and The testimony of the first folio.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Sundry old fooleries in the ‘cipher’ line, with a few new ones of the
same sort set forth in better typography than such stuff deserves.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 20w.
“The Shakespearians may breathe a sigh of relief, and resume their
immemorial repose. Mr. Platt, at any rate, cannot break their sleep.”
Charles H. A. Wager.
– – =Dial.= 40: 90. D. 1, ’06. 1230w.
=Plummer, Alfred.= English church history from the death of King Henry
VII to the death of Archbishop Parker. *$1. Scribner.
“These lectures are not intended for experts, and, in the first
instance, were not intended for publication. They were written for
popular audiences in connection with the Exeter Diocesan church
reading society; and their object was, and is, to stimulate interest
in the fortunes of the Church of England at a very critical period of
its history.” “The main interest of Dr. Plummer’s lecture lies,
naturally, in their account of the fortunes of the Church of England
in the period under review, and it is as a succinct epitome of that
story that the little sketch is chiefly valuable, though the author’s
judgment of political events and the men of action in them is often
very happily expressed.” (Yale R.)
* * * * *
“We regret that he is so swayed by ecclesiastical prepossessions as to
descend to the arts of special pleader.” Eri B. Hulbert.
– =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 352. Ap. ’06. 340w.
“Many will dissent from Professor Plummer’s judgments, and regret the
scant courtesy shown to all opponents of the Establishment. But for
all that, he has given in these lectures a suggestive and
thorough-going treatment of the period under review.” J. F. Vichert.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 76. Jl. 28, ’06. 530w.
“He knows how to be severe to both sides when they deserve it, is
unfavorable in his estimation of Wolsey, and not too hard on Henry
VIII.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 200w.
“A little volume of decided merit.” Williston Walker.
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 95. My. ’06. 490w.
=Plunkett, Sir Horace Curzon.= Ireland in the new century. *60c. Dutton.
“The appreciative student of social and economic problems will welcome
this very readable and inciting book.” J. Dorum.
+ + =Westminster R.= 164: 525. N. ’05. 3250w.
=Plympton, Almira George.= Old home day at Hazeltown. $1.25. Little.
The trials of Roxy, a brave hearted little maid, and her grandmother
who are looked upon as encumbrances in a cross daughter-in-law’s
household furnish the first part of this story. The second part tells
how Roxy’s long absent father returns during “old home day,” buys
grandmother’s old estate, and heaps coals of fire upon the head of the
relative who had grudgingly housed the two.
* * * * *
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.
=Pocock, Roger.= Curly, a tale of the Arizona desert. †$1.50. Little.
“The fact that the story is told in a vivid and spirited manner and
that it is crowded with exciting and melodramatic incidents only makes
its potential influence for harm all the greater.”
– + =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06. 280w.
=Poincare (Jules) Henri.= Science and hypothesis: with a preface by J.
Larmor. *$1.50. Science press.
“Professor Poincaré is one of the most brilliant and original thinkers
of our day.... And withal, being a Frenchman, he is able to write in a
vivacious style.... The secrets of the trade of the man of science
have never before been exposed so frankly. He shows how the progress
of science has been at times impeded by too much knowledge.... A false
hypothesis is often of more service than a true one, because it leads
to new discoveries.... And Professor Poincaré’s main object is to show
how hypotheses are useful and why they are justifiably held to have
more value and precision than the experiments which served to
demonstrate them.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“It is a book which ought to be much more widely read than it is
likely to be.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 458. Ag. 23, ’06. 340w.
“We really cannot recommend this translation. But every one who is
interested in these subjects should read M. Poincaré in the original.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 4: 233. Jl. 21, ’06. 1480w.
“There is certainly no one with the same intimate knowledge of
mathematical and physical science who could have written with the same
authority and produced a volume in which so much charm and originality
are condensed. The wealth of his store of illustration is boundless,
and the stringency of his logic leaves us without answer. Even in
cases where our instincts rebel, we are carried away by the
fascination of the language, which in each subdivision of the subject
takes us with dramatic power to its artistic dénouement. The English
translation errs, perhaps, on the side of following too literally
every sentence, and sometimes even every word in the sentence, of the
French original.” Arthur Schuster.
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 313. F. 1, ’06. 2260w.
“Certain defects in his equipment are, however, quite prominent. In
the first place, he lacks psychological training. M. Poincaré is
handicapped by the lack of a general logical theory upon which to base
his special logical investigations. Our author has no general theory
of knowledge; and he passes by the most obvious epistemological
considerations without so much as a nod of recognition. I fear that
the reader has been given but a slight notion of the exceeding
interest and suggestiveness of this work. If there is much that should
awaken caution, there is also a fund of wise and penetrating
observations. Those who are least attracted by the author’s
conclusions may well be repaid for the reading by the impressive
survey which he gives of the present state of mathematical and
physical science.” Theodore de Laguna.
+ – =Philos. R.= 15: 634. N. ’06. 3380w.
=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Henry VIII. *$2.60. Longmans.
The magnificent Goupil-Scribner edition of 1902 makes its
re-appearance in a modest two-volume reprint shorn of its glory and
portraits save for the frontispiece, Holbein’s chalk drawing of King
Henry.
* * * * *
“The new edition, which is neat, serviceable and well printed, will
enable the ordinary reader to make acquaintance with a most valuable
contribution to the historical study of a vexed time and a disputed
character.”
+ =Acad.= 09: 1111. O. 21, ’05. 70w.
“There can be no doubt that the present compact volume will prove far
more useful for purposes of historical study than its bulkier and far
more expensive predecessor. As far as the present reviewer is able to
discover the volume is entirely free from misprints and minor errors.”
Roger Bigelow Merriman.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 650. Ap. ’06. 680w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 506. O. 14. 60w.
“A model biography of its kind. It is well proportioned throughout,
and its literary style is excellent.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 288. My. ’06. 370w.
“Perhaps the strangest part of Professor Pollard’s work is his account
of the origin and progress of the movement that separated England from
Rome. It seems that the author’s view of Henry’s character as man and
monarch is entirely too favorable.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 291. My. 1, ’06. 1590w.
“For the use of the student the present form is decidedly preferable,
and it does better justice to the author himself, as we know now
exactly the evidences on which each particular statement rests. The
book certainly is the result of great industry and very high ability.”
James Gairdner.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 155. Ja. ’06. 1660w.
+ – =Ind.= 60: 800. Ap. 5, ’06. 530w.
“The cheaper edition may challenge the costlier on the scholarly
plane.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ’05. 130w.
“Is a careful and able narrative of one of the most vital periods of
English history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 896. D. 16, ’05. 170w.
“Has been reissued in a less expensive and more convenient form and
with revisions and additions that greatly increase its value.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82. 135. Ja. 20, ’06. 2360w.
=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation,
1489–1556. *$1.35. Putnam.
“Pollard’s biography is fuller than that of Canon Mason, and it is
very fortunately, for the ordinary reader, free from the high church
prejudices of Jenkyns and Dixon.” John McLaughlan.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 352. Ap. ’06. 260w.
=Pollock, Frank Lillie.= Treasure trail. $1.25. Page.
An exciting narrative of the efforts of two rival search parties to
locate certain gold bullion stolen from a Boer government and stored
in a steamer sunk somewhere in the Mozambique channel. It is a tale of
chance, of daring, with adventure no whit below the spirit of its
eager gold hunters.
=Poole, Ernest.= Voice of the street; a story of temptation. †$1.50.
Barnes.
“The story of a young street Arab, Jim, possessed of a splendid voice,
who emancipates himself from all those deteriorating influences which
Mr. Poole calls the ‘street,’ and finally becomes a great singer. At
the same time it is the story of self-sacrificing love on the part of
a young girl who in order to support ‘Lucky Jim’ and her father turns
thief. The book is not intended for mere entertainment. It is the
portrayal of the better and the lower influences at work among the
poor of the East End of New York. Mr. Poole knows these people well
and he has spoken for them as their interpreter.”—World To-Day.
* * * * *
“While admitting the book’s uncommon quality, one may question whether
the ending is, in the truest sense, a happy one.”
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 640. Ag. ’06. 850w.
“Ought to have been a fine novel. But somehow it is not.”
+ – =Critic.= 49: 287. S. ’06. 100w.
“In short, the thing which pleases and satisfies the critical sense in
this book is the approach it makes toward interpretation and
presentation of the life of the poor according to the modern
conscience, while at the same time giving it the form and dignity of
real literature.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1546. Je. 28, ’06. 930w.
“Poole is too much influenced by the hysterical manner for his story
to endure.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1159. N. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Here the situations depicted are so poignant and yet natural, the
characters are so lifelike that we almost forget the crudities in the
manner of telling and the general commonplaceness in the make-up of
this very human little story.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 320w.
“Though there is never relief from movement, there is often a drag in
the process of the tale. Vigor, directness, and the absence of mock
sentimentality, however, weigh heavily on the other side.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 674. Jl. 21, ’06. 260w.
“He has dramatic insight, an unsensational realism and a downright
sympathy for those who struggle for the better.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 150w.
=Pope, Jesse Eliphalet.= Clothing industry in New York. $1.25. Univ. of
Mo.
“This book is Volume I of the ‘Social science series’ of the
University of Missouri.... The study was made at first hand in New
York City and is restricted to men’s and children’s outside wearing
apparel and to women’s cloaks. The history of the clothing industry is
traced, showing how the change was gradually made from custom to
ready-made work, the development of the sweating and factory systems.
The questions of wages, hours of employment, systems of production and
of payment are described at length. Then the author turns to the
conditions of employment at home, sanitation, income and expenditures,
passing to regulation by law, trade unions, etc.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The work has been well done, and the result is not merely a good
history of a special trade, but it teems with social facts of great
value.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 240. Ja. ’06. 160w.
“Much research has evidently gone to the making of this bulky volume
and its results are summed up with great clearness.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 327. Mr. 17. 350w.
“Throughout the volume, however, there is lacking the scientific
accuracy of the trained statistician and the scholarly background of
the student well read in economic history.” Edith Abbott.
+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 252. Ap. ’06. 810w.
=Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ’05. 60w.
“The slenderness of the author’s acquaintance with the actual
conditions obtaining in the clothing industry in New York, is
indicated by the omission of all reference to the decision of the
Court of Appeals, in the case in re Jacobs, promulgated in 1885.”
Florence Kelley.
– =Yale R.= 14: 433. F. ’06. 340w.
=Porter, General Horace.= Campaigning with Grant. *$1.80. Century.
An intimate record of Grant’s movements during the Civil war, made up
from General Porter’s careful and elaborate notes taken on the scene
of action. The aim has been to “recount the daily acts of General
Grant in the field, to describe minutely his personal traits and
habits, and to explain the motives which actuated him in important
crises by giving his criticisms upon events in the language employed
by him at the time they took place.” There are numerous illustrations,
maps and a facsimile of the letter containing the oft quoted “I
propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
* * * * *
“The book is undeniably entertaining, and in its present attractive
dress should have a new lease of life.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 30, ’06. 150w.
“Will long maintain its place as one of the best books about the Civil
war, not only because it is authoritative, but more especially because
it is full of human and personal interest, and it is written with
animation and with compelling descriptive power.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 60w.
=Potter, Mrs. Frances B. (Squire).= Ballingtons. †$1.50. Little.
“As a literary production the story deserves high praise. It is
realistic in the best sense of that much-abused term, and the
depressing effect of the story is at times counteracted by an
underlying vein of humor which permeates much of the dialogue. Yet it
is a book that we cannot find it in our heart to recommend, as it does
not solve the problem and the general effect upon the reader’s mind is
decidedly depressing.” Amy C. Rich.
+ – =Arena.= 35: 447. Ap. ’06. 290w.
“What gives the book its uncommon distinction is the sense that you
get everywhere in it of the far-reaching effect of human passions; the
sense of how love and sorrow, cruelty and unkindness, even such a
negative quality as indifference, extend their silent influence to
every hour of the day, every relation of life.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + – =Bookm.= 22: 371. D. ’05. 520w.
“Perhaps in the very fullness of its pain, in the intensity of its
message in the searching cry of the book, lie the value and
significance of the story.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 347. Mr. 17, ’06. 140w.
“Presenting a climax of ethical and practical significance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 127. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Reminiscences of bishops and
archbishops. **$2. Putnam.
“The bishops and archbishops of whom Bishop Potter writes are thirteen
in number, the bishops being all Americans; the archbishops of course,
are Englishmen. The reminiscences embrace exactly forty years,
beginning as they do in 1866, when the author was chosen secretary of
the House of bishops. It is the personal note that the author aims to
sound, rather than the professional or biographical.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“Fails to gratify the expectations created by its title or to fulfil
the promises of its preface. Fully a third of the matter comprised in
the ten biographies is quoted.”
– + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 180w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 430. S. 29, ’06. 190w.
“The net result of the book is to prove that ecclesiastics are like
other men, in having a saving sense of humor, in regard for substance
rather than for form in religion, and in emphasis upon character
rather than on possessions.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 350. O. 25. ’06. 330w.
“The present volume contains many valuable and entertaining
reminiscences.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 382. Je. 16, 06. 170w.
“Bishop Potter has an enviable reputation as a talker, and these pages
will not diminish that reputation.” Cameron Mann.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 667. O. 13, 06. 980w.
“This is a book to interest laymen no less than the clergy.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 382. D. ’06. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 60w.
=Potter, Margaret Horton (Mrs. J. D. Black).= Genius. †$1.50. Harper.
This story is the first of the author’s proposed “Trilogy of destiny,”
three stories of Russian life. It follows the career of a famous
Russian composer who was destined by a cruel unscrupulous, iron-handed
father for the army and intrigue. How he slips thru the clutches of
what seemed inevitable fate and is saved to a life which develops the
artist’s temperament in him is presented with a free stroke in keeping
with the rapid action.
* * * * *
“The book is not without some strong pages. But as a picture of
Russian life it is not to be taken seriously.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 283. My. ’06. 360w.
“This is the best written and the sanest of any of Miss Potter’s
books. It is impossible, however, to approve such liberties as she has
taken with the lives of men so lately dead.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 280w.
“A book in certain qualities rather above the average, but its
ambitiously cultivated style is a fair example of the way in which
English should not be written.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 230w.
“The parts are greater than the whole.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 177. Mr. 24, ’06. 460w.
“There is an irresistible fascination about the great grey land which
captivates the imagination and proves an endless treasure to both
writer and reader alike.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 759. Je. ’06. 80w.
=Potter, Mary Knight.= Art of the Venice academy, containing a brief
history of the building and its collection of paintings as well as
descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their
artists. **$2. Page.
=Int. Studio.= 29: 183. Ag. ’06. 110w.
“The work is appreciatively and sympathetically written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 123. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Pottinger, Sir Henry.= Flood, fell and forest: a book of sport in
Norway. 2v. $8.40. Longmans.
“We note some repetition and overlapping of matter, but all things
considered, the tales are well told, if occasionally with some
pardonable complacency.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 682. N. 18. 280w.
“Though we could have spared some digressions from his portly volumes,
we have not found a page too long.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 350. O. 20, ’05. 740w.
“But there is little in Sir Henry’s two volumes to make them worth
printing. We hardly think that even professionally inclined outdoor
people will find much amusement in these books.”
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 73. F. 3, ’06. 550w.
“Every lover of Norwegian sport will be grateful to an author who can
revive for him a host of pleasant memories.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 868. N. 25, ’05. 410w.
=Powell, Edward Payson.= Orchard and fruit garden. **$1.50. McClure.
“This book should be possessed by every farmer in the Republic and by
all persons who have land for a few trees and berry bushes.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 330. Mr. ’06. 660w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 727. N. ’05. 180w.
=Powell, Frances.= Prisoner of Ornith farm. †$1.50. Scribner.
“The startling abduction of Hope Carmichael from her own wealthy
family and luxurious surroundings to the mysterious farm in
Connecticut where she is held a prisoner in a barred room on the plea
of insanity, her numberless wild and futile attempts at escape and the
power over every one with whom he comes in contact of the villainous
counterfeiter Lannion—these things combine to make a more than
thrilling narrative.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Is melodrama of the baldest sort.”
– =Critic.= 48: 573. Je. ’06. 70w.
“Miss Powell has the story teller’s art of awakening interest in plot
and characters, which is unsatisfied until the denouement is reached.”
+ – =Ind.= 40: 931. Ap. 19, ’06. 160w.
“There is no doubt this is sensationalism of a successful sort. It is
exciting enough to make one forget even the toothache.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 185. Mr. 24, ’06. 230w.
“[Has] vividness and suspense and [shows] considerable ingenuity in
sustaining the reader’s attention in the main situation by the
dramatic way in which the successive incidents are managed ... weak as
to the motive for action.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 718. Mr. 24, ’06. 70w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 766. Jl. ’06. 80w.
=Powell, Mary Elizabeth.= Dying musician. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
A poem filled with pathos and longing which is the anguish of
unrealized happiness. For the musician has loved and suffered:
“Then should thy judgment move
To censure harsh, for having dared to love
(E’en as great Tasso) one above me far
And hopeless of attainment as a star—
My one defense,—even as his—must be
Because I loved, what not to love and see
Was more or less than mortal and than me.”
=Power, John O’Connor.= Making of an orator. **$1.35. Putnam.
In his suggestions to young orators. Mr. Power emphasizes the value of
individuality. While obeying certain structural principles he advises
the student to encourage his natural freedom of speech and to learn
that rhetoric “was designed as an aid to speakers and writers, and not
as a means of bettering their natural ability.”
* * * * *
“The book has many valuable suggestions, and will repay all who are
ambitious to excel in any branch of oratory.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 416. D. ’06. 140w.
“It contains a number of excellent hints and suggestions to the public
speaker of any sort, conceived and presented in a simple and
unpretentious fashion.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 252. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
“This book is undoubtedly interesting and valuable; yet it is not
entirely obvious who will most appreciate its interest and value.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 210. S. 6, ’06. 670w.
“A book that is not only useful, but entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 413. Je. 23, ’06. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 767. Jl. 28, ’06. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 50w.
“This is an interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 990. Je. 23, ’06. 240w.
=Powers, Harry Huntington.= Art of travel: the laboratory study of
civilization. 2d ed. 50c. Bureau of University travel, Trinity place,
Boston.
Some of the topics discussed by way of valuable suggestion to the
prospective traveller are the art, purpose, method and means of
travel, university travel, outfit and travel in different countries.
=Powers, Harry Huntington, and Powe, Louise M.= Outlines for the study
of art. v. 2. $1.50. Bureau of university travel, Trinity place, Boston.
An outline for the later period of Italian art beginning with Leonardo
and ending with the decadence. The text furnishes a guide for the
laboratory study of the period and is written to accompany a
collection of reproductions.
=Powles, H. H. P.= Steam boilers, their history and development. *$6.50.
Lippincott.
About one-third of the work is devoted to the work of old-time
engineers in boiler design beginning with the spherical boiler made by
Hero of Alexandria in 150 B. C. Then follow chapters in plain,
cylindrical, Cornish and Lancashire boilers, water-tube boilers, and
motor-car boilers. His closing chapters compare various types of
boilers, and discuss boiler development in general.
* * * * *
“We do not see that the book will be of any particular use to an
engineer familiar with boiler design and construction; but it may
possibly find a useful place on the shelves of public libraries, where
there is a constant demand for popular information on technical
subjects. Its chief value is as a history, but it is far from
complete.”
– + =Engin. N.= 55: 192. F. 15, ’06. 330w.
=Pratt, Agnes Louise.= Aunt Sarah, a mother of New England. $1.50.
Badger, R: G.
Sarah Marsh, dubbed Aunt Sarah by her friends, is a typical example of
an undemonstrative, stoical, but, withal, motherly New England woman
of the Civil war times. She has two sons. Francis, the younger, leaves
home to study. While away he discovers that his pledge of love to Hope
Hamilton was a mistake. Hope, with true heroism, releases the student,
to the relief of Philip, the elder son, a serious-minded manly young
fellow who silently cherished a love for Hope. When the war summons
comes the mother bravely speeds her sons on their way to the front,
both of whom return; one to die, the other to find his happiness.
=Pratt, Antwerp Edgar.= Two years among New Guinea cannibals: a
naturalist’s sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea; with
notes and observations by his son, Henry Pratt, and appendices on the
scientific results of the expedition. *$4. Lippincott.
The title would suggest that the explorer of the volume went armed for
such frays as Rider Haggard’s “She” depicts. On the contrary he is
occupied with the inoffensive pursuit of birds and plants, butterflies
and moths. The bower bird, the blue bird of paradise, a new variety of
orchid, a magnificent scarlet creeper, spider’s webs and wonderful
butterflies are of vastly more interest to Mr. Pratt and hence to his
readers than the surrounding cannibals. “The scientific results of the
expedition were a new reptile, a new fish, and a number of new
lepidoptera.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The reader who cares for chronicles of forest life will find many
pleasant pages.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 76. Jl. 21. 930w.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 360w.
“His anthropological notes are meagre, and if he had observed the
natives more closely he would not have called them ‘cannibals’ even to
provide himself with a grim and awe-inspiring title.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 134. Ap. 12, ’06. 340w.
Reviewed by Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 734. N. 10, ’06. 660w.
“Mr. Pratt is, however, a naturalist, and it is in this capacity he
should be mainly judged. But on the whole the book is somewhat
disappointing from this point of view as well.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 660. My. 26, ’06. 1130w.
“We cannot here follow Mr. Pratt’s wanderings in search of his prey,
but we can assure our readers that he makes a very entertaining
narrative out of them.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 588. Ap. 14, ’06. 310w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. Dutton.
“Although partisan in its character, the book contains much valuable
information conveniently arranged.” William Hill.
+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 123. F. ’06. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 288. O. 4, ’06. 720w.
“Mr. Pratt’s book is not exactly light literature, but his style
commends itself to serious readers. Especially we commend his serenity
of temper. We commend Mr. Pratt’s book to those who prefer to follow
their judgments rather than their feelings in a complex situation.”
Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 589. S. 22, ’06. 1610w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 768. Je. ’06. 100w.
=Preissig, Edward.= Notes on the history and political institutions of
the old world. **$2.50. Putnam.
“A series of notes on the history of the countries of the old world
from the earliest times, supplemented by notes on their institutions,
religions, literature, art, and geographical features, and by a number
of maps.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“A text book of rather unusual scope which promises to be of
considerable value.”
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 340. S. ’06. 120w.
“A convenient students’ manual of general history.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 94. Ag. 16, ’06. 100w.
“Is a history on the lines of Myers, tho fuller and not so
convenient.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 237. Ag. 2, ’06. 16w.
“As there is little promise of a short cut in this portly octavo we
fear it will be avoided by the retarded freshman or sophomore.
Unfortunately it is not well adapted for the use of other readers.”
– + =Nation.= 83: 290. O. 4, ’06. 650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 459. Jl. 21, ’06. 280w.
“For advanced study the work is of little value, but it is distinctly
meritorious as a compact presentation of salient facts, dates, etc.,
and should prove popular both as an aid to the beginner and as a handy
reference work for the library, the study, and the newspaper office.
For purposes of consultation, however, it would have been improved by
more exhaustive indexing.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 180w.
“A useful historical treatise.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 253. Ag. ’06. 50w.
=Prescott, William Hickling.= Complete works. Lib. ed. 12v. $12.
Crowell.
A complete library edition of Prescott’s works and in addition the
authorized “Life of Prescott” by George Ticknor. It represents the
best workmanship of the times, and contains illustrations which are
the result of special research including reproductions of portraits,
maps and paintings. Each volume is supplied with an index as well as a
synoptical list of contents.
* * * * *
“In general the edition is a desirable one.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 878. D. 15, ’06. 460w.
“The present edition has been carefully edited as to text, is printed
from new type, and has many well chosen illustrations. May be
commended to all those who wish to have a complete library edition.”
+ + =Outlook=. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 100w.
=Preston, Sydney Herman.= On common ground. †$1.50. Holt.
The man who goes “Back to nature” to rejuvenate himself, succeeding
“without either the morbid egotism or illusive susceptibility” of his
teens, keeps a diary. It is this from-day-to-day record that tells of
his farm occupations, of the shortcomings of Joseph, his
man-of-all-work, and of the garrulity of Mrs. Biggles, his
housekeeper. In tales of this kind the Ponce de Leon quest is never
unaccompanied with a romance. Olivia Humphrey is near by, is engaging,
is a musician. The wooing is natural even to the prosaic.
* * * * *
“A very ordinary sort of book, and highbrowed intellectuals have no
right to find the slightest enjoyment in reading it. There is
therefore a lurking sense of shame in the necessity I feel for
confessing to a genuine enjoyment in its perusal.” Edward Clark Marsh.
– + =Bookm.= 24: 56. S. ’06. 1010w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 347. My. 26, ’06. 390w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
“This sort of writing is becoming too easy for the author, and too
tedious for the long-suffering reader.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 284. Je. 2, ’06. 50w.
=Prichard, Kate O’Brien Hesketh, and Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh
(E. and H. Heron, pseud.).= Don Q. in the Sierra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
Don Q. has abstracted the qualities of his birthright chivalry and has
employed them strangely enough in his fearless bandit adventures.
Relentless and merciless with the unworthy wayfarer who happened to
fall into his clutches, he was equally remarkable for “the splendour,
of his generosities, his almost diabolic courage, his spirit of
chivalry, and, perhaps most of all, his unswerving fidelity to the
poorest who served him.” Here are more tales to delight the admirers
of the invincible Don Q.
* * * * *
“In spite of the sameness, they are eminently readable. You sit down
with the book and find yourself unable to put it aside until you have
finished it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 500w.
=Prince, Morton.= Dissociation of a personality: a biographical study in
abnormal psychology. *$2.80. Longmans.
The subject described in this study is Miss Christina L. Beauchamp, a
patient of Dr. Morton’s whose three personalities struggled with each
other for the control of the body and brain. They were “the saint, the
woman, and the devil. The Saint, the typical saint of literature ...
may fairly be said, without exaggeration to personify those traits
which expounders of various religions ... have held up as the ideals
to be attained by human nature.... The Woman personifies the frailties
of temper ... ambition.... Sally is the Devil, not an immoral devil
... but rather a mischievous imp.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is not easy for the amateur to estimate the value of this work to
the members of the healing profession, but every one must recognize
that it is most conscientiously done.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 449. My. 12, ’06. 870w.
“Most excellent reading for the layman, the physiologist, and the
student of psychology.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 549. My. 5. 550w.
“If ‘The dissociation of a personality’ were a work of the
imagination, it would be a noteworthy production. That it is, instead,
the latest work of science concerning the human soul shows how far we
have traveled from the invisible Ego of our fathers.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + =Atlan.= 98: 425. S. ’06. 910w.
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 272. My. ’06. 620w.
“A distinctly notable contribution to our comprehension of the
vicissitudes of personality.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 266. Ap. 16, ’06. 430w.
“This humorous, pathetic and tragic story is written with the vivacity
of a romance and apparently without sacrificing scientific accuracy.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 165. Ja. 18, ’06. 890w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 531. Ap. 7, ’06. 1260w.
“Well written, and, despite its length and some little repetition, of
absorbing interest, even to such as usually confine their reading to
lighter literature.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 282. Ap. 5, ’06. 1690w.
“The facts of the case are told in a very direct and interesting way.”
A. D. L.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 102. N. 29, ’06. 430w.
“The specific value of the present work lies in the exhaustive
circumstantial, and reliable account of the physical, social, moral,
and intellectual habits, attainments, etc., of the various
personalities assumed by the patient, in relation to her own proper
selfhood and to the external society in which she moved.” Edgar C.
Beall, M. D.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 680w.
“As a scientific study in an obscure field of research now being
actively explored, Dr. Prince’s work is one of interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 230. Ja. 27, ’06. 210w.
=Prior, Edward S.= Cathedral builders in England. *$2. Dutton.
Mr. Prior tells the story of mediaeval churches, monastic, secular,
collegiate and parochial, whether built for monks, canons, or parish
use, whether they were designed as cathedrals, or have now come to
have a bishop’s chair. The author begins with the year 1066 and covers
the time to the present century. Each of the nine periods into which
the book is divided opens with a list of cathedrals discussed in the
chapter devoted to that time. There are ample illustrations in black
and white.
* * * * *
“It is satisfactory to find the subject approached after a masterly
and in many respects an original fashion.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 143. F. 3. 1430w.
“The book is full of vital interest, and should be put into the hands
of all young students of the history of their native land.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 371. Je. ’06. 150w.
+ + =Nation.= 82: 434. My. 24, ’06. 1510w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 862. D. 2, ’05. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 927. D. 30, ’05. 280w.
“A good account, with interesting illustration.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 45. Ja. 6, ’06. 230w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 423. Mr. 17, ’06. 1390w.
=Pritchett, Henry Smith.= What is religion? and other student questions:
talks to college students. **$1. Houghton.
President Pritchett’s sound advice to young men is along the lines of
the science of religion, the significance of prayer, joining a church,
etc. He answers the question “What is truth?” and “What is religion?”
“in a practical manner far more likely to influence young men in the
right direction than more eloquent addresses which depart more from
the vital questions to be discussed.” (Critic.)
* * * * *
“Many persons more than students will find food for thought in the
little volume.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 471. My. ’06. 90w.
“He speaks as a scientist without dogmatic prejudices, and in a free,
outspoken and brotherly manner.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 824. O. 4, ’06. 210w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 572. Mr. 10, ’06. 180w.
=Proctor, Edna Dean.= Songs of America and other poems. **$1.25.
Houghton.
Aside from her patriotic numbers including poems for Flag day and
Columbus day, and her Indian legends, Miss Proctor offers a group of
memorial verses the best of which are those on Emerson and Whittier.
* * * * *
“Patriotic pieces conceived with an admirable seriousness of mood, and
elaborated with a good command of poetic materials, but without any
very fresh distinctions of inspiration.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ’05. 220w.
“Its spirit is purely American, and it is written in pure English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 768. N. 11, ’05. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 370w.
=Prouty, Charles A. and others.= President Roosevelt’s railroad policy.
50c. Ginn.
“The book has a certain ephemeral value, although the views of all
four of the participants may be found more adequately expressed
elsewhere.”
+ – =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 174. Mr. ’06. 140w.
=Prudden, Theodore Philander.= Congregationalists: who they are and what
they do. 40c. Pilgrim press.
“A little book whose aim is to make known the wide influence of the
Congregational churches and their relation to national development and
institutions.”
* * * * *
“He has made a comprehensive and convenient book of reference and
instruction.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 1004. Ap. 28, ’06. 60w.
Pryings among private papers, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, by the author of “A life of Sir Kenelm Digby.” *$2.50.
Longmans.
The compiler has gleaned from the Reports of the Royal historical
commission “anecdotes and odds and ends, carefully eschewing
everything biographical, historical, political, or instructive.” The
result is a pot-pourri which illustrates the social life of English
ancestors from the “cradle to the grave.”
* * * * *
“Altogether this is a good book for an unoccupied hour, especially as
it contains interesting allusions to famous individuals.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 862. D. 23. 100w.
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 396. Je. ’06. 150w.
“There is almost nothing new in the book.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 63. F. 3, ’06. 530w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 29. Ja. 6, ’06. 240w.
=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.
“The truth is, there is a prime defect in Miss Puffer’s theory—a
somewhat zealous unwillingness to allow for ideal significance in
beauty. Yet the book is not one with which the critic can dispense.
The psycho-physical factors are justly apportioned, the main theory is
at least a right account of important elements; and the concrete
applications are a distinct advance on the road towards an efficient
science.” H. B. Alexander.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 215. Ap. ’06. 910w.
=Lit. D.= 31: 983. D. 30, ’05. 1300w.
=Purchas, Samuel.= Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
+ + =Acad.= 71: 155. Ag. 18, ’06. 1060w. (Review of v. 13 and 14.)
“Messrs. MacLehose are indeed to be congratulated on the successful
issue, now arrived at its sixteenth volume, of this noble addition to
the history of the conquest of the earth by modern commerce. We say
addition, for Purchas is so rare a volume, that the work comes to most
of us as new.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 438. O. 13. 760w. (Review of v. 16.)
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 893. D. 22, ’06. 220w. (Review of v. 17 and
18.)
“The record here given is delightfully full of surprising incidents,
and it will be a queasy taste that will not find much in these two
volumes to charm a leisure hour and stimulate thought.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 851. D. 30, ’05. 480w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
=Putnam, James Jackson.= Memoir of Dr. James Jackson; with sketches of
his father, Hon. Jonathan Jackson, and his brothers, Robert, Henry,
Charles, and Patrick Tracy Jackson; and some account of their ancestry.
**$2.50. Houghton.
Dr. Jackson was a Boston physician of note in the first part of the
last century, his brother was on the supreme bench of Massachusetts
from 1813 to 1824, and his father, Jonathan Jackson, a Newburyport
merchant, was a delegate to congress and held various state offices.
The sketch reminds the present generation of its debt to Dr. Jackson
“for the establishment on sound foundations of the medical learning
still growing to more and more.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Will be of general interest, as well as of moment to Bostonians.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 483. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“The book will interest other than medical men.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 290w.
“Is in many respects an ideal biography, not only because it presents
a most attractive character satisfactorily, but because it makes the
background of people and places, from which that character emerged,
just clear enough.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 130. F. 16, ’06. 290w.
“Dr. Putnam’s memoir is prepared with great good taste and modesty.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 124. F. 8, ’06. 1340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ’05. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ’05. 130w.
=Pyle, Edmund.= Memoirs of a royal chaplain. *$4. Lane.
“The fullness and accuracy of Mr. Hartshorne’s dates and the excellent
index add immensely to the value of this volume ... incidentally the
letters throw considerable light on English manners and mode of life,
and on the condition of medicine during the reign of George II.” A. G.
Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 381. Ja. ’06. 790w.
“Every mention of a celebrity produces a small biography. Not content
with this, he digresses, on the smallest provocation, into all sorts
of matters which have no connection whatever with the text. But with
all its faults students of the eighteenth century must feel grateful
to Mr. Hartshorne for the publication of this volume.” H. M’N.
Rushforth.
+ + – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 172. Ja. ’06. 910w.
“These letters are not pleasant reading. As part of the history of the
Church of England in what were perhaps its most degenerate days these
letters have an obvious value.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 158. Jl. 19, ’06. 310w.
=Pyle, Howard.= Story of champions of the round table. **$2.50.
Scribner.
“Mr. Pyle Writes as fascinatingly as he illustrates.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w.
=Pyle, Katharine.= Nancy Rutledge. †$1.25. Little.
All about the work and play of a group of children who attend a Quaker
school.
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=R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 20w.
Q
=Quayle, William Alfred.= Prairie and the sea. *$2. Meth. bk.
“This is a series of pleasing out-of-door talks and rambles. The
author, Mr. William A. Quayle, is always sympathetic in his moods, is
an ardent worshiper at the shrine of nature, and is at times playful,
at other times ecstatic. The book is made beautiful by a very large
number of altogether charming photographs and marginal
drawings.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“His work belongs to the great average output of nature essays—not
striking, but thoroughly readable on the whole, and, together with the
accompanying pictures, making up an attractive volume.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 238. Ap. 1, ’06. 240w.
“It is not original and it is not all worthy, it is not all in the
best taste—but there’s undoubtedly a charm about both pictures and
text.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 104. F. 17, ’06. 650w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 60w.
=Quick, Herbert.= Double trouble; or, Every hero his own villain.
†$1.50. Bobbs.
A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale which substitutes hypnotic power for
the potion of Stevenson’s story. Florian Amidon, an educated upright
young banker, wakes up one morning to make the startling discovery
that he has lost five years of his life to another personality—to
Eugene Brassfield, of whom Amidon has not the slightest consciousness.
The trouble for Amidon which grows out of the anything but
irreproachable life of Brassfield furnishes the motif of the story,
and introduces a series of novel situations.
* * * * *
“This novel has two legitimate claims to public interest. It is a
pleasing love-story quite out of the ordinary beaten path of fiction,
and it is a popular study of one of the latest assured results of
modern psychology—the subliminal self or double personality.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 108. Jl. ’06. 670w.
=Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 180w.
“The story, moreover has a crisp and animated style that adds greatly
to the charm. We can assure the reader of this tale much
satisfaction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 380w.
“The tale moves with alacrity and is never dull.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 624. Ap. 21, ’06. 180w.
“A capital story of strange happenings most convincingly told.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 78. F. 10, ’06. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“A pervading sense of humor, reminiscent of Stockton, sheds an air of
plausibility over the situation.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
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=Racster, Olga.= Chats on violins. *$1.25. Lippincott.
“Space hardly permits detailed examination, but what she does present
in the way of history and theory she sets forth clearly and in a form
well adapted to meet the approval of the casual reader upon such a
subject.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint of
the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical
sketch and notes by C: Whitney Mixter. **$4. Macmillan.
“Concerning the present reprint, Professor Mixter deserves much credit
for the labor he has bestowed on the original work to make it more
readable.” Lester W. Zartman.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 442. Mr. ’06. 930w.
“In preparing for publication a reconstructed edition of ‘The new
principles of political economy’ by John Rae, the editor has rendered
economic science a real service.” Isaac A. Loos.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 56. Ja. ’06. 1340w.
=Nation.= 81: 504. D. 21, ’05. 250w.
“Neither as radical nor as original as it was in 1834. Professor
Mixter ought not to have given to the public such a volume as this
without adding an index.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 274. F. 3, ’06. 320w.
=Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe).= Queen of the rushes, a
romance of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.
The drowning of Jonathan Rees of Scethryg and his band of reapers
forms the tragic opening of this story of the Welsh country and the
Welsh country people. Little Gwenifer, watching for her mother on the
shore, sees her go down when the boat is overturned and is struck dumb
by the shock. Gildas, the young son of the old mishteer, takes his
father’s place on the estate, and cares for the little dumb girl who
is known thruout the neighborhood as queen of the rushes. She loves
Gildas with a mute devotion, and on the night when his wife leaves
him, pleads dumbly with her to return, is thrown upon the rocks, and,
in the shock of it, recovers her speech. This of course, opens the way
for her happiness and that of her benefactor.
=Ramanathan, Ponnambalam.= Culture of the soul among western nations.
**$1.25. Putnam.
“The author of this book is Solicitor General for Ceylon. His recent
visit to this country will be recalled in many cultured centers—in
colleges, churches, and the better class of clubs. His aim here is to
show that, in the Western countries, people have wandered far away
from the early conceptions of Christianity when chief importance was
attached to oral teachings of the faith by men who had reached
perfection or sanctification, through the development of perfect love
in the soul.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 33: 394. S. 22, ’06. 100w.
“The little book may be recommended to those who wish to become
acquainted with the higher religious life of present-day India. They
will find little to surprise or repel them; a good deal to attract.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 304. O. 11, ’06. 220w.
“The spirit of Mr. Rámanáthan’s teaching is admirable, and his use of
the Scriptures for confirmation is ingenious. What he speaks from a
profound spiritual experience is incontestable. His doctrine that the
knowledge of God reaches its acme in a state of feeling disjunct from
thought and will is psychologically impossible, as well as rationally
untenable.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 237. S. 22, ’06. 310w.
=Ranck, George Washington.= Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1.
Grafton press.
+ =Dial.= 40: 98. F. 1, ’06. 60w.
=Randall, Edward C.= Life’s progression: research in metaphysics.
*$1.60. Henry B. Brown co., 496–8 Main st., Buffalo, N. Y.
A book which makes no use of creeds nor faith, which believes that
positive knowledge has displaced them both and also the idea of death,
that origin and destiny are not beyond the grasp of mortals, that in
the spirit world laws are fixed and are immutable, that dissolution is
not annihilation but liberation and opportunity and that God is
universal good and dwells in the heart of all mankind.
=Rankin, Carroll Watson.= Girls of Gardenville. †$1.50. Holt.
“The sweet sixteen,” club and the doings of its sixteen girlish
members, the three Stones counted as one because they were triplets
and couldn’t all leave home at once, fill this book with wholesome
young life from cover to cover. How two of them tried to paper a room
so as to give their mother something which she could not give away,
how one of them played fireman; how they held a rummage sale; how they
secured a Hallowe’en pumpkin; all this and more is told in the course
of the story.
* * * * *
“The tone of the book is commendable; it teaches sound principles
without being priggish.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 50w.
“The tales are not vigorous or interesting enough either in content or
in style to have other than the negative value of supplying harmless
and diluted amusement to young readers.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 130w.
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 717. Mr. 24, ’06. 40w.
=Ransom, Caroline Louise.= Studies in ancient furniture; couches and
beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. *$4.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.
+ =Critic.= 48: 89. Ja. ’06. 50w.
=Raper, Charles Lee.= Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for
high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.
Professor Raper says in the preface of his book: “It is only a simple
and elementary discussion of the more important principles which are
involved in the consumption, production and distribution of wealth ...
as a means to an end—a means to human welfare in all of its manifold
aspects.”
* * * * *
“It appears to the reviewer that the author fails to put in a clear
light the principle of decreasing returns in relation to land. The
best part of this volume is found in its descriptions, as description
is ordinarily understood; however, in the higher realm of description,
where description resumes under the briefest formulæ the widest range
of facts, the work is not strong.”
+ + – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 341. S. ’06. 490w.
“A more distinctly American book has hardly ever come into our hands.
Not only the spelling, but also the mode of regarding events, the
standpoint from which the different aspects of life are viewed, is
distinctly that of the other side of the Atlantic. Besides stimulating
our thoughts, the work has also the advantage of being written
throughout in a simple and easy style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 402. O. 6. 1390w.
“By way of special criticism of ‘Wealth and welfare,’ it may be noted
that economic terms are used without sufficient accuracy of
definition. The text is happily written, less in the once-upon-a-time
style than much high-school economics, and does in fact give a ‘simple
and elementary discussion of the more important principles’ of the
science.”
+ – =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 521. O. ’06. 310w.
“The style is clear, if sometimes oracular; and the doctrine generally
sound.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 414. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 120w.
=Rashdall, Rev. Hastings.= Christus in ecclesia. *$1.50. Scribner.
Reviewed by Clarence Augustine Beckwith.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 376. Ap. ’06. 130w.
=Raven, John Howard.= Old Testament introduction, general and special.
**$2. Revell.
“An introduction written from the traditional point of view, dating
the Pentateuch, e.g., from 1300 B. C., Job, Proverbs, and Song of
Songs from 1000 B. C., and the Psalms from 1075–425 B. C.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“The conservatism of this book is of an extreme type and lacks good
scholarly foundation.”
– =Bib. World.= 27: 319. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“The book is antiquated in its methods as well as in its results.” L.
W. Batten.
– =Bib. World.= 28: 73. Jl. ’06. 510w.
“A fair and manly argument, to which is appended a select bibliography
impartially referring both to allies and adversaries.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 150w.
=Rawling, C. G.= Great plateau. $5. Longmans.
“An excellent record of two remarkable expeditions, one in company
with his friend Captain Hargreaves to central Tibet in 1903.... The
other through eastern Tibet after the British Indian force had
occupied Lhassa. The first journey was undertaken at a time when Tibet
was rigidly closed to foreigners; the second was rendered possible by
the success of the Younghusband mission.... After the occupation of
Lhassa, Captain Rawling travelled with Captain O’Connor, the agent of
the Indian government, through Shigatse and Holy Manasarowar to
Gartok. Armed with orders from the Tibetan authorities they were
admitted to audiences and places that would otherwise have been
impossible. The hardships and inconveniences were many but the
expedition was unique and of considerable scientific importance....
His volume is fully illustrated.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“The reader in search of novelty will hardly fail to obtain a book of
travel among people who for the most part had never seen a European
before, and Capt. Rawling’s modest narrative will be found full of
interest and variety.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 19. Ja. 6. 1540w.
“To those who are interested in the development and the geography of
Tibet the volume will contain some new features, but the general
reader will find small profit in the book. The story of the first
expedition is a weary tale of countless marches and camps, but the
account of the Gartok expedition has at least the grace of vivacity
and freshness.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 235. Ap. 1, ’06. 300w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 2. Ja. 5, ’06. 1080w.
“The story of the journey through the villages and among the fruitful
fields could scarcely be spoiled even by dull narration, and this book
is brightly written.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 141. Mr. 10, ’06. 1420w.
“To all who are interested in Tibet in particular and geography in
general, Captain Rawling’s book makes strong appeal.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Ja. 6, ’06. 220w.
“The style of the book is throughout clear and modest, the
descriptions are full of vigour, and the interest of the subject is of
the highest.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 503. Mr. 31, ’06. 490w.
=Rawnsley, Rev. Hardwicke Drummond.= Months at the lakes. $1.75.
Macmillan.
“Canon Rawnsley gives the impressions he has derived from his study
for twenty years of ‘the changes in the face and mood of Nature.’”
(Ath.) “Although the Canon devotes a chapter to every month, the
dazzling colors in which he sees them prevent us from realizing which
stage of the year we have reached, and the individual features of
plant and tree are wholly lost in a shower of light. If there are any
dark days they are cheered by ‘Bands of hope meetings, parish room
concerts, magic lantern entertainments, and tea drinkings.’ In
December, finally, we feel that we have passed a very innocent and
brightly coloured year, although we are not quite sure that we have
been at the lakes.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Canon Rawnsley is an amiable observer of men and manners; he has an
eye for natural beauty, and an ear for every echo of folk-tale or
tradition that lingers in the dale; but he seems to be almost
incapable of expressing himself in precise and straightforward
English.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 595. Je. 23, ’06. 800w.
“If we are inclined to ‘skip’ some of his descriptive matter, we read
with pleasure every word concerning local tradition and custom, of
which the Canon is evidently a master.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 637. My. 26. 110w.
“The Canon’s style, moreover, starred as it is with a great variety of
pretty words, and fashioned into innumerable conceits, seems, if not
impertinent, at least irrelevant when you remember the respect with
which Wordsworth subordinated his pen to the truth.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 216. Je. 15, 06. 270w.
=Nation.= 83: 11. Jl. 5, ’06. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 420. Je. 30, ’06. 570w.
“Canon Rawnsley’s volume will be a delight to many readers,—to those
who may yet test the truth of his pictures, and to those who must be
content with using them to call back the past.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 837. My. 26, ’06. 210w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.).= Hearts and creeds. †$1.50.
Little.
There is real strength in this story of an English-Protestant girl who
marries a French-Catholic. Both are typical of their race and creed,
altho both are extremists and both have strong personality. The scene
is laid in Quebec, where the two races abide like oil and water, and
the love which brought Arline and Armédie together, the prejudices
which all but wrecked their married life, and the epidemic which
thrust aside all barriers and by leaving them face to face with death
brought them together again are strongly drawn. The social and
political life of Quebec is well handled and there are many
interesting characters.
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 558. Jl. ’06. 240w.
“For once, Miss Ray’s usual brisk fashion of telling a story has
apparently deserted her.”
– =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 130w.
“For readers whose imaginations are not abreast with the times this is
a good story, and it is exceedingly well delivered.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 698. S. 20, ’06. 420w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 194. Mr. 31, ’06. 290w.
“An unusually good story.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 170w.
“An attractive love story.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7, ’06. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 757. Je. ’06. 40w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Janet: her winter in Quebec. †$1.50. Little.
Ronald Leslie and his sister Janet, on whom has suddenly fallen the
care of their mother thru the wreck of their father’s mind and
fortune, become fast friends of Day Argyle, a New York girl and her
brother Rob, invalided from Exeter by an accident at foot-ball.
Together, in spite of their troubles, they spend a delightful winter
in Quebec, and thru Mrs. Argyle and Sir George Porteous, a most
amusing Englishman of much heart and money if little brain, Janet and
Ronald become self-supporting.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 700. O. 27, ’06. 70w.
=Raymond, Evelyn (Hunt) (Mrs. John Bradford Raymond).= Sunny little
lass. †$1. Jacobs.
Glory Beck, her blind grandfather, and Bo’sn, the dog, lived happily
together in “the littlest house in New York” and did many odd jobs,
until one day Glory heard that her grandfather was to be taken to
“Snug Harbor,” the seamen’s home, where they never took little girls.
But she went bravely on serving and peddling peanuts with this fear in
her heart until one day Bo’sn came home without her grandfather. Then
she set out to find him, and the story is not allowed to end unhappily
for either the old sailor or his sunny grandchild.
=Rea, Hope.= Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.
The latest volume of the “Great masters series,” edited by G. C.
Williamson furnishes a fifty-page life of Rubens with another hundred
pages devoted to a critical estimate of his paintings. There is a well
selected and carefully reproduced group of illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 891. D. 16, ’05. 150w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 153. F. 3, ’06. 160w.
=Read, Carveth.= Metaphysics of nature. *$2.75. Macmillan.
“The work, may be classed with the most important works published in
this generation.” David Phillips.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 393. Ap. ’06. 1130w.
“No short notice like this can do justice to the closeness of the
argument, the soundness and comprehensiveness of a book which must be
ranked with the most important of recent years.”
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 290. Ja. 25, ’06. 910w.
“I have found it the most stimulating and entertaining work in
philosophy that I have read for some time, and this in spite of the
fact that I find its most ambitious undertaking unsupported by
argument, vague and futile.” Charles M. Bakewell.
+ + – =Philos. R.= 15: 324. My. ’06, 4240w.
Readers’ Guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by
Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.
The cumulative system of indexes, which resulted from the
consolidation of the Cumulative index to a selected list of
periodicals and the Readers’ guide to periodical literature begins
with this volume a series of five year indexes. It is a 1640 page
volume indexing sixty-seven magazines. Since an index to periodicals
is used primarily to find out what the magazines contain on a
particular subject and is less frequently consulted for questions of
authorship and title, this index is first of all a subject index. An
author entry is given to each article, and title entries have also
been given in the case of fiction, unusually distinctive titles, and
sometimes poetry. Book reviews are indexed under the name of the
author of the book and are usually given a subject entry also.
* * * * *
“The scope of the work is so extensive that it well deserves its name,
and should prove of perennial usefulness to the writer, the clergyman,
the debater—in fine, to all who have occasion or desire to enlarge
their understanding of any subject.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 769. My. 19, ’06. 500w.
“We have always used Poole, and were prepared to swear by it. But the
new volume absolutely discounts the older as a book of reference.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 72. F. 3, ’06. 470w.
“The ‘monthly guide’ and the cumulated annual volumes are in constant
use in this office, and are highly valued for their comprehensiveness,
accuracy, and general mechanical excellence.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 220w.
=Reagan, John Henninger.= Memoirs with special reference to secession
and the Civil war. $3. Neale.
By offering his memoirs to the public Judge Reagan is but discharging
what he believes to be a duty to brave, self-sacrificing and patriotic
people. His growth along the lines of rugged self-dependence has made
him an honest, unprejudiced interpreter. He hopes by example to
stimulate young readers to honorable aspirations, and further to show
by authentic documents, Confederate and Federal, the justice of the
cause of the late Confederate states.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 210w.
=Reddall, Henry Frederic (Frederic Reddale, pseud.).= Wit and humor of
the physician, a collection from various sources classified under
appropriate subject headings. **50c. Jacobs.
Anecdotes, jokes and jingles concerning the profession of medicine.
Such things as a doctor and his friends would enjoy, after dinner
stories which would bear fruit in “that reminds me.” They are
classified under such headings as: Some neat replies, The ignorant
patient, Peculiar cases, Strange situations and Hospital anecdotes.
=Redesdale of Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st baron.=
Garter mission to Japan. $1.75. Macmillan.
In passing from the Old Japan which filled the author’s “Tales” fifty
years ago to the New Japan of the present volume the author says: “As
for me, when I see these things I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I have
been asleep and centuries have passed over my head.” The record deals
principally with the chief object of the expedition which was that of
carrying the insignia of a Knight of the garter to the Emperor of
Japan. “To live as a youth in feudal Japan and to gather up the lore
about tycoons, ronins, etc., and of gods, men and things which have
utterly vanished, and then again in life’s afternoon and as a king’s
envoy, to enter the same land when panoplied in modern steel and
machinery, is a rare privilege.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The narrative is one of sustained interest. The circumstances and
environment are described with the grace and restraint proper to a
record of what took place on Japanese soil. Lord Redesdale’s hand has
lost none of its cunning.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 122. Ag. 4. 1020w.
“The author’s pages have a richness of suggestion and interpretation
which is absent from those of most writers on Japan.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1114. N. 8, ’06. 420w.
“Most wonderful of all, and most to be commended to those of our
readers who have never seen Japan, is the picture which Lord Redesdale
conjures with singular vividness and convincing force, of a people
trained to greatness, because trained to the pursuit of great ideals,
under a code of national ethics unique in the history of the whole
world, of which the first and last commandment is that where Japan is
concerned ‘self entirely disappears.’”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 232. Je. 29, ’06. 2640w.
“With such companions as Kuroki, Togo and Asano, and with sport,
travel and novel experiences with people, country gentlemen and palace
occupants, all told of so pleasantly, one must call this little book a
garden of delights.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 473. Jl. 28, ’06. 2640w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 755. N. 17, ’06. 1420w.
“There is a great deal more in Lord Redesdale’s book than a mere
account of ceremonials and the general doings of the mission. It is an
impressionist sketch of the difference between the old and the new in
Japan, written by one who is no mere globe-trotter but has seen both.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 440w.
“Lord Redesdale’s account of the Garter mission to Japan is
interesting for more reasons than one. In the first place it describes
a ceremony unique in history. In the second place ... is interesting
because the author is better able than most living Englishmen to
compare the new Japan with the old.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 235. Ag. 18, ’06. 1170w.
=Reed, Helen Leah.= Amy in Acadia. †$1.50. Little.
“The travellers are not very attractive in themselves, but their
conversation is often full of interest.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 833. D. 16. 70w.
=Reed, Helen Leah.= Brenda’s ward; il. †$1.50. Little.
Brenda now becomes mistress of her own manse which is no more
pretentious than a charming Boston flat where she houses and looks
after the welfare of a bright lovable Western girl.
* * * * *
“A readable story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
=Reed, John Calvin.= Brothers’ war. **$2. Little.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 480. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“It is a valuable contribution to its subject, in both philosophy and
fact, and it deserves a wide circulation.” F. E. Chadwick.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 927. Jl. ’06. 680w.
“This book should have a large place in the thought of the future
historian.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 106. Jl. ’06. 280w.
“A wealth of personal reminiscences helps to render his discussion of
topics fresh and original, though, it must be said, too, somewhat
desultory.”
+ – =Cath. World.= 82: 833. Mr. ’06. 340w.
“Certainly the book deserves attention, whether the proposed solution
does or not. It is not exactly well written, but it is distinctly
impressionistic and first-hand.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 192. F. ’06. 490w.
“The book is valuable because it is written by one who is familiar
with much that he writes about; but there are many who will hardly
agree with some of the conclusions presented.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 92. F. 1, ’06. 610w.
“Its economic bases are usually sound, tho they serve too frequently
as starting points for extravagant assumptions; there are shrewd
judgments set off against mere collocations of words, and there is
restrained and measured expression mingled with wild hyperbole. Yet
for all its shortcomings, it is a book well worthy a larger audience
in the North.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 340. F. 8. ’06. 600w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 348. Ap. 26, ’06. 1840w.
“Is most remarkable for the large modern view which informs it as a
whole.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 302. My. 12, ’06. 1070w.
“Its most noteworthy contribution to the subject is the clear and
illuminating exposition of ‘national’ feeling in the South before the
war.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 89. My. 12, ’06. 160w.
“Taken all in all, it is a fair, informing, and impressive
presentation of the southern attitude.”
+ + – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 27. Ja. 6, ’06. 180w.
“The tendency of his book is to make each section more fully recognize
the other’s point of view.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 114. Ja. ’06. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 80w.
=Reed, Myrtle.= Spinner in the sun. **$1.50. Putnam.
There is a mystery in Miss Reed’s new story. “It is a tale of village
tragedy working out the purification and redemption of its actors”
(Lit. D.) among whom are the woman who behind a chiffon veil had for
twenty-five years brooded over her wrongs and unhappiness, a
“whimsical old maid with a sour hatred of all men-kind” and Piper Tom,
who pipes love notes in the wood.
* * * * *
– =Acad.= 71: 503. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
“Nothing but humor could redeem the extravagant, sentimental
presentment offered as a reading of life. But humor is nowhere
present.”
– =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 674. O. 13, ’06. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 797. D. 1. ’06. 150w.
“We prefer the author as she showed her wit in ‘The book of clever
beasts.’”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
=Reeve, Sidney Armor.= Cost of competition: an effort at the
understanding of familiar facts. **$2. McClure.
The theory that competition is the one great curse of to-day is
vigorously advanced in this volume. “As a remedy Mr. Reeve puts
forward the abolition of all rent, all interest, all commercial
competition and barter, and the return to first principles, when
friendly savages exchange fish for hare without regard to profit or
cost.... The chapters upon sweatshops and prostitution, upon
congestion in great cities with the resultant evils of landlordism,
upon the effect of competition in debasing the pulpit, the stage, and
literature will fix the attention even of those who dissent from some
conclusions.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Its social vision may be astigmatic, but it is unmistakably
penetrating.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ – =Atlan.= 97: 845. Je. ’06. 730w.
“It is written with all the zeal of a missionary, and upholds the
cause of socialism with vigor and earnestness.”
+ – =Dial.= 41: 19. Jl. 1, ’06. 370w.
“We commend it to all who are interested in the grave economic, labor
and humanitarian problems of the day, and who are possessed of time
and courage sufficient to follow through what for these busy days is a
long and somewhat technical discussion.”
+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 564. My. 17, ’06. 610w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 359. Mr. 10, ’06. 1100w.
“His book is worth attention by students of our social pathology, and
deserves a sympathetic reception as a sign of the times and as a
contribution toward their amendment.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 96. F. 17, ’06. 710w.
“The economist, concerning whom a good deal that is disparaging is
here said, will not be hard put to expose the fallacies underlying the
structure so laboriously erected, while the ‘non-technical’ reader is
likely to beat a hasty retreat before the heavy artillery of
mathematical formulae with which the argument is supported.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 323. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 382. Mr. ’06. 130w.
=Reeves, Jesse Siddall.= Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in
American diplomatic history, 1815–1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.
Review by Kendric Charles Babcock.
+ – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 441. Ja. ’06. 350w.
=Reich, Emil.= Failure of the “higher criticism” of the Bible. *$1.
Meth. bk.
Critical articles written during the past two years, and lectures
delivered during a recent tour thru England and Scotland appear here
in book form for the purpose of destroying the scientific support of
higher criticism, and of constructing “the right method of
comprehending the Bible.”
* * * * *
“He resorts to rhetoric and claptrap, and appeals less to reason than
to ignorance and prejudice.”
– – =Acad.= 69: 1221. N. 25, ’05. 720w.
“Dr. Reich is quite ignorant of his subject, he is unacquainted with
the objects, methods, and views of higher criticism, and admittedly
considers it unnecessary to treat the study seriously.”
– – =Lond. Times.= 4: 403. N. 24, ’05. 1500w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 509. Ap. ’06. 180w.
+ – – =Sat. R.= 101: 86. Ja. 20, ’06. 300w.
“We cannot congratulate the anti-critics on their new ally.”
+ – =Spec.= 93: 62. Ja. 12, ’06. 1260w.
=Reid, G. Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications.
*$3.50. Dutton.
“Although addressed largely to medical men this volume will be found
of great value to all students of human progress and social problems.
The work begins therefore with a clear statement of the various
theories of heredity and evolution. The reviewer knows of no book in
which the significance of these differences is more plainly shown. The
reviewer has seldom seen a more carefully worked out thesis.” Carl
Kelsey.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 254. Ja. ’06. 640w.
“Of the three general characters which distinguish Mr. Reid’s book,
this ‘real lucidity’ ... is the first and the most valuable. The
second general feature of this volume is what the sportsman would call
its keenness. The third feature ... is the mere fact that it is
written by a medical man.” C. W. Saleeby.
+ + – =Fortnightly R.= 84: 604. O. ’05. 5430w.
“If true at all, the reasoning is in advance of our general
knowledge.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 345. Ap. 26, ’06. 250w.
“It is this quality of suggestion, of imagination, and the ability to
compel history to contribute facts to his arguments, that make his
work valuable to the student, and also readable to the unscientific
thinker.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 649. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.
=Reid, George Winston.= Conscience. $1. W. F. Brainard, N. Y.
“Heat is the common bond of the separate sciences, and binds them into
one science. Since the Latin ‘cum’ or ‘con’ signifies ‘together,’ the
sciences united or the philosophy of the sciences may be called
‘Conscience.’” So thru the following chapter the author evolves his
conception of conscience, Matter, or the science of chemistry, Energy,
or the science of physics, The heavenly bodies or the science of
astronomy, Life, or the science of biology, Consciousness, or the
science of psychology, and Conscience, or scientific philosophy.
* * * * *
“The volume is a queer jumble of natural physics, metaphysics,
epistemology and religion, in which the method is that of piecing
together brief quotations from the greatest variety of diverse
sources.”
– =Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Reid, Sir (Thomas) Wemyss.= Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842–1885; ed.
with introd. by Stuart J. Reid. $5. Cassell.
“This is a book the last page of which leaves us in an Oliver
Twist-like state of asking for more.” (N. Y. Times.) “Wemyss Reid was
notable as a literary man, a biographer, and a writer of fiction. But
his Memoirs are chiefly important as those of the editor of the Leeds
‘Mercury,’ a powerful paper of the moderate Liberal school in a
stirring time. He flourished in what was perhaps the palmiest epoch of
British journalism, when the editor of a great journal himself
directed its policy and was a statesman of the pen, not a mere
organist or the manager of a Yellow concern.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Not even the promise of ‘revelations,’ not even the prospect of the
day, when Liberal policy will throw reticence to the winds, can atone
for the banality of the present sad and sorry instalment.”
– – =Acad.= 69: 1145. N. 4, ’05. 1050w
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 610. N 4. 470w.
“The interesting matter in the volume could be presented in less than
a score of pages.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 230w.
“There are too many records of personal adventure, tours, and so on,
which were hardly worth preserving in print. But on the whole the book
is interesting.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 361. O. 27, ’05. 840w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 56. Ja. 18, ’06. 870w.
“The author’s acquaintance with most of the leading English statesmen
and literary men of the past two generations makes his memoirs not
only a valuable addition to the modern English history, but fills them
to the brim with delightful bits and anecdotes.” Elizabeth Banks.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 847. D. 2, ’05. 1780w.
“Sir Wemyss Reid is an excellent example of a good second-class
ranker.”
– =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ’05. 400w.
“Perhaps the most important, though not, in our opinion, the most
interesting or attractive, sections of his volume are those which deal
with the internal divisions in the Liberal party.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 819. N. 18, ’05. 1510w.
=Reinsch, Paul Samuel.= Colonial administration. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“The author has no theories to exploit, and makes but few criticisms
in the condensed space at his command.” Edwin E. Sparks.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 577. Ja. ’06. 270w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 178. Jl. ’06. 70w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 70w.
“The author, in fact, seems to be less well prepared to deal with the
Philippines than with the colonial possessions of Great Britain,
France, Germany, and even Java.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 511. Mr. 1, ’06. 960w.
“A work that not only shows wide reading, but presents a careful study
of the ultimate as well as the immediately practical character of the
problems to which a colonial policy gives rise.” W. F. Willoughby.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 562. Jl. ’06. 810w.
“It is, of course, largely expository, but it is also constructive to
a high degree, and every one engaged in colonial administration might
wisely keep it near at hand for ready reference. Every chapter is
compact and readable, and is rendered the more valuable by concrete
illustrations from the practices and experiences of colonial
governments the world over.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 38. S. 1, ’06. 700w.
Reviewed by F. J. Goodnow.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21:135. Mr. ’06. 720w.
“It is a valuable epitome of the administrative methods of the great
colonising powers as they exist to-day, and it contains also some
interesting speculations upon the ethical basis of activity.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 149. Ja. 27, ’06. 230w.
“It is as valuable a comparative study as was its predecessor
[‘Colonial government’] which is high praise.”
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 446. F. ’06. 150w.
=Reinach, Salomon.= The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by
Florence Simmons. **$2. Scribner.
“Taken as a whole, the work is a masterpiece of taste, of judgment,
and of condensation, and should be in the library not only of every
lover of art, but of every cultivated person.” George B. Zug.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 930. Jl. ’06. 590w.
=Remington, Frederick.= Way of an Indian. *$1.50. Fox.
“In the form of a story Mr. Remington has reproduced his popular
pictures of Indian life. He has taken the period between the discovery
of gold in California and the death of General Custer in the battle of
the Little Big Horn, and has given us the life story of a Cheyenne boy
with all the ambitions and aspirations of his race.... The story
ranges from conflicts with rival tribes to massacres of immigrants,
and, of course, in the last chapter civilization triumphs over
savagery.” (Pub. Opin.) 15 pictures by the author illustrate the book.
* * * * *
“A remarkably realistic life-history of a typical Indian.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 478. My. ’06. 90w.
“As a story, is singularly strong, if crude and simple, and, as a
study in primitive instincts, and an epitome of the struggle that
attended the coming of the whites into the buffalo country, is a
wonderfully effective piece of work.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 733. My. 12, ’06. 630w.
“Has told a very effective story of the tragic clash of the Indians of
the Northwest with the resistless onward movement of the white man.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 222. Mr. 15, ’06. 240w.
“If he does not fully succeed in making us feel as if we had been
inside the skin of a redman ... at least we are given ... a vivid and
picturesque exhibition of this typical Indian and his ways.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 146. Mr. 10, ’06. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“It is written from the Indian point of view, and is vivid,
picturesque, and truthful.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 100w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 346. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“The literary quality of Remington’s stories may be a matter of
dispute, but whose canvases rank before his in America’s gallery of
historical painters?”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 756. Je. ’06. 40w.
=Remsburg, John E.= Six historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson,
Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant: the fathers and saviors of our
republic, freethinkers. $1.25. Truth seeker.
To the five names generally conceded as first among the historic
figures of the first century of national existence the author adds
that of Thomas Paine fortifying this patriot’s claim to prominence and
setting straight his misinterpreted religious views.
=Repplier, Agnes.= In our convent days. **$1.10. Houghton.
“Miss Repplier writes with a grave humour which makes easy reading,
but naturally her chronicle is somewhat ‘small beer.’”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 104. Ja. 27. 240w.
“Miss Repplier, in her latest volume, has recalled the past years, and
presented them with such living power that, in all the charm, the
frankness, the mischievousness, and romance of childhood, they live
again.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 560. Ja ’06. 760w.
“Her admirable little stories are written to entertain, not to
‘improve’ ... they are free from the slightest suggestion of the
sentimental or the banal.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 381. Ap. ’06. 160w.
“A book of charming autobiographical tales.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 51. Ja. 16, ’06. 200w.
+ =Reader.= 7: 341. F. ’06. 230w.
Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by
William Tenney Brewster. *$1.10. Macmillan.
+ =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 60w.
“The essays are most excellently chosen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 100w.
=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Thalassa. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
At the death of her father a young girl leaves her artistic and
literary set in Florence with its Bohemian culture and goes to live
with her guardian in England. Orme with his shaggy strength first
repels than attracts Aldyth, eventually he plays the Rochester rôle
and she that of Jane Eyre.
* * * * *
“Once the characters are staged—and this process is somewhat long
drawn out—the dénouement is inevitable to those who know their ‘Jane
Eyre.’ We cannot bestow higher praise than to say that this does not
detract from our sustained interest in the characters and their
story.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906. 2: 125. Ag. 4. 90w.
“We have read few recent novels with greater pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 430w.
=Reynolds, John Schreiner.= Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865–77.
$2. State co., Columbia, S. C.
“Beginning with a rather brief sketch of the provisional government
set up by President Johnson, the author next exhibits in detail the
workings of the administrations of the ‘carpet-bagger’ Governor Scott,
of Governor Moses the ‘renegade secessionist,’ and of Governor
Chamberlain, the ‘reform’ Republican. One chapter is devoted to the Ku
Klux trials, another to the disgusting story of the ‘public frauds,’
and two chapters to the election of Hampton in 1876, the bargain with
the Washington administration, and the overthrow of the rule of the
‘carpet-bagger’ and the negro.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Mr. Reynolds loses sight of the philosophy of history in the combat
of opposing parties.” Frederick W. Moore.
– + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 180. O. ’06. 430w.
“Mr. Reynolds has unusual qualifications for writing the history of
that chaotic period; he was an observer of much about which he writes,
he knew many of the leaders of the opposing forces, and he is familiar
with the periodical and pamphlet literature from which the history of
the Reconstruction must largely be drawn. It is much to be regretted
that he did not see fit to indicate for the benefit of other students
the sources from which he drew his information.”
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 118. S. 1, ’06. 470w.
“In spite of certain faults of temper and attitude, the book is, in
many respects, worthy of high praise. A patient care in the gathering
and use of its voluminous and minute data is everywhere observable,
and a judicial method is attempted thruout, tho unfortunately not
always maintained.”
+ + – =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13, ’06. 170w.
“Mr. Reynolds endeavors to be fair, temperate in statement, and sure
in his conclusions. He has succeeded in a high degree but not
entirely.” William E. Dodd.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 306. Ag. 18, ’06. 1330w.
“This history is not judicial. It abounds in statements of fact, but
is sparing of references to sources.”
– =Outlook.= 83: 816. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.
=Reynolds, Sir Joshua.= Discourses; with introd. and notes by Roger Fry.
*$2.50. Dutton.
A new fully annotated and illustrated edition of Sir Joshua Reynolds’
lectures delivered to the students of the Royal Academy. “The enduring
value of the ‘Discourses’ arises from the fact that they attempt to
expound the laws of artistic expression from the artist’s point of
view, and as Mr. Fry observes, it is rare that a writer has at once
the requisite practical knowledge and the power of generalization.”
(Ath.) Each lecture receives a critical introduction explaining by
biographical or other data the artist-lecturer’s attitude on a given
subject. There are 30 illustrations from the works of painters most
frequently cited.
* * * * *
“Mr. Fry has paid the book a greater compliment by letting it speak
for itself, and in his introductions to the various discourses and
above all in his little notes to the illustrations he has shown
himself to be imbued with all the better side of Reynold’s catholic
criticism, besides proving himself an independent critic, whose
observations are pregnant, illuminating and just.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 16. Ja. 6, ’06. 2060w.
“To the serious student it is rendered of great value by the critical
introductions which it contains.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 652. N. 11. 330w.
“There is much good reading in this celebrated book, for the student
who knows how to make the proper deductions for himself or can use
caution in taking advantage of Mr. Fry’s guidance.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + – =Atlan.= 97: 274. F. ’06. 200w.
Reviewed by Charles Henry Hart.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 227. Ap. 1, ’06. 580w.
“A good edition.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 90w.
“Injustice, however, is very rare in Mr. Fry, and this one example of
it is the only fault to be found with an excellent book.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 73. Mr. 2, ’06. 1150w.
“Mr. Fry’s contributions, whether in the shape of contradiction,
reinforcement, or explanation, are always able and intelligent.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ’05. 240w.
“Mr. Roger Fry, the most recent editor of the literary Reynolds ...
has presented an interpretation which is full of interest for the
student of art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 891. D. 16, ’05. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
“A most interesting edition of ‘Reynolds’s Discourses.’”
+ =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 170w.
=Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen (Nina Rhoades).= Polly’s predicament: a story;
il. by C: Copeland. †$1.50. Wilde.
Polly, young, bright and just out of school, accepts the invitation of
a shallow-minded woman to spend three months in Europe. While at
Carlsbad Polly is bound to a foolish promise which results in
continuing the separation of a father from his little girl whom he
supposes dead.
=Rhodes, James Ford.= History of the United States from the compromise
of 1850. Vol. 5. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“It is full, exact and impartial. Controversial questions are weighed
judicially with an unfailing and laborious effort to get all the best
evidence available. If Mr. Rhodes’s treatment of such subjects is at
times somewhat prolix, that proceeds from his extreme desire to lay
the whole case for each side before the reader.” J. A. Doyle.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 183. Ja. ’06. 260w.
+ + + =Ind.= 60: 113. Ja. 11, ’06. 170w.
“Although Mr. Rhodes’s discussion of the treatment of prisoners leaves
something to be desired, we welcome it as one of his most important
contributions to correct understanding and sane judgment on a topic
concerning which a dispassionate view is still difficult.” C. H.
Smith.
+ + – =Yale R.= 14: 427. F. ’06. 650w.
=Rice, Cale Young.= Plays and lyrics. $2. McClure.
“A stout and very handsome volume containing the better of the
author’s early lyrics, many new ones, and two plays in verse,
‘Yolanda’ and ‘David.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
“To our taste, Mr. Rice’s lyric work in this volume far outvalues his
dramatic. There is vital motive, touchingly rendered.” Edith M.
Thomas.
+ =Critic.= 49: 219. S. ’06. 310w.
“His work in this larger compass and maturer form deserves far more
praise than could be accorded to those first fruits and gives us much
sincere and conscientious workmanship. The old straining for effect is
still apparent although far less so than formerly.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 260w.
“If Mr. Rice had used his brain a little more, not only on ‘minutiæ’,
but on the meaning of his poems, his book would have been half as long
and twice as good.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 225. Je. 22, ’06. 470w.
“Occasionally he writes in simplicity as well as sincerity, without
labored linguistic bravuras, or moody excesses: at such times, if not
impeccable, he is often pleasurably poignant.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 143. Ag. 16, ’06. 680w.
“Mr. Rice’s lyrical poetry has not in general the distinction of his
dramatic.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 495. Ag. 11, ’06. 1970w.
=Richards, John Morgan.= With John Bull and Jonathan. **$4. Appleton.
The author of this book of personal reminiscences is the father of
“John Oliver Hobbes” (Mrs. Craigie), and was for a time the owner of
the London academy when the London times gave it up. An American’s
life in England and the United States, is the theme, and regarding it
the foreword states: “In putting on record my reminiscences of life on
both sides of the Atlantic I do so from a British-American point of
view. I have not attempted to give advice to ‘pilgrims’ about to visit
England or the United States. There are no descriptions of climate and
scenery ... nor statistics ... nor do politics enter into any of my
observations. My narrative concerns my own personal experiences in
both countries.”
* * * * *
=Acad.= 69: 1170. N. 11, ’05. 690w.
“He has not, however, the literary art of his brilliant and
accomplished daughter, and mixes trivialities not worth publication
with the more solid portions of his narrative.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 721. N. 25. 400w.
“An odd book, which, indeed, judged by a literary standard is no book
at all.”
– =Lond. Times.= 4: 422. D. 1, ’05. 610w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 175. Mr. 24, ’06. 1470w.
“A more attractive topic in his recollections is the contrast between
London as it was when he first came over to this country in 1867 and
as it is now, and generally between England and America. Now and then
Mr. Richards’s memory is a little at fault.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 933. D. 2, ’05. 350w.
=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth (Howe).= Silver crown: another book of
fables for old and young. †$1.25. Little.
Patience, obedience, hospitality, duty promptness, and selflessness
are among the lessons taught in these forty or more short fables. The
keynote is the universality of good without time and space
limitations.
* * * * *
“Forty-five simply written little fables, each one with its own
delightful conception, and bearing its own little moral, fragrant with
aspiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
=Richards, Thomas Cole.= Samuel J. Mills, missionary pathfinder, pioneer
and promoter. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
The life of Samuel J. Mills follows closely the founding and
promulgating of American foreign missions. The influences brought to
bear upon his awakening to the subject of missionary work, his
education, and contemporary plans for the beginning of definite work
in heathen lands, and later his own untiring efforts at home and on
the Dark continent which was his passion, furnished material for a
full and thoroly subjective study of the man and his work.
* * * * *
+ =Outlook.= 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 160w.
=Richards, William Rogers.= God’s choice of men; a study of Scripture.
**$1.50. Scribner.
This book “is not a volume on theology, but a book of sermons; and if
it does not succeed in justifying the Westminster doctrine of
election, it does what is much more important, it interprets a
Scriptural doctrine of election which is both rational and
inspirational. Besides courage and clearness, these sermons have
another characteristic—very clear-cut portraiture of modern characters
typified by Scriptural characters.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Full of sound, practical argument and exhortation to Christian faith
and duty.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 110w.
“This volume of sermons is characterized by clearness of thought and a
quiet courage of conviction. These sermons are worth reading by laymen
for their spiritual instructiveness and by clergymen as suggestive
models.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ’05. 370w.
=Richardson, Charles Francis.= Choice of books. **$1.25. Putnam.
A revised edition of Professor Richardson’s practical book which among
other additions contains a lengthy appendix on “Suggestions for
household libraries.”
* * * * *
“After the passage of a full quarter-century, Professor Richardson’s
treatise on the choice and use of books remains the most complete, the
most reasonable, and one of the most readable of books hitherto
written on that head.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 456. My. ’06. 570w.
+ =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ’05. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 539. Ag. 19, ’05. 70w.
“A valuable and practical book on reading.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 938. D. 16, ’05. 60w.
=Richardson, John.= Wacousta: a tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy.
Illustrated ed. $1.50. McClurg.
To the reissue of the text of Richardson’s thrilling old romance have
been added some spirited illustrations, the work of C. W. Jeffreys.
Pontiac’s treachery to gain possession of the English posts in the
West, foiled by a beautiful Indian girl who forewarned the commandant
at Detroit, makes possible a tale of adventure full of dramatic
situations.
=Richman, Irving Berdine.= Rhode Island; a study in separatism. **$1.10.
Houghton.
“The most enjoyable of the books on Rhode Island. It will not displace
the solid history by Arnold, but the changes of a half-century will
give it a place of its own.” Wm. B. Weeden.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 410. Ja. ’06. 380w.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 532. Ja. ’06. 140w.
“A compact and useful summary.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 132. F. 16, ’06. 200w.
“A welcome fruitage of the accurate researches into American history
so earnestly pursued of late.” Louis Dyer.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 705. Ap. ’06. 580w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 182. Mr. 1, ’06. 1060w.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 168. Mr. ’06. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Rickert, (Martha) Edith.= Folly; with a front. by Sigismond de
Ivanowski. †$1.50. Baker.
Folly, the frivolous, whose wealth of hair tones with the “coppery
gold of unfolding peach-buds ... never pretty ... but with the smile
that would turn the head of the devil himself” furnishes an unusual
study of the alluring feminine type. The ban of human opinion would
relegate her to outer darkness for leaving her home and husband and
placing her love in the keeping of a man to whom she is irresistibly
drawn, one upon whom disease had passed the death sentence. In spite
of the inverted moral perspective, Folly works out her own salvation,
gathers force and courage in her negative struggle and in the end
rights her stand in a manner to free the reader from the story’s
depression. Thruout her freakish career she is never deserted by a
“complaisant, upright and at times stupid” husband, a tender
sympathetic mother-in-law and a staunch and loyal friend of her school
days.
* * * * *
+ – =Acad.= 70: 287. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
“The book is written with brightness and fluency, but it is
repulsive.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 474. Ap. 21. 260w.
“The book is interesting as being the product of a vigorous but
undisciplined talent.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 191. Ap. ’06. 830w.
“This is one of those books that deliberately enlist our sympathies on
the side of wrong-doing, yet maintain throughout a hypocritical pose
in defence of morality.” Wm. M. Payne.
– =Dial.= 41: 114. S. 1, ’06. 160w.
“A more revolting denouement can only be imagined by Bernard Shaw.”
Mrs. L. H. Harris.
– =Ind.= 60: 1042. My. 3, ’06. 110w.
– =Ind.= 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Except for a certain artificiality in the handling of some of the
situations and the resulting dialogue, the story is a good one, and
well told.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 147. Mr. 10, ’06. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
“The difficult theme is worked out with reserve and discrimination.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 758. Mr. 31, ’06. 220w.
– =Sat. R.= 101: 465. Ap. 14, ’06. 200w.
=Rickett, Arthur.= Personal forces in modern literature. **$1.25.
Dutton.
Papers which “are not intended as contributions to critical literature
... but are concerned rather with the ‘personal equation’ of the
writers discussed than with the purely literary aspects of their
work.” Newman and Martineau represent the moralist type; Huxley, the
scientist; Wordsworth, Keats, Dante and Gabriel Rossetti, the poet;
Dickens, the novelist; Hazlitt and De Quincey, the vagabond.
* * * * *
“Despite shortcomings, however, Mr. Rickett’s book is the agreeable
work of a man of taste and many sympathies; while he himself hastens
to deny that it is profound.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 757. Je. 23. 1180w.
“Mr. Rickett has, we think, indulged himself too far in the method of
‘intermittent bursts;’ he leaves with us no impression of a
well-considered singleness of aim. There are few errors in matters of
fact.”
– =Dial.= 41: 210. O. 1, ’06. 450w.
“It is in the detail of his several subjects however, that Mr. Rickett
is most entertaining. Without being actually profound, he is
occasionally shrewd and suggestive, if not always quite accurate or
just.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 334. O. 18, ’06. 520w.
“As a whole, however, they are a good piece of work.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 210w.
=Ridgeway, William.= Origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse.
*$3.75. Macmillan.
“Some failings notwithstanding, no one who takes an interest,
scientific or otherwise, in the origin and descent of the horse should
fail to read this brilliant book on these subjects.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 8. Ja. 6, ’06. 1490w.
“It is the simple truth that no such addition has been made in biology
to the study of a domesticated animal since Darwin wrote.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 255. Mr. 3. 2030w.
“This long argument would gain greatly if the book were divided up
into shorter chapters, each with its due table of contents.” G. Le
Strange.
+ – =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 402. Ap. ’06. 680w.
“Recommending him to make a better study of that portion of his
subject which relates to Arabia, if he would establish his theory on
really solid ground.” W. S. Blunt.
+ – =Nineteenth Century.= 59: 58. Ja. ’06. 7610w.
=Riedl, Frederick.= History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.
A volume uniform with “Literatures of the world” series. “In no
country in the world is literature so much a part of history, of its
patriotic feelings, and of the struggle to preserve the liberties as
in Hungary.... It mirrors throughout the simple, unsophisticated
feelings and thoughts of men who loved their country wholly,
sincerely, faithfully, and were ready to lay down their lives to
preserve its freedom. Here if ever, the soul of the people is revealed
in its literature.”
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 34: 760. D. ’06. 90w.
=Ries, Heinrich.= Economic geology of the United States. *$2.60.
Macmillan.
“The aim of the author ... is to give the reader in an encyclopaedic
way an account of the economic geology of the United States, including
Alaska, but excluding our insular possessions. As the main object is
to set forth the facts of occurrence and the production of minerals he
has to assume that those who follow his work have some general
knowledge concerning the origin, structure and accidents of rocks....
Dr. Ries begins his presentation with a study of American coals....
After coal, petroleum and natural gas are briefly and well-treated,
then building materials, clays, limes and cements. Next in succession,
salines, gypsums, fertilizers, and abrasives, followed by the usual
amount of minor minerals, and of mineral waters, closing with a
singularly insufficient account of soils and road materials.... The
second part of the book is devoted to ore deposits.... The book is
amply illustrated.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 27: 240. Ja. ’06. 170w.
“As a whole the book is excellent as it now is; with the revisions of
later editions which its goodness should ensure it, it is likely to
become a standard work.” N. S. Shaler.
+ =Engin. N.= 55: 75. Ja. 18, ’06. 1440w.
=J. Geol.= 14: 660. O. ’06. 100w.
“The book has many well selected maps and plates and an excellent
bibliography.” Robert Morris.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 254. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“Altogether the work is an admirable one, and we strongly commend it
to teachers in this country as a source of concise, accurate, and
recent information regarding the mineral deposits of the United
States.”
+ + =Nature.= 73: 437. Mr. 8, ’06. 340w.
“On the whole, the book may be pronounced excellent—one that every
broadminded business man should have, and that deserves the wide
acceptance in the colleges that it is finding.” A. C. Lane.
+ =Science=, n.s. 23: 225. F. 9, ’06. 1060w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Riley songs o’ cheer. $1.25. Bobbs.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 122. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Riordon, William L.= Plunkitt of Tammany hall. †$1. McClure.
=Critic.= 48: 96. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Ripley, William Zebina=, ed. Trusts, pools and corporations. *$1.80.
Ginn.
“These selected readings and cases admirably supplement the usual
text-books, and put the essence of the most suggestive collateral
material in the hands of every student. As labor-saving devices alone,
they will amply repay their cost.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 849. Je. ’06. 210w.
“Most of the contributions attain, each in its own way, a high
standard of merit.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1045. My. 3, ’06. 220w.
“Some chapters are of high individual merit, and all as individual
bricks contribute to the making of a solid and useful whole.” H. C. E.
+ + =Yale R.= 15: 333. N. ’06. 480w.
=Roach, Abby Meguire.= Some successful marriages. †$1.25. Harper.
Thoroly modern matrimonial problems are illustrated seriously,
humorously and realistically in this group of stories. Tact, loyalty,
man’s and woman’s philosophy all enter into the illustrated
give-and-take process necessary to the harmonious adjustment of wedded
lives along understood lines of liberty.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
“Its limitation is a lack of humor, which results in a
self-conscious style from time to time, and leads one to suspect
that the characters are not quite average—as they are intended to
be—but ultra-introspective, thinking their way through difficulties
that over and over should dissolve in fun.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 220w.
=Roads, Charles.= Bible studies for teacher training: analytical,
synthetic side lights; a normal class text book. *60c. Meth. bk.
Suggestive outlines to be followed in both analytical and synthetic
study of the Bible.
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Heart that knows. $1.50. Page.
When Jim Calder is made mate of the good ship G. G. Goodridge he does
not marry Luella Warden as he has promised, but, stinging under the
evil insinuations of a forged letter which a designing woman has shown
him, he sails out of the Bay of Fundy and away leaving Luella to her
shame. How he fares on the high seas, and how Luella brings up her son
alone and undefended, and how this son after twenty years finds the
father who wronged his mother and himself, loves him and brings him
home, is the story of the book.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 552. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“It is a bold, compelling piece of work, intimately realistic, except
where the author has occasion to transport two of the leading
characters to eastern seas.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 650. N. 24. 100w.
“We forget the improbability in the joy of the workmanship.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 420w.
“Mr. Roberts’s new novel has all the characteristics of his previous
work, with some additional distinction.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 200w.
“We have a right to expect better things than this from Mr. Roberts or
nothing at all.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 450w.
“We find it less satisfactory in plot than in its delightful scenery
and delineation of character.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 564. S. 15, ’06. 630w.
“It is not so much a story, however, as a series of cameo-like
character studies of a small town.”
+ – =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 100w.
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Red fox: the story of his adventurous
career in the Ringwaak wilds and of his final triumph over the enemies
of his kind. †$2. Page.
“Among the many writers of nature-books none is more satisfactory than
Mr. Roberts.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 35: 105. Ja. ’06. 220w.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 341. My. ’06. 300w.
“It isn’t a sincere piece of work. There isn’t enough to a fox; his
psychology, his interests, his daily round is too limited to sustain
him throughout a volume. The author has tried to meet the lack of
substance with style.”
– + =Critic.= 48: 122. F. ’06. 250w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 660w.
“It is a good specimen of the work of a well-known author.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1128. D. 30, ’05. 200w.