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THE
BOOK REVIEW DIGEST
[ANNUAL CUMULATION]
VOLUME II
BOOK REVIEWS OF 1906 IN ONE ALPHABET
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES WRITTEN BY
JUSTINA LEAVITT WILSON
DIGEST OF REVIEWS BY
CLARA ELIZABETH FANNING
MINNEAPOLIS
THE H. W. WILSON COMPANY
1906
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CONTENTS
Preface
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines
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PREFACE.
This volume is the second annual cumulation of the Book Review Digest.
In the main it includes the books of 1906 that have been commented upon
by the best critics. It aims, on the one hand, to record truthfully the
scope, character and subject content of books as they appear, and, on
the other, to supplement this descriptive information from month to
month with excerpts culled from the best current criticism appearing in
forty-five English and American magazines which make a prominent feature
of book reviews, thus furnishing to the librarian and bookseller a basis
for the evaluation of books.
Frequently the best reviews of a book appear during the year following
its publication, so in this volume will be found supplementary excerpts
relating to books which were entered in the 1905 annual.
It will also be observed that a number of entries include only the
descriptive note. These titles look to the year 1907 to furnish the
material for appraisal, and excerpts will be published in current
numbers of the Digest as fast as reviews appear.
THE EDITORS.
* * * * *
During the first year of the Cumulative Book Review Digest’s existence
the question of its being entered as second class matter was pending. It
was finally ruled out on account of the cumulative idea. So the second
year a new name and a new plan which would meet the postal requirements
cut off the recognition of the first volume, and the Book Review Digest
was launched as volume one. Now that the post office ruling has been
reversed, the present volume may take its place chronologically as
volume two of our series.
THE PUBLISHERS.
Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made
Acad.—Academy. $4. Southampton St., Strand, London, W. C.
Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review. $4. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $2. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social
Science. $6. Philadelphia.
Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Trenton, N. J.
Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $4. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Ath.—Athenæum. $4.25. Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, E. C., London.
Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St.,
Boston, Mass.
Bib World.—Biblical World. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Bookm.—Bookman. $2. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave., N. Y.
Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. $5. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120–122 W. 60th St., New York.
Critic—Merged into Putnam’s on October 1, 1906.
Dial.—Dial. $2. Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.
Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia
University, N. Y.
El. School T.—Elementary School Teacher. $1.50. University of Chicago
Press, Chicago.
Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review. $6. Longmans, Green, and Co.,
39 Paternoster Row, London, E. C.
Engin. N.—Engineering News. $5. 220 Broadway, New York.
Forum.—Forum, $2. Forum Publishing Co., 123 E. 23d St., N. Y.
Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. $3. Williams & Norgate, London.
Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.
Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics. $2.50. 1415 Locust
St., Philadelphia.
Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 67 5th Av., N. Y.
J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
J. Philos.—Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods.
$3. Science Press, Lancaster, Pa.
J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, Ill.
Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $3. 44–60 East 23d Street, New York.
Lond. Times.—London Times (literary supplement to weekly edition),
London, England.
Mod. Philol.—Modern Philology. $3. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Ill.
Nation.—Nation. $3. P. O. Box 794, New York.
Nature.—Nature. $6.25. 66 Fifth Ave., New York.
N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review, New York.
Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.
Philos. R.—Philosophical Review. $3. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Phys. R.—Physical Review. $5. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon
St., Boston.
Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. $2. 41 North Queen St.,
Lancaster, Pa.
Pub. Opin.—Public Opinion. Merged July 7, 1906 with the Literary
Digest.
Putnam’s—Putnam’s Monthly and the Critic. $3. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 27 &
29 W. 23rd St., New York.
Reader.—Reader Magazine. $3. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $2.50. Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor
Place, New York.
Sat. R.—Saturday Review. $7.50. 33 Southampton St., Strand, London.
School R.—School Review. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
Ill.
Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $5. Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y.
Spec.—Spectator. $7.50. 1 Wellington St., Strand, London.
Yale R.—Yale Review. $3. New Haven, Conn.
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:
=Abbreviations of Publishers’ Names= will be found in the Publishers’
Directory at the end of The Cumulative Book Index.
=An Asterisk (*) before the price indicates= those books sold at a
limited discount and commonly known as net books. Books subject to
the rules of the American Publishers’ Association are marked by a
double asterisk (**) when the bookseller is required to maintain the
list price; by a dagger (†) when the maximum discount is fixed at 20
and 10 per cent, as is allowable in the case of fiction.
=The plus and minus signs= preceding the names of the magazines
indicate the degree of favor or disfavor of the entire review.
=In the reference to a magazine=, the first number refers to the
volume, the next to the page and the letters to the date.
=No book previously noticed= has its descriptive note reprinted. Books
noticed for the first time this month have descriptive note which is
set off from excerpts by a dash.
* * * * *
The publications, named above, undoubtedly represent the leading reviews
of the English-speaking world. Few libraries are able to subscribe for
all and the smaller libraries are supplied with comparatively few of the
periodicals from which the digests are to be culled. For this reason the
digest will be of greater value to the small libraries, since it places
at their disposal, in most convenient form, a vast amount of valuable
information about books, which would not otherwise be available.
We shall endeavor to make the descriptive notes so comprehensive, and
the digests so full and accurate, that librarians who do not have access
to the reviews themselves, will be able to arrive at substantially
correct appreciations of the value of the books reviewed.
This is particularly true in regard to the English periodicals, which
are practically out of the reach of the ordinary library; we shall
endeavor to make the digest of these reviews so complete that there will
be little occasion to refer to the original publications.
Book Review Digest
Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature
Digests of Reviews appearing in January-December, 1906 magazines
A
=Abbot, Henry L.= Problems of the Panama canal. $1.50. Macmillan.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.
=Abbott, G. F.= Through India with the prince. *$3.50. Longmans.
As special correspondent for the Calcutta Statesman, Mr. Abbott
accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales on their recent tour
thru’ India. The author gives the route of the royal party making the
description interesting with receptions and fêtes; he records
observations socially and politically; he “touches on every imaginable
topic that India offers to a writer.” (Dial.) “Disposed to be
epigrammatic, sarcastic, and ironical, in epigram he is sometimes
betrayed into excess.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The style is, as the French say, ‘tortured,’ or, in other words,
there is some straining after effect. We are, nevertheless, able to
commend Mr. Abbott’s volume: and his photographs are among the best of
the many good Indian photographs we have seen.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 478. Ap. 21. 810w.
“The want of descriptive power and the too pronounced personal note
are the two blemishes that detract from the main value of the book,
which is found in the writer’s comments and observations on the
political status of India.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 362. Je. 1, ’06. 580w.
“Mr. Abbott made lively use of his exceptional opportunities and shows
himself to be a man of, at any rate, independent judgment.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 870w.
“He has not written daily newspaper ‘stories,’ but a book that will
quite probably endure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 342. My. 26, ’06. 160w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.
“He had opportunities of seeing pageants, and we allow that he has a
gift for describing them. But where is his call to deal with the
‘serious problems of British rule?’”
– =Spec.= 96: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 250w.
=Abbott, Lyman.= Christian ministry. **$1.50. Houghton.
“The book is a valuable one for the modern ministry. It is full of
reality, of suggestion, and of inspiration.” J. M. English.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 384. Ap. ’06. 830w.
“The book is characterized by keen analysis, comprehensive thought,
practical interest, and by vigorous and clean-cut expression.” E. A.
Hanley.
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 394. My. ’06. 350w.
+ – =Cath. World.= 82: 556. Ja. ’06. 210w.
=Acton, Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st baron.= Lord Acton
and his circle; ed. by Abbot [Francis Aidan] Gasquet. *$4.50. Longmans.
The letters of Lord Acton render a direct service in throwing light on
a personality little known and little understood. “With the exception
of a few letters written to Mr. Wetherell, all those here published
were addressed to Richard Simpson, one of the most brilliant though
least famous of the Oxford converts to Rome, and they are all
concerned with the conduct of ‘The rambler,’ ‘The home and foreign
review,’ and the other periodicals which occupied the energetic youth
of Acton.... We see in the letters how thoroughly Acton was imbued
with the principle of growth in religious thought.... We get a series
of interesting glances into European and Papal politics before either
Bismarck had won his laurels or the Pope had lost his crown.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It may be said of the letters as a whole that they will possess most
importance to the liberal section of English Catholics, for whom,
indeed, the book seems to have been written.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 301. S. 29, ’06. 1530w.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 472. O. 20. 1510w.
“On the whole the picture of Lord Acton as it appears in this volume
is a very favorable one.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 401. D. ’06. 1560w.
“Attractively edited.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“The letters contained in the present volume are of surpassing
interest.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 3. O. 13, ’06. 1310w.
“The editor has done his work of annotating the letters and explaining
the allusions admirably; and it could not have been an easy task.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 621. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.
=Adams, Andy.= Cattle brands. †$1.50. Houghton.
Life on the frontier in the eighties is vividly portrayed in the
fourteen stories which Mr. Adams, “a veteran cowboy,” has included in
this volume. These are tales “of the desperado; of man-to-man
difficulties; of queer characters; the adventures of the cowboy in the
field of politics, the capture of outlaws by rangers; and the ransom
of rich rancheros who have been kidnapped.” Some titles are: Drifting
North, Bad Medicine, A winter round-up, A college vagabond, The double
trail, Rangering, and The story of a poker steer.
* * * * *
“These stories are somewhat slight in texture, more suited to the
ephemeral needs of a magazine than a bound volume, but they have a
ring of sincerity about them and an insight into essentials.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 577. Je. 16, ’06. 280w.
“To many people they will seem more enjoyable than the longer stories
by Mr. Adams. Their merit lies wholly in the obvious truth to life of
the scenes.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.
“The new book will seem to most readers too much like an echo of ‘The
log of a cowboy’ to allow of its producing the same effect of
sincerity.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 570w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
– + =North American.= 183: 120. Jl. ’06. 200w.
=Adams, Frederick Upham.= Bottom of the well. †$1.50. Dillingham.
The capture of a smuggling craft by a revenue cutter off the Jamaica
coast brings into view the hero of Mr. Adams’ story, a lad of twelve,
the charge of the smugglers. Once separated from them, he is adopted
and educated by a titled Englishman. From England the scene shifts to
New York where young Stanley Deane espouses the cause of some much
abused strikers whose plans brew within the four walls of the “Well.”
He is convicted of murder, but cleared of the charge when the supposed
victim dramatically appears and reads a serious lecture to the
supporters of a police system that “makes justice a market place for
the employment of incompetence and the enriching of pettifoggers.”
=Adams, Samuel.= Writings of Samuel Adams; ed. by H. A. Cushing. *$5.
Putnam.
“In one respect this volume is superior to the first. It indicates
with care the reason for attributing newspaper letters and other
papers to Adams. Little more if anything can be demanded. The notes
are numerous and helpful.” A. C. McLaughlin.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 910. Jl. ’06. 1010w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Cushing has followed Wells too closely, and has not made such a
careful, critical study of the contributions to journals as to give
his decision the requisite weight.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 55. Jl. 19, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Adams, Thomas Sewall, and Sumner, Helen L.= Labor problems: a text
book; ed. by Prof. R. T. Ely. *$1.60. Macmillan.
“The ground covered has not been well covered in any other text book.
The scope of this book is unusually broad.” John Cummings.
+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 396. Je. ’06. 1360w.
=Addison, Mrs. Julia de Wolf.= Art of the National gallery: a critical
survey of the schools and painters as represented in the British
collection. **$2. Page.
“Will be likely to hold its own for several generations.”
+ + + =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 30, ’06. 220w.
“Is brightly and sympathetically written.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 372. Je. ’06. 60w.
“Is for a person visiting the gallery who has a fair general knowledge
of art, one who would like to be guided by impressionistic criticism
rather than by accepted scientific connoisseurship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 300w.
+ – =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.
=Adler, Elkan Nathan.= About Hebrew manuscripts. *$2.50. Oxford.
Nine detached pieces compose this group: Some missing chapters of Ben
Sira; An ancient bookseller’s catalogue; Professor Blau on the Bible
as a book; A letter of Menasseh Ben Israel; Jewish literature and the
diaspora; The humours of Hebrew mss.; The romance of Hebrew printing:
and Zur jüdisch-persischen litteratur, by Prof. Bacher.
* * * * *
“Much of his work is, of course, tentative: but he at the same time
provides very useful material for further study.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 666. Je. 2. 230w.
“To the true book worm, to the man who loves ‘erudition’ for its own
sake without looking very deep for the substantial contents of rare
prints or manuscripts, this work will be welcome.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 21. Ja. 4, ’06. 580w.
=Adler, Felix.= Essentials of spirituality. **$1. Pott.
“In fact Dr. Adler does not mean quite what he says. His theory
followed logically would lead us all into a moral Nirvana.” Edward
Fuller.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 214. Mr. ’06. 170w.
“Four popular addresses which are very readable and elevating in
tone.” E. L. Norton.
+ + =J. Philos.= 3: 413. Jl. 19, ’06. 1600w.
=Adler, Felix.= Religion of duty. **$1.20. McClure.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 130w.
=Aflalo, Moussa.= Truth about Morocco; an indictment of the British
foreign office; with introd. by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. *$2. Lane.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 41. Ja. 20, ’06. 90w.
=Agnus, Orme, pseud. (John C. Higginbotham).= Sarah Tuldon. [+]75c.
Little.
A popular edition of a 1904 book. Sarah Tuldon, an English peasant
girl, is the type of heroine which one expects to find in historical
novels, but her spirit, energy, good commonsense and generosity are
directed towards leavening sordid conditions among the laboring
classes. She is self-reared from most unpromising surroundings, and
thru never-wearying perseverance reaches a position of self-command
and generalship in her community.
* * * * *
“Its greatest claim to importance lies in the artistic and sympathetic
treatment the author has given the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 326. My. 19, ’06. 150w.
=Ainger, Alfred.= Lectures and essays. 2v. *$5. Macmillan.
Canon Ainger, “of blessed memory, never forgot in the pulpit that he
was a man of letters, or out of it that he was a clergyman.” In these
volumes, he “ranges over a wide field, from Chaucer to Tennyson,
giving five lectures and two essays to Shakespeare, and writing also
of Swift, Cowper, Burns, Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Charles Lamb,
Dickens, of children’s books, of actors, modern plays, conversation,
of wit, and of euphuism.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The saving grace in Canon Ainger was his appreciation of perfect
language. In his critical estimates we think he very often wandered
wide.”
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1220. N. 25, ’05. 1250w.
“Had the Royal institution lectures been omitted, our judgment might
have been much more favourable.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 289. Mr. 10. 2180w.
“That the author has found the secret of charm in literature no one
who is familiar with his genial and sympathetic work on Lamb needs to
be reminded.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 100w.
“The two volumes are likely to find contented readers best among those
who look for a discussion of style and obvious quality rather than
verbal felicities and critical niceties.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 350w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 415. D. 1, ’05. 1010w.
“The two volumes will not take rank as permanent additions to the
literature of the English essay, but they form most agreeable
reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 210w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 80w.
“Sanity and sympathy is the keynote of these essays.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 781. D. 16, ’05. 1570w
“It is, indeed, no small merit in a writer when he expresses his most
subtle thought with the lucidity, ease, and completeness that are to
be found here.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 118. Ja. 27, ’06. 1570w.
=Alden, Raymond MacDonald.= Knights of the silver shield; with il. by
Katharine H. Greenland. †$1.25. Bobbs.
Out of such ingredients as castles, knights, giants, palaces and
fairies, the author has fashioned a story for little people abounding
in good deeds and true.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Aldin, Cecil Charles Windsor.= Gay dog; pictured by Cecil Aldin.
†$1.50. Dutton.
Mr. Aldin’s “gay dog” is a bull terrier owned by an actress. And the
creature is as veritable a bit of canine irresponsibility and
pomposity as one could imagine. He indulges in the fun-loving,
care-free pursuits of his mistress, gets into scrapes, and is finally
sent into the country to recuperate. His dog-philosophy is this: “Some
dogs are too readily imposed upon—not I.”
* * * * *
“No display of cleverness quite compensates for unsuitability in
choice of subject-matter.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 796. D. 9. 30w.
“The text is poor, but Mr. Aldin’s drawings have some spirit.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ’05. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 870. D. 9, ’05. 150w.
“This year of a dog’s life is very amusing.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ’05. 50w.
=Aldington, Mrs. A. E.= Love letters that caused a divorce. [+]75c.
Dillingham.
The title is quite self-explanatory of the contents of the book. A
series of letters which at first intend no harm, grow to the
proportion of Platonic missives, and later become the unlicensed
love-letters that cause a separation.
=Aldis, Janet.= Madame Geoffrin, her salon and her times. **$2.75.
Putnam.
From the journals and letters of friends have been gathered the
interesting phases of a unique salonist’s life. Madame Geoffrin was “a
homely bourgeoise without rank and connections,” yet able to draw
about her kings and princes, dukes and maréchals, in short, the
literary, artistic and social lights of all Europe. Aside from being
simply a diversion, the book sets forth much economic and social
history of the latter half of the eighteenth century.
* * * * *
“The central story is well enough told, though in rather a rambling
manner.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 282. Mr. 24, ’06. 670w.
“The scraps of information of which it is made up are of exactly the
right kind. We cannot commend the style of the book, which is
unpleasantly jerky.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 71. Ja. 20. 1340w.
“A most interesting volume.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ’05. 100w.
“It is an extremely vivacious and interesting throng of men and women
that pass before us in the pages. The author is an amiable and
communicative cicerone.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 236. Ap. 1, ’06. 510w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 40. Jl. 5, ’06. 660w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 45. F. 9, ’06. 1060w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 270w.
“The volume is remarkably crisp and concise in its treatment of
material which in many hands would have remained an incoherent medley,
and, what is of prime importance in a work of this kind, its clever
and sprightly pages slacken to no dull word.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 30. Ja. 20, ’06. 1250w.
“It is bright, easy, extremely anecdotal, and studded with
word-miniatures of the notables of the day.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 210w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 402. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
“An interesting and readable book.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 303. F. 24. ’06. 1820w.
=Aldrich, Richard.= Guide to The ring of the Nibelung. $1.25. Ditson.
“The book furnishes a very helpful aid to the study of Wagner’s great
tetralogy.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 97. F. 1, ’06. 40w.
“An analysis which in completeness and usefulness surpasses those of
his predecessors.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 60w.
“Particularly useful to students is the second part of this little
book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.
“For general use this guide is most convenient.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 90w.
=Alexander, De Alva Stanwood.= Political history of the state of New
York. 2v. ea. *$2.50. Holt.
Volume 1, (1774–1832) follows the movements of political parties in
New York from 1777, when the state constitution was drawn up, to 1832
and the formation of the Whig party. Volume 2, (1833–1861) takes up
the story and carries it down thru the formation of the republican
party in 1854, to the crippling of the Weed machine in 1861. The
causes of fractional divisions during these years are carefully
traced, and the subtle methods by which such men as George Clinton,
Hamilton, Burr, De Witt Clinton, Van Buren, Seymour and Thurlow Weed
achieved leadership and in succession ordered the political course of
the Empire state receive detailed analyses.
* * * * *
“These volumes will have small value for the special student of New
York politics, but they are capable of rendering a real service to the
general reader until the time when a more thorough and comprehensive
study of this subject shall appear.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 152. O. ’06. 960w.
“In this limited field Mr. Alexander writes with vigor, and shows
generally a sound judgment which partly atones for his tendency to
hero-worship and his lack of research.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ + – =Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 120w.
“The author has contrived so well to adorn the necessary political
facts with items in personal biography, that the chronicle rises to a
place somewhere in the domain of masterpieces.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 280w.
“What Mr. Alexander has done is to give an interesting, although,
perhaps, a too uncritical account of political leaders and events in a
field of American history that was practically unoccupied. To the
reader, who has hitherto found it impossible to get anything like a
general idea of early New York politics in a single work, the volumes
should prove a boon.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 351. O. 25, ’06. 1090w.
“Mr. Alexander is very successful in conducting the reader through the
mazes of New York politics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 540. S. 1, ’06. 230w.
“In the main, Mr. Alexander has succeeded well in presenting the
personalities that have figured conspicuously in New York’s history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 220w.
=Alexander, Eleanor.= Lady of the well. †$1.50. Longmans.
“This novel is a romantic story of Guelf and Ghibelline, of troubadour
and queen of beauty. The Emperor Frederick II., grandson of
Barbarossa, is the central figure, and the troubadour, Bernart, is
very properly the hero. There is a great deal of real romance in the
book, and the clash of arms and perilous adventures which occur in it
are very much more lifelike than is usual in works of this
kind.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“It is a pretty story, gracefully written, as such a story should be;
but a little nebulous, as is the troubadour himself.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 503. My. 26, ’06. 180w.
“Miss Alexander writes with distinction, and her book may be
recommended as a quiet and artistic piece of work.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 300w.
“Just the proper amount of realism and humor to make a pretty and
fairly plausible tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 273. Ap. 28, ’06. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
“A picturesque piece of work in many ways, but the style is stiff and
affected and at times careless and slipshod.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 100w.
“The beginning of the story certainly drags a little. The book is
altogether an extremely successful attempt to portray an exceedingly
difficult subject, and we may congratulate the author on the mediaevel
atmosphere which she has contrived to impart into her story.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.
=Alexander, Grace.= Judith. †$1.50. Bobbs.
Camden, Ohio, in the days of the Omnibus bill furnishes the setting
for this romance. The principal actors in the little drama, which is
barely saved from being a tragedy, are the following: Stephen Waters,
a stalwart young minister; Judith La Monde who is to be sacrificed
matrimonially to atone for her mother’s wrong done to the fiancé’s
father; Abel Troop, the colorless but altogether good youth, for whom
Judith is making her sacrifice; and a group of town’s people who lend
a social and political atmosphere to the story. Judith’s battle
between conscience and heart’s desire is waged valiantly and her
patience has its reward.
* * * * *
“The story shows painstaking effort and some skill in handling, but it
lacks the subtle power and imaginative grasp that mark a novel of the
first rank.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 218. Ag. ’06. 200w.
“A volume that is not devoid of merit.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 640. Ag. ’06. 230w.
“Some of the scenes are well done, and the characters stand out with a
good degree of boldness.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 100w.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 229. Ap. 7, ’06. 620w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.
=Alexander, Hartley Burr.= Poetry and the individual: an analysis of the
imaginative life in relation to the creative spirit in man and nature.
**$1.50. Putnam.
“If it be necessary to analyze the reason for the expression of
thought in poetry, then Dr. Alexander has done a useful thing. If not,
he has at least done an interesting thing, in tracing from a
philosophical standpoint the evolution of poetry since its earliest
manifestation.” (Pub. Opin.) The question is dealt with under the
general subjects: Impulse and song, Evolution of poetic spirit, The
worth of life. The universal and the individual, The imagination,
Aesthetic expression, Beauty and personality, and Nature and poetic
mood.
* * * * *
“His style impresses me as surprisingly inconsistent. It is both
brilliant and stilted, fluent and awkward. The book is admirable for
its sympathetic and sure apprehension of the present age (its
individualism, introspection and courageous faith) and for a
captivating string of poetry and eloquence which pervades the whole.”
Ralph Barton Perry.
+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 439. Ag. 2, ’06. 1740w.
“Doubtless many will question the validity of his logical process at
various points, and a still larger number will find it extremely
difficult to read his pages with confident grasp of his meaning, for
it is not the habit of the day to carry such discussions quite as far
beneath the surface as he has presumed to go.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 537. Je. 28, ’06. 1010w.
“It is a well-ordered and well-reasoned treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 381. Je. 16, ’06. 1090w.
“The book is not unusual at all, but shows care in its preparation,
and somewhat more interesting than this, an actual love for the
subject.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 90w.
=Alexander, J. H.= Elementary electrical engineering in theory and
practice. $2. Van Nostrand.
A class book for junior and senior students and working electricians.
The volume is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“It is difficult to find much in this book to recommend.”
– =Nature.= 74: 488. S. 13, ’06. 180w.
=Alexander, Lucia.= Libro d’oro of those whose names are written in the
Lamb’s book of life; tr. from the Italian by Mrs. Francis Alexander.
*$2. Little.
“Her translation is in excellent English, and reads like an original;
she has given us an altogether delightful book.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 436. My. 5, ’06. 540w.
“Mrs. Alexander ... has discharged the translator’s task very
faithfully and gracefully.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 832. Mr. ’06. 280w.
=Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“As a whole, the book will undoubtedly appeal to a limited and
definite class of readers, but the legends are picturesque enough to
make a casual dipping into the treasures of the book decidedly
pleasurable. The English rendering of the text is simple and
graceful.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 105. F. 17, ’06. 160w.
=Alexander, William.= Life insurance company. **$1.50. Appleton.
“It is, indeed a ‘primer’ with all a primer’s defects and merits; a
text of so great skill in presentation that it may be trusted pretty
nearly to teach itself; of surpassing snap and go; of perfect mastery
in technique of exposition; of consistent actuality and concreteness
of method: of interest almost rivaling a storybook.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 126. F. ’06. 90w.
=Alger, George William.= Moral overstrain. **$1. Houghton.
“Eight essays dealing with the moral aspects of modern business and
law.... The writer ... who is a New York lawyer, discusses ‘graft’,
the influence of corporate wealth, the irresponsible use of money, and
the man with the ‘muck-rake.’”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“In the flood of, to say the least, ill-judged revelation with which
the magazines are being flooded at the present time such calm reviews
as these are of the greatest benefit as a needed antidote.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“One feature of the book which recommends it is that in almost every
case the lawyer-author has a remedy to suggest for the evil he
exposes.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 250w.
“Any American citizen will be benefited by reading the eight essays.
They are sane without being commonplace, and interesting without being
sensational.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1225. My. 24, ’06. 110w.
“They are vigorous in thought, and written in a nervous and virile
English.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 50w.
=Allen, Charles Dexter.= American bookplates. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is still the only book on the subject and serves its purpose well
as an indispensable book of reference.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 140w.
=Allen, Frank Waller.= Back to Arcady. †$1.25. Turner, H. B.
“It is a pretty and poetic book, perhaps without much substance, but
all the better for its delicacy of touch and feeling.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 35. Ja. 20, ’06. 1250w.
“Mr. Allen’s fancy is tenderly delicate, and entirely free from
sentimentality.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 170w.
=Allen, Philip Loring.= America’s awakening: the triumph of
righteousness in high places. **$1.25. Revell.
An optimistic view of America’s reviving ideals in business and
politics. “This book is an attempt to catch, while the subject is
still close and living, some of the spirit and accomplishment of this
revival. Dealing, as it must with movements only half worked out and
men still active in the same fields, it cannot pretend to be in any
sense critical or final. Yet it does hope to make the citizen who
reads it a little better acquainted with some of the personalities and
some of the forces most prominent in this remarkable period.”
* * * * *
“He does not hold a brief for any reformer or any fad. The novelty and
assured interest of Mr. Allen’s book lie chiefly, of course, in his
interpretation of events.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 1120w.
“A readable and suggestive little work.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 190w.
=Alston, Leonard.= Modern constitutions in outline: an introductory
study in political science. *90c. Longmans.
“May be of some service to the reader who wishes to get a little
knowledge of a big subject in a short time and with little effort: it
is a short cut to learning.”
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 459. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Ambler, Sara Ellmaker.= Dear old home. †$1.50. Little.
A happy wholesome story for young boys and girls. Two city children
spend the summer with their grandmother in an Amish settlement of
Pennsylvania. The story records the pranks and sports of these
youngsters aided by two Pennsylvania Dutch children.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 735. N. 10. ’06. 80w.
=Amelung, Walter, and Holtzinger, Heinrich.= Museums and ruins of Rome;
ed. by Mrs. S. Arthur Strong. 2v. *$3. Dutton.
Each of these volumes gives a “synthetic and comprehensive view” of
the subject with which it deals. “The plan of the work is very simple.
Beginning with the Vatican, the student is taken through the papal
collections, the municipal collections, and the national collections,
the text describing and characterizing the masterpieces, with
sufficient biographical data relating to the sculptors, with succinct
but clear accounts of the character of the work, and descriptions
which enable the reader to fasten his attention on special
characteristics with the enforcement of a profusion of illustrations.”
(Outlook.) A short bibliography prefaces each volume.
* * * * *
“Altogether, these little books are without their match, and no one
should go to Rome without them.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 290w.
“This manual, however, is not calculated to please the ordinary
visitor to Rome, nor the student of Roman antiquities in general, on
account of its bias in favour of one class of specialists.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 400. Mr. 31. 870w.
“It is very evident that our author has given us the latest and best
theories as to the different works of art.” James C. Egbert.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 335. My. ’06. 960w.
“The volume becomes quite a liberal education in the history of
antique sculpture, which is made more thorough by its historic index
in the concluding chapter.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 40. Jl. 16, ’06. 190w.
=Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 50w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 265. Jl. 27, ’06. 630w.
“Amelung’s knowledge and experience are broad and solid, his
perception keen, and his writing vigorous yet pleasant. The
translation represents him as worthily as perhaps any translation of a
book of æsthetic as well as historic criticism could reproduce its
original.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 56. Jl. 19, ’06. 190w.
“Gives the traveler a convenient and suggestive guide for his rambles
about the Roman capital.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 100w.
“A convenient work.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 909. Ap. 21, ’06. 170w.
“Probably the best compendium yet produced of the art treasures of the
mother city of the world.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 101: 796. Je. 23, ’06. 130w.
“The idea embodied in these volumes is an excellent one, and it is,
upon the whole, carried out with a large measure of success. Some
points, however, invite criticism. Dr. Amelung’s verdicts on ancient
sculptors are not free from that dogmatism which is the besetting sin
of German archæologists.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 990w.
American Jewish yearbook, 5667. Sept. 20, 1906, to Sept. 8, 1907; ed. by
Henrietta Szold. 75c. Jewish pub.
The eighth issue of this yearbook. Among the new features are a table
of the time of sunrise and sunset, and the beginning of dawn and the
end of twilight for six northern latitudes, on three days of each
month of the solar year; two new lists including respectively a record
of the United States during the current year and notable articles
appearing in the Jewish press and thru secular mediums, and notably a
table of Jewish massacres in Russia during the period “whose entrance
and exit are guarded by Kishineff and Bialystok as blood stained
sentinels.”
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 40w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 80w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 70w.
=Ames, V. B.= Matrimonial primer; with pictorial matrimonial mathematics
and decorations by Gordon Ross. **$1.50. Elder.
=Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Amsden, Dora.= Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the school of Japanese
colour-print artists. **$1.50. Elder.
“Accurate investigation of personalities, epochs and eras, and warm
appreciation, expressed in highly rhetorical terms, of Japanese art
characterize this informing volume.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ’05. 90w.
“This little book tells us things we desire to know about a
fascinating subject.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 398. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
=Anderson, Asher.= Congregational faith and practice: principles,
polity, benevolent societies, institutions. *5c. Pilgrim press.
A little pamphlet for pastors and church workers.
=Anderson, Sir Robert.= Sidelights on the home rule movement. *$3.
Dutton.
“Sir Robert Anderson’s ‘Side lights on the home rule movement’ is
emphatically a controversy-breeding book. It contains the
recollections of the well-known British secret service official so far
as they pertain to his activity in connection with Fenianism and later
aspects of Irish agitation, and it may also be described in large part
a scathing criticism of the Irish sections of Mr. Morley’s ‘Life of
Gladstone,’ which Sir Robert attacks as the work of a romanticist
rather than a historian.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ – =Ind.= 61: 824. O. 4, ’06. 260w.
“It has fallen to the lot of hardly any other man in our time to have
so intimate a knowledge of the darker aspects of Irish Separatist
politics as Sir Robert Anderson.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 189. My. 25, ’06. 1180w.
“It will be difficult for most readers who are not of his immediate
social or political circle to see any advantage that can result from
the publication.”
– =Nation.= 83: 541. D. 20, ’06. 300w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 529. O. 27, ’06. 330w.
“Apart from these personal interests, the book has an undoubted
historical value as a contribution to our knowledge of the events with
which it mainly deals. Especially interesting are the chapters on the
Fenian movement, the dynamite campaign, and the much too historic
Clerkwell explosion.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 84. Jl. 21, ’06. 1170w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 904. Je. 9, ’06. 2080w.
=Anderson, Wilbert L.= Country town; with introd. by Josiah Strong.
**$1. Baker.
Dr. Strong says “The author has faith in the country town, and is able
to render a reason for the faith that is in him.” Mr. Anderson
maintains that the great drift from the country to the city will only
benefit the rural districts, for there will be left an enduring
residuum with the stout heart that battles with problems of
civilization and advancement. He says “that there is no scientific
reason for the popular notion that the rural population is under a
fatality of evil. The future depends almost wholly upon the power of
environment—upon education, upon commerce, upon evangelization, upon
participation in the great movements of the age.”
* * * * *
“This study of existing conditions will be found valuable even by
those who do not agree with all the conclusions reached.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 120w.
“Though he cites numerous authorities, he writes in the graceful style
of the essayist.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 170w.
“It is involved in style; is loaded with quotations and citations
having no particular bearing on the case, full of repetition, and not
clear in its manner of reaching conclusions, which are, however, sane
ones.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1163. My. 17, ’06. 280w.
“The most serious criticism that can be advanced against it is that
the author carries the argument from evolution to an extreme in
conducting a sociological inquiry along biological lines. To be
commended for its readableness as well as for the sanity and
fair-mindedness.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 340w.
“Extremely interesting and informing work.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.
“Mr. Anderson is an optimist where optimism is rare.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.
Andreas and The fates of the apostles: two Anglo-Saxon narrative poems;
ed. with introd., notes, and glossary by G: Philip Krapp. *$2. Ginn.
This volume in “The Albion series of Anglo-Saxon and middle English
poetry,” contains all the material essential to a thoro study of these
two poems. The text of both poems is based upon Wülker’s Codex
Verallensis and the variant readings present a full history of the
textual criticism of the works. A comprehensive introduction discusses
the Vercelli manuscript, the sources of the poems, their history, and
their authorship. The volume is fully annotated and contains a
classified bibliography and a glossary.
* * * * *
“Altogether, this much-needed edition is one of the most scholarly
contributions that have been made in recent times to the illustration
of Old English literature.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 155. Ag. 11. 1390w.
=Andrews, Arthur Lynn=, ed. Specimens of discourse. *60c. Holt.
A miscellaneous collection of specimens chosen with the object of
teaching a student to present near-at-hand occurrences in clear
English. The introduction gives a variety of themes, analyses them,
and shows how to elaborate various types of composition, as
description, narration and exposition.
* * * * *
+ =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 100w.
=Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 60w.
=School R.= 14: 232. Mr. ’06. 60w.
=Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman (Mrs. William S. Andrews).= Bob and the
guides; il. by F. C. Yohn, A. B. Frost and others. †$1.50. Scribner.
A book of ten Canadian hunting stories with Bob, a small boy, for the
hero. In each he gives in boyish fashion some camping adventure,
admitting that he gets “big words mixed sometimes unconscientiously.”
but having a “noble ear for general picturesqueness.”
* * * * *
“Can be read aloud and out of doors, two severe tests for a book.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1372. Je. 7, ’06. 370w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.
=Angus, S.= Sources of the first ten books of Augustine’s De Civitate
Dei. $1. Univ. library, Princeton, N. J.
A three-part thesis which treats “Literary sources of Augustine.”
“Annotations on books i-x,” and “Augustine’s knowledge of Greek.”
=Annandale, Nelson.= Faroes and Iceland; with 24 il. and an appendix on
the Celtic pony, by F. H. A. Marshall. *$1.50. Oxford.
“Is pleasant reading. He might with advantage have given a little more
time to contemporary Icelandic literature before printing his
censures: he is too ready to cry ‘All is barren,’ and hardly
appreciates the variety of life, the mixture of old fashions and
modern culture in that wonderful country. Some of his statements may
be flatly contradicted by other travellers, who have found better
entertainment there and little of the squalor which seems to have
beset Mr. Annandale.” W. P. Ker.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 191. Ja. ’06. 580w.
=Anstruther, Elizabeth.= Complete beauty book. **$1.25. Appleton.
“Beauty is a matter of health, dress, and winsomeness,” the author
declares in her introduction, and she follows her assertion with
sensible advice upon the care of the body, a detailed plea for fresh
air, exercise, and cold water, with some additional counsel upon
clothes and conduct. The skin, diet, digestion, the hair, the hands,
feet, and teeth, fatness and thinness and charm of manner are treated
in successive chapters.
* * * * *
“With the utmost good sense and simplicity, we are told just how to
keep well and to be beautiful.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 880w.
Arbiter in council: a collection of papers on war, peace and
arbitration. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“Is there any reason to hope that right ever will be ready? This is
the question which the ‘Arbiter in council’ essays to answer. In form,
the work is a series of colloquies initiated by a veteran Liberal, a
disciple of Bright and of Cobden, and a lifelong advocate of peace and
arbitration.” (Lond. Times.) The subjects discussed, one for every day
during a week, are the causes and consequences of war, modern warfare,
private war and the duel, cruelty, the federation of the world,
arbitration, the political economy of war and Christianity and war.
* * * * *
“The scheme is a well-imagined one and the discussions are full of
interest, information and suggestion. Nevertheless the result is far
from satisfactory. The book is pervaded throughout by the assumption
more or less openly avowed that war is always and everywhere a wrong
thing—not merely that most wars are wrong, and that many wars are
wicked: and the several parties to the discussion are all too much of
the same way of thinking.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 114. Mr. 30, ’06. 2520w.
“As a summary of all that is to be said on the subject, thrown into a
readable form, the book is well done; nevertheless, after reading it
there is left in the mind of the reader the perhaps unavoidable
feeling that it is an old story.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 354. O. 25, ’06. 910w.
– =Sat. R.= 102: 306. S. 8, ’06. 310w.
“A clever piece of special pleading rather than a serious contribution
to political thought.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 711. My. ’06. 1950w.
=Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, 8th duke of=: autobiography and
memoirs; ed. by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll. 2v. *$10. Dutton.
In his autobiography the Duke of Argyll sketches a “long career filled
with notable activities. Acceding to the title very young and
unexpectedly ... he was of a serious and energetic bent. Early called
to share in the government, he was a member of several cabinets....
For years he was an enthusiastic follower of Gladstone, but broke with
him on the land question and Home rule; but their personal friendship
remained unimpaired. Yet his chief distinction was as a controversial
writer. He had considerable scientific attainments. From early life an
eager naturalist ... and was practically skilled in geology. He read
widely in science, too, and being, as he innocently observes,
‘inclined to question rather than to harbor doubt’ he ‘took most
naturally to religion and theology.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“His biography was well worth writing; though it might have been
advantageously condensed into half the size.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 565. Je. 16, ’06. 1530w.
“The Duke might have curbed his pen to advantage.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 755. Je. 23. 1970w.
+ + – =Blackwood’s.= 180: 343. S. ’06. 3530w.
“It differs in two particulars from most British biographies. It deals
with political and social life in Scotland as well as in England; and
more than any biography of recent times, except perhaps that of Earl
Granville, it deals with life almost exclusively from an aristocratic
point of view.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 454. Ag. 23, ’06. 1390w.
“Has an interest and a value little below Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone’
in the brightness of the light which it throws on the English history
of its time.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 40w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 197. Je. 1, ’06. 3540w.
+ – =Nation.= 83: 60. Jl. 19, ’06. 1030w.
“The chapters which follow the autobiography give a most inadequate
picture of what the Duke was in his prime and of what he did. The
chapter on his science is particularly disappointing.”
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 437. Ag. 30, ’06. 3880w.
“The various kinds of interest that belong to the memoirs of a
statesman, relating great events in which he has a borne a part, and
the chronicles of a recluse, of a naturalist watching the lower lives
about him, belong to these volumes.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 481. Ag. 4, ’06. 1340w.
“To the biographical library these volumes will be a valuable
addition. Will be interesting as a biography to the reader who is
versed in the art of judicious skipping, and valuable as a
contribution to the history of the nineteenth century.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 220w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 110w.
“The Duke of Argyll’s literary gift was considerable, as is shown, not
only by his speeches, but by his descriptive criticism of the great
men by whom he was surrounded.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 790. Je. 23, ’06. 2080w.
“It is full of interest, and displays almost on every page a love and
knowledge of nature which add to its charm.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 945. Je. 16, ’06. 1420w.
=Armitage, Albert B.= Two years in the Antarctic. $5. Longmans.
A personal narrative of the British Antarctic expedition to which Dr.
Nansen contributes a preface.
* * * * *
“Those who have studied Captain Scott’s weighty volumes may skim with
some amusement and interest Lieutenant Armitage’s lighter pages.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 440. D. 15, ’05. 390w.
“He is a good narrator and carries the reader along with a warmth that
is surprising in such a chilly subject.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 922. D. 30, ’05. 1210w.
“Mr. Armitage supplies some points of detail which supplement Captain
Scott’s narrative.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 726. D. 2, ’05. 200w.
=Armour, John P.= Edenindia: a tale of adventure. †$1.50. Dillingham.
Edenindia is a Utopian realm into which an airship drops the hero of
this tale, Victor Bonnivard. Jilted by a heartless maiden, and weary
of life at best, it touches his vanity to be called to join the king’s
counsellors and family of state. Edenindia is a socialistic kingdom
whose inhabitants have been kept in ignorance of any other people.
Ennui finally compels young Victor to elope with the king’s daughter.
* * * * *
“His imagination, if bold, is rather heavy and lumbering in its gait.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 737. O. 28, ’05. 170w.
=Armour, Jonathan Ogden-.= Packers, the private car lines and the
people. $1.50. Altemus.
In which Mr. Armour defends the packers. He tells of the conditions
that brought the private car-line into existence and what it has
accomplished to facilitate traffic and to improve the business
situation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Armour is not a stylist; but he knows how to put his arguments
clearly and effectively.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 407. D. ’06. 220w.
“The book is vigorously written, and probably must be regarded as the
authoritative reply of the packers, by one of their most eminent
representatives, to the accusations brought against them. It is an
able plea in defense and avoidance. As such the careful student of the
problem will find it valuable. He will not find it conclusive.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 1006. Ag. 25, ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Armour writes in a rather bitter tone.”
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 220w.
=Spec.= 97: 372. S. 15, ’06. 110w.
=Armstrong, Sir Walter.= Gainsborough and his place in English art.
$3.50. Scribner.
+ =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 80w.
“Has already come to be justly regarded as a standard biography.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 100w.
=Armstrong, Sir Walter.= Peel collection and the Dutch school. $2.
Dutton.
“A meritorious contribution to museum literature.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 282. F. ’06. 70w.
“The volume is perhaps the best contribution to the critical study of
Dutch painting since the publication of ‘Les maîtres d’autrefois.’ It
is something new in the literature of art. Its criticism is fresh and
stimulating.”
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 128. F. 16, ’06. 460w.
=Armstrong, Sir Walter.= Sir Joshua Reynolds, first president of the
Royal academy. *$3.50. Scribner.
“Excellent critical life.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 273. F. ’06. 70w.
“His whole aim seems to be to belittle and disparage Sir Joshua as a
man, and as a result to lessen the potentiality of his art.” Charles
Henry Hart.
– =Dial.= 40: 226. Ap. 1, ’06. 1160w.
“It is probably the best book that has yet been written about Sir
Joshua.... His presentment of Reynolds’s character is, perhaps, more
just than the pæans of the hero worshippers; and his critical opinions
on Reynolds’s art are worthy of the most careful attention.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 459. F. 22, ’06. 130w.
=Armstrong, William Jackson.= Heroes of defeat. $3. Clarke, R.
Six heroes who thru no fault of bravery failed to attain their hoped
for success “are here described with all the vivid and picturesque
power of a Froude, a Macaulay or a Hugo.” (Arena.) They are Schamyl,
the soldier priest and hero of Caucasus; Abdel Kader, the Sultan of
Algeria who for fifteen years kept France from any stronghold in
Algeria; Scanderbeg, the Albanian who saved Europe from the Turk’s
dominion; Tecumseh, our own Shawnoe hero; Vercingetorix, King of Gaul,
who fought against Julius Caesar; and Kosiuszko, the hero of Polish
freedom.
* * * * *
“It is a real acquisition to our literature, a work of permanent
value.”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 326. Mr. ’06. 2500w.
“Mr. Armstrong tells the story of all these with some skill, though
his style is considerably marred by flights that suggest stump
oratory.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 110w.
=Arnim, Mary Annette (Beauchamp) gräfin von.= Princess Priscilla’s
fortnight. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Priscilla’s adventures are a shade too preposterous for genuine
enjoyment.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 110w.
“The most charming extravaganza imaginable.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 410w.
“A gentle cynicism, which we fancy a little mellower, and a style a
little riper than in the earlier books, leave a pleasant fragrance in
the memory, when the strange experience ends, precisely as it should.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 167. Ja. 18, ’06. 370w.
“‘Priscilla’ is an unworthy successor to ‘Elizabeth,’ though she will
be probably quite as popular.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 110w.
“The strength of the book lies in its faithful picture of the contrast
of two modes of life, brought on this occasion sharply together—a true
comedy-motive when, as in this case, both are adequately understood.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1039. D. 16, ’05. 1130w.
=Arnold, Matthew.= Sohrab and Rustum: ed. for schools and general use by
W. P. Trent and W. T. Brewster. *25c. Ginn.
Supplied with an accurate text, footnotes and an introduction, this
poem is offered to the general reader by way of preparation for the
study of Arnold no less than to the preparatory school student.
=Arthur, Richard.= Ten thousand miles in a yacht. **$2. Dutton.
A narrative which follows the incidents of the celebrated cruise made
by Commodore E. C. Benedict’s yacht among the West Indies and up the
Amazon in the winter of 1904–5. The author and also Mr. Ivins who
contributes the introduction were among the eleven cruisers. The
volume contains numerous illustrations from photographs.
* * * * *
“Some readers may wish that the author and the introductory writer had
exchanged places.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 361. Je. 1, ’06. 410w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 50w.
“A singularly naïve narrative it is.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 256. Ap. 21, ’06. 960w.
“A slight but readable account of quite an unusual cruise.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 93. My. 12, ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Arthur has a knack of telling his experiences pleasantly.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 70w.
=Asakawa, Kanichi.= Early institutional life of Japan. *$1.75. Scribner.
Reviewed by Munroe Smith.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 162. Mr. ’06. 970w.
=Ashley, William James.= Progress of the German working classes in the
last quarter of a century. *60c. Longmans.
“An example of judicial and balanced argument.” Charles Richmond
Henderson.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 260w.
=Aspinwall, Alicia.= Story of Marie de Rozel—Huguenot. *75c. Dutton.
The wife of Marie de Rozel’s great-greatgrandson has written the true
story of this brave little Huguenot maid and what befell her in the
days when the people of her faith were persecuted in Catholic France.
It is a pretty little tale and the author has given it to us
unembellished, just as it came to her out of the dim past.
* * * * *
“Not quite so interesting as it should be, considering the material.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 60w.
=Asser, Bishop of Sherbourne.= Life of King Alfred, trans. from the text
of Stevenson’s edition, with notes, by Albert S. Cook. *50c. Ginn.
The Bishop of Sherbourne’s quaint contemporary account of England’s
greatest king is here given in a form which will appeal to students in
schools and colleges as well as to the general reader. The Latin text,
thru the critical labors of Stevenson, has been cleared of many
Elizabethan interpolations, and the present translation is accurate
and well annotated.
* * * * *
“Presents in convenient form a valuable document whose authenticity is
now generally conceded.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 732. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“The advantages which Professor Cook’s translation enjoys over
previous ones is due mainly to the fact that he has been able to use
the results of the investigations of these two scholars [Plummer and
Stevenson.]”
+ =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Aston, W. G.= Shinto: the way of the gods. *$2. Longmans.
Forty years of research and study in Japanese literature, language and
history have provided material for this treatise. It is “chiefly
intended as a repertory, for the use of students, of the more
significant facts of Shinto, the old native religion of Japan before
the introduction of Chinese learning and Buddhism.”
* * * * *
Reviewed by Henry Preserved Smith.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 703. O. ’06. 300w.
“So attractively written that the reader hardly appreciates at once
the amount of learning, Eastern and Western, which it implies.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 602. My. 19. 1270w.
“In his arrangement of the book, with its abundant translation of
ancient text and ritual, all well indexed, we have just what the
volume professes to be—a handbook for the study of Shinto.” William
Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 255. Ap. 16. ’06. 1280w.
“This master of facts is very modest in theory and generalization.
This is ‘the’ book on Shinto. There is no other.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 341. F. 8, ’06. 590w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 14w.
“It is the one complete monograph on Shinto.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 20. Jl. 5, ’06. 1270w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 140w.
“No part of his subject has escaped his notice, and his materials are
arranged in a logical sequence which makes them clear even to a casual
reader. But the book is not for casual readers.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 401. Mr. 31, ’06. 880w.
=Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Frank Lin, pseud.).= Travelling thirds.
†$1.25. Harper.
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 793. D. 9. 320w.
“Incidentally points a moral, if she cannot be said always to adorn
her tale.” G. W. Adams.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 368. D. ’05. 820w.
“Can scarcely be considered with its writer’s more serious work.”
Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ – =Critic.= 47: 510. D. ’05. 190w.
“The book possesses its author’s characteristic faults of hardness and
exaggeration; it is almost destitute of sympathy and moderation, while
of the unusual virtues of bold plot and suspended creation that we
have come to associate with Mrs. Atherton’s name, it has scant
measure.”
– =Reader.= 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 280w.
“The book as a whole is rather too suggestive of the pages of a
guide-book; but if slight, the story is amusing, and is written with
Mrs. Atherton’s usual vivacity.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 100w.
=Atkinson, Fred Washington.= Philippine islands. *$3. Ginn.
“It attempts to cover the whole field, history, geography, commerce,
government, religion and the characteristics of the people. The last
is probably the most important part of the book, because in Filipino
psychology lies the problem, and this is the hardest part of the book
to write, and it is a part upon which the author’s experience should
enable him to make a real contribution.” J. Russell Smith.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 242. Ja. ’06. 360w.
“This is a wholesome, stimulating, enjoyable book, the ripe fruit of
an earnest worker, a lover of ideals, yet a master of facts. It is a
real illuminator of the theme treated.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“This latter section is by far the most valuable portion of the work,
for here the writer has apparently felt at liberty to speak with
somewhat less restraint than elsewhere, and to give expression to his
own views. The book as a whole, especially in its earlier portions,
gives the impression of having often been read before, and follows
with minute care the official view at almost every point.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 48. Ja. 16, ’06. 490w.
“Is both valuable and interesting where it presents the author’s own
observations and opinions, but is often inaccurate where sources of
encyclopaedic and historic information which should now be discarded
have been relied upon in the work of compilation.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1540. D. 28, ’05. 60w.
“This is one of the most interesting of the many books which have been
published on the new possession of the United States. This book is
indeed a manual of its subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 470. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
=Atkinson, George Francis.= College textbook of botany. *$2. Holt.
“Professor Atkinson has been exceptionally fortunate in accomplishing
a very difficult piece of work. The studies have been carefully
prepared and this scientific survey of the botanical field will be
widely appreciated.” Carlton C. Curtis.
+ + + =Educ.= R. 31: 211. F. ’06. 780w.
=Atlay, J. B.= Victorian chancellors. 2v. v. 1. *$4. Little.
“Mr. Atlay purposes to deal in two volumes with the careers of the
Lords Chancellors during the reign of Queen Victoria. The first volume
contains the memoirs of Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham
and Lord Truro.... Mr. Atlay’s work is extremely interesting whether
he is writing of men about whom there are voluminous biographies too
cumbrous to be read pleasantly, or of men such as Lord Cottenham and
Lord Truro about whom he has had to collect data for himself.... Lord
Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham have been much written about; but Mr.
Atlay has used information either not open to Lord Campbell or used by
him invidiously; and as to Lord Lyndhurst especially he corrects
Campbell’s unfair sketch following Sir Theodore Martin’s biography.”
(Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“To measure two men so dissimilar in character, opinion and
temperament as Lyndhurst and Brougham, with an equal hand is no small
achievement, and Mr. Atlay deserves all the commendation that we can
give him.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 327. Ap. 7, ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This volume is lively and entertaining, well compiled from a variety
of authentic sources, and as regards Lyndhurst and Brougham much more
trustworthy than the rather spiteful and far from accurate biographies
which the late Lord Campbell wrote of his two contemporaries.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 141. Ap. 20, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Mr. Atlay. though neither a subtle thinker nor a masterly writer,
does provide his readers with a clear, sensible, and, above all, an
honest narrative of the career of the men whose lives he undertakes to
write.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 514. Je. 21, ’06. 2470w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 475. Jl. 28, ’06. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 762. Je. 16, ’06. (Review of v. 1.)
“To lawyer, politician, student of manners, and lover of good stories
alike his book will furnish the best of entertainment.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 619. Ap. 21, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Aubin, Eugene.= Morocco of to-day. *$2. Dutton.
“M. Eugene Aubin is a French observer of Morocco, with the gift of
precise, delicate, sympathetic appreciation. This he is able to
convert into words, and the result is a very good book.... There are
... some exceptionally good chapters, notably that on Du Hamara, in
which Moroccan warfare is described.... The author describes many
places, institutions, and customs, together with some of the internal
incidents of the years 1902–3, but he does not deal with international
questions save for a few trade statistics.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“His descriptions are vivid; the information he supplies is lucidly
set forth, and upon the whole remarkably trustworthy. The number of
equally informative English books about Morocco is extremely small.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 480. Ap. 21, 370w.
“Without doubt this book contains more information about modern
Morocco than any other book to be obtained. To many M. Aubin’s
explanations of the Sultan’s life and position will be in the nature
of a revelation.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 283. S. ’06. 240w.
=Ind.= 61: 215. Jl. 26, ’06. 150w.
“It suffers from a certain unevenness. The translation is fair and
contains few slips.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 518. Je. 21, ’06. 500w.
“An excellent translation.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 815. Ag. 4, ’06. 100w.
“A scholarly work.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“It is the most complete book of its kind upon the subject, of
to-day.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 791. Je. 23, ’06. 1400w.
=Auchincloss, W. S.= Book of Daniel unlocked. *$1. Van Nostrand.
=Am. J. Theol.= 10: 583. Jl. ’06. 20w.
“An ingenious but useless addition to the already extensive literature
based on the desire to interpret the book of Daniel as literal
predictions of dates and events far in the future.”
– =Bib. World.= 27: 319. Ap. ’06. 30w.
=Audubon, John Woodhouse.= Audubon’s western journal: 1849–1850. *$3.
Clark, A. H.
This is a manuscript record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an
overland journey thru Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of
California. There is a biographical memoir by Maria R. Audubon,
daughter of the diarist, and an introduction, notes and index by Frank
Heywood Hodder.
* * * * *
“Persons interested in early California history will find here some
descriptions of the conditions in the early days really worth
reading.” Edwin E. Sparks.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 151. O. ’06. 410w.
Reviewed by Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 90w.
“On the whole, the volume leaves nothing to be wished for, either in
the editor’s or the publisher’s field.”
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 310w.
=Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 140w.
“The journal is of very great interest, and admirably edited.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 357. Je. 2, ’06. 110w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 120w.
=Sat. R.= 101: 762. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
=Austin, Alfred (Lamia, pseud.).= Door of humility. *$1.50. Macmillan.
A poem of 57 cantos in which a poet “is perplexed in youth with some
obvious theological doubts, and his lady refuses him till he comes to
a better frame of mind. He straightway proceeds upon a kind of grand
tour, which gives him the opportunity to describe elaborately
Switzerland, Rome, Greece, and other places. After much trite
metaphysical speculation he arrives at a sort of solution, and returns
home.... Humility, the poem, teaches, is the only gateway to truth.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Austin has read his ‘In memoriam’ too lovingly, and, in his poem,
at least, has not been able to rid himself of the domination of the
great mind and to stand on his own feet. This result is rendered the
more conspicuous and deplorable by the thick sowing of the text with
phrases that can only be described as journalistic.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 349. Ap. 14, ’06. 1260w.
“The philosophy and its sentimental setting are patiently planned on
the Tennysonian model, but unhappily it is not enough to succeed a
poet in order to be successful in imitating him.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 663. Je. 2. 840w.
=Ind.= 61: 455. Ag. 23, ’06. 750w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 124. Ap. 6, ’06. 970w.
“The piece is as a whole marked by a suavity and a kind of thin
dignity, though not seldom there is a lapse into banality.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. 16, ’06. 290w.
“The most obvious excellence of Mr. Austin’s work is its metrical
purity in the matter of rhythm he never offends. But his excellence is
bought at the price of his liberty.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 960w.
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 557. My. 5, ’06. 930w.
“We have no wish to be unkind to a writer who is so transparently
ingenuous and well-meaning, and we readily admit that he is not
without his felicities.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 756. My. 12, ’06. 180w.
=Austin, Louis Frederic.= Points of view; ed, with prefatory note by
Clarence Rook. **$1.50. Lane.
Essays selected from the author’s contributions to London newspapers
compose this volume. Such subjects are treated as Sir Henry Irving,
America at Oxford, Men and modes. Logic for women. Motor cars and
nervous systems, A famine in books, etc. “Mr. Rook’s prefatory note
contains an impressive idea of Mr. Austin’s strenuous life. It is,
indeed, ironical that a man should be strenuous in chatting with his
pen; but it is also tragic.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The papers collected in this memorial volume are fresh, witty, and
shallow in the sparkling way of champagne.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 270w.
“There are in fact, few writers nowadays who can write this kind of
essay, and fewer still who can make their own writing, on the whole,
so much worth while as Mr. Austin.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 470w.
=Austin, Martha Waddill.= Tristam and Isoult. $1. Badger, R: G.
“The finished play appears to us possessed of acting possibilities.
Besides being liberally endowed with no small measure of beauty in
poetic figure and expression.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 230w.
“The workmanship throughout is excellent, with vigorous lines,
pictorial imagery, and ease of movement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 310w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 755. My. ’06. 290w.
=Austin, Mrs. Mary Hunter.= The flock; il. by E. Boyd Smith. **$2.
Houghton.
Mrs. Austin’s flock is a literal flock of sheep. “This is a sort of
epic of the sheep pastures. She begins with a sort of New Englandish
landmark, the year of the Boston massacre, which was also the year
Daniel Boone moved into the West east of the Mississippi, but the
country of her pasture is the Pacific slope, where she has lived among
the herders and their woolly charges. Mrs. Austin tells of the work of
these herders in the mountain valleys, in rain and drought, of the
shearing baile, of the dogs, of the struggle for the control of the
feeding grounds. She tells how the wild beasts come down upon the fold
or the grazing flock, and how the sheep are protected by the faithful
shepherds. There are stories, too, of individual shepherds who have
had adventures, an account of a particular old California sheep range,
and a chapter on ‘The sheep and the forest reserves.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The poetic temperament which so well fits Mrs. Austin for writing
stories of the West has been of equal advantage to her in telling of
the shepherd-life with ‘its background of wild beauty, mixed romance,
and unaffected savagery.’” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06, 290w.
“The charm of the whole lies in three qualities: the novelty and
interest of the subject, the picturesque texture of the author’s mind,
and in a style which is both cultivated and racy, and adapted to
conveying her unusual sense of beauty.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 489. D. 6, ’06. 720w.
“As a matter of fact the sheep are only an excuse for an outdoor book
which takes on a certain pastoral stamp because of them, but rejoices
chiefly in the open—the free earth, the sun, and the wind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Austin, Mary.= Isidro. †$1.50. Houghton.
“A not too probable Spanish-American romance gaining color from a
picturesque setting.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 20w.
=Avary, Myrta Lockett.= Dixie, after the war. **$2.75. Doubleday.
A new picture of the period of reconstruction in the South drawn by
one who has made a first-hand study of her subject. “The book is the
aftermath of defeat described in poignant words, in sorrow rather than
in anger, and without a trace of bitterness.” (Lit. D.) “Mrs. Avary
sets forth in a serio-comic way the blunders and even the corruption
incident to military dictatorship, and in the course of the volume
throws many side-lights on what most Northerners now admit to have
been the serious mistake of reconstruction policy.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“Probably about all we can reasonably expect in the way of fairness
and soberness, in dealing with the reconstruction period, has been
done in the volume under review. The book is written in a lively
anecdotal style; the author has a keen sense of humor and a profound
conception of the value of a good story.” Walter L. Fleming.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 274. N. 1, ’06. 1840w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 360w.
“A little judicious pruning, a little more care for style, a little
more regard for accuracy in historical detail, would have made of this
a really good book.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 307. O. 11, ’06. 510w.
“As a collection of anecdotes and observations the book may be found
entertaining, but it should not profess, as it does, to be an
exposition of social conditions in the South.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 605. S. 29, ’06. 310w.
“It vividly brings before the reader the way Southern men and women
felt and talked in a most trying period.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 288. S. 29, ’06. 190w.
“An unusually vivid portrayal of the actual social conditions in the
South during the years immediately succeeding the fall of Richmond.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 130w.
=Avery, Elroy McKendree.= History of the United States and its people.
In 15 vol. ea. *$6.25. Burrows.
“A history that reflects and epitomizes the verified historic data of
our preceding historians, and that is of special worth in that
accuracy has been made the crowning aim of both author and
publishers.”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 554. My. ’06. 1260w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 157. Ag. 11. 810w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“What is lacking is precisely the quality which makes Mr. Channing’s
book noteworthy,—the impression of personality and individual
authority.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ + – =Atlan.= 98: 706. N. ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 383. Ap. ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
+ + =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 2.)
“In spite of a few trivial errors in the matters of date and the like,
this second volume is in the highest degree satisfactory.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 331. My. 16, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Excellently adapted for the public for which it is designed.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1281. My. 31, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Maintains in general the level of its predecessor, and in some
important respects shows improvement.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 470. Je. 7, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Throughout is evident the master desire for accuracy and
impartiality, and both have been attained to a really remarkable
degree.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
“As to the text of this history, while it has had the benefit of
readings and suggestions by many historical experts, it retains the
great advantage of a continuous narrative written by a single hand,
and thus adhering to a well-proportioned scheme.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Ayer, Mary Allette.= Joys of friendship. **$1. Lee.
A companion volume to the author’s “Daily cheer year book.” The
extracts are arranged under the following sub-headings: The love of
friendship, Companionship, Sympathy, Influence, Immortality of
friendship, and The Divine friendship.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ’05. 60w.
“A book of this character, however, loses much through lack of an
author’s index.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 676. O. 14, ’05. 100w.
=Ayres, S. G.= Complete index to the Expositor’s Bible, topical and
textual. *$1. Armstrong.
“First, as to its general design, it undertakes to exhibit each book
both in its general teaching and in the specific teaching of its
several sections. Next, as to the school of criticism represented, it
is composite, some of its volumes representing the older and others,
especially in some Old Testament books, the newer school. The present
‘Index’ is by subjects, texts, and authors quoted; there are, for
instance, forty-eight citations from Renan. The accompanying
Introductions present an appreciative and discriminating review of the
progress and general results of Biblical criticism up to the present
time.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Seems to be quite adequate.”
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1222. N. 25, ’05. 60w.
“This ‘Index’ is very full and will be of great value to all users of
the ‘Expositor’s Bible’.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 398. N. ’05. 40w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 234. S. 23, ’05. 100w.
B
=Babelon, Ernest.= Manual of oriental antiquities. New ed., with a
chapter on the Recent discoveries at Susa. **$2.50. Putnam.
A reprint of Everett’s translation of Babelon’s work with a chapter
which includes M. de Morgan’s discoveries in Susa. He “gives a
chronology of the ruins according to recent discoveries, and describes
the principles of building, stone sculpture, bronze metal work,
jewelry, and the industrial arts. The region described in this chapter
has hitherto been almost unknown.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 85. S. ’06. 480w.
“This added chapter only makes more evident the need of a revision or
rewriting of the whole work.”
– =Nation.= 83: 84. Jl. 26, ’06. 910w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 520w.
=Bacheller, Irving (Addison).= Silas Strong, emperor of the woods.
†$1.50. Harper.
A strong plea for the preservation of our forests. The author says “It
is in no sense a literary performance. It pretends to be nothing more
than a simple account of one summer life, pretty much as it was lived,
in a part of the Adirondacks.” Silas Strong is a woodland philosopher,
and his camp is the scene of the wooing of a wood-nymph by a young
politician. “The incidents include a forest fire, while among the
leading characters is a dog said to be particularly engaging.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 287. S. 22, ’06. 150w.
“Many will be unable to feel either great admiration for, or any
unusual interest in, Silas.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 140w.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 90w.
“Altogether, it is a book that deserves to be read, and, having been
read, to be pondered.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 540w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 320w.
“Strong, fine-flavored story of the woods.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
“The actual story is not as impressive as it might be.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 130w.
+ – =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 100w.
=Bacon, Alice Mabel.= In the land of the gods: some stories of Japan.
†$1.50. Houghton.
“Ten true pictures of fairyfolk and phenomena set in the frame of a
dainty English style.” (Ind.) They illustrate “Japanese beliefs and
traditions which Miss Bacon regards as the sources of the Japanese
qualities and traits which have been so clearly shown the world during
the great crisis of the last two years.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“This book is a ‘Japanese fairy world’ to date, but with something of
Hearn’s witchery of style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ’05. 110w.
“All are worth telling, extremely well told, and full of interest both
for children and for their elders.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 130w.
“There is certainly much pleasure to be had from reading these ten
little stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
“These stories are very happily phrased, full of the spirit of
intuition, and thoroughly sympathetic with the life which they
describe.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ’05. 60w.
=Bacon, Mrs. Dolores Harbourg.= King’s divinity. †$1.50. Holt.
They met at a ball given by royalty, he a cousin of royalty, she a
charming American girl. The course of true love is interrupted by
court conventions and obdurate counsellors, but the divinity of love
finally proves itself more than that of majesty.
* * * * *
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 470w.
“Is pleasant reading, but thin in quality and imperfect in its plot
development.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
=Bacon, Edgar Mayhew, and Wheeler, Andrew Carpenter.= Nation builders: a
story. $1. Meth. bk.
An appreciation of the itinerant preachers of Methodism who went out
to possess the American frontier a century ago.
* * * * *
+ =Outlook.= 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’06. 200w.
“It is an inspiring record and the joint authors have well presented
it.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 92. Ja. 20, ’06. 340w.
=Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= Connecticut river, and the valley of the
Connecticut; three hundred and fifty miles from mountain to sea:
historical and descriptive. **$3.50. Putnam.
Under the headings “Historical,” “The romances of navigation,” and
“The topography of the river and valley” the author has “traced all
the interesting movements and events associated with New England’s
chief river down to the present day.” The book abounds in the
picturesque and traditional no less than in well authorized historical
fact.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 327. N. 16, ’06. 510w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 370w.
“Is a book of notable interest to New-Englanders.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 260w.
“The proportions of the long stretch have been duly considered, and
the narrative, not unlike the river which it portrays, runs
consistently, though compressed within brimming pages, from cover to
cover—a happy concurrence of literary ease and historical severity.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 670w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 140w.
=Bagley, William Chandler.= Educative process. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“Students of schoolcraft and teachers will find that Mr. Bagley’s
elaborate account of the processes of education repays careful study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 555. Ja. ’06. 250w.
“The contribution in this book lies in the careful selection of
biological and physiological principles which have educational
bearings, and which can be seen as such by the average teacher.”
Frederick E. Bolton.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 369. N. 15, ’06. 560w.
“What has been especially needed for some time is just such a work as
Dr. Bagley has written. It will be generally agreed that Dr. Bagley
has given us here a sound and scholarly statement of educational
theory.” Edwin G. Dexter.
+ + =School R.= 14: 464. Je. ’06. 460w.
=Bagot, Richard.= Italian lakes; painted by Ella Du Cane, described by
Richard Bagot. *$6. Macmillan.
“Mr. Bagot gossips not unpleasantly, if with no great indication of
profound historical research.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 427. Ap. 7. 170w.
“His book contains much valuable and interesting information, but the
pleasure of reading it is somewhat marred by the uncalled-for
apologetic tone adopted throughout, and the ever-recurrent use of the
personal pronoun.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 27: 373. F. ’06. 200w.
“Charming pictures—with a very inferior text. Indeed it would have
been better had the sketches followed one another and the printed
matter been condensed into notes.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 120w.
“We have found this the most pleasing volume of a class of books which
appear now to have a certain vogue.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14. D. 9, ’05. 180w.
=Bagot, Richard.= Passport. †$1.50. Harper.
“Mr. Bagot’s style is clever and finished. It lacks a definite
clear-cut motive that should give it force and value.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 180w.
=Bailey, Mrs. Alice Ward (A. B. Ward, pseud.).= Roberta and her
brothers; il. by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. †$1.50. Little.
A lively story with a wide-awake, ambitious young heroine who is
mother, sister, housekeeper and counsellor in her father’s home. Her
trials, her triumphs, and her longings offer wholesome entertainment
to young readers.
* * * * *
“Is a book with plenty of life and vim between its covers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 90w.
“The story is wholesome, lively, and sufficiently natural to arouse a
response in the heart of all girl readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 120w.
“The characters are nicely differentiated, the expression fresh.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 40w.
=Bailey, Mrs. Alice Ward (A. B. Ward, pseud.).= Sage brush parson.
†$1.50. Little.
The sage brush wastes of Nevada furnish the general setting of Mr.
Ward’s story while the particular interest centers in one of the
little towns filled with rough miners. Among these carousing groups
there appears one day an Englishman of deep religious zeal and culture
bent upon the mission of saving souls. The reader’s sympathy is
readily won for the lonely figure, whose apparent asceticism is not
bred in the bone, but the outgrowth of a bitter heart load. The
melodramatic touches are thoroughly in keeping with the locale of the
story-drama.
* * * * *
“This is one of the strongest and most human stories we have read in
months.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 557. My. ’06. 640w.
“It is a good example of how much weakness in a plot and in style may
be pardoned, if the central characters win our affection and hold our
interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 29. Mr. ’06. 480w.
“There is much strength in this vivid narrative, combined with humor,
realistic description, and incisive characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 250w.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1224. My. 24, ’06. 430w.
“The style is crisp, virile, incisive; and although there may be
suggestions of Bret Harte, perhaps even of ‘The Virginian’ here and
there, this is yet a new story, strongly told, with a character all
its own.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 340w.
“Logic is not A. B. Ward’s strong point, but she ... writes a readable
story and one that keeps the attention right up to the last word.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 1100w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 110w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 80w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= Outlook to nature. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“We see that the writer is a passionate lover of nature with a strain
of the poet in him, but we do not always find his treatment
convincing.”
+ – =Nature.= 74: 315. Ag. 2, ’06. 430w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w.
=Bailey, Liberty Hyde.= Plant-breeding: being lectures upon the
amelioration of domestic plants. **$1.25. Macmillan.
To this fourth edition of his volume in the “Garden craft series,”
Prof. Bailey has added a new chapter on current plant-breeding
practice. “For one who already knows something of garden plants ‘Plant
breeding’ affords a royal road to modern evolutionary doctrine, while
the changes in the text between the first and the present fourth
edition show how rapid has been recent progress in this field.”
(Atlan.)
* * * * *
“Gives a remarkably simple and readable account of current practice in
this department of horticulture, interpreting every process in the
light of recent theory.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + |=Atlan.= 98: 424. S. ’06. 150w.
“Most accomplished writer of pure horticultural English.” Mabel Osgood
Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14. ’06. 1190w.
=Bailie, William.= Josiah Warren, the first American anarchist: a
sociological study. **$1. Small.
“Warren’s anarchism was of a type different from that exemplified in
the terrorists of today; was, in fact, philosophical anarchism in its
purest form. Upholding the doctrine of the sovereignty of the
individual and the abolition of all government but self-government,
and cherishing the idea that the restraints of government are not
needed to induce each individual to exercise his liberty with due
regard to the rights of others, Warren spent many years in the
endeavor to demonstrate in practice the validity of his
theories.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Those who are interested in the growth of social theories in this
country will welcome this little volume.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 173. Jl. ’06. 90w.
=Critic.= 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“The story of the way in which Warren sought to put his teachings into
practice makes entertaining and not unprofitable reading.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Bailie doesn’t succeed in conveying any impression of his
personality.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 311. My. 12, 06. 540w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 240w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 565. S. ’06. 140w.
=Bain, F. W.= Digit of the moon, and other love stories from the Hindoo.
$1.50. Putnam.
“As stories of an ancient civilization, these flowery, unhurried tales
have a charm of movement and meaning. As love stores the tales are
pure and ardent, mixing earthly and heavenly motive and passion in the
intimate way of the early world.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 230w.
=Baird, Jean K.= Cash three. 60c. Saalfield.
A little lad, as cash boy in a department store, fighting poverty with
his father while his mother’s relatives are trying to find him. The
tale, ending in a happy Christmas, is full of hardships, relieved by a
father’s devotion and a child’s natural cheerfulness.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895, D. 22, ’06. 30w.
=Baird, Jean K.= Danny. 60c. Saalfield.
Goat Hill, an Irish washerwoman settlement, furnishes the setting of a
story in which Mary Shannon, and Danny, the pride of her heart, are
the principal characters.
=Baker, Abby G., and Ware, Abby H.= Municipal government of the city of
New York. *90c. Ginn.
Altho written for eighth grade pupils in the New York schools, much of
the discussion exceeds local interest and offers suggestions for every
city’s government as well as help along the line of preparation for
civil service examinations.
=Baker, Cornelia.= Queen’s page. †$1.25. Bobbs.
“Is one of the most delightful children’s books of the year.” Amy C.
Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 35: 333. Mr. ’06. 190w.
=Baker, Louise R.= Mrs. Pinner’s little girl $1. Jacobs.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ’05. 40w.
=Baldwin, May.= Girls of St. Gabriel’s. †$1.25. Lippincott.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 8. D. 9, ’05. 50w.
=Baldwin, May.= That little limb; il. †$1.25. Jacobs.
A misunderstood, unconsciously naughty little girl lives a riotous
life in her canon uncle’s home until he has to send her away to
school. Her friendship for a young doctor just over the wall who is
her prince and who understands her is the foil for all her childishly
weird thrusts at life and people.
* * * * *
“Is rather a disappointing book.”
– =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ’05. 70w.
=Baldwin, Simeon Eben.= American judiciary and judicial system. *$1.25.
Century.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Baltzell, W. J.= Complete history of music. Presser.
A book for schools, clubs and private reading. “The author begins at
the beginning, with the prehistoric music of Assyrians and Egyptians,
and follows down through Hebrew and Greek music, through the
beginnings of mediaeval music, through the great period of the
polyphonic ecclesiastical composers, and so to the modern schools, and
the most modern schools There are chapters on musical instruments, on
singing, on the origin and development of the opera and of the suite
and sonata.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The most useful and up-to-date history of music in any language.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 414. My. 17, ’06. 340w.
“For its purpose, and within its limitations this history is unusually
good, and an uncommon skill has been shown in its compilation and in
the arrangement of its parts.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 350w.
“Especially full and informing are the early chapters dealing with the
origin and primitive evolution of music.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 170w.
=Baly, Edward Charles Cyril.= Spectroscopy. *$2.80. Longmans.
“Briefly the volume may be described as an excellent scholarly
compendium of terrestrial spectroscopy brought up to date. The subject
of astrophysics is barely touched upon. Of the seventeen chapters
which the treatment includes, the first seven are devoted to what
might be called ordinary spectroscopic practice, including the theory
and use of the prism and the diffraction grating; the remaining ten
chapters are given to more advanced and special problems, such as
those occurring in the infrared and ultra-violet regions,
spectroscopic sources, the Zeeman effect, spectral series, etc.
Concerning each of these chapters it may be said that the problem is
always definitely stated, the English is clear and simple, and the
references to original sources are ample.”—Astrophys. J.
* * * * *
“The volume as a whole is characterized by a fine perspective and by
always putting the emphasis in the right place. It should find a place
in the library of every student of physical optics.” Henry Clew.
+ + =Astrophys. J.= 23: 170. Mr. ’06. 810w.
“The book, indeed, fills a gap in spectroscopic literature which has
long existed. Notwithstanding the few drawbacks to which attention has
been directed, the book reflects the greatest credit on its author.”
+ + – =Nature.= 73: sup. 9. N. 30, ’05. 680w.
=Bangs, John Kendrick.= R. Holmes & co.: being the remarkable adventures
of Raffles Holmes, esq., detective and amateur cracksman by birth.
†$1.25. Harper.
The conflicting traits and characteristics of Raffles and of Sherlock
Holmes are strangely blended in this new hero, Raffles Holmes, who
introduces himself as the grandson of the famous cracksman and the son
of the great detective. His history and adventures as recorded by
Jenkins, who is his Dr. Watson and his Bunny in one, are highly
amusing. In the double capacity of thief and detective he enjoys a
successful and spectacular career, for while the Raffles in him
perpetually cries “Take” the Holmes in him thunders “Restore” and he
does both to his own advantage.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 200w.
“A parody needs to be remarkably well done to secure the forgiveness
of the admirers of the original. It is to be feared that Mr. Bangs
must go unforgiven.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 110w.
=Banks, Rev. Louis Albert.= Great promises of the Bible. $1.50. Meth.
bk.
This is the fourth volume of a quartette, the first three of which are
“The great sinners of the Bible,” “The great saints of the Bible,”
“The great portraits of the Bible.” There are thirty sermons which
comprise a complete survey of the Bible promises including the promise
of a new heart, forgiveness, answers to prayer, sleep, home of the
soul, victory, morning and immortality.
=Barbey, Frederic.= Friend of Marie Antoinette (Lady Atkyns). *$3.
Dutton.
“Lady Atkyns an English actress, lived in France long enough to
acquire violent Royalist sentiments, and to be presented to the lovely
queen Marie Antoinette, to whose cause she forever swore allegiance.
Her recently discovered correspondence reopens the puzzle of the
disappearance of the Dauphin. However, the case remains as completely
unsolved as ever.... Lady Atkyns seems to have been a monomaniac of
very generous impulses, who was the dupe of excited French Royalists,
and they appeared as eager for English gold as for the rescue of their
king.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A most disappointing book. Indeed, one is tempted to ask oneself,
when wading through the excellent translation of M. Barbey’s work
whether that distinguished writer really made the best of his
material.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 401. Ap. 28, ’06. 790w.
“The translation is, as a whole, very tolerably executed.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 507. Ap. 28, 2430w.
“Although M. Barbey is a good compiler of evidence, he has no gift for
vividness.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 132. Ap. 12, ’06. 1460w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 257. Ap. 21, ’06. 1460w. (Reprinted from
Lond. Times.)
“There are more exclamatory passages by the author than authentic
quotations from Lady Atkyns’s letters.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 210w.
“It is a pretty romance anyway, and a few words at least of it might
be given as a foot note to the history of France.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 300w.
– =Spec.= 97: 235. Ag. 18, ’06. 1510w.
=Barbour, Mrs. Anna Maynard.= Breakers ahead. †$1.50. Lippincott.
This story outlines the life of a “sublime egoist.” A young
Englishman, Thomas Macavoy Denning, leaves home because he has been
expelled from school, and comes to America with the resolve to make in
the new world, single-handed, a name which shall equal his father’s in
the old. He succeeds in so far as wealth and position are concerned,
by sheer will, force, and self confidence he succeeds financially; but
on the eve of his political triumph, just as his election as governor
of a western state seems assured, the results of a lax past, of a
period when he sowed wild oats rises up to defeat him—and his was not
a soul which could bear defeat.
* * * * *
“The effect as a whole is not convincing. The author’s style is rather
stilted and the dialogue is somewhat less than natural.”
– =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 160w.
“Otherwise the story is exceptionally well put together, and rises
steadily toward a climax of interest that proves fairly enthralling.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 230w.
=Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Crimson sweater. †$1.50. Century.
Life at the Ferry Hill school as Roy Porter, brother of Porter of the
Harvard eleven, found it, forms an interesting study of the smallness
and the breadth of various boy natures as well as a series of pictures
of football, hockey, cross country runs, boat racing, base-ball, and
other sports as they were played there. Harry, daughter of the
head-master, furnishes a wholesome girl element and is Roy’s comrade
thru the various ups and downs that made up his school life from the
time when, as a boy, he rescued her pet rabbit, to the time when,
having won his place as leader of the school, he is carried on the
shoulders of his triumphant classmates at the close of the game in
which Ferry Hill at last beat Hammond.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 110w.
“Although the book was intended primarily for boys, the wholesome,
outdoorsy girl will find it just as interesting on account of the
hearty friendship between the boy and one of his girl schoolmates.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 140w.
“It is perfectly safe to predict a large reading for this book among
American schoolboys.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 80w.
=Barbour, Ralph Henry.= Maid in Arcady. †$2. Lippincott.
An aimless Vertumnus drifts into Arcady and beholds Clytie, a daughter
of the gods. He gazes spellbound. So begins a tale of love which has
the stamp of Olympia upon it, but which in reality is very modern
after all, and, true to the adage, does not run smoothly. Believing
that she is Laura Devereaux the girl whom his friend loves, he takes
himself miserably away striving to forget that he had ever stumbled
into Arcady. After a long and weary waiting he discovers his mistake
and a happy ending ensues.
* * * * *
“The new story is longer and somewhat more substantial than its
predecessors, but equally graceful and amusing.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The story is graceful and more spirited than one would expect from
the emphasis given to its externals.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
=Bard, Emile.= Chinese life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: sup. 3. F. 2, ’06. 150w.
=Barine, Arvede, pseud. (Cecile Vincens) (Mrs. Charles Vincens).= Louis
XIV. and La Grande Mademoiselle. **$3. Putnam.
The present story continues the career of La Grande Mademoiselle where
the author’s “The youth of La Grande Mademoiselle” dropped it, just at
the close of the Fronde,—that protest of the French nobility against
centralization. Mme. Barine’s heroine was related to Louis XIII., was
the richest heiress in France, and aspired to be an empress, a
political power and a nun. “Her mad vagaries and misguided impulses”
furnish material for a comic as well as a tragic study of a
fascinating period.
* * * * *
“It is a book of striking interest, and the rendering is tolerably
well done, though it retains French idiom too much, and gives us
occasionally but jerky English.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 70w.
“The proof of the merit of Mme. Barine’s work lies in the fact that
one is eager to read it in spite of the very bad translation. To a
subject replete with picturesque interest Mme. Barine has done full
justice.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 220w.
“The narrative has all the vivacity of fiction, though at the same
time its historical care and accuracy are evident at every turn. The
translation, which is anonymous, is easy and unaffected.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 41. Jl. 5, ’06. 250w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 100w.
“Is, to say the very least, vastly entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 1280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 324. F. 10, ’06. 270w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 70w.
“There is a lack of delicacy in some of the passages, which the
translator would have shown better taste either by omitting or toning
down, but the sketch given of the court and its manners is admirably
drawn, and the pathos of the often ridiculous adventures of the
heroine is well brought out.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 757. Je. 16, ’06. 880w.
“The story may be read at length in these pages, admirably told by the
author, so far as a deplorable translation permits us to appreciate
it.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 265. F. 17, ’06. 470w.
=Barnard, William Francis.= Moods of life: poems of varied feeling. $1.
The Rooks press.
A hundred and some poems which portray the grave as well as the gay
moods of life.
* * * * *
Reviewed by William M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 208. O. 1, ’06. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. ’06. 50w.
=Barnes, James.= Outside the law. †$1.50. Appleton.
“A detective story with the detective left out.” (Outlook.) Lorrimer,
a man of great wealth, imparts to an old servant the secret process by
which he can reproduce the works of old engravers with great fidelity.
The servant’s treachery in joining a band of counterfeiters starts a
series of situations which implicate the innocent Lorrimer, and weave
a relentless mesh about him.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 897. D. 16, ’05. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 90w.
=Barr, Mrs. Amelia Edith Huddleston.= Cecilia’s lovers. †$1.50. Dodd.
A companion book to Mrs. Barr’s “Trinity bells.” New York life of
to-day is portrayed, but Cecilia’s “Quakeress benefactor and Quaker
home are the most pleasing and realistic features of the book. Her
worldly friends and lovers are by no means satisfying to the reader.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“As regards the literary quality of the book there is not much to be
said, but it is bright and pleasant, and likely enough to find
readers.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 380. O. 14, ’05. 60w.
=Barr, Robert.= Speculations of John Steele. †$1.50. Stokes.
“There is not a dull page in the story. It moves on to a happy ending
and the situations are so well handled that the reader’s attention is
held from the beginning to the end, while as he reads he begins to
understand why the mere pursuit of unearned wealth in this country is
so absorbing.” Mary K. Ford.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 366. D. ’05. 1020w.
“We cannot believe that Mr. Steele really did that which he is alleged
to have done.”
– =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 140w.
=Barr, Robert (Luke Sharp, pseud.).= Triumphs of Eugene Valmont. †$1.50.
Appleton.
“Eugene Valmont is an addition to the large number of private
detectives who have betrayed the confidence of their clients by
recording their achievements.” (Ath.) His exploits carried thru a
group of stories frequently reveal a deviation from English legal
methods, and hence an opportunity for other than machine made results.
“The story of how the famous diamond necklace brought ill fate to
every one connected with it from Marie Antoinette down is capitally
told and helps to explain why Valmont lost his place as chief of
detectives in Paris.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The creation of Eugene Valmont may, indeed, be counted one of Mr.
Barr’s best achievements.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 475. Ap. 21. 200w.
“The stories are readable but not absorbing.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 219. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.
“Some ingenious and amusing detective stories.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 150w.
=Barrett, Alfred Wilson.= Father Pink. †$1.50. Small.
A wily tho good-natured priest enters a fight to secure for his niece,
Lucretia, money and diamonds which, by right of an unsubstantiated
claim, go to the heroine of the tale, a young French girl. Interested
in righting the much-tangled up affairs of fortune is a young bachelor
who, tho outwitted on several occasions and who sees Father Pink
disappear thru a tiger’s cage with the coveted diamonds, none the less
wins the heroine and restores to her her wealth.
=Barrington, Mrs. Russell.= Reminiscences of G. F. Watts. *$5.
Macmillan.
“The author of this affectionately fashioned memorial reveals no
critical qualifications for her task.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 277. F. ’06. 540w.
=Barrows, Charles Henry.= Personality of Jesus. **$1.25. Houghton.
Mr. Barrows is a successful lawyer who was formerly president of the
International Young men’s Christian association training school. The
author discusses the personal appearance, growth and education,
intellectual power, emotional life, will, and unwritten principles of
Jesus.
* * * * *
“This indifference to the large lessons to be learned from recent
historical study of the Gospels is the more to be regretted, since the
author proves himself so well qualified, in his general knowledge and
by his warm religious feeling, to discuss the high theme upon which he
has expended so much patient labor.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1056. N. 1, ’06. 310w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 690. My. 5, ’06. 850w.
“The author has done as well as anyone could be expected to do without
the aid of criticism.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 87. Jl. 26, ’06. 740w.
“Its practical common sense, its freedom from theological
predilections, its sincere spirit, and its unpretentious style combine
to make it a useful aid.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 170w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 50w.
=Barry, J. P.= At the gates of the east: a book of travel among historic
wonderlands. $2. Longmans.
“The information contained in the volume was not obtained from other
books of travel, but derived at first hand. The places were visited in
separate circular tours ... both in the spring and the autumn. The
volume opens with descriptions of the capitals of Eastern Europe ...
Cairo is the next city dealt with, after which come the cities of
Southern Greece ... the eastern Adriatic towns ... and in the Western
Balkans, Cettinje and the Provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. A
chapter on ‘Ways and means,’ in which the author tells the prospective
tourist how to plan the trip outlined in his book, where to start and
at what time of the year, what places to see, a word concerning costs
and money, guide books, etc., closes the volume.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“When the author becomes eloquent or sentimental, as he often does, he
is apt to show imperfect knowledge, and make statements which jar on
the educated reader. Yet ... the book is pleasant and often
instructive.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 410w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 467. Jl. 21, ’06. 590w.
=Barry, John D.= Our best society. †$1.50. Putnam.
“It lacks Mrs. Wharton’s subtlety and finish, and is far from evincing
great sophistication but it is none the less an accurate portrayal of
certain phases of New York life.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 341. My. ’06. 340w.
“A sprightly and acute narrative. Considered as a novel, the book
lacks conventional structure and plot, but so does the life it
discriminatingly portrays.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“Is written with some skill.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.
=Barry, Richard.= Sandy of the Sierras. $1.50. Moffat.
Sandy, true to his name, is a red-headed Scotch lad who goes from the
Sierras down to San Francisco to make his fortune. He rises from the
lower rounds of the ladder to the heights of political fame. He
“becomes boss of the Pacific coast, and is not above the tricks of his
trade. You leave him happy in having at one stroke won his love and
made his father-in-law Senator.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The author has a better command of journalistic slang than of
literary English.” Wm. M. Payne.
– =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 120w.
=Ind.= 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 180w.
“Those who are familiar with the word-painting and lurid touches of
Mr. Barry’s ‘Port Arthur: a monster heroism,’ will not miss them in
his new story.”
– + =Lit. D.= 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Barry, no doubt, could write a better novel now.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 451. Jl. 14, ’06. 440w.
“Much as I like Sandy I should like him better if his creator liked
him less.”
– + =Putnam’s.= 1: 111. O. ’06. 440w.
=Barry, William (Francis).= Tradition of Scripture: its origin,
authority, and interpretation. *$1.20. Longmans.
“This is a volume of the ‘Westminister library,’ a series intended for
the use of ‘Catholic priests and students,’ presumably ecclesiastical
students.... The author’s preoccupation is theological, not
scientific; and in his treatment of critical questions, he inquires,
not what are the conclusions established by the evidence, but what
proportion of these conclusions can be reconciled with the
pronouncements of Roman authority.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The book is no doubt well adapted to those for whom it is intended,
many of whom will learn from it much that they do not know,
particularly about the Old Testament; and it will serve well enough as
material for sermons. But priests and students will be well advised
not to rely on Dr. Barry’s treatment of the critical problems of the
New Testament, should they ever be called upon to discuss those
problems with persons having a real knowledge of them.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 250w.
“It is an encouragement to find a Catholic writer thus generously and
intelligently treating the critical study of the Bible, and thus ready
to welcome the results of honest and truth-loving scholarship.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 83: 265. My. ’06. 390w.
=Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 3250w.
=Bashford, Herbert.= Tenting of the Tillicums; il. by Charles Copeland.
[+]75c. Crowell.
“Tillicums,” the Indian word for “friends” is adopted by four boys who
ran the round of camping adventure on Puget Sound. Their fearlessness
is put to the test by wild animal as well as desperado, and is the
real keynote to the spirited tale.
=Bashore, Harvey Brown.= Sanitation of a country house. $1. Wiley.
“This little book would form a useful, popular and non-technical guide
on sanitary matters to anyone about to build a country house.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 437. Mr. 8, ’06. 50w.
“A clean-cut, authoritative little exposition.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 120w.
=Bassett, Mrs. Mary E. Stone.= Little green door. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“The story is pretty in its pale, anemic way, but there are so many
lustier blossoms to be gathered.”
+ – =Reader.= 6: 727. N. ’05, 200w.
=Bastian, Henry Charlton.= Nature and origin of living matter. *$3.50.
Lippincott.
“For the past thirty-five years Dr. Bastian has consistently upheld
the doctrine that life not only in the past originated, but does at
the present time originate, from dead matter—the doctrine once
generally known as that of spontaneous generation.... The present book
... dwells particularly on the importance to medical science of proof
that disease germs may arise de novo.... Our boards of health are
proceeding on the assumption that one typhoid germ, for instance, is
always the offspring of another similar germ, and that if we can
exclude these germs we can exclude the disease.... If it be true that
a typhoid germ may under certain conditions arise where no such germ
existed before, our precautions, tho necessary, will often be
unavailing. And that they are sometimes failures for this very reason
is Dr. Bastian’s belief.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“That the author is convinced of the truth of what he sets forth in
his book none can doubt, but that it will succeed in making converts
among men of science is not to be expected.” W. P. Pycraft.
– =Acad.= 69: 1350. D. 30, ’05. 1420w.
“Whatever one may think of the group of opinions which Dr. Bastian has
maintained for a generation, consistently and almost alone, he is at
least a learned man and a skillful writer, so that his discussion of
the general problem is most illuminating.” E. T. Brewster.
+ – =Atlan.= 98: 420. S. ’06. 370w.
“The observations and experiments are absolutely inconclusive.”
– =Dial.= 40: 392. Je. 16, ’06. 440w.
“No one will suggest that of the two hundred and forty-five
micrographs reproduced in this book, a single one has been falsified;
yet it will be almost universally held that the interpretation put
upon them by their author and the inference drawn from them are
incorrect.”
– + =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 750w.
“Dr. H. Charlton Bastian re-expounds his well known biological
heresies with a vigour and industry worthy of a better cause.” J. A.
T.
– =Nature.= 73: 361. F. 15, ’06. 1130w.
“Dr. Bastian’s work is an interesting one, both scientifically and, so
to speak, psychologically. One cannot but feel in reading the work
that the author is a man with an extraordinary amount of learning and
industry, and it is not unlikely that the learning and industry will
be useful at least, in drawing more attention to the subject of
heterogenesis.” Charles Loomis Dana.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 424. Jl. 7, ’06. 1740w.
“If this author is not quite a Huxley, he is more readable than
Haeckel: we wonder that it never struck him that proper ‘contents,’
page headings, and side summaries are indispensable accompaniments of
a serious scientific book.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 610w.
=Batten, Rev. Loring W.= Hebrew prophet. $1.50 Macmillan.
“His treatment is interesting, fresh, and skillfully related to modern
life.” John E. McFadyen.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 316. Ap. ’06. 410w.
“The closing chapters, on the prophet’s relation to the church and on
the prophet’s vision, are somewhat one-sided and disappointing. As a
whole, gives an excellent portraiture of one of the most remarkable
figures in the history of religion.” Kemper Fullerton.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 155. Ag. ’06. 440w.
“It speaks well for the American pulpit that a work of such ability
comes from the rector of an important city parish.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 370w.
=Battine, Cecil.= Crisis of the confederacy: a history of Gettysburg and
the Wilderness. $5. Longmans.
“Captain Battine is a clever, a vivid and an engaging writer. But his
judgments, both of men and of events, are often airy and unbased.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 270w.
“A confessed Confederate bias does not interfere with impartial
treatment, and the work is quite worth study by those who are
interested in our history as well as by professional soldiers.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 140w.
=Baughan, Edward Algernon.= Music and musicians. *$1.50. Lane.
The twenty seven articles included in “Music and musicians” are
reprints of the author’s contributions to English periodicals. He
treats such subjects as “The obvious in music,” “Richard Strauss and
his symphonic poems,” “Richard Strauss and programme music,” and
“Wagner’s ‘Ring.’”
* * * * *
“He has a way of his own in looking at men and things, and it is
therefore not surprising if one cannot in all points agree with him.
There are many excellent comments and criticisms in the volume.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 167. Ag. 11. 540w.
“He has ideas of his own, and his lucid style enables him to convey
them to the general reader even when they relate, as they must now and
then, to matters technical.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 268. S. 27, ’06. 820w.
“In all these matters, Mr. Baughan writes interestingly and gives
frequent fillips to thought and discussion, even if he has not all the
conviction of an aggressive advocate.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 762. N. 17, ’06. 1260w.
+ – =Spec.= 96: 1039. Je. 30, ’06. 1720w.
=Baxter, James Phinney.= Memoir of Jacques Cartier, Sieur de Limoilou:
his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the
manuscript of 1534; with annotations, etc. **$10. Dodd.
“This volume contains a new translation from the original French of
Cartier’s ‘Voyages’ in 1535–1536 and 1541, and the first translation
of the manuscript discovered in 1867 in the Bibliotheque Nationale, of
the voyage of 1534. A bibliography and a collection of all the
pertinent documents thus far discovered in the French and Spanish
archives and included, as well as an exhaustive memoir of
Cartier.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 745. Ap. ’06. 90w.
“Dr. Baxter has given us what may almost be regarded as the last word
on the great navigator of St. Malo. His work is authoritative.”
Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 260. Ap. 16, ’06. 1600w.
“This volume, which seems to have been a true labor of love, is a
worthy tribute to his memory.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 150. Ag. 16, ’06. 480w.
“His book is distinctly valuable and an important addition to any
library aiming to keep up with the development of the knowledge of
American history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.
=Bayliss, Sir Wyke.= Seven angels of the renascence. **$3.50. Pott.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 487. Ap. 21. 1560w.
+ + =Contemporary R.= 88: 903. D. ’05. 1230w.
“Unfortunately, however, it can scarcely be said that he has really
contributed anything new to the vast mass of literature on the same
subject already in circulation.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 27: 278. Ja. ’06. 170w.
=Bazan, Emilia Pardo.= Mystery of the lost dauphin, tr. with an introd.
essay by Annabel Hord Seeger. †$1.50. Funk.
With a dramatic power which is moving in its forcefulness this Spanish
author has written the story of the lost dauphin, the little son of
Louis XVI, who was long supposed to have died in prison. It is a book
of such realism that the reader feels thruout that it is the dread
hand of fate and not the author who relentlessly orders the unhappy
life of Naundorff, and forces him finally to give up voluntarily the
recognition he has struggled a lifetime to gain. The story of his
lovely daughter Amélie, whose happiness is sacrificed, gives to the
book a deeper human interest.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 110w.
“This particular version of the imagined history of the Dauphin has a
romantic atmosphere of hopeless unreality, and arouses only a languid
sort of interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 113. S. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Her literary style is remarkable for clarity and simplicity.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 398. Ag. 16, ’06. 260w.
“It belongs to the highest type of the historical novel, drawing its
inspiration from authentic sources and rich in those elements which
invest the dry bones of history with flesh and blood.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 550w.
“The novel is so well constructed, there is so much rich color in the
landscapes, and so much clever character drawing that, at first sight,
it seems strange that it does not interest one particularly. But the
reason is not far to seek. It is a novel of propaganda.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“Generally speaking, the English will do well enough. For the story,
in spite of Senora Bazan’s reputation, it does not in the present
version afford those thrills which one demands in fiction of the lost
Dauphin school.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 454. Jl. 14, ’06. 410w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 90w.
=Beach, Rex Ellingwood.= Spoilers. †$1.50. Harper.
A story which breathes the “wild west” atmosphere of Nome and the
outlying mining camps, one whose brutality (of the daring Jack London
order) proves the truth of Kipling’s “there’s never a law of God or
man runs north of Fifty-three.” The plot involves a conspiracy against
the joint owners of the Midas, the richest mine of Anvil Creek. A
charming girl is the unconscious agent of the villains, and is also
the cause of bitter rivalry between one of the owners and one of the
conspirators. There are brawls, shootings in the streets, riots,
battles at the mines, and murderous hand-to-hand fights—all of which
show elemental savage man free from moral restraint.
* * * * *
“The only trouble with his method is that it results in an absolutely
false picture of life.” Edward Clark Marsh.
– + =Bookm.= 23: 433. Je. ’06. 1100w.
“He mistakes vulgarity for strength and brute force for manliness; and
he discusses without reserve matters which emphatically demand
discreet treatment.”
– =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 100w.
“Grips us by sheer brute strength, and almost makes us forget how
devoid it is of anything like grace or delicacy of workmanship.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 220w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1547. Je. 28, ’06. 280w.
“In turning his material into the form of the novel, however, the
writer has won no success other than that of maintaining a high
sensational tension.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 250w.
“He is chiefly intent on his story. That’s a thing full of dramatic
incidents and dramatic figures. If the hero and heroine are less
effective than the others, that is one of the proved penalties of the
dignity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 600w.
“The young novelist knows the men he writes of, and he knows, also,
the place in which he has located them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 600w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 501. Je. 30, ’06. 190w.
“It is distinctly a man’s book, just as the north was a man’s
country.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 210w.
=Beach, Seth Curtis.= Daughters of the Puritans. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.
“No one can read these lives without being renewed in spirit, and for
young women we know of no works so instinct with spiritual virility or
so potential for good as the ‘Daughters of the Puritans.’”
+ =Arena.= 35: 221. F. ’06. 390w.
“A collection of brief biographical sketches, characterized by a real
interest of subject-matter and a pleasantly unconventional manner of
treatment.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 250w.
“The author has used pretty faithfully all printed matter relating to
his subject; but there is absolutely no evidence of that added
exploration of manuscript material which is now demanded by the
thoughtful reader.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 940w.
“The author’s style and treatment are sufficiently fresh and original
to justify publication.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
=Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli.= Lord George Bentinck: a political
biography; new ed; with introd. by Charles Whibley. **$2. Dutton.
“It seemed timely, amid the great free-trade electoral campaign just
closed across the water to bring out on behalf of the losing side a
new edition of Disraeli’s political biography.... It opens on the eve
of the repeal of the Corn laws, of which it gives the Tory view.
Bentinck forestalled Chamberlain in thinking that England’s commercial
policy should be not free trade but reciprocity.” (Nation.) Mr.
Whibley in his introduction “leads thru unsparing denunciation of
Cobden and Peel up to a parallel between the leader of the
Protectionists in 1846 and the leader of the Protectionists to-day.
Thus it trenches so closely upon present politics that we, being
non-political must leave Mr. Whibley’s opinions to speak for
themselves.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“An eloquent, not to say vehement, introduction. Frankly partisan in
tone.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 610. N. 4. 150w.
“Mr Whibley has certainly managed to compress into a few pages an
exhibition of a lack of political judgment and foresight, along with a
degree of supercilious cocksureness which will not conduce to
recommend his work to the reading public.”
– + =Ind.= 60: 804. Ap. 5, ’06. 450w.
“Mr. Whibley has written as if he had lost at once his temper and his
sense of historical perspective.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 4: 348. O. 20, ’05. 1100w.
=Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 190w.
“From the historical standpoint, too, there is ample room for
criticism. The sweeping statements common to campaign documents
abound.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 210w.
“Disraeli sums up the character and career of Peel with an
impartiality and a penetration that make this biography an English
classic. It is the only instance we know of contemporary history being
written with a due sense of perspective. But Mr. Whibley is more than
sympathetic: he is discerning.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 617. N. 11, ’05. 1330w.
=Bearne, Catherine M.= A queen of Napoleon’s court. **$2.50. Dutton.
A sketch of Désirée Bernadotte whose interest centers in “the picture
it gives of her times rather than of her life, for she seems to have
been an exceptionally dull product of a brilliant age.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Miss Bearne has put together a book which will appeal to the reader
who is not particular in the matter of strict accuracy.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1342. D. 23, ’05. 200w.
“No more interesting book of gossip about famous and infamous people
has appeared in recent years.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1044. My. 3, ’06. 460w.
“A book that has caught something of the glamour of that extraordinary
age. Mrs. Bearne is not always correct, she repeats herself, she will
drag in a fine tale, gallantly regardless of any right it has to be
there; but she is pleasant gossip, full of mirth and entertainment.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 62. F. 23, ’06. 1390w.
“It will please a class of readers unacquainted with Bourrienne and
Madame Lenormand, indifferent as to criticism and judgment, unskilled
in matters of grammar and rhetoric, intent merely on promiscuous
anecdote and cheap sentiment.”
– + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 160w.
“Out of these persons and adventures the author has made a readable
volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 630. N. 11, ’05. 130w.
“Mrs. Bearne’s amusing book gives a capital picture of Napoleon’s
France.”
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 121. Ja. 27. ’06. 380w.
=Bearne, Rev. David.= Charlie Chittywick. 85c. Benziger.
The tale of a resolute little lad who battled against a whole family
of idle, shiftless, worthless members, and step by step becomes a
self-respecting bread-winner.
=Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John.= Works. Cambridge English
classics; text ed. by Arnold Glover. 10v. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.
An edition of Beaumont and Fletcher in the series of “Cambridge
English classics.” It gives the text of the second folio, which
contained the thirty-four plays of the first folio with the addition
of the wild-goose chase and all other known plays of the authors
published previously to 1679. All the variant readings appear in the
appendix, but there is no critical apparatus provided.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 69: 1169. N. 11, ’05. 1380w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Acad.= 70: 376. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Ath.= 1906. 2: 250. S. 1, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“Does not seem to us to possess any advantage over the Variorum
edition ... except that of greater cheapness.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 344. Ap. 26, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 809. N. 25, ’05. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Within its restricted limits it seems to be well done. But it is not
the twentieth century edition of Beaumont and Fletcher which is wanted
by all students of the history of the English drama.” Brander
Matthews.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The text ... is that of the second folio ... which causes us both
wonder and regret.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work has been executed with scrupulous care, but the result is
far from satisfactory.”
– + =Spec.= 96: 260. F. 17, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John.= Works. Variorum ed.; ed. by A.
H. Bullen. 12v. ea. *$3.50. Macmillan.
Mr Bullen’s variorum edition of Beaumont and Fletcher was some years
ago announced to “include all that was of importance in the work of
previous editors, together with such further critical matter as the
investigations of the past half-century supplied, and also a fuller
record of the variant readings of early texts.... It follows in the
main the lines laid down by Dyce, and offers an excellent reading
text, while much learning is accumulated in the notes; textually,
however, it is hardly what the modern philological scholar will regard
as altogether satisfactory.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Where all the old editions are unanimous in one reading, but that
reading is to modern editors inexplicable, the Variorum edition does
not hesitate to change it.”
– =Acad.= 70: 376. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Ath.= 1906. 2: 250. S. 1, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The most striking of its deficiences is that it appears in what the
general editor terms ‘modern spelling.’” Brander Matthews.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 430w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“There is no astonishing amount of erudition displayed in the very
concise introductions.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ – =Spec.= 96: 260. F. 17, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Beavan, Arthur H.= Fishes I have known. $1.25. Wessels.
The author’s many and varied experiences in landing strange fishes in
out-of-the-way abodes are given instructively enough for cyclopedia
information and entertainingly enough to captivate the most
indifferent angler. “Dolphins, turtles, pilot-fish—very seldom caught
it seems—the Australian barracouta, the Murray cod, the catfish and
other antipodean fishes, have been among his prey.... After
experiences in faraway waters he comes back to England, and always an
entertaining guide, conducts us to more familiar scenes.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 40: 302. My. 1, ’06. 140w.
“A pleasant non-technical little volume upon fishing in general and
particular—from the British standpoint.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 320w.
“It is a book which any intelligent reader might presumably enjoy if
he enjoys animate life, travel and adventure of any kind; but we
imagine the average ten year-old boy would read it with keener
interest and more profit than the angler.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 269. Mr. 29, ’06. 160w.
+ =Spec.= 85: 764. N. 11, ’05. 180w.
=Beck, (Carl) Richard.= Nature of ore deposits; tr. and rev. by Walter
Harvey Weed; with 272 figures and a map. 2v. $8. Engineering and mining
journal.
The work “has that temper which has marked the Freiberg work for a
century, and which took shape in the like work of his predecessor, Von
Cotta, and the many successive scholars of that school.... The aim of
the treatise is to give a compendium of what is known as to the origin
and distribution of all those deposits which afford important metallic
elements, with a measure of attention to each in some proportion to
its economical importance, and by the means of a systematic
classification of the occurrences.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Coming to the matter of this work, it may summarily be said that
within its limits it is almost beyond praise. What is essential of all
the important metalliferous ore deposits of the world is briefly, yet
clearly, set forth, and this with a surprising evenness of
presentation. The present writer knows of no other treatise dealing
with as varied and wide-ranging features which approaches it in its
accuracy and sufficiency. The work of the translator in his
emendations as well as his renderings from the German is generally
excellent.” N. S. Shaler.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 55: 191. F. 15, ’06. 2120w.
“The subject of ore deposits is treated in an exhaustive way.” E. W.
S.
+ + =J. Geol.= 14: 659. O. ’06. 160w.
=Becke, (George) Louis.= Adventures of a supercargo. †$1.50. Lippincott.
“Given a setting which includes a man or two, a ship and a stretch of
the Pacific, Mr. Louis Becke may be relied upon to reel off yarns of
adventure to any extent.... The young hero is caught by a ‘southerly
buster’ while sailing in Sydney harbour, and driven out between the
towering ironbound Heads which guard the entrance to that famous
haven, we settle down with confidence to the perusal of a string of
adventures in which no break is likely to occur.... A [story] that
should find much favour among boy readers.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The opening part of the present book inclines to dullness. The critic
may quarrel with such books for their lack of any artistic scheme of
construction, and upon many other grounds. But it is a fact that the
adventures do not halt.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 300w.
“To enjoy the book to the full one should not be more than seventeen.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 133. Ap. 12, ’06. 400w.
“We imagine that ‘The adventures of a supercargo,’ although
disappointing from the viewpoint of Mr Becke’s old admirers, will
prove an enjoyable book to boys and those fond of taking their travels
in such fictional form.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 304. My. 12, ’06. 610w.
=Bedford, Randolph.= Snare of strength. †$1.50 Turner, H. B.
A tale of Australia which “shows intimate acquaintance with Australian
miners, politicians, company promoters, and prodigal sons.” (Ath.) The
atmosphere of vitality, of invincible youth greedy of life and domain
is fairly heroic. Three young men “run their race with extraordinary
vigor and leave the reader breathless, as was the way of the early
Australian novels of the bushranging days. Modern worship of athletics
has resuscitated the old type of wild rider and bold lover, but he has
the modern touch of self-consciousness and knows himself for the man
he is.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“But because there are signs of power in Mr. Bedford’s book, we would
beg him not to squander his language as Ned the prodigal squandered
his life.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1155. N. 4, ’05. 340w.
“In the matter of style he sometimes errs through striving after force
of expression, but there are passages in the book that are admirably
written. Taken as a whole ‘The snare of strength’ is a remarkable
book.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 467. O. 7. 230w.
“If you can forget its shortcomings, you will find in it no small
measure of rugged human nature, and you will get some new and
interesting impressions of Australian life, physical, social and
political.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 117. O. ’06. 330w.
“No more man-book has appeared since Theodore Roberts gave us ‘Hemming
the adventurer’ in ’94.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 153. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
“Is in its very being a book ‘worth while.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 460w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“While the book is defective in proportion and literary art in some
respects, the author has a genuine knowledge of human nature, and
often writes acutely and with a real grasp on his characters and their
motives.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.
+ – =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 130w.
=Beebe, C. William.= Bird: its form and function. **$3.50. Holt.
An untechnical study of the bird in the abstract, which, the author
believes, with an earnest nature-lover, should follow the handbook of
identification. Among the phases of physical life discussed are
features, framework, the skull, organs of nutrition, food, the breath
of a bird, muscles, senses, beaks, and bills, body, head and neck,
wings, feet and legs, tails and eggs of birds. The book is handsomely
made and copiously illustrated.
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to nature study, for it is both scientific
and popular.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“It is to the fascinating drama of the evolution of bird life that he
devotes most attention, and it is this feature of the book that will
probably be found the most interesting.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 120w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 761. D. ’06. 180w.
=Beebe, C. William.= Log of the sun: a chronicle of nature’s year; with
52 full-page il. by Walter King Stone; and numerous vignettes and
photographs from life. **$6. Holt.
Fifty-two short essays form the text of a chronicle which deals with
interesting forms of the twelve-months’ life including plant, fish,
insect and the neighbor in fur and feather. The sketches are direct
invitations to enjoy the wild beauties of out-of-door life, and the
illustrations fully second the call. The volume represents perfection
in book-making combining strength with artistic points of excellence.
* * * * *
“The most sumptuous nature book of the year. Anyone who absorbs this
book will become in his own person a fairly accomplished naturalist,
besides having a very good time in the process.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 387. D. 1, ’06. 420w.
“A most useful handbook.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 140w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“We find only one false note in the present volume, and this was sung
by a ‘bob-white’ in January.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 520. D. 13, ’06. 540w.
“His words should reach a larger audience than holiday buyers and
recipients.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 890. D. 8, ’06. 380w.
=Beebe, C. William.= Two bird-lovers in Mexico. **$3. Houghton.
“A simple, unforced and delightful narrative.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 149. F. 10, ’06. 290w.
“They have made one of the most delightful of nature-books.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 123. F. ’06. 120w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.
“Mexico is an attractive country, and the account of the profusion of
bird life, especially in the marshes of Chapala, is vividly written.
But the book is not a work of great literary merit.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 180w.
=Beecher, Henry Ward.= Life of Christ: without—within: two sermons. $1.
Harper.
Two of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s strongest and most inspiring
sermons. Christ’s life from without is sketched as it appeared to
pharisee and publican; from within, as the greatest moral force the
world has ever known.
=Beecher, Willis Judson.= Prophets and the promise. **$2. Crowell.
“The real strength and interest of Dr. Beecher’s book lie in the
second part, ‘The promise.’” Kemper Fullerton.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 154. Ag. ’06. 340w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 101. Jl. 12, ’06. 280w.
=Beet, Joseph Agar.= Last things. *$1.50. Eaton.
A reprint, carefully revised and partly rewritten work published in
1897. The principal topics discussed are “The second coming of
Christ,” and “The doom of the wicked.”
=Beethoven, Ludwig van.= Beethoven, the man and the artist, as revealed
in his own words; compiled and annotated by Friedrich Kerst; tr. into
Eng., and ed., with additional notes by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.
+ =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 110w.
+ =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.
“Of real value to the student of musical history.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 999. O. 25, ’06. 90w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 280w.
Reviewed by Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.
=Beldam, George W., and Fry, Charles B.= Great batsmen: their methods at
a glance. *$6.50. Macmillan.
“We think [its value] considerable from every point of view save the
pictorial.”
+ + – =Acad.= 71: 178. Ag. 25, ’06. 780w.
=Bell, Lilian Lida (Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Bogue).= Carolina Lee. †$1.50.
Page.
An ardent Southern girl brought up abroad refuses to be comforted when
her father dies. “How can you believe in a God who punishes you and
sends all manner of evil on you while calling himself a God of love”
expresses the burden of her distracted mind. She loses her fortune,
she falls from a horse and becomes a cripple. Life looks hard and
bitter. To her, in this state comes the healing truth of Christian
science with its deep revelations of the power that can bind up the
broken hearted, make whole and restore harmony.
=Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs Arthur Bell) (D’Anvers, pseud.).= Paolo
Veronese. $1.25. Warne.
=Outlook.= 83: 332. Je. 9, ’06. 250w.
=Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs. Arthur George Bell) (N. D’Anvers,
pseud.).= Picturesque Brittany; il. in col. by Arthur G. Bell. *$3.50.
Dutton.
The text and illustrations work out a unity of presentation
interesting from a descriptive, historical and artistic standpoint. It
is the record of a summer holiday in Brittany, and the observations
include scenery, people, their homes, customs and manners, with now
and then a dip into the religious and political aspects.
* * * * *
“We think [Mr. Bell’s drawings], indeed, better than those of any
other colour-book on Brittany that has yet been issued. Mrs. Bell
reveals in the arrangement and proportion of her book the skill of a
practised writer, if in the loose style we are sometimes allowed to
see the author almost ‘en déshabille.’”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 636. My. 26. 400w.
“To journey through this romantic region with such accomplished guides
is indeed a privilege.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 244. O. 16, ’06. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 120w.
“The text is agreeably written, and the pictures ... are sober,
truthful, and sufficiently able, and are without any of those
extravagances of color that have grown, of late, somewhat too
familiar.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 425. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 420w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 110w.
=Bell, Ralcy Husted.= Words of the woods. **$1. Small.
Verse, “ranging from patriotic addresses to our country, through
appreciation of nature in many moods, and eulogiums of friends, to
impassioned love-songs.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Conventional verse of a rather commonplace kind, devoid of anything
like originality and not noticeably felicitous in diction.” Wm. M.
Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.
“An impression is left upon the mind that prudent pruning would have
made the volume smaller and saved the reader from occasional
commonplaces both in thought and phrase.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 70w.
=Benn, Alfred William.= History of English rationalism in the nineteenth
century. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
Mr. Benn’s book “includes intelligent summaries of the various systems
of philosophy which have influenced English thought, and gives much
detailed consideration to the influence of Coleridge and the
neo-Platonists, to utilitarianism, and Benthamism, to the Oxford
movement, and to all literary work of distinction which has influenced
the spread of rationalism or tended to curb its spread.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“His book strikes us as neither amusing nor particularly instructive.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 268. S. 8. 440w.
“It is a singularly interesting and well written account of the
movement of theological (and, to some extent, of philosophical)
thought in England during the last century. The fulness and accuracy
of Mr. Benn’s information regarding the books and writers whom he
passes in review makes his survey instructive and suggestive even to
those who dissent from the barren negativity of his conclusions.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 198. Je. 1, ’06. 2820w.
“The discussion is necessarily far less simple than Sir Leslie
Stephen’s account of the eighteenth century, and its dramatic unity
correspondingly weaker; but it has a richness and variety that are not
without their compensating interest.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 2230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 660w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 301. S. 8, ’06. 1800w.
=Bennett, John.= Treasure of Peyre Gaillard. †$1.50. Century.
While Jack Gignillatt, a young civil engineering student is
recuperating among his Southern relatives, an old box is found at the
end of a secret stairway which contains the legend of treasure buried
in an adjoining swamp by an ancestor in the Revolutionary days at the
time of a Tory raid. Jack’s nimble mathematical wit, aided by a
cousin’s intuition, is put to the test of unravelling a cryptogram’s
secret, which when once revealed starts an excited group on its way to
the sure unearthing of a fortune.
* * * * *
“A remarkable ingenious and vigorous yarn of mystery.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 420w.
“The manner of the book is unconventional, and its combination of
poetic imagination with rugged, somewhat broken style gives it a
peculiar charm. The author’s one love scene, although it is told with
poetic beauty and elevation of feeling, is a serious fault in
construction, because in it he makes the sole departure from the first
person in which the rest of the book is written.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 863. D. 8, ’06. 440w.
“Will certainly hold a high place among tales of modern
treasure-trove.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher (T. B. pseud.).= From a college window.
**$1.25. Putnam.
Eighteen essays whose subjects “are exceedingly diverse and unless
they can all be brought under the heading, ‘criticism of life,’ there
is no real bond of connexion amongst them.” (Ath.) The author writes
upon religion, education, and literary subjects.
* * * * *
“He is always suggestive, and writes in a style that must commend
itself to every lover of letters.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 445. My. 12, ’06. 1550w.
“We find an ease and withal a grace, in these essays that charm out of
the reader his sense of the pettiness of their reflections.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 420w.
+ + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 260w.
Reviewed by C. H. A. Wager.
+ =Dial.= 41: 33. Jl. 16, ’06. 770w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 157. Jl. 19, ’06. 320w.
=Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“After reading ‘From a college window,’ it is still possible to hold
that ‘T. B.’ is a more engaging and even a more ‘convincing’ person
than Mr. Arthur Christopher Benson.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 393. Je. 16, ’06. 1570w.
“There is nothing musty about these essays. They are characterized by
good sense, clear discrimination, and sane judgment, but they were
written with scholarly ease, and they are invested with the atmosphere
of well-bred leisure.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.
“The interesting and attractive personality of the author stands out
from the discussions, which are clothed in the best of modern essay
style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 90w.
“The chief fault one finds in these agreeable papers is here and there
a touch of sentimentalism.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 21. Jl. 7, ’06. 260w.
=Spec.= 96: 741. My. 12, ’06. 1360w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.).= Peace and other
poems. *$1.50. Lane.
=Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Benson does not seek verbal felicities, and he has few lines that
stand out from the rest, but all his writing is at a high level of
thought and style. Sincerity and simplicity are too rare endowments at
any time for us to pass them by lightly.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 192. Ag. 5, ’06. 130w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr and T. B., pseuds.).=
Upton letters. **$1.25. Putnam.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 716. N. 24, ’06. 550w.
=Benson, Arthur Christopher (T. B. pseud.).= Walter Pater. **75c.
Macmillan.
A life of Walter Pater written for the “English men of letters”
series. The biography “is arranged chronologically in seven chapters;
each chapter stands as a complete story either of events or of mental
development. Pater’s early and long-forgotten writings are recalled,
the raison d’etre of his Oxford life is clearly defined, the
authorship of ‘Marius the Epicurean’ is analyzed with much care, and,
finally, the fifty-odd pages devoted to ‘Personal characteristics’ are
an achievement in graphic and intimate personalia which will doubtless
be generously cited by reviewers of the book.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The life of Pater could not have fallen into safer, kindlier, or more
sympathetic keeping than that of Mr. Arthur Benson.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 659. Je. 2. 1700w.
“The biographer has entered so thoroughly into the spirit of his work
that he writes of Pater with almost Pater’s own felicity.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 206. S. ’06. 860w.
“On the whole, however, the book is to be counted among the best of
this excellent series.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 119. S. 1, ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Benson writes with the most scrupulous self-effacement.
Throughout, he walks warily, reverently, seriously, decorously, and
his admiration is so constant that in one or two passages, as in the
opening pages and the last chapter of the book, he falls somewhat into
the manner of the master. Pater has been given into uncommonly
sympathetic hands.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 102. Jl. ’06. 1000w.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1543. Je. 28, ’06. 490w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 869. Je. 9, ’06. 1220w.
“It does not perhaps dig very deeply into Pater’s curious mind, and it
has certain definite limitations; but it is a living sketch, vivid,
tender, engaging, taken from a particular point of view, and touched
off with real grace and ease.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 190. My. 25, ’06. 1220w.
“It is quite an ideal biography.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 14. Jl. 5, ’06. 1530w.
“His book is readable. He has marshaled his facts and given them to us
in an interesting style.” James Huneker
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 349. Je. 2, ’06. 3420w.
“Is, so far, the best expression of the life and mission of that
Oxford dilettante in Roman English art and letters that we have.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Benson, with extraordinary skill, has caught the butterfly, and
yet produced the impression upon our minds that it is still free and
alive, still floating in the air that gave it being.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 460w.
“This little volume is the best summary of Pater’s life and work we
have yet seen.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 50w.
“With a fine and delicate reserve he refuses to do more than to
suggest how and in what spirit we should approach so lovable, so
reticent, so shy a man. Just this, so it seems to us, is the chief
value of his work.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 146. Ag. 4, ’06. 1220w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Angel of pain. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The hero of this new tale by the author of “Dodo” is a fine young
Englishman, inheriting wealth and strength, but “a man with an iron
hand who did not always remember to put on the velvet glove.” He
proceeds in much too business-like a manner with his courtship, but is
accepted by Madge Ellington chiefly through her ambitious mother’s
persuasion. On the eve of the marriage, Madge finds that she loves a
poor painter, and so begins a series of tragic happenings which lend
hurried action to the story. There is a character worthy a
Maeterlinck, Tom Merivale, who can give and receive messages from bird
and beast.
* * * * *
+ – =Acad.= 70: 381. Ap. 21, ’06. 560w.
“We have no patience with the chapters in which the hermit appears.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 445. Ap. 14. 290w.
“The book is full of clever satire, trenchant analysis and a certain
underlying vein of symbolism that is full of suggestion, but it lacks
heart. There is not quite enough human nature in it, of the better
sort, to make the characters convincing.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 31. Mr. ’06. 370w.
“Mr Benson has gained much in solidity; he can no longer be called
merely clever. But he has lost in vitality.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 483. My. ’06. 190w.
“He has simply spoiled a story of genuine human interest by a reckless
indulgence in sensational imaginings.” Wm. M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 220w.
“Is a good story and is something more.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 458. F. 22, ’06. 350w.
“Leaves us with the impression that, for all its laboured length and
solid paragraphs, the book is the result of incomplete imagination and
undigested thought.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 480w.
“The book is undeniably a little disappointing at first, because
somewhat lacking in the amusing qualities which we have learned to
expect from its author but it grows upon one as the characters slowly
develop and the theme is worked out through the medium of their
lives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 117. F. 24, ’06. 600w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.
“A singular mingling of the attractive and the disappointing. It is in
its plot and situations distressing, but in its pictures of English
society it is extremely interesting, and there are several characters
worth knowing and rather carefully worked out.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
“It is unusual, and well executed in a way but it is decidedly not a
cheerful tale.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 260w.
“Mr Benson would do well to shun the supernatural: it does not suit
his style.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 529. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.
=Benson, Edward Frederic.= Paul. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Paul Norris and Norah Ravenscroft who had played together since
childhood find that they love each other after Norah marries Theodore
Beckwith, a mean-spirited shrivelled up specimen of mankind. Paul
becomes Beckwith’s private secretary and incidentally is compelled to
be a modern type of court fool, tho sacrificing none of his dignity
and courage in playing an entertainer’s rôle to amuse a pagan,
sensuous nature. Paul’s hatred for the man tempts him to run him down
with a motor car, he repents at the last moment but too late to avert
the tragedy. The second part of the story shows Paul’s remorse which
would drown itself in drink, his conversion, his marriage with Norah,
and his final reparation to a “calm, un-angry, inevitable justice” by
saving the child of Theodore and Norah from certain death.
* * * * *
“An unpleasant laboured story.”
– =Acad.= 71: 398. O. 20, ’06. 150w.
“We are disposed to rank this novel as Mr. Benson’s best work
accomplished since the public ear was captured by the specious
cleverness of ‘Dodo.’”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 543. N. 3. 280w.
“The writing is hardly less slovenly and involved than usual, and, as
usual, the minor characters are delightful.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 353. O. 19, ’06. 290w.
“The villain is too villainous to be true, and the hero too amiable to
engage sympathy; the heroine is simply a nice girl in an awkward
position.”
– =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 360w.
“It would be a safe prediction that the people who have liked Mr.
Benson’s other books will like this new one even better.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“There is just a tinge here of that diabolism toward which Mr. Benson
seems to have a bent.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 120w.
“Mr. Benson is a writer who never quite gets the effect at which he
seems to be aiming. The book would be twice as interesting if it were
half as long.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
=Benson, Godfrey R.= Tracks in the snow: being the history of a crime;
ed. from the Ms. of the Rev. Robert Driver. †$1.50. Longmans.
The rector of an English country parish has recorded the story of the
mysterious murder of his friend and neighbor, Eustace Peters and the
unravelling of the mystery to which certain tracks of heavy boots
found in the snow furnish the chief clue. It is from this manuscript
that the present thrilling detective story with its mazes of
suspicions, its strange adventures and narrow escapes is supposed to
have been edited.
* * * * *
“We do not remember reading such a clever murder story since Grant
Allen’s ‘The curate of Churnside.’”
+ =Acad.= 70: 429. My. 5, ’06. 440w.
“The book, in short, shows considerable crudeness, but also an
imaginative faculty by no means contemptible.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 371. Je. 9, ’06. 240w.
“It is the history of a crime set forth with much artistic literary
ability.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“A good detective story of a somewhat novel kind. The book is really
interesting.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 698. Je. 2, ’06. 220w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= King’s achievement. $1.50. Herder.
A piece of controversial fiction which portrays Elizabethan times and
doings, and which specifically deals with the suppression of the
monasteries and the proclamation of the Royal supremacy in religious
affairs. “Father Benson frankly takes sides.... The good is all on the
side of the monasteries, the bad on the side of Henry and Cromwell and
their creatures.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“An exceptionally good historical novel, as such things go. It is a
clever, a thorough, and a powerful work; but, in our opinion, it was a
mistake to write it.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1080. O. 14, ’05. 340w.
“The story, which is long, is mainly used as a vehicle for expressing
the author’s decided views upon the religious and political matters of
the day, and is rather overweighted by the historical detail which
obtrudes itself too persistently in the foreground.”
– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 170w.
“The work does not, on the whole, show as much careful elaboration as
its predecessor [‘By what authority?’]. In compensation, however, the
story has more unity and proportion, chiefly because there are fewer
characters to claim the attention.”
+ – =Cath. World.= 82: 848. Mr. ’06. 460w.
“He draws his characters with ease and sympathy, but not with that
intensity of insight which creates a type and yet gives it the force
of an individual. But they are not complete and striking human beings;
and this is the flaw in what is a really beautiful and sensitive piece
of work.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 359. O. 27, ’05. 500w.
“We gladly recommend the book not only as a romance but also as
history, inasmuch as it gives a far more truthful picture of the great
sacrilege of the sixteenth century than most of the (so-called)
histories of the period.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 240w.
=Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh.= Queen’s tragedy. $1.50. Herder.
The court setting is a prominent feature of Father Benson’s portrayal
of Queen Mary, against which background he outlines her as “human and
a woman.... First love, a passion for Philip of Spain in the breast of
a woman of thirty-seven, is tragedy in suspense from its commencement,
and the novelist makes her foolish heart flutter before us till we
need the annalist to reduce the temperature of our pity.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Whatever else may be thought of Father Benson’s latest historical
novel, no one will fail to find it fresh, suggestive and interesting.”
J. H. Pollen.
+ – =Acad.= 71: 63. Jl. 21, ’06. 1090w.
“The writing at the end of the book is fine and grandiose.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 37. Jl. 14. 310w.
“Though it is a creditable piece of work is scarcely on a level with
either ‘By what authority?’, or ‘The king’s achievement.’”
+ – =Cath. World.= 84: 270. N. ’06. 360w.
“It is first and foremost an engaging book. The author has what is
called ‘a way with him’ ... his humour is fresh ... then, too, though
the style is firm and good, it is all so easy, so limpid, so light.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 259. Jl. 20, ’06. 790w.
“Two historic scenes are depicted with great power, the marriage of
Mary and Philip at Winchester, and the burnings of Ridley and Latimer
at Oxford.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 433. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
=Benton, Joel.= Persons and places. $1. Broadway pub.
“Mr. Joel Benton came into casual contact with many people we want to
know about—Emerson, Thoreau, Matthew Arnold, Horace Greeley, Barnum
and Bryant—and he chats about them in a pleasant way, tho without
contributing anything very novel or important to our knowledge of
these men.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Writing largely of things a part of which he was and nearly all of
which he saw, Mr. Benton can by no means be accused of producing
merely the echo of an echo.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1113. N. 9, ’05. 90w.
“Most of the papers are not of serious importance.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 310w.
=Benziger, Marie Agnes.= Off to Jerusalem. *$1. Benziger.
A happy account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem during which the narrator
gained “many graces, deep and holy impressions, and an enthusiastic
love for the Holy land.”
=Berard, (Eugene) Victor.= British imperialism and commercial supremacy;
tr. by H. W. Foskett; with a pref. to the Eng. ed. by the author.
*$2.60. Longmans.
Mr. Foskett says: “At the present time, the antagonistic opinions of
free trade on the one hand, and the protection, fair trade, preference
to the colonies on the other, are shaking to its very foundations the
economic structure on which commercial Great Britain has rested and
flourished undisturbed for the past fifty years. Under the
circumstances the comprehensive survey made by M. Victor Bérard of the
commercial and industrial situation of Great Britain among the leading
communities of the day must undoubtedly appeal to the intelligence of
all thinking Britons.” The translator’s aim is to emphasize the
necessity for a thoro application of modern scientific methods.
* * * * *
“The analysis of the book is keen, its style lively, and it is
interesting reading.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 173. Jl. ’06. 140w.
“On the whole, the translation is meritorious, and pains have been
bestowed upon the book.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 228. F. 24. 880w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 522. O. ’06. 160w.
“The figures are now so far out of date that an appendix bringing them
down to within the year—if it be impossible to recast the text—is
necessary. The translation is excellent.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 1410w.
“Suggestive and entertaining.” Alvin S. Johnson.
+ =Pol. Sci.= Q. 21: 718. D. ’06. 420w.
“M. Berard is at best an able journalist juggling with second-hand
knowledge and snippets from Blue-books and consular reports.
Seriously, M. Berard’s English friends ought to have revised this
undoubtedly interesting volume before it was allowed to appear before
the English public.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 1860w.
“M. Bérard is a charming writer, but of English politics, of the
English temperament, of Imperialism, of the personnel of English
government, his conception is wholly farcical. The English version, in
our opinion, might have been better done, for it is full of misprints,
and many of the phrases are awkwardly rendered.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 536. Ap. 7, ’06. 1240w.
=Bergamo, Rev. Cajetan Mary da.= Thoughts and affections on the passion
of Jesus Christ for every day of the year taken from the Holy Scriptures
and the writings of the fathers of the church; new tr. by the Passionist
fathers of the U. S. *$2. Benziger.
“The principal object of this new translation is to rescue from
oblivion a valuable work for many years out of print.”
=Bernheimer, Charles Seligman=, ed. Russian Jew in the United States:
studies of social conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, with
a description of rural settlements. **$2. Winston.
“All are written out of a wealth of precise information and, though
deeply sympathetic, exhibit a perfectly sane and fair minded spirit.”
Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 259. Ap. 16, ’06. 340w.
“The book could still be rescued for the mass of American people who
ought to read it, by careful editing, by the elimination of one third
of its material, which is useless repetition, and by giving it that
typographical dress in which the average reader expects a book of such
popular value to appear.” Edward A. Steiner.
+ – =Yale R.= 15: 106. My. ’06. 440w.
=Bernstein, Hermann.= Contrite hearts. †$1.25. Wessels.
“In its pictures of facts and conditions the book is entirely
convincing, but as a story is not signally impressive.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.
“The story has a curious interest, as an interpretation, from the
inside, of a theory of life utterly foreign to the average reader’s
ideas.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 140w.
“Is a simple, affecting tale of Russian-Jewish life.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 230w.
=Bertin, L. E.= Marine boilers: their construction and working, dealing
more especially with tubulous boilers; tr. and ed. by Leslie S.
Robertson, with a new chapter on “Liquid fuel” by Engineer-Lieutenant H.
C. Anstey and a preface by Sir William White. *$5. Van Nostrand.
A second edition of this work by a Frenchman appears with such
revision and extension as the strides in marine practice, make
necessary. The editor says that “progress has been rather in the
direction of concentrating practice, along well acknowledged lines,
than by the introduction of any noticeable departure in the design of
boilers. Considerable development has taken place in the application
of steam turbines to marine propulsion, but it has not called for any
change in the types of boilers already in use.” A notable addition to
the volume is a chapter on “Liquid Fuel.”
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 218. Ag. 25. 620w.
“On the whole, the book is to be commended as the most satisfactory
treatise on water tube boilers from the historical and constructive
standpoint of which the reviewer has knowledge.” Wm. Kent.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 56: 51. Jl. 12, ’06. 700w.
=Besant, Walter.= Mediaeval London, v. 1. Historical and social. *$7.50.
Macmillan.
This division of the posthumous work of Walter Besant on “The survey
of London” will be complete in two volumes. “Mediaeval London,
historical and social” to be followed by “Mediaeval London,
ecclesiastical.” “The first volume discusses the history of the city
in relation to our kings, whose dealings with the capital are
succinctly recorded. The social condition of the town is also
exhibited in its many and varied phases.” (Ath.) “The numerous and
excellent illustrations are not the least attractive feature of the
book. Many are taken from manuscripts in the British museum and
elsewhere.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The great charm of these volumes is the individuality of the writer.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 65. Jl. 21. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His notes are exceedingly valuable, and no future historical novelist
of London will, we imagine, ever pass them by.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 233. Je. 29, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Parts of the whole volumes are suggestive rather of a collection of
materials than of the production of a literary artist.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 101. Ag. 2, ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Sat. R.= 102: 424. O. 6, ’06. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is impossible here to do justice to the ability with which this
picture of the past is drawn. Sir Walter left out nothing that could
help us to realize the vigour of the great city, its pride of
patriotism, its wealth, its far-reaching commerce. His name will be
linked with it in such a fashion as we can hardly find paralleled in
the history of the world’s capitals.”
+ + + =Spec.= 97: 541. O. 13, ’06. 1320w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Betts, Ethel Franklin.= Favorite nursery rhymes. †$1.50. Stokes.
Some of the oldest and the best nursery rhymes are grouped here and
charmingly illustrated in black and white with six full-page colored
plates.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 90w.
Bible for young people: arranged from the King James version; with
twenty-four full page il. from old masters. $1.50. Century.
A need of the day is supplied in this volume of Bible stories which is
a new and revised edition of a book originally issued at double the
price. In making the text interesting to young readers, genealogies,
doctrines and the hard-to-understand passages have been omitted. The
illustrations are fine reproductions of the work of old masters.
* * * * *
“The present edition is in more popular form than when it first
appeared.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 31, ’06. 30w.
“The compiler has shown discrimination and taste in her selection of
material. While primarily appealing to young people, this admirable
compilation will interest grown readers as well.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 190w.
Bible—Proverbs; tr. out of the original Hebrew and with former
translations diligently compared and revised. $1. Century.
This little volume uniform with the “Thumb nail series” contains for
introduction a chapter on “The proverbs of the Hebrews” from Dr. Lyman
Abbott’s “The life and literature of the ancient Hebrews.”
Bible. Book of Ecclesiastes: a new metrical translation, with an
introduction and explanatory notes by Paul Haupt. 50c. Hopkins.
“The translation here presented is a good one—accurate, fresh,
suggestive, and rhymical. The conclusions embodied in this work ...
seem to rest upon too uncertain and subjective grounds.” Ira Maurice
Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 323. Ap. ’06. 190w.
=Bielschowsky, Albert.= Life of Goethe; authorized tr. from the German
by W: A. Cooper. 3v. ea. **$3.50. Putnam, v. 1, ready.
A three-volume life of Goethe, with full critical estimates, designed
for the student rather than for the general reader. The author devoted
a life-time to the work and based it upon material made accessible by
the opening of the Goethe archives and by recent philological
investigation. The first volume covers the period from 1749–1788,—from
Goethe’s birth to his return from Italy.
* * * * *
“Mr. Cooper approves himself a competent German scholar, and a writer
of sound English as well. His rendering is now and then a trifle
loose.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 321. Mr. 17. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Critic.= 48: 364. Ap. ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Bielschowsky’s book, by reason of its fuller and more accurate
information will now take the place in our libraries that Mr. Lewes’s
held so long. Professor Cooper’s translation is, in general, a very
satisfactory piece of work. The language is usually well-chosen, and
renders the thought, and in some degree the style, of the original.”
Lewis A. Rhoades.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 85. F. 1, ’06. 1840w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is remarkable for the impartiality with which, as a general thing, it
keeps the balance between literature and scholarship.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Bielschowsky has brought to his task the two indispensable
requisites: on the one hand, familiarity with the details of Goethe
research, a world of scholarship by itself; on the other hand, the
ability to think and feel and enjoy independently and to write with
clearness and charm.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 430. My. 24, ’06. 2250w.
“Two things seem defective in this volume: Bielschowsky has been no
more successful than his predecessors in getting at the details
incident to Goethe’s administration of public office at Weimar, and
less even than others has he appreciated the dramatic significance of
Goethe’s first touch with Schiller when Goethe visited the military
school in Würtemberg, which he disposes of in two lines.” J. Perry
Worden.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 136. Mr. 3, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is probably the most complete and authoritative life of Goethe.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The story of the years covered by this installment—1749 to 1788—is
told clearly enough, but with all his study, all his industry, all his
admiration of Goethe’s genius Bielschowsky has not written a great
biography.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 640. Ap. 28, ’06. 2040w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Biese, Alfred.= Development of the feeling for nature in the middle
ages and modern times. *$2. Dutton.
“It has been the author’s endeavor to trace in this volume the
development of human thought in regard to the phenomena of nature from
the introduction of Christianity downwards, in the same way that was
done in a previous volume for the time of the Greeks and Romans. This
has been done mainly by the study of writings, both in prose and
poetry, in which natural phenomena, whether connected with scenery,
weather, birds, or flowers, are spoken of with admiration.” (Nature.)
“Ample quotations, pertinent notes, and a good index give point to
Herr Biese’s discussions.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The vague and unsatisfactory impression left by his generalizations
is, no doubt, due in some degree to his style, though for this the
translator may be to blame. On the whole, however, the translation is
workmanlike.” C: H. A. Wager.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 235. O. 16, ’06. 1850w.
+ =Nature.= 74: 293. Jl. 26, ’06. 450w.
+ =Outlook= 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“Useful and comprehensive handbook.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 505. O. 7, ’05. 210w.
=Bigelow, Melville Madison, and others.= Centralization and the law;
scientific legal education, an illustration, with an introd. by Melville
M. Bigelow. **$1.50. Little.
Eight lectures delivered before the Boston university law school “on
various recent occasions ... as part of the plan of legal extension
now on foot there.” “The main lines of thought centre around the ideas
(1) of Equality which according to the author, was formerly the
dominant legal force in American life; (2) of Inequality, which is
characteristic of present conditions; and (3) of Administration, which
is the supreme end of legal, and, in fact, of all education intended
to fit men for the practical affairs of life. Specifically, the more
important subjects discussed are the extension of legal education, the
nature of law, monopoly, the scientific aspects of law, and government
regulation of railway rates.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 130w.
“The economic philosophy underlying these essays is of a somewhat
conventional, if not dangerously superficial order.”
+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 329. My. ’06. 1080w.
“The book is one that can be recommended to the general reader as well
as to the lawyer and the law student. The historical presentation is
excellent, and the citation of modern cases gives to the conclusions
an immediate interest which either presentation by itself would not
possess.” Worthington C. Ford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 48. Ja. 27, ’06. 1880w.
“As an exposition of law regarded as a progressive science,
‘Centralization and law’ is a valuable contribution to real progress,
and in a department where that contribution is greatly needed.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 478. Je. 23, ’06. 600w.
=Bigelow, Poultney.= History of the German struggle for liberty, v. 4.
**$2.25. Harper.
“In the details of book-construction the volume is unusually faulty. A
large proportion of the text, probably a third, consists of quotations
worked in with so little skill that the volume suggests the note-book
rather than the finished production. The worst feature of the book,
however, is its unfortunate tone.” Frank Maloy Anderson.
– – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 711. Ap. ’06. 490w. (Review of v. 4.)
“It contains the same slap-dash miscellaneous kind of matter as do its
three predecessors, and does not deserve, any more than they, to be
ranked as history according to any established canon, nor as
literature if grace of style and a clear thread of consecutive
narrative are to be regarded as necessary.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The tone of the work is throughout journalistic, often hysterical;
but some later writer will doubtless find in this mass of material
abundant matter for a single volume that will clearly and logically
present the subject without sacrificing what has evidently been Mr.
Bigelow’s paramount aim—the readableness and popular character of the
narrative.”
– + =Dial.= 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Occurrences are treated rather in accordance with their
picturesqueness or with the degree of attention which they excited at
the time than with their permanent significance.”
+ – – =Nation.= 82: 301. Ap. 12, ’06. 460w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Bigg, Charles.= Church’s task under the Roman empire. *$1.75. Oxford.
“They are delightful reading, fresh and breezy in their manner, with
an ease of handling the material that speaks of long familiarity. The
footnotes add very much both to the size of the book and to its
value.” Franklin Johnson.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 337. Ap. ’06. 630w.
=Bigham, Madge A.= Blackie, his friends and his enemies: a book of old
fables in new dresses; il. by Clara E. Atwood. †$1.50. Little.
Thirty-five stories made new with the furbishing suggested by the
“Story lady’s” imagination are told a little street boy by way of
compensation for his pet rat that died.
* * * * *
“An animal book which children will find very charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Alton of Somasco. †$1.50. Stokes.
“It is interesting to compare with Mr. Beach’s novel the somewhat
similar ‘Alton of Somasco.’ Here the scene is British Columbia instead
of Alaska, and there is no political deviltry to impel the action, but
otherwise the situation is the same, being evolved out of the conflict
between legitimate settlers and unscrupulous schemers for the
possession of valuable ranching and mining properties.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A novel which is terse, powerful yet graceful, showing intimate
knowledge and acute observation, never overweighted with description
yet containing many delightful pictures of colonial life and manners.”
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 881. Ag. 26, ’05. 330w.
“We have no hesitation in pronouncing this his best story, nor in
recommending it particularly to the attention of adventurous young
England.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 235. Ag. 19. 400w.
“The interest of the plot is fairly well sustained, but the book is
carelessly written.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 50w.
“An admirable novel is the result, and one which introduces us to a
territory hitherto almost unexploited in fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1. ’06. 120w.
“In ‘Alton of Somasco’ Mr. Bindloss is seen at his best.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 279. S. 1, ’05. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Bindloss, Harold.= Cattle-baron’s daughter. †$1.50. Stokes.
The transition-period when the boundless cattle-lands of the Northwest
were first opened to the home-steader is well handled in this story of
the cattle-baron’s daughter and her divided loyalty to her father, the
champion of the old order, and to her lover, the leader of the
homestead boys. The characters are well drawn Western types and the
scenes of feud and riot, of miniature war and revolution, are
stirring, because behind the hero is the spirit of the times, the
steady march of the settler leading to the final triumph of the plow.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 67. Jl. 21. 180w.
“A tale of thrilling adventure with plentiful humorous relief.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 626. O. 6, ’06. 240w.
“The interest is well sustained to the end of the story, which is much
above the average and is well worth reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 237. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w.
=Binns, Henry Bryan.= Life of Walt Whitman. **$3. Dutton.
In Mr. Binns’ biography and interpretation it has been the aim to
write about Whitman rather than to give Whitman’s work with running
commentary. The author is an Englishman “who ‘loves’ the United
States,” and thinks the time is not yet ripe for a final and complete
biography, and therefore his work is suggestive rather than conclusive
in the sense of literary decisions. “It is as a man that I see and
have sought to describe Whitman. But as a man of special and
exceptional character, a new type of mystic or seer.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“As a biography, it will easily take its place as our most exhaustive
and authoritative record of Whitman’s career.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1285. D. 9, ’05. 1520w.
Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 849. D. ’06. 1280w.
“Both in biographical detail and in critical comment the book is an
excellent piece of work, perhaps the fullest and best study of the
poet’s life and writings that has yet appeared.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 145. Mr. 1, ’06. 850w.
“A book of some interest and value, which yet has a few of the faults
common to most biographies. In the first place, it is too long.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 401. N. 24, ’05. 2880w.
+ – =Nation.= 81: 469. D. 7, ’05. 840w.
“The poet’s work is, indeed, vindicated simply and naturally by Mr.
Binns, with no violence of argument, and it is a pleasure to
acknowledge the fine quality of spirit which he displays.” Jessie B.
Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 110. F. 24, ’06. 970w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 150w.
“Mr. Binns’ book, granted a few somewhat soulful peculiarities, is not
at all bad.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 20. Ja. 6, ’06. 1760w.
=Birney, Mrs. Theodore W.= Childhood. $1. Stokes.
Believing that “discord in the home is in most cases due to a lack of
comprehension of child nature and its needs,” Mrs. Birney offers
parents and teachers the benefits of her earnestly acquired
experience. “She is singularly free from fads; does not write as if
she were the whole Law and the Prophets on the subject of children.”
(Critic.)
* * * * *
“A careful perusal of the book should bring help to many households.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.
=Birrell, Augustine.= Andrew Marvell. **75c. Macmillan.
“Very little is said of the poetry upon which his reputation rests.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 260w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 100w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 582. Ap. 14, ’06. 1720w.
=Birrell, Augustine.= In the name of the Bodleian, and other essays.
**$1.50. Scribner.
“A collection of short essays on a great variety of subjects by a
writer who is, by nature and training, a spectator and commentator of
the school though not of the genius of Charles Lamb.” (Outlook.) “He
opens his service, so to speak, in the name of the Bodleian, and goes
to tell us of book-worms—the literary bookworm, not the one with
spectacles—confirmed readers, first editions, libraries, old
booksellers, collecting, and some score of similar things of value to
the bibliophile.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“If his work is always slight, it is very nearly always agreeable.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1191. N. 18, ’05. 1360w.
“Represents him favorably enough as a critic none the less stimulating
because he touches his topics with a light hand.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 230w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 310w.
“Is characteristically full of quaint fancies, brilliant sallies of
wit and humor, keenly-calculated judgments of men and things, and an
erudition that pointedly avoids beaten highways to cull its treasures
from old nooks and dusty corners.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 159. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.
“Without being in any sense of the word a great essayist, Mr.
Augustine Birrell is a brilliant and lucid writer.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 426. D. 8, ’05. 1520w.
“It would be a limited taste indeed that could not extract from [these
essays] several half-hours of entertainment.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 41. Ja. 11, ’06. 640w.
“None of them will seem really trivial to lovers of ‘Obiter dicta’ and
its successors. For they are all marked with the good-humored
acuteness, the animated nonchalance, which engaged us in him long
ago.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 879. D. 9, ’05. 1400w.
“This volume is more fragmentary and discursive than the earlier books
from the same hand, and the papers are, on the whole, less valuable.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 120w.
“These essays, aside from the Arnold fling, are charming in tone and
in their literary quality, which ranges from Baconian formality to a
very effective use of modern slang.”
+ + – =Reader.= 7: 566. Ap. ’06. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 40w.
“It is always easy, but not always comforting, to read Mr. Birrell.
When he is writing about books he is commonly delightful, though even
here he cannot resist the temptation to ‘get his knife into’ something
or somebody that he dislikes.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 97. Ja. 20, ’06. 1160w.
=Birukoff, Paul.= Early life of Leo Tolstoy, his life and work. **$1.50.
Scribner.
The work of a man who was a friend of Tolstoi’s and in his employ. The
outlines of M. Paul Birukoff’s biography were filled in by notes
furnished by Tolstoi himself which fact lends a serious and
authoritative value to the work. This first volume gives an account of
the origin of the Tolstois, the novelist’s childhood, youth and
manhood, and ends with his marriage. “A great deal of attention is
devoted to the moral development of the young prodigy and very little
to those amusements and external interests that probably were of far
more importance in shaping his character.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“It is indeed a most serious work and suggests that the author was
much more anxious to exhibit Leo Tolstoy as a prophet and teacher than
as a literary artist whose province it is to hold the mirror up to
nature.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 498. My. 26, ’06. 2030w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This most interesting publication ought to find many readers.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 178. Ag. 18. 1360w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There can be no doubt that this work will be a mine of information to
the more critical biographer as well as in itself of much value.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is an exhaustive analysis of the youth and early manhood of a
personality of exceptional interest, with whose later years of
achievement the reading-public is generally familiar.” Annie Russell
Marble.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 59. Ag. 1, ’06. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)
“When completed bids fair to become one of the important contributions
to our biographical knowledge during recent years.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 97. Jl. ’06. 1350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One can pardon somewhat his lack of literary skill, in view of his
transparent honesty, and modest attitude toward his work as ‘material’
for the use of more competent workers hereafter.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 60. Jl. 19, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There is in his attitude towards his literary master a certain
servility of indiscriminate admiration, a too thoroughgoing sympathy.
The net result of which simplicity is that the eminent Russian’s worst
enemy could have wished him no other biographer.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 368. Je. 9, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The undisguisedly autobiographic portions are exceedingly frank in
places, and always intensely egotistical.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 800. D. 1, ’06. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is thus chaotic and almost incoherent, yet most of the
material is of intense interest.”
+ – =Putnam’s.= 1: 110. O. ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 1.)
=R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Black, Rev. J. F.= Bible way: an antidote to Campbellism. *50c. Meth.
bk.
An argument in dialogue form which presents arguments against the
doctrine of so-called Christian or Campbellite church.
=Black, John Janvier.= Eating to live, with some advice to the gouty,
the rheumatic, and the diabetic: a book for every body. *$1.50.
Lippincott.
“Forewarned is forearmed” might be said to be the watchword of Dr.
Black in his present work. He aims to save from pitfalls the mortals
who eat and drink from instinct rather than from reason. He discusses
the economics and values of different foods and gives dietary advice
to people variously afflicted.
=Blackmar, Frank Wilson.= Elements of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“On the whole, the author has furnished us with a very serviceable
text. It is a logical development of the principles of the science and
the different branches have been brought into proper correlation. Its
style is sufficiently simple for easy comprehension and the student
will find it a working manual of great value.” George B. Mangold.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 243. Ja. ’06. 440w.
“Is a singularly ineffective and eminently mediocre book. It affords
no real penetrating insight into the nature of society. It has no
intrinsic coherence.”
– =Atlan.= 97: 852. Je. ’06. 230w.
=Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“In general it may be said that Mr. Blackmar has made effective use of
the new sources of material and new developments of theory that have
become available since the publication of Mr. Fairbanks’ book.... Many
pages of Mr. Blackmar’s book are marred by English not merely faulty,
but incorrigibly and persistently so to such an extent that the sense
may be recovered only with difficulty.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 100. Mr. ’06. 910w.
“The chapters on social pathology bring the science down to earth, and
constitute probably the most valuable part of the book.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 202. Mr. 16, ’06. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 100w.
“Will serve a useful purpose ... for intelligent general readers and
social workers who wish to gain a social attitude of mind in relation
to all varieties of man’s activities.”
+ =School R.= 14: 542. S. ’06. 200w.
=Blair, Emma Helen, and Robertson, James Alexander=, eds. Philippine
islands, 1493–1898. 55 v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
“In eight volumes just under consideration, ninety documents ... are
produced in translation, as are parts of the whole of seven old
printed works. The editorial work upon these documents shows
painstaking care and much discrimination. The translations—and this is
important—appear generally to deserve the same commendation.” James A.
LeRoy.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 681. Ap. ’06. 2900w. (Review of v. 21–27 and
29.)
Reviewed by James A. LeRoy.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 143. O. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 28–38.)
“The volumes of 1905 are, all in all, the best edited and most
carefully arranged and translated of the series thus far.”
+ + =Ind.= 40: 927. Ap. 19, ’06. 1090w. (Review of v. 21–27.)
+ + =Ind.= 61: 695. S. 20, ’06. 730w. (Review of v. 28–38.)
=Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 28–32.)
=Blake, Katharine Evans.= Hearts’ haven. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“A stirring romance, rich in lights and shadows, full of human
interest and possessing the peculiar charm of new scenes and
surroundings. Another excellence of this work is the remarkable
knowledge of psychology displayed.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 1310w.
“The author of ‘Hearts’ haven’ has made clever use of her material,
and the admission that the book leaves behind it a sense of depression
is in itself a tribute to her strength.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 30. Mr. ’06. 160w.
=Blake, William.= Poetical works: a new and verbatim text from the
manuscript engraved and letter-press originals; with variorum readings
and bibliographical notes and prefaces by J. Sampson. *$3.50. Oxford.
“‘Blake’s final version is uniformly adopted as the text, while all
earlier or cancelled readings are supplied in foot-notes.’ All the
poems are arranged exactly as they are found, and each group is given,
as far as is known, in chronological order. The two main MS. sources,
the Rossetti and the Pickering MSS., are now printed for the first
time from careful and accurate transcripts, made by the present owner,
Mr. W. A. White of Brooklyn, N. Y.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“If it be desirable to possess a scholarly and complete edition of
Blake, it would be impossible to imagine anything more suitable to the
purpose than the edition before us.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1325. D. 23, ’05. 830w.
“Mr. Sampson’s edition of Blake is a masterpiece of editing and Blake,
of all modern English poets, was most in need of a good editor.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 100. Ja. 27. 2150w.
“We cannot be too grateful for this beautiful and scholarly edition of
the great mystic.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Sampson has compiled texts, compared different readings, grasped
and illuminated obscure points, with all the tact and insight of the
born commentator. His book should become the standard authority for
all Blake students.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 129. Ap. 12, ’06. 4030w.
“Is in point of laborious research and painstaking arrangement, one of
the most admirable pieces of editing that we have lately seen.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 99. F. 1, ’06. 280w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 298. Ap. 21, ’06. 3240w. (Reprinted from the
Lond. Times.)
+ + =Spec.= 96: 259. F. 17, ’06. 1760w.
=Blanchard, Amy Ella.= Four Corners. †$1.50. Jacobs.
The three Virginia acres on which the somewhat impoverished Corner
family lived formed the center of the stage upon which the four little
Corners, Nan, Mary Lee, and the twins, a cousin, an old mule named
Pete, an angora cat, a mongrel dog, and a few delightful grownups, act
out a little family drama. In it, sad little economies, sickness, and
trouble bravely met, are contrasted with the joys of healthy girlhood
with homely adventures, and happy little surprises. It is a story that
will make careless little girls thankful for their blessings.
* * * * *
“It is a peasant, homy sort of tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
=Blanchard, Amy Ella.= Little Miss Mouse. †$1. Jacobs.
Miss Hester Brackenbury in days of affluence adopts two little waifs,
a small boy and a girl, and when a few months later, she becomes poor
she refuses to give them up but moves into a cottage and supports them
by making buttonholes. It is a pretty story for grown-ups as well as
children, for in the background is an old love-story which throws a
mellow light upon the children in the foreground, their joys, their
contentions and their troubles. In the end, thru little Miss Mouse and
an old receipt, Aunt Hester is restored to her old estate.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Incomplete amorist. †$1.50.
Doubleday.
“A study of an accomplished and refined male flirt who plays the game
of love with counters only to find that at last he must play with
gold. Contrasted with this superfine trifler is a straightforward,
even impulsive English girl whose common sense and simple ignorance of
the early Empire. These last three studies her girl artist life in
Paris. The story has movement, variety, and originality.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is essentially bright, witty, superficial work, and we are sorry
to be, more than once, confronted with problems and situations which
demand a stronger treatment and a deeper insight into human nature.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 375. O. 13, ’06. 140w.
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 210w.
“There are several reasons why ‘The incomplete amorist’ is deserving
of attention. To begin with, it treats old and well-worn material in a
new and whimsical way.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 119. O. ’06. 480w.
“To judge by the experiment her true vein would promise to lie not in
the picturesque region of Bohemian romance, but on the quiet levels of
rustic comedy.”
– =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 27, ’06. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“‘E. Nesbit’ has shown that she understands grown-ups as well as she
does children, and in ‘The incomplete amorist’ has written a novel
original, clever, and full of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 563. S. 15, ’06. 840w.
“It has the great affirmative merit that it never bores the reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 120w.
“As this novel is a study in masculine psychology it is unsatisfying.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 180w.
“The greater part of the story is extraordinarily vulgar, and to that
part of it which is not vulgar it is impossible to apply any epithet
but that of ‘stagy.’ The story cannot but remind its readers of the
sentimental fiction of about twenty years ago.”
– =Spec.= 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 220w.
“In the midst of the inrush of novels it is one of the few that
deserve a better fate than that of serving as a time-killer.”
+ =World To-Day.= 12: 1221. N. ’06. 130w.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Railway children; with
drawings by C. E. Brock. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“By a family misfortune these children are for a time deprived of
their father, compelled to leave their pleasant home, and obliged to
live in a little cottage close to the railway. All their strange joys
and troubles are in one way or another connected with this railway and
its surroundings.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A fragrant and sweet story. It would be indeed difficult to find one
better suited for reading around the nursery fire or one which boys
and girls alike would more enjoy.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 510. O. 27. 70w.
“The interest—of which there is fair amount—is fortunately independent
of the weak pen-and-ink drawings.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 150w.
“E. Nesbit has put into a book for children some of that cleverness
and charm which characterize his grown up stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 735. N. 10, ’06. 130w.
“The incidents are worked out in a decidedly original way, and the
story is strong enough to hold the attention of older readers as well
as of young people”.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 170w.
“It seems to us a pity that she has introduced into her latest story
so very tragic and unpleasant a subject as imprisonment, whether
wrongful or otherwise; to say nothing of implanting a premature
distrust of British justice in the youthful reader’s mind.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“We can thoroughly recommend ‘The railway children’ as an excellent
story.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
=Bland, Edith (Nesbit) (Mrs. Hubert Bland).= Rainbow and the rose.
*$1.50. Longmans.
This volume of poems shows the author to be “Skilled in her craft....
We like her best in her village monologues, which are full of insight
and humour and sound philosophy. But when she pleases she can write
also graceful songs.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Full of clever things in the conventional condescending mood which
ought not to succeed, but unquestionably does. For the rest, E. Nesbit
is not a poet, not a minor poet, not even an exquisite maker of verse;
but all that an able woman who is not these can do by means of verse,
she can do.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 902. S. 2, ’05. 170w.
“Many of the occasional pieces here tremble on the verge of success,
and it seems as if a little more trouble and thought would have made
them excellent.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 108. Jl. 22. 150w.
“Her work always pleases. It reaches about the level of Jean Ingelow’s
thought and sentiment, but never quite achieves the distinction of
Christina Rossetti.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 273. N. 1, ’05. 140w.
“Has the same qualities that has given her other collections rather
exceptional circulation. Mrs. Bland’s poetic sentiment is appealing
rather than poignant with the true poetic poignancy; though she has no
gift of verbal magic, she has verbal adequacy, and her verse is always
readable.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 303. O. 12, ’05. 220w.
“The ‘Rainbow and the rose’ ... is neither decadent nor revolutionary,
but fresh and individual in a simple way that makes agreeable reading
of her more or less subjective verse.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ’05. 90w.
“Shows much dexterity in versification, and a wider range than is
usual in modern lyrics.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 761. N. 11, ’05. 160w.
=Bliss, Frederick Jones.= Development of Palestine exploration. **$1.50.
Scribner.
This book which presents in amplified form the lectures delivered
before the Union theological seminary in 1903 “treats of the progress
made in the art of identifying sites, of the shifting point of view of
travellers of different times, of Edward Robinson, Renan and his
contemporaries, and of the Palestine Exploration fund and the
exploration of the future.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 728. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“The work, as a whole, is written in an admirable spirit. Justice is
done to the labors of each writer mentioned, though Dr. Bliss does not
hesitate to mete out fair criticism to each when it seems necessary.
The book contains an occasional misprint.” George A. Barton.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 581. Jl. ’06. 580w.
“His tone is scholarly and his criticism remarkably just and well
balanced. In a future edition Dr. Bliss might correct some misprints.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 790. Je. 30. 1340w.
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 90w.
“An ambitious work covering in small compass a large tract of
history.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 160w.
“The book is full of important information, not only for the Bible
student, but also for the modern traveller, who incidentally receives
some good advice.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1161. My. 17, ’06. 260w.
=Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 40w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 574. Ap. 14, ’06. 1100w.
“His work is neither a complete bibliography, with such notes as will
enable a student to select what he wants for study, nor, on the other
hand, is it a narrative of exploration. It falls midway between.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 63. Jl. 19, ’06. 1500w.
=Outlook.= 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 40w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 834. My. 26, ’06. 1740w.
=Blomfield, Reginald.= Studies in architecture. *$3.25. Macmillan.
Mr. Blomfield who is a “practising architect of distinction and
enthusiasm sends a side-glance at Byzantium and Lombardy, but is
chiefly occupied with the architecture (and architects) of the French
and Italian renaissance.... Mr. Blomfield has not fallen into the
faults he denounces: what he writes is full of interest because of his
standpoint (and standing) as an architect, his personal knowledge of
the buildings of which he writes, and his researches into their
history. Above all, he has great enthusiasm for his art, a passion
which archæology (while admitting others) tends, it would seem, to
exclude.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A book as interesting as it is sound.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 523. Je. 2, ’06. 620w.
“The volume is a real contribution to architectural criticism.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 220. Ag. 25. 1100w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 100w.
“Can be heartily recommended to layman and architect alike. Its
literary flavour is delicate; its architectural criticisms are sound,
to the point, and keen.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 71. Mr. 2, ’06. 820w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 307. Ap. 12, ’06. 840w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 151. Ja. 27, ’06. 160w.
=Blundell, Mary E. Sweetman (Mrs. Francis Blundell).= Simple annals.
†$1.50. Longmans.
Natural simple stories of humble village life. “Mrs. Blundell says in
her Foreword that a golden thread runs through the homespun of even
the most commonplace life. In each of these stories she has followed
the golden thread. The village girls are innocent and charming, the
men are chivalrous—their purpose is invariably marriage, and
courtships end, as they should, with wedding-bells.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Our only quarrel is with her claim in the Foreword to call these
charming fables ‘studies.’ For that, they are surely too slight and
too determinedly optimistic.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 405. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.
“None of them reaches the high level which the best of ‘Dorset dear’
attained.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 667. Je. 2. 160w.
“It is as charming a book of the kind as we have come across in many a
long day.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 120w.
“The book is full of delicately handled studies of the lights and
shadows that fall across the existence of the modern workaday world.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 120w.
“A collection of short stories, which are even better from a point of
view of comprehensive description than her novels.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
=Blundell, Mary E. (Sweetman) (Mrs. Francis Blundell; M. E. Francis,
pseuds.).= Wild wheat: a Dorset romance. †$1.50. Longmans.
Another tale of the West country, which “carries its readers’ thoughts
far afield on to the blue hills and into the wild woods.” (Spec.) “It
has more of passion and sorrow in it than most of her romances, but is
all the stronger for this, while there is enough of the humorous and
cheerful to balance the whole. The love story is sweet and wholesome.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“‘Wild wheat’ is an admirable story and Peter’s character is finely
handled, but in general interest it does not reach the level of some
other Dorset tales.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1130. O. 28, ’05. 580w.
“This is a very readable story of country life, though it is not equal
to ‘The manor farm.’ The plot is a little thin.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 190w.
“A correct, pretty, unpretentious tale that will please those who love
the primroses of literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 708. F. ’06. 130w.
“Inconsequent as the story is, it is readable, and perhaps we have
found it the more provoking because indications are not wanting of the
author’s capability of really good work.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 923. D. 30, ’05. 380w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 70w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 1090. D. 23, ’05. 200w.
=Boas, Henrietta O’Brien (Owen) (Mrs. Frederick Samuel).= With Milton
and the Cavaliers. **$1.50. Pott.
“This book is a collection of biographical sketches relating to the
chief personages in England at the time of the civil war. The only
connection that binds them together is the common period of which they
treat and the historical thread that runs through them. The political,
military, religious, literary, and social figures of the time are all
illustrated in these essays, which taken together, thus present in a
way a sort of picture of the moving forces of the period.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Is not an instructive or a well-written book.”
– =Dial.= 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 390w.
“She has written soundly and soberly and from abundance of
information. She has not made her work abstruse, and it is a clear and
consistent account of a momentous period in English history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 679. O. 14, ’05. 510w.
=Boggs, Sara E.= Sandpeep. †$1.50. Little.
Keren Happuch Brenson, better known as Sandpeep, a child of the waves
as well as the shore who “fished and lobstered for a living” and
listened in ecstasy to the music of her fiddle string across the pane
of her cobwebby loft, is a heroine “rustic from her finger tips to her
innermost cerebral atom.” Her development from the moment she became
young Geoffrey Warrington’s governess to the day that established her
in Munich for musical study is characterized by fearless loyalty and
keen devotion to purpose. With a “Jane Eyre heroine and a virtuous
Rochester” the story also records the mercenary intrigue of a woman’s
substitution, of herself and child for her departed twin sister and
baby, out of which deception grows the plot.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 273. Ap. 28, ’06. 280w.
“Parts of it are really exciting.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 303. My. 12, ’06. 460w.
=Boissier, Gaston.= Tacitus and other Roman studies tr. by W. G.
Hutchison. †$1.75. Putnam.
“This volume contains four essays: the first, occupying more than half
the whole work, deals with Tacitus as an historian, the others with
subjects connected with the same period carry her through some trying
experiences and contain much instruction and not a little
entertainment. The Roman ‘Schools of declamation’ are described with
admirable point and refreshing humour.... The essay on ‘The Roman
journal’ helps us to realize how a worldwide empire managed to survive
without newspapers. The discussion of the poet Martial is a specimen
of ... lively and illuminating literary criticism.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“The young student of the Imperial age ... can get to closer grips
with the facts, even if he cannot deal with them so incisively and so
elegantly as M. Boissier.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 251. Jl. 13, ’06. 470w.
“The translation is correct in the main, and reads fairly smoothly. We
wish that the book might be read and pondered by lovers of Tacitus,
writers of history, and any other scholars who are planning learned
works.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 670w.
“M. Boissier’s sympathetic essay will please all those who believe in
the educational value of the ancient historians and who admire the
greatest of them.” Robert L. Schuyler.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 511. Ag. 18, ’06. 1750w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 288. S. 29, ’06. 170w.
“If consequently we advise all those students who can do so to read M.
Boissier in the original, no offence is intended Mr. Hutchison, whose
translation is readable and accurate, and will lead many to work at
the subject who would be deterred by a French book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 115. Jl. 28, ’06. 1530w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 576. O. 20, ’06. 1480w.
=Bolton, Sarah Knowles (Mrs. Charles E. Bolton).= Famous American
authors. $2. Crowell.
“Entertaining, chatty, sympathetic essays.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Bombaugh, Charles Carroll.= Facts and fancies for the curious from the
harvest-fields of literature. **$3. Lippincott.
=Nation.= 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.
“The collection is large and varied, and the ‘chestnut’ is not more
frequent than one would expect.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1131. D. 30, ’05. 170w.
=Bond, Francis.= Gothic architecture in England. *$12. Scribner.
“Mr. Bond’s work is extraordinarily full, extraordinarily minute, and
enriched by a wealth of illustrations, as well as most elaborate
indexes, a very full bibliography, a chronological table, and many
sheets of comparative mouldings drawn ... to a uniform scale.... Part
1 is introductory, and covers the whole origin and development of
mediæval church architecture in this country; while Part 2 is an
analysis in which the whole ground is gone over in detail, piece by
piece.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“This is in every sense of the word, a great book. It is a book that
at once steps to the front as authoritative, and it will be long
before it is superseded.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 871. D. 23. 2890w.
“Weighty and eminently trustworthy volume. His language is never
obscure, and the veriest novice can follow with ease the arguments
that are the result of many years’ study and of the critical insight
that is so rare a gift.”
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 26: 86. Mr. ’06. 300w.
“As a mine of erudition, of detailed analysis and information, and of
criticism on English mediaeval church architecture, the book is worthy
of all praise. It is no rival in persuasive literary style to the
charm of Viollet-le-duc’s delightful mastery of lucid French.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 159. My. 4, ’06. 880w.
“This is a scholar’s book.”
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 126. Ag. 9, ’06. 990w.
“Altogether a volume very well worth having, worth inspecting, worth
reading, even, up to a certain point, worth studying.” Montgomery
Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 301. My. 12, ’06. 2250w.
“Must stand for many years to come as _the_ book of reference on the
subject of ecclesiastical Gothic in England for all architects and
archæologists.”
+ + + =Spec.= 96: 150. Ja. 27, ’06. 470w.
=Bond, Octavia Zollicoffer.= Old tales retold; or, Perils and adventures
of Tennessee pioneers. *$1. Pub. House of M. E. Ch. So.
The annals of Ramsay and Putnam and later historical chronicles have
been followed “with faithful and painstaking exactness” by the writer
in these tales of pioneer life. “They will give the rising generation
of Tennesseans more admiration and respect for the hardy and
intelligent pioneers who invaded the wilderness and built up our
western civilization.”
=Bonner, Geraldine (Hard Pan, pseud.).= Castlecourt diamond case. †$1.
Funk.
Lady Castlecourt’s diamonds are stolen, and thereby hangs a detective
tale in the relating of which six people participate. First the lady’s
maid tells her story, then follow statements by the real thief, by
Cassius P. Kennedy and his wife into whose innocent possession the
stolen gems are thrust when the scared thief is forced to act quickly,
by the private detective, and, lastly, by Lady Castlecourt herself who
furnishes the key to a surprising situation.
* * * * *
“A detective novelette of some uncommon qualities.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ’05. 110w.
“An amusing detective story.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 50w.
=Booth, Eva Gore-.= Three resurrections, and The triumph of Maeve. **$2.
Longmans.
Mythological and metaphysical parables based upon the themes of
Lazarus, Alcestis and Psyche form the first part of this volume of
poetry, while the second is a romance in dramatic form which is
“filled with the haunting spirit of Celtic mysticism.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Miss Gore-Booth is a very thoughtful poet, who avoids affected
diction, and combines depth with simplicity.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 329. My. 16, ’06. 460w.
“The bathos which is so frequently the result of a forced alliance
between poetry and science, is a feature of ‘The three resurrections,
and The triumph of Maeve.’”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 209. F. 17, ’06. 110w.
“There is an unreality in the imagery and a monotony in the epithets
which, in spite of all her art, affect the reader with weariness.”
– =Spec.= 96: 262. F. 17, ’06. 110w.
=Borrow, George.= Romano lavo-lil; word book of the Romany or
English-Gypsy language. $2. Putnam.
“Altogether it is an entertaining book, full of the spirit that makes
‘Lavengro’ so attractive, and with a bit more of a serious definite
character.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 200w.
=Bose, Jagadis Chunder.= Plant response as a means of physiological
investigation. *$7. Longmans.
“A substantial octavo volume of more than 700 pages, devoted to the
elucidation and illustration of a single thesis. Although this thesis
is here given in many forms and stated in connection with numerous
associated topics, it is essentially simple in its outline. It is
this: the plant is a machine; its movements in response to external
stimuli, though apparently various, are ultimately reducible to a
fundamental unity of reaction.... By means of ingenious delicate
instruments which exaggerate the slightest motion at any spot, he has
long been able to demonstrate that even the oldest tissues of a plant,
so long as they are living are capable of responding in a marked
degree to certain external stimuli. A special feature distinguishing
this treatise from many of its class is the presentation, at the end
of every chapter, of a summary which gives in a few short sentences
the substance of the chapter.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“One which no plant physiologist, however much he may combat details
in it, can afford to ignore.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 768. Je. 23. 2530w.
“The account itself is too detailed and too diffuse to be read
straight through by any but a lover of plants or a student of the
problem. It is however, simple and straightforward.” E. T. Brewster.
+ – =Atlan.= 98: 419. S. ’06. 560w.
“The book is not without errors, both of reasoning and fact, into
which the author has fallen by reason of some unfamiliarity with his
materials. But whatever the future may show as to the accuracy of
details, this book may be acclaimed as a path-breaking one; for it
shows a method of attack and a refinement of instrumentation for the
study of the phenomena or irritable reactions in plants that are sure
to be of the utmost service.” C. R. B.
+ – =Bot. Gaz.= 42: 148. Ag. ’06. 1170w.
“The treatise is stimulating and is likely to be fruitful in
controversy.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 41. Jl. 12, ’06. 1120w.
=Boswell, James.= Life of Samuel Johnson; ed. with an introd. by Mobray
Morris. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
The introduction sketches briefly the difficulties and perils which
surrounded Boswell in the preparation of his lasting work, and
concludes with “A great subject and a great picture! Nor can portrait
and painter ever be dissociated. As long as the huge bulk of Johnson
rolls down the stream of Time, so long will the queer little figure of
his biographer be saluted with no unkindly laughter.”
=Boswell, James.= Life of Johnson. $1. Frowde.
A reprint of the third edition of this standard biography. It is
similar in make-up to the handy classic volumes.
* * * * *
=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 20w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ’05. 80w.
+ + =Educ. R.= 30: 426. N. ’05. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 675. O. 14, ’05. 90w.
=Boulton, William B.= Sir Joshua Reynolds. **$3. Dutton.
“If less vigorous in its ideas than Armstrong’s work, has the merit of
telling the story of the painter’s life with much entertaining
detail.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 274. F. ’06. 150w.
“While the work of Leslie and Taylor must remain the best source for
an original study of Reynolds, this volume is easily the best general
survey that we know.” Charles Henry Hart.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 226. Ap. 1, ’06. 450w.
“He has something of Boswell’s gift. He knows what facts are worth
telling and what are not. His style is unpretending, but not
disagreeable.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 73. Mr. 2, ’06. 470w.
+ – =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ’05. 150w.
=Bourne, Henry Eldridge.= History of mediaeval and modern Europe. $1.50.
Longmans.
“In the volume under review, Professor Bourne aims to give an account
of European history which shall accent the features of the development
common to European peoples as a whole, and subordinate the details of
the different countries. He has met with reasonable success in this
aim as well as in the effort to adapt the narrative to the needs of
secondary school students; for it is this audience rather than that of
a college that the author appears to have had in mind.”—Yale R.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Earl Wilbur Dow.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 718. Ap. ’06. 890w.
“A conveniently arranged and well illustrated text-book for school.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 234. Ja. ’06. 30w.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 104. Mr. ’06. 260w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“The geographical relationships have been carefully noted, and strict
attention has been paid to chronology, the various events of history
in several countries being arranged in respect to time, so that the
pupil will be able to carry the general situation pretty clearly in
mind, while studying some special detail.” Francis W. Shepardson.
+ =School. R.= 14: 68. Ja. ’06. 180w.
“The style on the whole is excellent, simple, remarkably free from
technical terms, and abounding in effective illustrations.” Curtis
Howe Walker.
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 435. F. ’06. 390w.
=Bousset, Wilhelm.= Jesus; tr. by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; ed. by W. D.
Morrison. *$1.25. Putnam.
A book which “is a study of the mind of Jesus in its relation to the
Jewish circle of His time, with its ideas and ideals, and also to the
larger world of humanity.” (Ath.) “Bousset rejects the miraculous from
the Gospel story and regards it as a later accretion. The only
wonderful works of Jesus which he considers genuine are His miracles
of healing. ‘His healing activity lies entirely within the bounds of
what is psychologically conceivable.’” (Hibbert. J.)
* * * * *
“Translated into excellent English.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 700w.
+ – =Hibbert J.= 4: 934. Jl. ’06. 680w.
“Tho brief in compass and designed as a popular hand-book, could not
be omitted from any fair list of recent scientific studies in the
records of the past.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1165. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
“The character and teaching of the Saviour are treated by Professor
Bousset with splendid sympathy, though he occasionally adopts a tone
of patronage; and he frankly rejects some of His moral teaching as
exaggerated and impracticable. But in spite of this, we welcome the
book as being a real step back from mere criticism towards a deeper
religious appreciation of our Lord and His gospel.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.
=Bovey, Henry Taylor.= Theory of structures and strength of materials.
*$7.50. Wiley.
“The book, as its title indicates, is an attempt to cover, in one
volume subjects which are generally and in the opinion of the
reviewer, better, separated. It apparently aims to be a treatise on
mechanics, the strength of materials, friction, framed structures,
masonry, and, to some extent on machinery. The subjects of toothed
gearing, dynamometers, belts and ropes appear, although they are
usually included in works on structures.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book contains a very large amount of information, and will be
useful as a book of reference for those familiar with the subject, but
it is very poorly arranged and there is a lack of emphasis on
fundamental principles.” George F. Swain.
+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 425. Ap. 12, ’06. 1380w.
“We have no hesitation in saying that Prof. Bovey in thus practically
rewriting his book has considerably improved its value, both to the
engineering student and to the civil engineer, engaged in the design
of all classes of structures in steel and iron.” T. H. B.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 243. Jl. ’06. 640w.
=Bowen, Marjorie.= Viper of Milan. $1.50. McClure.
“The viper of Milan,” written by a youthful novelist of sixteen,
outlines against a mediaeval background the black intrigues of Gian
Galeazzo Visconti. The plot centers about Visconti’s destruction of
Verona, his abduction of the Duke of Verona’s wife and the efforts of
the Duke to rescue her, necessitating a round of treacherous
adventure.
* * * * *
“While making no special pretensions to historical accuracy, it
attains, from the standpoint of romance, an unusually high level. We
notice with regret the numerous grammatical slips which disfigure an
otherwise excellent style.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 298. S. 15. 280w.
“The book represents an infinitesimal achievement, and it would not be
serving Miss Bowen to pretend that we find special promise in it.”
– =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 240w.
“Della Scala and Visconti stand out most vividly in one’s memory of
the characters, but there are many others drawn with admirable
delicacy and skill. She has certainly triumphed along unconventional
lines, for love is not the absorbing theme in ‘The viper of Milan,’
and the ending is most unhappy.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 780w.
“For so young a writer, Miss Bowen shows a remarkable sense of style,
which, taken in conjunction with her energy and imaginative power,
make her a welcome recruit to the ranks of adventurous romancers.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 578. O. 20, ’06. 1200w.
=Bowne, Borden Parker.= Immanence of God. **$1. Houghton.
The author says that “The undivineness of the natural and
unnaturalness of the divine is the great heresy of popular thought
respecting religion.” He would offset the heresy with the statement
“God is the omnipresent ground of all finite existence and activity.”
“Two ... characteristics are very apparent in this little book.... The
first is his ability to see clearly the reality so often hidden behind
a voluminous debate about words; the second is his literary knack in
so expressing the truth that the non-scholastic reader can understand
it.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 417. Mr. ’06. 310w.
“His volume is a very sane and a very readable book, at once profound
in thought and intelligible in expression.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ’05. 230w.
=Boxall, George E.= Anglo-Saxon; a study in evolution. $1.25. Wessels.
The aim of this volume is “to bring all the English-speaking peoples
together by enabling them to realize their own characteristics.” And
to this end the author “has covered the ground that the Anglo-Saxon
occupies in anthropology, history, economics, art, theology, and
everything else.... The privileged classes of England are a Latin
survival, and so is the ‘boss’ of American politics. Nevertheless,
Americans, Australians, and other Anglo-Saxons are far ahead of Great
Britain in their progress towards true Anglo-Saxonism; but a revulsion
is coming even there.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“He goes on for page after page proclaiming statements, sometimes of
the most far-reaching importance positive and negative, and sometimes
completely reversing conclusions of the students of those subjects,
without a rag of evidence except the statement of his own general
impression.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 405. Je. 23, ’06. 670w.
“His observations are comprehensive and interesting, but rather
cursory and superficial. In philosophizing upon them he is plainly
amateurish.”
– + =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 160w.
=Boyce, Neith, pseud. (Mrs. Hutchins Hapgood).= Eternal spring: a novel.
†$1.50. Fox.
A drama full of youth and love is enacted by a group of Americans on
an Italian stage. A young American of thirty whose struggle for a
competence in the Chicago stock-market had worn him down to “the
absolute essentials of physical being” goes to Italy to marry the
woman he had secretly loved—eight years his senior and now a widow.
While pursuing the course of a luke-warm wooing he falls in love with
her cousin, a gifted girl made melancholy by a wrongly fostered idea
of hereditary insanity. The courage of the woman who relinquishes her
claim on him is only surpassed by his energy in dispelling the
illusion of insanity that holds the woman he loves.
* * * * *
“‘The eternal spring,’ forms a curious and not altogether satisfactory
antithesis to ‘The forerunner,’ insomuch as its plot is a much more
conspicuous feature than its human nature. It is not so fine a piece
of art as the author’s earlier novel, not so fine even as her short
stories.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 190. Ap. ’06. 800w.
“Sentimentality runs riot in this story of young love in Italy.”
– =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 70w.
“The story is told with freshness and charm, in parts almost with
distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 260w.
“Although we have found its leading characters not a little
exasperating, ‘The eternal spring’ is a model of unusual originality
and interest.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 94. F. 17, ’06. 610w.
“This story is not bad reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
“The absence of plot and incident seems to indicate that it was
intended to be a psychological novel; but the absence of any real
psychological analysis leaves it doubtful just where to place it.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 50w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 60w.
=Boyd, James E.= Differential equations. 60c. James E. Boyd, Columbus,
O.
“The merit of the book consists in a large number of mechanical and
electrical problems that are given. These ought to do much to
stimulate the interests of the students for whom the author writes.”
William Benjamin Fite.
+ + – =Phys. R.= 22: 62. Ja. ’06. 140w.
=Boyd, Mary Stuart.= Misses Make-Believe. †$1.50. Holt.
The Misses Make-Believe occupy a dilapidated London house, drive a
victoria, jobbed for the London season on the most moderate terms,
give “ghastly” receptions, the eve of which function finds them in the
kitchen making half a dozen packets of table jelly and a bag of flour
and a dozen shop eggs into supper for fifty. The guardian of these
ambitious sisters at length persuades them to leave their stifling
atmosphere and take up their abode in the country. The story really
begins at this point, for when Belle and Eileen learn to live natural
lives, their most coveted desires are within reach,—happiness,
friends, and even husbands.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
“The book is not remarkable, nor is it, in style, to be called
common-place.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 60w.
=Boyesen, Bayard.= Marsh: a poem. $1. Badger, R: G.
– =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 70w.
“Is a piece of rather shadowy symbolism, which has, withal, a
continuity of poetic atmosphere that is distinctly of promise.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 20w.
“It contains some fine lines, but the average reader is too intent
upon economizing his gray cortex to use it in deciphering allegories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 923. D. 30, ’05. 80w.
“Is poetic both in feeling and expression, moving swiftly and easily
in its dramatic form, but the symbolism is too pervasive and rather
obscure and the setting is cumbersome for the matter.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 60w.
=Bradford, Amory H.= Inward light. **$1.20. Crowell.
“Altho these papers were written before the publication of Sabatier’s
‘Religions of authority and the religion of the spirit,’ they may be
regarded as the doctrine and message of that remarkable book adapted
to the religious situation in America.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1164. My. 17, ’06. 430w.
=Bradford, Gamaliel, jr.= Between two masters. †$1.50. Houghton.
“A young man who suspects taint on money won in State street but is
uncertain as to how it may be removed or avoided is the central figure
of the tale. In addition there are three young ladies, one standing
for ease of living and material comfort, one for charm and vivacity of
manner, and the third for social service. In the end his feet stray
into the paths of the social settlement.”—Pub. Opin.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 210w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 433. My. 24, ’06. 310w.
“An entertaining sentimental novel.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 380w.
“The social philosophy with which the book abounds is rather vague and
ill-defined but the general idea has promise.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 573. My. 5, ’06. 90w.
=Bradley, A. C.= Shakespearian tragedy: lectures on Hamlet, Othello,
King Lear, Macbeth. $3.25. Macmillan.
“We are impelled to state our belief that we have here a criticism
which, in its combination of profundity and brilliance, of subtlety
and balance, of eloquence of expression and exactness of thought,
surpasses any comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare since the great
critics of the romantic revival.” William Allen Neilson.
+ + + =Atlan.= 97: 703. My. ’06. 370w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= Captain John Smith; with a map of the
Powhattan district of Virginia. 75c. Macmillan.
Relying chiefly upon Captain Smith’s personal narrative, the
biographer sketches Smith’s early career in the high seas, his coming
to America, his adventures here among the savages and his
explorations, his return to the Old world and his quiet life there,
and the end of his busy life.
* * * * *
“Admirable little book.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 70. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w.
“The volume is to be commended.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 761. D. 2. 60w.
“With all the author’s credulity, however, we have in this work one of
the best accounts of Smith’s life that has been written.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 399. Ag. 16, ’06. 340w.
“The whole story is agreeably told, and the book in every way pleasant
to read.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 180w.
“Considering the range of the hero’s career and the advantages the
subject affords, the book is astonishingly tame—but one may count it
as a fairly truthful picture of the man as candid historians have come
to see him.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 890w.
“Is undeniably interesting, but is extremely uncritical.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 250w.
“Forms one of the best of the ‘Men of action’ series.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 20w.
“Mr. Bradley tells the tale in a pleasantly ironic style, where
enthusiasm for the subject is mingled with a sense of his amazing and
whimsical fortunes.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 97. Ja. 20, ’06. 1540w.
=Bradley, Arthur Granville.= In the march and borderland of Wales. **$3.
Houghton.
In this volume “Wales and its people and the eastern counties of
England are happily described.... The book treats not only of the
Marches of Wales, but of the English counties bordering on the
principality.... Wherever Mr. Bradley wandered, he made notes and
studied local history—not merely the history that one finds in books,
but the history that is handed down by word of mouth.... Odds and ends
... that make this story vastly interesting to read.... Mr. Bradley
was accompanied by a sympathetic artist, Mr. W. M. Meredith, whose
pictures are pronounced excellent and accurate by the author.... A
good index completes the volume.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ + =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 70w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 320w.
“Here is a long book, disfigured by blunders so numerous that they
arrest the attention abruptly and make the act of reading far less
agreeable than it ought to be.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 64. F. 23, ’06. 1260w.
“He knows how to write and what to write.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 95. F. 17, ’06. 970w.
“For the average American reader the treatment is sometimes
over-minute and leisurely.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.
“Is a guide-book, a history, an atlas, and an appreciation of Wales,
all in one.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 100w.
“The book is, we think, decidedly superior to the author’s two volumes
of ‘Highways and byways’ and quite on a level with ‘Owen Glyndwr.’
Such slips notwithstanding, this itinerary is a brilliant piece of
work for which all dwellers and tourists on the March should be duly
grateful to the author.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 49. Jl. 14, ’06. 1340w.
“Every page has some new and various interest. And the pleasantest
part of the whole thing, perhaps, is the waiter’s own fresh,
good-humored, kindly, enthusiastic spirit.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 755. My. 12, ’06. 2100w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= My lady’s slipper. **$1.50. Dodd.
“Another charming love story.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 80w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= Patriots. †$1.50. Dodd.
“General Lee is the noble figure put upon a fitting pedestal in this
romance of our Civil war. A tangled love affair straightens itself out
by the simple device of mismatched lovers seeing their error and
turning to their soul mates before it is too late.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The writer has, moreover, a pretty knack of working up his historical
argument, and he has really read widely and wisely in American
annals.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 270w.
“His last novel is, by all odds, the best he has ever written, but
that is not saying enough to recommend it.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 296. My. 5, ’06. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend.= True Andrew Jackson. *$2. Lippincott.
The “True biographies” series aims at no formal biography in
chronological order. In keeping with this purpose the author says,
“here is an attempt to make a picture in words of a man; to exhibit
personality; to show that personality in touch with its human
environment; to declare what manner of man was he whose name is on the
title page. Not to chronicle events, therefore, but to describe a
being; not to write a history of the time, but to give an impression
of a period associated with its dominant personal force, has been my
task.” Thus the work is an intimate personal sketch of the man, based
upon years of study.
* * * * *
“Mr. Brady seems to have placed a rather uncritical dependence upon
Parton and the two recent biographies of Colyar and Buell, and to have
wholly ignored the collection of Jackson papers in the Library of
Congress, a collection that is unique for the vivid insight it gives
into Jackson’s character.”
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 975. Jl. ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Brady’s picture is neither true nor plausible.”
– =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 270w.
“There is too much quotation, and the result is too much like a
scrap-book. Mr. Brady has made a closer study of Jackson than most of
the recent authorities quoted by him, and his judgment, not theirs,
should have been given.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 520w.
“The historical background is weak, and the forces which shaped the
hero’s life are but half understood.”
– =Ind.= 61: 518. Ag. 30, ’06. 330w.
=Nation.= 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 140w.
“He is uncritical and undiscriminating in the use of material. The
book is, of course, not faultless in accuracy of detail. He is always
fair.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 230. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.
“His work is further open to objection as ill-proportioned, abounding
in extreme statements, and uncritical—defects which quite outweigh the
considerations that it is vivacious, rich in anecdote, and thoroughly
readable.”
– + =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 220w.
“Little new knowledge is added to the work of previous biographers.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.
“Most readers will be indebted to him for not a few facts that they
could not have gleaned from a reading of Parton or any other of
Jackson’s numerous biographers.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 120w.
“With laudable impartiality, but without much claim to clearness of
arrangement or distinction of style, Mr. Brady has brought together a
mass of facts which fairly justify the title of his book.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 871. Je. 2, ’06. 1870w.
=Brady, Cyrus Townsend, and Peple, Edward Henry.= Richard the brazen.
$1.50. Moffat.
In this amusing comedy the vigorous hero, in the guise of a cowboy,
rescues the heroine, who is the daughter of his father’s ex-partner in
business, from a cattle stampede. Then he follows her to New York and,
owing to a lucky accident, is enabled to masquerade as a young English
earl and thus throw aside paternal prejudice and find time and
opportunity to win the daughter. When all is explained the heroine
does not regret her lost coronet but welcomes the discovery of her
cowboy rescuer in the person of her audacious American lover.
* * * * *
“Clever and entertaining story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 546. S. 8, ’06. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“The tone of this novel will not commend it to those who appreciate
work of the first order.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 120w.
“A novel which makes good reading for a winter’s night, or, for that
matter, for any time.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 110w.
=Brain, Belle Marvel.= All about Japan; stories of the sunrise land told
for little folks. **$1. Revell.
“A pleasantly written book.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1480. D. 21, ’05. 30w.
“The book would have been much better if it had not been leveled down,
and if it had been expurgated of most of its piety—not its religion.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 9. Ja. 6, ’06. 200w.
=Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt.= Concerning Belinda. $1.50. Doubleday.
“Any one who has followed the diverting ‘Nancy’ through her various
‘misdemeanours’ and other sensations will not be disappointed in the
new character Belinda.” G. W. A.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 108. Mr. ’06. 340w.
=Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt.= In vanity fair: a tale of frocks and
femininity. *$1.50. Moffat.
“A bright, chatty, and quite superficial account of certain phases of
Parisian life, such as many newspaper people could throw off, and not
a few could do better.” (N. Y. Times.) “She calls her views snapshots
of the inner courts of Vanity fair, and the representation must be
viewed entirely apart from any moral or ideal sentiment. Frocks,
dining, races, sport, hunting, fashionable Paris in its most
extravagant follies, with Americans following hard after, make up the
record.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 100w.
=Dial.= 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 270w.
“The book, whether or not satisfactory as a whole, is entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 321. My. 19, ’06. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
“The book of this season that most strongly commends itself as a gift
to a traveler, especially to a woman, is ‘In vanity fair.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 410. Je. 23, ’06. 80w.
“Manages to treat a frail and trivial subject with much skill.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 90w.
“A very entertaining, gossipy book about French women.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 50w.
=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= Main currents in nineteenth century
literature. 6v. v. 4 and 6. v. 4, *$3; v. 6, *$3.25. Macmillan.
Volume six deals with “Young Germany,” and covers the period lying
between the Congress of Vienna and the great revolutionary years of
the mid-century.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1222. N. 25, ’05. 1800w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The present volume is one of the most interesting and admirable in
the series. It gives the author abundant opportunity for the display
of his extraordinary psychological gifts.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 104. Ja. 27. 630w. (Review of v. 6.)
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 363. D. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“It is difficult to keep within bounds our admiration for the energy,
the insight, and the profound philosophical basis of this masterwork
of criticism.”
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 157. Mr. 1, ’06. 540w. (Review of v. 6.)
+ – =Ind.= 61: 822. O. 4, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 4 and 7.)
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)
“He wrote in the full tide of liberalism, and his opinions are
manifestly colored by political affiliations, but he writes always
with spirit. The translation in the present edition is idiomatic, and,
so far as we have examined, accurate.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 413. N. 15, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Miss Morison, who has translated the last three volumes of the
series, is responsible for much of the interest of the book; her
translation is easy and fluent, to a very large extent, throwing down
the bars between a foreign writer and an English reader, and much of
the book’s interest is due to her.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 63. F. 3, ’06. 1030w. (Review of v. 6.)
“As a whole, the study shows literary insight, breadth of view, and
treatment vitalized by deep human sympathies.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= On reading: an essay. *75c. Duffield.
Dr. Brandes answers the three questions why, what, and how to read,
incidentally giving good advice on the subject of owning a library.
=Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen.= Reminiscences of my childhood and youth.
**$2.50. Duffield.
The reader follows this autobiography in the spirit of its synthetic
presentation. Especially interesting is the transitional period when
the formative forces became apparent, when religious, philosophical,
and social ideas were vaguely demonstrating a resolving principle. It
is a thoroughly subjective sketch, and its introspective character
appeals rather to the philosophical student than the casual reader.
* * * * *
“Perhaps the most notable characteristic of the book is the address
with which the writer manages to convey the impression of his own
personality and at the same time to suggest the influences of his
early environment.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 580w.
“What the most famous critic has to tell us is of interest in view of
his position and personality, and it is charmingly told.”
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 361. D. ’06. 1730w.
“The vigor and the vitality which characterize his treatment of other
writers are equally characteristic of this account of his own career,
and in part even to the most trivial happenings a high degree of
interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 323. N. 16, ’06. 2600w.
“A two-fold value may be attached to this work. It is a piece of
self-revelation by a master of psychological analysis, and it is a
picture of events and personages prominent on the page of European
history in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, seen through
the prism of a very rich temperament.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 290w.
“The translation of the book is, unfortunately, not very good. Not
only is Brandes’s nervous, individual style entirely lost, but the
translator shows lamentable ignorance of idiomatic English.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 489. D. 6, ’06. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“While there is little in the narrative that is of permanent value, it
is an interesting exercise to assume the writer’s point of view, and
look out of the windows he opens toward the world of social, artistic,
and literary movement.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 60w.
=Breal, Auguste.= Velazquez, tr. by Mme. Simon Bussy. *75c; lea. *$1.
Dutton.
“He has plenty of enthusiasm in his heart, but he writes with
moderation, and his little book forms an almost ideal introduction to
the study of Velasquez.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 130w.
=Breasted, James Henry.= Ancient records of Egypt: historical documents
from the earliest times to the Persian conquest, collected, edited and
translated with commentary. 5v. ea. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
A five volume work which when completed by the last volume next fall
will constitute a full and reliable source book of Egyptian history.
The work is intended as a companion to the author’s “History of
Egypt,” and in scope covers chronologically arranged inscriptions from
the earliest records to the final loss of Egyptian independence by the
Persian conquest.
* * * * *
“The general arrangement of the work seems excellent, and Dr.
Breasted’s translations leave nothing to be desired.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The series is admirably planned and executed and promises to be of
immense value to all workers in these lines.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 320. Ap. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 80. Jl. ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 3.)
“No student of ancient history can be satisfied without access to this
important work.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 224. S. ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 4.)
“When the promised index to these translated records has been issued,
Professor Breasted may be cordially congratulated on having begun and
ended a great task, by the successful accomplishment of which he has
put the study of Egyptian history on an entirely new footing.” F. Ll.
Griffith.
+ + + =Bib. World.= 28: 345. N. ’06. 1430w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Such source-books are invaluable to the student of Egyptian history.”
Ira Maurice Price.
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 17. Jl. 1, ’06. 550w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The fullest as well as the most vivid and interesting that has ever
been written.” F. Ll. Griffith.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 545. Jl. ’06. 960w. (Review, of v. 1.)
“It is time that such a work as this by Professor Breasted were
provided.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1106. My. 10, ’06. 830w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Professor Breasted has accomplished a very difficult task never
before accomplished, and one which is greatly to the credit of himself
and of the Chicago university.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Outlook.= 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 84: 285. S. 29, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 792. Je. 23, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“The whole series of volumes is indispensable not only to the
Egyptologist but also to the historian, and will be found interesting
even by ‘the general reader.’”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 4)
=Spec.= 96: 952. Je. 16, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Spec.= 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + + =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Breasted, James Henry.= History of Egypt from the earliest times to the
Persian conquest. **$5. Scribner.
“This book fills a great want. The writer seems to me to view Egypt
too often not as a critic but as an over-enthusiastic lover and
admirer, a fault rather general with the older school of
Egyptologists. The treatment of the transliteration of Egyptian names,
abounding in unwarranted innovations and inconsistencies, is hardly
suited to a popular work.” W. Max Müller.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 866. Jl. ’06. 1230w.
“Pitfalls have been avoided by Dr. Breasted, and in the result, and
subject to the caution we have indicated, his book is the best so far
at the disposal of the general reader.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 473. Ap. 21. 1680w.
“The best single-volume history of Egypt yet published. The work is
intended for the general public rather than the specialist.”
+ + + =Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“Professor Breasted has shown remarkable skill in weaving together the
scattered fragments of information that we possess covering the whole
period of his treatment; and the result is a vigorous, popular, and
highly interesting narrative account—even though sometimes severely
condensed—of the political, religious, and social life of the ancient
Egyptians.” Ira Maurice Price.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 15. Jl. 1, ’06. 750w.
“He has, in a word, and without abating a jot of authority, invested
the most arid as well as the most intensely human topics of Egyptology
with a fresh interest. To us its most serious defect lies in the
unduly high valuation of the influence of the Nile valley people on
the earliest civilization of Southern Europe.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 610w.
“His style ... is singularly vigorous and lucid. Professor Breasted
never forgets that his book is a history and not an archaeological
treatise, and this is one of his great merits.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 110. Mr. 30, ’06. 1630w.
“The student will look in vain for any other one work so well adapted
as this volume is to give him his first broad ideas and impressions of
the beginning of civilization and of the great general tendencies of
social evolution which have been exemplified in the development of all
peoples ancient and modern.” Franklin H. Giddings.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 529. S. ’06. 790w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“Little seems to have escaped his notice, and the story is put
together out of it in a pleasant and readable way.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 793. Je. 23, ’06. 870w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 792. My. 19, ’06. 1410w.
=Brennan, Rev. Martin S.= What Catholics have done for science: with
sketches of the great Catholic scientists. 3rd. ed. $1. Benziger.
A general refutation of the two wide-spread notions that when a man
devotes himself to science, he must necessarily cease to be a
Christian and that the Catholic church is hostile to scientific
progress.
=Brent, Rt. Rev. Charles Henry.= Adventure for God; six lectures
delivered in 1904. **$1.10. Scribner.
Bishop Brent of the Philippine islands appeals to the intellect, thru
the imagination in his six lectures, The vision, The appeal, The
response, The quest, The equipment, and The goal.
* * * * *
+ =Outlook.= 82: 392. F. 24, ’06. 860w.
“Bishop Brent outlines in vivid, effective form the impetus,
character, and purpose or goal of the active Christian life. The style
is vigorous and direct and the thought is practical and helpful.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 92. Ja. 20, ’06. 90w.
=Bridges, Robert (Droch, pseud.).= Demeter: a mask. *85c. Oxford.
“In ‘Demeter’, a masque written for and acted by the ladies of
Somerville College, Oxford, the author tells the old tale of the rape
of Persephone, of Demeter’s quest for her, and of her return as queen
of Hades, to live in this world only during the flower-time. His
variation upon the simplicity of the tale is his mystical account of
Persephone’s experiences in the nether-world, where she learns the
hidden darkness of evil.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The verse throughout is extraordinarily interesting, and there is
much to rank with the best of modern verse, both in its novelty and in
its excellence.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 607. Je. 10, ’05. 850w.
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 6. Jl. 1. 1440w.
“It is but fair to observe that correctness and decorum usually attend
the march of Mr. Bridges’s metrical battalions.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 47: 571. D. ’05. 240w.
“He had things that were worth saying and he has said them; but they
are not the mighty things that Milton had it in him to say, nor has he
the organ voice at the sound of which all other voices know that their
part is silence.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 189. Je. 16, ’05. 1960w.
“The versification, where he is content to be normal, is easy and
flowing, the diction graceful and worthy of the subject, but the
beauty of the myth is too often overlaid with philosophisings which
are not startlingly original.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 57. Jl. 8, ’05. 990w.
“In the main the verse has that grave perfection of form which Mr.
Bridges almost alone of the moderns can achieve.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 191. Ag. 5, ’05. 270w.
=Bridgman, Raymond Landon.= World organization. 50c. Ginn.
“The present volume is an important contribution to the literature of
peace and progress. In it Mr. Bridgman discusses the subject of world
organization in the clear and able manner of one who has thoroughly
mastered his theme.” (Arena.) The chief subjects discussed are: The
world constitution, The world legislature, The world judiciary, The
world executive, World legislation already accomplished, World
business now pending. Forces active for world unity, and World
organization secures world peace.
* * * * *
“It is an important contribution to the literature that makes for a
permanent upward-moving civilization.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 445. O. ’05. 580w.
=Outlook.= 80: 936. Ag. 12, ’05. 130w.
=Brierley, J. (“J. B.,” pseud.).= Eternal religion. **$1.40. Whittaker.
Making use of the “heritage of the past centuries, with their vast
endeavors after ultimate truth, and at the same time of a scientific
method for assaying their results” the author first sets forth
principles, necessary to an understanding of the theme as a whole,
then deals with some of the leading positions of Christianity, and
devotes the succeeding chapter to application of religion, as he
expounds it, to some of the prominent present-day problems.
* * * * *
“In Mr. Brierley’s treatment of his subject, breadth and
discrimination are equally apparent. For all religious teachers, and
for any who are perplexed with religious problems, it would not be
easy to find a more stimulating and helpful book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 320w.
“We have read this book with much interest and with frequent
agreement. On the other hand, we find much that is impossible to
accept.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 821. N. 18, ’05. 280w.
=Briggs, Charles Augustus.= Critical and exegetical commentary on the
book of Psalms. 2v. v. I. **$3. Scribner.
“This volume includes the introduction to the entire Psalter and the
Commentary on Pss. 1–50.... Especial attention is given in the
commentary to the poetical form, each psalm being translated with the
due attention to the parallelism and recognition of the strophic
structure. The critical position of the author might be called
conservative in these days when many interpreters are denying the
existence of pre-exilic psalms in the Psalter.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The introduction is full and thorough, packed with learning.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 351. N. ’06. 80w.
“His work upon it is not likely to be excelled in learning, both
massive and minute, by any volume of the ‘International series,’ to
which it belongs.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 300w.
“Dr. Briggs’s introduction is a monument of industry and learning.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 460w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 320w.
=Brinkmeyer, Rev. Henry.= Lover of souls: short conferences on the
Sacred Heart of Jesus. *$1. Benziger.
Nineteen helpful conferences which treat from a Roman Catholic
standpoint of: Devotions in the church, Love manifested in creation,
The exceeding great reward, The memorial, The bread of life, The
sacrifice, Reparation, The malice of sin, The satisfaction for sin,
and other kindred subjects.
=Brinton, Davis.= Trusia: a princess of Krovitch. †$1.50. Jacobs.
Of the same old ingredients, an obscure corner of Europe, a
revolution, a beautiful and throneless princess, and an adventurous
American, the author has made a stirring and interesting tale. He
carries his readers and his hero in a touring car from a New York club
to Krovitch, an ancient kingdom on the borderland of Russia, where
there is bloodshed and treachery, war and intrigue, in plenty. There
the hero’s valet becomes a king, and the hero wins the love of a
princess, Trusia, who after all is better fitted to be the wife of a
wealthy New Yorker than mistress of a crumbling medieval castle.
* * * * *
“The proceedings are by turns stirring, comic, and pathetic. If there
were less real gore and real killing it would read like unstaged
extravaganza. Even as it is it seems widowed without light music.”
– =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 290w.
“There are plenty of exciting incidents, which begin with the first
page and end with the last, and they are woven together with a fair
amount of skill into a plot that is coherent and sufficiently
reasonable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 220w.
=Brooke, Stopford Augustus.= On ten plays of Shakespeare. *$2.25. Holt.
“To the reader who has thought much about Shakespeare and is not new
to Shakespearian criticism the book is disappointing in its
meagreness. The author, while not going beyond what has been said by
his predecessors, writes almost as if he had had none.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 57. Ja. 20, ’06. 1050w.
Reviewed by William Allen Neilson.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 702. My. ’06. 310w.
“It is marked throughout by thorough scholarship, keen critical
acumen, and refined taste.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 100w.
“To make us see more in Shakespeare, that is the writer’s desire.
There have been few books so single-minded as this.” Edward E. Hale,
jr.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 148. Mr. 1, ’06. 1770w.
“His inferences are generally reasonable, and his statements of facts
accurate. But it is not clear that any very definite addition has been
made by the publication of this book to the common stock of
knowledge.” R. W. Chambers.
+ =Hibbert J.= 4: 920. Jl. ’06. 2010w.
“They consist mainly of moral and esthetic commonplaces interrupted by
occasional flashes of original insight.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 687. Mr. 22, ’06. 290w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 165. F. 22, ’06. 630w.
“The remaining plays chosen by Mr. Brooke are treated with equal
individuality and insight, and with a finish and charm of style which
would render the volume eminently readable, even to a jaded student of
Shakespeare.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 45. Ja. 27, ’06. 940w.
“Unhappily Mr. Brooke’s insight and sympathy appear to be in an
inverse ratio to the importance of the subjects on which they are
exercised.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 205. F. 17, ’06. 1860w.
“They are all the product of a fresh and imaginative mind, alive to
all the subtle influences of poetry, and capable of conveying its
impressions to others. Perhaps the best of all are those upon ‘As you
like it’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet.’”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 185. F. 3, ’06. 1400w.
=Brookfield, Charles, and Brookfield, Frances.= Mrs. Brookfield and her
circle. 2v. **$7. Scribner.
“The work of the editors is well done, and the book is sure to take
its place among remembered annals of the Victorian period.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 282. Ag. ’06. 380w.
“Are quite as interesting as any other Brookfield volumes that have
been published; and this is paying them the highest compliment.”
Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + + =Critic.= 48: 84. Ja. ’06. 1170w.
“There are fifteen portraits, all remarkably good; so good in fact as
to give a value to the book in spite of the lack of judgment and good
workmanship which characterize the editing.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1285. My. 31, ’06. 370w.
“It is really in these letters that the claim of the book to be here
noticed lies, for the connecting paragraphs and the descriptions of
the principal personages which come from the pens of the two
compilers, are done in a somewhat loose and careless fashion, which
shows itself even in the numerous misprints or misspellings of proper
names we encounter.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 76. Ja. 25, ’06. 2140w.
“The letters speak for themselves and are so complete in their
reflection of the times and the people they represent that the slender
thread connecting them is hardly more than a placing in order.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 517. Mr. 3, ’06. 2450w.
=Brooks, Hildegard.= Larky furnace and other adventures of Sue Betty.
$1.25. Holt.
Sue Betty worried about things in the nighttime and as a result she
had many surprising adventures. She followed the larky furnace that
went out nights and discovered what a really giddy creature he was,
she met a pirate in the lighthouse where she went to see her cousin do
light housekeeping, she rode delightedly on a saddle-moose, she
interviewed the editor of the powder magazine in behalf of her uncle’s
rejected manuscript, and she did many other interesting things all of
which are found in this volume.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 166. Mr. 17, ’06. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
=Brooks, William Keith.= The oyster; a popular summary of a scientific
study. *$1. Hopkins.
“The book is of great interest as a contribution to both natural and
industrial history.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 192. F. 15, ’06. 260w.
“This book is interestingly written and well illustrated.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1544. D. 28, ’05. 40w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 125. Ja. ’06. 260w.
=Broughton, Rhoda.= Waif’s progress. $1.50. Macmillan.
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1335. D. 23. ’05. 420w.
=Brown, Alice.= County road. †$1.50. Houghton.
“The thirteen stories that make this volume are excellent reading.
Most of them are set in the kitchens and dooryards of New England
houses; nearly all are enveloped in the young green of spring, and
every one deals with a human predicament.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“There is no abatement of cleverness and there is an increase of
rational motive, which both go to make a heartily agreeable volume.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 240w.
“Those to whom the stories are new have a rare pleasure before them.
Those who have lingered lovingly over the tales as they appeared in
the magazines will rejoice in their possession in permanent form.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 560w.
“They pass through pleasant places, they are free from haste, and they
are frequented by quaint, simple, original people.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
=Brown, Alice.= Court of love. †$1.25. Houghton.
The Court of love “where everybody has what he likes and likes what he
has,” was naturally looked upon by the world as a lunatic asylum, but
it was merely the whim of a girl who had not found happiness and who
wished to make other people happy. Julia Leigh’s unrestrained
hospitality involves her in strange complications not of her planning,
but by her fantastic masque she succeeds in re-uniting her best friend
to a forgetful husband, in restoring a lost child to its uncle, in
giving a burglar his deserts, in providing a real vacation for a
houseful of strangers, and finally in securing for herself her heart’s
desire. The whole is a pretty farce-comedy.
* * * * *
“No outline of its plot—if there be such a thing about it—could convey
the least sense of its bubbling humor and joyously riotous course.” W.
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 130w.
“It has the piquancy of plot and an ease of expression that are
refreshing.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 308. My. 12, ’06. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“The plot is merry and farcical, quite absurd in fact, but some of the
characters are cleverly amusing. On the whole, however, the little
play is not up to the author’s usual high standard.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 80w.
=Brown, Alice.= Paradise. †$l.50. Houghton.
“It is a story of strong human interest, tender and humorous, and in
its peculiar way strangely attractive.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1362. D. 30, ’05. 230w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 150w.
“The larger relations of life, with which the book professes to deal,
it handles, after all, rather half-heartedly; its real delight lies in
the pages of humorous observation, its delineations of eccentric
character. Miss Brown has done bigger and more enduring work.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 180w.
=Brown, Anna Robeson (Mrs. C. H. Burr, jr.).= Wine-press. †$1.50.
Appleton.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
=Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Brown, Arthur Judson.= New forces in old China: an unwelcome but
inevitable awakening. **$1.50. Revell.
“The most obvious omission is that of the vital matter of education,
but with the help of the index even this defect may in a measure be
supplied.”
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 189. Ja. ’06. 500w.
=Brown, Charles Reynolds.= Social message of the modern pulpit. **$1.25.
Scribner.
The Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching delivered at Yale during
1905–6. “The burden of the lectures is that it is the chief duty of
the clergy, at least in the present situation, to inculcate true
principles of social action and become leaders in the work of social
reconstruction.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“His appeal is rarely to facts of personal observation or to what
might be called the original documents of sociological controversy,
but is commonly to writers whose entire fairness and inerrancy have
yet to be proved.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 490w.
“Vitalized throughout by a strenuous moral tone, insisting on the
supremacy of spiritual ends and values, these lectures are
characterized also by the breadth of view and sanity of judgment which
comes of long and friendly contact with the interests both of trade
and unionists and capitalists in California.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 310w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 90w.
“The man who thinks that the message of Christianity is an academic
discussion of theological matters would do well to read this volume.
For every clergyman the reading of it is a duty.”
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 170w.
=Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes.= In and around Venice. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Other books may tell us much of Venice; Mr. Brown gives us Venice
from the Venetian point of view.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 326. Mr. 17. 230w.
“Justifies all expectations. He does not write simply of its
picturesque aspects. He is learned in all the lore of the region,
historical, geographical, practical and artistic.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 310w.
=Brown, John A. Harvie-.= Travels of a naturalist in northern Europe:
Norway, 1871, Archangle, 1872, Petchora, 1875. il. 2v. *$20. Wessels.
These two volumes contain the journals which Mr. Harvie-Brown, “an
accomplished ornithologist and enthusiastic faunist,” kept from day to
day during the expeditions to Norway, Archangle and Petchora. “The
real value and purpose of the book, however, lie in the observations
of the author and his companions on bird and animal life,—observations
that are minutely correct and scientific, and will be of interest to
those deeply versed in bird and animal lore.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The book is rather one for a naturalist’s library than for general
reading, yet there are many passages of character and travel which no
reader could fail to appreciate.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1134. O. 28, ’05. 510w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 235. F. 24. 1350w.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 300w.
“There are some instructive notes on the habits both of birds and men,
for all of which one is grateful, wishing only that there had been
more of this wheat and less of the journalistic chaff.”
+ – =Nature.= 73: 50. N. 16, ’05. 980w.
+ – =Spec.= 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ’05. 430w.
=Brown, Marshall=, ed. Humor of bulls and blunders. **$1.20. Small.
A book of fun primarily designed to amuse, and negatively to suggest
the importance of clear expression and simplicity of style. There are
educational, parliamentary, political, and typographical bulls and
blunders, there are humorous arraignments of advertisements, epitaphs,
and letters, and there is comedy in careless sentence structure,
punctuation and wrong use of words.
* * * * *
“A merry book, a book full of mirth-provoking passages. He seems to
have captured everything in his line.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 580. S. 22, ’06. 310w.
=Brown, Vincent.= Sacred cup. †$1.50. Putnam.
“The title refers to the sacrament of the Communion. The central
characters are a gentle clergyman, a young man, and a young woman....
Before the story opens a man has seduced a village girl, who dies
after giving birth to a child. The child is brought up in the
clergyman’s house, a fact which scandalizes many people. Presently the
vicar hits upon the identity of the child’s father, who becomes
engaged to the Lady Bountiful of the district. There comes a day when
the vicar feels obliged to refuse to administer the sacrament to this
unconfessed sinner, and upon that action the whole book hinges.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“We have found the novel extremely interesting, for the plot is well
worked out and the characters are clearly developed.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1082. O. 14, ’05. 240w.
“The conclusion is ineffective, and, notwithstanding a certain
cleverness, the novel cannot be called a success.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 890. D. 30. 230w.
“This is altogether the best piece of fiction written by Mr. Brown.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 100w.
“It may be occasionally dull, but it is never cheap; while in
conception it is tender, and even noble, and it yields passages of
real delicacy and sensitiveness to spiritual beauty.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 400w.
“There is decided ability and moving power in the scenes when the
quiet, timid little rector stands true to his religious conviction and
sacrifices his interests and his human ties.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 90w.
“The story is lacking in many essential elements of strength, as well
as in a completely balanced development of the characters.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 120w.
=Brown, William Garrott.= Life of Oliver Ellsworth. **$2. Macmillan.
“Besides being a biography and concerned particularly with the career
of Ellsworth, the book also presents a picture of life in New England
in Colonial times—the life of the people, picturesque scenes, and many
episodes.” (N. Y. Times.) “Much hitherto unpublished material is
brought to light, the arrangement is as a rule excellent, and the
impression left is that of a clean cut portrait of a fine old
Connecticut and American patriot.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“I cannot venture to say that it is absolutely free from error, for I
have not scrupulously sought for blunders; but those I have noticed
are trivial. The book is well written because the English style is
clear, straight-forward, and simple, not over-elaborated or striving
for effect.” A. C. McLaughlin.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 690. Ap. ’06. 1350w.
“Much information which is not readily, if at all to be found
elsewhere.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 472. My. ’06. 80w.
“A clear and sane account of a worthy patriot and jurist is given by a
practiced historian in this volume.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 515. Mr. 1, ’06. 70w.
“The life story [is] ... unfolded clearly and in an interesting way.
At times Mr. Brown troubles himself overmuch about petty details, and
at others betrays an undue enthusiasm for his hero. But his work—which
is based on original research and makes available not a little
hitherto unpublished material—has the signal merit of affording a
better insight not alone into Ellsworth’s character and activities,
but into the temper of the times in which he lived.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 530w.
“His biographer, accordingly, finds a dearth of material, and is
forced to rely much upon that indispensable and most dangerous faculty
of the historian—imagination. As a judicious and sympathetic study of
a notable American statesman and jurist, the volume is heartily to be
welcomed.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 329. Ap. 19, ’06. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 772. N. 11, ’05. 270w.
“In William Garrott Brown’s book on his life and works the treatment
is as ample as could be desired, if, indeed, it be not a trifle too
detailed for easy reading.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Brown, William Haig.= Carthusian memories and other verses of leisure.
*$1.60. Longmans.
“A little volume of occasional and other verses by the late head
master of Charterhouse, collected by his daughter. These verses
represent some of the thoughtful hours of ease crowning days of toil,
and reflect a gentle, kindly man whether in serious or more humorous
moods.... These pages contain no mere jingling rhymes, although they
show the light touch of an accomplished versifier, the work being
invariably easy and natural. Dr. Haig Brown is equally at home in
English or Latin, French or Greek or German.... The many specimens of
prologues for Old Carthusian theatricals show a pen as facile as that
of Dryden, and the four-foot rhyming Latin lines, might have come from
a skilful mediaeval monk.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“There is in all these sets of verses ... a warmth of heart and an
affection ... for the school over which he reigned for thirty-four
years together with a quiet sense of fun.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 646. Je. 17, ’05. 460w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 749. Je. 17. 260w.
“A congeries of scholarly good things.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 120w.
“The general reader will find the book not without a peculiar charm,
which it derives less, perhaps, from its graceful art than from its
attractive humanity.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 498. O. 7, ’05. 600w.
=Brown, William Horace.= Glory seekers: the romance of would-be founders
of empire in the early days of the Southwest. **$1.50. McClurg.
These true stories which read like romance are mainly of men who
“standing on the rugged confines of civilization in America at an
early period of our national life, sought distinction by attempting to
hitch their wagons to the star of empire.” Here are recorded
Wilkinson’s “treasonable enterprise,” “Citizen” Genet’s undertakings,
disgrace of Senator Blount, Burr’s arrest, Philip Nolan’s expedition
to Texas, the Magee expedition to Texas and Mexico and other
glory-seekers’ efforts to invade the Southland.
* * * * *
“The book is well done and is interesting.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 338. S. ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Brown narrates the facts fairly enough, but still with that due
regard for the picturesque which the subject seems to demand.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 160w.
“The stories are worth re-telling, and the author tells them most
interestingly.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 393. Je. 16, ’06. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 284. Ap. 28, ’06. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 200w.
“He has also sacrificed critical caution to the desire to be
entertaining, and his work is further marred by a flippancy of style
strangely out of keeping with the theme and in itself conducing to
weaken any claim his book may have to serious consideration.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 200w.
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 270w.
=Browne, George Waldo.= St. Lawrence river: historical, legendary,
picturesque. **$3.50. Putnam.
“It is in delineating the picturesque that Mr. Browne is at his best,
but even here we usually have rhapsody rather than sane description.
It would be tedious even with space at one’s disposal to point the
dozens of mistakes in the book. Enough has been written to show that
Mr. Browne was not equal to the task before him.”
– – =Canadian M.= 26: 123. D. ’05. 1890w.
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 200w.
=Browne, Nina Eliza=, comp. Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. *$5.
Houghton.
The initial volume in a series of bibliographies of prominent fiction
writers. The author, the secretary of the American library association
publishing board, has spent sixteen years upon her task, and has
included entries of everything that can be found in print by and about
Hawthorne, with references also to all the articles that were called
forth by the recent Hawthorne centenary.
* * * * *
“The book is comprehensively arranged, and the items for the most part
very completely covered, so that the volume stands as a genuine
contribution to bibliographical literature, and must prove invaluable
to the Hawthorne student.”
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 647. F. ’06. 250w.
=Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“Miss Browne has done a remarkably good piece of work in her
bibliography of Hawthorne.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ’05. 410w.
=Browning, Oscar.= Napoleon: the first phase: some chapters on the
boyhood and the youth of Bonaparte, 1769–1793. *$3.50. Lane.
“He has carefully gathered the necessary materials and arranged them
in excellent order for those to whom French books are sealed. The
digest, too, is fair and discriminating.”
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 385. Ja. ’06. 900w.
“Does not claim to be more than a summary of MM. Chuquet and Mason’s
works on Napoleon’s early years.” L. G. W. L.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 415. Ap. ’06. 220w.
=Browning, Robert.= Select poems; arranged in chronological order, with
biographical and literary notes by Andrew Jackson George. $1.50. Little.
=Ind.= 59: 1349. D. 7, ’05. 60w.
+ =School R.= 14: 231. Mr. ’06. 30w.
=Browning, Robert.= Selected poems; with biographical sketch by
Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. $1.25. Crowell.
Browning in the “Thin paper poets” edition is a companion for daily
walks, easily pocketed. The fact that Charlotte Porter and Helen A.
Clarke contribute the biographical sketch vouches for its literary
quality and authoritativeness. The frontispiece is a reproduction of
his last photograph made in 1889.
=Browning, Robert.= Selections from Browning; ed. with introd. and notes
by Robert Morss Lovett. *30c. Ginn.
A collection for the person who has not read Browning. The order in
which they would easily appeal to such a reader has been followed,
giving first poems of action and narration; second, poems of places;
third, love poems; and fourth, poems of character.
=Bruce, William Samuel.= Social aspects of Christian morality. *$3.50.
Dutton.
Believing that the social problems are at the foundation personal and
moral problems, the author would solve them “in accordance with the
principles of justice and equity.” He discusses the following
subjects: Scope and method of social ethics. Christian ethics, The
family, Marriage, Family life and relationships, The state, The
national state, State intervention, The civic power, The Christian
state, Public morality and the state, The social mind and the press,
Ethics of war, Ethics of art, Science and Education.
* * * * *
“Dr. Bruce cannot be said to have made any real contribution to the
discussion of his theme.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 266. S. 27, ’06. 310w.
“Simplicity, practicality, and sedate strength characterize these
lectures.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 360w.
=Brummitt, Daniel B.= Epworth league methods. *$1. Meth. bk.
“The Epworth league movement is here set forth with such attention to
detail that the book will be found a working hand-book, sufficient to
give every chapter a complete and not easily exhausted scheme of work,
with most of the plans worked out in full,” and it will be of interest
and value to the thousands of young people of the Methodist church who
are enrolled under the league’s banners thruout the United States.
=Bryan, William Jennings.= Letters to a Chinese official: being a
western view of eastern civilization. **50c. McClure.
Written by way of reply to the “Letters from a Chinese official” by
Mr. Lowe Dickinson. They have grown out of Mr. Bryan’s recent travels
in the Orient, and discuss such subjects as Chinese civilization
overrated, Western civilization underrated, The folly of isolation,
Labor-saving machinery, Government, The home, Without a mission, and
Christianity versus Confucianism.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 40w.
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 142. S. 15, ’06. 60w.
“It is a serious and convincing argument that Mr. Bryan
advances—rather more serious, perhaps, than was called for by so
evident a satire as the first production.”
+ – =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 150w.
=Bryant, Sara Cone.= How to tell stories to children. *$1. Houghton.
Helpful instruction to mothers and teachers on the psychology of
story-telling is followed by a group of stories prepared for use. “It
is pleasant to realize that the author places more store by the
imaginative force of the legend than its educative value, that she
realizes the first requisite of the story is to give joy rather than
to carry primarily useful information.”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ =Bookm.= 22: 534. Ja. ’06. 30w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
“Suggestive to mothers and teachers.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ’05. 10w.
=Buck, Gertrude, and Morris, Elizabeth Woodbridge.= Course in narrative
writing. *80c. Holt.
A course is here provided with an aim to definite practical results
for the student of composition. The author discusses the structure of
the story, finding the story, the point of view, the beginning and the
end of the story, scenes and transitions, character drawing, and the
setting, names and titles.
* * * * *
“It appears to us, that granting the propriety of the fundamental
conceptions, as we do not, the development of the subject is in the
right order, and the exercises, as is usual in the text-books of these
authors, ingenious and good.” E. E. Hale, jr.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 453. Je. ’06. 450w.
“Contains some interesting comment on the construction of the novel
and might be useful in connection with the study of literature.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
=Budge, Ernest Alfred Wallis.= Egyptian heaven and hell. 3v. *$5. Open
ct.
“The first two of his three volumes are given to the transcription and
interpretation of the two great books in which the ‘Learning of the
Egyptians.’ as it is related to the life after death, was expressed;
the third is a history and explanation of the two. These may be
defined as rival theories of eschatology, or they might be described
in more popular language as illustrated guides to the abodes of the
dead. They represent respectively the popular and the educated view of
the other world.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Dr. Budge’s rendering of the very difficult texts with which he here
has to deal is in every way adequate, and his third volume, in which
he discusses their bearing, contains matter which it is incumbent upon
every student of such matters to read.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 663. My. 26. 2610w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
“It is impossible to do full justice to this work in the space at our
disposal, but it will certainly long form the standard work on the
subject of Egyptian eschatology.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 295. Ag. 31, ’06. 1310w.
“The conceptions of the rewards and punishments of the dead in the
next world as given in these two books are also well worth the
attention of the anthropologist.”
+ + + =Nature.= 74: 10. My. 3, ’06. 770w.
“None of the material has escaped Dr. Budge’s unwearied industry. The
English reader now has before him all that can be known at present
about the ‘Book Am-Duat’ and the ‘Book of gates.’”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 623. My. 19, ’06. 1510w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
=Buell, Augustus C.= Paul Jones: founder of the American navy. 2v. $3.
Scribner.
Mr. Buell’s work on Paul Jones published six years ago appears in new
edition form, with supplementary chapter by General Horace Porter of
sixty-five pages devoted to a detailed account of the recent discovery
and identification of the remains of this revolutionary hero.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately, the publishers have not taken advantage of the
opportunity afforded by a new edition to correct the many inaccuracies
of the first imprint.”
– =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 974. Jl. ’06. 120w.
“His book is quite good enough to deserve its splendid new setting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 220. Ap. 7, ’06. 190w.
“Will probably take place as the authentic narrative relating to this
early officer under the American flag.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.
Buff: a tale for the thoughtful by a physiopath. $1. Little.
Buff, a frail wisp of humanity, passes thru interesting stages of
development as thought, reason and observation bring him into harmony
with the restorative power of nature. The aim of the sketch is to
teach the beneficial results of co-operating with nature in developing
useful lives.
* * * * *
“In the form of a biography, written in an unconventional but
attractive manner.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 130w.
=Buley, E. C.= Australian life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.
“Australia is no longer a colony, but a nation. This is the keynote of
Mr. Buley’s book on Australia.... It is a vivid picture that Mr. Buley
presents of newly made cities humming with industry and business and
filled with comfortable homes; great cattle and horse ranches, where
every proprietor is a little lord of the manor; sheep farms in the
back blocks fifty miles from a neighbor; gold fields where fortunes
are made in a day and lost the same night; and wide, dreary stretches
of the Never-Never land still awaiting irrigation and the consequent
inrush of settlers.”—Pub. Opin.
* * * * *
“The book deals most entertainingly with Australian life, and is well
illustrated.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 197. Mr. 16, ’06. 380w.
“The especial virtue of the book is its elementariness.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 806. Ap. 5, ’06. 270w.
“We have not, however, often read a volume in which solid information
was conveyed in a more pleasing style.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 61. Ja. 18, ’06. 750w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 725. D. 2, ’05. 240w.
“This is an interestingly written volume, with a particularly
absorbing chapter on the ‘Never never’ country.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 70w.
=Bullock, Charles Jesse=, ed. Selected readings in public finance.
*$2.25. Ginn.
A book which supplies the collateral reading needed to supplement the
text-book and lectures in a general course in finance. It aims to
introduce students to standard authors on subjects of finance, to draw
upon modern monographic or periodical literature not easily
accessible, to present other material of a statistical, historical and
descriptive nature that is necessary to amplify a knowledge of the
subject.
* * * * *
“Ought to prove of great value to teachers in small colleges.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 520. O. ’06. 140w.
“The chief criticism to be passed upon what is in other respects a
most useful work is the comparatively slight attention paid to
specifically American problems.”
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 565. S. ’06. 160w.
“It is not often that a volume is found where the evils of such
multiple authorship are so well overcome.” H. C. E.
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 334. N. ’06. 340w.
=Bumpus, T. Francis.= Cathedrals of England and Wales. **$4. Pott.
“Mr. Bumpus’s book is a valuable guide in the case of these buildings
not only describing them very fully, but also pointing out what parts
of them are original, and what new.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 903. D. 30. 170w.
“His book should be carefully read before any of the churches he
describes are visited.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 426. Ap. 7. 140w.
“It is no mere dressing-up of old material and hackneyed views.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 150w.
“Mr. Bumpus has only one real fault in writing about our cathedrals.
He is convinced that all the restorations of English cathedrals,
since, say, 1840 have been justified.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 556. N. 3. 210w.
“Not merely a useful handbook, but a piece of real literature.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 20: 180. Ap. ’06. 130w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 52. Jl. 14, ’06. 830w.
“We are not much struck by the illustrations, which are reproductions
from very ordinary photographs such as any amateur might take, but the
letterpress shows painstaking work, and the author is clearly well
studied in architecture.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 494. O. 20, ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Bumpus writes, for the most part, with moderation and good sense.
It is a pleasure to follow a guide so well informed and so
enthusiastic.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 264. F. 17, ’06. 330w.
=Bunyan, John.= Pilgrim’s progress: with notes and a sketch of Bunyan’s
life. *25c. Ginn.
Uniform with the “Standard English classics” this “Pilgrim’s progress”
has been carefully edited and abridged for school use.
=Burdick, Lewis Dayton.= Hand. $1.50. Irving co.
A survey of facts, legends, and beliefs pertaining to manual
ceremonies, covenants and symbols. The chapters include a historical
study of the hand as “Executant of the brain,” “A symbol of life,” “A
symbol of authority,” “An indicator of fortune,” “Trial by the hand,”
“Laying on hands,” “Lifting the hand,” “Taking an oath,” “The social
hand,” “The healing hand,” “The hand of evil,” and others related in
idea.
* * * * *
=Arena.= 35: 335. Mr. ’06. 190w.
“An unusually interesting little monograph, prepared in a scholarly
manner.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.
=Burgess, (Frank) Gelett.= Are you a bromide? or, The sulphitic theory
expounded and exemplified according to the most recent researches into
the psychology of boredom, including many well-known bromidioms now in
use. *50c. Huebsch.
In his satiric essay the sulphitic author raises a question without an
answer, furnishing a classification by which the bores may be
separated from the apostles of the unexpected which the few will apply
and the many will indignantly condemn. But his theory is expounded
with such conviction that if he reach a wide enough audience the stock
phrases of the bromides here listed are doomed to become obsolete.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1353. D. 6, ’06. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 190w.
=Burgess, (Frank) Gelett.= Little sister of destiny. †$1.50. Houghton.
Margaret Million is a wealthy young heiress who plays the rôle of
chorus girl, cashier, manicure, artist’s model, and serving maid in
order to befriend and help less fortunate girls. Her Lady Bountiful
methods demand that her beneficiaries never know the source of their
good fortune—the idea of mystery enhancing the fairy-tale aspect of
the book.
* * * * *
“The stories of her experiences are entertaining in spite of their
unlikeliness.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“Is one of the most lovable books that have come to our table for many
a long day.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1686. My. 31, ’06. 150w.
“Everybody should read ‘The little sister of destiny.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 214. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“They vary in merit, but as a whole will not enhance the author’s
reputation as a whimsical humorist.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 2, ’06. 30w.
“After Mr. Burgess’s usual manner he mixes a good deal of sense with
considerable whimsical nonsense.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 150w.
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 70w.
=Burgess, William Watson.= Life sentence; or, Duty in dealing with
crime. $1.50. Badger, R. G.
The scene of this story is Carson City. In commuting the life sentence
of a woman who had murdered a villainous man there is opportunity for
the author’s arguments of justification. He would reform the world by
preventing instead of punishing crime.
=Burke, John Butler.= Origin of life: its physical basis and definition.
*$3. Stokes.
This bulky volume is based upon the “experiments of J. Butler Burke of
Cambridge, England, upon the effect of radium salts upon sterile
solutions of bouillon and other organic media. Under the influence of
the radiations, small bodies (termed ‘radiobes’) appear in the medium
which appear strikingly like micro-organisms in that they grow in size
and later exhibit nuclei and then divide. It is held that they are not
bacteria nor even protoplasm, but that they are really alive, and
represent transitional and evanescent forms of matter and energy lying
between the common inorganic types of matter and stable living
aggregates.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“We are indeed no nearer the solution of the problem of the origin of
life than before this book was written.” W. P. Pycraft.
– =Acad.= 70: 500. My. 26, ’06. 1280w.
“He possesses neither the learning nor the clarity of mind which give
value to Dr. Bastian’s treatment of the same topics, irrespective of
his personal views.” E. T. Brewster.
– =Atlan.= 98: 421. S. ’06. 380w.
“It is to be hoped that he is more skillful with the test-tube than
with the pen. His style is extraordinarily loose and awkward.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 123. Ap. 6, ’06. 1320w.
“While biologists generally will regard this presentation, like the
earlier one, as failing to prove the author’s main thesis ...
nevertheless, the volume will serve a valuable purpose as an excellent
exposé of both old and new theories of the origin of life, and of a
philosophy of nature which is growing in popularity.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 18. Jl. 5, ’06. 340w.
“An interesting book on a perennially interesting theme.” J. A. T.
+ – =Nature.= 74: 1. My. 3, ’06. 2200w.
“Mr. Burke may not have proved his points, but he is not dogmatical,
and he certainly seems a very wholesome philosopher.” Charles Loomis
Dana.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 1460w.
=R of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 120w.
“It is amazing that a man should dare to publish such a record of
experiment, so slipshod, so uncritical, so destitute of scientific
method; great must be his trust in the abundant and unfailing
beneficence of popular ignorance.”
– – =Sat. R.= 101: 334. Mr. 17, ’06. 1560w.
=Burland, Harris.= Black motor car. †$1.50. Dillingham.
“The volume, contains indications of a gift for narrative, and some
respectable powers of description; it is compact of energy and
enthusiasm.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 210w.
=Burland, Harris.= Financier. †$1.50. Dillingham.
A new story by the author of “The black motor car.” “Briefly set down,
the plot involves an African region, a promoter who is also an
unscrupulous British patriot, a contest with Germany, a little war
with heaps of slain, an impossible young actress, an equally
impossible young civil engineer, a peer or two, a panic, gold mines,
and members of the kaiser’s secret service—especially a lady spy,
picturesquely named Mrs. Wooddevil. Mr. Burland has by the way, a
curious taste in names.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“His ‘Financier’ like his other stories, is readable in spite of the
glaring inexpertness of the diction, the wretched quality of the
puppets, and the exposed condition of the wires that pull them about
to do the showman’s will.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.
“A crude story.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 26, ’06. 20w.
“Is an honest piece of sensationalism free from the most glaring vices
of its class.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 212. Ag. 18, ’06. 150w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Dawn of a to-morrow.
†$1. Scribner.
A book which embodies the spirit of Christian science without the
letter seems to be a sermon with the unannounced text “I if I be
lifted up ... will draw all men unto me.” A king of finance just ready
to “shuffle off this mortal coil” by act of suicide withdraws to the
slum section of London to hide his deed in a pauper’s seclusion. Here
he is found by a “little rat of the gutter,” an ugly girl of twelve
years, with astonishing insight into human hearts. This child with her
sure faith in God as a present unfeared reality; Jenny Montaubyn who
had taught her this hope; Polly, a girl of the streets; and a hungry
thief form a group who make a great capitalist take hope and desire to
work out his own salvation.
* * * * *
“Is a simple, old-fashioned miracle-play, set forth in modern London
with the sure, swift touch of a practised story-teller.” Mary Moss.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 299. My. ’06. 560w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 130w.
– =Ind.= 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 160w.
“The little story is tenderly told, leaving the reader with a softened
heart and broader sympathies.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 147. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.
“It is an unusual little tale, written powerfully and dramatically.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“There is a decidedly tense air about the short story, which detracts
from its intended effect.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 40w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Little princess:
being the whole story of Sarah Crewe now told for the first time. †$2.
Scribner.
“It is unusual to tell a story three times over, but all three
versions are charming, and we accept them with gratitude.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 150w.
“Is written in that fascinating style which has won for the gifted
author of ‘The little Lord Fauntleroy’ so many admirers.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 375. F. ’06. 60w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 1042. D. 16, ’05. 140w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Queen Silver-Bell.
[+]60c. Century.
Silver-Bell, queen of the fairies, grieves because people have grown
so stupid that they no longer believe in fairies. She is so agitated
that her temper flies out of its golden cage, and the Dormouse, to
whom she goes for advice, assures her that the only way she can atone
for her loss is to encourage the writing of fairy stories. Into the
ears of her amanuensis, apprenticed for life, she whispers these
stories, which so far are three in number. “Queen Silver-Bell” and
“How Winnie hatched the little rooks” are found in this first volume
of the series.
* * * * *
“The little story will be warmly received.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
“While Mrs. Burnett’s style is so pure that it makes easy reading,
there is not in her subject matter in these books any very striking
motive to make an impression on the child’s mind.”
+ – =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.
=Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Mrs. Stephen Townsend).= Racketty-Packetty
house. [+]60c. Century.
The second volume of fairy tales dictated by Queen Silver-Bell to her
amanuensis.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
=Nation.= 83: 514. D, 13, ’06. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
+ – =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 20w.
=Burney, Frances (Madame D’Arblay).= Diary and letters of Madame
D’Arblay; ed. by her niece, Charlotte Barrett. 6v. ea. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
Reviewed by J. C. Bailey.
+ + + =Living Age.= 249: 268. Ja. ’06. 9790w. (Reprinted from
Quarterly R.)
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 526. D. 28, ’05. 2060w. (Review of v. 4–6.)
Reviewed by J. C. Bailey.
+ + + =Quarterly R.= 204: 89. Ja. ’06. 9790w.
=Burns, Robert.= Poems; with biographical sketch by Nathan H. Dole.
$1.25. Crowell.
One of the eight volumes in the “Thin paper poets” series. The book
contains a biographical sketch and a glossary, and as a frontispiece
reproduces the Peter Taylor painting of Burns in 1786.
=Burr, Agnes Rush.= Russell H. Conwell, founder of the institutional
church in America: the work and the man. **$1. Winston.
This is the sketch of a philanthropist still living, still doing
active work for church, college, and hospital, in all of which three
lines “he has blazed new paths ... has not only proven their need,
demonstrated their worth, but he has shown how it is possible to
accomplish such results from small beginnings, with no large gifts of
money, with only the hands and hearts of willing workers.”
=Burrage, Henry Sweetser.= Gettysburg and Lincoln: the battle, the
cemetery, and the National park. **$1.50. Putnam.
“His book is divided into three parts, the first dealing with the
battle, the second detailing the circumstances connected with the
inception, dedication, and completion of the cemetery and the third
giving a record of the work of the park commission.” (Outlook.) “Of
special interest are the chapters on Lincoln’s address, and the
slightly different versions of it printed. He shows that many persons
who heard the address were deeply impressed by it.... Mr. Burrage,
with greater fulness than Nicolay or Hay, has gone into the
circumstances in which Lincoln wrote the speech. He presents facts
which are as new as they are interesting.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“The sketch is well written and to the point.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ =Dial.= 41: 320. N. 16, ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Burrage’s monograph was worth the doing, and he has performed
this task fairly well.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
=Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 150w.
“A useful volume by Major Henry S. Burrage, himself a war veteran and
imbued with obvious enthusiasm for his theme.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 795. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
=Burrell, Joseph Dunn.= New appraisal of Christian science. 50c. Funk.
An estimate of Christian science made according to the standard of
mental science resulting in an adverse summary characterized by such
expressions as “infantile logic, offensive pretentiousness, and
slippery casuistry.”
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 30w.
=Burroughs, John.= Bird and bough. **$1. Houghton.
This collection of the nature verses which have been published in
various periodicals is happily dedicated “To the kinglet that sang in
my evergreens in October and made me think it was May.” “The freshness
and precision of Mr. Burrough’s observation need no comment. He is a
master of clean-drawn phrase, and ... has a good gift of short-lined
metre. So far as his work is poetry rather than versified nature
study, it is so by virtue of a certain single-minded affectionateness
of interest in nature.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 49: 139. Ag. ’06. 780w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 206. O. 1, ’06. 190w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 230w.
“Quite free from such introspection, without a trace of the haunting
melancholy that pervades ‘The Shropshire lad,’ John Burroughs makes
his songs of ‘Bird and bough.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 280w.
=Burroughs, John.= Ways of nature. **$1.10. Houghton.
“In his latest book his observations are new and described with
freshness and point.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 355. Ap. 14, ’06. 630w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 286. F. 1, ’06. 350w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 59. Ja. 18, ’06. 1140w.
“Burroughs evidently proves his case to his own convincing, if not to
a legion of his hearty friends and admirers.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 1610w.
“He has thought out the subject, and what he writes is fairly
interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 110w.
=Burry, B. Pullen-.= Ethiopia in exile: Jamaica revisited. †$1.50.
Wessels.
“It is a valuable contribution to the great racial problem which
demands the serious attention of American statesmen. The author draws
an instructive parallel between the condition of the negroes of
Jamaica and those of the United States.” (Ath.) “The black man in
republican America is vastly worse off than in monarchist Britain, she
says; and no American has a right to gainsay her. The Jamaican is out
of work because, owing to changed conditions, there is no work in
Jamaica for him to do; the American negro is deliberately prevented
from working by the whites, both North and South; they won’t have
him.” (Nation.) “Miss Pullen-Burry sees the most hopeful sign in the
work done by Dr. Booker T. Washington and his colleagues for the
education and racial elevation of the negro, and gives a full and
interesting account of this work.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 39. Jl. 14. 300w.
“We can commend Miss Pullen-Burry’s book; it is an excellent account
of Jamaica, it is a fair study of the chief problem before us
Americans.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 71. F. 3, ’06. 540w.
=Burton, Richard.= Rahab: a drama in three acts. *$1.25. Holt.
A drama made out of the story of the “Woman of Jericho” whose house
was on the city wall. Dr. Burton’s quick imagination has given life
and a distinctive dramatic energy to a Bible story that of itself is
meager. His Rahab who has seen the glory of God of Israel in a vision
and has dreamed of the downfall of Jericho is drawn in flesh and blood
characters, and thru her and her three rival lovers a strong human
interest is maintained.
* * * * *
“Dr. Burton brings to his task the faculty of clearly perceiving his
‘dramatis personæ’ of determining the interaction of his characters,
and a skilled workmanship in the management of the verse-vehicle.”
Edith M. Thomas.
+ + =Critic.= 49: 219. S. ’06. 390w.
“Dr. Burton’s ‘Rahab’ is a pretty enough academic exercise. But it has
about as much to do with existing conditions as has the megatherium.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 758. S. 27, ’06. 130w.
“If the play lacks sufficient vigor to foretell for it length of days
it has some qualities that are uncommon in contemporary verse.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.
“It is simply and fluently written, with many felicities of phrase,
and with comparatively few passages to which the most super-sensitive
critic might object.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 300w.
“It is not in any sense a great play, but it has movement, vivacity,
color, and dramatic feeling.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 769. Jl. 28, ’06. 240w.
=Bury, John B.= Life of St. Patrick and his place in history. *$3.25.
Macmillan.
“His method can without hesitation be said to be sound, and his mind
singularly unbiased. His mastery of the evidence, both in Latin and in
Irish, is also unquestionable. The style, too, though rather compact
and severe, is lucid and readable.” F. N. Robinson.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 633. Ap. ’06. 770w.
“The arrangement of the book is admirable. We hope that in a second
edition we may be supplied with a complete index.” F. E. Warren.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 347. Ap. ’06. 2360w.
Reviewed by T. W. Rolleston.
+ + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 447. Ja. ’06. 1310w.
“The text of Professor Bury’s book is clear, succinct, and well
arranged chronologically.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 19. Ja. 4, ’05. 930w.
“We cannot part from Professor Bury’s work without expressing our
unfeigned admiration for his complete control of the original
authorities on which his narrative is based, and of the sound critical
judgment he exhibits in dealing with sources which present unusual
difficulties.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 977. D. 9, ’05. 1830w.
=Butler, Alford A.= Churchman’s manual of methods: a practical Sunday
school handbook for clerical and lay workers. $1. Young ch.
A practical handbook compiled wholly from the author’s experience as
Sunday school teacher, superintendent, clergyman and professor of
religious pedagogy.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Incubator baby. [+]75c. Funk.
The author of “Pigs is pigs” writes an incubator baby’s comments upon
the change from her “paradise” to the big uncongenial world presided
over by her indifferent father and mother.
* * * * *
“Here we have gentle satire at its best. It is a delightful story and
will be enjoyed by old as well as young, though it will be especially
pleasing to the little people.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 684. D. ’06. 240w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 670. O. 13, ’06. 140w.
“The satire is relieved by an abundance of sentiment and common
sense.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
=Butler, Ellis Parker.= Perkins of Portland; Perkins the Great. †$1.
Turner, H. B.
Seven adventures of Perkins of Portland leave nothing to be desired in
the way of advertising-finesse. He seizes the moment to launch a ware
upon a gullible public, and whether it be porous plasters or guinea
pigs his success is obvious.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 670. O. 13, 06. 110w.
“Sequels and second books in the wake of a popular success, while they
may be measurably good themselves, are usually dangerous experiments.
This little book is, unfortunately, no exception to the rule.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 50w.
=Byrne, Mary Agnes.= Fairy chaser and other stories. 60c. Saalfield.
Five charming fairy tales for young readers: The fairy chaser, Kitty’s
ring, The magic mirror, The old gray shawl, and Cecelia’s gift.
=Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th baron.= Poetical works; new and
rev. ed.; ed. with a memoir by Ernest Hartley Coleridge. *$1.50.
Scribner.
A complete edition of Byron’s poetry, containing all the new poems
included in the 1898–1904 edition. The reader will find “a lively and
well-written memoir by the editor, and judicious notes to the various
poems, which explain all that one needs to know.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The introductory memoir ... is all that could be desired; in every
way this is a most satisfactory edition of Byron to have on the
bookshelf, and we think it will continue for many a long day, to
deserve a place there.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“An admirable and probably final edition of the noble poet.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 14. Ja. 6. 130w.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 480. My. ’06. 290w.
“It contains the gist of the editorial matter in Mr. Coleridge’s
definitive seven-volume edition.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 240. Ap. 1, ’06. 100w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 100w.
“The text is authoritative.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 150w.
“In every way it is an excellent addition to one’s book shelves.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 150w.
“This is an acceptable one-volume edition of Byron’s poems.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 130w.
C
=Cabell, James Branch.= Line of love. †$2. Harper.
“An interesting contribution to romantic literature, not beyond
popular understanding and enjoyment.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“Altogether Mr. Cabell’s book is unusual in style, poise, and dramatic
fervor.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.
=Cable, George Washington.= Old Creole days; with 8 full-page il. and
head and tail pieces in photogravure by Albert Herter. $2.50. Scribner.
In reprinting “Old Creole days” eight full-page drawings and fourteen
smaller ones add new charm to the contents.
* * * * *
“The mechanical features are all of a high grade of excellence, and
the volume has an air of dignity and beauty that well fits the charm
of the contents.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 140w.
=Cabot, Mrs. Ella Lyman.= Everyday ethics. $1.25. Holt.
Both teacher and general reader will find in this volume the rudiments
of right choosing and well doing. The moral aspects of the soul’s
activities—memory, imagination courage, feeling and the sense of honor
are discussed in detail with the special aim of serving the teacher’s
needs.
* * * * *
“It is a book that every child might read with profit if it were not
forced upon him in the form of ‘lessons.’”
+ =Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 40w.
=Cadogan, Edward.= Makers of modern history: three types: Louis
Napoleon, Cavour, Bismarck. **$2.25. Pott.
+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Caffin, Charles Henry.= How to study pictures. **$2. Century.
“Regarded as a frank imitation, however, the book is well enough of
its kind.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 7. O. 13, ’06. 1100w.
“Mr. Caffin helps people to look at pictures with their eyes, a not
too common thing with writers on art, who mostly see pictures with
their minds, which is quite a different matter.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
=Caird, Edward.= Evolution of theology in the Greek philosophers.
*$4.25. Macmillan.
Reviewed by George Burman Foster.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 762. O. ’06. 970w.
=Caird, Mrs. Mona.= Romantic cities of Provence; il. by Joseph Pennell
and Edward Synge. *$3.75. Scribner.
“This is a book bred of a sojourn in Provence and attesting an
awakened eye and sympathy. It aims to catch the spirit of the place,
the indefinable quality lost in a hurried railway passage, and
succeeds best, perhaps, in imparting the reflex effects produced upon
the traveller. The book is illustrated from over two dozen pen
sketches by Joseph Pennell and about twice the number by Edward M.
Synge, who draws with a similar preoccupation with the effect of
sunlight, but with a more downright stroke, a generally wider
interspace in shading and a greater use of outline.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Mona Caird brings a romancer’s love of sentiment and an artist’s
powers of description to her ‘Romantic cities of Provence,’ with the
happiest of results.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 260w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 610w.
“Certainly no one of the season’s volumes is better worth owning than
is this.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
=Calderon de la Barca, Pedro.= Eight dramas of Calderon; freely tr. by
E. Fitzgerald. $1.50. Macmillan.
The eight dramas included here are as follows: The painter of his own
dishonor, Keep your own secret, Gil Perez the Galician, Three
judgments at a blow. The mayor of Zalamea, Beware of smooth water, The
mighty magician and Such stuff as dreams are made of.
* * * * *
“His versions appeal neither to the scholar nor to the general reader:
the one is irritated by constant omissions, amplifications, and
liberties of every kind, while the other is disappointed at finding
that the Spanish atmosphere has vanished.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 112. Jl. 28. 200w.
“It will save searching in a general collection, and can be
comfortably held in the hand.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 70w.
“The Eversley imprint, owing to its cheapness and excellent
typography, will appeal to many lovers of the Spanish poet.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 495. Ag. 11, ’06. 260w.
=Calvert, Albert Frederick.= Moorish remains in Spain. **$15. Lane.
“Taken altogether, Mr. Calvert’s book is most disappointing, and we
think that the Alhambra plates should be withdrawn.” A. J. Butler.
– =Acad.= 70: 471. My. 19, ’06. 1870w.
“The coloured plates reproduce admirably the delicate devices
characteristic of Moorish workmanship at its best. Mr. Calvert
habitually confounds legend with fact, and fails to distinguish
between the random assertions of a tourist and the statements of a
scholar.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 543. My. 5. 330w.
“His book, so complete in other respects, is without an index, a fact
that detracts very greatly from its value to the student.”
+ + – =Int. Studio.= 29: 88. Jl. ’06. 420w.
“With regard to the Moorish ‘architecture and decoration’ in these
three cities, the main theme of the book, Mr. Calvert is himself
rather prone to superlatives and gush; and, moreover, does not clearly
see that architecture is something altogether different from
decoration.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 243. Jl. 6, ’06. 870w.
“The book seems worthy of its subject, and we would gladly give a more
effective description of its many beauties.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 545. Ap. 7. ’06. 120w.
Cambridge modern history; planned by Lord Acton; ed. by A. W. Ward, G.
W. Prothero, and Stanley Leathes. 12v. ea. **$4. Macmillan.
“There are unhappily gaps filled with second-rate productions, which
detract considerably from the value of the whole.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 447. My. 12, ’06. 1890w. (Review of v. 9.)
“As a book of reference this one has a certain value, though it is
neither a monument of British scholarship nor of Continental, there
being neither continuity nor unity in the product of a well-meant
effort to weld the two. There is little charm of style anywhere, no
quality of mysterious evolution in the subject which compels
attention, no magisterial character in the book to command the highest
respect. As to the bibliography, no arrangement could have been
invented more forbidding to the searcher after authors, titles, or
subjects.”
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 135. O. ’06. 2270w. (Review of v. 9.)
Reviewed by W. E. Lingelbach.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 342. S. ’06. 1370w. (Review of v. 9.)
“It contains a great deal of good work by capable writers and if it
does not reach Acton’s ideal, it does not fall far below that of M.
Ernest Lavisse.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 691. Je. 9. 1990w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The weakest part of the scheme is its treatment of great men.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 725. D. 8. 1950w. (Review of v. 4.)
“In the assignments of topics to their European associates, the
editors of this important series have been especially happy. The
division of the subject-matter into topics has been accomplished
satisfactorily.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 203. O. 1, ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 9.)
“One is naturally tempted to compare the two volumes with the
corresponding ones of their predecessor, the ‘Histoire generale.’ They
are full of well-attested facts. But from the point of view of
attractiveness of style and matter the English books fall behind the
French. Its writers have not the French knack of dovetailing a
striking incident or quotation into a perforce heavy narrative. All of
them possess learning and industry; but taken as a whole their product
is but dull reading, though there are exceptions.” W. E. Rhodes.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 160. Ja. ’06. 1740w. (Review of v. 3 and 8.)
“It is in relation to international affairs, and especially to war,
that the co-operative method breaks down worst. In a volume of such
dimensions, with a scheme which drags most things away from
chronological order, the lack of a thoroughly good index is especially
unfortunate.” Hereford B. George.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 807. O. ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The volume is ample for clear views of Napoleon the man, the soldier,
the statesman, and for his effect on the world in government,
religion, society and art.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 1115. N. 8, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 9.)
“It is hard to see who will read the book, for the expert can get
little from the disconnected monographs, while the layman is confused
by the overlapping divisions, where there is no charm of style and no
evolution which holds the attention.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 9.)
“The volume before us is inferior to none of its predecessors. Some of
the chapters are of conspicuous merit, and throughout a very
respectable standard is maintained, while, as the editors observe,
‘the dominance of an overwhelming personality gives the events
narrated cohesion and unity.’”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 176. My. 18, ’06. 2710w. (Review of v. 9.)
“That part which deals with the literature printed and manuscript,
including pamphlets and news letters, relating to the Thirty years’
war is likely to be of great service to students.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 397. N. 30. ’06. 2160w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The general level of quality is well-sustained. It is perhaps not so
high as in the first two volumes—‘Renaissance’ and ‘Reformation’—but
it strikes us as rather higher than in the last preceding volume, that
on the French revolution.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 225. S. 13, ’06. 2990w. (Review of v. 9.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 300. My. 5, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 9.)
“It must be acknowledged that the volume on Napoleon is not so
uniformly excellent as the volumes on earlier epochs—the renaissance,
the reformation, and the wars of religion.” Christian Gauss.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 417. Je. 30, ’06. 4220w. (Review of v. 9.)
=Outlook.= 83: 286. Je. 2, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 9.)
Reviewed by J. H. Robinson.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 702. D. ’06. 840w. (Review of v. 9.)
=R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 9.)
“There is not only a lack of general cohesion in the fragments but
most of them are far from complete in themselves.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 589. My. 12, ’06. 1740w. (Review of v. 9.)
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 166. Ag. 4, ’06. 2000w. (Review of v. 9.)
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 260w. (Review of v. 9.)
=Campbell, Douglas Houghton.= Structure and development of mosses and
ferns. *$4.50. Macmillan.
A recently re-written and enlarged edition of Professor Campbell’s
work.
* * * * *
“That the book is fairly brought up to date goes without saying,
though one may differ from the author as to the relative values among
some of the newer researches, and may wish that some of the old
figures had been replaced by new and better ones. Proof-reading
throughout the volume has been very bad. The index is really absurd.
Spite of defects ... we welcome the new edition and commend it to
every botanist as a necessary reference work, even though he have the
first.” C. R. D. and C. J. C.
+ + – =Bot. Gaz.= 40: 461. D. ’05. 1070w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1482. D. 21, ’05. 160w.
“Professor Campbell is an ardent investigator, to whom cryptogamic
botany is much indebted for substantial advance in certain directions,
and he is, moreover, a clear expositor.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 532. D. 28, ’05. 450w.
“This edition without question must prove to be as helpful and
suggestive as the one it supplants, and will be used by all students
who wish to obtain a clear notion of the structure and relationship of
higher plants.” Charles E. Bessey.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 22: 631. N. 17, ’05. 580w.
=Campbell, Frances.= Dearlove, the history of her summer’s make-believe.
†$1.50. Dutton.
“Dearlove is a little maiden of eleven years, portrayed in a charming
frontispiece. She holds sway over a family consisting of her
grandfather, the Earl of Amherst; her uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady
Inverona, and her young widowed mother Lady Margaret Gordon. The
‘Summer’s make-believe’ takes place on the Isle of Guernsey, where the
family is spending a happy holiday. The ‘make-believe’ is an invention
of Dearlove (otherwise Philomena,) who decrees that for the summer all
the grownups shall become her age—except ‘Ganpa,’ who may be
twenty-five—shall be called by their Christian names, and shall
disport themselves like eleven-year-olds. How they do this, whom they
meet, and what comes of it all makes a fanciful book.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“She tells her tale with a complete understanding of children and
their ways; and heart as well as skill goes to make it the charming
book it is.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 405. Ap. 28, ’06. 270w.
“The author can do better than this, but her gifts appear to us to lie
in the direction rather of pure fantasy than fiction.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 513. Ap. 28. 170w.
“Will make grown-ups young again, if any book can.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1413. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“The book is written in a style so limpid and pleasant, and tells
about such true-hearted sweet people, besides having that indefinable
thing we call ‘atmosphere,’ that, albeit with some grumbling, we fare
on to the end.”
+ – – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 544. S. 1, ’06. 380w.
=Outlook.= 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 120w.
“Readers who like a series of charming sketches with a delicate thread
of plot connecting them are cordially recommended to send for
‘Dearlove.’”
+ =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 120w.
=Campbell, Frances.= Measure of life. **$1.50. Dutton.
“In her dedication Mrs. Campbell alludes to these tales and dreams as
her ‘spiritual adventures,’ and that is perhaps the clearest
description that can be given of them. Dreams, legends, and visions
have each a golden thread of spiritual meaning woven into them. All
the author’s eloquence is upon the side of right and goodness; her
pages are full of counsels of perfection, of the wisdom of endurance,
of the salutary effect of patience under pain, suffering and loss, of
the value of self-sacrifice and tribulation in the discipline of life.
Throughout she glorifies those bracing qualities which ordinary human
nature is least inclined to go out of its way to cultivate. Some of
the tales are charming in their tenderness and gaiety.... Others, of
dreams and second sight, are curious and interesting.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Ideas flow easily and find expression in a wealth of imagery that
transforms familiar truths into something new and strange.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 261. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“While her symbolical personages, such as the ‘master of illusion,’
are charming, her contemporary characters, whether English ladies or
Irish peasants, do not entirely carry conviction. This criticism does
not, however, hold good with regard to the still-life of the picture,
which testifies to an intimate and sympathetic acquaintance with Irish
landscape, and to a notable gift of description.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 229. F. 24. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.
=Campbell, Scott, pseud. (Frederick William Davis).= Below the dead
line. †$1.50. Dillingham.
When Inspector Byrnes commanded New York police he issued an order
demanding the instant arrest of every crook found by day or night in
that part of the city lying south of Fulton street. This order soon
earned for the district the title “Below the dead line.” This story
records the operations of clever criminals who tried to evade the
order.
=Campbell, Wilfred.= Collected poems. **$1.50. Revell.
A collection of Mr. Campbell’s poems that have appeared in American
and English periodicals. They are prefaced by an introduction by the
author in which he says “After all, the real root of all poetry, from
Shakespeare to the latest singer, is the human heart.... It is man the
hoper, man the dreamer, the eternal child of delight and despair,
whose ideals and desires are ever a lifetime ahead of his greatest
accomplishments, who is the hero of nature and the darling of the
ages. Because of this true poetry will always be to him a language.”
* * * * *
=Critic.= 49: 91. Jl. ’06. 260w.
“A poet whose inspiration is both strong and sustained.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 128. F. 16, ’06. 500w.
“Is marked neither by exquisite craft nor by great imaginative power.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 200w.
“His ‘Collected poems’ would have gained in poetic value by a more
rigorous standard of selection, and by the drastic pruning of some of
the pieces selected.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 460w.
“They have a pleasant ease and a very true and sensitive feeling for
nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.
“Some of his patriotic verses are as good as anything we have seen of
the kind.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 756. My. 12, ’06. 250w.
=Canning, Albert Stratford George.= History in Scott’s novels. **$3.15.
Wessels.
“Mr. Canning takes up fifteen novels in chronological sequence, from
‘The talisman’ to ‘Red-gauntlet.’ and runs through such portions of
the plot as bring authentic personages into view.” (Nation.) “In each
he explains the allusions, expands the references to historical facts,
and in general connects romance with actuality.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Is not without, some merit.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 512. Je. 21, ’06. 520w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 130w.
=Capart, Jean.= Primitive art in Egypt; tr. by A. S. Griffith. *$5.
Lippincott.
“M. Capart’s own part in the book appears to have been mostly confined
to the selection of the matters to be reproduced, and this task has
been discharged with both skill and judgment. The translation by Miss
Griffith is adequate to its purpose.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 170w.
“It appeals, with its wealth of illustration and its sober judgment,
to all who concern themselves in any wise with the civilization of
primitive man. A word of praise should be said for the admirable work
of the translator of the book, Miss Griffith ... her version reads
like a bit of original English.” L. H. Gray.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 359. D. ’05. 310w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 104. F. 1, ’06. 380w.
=Capen, Oliver Bronson.= Country homes of famous Americans. **$5.
Doubleday.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 190w.
=Capes, Bernard.= Bembo: a tale of Italy. $1.50. Dutton.
“The tale opens in 1476, with the introduction of the heroine and a
cavalier and their attendants going toward Milan. Later on in this
chapter comes Bernard Bembo, who ‘mouths parables as it were
prick-songs, and is esteemed among all as a saint.’ He is very young
in appearance and ‘pretty.’ And he is a ‘child propagandist
interpreting and embodying in himself the spirit of love.’ The story
is not based on fact, Mr. Capes points out in preface, but ‘the
fundamental fact of nature.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“In the novel Mr. Bernard Capes is quite at his best.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 784. Jl. 29, ’05. 330w.
“Not even Mr. Hewlett has so successfully reproduced the mediæval
atmosphere. The whole characterization is of a piece with the swing
and virility of the style. It is a fine work, and reaches the
high-water mark of living romance.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 234. Ag. 19. 580w.
“Mr. Capes has produced in this moving and opulent work something that
comes near to being a masterpiece.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 390w.
“The story is well told.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1060. N. 1, ’06. 340w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 233. Jl. 21, ’05. 290w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 371. Je. 9, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 80w.
“Extravagance and violent over-emphasis are the greatest faults of his
style, which is always strained to top-pitch, and glaringly
over-coloured.”
– =Sat. R.= 100: 562. O. 28, ’05. 420w.
“His euphuism sometimes gets out of hand and mars the poetry of his
tale, and sometimes he lingers so long on an emotion that the reader
is a little repelled. But for the work as a whole we have nothing but
praise.”
+ + – =Spec.= 95: 228. Ag. 12, ’05. 800w.
=Carducci, Giosue.= Poems of Italy: selections from the odes of Giosue
Carducci; tr. with an introd. by M. W. Arms. **$1. Grafton press.
A half dozen pieces selected from “Odi barbare,” translated,
introduced and annotated by M. W. Arms.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 40: 359. Je. 1, ’06. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 440w.
=Carey, Rosa Nouchette.= No friend like a sister. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Sister Gresham, the strong, capable, contented woman, who establishes
a model nurses’ home and finds her life’s happiness in it is a friend
to the other characters in the book, in times of stress or trouble.
They all lean upon her; her favorite sister Eleanor, who is made happy
by the chance confession of the man who dares not aspire to her, her
brother Lyall who goes as a missionary to Africa, and his child-like
wife who refuses to go with him and later wakes to a realization of
her love and duty. There are other characters also, some of whom stand
alone, and there is another love affair in which the daughter of an
old country family throws aside conventional barriers to marry the man
of her choice.
* * * * *
“Her popularity is no doubt deservedly due in great part to the
extreme wholesomeness of her tone, which makes her stories eminently
suitable for the young girl, and also a love of detail which appeals
to a certain order of mind in old and young alike.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 439. O. 13. 220w.
“It is her complacency, and the apparent conviction that she is
conveying the truest and best in life to her twenty-five thousand
readers that make Miss Carey’s books irritating.”
– =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. O. 13, ’06. 140w.
=Carey, Wymond.= “No. 101.” †$1.50. Putnam.
“No. 101” is a spy of the time of Louis XV, who betrays the secrets of
the French ruler to the British. The identity of this spy is a
mystery, and anyone so unfortunate as to discover the secret perishes
within twenty-four hours. An English captain, a French nobleman, Louis
XV, and Mme. de Pompadour figure prominently in the story.
* * * * *
“Few of the figures have the indefinable quality of vitality, but
perusal brings the not altogether unsatisfactory sensation of having
assisted at a well-staged historical drama while still enjoying the
comforts of the domestic hearth.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 226. F. 24. 110w.
“He has allowed himself considerable liberties with the facts of
history. But in view of the capital tale he has produced, the reviewer
can not but readily forgive him.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 550w.
“Taken by and large it is a good deal better (merely as an excuse for
passing superfluous time away) than most of its kind.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 69. F. 3, ’06. 540w.
“The story is entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 80w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 30w.
“The book is well above the average, but lovers of Dumas need feel no
anxiety.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 306. Mr. 10, ’06. 290w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 226. F. 10, ’06. 560w.
=Carl, Katherine A.= With the empress dowager. **$2. Century.
“If she has been led away by gratitude and kindly feeling, it is
difficult to find fault with her. And we may add that the skill and
insight needed for literary portraiture are not often combined with
the painter’s craft.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 196. F. 17. 810w.
“Reveals one of the most important steps in the transformation now
going on in that giant empire.” John W. Foster.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 544. Ap. ’06. 440w.
“Beside being fascinating in itself, reveals very much of historical
and antiquarian interest to those who have read widely and critically
in the court life of the vassal kingdoms around the Middle country.”
W. E. Griffis.
+ =Critic.= 48: 371. Ap. ’06. 270w.
“She is not to be blamed for writing of the empress as she found her.
But she must not expect her readers to accept her estimate at face
value.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 253. F. 17, ’06. 560w.
“Cannot boast of any special literary attractions. The book is worthy
of what it has not, an index.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 125. F. 8, ’06. 910w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 410w.
“It is interesting in a way and up to a certain point. But all that
one cares to read might have been put into a smaller compass.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 228. F. 10, ’06. 320w.
=Carleton, Will.= Poems for young Americans. $1.25. Harper.
The verses of Will Carleton that are peculiarly adapted to younger
readers have been grouped under three headings as follows: Poems for
young Americans, Poems of festivals and anniversaries, and Humorous
verse.
* * * * *
“They have the trick of rime, but somewhere there is the false ring of
patriotism, that comes whenever one tries hard to write
patriotically.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
=Carlile, Rev. Wilson, and Carlile, Victor.= Continental outcast: land
colonies and poor law relief; with a preface by Rt. Rev. E. S. Talbot.
*60c. Wessels.
An account of a visit to some of the labor colonies of Belgium,
Holland, Germany and Denmark by two men engaged in the work of the
Church army of England, and actually interested in the improvement of
the English poor law. “How the unemployed of every sort, able-bodied
or infirm, honest or criminal, men in search of work or vagrants and
beggars, are treated in Continental Europe is the subject of this
instructive volume.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 458. Jl. 21, ’06. 1500w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 220w.
=Carling, George.= Richard Elliott, financier. $1.50. Page.
Trained in an unscrupulous school of finance, the hero of Mr.
Carling’s tale shows how material success can be attained by very
corrupt practices. An eavesdropping stenographer rises to the position
of trust magnate and the rounds by which he did ascend materially are
scathingly marked off. It is a sort of “crack o’ doom” warning to
“high finance” aspirants.
* * * * *
“The book is not pleasant reading, but may be a faithful picture. The
story part of it is closely, carefully, and skillfully woven. Its
satire is perhaps rather too patent to be as biting as satire ought to
be.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13. ’06. 470w.
=Carling, John R.= Viking’s skull. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of “The viking’s skull.” Mr. Carling has written a
peculiarly interesting and thrilling story which involves the mystery
centering about a crime, and the meaning of a runic inscription on an
old Norse altar ring. The hero promises his mother before her death to
find the criminal in whose stead his father is serving a life
sentence. The father’s escape from prison and disappearance add to the
mystery to be solved.
* * * * *
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 195. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.
=Carlyle, Thomas.= French revolution. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets.” The books are pocket
size, with flexible leather binding, and are printed in large clear
type on Bible paper. The frontispieces are respectively portraits of
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
=Carman, (William) Bliss.= Pipes of Pan. *$2. Page.
Five recent collections of Mr. Bliss Carman’s poetry make up this
substantial volume. They are as follows: From the book of myths, From
the green book of the bards, Songs of the sea children, Songs from a
northern garden, and From the book of valentines.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 70w.
“There is scarcely a piece in the present volume that is devoid of
melodious cadences and poetic imagery, yet the effect of the whole is
of sunrise on a foggy morning at sea. Mr. Carman’s later work lacks
poetic intensity, and the reader of it takes little away with him.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.
“It is the chief fault of this fluent and often charming verse that
it, too, is singularly soulless.”
+ – =Putnam’s.= 1: 225. N. ’06. 380w.
=Carman, (William) Bliss.= Poetry of life. **$1.50. Page.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 91. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.
=Carmichael, Montgomery.= In Tuscany: Tuscan towns, Tuscan types and the
Tuscan tongue. **$2. Dutton.
“The author has lived long in the Tuscan cities and has learned to
admire the Tuscan character. His book is a series of expositions of
that character in various manifestations. First, there are some
chapters about the temperament of the people in general; then
descriptions of types, such as the priest, the cook and the coachman;
then accounts of less-known localities—Portoferraio, Mont La Verna,
Orbetello—and of the national sport and the national lottery.”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 100w.
“No English reader, who thinks of visiting Tuscany or taking up
residence there, should fail to read his book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 443. Jl. 7, ’06. 560w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 110w.
=Carmichael, Montgomery=, ed. Life of John William Walshe as written by
his son Philip Regidius Walshe. *$1.50. Dutton.
“John Walshe, says his son, was a splendid scholar and a devoted
servant of God. Of his scholarship he has left as a monument many
volumes of material relating chiefly to St. Francis of Assisi; of his
devotion to God, impressive evidence is given in this narrative of his
quest to know God, a quest that began in England in his earliest youth
and found its consummation in distant Italy, whither he had fled from
his merchant father’s counting-room, and where he entered upon a life
of study, love and religion that was to lead him to the purest and
most profound mysticism. The phrase a nineteenth-century mystic sounds
strange indeed, but such was John Walshe, and a mystic whose
influence, as diffused by his son’s filial zeal, must touch with
uplifting power all who read the story of his painful
pilgrimage.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A most unusual, fine, eloquent, sincere, even inspired piece of
writing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 537. S. 1, ’06. 1410w.
“It is not a great biography, indeed, it has sundry obvious defects
from a purely literary standpoint. But whatever of blemish it may seem
to us to hold is lost from sight in contemplation of the saintly
figure it reveals.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 50w.
=Carpenter, Edmund Janes.= Long ago in Greece: a book of golden hours
with the old story tellers. $1.50. Little.
The atmosphere and literary excellence of the old Greek tales are
preserved in these twenty and more simplified stories. Among them are
Homer’s “Battle of the frogs and mice,” a portion of Aristophanes’
“Birds,” the wooing of Pelops, the tale of Hero and Leander, Ovid’s
version of Narcissus and his shadow, Hesiod’s account of Pandora’s
curiosity, and Pindar’s sketch of Thetis and many others.
=Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
“It has the particular merit that it follows the originals very
closely and preserves something of the atmosphere as well as the
subject matter of the famous old stories that it presents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
“They are retold simply and in every way made attractive to the
youthful reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 60w.
=Carpenter, Edward.= Days with Walt Whitman. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Carpenter, an English gentleman, made the poet’s acquaintance in
the sixties through his writings; but met him only in 1877. Seven
years later they met again. The notes made by the disciple were
written out carefully, and have been published in an English magazine,
but now only in book form.... The book has a chapter on Whitman as a
prophet, one on the poetic form of ‘Leaves of grass,’ and another, and
by no means the least interesting, on Whitman and Emerson. The new
volume should please the ever-widening circle of lovers of the ‘Good
gray poet.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 547. Je. 9, ’06. 700w.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 898. D. ’06. 530w.
“What one misses most in the book is any evidence that the author saw
and felt Whitman as a poet.”
– =Critic.= 49: 205. S. ’06. 410w.
“But while Traubel’s face to face likeness of Whitman in all his moods
is more interesting, Carpenter’s book contains a more definite
literary appreciation of the man and his genius.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 153. Jl. 19, ’06. 650w.
“Mr. Carpenter’s attitude and language are those of an entirely sane
person; he writes entertainingly and interestingly, without gush. Yet
that his opinion of Whitman was that of a pupil toward a chosen master
appears on every page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 397. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.
“Pleasantly written, reminiscent book, in the entertaining style of
Mr. Carpenter’s other books.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“It is a pity so much of this book should be mere tittle-tattle.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. O. 13, ’06. 1130w.
=Carpenter, Edward Childs.= Captain Courtesy, a story of Old California.
*$1.50. Jacobs.
The struggle between Mexico and the United States in old California is
intertwined with the story of Captain Courtesy whose Spanish mother
and American father were killed by the Mexicans and who for six years
waged a warfare of his own upon his enemies by becoming an outlaw
whose name spelled terror, a daring road agent with a great price upon
his head. After a series of bold adventures he wins an American wife
and American citizenship.
* * * * *
“This is evidently a first book, and it shows many of the faults of
the ’prentice hand. He merely skims over the surface of things, as if
he were in haste to tell his slight little story with the fewest words
possible.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 190w.
=Carpenter, Joseph Estlin.= James Martineau; theologian and teacher.
*$2.50. Am. Unitar.
“The work is really a model of what a work of this kind should be.”
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 22. Ja. 1, ’06. 380w.
=Carpenter, Rt. Rev. William Boyd, bp. of Ripon.= Witness to the
influence of Christ; being the William Belden Noble lectures for 1904.
**$1.10. Houghton.
“The author demands scientific examination of the religious facts, and
shows himself well informed in the latest literature on the psychology
of the religious experience.” Thomas C. Hall.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 567. Jl. ’06. 1270w.
“Its chief excellence is its suggestiveness; its chief defect, its
lack of orderly treatment of the subjects undertaken.” Henry Thomas
Colestock.
+ + – =Bib. World.= 27: 397. My. ’06. 290w.
=Carr, Clark Ezra.= Lincoln at Gettysburg. **$1. McClurg.
Written primarily as an address and delivered before the State
historical society of Illinois, Mr. Carr’s effort may be considered an
appreciation well worth the time of any student and reader. He
sketches the transition from the disappointment of the assembled
Gettysburg multitude, over Lincoln’s speech to the dawning realization
that it was a masterpiece of oratory, and a “crowning triumph of
literary achievement.”
* * * * *
Reviewed by Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ =Dial.= 41: 320. N. 16, ’06. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 70w.
=Carrington, FitzRoy.= Pilgrim’s staff: poems divine and moral, selected
and arranged by FitzRoy Carrington. **75c. Duffield.
The aim of the compiler has been to choose from the verse of three and
a half centuries a “handful of poems, beautiful in thoughts and
spiritual import, which should reflect, as well as might be, in a
space so limited, all moods for self abasement of utter unworthiness,
to the courage born of a firm faith in the divinity of man, which can
face, unafraid, the Great Unknown.”
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 40w.
=Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“Though there are lacking some poems that one might expect in even so
small a collection as this, those that are included have been
discriminatingly selected.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
=Carroll, Phidellia Patton.= Soul-winning: a problem and its solution;
with an introd. by C: H. Fowler. *50c. Meth. bk.
A seven part discussion of the problem of soul-winning treats The
importance of soul-winning, Personal effort in soul-winning, A
successful method, Steps leading to Christ, Children won by personal
effort, A revival not absolutely essential to soul-winning, and
Preparation for soul-winning.
* * * * *
“To all who follow Dr. Carroll in his apparent contention that
winsomeness consists in words fitly spoken, this book will be of great
and interesting and in some respects a difficult sub-permanent value.”
Edward Braislin.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 575. Jl. ’06. 520w.
=Carter, E. Fremlett.= Motive power and gearing for electrical
machinery: a treatise on the theory and practice of the mechanical
equipment of power stations for electricity supply and for electric
power and traction. *$5. Van Nostrand.
“The first edition of this book was issued in 1896.... The book is
essentially a compilation of principles, theory and results of
experiments of the mechanical engineering features of electrical power
plants, with some illustrated descriptions of existing plants.... [It
includes] many subjects which are usually treated in separate books.
It is neither a textbook nor a work of reference but practically an
encyclopaedic compilation, from various sources, of descriptions and
data on mechanical engineering which are supposed to be of interest to
the electrical engineer.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The engineering student will find each of the subjects of this book
treated in far better shape in numerous standard works, and the
general reader who is not a student will find the book in many cases
too difficult of comprehension for him.” William Kent.
– =Engin. N.= 55: 671. Je. 14, ’06. 1770w.
=Carter, Jesse Benedict.= Religion of Numa, and other essays on the
religion of ancient Rome. *$1. Macmillan.
In order to facilitate presentation, Mr. Carter divides Roman history
into five epochs, those of the legendary kings and the semi-historical
kings, the first half of the republic, the last half of the republic,
the beginning of the empire, and the renaissance of religion under
Augustus. It “is less a handbook than a sketch of the change by which
the original agricultural and secluded mythology of Rome and its gods
who had their proper home within the Pomerium, developed into the
prevailing mythology of the classical period.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Gives, perhaps, as clear a general view as the reading public either
desires or deserves. The work is entirely destitute of reference to
authorities.” Andrew Lang.
+ – =Acad.= 70: 134. F. 10, ’06. 1330w.
“Mr. Carter gives no authorities and not too many details; hence his
book will not supply the needs of real students of the subject.
Nevertheless, the book will serve well as an introduction to the
subject, being clearly and forcibly written.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 12. Jl. 7. 350w.
“This is a very valuable short study of an interesting and in some
respects a difficult subject.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 180w.
“This little volume is full of suggestion and value.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 743. Mr. 29, ’06. 240w.
“The society may be congratulated on a carefully prepared and valuable
volume.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 127. Ag. 9, ’06. 590w.
“Involves some interesting excursions in the bypaths of classical
learning.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 196. Mr. 31, ’06. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 40w.
“A readable sketch ... based on the recent critical work which has
pieced together many isolated indications and filled numerous gaps by
illuminating conjecture.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 271. S. 1, ’06. 680w.
=Carter, Thomas.= Shakespeare and the Holy Scriptures, with the version
he used. *$3. Dutton.
“The good intentions and industry of the author of this volume are, of
course, worthy of all respect, but we cannot avoid the feeling that
they have been wasted on a tedious piece of work.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 847. D. 16. 190w.
=Cartrie, Count de.= Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F:
Masson, and appendices and notes by Pierre Amédée Pichot. *$5. Lane.
A record of the extraordinary events in the life of a French royalist
during the war in La Vendée, and of his flight to Southampton, where
he followed the humble occupation of gardener.
* * * * *
“A work which reflects credit on all concerned.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 399. O. 6. 2150w.
“As a tale of adventure, the work cannot fail to attract. It also has
value as a side-light thrown on a memorable epoch in French history.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 260w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 366. N. 2. ’06. 1580w.
“The interest of these memoirs is very great, great everywhere and
they have considerable historic value.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 373. N. 1, ’06. 1180w.
“Its limitations in interest are its best guarantee of genuineness:
and in genuineness as a human document typically illustrative of
personal fortunes during the French revolution its chief interest
lies.” G: S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 630. O. 6, ’06. 1760w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1. ’06. 280w.
“This story of suffering and hairbreadth escape shows the nature of
the struggle in a way that historians as well as students will
welcome.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 522. O. 27, ’06. 140w.
=Cartwright, Julia (Mrs. Henry Ady).= Raphael. *75c. Dutton.
This little manual on the life and art of Raphael is the fourteenth
volume in “The popular library of art.” The author tells about the
“birth of Raphael and his life and studies at Perugia, Florence and
Rome. She describes his Madonnas, the Vatican Stanze, his portraits of
contemporaries, his work as architect and decorator, and his cartoons,
the last of which, she says, ‘mark the final stage of Raphael’s
artistic development.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mrs. Ady seems to have been helped by the rigid limitations of space
to give us her very best. The essential acts of Raphael’s life and art
could not have been stated more concisely. Nor has the necessary
compression of the material made for dullness.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 690. N. 18. 410w.
“Within its limited compass, a singularly complete account of the
character and development of Raphael’s work. She is of course
thoroughly familiar with modern critical opinion, and as far as it
goes her work is exact and scholarly.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 110w.
“The volume is a worthy successor to its forerunners.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 162. Mr. 17, ’06. 250w.
=Carus, Paul.= Friedrich Schiller. **75c. Open ct.
In Mr. Carus’ memorial volume fittingly contributed at the time of the
Schiller centenary, a biographical sketch is followed by two essays on
Schiller as a philosophical poet and on Schiller’s poetry. There are
illustrative selections from the poet’s works given in both German and
English.
* * * * *
“A concise but scholarly sketch of Schiller’s life and an appreciation
of his poetry.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 30w.
“It is a book of popular character, and very interesting in its
presentation of the subject.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 46. Ja. 6, ’06. 70w.
=Carver, Thomas Nixon=, comp. Sociology and social progress: a handbook
for students of sociology. *$2.75. Ginn.
A book designed to be used as the basis for class-room discussions or
to furnish collateral reading to a course of lectures. The author has
gone out-side of systematic treatises on sociology for observations
upon the phenomena of society, upon the laws of social growth and
decay, and upon the problems of social improvement, and has presented
them in form for the student and the general reader as well. The
discussion is in three parts: part 1, The nature, scope and method of
sociology; part 2. Sociology as a study of social progress—the
direction of social progress; part 3. The factors of social progress.
* * * * *
“The general purpose is admirable, and Professor Carver’s book will be
welcomed by sociologists as a distinct enlargement of library
facilities.” G: E. Vincent.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 122. Ag. ’06. 900w.
“The compiler has produced a volume which will be of very great
service to those of his readers who wish to get a general conception
of the ideas of the best thinkers and students of society, but who
have not the time to read the works in extenso, nor the wisdom to
choose well.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 174. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“The volume does not, accordingly, show us much of its compiler’s
personal opinions, and can hardly, we think, be of great usefulness to
the general reader.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 77. Jl. 26, ’06. 350w.
“The book is a timely one and should both promote and assist the
teaching of sociology.”
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 339. N. ’06. 200w.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther.= Novels of Henry James: a study. **$1.25.
Putnam.
“Miss Cary is not quite an ideal interpreter.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 103. Ag. 4, ’06. 1280w.
“Elisabeth Luther Cary would appear to have done, in her study of
Henry James, pretty much all for him that it is possible for an ardent
disciple to do at this time.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 458. My. ’06. 480w.
=Ind.= 60: 44. Ja. 4, ’06. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Cary, Elisabeth Luther, and Jones, Annie Maria.= Books and my food.
**$1. Moffat.
Mental and physical aliment in the form of quotations and recipes for
every day in the year.
* * * * *
“We hope that the culinary taste of the authors is in keeping with the
literary.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 50w.
“On the whole, the object has been attained; but now and again an
exception must be taken to the compiler’s accuracy.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 200w.
“The quotations will be a godsend to the harassed makers of menus for
public occasions.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Edgerton.= Heart of Lady
Anne. †$1.50. Stokes.
+ =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 922. D. 30, ’05. 370w.
“It is very dainty, amusing and inconsequential.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 190w
“The texture is of the lightest, but skilfully woven.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 190w.
“The book is gracefully written and is easy reading, but it will
strike many readers as being as artificial as the age which it is
intended to represent.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 70w.
=Castle, Mrs. Agnes (Sweetman), and Castle, Egerton.= If youth but knew.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
The time and rule of Jerome Bonaparte furnish the “occasion and
material of this romance.... The period chosen by the authors is just
anterior to the fall of Jerome, and the critical part of the narrative
passes in Cassel at the King’s court. The atmosphere clothes this
story as a garment from the very outset, when we make the acquaintance
of the young Anglo-Austrian count and his chance companion, the
wayfaring fiddler, Geiger-Hans. It begins to be romantic, it continues
in the true vein of romance, and ends sweetly upon a proper romantic
note, to the accompaniment of Geiger-Hans’s fiddle.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“From the opening pages of the present story the stage and its
machinery are always in sight. But once accept the book as a glorified
libretto of a romantic opera, clever, dainty, delicately treated, and
all runs smoothly and delightfully to the end.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 358. Ap. 14, ’06. 420w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 400w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 571. Je. ’06. 60w.
“It is a story throbbing with life, instinct with poetic feeling, and
bearing the stamp of a creative power that is closely akin to genius.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 180w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 120w.
“This is one of the prettiest of the stories of Agnes and Egerton
Castle.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 630w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =North American.= 182: 927. Je. ’06. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 592. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
=Castleman, Virginia Carter.= Roger of Fairfield. $1.25. Neale.
With picturesque and historic Virginia for a setting, reflecting the
spirit of ante-bellum days, Miss Castleman follows the fortunes of
Roger of Fairfield thru college and the theological seminary to his
ordination and marriage.
=Cather, Willa Sibert.= Troll garden. †$1.25. McClure.
“For cultivation and distinction of style, Miss Cather may even rank
with Mrs. Edith Wharton, but she is far more sympathetic, far deeper.
Although her stories are short and unpretentious, they seem to me
quite the most important in recent American fiction.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 48. Ja. ’06. 380w.
=Catherine of Siena, St.=, tr. by Vida D. Scudder. *$2.50. Dutton.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 462. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Cator, Dorothy.= Everyday life among the head-hunters, and other
experiences from East to West. $1.75. Longmans.
“Without making any pretense to being scientific this plain and
unvarnished but eminently readable, narrative ... contains a large
amount of interesting information with regard to the customs and modes
of life of both Dyaks and the less well known Muruts.” R. D.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 203. D. 28, ’05. 570w.
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 648. Ap. 28, ’06. 380w.
=Cattell, J. McKeen=, ed. American men of science: a biographical
directory. *$5. Science press, N. Y.
A “who’s who” for the men who work in the field of pure science.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 60: 809. Ap. 5, ’06. 70w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 153. Mr. 10, ’06. 270w.
=Cavaness, Alpheus Asbury Brenton.= Rubaiyat of hope. *$1. Meth. bk.
Omar’s red rose, wine-dyed, gives place to the lily which waves with a
palm, symbol of victory. The author of this poem sounds a triumphant
note of hope mastering despair, man mastering destiny. He teaches that
“nothing can unhinge us but ourselves.”
=Cawein, Madison Julius.= Nature-notes and impressions, in prose and
verse. **$1.50. Dutton.
Brief sketches in prose and verse taken from the author’s note book.
“A memorandum of moods, of accents in nature, caught at the moment, to
be elaborated later into a picture.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The whole output tends to give the impression that the successes
themselves are not spontaneous but the mere chance triumphs of a
highly self-conscious and wholly artificial method.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4, ’06. 370w.
“One of the qualities, indeed which in poetry serves to give him
distinction, a remarkably affluent and picturesque imagery, in prose
has a tendency to become a defect, rendering the style too poetic and
imaginative and the periods over-sustained. This is, indeed the chief
limitation to the volume, but a limitation redeemed by the delicate
picturing to be found on every page.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 616. O. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“The work of Mr. Cawein is not distinctly lyric, although the verse
has rhymthic charm.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
=Cawein, Madison Julius.= Vale of Tempe. *$1.50. Dutton.
“The most surprising thing about Mr. Cawein’s work is the even
excellence which characterizes so great a quantity of matter.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 126. F. 16, ’06. 270w.
=Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de.= Don Quixote; tr. with introd. by John
Quimby. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume set” this “Don Quixote” is of
interest alike to students and library collectors. There is an
informing introduction, the first part of which presents the merits
and demerits of the edition offered to English readers thru the past
two centuries and a half, and the second part of which sketches
Cervantes’ life.
=Chadwick, John White.= Later poems. *$1.25. Houghton.
+ =Reader.= 7: 229. Ja. ’06. 160w.
=Chadwick, Samuel.= Humanity and God. **$1.50. Revell.
“The one weakness in the otherwise masterful work is in the lowering
of the standard of human perfection in order to permit to
consciousness the sense of its attainment.” Edward Braislin.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 571. Jl. ’06. 340w.
=Chamberlain, Charles Joseph.= Methods in plant histology. *$2.25. Univ.
of Chicago press.
“The book will be very useful to teachers of secondary schools, as
well as to independent workers, for it gives in usable and concise
form the latest and most approved methods of modern micro-technique.”
W. J. G. Land.
+ + =School R.= 14: 310. Ap. ’06. 260w.
=Chamberlain, Leander Trowbridge.= True doctrine of prayer: with
foreword by the Rev. W: R. Huntington. **$1. Baker.
Dr. Chamberlain has presented the doctrine of prayer in a logical
succession of paragraphs “each one of which presents truth which no
one who desires to think deeply about prayer can afford to lose out of
sight.... It is not merely as a healthful exercise for the soul that
he would have us think of prayer, but as a potency, a dynamic, an
efficient cause.... He is willing to explain, to interpret, to
justify, but never to minimize.”
* * * * *
+ =Outlook.= 82: 523. Mr. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder, and Salisbury, Rollin D.= Geology. 3v. v.
1, Processes and their results; v. 2, and 3, Earth history, ea. *$4.
Holt.
The first volume of the work appeared in 1904 and is now in its second
edition. “In that volume was given a statement of the planetismal
hypothesis of earth origin. In these new volumes the hypothesis is
developed and applied, and its application requires a new reading of
dynamical geology, with a consequent new interpretation of geologic
history.... A notable feature of the work is the attention paid to
past climates and the use made of them in interpretation.... The
treatment of Pleistocene and the human or present periods is unusually
full and satisfactory.... The book closes with a very interesting and
suggestive discussion of man as a geologic agent, and as influenced by
his geologic environment.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Whether we accept or reject their views, there is no gainsaying the
fact that Profs. Chamberlin and Salisbury have produced a very
suggestive work, which is likely to exert a marked influence on the
teaching of geology in all English-speaking countries.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 191. Ag. 18. 1410w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It is not sufficiently complete to be an entirely satisfactory book
of reference. For the general reader the book has a charm and
freshness not common to scientific texts, but it contains so much new
and not yet accepted doctrine that such a reader will need to take
careful note of the qualifying phrases. It is to working geologists
that the book will make the strongest appeal.” H. Foster Bain.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 1420w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“For the graduate student and as a reference work for the teacher and
general reader the work is, however, indispensable.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 393. Ag. 16, ’06. 1050w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
=Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
+ =Nation.= 82: 476. Je. 7, ’06. 1240w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The arrangement of the book is in most respects well adapted to the
requirements of students, and the presentation of the subject matter
is always clear.” A. H.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 557. O. 4, ’06. 2210w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The principal adverse criticisms that can be made, relate to the
minor details of editing—not to the subject-matter or the method of
treatment. In the presence of so much that is large, and helpful, and
inspiring such criticisms seem like mere quibbling. Not a subject is
touched upon in the entire work that does not have the breath of a new
life breathed into it.” J. C. Branner.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 462. O. 12, ’06. 2540w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“The authors give an admirable account of the various stages through
which the earth has passed since it became solid, and their
beautifully illustrated volumes form one of the most complete and
trustworthy geological treatises which have yet been published.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 654. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
=Chambers, Robert William.= Fighting chance. **$1.50. Appleton.
Silvia Landis, a spoiled society girl, and Stephen Siward, who has
inherited a weakness for drink, meet at a railway station “and
continue the game there begun at a house party where assorted time
killers are assembled.... Silvia angles for a new millionaire and
plays with Stephen even while she lands him.... The story passes from
the house party to the city, where Silvia pursues her social pastimes
and retains her golden fiancé and Stephen ... fights the demon rum
alone with more or less unsuccess. You have in the meantime club
scenes, bridge scenes, scenes of domestic, infelicity, scenes of
sordid life, glimpses of the half-world, a panorama of high
finance.... In the end ... Mr. Chambers, to achieve his happy ending
appropriates a motor car ... and lets it blow up with the marplot.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Chambers is so clever, has so keen a sense of character, that
after enjoying his book, you ungratefully regard him with violent
irritation. He has no right not to do even better! His abundant and
interesting material is not thoroughly digested.” Mary Moss.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 157. O. ’06. 870w.
“Such books as this play with the glittering surface of life but have
nothing to do with its deeper realities.” Wm. M. Payne.
– =Dial.= 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 270w.
“A real rival to Mrs. Wharton’s ‘House of Mirth.’”
+ =Ind.= 61: 642. S. 13, ’06. 70w.
“The interpretation which Mrs. Wharton attempted of New York society
in ‘The house of mirth,’ Robert Chambers has really accomplished in
his new novel.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 877. O. 11, ’06. 1080w.
=Ind.= 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
“Realistic in the extreme and to the extent of introducing slang and
even profanity, it still has fine touches of sentiment and reveals an
intimate knowledge of a species of human existence which, in a sense
is as new and as modern as the motor and skyscraper.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 370w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 500w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“With all its palpable defects upon it, this novel was framed for
popularity. It is emphatically not for the literary epicure.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Robert W. Chambers has taken the material of Mrs. Wharton’s
‘House of mirth’ and made it over. Like Mrs. Wharton, Mr. Chambers
shows you the brightest and best touched with the poison; unlike Mrs.
Wharton, he refuses to permit, much less to organize, a conspiracy of
bitter circumstances which shall assist the poison in its cruel work
and bring everything to a bitter end.” H. I. Brock.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 1160w.
“A particularly good story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“While the novel may be at heart no more pessimistic, socially
speaking, than Mrs. Wharton’s ‘The House of mirth,’ it lacks the
delicate perception and fine literary shading of that searching
analysis.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 240w.
“If Mr. Chambers had only taken the time to reconstruct the volume,
prune it of superfluous conversations, and infuse into it a little
more of the heroism his title suggests, he would have had a novel of
real significance.”
– + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 160w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Iole. †$1.25. Appleton.
“This is the prettiest and gayest bit of satire that we have seen in
print for many a day; daintily good-humored, but none the less
piercing and effective.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 150w.
“The fun really ends with Iole’s marriage, at which point a wise
reader, grateful for a smile, will move on to other pastures.” Mary
Moss.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Mountain-land; with 8 full page il. in col.
by Frank Richardson. **$1.50. Appleton.
Two little children have an instructive day’s journey to the
mountain-land during which they converse with the mountains centuries
old and learn the lesson of its disregard for time and change, and
talk with the ice-fly, the snow jay, a band of owls, a squirrel, a
lynx and giant silkworm moths. Each one of the creatures furnishes
instruction regarding its identity, habitat and general
characteristics.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 60w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Reckoning. †$1.50. Appleton.
“Mr. Chambers’s richly dressed puppets move briskly through their many
trials to a happy end, and the author, as I before said, is a
competent story teller.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“It leaves you with a sense of puzzled doubt just where erudition
ceases and the dime novel begins.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 374. D. ’05. 380w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Tracer of lost persons. †$1.50. Appleton.
Certain interesting cases taken up by Mr. Keen, head of the firm of
Keen & co., Tracers of lost persons, form the substance of these
amusing stories, but they are not on the old detective story order,
for they are all cases in which the lost person is a lost love or a
lost ideal and they all end in happy marriages as the dinner given to
Mr. Keen at the close of the volume by five radiant young couples
testifies.
* * * * *
“Somewhat puerile and wholly absurd is the main idea of this amorous
tale, but some of the incidents are amusing, and the dialogue is
brisk.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 50w.
“A new and improved form of the detective story.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 223. Jl. 26, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Capital reading for a leisure hour or two.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
=Chamblin, Jean.= Lady Bobs, her brother and I: a romance of the Azores.
†$1.25. Putnam.
“The trick of pitching an unpretentious story in just the right key is
rare enough to entitle Jean Chamblin’s placid little idyl of the
Azores, ‘Lady Bobs, her brother and I’, to a word or two of cordial
commendation.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 494. Ja. ’06. 190w.
“She has a facile and humorous pen and her letters are literature.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 160w.
“It is a pity that Miss Chamblin has felt it necessary to resort to
meaningless slang and cheap humor in order to enliven her heroine’s
letters.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.
“A large amount of interesting description and information regarding
these unique islands is cleverly woven into the story.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 343. F. 8, ’06. 120w.
=Champlain, Samuel de.= Voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain
(1604–1616) narrated by himself; tr. by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together
with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; ed. with
introd. and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. 2v. ea. **$1. Barnes.
“These volumes are a welcome addition to the ‘Trail makers’ series.
They comprise the first English translation of Champlain’s ‘Voyages
and explorations’ that has ever been made accessible to the general
public. Thirty years ago translations were made for the Prince
society, but they were published in an edition ‘strictly limited and
now to be found only in the richer public and private collections of
Americana.’ Professor and Mrs. Bourne have therefore rendered a
distinct service to students of our early history. An extremely
adequate and interesting introduction of twenty-eight pages has been
contributed by Professor Bourne.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 190w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
“An edition that represents in brief the sum of present-day
knowledge.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
“A work of considerable interest to the historical student.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 50w.
=Champlin, John Denison.= Young folks’ cyclopedia of common things.
$2.50. Holt.
This third edition revised and enlarged meets the demands of rapid
advance during the past decade in everything pertaining to science and
industrial arts.
=Champlin, John Denison.= Young folks’ cyclopaedia of persons and
places. $2.50. Holt.
More than five hundred new articles appear in this fifth edition,
including names of persons and places prominent in latter-day
happenings.
* * * * *
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 70w.
“Will be welcomed by all boys and girls of alert, inquiring mind.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 100w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 140w.
=Outlook.= 84: 285. S. 29, ’06. 20w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 70w.
=Champney, Elizabeth Williams.= Romance of the French abbeys. **$3.
Putnam.
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 649. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.
=Chancellor, William Estabrook, and Hewes, Fletcher Willis.= United
States; a history of three centuries. 10 pts. pt. 2, Colonial union,
1698–1774. **$3.50. Putnam.
“It is unfortunate that so faulty a work should be launched upon the
public by the reputation of a great publishing house and by strangely
favorable notices from several literary periodicals of high standing.”
W. M. West.
– – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 441. Ja. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
“His material is slight and it is further obscured by a flood of
‘literary’ allusions and historical philosophy-and-water in an
inflated style which becomes a weariness to the reader’s patience.”
Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ + – =Atlan.= 98: 707. N. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Channing, Edward.= History of the United States. 8v. v. 1, Planting of
a nation in the New World. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“Not only an admirable specimen of historical scholarship, but also a
successful effort to present the results of scholarship in an
attractive form.” Edward Gaylord Bourne.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 390. Ja. ’06. 1750w.
“[His] sense of balanced judgment is reinforced by the shrewd,
occasionally ironical or humorous style which reflects the personality
of the author.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 706. N. ’06. 150w.
“He still shows the mastery, the cool, skeptical scholarship, with the
occasional gleam of wit and the constant clearness of expression which
marked his first volume.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by Henry Russell Spencer.
+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 346. Je. ’06. 1220w.
=Chapin, Henry Dwight.= Vital questions. **$1. Crowell.
“The volume is a good one to put in the hands of one whose interest in
matters social needs quickening.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 234. Ja. ’06. 90w.
=Charles, Frances Asa.= Pardner of Blossom range. †$1.50. Little.
A tale of Arizona in which cowboys and Indians figure. Holly, the
granddaughter of the owner of Blossom ranch conceives a dislike for an
army captain who is alleged to be responsible for the death of a
private whose horse Pardner comes into her possession. That this same
officer should become a favorite in her train of suitors suggests an
interesting situation which is satisfactorily worked out.
* * * * *
“The story is pretty, and the author has evidently made a resolute
effort to soften the asperities of her early manner.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
=Charlton, John.= Speeches and addresses: political, literary, and
religious. $2. Morang & co.
+ =Dial.= 40: 53. Ja. 16, ’06. 170w.
=Chaucer, Geoffrey.= Canterbury tales, prologue and selections:
rewritten in simple language by Calvin Dill Wilson, and decorated by
Ralph Fletcher Seymour. *$1. McClurg.
In retelling old tales for young readers, Mr. Wilson aims to preserve
in his prose rendering the literary no less than the poetic and
artistic qualities of the original. This Chaucer is a charming volume
which is uniform with Mr. Wilson’s retold “Faery queen.”
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
=Cheney, John Vance.= Poems. **$1.50. Houghton.
+ =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 110w.
+ =Reader.= 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 200w.
=Cheney, Warren.= Challenge. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The dramatic incidents of Mr. Cheney’s tale serve to show in turn
stout-hearted, superstitious and treacherous phases of character as
exhibited among a group of Russians in the Alaskan bay of Ltua. The
rebellious gurgling of the “draw”—a dangerous whirlpool at a certain
turn of the tide—gets into the very action of the story, and as it
sinks every mortal caught in its swirl except the brave-hearted Ivan
and his Mortyra, typifies the evil of the tale. There is also a case
of mental assassination worked out which introduces a metaphysical
problem.
* * * * *
“There are some very strong situations and finely-drawn scenes in the
work, which on the whole is far above the ordinary present-day story
of this character.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 572. N. ’06. 220w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 50w.
“It is a novel with a new idea, if there is such a thing in the world,
and a new field, which is worth while in itself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 410w.
“Warren Cheney ... knows his Alaska and the Russians there thoroughly.
There is in this story a restrained dramatic intensity very grateful
to the artistic sense.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.
“There is decided value in the tale’s study of motive and character,
together with a singularly full acquaintance with the local color and
of a little-known historical episode.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 40w.
=Chesnutt, Charles Waddell.= Colonel’s dream. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The narrative not unfrequently drags, and the character-drawing is
sometimes wanting in clearness.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 180w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Charles Dickens. **$1.50. Dodd.
“This new book is builded on the false idea that just at this time
Dickens needs a champion among his own people.” (N. Y. Times.) “Mr.
Dickens and Mr. Chesterton move ... arm in arm through these pages
like a pair of boon companions, and the ordinary reader may be trusted
not to notice that Mr. Dickens’ arm is somewhat hard held.” (Sat. R.)
“Dickens is a typical English figure, and it is on this side that Mr.
Chesterton’s study is illuminating. It abounds in side-lights thrown
by a somewhat mystical optimism and uproarious spirits on the
Gargantuan feast of good humour provided by the master.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The style in which the book is written reminds us too closely of the
smart political leader.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 221. S. 8, ’06. 1620w.
“The real misfortune of the book is that the author seems unable to
check his propensity for wild paradox, and cherishes a growing habit
of exaggeration, which leads to false emphasis and essentially
obscures the issue.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 294. S. 15. 2230w.
“Mr. Chesterton’s book is one which no one who loves Dickens or who
admires brilliant writing can afford to ignore.” Arthur Bartlett
Maurice.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 267. N. ’06. 2650w.
“As a life of Dickens it does not profess to have value. At the same
time, it is entertaining, suggestive, brilliant in spots, the very
last book one would go to sleep over. As a self-portrayal of Mr.
Chesterton, rather than a picture of his greater countryman, it has
decided merits.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 41: 272. N. 1, ’06. 1940w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 296. Ag. 31, ’06. 1140w.
“As biography Mr. Chesterton’s book is quite superfluous, and, we may
add, quite inadequate. As criticism it will hugely delight folks who
find enjoyment in literary fireworks.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 598. S. 29, ’06. 2260w.
“With so good a book as Dr. Ward’s little critical biography in the
field, the present volume seems a work of supererogation.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 715. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“One cannot regard Mr. Chesterton as the ideal critic of Charles
Dickens though he makes a very effective apologist.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 368. S. 22, ’06. 1510w.
“The book, taken as a whole, is as warm and understanding a tribute as
any hand has laid on the great writer’s grave. We find ourselves also
largely in accordance with him when he blames and demurs.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 364. S. 15, ’06. 2500w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Club of queer trades. †$1.25. Harper.
“They have not a free inventive stroke. They are whimsical and
studied.”
+ – =Reader.= 6: 727. N. ’05. 160w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Heretics. *$1.50. Lane.
“As a critic, not only of heretics but of various aspects and
relations of life discussed in this volume, when he has finished off
the heretics, Mr. Chesterton shows a definite advance in clearness and
force.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 208. Mr. 8, ’06. 1500w.
=Cheyne, Thomas Kelly.= Bible problems and the new material for their
solution. *$1.50. Putnam.
“The book is stimulating and thought-provoking, even though its
theories are now and then insufficiently supported by facts.” Ira
Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 324. Ap. ’06. 250w.
=Cholmondeley, Mary.= Prisoners. †$1.50. Dodd.
“This novel is essentially a tragedy, with an Italian setting for the
initial crime, that brings about the punishment of an innocent man
through a woman’s revolting cowardice. The action of the novel centres
about the redemption of the small-souled woman who emerges as a fairly
honourable character.”—Canadian M.
* * * * *
“In no modern novel has the female mind been analyzed with a more
delicate sense.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 244. S. 15, ’06. 1640w.
“A powerful though somewhat painful book. Her one failure is
Carstairs.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 329. S. 22. 550w.
“Faults it has in abundance—big, obtrusive, exasperating faults. It is
a book well worth reading.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 274. N. ’06. 950w.
“Is as vivid in literary force as ‘Red pottage,’ and is more wholesome
in tone. It is the work of an artist, not a vivisectionist.”
+ + – =Canadian M.= 24: 86. N. ’06. 410w.
“The author makes herself the peer for a page or two with the writers
of the best literature in the ... tribute to a certain class of dull,
enduring Englishmen.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1288. N. 29, ’06. 660w.
“The story is not without dramatic chapters. In spite of literary
defects it often holds the interest of the reader effectively.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
“Some of the deeper things in human nature are cleverly touched and
their fountain sources stirred.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“We find wisdom, indeed, rather in the stuff of the story than in
those often brilliant incidental comments on which no small part of
her fame reposes. We suggest that in this book, wise and witty as her
‘chorus’ often is, she has a little abused that privilege by trying
ostentatiously to live up to it.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 600w.
“If the story, as said, mounts steadily, the reader, at least, is
breathless much of the way under the suspense and under the
cleverness. The ethical aspects are broad and deep.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 520w.
“In more ways than one, we are continually reminded of George Eliot;
not that there is the faintest trace of imitation, but that Miss
Cholmondeley has an equal insight into character and motive, a like
power of analysis, a similar gift for pregnant sentences of humor and
of wisdom.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 697. O. 27, ’06. 1280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
“This is not so well-rounded and satisfying a story as was ‘Red
pottage.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 21, ’06. 130w.
“Is technically faulty in construction in that the critical point of
the plot is reached in the early chapters, but the tenseness of the
situation continues.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Brilliant but unequal novel.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 441. S. 29, ’06. 1720w.
=Christian, Eugene, and Christian, Mrs. Eugene (Mollie Griswold
Christian).= Uncooked foods and how to use them. $1. Health-Culture.
A new revised and enlarged edition of a treatise on how to get the
highest form of animal energy from food. Food problems and the
function of foods are discussed, and the use of uncooked foods is
advocated from a stand-point of health, simplicity, and economy.
Recipes for the preparation of uncooked foods with detailed menus of
healthful combinations are given. The little book will prove valuable
to those who feel that conventional modern cooking is not giving them
the proper returns in health and strength.
Church: her communion and her service. 25c. General council pub. house.
Pastors of the Lutheran church, members, and those who desire to know
the teachings of the Lutheran church will find in this booklet concise
answers to questions concerning the church, her history and her
doctrines.
=Churchill, Winston.= Coniston. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Love and politics are deftly blended in this life story of Jethro
Bass, the New England politician of a generation ago, the crude man of
the tannery who made himself a power in the state. His first victory,
won by questionable methods, cost him the first Cynthy, but after a
life in which his politics outweighed his love, great as that love
was, he at last retires from the political field in a voluntary
sacrifice of his power to the second Cynthia’s happiness. The book is
full of strong characters; Bob, Cynthia’s lover, Bob’s father, old
Ephraim, Ezra Graves. All Coniston seems to live upon its pages, with
its local interests, its plots and counter plots; but the warm heart
and the shrewd unscrupulous mind of Jethro, and the noble spirited
girl who loved him while she despised his methods are the truly great
things of the book.
* * * * *
“The novel, when tried on the touchstone of nature, does not stand the
test. A genuine humour twinkles over the book, making it very pleasant
indeed to read.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 53. Jl. 21, ’06. 1680w.
“It is not too much to say that it places him at the head of
contemporary American novelists.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 97. Jl. 28. 450w.
“It is of better quality than the average fiction of to-day.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 115. O. ’06. 170w.
+ + – =Critic.= 49: 208. S. ’06. 410w.
+ + =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 390w.
“A sober estimate will give the book due recognition for its idealism,
its close observation, and its genuine human interest, while not
ignoring its coherent structure, its superficial characterization, its
long-windedness, its affected pose, and its slovenly diction.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 116. S. 1, ’06. 430w.
“Mr. Churchill’s latest novel is his best novel.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 96. Jl. 12, ’06. 860w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“The story is open, nevertheless, to the same objections which have
been brought against its predecessors—lack of concentration, and the
diffusion of events over too large an area.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 460w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 300w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
“He transcribes rather than creates, and his effects are got by
plodding equably ahead with his narrative rather than by any flash of
inspiration.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 249. Jl. 13, ’06. 650w.
“‘Coniston’ would have been a good novel if it had begun in the
middle.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 38. Jl. 12, ’06. 540w.
“‘Coniston’ can hardly fail to give its readers food for thought. Well
will it be for our government if these readers are many, and if they
straightway proceed to run according to the reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 406. Je. 23, ’06. 1140w.
“‘Coniston’ is so great an advance on ‘The crisis’ and ‘The crossing’
in construction, condensation, and artistic feeling that it cannot
fail to appeal to a new group of readers, while its human duality will
hold those who have already accepted Mr. Churchill as a born
storyteller.”
+ + =Outlook= 83: 100. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 707. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
“But Mr. Churchill does not merely preach a sermon on civic
righteousness. ‘Coniston’ is a love story, and a capital one, of
perhaps a deeper motive than any of the earlier romances from Mr.
Churchill’s pen.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 256. Ag. ’06. 450w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 305. S. 8, ’06. 220w.
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 1030w.
=Churchill, Winston.= Title-mart. **75c. Macmillan.
In this little three-act comedy Mr. Churchill satirizes the American
custom of bartering off comely heiresses in the title-market. The
scene is laid in a millionaire’s New England “camp,” the principal
actors are a practical father, an ambitious stepmother, an athletic
daughter devoted to jiu-jitsu, and an English lord who for the
amusement of the moment trades his title for the plain Reginald
Burking, M. P. of the friend accompanying him. The situations growing
out of the exchange of identity are humorously farcical.
* * * * *
“The whole, though a trifle extravagant, is written with remarkable
spirit and humour.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 743. Je. 16. 150w.
“It is smartly written and reads well. The contrast of the rustic mind
with metropolitan swiftness is humorously set forth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 164. Mr. 17, ’06. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 50w.
“The play is extremely light, however, and depends for its substance
upon a confusion in identities.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 200w.
=Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer.= Lord Randolph Churchill. 2v. **$9.
Macmillan.
The fact that Mr. Winston Churchill is not of the party in the
interests of which his father ran his brief political career insures
for this work non-partisan treatment. It deals with Lord Churchill’s
public rather than his private life, and is in the main a record of
ten brief years of an effective career. During this period Lord
Churchill became leader of the House of Commons and chief exponent of
the so-called Tory democracy, attempted the reform of the Conservative
party from within and in the end broke with all his former leaders and
colleagues. “The atmosphere is from start to finish severely
political.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Morley himself did not show more candour in writing the life of
Mr. Gladstone than Mr. Winston Churchill has shown in dealing with the
career of his father.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 1220w.
“It will have to be carefully studied by all who would be well versed
in the political history of England, especially party history, from
the Reform act of 1867 to the end of the Unionist administration of
1886–1892.” Edward Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 675. Ap. ’06. 790w.
“In the work before us there are many fine passages, and we find it
almost as a whole both vivid and dignified in narration, and here and
there even noble.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 7. Ja. 6. 4340w.
“Mr. Winston Churchill makes the reader feel the tragedy of his
father’s life,—a tragedy equally dramatic whether, as he contends, it
was due to a conscientious struggle for principles that could not be
carried out, or whether, like the tragedies of romance, it was the
fatal result of defects of character.” A. Lawrence Lowell.
+ + + =Atlan.= 98: 248. Ag. ’06. 3910w.
“A biography of marked interest, of rare quality and of intrinsic
historical value.” George Louis Beer.
+ + =Critic.= 49: 83. Jl. ’06. 2420w.
+ – =Current Literature.= 40: 381. Ap. ’06. 1310w.
“It has, then, both biographical importance and historical value, for
it gives us a clearer insight into the workings of Tory machinery than
any other volume.” E. D. Adams.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 2930w.
“Its place is alongside John Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone.’”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 626. Mr. 15, ’06. 1260w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“If executed with tact and a certain deference to family
susceptibilities, may safely be pronounced an impressive political
biography and an invaluable contribution to the history of the
conservative party and of British politics generally.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 491. Mr. 31, ’06. 1210w.
“A life so well worth writing has been admirably written.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 1. Ja. 5, ’06. 3580w.
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 492. Je. 14, ’06. 2110w.
“His book has a general value in so far as it treats of the politics
of Great Britain during a brief period active in partisan struggles if
not notable for great achievements; for it gives us an inside view of
the strange way in which a nation is governed.” Joseph O’Connor.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 125. Mr. 3. ’06. 3870w.
“Considering everything Mr. Churchill is to be felicitated on the
zeal, tact, and ability with which he has executed his task.” H.
Addington Bruce.
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 905. Ag. 18, ’06. 1790w.
“His manifest care and wish—and he succeeds in both—are to present his
father as he lived, fought, worked among his fellows.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 283. Mr. 3, ’06. 800w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 280w.
“The style of the narrative is easy and clear, occasionally graceful
and pathetic. There is a due sense of perspective.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 18. Ja. 6, ’06. 3080w.
“The book has its faults,—faults of arrangement, of prolixity and
repetition, of occasional irrelevance; and the writer has been tempted
unconsciously to turn the narrative of certain incidents in his
father’s life into a kind of apology for certain incidents in his own.
Mr. Churchill tells the story of his father’s private life with
singular tact and good taste, and he has striven to make the tale of
his public life an adequate history of an epoch in English politics.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 19. Ja. 6, ’06. 2170w.
=Clare, W. H.= Rattle of his chains. $1.25 Eastern pub. co.
Here is portrayed on the one hand the bondage of a young man serving
false gods bound so that with every move the chains rattle; on the
other, the freedom of industry—“with greed, avarice and covetousness
wanting, and with the golden rule as a living precept.”
=Clarke, Rev. Richard F.= Lourdes: its inhabitants, its pilgrims, and
its miracles. *$1. Benziger.
The miracle phase of the Lourdes pilgrimage is uppermost in this
account which is given with “rigorous exactitude.”
=Clarke, William Newton.= Use of the Scriptures in theology; the
Nathaniel William Taylor lectures delivered at Yale university in 1905.
**$1. Scribner.
“We believe the author’s positions and arguments are in the main sound
and irrefutable.” Milton S. Terry.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 363. Ap. ’06. 1300w.
“Mention should be made of the sweet spirit, religious insight, and
frank and honest courage which appear conspicuously upon every page of
the book.” G. B. S.
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 474. Je. ’06. 1220w.
=Clayden, Arthur William.= Cloud studies. **$3.50. Dutton.
Not alone to the meteorologist and to the artist who finds
extraordinary examples of art in the “general negligence of cloud
forms,” but to the general reader also does this work appeal. “It is
important to notice that the author accepts the types of the
international cloud atlas and arranges his various forms as subforms
of these types.” The illustrations include many reproductions of
typical cloud-forms, and forms showing the transformation of one
cloud-form into another.
* * * * *
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 364. Mr. 24. 440w.
“Not only the nature-lover and the artist, but the meteorologist as
well, will find much of value and interest in this book.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 169. S. 16, ’06. 190w.
“While of great value to specialists, is hardly less interesting to
the general reader, and will be immensely helpful in continued and
more accurate study of this fascinating subject.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 328. Ap. 19, ’06. 900w.
“Mr. Claydon’s work will be a standard one for all students of
clouds.” H. Hildebrand Hildebrandsson.
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 416. Mr. 1, ’06. 690w.
“While its text should appeal to the scientific man, and its
photographic illustrations to the artist, the style is not attractive,
and in spite of the theoretical interest of the subject, will hardly
induce the wider public to read it in large numbers.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 14. Ja. 13, ’06. 640w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 456. Ap. 14, ’06. 1750w.
“This volume is essentially practical, and anyone who has read it with
attention will find a new interest added for the future to his daily
study of the sky.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 460w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.=). Editorial wild oats.
†$1. Harper.
+ =Spec.= 96: 952. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.=). Eve’s diary. $1.
Harper.
“Translated from the original,” these experiences of Eve in the garden
of Eden and afterwards form a fitting companion piece to “Extracts
from Adam’s diary.” Thruout she is Eve, the first woman, naive,
frankly curious and frankly loving, a world of women feel the kin-call
when she speaks and her Adam, as she draws him, is without question
the eternal masculine. There is a fund of wit and humor in this gentle
satire on man and nature and there is something more, an undernote
which culminates in this closing tribute to the first mother: At Eve’s
grave. Adam: “Wheresoever she was _there_ was Eden.”
* * * * *
“The book is hardly to us a favorable specimen of the author’s
humour.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 185. Ag. 18. 80w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 90w.
“The only fault to find with these books is that there is so little of
them.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“The book bears internal evidence that it owes much to the skill of
the translator.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 100w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 393. S. 22, ’06. 1310w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Men and things. $1.25.
Harper.
An illustrated volume of humor, comprising well chosen selections from
thirty-six modern humorists including Ade, Aldrich, Bangs, Burdette,
Field, Harris, Harte, Holmes, Howells, Nye, Warner and others perhaps
less well known but no less amusing. Mark Twain, as compiler, opens
the book with this apology, “Those selections in this book which are
from my own works were made by my two assistant compilers, not by me.
This is why there are not more.”
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 90w.
=Dial.= 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 60w.
“It would seem that each author is represented by his inferior work
only.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 170w.
“The new book is full of good matter, in prose and verse.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 116. F. 24, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 100w.
“It is trite and unnecessary but only fair to say that the best things
in the book are his own.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 150w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.)=, ed. Primrose way. Mark
Twain’s library of humor. †$1.50. Harper.
The third volume in Mark Twain’s “Library of humor” continues for
funloving readers the humorous offerings of “Men and things,” and
“Women and things.” Besides the editor’s own contributions are stories
by George Ade, John Kendrick Bangs, Samuel Cox, Sewell Ford, William
Dean Howells, John G. Saxe, Melville D. Landon, Hugh Pendexter and
many others.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 372. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 160w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 40w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= $30,000 bequest and
other stories. $1.75. Harper.
Forty or more of Mark Twain’s funniest stories have been gathered into
this volume. Some have appeared before in book form while other more
recent ones have seen print only in magazines. The volume includes: A
dog’s tale, The Californian’s tale, A telephone conversation, Italian
with grammar, The danger of lying in bed, Eve’s diary, Extracts from
Adam’s diary, and A double-barreled detective story. The frontispiece
is a photograph of the author on his 70th birthday, and there are
other illustrations.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 287. N. 1, ’06. 30w.
=Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 670. O. 13, ’06. 230w.
=Outlook.= 84: 533. O. 27, ’06. 60w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).= Women and things.
†$1.50. Harper.
The second volume in Mark Twain’s “Library of humor.” There are some
of Mark Twain’s own stories including the inimitable funny “Esquimau
maiden’s romance.” There are stories by George Ade, John Kendrick
Bangs, Josh Billings, Josiah Allen’s Wife, Widow Bedott, Bret Harte
and others. The stories humorously show the graces, the foibles, the
fancies and weaknesses of women.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 40: 334. My. 16, ’06. 50w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 50w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 40w.
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 70w.
=Clement, Ernest Wilson.= Christianity in modern Japan. **$1. Am. Bapt.
“Clear, compact, and well arranged.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 190. Ja. ’06. 290w.
=Clement, Ernest Wilson.= Handbook of modern Japan. **$1.40. McClurg.
=Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 50w.
=Clements, Frederick E.= Research methods in ecology. $3. Univ. pub.,
Neb.
“One can scarcely praise this work too much; it is what is needed to
prevent ecology from falling into a swift and merited disfavor.”
+ + + =Bot. Gaz.= 40: 381. N. ’05. 790w.
=Clerke, Agnes Mary.= System of the stars. *$6.50. Macmillan.
The results of the past fifteen years of sidereal research have been
embodied in Miss Clerke’s revision. Extensive modifications of the old
text have been made, and new chapters inserted.
* * * * *
“It has the remarkable feature of combining extraordinary profusion of
precise information with an elegance of literary style quite unusual
in scientific authors.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 556. Je. 9, ’06. 760w.
“All astronomers and those interested in astronomy will heartily
welcome the new edition of Miss Clerke’s ‘System of the stars’.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 727. N. 25. 110w.
“Students of astronomy will find the latest results of sidereal
research admirably stated in the new edition.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 60w.
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 420w.
“The work is so good that every student of astronomical physics must
be familiar with it, and every astronomical library must include it.”
R. A. Gregory.
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 505. Mr. 29, ’06. 3840w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ’05. 270w.
“Is one of the noteworthy additions to scientific literature.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 100w.
“We find, as we expected to find, a well-arranged, lucid and
remarkably accurate account of an immense number of observations and a
sympathetic though judicious and cautious analysis of the various
inferences that have been drawn from them.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 101: 54. Ja. 13, ’06. 1100w.
“Miss Clerke. with her usual power of accurate and lucid exposition,
has given us a most fascinating account of all that astronomers have
thus far discovered about these immensely distant stars.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 714. My. 5, ’06. 1350w.
=Cleveland, Frederick Albert.= Bank and the treasury. *$1.80. Longmans.
Reviewed by Frank L. McVey.
=Dial.= 41: 166. S. 16, ’06. 6120w.
– =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 110w.
“In character it is a plea, not an investigation; an exposition and
defense of ‘a point of view.’ The author also makes some excellent
proposals concerning the form of bank reports.” David Kinley.
+ + – =Yale R.= 14: 421. F. ’06. 530w.
=Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover.= Fishing and shooting sketches: il. by H:
S. Watson. *$1.25. Outing pub.
Mr. Grover Cleveland is manifestly as authoritative on the subject of
fishing as was Isaak Walton of old. Much of the former’s philosophy is
simmered down to creed form for the sportsman. And his book,
copyrighted now for the fifth time, has become a guide book for the
fisherman and hunter who are only better instructed for the woodsy
out-of-door tang to all of Mr. Cleveland’s law unto their “honorable
order.”
=Climenson, Mrs. Emily J.= Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the
Blue-stockings: her correspondence from 1720–1761. 2v. **$8. Dutton.
The story of the early life of Mrs. Montagu, written by her
great-great-niece. “The material in the two volumes was gleaned from
some sixty-eight cases, in each of which were from 100 to 150 letters,
written by Mrs. Montagu or received by her. There are letters to and
from the most learned and celebrated personages in England and France
and other countries. Among the names mentioned are the Duchess of
Portland, Laurence Sterne, Dr. Johnson, Sir Robert Walpole, Mrs.
Friend, Elizabeth Carter, the translator of Epictetus; Gilbert West,
Nathaniel Hooke, Mrs. Pococke, David Hume, Lyttleton, Lord Bath, Dr.
Young, and a number of others.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mrs. Climenson has succeeded in identifying, with one or two
exceptions, the numerous folk whose names occur in her text; in other
respects her notes are defective and capricious.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 495. My. 26. ’06. 2180w.
“Though containing a variety of readable matter, we think it might
with advantage have been shortened by the excision of much domestic
detail which is not of general interest.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 537. My. 5. 2490w.
Reviewed by J. H. Lobban.
=Blackwood’s M.= 180: 452. O. ’06. 4480w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 280w.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 270w.
“Mrs. Climenson has proved herself a loving editor of her kinswoman’s
letters. She has verified with enormous labor the dates of letters,
many of which were previously uncertain.” Basil Williams.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 594. Jl. ’06. 410w.
“She was a formalist rather than a wit, and in her letters she tries
so hard to be amusing that one would really prefer her natural
dulness.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 140. Ap. 20, ’06. 820w.
[Mrs. Climenson has] “so more than edited it that the two handsome and
liberally illustrated volumes ... might be styled a memoir.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 220w.
“The two volumes before us are edited with some care and not a little
profusion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 351. Je. 2, ’06. 1600w.
“Her correspondence is interesting, for it gives an insight into the
customs of the day, fashions, amusements, travel, etc.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
“We have many reliable and entertaining contemporary records of the
crowded eighteenth century, but this must be regarded as exceptionally
attractive.” Elizabeth Lore North.
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 524. Je. 30, ’06. 1580w
“Mrs. Climenson is defective in ... literary tact and sense of
perspective.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 727. Je. 9, ’06. 1670w.
=Clute, Willard Nelson.= Fern allies. **$2. Stokes.
“The field notes, which show an intimate acquaintance with the life
histories of the various forms, will interest the botanist as well as
the layman.”
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 40: 464. D. ’05. 130w.
=Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“One could hardly ask a better guide than Mr. Clute’s handsome
volume.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1482. D. 21, ’05. 80w.
“A few years ago the Clutes gave us the best, most comprehensive book
that we have concerning our ferns in their haunts, and now they have
accomplished a yet more difficult task, that of writing and adequately
illustrating a guide to the more obscure kin of the fern tribe.” Mabel
Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 168. Mr. 17, ’06. 470w.
=Coates, Thomas F. G.= Prophet of the poor: the life story of General
Booth. *$1.50. Dutton.
“In its special mission of reclaiming and preventing the waste of
humanity, the Salvation army has put life and force into the
desiccated idea of the ‘Church militant.’ Of this idea, as well as of
the poor, General Booth has been for over half a century the prophet,
and also the prophet of a human brotherhood, the Christian ideal of
which is more largely realized in his army than in any other branch of
the church. The life-story of this great leader, and of his
like-minded and noble wife and comrade, the ‘mother’ of the army, is
an illustrious chapter in the yet unfinished Acts of the
apostles.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“One would turn to it in vain to find broad grasp of the relation of
the Army to other religious or social efforts of the time, or even
vivid portrayal of the personality of its subject. It fails also in
arrangement of its material, has no index, and is not in any way
satisfactory as a biography of General Booth.”
– =Ind.= 60: 1163. My. 17, ’06. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 654. O. 6, ’06. 1700w.
=Outlook.= 83: 244. My. 26, ’06. 190w.
“A very entertaining and graphic biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 380. Mr. ’06. 250w.
=Cody, Sherwin.= Success in letter-writing, business and social. **75c.
McClurg.
The methods of the old-fashioned polite letter-writing have been
studiously avoided in this up to date volume which “actually tells how
to deal with human nature by mail.” Under the head of business letter
writing not only routine business letters, but circular letters,
advertising letters and letters which “sell goods” are treated. Under
social letter writing are included the various forms of social
correspondence, invitations, regrets, letters of friendship and
liberal advice upon love letters.
=Colcock, Annie T.= Her American daughter. $1.50. Neale.
A group of American writers and artists come together in Madrid at the
opening of the Spanish-American war, and during these agitated days
they work out among themselves the very pretty little love story of
Miss Ray, an art student from South Carolina and Russell, a New York
writer who has had the misfortune to offend her by publishing an
article which ridicules the South. A bull-fight, a carnival, a wicked
señor who has made a wager that Miss Ray will dine with him at
midnight unchaperoned, and good Donna Dolores who calls Miss Ray her
American daughter, lend to the story a truly Spanish atmosphere.
=Colegrove, William.= Hartford; an epic poem. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
An epic poem modeled upon the Æneid, which presents the early history
of Hartford, Connecticut and sings of arms and the colony’s founders.
=Collier, The Hon. John.= Art of portrait painting. *$3.50. Cassell.
In this practical treatise for the student and professional painter,
the subject is treated from a threefold point of view: The historical,
The aims and methods of the great masters, and The practice of
portrait painting. The illustrations include forty or more portraits
painstakingly reproduced from some of the world’s best work.
* * * * *
“No man of our day could write of his subjects more agreeably, sanely,
or with more intimate knowledge, nor produce a volume so likely to
gain the attention of the general public.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 525. Je. 2, ’06. 500w.
“Much personal suggestion is also admitted by the pleasantly
colloquial manner of the book, and the attitude throughout is marked
by common sense, definite opinions and an open-minded inclination for
progress and novelty coupled with a sufficient conservatism.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 54. D. ’06. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 379. Je. 9, ’06. 640w.
=Collins, Archie Frederick.= Wireless telegraphy: its history, theory
and practice. *$3. McGraw.
A general explanation of the theory of etheric waves furnishes a
foundation for an explanation of the nature of waves in general, of
light waves of electrical vibrations, and apparatus for producing
them. “He discusses electric discharges, the action of ultra violet
rays, direct and alternating current effects.... He explains the
workings of a variety of oscillating current generators and then
passes to electric wave detectors—the best known to the public being
the Marconi ‘coherer.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Engin. N.= 56: 417. O. 18, ’06. 100w.
“Aims to be—and seems to succeed in being—a practical treatise on
wireless telegraphy so written so as to be of use both to the expert
in scientific matters and to the tyro who has everything to learn.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 733. O. 28, ’05. 330w.
“In the opinion of the reviewer the illustrations ... constitute the
most useful part of this book. In the hands of one whose familiarity
of the subject enables him to interpret the many obscure passages and
to distinguish the inaccurate statements from those that are correct,
Mr. Collins’s book may in some cases be found useful.” Ernest Merritt.
– – + =Phys. R.= 22: 63. Ja. ’06. 500w.
“He covers the whole field briefly but satisfactorily. In addition to
being practically the first book in this field, Mr. Collins’s is well
prepared and authoritative.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 170w.
=Collins, John Churton.= Studies in poetry and criticism. $2.50.
Macmillan.
Seven essays which regard poetry from the standpoint of the
moralist,—the moralist who thinks that “In the wretched degradation
into which belles lettres have fallen we seem to be losing all sense
of the importance once attached to them, when critics were scholars
and poets something more than aesthetes.” The essays are The poetry
and poets of America, The collected work of Lord Byron, The collected
poems of Mr. William Watson, The poetry of Gerald Massey, Miltonic
myths and their authors, Longinus and Greek criticism, and the True
functions of poetry.
* * * * *
“In this book Mr. Churton Collins writes as a pessimist.”
– =Acad.= 69: 1305. D. 16, ’05. 1850w.
“As a critic, Prof. Collins has a cultivated taste, but his instinct
is unsure.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 857. D. 23. 1720w.
“Impeccable in scholarship. Mr. Collins has not in this volume avoided
one or two minor slips of style, probably due to careless
proofreading.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 472. Je. 7, ’06. 1590w.
“A genuine by-product of scholarship, true essays, containing not any
sound doctrine, but the human touch which alone is able to convey the
results of scholarship to those who stand outside the bars of that
snug pasture.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 5700w.
“A fine book because its author has high ideals and has lived with and
learned to love the master-minds of literature.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 494. Ap. 21, ’06. 1100w.
“The truth is that Professor Collins’s doctrine turns out, if it is
followed to its logical conclusion, to be a fatally narrow one.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 93. Jl. 21, ’06. 1870w.
=Colson, Elizabeth, and Chittenden, Anna Gansevoort=, comps. Children’s
letters: a collection of letters written to children by famous men and
women. $1. Hinds.
As different in tone and individuality are these letters as the
characteristics and moods of the long list of contributors. Among the
letter-writers selected are Holmes, Whittier, Lincoln, Phillips
Brooks, Martin Luther, Sidney Smith, Longfellow, Stevenson, Scott,
Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen and many others.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.
“The compilers ... have performed their tasks of selection and
explanation with good judgment and sympathy.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 41. Ja. 20, ’06. 2030w.
“Altogether a delightful little volume, and one well worth making.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 445. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.
=Colton, Arthur Willis.= Belted seas. †$1.50. Holt.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
=Atlan.= 97: 46. Ja. ’06. 200w.
=Colton, Arthur Willis.= Cruise of the Violetta. †$1.50. Holt.
An Ohio woman, left with a vast fortune, equips a yacht and sails to
the land of “parrots and monkeys and bananas and foreign missions.”
The story is a humorous characterization of a practical woman’s
missionary work, shared by the unique Dr. Alswater, who was “not a
‘globe trotter’ but rather a floater,—in the manner resembling
sea-weed, that drifts from place to place, but wherever it drifts or
clings, is tranquil and accommodating.” The fortunes of a young
electrician, sent to a South American town to establish an electric
light plant, form one thread of the tale.
* * * * *
“Mr. Colton’s new novel is conceived in an unconventional, not to say
freakish, style. Banter and sarcasm prevail from the beginning to the
end. Humor is not lacking, but it is seldom wholesome or spontaneous.”
– + =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“He approaches the ticklish realm of burlesque with too great
cocksureness.”
– =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 250w.
“It is lively and clever, and fit company for hours that might
otherwise be dull.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“In this book he is not at his best.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 40w.
=Colvin, Sir Auckland.= Making of modern Egypt. *$4. Dutton.
“It is the imperturbability of Lord Cromer which dominates Sir.
Auckland Colvin’s history,” (Acad.)—the man who is chiefly responsible
for the growth of modern Egypt. “The scheme of the book is a simple
one. Whereas Lord Milner gave us a series of brilliant essays on
different aspects of the Egyptian problem, Sir Auckland aims at
presenting a consecutive narrative of successive incidents so that the
reader may know, in any given year, the exact progress made by Egypt
up to that date in all branches of the public service. It is an
attempt to show history in the making, and, though lacking the style
and charm of “England in Egypt,” it will prove of more value to the
student than Lord Milner’s volume.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Well written, lucid and temperate, it sets before us the events of
the last five and twenty years without favour. As we read Sir Auckland
Colvin’s book, we understand the reason of the supremacy which England
most unselfishly still holds in Egypt and her colonies, and we can
imagine no better handbook of practical statesmanship than ... ‘Making
of modern Egypt.’”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 279. Mr. 24, ’06. 1150w.
“Sir Auckland Colvin knows all there is to be known on ‘The making of
modern Egypt.’ The fact that he can hardly be said to possess the art
of constructing a book does not detract from the worth of this volume,
though it renders it heavy for the general reader.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 296. Mr. 10. 610w.
“It differs from Lord Milner’s ‘England in Egypt’ in being more of a
consecutive narrative of incidents, but at the same time lacks the
brilliancy of style that characterizes Lord Milner’s essays.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 120. S. 1, ’06. 260w.
“Despite a few errors and a few redundancies this book is the most
useful record available, if we exclude Lord Cromer’s official reports,
of Egypt’s progress from 1882 to the present day.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 90. Mr. 16, ’06. 1300w.
“The book, despite the many romantic phases of the subject, is not
exciting reading, but it supplies the safest guide to those who may
wish to study one of the most interesting and far-reaching series of
events which have occurred in our own time.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 62. Jl. 19, ’06. 1320w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 390w.
“Cannot fail to be a valuable and interesting work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 60w.
“Every chapter is enlivened with wit and picturesqueness of phrase,
and he has a happy gift of classical reminiscence.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 946. Je. 16, ’06. 1340w.
=Coman, Katherine.= Industrial history of the United States for high
schools and colleges. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“In view of the scattered and partial character of the material
available, it is not perhaps surprising that Miss Coman’s book gives
the impression of a collection of facts having to do with the economic
history of the United States, rather than of a clear presentation of
the main features of that history and the influences by which they
have been determined. It must be said, moreover, that even in her
statements of facts the author has not exercised as much care as might
fairly be expected.” Henry B. Gardner.
– + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 948. Jl. ’06. 650w.
“On all moot questions in our economic history, whether resulting from
political differences or purely academic in character, she has shown
an eminent degree of fairness.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 530. Ja. ’06. 550w.
“One of the good qualities of the book is its directness and clearness
of statement.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ + – =Educ. R.= 31: 102. Ja. ’06. 1150w.
“This is an instructive and a much needed work.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 516. Mr. 1, ’06. 440w.
“It is written in a clear, concise style and contains a large amount
of descriptive material within brief compass. Its main defect is that
it fails to leave upon the mind of the reader a clear impression of
the development of the principal industries of the country.” Robert
Morris.
+ + – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 62. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“The lines of conception ... are broad, and bold, but not fully
matched by firmness in execution.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ – =School R.= 14: 462. Je. ’06. 530w.
“As a first attempt it is entitled to considerable measure of
commendation. The great defect of the book is that those ‘essential
elements’ of our economic history are not only not brought out clearly
so that the reader may be sure to grasp them, but they are apparently
not comprehended by the author herself.” G. S. C.
+ – =Yale. R.= 15: 324. N. ’06. 1150w.
=Commons, John Rogers=, ed. Trade unionism and labor problems. *$2.50.
Ginn.
The second volume of the “Selections and documents in economics” being
brought out by Professor W. Z. Ripley of Harvard university. There are
twenty-seven essays, mostly reprints from current scientific magazines
on a variety of aspects of the social and economic situation, which
aim to furnish collateral reading for college classes.
* * * * *
“Is invaluable to the student; it places in accessible form a mass of
most important material, and heartily commends itself to the reader.”
G. B. Mangold.
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 182. Jl. ’06. 580w.
“There is scarcely a question of the day that does not have
interesting light shed on it by one or more persons peculiarly fitted
to discuss it. The book is an excellent disseminator of wholesome good
sense and moderation.” W. E. C. W.
+ + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 196. Ja. ’06. 320w.
“It will furnish the raw material for a course in descriptive
economics, and as such is a serviceable volume.”
+ =Bookm.= 22: 536. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“Despite the variety of material in the book, a fair amount of unity
is preserved through Mr. Commons’s introduction, which adequately
relates the chapters.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 40. Jl. 16, ’06. 190w.
“To any student of labor problems the book is indispensable.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1046. My. 3, ’06. 150w.
“With most of the material included economists are generally familiar,
but the assembling of the material in one volume provides an excellent
text-book for classes making a study of labor problems.” John
Cummings.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 455. Jl. ’06. 320w.
“The selections will supplement admirably the lectures and ordinary
reference-books which have constituted hitherto the principal pabulum
that teachers could set before their students.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 250w.
“The volume is full of valuable information, but it is rather material
for the student than history, philosophy, or sociology for the general
reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 275. F. 3, ’06. 210w.
“In no other one book is such a mass of vital facts brought together.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ’05. 210w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 210w.
Companion to Greek studies; ed. by Leonard Whibley. *$6. Macmillan.
“The only weakness is in a detail of arrangement i. e. the neglect of
side references and the consequent lack of coherence. There is much
unevenness in the bibliographies.” James C. Egbert.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 454. Je. ’06. 610w.
=Comstock, Harriet T.= Meg and the others. 75c. Crowell.
Two little girls of to-day, sitting in the firelight just before
bed-time hear the stories of Meg, and Mary, and the Boy, which their
grandmother calls out of the long ago for them. And when they have
heard all about them, their games, their troubles, and their
adventures, when they have learned to love them, and are loath to let
them go, they find that Mary is a nice old lady who is coming to live
with them, and that Meg and the Boy are really their own dear
grandmother and grandfather.
=Comstock, Mrs. Harriet Theresa.= Queen’s hostage. †$1.50. Little.
A story built up about plot, treachery, and treason which constantly
threatened Queen Elizabeth’s peace of mind. The hero is a young lord
of the house of Rathven who incognito redresses the wrongs of a
treacherous father and earns the long questioned right to be counted
among the queen’s loyal subjects.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 170w.
=Comstock, Seth Cook.= Marcelle the mad. †$1.50. Appleton.
“With the romantic Ardennes forest for setting, and for the motif the
incident of a medieval feud between the Duke of Burgundy and the
citizens of the town of Dinant, Dr. Comstock has written a stirring
tale of adventure to which he gives the name of ‘Marcelle the mad’ ...
after the female Robin Hood who plays the leading role.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“A trifle melodramatic and stilted in the earlier chapters, it
develops into a really powerful piece of work. If the story boasts
little originality either of plot or incident, it is told with a skill
and vigor that lift it well above the level of its kind, and few are
likely to leave it dissatisfied.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 210w.
“As a romance—a mere romance—of the time-killing variety, Mr.
Comstock’s story will do very well indeed.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.
“A stirring tale of love and adventure.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.
=Conant, Charles Arthur.= Principles of money and banking. 2v. *$4.
Harper.
Mr. Conant’s work carries “the reader from the beginnings of exchange
when cattle and fragments of metal passed by tale of weight down
through the origin of coinage and the birth thereof of modern banking
to the complete mechanism of money and credit as they exist to-day.”
“It is not written for the purpose of demolishing the ‘quantity
theory,’ extirpating the bimetallist, or advocating an ‘asset
currency,’ but is devoted to irenic exposition rather than polemical
discussions.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The work is not only a forceful exposition of so-called principles
which have guided commercial people and leading nations in thinking
about monetary problems, but it is unique in that the work of the
author is in the nature of a collation of the thought and expression
of nearly every writer of note on the several topics treated.”
Frederick A. Cleveland.
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 424. Mr. ’06. 2170w.
“The proper man to write on the subject is the man who is constantly
practicing the operations he describes. Mr. Conant fulfills these
conditions.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 401. O. 6. 1890w.
“To his task Mr. Conant brings some very unusual qualifications.”
Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 851. Je. ’06. 640w.
“A breadth of view and a freedom from partisan bias not frequently
found in monetary treatises.” R. C. B.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 216. Ap. ’06. 510w.
“A careful reading increases the admiration for the skill with which
the well-selected quotations have been woven into the book. What was
once scattered and almost unattainable in small libraries has been
brought together in an attractive, new and forceful way, which leaves
the professor of economics deeply indebted to the author.” Frank L.
McVey.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 165. S. 16, ’06. 450w.
“In spite of its theoretical weakness, the work has much to recommend
it to serious students of monetary science. It furnishes one of the
best available accounts of recent developments in money and banking.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 398. F. 15, ’06. 450w.
“He has not always discriminated between what was novel to him and
what would be new to a well-informed reader. His pages are encumbered
with superfluous quotations upon unimportant topics. His historical
chapters are sometimes painfully inadequate, and his treatment of
theoretical subjects not always satisfactory.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 210w.
“It would be difficult to name a treatise which blends facts and
theory so well, applying each to the other in a manner so
illuminating.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 913. D. 23, ’05. 580w.
“As a writer he possesses an agreeable style and the ability so to
present the most arid scheme that it becomes interesting even to a
reader having a minimum of economic knowledge.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 614. Mr. 17, ’06. 1550w.
“While Mr. Conant’s work possesses the virtue of great
comprehensiveness, it is the opinion of the reviewer that, to be of
greatest use to the general reader and the university student alike, a
book on money and banking should above all exhibit that unity and
precision of theory which is the greatest lack in Mr. Conant’s work.”
A. C. Whitaker.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 332. Je. ’06. 1720w.
“Mr. Conant’s treatment of disputed questions in monetary theory, in
the opinion of the present reviewer, leaves much to be desired. Mr.
Conant is none too happy in his handling of technical economic
phrases.” A. Piatt Andrew.
+ – =Yale R.= 15: 321. N. ’06. 1190w.
Congo, The: a report of the commission of enquiry appointed by the Congo
Free State government. *$1. Putnam.
“The main topics taken up in the commissions’s report are the land
régime, taxation, military service, trade concessions, depopulation,
and the administration of justice. In respect to all of these matters,
numerous evils are pointed out: the arrogance of the government in
appropriating alleged vacant lands, the oppressiveness of the labor
tax, the terrorism and cruelty resulting from quasi-military
expeditions, the exploitation of the natives by agents of greedy
commercial companies, and the lax jurisdiction of the territorial
courts.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 100w.
=Dial.= 41: 210. O. 1, ’06. 450w.
=Ind.= 60: 874. Ap. 12, ’06. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 378. Mr. 24, ’06. 340w.
=Connolly, James Bennet.= Deep sea’s toll. †$1.50. Scribner.
“It is a healthy, stimulating book, with the tang of salt air in every
page.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 190w.
“Though applauded by all true sailors, is a trifle too special for a
general reader.” Mary Moss.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 40w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Ind.= 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 240w.
“Is written with full knowledge and sympathy, and in the slow,
involved talk of the men we get much of the flavour of the spoken
word.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 98. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.
=Connor, Ralph, pseud. (Charles William Gordon).= The Doctor, a tale of
the Rockies. †$1.50. Revell.
A character of rare strength and beauty is developed in this story of
Barney, who as a lad was obliged to renounce his hope of a college
education in favor of a clever younger brother. He stayed at the mill,
worked, played his violin, and longed to be a doctor. Then, after many
things had come to pass which tried his soul, and purged it of all
dross, he became a preacher-doctor in the Rockies where strong men and
rough loved him for his unselfish ministrations to their bodies and
their souls and honored him as a power for good. In the end when he
laid down his life for his friend he brought his career to its final
triumph of success in failure.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 180w.
“It is hard to see why the average adult should not find the story at
once commonplace and passably long-winded.”
– =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 160w.
“The best thing Ralph Connor has done since ‘The sky pilot,’ and
perhaps the best thing he has ever done. Is a good book, both in the
religious and literary senses of the word.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 835. D. 1, ’06. 440w.
=Conover, James Potter.= Memories of a great schoolmaster. **$1.50.
Houghton.
The life of Dr. Henry A. Coit, for fifty years headmaster of St.
Paul’s school at Concord, N. H., has inspired this volume. It is a
confession of Dr. Coit’s religious and educational faith expressed in
terms of high standards and ideals in everything.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 160w.
“To the alumnus of St. Paul’s the book will be a valuable memorial of
its chief personality; and to others it will be an interesting
disclosure of a noteworthy influence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 321. My. 19, ’06. 1080w.
“It is an inspiring book for all who, whether teachers or parents,
have the perilous charge of either boys or girls in the budding time
of adolescence.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 1005. Ap. 28, ’06. 190w.
“His book has the double charm of personal knowledge and of love for
his subject.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 511. Ap. 21, ’06. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. 2, ’06. 70w.
=Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski).= Mirror of the sea.
†$1.50. Harper.
One who has long known and loved her, and who has always understood,
writes here of the sea and her moods, of her anger when the winds lash
her, of the fear of her, the charm of her, of the men in the good
ships that sail her and sometimes go down in her, of their ways, their
rugged courage, and the various phases of the lives they lead. There
are bits of sentiment, scraps of romance, flashes of humor, many real
dramatic scenes and much hard fact, and thru it all the sound of the
sea.
* * * * *
“But the book is more than a series of fine pictures; it is a
sensitive appreciation of the whole art of seamanship, an imaginative
reading of the varying moods of the sea.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 393. O. 20, ’06. 980w.
“There is nothing here which the discriminating reader can afford to
miss.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 513. O. 27. 430w.
“His latest work will compare well with the best work he has done.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 220w.
“For ‘The mirror of the sea’ we would make bold to predict a very long
life. We seem to see it being discovered and re-discovered as the
years roll on.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 344. O. 12, ’06. 1390w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 374. N. 1, ’06. 670w.
“He knows the souls of the sea and of ships, as he knows the souls of
men, but that would be worth but little to us, did he not possess a
still more wonderful faculty of interpretation and expression—a
faculty that was never better shown than in these sketches.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 820w.
“To a practical knowledge of seamanship, of lading cargoes, ruling
crews, managing and navigating vessels, Joseph Conrad adds the vision
of a poet and exercises the witchcraft of a master of style.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
“To those who belong to the totem of its writer it will be always a
kind of gospel. It contains the whole soul of a man who has known the
deeps of sea mysteries, who has sought them as a lover, with joy, and
reverence, and fear.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 888. D. 1, ’06. 850w.
=Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski).= Nostromo: a tale of the
seaboard. $1.50. Harper.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 45. Ja. ’06. 570w.
Conversations with Christ: a biographical study. $1.50. Macmillan.
The author of these “Conversations” which, he says, have “too much
personality to be mythical” “has taken between twenty and thirty
passages from the gospels in which questions put, or petitions made,
to the Master, and His answers, are recorded. In all of these we have
portraits of Christ, wonderfully various, but with an unmistakable
likeness, and also with an unmistakable reality.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 118. Mr. 30, ’06. 530w.
“As a study it has the merit of freshness and insight; it is the
product of a cultured and vigorous mind, intellectually and
spiritually strong.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 110w.
“A really noble piece of writing.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 372. Mr. 24, ’06. 260w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 501. Mr. 31, ’06. 480w.
=Conway, Sir Martin.= No man’s land; a history of Spitsbergen from its
discovery in 1596 to the beginning of the scientific exploration of the
country. *$3. Putnam.
It is the history of the whaling industry engaged in by rival nations
along the coasts of this group of islands that occupies the greater
part of Sir Martin Conway’s volume. In addition are accounts of
Russian exploring enterprises and scientific expeditions in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
* * * * *
“His task has been accomplished in a characteristically complete
fashion, and has evidently involved a good deal of research in rare
books of old voyages, both English and Dutch.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 635. My. 26. 880w.
“No one has a better claim than Sir Martin Conway to have undertaken
this history, and few could have written it so well. The book is a
most valuable achievement, a most important contribution to
geographical literature.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 209. Je. 8, ’06. 2190w.
“The great value of this work is that it brings within convenient
compass a great body of information scattered through forgotten books
and manuscripts which throw light on some obscure points and give a
connected history and a most complete account in English of the great
whale industry.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 370w.
“Sir Martin Conway arouses the interests of his readers in the curious
history of a land which, though never permanently inhabited, has
played the part of an apple of discord between the great powers of
former days.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 239. Ag. 25, ’06. 1160w.
“A compendious bibliography and some good illustrations add to the
value of his excellent book.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 330w.
=Cook, E. Wake.= Betterment, individual, social and industrial; or,
Highest efficiency. **$1.20. Stokes.
The preface says: “The object of this work is to give in convenient
form the latest discoveries which promote individual, industrial, and
collective efficiency.” Conservation of energy in all its forms would
result in the “Simple life,” weary though the expression be, and the
author suggests it as the goal that insures immunity from disease, and
a great increase in mental and physical energy.
=Cook, Theodore Andrea.= Old Provence. 2v. **$4. Scribner.
“Old Provence is the land of romance, and of the tale of its beauty
and interest Mr. Cook is the most delightful of narrators.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 34. Ja. 13, ’06. 1060w.
“The work needs a clearer plan, more adequate special knowledge,
better judgment and critical discrimination, many more references
(there are but very few), more personal reserve, a better index and a
real map. It is pleasant, semi-learned magazine writing.”
– + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 874. Jl. ’06. 570w.
“More than a guide-book and less, it is one of those aids to travel
which, like Mr. Crawford’s ‘Rulers of the South,’ should lie by the
side of Baedeker in even the smallest steamer trunk.” Josiah Renick
Smith.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 39. Ja. 16, ’06. 1610w.
“The effect is excellent and exquisite, the information fixed and
true.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 287. F. 1, ’06. 440w.
“We commend these attractive volumes to every one who cares for truth
and romance blended in European history.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 463. Mr. 24, ’06. 1730w.
=Cooke, Edmund Vance.= Chronicles of the little tot. $1.50. Dodge.
Under five head verses grave and gay are here grouped for little
people: The cradlers. The creepers, The cruises, The climbers, and In
remembrance.
* * * * *
“Should make both universal and tender appeal,—not alone to those who
are the little tot’s vassals and slaves, but to the wider circle of
child-lovers, as well.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 818. D. 2, ’05. 310w.
=Cooke, Grace MacGowan.= Their first formal call; il. by Peter Newell.
†$1. Harper.
How two ambitious boys just out of knickerbockers and duly posted in
“Hints and helps to young men in business and social relations,” fared
in making their first formal call upon the Misses Claiborne. Not
daring to make their mission known they sat at the feet of Grandfather
Claiborne and Aunt Missouri the entire Sabbath afternoon and when
night came were sent to bed, much to the humbling of their youthful
pride.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Cooke has made the whole affair wonderfully ludicrous and real
and Peter Newell has furnished fourteen full-page pictures as funny as
the text.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Cooke, Jane Grosvenor.= Ancient miracle. †$1.50. Barnes.
“Life in the Grand plateaux of northern Canada is described pleasantly
in this peaceful but not unpleasing tale of love and labor. Mrs. Cooke
has imprisoned the atmosphere of this cold yet beautiful country and
draws well the good and pleasant folk who live there. The Francoeur
family, the faithful curé Xavier, and his numerous progeny are all
pictured graphically, while the love stories of the two girls furnish
sufficient interest to keep the reader’s attention.”—Critic.
* * * * *
“It is chiefly for the characterization that the book will be found
enjoyable.”
+ + – =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 90w.
“A romance of the Canadian forests, alive with the fascination and
witchery of those vast regions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 200w.
“So good superficially that it is a little difficult to express its
limitation. There is a lack of human warmth and sympathy.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 861. Ag. 11, ’06. 110w.
=Cooper, Edward Herbert.= Twentieth century child. $1.50. Lane.
Reviewed by E. L. Pomeroy.
+ =Arena.= 35: 106. Ja. ’06. 230w.
=Cooper, Walter G.= Fate of the middle classes. *$1.25. Consolidated
retail booksellers.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 342. F. 8, ’06. 180w.
=Copperthwaite, William C.= Tunnel shields and the use of compressed air
in subaqueous works. *$9. Van Nostrand.
“Mr. Copperthwaite’s task has been to compile and condense ...
scattered information into one place. He has done his work
excellently.... Mr. Copperthwaite divides his book into eleven
chapters. Of these the last chapter on ‘Cost of the shield,’ and the
first three chapters on ‘Early history, 1818–1880,’ ‘Use of compressed
air in engineering works’ and ‘Cast-iron lining for tunnels,’
respectively, are general in character; the remaining seven chapters
are collections of descriptions of specific shield tunnel works
classified under three heads; Shields in London clay, Shields in water
bearing strata and Shields in masonry tunnels.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is undoubtedly destined to be the standard English work on
this peculiarly difficult branch of engineering practice.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 218. Ag. 25. 1520w.
“The volume is in all respects worthy of prominent position in the
tunnel engineer’s library.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 676. Je. 14, ’06. 1520w.
“A very valuable and comprehensive history of a system of tunnelling.”
+ + + =Nature.= 74: 348. Ag. 9, ’06. 1180w.
=Corelli, Marie (Minnie Mackay).= Treasure of heaven: a romance of
riches. †$1.50. Dodd.
The treasure of Heaven which becomes the quest in Miss Corelli’s story
is love, and she would demonstrate the fact that riches menace its
possession. David Helmsley, an aged multi-millionaire, becomes a tramp
in pursuit of definite happiness, he gives and takes in his wanderings
and learns both are spontaneous. Finally he is nursed back from death
by one who teaches him the great love lesson which, without any
matrimonial thought, blesses his closing days.
* * * * *
“The novel is exceedingly modern in flavor and probably will be found
satisfactory by those readers who were in expectation of iconoclastic
touches such as recently have distinguished Miss Corelli’s
utterances.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 393. S. 22, ’06. 260w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 450w.
“Miss Corelli’s latest story is by no means lacking in power. Lacking
in distinction, it of course is; but it has more dignity of substance
and less indignity of style than anything of hers we have hitherto
seen.”
– – + =Nation.= 83: 227. S. 13, ’06. 500w.
“As a literary production does not measure up to its ethical
intention.”
– – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 549. S. 8, ’06. 640w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 319. D. ’06. 80w.
=Cornell, Hughes.= Kenelm’s Desire. †$1.50. Little.
Desire, a musician by instinct, by training, and by heredity, spends a
summer in British Columbia among the Indians, canoeing, sailing,
mountain-climbing and fishing. Here she discovers in a young Alaska
Indian, adopted and educated by white people, a soul fired by ambition
and pride, one that reflects the sad poetry of vanishing traditions.
The love idyll is interwoven with flagrant race prejudice, political
scenes, and true-to-life sketches of Indian character.
* * * * *
– =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 220w.
“Hughes Cornell has a novel situation in this story and manages it
well.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 170w.
=Cornes, James.= Modern housing: houses in town and country, illustrated
by examples of municipal and other schemes of block dwellings, tenement
houses, model cottages and villages. *$3. Scribner.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 239. Ag. 19. 320w.
=Coryat, Thomas.= Coryat’s crudities. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
“The recently republished crudities of Thomas Coryat give, perhaps, a
clearer notion of Shakespeare’s period than does Shakespeare himself.”
Herbert Vaughn Abbott.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 694. My. ’06. 3850w.
=Cotes, Sara Jeannette (Duncan) (Mrs. Everard Cotes).= Set in authority.
†$1.50. Doubleday.
A story “about India and the possibility of carrying our beloved
doctrines of liberalism into practice in that strange land.... In with
the politics is wound a story of men and women, of love and loss and
hopes and fears, which displays a number of very cleverly drawn
characters, whose thoughts and feelings are of deep interest. The
soldier, by strange bonds that remain concealed until the very end, is
united by close ties to the Viceroy himself—and the discovery adds
pathos to the wretched muddle which everybody made of things.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is not a comforting or exhilarating story, but it is a clever,
mature, and thoughtful piece of work that will increase Mrs. Cotes’s
already high reputation.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 529. Je. 2. ’06. 330w.
“Mrs. Cotes has given us of her best in this story of Indian life.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 791. Je. 30. 90w.
“Every character in the book is alive and every character has its
proper measure of interest.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 470w.
“People who like atmosphere, much clever talk, details of life and
character, will enjoy her book. Those who prefer much story and less
atmosphere will pronounce it tedious.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 340w.
“It is quotable to a large degree, and cannot be read without constant
responsive smiles and a desire to share the witty characterizations
with any near-by neighbor.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 190w.
“Society in the capital of a small Indian province is clearly
sketched, but the ineffective love-story of the chief characters is
unconvincing.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 250w.
“Her present book, though from a literary standpoint not quite in her
happiest vein, is, however well worth reading.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 989. Je. 23, ’06. 310w.
=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.).= From a Cornish window.
*$1.50. Dutton.
This reflective and discursive “volume is somewhat arbitrarily divided
into twelve chapters named after twelve months. Cornish matters, so
far as treated at all, are more particularly discussed in ‘August’ and
‘December’; the other chapters handle at random, literature and life
and politics and education. The writer’s unenthusiastic estimate of
‘our modern bards of empire,’ whom he finds lacking in high
seriousness and any recognition of the human soul, is to be noted with
approval. In the sober month of November he indulges in reflections on
this human soul’s ultimate destiny.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 71. Jl. 21. 410w.
“Despite occasional dull pages in these random outpourings, our
popular story-teller ‘Q’ is worth reading in his more serious moods.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 118. S. 1, ’06. 360w.
“There are pages of fooling that we could wish omitted; there is a
certain flippancy, a lightness of word that wrongs the serious
thought, that makes us say, ‘Not worthy of “Q”!’ We speak of this at
once, that we may get our objections out of the way and have done with
them. Who—where so much is good—can help a little sigh after
perfection?”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 264. Jl. 27, ’06. 1380w.
“There is much variety in this miscellany, or series of miscellanies,
arranged by the calendar; but nothing therein is labored or affected.
It is excellent talk, as flexible, suggestive, and responsive to
suggestion, as good talk should be.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 880w.
“A very charming miscellany.” H. I. Brock.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 531. S. 1, ’06. 1300w.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 91. S. 8, ’06. 280w.
“All lovers of good literature will find it a treasury which they will
not readily exhaust.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 300w.
=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.).= Mayor of Troy. †$1.50.
Scribner.
+ =Acad.= 70: 333. Ap. 7, ’06. 720w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 603. My. 19. 540w.
“A broadly humorous tale.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 50w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 80w.
“So long as we are ready to take the actors as characters in farce,
the fun is fast and furious, and the writer carries us along with him
so that we do not stop to think of possibilities.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 84. Mr. 9., ’06. 420w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 466. Ap. 14, ’06. 150w.
+ – =Spec.= 96: 425. Mr. 17, ’06. 510w.
=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q”, pseud.).= Shakespeare’s Christmas
and other stories. †$1.50. Longmans.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“Are capital illustrations of his narrative skill.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.).= Sir John Constantine:
memoirs of his adventures at home and abroad, and particularly in the
island of Corsica, beginning with the year 1756; written by his son,
Prosper Paleologus, otherwise Constantine; ed. by Q. †$1.50. Scribner.
This tale of adventure “has movement, suspense, the thrill of danger
and the delight of high-minded devotion and idealized love. The time
is in the seventeenth century, when Corsica was in arms against
Genoa’s occupation and oppression, and the people were rallying to
Paoli. Among the aspirants for the crown is a young English lad whose
somewhat quixotic but chivalrous father, Sir John Constantine, of
Cornwall, has procured from Theodore, a dissolute ex-king confined in
an English debtor’s prison, a written renunciation in favor of the
boy, together with the possession of the famous iron crown. With a few
friends Sir John and his son land in Corsica and encounter adventure
aplenty.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 440. N. 3, ’06. 550w.
“As adventure there has been no better story for a long time; and
there is many a laugh in it too.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1, 310w.
“A novel of adventure of many merits is ‘Sir John Constantine,’ about
whose ultimate relation to the literature of its period there need be
but little doubt.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ + =Bookm.= 14: 379. D. ’06. 630w.
“How does he produce a literature that is not literal of life, but
higher—a sublimated form of memories that come to the reader like the
fragrance of centuries, sweet and familiar, too elusive to hold, too
dear to lose?”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 935. O. 18, ’06. 730w.
“His genius consists in having the right words with which to interpret
a high romance of a time long past.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“Mr. Quiller-Couch is no weaver of ornate verbal fabrics; but he is at
once too ardent and too steeped in great literature to be ever mean or
cold, and there are times when the mere beauty of his style, as style,
moves us to enthusiasm.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 420w.
“As a tale of romantic adventure we have had hardly anything since
Stevenson’s time so good as Mr. Quiller-Couch’s new story. The story
as a whole, indeed, is so excellent of its kind that one wishes that
the author had recast some parts of the book and subjected it to a
severer test of his judgment as to construction, probability, and
humor.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 280w.
“Sometimes the changeling in ‘Q’ gets the better of the romancer, and
the farce, delightful in itself, strikes a jarring note in such an
environment. Apart from this blemish, we have nothing but praise for a
story which is not only ‘Q’s’ finest achievement, but one which must
stand very near the work of the greatest of the romantics.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 790. N. 17, ’06. 370w.
“For ingenuity of plot and unconventionality of adventure the book is
in a class by itself. His work never descends to vulgarity or claptrap
excitement. For he is an artist.”
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 120w.
=Coudert, Frederick René.= Addresses, historical—political—sociological.
**$2.50. Putnam.
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 829. Mr. ’06. 400w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Coudert was a man of broad and deep culture, thoroughly
acquainted with the literature of France, Spain, and Germany, and
possessing a lucid, graceful, and effective English style.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 270w.
=Cowan, Rev. Henry.= John Knox, the hero of the Scottish reformation,
1505–1572. **$1.35. Putnam.
“The index in Cowan is admirable; that in Macmillan is almost
worthless. The work by Cowan is the more scholarly, the more unbiased,
and the more valuable.” Eri. B. Hulbert.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 353. Ap. ’06. 480w.
“Dr. Cowan’s work is less a piece of detraction or of eulogy than a
plain narrative of events, with occasional comment upon the main
issues which claimed Knox’s effort.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 288. Ap. 6, ’06. 210w.
=Cox, Isaac Joslin=, ed. Journeys of La Salle and his companions. 2v.
**$2. Barnes.
The latest issue of the “Trail makers” series. The work includes
translations from the memoirs of Tonty, Membré, Hennepin, Douay, Le
Clercq, Joutel, and Jean Cavelier, besides minor sketches and an
introduction.
* * * * *
“An admirable supplement to the formal story of American history and
exploration, giving us cheap reprints of the personal narratives of
the early discoverers and travellers, most of which are long out of
print and comparatively inaccessible in the libraries.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. 06. 90w.
=Dial.= 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 68. F. 3, ’06. 660w.
“Some of these narratives have been difficult of access, and certainly
they all abound in stirring adventure and incident.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’06. 220w.
=Cox, Kenyon.= Old masters and new: essays in art criticism. **$1.50.
Fox.
“Amounting to a general view of the course of art since the sixteenth
century.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 563. Ap. ’06. 350w.
=Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).=
Dream and the business. †$1.50. Appleton.
Mrs. Craigie’s posthumous novel. “There are six main figures in the
book,—Firmalden, the Nonconformist minister, and his sister; the Roman
Catholic Lord Marlesford and his wife; Lessard, the musician, and Miss
Nannie Cloots, the actress. Among these six the game of love is played
with immense confusion.” (Spec.) “The story is one of dreams and of
disillusions; it fits its title better than it does the text from
which the title is taken. To the meaning of the latter, as made
obvious by the context, it seems scarcely to adhere.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“We close it with the feeling that here is a fine novel marred by the
old lack of sympathetic interest in human nature.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 197. S. 1, ’06. 1950w.
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 266. S. 8. 450w.
“Under her customary lightness of manner the tone is full of grave
sincerity, but this does not mean that the story is a tract—far from
it!—or that it is dull. On the contrary, her workmanship has never
been more careful or her good sayings more abundant.” Mary Moss.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 382. D. ’06. 890w.
“The author’s skill in describing the play of light and shadow on the
surface of character, her French firmness and lightness of touch, the
abundance of epigram and delicately elegant phrase, and the keenness
of her observation, in which mingles a slight dash of kindly cynicism,
make up a fine story.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 406. D. ’06. 480w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1347. D. 6, ’06. 550w.
“The characterization, acute enough up to a point, constantly breaks
down through the writer’s becoming more interested in the conversation
than in the people. She lays herself open to the reproach of talking
through her characters instead of letting them talk.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 297. Ag. 31, ’06. 1310w.
“It may well enough stand as her monument, for it suggests everything
characteristic in her substance and manner.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 352. O. 25, ’06. 930w.
“Although, as we think, its characters do not measure up to their
creator’s conception of them, and although we are sometimes dragged
rather than swept along with the narrative, the ability of the novel
is of so high an order that we agree with Mr. Choate in his belief
that it ‘will be another laurel’ in its writer’s ‘well-won crown.’”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 684. O. 20, ’06. 1320w.
“Its chief charm, alike from the development of a double plot, which
is so delicately conceived and carried out with so much artistic
finish as to obscure the end before the end comes, lies in the
vitality of its characters and their consistently preserved
personalities.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The book is in many ways the best that Mrs. Craigie has written. It
is riper, maturer, firmer. It exhibits a more vivid grasp of things.
Much of the pain which strove in her earlier books to hide itself
under a mask of flippancy is mercifully gone.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 301. S. 8, ’06. 1150w.
“Will not, we think, add to the reputation of Mrs. Craigie; but it
will not detract from it. It is a fair example of her strength and her
weakness.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 369 S. 15, ’06. 770w.
=Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).=
Flute of Pan. †$1.50. Appleton.
“It should be safe to predict success for the comedy.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 240w.
“The whole story is told in the vein of comedy, and is but a trifling
performance.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 250w.
“It is moderately amusing. The reader with a small purse might
hesitate, however, before putting out his $1.50. for it.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 500w.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Impressions of Japanese architecture and the allied
arts. **$2. Baker.
“To our mind the most important chapter in it is that dealing with
Japanese sculpture. We do not remember any work in which its subject
is so well and instructively handled.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 557. My. 5. 800w.
“The general reader as well as students of this subject will find Mr.
Cram’s book interesting and instructive.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 20w.
+ + =Critic.= 49: 90. Jl. ’06. 220w.
“The essays that make up this volume are thoughtful and
discriminating.” Frederick W. Gookin.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 192. Mr. 16, ’06. 870w.
“It is the work of a man who finds perfected Japanese designs as
nearly supreme as any decorative art in the world can be. A book of
extreme subtlety of thought, which is increased by the strongly
religious turn that all Mr. Cram’s reasoning is apt to take.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 164. F. 22, ’06. 800w.
“A keen analysis, interestingly written, of the beauties of Japanese
architecture.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Ruined abbeys of Great Britain. **$2.50. Pott.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
“For the book generally we have nothing but praise. It is a pity,
however, that Mr. Cram did not use more moderation of language in his
introduction.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 792. N. 17, ’06. 220w.
=Crane, Aaron Martin.= Right and wrong thinking and their results.
**$1.40. Lothrop.
The undreamed-of possibilities which man may achieve thru his own
mental control.
* * * * *
“Mr. Crane’s argument is both skilful and convincing.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 270w.
“A forceful monograph.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 50w.
=Crapsey, Algernon Sidney.= Religion and politics. **$1.25. Whittaker.
A series of thirteen sermons, delivered before the author’s own
congregation which discuss “society as politically and
ecclesiastically organized, from the point of view of the religion of
Christ as conceived by the author.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“All this, however, is incidental. The book is an excellent popular
treatment of the subject of the relation between church and state,
going most originally into the profoundest questions as to the nature
of each, and giving a most excellent historical resume of their
relations.” Ralph Albertson.
+ + =Arena.= 36: 109. Jl. ’06. 2450w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 280w.
“On matters of politics and industry, as well as history, and on the
spirit of American institutions, and on the church as the incarnation
of that spirit ... on all such themes this will be found a simple yet
stimulating book, brave and persuasive, conferring dignity upon the
writer, transferring worth unto the reader, a book of dear ideas that
may be cheaply had (by us) but never cheaply practiced.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 514. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.
“It cannot, however, be regarded as a contribution of original value
to the subject. In spite of its plea for science, it seems to be the
product of the writer’s inner consciousness rather than his
investigations.”
– + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ’05. 220w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Fair Margaret a portrait. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“It is always interesting, and told with the author’s deep knowledge
of human nature, and his unvarying charm.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 310w.
“The story, if it does not rank with this popular author’s best work,
is none the less very readable.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 170w.
“If there were nothing else in this book than the portrait of the
big-hearted, Junoesque, voluble French woman ... it would still be one
of the books that Mr. Crawford might justly be very proud of.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 373. D. ’05. 450w.
“The present addition to the Crawford library does not promise to
dispute the position of the ‘Saracinesca’ series, though, like all of
Mr. Crawford’s work, it belongs to the first-class of current
fiction.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 837. Mr. ’06. 390w.
“The dialog has more than Mr. Crawford’s customary vivacity.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 111. Ja. 11, ’06. 330w.
“Is extremely interesting, and there is some good character drawing in
it.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 172. F. 3, ’06. 650w.
“There is a certain skill in the construction, but the mechanism is
always visible, and there is no character which really lives. The
interest in the book lies rather in the shrewd comments and
reflections with which the dialogue is interspersed.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 396. N. 17, ’05. 330w.
“The story is told, too, in his own charmingly leisurely fashion, with
many stops by the way to comment or analyze, and we confess to a
distinct desire for its sequel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 230. Ap. 7, ’06. 420w.
“It is, by all odds, the best thing he has done within the last ten
years.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 28. Ja. 6, ’06. 390w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Lady of Rome. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“It has for background the social life of Rome which he depicts so
well, and deals chiefly with the character—or rather conscience—of
Maria Montalto, which is sustained through many years and various
crises by religious conviction, causing her to expiate her sin at some
length, in fact from cover to cover. Expiations and religious scruples
at such length might easily become irritating, but here the author has
shown his skill by making Maria’s struggles not only far from
wearisome but so far interesting that the reader is pleased to leave
her in the last pages still a sensible woman, who believes in the
reward of virtue.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“The story is told well and smoothly, though without the deeply
studied and vividly rendered psychology for which the characters give
plenty of opportunity, so that they lack in some measure the vitality
which such studies demand.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 398. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
“Maria ... fails to be as convincing as some of the slighter
characters who are depicted with more of Mr. Crawford’s usual
vitality.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 577. N. 10. 190w.
“It belongs distinctly in the first rank of Mr. Crawford’s novels ...
even if it does not attain the standard set by the Saracinesca
trilogy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 388. D. ’06. 780w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 420w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 861. D. 8, ’06. 620w.
“Mr. Crawford’s usual freshness of invention seems to have deserted
him in this story; but he is so skillful and thoroughly trained a
novelist that he never fails to interest his readers. This story,
however, cannot be ranked with his very successful ventures in
fiction.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
“Bears signs of forced activity and of hasty construction.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 522. O. 27, ’06. 170w.
+ – =Spec.= 97: 685. N. 3, ’06. 150w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Salve Venetia: gleanings from history. 2v.
**$5. Macmillan.
+ + =Acad.= 70: 525. Je. 2, ’06. 730w.
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 1090w.
“We have the raw material of history, slowly amassed or laboriously
epitomized by others, treated mainly from the artist’s point of view,
end dexterously, though never dishonestly, manipulated, so as to
produce the best scenic effect.”
+ =Atlan.= 97: 556. Ap. ’06. 820w.
“It is very readable, and, needless to say, abounds in
picturesqueness.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 110w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1543. D. 28, ’05. 300w.
“These two volumes need no pictures to make them attractive to their
readers.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 72. Mr. 2, ’06. 1400w.
“These volumes ... are neither history nor romance, but a blend of
both. If we judge them as history, their value is small; as romance
they are entertaining.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 249. Mr. 22, ’06. 920w.
“The volumes are filled with data, description, episode, and anecdote
drawn from noted monographs and arranged, retold, and commented on
with that fine historical insight, that superb grasp of materialistic
and spiritual significance, that poetic charm of narrative which have
made this author’s ‘Ave Roma immortalis’ and ‘Rulers of the South’
valuable contributions to history and pleasant books to read.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 112. F. 24, ’06. 1950w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 860. Ag. 11, ’06. 700w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 90w.
“Is not the equal of its predecessor: it is less profound, less
picturesque, less well written; it should have been more fascinating,
it is less so. We can commend the book from beginning to end as a
faithful and fascinating picture of the story of Venice.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 177. F. 10, ’06. 870w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 872. Je. 2, ’06. 1230w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Southern Italy and Sicily and the rulers of
the South; with 100 original drawings by Henry Brokman. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
“It is well written and lively, but is the work of a novelist rather
than an historian, with many positive mistakes, not to speak of
omissions and oversights.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 863. D. 23. 140w.
“It is an entirely charming and fascinating chapter of history written
by one who, while full of the noblest spirit of romance, is yet
soberly devoted to fact, who while recognizing and employing the
canons of practical exposition does not shrink from the use of that
poetical language which alone can illumine the stirring epics of the
history of South Italy.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 250w.
Creed of Christ. *$1.25. Lane.
“The work contains seven chapters which are devoted to a consideration
of ‘The sayings of Christ,’ ‘Phariseeism,’ ‘God the Lawgiver,’ ‘God
the Father,’ ‘The kingdom of God,’ ‘Apparent failure,’ and ‘Final
triumph.’ We have never known a work in which the line has been drawn
so clearly and strikingly between the letter that killeth and the
spirit that maketh alive as in this book.”
* * * * *
“That he is a man of broad mental vision, of rich imagination and of
deep spiritual intuition is clearly revealed in the work, which seems
to us to be pregnant with the seeds of a spiritual renaissance. We
could heartily wish that this volume could be placed in the hands of
every truth-loving and sincerely religious man and woman in the land.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 100. Ja. ’06. 640w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 97: 417. Mr. ’06. 320w.
“The author has made an interesting book; but he has made it by
confounding Hebraism with Pharisaism; by forgetting that Jesus Christ
was a Jew—the reformer, not the repudiator, of the religion of his
people; its spiritual interpreter, and so its defender, not its
enemy.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 569. N. 4, ’05. 1950w.
“Is written with more than ordinary vigor and knowledge of the facts
of everyday living.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“A really remarkable and original book.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 751. My. 20, ’05. 330w.
=Cripps, Arthur Shearly.= Magic casements. $1.25. Dutton.
“The casements so Arthur Shearly Cripps tells us, look outward upon a
‘beautiful and restless England,’ look inward upon ‘her many-coloured
faith.’ The magic we can aver is the tinge of imagination, the glamour
of romance which he has succeeded in throwing over the little
happenings of which we catch fleeting glimpses through those
casements.” (N. Y. Times.) “A man escapes by the hanging of a dead
bear instead of him: an old woman who goes to pray for her son loses
her offering, and sees a true miracle, to the horror and instant
conversion of a wicked priest, who was about to show her a false one
for somebody else’s money; a a gold coin looks up in the face of a
person who likes gold coins too much. These things are attractive and
there is a touch of power in ‘The orb of terror,’ and ‘Dead in April’;
of beauty in ‘The black-faced lamb,’ and in the end of ‘Crimson for
snow-white.’” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Cripps has made a pretty success out of indifferent material.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1264. D. 2, ’06. 320w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 359. O. 27, ’06. 280w.
“The coloring in these bits of writing is of too opalescent a sort to
win great popularity.”
– – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.
=Crocker, Francis Bacon, and Wheeler, Schuyler Skaats.= Management of
electrical machinery. *$1. Van Nostrand.
A thoroly revised and enlarged edition of the practical management of
dynamos and motors.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Cherry ribband: a novel. †$1.50. Barnes.
“It differs from his usual types in a touch of something deeper and
more spiritual.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 641. N. 11. 160w.
“The book deserves well of the reader, albeit it is little more than a
replica of earlier ones.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 120w.
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1349. D. 7, ’05. 400w.
“Mr. Crockett does not seem to have advanced in his art, but ‘The
cherry ribband’ will satisfy his public.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 145. F. 3, ’06. 130w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Fishers of men. †$1.50. Appleton.
The missionary of Mr. Crockett’s Edinburgh slum district is a man who
in a “beautifully human, devoted, and non-pietistical way, is shown
among the burglars and toughs of Edinburgh’s Cowgate. The hero of the
story is a lad who has the advantages of a high-class finishing school
in artistic burglary, but insists on turning out straight and square;
and some of the most interesting scenes are in a boys’ reformatory.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Crockett’s latest book is full of his good qualities.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 509. Ap. 28. 320w.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 80w.
“Abundance of exciting incident (sometimes close to melodrama), a
well-sustained plot, shrewd characterization, and genial humor all
combine to make this book one of the most entertaining that Mr.
Crockett has ever written.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 190w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.
“Altogether a badly constructed, but decidedly readable book.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 618. Mr. 17, ’06. 170w.
=Crook, Rev. Isaac.= Earnest expectation. *50c. Meth. bk.
Eight sermons “suggested by many of the rarest hearers as well as the
finest preachers in Methodism.”
=Crooke, William.= Things Indian: interesting and entertaining
information in regard to India by a former member of the Bengal civil
service. *$3. Scribner.
A volume belonging to the series including “Things Chinese,” and
“Things Japanese.” “It might well be called a ‘Cyclopedia of India,’
for it is divided alphabetically into subjects varying from
agriculture at the beginning, through barasaul guns, caste,
juggernaut, opium, tree worship, to writing. It covers a great deal of
ground, and contains a vast deal of seemingly intimate knowledge of
India.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It deals with a vast variety of subjects pleasantly throughout, and
in many cases supplying useful information: in others the treatment is
inadequate.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 576. My. 11. 320w.
“As a book of reference ‘Things Indian’ will take its place beside
Yule and Burnell in the revolving bookcase.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 127. Ap. 6, ’06. 320w.
“A wider circle of subjects, more intimate acquaintance with Sanskrit
literature, and Mr. Crooke’s unrivalled knowledge of India as it is
would produce a work of very great value.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 468. Je. 7. ’06. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 342. My. 26, ’06. 80w.
“A valuable book for traveler, student, or reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 288. Je. 2, ’06. 120w.
Reviewed by F. A. Steel.
– =Sat. R.= 102: 199. Ag. 18, ’06. 560w.
=Crosby, Ernest.= Garrison the non-resistant. 50c. Public pub. co.
“There are present in this work the moral uplift and inspiring
elements that render a book vital. It is a little volume that should
be placed in the hands of young people everywhere.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 446. Ap. ’06. 240w.
“Apart from these possible flaws, however, Mr. Crosby has written a
wholesome book for the times, and we hope that it will have a wide
reading.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 95. F. 1, ’06. 310w.
“It is not, however, structurally organic. In the personal narrative
there are several minor errors of fact.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 54. Ja. 18, ’06. 200w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 220w.
=Crosby, Oscar Terry.= Tibet and Turkestan: a journey through old lands
and a study of new conditions. **$2.50. Putnam.
The journey of exploration thru central Asia made in 1903 by Mr.
Crosby in company with Capt. Ferdinand Anginieur of the French army
furnishes much of the material for his “stirring tale of adventure and
still more stirring record of wrongs.... [He] tears off with pitiless
hand the thinly decent covering which ‘political necessity’ threw over
the Lhasa affair, and exposes that affair in its naked simplicity.”
The book is fully illustrated.
* * * * *
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“We cannot rate Mr. Crosby’s book high, although we can readily
understand that it may be useful and informing to the American
reader.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 380w.
“The narrative is particularly attractive and valuable wherein he
brings out the rival relation of the Russians and the British.” John
W. Foster.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 100w.
“A book at once readable and disappointing.”
+ – =Bookm.= 33: 339. My. ’06. 370w.
“With its text, index, and brand-new map, it is a revelation of the
new Asia of railways and telegraphs.” W. E. Griffis.
+ =Critic.= 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Crosby’s description of the countries named is familiar, and his
discussion of the political aspect is independent.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 310w.
“There is much of interest in the narrative of his trip. Many of his
views are quite novel.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 160w.
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 110w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 81. Ja. 25, ’06. 880w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 749. N. 4, ’05. 330w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ’05. 110w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 260w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 110w.
=Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson.= Wild Irishman. **$1.25. Appleton.
“One expects of him bitter sarcasm and finds on the whole kindly
appreciation.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 130w.
=Crothers, Samuel McChord.= Endless life. **75c. Houghton.
The will of the late George T. Ingersoll provides for an annual
lecture on “the immortality of man.” Mr. McChord, chosen to deliver
the 1905 address, cites the case neither of the primitive man nor of
the average modern man, avoiding a “jungle growth of superstition” on
the one hand, and a region of indifference on the other, but of the
simple man who is viewed in contrast to the man of highly specialized
intelligence. The relation of ethical idealism to future life is
discussed.
* * * * *
“The book is a healthful consideration of a universally interesting
topic, presenting old and familiar matter with clearness and
suggestiveness.” Henry M. Bowden.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 555. Jl. ’06. 80w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Critic.= 48: 458. My. ’06. 60w.
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 957. D. 23, ’05. 970w.
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 127. Ap. 6, ’06. 320w.
“His volume is an interpretation of life by a seer.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Crothers, Samuel McChord.= Pardoner’s wallet. **$1.25. Houghton.
These ten essays by the author of “The gentle reader” offer
indulgences for such sins as those of omission, of necessarily
slighted work, of doing more than is expected of one, and of
unreasonable virtues. He deals with the “foibles, peccadillos,
fallacies and the prejudices” of mankind with a subtle but always
kindly humor, and never fails to make his moral purpose responsible
for the friendly arraignment. The undertone of the book sounds a note
of gentle manners and broad charity.
* * * * *
“He shoots very straight, although he does not employ a deadly kind of
ammunition.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 116. Ap. ’06. 250w
“Mr. Crothers is less whimsical, but hardly less effective, than in
‘The gentle reader.’” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Critic.= 48: 457. My. ’06. 650w.
“Finally, Dr. Crothers, to use the language of a brother divine,
belongs to that best class of essayists who ‘clarify life by gentle
illumination and lambent humor.’”
+ =Dial.= 40: 22. Ja. 1, ’06. 430w.
“Like its predecessor, is altogether delightful reading.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 160w.
“All the essays are well written.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 200. Mr. 8, ’06. 220w.
“In that most genial and delightful style of which he is master Doctor
Crothers has written a series of essays in which the connecting thread
is a kindly judgment of human peccadillos.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 400w.
=Crowley, Mary Catherine.= In treaty with honor. †$1.50. Little.
The historic setting of this tale is the struggle of French Canada for
independence in 1837. A young volunteer of Irish birth, French
education and United States citizenship and his comrade, a Polish
aristocrat fight the same battles, share thrilling adventures and love
the same winsome Jacquette. In the end one gives up his life for his
country’s cause and the other wins the heroine.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 743. N. 10, ’06. 230w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 100w.
=Crowther, Samuel, jr., and Ruhl, A.= Rowing and Track athletics. **$2.
Macmillan.
A double volume in which the first subject is treated by Mr. Crowther
and the second by Mr. Ruhl appears in the “American sportsman’s
library.” “The treatment of rowing is largely historical, several
chapters being devoted to the origin and development of collegiate
rowing in the United States. The exposition of track athletics gives a
convenient résumé of all the important records made in this branch of
athletics during recent years.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
+ =Nature.= 73: 605. Ap. 26, ’06. 490w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 265. Ap. 21, ’06. 460w.
“In fact, the book is a history of athletics in America, so clearly
and intelligently written that the layman may catch much of the
professional’s enthusiasm.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 130w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 70w.
“The somewhat dry statistics of track athletics in America are made
readable by the excellence of the style in which the events are
described by Mr. A. Ruhl.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 368. Mr. 24, ’06. 1040w.
=Culbertson, Anne Virginia.= Banjo talks. $1. Bobbs.
“These include a captivating variety of themes, touched with
considerable originality in dialect, idiom, and orthography.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 288. Mr. ’06. 30w.
=Cuppy, Hazlitt Alva=, ed. Our own times: a continuous history of the
twentieth century. *$3. J. A. Hill & co., New York.
The aim of this enterprise is to furnish each year a clear, concise
compendium of the twelvemonth’s record, doing yearly what Dr. Albert
Shaw does monthly in his Review of reviews. The initial volume,
prepared by Bonnister Merwin touches upon the main conditioning forces
of the world’s activity to-day. The book is provided with maps and
also with many full-page half-tones of important personages and
noteworthy events.
* * * * *
“That every reference library must have the series goes without
saying. Dr. Cuppy should have the hearty gratitude of every literary
worker.” A. W. S.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 428. N. ’05. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We have tested it at a number of points and have found it adequate
and just in its treatment and comprehensive in its view.”
+ + + =Bookm.= 23: 218. Ap. ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The whole not only forms an invaluable compendium of the year’s
record, clear, concise, and reliable, but possesses a certain charm of
style and literary grace that lend to the history the interest of a
story.” Gerhardt C. Mars.
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Curry, Charles Emerson.= Electromagnetic theory of light, pt. I. *$4.
Macmillan.
“Dr. Curry’s account of the electromagnetic theory of light promises
to be very useful to students of mathematical physics, for whom no
English book of exactly similar scope is at present available.... This
first part deals with such phenomena of light as can be fully
explained by the beautiful theory of Clerk Maxwell, whilst the second
part is to treat of those cases in which that theory has hitherto
failed to yield a satisfactory explanation.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“The author has fallen into the error, only too common, of not
confining himself within any definite limits. The author’s treatment
is adequate for the most part, but we are not much impressed by it;
his mathematics are heavy, of the ‘sledge-hammer’ order, but they are
stronger than his physics.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 440. S. 30. 1700w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The work is purely theoretical, and in some chapters has no obvious
pertinency to known facts.”
– =Nation.= 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 100w. (Review of pt. 1.)
+ + =Nature.= 73: 316. F. 1, ’06. 930w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The mathematician will find its pages at once lucid and accurate.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ’05. 370w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“A book unnecessarily abstract, which, while entirely modern in
treatment, and sufficiently cognizant of recent theoretical
discussions, is out of touch with the experimental side of the
science.” C. E. M.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 23: 385. Mr. 9, ’06. 390w. (Review of pt. 1.)
+ =Spec.= 95: 155. Jl. 29, ’05. 50w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Curtis, David A.= Stand pat; or, Poker stories from the Mississippi.
$1.50. Page.
The little town of Brownsville, Arkansas, furnishes the setting for
Mr. Curtis’ twenty poker stories. Long Mike, Gallagher, the man with
one eye only, and Stumpy figure thruout the sketches, and the
characterizations are chiefly of this card quartette so mis-matched in
sporting proclivities.
* * * * *
“It is a pleasant volume for casual reading.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 379. Je. 9, ’06. 100w.
=Curtis, Edward.= Nature and health: a popular treatise on the hygiene
of the person and the home. *$1.25. Holt.
How to claim “the priceless boon of health, happiness and the
usefulness of years,” is discussed according to late enlightenment on
the subject of hygiene. The chapters consider breathing, eating,
drinking, drugging for delectation, seeing, hearing, clothing,
bathing, disposing of waste, disinfecting, exercising the body,
exercising the mind, sleeping and waking, working and playing, and
living and dying.
* * * * *
“This is a particularly excellent manual.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“It is full of good advice and usually in striking form.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“For those who must read about their health, there is no better book
than this, with its clarion call back to nature.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 815. O. 4, ’06. 670w.
“Now and again there are signs that he is a bit of a ‘faddist,’ but
notwithstanding this his book may be heartily commended to the lay
reader desirous of leading a sane, clean, wholesome life.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 150w.
“The style of the writing is easy and unconventional, possibly at
times a little too colloquial.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 130w.
“One can dip into it here and there, and be certain always of finding
something worth while told succintly, with a dry wit that like the
claws of a burr makes it stick.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.
“Delightful treatise.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 445. Ap. 7, ’06. 90w.
“The book as a whole is characterized by accuracy of statement, clear
discussion, and practical suggestion, and it is a welcome contribution
to an important subject.” J. E. Raycroft.
+ =School R.= 14: 616. O. ’06. 140w.
=Curtis, Newton Martin.= From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of
the Sixteenth New York infantry with personal reminiscences. **$2.
Putnam.
In sketching the movements of the Sixteenth New York infantry from
Bull Run to Chancellorsville there is also an amount of incidental
information about northern New York organizations identified with the
army of the Potomac. “The whole tendency of the narrative and of the
comment which Gen. Curtis allows himself to make from time to
time—with notable restraint and fairness—is to exalt the qualities of
Gen. George B. McClellan as a commander of armies.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Few writers on events and conditions during the civil war have
approached the subject with a better fund of historic information, and
few have the vivid yet plain power of narration possessed by General
Curtis.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Not only does Gen. Curtis write entertainingly, but he has also seen
in good perspective the part played by his regiment in the campaigns
and battles which he describes.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 130w.
“It is not often that a book which sets out to tell the story and
record the services of a single military organization results in a
narrative so full of really and generally interesting matter. He
writes like a man and a soldier not like an army clerk.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 621. O. 6, ’06. 1620w.
“In addition to its value as material for full knowledge of military
history of the Civil war, this book has also considerable interest in
its personal narrative of camp and battle incidents. Here and there
flashes of humor enliven the story.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 50w.
=Curtis, Olin Alfred.= Christian faith personally given in a system of
doctrine. *$2.50. Meth. bk.
A book which claims simply to impart a vision of the Christian faith
as an organic whole of doctrine. It is not dogmatic, does not attempt
“to speak the final word.... The main clue to all can be found in one
thing, namely, in the junction of the two ideas, personal
responsibility and racial solidarity.” The introduction discusses man
and the Christian religion, then follows a six part treatment of the
system of doctrine.
* * * * *
=Outlook.= 82: 42. Ja. 6, ’06. 590w.
“A book which very fairly represents the present drift away from
dogmatism in American theology.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ’05. 80w.
=Curtis, William Eleroy.= Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia. **$2.
Revell.
“This is the latest and best literary photograph of the contemporary
British protectorates here so agreeably treated.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“For the most part he gives us what we often need, recent and reliable
information about distant lands.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 60w.
=Curtis, William Eleroy.= Modern India. **$2. Revell.
Reviewed by John W. Foster.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 160w.
“Its statistics are recent, and the author evidently has the
reporter’s instinct highly developed and a well-trained eye for the
picturesque. On the other hand, his style is diffuse, his diction
‘journalese,’ and his inaccuracy amazing.” Louis H. Gray.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 339. My. ’06. 270w.
“He tells us much that most books leave out. He helps us to adjust
traditional notions to present-day reality.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 60w.
=Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel, 1st baron.= Lord Curzon in
India: being a selection from his speeches as viceroy and
governor-general of India, 1898–1905. With a por., explanatory notes,
and an index, and with an introd. by Sir Thomas Raleigh. *$4. Macmillan.
“Lord Curzon made more than 250 set speeches during his seven and a
half years’ service as viceroy, of which some sixty are in Sir
Thomas’s book. They refer to all sorts of subjects, from the
Budget—seven budget speeches are given—to art, archaeology, education,
the famine, irrigation, game, preservation, the plague, and
temperance. Their interest to Americans is of the slightest, except as
showing what manner of man Curzon is, who has reversed the usual
course of events, and has served in the highest post under the British
crown without having worked his way to it systematically.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Lord Curzon does not possess a good literary style.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 511. Ap. 28. 930w.
“To the student, not only of history, but of sociology of the human
atmosphere, so to speak, of the last decade, the book is deeply
interesting and extremely suggestive.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 215. Jl. 26, ’06. 250w.
“On the whole, however, it is the matter rather than the manner of the
speeches that will interest the reader of this large volume.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 139. Ap. 20, ’06. 1220w.
“His selected speeches are for those who have to reckon with him in
domestic politics, and again for all libraries.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 342. My. 26, ’06. 160w.
“Indispensable to those who would understand how England has developed
her vast dependency.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 672. Jl. 21, ’06. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. 06. 40w.
“If there is much of self-confidence in this volume of speeches so
full of rare charm, commanding eloquence and literary delights, it is
the just confidence of a strong man armed and equipped at all points
for the fray.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 206. Ag. 18, ’06. 2020w.
“Certainly no collection of speeches has been published for long so
full of political wisdom and sustained at so high a level of style.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 869. Je. 2, ’06. 1650w.
=Cust, Lionel.= Royal collection of paintings at Buckingham palace and
Windsor castle; with an introd. and descriptive text. 2v. *$100.
Scribner.
The benefits of King Edward’s recent movement to have the Royal art
collection put in order, properly arranged, classified and cataloged
are extended to the public through the medium of Mr. Cust’s
magnificent two-volume work. There are one hundred and eight
photogravures which illustrate masterpieces of the Italian, Dutch,
Spanish, Flemish, German and English schools. The author furnishes an
introduction and descriptive text which aid the illustrations in
forming “a precious record of one of the finest collections of the
world.”
* * * * *
“The public ... is certain to be grateful that the Royal commands have
been so thoroughly and adequately executed by Mr. Lionel Cust.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 768. D. 2. 1350w. (Review of v. 1.)
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 270. F. ’06. 360w.
=Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 29, ’06. 70w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: 277. Ja. ’06. 750w.
“A work which reflects great credit on all who have been concerned in
its preparation.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: 271. S. ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 428. D. 8, ’05. 1110w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The second of Mr. Cust’s two magnificent volumes on the King’s
pictures is of even greater interest than the first.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 256. Jl. 20, ’06. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 1160w. (Review of v. 2.)
(Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 177. Ag. 11, ’06. 660w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Useful and handsome publication.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 628. N. 11, ’05. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“But though the work before us is open to criticism on these minor
points, we have nothing but praise for the general result achieved.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 100. Ja. 20, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Cust, Robert H. Hobart.= Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, hitherto usually
styled “Sodoma;” the man and the painter. *$6. Dutton.
A “just and fair-minded picture” of the artist deals with question of
name,—including the origin of nickname, “Sodoma”—date of birth and
birthplace of Bazzi; gives an account of his early years and
apprenticeship; and then turns to discussions of his frescoes and
paintings, his visits to Rome, and his fame and fortune. The book is
equipped with notes, and numerous illustrations in photogravure which
have been selected to aid the student in following the artist’s
development.
* * * * *
“Mr. Cust’s book is a welcome and valuable addition to the existing
literature relating to this fascinating painter.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 475. My. 19, ’06. 1390w.
“With lawyer-like acuteness he weighs the evidence on either side
before he pronounces judgment.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: 371. Je. ’06. 250w.
“Persons interested in Italian art will read the book with pleasure,
in spite of a somewhat heavy style and a superabundance of notes.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 94. Mr. 16, ’06. 1530w.
“A treatise which is practically exhaustive. Mr. Cust’s style
throughout is clear and simple, and, in treating of artistic matters,
he eschews the terminology of the modern scientific school.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 392. My. 10, ’06. 630w.
“It is a fascinating volume, and will even hold the attention of the
lay reader who has a keenness for the episodic drama of history and
biography.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 303. My. 12, ’06. 900w.
“Even if Mr. Cust seems a little too enthusiastic about the subject of
his book, his work is an interesting contribution to the literature of
Renaissance art.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 200w.
=Cutler, James Elbert.= Lynch law: an investigation into the history of
lynching in the U. S. **$1.50. Longmans.
“The book is not only henceforth the authority on the subject, it is
also a good example of a rational and scientific historical method.”
Albert Bushnell Hart.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 425. Ja. ’06. 1100w.
Reviewed by Alvin S. Johnson.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 139. Mr. ’06. 750w.
“The general line of treatment is wholly satisfactory and eminently
fair. The book is a contribution and is a good example of the
scientific historical method.” Charles H. Ambler.
+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 100. My. ’06. 1380w.
D
=Dale, Thomas F.= Fox. $1.75. Longmans.
A recent volume in the “Fur, feather and fin series,” whose general
aim is to treat the fowl, fish or beast under consideration from the
standpoint of its natural history, its capture and its food value.
“The present volume gives not only its natural but its psychological
history adequately for the first time, and in a way that should
attract all those interested in the question of the extent of animal
intelligence.” (N. Y. Times.) The following headings suggest the
extent of the treatment: The natural history of the fox, The education
of the fox, The mind of the fox, How to preserve foxes, Home and
haunts of the fox, The hunted fox, The fox as a captive, The fox as an
outlaw, The fox in fable, Cousin Jack, The fox and his fur, and
Hunting the fox.
* * * * *
“Had Mr. Dale kept within his proper limits, we should have had
nothing but commendation to bestow upon his work.”
– + =Nature.= 74: 79. My. 24, ’06. 200w.
“Openly stating his sympathetic appreciation of the animal, the author
proceeds with his study, combining faithful observation that carries
conviction with it and all the compelling interest of a romance.”
Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 405. Je. 23, ’06. 540w.
“It is in short a capital monograph, and will be read with interest we
are sure not only by those who delight in the sport of fox-hunting,
but also by every lover of natural history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 118. Jl. 28, ’06. 580w.
“Though this book on ‘The fox’ does not quite come up to the standard
of certain of its predecessors, every one who cares about fox-hunting
should read it. It would have been better had the natural history of
the fox been entrusted to a zoölogist.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 18. Jl. 7, ’06. 600w.
=Dale, Thomas F.= Polo, past and present. *$3.75. Scribner.
“The selection of this book dealing with the polo of the remote past
might it seems to us well have been omitted. Has written on the whole
an excellent book, and we can thoroughly recommend it to all
interested in perhaps the most fascinating game that was ever
invented.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 402. Mr. 31, ’06. 470w.
=Dana, John Cotton.= Notes on bookbinding for libraries. 75c. Library
bureau, Chicago.
“The problem with which this book deals is purely a library problem.
It makes no pretence of contributing anything to the art or craft of
book making; its aim is to give to librarians such an elementary
knowledge of this craft that they may intelligently decide on the
methods and materials that are best adapted to their needs. The point
of view is purely the economic one—how shall the library bind its
books so as to secure the largest possible service at the least
cost.”—Nation.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Henry E. Bliss.
+ + + =Library J.= 31: C130. Ag. ’06. 1530w.
+ + – =Library J.= 31: 738. O. ’06. 950w.
“Library commissions are recommending it, and it is likely to become
the standard text book on library binding in summer schools,
apprentice classes, and in the more elementary of the regular library
schools.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 224. S. 13, ’06. 320w.
=Dana, John Cotton, and Kent, Henry W.= Literature of libraries in the
17th and 18th centuries. 6v. *$12. McClurg.
Two volumes of this series of six have made their appearance. One of
them is “The duties and qualifications of a librarian: a discourse
pronounced in the general assembly of the Sorbonne, December 23, 1870,
by Jean-Baptiste Cotton des Houssayes, to which have been prefaced an
introduction and bibliographical note.” The other introduction is “The
reformed librarie-keeper. or two copies of letters concerning the
place and office of librarie-keeper” by John Dury. with a biographical
sketch of this Presbyterian divine of the sixteenth century.
* * * * *
“A collection that should be studied by all library workers, and that
might well be read by any student of educational and intellectual
history.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Putnam’s.= 1: 252. N. ’06. 100w.
=Daniel, James Walter.= Maid of the foothills; or, Missing links in the
story of reconstruction. $1.50. Neale.
It has been the aim of the author to depict the spirit of the times
truthfully, and to give proper place to the importance of the
Red-shirt movement which severed the shackles of a bound populace. The
story treats of the grim humor of the oppressed citizens, the heroism
of Southern women in that period of severest trial and oppression, and
shows the infamous deeds and evil spirit of Southern men who joined
the hosts of carpet-baggers and helped them to bleed the prostrate
state.
=Darrow, Clarence S.= Eye for an eye. †$1.50. Fox.
Jim Jackson who tells the tale of his crime the night before the
expiation of his guilt, is one of those unfortunate “submerged tenth”
victims of negative circumstances. Not with the spirit of resentment
but of discouragement over never having had a chance in life, Jim
tells his story with a mildness that “is a more severe arraignment of
social conditions than the fiercest tirades could be.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“If to create an illusion, to attain the effect aimed at, completely
and entirely, is literary art, then Mr. Darrow’s work is literary art
of the highest, in spite of an apparent neglect of all the canons of
literary art.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 629. F. ’06. 420w.
=Dauncey, Mrs. Campbell.= Englishwoman in the Philippines. *$3.50.
Dutton.
“This is a series of letters written by an Englishwoman during a stay
of nine months in the Philippine islands, and they are full of those
definite details of living which satisfy the curiosity and give
precision, without any special attempt at style, the innumerable
phases of a life so foreign as to be interesting in all its
commonplaces: they describe the climate and scenery, the costumes of
the natives, their houses, their occupations, amusements, politics,
religion. And they abound in criticisms of the American
administration, indeed of everything American.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“If [the great American people] read Mrs. Campbell Dauncey’s
penetrating but not unkindly criticisms in the proper spirit, her book
for them will be of real service. To the British reader it will appeal
as a notable contribution to Pacific literature, worthy, at a
reasonable interval, to be placed on the same shelf with Stevenson’s
‘South sea studies.’”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 396. O. 20, ’06. 1210w.
“Barring several ludicrous blunders thus almost wilfully made, the
letters stick with great faithfulness to conditions as personally
observed, and have the touch which comes from direct observation.” H.
Parker Willis.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 279. N. 1, ’06. 1030w.
“Quite commonplace in all ways and practically valueless as bearing
upon the Philippines. Scarcely a single general comment upon the
Philippines or Philippine conditions is correct.”
– – =Ind.= 61: 996. O. 25, ’06. 1360w.
“With every page a challenge, one may be glad to read the volume,
regretting for the lively and confident author’s sake, that a
competent editor had not revised some of its phrases.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 267. S. 27, ’06. 600w.
“It is told much better and more interestingly than we have seen it
told before.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 517. Ag. 25, ’06. 1030w.
=Outlook.= 84: 90. S. 8, ’06. 320w.
“It is distinctly above the average of such books.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 5. O. 13, ’06. 760w.
=Davenport, Frederick Morgan.= Primitive traits in religious revivals: a
study in mental and social evolution. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“One may regret that not many first-hand observations of revivals in
process are made by the author, that his material is almost
exclusively historic; still his work of interpretation is vital
throughout,—there are no dead pages.” H. H. Horne.
+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 48. Ja. 18, ’06. 600w.
“The book is admirable in many ways. It is perhaps marked by facility
rather than by great power and depth. The book should prove helpful to
readers of quite contrasted training and sympathies.” G. M. Stratton.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 239. Jl. 15, ’06. 840w.
=Davey, Richard Patrick Boyle.= Pageant of London; with 40 il. in color
by John Fulleylove. 2v. *$5. Pott.
A series of word-pictures with pictorial accompaniment of the
principal events that have transpired in London. It is called a
“Pageant,” “meaning not only coronations, royal marriages, funerals,
and other pompous shows and spectacles, but as signifying the
unrolling, as in a sort of procession, of the story of the British
capital from the day when Julius Caesar appeared on the bank of the
Thames, to that which witnessed the funeral of Queen Victoria.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Davey is not always accurate, and his style is not always pure,
but his book is as good a compendium of the history of London as we
know.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 542. Je. 9, ’06. 1680w.
“In a work intended for the general reader rather than for the serious
student it may perhaps seem ungracious to dwell on imperfections which
a very little care could remove. It is a pleasanter task to dwell on
the merits of a book which is replete with information, presented with
a considerable amount of literary skill.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 756. Je. 23. 1520w.
“Thoroughly up-to-date, embodying the results of the most recent
archæological researches, the new publication is indeed a most
noteworthy one, full of curious information on all manner of side
issues and giving token on every page of deep erudition.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: 182. Ag. ’06. 280w.
“The coloured pictures by Mr. Fulleylove are a serious mistake. Such a
book could not have been too copiously adorned with old engravings.
Properly selected, such a pictorial accompaniment would more than have
doubled its value.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 233. Je. 29, ’06. 230w.
“It is not always decreed that a man shall live to execute the work
which his years have accumulated, but in this case the decree seems to
have existed and seems to have been fulfilled. The world of history
and literature is as much to be congratulated as the author.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 879. D. 15, ’06. 480w.
“Americans ... should find this book very entertaining and
enlightening, and good reading before a trip to England—or even after
one, as a pleasant reminder.”
+ Putnam’s. 1: 378. D. ’06. 220w.
=Davies, D. Ffrangçon-.= Singing of the future; with an introd. by
Edward Elgar. *$2.50. Lane.
“A book which prompts thought.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 905. D. 30. 580w.
“Is a direct and serious appeal to the English-speaking singer.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 280w.
=Davis, Henry William Charles.= England under the Normans and the
Angevins. *$3. Putnam.
Volume 2 of Professor C. W. C. Oman’s “History of England” to be
complete in six volumes and to include the period “from the beginning”
to 1815. “Mr. Davis seeks to focus his volume at a given point by
dwelling on the inventive and experimental features of his era as
contrasted with the spirit of consolidation which marked the age of
the three Edwards.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“An attractive book, at once well-planned, well-written, and
scholarly. The narrative is crisp and clear and the characterizations
pointed, and Mr. Davis treats his theme broadly.” Charles H. Haskins.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 882. Jl. 06. 1190w.
“To the author’s mastery of his sources as well as the literature on
his subject is added the gift of writing in a bright and interesting
fashion; while the excellent table of contents and the marginal
headings will be found useful pilots by the teacher and the student.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 825. D. 16. 1440w.
“As a popular history it is likely to take high rank.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 330w.
“Thoroly as it has been covered by many historians before him, he adds
touches of freshness and vigor to an old narrative.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 333. Ag. 9, ’06. 410w.
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
“Mr. Davis is an excellent writer, and keeps at all points in touch
with first hand authorities.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 262. Mr. 29, ’06. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 350w.
“Mr. Davis is scarcely at his best with regard to Norman England and
its great constitutional document, Doomsday Book.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 377. Je. 9, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Davis’s sympathies are manifestly with the native element, and
perhaps as a result of this he scarcely does justice to some of the
notable foreigners who were responsible at once for the spoliation and
regeneration of England. His work further suffers from carelessness in
identifying persons and places, and from eccentricities in the
spelling of proper names.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 360w.
“The characters described are made alive, and the institutions real.
We do not know a more suggestive or interesting guide to this
important period.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 463. Ap. 14, ’06. 1080w.
=Davis, John Patterson.= Corporations: a study of the origin and
development of the great business combinations and their relation to the
authority of the state. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.
“Altogether, we must regard this book as materials collected with a
view to the production of a definite theory, rather than any coherent
statement of such a theory.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 436. My. 24, ’06. 310w.
“It is also highly suggestive, penetratingly analytical, and rich in
information useful to the economist, jurist, and legislator; and if it
is impossible wholly to agree with Dr. Davis’s findings as to facts or
to deem his influences always sound, it is equally impossible to deny
the value of his work as an aid to the more intelligent consideration
of its important subject.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 566. Mr. 10, ’06. 1440w.
Reviewed by Henry R. Seager.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 553. S. ’06. 860w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 465. Ap. 14, ’06. 1150w.
“The work as it stands, is of very high merit, and covers a vast range
of ground. It is a work that every library which wishes to be well
equipped in the side-lights of history must possess, for, apart from
the independent research and clear thought that distinguish it, it
comprises the views and research of most modern thinkers on the
difficult and often obscure subjects with which Dr. Davis deals.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 468. O. 6, ’06. 820w.
“As a whole, the work, while it shows careful thought and much
reflection, lacks proportion, and is too plainly bent to a
preconceived theory.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
– + =Yale. R.= 15: 88. My. ’06: 740w.
=Davis, Morgan Lewis.= The gas offis, by the offis boy. $1. Broadway
pub.
Dedicated “To everybody wot uses gas,” these observations of the gas
company’s office boy will prove amusing reading for the gas burning
public who will learn how the chronic kicker appears when viewed from
inside, and of the many amusing devices to which human nature resorts
to dodge or reduce the gas bill. It may even fulfill the pacific
mission of rousing down-trodden customers to sympathize with an
equally down-trodden head-bookkeeper.
=Davis, Norah.= Northerner. †$1.50. Century.
“If she lavishes ornamental words, she is never common.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 47: 49. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“It is an unusually strong book, with an unusually strong man for its
central character.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 230w.
=Dawson, Miles Menander=. Business of life insurance. **$1.50. Barnes.
“Any person intending to take out a policy who fails to read this or
some similar work is certainly very short-sighted.”
+ =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 160w.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 117. S. 1, ’06. 350w.
“This book will be found good reading by all who are interested in
life insurance.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 47. Ja. 4, ’06. 530w.
“In short, precisely because the book is more than a text, it is for
textbook purposes better than a text.” H. J. Davenport.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 127. F. ’06. 140w.
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 180w.
=Dawson, William Harbutt.= German workman: a study in national
efficiency. *$1.50. Scribner.
“In this volume William Harbutt Dawson gives an account of what the
state is doing for the working classes in Germany. The book is a
history, not an argument; a book of information not of philosophy. The
reader will rise from the perusal of it impressed by the fact that the
least democratic state in western Europe is also, at least in one
sense of the term, the most socialistic state.... The book contains
twenty-two chapters, each chapter devoted to a specific department of
state provision of one sort or another for workingmen.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 752. S. 27, ’06. 210w.
“A volume which, if not attractively written, is probably the most
convenient guide for English readers who would venture into the mazes
of German ‘Sozialpolitik.’”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 397. N. 8, ’06. 890w.
=Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 180w.
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 270w.
“A valuable addition to our information.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 230w.
=Dawson, William James.= Makers of English prose; new and rev. ed.
*$1.50. Revell.
The author “traverses in one volume practically the whole realm of
English verse from Burns to the men of our day and that of English
prose from Johnson to Ruskin and Newman. The books deserve popularity
in America for their helpfulness, sanity, and learning.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The author refrains from wild theories or strange deductions, and is
exempt from bias towards any especial domain of letters.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 70w.
“The discussion is trenchant, the style pithy, and the judgment
pronounced is usually temperate and sound. An occasional statement may
strike us as a rhetorical exaggeration, but in the main the criticism
is intelligent and compact.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Dawson is admirable—in his application of common sense to
criticism, and in his moral prepossessions of literature.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 285. F. 1, ’06. 520w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Dawson has insight, sympathy, and knowledge, but with these
qualities combines others that are more rare in an essayist; he has
practical aims, and his style has both clearness and distinction.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“We know of no book that gives a juster, sounder, or, on the whole, a
more interesting view of the group of writers selected by Mr. Dawson,
and of the times in which they lived and labored.” Edward Cary.
+ + =Outlook.= 11: 577. S. 22, ’06. 990w.
“A volume of literary criticism of unusual importance.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Dawson’s breadth of view is remarkable and his memory
extraordinarily retentive. His point of view is always eminently sane,
sympathetic and impartial. His style, moreover, is delightfully clear,
forceful, and smooth.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 200w.
“He is clearly familiar with the great body of first-class English
fiction, and can write with force and common sense. But we doubt the
necessity or demand for books of this character.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 146. F. 3, ’06. 160w.
“He says many true things, and says them well; he says some few things
which do not seem to us true, but he always commends them by the
manifest conviction from which they proceed.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 125. Ja. 27, ’06. 270w.
=Dawson, William James.= Quest of the simple life. $1.50. Dutton.
In form Mr. Dawson’s book “is autobiographical, narrating the happy
escape of a London clerk, after twenty years’ drudgery in the city, to
the free air and manifold delights of a horticultural, piscatorial and
literary life in the lake district.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It is to be hoped that the seductive volume may not fall into the
hands of any London-weary clerk who shall mistake its plausible
fictions for the gospel truth. A student of social problems, he has
things to say about the evils of city life and the advantage of
country life that are worth saying and worth reading.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Animated by sanity, sympathy and knowledge, linked to a felicitous
and forceful style.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 973. O. ’06. 120w.
“Dr. Dawson’s account of his quest for a simpler and more satisfactory
life has in it nothing extreme, nothing so austere as to make the
ordinary man draw back and doubt its wisdom.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 824. D. 1, ’06. 700w.
“These essays have distinction and grace of manner, and they also
contain not a little of philosophical value as relates to the social
civilization and social movement of our day.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 170w.
=Day, Holman Francis.= Squire Phin. †$1.50. Barnes.
“Yet another story of Maine is ‘Squire Phin.’ His office was over Asa
Brickett’s village store, and there and thereunder goes forward the
chorus in this rustic melodrama. The protagonists, meanwhile, are
variously occupied in practicing law, making love, adjusting quarrels,
and preventing scandals, while over all is cast the limelight of
burlesque by the return to his native town of the showman ... with
chariots, parrot and elephant he shrieks and plunges and crashes
through the story till, tired of his unchartered freedom, he sinks
into the repose of wedlock.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The dialect of this book touches deeper depths than even the usual
New England coast story. The incidents bear the same enlarged relation
as the dialect to the average village chronicle.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ’05. 270w.
“Rarely have we met a more amusing group of village sages.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28. ’05. 120w.
=Deakin, Dorothea.= “Georgie.” †$1.50. Century.
Broad shouldered, blond, boyish, frankly engaging, and wholly sincere
in each passing fancy, Georgie succeeds in becoming engaged to any
number of nice girls, sometimes in quick succession and sometimes all
at once. The story of his loves is amusing and it is interesting to
see how one can be such a trifler and still remain a gentleman at
heart. As for Violet, pretty as paint, Druscilla, plain Anne, the
goddess girl, Phillida, Dolly and the little Puritan, their cause
needs no sympathy.
* * * * *
“But though belonging to the bubbles of bookmaking, the story is of an
ingratiating kind, and serves to wreathe an hour in half-protesting
smiles.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 210w.
“Making no pretensions that are not fulfilled, they disarm criticism
and succeed in their mission of being diverting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
“Such a book might easily be made silly, but in fact this is
thoroughly amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 60w.
=Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank.= Text book of sociology.
*$1.30. Macmillan.
“Sociology is in its infancy, but such a book as this will avail much
to interpret it to students.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 334. S. 9. 430w.
“The treatment throughout the book is altogether constructive and
non-controversial. The style is very clear and attractive, considering
the character of the work.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ + =Philos. R.= 15: 670. N. ’06. 260w.
“Only those who have had considerable training in the biological
sciences, history, economics, and psychology will be able to get much
good from the book. To the student so prepared, however, who will read
also widely both from Ward’s larger works and from other works
mentioned in the text, this little book will prove of great value.”
Henry W. Thurston.
+ + – =School R.= 14: 542. S. ’06. 760w.
“The book is very clever and very readable, but we cannot help
thinking a trifle paradoxical.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: sup. 644. Ap. 28, ’06. 400w.
=Decharme, Paul.= Euripides and the spirit of his dramas; tr. by James
Loeb. **$3. Macmillan.
An introduction shows the need of an “able” attempt to reveal the true
Euripides. The author believes that both as a man and a poet he has
been underrated from Aristophanes down. Part 1 of Professor Decharme’s
discussion shows what were Euripides’ emancipatory views upon
religious traditions, philosophy, society and politics. Part 2 is a
critical study of Euripides’ dramatic art.
* * * * *
“The analytical index of a dozen pages is a commendable feature.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 190w.
Reviewed by F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 1520w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1224. My. 24, ’06. 410w.
“Excellent version.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 279. Ag. 10, ’06. 820w.
“Mr. Loeb has escaped the danger of over-literalness, and has lost
nothing of the lucidity of Decharme’s French. It should be in the
hands of all students of the drama.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 371. My. 3, ’06. 510w.
“We know, however, of no analysis of the character and work of
Euripides that is, all things considered, as thorough, impartial, and
convincing as that made by Paul Decharme.” George S. Hellman.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11:189. Mr. 31, ’06. 1560w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 290w.
“In breadth of view, close analysis, and well-thought-out
presentation, Professor Decharme’s work is very able, and Mr. Loeb
seems to have done justice to his self-imposed task.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 509. Ap. 21, ’06. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 50w.
=Deeping, (George) Warwick.= Bess of the woods. †$1.50. Harper.
Bess, the courageous heroine of this stirring tale, has been brought
up as one of a rough band of English smugglers who quarrel over her
among themselves, but when one of them tries to win her by brute
force, there comes to her aid young Richard Jaffray, owner of a
near-by estate, who rescues her and is wounded in her defence. How
Bess is freed from Dan, and how Richard escapes from the toils of the
passé Miss Jilian, and how they both come to their own, forms the
substance of this story of brave deeds and social banter, of
ball-room, of forest and of sea.
* * * * *
“A vigorous, full-blooded romance of the eighteenth century, in which
the tone and temper of the age are most successfully realized.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 190w.
“Might have been written by any one of a dozen other novelists—and
written rather better.”
– =Bookm.= 23: 641. Ag. ’06. 470w.
“The characters are vividly drawn; the plot ‘marches’; the color is
laid on freely and not without sureness.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 110w.
“Extremely interesting well-written and artistically framed romance,
which has not had many equals in the action of recent years.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 240. O. 16, ’06. 360w.
“Marked by—clear style and a simplicity of diction. It is an engaging
story, full of entertainment for those who ask no more of a novelist
than that he should entertain.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 454. Jl. 14, ’06. 400w.
=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Little son of sunshine, a story for boys and
girls. †$1.25. Harper.
Sunny little Christopher, an orphan with only one leg and a pair of
crutches upon which to begin his walk thru life, limps straights into
the hearts of a kindly farmer and his childless wife who have taken
the little waif into their home for a summer’s outing. At the end of
his holiday, which is made merry by his escapades with Betty who with
her aunt has come to board at the farm, he finds that two homes are
open to him and later discovers that General Keith, the rich, lonely
old man whose stern nature has melted before the sunshine of
Christopher’s nature, is really his own grandfather.
* * * * *
“All told with much literary skill, and the storyteller’s knack of
weaving incidents together to give them the flavor of reality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
“A pretty, well-managed story of a dear child.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
=Deland, Mrs. Margaret Wade (Campbell).= Awakening of Helena Richie.
†$1.50. Harper.
Helena Richie’s soul awakening seems so natural and possible amid the
Old Chester people and Old Chester surroundings, with Dr. Lavendar at
his best, as philanthropist, philosopher and mentor. This woman has
violated the structural facts of the moral law. She is led by little
David, a homeless child whom she takes, to discover the great religion
of duty. As the light comes, her old standards seem the poor tottering
things they really are and she struggles for permanent defences. When
her life becomes known and Dr. Lavendar regards her unfit to keep
David, her submission to the law of retributive justice which operates
for a time then gives way, and her determination to make the remainder
of her life “clear and sound” but give evidence to the genuineness of
her awakened sincerity.
* * * * *
“The book has many of the merits and faults that are frequently met in
novels written by women.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 280w.
“In this last story we feel that Mrs. Deland has, as never before,
proved herself the creator, and not merely the finely-equipped and
enjoyable story-teller.” Edith Baker Brown.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 57. S. ’06. 1150w.
“It is a story that has seldom been told as appealingly and with such
conscience-searching effect as in ... Mrs. Deland’s latest and best
novel.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 520w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 336. Ag. 9, ’06. 1140w.
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
“Strikes a deeper and truer chord of human passion, and indeed of
tragedy, than most of the novels of the day that deal with a similar
theme.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 540w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 550w.
“The story is beyond question a contribution to real literature. We
are inclined to believe it must be coupled with Mr. Wister’s ‘Lady
Baltimore’ as the finest fiction produced in this country this year.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“It is a good thing to have a ‘text’ for your novel, if your judgment
is so well able to bear it as is Mrs. Deland’s; if it warms you to so
much sympathy and understanding as are revealed in this wise, deep,
and tender story.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 440w.
“Mrs. Deland’s latest novel opens and proceeds with a firm tread which
has not always characterized her larger books. At the same time the
accustomed fine inlay work that marks all her dealings with Old
Chester and its inhabitants is here peerlessly present.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 83. Jl. 26, ’06. 380w.
“Flawless in literary form, penetrated through and through with ‘an
inward spiritual grace,’ surely it must come to its own—a permanent
place among the books that abide.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 445. Jl. 14, ’06. 990w.
“Mrs. Margaret Deland’s latest and most successful novel.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 270w.
“Highly sophisticated cosmopolitan novels are so numerous that the
success of this deeply human tale, told in the universal language of
the writers who are born and not made, is a thing in which even the
judicious may rejoice without loss of dignity.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 320w.
+ – =Putnam’s.= 1: 109. O. ’06. 350w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 420w.
=De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham) (Mrs. Henry De La Pasture).= Man from
America. †$1.50. Dutton.
A story by the author of “Peter’s mother.” “The pretty
granddaughters—one is a butterfly beauty but as sweet and good as good
can be, the other an earnest thinker, but no prig—grow up and fall in
love and get married to the right people, and learn in time that
bon-papa is not really poor, but that he (and they) are very rich; and
the little troubles they have passed through, the little white clouds
that have sailed across on the summer wind, only make the sunshine of
their sunny lives more golden.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 240w.
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 200w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 90w.
“That the work is fresh, human and altogether delightful, must be the
verdict of every reader.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Crude as it is in execution, told with a frank disregard for the
niceties of narrative art, it comes very close to being great.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 400w.
“We ... find in the author’s portraits of one or two not a little of
the genius of Jane Austen.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 409. N. 24, ’05. 230w.
“Comedy of the most light and charming kind, with sentiment enough of
a natural and healthy kind and wit enough to add savor to the
sentiment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 120w.
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 402. Mr. 31, ’06. 110w.
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.
“A very genial and entertaining romance.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1040. D. 16, ’05. 270w.
=De La Pasture, Elizabeth (Bonham) (Mrs. Henry De La Pasture).= Toy
tragedy: a story of children. †$1.50. Dutton.
The tragedy is a toy tragedy merely because it deals with children,
and the things which make up their weal and woe, and it is a story of,
rather than for, children because the tale of the four orphaned little
folks and how they learned too early the harder side of human nature
and how to cope with it, is really a story for thoughtful grown ups.
The death of little Elsie, and the sweet chastened spirit of Jean cast
a shadow over the story which the success of the two boys does not
dispel.
* * * * *
“The story is well written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
“It is an attractive children’s story, although the situations are
just the least bit improbable, and there is a touch of false sentiment
in the relations between the good little sister and the pretty spoiled
one.”
=Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Breaking the wilderness: the story of
the conquest of the far West. **$3.50. Putnam.
“A very readable book, which has the great attraction of a thoroughly
humane and reasonable point of view; nor is the drift of the main
argument less interesting to follow because some conclusions differ
from those of several who have gone before in the same track of
adventure.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1353. D. 30, ’05. 1170w.
=De Mille, James.= Cord and creese. †$1. Harper.
This new edition of an old story enables a new generation to revel in
its dramatic scenes of love and mystery, in its graphic descriptions
of the search for a stolen treasure, and to follow the many tangled
threads of its plot to a happy ending. The cord of the title is one of
curious Eastern manufacture, the creese is a Malay dagger, and the two
form the principal clues in the search for the villain of this
stirring tale.
* * * * *
“So far as style goes it is much superior to the novel of adventure of
commerce, as put on the market to-day.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 120w.
“A story better worth reading than most of the more recent examples of
its class.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 44. Jl. 16, ’06. 60w.
“Folks who like good measure, however, will find ‘Cord and creese’ a
satisfying book, the work of a story-teller who knew his business as
it was practiced in his day, and who knew the world.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 280w.
=Outlook.= 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 20w.
=De Morgan, William Frend.= Joseph Vance: an ill-written autobiography.
†$1.50. Holt.
The autobiography of a middle-class Englishman of fifty years ago
which unites the characteristics of the novel with the interest of a
human document. The author turns analyst, and includes father, mother,
friends and self in a sketch that runs close to the heart. He follows
his boyhood days, and youth amid poverty, his Oxford days which
developed an inordinate love for chess as well as mechanical inventive
ability, and colors the latter happenings with his love for a woman
whom he does not marry. The life-story reflects much of middle-class
English thought and customs of fifty years ago.
* * * * *
“We wish that Mr. de Morgan had been content with a manner of
construction as simple and direct as the actual writing of his book.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 112. Ag. 4, ’06. 270w.
“Is fresh, original, and unusually clever.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 97. Jl. 28. 250w.
“In my personal opinion this ‘ill-written autobiography’ is wise,
witty, gentle and of unflagging interest, but then, I have been
frightfully prejudiced in its favour—by reading it.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 277. N. ’06. 1480w.
“It is not a book that the reviewer can boom, much as he would like
to; nor can he give a more definite idea of it than to say that, if
the reader likes both ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Peter Ibbetson,’ he can
find the two books in this one.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
“It is ill-written only in the sense of not being composed according
to the present trim, abrupt fashion of novel-reading. We hardly know
how to suggest the mellowness of this story, and therein lies its
charm. We doubt if any reader who has a sense for true humour will
find it tedious.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 650w.
“A work as admirable in detail as in mass effect, a book worth reading
and rereading and keeping in your house.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 620. O. 6, ’06. 980w.
“This is a novel of the first order—one that aligns itself with the
best English fiction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 240w.
“Amuses by its willful divagations from the straight of narrative,
quietly pleases by its wholesome sentiment, and leaves one with an
impression of thorough enjoyment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 330w.
“The style is strong and expressive, but very often clumsy and
over-elaborate and would-be humorous. The strength and interest of the
book lies in the fresh original observation of lower-middle-class
life; in its shrewd characterisation and life-like dialogue and
incidents.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 117. Jl. 28, ’06. 330w.
“Were it not that he challenges comparison with the classics, we might
almost call it a great novel.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 172. Ag. 4, ’06. 1230w.
=Denby, Charles, colonel.= China and her people. **$2.40. Page.
Uniform with the “Travel lover’s library,” this new work is in two
handy-sized volumes. “The first volume is filled with reminiscences of
the author’s stay in China and his personal impressions of the land
and the people, and with accounts of court life at Pekin and social
life and customs elsewhere in the kingdom. The second volume is
concerned with Chinese politics and industrial and commercial problems
and conditions.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The material is arranged in an interesting fashion. The books are
readable and, more important, reliable.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 416. Mr. ’06. 310w.
“It must be accepted as the most authoritative of late contributions
to the literature on Chinese affairs, and is especially valuable in
its observations on political topics.” John W. Foster.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 543. Ap. ’06. 130w.
“In general, the topics dealt with in both volumes are of the sort
that would naturally interest a man of affairs, and Colonel Denby’s
method of treating them will appeal particularly to masculine
readers.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ’05. 220w.
“Particularly is it of service to American statesmen and business
men.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 540w.
“A few ... inaccuracies ... are but minor blemishes in a very
delightful and informing book.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 330. Ap. 19, ’06. 670w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 808. N. 25, ’05. 130w.
“Colonel Denby made good use of the unusual opportunities for
observation which he enjoyed, and for absorption of the Oriental
spirit and way of looking at things.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 250w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 284. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.
“Especially interesting and important are the late minister’s own
words on the Boxer rebellion and the missionary question.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 150w.
=Dennis, James Shepard.= Christian missions and social progress. v. 3.
**$2.50. Revell.
The third and last volume of an encyclopedic work on missions. “This
entire volume is concerned with the contribution of missions to social
progress and every phase of the subject is accorded full and careful
treatment, with abundant illustrations from missionary activities
under all churches, and in all countries.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The work is valuable for reference.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 260. S. 27, ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The range is cyclopædic the details multitudinous and interesting
throughout. Altogether, this is a unique work, without which no
reference library can be considered complete.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 3.)
“In the twelve years in which Dr. Dennis has been engaged upon this
great task, he has accumulated a vast store of interesting facts, most
of which had never before been classified or grouped in systematic
order.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Spec.= 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 220w. (Review of v. 3.)
=De Quincey, Thomas.= Autobiography and confessions of Thomas De
Quincey; with photogravure front. por. and biographical and critical
introd. by Tighe Hopkins. *$1.25. Scribner.
Uniform with the “Caxton thin paper classics.” The volume is prefaced
by the editor’s introduction.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 749. N. 17, ’06. 1300w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 530. N. 27, ’06. 10w.
=Devine, Edward Thomas.= Efficiency and relief: a programme of social
work. **75c. Macmillan.
“The inaugural address of Mr. Edward T. Devine on the occasion of his
taking the Schiff Professorship of social economy at Columbia
University.... His subject is ‘Efficiency and relief,’ and he
discusses modern methods of increasing the industrial efficiency of
the individual and at the same time of providing adequate relief for
those who are of deficient wage-earning capacity.”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 707. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“Large and fine as is the outlook of this lecture, it lacks something
of complete analysis of the aim of charity. The treatment is, indeed,
broader than the definition; the spirit of the author is wider than
the programme he outlines; and the lectures which will follow will
pass beyond the territory which can be accurately named ‘economics.’”
C. R. Henderson.
+ – =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 423. N. ’06. 180w.
“Those who are interested in these great problems of social advance
will find this address most helpful and stimulating.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 417. Mr. ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 842. Je. ’06. 310w.
“The necessity of the scientific study of these problems in the
analysis of conditions and the formulation of principles of action are
clearly and forcefully stated.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“The little book is packed with ideas and is larger than it looks.”
Chas. Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 150w.
=Ind.= 60: 402. F. 15, ’06. 70w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 333. My. ’06. 300w.
“We commend Mr. Devine’s little volume to all who would intelligently
co-operate in the work of social betterment.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.
“We venture to predict that all who get to read it at all will be
interested readers.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 1070w.
=Devins, John Bancroft.= Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.
“The random and indiscriminating observations of a visitor in
missionary interests.”
– + =Ind.= 59: 540. D. 28, ’05. 60w.
=Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson=, ed. Railway organization and working. $2.
Univ. of Chicago press.
“To those acquainted with the literature of railway transportation it
will not need emphasizing that the book really occupies a unique
place. The numerous aspects of the railway service which it treats,
the plain and untechnical way in which every subject is handled, the
fact that more than a score of railway experts of the highest
reputation, have collaborated in its production, all combine to make
the volume indispensable to the ambitious young ‘railroader.’... It is
also to be hoped that the book ... will have a stimulating effect upon
the teaching of railway economics in our universities.”
* * * * *
“Should appeal to serious students of railway economics.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 240w.
=Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton.= England and Holland of the
Pilgrims. **$3.50. Houghton.
“The book is strongest on the side of opinion, theology, and
controversial literature.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 654. Ap. ’06. 860w.
“A very minute and learned study of the early founders of
Congregationalism.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 126. Ag. 4. 280w.
“This work is absolutely unique in thoroness and accuracy.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 455. F. 22, ’06. 270w.
“Lightness of touch this volume does not possess in an eminent degree,
but it contains a large amount of information which has been digested
with affectionate and conscientious care.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 810w.
“This is by all odds the most complete record of Pilgrim origins yet
published in this country.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 150w.
=Dicey, A. V.= Law and opinion in England. *$3. Macmillan.
“Clear thought, wide scholarship, and lucid writing make the defence
as strong as the facts will warrant, and the facts are so conclusive
that few flaws can be found in the proof.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 440w.
Reviewed by C. J. Hamilton.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 257. Ja. ’06. 860w.
“While carefully delimiting the field to be covered, presents a wealth
and variety of fact, suggestion, and speculation on governmental
concerns.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 16. Ja. 13, ’06. 1180w.
=Quarterly R.= 204: 229. Ja. ’06. 2380w.
=Dick, Stewart.= Arts and crafts of old Japan. **$1.20. McClurg.
“After the score of books on Japanese art and art industry, and by men
who on the ground have studied the art of Nippon, this book seems
shallow and of slight value.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“The book seems also the best familiar study we have seen of the
visible tangible work of art which we get from Japan, as distinguished
from the subtle influences which lie back of it.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 165. F. 22, ’06. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Dickens, Charles.= Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas. $2. Baker.
The account of the Pickwickians’ Christmas at the Manor farm, of the
adventures there and tale of the goblin who stole a sexton, and of the
famous sports on the ice, are here recorded as in the famous Pickwick
chronicle. George Alfred Williams has written an introduction and has
illustrated the volume.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 110w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 150w.
=Dickens, Charles.= Tale of two cities; ed. with introd. and notes by
James Weber Linn. 50c. Ginn.
A student’s edition well annotated. The editor’s aim has been
principally to show the general relation of this novel to Dickens’
other works, and to point out the devices of Dickens’ art in the
construction of the plot.
=Dickens, Charles.= Tales from Dickens, ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives.
†$1.50. Bobbs.
“If the mature reader would enjoy Dickens he must read Dickens; but to
children or youthful persons not acquainted with the marvelous stories
of England’s greatest novelist this book will appeal.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 222. F. ’06. 140w.
“Miss Rives’s book must have a good influence; her summaries of the
famous novels are lucid, tasteful, and sympathetic; she gives much in
little.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 340w.
“Not only is the book well suited to the peculiarities of the child
mind, but it is also of no negligible value as a book of reference.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 316. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.
=Dickerson, Mary Cynthia.= Frog book. **$4. Doubleday.
“An enthusiastic recital of close and critical observation.... The
introductory chapter deals with the distinction between batrachians
and fishes and reptiles, development and metamorphoses,
classification, phylogeny, hibernation, poison, voice, color, change,
behavior, and distribution of the ‘batrachia salientia,’ or frogs and
toads.... The remainder of the book is given up to a detailed account
of about sixty frogs, tree-toads and toads, of this continent.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The scope of the work is not too great for the space allotted; the
treatment is scientific, thoroughly modern and up-to-date, reflecting
current university standards. The selection of material and the
completeness and comprehensiveness of the treatment are commendable.”
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 209. O. 1, ’06. 520w.
“The need of a popular frog book is now well met for Miss Dickerson
has given just the information wanted by the general nature student
and in a form which will surely win popular interest for these
interesting vertebrated animals.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1052. N. 1, ’06. 710w.
“Notwithstanding some examples of the prevailing nature-study gush or
cant the style is generally simple and direct. Unmixed commendation
cannot be accorded either the author or the publishers.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 248. S. 20, ’06. 810w.
“She gives the fruit of much study and personal investigation with a
light, though none the less sure, literary touch.” Mabel Osgood
Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 980w.
=Dickinson, Emily Monroe.= Patriot’s mistake; being personal
recollections of the Parnell family, by a daughter of the house. *$3.
Lane.
“The history of the great patriot Charles Parnell is too well known to
need any comment here; but many others of the family, though not
always through fault or sin of their own, met with misfortune and
premature death. The entire story is peculiarly sad, but the fearful
‘mistake’ of Charles, with the shame and disgrace that followed hard
upon it, overshadows all the other painful chapters in the
record.”—Critic.
* * * * *
“Extraordinary indiscretion.”
– =Acad.= 69: 1329. D. 23, ’05. 550w.
“A narrative of most pathetic interest.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 290w.
“The radical fault of it lies in the fact that it was ever published.”
– – =Lond. Times.= 4: 463. D. 29, ’05. 210w.
“We think that a little more reserve would not have been amiss; but
there is romance about some of her pages that is real Irish.”
– + =Sat. R.= 101: 493. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.
=Dickinson, Edward.= Study of the history of music; with an annotated
guide to music literature. **$2.50. Scribner.
“It will be a vade mecum for all musicians, students, and music
lovers.” W. J. Henderson.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 854. D. ’05. 100w.
“It offers a straightforward and scholarly treatment of the subject.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 370w.
“In its field there is probably no book in any language that can
compare with this one in completeness, suggestiveness, clearness and
general usefulness for the student of musical history.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 401. F. 15, ’06. 320w.
=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Greek view of life. 3d ed. (new issue).
**$1. McClure.
“It is an investigation and explanation of the attitude of the Greeks
toward life, nature and humanity, based upon a study of the Greek
classics.” (N. Y. Times.) “The book has five chapters.—1. The Greek
view of religion, 2. The Greek view of the state, 3. The Greek view of
the individual, 4. The Greek view of art, 5. Conclusion. Each chapter
has its divisions carefully planned and succintly treated, and
concludes with a useful summary.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A well-balanced and well-written book from the hands of a competent
author.” F. B. R. Hellens.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 196. Mr. 16, ’06. 1470w.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 717. N. 24, ’06. 890w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06, 40w.
=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Modern symposium. **$1. McClure.
“It is impossible, without more quotation, to do justice to the
security and ease, the lightness and penetration combined, of Mr.
Dickinson. The book is as charming as it is suggestive. In its author
we have one of the few living Englishmen who can really write prose.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 292. Mr. 10. 2260w.
“A suggestive little volume, well worth reading.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.
“The book has a genuinely literary character and is entertaining in
the best sense. The dramatic setting increases the interest; but there
is a lack of spontaneity in the arranging of the speakers which mars
the artistic effect; the chairman is too much in evidence.” David
Phillips.
+ – =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 140. O. ’06. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 718. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“We have to thank Mr. Dickinson for several pleasing epigrams, and the
brilliant comparison of America and Europe, put into the mouth of
Ellis the journalist, makes by itself the slender book worth reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 461. Ap. 14, ’06. 1280w.
“He does his best for all, and he shows remarkable versatility in
doing it.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 440w.
“It is, of course, the work of a critic, and its use is to interpret
men of different opinions to each other. The defect of it is that
while it throws much light upon opinions, it throws none on the
problems.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 832. My. 26, ’06. 1880w.
=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Religion: a criticism and a forecast.
**50c. McClure.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 416. Mr. ’06. 170w.
=Dickson, Harris.= Gabrielle, transgressor. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The scene of this romance, by the author of “The Ravanels,” is laid in
the colonies. Gabrielle, daughter of a sturdy Frenchman, is married at
the age of five and left to grow up in a convent. When she has reached
a woman’s years, but while still a child in mind, she is taken forth
to meet her husband. Before he arrives, however, an exiled prince of
Turkey comes into the life of this impulsive young woman and, by his
mystic suggestions of the Orient, takes her heart captive. The love
story is especially ardent and has an unexpected ending.
* * * * *
“The author’s treatment of the theme makes the yarn rather less absurd
than might have been expected.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 160w.
“It is an ‘Arabian nights’ tale without the simple faith of the
narrator which conquers the incredulity of the reader. Hence the
interest it excites is languid, and it is not easy to follow it to its
finish.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 400w.
=Dignan, Frank W.= Idle actor in Aeschylus. *50c. Univ. of Chicago
press.
In his monograph Mr. Dignan shows that the fault of Aeschylus’s
technique, if it really exists, is due to material limitations and to
the restraints of tradition.
=Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong.= Book of the spiritual life, with a
memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. *$3. Dutton.
“Should be read by everyone interested in the literature of art.”
Royal Cortissoz.
– =Atlan.= 97: 278. F. ’06. 70w.
=Dill, Samuel.= Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. *$2.50.
Macmillan.
“The work is a magnificent piece of historical synthesis. It is drawn
from many sources, and presents a comprehensive view of the
intellectual, social, moral and religious conditions of an important
epoch. Whether the author’s opinions will receive universal acceptance
may be doubted.” Patrick J. Healy, D. D.
+ + – =Cath. World.= 83: 433. Jl. ’06. 5310w.
=Dillon, Mary.= In Old Bellaire. †$1.50. Century.
A quaint old Pennsylvania town with its cavalry school and dashing
young officers at the east end and its students and intellectual
mentors at the west end furnishes the scene of his story of the early
sixties. The heroine is a prim little Puritan maiden whom it takes
four years to convince that Quaker teaching and Northern prejudices
can be made compatible with her love for a handsome, fastidious,
daring, Southern-bred lover.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 48: 474. My. ’06. 60w.
Reviewed by Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 140w.
“Treats of the war time with the admirable poise and impartial spirit
we have learned to expect.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 72. F. 3, ’06. 1250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 110w.
“To our ears the conversations have an unreal, stilted sound.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 260w.
=Dillon, Mrs. Mary C.= The leader. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The story is concerned mainly with the career of a statesman, in whom
it is the author’s evident intention to picture William J. Bryan, who
has made himself the leader and the idol of the masses of his party. A
large part of the narrative is taken up with events connected with the
last Democratic national convention. There are some spirited
descriptions of convention scenes, and a very good picture is
presented of the convention as a whole.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“All in all, ‘The leader’ is a great political work—a matchless
campaign document. It were superfluous to dwell on the evidence that
its author is as unskilled in the use of the English language as most
makers of political documents; that the construction of her novel,
considered merely as a novel, is as shaky as that of many a party
platform.” Edward Clark Marsh.
– + =Bookm.= 24: 158. O. ’06. 1030w.
“One feature of the book, however, is distinctly offensive; that is
the affectation of British phrasing for the common details of American
life.”
– =Ind.= 61: 939. O. 18, ’06. 390w.
– =Lit. D.= 33: 344. S. 22, ’06. 170w.
“The veil of fiction cast over these incidents is of the thinnest; the
writer’s art gives them no fresh meaning.”
– =Nation.= 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 210w.
“Mrs. Dillon’s sole equipment for the writing of fiction is a knack
for descriptive narrative. The plot of her story could hardly be more
flimsy or more hackneyed.”
– – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 500w.
“A very good story in a conventional way, although the politics are
rather bookish, and the social background is not specially true to any
American locality.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 80w.
Discrepant world: being an essay in fiction by the author of “Through
spectacles of feeling.” $2. Longmans.
“The scene is a Scottish village; there is a real story; there are
several real characters from a lord to a pussy-cat that purred ‘three
threads and a thrum;’ there are incidents as startling as a murder,
and there are many deaths.... The author puts his folks into promising
dilemmas, then ... has recourse to nature’s method—always ready.
Fortunately the story is told with nature’s own simplicity, and the
resultant for the reader is a vast cheerfulness in woe.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 83: 83. Jl. 26, ’06. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 458. Jl. 21, ’06. 410w.
“This book is really good.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 85. Jl. 21, ’06. 220w.
=Dix, Beulah Marie.= Fair maid of Graystones. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The book is alive; now and again it may border on the melodramatic,
but it is all wholesomely good and healthily sentimental. The
presentation shows power, skill, and sympathy, and we congratulate the
author.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 563. Ja. ’06. 420w.
“Miss Beulah Dix is an accomplished artificer of historical romance.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Is really interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1345. D. 7, ’05. 130w.
=Dix, Morgan=, ed. History of Trinity church in the city of New York;
compiled in large part from original documents, by order of the
corporation. 4v. **$5. Putnam.
The last volume of the four devoted to the history of Trinity church
brings the account of the earliest Episcopal church in the city of New
York down to the accession of the author who is the present rector.
* * * * *
“An interest ... far wider than the limits of the parish, albeit the
largest and most influential parish in the land.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
“When the time shall come for the history of this period to be
written, let us hope that the historian will go back over the contents
of this fourth volume, and, using the material therein collated, will
place it in its true historic perspective and in its proper relation
to the times now present.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 119. S. 1, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The work now finished is rather the collection of material for
history than history itself.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 4.)
“A variety of incidents that attracted much public interest in their
time occur in this record.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Dixon, Richard Watson.= Last poems of Richard Watson Dixon. Selected
and ed. by Robert Bridges. *$1.40. Oxford.
“There are less than two-score pages in this final sheaf of song, and
more than half of them are occupied by ‘Too much friendship,’ a
miniature epic having for its hero an Athenian whose fortunes (or
misfortunes) suggest those of both King Candaules and Job.” (Dial.)
“Though this little volume holds the last gleanings of a poetic field,
the ears of corn are firm and sound.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The first-piece, a tale of Roman friendship, is indeed unsuccessful,
but the more intimate poems have a directness which at once arrests
attention.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 329. Ap. 7, ’06. 180w.
“His lyrical faculty which was considerable, shows here somewhat
laboriously, and yet it is from the purely lyrical pieces that the
book derives such value as it may possess.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 195. F. 17, 530w.
“A poet of sincerity and thoughtfulness.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 328. My. 16, ’06. 790w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 464. D. 29, ’05. 500w.
=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Life worth living. **$1.20. Doubleday.
=Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Doat, Taxile Maximin.= Grand feu ceramics; tr. by S: E. Robineau.
*$7.50. Keramic Studio pub. co., Syracuse, N. Y.
The series of articles by the well-known French authority on pottery
which appeared in the “Keramic studio” during 1903. Part 1 is a view
of the position of porcelain at the beginning of the twentieth
century: Part 2 covers the ground of the technical instruction in the
making of the Grand feu porcelain and grès.
* * * * *
“Comprehensive handbook.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 33. D. ’05. 160w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 17. Ja. 4, ’06. 1360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 280w
=Dodd, Lee Wilson.= Modern alchemist, and other poems. $1.50. Badger, R:
G.
The author says:
“I would not have you think me all I seem
In these illuding mimicries of dream.”
Further
“My art, you see, is just to take a hint
Expand and make it permanent in print.”
Observations of men and things, and retrospect in history’s and
fancy’s realm have furnished most of the hints of his poems.
* * * * *
“There is stuff in these poems—deep thought and deep feeling. And
conjoined with them is a delicacy of touch that shows the artist
keeping the upper hand of his emotions.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 205. O. 1, ’06. 580w.
“There is brain work behind Mr. Dodd’s verse, and poetic information.
There is at present a certain overemphasis in Mr. Dodd’s phrasing
which blunts his fineness.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 250w.
“It is a pleasure to take up ‘A modern alchemist.’ It gives no hint
that a great poem has arisen; but there is an agreeable certainty that
the author has something to say and has not disdained to learn the art
of saying it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 774. N. 24, ’06. 430w.
=Dodge, David Low.= War inconsistent with the religion of Jesus Christ;
with an introd. by Edwin D. Mead. 75c. Ginn.
This volume contains both of Mr. Dodge’s famous old pamphlets, with an
introduction which tells the story of his remarkable life and reviews
his pioneering work in the peace cause in the early part of the
century.
=Dodge, Henry Irving.= Other Mr. Barclay; drawings by Nella Fontaine
Binckley. †$1.50. Consolidated retail booksellers.
A tale of Wall street. “The plot concerns a certain Mr. Barclay, who
was a bear, and went short to such an extent that he was ruined. After
that he retired to a country town called Cosburg, and filled the place
with frenzy. For he got the inhabitants interested in a pool, and
later admitted them all as partners with himself in a joint stock
grocery concern.” (N. Y. Times.) “The devastation wrought in a sleepy
village by one stock gambler who fans the spirit of greed is forcibly
depicted.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 60: 1487. Je. 21, ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 265. Ap. 21, ’06. 340w.
“The author knows his subject and handles it with directness and
spirit.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.
“With the narrative goes much shrewd country humor and more than a
passing insight into the rustic temperament.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 300w.
=Dodge, Henry Nehemiah.= Mystery of the West. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
A book of stirring verse dedicated to “sea lords strong of soul” who
boldly discovered new lands, to “the heroic dead” who bled for
freedom, and to the faithful who guard the state from wrong.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 41: 268. O. 1, ’06. 180w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 640w.
=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Hope of immortality; our reasons for it. *75c.
Crowell.
The Ingersoll lecture for 1906. Mr. Dole maintains that the hope of
immortality arises out of a unity of thought, feeling and conduct, and
he gives cumulative facts in which human life consists and which point
to the hope of future life.
* * * * *
“The perusal of this little volume leaves one questioning whether any
better argument will ever be addressed to doubters of the future
life.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 180w.
=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= Spirit of democracy. **$1.25. Crowell.
A timely work dealing fairly and hopefully with the leading problems
of present-day democracy and showing what real democratic government
is.
* * * * *
“Though the book is full of suggestive and helpful thoughts and on the
whole is a valuable contribution to social progress, it is far
inferior, we think, to Mr. Henry George’s latest work ‘The menace of
privilege,’ in which democracy is treated in a far more fundamental
and able manner.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 680. D. ’06. 580w.
“We need an accurate, clear and thoroughgoing description of actual
social conditions, and a sound, practical, restrained indication of
ways in which we may better ourselves. To the satisfaction of the
first of these needs, Mr. Dole has made a worthy and suggestive
contribution, but we cannot think that his treatment of the second has
permanent significance.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 355. O. 25, ’06. 880w.
“Its style is clear; its principles are simple and put with great
simplicity. It embodies many wise suggestions. But it lacks
intellectual coherence. On the whole, the book must be described as an
expression of the author’s social and political ideals, many of which
are admirable, rather than as an interpretation of historical facts or
a study of fundamental social principles.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 130w.
=Dole, Nathan Haskell=, comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.
“The selections from the various English translators have been most
judiciously made.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 110w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Donaldson, James.= Westminster confession of faith and Thirty-nine
articles of the Church of England: the legal, moral, and religious
aspects of subscription to them. *$1.20. Longmans.
“By the decision of the House of Lords the vast properties of the Free
church of Scotland pass over to the “Wee Frees,” a little company of
belated ministers who in 1900 refused to acquiesce in the union of the
Free church and the United Presbyterian. The ground of the verdict of
the last court of appeal is that the Free church has departed from the
literal and rigid terms of the Confession of faith, thereby forfeiting
its belongings of whatever sort to the insignificant minority who
still accent the Confession in its original bare, bald literalness.
This, with its manifold implications is the theme to which the
principal of St. Andrews addresses himself.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“Principal Donaldson’s volume ought to awaken serious inquiry in the
minds of all Christians who are fettered by creed subscriptions, for
it all goes to show how unwise it is, and how dishonest and how
morally ruinous, to cling to an outworn creed and outwardly to
maintain religious tenets which the subscriber knows are no longer
tenable.” Eri B. Hulbert.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 355. Ap. ’06. 560w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 223. Jl. 14, ’05. 960w.
“This is a deeply interesting book dealing with subjects which are
smouldering to-day and may be burning to-morrow. We would offer to the
writer of so thought-provoking a book not polemics but thanks.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 866. N. 25, ’05. 1840w.
=Doney, Carl G.= Throne-room of the soul: a study in the culture of the
spiritual. $1. Meth. bk.
The synopsis of thirty sermons on the culture of the soul.
=Donnell, Annie Hamilton.= Rebecca Mary; with eight illustrations in
color by Mary Shippen Green. †$1.50. Harper.
“As a whole the story is an admirable example of that American school
of fiction which esteems simplicity in art as its highest
achievement.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 170w.
“And she deserves to live in our hearts along with Mrs. Rice’s ‘Lovey
Mary.’”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1347. D. 7, ’05. 120w.
=Donnell, Annie Hamilton.= Very small person; il. by Elizabeth Shippen
Green. †$1.25. Harper.
The stories here are about children but their lesson is entirely for
grown ups who have in their trust the developing child. The little
comedies as well as the heart tragedies of children grow pathetic when
there is no one near with whom to share them. It is to such a lonely
group of children that the author turns in her sketches. It is a book
for every mother.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“They are written, for the most part, with a delicate art, with a keen
sympathy for the needs of the childish heart, and a humorous
appreciation of the workings of the childish mind. The central theme
of most of the stories, however, lacks freshness both in idea and
method of treatment.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“The effect is decidedly morbid.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Dorsey, George Amos.= Cheyenne. 2v. ea. 50c. Field Columbian museum.
An extensive monograph on the ceremonial organization of the Cheyenne
which appears in the anthropological series of publications of the
Field Columbian museum.
* * * * *
“A most interesting and valuable account of some of the social
organizations of the Cheyenne Indians.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 418. Mr. ’06. 90w.
=Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ’05. 70w.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 300. Ja. 25, ’06. 880w.
=Doub, William Coligny.= History of the United States. *$1. Macmillan.
“The author has carried the grouping system to the extreme. Among the
commendable features are the following: the space given to the life of
the people; comparatively few pages given to accounts of the wars; and
the large number of well-executed maps.” J. A. James.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 446. Ja. ’06. 520w.
=Dougherty, John Hampden.= Electoral system of the United States; its
history together with a study of the perils that have attended its
operations; an analysis of the several efforts by legislation to avert
these perils, and a proposed remedy by amendment of the constitution.
**$1.50. Putnam.
Mr. Dougherty’s book “deals with the counting of votes for president
and vice-president of the United States. Mr. Dougherty tells the story
of debates over the question and of the settlement of the dispute
between the Senate and House of representatives in 1877; he reviews
the judgments of the Electoral commission in Florida, Louisiana,
Oregon, and South Carolina, and criticises the law of 1877. There are
also discussions of the dangers of the electoral system and the
‘evils’ of the general election ticket system. The book closes with a
remedy and explanation of it.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“While we cannot but think that Mr. Dougherty’s work would have
profited by condensation, particularly in its summaries of the
opinions of members of Congress, its historical merits are both sound
and considerable. So far as he has gone, his work is not likely to
need doing over again.” Wm. MacDonald.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 154. O. ’06. 750w.
“Invaluable as a historical treatise.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 70. Ag. 1, ’06. 400w.
“The one adverse criticism that can be passed upon the book is that
the author’s rigid ideals of historical exposition have led him to
employ such wealth of detail that only the trained scholar will be
able to keep a clear notion of what is essential in the work.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1435. Je. 14, ’06. 310w.
=Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“It is a searching review and criticism of the electoral system now in
vogue, and altho it undoubtedly fails to take sufficient account of
the obstacles in the way of radical reform proposed, it is a critique
of no small value in reference to a subject which has hitherto
received too little attention considering its importance to the
Republic.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 85. Jl. 26, ’06. 790w.
“Mr. Dougherty has done an excellent piece of work in pointing out the
evils of the present system.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 770w.
“All will not agree with his proposed remedies for the defects in the
existing method of choosing the National chief executive, but none can
fail to find suggestive value in the successive chapters.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 90. My. 12, ’06. 310w.
=Douglas, James.= Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.
“The book as it stands is well worthy of careful consideration.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 904. Jl. ’06. 780w.
“Despite all that has been written on Quebec, Dr. Douglas manages to
give us a fresh, unhackneyed and characteristic volume.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 228. Mr. 15, ’06. 740w.
=Dowd, Alice M.= Our common wild flowers of springtime and autumn.
$1.25. Badger, R. G.
While this volume will undoubtedly hold the interest of all young
nature lovers it is intended primarily for school use and to this end
is divided into four parts for use in four successive school years,
and excludes those plants which blossom only during vacation days. The
plants chosen are common to the northeastern part of the United
States, and their classification follows the sequence of families
adopted by the most recent botanical works.
* * * * *
“There is nothing of a scientific value to be derived from the use of
such a text. But judged by the existing standards of nature study as
it actually exists in our schools, the book has much to commend it.”
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 73. S. ’06. 230w.
“We do not feel quite so sure that the writer is a safe guide in
matters of teleology, or the doctrine of final causes.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 77. Jl. 26, ’06. 220w.
“Its author has contrived by careful condensation to pack much
literary and artistic reference and allusion into its small space.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 473. Jl. 28, ’06. 100w.
=Dowden, Edward.= Montaigne. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“Professor Dowden’s volume is by no means contemptible, but it is
unfortunate, like most of this serial piecework, in doing again what
has been better done already.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 809. Ap. 5, ’06. 260w.
=Downey, Edmund.= Charles Lever: his life and his letters. 2v. *$5.
Scribner.
The author of “Harry Lorrequer,” and “Charles O’Malley” contributes
somewhat to his own biography, thru letters and autobiographical
prefaces to early stories which primarily show him to be a “typical
good fellow,” with an amount of spring in his temperament and the
power of enjoying life. The social and literary man, with a warm
interest in politics, was a “good husband and father; he was honest
(though his sincerity was sometimes under suspicion from the rapidity
of his conclusions); he was kind; but he always got through more than
he earned, and the result is a record of perpetual struggle to meet
the claims upon him.... His extravagance led to a growing discontent,
which reached unreasonable proportions. He was incapable alike of
correcting his proof-sheets and his indulgences and grew embittered,
unable to keep friends with himself, as the ‘good fellow’ is expected
to do.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“One would think it were an impossible feat to write a dull life of
such an author, and yet, we fear, it has very nearly been accomplished
by Mr. Edmund Downey.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 325. Ap. 7, ’06. 1770w.
“It consists of materials for such a biography, but needs ... rigorous
selection. There is a fair index, but the proof-reading has not been
well done.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 540. My. 5. 2200w.
“On the whole the brilliant passages in these letters are much fewer
than would have been expected.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 625. Ag. ’06. 1350w.
“He wisely decided to base the work almost entirely upon the letters
and other autobiographical material at his disposal, and the result is
very satisfactory, though it might perhaps have been more so if the
matter had been condensed into half the space.”
+ + – =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 290w.
“Not even its careful workmanship gives it the flavor of an ideal
biography. Mr. Downey’s index ... leaves much to be desired.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 2090w.
“Mr. Downey’s biography is a great improvement on the previous one by
Dr. Fitzpatrick. He is much more careful than his predecessor about
his facts, and he has had the advantage of using new documents.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 147. Ap. 27, ’06. 1780w.
“These two volumes will probably be read when his novels are never
taken from the shelf.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 910w.
“These letters reveal the man. Nothing, in fact, could give posterity
a better idea of the Irish novelist.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 353. Je. 2, ’06. 1950w.
“Mr. Downey’s volumes, however, are avowedly rather a supplement and
corrective than a substitute [for Mr. Fitzpatrick’s Life.]”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 757. Je. 16, ’06. 1260w.
“He kept his fun for his books. We cannot blame him; but his biography
suffers.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 759. My. 12, ’06. 410w.
=Downs, Sarah Elizabeth (Forbush) (Mrs. George Sheldon).= Step by step.
†$1.50. Dillingham.
An unusually wholesome, possible story for young people. It sketches
the upward career of an orphan lad who early learns how to operate in
his life a demonstrable principle of success.
=Dowson, Ernest.= Poems, with a memoir by Arthur Symons. *$1.50. Lane.
Reviewed by P. H. Frye.
=Bookm.= 23: 95. Mr. ’06. 280w.
=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Green flag. *50c. Fenno.
A new popular edition of stories of war and sport which include
besides the title story: Captain Sharkey, which recounts certain
adventures in the career of a notorious pirate; The crime of the
brigadier, in which the criminal himself tells of his strange fox
hunt; The Croxley master; The “Slapping Sal”; The lord of Châteaunoir;
The striped chest; A shadow before; The king of the foxes; The three
correspondents; The new catacomb; The début of Bimbashi Joyce; and A
foreign romance.
* * * * *
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 110w.
=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Sir Nigel; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. McClure.
“Paladin deeds crowd one on another in this story. The plot is highly
colored, and concerns principally three deeds which Nigel swears to
perform before he will return from Brittany to claim the Lady Mary
Buttesthorn. Forced marches and the taking of robbers’ castles, and
joustings for love of fighting, and real battles for the king, all
befall on the way. How young Nigel captured ‘The Red Ferret’ and took
the castle of La Brohiniere, and finally at the battle of Poitiers
took prisoner King John II. of France, thus accomplishing his vows,
and how he was knighted by the ‘Black Prince’ and sent home to get
married is clearly and graphically told in this book.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 160w.
“He has taken pains with his authorities, and the result is an
unqualified success.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 360w.
“As a narrative pure and simple, Sir Nigel deserves unstinted praise.”
Beverly Stark.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 279. N. ’06. 610w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 140w.
“Excellent as the story is in general, it is not flawless—what story
is? The author is not immune from the besetting sin of the Celtic
temperament—exaggeration.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 270w.
“Nor does Sir Arthur ever quite fall between the two stools of
explanation and action. It is only that the constant jumping from one
to the other is not always deftly executed. But that is our only
criticism. The spirit of the fourteenth century is well interpreted.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 386. D. 16, ’06. 480w.
“As a picture of the times, the book is successful, though the story
does not seem so gripping as ‘The white company.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 631. O. 6, ’06. 320w.
“The novel is not only a spirited story, but a very carefully drawn
picture of the age of chivalry, bringing out both the heroism and the
brutality of that period and interpreting its spirit in its
activities, ideals, dress, and social organization.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
“He can give you, in short, everything in the time and of the time but
the time itself. That eludes him.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 470w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 180w.
=Dozier, Orion Theophilus.= Poems. $1.25. Neale.
The third edition of Mr. Dozier’s poems including “A galaxy of
southern heroes” and other poems of former publications.
=Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Health and the inner life: an analytical and
historical study of spiritual healing theories; with an account of the
life and teachings of P. P. Quimby. **$1.35. Putnam.
“Mr. Dresser’s book is primarily devoted to rehabilitating the memory
of Mr. P. P. Quimby whom the author declares to have been the founder
of the new movement in this country.”—Pub. Opin.
* * * * *
“Mr. Dresser’s last book has the great virtue of presenting abstract
truths concretely, in good literary style.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 100w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 160w.
=Driscoll, Clara.= In the shadow of the Alamo. †$1.50. Putnam.
“Local color rather than plot is the most conspicuous element in these
half-dozen sketches of the San Antonio valley. The spirit of the grim
old Alamo pervades all of them and in one of them, Miss Driscoll tells
once more the tale of soul-stirring bravery forever associated with
its walls.”—Critic.
* * * * *
“Pathos and passion are both to be found in the stories, but it is the
atmosphere which is most delightful.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 80w.
“They stray from probability and lack skill in the telling.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 375. Je. 9, ’06. 130w.
“A lack of literary finish and artistic proportion makes the reading
somewhat tedious.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 481. Je. 23, ’06. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 60w.
=Dubois, Rev. Leo. L.= St. Francis of Assisi, social reformer. *$1.
Benziger.
A purely sociological study of St. Francis in which “an effort is made
to describe the steps by which he became a reformer, the work
accomplished by him, the processes of his mind and the traits of his
character as far as these affected his reform work, the racial ideas
and principles on which his reform work was grounded.”
* * * * *
“In many ways it does not compare favorably with the well-known
biography of Sabatier, to which the author gives high praise.”
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 175. Jl. ’06. 60w.
+ + =Cath. World.= 83: 258. Ap. ’06. 430w.
=Dubois, Paul.= Influence of the mind on the body; tr. from the 5th Fr.
ed. by L. B. Gallatin. **50c. Funk.
The education of the reason to control physical health is the watch
word of Dr. Dubois’ little volume. In his discussion of the reciprocal
influence which the spirit and body, the moral and the physical, exert
upon each other, he believes that religion can be efficacious only
when it creates a living philosophy in him who practices it, that such
a philosophy has power to order harmony.
=Dubois, Dr. Paul.= Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the
French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. *$3. Funk.
“He does not make any exaggerated claims.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 574. Mr. 8, ’06. 230w.
=Du Bose, William Porcher.= Gospel in the gospels. **$1.50. Longmans.
“‘The gospel in the gospels’ is their revelation of God in humanity
and of humanity in God. Christianity is described ‘in its largest
sense to be the fulfillment of God in the world through the
fulfillment of the world in God.’ In these three stages are marked—(1)
the gospel of the earthly life of Jesus, the common humanity; (2) the
gospel of the resurrection, expressive of the new power communicated
by Jesus as the conqueror and destroyer of sin and death; (3) the
gospel of the incarnation, presenting the works wrought by Jesus as no
mere act of an exceptional humanity, but a work of God, fulfilling and
completing himself in humanity. These three stages constitute the main
divisions of the work.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The former publications of Professor W. P. Du Bose ... have raised
high expectations, which are justified in this his latest work.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 410w.
“The strong point of Mr. Du Bose’s book is, to the mind of the present
writer, that it offers a logical position to metaphysically-minded
persons who are already emotionally and spiritually convinced.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 204. Ag. 11, ’06. 1420w.
=Du Cane, Col. Herbert=, tr. War in South Africa. **$4. Dutton.
An authorized translation of the German official account of the war in
South Africa. Following a four part narrative of the war’s events is a
“Tactical retrospect” of the conflict “in which are considered the
skill of the Boers in the employment of their weapons, the defects of
their methods of fighting, ‘innocuous’ bombardments, misapplied
manoeuvres, the ‘essence’ of war, the difficulties confronting the
offensive, the essential need for mental development.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Colonel DuCane’s translation of the German history has its place
marked in the library of all soldiers who study their profession in a
serious manner.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 19. Ja. 19, ’06. 1750w. (Review of v. 2.)
“While the book is written primarily for military purposes, it serves
admirably as a history of the war for more general reading.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 82. Jl. 26, ’06. 1090w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 108. F. 7, ’06. 250w.
“A book of considerable value to students of military matters, whether
for tactical or historical purposes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 484. Ag. 4, ’06. 880w.
“The text is clear, sober, and balanced throughout.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 60w.
“Admirable translation.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 461. Mr. 24, ’06. 2140w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson).= Fields
of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6. Lippincott.
“Those who have wandered much in France will enjoy this book, and
those who have not may by it conceive a desire to do so.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 260w.
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1016. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
=Dudden, F. Holmes.= Gregory the Great: his place in history and
thought. 2v. *$10. Longmans.
A biography which portrays “distinctly the Gregory of his own time.”
(Lond. Times.) The sketch follows a three-fold division: (1) a
detailed history of the life of Pope Gregory the Great; (2) a
systematic exposition of Gregory’s theological opinions; (3) an
account of the political, social and religious characterization of the
Gregorian age. “Mr. Dudden has fairly faced his difficult task, and
his industry has been equal to his courage. The book rests upon a
thorough analysis of the original sources to which, by the way, an
admirable index serves as guide, whether one use the narrative or not.
On the other hand, modern authorities, unfortunately, have been almost
entirely ignored.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“His book is a solid piece of genuine historical work which bears
witness to conscientious and laborious research. So thorough is his
method that he scarcely leaves room for a future writer to add
anything to what will be henceforth the standard work on the subject.”
+ + + =Acad.= 70: 137. F. 10, ’06. 950w.
“It rests everywhere sanely and safely on a personal study of the
sources, guided and corrected by a wide knowledge of the researches of
modern scholars.” George L. Burr.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 635. Ap. ’06. 1100w.
“Mr. Dudden must be congratulated upon the ample and well-devised
scheme of his work. He cannot be congratulated upon his omission of
all reference to the work of other scholars. In the more general field
of thought and theology of the age Mr. Dudden fails, if at all, in
completeness. He does not take a wide enough sweep. Gregory’s mental
peculiarities are treated too much as isolated phenomena. It seems
ungracious to dwell so much upon what is absent from so laborious,
honest and interesting a book. Had Mr. Dudden allowed himself more
time and more liberty of judgment it would have been fully
successful.” E. H. Watson.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 760. O. ’06. 1560w.
“Adequate knowledge of the things Gregory said and did, and the sound
sense to estimate their value; also an intimate acquaintance with the
men and policies of the pope’s period, and sane historical judgment to
test them, are conspicuous characteristics of Mr. Dudden’s work: and
if the biographer has given us many pages—more than are necessary to
satisfy our bare necessities—we may well forget to grumble, and may
say our grace with thankfulness.” John Herkless.
+ + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 924. Jl. ’06. 2350w.
“The style is clear and without affectation.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 29. Ja. 26, ’06. 1920w.
“Mr. Dudden has succeeded in bringing out in clear relief the truly
constructive aspects of his work, and in leaving on the reader’s mind
an adequate impression of one of the greatest of Christian prelates.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 497. Je. 14, ’06. 1040w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 753. N. 4, ’05. 240w.
“For so thorough and informing a piece of historical labor it is
wonderfully entertaining.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 655. O. 6, ’06. 2330w.
“An abler apologist than Mr. Dudden it would be impossible to find;
because his defense is indirect and implicit, it is all the more
convincing.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 846. D. 30, ’05. 1670w.
“By reason of its literary merit, its vitalising power over the past,
its successful relation of ancient springs of action to living and
universal movements, and its strictly scientific use of difficult and
often obscure material, will remain the standard work on the spiritual
significance of the sixth century in the West.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 753. My. 12, ’06. 2110w.
=Dudeney, Mrs. Henry E.= Battle of the weak: or, Gossips Green; il. by
Paul Hardy. †$1.50. Dillingham.
A story of love of nearly a hundred years ago is set in a scene
furnished by a little town of southern England near the sea. “Quaker
Jay was always a Southerner, passionate and voluble, delighting in
colour, music, and sunshine. Lucy Vernon, in love with love and with
Quaker, and as much a child of the summer and sunshine as he, was
married by arrangement to a husband whose gods were decency,
self-restraint, and domestic order.” (Lond. Times.) From this romantic
chaos unanticipated order finally emerges.
* * * * *
“Lovers of ‘Susan’ will turn eagerly to ‘Gossips Green’, and they will
not be disappointed.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 180w.
“Its author, in true modern fashion, is concerned less with the theme
of the story ... than with the manner of telling it; and this manner,
is in the main, admirable—sympathetic, humorous, artistic, yet
conveying withal a slight suggestion of insincerity.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 230w.
“There are many poignant pages in Mrs. Dudeney’s new book, and for
their sake she may be pardoned the palpable effort she had to make at
last to secure a happy ending.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 389. D. ’06. 280w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 370w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 490w.
– =Outlook.= 84: 529. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
“The story ... is not always pleasant reading, and it is extremely
difficult to believe in the reality of Quaker Jay, the foundling.”
– =Spec.= 97: 579. O. 20, ’06. 180w.
=Dudley, John William Ward, 1st earl of.= Letters to “Ivy” from the
first Earl of Dudley; ed. with introd. and notes, by S. H. Romilly. *$5.
Longmans.
“All who are interested in the politics of the period between Pitt’s
death in 1806 and the great Reform bill of 1832 will be delighted with
these letters of Lord Dudley to Mrs. Dugald Stewart.” (Sat. R.)
“Speaking broadly, one-third of the papers may be called unimportant,
since they are but hasty notes illustrating merely the writer’s filial
affection for Mrs. Stewart. The other two-thirds consist of moderately
long epistles—epistles, at any rate, which are long enough to disclose
the nature of Ward’s tastes and mind.... The correspondence here
published runs parallel during the greater part of its course with the
‘Creevy papers,’ and covers some of the ground traversed by the first
volume of Grenville.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The book is efficiently edited ... the one objection that we have to
make against it is its title.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1071. O. 14, ’05. 1150w.
“Mr. Romilly’s chapter-prefaces are, in general, excellent, but his
notes are too exclusively political.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 573. O. 28. 2090w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 100. Jl. 12, ’06. 520w.
“In these letters he is seen at his best. They are a rich feast for
all who enjoy the lighter phases of politics, literature, society and
travel.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 440. D. 15, ’05. 2850w.
“The interest attaching to these letters is much greater than that
belonging to the average volume of eighteenth-century correspondence,
and, quite apart from their service in recalling the memory of an
extraordinary man, they bring us much nearer to Dudley himself than do
any of his other writings.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 101. F. 1, ’06. 1650w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 641. S. 30, ’05. 280w.
“As a lively contemporary view of the men and events of that critical
period they possess something of the attraction which belongs to those
of Horace Walpole himself for a period slightly earlier.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 25. Ja. 13, ’06. 1070w.
“Next to their keenness and geniality, their predominant note is
extreme sanity. Written in an easy and affectionate style, and full of
shrewd judgments on politics and society. We cannot praise too highly
the editorial work of Mr. S. H. Romilly.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 593. N. 4, ’05. 1650w.
“Not only are they excellent in themselves, but they reveal a strange
and curiously attractive figure, somewhat of a mystery to his
generation, and almost forgotten nowadays save by diligent students of
memoirs.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 611. O. 21, ’05. 1750w.
=Dudley, M. E.= Tangled threads: a tale of Mormonism. 50c. Badger, R: G.
An anti-mormon poem which in nine cantos of rhymed couplets tells the
direful story of the handsome Mormon Rolland, of the wives he married,
and of his death which finally set them free.
=Duignan, W. H.= Worcestershire place names. *$2.40. Oxford.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 466. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Duke, Basil W.= Morgan’s cavalry. $2. Neale.
Gen. Duke “who has fought under John Morgan gives some accounts of
various raids in which he took part. His point of view is that of a
Kentucky man who went South; and what is of most interest in the
volume is the description of the straits to which the Kentucky
secession regiments were driven in the last period of the war,
especially after the secession of Lee and Johnston.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is really a long time since there has come into this office a
Civil-war book affording such unmixed satisfaction.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 140w.
=Nation.= 83: 78. Jl. 26, ’06. 70w.
“It contains, moreover, a vast deal of interesting and picturesque
matter—in spite of the fact that Gen. Duke is not always cunning at
narrative—and throws as much light on the actual state of affairs in
the Western army, especially as to the weaknesses of that army, as any
contribution to the subject that we now recall.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 465. Jl. 21, ’06. 740w.
“His is a well-written narrative, direct, simple, aglow with human
interest, rich in anecdote, and free from animosity against those who
brought his leader’s and his own efforts to naught. As a military
history it is somewhat open to criticism, but corrective readings can
easily be obtained, and it is undoubtedly deserving of a wide
audience.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 50w.
=Dumas, Alexandre.= Count of Monte Cristo; complete rev. tr. with
biographical sketch by Adolphe Cohn. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Compactness and utility are foremost among the characteristics that
recommend the thin paper two volume sets. This “Monte Cristo” with its
two thousand pages will occupy no more than two inches of shelf space.
A biographical sketch of Dumas and an introduction make the book
desirable from a student’s viewpoint.
=Dunbar, Agnes B. C.= Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. *$4.
Macmillan.
“We have found the references, as far as we have been able to verify
them, exact and correct. No Catholic library ought to be without this
useful work.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 82: 118. Ap. ’06. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Howdy, honey, howdy. **$1.50. Dodd.
“Tho they are songs without notes, they have a lilt by which they sing
themselves for the reader. Mr. Dunbar’s poems are much the better of
the two, but some of the photographs reproduced in ‘Banjo talks’ have
the greater artistic merit.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 284. F. 1, ’06. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. **$1. Dodd.
“Every poem in this little collection counts.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 453. Mr. ’06. 250w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Adventures of Billy Topsail. †$1.50. Revell.
The second edition of a book that can delight the heart of a real boy.
The author says “All Newfoundland boys have adventures; but not all
Newfoundland boys survive them.” Billy Topsail is among the lucky
survivors of prank and adventure. He captures a huge devil fish, goes
whaling, is lost on a cliff, runs away to join a sealer, and is
equally ready in calm or gale, high tide or low to beat any
companion’s emergency record. A wholesome book with the right spirit
for boys.
* * * * *
“A rare style marks the book.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 130w.
=Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 110w.
“‘The adventures of Billy Topsail’ ... are not in themselves of
absorbing interest, and Mr. Duncan’s style is rather spasmodic and
impressionistic, but they have the virtue of being out of the
ordinary.”
+ – =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 50w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Mother. †$1.25. Revell.
=Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ’05. 60w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 719. N. ’05. 120w.
=Duncan, Robert Kennedy.= New knowledge: a popular account of the new
physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of
matter. **$2. Barnes.
“Is a book on science for the layman that will rank among the best of
its kind.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 170w.
=Dunham, Curtis.= Golden goblin; or, The Flying Dutchman, junior: a
pleasant fantasy for children based on the most fascinating of all
undying legends; told in prose and verse; pictures by George F. Kerr.
†$1.25. Bobbs.
A fantastic tale of the experiences of two little shipwrecked Dutch
children who were picked up by the phantom ship, the Flying Dutchman.
Even the most imaginative child will have to exert himself to keep
pace with the swift panorama of sea adventures.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Duniway, Clyde Augustus.= Development of the freedom of the press in
Massachusetts. *$1.50. Longmans.
A monograph which won the Toppan prize of Harvard University in 1897.
“After the preliminary chapter on the control of the press in England,
the author transfers his investigations to Massachusetts, and traces
in chronological order the events which marked the decline of
authority over the press in the New World.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A valuable addition to the ‘Harvard historical studies’ series in
which it is published.” Andrew McFarland Davis.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 145. O. ’06. 1220w.
Reviewed by Ellis P. Oberholtzer.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 345. S. ’06. 700w.
“Hereafter anyone who wishes to know anything on this subject will
refer to this monograph.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 704. N. ’06. 160w.
“Abundant footnotes, with references and appendices, attest the
scholarly investigation, the authoritativeness, and the excellence of
this study of the early press in Massachusetts.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 270w.
“A real contribution to the study of the evolution of liberty in
America.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“The development of a free press in the United States has never before
been traced so adequately or so authoritatively.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1232. N. 22, ’06. 670w.
“He comes nearer than any other writer to being the historian of the
free press in the Anglo-Saxon world.”
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 248. S. 20, ’06. 1020w.
“Is in all respects scholarly, authoritative, and interesting.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 255. N. ’06. 270w.
“Mr. Duniway’s narrative is ... excellent.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 24. Jl. 7, ’06. 190w.
“In Professor Duniway’s excellent monograph a subject requiring
exhaustive research is developed with thoroughness, with logical and
historic continuity, and flanked by a large array of authorities,
personal and documentary.” C. Deming.
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 328. N. ’06. 630w.
=Dunn, Martha Baker.= Cicero in Maine, and other essays. **$1.25.
Houghton.
“Rather too self-consciously light and airy in tone.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Dunne, Finley Peter (Martin Dooley).= Dissertations by Mr. Dooley.
†$1.50. Harper.
Mr. Dooley’s observations here recorded deal with such thoroly modern
topics as short marriage contracts, automobiles, the Irish question,
oats as food, the Carnegie-Homer controversy, gambling, oratory and
the comforts of travel. He is at his best and Hennesy as ever a
willing foil.
* * * * *
“His present series of dissertations deserves a place with its
forerunners.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 70w.
“He shows no diminution in wisdom or the power to express himself, and
his dissertations are all up to date.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
“Shrewd and whimsically humorous as ever in many of his recent remarks
on questions and sensations of the day, in others Mr. Dooley seems
rather heavy-handed, and the old-time Archery road machinery creaks a
little here and there.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
=Dunning, Harry Westbrook.= To-day on the Nile. *$2.50. Pott.
This book was “written primarily for the benefit of prospective
tourists.... The Boston Transcript concisely sums it up, in saying:
‘The volume is at once a history and description of the country, and a
guide-book, valuable and interesting in each of these respects.’...
When the traveler starts he would be well advised to drop a copy of
Dr. Dunning’s book into his steamer-trunk.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“Contains not a little substantial information, and affords a graphic
view of modern Egypt.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 331. Mr. 3, ’06. 190w.
“Popular but scholarly chapters on Egyptian history and mythology.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 33. Ja. 18, ’06. 270w.
=Dunning, William Archibald.= History of political theories from Luther
to Montesquieu. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The history of political theories has exceptional interest, and the
recent English literature devoted to it, already comprising a
considerable number of volumes, includes no work more noteworthy than
that of Professor Dunning.” Alfred H. Lloyd.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 368. Ja. ’06. 1660w.
“If I were to venture to name the distinguishing excellence of this
volume, I should say that it is the fine sense of proportion that
guides the author in the distribution and arrangement of his ponderous
material.” I. A. Loos.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 575. Ja. ’06. 740w.
“For one who desires a general survey of the ideas of political
writers of the period, the book will fill a long-felt want, but there
is a decided lack of critical analysis, which, to the student of
political institutions, leaves much to be desired.” Ward W. Pierson.
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 428. Mr. ’06. 860w.
“For a bird’s-eye view of the subject it could scarcely be surpassed.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 130w.
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 339. F. 8, ’06. 830w.
“Professor Dunning’s volume covers ground which has often been before
traversed, and sometimes with much greater attention to detail, and,
it must be admitted, with greater learning.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 258. Jl. 20, ’06. 900w.
“This second volume on the ‘History of political theory,’ like the
first by the same author, is a credit to American scholarship.” Isaac
Althaus Loos.
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 319. N. ’06. 1130w.
=Dunton, Theodore Watts-.= Coming of love, Rhona Boswell’s story and
other poems. *$2. Lane.
The seventh and enlarged edition of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s “Coming of
love” includes in addition to the poems of previous editions those
that had been “lent to friends in manuscript and mislaid” among them,
“Haymaking song,” and “The haunted girl.”
* * * * *
“The freshness of this poem is amazing, almost as amazing as its
audacity and simplicity. This poem is a triumph of artistry.” J. S.
+ + =Acad.= 70: 225. Mr. 10, ’06. 1720w.
“It is in structure, as well as imaginative quality, one of the most
original poems written during the past century.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 256. Mr. 3. 2270w.
“As interesting as the story itself, is the prefatory explanation by
the author as to the growth and final evolution of ‘The coming of
love’ as it now stands.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 49: 218. S. ’06. 480w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 310w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 1660w.
=Durham, M. Edith.= Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.
+ =Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 60w.
=Durstan, Mrs. Georgia Roberts.= Candle light; il. by Katharine H.
Greenland. $1.25. Saalfield.
The imaginative child and his dreams, the active child and his busy
work and play are portrayed in rhyme and color for little people.
* * * * *
“A series of child verse with agreeable qualities.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1411. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
+ – =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 120w.
=Dyer, G. W.= Democracy in the South before the Civil war. $1. Pub.
house of the M. E. ch. So.
“A strong protest against the theory usually advocated by our
historians, that affairs in the South in ante-bellum times were
largely controlled by an oligarchy of slave-holders, who kept down the
average white man, who made labor disdained, who kept the South
agricultural, while the great mass of the people were idle,
illiterate, and lazy.”—Am. J. Soc.
* * * * *
“While its substance is of very uneven value, the style and thought
are vigorous, and the book deserves attention as a product of its
time.” Ulrich B. Phillips.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 715. Ap. ’06. 450w.
“The syllabus suggests a most interesting line of work, which, if
carried out without prejudice or passion, of which unfortunately there
are traces, ought to yield results of great value to the student of
American social and economic history.” J. W. Shepardson.
+ – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 699. Mr. ’06. 180w.
“Some of his statements are, to say the least, open to question, and
more of his conclusions. Nevertheless, its general thesis is sound.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 90w.
=Dyer, Henry.= Dai Nippon: a study in national evolution. *$3.50.
Scribner.
“The book is interesting, modern, and very thoughtful; having the
outlook of a man of scientific training, who is yet conscious of the
deeper currents of individual and racial life.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 338. S. ’06. 380w.
=Dyer, Thomas Finninger Thiselton-.= Folklore of women, as illustrated
by legendary and traditionary tales, folk-rhymes, proverbial sayings,
superstitions, etc. **$1.50. McClurg.
An anthology, concise and classified, of the proverbial sayings,
folk-rhymes, superstitions, and traditionary lore associated with
women.
* * * * *
“He displays as usual a great industry and a minute knowledge. But his
work would be more illuminating if he had chosen fewer facts, and
written of each one with more suggestion and fancy.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 494. O. 20, ’06. 140w.
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=Eastman, Henry Parker.= Negro, his origin, history and destiny. $2.
Roxburgh pub.
“The intention of the author in writing this book has been to reveal
and demonstrate beyond all question the origin of the negro; to trace
his history from the beginning to the present, and to state what he
believes to be the true solution of the race problem.” The work
contains a reply to “The negro, a beast.”
=Easton, H. T.= Money, exchange, and banking, in their practical,
theoretical, and legal aspects. $1.75. Pitman.
A complete manual for bank officials, business men and students of
commerce. “The nature and use of money, the mechanism of exchange, and
the development of banking in various parts of the world—but with
special reference to England and the money market—are fully explained.
But, in addition, the organization of a bank, the duties of its
various officials, and the manner in which the books of a bank are
kept and the balance sheet prepared are dealt with.” The legal side of
banking and the most important points in connection with bills of
exchange, cheques, and the relationship between banker and customer
are carefully considered.
* * * * *
“Mr. Easton’s book appeals neither to the theorist nor to the
accomplished banker, but to the average student of such matters, and
it will serve his purpose well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 130w.
=Easton, M. G.= House by the bridge. †$1.50. Lane.
Transplanted from sunshiny regiment life in India to a gloomy English
home steeped in a skilfully guarded mystery, the sensitive heroine of
this tale grows wise among people who “appear either to have mated
with the wrong person or suffered troubles of the heart.” The tragic
element of the story is fully offset by a romantic interest that grows
up about Joan and guides her interests into pleasanter ways.
* * * * *
“The book shows great promise of better things to come. Like many
modern novels it has far too much plot.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 310. Mr. 31, ’06. 280w.
“The ’prentice hand betrays itself in an exuberance of incident and
coincidence which gives a sense of overcrowding. The plot is, however,
well constructed, and the mystery successfully sustained.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 446. Ap. 14. 140w.
“Here is a story done all in gray and brown and black, with scarcely a
gleam of sunshine.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
– =Bookm.= 23: 541. Jl. ’06. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 296. My. 5, ’06. 270w.
=Eckel, Edwin C.= Cements, limes and plasters: their materials,
manufacture, and properties. *$6. Wiley.
“It is probably one of the most complete treatises which has been
published up to the present day on this subject.”
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 457. Mr. 15, ’06. 470w.
=Edgar, Madalen G.= Stories from Scottish history. 60c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Children’s favorite classics.” A bright series of
narratives based on Scott’s “Tales of a grandfather,” running
continuously from the struggle for freedom under Wallace and Bruce to
the union of the crowns.
* * * * *
“It is well, however, for the reader to bear in mind the fact that Sir
Walter Scott was a Tory and his historical tales are sometimes
strongly tinged with the deep reactionary prejudices he entertained.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 572. N. ’06. 180w.
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
=Edghill, E. A.= Inquiry into the evidential value of prophecy: being
the Hulsean prize essay for 1904; with preface by Rt. Rev. H. E. Ryle.
$2. Macmillan.
“An accomplished scholar, at present a young Anglican curate, presents
in this volume both the maximum and the minimum estimate of the
validity of the prophecies relating to the Messiah of the Hebrew hope,
which conservatively applied criticism may be well considered to
justify.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 299. S. 15. 660w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 579. Jl. 7, ’06. 160w.
“His book is not only a conscientious and well-reasoned presentation
of his own point of view; it will also assure his readers, whatever
their own prepossessions, of the adherence of the best instructed
among the younger clergy to the ancient lines of the faith.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 551. N. 3, ’06. 1060w.
=Edwards, A. Harbage.= Kakemono: Japanese sketches. *$1.75. McClurg.
Reverently and simply the author sets before us these dainty sketches
of Japan and her people, her faith, her art, her gods, and the heart
of her. They are dedicated “To my teachers, the people of Japan,” and
they breathe the spirit of the cherry blossoms and whisper to our
modern commercialism of a something we have lost, or never gained.
“‘What is the soul of Japan?’ asked the poet. ‘It is the mountain
cherry-tree in the morning sun.’ But a soul so simple, the civilized
nations, of course, disdain.”
* * * * *
“Written with reverence and without adulation.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 510. My. 26, ’06. 430w.
“Pleasantly written sketches. These pictures are drawn with restraint
of colour and line and display no little insight into Japanese life.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 513. Ap. 28. 430w.
“His is a book of tender meditations, of sympathetic insight. He has
made a mosaic out of his many brief chapters which glistens with
beauty and has a peculiar charm.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1113. N. 8, ’06. 340w.
“While he sees temple and landscape with something of a painter’s
vision, his style is too self-conscious and aesthetic to be a source
of pleasure.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Edwards, Tryon.= Our country; historic and picturesque. $4.
Perrien-Keydel co., Detroit, Mich.
A complete story of our country’s development and progress from the
first discovery by the Northmen to the present time, embellished by
many hundreds of engravings illustrative of war and historic incidents
and the grandeur of American scenery.
=Egan, Maurice Francis.= Ghost in Hamlet, and other essays in
comparative literature. **$1. McClurg.
There are ten essays in this volume. The ghost in Hamlet, Some phases
of Shakespearian Interpretation, Some pedagogical uses of Shakespeare,
Lyrism in Shakespeare’s comedies, The puzzle of Hamlet, The greatest
of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Imitators of Shakespeare, The
comparative method in literature, A definition of literature, and The
ebb and flow of romance.
* * * * *
“He has a felicitous knack of presenting in an original manner,
established judgments of first-class criticism. And he has the gift of
the born teacher, which is to know how to present his ideas luminously
to his readers and his audience. This excellent little volume is
replete with suggestion and information for those who, without some
commentator, are not always equipped to extract a full share of profit
and pleasure from the mines of literature.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 103. O. ’06. 1140w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 190w.
“Is a book of real vitality. Dr. Egan’s style ... is not quite worthy
of his theme.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 630w.
“If the book is not strongly original, it is interesting, and not
without its importance to current literary discussion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 269. Ap. 28, ’06. 970w.
“He is never dull or commonplace. With his criticism as a whole most
readers will be in sympathy, because it is founded on common sense,
largely free from vagaries, and based on knowledge of life rather than
on theories of life.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 410w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Blind alleys. $1.50. Lothrop.
The characters who find themselves groping in the “blind alleys” of
modern New York life as they strive honestly to be helpful to those
less fortunate are a young newspaper man who has become separated from
the wife he loves, a young doctor who received funds for his education
from some mysterious source and knows not his own parentage, a
fabulously wealthy spinster and the girl who passes as her ward, and
others who are hedged about by circumstances more or less unusual. The
story of their various complications and how they are finally
straightened out is given in great detail.
* * * * *
“No doubt the book will appeal to those who are interested in
settlement work and in civic philanthropy in general.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 270w.
“The characters of the story are lifelike and typical.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Eggleston’s story has not the smallest relation to life. Two
merits, however, it has: It is readable, and many of the opinions
expressed in the conversations ... are striking and suggestive.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 690w.
“It tells a good story with a wholesome love interest, and it is full
of situations and incidents that suggest and stimulate thought.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
=Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Life in the eighteenth century. **$1.20.
Barnes.
“In this companion volume to ‘Our first century,’ Mr. Eggleston
carries his story through the eighteenth century. The plan pursued is
essentially the same as in the first book, the author seeking to give
his narrative as human a meaning as possible, and merely touching upon
the events which are treated at length in the conventional school
history.”—Pub. Opin.
* * * * *
“The author has dealt too largely in generalities, included too much
vain repetition of the matter contained in the very volumes to which
this one should be auxiliary, and omitted too many of the picturesque
minor details which more than anything else reveal what the life of
any past epoch really was.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 86. F. 10, ’06. 430w.
“The new road, which Mr. Eggleston seeks to break, is interesting, and
there can be no doubt that as a preparation for more serious work
‘Life in the eighteenth century’ is of value.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 316. Mr. 10, ’06. 90w.
=Eichendorff, Joseph Karl Benedikt, freiherr von.= Happy-go-lucky; or
leaves from the life of a good for nothing; tr. from the German by Mrs.
A. L. Wister; il. in color. $2. Lippincott.
A merry youth with the “Wanderlust” upon him follows woodland trails,
scales mountains, dreams of his Lady fair and plays his beloved
fiddle. The sketch is of his tramps and chance acquaintances.
* * * * *
“Many readers will enjoy these ‘leaves from the life of a
good-for-nothing’ in their new garb.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Mrs. A. L. Wister has made an excellent translation of this charming
German story of irresponsibility and genius.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Elbé, Louis.= Future life in the light of ancient wisdom and modern
science. **$1.20. McClurg.
This is a translation of a book which has been creating wide comment
thruout France under the title “La vie future.” With great care and
exactness M. Elbé has arranged a plain statement of the discoveries,
theories, and ideas of the greatest investigators, together with his
own views and comments, and a mass of authentic information regarding
the beliefs of the primitive races. The two parts into which the
treatment is divided are Ideas of the survival as considered by the
primitive races, and Deductions drawn from the fundamental sciences.
* * * * *
“A noteworthy book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 220w.
“A work of scientific importance and of reverent philosophical
treatment.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. Je. ’06. 70w.
Elements of practical pedagogy, by the brothers of the Christian
schools. La Salle bureau of supplies, N. Y.
This volume “treats as fully as may be done in a small book, every
side of elementary education—the principles of which regulate the
physical, the mental, and the moral development of the young; the
school and its organization; the equipment, the duties, and the
methods of the teacher; the special methods proper to the teaching of
the various branches. The treatment of each topic is systematic,
minute, and, above all, practical.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 117. Ap. ’06. 640w.
“All students of pedagogy will welcome the appearance of this little
volume.” Thomas Edward Shields.
+ =School R.= 14: 541. S. ’06. 720w.
=Eliot, Charles William.= Great riches. **75c. Crowell.
President Eliot’s judicial mind with its eminent fairness is in
evidence thruout this well organized discussion. He emphasizes the
obligations as well as the powers and privileges of moneyed people,
and believes that the only safeguard for the rich man against
suspicion and adverse judgments is publicity for his methods and
results.
* * * * *
“We sincerely thank Dr. Eliot for his brilliant essay, and shall be
greatly pleased to meet him again, carrying on his earnest endeavor to
maintain the standard of plain living and high thinking.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 615. N. 17. 880w.
=Eliot, Charles William.= Happy life. 75c. Crowell.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Eliot, George, pseud. (Mrs. Mary Ann Evans (Lewes) Cross).= Romola;
historically il. and ed., with introd. and notes, by Guido Biagi. 2v.
*$3. McClurg.
The edition is made valuable by the hundred and sixty illustrations
which make a historical background for the story. They have been
carefully selected by Dr. Biagi, librarian of the Laurentian library
at Florence, who also contributes an introduction on “The making of
the romance.” He has found it interesting “to attempt an
investigation, new, curious and engrossing, of the historical
foundation upon which is based this work of art and fiction, to try to
discover the hidden scaffolding which supports it, and see what
materials have been employed in its making.”
* * * * *
+ + =Dial.= 41: 456. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
=Eliot, George.= Silas Marner. $2. Dutton.
Charles E. Brock has made this “Silas Marner” especially attractive
with his twenty-four pictures in color. “He has a most delicate way of
setting off what is ‘old-fashioned’ through a rare combination of
lavender, old rose, pea greens, and pale yellows superimposed on
examples of most careful and suggestive draughtsmanship.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“Annie Matheson’s introduction, we think, adds not much to the
intellectual adornment.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 483. D. 14, ’05. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ’05. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 327. F. 10, ’06. 40w.
=Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe (Mrs. John Elliott).= Two in Italy. *$2.
Little.
“A delightful account of little visits and rambles by the author and
her husband and chiefly distinguished for its vivid portraits of
Italian life.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 21. Ja. 4, ’06. 330w.
“Whether the stories are true or not, the impressions evidently are”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 47. Ja. 6, ’06. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Ellis, Clara Spalding.= What’s next; or, Shall man live again? $1.50.
Badger, R: G.
The great question is answered by two hundred living Americans of
prominence in politics; in the army and navy; in science, art, music,
and literature; in the mercantile world; in the professions; and in
the chairs of universities. An expression from secular life only—the
views of all clergyman being excluded.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 462. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester (Colonel H. R. Gordon, pseud.).= Black
Partridge, or, The fall of Fort Dearborn. †$1.50. Dutton.
Auric Kingdom, a Fort Wayne lad, his chum, Jethro Judd of Fort
Dearborn, and Black Partridge, the Pottawatomie chief and friend of
the white man, are the most prominent figures in this story which
culminates in the destruction of Fort Dearborn. The book is full of
adventure, of bad Indians, brave settlers, and the woodcraft dear to
all boy hearts.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot in the mountains. †$1. Winston.
“The special value of the tales, apart from their interest for the
young, lies in their portrayal of the hardships and perils of the
early pioneers who blazed the overland pathway to the Pacific.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 334. Mr. ’06. 100w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot on the prairies. †$1. Winston.
+ =Arena.= 35: 334. Mr. ’06. 100w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Hunt on snowshoes. [+]75c. Winston.
The second of these volumes in the “Up and doing series.” It is an
account of the adventures of two boys who spend the holidays with an
old French Canadian trapper. The race for life with a pack of wolves
at their heels, the escape from a huge bear, the moose hunt, the
encounter with a panther, etc. all supply aliment for a brave
imagination.
=Ellis, Elizabeth.= Barbara Winslow, rebel. †$1.50. Dodd.
“Another historical romance with an English setting, its scene being
laid just after the defeat of Monmouth at Sedgemoor. Here we have a
fascinating heroine, arrested for harboring rebels, and a victim of
Jeffreys and the Bloody Circuit. Sentenced to a brutal punishment, she
is saved by one of the king’s officers, who thereby becomes himself a
rebel, and the two take flight together.... Barbara is a young woman
of the pert and proud type so dear to the romantic heart, and her
soldier lover has the complementary virtues that the situation
requires.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“No complaint may be made of it for lack of interest or excitement.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 150w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
=Ellis, John Breckenridge.= Stork’s nest. †$1.50. Moffat.
“A tale of rough life in northern Missouri.... The process of molding
Emmy, the woodland beauty, into a ‘Person’ suitable to be presented to
her relatives in St. Louis, is confided to a youth who seeks health in
the woods. He becomes one of a strange company, in which figure a
ghost, a weak-minded boy, a brutal counterfeiter, and several tools of
the last character. Floods and dangers of all sorts interfere with the
progress of the romance, but love is triumphant over evil in the
end—the bad people die, and the good live happy ever after.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“We cannot help reading to a finish, but we have no desire to reread
any part of it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 30. Mr. ’06. 240w.
“The plot is mysterious enough to arouse curiosity, yet not
sufficiently well managed to prevent annoyance to the reader.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 892. D. 9, ’05. 110w.
=Ellison, Mrs. Edith Nicholl.= Childs recollections of Tennyson. *$1.
Dutton.
These child-hood and girl-hood recollections of Tennyson and the life
he lived at Farringford began when at the age of three the writer and
the poet celebrated a birthday together. Many little incidents of
Tennyson’s devotion to his invalid wife and his two sons are given,
there are anecdotes of his friends and his friendships and the picture
of this happily congenial household is a pleasing addition to our
knowledge of the laureate.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 246. O. 16, ’06. 310w.
“An interesting little book.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 40w.
“The book was worth writing, and no reader would be sorry to possess
it.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 80w.
=Nation.= 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=Outlook.= 84: 428. O. 20, ’06. 170w.
=Elson, Henry William.= School history of the United States. *90c.
Macmillan.
A work whose “record of our national development neglects no phase of
progress—social, industrial, political, or literary—and takes note of
the underlying causes at work, as well as of the changes wrought. In
subjects that have been hotly controverted its temper is eminently
fair and judicial. Designed for young people in their teens, many of
the elders will find it both interesting and instructive. Foot-notes
are often skipped, but Mr. Elson’s are so full of anecdote as to
escape neglect.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book possesses two decided merits. The first of them is an effort
at proportion in dealing with events.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 218. Ap. ’06. 160w.
“Excellent text-book.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 30w.
“The style has charm, vigor and color, and the author’s patriotism is
stimulating and communicative.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 257. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 673. Jl. 21, ’06. 130w.
“Mr. Elson has shown us how a history may be made interesting as well
as instructive.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 80w.
Reviewed by Marcus W. Jernegan.
+ – =School R.= 14: 458. Je. ’06. 230w.
=Elson, Louis Charles.= Elson’s music dictionary. $1. Ditson.
A valuable book of reference for musicians, containing the definition
and pronunciation of such terms and signs as are used in modern music,
together with a list of foreign composers and artists, with
pronunciation of their names, a list of popular errors in music, rules
for pronouncing foreign words, and a short English-Italian vocabulary
of musical words and expressions.
* * * * *
“For the most part, however, this handy dictionary deserves
commendation.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 807. Je. 30. 190w.
“We can cordially commend this book to students and teachers alike.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 70w.
“A marvel of lucid condensation.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 413. My. 17, ’06. 170w.
“Is rather more inclusive than most books of its class. We cannot
quite understand why its list of composers and other musical artists
should not include Americans.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 90w.
“This is one of the first successful attempts to classify and revise,
in compact, accessible form, the musical terms which puzzle the
layman, and which the teacher is constantly called upon to explain.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 100w.
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 102. Ja. 20, ’06. 50w.
=Elton, Oliver.= Michael Drayton. Constable & co., London.
This little volume by Professor Elton is “as an ‘avant-courier’ to the
concerted attempt to restore Drayton to his place of eminence in
English literature ... [and it tells] the prospective reader of the
poetry all that is known, through the researches of modern scholarship
of the man and his work.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 69: 1001. S. 30, ’05. 1300w.
“Here, then, is the preparation one should need for the study and
proper understanding of Drayton’s voluminous works.” W. A. Bradley.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 10. Jl. 1, ’06. 1740w.
“As regards the study of Drayton this volume should be more or less
final. Professor Elton’s style is a trifle too figured for our own
taste, but he writes well and has produced a book whose real critical
value is considerably more extensive than one might have expected from
the subject. There is evidence throughout of long research and
indubitable scholarship.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 51. Ja. 13, ’06. 1520w.
=Eltzbacher, O.= Modern Germany. **$2.50. Dutton.
“The author of this very instructive book defines its scope as a study
of Germany’s political and economic problems, her policy, her
ambitions, and the causes of her success.” (Sat. R.) The author has
undertaken to answer the following questions in his discussion: “Will
Germany eventually supplant Great Britain and take our place in the
world? What is Germany’s policy towards this country, towards the
United States, towards Austria-Hungary, and towards Russia? What are
Germany’s aims, what are her ambitions, and, above all, what are the
causes of her marvelous success?”
* * * * *
“An able and most interesting account of German politics and
incidentally of German ambitions.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1270. D. 2, ’05. 250w.
“Taken together the two volumes present admirable general discussions,
from a strictly British point of view, of the imperialisms of Britain
and Germany respectively.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 251. My. ’06. 800w.
“Is both instructive and opportune.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 280w.
“His speculations and asservations would, however, bear more weight if
he were less prone to trace results to their causes along the lines
that suit his thesis, and if he had less of a slap-dash way of drawing
inferences from statistics.”
– + =Nation.= 82: 513. Je. 21, ’06. 1910w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 789. N. 18, ’05. 330w.
“There are many assertions and fancies set forth in Mr. Eltzbacher’s
handy volume with which one must be allowed to differ. He appears to
the reviewer to arrive at weighty conclusions, now and then, based on
flimsy or at least insufficient premises. But of this there can be no
doubt, his book is interesting and full of virile thought.” Wolf von
Schierbrand.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 469. Jl. 28, ’06. 1670w.
“In view of the new tariff which is going into effect on the first of
March, Mr. Eltzbacher’s book will receive a timely welcome. Mr.
Eltzbacher writes as a protectionist, and his argument is of extreme
interest; to the general student, however, his book might have been
more valuable if he had devoted more space to the arguments of his
opponents. We note his fairness, nevertheless.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 325. F. 10, ’06. 360w.
“A very keen and informing study of the German Empire. Mr. Eltzbacher
writes in a clear, suggestive style, and has added an excellent index
and bibliography to complete his text.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 190w.
“This survey of the German’s industrial life is extremely well done,
and we do not know any book which within such moderate limits enables
one to estimate the ability and energy which are devoted by the State
to the purpose of furthering the material prosperity and power of the
German people.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 440w.
“We would suggest that the latter half of the book, dealing with the
financial and economic aspects of the German Empire, would have been
better qualified to serve the requirements of the general public had
the writer been content to minimise his tables and lists of figures,
and so far as possible, to avoid such very thorny problems as that of
the comparative wisdom of the fiscal policies of Germany and Great
Britain.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 1600w.
=Elzas, Barnett Abraham.= Jews of South Carolina. *$6. Press of J. B.
Lippincott co.
“The author’s aim has been to show the part taken by the Jew in
commercial, professional, political, and social activities. The volume
includes chapters on the beginnings of the Jewish settlements in the
colony, their religious organization and religious dissensions, the
part taken by the Jews in the wars and in affairs of government, the
expansion of the Jews over the State, and short biographies of the
most prominent members of the race.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“He has materially added to our knowledge of South Carolina Jewish
history, and he might safely have permitted historical students to
discover this fact for themselves, without attempting to emphasize it
by belittling all his predecessors.” Max J. Kohler.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 940. Jl. ’06. 470w.
“In spite of minor defects, the work has a great value as an account
of one of the influential elements in Southern society.”
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 392. Je. 16, ’06. 590w.
“His book is of the same order as hundreds of local and genealogical
histories written about ‘towns’ and old families of New England, but
appeals perhaps to a larger public.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 534. Je. 28, ’06. 1130w.
=Emerson, Ralph Waldo.= Friendship and character. $1. Century.
The value of this “Thumbnail” offering is increased by Emma Lazarus’s
essay on Emerson’s personality which forms the introduction.
=Emerson, Willis George.= Builders. $1.50. Forbes.
A young New York newspaper man is sent out west by his managing editor
to write a series of sane minded articles on the futility of western
investments which will keep eastern money at home. He, however,
catches the western fever, invests in lots in an unbuilt city, loses
his position by his enthusiastic reports, and finally stakes his all
upon a gold mine which to the surprise of everyone “strikes pay dirt.”
There is of course, a western girl in the story and there are other
characters chiefly prospectors, western in type and of mingled good
and evil. The plot of the story is superior to its workmanship.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Yet for all the crudeness of the story and the people there’s a sort
of romantic quality about Mr. Emerson’s book which tempts the reader
on from page to page.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 472. Jl. 28, ’06. 650w.
Empire and the century: a series of essays on imperial problems and
possibilities, by various writers. **$6. Dutton.
“The present volume is intended to give, within the compass of a
single book, the current views of representative men and women upon
those special departments of imperial development with which they are
severally qualified to deal. Its purpose is to give an authoritative
account of the British Empire, as it appeared to contemporaries at
this particular moment of its history.” There is an introduction by
Mr. Charles Sydney Goldmann, and a poem by Rudyard Kipling, called
“The heritage”; the other writers include J. St. Loe Strachey, J. L.
Garvin, the Bishop of Stepney, Carolyn Bellairs, R. N.; George Peel,
Sir Edward Hutton, Prof. J. W. Robertson, Benjamin Sulte, Sir Godfrey
Lagden, Lady Lugard, Valentine Chirol, Sir Frederick Lugard, Col.
Younghusband, and many others.
* * * * *
“The essays often contradict one another, and the whole is somewhat in
the nature of a collection of magazine articles. On the other hand,
some of the contributions are full of interest and well worthy of
attentive consideration.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 715. N. 25. 1380w.
“Admirable and extensive compendium.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 251. My. ’06. 620w.
“It contains a great deal of political, geographical and commercial
information hard to find elsewhere.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 70w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 377. N. 10, ’05. 2420w.
“The work is a collection of expert opinion not a methodical
treatise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 600w.
“In every instance the writers are competent to treat of the themes
allotted to them, and if their views are frequently colored by
political preferences they are nevertheless informative and deserving
of close attention.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 350w.
“This volume forms an extremely valuable contribution to our knowledge
of Imperial problems.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 1087. D. 23, ’05. 2260w.
English essays, selected and edited by Walter Cochrane Bronson. *$1.25.
Holt.
“While the volume is in no way designed as a text in the history of
English literature, it would prove a most excellent companion piece to
such a course.”
+ =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 140w.
“The book is well suited to its special purpose, and should also be
welcome to the general reader who is interested in this line of
literature.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 50w.
+ =School R.= 14: 232. Mr. ’06. 50w.
=Eno, Henry Lane.= Baglioni: a play in five acts. **$1.25. Moffat.
A drama founded upon the story of the celebrated Baglioni family who
ruled in Umbria for over fifty years. “Set in Perugia, in the Italy of
the fifteenth century, with a plot which swims in a mist of blood and
tears, it is cast in that antiquated literary style which is always so
perilous to handle, and which betrays one so easily into turgidity and
bombast.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The blank verse marches with tolerable, even correctness, but the
rhetoric is often turgid and we should doubt if the play could be
found to be actable, though possibly possessing some dramatic
passages.”
– + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 100w.
“He has allowed himself to be distracted by dramatically irrelevant
circumstances.”
– + =Ind.= 60: 517. Mr. 1, ’06. 180w.
“It is worth reading, if one has the time, as a vivacious portrayal of
the renaissance mood.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 60w.
“The work, which ought to be biting, almost corrosive from its nature,
tastes insipid.” Bliss Carman.
– + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 818. D. 2, ’05. 750w.
=Erb, J. Lawrence.= Brahms. $1.25. Dutton.
A useful and suggestive introduction to the life of Johannes Brahms
which appears uniform with the “Master musicians” series. “There are
no stirring events to recount, no revolution, or hurling of artistic
thunderbolts; his life is but a record of work, unswervingly pursued,
and of a homely, simple life of quiet friendships, with rambles
through Italy or Switzerland in holiday times, though these holidays
were the opportunities for some of his best work, as is ever the case
with a true artist.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 69: 1087. O. 14, ’05. 510w.
“Mr. Erb’s book is not a bad book; he has gathered his materials
conscientiously and he has not tortured truth in their
presentation—only he has missed the opportunity to create a fine piece
of work.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 490. Ag. 16, ’06. 470w.
“The most useful of these, [biographies of Brahms] for the general
reader, is Erb’s.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 473. Je. 7, ’06. 90w.
“His biography is not marked by originality, either of research or of
critical views; but it will fill a place that has not been exactly
filled in English.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 190. Mr. 31, ’06. 60w.
“Although it is written without any great distinction of style, it is
decidedly readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’05. 190w.
“Though not on the same level of excellence as Mr. Duncan’s work, is a
useful and unpretending little book.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 763. N. 11, ’05. 160w.
=Eva Mary, Sister.= Community life for women; with introd. by Boyd
Vincent. 75c. Young ch.
A little book which advocates the sisterhood idea and organization as
an authorized part of church order. The subject is treated in nine
chapters, as follows: The need of religious communities, Vocation,
Probation, The regular life, The vow, The common life, The temptations
of the community life, Popular objections to the community life, and
Helps and hindrances.
=Evans, Florence Adele.= Woodland elf. 60c. Saalfield.
The stories which the woodland elf reads from the leaves of his
library bush to comfort Maidie, who is lost in the woods, will
interest other little people who are not lost for they tell all about
the chameleon’s color, why snakes shed their skins, why Indian pipes
grow, why the wild-cat has no tail, why seals wear furs, why wishes no
longer come true and explain the whys and wherefores of many other
wonderful things.
=Evans, Henry Ridgely.= Old and new magic; introd. by Dr. Paul Carus.
*$1.50. Open ct.
“This book begins with the ancient Egyptian magic and comes down to
such modern prestidigitateurs as Kellar and Herrmann. Scores of
conjurers’ tricks are explained, with abundant illustration. In its
introduction Dr. Paul Carus discourses in a readable way about the
relations between magic, illusion, and miracle from the point of view
of one to whom the miraculous is the impossible.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A discursive and unpolished but hugely entertaining account of
necromancy and conjuring.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 290w.
“No reader need fear to take up this book because of its moral or
ethical purpose. It contains fascinating reading for everybody.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 290w.
=Outlook.= 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 50w.
=Evans, Herbert Arthur.= Highways and byways in Oxford and the
Cotswolds. $2. Macmillan.
In this new volume in the “Highways and byways” series the author
“takes Oxford as a starting-place, and wisely devotes far the larger
part of the book to less well-known places.... Upper and lower
Slaughter, Temple Guiting, Chipping Warden, Stow-on-the-Wold.... These
are the samples of the many quaint names of scores of English villages
through which the author takes his reader in a leisurely pedestrian
trip. Everywhere he finds ancient hills, ruined abbeys, picturesque
cottages, or old-fashioned inns, and his narrative abounds in local
traditions, legends, and the drift of the side-eddies of history. The
drawings are by Frederick L. Griggs.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Evans, except for an occasional touch of affectation, writes very
well, and displays a knowledge alike of architecture, history, and
botany.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 1: 417. Ap. 7. 340w.
“The volume is a thoroly good one, and will be of service to the
tourist who visits Oxford, for all necessary instructions for
following the route are given.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 641. S. 13, ’06. 290w.
“The volume is fully up to the rest of this charming series.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 250. S. 20, ’06. 620w.
“It is not only attractive, but taking it as a whole it is accurate
and valuable; between its covers is store both of pleasure and of
profit.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 124. Je. 7, ’06. 560w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 103. F. 17, ’06. 330w.
“Mr Evans writes in a discursive and agreeably rambling way.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 200w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 852. D. 20, ’05. 70w.
“Mr. Evans is fully equal to his task of guide and historian.”
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 645, Ap. 28, ’06. 220w.
=Evans, Thomas Wiltberger.= Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans:
recollections of the second French empire. *$3. Appleton.
Dr. Evans, American dentist of the French court, had a particularly
favorable viewpoint for first hand facts, and in becoming Napoleon
III’s “eulogist and apologist” he finds “unusual opportunities of
observing the evolution of political ideas and institutions in France
and the conditions and causes that immediately preceded and determined
the fall of the second empire as seen from within.” (Critic.) The
first absolutely authentic account of Empress Eugénie’s flight from
France at the time of the Commune is furnished by Dr. Evans, who
himself aided in her escape.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1308. D. 16, ’05. 1470w.
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 829. D. 16. 1370w.
“Dr Evans made no pretension to literary ability, but at the same
time, if these ‘Memoirs’ are in his own words, he knew how to express
himself in an interesting and picturesque manner.” Jeannette L.
Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 82. Ja. ’06. 750w.
“It is evident that he could, did he choose, throw much light on the
history of the Empire and its fall. The present volume, intelligently
edited by his friend and executor, Dr. Crane, is ample evidence that
he has so chosen. The last [part] is the most interesting, the first
the least convincing.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 870w.
“His attempts at assuming political importance leave one unconvinced,
his judgments on men and things reveal more a mixture of naiveté and
self-importance than anything else, and yet there is a residium that
has some claim to attention.”
– + =Nation.= 82: 185. Mr. 1, ’06. 360w.
“It is interesting—it ought to be conclusive, but it is not, for some
reason.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 774. N. 18, ’05. 1390w.
“The book is thoroughly readable and quotable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ’05. 140w.
“The human personal interest in the notes and letters more than atones
for the lack of literary form.”
+ – =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 290w.
“His Memoirs lack both authority and charm.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 367. Mr. 24, ’06. 1570w.
“More ‘Memoirs’ of Dr. Evans may be published. It is to be hoped that
they will be as interesting as these, but editorially better
compressed.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 674. Ap. 28, ’06. 1640w.
=Evelyn, John.= Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, esq.; with the
life of the author by Henry B. Wheatley. 4v. *$12. Scribner.
The bicentenary of the death of John Evelyn has renewed interest in
the famous diarist who “by a prodigal accident” was a contemporary of
Samuel Pepys. This four-volume importation contains the diary of John
Evelyn, selections from his letters, a biographical sketch of the
author and a new preface.
* * * * *
“Mr. Wheatley’s edition is second only to his famous edition of
Pepys.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 165. Ag. 11. 570w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 451. D. 16, ’06. 370w.
“We may welcome an old favorite in its new dress, although we might
wish that the volumes were a trifle less bulky—and expensive.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 183. Ag. 30, ’06. 590w.
“The extreme dryness of the memoir, one may almost say, is a guarantee
of its authenticity, and in truth it is chiefly, as it almost had to
be, a summary of the diary itself.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 593. S. 29, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“This is undoubtedly the definitive edition of Evelyn’s ‘Diary’.”
+ + + =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 20w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 712. My. 5, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Everett, Grace W.= Hymn treasures. $1.25. Meth. bk.
It is the aim of this book to bring to light some of the hidden
treasures of hymnody and to show their worth. From the Magnificat and
the Benedictus sung by Mary and Zacharias, respectively, to the very
modern songs, the author writes interestingly about the makers of
hymns and their contributions.
=Ewald, Carl.= My little boy; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira
de Mattos. **$1. Scribner.
“Not often does the father of a little boy write his biography so
humorously, tenderly and sympathetically as does Carl Ewald, in
telling the story of his little son. The two are comrades, bound
together by many common interests and pursuits.... The little boy ...
teaches his father a few lessons, altho the wise man needs fewer than
most parents; and the little lad learns many lessons, as all boys and
girls must.... He must be taught strict honesty, and respect for the
rights of others. The father teaches these things as well as many
others, truthfulness, fidelity to a trust or to a promise, the cruelty
of race prejudice, in a way of his own, which is always sympathetic
and respectful of a child’s feelings.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“It is the sweetest biography we remember.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1163. My. 17, ’06. 390w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 90w.
=Eyre, Archibald.= Girl in waiting. $1.50. Luce.
“This story belongs to a class now prevalent in fiction, the short
extravaganza.” (Ath.) “This is an unpretentious tale of a rich girl
masquerading as a poor one and coming under suspicion as a dangerous
character. There is a young man in the case, of course, and
circumstances shape themselves, equally of course, to bring the two
together.” (Critic.)
* * * * *
“It does not lack the modern essentials of the genus—liveliness and
flippancy. As a whole its tone is not quite equal, as the airs of
comedy and farce are intermingled a little too crudely.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 324. Mr. 17. 90w.
“Mr. Eyre writes pleasantly and cleverly and enables the reader to
avoid ennui for an idle hour.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 60w.
“Taken all together ‘The girl in waiting’ is almost as good as some of
the things in the same line which have been done by Mr. Morley
Roberts. There’s a light touch, a venturesome spirit, an eye for human
oddities, not a little human sympathy, and a knack of kindly
caricature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 580w.
“A droll little comedy of misunderstanding, although beyond this
Archibald Eyre has produced an unusual story told in an unusual way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
=Eytinge, Rose.= Memories of Rose Eytinge. **80c; **$1.20. Stokes.
=Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 70w.
“The book abounds in interesting bits of reminiscence, anecdotes, and
incidents of public characters, with sidelights on their
idiosyncrasies,—forming the naïve chronicles and observation of over
half a century.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 96. F. 1, ’06. 190w.
“There are spirit and individuality in many of her comments upon
people.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
F
=Fairlie, John Archibald.= Local government in counties, towns and
villages. *$1.25. Century.
Uniform with the “American state series,” Dr. Fairlie’s work is mainly
descriptive of the present time, reducing historical discussion to a
brief summary. Such matters are treated as “county officers, police,
and justices; the town in New England, in the south and the west;
public education, charities, public health, and local finance in a
manner suited to the large mass of readers who approach such a subject
neither as lawyers nor as philosophers.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 60w.
“He gives a careful and businesslike presentation for the general
reader or the young person who wants to get the subject up for a
college course.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 241. S. 20, ’06. 200w.
“The usefulness of this work will be at once appreciated by any one
who has attempted to find an adequate treatment of this topic in
existing text-books.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 200w.
=Fairman, James Farquharson.= Standard telephone wiring for common
battery and magneto systems. *$1. McGraw pub.
A handbook for telephone men, containing diagrams of circuits for
straight lines, party lines, plans, sub-stations, private lines and
intercommunicating systems, with a brief description of the apparatus
used and rules of the fire underwriters.
* * * * *
“The book is intended primarily for telephone wiremen, and it appears
to be well adapted to their work.” H. H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 430. Ap. 12, ’06. 130w.
=Fairweather, Mary.= Passion stroke: a tale of ancient masonry. $1.50.
Badger, R: G.
A mystical tale of the strange passing of the Sibyl of Delphi-Pythia
and the high-priest, Hiereros of Delphi, and his dual personality. the
faun thru the two kingdoms of the flesh and of the mind to the great
third kingdom of life in love. The action centers about the time of
the burning of the ancient temple of Delphi.
Fairy stories; retold from St. Nicholas. **65c. Century.
Sixteen fairy tales in prose and rhyme, copyrighted all the way from
1874 to the present year appear here in an attractively illustrated
volume for young readers. Among them are Tinkey, The ten little
dwarfs, The king of the golden woods, Casperl, Giant Thunder Bones,
and How an elf set up housekeeping.
=Fanning, Clara E.=, comp. Selected articles on the enlargement of the
United States navy. *$1. Wilson, H. W.
Fifteen articles dealing with material on both sides of the question,
“Resolved that the policy of substantially enlarging the American navy
is preferable to the policy of maintaining it at its present strength
and efficiency” have been reprinted from various magazines to make up
this little volume. The result is a fund of information on the subject
which will prove valuable not only to the high school debating league
but will help all students, club members, or librarians who wish
information upon this subject in compact form. Articles by Captain
Mahan, John D. Long, Captain Hobson, and Rear Admiral George W.
Melville have been included.
=Fanshawe, Reginald.= Corydon: an elegy in memory of Matthew Arnold and
Oxford. *$1.80. Oxford.
In the 224 Spenserian stanzas which compose this tribute to Matthew
Arnold “The evolution of the intellectual life of Oxford during the
last sixty years is traced with knowledge and insight, and there is
some felicitous literary criticism by the way.... Though the elegy
abounds in memorable phrases ... depends for its success neither on
these nor on the beauty of individual stanzas, but rather on the
orderly progress of the closely knit thought and the sustained dignity
of the language.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 1: 663. Je. 2. 340w.
“Mr. Reginald Fanshaw has paid a heartfelt tribute to an institution,
a man and an intellectual epoch.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 65. Ag. 1, ’06. 330w.
“In passing from the programme to the performance itself the reader is
most pleasantly surprised to find it continuously informed by a mellow
poetic mood, and containing scarcely a lapse from suave and
accomplished workmanship. The tone is frankly academic and
traditional, and most successfully so. There is a lack of intensity,
of original poetic energy in the conception of this that makes against
its wide and enduring appeal.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 143. Ag. 16, ’06. 500w.
“He is a little inclined to a surfeit of epithets, but his verse is
orderly and musical, and he expresses gracefully many genuine, if not
very startling truths.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 90w.
=Fariss, Amy Cameron.= Sin of Saint Desmond. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
A tale of the loves of a will-o’-the-wisp girl who allows the marriage
with the man she does not love to bind her in no way to marital
allegiance. She finally enthrals a man of supposedly strong nature
known among his relations as “Saint Desmond.” The story is dramatic,
even tragic as it finds no better solution than making death a
punishment for waywardness.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 250w.
=Farmer, James Eugene.= Versailles and the court under Louis XIV.
*$3.50. Century.
“It has been a pleasure to read so historically accurate, and so
well-balanced a survey of the court of the Grand Monarque.” James
Westfall Thompson.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 658. Ap. ’06. 730w.
“The book is therefore likely to be of some value as a work of
reference, whilst it should also appeal to the general reader. The
index is unfortunately far from adequate; but we have seldom read a
book containing so much matter which was so free from printers’
errors.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 225. F. 24. 2050w.
“Altogether, this is an entertaining and instructive book, although
devoid of pretension to profound interpretations of the age of Louis
XIV.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 50. Ja. 16, ’06. 350w.
“In some descriptions Mr. Farmer goes dangerously near the language of
auctioneers. Though laborious and careful, Mr. Farmer has only
produced a guidebook of a very superior kind. A visitor to Versailles
could hardly read anything better.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 51. F. 16, ’06. 610w.
“One submits to the charm of narrative with the feeling that he is
resting on absolutely sure ground.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 249. F. 24, ’06. 600w.
“One could hardly ask for a more intimate life-like and exact picture
of the first gentleman of Europe and his time.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 565. Ap. ’06. 630w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“As it stands, it is half guide-book, half history and biography, and
so arranged that one finds it difficult to read through. Mr. Farmer’s
selections from the memoirs of the time are made with great judgment.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 713. My. 5, ’06. 1420w.
=Farnell, Louis Richard.= Evolution of religion: an anthropological
study. *$1.50. Putnam.
Two of the four lectures delivered in 1905 for the Hibbert trust deal
with the methods and the value of the study of comparative religion
and its relations to anthropology; the remaining two are special
studies in the anthropological manner, of the ritual of purification
and the evolution of prayer from lower to higher forms.
* * * * *
“It contains much that is suggestive and valuable, and the two
chapters on ritual purification and the evolution of prayer are real
contributions to the study of these important matters.”
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1258. D. 2, ’05. 320w.
“This first essay is essentially only a vindication of the comparative
study of religion. The remaining two essays are excellent specimens of
constructive work.” F. C. French.
+ + =J. Philos.= 3: 580. O. 11, ’06. 920w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 443. D. 15, ’05. 490w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 749. N. 4, ’05. 270w.
=Farquhar, Edward.= Poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
“A volume of somewhat remarkable verse not without promise of future
work, as ambitious in theme, and as widely speculative, yet with all
mature reflection and more disciplined regard for order.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 282. S. ’06. 110w.
=Farquhar, Edward.= Youth of Messiah. $1. Badger, R: G.
A poem which is based upon material supposed to have been found in an
ancient manuscript newly discovered.
=Farquhar, George.= Plays; ed. with an introd. and notes by William
Archer. *$1. Scribner.
An addition to the “Mermaid series.” The volume contains the
following, four plays: The constant couple, The town rivals, The
recruiting officer, and The beaux’ stratagem.
* * * * *
“Mr. Archer’s edition is, as would be expected, scholarly and
trustworthy.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 199. S. 1, ’06. 1970w.
“The ‘Mermaid’ texts are now issued in those thin-paper editions which
are the detestation of most good book-lovers.”
– =Nation.= 83: 200. S. 6, ’06. 100w.
=Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 60w.
=Farrer, Reginald J.= House of shadows. †$1.50. Longmans.
“Tempest Ladon, is a north-country squire of ancient lineage, who
marries a young Italian lady. Elena dies in giving birth prematurely
to a son, and leaves behind her a casket of love-letters written, she
says, to her husband, which he promises never to read. The son, St.
John, in his turn, marries a beautiful middle-class girl and brings
her home to his father, who hates her as she hates him. Meanwhile
Tempest discovers that he is dying of sarcoma, and is so afraid of
hell-fire if he commits suicide that he tries to persuade his son to
take the chances of damnation and kill him. Ultimately the
daughter-in-law is tempted into handing him the overdose which ends
him, but not before he has discovered that Elena’s letters were
written to an Italian cousin, who is the real father of St.
John.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“It is clever enough to make us hope that, when Mr. Farrer has read
more widely and thought more sanely, he may yet do good work.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 406. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.
“The characters are drawn with a vivid touch, but not one is genuinely
agreeable.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 324. My. 17. 250w.
“A book remarkable for its force and continuity.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 84. Mr. 9, ’06. 480w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 240w.
=Fawcett, Mrs. Millicent Garrett (Mrs. Henry Fawcett.)= Five famous
French women. $2. Cassell.
Five character studies of French women “of intellect who were born to
hold the reins of power.” (Acad.) They are Joan of Arc, Renée, Duchess
of Ferrara. Louise of Savoy, her daughter, Margaret of Angoulême and
Jeanne d’Albrét, queen of Navarre.
* * * * *
“The studies suffer from weak construction, but they are interesting.
The style is clear, with a certain cheerful colloquialism which is
rather unexpected.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 352. Ap. 14, ’06. 950w.
“It is a little difficult to determine what kind of public she has in
view. Evidences of carelessness in proof-reading are somewhat
numerous.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 892. D. 30. 280w.
“As Mrs. Fawcett’s standpoint is a non-Catholic one, she expresses
some opinions with which we cannot agree; and she hardly applies the
same weights and measures to the Catholic and Huguenot.”
– =Cath. World.= 84: 106. O. ’06. 430w.
“The author is to be congratulated ... for having brought very near to
modern appreciation a series of remarkable characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 309. My. 12, ’06. 680w.
=Fechner, Gustav Theodor.= On life after death, from the German by Hugo
Wernekke. **75c. Open ct.
“This is a new edition of a book too little known in this country. The
author, a professor of physics in the University of Leipsic ... is at
once a scientist and a poet.... His fundamental postulate is the
continuity of life, and it will commend itself alike to the student of
the New Testament and the student of philosophy.... The biographical
sketch of the author which is appended to the volume adds to its
interest and serves to interpret it.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
Reviewed by W. C. Keirstead.
=Am. J. Soc.= 10: 556. Jl. ’06. 120w.
“Dr. Wernekke’s [translation] is the more literal, but Miss
Wadsworth’s reads more smoothly.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1597. Je. 28, ’06. 360w.
“The chief defect of the book is its tone of assurance, the author’s
fancies being affirmed with the same positiveness as if they were
scientific observations of philosophical deductions.”
– + =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 190w.
=Outlook.= 83: 357. Je. 16, ’06. 1210w.
=Fenollosa, Mary McNeil (Mrs. Ernest F. Fenollosa) (Sidney McCall,
pseud.).= Dragon painter. †$1.50. Little.
The depth of feeling which the Japanese of the passing generation hold
for Japan and the art that has always been hers is strongly brought
out in this story of Kano Indara, the last of a line of great artists,
who views with terror the encroachments of western art. He hears of
Tatsu, the wild mountain dragon painter and, in his deathless longing
for an artist-son, he sends for him and gives to him his daughter
Umè-Ko that he may be indeed his son, and also because he could not
hold him otherwise, for the youth has painted his dragon-pictures
merely because his soul was filled with a longing for the dragon-maid,
his mate thruout all incarnations. When he finds her in Kano’s
daughter his great love absorbs the artist in him and Kano, who lives
for art alone, in his rage and disappointment takes the young wife
from her too-loving husband until, from the depths of his great grief
and agony of spirit, the artist in him once more emerges, then she is
restored to him as from the dead.
* * * * *
“In our judgment ‘The dragon painter’ is far inferior as a novel to
either ‘Truth Dexter’ or ‘The breath of the gods.’”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 686. D. ’06. 530w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1494. D. 20, ’06. 590w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“One does not need to have had any personal experience in the land of
which Mrs. Fenollosa writes in order to be perfectly certain that
these pages give a truthful picture of Japanese domestic life and a
faithful revelation of the inner depths of Japanese feeling—not one of
those specious translations of Japan in terms of modern ‘Westernism.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 650w.
=Field, Horace, and Bunney, Michael.= English domestic architecture of
the XVII. and XVIII. centuries. *$15. Macmillan.
The authors of this volume on domestic architecture in England in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries “have provided examples of
smaller buildings, with their measurements and different views of
them, besides an introduction and many full notes. There are about 100
illustrations, including half-tone full, double, and half page plates,
drawings, diagrams, etc. The introduction contains a resume of the
history of the English domestic architecture followed by a chapter on
‘The renaissance evolution in England,’ and then by descriptions of
the houses presented.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 280w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 274. My. ’06. 310w.
“The matter of this text is perfectly well thought out and expressed.
The book is a valuable one from every point of view.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 144. F. 15, ’06. 870w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 44. Ja. 20, ’06. 270w.
=Fielding, Henry.= Selected essays, ed. by Gordon Hall Gerould. *60c.
Ginn.
“The editor has evidently profited by consulting the best critical
comment on his author, and his introduction is both full and
interesting.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 231. S. 9. 190w.
=Finberg, Alexander J.= English water color painters. *75c. Dutton.
“About two dozen artists are considered in Mr. Finberg’s little book
on the water-color painters of England and forty-two half-tone
reproductions of their works are included.... The names include those
of Samuel Scott, a marine and landscape painter; Paul Sandby,
sometimes called the ‘Father of the English school of water color;’
Thomas Hearne, accomplished also as a draughtsman; Alexander and John
Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Turner, Rowlandson, Blake, Cotman, Cox, Prout,
Ford Madox Brown, Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Fred Walker, and others.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
“An admirable and instructive essay, which it is a pleasure to read,
even where one is bound to disagree with it.” T. Sturge Moore.
+ – =Acad.= 70: 497. My. 26, ’06. 1160w.
“Is really a model short treatise.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 140w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 427. My. 24, ’06. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 190w.
“Both in text and illustration the little book is extremely valuable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.
=Finck, Henry Theophilus.= Edvard Grieg. *$1. Lane.
Volume eight in the “Living masters of music” series is the first book
in English on the life and personality of this famous Norwegian
composer. “An invalid, he has lived in seclusion in the Far North; a
successful pianist, conductor, and composer almost from the beginning
of his career, happily married to a cousin who could not only inspire
but interpret his songs—in spite of some dark years and some
inevitable shadows, he stands for us in the sun; largely as to his
career, wholly and radiantly as to his warm personality. The
photographs of him from the fifteen-year-old boy to the sixty-year-old
man ... are full of charm and of a winning quality that fit absolutely
into the character of his music.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“There is much new material relating to the personal side of the
composer.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“A sound and sympathetic study of this great son of the North.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 270w.
“The book is charmingly written, is entertaining from cover to cover,
and is sure to become popular with all music lovers. Mr. Finck has the
gift of the true biographer, of nowhere obtruding his own
personality.” Joseph Sohn.
+ + =Forum.= 37: 526. Ap. ’06. 480w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 200. F. 10, ’06. 710w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 184. Mr. 1, ’06. 1560w.
“Mr. Finck’s book is an attempt to place him in the very forefront of
modern composers. There are interesting biographical details in the
book.” Richard Aldrich.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 750w.
“In spite of this attitude of fierce worshiper, Mr. Finck has written
a very readable as well as useful book. He has succeeded in the first
place in filling it with personality. He has, in the second place,
brought together much information about Grieg, some old and some new,
which has not before been easily accessible.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 520. Mr. 3, ’06. 210w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 130w.
=Findlater, Jane Helen.= Ladder to the stars. †$1.50. Appleton.
The author “depicts a young woman whose relatives are housekeepers,
commercial travelers, clerks, as sex or circumstances decree; and she
invests her with spiritual ambitions with which the local minister
cannot cope; with social aspirations unintelligible in a circle where
human society means nothing beyond class-strata; and with intellectual
ideals that cannot be shared by those in whose eyes ‘two years at Mrs.
Clumper’s’ are synonymous with a liberal education.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 375. O. 13, ’06. 160w.
“Her picture of middle-class life in a country town is admirably
incisive and humorous, and at the same time free from ill-nature. The
character of her heroine is less satisfactory.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 340w.
“The writer leaves us with a feeling that the ideas which she
attributes to her heroine are her own; in other words, the illusion is
incomplete. If it had been otherwise the book would have been a
triumph of art; as it is, we have a comedy of manners, wise, kindly,
and incisive.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 338. O. 5, ’06. 380w.
“In spite of its stilted and sometimes unreal heroine and its several
impossible incidents, it will certainly be the exceptional reader who
will not find himself very much interested and amused.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 684. O. 20, ’06. 710w.
“The story, of course, is open to the criticism common to all stories
which turn on the literary ability of their characters, that the
author can give no proof of this ability, and that the reader has to
take it on trust.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 404. S. 22, ’06. 280w.
=Firth, Charles Harding.= Plea for the historical teaching of history:
an inaugural lecture delivered on November 9, 1904. *35c. Oxford.
+ =Nation.= 82: 388. My. 10, ’06. 880w.
=Firth, John Benjamin.= Constantine, the first Christian emperor.
**$1.35; **$1.60. Putnam.
“On the side of institutions, however, the book is distinctly weak.”
Charles H. Haskins.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 432. Ja. ’06. 370w.
=Fischer, Louis.= Health-care of the baby: a handbook for mothers and
nurses. *75c. Funk.
Under Part 1, General hygiene of the infant, the author gives chapters
upon bathing, clothing, training, etc. Part 2, Infant feeding, treats
of the various methods of feeding and of infant foods. Part 3.
Miscellaneous diseases and emergencies, includes a detailed treatment
of the various children’s diseases and a chapter upon accidents.
* * * * *
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 40w.
=Fisguill, Richard, pseud. (Richard H. Wilson).= Venus of Cadiz. †$1.50.
Holt.
“Read him sympathetically and he will reward you with the next best
thing to tears,—a laugh.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 170w.
=Fish, Carl Russell.= Civil service and the patronage. *$2. Longmans.
+ =Ind.= 60: 799. Ap. 5, ’06. 310w.
“A careful and useful historical study.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 55. Ja. 18, ’06. 350w.
+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 330. N. ’06. 440w.
=Fisher, Clarence Stanley.= Excavations at Nippur; plans, details, and
photographs of the buildings, with numerous objects found in them during
the excavations of 1889, 1890, 1893–1896, 1899–1900 with descriptive
text by Clarence S. Fisher. (Babylonian expedition of the Univ. of
Penn.) 6 pts. ea. pt. $2. C. S. Fisher, Rutledge, Delaware co., Pa.
“The entire work comprises some two hundred large folio pages of
topographical introduction and descriptive text, abundantly
illustrated with cuts and photographs, including some splendid
full-page photogravures, besides many folding lithographic plates
giving plans and details of the buildings.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Altogether we may heartily congratulate both the University and Mr.
Fisher on the first part of a book, which bids fair to be a most
valuable contribution to science. We have noticed some typographical
errors ... but these are trifles.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 340. S. 22. 1520w. (Review of pt. 1.)
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 685. Mr. 22, ’06. 1450w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Fisher certainly deserves great credit for the manner in which he
has exhibited the topographical and culture development of Nippur and
its temple. In this regard his work constitutes an important
contribution to Babylonian archæology, and scholars will await with
interest the publication of the remaining five parts, in which, it is
to be hoped, more care will be bestowed on the proof reading of the
descriptive text.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 308. Ap. 12, ’06. 740w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Outlook.= 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Fitch, (William) Clyde.= Climbers: a play in four acts. **75c.
Macmillan.
A new volume in the published edition of the plays of Mr. Fitch. The
climbers, which had a considerable degree of success on the stage, is
not only a clever satire upon the social climber but contains some
well-devised situations, which, altho they lose some of their
effectiveness in book form, make good reading.
* * * * *
“No other play of this author that we have seen so well bears the test
of print.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 36. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 92. Ja. 13, ’06. 50w.
=Fitch, (William) Clyde.= Girl with the green eyes. **75c. Macmillan.
The first appearance in book form of Mr. Fitch’s four-act play.
* * * * *
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 743. Je. 16. 80w.
“While far from being a distinguished illustration of the literary
drama, the play reads very well—possibly better than it sounds when
acted.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 70w.
“Many passages in this smart piece read well, and the study of
feminine jealousy it involves has not been surpassed since Colman’s
‘Jealous wife.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ’05. 200w.
=Fitch, William Edwards.= Some neglected history of North Carolina,
including the battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American
revolution. $2. Neale.
“The value of the book lies wholly in the original documents reprinted
from the North Carolina Records.” Theodore Clark Smith.
+ – =Atlan.= 98: 705. N. ’06. 210w.
=Fitchett, William Henry.= Unrealized logic of religion; a study in
credibilities. *$1.25. Eaton.
The author deals with a wide field, and apparently with unrelated
subjects, but his object is to show that “when widely separated points
in literature, history, science, philosophy and common life are tried
by their relation to religion they instantly fall into logical terms
with it.” Under the headings: History; Science; Philosophy;
Literature; Spiritual life; and Common life he discusses such subjects
as; The logic of the missionary; of our relation to nature; of the
infinitesimal; of human speech; of answered prayers; of unproved
negatives; and of half-knowledge, in which he gives “examples of the
innumerable correspondences which link the spiritual and secular
realms together.”
* * * * *
“It is a very strong book. The author has read widely, thought deeply
and knows his ground thoroly.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 823. O. 4, ’06. 170w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 248. F. 17, ’06. 820w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
“That the words ‘logic’ and ‘logical’ are the most applicable to his
reasonings we certainly doubt. A few pages of his book suggest the
obvious criticism that there is much more of rhetoric than logic in
it. The pertinence of the criticism may be concerned, but it does not
derogate from the value of the work.”
+ + – =Spec.= 95: 930. D. 2, ’05. 1640w.
=Fitz, George Wells, and Fitz, Rachel Kent.= Problems of babyhood;
building a constitution, forming a character. **$1.25. Holt.
This two-fold study of the controllable aspects of child development
furnishes conclusions reached from the standpoint of the physician,
the teacher, the mother and the father. “It is hoped that thru its
frank and practical treatment of some of the many problems presented
by parenthood it may give courage to withstand the criticism of
tradition and convention, strength to resist the modern tendency to
indulgence, faith to fight for the child’s birthright of a sane mind
in a sane body.”
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 70w.
“There is an air of authority, based on experience and the
unmistakable certificate of good common sense about ‘Problems of
babyhood.’”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 90w.
=FitzGerald, Edward.= Euphranor: a dialogue on youth. *75c. Lane.
“Many will read this charming reprint of a forgotten book not for its
educational, but for its literary charm, for in it FitzGerald proved
himself a master of the two crafts.”
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1330. D. 23, ’05. 950w.
=Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington.= Sir Henry Irving: a biography. **$3.
Jacobs.
Mr. Fitzgerald’s biography was published during Irving’s life time.
This issue includes ten years of added happenings, making it a
complete sketch.
* * * * *
“There is still room, however, for a full critical account of Irving
the actor.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 384. D. 1, ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Fitzgerald’s volume will hardly be a rival of Bram Stoker’s more
elaborated and formal one. At the same time, it has a value that is
quite its own.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w.
“It would be better if it were a little more conservative and little
less discursive.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 398. N. 8, ’06. 890w.
“We commend Mr. Fitzgerald’s biography of Irving to persons who want a
handsome book about a great actor, containing the story of his life,
told in a kindly way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 724. N. 3, ’06. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 757. D. ’06. 180w.
=Spec.= 96: 505. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.
=Fitzgerald, Sybil.= In the track of the Moors. *$6. Dutton.
“Ranging over wide fields of knowledge, it betrays ignorance which
should have deterred the writer ... from venturing anywhere near them.
Solecisms are sown so thickly that the charitable supposition of
printer’s errors cannot cover half the sins. Nevertheless, the writer
has observed many things truly, and said some things well.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 46. F. 9, ’06. 590w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 170w.
=Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty.= Life of Granville. 2v. $10.
Longmans.
“In every way very competent for it, the biographer has done his work
sympathetically.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 666. Ap. ’06. 2350w.
=Blackwood’s M.= 178: 792. D. ’05. 6660w.
“This is not only an interesting and readable book, but, as indeed was
to be expected, a permanently valuable contribution to our political
history.” Augustine Birrell.
+ + + =Contemporary R.= 88: 769. D. ’05. 6100w.
“It is not, I may add, too political for the reading of any American
who loves to read of the history of his own time in England written so
absolutely from the inside as is this.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ =Critic.= 48: 354. Ap. ’06. 1210w.
“If these two portly volumes cannot lay claim to full equality of
style and political insight to John Morley’s monumental work on
Gladstone, among the lives of the statesmen of the Victorian era, they
may be ranked second, with Charles Stuart Parker’s ‘Sir Robert Peel’
forming a close third.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 741. Mr. 24, ’06. 1090w.
“A work of immense importance in its bearing upon the history of
England from 1850 to 1890.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 120w.
“The biographer has done his work well. American readers will find
amusement as well as instruction in this excellent biography.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 224. Mr. 15, ’06. 2090w.
=Flammarion, Nicolas Camille.= Thunder and lightning; tr. by Walter
Mostyn. **$1.25. Little.
An abridged form of the French work discussing the victim of
lightning, atmospheric electricity, the flash and the sound; giving
the effect of lightning on mankind, animals, trees and plants, metals,
objects, houses, etc.; showing the curious freaks of fireballs, and
concluding with a chapter on pictures made by lightning.
* * * * *
“The translation is exceedingly well done, and we have noticed but one
mistake.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 364. Mr. 24. 440w.
=Dial.= 40: 331. My. 16, ’06. 410w.
“Apart from the above mentioned differences the English translation is
well done, and will be found very interesting reading.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 196. D. 28, ’05. 210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 397. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Seems less concerned to explain the marvelous occurrences by
recognized laws than to startle the reader and convince him that there
is much that is inexplicable in electricity.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
=Fleming, John Ambrose.= Principles of electric wave telegraphy. *$6.60.
Longmans.
A treatise based to a large extent upon the author’s Cantor lectures
delivered before the Society of arts in London. It is a three part
work treating respectively of electric oscillations, electric waves,
and electric wave telegraphy.
* * * * *
“The book seems destined to occupy the same place in the field of
oscillatory currents as the author’s work on the ‘Alternating current
transformer’ did in the field of ordinary alternating currents. It is
a book deserving the careful attention of the student, of the
physicist, and of the engineer, as well as of the telegrapher.” Samuel
Sheldon.
+ + =Engin. N.= 56: 54. Jl. 12, ’06. 530w.
“In Dr. Fleming’s book is to be found a treatment of the subject which
is exhaustive and thorough both on the theoretical and practical
sides. It is a book which has been wanted and will be warmly
welcomed.” Maurice Solomon.
+ + + =Nature.= 74: 291. Jl. 26, ’06. 490w.
=Fleming, Walter Lynwood.= Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama.
**$5. Macmillan.
“Prof. Fleming’s aim is to trace the course of the civil war in his
native state ... particularly in its political and social aspects,
from its beginning to the breaking down of reconstruction in 1874....
The book is divided into six sections, treating consecutively:
“Secession,” “War times in Alabama,” “The aftermath of war,”
“Presidential restoration,” “Congressional reconstruction,” and
“Carpetbag and negro rule.” All these phases of the theme are
discussed freely and with a wealth of detail and fullness of
bibliography that must delight the student’s heart. The general reader
will also find much that is new, many a story or party episode told in
such a way as to be truly illuminating.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The author’s sympathies are decidedly with the South, but the work is
free from bitterness or prejudice, and is on the whole as impartial an
account as one can expect from any writer on this subject.” William O.
Scroggs.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 943. Jl. ’06. 570w.
“The spirit in which this book is written and the personal equation of
the writer are fairly open to criticism. On the whole, the author is
to be commended for a scholarly and critical treatment of a most
highly important historical epoch.” Charles C. Pickett.
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 430. Mr. ’06. 1130w.
“The most comprehensive and valuable work of this kind that has yet
been written.” James Wilford Garner.
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 150. Mr. 1, ’06. 1040w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Professor Fleming’s method, for scientific precision and efficiency,
could hardly be surpassed, even by a guillotine. Nevertheless, we
consider this volume a very important contribution to the history of
its period.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 349. Ap. 26, ’06. 1910w.
“It is diffuse, poorly arranged, notwithstanding the elaborate scheme
or outline presented in the table of contents. In this the
subdivisions seem to be so minute as to become a source of
embarrassment to the author. Another difficulty closely allied to this
one is the frequent repetition of the same ideas. But despite these
blemishes—important though they be—the book is eminently worth while.
It is a magazine of information for the general reader.” William E.
Dodd.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 34. Ja. 20, ’06. 1440w.
“An admirable, piece of work.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 400w.
Reviewed by David Miller DeWitt.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 535. S. ’06. 1800w.
=Fletcher, Ella Adelia.= Philosophy of rest. 75c. Dodge.
The philosophy of rest is preached in four peaceful little essays
which this tranquil philosopher calls; The unrest of our day, The
cultivation of soul-force, The ministrations of nature and silence,
and To conserve force.
=Flint, Robert.= Socialism. **$2. Lippincott.
A reprint of the work brought out in 1894. “As becomes its author,
‘Socialism’ is a philosophical essay upon cardinal points of doctrine,
and does not deal with the history and present position of socialistic
speculation or agitation.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1058. N. 1, ’06. 580w.
=Nation.= 83: 348. O. 25, ’06. 80w.
=Outlook.= 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 240w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= The saint (Il santo): authorized tr.; with introd.
by W. R. Thayer. †$1.50. Putnam.
“Piero Maironi, a young Brescian, is summoned from an intrigue with a
married woman ... to the deathbed of his wife.... In the little church
adjoining the asylum Maironi has a vision which alters the whole
course of his life. He leaves the world and adopts the name of
Benedetto, but remains a layman and joins no religious order. Driven
from the monastery ... he goes forth to preach to the people and is
hailed by the peasants as a saint and a miracle-worker. He disclaims
miraculous power; and a sick man, who is brought to him to be healed,
dies under his roof.... Naturally Benedetto is discarded by his
ignorant followers.... And he goes to Rome, where he becomes the
leader of a movement for the reform of the church. Naturally, again he
comes into conflict with ecclesiastical authority, and ... he is
relentlessly pursued by Vatican intrigue ... is practically turned
into the streets, but is taken in by an agnostic professor ... in
whose house he dies, apparently a failure but foretelling with undying
faith the triumph of his cause in the person of his disciples.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The English version reads fairly well as a piece of English, but as a
translation it is not satisfactory and the author’s meaning is often
inadequately represented or even distorted. But it will give the
English reader a very fair idea of the book as a whole, and he will
miss nothing essential.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 38. Jl. 14, ’06. 1090w.
“One feels compelled to protest against any confusion of the greatness
of ‘Il santo’ as a piece of brilliant polemics, a powerful theological
brief, with its worth as a novel. Frankly, it is not a great novel; it
is too defective in technique, it lacks on the one hand the rugged
simplicity of Verga, on the other the melodious rhythm and artistic
proportions of d’Annunzio. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most
interesting human documents that have come from Italy in the last
quarter century.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 261. N. ’06. 1760w.
“Very acceptable English version now given us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 281. N. 1, ’06. 1180w.
=Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“Fogazzaro’s Italian is not the highly poetical medium manipulated by
Gabriele d’Annunzio. It is saner, simpler, and more direct, while the
wide sympathy, kindness of heart, and light, wholesome humor of
Fogazzaro incite, maintain, and develop the reader’s respect.” Walter
Littlefield.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 496. Ag. 11, ’06. 2800w.
“The book has gained a place of power among the factors of coming
change.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 283. S. 29, ’06. 1430w.
“It appeals to the intelligence and to the religious instincts on
every page.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 224. N. ’06. 340w.
“This task [to illustrate in the guise of romance, with a modern St.
Francis of Assisi as its central figure, the four ‘spirits of evil’]
has been achieved by Signor Fogazzaro with such eloquence, and yet
such reverence and restraint, that the action of the Curia in
proscribing his work is little short of the inexplicable.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 1043. Je. 30, ’06. 900w.
=Folsom, Justus Watson.= Entomology, with special reference to its
biological and economic aspects. *$3. Blakiston.
Although planned primarily for the student this volume is intended
also for the general reader, and gives “a comprehensive and concise
account of insects.” As a rule only the commonest kinds of insects are
referred to in the text, in order that the reader may easily use the
text as a guide to personal observation. The anatomy of insects, their
physiology, color, relations to plants, other animals, and man, their
behavior, distribution, etc., are fully treated and the volume is
profusely illustrated and has a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“It is well adapted to general readers who want books on insects more
advanced than the small popular works.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 120w.
“It easily takes rank not only with the best treatises on entomology,
but among those which modern zoological science has produced. The
author’s style is simple, concise, and lucid. His treatment of other
writers is uniformly generous and just.”
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 206. S. 6, ’06. 990w.
“Here is an abundance of practically useful as well as interesting
knowledge.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 814. Ag. 4, ’06. 250w.
“The style is never prolix, and although verbal infelicities are
rather too frequent, the meaning is rarely obscure. The book as a
whole is excellent, and will be most useful to the general student.”
J. G. N.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 589. N. 9, ’06. 730w.
=Forbush, Rev. William Byron.= Boys’ life of Christ. **$1.25. Funk.
The author has made a strong appeal to boys thru this vivid and
natural biography of Jesus. His aim is “to show the manly, heroic,
chivalric, intensely real, and vigorously active qualities of Jesus,”
to approach the divine Jesus thru the human greatness.
* * * * *
“The author of this work has written one of the most fascinating
stories for the young, apart from all consideration of the subject,
that we have read in years.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 221. F. ’06. 280w.
“It is remarkably well done.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 100w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 50w.
=Ford, Ellis A.= Challenge of the spirit. **30c. Crowell.
A monograph whose keynote is sounded in the following: “Life itself is
revelation,” says Mr. Ford, “in all that I myself have felt or have
known through watching others I find the triumph of spirit over sense,
the gain on things unseen through the instrumentality of the seen.”
=Ford, Richard.= Letters of Richard Ford. 1797–1858; ed. by Rowland E.
Prothero. *$3.50. Dutton.
Mr. Ford’s letters are filled with the inimitable humor that made his
guide book to Spain so popular. These letters written in 1830 from
Spain to Henry Unwin Addington, then British minister to Madrid,
“convey in piquant language Mr. Ford’s first impressions of ‘an
original peculiar people, potted for six centuries.’” (Ath.) The
editor says “To the artist, the historian, the sportsman, and the
antiquary, to the student of dialects, the observer of manners and
customs, the lover of art, the man of sentiment, Spain in 1830 offered
an enchanting field, an almost untrodden Paradise. In Ford all these
interests were combined, not merely as tastes, but as enthusiasms.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Prothero’s connecting narrative is skilful and clear.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 389. Mr. 31. 870w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 265. Ap. 16, ’06. 360w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 64. F. 23, ’06. 950w.
“A graceful but slight book. Only the ghost of Ford has passed into
these pages.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 492. Je. 14, ’06. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 256. Ap. 21, ’06. 650w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 40w.
“Excellent letters ... edited with the utmost discretion.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 1038. D. 16, ’05. 1290w.
=Fordham, Elias Pym.= Personal narrative of travels in Virginia,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky; and of a residence in
Illinois territory, 1817–1818; ed. with notes, introd. and index by
Frederick Austin Ogg. *$3. Clark, A. H.
This manuscript, hitherto unpublished was written anonymously in
1817–18 by a young Englishman who assisted Morris Birkbeck in
establishing his Illinois settlement. The journeys are “rich in
personalia of early settlers, remarks on contemporary history and
politics, state of trade, agriculture, prices, and information on
local history not obtainable elsewhere ... and make accessible to
historical students much new and important material.”
* * * * *
“It might be added that Mr. Ogg’s prefatory description of the
westward movement during this period, showing the economic condition
of both Old and New World under which Fordham made his tour and his
observations, is as interesting as anything Fordham wrote.” Edwin E.
Sparks.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 150. O. ’06. 4420w.
Reviewed by Theodore Clarke Smith.
=Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 60w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 357. Je. 2, ’06. 140w.
“It is a most enjoyable narrative, and of real historical importance.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 100w.
“The volume contains much new material on the local history of the
region over which Fordham’s travels extended.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 100w.
=Foreman, John.= Philippine islands. *$6. Scribner.
This third edition of Mr. Foreman’s “Political, geographical,
ethnographical, social, and commercial history of the Philippine
archipelago, embracing the whole period of Spanish rule with an
account of the succeeding American insular government” is not only
revised and enlarged but contains several chapters upon our
administration in the Philippines since February 6, 1899, not found in
the earlier editions. The volume is abundantly illustrated.
* * * * *
“Jumble of facts and fancies, information and misinformation.”
– =Ind.= 61: 514. Ag. 30, ’06. 980w.
“Such a work as this is of scant value to anyone.”
– =Nation.= 83: 201. S. 6, ’06. 350w.
“The author’s knowledge is so broad and complete that even his
criticisms (and he does criticise) are likely not to be resented. The
work fulfills all that is implied in its sub-title; it is so complete
that it is not possible adequately to catalogue its contents in a
short notice.” George R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 561. S. 15, ’06. 2230w.
=Forman, Justus Miles.= Buchanan’s wife. †$1.50. Harper.
Beatrix Buchanan, for two years married to a man whom she does not
love, finds her lot unbearable. The “droop to her mouth” reveals the
state of her mind and incidentally betrays the fact that she had not
made the way all sunshine for her husband. Grown cynical and harsh,
with the “desperately shy sweetness” entirely crushed having nothing
to nourish it, Buchanan disappears one night from the world. The day
of Beatrix’ happiness must dawn. She tricks the man she loves by
purposely lying when called to identify a body resembling her husband.
After her marriage a little “gray tramp” steps into her rose garden
with mind as well as lungs gone. It is the pitiable shadow of her
husband and in her misery she ministers to him till death. The story
is one of a woman’s will dramatically expressed.
* * * * *
“A preposterous yarn, which has little power to arouse sympathy, and
which depends for its effects upon trickiness and crude melodrama.”
Wm. M. Payne.
– =Dial.= 41: 242. O. 16, ’06. 200w.
“Really a most remarkable tale, told in a forked lightning literary
style, that is very shocking to the reader’s nerves.”
– – =Ind.= 61: 939. O. 18, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Forman’s new novel has a rather sensational flavor.”
– + =Lit. D.= 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 400w.
“Nothing and nobody within the covers of the book could possibly have
happened; all the same it does grip one’s interest.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 519. Ag. 25, ’06. 210w.
“The weakness of the book lies in its confusion of two literary
methods, one objective and melodramatic, the other an analysis of
character and its development.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 140. S. 15, ’06. 190w.
=Forman, Samuel Eagle.= Advanced civics: the spirit, the form, and the
functions of the American government. *$1.25. Century.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 643. F. ’06. 120w.
“It offers to the student a large mass of information, clearly
expressed, and free from the inaccuracies so common in text books on
civics.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 90w.
“A valuable handbook for every American citizen, an interesting guide
into the field of politics, and an inspiring counselor to duty.”
Edward E. Hill.
+ + =School R.= 23: 384. My. ’06. 890w.
=Forrest, Rev. David William.= Authority of Christ. *$2. Scribner.
“The thesis is that Jesus is not to be regarded as authority in
matters of literary criticism, to determine the authorship of a Psalm
or to decide whether the stories about Abraham are legendary or
historical, but that his authority consists purely in his ‘final
revelation of religious truth and practice, of “what man is to believe
concerning God, and what duties God requires of man.”’”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Has something of the heaviness which characterizes doctrinal
discussions of the older sort. The second chapter of the book,
however, on ‘The legitimate extension of Christ’s authority,’ is a
valuable bit of arrangement.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1057. N. 1, ’06. 200w.
+ – =Nation.= 83: 37. Jl. 12, ’06. 250w.
“Dr. Forrest is careful to give a logical completeness to his
treatment of his subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 643. Ap. 28, ’06. 430w.
=Fosdick, Lucian J.= French blood in America. **$2. Revell.
The first portion of her work is devoted to a survey of the Huguenots
prior to their coming to America. Then follow an account of the
unsuccessful attempts to found Huguenot colonies in North America, and
the story of the beginnings at Plymouth, New Amsterdam, and Virginia.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 208. O. ’06. 40w.
“The purpose of the whole is to exalt the part played by Huguenot
exiles and their descendants, but the claims advanced are so boundless
and the critical ability displayed so slender as to provoke
incredulity.” Theodore Clarke Smith.
– + =Atlan.= 98: 703. N. ’06. 90w.
“By reason of loose arrangement, repetition and undiscriminating
admiration we lose a notable chapter of American history. In this wide
field, Mr. Fosdick has worked with enthusiasm, tho not with care.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 450w.
“Mr. Fosdick appears to have no sense whatever of historical
objectivity. Apart from its anxiety to prove too much this book is a
useful recapitulation of what has been accomplished in the United
States by people of French Protestant origin.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 171. Ag. 23, ’06. 530w.
“Mr. Fosdick’s book does not rank in scholarship with Douglas
Campbell’s almost forgotten book, but it is as good as some other
books of ‘claimings’ and will hold its own for some time to come.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 358. Je. 2, ’06. 280w.
“The defects of the book are so serious that we cannot recommend it
either as an authoritative or interesting contribution to its
subject.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 528. Je. 30, ’06. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 130w.
“We cannot help thinking that the book might have been ordered; but it
was worth writing, and is certainly worth reading.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 174. Ag. 4, ’06. 290w.
=Foster, George Burman.= Finality of the Christian religion. *$4. Univ.
of Chicago press.
Following an introduction and an historical two parts; “Christianity
as authority-religion,” and “Christianity as religion of the moral
consciousness of man.” In the first section the rise, development, and
disintegration of Christianity as authority-religion is
historico-critically traced. In the second section, Christianity as
religion of the moral consciousness is defined in antithesis to the
extremes of naturalism and clericalism.
* * * * *
“Taken altogether, his style has so little in common with the ordinary
usage of British and American theologians that it is not transparent
enough to make the reading of the book a pleasure, unless it be to the
narrowest specialist. What ... is the secret of Professor Foster’s
success? Plainly, it is the vitality of his constructive idea, and the
earnest, almost passionate, manner in which he works out its
legitimate outline. He has neglected no important work upon any phase
of his subject.” Andrew C. Zenos.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 529. Jl. ’06. 3190w.
“He is too closely dependent upon particular German writers.” P.
Gardner.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 535. Jl. ’06. 2100w.
“From the standpoint of a layman, I must confess that the book seems
to me too much elaborated in many places.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 324. My. 16, ’06. 530w.
“It is the gravest defect of Professor Foster’s work that he has so
much to say by way of approach to his subject, and so little, in
proportion, on the subject itself.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 926. Ap. 19, ’06. 1220w.
=Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 484. Mr. 31, ’06. 1500w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 573. Ap. 14, ’06. 810w.
“Dr. Foster’s argument is close and learned; not easy to read, but to
be studied and pondered over.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 370w.
“Both in source and substance this is a significant book, though
opening no line of thought quite new.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 86. My. 12, ’06. 850w.
=Foster, John Watson.= Practice of diplomacy. **$3. Houghton.
The audience reached in this work is mainly that made up of men in the
diplomatic service of the nation, and the author discusses in an
informing manner the utility of the diplomatic service, the duties of
diplomats and their rank qualifications, the consular service, the
negotiation and framing of treaties, arbitration and international
claims.
* * * * *
“His style is so simple and his chapters are so enlivened with
interesting incidents and sensible criticisms that even readers
entirely unfamiliar with diplomatic work will have no difficulty in
understanding and enjoying him.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1287. N. 29, ’06. 790w.
“Tho technical in part as setting forth the rules and procedure of
diplomatic intercourse, it has been prepared for the general reader
and, needless to say, it has the literary distinction which
characterizes the works of this experienced and able writer on
diplomacy.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
=Fountain, Paul.= Eleven eaglets of the west. **$3. Dutton.
The “eleven eaglets” of the title are the states or territories of
California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah,
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. The work “is the record of
several journeys made by the author in the days when the Wild West
was, with a few exceptions, still a wilderness. He travelled with a
strong party, and was usually, if not always, accompanied by a waggon,
which, with infinite labour and astonishing success, was dragged
through forests, over rocky heights, and across sandy deserts.... [The
book] will have permanent interest as an account of the extreme West
as it was forty years ago.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“He tells the story of his adventures in a simple, straightforward
way, but the conclusions which he sometimes draws from them are not
altogether convincing.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 419. Ap. 7. 450w.
“The pictures which he presents of the western states which have
already changed so greatly are assuredly worthy of preservation.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 140w.
“Any one unfamiliar with that section of the continent would carry
away from the perusal of his book a most confused impression of its
geographical features, and of either its past or its present social
and industrial conditions.”
– =Nation.= 82: 299. Ap. 12, ’06. 200w.
“One sees that the author is an observer of catholicity. His book,
though the travels are travels of so long ago, is singularly
refreshing. Informing enough also, though you need not pin your faith
too utterly to all the things that are said.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 533. S. 1, ’06. 1350w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 500. Ap. 21, ’06. 150w.
=Fowler, Rev. Charles Henry.= Missionary addresses. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
A group of seven missionary addresses on the following subjects:
Missions and world movements. Our opportunity. The reflex influence of
missions. The message, Home and heathen missions contrasted, The
field. The supreme need of the heathen and Divinity of the missionary
idea.
=Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin).= The
subjection of Isabel Carnaby. †$1.50. Dodd.
The reappearance of Isabel Carnaby, married and happy makes this story
a sequel to Mrs. Felkin’s “Concerning Isabel Carnaby.” “First we have
our old friend Isabel, who heroically refrains from sacrificing to a
purely personal whim the whole of her husband’s political career;
secondly, a half-caste girl, married to a good-natured imbecile of an
Englishman whom she finds it impossible to love until (in the disguise
of a man) she has felt the weight of his, literally, heavy hand;
thirdly a parson whose desertion of his wife, arising from a sequence
of incredible occurrences, is by her endured with a meekness which is
happily as incredible.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“In general, the smart and good-natured aphorisms in which the book
abounds seem to us as remote from reality as is the framework of the
story.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 330w.
“In ‘The subjection of Isabel Carnaby’, Miss Fowler has come almost
within sight of the borderland of the masterpieces.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
“Somewhat long and extremely loquacious new novel. The author is far
too deeply engaged in upholding a thesis to linger for long over any
of the facts which she chronicles.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 170. My. 11, 06. 530w.
“The combination of fun with brilliance is her own, absolutely. Her
ceaseless sense of the incongruity of congruities, and vice versa,
makes an effect as of punning with ideas. There are a few excellent
little sermons in the book, and many evidences that the writer thinks
her thoughts in the language of David and Paul.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 640w.
“Mrs. Felkin appears to be a good woman and a loving wife who had
nothing particular to say, and in the course of 357 pages has said it
very well.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 340w.
“Miss Fowler is an author of irresistible wit and cleverness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 809. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
“This story of her married life is not satisfying, although it is full
of those clever generalizations for which the writer has a special
gift.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 120w.
“The story is neither deep nor vital, but it is entertaining and
refreshing.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
“The reader’s feeling of gratitude to her is not due for any subtle
analysis of character, but for the brilliant powers of repartee with
which she invests her characters.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 950. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.
=Fowler, Nathaniel Clark, jr.= Starting in life: what each calling
offers ambitious boys and young men; il. by Charles Copeland. **$1.50.
Little.
Authoritative and practical is this guide to the selection of a
calling in life. The author has summoned to his aid successful
representatives of each of the thirty different lines of work
discussed. The book represents composite opinions on the advantages
and disadvantages of all the vocations of life which young men are
likely to enter.
=Fowles, George Milton.= Down in Porto Rico. 75c. Meth. bk.
“This is an unpretending little volume, giving in plain,
matter-of-fact way a description of the island, its inhabitants, and
their characteristics and customs.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“His account, moreover, is marked by a strong religious bias.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 260w.
“It is written in a fair spirit, is neither critical nor eulogistic,
but simply descriptive, is free from all affectation of fine writing,
but is not characterized by either brilliance of style, pictorial
description, or philosophic generalizations.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 90w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 60w.
=France, Jacques Anatole Thibault.= Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, tr. and
introd. by Lafcadio Hearn. †$1.25. Harper.
A new edition of this delightful story of that dear old man, Sylvestre
Bonnard, member of the Institute and scholar of world-wide reputation,
who has lived a long life in the congenial companionship of his books
and his cat, treasuring thru the years the memory of the love of his
youth. When he finds the daughter of his Clémentine poor and abused he
seeks, with a child-like ignorance of the world’s ways, to help her
and in so doing commits his great crime: but by it he gains his point
and becomes god-father to Jeanne’s romance and to her children.
* * * * *
“Even Lafcadio Hearn’s translation can hardly render in English all
the charm of this wholly delightful story in which M. France put all
the grace of style and delicacy of characterization which are his in
his inspired moments.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 90w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 40w.
“The story has had many translators, but of them all the translator of
the present edition, Lafcadio Hearn, has been most happy in preserving
the elusive fragrance of sentiment in this beautiful old rose-jar of a
book.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 397. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w.
=Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Hearn’s skill as a translator is admirably shown in this book.
There are some trifling errors of date in the story.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 190w.
=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Writings
of Saint Francis of Assisi, newly tr. into English, with introd. and
notes by Father Paschal Robinson. $1. Dolphin press.
“A simple, tasteful volume containing the work of Saint Francis,
including a group of six letters translated by Father Paschal
Robinson, of the Order of Friars Minor. The translator supplies an
introduction which gives some account of the writings, makes some
comment on their quality, and gives a brief history of the manuscripts
and the various editions. A series of notes, an appendix relating to
doubtful, lost, and spurious writings, and a bibliography, with an
index, give the volume ... a completeness which many books of this
kind lack.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 739. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“Altogether, the volume is that of a thoroughly devout scholar, and
should take the place of much of the well-meaning literature of St.
Francis which has become so common of recent years, but has little to
commend it except its good intentions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 450w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 328. F. 10, ’06. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 70w.
“We may pronounce the apparatus of this book to be the best bit of
modern work done in English on S. Francis of Assisi. The actual
translation is to our mind the least unsatisfactory, as it certainly
is the least important, part of the book.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 826. Je. 30, ’06. 320w.
“Father Robinson has done an excellent piece of work, carefully
avoiding giving offence to those who, while admiring St. Francis, do
not accept the Roman obedience.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 240w.
=Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Sphinx’s lawyer. †$1.50.
Stokes.
A story which perpetuates the spirit of a dead man, a “moral lunatic”
thru the wife’s unceasing energy to carry on his cult. “Errington
Welch-Kennard, the lawyer, is apparently the high priest of a band of
admirers who revolve about the ‘sofa-bed’ of Sybil Algernon Heseltine,
for the avowed purpose of keeping alive the dead man’s notorious
memory. At much damage to his reputation, the hero has stood by her
and her husband through their worst days and now consoles the widow
with a genuine friendship which the pair are content to let the world
misunderstand. Sybil’s revenge upon fate is to draw young men under
the blighting influence of her husband’s life and work, but having a
real affection for the lawyer, she bestirs herself to find him a wife,
judging that at forty, after an unsavoury career which has exhausted
his resources, nothing else can secure him safety and happiness.”
(Bookm.)
* * * * *
“The book is irredeemiably vulgar; vulgar in design, vulgar in
execution.”
– – =Acad.= 70: 383. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.
“A mistake both in its motive and its manner.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 260w.
“The book is good enough to provoke interest. For the robust, ‘The
sphinx’s lawyer’ is not insipid reading; and granted her chosen
milieu, Mrs. Frankau does not needlessly offend the timid.” Mary Moss.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 630. Ag. ’06. 950w.
“Her book is simply bestial in its implications. There is a skill in
the exhibition no doubt, but to any right-minded person it is
disgusting.”
– – + =Critic.= 49: 285. S. ’06. 300w.
“A clever woman who uses her talent perversely is about what we have
learned to think of the writer who calls herself ‘Frank Danby.’” Wm.
M. Payne.
– + =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 240w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 284. S. 1, ’06. 190w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 447. Jl. 14, ’06. 430w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Writings of Benjamin Franklin; collected and ed.,
with a life and introd. by Albert H. Smyth. **$3. Macmillan.
When complete, this ten-volume work will be “almost certain to be the
final edition of Franklin’s work and correspondence.” (Outlook.) It is
authoritative, and is compiled from original sources, with material
arranged in chronological order. The author “has utilized the Franklin
papers, obtained in 1903 by the University of Pennsylvania, as well as
the famous Stevens collection in the Library of Congress, and the
thirteen thousand documents that are the property of the American
Philosophical society. He has also ransacked the archives of Great
Britain and of four continental nations, and has made many interesting
‘finds.’ Furthermore, he has taken pains to secure accurate
transcripts and has corrected more than two thousand errors that had
crept into former editions.” (Forum.) Two volumes have thus far
appeared.
* * * * *
“What promises to be the most complete edition of Franklin and one of
the most valuable contributions to American historical and literary
scholarship. His own labors to add to the materials amassed by his
immediate predecessor have evidently been very great and successful.”
W. P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 37: 404. Ja. ’06. 2630w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Admirable new edition.” Paul Elmer More.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 98. Ja. 11, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“It would be easy to quarrel with Mr. Smyth for the scantiness and
rather vague purpose of his notes. But in other and more essential
respects this edition deserves the highest praise. It is far more
complete than any hitherto published.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1108. My. 10, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 4–6.)
=Ind.= 61: 1235. N. 22, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)
“As the third general compilation of Franklin’s writings, it must
stand against the works of Sparks and Bigelow; and if the promises
made are performed, it will surpass in scope and in utility these
earlier issues.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 12. Ja. 4, ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In one instance Mr. Smyth has traced the author of two of these
rejected essays, and in other instances he omits them because they are
‘dull and trivial.’ The editor’s notes are excellent, but it is
puzzling to know how the name of Jarman should have been explained
only on its third appearance, and why a reference to Whitefield (p.
234) is allowed to remain concealed in the initials only.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 179. Mr. 1, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2.)
“While Mr. Smyth has not found much that was new in this period, his
careful observance of textual accuracy much increases the value of
what is printed.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 429. My. 24, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =Nation.= 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 204. Mr. 31, ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 5.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 758. N. 17, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)
“In every respect the book is admirably fitted for library use.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ’05. 190w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 180w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 3.)
“As this excellent edition of Franklin’s writings approaches
completion its superiority over all former editions is increasingly
evident.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 7.)
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin;
ed. by U. Waldo Cutler. 35c. Crowell.
“Its carefully chosen selections should be put by the side of the
‘Autobiography’ on the shelves of the many Americans who are
interested in the history and literature of their country, but are
unable to allow themselves the luxury of owning either of the two best
editions of Franklin’s works.” W. P. Trent.
+ =Forum.= 37: 399. Ja. ’06. 500w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; printed from
the full and authentic text, ed. by William MacDonald. *$1.25. Dutton.
Reviewed by W. P. Trent.
+ + + =Forum.= 37: 400. Ja. ’06. 2520w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= His life, written by himself; condensed for school
use, with notes and a continuation of his life by D. H. Montgomery, with
an introd. by W. P. Trent. *40c. Ginn.
The essential portions of Franklin’s autobiography have been retained,
to which has been added interesting matter drawn from his other
writings. The text is annotated, and of special importance is
Professor Trent’s introduction.
=Franklin, Frank George.= Legislative history of naturalization in the
United States. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
This study covers the subject of naturalization from the Revolutionary
war to 1861 and in it the author has “sought to exhibit the course of
opinion” upon the subject “chiefly as it manifested itself in
discussion, reports, and legislation at the central forum of American
political life.” A good bibliography and index are appended.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately the scope of the work is too narrow to give it more
than a very limited value to the student of citizenship. As a purely
‘legislative history,’ however, there is little to criticize,—except
that, it should be brought down to date so as to cover recent
legislation.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 121. S. 1, ’06. 190w.
“The mass of details given by the author ... prevents the mind from
clearly grasping the important matter contained in the work. The value
and importance of the study, however, cannot be overlooked.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 640. S. 13, ’06. 420w.
“This work presents a careful and exhaustive study.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 330w.
“A decidedly useful monograph. The book is not conspicuous for
literary graces, its author manifestly being wholly absorbed in the
task of accumulating the facts.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 866. Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.
=Frantz, Henri.= French pottery and porcelain. *$2.50. Scribner.
In this late addition to the “Newnes’ library of applied arts,” “The
wonderful variety of French ceramics, from the private factory of Hélè
de Hengest at Château d’Orion, in the time of Francis I down to the
marvels turned out by the Sevres ovens and their extraordinary
artistic and useful achievements in crockery in this book molded into
a coherent chronicle of events, full of romance and story.... Not a
town or a hamlet which produced a marvel of Faience escapes notice.
The wonderful Faience violin, a masterpiece of Rouen as well as the
polychrome bas-reliefs of Monstiers receive proportional attention in
text and illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The chief objection to the book taken by itself, without comparison
with others of the series, is that no attempt is made to carry out the
promise of the title. There are signs that the work has been written
by some one not familiar with English, or else translated by some one
not wholly competent, or not very careful. On the whole, the most
important part of the book is its illustrations. These have been made
and the examples selected with considerable good taste and
thoroughness.”
– – + =Nation.= 83: 40. Jl. 12, ’06. 1130w.
“The volume is most comprehensive, particularly in its records of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
=Fraser, John Foster.= Canada as it is. $2. Cassell.
“This volume is a fair example of modern ‘special correspondent’
book-making. It is clever, confident, readable, and full of salient
points and hurried slangy presentations of political situations.”
(Spec.) The author “neglects no aspect of the country—the
fruit-gardens of Ontario, the factories of Montreal and Toronto, the
wheat-fields of Manitoba, the passes of the Rocky mountains, or the
lumber forests of British Columbia. Mr. Foster Fraser has looked into
every nook and cranny of all these countries with keen journalistic
eye, and has swiftly penned his impressions.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“The writing is always strong, vigorous, effective. Altogether, this
is one of the best books on Canada that has been produced for a long
time.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 563. My. 27, ’05. 700w.
“Presents a fairly accurate picture of the Dominion and its policy.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 528. Ap. 29. 180w.
“Gifted with a quick eye, and the wide if not always very deep
knowledge of the experienced journalist, he has produced an entirely
readable little volume.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 279. N. 1, ’06. 380w.
“Much of this is set forth attractively in Mr. Fraser’s little book.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 266. Mr. 29, ’06. 1550w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 810w.
“In short, Mr. Foster Fraser’s book on the Dominion is both strong and
weak in the sense in which his previous work on the United States was
strong and weak. There is an undoubted fascination in the cocksure
statements conveyed through short, crisp, though occasionally jerky
sentences.”
+ + – =Spec.= 95: 502. O. 7, ’05. 460w.
=Fraser, John Foster.= Pictures from the Balkans. $2. Cassell.
The author’s wanderings led him from Belgrade thru Servia, across the
Turkish frontier, thru Albania and various parts of Macedonia,
Bulgaria, in and out thru cities and wild mountainous country. He
tells, in a pleasing fashion of the people and things which he
encountered, of the strange medley of nations, governments and
religions, of all the contending forces which go to make up that
whirlpool known as the Balkans. Forty full page plates from
photographs illustrate the volume.
* * * * *
“The author’s impartiality leads him into a certain amount of
contradiction.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 570w.
“Mr. Fraser ... contrives to convey a considerable amount of
information in an entertaining form, which makes no very exacting
demands upon the attention of the reader.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 187. My. 25, ’06. 550w.
“When he avoids politics and mingles with the people and restrains his
air of British indifference and intolerance, he is quite
charming—particularly in his descriptions of gardens and
tobacco-fields and where other elements of natural scenery arouse his
artistic instincts.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 597. S. 29, ’06. 2320w.
=Fraser, Mary (Crawford) (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= In the shadow of the Lord:
a romance of the Washingtons. †$1.50. Holt.
Mary Ball who repulsed an unworthy Scottish lover became the second
wife of Augustine Washington and sailed with him to Virginia. It is
the account of these happenings that opens this romance of the
Washingtons. “In due course George is born, and it is his early life
which forms the chief interest of the book. He makes an attractive,
but somewhat pedantic young hero, but is, indeed, too difficult a
subject for Mrs. Fraser, who writes with far more sympathy of his
father, a fine old gentleman, and of his mother, a woman who lived and
died ‘in the shadow of the Lord,’ than she does of the young lad.”
(Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The characterization, which is the mainstay of such a book, is
excellent throughout.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 260w.
“Mrs. Fraser’s portrait of Washington hardly fills the frame of one’s
ideal. Upon the whole, however, the novel is a creditable and
interesting picture of colonial days.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 290w.
“She is too ponderous in her study of child life.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 338. O. 5, ’06. 420w.
“If placed in the hands of an intelligent person who, by some
anomalous circumstance, had never heard of George Washington, the book
would still—ay perhaps more—appeal to the heart and mind as a splendid
biography of a splendid family.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 740w.
“The story is well arranged, the persons concerned are sufficiently
lifelike and the general effect ... is dignified, and wholesome.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 120w.
“It is a mistake to weary the reader with details of domestic events,
marriages, births, and so on, which have nothing to do with the
story.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 647. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
“Mrs. Fraser has made her book hang together rather more closely than
is the case with most historical novels.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 442. S. 29, ’06. 490w.
=Fraser, William Alexander.= Thirteen men. †$1.50. Appleton.
Thirteen stories of life in Canada and the East Indies. One of the men
happens to be a fighting ram, one a king cobra, another a coon, and
still another a collie dog, but they claim the reader’s interest no
less than the “squaw-man,” the college-bred man and the Scotch
lumberman.
* * * * *
“One ought not to quarrel with Mr. Fraser’s stories for what they are
not when they are so much that is clever and interesting. For they are
about things that grip the heart, and they march along with a brave,
gay manner that is like a whiff of sea wind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 320w.
“In these stories the matter as well as the manner shows the deadening
influence of facile imitation.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 70w.
=Frazer, James G.= Lectures on the early history of the kingship.
*$2.75. Macmillan.
These lectures deal with the early history of kingship, and in
sketching a general theory of its evolution show that “it was as
sagacious magicians rather than valiant warriors that men first gained
kingship.” (Outlook.) The first part of the discussion is introductory
and illustrative of savage beliefs in general, the second part surveys
the field of savage chieftainship and the third part deals with the
classical evidence.
* * * * *
“The points here mentioned detract little from the charm of the work,
and those who turn to these lectures for a foretaste of the new
‘Golden bough’ will find, as of old, skilful exposition of the
argument, allied to elegance of diction and no little learning.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 6. Ja. 6, ’06. 1970w.
“He has made a notable contribution to the literature of primitive
sociology.” George Elliott Howard.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 864. Jl. ’06. 1030w.
“It is the effect of a good book not only to teach, but also to
stimulate and suggest, and we think this the best and highest quality
and one that will recommend these lectures to all intelligent readers,
as well as to the learned.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 757. D. 2. 1520w.
“In his handling of the Mediterranean religions, whether he is
concerned with legend or with cult, his judgments lack authority and
the impress of special insight or adequate study.” Lewis R. Farnell.
+ + – =Hibbert J.= 4: 928. Jl. ’06. 2360w.
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 7. Ja. 5, ’06. 530w.
“Of Dr. Frazer’s charm of style and literary skill in arranging his
material it is needless to speak, and the points noted above detract
in no way from the interest of the book, which, indeed, might rest its
reputation on the classical material alone.” N. W. T.
+ + – =Nature.= 73: sup. 4. N. 30. ’05. 1490w.
“It would not be hazardous to say that Dr. Frazer has shown himself to
be the most learned of English scholars. Altogether here as elsewhere
in recent years, Dr. Frazer shows himself more ingenious than
convincing.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 921. D. 30, ’05. 990w.
“Not often nowadays does one come upon so ingenious a piece of
original study as these lectures.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ’05. 210w.
“Interesting and suggestive work.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 112. Ja. 27, ’06. 1140w.
=Freeman, Rev. James Edward.= Man and the Master. 75c. Whittaker.
The chapters on the life of the Master “simply deal with certain
phases or aspects of that life and seek to lay emphasis upon cardinal
characteristics” without attempting to set forth any chronological
order.
* * * * *
“While there is nothing in these pages which has not been said before,
there is nothing which does not need to be said again and again, and
it is all said briefly, warmly, impressively.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 92. S. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins).= Debtor. †$1.50. Harper.
“It is the story itself, with its unlovely incidents too often and too
minutely related, that is disappointing.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1176. N. 11, ’05. 380w.
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 860. D. 23. 190w.
“No better book of the honest, old-fashioned kind has appeared this
year.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1340. D. 7, ’05. 660w.
“Not worth telling in its bare outlines, it is made into a masterpiece
of Mrs. Freeman’s method.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 217. F. 17, ’06. 430w.
“This is the most unconventional story that Mrs. Freeman has written
... the dénouement is at once artistically and ethically satisfying.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 227. Ja. ’06. 430w.
“The book is full of little vignettes of village life charmingly
depicted, and the story is well put together.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 280w.
=Freer, William Bowen.= Philippine experiences of an American teacher; a
narrative of work and travel in the Philippine islands. **$1.50.
Scribner.
“This is a narrative of three years of teaching and travel in the
Philippines.... It is particularly interesting for the light it throws
on many phases of life and character not noticed to any extent in
other books; and the testimony it furnishes of the real progress of
American educational work in the island is extremely gratifying....
The book is illustrated with reproductions of photographs of scenery
and life.” (Critic.) The author hopes that his book “will result in a
better appreciation of some desirable traits of Filipino character, in
a stronger conviction of the unwisdom of granting at this time, any
greater degree of self-government than the Filipinos already possess,
and in a fuller understanding of the work that is being done in the
public schools in the attempt to fit the people for the eventual
exercise of complete autonomy.”
* * * * *
“The book is especially valuable for the near views that it gives of
the everyday life of the islanders, their manners and customs, and
their personal characteristics.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 217. O. ’06. 80w.
“His story, told with a simplicity that recalls ‘Robinson Crusoe,’
conveys a more vivid and life like picture of life among the Filipinos
than is to be found in more pretentious volumes.”
– + =Cath. World.= 83: 837. S. ’06. 590w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 110w.
“The best part of the book is that which describes the methods
employed by the teachers.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 71. Ag. 1, ’06. 410w.
“An easily read, unpretentious, but informative and interesting book.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 995. O. 25, ’06. 440w.
“His work is a valuable one. The book is especially valuable for its
pictures of the home life, the personal characteristics, the customs
of the plain people of the islands. It is a study from the ground up.”
George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 484. Ag. 4, ’06. 2480w.
“Although his style has no distinction, and is sometimes marred by
carelessness, it is unaffected. The author has shown skill in
selecting the human, the concrete, the picturesque, to present to his
readers, and in giving at the same time the impression that he has
shown the typical.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 220w.
“This narrative of his work and travel in the islands therefore sheds
more light on the special conditions which we were called on to face
there than all the works of dilettante political economists who have
sought to tell the needs of the islands and the short comings of
American rule.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 541. Ap. 28, ’06. 1140w.
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 150w.
=French, Allen.= Pelham and his friend Tim. †$1.50. Little.
A stirring story for boys in which two chums have various exciting
adventures, the chief of which grows out of a mill strike. The tale
teaches wholesome lessons of comradeship and charity.
* * * * *
“Mr. French has infused vigor and action into his pages.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 130w.
“A good, wholesome book for boys, and one that will hold their
interest from the first page to the last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 150w.
=French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French) (Anne Warner, pseud.).=
Seeing France with Uncle John. †$1.50. Century.
France as seen with Uncle John is a veritable scenic railway, for the
lively and loquacious old gentleman drags his two nieces over the
entire map of that interesting country at a rate which makes not only
their sightseeing, but the conduct of their love affairs, of which he
disapproves, a difficult proposition. His running comment upon the
places and things visited is most amusing and forms a clever satire
upon the Uncle John type of American. There is much wit, and under the
wit wisdom, and the traveler may profitably read it not only for
entertainment but as an example of how not to see France.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Falls so far below what she has taught her readers to expect that
even her enemies, if she has any, must be sorry that she has published
it. The book provides merely a mild sort of entertainment.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 320w.
“It is quite impossible to read this little satire by Anne Warner
without laughter.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
=French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French).= Susan Clegg and her
neighbors’ affairs, †$1. Little.
Susan Clegg once more—nor has she forgotten the little matter of
occupying the gossip-stage’s center, and doing the principal bit of
talking herself. Mrs. Lathrop is as cheerful a listener as ever, and
readily susceptible to Susan’s versions of neighborhood happenings.
* * * * *
“We do not think, however, that the present volume is quite up to the
former short stories by this author, and from our point-of-view it is
very inferior to ‘The rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.’”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 334. S. ’06. 120w.
“Latent pathos, the soul of true humor, is entirely absent from the
book. The author nearly always relies on grotesque situations, and
here her skill is such that the counterfeit often rings like the
current coin.”
– + =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 170w.
“Her observations are marked by philosophy as well as wit.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 200w.
=French, Lillie Hamilton.= Mrs. Van Twiller’s salon. †$1.50. Pott.
Mrs. Van Twiller gathers about her various types of New York
society—an artist, a scribe of social doings, a professor, a major,
various men of the world, etc.—and dominates the group in
characteristic modern salon fashion.
* * * * *
“An amusing volume on the order of the ‘Potiphar papers.’”
+ =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ’05. 10w.
“The book is not only eminently readable, but very suggestive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ’05. 310w.
=French, Samuel Livingston.= Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1863.
$2.50. Pub. soc. of New York.
A “concise and effective” history of the movements of the army of the
Potomac whose purpose is to award the honors impartially, and to frame
an absolutely unbiased and correct judgment concerning the various
commanders.
* * * * *
“Purports to set forth ‘an absolutely unbiased and correct judgment
concerning the various commanders.’ The volume consists largely of
extracts from documentary material, which the author uses in such a
way as effectually to thwart the purpose stated above.”
– =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 210. O. ’06. 50w.
“The volume is composed mainly of extracts from official documents and
letters, chosen to bolster up the rather absurd and discredited
positions taken by the author.”
– =Dial.= 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 220w.
“Unfortunately excerpt and comment are jumbled together without
sufficient typographical distinction between the two, and it is often
difficult to tell what is official record and what is Mr. French. The
proofreading, moreover, is frequently of a sort to add to the reader’s
distress. But the matter collated is of the greatest value.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 220w.
“He succeeds in shedding considerable new light upon many acts of the
Army of the Potomac and its commanders.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 2, ’06. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 250w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Holy land; exclusive authorized tr. of
“Hilligenlei;” tr. from the German by Mary Agnes Hamilton. †$1.50.
Estes.
“It is less a continuous tale than a collection of charming
scenes—simple poetic, realistic—of the lives of humble folk working
and striving in a little harbour town in Holstein. The keynote of the
book is struck by Hule Beiderwand, ever watching for the coming of a
‘brave man who shall bring the whole land beneath his sword until it
is a holy land in deed as in name.’”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Is an exceptionally interesting book, informed throughout with strong
and tender feeling. Miss Hamilton’s translation is excellent,
especially as reproducing the atmosphere of poetry and romance and of
spiritual enthusiasm which is essentially a charm of the original
work.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 332. O. 6, ’06. 150w.
“Recommend it most heartily to all who regard the art of fiction as
something more than a clever spinning of plots and a pleasant
arrangement of words.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 400. O. 6. 180w.
“The fundamental impression which it is the author’s purpose to
produce is created by a long succession of delicate touches, working
upon the subconsciousness of the reader, and gradually combining in
cumulative effect.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 282. N. 1, ’06. 860w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 448. Mr. 24, ’06. 1290w.
“With the exception of a few passages which bear evidence of a
struggle with the style of the original, the translator’s painstaking
work has been successful.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 360w.
“Though the preacher Frenssen may justify some chapters by his
seriousness of ethical purpose, the artist can offer no apology for
his offenses against the canons of good taste.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 595. S. 29, ’06. 910w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Jorn Uhl; tr. by F. S. Delmer. †$1.50. Estes.
“To quote his own comment on a German landscape, ‘It was all clearly
and finely and most lovingly painted, with a touch of plain rustic
honesty, and a rough, hearty fruitfulness in it.’” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“Frenssen tells his story with unique power. He tells it from his own
soul. He is a vivisector of his subject’s soul. He probes to the
primitive spring of action and of feeling. The style is just the
vesture which such truth would seem to demand. It is direct,
primitive, and as a rule, bald. It is also live, searching and
moving.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 318. S. 2, ’05. 1070w.
=Friedenwald, Herbert.= Declaration of independence. **$2. Macmillan.
“Dr. Friedenwald would do well to simplify his style, which is
curiously involved.”
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 422. Ja. ’06. 1000w.
=Friedrich-Friedrich, Emmy von (Emmy von Rhoden, pseud.).= Young
violinist; tr. from the 12th ed. of the German of Emma von Rhoden, by
Mary E. Ireland. $1. Saalfield.
A pathetic story with a happy ending following the hardships and final
happiness of Mignon Marconi, who, when her father died had as an only
inheritance her beloved violin. She runs away from cruel treatment, is
cared for by a band of traveling musicians and finally becomes the
adopted daughter of a lady bountiful.
=Friswell, Laura Hain.= In the sixties and seventies. **$3.50. Turner,
H. B.
“A pleasing volume of personal impressions of literary and social
people of note.... The author is the daughter of an English essayist
and novelist who had agreeable and friendly relations with Thackeray,
Cruikshank, Thomas Cooper the Chartist, Kingsley, and other noted men
of his generation, while Miss Friswell has many anecdotes of her own
acquaintance, Sir Walter Besant, his collaborator, Mr. J. S. Rice, Sir
Henry Stanley, William Black, and many writers of our own
day.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Is unfortunately disfigured by a good deal of triviality; some
egotism, for which, however, the author apologizes handsomely; and one
or two indiscreet passages.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 830. D. 16. 280w.
“As a record of ‘Impressions of literary people and others,’ it is
vivid, rapid, thoroughly entertaining and seldom frivolous, and,
despite occasional carelessness ... generally well written.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 188. Mr. 16, ’06. 2240w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 19, ’06. 200w.
“The contents are not quite worthy of the excellent paper and print of
this handsome volume. They would have been more in place in a
magazine. This is mainly because there is nothing whatever of
political interest and it is usually their politics that make English
memoirs worth reading.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 184. Ag. 30, ’06. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 20. Ja. 13, ’06. 240w.
“Her book is of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 271. Ap. 28, ’06. 960w.
“The book is cheerful reading, and, while it is occasionally trivial,
is in the main a good specimen of a class of books which entertain
one’s leisure hours in a most satisfactory way.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 521. Mr. 3, ’06. 130w.
“The book is curiously without ‘purple patches’ ... but it is good to
read.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 260w.
From servitude to service: the history and work of Southern institutions
for the education of the negro. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.
“By its freedom from the polemic spirit and by its adherence to actual
facts and conditions, this book is a valuable contribution to our
understanding of what is happening to the negro.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 418. Mr. ’06. 160w.
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 520. Mr. 3, ’06. 210w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 150w.
=Frothingham, Eugenia Brooks.= Evasion. †$1.50. Houghton.
“About two men and a girl. The weak-willed Apollo cheats at cards, and
the strong Antaeus shoulders the blame. The girl marries Apollo out of
pity and to help her family, regretting it only once, but for a long
time.” (Pub. Opin.) “‘The evasion’ contains a plot absorbing enough to
hold one’s attention tensely to the end, but it will be remembered
longer for its vivid portrayal of the lives of the idle rich and the
convincing contrast drawn in its pages between these seemingly useless
members of society and the big majority that counts.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Her style is cosmopolitan and her point of view that of the dweller
in both continents, but her spiritual outlook is of the younger world,
and to the end we are left in doubt whether she is on the side of
authority, or of negation.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 551. Je. 9, ’06. 350w.
“There is much that is admirable about the volume. But the prologue
strikes the wrong note.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 415. Je. ’06. 640w.
“It is so good that one wishes it were better. Miss Frothingham should
studiously avoid the morbid and overstrained effects which are her
most serious menace as a novelist.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 130w.
“The great army of happy folk who need no warning will find its
picture of Boston as accurate as the picture of New York in ‘The house
of mirth.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 210w.
“The story is interesting, well constructed, and written with charm
and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 560w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 927. Je. ’06. 70w.
“The story is strong, and like many strong things not especially
pleasant.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 480. Ap. 14, ’06. 70w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 20w.
=Fuchs, Karl Johannes.= Trade policy of Great Britain and her colonies
since 1860, tr. by Constance H. M. Archibald. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is marked by so much of a scientific spirit as to be a really
useful aid towards the study of our fiscal history during the period
which it covers.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 643. Ap. 28, ’06. 390w.
=Fuller, Caroline Macomber.= Flight of puss Pandora. †$1.50. Little.
Weejums, the alley cat’s kitten, has a formidable rival in Pandora,
the apartment cat. Miss Fuller’s pets have a way of opening homes and
human hearts for near inspection. But the scrutiny results in lessons
of observation and human kindness.
* * * * *
“An animal tale which will please all children who love cats.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
=Fuller, Hubert Bruce.= Purchase of Florida; its history and diplomacy.
*$2.50. Burrows.
“This elaborate monograph ... was suggested by the author’s conviction
that the epoch identified with the acquisition of Florida and with our
early entanglement with Spain had not received adequate treatment at
the hands of historians, and that a careful elucidation of this period
and of the events which marked the struggle to secure New Orleans and
the Mississippi would contribute a pregnant and interesting chapter in
our national history. For his material Mr. Fuller has gone direct to
original sources.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The result of these investigations has enabled him to present in a
new light many momentous episodes in the early diplomatic history of
the nation.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 180w.
“Excellent as is Mr. Fuller’s book and valuable as are the new facts
that it contains, it is open to two serious criticisms. The material
upon which it is based is inadequate, and the knowledge which it
displays of European diplomatic situations is insufficient.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 536. D. 20, ’06. 1340w.
“Mr. Fuller’s account of this whole affair is the best we know of.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 1130w.
“Close revision should be had in the event of another edition, and the
work thus be made still more valuable to historical students, who will
undoubtedly welcome it if only because it gives ready access to much
documentary information hitherto not generally available.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 280w.
“A scholarly monograph.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 50w.
=Fuller, Robert Higginson.= Golden hope a story of the time of King
Alexander the Great. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The story is told in a style in which care and the exactness of
historical detail are nicely mingled with the charm of genuine
sensitiveness to the romantic situation. The book is a fine story of
adventure.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 722. N. ’05. 170w.
=Fyvie, John.= Some literary eccentrics. **$3. Pott.
Eleven studies whose best present Landor, Hazlitt and George Wither.
The other “eccentrics” are Thomas Day, Crabb Robinson, Douglas
Jerrold, King James I, Sir John Mandeville, Babbage, Beckford and John
Buncle.
* * * * *
“Taken for no more than it professes to be, the book is a good one.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 245. O. 16, ’06. 490w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 665. O. 13, ’06. 1320w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 383. D. ’06. 130w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 140w.
“They are hardly worth binding up into a book. They add very little to
our knowledge, and they are not a work of a writer alive to the
picturesqueness of the past or sensitive to the harmonies of the
English language.”
– =Spec.= 96: 906. Je. 9, ’06. 1170w.
G
=Gale, Zona.= Romance island. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The charm of this story does not lie in the plot, indeed one does the
book an injustice in sketching the course of St. George’s love affair
with the New York heiress whose father has been made king of Yaque, a
mysterious island in the eastern seas, which has been ruled by
hereditary monarchs since 1050 B. C. and whose civilization is what
the world will be a thousand years from now. St. George, an
ex-newspaper man now a millionaire, meets the heiress thru an attempt
to murder her, and follows her in behalf of his old paper, to Yaque
where she is offered her father’s throne and a royal husband. All
this, however, is merely a framework about which Miss Gale winds a
series of charming fancies. It is a dainty and illusive romance from
cover to cover in which pure sentiment, vivid imagination, practical
newspaper routine, humor, satire and good character drawing are
marvelously blended.
* * * * *
“The story is thrillingly exciting from cover to cover. Those readers
who do not demand the element of probability, or even of possibility,
in their novels, will enjoy ‘Romance island.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ – =Arena.= 36: 688. D. ’06. 170w.
=Galloway, Julia Rebecca.= When the lilacs bloom, and other poems. $1.
Badger, R. G.
Songs of springtime give place to poems of feast days, and these to
patriotic themes in this little volume of unpretentious verse.
* * * * *
“There are echoes of many greater poets on the pages, yet sincerity is
manifest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 140w.
=Galloway, Thomas Walton.= First course in zoology: a text-book for
secondary schools, normal schools and colleges. *$2.50. Blakiston.
A thorogoing text-book whose plan of treatment has been tested in the
author’s own class room. By its use he has secured good interest and
fine spirit in the study of animals and animal life on the part of
beginners ranging from the third year of the preparatory school to
freshmen in college.
=Gannett, Henry=, =Garrison, Miss Carl Louise=, and =Houston, Edwin
James.= Commercial geography. *$1.25. Am. bk.
This three-part text book on trade treats commercial conditions,
commercial products and commercial countries respectively. Numerous
illustrations accompany the text.
* * * * *
“Teachers of geography will find the book most useful.” W. S. J.
+ =El. School. T.= 6: 439. Ap. ’06. 260w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“One of the faults of this generous inclusiveness is the difficulty in
the logical distribution of emphasis. Some errors have crept in.” J.
Paul Goode.
+ – =School R.= 14: 457. Je. ’06. 930w.
=Gapon, Father George.= Story of my life. *$3. Dutton.
“A valuable and interesting contribution to the history of the Russian
revolutionary movement. All suspicious sensationalism is avoided....
The story of a great organization is convincingly, straightforwardly,
and clearly told.” (Lond. Times.) “The story of Gapon’s boyhood, the
description of the massacre of January, 1905, the account of his
escape are good. So are the pictures, which, though few in number,
give interesting glimpses of Russian life in town and country.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 297. Mr. 10. 500w.
“Told with vigor and deep feeling.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 472. My. ’06. 200w.
“It is instructive also as to the motives and methods of the
revolutionists, and as to the corruption, cruelty, and tyranny of the
autocracy.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 395. Je. 15, ’06. 190w.
“His book is very modest in tone.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 416. D. 1, ’05. 1220w.
“The opportunity thus furnished for the study of a curious character
has considerable value, from a psychological point of view.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 371. My. 3, ’06. 1000w.
“The story of Gapon’s life is told without dates, or without more than
the vaguest reference to time. This deficiency greatly diminishes the
value of the book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 138. Mr. 3, ’06. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 138. My. 19, ’06. 250w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 332. Mr. 17, ’06. 830w.
=Gardenhire, Samuel Major.= Long arm. †$1.50. Harper.
Le Droit Conners, artist from inclination and training,
non-professional detective from pure “love of the game” figures in a
series of fascinating mysteries upon which he brings to bear not
clumsy machine-made discretion and discernment, but a finer quality of
penetration which expresses itself as an original art study well worth
etching. He is an apologist for erring humanity up to the point of a
crime’s outraging even the primal instinct then he becomes pitiless.
There are eight baffling mysteries in the group.
* * * * *
“Personally, we do not find LeDroit Conners as entertaining as Old
Sleuth, although perhaps his methods are more subtle.”
– + =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 50w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1166. My. 17, ’06. 120w.
“In every instance the plot is ingeniously and skilfully worked out,
while the ‘dramatis personae’ from Conners himself to the humblest
fourth villain, reflect on Mr. Gardenhire’s part an intimate knowledge
of human nature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 710w.
“All of the stories are good not only from the detective point of
view, but from the novelist’s as well, and their ingenuity by no means
overshadows their human interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 143. Mr. 10, ’06. 640w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 80w.
“This new member of the detective fraternity is quite worthy to
succeed his illustrious predecessors.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
“The book belongs to that large category which is suitable for reading
in railway trains or in other places of detention; but Le Droit
Conners cannot be called a very noteworthy creation.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 190w.
=Gardiner, John Hays.= Bible as English literature. **$1.50. Scribner.
“A work which confines its attention to the literary character of the
Bible as it appears in the authorized version, though recognizing and
indorsing the main principles and results of historical criticism.”
(Bib. World.) The larger portion of the book is given to the Bible
itself “in the original tongues,” and the remaining part to the
translations.
* * * * *
“An excellent work of its kind.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 351. N. ’06. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 1060w.
“Has a value limited only by the extent of its circulation, which
cannot be too wide. What one particularly enjoys about it is, that
though distinctly scholarly, it is distinctly not academic. It is
literary as distinguished from, and opposed to pedagogic.” Montgomery
Schuyler.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 697. O. 27, ’06. 2650w.
=Gardiner, Ruth Kimball.= Heart of a girl. †$1.50. Barnes.
“All of Mrs. Gardiner’s gifts of intuition, memory, imagination, and
observation have been marshalled in the depiction of Margaret Carlin,
and her years of training in the art of writing stand her in good
stead.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
=Gardner, Alice.= Theodore of Studium: his life and times. $3. Longmans.
“Miss Gardner presents her present volume as ‘a sketch of a notable
man, who lived in notable times,’ as one in whose life ‘were focussed
many great historical tendencies which gave their character to the
Churches and the civil societies of the Middle Ages.’” (Am. Hist. R.)
“The iconoclastic controversy, though its history is much less
well-known than that of the great theological controversies which
preceded it, is yet, as Miss Gardner points out, of more practical
interest to us at the present day; and the other conflict in which
Theodore was engaged, that as to the marriage of Constantine, ... was
based upon a true moral principle.... After an introductory chapter
dealing with the earlier history of iconoclasm we have a detailed
narrative of Theodore’s life, followed by an account of his services
to hymnology and calligraphy, translations of some of his hymns, a
short sketch of the succeeding history to 1057, and a bibliography of
Theodore’s works, while the book is embellished by excellent
photographs of the remains of the Studite monastery.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
“Miss Gardner is at her best—as is natural in one of her training and
associations—in vivid presentation of the history of the time, yet she
never fails to perceive its psychological bearing upon the
individuality of her subject. In a future edition the author will
doubtless correct some errors and omissions in the index, and a few
mistakes of facts and nomenclature pardonable in an author not
personally acquainted with the Orient.” H. H. Spoer.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 637. Ap. ’06. 1020w.
“Is an attractive narrative, well put together and based upon careful
study, especially of Theodore’s own works.” E. W. Brooks.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 352. Ap. ’06. 940w.
“Whether, however, we agree or disagree with Miss Gardner’s estimate
of the merits of the controversy, we can be wholly grateful to her for
a work which submits the documents to a fresh examination and draws
from them an account so lucid, so discreet and readable, of a
little-known age.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 1120w.
“This is above all a scholarly work. With all her skill in handling
her topic she has not succeeded in turning out an interesting book.”
W. v. S.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 1430w.
“This is a very learned work, if somewhat marred in execution by the
writer’s prepossessions.”
+ + – =Spec.= 95: 764. N. 11, ’05. 390w.
=Gardner, Percy.= Grammar of Greek art. **$1.75. Macmillan.
=Outlook.= 83: 688. Jl. 21, ’06. 250w.
=Gardner, William.= Life of Stephen A. Douglas. $1.50. Eastern pub.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 344. F. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Garland, Hamlin.= Witch’s gold; il. by W. L. Taylor, with colored
decoration by H. A. Linnell. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A recast of “The spirit of Sweetwater.” It has been restored from its
cut down serial form to meet the more expensive requirements of a
holiday edition.
* * * * *
“In its present form is a simple healthful love-tale of the West,
adapted to beguile an idle hour.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 90w.
“The story does not represent Mr. Garland at his best; it is simply an
amiable frontier romance, altogether barren of the grim power of
‘Main-travelled roads.’”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 228. S. 13, ’06. 390w.
“The tale probably most attractive in a cruder and more elusive form,
suffers in the lengthening.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 581. S. 22, ’06. 550w.
=Outlook.= 84: 338. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
=Garnett, W. H. Stuart.= Turbines. *$2.75. Macmillan.
This volume “while written with a view to interest amateurs, calls
special attention to those points and problems deserving the more
particular notice of students. It has been the author’s object to
trace the development of the science of turbines as it appears to have
grown in the minds of the inventors responsible for its material
manifestations. The two parts into which the book is divided deal
respectively, with water and steam turbines. Appendices contain
tables, notes on the ‘Behavior of gas,’ some mathematical principles,
and other matter. There are eighty-three illustrations in the
book.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is a popular work of a most excellent sort—the sort that is
calculated to instruct rather than merely to interest or amuse, and in
which the instruction is given in such plain and simple terms that it
can be understood by the non-technical reader. On the whole the book
is one which we can heartily recommend to American purchasers.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 56: 52. Jl. 12, ’06. 480w.
“A book which will do much, it is probable, to make the layman take a
more intelligent interest in this the latest and most striking
development of the skill of the mechanical engineer.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 53. N. 15, ’06. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 443. Jl. 7, ’06. 270w.
=Garrett, John Henry.= Idyllic Avon: being a simple description of the
Avon from Tewkesbury to above Stratford-on-Avon; with songs and pictures
of the river and its neighborhood. **$3. Putnam.
A fifty mile pilgrimage which the author and some companions made up
Shakespeare’s Avon. “With songs and anecdotes and riverside pictures,
John Henry Garrett has written a half-personal, half-historical volume
to show that the Avon has other personalities than that of
Shakespeare, other towns of interest than Stratford.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is pathetic that a man who can make such good pictures and write
pretty good prose should be tempted into making such very bad verse.”
Anna Benneson McMahan.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 201. O. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Will be a valuable guide for anyone who wishes to follow his steps.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 638. S. 13, ’06. 160w.
“Is one of the most thorough of its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 349. O. 25, ’06. 280w.
“All in all, he has written a delightful book—anecdotal, historic,
poetic, and especially personal and intimate.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 490w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 30w.
“We hear about the history, about the antiquities of the country,
about its natural beauties, about the inhabitants and their manners
and customs, and hear it in such a way and in such proportions that we
are never tired. It is not a book to criticise; it is one to enjoy.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 338. S. 8, ’06. 310w.
=Garriott, E. B.= Long-range weather forecasts. U. S. Dept. of
Agriculture.
“The bulletin is a formal denunciation on the part of the Government’s
meteorological bureau, of weather forecasters and forecasts that
pretend to describe the main features of the weather for long periods
ahead: periods much longer than those covered by the geographical
progression of storms, floods, cold waves, and the like across the
corresponding areas of observation.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The bulletin may serve many an engineer as an interesting bit of
reading for hours of relaxation.”
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 532. My. 18, ’06. 330w.
=Garrison, William Lloyd.= Words of Garrison. **$1.25. Houghton.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“With what Garrison said and with what he did, admirably summarized,
the reader is now provided with something worthy of the name of ‘A
reformer’s handbook.’” M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 116. Ja. ’06. 170w.
“It is impossible to believe that a richer selection could not have
been compiled, even if also this were attained partly by omission of
what is here presented.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1344. D. 7, ’05. 280w.
=Gasiorowski, Waclaw.= Napoleon’s love story; tr. by the Count de
Soissons. $1.50. Dutton.
The romantic relations between Madame Walewska and Napoleon furnish
the subject for this novel, written by a follower, of the school of
Sienkiewicz. “The scenes are in Warsaw, Vienna, Paris. The plot shows
how the Polish patriots sought to use the emperor’s interest in Mary
for their own ends, and for those ends inspired in a noble and tender
girl a sort of sacrificial fire—a sacrificial fire which was
transfigured in due time to something quite different.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The central, all-compelling figure of the book is Napoleon; whether
present or absent he is the determining force, the master-spirit in
whom everyone is merged.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“We have read every word of the story with the greatest pleasure and
interest.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 686. Jl. 1, ’05. 530w.
“The translation is well done, but for a certain spasmodic method of
conversation and a few slips of idiom.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 42. Jl. 8. 230w.
“This romance is chiefly remarkable for its length, caused by a
remorseless spinning out of dialogue and elaboration of descriptive
detail.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 153. Mr. 1, ’06. 150w.
=Ind.= 61: 522. Ag. 30, ’06. 330w.
=Nation.= 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 70w.
“Even a translation rendered utterly inadequate by a purely mechanical
knowledge of the English tongue fails to conceal the fine skill and
dramatic power of the author and the romantic and human interest of
the story.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 30. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w.
“It is too long and treats of an unpleasant theme ... but it is a
strong piece of work, with passages of rare dramatic power and some
fine characterizations.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 276. F. 3, ’06. 180w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 767. Je. 16, ’06. 60w.
“The novel is very long-winded, full of somewhat tedious
conversations: the dialogues translated do not run at all easily, and
for an understanding of the intrigues which surround the heroine a
knowledge of Polish politics is required which few Englishmen
possess.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 251. Ag. 19, ’05. 410w.
“M. Gasiorowski, in short, has shown delicacy as well as power in his
treatment of a difficult theme.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 359. S. 9, ’05. 820w.
=Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson).= Works of Mrs. Gaskell.
8v. ea. $1.50. Putnam.
There will be eight volumes to complete the “Knutsford edition” of
Mrs. Gaskell’s works. The old favorites are being recast in modern
book form and the preparation is in progress under the editorial
supervision of Dr. Adolphus W. Ward, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge,
who contributes a general introduction to the issue and a special one
to each volume based upon material of important biographical and
critical interest. The volumes are as follows, “Mary Barton;”
“Cranford;” “Ruth;” “North and South;” “My Lady Ludlow;” “Sylvia’s
lovers;” “Cousin Phyllis;” “A dark night’s work;” etc.; and “Wives and
daughters.”
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 300. S. 15. 300w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 334. S. 22. 100w.
“The ‘Knutsford edition’ of the works of Mrs. Gaskell, to which we had
looked forward eagerly, is, it must be confessed something of a
disappointment. The paper is so thin that the print shows through from
one side to another. ‘The Life of Charlotte Bronte’ is omitted ... the
introductions, though breathing a very sympathetic spirit of
admiration, contain little that we did not know already.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 312. S. 14, ’06. 2630w.
“This attractive edition, is substantial and tasteful without being
too elaborate.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 683. N. 17, ’06. 170w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 150w.
“The ‘Knutsford edition,’ well printed and in convenient-shaped
volumes, will prove a real godsend both to those who have not read
Mrs. Gaskell, and to the older generation who are anxious to revive
their memories of her pure and admirable style.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 437. S. 29, ’06. 1650w.
=Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson).= Cranford; ed. with an
introd. and annotations by William E. Simonds. 30c. Ginn.
A student’s edition of “Cranford” prepared for college entrance
purposes.
=Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis A.= Henry the Third and the church. *$4.
Macmillan.
“Dr. Gasquet shows a wide acquaintance with the sources for this
period, and seldom makes serious mistakes, but there is evidence here
and there that he has hardly concerned himself sufficiently with the
criticism of the authorities which he had used, while there are also
to be found some indications either of unfamiliarity with the details
of thirteenth-century history or of carelessness in passing his book
through the press.” T. F. Tout.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 780. O. ’06. 1000w.
=Gates, Eleanor (Mrs. Richard Walton Tully).= Plow-woman. †$1.50.
McClure.
“Two girls with their crippled father come up from Texas to settle
on a ‘section’ in Dakota. One, the plow-woman has to be the man of
the family, and her strong body and brave, steadfast spirit carry
her nobly through many hardships. The evil intrigues of the man
who asserted a prior claim to their section, the dangerous
outbreak of Indian captives from the near-by fort, the menace of
disorderly ‘Shanty town’ filled with camp followers, all combine
to prevent anything like monotony in the active lives of three
Lancasters.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Ingenuity is one of the author’s conspicuous endowments. Situation
after situation keeps interest expectant up to the last. No less is
her skill in definition of character, although here and there a bit
may be judged out of drawing.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 374, N. 1, ’06. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13, ’06. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Altogether the varied group of men and women, the graphic
descriptions of scenery and conditions in the West, indicate the
unusual powers of the author, and her wisdom in writing about what she
knows so well.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 583. N. 3, ’06. 210w.
=Gates, Errett.= Disciples of Christ. **$1. Baker.
“This is the first adequate statement of the history of the Disciples
of Christ since the Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, published in 1868.
Will be counted a distinct contribution, not merely to the
understanding of the Disciples of Christ, but of the religious life of
America as well.” E. S. Ames.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 361. Ap. ’06. 330w.
“This is the first real history of this religious body. It is written
in a clear style, with impartial judgment.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 320. Ap. ’06. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 939. D. 16, ’05. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 90w.
=Gates, Mrs. Josephine (Scribner).= Little Red, white and blue; il. by
Virginia Keep. †$1.25. Bobbs.
The author of the “Live dolls” series has offered in this story book
for children a delightful sketch of an army captain’s child. Her
babyhood loyalty to the stars and stripes furnishes a bright lesson in
patriotism.
=Gates, Mrs. Josephine (Scribner).= Live dolls’ house party; il. by
Virginia Keep. †$1.25. Bobbs.
In continuation of the “Live dolls” doings Mrs. Gates tells of a
doll’s house party in the little town of Dollville, the hostess being
the queen of the dolls. A pretty story, prettily told, with enough of
doll romance to satisfy the most imaginative child.
=Gaussen, Alice C. C.= Woman of wit and wisdom: a memoir of Elizabeth
Carter, one of the “Bas-bleu” society. *$3. Dutton.
All those who care to know more of eighteenth-century literature and
life in England will be interested in this sketch of the long and
uneventful life of the scholar, linguist, and translator of Epictetus.
“It has been made chiefly through the unpublished letters and papers
possessed by members of the family today and by the Carter institute
at Deal where Elizabeth Carter lived. Johnson, Fanny Burney and
Richardson appear in these pages.... Poulteney was another friend of
hers.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Miss Gaussen’s book is disappointing: her narrative is so desultory
and broken that we have found it difficult to derive a clear
impression of the central figure.”
– =Acad.= 70: 496. My. 26, ’06. 660w.
“Miss Gaussen has made little of excellent material.”
+ – – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 442. Ap. 14. 920w.
Reviewed by J. H. Lobban.
=Blackwood’s M.= 180: 462. O. ’06. 4110w.
“Her volume is handy and attractive and shows evidence of zeal and
industry.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 168. S. 16, ’06. 470w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 141. Ap. 20, ’06. 960w.
“Rather a flimsy volume.”
– =Nation.= 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 830w.
“Is an easy and pleasant sketch. On the whole the memoir is well worth
reading.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 240w.
=Gauthiers-Villars, Henry, and Tremisot, G.= Enchanted automobile; tr.
from the French by Mary J. Safford. $1. Page.
In this addition to the “Roses of Saint Elizabeth series,” is told the
story of Coco and Touton, the twin boy and girl of King Crystal IX of
Bohemia, who lived a long time ago in the days of the fairies. The
twins were ignorant little things and hated study until one day they
went out into the world in the enchanter Merlin’s wonderful automobile
and there they met many interesting people and learned the true value
of work.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Gautier, Theophile.= Russia, by Theophile Gautier, and by other
distinguished French travelers and writers of note; tr. from the French,
with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far
East, by Florence MacIntyre Tyson. 2v. **$5. Winston.
“In general, it may be said that it stands the test of time
wonderfully well.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 102. F. 1, ’06. 1350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 82. F. 10, ’06. 310w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 113. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Gaye, R. K.= Platonic conception of immortality and its connexion with
the theory of ideas. *$1.50. Macmillan.
+ – =Quarterly R.= 204: 63. Ja. ’06. 190w.
+ + =Spec.= 97: 23. Jl. 7, ’06. 110w.
=Gayley, Charles Mills, and Young, Clement C.= Principles and progress
in English poetry. $1.10. Macmillan.
“Everything may be readily pronounced excellent; many of the ideas
stated or implied are debatable ... but everything is well and
carefully done. It is a book that any student of literature will find
useful.” Edward E. Hale, jr.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 102. Mr. ’06. 1110w.
=Geffroy, Gustave.= National gallery (London); with an introd. by Sir
Walter Armstrong. ¼ vel. *$10. Warne.
“Is a book of intelligent and pleasant talk. Printed in handier form
and with better illustrations, ... it would make a first-rate popular
guide; but under the circumstances it is unlikely to deprive Mr.
Edward T. Cook’s well-known volume of its vogue.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 282. F. ’06. 60w.
“(His) method has the merit of keeping the text within reasonable
limits ... but it does not bring the collection vividly before one and
fails to give a measure of the extraordinary variety of the old
masters brought together in this particular one of London’s museums.”
Charles de Kay.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 325. My. 19, ’06. 1390w.
“M. Geffroy’s brief introduction is pleasant and unpretentious, and
marked with knowledge and good sense. A handy book of reference.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
=Geiermann, Rev. P.= Manual of theology for the laity: being a brief,
clear and systematic exposition of the reason and authority of religion
and a practical guide-book for all of good-will. *60c. Benziger.
The plan followed in this volume is first, to investigate the
fundamental ideas of religion as proposed by reason and history;
second, to study the revealed religion both in its supernatural truths
and in its divinely ordained practice; and third, to show how the true
religion of to-day logically follows from these two premises.
=Geikie, James.= Structural and field geology for students of pure and
applied science. *$4. Van Nostrand.
“The different chapters seem of unequal value.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 260. Mr. 29, ’06. 160w.
=Geil, William Edgar.= Yankee in pigmy land. **$1.50. Dodd.
In his bright, fully illustrated narrative of a journey across Africa
from Mombasa through the great pigmy forest to Banana, Mr. Geil
touches mainly upon the lion hunters, the sleeping sickness and its
victims, the lost caravan, nights alone with savages, the greatest
wild-game region of the earth, The Congo rule, the work of
missionaries including a biographical sketch of Bishop Tucker, and the
“Land of laughter” itself with its tiny inhabitants and their simple
life.
* * * * *
“Both text and pictures are tremendously realistic, and, to be frank,
excite both disgust and pity.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 250w.
“The real value of his journey lies in his account of the home and
habits of the little brown Tom Thumbs of the great Pigmy forest.” H.
E. Coblentz.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 233. Ap. 1, ’06. 380w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 874. Ap. 12, ’06. 120w.
“A narrative that never flags, dealing in a fresh way even with the
homes of which much has already been said by others.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 130w.
“The humor in which he indulges in his narrative is carried too far
and becomes wearisome.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 525. D. 28, ’05. 380w.
=George, Henry, jr.= Menace of privilege: a study of the dangers to the
republic from the existence of a favored class. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The author “begins with the assertion that ours is a land of
inequality, and, proceeding to an analysis of that inequality, he
distinguishes between various types of ‘princes of privilege.’ A
somewhat pessimistic chapter describes the physical, mental and moral
deterioration of the masses. Mr. George devotes a chapter to the
danger of unionism, and several chapters to what he calls weapons of
privilege, chiefly the use of the courts, and corruption in politics.
The proposed remedy of all these inequalities and wrongs, as one would
naturally infer from Mr. George’s well-known predilections, is to be
found in the single tax.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The book is clear in presentation and logical arrangement. It is a
valuable contribution to the study of our social and industrial
problems—a book of unusual merit and interest.” Scott E. W. Bedford.
+ + – =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 851. My. ’06. 490w.
“One need not agree with all the conclusions of the author to profit
by his arguments. The volume deserves careful study.”
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 418. Mr. ’06. 300w.
“No more important work dealing with the grave problems that confront
the American republic to-day has appeared in months than Mr. George’s
strong, clear and logical work.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 438. Ap. ’06. 4700w.
“In the analysis of social conditions, it is not a whit in advance of
‘Progress and poverty.’” Winthrop More Daniels.
– =Atlan.= 97: 844. Je. ’06. 460w.
“Mr. George’s book is to be chiefly condemned, not because it is
essentially an aggregation of all sorts of material, largely gathered
from newspapers and magazines, but because this miscellaneous stuff
has been arrayed and employed, with no little rhetorical skill and
dexterity, to simulate an honest investigation and a comprehensive
discussion of the great questions with which the author professes to
deal.” R. W. Raymond.
– – =Cassier’s M.= 29: 510. Ap. ’06. 2680w.
“It is a challenge clothed with dignity, as well as a plan of reform
that is not devoid of charm. If the work may serve to awaken the
public seriously to the tendencies which are so fraught with danger,
one will readily pardon the faults of logic and exaggerated inferences
which it contains.”
+ – =Cath. World.= 83: 829. S. ’06. 700w.
“This is an able, sincere and elaborate indictment of modern society,
resting fundamentally on the highly questionable assertion that the
rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 350w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 230w.
=Engin. N.= 55: 317. Mr. 15, ’06. 890w.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1047. My. 3, ’06. 340w.
“In detail, his pages contain little or nothing that will be new to
the careful observer of prevailing conditions, or the student of
contemporary magazines and newspapers from which he has derived most
of his abundant illustrative material.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 610w.
“In developing his thesis, Mr. George has given us a book of
first-rate interest and importance. It is written forcefully and
brilliantly, and, merely as good reading, it will take a high place in
the literature of economic and political discussion. As a picture of
present-day conditions it is a remarkable piece of description and
analysis.” Franklin H. Giddings.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 61. F. 3, ’06. 1990w.
“The style is excellent, the spirit earnest, the
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 760. Mr. 31, ’06. 980w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 130w.
=Geronimo (Apache chief).= Geronimo’s story of his life; taken down and
edited by S. M. Barrett. **$1.50. Duffield.
The atmosphere of legend and incident pervades this story of Geronimo,
the seventy-seven-year old Apache chief. He begins his story with the
account of the origin of the Apaches. “One finds in these grandiose
legends traces of the familiar mythical cosmogonies of the East, and
it might be of advantage if scholars gave them more attention.”
Geronimo’s object in telling his life story is to secure freedom and
justice for his people.
* * * * *
“The narrative of the fierce old chief’s bloody career in his struggle
with the invading whites is a moving one, and is as full of exciting
and picturesque incident as any of Cooper’s novels. It is told with
that wealth of imagery for which the Indian is noted.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 240w.
“His story is simple, straight-forward, and interesting, and should
find a large number of readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 600w.
“It goes without saying that the old chief has an interesting
autobiography, and the work is further important as giving the Indian
side of a long and notable controversy with our government.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 120w.
=Gerould, Gordon Hall.= Sir Guy of Warwick. $1. Rand.
“A fine old story of knighthood, recast and retold in plain modern
English for those who find the ancient romances archaic and stilted to
read.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 70w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 936. Ag. 12, ’05. 20w.
=Gerstacker, Friedrich Wilhelm Christian.= Germelshausen; tr. from the
German by Clara M. Lathrop. *50c. Crowell.
In this quaint little German classic, which has been excellently
translated, a young artist in the course of his wanderings in the
forest, comes upon a beautiful girl who is waiting on the highway for
a lover who never comes. She leads him into her village where he sups,
dances, and falls in love with her. But just before midnight she takes
him into the outskirts of the town and leaves him,—until the hour
shall strike. Then, when it is too late, he discovers that the village
was Germelshausen, which lies forever sunk in the swamp save for one
day in a hundred years when it comes to life, and this was the day,
the village has sunk again, and Gertrude is lost to him forever.
=Gettemy, Charles Ferris.= True story of Paul Revere. **$1.50. Little.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 112. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“The book is a fine example of acute historical criticism, not
cynically applied to overthrowing the basis for a healthy patriotic
sentiment, but good naturedly correcting the facts, while leaving the
sentiment intact.”
+ =Ind.= 40: 929. Ap. 19, ’06. 390w.
“Mr. Gettemy’s reserved but commendable study does not probe deep, but
it is truthful and scrupulous in its intent. He has not, however,
over-stated his indebtedness to E. H. Goss’s previous work.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 124. Ag. 9, ’06. 1300w.
=Gibbon, Perceval.= Vrouw Grobelaar and her leading cases. †$1.50.
McClure.
In this new volume of tales the author “deals with the back-world of
Boer superstition, the kind of story we may believe to be told round
winter fires on lonely farms. The Vrouw Grobelaar, the narrator, will
capture the affections of every reader with her shrewd common sense,
her sharp tongue and trenchant philosophy of life.... The tales
themselves range over every variety of subject, from the idyllic to
the purely horrible.” (Spec.) The collection includes The king of the
baboons, Piet Naude’s trek, The sacrifice, Vasco’s sweetheart, Avenger
of blood. A good end, Her own story.
* * * * *
“His English is as plain as the English of the Bible, and the Boer men
are like the men of the Old Testament.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 126. D. 2, ’05, 310w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 832. D. 16. 1030w.
“On the whole ‘Vrouw Grobelaar’ presents the most gripping and
vision-enlarging group of stories since Kipling’s ‘Plain tales from
the hills.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 530w.
“Some transplantations and an occasional forgetfulness to make the old
narrator speak in character are not a serious detraction from the
attraction of the stories. They are deftly woven together; and the
humour of the vrouw and the liveliness of her little circle qualify
their love of horror.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 433. D. 8, ’05. 460w.
“In ‘Vrouw Grobelaar’ lies waiting a genuine sensation for the lover
of short Stories. Unless the reviewer is at fault, they will recall to
the reader the hour wherein he tasted his first Maupassant, and that
other hour when the new Kipling swam into his ken.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.
“In the light they throw upon a unique people, the Vrouw Grobelaar’s
leading cases are worthy of careful reading. They are full of
informing hints as to the Dutch of the Transvaal, their attitude
towards the Kafirs, their mingled superstitions and piety, their
courage and obstinacy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 350w.
– + =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 90w.
“The Leading cases which long observation of her would have supplied
as guides to conduct cover most sides of South African life.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 785. D. 16, ’05. 280w.
“Altogether, it is a collection to be heartily commended, for to most
readers it will open up a new world, and the style and method are
those of a true artist in fiction.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 260w.
=Gibson, Charles.= Among French inns: the story of a pilgrimage to
characteristic spots of rural France. **$1.60. Page.
“The guide-book information with which the story is interrupted, is
generally sound.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 140w.
“A substantial volume which might well serve as a guide to travelers
eager to get off the beaten tracks and to see France in its most
characteristic features; and is also a very readable and interesting
volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 795. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
=Gibson, Charles Dana.= Our neighbors. **$4.20. Scribner.
“The present volume is a worthy companion to those that have preceded
it.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 160w.
=Gibson, Charlotte Chaffee.= In eastern wonderlands. †$1.50. Little.
What all writers who know the east are doing for a grown-up world
to-day the author has tried to do for little people, she has helped
them to an understanding of what is to be found nowadays in eastern
lands by describing a real trip around the world as taken by three
real children. She has deftly blended those things which interest with
those things which instruct, and has illustrated her account with
photographs, until Japan, China, Ceylon, India, the Red sea and Egypt
lose their vague outlines and become as familiar to her little readers
as they did to Alice, Fred and Charlotte who saw them all.
=Gifford, Mrs. Augusta Hale.= Italy, her people and their story.
**$1.40. Lothrop.
A popular history of the beginning, rise, development, and progress of
Italy from the time of Romulus down to the reign of Victor Emanuel
III.
* * * * *
“The history is given with considerable attention to details and
altogether the volume is of exceptional value, both from its
historical accuracy and its popular style.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 530w.
“It has little of the literary distinction of the other, pays
inadequate regard to the dignity of historical writing, and is not
always as critical as could be desired. Nevertheless, it, too, conveys
much substantial information in respect to the past and present of the
Sunny Peninsula and its vein is ... decidedly entertaining.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 160w.
“A readable volume. In the latter part, written in Italy and under the
direct influence of contemporaneous conditions, she very often
succeeds in giving us observations and impressions which bring her
narrative to a commendable, authoritative, and vital end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 540w.
“This volume may find popular acceptance. As a discriminating writer,
however, the author is open to criticism.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ’05. 90w.
“For the person who has not time to take up history in a professional
way and who wishes to get a fairly comprehensive idea of the Italian
situation, Mrs. Gifford’s book will be a valuable auxiliary.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 410. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
“A well-sustained, complete history of Italy.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 90w.
=Gilbert, Charles Benajah.= School and its life. $1.25. Silver.
“This volume, the fruit of wide experience both as a teacher and
school superintendent, deals with life rather than the mechanism of
schools. It conceives of teaching as a spiritual process, of education
as the wholesome development and adaptation of life to its
environment, and finds the conditions of successful teaching in
conforming to the common laws of life and growth. Its aim is to secure
to children the educative influence of a natural, sane, and wholesome
school life as a part of the larger world-life. Its successive
chapters discuss the vital problems arising in the management and
organization of schools and school systems.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A sane, practical, and comprehensive work on school management.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 73. S. ’06. 280w.
=Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 40w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 90w.
=Gilbert, Rosa Mulholland (Lady John Thomas Gilbert).= Life of Sir John
T. Gilbert. $5. Longmans.
Lord Gilbert’s unusually fortunate career is felicitously sketched by
his wife. “Copious correspondence, embracing letters from scholars,
historians, archæologists, Irish Franciscans in Rome and in Portugal,
noblemen, and public officials enliven the narrative, and,
incidentally, bear witness to the conscientious, painstaking method of
the historian.... The curtain that screens the sanctities of domestic
life is drawn aside just enough to give us a glimpse of the fine,
noble, sunny gentleman, an earnest Catholic, of high culture and
simple tastes, ambitious only of a competence sufficient to guarantee
him the opportunity to prosecute his work of study and composition,
which he loved, not for the fame that it brought him, but for itself.”
(Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“Well-written and delicate panegyric of a notable man.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 859. D. 23. 1160w.
“Lady Gilbert has discharged her task with excellent taste.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 402. Je. ’06. 660w.
“His widow, besides giving some account of her husband’s career,
prints copious selections from his correspondence, with the object of
illustrating the character of his work, and the interest of his
‘unusual and many-sided personality.’ We do not think Lady Gilbert has
been very successful in achieving this object.”
– + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 623. Jl. ’06. 260w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 532. S. 1, ’06. 590w.
“We have never taken up a ‘life’ so distended by trivial and ephemeral
letters.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 730. Je. 9, ’06. 230w.
“The facts are here, but they should have been put together for
readers who will not, and indeed cannot, search for them. We see the
pictures of a single-minded-worker, but have but a vague idea of what
he actually did.”
– + =Spec.= 96: 387. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Book of music: poems. **$1. Century.
“For though I can no music make, I trust
Here’s proof I love it.”
Such does Mr. Gilder vouchsafe in the opening lines of his prelude.
There are about thirty poems which show the “love that in him burns
for the fair lady of Melody.” There are tributes to Mme. Essepoff,
Paderewski. Macdowell, Beethoven, Rubenstein and others, there are
lines to Handel’s Largo, the violin, and the ’cello, and there is a
poet of music’s appreciation of the Music at twilight, in moonlight
and in darkness.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 613. O. 6, ’06. 400w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= In the heights. *$1. Century.
“Few know as well as he how to find the fitting word or a felicitous
phrase with which to celebrate a friend, or a cause, or a memory.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 125. F. 16, ’06. 310w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =North American.= 182: 756. My. ’06. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Gilliam, Charles Frederic.= Victorious defeat: the story of a
franchise. $1.50. Roxburgh pub.
A political novel which deals with the rights of the laboring classes.
Robert Barker, champion of the people, loves Irene, the daughter of
Judge Henly who is pitted against him in a political contest. Irene is
torn between her duty to her father and her love for the masterful
young leader, who, her sense of honor tells her, is in the right. The
election results in a defeat for the judge and his constituents, but a
defeat which the losers themselves count victorious in the end.
=Gillman, Henry.= Hassan: a fellah. [+]75c. Little.
A new popular edition of this story which appeared in 1898.
=Gilman, Daniel Coit.= Launching of a university. **$2.50. Dodd.
A volume of papers and addresses, nearly a third of which are devoted
to the founding and early years of Johns Hopkins University, and the
remainder to educational addresses delivered on occasions such as the
Yale Bi-Centennial and the dedication of the Princeton library
building.
* * * * *
“In one respect, the reader of historical proclivities may be inclined
to find fault with ‘The launching of a university.’ President Gilman
resolutely keeps back all references to the occasional misfortunes and
unpleasantnesses which harassed him and his colleagues.” Robert C.
Brooks.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 358. D. ’06. 1020w.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 479. My. ’06. 240w.
Reviewed by F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 289. My. 1, ’06. 2320w.
“Cicero would have given his approval to this book.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1104. My. 10, ’06. 230w.
“Taken as a whole, President Gilman’s book is notable alike as a
history of the university with which he was so long connected, as a
discussion of some vital questions of the day, and as a contribution
to the story of American educational progress.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 531. Ap. 7, ’06. 810w.
=Nation.= 82: 240. Mr. 22, ’06. 140w.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 123. Je. 7, ’06. 880w.
Reviewed by Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 157. Mr. 17, ’06. 1320w.
“It is a rich ‘sheaf of remembrances’ that he has preserved in
noteworthy reminiscences and characterizations of gifted men, set
forth in finished literary form with here and there a gem of
pleasantry and wit.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 260w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Edward MacDowell. *$1. Lane.
An eighty page monograph of the “American Grieg” uniform with the
“Living masters of music” series. “That MacDowell is, ‘in a singularly
complete sense the poet of the natural world,’ yet no less the
‘instrument of human emotion;’ that the range of his emotional
expression is astonishing; that he has a remarkable gift for extremely
compact expression; that his music is ‘touched with the deep and
wistful tenderness, the primeval nostalgia;’ that much of its charm
lies in its spontaneity and the utter lack of self-consciousness; that
no musician has felt the spell of the ocean as has MacDowell ... these
and other characteristic points, Mr. Gilman dwells on, thus giving his
readers as good an idea of the music as can be obtained without
hearing it.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“In spite of some annoyances of style, a love of high-sounding but
little meaning words and phrases, Mr. Gilman manages to depict the
character of his subject’s work in such a way as to convey a distinct
impression.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Gilman has given a sympathetic and reasonably comprehensive
account of his life and work.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“The least satisfactory of Mr. Gilman’s chapters is that on the songs,
the most satisfactory that on the sonatas. It is to be regretted that
no bibliographic note has been appended.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 268. Mr. 29, ’06. 990w.
“He has written in a high-pitched key of praise. His book would be
more agreeable reading if he would improve his style, which is
‘precieux’ in the extreme.” Richard Aldrich.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 560w.
“Mr. Gilman deserves all credit for his abstention from irrelevant
personalities. The value of this sympathetic essay is considerably
impaired by the laboured preciosity of its style.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 170w.
=Gilpin, Sidney.= Sam Bough, R. S. A.: some account of his life and
works. $3. Macmillan.
“Sam Bough was a true Bohemian, who lived from hand to mouth, and
threw away his best chances of worldly success for the sake of the
indulgence of some passing whim.” (Int. Studio.) It is as a Cumberland
painter of types native to his district that he demands recognition,
and the biographer has produced from letters, anecdotes and personal
estimates, a sympathetic sketch of the man and the artist.
* * * * *
“Nor are these documents remarkable except for the constant recurrence
of a certain breezy jocularity, which doubtless was delightful to
those who were in a position to appreciate the point of it.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 272. Mr. 3. 300w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28, ’05. 300w.
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 70w.
“It is an interesting record of a man of versatile powers. There are
scarcely as many good stories in it as one might expect.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: sup. 125. Ja. 27, ’06. 160w.
=Gilson, Roy Rolfe.= Katrina: a story. †$1.50. Baker.
“The quaintly humorous middle-aged newspaper worker whose ability as a
writer is joined with whimsical peculiarities of character, finds in
the little girl Katrina, whom he accidentally meets, the child of the
girl he loved many years ago. His friendship with the little girl and
his care of her and her optimistic and intellectual but unpractical
father make a delightful narrative.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“He combines a sympathetic understanding of the young child’s point of
view with an equally rare understanding of the sorrows and
disillusions of age.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 247. N. ’06. 440w.
“The author has such use of his faculties as a bird has of its wings
in mid air, and he has told his story with that whimsical, bright
movement of the mind which accounts in part for its indescribable
charm and grace.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1499. D. 20, ’06. 290w.
“A tale full of naiveté and tenderness.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 120w.
“A satisfactory bit of writing.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“It is written with a certain tenderness and quiet humor which may
almost be said to give it distinction.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
=Gilson, Roy Rolfe.= Miss Primrose. $1.25. Harper.
The simple sweetness of Letitia Primrose, whose life was one long
sacrifice of service to her father, to other people’s children, and
finally to another woman’s home, gives to the book its dainty charm,
while the characters of David, the boy who dreamed of Rugby, Butters,
the editor who printed her father’s classic poems in the village
paper, and others who came under the spell of her sweet innocent
personality give to the story both young life and humor.
* * * * *
“The book is almost wholly devoid of plot, and although it is written
with no little literary skill, the average reader will find it lacking
in interest.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 67. Jl. 21. 210w.
“The story as a whole is rather cloying.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 192. Mr. 31, ’06. 470w.
“There are gentle pathos and quaint humor to be found throughout.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 50w.
=Gissing, George Robert.= House of cobwebs and other stories. $1.50.
Dutton.
“The fifteen stories included in this posthumous volume are prefaced
by an introductory survey of the work of their lamented author [by Mr.
Thomas Seccombe].... The stories themselves, slight as is their
texture, are ‘admirable specimens of Gissing’s own genre.’ They
manifest the delicate tenderness of his feeling not for, but with
those to whom life has not been kind.... As Dickens was the novelist
of the recognized poor, Gissing is the novelist of those poorer poor
who belong of right to another class.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 479. My. 19, ’06. 880w.
“But what is certain, and is rendered positive by this book, is that
he had little artistic sense of the short story. These are mere
blotches of feeling, studies of atmosphere; they are never stories.
They might have found their use in corners of a long novel. They have
neither beginning nor ending, only being; and they might well leave
off before or after their conclusion. Never was there a more glaring
lack of the ‘dramatic’ than in Mr. Gissing.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 10. Jl. 7. 490w.
“Mr. Seccombe has prefaced this volume of remains ... with a
discriminating essay of considerable biographical and critical
interest.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 208. Je. 8, ’06. 1100w.
“The observation in these sketches is originally fine, and then highly
selective; the English of great purity and incisiveness; and, that a
certain thinness of tone and lack of humor are necessary results of
gruelling personal experience with the matter in hand. It is a book
for those who love impeccable workmanship.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 450w.
“The volume is well worth making one’s own, not only because of these
last characteristic sketches by a dear and vanquished hand, but
because of Mr. Seccombe’s illuminating essay, invaluable to all who
care to enter into an intimate comprehension of Gissing’s novels as
related to their author.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 519. Ag. 25, ’06. 950w.
“To us this collection of short stories is more valuable for the
excellent and readable introductory survey of Gissing’s work, written
by Mr. Thomas Seccombe, than for the stories themselves, although some
of the latter are wrought out with care and have literary form.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 170w.
“In point of workmanship, observation, and the philosophy of life
which they set forth they show him at his best and sanest.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 835. My. 26, ’06. 1070w.
=Gladden, Rev. Washington.= Christianity and socialism. *$1. Meth. bk.
“Full of good advice to both employers and employed, and he endeavors
to reconcile their differences in a truly irenic spirit.” Edward
Fuller.
+ =Critic.= 48: 214. Mr. ’06. 330w.
“Like all Dr. Gladden’s utterances, these discourses are characterized
by what has been well termed ‘sanctified common sense’ and are
thoroughly stimulating and suggestive.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 310w.
“It were well if all clerical pronouncements on social questions were
marked by Dr. Gladden’s thoroness of information and his earnest
sympathy with the problems of the men who work.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 156. Jl. 19, ’06. 120w.
=Yale R.= 14: 444. F. ’06. 80w.
=Gladden, Rev. Washington.= The new idolatry, and other discussions.
**$1.20. McClure.
“A volume of discussions in protest against commercializing of
government, of education, and of religion; against the growing
tendency in church and state to worship power and forget the interests
of justice and freedom; against the dethronement of God and the
enthronement of Mammon.” The contents include the new idolatry;
Tainted money; Standard oil and foreign missions; Shall ill-gotten
gains be sought for Christian purposes? The ethics of luxurious
expenditure; The church and the nation; Religion and democracy; Rights
and duties; The new century and the new nation; The Prince of life.
* * * * *
“One does not have to agree with all that is said to appreciate the
importance of the subjects discussed.”
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 419. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“The essays are really adapted only for oral delivery. They verge upon
platitude and will scarcely stimulate thought.”
– =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 60w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 20. Ja. 13, ’06. 710w.
“Its spirit and lessons are both needed by the American people.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087 D. 30, ’05. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 120w.
=Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson.= Wheel of life. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Miss Glasgow has taken a plunge with Mrs. Wharton into the very thick
of New York’s smart set life. She throws upon her society screen a
complexity of types, which with ingenious detachment appear at one
time pathetically human, again beggarly moral, and most often
impersonally conventional. “The three women represent as many types;
Gerty a mondaine of the better sort ... holding her silken skirts
above the soil of scandal, and underneath a mocking mask, keeping a
pinioned soul; Connie Adams, a silly moth, fluttering in endless
gayeties outside the more exclusive circles ... and the cloisteral
Laura, not only a genius, but a consummate flower of womanhood. Of the
men, Perry Bridewell and Arnold Kemper are not unlike—pleasure-seeking
men of the clubs.... Bridewell is not much more than a well-groomed,
handsome body; Kemper is Bridewell with intellect added. Adams, on the
contrary, is the absorbed man of letters ... caring for no pleasure
outside his work.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The average level of the tale is extraordinarily high, but it does
not rise to anything that matters very much anywhere.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 270w.
“‘The wheel of life’ is a serious attempt. If it be only partially
successful (as compared with the great works of all time), the quality
of success is of the best, it is not cheap. The essentials are there.”
Mary Moss.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 91. Mr. ’06. 1890w.
“It is a pity that Miss Glasgow’s humor does not shine forth more
abundantly; her work needs it.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 435. My. ’06. 460w.
“As compared with ‘The deliverance’ for example, this work is an
inferior production.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 156. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Miss Glasgow’s stories of her native South were better, and the
little group of Southerners ... are decidedly the best thing in it.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 284. F. 1, ’06. 440w.
“Is not up to Miss Glasgow’s level, but this seems largely due to her
trespassing upon an alien field.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 491. Mr. 31, ’06. 690w.
“Its reach is greater than that of its predecessors; its author has
gone down into the deep places, and the distinction, the lift that is
all its own is that in the last analysis it is the apotheosis of
goodness.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 2210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =North American.= 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.
“There are broader contrasts of character than in ‘The house of
mirth,’ though not quite the same sureness of touch, the same sense of
intimacy with the most illusive aspects of a well-defined though
loosely ordered social group.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 756. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.
“All of these [four groups of characters] are faithfully and well
wrought, and each adds its increment of genuine substance to the sum
total effect of an admirable book.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 448. Mr. ’06. 680w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 80w.
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 100w.
“The novel is a study of manners, and is extremely clever, very
subtile, and slightly disagreeable.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 718. My. 5, ’06. 310w.
=Glyn, Elinor (Mrs. Clayton Glyn).= Beyond the rocks. †$1.50. Harper.
Danger ground is trodden from the first page to the last in Mrs.
Glyn’s story of hearts. Theodosia Fitzgerald, young and beautiful,
marries Josiah Brown, rich but fifty and stupid. In spite of her
attempt to be faithful she falls in love with an English lord and the
ardent love of the two runs a riotous course in the face of
conventionality and duty.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Glyn’s picture of the unscrupulous, sensual, bridge-playing set
would give a ludicrously false impression, both of that set and of
English society in general, to any reader who was unable to correct it
by his own observation. Nor is Mrs. Glyn much happier with more
reputable people.”
– =Acad.= 70: 503. My. 26, ’06. 380w.
“Lack of good taste and deficiency in technique are serious handicaps,
and in fact this novel is drawn back by them from the domain of good
art into the republic of the second-rate.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 230w.
“All the parents who were in doubt about letting their debutante
daughters browse upon ‘The visits of Elizabeth’ may turn them loose
upon ‘Beyond the rocks’ without a twinge of misgiving.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 450w.
“The whole moral atmosphere of the book is of a decidedly unwholesome
and vitiated character.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 771. N. 24, ’06. 960w.
“Continues to be sprightly in her manner, but her latest story moves
in conventional grooves, its characters are mere puppets, its plot is
thin, and its emotionalism feeble.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 40w.
=Goddard, Dwight.= Eminent engineers: brief biographies of thirty-two of
the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress.
*$1.50. Derry-Collard co.
“In selecting the 32 subjects for these biographies, the honors were
equally divided between American and European engineers. The American
sketches are headed by Benjamin Franklin and John Fitch, and concluded
by James B. Eads. Arkwright, Newcomen and Watt head the Europeans, and
Bessemer and Sir William Siemens close the list.... In selecting the
names, the object was to include men who had ‘accomplished something
of importance in the development and application of power and
machinery.’”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The volume, as a whole, brings together, in convenient and readable
form, brief biographies of men whose careers are of interest to every
engineer.”
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 433. Ap. 12, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Goddard’s English is careless, but he has written a book of
interest.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 401. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
=Godfrey, Edward.= Structural engineering, bk. 1. Tables. $2.50. E:
Godfrey. Monongahela bank bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.
The author “has selected the most necessary elements of the ‘Pocket
companion,’ of ‘Osborn’s tables’ and of other similar works, put some
of the material into improved form, and added an equal amount of new
matter, comprising diagrams, tables and drawings.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Is in many respects distinctly ahead of anything yet published in the
English language. As a whole, the book represents a very useful
collection of structural tables, and a very compact one. But its
varied contents are so heterogeneously mixed up, so lacking all
orderly arrangement, as to excite one’s surprise.”
+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 193. F. 15, ’06. 300w.
=Godfrey, Elizabeth, pseud. (Jessie Bedford).= Bridal of Anstace.
†$1.50. Lane.
“Love, battling with race and religion, is the foundation of Elizabeth
Godfrey’s latest romance. At the outset of her story London is
astounded by the marriage of an English girl Anstace, with the Count
Basil Leonides. The wedding is performed with the ceremony of the
Orthodox Greek church. In the midst of the reception that follows, the
bridegroom receives a telegram. He reads it, and without showing it to
his bride, begs her to prepare for instant departure. While she is
making her preparations, however, he slips from the house alone and
disappears. Why he went, and where, the sudden reappearance of the
earlier wife whom he thought dead, and all that followed therefrom
makes up the substance of the story.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Miss Godfrey tells her story in easy, flowing style, and handles her
unwieldy cast skilfully.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 599. Je. 23, ’06. 100w.
“The picture shows experience of life, powers of reflection, and a
simple and flowing style which would cover more sins than are to be
found here.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 9. Jl. 7, ’06. 270w.
“A plot somewhat over intense and morbid is relieved in this novel by
much delightful character-study.”
– + =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 200w.
“It would be easy to pick holes in Miss Elizabeth Godfrey’s novel. No
amount of uncertainty of handling in minor matters, or allegiance
divided between observation and convention, can destroy our pleasure
in the gentle light that beams through an engaging, almost a childlike
story.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 226. Je. 22, ’06. 320w.
“Manners, customs, and pronunciations come in with the breath of
research in their garments. But these easily-seen inequalities do not
prevail over the fine and interesting features of the story. In
construction and in omission, it is the most masterly novel Miss
Godfrey has yet written.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 15. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“Though most of the characters are well drawn and the style of writing
is attractive, the fascination lies in the fact that the mystery is
not solved until almost the last chapter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 170w.
+ – =Spec.= 97: 63. Jl. 14, ’06. 150w.
=Gomperz, Theodor.= Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v.
2 and 3. ea. *$4. Scribner.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 420w.
“I do not wish to lay down these learned, stimulating, and eloquently
written volumes without saying that their writer, in a degree true of
no other historian, has understood how to take the history of Greek
thought out of its isolation, to relate it to the whole culture of the
Greeks, and to illuminate it by the civilization of modern times.” Wm.
A. Hammond.
+ + =Philos. R.= 15: 83. Ja. ’06. 1600w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
+ + + =Quarterly R.= 204: 63. Ja. ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=Goode, John.= Recollections of a lifetime, by John Goode of Virginia.
$2. Neale.
Mr. Goode was a member of the secession convention of Virginia, the
Confederate congress and the congress of the United States. His
reminiscences, aside from including interesting phases of his life as
lawyer, soldier, and statesman, give helpful side lights on the men
and affairs of war times.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 214. O. ’06. 50w.
“Even the general public will find much to entertain, if it reads far
enough.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 366. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.
“Outside of the instances mentioned and some good anecdotes, there is
little that will repay either the general reader or the historian in
search of material.”
– + =Outlook.= 83: 53. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 80w.
=Goodhue, Isabel.= Good things and graces. **50c. Elder.
“Has a flavor that escapes many a more pretentious effort of its
class.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Goodloe, Carter.= At the foot of the Rockies. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Good as the stories are in themselves, they have gained much in the
telling; for Miss Goodloe has just the right dramatic and artistic
touch.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 90w.
=Goodnow, Frank Johnson.= Principles of administrative law of the United
States. *$3. Putnam.
“It is the only book dealing with the entire scope of the subject.”
Isidor Loeb.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 174. Mr. ’06. 1220w.
“Work presents a breadth of view and a freedom from dogmatism which
entitle it to a high rank in the literature of political science.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 799. Ap. 5, ’06. 370w.
“In a certain sense he has made the subject his own; but he has not
made it ours.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 105. Ag. 2, ’06. 1040w.
“The most serious defect in a work which is otherwise little exposed
to criticism, and should win wide favor both among students and the
general educated public, is the fact that, no attempt is made to
examine the application of administrative principles to the government
of the Territories and dependencies of the United States.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 37. S. 1, ’06. 750w.
“We have as a result a comprehensive discussion of administrative
organization in the United States, in which the organization of the
general, State, and local governments, the relation of the officials
to the public, and the forms of control over official action are
analyzed with a degree of clearness and force which give to the work a
high position in the literature of American politics.” L. S. Rowe.
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 97. My. ’06. 290w.
=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Balance of power: a novel. $1.50. Outing
pub.
This novel “deals with a factory situation and the rise of a strong
young man whose ability is characterized by the word ‘inevitable’; but
the excellence of the book is in its fiber ... and a statement of the
plot conveys but little.” (Outlook.) “Among the characters which are
many and diversified, the most interesting, probably, is the bluff old
colonel who is a sort of self appointed oracle of the town. This
Yankee Mars struts through the book with the air of a man who has
smelt powder and who knows a thing or two, and the way in which he
imposes what he calls his opinions upon the yokels of Hampstead is
very wonderful.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“A good, readable story, and an interesting contribution to that
modern type of American fiction which depicts our keen, progressive
industrial life, alongside of the life of society and of the home.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 249. N. ’06. 270w.
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Arthur Goodrich had a good story to tell. He has told it very
cleverly, too, although with overmuch coquetry with his plot in the
first third of the book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 669. O. 13, ’06. 470w.
“It is one of the truest studies of the phase of American life of
which it treats that have been made in fiction, and also one of the
most interesting of the novels of the season.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
“The novel is overcrowded. There is excellent material, but too much
of it. Yet there are evidences of marked ability—occasional touches
which reveal the fine creative instinct.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 335. O. 6, ’06. 160w.
“The combination of industrialism and politics and love makes a book
which rises above the level of most of its contemporaries.”
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 160w.
=Gordon, William Clark.= Social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to
his time. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
Following an introductory chapter on Literature and social science in
which the author and literature he treats Social conditions in England
in the time of Tennyson, Tennyson’s idea of man, Tennyson’s idea of
woman, The family, Society, Social institutions, and Democracy and
progress. Restating the main points of his summary and conclusions.
* * * * *
“His book is a creditable summary of the forces and conditions
prevalent in Great Britain while Tennyson was writing.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 391. O. 20, ’06. 740w.
“It is a painstaking production, provided with many extracts and many
more for reference.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 50w.
“As a thesis for the doctorate this essay is an instructive example of
the bewildering effect of a study of sociology.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 190. Ag. 30, ’06. 670w.
“Really Mr. Gordon expresses himself very well, and most of what he
says is true, but mayn’t we hope that a plain man reading his favorite
poet may yet be permitted to do his own thinking?”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 657. O. 6, ’06. 500w.
=Gorky, Maxim, pseud. (Alicksel Maximovitch Preschkov).= Creatures that
once were men: a story; tr. from the Russian by J. K. M. Shirazi, with
an introd. by G. K. Chesterton. 75c. Funk.
Mr. Chesterton in his introduction says: “This story is a test case of
the Russian manner, for it is in itself a study of decay, a study of
failure, and a study of old age.” “Gorky’s tale is pessimistic and
contains all the hard, realistic word-painting which is characteristic
of him.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Story one can hardly call it. It is just one of Gorky’s photographs.”
+ – =Acad.= 68: 280. Mr. 18, ’05. 1090w.
“Mr. Shirazi has rendered his author fairly well; perhaps he uses a
little too much slang. The foot-notes are also meagre.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 210w.
=Ind.= 61: 398. Ag. 16, ’06. 300w.
“We have enjoyed Mr. Chesterton’s fifteen pages, however, much more
than Maxim Gorky’s ninety-four. Anything more dismal ... we have never
seen.”
+ – =Spec.= 94: 373. Mr. 11, ’05. 160w.
=Goschen, George Joachim.= Essays and addresses on economic questions.
$5. Longmans.
A statement of Lord Goschen’s economic creed as a business man and a
statesman, besides being a survey of all the most important economic
aspects of English history during the period covered, 1865–1893. “The
most important ‘pieces’ in the present volume are not of a
philosophical character, but are devoted to the discussion of specific
remedies for specific economic evils.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“We confidently recommend this volume to every student of economics
and political science.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 58. Ja. 20, ’06. 1820w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 719. N. 25. 660w.
“Lord Goschen’s ‘Introductory notes’ will probably attract more
attention than the essays to which they are prefixed.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 354. O. 27, ’05. 1360w.
“In all of them he shows that firm grasp both of facts and of
principles that has characterized his economic writing.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 228. Mr. 15, ’06. 1160w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 753. D. 9, ’05. 1720w.
“In all of [the various essays] will be found, combined with the gift
of lucid and forcible expression, the sagacity and almost excessive
caution, the careful attention to facts and the skillful analysis of
figures to which the public is accustomed in their author.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 759. N. 11, ’05. 1480w.
=Gosse, Edmund William=, ed. British portrait painters and engravers of
the eighteenth century, Kneller to Reynolds. *$50; *$70. Goupil.
This volume “is not so much a history of the subject as it is a
collection of plates after those mezzotints, ‘plain and colored,’ in
which the enchanting portraits painted by fashionable artists who were
also men of genius, were reproduced with an elegance and skill
unsurpassed by the originals.... Mr. Gosse’s text provides an
instructive accompaniment to the illustrations, but it is as a picture
gallery in little that this will find its appreciative public.”—Atlan.
* * * * *
“The introductory essay on the status of the portrait painter during
the eighteenth century has afforded Mr. Gosse a theme to which his
wide knowledge of eighteenth-century literature has enabled him to do
full justice.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 902. D. 30. 1240w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The plates in their turn are so well made that in some, if not in all
cases, they actually rival the qualities of the mezzotints from which
they are taken.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 270. F. ’06. 290w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A perfectly adequate introduction.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 397. F. 15, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is not very easy to say on what principle the illustrations are
here chosen, and it certainly would have been better to arrange them
according to the painters than to group them alphabetically according
to the name of the subject. Mr. Gosse’s essay has two great merits. It
is extremely readable, and it brings out with remarkable clearness the
extraordinary change that passed over the position of the portrait
painter after the advent of Reynolds.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 940w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Coventry Patmore. **$1. Scribner.
Reviewed by George Trobridge.
=Westminster R.= 165: 76. Ja. ’06. 7860w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= French profiles. *$1.60. Dodd.
“All in all, Mr. Gosse’s ‘French profiles’ is a volume to strengthen
the present ‘entente cordiale’ between English and French by
contributing towards mutual understanding and appreciation.” Arthur G.
Canfield.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 13. Ja. 1, ’06. 1850w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Sir Thomas Browne. **75c. Macmillan.
“To the master of exquisite expression Mr. Gosse does complete justice
in the last and best chapter of a book which deserves warm praise for
its judicial temper and fine insight.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 827. D. 16. 2580w.
“An admirably balanced estimate of the author of the ‘Religio
medici.’”
+ + =Contemporary R.= 88: 906. D. ’05. 850w.
“It has been prepared with excellent taste and judgment.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“Where Mr. Gosse fails in his estimate is in not sufficiently
recognizing the essentially poetic quality of Browne’s work, apart
from mere form or style. The absence of a bibliography is the grievous
fault this book shares with the other volumes of the same series.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 237. Ap. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Is not particularly interesting.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1491. Je. 21, ’06. 220w.
“It presents its subject in so attractive a light that one who has
never read Sir Thomas Browne’s books will turn to them with eager
interest, and one already acquainted with them will reread them with a
new zest.” Horatio S. Kranz.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 4. Ja. 6, ’06. 2820w.
=Gougar, Mrs. Helen Mar Jackson.= Forty thousand miles of world
wandering. $3. Helen M. Gougar, Lafayette, Ind.
The author’s recent tour of the world has furnished a wealth of travel
material out of which she has constructed with great accuracy an
informing, popular work of interest to the traveler who has covered
the ground no less than the stay-at-home book tourist. The present-day
phases of life and institutions appeal to her rather than the dead and
buried aspects. In keeping with the heavy paper, clear type and
handsome binding are numerous fine illustrations.
* * * * *
“This volume will not prove disappointing, and we can heartily and
conscientiously recommend it to our readers.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 215. F. ’06. 4180w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Biographic clinics. v. 3. Essays concerning the
influence of visual function pathologic and physiologic upon the health
of patients. *$1. Blakiston.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 180w.
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Book of the Rhine from Cleve to Mainz; 8
il. in col. by Trevor Hadden and 48 other il. *$2. Macmillan.
“No attempt has been made to describe objects of interest that would
be visited by the traveler or to give a complete history of the Rhine.
Mr. Gould has attempted to supply information concerning ‘sights’ and
the meaning and purpose of the objects as well as legends about
them.... A good deal of the text deals with the history of the
principal cities, taking up only the most significant events of their
past and connecting these as closely as possible with their present
condition and importance.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Baring-Gould is severely historical. When he does tell us a
story, he is careful to say at the end that it is a fable; and he
disproves it with dates. His book is a treasure-house of dates.”
+ + – =Acad.= 71: 306. S. 29, ’06. 1090w.
“In a rather happy-go-lucky fashion, but always pleasantly and
entertainingly, he discourses of kings and bishops, robber-bands,
altar-pieces, vintages, and various other matters. It would be very
easy to point out inaccuracies here and there, but it would be unfair
to judge such a book from the severely scientific standpoint.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 212. Ag. 25. 260w.
“All told very simply and directly and in a dry-as-dust manner which
will probably prevent the book from finding many readers except those
who take the journey which it describes.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 624. O. 6, ’06. 260w.
“Mr. Baring-Gould’s book is, as all admirers of his genius would wish
it to be, eminently characteristic. He has a keen eye for Nature, and
a keener for objects of interest, archaeological and historical, and
also a considerable gift of satire, for which, it must be allowed,
Germany affords not a few occasions.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 498. O. 6, ’06. 240w.
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Book of the Riviera. **$1.50. Dutton.
Beginning with Provence the author lures his readers on to Le Gai
Saber, then to Marseilles, Aix, Toulon, Hyères, Draguignan, Cannes,
Nice, Monaco, Mentone, San Remo, Alassio, and other places by the way,
ending at Savona, describing the charm of each town, giving hints to
travelers, telling little stories of the natives, and interspersing
all with well chosen bits of history, literature and sentiment. Forty
good photographs of scenery illustrate the volume.
* * * * *
“A good map and a better index would greatly improve this book.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 850w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 72. Ag. 1, ’06. 280w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 872. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 414. My. 17, ’06. 920w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 99. F. 17, ’06. 500w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 40w.
“‘The Riviera’ furnishes Mr. Baring-Gould’s facile pen with a subject
full of variety. Whatever the theme, it seems to be equally at home.”
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 645. Ap. 28, ’06. 170w.
=Graham, George Washington.= Mecklenburg declaration of independence,
May 20, 1775, and lives of its signers. $1.50. Neale.
A monograph upon the Mecklenburg declaration of independence which was
read before the Scotch-Irish society of America in June of 1895. It
has been enlarged and revised to meet the requirements of publication
in book form.
* * * * *
“Will be found decidedly interesting. It is not equally convincing,
for, altho it must be conceded that he adduces more documentary
evidence than did any of his predecessors, Dr. Graham, has, like them,
seen fit to rely largely on the testimony of assumption and hearsay
already made familiar through their efforts but inadmissible in the
court of history.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 801. My. 26, ’06. 1860w.
– =Nation.= 82: 475. Je. 7, ’06. 1360w.
“The work, as an effort to validate the document, is one of
supererogation. As a historical monograph by a high authority,
however, it deserves to be read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 460w.
=Graham, Harry (Col. D. Streamer, pseud.).= Misrepresentative women. $1.
Duffield.
In “this villainous collection of abominable verse” this modest author
sings merrily of Eve, Lady Godiva, Marie Corelli, Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, Mrs. Grundy, Dame Rumor, and other good souls who have achieved
fame in one way or another; then he passes on to, The self-made father
to the ready-made son, and other extraneous matter.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 458. D. 16, ’06. 100w.
“The point of view as well as the lines are nevertheless clever enough
to cover a multitude of shortcomings in technique and mere
construction.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
“Harry Graham’s jingles about ‘Misrepresentative women’ are in the
same vein as those in his previous volumes of comic verse, and it
bears some evidence that the vein has been slightly overworked.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 160w.
“Is the best kind of fooling.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
=Granger, Anna D.= Skat and how to play it. $1. Matthews.
Miss Granger has prepared the first real American treatise on skat,
and offers the student the fundamental principles that govern the
game.
=Grant, Percy Stickney.= Ad matrem, and other poems. Kimball.
“Something akin to Miltonic richness meets us in the outset of ‘Ad
Matrem,’ in the lines depicting the rout of the Greek godheads, before
the Lux mundi shining over Judean hills.” (Critic.) “The collection of
poems is not large, but it is stamped throughout with elevation of
tone, dignity, and often charm of manner.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by Edith M. Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 48: 272. Mr. ’06. 260w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.
“It shows unusual feeling for the resources of difficult meters and
unusual skill in handling them.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 283. Je. 2, ’06. 500w.
=Grant, Robert.= Law-breakers and other stories. †$1.25. Scribner.
Besides the title story there are six others in the group,—“George and
the dragon,” “An exchange of courtesies,” “The romance of a soul,”
“Against his judgment,” “A surrender,” and “Across the way.” They
“belong to the literature of exposure.... Each story has a definite
problem, or rather thesis, clearly stated and logically argued.... The
question argued in the title story is one that might well form a topic
for a debating society. It is this: Is a man who cheats the custom
house officer so fundamentally untrustworthy in character that a good
woman should not trust her life to him? For the particulars in the
case and the verdict of the author we must refer our readers to the
book.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The impression of the entire collection is one of discouragement.”
Mary Moss.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 435. Je. ’06. 690w.
“Is a distinctly stimulating book.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1047. My. 3, ’06. 170w.
“Upon the whole, they do not measure up to what we have learned to
expect from him.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 334. My. 26, ’06. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“As a whole the stories will strike most readers as not up to the
level of Judge Grant’s best work.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 814. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.
=Grant, Robert.= Orchid. †$1.25. Scribner.
“You merely feel that he is stating a condition, never that he tells
you the story of one person or group of people.” Mary Moss.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 52. Ja. ’06. 270w.
“The book, though it contains an appalling story, is written with
persiflage and an irony, which is, from first to last, carefully
concealed.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 91. Je. ’05. 720w.
=Gratacap, Louis Pope.= World as intention: a contribution to teleology.
*$1.25. Eaton.
“The volume is written in a serious, straightforward manner.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 165. Ja. ’06. 170w.
=Graves, Algernon=, comp. Royal academy of arts. per v. *$11. Macmillan.
“It deserves to rank with such an enterprise as the ‘Dictionary of
national biography.’ to which, indeed it is a complement, and like it,
should be in every institution, public or private, worthy of the name
of library.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 342. S. 9. 2180w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole, however, Mr. Graves is continuing to perform his
onerous task with every reasonable care, and the more frequently one
refers to his volumes the more valuable do they seem.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 205. F. 17. 2960w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 705. Je. 9. 2030w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We have noticed a good many slight slips, which are probably the
fault, not of Mr. Graves, but of the compiler of the original
catalogues.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 79. Jl. 21. 1730w. (Review of v. 6.)
“As a work of reference for the historian, whether dealing with the
Academy or with any one of a tremendous company of artists, this
handsomely printed compilation commends the warmest praise.” Royal
Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 273. F. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Every page, indeed, bears witness to the painstaking accuracy with
which the thousands of references have been extracted from the
records.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 28: 276. My. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
“We have said enough to indicate the curious interest of these
laborious volumes. Much might have been added, both as to the earlier
and the modern men.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 66. F. 23, ’06. 1480w.
“Has all the interest of the first.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ’05. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It will take its place among the indispensable works of reference.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 340. Mr. 17, ’06. 530w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
=Gray, Charles H.= Lodowick Carliell. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“His work is deserving of all praise.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 28. Ja. 6. 280w.
=Gray, John Thompson.= Kentucky chronicle. $1.50. Neale.
“Among the Virginia emigrants to The Falls, was Reginald Thornton, a
stately, kindly gentleman of the old school.” He established himself
at Lastlands, a few miles from The Falls, and it is the life of his
children, his grandchildren, their friends and enemies that goes to
make up this chronicle which is “more than a romance, it is a wisdom
book.”
=Gray, Maxwell, pseud. (Mary Gleed Tuttiett.)= Great refusal. †$1.50.
Appleton.
“The ‘great refusal’ is made by the hero, who renounces wealth and
position to become a common workingman, and eventually embarks in a
socialistic venture having for its object the establishment of a
Utopian commonwealth in Africa. These are not his only sacrifices, for
love also is cast aside, and it is not until the end of much suffering
that his early passion is replaced by one fixed upon far surer
foundations. The characterization is excellent, alike of the two
women, the devoted hero, and his masterful father, whose money seems
to the son too tainted for legitimate enjoyment.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The author fails chiefly because she has not defined exactly what she
would be at. In regard to the condition of the poor, her hero is an
ignoramus.”
– + =Acad.= 70: 173. F. 24, ’06. 1440w.
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 270w.
– =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 140w.
“A singularly charming and appealing book. The style of the novel,
also, is natural as to dialogue, and charmingly allusive as to
description.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 210w.
“The tale is a really thoughtful one, written with a purpose; but
buried so deeply beneath value the motive at its true worth.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 170w.
“Upon the whole, however, the characters are consistent with
themselves, and the author shows her art by being just to all of
them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 1350w.
“The best thing in the novel is the rapid-fire exchange of
sociological epigrams and paradoxes between a group of Oxford
undergraduates.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 569. Mr. 10, ’06. 160w.
“The book is certainly above the average in readability as well as in
ideals; and though the workmanship does not always reach the level of
the conception, the main part of the story amply repays the reader for
wading through what must be acknowledged to be the extreme dullness of
the first two or three chapters.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 350w.
Gray mist, a novel; by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.”
**$1.50. Harper.
The fleecy grayness of a Breton mist permeates this story of Pierrek,
the child who is sent by the sea to the empty arms of a woman whose
wits are wandering because of the loss of her own baby boy. With true
Breton faith in the miraculous he is considered hers, grows to manhood
on the Breton cliffs, marries the girl of his choice, becomes a loving
husband, and a happy father, only to learn thru a woman’s jealousy
that his mother of mothers is not his own and that his wife is his own
sister. Then indeed the grey mist envelops him and he goes back to the
gray sea leaving those he loves in sorrow and facing a hopeless future
which the impenetrable mists of life and death envelope like a shroud.
* * * * *
“It cannot be called satisfactory as a whole, and the conclusion is
too annoying to be tragic.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 300w.
“The whole tone of the present volume is as false as possible—little
short of maudlin.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 771. N. 24. ’06. 240w.
“A pleasantly written story, but it is curiously deficient in the
dramatic quality which justifies a tragic ending, and there is every
reason for averting the final catastrophe.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
=Greely, Adolphus Washington.= Handbook of Polar discoveries. $1.50.
Little.
Following the topical method of treatment, General Greely has compiled
from original narratives “such data of accomplished results as may
subserve the inquiries of the busy man who often wishes to know what,
when, and where, rather than how.” All important Arctic geographic
additions to knowledge are given as well as the more important
scientific investigations. The table of contents includes; Early
Northwest voyages to 1750, Nova Zembla, The northeast passage,
Spitzbergen, Behring strait, The northwest passage, Franklin’s last
voyages, North-polar voyages, The islands of the Siberian ocean, Franz
Josef land, The Antarctic regions in general, and chapters upon the
African, Australian, Pacific and American quadrants.
* * * * *
“It is a great public service to have these voluminous narratives
studied, digested, criticised and reported by the foremost authority
on the subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1117. N. 8, ’06. 120w.
“A few ... serious misstatements or misprints ... have crept in as the
result of imperfect revision of the earlier text.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 493. D. 6, ’06. 490w.
“It is the polar vade mecum in English.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 845. D. 8, ’06. 340w.
=Green, Allen Ayrault.= Good fairy and the bunnies; 11 full-page il. in
col. and 10 chapter headings by Frank Richardson. $1.50. McClurg.
The purpose of this story is to relieve the grief of boys and girls
who lose pets by suggesting to their minds the possibility that the
good animals of the earth are, after death transported to a beautiful
land on a star above.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1411. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 90w.
“There are plenty of pictures in colors ... but their style is not of
the best.”
– =R. of Rs.= 34: 766. D. ’06. 20w.
=Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).= Circular study. *50c.
Fenno.
A popular edition of a story which appeared first in 1900. It is a
mystery story whose crime, discovered to have been committed in self
defense, involves a dramatic tale of revenge and love.
* * * * *
+ – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 293. My. 5, ’06. 70w.
=Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).= Woman in the alcove.
†$1.50. Bobbs.
A mystery story which runs a rapid and exciting course to the
inevitable solution opens upon a brilliant private ball. A gorgeously
appareled woman with a diamond on her breast too vivid for most women
is murdered in an alcove, and the gem hidden in the woman’s gloves is
discovered later in the possession of innocent Rita Van Arsdale. Her
lover is accused of the deed, and the interest of the story becomes
identified with this determined young woman’s efforts to free him from
the charge of guilt.
* * * * *
“It is one of the best of Anna Katharine Green’s detective novels and
displays all the remarkable ingenuity that marks the best work of the
famous author of ‘The Leavenworth case.’”
+ =Arena.= 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 190w.
=Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“One does not look for character drawing or social analysis in such
books, but it requires no small skill to write them as acceptably as
does Mrs. Green, who pleases her large constituency well.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 338. Ag. 9, ’06. 130w.
“Anna Katharine Green’s hand has assuredly lost its cunning if ‘The
woman in the alcove’ is to be accepted as the criterion of her present
workmanship.”
– =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Ja. 16, ’06. 120w.
“One of the most fascinating books of its kind, superior in content,
it seems to us, to either ‘The filigree ball’ or ‘The millionaire
baby,’ and as absorbing in the reading as those or any of their
predecessors.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 293. My. 5, ’06. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“This is a fairly good detective story, but not the best.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 60w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 950. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
=Green, Evelyn Everett-.= Secret of Wold Hall. †$1. McClurg.
“It belongs to the innocuous class of respectable mediocrities, and is
not bad to rest one’s mind upon.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 4. Ja. 6, ’06. 200w.
=Greene, Charles Ezra.= Structural mechanics, comprising the strength
and resistance of materials and elements of structural design; with
examples and problems. *$2.50. Wiley.
“Published in 1897, this book has become well known. It stands
intermediate between the ordinary textbook on Mechanics of materials
and such books as Johnson’s Framed structures.... The book is
evidently framed for use; and one who has studied mechanics and has
the general fundamentals fixed in his mind will, in the shortest time,
find out what to do, or the information necessary for action.... The
new edition, now under review, contains 240 pages, whereas the 1897
(first) edition contained 268 pages; this, too, notwithstanding the
insertion of explanatory and introductory sentences in various parts
of the text.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The chief feature of the book is compactness of treatment without
sacrifice of clearness of statement.” W. Kendrick Hatt.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 55: 74. Ja. 18, ’06. 2060w.
=Greene, Cordelia Agnes.= Art of keeping well; with a biography by
Elizabeth P. Gordon. **$1.25. Dodd.
A memorial volume by virtue of the sketch of Dr. Greene’s life to
which the last half of the book is devoted. “The part contributed by
Dr. Greene contains some eighteen articles on subjects connected
rather with hygiene than with medicine, all of them supporting the
title given to the book.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 228. Ap. 7, ’06. 230w.
“A sensible book of advice.”
=Outlook.= 82: 715. Mr. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Greene, Frances N., and Kirk, Dolly Williams.= With spurs of gold.
†$1.50. Little.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 260w.
=Greene, Maria Louise.= Development of religious liberty in Connecticut.
**$2. Houghton.
“A welcome and creditable addition to the small list of valuable works
on American ecclesiastical history.... The chief bones of contention
in Connecticut were, of course, the Halfway Covenant and the Saybrook
Platform; and to the development of these great statements, and of the
controversies which centered round them, Miss Greene pays detailed and
patient attention.... The bibliography lists the principal
authorities, including much contemporary material hitherto little
used.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Careful and scholarly treatise.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 687. Ap. ’06. 620w.
Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 358. Ap. ’06. 430w.
“With much learning and insight into the meaning of events, with a
lucid style and without prejudice, Dr. Greene has written a valuable
religious history of Connecticut.” George Hodges.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 413. Mr. ’06. 330w.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 120w.
“The treatment of this subject is admirable, and is a distinct
contribution to the history of our national development. The placing
of the references to authorities in the appendix seems to us an
objectionable arrangement.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Miss Greene is neither partial nor hostile, and her work, if it errs
somewhat in feeling, is well stored with facts.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 201. Mr. 8, ’06. 310w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 120w.
“The volume as a whole is one to be welcomed by students of
Connecticut history.” Williston Walker.
+ =Yale R.= 15: 96. My. ’06. 480w.
=Greene, Robert.= Plays and poems; ed. by J. Churton Collins. 2v. *$6.
Oxford.
Prof. Collins says, “I determined to spare no pains to make this
edition, so far at least as the text was concerned, a final one.” “It
preserves the original spelling not even removing the confusion of i
and j, of u and v. Such indications of scene and stage business as the
editor contributes himself, or as he takes over from Dyce, he sets
apart in brackets. He transcribes in full from the Alleyn treasures at
Dulwich, the manuscript part from which the actor studied Orlando in
Greene’s ‘Orlando Furioso,’ a most interesting fragment, which sheds
light on the customs of the Elizabethan playhouses. He collects all
the songs out of Greene’s novels. He discusses in detail, with full
knowledge and with robust common sense, all the many uncertainties
connected with the biography and with the bibliography of his author.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Although, the value and interest of this research is unquestionable,
we must yet take exception to Dr. Churton Collin’s arrangement of the
actual text of the plays. The general introduction is long and
learned; but it is in many respects disappointing. The special
introductions are, however, of marked importance.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1252. D. 2, ’05. 1430w.
“Prof. Collins cannot be charged with an excess of enthusiasm in this
venture. There are signs of weariness in the attempt to correct and
improve upon his predecessors.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 471. Ap. 21. 1740w.
“In fulness and accuracy it is, as it should be, up to the level which
has long been required in the case of the Greek and Latin classics,
and, we might add also, in the case of writers of the mediaeval
period. The notes especially are replete with learning.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 410. My. 17, ’06. 2240w.
“It is pleasant to be able to welcome the ‘Greene’ of Prof. Churton
Collins as a worthy companion to the ‘Kyd’ of Prof. Boas.” Brander
Matthews.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 222. Ap. 7, ’06. 1590w.
“What we are glad of is the opportunity of reading him at large in so
delightful a text.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 261. Mr. 3, ’06. 1990w.
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 537. Ap. 7, ’06. 1200w.
=Greene, Sarah P. McLean.= Power Lot. †$1.50. Baker.
Power Lot, God Help Us is the full name of this bleak little Nova
Scotia hamlet, and the story of its people as Captain Jim, a sailor on
the Bay of Fundy, tells it, is quaint and very human. The main plot,
concerns Robert Hilton, a dissolute youth who has been wasting his
inherited wealth in New York and who is marooned by the family doctor
upon these windswept cliffs, and Mary, the girl whom Captain Jim
himself loved but could not win. The regeneration of Robert thru work
and right living finally brings out his real character and makes him
worthy of both Mary and his great wealth, and to show how this is
accomplished the rugged life of the coast inhabitants and their
constant fight against poverty is pictured with sympathy and humor.
* * * * *
“So much of the psychology of ‘Power lot’ is true, and not without
interest, whether the reformation of the hero be credible or
otherwise.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 756. S. 27, ’06. 380w.
“Whole chapters might be omitted with advantage, but the story itself
is a real story, full of quaint turns of humor and sentiment, and told
with a peculiar eloquence and a strong feeling for dramatic effect.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 553. S. 8, ’06. 600w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 239. S. 22, ’06. 70w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 319. D. ’06. 50w.
=Greenidge, Abel Hendy Jones.= History of Rome during the later republic
and early principate. 6 vols. v. I, *$3.50. Dutton.
“The work is disappointing as a whole from its lack of directness,
proportion, and continuity.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 414. Ap. 7. 890w.
=Greenshields, E. B.= Landscape painting and modern Dutch artists. **$2.
Baker.
A history of landscape painting from the awakening of art in the
thirteenth century to the recent French impressionists and the modern
revival in Holland. The author’s object is to lead the art student to
separate the “thought and the personal vision” of the master from the
great technical skill which is the servant that makes possible its
expression on canvas. This detachment leads to the subjective study
that interprets individuality.
* * * * *
“The text is concise and to the point.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 377. Ap. ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Greenshields, who has established himself as an authority on the
artists under discussion, has approached his task with ardor, and has
assembled his material with an eye keen both to the true and the
interesting.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 300. My. 1, ’06. 300w.
“This is largely composed of somewhat imperfectly fused essays,
neither profound nor novel, but agreeably written and giving
information that will be helpful to many in teaching them how to see
pictures.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 805. Ap. 5, ’06. 210w.
=Nation.= 82: 279. Ap. 5, ’06. 150w.
“A pleasing typographical as well as convenient feature of the book
will be found in its marginal notes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 245. Ap. 14, ’06. 560w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 70w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 542. Ap. 28, ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 767. Je. ’06. 50w.
“Without adding anything fresh to our knowledge, the writer gives an
excellent summary of the rise and development of landscape painting
from early Renaissance times to the present day.”
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1011. Je. 30, ’06. 130w.
=Greenslet, Ferris.= James Russell Lowell, his life and work. **$1.50.
Houghton.
“It is the more surprising therefore, that a man who is steeped in
Lowell should on occasion himself write so vilely.”
– + =Acad.= 70: 201. Mr. 3, ’06. 1100w.
“There is a manifest danger that some of the merits of substance may
be hidden by the tricks of manner. The genuine merits are so many and
so positive that it would be the greatest of pities for the
apprehensive reader too quickly to take alarm and lose the benefits of
Mr. Greenslet’s searching study of Lowell the man and the writer.” M.
A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 111. Ja. ’06. 740w.
“A compact record of this many-sided life and a really judicial
discussion of the poet’s place in literature—the first essentially
critical biography of Lowell yet attempted.” W. E. Simonds.
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 119. F. 16, ’06. 1290w.
“The book as a whole is well done, the smaller details being handled
with fondness for such details, and the critical notes touching all
the sensitive points.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 286. F. 1, ’06. 300w.
“A very painstaking and creditable, but uninspired, monograph.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 101. Mr. 23, ’06. 570w.
“It is hardly possible to speak too highly of Mr. Greenslet’s
performance. In addition to an unusually ample literary outfit, he
possesses the critic’s instinct and insight, and his almost unfailing
touchstone.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 180. Mr. 1, ’06. 2130w.
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 205. Mr. 8, ’06. 2130w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“Mr. Greenslet’s book is an excellent performance. A better portrait
of the man one could not wish to see.”
+ + + =Spec.= 96: 228. F. 10, ’06. 610w.
=Greenwood, James Mickleborough=, ed. Successful teaching: fifteen
studies by practical teachers; prize winners in the national educational
contest of 1905; with an introd. by J. M. Greenwood. *$1. Funk.
Fifteen essays which “are intended to help teachers in their daily
work; to give them broader views of teaching certain subjects, better
methods of presentation, and deeper insight into the thoughts,
feelings, emotions, desires, passions, and aspirations of a developing
human soul.”
* * * * *
“The book will prove valuable as an additional book of reference to
teachers who have available the more systematic and exhaustive
treatises.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 296. N. ’06. 140w.
“The contributions are of varying merit, tho on the whole excellent.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 936. O. 18, 06. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 50w.
=Grey, Edward C. W.= St. Giles’s of the lepers. $1.50. Longmans.
This large London parish took its name from the hospital for lepers
founded by the queen of Henry I. The author who labored here for
thirty years sketches the history and describes the recent attempts to
uplift the people who are sheltered within its limits. Among the most
interesting chapters are those which tell of the author’s experiences
as a Guardian of the poor, and his account of the founding of the
Boys’ institute.
* * * * *
“Had [Mr. Grey’s] life been spared, the few errors we have come across
would doubtless have been corrected, and his work, as a book of
reference, rendered more valuable by the addition of an index.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 477. Ap. 21. 590w.
“His reminiscences are not so valuable as his history, but they round
out a book unpretending, but very interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 893. D. 16, ’05. 620w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 180. F. 10, ’06. 130w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 872. N. 25, ’05. 330w.
=Griffiths, Arthur George Frederick.= Passenger from Calais. †$1.25.
Page.
This story which records a series of adventures that begin in a
sleeping-car between Calais and Basle, and come to an end on the north
African shore as sprightly as one could wish. Briefly told, Lord
Blackadder divorces his wife. She wishes to escape with her child whom
the father also cares to possess. In order to facilitate her flight by
confusing the confidential agents who might follow her, she and her
twin sister gowned alike, and accompanied by maids closely resembling
one another journey in different directions, the one with the child
and the other with a dummy. The flight and the pursuit give rise to
numerous exciting situations.
* * * * *
“The trouble with ‘The passenger from Calais’ ... is the lack of a
certain magnetic something which in the story of mystery leads the
reader onward more or less breathless, through a mass of details
cunningly arranged to impede his progress and inflame his curiosity.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 81. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
=Grinnell, William Morton.= Social theories and social facts. **$1.
Putnam.
A discussion of the subject of the economic and social conditions of
to-day with the following chapter headings: Natural and artificial
laws; Trusts; Competition; Socialism; Legislation; Labor; The Cost of
living; Course of wages; Railway rates. “The chief value in Mr.
Grinnell’s book is that it points out the difference between political
and industrial socialism and in so doing emphasizes both the true
function and the real value of the corporation as a contrivance for
the distribution of wealth.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Nowadays it is comparatively rare to find anyone holding so
consistently a laissez faire policy as does the author in this little
volume.”
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 419. Mr. ’06. 150w.
“It is not a closely reasoned exposition, nor one characterized by
breadth of view. The facts are not critically examined to determine
their real meaning, and they are not always accurate. Occasionally
sweeping statements are made as if the facts were well established.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 150w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
=Dial.= 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 150w.
“It is impossible to find in the book a central idea or a consistent
standpoint.”
– =Ind.= 60: 1286. My. 31, 06. 130w.
“It is unfortunate that the author of this book, by his assumptions,
extravagances and inaccuracies, not to say errors, impairs the worth
of a work which contains some very valuable suggestions.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 490w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 90w.
=Grove, Sir George.= Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; new ed.
thoroughly rev. and greatly enlarged; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. 5v.
ea. **$5. Macmillan.
+ + + =Acad.= 70: 483. My. 19, ’06. 700w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is, of course, impossible for Mr. Maitland to verify every
statement made in old articles and in those of new contributors.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 458. Ap. 14. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)
“No exception can be taken to the scholarly character both of the
revised and the new matter.”
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 267. Ap. 16, ’06. 330w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Americans do not receive quite as full treatment as might have been
asked for them legitimately in a book intended just as largely for the
American as for the British market.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 480w.
“In dealing with matters of smaller importance the level reached and
sustained is a high one. The work has been conspicuously well done, as
regards both editing and production ... we have been hard put to
discover flaws.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 2620w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The shortcomings of the new ‘Grove’ are few compared with its many
sterling qualities.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 413. My. 17, ’06. 580w. (Review of v. 2.)
“There is a table of corrections of errors in the first volume at the
end of this, and there will doubtless be more corrections in the third
volume.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 253. Ap. 21, ’06. 1110w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Grundy, Mabel Barnes-.= Hazel of Heatherland. †$1.50. Baker.
Hazel of Heatherland is a head-strong young heroine whose refractory
doings are refreshing and forgivable. Her whims form a sort of
froufrou of caprice against the background of Robert Underwick’s
plain, sturdy qualities. The romance of these two is aided by clever
Aunt Menelophe who is not so much a match-maker as a tactful student
of “fluffy bits of inanity.” So she characterizes some women, and
would be of service to them.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 270w.
“The author evidently knows rural England as well as how to write a
pleasing story.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 90w.
“Is freshly and amusingly written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 601. My. 6, ’06. 140w.
=Guerber, Helene Adeline.= How to prepare for Europe. **$2. Dodd.
A popular handbook “How to prepare for Europe” is a “comprehensive
work written in a popular vein. There are chapters on the history of
each country, its literature and art, a vocabulary in six languages,
bibliographies of history, art, travel, etc., and other material for
the European traveler.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The tourist should by all means secure this book as a supplement to
his indispensable Baedeker.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 394. Je. 16, ’06. 260w.
“These bibliographies would have been more useful, if price,
publisher, and some indication of their relative value had been
given.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 70w.
“A useful little book that need not be depreciated as over-ambitious,
since it is light in the hand and most compact and clearly printed.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 420w.
“A useful handbook, covering a different field from any single volume
of which we know.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 908. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.
=Guerville, A. B. de.= New Egypt. **$5. Dutton.
“A book of description combining history, geography, and travel.... M.
de Guerville has found that there really is a new Egypt, and that,
moreover, it is quite willing to be studied and analyzed.” (R. of Rs.)
“For the most part the illustrations in the present work are portraits
of well known natives, types, and scenes, as well as pictures of
English and French personages connected with Egypt’s recent history.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“If scandal is more amusing to his mind than politics, we do not blame
him, for the scandal adds colour and merriment to his narrative. Nor
should it be forgotten that his observation is as honest as it is
quick.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 279. Mr. 24, ’06. 130w.
“A very entertaining book, which no one who concerns himself with
things Egyptian can afford to pass by.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 590w.
“We commend the book for its valuable information, for its pungent
style, and for its sprightly gossip about things Egyptian.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 360w.
“His account of the rapid advance of civilization into the Sudan will
be as surprising as it is interesting to most readers.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 873. Ap. 12, ’06. 150w.
“A book as readable by reason of its style as by its intrinsic merit.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 370. My. 3, ’06. 1820w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 320w.
“On the whole, the book is one of the best on its subject yet
published.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 190w.
“Despite occasional blemishes, the book is worth reading.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 350w.
“Entertainingly written.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 130w.
=Guinan, Rev. Joseph.= Soggarth Aroon. $1.25. Benziger.
Chapters from the experiences of an Irish country curate, first
appearing in the “Ave Maria” and now amended and enlarged.
=Gull, Cyril Arthur Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.).= Lost cause. †$1.50.
Putnam.
Mr. Thorne’s preface states: “‘Protestantism’ within the church is a
lost cause, it is dying, and for just this reason the clamor is
loudest, the misrepresentation more furious and envenomed.... The
author ... attacks those of the extreme ‘Protestants’ whom he believes
to be insincere and who rebel against the truth for their own ends....
Finally, the noisiest ‘Protestants’ are hitting the Church as hard as
they can. The author has endeavored to hit back as hard as he can.”
The book treats this theme with dramatic intensity.
* * * * *
“Mr. Guy Thorne is not very skilful at handling even the small craft
he has set sail in. His devices are of the easy and conventional order
and his people lack vitality and breadth of human souls. His book is
not one to be regarded except as a warning and example of the
sacrifice of literature to opinion.”
– =Acad.= 69: 821. Ag. 12, ’05. 920w.
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 171. Ag. 5. 280w.
“The venom of the book is, upon the whole, confined to its preface,
and it portrays some exalted Christian characters, and at times a
spirit truly catholic, in the accepted sense of the term.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 114. F. 24, ’06. 520w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 90w.
=Gull, Cyril Arthur Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.).= Made in His image.
†$1.50. Jacobs.
How Charles Bosanquet, minister of industrial affairs, framed a
measure which settled for a time the problem of the great army of the
unemployable in London, and what came of it, is the burden of this
story. First the starving masses are drawn, hideous, menacing,
parasites upon the working poor; then comes the minister’s solution;
those whom the courts deem unfit for society are to be made slaves for
life. This is the beginning of that awful thing, the slave colony in
the Cornish hinterland at which the Christian world stood aghast. Thru
all this a love story is developed. Bosanquet and his old friend, John
Hazel, now his political opponent, both love Muriel, an active worker
in the anti-slavery league. And then the day comes when the slaves
break loose!
* * * * *
“Strange though its theme and remarkable the treatment, this novel
shows its greatest touch of genius in its ending.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 240w.
=Gunne, Evelyn.= Silver trail; poems. $1.25. Badger, R. G.
The author has followed her silver trail to learn its mystery. Her
verse goes hither and yon for themes, sometimes beyond the mountain,
to the sunset, more often far afield. The lines all breathe
possibility, hope, buoyancy.
=Gunsaulus, Frank W.= Paths to power; Central church sermons. *$1.25.
Revell.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1541. D. 28, ’05. 180w.
=Gwatkin, Henry Melville.= Eye for spiritual things: and other sermons.
*$1.50. Scribner.
“Some twenty-eight sermons.... English sermons of the best type....
The ... volume ranges over a wide class of subjects, though no theme
is handled which is not of importance in the religious life. The point
of view is indicated in the following sentence: ‘The knowledge of God
is not to be learned by sacrificing reason to feeling, or feeling to
reason, by ascetic observance or by orthodox belief; it is given
freely to all that purify themselves with all the force of heart and
soul and mind.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Strong and thoughtful sermons.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 10w.
“They are chaste and dignified, orderly and quiet, without screaming
for oratorical effect, conveying a happy sensation of established
faith and power held in reserve.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 36. Jl. 12, ’06. 210w.
“They have real originality and independence of thought, a fine power
of description, and an eloquence which is free from mere rhetoric; on
the other hand he drags in controversy sometimes when it is not
necessary, and it is just when he denounces dogma and tradition and
the Roman Church that he deteriorates and tends to become
commonplace.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 190w.
=Gwatkin, Henry Melville.= Knowledge of God. 2v. *$3.75. Scribner.
“These volumes present in rearranged form the Gifford lectures at
Edinburgh in 1904 and 1905 by the Professor of Ecclesiastical history
in Cambridge, England. What man has discovered concerning God through
God’s revelation of himself to man is the theme given by the title.
The first series discusses the reality and character of such a
revelation and discovery of God in the universe and in man. The second
series is devoted to a historico-critical survey of its development
from the stage of primitive religion to the present.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book is studded with memorable phrases and incisive comments, and
rises at times to serene and lofty eloquence. The value of the book is
that it is a sort of philosophy of history by a man intimately
acquainted with every detail of the subject, and entirely free from
the bias of the ecclesiastic. We cannot help thinking that Prof.
Gwatkin would have strengthened his book by a more sympathetic
attitude. For all that it is stimulating, and by its very decision,
useful, and above all things, interesting and brilliant.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 265. S. 8. 1450w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 274. Ag. 10, ’06. 1540w.
“With the work as a whole one must confess to disappointment. Dr.
Gwatkin would appear to be most broad and tolerant in many respects,
but his manner toward Roman Catholics is sometimes offensive.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 310. O. 11, ’06. 540w.
“Whatever defects may be attributed to his work, its philosophic
thought and warmth of feeling make it a worthy continuation of the
work of his predecessors in the Gifford lectureship.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 711. Ag. 18, ’06. 520w.
“It is a pity that the value of these lectures is seriously
compromised by a singular inability to do justice to any form of
Christian thought except the Evangelical.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 489. O. 20, ’06. 1820w.
H
=Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August.= Last words on evolution: a
popular retrospect and summary; tr. from 2nd ed. by Joseph McCabe. *$1.
Eckler.
Three lectures which reiterate Professor Haeckel’s views of human life
and destiny as affected by the doctrine of evolution. They are as
follows: The controversy about creation, The struggle over our
genealogical tree and The controversy over the soul.
=Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
=Ind.= 61: 1291. N. 29, ’06. 480w.
=Nature.= 74: 27. My. 10, ’06. 330w.
=Spec.= 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
=Hagar, Frank Nichols.= American family: a sociological problem. $1.50
Univ. pub. soc.
“The author brings to his task the special training of a lawyer and
considerable reading in the history of institutions. He discusses sex,
theories of primitive and historical forms of domestic life, the
decadence of the Yankees, occupations of women, matrimonial law,
divorce, free love, education, industrial influences, democracy....
The volume illustrates the fact that men with legal training can
render a valuable service to sociology by calling attention to the
obstacles which the law itself presents when it is no longer fitted to
contemporary conditions.”—Am. J. Soc.
* * * * *
“It is a serious work with a conservative purpose. Perhaps the most
useful and instructive parts are the discussions of the decadence in
the Yankee stock, the danger of foreign inundation, and the law of
property affecting husband and wife.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 703. Mr. ’06. 300w.
“Dispatching many of the grave questions connected with the family in
sweeping generalizations, the author is too generally loose, vague,
and incoherent. His wide discursiveness has resulted in a work lacking
in due proportion and unity.”
– + =Cath. World.= 82: 415. D. ’05. 770w.
“It is a decidedly interesting and by no means contemptible argument.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 527. Ag. 12, ’05. 580w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Ayesha: the return of “She.” †$1.50.
Doubleday.
=Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1537. D. 28, ’05. 250w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Poor and the land; being a report of the
Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England;
with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H.
Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.
“The report deserves a wide reading here, and careful consideration.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 160w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 333. S. 9. 840w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 843. Je. ’06. 390w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1538. D. 28, ’06. 320w.
=Quarterly R.= 204: 243. Ja. ’06. 1600w.
=Haggard, Henry Rider.= Spirit of Bambatse; a romance. †$1.50. Longmans.
The ingredients out of which H. Rider Haggard’s story is compounded
are “Zulu warriors, buried treasure, underground passages, a standard
villain, an English maiden of surpassing beauty and bravery, much
hypnotism on the part of the villain, and considerable sonorous
prophecy on the part of an ancient native priest.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Here is the old touch, the old fascination; and the tale—a constant
stream of excitement—ends as such tales should end, happily.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 160w.
“A story bristling with adventure and thoroly readable. It reminds us
of ‘King Solomon’s mines’ and certain other of Mr. Haggard’s stories
but that may be its best passport to popularity.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 330. S. 22. 120w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 330w.
– =Nation.= 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 190w.
“The man who likes his interest kept at white heat and who doesn’t
mind having his feelings harrowed a bit, will find in this book plenty
of the diversion and entertainment he seeks.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 594. S. 29, ’06. 410w.
“Mr. Rider Haggard is treading an old road with wonderful buoyancy.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 433. O. 6, ’06. 230w.
=Haile, Martin.= Mary of Modena, her life and letters. *$4. Dutton.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“Mr. Haile has told the story fully, and with a judicious use of
documents.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 661. Je. 2. 760w.
“The author of this biography has made good use of the wealth of
materials which in recent years have become available for his
purpose.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 397. Je. ’06. 330w.
“While clearly in sympathy with his subject, Mr. Haile writes in a
calm, temperate manner, and has produced a readable biography.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 332. My. 16, ’06. 310w.
“Is a distinct addition to the historical literature of the close of
the Stuart era.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1285. My. 31, ’06. 290w.
“Mr. Haile has done as well as he could do on behalf of his heroine,
and several of the documents he includes are well worth exhuming.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 540w.
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1007. Je. 30, ’06. 2370w.
=Haines, Henry Stevens.= Restrictive railway legislation. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
Reviewed by H. Parker Willis.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 83. F. 1, ’06. 680w.
“On the whole it is an exceedingly lucid and fair-minded review of the
railway situation in its present-day aspects.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 281. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
“The breadth of view manifested in his analysis of problems is not
always found in men who are doing things.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 122. F. ’06. 390w.
“Where he speaks as a technical expert, he is surest of his ground.
Where he essays a theory of reasonable rates, he is weakest. Where,
finally, he attempts a philosophic resume of the underlying forces
which have been operative in our railroad history, he attains a very
high degree of success.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 204. Mr. 8, ’06. 970w.
Reviewed by Frank Haigh Dixon.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 150. Mr. ’06. 760w.
“Mr. Haines has written one of the best treatises on this bothersome
and much-discussed problem which we have seen in recent years. His
book is to be recommended to all who desire an unprejudiced view.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 218. F. 17, ’06. 320w.
=Hains, Thornton Jenkins.= Voyage of the Arrow to the China seas: its
adventures and perils, including its capture by sea vultures from the
Countess of Warwick as set down by William Gore, chief mate. $1.50.
Page.
A tale of thrilling sea-adventure thru which runs the romance of the
Arrow’s first mate and the captain’s niece. The reader is subjectively
a part of the boat’s company, breathes the salt air, enjoys the rough,
out-spoken ways of the captain, delights in the Irish grit of Larry
O’Toole and enters into the thick of the fight with the convict
pirates. There is swift action in the narrative, and many a strong
dramatic climax.
* * * * *
“It is written with feeling and conviction, without gross negligence
of truth, and with a swing and zest which should commend it
particularly to young people.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 150w.
“That the author of this tale knows the ocean and the men who sail
upon it is undeniable, and he writes with a zest reminding one of Mr
Clark Russell, though he has not that novelist’s literary skill.”
– + =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 110w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 230w.
=Haldane, Elizabeth S.= Descartes: his life and times. $4.50. Dutton.
“Miss Haldane has hit upon a fortunate analysis of the life of
Descartes, and its distribution under three general heads: His
education, from 1596 to 1612; his ‘Wanderjahre,’ from 1612 to 1628,
spent in seeing the world, in travel and warfare, and, finally, what
may be called his constructive period, ‘after his warfare was over,
and this dates from 1628 to 1650.’... In tracing his experience in
each of the periods Miss Haldane gives much and very intelligent
attention to the environment, historical and personal, in which it was
passed; and this has the merit not only of bringing out more
distinctly the true picture of Descartes, but of rendering the general
reader, for whom obviously the work is done, more at home with the
man, since he is realized in his surroundings.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“If Miss Haldane’s ‘Life of Descartes’ smacks rather of a description
of genius in a dressing gown, what it lacks in breadth of outlook it
certainly gains in possessing the personal note, no small merit when
we consider how comparatively uneventful was the philosopher’s
history.”
+ + – =Acad.= 71: 82. Jl. 28, ’06. 660w.
“Miss Haldane has given us the standard life of Descartes. Its
interest is not merely biographical, for it throws light on many
points of difficulty in Descartes’s philosophy, and on his relations
to the philosophers and scientists of his time.” R. Latta.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 205. O. ’06. 1580w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1538. D. 28, ’05. 320w.
“Is by far the fullest and most interesting account of Descartes’s
life and times in English.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 35. F. 2, ’06. 1640w.
“The nature and character of the man are insufficiently considered.
The style of the book is easy and unperiodical; a little too much so,
perhaps.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 242. Mr. 22, ’06. 1870w.
“It is Descartes the man that appeals to her, and she traces the
course of his experience and development patiently, minutely, with
sympathy, and with simplicity that verges on the naïve. The style is
unaffected, direct, almost colloquial.” Edward Cary.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 77. F. 10, ’06. 1380w.
“Has finely told the story of the honest, constructive skeptic.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 568. Mr. 10, ’06. 150w.
“Miss Haldane’s interesting biography of Descartes will be welcomed by
the student of philosophy as well as by the general reader.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 402. S. 22, ’06. 1630w.
=Haldane, Joseph.= Old Cronnak. $1.50. Decker pub.
Here the muck-raker is at work and brings to view the evil side of
life as it defies the code of the moral law. Incontinence is bared for
the negative lesson’s sake, and characters are set forth which do not
easily find their way into books. Yet in the midst of all this shines
the strong, pure love of Joseph Haldane and Alice Carter, which forms
the main thread of the story.
=Hale, Edward Everett.= Man without a country. $1. Century.
Uniform with the “Thumb-nail series” this volume contains an
introduction and the author’s preface to the edition of 1897.
=Hale, Edward Everett.= Man without a country. **50c. Crowell.
A holiday edition of Mr. Hale’s great lesson in patriotism.
=Hale, Edward Everett.= Tarry at home travels; il. **$2.50. Macmillan.
Dr. Hale’s description serves as a field glass to the ordinary
observer. These travels are concerned with New England mainly, with an
exception made of the state of New York and of the city of Washington.
“It is a talkative sort of book, with bits of description and bits of
history and bits of geology and bits of agricultural and horticultural
information and bits of biography all run in together and fused into a
coherent whole by Mr. Hale’s long knowledge of men and events and his
active participation in the life of his time.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It contains much that is old—old enough, for the most part, to have
become new again to Dr. Hale’s readers; and it is laden with
reminiscences from a day more remote in feeling than in time.” Wallace
Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 390. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
+ – =Nation.= 83: 398. N. 8, ’06. 330w.
“Rapid as has been his survey, he has said more things and opened more
avenues of interest and stimulated the reader’s thought more than do
most books of travel either at home or abroad.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 843. D. 1, ’06. 340w.
=Hale, Louise Closser.= Motor car divorce. †$1.50. Dodd.
Peggy Ward fostering notions from her club that preaches “liberty of
thought,” “wider horizon,” and “freedom after ten years from the
tyrant man,” has a whim for divorce and is humored in it by her
husband. “Hence ‘A motor car divorce.’ It was in this clever way the
author found a peg on which to hang the description of a tour in
Europe.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Lacks coherence as a piece of fiction.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.
“The chief ingredients thereof are modern slang, trivial humor, frothy
sentiment, and pickings of a guide-book information.” Wm. M. Payne.
– =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 110w.
“Her work is filled with a kind of wit that is delightful because it
is real humor, and more because it is really womanly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 510w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“A gay and rather foolish tale.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 858. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 120w.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Christian belief interpreted by Christian
experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Even as a study in homiletics no minister should lose sight of this
volume.” W. Douglas Mackenzie.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 376. Ap. ’06. 830w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Universal elements of the Christian religion:
an attempt to interpret contemporary religious conditions. **$1.25.
Revell.
Six lectures delivered before Vanderbilt University, dealing with
religious conditions as distinguished from theological systems. “In
these lectures Dr. Hall has tried to discover the deeper tendency of
the religious thinking of the present time, in which the critical
movement, the modern view of the Bible, the declining interest in
sectarianism, the increased cosmopolitanism, and the large
reconception of world Christianization are powerful elements. He
speaks from the point of view of one holding the Pauline and Johannine
view of the Person and work of our blessed Lord.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.
=Am. J. Theol.= 10: 373. Ap. ’06. 1460w.
“They contain an arraignment of sectarianism as earnest as it is
gracious, and a plea for church unity full of noble and convincing
eloquence.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1498. D. 20, ’06. 270w.
“Dr. Hall’s lectures are not only pervaded by this spirit of
open-mindedness ... but no less by that spirit of devotion which is so
distinctly characteristic of oriental thinking, and so often,
unhappily, lacking in our occidental thinking.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 39. Ja. 6, ’06. 1510w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ’05. 200w.
=Hall, Clare H.= Chemistry of paints and paint vehicles. *$2.50. Van
Nostrand.
“The general scheme which the author has attempted to follow is to
take up in Chapter 1 the elementary constituents of paints with the
quantitative methods for their determination; in Chapter 2 the dry
materials entering into the manufacture of paints with a short
description of their physical properties and the separation of their
elementary constituents by methods given in Chapter 1; in Chapter 3
the analysis of samples consisting of a mixture of two or more of the
raw materials described in Chapter 2; in Chapter 4 an interpretation
of results previously obtained where it is desired to duplicate the
sample analyzed; and finally in Chapter 5, descriptions and methods
for determining the purity of paint vehicles.”
* * * * *
“The scope of the volume is indeed extremely limited, since it deals
with the examination of only a few common pigments, and by no means
exhaustively even with these; about some vehicles and diluents the
information to be found in these pages is less meagre. This little
book, with all its imperfections and its immaturity, is not destitute
of merit.”
+ – =Nature.= 75: 4. N. 1, ’06. 640w.
=Hall, Florence Howe.= Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.
The social usages of Washington, the seat of federal government and
the home of a large official world, differ in many important respects
from those of the rest of the country and these differences are made
clear in this little volume which “covers not only the fixed etiquette
of official circles but also the new social issues that have come up
under the Roosevelt administration.” It will prove of value to all
visitors at the national capital who wish to enjoy its public
functions and meet its public people without being entangled in the
intricacies of its etiquette.
=Hall, H. Fielding.= People at school. $3. Macmillan.
Mr. Hall says: “Some years ago I wrote ‘The soul of a people.’ It was
an attempt to understand the Burmese, to see them as they do
themselves, to describe their religion and its effect on them. This
book is also concerned with the Burmese.... This is of the outer life,
of success and failure, of progress and retrogression judged as
nations judge each other.”
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 450. My. 12, ’06. 630w.
“‘A people at school’ will never, we think, attain the popularity of
‘The soul of a people:’ the tonic is never sought like the sweet. But
it deserves to be read in conjunction with the other book, and no one
can read it without learning much about some ten millions of our
fellow-subjects.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 322. Mr. 17. 1340w.
“The work has little literary charm, but it is sane, lucid and
instructive.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 770. My. 10, ’06. 130w.
“Interesting if not very exhaustive, nor always entirely convincing.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 162. My. 4, ’06. 880w.
“Despite ... errors of fact and judgment and the decline in style as
compared with the previous volume, there is an honesty in Mr. Hall
which makes his studies attractive, and it is always refreshing to get
a first-hand impression.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 680w.
“That this book is rather suggestive than conclusive is one of its
charms, and no one who cares for the mysterious and vanishing East
should fail to read this study of a people at school.” Archibald R.
Colquhoun.
+ – =Nature.= 74: sup. 7. My. 3, ’06. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 156. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.
“If there be any to whom the secret of England’s genius of empire is
still hidden—in spite of all that Mr. Kipling has done to reveal
it—the unenlightened one has only to read understandingly H. Fielding
Hall’s ‘A people at school.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 288. My. 5, ’06. 1460w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 760. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.
=Hall, Henry Foljambe=, ed. Napoleon’s notes on English history made on
the eve of the French revolution; illustrated from contemporary
historians and refreshed from the findings of later research. **$3.
Dutton.
Of Napoleon as a student of eighteenth century history, the compiler
says: “Napoleon’s almost invariably right judgment seems marvelous,
and his verdicts, generally the very opposite of those of his author,
who kept to the orthodox ruts of eighteenth century opinion, are those
of a hundred years later.” Further Mr. Hall discusses the “note
books,” and furnishes notes on Napoleon’s probable authorities—Barron,
Rapin, and Carte.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 203. Mr. 3, ’06. 550w.
“Mr. Foljambe Hall appended very complete notes to this volume,
respecting the manner in which Bonaparte used his authorities; and it
is here, of course, that the chief value of the book lies. On certain
topics, perhaps, the notes are needlessly full, and we have noticed
occasional slips.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 710w.
“Nowhere are they illuminated by any of that prodigious precocity
which hero-worshippers like to find. There are, however, some
entertaining passages.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 360w.
“The value of the book is not in the editor’s work, but entirely in
the translation.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 62. Ja. 18, ’06. 490w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 876. D. 9, ’05. 820w.
“Mr. Hall’s own observations are original and instructive, albeit not
always as critical as could be desired.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 120w.
“Napoleon’s notes are worth reading for their own sake; as given in
this volume, with abundant—if not superabundant—and minute
explanations, they constitute a most valuable survey of a most
important portion of British history.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 646. Ap. 28, ’06. 530w.
=Hall, Prescott F.= Immigration and its effects upon the United States.
*$1.50. Holt.
Volume one of the “American public problems” series, edited by Ralph
Curtis Ringwalt, is a handbook upon immigration intended for the
American people at large. Part 1, Immigration and emigration, presents
the history, causes and conditions of immigration; Part 2, discusses
The effects of immigration, Part 3, Immigration legislation, gives the
history of past immigration and describes various proposed remedies
for existing evils; Part 4 deals with Chinese immigration. Appendices
contain copies of the federal immigration acts now in force.
* * * * *
“Notwithstanding blemishes ... the book seems to me a valuable summary
of the recent history and the present aspects of a great national
problem; and with the exception of Mayo-Smith’s book the best general
discussion of immigration into the United States.” W. F. Willcox.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 921. Jl. ’06. 810w.
“The volume under review is the most comprehensive book on the subject
of the last decade. It discusses practically all of the questions
which have arisen and of the suggestions made for avoiding the
dangers. It deserves careful attention in spite of its very serious
defects.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 346. S. ’06. 650w.
Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 653. Ag. ’06. 660w.
Reviewed by Cyrus L. Sulzberger.
– – =Charities.= 115: 924. Mr. 31, ’06. 5830w.
“The book reads well, and one is struck by the author’s skill in
condensation where the temptation to more or less diffuse writing must
have been very great.” Frederick Austin Ogg.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 258. Ap. 16, ’06. 440w.
=Ind.= 60: 983. Ap. 26, ’06. 710w.
“The book would make an even more favorable impression if the
footnotes did not sometimes indicate a lack of discrimination in the
use of materials. It may be accepted, however, as a trustworthy
general guide; and to college debating societies ... it should prove a
godsend.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Hall writes with conviction, but not with prejudice or passion.
He holds a brief, but his argument is sober and reasonable. Perhaps
nowhere else can be found equally full and conveniently arranged
statistics, and as good an epitome of legislation.” Edward A.
Bradford.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 141. Mr. 10, ’06. 1200w.
“He gives, with evident intention of fairness, both sides of the
various questions he raises; but he reaches certain definite
conclusions which he urges upon his readers. In some respects we think
he argues upon false premises.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 577. Jl. 7, ’06. 630w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 509. Ap. ’06. 80w.
“Taken as a whole, the book is a well-balanced treatment of the
subject, and does not deserve the violent criticism which it has
received in some quarters.” William B. Bailey.
+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 332. N. ’06. 310w.
=Halpin, Rev. P. A.= Apologetica: elementary apologetics for pulpit and
pew. *85c. Wagner, J. F.
“This volume, whose author has frequently given proof that he reads
the signs of the times, is a step in the right direction. It presents
the fundamental facts of Christianity in the light of reason, with the
least possible appeal to revelation.... Every one of his fifty-two
sketches deals with an objection that is in the atmosphere which
Catholics breathe to-day, and against which they require the
strengthening tonic of sound instruction, as frequently as it can be
administered.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 268. My. ’06. 120w.
=Hamilton, Angus.= Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.
To material gathered from various books and official papers the author
has added his own first hand information producing more of a gazetteer
than a volume of travel in the ordinary sense. “He gives trade
statistics for every town, elaborate measurements of all railway lines
and distances, and he endeavours to set out the kind of detail as to
the various defences which might be expected in a confidential report
to some Army intelligence department.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“If the author has erred at all, he has erred in not restricting
himself to his subject.”
+ + – =Acad.= 71: 58. Jl. 21, ’06. 800w.
“The book is not to be commended on literary grounds. It contains a
great deal of repetition. The map is far from good.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 11. Jl. 7. 1490w.
“Is heavy, but it is substantial and instructive reading.” H. E.
Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 239. O. 16, ’06. 1090w.
“To those who know something of Afghanistan, to soldiers and
statesmen, the work of Mr. Angus Hamilton will be welcome; but to the
general reader the painstaking and admirably minute descriptions of
the divisions and routes of Afghanistan will be difficult and perhaps
tedious.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 246. Jl. 13, ’06. 1410w.
“The book is heavy reading, for Mr. Hamilton is not concerned with the
usual traveller’s picturesque account of the strange manners and
customs of a strange country. He gives us statistics ... such data as
appeal to the man who wants a thorough working knowledge of Central
Asian affairs.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 309. O. 11, ’06. 900w.
“To the serious traveller, the politician, the trader, and the soldier
Mr. Hamilton’s work has great value. It is a compendium of all that is
known about one of our most permanent frontier questions, and though
the author prefers facts to generalizations, there is ample guidance
in his book as to the greater questions of policy.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 232. Ag. 18, ’06. 1460w.
=Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith.= Staff officer’s scrapbook during
the Russo-Japanese war. *$4.50. Longmans.
“Facts as they appeared to the First Japanese army while the wounded
still lay bleeding upon the stricken field.” From the standpoint of
the soldier of insight there are impressions of the Japanese army, its
leaders, some acquaintances, the march from Tokio to the Yalu, the
battle of the Yalu, an account of the visit from the Chinese General,
entertainments for the attachés, and “snap shots” and impressions and
opinions of other battles in which the First army engaged and which
Hamilton witnessed.
* * * * *
“Although in many respects a disappointing production ... is a very
welcome addition to the extensive but unsatisfying literature that has
been the outcrop of the campaign. In certain instances Sir Ian
Hamilton succeeded where others failed in piercing the veil of secrecy
at least partially.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1224. N. 25, ’05. 1840w.
“Sir Ian Hamilton’s book is of great interest, though the volume forms
but a fragment and breaks off suddenly.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 755. D. 2. 1690w.
“Under the above modest title Sir Ian Hamilton has produced by far the
most interesting book on the Russo-Japanese war that has yet appeared
from the pen of an eye-witness.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 414. D. 1, ’05. 1020w.
“Attractive for its personal or literary quality. Sir Ian evidently
became highly popular at the Japanese headquarters, and obtained much
technical information not generally accessible. His ‘Scrapbook’ is not
only valuable for this reason, but delightful for the personality of
the writer.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 79. Ja. 25, ’06. 330w.
“The author gives almost no dates. His is a good book by a good
observer. Even if one is tired of war, he can read this with
interest.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 87. F. 10, ’06. 1100w.
“Sir Ian will often amuse his readers, he will certainly startle them,
and he will occasionally instruct them. So we welcome a very readable
volume. There is in fact a fatal want of ballast about the book.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: 752. D. 9, ’05. 1320w.
“We might indeed search the whole army through without finding such a
combination of qualities as this distinguished General brings to the
making of his book. Not only is he a soldier revelling, as some old
pagan hero would revel, in the grand game of war, but he is poet,
humorist, sentimentalist, and descriptive writer as well. The result
is that his scrapbook, most fitly so called, is a delightful medley of
grave and of gay, of pleasing sentiment and excellent good sense.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 1124. D. 30, ’05. 2170w.
=Hammond, Harold.= Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.
Recollections of a real live healthy boyhood in a country town must
lie behind these stories of boy fun and boy ingenuity; for Pinkey
Perkins is as full of wholesome mischief in this story as he was in
the earlier volume which bears his name and his experiences as his own
Santa Claus, as a philanthropist, a visitor at the County fair, or
midnight adventurer, will not hurt the boy of to-day and will bring a
reminiscent chuckle to the boy of yesterday.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 30w.
=Hammond, Mrs. L. H.= Master-word. †$1.50 Macmillan.
“Taken in its place, it is full of significance, and should be
neglected by no one who wishes to follow contemporary conditions.”
Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Dale and Fraser, sheepmen: a story of
Colorado sheep raising; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
The wool-grower’s west is pictured from real happenings. There are
descriptions of the wolf hunt, the great sheep drive, the prairie fire
which threatened the ranch and the western blizzard.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
=Hancock, Harrie Irving.= Physical culture life: a guide for all who
seek the simple laws of abounding health. **$1.25. Putnam.
“It is certain that were much of the advice in this book generally
followed, a lot of doctors’ shingles would very speedily come down.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 230w.
=Handel, Georg Friedrich.= Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa.
$1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 120w.
=Ind.= 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 50w.
“Ebenezer Prout ... displays, both in the introduction and in the
editing of the songs, the scholarship which is expected of him.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 130w.
“Dr. Prout has made his selections with great discrimination.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 90w.
=Hanks, Charles Stedman (Niblick, pseud.).= Camp kits and camp life.
**$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a compilation of explicit and prac- shooting, fishing, or
merely rusticating. There are excellent chapters on camps and
campfires, camp cooking, what to do when lost in the woods, some
remedies for sickness or accidents in camp, and other topics of
suggestive interest to intending campers.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 180w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1369 Je. 7, ’06. 120w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 449. My. 31, ’06. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 80w.
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 763. Jl. ’06. 110w.
=Hannah, Rev. Henry King=, comp. Bible for the sick. **$1. Whittaker.
Selections have been made from the Old and New Testament alike which
are intended for the sick to read themselves.
=Hanotaux, Gabriel.= Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea.
*$3.75. Putnam.
“The book is more than a history, it is the reflection of attitudes of
mind of a contemporary Frenchman of fine type. This enhances the value
of the book which aims to interpret for us contemporary France.” Henry
E. Bourne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 295. My. 1, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The translator ... has performed his task far better than in the
previous volume, and it must be allowed that the pregnant and
spasmodically emphatic style of M. Hanotaux is one very difficult to
translate into clear and idiomatic English.” P. F. Willert.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 400. Ap. ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Compared with Justin McCarthy’s popular ‘History of our own times,’
this volume by Hanotaux ... is less picturesque, less witty, more
solid, more detailed and more given to philosophising.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 694. S. 20, ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“M. Hanotaux, shines more by his pen than by his philosophy. We do not
feel that he has got to the bottom of the question he discusses.
Nevertheless the book is most interesting—as interesting a piece of
contemporary history as has appeared for many a year.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 533. Je. 28, ’06. 1630w. (Review of v. 2.)
“M. Hanotaux shows here to more advantage than in his first volume. On
the whole the translation is satisfactory. M. Hanotaux must study
compression.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 206. F. 17, ’06. 1690w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Harben, William Nathaniel (Will N., pseud.).= Ann Boyd. $1.50. Harper.
Ann Boyd had been unfairly dealt with by her fellow-villagers, her
reputation sullied, her finer sensibilities crushed. Yet,
single-handed she ran her farm, made money, invested it and became the
envy of all her maligners. The two forces fighting for mastery in Ann
are hatred born of resentment and the power of love which is awakened
thru the one soul which she considers white—that of her protégé, Luke
King. The love interest centers about Luke and the daughter of Ann’s
bitter enemy. The tangle finally straightens and Ann forgives and is
at peace with the world.
* * * * *
“In some portions of the book the writer has succeeded in imparting a
suggestion of the rude pathos and unaffected sentiment that we
associate with the peasant pictures of Millet.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 513. O. 13, ’06. 200w.
“There is difficulty in reaching the old enthusiasm over ‘Ann Boyd.’”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 669. O. 13, ’06. 740w.
“The story is injured by the tendency of the characters to excessive
monologue.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 335. O. 6, ’06. 240w.
“The story has a certain elemental vigor which is characteristic of
all Mr. Harben’s work.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Pole Baker; a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
“In the shuttling of these well-proven motifs of the book, Mr. Harben
shows himself a practiced and skillful craftsman, keeping his threads
caught up and unbroken, and working out a clear, bright design. The
result is a texture not especially dainty or beautiful, but a homespun
stuff of fast color and good wear.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 620w.
=Hardie, Martin.= English coloured books. $6.75. Putnam.
A recent addition to the “Connoisseur’s library” which enlightens the
reader on the various processes employed in the production of colored
illustrations. “Premising that, like Gaul of old, the subject is
divisible into three parts, the author gives an account first of
coloured illustrations printed from wood blocks, secondly of those
printed from metal plates, and thirdly of those printed from stone,
devoting special chapters to men who have played a leading role in
evolution of colour printing in this country.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“A manual for the use of collector’s and students is urgently
required, and it could not come from a better source than from a
librarian in the Art library at South Kensington, nor appear under
better auspices than those of Mr. Cyril Davenport.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 555. N. 3. 1430w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 13, ’06. 270w.
“Mr. Hardie’s exposition throughout is clear and concise, and he
writes with the authority of one whose knowledge of the subject is
probably unequalled.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 480w.
“There can be nothing but praise for Mr. Hardie’s thorough treatment
and pleasant style.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 266. Jl. 27, ’06. 760w.
“Appendixes valuable to book and print collectors, an index, and many
color prints beautifully reproduced make this volume a necessary book
for certain libraries. Along with the text that keeps the reader’s
interest there is a mass of information which gives the advantage of a
book of reference.” C. de Kay.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 380w.
“From the point of view of the bibliographer and the printer the
volume could hardly be improved.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 210w.
=Hardy, Rev. Edward John.= John Chinaman at home. **$2.50. Scribner.
“Writes in a very bright and breezy way of his observations in China.
The account is rambling, jumping from city to city with no special
attempt at system.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 130w.
– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 834. D. 16. 820w.
“He furnishes a readable book, without notable characteristics.” John
W. Foster.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 544. Ap. ’06. 90w.
“This is one of the most readable books about the country whose
population and peculiarities are permanently exaggerated in most of
our text-books.” W. E. Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 200w.
“Not at all distinguished, not always in the best of taste, but
readable throughout, and well adapted to the needs of the middle-class
book-buyer.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 270. Ag. 25, ’06. 250w.
=Hardy, Edward John.= What men like in women. **$1. Dillingham.
From invincible youth to graceful age, the author sketches the likable
characteristics and qualities of women. In every chapter he sounds the
depths of the permanent and trustworthy elements that make for life
happiness.
* * * * *
“Out of the serious often cometh forth humor. The wheat is in about
the same proportion to the chaff as history is to fiction in an
historical novel.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 150w.
=Hardy, Ernest George.= Studies in Roman history. *$1.60. Macmillan.
“A new edition of the author’s well-known work on ‘Christianity and
the Roman government,’ supplemented by half a dozen other essays, two
of which originally appeared in the English historical review, three
in the Journal of philology, and one as part of an introduction to an
edition of Plutarch’s ‘Lives of Galba and Otha.’”—Nation.
* * * * *
“At its first appearance Hardy’s work was not marked by much
originality, and hence it is questionable whether any justification
can be found for a second edition in which no account has been taken
of recent developments. Some of the special studies ... which form the
concluding portions of the book are decided contributions to the
literature of Roman administration.” Patrick J. Healy.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 931. Jl. ’06. 410w.
“Present volume is indispensable to all serious students of the Roman
empire.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 576. My. 11. 990w.
“All are of a most scholarly, some even of an extremely technical
character; and hence all are deserving of the careful attention of the
special student.”
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 455. Je. ’06. 130w.
“Dr. Hardy presents his case with utmost candour of mind and cleanness
of language, and there is no point of importance on which the present
writer is unable to accept his conclusions. Altogether the book is one
which will certainly be read with interest and deserves to be studied
with respect.” W. A. G.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 610. Jl. ’06. 450w.
“They show what instructive results a patient reading of inscriptions
may yield to any one with sufficient knowledge to find and hold the
clue.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 386. N. 16, ’06. 700w.
=Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 377. Je. 9, ’06. 670w.
“Eminently sane and judicious. The work is always accurate and
reliable. Their tone is admirable, and the writer does his best to set
out the particulars fairly and fully. The author writes with less
obvious prepossessions than almost all who have attempted to deal with
the matter.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 271. S. 1, ’06. 630w.
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 301. S. 1, ’06. 710w.
=Hardy, Thomas.= Dynasts: a drama of the Napoleonic wars. In three
parts. Part 2. *$1.50. Macmillan.
The first part of this work of nineteen acts and one hundred and
thirty scenes appeared about two years ago. With the completion of
this second part “There is a disposition ... to look into the matter
more closely and more reverently. As its huge proportions are slowly
developed, this drama of the making of history takes on grandeur in
the reviewer’s eyes. They are no longer troubled to identify,
reasonably, the Spirits sinister, the Chorus of the pities, the
ancient spirit of the years, the Recording angels These are but
personifications of human and normal influences after all.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“The great drama of ‘The dynasts’ ... proves him not merely a great
novelist but an essayist, a poet and a dramatist and, I might add, an
acute historical critic.” Robert Ross.
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 206. Mr. 3, ’06. 1080w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“The poetry of the piece is not so much in the brickish verse as in
some of the stage directions in prose.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ – =Atlan.= 96: 422. S. ’05. 220w. (Review of pt. 1.)
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne,
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 325 My. 16, ’06. 1090w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“There is probably little, if any, great dramatic poetry throughout
the multitude of scenes; but there is some good, and a great deal of
passable verse; there is some excellent prose; and there is a
continuous manifestation of imagination and intelligence for which I
am glad to acknowledge myself deeply grateful.” W. P. Trent.
+ + – =Forum.= 38: 86. Jl. ’06. 4150w.
“‘The dynasts’ is a gloomy and powerful epic, but it is not a drama.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 807. Ap. 5, ’06. 320w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Lit. D.= 32: 609. Ap. 21, ’06. 1580w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“There can be no possible question of the importance and high literary
excellence of his latest book. ‘The dynasts’ is a work of exceptional
power. It is a thing compact with imagination.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 49. F. 16, ’06. 2120w. (Review of pt. 2.)
+ – =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 530w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 132. Mr. 3, ’06. 270w. (Editorial on pt. 2.)
“This work has in it the substance, in short, of a true prose
masterpiece. Mr. Hardy has nothing of the poet in him.” H. W. Boynton.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 160. Mr. 17, ’06. 1910w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“It is absolutely hopeless as a poem.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 808. Ap. 7, ’06. 260w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“However it all may strike the historian’s mind as a spectacle of
predigested history, to the lay mind Mr. Hardy has made a wonderful
gift. He has invented a new sensation.”
+ + – =Putnam’s.= 1: 254. N. ’06. 570w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“The diction is strained, and when metaphysics begin we flounder among
quasi-technical platitudes. But in spite of a hundred faults, there is
a curious sublimity about the very immensity of the scheme.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 645. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, and Baddeley (Welbore) St. Clair.=
Sicily. **$1. Dutton.
The guide-book prepared by the late Augustus C. Hare is now published
in a new edition revised and brought admirably down to date by St.
Clair Baddeley. The volume is pocket size and contains maps and
photographs.
* * * * *
“In general the practical information which it contains has been
brought up to date. The historical sketch with which the volume opens
is clearly written, and will be helpful to the traveler who has not
read Freeman; but it is defective in one or two points.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 500w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06. 80w.
“The author’s great fund of information is presented in compact style.
The style might have been made somewhat clearer, however—especially
with regard to ambiguity in the use of relative pronouns—without any
necessity of increasing the text.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.
=Hare, Christopher.= Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Hare’s fine compilation is fitted to be of such incalculable use
to the earnest student of Dante that it seems needful, if a little
ungracious, to point out the fact that the text of the present edition
teems with minute typographical errors.”
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 558. Ap. ’06. 780w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 650w.
=Hare, Christopher.= Queen of queens, and the making of Spain. **$2.50.
Scribner.
“There are few more striking figures in European history than Isabel,
the Catholic, Queen of Spain.... The subject of the book is wide. It
is by no means a study of the Queen’s life alone, but a good swift,
picturesque sketch of the history of Spain, beginning with the
conquest of the Moors in A. D. 711, and going on to the gradual
recovery of power and territory by the Christian Goths who fled before
them to the mountains of Asturias. Then comes the rise of the
Christian kingdoms ... then the fusion of these, after much fighting
and confusion and many romantic episodes, including the immortal story
of the Cid, into the two kingdoms of Castile and Leon and Aragon and
Catalonia.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The book adds little to our knowledge; at its best, it summarizes the
chapters in some unrevised edition of Prescott’s work, and it is
disfigured by interpolated errors which could never have been made by
any one acquainted with Spanish. Decidedly this is a book not to be
trusted.”
– – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 12. Jl. 7. 470w.
“He quotes too much from others to produce a vivid effect, and most of
the lines in his portrait are those common to the great ladies who
lived at the same time as Isabella.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 218. Je. 15, ’06. 980w.
“The historian would be scientific, in sad truth, whom Isabella the
Catholic would not carry off his feet. That he seems hardly to have
read his proof-sheets is another matter; to be balanced perhaps by the
excellent illustrations.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 419. N. 15, ’06. 780w.
“Mr. Hare is not himself an eloquent writer, and the most of his
purple patches, especially those dealing with the Moorish wars and the
story of the Queen’s dealings with Columbus, are taken verbatim from
Irving.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Hare always writes with evidence of so much research, and with
such a real enthusiasm for his subject, that we cannot help regretting
some literary lapses in his style. This book, for instance, would have
been greatly improved in value and dignity if he had read through his
proofs more severely, cut out various ornamental passages, and
tightened up certain slovenly sentences. As we have already said, the
book is agreeable and picturesque, and we have read it with interest
and enjoyment.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 987. Je. 23, ’06. 1400w.
=Harker, Mrs. Lizzie Allen.= Concerning Paul and Fiammetta; with an
introd. by Kate Douglas Wiggin. †$1.25. Scribner.
While in England a year ago, Kate Douglas Wiggin discovered in the
children of Mrs. Harker’s “A romance of the nursery” such delightful
little people that she asked for the privilege of introducing to her
own American readers Mrs. Harker’s next story. And so Paul and
Fiammetta have come to take their place beside Rebecca, Timothy and
Polly Oliver. “‘Fee’ is a travelled, hotel-bred child, who had learned
experience without losing her good manners.” (Lond. Times.) Paul has a
mania for reading, and is devoted to dogs no less than to his friend
Tonks.
* * * * *
“The story has many appealing qualities,—its gayety, sympathy, humour,
and lifelikeness; and perhaps to American readers one of its chiefest
charms will be that it is so thoroughly English,—as English as a
hedge-rose or a bit of pink hawthorne,—yet, with all its local colour,
sounding the human and universal note.” Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Foreword to book.
“It is easy to imagine many parties both in the school room and
downstairs where these sketches will be read aloud and approved
enthusiastically.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 288. Mr. 24, ’06. 210w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.
“In the main, the book is rather about children than for them.
Children ... would never notice the delicacy, the strength, and the
sympathy with which Mrs. Harker has worked.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.
“The way in which the four children are differentiated and each
endowed with a well-marked individuality is extremely clever. In a
book which strikes so true a note all through the critic may be
forgiven for wishing that the simplicity of the original keynote has
been preserved to the concluding sentence.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 700w.
=Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf.= Expansion of Christianity in the first
three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.
“There are certain dangers into which the modern aggressive historian
is apt to fall, and does fall if Harnack and Knopf are to be taken as
fair representatives of the class. If he has successfully found his
way out of the swamp of sectarian prejudice on the one hand, he seems
likely to wander, on the other, into the dense forest of conjecture,
wherein he will see all sorts of fantastic forms in the dim light.”
Andrew C. Zenos.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 334. Ap. ’06. 1420w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 413. Mr. ’06. 460w.
“Dr. Harnack, in fine, has produced what is as yet the most
satisfactory, if not the most striking and original, of the noble
series of works in which he is casting new light upon Christian
history. We wish that we could say that a worthy translator had been
found for him.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 19. Ja. 6, ’06. 740w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and
Hosea. **$3. Scribner.
“Students of the Old Testament have now, for the first time in many
years, an adequate commentary on Amos and Hosea. The treatment of the
text is on the whole conservative, the emendations adopted being
generally those which the soberest scholarship of the present day
would approve.” Charles Torrey.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 309. Ap. ’06. 1840w.
“Judging from his own point of view Dr. Harper has succeeded fairly
well. He has not the initiative of Marti, but when he selects from the
emendations of others, he may count on the approval of most
liberal-conservative scholars.” T. K. Cheyne.
+ + – =Hibbert J.= 3: 824. Jl. ’05. 4710w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid
to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of
Chicago press.
+ + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 375. Ap. ’06. 340w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Prophetic element in the Old Testament. $1.
Univ. of Chicago press.
“For the student who is willing to do his own thinking, and to reach
his own conclusions, there will be found in this volume stimulus,
suggestion, and guidance, such as will be found, in this particular
form, nowhere else.” John E. McFadyen.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 317. Ap. ’06. 440w.
“A careful study of this work would lead to a highly specialized
knowledge of the subject. This suggests the only criticism that might
be ventured on the book. Is it not too taxing upon the average
student, except when used by such a pedagogical genius as Dr. Harper
himself?” Kemper Fullerton.
+ + – =Bib. World.= 28: 154. Ag. ’06. 320w.
“For one interested in the analysis of modern biblical criticism, this
manual will be in a high degree valuable; and if one is in an early
stage of scriptural study, it will be almost indispensable.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 703. F. ’06. 330w.
=Harraden, Beatrice.= Scholar’s daughter. $1.50. Dodd.
“Geraldine Grant is the daughter of an austere and self-centred
scholar who lives a life of seclusion in a lonely country house,
engaged in the compilation of a colossal dictionary. Soured by the
unfaithfulness of his wife, shortly after his daughter’s birth, no
woman is admitted to his house.... Heredity it is to be supposed will
out and Geraldine practices her powers of fascination on the three
middle-aged men secretaries who assist her father.... A lightning
love-tale and the very obvious identification as his wife of a famous
actress, Miss Charlotta Selbourne, on her casual appearance at the
professor’s house make up this slender story.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“We venture to think that this story would do better as a light play
than as a novel.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 182. F. 24, ’06. 200w.
“Compared with ‘Ships that pass in the night’ and even with one or two
of the succeeding novels, this story is a grievous disappointment.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 259. Mr. 3. 150w.
“It all savours pleasantly of comic opera, with soothing little
melodies running through it; and undeniably leaves a pleasant, if
transitory, taste behind it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 416. Je. ’06. 330w.
“The book is amusing reading for an idle hour.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 40w.
“If we consider the book as a serious novel, its superficiality
irritates us, or if we take it as a short story we are wearied by the
protracted explanations.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 260w.
“There is a freshness and strength in the pen-painting of people who
inhabit this new novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 306. My. 12, ’06. 370w.
“Is a triumph of ‘manner.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 401. Mr. 31, ’06. 280w.
“A highly agreeable romance, suffused with graceful sentiment and
containing a half-a-dozen pleasant portraits.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 263. F. 17, ’06. 740w.
=Harriman, Karl Edwin.= Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.
“The very kind of a tale to rest an overtired brain or to relieve the
tedium of a long journey.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 223. F. ’06. 200w.
=Harriman, Karl Edwin.= Girl out there; il. by A. Russell. †$1.25.
Jacobs.
Mr. Harriman finds his heroine of the title in a little rural town
whither a young journalist goes to recuperate after a run of fever.
The simple folk of the village from Alec Truesdale, the close-fisted
man who nibbles crackers by the hour in the little weather-grayed
grocery, much to the discomfiture of the owner, to Herb Jenkins, stout
of heart and generous of purpose, are cleverly sketched. The new comer
wins the heart of the girl that Herb Jenkins loves, and how Herb
crushes his own hope and gains for the two the blessing of an obdurate
father is an example of fine unselfishness.
* * * * *
“As a study of the ways and manners of the inhabitants of a small New
England village the book is not without merit, but it lacks both plot
and incident.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 153. Ag. 11. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 435. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.
=Harris, J. Henry.= Cornish saints and sinners. †$1.50. Lane.
“The fabled land of Lyonesse is supposed to lie under the sea off the
coast of Cornwall, and the country abounds in legends of saints,
giants and fairies to say nothing of numerous tales in which his
Satanic majesty figures more or less prominently. Many of these old
folklore stories are retold by Mr. Harris as he heard them from the
natives, but with an added touch of humor all his own.”—Arena.
* * * * *
“We find Mr. Harris feebly and coarsely imitating Mark Twain at his
very worst, with the result that the feelings of any person of taste
must be shocked.”
– + =Acad.= 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 160w.
“Delightfully humorous account of the travels of three friends.” Amy
C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 211. Ag. ’06. 160w.
“Many more pretentious chronicles of travel have been less
entertaining.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 283. S. ’06. 170w.
“In spite of these mistaken efforts, most of the book is agreeable
reading, and Mr. Harris shows real interest in Cornwall, and sympathy,
mixed with a certain condescension, for the people he describes.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.
=Harris, William Charles, and Bean, Tarleton Hoffman.= Basses,
fresh-water and marine. **$3.50. Stokes.
“The brook brings you into pleasant contact with nature, even if the
trout refuse to rise, and if one possesses a fairly active imagination
the book may do the same, even if it fails to satisfy all applicable
objective tests of good literature. It is chiefly from this point of
view that we must commend the sumptuous volume which Mr. Rhead has
devoted to the basses.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“If any important facts about the bass have been overlooked it would
be difficult to specify what they are.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 70w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 140w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 120w.
“One does not really find any striking positive merits to distinguish
it from other literature available on the same subject.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 268. Mr. 29, ’06. 530w.
“While the volume is mainly intended for the fisherman, the natural
history side has not been forgotten.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 110w.
“It is a carefully planned survey of the entire field. The joys and
trials of the fisherman’s life are so charmingly described that the
book is an exceptional companion for the shore or library.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 80w.
=Harrison, Constance Cary (Mrs. Burton Harrison).= Carlyles, The: a
story of the fall of the confederacy. †$1.50. Appleton.
A Civil war story whose opening chapters give a detailed account of
the evacuation of Richmond. When the city is set on fire, the home of
Monimia Carlyle is protected by a Union officer who supplants in the
young maiden’s affection the place of her accepted Confederate cousin.
Molly Ball, a Confederate spy “of that never extinct Amazon brood that
springs from sleep at the trumpet’s call” (Nation) calls the cousin
off from his initial love pursuits and rather monopolizes the
remainder of the story.
* * * * *
“There is no doubt as to the charm of the book and the accuracy of the
picture it presents of certain aspects of post-bellum life in Dixie.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 180w.
“The several parts, though not unrelated, are not smoothly connected,
and, in the later chapters, the charming heroine is seriously
neglected for metal less attractive.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 360w.
=Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ’05. 60w.
=Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry).= Moon princess. **$1.25.
McClurg.
“With a simple, unaffected style, the writer has narrated a child’s
story of lively interest.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“Is full of delicate shades.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ’05. 50w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Chatham. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Care coupled with his style has given us a monograph on Chatham of
abiding value.” Edward Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 710. Ap. ’06. 230w.
=Harrison, James Albert.= George Washington: patriot, soldier,
statesman, first president of the United States. **$1.35. Putnam.
In Professor Harrison’s life Washington’s heart and head unite in
admirable mastery over problems of humanity, war and state. The sketch
gives an intimate view of Washington from boyhood up, showing how well
America’s hero developed his birthright powers to meet the demands of
leadership. Martha Washington is portrayed as “an ideal of the gentler
motherhood that preceded the era of the Amazon, and consecrated itself
altogether to the sacred office of friendship.”
* * * * *
“Rhetorical descriptions abound, and there are digressions not a few;
but the portrait presented in the work is hazy and inadequate in all
that relates to Washington’s public life.”
– + =Dial.= 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 160w.
“Its style—inflated, involved, obscure, often ungrammatical—furnishes
a fairly accurate model of all that an historical writer’s work should
not be.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 374. N. 9, ’06. 90w.
“The Washington depicted in this volume is the familiar heroic and
half-deified figure of the older panegyrists. As a whole the style is
that of the romanticist, embellished with imagery and superlatives. It
is not too much to say that the quotations are the best part of this
work.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 286. O. 4, ’06. 490w.
“We know of no other life of Washington within moderate compass which
presents so clear a picture of the man and maintains so well
throughout a pleasing narrative style.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 130w.
“Has done full justice to his attractive subject, treating it with
thorough scholarship, patriotic sympathy, and felicity of style.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 253. N. ’06. 130w.
“Professor Harrison has succeeded remarkably well in presenting an
eminently readable biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 90w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 50w.
“The historian has his duty of self-effacement as well as the
biographer. The biographer must not intrude his own personality; the
historian must not intrude his style. This is what Professor Harrison
is perpetually doing.”
– =Spec.= 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 280w.
=Harrison, Jane Ellen.= Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides.
*$1.75. Macmillan.
Dr. Harrison sets forth a new view of the character and limits of
ancient Athens, based on the evidence of Thucydides and the recent
excavations of Dörpfeld.
* * * * *
“She illustrates her book with good plans and photographs, but apart
from these it is hard to see what useful purpose it can serve.”
– + =Acad.= 70: 526. Je. 2, ’06. 1020w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 729. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“Even those who are not prepared to accept the author’s theories will
welcome the presentation, in so convenient a form, of the recent
researches both of other archaeologists and of the author herself.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 521. O. 27. 660w.
“In her mythological excursions, Miss Harrison is less likely to
secure the ready reference of her reader.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 511. Je. 21, ’06. 590w.
“In one curious detail in an otherwise convincing argument, Miss
Harrison has unsuspectingly followed her leader into a gaping trap.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 367. S. 22, ’06. 1180w.
“Learned volume.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 150w.
=Harrison, Newton.= Electric wiring, diagrams and switch boards. 15th
ed. rev. and enl. *$1.50. Henley.
“Mr. Harrison’s work is intended to help practical wiremen to do a
better grade of work by informing them of the reasons for what they
do.... The author ... devotes his attention to statements of the
practical matters connected with the installation of electric
machines, including the necessary switchboards and the wiring
connecting these with the supply circuits.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“In the opinion of the reviewer, the book would be better without the
last two chapters. It should be useful not only to artisans, but also
to architects, builders and others who are responsible for the proper
installation of electric circuits.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 310. Mr. 15, ’06. 780w.
=Harrison, Peleg D.= Stars and stripes and other American flags; il.
**$3. Little.
Their origin and history, army and navy regulations concerning the
national standard and ensign, flag making, salutes, improvised,
unique, and commercial flags, flag legislation, and many associations
of American flags, including the origin of “Old Glory,” with songs and
their stories.
* * * * *
“The material is largely undigested but the industry of the author in
collecting miscellaneous facts and fables pertaining to his subject
has been immense, and his enthusiasm is contagious.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 826. D. 1, ’06. 1410w.
=Harry, Myriam.= Conquest of Jerusalem. †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
“This story of modern Jerusalem is really a study of what is known as
the ‘artistic’ temperament worked out in a morbid fashion. Hélie’s
apostasy from the Roman Catholic religion upon his marriage with a
deaconess of a protestant church destroys eventually the religious
instinct in his nature. Many of the details of the novel are
revolting.”—Critic.
* * * * *
“It is unwholesome and unpleasant.”
– =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 297. My. 5, ’06. 190w.
“An excellent translation.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 572. My. 5, ’06. 810w.
=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original
sources by associated scholars. 28v. per. v. *$2. Harper.
Group II of this series of histories, volumes 6–10, is devoted to the
“Transformation into a nation,” including Provincial America, by
Evarts Boutell Greene; France in America, by Reuben Gold Thwaites;
Preliminaries of the Revolution, by George Elliott Howard; The
American Revolution, by Claude Halstead Van Tyne; and The
confederation and the constitution, by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin.
The first volume of Group III, which division includes volumes 11–15
and treats the “Development of the nation,” is a discussion of The
federalist system, by John Spencer Bassett. The author says, “On its
political side this volume treats of three principal facts; the
successful establishment of the government under the constitution, the
organization of the Republican party on the basis of popular
government, and the steady adherence of the government to a policy of
neutrality at a time when we were threatened with serious foreign
complications.” The author follows the program of establishing an
effective government while the nation faced a new constitution and
trying international situations.
Number twelve in this “American nation” series is a discussion of “The
Jeffersonian system” by Edward Channing. It “emphasizes the innate
tendency to expansion of territory, of which Louisiana, West Florida,
and Oregon were all examples. The special and successful purpose of
the author is to make clear how it was possible for the nation to
expand in territory and in spirit, and for the federal government to
gain consequence and authority, while at the same time the government
was growing more democratic: it is a study in imperial democracy.”
Number fourteen in this series is the “Rise of the new West” by
Frederick Jackson Turner of the University of Wisconsin. “Professor
Turner takes up the west as an integral part of the Union, with a
self-consciousness as lively as that of the east or south, with its
own aims and prejudices, but as a partner in the councils and the
benefits of the national government which, as a whole, it is the aim
at this volume to describe.” The period covered is that from 1815 to
1830. The panic of 1819, the Missouri compromise, The Monroe doctrine
in particular and the tariff disputes, internal improvements and
foreign trade relations in general are fully treated.
The fifteenth volume of “The American nation” series is Dr. William
McDonald’s discussion of “Jacksonian democracy.” The aggressive
personality of Andrew Jackson is made to dominate the solution of the
great questions of national policy paramount during the years 1829–37.
The study reveals the president and man, and shows the evolution of
the political principles upon which a new democratic party was
founded.
In volume seventeen the expansion movement which extended the
boundaries of the United States from the western edge of the Louisiana
purchase to the Pacific ocean, is described “in such a way as to
indicate the real forces which gave it impulse, and how they actually
worked, and especially to show how it was affected by, and how it
reacted upon, the contemporaneous sectionalizing movement which
finally ended in civil war.”
In volume 18 of “The American nation” Dr. Smith has covered the
subject of “Parties and slavery from 1850 to 1859,” that transition
period, which saw old party organization dissolve and new ones
crystalize. The aim of the volume is “to bring out the contrast
between the old parties and their aims and the new and imperious
issues.” The efforts to prevent the crisis which resulted in the Civil
war, and the rival habits of thought which made it inevitable are
clearly shown, the effects of the struggle upon parties, legislation
and the courts as well as the social and economic changes brought
about by railroad development and the growth of cotton are carefully
detailed.
“The first part of volume nineteen in the “American nation” series
discusses political divergences in the light of sectional rivalry and
mutual dislike revealed by the election of Lincoln to the presidency.
The author presents the full significance of the John Brown raid,
pictures the attitude of Buchanan and his unsuccessful attempts at
compromise. discusses the status of the federal forts, pays tribute to
the high minded attitude of Lincoln and closes with the fall of
Sumter.”
* * * * *
“In scholarship and construction he has produced the best synopsis of
the subject existing within the limits of a single volume, and ... his
careful references and a valuable bibliography enhance the utility of
the book to the student who desires to inquire for himself.” M.
Oppenheim.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 394 Ja. ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Mr. Greene has handled his problem with the grasp of a true
historical artisan, and his book is a definite contribution to
American history.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ + + |=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 411. Ja. ’06. 1310w. (Review of v. 6.)
“In regard to style it must be pronounced very defective. Summing up
one is obliged to say that, while the book shows industry and
knowledge, its faults in regard both to style and to accuracy are so
numerous as to make it hardly worthy of the high reputation of its
author.” George M. Wrong.
+ – – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 413. Ja. ’06. 1580w. (Review of v. 7.)
“It may be doubted whether either volume adds much to the thoroughly
exploited facts in its respective field.” H. A. C.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 907. Jl. ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 8 and 9.)
“More exact dates would be in some of the chapters desirable. The
volume is quite worthy of recognition as a model history of the time.”
Austin Scott.
+ + –|=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 916. Jl. ’06. 1910w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The book itself is so sanely written that it seems ungrateful to call
attention to what are very small defects.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 155. O. ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Considering the limitations imposed by the nature of the task
assigned to them, the credit of fully maintaining the high standard
set in the preceding volumes of the ‘American nation’ series and of
closely approximating the ideal standard for works of this class must
be accorded both to Professor Channing and to President Babcock.”
Marshall Brown.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 158. O. ’06. 2600w. (Review of v. 12 and 13.)
“The book is written in an attractive style in which few errors of
literary taste occur and is pleasing in appearance. The text seems
free from mistakes: but the foot-notes contain some that are
troublesome.” Frederick W. Moore.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 162. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 14.)
“Professor MacDonald’s contribution is, thus far, the best concise and
brief essay upon Jackson’s two administrations. For a lucid and
temperate statement of all but one of the dominant questions during
Jackson’s presidency. Professor MacDonald’s volume is adequate.”
Charles H. Levermore.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 164. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 15.)
“One feels, indeed, in this volume as well as in others of the series,
the inadequacy of treatment of these deeper undercurrents of economic
and social change, not only as concerns the assignment of space, but
in the lack of a fresh individual investigation. There is not the
intimate knowledge of the field evidenced in the chapter on political
history.” Albert Cook Myers.
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 245. Ja. ’06. 720w. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 251. Ja. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 10.)
Reviewed by St. George L. Sioussat.
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 159. S. 16, ’06. 4150w. (Review of v. 8–13.)
“No better introduction to a detailed study of American history could
be desired than these excellent volumes.” H. E. E.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 621. Jl. ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1543. Je. 28, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 11–15.)
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 11–15.)
“No volume in the series to which it belongs has quite the same charm
of freshness or fills quite the same ‘long-felt want.’”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 170w. (Review of v. 14.)
“In purely literary interest, and in the sure feeling for what is
effective or dramatic in historical events, Fiske’s superiority is
unquestionable: but in just balance and proportion, in thoroughness of
research, and in all-round attention to the various aspects of the
subject ... [v. 9 and 10] are far better, not only than Fiske’s work,
but also than any other account of the American revolution of equal
compass. Professor McLaughlin’s presentation of the political history
of the Confederation is, as a whole, of such merit that we can but
regret that he has not ploughed more deeply in the economic field.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 161. F. 22, ’06. 2620w. (Review of v. 8–10.)
“If any criticism is to be passed on the author’s treatment of Western
history, it is that strictly political matters are presented in scanty
detail.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 517. Je. 21, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 14.)
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 18. Jl. 5, ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“No volume of this series thus far exhibits more commendable literary
qualities.”
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 40. Jl. 12, ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 13.)
“Careful investigation, sane conclusions, clear and orderly
presentation, are thus the very solid merits of Professor MacDonald’s
work.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 81. Jl. 26, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 15.)
“The text shows an unexpected number of typographical errors.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 230. S. 13, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 16.)
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 11.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 14.)
Reviewed by R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 261. Ap. 21, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 12 and
13.)
“A scholarly and sympathetic history of the rise of the West.” R. L.
S.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 810w. (Review of v. 14.)
“The present is one of the most valuable of the volumes in ‘The
American nation’ series.” R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 341. My. 26, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 15.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 491. Ag. 4, ’06. 600w. (Review of v. 16.)
“Each of these volumes, while giving evidence of thorough research and
acquaintance with the subject, is devoid of noticeable features.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 894. D. 22, ’06. 690w. (Review of v. 17 and
18.)
“Though ... the presentation is not always as ample as might be
desired, his book should be cordially welcomed by students of
Revolutionary history.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 8.)
“From the literary standpoint his work does not reach any high level.
On the score of accuracy, lucidity, impartiality, perspective, and
perception of cause and effect, little fault is to be found.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 374. F. 17, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 11.)
“He has, generally speaking, succeeded in investing the well-known
facts with a fresh interest. His pages are rich in acute analysis,
suggestive comment, and clear-cut portraiture; his style is lucid,
direct, and dignified, his tone judicial.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Accuracy and impartiality are also distinctive characteristics, but
from the standpoint of proportion there is no room for improvement.
Altogether, his is a most creditable addition to this standard work.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 340w. (Review of v. 13.)
“In some respects Professor Turner’s book differs strikingly from most
of its predecessors in the series. Most significant, perhaps, is the
emphasis laid upon the necessity of regarding the development of the
United States as the outcome of economic and social as well as
political forces.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 333. Je. 9, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 14.)
“Much as we must lament the absence of that appeal to the imagination
which the historian should make, the merits of the treatise are such
that it may be safely commended.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 766. Jl. 28, ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 15.)
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 16.)
“Is marked by daring and originality and, it is pleasant to be able to
add, by scholarship. It is not, however, cast in the most attractive
form, being monographic rather than unitary in treatment, and being of
the scientific rather than the artistic school of historical writing.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 300w. (Review of v. 17.)
Review by W. Roy Smith.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 121. Mr. ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 7.)
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 122. Mr. ’06. 830w. (Review of v. 9.)
Reviewed by W. Roy Smith.
+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 124. Mr. ’06. 530w. (Review of v. 10.)
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 126. Mr. ’06. 940w. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 129. Mr. ’06. 2950w. (Review of v. 8.)
=Hart, Jerome.= Levantine log book. **$2. Longmans.
“There is also a deal of useful information for the tourist.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 287. Mr. ’06. 100w.
“In form and illustration the book is as pleasing to the eye as the
text is to the mind.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 234. Ap. 1, ’06. 400w.
“Has all the ease, breeziness, and entertaining information that won
such popularity for its author’s earlier travel sketches.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 40w.
=Hartley, C. Gasquoine, pseud. (Mrs. Walter M. Gallichan).= Moorish
cities in Spain. *$1. Scribner.
Mrs. Gallichan “describes in welcome and never wearisome detail
Cordova, Toledo, Seville, and Granada, and they that dwell therein. We
have no guidebook detail, however. The reader is supposed to have
Baedeker or Murray at his elbow. But we do find hints not contained in
any guide-book.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 759. N. 17, ’06. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 260w.
=Harvey, James Clarence.= In Bohemia. $1.25. Caldwell.
A medley of verse and prose sketches in which “the author tells the
uninitiated how to go to Bohemia and what they may reasonably expect
to find there, making a special point of the distinction between the
false and the true Bohemianism, whether it is to be found in New York
or Damascus.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Some of the verse in dialect is very clever.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ’05. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ’05. 40w.
=Harwood, Edith.= Notable pictures in Florence. *$1.50. Dutton.
“Is a cheap and useful book for laymen visiting the churches and
picture galleries of Florence.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 160w.
=Harwood, W. S.= New creations in plant life: an authoritative account
of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.
“The book is far too popular in style and indefinite to be of real
value to those seriously interested in plant-breeding, and it contains
very little information meet to be absolutely accredited by the
impartial observer.”
– =Acad.= 70: 379. Ap. 21, ’06. 770w.
“Had it contained more documentary evidence set forth with scientific
method, it would have commended itself to naturalists in a higher
degree than it is likely to do at present.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 395. Mr. 31. 820w.
“Mr. Harwood is anything but scientific but his picture of the
achievements of Mr. Luther Burbank impresses the reader, as no
scientific treatise could, with the astonishing command over their
material now possessed by the breeders of animals and plants.” E. T.
Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 424. S. ’06. 160w.
“It is sufficiently full, tolerably well written, authentic, and
prepared under the direction of the gardener himself.” Thomas H.
MacBride.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 47. Ja. 16, ’06. 730w.
“The author shows no desire or ability to make a critical examination
of his achievements and to arrive at a just estimate of their
practical and scientific value.”
– =Ind.= 60: 803. Ap. 5, ’06. 320w.
“If he will give us his own experiences in his own words, rather than
in those of some too partial biographer, the whole world will be the
gainer, and the value of Mr. Burbank’s work more accurately gauged
than it can be from the perusal of the present volume.”
+ – =Nature.= 73: 242. Ja. 11, ’06. 800w.
“Mr. Harwood with a certain dash and journalistic swing has brought an
important topic from where it might have long remained ambushed by
scientific languages, and presented it to the people at large in such
a way that it at once becomes a reality.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 64. F. 3, ’06. 260w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =North American.= 183: 122. Jl. ’06. 270w.
“Aside from being an account of what is probably the most scientific
work done in our country of late, Mr. Harwood’s book is interesting
reading.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 757. D. 9, ’05. 560w.
=Harwood, W. S.= New earth: a recital of the triumphs of modern
agriculture in America. **$1.75. Macmillan.
The new earth of Mr. Harwood’s work is the cultivated earth, broad
acres, well kept and stocked, that has risen out of the old—“a fine
sane resurrection.” It is with the details of this progress as well as
with the underlying principles that have governed it that this fully
illustrated volume deals.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Harwood’s knowledge appears to be in general derived at second
hand, and he consequently not infrequently falls into error.”
– + =Dial.= 41: 39. Jl. 16, ’06. 530w.
“The book should be at once put into all the country libraries,
especially in the traveling libraries.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1435. Je. 14, ’06. 290w.
“The volume has a certain scrappiness here and there, as if the
chapters had first been used in magazines, but on the whole, it is
consistent and compact.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 65. Jl. 19, ’06. 980w.
“Though his methods still border a trifle too much towards the
journalistic for serious book work, he has produced a vivid picture of
the present-day husbandry.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.
“The book may be warmly commended to the general reader, and it seems
to us almost indispensable to the farmer who would make intelligent
use of the forces now at his disposal.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 530. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 100w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 207. Ag. 11, ’06. 240w.
=Hasluck, Paul Nooncree.= Book of photography; practical, theoretical,
and applied. $3. Cassell.
Photography in all its professional and amateur aspects is dealt with
in nearly eight hundred pages, encyclopaedic in scope and profusely
illustrated.
* * * * *
“It will prove a veritable boon to amateur and professional
photographers alike.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 50w.
“Mr. Hasluck’s book seems to us to contain everything about
photography that any one should need know.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 55. Ja. 27, ’06. 570w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 511. Ap. ’06. 80w.
=Hatch, Ernest Frederick George.= Far Eastern impressions. *$1.40.
McClurg.
“A bright and brisk book.” W. E. Griffis.
+ =Critic.= 48: 372. Ap. ’06. 260w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’06. 70w.
=Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Steuart.= Geology of South
Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
“Gives an excellent account of the ancient rocks of the interior
highland.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 261. Mr. 29, ’06. 150w.
=Hatch, Marion P.= Little Miss Sunshine and other stories in verse for
children. $1. Goff co., Buffalo, N. Y.
A little group of child verse based upon the thought of God’s
goodness, omnipotence, omnipresence which teaches a child to trust and
not to fear.
=Hatzfeldt, Paul.= Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to
his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870–71;
tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.
“Careful foot-notes give all the necessary information concerning the
persons mentioned in the letters, and there is an inadequate index.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
=Havell, Ernest Binfield.= Benares the sacred city. $3.50. Blackie &
son, London.
These sketches of Hindu life and religion “are not offered as a
contribution to oriental scholarship, or to religious controversy, but
as an attempt, to give an intelligible outline of Hindu ideas and
religious practices, and especially as a presentation of the
imaginative and artistic side of Indian religions, which can be
observed at few places so well as in the sacred city and its
neighborhood—the birthplace of Buddhism and one of the principal sects
of Hinduism.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Havell’s account of Benares is worth more than a passing glance,
for he is not to be confounded with the crowd of superficial observers
who every winter visit India and find their way to the sacred city.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 575. N. 10. 2070w.
=Bookm.= 23: 571. Jl. ’06. 110w.
“Altogether this scholarly and attractive volume is equally admirable
in text, illustrations, and topography.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 240w.
“One appreciates a calm, dispassionate, well-ordered, and studious
unravelling of the labyrinth of Hindu life and religion. Principal E.
B. Havell ... has done this in a masterly manner.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 361. Je. 1, ’06. 440w.
“A volume of considerable importance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 307. My. 12, ’06. 340w.
“Well-written and sympathetic book.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 139. My. 19, ’06. 340w.
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1015. Je. 30, ’06. 270w.
=Havell, H. A.= Tales from Herodotus. 60c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Children’s favorite classics.” Herodotus’ gift for
weaving heroic wars and great personal deeds of the Greeks into “tales
full of romance and charm” has delighted all ages. Here the tales are
adapted for children.
* * * * *
“The historian’s tales in this book deal very largely with the Greek
struggle for liberty, and they will prove as helpful and stimulating
as they will fascinating to the children fortunate enough to enjoy
their reading.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 572. N. ’06. 90w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 69. Jl. 21. 30w.
“A particularly desirable sort of preparation for children’s
nourishment.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 905. D. 2, ’05. 110w.
=Haverstick, Alexander C.= Sunday school kindergarten: a practical
method of teaching in the infant room. *50c. Young ch.
A book that discusses the order of work for little people in Sunday
school, the methods, the management and incentives.
=Haw, George.= Christianity and the working classes. $1.50. Macmillan.
“Eleven papers, dealing with the extent and intensity of the present
religious defection, its causes and the means that are available for
counteracting it.” (Cath. World.) Representative Englishmen including
clergymen, members of parliament and labor leaders are among the
contributors.
* * * * *
“The present volume is well worth serious study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 691. Ag. ’06. 1720w.
“Though written for Englishmen amid English conditions, these papers
give timely and helpful suggestions to those who are studying how to
cope with similar conditions here.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 856. Ap. 14, ’06. 190w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Shaggycoat; the biography of a beaver; il. by
Charles Copeland. **$1.25. Jacobs.
Shaggycoat easily wins and holds every nature student’s attention. He
is a member of a fast vanishing animal family, but sturdily upholds
the traditions of his four-footed antecedents. The book reveals the
habits, haunts and occupations of the beaver, shows how his nomadic
habit leads him close to his enemies at times, and gives now and then
a bit of primitive superstition which even greedy trappers heed.
* * * * *
“Mr. Hawkes gives this important animal biography in a simple,
straightforward way, and earns our gratitude by leaving it with a
happy ending in spite of the fact that the beaver tribe is being
ruthlessly wiped out.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Servant of the public.
†$1.50. Stokes.
“A very discreet book, yet losing nothing by perfect decorum.” Mary
Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 58. Ja. ’06. 340w.
“His version of the woman of whims happens to be the most piquant and
interesting one in the season’s books.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + – =Bookm.= 22: 516. Ja. ’06. 1060w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope. (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Sophy of Kravonia.
†$1.50. Harper.
Sophy, an English girl of much spirit and no money goes to Kravonia to
seek her fortune and, by a strange chance, saves the life of the crown
prince who falls in love with her. The revolution which follows, the
struggle between the supporters of her prince and those of his
half-brother, and the part which Sophy, with the red star burning on
her cheek, took in it all is stirring reading. Altho, by another
chance of fate, she loses all she has gained, she carries with her
from Kravonia a lasting memory of some enemies and many friends, of
strife and conflict, of a crown won only to be lost, and of a great
undying love.
* * * * *
“To be quite frank and explicit, this kingdom of Kravonia is one of
the dullest realms in which it has been our ill-fortune to wander.”
– + =Acad.= 71: 365. O. 13, ’06. 1300w.
“It is better reading than some of the author’s recent excursions into
latter-day social life.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 508. O. 27. 440w.
“Anthony Hope has at last turned imitator of himself. That fact is the
exact measure of the distance between ‘Sophia of Kravonia’ and ‘The
prisoner of Zenda’. Well if we can’t have the fine original again, let
us be thankful for an imitation so nearly perfect.” Edward Clark
Marsh.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 380. D. ’06. 1100w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1499. D. 20, ’06. 210w.
“Wavering between a study of character and a rattling romance, Mr.
Hope misses both opportunities, and his book, though pleasant to read,
is disappointing.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 390w.
“The conspiracy which thickens the plot is capitally developed, and
long before the matter is solved the reader has quite forgotten that
at the outset there was a certain sense of oppressiveness in the very
serious marshalling of documentary evidence, as if for the history of
a nation or the biography of a nation’s hero.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 352. O. 25, ’06. 260w.
“Taken all in all is not—in spite of the cleverness and entertaining
qualities—quite worthy of the author’s genius. Exactly why it is so it
is hard to say, for it pretends only to amuse the intelligent and it
certainly serves its purpose.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 779. N. 24, ’06. 380w.
“Kravonia is much nearer reality than was Ruritania, and Mr. Hope has
never done anything better in its way than the description of
intrigues within the palace at Slavna while the old king lay dying and
the crown prince, having met Sophy, would not set out to seek a royal
bride.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 585. N. 10, ’06. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 625. O. 27, ’06. 410w.
=Haworth, Paul Leland.= Hayes-Tilden disputed presidential election of
1876. *$1.50. Burrows.
“This is a complete record of what the writer describes as ‘the most
remarkable electoral controversy in the history of popular
government.’ The book is based upon the debates in Congress, the
evidence gathered by various investigating committees, and the
proceedings before the Electoral commission.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“Is the first adequate history of ‘the most memorable electoral
controversy in the history of popular government.’”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 245. O. 16, ’06. 830w.
“A scholarly and detailed study of a political episode.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 100w.
“He does not as yet betray the gifts of an accomplished writer, and
his style is marred here and there by unnecessary colloquialisms ...
but even they reflect a mind that deals with a complex matter in a
spirit of unusual simplicity and candor.” Edward Cary.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 457. Jl. 21, ’06. 1290w.
“The author, although he writes in a judicial spirit, does not
indicate that he appreciates the political wrongs perpetrated in the
south by so-called Reconstruction governments.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 120w.
“His work is a convenient and valuable digest of a vast amount of
material not heretofore sifted for general use.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 100w.
=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= Our old home: a series of English sketches: with
an introd. by Katharine Lee Bates. $1.50. Crowell.
A “Luxembourg” edition of Hawthorne’s twelve English sketches. The
introduction gives clippings which record America’s favorable and
England’s unfavorable comments upon the work when it appeared in 1863.
Miss Bates also suggests that Hawthorne might have used his note-book
material to better advantage, mentioning especially the unused
descriptive bits on the lake country.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 60w.
=Hawtrey, Valentina.= Romance of old wars. †$1.50. Holt.
With a background of war between the French and Dutch of Von
Arteveld’s time, the author has built up a pathetic love story.
Matthieu de Châtelfors and Huette de Richecour are betrothed at birth.
Huette develops into a plain, passionate, rather shrewish young woman
whom Matthieu delays marrying on one pretext and another. She is too
proud to insist and time drags on. With a promise to marry her on his
return, he leaves for the battle-field. There follows a romantic
meeting with a pretty peasant girl whose refusal of Matthieu’s love
arouses his determination to wed her. The curtain rings down on the
death of the one and the repulse of the other at Châtelfors.
=Hay, Alfred D.= Alternating currents: their theory, generation and
transformation. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
A book for students and readers who are familiar with the subject both
from practical and theoretical experience. “While the arrangement is
logical, it is not systematic enough to make easy reading. Under the
direction of a competent instructor, with proper laboratory facilities
available, the book can be used as a text with excellent
satisfaction.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“It is undoubtedly one of the best books on the subject of alternating
currents, and as a reference book for students, manufacturers and
users of alternating current machinery it will prove exceedingly
valuable.” H. H. Norris.
+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 430. Ap. 12, ’06. 830w.
“The only drawback is that he has thus crowded the space devoted
directly to the theory of alternating currents. These chapters should
have been expanded or omitted altogether.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 210w.
=Hay, John.= Addresses: a collection of the more notable addresses
delivered by the late secretary of state during the last years of his
life. **$2. Century.
Mr. Hay’s discussion of men and things embodies his maturest thought,
and his highest ideals of statehood. Among the twenty-four addresses
grouped here are estimates of Franklin in France, Sir Walter Scott,
William McKinley, Edmund Clarence Stedman, President Roosevelt, and
discussions of international copyright, American diplomacy, Grand army
of the republic, The press and modern progress and America’s love of
peace.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 555. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 240w.
“Rich in suggestive thought, and at once scholarly and charming in
style, is a notable addition to the already large body of the literary
remains of American statesmen.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. ’06. 90w.
“Contains the addresses by which we think he will be best known. It is
calculated to make every American reader prouder of our great
secretary of state; it will also give to every foreign student of our
affairs a higher opinion of the richest American character and
attainment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 841. D. 1, ’06. 580w.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 383. D. ’06. 310w.
=Hay, Marie.= German pompadour; being the true history of Wilhelmine von
Gravenitz, landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg: a veracious narrative of the
eighteenth century, gleaned from old documents. *$3.50. Scribner.
“Wilhelmine von Gravenitz was one of the most fascinating women of the
eighteenth century. More passionate, and vastly more intelligent than
La Pompadour, her French rival in intrigue and gallantry, she was a
nobler type of woman, for she was really in love with Eberhard Ludwig,
the reigning Duke of Wirtemburg, and though she played his dull and
colorless wife many a cruel trick, and even attempted to assassinate
her, our sympathies in spite of ourselves are stirred rather in the
favour of the brilliant mistress than of the highly respectable but
phlegmatic wife. To depict the life of a woman of this class in a
lengthy narrative, without making her offensive, demands unusual
insight into human nature.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Her compromise between history and fiction is maintained throughout;
she is always guiding herself by authentic facts, and her emotions are
regulated by the documents at her side. And here lies the defect of
the system. She cannot give her imagination free rein, and yet she may
indulge it to such an extent that the reader does not know when he is
reading history and when he is reading fiction. The ordinary reader
will question whether the record of Wilhelmine might not give off a
more pungent odour to other nostrils; and still more will he doubt
whether this vagrant air is potent enough to steep three hundred and
fifty odd pages with its fragrance. A magazine article or a sonnet
were the proper vessel for such sweetness.”
– =Acad.= 71: 81. Jl. 28, ’06. 1170w.
“A notable piece of work. There is distinction in the style, and the
writer shows such evident familiarity with the period and place
involved, that certain objections which we feel should be made to the
presentation of the narrative may with some show of reason be judged
pedantic.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 96. Jl. 28. 2050w.
“The author writes with a clever woman’s knowledge of the human heart,
but her style occasionally borders on the luscious. It is a book for
the novel reader, not for the student.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ – =Dial.= 41. 386. D. 1, ’06. 270w.
“The literary style is much inferior to the power of the narrative. We
have unqualified gratitude to the authoress-historian for her labor of
construction.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 753. N. 17, ’06. 940w.
“This remarkable first attempt at an historical novel leads one to
hope that in a future venture Miss Hay will give us, not a more vivid
story but a more carefully finished one.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 240. Ag. 25, ’06. 730w.
=Haynes, George Henry.= Election of senators. **$1.50. Holt.
This volume in the “American public problems” series, aims “to make
clear the considerations which led the framers of the Constitution to
place the election of senators in the hands of the state legislature;
the form and spirit of the elections thus made, and the causes which
have led to the recent and pressing demand for popular control over
the choice of senators. It attempts also to forecast in some degree
the probable effectiveness of such popular control, whether exercised
under a loose construction of the present law, or in accordance with a
constitutional amendment making possible the election of senators by
direct popular vote.” Following the eleven chapters into which this
subject has been divided are the resolutions favoring popular election
of senators passed by the House of representatives, Recommendations of
the Pennsylvania joint committee and a bibliography.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 971. Jl. ’06. 90w.
“Of considerable popular as well as historical interest.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 93. Ag. 16, ’06. 320w.
“This volume presents a timely and interesting account of the
arguments for and against the present system of the election of
senators.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 397. S. 22, ’06. 320w.
“The book is so complete and so fair that, but for one circumstance,
we should not feel called upon to do more than to refer the reader to
it as a lucid and exhaustive compendium. The argument assumes, of
course, that the Senate, as it exists, is in need of improvement, This
part of the book is more labored than is necessary.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 247. S. 20, ’06. 1280w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 180w.
=Hazelton, John Hampton.= Declaration of independence: its history.
**$4.50. Dodd.
“The book begins with 1774, following with the first steps taken by
the colonies. Jefferson’s share in the drafting of the Declaration,
the help of John Adams, the position of Hancock, and an account of
how, when, and where each member signed the document. There is also a
description of the effect of the Declaration on this country and
England. In another chapter the author writes about the present
resting place of the original document. The limited edition of the
work will be in two volumes: the regular, in one.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Hazelton has performed creditably a hard task, for which all
students of the period will be grateful.” George Elliott Howard.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 913. Jl. ’06. 530w.
“This is not a mere historical canvas filled with stiff figures, but
rather a series of character studies of live men,—a set of ‘journals
intimes’, which, to employ the language of John Adams, enables one ‘to
penetrate the intricate, internal foldings of their souls.’” J.
Woodbridge Riley.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 289. My. ’06. 1400w.
“Mr. Hazelton has preferred to send out his material in bullion rather
than to coin it into currency. As a narrative it suffers in
consequence, but it has the greater value for the student.” Edwin E.
Sparks.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 202. O. 1, ’06. 850w.
“An elaborate work for reference rather than for reading.
Unfortunately, his methods have serious defects. Notwithstanding the
author’s care, misprints may be found, and curiously careless
references to printed books. Yet, in spite of its drawbacks, the
volume cannot but be highly useful to the student of sources.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 409. My. 17, ’06. 600w.
“Mr. Hazelton’s work is the result of patient and laborious
investigation, set forth without any effort to attain literary
attractiveness. It is valuable for a correct understanding of one
important phase of the Revolution.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 236. Ap. 7, ’06. 530w.
=Headley, John William.= Confederate operations in Canada and New York.
$2. Neale.
One with the incendiaries who tried to burn New York City Nov. 25,
1864, and who escaped amidst the panic to Canada “gives a detailed
account of the several mad undertakings, each of which proved a dismal
failure but undoubtedly caused much concern and embarrassment to the
federal and State authorities. Captain Headley enlisted in the
Confederate army early in the war, and prior to his Canadian mission
saw much active service in Kentucky and Tennessee. Of this he also
writes, his narrative affording fresh glimpses of the campaigns of
Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan. His book is one of adventurous interest.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“His book is a useful addition to the literature on the war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 123. Jl. 28, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Headley’s book is mostly an inaccurate rehash of the facts of the
civil war; but a few chapters contain an account of the New York
affair that might, if better presented, have been interesting. As it
is, the style is graceless as the narrative is shameless.”
– =Nation.= 83: 152. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.
“Although devoid of literary merit and characterized by a pronounced
sectional tone, deserves a place on the shelf allotted to literature
on the Civil war.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 334. Je. 9, ’06. 220w.
=Healy, Most Rev. John.= Life and writings of St. Patrick. *$4.50.
Benziger.
“Dr. Healy gives us, from an inside standpoint, a copious and
exhaustive history of Ireland’s Apostle. The present work, containing
over seven hundred and fifty good-sized pages, embodies everything of
value that is known, or probably ever will be known, on the subject.
Its chief excellence is the wealth of topographical lore which the
learned author has brought to his task.... The narrative of St.
Patrick’s journeyings is greatly enlivened by the Archbishop’s
identification of the various places and landmarks in the modern
nomenclature.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
“There is no reason to expect that any subsequent work will supplant
this ‘Life’ with those who will wish to learn all about the Apostle of
Ireland, not in the interests of dry scholarship, but from love of
faith and country.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 83: 102. Ap. ’06. 870w.
Reviewed by T. W. Rolleston.
+ – =Hibbert J.= 4: 447. Ja. ’06. 1310w.
“For any subsequent writer to ignore the close train of reasoning by
which Professor Bury reaches his conclusions is simply to put himself
out of the court as a critical authority.”
– + =Sat. R.= 101: 793. Je. 23, ’06. 860w.
=Healy, Patrick Joseph.= Valerian persecution: a study of the relations
between church and state in the third century, A.D. **$1.50. Houghton.
“The book as a whole is interesting and valuable.” John Winthrop
Platner.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 356. Ja. ’06. 740w.
“The tone of the work throughout is candid and temperate, the style is
clear and engaging, and the conclusions reached are, with minor
exceptions justified by the evidence.” Eri B. Hulbert.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 345. Ap. ’06. 350w.
“We have praised the author’s impartiality: but we may detect a
certain prepossession in his account of the fate of Emperor Valerian.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 759. Je. 23. 980w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 415. Mr. ’06. 200w.
“Both in acuteness and erudition this book is a leader.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 210w.
“This work is evidently based on a careful study of all the sources,
ancient and recent, whence our information on the persecution under
Valerian is derived.” Alice Gardner.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 552. Jl. ’06. 760w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and
stories. **$1.25. Houghton.
“This posthumous book is full of prettinesses, much of the character
and value of those admirably set forth in English in the author’s
former works.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 388. Mr. 31. 870w.
Reviewed by W. E. Griffis.
+ =Critic.= 48: 222. Mr. ’06. 630w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Some Chinese ghosts. **$1.50. Little.
Mr. Hearn sought especially for “weird beauty” in preparing the
legends grouped here. The six tales possess the charm of a poet’s
touch and are as follows: The soul of the great bell, The story of
Ming-Y, The legend of Tchi-Niu, The return of Yen-Tchin-Kny, The
tradition of the tea-plant and The tale of the porcelain god.
“New and most attractive edition of a delightful book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
=Outlook.= 84: 503. N. 9, ’06. 40w.
=Heigh, John.= House of cards. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 44. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“The book is of almost painful interest, but is no mere political
pamphlet.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 219. Ag. 12, ’05. 220w.
=Heilprin, Angelo.= Tower of Pelee. **$3. Lippincott.
“It will be difficult, even for those geologists who hesitate to
accept all of Lacroix’s brilliant reasoning and explanation in regard
to the physical manifestations of Pelée’s eruptions, to agree with
Professor Heilprin’s views, largely because the manner in which they
are presented must in many cases fail to convince the reader.” Ernest
Howe.
+ – – =Science=, n.s. 23: 29. Ja. 5, ’06. 1240w.
=Heilprin, Angelo, and Heilprin, Louis=, eds. Lippincott’s new
gazetteer. *$10. Lippincott.
The best of all the editions of fifty years has been retained, the
unnecessary amplification cut out, and the latter-day material which
the march of improvement orders has been added to this semi-centennial
volume of Lippincott’s gazetteer. It is complete, condensed and
monumental.
* * * * *
“Is a work of great value and contains an up-to-date, reliable and
well-selected summary of the most important geographical information.”
Emory R. Johnson.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 247. Ja. ’06. 440w.
“All the modern advances of geography are capably exhibited, as might
have been expected from the editors.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 136. F. 3. 230w.
“The latest changes in geographical conditions are to be found in this
new edition.”
+ + + =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 700w.
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 97. F. 1, ’06. 140w.
“In omissions and errors the Territory of Alaska fares worst.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 282. F. 1, ’06. 710w.
“We gladly recognize that it has substantial claims to distinction as
a reference work of great usefulness to all who require geographical
information. For such, indeed, there is no other work of equal scope.
And if only because of this fact it is to be hoped that in future
editions greater care will be exercised to secure both freedom from
error and ease of consultation.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 253. F. 17, ’06. 1110w.
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 123. F. 8, ’06. 1340w.
“There is little with which fault can be found, and abundance to
praise in the volume.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 778. N. 18, ’05. 1150w.
“In its new form will be as indispensable as is an unabridged
dictionary.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 260w.
“This work of Messrs. Heilprin cannot be too highly praised—the
devotion to detail has not only been conscientious to a degree, but
they have also shown an intelligent discrimination which is a large
portion of the value of the book.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 828. D. 23, ’05. 200w.
“The work as a whole is far more comprehensive in scope than ever
before. Its treatment of the recently acquired possessions of the
United States gives it a distinctive value to Americans such as no
other book of its class now has.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 160w.
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thoroughly.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 70w.
“As far as we have been able to examine the book, we have found it
complete.”
+ + + =Spec.= 96: 152. Ja. 27, ’06. 180w.
=Heisch, C. E.= Art and craft of the author; practical hints upon
literary work. *$1.20. Grafton press.
Miss Heisch’s book is full of practical hints upon literary work. “Her
advice may be boiled down into the old golden precepts; Be honest; be
patient; be industrious.” (Acad.) Yet there are specific suggestions
for a writer along the line of principles which should guide him,
objects he should keep in view and the methods of carrying them out.
* * * * *
“Her advice is always good, and her book is well-arranged and clearly
written.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 189. F. 24, ’06. 160w.
“Authors with some experience as well as beginners will find profit in
these pages.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 324. My. 19, ’06. 270w.
“She says judicious things, and she fortifies her precepts with good
illustrations.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 625. Ap. 21, ’06. 120w.
=Heller, Otto.= Studies in modern German literature. *$1.50; school ed.
*$1.25. Ginn.
Three essays devoted respectively to Sudermann, Hauptmann and women
writers of the nineteenth century.
* * * * *
“Herr Heller is not a very great or original critic, but he is
genuinely interested in his subject, and that goes for much; he has
read and assimilated a great deal of the best German criticism bearing
on the matter, and his outlook is generally sensible.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 685. N. 18. 530w.
“Suggestive and interesting work.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 317. S. 29, ’05. 660w.
“Very able treatise on modern German literature.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.
=Helm, W. H.= Aspects of Balzac. **$1. Pott.
“His book is a useful addition to Balzac literature.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Helm’s method furnishes us with a number of unpretentious chats,
that commend themselves by intelligence and discrimination, and move
in the middle region of appreciation between fanatical zeal and
grudging recognition.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 122. F. 24, ’06. 900w.
=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Children of good fortune: an essay in
morals. **$1.30. Houghton.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 130w.
“One feels disposed to say that Dr. Henderson has written a most
immoral book about morality.” Edward Fuller.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 212. Mr. ’06. 270w.
=Henderson, Ernest Flagg.= Short history of Germany; new ed. [2v. in 1.]
*$2.50. Macmillan.
The two volumes of Mr. Henderson’s history which appeared four years
ago have been combined in one volume for the present edition. “The
author assumes, as his starting-point, the preëminence of Germany as
the guiding thread to lead the student through the intricacies of
general European history. All the great international struggles, he
points out, have been fought out on German soil, from the Thirty
years’ war to the great struggle against Napoleon. The two great
ever-present factors of the entire medieval period—the Papacy and the
Empire—fought out their differences on German soil and through German
personages.... This volume, which is excellently printed and provided
with indexes and notes, is also supplied with several maps and
bibliographical lists.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
+ + =Nation.= 82: 117. F. 8, ’06. 60w.
“It is a book that is most needful.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 313. My. 12, ’06. 240w.
“Those who are really interested in German history, however, will not
be satisfied with such a condensation, admirably as it has been done.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 110w.
“Not the least valuable part of the book is a careful bibliography
introducing each chapter and covering the subject matter of the
chapter.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 541. Ap. 28, ’06. 130w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 160w.
=Henderson, Henry F.= Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp.
Scribner.
Reviewed by Eri B. Hulbert.
=Am. J. Theol.= 10: 354. Ap. ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Henderson’s book is not exhaustive. Full information on the
religious controversies of Scotland will have to be sought elsewhere.
The book was manifestly intended to be a popular account of its
subject, rather than a professional and scientific one.” T. Johnstone
Irving.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 74. Jl. ’06. 720w.
=Henderson, John.= West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by
John Henderson.
+ =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 15, ’05. 90w.
=Henderson, M. Sturge.= Constable. *$2. Scribner.
A late addition to the “Library of art.” The volume furnishes a short,
condensed life of the English landscape painter, “who, by virtue of a
naturalism that was unique in two respects—his ‘fearless adoption of
“unpicturesque” localities as subjects for his pictures, and his
practice of using fresh, bright color’—pointed out to his successors
‘the way to a new kingdom.’” (Ind.) Much of the material has been
drawn from C. R. Leslie’s “Life.” There are 38 half-tone reproductions
from the artist’s paintings, sketches and studies.
* * * * *
“The author not only indulges in restrained criticism, but presents
the actions and interests of the artist in a vivid and chronological
manner.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“The beautiful simplicity of Constable’s life and art are admirably
expressed in this book, and those who read it carefully will learn
much more than they have known before about the simple and homely but
great English master.” Walter Cranston Larned.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 256. Ap. 16, ’06. 1350w.
“His critical comment, besides being sound, has the further merit of
clear and concise expression.”
+ + – =Ind.= 59: 1483. D. 21, ’05. 210w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 32. D. ’05. 140w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 374. F. ’06. 50w.
“It is well enough done, but there was no great necessity of doing it
at all, and there is nothing in it that is not readily enough to be
found elsewhere.”
+ – =Nature.= 81: 509. D. 21, ’05. 100w.
“The present volume challenges comparison with Mr. Holmes’s excellent
biography published four years ago. Both biographers are notable for
clearness, vigor, and discrimination.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ’05. 180w.
=Henderson, Mary Foote.= Aristocracy of health. $1.50. Harper.
The author outlines the path royal for the would-be health
aristocrat,—the being who achieves strength, self-reliance, success,
influence long life, and happiness. The way lies close to physical
culture, abstinence from poisons, and dietetic care. The author views
the subject of human degeneracy from the standpoint of different
countries, and so leads up to her suggestion that a national and
international league be formed for the advancement of physical
culture.
* * * * *
“Laborious and enthusiastic volume.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 659. O. 6, ’06. 480w.
“The material is thrown into popular form and although it could easily
be reduced in bulk, the book is readable. As an argument against the
use of stimulants, it carries weight; as a general philosophy of
living it has its limitations.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 428. O. 20, ’06. 430w.
=Henderson, T. F.= Mary, Queen of Scots: her environment and tragedy.
*$6 Scribner.
A biography satisfactory for students because of its wealth of
footnotes and references. “To sum up, the presentation of Queen Mary
... is good and true to nature for the period in which she can be
observed in freedom, while she displayed to the world her great and
royal heart, facing her enemies in the field of battle, meeting
diplomatists in the council chamber, and discharging with grace and
gaiety the duties of hostess, or the functions of a queen, and Mr.
Henderson can make allowances for the strong temptations which led to
her fall. But in her long and cruel confinement he loses touch with
her. Without adequate conception of her rights, or of the part which
as a queen and a Catholic she should have played, he considers her now
as an actress, a devote, a mischief-maker. But her conduct at her
trial and execution again appeals to him and he concludes with a
fitting testimony to her great qualities.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Henderson’s volume is at least the fourth separate biography of
her which has appeared during this year alone. Of all these lives Mr.
Henderson’s is without doubt the best and most thorough. His
advantages over his rivals are many.” J. H. Pollen.
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1351. D. 30, ’05. 1530w.
“His book is both a narrative biography and a critical study. The
value of the book lies chiefly in its clear presentation of general
conditions underlying the crises of Mary’s career and particularly of
the influence of foreign affairs upon their shaping and development.”
O. H. Richardson.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 890. Jl. ’06. 860w.
“Some readers will be inclined to question not only the soundness of
many of Mr. Henderson’s criticisms, but also his presentation of some
of the facts. The book is vigorously written and displays much
critical acumen; but some of the phrases are rather inelegant, and one
or two savor of slang.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 319. Mr. 17. 2030w.
“It is a pity that several mistakes have been allowed to creep into
the text, and that, in giving the date of the month, in nearly every
instance that date of the year has been omitted; also that the author
has permitted himself the use of so many unusual words.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 472. My. ’06. 400w.
“He has brought together for the first time many facts that were
formerly to be sought only in scattered and more or less inaccessible
books or magazine articles, and he has added not a little entirely new
matter, important to a proper understanding of the life of Mary Stuart
and of those around her.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 63. Ag. 1, ’06. 390w.
“His survey is thorough, extensive and precise, missing scarcely a
detail of the stormy and adventurous career.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 917. Je. 16, ’06. 960w.
“Though we differ widely from Mr. Henderson on many points, his book
is a valuable contribution to the controversy, and it will be
indispensable to the student. The general reader will find it fresh
and clear and well-informed. We feel bound to add that it is to a
considerable extent spoiled by Mr. Henderson’s irritating habit of
correcting his predecessors on points of detail. Sometimes he is
right, but more often it seems to us, there is as much evidence for
their view as for his.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 449. D. 15, ’05. 830w.
“His book not only claims to be free from prepossessions, but succeeds
much better than most works on Mary Stuart in preserving the mood of
objectivity.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 409. My. 17, ’06. 580w.
“Mr. Henderson may have Mary’s history at his fingers’ ends ... but he
has not succeeded in telling what he knows convincingly, or with
clearness or fullness. Mrs. MacCunn’s biography is not only far more
interesting, but it is fuller.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 430w.
“His is a book for advanced students, and these will find it richly
informative.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 279. S. 29, ’06. 2920w.
“We have mentioned points susceptible of improvement in the book, but
it will be very welcome to the relatively large public which studies
the history of the unhappy queen.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 899. D. 2, ’05. 1780w.
=Henderson, William James.= Art of the singer; practical hints about
vocal technics and style. **$1.25. Scribner.
The results of twenty-five years of study are summed up for the
teacher, the student and the lover of singing. “Probably the best
thing in Mr. Henderson’s book, the ‘Art of the singer,’ is his defence
of that art. In reply to the declaration of an acquaintance that
singing is an artificial achievement, he says: ‘The truth is that
while speaking is nature, singing is nothing more than nature under
high cultivation.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A real acquisition to the library.”
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 271. N. ’06. 560w.
“While the book is to some extent technical, it is written in a clear,
comprehensive style and can be enjoyed by the mere lover of singing.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 230w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 291. O. 4, ’06. 630w.
“Mr. Henderson’s book is a most valuable and useful one. It makes for
the preservation and integrity of something that cannot possibly be
spared in the musical world.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 1080w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 60w.
=Henry, Arthur.= Lodgings in town. †$1.50. Barnes.
+ =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“The intimate, straightforward and lively style in which Mr. Henry
writes, and his large and convincing optimism, make a strong appeal to
the reader’s sympathy.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 170w.
=Henry, Arthur.= Unwritten law. †$1.50. Barnes.
“It is a truer reproduction of contemporaneous cosmopolitan existence
than are most historical essays that claim to represent things as they
are, and being instinct with the higher realism ... the work holds the
interest of the reader from cover to cover.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 573. N. ’06. 190w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 218. Ag. 12, ’05. 270w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Four million. †$1. McClure.
“In the four million people of New York city their daily living and
working and playing, Mr. Henry has found the material for comedy, and
tragedy, for laughter and tears. With a few deft touches he weaves the
fabric of romance in East side tenements, Wall street brokers’ offices
or along Fifth avenue. His sketches—they are hardly stories—are
remarkable for their terseness, sympathy and humor, and for their deep
insight into the inner life of the great city.”—Pub. Opin.
* * * * *
“These sketches of New York life are among the best things of the kind
put forth in many a day.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 161. Jl. 19, ’06. 120w.
“The work is not even, of course, and some of it is not up to the
mark—but on the whole it expresses the spirit of New York wonderfully.
And it is clever and entertaining always.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 640w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 220w.
“Little stories, each with its individual point, and all pervaded with
genuine fun and here and there a touch of sentiment or pathos.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 42. My. 3, ’06. 120w.
“His work is a living proof of the oft-repeated statement that
literature depends for its value not on the quality of the material
but on the eye of the beholder.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 120w.
=Henshaw, Julia W.= Mountain wild flowers of America: a simple and
popular guide to the names and descriptions of the flowers that bloom
above the clouds. *$2. Ginn.
Three hundred plants which the wanderer in mountain regions may meet
with at any turning are introduced to the reader of this volume by
both their popular and scientific names, while one hundred of them are
further identified by means of full-page pictures reproduced from
photographs taken by the author. The flowers are classified according
to color, an explanation of all botanical terms used is given, and
there is one index to the scientific names and another to the English.
* * * * *
“Among the best of the numerous popular works on nature issued during
recent years.”
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 73. S. ’06. 110w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 73. Ag. 1, ’06. 60w.
“Even one ignorant of botany will be able to make use of the book.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1371. Je. 7, ’06. 120w.
“Is certain to stimulate as well as delight all tourists to the
wonderland of our great common Northwest.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 108. Ag. 2, ’06. 540w.
“An interesting and practical volume to the unenlightened.” Helen R.
Albee.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 567. S. 15, ’06. 330w.
=Herbert, George.= English works, newly arranged and annotated and
considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6.
Houghton.
“The edition is an elaborate and worthy monument to the gravely sweet
and original genius.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 415. Ap. 7. 1700w.
“He has done a work never attempted before, and it is so final in its
results that henceforth every student of Herbert must reckon with it.”
A. V. G. Allen.
+ + + =Atlan.= 97: 90. Ja. ’06. 8090w.
“Wide and intimate scholarship and a rare insight born of a lifetime
of close fellowship are met together in this work.” Frances Duncan.
+ + – =Critic.= 49: 183. Ag. ’06. 1640w.
“Professor Palmer’s essays are terse, direct, and pithy, felicitous in
their combination of tireless scholarly research and infectious
enthusiasm.”
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 129. F. 16, ’06. 410w.
“He has run the risk of misleading the general reader by imposing upon
the arrangement an interpretation of the poet’s character which is
peculiarly his own, and unsustained by internal or external evidence.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 209. F. 10, ’06. 780w.
“Excellent as an annotator, the present editor does not appear to us
so happy as a biographer.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 456. D. 22, ’05. 2050w.
“It is probably the most complete, and critically speaking, the final
edition of the English poet’s works.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 110. Ja. ’06. 190w.
=Herrick, Albert Bledsoe.= Practical electric railway hand-book. 2nd ed.
rev. & corrected. *$3. McGraw pub.
The results of practical experiences along the lines of improvement in
the operation of electric railways have been arranged here in
convenient form for reference. “The material is logically arranged in
the following nine sections: General tables, testing, track, power
station, line car house, repair shop, equipment and operation.”
* * * * *
“The second edition of this handbook ... is greatly improved in many
ways.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 673. Je. 14, ’06. 580w.
=Herrick, Christine Terhune=, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c.
Wessels.
+ =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 50w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Memoirs of an American citizen. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The story is told in a clear, personal narrative which never strays
into a false key.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 43. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“It is in the life-like portraits of Carmichael and other business men
that he excels, and in the description of the purely business side of
life.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 308. Mr. 10, ’06. 100w.
=Herrmann, Wilhelm.= Communion of the Christian with God. Authorized
tr.; new cheaper ed. **$1.50. Putnam.
A translation of the last German edition issued in a more convenient
form than the first American issue and at a popular price.
* * * * *
“It is assuredly one of the important doctrinal treatises of a
generation, and it is well that it is rendered into English from the
text which is likely to be the author’s final revision.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 880. O. 11, ’06. 1050w.
“It is a book which has entered into the life of our time, and its
work has been in behalf of sincere piety and true devotion.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 168. Ag. 23, ’06. 590w.
“We are glad to see so rational and so devout a book published in a
form which brings it within the reach of others than professional
students. For it is more than a book of theology; it is an exposition
and interpretation of religious experience.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 428. O. 20, ’06. 390w.
=Herzfeld, Elsa G.= Family monographs: the history of twenty-four
families living in the middle of the west side of New York city. For
sale by Brentano’s and Charity organization soc., N. Y.
Miss Herzfeld says, “The object of these studies is to throw light on
the family of the New York tenement-house dweller. The majority of the
families studied are fairly typical of the German and Irish, foreign
and native born, tenement-house population of New York.” While not the
most thriftless type they live from hand to mouth. The work is based
on wide sociological observation.
* * * * *
“Fragmentary as the study is, it is an authentic document by a shrewd
observer and interpreter of social motives.” C. R. H.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 706. Mr. ’06. 50w.
“The monograph is valuable and will be very serviceable to students of
city life.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 236. Ja. ’06. 90w.
“The book is one that the general reader will enjoy; for interest has
not been sacrificed to scientific colorness, and humor and pathos are
alike to be found here.” E. A.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 255. Ap. ’06. 130w.
“It is not, in fact, a literary work in any sense, or a ‘book’ in any
but the most restricted sense. It is a tract.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ’05. 210w.
=Hewitt, Randall H.= Across the plains and over the divide: a mule train
journey from East to West in 1862, and incidents connected therewith.
$1.50. Broadway pub.
The untamed West of the Civil war days, with its primitive grandeur
and unrestraint is reproduced in these pages for the benefit of the
younger generation. The journey covers a zigzag course from Illinois
to Washington, over wild country, with no end of perilous encounters.
=Hewlett, Maurice.= Works. Ed. de luxe. 11v. ea. *$3. Macmillan.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 638. My. 19, ’06. 970w. (Review of v. 1–9.)
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the
world. †$1.50. Harper.
“Here again he shows his virtuosity in creating a magic haze, beyond
which his mediaeval figures move upon their fate.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 53. Ja. ’06. 340w.
=Hewlett, Maurice.= Fool errant. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Can it be that Mr. Hewlett after all grows genial?” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 54. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=Heyward, Janie Screven.= Wild roses. $1.25. Neale.
Some thirty verses, simple to a fault, upon homey subjects—with a
touch here and there of strong Southern feeling. The volume opens with
a poem on Confederate reunion 1899, and closes with The Confederate
private.
=Heywood, William.= Palio and Ponte. Methuen, London.
“For the present volume all those who love the history of sport or of
Italy will be grateful. It is as light as it is learned, while the
excellent illustrations and pleasant type and form give it an added
charm.” E. Armstrong.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 153. Ja. ’06. 1000w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Black spaniel and other stories. †$1.50.
Stokes.
“They have not the epigrammatic flash of his earlier books nor the
substantial impressiveness of his latest.”
– =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 130w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Call of the blood; il. by Orson Lowell.
†$1.50. Harper.
An Englishman ten years younger than his “ugly though brilliantly
clever and intellectual” bride finds, under the sunny skies of Sicily
whence they go for their honeymoon, that he cannot resist the cry of
youth and beauty. The strain of Sicilian blood in his veins is
responsible for his aptitude in dancing the tarantella and for his
yielding to the quick call of love—dishonourable tho it be, and tragic
tho it prove.
* * * * *
“It is a full-blooded stirring story—a work which, if Mr. Hichens had
not written ‘The garden of Allah,’ we might hail as the greatest novel
of passion in the century.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 266. S. 15, ’06. 150w.
“Mr. Hichens at any rate is open to the accusation of taking a long
time to tell a simple story.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29, 370w.
“Mr. Hichens envelops himself in rather artificial motives and seems
quite oblivious of the influences that must really move his characters
to act with consummate naturalness to an inevitable end.” Duffield
Osborne
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 377. D. ’06. 780w.
“So far as the matter of scene painting goes, ‘The call of the blood’
recalls the splendid richness of colour in ‘The garden of Allah’ while
in all other respects it serves only to emphasize the marked
superiority of the earlier volume.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 386. D. ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Hichens, it seems, has committed the strategic crime of not
making his new novel even better than its predecessor. Yet ‘The call
of the blood’ is a good book, perhaps even a great book.”
+ + – =Current Literature.= 41: 699. D. ’06. 820w.
“There is not enough power in this story and too much decadent
fineness.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 1229. N. 22, ’06. 710w.
“The book is entertaining and well worth reading.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 210w.
“Some of the Sicilian descriptions are quite as remarkable as anything
Mr. Hichens has done.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 305. S. 7, ’06. 510w.
+ – =Nation.= 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 450w.
“The story is written with much dramatic power and with fine restraint
as well. The chief fault of the novel, is that at times, notably in
the last hundred pages, the action drags.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The latter part of the story is tragic and moves with some vigor—but
too late!”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 140w.
“The author’s style has an even carefulness. It has no compelling
illumination, no gift for happy phrase, and is never impregnated with
the sense of character; but it lends itself to the landscape passages
of which he is fond, and retains throughout a literary finish.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 401. S. 29, ’06. 730w.
“Mr. Hichens’s style harmonises excellently with his subject. Its
colour is at times rather hectic, but in the main it seems to heighten
the effect of a remarkably interesting and dramatic study of the
survival of pagan and primitive instincts.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 404. S. 22, ’06. 810w.
=Hichens, Robert.= Garden of Allah. $1.50. Stokes.
“From the standpoint of the author, in so far as he has vouchsafed to
disclose it, the ending of the story is forced and inartistic.”
Duffield Osborne.
– =Bookm.= 24: 378. D. ’06. 760w.
=Edinburgh R.= 203: 79. Ja. ’06. 2260w.
=Living Age.= 248: 736. Mr. 24, ’06. 2260w. (Reprinted from
Edinburgh R.)
=Higgins, Hubert.= Humaniculture. **$1.20. Stokes.
“A phrase of the author’s states the subject matter of this book:
‘The problem has now shifted its ground from how to cure a man ...
in a hospital to the cure of a man in a sanitarium. The real problem
still remains; how to prevent a man in a home from acquiring
disease.’... It is now known that only through the exercise of the
faculty of mastication and insalivation can the stomach and
intestines perform their functions in a non-poison-producing way....
The real significance of this act has only recently been
demonstrated, and by an American, Mr. Horace Fletcher. The first
half of Dr. Higgins’s book is devoted to analysis and eulogy of Mr.
Fletcher’s theories.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“To do him justice there is more truth in his theories than in some
others with which a long-suffering public has been afflicted.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 60w.
“Dr. Higgins is neither a ‘crank’ nor a faddist. While his book is,
unfortunately, diffuse in style and not clear in construction, it is
worth reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 579. Jl. 7, ’06. 410w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= Part of a man’s life. **$2.50. Houghton.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 134. F. 3. 300w.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 115. Ja. ’06. 860w.
“It is pleasant to see, in regard to this intensely human part of a
man’s life, that he can still point a pen not greatly corroded by the
rust of days.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1341. D. 7, ’05. 670w.
“Has seldom written to better purpose than in this semi-biographical
volume of reminiscences and impressions.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 1000. D. 30, ’05. 490w.
“This volume with its rich fund of story and observation, garmented in
graciousness and adorned with many interesting portraits and autograph
facsimiles, will win for its author an increasing measure of esteem
and affection.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 338. F. ’06. 570w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William.= History of the
United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.
“The revision and enlargement will tend to prolong its space of public
favor for another score of years.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 724. N. ’05. 290w.
=Hight, George Ainslie.= Unity of will: studies of an irrationalist.
**$3. Dutton.
“Mr. Hight’s treatise is quite in line with the present trend of
philosophy. This, reversing the long-prevalent and still popular
conception of will as the instrument of reason, recognizes will as
the master and intellect as its servant, both in the individual and
in the universe.... By will is broadly meant the self-active
principle manifested in all loving, hating, seeking, shunning,
striving.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1906, 1: 731. Je. 16. 230w.
“The book was written throughout in an attractive and readable style;
to this is added the merit of brevity, unusual in philosophic works of
this sort. At the end a series of ‘First principles’ sums up in
concise form the main views of the author, which, although, as has
been pointed out, they do not always fit in with those of one more
used to a psychological and epistemological method of approach, still
are calculated to present to all much food for profound and beneficial
reflection.” Robert Morris Ogden.
+ – =J. Philos.= 3: 715. D. 20, ’06. 1340w.
“His argument is carried forward with a directness, a logic, a careful
avoidance of unnecessary technicalities that are admirable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 499. Ag. 11, ’06. 1760w.
“Whatever be its defects, Mr. Hight’s line of thought is soundly
practical, and its effect is tonic and uplifting.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 580. Jl. 7, ’06. 420w.
=Higginbotham, Harlow Niles.= Making of a merchant. $1.50. Forbes.
A thoroly practical handling of a subject most vital to young men
entering upon a business career. Mr. Higinbotham writes from
experience and discusses the foundation, advancement, qualities that
make a merchant, details that spell success, buying merchandise,
treatment of employers, the department store and its management, and
the extension of credit in its various phases.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
=Hildreth, Richard.= Japan as it was and is: a handbook of old Japan: a
reprint, ed. and rev., with notes and additions by Ernest W. Clement;
introd. by William Elliot Griffis. *$3. McClurg.
The material of the 1861 edition of Hildreth’s “Japan” has been
revised and reprinted with copious illustrations and adequate
editorial matter. The work is no less important now than when it first
appeared in 1855, for the fact that it is a compilation from all the
important European writings on Old Japan establishes its permanent
value. In the revision, the author has harmonized the spelling of
Japanese words with the modern system of Romanization, and has added
such other notes and explanations as might be necessary.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
=Hildt, John C.= Early diplomatic negotiations of the United States with
Russia. Johns Hopkins press.
This volume of the “Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and
political science” forms an introductory study of the relations of the
United States with Russia, and narrates “the history of the rise and
progress of the early diplomatic relations of the American government
to that country and the steps by which the negotiations were carried
forward.” The missions of Dana, Adams, and Pinckney, the question of
consular immunity, Spanish-American affairs, and the treaty of 1824
all receive careful consideration.
* * * * *
“He gives a careful and clear, but pedestrian account, based on the
printed American materials and, after 1816, on an extensive use of the
manuscript materials in the archives of the Department of state.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 177. O. ’06. 190w.
=Hill, David Jayne.= History of diplomacy in the international
development of Europe, v. 1. **$5. Longmans.
“But what is much more striking is the industry, the insight, and the
thoroughness with which, on the whole, even in its vast introductory
field, he has acquainted himself, as to all points cardinal to his
theme, with the best and the latest of the teeming literature of his
subject. As for petty slips ... they are exceptionally few.” George L.
Burr.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 358. Ja. ’06. 1150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The misfortune of the volume is, in short, that it lacks a true
perspective. If, however, the work be considered as merely a new
general history, on the international side, it has many excellent
features, being very well written, clear, accurate and even
entertaining, while the source references at the end of each chapter,
the lists of treaties, the maps, and a comprehensive index render it a
valuable reference work.” E. D. Adams.
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 248. Ja. ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1.)
“On the whole the book has the qualities of a competent American work,
being well written, but a little dull, very dependent on European
scholarship, and lacking in freshness.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 334. S. 9. 310w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is valuable, however, for bringing into one view the larger facts
of the period treated, and emphasizing their influence upon the growth
of national states.” David Y. Thomas.
+ =Dial.= 40: 9. Ja. 1, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A word of praise is due to the bibliographies which are appended to
each chapter, and to the regnal tables, maps, and index.” H. W. C.
Davis.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 344. Ap. ’06. 920w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Lincoln the lawyer. **$2. Century.
The author believes that in the vast amount of material on the life of
Abraham Lincoln too little can be found which sums up the great
President’s legal career. So this sketch starts with Lincoln’s
mythical birthright to the law, locates the real source of his
professional aspirations, follows him through his workshop
apprenticeship to his admission to the bar, and on, step by step, to
the presidency. The whole discussion particularizes the stages of
legal growth that is usually assumed in the presentation of Lincoln
the statesman.
* * * * *
“Is, on the whole, something of a contribution to the Lincolniana
already so vast.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Mr. Hill has made a distinct contribution to Lincoln biography. By
this we mean a contribution of original material, not a new
interpretation, or new presentation, of material already in
existence.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
“No layman—not to mention the lawyer—can fail to be interested by
evidence so carefully sifted and a story so well told. Indeed, many
parts of the book have almost the value of original documents.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 459. N. 29, ’06. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 841. D. 1, ’06. 520w.
“Mr. Hill writes for laymen, in a clear, simple, and non-professional
style, and has made an interesting as well as valuable volume. He has
done his work so well that we regret that he has not done it better.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 628. N. 10, ’06. 480w.
“A real contribution to history. Mr. Hill’s researches have brought to
light a vast amount of interesting data concerning the bench and bar
of Illinois in Lincoln’s time.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 180w.
=Hill, G. Francis.= Historical Greek coins. **$2.50. Macmillan.
A sidelight on Greek history. It is “not a popular work in the broad
sense of the term. It is rather a handbook to the most interesting
items in the British museum.... The material in the introduction is
naturally encyclopedic.... It presupposes a general knowledge of
numismatics on the part of the reader, which is only to be gathered
from the present volume by careful perusal. The coins are taken up one
by one—in many cases most excellently reproduced in half-tone—and
studied from the point of view of their material, pictures, and
inscriptions, their historical period being described in such a way as
to bring its customs and manners vividly before the reader.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“The selection of documents can be criticised, of course, both for its
inclusions and its omissions. But it is quite sufficiently
representative to serve as an introduction to the use of numismatic
evidence in historical study, which we take to be the main object of
the book.” D. G. Hogarth.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 547. Jl. ’06. 700w.
“The author is the most competent that could be found in this country.
If we think that, written on a somewhat different plan, it might have
been more valuable, we hasten to admit that its actual value is very
great. It will widen the outlook of every historical student who
consults it.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 880w.
“Here and there in the volume we find passages containing information
which long ago should have been employed as footnotes to history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 606. S. 29, ’06. 520w.
“The reader will find most of the great problems of Greek numismatics
adequately discussed, with a laudable terseness and much sound
judgment.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 400. S. 29. ’06. 810w.
“Mr. Hill has a way of making his learning attractive.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 280w.
=Hill, George Francis.= Pisanello. *$2. Scribner.
“Mr. Hill paints his portrait and interprets his art with a skill
worthy of the theme.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 281. F. ’06. 190w.
“Pisanello, the painter and the medalist, together with his brother
workers upon the little reliefs, have been comprehended here in a
distinct and lucid manner.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Hill, Headon, pseud. (Francis Edward Grainger.)= One who saw. $1.50.
Victoria press (Stitt pub. co.).
There is a mystery in this story which “hovers around a haunted tower.
The deus ex machina is a small boy with a cockney accent, a bona fide
burglar (with a jimmy that he calls a James,) for a father, and a
remarkable facility for climbing up precipices and other apparently
impossible places, a facility, by the bye, which stands everybody in
the book in good stead before the end is reached. Of course, the hero
does nothing but pose and bluster. Of course, the heroine looks
beautiful and suffers patiently, like the ‘hangel’ that she is to the
small Tommy. And, of course, the small Tommy in question is, as anyone
with half an imagination could guess, ‘The one who saw.’” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 107. F. 17, ’06. 230w.
=Hill, Janet McKenzie (Mrs. Benjamin M. Hill).= Up-to-date waitress.
**$1.50. Little.
Mrs. Hill, editor of the Boston cooking-school magazine, says “This
book is intended as a guide to what may be called good, perhaps ideal,
service for waitresses under all circumstances, and not as a set of
hard and fast rules from which there is no appeal.” It gives complete
information on the care of the dining room, the arrangement of the
table, the serving of food, and the preparing of certain dishes.
* * * * *
“It should be in every household.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 155. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
“It is a most useful and interesting volume. The mistress of the house
cannot afford to be without it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 318. My. 19. ’06. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 531. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
=Hill, Mabel.= Lessons for junior citizens. 50c. Ginn.
A little text-book in civics which aims to arouse children to take an
intelligent interest in the activities of their local government. Each
chapter contains a short story concerning some municipal or political
function, such as, the police department, board of health, fire
department, school system, park commission, immigration, and
naturalization, etc. Each chapter is followed by a series of questions
which fit the book for school use.
=Hill, Sarah C.= Cook book for nurses. *75c. Whitcomb & B.
A collection of recipes in a condensed form which will prove valuable
to nurses and all those who wish to prepare proper food for the sick.
Various rules for fluid diet, soft or convalescent diet, special diets
and formulae for infant feeding are given while blank leaves are left
for additional recipes.
=Hind, Charles Lewis.= Education of the artist. $2.50. Macmillan.
“How Claude Williams Shaw was educated in art is set forth in Mr.
Hind’s volume. It tells how, at the age of thirty-three, certain
persistent glimmerings of a suspicion that life is a larger tapestry
than the pattern woven by the author of ‘Self-help’ broke into flame;
how that flame was fanned by an artist who crossed his path; how
casting about for a way to express his temperament, he decided upon
painting; how he studied art in Cornwall and in the Paris studios; how
he traveled through Italy, Austria, Germany, and Belgium, studying the
pictures of the world in pursuit of his art education; and how in the
end of the true awakening of his temperament began, and he discovered
that his education was but beginning.”
* * * * *
“The public which delights in his writing will be just the public that
can only pretend to admire the artists of his choice.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 372. S. 29. 1560w.
“Is the record of the impressions of an alert, sensitive, and
cultivated, if rather capricious, taste. We shall find no guide-book
information, nor quotations from other people; the judgments are
independent and personal.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 336. S. 28, ’06. 760w.
“These make pleasant, if not especially profitable reading.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 446. N. 22, ’06. 330w.
“The book may not interest the serious student; to the beginner it
should be a kind of Bodley book in art.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 706. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
=Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A. Hinkson).= Dick Pentreath.
†$1.25. McClurg.
Dick Pentreath, plain gentleman, pursues his way among the
commonplaces of life buoyantly enough until on the eve of his marriage
a foolish drinking bout changes the course of true love. Dorothea
scorns him, and in his anger he rushes headlong into a union with an
ill-bred woman who brings him shame and humiliation. Had Dick but
yielded even to the instinct of his dog Sancho who estimated Susan
unerringly, the mistake would have been averted. His burden is
lightened now and then by the kindly encouragement of his sister
confessor Lady Stella, and by the ready devotion of faithful Sancho.
The journey which “bleached Dick Pentreath white” does finally end in
lovers meeting.
* * * * *
“A story of more substance and a wider range of interest than we
remember in any of this author’s previous novels, and much better
written.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1201. N. 18, ’05. 330w.
“The author can do better than this.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 829. D. 16. 90w.
“Everything about the novel is slip-shod.”
– =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w.
“It is not equal in charm to many of the novels which Miss Tynan has
recently given us.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 304. F. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Hishida, Seiji G.= International position of Japan as a great power.
(Columbia univ. press studies in history, economics and public law. v.
24, no. 3.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
“Dr. Seiji G. Hishida carefully traces Japan’s historic policy in
dealing with foreign nations. Incidentally he makes frequent reference
to the diplomatic and commercial history of Europe and America, to the
principles of international and other law, as well as to certain
phases of economics and sociology, in order to elucidate with
scientific precision the relations between the Orient and the
Occident.... After relating the history of ancient and modern Japan,
Dr. Hishida describes the Empire’s definite entry into the comity of
nations, the Russo-Japanese rivalry in Korea, the various struggles of
the great Powers in China, the Boxer rebellion, and the Russo-Japanese
war. An appendix appropriately contains the text of the Russo-Japanese
and Anglo-Japanese treaties.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 189. O. ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Hishida’s work is a thoroughly creditable performance. Were it
not for the fact that it lacks an index it would serve as a compact
reference book on the international history of Japan, China and
Korea.” Frederick C. Hicks.
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 247. S. ’06. 1180w.
“Exhibits the most ambitious effort yet put forth by an Oriental to
master the facts and philosophy of Western politics in their latest
aspects. It contains a mass of general Japanese history, industriously
gathered and clearly arranged, much of it not generally known, but
which every American who takes an interest in our international
relations should be familiar with.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 240. Ap. 14, ’06. 2540w.
“Dr. Hishida’s volume has distinct value for students of history and
politics.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 618. Mr. 17, ’06. 340w.
Historians’ history of the world; ed. by H: Smith Williams. $72.
Outlook.
“The index ... seems to have been prepared with intelligence and
care.” E. G. Bourne.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 430. Ja. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 25.)
“The plan and execution betray the uninitiated, and notwithstanding
the literary ability of the author, the book serves as a good evidence
that a history of Egypt can be written only by an Egyptologist, at
least at the present time. These illustrations are, perhaps, the most
objectionable feature of the well-intending book.” W. Max Muller.
– – =Bib. World.= 27: 292. Ap. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 2.)
“On the whole ... gives a fair picture of Babylonian and Assyrian life
and culture. In treating of the religion of the Babylonians, the
editors have overlooked the latest and best work.” George A. Barton.
+ – =Bib. World.= 27: 295. Ap. ’06. 1050w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 3.)
“The difficulties met by the editor in fitting together his various
sources must have been enormous. That he has not succeeded fully in
overcoming the difficulties will be clear on examination. There are
too many typographical errors in the work; the references which are
intended to give the reader knowledge of the sources of the work are
often too indefinite.” Henry Preserved Smith.
+ – – =Bib. World.= 27: 298. Ap. ’06. 1610w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 4.)
“Most of its defects are due to the attempt to make a consistent story
by piecing it together from the works of authors who wrote from
different standpoints and in different times or ages, some of them
cautious and discriminating, others credulous and uncritical.” J. F.
McCurdy.
– + =Bib. World.= 27: 301. Ap. ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 5.)
“The chief fault of the general treatment is that in the nomenclature
no distinction is drawn between districts or countries or races and
peoples.” J. F. McCurdy.
– + =Bib. World.= 27: 302. Ap. ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 6.)
“On the whole, however, one not a specialist would get from this work
an interesting and tolerably correct picture of the history and life
of these ancient lands.” George A. Barton
+ =Bib. World.= 27: 297. Ap. ’06. 310w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 7.)
“The method of compilation employed ... is its least desirable
feature. The scale of the work is in the main well proportioned. It is
no exaggeration to say that these volumes devoted to England and the
United States represent the scholarship of half a century ago.” Edward
Fuller.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 86. Mr. ’06. 2140w.
=Hobbs, Roe Raymond.= Court of Pilate, a story of Jerusalem in the days
of Christ. $1.50. Fenno.
The love of Cestus, the young centurion for the beautiful Jewess,
Myra, and the intrigues of the unscrupulous Paulina, who is high in
favor at the court of the Roman Procurator of Jerusalem, and who is
determined to win Cestus at any cost, form the main plot of this story
but into it are woven accounts of the licentious life at the court of
the governor, stirring scenes or the clash of Jew and Roman,
engendered by a fierce race hatred that led to the crucifixion of the
Messiah, and detailed pictures of barracks, prison, cottage, and
market place.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 150w.
=Hobbs, Roe Raymond.= Gates of flame. $1.50. Neale.
An innocent man is accused and convicted of a crime thru a chain of
circumstantial evidence. The problems that this sort of legal blunder
gives rise to are met and handled for general enlightenment while the
story interest is maintained in the prosecuting attorney’s conflict
between his duties to the state and his love for the sister of the
accused man.
=Hobbs, Roe Raymond.= Zaos: a novel. $1.50. Neale.
Reincarnation is the theme of this story. Hal Raolin, a Harvard
student, recognizes himself as having lived in Egypt six thousand
years ago as Phyros, commander of the king’s guards, and the lover of
Zaos, “the beloved of Thebes.” In a trance state he lives over events
that marked the tragic course of his life. His vision calls him to
Egypt whither he goes and where strange adventures befall him.
=Hobhouse, L. T.= Democracy and reaction. $1.50. Putnam.
“We cannot speak too highly of this excellent piece of work. The
present treatise will not suffer in comparison with the best writing
done in England.” John Cummings.
+ + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 181. Mr. ’06. 1350w.
=Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawney, and Hammond, John Lawrence Le Breton.=
Lord Hobhouse: a memoir. *$4. Longmans.
The biography of a conscientious public servant who “was the
incarnation of the intelligent Liberalism of 1850 to 1870.” (Nation.)
His official career began with his appointment as a Charity
commissioner in 1866, and ended with his retirement from the Judicial
committee of the Privy council in 1901. For the remainder of his life
municipal affairs occupied his attention. “There is scarcely a stroke
of humor in the book from one end to the other, and scarcely a touch
of pathos.” (Spec.) “But it has value for those who care for the kind
of work in which Lord Hobhouse was engaged.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
Reviewed by George M. Wrong.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 141. O. ’06. 770w.
“Compact and eloquent memoir.”
+ =Ath.= 1905. 2: 858. D. 23. 960w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 6. Ja. 5, ’06. 840w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 327. Ap. 19, ’06. 1650w.
“It proves substantial reading of a not very exciting kind.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 210. F. 17, ’06. 220w.
“We read the story of his life with respect, and even admiration, so
steady and effective a worker was he, but with little sympathy or
stirring of heart.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 386. Mr. 10, ’06. 240w.
=Hobson, Robert L.= Porcelain, Oriental, Continental and British.
**$3.50. Dutton.
A book whose object is “to give in inexpensive form all the facts a
collector needs, with as many practical hints as can be compressed in
a general work of portable size.” He deals with the porcelains of all
countries showing that paste, glaze and decoration are surer guides in
classification than the manufacturer’s mark. The work is handsomely
illustrated.
* * * * *
“The chapters on Oriental porcelain will be of special service to the
amateur, and the illustrations are to be commended, because they are
chosen, not as supurb specimens, but as typical pieces.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 520. Ag. 30, ’06. 490w.
“Notwithstanding the great dimensions which ceramic literature has now
assumed, there is, so far as we are aware, no published work which
quite answers the purpose which this ‘handy book of reference for
collectors’ is intended to serve.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 29: 273. S. ’06. 180w.
“There is a loss of practical usefulness in the failure to study wares
of recent design and manufacture. What is given in the book is
generally admirable.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 106. Ag. 2, ’06. 1080w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 369. Je. 2, ’06. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 460. Jl. 21, ’06. 400w.
“His book accomplishes a great deal in a small space for the education
of the unlearned and untutored.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 230w.
“If there are a few points open to criticism in the pages under
review, notably in connexion with the early employment of bone-ash in
English soft porcelain, still the ceramic collector and connoisseur
who desires to possess a trustworthy guide in a single volume of
moderate dimensions and price, ought to be thankful to Mr. Hobson.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 519. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 795. My. 19, ’06 50w.
=Hodges, George.= Happy family. **75c. Crowell.
The very chapter headings of Dean Hodges’ book suggest the practical
manner of treatment; “The business of being a wife,” “The business of
being a mother,” and “The business of being a father.” The essential
qualities and characteristics to be fostered in the home are
enumerated so humorously that even the reader “hard hit” will smile
and resolve to reform.
=Hodges, Rev. George, and Reichert, John.= Administration of an
institutional church: a detailed account of the operation of St.
George’s parish, in the city of New York; with introds. by President
Roosevelt, Bishop Potter, and Dr. Rainsford. *$3. Harper.
In outlining the management and methods of the parish of St. George’s
church, the authors make record of a great sociological as well as
spiritual movement. The institutional church of which Dr. Rainsford
has been the chief organizer and promulgator has been brought to the
busy working life of the city of New York. The organization and the
elements that vitalize it stand for the best things in human progress.
=Hodgson, Rev. Abraham Percival.= Thoughts for the King’s children.
*75c. Meth. bk.
Fifty-two short talks to children on scriptural texts. It is designed
as a help to all workers among children, leaders in young people’s
societies and Sabbath school teachers.
=Hodgson, Geraldine.= Primitive Christian education. *$1.50. Scribner.
Miss Hodgson’s “main purpose is to prove the falseness of the
statement, often made in exaggerated language, that the Christian
fathers were enemies of education, and to show, by illustrative
extracts from the writings of representative teachers of the early
church, what were really their methods and the character of their
educational work. A sketch of Graeco-Roman education, as given in the
schools of the Roman empire, is followed by an account of the
catechetical system of the fathers. Separate chapters are devoted to
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Clement of Alexandria, and St. Jerome. The
attitude of the Christian teachers to pagan learning is examined, and
their methods are set forth and justified.” Lond. Times.
* * * * *
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.
“She has searched the sources diligently, but not always used them
critically, nor constructed from her mass of material a consistent and
orderly edifice of fact.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 937. O. 18, ’06. 110w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 549. O. 20, ’06. 310w.
“Miss Hodgson has brought together some interesting and suggestive
passages, which any student of teaching would gain by reading, and she
has given pleasant glimpses by the way of the human side of the early
Christian society.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 126. Ap. 6, ’06. 670w.
“Miss Hodgson has shed light on a subject imperfectly known.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 44. My. 3, ’06. 110w.
“On account of its polemical spirit, the book is not very conclusive
in its argument, and the material, of which there is an abundance, is
not well organized.”
+ =Yale R.= 15: 337. N. ’06. 130w.
=Hodgson, John Evan, and Eaton, Frederick A.= Royal academy and its
members, 1768–1830. *$5. Scribner
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 272. F. ’06. 440w.
=Hoffding, Harald.= Philosophy of religion. *$3. Macmillan.
The main thesis of Dr. Höffding’s work is that the essence of religion
consists in a belief in the “conservatism of value.” The subject is
divided into three parts—epistemological, psychological, and ethical.
His aim is to treat all of the essential aspects of the religious
problem “not only with the intellectual interest which cannot fail to
be excited by so great and comprehensive a subject-matter, but also in
the frame of mind evoked by the consciousness that he has here before
him a form of spiritual life in which, for centuries long, the human
race has stored up its deepest and innermost experiences.”
* * * * *
“As compared with the highly concentrated ‘Problems of philosophy,’
where we never for a moment lose sight of the main issue, this book
presents a tangled skein. It needs not merely a bold man, but also a
wise one, to grasp as Prof. Höffding grasps, at the sense of the whole
and of the parts together—to do justice as he seeks to do, and does at
once to religion and to the religions.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 569. My. 11. 2140w.
“There is a personal note which lifts the book above the level of
professional treatises on philosophy. He speaks as a man to men, and
his book claims the respectful attention of all who are prepared to
discuss seriously and without prejudice the ultimate questions of
human thought.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 286. Ag. 24, ’06. 2630w.
“A comparison of the translation with a considerable portion of the
German text shows the rendering to be reasonably correct. As is apt to
be the case, however, the style does not escape the influence of the
original. The index which the translator has supplied is a valuable
addition to the book.” F. C. French.
+ + – =Philos. R.= 15: 554. S. ’06. 420w.
=Hoffding, Harald.= Problems of philosophy; tr. by Galen M. Fisher; with
preface by W. James. *$1. Macmillan.
“The work contains but four chapters, and they deal, respectively,
with the problems of consciousness, knowledge, being and values—the
ethical and religious problems being comprised in the latter. The
author seeks to resolve these four into one, the problem of
continuity, and in so doing to show their fundamental interdependence.
At the same time, the various continuities are defined not as
absolutes of existence, but as ideals; they are not philosophical
fact, but philosophical aim.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Since it is so compact and profound, will be of more service as a
résumé of philosophic theory for advanced students than as an
introduction for beginners.” George B. Foster.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 370. Ap. ’06. 380w.
“‘Small and precious’ ... is the verdict which every lover of
philosophy will pass on this book.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 441. Ap. 14. 2650w.
“The book is brief, clear, and concise.” H. B. Alexander.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 526. Ja. ’06. 350w.
“An abstract discussion of abstract principles, his style carries him
beyond the possibility of accompaniment by the layman.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The most general criticism, however ... will be that the compass of
the work is so restricted. The translation ... is well done.” A. C.
Armstrong.
+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 77. F. 1, ’06. 920w.
“This little book ... is strong meat for beginners, and needs the
expository preface supplied by Professor James. To digest its
condensed thought, conveyed in abstract and technical form, this will
be serviceable as pepsin even to some who are not babes in the
philosophy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 891. D. 9. ’05. 180w.
“Acquaintance with the subject is necessary to appreciate its
argument, which is often in technical form. The translation is
apparently ‘faithful, if not elegant,’ as the preface says. An
occasional roughness in its style may be pardoned for the sake of its
conciseness.” Edmund H. Hollands.
+ – =Philos. R.= 15: 553. S. ’06. 830w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Holbrook, Richard Thayer=, tr. Farce of Master Pierre Patelin, composed
by an unknown author about 1469 A. D. **$2. Houghton.
“The first English version of a curious English drama, written about
1469, and made from the editor’s manuscript copy of the only extant
exemplar of the Lyons edition, printed about 1486. There is also but
one copy known of an edition of about 1489, and the present version is
illustrated with fac-similes of the quaint woodcuts in that edition.
No earlier samples of these old farces have come down to our day. This
play was wonderfully popular, and attained a fame unparallelled in the
history of the early stage and seldom equalled since. All students of
the drama will be interested in it.”—Critic.
* * * * *
“His book is a fine specimen of the scholarship of his country. The
translation is, like the original, idiomatic and rollicking. Its
author catches the lights and shades; he sees and renders all the
humour. He is, at times, it is true a little stilted.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 158. F. 17, ’06. 1010w.
=Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 100w.
+ =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 40w.
“The translator has well accomplished a difficult task.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 146. F. 15, ’06. 440w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 391. Mr. 10, ’06. 250w.
=Holbrooke, George O.= Verses. $1. Broadway pub.
The humanitarian note is strong in these poems, which give to life at
its worst hope, altho there is a touch of fatalism, and give to the
reader picturesque visions of the New York poor. There are also verses
which tell of a pretty deed done by Lafayette; of the dazed return of
Knickerbocker to his old haunts; and there are songs of other times
and other places.
=Holder, Charles Frederick.= Life in the open; sport with rod, gun,
horse and hound in southern California. **$3.50. Putnam.
“A spirited account of the hunt for hare, wolf, lynx, and fox in the
foothills of the Sierra Madre, and of the deer, bighorn, and mountain
lion amid the crags and precipices of the Southern Sierras.... A
number of pages are devoted to the varied sport which the angler finds
with tuna, black sea-bass, and yellowtail, with deep-sea trolling and
still-angling off the shores of Southern California and its adjacent
islands, and with the trout of the clear mountain streams of the Coast
range and of the high Sierras. The work is superbly illustrated with
many reproductions from photographs of scenery, the old missions of
California, and fishing scenes about Avalo and the famous Santa
Catalina island.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The weak points of the book, at any rate for a European reader, are
that too minute topographical detail is tacked on to some of the
chapters, which consequently have rather the effect of a guide book
without maps; and the use of local terms which are not generally
understood.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 98. Jl. 28. 590w.
“The charm of the work lies in its spirited and enthusiastic
appreciation of out-of-door life, of the possibilities of the
enjoyment of nature, even though one go a-hunting or a-fishing.”
Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ =Dial.= 40: 357. Je. 1, ’06. 320w.
“Among the books of the season on open air sports, Holder’s ‘Life in
the open’ is foremost on account of its typographical beauty,
comprehensiveness and practicality.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1369. Je. 7, ’06. 230w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 140w.
“Will take hold of the book-lover at once, regardless of contents; but
it would be a pretty exacting reader who could feel any material
disappointment after its perusal.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 16. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w.
“We have never read anything that gave so attractive a description of
any country.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 19. Jl. 7, ’06. 250w.
=Holder, Charles Frederick.= Log of a sea angler; sport and adventures
in many seas with spear and rod. **$1.50. Houghton.
One portion of Mr. Holder’s book is devoted to angling adventures
along the Florida keys, the other portion relates to experiences in
the waters of Lower California, Texas and the New England coasts,
while the catch ranges from “turtle to shark, from tarpon to gentler
and lesser spoil.”
* * * * *
“In the main, keen observation of nature’s secrets, and wide
experience with the sea and its life, are revealed in these anglers’
tales, and there is an occasional bit of spirited writing as well.”
Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 356. Je. 1, ’06. 1150w.
“All in all we shall be surprised if the present season brings forth
any comparable offerings in the way of outdoor literature.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 16. Jl. 5, ’06. 530w.
“One man in a thousand is a fishing enthusiast. But the lay brother
enjoyed the reading immensely, so, in all probability, will the nine
hundred and ninety-nine.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 920w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 543. Ap. 28, ’06. 100w.
=Hollams, Sir John.= Jottings of an old solicitor. **$3. Dutton.
Reminiscences which are a record “of a full, prosperous, happy, and
honourable life, of strenuous years rewarded by success. But it is
much more. It is a history, unpretentious, truthful, and vivid, of the
inner working of English law during more than a half a century. The
first pages introduce one to a state of things, legal and social,
which has long passed away; to a London with only one railway open,
that to Greenwich; to days before the penny post, when letters from
Kent cost seven-pence, with double postage if there was an enclosure;
when the invariable price of the best oysters was sixpence a dozen and
the maximum price for a cigar was threepence.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“His book is full of interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 638. My. 36. 550w.
“There is much that will appeal to American lawyers and law students
who are interested in law as a science, particularly as regards
changes in law procedure and law reform during the last sixty years.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1060. N. 1, ’06. 220w.
“In the main the book is written in a cheerful, hopeful spirit, with
ungrudging recognition of the fact that the great changes which the
author has witnessed have been improvements, though he sees room for
many amendments. It is a book for solicitors to study. The oldest may
profit by it, and the youngest draw from it hope and encouragement.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 210. Je. 8, ’06. 950w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 150w.
“His volume of reminiscences cannot be called important but contains
many personal anecdotes of an amusing kind.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 1005. Ag. 25, ’06. 60w.
“The greater part of this volume is too technical in its criticism of
the system of judicial procedure to appeal to any but members of the
profession.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 208. Ag. 18, ’06. 1050w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 333. S. 8, ’06. 240w.
=Holland, Clive.= Warwickshire, painted by Frederick Whitehead,
described by Clive Holland. *$6. Macmillan.
“Kenilworth, Coventry, Stratford-on-Avon, Rugby, Warwick Castle,
Birmingham—these are some of the names that catch the eye as one
glances at the sketch-map of the large, handsome volume on
‘Warwickshire,’ and suggest to the most casual reader the wealth of
historical, literary and architectural material at the disposal of the
author and artist. Good use has been made of it and ... there are 75
full-page color-type prints from water-color sketches.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Mr. Whitehead ... is at his best in his broader sketches, where his
vigorous colour touches atone for the weakness of his draughtsmanship,
and atmosphere is not lost by the over-elaboration of unimportant
details. Mr. Clive Holland says a great deal about Warwickshire,
though very little that has not been said sufficiently before.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 163. Ag. 18, ’06. 420w.
“The book is full of errors which a little more pains would have
avoided. We cannot help regretting that the text was not entrusted to
Mr. Sidney Lee or some other writer who had more first-hand knowledge
of our central shire.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 233. S. 1. 1710w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 110w.
“On the whole the ‘Warwickshire’ can be heartily commended as both
beautiful and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 626. O. 6, ’06. 580w.
“Water-color paintings by Mr. F. Whitehead, may be cordially praised,
with a special word of commendation for the artist’s restraint in
color-effects. Mr. Holland knows and loves his subject, and deals with
both its historic and romantic sides thoroughly and agreeably.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
“Mr. Holland has packed his chapters so full of historical dates and
names of men and things—some of which are not by the way
unchallengeable—that he has left himself little scope for style or
reflection.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 212, Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.
“The letterpress is in its way as pleasing as the pictures.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 174. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
=Holland, Clive.= Wessex; painted by Walter Tyndale; described by Clive
Holland. *$6. Macmillan.
The Wessex of Mr. Hardy’s novels furnishes the material for Mr.
Tyndale’s reproduced paintings. “His paintings are landscapes—glimpses
of green spring with apple blossoms on the hills; golden summer
meadows, with the willows and rushes and the quiet winding stream;
autumn on the moors all red and purple; vistas of country roads with
thatched cottages; sweeps of the shore, with the brown shingle and the
blue-shadowed sea. Or they are views of sleepy old towns, with the
church tower dominating or rolling hills with the sky beyond and a
ruin in the middle distance.... The text treats Wessex historically
and descriptively by towns and hamlets, and landmarks.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Holland has a very thorough grip of his subject, regarded from
every point of view.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 29: 89. Jl. ’06. 300w.
“At first view Mr. Clive Holland’s book seems to be of the progeny of
Hutchins. In the main it is a slight and agreeable infusion of local
history made for sojourners and passers-by. Mr. Tyndale’s pictures
merit special mention.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 224. Je. 22, ’06. 500w.
“The author conjures you with all the glories of the country and
weaves in the glamour of all its poets and heroes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 305. My. 12, ’06. 870w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 120w.
“It is not one of the type of offensive and tedious adulation, and it
is easy to see that the author feels what he writes about Dorset. He
knows the country and cares for it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 562. My. 5, ’06. 110w.
=Holland, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3d lord.= Further memoirs of the
Whig party, 1807–1821; with some miscellaneous reminiscences; ed. by
Lord Stavordale. *$5. Dutton.
Lord Holland’s fourth volume of recollections. “The four books or
chapters under consideration deal with the period of English history
between 1807 and 1827—years fraught with interest for the student and
lover of history.... Lord Holland distinctly states that the aim and
object of his labors were to record any incidents, anecdotes, or
intrigues which were not generally known at the time, and which were
unlikely to be found in the recognized histories, periodicals, or
journals.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Though Lord Holland was inclined to take himself and his affairs a
trifle seriously, his Memoirs are an interesting commentary upon the
politics of a bygone age, and they may be read with pleasure, if
seasoned with a pinch of critical salt.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1251. D. 2, ’05. 1190w.
“[Lord Stavordale’s] introductions to the various chapters supply just
the right kind of information that Lord Holland’s somewhat discursive
and allusive style requires by way of commentary.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 791. D. 9. 1550w.
“Lose much interest because they come after and not before the Creevy
papers.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1284. My. 31, ’06. 390w.
“A historical work of uncommon interest.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 180w.
“It is written with thorough knowledge, and yet with a singular
absence of vanity, egoism, or self-assertion.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 379. N. 10, ’05. 2230w.
“Of new information it contains little or nothing; the topics with
which it is filled can but slightly interest the readers of to-day.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 432. My. 24, ’06. 2450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 259. Ap. 21, ’06. 270w.
“Concise historical summaries ... invest the book with greater
interest for the general reader, without impairing its value as a
storehouse of information for the historian.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 625. N. 10, ’06. 1940w.
“Lord Holland’s forte is in giving ‘characters’ of the great men he
had known.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 657. N. 18, ’05. 1690w.
“We lay down the book with a feeling of gratitude both to its author
and its editor.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 818. N. 18, ’05. 1120w.
=Holland, Rupert Sargent.= Count at Harvard: being an account of the
adventures of a young gentleman of fashion at Harvard university. $1.50.
Page.
The publishers claim that this book is “the most natural and the most
truthful exposition of average student life yet written.” “Mr. Hall
relates the count’s doings with sufficient gusto and vividness to make
the count a living person: we see him playing tennis, playing golf,
playing base-ball (this game we found a little hard to follow); we are
with him in the editorial den of the Lampoon; with him as he conducts
the rehearsal of his opera; in the examination-room, where he behaves
shamefully; at his late breakfasts and his early morning suppers—and
his company is always or nearly always pleasant, for he is amusing and
irresponsible.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 260w.
“The book is written in good English, and with a careful avoidance of
Americanisms. The author’s constant efforts at brilliancy of
conversation occasionally become tiresome.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 542. My. 5. 150w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 460w.
=Hollander, Jacob H., and Barnett, George E.=, eds. Studies in American
trade unionism. *$2.75. Holt.
This collection of essays is the result of the detailed study and
investigation of certain aspects of the trade-union undertaken by
members of the Economic Seminary of the Johns Hopkins University. The
eleven essays represent the work of nine investigators and Dr.
Hollander has provided an excellent introduction. The subjects treated
are: The government of the typographical union; The structure of the
cigar makers’ union; The finances of the molders’ union; The minimum
wage in the machinists’ union; Collective bargaining in the
typographical union; Employers’ associations in the union;
Apprenticeship in the building trades; The beneficiary features of the
railway unions; and the knights of labor and the American federation
of labor.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 479. Ap. 21. 140w.
“Without exception the writers show painstaking research and fairness
of judgment.” R. C. B.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 654. Ag. ’06. 260w.
“These tasks were faithfully performed and the product is a careful
and concise presentation of various phases of the labor problem.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 40. Jl. 16, ’06. 240w.
“An examination of the essays amply justifies the editors in their
conclusion to publish, and it is sincerely hoped that their plans of
further work will be fulfilled.” John Cummings.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 454. Jl. ’06. 740w.
“It really consists of material gathered with much industry, but
without any attempt at digestion or co-ordination.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 342. O. 12, ’06. 2460w.
“Excellent studies brought together in this volume.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 280. Ap. 5, ’06. 270w.
“The book may be recommended to both employers and employes who are
interested in the topics indicated above, as the treatment is
impartial and thorough.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 161. Mr. 17, ’06. 830w.
“The present volume is essentially in the nature of a preliminary
inquest. But the scope of its contents is so broad, and its writers
have explored their respective topics with such assiduity, that it may
unquestioningly be accepted as suggesting a graphic and accurate
picture of the constitution and activities of typical American labor
organizations.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 674. N. 17, ’06. 870w.
“While the chapters give promise of excellent work and fully justify
the pedagogical plan, we must look for the real contributions to
economic science and labor problems in the further inquiries of the
investigators.” John R. Commons.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 722. D. ’06. 640w.
+ + =Spec.= 97: 300. S. 1, ’06. 280w.
=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Samantha vs. Josiah:
being the story of a borrowed automobile and what came of it. †$1.50.
Funk.
The cautious Josiah begins by hitching his old mare to the borrowed
auto, thus combining to his satisfaction “fashion and safety,” but
later he becomes more reckless and he and his wife meet with many
characteristic adventures. A large part of the book is taken up with
lively argument in which Josiah by powerful and amazing reasoning,
wholly masculine, attempts to refute certain instances of spiritual
manifestation brought forward by his wife, who has developed a sudden
and alarming belief in ghosts.
* * * * *
“In these latest controversies with Josiah the humor is genuine, and,
as usual, there is much good sense mingled with it.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 432. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.
=Holmes, Samuel Jackson.= Biology of the frog. $1.60. Macmillan.
This book “aims to introduce college students to all phases of
zoölogical study by means of a careful examination of all aspects of
the structure and life of the common frog, ‘the martyr of zoölogical
science.’ The plan of the book is similar to the now classical
‘Crayfish: the study of zoölogy,’ by Huxley. It is a text book
intended to supplement suitable laboratory work. In addition to its
place in colleges, it will be a useful reference work for the
biological laboratory in high schools.”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ =Bookm.= 23: 568. Jl. ’06. 140w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
“Brought together from reliable sources a large amount of useful
information. As in most works of the kind, there is too little
recognition of the fact that, in many respects, the frog like man, is
a morphologic monstrosity.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 34. Jl. 12, ’06. 290w.
“The book is one that will prove useful to every teacher of elementary
biology, and its usefulness would have been enhanced by a
thorough-going biological treatment and simplification of the
anatomical details.” F. W. G.
+ – =Nature.= 74: 560. O. 4, ’06. 770w.
“A most useful addition to our textbooks on the frog.” E. A. A.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 24: 112. Jl. 27, ’06. 1080w.
=Holt, Hamilton=, ed. Life stories of undistinguished Americans as told
by themselves; with an introd. by Edwin E. Slosson. †$1.50. Pott.
Sketches of sixteen men and women including “a representative of each
of the races that go to make up our nationality and of as many
different industries as possible.” The aim of the book is to show how
well America’s immigration policy has succeeded, how incomes have been
used, how the opportunities offered to earn bread and happiness in
this broad land have been embraced.
* * * * *
“The stories are simply told, with evident sincerity, are most
fascinating reading, and afford the American an excellent opportunity
to see himself as others see him.” W. I. Thomas.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 273. S. ’06. 310w.
“These stories are as interesting as any novel with the additional
advantage that they are stories of actual life.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 176. Jl. ’06. 220w.
“This volume is a book of rare interest, but it is far more than that.
Many chapters are in reality sermons of real value for our people,
rich in lessons that should be of peculiar worth to young men and
women.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 320. S. ’06. 6760w.
“The book is not less entertaining than curious.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 150w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 180w.
=Ind.= 60: 932. Ap. 19, ’06. 140w.
“As far as I know, Mr Hamilton Holt, in compiling his book, has struck
an absolutely untrodden oath in the field of literature. I have not
seen anything so interesting or suggestive for years as it is.”
Rebecca Harding Davis.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 962. Ap. 26, ’06. 1740w.
“These are surely ‘human documents’ in the real sense of that term,
and they have the fascination of such documents.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 290. My. 5, ’06. 1010w.
=Holyoake, George Jacob.= Bygones worth remembering. 2 vols. *$5.
Dutton.
+ =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Holyoake, George Jacob.= History of cooperation; rev. and completed.
2v. *$5. Dutton.
“The preface to this revised and complete edition ... is dated
January, 1906, and before the end of that month the aged author passed
away.... It consists of the two volumes previously published, the
first in 1875, the second in 1879, with an addition carrying the story
down to the present time. Mr. Holyoake has saved the historian all
trouble with regard to co-operation.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“We cannot praise too highly this record, interesting alike to those
studying the special subject treated and to the general reader.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 168. F. 10. 780w.
“What co-operation has accomplished and what it stands for is brought
out in the fullest detail in Mr. Holyoake’s history.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 97. Jl. 12, ’06. 580w.
“His book is a permanent record, the value of which will only be
increased by time. No one else could have written it with the same
intimate knowledge and fullness of detail or with the same grasp of
principle and personal vivacity. The history is indispensable to
students of sociological questions.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 139. Ap. 20, ’06. 810w.
“Had it not been for Mr. Holyoake, many of the most interesting phases
of its early progress would, in all probability, have fallen into
oblivion.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 170. Ag. 23, ’06. 1020w.
“Co-operation has been tried. Mr. Holyoake’s two volumes give what is
unquestionably the authoritative history of these experiments.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 809. Ag. 4, ’06. 700w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 110w.
=Home, Andrew.= Boys of Badminster. †$1.50. Lippincott.
“A thrilling story of boyish escapades.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 281. Ja. ’06. 15w.
=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Evolution of an English town. *$3.50. Dutton.
“It should have been entitled ‘The topography and antiquities of
Pickering.’”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 249. Mr. 22, ’06. 330w.
+ – =Nature.= 73: 538. Ap. 5, ’06. 980w.
=Home, Gordon.= Normandy: The scenery and romance of its ancient towns.
*$3.50. Dutton.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 427. Ap. 7. 120w.
=Hooper, Charles Edward.= Country house: a practical manual of the
planning and construction of the American country home and its
surroundings; il. by E. E Soderholtz and others. **$3. Doubleday.
“The book is an attempt to save the would-be builder from such
expensive and annoying preliminaries by giving him a clear idea both
of the difficulties he should avoid and the beauties he may attain
to.” (Dial.) It gives helpful suggestions concerning the site, plans
of construction, inside and outside finish, the style of doors,
windows, fireplaces, stairways, plumbing, heating lighting,
ventilation, water supply, and drainage. Hints are also given for
interior and exterior beautifying which are aided materially by
numerous illustrations.
* * * * *
“To people who are not looking forward to building a country home, Mr.
Hooper’s book will be interesting as showing what has been done in
that direction in America. Intending builders cannot fail to profit by
reading the book.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 430w.
“Here is a perfect iconographic encyclopedia of house-building and
decorating.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 100. F. 1, ’06. 420w.
=Hope, Laurence. (Mrs. Violet Nicholson).= Last poems: translations from
the book of Indian love. **$1.50. Lane.
“The poems are all concerned with elementary passions. The lament of
Yasmini, the dancinggirl, for the lover who was unlike all the others;
the playing of Khristna on his flute; the laments of a young bride who
is sold to an old King, and of the Queen who is displaced in the
zenana by a younger rival: the song of the Camping-ground, which is
the heart of India; the story of how Sher Afzul revenged himself on
the mistress who had slain his friend; the plaint of the dying Prince
who must leave his great possessions.... The finest, to our mind, is
‘Yasin Khan,’ the story of the yearning which overtakes a King who has
found his kingdom for the fierce hunted days when he was still in
pursuit of it.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The stamp of her individuality is on all her work, so indelibly that
whether it be translated or direct becomes a matter of small
importance. Something of the spontaneity and music of the earlier
books is missing, and neither her theme nor its expression was of the
kind to gain by a more ordered and deliberate method.”
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 802. Ag. 5, ’05. 1190w.
“These poems are of a piece with the former work of the author of ‘The
garden of Kama’ and ‘Stars of the Desert.’ In this last book the
passion is beginning to seem forced, the colour is fading.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 299. S. 2. 260w.
“Here, we may claim, if anywhere in our modern day, was the true
inheritor of the Sapphic fervor, of the Sapphic song,—and, shall we
not add, of the Sapphic catastrophe?” Edith M. Thomas.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 184. F. ’06. 410w.
“Here is character and force enough, of surprise something, of beauty
nothing, of suggestion, or (shall we say?) of the suggestive too much.
It is force misapplied, character muddied at the source.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 4: 267. Ag. 25, ’05. 140w.
“Likely to stand rather as a slightly dubious ‘human document’ than as
an addition to the true poetry of passion. Nevertheless, there are in
it many pieces of unalloyed poetry.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 325. Ap. 19, ’06. 440w.
“All are done with a depth of passion and a haunting music which in
their kind it would be hard to match. The work has nothing of the
depth and calm of the great masters, but it has none the less the
living force of poetry.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 391. S. 16, ’05. 480w.
=Hopekirk, Helen=, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1348. D. 7, ’05. 60w.
“The editor has had a difficult task and has performed it well. The
introduction she has written to this volume is a sympathetic
interpretation of Scottish music.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 477. F. 24, ’06. 110w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Hopkins, Herbert Müller.= Mayor of Warwick. †$1.50. Houghton.
The college town of Warwick with its campus atmosphere forms the
setting of this story of a young college professor, of the bishop’s
daughter and of the Mayor of Warwick, an ex-base ball player and
street car conductor, who strives to live up to the ideal set for him
by the wife who has stooped to a secret marriage with him but refuses
to acknowledge it until he rises to her level. His partial success and
partial failure form the burden of this story in which his strength
and weakness are contrasted, and when in the end he gives the young
professor and the bishop’s daughter their happiness one cannot but be
sorry for him and for the girl he lost—the bishop’s pretty house-maid.
* * * * *
“Mr. Hopkins may draw strongly individualised portraits of professors
and ecclesiastics, but when it comes to the street-car conductors and
ward politicians he also suggests comparison to the composite
photograph.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 118. O. ’06. 480w.
“The chief defect will be found, we think, in the character of the
bishop’s daughter.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 210w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
– =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 240w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 218. Jl. 26, ’06. 200w.
“There are even touches of satire and moments of insight, but it is
best to call it as a whole a pedestrian reflective novel built of
melodramatic material.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 292. My. 5, ’06. 300w.
“The manner of the book in spite of the drift of the matter to
politics and the leaping of social barriers, is dignified to the point
of being academic.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 210w.
“This story has not sufficient charm or brilliancy in the telling to
make the plot and characters seem probable.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 160w.
=Hopkins, Nevil Monroe.= Experimental electro-chemistry. *$3. Van
Nostrand.
An introductory chapter discusses the important researches
and discoveries which bear upon the theories and laws of
electro-chemistry, then follows the text that aims to provide a
lecture room and laboratory guide to the subject. There are ample
experimental evidences for the theories advanced including exercises
in preparing electrolytic compounds and in isolating metals.
* * * * *
“We note that much care has been taken over the illustrations of which
there are a hundred and thirty. It is disappointing to find that this
standard of excellence has not been maintained in the text.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 518. Ap. 28. 570w.
“We advise those interested in electro-chemistry and also those who do
not believe in it—and there are a goodly few—to read this book.” F. M.
P.
+ + =Nature.= 74: sup. 6. My. 3, ’06. 1010w.
“The author has endeavored ‘to produce a book that will prove useful
both in the lecture room and in the laboratory,’ and the reviewer
thinks that he has succeeded.” Edgar F. Smith.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 23: 812. My. 25, ’06. 460w.
=Hopkins, William John.= The clammer. †$1.25. Houghton.
“Only an uneventful love story, with a man of solitary habits, who
digs clams because it amuses him and makes a garden, and keeps clear
of his neighbors, a charmingly drawn girl, a rich father who is not
spoiled, and a proud mother who is humanized by the birth of a
grandchild. There is a good deal of landscape and sky and sea in the
narrative, which depends for its charm largely on atmosphere and
sentiment.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“His is a diction which, one is tempted to believe, is born of William
John Hopkins, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the various authors of the
Bible. It is correct without being prim, well-bred but not distant,
and injected with the whimsical humor which never laughs, but has eyes
that twinkle.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 60w.
“Much might be said in praise of its quiet rather old-fashioned
style—leisurely, meditative, and well-bred. There is no plot.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.
“In spite of its verbal facility it must be admitted that there is
little evidence in Mr. Hopkins’ book of an ability to produce real
fiction.”
– =Putnam’s.= 1: 127. O. ’06. 240w.
=Hopper, James.= Caybigan. †$1.50. McClure.
Out of Mr. Hopper’s experience while teaching in the Philippines with
an imagination riotously at work he has woven an impressionist’s group
of tales. Among them are the “Failure,” “the story of a human
derelict, whom alcohol and the physical and moral miasma of the
tropics have done their best to destroy.” (Bookm.); and “A jest of the
gods,” a story of a man who, at the height of his manhood strength, is
stricken by a baffling disease which leaves him bald, and without
brows and lashes.
* * * * *
“There is a strange, exotic, almost morbid strength in these stories.
In vividness and tensity they are on a par with the shorter stories of
Joseph Conrad, whose style his own often suggests; a few of them have
almost the quality of some of Kipling’s. ‘Plain tales from the
hills.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 246. N. ’06. 940w.
“These tales, which Mr. Hopper has frankly offered for hasty perusal,
endure very well a second reading.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 230w.
“It seems likely that the ‘Caybigan’ stories will serve two excellent
purposes. They will entertain and they will promote a better
understanding among stay-at-home citizens of the real nature of the
insular Oriental.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 739. N. 10, ’06. 530w.
“They vary greatly as to merit, but they are all marked by crispness
and vitality, and they are extremely tender where the writer trusts to
his own vein.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 110w.
=Hoppin, James Mason.= Reading of Shakespeare. **$1.25. Houghton.
There are studies of Shakespeare’s life and learning, nature and
style, following which each play is considered separately.
* * * * *
“Under Mr. Hoppin’s title a really good and useful book might have
been written. On a preliminary glance we light upon suggestions that
are very encouraging, but not followed up.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 211. Ag. 25. 760w.
“The book is remarkably well written and easy to read and may be
recommended as a good introduction to the study of Shakespeare. That
there are wiser and better books of the same sort goes without
saying.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 292. My. 5, ’06. 330w.
=Hornaday, William Temple.= Camp fires in the Canadian Rockies. **$3.
Scribner.
“This is the narrative of a hunting-expedition for game in the
Canadian Rockies, told with literary appreciation of the marvels
encountered, and appealing not only to the hunter and sportsman but to
the general reader as well, by reason of the magnificence and novelty
of the scenes described.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“He has written in a careless, happy, holiday vein, which makes
inspiriting reading.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 530w.
“As was to be expected, the book abounds in vivid descriptions of wild
animals; and it gives also many extremely interesting pictures made
from photographs taken at ranges almost incredibly close.” Wallace
Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
=Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“The work is a notable contribution to the recent literature of
hunting.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 685. N. 10, ’06. 210w.
“It is valuable as a contribution to knowledge of the country and its
natural history.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 450w.
“Mr. Hornaday is in very close sympathy with nature, abounds in humor,
writes well, and, best of all, he abhors the ruthless destruction of
animal life.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 733. N. 10, ’06. 690w.
“Not a scientific book, but a thoroughly readable account of outdoor
enjoyment in mountain regions of British Columbia.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 531. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
=Horne, Herman Harrell.= Psychological principles of education: a study
in the science of education. *$1.75. Macmillan.
A five part work dealing with the subject as follows: Part 1 is
concerned with the general presuppositions of the science of
education, being a revision of the author’s discussion of this topic
at the World’s congress of arts and sciences at St. Louis; Part 2
treats of intellectual education; Part 3 is concerned exclusively with
what pertains to ‘educating the mind to feel’; Part 4 deals with the
function, importance, nature and development of the will; Part 5, the
concluding division of the book, deals with the problem of the
religious consciousness, and the legitimate and practical means for
its development.
* * * * *
“The features which do most distinguish its subject matter from that
of the earlier books are its emphasis upon emotional education and the
inclusion of a separate section, Part 5, on Religious education, or
Educating the spirit in man. In this latter the author has given the
most helpful discussion of the topic within brief compass that has so
far been written.”
+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 296. N. ’06. 170w.
“If his title is not taken too literally, if the reader is willing to
admit the inclusion of ethical and religious considerations, not to be
too insistent that the treatment indicate one consistent attitude, the
book is likely to prove profitable and entertaining.” Charles Hughes
Johnston.
+ – =J. Philos.= 3: 666. N 22, ’06 1540w.
“Among the various merits of this valuable ‘study in the science of
education’ is to be reckoned that of literary as well as scientific
finish.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 170w.
“The style is simple and is easily intelligible to junior and senior
students in college classes and to advanced students in normal
schools.” Frederic E. Bolton.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 365. N. 15, ’06. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 100w.
=Hort, Fenton John Anthony.= Village sermons. $1.75. Macmillan.
+ =Spec.= 96: 501. Mr. 31, ’06. 300w.
=Horton, George.= Edge of hazard; with pictures by C. M. Relyea. †$1.50.
Bobbs.
An ex-member of Boston’s smart set finds it “hard to be philosophical
when a man has just lost his girl, his friends and his money.” He
accepts an appointment to go to Russia to take care of the American
trading company’s stores at Stryetensk, Siberia. His adventures which
include being arrested as a spy, and falling under the spell of women
spies—Russian and Japanese—are chronicled during the days just
preceding the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war.
* * * * *
“A novel written frankly with no other purpose than to entertain, and
as such it can be heartily recommended.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 270w.
“If Mr. Horton had intended to parody the style of Archibald Clavering
Gunter, he would deserve to be congratulated on his success.”
Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 284. My. ’06. 340w.
“An excellent story—for people who merely wish to be amused.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 90w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 297. My. 5, ’06. 400w.
=Hough, Emerson.= Heart’s Desire. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“This is a weakly constructed story. The dialogue is occasionally
amusing, but generally rather laboured; and the characterisation is
inhuman and machine-made.”
– =Ath.= 1905. 2: 890. D. 30. 110w.
“The author of ‘The girl at the half way house’ will probably not
repeat with his present book the popular success of ‘The Mississippi
bubble’ ... but in many ways I like ‘Heart’s Desire’ better.”
Churchill Williams.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 367. D. ’05. 760w.
“Mr. Hough has surpassed his best previous efforts for our
entertainment.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.
=Hough, Emerson.= King of Gee-Whiz; with lyrics by Wilbur D. Nesbit; il.
by Oscar E. Cesare. $1.25. Bobbs.
All about the adventures of Zuzu and Lulu, twins, in the island of
Gee-Whiz. One has hair of malazite blue, and the other of corazine
green,—the results of their father’s chemical experiments. Young
readers will find their adventures in fairyland captivatingly funny.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, 06. 70w.
=Houghton, Mrs. Louise Seymour.= Hebrew life and thought: being
interpretative studies in the literature of Israel *$1.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.
“The purpose of these papers ... is not to give forth original ideas,
but to bring the more or less cultured but unscientific Bible student
into a hospitable attitude toward the new light that scholarship has
shed upon the sacred page.” The studies include: The day-book of the
Most High, Folklore in the Old Testament, The poetry of the Old
Testament, Heroes and heroism, Eastern light on the story of Elisha,
Love-stories of Israel, A parable of Divine love, Secular faith, The
search for spiritual certainty, The Hebrew Utopia, and The law and
modern society.
* * * * *
“The studies will be found suggestive and helpful to the average Bible
student.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 159. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“We are sure that many people who never go near a Sunday-school would,
if they were to read this book, turn to the Bible with an unaccustomed
interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“Its treatment is farthest possible from the conventional discussion
of biblical books, and will infallibly cause any reader to feel new
admiration and interest in the Bible.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 120w.
=Houghton, Mrs. Louise Seymour.= Telling Bible stories; with an introd.
by Rev. T. T Munger. **$1.25. Scribner.
“In a deeper vein Louise Seymour Houghton, in her ‘Telling Bible
stories,’ sketches the best way of outlining the Old Testament for
young folks.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The woman already somewhat intelligent in the biblical field, and
sufficiently open-minded to adapt herself to modern ways of dealing
with biblical material, will find the book most suggestive. Is a
valuable contribution to the literature on the religious education of
children, and it is hoped, will be carefully studied by leaders in
Sunday-school work, and especially those who are planning graded
curricula, although there may be difference of opinion as to many of
her conclusions.”
+ + – =Bib. World.= 28: 348. N. ’06. 470w.
“It is a pity that so excellent a book has no index.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 300w.
“Her discussion is of wider interest than mere educational guidance.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ’05. 30w.
“This is a book of high value for all who would bring to fruitage in
mature years the ‘natural piety’ which is latent in the child.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ’05. 190w.
“Will be found a most valuable help, and we warmly recommend it.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 791. N. 17, ’06. 170w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Young prospector. †$1.50. Wilde.
Harry Maxwell and his friend Ned Cartwright, two alert, ambitious
boys, go West in search of the gold mine where Harry’s father lost his
life. The book, aside from being full of adventure illustrates how
information useful to boys may be worked into attractive form.
=Howard, Bronson.= Kate, a comedy in four acts. †$1.25. Harper.
The modern marriage question, the barter of soulless men and women for
great wealth and great names, and the final triumph of love and human
nature is dealt with in this reading version of Bronsor Howard’s new
play. In the course of four acts entitled, When marriage is a farce,
Love and legal documents, Stronger than law or rite, and Which would
be wife, three mismated couples are re-assorted and all are left
happier than if Kate had won her coronet. The dialogue is startlingly
frank and pithy, the characters varied and the plot well worked out.
* * * * *
“The play is interesting reading, but carries no conviction with it.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 421. N. 15, ’06. 390w.
“Except that the four chapters are called ‘acts,’ the book looks quite
like one of those modern novels which are rich in conversation. The
effect of the method, which is a new one, is excellent, and no
confusion arises from the circumstance that the form is not that of
the prompt book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 685. O. 20, ’06. 880w.
=Howard, Burt Estes.= German empire. **$2. Macmillan.
In a discussion which aims “to give a broad view of the German
government, explaining clearly the main features of the Imperial
constitution and the salient doctrines of German constitutional law,”
the author gives us “systematic, accurate, unadorned law.”
* * * * *
“The title of the book has raised larger expectations than the
contents will satisfy. Thruout the work there are abundant evidences
of a full acquaintance with the best German publicists, a careful
study of the original legal documents and a persistent tho sometimes
belabored accuracy. As things stand now it must go on our shelves with
our Bryce, Bodley and Bagehot.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 995. O. 25, ’06. 510w.
“The book, as a whole, will prove a convenient manual of the subject
viewed in its strictly constitutional aspect.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 371. N. 1, ’06. 90w.
“The subject has now been further illuminated in very serious and
thorough-going fashion by Dr. Howard. Clearly, compactly,
intelligently, discriminatingly, but not very picturesquely, he
describes for us the founding of the Empire, the individual States
which compose it, the position of the Emperor, the Bundesrath, the
Reichstag as the voice of the German people.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 400w.
“He has done well what he chose to do, and his readers may be
confident that they are getting from his book the same impressions of
the fundamental provisions of the constitution which they would derive
from the elaborate treatises of von Rönne, Laband, Meyer, Schulze,
Haenel, Zorn, and the rest.” J. H. R.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 708. D. ’06. 470w.
“The book should be in the hands of all (and among them are not a few
newspaper writers) who have a hazy conception of the Kaiser as an
autocrat who can make war when he pleases, whereas in reality he can
do nothing of the kind, and of the German people as subjects without
rights.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 383. D. ’06. 130w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 100w.
=Howard, Clifford. (Simon Arke, pseud.).= Curious facts; interesting and
surprising information regarding the origin of familiar names, words,
sayings and customs. 50c. Penn.
An analysis of “strange beginnings,” of names—family and geographical
nicknames—familiar words, sayings and customs. The fact of strangeness
appears only when original forms are compared with present-day
meanings and usages.
=Howard, John Hamilton.= In the shadow of the pines: a tale of tidewater
Virginia. $1.25. Meth. bk.
A tale of the Dismal swamp region which spends its energy in clearing
up the mystery that shrouds the murder of one of the emissaries of
Napoleon III.
* * * * *
“Might have been a good horror story if he had not been afraid to take
liberties with his imagination.”
– =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 441. Jl. 7, ’06. 220w.
=Howard, Timothy Edward.= Musings and memories. 75c. Lakeside press,
Chicago.
Poetic musings upon such subjects as The bells of Notre Dame; Failure;
The student; and Indian summer, interspersed with memories of The old
church; The stricken ash; Halcyon days; Youth; Books, and Kindred
things.
=Howe, Frederick Clemson.= City: the hope of democracy. **$1.50.
Scribner.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 237. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“If we except Professor Parsons’ ‘The city for the people’ there is no
volume with which we are acquainted that is comparable to this work.
It forms an admirable complement to Professor Parsons’ exhaustive
storehouse of vital facts.”
+ + + =Arena.= 35: 544. My. ’06. 7010w.
“It has life, vigor, movement. It is imbued with a healthful optimism.
The truth is, Mr. Howe’s enthusiasm sometimes runs away with his
judgment.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 845. Je. ’06. 560w.
“Within its definite rôle, Dr. Howe’s work adds much strength to the
literature of reform possibly more to inspiration than to tactics;
more to suggestion than to guidance.”
+ – =Cath. World.= 82: 827. Mr. ’06. 830w.
“An invaluable contribution to municipal literature. Seldom does a
writer so successfully justify an ambitious title; rarely is a
sentiment, which to many must be a contradiction, so ably defended.”
Charles Zueblin.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 230. Ap. 1, ’06. 2470w.
“Every leader in city politics will find facts and arguments in this
book to stimulate his hope and to pilot his activities.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1342. D. 7. ’05. 1150w.
“The book is a really noteworthy contribution to a discussion of vital
significance to all Americans.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 215. F. 10, ’06. 1030w.
=Nation.= 83: 104. Ag. 2, ’06. 900w.
“The book can hardly take a high place in scientific literature. It
can not convince anyone not already inclined to accept its
conclusions. But there are many in that position, and to these the
author’s evident sincerity of purpose, and even his determination to
see only one side of the question, will make a strong appeal.” Alvin
S. Johnson.
– + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 341. Je. ’06. 1760w.
=Spec.= 96: 266. F. 17, ’06. 120w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Certain delightful English towns, with glimpses
of the pleasant country between. **$3. Harper.
To be led thru Exeter, Bath, Wells, Bristol, Canterbury, Oxford,
Chester, Malvern, Shrewsbury, Northampton, and the country in between
seems of itself pleasing but to see it all with Mr. Howell’s eyes, to
catch the real spirit of each spot, to be shown at a glance the charm
of each place and to enjoy with him the little personal adventures
which he met with by the way is truly delightful. And should the
reader wish to see with his own eyes, four dozen full page
illustrations bid him look.
* * * * *
“The book has the usual charming and idiomatic style of Mr. Howells.”
Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Mr. Howells travels with open eyes and after seeing describes the
thing seen with a keen regard for the value of an incident and with
full appreciation of the humorous.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 100w.
“There is nothing essential missed of the historic or literary
association of these towns, but what one seems to value even more is
the suave, humorous observation of ordinary things which gives one the
sense of the highest reality.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“What will endear its pages to every reader is its unfailing humor,
its nice balancing of the emotions and aesthetic impressions by one on
whom no charm whether of setting or human association was thrown
away.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 462. N. 29, ’06. 360w.
“Another permanent contribution to American letters. Throughout the
book we find the same genial humor we found so delightful in his
‘Italian journeys’, and ‘Their silver wedding journey’; the same
poetically realistic descriptions of places and people; inimitable
touches, that bring instantly and vividly the scene or person before
the mind’s eye.” Madison Cawein.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 789. D. 1, ’06. 1580w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 70w.
=Howells, William Dean.= London films. **$2.25. Harper.
“The continual references to America are a blemish to the book as a
whole. But the book as a whole is delightfully characteristic, and
when we put it down we are left with a very near understanding of an
invigorating temperament and a charming personality.”
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1353. D. 30, ’05. 940w.
“The author’s style, here as elsewhere, is lucidity itself.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 180w.
“In fact ‘London films’ is quite the kind of book that we should like
to see written about ourselves by a foreign sojourner who sensitively
gathered impressions by the way.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 226. Ja. ’06. 250w.
“Some of the most charming commentaries on London life and people are
to be found in William Dean Howells’ latest reminiscent volume.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 128. Ja. ’06. 90w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Miss Bellard’s inspiration. †$1.50. Harper.
“Mr. Howells’ whole ability (and in reading ‘all the new novels’ one
learns the worth of such skill as his) is called forth to show three
hapless men in three stages of engulfment by affectionate
boa-constrictors.” Mary Moss.
– + =Atlan.= 97: 51. Ja. ’06. 110w.
=Howells, William Dean, and Alden, Henry Mills=, eds. Under the sunset.
Harper’s novelettes. †$1. Harper.
This volume of novelettes includes “The end of the journey,” “The
sage-brush hen,” “The prophetess of the land of no-smoke,” “A little
pioneer,” “Back to Indiana,” “The gray chieftain,” “The inn of San
Jacinto,” “Tio Juan,” and “Jamie the kid.” Mr. Howells says: “In the
immense geographical range of these admirable stories, we have some
faint indications of the vastness as well as the richness of the field
they touch.”
* * * * *
=Critic.= 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 60w.
=Dial.= 41: 21. Jl. 1, ’06. 60w.
“Many of them exceedingly good, and the variety, within the broad
limits of the Western localization and inspiration, is strikingly
wide.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 446. Ag. 11, ’06. 230w.
=Outlook.= 83: 483. Je. 23, ’06. 40w.
=Hoyt, Arthur Stephen.= Work of preaching. **$1.50. Macmillan.
Dr. Hoyt, professor of homiletics and sociology in the Auburn
theological seminary, “claims no original and certain method for the
making of pulpit orators, but his remarks on the preparation and
delivery of sermons are sane and practical. He has had especially in
mind the problem and position of the preacher today, and his book
might well be read by those who are familiar with the older
homiletical literature.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“However, it would seem that Dr. Hoyt over-estimates the
authoritativeness of a scripture text with a present-day congregation
in a progressive community, and thereby fails to appreciate some of
the largeness and difficulty of the work of preaching in the present
generation.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 631. Mr. 15, ’06. 160w.
“They are free from scholasticism, and sensitive to the demands of the
present time.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 141. Ja. 20, ’06. 220w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 70w.
=Hubback, J. H., and Hubback, Edith C.= Jane Austen’s sailor brothers:
being the adventures of Sir Francis Austen, G. C. B., Admiral of the
fleet and Rear-Admiral Charles Austen. **$3.50. Lane.
Jane Austen’s sailor brothers “were both captains in the British navy
during the Napoleonic period, and the extracts from their logs and
letters here presented, though of no particular importance, give
occasional glimpses of conditions at the time of the great war that
are not without interest. The authors attempted to draw a parallel
between some passages in Jane Austen’s novels and the actual
experience of her brothers at sea.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“There are frequent slips in respect of technicalities.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 420. Ap. 7. 490w.
“When all is said and done it was written for the Janeans, and they
will best appreciate it.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 472. My. ’06. 150w.
=Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 621. Jl. ’06. 250w.
“It has been agreeably put together by its joint authors.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 500w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 261. Mr. 29, ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 1090w.
“It is simply written and it should be of real interest to all members
of the Austen family. It is impossible to say that public purpose is
served by it.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 530. O. 21, ’05. 170w.
=Hubbard, Lindley Murray.= Express of ’76, a chronicle of the town of
York in the war of independence. †$1.50. Little.
An old journal written in Revolutionary days, by General Hubbard, so
the author says, forms the basis of this romantic novel of the
campaign in New York. The scenes are set vividly before us with a
journal’s own detail and, in following the fortunes of Jonathan
Hubbard, we see something of Washington, Franklin, Putnam, Burr,
Hamilton and others who are as well known as the battles in which they
fought. The mysterious lady Claremont, the little Quaker maid, and
other maidens, some historic, some semi-historic fill out the plot and
make this tale a typical war-time romance.
* * * * *
“The main interest of the book is the intimate approach the reader may
have to such men as Washington, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, and others,
who were destined to become great in their country’s service. They are
well drawn and carry conviction of their manly reality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 744. N. 10, ’06. 180w.
“The story is not imaginative or dramatic, but will interest those who
enjoy an average presentation of historic material.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 90w.
=Hubbard, Mrs. Sara Anderson (Mrs. James M. Hubbard).= Religion of
cheerfulness; an essay. **50c. McClurg.
Believing that “a sunny disposition is a boon which confers more
happiness on its owner and more happiness on those with whom one comes
in contact, than any other which falls to the lot of a human
creature,” Mrs. Hubbard preaches the religion of cheerfulness
convincingly, urging that “as age increases cheerfulness should
increase.”
=Huber, John Bessner.= Consumption: its relation to man and his
civilization, its prevention and cure. **$3. Lippincott.
A serious volume with a wide scope. Dr. Huber requires that economic,
legislative, sociological and humanitarian aid be summoned to
strengthen the medical forces in fighting the white plague. The author
addresses both physician and layman.
* * * * *
“The author has read widely ... but his own style is so peculiar and
involved as to make the book difficult to read.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 17. Jl. 7. 400w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 940. O. 18, ’06. 450w.
“The book is written with spirit and should be widely read. The style
is a little diffuse, but as a whole this is a good and timely piece of
work.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 34 Jl. 12, ’06. 130w.
“A thorough and instructive book, made with infinite pains, putting
before the reader a sane and broad view of a tremendous problem of
civilization.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 470. Jl. 28, ’06. 1200w.
“Dr. Huber’s book, which is literally encyclopædic in scope, seems
primarily designed for the lay reader.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 377. O. 13, ’06. 2690w.
“Unlike many works in this field. Dr. Huber’s book will be found
readable, and even entertaining, from cover to cover.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 130w.
“Several of the chapters in it would make readable magazine articles,
but taken as a whole it establishes no pretensions to be considered a
valuable contribution to the literature of tuberculosis.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. O. 13, ’06. 200w.
“We recommend Dr. Huber’s book to our readers, though we cannot but
feel that for practical purposes a much smaller volume would have been
more useful.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 1045. Je. 30, ’06. 200w.
=Huddy, Mary E.= Matilda, Countess of Tuscany. $3.50. Herder.
“Mrs. Huddy’s purpose has evidently been to provide a volume of
instructive, popular reading, rather than a book for the student.
Edification, too, is her object; and she finds in the brilliant
virtues of Matilda, and still more in those of Pope Gregory, ample
resources to set off the depressing pictures of vice, violence,
cruelty and greed which the chronicler of this stormy period of
Italian history is obliged to recall.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
“It certainly is not for the sake of any inferences that she draws
from it that Mrs. Huddy’s narrative is valuable. She is equally
lacking in the historic and the philosophic sense.”
+ – =Acad.= 68: 194. Mr. 4, ’05. 1690w.
“Her own pen is fluent, and her book will be a source of considerable
pleasure and profit, we have no doubt, to readers who have no
knowledge of the subject, and are able to put up with or even enjoy,
sentimental exuberance, misplaced rhetoric, and remarks of an edifying
nature.”
– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 11. Jl. 1. 280w.
“The proportions ... that she has given to the various elements of her
narrative, sometimes suggests the historical novel as much as they do
strict history.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 564. Ja. ’06. 220w.
“It is an entirely amateurish and unworkmanlike performance, wholly
destitute of importance of any and every description. The author’s
sentiments are womanly; we have no quarrel with her ideals; her
judgments are usually just. To begin with this important work has not
yet a shred of an index. The style—the English—is maddening when it is
not amusing. There are numberless passages in inverted commas without
any references to the authorities. When authorities are indicated
volume and page are never given. Not once throughout the whole of this
‘important historical work’ is a single Italian authority referred to.
Nearly every Italian word is misspelled.”
– – + =Sat. R.= 100: 248. Ag. 19, ’05. 1040w.
“The book is strongly partisan. Not only Countess Matilda, but Gregory
VII. and the other Popes, her contemporaries, can do no wrong. We must
say that the more she deals with historical scenes and facts, and the
less with personalities, the pleasanter reading her book becomes.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 122. Jl. 22, ’05. 1720w.
=Hudson, William Henry.= Purple land. **$1.50. Dutton.
A new edition of a story written twenty years ago. “The adventures and
reflections are ostensibly those of Richard Lamb, a person of English
birth but oriental temperament. Richard had begun his career by
stealing from a proud man of Argentina his beloved only daughter. With
this lovely flower for his bride he fled to Montevideo, and leaving
the lady in the charge of a grim aunt person, sought his fortune upon
the plains.” (N. Y. Times.) “Young Richard Lamb rides forth an errant
knight, and many adventures and desperadoes and fair ladies fall to
his share. The country, the people, the customs, the moral and
political ideals, all pass in vivid array before us.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Charming narrative of life in South America.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 50w.
=Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 280w.
“It appears a rarely fresh, charming and delightful book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 914. D. 23, ’05. 410w.
“A narrative of unusual charm. The reader who can appreciate literary
charm and fresh, almost elemental, or at least mediaeval ideas, will
enjoy it to the full.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 220w.
=Huffcut, Ernest Wilson.= Elements of business law; with illustrative
examples and problems. *$1. Ginn.
“The book contains a number of judiciously selected legal forms. It
would be improved by citations of the authorities for the cases
presented.” R. M.
+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 254. Ap. ’06. 120w.
“A book of good proportion, packed full of important matter,
attractively and interestingly set forth.” Floyd R. Mechem.
+ =School. R.= 14: 468. Je. ’06. 160w.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 90w.
=Hughes, Rupert.= Col. Crockett’s co-operative Christmas. †$1. Jacobs.
Col. Crockett of Waco instituted a unique undertaking last Christmas
of gathering together in the auditorium of the Madison square garden
“every stranger in New York and his lady.” In two letters to his wife
he sketches the “before and after” of his plan which proved successful
beyond his anticipation.
* * * * *
“A holiday novelette of the conventional type, varied in this case by
the introduction of rather more novelty and less probability than are
customary in similar narratives.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 399. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 40w.
=Hughes, Rupert.= Zal: an international romance. †$1.50. Century.
“Otherwise, particularly for a first novel, ‘Zal’ shows very good
workmanship.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 150w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 260w.
“Gives us a sympathetic and accurate presentation of the Polish
character.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 160w.
=Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte.= Les miserables; tr. by Isabel F.
Hapgood. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper two volume sets,” this usually large work
is reduced to the compass of two pocket volumes.
=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Pilots of the republic; the romance of the
pioneer-promoter in the middle west; pors. and drawings by Walter J.
Enright. **$1.50. McClurg.
“Pioneers’ axe chanted a truer tune than ever musket crooned or sabre
sang.” And it is the pioneer who with epic courage extended America’s
boundaries and built up her bulwark that fill Mr. Hulbert’s volume.
Among them are Washington, Richard Henderson, Rufus Putnam, George
Rogers Clark, Henry Clay, Morris and Clinton, Thomas and Mercer. Lewis
and Clark, Astor, and Marcus Whitman.
=Hulbert, Homer Beza.= Passing of Korea; il. from photographs. **$3.80.
Doubleday.
Mr. Hulbert “compares Korea in its present plight in Japanese hands,
and with Japanese immigration flooding it with Poland, Armenia, and
the Congo ‘Free’ State. To save Korea, and he adds it will be to our
material advantage to do so, we must bring modern education to the
Koreans, and for this purpose he asks us to open our purses. His book
is a history of the so-called ‘Hermit’ kingdom from the earliest
times, concluding, of course, with a survey of present conditions,
manners, and customs of the people, and the resources of the country.
It is profusely illustrated.”—Putnam’s.
* * * * *
“The book is written in an attractive style and is a notable addition
to the recent literature of the Orient.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 250w.
“Books on Korea may be named by the dozen but this is _the_ book.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 421. N. 15, ’06. 530w.
“It may be safe to say that, apart from a few conclusions which may be
regarded as hasty. It is one of the most commendable books on the
Hermit kingdom that have issued from the pen of foreign authors.” K.
K. Kawakami.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 749. N. 17. ’06. 2020w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 280w.
=Hullah, Annette.= Theodor Leschetizky. *$1. Lane.
A recent addition to the “Living masters of music” series. “The story
of Leschetizky’s career from his birth in 1830 down to 1905, is told
in the first two chapters of the book. The five chapters following
describe Leschetizky’s method of playing and technique, his manner of
teaching, his class, and interest in each pupil, and lastly,
Leschetizky as ‘the center of the circle.’ There are several pictures
of the pianist as well as some showing him with certain pupils.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The story of this concentrated career is well and clearly told by
Miss Hullah, who makes the discriminating point that Leschetizky is
emphatically an individualist in his work.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 18. Jl. 1, ’06. 210w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 473. Je. 7, ’06. 210w.
“Miss Hullah has given a lively picture of a personality prominent in
the musical world in her work about Leschetizky.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 227. Ap. 7, ’06. 520w.
=Hume, Fergus W.= Lady Jim of Curzon street. †$1.50. Dillingham.
A titled couple badly in debt fail to excite the sympathy of a wealthy
father in their behalf and resort to the means of a sham death in
order to secure insurance money. The way of the transgressor was never
harder than portrayed in Mr. Hume’s story. Lady Jim’s clever wit is
directed toward the perpetration of fraud that results in betrayal and
even the contracting of leprosy which is cheated of its lingering
terror by an overdose of chloral.
* * * * *
“It is a pleasure to be able unreservedly to recommend this book. The
dialogue is all through of the cleverest, and the plot is well
conceived and elaborated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 140w.
=Hume, Fergus W.= Mystery of the shadow. $1.25. Dodge, B. W.
Mr. Hume’s plot centers about the strangling of one Mrs. Gilbert
Ainsleigh by some one masquerading as the ghost of a monk. An attempt
is made to trace the crime to no less than five persons, and it is no
wonder that the reader ejaculates “Pshaw” with the hero when he is put
upon the wrong trail.
* * * * *
“There is ability in the book, but the author has shown himself
capable of better things.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 417. Ap. 7. 120w.
“The author has given a good measure of mystery, and has kept the
assassin’s identity well veiled until the end of the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 665. O. 13, ’06. 270w.
=Sat. R.= 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Hume, Fergus W.= Opal serpent. †$1.25. Dillingham.
A struggling young writer, disinherited, at least temporarily, by an
irascible father, and the daughter of a fear-shaken man who is a
book-stall keeper by day and a pawn broker by night, in the cellar
below, live thru a succession of mysteries, fears and catastrophes all
of which seem secretly connected with a jewelled serpent. In the
tangle-straightening process, Mr. Hume’s usual number of odd types
appear.
* * * * *
“All who retain a partiality for tales of mystery and incident will
welcome ‘The opal serpent.’”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 268. Ag. 26. 190w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w.
“The matter is the matter of such yarns from the beginning, the manner
is the manner or Fergus Hume, which is fair to middlin’—of its kind.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 220w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 150w.
=Hume, John T.= Abolitionists: together with personal memoirs of the
struggle for human rights. **$1. Putnam.
In his sketch of partly biographical, partly historical significance
Mr. Hume, a Garrisonian abolitionist, gives many personal
recollections of the days of the “underground railroad,” and with
characteristic partisanship recounts his movements among the Missouri
radicals. “His long life includes the early struggle for human rights,
when abolitionists were accounted lawful game for mobs. The names of
its heroes and heroines, and the tribulations they fought through,
find record in his pages.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“In spite of its motif, the volume contains in accessible form much
information concerning all these matters which will be of value to the
student.”
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 420. Mr. ’06. 140w.
=Dial.= 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 240w.
“It is unfortunate that dates and exact particulars are often missing,
and are sometimes wrongly given.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1165. My. 17, ’06. 270w.
“Deserves the widest circulation and calm pondering.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 143. F. 15, ’06. 1380w.
“Interesting volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 921. D. 30, ’05. 1110w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 120w.
“While some may disagree with him there is no doubt that he has shed
much light on a very obscure period of our country’s history.”
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 379. Mr. 24, ’06. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 90w.
=Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Wives of Henry VIII. **$4.50. McClure.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 465. Ja. ’06. 60w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 240w.
“There is much ... that helps us to understand more fully this
difficult age, but the great riddles of the Tudor period still remain
unanswered.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 293. My. 1, ’06. 630w.
“If Mr. Hume has not succeeded in making out a good case, he has
nevertheless contributed some valuable new material to the study of
the history of the reign, and has written a capital series of brief
biographies.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 216. F. 10, ’06. 130w.
“The plain fact is that Mr. Hume is much too good a man to be wasted
upon this kind of ‘pot-boiling,’ appealing as it does to the craving
for personal gossip which is an unpromising characteristic of to-day.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 6. Ja. 5, ’06. 790w.
“A clever though inconclusive volume.”
+ – =Nation.= 81: 530. D. 28, ’05. 500w.
“In this book Major Hume sets forth with great clearness, and in a
most interesting and readable way, the gradual deterioration of
Henry’s character as he became year by year more of ‘a law unto
himself.’”
+ =Spec.= 96: 60. Ja. 13, ’06. 1760w.
=Humphrey, Seth K.= Indian dispossessed. **$1.50. Little.
“The matter set forth in the book is free from emotionalism or
sentimentalism, being a plain, straight-forward, historic presentation
of a shameful page in modern history.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 104. Ja. ’06. 530w.
“The book might have been strengthened by precise references to the
documents and authorities quoted.”
– =Cath. World.= 82: 831. Mr. ’06. 250w.
=Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 60w.
=Dial.= 40: 21. Ja. 1, ’06. 520w.
=R of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 120w.
=Huneker, James Gibbons.= Visionaries. †$1.50. Scribner.
Music, poetry and the plastic arts furnish the field in which Mr.
Huneker lets his imagination soar. There are twenty stories in the
group in which “he is merely diverting himself with his pen, letting
his fancy do what it will with human beings—improvising, as it were.”
(Pub. Opin.)
* * * * *
“The author’s style is sometimes grotesque in its desire both to
startle and to find true expression. In nearly every story the reader
is arrested by the idea, and only a little troubled now and then by an
over-elaborate style.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 116. F. 3, ’06. 700w.
“With all this straining after the repellent and lawless, the tales
for the most part miss their designed effect. They are cleverly
executed, with no insignificant portion of imagination; yet with two
or three exceptions they fail to be uncanny.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 228. F. 24. 870w.
“These are pictures, thoughtful, intricate pictures, with a tinge of
morbid mysticism, better to be enjoyed by reading one, at intervals,
than devoured wholesale at a sitting.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“With every limitation of Mr. Huneker’s creative faculty recognised
and even exaggerated, the conviction remains that his is an artistic
individuality of rare potency and of welcome value to American
letters.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + – =Bookm.= 22: 360. D. ’05. 1090w.
“His characters look like posters and talk like Mr. Huneker. Nobody
will deny that the result is interesting, but it is not fiction of the
first order.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 220w.
“It seems a pity that any one who can upon occasion write so well
should so often let his imagination ride him into the country of the
grotesque.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 30. Ja. 26, ’06. 620w.
“They are odd in conception and admirably told.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ’05. 40w.
“Most of them are fantastic, some of them are decadent, all of them
are intensely modern in method. But what he does he does with subtle
and finished skill, and the product is interesting reading.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 90w.
“There have always been touches in Mr. Huneker’s work that suggest his
possession of positive genius. But ‘Visionaries’ outsteps all bounds
of reason, is almost wholly fantastic, esoteric, narcotic.”
+ – =Reader.= 7: 226. Ja. ’06. 350w.
=Hunt, Theodore Whitefield.= Literature: its principles and problems.
**$1.20. Funk.
The disciplinary value ranks ahead of the culture value in the present
discussion; the high-tension qualities of literature being those
essential to form and structure. The idea of law and order pervades
the study, and it outlines the guiding principles and methods of
literature, its scope and mission, its primary aims, processes and
forms, the laws that govern its orderly development and its logical
relation to other great departments of human thought, its specifically
intellectual and esthetic quality, and its informing genius and
spirit. Its ultimate aim appears as that of suggestion and stimulus
along the lines of inquiry that are opened and examined.
* * * * *
“For older students who want to do something in literary criticism,
this book offers a good consideration of the principles and problems
involved, because it is logically planned in the main and depends on a
wide knowledge of literature and literary criticisms.” E. E. H. jr.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 453. Je. ’06. 350w.
“A book that is in many respects stimulating and suggestive. But it
would be the grossest flattery to say that it is well written, or that
one’s appreciation of the best in literature is forwarded by the
perusal of it.”
– + =Critic.= 48: 569. Je. ’06. 190w.
“An unusually able, thoro, and discriminating treatment of literary
questions and might be read by all serious students and teachers with
great advantage to the clarity of their ideas.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 680. My. 5, ’06. 480w.
“On the topic of literary criticism we find his paragraphs involving
either a slight self-contradiction or else lack of clearness in
meaning. In a short chapter on ‘Hebraism and Hellenism,’ we think that
the author does serious injustice to Mathew Arnold’s position.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 550w.
“Thoughtful readers will acknowledge this to be a work of rare merit.
A clarifying and a stimulating work it is, critical and widely
informing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 310w.
“It is comprehensive, capable, and always correct, where accuracy is
possible.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 130w.
=Hunt, W. Holman.= Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. 2v. **$10. Macmillan.
“This volume is uniform with the “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones,”
and is devoted to a school that did more than any other to restore
life and vitality and meaning to English art during the last century.”
“This book has a threefold interest—historical, artistic, and human.
Mr. Holman Hunt, as every one knows, was one of the original members
of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.... He is able to tell the story of
the beginning and early struggles of the most important movement in
modern English painting more fully than it has ever been told before.
He is also able to give us a very clear and concise account of the
intentions of that movement, and of the state of things which it is
proposed to reform.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Hunt has stated his views with a certain literary grace that is
pleasant to find: he has taken his own part with a great vigour and
has said trenchant things with a refreshing incisiveness.” Ford Madox
Hueffer.
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1290. D. 9, ’05. 1390w.
“He has indeed a fine gift of narrative, and though he takes his time
about telling his stories, and the reader of these two substantial
volumes will do well to take his, no one who has begun to listen to
him is likely to ask him to stop.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 22. Ja. 6. 2460w.
“The book is absorbing because it gives with minute particularity the
reminiscences of a man who was born in 1827, began to paint at an
early age, has been painting ever since, and, throughout his long
career, has been a man of original ideas and of interesting
friendships.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 275. F. ’06. 1420w.
“Taking the book as a whole, it seems, despite its prolixity,
curiously incomplete. As a history of a movement in art it is a
failure.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
– =Critic.= 48: 529. Je. ’06. 2090w.
“Holman-Hunt tells his story well, in a style more earnest than
lively, and with a memory for detail that is truly marvellous.” Edith
Kellogg Dunton.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 113. F. 16, ’06. 2590w.
+ – =Edinburgh R.= 203: 450. Ap. ’06. 9790w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 572. Mr. 8, ’06. 870w.
“About that important phase in the history of art the ‘Pre-Raphaelite
brotherhood,’ no one living can speak with more authority than Holman
Hunt, but he was too closely associated with the movement to be an
impartial historian of it.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Probably few of his readers, at this late day, will fully endorse his
opinions, but his utterances will no doubt be read with the deference
due to the long experience and great achievements of so accomplished a
veteran.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 370. F. ’06. 630w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 315. Mr. 3, ’06. 680w.
“He was, therefore, the man of all others best fitted to tell the
story of their prime, and this book of his, though we could wish that
some passages in it were less bitter deserves to be read with
attention and reverence. We hope that an index will be added to the
next edition.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 4: 425. D. 8, ’05. 2330w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 200w.
“But what much interferes with the value of the work and the pleasure
of the reader is, that Holman Hunt ... is entirely preoccupied with a
contention and a grievance.”
– + =Nation.= 82: 263. Mr. 29, ’06. 1830w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 283. Ap. 5, ’06. 2650w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ’05. 150w.
“Altogether, Mr. Hunt’s book, valuable as it is with its interesting
anecdotes of the most interesting set of men England produced in the
middle of the last century, does not change the verdict of art-history
as to the inception and influence of Pre-Raphaelitism in the wider
sense.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 157. Mr. 17, ’06. 1560w.
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 810. Ag. 4, ’06. 1610w.
“It is really a history of the art-development in England for half a
century, with much that is of fascinating interest in the way of
biographical, reminiscent, and travel significance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 170w.
“A very interesting book.” D. S. MacColl.
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 102. Ja. 27, ’06. 2010w.
“Singleness of aim and determination of purpose everywhere
characterise the story of the life recorded.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 499. Mr. 31, ’06. 2300w.
=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane.= Political history of
England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
“Mr. Adams has written an admirable work; scientific—we need hardly
say—inclining a little to the bald (in the modern manner) in his
statement of events; but always clear, trenchant and forcible in his
brief expositions of the results and tendencies of events.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1270. D. 2, ’05. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Brodrick gloried in a style which hung about him like the folds
of a Roman toga, and on one subject he cultivated prejudices of a
quite passionate kind. He hated Ireland. With that single exception,
he possessed, the judicial mind, and a type of mental patience which
admirably qualified him for the kind of summary work which is required
in these volumes.”
+ + – =Acad.= 71: 226. S. 8, ’06. 680w. (Review of v. 11.)
“He has showed commendable zeal in research and in the use of
secondary authorities, and his account is for the most part accurate.
It is not industry nor honesty that he lacks; it is breadth of mind,
it is capacity to see both sides of a question, it is an ability to
put aside national prejudices.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 382. Ja. ’06. 1390w. (Review of v. 10.)
“Misprints are uncommon. It must be confessed that the whole book is
without literary grace or adornment, but serious and even pedestrian
as the style is, it is neither dry nor repellant. His book is informed
with a large-minded, conscientious desire to see the past as it
actually was and to represent it truthfully to men of his own day.”
Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 639. Ap. ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the institutional side Dr. Hodgkin’s work shows very little
independent research.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 114. O. ’06. 1430w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It covers the field thoroughly, its writer’s views of controverted
questions are unusually sound, his judgment is excellent, his temper
almost ideal.” Ralph C. H. Catterall.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12:139. O. ’06. 1500w. (Review of v. 11.)
“It is scholarly, clear and interesting. It is rather a sense of
regret that such an inadequate plan has been adopted for this
important series, and that so little that is new, stimulating or broad
is disclosed in this, the earliest volume to appear.” E. P. Cheyney.
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 179. Mr. ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 10.)
“It [the whole series] is certainly not an epoch-making work, it is
certainly not a pioneer into new paths, it gives no new outlook into
English history or new synthesis of its elements; but it is full,
clear, scholarly, moderate, and useful.” Edward P. Cheyney.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 189. Jl. ’06. 1270w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“In the author’s treatment of his theme the most prominent feature is
his sobriety of style—a sobriety which, it must be confessed, imparts
a certain dullness. He possesses, however, the merit of a sane and
broad outlook.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 825. D. 16. 1210w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is perhaps the first time that the history of the United Kingdom
during the years 1801–37 has been thoroughly well told in a single
volume.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 64. Jl. 21. 1570w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Dr. Adams deals intelligently with his sources; he steers a safe
course between undue scepticism and undue credulity. Dr. Hunt is
perhaps somewhat less than fair to the Whigs.” Edward Fuller.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 286. My. ’06. 1100w (Review of v. 2 and 10.)
“The authors evince a freedom from that spirit of bigotry and the
denomination of prejudices and prepossessions, which, too often, have
rendered non-Catholic contributions to English history confirmation of
the saying that ‘history is a conspiracy against the truth.’”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 115. Ap. ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It is the work of an industrious, conscientious. erudite compiler,
rather than of an original historian.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 400. Je. ’06. 610w. (Review of v. 10.)
“Of the volumes thus far published that of Adams in the Hunt series
covers somewhat less ground than that of Davis, but as in the main
they treat of the same period, they are convenient for purposes of
comparison. Hunt has made some slight excursions into this unexplored
realm, but the chief merit of his work consists not in the new
material brought to light, but in his courage in speaking the truth,
both about the victors and the vanquished in the contest leading up to
the independence of the United States.” George L. Beer.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 450. My. ’06. 2210w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10.)
“Taken as a whole, the work of Professor Adams covers a difficult
period of English history with a combination of unity and depth that
neither Sir James Ramsay nor Miss Norgate has completely attained.”
St. George D. Sioussat.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 122. F. 16, ’06. 2140w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10.)
“This richness of suggestion and allusion seems to be the element of
greatest originality in Mr. Hodgkin’s volume, which is in no sense a
rival of the works of Seebohm, Maitland, or Vinagradoff.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Hunt’s lucid and orderly narrative is of none the less value
because his conclusions have been inevitably, for the most part,
anticipated. A modest protest may be allowed against the period of
time chosen for this volume. The strong qualities of Dr. Hunt as an
historian are conspicuously manifest in the chapters relating to the
American war of independence.” Hugh E. Egerton.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 173. Ja. ’06. 860w. (Review of v. 10.)
“It is well-proportioned and with trifling exceptions, accurate
narrative, incorporating without unduly obtruding the chief results of
the minute investigation to which the Norman and Angevin periods have
of late years been subjected. Its treatment of controversial subjects
is marked by caution and judicial candour. Yet it cannot honestly be
said that the book is very readable.” J. Tait.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 566. Jl. ’06. 740w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Dr. Hodgkin has made the best of a not very favourable situation, and
given us a book distinguished by all the engaging qualities that have
procured so extensive an audience for his earlier works.” Gaillard
Thomas Lapsley.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 755. O. ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1.)
“With American social and economic conditions of the Revolutionary era
Mr. Hunt displays but a poor acquaintance.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 984. Ap. 26, ’06. 1230w. (Review of v. 1–3 and 10.)
“Working within his limitations Dr. Brodrick achieved success.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 470w. (Review of v. 11.)
“The editors would have been wiser if they had permitted the writer of
the volume to deal with matters outside the general scope of their
series. Uniformity of scheme is uniformly mischievous in all such
cases. We have laid stress on this weakness of the book, because it
seems to us fundamental.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 50. F. 16, ’06. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Of political organization he tells us surprisingly little. Dr.
Hodgkin has performed so well what he endeavored to perform that we
hardly ought to complain of his not having done something else.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 253. Jl. 20, ’06. 3590w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 930w. (Review of v. 4.)
“All deductions made, however, (v. 1.) is well written and up to the
standard of the series. This habit of superficial generalization is
the great drawback to Professor Adams’s work, and becomes at times
quite irritating to the careful reader. Professor Tout’s volume ... is
excellent in every respect. The style is direct, the scholarship
sound, the judgment sane.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 306. Ap. 12, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1, 2 and
3.)
+ + =Nation.= 83: 372. N. 1, ’06. 1620w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Dr. Hunt makes some errors of fact, but it is his general attitude
that lays him open to criticism. He should not have attempted a task
that called so conspicuously for unprejudiced treatment.” Robert
Livingston Schuyler.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 924. D. 30, ’05. 2670w. (Review of v. 2, 3,
and 10.)
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 535. S. 1, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Mr. Adams, it is satisfactory to find, has acquitted himself
creditably both in narration and exposition. It is in dealing with
matters of foreign policy that Mr. Tout is weak, and more particularly
in discussing the Welsh and Scottish wars. Dr. Hunt’s presentation
makes too great a demand not only on the caution but on the patience
of the student. On the other hand, his volume, like those of Mr. Adams
and Mr. Tout, contains a great mass of important, well-digested, and
well-arranged information not usually found in general histories.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 38. My. 3, ’06. 1470w. (Review of v. 2, 3 and 10)
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 45. S. 1, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 11.)
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 238. S. 22, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
Reviewed by Herbert L. Osgood.
+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 350. Je. ’06. 750w. (Review of v. 10.)
“Is a discriminating, accurate and for the most part rigidly objective
piece of work. With a sound sense of values, the author has weighed
and marshalled the conclusions of many scholars in his field; he has
shown the mature judgment of an independent worker in the
consideration of his materials; and, despite hampering and artificial
chronological limitations, has presented the whole in a clear and
measured fashion.” Charles A. Beard.
+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 531. S. ’06. 1730w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Dr. Hodgkin’s narrative is readable, accurate and well proportioned.”
Charles A. Beard.
+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 699. D. ’06. 760w. (Review of v. 1.)
“While we fully acknowledge the care and industry with which the work
has been compiled, it is impossible to describe it as a great book.
The original authorities have been so much in the mind of the writer
that he has tended to adopt their methods, and, in consequence, his
work is somewhat dry and annalistic.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 142. F. 3, ’06. 1440w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Hunt has a wide knowledge of his subject. He is a judicious
critic and never hesitates to give his own views, but at the same time
he does not adopt the futile plan of judging the politics of the
period which he is describing from the standpoint of to-day.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 207. F. 17, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 10.)
“At every step we find him practising the art of selection and
rejection. But it is an art which he pursues according to rules of his
own making.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 400. Mr. 31, ’06. 990w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We believe—and this is very high praise—that this volume is the best
that Professor Tout has written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 464. Ap. 14, ’06. 510w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 679. D. 1, ’06. 1150w. (Review of v. 4.)
“An extremely conscientious and careful volume, which will add much to
the considerable reputation of its author.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 639. Ap. 28, ’06. 2080w. (Review of v. 2.)
“We can heartily recommend the work as the most full and succinct
narrative of our early history with which we are acquainted.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 64. Jl. 14, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There are no purple, or even very brilliant, passages in the book,
much less new and startling theories of political and social
incidents.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 11.)
+ + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1219. N. ’06. 450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Huntington, William Reed.= Good Shepherd and other sermons. *$1.25.
Whittaker.
Twenty-five sermons by the rector of Grace church, New York, which
will interest all church-men. They are published under such headings
as: The wilderness a school of character; A day’s journey away from
Christ; Priesthood in the light of the transfiguration; The search
after reality; Facing inevitable change; The contemporary Christ: The
heavenly friend; The eagle and the stars; The Afro-American; The
wickedness of war; and “Inter-church,” or Intra-church,—which?
* * * * *
+ =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.
=Hussey, Eyre.= Girl of resource. †$1.50. Longmans.
A story of “commonplace modern life,” with a heroine who has the habit
of inflicting quotations and long harangues on any listener, who
enacts scenes from “Sanford and Merton,” and who is “gifted with a
keen appreciation of the humorous.”
* * * * *
“The reader may find it hard to smile as often as is expected of him.
The fun is from the first to the last a little forced, yet always
abounding.”
– – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 238. S. 1. 70w.
“We suppose we must be sadly dense to find her the very paragon of
bores, but such she certainly appears upon these amazing pages. And
yet the writer has facility, and he knows his compendium.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 513. Ag. 18, ’06. 500w.
“The book is not quite equal to ‘Miss Badsworth, M. F. H.’ in which
the author exploited an original idea; but it is agreeable, and would
be even more so had it been a little shorter.”
– + =Spec.= 97: 135. Jl. 28, ’06. 160w.
=Hutchinson, Horatio Gordon=, ed. Big game shooting. 2v. *$7.50.
Scribner.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 167. F. 10. 1130w.
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 12. Ja. 12, ’06. 1720w.
=Hutten, Baroness von.= Pam decides; il. by B. Martin Justice. †$1.50.
Dodd.
“In this sequel to ‘Pam’ we find her twenty-seven years old, on the
third floor of a Bloomsbury boarding house, and the author of
twenty-two novels, written since we saw her last.... The title of the
novel, ‘Pam decides,’ indicates that the readers of ‘Pam’ will be
relieved from the strain that has been on their minds for over a year,
for the most experienced novel reader could not anticipate the
decision of this most capricious of women. We have seldom had a
heroine on our hands, an attractive heroine, eligible in every way,
who gave us so much trouble to marry off, and we are so relieved to
have the matter settled in the last few pages of this volume that we
do not care to question whether her choice was the wisest she might
have made.”—Ind.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 479. My. 19, ’06. 330w.
“The edge of observation seems less keen, the vitality of the picture
not so high either in the heroine herself or in the surrounding
figures.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 694. Je. 9. 250w.
“It is really not a sequel at all in the ordinary sense, but a new
story—and a strong, well-rounded story too, even better than ‘Pam,’ in
some respects.” Frederick Taber Cooper
+ =Bookm.= 23: 541. Jl. ’06. 270w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1165. My. 17, ’06. 260w
“The book is clever and modern.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 660w.
=Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.
“It exhibits a firmer touch, a more intimate knowledge of human
character than ‘Pam.’”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 21. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
The first city described is “Fuentarabia, with her narrow streets and
music and white-dressed women. Then comes San Sebastian ...
Valladolid, Salamanca, with its university and old monks; Zamora, with
its decayed Romanesque buildings ... Avila, with her old men and
infinite silence and beautiful cathedral; and so on and on to the
grave of Torquemada, to Segovia, to the anomalous city of old and new
Castile, where the author lingers long at the Prado gallery, and
discusses with loving sympathy, with knowledge and with critical
perception the masters of the old Spanish schools.... And then on and
on again through Toledo ... through the home of Cervantes, Seville,
Cadiz, and then across the sea to Morocco and back again to Granada.
Nor are Murcia, Alicante, and Valencia forgotten. Tarragona and
Barcelona receive their portion of the tourist’s impressions.” (N. Y.
Times.) There are twenty-four illustrations in color by A. Wallace
Rimington, and twenty other illustrations.
* * * * *
“At its best Mr. Hutton’s style is verbose, artificial, and
over-charged with colour; at its worst ... it is to us intolerable in
its violence and exaggeration.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 183. Ag. 18. 940w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1309. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
“This book is neither good nor bad.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 276. Ag. 10, ’06. 1040w.
“Series of impressions charming in sympathy and intimacy, satisfactory
to those who would acquire knowledge through emotions rather than
through erudition. For all genuine lovers of Spain, Mr. Hutton’s
volume renders stale, flat, and unprofitable the most comprehensive
guide books crammed with their lore of statistics and their vague
attempts to impart practical information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 530. S. 1, ’06. 800w.
“Interestingly written and beautifully illustrated.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 769 Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.
“It is all felt, there is not a dry word in it; thought comes into it
musically, in cadences perhaps at times a little languid, but
persuasively, with an engaging frankness.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 269. S. 1, ’06. 1210w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Umbria. *$2. Dutton.
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 113. Ap. ’06. 380w.
“Taking both matter and manner into consideration, Mr. Hutton’s book
is perhaps the most exhaustive and attractive of the long list of
Umbrian books of the past year.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 199. Mr. 16, ’06. 270w.
“So much of his narrative is plainly imaginary, and the commonest
things are so distorted in his unreal fashions of speech, that it is
often hard to know what he would have us take for fancy and what for
fact.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 107. Ag. 2, ’06. 440w.
“It is sympathetic and appreciative in tone.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 40w.
“We applaud delightedly on one page, and our equanimity is sorely
tried on the next. Still it is the work of a genuine devotee of Italy,
shedding much light as he goes, and if it needs to be studied
critically it at least merits to be read lovingly.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 100: 786. D. 16, ’05. 540w.
=Hutton, Richard Holt.= Brief literary criticisms. $1.50. Macmillan.
A volume of literary essays collected by Elizabeth M. Roscoe from Mr.
Hutton’s contributions to the Spectator. The author “was a journalist
in his attitude rather than in the manner of his work, for many of
these short essays are stamped with genuine literary quality. He is at
his best in dealing with such subjects as Wordsworth, Cardinal Newman,
Carlyle and Arnold, and his best means keen criticism, sympathetic
interpretation, and an eminently readable style.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 70: 223. Mr. 10, ’06. 1780w.
“We have already hinted that Miss Roscoe’s editorial work has been
well done; but these essays should not have been issued without an
index, and one regrets that undue reverence for her author has
restrained her from occasionally emending his text.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 416. Ap. 7. 530w.
“These additional gleanings from the late R. H. Hutton’s contributions
to the ‘Spectator’ are excellent specimens of the reviewer’s art, with
the exception of a few slight crudities of style and thought
inseparable from the nature of such work.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 222. Jl. 26, ’06. 280w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 565. Ap. 14, ’06. 1120w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 249. S. 20, ’06. 330w.
“One cannot say that the volume contains anything like a body of
critical doctrine. But one can say that it contains a great deal of
stimulating and suggestive discourse.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 220. Ap. 7, ’06. 1010w.
“This selection covers a wide range, and brings out the diversity of
Mr. Hutton’s gifts, the breadth of his sympathies, and the ease and
clearness of his style.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 160w.
“Carefully chosen and edited.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 340. Mr. 17, ’06. 30w.
=Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17. ’06. 260w.
=Hutton, Rev. William Holden.= Burford papers: being letters from Samuel
Crisp to his sister at Burford: and other studies of a century,
(1745–1845.). *$2.50. Dutton.
“A number of letters which passed from ‘Daddy’ Crisp, the friend of
Fanny Burney, to his sister, Mrs. Gast, who lived in Burford in the
house now occupied by Hutton himself. The letters contain nothing very
striking and add but little to our own sum of knowledge of Fanny
Burney, Johnson, Mrs. Thrale or other famous people of the day.... But
they were well worth preserving for the charm of their kindliness and
humour, and the picture of the life of the times which they
exhibit.... For the rest, Mr. Hutton’s essays are very largely
concerned with the literary history of the Cotswolds and the
neighborhood—small beer most of it, but refreshing and pleasant. He
writes of Shenstone, of Richard Jago ... and other minor poets; and
winds up with an able study of George Crabbe, a poet whom he
understands and knows better than most.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Lovers of the Cotswolds and the district cannot do without this book,
and other people will find it agreeable reading.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1207. N. 18, ’05. 300w.
“The author has fished in the backwaters of eighteenth-century life
and thought in England, and he gives us here the results—not very
grand, perhaps, but novel and, in their quiet way, most attractive—of
his pleasant labour.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 443. Ap. 14. 3620w.
“Mr. Hutton is a true lover of his period, and as such is sure to give
enjoyment.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 4. Ja. 5, ’06. 1470w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 122. Ag. 9, ’06. 1420w.
“To readers who have the habit of memoirs and ‘ana’ these hitherto
unpublished letters will be a distinct and valuable find.” M. S.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 429. Jl. 7, ’06. 1190w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 80w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Ja. ’06. 110w.
“It may be said that the part would have been greater than the whole.
There are certain chapters of the book which we could easily have
spared.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 385. Mr. 10, ’06. 1320w.
=Hutton, Rev. William Holden.= Church and the barbarians; being an
outline of the history of the church from A. D. 461 to A. D. 1003. *$1.
Macmillan.
Within the compass of ten hundred pages the author has essayed to
write “from the point of view of one who believes that the church is
charged with the duty of preserving and defending a ‘deposit of
faith,’ and who assumes that heresy is error and orthodoxy truth.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Hutton is overwhelmed by the multiplicity of his facts, and one
feels in reading his pages that one is examining a skeleton, not
following the development of an organism. The ecclesiastical bias of
the writer is somewhat too evident.”
– =Nation.= 83: 120. Ag. 9, ’06. 230w.
=Outlook.= 83: 578. Jl. 7, ’06. 70w.
“Mr. Hutton has certainly struggled hard and has no doubt done his
best; but the result is a book which takes so much for granted that it
will be hardly intelligible to the beginner, and which goes over the
ground so rapidly that it will be of little value to the advanced
student.”
– =Sat. R.= 102: 372. S. 22, ’06. 140w.
=Hyde, A. G.= George Herbert and his times. **$2.75. Putnam.
The true George Herbert is the theme of Mr. Hyde’s biography, whose
burden is the reconciliation of the elements of a complex nature. “The
story of Herbert’s ‘spiritual conflicts’ has been told once for all in
the immortal pages of Walton’s ‘Life’; but that golden text requires
for these modern days a good deal of expansion and comment, and this
Mr. Hyde has sought to supply in the book before us. He has taken
pains to collect information about the poet’s environment. He tells
about the condition of Westminster school during Herbert’s boyhood;
about the status and duties of the oratorship which Herbert held at
Cambridge; and he writes chapters upon the church politics of the day
and on the poet’s friends and contemporaries.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Very interesting, wise and well-written book.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 390. O. 20, ’06. 1340w.
“He knows nothing about the theories of Professor Palmer, of Harvard,
as to the chronology of the poems. However, it cannot be said that
these deficiencies make much difference in a popular book. The merit
of Mr. Hyde’s volume is its readableness.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 333. O. 5, ’06. 140w.
“In coming to this theme Mr. Hyde has nothing new to add to our
knowledge of Herbert’s life or surroundings. But he has a cultivated
style, is well read in the general field, and from the common sources
has put together a thoroughly entertaining volume. The weakest part of
the book ... is that which pretends to deal with criticism.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 329. O. 18, ’06. 670w.
“An admirably sober and scholarly piece of work, in keeping with the
spirit of the man of whom it treats, and abundantly appreciative of
his achievements.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 753. N. 17, ’06. 1020w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 130w.
“Mr. Hyde has done his part very well.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 583. N. 10, ’06. 730w.
“This is in every way an interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 444. S. 29, ’06. 300w.
=Hyde, William DeWitt.= College man and the college woman. **$1.50.
Houghton.
“A book especially for “people” who are concerned, either as parents
or teachers or simply as good citizens, with college students. It
provokes sympathy with the undergraduate’s point of view; it explains
persuasively what it is in college life that makes it worth while; it
subjects the college to the tests that the man of plain mind applies
without sophistry, and shows how the college does, or ought to, meet
those tests; it puts into intelligible language the educational ideals
of the enlightened college teacher and administrator; and it states
effectively what the public attitude toward a college in a democracy
should be.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“At every point it is a book that will stimulate reflection at many
points, one that will provoke debate.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 655. Ag. ’06. 540w.
“Should be put on the open shelves of every library.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“Dr. Hyde’s book is uneven. Its parts are not well woven together.
They are somewhat disparate though not contradictory.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 221. Ap. 7, ’06. 1200w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 333. Je. 9, ’06. 330w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“Nowhere is the function and value of liberal education bettor stated
than in the first chapter, occupying less than a page.”
+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 160w.
=Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright.= Trials of Commander McTurk.
†$1.50. Dutton.
“Commander McTurk on the Retired list of the United States navy
employs himself in getting “professional experience elsewhere,” really
is struggling to regain lost prestige. His flaxen wig and his red face
“with its thousand tiny wrinkles” are at variance with his modest
claim to art. He is amusingly sketched in graphic, lively style, but
hardly illumined by the vital spark which animated his truculent
predecessor [Captain Kettle].” (Ath.)
* * * * *
=Acad.= 71: 204. S. 1, ’06. 340w.
“The principal blemish in this collection of stories is that it has
not been devised primarily for a volume, but for serial publication.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 270. S. 8. 170w.
“Catholicity of taste is a literary virtue, and readers of rigorous
health have every justification for enjoying the cumulative
absurdities of this robustious patriot.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 290. Ag. 24, ’06. 320w.
“If it were not that he once wrote a book called ‘The adventures of
Captain Kettle,’ his new work would be hailed, probably as a maker of
reputation.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 550w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Borderland of psychical research. **$1.50.
Turner, H. B.
The ground of normal and abnormal psychology is covered in this volume
in a manner to prepare the layman for the consideration of supernormal
problems, especially upon the evidential side. The author says “the
work must not be adjudged from the point of view of the trained
psychologist as an effort to help scholars, but from the standpoint of
public education as designed to do what text-books can hardly
undertake.”
* * * * *
“The discussions contained in these 400 pages and more, are long and
diffuse.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 230w.
“It treats perplexing questions conservatively, and with a view to
create an intelligent public interest in the baffling problems of
psychical research. It is a book which none should neglect who are
attracted by the recondite mystery to whose solution it looks forward
and attempts to clear the way.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 250w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Enigmas of psychical research. **$1.50. Turner,
H. B.
Professor Hyslop looks upon this volume as a supplement to his
“Science and a future life.” He goes over his whole field of the
supernormal, includes an exhaustive discussion on telepathy and
apparitions, and has added much material on crystal gazing,
coincidental dreams, clairvoyance and premonitions, with some
illustrations of mediumistic phenomena.
* * * * *
“The work is a worthy companion volume to ‘Science and a future
life.’”
+ =Arena.= 36: 215. Ag. ’06. 1000w.
“Almost all his evidence had long ago been laid before the curious.
The book has no index.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 800. Je. 30. 600w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 98: 425. S. ’06. 100w.
“It is to be held fortunate that an exponent of a faith that makes
slight appeal to those who stand with the reviewer should find a
spokesman who in general has so capable a comprehension of the
philosophical implications of his enigmas.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 498. Ag. 30, ’06. 1080w.
“He is careful to preserve an attitude of caution, the attitude, in
short, of the trained investigator who feels that the end is not yet
in sight.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 807. My. 26, ’06. 650w.
=Nation.= 82: 428. My. 24, ’06. 100w.
“Judging Dr. Hyslop’s book as a whole, it is carefully conservative
and will appeal to many persons who would be offended by a mere
theoretical treatment.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 604. My. 12, ’06. 950w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 120w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Problems of philosophy; or, Principles of
epistemology and metaphysics. *$5. Macmillan.
“In thirteen chapters Dr. Hyslop discusses, first introductory
questions (chapters 1 and 2), then (chapters 3–8) the problems of the
theory of knowledge, thereafter (chapters 9–12) metaphysical theories,
with special reference to ‘materialism’ and ‘spiritualism’; and
finally, (chapter 13) he sums up his results in a general discussion
of the office, the duties, the prospects, and the ethical significance
of philosophy. This final chapter, very readable by itself, even apart
from the rest of the book, is probably the one which the student of
social and of ethical problems will find the most interesting.”—Int.
J. Ethics.
* * * * *
“Professor Hyslop’s style is vigorous and clear. The book will afford
valuable collateral readings in philosophical courses, and even where
instruction takes issue with it, it should prove a healthy foil. In
certain ranges, as the discussion of materialism and spiritualism, it
occupies unique territory.” H. B. Alexander.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 526. Ja. ’06. 330w.
“The questions discussed are fundamental ones. The spirit is that of
an unassuming, modest, but extremely patient, minute, and laborious
inquirer, who spares neither his own pains, nor, upon some occasions,
his reader’s powers of attention. This book has everywhere an
admirable individuality and an unconventionality of procedure which
are obvious and wholesome, even when the views themselves which are
defended, appear to be less original, or even when, to the present
reviewer’s mind, they are least valuable as results. Dr. Hyslop’s
English is often unnecessarily hard to follow, not by reason of mere
technicalities, but by reason of imperfectly constructed sentences.”
Josiah Royce.
+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 236. Ja. ’06. 2320w.
“It is a book which a hostile or wearied critic would have ample
excuse for condemning utterly.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 329. Ap. 19, ’06. 520w.
“It will not fully commend itself to philosophic thinkers in general.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 572. N. 4, ’05. 830w.
“The most radical criticism of the book would be to deny the
possibility of making any such ultimate distinction as is here made
between the theory of knowing and the theory of being.” H. N.
Gardiner.
+ – =Philos. R.= 15: 312. My. ’06. 2400w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H.
B.
“Issue must, however be squarely taken with Dr. Hyslop when he denies
the ability of philosophers to do anything in this field.” Frederick
Tracy.
+ – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 170. Ja. ’06. 530w.
“We wish that he carried more of his logic into his ‘metapsychics,’
and that he expressed himself with more clearness and grace.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 697. D. 1. 1460w.
I
=Ibsen, Henrik.= Letters of Henrik Ibsen; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik and
Mary Morrison. **$2.50. Fox.
Inasmuch as a familiarity with Ibsen’s work is necessary to a full
understanding of the content of his letters, this volume will appeal
most strongly to Ibsen students. The letters show the mental habits
and methods of the great writer; and particularly self-revealing are
those written to Bjornson in which “Brand” may be followed from its
inception; and others to Councillor Hegel, Ibsen’s publisher,
concerning “Peer Gynt”; still others to Hans Christian Andersen,
William Archer, Edmund Gosse, Grieg, and King Charles of Sweden,
covering a correspondence of half a century.
* * * * *
“The valuable features of the letters is the light they throw upon the
character and personality of their writer.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1249. D. 2, ’05. 1980w.
“One great charm of the letters is that they were written without any
thought whatever of publication.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 280. Mr. ’06. 1290w.
“These letters have the stamp of absolute sincerity, and reveal one of
the most impressive personalities of our time.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 429. D. 16, ’05. 2960w.
“Out of a volume of nearly five hundred pages only a small part is of
value, and that is imbedded in mere letter conversation.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 164. Ja. 18, ’06. 790w.
“For correspondence he had no great turn. Amid the clutter of his
pages, however, it is still possible to trace the main outlines of his
own character and to some extent the history and spread of his ideas.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 48. Ja. 13, ’06. 1780w.
“This collection of Ibsen’s letters is offered to us as a substitute
for an autobiography which he once intended to write, but has not
written; and the substitution is not entirely satisfactory. The
autobiography would have been a piece of literature; the letters are
nothing of the kind.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 430. D. 8, ’05. 1530w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 416. My. 25, ’05. 570w.
“The translation is very smooth and readable, but un-Ibsenish, as is
particularly noticeable in the first half of the work. While the
proofreading is on the whole satisfactory, certain mistakes should not
have occurred in a book of this kind.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 243. Mr. 22, ’06. 2710w.
“The letters are carefully edited, and the introduction is full of
meat.” James Huneker.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 1. Ja. 6, ’06. 1700w.
“It is difficult to overstate the interest of this collection of
Ibsen’s letters. They cover a great variety of subjects, and thus give
us a sort of index to Ibsen’s inner life.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 321. F. 10, ’06. 1910w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 117. Ja. ’06. 250w.
“When the topics are fairly attractive, the correspondence is not
dull, although the writer had no great individuality of epistolary
style, and his thoughts, as Polonius would have said, are ‘not
expressed in fancy.’”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 874. Je. 2, ’06. 700w.
=Iles, George.= Inventors at work; with chapters on discovery. **$2.50.
Doubleday.
The world, too ready to accept the results of the workings of clever
minds, here has full opportunity to take a near-by view of the
processes which lead to many of the great inventions. Mr. Iles tells
of Bessemer’s great triumph in perfecting his process for steel
making, tells of the production of dynamite by Nobel, the transmission
of speech along a beam of light by Bell, of the incandescent gas
mantle by Von Welsbach, of Edison’s electrical achievements, and
numerous other scientific achievements. The volume is copiously
illustrated.
* * * * *
“One is struck with three qualities not by any means over-common in
works of popular science; first, thoroughness and completeness of
knowledge; secondly, clearness of exposition and regard for the
demands of the nontechnical reader; third, a broad comprehensive view
of the relations of science and invention as evolutions of
civilization.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 84: 678. N. 17, ’06. 170w.
In the house of her friends. $1.50. Cooke.
A story by an anonymous writer which “gives us a singularly intimate
view of what we think must be a unique element in American college
life. It presents the life of the small college from the standpoint,
not of the student, nor of the professor, nor of the graduate, nor of
the outsider, but of the Faculty family that has lived all its days on
the college campus.” (Bookm.) “The plot is simple, the incidents those
of the narrow round of life in a small college, the theme the
old-fashioned one of love, but the book is saturated with life.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The lover of literature will find pleasure in this leisurely writing,
so different from much of our day.” Edward E. Hale, jr.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 632. Ag. ’06. 640w.
“Whatever its defects, ‘In the house of her friends’ is not only a
book of unusual promise but an unusual achievement. The author has the
power to make character seen and felt in the community in which it
moves, to invest it with atmosphere.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 814. Ag. 1, ’06. 410w.
“The story has a most attractive lucidity. You see the characters as
you see a landscape in mountain air.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 226. N. ’06. 290w.
=Indiana state teacher’s association.= In honor of James Whitcomb Riley.
50c. Bobbs.
A group of addresses, in honor of Mr. Riley, made by prominent men at
a special meeting of the Indiana State teachers’ association.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 140w.
“There is no lack of generous estimation of Riley’s poetic power and
genius in the little volume printed in his honor, but through all that
is said runs the strain of affection and hearty friendship, making
altogether a tribute not easily matched in literary annals.” Bliss
Carman.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 390. Je. 16, ’06. 1530w.
=Inge, Rev. William Ralph.= Studies of English mystics: St. Margaret
lectures 1905. *$2. Dutton.
“In the spirit of reasonableness in which they write, the best English
mystics of all ages resemble one another. The note of temperateness
persists amid the vicissitudes of creed. This is seen very clearly in
the works of the writers that form the subject of Dr. Inge’s
suggestive studies. Lady Julian, an anchoress of Norwich, and Walter
Hylton, Canon of Thurgarton, represent the mystical side of that
English renaissance of the fourteenth century which is illustrated by
Langland, Wiclif and Chaucer; William Law is the greatest mystical
divine of the age of Pope and Addison; Wordsworth is the poet of the
philosophical mysticism of the Romantic period. Dr. Inge also includes
Robert Browning as a representative English mystic.”—Acad.
* * * * *
=Acad.= 70: 397. Ap. 28, ’06. 1420w.
“Whatever we may think of Dr. Inge’s own conclusions, let us say
distinctly that his analysis of these various writers is always lucid,
tends to understanding and illumination.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 34. Jl. 14. 1530w.
“Dr. Inge treats his subject with sympathy rather than with
enthusiasm.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 217. Jl. 26, ’06. 390w.
“If we are to give a personal impression ... Dr. Inge’s treatment of
the earlier mystics has something indistinct and hesitating about it.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 225. Je. 22, ’06. 710w.
“There is much in these six lectures on English mystics that is
interesting; but the book lacks continuity and coherence.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83. 288. Je. 2, ’06. 160w.
“When we took up Dr. Inge’s book we found it hard to lay it down. This
is partly due to his beautiful English, which makes every page a
delight to read. But it is not only that: he has chosen a subject
about which he knows a good deal and other people know very little,
and which is in itself intensely attractive.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 699. Je. 2, ’06. 180w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Island in the air. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“It is really full of information and of the spirit of the pioneer.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 50w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Life of animals: the mammals. **$2. Macmillan.
This is a book upon the mode of life, the history and relationships of
the most familiar and important class of animals, the mammals—covering
as the name signifies all animals that feed their young upon milk. It
is a carefully classified study, fully illustrated, with colored
plates, reproductions of photographs and drawings.
* * * * *
“Is worthy of being classed with the best of recent scientific
writings, in popular form.”
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 654. Ag. ’06. 220w.
“It contains just the information about living and extinct species of
mammals especially those most familiar, which the general
non-zoölogical reader demands.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
“An interesting feature of the volume is the large number of
well-selected quotations which give from leading authorities
first-hand information concerning many animals.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w.
“The biographies, even when very brief, are graphic and stimulatingly
suggestive of deeper research.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 270w.
“It is the best of its class that has appeared up to the present
time.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 256. N. ’06. 90w.
“When Mr. Ingersoll writes about animals he has few superiors in clear
graphic description.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 60w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Wit of the wild. **$1.20. Dodd.
Mr. Ingersoll’s book “consists of a series of short articles on the
characteristics and habits of mammals, birds and insects, written in
various styles because they were originally written for various
periodicals, but all interesting and reliable. The book may be
regarded as a popular postscript to his excellent work on ‘The life of
mammals,’ published last year, and is particularly adapted for school
and popular libraries.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Interesting comparisons with man’s ways are the most unique feature
of the book.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
“Mr. Ingersoll can popularize without misrepresenting, and his
chapters on some of the facts and factors of evolution are
comprehensible to anyone, and yet so carefully worded that the most
rigid scientist could not find fault with them.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1056. N. 1, ’06. 200w.
“Among naturalists, Mr. Ingersoll has a place somewhat apart, not so
much for the breadth and minuteness of his knowledge as for a certain
closeness of sympathy and youthfulness of enthusiasm which are
infectious.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 240w.
“He is an honest and faithful naturalist, and does not let romance run
away with fact.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 70w.
=Innes, Arthur Donald.= England under the Tudors. *$3 Putnam.
“It is obvious at a glance that the present work possesses a number of
admirable qualities. In the first place the proportions are excellent.
It is totally free from theological bias: it is eminently fair-minded
and just in its conception of the important characters of the period.
A closer examination, however, reveals a wide discrepancy in
knowledge, treatment, and expression between the first part of the
book and the second. A number of minor errors and inaccuracies reveal
his inadequate acquaintance with the recent literature of this period
and his style, in the first part of his book, lacks precision and
definiteness. But the gravest defect of all is the author’s ignorance
of continental affairs from 1485 to the accession of Elizabeth.” Roger
Bigelow Merriman.
* * * * *
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 648. Ap. ’06. 760w.
“In every respect, except in its literary style, it is far superior to
... Mr. Trevelyan’s ‘England under the Stuarts.’” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 288. My. ’06. 440w.
“Innes wisely discarded the stiff chronological method and the purely
narrative style, and adopted a judicious combination of narration and
description.” George L. Beer.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 451. My. ’06. 120w.
“He gives ... everything that the student wants by way of reference.
The narrative itself is written with great judgment and full grasp of
the subject. Moreover it is eminently readable.” James Gairdner.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 372. Ap. ’06. 1410w.
“The product of honest labor over authentic materials, well pondered
and fused, with no little literary skill.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 801. Ap. 5, ’06. 650w.
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
“It may appear invidious to institute a comparison between two books
each of which is admirable in design and workmanship, but, while Mr.
Innes’s volume is quite adequate to the purposes of the series, we
have found it somewhat less carefully wrought than Mr. Davis’s account
of English life under the Normans and Angevins.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 263. Mr 29, ’06. 590w.
“A serious, sincere, direct, and graphic narrative in which Tudor
England stands revealed in all its strength, its weakness, and its
possibilities.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 40. My. 3, ’06. 530w.
“A decidedly spirited and well-balanced account of the period of the
Tudors.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 318. Je. ’06. 770w.
“Mr. Innes’s is eminently a workmanlike contribution, with almost a
severe air of business about it from first to last. The writing is
perhaps a little dry and stiff, for Mr. Innes does not let himself get
out of hand.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 271. Mr. 3, ’06. 1530w.
=Ireland, Alleyne.= Far Eastern tropics: studies in the administration
of tropical dependencies. **$2. Houghton.
“The humor of the side remarks, the clearness and vigor of the
statements, the excision of extraneous matter will make the volume
popular as well as useful.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 724. N. ’05. 760w.
=Irving, Edward.= How to know the starry heavens: an invitation to the
study of suns and worlds. **$2. Stokes.
“While it contains a large amount of real information, we fear that
the matrix is so bulky that the reader to whom the book is intended to
appeal will find great difficulty in discovering and assimilating the
real facts.”
+ – =Nature.= 73: 196. D. 28, ’05. 180w.
=Irving, Washington.= Selected works. $2.50. Crowell.
+ =Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 80w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 80w.
=Irving, Washington.= Rip Van Winkle. **$5. Doubleday.
“As a book we do not think that this edition of ‘Rip Van Winkle’ is
altogether satisfactory, the illustrations being too much dissociated
from the letterpress both in the style of printing and the general
presentment of the work; but as an album of pictures by a great
artist, it is every way commendable, and can but add to the artist’s
well-deserved reputation.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“It is not often that works of such high merit as these illustrations
are produced.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 1010. Je. 30, ’06. 240w.
=Irving, Washington.= Sketch-book. 20c. Univ. pub.
Volume sixty-two of the “Standard literature series,” contains the
Sketch-book with introduction, suggestions for critical reading and
notes as edited by Edward E. Hale, jr. The volume is divided into two
parts: Part 1, Stories; Part 2, Essays, and is designed primarily for
school use.
* * * * *
=School R.= 14: 283. Mr. ’06. 20w.
=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Chinatown ballads. $1.25. Duffield.
Seven “rhymed memories” of Chinatown. While there is here and there
reflected a human strain. “He’s a Chinaman still in ’is yeller heart.”
* * * * *
“Humor is still the predominant quality, but there are touches of grim
tragedy, that, coupled with Mr. Irwin’s metrical fluency, telling
phrase and dramatizing gift, make the book one that cannot only be
read, but reread.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 692. O. 20, ’06. 320w.
“Here we have the hoodlum’s view of the Chinaman, rather cleverly
rendered in rhyme and with a good deal of fun.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 285. S. 29, ’06. 60w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 50w.
=Irwin, Will.= City that was: a requiem of old San Francisco. *50c.
Huebsch.
The author, who has “mingled the wine of her bounding life with the
wine of his youth,” has given to his obituary of old San Francisco the
Arabian nights flavor which makes the reader mourn with him the death
of that gay, light-hearted city of romance. He has re-created for him
her life that was, he has drawn the colored panorama of hill and water
front, Chinatown and “Barbary Coast,” of restaurants and clubs, or
grey mists and orange colored dawn, and he has peopled it with the
beautiful women and hospitable men who lived the “life careless” in
this alluring out-of-doors.
* * * * *
“A description so lovingly written, so full of local colored life,
that we are glad to see it published in book form.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 102. Jl. 12, ’06. 50w.
“Fine, graphic description.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 50w.
=Isham, Samuel.= History of American painting. *$5. Macmillan.
“For the student no one could be a more inspiriting or a safer guide
than Mr. Isham is, among the painters who flourished before the middle
of the nineteenth century. Mr. Isham is ... the first to write a
history of American painting on a generous scale, and with modern
research.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 278. F. ’06. 620w.
“If the present offering is manifestly lacking on the scientific side,
it is at least better printed and better illustrated than any previous
attempt in the same fruitful and absorbing direction.” Christian
Brinton.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 192. Ap. ’06. 1190w.
“This work leaves little to be desired in the way of healthful and
sound criticism of American painting, if it does leave ‘the history’
of American painting yet to be written.” Charles Henry Hart.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 86. Ag. 16, ’06. 1940w.
“In a word the book is a most notable one, marking an epoch in
American art literature.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 28: 276. My. ’06. 400w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 437. Mr. 24, ’06. 890w.
“In the lives of his painters, Mr. Isham, so far as we can judge, is
accurate, and his biographical and critical notices are interesting.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 22. Ja. 19, ’06. 750w.
“This survey of the history of American painting becomes peculiarly
readable as well as valuable because of the high lights everywhere
thrown on the narrative.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 854. Ap. 14, ’06. 1490w.
“If we may criticise the extent of the work, its intent is more than
gratifying.”
+ + – =Pub. Opin.= 39: 852. D. 30, ’05. 650w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 320w.
=Ivins, William Mills.= Soul of the people: a New year’s sermon. **60c.
Century.
A buoyant, optimistic view of man’s present possibilities in working
out his own salvation, and, in consequence, that of the nation.
“Better than is to-day has never been” strikes the keynote that Dr.
Ivins sounds out against the lethargy and incompetency which would
shift the responsibility of duty to other shoulders.
J
=Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams.= Persia past and present; a book
of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a
map. **$4. Macmillan.
Professor Jackson, the chief American authority on the Indo-Iraman
language considers Persia from one central point of view, viz., the
religion of Zoroaster, and the Magi. It gives an idea of the life of
the people and their history, and also an account of Transcaspia and
Turkestan, as the route of the author carried him on into the heart of
Asia, Mero, Bokara and Samarkand.
* * * * *
“Is the best possible guide to Persia that anyone could desire.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 84: 415. D. ’06. 210w.
“There is little of importance in the shah’s domains in the field of
scholarship and literature which Professor Jackson does not touch.”
Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
“In all, he has given us one of the most instructive and equally one
of the most interesting and unusual books of travel and research that
have appeared of late years.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 938. O. 18, ’06. 990w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 556. O. 20, ’06. 270w.
“A masterpiece of its kind. It is one of the really notable books of
the year.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“The book is not very fully indexed, but is profusely and well
illustrated, and provided with an excellent map. Some slight errors,
perhaps inseparable from so short a sojourn, are observable.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 376. N. 1, ’06. 1340w.
“Is of equal value to the student of present day politics, manners,
and customs, and to the student of history archæology, and religion.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 320w.
“This exhaustive work ... combines in a happy manner, and in no less
happy measure, the interests of the scholar with those of the
traveller.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 80w.
=Jackson, Charles Tenney.= Loser’s luck. †$1.50. Holt.
“This lively book may be described as a blend of Bret Harte and Mr.
Richard Harding Davis, and the mixture is commendable.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 17. Ja. 1, ’06. 200w.
=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= By love’s sweet rule: a story for
girls, [+]75c. Winston.
The life of a lonely girl of fourteen living with her “papa checa” and
stern Aunt Mathilda undergoes a joyous transformation when Aunt
Mathilda leaves and Margaret Drake full of youth and sunshine takes
her place.
=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Wee Winkles and Snowball. †$1.25.
Harper.
Wee Winkles, who is almost six and a half, Wideawake, who is more than
two years older, and Snowball, who is a pet pony and does not have
birthdays, are the really important characters in this story which
teaches kindness and love toward animals and describes in detail how a
pet pony should be cared for, harnessed and driven. Lest the book
should seem too instructive there are picnics and plays, Christmas
frolics and other things to hold the youthful interest.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 110w.
=Jacobs, William Wymark.= Captains all. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Jacobs makes the sayings and the doings of a certain type of
English low-life irresistibly funny in the telling.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 19. Ja. 1, ’06. 90w.
“Are thankful for it and chuckle delightedly as we read.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 112. Ja. 11, ’06. 160w.
“Each contains some new and unexpected twist of its own that makes it
irresistible, and they are all tempting morsels of good cheer.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 53. Ja. 27, ’06. 860w.
“A series of short stories in Mr. Jacob’s best vein.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=James, George Wharton.= In and out of the old missions of California:
an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions. *$3.
Little.
“An extremely valuable work. The author has given us a clear and
concise description of the different missions.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 35: 329. Mr. ’06. 850w.
“Is a thoroughly satisfying book. The author’s historical account of
the various discoveries, expeditions, and foundations is painstaking
and accurate, his defense of the padres and their methods is generous,
his love of the Indians whole-souled and his indignation at the past
and present treatment by our government passionate but just.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 835. Mr. ’06. 290w.
“The book is marred by over-much sentimental rhetoric.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“This vivid and graphic description of the California missions is
rendered particularly valuable by the presentation of several features
in connection with them which have not been touched upon by previous
writers.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 876. Ap. 12, ’06. 150w.
“His book is undoubtedly a notable addition to our historical
literature, and viewed whether as history pure and simple, as an
indictment of our Indian policy, or as a contribution to the study of
American art, will be found of distinct value.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, 06. 500w.
“In view of the writer’s evident enthusiasm, it is to be regretted
that his manner of presenting the subject has a certain quality of
dryness.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 3. Ja. 6, ’06. 440w.
“The plan followed by Mr. James is excellent.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.
“A fresh treatment of a theme about which much has been written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=James, George Wharton.= Story of Scraggles; il. from drawings by Sears
Gallagher and from photographs. †$1. Little.
Scraggle’s autobiography is a record of sweet bird life. Mr. James
befriended this little, weak, scraggly sparrow, made a pet of it, and
finally interpreted its thoughts as he set them down in his “Story.”
* * * * *
“The book is written in the fascinating style of this wizard with
words.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 684. D. ’06. 200w.
“The three stories of individual animals—‘Scraggles,’ ‘Shaggycoat,’
and ‘White Fang’—are destined for popularity, with scarcely a choice
as to which best deserves it.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
=Outlook.= 34: 534. O. 27, ’06. 70w.
=James, Henry.= English hours. *$5. Houghton.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 578. O. 28. 440w.
“Even the most hardened reviewer will get genuine pleasure from its
pages.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 44. Ja. 4, ’06. 120w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 528. D. 28, ’05. 820w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 330w.
“Reasons for liking ‘English hours’ are as plentiful as blackberries.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 336. F. ’06. 730w.
“With all respect to the critics, somehow we find Mr. James at his
best in these impressionistic sketches rather than in some of his much
more lauded novels.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“Mr. James seldom praises without some qualifying, and more than
qualifying, blame. And somehow his blame is much more pungently and
intelligibly expressed than his praise.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 933. D. 2, ’05. 250w.
=James, Henry.= Question of our speech: The lesson of Balzac; two
lectures. **$1. Houghton.
+ =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 190w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 44. Ja. 4, ’06. 1040w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 121. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Jane, Frederick T.= Heresies of sea power. *$4. Longmans.
A book which preaches the doctrine of hatred and declares “a crude
desire to kill the enemy seems ever to have been a most valuable
asset.” Part 1, contains much ancient naval history. In Part 2,
Problems that sea-power does not solve, are discussed and there are
chapters upon the guerre de course, commerce, defence, bases, secrecy
and press law, the colonies, etc. Part 3, sets forth the trend of
naval evolution as regards ships and men, and examines the qualities
which go to constitute fitness to win.
* * * * *
“A book which is interesting, but does not exactly correspond to the
promise of the title. The book has at least the merit that, whether
sound or not, it will make the sailors who may read it apply thought
to certain important points.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 698. Je. 9. 1130w.
“We have no doubt but that Mr. Jane could write a good book if he
chose, but in this case we are constrained to say that he has not
chosen to do so.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 290. Ag. 24, ’06. 810w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 447. Jl. 14, ’06. 1090w.
– – =Sat. R.= 102: 270. S. 1, ’06. 1460w.
=Janssen, Johannes.= History of the German people at the close of the
middle ages; tr. from the German by A. M. Christie, v. 7–8. *$6.25; v.
9–10, *$6.25. Herder.
Volumes seven and eight cover the period between the years 1550 and
1580, recording such events as the religious conference at Worms in
1557, the Diet of Augsburg in 1559, the Grumbach-Gotha conspiracy for
a Lutheran empire, the effects in Germany of the religious wars in
France and the Netherlands, the war against the Turks, the
establishment and progress of the Jesuits in Germany and the final
sessions and general effect of the Council of Trent. Volumes nine and
ten “cover the comparatively brief period from 1580, the year of the
proclamation of the famous Formula of Concord, to the beginning of the
Thirty years’ war—a period that included the Cologne catastrophe, the
introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the rise and fall of the
Calvinist Chancellor Krell. The four convents’ dispute, the
regrettable incident of Donauwörth and the great Julich Cleves
wrangle.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“As in the previous volumes, Dr. Janssen’s method of treating the
events just touched upon is to allow the contemporary documents and
records as far as possible to tell their own story in their own words.
The system is an excellent one in many ways. It gives a vividness, a
reality to the narrative that are invaluable. The author has too
little of the dramatic instinct which no great historian has wholly
lacked.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 834. S. 15, ’06. 1480w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
=Janvier, Margaret Thompson (Margaret Vandegrift, pseud.).= Umbrellas to
mend. $1.50. Badger.
This fantastic little story is really an airy satire in which King
Arthur, in order that he may annex a neighbor kingdom and acquire a
sufficient range to fire his birthday cannon, urges the marriage of
his daughter to the heir apparent. The princess, however, is a leader
in the Current events club and strongminded; she leaves the court and
wanders about in disguise for two years accompanied by her aunt.
Meanwhile the prince goes in search of her in the guise of an umbrella
mender, and in the end the princess accepts the prince but not the
kingdom.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 326. My. 19, ’06. 230w.
=Jastrow, Joseph.= Subconscious. **$2.50. Houghton.
“The plan upon which the volume is organized is simple and natural. An
opening series of chapters describes certain of the principles of
normal psychology which are most pertinent to the understanding of the
operations of the subconscious. This is followed by a group of
chapters upon the abnormal variants of conscious process in so far as
these are relevant to the main subject of the book and in so far as
they fall short of actual insanity. The final portion of the book is
devoted to an exposition of the theoretical deductions which the
author advances on the basis of the preceding parts of his
work.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The style is pleasant, and, save in a few passages of philosophizing,
lucid. The index is satisfactory. What we do not find satisfactory is
this: there exists a large body of evidence, confessedly well
recorded, which cannot be paid for in the currency of official
psychology, while that currency defrays the expenses of other familiar
experiences.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 482. O. 20. 1430w.
“He is always a practical westerner the teacher of college classes,
for whom the abnormal and the uncanny serve but to explain the
commonplace.” E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 425. S. ’06. 130w.
“For the psychologist the main value of the work will be in the
compendious account which it furnishes of a large and significant
group of related phenomena and its able exposition of a definite and
frank attitude toward these phenomena. This attitude may be designated
as that of impersonal empirical science. His pages are always
picturesque and interesting, but the psychologist sometimes wishes
that he would speak the language more technically. We must be
sincerely grateful for an admirable achievement in a field calling
loudly for such a piece of work.” James R. Angell.
+ =Dial.= 41: 106. S 1, ’06. 1900w.
“The book ... can hardly be accorded unreserved commendation. It is
far too diffuse and consequently far too long. And on the theoretic
side also the work is not remarkable for any great lucidity, strength,
and insight.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 310w.
“His work is a valuable contribution to the subject. Occasionally the
treatment is a little prolix.”
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 535. S. 27, ’06. 470w.
“The ‘excursions into the abnormal field’ are not only the most
interesting but the most valuable portions of his work.” L. C.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 499. Ag. 11, ’06. 650w.
“Very readable and sane book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 912. Ag. 18, ’06. 380w.
=Jaures, Jean Leon.= Studies in socialism; tr. with an introd. by
Mildred Minturn. **$1. Putnam.
“The growing strength of socialism on both continents gives even its
internal discussions of theory and tactics a general interest....
These ‘studies in socialism,’ present a well-rounded exposition of the
French leader’s views.... The four papers in the first section
‘Socialism and life,’ show us the aggressive and fundamentally
revolutionary Collectivist.... Those in the second and longer section,
entitled ‘Revolutionary evolution,’ deal with questions of Socialist
method. Some of them have now only a historical interest; others,
especially those in which the writer combats the semi-Anarchistic
ideals of the anti-Parliamentary socialists, the advocates of the
general strike, are as timely now as when they were written in
1901.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The whole making probably the best work that has appeared for general
readers in search of a brief yet thoroughly intelligible presentation
of the Socialistic philosophy.”
+ + + =Arena.= 36: 428. O. ’06. 9290w.
“The chief value of the volume lies not in the introduction named upon
the title-page, but in Mr. Macdonald’s short ‘Editorial note,’ the
five pages of which contain an interesting personal pronouncement upon
the future of the labour party in this country.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 543. My. 5. 280w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 637. S. 13, ’06. 700w.
Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 432. Jl. 7, ’06. 2390w.
“The radical defect of this volume as literature is that it is
composed of essays and addresses put forth at different times and for
different specific purposes. A common spirit animates them; a common
philosophy underlies them. But such a collection of fragments cannot
adequately give what the American student of social problems wants, a
clear and coherent statement of modern constructive socialism.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 806. Ag. 4, ’06. 710w.
“One of the greatest merits of this book is its freedom from the
intolerant spirit which even the greatest socialistic writers display
toward fellow socialists who disagree with them on matters of
practical policy.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 564. S. ’06. 200w.
– =Spec.= 97: 299. S. 1, ’06. 660w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= World’s Christmas tree. **75c. Crowell.
A plea to those who, in celebrating Christmas, remember their friends
and all those near and dear to them but forget humanity, and the one
for whom Christmas day is named. By gifts the author means not only
material things but offerings of time, of kindness, of a happy face
and a joyous spirit, such benefactions to society such gifts hung on
the world’s Christmas tree, will truly celebrate the birthday of
Jesus.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
=Jefferson, Thomas.= Letters and addresses of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by
William B. Parker and Jonas Viles. 56c. Unit bk.
An edition based largely upon the complete works of Thomas Jefferson
published under the auspices of the Jefferson memorial society.
* * * * *
“These books are a positive boon for teachers of history in our
schools.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 97. F. 1, ’06. 70w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 22: 254. F. 17, ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 36. Ja. 20, ’06. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 40w.
=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Citizenship and the schools. $1.25. Holt.
A volume of addresses and essays which aim to give “our teachers the
viewpoint of social and political betterment as their chief aim in
teaching.” The essays, which are all upon the nature of public life
and public duty and the best methods of training children to become
useful citizens, are entitled: Training for citizenship, The social
basis of education, The making of citizens, Relation of the public
schools to business, Education for commerce: the far East, Free speech
in American universities, Critique of educational values, Policy of
the state toward education, and Schoolbook legislation.
* * * * *
“The book is somewhat marred by repetition ... but the ideas it
presents are so vital, and yet so generally neglected, that they
deserve repetition in many volumes such as the one Prof. Jenks has
given us.” R. C. B.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 653. Ag. ’06. 320w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 212. O. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Sane and readable essays.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 30w.
“The subjects treated are peculiarly adapted to the present period and
would seem to embrace a wider field than that inferred in the title.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 230w.
=Nation.= 83: 76. Jl. 26, ’06. 110w.
“The book is so good and has in it so much that is intelligent and
helpful as to the exceedingly important subject of which it treats,
that it seems a pity that it has not been more thoroughly worked out
and presented in a more orderly and symmetrical manner.” Edward Cary.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 481. Ag. 4, 06. 1440w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 1004. Ag. 25, ’06. 80w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 130w.
“The reader may not agree with all of Professor Jenks’s conclusions,
but he cannot fail to be inspired by the spirit of these addresses and
essays.” Edward E. Hill.
+ + – =School R.= 14: 764. D. ’06. 580w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Milton. **$1. Barnes.
“The book is well adapted to promote the study of Milton, and the
author has appended an excellent bibliography for that purpose.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 659. Ag. ’06. 390w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Lady Noggs, peeress. †$1.50. McClure.
“These stories are amusing.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 182. F. 24, ’06. 180w.
“Mr. Jepson has done much better.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 166. F. 10. 230w.
“It is excellent trifling, and the most stolid reader must surely
succumb to the fascinations of the gracious little figure who carries
all before her in Mr. Jepson’s story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 273. Mr. 3, ’06. 340w.
“The spectacle of the highest officer of State reduced to helplessness
by an imp of twelve years old might seem essentially farcical, but Mr.
Jepson contrives to invest it with charm as well as humour.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 100. Ja. 20, ’06. 750w.
=Jespersen, (Jens) Otto (Harry).= Growth and structure of the English
language. *$1. Stechert.
“The aim of the author is to characterise the chief peculiarities of
the English language. He attempts to connect the teachings of
linguistic history with the chief events in the general history of the
English people, and to show the relation of language to national
character. His plan is to first give a rapid sketch of the language of
our own days, especially as it strikes a foreigner. Then he enters
upon the history of the language, describes its connection with the
other languages of the Indo-Germanic family, and traces the various
foreign influences it has undergone. Last, he gives an account of its
own internal development.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“This is a good book. It would form an excellent introduction to the
historical study of the English language. The writer is not merely a
swallower of other men’s formulas. There is an independent play of
thought in Professor Jespersen’s exposition which is not so very
common in the work of philologists.” A. L. Mayhew.
+ =Acad.= 71: 127. Ag. 11, ’06. 1590w.
“The style of this excellent work displays a correctness and ease
which would be highly creditable to a native scholar, and are
marvelous in the case of a foreigner, while the matter and method
evince adequate mastery of the intricate subject.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 331. S. 2. 770w.
“It is the work of a competent scholar, widely familiar with English
and American literature, and written in the light of most modern
linguistic science.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 121. S. 1, ’06. 80w.
“Careful and scholarly history.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 60w.
Reviewed by O. F. Emerson.
+ – =School R.= 14: 312. Ap. ’06. 600w.
=Jevons, Herbert Stanley.= Essays on economics. *$1.60. Macmillan.
“The author assumes that nothing is known regarding utility, labor,
exchange and capital, rent and production and endeavors to arrive at
the laws, regulating them by reason rather than by experience or
authority. Especially novel is the attempt to treat these topics by
the diagrammatic method like Euclidian problems.”—N.Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Jevons fortunately possesses a bright and attractive style.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 449. Ap. 14. 620w.
“Novelty of treatment rather than of matter is the attraction of this
book. The book is of high quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 127. Mr. 3, ’06. 200w.
“However little one may be disposed to accept many of the author’s
views, one must recognize in this little book a quality of vigorous
thought and of definite expression which is unfortunately rare in much
of current economic writing.”
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 566. S. ’06. 180w.
=Jevons, William Stanley.= Principles of economics: a fragment of a
treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
“Altogether, these fragments are good to read, for their vigour, their
justice, their sanity and their humour.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 120. Ja. 27, ’06. 810w.
Jewish encyclopaedia; ed. by Isidore Singer. 12v. $84. Funk.
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 461. My. 12, ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 11.)
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 420w. (Review of v. 12.)
“It would not be difficult to point out shortcomings of various kinds;
but the work as a whole is very creditable and scholarly.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 666. Je. 2. 450w. (Review of v. 11.)
“We gladly recommend the ‘Encyclopedia’ to the reading public. It
should be found on the shelves of all great libraries, and it should
also be purchased by all those who aim at the collection of a good
representative private library.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 208. Ag. 25. 1470w. (Review of v. 12.)
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 1286. My. 31, ’06. 270w. (Review of v. 12.)
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 470. Je. 7, ’06. 350w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 923. D. 30, ’05. 1780w. (Review of v. 11 and
12.)
“Too much cannot be said in its praise. The work is accurate, and
despite the twelve volumes, concise.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 239. Ap. 14, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 12.)
“A work of high value, it is highly creditable to all who have shared
in its production, together with its publishers.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 92. My. 12, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 12.)
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 12.)
“It should not be inferred, however, that the material embraced in
this encyclopedia is merely of a narrow, racial interest. On the
contrary, there is hardly an article in any of the volumes which does
not contain valuable and important information for the general
reader.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 10 and 11.)
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 127. Jl. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 12.)
“These volumes contain some work which is of first-rate quality, while
the rest may be described as sufficient for the purpose.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 212. F. 17, ’06. 960w. (Review of v. 7–11.)
“The work has already attained the rank of a standard authority upon
everything connected with the Jewish race and religion.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 102: 518. O. 27, ’06. 1460w. (Review of v. 12.)
“‘Saul’ ... is an article to which one naturally turns. Our chief
complaint is that Dr. Kohler takes as generally accepted conclusions
many critical statements which are scarcely worth considering.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 96. Jl. 21, ’06. 1440w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
=Joachim, Harold H.= Nature of truth: an essay. *$2. Oxford.
Mr. Joachim says in his preface, “The following essay does not pretend
to establish a new theory. Its object is to examine certain typical
notions of truth, one or other of which—whether in the form of a vague
assumption or raised to the level of an explicit theory—has hitherto
served as the basis of philosophical speculation. If I am not
mistaken, every one of these typical notions and accredited theories
of truth fails sooner or later to maintain itself against critical
investigation. And I have tried ... to indicate in what direction (if
in any) there appears some prospect of more successful construction.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Joachim’s essay is an examination of three typical notions as to
what truth is, and will be found most direct of all recent attempts to
answer Pilate’s question.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 96. Jl. 28. 700w.
“In view of the fundamental value of Mr. Joachim’s work it seems
ungracious to allude to secondary blemishes. But it is not easy
reading, and the author has provided no analysis of argument and only
a scanty index.” F. C. S. Schiller.
+ + – =J. Philos.= 3: 54. S. 27, ’06. 3520w.
“His book as a whole shows the possession of the philosophic temper in
a high degree, and its conclusions are the more valuable because they
are so carefully and moderately expressed.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 303. S. 7, ’06. 2140w.
“Up to a point. Mr. Joachim’s work fulfills our expectations. The
trouble is that, at the end of it all, Mr. Joachim has to confess
himself beaten. His notion of truth will not work out, and leaves him
with only negative results, hoping against hope to escape from
skepticism.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 42. Jl. 12, ’06. 1230w.
“It claims no positive result, but is an acute, though rather involved
and at times scholastic criticism of three current conceptions of
+ + – =Philos. R.= 15: 658. N. ’06. 480w.
“This short essay of under two hundred pages seems to us the most
important contribution to English philosophy—with the exception of Mr.
Haldane’s last book—since the appearance of Mr. F. H. Bradley’s
‘Appearance and reality.’ In his candour, his freshness, and his power
of clean-cut definition he has many points of resemblance to the
latter writer.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 984. Je. 23, ’06. 1870w.
=Job, Herbert Keightley.= Wild wings: adventures of a camera-hunter
among the larger birds of No. America on sea and land. **$3. Houghton.
“This is emphatically a book to be bought; the ornithologist must have
it; the lover of nature should have it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906. 1: 611. My. 19. 600w.
“Attractive book.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 1129. D. 30, ’05. 130w.
=Johnson, Burges.= Beastly rhymes; with pictures to correspond by E.
Warde Blaisdell. **$1. Crowell.
Familiar beasts are put thru clever performances in rhyme as well as
pictures taxing both their acrobatic skill and animal mentality. “The
aim of the little book is rather the instruction of Youth than the
edification of Age.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Johnson’s animal verses are as amusing in their way as his
‘Rhymes of little boys’ Were in another fashion.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 397. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
=Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
=Johnson, Claude Ellsworth.= Training of boys’ voices. 75c. Ditson.
All who are interested in the training of children’s voices in school,
Sunday school, or choir, will find this little text-book useful. The
chapter headings will suggest its scope: Children’s natural voices,
Beginning tone production, Voice training, Vocal exercises, Music in
schools, Boys in church choirs, The selection of music for boys’
voices.
* * * * *
“His remarks on voice training are commendable.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 229. S. 13, ’06. 630w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 70w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Birch-tree fairy book. †$1.75. Little.
This companion volume to “The oak-tree fairy book” contains a wide
variety of stories ranging from simple folk-tales to fairy romances,
but all have been carefully edited for home reading and while the
charm remains the savagery and distressing details have been omitted.
The stories given are; Tom Thumb, The giant with the golden hair,
Three feathers, Jack the Giant-killer, The ugly duckling, The forty
robbers, The wizard and the beggar, and a score more old favorites.
* * * * *
“Timid parents need not fear to place these stories in the hands of
the most sensitive child. Savagery, excessive pathos, undue thrills
are all glossed over or dispensed with.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 80w.
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“A collection that will suit the ideas of most parents as to
children’s reading much better than the old versions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 120w.
=Johnson, Emory Richard.= Ocean and inland water transportation.
**$1.50. Appleton.
The general scope of this work is suggested by the chapter headings:
The measurements of vessels and traffic, The history of the ocean
carrier, Ways and terminals of ocean transportation, The ocean freight
service, The ocean mail service, The International express service,
Rate and traffic agreements, pools, and consolidation of ocean
carriers, Marine insurance, Aid and regulation by the national
government, The mercantile marine policy of the United States.
* * * * *
“It is at once historical, analytical, and descriptive, and it is thus
of value alike for general reading, as a text-book, and as a work of
reference.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 864. Ag. 11, ’06. 310w.
“Topics, which are only imperfectly understood by the average
landsman, are presented by Mr. Johnson in a clear and interesting
way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 70w.
=Johnson, Joseph French.= Money and currency in relation to industry,
prices and the rate of interest. *$1.75. Ginn.
Of his work the author says: “While it is intended to be a complete
exposition of the science of money ... its unique characteristics, if
it possess any will be found in the deep practical significance it
discovers in the phenomena of price, in its analysis of the demand for
money, in its exposition of credit as related to prices and the rate
of interest, and in the clearness it gives to the concepts of
commodity money, fiat money, and credit money. This book deals with
money as an independent economic entity, and seeks to bring out the
fact that ‘price’ in the world of business is a more important word
than ‘value’.”
* * * * *
“He has slurred over certain controverted topics, in order to avoid
snags which he regards as needless difficulties. Without presuming to
pass judgment upon these disputed technicalities, it is safe to say
that the book will be of use as an account of the actual phenomena of
money and currency.” A. W. S.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 427. N. ’06. 90w.
“Professor Johnson has rendered a valuable service in his scholarly,
and at the same time practical, discussion of the money problem. He
has made a book which is simple in language and readable.” Charles A.
Conant.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 192. Jl. ’06. 870w.
“Aside from his novel classification of the forms of money, the author
contributes no additional material of any importance to the general
subject of money.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 218. Jl. 26, ’06. 350w.
“What should prove the best text in its field. Particularly to be
commended are the careful analysis of the demand for money, the
discussion of ‘fiat’ money and the treatment of the difficult subject
of credit.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 366. My. 3, ’06. 140w.
“Few or none which will better repay study by the serious merchant who
wishes help by which to forecast the future and protect himself
against reverses which come to many unawares and not understood.”
Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 354. Je. 9, ’06. 2200w.
“Professor Johnson’s book is a welcome addition to the voluminous
literature of money, and, with its errors of detail eliminated, it
will, without doubt, take rank among the best of the general works
upon the subject.” A. Piatt Andrew.
+ + – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 714. D. ’06. 1870w.
=Johnson, Owen, Max Fargus.= †$1.50. Baker.
A most unpleasing group of people are met with in the course of this
story, which is interesting because the characters are well drawn, and
the plot is well handled. Max Fargus, an old miser, rich thru the
astute management of his oyster houses, meets in the park an
impoverished actress who shrewdly leads him on and, posing as a
country girl, actually wins his affections. He has her investigated,
however, by a shyster lawyer before he marries her and the lawyer
drives a crafty bargain with the girl, by which, in return for his
favorable report, he is to receive half her gains. After marriage
Fargus becomes suspicious and later works out a revenge which succeeds
so well that all the leading characters are left either dead or
miserable and the shyster’s partner, who has become his enemy,
receives the Fargus money.
* * * * *
“There is something exceedingly refreshing in the very grimness of Mr.
Johnson’s new story. It would be high praise—perhaps too high
praise—to say that the characters are as well drawn as they are
named.” Firmin Dredd.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 161. O. ’06. 450w.
“While in general the author has hardly risen to the literary
possibilities of his theme, his book is not without merit.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 260w.
“The tale, though, in all its situations, wholly incredible, is told
with spirit, and an occasional good bit of characterization.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 579. S. 22, ’06. 310w.
“It is a picture of depravity and simply that, clever enough in
workmanship, but lacking in motive.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 336. O. 6, ’06. 160w.
=Johnson, Samuel.= Lives of English poets; ed. by George Birkbeck Hill,
with brief memoir of Dr. Birkbeck Hill by his nephew, Harold Spencer
Scott. 3 v. *$10.50. Oxford.
This three-volume edition of the “Lives of the poets” is the
fulfillment of Dr. Birkbeck Hill’s promise made in the preface to this
edition of Boswell’s “Life.” Mr. Harold Spencer Scott, Dr. Hill’s
nephew, has prepared this edition for the press, preserving the main
outlines of the work as they were left by the author. He has further
contributed a memoir and bibliography of his uncle.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 70: 133. F. 10, ’06. 1350w.
“Dr. Hill devoted many years of research to Johnson and Johnson’s
period and we know no modern talent which can be ranked with his in
its wonderful grasp of contemporary sidelights on his subject.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 162. F. 10. 3020w.
“A reprint of special importance.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + + =Atlan.= 98: 276. Ag. ’06. 970w.
“One does not have to proceed far in one’s examination either of the
notes or of the list of books quoted before one perceives that in this
posthumous work Dr. Hill cast his nets almost as frequently and as
widely as he did in his Boswell, and caught almost as many fish, large
and small, common and strange, in the shape of apposite and
illuminating quotations from all manner of books and writers.” W. P.
Trent.
+ + + =Forum.= 37: 540. Ap. ’06. 5760w.
“A more thorough and accurate piece of revision and verification than
is represented by the text, notes, and index of the present edition
will rarely, we imagine, be found in editorial annals.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 41. F. 9, ’06. 3000w.
“It was a happy idea of Dr. Birkbeck Hill to publish the “Lives” in
what will probably be their final edition.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 37. Jl. 12, ’06. 2130w.
=Johnson, William Henry.= French pathfinders in North America. $1.50.
Little.
“Written in a style especially adapted for younger readers.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“A useful book for school libraries.”
+ =School R.= 14: 231. Mr. ’06. 20w.
=Johnson, William Henry.= Sir Galahad of New France. †$1.50. Turner, H.
B.
“It is a harmless little idyl, pleasantly told, a new version of ‘The
forest lovers,’ plus a race problem, and minus Hewlett’s genius.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 632. F. ’06. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 757. Je. ’06. 60w.
=Johnson, Wolcott.= Old man’s idyl. **$1. McClurg.
+ =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Johnston, Alexander.= American political history, 1763–1876; ed. and
supplemented by James Albert Woodburn. 2v. ea. *$2. Putnam.
“This volume presents in book form the series of articles on ‘American
political history’ contributed by the late Prof. Johnston of Princeton
to Lalor’s ‘Cyclopedia of political science, political parties, and
political history,’ in the period from 1763 to 1832. The next volume
will come down to 1876. The editor’s task has been to arrange,
connect, and supplement Prof. Johnston’s papers so as to present a
compact and continuous narration. He has also written a brief
introduction, and an able history and analysis of the Monroe doctrine,
and some material has been added to bring the history down to date.
The work, however, remains substantially Prof. Johnston’s.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“As it stands the book is hard to use, especially the second volume,
and can scarcely be handled except by such as are already familiar
with United States history. The narrowly political standpoint of the
author gives the work an old-fashioned air. The strong point of the
essays lies in the clearness and vigor with which political action and
motives are analyzed, and for this reason the volumes, in spite of
their chaotic character, will be of permanent value.” Theodore Clarke
Smith.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 688. Ap. ’06. 840w.
“Of the worth of the articles themselves there is, of course, no
question, and the work of the editor seems to have been, on the whole,
skilfully performed.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 157. F. 22, ’06. 360w.
“It is valuable rather for its suggestions and conclusions than for
the mere statement of facts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 17. Ja. 13, ’06. 770w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 88. F. 10, ’06. 910w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 120w.
“His treatment of political parties in the middle third of the
nineteenth century is especially illuminating and useful.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Johnston, Annie Fellows.= Little colonel’s Christmas vacation. †$1.50.
Page.
This latest book in the “Little colonel” series tells the story of the
little Colonel at school, of her breakdown and enforced stay at home,
of her holiday good times, and of kind deeds she is able to render
less fortunate ones.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 676. O. 14, ’05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 795. N. 25, ’05. 120w.
=Johnston, Mrs. Annie Fellows.= Little colonel, maid of honor. $1.50.
Page.
The little Kentucky “colonel,” so much of a favorite with young
readers, has reached the age for interest in other people’s love
affairs. The main action of this new page of happenings in the life of
Lloyd Sherman centers about a southern wedding, so perfectly arranged
as to give the impression that everything “bloomed into place.”
* * * * *
“Will be in large demand as a holiday gift.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 752. N. 17, ’06. 120w.
=Joinville, Jean de.= Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville; new Eng. version
by Ethel Wedgwood. *$3. Dutton.
An old chronicle six hundred years old is reproduced here. It records
the life and adventures of King Louis of France, known as the “Saint,”
with special reference to the seventh crusade in Egypt. The book is
fully illustrated.
* * * * *
“We can speak very highly of Miss Wedgwood’s powers of translation;
she preserves the spirit of her author, and suggests many of the
qualities of his style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 270. S. 3. 670w.
“A new and pleasing translation of one of the most fascinating human
documents of mediæval times.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 121. S. 1, ’06. 40w.
“Some omissions in the text have been made. One is apt to think that
if the book is worth publishing at all, for the student’s use at
least, it would have been better not to omit these parts of the text
and to add some bibliographical notes.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 300w.
“The translator, if such a word can be applied to the author, has done
a worthy piece of work, which will be more useful than popular; more
lasting to the old than absorbing to the young.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 70w.
“The diction preserves excellently the general effect of the original.
It is a very simple diction, by the way, not running too much to the
archaic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 477. Jl. 28, ’06. 700w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 44. S. 1, ’06. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 60w.
“This is one of the most delightful books we have come across for a
long time. The translation is spirited and excellent; the preface and
notes are just what a reader wants; and no more than he wants, for
intelligent enjoyment of one of the great stories of all time.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 655. N. 3, ’06. 1650w.
=Jones, Chester Lloyd.= Consular service of the United States, its
history and activities. $1.25. Pub. for the Univ. of Pa. by Winston.
A monograph dealing with the subject under the following headings:
Legislative history, Organization, Rights and duties of consuls, Extra
territoriality, Consular assistance to the foreign trade of the United
States, European consular systems, and Suggestions for the improvement
of the service.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 208. O. ’06. 50w.
“The work is a welcome addition to the too meagre literature
concerning our foreign trade.” George M. Fisk.
+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 580. N. ’06. 320w.
“Mr. Jones has collected a large number of facts connected with his
subject and has brought them together in convenient and readable
form.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28, ’06. 620w.
“This is a rather more ambitious and comprehensive history of our
‘trade ambassadors’ abroad than has been published before.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 70w.
“An exhaustive, scholarly monograph.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 70w.
=Yale R.= 15: 337. N. ’06. 160w.
=Jones, Harry Clary.= Electrical nature of matter and radioactivity. $2.
Van Nostrand.
The author has brought together here articles that were published as a
series in the Electrical review. The treatment is more popular than
technical, yet accurate scientifically.
* * * * *
“We think that he has produced a book which should prove useful to
those whose mathematical attainments do not permit them to study the
larger and more difficult works of Prof. J. J. Thomson and Prof.
Rutherford.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 306. S. 15. 840w.
“His vigor carries one along at such a rate that, did one not know
better, he would be convinced of certain statements often not proved,
or forget that there is another side to the question.” Charles
Baskerville.
+ – =Engin. N.= 56: 53. Jl. 12, ’06. 680w.
“The facts are clearly stated and neatly summarized, but without any
attempt at adventitious ornamentation to catch the attention of the
casual reader.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 457. Ag. 23, ’06. 460w.
“Well adapted to bringing one’s physics up to date.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 203. S. 6, ’06. 60w.
“The book as a whole gives a comprehensive and interesting survey of
the radio-activity of matter as it is interpreted by the
disintegration hypothesis. Perhaps the best chapters are those dealing
with the reproduction of radio-active matter and the theory arising
therefrom.” F. S.
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 632. O. 25, ’06. 750w.
“The subject is recondite, yet its presentation is sufficiently
simplified for easy comprehension.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 910. Ag. 18, ’06. 250w.
=Jones, Samuel Milton.= Letters of labor and love. **$1. Bobbs.
“No man or woman can read this book without being made purer, nobler
and truer for its perusal. It is a volume that will make for civic
righteousness, a nobler manhood and a juster social order.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 101. Ja. ’06. 430w.
“As the most forcible and significant utterances of such a man, these
letters should find ready welcome not only among his admirers but also
among all who are interested in the deeper problems of society.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 129. F. 16, ’06. 510w.
“It is the real Jones as his friends knew him who appears in this
book, and no one who wants a memorial of his life and teachings can
well do without it.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 225. Ja. 25, ’06. 290w.
=Jonson, Ben.= Devil is an ass; ed. with introduction, notes and
glossary by William Savage Johnson. $2. Holt.
“This seems to suffer from what may be called a lack of artistic
restraint in annotation.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 37. Ja. 11, ’06. 160w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= Guide to the study of fishes. 2v. **$12. Holt.
“Unfortunately the index is not so good as it might be. It may be said
generally that it would be difficult to praise this fine work too
highly.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 720w.
“Where the author has wandered from the narrower field of systematic
ichthyology, with its attendant problems of distribution and external
morphology, he has sometimes fallen into vagueness or error. Where, on
the other hand, he has traversed his own familiar ground he has
supplied a real need and supplied it admirably.” Jacob Reighard.
+ + – =Science=, n.s. 22: 861. D. 29, ’05. 2740w.
=Jordan, Louis Henry.= Comparative religion: its genesis and growth.
*$3.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Jordan’s book is of the nature of a work of reference, and must
have involved great labor.” (Acad.) “It is mainly descriptive of the
distinctive method, aim, and scope of the new science, its genesis,
its prophets and pioneers, its founders and masters, its schools and
auxiliary sciences, its mental emancipations, other achievements and
growing bibliography.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“From its very nature it can hardly be said to make interesting
reading; but it will be found invaluable as a manual.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1258. D. 2, ’05. 80w.
“The volume shows wide reading and great industry in bringing so many
names together. Yet the chapter on auxiliary or subsidiary sciences
might have been retrenched with advantage, and the illustrations of
comparative sciences are too many. The value of the book will be found
to consist in its full bibliography, which is made available by a
copious index.” Henry Preserved Smith.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 701. O. ’06. 920w.
“A valuable handbook of great breadth of learning, written in an
admirable spirit. It is a book for which we are profoundly thankful,
notwithstanding the fact that it has some defects which are incidental
to the manner of its composition.” George A. Barton.
+ + – =Bib. World.= 28: 285. O. ’06. 890w.
“It must be admitted that so great a task, beyond the first-hand
knowledge of any one man, is on the whole well done.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1542. D. 28, ’05. 230w.
“Whoever wishes to know ‘all about’ comparative religion at its
present stage will find cyclopaedic information here in sufficient
fullness, not merely in the text but also in appended charts, and all
carefully indexed for ready reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1082. D. 30, ’05. 270w.
“Mr. Jordan’s book will probably interest even the casual reader, but
it will be of special value to the student for the sake of its
elaborate bibliography. So far as we have been able to apply a test,
no important work, either in English or a foreign language, has been
overlooked.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 101: 462. Ap. 14, ’06. 1450w.
“It contains too much, attempts too much, it is irritating; but on the
other hand it is a very thorough and comprehensive work, especially to
be recommended for reference to out-of-the-way information.” E.
Washburn Hopkins.
+ – =Yale R.= 14: 438. F. ’06. 1070w.
=Joseph, H. W. B.= Introduction to logic. *$3.15. Oxford.
A restatement of the traditional doctrine “which is used at the
universities as an instrument of intellectual discipline.” (Lond.
Times.) “Mr. Joseph has interesting remarks to make on the relation
between mathematics and logic, and a good statement of the doctrine
that the principle of syllogistic inference cannot be made into the
premise of a particular syllogism without begging the question. His
chapter entitled ‘The presuppositions of inductive reasoning: the law
of causation’ is a model of clear and forcible reasoning. Mill’s four
methods, he finds, may be reduced to one ‘method of experimental
inquiry.’” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“A thoughtful and scholarly treatise, conceived on the lines of a good
text-book.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 362. O. 26, ’06. 430w.
“Useful as his book may prove to an advanced logician, it is almost
the worst possible for a beginner’s introduction to the subject.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 1560w.
“It is an excellent and very sound exposition of the traditional logic
for which Oxford has been famous ever since the days of Chaucer’s
Clerk. But if the matter is traditional, the manner of exposition is
as fresh and independent as it could well be, and the author has
entirely fulfilled the desire expressed in his preface not to teach
anything to beginners which they should afterwards have merely to
unlearn.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 2. N. 1, ’06. 450w.
=Josephus, Flavius.= Works; tr. by William Whiston, and edited by D. S.
Margoliouth. $2. Dutton.
“The complete works of the learned and spirited writer, Flavius
Josephus, compressed in one royal octavo volume.... The editor’s work
... includes an introductory essay, and a few notes, and a careful
collation of the text with the critical edition of the original Greek
of Niese and Von Destinon, and its division into sections after the
plan of the learned German editors. Recent research has been
intelligently summarized. All of Josephus is here, including, of
course, the few disputed passages.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The editor’s Introduction is decidedly piquant. He seems to treat his
author in exactly the right vein, now genially discounting his
marvelous exploits, now politely doubting his veracity while enjoying
his romance.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 666. Je. 2. 630w.
“The introduction is, of course, admirably written, and weighted with
references to the learned literature of the subject; still more loaded
with erudition are the notes.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 211. Je. 8, ’06. 570w.
“Is admirably adapted to the chief use to which it is likely to be
put, as a book of reference for library shelves.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 340. My. 26, ’06. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 50w.
=Joubert, Carl.= Fall of tsardom. *$2. Lippincott.
“This volume consists of threatenings against the Russian government,
and reminiscences of what has happened in the past after similar
threats had been made.” (N. Y. Times.). “It cannot be said that in
these pages the author gives an accurate picture of social and
political conditions; his pen is distinctly that of an advocate. For
example he criticises the secret societies for the purposeless crimes
they commit, but at the same time he defends the ‘revolutionary
committee’ for sanctioning assassination ‘in extreme cases.’ Purely
constitutional reform is in his opinion hopeless; the tsardom is a
deadly growth that must be plucked out by the roots.” (Critic.)
* * * * *
“The tone of exaggeration which pervades ‘The fall of tsardom’ tends
to disguise those of the observations and reflections of the author
which might otherwise been thought of value.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 1: 747. Je. 17. 680w.
“The theories which the author promulgates ... are less interesting
than the experiences he describes. Those interested in current
movements in Russia should not overlook this account of them.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 220w.
“Is a miscellaneous collection of gossip, scraps of information of
questionable authenticity, court scandals, and hints at deeper
knowledge yet.”
– =Lond. Times.= 4: 176. Je. 9, ’05. 730w.
“The book is interesting, even if not convincing.”
– – + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 174. Mr. 24, ’06. 650w.
=Joubert, Carl.= Truth about the Tsar. *$2. Lippincott.
One of the three rather sensational volumes on Russian subjects which
have been written by this man whose real name is not Joubert. “It is
not Russia that has gone mad, but Tsardom. As autocratic sovereigns,
the hours of the Romanoffs are numbered. A constitutional monarchy or
the United States of Russia are the only alternatives possible. Such
are the opinions of Carl Joubert—who claims to know both the land and
the ruler, and who reiterates in this volume the ideas he promulgated
in ‘Russia as it really is.’” (Critic.)
* * * * *
“Even if only half its statements are true, it is worth reading.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 191. F. ’06. 340w.
“As our author indulges in fewer Russian words than in his former
volumes his errors are fewer.”
– – =Nation.= 82: 267. Mr. 29, ’06. 1260w.
“An entertaining and upon the whole, informing book about Russian
affairs. It is rhetoric, not history, and the fact that the special
pleading is on the right side does not make it any less special.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 690w.
“Mr. Joubert is more rhetorical and less precise than we could wish.”
– =Spec.= 94: 218. F. 11, ’06. 1570w.
=Joutel, Henri.= Joutel’s journal of La Salle’s last voyage, 1684–7.
*$5. McDonough.
“One of the most valuable source-books of American history.... The
writer was a townsman of the great pathfinder, sailed with him from
France in 1684, accompanied him in his after-wanderings in the wilds,
and while not an eye-witness to his murder, was not far away when the
fatal shot was fired by the desperate mutineer, Duhaut. The story of
the misfortune of the pioneers and of the terrible days that followed
the murder of their leader is told with a directness and simplicity
that grip the attention with the interest of a work of fiction.... Dr.
Henry R. Stiles, the editor of the present reprint ... rounds out
Joutel’s narrative by historical and biographical introductions, the
latter explaining who Joutel was, and the former giving an accurate
and interesting account of La Salle’s earlier explorations. The book
also contains a bibliographical appendix covering the literature on
the discovery of the Mississippi.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 973. Jl. ’06. 160w.
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 307. S. 5. 110w.
“Joutel’s narrative is not only the most authoritative account of that
last voyage which ended so tragically for La Salle, but it is
eminently readable.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 32: 984. Je. 30, ’06. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 380. Je. 9, ’06. 410w.
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 287. Je. 2, 06. 250w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 338. S. 15, ’06. 260w.
“The account, so happily composed, had the further good fortune to be
translated into excellent English, the authentic speech of the time;
and it is this version which is here faithfully reprinted and
skilfully annotated by Dr. Stiles, to whom we are pleased to give the
credit of a sound and scholarly piece of work.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 440. S. 29, ’06. 1350w.
=Judson, Frederick Newton.= Law of interstate commerce and its federal
regulation. *$5. Flood, T. H.
“With some well directed effort it might have been made a permanent
contribution to the literature of the subject.” H. A. C.
– + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 561. S. ’06. 1220w.
“An authoritative and codified statement of existing law and practice
on the subject of interstate commerce. The book is marred by careless
proof-reading.” Frank Haigh Dixon.
+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 91. My. ’06. 730w.
=Judson, William Pierson.= City roads and pavements suited to cities of
moderate size. **$2. Eng. news.
This new edition, revised and rendered thoroly up to date, has been
issued in response to the continued call for a guide to the building
of real highways as well as of city pavements. The history, cost,
composition and durability of various pavements are given under the
headings: Preparation of streets for pavements, Ancient pavements,
Modern pavements, Concrete base for pavements, Block-stone pavements,
Concrete pavements, Wood pavements, Vitrified brick pavements,
American sheet-asphalt, artificial and natural, Bitulithic pavement,
and Broken stone roads.
Justice for the Russian Jew; an appeal to humanity for the cessation of
an unprecedented international crime against an outraged and oppressed
race. *25c. Ogilvie.
A complete stenographic report of the stirring speeches delivered at
the great mass meeting in Washington, D. C., January 21, 1906, called
to protest against the murders of the Jews in Russia, with photographs
and sketches of the speakers. The list of speakers includes;
Congressman Sulzer; Rev. Francis T. McCarthy; Hon. Wendell Phillips
Stafford; Rev. Donald C. MacLeod; Hon. Henry T. Rainey; Col. John A.
Joyce; and Hon. Chas. A. Towne.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 50w.
K
=Kaempfer, Engelbert.= History of Japan. 3v. *$9. Macmillan.
“Kaempfer covers an extraordinarily wide field. The long journey to
Japan, the geography, climate, origin and history of the people, their
religions, their mode of government, their chronological system, their
laws, manners and customs, their natural and industrial productions,
their systems of trade, are all described. The portion of the work
which deals with the history and religion will now appeal only to the
esoteric reader.... But nearly the whole of the second and third
volumes, in which are described in minute detail the author’s life at
Nagasaki; the journeys to and from and life at the capital; wayside
scenes and travellers along the great high-roads, the Court of the
Shogun, who is called the secular monarch, as distinct from ‘the
Ecclesiastical hereditary Emperor,’ the Mikado and the popular
festivals, are so full of interest that he would be indeed a dull
reader who was not entranced by their continued intrinsic
charms.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“It is a wise and faithful account with more than an occasional touch
of dry humour.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 569. Je. 16. ’06. 430w.
“The reproduction is, in every respect, worthy of its original, and in
its new and convenient form the ‘Historia’ should meet with many
readers, as an achievement of the highest interest in itself, and as
the beginning and foundation of all true knowledge of the pattern
people of the twentieth century.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 6. Jl. 7. 2610w.
“For the reference library and the philosophical student of the
Japanese, the work is invaluable.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 448. My. 31, ’06. 250w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 572. S. 15, ’06. 470w.
“The publication of this new edition is therefore a real public
service. We have only one fault to find. Kaempfer’s spelling of native
terms is so archaic as, in many instances, to be absolutely
unintelligible to modern readers and difficult to follow even by
persons more than ordinarily acquainted with the history, geography
and language of Japan.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: 17. Jl. 7. ’06. 1660w.
=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Joey at the fair. 75c.
Crowell.
Boys in the early “teens” will enjoy this story of a New England farm
and of Joey and how he attained his great ambition of raising a calf
which should win the blue ribbon at the county fair. The achievement
is made more difficult because of a young city cousin who is a
mischief maker from the time of his arrival and who almost succeeds in
maliciously diverting the blue ribbon from the sleek Betty; but Joey
and the calf win out in the end.
=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Light keepers: a story of the
United States light-house service. †$1.50. Dutton.
How Cary’s Ledge light was kept according to the “rules an’
regerlations,” by its three old keepers, Cap’n Eph, Sammy, and Uncle
Zenas, third assistant and also cook, is here told in a fashion
pleasing to young folks. How they blamed themselves for neglecting the
day’s routine in order to risk their lives to save the victims of fog
and wreck, how the boy whom they called Sonny drifted to their ledge,
stayed there and became a joy to them, how the government came to
appreciate and reward them and many other matters of human interest
furnish a pleasing variety in their bleak existence.
* * * * *
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 210w.
=Kauffman, Reginald Wright.= Miss Frances Baird, detective: a passage
from her memoirs. $1.25. Page.
A young woman, good-looking, alert, making a direct asset of her
intuition, unravels the mystery of a diamond robbery in a manner that
would commend her to the most exacting of detective staffs.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 697. S. 20, ’06. 270w.
=Kaye, Percy Lewis.= English colonial administration under Lord
Clarendon, 1660–1667. 50c. Hopkins.
“On the whole, however, a comparison of Dr. Kaye’s paper with earlier
treatments of the same subject indicates no considerable addition to
our stock of information and no decided novelty in the handling of the
material.” Evarts B. Greene.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 438. Ja. ’06. 410w.
=Keats, John.= Poems; with notes and appendices by H. Burton Forman.
$1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” A biographical sketch by Nathan
Haskell Dole, notes and appendices make the volume complete.
=Keays, Mrs. H. A. Mitchell.= Work of our hands. †$1.50. McClure.
A Montague and Capulet enmity is set at naught by the marriage of
young Bronsart and Aylmer Forsythe. This hero is a capitalist “whose
life of luxury has given him a moral myopia,” and his wife in a rather
provocative way sets about to relieve the down-trodden condition among
the laborers in his factories, and to force her husband into believing
that his wealth should be used for aiding instead of oppressing the
poor.
* * * * *
“In ‘The work of our hands,’ H. E. Mitchell Keays, with large outlook
and wide sweep, shows a strange working out of destiny.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 520w.
“The book will not contribute much to the solution of problems
economic or marital, but it is a strong and clever story; the interest
well sustained, despite a little too much preaching.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ’05. 410w.
“The story suffers ... from evidences of overwrought nerves. The tone
is feverish.”
– =Reader.= 7: 452. Mr. ’06. 240w.
=Keen, Walter Henry.= Margaret Purdy. $1.50. Broadway pub.
Mr. Keen’s story traces the development of Margaret Purdy from her
“puny child-wife” state to one of vigorous mental and moral freedom.
Her growth under the direction of Professor Bickersteth whose
laboratory assistant she becomes furnishes the real interest of the
book.
=Keen, William Williams.= Addresses and other papers. *$3.75. Saunders.
“Perhaps more false impressions with regard to medical thought would
be corrected by a casual reading of this volume than in any other way
that we know.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1346. D. 7, ’05. 340w.
=Keith, Marion.= Silver maple, a story of upper Canada. $1.50. Revell.
Upper Canada and its people, the spirit of the woods, the sordidness
of the everyday life, is at the heart of this story of Scotty, who,
true to his Scotch grandparents and the early lessons he learns under
the silver maple, fights a good fight, resists temptation, is true to
himself, and when he comes at last into the heritage of his English
father “by the right road, the road of truth and equity,” it is also
into a heritage of love and happiness.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 727. N. 3, ’06. 220w.
=Keller, Very Rev. J. A.= Saint Joseph’s help; or, Stories of the power
and efficacy of Saint Joseph’s intercession. *75c. Benziger.
The second edition of a book whose aim is to make known the power of
St. Joseph’s intercession and the favors obtained through his
assistance.
* * * * *
“The simple, trusting, tender faith of the narrator is contagious; and
the book is sure to fasten in young minds a devout confidence in St.
Joseph.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 268. My. ’06. 70w.
=Kelley, Florence.= Some ethical gains through legislation. *$1.25.
Macmillan.
“Legislation and judicial decision concerning the rights of the child,
the rights of women, the rights of all labourers to leisure through
restricted hours of labor, and the rights of the purchaser to
knowledge of the condition of production and distribution of goods,
are clearly presented and interpreted. The author is prepared for the
work, and by long experience in social, economic investigation as
government and state official, as special investigator, as a
settlement resident, and as a member of the Illinois bar. The volume
forms the latest addition to the ‘American citizens’ library.’”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“One marked distinction of Mrs. Kelley’s discussions is the vividness
of the concrete images used to enforce the argument, and these
illustrations are not borrowed from books.” C. R. Henderson.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 846. My. ’06. 840w.
“Her topics are ripe and full: the book may well become a classic on
industrial life, but this first edition lacks the final touch of care,
the polish of revision to which it is richly entitled.” Charlotte
Kimball Patten.
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 249. Ja. ’06. 920w.
“Is a most valuable book to students of social conditions and of the
general welfare.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 130w.
“Mrs. Kelley’s book is, by the conditions of its subject, tentative.
Its chief value lies in its suggestions for future improvement.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 330w.
“Interesting and instructive volume.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 343. F. 8, ’06. 240w.
“This book is marred by extremely bad arrangement. In spite of this,
the volume is rich in fact, sound in theory, generally correct in
reasoning, and replete with suggestion and stimulation.” Henry Raymond
Mussey.
+ + – =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 382. Ap. ’06. 990w.
“Her facts and arguments, however, are such as no student of the
problems involved can afford to neglect.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 64. Jl. 19, ’06. 1510w.
“A brief, terse, but readable review of recent progress toward better
things.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 82: 806. Ap. 7, ’06. 310w.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 326. Je. ’06. 1400w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 110w.
=Kelley, Gwendolyn Dunlevy, and Upton, George Putnam.= Edouard Remenyi,
musician, litterateur, and man: an appreciation. **$1.75. McClurg.
Here are sketches of Remenyi’s life and artistic career by friends and
contemporaries, to which are added critical reviews of his playing and
selections from his literary papers and correspondence. The
biographical sketch reveals the Romany spirit of the man which made
routine impossible and which led him at times to vanish from human
sight. There are nine portraits of the famous violinist taken during a
period of forty-four years.
* * * * *
“A book about a musician rather than a work on music. The personal
element presses strongly forward on every page.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 41: 12. Jl. 1, ’06. 860w.
“Is much more than what they call it—‘the skeleton of a work that
might have been.’”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 147. Ag. 16, ’06. 1120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 332. My. 19, ’06. 250w.
“The estimate of his personality is naturally indulgent, but it is
vivid. There is plenty of Remenyi material here, even if there is not
a Remenyi biography.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 336. My. 26, ’06. 1060w.
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 336. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.
=Kellogg, Vernon.= American insects. **$5. Holt.
“Prof. Kellogg has well summarized our present information on the
subject, and drawn attention to future potentialities.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 78. Jl. 21. 730w.
“Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the work is probably the best that
exists for anyone, desiring an introductory work on North American
insects compressed into a single volume.” D. S.
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 292. Ja. 25, ’06. 310w.
=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.
“It is a pleasure to recommend a book with such confidence as this
volume inspires.” John Graham Brooks.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 511. Jl. ’06. 260w.
=Kellum, Margaret Dutton.= Language of the Northumbrian gloss to the
Gospel of St. Luke. 75c. Holt.
No. 30 in the “Yale studies in English.” The thesis covers fully the
phonology and inflection of the Northumbrian gloss to the Gospel of
St. Luke.
=Kelly, Howard Atwood.= Walter Reed and yellow fever. **$1.50. McClure.
A sketch of the life and work of the man who brought about the
conviction that the mosquito is an agent for the spread of yellow
fever.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 211. O. 1, ’06. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 1400w.
=Kelly, R. Talbot.= Burma. *$6. Macmillan.
A seven months’ journey thru Burma, covering 3,500 miles is here
interestingly “painted and described.” It is a book of first
impressions gathered from forest and jungle.
* * * * *
“His is a perfect example of the colour-book of commerce, the merriest
and most entertaining of peep-shows, but without relation to art or
literature.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 45. Ja. 13, ’06. 190w.
“His impressions of Burmese character are intelligent, and more often
accurate than not.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 340w.
“In Mr. Kelly’s pictures we catch something of the charm of travel in
a strange country and among people entirely unlike our own.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1380. D. 14, ’05. 180w.
“An eloquent writer, as well, as an accomplished artist, wielding the
pen with even greater skill than the brush, and imbued, moreover, with
the courage, perseverance, and enthusiasm of the true explorer, the
author of this delightful volume has concentrated all his powers on
his fascinating subject, producing what will certainly rank as a
standard work on this great dependency of the British Empire.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 26: 87. Mr. ’06. 260w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 372. My. 3, ’06. 410w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 210w.
“Mr. Kelly is one of the few artists who can write. The volume is a
worthy member of a very attractive series.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 66. F. 3, ’06. 610w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1038. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
“A narrative that on its own merits makes pleasant reading and gives a
very true and sympathetic sketch of Burma and its people, and is much
more than a mere explanation of his pictures. He has, however, been
misled into a sweeping condemnation of Indian natives by generalizing
hastily from the unfavourable specimens that are to be met in Burma.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.
=Kelsey, Frederick W.= First county park system. $1.25. Ogilvie.
Although a ten year history of the development of the Essex county
park system of New Jersey, this work is far reaching in its
helpfulness. “It supplies a working-guide for other communities where
park systems are to be established” exposes “The baneful influence of
the public service corporations in frustrating a splendid and nobly
planned work and subordinating the interests of the community to the
selfish enrichment of those interested in the exploiting of the people
thru the public service corporations.”
* * * * *
“It is a volume that merits wide circulation—a work that we can
especially recommend to all persons interested in the development of
park systems in and around American municipalities.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 340w.
“The book, is in the best sense of the term, a political pamphlet.”
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 312. Mr. 15, ’06. 450w.
=Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 29, ’06. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 160w.
=Kennard, Joseph Spencer.= Italian romance writers. **$2. Brentano’s.
A well-wrought introduction furnishes an outline of the history of
modern story telling, discusses the various early types of fiction and
finally Italian tendencies and ideals. Then follows chapters upon
Alexander Manzoni, Massimo Taparelli D’Azeglio, Francesco Domenico
Guerrazzi, Tommaso Grossi, Ippolito Nievo, Edmondo De Amicis, Antonio
Fogazzaro, Giovanni Verga, Matilde Serao, Federigo De Roberto, Anna
Neera, Grazia Deledda, Enrico Annibale Butti, and Gabbriele
D’Annunzio, which give something of the authors and much of the
characters they created. The volume will serve as a pleasing
commentary to students of modern Italian literature, and will prove an
interesting source of enlightenment to all who have not time for
further study.
* * * * *
“It is a pity, however, that American readers could not have been
presented with a version in less ‘rocky’ English than the present
one.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 42. Jl. 16, ’06. 290w.
“Mr. Kennard had evidently read widely and thought earnestly before
formulating his opinions. But he seems incapable of expressing
opinions simply, plainly or convincingly. At its best his style is
hardly brilliant. At its worst it is intolerable.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 458. Ag. 23, ’06. 1250w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 936. Je. 23, ’06. 1190w.
“Notwithstanding repeated evidences of haste or carelessness in the
execution, we maintain that the work is a good and useful introduction
to the study of modern Italian fiction.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 27, ’06. 1460w.
“While not a profound or final treatise, is a pleasing, diffuse book,
crowded with information, and worth the study.” James Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 423. Je. 30, ’06. 3250w.
“Dr. Kennard’s book as a whole is one of the most interesting and
instructing contributions to our knowledge of Italian literature.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 330w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 90w.
=Kennedy, Charles William=, tr. Legend of St. Juliana; translated from
the Latin of the Acta sanctorum and the Anglo-Saxon of Cynewulf. Univ.
lib., Princeton.
The Anglo-Saxon and Latin texts used by the translator for this double
rendering into the English are those printed by Professor Strunk in
the “Belles-Lettres” edition.
=Kennedy, John Pendleton=, ed. Journals of the house of burgesses of
Virginia, 1773–1776. *$10. Putnam.
“Mr. Kennedy has set out upon an exceedingly valuable and important
undertaking. He is carrying it forward with great care and skill; and
he bids fair to make of it a monumental series, of which Virginia may
well be proud, and which other states may well imitate.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 420. Ja. ’06. 600w.
=Kenny, Louise.= Red-haired woman: her autobiography. †$1.50. Dutton.
“This is a story of an Irish family called O’Curry, and the book may
be described rather as a collection of materials than as a finished
article.... No one episode is of more importance than any other, and
there seems no particular reason, except indeed the marriage of the
heroine, why the novel should not go on forever.” (Spec.) “The time of
the main action begins with the famous Land war and extends, one may
judge, well into the late Victorian generation, The personages
involved are Irish gentlefolk and Irish peasants, half Hibernianized
Englishmen—especially one who is the ideal bad landlord—an old usurer
of fine conception, and several natives of Denmark, one in particular,
the real hero of the piece.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“She merely irritates when she might have amused.”
– =Acad.= 70: 40. Ja. 13, ’06. 410w.
“Here is a story curiously told rather than a really curious story.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 80w.
“The writer seems to have absorbed a strange miscellany of facts,
legends, and theories, which she has poured out without any regard to
form or coherency.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 4: 445. D. 15, ’06. 340w.
“The trouble with the book as fiction of the hour is the leisurely way
of it, the detail of it, and the faintness of the chief love interest
already mentioned.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 437. Jl. 7, ’06. 490w.
“There are many scenes in it which are very interesting, and even
thrilling, but there is no cohesion between the different parts of the
story.”
– + =Spec.= 96: 64. Ja. 13, ’06. 260w.
=Kent, Charles Foster=, ed. Israel’s historical and biographical
narratives, from the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom to the end of
the Maccabean struggle. **$2.75. Scribner.
“It is a pleasure to say that we find here, not a mere compendium of
the methods and results of criticism, but a lucid exposition of the
way the Hebrews wrote history, and a constructive exhibition, in the
light of the best scholarship, of what that history is.” Augustus S.
Carrier.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 137. Ja. ’06. 740w.
“The book, with the introduction and the notes to the English text of
the narratives, should be of value to those who study the Old
Testament as the history of a nation or race, and as a record of the
progress of a religion.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 1: 102. Ja. 27. 420w.
“Indeed, it is probable that this revision offers the untechnical
student the nearest approximation to the true force of the original
documents available at the present time.” Henry T. Fowler.
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 392. My. ’06. 1250w.
=Kent, Charles Foster.= Narratives of the beginnings of Hebrew history,
from the creation to the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom. **$2.75.
Scribner.
“We would gratefully acknowledge the service that Dr. Kent is here
doing for the cause of biblical scholarship, both by the rich learning
which he brings to his task, and by the gentle temper with which he
accomplishes it.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 844. Mr. ’06. 800w.
=Kent, Charles Foster.= Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament.
**$1. Scribner.
A popular book “not advocating new views nor justifying at length the
positions held, but describing and making clear the opinions of
scholars as to the literature, the history and the religion of the
Hebrew people.” (Ind.) “The author is optimistic of a revival of
interest in the Old Testament through the spread of knowledge of the
results of criticism. He suggests methods to be employed in using the
Old Testament in Sunday-schools and day-schools, and sketches a rough
outline of a course of study extending over several years.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 27: 479. Je. ’06. 60w.
“The book is not thoro, is to be read rather than studied or used for
reference and, as the author says, is simply a ‘very informal
introduction’ to careful investigation, which it seeks to encourage.
For this purpose it is excellent.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1490. Je. 21, ’06. 310w.
“The style is clear, confusion of detail and argument is avoided, and
salient features are kept well to the fore. The positions advanced are
those generally accepted, disputed points being avoided.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 36. Jl. 12, ’06. 200w.
“This general statement of cordial commendation must be accompanied
with some qualifications.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 426. O. 20, ’06. 400w.
=Kenyon, Frederic George=, ed. Robert Browning and Alfred Domett.
**$1.50. Dutton.
The friendship of Robert Browning and Alfred Domett, the “Waring” of
his poem, is here revealed thru letters written by the poet to Domett
in New Zealand. “Written chiefly during the years 1840–1846, they
cover a period of Browning’s life of which little has been made
public—the period just preceding his marriage, while he was living at
New Cross, writing and publishing serially his ‘Bells and
pomegranates.’... This collection of letters, though small, revealing
a masculine friendship surviving the strain of separation of years,
and of divided interests, helps to make an impression of a character
which becomes the more exalted as it is better known. Portraits of
Browning, of Domett, and of Sir Joseph Arnould (a third in this trio
of Camberwell friends) illustrate the volume.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Admirably edited.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 358. Mr. 24. 410w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 395. Je. 16, ’06. 330w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 937. Je. 23, ’06. 1130w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 106, Mr. 23, ’06. 620w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 43. Jl. 12, ’06. 740w.
“They give a glimpse of an eager and generous nature, and show, too,
somewhat of what Browning was thinking and feeling of his literary
contemporaries in the early forties. For these letters of the early
forties, with the light they throw on Browning’s personality, his
admirers will be grateful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 317. My. 19, ’06. 1050w.
“Not a little interesting criticism is scattered up and down the
letters, interesting but a little eccentric.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 625. Ap. 21, ’06. 370w.
=Keon, Grace.= “Not a judgment—.” $1.25. Benziger.
Mollie, a mad-cap girl of the slums, whose brother is a murderer and
whose mother is a broken-down old woman, resolves that she will be
thru her own efforts “not a judgment, but a blessing.” The story of
her struggles, her true nobility which conquers against heavy odds,
and her final happiness is the story of the book; while contrasted
with her life is that of the pampered daughter of wealth and society
who finds her happiness in loving service as a Roman Catholic
religious.
=Ker, William Paton.= Essays on mediaeval literature. *$1.60. Macmillan.
Seven studies which treat the following subjects: “The earlier history
of English prose,” “Historical notes on the similes of Dante,”
“Boccaccio,” “Chaucer,” “Gower,” “Froissart,” and “Gaston Paris.”
* * * * *
“The seven studies ... have a cumulative value not often to be found
in a short volume of essays. The comparative study of mediaeval
literature has too few devotees in this country. We are fortunate in
having one so learned and sympathetic as Mr. Ker.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 465. D. 29, ’05. 1520w.
“The author has, in addition to an unusually thorough acquaintance
with the themes discussed, a knack of viewing old subjects from a new
angle and looking through petty details at the great principles behind
them, which, coupled with a graceful style, makes the ‘Essays’ not
only attractive and valuable to the layman, but instructive even to
the specialist.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 362. N. 2, ’05. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 680. O. 14, ’05. 160w.
“Six essays which better deserve reproduction and a common title-page
than many such collectanea.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.
“They are the work of a cultivated man, as well as of a learned one,
so that the ordinary reader will find himself quite at home wherever
Mr. Ker may lead him. Mr. Ker deals in masterly fashion with a great
variety of subjects.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 786. N. 17, ’06. 1560w.
=Kern, O. J.= Among country schools. $1.25. Ginn.
A little manual which the author hopes “will prove suggestive to the
teacher and school officer who are striving for the spiritualization
of country life thru the medium of the country school. He believes
that a careful reading of its pages will show a practical way of
interesting the ‘farm child thru farm topics.’”
* * * * *
“Here is a county superintendent with ideas, the courage of his
convictions, and the ability to persuade taxpayers to look at the
matter from his point of view.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 516. D. 13, ’06. 280w.
=Kernahan, Coulson.= World without a child. **50c. Revell.
A picture of life in Anglo-Saxon cities where the race-suicide theory
is carried to its logical outcome.
* * * * *
“Coulson Kernahan, though he may be perfectly sincere, has pitched his
song of woe in a false key.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 10: 730. O. 28, ’05. 90w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.
=Kester, Vaughan.= Fortunes of the Landrays. †$1.50. McClure.
“The author does not so much give the impression of a trained writer
as of a person with a story to tell and some first-hand knowledge of
the places and people he describes.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 270. S. 8. 110w.
=Kidd, Dudley.= Savage childhood: a study of Kafir children; with 32
full-page il. from the photographs by the author. $3.50. Macmillan.
Herbert Spencer’s notion that man’s first duty is to become a good
animal finds expression in the untrained, unconditioned state which is
best illustrated in the savage child. Mr. Kidd pictures these
untrammeled children at their innocent amusements, and as practices
conducive to robustness are traditional among the Kafir people, the
children are splendid types of physical development. The blighting
tendencies of indolence, sensuality and vanity are later
manifestations which only education can hope to avert.
* * * * *
“Mr. Dudley Kidd has written a most charming and instructive book
about the children whom he found in the Kafir kraals. Every line of it
is full of interest.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 496. N. 17, ’06. 840w.
“It is artistic rather than scientific. The scientific possibilities
in all this field of observation have been practically untouched.”
+ – =Nature.= 75: 128. D. 6, ’06. 1220w.
“The volume is a distinct addition to popular knowledge of
anthropology and ethnography.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 843. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“All through this book we are not introduced to any one individual,
though Mr. Kidd’s graphic pen has power to make his reader dream that
he has been living among a pack of black children.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 816. N. 24, ’06. 1850w.
=Kidder, Frank Eugene.= Building construction and superintendence. Pt.
3. Trussed roofs and roof trusses. $3. Comstock.
The author’s clear and comprehensive description accompanied by ample
illustrations covers types of modern and steel trusses, the layout of
trussed roofs, open timber roofs and church roofs, vaulted and domed
ceilings, octagonal and domed roofs, roofs and trusses of coliseums,
armored trainsheds, and exposition buildings, data and methods for
computing the purlin and truss loads and supporting forces or
reactions. A chapter is further devoted to numerical examples for the
determinations of stresses in roof trusses of different types by the
graphic method.
* * * * *
“Throughout the volume the contents give constant evidence of good
judgment in the selection of material, while painstaking care is shown
in the composition of the text.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 55: 426. Ap. 12, ’06. 1350w.
=Kilbourne, Frederick W.= Alterations and adaptations of Shakespeare.
$1.50. Badger, R: G.
The author points out in his study the pronounced change in dramatic
taste which differentiates a period from the proceeding one, and then
indicates the effect of the belief in different dramatic tenets on the
opinion of Shakespeare. He discusses the principles of dramatic art
which came to rule and to which the playwrights of the time endeavored
to make Shakespeare’s plays conform by means of alteration. Then he
describes the altered versions, comments on the modifications, shows
whether they have been made according to dramatic theories or whether
they are the result of “personal opinions, judgment, or caprice of a
reviewer.”
* * * * *
“A useful and convenient handbook to an interesting and somewhat
neglected subject.” Henry B. Wheatly.
+ =Acad.= 71: 491. N. 17. ’06. 2130w.
“The only cheerful element in this necessarily somewhat dismal
treatise is the indication of the growth of reverence for the text of
Shakespeare in more modern times.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 130w.
“An interesting little book of some value, doubtless, as a work of
reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 474. Jl. 28, ’06. 310w.
=Kildare, Owen.= Wisdom of the simple: a tale of lower New York. †$1.50.
Revell.
Once more Mr. Kildare draws his material from the Bowery district of
New York city. It is a tale of poverty and concerns the careers of two
boys who grow up to be rivals in love and politics.
* * * * *
“Of more value than many ordinary sociological studies, and far more
interesting reading.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 420. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“Probably no writer in New York is capable of presenting slum life,
its needs and its temptations, as does Owen Kildare.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 130w.
“The peculiar interest of ‘The wisdom of the simple’ as a sociological
study lies in the ethics and ideals that are of indigenous growth, and
not transplanted or imposed from without.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 514. Mr. 1, ’06. 500w.
“About the most interesting story that we have come across in a long
time. It is something better than interesting—it is suggestive,
encouraging and inspiring, the kind of a book that renews one’s trust
in the saving grace of the human heart.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 79. F. 10, ’06. 670w.
“A little too much of the atmosphere of the old-fashioned
Sunday-school book to be a good story.”
– + =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 761. Je. ’06. 40w.
=Kimball, George Selwyn.= Jay Gould Harmon with Maine folks: a picture
of life in the Maine woods. $1.50. Clark.
“Jay Gould Harmon is a fine, manly character, and plays his part among
the rough and trying incidents of the Maine logging camps in a way
that excites the admiration even of those men born and brought up in a
land where fearless courage is an everyday characteristic.... The book
contains a little of everything from a love affair to a baseball
game.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“There is a noticeable flavor of the dime novel about it.”
– + =Ind.= 59: 1346. D. 7, ’05. 120w.
“The book shows some merit, but it strikes one that the author would
have succeeded very much better in his purpose, if he could have found
some other means of bringing out the characteristics of his
‘Down-Easters’ than by setting up in their midst some painfully unreal
city folks and drawing theatrical contrasts.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 98. F. 17, ’06. 540w.
=King, Charles.= Soldier’s trial. $1.50. Hobart.
“General King’s readers, if desirous of information upon the
comparative merits of canteen, or no canteen, will be well rewarded by
a perusal of the book while those who want only a good novel, with
plenty of action, a little intrigue, ending in the triumph of worth
and the detection of villainy, will not be disappointed.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 116. O. ’06. 250w.
“There is very little action for a King novel, and the interest is
nursed along by very slender means.”
– =Ind.= 59: 1542. D. 28, ’05. 320w.
=King, Charles.= Tonio, son of the Sierras: a story of the Apache war.
†$1.50. Dillingham.
Another of General King’s stories of army life, post intrigue and
frontier war-fare. Tonio is an Indian scout, silent, courageous, and
faithful. Altho he is cruelly misjudged and unjustly dealt with by his
general, he sacrifices his life in the service of the army and his
army friends. About him circles the love story of Lilian Archer, an
army girl who accepts the love of an unworthy lieutenant only to
discover her error and see little Harris, a discarded suitor, in a new
light.
* * * * *
“A story of the Apache war, told in an entertaining manner by one
thoroughly familiar with his material.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 110w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Letters to Sunday-school teachers on the great
truths of our Christian faith. *$1. Pilgrim press.
“President King’s letters are addressed to Sunday-school teachers only
as persons likely to be interested in the fundamental problems of
religious belief. They are a sort of theological primer, a plain,
non-technical argument for the leading articles of Christian
faith.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“President King has the right spirit of approach to these questions:
he is frank and honest, and tries to keep hard by reality.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 937. O. 18, ’06. 180w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 201. S. 6, ’06. 310w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from
modern psychology. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“As a contribution to the science of ethics its value is twofold.
First it makes clear certain practical corollaries and conclusions for
the direction of conduct. But second, and chiefly, it emphasizes a
_method_ in ethical study—the method which reasons from the nature of
mind to the practical principles that ought to govern life.” Herbert
A. Youtz.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 769. O. ’06. 630w.
“Good sense shines in President King’s treatise.” George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 40w.
“It abounds in illustration and is marked by lucidity of expression
and exposition.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“All things considered we must believe that President King’s book will
carry a real and valuable message to those for whom it was intended.”
T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 40: 151. Mr. 1, ’06. 400w.
=King, William Lyon Mackenzie.= Secret of heroism: a memoir of Henry
Albert Harper. **$1. Revell.
A tribute to the memory of Henry Albert Harper, a Canadian journalist
and writer, who lost his life in trying to rescue a drowning girl. The
tragic event took place on the Ottawa river in December of 1901 and
the heroism of one willing to face almost certain death is the theme
of Mr. King’s sketch.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 733. Ap. ’06. 40w.
“It is a book to make the reader humbler, braver, purer and, whether
for a life time or but a day, every way better.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 301. My. 1, ’06. 130w.
“On Mr. King’s part, it may be added, the work discloses not only a
genuine sympathy for the twentieth-century Sir Galahad, of whom he
writes, but a clear insight into many of the fundamental facts of life
and experience.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
“It is a book which should stir the heart of many a young reader.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 79. Mr. 9, ’06. 760w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 497. Mr. 31, ’06. 1210w.
=Kingsbury, Susan Myra.= Introduction to the records of the Virginia
company, with a bibliographical list of the extant documents, pa.
gratis. Lib. of Congress.
“Some 764 separate documents are listed and described in such a way
that the location, nature, and place of publication may be easily
determined. The writer made many discoveries of new documents in the
English archives, and established the loss of many more by the
receipts and memoranda of books and papers received or delivered in
the various changes in the form of the ruling body.” (Nation). An
introduction, notes, bibliography and index add to the value of the
volumes.
* * * * *
“There can be no question of the great debt which students owe her for
the interesting labors here described. Her general remarks on the
development of the Company and its career are less valuable, partly
because not expressed in clear style. This catalogue is extremely well
executed. Less satisfactory in respect to form is the list of
authorities with which the introduction closes.”
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 174. O. ’06. 420w.
“Miss Susan M. Kingsbury has made a study of the sources for the
history of the Virginia company of London, and the resulting
publication must rank high in point of thoroughness and general form.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 301. Ap. 12, ’06. 380w.
“These papers are all of great value to the student of the beginnings
of American history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
=Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge.= Chronicles of London; with introd. and
notes. *$3.40. Oxford.
“This scholarly work presents to the reader three of the old London
chronicles which are contained in the Cottonian Mss., Julius B. ii.,
Cleopatra C. iv., and Vitellius A. xvi., and which embrace a period of
English history extending from the times of Richard I. to the year
1509. The editor in his introduction traces the evolution of the
‘chronicle’ from the early official record known as the ‘Liber de
antiquis legibus’ to the popular works of Holinshed and Stow.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Mr. Kingsford deserves much praise for the scholarly work displayed
in this volume, which is provided with ample notes, a useful glossary,
and a good index.” Charles Gross.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 884. Jl. ’06. 510w.
“These notes exhibit the same fullness of learning that is apparent in
the introduction.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 132. F. 3. 1040w.
“It is impossible to praise too highly the manner of executing the
work.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 800w.
“The student must be very circumspect as to the manner in which he
uses the information he gleans from these ‘Chronicles,’ as the dates
are often inaccurate, though the facts are, in the main, correct. Mr.
Kingsford’s scholarly introduction and notes will, however, aid him
very materially to avoid missing his way in the labyrinth of rather
loosely put information in which the ancient chroniclers conveyed
their facts.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 120. Jl. 28, ’06. 290w.
=Spec.= 96: sup. 650. Ap. 28, ’06. 260w.
=Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse).= Intellectual Miss Lamb. 75c. Century.
“The exuberantly youthful, kittenish beauty exhibited in Miss Lamb’s
pink and white curl-shaded cherubic countenance” seems far from
suggesting the fact that she is “little more than a walking edition of
the great Greathead’s ‘Physiological psychology.’” She can subject the
man who loves her to as critical a scientific analysis as the little
“Master William,” who calls her “Lamby,”—and all for the sake of her
“Tabulated records.” One day the precious manuscript is chewed to pulp
by a bull terrier that must have been in sympathy with Billy Gregg;
for it was the day of his delayed innings.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 369. Je. 9, ’06. 190w.
“Merry little story.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 40w.
=Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse).= Resurrection of Miss Cynthia. †$1.50.
Dodd.
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1344. D. 7, ’05. 250w.
“This is a graceful, human kind of story, and incidentally, at the
same time a sensible protest against the theory that life is
necessarily a thing of gloom and repression.”
+ =Reader.= 7: 228. Ja. ’06. 370w.
“The book has some of the qualities of Miss Wilkins’ New England
stories, and, slight as is its texture, is pleasant to read.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 22. Ja. 6, ’06. 200w.
“There is a great deal of charm in this account of what may be called
the resuscitation of an old maid.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 186. F. 3, ’06. 180w.
=Kinkead, Eleanor Talbot.= Invisible bond. †$1.50. Moffat.
“The scene of this novel is laid in Kentucky.... A scheming woman,
poor and beautiful, ensnares a man whose nature demanded a nobler
companion spirit than hers. Unhappiness, disgrace, and tragedy
followed their marriage. But, with the power bestowed upon novelists,
the author restores the worthy characters to happiness and consigns
the unworthy to their own place.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“If only her pictorial sense were better developed,—if she were half
as good in the composition of her plot as she is in the use of verbal
colouring,—‘The invisible bond’ would be a very uncommon and
interesting book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 539. Jl. ’06. 490w.
“The best feature of the book is the picture of Kentucky life, which
is attractive and not overdrawn.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 130w.
“This sweet and wholesome tale, although by no means devoid of
dramatic excitement, has nevertheless a tranquillizing effect upon the
mind; it seems somehow to have a life apart from the sickly everyday
world, and to breathe an air of its own, pure and uninfected by the
malaria of most current fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 115. S. 1, ’06. 230w.
=Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w.
“Impresses us as a first book, one of interest and of promise, but
crude in its performance, and suffering greatly from its prolixity.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 323. My. 19, ’06. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
=Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 60w.
=Kinzbrunner, C.= Alternate current windings, their theory and
construction: a handbook for student designers and all practical men.
*$1.50. Van Nostrand.
The clear and simple explanation of the principles of alternating
current windings given in this volume makes it suitable not only for
students and designers but also for the workman engaged in the
manufacture and repair of alternating winding currents. Chapter 1,
treats of The production of alternating currents; Chapter 2,
Alternating current windings; Chapter 3, Continuous current windings;
Chapter 4, Dissolved continuous current windings; Chapter 5,
Multiphase windings; Chapter 6, The construction of alternating
current windings; Chapter 7, The insulation of alternating current
windings. The volume is illustrated and contains a list of symbols and
an index.
=Kinzbrunner, C.= Continuous current armatures, their winding and
construction: a handbook for students, designers and all practical men.
*$1.50. Van Nostrand.
“By means of the rules given in this volume, the reader will, if
necessary, always be able to design any other winding not actually
discussed here. The explanations are given in a very popular manner,
so that anybody possessing an elementary knowledge of the principles
of continuous current machines should be able to understand them
fully.” Chapter 1, is upon the Theory of windings, Chapter 2, The
construction of drum windings, Chapter 3, The construction of
armatures. The book is well illustrated and indexed.
=Kipling, Rudyard.= Puck of Pook’s hill. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“We are alway persuaded to ‘believe in fairies’ when they bid us
listen and look. And so we are quite sure it is true that Puck came to
Dan and Una and told them of the ‘old things’ and showed them how to
recall the long ago of their ancestors and ours, giving the history of
England the most attractive guise that ever the boys and girls could
dream of, and incidentally, preaching a few sermons to the powers of
the present day.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The serious reader may be warned that Mr. Rudyard Kipling is here not
quite at his very best. The tales that concern the Roman Centurion are
ill-constructed and want cohesion, and those connected with smuggling
in later times have been better told before.”
– =Acad.= 71: 327. O. 6, ’06. 510w.
“The machinery of the tales ... is awkward, and even provoking. The
story of the ‘Dymchurch flit’ stands alone in its method, style and
picturesque beauty. It is an exquisite piece of work unrelated to its
predecessors and its successor.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 660w.
“There is no doubt that he has gained in his mastery of technique.
There is equally no doubt that he has lost immensely in spontaneity
and vigor. One reads him now with admiration, but without being in the
least swept away by the inimitable dash and force and fire of his
earlier and rougher style. His artistry is something exquisite.” Harry
Thurston Peck.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 383. D. ’06. 380w.
+ =Current Literature.= 41: 699. D. ’06. 730w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 820. O. 4, ’06. 460w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 280w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
+ + =Living Age.= 251: 569. D. 1, ’06. 2330w. (Reprinted from the
Lond. Times.)
“When he first began he was a determined realist, and, though he
sometimes dreamed with his eyes open, there was nothing to show that
he would ever write a book so full of white magic as this.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 336. O. 5, ’06. 220w.
“Each of the stories is full of life and movement. Taken together
however, they have a unity and interest which are marred by separate
publication in the magazines. They convey an uncommonly vivid sense of
that past which to most of us is hazier than a dream.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 286. O. 4, ’06. 1140w.
“Fairy tales which (minus a serious moral purpose) could have been
told as well by many a lesser writer. They could not perhaps have been
told quite as well in a purely literary sense by many others, for Mr.
Kipling is one of the strongest factors in this hour in the
development of the English language.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 593. S. 29, ’06. 1150w.
“Puck and the men he calls to his aid are graphic narrators, there are
some effective interludes in verse, and the treatment as a whole is
fresh and vital.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 160w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 130w.
“These stories are at the best but second hand work.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 430. O. 6, ’06. 900w.
“More than once in these columns we have called Mr. Kipling the
interpreter to the English-speaking race. Nothing of his writing has
ever justified the name better than the volume before us.”
+ + + =Spec.= 97: 538. O. 13, ’06. 1750w.
=Kirk, William.= National labor federations in the United States. 75c.
Johns Hopkins.
One of the “University studies in historical and political science.”
The three-fold treatment covers the subjects of general labor
federations, trades councils and industrial unions.
=Kirkbride, Franklin B., and Sterrett, J. E.= Modern trust company, its
function and organization. *$2.50. Macmillan.
A book for the enlightenment of the general public which offers for
the first time a full and consistent description of the various lines
of work in which a modern trust company engages. It discusses the
duties of trust company officers, and the relation of trust companies
to the banking community and the public, and gives in detail the most
recent methods of organization and accounting for trust companies in
their several functions.
* * * * *
“They have made it possible for the business community to become
intimately acquainted with this mighty engine of modern finance. A
book well rounded in thought and execution, brief where brevity is
advisable and detailed where explanation is desirable.” Thomas Conway,
jr.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 439. Mr. ’06. 1040w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 399. F. 15, ’06. 80w.
“Covers the ground with a fullness that leaves little to be desired,
and from a sanely conservative viewpoint.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 120w.
“The care and judgment with which the rest of their work is done,
justify the belief that our authors are competent to deal with the
broader aspects of their subject. As their book now stands, however,
it fails to give us all that we have a right to expect from a
comprehensive treatise upon trust companies.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 270w.
“This is a book of practice rather than theory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 71. F. 3, ’06. 200w.
“The present work, however, is so complete and lucid that it should
serve as a standard guide and not only to the public but to students
of banking and finance, and deserves wide recognition as an
authoritative text-book. The point of view is soundly conservative,
and there is little theorizing, concreteness being the distinguishing
characteristic throughout.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 93. Ja. 13, ’05. 130w.
“Organizers of such institutions should find this information very
helpful. The information is also very important to all who have
business dealings with trust companies, however slight.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 130w.
=Kittredge, George Lyman.= Old farmer and his almanack. *$2.50. Ware.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 180. F. 10, ’06. 190w.
=Klein, Charles.= Lion and the mouse; a story of American life novelized
from the play by Arthur Hornblow. $1.50. Dillingham.
Mr. Klein’s popular play has been turned by Mr. Hornblow into that
most unusual thing a really good novelized drama. The story remains
unchanged. The lion, the richest man in the world, tries to revenge
himself on a supreme court judge for certain just decisions by
involving him in a scandal which threatens his impeachment. Then comes
the mouse, the daughter of the judge, who has already written a novel
setting forth the character and financial methods of the lion to his
disadvantage, and has also won the love of the lion’s only son. Thus
armed she is the first of all human creatures who dares to defy the
magnate, and she successfully gnaws the cords which tie up the plot
and wins happiness for her father, her lover, and, incidentally,
herself.
* * * * *
“In comparison with the rapid action and the terse dialog of the play,
the novel seems long-winded and tedious.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 697. S. 20, ’06. 350w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 358. S. 15, ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 799. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
“The book as a separate performance, lacks the vitality and sharp
characterization which make the play successful.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 240w.
“With its poise, its unity, its swift action, its deep human note, it
is certain to find a kindly disposed audience among those who do not
care for the theatre.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 220w.
=Klein, Felix.= In the land of the strenuous life. **$2. McClurg.
“From a literary standpoint it is a model of simple, direct
narrative.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 238. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“This picturesque book deserves to find as many and as appreciative
readers in the country which it describes as it has already found in
the land to which it holds up a democratic exemplar.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 40. Jl. 14. 620w.
“His observations on this and other matters were, considering the
circumstances, remarkably accurate. The English of the translation is
also very good.”
+ + – =Cath. World.= 82: 547. Ja. ’06. 280w.
“The present translation ... is fluent, idiomatic and entirely free
from gallicisms. There are a few mistakes, which we should have been
inclined to attribute to the printer did they not appear in the
index.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1223. My. 24, ’06. 360w.
=Kleiser, Grenville.= How to speak in public. *$1.25. Funk.
A book intended for teachers, students, and orators which is a
complete elocutionary manual, comprising numerous exercises for
developing the speaking voice, deep breathing, pronunciation, vocal
expression, and gesture, also selections for practice from
masterpieces of ancient and modern eloquence.
* * * * *
“The work is especially adapted for self-instruction.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 814. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
=Knowles, Frederick Lawrence.= Love triumphant. **$1. Estes.
Reviewed by P. H. Frye.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 95. Mr. ’06. 110w.
=Knowles, Frederick Milton.= Cheerful year book for engagements and
other serious matters. **$1.50. Holt.
“Accompanied by philosophic and moral aphorisms for the instruction of
youth the inspiration of maturity and the solace of age, the same
being illustrated by tasteful and illuminating pictures by C. F.
Lester and the whole being introduced and concluded with profound and
edifying remarks by Carolyn Wells.”
* * * * *
“It is not too much to say that anyone with a sense of humor will
enjoy the ‘Cheerful yearbook;’ its jests are merry without being in
the least vulgar.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 399. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= St. Cuthbert’s: a novel. †$1.50. Revell.
“Greater skill in the handling and selection of materials would have
made this an interesting—as it is undoubtedly a conscientious—piece of
work.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 12. Ja. 6. 110w.
“There is displayed very little skill in story telling, and a ruthless
use of the pruning knife among the exuberant growths of rhetoric and
sentimentality would have helped the book to a stronger and more
fruitful vitality.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 518. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.
=Knowles, Robert E.= Undertow: a tale of both sides of the sea. †$1.50.
Revell.
Caught in the undertow of selfishness a young theologian breasts its
fury and wins a hard fought victory in the end. He battles his arch
enemy among the self-sacrificing father and mother of the fine old
Scotch school, and faithful brother Reuben, he fights it in the midst
of graduate studies no less than in London in the church to which he
is called. The bitterness of an enemy which leads to a
misunderstanding with his wife furnishes the annealing process which
his nature needs.
* * * * *
“This is one of the innumerable novels based on a sentimental
perception of right and wrong.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 40w.
=Knowling, Rev. Richard John.= Testimony of St. Paul to Christ: as
viewed in some of its aspects. *$3 Scribner.
“This important work is divided into three parts: I, The documents and
the grounds upon which their use is justified; II, Paul’s testimony in
relation to ‘The life’ of the gospels; III. Paul’s testimony in
relation to the life of the church. The concluding chapter deals with
the literature on the subject published in 1903–5.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“Of Dr. Knowling’s learning and ability there can be no question; he
is moreover, thoroughly well up in the latest results of criticism,
and although he apparently regards critics who are nothing but critics
as opponents of Christianity, he usually states their opinions fairly.
It is in the second and third parts that Dr. Knowling is revealed as
the apologist with a very thin veneer of criticism.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 524. Je. 2, 06. 1060w.
Reviewed by George H. Gilbert.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 725. O. ’06. 1180w.
“His weight of learning presses heavily on the reader, if not on the
writer.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 103. Ja. 27. 530w.
=Bib. World.= 27: 79. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“It must be admitted that the book has the fault of its virtue. It
reveals the processes of an able and learned mind defending what is
held to be the truth, rather than seeking the truth.” William H.
Ryder.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 156. Ag. ’06. 1080w.
=Lond. Times.= 4: 427. D. 8, ’05. 1330w.
“As a summary and an appreciation of the present fruits of scholarly
work on a fourth part of the new Testament such a work is of uncommon
value.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 377. F. 17, ’06. 260w.
“If one were to criticise Dr. Knowling’s book, it would be not for
lack of learning, but for lack of proportion. The impression remains
that in all these five hundred pages the real essence of the problem
is hardly touched upon.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 273. S. 1, ’06. 1150w.
=Spec.= 95: 1086. D. 23, ’05. 280w.
=Knox, George H.= Thoughts that inspire. 2v. *$1.70. Personal help.
An anthology under classified headings of bits of wisdom, advice and
admonition culled from the writings of men and women of all ages.
=Knox, George William.= Spirit of the Orient. *$1.50. Crowell.
In the face of the great changes that are confronting an awakening
East, these well illustrated studies by Professor Knox will be
welcomed as gratifying additions to the many studies of the Orient
which have recently appeared. Beginning with an introductory chapter
upon America and the East, Professor Knox takes up first the American
point of view, then the Asiatic point of view, and then passes on to a
discussion of India, China, and Japan dividing the discussion of each
into, Its people and customs, and, Its spirit and problems, and
closing with a chapter upon, The new world. The whole forms a fund of
Occidental entertainment and enlightenment.
* * * * *
“Scholarly philosophical work.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 300w.
“No abler book on the mind of Asia has yet appeared.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1113. N. 8, ’06. 460w.
“In writing about India, China, and Japan he approaches the subjective
attitude more closely than is usual with Occidental writers.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 640. N. ’06. 90w.
=Knuth, Paul.= Handbook of flower pollination; based upon Hermann
Müller’s work, The fertilization of flowers by insects; tr. by J. R.
Ainsworth Davis, v. I. Introduction and literature. *$5.75. Oxford.
“This is a text-book not for students, but for professors.... The
original first volume consisted entirely of an introduction and
bibliography; the introduction, however, is complete in itself, and
gives a mass of ordered detail about the highly complex relations
between insects and flowers.... In the translation ... the
bibliography of flower pollination forms one useful list, of which the
references have been specially revised by Dr. Fritsch to ensure
accuracy. To the text the editor has added several useful notes
indicating matters of importance that have arisen since Knuth’s work
was completed. In the arrangement of the text as well as the many text
figures the original is followed.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The present volume is the first of the three comprising Knuth’s
masterly work, which is by far the most comprehensive on its subject,
and of world-wide renown. Not only is the text index omitted, but also
the equally essential index of subjects appended to the bibliography
in the original.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 305. S. 15. 680w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + – =Bot. G.= 42: 494. D. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The compendious treatise entitled ‘Introduction’ in this first
volume, is beyond question, the best presentation of the matter of
flower-pollination by insects yet given in an English dress.”
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 270. S. 27, ’06. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“English readers will welcome the present work, incorporating as it
does the great mass of research on floral biology which has been
carried out in recent years. The translator has done his work well on
the whole. We must, however, direct attention to a few instances of
faulty rendering.” F. D.
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 605. O. 18, ’06. 720w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Famous American songs. il. **$1.50. Crowell.
Lovers of the sentiment and tradition, that enter into the making of
our few timetested American songs will prize this book. Mr. Kobbé,
musical critic and writer, tells how each song happened to be written,
where it was first sung, and gives interesting incidents in careers of
the writers. The songs of the group are: Home, sweet home, Old folks
at home, Dixie, Ben Bolt, Star-spangled banner, Yankee Doodle, Hail
Columbia and America.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Nation.= 83: 446. N. 22, ’06. 210w.
“The book contains a wealth of curious information gathered from many
recondite sources.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 377. D. ’06. 140w.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actors and their homes. $1.50. Little.
“There is both new material in Mr. Kobbe’s book and old material
adapted to new points of view.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 93. Ja. 20, ’06. 70w.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Wagner and his Isolde. **$1. Dodd.
“The story is such a fascinating one that, in spite of Mr. Kobbe’s
limitations in the direction of tact, good taste and good English, he
who begins it will not lay the book aside until he has finished the
last page.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1349. D. 7, ’05. 330w.
=Konkle, Burton Alva.= Life and speeches of Thomas Williams, orator,
statesman and jurist, 1806–1872. 2v. $6. Campion & co.
“Mr. Williams, as is well known, was a founder of the Whig and
Republican parties, and also a lawyer and jurist of eminence. His
career and his speeches naturally and necessarily form no
insignificant part of the national history, and they are ably and
fully described and presented in these volumes, to which Senator Knox
of Pennsylvania contributes an introduction.”—Critic.
* * * * *
Reviewed by David Miller DeWitt.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 697. Ap. ’06. 880w.
“This is one of the most important works on the momentous period
before and during the Civil war.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 80w.
“The two volumes seem passably free from errata.” Edwin E. Sparks.
+ =Dial.= 40: 229. Ap. 1, ’06. 1150w.
“A book that is neither very interesting nor very useful.”
– =Nation.= 83: 106. Ag. 2, ’06. 680w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 263. Ap. 21, ’06. 230w.
– =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 190w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 100w.
=Koopman, Harry Lyman.= At the gates of the century. 75c. Everett press.
“The metrical diversions of a score of years—mostly bits of verse—are
collected into a volume [in which] neatly epigrammatic couplets and
quatrains abound.”—Dial.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 160w.
“There is little in Mr. Koopman’s slender but pithy book to arouse any
other sentiment than admiration for his gift of compact, suggestive
phrase.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w.
=Kramer, Harold M.= Hearts and the cross. †$1.50. Lothrop.
A young minister of many creeds wanders into a Hoosier community, is
befriended by a good old Indiana family, and assumes the double role
of farm hand and minister. He becomes involved in political and
neighborhood feuds and it develops that he is a pardoned convict and
that long ago in Florida he bound an elder daughter of the house by
what was supposed to be a mock marriage to the dissolute wretch who
deserted her. However the untangled plot clears his character, the
weakness of the past is forgotten in the strength of the present, and
he wins the love of a younger daughter whom he has all along confused
with the elder sister and wins also the respect of the community.
* * * * *
“‘Wholesome’ is the adjective that best expresses the quality of the
book; and that quality is its chief charm. Talent it surely displays,
but as yet it is the talent of the amateur, crude in spots, and more
or less immature.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 130w.
“A dramatic story with a mystery in it which keeps the interest alive
to the very last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
“A thoroughly commonplace story.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 4w.
=Kuhn, Franz.= Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.
This little volume in the “Life stories for young people” series
sketches the great events in the life of Frederick I in a simple but
vigorous style that will appeal to all wide-awake children.
=Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar.= Saint Francis of Assisi. **50c. Crowell.
A picture of Saint Francis of Assisi which shows a “gentle spirit,
humble and patient, yet kind and courteous, renouncing all earthly
riches, knowledge, and glory filled with the triple love for God, for
nature, and for man.”
L
=Ladd, George Trumbull.= Philosophy of religion: critical and
speculative treatise of man’s religious experience and development in
the light of modern science and reflective thinking. 2v. **$7. Scribner.
“The present work presents at considerable length the facts of man’s
religious experience, the origin and development of religion in
various races, and the relation of religion to other departments of
human life, and this treatment of phenomenology of religion is
followed by a criticism of the conceptions and tenets of spiritual
experience from the point of view of modern science and philosophy. It
aims to be a quite free and scientific treatise of the total religious
life and religious development of humanity, but its chief interest is
to prove philosophically that theism is entirely tenable and also
demonstrable by the instruments in the hands of philosophy.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The work is erudite and encyclopaedic, even heavily so at times; but
the vital dialectic of his discussions, and the living search for
truth that dominates the whole work, will make it of intense interest
to the student of the subject. We regard it as an enriching
contribution to the developing science of religion.” Herbert Alden
Youtz.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 366. Ap. ’06. 1790w.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 6. Jl. 7. 740w.
+ + + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 364. Ap. ’06. 3090w.
“He writes in an irenic spirit, and always with constructive aim, but
he is sometimes more abstruse than is needful and more than a trifle
prolix.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 688. Mr. 22, ’06. 200w.
“What impresses the thoughtful reader of Professor Ladd’s volumes is
the thoroughness with which they canvass practically the whole field
of discussion. It is difficult to decide on what ground he is
strongest, whether in history, anthropology, psychology or general
philosophy. In each field he treads familiar ground and pronounces
sane and rational judgments.” A. T. Ormond.
+ + + =J. Philos.= 3: 522. S. 13, ’06. 2290w.
“The description of the religious phenomena is, with a few exceptions,
accurate. Throughout the book there are suggestive remarks. The great
extent of the field traversed, and the author’s anxiety to make his
positions clear, lead to a good deal of repetition. An undue amount of
space seems to be given to the review of early religious phenomena.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 229. Mr. 15, ’06. 1060w.
“A massive work admirable both in analysis and synthesis, candid in
its recognition of difficulties remaining to be solved.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 47. Ja. 6, ’06. 540w.
“The total impression is that of a great drama which the author is
opening to our vision rather than that of a chain or web of
speculative notions. This concreteness, which is pervasive of the
entire work, is perhaps its greatest merit. One can only wish that the
evidential logic of it had been wrought out rather more
systematically.” George A. Coe.
+ + – =Philos. R.= 15: 528. S. ’06. 3300w.
Reviewed by E. S. Ames.
=Psychol. Bull.= 3: 411. D. 15, ’06. 1020w.
=Laking, Guy Francis.= Furniture of Windsor castle, by Guy Francis
Laking, Keeper of the king’s armory; published by command of His Majesty
King Edward VII. 35c. Dutton.
“In preparing this deeply interesting and richly illustrated account
of the most beautiful and typical examples of the furniture in Windsor
castle—a worthy companion of that on the armours from the same pen—the
scholarly editor has wisely adopted the historical method.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: 371. F. ’06. 510w.
“Although it claims no great learning and displays no great acumen in
the description of the pieces, it still gives information that is
worth having.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 206. Mr. 6, ’06. 1960w.
=Lamb, Charles.= Essays of Elia, 1st series; selected and edited with an
introduction and notes by George A. Wauchope. *40c. Ginn.
A selection containing about thirty of the most popular essays well
annotated.
=Lamb, Charles and Mary.= Works and letters. v. 6 and 7. *$2.25. Putnam.
Reviewed by Sidney T. Irwin.
=Quarterly R.= 204: 163. Ja. ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 1–7.)
=Lamb, Mrs. Edith M.= What the baby needs. $1. Nunn & co.
Complete instruction and suggestions for the care of a baby.
=Lancaster, G. B.= Sons o’ men. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Another collection of curious, faraway, exotic tales with a touch of
real distinction both in theme and treatment.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 493. Ja. ’06. 420w.
“Of the faults the most noticeable are in the form of grammatical
errors. But the author’s ability is unquestionable and the stories are
good.”
+ – =Ind.= 59: 1540. D. 28, ’05. 210w.
=Lancaster, G. B.= The spur. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Any one who knows aught of Australian or Island life, of sheep farms,
or copra gatherers and traders, will respond to this vivid writing, as
those who know India used to respond to Kipling.” (Outlook.) “The spur
to smite was a cool, calculating man of the world named Haddington,
and the spurred smiter an Australian youth who had it in him to be
something of a Kipling. Detecting merit in the boy’s literary
beginnings, Haddington induced him to sell himself to him for seven
years.... The book is the story of Kin’s struggle as an honest, clean,
impulsive, brave fellow under this contract and his futile efforts to
free himself from it.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1177. N. 11, ’05. 330w.
“The author unfortunately falls into a certain exasperating preciosity
of style which interferes seriously with the reader’s enjoyment.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’08. 130w.
“A strong novel, and holds the reader until the grewsome end.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1434. Je. 14, ’06. 230w.
– + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 140w.
“Is impaired also by some confusion and want of order in its episodes,
and an excess of that virile, almost brutal, kind of writing. But it
is a striking book, having much force and directness of phrase, and in
the earlier parts some vivid effects of atmosphere.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 329. O. 6, ’05. 230w.
“A story which grows more moving and more intense as it builds toward
its climax.” H. I. Brock.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 253. Ap. 21, ’06. 920w.
“The words sting, the people live, and the story is a story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“A unique story, marked by much strength, but somewhat marred by the
unrelieved wickedness of one man.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 80w.
“A story of intense action.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 661. My. 26, ’06. 120w.
=Lane, Anna Eichberg Ring (Mrs. John Lane).= Champagne standard.
**$1.50. Lane.
“‘The champagne standard’ is the title of the first seventeen essays
in which Mrs. John Lane describes, satirises, and, perhaps it should
be added, counsels what we may call the ‘upper middle class.’... Mrs.
Lane, who describes herself as ‘an exiled American sister,’ fills her
pages with wisdom and wit. She writes from an American—or, rather from
a transplanted American—standpoint, and this gives a fresh force and
meaning to her words.... A cook who disdains to be spoken to through a
tube, and a housemaid who will not take notice after noon, but
promptly gives it herself next morning.... The conductor who bids you
hurry up, the host, the ‘saleslady’ who makes you wait while she
discusses things in general with a colleague, the verger in a
fashionable church—this last is peculiarly American—are
specimens.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Lane may congratulate herself on having that blessed sense of
humour which is one of the most valuable possessions in life. In any
case English-women should be grateful to her for writing them this
delightful, candid book, which is full of original and bright ideas.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 136. F. 10, ’06. 900w.
“Mrs. Lane’s style is admirably suited to the racy and ephemeral
matter which these papers contain, and she treats each topic with such
freshness and originality that the book is as entertaining as it is
suggestive.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 220w.
“Spontaneous wit united with keen judgment makes this volume a
delightful one.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 470. My. ’06. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 200. Mr. 16, ’06. 400w.
“In ‘The champagne standard’ Mrs. John Lane has carried the art of
prattle (on paper) to a point of rare perfection.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 54. F. 16, ’06. 450w.
“The volume is delightful and contains many things to laugh over—and
afterwards to think over seriously.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 149. Mr. 10, ’06. 870w.
“Mrs. Lane’s papers are light, agreeable fare for those who want to
know about certain sections of society, their follies and trifles, and
her book was made to be read.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 404. Mr. 31, ’06. 170w.
“The whole book is thoroughly worth reading.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 306. F. 24, ’06. 300w.
=Lane, Elinor Macartney.= All for the love of a lady; 6 full-page il. by
Arthur Becher. †$1.25. Appleton.
“A tale of chivalrous love and dastardly conspiracy told with the
grace that we should expect from the author of ‘Nancy Stair.’” (Ind.)
Lady Iseult of Castle Carfrae has a quartette of lovers—two of whom
are little Scotch lads of nine who swear fealty to their lady and
defend her in the absence of her favored lover. “Incidentally the
story is furnished with a villain, and a faithful old retainer in the
person of a Scotch lawyer, who, by the help of the two dauntless
midgets, rescues the maid from her danger and restores her to her true
love.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The sketch is one of the best things the author has written.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 190. Ag. ’06. 40w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1377. Je. 7, ’06. 100w.
“Every one of the six characters is marvelously well defined, there is
much humor, much delightful talk, and a reality and naturalness about
it all that speaks much for the writer’s skill—even genius.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 327. My. 19, ’06. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“There is much wit and many clever scenes in the story.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 170w.
=Lang, Andrew.= John Knox and the reformation. *$3.50. Longmans.
“Its ‘saeva indignatio’ may not always be earnest, but the work is a
painful contribution to the literature of exposure.” Francis A.
Christie.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 371. Ja. ’06. 1230w.
“The book is rather a criticism of other biographies than a biography
itself, and herein lie at once its value and its limitations. Yet the
book has many merits, though it is not free from casual errors. It
should always be read with the ordinary lives of Knox, and should not
be read without one or the other of them.” A. F. Pollard.
– + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 163. Ja. ’06. 1100w.
“In a life of Knox his blunders as an historian and his vagaries as a
politician must have a place, but that must be at least a little lower
than the place set apart for his work as a reformer and his policy as
an ecclesiastical statesman. And, when his words and actions are
subjected to criticism, the toleration of history demands that these
should be seen in light of the sixteenth century.” John Herkless.
– + =Hibbert J.= 3: 819. Jl. ’06. 2380w.
“He has let rather too much cleverness and subtlety creep into his
book.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 287. Ap. 5, ’06. 1220w.
=Lang, Andrew.= New collected rhymes. *$1.25. Longmans.
“Mr. Lang’s “New collected rhymes” are an epitome of his work in
verse. The volume contains ballads and folk-songs and parodies,
topical rhymes on life and literature, and lyrics on angling, on
cricket, and on Prince Charlie.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906. 1: 195. F. 17. 720w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 327. My. 16, ’06. 340w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 149. Ap. 27, ’06. 240w.
“His ‘New collected rhymes’ have the metrical facility and grace, the
urbane humor, that make his ‘Ballads of books’ of such pleasant
memory.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 326. Ap. 19, ’06. 260w.
Reviewed by Florence Wilkinson.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 225. Ap. 7, ’06. 440w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 262. F. 17, ’06. 320w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Oxford. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“If ever a topic would have appealed to him, surely it would be this.
Yet the impression left after perusal is of put-together chapters.”
– =Critic.= 48: 284. Mr. ’06. 100w.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 24. Ja. 1, ’06. 130w.
– + =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Red romance book. **$1.60. Longmans.
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 564. Ja. ’06. 180w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ’05. 130w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Secret of the totem. $3. Longmans.
This present work is a sequel to Mr. Lang’s “Social origins and primal
law” published three years ago. It “deals with the obscure beginnings
of society so far as these can be traced in the organization—or want
of organization—found in the lowest savage tribes, those of Australia.
These, as is well known, are organized on the totem system, by which a
certain number of individuals are bound together by belief in their
common descent from a common ancestor, generally of an animal nature,
and known as the totem.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Lang has given us in this work a skilful exposition of a
complicated subject. Totemism is more often talked about than
understood, and Mr. Lang’s accuracy in the use of terms may,
incidentally, serve as a corrective to the wilder spirits who see
totemism everywhere.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1195. N. 18, ’05. 1130w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 421. Mr. ’06. 210w.
“He has made a distinct advance towards the solution of many difficult
problems. Mr. Lang’s method of dealing with his argument is altogether
admirable. It is clear, consistent, and logical.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 726. N. 25. 1720w.
+ =Dial.= 40: 265. Ap. 16, ’06. 410w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 14. Ja. 12, ’06. 720w.
“The somewhat arrogant claim of the title is not modified by what Mr.
Lang says in the course of this rather dull volume.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 455. My. 31, ’06. 770w.
“Truth to tell, he is wandering somewhat out of his sphere in dealing
with the subject at all. One gets the impression that he has simply
manipulated the materials and theories of others instead of producing
a new one out of the materials himself.” Joseph Jacobs.
– =N. Y. Times.= 10: 922. D. 30, ’05. 900w.
Reviewed by Franklin H. Giddings.
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 724. D. ’06. 390w.
“For the first time we have a consecutive presentation of his views
concerning the origin and early evolution of totemism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 270. Mr. 3, ’06. 1500w.
“The treatment is detailed, technical, and except to the specialist,
very dry.”
+ – =Yale R.= 15: 338. N. ’06. 160w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Sir Walter Scott. **$1. Scribner.
Thoro familiarity with Scott’s life and surroundings, with all the
Abbotsford Mss., and with the details of Scottish life and history,
has equipped Mr. Lang for an undertaking that does not claim to rival
Lockhart’s, only to compress “the essence of Lockhart’s great book
into small space, with a few additions from other sources.”
* * * * *
“We venture to think that Scott’s admirers will find much that is new
and more that is freshly put in this biography, which is permeated by
a sympathy and understanding of which praise would be an impertinence.
There is only one aspect of the book to which we would draw attention,
and that in the way of homologating rather than criticising what is
said.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 280. Mr. 24, ’06. 950w.
“We have one complaint to make: it is really too bad of experts like
Mr. Lang and his publishers to produce a book without an index.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 413. Ap. 7. 1680w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 98: 279. Ag. ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Lang is capable of being irritating, but he is never prosy. This
book is probably all the better for its purpose because it has not the
property of high finish.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 432. Je. ’06. 1340w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 49. Jl. ’06. 450w.
“Lang’s biography, for a brief one, is very full of details without
being encyclopaedically dry.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 394. Je. 16, ’06. 380w.
“Mr. Lang’s chief contribution in this volume is to our collection of
epigrams, and to our stock of somewhat buoyant common sense. Except in
the matter of condensing Lockhart, it is a bit difficult to see what
addition the book makes to our convenience.” William T. Brewster.
+ =Forum.= 38: 101. Jl. ’06. 620w.
“It is altogether too conscious of the authorities that have preceded
it to be as satisfactory a substitute, as it pretends, to a reader who
knows nothing about them.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1164. My. 17, ’06. 120w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 474. Mr. 31, ’06. 1240w.
“Mr. Lang’s book is pre-eminently, if not exclusively, for advanced
readers—those who know their Lockhart and are fairly familiar with
what has been written on the subject since 1837. In this present book
... in spite of all its fine qualities, there is some oddity or other
upon almost every other page.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 121. Ap. 6, ’06. 2140w.
Reviewed by Florence Wilkinson.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 224. Ap. 7, ’06. 3080w.
“Thanks to his study of the history of Scotland he has turned new and
true lights on many contested points, and he enlivens with anecdote
and personal reminiscence the romance of the Borders he knows so
well.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 49. Jl. 14, ’06. 790w.
“Mr. Lang’s criticisms are invariably interesting, partly because they
are invariably characteristic, and are what are known in the loose
journalese of the day as ‘sidelights.’”
+ =Spec.= 97: 203. Ag. 11, ’06. 970w.
=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Extinct animals. *$1.75. Holt.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 899. D. 30. 900w.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 110w.
“The work is authoritative, quite up to date, and on the whole one of
the best popular accounts of the life of the ancient world in print.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 230w.
“The book will be interesting and perfectly intelligible to children
of high-school age, but even the general reader of mature years will
find much to claim the interest.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 425. Mr. 17. ’06. 80w.
=Lansdale, Maria Horner.= Châteaux of Touraine; il. with pictures by
Jules Guérin, and by photographs. **$6. Century.
In text, illustrations, and workmanship this volume furnishes the same
excellencies that characterized Mrs. Wharton’s “Italian villas” with
the Parrish pictures, to which it is a companion volume. Accuracy and
authority stamp the sketches of these twelve Touraine chateaux. The
charm which casts a spell over pilgrims from every quarter of the
globe, says the author, is born of a variety of causes, their
captivating beauty, their architectural interest, the loveliness of
the surrounding country and the halo of historical associations in
which each is wrapped. There are sixteen wash drawings by Jules Guérin
besides over forty reproductions in black and tint of photographs.
* * * * *
“Her facts are accurate and authoritative, and at the same time
picturesquely presented.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 470w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 13, ’06. 190w.
“The subjects are well suited to a hand trained in architectural
rendering. And the artist has here as elsewhere found himself at ease
in restriction to flat tones of a few low-keyed colours. He shows
imagination in these sketches and a cleverness in atmospheric
feeling.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 22. N. ’06. 530w.
“M. Guérin’s fine water-colour drawings, with their extreme
simplicity, absence of realism and touch of conventionalism, are full
of delicate suggestion and decorative feeling—excellent examples of
what book illustration should be.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 185. D. ’06. 400w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 120w.
“Is surely one of the best of all the handsome gift books of this
season.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 769. N. 24, ’06. 360w.
“Is one of the most elaborate travel books appearing this season.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 200w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 130w.
“If the text serves as an admirable guidebook, the illustrations
render it worthy to be called a glorified one.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 190w.
“Miss Lansdale’s touch is easy and interesting.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w.
“Miss Lansdale describes their features and tells their story with a
freshness which saves her chapters from falling into the rut of a
guide-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 160w.
“The book is agreeably written, and full of historical and antiquarian
information.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 765. N. 17, ’06. 290w.
=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Books, culture and character. **$1. Houghton.
Seven addresses delivered at various times since the year 1883 are
connected here, and offer the sound advice of one interested in the
active problems of education. They are as follows; A familiar talk
about books, The test of quality in books, Hints as to reading, The
mission and the missionaries of the book, Good and evil from the
printing press, Public libraries and public education, School reading
versus school training of history.
* * * * *
“With his wonted clearness and force, and in English that it is a
delight to read, Mr. Larned ... emphasizes the urgent necessity of
spreading the culture of good literature among the people at large.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 327. N. 16, ’06. 380w.
“It is the kind of book about books that cannot be accused of
dilettantism, a book informed with wholesome and fine feeling which
also has much merit of the kind as literary—which is also informed;
that is with taste.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 804. D. 1, ’06. 1270w.
=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Seventy centuries of the life of mankind, 2v.
$4.50. C. A. Nichols co., Springfield, Mass.
“He may be right, but his is not the judicial tone of Ranke or Stubbs.
Nor does his list of authorities show very extensive reading even in
the secondary sources, and it is confined to works in English. Yet his
book is to be praised: it is an accurate and lucid summary of the
chief events in world-history put forth in an attractive form.” George
M. Wrong.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 707. Ap. ’06. 520w.
=Latham, Charles.= Gardens of Italy: a series of over 300 illustrations
from photographs of the most famous examples of Italian gardens, with
descriptive text by E. March Phillipps. 2v. $18. Scribner.
“It would be difficult to better the photographs, and the letterpress
is interesting and readable.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
=Lathbury, Clarence.= Balanced life. $1. Nunc Licet press.
“This is one of the best recent works which seeks to strengthen and
round out character by stimulating the inner life and impressing on
the mind in a realizing sense the omnipotence and omnipresence of
Good.” (Arena.) The contents include: The return to nature; Rhythm of
the universe; In the stream of power; The white line of the dawn;
Built without hands; The highway of the spirit; The central melody;
The great amens; Oil in our lamps; Vision and patience; Thoughts that
find us young.
* * * * *
“The author’s style is clear. He makes his thought easily understood,
though he is somewhat redundant at times. Barring this defect the
style is, on the whole, excellent and the thought well calculated to
strengthen, purify and upbuild the character of the reader.”
+ + – =Arena.= 35: 107. Ja. ’06. 310w.
+ =Dial.= 39: 171. S. 16, ’05. 160w.
=Lathrop, Elise.= Where Shakespeare set his stage; decorations by G. W.
Hood. **$2. Pott.
Twelve Shakespeare plays are described with respect to scene,
appearance of characters and periods in which they lived, and the
sources of the plots. The author bases her study upon visits to the
localities which are reproduced in text and illustrations.
* * * * *
“No harm will be done to readers who confine themselves to the
illustrations, but the letter press is capable of conveying many
misleading ideas to uninformed youth.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 330. O. 18, ’06. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 757. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
=Lathrop, John R. T.= How a man grows. $1.25. Meth. bk.
The development of man is traced thru a series of stages indicated by
the following chapter headings: The problem stated, The data of
philosophy, Cosmic ethics, Christian ethics, Cosmic regeneration,
Christian regeneration, Forces in man’s becoming, Certainties in
religion, Religion, The religion of the future, The coronation of man.
=Latrobe, Benjamin Henry.= Journal of Latrobe. *$3.50. Appleton.
The notes and sketches of an architect, naturalist and traveler in the
United States from 1796 to 1820. Following a biographical introduction
by J. H. B. Latrobe are chapters on Virginia and its people; a visit
to Washington at Mt. Vernon; Philadelphia, and the construction of the
water works in the Schuylkill for the city’s water supply; the
building of the national capitol and the designing of the navy yard,
St. John’s church, and Christ church; and New Orleans and its people.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 477. Ja. ’06. 80w.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 140w.
“Should find an honored place in every library.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 387. My. 10, ’06, 410w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 5. Ja. 6, ’06. 470w.
“This journal is now a valuable source-book of American history,
particularly on the social side. His observations are also highly
entertaining, for he had a keen sense of the interesting.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ’05. 240w.
“The most interesting passages in his journal are the shrewd
characterizations of men and manners.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 290w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 116. Ja. ’06. 130w.
=Laut, Agnes Christina.= Vikings of the Pacific. **$2. Macmillan.
Volume 1, of “The pathfinders of the West” series. The adventures of
the explorers who came from the West, eastward; Bering, the Dane; the
outlaw hunters of Russia; Benyowsky, the Polish pirate; Cook and
Vancouver, the English navigators; Gray of Boston, discoverer of the
Columbia; Drake, Ledyard and other soldiers of fortune on the west
coast of America are presented in an interesting fashion, and the
volume is freely and well illustrated.
* * * * *
“In matters of detail the author is fairly accurate; though there are
a few errors which argue a lack of familiarity with the best secondary
authorities within her field. After making all necessary deductions,
it may still be said that the book will furnish to the discriminating
student a considerable fund of information not so conveniently
accessible elsewhere.” Joseph Schafer.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 680. Ap. ’06. 370w.
“The attractive title of the volume is scarcely justified by its
contents.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 1: 635. My. 26, ’06. 360w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 80w.
“Miss Laut possesses the happy faculty of seizing upon the element of
human interest that lie buried in even the dryest of historical
documents, enfolding them in a glamour of romance without destroying
their historical value, and presenting them to the reader with the
combined fidelity and skill of historian and novelist.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 166. S. 16, ’06. 650w.
“A splendid piece of work.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1048. My. 3, ’06. 300w.
“Leaving petty incongruities of style, one may inquire into the
accuracy of the facts of historic origin which the author has woven
into her text. In the main her narrative is fairly correct, after one
rejects its imaginary setting and presumptuous epithets.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 286. Ap. 5, ’06. 1350w.
“It is an interesting story that Miss Laut tells, and it should open
the history of the Northwest to Eastern readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 19. Ja. 13, ’06. 500w.
“She writes ... always in a way that clearly visualizes for the reader
the exciting events and notable deeds described, the text being based
on first sources.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1087. D. 30, ’05. 190w.
“In Miss Laut’s hands the narrative has all the fascination of a
daring story of adventure with the added and novel merit of being
absolutely true.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 510. Ap. 21, ’06. 130w.
“It is remarkable that the details of these early attempts at
settlement and trade have remained so long unknown to the mass of
American readers.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 190w.
“A most interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 306. F. 24, ’06. 280w.
=Lawrence, Albert Lathrop.= Wolverine. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of “The Wolverine.” The scene of this romance is
laid in Michigan territory just before it becomes the Wolverine state.
Perry North, a young man of New England blood, and pale orange colored
hair, comes to Detroit from his home state, Massachusetts, as a
government surveyor. He meets Marie Beaucoeur, and loves her in spite
of the fact that her free French Catholic views of life are a constant
shock to his Puritanical upbringing. It is only after many thrilling
scenes such as naturally belong to that time and place where the Ohio
boundary line was a constant source of trouble, and negroes and
Indians added an unruly element, that young North comes to reconcile
his conscience and his love.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 170w.
=Laycock, Craven and Scales, Robert Leighton.= Argumentation and debate.
60c. Macmillan.
The book “systematizes and makes a unified art of the principles which
should be followed in preparing for the presentation of a given
subject in the form of reasoned argument.”
* * * * *
“A statement of the traditional arguments from antecedent probability,
sign and example is in itself of little use to the ordinary debater.
Nor does the part of the book on debate, though interesting and well
written, seem to us to offer sufficient ground for exercise and
practise to those who may use it.” E. E. H., jr.
– =Bookm.= 22: 528. Ja. ’06. 310w.
“There is not a little sensible advice and acute suggestion to be
found in this book, and it is likely to be useful, not only in the
classroom, but to all persons preparing for public discussion.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 475. F. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Parts of the book are excellently done. The chapter on brief-drawing
is the best to be found anywhere; the advice in the appendix is
practical and helpful. But the book, on the whole, is diffuse. Yet
with all its faults the book is perhaps the most practical of the
compilations that have thus far treated the subject.” Fred Lewis
Pattee.
+ + – =School R.= 15: 545. S. ’06. 460w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of the Inquisition of Spain. 4v. v. 1 and
2 ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
A work built up from a vast amount of material drawn from Spanish
archives. Volume one is chiefly devoted to tracing the rise of the
Inquisition in Spain; volume two discusses the disastrous influence of
the institution upon the rulers who supported it, the people who
suffered under it and the nation that survived it.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 739. Ap. ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In style and treatment the book shows to the full the qualities so
long familiar in Mr. Lea’s work—the same wealth of detail, the same
direct dependence on the sources, the same avoidance of polemics and
all rhetorical amplification. It is everywhere the work of one who
still believes that the history of jurisprudence is the history of
civilization.” George L. Burr.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 887. Jl. ’06. 1810w. (Review of v. 1.)
“An accurate and complete survey of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 351. Ap. ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Critic.= 48: 382. Ap. ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book of the year which touches the high-water mark of scholarship
in the flood of European histories is H. C. Lea’s ‘Inquisition in
Spain.’ Once again this man, who is the pride of American scholars,
outdoes the European historians in their own field.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is refreshing to have at hand a substantial amount of definite
fact in a field where previous writers have given us so much
passionate and unsupported generalization.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 385. My. 10, ’06. 2800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This severely analytical method of dealing with the subject is
somewhat repellent even to the trained reader.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 853. D. 8, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 1. and
2.)
“His narrative is not dramatic in form. It never even suggests the
theatrical. But it is thoroughly human.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 853. Ap. 14, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Tells the story with an almost legal dryness of detail, and with an
absence of all appearance of indignation, which he leaves unexpressed
if not suppressed, and which for this reason his readers feel all the
more forcibly.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 440w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Prodigious industry, careful discrimination of material, and a
trained historical faculty have combined to make Mr. Lea’s book
entirely worthy of the high reputation of the author.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 283. Mr. 3, ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This is the first thorough work in English on the Inquisition.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 381. Mr. ’06. 240w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Leacock, Stephen.= Elements of political science. *$1.75. Houghton.
This volume “contains chapters on the recent colonial expansion of the
European states, the dependencies of the United States, the origin and
growth of political parties in the United States, the organization of
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* * * * *
“The book is accurate and well-informed, but the opinions
conventional, and mostly inclining towards the ‘oligarchic’ principles
ridiculed by Disraeli in his early days.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 476. O. 20. 450w.
“Mr. Leacock is broad in his grasp and suggestive in his criticism.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 256. Ag. 2, ’06. 120w.
“His work as a whole is clear-cut, well written, logically arranged,
and convincing.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 320w.
“A useful textbook of the subject, brought well up-to-date.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“On the whole a fair and impartial spirit pervades the book. The most
serious defect of the book is due, not to the author, but to the
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an amount of material that would make several quarto volumes look
respectably corpulent is not an easy one. The result, of necessity, is
of the condensed-food variety. It is almost too strong to be taken
clear by the young student of political science, but will make an
excellent diet when properly diluted with class-room discussion.”
Edward E. Hill.
+ – =School R.= 14: 770. D. ’06. 650w.
=Learned, Ellin Craven (Mrs. Frank Learned) (Priscilla Wakefield,
pseud.).= Etiquette of New York to-day. **$1.25. Stokes.
Mrs. Learned writes with authority from experience gained thru
connection with the best society and from an instinctive sense of
courtesy inherited from generations of culture. Invitations, and
answers, formal and informal dinners, luncheons, teas and parties,
cotillions, dinner dances, theatre parties, the table and its
appointments, visiting and the use of cards and wedding preparations,
are among the topics discussed.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 865. D. 15, ’06. 390w.
=Le Braz, Anatole.= Land of pardons; tr. by Francis M. Gostling. *$2.
Macmillan.
A translation of the 1900 edition of this work. “The book was a
collection of hitherto unprinted legends of the early Breton saints
supplemented by sympathetic descriptions of the modern ceremonies in
their honor (known as ‘pardons’) which are the last vestiges of the
ancient ‘Feasts of the dead.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“We can well sympathize with the translator’s desire to linger over
its pages as a labour of love, and we hope that a speedy call for a
second edition will give her an opportunity of careful revision.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 636. My. 26. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1398. D. 13, ’06. 290w.
“Into its dreamy heart we are taken by the author of this charming
book and by his sympathetic translator, whose labour has been one of
love, and therefore of success.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 248. Jl. 13, ’06. 1390w.
“The translator has performed her task well, but no translation could
hope to render the strange, melancholy charm of M. Le Braz’s lyric
prose.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 284. O. 4, ’06. 120w.
“Only a journalist could put his reader so immediately into the inner
heart of things, only a seasoned traveler would so unconsciously leave
out all the mere husks, and only a poet could write about it all with
such fascination.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 653. O. 6, ’06. 660w.
“His style has that delicacy and dramatic point which are a source of
pleasure in the best French writers.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w.
“Apart from its interest as a full revelation of the religious life of
France, it is of great sociological value.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 420w.
=Lee, Jennette Barbour (Perry) (Mrs. Gerald Stanley Lee).= Uncle
William. †$1. Century.
“Shif’less” Uncle William, sailor and lover of the sea, desired only
that he might possess his stretch of shore and his cliff cottage
undisturbed. One day to his island off Nova Scotia came an artist to
paint his clouds, his sea and even his rude abode. Uncle William
houses him, steams his clams, fathers him; and a half year later when
word comes from New York that fever has stricken the young painter,
Uncle William goes to him and nurses him back to health. There is a
sweet Russian girl in the tale, and there is Andy, Uncle William’s
crony who maintained that a “a thing o’t to cost more’n the picter of
it.” Uncle William sums up his philosophy of faith in mortals in this
sentiment; “I’d a heap rather trust ’em and get fooled, than not to
trust ’em and hev ’em all right.”
* * * * *
“To my mind, as an antidote for nervous prostration and a general
bracer, Uncle William throws the popular Mrs. Wiggs completely in the
shade.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 465. My. ’06. 390w.
“It is good to know Uncle William, especially as he, like the book he
is in, is short, sweet, and to the point.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 310w.
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+ + =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 70w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Enchanted woods, and other essays
on the genius of places. *$1.50. Lane.
“This is a delightfully restful book.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 332. Mr. ’06. 270w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Hauntings: fantastic stories.
**$1.50. Lane.
A new edition of these four subtly devised ghost stories: Amour dure,
Dionea, Oke of Okehurst, and A wicked voice. The first tale is in
diary form and tells of the tragic adventures of a German professor in
Umbria, the second is the story of a beautiful sea waif who brings
ruin to all who cross her path, the third has an English setting but
it also has a phantom lover and a family superstition, while the
fourth is the story of a musician who hears a voice from the past with
disastrous results.
* * * * *
“These four curiously interesting stories have a weird fascination
quite unlike any others of their order.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 358. Ap. 14, ’06. 330w.
“We recommend these tales of mystery and romance to those who are a
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+ =Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 250w.
“The ideas upon which they are constructed are fertile and original,
and they are, on the whole, artistic productions of uncommon
distinction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 409. Je. 23, ’06. 450w.
“Above all, they are picturesque, drawn with delicate and brilliant
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+ =Sat. R.= 101: 592. My. 12, ’06. 190w.
=Spec.= 96: 989. Je. 23, ’06. 170w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Spirit of Rome: leaves from a
diary. **$1.50. Lane.
The work of a literary impressionist. These “leaves from a diary” are
“the merest shorthand notes of things felt rather than seen in Rome
and its ‘dintorni,’ during the transient spring visits of many
successive years, by an Englishwoman of keen and rarely cultivated
perceptions, who has passed almost her whole life in some part of
Italy.” (Atlan.)
* * * * *
“The author has done wisely to give these impressions in their
unpolished freshness—unset jewels, but masterpieces in little,
pictures which for beauty and magic may be likened to Rembrandt
etchings.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1073. O. 14, ’05. 610w.
“Most of the book does not go much beyond what the average sharp
journalist has now learned to write, grammar and all.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 685. N. 18. 180w.
“Contain some of her subtlest and most suggestive word-painting.”
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 559. Ap. ’06. 250w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 50w.
“As a matter of fact, a surer grasp of the ‘spirit’ of Rome can be
obtained from any guide-book.”
– – =Lit. D.= 32: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 730w.
“Admirers of her work, so sumptuous and exquisite in its texture, must
resent being offered a meagre scrap-book of this kind.”
– =Lond. Times.= 4: 339. O. 13, ’05. 330w.
“It is a pity that the book has been given to the public without
eliminating all that is purposeless and inadequate.”
– + =Nation.= 82: 309. Ap. 12, ’06. 400w.
“The book is not confined to facts. It is the interpretation thereof
which we find and which counts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 217. Ap. 7, ’06. 450w.
“Valuable little volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 380w.
“Hangers-on of the pre-Raphaelites in the ’seventies might have
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alive.”
– – =Sat. R.= 101: 466. Ap. 14, ’06. 370w.
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 1016. Je. 30, ’06. 220w.
=Leech, John.= Pictures of life and character. $1.50. Putnam.
“It is a book full of enjoyment.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Lees, Rev. G. Robinson.= Village life in Palestine, $1.25. Longmans.
A new edition of a book that “endeavors, by means of a series of
simple but intimate studies of the peasants or Fellaheen of the
villages of Palestine, to put a little life and reality into people’s
conceptions of the scenes and incidents of Old and New Testament
story.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Lees’ book is one of more than common interest, and should appeal
to Bible students in general.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ’05. 60w.
“The book is full of information and instruction.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 227. F. 10, ’06. 80w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Painted shadows. †$1.50. Little.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 256. Ap. 21, ’06. 500w.
=Legg, Leopold George Wickham=, ed. Select documents illustrative of the
history of the French revolution and the constituent assembly. 2v. *$4.
Oxford.
“His work, full of interest and research, must rank among standard
books of reference. The arrangement of material, the index, and the
notes are all that can be desired.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 261. Mr. 3. 1130w.
“Mr. Wickham Legge has done good service in editing with conspicuous
care this collection of documents.” J. Holland Rose.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 175. Ja. ’06. 850w.
=Legge, Arthur E. J.= The ford. †$1.50. Lane.
“In execution, if not perhaps in conception, this novel is decidedly
above the average.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 1: 42. Ja. 13. 110w.
“The book is simple and genuine, and its style has the touch of poetic
distinction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 154. Mr. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Leigh, Oliver.= Edgar Allan Poe: the man, the master, the martyr.
$1.25. Morris.
This minute study of the various portraits of Poe, as illustrated by
Mr. Leigh’s own drawings, brings out the various phases of his
character. A transposable face forms the frontispiece, then follow the
wedding year portrait, the profile study, the widower year portrait
and his monument. There are also besides a discussion of his troubles
and his triumphs, critical notes upon his poetical work and methods.
* * * * *
“As a self-constituted authority on the subject he is naturally very
severe with every one else who has ever written about it.”
– =Nation.= 83: 231. S. 13, ’06. 450w.
=Lepicier, Fr. Alexius M.= Unseen world: an exposition of Catholic
theology in its relation to modern spiritism. *$1.60. Benziger.
To answer the claims of spiritism that profess ability to communicate
with the outer world, Father Lépicier “sets forth, besides the
teaching of the Church on the existence and nature of the angels, all
the scholastic speculative conclusions concerning the nature of the
angelic mind, the manner in which it acquires knowledge, the extent of
that knowledge, the limitations of the angels’ power over things of
the material cosmos, etc., etc. He then proceeds to unfold a quantity
of similar information concerning the conditions in which the human
soul finds itself with regard to the exercise of its facilities after
death.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
=Cath. World.= 83: 269. My. ’06. 500w.
=Le Roy, James A.= Philippine life in town, and country. **$1.20.
Putnam.
“A very sympathetic account of the life of the natives which is
singularly free from prejudice.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 421. Mr. ’06. 290w.
“Differs in style from other volumes of the series, and has many
advantages over the vast number of books upon the Philippines which
have appeared in the English language since 1898.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 200w.
“The index is most unworthy a volume like this and is not in any way
indicative of the nuggets contained therein.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 571. Mr. 8, ’06. 1010w.
“This sinking of the speculative beneath the objective has peculiar
value for readers with all shades of preconceptions, the more as
almost, if not quite, without exception the observations are
accurately made and always temperately expressed.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 305. Ap. 12, ’06. 1680w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 111. F. 24, ’06. 120w.
“We may give our testimony to the interest of the book, and to the
large and tolerant spirit in which it is written.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 760. My. 12, ’06. 80w.
“To those who are planning to go to the Philippines to engage in some
branch of the public service, this little book should be
indispensable.”
+ =Yale R.= 14: 445. F. ’06. 90w.
=Leroy-Beaulieu, Pierre Paul.= United States in the twentieth century.
**$2. Funk.
The author of this work comes of a family of thinkers and writers,
being the son of Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, and nephew of Anatole
Leroy-Beaulieu. The work is a review from the study of American
documents of the economic resources of the United States at the
beginning of the twentieth century. The work is treated under four
heads: pt. I. The country and the people; pt. II, Rural America; pt.
III, Industrial America; pt. IV. Commercial America.
* * * * *
“It is not too much to say that this is one of the three or four most
important books yet written by Europeans to give to fellow-citizens an
idea of the United States and its possibilities.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 422. Mr. ’06. 430w.
“That he is a foreigner who sees us at a peculiar angle and from a
view-point different from our own, only augments the interest with
which he invests his volume.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 849. Je. ’06. 330w.
“When he ventures, as he occasionally does, a criticism, he offers it
in so friendly a spirit, and gives so many solid reasons for his
opinion, that not even prejudice itself could find cause for
resentment. Exceedingly able and instructive work.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 84: 107. O. ’06. 1460w.
“M. Leroy-Beaulieu does not go behind the figures of the last census
and his analysis is no more profound than that heard in a smoking-room
after dinner.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 240w.
“The translation seems to have been well made, and though essentially
statistical, the book as a whole may prove interesting to many who are
not statistically inclined.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 318. Mr. 15, ’06. 270w.
“It is not written in so interesting a style as Bryce’s ‘American
commonwealth,’ and is more exclusively devoted to the commercial and
industrial development of the United States, but is valuable as a
competent and thoro discussion of our progress and problems from the
impartial standpoint of a foreign statistician.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“Exhaustive examination of the resources and possibilities of the
United States. What gives his book its greatest worth, besides making
it extremely easy reading, is the deftness with which Mr.
Leroy-Beaulieu has combined the proverbial Gallican weakness for
generalization with an un-Gallican appreciation of the value of facts
and figures.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 999. D. 30, ’05. 850w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 270w.
“He writes less as a critic than as an expositor.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 65. F. 3, ’06. 1030w.
“Carefully and admirably translated.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 277. F. 3, ’06. 420w.
“Is valuable not only in itself, but as a basis for other studies.
Great credit is due Mr. Bruce, for the care with which he has made the
translation and for his excellent rendering of French idioms into good
English.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 188. F. 10, ’06. 310w.
“What is perhaps the most noteworthy work on the United States since
the publication of Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth.’”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 254. F. ’06. 190w.
Lessons of the King made plain to His little ones by a religious of the
society of the Holy Child Jesus. Benziger.
Many of the lessons taught by Jesus while on earth are here repeated
and explained in a simple fashion that will instruct and interest
children of the Roman Catholic faith.
=Lester, John C., and Wilson, Daniel Love.= Ku Klux Klan, its origin,
growth and disbandment. $1.50. Neale.
The main portion of the book is a reprint of an account of the origin
and growth of this great order of Reconstruction days, first privately
printed twenty-one years ago. Mr. Walter L. Fleming has contributed an
introduction giving side-light information on the Klan and kindred
organizations. There are appendices containing the constitution and
specimens of orders and warnings issued by the Klan.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 748. Ap. ’06. 60w.
“The book is undoubtedly one of great interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 90. F. 10, ’06. 560w.
=LeStrange, Guy.= Lands of the eastern Caliphate, Mesopotamia, Persia
and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. *$4.
Macmillan.
“It contains much information of value to the student of
civilization.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 462. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“In spite of the immense number of facts which it contains, is not
merely a work of reference, but also deserves to be read for its own
sake.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 729. Je. 16. 300w.
“But it is as difficult to find blemishes as it is easy to discover
merits in a book of which the usefulness to students will be felt not
in one but in many fields of research.” C. R. Beazley.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 561. Jl. ’06. 580w.
=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by
Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.
“In spite of additions and changes made by the translator, it is,
however, essentially a foreign work. It is therefore doubtful whether
the book will prove available for use in American colleges.”
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 567. S. ’06. 190w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= Story of Paul Jones. †$1.50.
Dillingham.
The author of “The Wolfville stories” writes a stirring tale based
upon the true facts of Paul Jones’ life from his boyhood in Scotland
to his death in France. The main stress of the narrative which assumes
the form of an historical romance is placed upon the naval hero’s
service to the American colonies during the Revolutionary war.
* * * * *
“From first to last his book is quick with action, is enlivened by
dialogue in which the atmosphere of the period is preserved, and is
written in a vigorous, pleasing vein.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 482. Je. 23, ’06. 140w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= Sunset trail. †$1.50. Barnes.
+ =Ind.= 59: 1540. D. 28, ’05. 180w.
“Repulsive and dreary as is this picture of primitive Western life,
there is much that is picturesque and entertaining, and of the two
kinds of American novel the Western adventurous is decidedly
preferable to the Eastern ‘cultured’ kind.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 761. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= Throwback; a romance of the
Southwest. $1.50. Outing pub.
The hero of this story “is a tremendously irresistible son and heir of
an aristocratic Maryland family, who by some stroke of atavism is a
reproduction of the fierce founder of the house. He turns a buffalo
hunter in the Panhandle district and by his adventures meets all the
requirements for a big, hearty dare-devil who can shoot buffalo, kill
Indians, find treasures, and win the hand of a somewhat indistinctly
drawn heroine. It is a ‘rattling’ story and doubtless portrays with
literary impressionism the life of the old days in the great Southwest
before the buffalo had disappeared and wire fences had turned cowboys
into herdsmen.” (World To-Day.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Lewis’s tale is an odd compound of silliness and brutality.”
– =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Lewis has tamed his usual picturesque Wolfville language, but he
has left enough of it to add spice, and he has introduced some very
engaging humorous personages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 630w.
“It is a little more melodramatic than [‘The Virginian’] and does not
carry with it quite the same conviction, but it is capital reading.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 765. Jl. ’06. 140w.
=Libbey, William, and Hoskins, Franklin E.= Jordan valley and Petra.
**$6. Putnam.
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 418. Ap. 7. 670w.
“The volumes are a most important addition to the geography of the
east Jordan and Petra regions of Palestine.” H. L. W.
+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 287. O. ’06. 500w.
“Conveys much valuable information for all, from the Bible student to
the mere sportsman, with genial humor sprinkled thruout the pages.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1160. My. 17, ’06. 540w.
+ – =Spec.= 96: sup. 122. Ja. 27, ’06. 370w.
=Liber, Maurice.= Rashi; tr. from the French by Adele Szold. $1. Jewish
pub.
Although a fitting testimony to the interest expressed in the recent
eight hundredth anniversary of the death of Rabbi Rashi, this work is
not a product of circumstances. It is designed to take its place as
the second volume in the “Biographies of Jewish worthies” series of
which “Maimonides” was the first. “Jewish history may include minds
more brilliant and works more original than Rashi’s. But it is
incontestable that he is one of those historical personages who afford
a double interest; his own personality is striking and at the same
time he is the representative of a civilization and of a period....
Rashi forms, so to say, an organic part of Jewish history.”
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 70w.
=Liljencrantz, Ottilie Adelina.= Randvar, the songsmith: a romance of
Norumbega. †$1.50. Harper.
In the days when the Norsemen held their fabled sway in the new world,
Randvar, the songsmith, son of Rolf the Viking and Freya, King
Hildebrand’s daughter, came to love the proud sister of the jarl with
the blood red hair. The story of his love is a story of arms and
adventure and thru it runs the mystic legend of the were-wolf. In the
end the old round tower, which Randvar’s father built for Freya,
claims another royal bride thru whom, and his own valor, Freya’s son
comes to his own estate.
* * * * *
“Is not appreciably better or worse than the same author’s earlier
volumes.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 285. My. ’06. 160w.
“It is a pretty story that Miss Liljencrantz has told, and it has many
elements of popularity.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 220w.
+ =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 417. Mr. 24, ’06. 680w.
“Miss Liljencrantz lacks the skill and the power to weave these things
into a compelling story, as she lacks also the power to breathe life
into the words of her puppets. ‘Randvar the songsmith’ is an
unrealized ambition.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 112. F. 24, ’06. 350w.
“The story is well told and as a pure romance, is well worth reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. ’06. 100w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Ben Blair: the story of a plainsman.
†$1.50. McClurg.
“An uneven book, which has some chapters of refreshing strength.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 634. F. ’06. 270w.
“Will at least hold the reader’s attention, tho at the end he may
realize that the book has a touch of the dime novel.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 518. Mr. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Lincoln, Abraham.= Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. 12v. ea. $3.75.
Tandy.
“Some dozen years ago appeared ‘The complete works of Lincoln,’ edited
by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, and published by the Century company.
A new edition is now brought out by the Francis D. Tandy company ...
in which are included ‘nearly 20 per cent. more of Lincoln’s own
writings, culled from numerous public and private collections,’ with
explanatory notes to make the significance of the text clear, and with
a series of ‘introductions,’ articles by prominent writers—Greeley,
Sumner, Bancroft, Beecher, Roosevelt, Gilder, and others.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Enough that is new is brought together in this edition to make it
necessary for every large library to purchase it for students of
Lincoln and his times.” Charles H. Cooper.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 84. Ag. 16, ’06. 1190w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
+ + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 160w. (Review of v. 7–10.)
“A commendable work has been done in collecting these thousands of
scattered bits.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1105. My. 10, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“The best edition of the complete works of Abraham Lincoln for a
library is that edited by John E. Nicolay and John Hay.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 90w. (Review of v. 7–10.)
=Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 177. Mr. 1, ’06. 190w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The portraits continue to present an interesting variety.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 365. My. 3, ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=Nation.= 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
+ + =Nation.= 83: 347. O. 25, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 7–10.)
Reviewed by Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 125. Mr. 3, ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 415. Je. 23, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 5–6.)
=Lincoln, Charles Z.= Constitutional history of New York from the
beginning of the colonial period to the year 1905, showing the origin,
development, and judicial construction of the constitution. 5v. $15.
Lawyers’ co-op.
“We can best give an idea of what the book is by saying that it is
arranged both historically and by topics. As a whole, it is the
history of the constitution of New York traced from its earliest
sources in Magna charta and the ‘Charter of liberties’ down to its
present form, accompanied by explanations of the political and social
changes underlying its development. But, being arranged also by
subjects and having a whole volume of tables and indices, it is easy
to find either the chronology and rationale of any particular topic
... or what is often of quite as much importance, the part played in
the development of the Constitution by any particular person.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Not only a monument of industry and research, but a useful historical
and legal compilation as well. The author is well qualified for his
task.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 129. Ag. 9, ’06. 570w.
“No effort is made to attract ‘the mind that requires to be tempted to
the study of truth.’ The work is not cast in literary form. It can not
be read through. The highest praise that can be given to it, the
criticism that would gratify the author most highly, is to say that no
one seeking any information about the Constitutions of the state of
New York is likely to consult these volumes in vain.” Robert
Livingston Schuyler.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 562. S. 15, ’06. 1890w.
=Lincoln, Mrs. Jeanie Lincoln Gould.= Javelin of fate. †$1.25. Houghton.
A love story of Civil war times with the “main action centering in
that hot-bed of rebellion, Baltimore.... For years she escapes the
Nemesis of fate, but throughout her brilliant career there is one
motive behind her social activities and political intrigues—the wish
to punish the man who spoiled her youth and robbed her of the capacity
for happiness. At last her opportunity arrives, but old instincts and
old affections assert themselves. She forgives the man and goes to
find her child. Then the javelin strikes her. This is the main thread
of the narrative, which is skilfully interwoven with others less
sombre.” (Dial.) “It is only a very distant echo of the war that
sounds in Mrs. Lincoln’s story. It is mostly the women’s side of the
fray.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Is distinguished from the mass of current fiction by the technical
skill with which it presents a plot that has in itself real movement
and vitality.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 18. Ja. 1, ’06. 160w.
“The best that can be said of ‘A javelin of fate’ is that it contains
all the materials of a good story, but they have not been well put
together.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 877. D. 9, ’05. 380w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (Joe Lincoln, pseud.).= Mr. Pratt. †$1.50.
Barnes.
“There is much rustic humor in this tale by the author of ‘Cap’n Eri,’
and Mr. Pratt is a continuation of the former country philosopher.
That two tired young stock-brokers should elect to follow the rules of
the ‘Natural life’ as laid down in a popular book is not so
incongruous as it might have seemed a few years ago. Mr. Pratt is
engaged as their factotum, and relates their adventures with much
shrewd comment.” (Outlook.) “Whimsical medley of the ‘simple’ and
‘complex’ life.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 286. S. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lincoln is particularly enjoyable in ‘Mr. Pratt’ which, altho
evolved from sundry independent short stories, is as coherent and
readable as could be wished.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 124. Jl. 28, ’06. 640w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 40w.
“The story is absurd, but it is meant to be; it serves its purpose as
a diversion, a gentle satire upon a recent popular fad.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 529. Je. 30, ’06. 100w.
Lincoln and Douglas debates; ed. by Archibald Lewis Bouton. *60c. Holt.
“The book is well edited and gives a good idea of the matter.” E. E.
H., jr.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 529. Ja. ’06. 370w.
=Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 40w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 80w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes (Charles Harcourt, pseud.).=
Panama: the isthmus and the canal. **$1. Winston.
“Mr. Forbes-Lindsay has done a service in bringing together in one
small volume a large amount of material hitherto scattered through the
American public documents and French company reports. He begins with
the romantic history of the Isthmus when the city of Panama was one of
the richest and most luxurious cities of the New World.... Gives some
interesting figures in regard to the operations of the De Lesseps
company and traces the history of the canal under the receivership,
the New canal company, and the present commission. An appendix
contains an abstract of the Government report on the great canals of
the world. There is a good map and profile of the canal as authorized
by Congress, and a number of half-tones of Panama scenes.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“He has not shown any skill in arranging his material. The volume
contains many repetitions, not a few contradictions, and is generally
incoherent.”
– =Ind.= 61: 460. Ag. 23, ’06. 290w.
– =Nation.= 83: 172. Ag. 23, ’06. 640w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 80w.
=Lindsay, Thomas Martin.= History of the Reformation, v. 1, The
reformation in Germany from its beginning to the religious peace of
Augsburg. **$2.50. Scribner.
More than a compilation. Dr. Lindsay “has brought out the full
significance of the movement with which he deals by treating it, as it
must be treated, in its social environment, complicated as it was by
the political and economic conditions of the time, as the gradual
outcome of a slow, unconscious process.”—Int. J. Ethics.
* * * * *
“It is not a great book and has not the grip of Creighton nor the ease
of Mr. Armstrong, but it is useful, and will be to many Englishmen an
excellent substitute for Köstlin and D’Aubigné.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 471. O. 20. 1070w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A valuable and comprehensive treatment of the first period of the
Reformation.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 80. Jl. ’06. 10w.
“As a summary of the sources, manner and result of the Reformation, at
once succinct and adequate, this work is quite first rate.” M. A.
Hamilton.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 140. O. ’06. 1140w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work has many merits, but in our opinion its most distinctive
feature is the careful analysis of social and religious life in
Germany on the eve of the Protestant revolt. On the strength of
first-hand knowledge, excellent arrangement, and thoughtfulness, this
book deserves the most respectful attention. It is well adapted for
use in the senior grades of university teaching.”
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 351. O. 25, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Linville, Henry R., and Kelly, Henry A.= Text-book in general zoology.
*$1.50. Ginn.
A text-book for the educational public with suggestions for laboratory
work. The volume is intended for high-school or elementary college
classes and the inductive method is used with each class and phylum of
invertebrate animals. In the first chapter after the remainder of the
Arthropoda are described the other invertebrate phyla follow in a
descending series, ending with Protozoa. Then, beginning with the
fishes, the order ascends to the mammals and closes with man. There
are 233 illustrations.
* * * * *
“It has many original points, and deserves recommendation as one of
the very best books yet published in this line. Every high school and
biological laboratory should have reference copies, even tho some
other book is already adopted as the regular text-book in zoology.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 70w.
=Lippincott, Mrs. Sara Jane (Clarke) (Grace Greenwood, pseud.).= Stories
from famous ballads; ed. by Caroline Burnite; with il. by Edmund H.
Garrett. *50c. Ginn.
“These stories are reprinted in the hope that girls may appreciate the
simplicity and beauty of them and thereby may be led to read the
romantic ballads in their original poetic form.”
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“The stories tell, in a style of remarkable simplicity and beauty, of
... famous old ballads.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 60w.
=Lippmann, Friedrich.= Engraving and etching: a handbook for the use of
students and print collectors. 3d ed. rev. by Dr. Max Lehrs; tr. by
Martin Hardie; with 131 il. *$3. Scribner.
Dr. Lehrs has made revisions in keeping with the last century’s
results in modern research, especially along the lines of steel
engraving, lithography and the modern mechanical processes which have
caused a revolution in reproductive arts.
* * * * *
“Is not only comprehensive, but so well written that we scarcely
appreciate, as we read, the industry and learning necessary for such a
task. The chapter on engraving in England is very brief, and not up to
the standard of the rest of the work.”
+ + – =Acad.= 71: 499. N. 17, ’06. 1130w.
“Though the version, on the whole, is spirited and readable, we have
noticed several passages in which the sense of the original has been
missed. In technical matters, however, which set most pitfalls for the
translator of such a handbook, Mr. Hardie’s knowledge has enabled him
to walk warily.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 279. S. 8. 130w.
“The book as it now stands is a fairly complete account of engraving
and etching up to the beginning of the nineteenth century.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 130w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 26. N. ’06. 240w.
“No writer on the subject has so perfectly combined minute historical
accuracy with a sober and just taste.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 358. O. 25, ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 836. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
“Another indispensable book.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Lipsett, Ella Partridge.= Summer in the Apple Tree inn; il. by Mary
Wellman. †$1.25. Holt.
Apple Tree inn is a charming play house which a kind Aunt Margaret had
made ready for her group of young visitors. A clever Japanese youth is
the central spirit of all the good times, entertaining his young
charges with Japanese legends, giving motive and setting to their
games, and incidentally teaching the children gentle manners and good
morals.
* * * * *
“A pleasing story for children.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 280w.
=Outlook.= 82: 1006. Ap. 28, ’06. 60w.
Liquor problem. **$1. Houghton.
“The committee, by publishing the results of their study in a single
volume, will gain access to a far wider audience, and will thus induce
many more persons to go more deeply into the evidence by turning back
to the earlier special reports for more prolonged study. No more sane,
balanced and convincing statement of the problem has been made.” C. R.
Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 578. Ja. ’06. 320w.
“The pseudo-scientific character of so-called temperance instruction
in the public schools is unmasked. The remedial aspect of the matter
is treated with breadth and sanity.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 843. Je. ’06. 280w.
“While it will undoubtedly prove useful, it should not take the place
of the larger books as a source of information.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 203. Mr. 16, ’06. 90w.
=Little, Alicia Bewicke. (Mrs. Archibald John Little).= Round about my
Peking garden. **$5. Lippincott.
“In her knowledge of the real China, Mrs. Archibald Little admittedly
stands unrivalled among living European women.... She has ... genuine
love and sympathy for China and its people—a trait which, it is
perhaps unnecessary to say, is not universal among European residents
in the country. ‘Round about my Peking garden’ may be described as a
collection of sketches of North China.... By way of the Peking
palaces, temples, etc., Mrs. Little takes us to the Ming tombs, the
Western tombs, the Mongolian Grass Land, the seaside resorts near
Peking, and even to Port Arthur. This is the geographical distribution
... of the sketches. With regard to time, they all appear to be dated
about the period of the last occupation of Peking by the allied
troops.... It is copiously illustrated from photographs.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Little’s manner of writing is generally pleasant. She has a
genuine instinct for description, and excels therein. She is apt to
mar her picturesque passages by a tendency to moralizing and emotional
apostrophe.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 14. Ja. 6. 890w.
“Altogether the book is to be commended quite without qualification.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 160w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 145. F. 15, ’06. 660w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 510w.
“‘Gush’ is the prevailing note, and Mrs. Little should not be regarded
as a trustworthy guide.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 242. F. 24, ’06. 800w.
=Little, Archibald John.= Far East. *$2. Oxford.
“It is hardly a book for the average reader, but rather for the
scientific traveller, who takes careful notes by the way.”
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 339. My. ’06. 320w.
“Trustworthy in its general physiographic statements and so rich in
maps, sketches, and diagrams, and all well indexed.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 287. Mr. ’06. 180w.
=Little, Frances.= Lady of the decoration. †$1. Century.
With an unhappy married life behind her, a young Kentucky widow who
had never missed a Derby since she was old enough to know a bay from a
sorrel suddenly accepts an offer to go to Japan and teach in a mission
school. Her letters home make the story, whose chief interest centers
in a romance that grows out of her love for the man who she had
supposed was lost to her. There are bits of Japanese life given with
sprightly touches.
* * * * *
“Contains an odd mixture of fact, fun, opinions, vivid impressions,
and sentiment. Unfortunately the sentiment is very much overdone, but
the book is fresh and unconventional and well worth reading.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 480. My. 19, ’06. 260w.
“The descriptive portions of the book produce on the whole a strong
effect of reality.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 130w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
=Bookm.= 23: 417. Je. ’06. 170w.
“It has somewhat of the thing that gave the ‘Saxe-Holm’ stories their
success a generation ago; that popularized the first novel or two of
the late Maria Louise Pool; that on a higher literary plane, gave the
work of the Brontës its lasting value.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 119. Ag. ’06. 490w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 434. My. 24, ’06. 420w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 180w.
“A bright story about equally compounded of humor, philosophy,
description and love.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 639. My. 19, ’06. 20w.
“A piece of rather tiresome gush.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 80w.
“The reader would generally be very grateful if the book had been so
planned as to give a little more fact and a little less sentimental
reflection.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 676. Ap. 28, ’06. 390w.
=Livingston, Luther Samuel.= Auction prices of books. 4v. *$40. Dodd.
“Mr. Livingston’s concluding volume is the most important of all.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 295. Mr. 10. 1040w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 83: 812. Ag. 4, ’06. 870w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Spec.= 96: 188. F. 3, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Lloyd, Henry Demarest.= Man, the social creator. **$2. Doubleday.
“A collection of addresses delivered by the late Henry D. Lloyd during
the ten years preceding his death, and now brought together in a
volume.... The main thesis of the present book is indicated by the
title, namely, that man is creating, out of the divine potentialities
of his own nature, the social life and institutions which are, for a
large body of thinkers to-day, the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ upon earth. The
book is also understood to embody the author’s religious beliefs....
Everywhere we find optimism—evil interpreted as good in the making,
and the future heralded as a mighty advance upon the present.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 210w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 699. S. 20, ’06. 360w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 838. Je. 2, ’06. 1010w.
“The strength of this book is in its affirmations; its weakness is in
its denials. When it is specific it is persuasive; when it deals with
generalizations it invites doubt if not actual contradiction.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 863. Ag. 11, ’06. 390w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 100w.
=Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister).= Mrs. Radigan: her biography, with that of
Miss Pearl Veal and the memoirs of J. Madison Mudison. †$1. Scribner.
“‘Mrs. Radigan’ is another book exposing New York society, but in so
jocose and headlong a way as not to make much impression until one
pauses to reflect how true to life and perspicacious Mr. Lloyd has
been.” G. W. A.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 108. Mr. ’06. 260w.
=Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister).= Six Stars; stories. †$1.50. Scribner.
Six Stars is a little village hidden away in a Pennsylvania mountain
valley. The stories are pitched in the quiet monotonous key which the
valley-folk sound in their uneventful lives. “There are some passages
of serious feeling and indications of currents of passion, but in the
main the tales are gently humorous, with a taste of dialect but
without its abuse, and with a true perception of what is interesting
and worth recording in the lives of simple people.” (Outlook.)
+ – =Critic.= 48: 572. Je. ’06. 100w.
“Is a book to read aloud, if you can for laughter, to some
appreciative listener; it is one of the pleasures that are increased
by dividing. The book is homey and wholesome as a red-clover field in
full bloom, and is just the sort of literature that the nerve-weary
need.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 222. Jl. 26, ’06. 150w.
“Mr. Lloyd’s way with his rustics has an undoubted charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 470w.
“A dozen or more admirable short stories.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 910. Ap. 21, ’06. 110w.
=Locke, William John.= Beloved vagabond. †$1.50. Lane.
Who he is and what manner of vagabond he is may be gleaned from the
following: “One who though a gentleman and a scholar, has become a
peripatetic philosopher, a roadside humorist, and the delight of cafés
of the Latin quarter.” (Outlook.) He picks up a little boy out of the
gutter, adopts him, wanders with him all over Europe for the sake of
the child’s education. This is the record of their pilgrimage told by
the boy years afterward.
* * * * *
“The book is a little masterpiece, possessed of that exquisite charm
and refined simplicity which are connected with French writers of the
best period.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 445. N. 3, ’06. 250w.
Reviewed by Amy C. Rich.
=Arena.= 36: 687. D. ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Locke’s new novel is less a novel than a study in temperament.
The tale is picaresque in character, and is maintained with great
spirit and gusto.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 613. N. 17. 270w.
“Mr. Locke should not be judged by his ‘Beloved vagabond’ alone.”
– =Nation.= 83: 375. N. 1, ’06. 260w.
“As a novel the book is unique in its method and its treatment of the
subject, while its intellectual flavor and its large and tolerant
presentation of life make it constantly enjoyable from first page to
last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 740. N. 10, ’06. 530w.
“The author shows artistic courage and literary skill in thus
following human nature rather than the ordinary conventions of romance
and sentiment.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 130w.
“One may shrink from the realism with which some phases of our
delightful vagabond’s life is depicted, but one is fascinated by the
overflowing humor of his talk and by the free open-air spirit of the
road with which the book is pervaded.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 180w.
=Locke, William John.= Morals of Marcus Ordeyne. †$1.50. Lane.
“It is brisk, witty, gay, even, with a minor modulation for relief.”
Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 57. Ja. ’06. 400w.
=Lodge, George Cabot.= Great adventure: sonnets. **$1. Houghton.
A volume of sonnets whose themes are Life, Love and Death. The
twenty-five sonnets under the heading “Death” are dedicated to the
memory of Trumbull Stickney.
* * * * *
“High praise must be given to the thoughtful and imaginative qualities
of Mr. Lodge’s verse.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 126. F. 16, ’06. 300w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 300w.
“There is dignity and even nobility in many of them and there are
occasional lines of great verbal felicity and real power, so that the
apparently unnecessary lapses are the more teasing.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + – =North American.= 182: 759. My. ’06. 180w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Life and matter. **$1. Putnam.
A reply to Professor Haeckel’s “Riddle of the universe,” intended to
“act as an antidote against the destructive and speculative portions
of Professor Haeckel’s interesting and widely read work.” The author
“holds that life belongs to a separate order of existence from the
material world, on which it depends for phenomenal manifestation, and
on which it reacts according to laws as yet undiscovered, though
discoverable.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“One could wish that ‘Life and matter’ were somewhat less
controversial in form, that it somewhat less obviously grew out of
separate articles and addresses, still more could one wish that the
discussion were less condensed, for the book is but a little one: one
could not ask for a more penetrating criticism of current opinions by
a great scientist who is as little given to serving idols of the cave
as of the market place.” E. T. Brewster.
+ – =Atlan.= 98: 421. S. ’06. 580w.
“Besides fulfilling its immediate object, will serve as a complete
reply to Mr. Mallock, and a host of less distinguished thinkers.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 393. Je. ’06. 920w.
=Critic.= 48: 378. Ap. ’06. 160w.
“The main value of the book is, after all, the fact that Professor
Haeckel’s theories enable Sir Oliver Lodge to present us with a most
interesting study of the relation between life and matter. No higher
praise could be given Sir Oliver Lodge’s book than to say that it is a
strong assertion of the rights of human experience as against
artificial dogma, the product of abstraction.” Charles F. Clogher.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 699. Ap. ’06. 3950w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 41. F. 9, ’06. 520w.
“The arrangement of the various topics is not always the best
possible. Apart from these slight defects the book deserves hearty
commendation.”
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 78. My. 24, ’06. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 300w.
“While Professor Haeckel’s errors are exposed, the solid part of his
work receives an extension into a fruitful field of scientific
inquiry.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ’05. 110w.
“At present ... it is doubtful whether the great mass of his ‘brother
scientists’ will accept him as their spokesman.” Frank Thilly.
– =Phys. R.= 15: 438. Jl. ’06. 1150w.
“The book is an interesting and well-intended but disappointing
attempt to reconcile the categories of exact science and humanistic
idealism.” H. Heath Bawden.
– + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 353. O. 15, ’06. 720w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 255. F. ’06. 80w.
“It is needless to say that Sir Oliver Lodge is well worth hearing on
such a fascinating subject as the relation of the higher physics to
the phenomena of life.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 467. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
=Loeb, Jacques.= Dynamics of living matter. *$3. Macmillan.
This volume owes its origin to a series of lectures delivered by the
author at Columbia university in 1902. It is the purpose of the
lectures “to state to what extent we are able to control the phenomena
of development, self preservation, and reproduction.” The chapters are
as follows: Concerning the general chemistry of life phenomena, The
general physical constitution of living matter, On some physical
manifestations of life, The role of electrolytes in the formation and
preservation of living matter, The effects of heat and radiant energy
upon living matter, Heliotropism, Further facts concerning tropisms
and related phenomena, Fertilization, Heredity, and On the dynamics of
regenerative processes.
* * * * *
“The book is in all respects a worthy member of the ‘Columbia
university biological series,’ of which it is the eighth volume. I
could not give it higher praise.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + + =Atlan.= 98: 419. S. ’06. 380w.
“The lectures are readable and instructive, and they are especially
commended to the attention of plant physiologists, who are too apt to
pass over literature not strictly pertaining to plants.”
+ + =Bot. G.= 41: 449. Je. ’06. 270w.
“The present volume, containing a survey of recent work in biology,
may be commended, not to the specialist, for he knows of it already,
but to the sociologist or the theologian—to any scholar, in fact, who
is interested in the fundamental questions of life, and not afraid of
meeting many words that he does not know and cannot find in the
dictionary.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 752. S. 27, ’06. 600w.
=Ind.= 61: 1172. N. 15, ’06. 50w.
“Think what we may of such questions of logic, it is undeniable that
the book is full of the most instructive and extraordinarily
interesting matter, in large part new to all but the most fully
informed, which is presented with great perspicuity, and put in as
simple a form as possible.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 17. Jl. 5, ’06. 980w.
“We may regard the work as a useful counterblast to those who term
themselves neovitalists.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 631. O. 25, ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 181. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 765. Je. ’06. 210w.
“It is a very interesting book which instructs and at the same time
stimulates the reader to independent thinking.” S. J. Meltzer.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 24: 145. Ag. 3, ’06. 1290w.
“Is marred by sneers at psychology and metaphysics.”
+ – =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 260w.
=Loeb, Jacques.= Studies in general physiology. 2v. *$7.50. Univ. of
Chicago press.
“These two volumes of the Decennial series of the University of
Chicago, bring together in reprint the list of brilliant contributions
which gave to the author his prestige in protoplasmic physiology. They
consist of thirty-eight papers, published through various channels and
in two languages, between the years 1889 and 1902. These are arranged
in the chronological order of their previous publication, beginning
with those on tropisms and ending with those on artificial
parthenogenesis and on the irritability of muscles.”—Bot. Gaz.
* * * * *
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 96: 681. N. ’05. 340w.
Reviewed by B. E. Livingston.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 40: 75. Jl. ’05. 330w.
“The two volumes of papers collected under this title form one of the
most interesting and suggestive works that have been published on the
subject.”
+ + =Nature.= 73: 195. D. 28, ’05. 530w.
“We have here before us the fruit of a most indefatigable and
ingenious investigator who has done pioneer work in many fields in
biology. These studies will be a source of instruction and stimulation
to many an earnest student in general physiology.” S. J. Meltzer.
+ + + =Science=, n. s. 23: 742. My. 11, ’06. 960w.
=London, Jack.= The game. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Excellent novelette.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 49. Ja. ’06. 90w.
=London, Jack.= Moon face; and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The eight stories which comprise this volume exhibit in quite varied
fields the dramatic quality and virile powers of expression for which
Mr. London is noted.” (Lit. D.) They include besides the title-story;
Planchette, The shadow and the flash, Local color, and All Gold
canyon.
* * * * *
“They are terse, virile to the verge of brutality, and they grip the
mind. The language is fresh and convincing, save for one irritating
phrase, ‘what of’, which Mr. London uses very unsuitably.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 200w.
“Not nearly so good as they should be—as they might be, if Mr. London
were in less of a hurry.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 477. O. 20. 220w.
“Mr. London, when he errs, does so on the side of flesh; there are
moments even in his most powerful work, when one is prompted to say,
‘That is a false note: human nature is nobler than that!’” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 247. N. ’06. 400w.
“But the quality of these stories indicates either a decline in power
or disposition to live on the unearned increment of his former
reputation, a shocking ethical fault in the apostle of the
proletariat.”
– =Ind.= 61: 698. S. 20, ’06. 130w.
“There is a freshness and originality in these unconventional tales, a
sort of primitive vigor and pulsing life, that lift them above the
average of the short stories that now have such vogue. Here and there,
it is true, his style is disfigured by a grotesque stroke.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 260w.
“These stories present Jack London at his shallowest, but by no means
at his worst. Everything in them even their brutality, is subordinated
to a trivial ingenuity of plot.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 80w.
“Nearly all are below his average level of achievement.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 596. S. 29, ’06. 390w.
“Have all of Mr. London’s recognized vigor and originality.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 30w.
“Shows here and there the author’s power, but will add nothing to his
reputation.”
+ – =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 50w.
=London, Jack.= Tales of the fish patrol. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Fairly exciting the stories certainly are.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.
“Mr. London’s style has of late shown marked signs of a chastening
process. He progresses. This is better work than ‘The game.’”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 229. F. 24. 170w.
“The author seems to know his subject thoroughly, and he can make
excellent use of his knowledge.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 338. Mr. 17, ’06. 160w.
“All are told with vigour, but they are the kind of tales which any
magazine-writer might have written, and admirers of Mr. London’s work
must confess to some disappointment.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: 98. Jl. 21, ’06. 140w.
=London, Jack.= War of the classes. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“In short, the book may serve a useful purpose by stimulating thought
in readers of independent judgment, but will prove a stumbling block
to the unwary.”
+ – =Charities.= 15: 403. D. 23, ’05. 1310w.
“The economic reasoning, however, is not clear, and there is little
constructive thinking.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 297. My. 1, ’06. 140w.
=London, Jack.= White Fang. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“In “White Fang” Mr. London reverses the “process of retrogression” of
“The call of the wild,” and traces the fortune of a dog which is part
wolf to the time of the redeeming of his brute nature. And the
transition is not without triumphs for the ugly nature within him.
Finally when he merges from his last fight—and there is no more
blood-curdling dog-fight in literature—he is rescued by his
love-master. By this patient, kind man, his brute nature is redeemed,
and for the master he loves he learns to endure the restraints of
civilization.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The book will be judged inferior to ‘The Call of the Wild’ by
sticklers for ‘strong’ endings; nevertheless it will be more enjoyed
by the mass of readers.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 400w.
“In workmanship it is as good as anything the author has done in this
field, and no one has done better.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1055. N. 1, ’06. 320w.
“This is the kind of thing Jack London does best.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’06. 390w.
“By far the best thing that has come from his pen since ‘The call of
the wild,’ and in some points a better dog story than the latter ever
succeeded in seeming to the present writer.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 764. N. 17, ’06. 650w.
“The subject is one which fits the author’s peculiar gifts admirably
and gives him full scope.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“No stronger piece of work in this field has appeared.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 710. N. 24, ’06. 170w.
=London, Jack, and others.= Argonaut stories. 50c. Argonaut pub.
Twenty-two stories contributed by as many writers among whom are Jack
London, Frank Norris, Gwendolen Overton, C. W. Doyle, Robert D. Milne
and Buckey O’Neill.
=Long, Augustus White=, ed. American poems, 1776–1900, with notes and
biographies. *90c. Am. bk.
“Mr. Long’s book puts in a volume convenient for class work a good
selection of American poetry, beginning with Freneau and coming down
to the poets of our own day. There are also biographical
introductions, a little critical comment, and notes.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“We do not criticise [the notes] because they explain what is obvious
... but rather because they often do not explain what is not obvious.”
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 567. Jl. ’06. 380w.
“Has made his selections with discriminating intelligence.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 40w.
=Long, John Luther.= Heimweh and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The book is worth reading though its contents are of unequal value.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 264. F. 17. ’06. 170w.
=Long, John Luther.= Seffy; a little comedy of country manners. †$1.50.
Bobbs.
“All these go to make up a charming book, despite the sordid and
rather coarse phases of life that are especially emphasized in the
early chapters.”
+ – =Arena.= 35: 222. F. ’06. 260w.
“A tender little story, exquisitely told, and full of the delicate
half-tones of human emotions.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 634. F. ’06. 140w.
“The story is slight but fairly interesting.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 350w.
– + =Outlook.= 81: 1085. D. 30, ’05. 70w.
“It is a charming story, charmingly written, with just enough romance
to save it from the bald monotony of reality and enough reality to
prevent it from being hopelessly romantic.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, 05. 110w.
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 50w.
=Long, John Luther.= Way of the gods. †$1.50. Macmillan.
In this story of Japan “the little Samurai—a ‘girl-boy’—born to be a
gentle poet, is educated and inspired to be a soldier of the
Emperor.... Never a warrior in appearance, the spirit and patriotism
of the man carries him honorably through two wars. He succumbs to love
for a Japanese maiden of lowly birth whom he finds in China. He
marries her, and upon that act follow all the tremendous train of
suffering and tragedy in which the two loving souls are engulfed....
Mr. Long is able to make us see from the Japanese point of view, and
reverence the nobility of the lowly maid who sacrificed all for love
and rose to heights of heroism that her beloved Samurai could never
attain.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 791. Je. 30. 180w.
“On close inspection this curious, erratic, exotic bit of fiction
offers a better example of this whole matter of pictorial art in
novels than any other book of the month.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 538. Jl. ’06. 740w.
=Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 80w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Perhaps ungrateful to complain very bitterly of mere mannerisms when
the matter beneath is altogether admirable.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 451. Jl. 14, ’06. 510w.
“Mr. Long has succeeded in conveying in this romantic yet thoroughly
modern story a fine impression of the marvelous persistence of
hereditary ideals of honor and sacrifice among the Japanese.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 244. My. 26, ’06. 190w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Brier-patch philosophy, by “Peter Rabbit”
interpreted by W: J. Long; il. by Charles Copeland. *$1.50. Ginn.
The rabbit’s sunny brier patch to which Mr. Long’s readers are invited
is a pleasant place to contemplate “the sweet reasonableness of animal
thinking,” and the associated subject of animal psychology. “If you
care to follow the rabbit’s trail ... he will take you thru the dead
timber of science, thru streets of reason and psychology, thru the
open country of instincts and habits and dawning intelligence, to the
origin of natural religion and the distant glimpse of immortality in
which we are all interested.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Long in this serious piece of work, has made a contribution to
animal study that will have permanent influence. It should be said,
moreover, that the unusually animated illustrations save the book from
being too serious.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 390. D. 1, ’06. 490w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1057. N. 1, ’06. 220w.
“Plausibility and proof are two very different things, and it is just
in the failure to distinguish carefully between them that Mr. Long has
always shown himself radically weak.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 450w.
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Northern trails: stories of animal life in the
far north. *$1.50. Ginn.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 863. D. 23. 120w.
“These ‘Northern trails’ lead one through many other evidences of Mr.
Long’s ability as a naturalist.” George Gladden.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 89. Mr. ’06. 680w.
“The book would have been much better without the first story—for the
plan is not original; it is ‘written down’ and it lacks reality in
spite of the author’s efforts. But as for the rest, even Mr. Burroughs
will find little in the natural history to object to, and certainly no
one can hold out against the story interest of the chapters, nor the
grace and charm of the style.” Dallas Lore Sharp.
+ + – =Critic.= 48: 122. F. ’06. 150w.
+ =Nature.= 73: 177. D. 21, ’05. 170w.
“There is a certain sameness about his work, but we do not think that
he has written anything better than ‘Northern trails.’”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
Long day: a true story of a New York working girl as told by herself.
*$1.20. Century.
“This book will do good. It presents a section from the social life of
today with pathetic fidelity.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 332. Mr. ’06. 320w.
“There are innumerable flashes of [humor] in ‘The long day.’” Winthrop
More Daniels.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 841. Je. ’06. 610w.
“As a human document this is an important piece of work.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 95. Ja. ’06. 380w.
“The writer’s tone, even when there is most provocation to heat, is
conspicuously fair and free from hysteria; eminently broad, sane and
hopeful is her view. With its disclosures, its suggestions, and its
hopes, ‘The long day’ is a book that must and will be read.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 82. Ja. 25, ’06. 940w.
“Few novels have such sheer narrative interest as this book: fewer
still combine with such interest so vivid portraiture. The book
abounds, too, with descriptive writing of no mean order.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 805. Ap. 7, ’06. 430w.
=Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.= Poems; with a biographical sketch by
Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets,” and contains a sketch of
Longfellow’s life, notes, and a frontispiece.
=Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.= Tales of a wayside inn; with an introd.
by Nathan Haskell Dole. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a
“return to nature.” †$1.50. Barnes.
– =Bookm.= 23: 310. My. ’06. 470w.
=Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June.= Italian in
America. $1.50. Buck.
“Apart from its value as an important contribution towards a correct
statement of the immigration problem, his volume is well worth
reading.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 839. Mr. ’06. 880w.
=Ind.= 61: 156. Jl. 19, ’06. 300w.
=Lord, Walter Frewen.= Mirror of the century. *$1.50. Lane.
Twelve crtical essays each one of which is a study of one of the
following nineteenth-century novelists: Trollope, George Eliot, Jane
Austen, Lytton, Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, the Kingsleys, Charles
Reade, Beaconsfield and W. E. Norris.
* * * * *
“We find it impossible to realize the standard of ideas which makes
such a judgment as he sets down possible. On every possible occasion
he says the thing that is exactly wrong with a perversity that never
deviates into illuminating criticism.”
– – =Acad.= 70: 424. My. 5, ’06. 1210w.
“Mr. Frewen Lord is a clever talker, whose ambition exceeds his
industry. As a revelation of temperament the volume is not striking.
Is at his best when he has found a quotation upon which to exercise
his humor.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 720w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 91. Ag. 16, ’06. 320w.
“The charm of Mr. Lloyd’s book lies in this very novelty of many of
its ideas, its piquancy of expression, and its revelation of his own
alert and unconventional mind. It is a suggestive and readable book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 356. Je. 2, ’06. 470w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 252. N. ’06. 190w.
“These criticisms are smartly done, and there is plenty of suggestion
in most of them. They are well up to the average papers of the sort.
Of the necessity for them in book form we are not so sure.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 664. My. 26, ’06. 200w.
“They are eminently readable; they are manifestly the result of very
careful work; they are often marked by ingenuity and force. In his
‘Dedicatory letter’ Mr. Lord writes a little wildly.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 794. My. 19, ’06. 470w.
=Lorenz, Daniel Edward.= Mediterranean traveller. *$2.50. Revell.
“It has many illustrations, but is a heavy and cumbrous volume,
decidedly inferior to Baedeker’s in compactness and arrangement.”
– + =Ind.= 60: 871. Ap. 12, ’06,. 50w.
=Lorenz, Hans.= Modern refrigerating machinery; its construction,
methods of working, and industrial applications; a guide for engineers
and owners of refrigerating plants. *$4. Wiley.
“This book is based on ‘Neuere kuehlmaschinen’ ... and is
systematically arranged in ten chapters, and the matter is treated in
a clear and concise manner. Examples are used to demonstrate the
application of the rules, and by this method, together with the great
number of fine illustrations, even the inexperienced reader can find
advice without waste of time. The metric system of weights and
measures, as used in the German editions, is converted into the system
customary in this country, so that no calculations are
necessary.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The success of this book must be attributed to the acknowledged
competency of the author as well as to the fact that mathematical
treatment is strictly eliminated. The characteristics of Prof.
Lorenz’s work ... are impartiality and copiousness of practical
information.” J. C. Bertsch.
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 428. Ap. 12, ’06. 3770w.
=Lorimer, George Horace.= False gods. †$1.25. Appleton.
A reporter’s adventure prompted by a laudable greed for first-hand
facts tingles with the excitement of Egyptian mysteries, statues that
seem to possess human power, black cats, supposed crime, all animated
and controlled by a beautiful woman. That he follows up the wrong
train of evidences and makes false steps perturbs his soul but little,
and he is soon back “again serving false gods.”
* * * * *
“Simpkins is well characterized and the story is rather clever in its
way.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 60w.
“We can heartily commend Mr. Lorimer’s book as a stirring story to
read at one sitting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 260. Ap. 21, ’06. 210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
=Outlook.= 83: 91. My. 12. ’06. 110w.
=Loring, Andrew=, comp, and ed. Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by
George Saintsbury. *$2.50. Dutton.
“We commend this volume heartily to those who need such a book, and
how innumerable are our poets our daily mail shows.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1542. D. 28, 05. 100w.
=Loti, Pierre, pseud. (Louis Marie Julien Viaud).= Disenchanted; tr. by
Clara Bell. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Awaking from the ennui and monotony of their surroundings the women of
the harem are here portrayed with a thirst for knowledge a desire to
let into their life-prisons the breath of a free world without any
confining, artificial requirements. “We have no agonizing feeling that
we are looking on at a bit of real life torn, raw and bleeding, from
actual tragedy. It is sorrow and pain seen through a veiling yashmak,
a tragedy in a dream.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“M. Loti is gently sympathetic, writes charmingly of everything,
paints delightful pictures, but suggests no remedy for sufferings.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 140w.
“Altogether ‘Disenchanted’ presents a very new view of the Turkish
women.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 757. S. 27, ’06. 650w.
Ind. 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 60w.
“The details of the picture are perfectly finished, as we expect of
Loti, but there is a deep note of earnestness in his appeal that shows
profound emotion.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 431. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
“This situation M. Loti has developed in a story of rare delicacy and
beauty, full of refinement and feeling, and sketched in those
sensitive colors, with that extreme sensibility of feeling, which have
made him perhaps the foremost of impressionist writers.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 250w.
=Lottridge, Silas A.= Animal snap-shots and how made. **$2. Holt.
“No nature book has been written for a long time so comfortable in its
general tone as Mr. Lottridge’s.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 94. F. 1, ’06. 350w.
Ind. 60: 804. Ap. 5, ’06. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 151. Ag. 16, ’06. 310w.
“This author is a laureate of the lesser beasts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 25. Ja. 13, ’06. 410w.
“A practical and convincing manual, easy to be used by any one wishing
to follow the guidance of the author.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1081. D. 30, ’05. 120w.
=Lottridge, Silas A.= Familiar wild animals. *60c. Holt.
Sketches and pictures chosen from the author’s “Animal snapshots” to
help stimulate school children in the direct observation of outdoor
life.
=Lounsberry, Alice.= Wild flower book for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
A little girl from the city tells in her own way about the beautiful
things which she finds in the country when thru a spring, summer and
autumn she wanders among woods, meadows and swamps. The flowers which
interest her are those common thruout the Northeastern states, and she
learns to love them, to call them by name, and hears many interesting
stories about them from the friends who roam with her in the haunts of
the wild flowers, the butterflies and the birds. There are many
illustrations from photographs of flowers and children.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1406. D. 13, ’06. 130w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
“A happy combination of story and botany, illustrated.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“Will be not only a useful but an entertaining book to put in the
hands of any child who loves the out of doors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 110w.
“Miss Lounsberry is at her best when her method is clear and concise,
and her touch is not perfectly adapted to the form she chooses here,
although a great deal of interesting and useful information is thus
conveyed in simple language.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 240w.
“Is poorly written. If a book of this kind were as clearly written as
Gertrude Smith writes her child fiction it would have, we believe,
increased value, for the pages contain many items of information
profitable to childhood.”
+ – =R. of Rs.= 34: 768. D. ’06. 50w.
=Lounsbery, G. Constant.= Love’s testament: a sonnet sequence. **$1.25.
Lane.
Eleven groups of six sonnets each classified under, love, absence,
passion, doubt, philosophy, content, separation, solitude,
reconciliation, jealousy and retrospect.
* * * * *
“A few of these sonnets have merit. The pity is that they are
submerged beneath a mass of tedious commonplace.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 664. Je. 2. 230w.
“The author knows a great deal about the use of words and the
management of the sonnet-form, but of the use of love and the
management of life, she seems deplorably ignorant.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 51. Jl. ’06. 380w.
“There is much excellent poetry in Mrs. Lounsbery’s volume.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 329. My. 16, ’06. 210w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. ’06. 150w.
“There is little fault to be found with the facility of the verse.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25. ’06. 260w.
“A collection of sonnets of real poetic strength and beauty.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 30w.
“To write a multitude of sonnets on love a man must have a greater
subtlety of thought and feeling than falls to the author’s share.”
– =Spec.= 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 30w.
=Lowell, James Russell.= Fireside travels; with introd. by William P.
Treat. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.”
=Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of the
United States: Florida. 1562–1574. **$2.50. Putnam.
“Really interesting book.”
+ =Bookm.= 23: 658. Ag. ’06. 300w.
“One of the most valuable and interesting of recent works on the early
discovery and settlement of our national territory.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Lowery’s book is the most accurate and scientific account yet
written upon this subject.”
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 629. Mr. 15, ’06. 470w.
“A voluminous appendix, exceedingly important for the many difficult
historical and geographical problems treated, completes the
documentary material contained in the numerous footnotes. They bear
witness to the conscientious manner in which Mr. Lowery has undertaken
and carried out his task.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 225. Mr. 15, ’06. 1940w.
=Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe
Loyson).= To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews,
Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.
– – =Ind.= 60: 1161. My. 17, ’06. 510w.
=Lubbock, Basil.= Jack Derringer: a tale of deep water. †$1.50. Dutton.
“‘The notorious Yankee skysail-yard clipper “Silas K. Higgins” the
hottest hell-ship under the stars and stripes,’ ... furnishes the
setting for this story which ... is a thrilling romance of the life
lead by ‘shanghaied’ and other seamen in more or less lawless
conditions. Brutal officers, mixed nationalities in the seamen,
fightings, murderings, wreckings, and a fight with albatrosses provide
plenty of exciting episodes before Jack Derringer reaches a peaceful
haven with the woman he loves. Jack is a roving Englishman and his
greatest chum is a certain cowboy who is ‘shanghaied’ on the ‘Higgins’
and plays an important part in the development of the story.” (Sat.
R.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Lubbock has not ‘composed’ his picture at all. There is little
perspective about it, and the very energy and knowledge which he
brings to bear upon every detail sometimes confuse the general
effect.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 359. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.
“Lacks only the art of the finished craftsman to make of it a
veritable epic of the sea.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 387. Mr. 31. 200w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 260w.
“Mr. Lubbock is a descriptive writer with little skill in the arts of
construction and arrangement. The plot, or groundwork of his book, is
slight and conventional.”
– =Lond. Times.= 5: 116. Mr. 30, ’06. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
“The thing has all the elements proper to a sea story of the old
school. And it is not bad of its kind.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 520w.
“Unwholesome and uncomfortable novel. Vulgarity and cheap melodrama
run riot.”
– – =Outlook.= 83: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 50w.
“It is a spirited, interesting romance. But we should like that
glossary.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 661. My. 26, ’06. 280w.
=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Canadian war of 1812. *$4.15. Oxford.
It has been the mission of Mr. Lucas to assist President Roosevelt and
Captain Mahan in redeeming the history of the war of 1812 alike from
“prejudiced treatment and undeserved neglect.” Mr. Lucas views the war
from the Canadian standpoint and “the book is in the strictest sense
‘an installment of Canadian history,’ as Mr. Lucas calls it. The
sources, in the main, are official dispatches. Slight use has been
made of autobiographies, vindications, and ephemeral literature, like
Hull’s ‘Memoirs,’ Wilkinson’s ‘Memoirs,’ and Armstrong’s ‘Notices of
the war.’ The narrative, so far as it deals with upper Canada, is full
and satisfactory. The same can hardly be said of the treatment which
lower Canada receives.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Though not free from defects, a splendid instalment of Canadian
history.”
+ + – =Acad.= 71: 158. Ag. 18, ’06. 570w.
“Mr. Lucas possesses to a remarkable degree the judicial temperament
which is necessary for an historian whose subject is steeped in
controversy.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 241. S. 1. 580w.
“Is always temperate and fair-minded.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 275. Ag. 10, ’06. 1750w.
“His tone throughout is discriminating, and though admiration for the
courage of the loyalists may be said to dominate the narrative as a
whole, it does not lead to special pleading on their behalf or wilful
detraction from the merits of their opponents.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 306. O. 11, ’06. 1280w.
“These maps are not so clear for study of different regions of the
theatre of conflict as are those scattered through Mr. Henry Adams’s
volumes. The narrative, too, lacks the verve and animation which that
of Mr. Adams exhibits. But it is clear and unambiguous.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 900. D. 22, ’06. 1510w.
“His chapters contain evidence of much patient research, and the
elaborate details which he has collected have been carefully pieced
together and lucidly arranged. Undoubtedly they supply the student of
war with a much-needed work. To the general reader it will inevitably
seem dull.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 6. O. 13, ’06. 600w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Friendly town: a little book for the
urbane. $1.50. Holt.
This anthology is a companion volume to “The open road.” The London of
playhouses, taverns, cards and music, as well as of sobriety and
sentiment is revealed in glints. Mr. Lucas “begins with winter and
Christmas poems. Sections follow with such characteristic headings as
Friends and the fire, Four-footed friends, The play, The tavern, Good
townsmen, and The post. We find ‘inter alia,’ prose of Pepys, Boswell,
Lamb, George Meredith; verse sentimental by Thackeray, cheerful by
Henley, and the grace of the ‘Greek anthology’ as retained by the
skill of Mr. Mackail.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Is, without qualification, a most delightful and attractive book.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1192. N. 18, ’05. 410w.
“There is actually no index, either of authors or of first lines.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 723. N. 25. 230w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 457. D. 16, ’06. 230w.
“A real invention marks ‘The friendly town.’”
+ =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ’05. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Life of Charles Lamb. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
“Fitly complements his admirable edition of the ‘Works and letters.’”
H. W. Boynton.
+ + + =Critic.= 48: 27. Ja. ’06. 4760w.
+ + + =Current Literature.= 40: 511. My. ’06. 640w.
“As Mr. Lucas has shown himself to be the ideal editor and annotator
in his recently-published seven-volume edition of Lamb’s works, so
here he demonstrated his unequalled qualifications as a compiler of
all discoverable material bearing on the life-history of his chosen
author. A few slight errors of execution, amid so much excellence of
design, may be noted for correction in a second edition.” Percy F.
Bicknell.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 6. Ja. 1, ’06. 2470w.
“Never has more elaborate care been manifest in biography than under
Mr. Lucas’s most patient superintendence and competent companionship.
The one defect that must be mentioned ... is the insistent
preoccupation with Lamb’s enslavement to drink and tobacco.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 338. F. 8, ’06. 890w.
“Every shred of available material that may throw the faintest light
upon the poet or his associates is turned and returned, until there
remains apparently little or nothing to be unearthed in future.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 110w.
“Mr. Lucas writes in the long run with more light than warmth.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 304. Ap. 12, ’06. 2090w.
“Will be a mine of riches for those who care for one of the most
interesting groups of writers of the last century.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 960. D. 23, ’05. 1140w.
Reviewed by Sidney T. Irwin.
+ + + =Quarterly R.= 204: 177. Ja. ’06. 1970w.
“His book is a noteworthy contribution to literary memorabilia.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 118. Ja. ’06. 260w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Listener’s lure: a Kensington comedy. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
The story of “how Lynn Haberton was in love with his ward and
secretary, Edith Graham, but thought he was too old and dry for her;
how he sent her to London as companion to a charming old lady
surrounded with cranks; how every man she met proposed to her, and in
the end how she married her guardian” (Acad.) is told by means of a
general correspondence among a group of people attached to the chief
characters.
* * * * *
“You can turn back again and open where you will, sure of finding
something amusing or interesting, some clever touch of character or
some shrewd piece of wisdom.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Lucas seems to have been afraid to trust to his own design, and
to have borrowed the sentiment of his book from conventions. He is,
however, full of wit and wisdom.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 330w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 329. S. 28, ’06. 580w.
“A bit of good comedy.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 353. O. 25, ’06. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 667. O. 13, ’06. 270w.
“Especial joy may be found in these pages by any American who knows
England and her people.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 430. O. 20, ’06. 160w.
“In his hands the form so familiar to our fathers affords opportunity
for reflection on many subjects, for much clever comment on people and
society, and for a very pretty play of wit; and the story goes on its
way to a happy ending, as it ought.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 709. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Attractive as are the characters in the book, the main interest lies
in the delightful things that are said by the way. Mr. Lucas is
essentially an essayist.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 432. O. 6, ’06. 410w.
“‘Listener’s lure’ is the work of a genuine humorist who is not afraid
on occasion to be serious; it has lent freshness and charm to a mode
of narration which too often makes for irritation; and it is marked by
that enviable quality of sympathy which makes a friend of every
reader.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 542. O. 13, ’06. 1150w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in Holland. *$2. Macmillan.
“The text is literary, chatty, easily read and quickly enjoyed.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 454. F. 22, ’06. 300w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in London. **$1.75. Macmillan.
“Mr. Lucas ... gives us his own London. A very odd place it is, full
of odd characters, odd animals, odd entertainments, odds and ends of
every description. The ordinary ‘sights’ do not belong to it.” (Lond.
Times.) “He knows and tells all the associations of localities; he
takes one into a hundred odd corners; he is in sympathetic touch with
living Londoners of all classes and occupations. The fascination of
London, he tells us, that which the traveler must come to see, is
London men and women, her millions of men and women.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The book abounds in out-of-the-way bits of information. The
digressions are entertaining. The index is unsatisfactory.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 512. O. 27. 940w.
“Past and present are allied with the strongest ties of association
and charm of literary treatment.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 391. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“Londoners ... are all writ down by their fellow-citizen with a charm,
a sympathy, a friendly enthusiasm that will go far to make them forget
the misplaced compassion of country folk.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 320. S. 21, ’06. 1690w.
“A well-qualified personal book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“To read ‘A wanderer in London’ is like taking long tramps through all
parts of the city with a companion who knows all the interesting
things and places and people and has something wise or gay or genial
to say about all of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 825. D. 1, ’06. 490w.
“Mr. Lucas spends proportionately too much time in the picture
galleries. One can hardly hope to find a better way of reviving
impressions and seeing things in a new setting than through this
cheerful and friendly volume.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 432. O. 20, ’06. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 639. N. ’06. 80w.
“Mr. Lucas’ wanderings will very likely be popular. There is so much
in them that gives pleasure to the many who read everything except
literature.”
– =Sat. R.= 102: 518. O. 27, ’06. 940w.
=Luccock, Naphtali.= Royalty of Jesus. *50c. Meth. bk.
A group of eight sermons preached by the pastor of the Union Methodist
Episcopal church of St. Louis, teaching that “through free
intelligence, an enlightened conscience, a righteous will, and a heart
aglow with love, Christ lives and reigns in human affairs.”
=Luce, Morton.= Handbook to the works of William Shakespeare. $1.75.
Macmillan.
“A series of introductions to the separate works, taken
chronologically, fills the bulk of the volume, the remaining contents
being chapters of history, biography and bibliography, with
discussions of Shakespeare’s art, philosophy and metrics.” (Dial.)
“Mr. Luce’s volume is something more than a handbook; it is a
criticism and an esthetic too. Not only does it contain all the
generally accepted facts with regard to Shakespeare, together with the
general consensus of critical opinion, but it also propounds a number
of original or at least novel, ideas and dramatic theories of its
own.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Has collected a good deal of value as to the sources of the plays and
poems, the extant testimony concerning them, and the circumstance of
their appearance. He has not the gift of arrangement. The compiler
does not apparently know, what true conciseness (a quality essential
in a single book about the whole of Shakespeare) means.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 210. Ag. 25. 101Ow.
“The book is prepared with knowledge and judgment, and seems to be,
with the possible exception of Professor Dowden’s similar work, the
best single volume available for a fairly close and detailed study of
the poet. Certainly, the amount of matter packed within a small
compass is remarkable.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 43. Jl. 16, ’06. 120w.
“It is suggestive, stimulating and to the lover of Shakespeare,
thoroly readable.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 758. S. 27, ’06. 290w.
“Seems to be accurate in statement and sound in its literary
judgments, generally speaking. The author’s plan leads to a good deal
of repetition, which might have been avoided by a better arrangement.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 240w.
“Mr. Luce is no blind worshipper, and his criticism is of excellent
quality. He has laid students of Shakespeare under very considerable
obligations.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 912. Je. 9, ’06. 180w.
=Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis).= Work of Lucian of Samosata; trans. by
H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.
“The versions are very readable and at the same time bear comparison
with the Greek text.” John C. Rolfe.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 214. Ap. ’06. 940w.
=Ludlow, James Meeker.= Sir Raoul: a tale of the theft of an empire.
†$1.50. Revell.
“‘Sir Raoul,’ is a story of the fourth crusade, and of its diversion,
through Venetian intrigue, from its primary object to the raid upon
Constantinople, which resulted in the brief restoration of the Emperor
Alexius, the temporary union of the Greek and Roman churches, and the
establishment of the Latin empire of the East under Baldwin.... Mr.
Ludlow’s hero is a youthful knight of the Black forest, who suffers
disgrace early in his career, and is given out for dead, but who in
reality remains very much alive and participates, under an assumed
name, in the exciting happenings with which the romance is
concerned.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The interest is sustained at a high pitch throughout, and the
author’s knowledge of his subject seems to embrace both the broad
historical issues of the period and a diversity of curious matters of
detail. A neat and pointed style provides the story with an added
element of attractiveness.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 16. Ja. 1, ’06. 240w.
“The technique is somewhat imperfect, but the manners, the
superstitions, the barbarism, of the time are faithfully portrayed.
The plot is ingenious, the action vigorous, the turning-points
extraordinary.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ’05. 100w.
=Lützow, Francis, count.= Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. *$1.75.
Oxford.
Reviewed by A. W. W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 197. Ja. ’06. 530w.
=Lyle, Eugene P.= Missourian. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“Mr. Lyle possesses true creative vision and power.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 230w.
“The details of this book are so complex as very often to be tedious.
The book will be read only for its historical interest.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 465. Mr. 24, ’06. 270w.
=Lyman, Henry Munson.= Hawaiian yesterdays. **$2. McClurg.
Chapters from a boy’s life in the Sandwich Islands in the early days.
The boy is the son of a missionary and was born in Hilo in 1835. His
sketch, autobiographical in nature, is set in the primitive
surroundings of pioneer life, and touches upon his education, upon the
possible stimulation to piety and scholarship, upon adventures in this
ocean country, upon the tropical splendors and upon the civilization
among the natives.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 49: 96. Jl. ’06. 100w.
“From cover to cover the book is entertaining.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 40: 223. Ap. 1, ’06. 1580w.
“Some interesting reminiscences, tho too largely of a personal
nature.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1167. My. 17, ’06. 60w.
“It is a work that charms and attracts.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 917. Je. 16, ’06. 700w.
“Our chief criticism is that the narrative seems to terminate somewhat
abruptly, leaving the curiosity and interest it awakens not wholly
satisfied.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 128. Ag. 9, ’06. 430w.
“These reminiscences throw not a little light on religious,
educational, and political conditions during the troublous period of
Hawaiian history.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 50w.
=Lyman, Olin Linus.= Micky: a novel. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
Michael O’Byrn, a tattered knight of the road, saunters into the
office of the Daily courier importuning the city editor for a chance
to show his mettle. From the first “write-up”—a dramatic portrayal of
a slum fight—Micky scores triumphs. His special task becomes that of
unearthing the corrupt schemes of a political boss and a group of
graft-practicing associates. Tho success is his, the bitter
consequences of his yielding to a fondness for drink, together with
the tragic ending of his brief romance compel him to cut himself
adrift and once more became a wanderer.
* * * * *
“There is a great deal of the ‘atmosphere’ of newspapers in the book,
and considerable of the ‘chaff’ and back talk supposed to exist among
‘the boys,’ which is all more or less according to truth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 240w.
=Lynde, Francis.= Quickening. $1.50. Bobbs.
Under the narrow religious influence of his mother, young Tom Jeff,
with the quicker blood of his non-religious father flowing fast in his
veins, tries hard to make of himself a minister, and failing, finds in
his father’s iron business a broad field of action. But he grounds his
life upon those early material teachings and becomes thru struggle and
temptation a true hero worthy of Ardea’s love, a conqueror of
circumstance and of himself. The characters of the fiery old Major to
whom the north is still the enemy’s country, of young Farley, who is
almost too conventional a villain, and of the mountaineers and
ironworkers who play a large part in the story are strongly drawn.
* * * * *
“There is some admirable character drawing and there are some very
graphic and life-like scenes, but for the general novel reader perhaps
the greatest charm will be found in the exciting and dramatic
situations of the story.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 140w.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 140w.
“The story is pleasant and genuine.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 130w.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 120w.
“Considering all, Mr. Lynde has not done ill.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 600w.
“Has something of a swing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 386. Je. 16. ’06. 160w.
“More than usual skill in analysis of motive and description of
complex character is to be found in this tale of modern life.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 571. Mr. 10, ’06. 110w.
“It is a distinctly human, veracious, and altogether readable story.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 170w.
=Lyon, D. B.= Musical geography. $2 per doz.; ea. 25c. Wilson, H. W.
“A little musical geography with sense and song to bind hard names in
silver chains for boys and girls,” which was first published in 1851
is here rejuvenated and retold.
=Lyttleton, Rev. Edward.= Studies in the Sermon on the Mount. *$3.50.
Longmans.
“The book, as Mr. Lyttleton tells us in the preface, is not a complete
work, for it deals only with the actual precepts recorded in the three
chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel. Scarcely anything is said about such
controversial subjects as the relation between the Matthoean and Lukan
reports; nor does it touch on critical and textual questions except
when they seem to be bound up with the interpretation of the words. It
is ‘intended for those thoughtful students who wish to get hold of the
meaning of the words as they are handed down.’”—Int. J. Ethics.
* * * * *
“These studies are the work of a clear, strong thinker, who is in deep
sympathy with his subject.” David Phillips.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 498. Jl. ’06. 1000w.
“The writer’s method is a little diffuse, a little wanting in the
power to grip a thought with a terse expression. For the high
earnestness of the book there can be nothing but praise; but Mr.
Lyttleton must be content to compress his material.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 439. D. 15, ’05. 490w.
M
=Maartens, Maarten (Jozua Marius Willem Schwartz).= Healers. †$1.50.
Appleton.
The healing of mind and body is dealt with in this novel in which
nearly every character stands for some variety of scientific or
religious opinion. Chief among them are “Professor Baron Lisse, of
Leyden, the great bacteriologist in religion a conforming Protestant
skeptic; his wife, a poet, converted, in the course of the story, to
Roman Catholicism; their son Edward, who from childhood has hated his
father’s vivisection, and who wins fame as a follower of Charcot; Sir
James Graye, an idiot on whose skull Edward operates, enabling him to
regain sufficient reason to learn the wickedness of the world and
escape from it by suicide ... Kenneth Graye, James’s devoted uncle and
guardian, who—so far as we understand mental ailments—went mad because
he believed madness to be hereditary in his family, and recovered his
sanity, partly on receiving proof that it was not, completely on
receiving proof that he had misjudged a tragic event in his own life.”
(Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Is a striking, interesting book, not altogether satisfactory, but one
that all should read.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 160. F. 17, ’06. 310w.
“This is a story one can read twice on first acquaintance, to use a
Hiberianism.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 323. Mr. 17. 390w.
“It is a complex book, with a great deal in it worth reading slowly
and thoughtfully.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 416. Je. ’06. 390w.
“There are many brilliant passages in the book, but as a whole it
leaves a confused impression upon the mind of the reader.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 130w.
“We are thus bound to repudiate the book in its would-be serious
aspect, and fall back upon the entertaining invention, the acute
characterization, and the combined humor and pathos that it offers.”
Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 264. Ap. 16, ’06. 260w.
“His wanderings from one prickly topic to another sorely tries the
patience. Yet he never bores. He has too keen a sense of humor and of
human interest.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 500w.
“The novel is not strongly constructed; our interest is asked for one
character and suddenly shifted elsewhere, and the several stories
touch each other but slightly. That defect—if defect it be—is inherent
in a novel of this kind. For the truth is that, in spite of Mr.
Maartens’s care, his humour and his power of expressing character,
this is not a novel of persons but of opinions. The fortunes of
persons may be settled, happily or unhappily; thought goes on.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 630w.
“The characters in ‘The healers’ are real people battling with real
forces, no two agreeing. Maarten Maartens is not a serious singer, but
he sings of serious things.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 130. Mr. 3, ’06. 1000w.
“The men and women described are alive and interesting in an unusual
degree.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 759. Mr. 31, ’06. 130w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Great word. **$1. Dodd.
In a group of twenty-one essays, “Mr. Mabie has written broadly and
wisely and deeply of love, not as Michelet did, mixing grossness and
delicacy of thought together, but with all daintiness and fineness of
touch, so that the issue is fine.” (N. Y. Times.) “For,” says the
author, “there is no word infinity and immortality in any language,
divine or human, save the word love; for nothing save love has compass
enough to hold and to express the life of the gods.”
* * * * *
“This book, like his others, will be valued for its sane and charming
conservatism.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 70w.
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 112. Ja. 11, ’06. 250w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 878. D. 9, ’05. 280w.
=Outlook.= 81: 889. D. 9, ’05. 30w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 20w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, ed. Myths every child should know: a selection
of the classic myths of all times for young people. **90c. Doubleday.
“The book is well suited for both home and school reading.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w.
=McAdoo, William.= Guarding a great city. **$2. Harper.
Mr. McAdoo, formerly commissioner of police in New York city, takes a
courageous stand in presenting in detail the inner workings of the
police system of that great city. He discusses, with suggestions for
reform, in their sociological, political and economic aspects the
problems which grow out of the supervision of vice and crime. The
chapters on “Police imposters and fakirs,” “The East side,” and “The
poolroom evil” are especially revelatory.
* * * * *
“Quite apart from its value in the discussion of purely administrative
problems of police management, the book is very readable. Mr. McAdoo
knows his subject and handles it with great directness. One criticism
which might be made is that when discussing the problems of the police
he assumes that his readers possess rather more information regarding
the police organization than they are likely to have, but these lapses
are only occasional.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 935. O. 18, ’06. 570w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382 Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 649. My. 26, ’06. 1480w.
“Has a human interest that places it in a class apart from the
ordinary category of manuals and treatises on good government. Mr.
McAdoo writes clearly and fearlessly, as one who has nothing to
conceal from the public.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 180w.
=McCall, Sidney.= Breath of the gods. †$1.50. Little.
+ – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 130w.
=McCall, Sidney.= Truth Dexter. †$1.50. Little.
A new illustrated edition. Ever refreshing is the charming naïvete of
the Southern girl who goes to Boston as a bride and has only her
innocence and clarity of soul to offset intrigue on the one hand and
culture on the other, until, indeed, she is subjected to a rigid
course of intellectual training which conventionalizes her.
* * * * *
“In spite of what seem to us defects, the romance has so much in its
favour that we can heartily recommend it to our readers.”
+ – =Arena.= 36: 219. Ag. ’06. 580w.
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 439. Jl. 7, ’06. 880w.
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. *$1.40.
Harper.
“Although these volumes may at times be handy books of reference, they
must not be depended upon for fullness or accuracy.” A. G. Porritt.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 676. Ap. ’06. 790w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“Mr. McCarthy makes good reading for the ordinary, unhistorical man
who is often astonishingly ignorant of earlier Victorian events.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 863. D. 23. 50w.
“The author takes advantage of his opportunity to review the reign of
Victoria as a whole, and this is the most valuable part of the work.”
Edward Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 289. My. ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“Mr. McCarthy’s last volumes are very delightful, eminently readable,
and valuable. Nor does their fairness make them colorless.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 287. Mr. ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 4. and 5.)
+ + =Ind.= 61: 334. Ag. 9, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Flower of France. †$1.50. Harper.
Simplicity, steadfastness, and a tender human sympathy characterize
Mr. McCarthy’s Maid of Orleans. She is the same Joan of dreams and
visions that history portrays her, the unyielding warrior who fights
the dauphin’s cause because of a direct command from her God, yet as
she rides forth in her shining armor, she is after all the Maid whom
Lahire loves and not the fanatic whom the evil Cauchon sent to the
stake. She is a heroine who might have yielded to the entreaties of
her lover had she not impersonally espoused the high and divinely
directed cause of her country’s good—higher than which is no other
allegiance.
* * * * *
+ – =Acad.= 70: 454. My. 12, ’06. 320w.
“Mr. McCarthy has been uncommonly successful in reproducing the life
of that distant century.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 694. Je. 9. 240w.
“One sees all too plainly throughout the volume the earmarks of
prospective dramatisation.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 120. O. ’06. 190w.
“The story is a fairly good one of its kind, but it has no reason for
existence.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 91. Ag. ’06. 70w.
“We need not waste much time on a production that exhibits such
appalling vulgarisms as ‘won out’ and ‘downed all opposition’ and is
cheaply sentimental or sensational from first to last.” Wm. M. Payne.
– =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 110w.
“He has been lifted up, as a literary artist, out of pagan piety, and
pretty glamour of words that have characterized his other books into a
region of sterner spirituality and courage. This gives the story a
gravity and power which his novels have always lacked in spite of
their charm.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 516. Ag. 30, ’06. 1060w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1161. N. 15, ’06. 120w.
“Sufficiently well written to be very pleasant reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 355. Je. 2, ’06. 490w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
“A graceful, pleasantly written story.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 766. Jl. 28, ’06. 70w.
“On the whole, the effect of the book is to bring out the merits of
Mr. Andrew Lang’s historical novel of the same period.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 662. My. 26, ’06. 240w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Illustrious O’Hagen. †$1.50. Harper.
Pure romance, with a proper alloy of adventure is found in this story
of the two O’Hagens, the twin brothers whose swords were always ready
to defend their honor and fair ladies. Dorothea, the unhappy wife of a
dissolute prince of an eighteenth century German principality, has as
a child played at love in a garden with one of the brothers and this
old memory calls them both to her side where amid court intrigue and
the clash of swords one wins happiness and the other dies a good
death.
* * * * *
“Mr. McCarthy is at his buoyant best.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
“The story is a pleasant piece of work.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 543. N. 3. 210w.
“Lacks some of the historical interest and the odd situations that
were the strong features of ‘If I were king’ but the new novel has a
touch of the originality of construction which made a success of the
François Villon book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 775. N. 24, ’06. 360w.
“Lightly amusing, but of very little weight or force, is this novel.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
“It is altogether an admirable historical novel of the lighter type,
written with a jaunty elegance which is most effective.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 617. N. 17, ’06. 90w.
=McCash, Isaac Newton.= Ten plagues of modern Egypt. *$1. Personal help
pub.
The ten plagues of modern Egypt herein discussed are divorce,
amusements, municipal misrule, corrupt journalism, lynching, social
impurity, our city carnivals, murder, gambling, and intemperance. A
concluding chapter discusses the civic conscience.
=McCaughan, William J.= Love, faith, and joy. $1. J. Gosham Staats,
Chicago.
A group of sermons delivered in the Third Presbyterian church,
Chicago.
=McClellan, Elisabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607–1800; with an
introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in
Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by
Sophie Steel. **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
“The work is, in fact, of great, practical value both to the art
student and to the costumier.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 28: 370. Je. ’06. 470w.
“The letterpress is rather scrappy and disconnected, but it is full of
valuable information derived from undeniably accurate sources, and
occasionally transcribed without acknowledgment.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 336. S. 15, ’06. 360w.
“Very handsome and interesting volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 545. Ap. 7, ’06. 230w.
=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Old time notes of Pennsylvania. 2v. *$8.
Winston.
A connected and chronological record of the commercial, industrial and
educational advancement of Pennsylvania, and the inner history of all
political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838;
illustrated with portraits of over 100 distinguished men of
Pennsylvania, including all the governors, senators, judges of the
courts of today, leading statesmen, railroad presidents, business men
and men of note.
* * * * *
“It will be regarded as a valuable contribution to such a history, a
contribution that no other man could make.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 415. Je. 23, ’06. 140w.
“Throughout his work the element of human interest is strong, its
distinctive characteristics, in fact, being its striking pen-portraits
and its abundance of illustrative anecdote. He shows an evident desire
to be just, and usually writes with such restraint that blame must
yield to admiration.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 250w.
=M’Clymont, Rev. J. A.= Greece; painted by J: Fulleylove; described by
the Rev. J. A. M’Clymont. *$6. Macmillan.
These descriptions of Greece have been written by one who has observed
as he travelled, who has read the latest books, and studied Grote and
Mr. Frazer; while the seventy-five colored pictures give some
beautiful views of Athens and all Attica. There is also a sketch map
of Greece and an index.
* * * * *
“Some of the pictures are decidedly pretty, and there are good sky and
cloud effects in many of them; but the ‘tout ensemble’ is not like
Greece. There is also a want of proper distribution in the subjects.
If the author could not supply more than a few scanty observations of
his own, why not have recourse to the dozens of excellent picturesque
books of travel.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 803. Je. 30. 770w.
“One of the finest of the many fine books written about Greece. The
descriptive text is admirably written. There is some thing like chaos
in the spelling of proper names.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 395. Ag. 16, ’06. 640w.
“The artist is indeed thoroughly in touch with his subjects, which
appear to have appealed to him with even greater force than those of
his native land.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 183. D. ’06. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“Neither illustrations nor letter press have any right to be put
forward as representing a land among the two or three most interesting
and influential in the whole history of mankind.”
– =Sat. R.= 102: 54. Jl. 14, ’06. 300w.
“The literary portion of this book is something of a disappointment.
The pictures are highly pleasing.”
+ – =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 230w.
=MacCunn, Florence.= Mary Stuart. **$3. Dutton.
A biography, based upon an accurate knowledge of recent developments
along the line of Mary Stuart controversy, “while making no attempt to
give any detailed account of it.” (Lond. Times.) “It does not pretend
to be anything more than a romantic story of a woman told by a
woman.... Mrs. MacCunn looks upon Mary as simply an intensely
passionate woman. So her volume, if not the authoritative book on
Mary, is perhaps one of the most readable that have yet been produced.
Its charm is enhanced by numerous portraits and other illustrations,
which are of the best quality.” (Spec.)
“We have only indicated the attitude of Mrs. MacCunn towards her
heroine: it is candidly historical and perfectly womanly.” Andrew
Lang.
+ + – =Acad.= 69: 1146. N. 4, ’05. 1360w.
“The author had not space enough for controversy, but exhibits
complete balance of judgment. Her narrative is vivid, and avoids
rhetorical pursuit of the picturesque. She is extremely sympathetic.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 569. O. 28. 870w.
“Miss Maccunn ... has subordinated everything else to her main figure,
and the result is a portrait glowing with animation.” Lawrence J.
Burpee.
+ =Dial.= 41: 62. Ag. 1, ’06. 1250w.
“Without omitting any salient facts or distorting any critical
situation, she has written a book which is real biography, and not a
mere contribution to controversy.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 397. N. 17, ’05. 830w.
“Among a host of technical and controversial monographs, it stands out
a simple lively narrative of the remarkable adventures through which
Mary Stuart passed.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 347. Ap. 26, ’06. 460w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 82. F. 10, ’06. 320w.
“Her book is an admirable piece of work, and we think should remain
the standard short history of one of the most familiar of the many
Queens of tears.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 156. Mr. 10, ’06. 400w.
“Her book is well written ... and if her conception of Queen Mary’s
character be correct, it is admirable.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 144. F. 3, ’06. 1040w.
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 794. N. 18, ’05. 810w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Cowardice court.
†$1.25. Dodd.
“Apparently the chief matter [of this tale] is the feud—a paltry
quarrel over some five hundred acres of Adirondack woodland, which the
young American refuses to sell even to a buyer of such distinction as
her ladyship of Baslehurst. Really, however, the chief matter is the
interest the English-bred Penelope takes in the American enemy. The
story goes of itself, runs away with itself almost. There is a storm,
a haunted house, some dog shooting, much trespassing, and more
lovemaking.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 50w.
“Altogether absurd in incident and psychology, but decidedly readable
and engagingly romantic.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 876. Ap. 12, ’06. 70w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Has somewhat too heavy a hand for his slight material.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 28, ’06. 50w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 736. Je. 16, ’06. 70w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Jane Cable; il. in
col. by Harrison Fisher. †$1.50. Dodd.
“‘Jane Cable’ is a love-tale with the strenuous sweep of the Western
metropolis for its atmosphere. The principals of the story are a very
flawless pair who enter the primrose path of romance under promising
auspices. Their roseate dream receives a rude awakening by reason of
certain family revelations which seem to put a blot upon the girl’s
birth and which blast the reputation of the young man’s father. Some
very ugly, tho not uninteresting, characters are brought upon the
scene. Chief among these is the lawyer, Elias Droom, a character
probably suggested by Uriah Heep, but uglier.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“It is interesting to record, from personal observation, that readers
of ‘Jane Cable’ seem to evince the same absorption, the same oblivion
of time and space which a few years ago marked the readers of ‘Beverly
of Graustark.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 248. N. ’06. 410w.
“As a good melodrama should, the story takes hold in the first pages
with a grip that releases the interest only when the problems are all
solved.” Paul Wilstach.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 280. N. ’06. 400w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 941. O. 18, ’06. 90w.
“The characters are fairly well drawn and there is much diversity of
plot and incident.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 474. O. 6, ’06. 290w.
“‘Jane Cable’ is a well-told story, within the limitations of its
class.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
“Is on the whole the best piece of work he has done.”
+ + – =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 170w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Nedra. †$1.50.
Dodd.
“So farcical a plot demands a light and humorous touch and here the
author fails, for though he gets amusing situations, the treatment of
them is poor, and the dialogue is conspicuously without humor.”
– =Acad.= 71: 526. N. 24, ’06. 210w.
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 614. N. 17. 150w.
=Macdonald, Ronald.= Sea-maid. †$1.50. Holt.
Once upon a time the Dean of Beckminster and his prim wife were cast
shipwrecked upon a lone sea island, and when after twenty years a
certain ship’s company were marooned upon the same island they found,
with the Dean and his wife, their beautiful daughter who dressed in
savage garb and was eager to know of a world she had never seen. This
is the setting of a veritable farce-comedy enacted by an English lord,
a commonplace person with whom he has changed names to avoid the
advances of a passée fortune hunter, the ship’s doctor, a girl who is
“good sort,” an actor, and several other people both good and bad. The
book is frankly intended to “draw smile and laugh.”
* * * * *
“There is somethings deliciously attractive in the serious manner in
which he handles the subject.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 205. Mr. 3, ’06. 310w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 294. Mr. 10. 280w.
“An uneven book, genuinely amusing in parts, distinctly tiresome
elsewhere.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 285. My. ’05. 270w.
“Of its kind ‘The sea-maid’ is good.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 50w.
“For sheer entertainment this story is one of the best of the year,
and it is by no means devoid of the qualities that appeal to the
literary sense.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 210w.
“Is, in itself a harmless and in parts an entertaining and refreshing
story, showing touches of imagination and of humor; but is none the
less tainted with that peculiar flavor of cheapness—coming perilously
near vulgarity.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 230w.
“The fault of the story is that it mingles the romantic, the
burlesque, and the melodramatic rather indiscriminately.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 130w.
“The book is an ingenious fantasy, and the reader will find that the
time he spends in reading it passes very pleasantly.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 390. Mr. 10, ’06. 280w.
=MacDonnell, John de Courcy.= King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and
the Congo. *$6. Cassell.
“Though the work has the character of special pleading, still it is
not of the unusually low order of such partisan publications.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 379. Ap. ’06. 190w.
=McFadyen, John Edgar.= Introduction to the Old Testament. $1.75.
Armstrong.
“The style is easy, clear, concise, and fulfills the purpose laid
down. It is a good piece of modern, up-to-date pedagogical work.” Ira
Maurice Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 318. Ap. ’06. 280w.
“To each book of the old Testament he furnishes an introduction which
is written in the free critical spirit characteristic of modern
scholarship, and written, too, with a power to stimulate the interests
of his readers, and satisfy their just and reasonable demands for
information concerning the history and character of writings regarded
by so many as sacred Scriptures.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 102. Ja. 27. 440w.
“The book supplies a recognized need.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 79. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“By its brevity, clearness and interest the book is a good one to
serve as a manual for the student.” L. W. Batten.
+ + =Bib. World.= 28: 74. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“Utterly unfit to be put into the hands of the unsophisticated readers
for whom it is prepared. Hundreds of his statements are either
incorrect or rest upon a very unsubstantial foundation.”
– – =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 377. Ap. ’06. 130w.
“For a readable account of what scholars hold regarding the Old
Testament without discussion of what is still problematical and
uncertain, Professor McFadyen’s treatise can be heartily recommended.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 518. Mr. 1, ’06. 260w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 280w.
=Macfall, Haldane.= Sir Henry Irving. *$1. Luce, J: W.
A character sketch of Sir Henry Irving, the man, his career and his
art. The volume is illustrated by Mr. Gordon Craig and includes
sketches of Irving in the characters of Robespierre, Macaire, Dubrose,
Badger and others.
* * * * *
“Though a trifle laudatory, Mr. Macfall has produced a lucid portrait
of his subject.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 95. Ag. 16, ’06. 130w.
“In itself the little book, with its excellent paper, admirable
typography, and abundant margins, is attractive and artistic, but as a
tribute to Irving it is in almost all respects insufficient.”
– =Nation.= 83: 35. Jl. 12, ’06. 290w.
“The criticism is pitched in a high key of praise; and is too much a
panegyric to be always valuable as criticism; yet there is much that
is true said about Irving’s excellences.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 430. Jl. 7, ’06. 470w.
“An extremely interesting character sketch.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 817. Ag. 4, ’06. 50w.
=MacFarland, Charles Stedman.= Jesus and the prophets; an historical,
exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old
Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. **$1.50.
Putnam.
“For the ground which it covers, Dr. MacFarland’s book is without
doubt the best popular work on the subject in English, and cannot fail
to be helpful to all students of the Bible who prize exact knowledge.”
William R. Schoemaker.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 128. Ja. ’06. 530w.
“It will stimulate even where it does not carry full conviction.” John
H. Strong.
+ – =Bib. World.= 27: 476. Je. ’06. 880w.
“The design of this book is excellent. Yet we cannot praise the book
unreservedly; the author is well up in the German critics and shows a
tendency to assimilate their conclusions rather too readily. It is
good to know German if one is going to write a book on the Greek
Testament; but it is better to know Greek.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 84. Ja. 20, ’06. 430w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 1087. D. 23, ’05. 110w.
=Macfarlane, Walter.= Principles and practice of iron and steel
manufacture. *$1.20. Longmans.
Written by one who understands teaching, this book is designed
primarily for technical students, metallurgists and engineers.
* * * * *
“It has the advantage of being short and, in general, accurate and
clear. Much of the data has not appeared in print before, but is
evidently taken from personal experience. Of the individual chapters,
those on the puddling process and tool steel are the best, while the
discussion of steel castings and the short chapter on malleable
castings are very far below the general standard.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ + – =Engin. N.= 56: 51. Jl. 12, ’06. 800w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Half a rogue. †$1.50. Bobbs.
There is a curious mixture of elements in Mr. MacGrath’s new story.
Play writing, municipal politics, social enmity, strikes, and always
love—from beginning to end it is the one quality which leavens sordid
states and makes burdens bearable. Katherine Challoner leaves the
stage to marry John Bennington, Richard Warrington gives up
playwriting to enter politics, and incidentally, to woo Patty
Bennington. A malicious busy-body, who tries to recall ghosts of past
indiscretions, fails, but not until Warrington loses in the mayorality
race. Yet he does win Patty.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Hearts and masks. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“The tale is not so good a story as ‘The man on the box’ but it will
doubtless prove almost as popular.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 222. F. ’06. 220w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 633. F. ’06. 370w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 110w.
=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture.
$1.50. Bureau of university travel. [Ginn.]
A handbook prepared to accompany a collection of five hundred
reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture.
* * * * *
“What he has done is both too little and too much; and the faults that
have been indicated tend to make any scholar view the book with a
distrust which, on the whole, it does not merit.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 804. Je. 30. 840w.
“The impression made by the book is satisfactory, and it will
undoubtedly be of service, especially to the beginner in the study of
classic art. Mr. von Mach shows a thorough knowledge of his subject,
and there is a pleasing independence of view, although the influence
of the great teachers is plainly seen. There are a number of
typographical errors.” James C. Egbert.
+ + – =Bookm.= 23: 101. Mr. ’06. 790w.
=Outlook.= 83: 688. Jl. 21, ’06. 200w.
=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Outlines of the history of painting,
from 1200–1900 A. D. *$1.50. Ginn.
An arrangement which aims to aid art students in obtaining a
comprehensive view of the whole field of painting. The first part
comprises twenty-eight chronological tables of painters; the second
part, an alphabetical list of artists; the third, a brief account of
the history of painting.
* * * * *
“This should prove a convenient class summary and in general a useful
tabulation of painters and periods.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 100w.
“Another who has helped us the better to understand Greek art,
Professor Edmund von Mach, has published a useful book.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 705. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 446. N. 22, ’06. 250w.
=Machen, Arthur.= House of souls. †$1.50. Estes.
“This volume includes some previously published stories, notably ‘The
great god Pan’ and ‘The inmost light,’ which some twelve years since
appeared in ‘The keynote series;’ also ‘The three impostors,’ which we
best remember as a deft derivative from Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian
nights.’ The rest of the items are new, but the same note of horror is
struck with more or less emphasis in all, and with a varying measure
of success.”—Ath.
* * * * *
+ – =Acad.= 71: 136. Ag. 11, ’06. 800w.
“Mr. Machen is a very clever writer—so clever that it seems almost a
pity that he should persistently envelope his talent in cerements of
the bizarre.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 129. Ag. 4. 340w.
“Whatever may be said for the making of gargoyles in general (or
satyrs in particular) as a question of art or of morals, whatever your
own taste may be in such matters, Mr. Machen is a master of his
method.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 578. S. 22, ’06. 700w.
“As regards the execution of the stories, Mr. Machen has style, and a
talent for the fantastic ... but he has not the power of creating
horror.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 117. Jl. 28, ’06. 220w.
=M’Kay, William D.= Scottish school of painting. *$2. Scribner.
“Although Mr. McKay does not succeed in giving any clear definition of
what constitutes the Scottish school, or how it differs from other
schools, his well-written volume is full of interesting details about
the lives and works of Scottish painters, and tells us something,
though not quite enough about the organization of painting in Scotland
since it began to exist at all.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“As a compact and compendious record of the work of painters of
Scottish nationality the book occupies a distinct place in art
history, and its standard of execution is uniformly high.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 246. S. 1. 1700w.
“In a sense this is a pioneer work. It is one which no student of art
should fail to own and to read with great care.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 188. Ag. ’06. 360w.
“A smaller book dealing with the few leading painters of Scottish
birth and leaving out the nobodies would have been more acceptable.”
– =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 190w.
“We have no hesitation in commending this excellent volume, not only
to the art lover, but also to the student.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 29: 273. S. ’06. 490w.
=Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 220w.
“We turn to his book for a retrospect rather than for a comment upon
the things of to-day. He knows what painting is, he is well acquainted
with the collections, public and private, he is a sound critic, and he
writes in an interesting way.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 266. Jl. 27, ’06. 770w.
“The author ... writes with knowledge and confidence of technical
matters, and the volume is fairly illustrated.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 120w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 508. Ag. 18, ’06. 1080w.
“Excellent book.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 671. Jl. 21, ’06. 50w.
=MacKaye, James F.= Economy of happiness. *$2.50. Little.
Dr. Mackaye’s universal panacea for the cure of all ills which man is
heir to is common sense, susceptible to tests which are independent of
the convictions of any man or assemblage of men. Book 1 analyses
common sense to disclose these tests; and Books 2 and 3 treat of the
theoretical and practical technology of happiness.
* * * * *
“A book which deals with the ethical foundations of the subject in a
way that is both novel and profound. In fact the book is a revolution
in philosophy and aims at one in economics. He lays a deeper and safer
foundation for his socialism than Marx laid, and he undermines most
thoroughly the system of ethics upon which the political and economic
dogmas of competition and ‘laissez faire’ have been based.” Ralph
Albertson.
+ + – =Arena.= 36: 670. D. ’06. 4710w.
“Every socialist, sociologist, economist and serious journalist should
examine this book. For the wayfaring man it is perhaps too solid, tho
it is enlivened by brilliant, unforced epigrams and humorous phrases.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 813. O. 4, ’06. 1220w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 429. S. 29, ’06. 400w.
“It would have been better if he had condensed some and omitted other
parts of the earlier chapters which are unnecessarily long and
discursive.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 210w.
“While the ethical doctrines of this work are thus objectionable,
there is much in its economic scheme for the promotion of social
happiness that is worthy of thoughtful consideration.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 90. S. 8, ’06. 530w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 70w.
=MacKaye, James.= Politics of utility: the technology of
happiness—applied; being book 3 of “The economy of happiness.” **50c.
Little.
Book 3 of James MacKaye’s “Economy of happiness” is published
separately, in inexpensive form because of its greater popular
interest, the hope being that the reprint may reach a wider circle of
readers than would care for the larger work.
=Mackaye, Mrs. James Steele.= Pride and prejudice: a play founded on
Jane Austen’s novel. $1.25. Duffield.
A four-act play founded upon Jane Austen’s eighteenth century novel.
* * * * *
“Few of the peculiar excellences of the book survive in the play, in
which the lack of action, or of anything like real dramatic interest,
until the very end, is only too apparent.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 291. O. 4, ’06. 120w.
“A pleasing play.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 385. O. 13, ’06. 120w.
“So far as the literary side is concerned, Mrs. Mackaye has done her
work well.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 378. D. ’06. 90w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Fenris, the wolf: a tragedy. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 753. My. ’06. 170w.
=McKechnie, William Sharp.= Magna carta: a commentary on the great
charter of King John. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. McKechnie may justly claim to have provided us with a most
adequate commentary on Magna Carta. His notes ... show that he is
widely read in the literature of his subject; and they are admirably
lucid. The book will be the more useful because it is mainly a summary
of the researches and theories of the best modern critics.” H. W. C.
Davis.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 150. Ja. ’06. 880w.
“The most detailed and satisfactory examination of Magna Carta.”
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 16. Ja. 4. ’06. 1570w.
=McKim, Rev. Randolph Harrison.= Problem of the Pentateuch. **$1.
Longmans.
“Lectures in reply to the ‘higher criticism’ of the Bible.... The
attractiveness of Dr. McKim’s book for the general reader, not
particularly interested in homiletical literature or the disputes of
theology, lies in its well-sustained tone of urbanity and its fairness
to the ‘higher critics.’ Dr. McKim does not hesitate to state their
arguments clearly. His own argument is interesting merely as a
revelation of the theories of the Pentateuch put forth by persons who
deny the inspiration and Mosaic origin of the five books.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 28. 79. Jl. ’06. 50w.
“Doubtless every serious reader who picks up this book will find that
his curiosity has been aroused rather than that his mind has been set
at rest. But, for its scope, this brief volume is fairly well put
together.”
+ + – =Cath. World.= 83: 833. S. ’06. 510w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 945. Je. 23, ’06. 1540w.
“Despite the pains he has taken in the investigation of these matters,
it cannot be said that he has comprehended the case put forward by
historical criticism.”
– =Nation.= 83: 142. Ag. 16, ’06. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 356. Je. 2, ’06. 340w.
=McKinley, Albert Edward.= Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English
colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.
“Mr. McKinley’s book must of necessity become the standard authority
on this subject. The only lack is a bibliography.” Edward Porritt.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 403. Ja. ’06. 1630w.
=MacKinnon, James.= History of modern liberty. set, **$10. Longmans.
“The first volume consists of chapters chiefly on the governmental
institutions of the countries that once formed the Western Roman
empire; the second consists of chapters on the course of the
reformation in England and Scotland, France and Germany, with a brief
chapter of twelve pages on Spain in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries. A single chapter on mediaeval political thought ‘in
relation to liberty,’ which closes the first volume, is balanced in
the second by one on the writers on political theory in the sixteenth
century. For the rest, the strict adherence to geographical divisions
forbids an international and comparative treatment, and no continuity
of subject or idea is maintained.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Taken all in all, his book is both readable and instructive. It may
safely be commended to all whose enthusiasm for liberty needs a
stimulant.”
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 876. Jl. ’06. 950w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Had the writer been willing to use more care and restraint, he could
have produced a better book, for he has zeal and industry, a wide
range of interest and knowledge, ambition and ability.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 538. My. 5. 1620w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)
“It may be seriously questioned whether the usefulness if the work
would not have been increased by the topical method of treatment
rather than the chronological. Professor MacKinnon’s style in places
is characterized by lucidity of statement, forcefulness of expression,
and even by brilliancy; but too often the detail which mars his
discussions is dry and prolix.” James Wilford Garner.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 31. Jl. 16, ’06. 1180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Mackinnon has, we fear, somewhat fluctuating ideas as to the
exact scope of his theme. It is the result of much careful study,
especially in French historical literature, and it is marked by a
sanity of judgment and a true love of freedom of which Dr. Mackinnon
desires to be the historian.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 215. Je. 15, ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“The author is on the whole judicious and scholarly without attaining
real distinction. His book will not add to our sum of knowledge and
will not open new avenues of thought.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 457. My. 31, ’06. 570w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“They contain much of interest and value, but yet they fall short of
what we should wish the story of human liberty to be.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 559. My. 5, ’06. 1490w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The serious defect of the work, however, is that it lacks
organization. The process of the development of liberty is not clearly
delineated. On the whole, the work despite its shortcomings, must be
pronounced a notable one.” George L. Scherger.
+ + – =Yale R.= 15: 219. Ag. ’06. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=McLaws, Emily Lafayette.= Maid of Athens. †$1.50. Little.
A romance based upon Byron’s brief wooing of Lady Thyrza Riga, the
Maid of Athens, whom he immortalized in verse. Count Riga gives his
life for Greece, and Countess Riga rather than fall into the hands of
the Turks slays herself, while the child Thyrza was sent to
Constantinople and was brought up at court by a renegade uncle. Here
Byron found her, and was seriously minded in his love-making, but a
rival Turkish suitor brought disaster through a forged letter. Lady
Thyrza’s death, and later Byron’s passing away at Messolonghi bring
the story to a tragic close.
* * * * *
“Exceptionally well written and giving delightful glimpses of Turkish
and Greek life.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 107. Jl. ’06. 160w.
– =Ind.= 60: 1488. Je. 21, ’06. 120w.
“It cannot be said that Miss McLaws reflects much of the Byronic heat
and light, while her Oriental atmosphere is distinctly of a kind never
made in the East.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 151. Mr. 10, ’06. 310w.
– =Outlook.= 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 40w.
“On the whole this is a better piece of work than either ‘Jezebel’ or
‘When the land was young.’”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 140w.
=MacLean, Frank.= Henry Moore, R. A. *$1.25. Scribner.
“This volume in “The makers of British art” series is a thoroly
workmanlike ‘life,’ narrating the details of Moore’s rather uneventful
career, describing and characterizing all his works of importance and
certainly in its estimate of those works, doing full justice to the
painter—comparatively few of whose pictures have been seen on this
side of the Atlantic. Numerous halftone blocks help to give some faint
idea of the man’s power and versatility in depicting his chosen
theme.... A final chapter touches briefly but illuminatingly on the
work of the few noteworthy painters of the sea with whom Henry Moore
was contemporary—John Brett, Whistler, Claude Monet, Mesdag—and
several lesser British marine artists.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Doubtless will long remain the standard biography of England’s
foremost marine painter.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 817. O. 4, ’06. 150w.
“An interesting analysis is made of Moore’s work in marine painting.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 320w.
“A sound and unpretentious piece of work which will supply all the
information that the general reader will care for about this
thoroughly competent if not quite great painter.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 138. F. 15, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 142. Mr. 10, ’06. 300w.
=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Byron in Italy; being a selection of
the poems and letters of Lord Byron which have to do with his life in
Italy from 1816 to 1823. **$1.40. McClurg.
From the letters and poems of Byron, written during the most mature
and productive period of his life while under the spell of the Italy
that he loved and that loved him in return, the editor has made wise
selection and she has arranged the chosen parts chronologically, and
illustrated them with sixty reproductions from photographs.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 459. D. 16, ’06. 270w.
=Ind.= 61: 1118. N. 8, ’06. 120w.
“The alluring title of this book will not disappoint lovers of Byron.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 310w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 256. N. ’06. 80w.
=MacManus, Anna (Mrs. Seumas) (Ethna Carbery, pseud.).= Four winds of
Eirinn. **75c. Funk.
This posthumous book of verse is indeed a legacy to all who love
Ireland. The poems ring with strong-heart energy and anticipation, and
in their buoyancy teach fine lessons of loyalty and patriotism to the
land of Erin.
* * * * *
“A small but precious volume.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 329. My. 16, ’06. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=McMaster, John Bach.= History of the people of the United States, from
the Revolution to the Civil war. v. 6, 1830–1842. **$2.50. Appleton.
Volume six of this history covers the years from 1830 to 1842. Dr.
McMaster discusses affairs under the following headings: Our federal
union, State rights maintained, Social conditions, The election of
1832, Nullification put down. The deposits and the panic of 1834,
Politics at home and abroad, Activity of the abolitionists,
Proceedings of Congress, Speculation and surplus, The end of Jackson’s
term, The panic of 1837, Along our borders, A free press and the right
of petition, Buckshot, Aroostook, and anti-rent war, The log-cabin,
hard-cider campaign and The quarrel with Tyler.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 6.)
“This author has made to general United States history the most
notable original contribution his generation has seen.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 6.)
“With all its faults this history is undoubtedly the best that has
been written of the twelve years. It is a storehouse of fact, and
brings to light a mass of material which will be as useful to the
historian as interesting to the general reader.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 483. D. 6, ’06. 2180w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Two objections to this method of treatment naturally arise. The first
is the lack of definiteness, of finality which every great work of
reference ought, in a measure to possess. The second objection, which
may not necessarily inhere in the method of the author is the
preponderant reliance on the debates in congress and the leading
newspaper discussions.” William E. Dodd.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 818. D. 1, ’06. 2870w. (Review of v. 6.)
“His industry in accumulation is greater than his skill in
arrangement. His work lacks in wise adjustment and true perspective.
He is embarrassed by the enormous amount of his material and has not
the courage to omit the non-essential.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 280w. (Review of v. 6.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 755. D. ’06. 280w.
=McMurry, Charles Alexander.= Course of study in the eight grades. 2v.
ea. *75c. Macmillan.
“Our educational machinery has to be made more compact and efficient,
and ... [these two little volumes] tell how it is being accomplished.
The author gives in detail just what ought and can be done in each
grade by a judicious combination of the policies of enriching and
pruning. He is not a man of one idea, but is open-minded and
progressive in all lines. The very full and carefully selected list of
textbooks and side reading for each grade are especially valuable, and
would be a safe guide for school-room libraries.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“[In] chapters devoted to the theory and practice of education ... the
author is so overpoweringly verbose that his meaning is frequently
lost in a cloud of words.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 575. My. 11. 500w.
“It appears to me that the greatest objection to Dr. McMurry’s course
of study lies against the conception that it tends to dissipate the
energies of the pupil, rather than concentrate his mind on a definite
portion of knowledge that constitutes a part of a subject.” James M.
Greenwood.
+ – =Educ. R.= 32: 331. N. ’06. 8000w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
“A very valuable volume.” Frederick E. Bolton.
+ + =School R.= 14: 540. S. ’06. 750w.
=McMurry, Mrs. Lida Brown, and Gale, Mrs. Agnes Spofford (Cook)=, comps.
Songs of mother and child. $1.25. Silver.
A collection of about a hundred and fifty poems grouped under the
following divisions: “The mother’s heart,” “Evening songs,” “The
father’s love,” “The child world” “Child pictures,” “Ministry,” “The
empty nest,” “Ideals,” and “The long ago.” The songs are contributed
by about a hundred well-known authors.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 60: 744. Mr. 24, ’06. 60w.
“The book is so conscientiously edited and so well-arranged that the
gems are easy to find and re-find.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 169. Mr. 17, ’06. 640w.
=Macnaughtan, S.= Lame dog’s diary. †$1.50. Dodd.
“The writer is supposed to be an officer, lamed for life in the Boer
war, who settles down in his own village to get what comfort may be
found in a humdrum existence. After a few pages we are at ease in the
village of Stowel ... and find the match-making and tea-parties
positively exciting.” (Sat. R.) “There are the two Miss Traceys,
models of appropriate deportment; there is Mrs. Lovekin,
self-appointed and embarrassing co-hostess at every tea-table; there
is sweet, faded Miss Lydia Blind, and her sister Belinda, ... there
are Anthony Crawshay, frank and free, and Ellicomb, the ‘artistic;’
there are the Darcey-Jacobs, ... and last, but not least, there are
the Jamiesons, four spectacled young ladies, and Maud, ‘the pretty
one,’ all upon matrimony and good works intent. But all these are
after all, but a screen under cover of which Hugo, our diarist, may
weave a half-unconscious day-dream unobserved.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The author has succeeded with his heroine as well as with the rest of
his cast.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1289. D. 9, ’05. 250w.
“An unassuming bit of fiction, which possesses a certain quiet charm
quite its own.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 119. O. ’06. 570w.
“A pleasing bit of fiction which does not draw too heavily upon the
reader’s nervous endurance.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 475. My. ’06. 70w.
“The ‘lame dog’ has worked up his diary into a delightful book.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 383. N. 10, ’05. 440w.
“One must read the companionable, pleasant book, warm at the heart
with neighbor feeling and radiant with gentle humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 580w.
“The romance glowing beneath the light tone of the diary is delightful
and novel enough to insure the reader’s attention to the end. The
author has a good sense of humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 90w.
=Pub. Opin.= 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.
“Is refreshing and individual.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 819. D. 23, ’05. 230w.
“One of the shortest and most attractive novels we have read of late
years.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 984. D. 9, ’05. 1420w.
=MacPhail, Andrew.= Vine of Sibmah: a relation of the Puritans. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
“The heroine is a beautiful Quakeress, the hero a brave captain in
Cromwell’s disbanded army, and about the two central figures are
grouped King’s men and Roundheads, Puritans and pirates, Quakers and
Jesuits, Indians and soldiers as the scene shifts from old to New
England. To save the reader a tiresome search for the title, ‘The vine
of Sibmah,’ is found in Isaiah, xvi, 8, and is the text of a sermon
preached by Mr. Increase Mayhew as the little fleet led by the
‘Covenant’ started on its voyage to Salem: ‘O, vine of Sibmah, thy
plants are gone over the sea.’”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The story is something more than readable, although it is long-winded
throughout and drags not a little toward the end. A critic of the more
microscopic sort might pick many flaws in his narrative.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 240. O. 16, ’06. 230w.
“Here is a good historical novel, one of the best since ‘Hugh Wynne,’
by Dr. Mitchell.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 519. Ag. 30, ’06. 160w.
“The lover of historical romance will be glad to illuminate the years
around 1662 by passing through them with Mr. MacPhail’s well-imagined
characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 280w.
=Macquoid, Percy.= History of English furniture. 20 pts. 4v. per pt.,
*$2.50. per v., *$15. Putnam.
“Mr. Macquoid’s work is accomplished with great skill and knowledge.
His chief defect is that he has no apparent philosophy as a setting
for his studies, which would link up the craft of furniture-making
with organic history.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 271. Mr. 3. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Int. Studio.= 28: 275. My. ’06. 320w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Macquoid’s book, when complete, will find a place in every
library that devotes itself to costly and well-informed monographs.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 480w. (Review of v. 2.)
“In fullness of textual descriptions as well as in beauty, variety,
and correctness of plates, Percy Macquoid’s ‘History of English
furniture’ may be considered a variorum edition.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 360. Je. 2, ’06. 300w.
(Review of v. 2, pt. 9 and 10.)
=Spec.= 96: 266. F. 17, ’06. 60w. (Review
of v. 2.)
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Dickens. 60c. Crowell.
A group of Dickens’ children separated from the crowded thorofares of
their story habitat and viewed alone. Oliver Twist, Smike, Little
Nell, Paul and Florence Dombey, Pip, Little Dorrit and David
Copperfield constitute the group.
* * * * *
+ =Arena.= 36: 572. N. ’06. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 110w.
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Wagner. (Children’s favorite
classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume
classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.
“An admirable and very welcome addition to the literature of the
nursery and schoolroom.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1041. D. 16, ’05. 180w.
=McTaggart, John Ellis.= Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.
“The first chapter of the book sets forth the importance of dogma; in
the second, the establishment of dogma is considered at length. The
third and fourth treat of human immortality and pre-existence.... The
conclusion is reached, that the arguments which may lead us to believe
in immortality also make it probable that we have pre-existed....