The second part of a moorland trilogy of which “Furze the cruel” was the
first. “Heather typifies endurance, and the last book is to deal with
Granite as embodying strength.... It begins at a tomb, whence the scene
shifts to a sanatorium for consumptives, an institution that, as
portrayed by Mr. Trevena, savors strongly of an asylum for the
insane.... Among all the characters only three are represented with a
thoroughly sane and healthy outlook on life—Gregory Breakback, the
clean-hearted peasant visionary; Tobias, the fox-terrier; and Bubo, the
one-legged owl.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“He has learnt to see with understanding, and should appeal to those who
would leap the barriers of city horizon and class distinction to meet on
intimate terms, face to face, the children of the earth. True this is
not by any means milk for babes; but we are inclined to believe that the
ugly patches are essential to the true delineation of the picture.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 149. Ag. 8. 180w.
“‘Heather’ does not have the strong personal appeal of the earlier
volume.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 525. Jl. ’09. 400w.
“The tale moves consistently through disease, filth, madness,
discouragement, and degradation indescribable of body and mind. The
characters are for the greater part entirely unconvincing.”
− − =Nation.= 88: 92. Ja. 28, ’09. 370w.
“‘Heather,’ aside from its powerful predecessor and its probably able
successor, is itself a contribution to literary excellence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 366. Je. 12, ’09. 240w.
=Tripp, Howland.=^{[6]} In whaling days. †$1.50. Little.
9–15087.
A group of seventeen stories which have grown out of the author’s keen
interest in the bravery and toil of the whaler and which reproduce
events contemporaneous with the heyday of the relating industry.
* * * * *
“Mr. Tripp appears to have been a diligent student of human nature in
its humbler types, and to have recovered from that insatiate past which
is ever devouring the present; a multitude of personal anecdotes and
character-sketches that are well calculated to amuse the lover of homely
New England stories.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 24. Jl. 1, ’09. 250w.
“To read [the sketches] is to get an impression of real life as it was
lived in the staid New England coast towns sixty and seventy years ago.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 493. Ag. 14, ’09. 160w.
=Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes.=^{[11]} Beau sabreur: Maurice
de Saxe, marshal of France; his loves, his laurels and his times.
*$4. Brentano’s.
Cast in an autobiographical form, this is the recreated personality and
atmosphere of the world in which he lived. “It is a chronique
scandaleuse of the lives of the reigning sovereigns in mid-Europe during
the first half of the eighteenth century, intermingled with those of
their illegitimate children, such as Maurice de Saxe and of the hordes
of great ladies who, with sublime effrontery, played the concubine to
the various rulers, princes, warriors and statesmen of the period.”
(Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“He disclaims having attempted anything but ‘a veracious and popular
record.’ As to the veracity, if we leave out of account the
consideration hinted at above, the claim may probably be conceded; and
for the rest, we have found the book readable throughout, and piquant in
places.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 417. O. 9. 1550w.
− =Sat. R.= 108: 540. O. 30, ’09. 250w.
“The book is curious and readable, and the underlying tragedy of such a
life, brought to an end by the hero’s own vices at fifty-five, will not
escape those who read with understanding.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 793. N. 13, ’09. 500w.
=Trubetzkoi, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.=^{[12]} Trix and
Over-the-moon. †$1. Harper.
9–27264.
A young woman who quotes Horace and trains horses, a natural,
unaffected, buoyant woman is married to a writer whose stilted method
gets on her nerves. Her advice to him is “Catch ’em alive, Catch ’em
alive. Take living, breathing men and women that you’re interested in
and plump ’em into a book.... Don’t fuss so about their clothes ... the
style you dress ’em up in, you know. Just be natural ... just be
easy ... just be simple.” Over-the-moon is Trix’s favorite horse who
comes to a tragic end through the lunacy of an old Scotch servant who
thought that the wife’s love for horses was breaking up home happiness.
* * * * *
“The story is gemmed with exquisite bits of description, and it is all
written with that gift for the telling use of words which its author
long ago proved herself to possess.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 818. D. 25, ’09. 280w.
=Tucker, Alfred Robert.=^{[7]} Eighteen years in Uganda and East
Africa. 2v. *$8.50. Longmans.
8–36142.
A history of the Uganda protectorate which is “concerned in the first
instance with strictly missionary matters, and with politics as
incidental to them—for the affairs of the British East Africa company
and the events connected with the annexation are inextricably
intertwined with the history of the mission.... Other parts of the
enormous diocese are dealt with besides Uganda proper: we get graphic
pictures of the Kilimanjaro district; the missions at Freretown and
Rabai, behind Mombasa; the Mpwapwa and Mamboya country, Bunyoro and
Mount Elgon, and the Masai.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“This book is really a history of the Uganda Protectorate, and deals
with so many and such weighty issues that an adequate notice within
narrow limits is difficult. Some misspelt proper names and Swahili words
have escaped correction in the reading of the proofs.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 728. Je. 19. 520w.
“This fascinating chapter of modern church history is well written. The
Bishop’s style is that of a strong man who has much to say and wants to
say it fairly. The book would be improved and mercifully shortened if
two-thirds of the poetic quotations were cut out.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 499. Ap. 17, ’09. 1000w.
=Spec.= 102: sup. 1000. Je. 26, ’09. 1600w.
=Tucker, Samuel Marion.=^{[10]} Verse satire in England before the
renaissance. (Columbia univ. studies in English. Series 2, v. 3, no.
2.) *$1. Macmillan.
9–8396.
“A survey of satirical literature in several languages, with an attempt
to trace the influence of foreign satire upon the English. The author
states that ‘no treatment of the evolution of the satire as a genre in
English has yet been attempted.’” (N. Y. Times.) The author’s five great
epochs of the rise and progress of verse satire in England are: from the
goliardic satire and satire in Anglo-French, 1200, to the work of
Lyndsay, 1540; from Sir Thomas Wyatt to the decadence of classical
satire, 1620; the satire of the Cromwellian period; the Dryden period of
revived classical satire; and the period of anti-Jacobin satire
extending to Byron.
* * * * *
“The faults of this history of satire in England are not inconsiderable.
Yet, in the main, the work has decided merit. It is scholarly and is
accurate in details. The general student and reader will find it
helpful. Its wealth of illustrative quotations makes the perusal
stimulating.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 277. S. 23, ’09. 1600w.
“Should be invaluable as a textbook for the student who desires a basic
knowledge of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 402. Je. 26, ’09. 940w.
=Tucker, T. G.=^{[5]} Introduction to the natural history of language.
10s. 6d. Blackie & son. London.
“An admirably arranged account of the great families of language. He
distinguishes them by the methods of their formation. He begins with
introductory matter, first defining his subject, giving as its division
(1) phonology, the physical production of speech sounds; (2) morphology,
the formation of words (inflexion in our family of languages, and the
processes which answer to it in others); (3) comparative syntax, the
formation of sentences; (4) semasiology (a term less familiar than the
others), in which we have to do with the modification of meaning. Chap.
2 is given to phonology; 3 to alphabets. Then come what will be found by
the general reader the most interesting portions of the work,—the very
clearly expressed and illuminating accounts of the various language
families.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“In view of the vastness and intricacy of the subject and the
eccentricities of many of his authorities, Prof. Tucker has made
surprisingly few false steps, and a little judicious pruning would raise
his work to a high grade of excellence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 192. F. 13. 800w.
“As it stands the treatise has, if the expression may be used, a
somewhat forbidding look.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 467. Mr. 20, ’09. 300w.
=Tupper, Edith Sessions.= Stuff of dreams. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–32647.
A modern prodigal son is the hero of this story. “He is a very naughty
and very rich young man, the son of a New York financial magnate who is
the soul of justice and honor. The young man’s misdeeds tangle him up
wretchedly, and when his father learns of his wild oats he insists that
the boy shall eat their fruit. He obeys the parental order, and then
rushes forth angry and revengeful. But after some years the prodigal
returns and everybody forgives and is forgiven.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“This novel of New York society life, although highly melodramatic and
not free from the element of improbability, displays much ability of the
kind that is demanded by the general lover of romantic fiction in the
weaving and developing of the story.”
+ − =Arena.= 41: 89. Ja. ’09. 440w.
“Mrs. Tupper writes with unusual facility, and one cannot avoid the
conviction that she could do much better work than this if she chose.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 32. Ja. 16, ’09. 180w.
=Turneaure, Frederick Eugene=, ed. Cyclopedia of civil engineering: a
general reference work on surveying, railroad engineering,
structural engineering, roofs and bridges, masonry and reinforced
concrete, highway construction, hydraulic engineering, irrigation,
river and harbor improvement, municipal engineering, cost analysis,
etc. 8v. hf. mor. $24. Am. school of correspondence.
8–33936.
A compilation of various instruction books issued for students by the
American school of correspondence. “There are many sections in which the
electrical engineer will find data and detail of great direct utility,
but we may specify the section by Professor Turneaure himself on
hydraulics and that by Mr. A. Black on water-power development. The
cyclopedia is a most welcome addition to an engineering library.” (Elec.
World.)
* * * * *
“This cyclopedia is altogether worthy of praise, not the least of its
merits being the originality of treatment and the freshness of
contents.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1411. D. 26, ’08. 180w.
“This effort to make the subject clear to the elementary student gives
to nearly all of the papers in this cyclopedia a superficial nature. As
the text-book for the home student we can imagine that the cyclopedia
will have a valuable place, although the separate volumes might serve
his purpose better, for in the cyclopedia he has to take the good with
the bad. But to the practising engineer we cannot see that the collected
volumes will serve any useful purpose.”
− + =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 536. N. 12, ’08. 930w.
=Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, and Black, Adolph.= Hydraulic
engineering: a practical treatise on the principles of water
pressure and flow and their application to the development of water
power, including the calculation, design and construction of water
wheels, turbines, and other details of hydraulic power plants. $3.
Am. school of correspondence.
9–35099.
Part 1, by Dean Turneaure, treatise of abstract hydraulics. Part 2, by
Professor Black, deals with the development of power from falling water.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 183. Je. ’09.
“This book is of value chiefly to students who are beginners in the
study of this branch of hydraulic engineering. It also possesses a
considerable value to young engineers practicing in the same line, who
have not worked long enough to be familiar with elementary principles
and some of the examples illustrating them. To such it is a valuable
book of reference if used with a proper amount of caution.” F. C.
Finkle.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 15. F. 18, ’09. 1550w.
“The book as a whole should prove of value to the class of
‘correspondence’ students for whom it is intended, but for engineering
readers of more experience and knowledge it will appear uneven in
treatment.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 140. Ja. 30, ’09. 340w.
=Turner, Charles C.=^{[12]} Aerial navigation of today. *$1.50.
Lippincott.