writer of Italy to-day, and the translator knows his Venice well. The
first part, now ready in two volumes, deals with the origin of the
people, aspect and form of the city, the houses and churches,
questions of constitution, lands, commerce and finance, the dress,
manners and customs of the people, industrial and fine arts, and
culture.
* * * * *
=Putnam’s.= 1: 379. D. ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Moncrieff, Ascott Robert Hope (Ascott R. Hope, pseud.).= Highlands and
islands of Scotland; painted by W. Smith, jr.; described by A. R. Hope
Moncrieff. *$3.50. Macmillan.
A delightful book upon the remoter West Highlands which contains
chapters upon Tartans, The Holy isles, The land of Lorne, Pibrochs and
Coronachs, Tourists, The outer Hebrides, Children of the mist, etc.,
in which Mr. Moncrieff describes little trips from one place to
another ... the dialects of the people, their manners, etc. The many
illustrations in color add much to the charm of the text and include
pictures of Glen Rosa in Arran, Loch Linnhe, Glencoe, Ben Nevis, the
Hills of Jura, some castles, natives and their homes, views of rivers,
falls, lakes, islands, and other places.
* * * * *
“A lively, readable, rambling book of jottings, very pleasantly
written.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 570. My. 11. 90w.
+ – =Nation.= 83: 12. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.
“Fine volume. The author has given us a great amount of mingled
instruction and entertainment.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 862. Ag. 11, ’06. 90w.
=Monroe, Paul.= Text-book in the history of education. *$1.90.
Macmillan.
“Mr. Monroe can certainly justify his selections, and, take it all in
all, has given us a book that is the most useful textbook on the
subject that has yet appeared. The work gives evidence of hurried
preparation (in certain infelicities of style) and lack of careful
proofreading.” George H. Locke.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 945. Jl. ’06. 910w.
“Very suggestive and helpful, in the reviewer’s opinion, is the
treatment of education as adjustment, and an interpretation of the
history of educational practice and theory from this point of view.”
H. Heath Bawden.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 694. Mr. ’06. 1000w.
“The book is thoroughly practical, being divided into well-marked
paragraphs and sections; and as it aims to being rather suggestive
than exhaustive, it should commend itself to teachers.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 240w.
“It is cause for genuine regret that a piece of work so well begun and
with such great possibilities should be thus disfigured and damaged by
a multitude of errors and blemishes. But with all its faults the book
is probably the best thing available for college classes in the
history of education.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 116. F. 16, ’06. 2760w.
=Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
=Montague, Elizabeth May.= Beside a southern sea. $1. Neale.
Lorraine, beautiful and passionate, in the absence of her husband to
whom she is but a mere doll, finds her soul’s mate in her husband’s
brother John. Together they talk of life and its meaning, together
they strive to mend the broken lives of a woman who has sinned and a
woman who was sinned against, and finally together they go hand in
hand out of the story, leaving husband and society for life and love
on a South sea island where John has established a Christian community
among the natives.
=Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, jr.= Analysis of racial descent in
animals. Holt.
Professor Montgomery of the University of Texas regards his work as a
prologue rather than an exhaustive treatment of his subject. Giving
the experimental method credit for everything that it can do in the
direction of interpreting phenomena he turns to the value of the
comparative method of which he makes critical tests.
* * * * *
“Has attained a large measure of success in presenting the general
problems of evolution as they appear to-day, with the necessary
technicalities succinctly and, on the whole, clearly presented.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 529. Je. 28, ’06. 240w.
“A valuable contribution to the methodology of difficult problems in
evolution.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 335. Je. 9, ’06. 200w.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 384. D. ’06. 100w.
“Scholarly work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 70w.
“The author’s intimate acquaintance with the great wealth of phenomena
and with the extensive literature dealt with in this book, makes it
one of particular importance and value to biological students.” E. G.
Conklin.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 24: 173. Ag. 10, ’06. 2080w.
=Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morss.= First view of
English literature. *$1. Scribner.
=Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“Certainly the work has the merit of making the study of literature
seem a very easy and attractive thing; by no stretching of terms,
however, can the _View_ be called thoro. Moreover, as in the
_History_, the suggestiveness of the writing is expected to atone for
lack of definite statement, dates, etc.” G. C. D. Odell.
+ – =Educ. R.= 32: 317. O. ’06. 410w.
=Moore, Charles Herbert.= Character of renaissance architecture. **$3.
Macmillan.
“An extremely clear and interesting account of a vast subject;
authoritative, calm, instructive; an admirable handbook and book of
reference.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 524. Je. 2, ’06. 320w.
+ – =Architectural Record.= 18: 471. D. ’05. 980w.
“A study both lucid and critical, of Renaissance architecture by one
who may almost be classed as an avowed enemy, without sympathy for the
aims and aspirations of the Renaissance architects.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 706. Je. 9. 770w.
“He has discounted the legitimate weight of his argument, and given to
what ought to have been a work of impersonal scholarship an atmosphere
of carping provinciality.” Royal Cortissoz.
– + =Atlan.= 97: 281. F. ’06. 390w.
“A volume ... which for insight, scholarship and creative criticism
will rank of equal value with the earlier work.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 512. Mr. 1, ’06. 560w.
“In spite, therefore, of his somewhat hackneyed subject, Mr. Moore’s
book will be found full of original assertions, and the untiring
industry of which it is the outcome will no doubt win a certain meed
of admiration. But the illustrations are mostly commonplace, and fail
to bring out the salient characteristics of the buildings they
represent.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 29: 272. S. ’06. 160w.
“From such a promising title we expected at least an intelligent
appreciation of this great historical movement in architecture.
Instead we find ourselves hurled back into middle Victorianism of the
deepest dye.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 173. F. 10, ’06. 1690w.
+ – =Spec.= 96: 150. Ja. 27. ’06. 960w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Jessamy bride. **$2. Duffield.
This new edition of Mr. Moore’s story of the days of Dr. Johnson and
his tea-drinking companions is handsomely gotten up and includes seven
illustrations in color by C. Allan Gilbert.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1401. D. 13, ’06. 50w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Love alone is lord. †$1.50. Putnam.
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 70w.
=Moore, Frederick.= Balkan trail. $3.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Frederick Moore has been the correspondent of the London Times in
Turkey, Bulgaria, Servia, and Albania. He has seen at close range a
great deal of the people of the Balkan peninsula, and he has the knack
of describing his impressions in concise and vivid language. His book
is a real help to the better understanding of countries now in a
particularly interesting phase of their political and religious
development.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The pictures are of remarkable interest.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 762. Je. 23. 280w.
“Mr. Moore has succeeded in giving a very good idea of the various
peoples of the Turkish part of the peninsula, of the various agencies
at work among them and the general conditions of the country. He
carried with him a camera, which he used effectively. The
illustrations, from his photographs, are excellent, and really
illustrate the text.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 264. S. 27, ’06. 1890w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 255. Ag. ’06. 50w.
“We have been so well supplied with the treatises of publicists on the
Balkan question that we can afford to be grateful to a writer with so
keen an eye and so modest an intention.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 401. S. 22, ’06. 1350w.
=Moore, George.= Lake. †$1.50. Appleton.
“A dreamlike study of spiritual development.... The priest who in this
story lives by the shore of the lake, has, in a moment of religious
zeal, driven from his parish a schoolmistress who has fallen into the
deadliest sin that a woman can commit in Ireland; he finds when she
has gone that her personality has stamped itself upon his heart
irrevocably; and the story told is the story of the gradual
development of his nature through love of her, and the learning of the
lesson that if he is to find the true life that exists somewhere for
each of us, he must strip himself of his priestly office and find his
soul in the world of men.... Finally ... it becomes inevitable that in
order to leave his parish without scandal and hurt to the simple souls
dwelling there, he should swim across the lake and allow it to be
supposed that he is drowned.... In the moon light of a warm September
night he leaves his priestly clothes and his priestly office upon one
shore of the lake and swims across it to the other, where he assumes
the habit and destiny of a man. This crossing of the Lake, of course,
is at once the spirit and allegory of the book.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“He has never shown himself a more finished artist in words than in
this book.”
+ + =Acad.= 69: 1200. N. 18, ’05. 380w.
“It is such a theme as was wont to appeal to him, but it is not
satisfactory; it is all too cloudy. The form of the book is also
difficult; and, indeed, the natural descriptions and the sensitive and
vivid style are the only things that can be praised without reserve.”
– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 610w.
“Mr. Moore, however, has not risen to the level of his opportunities.
Compare ‘The lake’ for instance, with Mr. Temple Thurston’s ‘Apple of
Eden,’ of which the subject is essentially the same, and you will see
at once how far Mr. Moore has fallen from his former high estate.” H.
T. P.
– + =Bookm.= 23: 295. My. ’06. 830w.
“His ‘later manner’ outranks his earlier.” Carolyn Shipman Whipple.
+ =Critic.= 48: 433. My. ’06. 990w.
“The handling is not sensational, but it is not altogether free from
the charge of unwholesomeness. We doubt if Mr. Moore has ever done a
better piece of writing.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 370w.
+ + =Edinburgh R.= 203: 364. Ap. ’06. 1280w.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1378. Je. 7, ’06. 630w.
=Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 30w.
“The book has much charm, especially in the first half, and some
interest, especially in the second half.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 157. Ag. 4, ’06. 630w.
“From the point of view of thought and style, the book is certainly on
a high plane. We are charmed in the poetical presentation of the
picture.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 382. N. 10, ’05. 860w.
“If I dared to suggest a novelist of whom I was vaguely reminded when
reading this book, I should name Tourgeneff.” James Huneker.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 93. F. 17, ’06. 1780w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 190w.
“Mr. Moore’s work is notable for skill of analysis and for charm of
style, but it is as free from moral feeling as if there were no guides
in the world save instinct and impulse; herein lies the limitation
which keeps it out of the class of lasting fiction.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 757. Mr. 31, ’06. 380w.
“With singular personages and circumstances unhackneyed, he yet
contrives a tedious in lieu of a seizing story.”
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. 06. 60w.
“It is a very subtle piece of work, this that Mr. Moore has done; very
fine and elaborate, very delicate and profound.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 723. D. 2, ’05. 990w.
=Moore, George.= Memoirs of my dead life. *$1.50. Appleton.
“An astoundingly frank book.... Frank and brutal and fascinating....
There is talk about art and literature; but the bulk of the volume is
given over to narration of various events in the life of Mr. Moore,
events as a rule published after a man has joined his forefathers....
It will be all very shocking to our American fiction-fed public, this
outspoken declaration of a man who is not afraid to declare that the
love passion is a blessing, good wine a boon, art alone enduring....
There are thirteen chapters. Several of them appeared in a Neo-Celtic
periodical. Some are veritable short stories. One, the last, is
charged with noble images; ‘The lovers of Orelay,’ is the most
attractive tale; all are cleverly executed and ring as if sincere.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
“He writes with freedom always, and nowadays with greater grace than
he was wont to do. But we wish he would exercise his powers on a more
worthy object than a too-elaborate parody; for after all we have
really no interest in the sort of man and thing he portrays.”
– + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 101. Jl. 28. 690w.
“In the English edition and unexpurgated form, ‘Memoirs of my dead
life’ is a shocking book, and its present reviewer delights in the
statement.” James Huneker.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 613. O. 6, ’06. 1990w.
“When Mr. Moore is content to leave sexual subjects alone, he writes
gracefully and effectively on art and music. Although his judgments
sometimes appear hasty and superficial, and introduces into his
descriptions a wealth they are always fresh and suggestive. He is
particularly sensitive to the moods of nature of poetic imagery.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 17. Jl. 7, ’06. 730w.
=Moore, J. Howard.= Universal kinship. $1. Kerr.
The chief purpose of this volume “is ‘to prove and interpret the
kinship of the human species with the other species of animals.’ The
first eleven chapters are devoted to ‘a proof of the physical
kinship,’ that is a statement of the idea of evolution leading up to
man. In the second group—five chapters—the physical kinship is traced,
and much that exists in modern society is but a holdover from mere
primitive conditions.... Ultimately the author believes peace,
justice, and solidarity will rule.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 177. Jl. ’06. 160w.
“Much of what the author says is true, but in the attempt to prove his
thesis he is inclined to ignore the evil side of the brute’s nature
and the noble side of human nature.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 400. Ag. 16, ’06. 110w.
– =Outlook.= 83: 45. My. 3, ’06. 80w.
=Moore, John Bassett.= American diplomacy: its spirit and achievements.
**$2. Harper.
“Prof. Moore surveys and analyzes the field of American negotiation
and treaty making, and insists upon the fair, square and direct
methods in vogue from the beginning to the present time as contrasted
with the European evasive and delusive art. Incidentally the book
serves as a history of American expansion as well as a number of
developments of usage, like the doctrine of expatriation and the
falling into abeyance of the ‘right of search,’ in its extreme
forms.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Moore clears up many misapprehensions and writes with a precision
and clearness of judgment to which few writers can lay claim. This
fact is all that redeems the book from the combined faults of brevity
and comprehensiveness. Throughout the volume, Mr. Moore speaks with
the authority derived from a thorough mastery of the sources, and with
a refreshing disregard of views that have gained currency through mere
force of repetition. His general treatment is free from conventional
bias.” John Holladay Latané.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 692. Ap. ’06. 710w.
“Whatever he writes is both authoritative and interesting, and shows
the most intimate knowledge.” James Wilford Garner.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 253. Ja. ’06. 560w.
“One may question his assignments of space or of historical importance
to one topic or another, or his judgments of men and events, though to
the reviewer these seem on the whole to be admirable.” Frederic Austin
Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 40: 190. Mr. 16, ’06. 4440w.
“The story of the struggle for this concession is told with the same
masterful command of all the material which characterizes each of the
essays in this most valuable volume.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 48. Ja. 4, ’06. 420w.
“We have found the book entertaining as a non-chronological narrative,
but less valuable as an exposition of principles. Indeed, as an
expounder of principles, the author writes in altogether too patriotic
a vein to be weighty.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 247. Mr. 22, ’06. 1050w.
“This book is stimulating to one’s patriotic ardor; it presents a fine
record and it is certainly clearly set forth in sound and
straightforward English. It would appear not unreasonable to suppose
that such omissions as have been noted may have caused the emphasis to
be improperly distributed.” William E. Dodd.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 10: 855. D. 2, ’05. 2280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 137. S. 15, ’06. 1940w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 726. D. 2, ’05. 270w.
“Professor Moore’s own reputation as a diplomat is equaled by his
ability to write forceful, clear, and fascinating essays.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 200w.
=Moore, John Trotwood.= Bishop of Cottontown: a story of the Southern
cotton mills. †$1.50. Winston.
Child labor and the extent to which it was carried in the South after
the close of the war, is described in grim detail in this story of the
Acme cotton mills. Richard Travis, the man at their head, is a low
creature who poses as a gentleman and lures pretty girls into his mill
only to betray them. His underlings are as unscrupulous as he and
persuade the poverty-stricken whites of the neighborhood to sell their
little children into real slavery for a term of years at five cents a
working hour. The book is a strong and terrible arraignment of child
labor and in the end through the influence of the “Bishop” of
Cottontown, the woman whom Travis really loved and lost, and other
better souls, the mills become co-operative and the little children
are given back their childhood.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“Gives us an excellent description of life in the Tennessee valley.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 482. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
=Moore, Mabel.= Carthage of the Phoenicians in the light of modern
excavations. **$1.50. Dutton.
“This book is an interesting and succinct account of the work of
excavation, being accomplished in the Punic tombs of Carthage by the
Rev. A. L. Delattre, Archpriest of the Cathedral of St. Louis of
Carthage, and his colleagues. In other words, the book gives the
results of excavations in certain large tombs, especially the
Necropolis of St. Louis and the Necropolis of Bord-el-Djedid.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The book may be commended for its simple and straightforward
description of the successful labours of the Fathers of Carthage on a
spot where the depredations of the natives are fast destroying the
ancient remains and monuments. But we cannot follow it in the
suggestions and theories which it contains.”
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 610. Jl. ’06. 190w.
“As an account of the diggings in three principal necropolises, the
book is of real value to the student of archaeology, altho it contains
no great treasures.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1164. My. 17, ’06. 200w.
“When the author passes from fact to comment and conjecture her work
is not so valuable. But there is very little in the book that departs
from the category of facts, and for the exhaustive care which has been
displayed in compiling this record from the many publications of the
White fathers and from other sources there can be nothing but praise.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 82. F. 10, ’06. 500w.
“The tourist who visits northern Africa today will find this volume
worth taking along. Where the author diverges from her story of the
finds to matters of history or ethnology some inaccuracies appear.”
+ – – =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 180w.
“As an appetiser nothing could well be better than this little
treatise.”
+ =Spec.= 96: sup. 646. Ap. 28, ’06. 330w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Deeds of daring done by girls. †$1.50. Stokes.
A half-dozen stories that portray fearless young heroines, some of
whom are drawn from royalty of mediaeval times.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Lace book. **$5. Stokes.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: 280. Ja. ’06. 130w.
=Moore, T. Sturge.= Albert Durer. *$2. Scribner.
“The reader must go elsewhere for a full and formal narrative of
Dürer’s career, but Mr. Moore will take him close to the secret of the
German master’s art.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 280. F. ’06. 150w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
“It is soon apparent that Mr. More deals competently with all or
nearly all of his topics; he writes on the basis of an uncommonly
broad and serious general preparation, and after supplying himself
specifically with the knowledge appropriate to each task.” George
McLean Harper.
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 561. O. ’06. 3980w. (Review of series 1–4.)
“Fully up to the standard of the two earlier books.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 373. My. 3, ’06. 690w. (Review of third series.)
More five o’clock stories in prose and verse. 75c. Benziger.
Mainly legends of saints written for the instruction of Catholic young
people.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of discovery in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
A group of valiant and unconquerable men have their deeds exploited in
these pages. They range from the daring Norsemen and Columbus to the
indefatigable Peary. The author has caught the spirit of romance and
adventure necessary to make these men fit subjects for our young
American’s hero worship.
* * * * *
“A popular work of a most acceptable type.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 77. Jl. 21. 210w.
“It is well suited to the needs of young readers—particularly as
collateral reading in school—and some of their elders will also enjoy
the compact but graphic narrative.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 189. Ag. ’06. 80w.
“These tales are interesting and inspiring, and furnish an adequate
notion of what was accomplished in the great work of discovering a
continent.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 258. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“In the main his narratives are trustworthy but there are some
striking exceptions.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 190w.
=Morris, Clara (Mrs. Frederick C. Harriott).= Life of a star. **$1.50.
McClure.
“In her new volume, ‘The life of a star’, as in her earlier ‘Life on
the stage,’ Clara Morris mingles with the natural vivacity of the
artist’s attitude a certain charmingly feminine intimacy and frank
egotism. It is quite as if the actress clothed her memory in a
bewitching, much-beribboned house gown and sat down to enjoy a cup of
tea with it. Happily it is a serviceable memory, flexible, and well
provided with material. Years of entrances and exits, plaudits,
receptions, and train-catchings brought the actress into flashing
contact with many interesting people of the passing generation.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“It will bear comparison with some of the best of similar work by
authors of acknowledged rank in literature.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 20. Jl. 1, ’06. 290w.
“In all this bright rush of recollection and easily voluble femininity
one is always conscious of the writer. The tone is as conversational
as a dinner talk—and, one is tempted to say at times as perceptibly
elevated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 422. Je. 30, ’06. 590w.
“While there is nothing of vital importance recorded, the incidents
are vivaciously related, and the spirit of the writer shows
pleasantly.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 285. Je. 2, ’06. 60w.
“Full of human interest, human pathos, and dramatic intensity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 124. Jl. ’06. 160w.
=Morris, J.= Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.
“To supply history through the medium of biography,” has been the
author’s aim in preparing this volume, “to convey a general impression
of Japan and her people: the workings of reform, as exemplified in the
lives of some of her patriots.” Consequently the twenty-two chapters
are each devoted to one of the makers of Japan. The part which His
Majesty the Emperor, The last of the Shoguns, Marquis Ito, Enomoto,
Okuma, Oyama, Togo and all the others played in the introduction of
reforms is given in detail and “the situation in Japan now that those
measures for which they were responsible may be said to have taken
full effect” is discussed. There are 24 illustrations from
photographs.
* * * * *
“His work is admirably successful: it is careful without being
laboured, and learned without being dull.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 570. Je. 16, ’06. 270w.
“A readable book. His materials are neither abundant, nor of first
rate authority. The portraits in the volume are excellent, except the
one of the Mikado, which is old and hackneyed.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 205. Ag. 25. 1920w.
“Not a past master in literary composition is Mr. J. Morris. It is
just the book needed, and often called for in vain at many libraries.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 326. N. 16, ’06. 510w.
“His book is invaluable because it turns from things of the spirit and
gives what is virtually a biographical history of the new Japanese
government and nation, laying emphasis upon the concrete and
tangible.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 1115. N. 8, ’06. 400w.
“Than this volume no more readable or reliable book on Japan has been
produced of late years.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 661. N. 3, ’06. 390w.
=Morris, Sir Lewis.= New rambler, from desk to platform. $2. Longmans.
Twenty-eight short papers and addresses which deal “with the place of
poetry in education, with provincial ‘institutes’ with a school of
art, with the education of girls, with the teaching of science.” (N.
Y. Times.) “Especially commendable are the remarks on ‘The place of
poetry in education.’ Talleyrand’s warning to the youth who had no
taste for whist,—‘Young man, you are preparing yourself for a
miserable old age,’—he thinks might also be addressed to the young
person insensible to the charms of poetry.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
=Acad.= 69: 1172. N. 11, ’05. 1120w.
“His experience of life and acquaintance with literature make his
reflections and reminiscences and counsels well worth reading.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 92. F. 1, ’06. 430w.
“The picture which most of the discourses conjure up is that of an
elderly gentleman whose juniors have asked him his opinion, more out
of politeness than curiosity, on some subject about which he really
knows no more than they do, and who therefore proceeds to expound with
all the pomp of platitude, and the manner of one who has discovered
the obvious after years of profound reflection.”
– =Lond. Times.= 4: 434. D. 8, ’05. 430w.
“Many of the essays—indeed, most of them—are excellent reading; the
addresses bear unmistakably the mark of the British beast. You can see
in your mind’s eye as you read the solid provincials listening to the
words of the distinguished speaker. And the words are dull and the
matter quite lacks the whimsicality and individuality, the personal
note, which lends the essays charm.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 490w.
– =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 310w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 490w.
=Morse, Edward Sylvester.= Mars and its mystery. **$2. Little.
A book for the general reader. In approaching the interpretation of
the markings of Mars the author gives a brief historical summary of
what has already resulted from observation, shows in what proportion
the constantly changing canals reveal evidence of life, and presents
what he has been able to draw of the Martian details, with a
transcript of his notes made at the time of observation, and finally
has made an imaginary sketch of how the world would look from Mars.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 300w.
“A fascinating question is here discussed in a plain and thorough
treatment for the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 631. N. 10, ’06. 380w.
“The book is marred in one or two places by a rather savage personal
attack upon a British astronomer in good standing, partly, apparently,
on account of religious convictions. The book is interesting, and well
worth reading to all these who wish to learn the opinions of various
authorities on the most fascinating of all planets.” Wm. H. Pickering.
+ – =Science=, n.s. 24: 719. D. 7, ’06. 540w.
=Morse, John Torrey, jr.= Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee. **$3. Little.
“A timely contribution to Massachusetts biography.... The memoir,
which is followed by selections from the writings and speeches of
Colonel Lee, is hardly a biography, but rather a biographical sketch
dealing with the subject’s early life, his career in the Civil war,
and his connection with Harvard.”—Am. Hist. R.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 483. Ja. ’06. 60w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 18. Ja. 4, ’06. 1370w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 888. D. 9, ’05. 60w.
“Mr. Morse has made an interesting book, much less local than a less
skillful writer would have produced. It is disfigured by several
mistakes on the part of the compiler, but none of them is of capital
importance.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 440w.
=Morse, Margaret Fessenden.= Spirit of the pines. †$1. Houghton.
“In the solitude of the New Hampshire woods, two lovers of nature find
more and more points of affinity until all the world is glorified by
“The light that never was on sea or land.” But the great White terror
has been present from the first, and the two souls are strong enough
to heed its ‘Thou shalt renounce! Thou shalt renounce!’ Although a
tragedy, the little romance is, upon the whole, far from tragic. The
letters of the young people are as breezy as the mountain top. There
are many touches of humor and wholesome wisdom.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 60: 1378. Je. 7, ’06. 120w.
“It is, to put it briefly, the story of love and renunciation that
Miss Morse tells us, with a beauty of sentiment and language that
stamps her work one of the daintiest products born of imagination in
many a day.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.
“Is a graceful little idyll.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 230w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =North American.= 182: 928. Je. ’06. 50w.
“While the romance is slight, it is refined and combines strength with
pathos.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 80w.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Famous actor families in America. **$2.
Crowell.
Beginning with the Booths, the author has given a series of delightful
sketches and stories of the Jeffersons, the Drews, the Barrymores, the
Sotherns, the Hollands, the Hacketts, the Wallacks, the Boucicaults,
the Davenports and the Powers. In connection with them many other
noted names are dealt with, and the whole is illustrated with 40 full
page plates and provided with a valuable bibliography. The volume is
both authoritative and interesting and will appeal to theatre-goers,
playwrights, critics, and readers in general.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
“The volume has no index, but it needs one.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 50w.
“Of the information contained in this book there is much that is
useful, much more that is trivial, but very little that is original,
and of that little it must be added none is particularly valuable.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 290. O. 4, ’06. 310w.
“The material is abundant, and for the most part it has here been
judiciously used. The perspective of praise is not always preserved,
and the reader might infer that the living had often proved themselves
equal to the dead.” Brander Matthews.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 794. D. 1, ’06. 540w.
“It is delightful reading in a general way, full of attractive
personalities and episodes connected with the most picturesque of
professions.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 630. N. 10, ’06. 190w.
“This is perhaps the most useful and informing single volume on the
American stage, past and present, that the general reader, who is also
a lover of drama and of acting, can place upon his bookshelves.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 130w.
“It is written in a spirit of reverence and appreciation for the work
of the past generation, and with generosity and sympathy for the
living representatives.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 160w.
=Moss, Mary.= Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.
An unconventional poet weds a woman of rigidly Puritanical notions.
His intolerance of her straight-laced ideas passes the ill-bred limit
and reaches brutality. In the background are the members of the parish
who with united voice cry out against his indiscretions. The rupture
which the divergence in the temperament of husband and wife is bound
to create is nevertheless averted and a reconciliation is effected.
* * * * *
“It is only in the latter chapters of the book that Miss Moss seems to
fall away from the higher standard that she set herself at the outset.
None the less, she has failed to spoil a book which contains much that
is strong and fine and eminently true.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 24: 387. D. ’06. 530w.
“The story, we think, would have been more powerful, if not more
immediately effective, if its tone had been less light and satirical.
It should, perhaps, be enough that there are no dull or meaningless
persons or events, and that a deeper note seems to sound beneath the
trebles and tenors of the social-comedy strain.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 330w.
“She has written a novel of much originality, and has written it with
such cleverness and spirit that whoever begins it will be unwilling to
lay it down until the last word is read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 699. O. 27, ’06. 720w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“Good workmanship and entertaining qualities are happily combined.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 290w.
Mother Goose: her book, with pictures by Harry L. Smith. [+]75c.
Duffield.
All the old rhymes which delight the nursery of today just as they
delighted the nurseries of long ago are to be found unchanged in this
comfortable volume in the new, tho not too modern, dress which Harry
L. Smith has designed for them.
=Mott, Lawrence.= Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in
the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.
“We could readily spare much of the tiresome patois.”
+ – =Acad.= 69: 1335. D. 23, ’05. 220w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 889. D. 30. 360w.
“Stands out prominently among the books of the month.” Frederick Taber
Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 634. F. ’06. 230w.
“It is strong, imaginative, and picturesque, and as the first work of
a very young writer deserves to be specially noted. The dialect ... is
about the thorniest we have ever had to cope withal, and is likely to
discourage many readers.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 190. F. ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Mott is to be congratulated at once on the way in which he has
sketched the scenes of the old trapper’s labours and also upon his
peculiar success in the management of the French-Canadian dialect.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 83. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
=Mottram, William.= True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam
Bede,” giving the real life history of the more prominent characters;
with 86 il. mainly from photographs by Allan P. Mottram and Vernon H.
Mottram. **$1.75. McClurg.
Adam Bede, Dinah Morris, Mrs. Poyser and Seth Bede are set in the
walks of life from which they emerged to the plane of book people. The
author is “grand nephew of Adam and Seth Bede” holding that relation
to the Evans family from which the Bedes are drawn. The sketches are
intimate ones, biographical in nature, and include a wealth of
incident.
* * * * *
“As a whole, the book is written in a tone of alternate religious
devotion and personal panegyric that becomes tiresome to the less
piously enthusiastic.” Percy F. Bicknell.
– =Dial.= 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 463. D. 29, ’05. 610w.
“The subject and love of the subject make the whole story clear and
its prose good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 777. N. 24, ’06. 520w.
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 820. D. 23, ’05. 160w.
“The chapter on ‘George Eliot’s’ life is, we think, a mistake. Mr.
Mottram tells us nothing that we did not know before; but he does
condescend to something like special pleading.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 150w.
=Moulton, Forest Ray.= Introduction to astronomy. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“In the first fourteen chapters the book sets forth the methods by
which the science is developed, the important features of the solar
system and the mechanical principles involved in celestial
dynamics.... On the firm grounding of facts set forth in the first
fourteen chapters, the evolution of the solar system is discussed with
a fulness and precision found in no other astronomical work of its
grade.... The final chapter is devoted to stars and nebulæ in which,
as before, the selection of the important things is notable.”—J. Geol.
* * * * *
“The book is well brought up to date.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 78. Jl. 21. 830w.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 569. Jl. ’06. 160w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 12. Jl. 1, ’06. 60w.
“There is sometimes a tendency to expand verbosely.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 260. Ag. 2, ’06. 140w.
“The work is to be heartily commended to the geologist who wishes a
brief and trustworthy summary of the recent developments in
astronomical science.” T. C. C.
+ =J. Geol.= 14: 458. Ag. ’06. 580w.
“Students of astronomy will find in Prof. Moulton’s volume an
excellent text-book which, by its lucidity and wealth of detail, will
enable them to obtain a fairly thorough grasp of their subject.” W. E.
R.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 538. S. 27, ’06. 320w.
“He has arranged his material logically and convincingly.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 766. Je. ’06. 60w.
“This book is an elementary, descriptive text, suited to those who are
approaching the subject for the first time, and from this point of
view the selection of material is quite satisfactory, though not
always presented in logical order.” W. J. Hussey.
+ – =Science=, n.s. 24: 397. S. 28, ’06. 570w.
=Moyes, Rt. Rev. James.= Aspects of Anglicanism; or, Some comments on
certain incidents in the ’nineties. $2.50. Longmans.
From a Roman catholic standpoint these papers throw “many lights upon
the inconsistency of the Anglican position, the historical flaws in
the Anglican title, and the weakness of the arguments advanced against
Rome.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
“Monseigneur Moyes’ able articles are worthy of their present
permanent form.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 270. My. ’06. 530w.
=Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 240w.
=Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus.= Mozart, the man and the
artist as revealed in his own words, comp. and annotated by Friedrich
Kerst, tr. into Eng., and ed. with new introd. and additional notes, by
H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.
+ =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.
“[The translation is] especially praiseworthy for its faithful and
delightful reproduction of the composer’s colloquial and careless
epistolary style.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 999. O. 25, ’06. 90w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 280w.
“The translations have been admirably made by Mr. Krehbiel, and his
additions to the notes (indicated by brackets and his initials) are
valuable.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 237. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.
=Müller, (Friedrich) Max.= Life and religion; an aftermath from the
writings of the Right Honourable Professor F. Max Müller by his wife.
**$1.50. Doubleday.
“A volume of extracts from the writings of the late Professor Max
Müller, selected and arranged by his wife. It is not a controversial
work, and should not be treated as such; rather, it is as though the
veteran humanist and philologist invited the reader to sit with him by
the fireside, and there confided to him the thoughts and aspirations
which had guided his path during a long and successful life.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The first impression of the book is perhaps a little disappointing;
because, from its necessarily disjointed nature one does not instantly
perceive the uniting thread. Many of his paragraphs sound much like
the empty professions of those who have learned such things by rote;
but one does not read far without finding that the author speaks
whereof he knows.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 40; 152. Mr. 1, ’06. 630w.
=Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 80w.
“We will say frankly that while all that we find here about ‘Life’ is
admirable, some of the utterances concerning ‘Religion’ seem of less
value.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 873. N. 25, ’05. 220w.
=Muller, (Friedrich) Max.= Memories: a story of German love; tr. by
George P. Upton, il. new ed. $2.50. McClurg.
The memories span the way from childhood to manhood and reveal
introspective fancies about the “soul that rises with us, our life’s
star” as it gradually expands to meet the demands of love which in
this instance is exquisite agony. The book is prettily illustrated and
appears in holiday binding.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 41: 399. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“The story lacks plot, incidents or situations truly, but it abounds
in beauty, grace, and pathos that strongly appeal to those influenced
by ideality and the love of nature.”
– + =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
=Nation.= 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 40w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 30w.
=Munk, Joseph Amasa.= Arizona sketches. **$2. Grafton press.
“Dr. Munk’s style is wholly lacking in literary finish, but his
account of ranch life and other matters in the southwestern corner of
the United States teems with interesting facts and photographs.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 192. F. ’06. 100w.
“This is a good example of a new type of book, in which the literary
element is subordinate to the pictorial.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 8O. Ja. 25, ’06. 860w.
=Munn, Charles Clark.= Girl from Tim’s place; il. by Frank T. Merrill.
†$1.50. Lothrop.
“The author’s heroine and surroundings are not fictitious. ‘Tim’s
Place’ was in the northern wilderness of Maine, to which Mr. Munn goes
in the hunting season, and the girl was employed by its owner, who
compelled her to work barefooted and gave her only the cast-off
clothing of men to wear. The story of her escape and after life
compose the book.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 60: 1376. Je. 7, ’06. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 169. Ja. ’06. 470w.
=Murray, A. H. Hallam.= High road of empire: sketches in India and
elsewhere. **$5. Dutton.
With special attention to the picturesque side of travel along the
“highways of a fascinating land,” the author aims “to recall pleasant
memories to those who have already fallen under the spell of its
potent charms,” and to awaken in the less fortunate “the determination
to become better acquainted with the great empire in the East.”
* * * * *
“A volume of which the text is perfect for its easy common sense.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 797. D. 9. 670w.
“The writer can make his somewhat commonplace experience alive by a
reserved enthusiasm.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 540w.
“One feels, after reading it, that one has passed some pleasant hours
with a gentlemanly, well-informed companion, nowhere obtrusive,
nowhere tiresome, nowhere pretentious.”
+ + – =Ind.= 60: 1284. My. 31, ’06. 470w.
“The accompanying narrative combines with many a bright picture of
contemporary Anglo-Indian society just enough history to give
permanent value to the book.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: 180. Ap. ’06. 150w.
“The text is pleasant, gossipy talk, with a due modicum of history and
archaeology.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 98. F. 1, ’06. 110w.
“His book is as refreshing as if it dealt wholly with untrodden paths
and fields.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ’05. 140w.
“A very pleasing book on India.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 259. Ap. 21, ’06. 330w.
“The author treats of the varied features of India with an intimate
and illuminative touch. Entertaining and instructive text.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 476. F. 24, ’06. 120w.
“A most excellent, accurate, praiseworthy, intelligent book, written
by one who invariably goes to matins when he can, and whose heart is
full of sympathy for India. But he does not see India; that is the
pity of it!”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 13. Ja. 6, ’06. 1270w.
“A pleasant mixture of guide-book and history, ‘The high-road of
empire’ gives both to eye and ear a vivid impression of the East.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 541. Ap. 7, ’06. 130w.
=Myrick, Herbert.= Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the
days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.
“The absence of the constructive method, even of ordinary coherence in
the story, indicates an unaccustomed hand.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 132. F. 3. 120w.
“Mr. Myrick knows a great deal about the West and has diligently
collected a lot of material of historical value, but he has spoiled it
by diluting it with a trashy romance.”
– + =Ind.= 60: 457. F. 22, ’06. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1405. D. 13, ’06. 100w.
“His plot is of the simplest, his language crude, and his construction
awkward, but there is about the book a flavor of sincerity and
intimate knowledge that holds the interest even of those who may be
disposed to regard it as a dime novel in pretentious garb.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 454. Mr. 24, ’06. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 853. D. 2, ’05. 110w.
“As a romance the merit of the publication is not conspicuous enough
to invite serious comment. As a curiosity the book is quite worth
looking over, both for what is in it and the elaborate arrangement of
the material into forewords, prologues, parts, epilogues, and
addenda.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 270w.
“A Third avenue melodrama de luxe.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 80w.
N
=Nayler, James Ball.= Kentuckian. $1.50. Clark.
This “is a narrative of Ohio in the sixties, and is concerned with the
operations of the Underground railroad and the exploits of a gang of
horse thieves. The hero is a young man from the other side of the
river, who becomes the district school teacher, and falls in love with
the prettiest of his pupils. This is not exactly an original
invention, but it may be allowed to serve once more.”—Dial.
* * * * *
Reviewed by William M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 140w.
“A delightful old-fashioned story with many midnight turns in it.”
Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1220. My. 24, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w.
=Needham, Raymond, and Webster, Alexander.= Somerset house, past and
present. **$3.50. Dutton.
“This exhaustive history of the Duke of Somerset’s palace, the
illustrations of which include many reproductions of interesting
portraits and old prints, embodies the results of much arduous
research, in the course of which many new facts have been discovered.
It is indeed far more than a mere account of a famous building, for
its authors have made excursions into archaeological and topographical
by-paths, so that it will appeal to the antiquarian as well as the
student of history.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“We lay down this book with admiration of its thoroughness, and a
clear perception that it is a notable addition to the literature of
London.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 33. Ja. 12, ’06. 1290w.
“The authors have done their work well, and produced an illustrated
history of one of London’s most important palaces which is both
accurate and interesting.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 65. Jl. 21. 1190w.
“They have interwoven into their history of Somerset house much that
is new, or rather much that has never found its way into the pages of
the standard English histories.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 160. Jl. 19, ’06. 500w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 26: 88. Mr. ’06. 80w.
“Our author’s vehement protestantism is somewhat too much in
evidence.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 495. Je. 14, ’06. 1580w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 830w.
“The student will find within their pages much to which access is
difficult elsewhere.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 240w.
“A capital book, pleasantly written and remarkably accurate.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 824. Je. 30, ’06. 1290w.
=Negri, Gaetano.= Julian the apostate: an historical study; tr. by the
Duchess Litta-Visconti-Arese, with an introd. by Pasquale Villari. 2v.
*$5. Scribner.
“The author uses the person of Julian as a lay figure on which to
arrange his philosophical tenets, in the form of a trophy.” (Lond.
Times.) Julian was “a man of brilliant intellect and strenuous
morality in revolt from a corrupted Christianity. As such the Emperor
Julian gained from the Church of his time the name of ‘Apostate,’
which has stuck to him since. As such he heads a long line of those
whom the false representatives of Christianity have scandalized into
rejection of the faith presented to them so deformed and smirched....
He is not, however, hindered by his admiration for the austere
idealist who is his hero from seeing his faults and fallacies, and
pronouncing ‘insane’ his attempt to revitalize and purify an effete
and corrupted paganism.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“May not be free from minor defects, but it has this great merit—that
there is perfect sympathy between the author and his subject and for
this reason it may be said to add to our knowledge of this most
fascinating emperor, though it brings to light no new facts about his
brief and romantic career. Though some obscurities may be due to the
author, the translator shows a disposition, regrettable in what is
intended to be a popular work, to employ unfamiliar and borrowed words
where simpler terms might with advantage have been used.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 87. Ja. 27, ’06. 1510w.
“The work is diffuse, and even repetitious, but never tiresome.
Without a knowledge of the original, one may believe the translator to
have been for the most part successful.” Francis A. Christie.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 631. Ap. ’06. 1150w.
“The monograph, which is written in a delightfully interesting style,
is evidently based on a careful and discriminating study of the
original authorities. The translator’s accuracy is almost equal to her
taste, but we may note a few trifling corrections.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 830w.
“Some slips will be found in these two large volumes, and one rather
large error—the acceptance as genuine of Julian’s letters to
Iamblichus.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 324. Ap. 19, ’06. 600w.
“Gaetano Negri, whose volume has been thoroughly well translated from
the Italian, treats his subject with an understanding untouched by
partiality.” George S. Hellman.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 529. S. 1, ’06. 1020w.
“His study of the original sources, both pagan and Christian, has
given him an intimacy with Julian’s life and Julian’s world which
imparts vitality both to his work and to the interest of its readers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 240w.
“Much praise is due to the Duchess Visconti-Arese for the excellent
rendering of this work. It is full of boldness and originality. We are
only afraid that the unwieldy presentation of his mature reflection
may compromise its undeniable merit.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 143. F. 3, ’06. 1800w.
“Signor Negri’s volumes on Julian deserve a cordial welcome. His
philosophy of history and his philosophy of religion are almost as
vague as Julian’s, and are not very illuminating; but the crowded
pictures they contain of Julian and his contemporaries will be found
interesting and informing even by those who are familiar with Gibbon
and Harnack.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 1008. Je. 30, ’06. 1860w.
Nelson’s encyclopædia; ed. by Frank Moore Colby and George Sandeman.
12v. $42. Nelson.
“A high class reference work for busy men. Since there is no pretence
to literary merit the lack of it can scarcely be criticized.... Each
distinct part on a large subject is treated as a separate article in
its appropriate alphabetical order.” (Nation.) “British and American
authorities have collaborated in its preparation.... Much of it
appears to have been freshly written up to date.... Biographical
articles are numerous, and personal estimates, when included, are
generally judicious and impartial.... Copious illustrations are a
strong point in this work—over fifty full-page plates, plain or
colored in each volume, with a multitude of minor sort.... Maps also
occur in abundance.... A vast amount of information has been
compressed into the very moderate limits of a twelve-volume work.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“To sum up—this first volume leads us to believe that ‘Nelson’s
encyclopedia’ will be a compact, accurate, agreeably written
presentation of the sum of human knowledge at the entrance of the
twentieth century.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13, ’06. 560w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Despite many grave faults, it is, in concise treatment of topics of
general and current interest, perhaps the most useful compilation yet
published.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 210. S. 6, ’06. 860w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“It seems as if the ideal cyclopedia had been found for readers of
English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Careful examination and impartial criticism will yield a favorable
opinion of the new work.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 286. S. 29, ’06. 670w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“This is perhaps the most ambitious attempt yet made in this country
to produce a low-priced encyclopedia of first-class literary quality.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Topics, brought well up to date and treated with a thoroughness
hardly surpassed in more pretentious works.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Gentleman ragman; Johnny Thompson’s story of the
Emigger. †$1.50. Harper.
The ubiquitous office boy of the village newspaper bursts into print
in these series of humorous sketches and tells in his own way all
about his editor, his editor’s friends and the people of Plainville in
general. The result is genuinely funny from the story of how the
barefoot cure succeeded so well in Plainville that not one of the
patients ever suffered from bare feet again, to the account of how a
rural shopping expedition was conducted. An old feud and a tangled
three-stranded love interest carry the thread of the story to a happy
ending and a double wedding.
* * * * *
“An ample native Americanism in man, woman, and boy is unfolded with
full measure of native American humor in the language of the country,
resulting in a fabric, inexpensive but entirely wholesome and clean.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Otis Notman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 623. O. 6, ’06. 80w.
“Literally and hilariously, a ‘howling success.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 250w.
“The book will find favor with many readers who enjoy a good-natured,
satirical view of their neighbors.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
=Nesbitt, Frances E.= Algeria and Tunis; painted and described by
Frances E. Nesbitt. *$6. Macmillan.
Seventy colored illustrations picture scenes which the traveler meets
by rail from Algiers to Constantine and Tunis. There are streets,
buildings, mosques, scenes in the market, in the homes and in the
deserts, and there are evening effects with “transparent purity” and
“colour in crystal clear.” The accompanying text provides historic and
descriptive bits of interest to the tourist.
* * * * *
“The author does both pictures and print, and does both well; but her
sketches are more valuable as well as more delightful than her
descriptions.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 278. S. 8. 820w.
“In spite of this laxity of language and of a certain amount of
worked-over, guide-book information, the volume is unmistakably
written by one who possesses the artistic temperament, a keen eye for
color, and upon whom light and shadow exert their magic power.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 289. O. 4, ’06. 530w.
“While the work is delightful from every standpoint to the reader in a
quiet library, we trust that, for the sake of the intending traveler,
an edition may be published in small compass, even at the risk of
omitting the charming illustrations of the present volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 861. Ag. 11, ’06. 100w.
“It is altogether an extremely pretty and artistic gift-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 170w.
“The pen descriptions, too, are very good; now and then we get an
element of humour, and now and then of sentiment; but all is marked
with a literary touch of unmistakable skill.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
=Nevill, Dorothy, lady.= Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill. ed. by
Ralph Nevill. *$4.20. Longmans.
Lady Dorothy Nevill, daughter of Horatio Walpole, now eighty years
old, goes back in her reminiscences to England of the ’thirties.
“During a long life—she began to keep a diary in 1840—she has known
‘everybody,’ as the phrase goes; has been on the best of terms with
princes, peers, parsons, and peasants; has dabbled in literature and
seen much of literary men and women; has enjoyed political meetings
and race meetings almost equally; has seen every play and made friends
with all the prominent players. But she has never made systematic
notes, or kept a journal for long together, so that her reminiscences
are what they pretend to be—stories or impressions called to mind
after a long lapse of time.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“At the end of the publishing season these reminiscences will probably
be described as the liveliest volume that it has produced. It is
crammed with good things from beginning to end.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 413. O. 27, ’06. 1160w.
“Lady Dorothy Nevill’s recollections resemble nothing so much as
drawing-room conversation in its happier moments. They are bright,
charitable, rather inconsequential; and if they sometimes descend to
trivialities, a pointed anecdote soon brings gaiety back again.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 574. N. 10. 1530w.
“A lively picture of the past and a not less vivacious account of some
aspects of the present.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 358. O. 26, ’06. 1110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
“The book is full of good things, scattered over its pages without
much regard to order. The part of the ‘Reminiscences’ which, to be
frank, disappoints us is that relating to Lord Beaconsfield.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 1520w.
“It is, then, not as a profound study of men and manners that the
reader will find this volume of reminiscences valuable, but rather as
a series of brilliantly coloured sketches of social life in early and
mid Victorian times.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 788. N. 17, ’06. 1720w.
=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Modern slavery. **$2. Harper.
Mr. Nevinson traveled incognito thru the Portuguese province of Angola
in west central Africa for the purpose of discovering the true facts
of the tyrannical slave-trade secretly carried on by the Portuguese in
spite of the Berlin treaty of 1895. The chapters of his book reveal a
dark blot on the page of present-day history, and make a plea to the
just and compassionate for its removal.
* * * * *
“His volume deserves careful reading by all who can help in bringing
to an end the abominations it pathetically describes, and it ought to
be of considerable service in furthering that object. Incidentally it
supplies much welcome information about the general conditions of life
in this part of Africa.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 762. Je. 23. 840w.
“The book is deeply interesting and gives the impression of being
over-drawn in no particular. The author’s tone is moderate and he
evidently relates the situation exactly as he saw it and not as he
might have seen it.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 280w.
“Quite apart from its merits as a study of slavery, the book is
fascinating in its descriptions of African life and scenery, and is a
most admirable book of travel.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 998. O. 25, ’06. 370w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 21. Jl. 5, ’06. 1250w.
“Mr. Nevinson describes in detail and in picturesque and weird
language the wickedness and horrors that he went out to see.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 369. Je. 9, ’06. 1270w.
“His narrative impresses us as the work of a careful, keen, and honest
observer, and while it includes much resting on hearsay, it also
presents evidence that seems imperatively demanding an answer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 528. Je. 30, ’06. 290w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 150w.
=Newcomb, Simon.= Compendium of spherical astronomy with its
applications to the determination and reduction of positions of the
fixed stars. *$3. Macmillan.
“The first of a projected series having the double purpose of
developing the elements of practical and theoretical astronomy for the
special student of the subject, and of serving as a handbook of
convenient reference for the use of the working astronomer in applying
methods and formulæ.... The volume now before us ... is for
astronomers, who will find it exceedingly useful for reference in
their investigations.... The whole is divided ... into three parts;
the first on preliminary subjects, the second on fundamental
principles of spherical astronomy, and third on the reduction and
determination of positions of the fixed stars. The nine appendixes
supply a number of handy tables and formulæ.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Is the most important addition to the literature of the subject since
the appearance of the works of Chauvenet and Oppolzer. The volume is
invaluable both to the advanced student and to the professional
astronomer. The usual number of misprints, apparently inevitable in a
first edition, have made their appearance, but none of those noted are
likely to cause the reader any great difficulty.” F. H. Seares.
+ + – =Astrophys. J.= 24: 305. N. ’06. 840w.
“Great care has evidently been used in securing the accuracy which is
especially desirable in a treatise of this kind.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 245. S. 1. 630w.
“Much of the information is set down in a readily accessible form for
the first time, and all of it by a master hand. Of the value of the
book to the student, especially to the beginner, we are more
doubtful.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 375. N. 9, ’06. 760w.
“We do not know a more excellent book on its subject.” P. H. C.
+ =Nature.= 74: 379. Ag. 16, ’06. 820w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 40w.
“This work is too technical for review in our columns, and we need
only say that, for the purpose of the astronomer, it fully comes up to
the expectations raised by Professor Newcomb’s great reputation.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 61. Jl. 14, ’06. 240w.
=Newcomb, Simon.= Side-lights on astronomy; and kindred fields of
popular science: essays and addresses. **$2. Harper.
Twenty-one popular essays and addresses dealing with the structure,
extent and duration of the universe, and with other general scientific
subjects, are here gathered together under such chapter headings as:
The unsolved problems of astronomy, What the astronomers are doing,
Life in the universe, How the planets are weighed, The fairyland of
geometry, Can we make it rain? The relation of scientific method to
social progress, and The outlook for the flying machine. The volume
has two dozen illustrations and a good index.
* * * * *
=Current Literature.= 41: 688. D. ’06. 580w.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 250w.
“There is a wide field of entertaining information in Professor
Newcomb’s book. One can depend upon the accuracy of the information
offered ... and one can be sure of picturesque treatment of a subject
of the most absorbing interest.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 150w.
“It would be hard to find a serious book more entertaining, or a light
book that affords better exercise in reasoning.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 544. D. 20, ’06. 840w.
“We would commend the volume to all desirous of obtaining a
trustworthy idea of the present state of astronomical knowledge and of
the problems which still baffle the astronomer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Musical studies: essays. *$1.50. Lane.
“Mr. Newman’s groupings of principles and motives are on a broad and
comprehensive scale, and are free from the ambiguity that mars so many
works on musical criticism.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 90w.
=Newman, John Henry, cardinal.= Addresses to Cardinal Newman, with his
re- Neville. *$1.50. Longmans.
“Before his death, Father Neville, Newman’s literary executor,
prepared the contents of this volume for the press. Its main contents
are a collection of sixty odd addresses to the Cardinal, with his
replies, on the occasion of his elevation to the purple. There is also
a prefatory narrative of the events relating to the conferring of that
dignity. The letter of Cardinal Nina offering the hat, and Newman’s
reply, as well as his letter to the pope, are given in English, while
the Italian and Latin forms are found in an appendix.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 702. F. ’06. 190w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 540w.
“No student of Cardinal Newman should neglect this book.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 122. Ja. 27, ’06. 310w.
Nibelungenlied; translated by John Storer Cobb. *$2. Small.
The translator says: “In preparing a new translation of the
Nibelungenlied, my aim has been to contribute to an expansion of the
knowledge of a work that affects us more nearly than the Iliad, for it
is the product of the poetic faculties of the race to which we belong.
I have followed the original, phrase by phrase, without avoiding the
negligencies, the obscurities, the repetitions, that it presents....
The text of the Nibelungenlied has been the subject of extended
commentaries and profound study, and I have felt myself bound to
render it with most respectful exactitude.”
=Nicholson, Meredith.= House of a thousand candles. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“Persons who enjoy well-written mystery tales will not be disappointed
in ‘The house of a thousand candles.’”
+ =Arena.= 35: 110. Ja. ’06. 290w.
“The wonder is, not that Mr. Nicholson did passably well, but that he
did not do a good deal better.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 495. Ja. ’06. 350w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 180w.
“The story is common in type, but unusual in quality.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 48. Ja. 4, ’06. 120w.
“Despite its impossibilities, has won its way into the select circle
of the ‘six best sellers.’”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 510w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Poems. *$1.25. Bobbs.
Three score lyric poems which touch the chords of memory, of hope, of
love and happiness and sorrow.
“Now ’tis the violins that loudest cry,
And now in saddest key the ’cellos sigh.
··········
Chords that are love and life, and even the sharp,
Hard pain of death—chords of the golden harp.”
* * * * *
“In these verses he reveals a delicacy of perception, a love of nature
and an appreciation and reverence for the deeper and finer things of
life which one would little suspect in the author of ‘The house of a
thousand candles.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 221. Ag. ’06. 570w.
“We find in these pieces a graver and more reflective note than in the
earlier ones—the natural mark of a maturer experience and a widened
outlook.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Despite many fine single lines in the book, it is mainly pleasurable
because of its variety of reminiscent moods.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w.
=Nicolay, Helen.= Boys’ life of Abraham Lincoln. †$1.50. Century.
Authoritative, in that it is based upon the standard life of Lincoln
by his secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, well illustrated and
simply told, this young people’s story of the great American citizen
will appeal to all young Americans who are some day to become
citizens.
* * * * *
“Miss Nicolay has succeeded in presenting a thoroly human character of
a wonderfully human man.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
“Simple language has usually been employed, but perhaps too sparing
use has been made of anecdotes.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 70w.
“All in all, it is a very vivid and inspiring narrative, and is bound
to take its place in the list of books that ought to be read and
reread by every American boy and girl.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 140w.
“This book should be in every public library. It is filled with
inspiring, beautiful, pathetic, and humorous stories of the man who
gave his life, daily, for his country. The pictures, by Jay Hambridge
and others, are usually adequate and artistic.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 250w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Key of the blue
closet, a volume of clever essays on life and conduct, men, books and
affairs. **$1.40. Dodd.
Thirty essays stimulated largely by personal recollections include
such themes as “Never chew your pills,” “Swelled heads,” “In the world
of Jane Austen,” “The art of packing,” “The tragedy of first numbers,”
and “The key of the blue closet.”
* * * * *
“His literary gift can clothe the commonplace with attractiveness and
invest familiar things with a new interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
“It is this talent for noting immediately, and remembering the little
interesting bits of information about persons and things ... that has
enabled him to place before us this collection of observations against
which at least the fault of dullness can never be brought.” Elizabeth
Banks.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 285. My. 5, ’06. 1170w.
“It is full of homely truths, set forth wisely and agreeably for the
reading of ordinary mortals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“A book of genial wit and wisdom.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Nicolls, William Jasper.= Coal catechism. **$2. Jacobs.
A little leather hand-book that answers nearly seven hundred questions
grouped under twenty-six headings on the subject of coal. The
questions are so arranged as to lead an uninformed inquirer thru
various stages of the origin, development and uses of coal until a
full knowledge of the subject has been obtained.
=Nielsen, Frederik.= History of the papacy in the XIXth century.
**$7.50. Dutton.
“These volumes ... are written from a point of view which the English
editor, Dr. Arthur J. Mason, of Cambridge likens to ‘that of a
large-minded and statesmanlike High Churchman among ourselves.’ The
first volume extends to the death of Pius VII. in 1823, the second to
the death of Pius IX. in 1878. A third volume, soon to follow, covers
the pontificate of Leo XIII. The historian goes back to the beginning
of the eighteenth century, when the first fight for ‘the Pope’s
infallibility, which was the pith and marrow of the whole contention,’
was won by the Jesuits against the Gallican Jansenists. The subsequent
history, which he relates down to the adoption of that dogma by the
Vatican council in 1870, might be summarized as the ‘Modern
development of ultramontanism into papal autocracy.’”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“In the execution of his task Nielsen chiefly falls short, in our
judgment, by a deficient sense of proportion.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1349. D. 6, ’06. 880w.
“The translation prepared under the direction of Dr. Mason, of
Cambridge, England, will be received with interest by scholars.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 360w.
“Bishop Nielsen’s work is a magazine of facts dispassionately related,
but somewhat lacking in the broad views of the course and tendency of
events which make the narrative instructive to the general reader.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 390w.
=Nitobe, Inazo.= Bushido: the soul of Japan. **$1.25. Putnam.
“A singularly suggestive and winning little book.” Alonzo K. Parker.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 191. Ja. ’06. 500w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 80w.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 238. Jl. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Nordau, Max Simon (Südfeld).= Dwarf’s spectacles and other fairy tales,
tr. from the German by Mary J. Safford. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The translation, by Mary J. Safford, is bald and not very attractive,
and the illustrations are poor—in some cases positively bad.”
– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 893. D. 30. 480w.
=North, Simon Newton Dexter.= “Old Greek,” an old-time professor in an
old-fashioned college; a memoir of Edward North, with selections from
his lectures. **$3.50. McClure.
“The book is a delightful picture of the man and the teacher.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 13. Ja. 6, ’06. 1040w.
=Norton, William Harmon.= Elements of geology. *$1.40. Ginn.
The present work “is the outcome of the need of a text-book of very
simple outline, in which causes and their consequences should be knit
together as closely as possible.” The author therefore “departs from
the common usage, which subdivides geology into a number of
departments,—dynamical, structural, physiographic and historical, and
to treat in immediate connection with each geological process the land
forms and the rock structures which it has produced.”
=Noyes, Ella.= Casentino and its story. **$3.50. Dutton.
To the region of the upper Arno, a retreat of reminiscence associated
with the names of St. Francis and Dante, the author has lent an
atmosphere “rich in breadth and dignity, in warmth and simplicity.”
(Ath.) “She pioneers us with praiseworthy skill and clearness through
the tangled maze of feuds and crimes which make up the mediaeval
history of the Casentino; and more especially, through the Chronicles
of the Counts of Guidi, who were the rulers of that region.” (Lond.
Times.) There are twenty-live full page illustrations in color, and
many line drawings by Miss Dora Noyes.
* * * * *
“Miss Noyes has carried out her undertaking with unequal success. The
arrangement of the book is unfortunate. Miss Noyes writes with obvious
and sincere enthusiasm and apparently, a thorough knowledge of the
ground over which she has taken us. But as a writer of ‘landscapes’
she does not succeed. The chapter on the home life of the peasants,
their religious observances and their work in the fields is
admirable.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 86. Ja. 27, ’06. 1440w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 5. Ja. 13. 320w.
“The author’s work is worthy of its charming dress. She is full of
poetic feeling and knows how to express it.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 113. Ap. ’06. 290w.
“Unfortunately this enthusiasm, and the luxury of indulging a very
lively historical imagination, have betrayed the author into
generalizations and theories that a scientific analysis of history
will not always justify.”
– + =Dial.= 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 280w.
=Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
“The writer’s part is scholarly and literary, showing both conscience
and ability.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 520w.
“She has an unusual talent for making pen pictures of scenery vivid,
and she seems to have overlooked none of the literary, artistic, or
historical memorabilia of the valley. If at times her material is spun
rather thin, that is a defect inevitable in works of this kind.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 54. Ja. 18, ’06. 260w.
“Miss Noyes knows the Casentino thoroughly, and imparts her knowledge
graciously and attractively. Her book is thoroughly readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 1080w.
=Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 2, ’05. 60w.
“Though succinct it is never dull, and by the skilful handling of her
considerable knowledge, the author has made an intricate subject
plain.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 470w.
=Noyes, Walter Chadwick.= American railroad rates. **$1.50. Little.
“Judge Noyes’s book is sound in principle, impartial in spirit, and
clear in statement, but its value is lessened by the fact that it is
in greater part an elementary presentation of what has been more fully
stated by more than one previous writer.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 184. Jl. ’06. 1090w.
“So central is his theme that the book easily takes high rank in our
American literature of railway economics.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 847. Je. ’06. 370w.
“Of the two books, the broader, as the title denotes, is that of Mr.
Haines, the more intensive and special is that of Judge Noyes.” H.
Parker Willis.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 82. F. 1, ’06. 1470w.
“While there is little that is new in Judge Noyes’s exposition of the
principles underlying railway practice, the material is presented with
a directness and lucidity that entitle the book to a very high rank in
the literature on the subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 282. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
“It may be said that it is as a whole the best balanced book on the
subject that the present controversy has evoked.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 203. Mr. 8, ’06. 660w.
“We know of no book which will give the lay reader so clear and so
authoritative a statement of the fundamental legal principles which
must govern in the determination of the pending question concerning
government regulation of railway rates as Judge Noyes’s volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 937. D. 16, ’05. 410w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 210w.
=Nugent, Meredith.= New games and amusements for young and old alike.
**$1.50. Doubleday.
Mr. Nugent creates for the boy of ten a magic world and makes of his
young devotee a veritable wizard. The book contains wonderful
soap-bubble tricks, with the recipe used for producing immense bubbles
lasting from five to ten minutes; it tells how to engineer yacht races
in the clouds, how to make sunshine engines, and how to have a circus
on a kite string. There are numerous illustrations made by the author
and his collaborator, Victor J. Smedley.
* * * * *
“The book is distinctly novel in the suggestions offered, and is thus
a pleasing departure from its type.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Between the cover boards of the ‘New games and amusements’ lies
verily an enchanted land.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 460w.
=Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.= Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, tr. by Fanny
Bandelier. **$1. Barnes.
“This translation, by Mrs. Bandelier, has been made with much care,
and will replace that of Buckingham Smith ... as the authoritative
English version of the earliest detailed account of the Gulf states.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 390w.
O
=O., A. V.= “Jack” by a religious of the Society of the Holy Child. 45c.
Benziger.
A true story of how Jack, in the course of a mischievous and
adventurous boyhood, changed in the estimation of his friends from an
addition to the family which they could not decide whether “to deplore
or be proud of,” to “a Christian, a hero, and a gentleman.”
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Columbus, the discoverer. **$1. Harper.
In sketching the life of Columbus for the “Heroes of American history”
series, special effort has been made to accentuate the well verified
facts in the great discoverer’s career. Meagre facts only are recorded
of his youth, but from his arrival at the “hospitable portal of La
Rabida” the narrative proceeds on surer authority. The author shows
the character of Columbus in public and private relations, and
possesses him with the attributes which render him a worthy hero for
sane worship.
* * * * *
“A life of the great discoverer well calculated to interest young
people in his personality.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“Mr. Ober’s book has one great charm, however, which bursts out
occasionally in a way that whets the appetite for more. He has
apparently followed in the footsteps of Columbus.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 820w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 70w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand De Soto, and the invasion of
Florida. **$1. Harper.
Uniform with the “Heroes of American history” series. A vivid
portrayal of the varying fortunes of De Soto and his band which lends
the charm of romance to the historical facts of the memorable
expedition. The book is illustrated with reproductions of old pictures
and a map showing the course of De Soto’s journeys thru Mexico,
Florida and Cuba.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“A capital account of the life of this particular hero, but with it
there may seem to the fastidious reader to be rather too much of the
fanciful.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 30w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Hernando Cortés, conqueror of Mexico. **$1.
Harper.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 478. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“A readable biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Pizarro and the conquest of Peru. **$1.
Harper.
The latest volume in the “Heroes of American history” series. The
account is a full one of the man, who with a mere handful of soldiers
invaded and made conquest of the Inca’s stronghold in Peru. The volume
of less than three hundred pages condenses a great deal of material
which has heretofore existed only in a bulky unabridged form.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 430w.
“Mr. Ober has condensed, edited, and presented in attractive form the
essentials of history, and, having given himself to the study of early
Spanish America, seems a competent guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 80w.
“A good deal of information hitherto only accessible in bulky
histories has been condensed and made entertaining in this volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 120w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Vasco Nunez de Balboa. **$1. Harper.
In continuation of the “heroes of American history” series. Mr. Ober
offers a sketch of Balboa whose valorous exploits are tinged with
fascinating romance. The various stages of his career show him a
penniless adventurer, self-elected governor of Darien, savior of the
settlement when on the point of dissolution, subjugator of the
caciques, discoverer of the Pacific, servant of the king, and builder
of the first brigantines that ploughed the waters of the Southern
ocean. Finally as traitor to his sovereign he is executed in the town
he had unwearyingly helped to found.
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 30w.
=O’Brien, William.= Recollections. **$3.50. Macmillan.
“It is a charming and finely touched description of the career of a
young Irishman of genius in a time of stress and storm.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1330. D. 23, ’05. 670w.
“He tells his tale modestly and sincerely, without striving to put his
best foot foremost and without any trace of bitterness towards
opponents.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 83: 107. Ap. ’06. 990w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“Mr. O’Brien’s book takes rank with Mr. Justin McCarthy’s
politico-autobiographical reminiscences. While its scope is narrower,
its vividness is more intense. The author at times writes, as it were,
with his very heart’s blood; and thus writing he cannot fail to
command a reading.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 37. Ja. 16, ’06. 1910w.
“Lacks the historic value which attaches to Mr. Michael Davitt’s ‘Fall
of feudalism.’”
+ =Ind.= 60: 930. Ap. 19, ’06. 380w.
“They constitute in fact a human document wherein may be read not
merely the personal characteristics of their author, but the
predominating traits of his countrymen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 470w.
“Unfortunately, too. Mr. O’Brien is throughout careless about dates,
and the index is little help to anybody who wishes to follow in a
serious spirit a rambling and disjointed story.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 439. D. 15, ’05. 1710w.
“The book will be read with interest by all who have lived through
those days and who are interested in Irish affairs.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 120. F. 8, ’06. 320w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 110w.
“So long as Mr. O’Brien keeps to personal touches, and to his
delightful Irish humor and sentiment, we find him a very pleasant
storyteller.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 493. Ap. 21, ’06. 1550w.
“Both in tone and style the book is a pleasant one, and every one who
wishes to form a clear idea of the Nationalist case against the
British Government from 1865 to 1883 should make a point of studying
it though unquestionably it requires careful checking from other
sources.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 302. F. 24, ’06. 1640w.
=Ogden, Horatio Nelson.= Child in the church. 25c. Meth. bk.
The order for the administration of baptism to infants according to
the discipline and usage of the Methodist Episcopal church, together
with the duties of parents, the apostles’ creed, and the catechism,
make up this booklet, which has as a frontispiece a blank certificate
of baptism. The volume forms a dainty baptismal gift.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Don-a-dreams: a story of love and youth.
†$1.50. Century.
The practical, everyday world seems a very sordid thing to one who
follows the story of this dreamer of dreams, who from nursery
make-believes and childish day dreams passes into a youth of ideals
and is left in his early manhood still a visionary but with many
dreams come true. With a skilful touch Don is put before us;
misunderstood by a commonplace father, an acknowledged failure at a
practical college course, a failure in New York where he tries to make
a living as a super at a second class theatre or at anything else, he
suddenly blossoms into a recognized genius as a writer of plays. And
through years of struggle, from earliest childhood, his love for
Margaret, his ideal, burns like a white flame, and in return she loves
him, marries him and makes him happy, altho like the rest of the
world, she may not always understand him.
* * * * *
“All the earlier part of the book is shadowy, and hardly prepares us
for the vivid, admirable picture of life in New York that comes
later.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 527. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
“It is a book of fine fibre in purpose and execution, romantic,
touching, amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 333. O. 18, ’06. 460w.
“‘Don-a-dreams’ is his first novel, but Mr. O’Higgins has made no
mistake in his new departure.” Otis Notman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 623. O. 6, ’06. 550w.
“It is all very tenderly and charmingly told, and we like it better
because our dreamer is not of those who think wallowing in the mire
synonymous with ‘knowing life.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 200w.
“Its consistent literary quality lifts it far above the level of
ordinary fiction.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Smoke-eaters. $1.50. Century.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 140w.
=Okakura-Kakuzo.= Book of tea. **$1.50. Duffield.
These essays relate to tea, not as a beverage but as an aesthetic
symbol. “Within the pages of this volume is condensed the whole
philosophy of tea, together with its history, poetry, symbolism and a
synopsis of its relation to religion and art as they exist in Japan.
The author writes with sympathy ... and with a graceful felicity of
expression.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 512. O. 27. 160w.
“Charming group of essays.” Frederick W. Gookin.
+ =Dial.= 41: 105. S. 1, ’06. 1260w.
“What ‘Sartor resartus’ is to the realm of the utilitarian ‘The book
of tea’ is to the realm of the esthetic.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 461. Ag. 23, ’06. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 50w.
=Okey, Thomas.= Story of Paris. $2. Macmillan.
“The greater part of the 400–odd pages of this volume are taken up
with the story of the city from its beginnings as a Gallo-Roman camp
to its expansive latter days. The last pages contain generous
descriptions of the landmarks, museums, galleries, churches, and
theatres of the present.” (N. Y. Times.) “It is not too much praise to
say that the book supplements the information contained in Baedeker,
and supplies as well a background for the greater enjoyment of such
volumes as Theodore Child’s ‘The praise of Paris,’ Richard Whiteing’s
‘Paris of to-day,’ of Amicis’s ‘Ricordi di Parigi.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 753. S. 27, ’06. 170w.
“The guide is a curious cross between a Baedeker and a Hare, without
the satisfying definiteness of the former or the charm of the latter.”
– =Nation.= 83: 167. Ag. 23, ’06. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.
“The intending visitor to Paris could hardly have a more valuable vade
mecum than Mr. Okey’s little volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 673. Jl. 21, ’06. 100w.
“We are glad to be able to commend highly this little book which fully
maintains the high standard which the volumes in this series nearly
always attain.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 277. S. 1, ’06. 190w.
“The historical, literary, and artistic aspects of the city are
worthily treated.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 60w.
=Oliver, Frederick Scott.= Alexander Hamilton: an essay on American
union. *$3.75. Putnam.
The work of an Englishman which gives an estimate of Alexander
Hamilton’s character and presents a record of political and historical
conditions in the United States in Hamilton’s day. “Mr. Oliver calls
his work an essay on American union; but it is far more than that. At
bottom it is a grave and singularly eloquent plea for the great union
of a close and lofty and disinterested Imperialism. And it is an
immense compliment to Mr. Oliver to say that his conclusions and his
exhortations are worthy of having been directly inspired by such a
figure as Alexander Hamilton.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“A very thoughtful and clever essay on the life and work of Alexander
Hamilton.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 39. Jl. 14. 470w.
“Tho the book has some marked blemishes, it is so filled with deep and
original thinking that it is worthy the careful attention of every
student of Hamilton and our early political history. It is written in
an interesting, cultured style, which at times becomes brilliant.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1117. N. 8, ’06. 470w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“He has depicted Hamilton with force and clearness, with humour, with
sympathy and charm. He has treated a big subject in a large and
masterly way. No book has appeared lately which conveys a more
valuable lesson or one more tactfully and skilfully unfolded.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 165. My. 11, ’06. 3340w.
“To our minds, his narrative is by far the most interesting and vivid
account that has yet been published; but, being neither a publicist
nor an economist ... he is positively disqualified from the task of
estimating Hamilton’s work.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 1770w.
“There are some errors of fact, due perhaps to faulty proof reading,
but the worst fault is the author’s bias and distortion of facts,
which frequently make his conclusions valueless.” R. L. Schuyler.
– – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 357. Je. 2, ’06. 1120w.
“As a portrait of Hamilton the work exhibits most of the defects
inherent in all admittedly partisan productions, and it further
suffers from the animus apparent in the treatment of those within as
well as without the Federalist party who placed themselves in
opposition to ‘the little lion.’ But his is a singularly fresh and in
many respects a singularly charming study, distinctive alike in point
of view, in method, and in style.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 204. N. 3, ’06. 450w.
“Mr. Oliver’s book seems to us the most brilliant piece of political
biography which has appeared in England for many years. A clear and
vigorous style, wit, urbanity, a high sense of the picturesque, and a
remarkable power of character-drawing raise much of it to the rank of
a literary masterpiece.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 58. Jl. 14, ’06. 2040w.
=Olmsted, Stanley=, Nonchalante. †$1.25. Holt.
Student life, especially the life of two American students in a German
university town, is cleverly handled in this story, and the nonchalant
heroine, with musical aspirations, is well suited to her surroundings.
The book presents a phase, a passing episode, interesting and amusing,
but superficial in that it deals with that frivolous side of things
which is so typical of student days. The cafés, the theatres, the
bleak boarding houses are well drawn, and poor Fraulein Mittelini’s
tragic struggle for fame is really worthy of sympathy.
* * * * *
“The author has succeeded ... in giving [the heroine] some genuine
fascination. The style is too obviously imitative of that of Mr.
James.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 50w.
“The grip of the book is the grip of Miss Bilton—but it is
entertaining even when she is off the stage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 287. My. 5, ’06. 540w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 100w.
=Oman, Charles William Chadwick.= Inaugural lecture on the study of
history delivered on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1906. *35c. Oxford.
In this lecture on the teaching and study of history the Chichele
professor “perceives the great virtues of the tutorial system. He
recognizes a fact which is often overlooked by zealous reformers, that
no system of teaching can flourish which does not meet the wants of
the learners; and this general truth is in a particular sense
applicable to the universities of England.... The fact ‘that must be
faced is, that Oxford is a place of education as well as a place of
research,’—these words strike the real keynote of Professor Oman’s
inaugural address.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is remarkable for several characteristics and for a good deal of
courage. From start to finish it is lively; the writing, while it is
occasionally of great dignity is sometimes brilliant and even
humorous.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 322. Mr. 17. 1100w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 388. My. 10, ’06. 1100w.
=Omar Khayyam.= Rubaiyat: a new metrical version; rendered into English
from various Persian sources, by George Roe, with introd. and notes.
**$1.50. McClurg.
The translation adopts a middle course between the versions of Omar
which sacrifice the letter to the requirements of good verse and those
which in order to be literal, sacrifice the spirit to the letter.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
=Omond, George William Thomson.= Bruges and West Flanders; painted by
Amedee Forestier; described by G. W. T. Omond. *$3. Macmillan.
In the main Mr. Omond treats his subject historically, but even from
this point of view, he catches the spirit of sentiment and romance.
“Each one of these quaint, often-despoiled towns has remaining some
romantic relics and picturesque buildings—belfry, market-place, Hotel
de Ville—old gateways, or churches enriched with paintings.”
(Outlook.) “And what Mr. Omond so successfully does for Bruge-LaMorte,
he also does for the other towns of West Flanders—Ypres, Furnes,
Nieuport—revivifying them with the story of a glorious past.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 160w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 279. Ap. 5, ’06. 80w.
“He has been deeply touched by the ruined greatness that surrounds
prosperous Ostend and would show others how they may come under the
spell.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 870w.
“While the text of the book is not remarkable in any way, it is
written in clear, simple style.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 715. Mr. 24, ’06. 340w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 120w.
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 664. My. 26, ’06. 320w.
=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Maker of history. †$1.50. Little.
The plot of Mr. Oppenheim’s new story with a mystery grows out of an
episode in which an English youth actually witnesses a meeting between
the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany, and turns up in Paris
with a loose sheet of a treaty between the two, relative to an attack
upon England. How this same Englishman is hidden away in Paris by
spies, and why his sister is also abducted, and what sympathies stir
one Sir George Duncombe to action in their behalf furnish motive power
for a lively story.
* * * * *
“Is a capital story filled with mysterious and exciting happenings,
but one regrets to see Mr. Oppenheim writing down to this level after
he has shown that he is capable of such work as ‘A prince of
sinners.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 35: 447. Ap. ’06. 330w.
“It is an amazing medley, highly characteristic of the author. Without
trenching on politics, one may be permitted to doubt the wisdom just
now of accentuating the jealousies of nations.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 190w.
“In substance, of course, it is merely a sort of exalted dime novel.
But is written with such admirable restraint, such a matter-of-fact
style, as though the events were being chronicled for the columns of a
conservative daily newspaper, that you are cleverly led on from mild
curiosity to a breathless sort of interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 633. F. ’06. 560w.
“This stirring story is told with neatness and dispatch.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 154. Mr. 1, ’06. 250w.
“Mr. Oppenheim handles his material cleverly and makes of it a good
story of adventure.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1166. My. 17, ’06. 300w.
“The story is told with the vim and dash characteristic of Mr.
Oppenheim’s work, and is one of the best tales he has yet produced.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 90w.
“The story proceeds with cumulative interest to the end. The love
interest of the story is secondary, but good, although the character
drawing is occasionally exaggerated.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 15. Ja. 13, ’06. 820w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Altogether the romance is an exceptionally good specimen of
sensational story-telling.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 231. Ja. 27, ’06. 150w.
“It is all nonsense, but it is not boring nonsense.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 8. O. 14, ’05. 420w.
+ – =Spec.= 95: 571. O. 14, ’05. 130w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Man and his kingdom. †$1.50. Little.
Love, intrigue and revolution in a South American state make a riotous
setting for Mr. Oppenheim’s story. The man of the hour is a wealthy
young Englishman who sides neither with the revolutionists nor yet
with the president’s party, but is a friend to both. His Beau Desir, a
fertile valley near the town, with two hundred Englishmen to till it
would fain express the temper of his neutrality, but the disquieting
elements of the town creep into it. There are lively quarrels,
attempted murders, and thrilling escapes, all of which have local
color and atmosphere.
=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Master mummer. †$1.50. Little.
“Mr. Oppenheim has trodden a beaten path when, it would seem from his
earlier success in invention, he might have struck out afresh for
himself.”
+ – =Reader.= 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 180w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Millionaire of yesterday. †$1.50. Little.
A new illustrated edition of Mr. Oppenheim’s story that gives a vivid
picture of two men, widely divergent types, one an invincible hero,
the other a leaner, in the African bush making a grim fight for life
and fortune.
=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.
+ =Edinburgh R.= 203: 471. Ap. ’06. 8240w.
“The best and most important part of this system is his rule of giving
his readers the law as it is, and not as it ought to be. This,
combined with his natural impartiality, makes his book an extremely
fair and rational one.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 373. My. 3, ’06. 460w.
“The arrangement is clear and logical, and the matter of the work is,
so far as we have examined it, fully up to date, and presented with
acumen and moderation.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 544. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.
=Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara, baroness.= I will
repay. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The scenes of Baroness Orczy’s dramatic tale are enacted in the
terrible days of the French revolution. Ten years before its reign of
terror, Juliette Marny is compelled by her father to take a vow to
bring about the ruin and death of Paul Déroulède, the man who, tho
against his will, had killed her brother in a duel. So much for the
prologue. When the story opens, the revolution is well under way.
Déroulède is a popular leader. Juliette, housed with his mother for
safety, loves him, yet is obedient to relentless Fate which is
dragging her to the fulfillment of her vow. She denounces him to the
terrorists, and in attempting to undo her treachery brings both
herself and Déroulède under the Merlin suspect law. Their escape from
France closes a chapter of thrilling incidents.
* * * * *
“There are not so many characters to stage in this book as in a former
success of the same author’s, dealing, like this with revolutionary
Paris, and we find less variety of scene, less incident: but the same
dramatic power is abundantly demonstrated.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 579. N. 10. 150w.
“It is, in truth, a very fair story of its semihistoric wholly
respectable sort.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 390w.
“The story is full of exciting situations and thrilling moments.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 869. D. 15, ’06. 630w.
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 90w.
=Orczy, Baroness.= Scarlet pimpernel. †$1.50. Putnam.
“A brilliantly vivid story abounding in dramatic incident.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 80w.
=Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara, baroness.= Son of
the people: a romance of the Hungarian plains. †$1.50. Putnam.
The old story of the rich and handsome peasant who wins the hand of an
impoverished nobleman’s daughter against her will and later, by
proving his nobility of soul, turns her scorn to love, is given a
charming Hungarian setting in this romance of the plains. The peasant
life and character are strongly contrasted with the traditional pride
of the nobility; the lines of caste are well portrayed, the priest,
the Jew, the aristocrat, and the son of the soil, the thrift of the
peasant, the prodigality of the lord are all interwoven with the love
story.
* * * * *
“It is sentimental and of a conventional type, but the setting is new,
and so it takes on a novel air.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 227. F. 24. 260w.
“It is a strong and attractive piece of work, vivid in description and
characterization, dramatic in action.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 230w.
“The story is well told, and as interesting as any other thrice told
tale.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 825. O. 4, ’06. 110w.
“This really interesting book is hurt by wordiness and repetitions of
good effects, yet not unto destruction.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 59. Jl. 19, ’06. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Judicious condensation and elimination would have greatly improved
and strengthened ‘A son of the people,’ but it has decided merits as
it is.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 506. Ag. 18, ’06. 490w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 224. N. ’06. 160w.
“The book interests and attracts despite the poverty of the plot.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 244. F. 24, ’06. 200w.
=Orr, Rev. James.= God’s image in man and its defacement in the light of
modern ideals. **$1.75. Armstrong.
Professor Orr discusses “the conflict between the Biblical and the
modern view of man—his nature, origin, and primitive condition, his
sinfulness and the divine redemption from it. The difference between
the so-called Biblical and the modern views is that the former
regards God’s image in man as aboriginal, the latter regards it as
ultimate. Man’s redemption from sin, therefore, the former regards
as a reconstructive work, the latter as constructive or
evolutionary.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“There can be no question of Professor Orr’s deep religious interest,
his courage, his marvelous grasp of the material of present-day
learning, and his perception of the seriousness of the questions now
pressing for solution; but I do not think that the work under review
can give much help to a man who is seized of the significance of the
great intellectual and religious movements of the present and feels a
sympathetic interest in them.” George Cross.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 220. S. ’06. 1290w.
=Ind.= 61: 823. O. 4, ’06. 510w.
“What seems hardly fair in Professor Orr’s argument is the prominence
given to Haeckel as the representative of the modern view.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 940. D. 16, ’05. 220w.
“Dr. Orr conducts his argument with a creditable moderation of
language, and states the problems which he discusses fairly.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 986. D. 9, ’05. 250w.
=Orr, Rev. James.= Problem of the Old Testament considered with
reference to recent criticism. **$1.50. Scribner.
“A volume of lectures given at Lake Forest college by Dr. James Orr,
of Glasgow. Dr. Orr represents the conservative view in his attitude
toward modern criticism. The present volume is largely devoted to the
repetition of the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“The temper of the book is admirable. Dr. Orr’s disposition of his
material appears to be excellent. We think it is safe to say that
nowhere will the student find in so compact a form an abler
arraignment of the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis, which is Dr. Orr’s
immediate object of attack, than in the present work.” Kemper
Fullerton.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 705. O. ’06. 1720w.
“A comprehensive survey of the chief problems of the Old Testament
from the conservative point of view, but considered with fairness and
candor.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w.
+ + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 374. Ap. ’06. 440w.
“There is no book in English that presents with such fulness and
strength, from the conservative point of view, the problem of the Old
Testament.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 350w.
“Professor Orr is astute, a keen logician, and he has made himself a
thoro master of his material.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1490. Je. 21, ’06. 940w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15. ’06. 120w.
“The problem of old Testament is twofold—religious and literary. So
far as the principles of the religious aspect of the problem are
concerned, we agree with him; but so far as the literary aspect of the
problem is concerned, we take leave to doubt.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 130. Ap. 12, ’06. 1390w.
“The multitudinous points taken by Dr. Orr against the prevailing
critical opinions present to the unlearned reader a formidable array.”
– + =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“We may say that Dr. Orr is a strong conservative, though fifty years
ago he would have been regarded as a dangerous radical, that he has
stated his subject thoroughly, though not we cannot but think, with an
open mind; and that he always expresses himself with courtesy and good
taste.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
=Osborn, Albert.= John Fletcher Hurst: a biography. *$2. Meth. bk.
A biography which is autobiographic in nature so successfully has the
compiler eliminated himself in producing what the Bishop said or what
has been said about him. The sketch touches upon his boyhood,
education, European experiences, ministerial work, and duties as
president of the Drew theological seminary.
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Reviewed by Erl B. Hulbert.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 362. Ap. ’06. 90w.
“The task has been performed with equal loyalty and ability, and the
book is every way a fitting memorial of a man of great gifts, high
character, and broad influence.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Osborn’s biography, in a word, is a worthy memorial of a great
Christian and a great American, and a book which should enlarge the
horizon and stimulate to a higher life all into whose hands it falls.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 430w.
“The only criticism to be brought against this biography is that the
index is extravagant in its dimensions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 14. Ja. 13, ’06. 520w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 90w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Motormaniacs. [+]75c. Bobbs.
“Pretty little stories they are too, when we are permitted to pause
and enjoy them, and the motormaniacs are always entertaining and
capital company to the end of the run.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 110w.
“The dialogue is comic, and the narrative runs with a swing and zest
which are valuable aids to easy reading.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 100w.
“The book is full of humour and energy.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 497. O. 6, ’06. 110w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Wild justice. †$1.50. Appleton.
Nine stories of life in the South sea islands which take their title
from the first tale. The author spent a number of years among crude
Pacific natives with his step-father Robert Louis Stevenson. His
characters are drawn from these inhabitants “well-meaning but
generally inefficient missionaries, unscrupulous traders, and refugees
and adventurers in search of victims. It is not an edifying life, and
the manly virtues seem to be conspicuously absent.” (Outlook.)
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“They are all good, but of no one of them can it be said that it is
strikingly and exceptionally good.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 240w.
“The tales all have a swing in the telling and show that the author is
in his own field.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 70w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 149. Ap. 27, ’06. 550w.
“The fascination of the unusual pervades its pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.
“There is a certain bizarre humor, however, in these tales which
somewhat redeems the sordidness of their subject matter.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 60w.
=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. 2v. **$5.
Macmillan.
“As a whole the work is the first adequate account of the origin,
character, and development of the American colonies as institutions of
government and as parts of a great colonial system; and it displays,
on the part of the author wide and deep knowledge of the documentary
evidence for colonial history and rare powers of analysis and
interpretation. In a style remarkably clear, forcible and accurate the
reader will regret the presence of so many cleft infinitives.” Charles
M. Andrews.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 397. Ja. ’06. 3060w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Dynamic factors in education. *$1.25.
Macmillan.
“It has been the author’s object to show that in the early years of a
child’s school life, ‘motor expression’ in his teaching is ‘essential
to all learning.’ He has endeavored to indicate mainly in outline,
‘how the requirements of dynamic education can be provided for in all
departments of school work.’ Further, he says in his preface, ‘I have
sought to point out that there is a definite order in which the motor
powers develop, and that in our instruction we will achieve the
highest success only as we conform quite closely to this order.’”—N.
Y. Times.
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“It is clear and, if one is not annoyed by its diffuseness,
interesting.”
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 654. Ag. ’06. 180w.
“The book seems poorly suited for the use of the practical teacher for
whom it is announced, or the professional student. In spite of the
author’s resolution to the contrary, it is burdened with methods of
investigation, where results alone should be given.” Edward O. Sisson.
– – =Dial.= 41: 89. Ag. 16, ’06. 580w.
“A fair and comprehensive book. It is sound psychology sensibly
applied.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 201. Mr. 31, ’06. 310w.
“The whole volume is what the subject is, dynamic, and is as important
for parents as for teachers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 90. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
“It is admirably suited to be a handbook for advanced classes who
desire to pursue special topics exhaustively, by first reading a
guidebook and then following up the literature of the subject. The
style is so clear and the treatment so concrete and inductive that the
general reader will understand most of it. One of Professor O’Shea’s
chief contributions is in selecting those laws and phenomena that have
an educational application and clearly showing the application.”
Frederick E. Bolton.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 367. N. 15, ’06. 510w.
“Is not epoch marking; it is in part what has been said before by
other writers, but it has two virtues—it is reasonably complete, and
it is of great importance.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 639. My. 19, ’06. 90w.
“On the whole, we know of no more satisfactory discussion of what is
thus far known of the evolution of motor control, its relation to
education, and of the place of the manual arts in education.”
+ + =School R.= 14: 459. Je. ’06. 510w.