source book whose aim is to bring the student into first hand contact
with political facts and forces. The selections are accounts by people
who have engaged in or witnessed the occurrences described. They embrace
speeches by representatives and senators on the powers of the executive,
relations of executive to Congress, the legislative process, and
departmental activities; addresses by prominent federal judges on the
organization and work of the courts, selections from executive messages,
departmental reports, court decisions, and essays by eminent publicists
on phases of the actual operation of government.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 15: 218. O. ’09. 50w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 179. Je. ’09.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 610. N. ’09. 230w.
“Professor Reinsch’s volume contains much useful information that can be
found in no formal description of the American government and will prove
most useful as an aid to an understanding of its rather complex
operations.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 186. S. 16, ’09. 230w.
“It is hard to imagine a better book on which to base a university
course in that subject.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 303. Ag. 5, ’09. 70w.
“For the present the serviceableness of Professor Reinsch’s book to the
teacher and student, whatever the range of library facilities at
command, can hardly be over-estimated, and we are glad to give the work
hearty commendation.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 234. S. 9, ’09. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 476. Ag. 7, ’09. 340w.
“It would be difficult to imagine a better book on which to base a
splendid university course in federal government.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 554. S. ’09. 210w.
“A useful compilation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 70w.
“There is a distinct place for such a volume of readings as Professor
Reinsch has edited; and teachers of American government will be quick to
recognize its merits.”
+ =Yale R.= 18: 221. Ag. ’09. 230w.
=Repplier, Agnes.= Happy half-century, and other essays. **$1.10.
Houghton.
8–27522.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“She occupies a position which in some respects is analogous to that of
Mr. Birrell in this country; yet one doubts if that statement does her
full justice.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 311. Mr. 13. 700w.
“Just a baker’s dozen of essays now before us, every one of which has
its own peculiarly delicious savor.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 537. Mr. 11, ’09. 420w.
=Reuterdahl, Arvid.=^{[5]} Theory and design of reinforced concrete
arches: a treatise for engineers and technical students. *$2. Clark,
M. C.
8–26688.
“Valuable as giving in detail, with reasons for it, every step in the
design of a typical arch.... The first chapter is devoted to a
theoretical discussion of the general subject, including detailed
demonstrations of all theorems used in the actual procedure of arch
computation, which forms the second chapter. The third chapter is on the
determination of fiber stresses. In the appendix are full specifications
for reinforced concrete arches prepared by the Concrete-steel
engineering company, and the St. Louis regulations regarding reinforced
concrete structures.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“For the student who wishes to get in one book the whole theory, to its
minutest details, of the reinforced concrete arch, and who is not
overawed by a succession of formula-filled pages, we can commend the
book.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 692. D. 17, ’08. 370w.
“About the only adverse criticism of the book that can be made is that
it has nothing to show how a single load on any part of the arch can be
treated.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 526. Ap. 17, ’09. 200w.
=Revelation= to the monk of Evesham abbey; in the year of our Lord
eleven hundred and ninety-six, concerning the places of purgatory
and paradise, rendered into modern English by Valerian Paget.
*$1.50. McBride.
9–24243.
A rendering into modern English of a classic which is important in a
historical, religious and literary sense. The monk is a sort of Dante
who “conducts the reader thru the pains and tortures of a
mediaevally-constituted purgatory, and thru those pleasant fields of
paradise wherein the purged souls of the departed wander, when the price
of worldly evil-doing has been paid.” Its historical significance is
apparent in the light it throws upon the religious life and problems of
the twelfth century.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 46: 268. Ap. 16, ’09. 80w.
“Mr. Paget’s rendering, based on Prof. Arber’s reprint of the fifteenth
century English version of the vision, reads smoothly and will doubtless
satisfy the public to which it is addressed, but the preface shows a
woful ignorance of mediæval literature and even of the history of the
book itself.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 560. Je. 3, ’09. 380w.
“The style of the rendering, the work of Valerian Paget, is very
suitable to the matter, and the matter is interesting for the sake of
the reflection of the contemporary ecclesiastical mind if for nothing
else.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 51. Je. 5, ’09. 380w.
=Rexford, Eben Eugene.= Home garden: a book on vegetable and
small-fruit growing, for the use of the amateur gardener. **$1.25.
Lippincott.
9–6489.
Not a scientific treatise but a brief, practical handbook for the use of
those who have a little piece of land for the growing of vegetables and
small fruit, and who, from lack of experience, do not know how to go to
work in the right way.
* * * * *
“Very sensible and useful manual for the amateur.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 144. My. ’09. ✠
Reviewed by G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 546. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“Good sense, and long experience both in gardening and in writing, lie
at the foundation of this helpful book.” S. A. Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 46: 368. Je. 1, ’09. 120w.
“This volume contains, to paraphrase, the practical thoughts of a
practical fellow.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1244. Je. 3, ’09. 100w.
“This treatise is a convenient, untechnical, but not encyclopædic, aid
to beginners. Although it is very small, it ought to have an index.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 468. My. 6, ’09. 480w.
“It is written for the man who seeks to find in outdoor exercise a
relaxation from the cares of professional life and would like to have
that exercise one in which pleasure and profit may be successfully
combined.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 384. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
=Reynolds, Gertrude M.=^{[9]} False position. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“The story of a young girl of good family, who is reduced to poverty and
who accepts marriage with a man whom she does not love as the only way
out of her difficulties. She has had an innocent love affair with the
nephew of her husband, several years previous to her marriage, and
through a mistaken sense of duty, both she and the young man in question
agree to hide the past. From this arise complications which are only
straightened out in the last chapter. There are many pleasant pictures
of life among the upper class in England, and some well-drawn character
studies.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“One is left with the comfortable sense of having been amused and
interested without a waste of time or an aftermath of unpleasant
recollection.”
+ =Nation.= 69: 186. Ag. 26, ’09. 250w.
“The book has a refreshing sanity and cleanliness of thought, and should
appeal to those readers who are a trifle weary of problem novels and
stories of hair-breadth adventures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 403. Je. 26, ’09. 150w.
=Reynolds, Gertrude M.= Supreme test. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
8–31471.
“The central theme [of this story] is the awakening of a very worthy,
but very austere, middle-aged English gentleman to a sense of his own
narrowness through the influence of a young girl, who is neither wicked
nor worldly, but simply and naturally human.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“So well set forth that it is only reflection that brings out the
story’s inherent weaknesses.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 757. D. 12. 100w.
“A rather able book of its kind, admirably true in character drawing;
and because so true, sane and wholesome in its general outlook upon
life.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 588. F. ’09. 220w.
“The story moves at a lively pace in and out among the pranks of Kythe,
but her champion’s transmutation is hard to follow.”
− =Nation.= 88: 171. F. 18, ’09. 280w.
“A story in which there is little of logic and reality. The frivolous
heroine does not enlist the reader’s sympathy.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 101. F. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Reynolds, Stephen.= Poor man’s house. †$1.50. Lane.
9–13969.
A well-conducted demonstration of the belief “that in the things that
really matter, the educated man has more to learn of the poor man than
to teach him.” “The house is the house of a poor Devon fisherman; the
characters are all from the slum section of the small town overhanging
the sea. But it is as men and women and children that we meet them, not
as an institution. This book is not a ‘study’ of the poor man. It is not
a labeling apparatus designed to provide you, plus the author’s
guarantee, with a sticker to attach to any workingman you may run
across. It is the experiences, the happy experiences, of a man fortunate
enough to know when he is well off, and having the power most
graphically and convincingly to picture this well-offness and the causes
that produced it.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Reynolds, though he may not have produced a picture of a typical
poor man’s house, has produced a more attractive study—free from theory
and sentiment—of the domestic life of one poor man. It is an achievement
of conspicuous merit.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 720. D. 5. 300w.
“There is abundance of homely dialect conversation, not needing a
glossary, however; and the realistic story throughout is well worth
reading.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 116. F. 16, ’09. 300w.
“The whole thing strikes one as a really sincere record and commentary.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 387. Ap. 15, ’09. 600w.
“As interesting reading to our maturity as were the hero-tales of old to
our children.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 29. Ja. 16, ’09. 340w.
“Is in reality the raw material for fiction rather than fiction proper.
Not a book for squeamish readers. The aim of the writer renders it
impossible for him to consult their susceptibilities. A study remarkable
for its sympathy and poetry as well as its minute observation.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 784. N. 14, ’08. 1400w.
=Reynolds, Victor.= Stories of the Flemish and Dutch artists from the
time of the Van Eycks to the end of the seventeenth century;
selected and arranged by Victor Reynolds. *$3. Duffield.
9–8430.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 180. Je. ’09.
“Mr. Reynolds frankly declines, at the outset, to guarantee ‘the truth
of many of the anecdotes,’ so that the book is one to be used with
caution by English readers. With this reservation, the twenty odd lives
make pleasant reading, if unsatisfying to the seeker after definite
facts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 382. Mr. 27. 360w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 467. D. 16, ’08. 140w.
+ =Ind.= 66: 588. Mr. 18, ’09. 90w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 252. Ja. ’09. 30w.
“There is a disconcerting absence of dates and at times a curious habit
of dropping into the language of a contemporary when talking of the old
masters without quotation marks, which is more or less distracting to a
reader of logical tastes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 4. Ja. 2, ’09. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 125. Ja. ’09. 50w.
=Rhodes, Daniel P.=^{[10]} Philosophy of change. *$2. Macmillan.
9–24972.
The author has here spun out an idea of the universe from his own fancy.
His basal principles of change reminds one to some extent of the
philosophy of Heroclitus but he does not attempt to connect his with any
ancient or modern school of thought and his style is more popular than
is customary with works on such subjects. The basis of his philosophy is
“the principle of continuous and universal change.” The universe is
regarded “not as a thing but as a process.” His chapters set forth the
general trend of this theory and “the probable consequences of its
adoption by mankind” under such headings as: “Illusion and reality,”
“The knowing,” “The fiction of a universe,” “Reason and will,” “A
rational view of death,” and “Literary style and the philosophy.”
=Rhodes, James Ford.=^{[12]} Historical essays. *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–30870.
Eighteen historical essays many of which are public speeches and
addresses. They are: History; Concerning the writing of history; The
profession of historian; Newspapers as historical sources; Speech
prepared for the commencement dinner at Harvard university, June 26,
1901; Edward Gibbon; Samuel Rawson Gardiner; William E. H. Lecky; Sir
Spencer Walpole; John Richard Green; Edward Gaylord Bourne; The
presidential office; A review of President Hayes’s administration;
Edward Laurence Godkin; Who burned Columbia? A new estimate of Cromwell.
=Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hegan).=^{[5]} Mr. Opp. †$1. Century.
9–8574.
Mrs. Rice’s unique hero is a sort of glorified Ichabod Crane with a
double personality. “The aggressive Mr. Opp of the gorgeous raiment and
the seal ring, the important man of business ... was in deadly combat
with the insignificant Mr. Opp, he of the shirt sleeves and the wilted
pompadour” who gives up ambition and love that he may bring happiness to
a little half-witted sister. “There was in the man—egotism, courage,
whatever it was—that would never recognize defeat, that quality that
wins out of a life of losing the final victory.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 188. Je. ’09. ✠
“The story is told with the sympathy and picturesqueness of touch that
we have learned to expect from the author.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 612. My. 22. 160w.
“The book is a slight thing as regards plot, but an excellent study of
character.” M. K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 412. Je. ’09. 500w.
“Alice Hegan Rice fully lives up to her reputation in this latest
character study, ‘Mr. Opp.’ Mrs. Rice has a happy faculty of choosing
expressive English and the fact that Mr. Opp’s history is remarkably
well told will surely add to its popularity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 852. My. 15, ’09. 260w.
“Mr. Opp is a hero worth knowing.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 16. Jl. 1, ’09. 200w.
“A truly delightful book, full of whimsical humor, and with a dash of
pathos and sentiment which is never mawkish or unreal.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 286. My. 8, ’09. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“It is chiefly good fun.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 390. Je. 19, ’09. 50w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 760. Je. ’09. 120w.
“Mr. Opp is more than the hero of a novel: he comes very near to being
truly heroic. The whole book, indeed, is exceedingly attractive, and
fully sustains the reputation of its author.”
− =Spec.= 103: 209. Ag. 7, ’09. 250w.
=Rice, Allen Thorndike=, ed. Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by
distinguished men of his time; new ed. rev. **$2. Harper.
9–2244.
A timely revision of a book which is an accumulation of a mass of
trustworthy evidence concerning the personal traits and private
utterances of Lincoln. There are impressions of Lincoln, the lawyer;
Lincoln, the statesman; and Lincoln, the man.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 122. Ap. ’09.
=Ind.= 66: 263. F. 4, ’09. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 53. Ja. 30, ’09. 700w.
=Rice, Cale Young.=^{[6]} Nirvana days. **$1.25. Doubleday.
9–6094.
A collection of some fifty poems impregnated with the spirit of Buddha.
They are grouped under the heads “Dramatic” and “More or less dramatic.”
* * * * *
“The author is most a poet when he is farthest from Nirvana, dreaming of
sensuous old laces in Italy or Japan, or declaiming indignantly against
the Night Riders. His worst fault is that he has not learned his craft.
His style in the quieter pieces is uneven and unimpressive, and under
excitement degenerates into rant.” Brian Hooker.
− + =Bookm.= 29: 368. Je. ’09. 300w.
“The poems fall into ‘non-dramatic’ and ‘more or less dramatic’ groups.
The latter group contains the more vigorous work.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 100. Ag. 16, ’09. 150w.
=Nation.= 89: 54. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
“In his philosophical poems Mr. Rice shows seriousness of intent but an
unfortunate vagueness. Taken as a whole, Mr. Rice’s verse is smooth
flowing and generally simple in expression.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 407. Je. 26, ’09. 100w.
=Rice, Edward Irving.= Old Jim Case of South Hollow. **$1. Doubleday.
9–4485.
The country store of South Hollow is nightly the scene of a gathering of
old cronies who perched upon barrels, counters, tea chests, etc., listen
greedily to the stories and reminiscences of Old Jim Case. How he swears
off drinking served as the theme of his perennial temperance sermon,
while his inside knowledge of the town doings, the villainies practiced
and the wrongs suffered help him to play the deus ex machina rôle with
unwonted fervor.
* * * * *
“The wrapper, all things considered, is about the most attractive
feature of the book.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 118. F. 27, ’09. 200w.
=Rice, Wallace de G. C.=, comp. Catchwords of patriotism. **$1.
McClurg.
8–28047.
“A variety of wise and statesmanlike remarks culled from the writings
and speeches of those who have been among the foremost in the political
life of America.” (N. Y. Times.) There are included Roosevelt, Bryan,
Taft, Kern, Sherman, Hughes, and others.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 20w.
“It is to be regretted that the compositor, or somebody else, has made a
perfect mess of the sentiment credited to Mr. Sherman.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Richards, Mrs. Ellen Henrietta.= Cost of cleanness. (Cost of living
ser.) $1. Wiley.
8–28977.
“In this latest volume Mrs. Richards works out the cost of being clean
in person, house, food, and city, and compares it with the demonstrated
cost of ignoring dirt in any or all of those particulars.”
* * * * *
“Extremely suggestive and helpful to housekeepers, teachers and those
interested in the problems of public health, civic cleanliness and the
administration of relief.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 48. F. ’09. ✠
“If in future revisions the author sees fit to retain her imaginary
statements regarding the possibilities and near-by certainties of
electrical household do-it-alls we shall not take it greatly at heart,
but we shall be disappointed if she does not at least add qualifying
footnotes regarding the diphtheria level; street cleaning, yellow fever
and the general death rate; and the cost of pure as compared with impure
water.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 51. Ap. 15, ’09. 700w.
“Mrs. Richards’s book is concise and condensed to the point of
bluntness. Each sentence is a bullet for compactness and energy of
propulsion. The volume bears evidence of such haste in writing that the
author did not take time to elaborate sufficiently her ideas, nor to
give them frequently the best sequence.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 17. Ja. 9, ’09. 650w.
=Richards, Mrs. Ellen Henrietta.= Laboratory notes on industrial water
analysis: a survey course for engineers. *50c. Wiley.
8–36798.
“These notes are in the nature of five laboratory exercises, to
determine first the industrial characteristics of water in general and
then the amount of scale-forming materials, iron, sulphate, alkalinity,
etc. The fifth exercise deals with remedies. Besides the five laboratory
exercises, there is a second part, which takes up standard solutions and
gives some valuable conversion tables. A few bibliographical references
conclude the book.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 5: 297. Mr. ’09. 100w.
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 5. Ja. 14, ’09. 140w.
“The exercises will doubtless prove interesting and instructive as part
of a course in chemistry.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 55. Ja. 9, ’09. 160w.
“There are no equations or explanations of the reactions involved in the
various processes, which are described in the briefest manner, so
briefly, indeed, that we should doubt if some of the operations could be
successfully carried out.” J. B. C.
− =Nature.= 80: 216. Ap. 22, ’09. 100w.
“Mrs. Richards has had such extended experience in matters dealing with
water examination that everything from her pen is always of value.” W.
P. Mason.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 501. Mr. 26, ’09. 150w.
=Richards, Joseph William.=^{[7]} Metallurgical calculations. 3v. ea.
*$2. McGraw.
6–12166.
“This volume completes a set of three, the text of which has been
published as a serial in ‘Electrochemical and metallurgical industry’
during the past two years. Volume 1 treats of metallurgical principles
in general, and its successor with their special application to the
problems arising in the iron and steel industry. The present volume is
concerned with the metallurgy of the non-ferrous metals, and deals with
copper, silver, gold, lead, zinc, mercury, and aluminum.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 5: 540. My. ’09. 220w.
“Has covered the theoretical side very satisfactorily.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 250. F. 27, ’09. 220w.
=Richards, Marian Edwards.=^{[9]} Zandrie. †$1.50. Century.
9–24236.
Zandrie, convent reared, a child in thought and fancy, is the naïve and
innocent heroine of this tale—a child whose reputation in the hands of
Madam Grundy would have been torn to tatters. But some good angel
watched over her thru her wilful, unconventional young career and
brought her to safety in a good man’s love.
* * * * *
“A love story pure and simple, naïve and often extravagant but
convincing and full of vitality.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 93. N. ’09. ✠
“A work of rather exceptional quality and delicate art, a work of
slender and fragile strength, like that of a woman’s slender, supple
wrist; and it is marred only in its ending, where the author’s purpose
seems to falter and stumble.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 281. N. ’09. 480w.
“This is a love story pure and simple, in the fullest sense of the
words; there is simplicity in its very extravagances, and Zandrie’s
almost superhuman innocence is not only credible, but entirely
convincing. In the entire treatment of the theme there is a morning
freshness that sorts well with the callow years of the protagonists.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 306. S. 30, ’09. 220w.
“Is not especially distinguished. The book fall into that class of
American fiction, which is neatly written, absolutely harmless, and very
amateurish in its conception of real life.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 584. O. 2, ’09. 180w.
=Richardson, Clifford.= Modern asphalt pavement. 2d ed. rev. $3.
Wiley.
8–32510.
“Almost every page bears the mark of critical revision, and some
selections are practically rewritten. In chapter 5 the structure of the
hydrocarbons which characterize the liquid and solid asphalts is
discussed in the light of the latest researches, and will appeal
particularly to the chemist. Chapters 17 and 18, on asphaltic concrete
and asphalt paving blocks have been materially enlarged and contain
valuable information regarding recent important improvements in these
lines. The author’s specifications for asphalt pavements have been
revised very carefully.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“A complete revision of a valuable work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 122. Ap. ’09.
“This is one of the recognized standard books on the subject of road
work. In the present edition, the work of revision has been carefully
done and the book must continue to occupy its high position in the field
of municipal engineering.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 536. My. ’09. 400w.
“An examination of the present edition indicates that the revision has
been carefully made and that the book is bound to continue to occupy a
high place in the literature of municipal engineering.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 692. D. 17, ’08. 200w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 83. Ja. 16, ’09. 360w.
=Richardson, Frank.= Other man’s wife. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–28065.
“Richard Meyville, the hero, a struggling barrister, has for mistress
the wife of a wealthy friend. The lady, by her influence, launches him
on the tide of success.... There seems nothing particularly creditable
about the connexion, but it is treated as a matter of course by the
author and all his characters, except the inhabitants of Bayswater and a
presumably out-of-date Lord Chancellor. When, at the height of success,
Richard thinks of taking ‘silk,’ his application is refused by the Lord
Chancellor; whereupon he is forced to choose between his career and his
mistress, and chooses the former.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Of the character-sketches some are caricatures, but many are admirable.
The book teems with the unexpected, and is not over-weighted with
epigram.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 170w.
“It tells an unpleasant story about life and people in London. It is
filled with a company of characters either stupid, disagreeable, or
offensive, while their actions are of a similar character.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 39. Ja. 23, ’09. 160w.
=Richardson, Henry Handel.= Maurice Guest. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–7947.
A story of less musical than psychological interest. “The hero, a young
musician of good abilities, but no strength of character, is
overmastered by a morbid passion for a worthless Cleopatra, and the
history of their relations, which terminate in his suicide, forms the
main theme of the book.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Some scenes are unnecessarily repulsive. But Mr. Richardson’s work has
genuine realistic qualities which deserve recognition.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 432. O. 10. 150w.
“The realism is not only disagreeably, but unnecessarily, coarse. There
is one absurdly false touch. All the American students speak that
marvelous ‘Yankee’ lingo which is never heard this side of the
footlights of English theatres.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 387. Ap. 15, ’09. 550w.
“He writes very well, and his novel, notwithstanding its great length,
is a compact, well-constructed, dramatic piece of work, with characters
of lifelike portrayal, that of the hero being especially true and
vivid.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 384. Mr. ’09. 80w.
− =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Richardson, S. S.= Magnetism and electricity, and the principles of
electrical measurement. *$2. Van Nostrand.
“The object of this book is to provide a sound and systematic course of
study in the fundamental principles of electricity and electrical
measurement. It has been prepared to meet the requirements of students
who have had previous instruction in the elementary descriptive parts of
the subject, and are taking up the study of electricity in its more
quantitative aspects, either as a branch of pure physics, or as a
preparation for a course in applied electricity.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“The text suffers occasionally from the defect of quoting formulae of
which no proof is offered. Altogether the book deserves commendation.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 18. Jl. 4. 580w.
“The figures are well drawn and the experimental methods have been
judiciously chosen.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 176. F. ’09. 160w.
“The treatment, on the whole, is very clear and concise, and the book
contains considerably more matter than is usually found in books of this
standard.”
+ − =Nature.= 79: 246. D. 31, ’08. 220w.
=Richey, Harry Grant.=^{[7]} Building foreman’s pocket book and ready
reference. $5. Wiley.
9–11746.
One of a series prepared for the “special use of the various trades, for
plumbers, carpenters and woodworkers, stone and brick masons, cement
workers and plasterers, and superintendents of construction, builders
and building inspectors. This latest volume covers all of these subjects
in the general manner that the building foreman may require.” (Engin.
N.)
* * * * *
“A convenient reference volume for large libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 21. S. ’09.
“The book is one that those having the direction of building
construction should provide themselves with.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 54. Jl. ’09. 150w.
“Very complete and detailed without being unreasonably verbose.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 76. Je. 17, ’09. 100w.
“The purpose of the book has manifestly been kept in mind carefully in
the compilation of its contents.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 726. Je. 5, ’09. 160w.
=Richmond, Grace Louise.=^{[10]} Court of inquiry. **$1. Doubleday.
9–24945.
The hostess of a charming country house and her guests, the Gay Lady,
the Skeptic and the Philosopher, constitute the court of inquiry, before
whom, all unknown to the guests, the condition of every new arrival is
inquired into and judgment gently passed upon her. The first part of the
story introduces successively delightful types of young womanhood and
the second part pairs them off; all the while the romance of the
Philosopher and the storyteller grows apace.
* * * * *
“The moral is rather too obvious but the tale might benefit young
girls.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 93. N. ’09.
=Rickard, Thomas Arthur.=^{[12]} Through the Yukon and Alaska. $2.50.
Mining and scientific press.
9–18373.
“Few if any travelers in Alaska have made so many and such accurate
observations as Mr. Rickard, and of those who have published similar
journals, no one has included so much of real value to those interested
in the resources of the Yukon district and Alaska, or in the mining
activities of those countries. The author has told in a delightful way
many of the incidents of travel, and has taken pains to give accurately
the history of some of the most remarkable discoveries in these northern
countries. The romantic history of the Treadwell mines, the discovery of
gold on the Klondike, the wonderful development at Fairbanks, and the
story of the discovery and exploitation of the Nome beach, are here
given in a fuller and more interesting way than they have elsewhere
appeared.”—J. Geol.
* * * * *
“Mr. Rickard’s book is neither a tourists’ guide nor a heavy technical
treatise. It is a straightforward but lively account of a most
interesting region and its people. It is a book for anyone going north,
and for anyone to read who is staying at home, and is interested in our
far northern territory.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 427. N. ’09. 400w.
“The book is, however, more than a narrative of travel, for the author
has described the mining conditions and mining processes with an ability
that few can equal. The book is well illustrated and a very welcome
addition to the literature on Alaska.” W. W. A.
+ =J. Geol.= 17: 759. N. ’09. 250w.
=Rickert, Edith.=^{[11]} Beggar in the heart. †$1.50. Moffat.
9–25974.
“To weave a romance round an elderly heroine is a daring enterprise on
Miss Rickert’s part, but her courage is tempered by a curious reticence
as to the exact age of the lady in question, which is throughout alluded
to with tantalizing ambiguity. The aforesaid heroine is, as regards her
philanthropic and introspective tendencies, of an exceedingly modern
type, but possesses, nevertheless, a liberal portion of that sweet
unreasonableness which in the fiction of an earlier day generally
characterized her class. All these things are against her, yet she
undoubtedly achieves some measure of charm and originality.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The author seems more at home amongst Bohemians of a mild and
cosmopolitan description than with the aristocracy or the slum-dwellers
of London; but the story, if not overprobable, is interesting and
unusual.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 489. O. 23. 130w.
“It is thoroughly bad in construction and method: almost its only merit
is that it possesses the one essential merit of a good novel—it is
interesting.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 394. D. ’09. 870w.
“The story is a bright and clever little comedy, just touching upon
pathos now and again, then showing flashes of humor, and moving with
much dash and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 694. N. 6, ’09. 200w.
“Miss Edith Rickert does not rise to her best in ‘The beggar in the
heart’ but she writes an entertaining story of a young old maid.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 40w.
“It is good reading.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 851. N. 20, ’09. 30w.
=Rickert, Edith.= Early English romances in verse; done into modern
English. (New medieval lib.) 2v. ea. *$2. Duffield.
9–29176.
One of these volumes is devoted to romances of friendship, the other to
romances of love. Each presents “eight or ten short tales representative
of the thought and sentiment of the middle ages. Among these stories,
those of ‘Sir Amadas,’ ‘The tale of Gamelyn,’ ‘Floris and Blancheflour,’
‘The knight of courtesy and fair lady of Faguell,’ are perhaps the most
widely known.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 46: 145. Mr. 1, ’09. 100w.
“The editing of the romances of love and friendship has been
accomplished with discretion.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 511. My. 20, ’09. 480w.
“Certainly one cannot quarrel with the manner in which the work is
executed, nor with the artistic setting which has been given it, nor yet
with the historical value of the idea.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 113. F. 27, ’09. 1150w.
“Not the least valuable part of these books are the introductions.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 537. Mr. 6, ’09. 160w.
=Rideout, Henry Milner.= Dragon’s blood. **$1.20. Houghton.
9–9507.
A story whose setting enters largely into the unity of the plot. It is a
tale of daring adventure, hardship and love in China during a native
uprising. The agent of a German company, a vain young English matron, a
level-headed Englishman who woos the spirited heroine are the chief
actors in the little drama enacted against a background of Chinese life
and landscape.
* * * * *
“Full of local color and cleverly told.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 188. Je. ’09.
“The story is without construction, and runs through a succession of
incidents, more or less thrilling, to a premature conclusion. The
author, however, seems to possess a first-hand knowledge of the scenes
of which he writes; his descriptions are vivid and convincing; and the
signs and omens which precede an anti-Christian uprising are treated
with power and a realistic sense of impending disaster.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 92. Jl. 24. 120w.
“It is not a pleasant book, and yet not one easily laid aside.
Unquestionably the book should be numbered among the stories of good
fighting—and of equal right it should be numbered among those books that
actually make us see, as clearly as though we ourselves had been there,
the foreign setting.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 523. Jl. ’09. 480w.
“Technique, so far as he needs it, is bound to come in time, for
technique is that part of the art of fiction which may be taught; but
not all the technique in the world can help a writer to the acquirement
of an ability to see life strongly and to picture what he sees—and this
is a gift which Mr. Rideout unquestionably possesses.” Philip
Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 620. Je. ’09. 650w.
“So far as enlightening this country is concerned about the heathen ends
of creation, the novelists are doing it better than the missionaries.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 424. Ag. 19, ’09. 200w.
“It is nothing more or less than a blood-and-thunder romance of
impossible adventure. Is commonly called ‘a rattling good story,’ and
this, we suppose, is what Mr. Rideout intended.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 141. Ag. 12, ’09. 330w.
“While the book is commended in the first place as a thriller of a
superior quality, it is difficult to read it without imbibing much
instruction about the curious orientals ... and the merits of the
missionary question.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 307. My. 15, ’09. 450w.
“The story is sufficiently full of action and excitement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 120w.
“The writing is so graphic that one can feel the nervous tension of the
white people at signs of a rebellion among the natives, and over all is
the sense of the aching loneliness of their lot.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 323. S. 11, ’09. 60w.
=Rider, Fremont.=^{[6]} Are the dead alive? *$1.75. Dodge, B. W.
9–15095.
Deals with the problem of psychical research that the world’s leading
scientists are trying to solve, and the progress they have made in it.
To present the nucleus of truth which has been found beneath a vast
accretion of error and fraud has been the author’s intention. Some of
the chapters are: The psychical phenomena of spiritualism; The
mediumship of D. D. Home; Eusapia Paladino; Obsession of dual
personality; Clairvoyance and clair-audience; Ghosts; Telepathy;
Premonition; Mediumship; The Piper case; and Telepathy vs. spiritualism.
* * * * *
− =Dial.= 47: 52. Jl. 16, ’09. 120w.
“The book on the whole is sane and strikingly devoid of the
sensationalism suggested by its title.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 416. Jl. 3, ’09. 650w.
=Ries, Heinrich, and Leighton, Henry.=^{[12]} History of the
clay-working industry in the United States. *$2.50. Wiley.
9–19437.
A book that “is compiled from statistics collected in the main by the
United States census bureau and the United States geological survey. The
first portion of the history is a general résumé of the various stages
in the development of the industry through the manufacture of common
bricks, glazed bricks, terracotta, tiles, and pottery. In the second
portion of the work, these stages are discussed state by state.”—Nature.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 83. N. ’09.
“Dr. Ries and Mr. Leighton have told us in a very orderly and
interesting manner about the beginnings in this country of an ancient
industry which is finding itself.” C. W. Parmelee.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 353. D. ’09. 500w.
“Considering the importance of the subject, the list of books with
trustworthy information is surprisingly small. We therefore turn with
pleasure to the present work.” J. W. Mellor.
+ =Nature.= 81: 452. O. 14, ’09. 600w.
=Riis, Jacob August.=^{[10]} Old town. *$2. Macmillan.
9–27120.
Ribe, the author’s old Danish home is the town of this volume of
historical and biographical anecdotes. Its quaint old world customs, its
traditions, its life as Mr. Riis lived it in his unappreciated youth,
are depicted in a series of well chosen scenes and stories. His king’s
recognition of him on his return from the new world where he had gone as
a black sheep in the eyes of Ribe forms an interesting climax.
* * * * *
“Written with the freshness and sincerity which were so attractive in
‘The making of an American,’ but without the extreme naïveté which
marked that work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 124. D. ’09.
“Is very good reading throughout.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 390. N. 16, ’09. 260w.
“There is much humor, much fine observation, and occasional bits of
delicate pathos in this chatty book of recollections. Mr. Riis has paid
his debt to his old home well by his sincere tribute.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Forum.= 42: 485. N. ’09. 1100w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1267. D. 2, ’09. 130w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 786. N. 6, ’09. 210w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 1081. D. 11, ’09. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 80w.
“Entertaining reading for the American boy or girl of to-day.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 755. D. ’09. 70w.
=Rinehart, Mary Roberts.= Man in lower ten. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–7946.
A mystery story by the author of “The circular staircase.” The tragedy
that lies at the bottom of the tangle occurs in lower ten of a sleeping
car. A man is murdered and the deed is traced to lower seven into which,
after a trip to the platform for air, an innocent man is inveigled by an
exchange of berth numbers. Serious confusion ensues, further complicated
by the disappearance of the first discoverer of the crime with the
innocent man’s clothes and his bag containing valuable papers; by a
wreck; and by a matrimonial plot from which the entrapped girl escapes
by the aid of the hero who finally clears himself of criminal
participance in the tragedy.
* * * * *
“Clever mystery story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 149. My. ’09. ✠
“A well-considered mystery this, and carried to a solution with
considerable ingenuity.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 763. Ap. 8, ’09. 100w.
“Mrs. Rinehart unwinds the tangle rather cleverly, but the sense of
humor which pervades the story does not seem exactly suited to the
character through whom she speaks.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 198. Ap. 3, ’09. 420w.
“Her new novel is an improvement upon her previous achievement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 378. Je. 12, ’09. 230w.
“To retain and remember in their proper sequence the incidents related
in ‘The man in lower ten’ would baffle the intellect of a Sherlock
Holmes. The average reader will weary in the attempt.”
− =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 70w.
=Rinehart, Mary Roberts.=^{[12]} When a man marries. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–29429.
A man whose wife had recently divorced him finds that the periodical
visit from Aunt Selina is due—Aunt Selina who doubled his allowance when
he was married and who knows nothing of his domestic upheaval. He must
have a wife for the two hours of Aunt Selina’s stay. His good friend Kit
McNair who was engineering a dinner party for him volunteers to play the
rôle. Aunt Selina arrives, the substitute wife is bravely holding her
own when the butler develops small pox and the entire company is
quarantined. The situation is further complicated by the presence of the
divorced wife who had slipped in to hire her old butler just before the
house was turned over to health officers. The whole gamut of
tragi-comedy and comi-tragedy is run which the author works into a
heroic extravaganza.
=Ringhoffer, Karl.= Bernstorff papers: the life of Count Albrecht Von
Bernstorff; authorized tr. by Mrs. C. E. Barrett-Lennard and M. W.
Hoper: with an introd. by Sir Rowland Blennerhassett. 2v. *$6.
Longmans.
9–4551.
The memoirs of the life of the Prussian ambassador at the court of St.
James during the awkward periods of the Crimean, Italian, Danish, and
Austrian wars. “It appears that Bernstorff was one of the first to
conceive the possibility of a united Germany under the leadership of
Prussia, and that throughout his life he was dominated by that
conception. He lived to realize his great desire. But, as Sir Rowland
points out, the conception was in the outset a bold one.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The author has not given us the whole material that he had at his
disposal; many of the documents are printed only in extracts and some
appear only in translation from the French, the result of which is that
the English text, at least in some cases, presents itself as the
translation of a translation. Despite such imperfections, the book
affords a most valuable and interesting supplement to the great work of
Sybel and the stately Bismarck publications of recent years.” Halvdan
Koht.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 584. Ap. ’09. 860w.
“The letters and memoranda are too courtly and too Prussian in tone to
possess great interest for ourselves, but here and there passages are to
be noted which, though sometimes indiscreet, are valuable. There is
sometimes in this book a trace of personalities best avoided. There is
little in the volume which is new, except that to which we have already
referred and the constant snarling between the courts. There is a good
deal of odd or clumsy English in the book, which is due probably to
translation.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 679. N. 28. 1400w.
“Dr. Ringhoffer hardly tells us anything of historical interest that is
not known. One word of praise must be given to the translators, who have
done their work well.” P. F. Willert.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 597. Jl. ’09. 750w.
“There is not a dull page in these memoirs. A literary monument worthy
of its learned author.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 220. F. 6, ’09. 500w.
“The really interesting things are the private letters of Countess
Bernstorff.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 94. Ja. 28, ’09. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 8. Ja. 2, ’09. 360w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 307. Mr. 6, ’09. 1600w.
=Risk, Robert K.= America at college: as seen by a Scots graduate.
*3s. 6d. A. Constable & co., London.