wrong impression of George Eliot, and adds a somber tone that will
come later in life.”
– =Ind.= 61: 1410. D. 13, ’06. 100w.
“In these drawings Mr. Williams shows a mounting command and
simplification.”
+ – =Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 56. D. ’06. 140w.
“The work is very well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 763. D. ’06. 230w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Love’s crosscurrents. $1.50. Harper.
“For all its slightness, the book leaves an impression. You have a far
clearer vision of every person than of the elaborately explained Lady
Kitty, in ‘William Ashe.’” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 58. Ja. ’06. 420w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Poems: selected and edited by Arthur
Beatty. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classics.” The poems have been
carefully selected and annotated, and the volume is supplied with a
prefatory note and an introduction, the latter briefly sketching
Swinburne’s life.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 50w.
“Is worth having, for it contains some of the finest poems of the
century and is mercifully free from some of the more luxuriant
passages of the great poet.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1221. N. ’06. 60w.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Selected lyrical poems. $1.50. Harper.
Swinburne’s first published volume, Poems and ballads, is included in
this edition together with many later poems that are best
representative of the poet’s genius.
=Swinburne, Algernon Charles.= Tragedies. Collected lib. ed. 5 v. *$10.
Harper.
A five volume edition of Swinburne’s “Tragedies” which with the
six-volume edition of his “Poems” makes available in collected form
the “entire poetical product of the greatest of living poets.” (Dial.)
Volume 1 contains “The Queen mother” and “Rosamund;” Volume 2 contains
“Chastelard,” and the first two acts of “Bothwell,” the remaining
three acts of which constitute Volume 3; Volume 4 includes the drama
“Mary Stuart” and essays on her life and character; and Volume 5
contains “Locrine,” “The sisters,” “Marino Faliero,” and “Rosamund,
queen of the Lombards.”
* * * * *
+ + =Dial.= 40: 330. My. 16, ’06. 520w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 208. Je. 30, ’05. 1660w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 33. F. 2, ’06. 1760w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
+ + =Nation.= 82: 382. My. 10, ’06. 50w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
Reviewed by George S. Hellman.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 320. My. 19, ’06. 2950w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
+ =Outlook.= 83: 483. Je. 23, ’06. 110w. (Review of v. 1–5)
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 54. Jl. 8, ’05. 1050w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 101: 238. F. 24, ’06. 1660w. (Review of v. 2–4.)
=Symonds, E. M. (George Paston, pseud.).= B. R. Haydon and his friends.
**$3. Dutton.
“George Paston has admirably illustrated a fascinating subject.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 873. D. 23. 830w.
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 274. F. ’06. 440w.
“Is, for all its sorrow and tragedy, brightened by the record of many
joyous days and hours, and is altogether a fascinating biography.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 92. Ag. 16, ’06. 350w.
=Symons, Arthur.= Spiritual adventures. **$2.50. Dutton.
“These stories, each of which deals with a separate personality, are
studies of decadence. They explore the relation between life and art.”
(Ath.) In each of the eight studies the author “is intent on
reproducing a distinct temperamental type, or, to put it in another
way, in each case he has isolated a temperament and assigned it to a
person.” (Outlook.) “‘Esther Kahn’ is perhaps the most wholesome of
these haunting stories, having a definite culmination in the creation
of the artist through suffering. But on the whole, ‘The death of Peter
Waydelin’ is the achievement of the book, in the tragedy and realistic
horror of its setting.” (Critic.)
* * * * *
“They are all, as one would expect, stories of the better sort, not
depending upon incident, but expounding some emotional situation. For
the work of an author not accustomed to express himself in this
medium, they are surprisingly well told, though they present some of
the technical defects which the essayist who sets himself to write
stories is seldom able to avoid.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1148. N. 4, ’05. 1330w.
=Ath.= 1906, 1: 161. F. 10. 1790w.
“It is Mr. Symons’s simple and forceful style, with its delicate
psychic touches, combined with his really great gift for the vital
story, which disarms our criticism of his philosophy.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 189. F. ’06. 380w.
“His very cleverness and facility make it more to be regretted that he
has wasted his time in portraiture, brilliant but without
significance, of subjects that are hardly worthy of such distinction.”
+ – =Dial.= 40: 201. Mr. 16, ’06. 380w.
“Evocations, these tales, if tales you can call them, will prove
attractive for some to whom English fiction has become too material,
too much a thing of bricks and mortar.” James Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 680w.
“No matter how impersonal the reader tries to be, he will probably
close this book with a sense of depression.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 250w.
“The work of a literary artist with an extraordinarily engaging and
subtly morbid personality, they sometimes fascinate and sometimes
disgust but always awaken interest and rivet attention.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 365. Mr. 24. ’06. 1310w.
=Syrett, Netta.= Day’s journey. †$1.25. McClurg.
The “day’s journey” of a novelist and his wife from a state of
infatuation to one of quiet affection carries them thru many stages.
The young writer tires of a quiet country life and seeks emotional
inspiration and sympathy from a frowsy artist of Greek robes and
sandals who poses as a true Bohemian. He neglects his wife and to
cover his latest “friendship” thrusts upon her the society of an old
lover. This old lover inspires her to self assertion and she develops
into a woman of character and talent who wins literary honors for
herself, and turns from an admiring social world to find her husband
once more at her feet.
* * * * *
+ – =Acad.= 68: 639. Je. 17, ’05. 360w.
“Miss Syrett has a charming style and a dramatic faculty for keeping
what Besant called the ‘flat times’ of her characters out of the
reader’s knowledge. Her limitations, so far at least as the present
novel is concerned, are chiefly those of environment.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 201. Ag. 12. 310w.
“The whole story is told in a crisp style which never drags and which
is always charming.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 242. O. 16, ’06. 230w.
“The story is written with considerable sense of humor and charm of
manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 617. O. 6. ’06. 470w.
“Netta Syrett wields a clever pen and shows much wit in her society
sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 629. N. 10, ’06. 190w.
“The book is fairly written.”
+ – =Spec.= 95: 157. Jl. 29, ’06. 220w.
T
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Daddy’s daughters. †$1.50. Holt.
Daddy’s daughters are four in number,—Rosamund, sweetly even-tempered;
Gaynor, quick as a flash of steel, but big-hearted and loyal; Sibyl,
fretful and petulant of disposition, and Austiss, sunny, cheerful and
loving. Daddy himself is a dreamer, a student, a poet, an
ultra-refined and lovable man. The story records the lively doings in
the family with the household ballast reposing in Mary Frances, the
housekeeper.
* * * * *
“A pleasant story.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1412. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
“Is quite as pleasing a book for girls as its suggestive title
indicates.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= One afternoon, and other stories. $1.25.
Benziger.
Twenty-one short stories, each of which gives sure, strong touches of
real life—its romances, its strifes and its triumphs.
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Pussy-cat town; il. in colors by Rebecca Chase.
$1. Page.
A tale for young people. It gives a brisk account of a band of cats
that built the city of Purrington in the river Meuse, a place where
all poor, abused cats could come and live happily all their nine
lives.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Taggart, Marion Ames.= Six girls and Bob: a story of patty-pans and
green fields; il. †$1.50. Wilde.
A mother, six girls, and a son make up the spirited group that lived
first in patty-pans—so they called their New York flat because the
rooms resembled the cups of a patty-pan—and later in the country. The
children are the lively wholesome sort and reflect health and
happiness well tempered with bits of wisdom.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 711. O. 27, ’06. 90w.
=Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe.= Balzac: a critical study tr. with an
appreciation of Taine by Lorenzo O’Rourke. *$1. Funk.
The excellent appreciation of Taine by Lorenzo O’Rourke which occupies
the first part of this volume adds much to the reader’s appreciation
of Taine’s critical study of Balzac which follows. The great critic
treats of the great novelist as both man and artist, giving his life
and character, estimating his genius, discussing his style, his world,
his character and his philosophy until he and his work stand forth as
tho re-created.
* * * * *
“The translator of this minor work of the great French critic has done
his original into, easy, flowing English, which retains the clearness
of the French. Mr. O’Rourke has placed his meritorious piece of
criticism at a great disadvantage by putting it into such close
juxtaposition with Taine’s estimate of Balzac.”
+ – =Cath. World.= 83: 838. S. ’06. 580w.
=Lit. D.= 32: 970. Je. 30, ’06. 700w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 54. Jl. 19, ’06. 60w.
“Taine’s study of Balzac combines biography and criticism, and the
translation seems excellent.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 462. Jl. 21, ’06. 160w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 511. O. ’06. 130w.
=Talbot, Rt. Rev. Ethelbert.= My people of the plains. **$1.75. Harper.
Let no one think that because the book is written by an Episcopal
bishop it is an account of ceremonies and sermons. It is a human not
an ecclesiastical document and the pictures it gives of pioneer life
in Wyoming and Idaho, among cattlemen, gamblers, adventurers, Indians
and army men are full of life and interest. The personal element is
modestly subordinated and we think we can understand why the bishop
was everywhere welcomed—even so cordially as by the old Indian with
his limited cow-boy English. “Me damned glad to see you, heap-sleeve
bishop.”
* * * * *
“It is not amiss to call this one of the most cheerful books of the
year. In a sense, it is the best of Christmas stories. The book is a
lesson in simplicity. It is more vital than any essay on the art of
living.”
+ + =Harper’s Weekly.= 50: 1716. D. 1, ’06. 1210w.
“The literary style is effective and the book adds a new chapter to
the history of American missions.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33; 814. D. 1, ’06. 330w.
“The reader will lay this book down with the feeling that he has
listened to a pleasant and instructive talk from a genuine man.”
Cameron Mann.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
“An excellently written little volume.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 758. D. ’06. 60w.
Talks with the little ones about the Apostles’ creed. 60c. Benziger.
The articles of the Apostles’ creed are taken up separately here and
simplified to serve as instruction for Catholic little people.
=Tallentyre, S. G., pseud. (E. V. Hall).= Life of Voltaire. 2v. **$3.50.
Putnam.
A third and illustrated edition of this life of Voltaire, the man of
strong and varied emotions. “His life was a long conflict ... but when
in old age he had become the acknowledged leader of European thought
... he was born with a genius for friendship; he was a man of heart
and of feeling.... He took a low, some might say true, view of human
nature, but he constantly sought to relieve miseries of humanity....
The attack upon oppression was the true work of his life. In this he
was absolutely sincere. He told lie after lie, but he never descended
to that most insiduous form of falsehood under which a man forsakes
his own convictions.... He never deserted the cause to which he was
devoted.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 83: 80. Jl. 26, ’06. 2110w.
“The book lacks perspective and proportion. The author’s painting is
the reverse of the impressionist.... But it does not lack material
carefully collected. It does not lack clearness, precision, a rational
judgment, and occasional brilliance in expression. It may prove to be,
we are not sure but that it will, the best life of Voltaire, in the
English language for the student, just because of its amplitude of
detail.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 140w.
=Tapp, Sidney C.= The struggle. †$1.50. Wessels. (Am. Bapt.,
Southeastern distributing agts.)
An arraignment of trusts. The author makes use of a quadruple romance
to furnish characters and setting for his exposure of the evils of
organized wealth. He drawls a living picture of the inside of Wall
street and the great gambling institutions of the country which are
overthrowing and destroying our civilization.
* * * * *
=R. of Rs.= 33: 760. Je. ’06. 70w.
=Tappan, Eva March.= Short history of England’s literature. *85c.
Houghton.
=Bookm.= 22: 533. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“To write a short history of a vast subject in the form of animated
story is so difficult a task that its successful achievement is
specially commendable. Miss Tappan has done this skillfully, singling
out the things most worth knowing, and showing them in a succession of
flashlights that stay in the memory.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 44. My. 3, ’06. 200w.
=Tarbell, Mrs. Martha (Treat).= Tarbell’s teachers’ guide to the
international Sunday school lessons for 1906. $1.25. Bobbs.
In this large and comprehensive volume Dr. Tarbell presents something
more than a mere guide; she gives the Bible texts of the lesson,
explains their words and phrases, quotes suggestive thoughts from
helpful writers, explains phases of Oriental life, and adds valuable
suggestions for teaching the lessons under which are included: Three
lesson thoughts with illustrations; Sentence sermons; The Bible its
own interpreter: The lesson summary; Subjects for Bible class
discussion; and Work to be assigned. The lesson course forms an
outline of the life of Christ, gives the purpose and authorship of the
gospels and the geography of Palestine. The volume is illustrated with
maps, diagrams and pictures.
* * * * *
“For orthodox Sunday-school teachers and workers we know of no work of
equal value.”
+ + =Arena.= 35: 445. Ap. ’06. 190w.
“It will not replace Peloubet or the ‘Sunday school times,’ for it is
antiquated and uncritical but its numerous quotations will often be
suggestive and convenient.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 226. Ja. 25, ’06. 40w.
“Ranks with the best of its class. It would be difficult to excel it
in the line which passes over all critical problems to illustrate and
apply to pupils of all ages the teaching of the text as it stands.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 277. F. 3, ’06. 110w.
=Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= Beautiful lady. †$1.25. McClure.
“Delightful in name as well as in nature.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 722. N. ’05. 220w.
=Tarkington, (Newton) Booth.= Conquest of Canaan. †$1.50. Harper.
+ – =Ath.= 1905. 2: 829. D. 16. 240w.
“Is one of the best of popular novels, a book that even the person of
superior mind can read with secret joy, and that more ordinary and
honest mortals can devour with open and avowed delight.” Edward Clark
Marsh.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 517. Ja. ’06. 1240w.
“The chief beauty of Mr. Tarkington’s novel is its intense sincerity.
Its value as a historical document is not inconsiderable and there are
parts, at least, of the story whose artistic excellence is solid and
indisputable.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 286. Mr. ’06. 390w.
“Is a thoroughly readable book.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 100w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31. ’06. 490w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ – =North American.= 182: 926. Je. ’06. 160w.
“Nothing that Mr. Tarkington has written so clearly shows his gain in
power as ‘The conquest of Canaan.’ Is a beautiful story, and it has
the distinction too, in this day of clamorous and ill-judged titles,
of possessing one that is exceptionally simple, strong and fitting.”
+ + =Reader.= 7: 224. Ja. ’06. 610w.
=Taylor, Bert Leston.= Charlatans. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A young neophyte of the provinces is one day visited by Enlightenment,
more substantially known as Mrs. Maybury, who discovers in the country
maid great musical genius. This story tells of the planning and
sacrifices on the part of the farmer parents to send their Hope to the
city for instruction, of her kindly reception there, many friends, and
hard work. There is a fresher atmosphere with the Bohemian setting and
a more spiritual sympathy for fellow mortals, than tales of the
artist’s world usually possess.
* * * * *
“This is a bright, entertaining novel that will appeal to the general
reader as a pleasing story of present-day life.”
+ =Arena.= 36: 683. D. ’06. 420w.
“Any one who is familiar with the manners and habits of a certain
class of musicians will realize how excellent is Mr. Taylor’s
portrayal of this phase of life in a large city. The book, therefore,
is veracious, and it is both satirical and amusing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 250w.
“For the blasé reader of novels it is genuinely refreshing.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 70w.
=Taylor, C. Bryson.= Nicanor, teller of tales. †$1.50. McClurg.
Great Britain under Roman rule furnishes the setting for this romance.
Nicanor inherits from Melchior, his grandfather, so great a gift of
telling tales that he casts a veritable spell over his hearers. Among
those who learn of his fame is Veria. a Roman lard’s daughter, who
forgets that Nicanor is a slave and yields to his enchantment. Then
there is the love of Eldris, one of Nicanor’s own class. The spirit of
the period as expressed in the sharp inequalities of the noble and the
slave class is drawn with many a passionate, dramatic touch.
* * * * *
“The author deserves credit for conceiving out of the dry pages of
half-written history and out of the dust of traditions a character so
consistent with both.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 521. Ag. 30, ’06. 280w.
“The author ... can cast a spell with his words that seems to be of
something more than the mere story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 328. My. 19, ’06. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
“A pure romance, in well sustained style.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 140. My. 19, ’06. 100w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 128. O. ’06. 90w.
=Taylor, Henry Charles.= Introduction to the study of agricultural
economics. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“This volume is scientific in its substance, although for the most
part popular in style.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 110w.
“In addition to the theoretical discussions, the book contains a few
tables of prices, of tenancy, and other data which add to its
convenience as a text book.” William Hill.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 184. Mr. ’06. 390w.
“The book contains many statistical details relating to the United
States that are not readily accessible to the general reader.” E. H.
G.
+ + =Nature.= 74: 193. Je. 28, ’06. 950w.
“The book is certainly full of suggestions, and will doubtless serve
well enough its purpose of introducing American students to the
further study of agriculture. There is too little information in the
book about existing conditions, and too little explanation of those
conditions.” G. S. C.
+ – =Yale R.= 15: 312. N. ’06. 690w.
=Taylor, Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-.= Molière: a biography; with an
introd. by Thomas Frederick Crane. *$3. Duffield.
A life of Molière for English readers “both scholarly and popular in
which the man stands out in the midst of his managerial and literary
labours.” It depicts Molière, the man, the actor and the dramatist
with the political, social and literary background of Louis the
Fourteenth’s time. The author’s intention has been to interpret
Molière’s life by his plays and his plays by his life rather than to
write an exhaustive criticism of his dramatic works.
* * * * *
“It is not simply a biography of Molière, but as complete a
presentation as is needed by the general public of the history, the
sources and the contents of his masterpieces.” Adolphe Cohn.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 355. D. ’06. 2190w.
“This book most certainly comes nearer to absolute accuracy than many
volumes of the kind: and hostile criticism of the book will be aimed
less at the matter which it contains than at the style, the form and
way in which it is presented.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1346. D. 6, ’06. 880w.
“This new biography shows the careful student’s attention to details.
More emphasis might have been placed upon the mechanism of Molière’s
theater, which was the germ of a national home for French drama. There
might likewise have been a deeper consideration of the special genre
of play which Molière created. But despite all this, the volume, which
is sumptuous in form, deserves special consideration.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 280w.
“Is a volume of some real note in Molière literature.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8. ’06. 110w.
“Slips are comparatively few in this book. The extracts from the plays
are judiciously chosen and felicitously, translated.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 516. D. 13, ’06. 980w.
“It is disfigured by the back-number orthography, which is still used
by most British printers, although denounced by most British scholars.
Mr. Chatfield-Taylor has set an example to all who deal with foreign
authors. He has not assumed in his readers any knowledge of French:
therefore, whenever he is moved to quote he has turned the French
verse into English.” Brander Matthews.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 792. D. ’06. 610w.
“It is from a failure in sympathy and insight that the book suffers
most grievously—from a seeming incapacity to sound the tragic depths
in the nature of the great comic master.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 714. N. 24, ’06. 430w.
“A serious piece of work from the pen of a student who has spared
neither time, nor trouble, nor care to produce the picture of a man of
genius in his proper historical and social setting, and its reflection
in and influence upon his life and his work.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 381. D. ’06. 220w.
“A conscientious, thorough piece of biography.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 100w.
=Taylor, Ida A.= Life of Queen Henrietta Maria; with 32 il. and 2
photogravure fronts, 2d. ed. **$7.50. Dutton.
“The object of these volumes is to present to us, not a period of
history, but a living personality, to whom for the nonce the whole
period is a skillfully sketched background, subordinated but true to
nature. Not an unnecessary figure or point of view is introduced. We
are intended to see the face, and hear the voice, and mark the
thoughts, the woes and joys, of that Queen of England who called
herself ‘La Reine Malheureuse,’ and it can truly be said that when the
book is at last laid aside, a new Henrietta Maria is recorded in the
mind—a queen intensely human, intensely living and wonderfully
lovable.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The last word to the author must be one of sincere congratulation.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 377. Ap. 21, ’06. 1260w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 100w.
“The book is brightly and pleasantly written.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 326. O. 6, ’05. 1780w.
“We must call this work a much more finished and interesting
performance than the same writer’s ‘Revolutionary types.’”
+ =Nation.= 82: 491. Je. 14, ’06. 560w.
“The author of these volumes has told his story well and
sympathetically; but he has not proved that it was really worth
telling.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 159. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“There is about the work a certain freshness of interest due in part
to the facility with which the Royalist point of view is apprehended.
The narrative is, as has been said, unnecessarily extended; it is also
discursive, and otherwise bears marks of an unaccustomed hand, and it
is animated by an exaggerated sentimentalism which affects almost
every personage discussed.”
– + =Outlook.= 82: 811. Ap. 7, ’06. 330w.
“Whether Miss Taylor altogether satisfies the critical reader in this
or that deduction, the fact remains that she has achieved an artistic
triumph,—her canvas is alive. A complete sense of proportion is
preserved throughout.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 98. Ja. 20, ’06. 2020w.
=Taylor, Marie Hansen (Mrs. Bayard Taylor).= On two continents. **$2.75.
Doubleday.
“If the volume does not take its place with biographies of commanding
importance, at least it will do its part in preserving the memory of a
significant name and personality.” M. A. de Wolfe Howe.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 112. Ja. ’06. 240w.
“The volume brings much that is new, and what was previously known has
been well retold. There is, in general, a wise discrimination as to
content.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 100. F. 1, ’06. 1120w.
=Taylor, Mary Imlay.= Impersonator. †$1.50. Little.
An art student in Paris is invited by her aunt to make a three weeks
visit in Washington. For certain reasons she sends a friend to
impersonate her. The one chosen is really too sincere and honest to
enjoy the rôle, but when once launched upon it, the fear of being
discovered is subordinate to the joy of social popularity. Among the
characters portrayed are the businesslike tho unrefined aunt, a young
congressman and a trust magnate who both declare their love for Mary,
a prying social secretary who makes mountains of scandal out of
molehills of evidence, and a French ambassador who averts a painful
crisis by claiming the heroine as his daughter and giving her rightful
title of countess.
* * * * *
“Readers who still hold to the old-time standards of honor in fiction
as well as in real life, and who reject the modern American dictum
that success is the main thing, no matter how it is won, may find it a
bit disconcerting to be expected to admire and sympathize with a
heroine who wins through by means that are not in the least debatable.
Otherwise they may find ‘The impersonator’ a moderately entertaining
story, written with vivacity and occasional mild humor.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 751. N. 17, ’06. 430w.
“A superfluous story of Washington society.”
– =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 40w.
=Taylor, Talbot Jones.= Talbot J. Taylor collection: furniture, wood
carving, and other branches of the decorative arts. **$6. Putnam.
“This handsome volume, which contains 187 splendid illustrations, is
designed to reveal to the world the decorative treasures hidden in Mr.
Taylor’s house, Cedarhurst, Long Island. Talbot house, of which a
photograph is given, is built in Elizabethan style, and is by no means
pretentious, but its contents are invaluable. It would seem as if its
owner had made a hobby of buying, not so much for the purposes of use
as for ‘a collection.’... The house is especially rich in old carved
woods, and in German and French furniture.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“This book will, therefore, be mainly of interest to collectors, who
are not always the same as connoisseurs.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 308. S. 15. 120w.
+ + =Ind.= 61: 819. O. 4, ’06. 440w.
=Nation.= 82: 510. Je. 21, ’06. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 474. Jl. 28, ’06. 750w.
=Spec.= 97: 136. Jl. 28, ’06. 80w.
=Taylor, W. Purves.= Practical cement testing. *$3. Clark, M. C.
A book for the expert or the novice which will increase the accuracy
and simplify the routine of testing work. “With the exception of the
chapter on ‘Classification and statistics’ and the one on ‘Cement
manufacture,’ comprising together barely 30 pages, the entire book is
devoted to the discussion and description of methods of cement
testing. The tests considered are those employed in ordinary routine
work to determine whether a particular shipment of cement is of a
quality sufficiently good for construction work.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“A unique book, which promises to be of great value to cement testers
and to all others interested in seeing that cement conforms with the
best standards of the day.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 55: 79. Ja. 18, 06. 1020w.
=Tchaikovsky, Modeste Il’ich.= Life and letters of Peter Il’ich
Tchaikovsky; ed. from the Russian with an introd. by Rosa Newmarch. *$5.
Lane.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 905. D. 30. 770w.
Reviewed by Joseph Sohn.
+ =Forum.= 37: 527. Ap. ’06. 180w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 1489. Je. 21, ’06. 660w.
“A book of more absorbing human as well as artistic interest has
seldom been written.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 351. Ap. 26, ’06. 900w.
“Mrs. Newmarch has retained quite enough to give a complete view of
Tschaikovsky’s life and activities, even his intimate relations.”
Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 190. Mr. 31, ’06. 820w.
“The great Russian’s musical work is so full of the sincerely
emotional and human elements of his character that the story of his
life and selections from his letters make reading almost as attractive
as that of a novel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 140w.
=Temple, Most Rev. Frederick (Archbishop of Canterbury).= Memoirs of
Archbishop Temple by seven friends; ed. by E. G. Sandford. *$9.
Macmillan.
The life story of a man who “seemed cast in a heroic mould, more than
life-size,—colossal ... good and simple, of uncommon force of mind,
and power of acquiring knowledge.” (Spec.) The sketch is in seven
parts, commented upon in the preface as follows: “Its different
divisions are clearly marked and defined; the mental characteristic of
the man was breadth, and the fact that different types of mind are
represented in the writers may help to preserve this feature of
breadth in the general portrait. The subject of it was many-sided, and
a mistake would be made if the view presented were contracted....
These memoirs accordingly regard his life as far as possible under its
more public aspects; they are not a biography, but records of a
career.”
* * * * *
“The seven contributors as well as the editor, have been perhaps too
industrious. They have, no doubt, given the salient features of
Archbishop Temple’s life but they have also added many that are
insignificant, and the two large volumes would, if they had been
boiled down into one, have presented a biography more likely to
endure.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 157. F. 17, ’06. 1150w.
“Unless compounded expressly for clerical consumption, the book lacks
proportion.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 351. Mr. 24. 2940w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 98: 281. Ag. ’06. 740w.
+ – =Edinburgh R.= 203: 429. Ap ’06. 11010w.
“Remembering the difficult conditions under which these volumes have
been prepared, I think that the editor and his helpers are to be
congratulated upon their success in having subordinated the individual
portions of the work into such just proportion that the personal
force, characteristic energy, and life-story of Archbishop Temple are
felt to constitute the real interest of these volumes.” W. B. Ripon.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 912. Jl. ’06. 4660w.
=Ind.= 60: 1222. My. 24, ’06. 710w.
“In spite of its length, ill-proportion, and abundance of repetition,
the book is quite readable, and is to be commended as a contribution
of no small importance to the ecclesiastical history of the England of
the past half-century.”
+ + – =Lit. D.= 33: 158. Ag. 4, ’06. 170w.
“In respect of the fulness of its public detail this memoir may take
its place beside those of Tait, who was Temple’s tutor, and of Benson,
his colleague and friend.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 57. F. 23, ’06. 2540w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 351. Ap. 26, ’06. 850w.
“On the whole Is well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 178. Mr. 24, ’06. 500w.
“More serious is the inability of the writers to secure that
detachment of vision necessary to a correct estimate of their
subject.”
– + =Outlook.= 82: 806. Ap. 7, ’06. 440w.
“We could wish that someone had been found able to weld into one whole
the mass of material collected in these two volumes, with a critical
tact to know what to omit, and with skill in grouping and arranging
material. As it is, there is much repetition. But the critical reader
may find advantages in compensation. There is a unity in the volumes.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 302. Mr. 10, ’06. 1910w.
“This life is a record of work and business. It is so many chapters in
English educational and ecclesiastical history. Viewed as such, it is
admirably done by experts whose judgment is most valuable, and who
express it excellently.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 382. Mr. 10, ’06. 2040w.
=Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st baron.= In memoriam; annotated by the
author. **$1. Macmillan.
A little volume whose green covers recall “those which of yore made so
many Christmastides or New Year’s days memorable.” It is an important
edition because it contains Tennyson’s own notes on the poem: “notes,”
says the present Lord Tennyson, “left by my father partly in his own
hand-writing, and partly dictated to me.”
* * * * *
“The interest, after all, of the commentary, is, partly, that we see,
so to speak, the dust and chips of the workshop, and partly, too, that
we discover the thought which underlies the poems to be really neither
abstruse or recondite at all.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 110. F. 3, ’06. 850w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 48. Ja. 13. 420w.
“I note a few misprints on the commentary.” W. J. Rolfe.
+ + – =Critic.= 48: 453. My. ’06. 1910w.
“A very precious little book.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 120w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 802. Ap. 5, ’06. 600w.
“Their great value is that we feel that we have been in contact with a
great mind, of which the force lay not in intellectual grasp so much
as interpretative insight, a mind which worked not by logical
processes, but rather in a visible substance of beauty.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 453. D. 22, ’05. 1810w.
“A rather unsatisfactory piece of book-making.”
– =Nation.= 82: 179. Mr. 1, ’06. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 166. Mr. 17, ’06. 260w.
“The notes themselves are not always of importance, but frequently
they do throw light on the meaning and association of particular
lines.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 375. F. 17, ’06. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 40w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 370. Mr. 24, ’06. 330w.
“But what is before all valuable is to read rightly the message of the
poem as a whole.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 21. Ja. 6, ’06. 560w.
=Tennyson, Hallam, 2d baron.= Alfred Lord Tennyson: a memoir by his son,
new ed. **$4. Macmillan.
“This one-volume edition is of convenient size and attractive
make-up.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 60w.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= History of Henry Esmond: ed. by Hamilton
Byron Moore. 60c. Ginn.
+ + =Bookm.= 23: 104. Mr. ’06. 40w.
“Unusually helpful notes.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 93. Ja. ’06. 20w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 10. Ja. 4, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 926. D. 30, ’05. 130w.
=School R.= 14: 233. Mr. ’05. 12w.
=Thackeray, William Makepeace.= Letters to an American family; with an
introd. by Lucy D. Baxter and original drawings by Thackeray. **$1.50.
Century.
“The charm of the contents of this book, giving as it does such an
unusual insight into the attractive personality of Thackeray, together
with the successful make-up, combine to make a volume that is to be
doubly valued.”
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 646. F. ’06. 110w.
That reminds me: a collection of tales worth telling. **75c. Jacobs.
+ =Arena.= 35: 108. Ja. ’06. 120w.
=Thayer, William Roscoe.= Short history of Venice. **$1.50. Macmillan.
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 223. F. 24. 1090w.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 555. Ap. ’06. 780w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 50w.
“Is a pleasantly written and quite adequate epitome.” H. F. B.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 196. Ja. ’06. 390w.
=Thomas, Carl Clapp.= Steam turbines. $3.50. Wiley.
“A thoroly scientific as well as practical treatment of steam turbines
which is designed as a text-book for technical colleges.”
* * * * *
“As a text-book it is quite satisfactory. The only other book in the
English language with which it could be compared is that of Dr.
Stodola. The reviewer is of the opinion that Professor Thomas’ book
will fill a want that has been felt by a great many technical
educators.” Storm Bull.
+ + – =Engin. N.= 55: 427. Ap. 12, ’06. 1170w.
=Thomas, Edward.= Wales: painted by Robert Fowler; described by E.
Thomas. *$6. Macmillan.
+ – =Int. Studio.= 27: 182. D. ’05. 290w.
=Thompson, Charles Willis.= Party leaders of the time; character studies
of public men at Washington, Senate portraits, House etchings, snapshots
at executive officers and diplomats, and flashlights in the country at
large. **$1.75. Dillingham.
The excellent photographs of over thirty of the public men sketched in
this volume add much to this popular account of those figures
prominent in the Senate and the House, at “the other end of the
avenue,” and “out in the field.” The author has aimed to make clear
the personalities of our public men, “to make visible human beings and
not mere names out of them,” and he has done this by means of a wealth
of anecdote and a newspaper correspondent’s observant eye and ready
pen.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 48: 570. Je. ’06. 100w.
“His studies are liberally punctuated with anecdote and afford lively
as well as instructive reading.”
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 140w.
“Now that they are hung in a gallery together, the complete
effectiveness of each single picture destroys more or less the total
effect, and gives an impression of exaggeration. Everybody is painted
large, and each much of the same bigness.”
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 174. Mr. 24, ’06. 1880w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 443. Ap. 7. ’06. 360w.
=Thompson, Holland.= From the cotton field to the cotton mill: a study
of the industrial transition in North Carolina. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Thompson’s study goes back to colonial days in North Carolina. He
carries it down to as recent a date as March, 1906; and not a phase of
the social and industrial development of the state has escaped his
careful attention. Besides the study of the cotton industry there are
informing chapters dealing with present day social and religious
conditions in North Carolina; and much more than local interest
attaches to Mr. Thompson’s admirable presentation of all these
conditions.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“From many points of view the work was well worth doing, and it has
been well done. The spirit that characterizes Mr. Thompson’s book is
that of the trained investigator.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 215. Jl. 26, 06. 970w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 330w.
=Thompson, John.= Hither and thither: a collection of comments on books
and bookish matters. Jacobs.
The librarian of the Free library of Philadelphia has made various
summaries and comments upon many of the volumes, rare and curious,
which he has examined from time to time. The results of his
observations are presented in a series of chapters which include “The
ten lost tribes,” “Early chronicles,” “British essayists,” “A polyglot
psalter,” “Sevres porcelain,” “Palestrina’s music,” “Alexandre Dumas,”
etc.
* * * * *
“Writes entertainingly and instructively on matters chiefly of
antiquarian interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 286. My. 5, ’06. 390w.
=Thompson, Osmund Rhodes Howard, and Rauch, William H.= History of the
“Bucktails,” Kane rifle regiment of the Pennsylvania reserves, 42nd of
the line: published by H. W. Rauch, historian, for the regimental
association; with a dedicatory note by the Hon. E: A. Irvin. $2. William
H. Rauch, 2141 N. Park av., Phil.
A volume which “contains the muster rolls of the regiment and a full
account of the organization of the Bucktails from the excellent
material furnished by the mountaineers of Northern Pennsylvania.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Unhappily its authors were plainly inexperienced both in the art of
bookmaking and of writing history. Hence, it does not add much to the
growing collection of valuable regimental histories.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 307. O. 11, ’06. 480w.
“Not a very satisfactory volume altogether, the ‘History of the
Bucktails’ ... contains, nevertheless, some material which will be of
use to the future historian of the civil war and much that is
interesting to the friends, kinsfolk, and descendants of the men who
made up a celebrated body of Pennsylvania troops.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 620. O. 6, ’06. 640w.
=Thompson, Robert John=, comp. Proofs of life after death. **$1.50.
Turner, H. B.
The opinions of eminent thinkers on the subject of life after death
are grouped about such headings as science, psychical research,
philosophy and spiritualism. The book contains many arguments from a
scientific standpoint that will interest all who wish evidence other
than theological.
=Thomson, John Arthur.= Herbert Spencer. *$1. Dutton.
“This biography is useful for two reasons: it presents a concise but
luminous account of the human side of the great philosopher, and it
gives the reader an idea of the position of the scientific world today
in regard to the views which Spencer formulated or championed. The
biographical portion proper consumes a comparatively small space—fewer
than one hundred pages—the remainder of the volume being occupied with
exposition and discussion of Spencer’s work, with special reference to
his ‘Principles of biology’ and his attitude to the evolution idea
generally.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Prof. Thomson’s criticism is always clear and suggestive, and his
book is stimulating.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 800. Je. 30. 630w.
“All is so well presented, and is so significant in relation to the
thought of our day, that one is tempted to class the book among the
comparatively small number of those which ‘everybody’ should read.” T.
D. A. Cockerell.
+ + =Dial.= 51: 104. S. 16, ’06. 830w.
“The subject could not have fallen into better hands than those of
Prof. Thomson, who writes clearly, argues cogently, and never fails to
leave his reader interested and informed.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 533. S. 27, ’06. 430w.
“He writes sympathetically yet critically in his judgment both of the
man and his results.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 366. Je. 9. ’06. 1270w.
“Some of his passages are difficult reading indeed.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 83: 526. Je. 30, ’06. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 50w.
=Thomson, William Hanna.= Brain and personality; or, The physical
relations of the brain to the mind. **$1.20. Dodd.
“The object of this book is to acquaint the general reader with the
remarkable discoveries of modern physiological science of the specific
relations of certain areas on the surface of the brain to special
mental functions. One of the first results of these discoveries is to
impart an entirely new aspect to the important subject of Education.”
* * * * *
“This work on ‘Brain and personality’ ought to be of interest to every
person who possesses either of those entities. Aiming to acquaint the
general reader with the remarkable discoveries of modern physiological
science, it is eminently clear and readable. Confusions and
inconsistencies in ontology do not invalidate the author’s
contributions to physiology, for, like the brain itself, while one
part may be useless in solving problems, the other half is
indispensable.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
+ + – =Bookm.= 24: 373. D. ’06. 1600w.
“Volumes like the present, that fail of this through fundamental lack
of fitness, do not aid the cause which they espouse with good faith
and earnest intention.”
– =Dial.= 41: 284. N. 1, ’06. 270w.
“His book treats the subject in a purely scientific manner, but it is
written in a peculiarly lucid style, and can be easily understood
without expert knowledge by the thoughtful layman.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 909. D. 15, ’06. 730w.
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Excursions: with biographical sketch by Ralph
Waldo Emerson. 35c. Crowell.
One of the season’s additions to the “Handy volume classics.”
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Friendship. **50c. Crowell.
This essay, originally a part of “A week on the Concord and Merrimack
rivers” is Thoreau’s estimate of what he called “the secret of the
universe.”
=Thoreau, Henry David.= Maine woods; with an introd. by Annie Russell
Marble. 35c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Handy volume classic” series.
=Thorndike, Edward L.= Elements of psychology. *$1.50. A. G. Seiler, N.
Y.
“Of the elementary books on psychology which have appeared in recent
years, this volume by Professor Thorndike seems, to the present
reviewer, to be one of the most useful and interesting. Its
arrangement and distribution of the subject matter; its adequate and
lucid exposition and its well formulated definitions make it useful;
while its wealth of examples drawn from common life makes it
interesting.”
+ + + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 292. S. 15, ’06. 760w.
“It not only ensures to the student a clear grasp of the science as a
theoretical whole, but is well calculated to make it vital and real to
him, and helpful in the understanding and conduct of his own practical
life.” Edmund B. Delabarre.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 23: 260. F. 16, ’06. 1070w.
=Thorndike, Edward L.= Principles of teaching. *$1.25. A. G. Seiler, New
York.
The author says, “The aim of this book is to make the study of
teaching scientific and practical—scientific in the sense of dealing
with verifiable facts rather than attractive opinions, practical in
the sense of giving knowledge and power that will make a difference in
the actual work of teaching.”
* * * * *
“The most striking qualities of the work are richness of content and
balance and sanity of treatment. On the whole we do not know any
single book more to be recommended for giving young teachers a
scientific conception of their work.” Edward O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 90. Ag. 16, ’06. 770w.
“The book does clearly what it, in the main, sets out to do—to couple
up closely psychological theory with the theory of practice. It is a
valuable addition to educational literature.” W. S. J.
+ + =El. School T.= 6: 440. Ap. ’06. 420w.
“It is a good book for normal school classes, and its numerous and apt
questions and exercises will be found provocative of profitable
discussion in teachers’ meetings and institutes.”
+ =Ind.= 01: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
“Gives the same evidence of vigor, virility, and originality that
characterizes all his other writings.” Frederick E. Bolton.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 366. N. 15, ’06. 570w.
“In spite of these possible weaknesses, this book must be regarded as
one of the very best of its kind.” J. L. Meriam.
+ + – =School R.= 14: 765. D. ’06. 790w.
=Thorndike, Lynn.= Place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe.
*75c. Macmillan.
A monograph in the historical series of Columbia university. “The
noteworthy point in the resume is that magic among the educated was
always associated with science, and is related to it as the guesses of
the child to the positive knowledge of the man.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“He has dipped for himself into the ancient writers, has gathered much
curious information, and has set it forth with gusto and with
considerable sprightliness of style; but his study, though
intelligent, is sadly lacking in thoroughness and yet more so in
closeness of thought and precision of diction. Of magic itself his
conception is confused in the extreme.”
– + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 707. Ap. ’06. 200w.
“An interesting monograph.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 133. F. 16, ’06. 30w.
Reviewed by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 37. Ja. 20, ’06. 1360w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 231. Ja. 27, ’06. 130w.
Thread of gold, by the author of “The house of quiet.” *$3. Dutton.
“We should deal with life in a generous and high-hearted mood.... Nor
must we aim at mere tranquility ... our peace must be heartened by
eagerness, our zest calmed by serenity.” Such is the burden of this
anonymous author’s book. The essays treat such subjects as prayer, the
pleasure of work, the beetle, the hare, the artist, Westminster Abbey,
the Apocalypse, the statue and music.
* * * * *
“In what superficially appears a volume of fugitive essays on the most
desultory and often trifling themes, we have really the revelation, by
significant flash-lights, of a high-minded nature solitarily and often
doubtfully feeling its way towards truth and right.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 224. F. 24. 1250w.
“Its fault is a complacent fluency. But no inquiring mind could fail
to find something vital and suggestive in its pages.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 31. Ja. 26, ’06. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 904. D. 16, ’05. 240w.
“For the most part, the book is the sincere, spontaneous talk of a man
of culture who has observed and felt keenly, and who expresses himself
in simple, limpid, captivating style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 161. Mr. 17, ’06. 710w.
“Is indeed a beautiful book, one that will give the reader a
realization of the joy of life. It is a succession of exquisite
sketches presented by an artist gifted with the elusive literary touch
and a delicate instinct for the beautiful.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 260w.
365 tasty dishes: a tasty dish for every day in the year. *40c. Jacobs.
The full gamut of the simple menu is run in these 365 dishes which
follow the season’s changes beginning with prune snowballs for New
Year’s day, providing rhubarb fool for April 1st, raspberry foam for
the Fourth of July, and plum pudding croquettes for Christmas.
=Thruston, Lucy Meacham.= Called to the field. †$1.50. Little.
A story which looks out upon the Civil war from a Southern home
corner. The heroine is a newly wed Virginia girl who, with the
exception of a risky visit to the enemies’ camp, instead of dipping
into the daring undertakings of most war story heroines stays at the
home helm, where in spite of Northern foraging bands, skirmishes at
her very door, a wounded husband to nurse back to life, she suffers
duty, citizenship and sacrifice to argue their case against the menace
and terror of battle.
* * * * *
+ =Critic.= 48: 574. Je. ’06. 70w.
“Is really a fine piece of work.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1219. My. 24, ’06. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 223. Ap. 7, ’06. 350w.
“But for tropical zones of language and landscape. ‘Called to the
field’ is a well-made book—all the more historically correct, perhaps,
for those very exaggerations.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 210w.
“The charm of it lies in its perfect naturalness, and there also is
the secret of its intensity.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 120w.
+ – =Pub. Opin.= 40: 711. Je. 9, ’06. 80w.
=Thurso, John Wolf.= Modern turbine practice and water-power plants.
*$4. Van Nostrand.
“The whole book is thoroughly up to date in its information, the facts
and data are well marshalled, and it should be consulted by every
engineer who may be called upon to deal with the problem of the
utilisation of water-power.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 52. N. 15, ’06. 960w.
=Thurston, E. Temple.= Apple of Eden. †$1.50. Dodd.
“No English novel by a new writer, for serious, restrained ability,
bears comparison with ‘The apple of Eden.’” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 57. Ja. ’06. 260w.
=Thurston, Ernest Temple.= Traffic, the story of a faithful woman.
†$1.50. Dillingham.
In his arraignment of society in general and certain phases of human
nature in particular, the author takes his reader over the ground of
an old question—the Roman Catholic denial of divorce. “The
noble-hearted Irish girl of the story is most cruelly confronted with
the fact that unless she would lose what is to her the only hope of
heaven, she may not put away finally and by divorce her drunken,
brutal, and bestial husband, and in plain fact may hold more hope of
final salvation in a life of sin than in a marriage of the truest
affection following a divorce.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
– =Acad.= 70: 334. Ap. 7, ’06. 470w.
“The writing is vigorous, and the exposition courageous, and the book
is better in parts than as a whole.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 294. Mr. 10. 330w.
“A forceful, pathetic, but most unpleasant book.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
– + =Bookm.= 24: 387. D. ’06. 350w.
“Mr. Thurston does not suggest the possession of the imaginative
sympathy or even the ordinary knowledge of life that would warrant him
in attempting so tremendous a task as this. He writes easily, but
there is not in all these 450 pages any indications of vision, any
profound sense of human nature. The book is smooth and superficial,
and, shorn of its coarseness, conventional in every line.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 84. Mr. 9, ’06. 820w.
“Mr. Thurston more than accomplishes his object of rousing the
sympathy and indignation of the reader. His characters also are both
lifelike and interesting. But the incessant painfulness of the
situation is continuously distressing, so that the book is anything
but a restful novel, while the plain speaking in describing coarse
viciousness exceeds good taste and sound literary judgment.”
– + =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 9, ’06. 240w.
“The story is written in the spirit of rancour, and of obstinate
prejudice, and is therefore useless as a protest against the imagined
wrongs which have inflamed its author’s spirit.”
– =Sat. R.= 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
“It is seldom one meets with a book so wholly disagreeable as this
novel.”
– =Spec.= 96: 345. Mr. 3, ’06. 140w.
=Thurston, Katherine Cecil.= Gambler. †$1.50. Harper.
“The author throws herself too ardently into the thick of the fight to
judge the relative importance of scenes and incidents. But the story
is told with warm sympathy and with much insight into motive and
character.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 181. F. 24, ’06. 620w.
“It interests us as showing, we fancy, a zeal for the portrayal of
character which the writer’s last success did not display.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 259. Mr. 3. 320w.
“If ‘The gambler’, which is a better book than ‘The masquerader’,
shall prove to be less popular, we shall personally ascribe the fact
to the very unfortunate illustrations that misrepresent the text.” R.
W. Kemp.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 361. D. ’05. 2390w.
“It falls short of the standard which ‘The circle’ and ‘The
masquerader’ have established for their author. ‘The gambler’ is a
work that interests you, but it does not vastly enhance Mrs.
Thurston’s fame.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 690w.
“The characters are conventional through and through, in body, heart
and soul. The style of the book is diffuse, inexact, inelegant. The
writer has no very clear idea of what is her plot.”
– + =Lond. Times.= 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 500w.
“The strongest situations and the best character-drawing are to be
found in the early part of the book.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 304. F. 24, ’06. 880w.
=Thwaites, Reuben Gold=, ed. Early western travels, 1748–1846; a series
of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary
volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic
conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early
American settlement. 31v. ea. *$4. Clark, A. H.
An editorial preface; Wyeth’s Oregon; or A short history of a long
journey from the Atlantic ocean to the region of the Pacific, by land;
and Townsend’s narrative of a journey across the Rocky mountains to
the Columbia river; form the contents of volume 21 of this interesting
series.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 747. Ap. ’06. 70w. (Review of v. 22–24.)
“The style in translation is singularly clear and simple. No small
portion of the narrative is of historical value. The editing appears
to have been done with exceptional fullness and care, the notes are
abundant and supplement the text with information of a scientific and
historical character. Few volumes of travels have received such
careful attention from the editor. The amount of information thus
given on places and persons that are incidentally mentioned by the
author is very large.”
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 179. O. ’06. 360w. (Review of v. 22–24.)
“The introduction and notes of the editor add much to the interest of
the reprint, as throughout the series.”
+ + =Critic.= 48: 383. Ap. ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 21.)
“In spite of rare slips ... the notes themselves are among the most
valuable of the contributions to American historical scholarship
presented by this excellent series.” Frederick J. Turner.
+ + + =Dial.= 41: 6. Jl. 1, ’06. 2960w. (Review of v. 5–20.)
“Not merely useful to the historian, but filled with tales of such
strange and thrilling adventures as to hold the attention of the
veriest schoolboy.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 40w. (Review of v. 8–23.)
+ + + =Nation.= 82: 53. Ja. 18, ’06. 200w. (Review of v. 19 and 20.)
=Nation.= 82: 489. Je. 14, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 21.)
+ + + =Nation.= 83: 438. N. 22, ’06. 400w. (Review of v. 22–27.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 15. Ja. 13, ’06. 380w. (Review of v. 19.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 82: 522. Mr. 3, ’06. 100w. (Review of v. 18.)
=Thwing, Rev. Charles Franklin.= History of higher education in America.
**$3. Appleton.
“The story of the oldest and the newest foundations, the picture of
the environing conditions in former and in later times, and of the
advancing development, is given with many an enlivening touch of
biographical notice and historical incident. Religious and
ecclesiastical influences come into view together with the patriotic,
scholarly, and scientific. The financial side of the history is not
omitted, nor is the architectural. Of course the libraries and the
graduate and professional schools have their appropriate chapters, and
so do undergraduate affairs, including the Greek-letter societies and
athletics. All this, however, is no mere chronicle: the lessons it
yields are interwoven with it.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book is conceived and executed in a large and generous spirit,
combines accuracy and interest in an unusual degree, and is a notable
addition to the literature of our educational history.” Edward O.
Sisson.
+ + – =Dial.= 41: 321. N. 16, ’06. 2080w.
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 419. N. 15, ’06. 830w.
“Instructive and entertaining volume.” Charles Elliott Fitch.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 720. N. 3, ’06. 2330w.
“What others have given either in outline or in fragments is here
given in detail and completeness. No work on American history is more
worth reading.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 582. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Thwing, Eugene.= Man from Red Keg. †$1.50. Dodd.
“In the ‘Man from Red Keg’ we are given the raw material for a great
novel. Much of the dialog is badly written and deals in the baldest
commonplaces, showing that ruthless revision and condensation would
have strengthened the book, but we do get the atmosphere of the
Michigan woods, of a country town, and of live men with vital
interests.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 342. F. 8, ’06. 210w.
=Tilghman, Emily (Ursula Tannenforst, pseud.).= Thistles of Mount Cedar:
a story of school-life for girls. †$1.25. Winston.
“The story is not marked by any special strength and impresses us as
being stilted and artificial in treatment. The moral atmosphere,
however, is excellent.”
+ =Arena.= 35: 111. Ja. ’06 100w.
=Tilton, Dwight, pseud. (George Tilton Richardson, and Wilder Dwight
Quint).= Golden grayhound. †$1.50. Lothrop.
“The improbability of a man in his senses, but without a cent in his
pocket following a pretty face seen ‘in a snow-storm outside
Tiffany’s’ even to the jaws of the Golden greyhound, which turns out
to be not a dog but an ocean liner, is followed up in its turn by
other improbabilities of varied and amusing as well as amazing sort.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
– =Ind.= 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 130w.
– =N. Y. Times.= 11: 175. Mr. 24, ’06. 170w.
“A very human story of hearts and fortunes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 120w.
“Is a particularly silly example of its silly class.”
– =Outlook.= 82: 809. Ap. 7, ’06. 50w.
=Tilton, Theodore.= Fading of the mayflower, a poem of the present time;
drawings by W. J. Enright: decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. $1.50.
Marquis.
“A rhythmic lamentation over the decay of the ideals of the early New
Englanders and the rise of the passion for money-getting. The book,
however, closes with a temperately optimistic prophecy of a better day
to come.”—World To-Day.
* * * * *
“The homiletic value of the sonnets is considerable and they embody
much quaint information and homely wisdom, but they almost never
appeal to us as poetry.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 67. Ag. 1, ’06. 270w.
“He tells again, in flowing verses that are easily read, the old
Colonial tales, and his poem is full of apt historical allusion and
pertinent moral reflections. It is quite worthy of its fine setting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 350w.
=World To-Day.= 11: 1220. N. ’06. 60w.
=Titchener, Edward Bradford.= Experimental psychology: a manual of
laboratory practice, v. 2. pt. 1, *$1.40; pt. 2, *$2.50. Macmillan.
This second volume of Professor Titchener’s work is a manual of
“Quantitative experiments” as was its predecessor of “Qualitative.” It
comprises two parts, an instructor’s manual and a student’s manual.
The student’s manual contains chapters “on Preliminary experiments,
comprising experiments in tone and pressure discrimination, leading up
to demonstrations of Weber’s Law; on the Metric methods—historical
notes accompanying the experiments; on the Reaction experiment, the
Psychology of time and the range of Quantitative psychology. The
Instructor’s manual contains, in addition, appendices giving
examination questions, bibliographies and a list of important
instruments for psychophysical research with prices and names of
makers.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Lucid, methodical and business-like in the extreme.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 582. My. 11. 360w.
=Bookm.= 22: 535. Ja. ’06. 80w.
“It is safe to say that Professor Titchener’s ‘Experimental
psychology’ is much the most important general work on the subject yet
published by an English writer.” H. B. Alexander.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 641. F. ’06. 760w.
“Professor Titchener’s is the most complete guide to quantitative work
in psychology that we have in English, and will be indispensable as a
reference book in laboratories where the course as a whole cannot be
followed.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 180w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 98. Ag. 2, ’06. 100w.
“Professor Titchener may congratulate himself not only on having
completed a long and arduous labor, but also upon having produced a
veritable bible for his experimental colleagues.” Edmund C. Sanford.
+ + + =Phys. R.= 15: 424. Jl. ’06. 1080w.
“The work amply deserves to be adopted, for firstly, it is
specifically planned to afford just that discipline that American
psychology to-day lacks, and secondly, this plan is worked out to the
last practical detail with remarkable skill and a prodigious amount of
care.” Edwin B. Holt.
+ + – =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 93. Mr. 15, ’06. 1830w.
“The author has accomplished the most arduous and difficult task with
such distinguished success as to put the coming generation of
psychologists under lasting obligation to him.” James R. Angell.
+ + + =School R.= 14: 155. F. ’06. 350w.
=Todd, Charles Burr.= In olde Connecticut. **$1.25. Grafton press.
“The byways of history often have a fascination denied to the
highlands. In these interesting pages Mr. Todd discourses pleasantly
upon various episodes in the past of an old New England commonwealth.
He takes us to Fairfield, to Lebanon, to New London, and gives us
glimpses of matters not often set down.... There were dinners and
dances at Lebanon, the home of Trumbull, when the French officers were
there, and ‘the fair Connecticut girls’ were considered attractive by
the visitors. The volume is the first in ‘The Grafton historical
series,’ designed, as the editor remarks, to ‘provide an effective
background for our Americanism and a welcome perspective to
patriotism.’”—Critic.
* * * * *
“If the succeeding volumes are as well written as Mr. Todd’s the
object will be attained.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 284. S. ’06. 150w.
“The little book will prove of especial interest to persons connected
by birth or kinship with Connecticut, and will also be read with
pleasure and profit by the general public.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 260w.
“It is all pleasing to read, but wants the importance of coherent
narrative working toward some definite result—a book for the fireside
and not for the historian’s shelves.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 600w.
“Entertaining little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 432. Jl. 7, ’06. 660w.
“The reader will be agreeably surprised by the amount and variety of
information unearthed by Mr. Todd in his sojournings in Connecticut,
much of it admittedly legendary and traditional, but all of it rich in
human interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 765. Jl. 28, ’06. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 382. S. ’06. 70w.
=Tomlinson, Rev. Everett Titsworth.= Four boys in the Yellowstone; how
they went and what they did; il. by H. C. Edward. †$1.50. Lothrop.
With “Four boys in the Yellowstone” Mr. Tomlinson launches his new
series of tales about the scenic wonders and beauties of our own land.
Four boys from as many quarters of the country who are chums at a New
England school share the joys of a vacation trip to the Yellowstone.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 639. O. 6, ’06. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 110w.
=Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 60w.
=Tomlinson, Rev. Everett Titsworth.= Young rangers: a story of the
conquest of Canada; with il. by Chase Emerson. †$1.50. Wilde.
The concluding volume in the “Colonial series,” without lessening the
glory of the attack on the stronghold of Quebec, portrays some of the
heroic acts of the regulars and their comrades of the provinces in the
lesser known but equally important events that contributed to the
final victory.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 30w.
=Tooker, Lewis Frank.= Under rocking skies. †$1.50. Century.
“Distinctly a readable story.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 477. My. ’06. 50w.
=Torrey, Bradford.= Friends on the shelf. **$1.25. Houghton.
The friends of the library shelf who have inspired part of these
essays are Hazlitt, FitzGerald, Thoreau, Stevenson, Keats and Anatole
France. Not alone of men does Mr. Torrey write for in the volume are
such subjects treated as “Verbal magic,” “Quotability,” “The grace of
obscurity,” “In defense of the traveler’s notebook,” and “Concerning
the lack of an American literature.”
* * * * *
“Human personality emerging from the page of genius is the thing that
has had most attraction for him, and is also the feature of the book
which has the strongest appeal to the reader.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 728. N. 17, ’06. 170w.
“A very pretty style. It is lithe and simple. Within its own limits it
is resourceful, too, and full of variety; but its bounds are narrow.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 310w.
“These papers contain, in fact, much sensible talk on bookish matters.
It is, I say, sensible rather than in any way brilliant or original;
and it is talk rather than finished literature.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 804. D. 1, ’06. 1150w.
=Tosi, Pier Francesco.= Observations on the florid song; or, Sentiments
on the ancient and modern singers; written in Italian; tr. into English
by Mr. Galliard. *$1.75. Scribner.
One of the chief authorities on the singing of the older Italian
period. Tho written in 1743 and especially valuable for historic
interest, the foibles arraigned and the problems discussed are of
interest to present day students.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 83: 169. Ag. 23, ’06. 1340w.
“This reprint, with all practical fidelity of the quaint English
translation, offers a curious and in some ways entertaining addition
to the library of the musical student.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 666. O. 13, ’06. 830w.
=Townsend, Malcolm=, comp. Handbook of United States political history
for readers and students. **$1.60. Lothrop.
“The attempt is made to arrange chronologically, and when possible to
tabulate all the facts and dates of American political history from
the time of the first visit of the Norsemen (985) to the present.”
(Ind.) “Prepared under the stimulus of the merciless questioning of
the author’s boys, this work gives complete tables of information of
all species. Genealogies, nicknames, autographs, lists of the writings
of all the Presidents; accounts of their educational advantages, and
descriptions of their inaugurations and burial places; a political
history of the Confederate States; the province of each department of
the general Government, are some of the contents of the volume.” (N.
Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is one of the most useful reference books for teacher and student
alike, and the amount of out-of-the-way information which it collects
and classifies is simply amazing.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 314. N. 16, ’05. 60w.
“The arrangement is excellent, and the quantity of detail assembled
and classified is remarkable. Sufficient care has not been taken on
the score of accuracy.”
+ – =Ind.= 60: 168. Ja. 18, ’06. 450w.
“It is by no means always correct.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 115. F. 24, ’06. 580w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ’05. 100w.
=Tracy, Louis.= Karl Grier: the strange story of a man with a sixth
sense. †$1.50. Clode, E. J.
“Karl Grier has not only all the advantages physical and mental that a
young man can desire, but he possesses the power of projecting his
consciousness into any part of the world according to his wish.... Mr.
Tracy’s hero ‘presented an unrecorded phase of hypertrophy of the
brain,’ the unnatural growth being ‘permitted by the occasional
bursting of a distended membrane.’ Of course every novel reader knows
that such happenings would have extraordinary results. Twice his
marvellous knowledge almost costs Karl his life; it drives one villain
to suicide and the other to stand on his head in a large and
fashionable restaurant. That same villain, too, subsequently makes a
murderous attack upon Karl, which by fracturing his skull and causing
a lesion of the middle and lower lobes of the brain renders his future
life perfectly normal by knocking ‘the sixth sense’ out of him.”—Sat.
R.
* * * * *
“Remarkably interesting novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 69. F. 3, ’06. 510w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
“We do not find much to please us in such stories.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 274. S. 1, ’06. 240w.
=Traubel, Horace.= With Walt Whitman in Camden: a daily record of
conversations kept by Horace Traubel. **$3. Small.
The author, an Englishman, makes no claim to biographical
completeness, but simply gives daily jottings on talks with Whitman
extending over a period of four months together with many letters of
the period. “One may hazard a prophecy that the unbeliever will be a
convert before he closes its pages; not from any propaganda on the
poet’s part, but from the sheer human affection which his
companionship inspires.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 179. Jl. ’06. 80w.
“In all the mass of chaff there is quite enough of true grain—of sage
and admirable thoughts and sayings—to have made a smaller book which
would have done the fame of Whitman a laudable service.” M. A. DeWolfe
Howe.
+ – =Atlan.= 98: 849. D. ’06. 950w.
“The fact that Mr. Traubel has not trusted to his memory, but took
down Whitman’s words, hot from his lips, gives this book its great
value and interest. It is a pity, however, that he took down so many
‘hot’ words.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + – =Critic.= 49: 185. Ag. ’06. 1600w.
“The whole book, unstudied and unpolished, conveys a realistic
impression of the poet and the man, such as only a devoted Boswell is
able to give.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 144. Mr. 1, ’06. 1540w.
+ =Lit. D.= 32: 475. Mr. 31, ’06. 1050w.
“Though the book itself is well arranged and beautifully printed, it
leaves the reader in a somewhat dreary wonder whether it faithfully
records even the declining and enfeebled years of the poet.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 353. Ap. 26, ’06. 540w.
“The book should be distinguished in importance sharply from the mass,
not only for its charm, but as a complete self-revelation of the man
who is likely to hold the ultimate place among our poets.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 109. F. 24, ’06. 2620w.
“One of the most remarkable biographical volumes that have appeared in
many years.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 350w.
=Travis, Elma Allen.= Pang-Yanger. †$1.50. McClure.
Abijah Bead, the Pang-Yanger, who with his four-year-old Rob had been
deserted by the woman whom he had secretly married takes his boy to
the town where the young woman is the wife of a prominent citizen. His
purpose is revenge, for the startling resemblance of the child to the
mother must reveal her story and be a witness to her infidelity. This
forms one thread of the story whose other phase pictures Abijah and an
irresponsible tho charming Southern girl in the light of an
ill-assorted pair.
* * * * *
“The book is a strong one, but we are fain to ask ‘Cui bono?’
Certainly, it does not leave us the better or the happier for the
reading; it does not invoke admiration for the truly admirable; it
presents situations repulsive and painful, and we are glad to think
that it fails as a presentation of life.”
– + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 926. D. 30, ’05. 580w.
“Its technical faults are of the kind that the author, with greater
experience, will be unlikely to repeat, and the main outlines of the
plot are strong and interesting. The material is somewhat
sensational.”
– + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 123. Ja. 27, ’06. 100w.
=Trent, William Peterfield.= Greatness in literature, and other papers.
**$1.20. Crowell.
+ =Critic.= 48: 90. Ja. ’06. 200w.
“Upon all these subjects the author has excellent things to say, and
the manner of his discourse is both persuasive and engaging.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 23. Ja. 1, ’06. 280w.
“A most thoughtful and interesting volume.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 96. F. 17, ’06. 2160w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 120. Ja. ’06. 60w.
“They are transparently sincere, and more than ordinarily suggestive.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 200w.
=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= England under the Stuarts. *$3. Putnam.
“It is, on the whole, abreast of the times. It is, on the whole,
accurate. It is well conceived, well written, and eminently readable,
and is without doubt the best, if not the only, single-volume history
of the seventeenth century.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 378. Ja. ’06. 1930w.
+ + – =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 280w.
=Trevelyan, George Macaulay.= Poetry and philosophy of George Meredith.
*$1.50. Scribner.
“A manifest labour of love, the work of an enthusiastic admirer, as
appreciative criticism should be.... The volume aims at being a kind
of guide to Meredith the poet, a Meredith manual. It studies the poems
in all their varieties, and the poet, in all his aspects.... A good
and helpful book, which really expounds Mr. Meredith’s strength,
without shirking the acknowledgment that he is more trying than a poet
should be.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Mr. Trevelyan’s is the most detailed and elaborate study of Mr.
Meredith’s poetry that has yet appeared. It is also mainly just and
discriminating in temper. It is not brilliant or subtle, and its
treatment is not always exhaustive.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 5. Jl. 7. 1910w.
“A scholarly and sympathetic study.”
+ + =Current Literature.= 41: 641. D. ’06. 1500w.
“This book ought to be of great service to those of Meredith’s readers
... who wish to grasp a view of life that seems to them at once
impressive, sane, and extremely perplexing.” F. Melian Stawell.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 128. O. ’06. 1000w.
“Mr. Trevelyan is never the merely literary critic; he has no concern
with fine lines considered apart from their meaning; he deals little
with verbal niceties, with questions of rhythm and metre. He is more
at home, he writes with more authority on the philosophy of the
subject. His judgments of poetry have less insight and persuasion.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 200. Je. 1, ’06. 2080w.
=Nation.= 83: 249. S. 20, ’06. 720w.
+ + – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 1860w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)
“It is a very sincere and generous tribute from a disciple to a
teacher.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 758. Je. 16, ’06. 950w.
=Treves, Sir Frederick.= Highways and byways of Dorset. $2. Macmillan.
“The praise of Dorset is the theme of this volume, in which Sir
Frederick Treves tells us what most to admire in that pleasant land of
green vales and breezy gorse-clad down, of purple heath and rocky
coast.... In describing the highways and byways of Dorset he writes of
places known to him from childhood ... and thus, with a facility which
comes with knowledge, he sometimes gives us in a few lines a sketch of
a spot which is so true that we overlook its slightness, and wish for
no detailed description. This faculty makes ‘Highways and byways in
Dorset’ something more than a glorified guidebook.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The illustrations to the book are numerous, but unequal, and, on the
whole, somewhat disappointing; some of them are trivial.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 207. Ag. 25. 2780w.
“The author has a keen eye for picturesque anecdotes and antiquities.
All this archaeology is borne up and carried along by an easy, flowing
style, so it does not weigh upon the reader, and Pennell’s
pen-sketches come just at the right time.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 100w.
“Mr. Pennell’s sketches serve as an admirable supplement to the great
surgeon’s interesting narrative.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 89. N. ’06. 190w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 462. N. 29, ’06. 550w.
“He writes gracefully with a knack of vivid phrasing, and the great
variety of things which have appealed to him gives an ever-changing
interest and charm to his pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 629. O. 6, ’06. 290w.
“This book is ideal in its way.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 110w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 380. D. ’06. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 393. S. 29, ’06. 1660w.
“The pen of Sir Frederick Treves and the pencil of Mr. Joseph Pennell
make a very powerful combination for dealing with such a subject, and
the subject is one which amply repays the labour that is spent upon
it.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 271. Ag. 25, ’06. 410w.
=Triggs, H. Inigo.= Art of garden design in Italy. **$20. Longmans.
The planning and arrangement, the architectural features and
accessories of the old Italian gardens of the best periods are
described in this sumptuous volume which also contains an historical
introduction tracing the development of garden planning and
description and critical accounts of the principal gardens of Italy.
Numerous plates, plans and sketches illustrate the text.
* * * * *
“This is a splendid volume which equals, if it does not surpass in
interest the author’s former work on the gardens of England and
Scotland.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906. 2: 554. N. 3. 1740w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 288. Ag. 24, ’06. 670w.
“Magnificent volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 520. Ag. 25, ’06. 720w.
“In spite of its imposing appearance the book is not an interesting
one. The descriptions, like the photographs, are commonplace and
superficial. There is little or no illuminating criticism and no
entering into the spirit of the artists who designed the beautiful
gardens of Italy.”
– =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Trinks, Willibald, and Housum, Chenoweth.= Shaft governors. 50c. Van
Nostrand.
A little pocket book uniform with “The Van Nostrand science series.”
It covers the statics of shaft governing which forms a self-contained
part of the theory but does not claim to cover the entire ground.
=Trollope, Anthony.= Autobiography. $1.25. Dodd.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 119. Ja. ’06. 40w.
=Trollope, Henry M.= Life of Moliere. **$3.50. Dutton.
“It is a model of cautious erudition and sound criticism.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 338. Mr. 17. 1530w.
“As for Mr. Trollope’s very long, very painstaking, very accurate, and
infinitely circumstantial ‘Life of Molière,’ it should, we think, be
given an excellent place as a book of reference and detailed
information.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 25. Ja. 26, ’06. 2960w.
“Relying chiefly on French authorities, this work is a full and
elaborate compilation of facts, whether important or trivial.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 229. Mr. 15, ’06. 890w.
“A complete and sympathetic analysis of the man and his genius.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1086. D. 30, ’05. 410w.
“The book is very interesting; it is a conscientious piece of work
which was well worth doing, and it represents a considerable amount of
careful research. It is a mine of usually correct information as to
Molière’s life and the world he lived in.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 116. Ja. 27, ’06. 1610w.
=Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.= Augustine the man.
**$1.50. Lane.
The scenes of this dramatic poem are laid in Carthage, Milan, Lago
Maggiore, and Tagaste. “The struggles of the saint after conversion
between his devotion to Christ and his love for his former mistress
and his son is displayed with insight and sympathy.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Her blank verse is often delightful and always melodious, and she
reaches heights of passion which affect the reader with the sense of
yet greater powers restrained.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 189. Ag. 25, ’06. 290w.
“While as a whole, it does not rise to the dramatic height it was
meant to keep, is full of passages of equal intensity and beauty.”
+ =Critic.= 49: 51. Jl. ’06. 180w.
“The four scenes make a moving story, very gracefully told in
sensitive, sympathetic verse, and rising at times ... into dramatic
intensity. It is a pity perhaps, that in the first scene the author
did not keep more strictly to her subject, Augustine the man.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 248. Jl. 13, ’06. 200w.
“The piece is written in fluent and highly flavored verse, and is not
devoid of a good deal of Euripidean poignancy.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 90w.
“Miss Rives has an exceedingly sure, firm touch, no hesitancy, no
experimentation. Her work moves as if by first intent, first impulse,
copious, colorful, forceful.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 397. Je. 16, ’06. 500w.
“The blank verse is not the mere vehicle of the tale, but the work of
a genuine poet.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 756. My. 12, ’06. 80w.
=Troubetzkoy, Amelie (Rives) Chanler, princess.= Selene. **$1.20.
Harper.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =North American.= 182: 754. My. ’06. 270w.
=Trowbridge, William Rutherford Hayes, jr.= Court beauties of old
Whitehall: historiettes of the restoration. *$3.75. Scribner.
“The book takes up and gives rather full biographies of the lives of
eight of the beautiful women who graced, and disgraced, the English
court at the time of the Restoration. Each ‘historiette’ is
illustrated by remarkably well made portraits, prints from famous
pictures, of its subject, and of famous people connected with her
career.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is no better and no worse than its fellows. There seems no reason
why it should ever have been written. Its author displays neither
knowledge of his period nor sympathy with the men and women, whose
names irrelevantly decorate his page.”
– =Acad.= 71: 468. N. 10, ’06. 1180w.
“After a bowing acquaintance of a good many years’ standing with the
women of the Restoration, we cannot but feel that any attempt to deal
with them after Mr. Trowbridge’s manner would be, to ourselves, a
thankless task, and must, with any one result in disappointment.”
– =Ath.= 1906, 2: 507. O. 27. 1440w.
“Will take no prominent place either for original research or for
naughty piquancy of style.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ – =Dial.= 41: 385. D. 1, ’06. 290w.
+ – =Nation.= 83: 462. N. 29, ’06. 1140w.
“Mr. Trowbridge has written these chronicles very vividly and with a
clear wide view of the backgrounding history. His style is so lacking
in the elusive but crowning quality of distinction that sometimes it
is almost offensive.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 763. N. 17, ’06. 480w.
=Truesdell, Ella M.= Over the bridge and other poems. $1.25. Badger, R:
G.
A book of dainty verse that sings of love, of life, of flower and
field, and of sunshine and showers. A fine quality of imagination
gives color and delicacy to the volume.
=Turley, Charles.= Maitland, major and minor. †$1.50. Dutton.
A story which “deals with the adventures of two brothers at a small
private school, and should appeal to the class of boy readers for whom
it is especially written. There are the usual fights, and the usual
cases of bullying, and all the plots and counter-plots of school-life
as lived in the private school. Mr. Turley understands boys. The book
contains six illustrations by Mr. Gordon Browne.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 890. D. 30. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 540. S. 1, ’06. 170w.
“A rather favourable example of the school story.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 7. D. 9, ’05. 80w.
“Mr. Turley has harked back and given us a study of life at a private
school, of which it is enough to say that it is as true, as wholesome,
and as entertaining as his first venture. Thoroughly delightful book.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 870. N. 25, ’05. 1500w.
=Turner, Henry Gyles.= History of the colony of Victoria from its
discovery to its absorption into the commonwealth of Australia. 2v. $7.
Longmans.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 172. Mr. ’06. 230w.
=Tuttle, Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester.= Reminiscences of a missionary
bishop. **$2. Whittaker.
Bishop Tuttle writes helpfully of his twenty years as missionary
bishop in the Rocky mountains. His preparatory training in a New York
parish taught him organization principles and methods and the real
duties of pastor and rector. The main portion of the sketch deals with
church work in the mountains and its associated hospital and school
interests.
* * * * *
“A candid and often naïve way has disclosed those attributes of his
personality and conceptions of the functions of his office which have
made him effective as bishop since 1866.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 320w.
“It is a solid contribution to American history. These reminiscences
abound in quotable stories: but their value is for much more than
amusement.” Rt. Rev. Cameron Mann, D. D.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 618. O. 6, ’06. 2000w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 284. O. 13, ’06. 140w.
“Well worth reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 405. S. 22, ’06. 320w.
=Tweedie, Ethel B. (Harley) (Mrs. Alec Tweedie).= Maker of modern
Mexico: Porfirio Diaz. *$5. Lane.
Mrs. Tweedie’s sketch furnishes an Interesting personality thru which
to view the history of modern Mexico. President Diaz himself gave the
author diaries, letters, told her anecdotes about himself and
associates, related events and described battles and various incidents
of his life. With this first-hand information, Mrs. Tweedie received
her charge, “Write as you will, but speak good of my country.”
* * * * *
“By leaving out a number of entirely unnecessary exhibitions of
personal admiration for the great statesman, the work would have
greatly gained in value and the subject himself would have stood forth
in nobler proportions.”
+ + – =Arena.= 36: 661. D. ’06. 7770w.
“A book which begins badly, but becomes most interesting when we reach
the man himself.”
– + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 197. F. 17. 480w.
“The book rises to the distinction of being the first adequate
biography of the greatest man Mexico has produced.” Arthur Howard
Noll.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 109. S. 1, ’06. 920w.
“The only portions of value are the descriptions of Diaz in his home
and of social life among certain of the prominent social families of
Mexico city.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 881. O. 11, ’06. 590w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 283. S. 1, ’06. 480w.
“Her history is not scientific but it is interesting. The faults are
perhaps the too constant intrusion of a rather pleasant personality, a
rather careless and a rather diffuse style. It is not a deep or an
original reading of a remarkable man, but it is a pretty good sketch.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 112. Mr. 30, ’06. 480w.
“It is neither a real Mexico nor a real Diaz which is set before us.”
– =Nation.= 83: 171. Ag. 23, ’06. 880w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 456. Jl. 14, ’06. 490w.
“This man’s work, unique of its kind, is set forth in a wonderfully
fascinating, coherent, and authoritative manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 459. Jl. 21, ’06. 1680w.
“The book is interesting reading and, like most biographies of living
men, it is exceedingly one-sided.”
+ – =Putnam’s.= 1: 126. O. ’06. 70w.
“The work is full, clear and written in the authoress’ well-known
interesting style.”
+ + – =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 170w.
“Enthusiasm, without doubt, exudes from every page and paragraph of
Mrs. Tweedie’s work, and had she only brought discretion to her task,
she might have given to the public a book as solid as it undoubtedly
is interesting.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 397. Mr. 31, ’06. 1890w.
“Mrs. Tweedie’s book can best be described as a romantic biography.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 789. My. 19, ’06. 2100w.
=Tyler, Henry Mather.= Selections from the Greek lyric poets with a
historical introduction and explanatory notes. *$1. Ginn.
The revised edition of this text is characterized by the audition of
selections from Bacchylides and a few other short poems, and the
inclusion of more illustrative and parallel references in the notes.
=Tyrrell, Rev. George.= Lex credendi; a sequel to “Lex orandi.” $1.75.
Longmans.
“‘Lex credendi, in substance is a treatment of the Lord’s Prayer
viewed as the rule and criterion of pure doctrine—as the living
expression of that Christian spirit whereof faith in God and his
kingdom, together with hope and charity, is a constituent factor.’...
The book consists of two parts. The first is a treatise on the spirit
of Christ.... Father Tyrrell proceeds in the second part, to a
profound analysis of the spiritual and moral content of each petition
of the prayer.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
“We find this volume an altogether worthy continuation of the previous
work published with full theological censorship and ecclesiastical
sanction.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 561. Jl. ’06. 890w.
+ – =Spec.= 97: 337. S. 8, ’06. 300w.
U
=Ular, Alexander.= Russia from within. **$1.75. Holt.
“Our author seems to have guessed rather than worked at his Russian
history.”
– =Ath.= 1905, 2: 45. Jl. 8. 670w.
“This writer is always picturesque, whether he is abusive, malicious,
hysterical, or merely lively, entertaining, and full of surprises.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 138. My. 19, ’06. 160w.
=Underhill, Evelyn.= Miracles of our lady Saint Mary, brought out of
divers tongues and set forth in English. *$2. Dutton.
“In these pages Miss Underhill ... reintroduces to English readers a
cycle of old sacred tales in which their ancestors took much delight.
The Mary-legends, or ‘Miracles of our lady,’ form a group of religious
romances, the connecting link being that the Virgin Mary supplies in
each of them the supernatural element.... Miss Underhill has made a
good selection, with much diligence, of some of the happiest and
quaintest of what she terms ‘the fairy tales of mediaeval
Catholicism.’... The incidents selected vary in character from the
crudely sensational to the depths of mystical devotion; and they
extend in time from the fourth to the fifteenth century.”—Ath.
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 389. Mr. 31. 300w.
“Possesses a literary quality very much superior to the standard that
prevails in our popular religious literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 83: 686. Ag. ’06. 110w.
“Miss Underhill’s translation gives us an exquisite piece of literary
workmanship.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 1, ’06. 70w.
+ =Outlook.= 83: 243. My. 26, ’06. 370w.
=Underwood, Rev. J. L.= Women of the confederacy. $2. Neale.
Here are gathered from various sources paragraphs from speeches;
essays, and books that give just tribute to the women of the
Confederacy, making an anthology of direct historical value. These
excerpts appear under the following headings: Symposium of tributes to
Confederate women, Their work, Their trials, Their pluck, Their cause,
and Mater redivia.
=United States. Library of Congress. Division of manuscripts.= List of
the Benjamin Franklin papers in the Library of Congress. Lib. of
Congress.
This list has been compiled by Mr. John C. Fitzpatrick under the
direction of Worthington Chauncey Ford. “The papers here listed
constitute those of the Franklin collection known as the ‘second
series’ and are exclusive of the diplomatic papers, which were
retained in the Department of State when the collection was
transferred to the Library of Congress. The compilation is termed a
‘list’ rather than a ‘calendar’ because, although each piece of
manuscript is entered, only the more important of its contents are
noted. The list covers over two hundred pages, the items run in
chronological order, and a full Index is provided.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 475. Ja. ’06. 110w.
=Ind.= 60: 49. Ja. 4, ’06. 50w.
+ + – =Nation.= 81: 523. D. 28, ’05. 200w.
=Unwin, A. Harold.= Future forest trees. *$2.25. Wessels.
“A good translation of an Austrian account of experiments in the
introduction of American trees. The recorded experiments deal with
broad-leaved and with coniferous trees belonging to east and west
North America, planted not alone in Austria as might be supposed, but
in Germany, Switzerland, and Great Britain as well.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“This little book may be confidently recommended as supplying details
of German practice not easily to be procured elsewhere.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 544. O. 21. 640w.
“In spite of its lack of proportion and its marked gaps, it is likely
to be of use in any forest library.”
– =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ’05. 100w.
“Its thoroughly sound, practical and scientific character should
secure it a wide circulation.”
+ + =Nature.= 73: 244. Ja. 11, ’06. 490w.
“This book is of value and interest to all Americans who love and
venerate the trees of their own fast-vanishing forests.” Mabel Osgood
Wright.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 448. Jl. 14, ’06. 170w.
=Upson, Arthur.= City, and other poems. *$1. Macmillan.
“Mr. Arthur Upson has achieved a most creditable piece of work in
this, his ‘Poem-drama’ ... all which material Mr. Upson has woven most
judiciously, with firmness and with delicacy, into his drama, the
personages of which live, move, and have individual being, to quite an
unusual degree. Mr. Upson has notable lines—notable both for substance
and for manner.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 271. Mr. ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Upson seems to be rather remarkable among the younger poets for
having retained something of the traditional moral sentiment of the
past.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 43. Jl. 5, ’06. 150w.
=Upton, George Putnam.= Standard operas: their plots, their music, and
their composers; new enl. and rev. ed.; il. $1.75. McClurg.
Numerous illustrations of the artists who have been closely associated
with certain rôles characterize the nineteenth printing of this
popular handling of the standard operas. Also operas that have become
popular since the first edition appeared have been included. It is a
book designed for the general reader rather than the musician.
* * * * *
“In its present form, this work is far more useful and attractive than
it ever was before and we predict for it a long lease of renewed
popularity.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 330. N. 16, ’06. 120w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 468. N. 29, ’06. 340w.
“This is a book of reference without an equal in its field.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 100w.
V
=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= Face of clay: an interpretation. †$1.50.
Dodd.
A spell of mystery is cast over Mr. Vachell’s new story in which a
young English-Breton girl and a Cornish artist play the leading rôles.
“Falsely they both play because the two troublesome strings of their
instruments, love and ambition refuse to get into tune. The resulting
discords seem to Tephany to be due to a certain face of clay, the
death mask of a beautiful model her lover, Michael, has once painted,
and she resolves to destroy it. Her hand, however is mysteriously
stayed.... The message of the mask accomplishes itself, the avenging
Furic finds his due, the apparition of the aukon is driven away, and
‘by a miracle,’ says the curé, Tephany is saved. Not until after that
do she and Michael learn their instruments.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“We have read Mr. Vachell’s story with a curious sense of wandering
through a lovely and gracious region to the accompaniment of tragic
music.”
+ =Acad.= 70: 382. Ap. 21, ’06. 500w.
“Mr. Vachell shows an occasional tendency to stand outside his
puppets, as if they were not real, which is disconcerting. Altogether
it is a noteworthy novel by one of our most promising writers.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 541. My. 5. 310w.
“But though there are some weak passages, especially, it seems, in any
crisis of emotion, the book is interesting not only as a study of
curious beliefs and superstitions, but in a wider sense as a study of
the life that is not limited to peasants.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 133. Ap. 12, ’06. 420w.
“Is as such things now go, what would be called a very good story. It
has dignity as well as interest.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 723. N. 3, ’06. 220w.
“An attractive story of artist life in Brittany.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 793. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
“As a study of the effect of remorse on a morbid temperament, the book
is deeply interesting, and all the characters of the drama are
skilfully handled.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 698. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.
=Vachell, Horace Annesley.= The hill: a romance of friendship. †$1.50.
Dodd.
A public-school story “brave in daring to enter the lists of the
school-stories, where ‘Tom Brown at Rugby’ forever wins out, and brave
in daring to do without the usual interest of lovemaking.” (N. Y.
Times.) The author’s boys “are cleverly conventional types, nicely
contrasted and distinguished, his incidents familiar to all readers of
social life. But what raises his book above the ordinary level of such
stories and connects it with life, is the love of Harrow. The
corporate life of the school is here, though the individual boys do
not live ... the corporate spirit of a great school.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Vachell writes with such tact and delicacy that we do not think
that his book will offend either Harrovians or those who love another
school.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 495. My. 6, ’05. 290w.
“The story itself is interesting and well told.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 619. Mr. 20. 410w.
“It is a moving story, in no idle sense of the phrase; with its
purity, its sanity, its true boyishness.—its true boys—well fitted to
take the Stalky taste out of our mouths.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 298. My. ’06. 660w.
“It is no exaggeration to declare that not since ‘Tom Brown’ have we
had a school story of such vitality and significance.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 918. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 152. Mr. 10, ’06. 250w.
“An admirable book for boys.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 762. Mr. 31, ’06. 190w.
“There are many clever touches in the book, and some scenes are
spirited.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 744. Je. 3, ’05. 540w.
“Of what goes on in school hours we hardly read anything at all; but,
with this reserve, ‘The hill’ may be commended as a detailed as well
as attractive record of five years at a great English public school.”
+ – =Spec.= 94: 64. Ap. 29, ’05. 940w.
=Vambery, Arminius.= Western culture in eastern lands: a comparison of
the methods adopted by England and Russia in the Middle East. *$3.50.
Dutton.
The author, who occupies a chair in the University of Budapest, “has
long been known as an enthusiastic admirer of England and a severe
critic of Russia. This, his last book, is a systematic description and
comparison of Russian and British rule in Asia, with an explanation of
what he considers the immense superiority of the latter.... The book
consists of three parts, entitled respectively the civilizing
influence of Russia, the civilizing influence of England, and the
future of Islam.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“The attitude adopted in the present volume is on the whole sound,
and, as Britons, we think just. It is not quite uniform throughout.
There are some contradictions in passages which would be startling if
put side by side.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 358. Mr. 24. 1160w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 214. Jl. 26, ’06. 660w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 145. Ap. 27, ’06. 1880w.
“Could easily have been reduced to half its length and been a much
better book. The book is disfigured by Professor Vambéry’s usual
extraordinary Arabic, and by his quoting as ‘Koran’ all sorts of
traditions from Muhammed which never had any connection with the
Koran.”
– =Nation.= 83: 12. Jl. 5, ’06. 280w.
“It may be taken for granted that Prof. Vambéry writes entertainingly
and with great circumspection. Prof. Vambéry cannot escape the
condemnation of his countrymen as being a partisan of England.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 471. Jl. 28, ’06. 1100w.
“We find it more interesting than his ‘History of Bokhara,’ or his
‘Travels in Central Asia,’ or even his ‘Autobiography.’”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 912. Ag. 18, ’06. 130w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 764. Je. ’06. 60w.
“This striking book presents in vivid contrast the methods of the Slav
and the Anglo-Saxon in Middle Asia.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 469. O. 6, ’06. 760w.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Private war: being the truth about Gordon Traill;
his personal statement. †$1.50. Appleton.
“In this somber tale the brave and resourceful American lover, the
astute English friend, and the wily German fortune-hunter circle about
a lovely American widow of an English baronet. It is but an incident
to be expected that Nihilists, Russian torpedo destroyers, and
brilliant naval encounters enliven the progress of the love-story. In
spite of, or because of, several violent deaths the lovers are
united—in the end. The awful tragedy of a young mulatto girl awakens
the schoolmaster to action, and moved by powerful moral conviction, he
sacrifices his chances as a political leader to his convictions. In
this way he incurs the hatred of his political opponents, and suffers
for his courage.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The melodrama goes with a careless swing; probability is properly
ignored, and there is enough blood to satisfy the thirstiest.”
– + =Acad.= 71: 311. S. 29, ’06. 90w.
“A rattling good story of sensation and adventure.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 363. S. 29. 250w.
“Is one of those novels that just escape the category of ‘shockers’ by
virtue of a certain neatness of plot and a bare touch of stylistic
virtue.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 220w.
“Mr. Vance has an interesting story to tell, and he tells it in a most
lively and captivating manner. The characters may be of a more or less
conventional and stagy nature ... but in this case they are decidedly
well drawn.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w.
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 170w.
“Each season gives us many stories of this character both better and
worse—and the best are but ephemeral.”
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 492. O. 20, ’06. 210w.
=Vance, Louis Joseph.= Terence O’Rourke, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50.
Wessels.
“People who like a series of hair’s-breadth escapes, and are not
particular as to whether they can believe in them or not, will
thoroughly enjoy the story, which is written with some skill, and a
good deal of ingenuity.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 290w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Americanism of Washington. 50c. Harper.
Mr. Van Dyke aims to unsay two things often said about Washington:
first, that he was a solitary and inexplicable phenomena of greatness,
and second, that he was not an American. He interprets in brief the
drama which Washington enacted of the eternal conflict in the soul of
war between self-interest in its Protean forms, and loyalty to the
right, service to a cause, and allegiance to an ideal.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Essays in application. **$1.50. Scribner.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 160w.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 97: 419. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“The paper among the present series which is on the whole best worth
reading, is that upon ‘The creative ideal of education.’” H. W.
Boynton.
+ + =Critic.= 48: 456. My. ’06. 570w.
“A book so admirably combining entertainment and edification is not
published every day, or every month.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 20. Ja. 1, ’06. 390w.
“Every essay, however, is valuable, combining suggestions, application
and criticism, and the volume will be given no unworthy place among
the literature of essays as well as among the works of the author.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 168. Ja. 18, ’06. 210w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 543. O. 13, ’06. 240w.
=Van Dyke, Henry.= Fisherman’s luck, and some other uncertain things.
†$1.50. Scribner.
“A leisurely book, and rather prolix, it is written in good English on
the model of Lamb.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 170w.
=Van Dyke, John Charles.= Opal sea. **$1.25. Scribner.