enters into really great biographies. We miss that full and intimate
characterisation which Mr. Ogden is so admirably qualified to give.
His method suggests either indolence or a wrong perception of what a
book should be. Here we have pearls, not strung, perhaps, at random,
but still suggestive of a too great self-suppression on the part of
him who strung them. The book is immensely interesting.” Richard W.
Kemp.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 184. Ap. ’07. 2700w.
“The work of Mr. Ogden on these volumes has been admirably done. With
an editorial self-suppression which finds its best parallel in the
work of Professor Norton, he has given us Mr. Godkin’s story from Mr.
Godkin’s own pen, supplying only the connecting links without which
that story could not be fully understood.” W. H. Johnson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 216. Ap. 1, ’07. 2120w.
“Mr. Godkin knew every one who was worth knowing both in public and
private life, and his comments are singularly keen, even when they are
hasty and unfair. Moreover, these memoranda cover a long and
interesting period of history.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ =Forum.= 39: 100. Jl. ’07. 1270w.
“Taken collectively the correspondence forms an unusually instructive
study of a man whose being was almost exclusively political.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 568. S. 5, ’07. 1000w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 140w.
“[The volumes] have distinct value and interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w.
“There is far too much padding in his two volumes, consisting of
copious extracts from Godkin’s early journalistic correspondence.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1300w.
“Both in the selection and in the arrangement of all this material,
Mr. Ogden has performed his task with admirable taste and skill.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 2440w.
“Mr. Ogden has done the work of editing with great modesty and with
good judgment.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 2000w.
“Nothing within our knowledge compares with them in the vivid
portrayal of current affairs during the last half of the last century.
They will be for a long time to come a repertory from which the
historian and the essayist will draw their facts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 294. Je. 8, ’07. 1900w.
“This book of Mr. Odgen’s is less the biography of an individual than
it is the revelation of just how the silent but irresistible forces of
political and social change are fostered and directed until they have
done their perfect work.” Harry Thurston Peck.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 520. S. ’07. 670w.
“Is a biography of the best, containing in its two plump volumes a
minimum of excellent commentary, and a maximum of invaluable
documentary material.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 110. O. ’07. 390w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 240w.
“We earnestly recommend every thinking man, who values the principles
of honesty, decency and rationality in the public life of his country,
to read every word of these two volumes, and ponder well upon their
significance.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 82. Jl. 20, ’07. 1670w.
“As a biography, indeed, it is open to some criticism. It does not
follow the rules on which most memoirs are composed.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 797. My. 18, ’07. 1430w.
=Goe, David E.=, ed. Transaction of business, by Sir Arthur Helps
[with], How to win a fortune, by Andrew Carnegie; [and other essays].
$1. Forbes.
These practical papers on business are offered to the merchant and
manufacturers who will relish their wit, wisdom, and advice. Such
subjects as; Choice and management of agents, Interviews, Secrecy, Our
judgment of other men, Analyzing of a business proposition, Delays,
and expense, are discussed by men who have succeeded.
=Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.= Goethe’s Faust, erster teil; ed. with
introd. and commentary by Julius Goebel. *$1.12. Holt.
7–11976.
The text of this edition of the first part of Faust is that of Erich
Schmidt, in the Jubiläumsausgabe of Goethe’s works, to which the
editor has added an illuminating introduction and excellent notes.
* * * * *
“Altogether, this edition of Faust is a credit to American scholarship
and an important step in the development of sound methods in the
academic study of German literature.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 330w.
“He has been able to vitalize rather than stifle the imagination in
reading the poet’s pages, and to enrich the reader philosophically
rather than tantalize him with evasive verbiage of metaphysical
dissertation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 295. My. 4, ’07. 250w.
=Gomperz, Theodor.= Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v.
3. *$4. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In less than one hundred pages, and in a style eminently luminous and
readable, the author has condensed a wealth of interpretation and
criticism which can only be described as masterly.” Lewis Campbell.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 439. Ja. ’07. 5320w. (Review of v. 3, pt. 1.)
=Gonner, E. C. K.= Interest and saving. *$1.25. Macmillan.
The two essays of which this volume is composed “attempt an analysis
of the connection which exists between interest and the process of
saving whereby wealth is accumulated and capital supplied.”
* * * * *
“The book offers, besides its theoretic interest, many common-sense
remarks as to the standard of living and the natural objection felt to
a drop in that standard.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 184. Ag. 18. 840w.
“Despite the scholarship of the author and the acuteness of some minor
arguments, the book contains little new and that fallacious.” Frank A.
Fetter.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 160. Mr. ’07. 690w.
“We confess that the issues involved seem often to be too much
overshadowed by the number and magnitude of the hypotheses under which
each case is considered. It is, for the student, an admirable exercise
in dialectics.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 306. S. 1, 06. 180w.
=Goodchild, G. F., and Tweney, C. F.=, eds. Technological and scientific
dictionary. *$6. Lippincott.
GS 7–673.
“The various arts and sciences ... are treated in this dictionary.
Much space is devoted to chemistry, a fair amount to mechanical and
electrical engineering, and relatively little to civil engineering.
Music and heraldry are among the main topics.... Among the other
leading subjects included are architecture, assaying, astronomy,
economic botany and zoology, building trades, geology, glass and
leather manufacture, hygiene, metallurgy, mineralogy, motor cars, oil
and paint manufacture, photography, textiles and watch making”—Engin.
N.
* * * * *
“A thoroughly British point of view. The physical make-up of the book
is generally satisfactory, its poorest feature being a portion of the
illustrations, some of the line diagrams and woodcuts being badly
blurred.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 220w.
=Goodell, Charles L.= Old Darnman; il. by Charles Grunwald. (Hour-glass
ser.) **40c. Funk.
6–46349.
The “Darnman” is a pathetic figure whose mental disorder resulted from
the death of his affianced bride upon their wedding day. Clad in his
wedding garments, for two generations he went the rounds of the
farmers’ homes, accepted one-meal hospitality, and invariably asked
for needle and yarn to mend his threadbare clothes. This little story
has grown out of the traditional bits gathered from different sources.
* * * * *
“A charming but very sad little story, which is of value, however, as
recording in permanent form the history of one who was a familiar
figure to many New Englanders of an earlier generation.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 332. Mr. ’07. 270w.
“The story is told with pathos and delicacy.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 170w.
“It is one of those little stories which, for the few minutes
necessary to read it, take one out of the humdrum of everyday
existence, and so is worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 80w.
=Goodell, Charles Lee.= Pastoral and personal evangelism. **$1. Revell.
7–25069.
Really a dissertation upon the sort of evangelism that in two years
raised the membership of the Calvary Methodist church in New York from
fourteen hundred to twenty-four hundred, “a record of fact and
conviction wrought out in the thick of the fight.” Dr. Goodell says
that “evangelism is the aggressive propaganda of the Christian life.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
“Inspirational, practical, methodical, this is a helpful book for the
development of latent Christian power.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 150w.
=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Balance of power. $1.50. Outing pub.
6–31388.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 25. Ja. ’07.
“The banality of the closing chapter is an unfortunate sequel to an
otherwise excellent love story.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 110w.
“All that was required to make it a strong story, instead of a story
of a strong man, was the service of an editor capable of eliminating
superfluous verbiage, dovetailing incidents and interlacing the
threads in such a manner that the narrative might have run along, if
not altogether smoothly, at least without a surfeit of interruption.”
George Harvey.
− + =No. Am.= 184: 188. Ja. 18, ’07. 1100w.
=Gordon, Armistead C.= Ivory gate. $1.25. Neale.
7–31168.
Twenty-five slender poems written long ago and still singing sweetly
of love as a young man dreams of it, but to several is added a final
verse dispelling the illusion by the light of an old bachelor’s
experience.
=Gordon, Mrs. Elizabeth Oke.= Saint George, champion of Christendom and
patron saint of England. *$5. Dutton.
7–29061.
The book consists of four parts. Besides a biographical sketch of the
martyr, there are chapters on the Commemoration of St. George in
church liturgies and national institutions, on Celebrated knights of
St. George, and on St. George in art.
* * * * *
“As a whole the book has little historical worth. The author does not
appear to discriminate in the least between legend, poetry, chronicle,
and sealed documents for their value as sources. This quality or
indifference to modern historical criticism seems to us a far more
serious fault in the book than the occasional actual misstatements of
the author.” D. S. Muzzey.
− − + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 173. O. ’07 450w.
“Her book, on the whole, is a disappointment, owing to its omissions
and its general lack of thoroughness.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 178. Ag. 17. 1860w.
“Those who wish to read a sober and discreet attempt to unravel the
actual history of the three heroes that bore the name of George—the
Arian archbishop, the tribune, and the martyr—will prefer to consult
Miss F. Arnold-Forster’s ‘Studies in church dedications;’ or,
‘England’s patron saints,’ ii. 464–74.” G.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 824. O. ’07. 590w.
“When one considers how much good literature can be bought nowadays
for five dollars it would be impossible to praise this book with any
heartiness even if it reached a higher level of style and scholarship
than it does.”
− =Nation.= 85: 348. O. 17, ’07. 350w.
=Gordon, George Angier.= Through man to God. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–35977.
Dr. Gordon’s doctrine preached in these sermons is that the heart and
soul of Christianity should be interpreted, not thru nature, but thru
nature’s highest concept, man, to the Creator of man.
* * * * *
“One of the discourses ‘Belief and fear,’ though true and strong in
its main thought, is greatly marred by an extraordinary misuse of the
text, ‘The devils also believe and tremble.’” Theodore G. Soares.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 712. O. ’07. 230w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 238. D. ’06.
Reviewed by George Hodges.
=Atlan.= 99: 563. Ap. ’07. 290w.
=Ind.= 62: 97. Ja. 10, ’07. 150w.
“In seriousness of purpose, in professional self-respect, in dignity
of undertaking, Dr. Gordon has not violated the canons of the worthy
order to which he belongs.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 227. Mr. 7, ’07. 790w.
“For all these reasons—for their philosophic grasp, their modern view,
their poetic vision, their vigorous faith, and their sane and tender
feeling—we commend this volume of sermons both to the thoughtful
reader and to the homiletical student.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 141. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Gordon, Samuel.= Ferry of fate: a tale of Russian Jewry. †$1.50.
Duffield.
7–12695.
Two young Jews, after struggling for two years against poverty and
opposition in the Odessa University, come under the ban of expulsion.
One is reinstated because he finds favor with the prefect, who lures
him into an assistant secretaryship, demanding that origin and
religion be forgotten. The other goes back to his little town and with
his people takes up the cudgel against the government. The story
follows the mental agony of the traitor Jew and the retribution which
human justice fixes for his portion.
* * * * *
“If there is a failure in the book, it is in the portrait of Nyman the
ferryman, who alone among Mr. Gordon’s personages suggests the
melodramatic Russian Nihilist of the detective novel. ‘The ferry of
fate’ deserves to be read carefully. The author has aimed high, and
most of his readers will agree that he has hit the mark.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 661. Je. 2. 180w.
“Shows the hand of the promising apprentice.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 499. Ag. 17, ’07. 60w.
=Spec.= 97: 63. Jl. 14, ’06. 110w.
=Gordon, William Clark.= Social ideals of Alfred Tennyson as related to
his time. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–25171.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To a refined appreciation of beautiful literature the author unites
considerable knowledge of modern sociology.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 715. O. ’07. 150w.
“The book, which we would gladly examine in more detail, is well worth
study. One criticism we must make. Why does Mr. Gordon put the
‘Wesleyan revival’ as one of the five causes which wrought a great
social change in Tennyson’s time?”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 686. N. 3, ’06. 170w.
=Gorky, Maxim.= Mother; il. by Sigmund de Ivanowski. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–16750.
After the death of a brutal husband a mother turns to her son and in
winning him back to virtue frees herself from the “dazed, cowed” state
into which she had been beaten. “Led into dangerous, forbidden ways,
coming into a knowledge of the risks they run who think for themselves
in Russia, she goes on with a courage and love absolutely sublime.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Depicts present-day life in Russia without exaggeration or
morbidness.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07.
“As a document, it will have value for all students of socialism.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 667. Ag. ’07. 280w.
“Like all Gorky’s work it is sternly realistic, free from the tricks
of the romanticists, without elaborated plot, just a piece of the web
of life, as plain and patternless as when it left the loom of the
fates.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 340w.
“His book is a sort of rude epic of Russian poverty and oppression,
from which nothing is omitted.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 961. Je. 15, ’07. 430w.
“Hardly elsewhere has socialism spoken with a voice at once so deep
and so gentle.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 560w.
“A powerful story, which may be too sentimental and overwrought, but
deserves serious attention.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 60w.
“This book peculiarly merits its sacred title.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 840w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“This is a great and serious book; it has exquisite description and
idealization of nature, and yet it has the flaw which Maxim Gorki has
himself pointed out in all his works; it does not give us joy.” Louise
Collier Willcox.
+ + − =No. Am.= 85: 661. Jl. 19, ’07. 1300w.
“Gorky has lost none of his grim power.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 160w.
“The book is not pleasant reading but it is as much better than his
previous work as growth is better than decay.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 111. O. ’07. 180w.
“Since, however, Russia, and, for that matter, Slav letters generally,
are so little known,—even if frequently talked about,—in the United
States, we would particularly commend this excellent translation of
Gorky’s latest book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 763. Je. ’07. 360w.
=Goron, Marie Francois.= Truth about the case: the experiences of M. F.
Goron, ex-chief of the Paris detective police; ed. by Albert Keyzer; il.
by A. G. Dove. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–17362.
Thirteen detective stories based upon the personal experiences of the
ex-chief of the Paris detective police. Among them are stories of
crimes of murder, of blackmail, and robbery. Many interesting
characters ranging from the indiscreet society woman to the habitual
criminal are introduced as in tale after tale, mystifying and
complicated plots are untangled by the master mind of the old
detective.
* * * * *
=Acad.= 72: 126. F. 2, ’07. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 335. My. 25, ’07. 260w.
“If in these stories the clue is not so obscure nor the crime so
intricate as in the best detective romances, there is mystery enough
to make the account of its solution thoroughly entertaining, and what
they may lose in melodramatic excitement they gain in apparent
reality.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 160w.
=Gorst, Sir John E.= Children of the nation. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–25650.
A book whose object is to bring home to the people of Great Britain a
sense of the danger of neglecting the physical condition of the
nation’s children. Some of the chapters deal with infant mortality,
children under school age, underfed children, overworked children,
children’s ailments, physical training, hereditary disease, and the
home.
* * * * *
“The book under review is serviceable because of its analysis of the
conditions involved in child health rather than for the remedies
proposed for physical defects.” W: H. Allen.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 609. N. ’07. 460w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 39. Ja. 12. 1640w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 290w.
“The book is written with a glow of enthusiasm and conviction which
makes it very delightful reading and even those who would not agree
with many of his conclusions and recommendations, could hardly fail to
peruse it with interest and appreciation.” Millicent Mackenzie.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 128. O. ’07. 670w.
“Sir John Gorst’s book is a great deal better than most of its class.
It is less sentimental and is written with some restraint, though with
point and vigour, and it lays out the subject in a fairly
comprehensive and orderly way; but it belongs to the class and
exhibits, in some degree, the usual defects. Nothing is adequately
discussed; the facts given are scrappy, selected, and not always
accurate; over-statement is common; too much weight is attached to
mere opinions; some important questions are omitted, and in regard to
others the writer’s knowledge is seriously defective.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 12: 58. F. 22, ’07. 1230w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 770w.
“A wholesome common sense characterizes the author’s counsels and
suggestions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 300w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 1620w.
=Spec.= 97: 987. D. 15, ’06. 520w.
* =Gorst, Nina Kennedy.= Light. $1.50. Dodge. B. W.
Misery and temptation are depicted in this story, the central figure
of which is a servant girl who has a child out of wedlock. She is
buffeted about from place to place in the underworld, and, finally,
after repeated struggle, the light comes thru the lispings of her
child.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Gorst is not successful in her treatment of such menfolk as
appear in her pages, but her landladies, laundry-girls, and cottagers
deserve praise as individual and truly excellent portraits.”
+ − =Acad.= 70: 430. My. 5, ’06. 490w.
“Mrs. Gorst’s new story is not an advance on ‘This our sister!’ The
sense of form and proportion is even less conspicuous, and a certain
crude and rather brutal outlook, suggestive of force, is absent.
Instead we find more diffuseness, and a fainter show of purpose and
individual vision.”
− =Ath.= 1906. 1: 542. My. 5. 190w.
“We could have well spared some incidents; and the most sordid, which
is also the most superfluous, is nearest to melodrama of the lower
order.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 142. Ap. 20, ’06. 520w.
=Spec.= 96: 758. My. 12, ’06. 150w.
=Goss, William F. M.= locomotive performance. $5. Wiley.
6–46367.
“This valuable work by Dr. Goss covers the very important field of
locomotive steam engineering from a standpoint that prior to the
development of the engineering laboratory at Purdue university was
never possible. Dr. Goss has combined in this volume the most
important results obtained from the Purdue tests, records of which
have from time to time been separately published, together with other
material never before published, thereby making a ‘permanent and
accessible record of the work of the laboratory.’”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“This work of Dr. Goss will rank at the head of the scientific and
technical standards of reference in locomotive engineering. It
presents information on important points obtained with great care and
accuracy and under conditions never before made possible until the
establishing of the Purdue testing plant and engineering
laboratories.” Arthur M. Waitt.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 57: 192. F. 14, ’07. 2050w.
* =Gosse, Edmund William.= Father and son: biographical recollections.
**$1.50. Scribner.
7–36407.
The “struggle between two temperaments” forms the subject-matter of
this volume relating to Edmund Gosse and his father. The offspring of
parents married late in life, the boy grows up in an atmosphere
heavily charged with extreme English Puritanism. “When the child’s
‘temperament’ began to develop, it displayed itself as a passionate
attachment to the romantic in art and poetry; and there were infinite
possibilities of discord between a father who, though he enjoyed
declaiming the sonorous lines of Virgil and Milton, prided himself on
never having read a page of Shakespeare, and a son who saved up his
pocket money to buy the poems of Coleridge and Keats, and, on one
occasion, Christopher Marlowe.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Beyond doubt, the charm of the book lies in the opening chapters,
which describe the child’s sombre life in London, without playmates or
companions, the sights he saw through the window; and the experiments
he conducted alike in true religion and in idolatry, not, perhaps,
much unlike those of other children, but told with all the skill of an
accomplished man of letters.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 347. N. 15, ’07. 1060w.
“The whole book is as human in spirit as it is scientific in method.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 759. N. 30, ’07. 1640w.
“Offers to the curious an absorbing study of temperament.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 520w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Modern English literature: a short history.
**$2.50. Stokes.
W 6–144.
In revising and enlarging this volume for the fifth edition, eight
photogravures and sixty-four half tone portraits have been included.
“Goethe said ... that the portrait of a man of letters was his best
monument. If that be true, or even partly true, we cannot but hope
that this illustrated edition ... may be found to possess some of the
qualities of a literary Valhalla.” (Author in preface.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07.
=Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 50w.
=Ind.= 61: 1061. N. 1, ’06. 40w.
“Has real value both for the student and general reader. The literary
style, criticism, and method of treatment are satisfying.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 83: 813. D. 1, ’06. 270w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Gould, Francis Carruthers.= Political caricatures. $2. Longmans.
A fourth annual collection of the political caricatures of Sir Francis
Gould “which are fully up to the former series of F. C. G.”
* * * * *
“He has a knack of doing disagreeable things, when he thinks fit to do
them, in a manner which excludes resentment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 800. D. 22. 280w.
“We may not catch all the fun of Gould’s pictures on this side of the
Atlantic, but they would certainly serve admirably as an introduction
to the study of contemporary British politics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 48. Ja. 26, ’07. 310w.
“Keen, vigorous, good-humored, with the rarest possible exceptions, he
is all that a political caricaturist should be.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Biographic clinics: essays concerning the
influence of visual function, pathologic and physiologic upon the health
of patients. 4v. ea. *$1. Blakiston.
=v. 1.= The origin of the ill-health of De Quincey, Carlyle, Darwin,
Huxley and Browning.
=v. 2.= The origin of the ill-health of Wagner, Parkman, Mrs. Carlyle,
Spencer, Whittier, Ossoli, Nietzsche and George Eliot.
=v. 3.= Essays concerning the influence of visual function, pathologic
and physiologic, upon the health of patients.
=v. 4.= Morbid symptoms due to eye strain as illustrated by Balzac,
Tchaikovsky, Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn and Berlioz.
* * * * *
“The temper of the man commends itself.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 300w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“The author’s attitude toward his critics, his resentment of the very
general doubt of the conclusions of his earlier volumes on these
subjects, and a certain harshness in presenting his material will much
delay the conversion of those professional brethren, and there are
very many of them, who find his theories rather too finely drawn to be
acceptable.”
− =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It would do much to gain acceptance for the general doctrine of the
writer were it but presented with more discretion and less
acrimoniousness, and, we may add, much more briefly.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“Dr. Gould is a good writer, a man of large learning, and his
sincerity is not to be questioned.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 4 and
5.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 124. Jl. ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Book of the Pyrenees. **$1.50. Dutton.
7–35350.
A timely book in which Mr. Gould not only reviews the history of the
past but with “personal knowledge takes us through ports and cirques
to the bare plateaus, the broken forest land and the Alpine pastures,
patrolled by the shepherds with their powerful dogs, the haunts of the
bear, the wolf and the izard.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.
“Like its predecessors, the new work contains a great deal of
information, and is easily—almost too easily—written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 400w.
“Essentially a guide-book, but one that is readable as well as
practically helpful.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 40w.
“The illustrations, all in black and white, are very numerous, and are
noteworthy for the softness and mellowness of the tones.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6. ’07. 140w.
“If one must find a fault at all hazards, it will certainly be with
the map, which is a mere sketch, noting not the tenth of the places
touched upon, and therefore wholly inadequate for reference.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 236. S. 12, ’07. 440w.
“It will not be Mr. Baring-Gould’s fault if an exquisite mountain
region is not better known and appreciated.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 220w.
=Gouley, John W. S.= Dining and its amenities, by a lover of good cheer.
*$2.50. Rebman co.
7–10595.
“Here are tales of how men have eaten in all ages. The savages
reveling in long pig, Lucullus and his Roman friends dallying over
nightingales’ tongues. Here are the moving histories of the beginnings
and glorious consummations of the wines and liquors which to-day make
glad our hearts and light our steps. Here are anecdotes, here are the
maxims of that prince of the table, Brillat-Savarin, in their original
French, with the translations appended. We are given the evolution of
the table utensils as well as the food because of which they exist,
and the glass and porcelain come in for a share of encomiums as well
as the soup or the entrée.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Can therefore scarcely fail of attracting us to open its covers, and
once open we find a lot to keep us turning the pages. The book is
somewhat overloaded with words of Latin derivation.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 265. Ap. 27, ’07. 800w.
=Graham, Harry.= Familiar faces. il. $1. Duffield.
7–25157.
Some of the familiar faces which Captain Graham describes in rime are
those of the baritone, the dentist, the man who knows, the waiter, the
policeman, the music hall comedian, the faddist, and the gilded youth.
Mr. Hall has assisted in the impressionism by introducing a series of
very suggestive pen and ink sketches.
=Graham, Henry Grey.= Social life of Scotland in the eighteenth century.
$2.50. Macmillan.
A new edition, which gives in a cheaper and more compact form than
ever before, Mr. Graham’s exhaustive treatise upon the evolution which
took place in the religion, education, agriculture, science, and art
of eighteenth century Scotland.
* * * * *
“Mr. Graham knows the minutiae of Scottish social life, and with
anecdotes full of the peculiar national humor and notes that should
not be skipped, shows us the people of thrift, faith, struggle and
romance more fully than we have ever yet seen them.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 330w.
“One of the historical books for which there is a steady demand.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 330w.
“Always Mr. Graham is informing and always he is entertaining, his
pages being lightened with a wealth of gossipy but illuminating
allusion and anecdote, and his style faithfully mirroring the changing
aspects of his theme.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 681. N. 17, ’06. 340w.
=Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.= Queen and cardinal: a memoir of Anne of
Austria, and of her relation with Cardinal Mazarin. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–25499.
“This is the story of the life of Anne of Austria, chiefly dealing
with the events of that life during the period when she was Queen
Regent. Naturally, it is largely concerned with the relations
between the Queen Mother and Cardinal Mazarin. The question as to
whether a private ceremony of marriage ever took place has never
been authoritatively settled, although the opinion of most students
of that period is that there actually was such a marriage. No real
light is thrown on the question by this book, which is in its nature
rather a popular narrative than a historical search into new
material.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Colquhoun Grant should have revised her writing more carefully,
as well as her history. Miss Pardoe and Miss Freer did not claim to be
historians, but they wrote so well in the vein Mrs. Grant has chosen
that they fairly occupy the field.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 381. Mr. 20. 840w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 341. Ag. 8, ’07. 310w.
“We do not feel that the book grows out of her knowledge, but rather
that her knowledge has grown out of the book, and we turn for reality
to the pages of her chief authority, Ann of Austria’s friend, Mme. de
Motteville.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 53. F. 15, ’07. 1210w.
“Her volume should be attractive to those who, while interested in the
bypaths of history, wish their study made easy.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 100. Ag. 1, ’07. 200w.
“Is not unworthy of the attention of those readers who lack knowledge
or inclination to consult the French originals. It may be commended
also to the persons who object to the freedom of those originals, for
Mrs. Grant’s narrative avoids the more spicy and scandalous details in
so far as the theme she treats permits such avoidance.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 1110w.
“Altogether, the book is readable, although it is not important, and
might well have been published in less pretentious guise.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 200w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 472. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“This volume is not without merit, and Mrs. Colquhoun Grant knows a
good deal about her subject and tells her story in a not unpleasing
style.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
+ − =Spec.= 99: 235. Ag. 17, ’07. 360w.
=Grant, Robert F. S., tr.= Before Port Arthur in a destroyer: the
personal diary of a Japanese officer; tr. from the Spanish ed. *$3.
Dutton.
A version made from a Spanish translation of a Japanese original. “The
narrative takes in a period of something less than a year: January
26th, 1904–January 4th, 1905. The most animated part of it is the
story of the boarding of a Russian ship early in March.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The book does not read like a naval officer’s diary of operations in
which he took the part described, so that we cannot extend to naval
students our recommendation of the value, readable as is the spirited
narrative of war.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 99. Ja. 26. 140w.
=Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 170w.
=Spec.= 99: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 220w.
=Graves, Algernon=, comp. Royal academy of arts, per v. *$11. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 808. D. 22. 1570w. (Review of v. 7.)
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 611. My. 18. 1900w. (Review of v. 8.)
“A serious demerit is that Mr. Graves makes no distinction between
pictures and drawings.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 86. Mr. 15, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 5–8.)
Gray mist, a novel; by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.”
**$1.50. Harper.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A tragic story with a wealth of poetic and picturesque vision.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 110w.
“A remarkable feature of this weird and powerful story, which, unlike
most of the novels of the present day, leaves an indelible impression
upon the mind, is a degree of restraint, rare in a woman, observed by
the author.” Ex-Attache.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 413. F. 15, ’07. 1750w.
“The anonymous author’s ideas of Breton, or any life, entirely
preclude meritorious novelistic composition.”
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Greely, Adolphus Washington.= Handbook of Polar discoveries. 3d ed.
$1.50. Little.
6–37224.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠
“It is strictly a ‘handbook,’ a somewhat encyclopedic account based
upon original sources, not meant for continuous reading. It is,
nevertheless, a fascinating narrative.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 130w.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 83. F. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Green, Alice Sophia Amelia (Stopford) (Mrs. John Richard Green).= Town
life in the fifteenth century. 2v. in 1. **$4. Macmillan.
A reissue which merely brings the two volumes together under one
cover. “The republication in a single volume will draw attention anew
to this very interesting study of English borough life in a century
which the author thinks to be, in many ways, ‘extraordinarily like our
own.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mrs. Green is certainly to be congratulated on the new edition in its
present compact and convenient form.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 945. O. 17, ’07. 250w.
“A thorough study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 180w.
=Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).= Mayor’s wife. †$1.50.
Bobbs.
7–17385.
A mystery lies back of the very strange behavior of a public man’s
wife. In it are involved a young secretary, two witch-like old women,
who constantly peer into the operations of the mayor’s household from
the vantage point of their near-by window, and a loyal servant. The
author weaves a ghost spell over the tale, in which former marriages,
theft, and other villainy make hearts miserable.
* * * * *
“It is a mystery story of more than ordinary ingenuity in its
inventive resources. It lacks in human interest. There is none of the
compelling imaginative genius displayed that makes the characters of a
romance appeal to the reader as real flesh and blood men and women.”
+ − =Arena.= 38: 216. Ag. ’07. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“It has a great deal more plot than most books by its author, and
possesses some psychological interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 70w.
=Green, Helen.= At the actors’ boarding house, and other stories. pa.
50c. Helen Green, 826 8th Av., N. Y.
6–45045.
“The book takes its name from a boarding house kept by one Maggie de
Shine, a professional herself in her younger days, and patronized by
such ‘top-liners’ of vaudeville as the Property Man, the Buck Dancer,
the Ingenue, the Three Mangles, Bertine Feathers and her six Pantella
Girls, the Texarkana Comedy Four, Mildred Molar, the Queen of
Burlesque, and a score of others whose dinner-table talks, punctuated
by an occasional ‘scrap,’ are described in speech racy enough to make
George Ade’s slang conventional English in comparison.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Green has not yet completely mastered the art of story telling.
It is as a writer of newspaper sketches that she excells ... real
pictures of real life, written from the inside, and although often
running cheek by jowl with crime and vice, never repulsive.” James L.
Ford.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 431. Je. ’07. 1220w.
=Greenstone, Julius H.= Messiah idea in Jewish history. $1.25. Jewish
pub.
7–4165.
A refutation of the assertion that Judaism has no dogmas. From the
stories of Jewish lore, the author proves “that dogma played as
important a part in the development of Jewish institutions as did the
law, that Judaism ‘regulates not only our actions but also our
thoughts.’”
* * * * *
=Nation.= 84: 289. Mr. 28, ’07. 70w.
“For Christian as well as Jewish readers this is an instructive book.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= Madame de Staël and her lovers. *$3.50. Pott.
The marriage which was a “mere bargain, and ensuing liaisons numerous
and frank” occupy the writer who essays to portray this strong
personality “brought up in the salons of the eighteenth century, in
the midst of all that was most brilliant in the Paris of that day, and
carried on a wave of European fame through the revolution, the empire,
and the restoration.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“The worst things about Mr. Gribble’s book are the title and the
preface. A clear and vivacious piece of biography which excels in
interest many recent novels.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 376. Mr. 30. 1260w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 237. N. ’07. 420w.
“This is a very interesting and, indeed, a brilliant book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 4. My. 4, ’07. 870w.
“Mr. Gribble’s study of Benjamin Constant is curious, and a good deal
of it will be new to English readers.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 94. Jl. 20, ’07. 1620w.
=Grierson, Elizabeth W.= Children’s book of Edinburgh; il. by Allan
Stewart. *$2. Macmillan.
7–35148.
Following an introduction the author treats entertainingly Modern
interests of Edinburgh, The sights of Edinburgh, Tales of long ago,
and Mary, queen of Scots.
* * * * *
“Contains too much detailed information regarding the institutions of
the city, and not enough about customs, to interest American children,
but the history and legend in it will be useful to librarians and
teachers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 81. Mr. ’07.
“Is in parts entertaining and picturesque, but the general effect is
rather scrappy, and some portions are dull.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 30w.
“Apart from this question of probability, there is too much savagery
in some of these ballads to make them suitable material.”
− + =Spec.= 97: sup. 658. N. 3, ’06. 270w.
=Griffis, William Elliot.= Japanese nation in evolution: steps in the
progress of a great people. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29750.
“It is the young Japanese nation tingling with righteous latter-day
enthusiasm of which this book treats, and all “figureheads and
impersonalities” are entirely eliminated. The rise of the Japanese is
traced from prehistoric times, with special emphasis laid upon the
author’s notion that the original stock of this people is Aryan, or
Ainu, and not Mongolian. To this latter fact he attributes the secret
of the nation’s superiority.”
* * * * *
“A distinct contribution to the literature on Japan.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07. S.
“The author is conceded to be the best informed American on the
subject concerning which he writes.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 330w.
“It is a scholarly book, presenting a thorough discussion of Japanese
ethnology,—not, however, in a technical manner.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 80w.
=Griffiths, Arthur.= Rome express. $1.25. Page.
7–9550.
A sleeping-car tragedy occurring between Laroche and Paris furnishes
the mystery which is unravelled in the course of this story. The
French detective service is out in full force, and frequently goes off
on the wrong trail. Among the implicated are an Italian countess, her
maid and an Italian banker, the latter of whom is proven guilty and
barely escapes the guillotine.
* * * * *
“This is an excellent detective story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 183. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.
* =Griggs, Edward Howard.= Use of the margin. (Art of life series.)
*50c. Huebsch.
The aim of this series of books is “to illuminate the
never-to-be-finished art of living,” with no attempt at solving the
problems or giving dogmatic theories of conduct. The present monograph
shows what possibilities for development there are in the margin—the
time falling to the lot of each individual to spend as he may
please—and points out ways of using it to increase the capital, the
character, intelligence and appreciation of one’s life.
=Griswold, Stephen M.= Sixty years with Plymouth church. **$1. Revell.
7–21719.
“The author’s connection with Plymouth church began four years after
Mr. Beecher came as its first pastor. The present volume is not a
history of the church, such as was lately published of the Broadway
tabernacle in New York, but is rather a series of notes and
impressions attached to a thread of facts. Naturally to the author the
great predominating figure is the first pastor, altho full credit and
honor are given to the two very able men who succeeded him, Dr. Abbott
and Dr. Hillis. A fair account is given of the origin of the church,
and, naturally, a very slight account of the trial of Mr. Beecher,
with a view of involving the name of no one.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The book has an excellent spirit, and gives a correct impression of
the immense influence the church had in favor of freedom all over the
country.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 170w.
=Outlook.= 86: 525. Jl. 4, ’07. 100w.
=Groben, countess Gunther.= Ralph Heathcote: letters of a young
diplomatist and soldier during the time of Napoleon; giving an account
of the dispute between the Emperor and the Elector of Hesse. *$5. Lane.
“These letters are of exceptional interest. They are intimate letters
written by an only son to his mother at the time when Napoleon was
putting Europe in confusion. Ralph Heathcote was a young man of
intelligence, and owing to the fact that he was an Englishman who had
been born and bred in Germany, his point of view is fresh and
enlightening.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“His letters written during the strenuous time of his life must
interest all who care in any way for that most enthralling of
subjects—the conduct of life.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 671. Jl. 13, ’07. 1090w.
“The chief, indeed the only, value of these letters is the insight
they give into the society, in Cassel, and incidentally, in London,
Edinburgh, and Lisbon.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 620w.
“As a testimonial of filial affection, and as a record of the
every-day life of a somewhat gifted young man in several lands and in
various capacities, one hundred years ago, the correspondence has
interest; but its literary value is as slight as its historical
importance.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 300w.
“A reader of the volume should find himself drawn on almost
irresistibly until he completes it. It is an interesting and
instructive addition to the year’s literature.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 685. O. 26, ’07. 1760w.
“Heathcote’s letters describing his services in the Peninsula are
readable though of no particular value to the student of military
history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 150. Ag. 3, ’07. 150w.
=Grose, Howard Benjamin.= Incoming millions. *50c. Revell.
6–38888.
This new volume dealing with the immigrant population “is one of the
home study mission course, and is dedicated to ‘the Christian women of
America, whose mission it is to help save our country by evangelizing
the alien women and teaching them the ideals of the American home.’ It
contains valuable information culled from various sources, intending
to shew the intent of the immigration to America.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Plenty of good information about the immigrant in this volume.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 212. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.
“The tone of the volume is moderate and reasonable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 912. D. 29, ’06. 140w.
=Grove, Sir George=, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and
thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. **$5. Macmillan.
=v. 3.= “The new volume 3, which begins with Maas and ends with Pyne,
includes for the first time, the names of MacDowell, Mahler,
Mancinelli, Mascagni, Milloeker, Napravnik, Paderewski, Paine, Parker,
Pierne, and Puccini among the composers; while to the list of singers
and conductors have been added the names of Mallinger, Malten, Maurel,
Mottl, Nevada, Nikisch, Nordica.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 419. Ap. 6. 1290w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Fully sustains the reputation of its two predecessors for accuracy of
historical statement, comprehensiveness of scope, and conservatism of
criticism.”
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 256. Ap. 17, ’07. 600w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =Ind.= 63: 342. Ag. 8, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It proves, like the previous two volumes, that the revision is an
earnest one, seeking out the omissions and deficiencies of the
original, and placing the new tasks in hands almost always the most
capable to be found.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 133. Ap. 26, ’07. 2550w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Altogether, the space has been expanded by over one-fifth, and the
editor and his associates have almost invariably done their work well,
thus making ‘Grove,’ more than ever, a necessity to every amateur and
student.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 345. Ap. 11, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The revision has been thorough, perhaps not all points so thorough as
might have been wished; but it has ... completeness in covering the
vast field of musical history and literature, fullness of information,
and interest of presentation.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 790w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A most excellent standard and really unique work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 760. My. 11, ’07. 1120w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Grundy, Mrs. Mabel Sarah Barnes.= Dimbie and I—and Amelia. †$1.50.
Baker.
7–9552.
Dimbie, the devoted and manly young husband, I, his wife, the
chronicler of this one year of married life, Amelia the racy maid of
all work, and other delightful characters are revealed in the course
of this tender little story with its pathetic undercurrent of brave
cheeriness and undying affection.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠
“A brave, bright story is ‘Dimbie and I,’ and one that is well worth
the reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 470w.
=Gruyer, Paul.= Napoleon, king of Elba; tr. from the French. *$3.50.
Lippincott.
7–19481.
“In the present work the search-light of history is turned full upon
the little island and its great occupant. The smallest details of the
Emperor’s life in his little kingdom are narrated and much new light
is thrown upon his character. Interesting portraits are also given of
the sharers of his exile: Madame Mère, Pauline his sister, the devoted
Bertrand, Drouot and the old watch-dog Cambronne.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“A pleasing volume, which will introduce British readers to an island
with which few persons are acquainted, and to one of the less known
episodes of the Emperor’s career. The rendering is at times faulty.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 616. N. 17. 160w.
“Paul Gruyer is not the only writer who has chosen this theme. But
nowhere before the appearance of the book under review had a complete
picture of the surroundings and the central figure been presented with
the necessary completeness. Now nothing remains to be known. As to the
translator’s task, it has been fairly done, as far as turning the
French into readable English. But in other respects the performance is
one of which it is impossible to write with too great severity. The
translator is totally ignorant of everything French, except to a
certain extent the French language, and of the history of the period.”
Adolphe Cohn.
+ + − =Bookm.= 24: 592. F. ’07. 1210w.
“There is nothing maudlin about the volume (its author surely was
among the millions who recently voted Pasteur the greatest Frenchman)
and it deserves to be bought and read by every Napoleonic student.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 150w.
“The narrative is of a vivid and striking character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.
“The author sets out a good part, though not by any means all, that is
shown in adequate fashion.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 534. D. 20, ’06. 90w.
“Brings together the wealth of information contained in scattered and
forgotten sources, and presents it in an eminently readable form.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12, ’07. 300w.
“Presents a comparatively unknown chapter of Napoleonic epic, and
throws some important light on the character and ability of the most
colossal individual of modern history.” George Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 759. Mr. ’07. 710w.
“The work of Paul Gruyer will live when the ‘Last voyages’ is
forgotten.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 950w.
=Guenther, Conrad.= Darwinism and the problems of life: a study of
familiar animal life. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–17681.
“A study of the theory of evolution, defending the doctrine of
‘natural selection,’ to the exclusion of all other explanations of
individual and collective development in men and animals.... The bulk
of the book treats in detail of the manner of development of the many
species of living creatures, from the original protoplasm or
unicellular being to the complex and mysterious physiology of man.”—N.
Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Taken as a whole, that portion of Dr. Guenther’s book which deals
strictly with biology can best be characterized as sadly behind the
times.” Raymond Pearl.
− =Dial.= 43: 208. O. 1, ’07. 850w.
“Not only in the lucidity of its presentation and discussion, but in
its arrangement of the materials also, it is adapted above all others
as a book that may be taken up by those who possess very little idea
of science, and whose ignorance leads them to hold very erroneous
ideas of the present state and value of evolutionary doctrine. The
point that merits much criticism, in the opinion of the reviewer, is
the author’s attitude toward the work of De Vries and others, on
mutation or saltation as the method of evolution.” Henry Edward
Crampton.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 297. My. 23, ’07. 2260w.
“It is in making a fetich of natural selection, and by its action
alone explaining the whole problem of evolution, that the volume falls
far short of being a well-balanced thesis.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 549. Je. 13, ’07. 450w.
“This is a disappointing book. Many of the author’s conclusions on the
main subject are sound enough. It is more to be regretted that his
statements of fact are so often open to adverse criticism, and that he
has been, on the whole, so badly served by his translator.” F. A. D.
− + =Nature.= 74: 268. Jl. 19, ’06. 590w.
“It is not written in too technical a manner. The presentation of the
ideas is simple.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 269. Ap. 27, ’07. 850w.
=Gulick, Luther Halsey.= Efficient life. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–11182.
The avowed object of this little volume is to offer suggestions of a
hygienic nature which will enable the reader to perform more
efficiently the duties of life. It discusses among other things:
States of mind and states of body, Exercise, Food, Waste, Fatigue,
Sleep, The bath—for body and soul, Pain—the danger signal, and Growth
in rest.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07. S.
“The experience of a practical man of affairs as well as physician
recorded in the ‘Efficient life’ recommends the book to business men
and women as a health hand-book which will relieve rather than add
burdens to the pressure of life and which will make efficiency in work
easier and work itself more efficient.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 158. Jl. ’07. 250w.
“It is a notably sensible, frankly practical, and popularly attractive
statement of some well-established principles of healthy mindedness.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 320w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 260w.
“Dr. Gulick has no hobbies and sees clearly that the things to be
commended are those which the hearer may reasonably be expected to do
and not over-refinements of bodily care and personal conduct
impossible of general attainment.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 330w.
“Dr. Gulick applies himself to telling us how to counteract the
deteriorating effects of (town) life, and he has executed his task
well.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 315. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Reading and following Dr. Gulick’s suggestions in this book ought to
help many people to raise the standard of their individual efficiency,
for the advice given concerning the conduct and regulation of life is
both sound and essential.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 260w.
=Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger (Guy Thorne, pseud.).= The serf. *$1.
Fenno.
The author has chosen the rough and wicked England of the twelfth
century as the setting for his story of Hyla, the serf, whom he has
made typical of serfdom, and within whose misshapen body burned the
first spark of freedom which was to enkindle the world. The coarse
times are well depicted from the lewd life of the barons in their
castles to the hopeless routine of the serfs in their shacks. The
personality of Hyla who rises from the herd about him and becomes a
man and a murderer to avenge his daughters and his wrongs, is strongly
brought out and the reader follows breathless until he has paid the
awful price exacted from such as he.
* * * * *
“If the reader can bear the smell of the sewerage of the twelfth
century, and the feel of the big eels slipping thru his toes as he
reads, he will find in this book the most gorgeous descriptions of
water scenes that have appeared in years. The whole meaning of the
marches and fens of the twelfth century, their menace and their
beauty, as distinct from the civilized waterways of modern times in
England is well portrayed.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 730w.
“He frequently leaves the straight path of this narrative in order to
preach a modern doctrine of brotherhood. Apart from its didactic
quality the story has a good deal of force; Hyla the serf and his
fortunes are worth following for their own sake.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 235. S. 12, ’07. 380w.
“It is an exciting and interesting tale and it presents a fairly
truthful picture of English life in the early middle ages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Gummere, Francis B.= Popular ballad. (Types of English literature ser.,
v. 1.) **$1.50. Houghton.
7–18086.
“Prof. Gummere starts out with a severely critical consideration of
just what must be meant by ‘popular’ as applied to ballads and rules
out all but about 300 specimens of the genre. While he treats the
ballad as a closed account, an outcome of conditions which no longer
exist, he admits that there is nothing to prevent the daily production
of ballads which in time may become as popular as any in this
collection. But he restricts the present study to these remnants of
oral tradition, divides them into half a dozen classes, studies their
sources, and gives a critical estimate of their worth.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The last chapter on the worth of the ballad as poetry, is written
‘con amore,’ but with all that admirable scholarly restraint that
marks all of Professor Gummere’s work.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Notwithstanding the differences of opinion which we entertain
regarding these matters of controversy, we gladly acknowledge the
interest of Prof. Gummere’s work, and believe that it will be accepted
as beginning auspiciously a series which promises great usefulness.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 122. Ag. 8. ’07. 1350w.
“Prof. Gummere writes in an interesting style. He has a cleverness of
statement and an ability to use aptly and vividly a very great fund of
erudition that will make his book entertaining as well as instructive
for the general reader, while the special student will find it a mine
of information.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.
=Gunsaulus, Frank W.= Higher ministries of recent English poetry.
**$1.25. Revell.
7–23730.
“The four lectures deal with the distinctively Christian element in
the writings of Arnold, Tennyson and Browning, the introductory essay
treating of the preparatory influence of Shelley, Wordsworth and
Coleridge.” (Ind.) Gunsaulus emphasizes the classical stoicism of
Matthew Arnold, Tennyson’s portrayal of conscience and the inevitable
results of sin, and the religious element in Browning.
* * * * *
“Dr. Gunsaulus’s essays are scholarly and seriously suggestive, and
give a broad view of the thought and of the influence of these three
masters of the last century.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1002. O. 24, ’07. 330w.
“Yet while there is an appreciation of the genius of the poets about
whom the author writes, there is also in every lecture a certain
amount of bathos and sloppy extravagance.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 421. N. 7, ’07. 210w.
“Dr. Gunsaulus does not add anything very new to a well-worn subject.
And his own view of poetry seems a somewhat prosaic one.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 663. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
“Perhaps the best specimen of Dr. Gunsaulus’s work is his analysis of
Tennyson’s greatest poem. ‘The idylls of the king.’”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 260w.
=Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley.= Paths to power; Central church sermons.
*$1.25. Revell.
5–33035.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The strength of the book is its weakness. It is too wordy,
imaginative, and passionate. Thought is not sufficiently clear and
comprehensive to serve as a basis for enduring emotional power. The
book is inspirational rather than informing, and its power might have
been vastly increased by gripping the intellect more vigorously even
at some sacrifice of rhetoric.” E. A. Hamley.
+ − =Bib. World.= 29: 471. Je. ’07. 190w.
“In the present volume the Chicago pastor impresses one with a sense
of asymmetry. He seems to give disproportionate attention to the
‘fall’ of Adam with its alleged consequences, and the fall of Chicago,
with its palpable consequences, from the moral ideals of all good
citizens.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 190w.
=Gunter, Archibald.= Mr. Barnes, American: a sequel to Mr. Barnes of New
York. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9841.
“Highly dramatic scenes and characters are provided in this volume....
The very ample _dramatis personae_ include Corsican bandits,
supra-beautiful maidens, members of the aristocracy, ill-favored
ruffians both imported and domestic, and ghosts. Very exciting events
transpire and ... slaughter is plethoric.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, 07. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 243. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 767. Je. ’07. 160w.
* =Gunter, Archibald C.= Prince Karl. †$1.25. ’07. Dillingham.
7–33913.
An unsatisfactory novelization of a satisfactory play whose principal
characters are “a despotic mother-in-law, an Anglomaniac dude, and a
Bostonian girl fresh from Vassar. The hero, Prince Karl, is a sort of
Jekyll and Hyde character, only in the novelization the character is
accompanied by considerable buffoonery.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The plot is commonplace, and the dialogue has little wit. An unusual
but characterless feature is the use of the historical present in the
telling of the story.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 90w.
“The novelization of the play ‘Prince Karl’ is distinctly
unsatisfactory; it is crude, sketchy, and unreal; the faults that
effective stage setting and clever acting would render oblivious in an
acted drama become very salient in a narrative read in cold blood.
There is no originality in either the plot or character portrayal.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
=Guthrie, William B.= Socialism before the French revolution; a history.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–22934.
The first comprehensive attempt to meet the need of a record of the
history of social reform from the time of More to the French
revolution. The author emphasizes especially the fact that social
theory is the outgrowth of social conditions and that social strivings
and social ideals are by no means confined to the nineteenth or
twentieth centuries. His captions are as follows: The beginning of
social unrest of England, The social theories of Sir Thomas More, Life
and times of Campanella, The socialism of Campanella, Eighteenth
century radicalism in France; The social teachings of Morelly, and
revolutionary radicals.
* * * * *
“His references to modern socialism are not always happy. There are
frequent statements that need the saving grace of qualification; while
the tone of some of them is jaunty rather than judicial.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1004. O. 24, ’07. 320w.
“If Dr. Guthrie’s work is open to severe criticism it is perhaps
because of its conception of the nature of socialism and his
assumption that the utopias of the period under discussion are to be
taken as socialism.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 497. O. ’07. 540w.
“He makes no effort to write an exhaustive history of early socialism,
and the title of his book is therefore not accurately descriptive of
its contents. All that he attempts to do, and we are grateful to him
for doing this, is to recall to our minds those writings of the past
which best illustrate the evolution of socialistic thinking.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 441. Jl. 13, ’07. 340w.
“There are here no hasty generalizations, unwarranted inferences, and
strainings of interpretation.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 539. N. 9, ’07. 290w.
+ =Spec.= 99: 369. S. 14, ’07. 390w.
=Guyer, Michael Frederic.= Animal micrology; practical exercises in
microscopical methods. *$1.75. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–4839.
“The topics discussed in this book are as follows: necessary
apparatus; preparation of reagents; general statement of methods;
killing, fixing, imbedding, sectioning, staining, and mounting; minute
dissections; tooth, bone, and other hard objects; injection of blood
and lymph vessels; in toto preparations; blood; bacteria;
embryological methods with chick, etc.; and reconstruction from
sections.”—School R.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 30w.
“The crucial test of the value of the work must necessarily consist in
the actual experiment of using it in class. We venture to think,
however, that the volume will react to this test in a most successful
manner.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 582. Ap. 18, ’07. 440w.
“As a textbook it could hardly be improved. The advanced student
cannot help but wish that it might have been available when he began
his work.”
+ =School R.= 15: 306. Ap. ’07. 420w.
“Concise, eminently practical and well classified treatment. It will
be found useful to a larger number of people than any other book of
its kind at present in existence in English.” Irving Hardesty.
+ =Science=, n.s. 25: 339. Mr. 1, ’07. 1450w.
=Gwatkin, Henry Melville.= Knowledge of God and its historical
development. 2v. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–2069.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
− =Acad.= 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.
“In both its apologetic and its historical task this work is
conservative and follows in the beaten paths of the traditional
methods. On the historical side Professor Gwatkin is more at home,
though one cannot escape here the feeling of special pleading which
does injustice to many facts and persons of history. Looseness of
expression and of thought characterizes his apologetic work.” W. C.
Keirstead.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 546. Jl. ’07. 1150w.
“Is uncommonly readable and convincing, not only by reason of its
abundant learning but by reason of its unfailing fairness and its
habitual restraint. The argument is never overstated, and the
difficulties are never undervalued.” George Hodges.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 565. Ap. ’07. 60w.
“The ordinary reader will often be somewhat bewildered by the mass of
historical material brought into brief compass. Moreover, throughout
the work, the author stops to answer so fully the supposed objections
of those who differ from him that one is frequently more impressed by
the wealth of possible opinion than by the author’s own position. His
work will be full of suggestion to historical students; but because of
its objective point of view, it is primarily a book of description,
rather than one of interpretation.” Gerald Birney Smith.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 381. N. ’07. 510w.
“The freshness and charm with which the lecturer has dealt with his
subject should procure for them an abundant welcome in a much wider
circle. Perhaps the most attractive feature of the book is the earnest
and sustained effort which Professor Gwatkin makes to combine the best
modern thought upon religion and the philosophy of religion with the
substance of the old historical faith.” Robert A. Duff.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 675. Ap. ’07. 2670w.
=Gwynn, Stephen Lucius.= Fair hills of Ireland; il. by Hugh Thomson. $2.
Macmillan.
7–35041.
Mr. Gwynn states that his book is written in praise of Ireland. And it
is such praise as one can give who has a full understanding of “its
soil and its people, its mountains and plains, seas and rivers, cities
and solitudes, its ways of life and thought, its history and its
aspirations, its failures and possibilities, its joy and grief.” Of
these he writes: “It is, in fact, obviously intended to play a part in
promoting the ‘Irish revival.’” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“He sings his song of love and war so charmingly, and with such
sympathy and intuitive understanding, that it seems ungenerous to
complain that his book is not what its title implies. Let us confess
that we speedily forgot our sense of disappointment in the glamour of
his pages.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 630. D. 22, ’06. 850w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 9. Ja. ’07. S.
“Is intended to be suggestive and picturesque, and succeeds thoroughly
in this aim. We commend it strongly to those who visit Ireland with
leisure and in earnest, and are not satisfied with following beaten
tracks and hearing stale jokes.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 685. D. 1. 1110w.
“It is a book that will appeal to Irishmen in particular and to
travellers and lovers of antiquity in general.”
+ =Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 260w.
=Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 310w.
“How he has managed to pack, in a volume of a little over 400 pages,
so many delightfully told legends and historic incidents, which give
to every landscape a sort of moral personality, is Mr. Gwynn’s
secret.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 320w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 105. Ja. 19, ’07. 230w.
“There is, however, one drawback to the legends told by Mr. Gwynn. The
orthography of the names of the heroes, and even of the heroines, is
repulsive, and will always be an obstacle to the wide, acceptance of
these historical, semi-historical, and mythical romances.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 570w.
“The method of presentation is logical and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 72. F. 2, ’07. 630w.
“Its author wanders too rapidly and disconnectedly from theme to
theme, indulges overfreely in allusion, and demands too great a
previous knowledge of Irish history, legendary as well as authentic.
Nevertheless, the book will be found well worth the pains necessary to
read it, and should meet an especial welcome from prospective
travelers in Ireland.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 60w.
“We do not always accept Mr. Gwynn’s opinions, and we sometimes find
ourselves wondering why he has said this or seems not to know that.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 583. N. 10, ’06. 1240w.
“We can imagine no more instructive and attractive guide to the holy
places of Irish history. His style, while singularly free from
mannerisms, is always full of light and colour and vivacity. He has
humour too, and a high sense of dramatic contrast.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 1410w.
H
=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= Baccalaureate addresses and other talks on
kindred themes. **$1. Scribner.
7–11555.
Sixteen brief addresses in which President Hadley of Yale dwells “on
the grand fundamentals of character and citizenship, of individual and
social virtue, and, in the large wholesome sense, of piety and
religion.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The simple, straightforward style of these addresses is engaging.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 330w.
“The tone of the book is wholesome and optimistic, but one must
confess that it deals largely in platitudes.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 410. My. 2, ’07. 70w.
“They disclose in a manner at once incidental and intimate, the spirit
in which Dr. Hadley meets thousands of young men. It is because of
their disclosure of this spirit and because of the extreme elevation
and devotion of the spirit disclosed that the volume will receive a
considerable and a cordial welcome.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 216. Ap. 6. ’07. 1280w.
“Simplicity of style, singleness of aim, earnestness of purpose, an
entire absence not only of cant but of professionalism in all its
forms, but above all a certain virility of spirit, characterize these
addresses.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 77. My. 11, ’07. 270w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 228. N. ’07. 470w.
+ =Yale R.= 16: 108. My. ’07. 140w.
=Hadley, Arthur Twining.= Standards of public morality; the Kennedy
lectures for 1906, in the school of philanthropy conducted by the
Charity organization society of the City of New York. **$1. Macmillan.
7–21398.
Five essays entitled, The formation of public opinion, The ethics of
trade, The methods of corporate management, The workings of our
political machinery, The political duties of a citizen. In these
chapters the author discusses present evils from the standpoint of the
historian, the economist and the good citizen.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 165. O. ’07. S.
“Excellent though the book is, a little more of the ‘scorn of scorn,’
the ‘hate of hate,’ the love of all ideals of even impossible
perfection, might have been expected—and twenty years ago would have
been expected—in a New England college president’s treatment of the
subjects discussed.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 320w.
“The book will bear reading and rereading both by officers and by
private citizens.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1309. N. 28, ’07. 570w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 569. N. ’07. 100w.
“The book is worth reading not once, but twice. This is a rich bill of
fare spread exactly in the ripeness of appetite for the meal. May good
digestion wait on appetite, and the community will be the better for
it.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 1460w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 227. N. ’07. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 384. S. ’07. 100w.
=Yale R.= 16: 225. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=Hadow, Gerald Elliot, and Hadow, William Henry.= Oxford treasury of
English literature. 3v. ea. *90c. Oxford.
7–6793.
=v. 1.= Old English to Jacobean. This volume indicates the chief
landmarks in prose and poetry (not dramatic) from Beowulf to the
writers of the Jacobean age, with good introductions.
=v. 2.= Growth of the drama. Under Tragedy, Comedy, and History, are
given selections which range from the miracle plays to Ford’s Perkin
Warbeck. General introductions and brief bibliographies are provided.
* * * * *
“The introductions, despite the care and knowledge with which they are
written, are inevitably insufficient and a little dictatorial: the
selections, though chosen with fine judgment, are brief and not wholly
representative.”
− =Acad.= 71: 174. Ag. 25, ’06. 2040w. (Reviews of v. 1.)
“The introductions to the various parts of the book are most valuable
and scholarly, and contain a really noble and stimulating appreciation
of Marlowe and of Webster.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 339. Ap. 6, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 97. Ap. ’07. S. (Review of v. 1.)
“Perhaps this section of drama was a difficult one to fill; but we the
more regret the arrangement which made it necessary for the editors to
fill it. Yet such criticisms do not prevent this being a good and, on
the whole, representative manual.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 35. Jl. 13. 1410w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is admirably done, and wholly worthy of the distinction of
its Oxford imprint.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 286. N. 1, ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is characterized by the nicest scholarship.”
+ =Educ. R.= 33: 535. My. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The dominant feeling with which one puts down this book is one of
pleasure and gratitude. There is everything to learn in it and
everything to enjoy, and all the learning is only another kind of
enjoying. Nothing could be better than the editorial introductions to
the different sections. They are models of what such things should be;
as true as if they were written by dulness itself; as striking as if
they were made up of wilfulness.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 301. S. 7, ’06. 5330w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The introduction to each extract gives just the information that will
be needed by the ordinary reader, and the general introduction errs,
if at all, only in its brevity.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 1370w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August.= Last words on evolution: tr.
from 2d ed. by Joseph McCabe. *$1. Eckler.
6–14562.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 214. Ja. ’07. 270w.
“The presentation of the subject is marred by a controversial
treatment of the work of Wasmann and by an unnecessarily harsh
arraignment of Virchow on account his attitude toward evolutionary
questions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 228. Mr. 7, ’07. 150w.
“That part of his work which deals with science shows him an
investigator who will stand with the foremost of his century. He has
the rare distinction of having contributed materially to the sum of
human knowledge. But all his science has here become only the stair to
his philosopher’s tower of ivory. To us this tower is a mere castle in
Spain, and the last words on evolution are still unuttered.” Christian
Gauss.
+ − =No. Am.= 186: 130. S. ’07. 1890w.
* =Haeselbarth, Adam C.= Patty of the palms: a story of Porto Rico.
$1.25. Kenny pub.
A romance thru which are portrayed some of the conditions in Porto
Rico since American occupation showing what degree of success has
resulted from attempts at “benevolent assimilation.”
=Haggard, Andrew C. P.= Real Louis the fifteenth; with 34 full-page
portraits, including 2 photogravure plates. 2v. *$5. Appleton.
7–18151.
“Colonel Haggard tells at considerable length the whole story of the
reign.... He gives the whole history of the Seven years’ war, the life
and adventures of Frederick the Great and of Prince Charles Edward,
the history of Stanislas of Poland and of his court at Lunéville, with
many other personal narratives not always quite correct in detail....
He attempts to describe all the varying opinions, all the crimes of
the Jesuits, the vagaries of the philosophers, the intrigues of
unprincipled politicians, and to make us intimately familiar with
Fleury, Choiseul, Voltaire, and the Encyclopedists, as well as with
the succession of women who influenced ‘this hoggish king’ and through
him, to a certain extent, ruled France and poisoned the air of
Europe.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Will hardly rank as a serious contribution to the history of the
eighteenth century in France.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 301. S. 15. 260w.
“If the present volumes on the life of Louis XV. wore what one might
call good gossip—‘good’ in the artistic sense, lively, pointed,
significant, they would be thoroughly acceptable in spite of their
slight historic value. Frankly they are little more than a dictionary
of scandal, an encyclopedia of eighteenth century depravity, the
results of a research offensive in its thoroughness.” M. B. M.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 109. F. 23. ’07. 1500w.
“The author has probably told his kind of story fairly well.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 70w.
“With all its faults in art and more serious faults in taste, the book
makes a sufficiently striking impression.”
− + =Spec.= 97: sup. 758. N. 17, ’06. 1290w.
* =Haggard, Henry Rider.= Margaret: a novel of the England of Henry VII.
†$1.50. Longmans.
7–32845.
Set in the times of the Tudors, this tale is one of daring adventure
by land and sea. “It involves the slaughter of a retainer of the
Spanish ambassador in the opening scene, and the escape of an
Anglo-Jewish merchant from the Spanish inquisition in the last. The
fortunes of the Jew’s daughter—who has been abducted, by a nobleman in
the train of De Ayala, the ambassador, and is pursued across the sea
by her lover, brave Peter Brome, and his comrades—form the main thread
of the story. Incidentally we meet with many well-fancied types of
militant and ecclesiastical humanity, with effective portraits of
monarchs and great men.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“There is a reminiscence of Kingsley in much of the story, but Mr.
Haggard has no master in this brightly conceived and deftly executed
drama of action.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 170w.
“In incompetent hands, a plot for a dime novel and nothing more; but
Mr. Haggard has the craft of a born stage manager ... and sends us
away with the feeling that we have witnessed a big, spectacular show
that was eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 408. D. ’07. 360w.
“It is all as vigorous, circumstantial, and imaginative as Mr. Haggard
can make it; but the effect is often marred by the effort to combine
simplicity of diction with a flavour of Tudor English.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 450w.
“But notwithstanding all its many excellencies, Mr. Haggard’s work
does not belong on the high levels of fictional art. There is none of
that rich and satisfying quality which invests the pages of novelists
who deal with the inner forces of character and temperament.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 1140w.
“The merchant who is the principal figure in his drama does not
convince us. When we come to the story itself all is excellent.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 534. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Spirit of Bambatse; a romance. †$1.50.
Longmans.
6–27709.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We feel that Mr. Haggard’s formula is less satisfying than formerly,
and yet a cool analysis tells us that this story has as many good
points as the others.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w.
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.= Luck of the Dudley Grahams: as related in
extracts from Elizabeth Graham’s diary. †$1.50. Holt.
7–32036.
The story of a family of boys and girls who tried to share their
mother’s burdens. On the day of selling a dump-cart patent the father
had died suddenly without revealing the hiding place of the contract.
The family struggles continue until one day the contract is found and
the Graham luck turns.
=Haines, Henry Stevens.= Railway corporations as public servants.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30619.
A work which to some extent is supplementary to the author’s previous
discussion of “Restrictive railway legislation.” “The treatment of the
subject is, however, more particularly directed to an amelioration of
the existing relations between railway corporations and the public
whom they serve.”
* * * * *
“Some of the statements in the book are more striking than true. This
volume deals with a large number of topics in connection with railway
management and the facilities afforded. While these are not handled in
detail, they are presented in an attractive way that ought to
stimulate the interest of the general reading public in the question
of the efficiency of the American railway service under its present
organization.” Ernest R. Dewsnup.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 555. N. ’07. 1470w.
“One of the most timely of the fall books.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 110w.
=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Christmasse tyde. **$2. Elder.
A collection of seasonable quotations beautifully set to the best
things in book accompaniment.
=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Ye gardeyne boke. **$3. Elder.
6–43790.
“The text has been gathered and arranged ... from hundreds of sources,
poetical and prosaic.... The various quotations are arranged under
about forty heads, and Cardinal Newman offers the first answer to the
question, ‘What is a garden?’... Then come such topics as ‘Mediaeval
gardens,’ ‘Monastic gardens,’ ‘Old-fashioned gardens,’ and gardens
identified with various nationalities—Dutch, German, Italian,
Spanish—and so on, and even ‘The poet’s garden,’ and ‘Gardens of the
sea’ are not neglected.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Garden-lovers need look no further for an appropriate gift.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 190w.
“Tastefully decorated and beautifully printed.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 48. Ja. 5, ’07. 70w.
=Haldane, Elizabeth S.= Descartes: his life and times. *$4.50. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Miss Haldane’s book seems to me well-proportioned and well-written.
The most recent sources of information have been utilized, and the
material arranged in clear and orderly fashion. The accounts of the
philosophical standpoint and contents of the important works are
clear, coherent, and well-suited to the general plan and purpose of
the volume, which is intended quite as much for the general reader as
for the special student of philosophy. The book is to be welcomed as a
real and valuable addition to the literature of philosophy.” J. E. C.
+ + + =Philos. R.= 16: 94. Ja. ’07. 220w.
* =Hale, Albert Barlow.= South Americans. **$2.50. Bobbs.
7–36231.
An illustrated story of the South American republics, their
characteristics, progress and tendencies; with special reference to
their commercial relations with the United States. Special attention
has been given to the East Andean republics because within their
boundaries must take place the great industrial advances of the
century.
=Hale, Edward Everett.= Tarry at home travels. il. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–35582.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Hale is rather too fond of applying the epithet ‘dear’ to every
person of whom he speaks. We wish also that he had not adopted the
slang term ‘Dago’ when speaking of an Italian.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 230w.
“His reminiscences are poured out of a full heart, freely, familiarly,
picturesquely.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 417. Mr. ’07. 860w.
“Half mischievous, half militant, he goes wherever his mood takes him,
finding only what is good in men, and gently prodding this good to
make it better.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 159. Jl. 18, ’07. 520w.
“The purpose and execution of the work are infused throughout with
high ideals and generous patriotism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 534. O. 27, ’06. 110w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Hale, Will T.= True stories of Jamestown and its environs. $1. Pub.
house M. E. ch., So.
7–19587.
“A little volume whose spirit perpetuates the “human” interest in the
past life of this deserted village.”
=Hall, Bolton.= Three acres and liberty; assisted by Robert F. Powell;
with an introd. by George T. Powell. $1.75. Macmillan.
7–10568.
A handbook of tested theory regarding land and its possibilities. And
Mr. Hall is not satisfied with the mediocre results of a three-acre
plot but shows what can be accomplished at the high tide of productive
capacity. He shows where the right three-acres may be found, what kind
of land must be had, what it will cost, and what must be done with it.
The author “has not attempted so much to deal with the technique of
agriculture or to give instruction in its requirements, as to awaken
active and earnest thought upon the social betterment of our rapidly
increasing population.”
* * * * *
“This is, we think, one of the most important volumes of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 211. Ag. ’07. 1260w.
“The author is not always sufficiently specific in regard to regions
adapted to special products, probably assuming that those who are
interested in the subject will investigate further.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 430w.
“The book should be highly interesting to amateur farmers and to
social workers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.
=Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 639. Mr. ’07. 140w.
=Hall, Rev. Charles Cuthbert.= Christ and the human race; or, The
attitude of Jesus Christ toward foreign races and religions; being the
William Belden Noble lectures for 1906. **$1.25. Houghton.
6–42357.
“In these lectures ... Dr. Hall ... is concerned with the proper
attitude of a Christian man toward the non-Christian religions....
To-day, he affirms, ‘the East denounces Western Christendom, yet in
spirit approaches nearer and nearer to the worship of Christ.’ ... In
conclusion, Dr. Hall gives the standpoints now to be taken by the
Christian educator, physician, and minister in the East.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
Reviewed by A. K. Parker.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 363. Ap. ’07. 810w.
“He approaches the East with a courtesy equal to that for which the
East is eminent. He is a student as well as a teacher, and expects to
receive as well as give.” George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 562. Ap. ’07. 380w.
=Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 40w.
=Nation.= 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 70w.
=Outlook.= 85: 237. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Christian belief interpreted by Christian
experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
5–25392.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“His irenic tone, and tactful, almost adroit, presentation of the
points of difference between Christianity and Hinduism, are certainly
admirable.” Andrew C. Zenos.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 397. My. ’07. 790w.
=Hall, Edward Henry.= Paul, the apostle, as viewed by a layman. **$1.50.
Little.
6–19782.
A sympathetic estimate done in the historical spirit of “a great,
though very human actor in an important crisis in the world’s
spiritual life. Critical scholarship since Baur has been laid under
tribute, and me opinions of such students as Pfleiderer, Hausrath,
Wernle, and Weizsacher have been diligently compared and carefully
estimated.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Gives his view of the apostle’s religious character and theological
doctrines, in an interesting and instructive way.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 530. Jl. ’07. 170w.
“A rapid and suggestive survey.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 79. Ja. ’07. 20w.
“A just and sympathetic appreciation. The author’s limitation would
appear to be lack of grasp of the importance of the service which Paul
rendered to early Christianity.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 250w.
=Hall, Eliza Calvert.= Aunt Jane of Kentucky; il. by Beulah Strong.
†$1.50. Little.
7–12978.
As Aunt Jane cuts squares for patchwork out of “caliker that won’t
fade in the first washin’ and wear out in the second,” and fashions
them into her wild-goose pattern quilt she grows reminiscent and with
pristine verve and histrionism recounts delicious tales of long ago:
how Sally Ann delivered her message of denunciation to the men of
Goshen church for demanding that their wives be the submittin’ kind,
and how the women of the Mite society bought a new organ for the
church in spite of the husbands who thought it a frivolous proceeding.
Unruly human nature, bits of scandal and gossip are all softened by
time, and as Aunt Jane recalls them she touches them up with her
quaint philosophy and delightful sentiment.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠
“The musings of Aunt Jane’s anonymous listener are somewhat
startlingly in contrast to the prevailing rusticity and simplicity of
the anecdotes. Even a note of great beauty may produce discord; and
discord, as the portrayers of New England life have so well realized,
is even less desirable than monotony. With this possible exception,
the book is one of the most creditable of its kind, and Aunt Jane’s
sympathetic optimism should win her many friends.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 290w.
“The author who listens to Aunt Jane, and who records the stories, has
added much to their beauty by her sympathy of expression.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 180w.
“The flavor of the book lies in the point of view of the old woman, in
the wise things she says, and the homely way she says them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 188. Mr. 30, ’07. 860w.
“In this little volume Eliza Calvert Hall has achieved the
unusual—except in the matter of the title.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 381. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
“Her stories of Aunt Jane’s experiences are full of real human
feeling, and awaken thoroughly wholesome emotion.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 150w.
“A little more humour as pungent and appealing as that in the opening
sketch, ‘Sally Ann’s experiences,’ and ‘Mrs. Wiggs,’ would have had a
rustic rival.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 749. S. ’07. 110w.
=Hall, Florence Howe.= Social usages at Washington. **$1. Harper.
6–41786.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 42. F. ’07.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 866. D. 15, ’06. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 144. Ja. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Hall, Gertrude.= Wagnerian romances. **$1.50. Lane.
A volume of essays in which the author takes the poems too often
submerged in the Wagner music and reveals the intrinsic value of the
myth, poetry and romance in them. Beginning with “Parsifal” and ending
with “The flying Dutchman,” she includes ten of the Wagnerian
romances.
* * * * *
“There can be no doubt that her conscientious transcript will be
welcomed by many opera-goers.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 240w.
“While the author’s method in this book is excellent, and she is able
to preserve the intense spirit and mystic atmosphere of the great
romances, her English occasionally suffers from too literal a
rendering of the German. With that unimportant reservation, one can
thoroughly enjoy her conscientious and sympathetic work.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 499. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Hall, Granville Stanley.= Youth: its education, regimen and hygiene.
**$1.50. Appleton.
7–30473.
An abridgment of “Adolescence” which offers in briefer form and at
less cost the far-reaching pedagogical principles and conclusions of
the original volume. There have been added a chapter on moral and
religious training and a glossary of seven pages, the latter being
useful as well to the larger work.
* * * * *
“The book has been more carefully proofed and the bibliographic
references made more complete than in ‘Adolescence.’ Good judgment has
characterized the selection and condensation, and normal schools and
teacher’s classes, outside of the preferred geographic zone, are
certain to find it a useful book, if they can get hold of it.” Will S.
Monroe.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 218. Ap. 11. ’07. 130w.
“There will be great advantage in the existence of this handbook to
‘Adolescence,’ tho it might be regretted that the terminology and
philosophical allusions have not been adapted to the understanding of
the layman.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 35: 695. N. 9, ’07. 120w.
“The anxious parent or teacher, seeking for the light upon his
problems of how best to deal with either child or youth, no matter
what his troubles are, will be able to find help of some sort in these
pages, crammed full as they are, with the wisdom of the scientist, the
observer, the lover of his kind.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. S. 28, ’07. 960w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Hall, H. R.= Days before history. 50c. Crowell.
7–21361.
A book for children which in story form tells of uncouth men who lived
in caves and on floating islands in the days before history.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 732. D. 8. 100w.
“We congratulate the author on a singularly attractive little book,
the very thing for imaginative boys.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 537. My. 4. 60w.
“The writer has a good subject, although his handling of it is not of
the best.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 90w.
=Hall, Prescott F.= Immigration and its effects upon the United States.
**$1.50. Holt.
6–6769.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“I cannot find that Mr. Hall has inaccurately or carelessly stated or
omitted any of the essential facts, though he has not failed to
indicate the conclusions he draws from them. Only a few minor errors
can be noted, and they proceed from the mistakes of others upon
nonessential points, or from the imperfections of government
statistics, whose weaknesses Mr. Hall points out. Altogether the book
stands out as the most important contribution that has been made to
the study of this most important American problem.” John R. Commons.
+ + − =Charities.= 17: 504. D. 15, ’08. 400w.
“The treatise is detailed and exhaustive in summing up the experience
of the United States in solving its hydra-headed immigration problem.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 125. F. ’07. 130w.
“A book quite indispensable to serious students of the problem of
immigration.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 231. N. ’07. 400w.
+ − =Spec.= 97: 540. O. 13, ’06. 250w.
=Hallock, William, and Wade, Herbert T.= Outlines of the evolution of
weights and measures, and the metric system. *$2.25. Macmillan.
6–36443.
“The book contains a clear and well-written account (largely taken
from M. Bigourdan’s ‘Le système metrique’) of the foundations of the
metric system by the French, who were its real inventors, and of its
gradual spread since 1872 over nearly the whole of Europe and America
with the single exception of these islands.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The archaeological part, touching, among other things, on the
Babylonian cubit and the Egyptian measures, we cannot commend, for
there is no evidence that the authors have any first hand knowledge of
the subject, and neither Professor Hommel nor the Rev. W.
Shaw-Caldecott, whom they quote, is so great an authority upon it as
the authors evidently imagine.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 775. D. 15. 210w.
“The work is an argument for the metric system, but it is not
partisan. It is excellently handled and should have general attention;
it should certainly be read by every senator and representative at
Washington.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 504. F. 28, ’07. 360w.
“This is an admirable piece of work, in which the result of much
tedious research is presented in a bright and lucid narrative.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 290. Ja. 24, ’07. 1740w.
“A noteworthy piece of special pleading.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 83: 768. Jl. 28, ’06. 190w.
“A complete and exhaustive discussion—for the general reader, at
least—of the whole subject.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 254. Ag. ’06. 100w.
“This book can well be declared the most complete and most authentic
work extant on this important subject.” J. H. Gore.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 24: 652. N. 23, ’06. 390w.
=Halsham, John.= Lonewood Corner: a countryman’s horizon. *$1.50.
Dutton.
Leisure, an unknown luxury to commercial America, fills this volume.
“The author has ample time in which to read Theocritus—not in
translation—in the beech tree shade on summer mornings, to sit on a
log for long June afternoons and look at the landscape ... to perch on
the meadow gate by the hour and watch the mowers and the mowing
machine ... to wander far and aimlessly across fields and through
woods—and afterward to write exquisite water-colors in words
describing all he has seen and thought and felt, and delicate little
bas-reliefs of the people with whom he has met and talked.” (N. Y.
Times.)
* * * * *
“We heartily commend it to all lovers of the contemplative life. The
style is admirable—rich without being ornate.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 784. Je. 29. 970w.
“There is much good browsing in the unpretentious pages of this
modestly learned and pleasantly chatty writer.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 170. S. 16, ’07. 370w.
“It is on the whole better reading than ‘Idlehurst,’ written with more
gusto and less pedantry. His pessimism does not dismay us, but rather
amuses us as a mood which we like to share in holiday hours.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 1460w.
“Arrives at a certain charm from its impregnation with the quality—so
grateful to some palates—of being unutterably, deeply English.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 420w.
“It is the sort of book that demands of the reader a sympathetic
mental temperament and given that, the sort of book in which such a
reader can find a companion and intimate and an unfailing source of
pleasure and content. But to those who have not that temperament its
pages will be even as the Greek sentence which forms its motto.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 534. S. 7, ’07. 410w.
“We have read his book twice from end to end and we do not feel we
have wasted time. Could critic say more?”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 515. O. 26, ’07. 1500w.
“‘Idlehurst’ quickly became a classic; ‘Lonewood Corner,’ its sequel,
or second volume, will stand beside it, we fancy, on most shelves
where the earlier book has established its footing. If not on all, it
is because of a slight suggestion of what is not exactly bitterness,
but is rather like it—an added hint of aloofness—that may not be
agreeable to the palate of all.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 164. Ag. 3, ’07. 1890w.
=Hamilton, Angus.= Afghanistan. *$5. Scribner.
6–41815.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 43. F. ’07.
“The work required two years to be spent in its preparation and the
result is most satisfactory, as the book contains much information
under historical, geographical, ethnographical, commercial and
political groupings.” Laura Bell.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 610. N. ’07. 220w.
“It should take a high place as a book of reference. It should be
prized not only as that, but for its clear presentation of an
inadequately understood subject.” George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 108. F. 23, ’07. 3590w.
=Hamilton, Anthony Count.= Memoirs of Count de Gramont; ed. by Allan
Fea. *$5. Scribner.
A handsomely illustrated edition of the memoirs of Count de Gramont,
“a soldier of fortune, and a boldly unscrupulous gamester and wit in
the reign of Louis XIII, and Louis XIV.”
* * * * *
“Mr. Fea also supplies copious footnotes—almost too copious. The
half-tones are not always distinct, partly because many of the
originals are dimmed with age.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 330w.
“The volume would be desirable if only for the sake of these
illustrations, but these represent only a small part of the editor’s
work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 58. F. 2, ’07. 750w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 90w.
* =Hamilton, Cosmo.= Adam’s clay. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
A diatribe against the thoughtless, heartless, irreverent “woman of
the world.”
* * * * *
“In spite of clever delineation of character, plenty of humour, and
considerable skill in skating over thin ice, we cannot say that this
novel has left a pleasant impression on us.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith.= Staff officer’s scrapbook during
the Russo-Japanese war. 2v. ea. *$4.50. Longmans.
6–1100.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Powers of Keen observation and the facile pen of a cultured citizen
of the world are noticeable on every page, and perhaps the greatest
charm of the writer lies in the fact that, while the professional
reader cannot fail to profit by his expert criticisms, the layman
finds himself led on from episode to episode with ever-increasing
interest, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that, full though it be
of brilliant and expert professional knowledge and criticism, no work
of more enthralling interest could well be placed before a reader.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 212. Mr. 2, 07. 1240w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is even better than its forerunner.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 530w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A vivid and trustworthy account. General Hamilton’s pictures of the
atrocious sides of war are among the most striking features of his
admirable book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The peculiar charm of this second instalment ... lies in the extreme
humility and taking simplicity of language in which he narrates the
stirring scenes of which he was a witness. Most fascinating military
work.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 60. F. 22, ’07. 1110w. (Review of v. 2.)
“This really brilliant book deserves a wide public.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 290. Ap. 25, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Gen. Hamilton has a style that draws the reader irresistibly along
with him. His comments from the standpoint of a highly competent
military authority, greatly enhance the value of his volumes.” George
R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 1120w.
“This volume is more reticent, is fuller of really useful information,
and is altogether more valuable.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 271. Mr. 2, ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Undoubtedly a work of first-rate importance.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 499. Mr. 30, ’07. 2180w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Hamilton, Joseph.= Spirit world. **$1.50. Revell.
6–36932.
The author “thinks that we have not only proof of the existence of a
supernatural world, but also knowledge of its inhabitants and
governing laws. He bases his views almost entirely upon the accounts
given in the Bible of angelic visitations, miraculous events, etc. It
is astonishing what an elaborate structure he rears on their
foundations. The supernatural world he conceives on the analogy of the
natural.... The angelic beings ... have bodies like the human, only
more ethereal; senses like the human, only more refined; and are
nourished, not by food taken in the mouth, but by elements absorbed
from the atmosphere. Fancies like these are multiplied, and curious
speculations abound.”—Am. J. Theol.
* * * * *
“One is bound to respect the reverence with which he approaches his
subject, and the frank and earnest manner in which he avows his
beliefs.” Henry W. Wright.
− + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 340w.
“Only the need of protesting against it entitles such books to serious
notice.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
=Hamilton, M.= First claim. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–5067.
“This is the story of a woman who, having made in extreme youth an
uncongenial marriage, is tempted beyond withstanding to skip blithely
away with a young subaltern, Charley Osborne, less from love of him
than from aversion to her husband.” (Nation.) “It may be a very just
punishment for a woman who elopes with another man, leaving a little
child behind her, to find that this child is treated with a strictness
amounting to cruelty by the woman whom her husband marries after the
inevitable divorce. There is, however, no reason why the innocent
reader’s feelings should be wrung by such a recital.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“It is not great creative work, but it is remarkably good of its kind;
it is the work of a novelist with an eye for character, a spontaneous
sense of humour, and a standard of truth to which every line of the
story is adjusted.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 360. O. 26, ’06. 450w.
“The ending in a ghastly triumph of falsehood makes an unsatisfying
conclusion to a story of struggle not without genuine power.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 292. Mr. 28, ’07. 230w.
“There is no denying that ‘The first claim’ is interesting; but it is
an unpleasant tale.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 190w.
“The plot which Miss Hamilton has chosen for her book is carried out
with great cleverness and detail; but we feel bound to say that the
story is one which very few people will be able to take any pleasure
in reading.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Hamilton, Samuel.= Recitation. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–15713.
“The first part of the book treats of the purpose and essentials of
the recitation and the art of study; the second part, of the five
formal steps of general method; and the third and last part, of the
more specific problems of individual method, the use of text-books,
oral and written work, English, etc., in the recitation.”—J. Philos.
* * * * *
“A sensible and practical book.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 262. Ag. 2, ’06. 90w.
“Made accessible by marginal topics and synoptical summaries and
outlines.” W. F. Dearborn.
+ =J. Philos.= 4: 217. Ap. 11, ’07. 420w.
“The presentation is clear and orderly; the subdivision of topics is
minute.” J. H. T.
+ =School R.= 15: 239. Mr. ’07. 200w.
=Hammond, Harold.= Further fortunes of Pinkey Perkins. †$1.50. Century.
6–30932.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Boy readers can scarcely help being absorbed in his doings.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 767. D. ’06. 40w.
=Hamp, Sidford F.= Boys of Crawford’s Basin: the story of a mountain
ranch in the early days of Colorado. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26966.
Experiences in ranching, prospecting, and working as a miner in the
early seventies has afforded the author a first-hand intimacy with
facts and scenes which he records here. He shows how two sturdy young
men, prone to honesty and not afraid to work, do their share in
advancing the prosperity of the state in its infancy.
=Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Dale and Fraser, sheepmen. †$1.50. Wilde.
6–30460.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07.
=Hampson, W.= Paradoxes of nature and science. $1.50. Dutton.
W 7–163.
“In this, which may be perhaps regarded as the true type of ‘popular’
science book, Mr. Hampson explains, in language clear to the ordinary
man the principle of the boomerang, of the gyroscope, of bird flight,
of double vision, and of much else.... ‘Curiosities of freezing and
melting,’ and his discourse on ‘Liquid air,’ on which, as a subject he
has made his own, he is particularly lucid and informing.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“On one page we find him laying down that electricity is ‘a form of
energy.’ This idea, which was popular in the seventies, may be said to
have received its quietus at the hands of Prof. Silvanus Thompson.
Except for this we have nothing but praise for Mr. Hampson’s book,
which is excellent reading, and written with a sense of humour as
unexpected as it is pleasant.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 776. D. 15. 320w.
“His explanations are appeals to prejudices as unscientific as those
which gave rise to the appearance of the paradox. Even when his
arguments are sound they must convey to a reader a wholly untrue idea
of scientific method. But they are not always sound.”
− =Nature.= 75: 341. F. 7, ’07. 160w.
“His book is an extremely readable one, and in the article on the
navigation of the air it supplies many useful and timely hints.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 462. Jl. 27, ’07. 1040w.
Handasyde. For the week-end. †$1.50. Lane.
“The week-end here is the country house gathering of an exalted social
circle, animated, it would appear, by the purpose of philandering with
each other’s wives and husbands, while prudently keeping on the safe
side of the divorce court—a half-hearted method of procedure which has
perhaps suggested the author’s curious pseudonym.”—Ath.
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“This book is slight, but what there is of it is true, direct, and
simple.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 539. Je. 1, ’07. 290w.
“The style, though marred by grammatical lapses, shows considerable
facility both in dialogue and description.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 660. Je. 1. 110w.
“The character drawing is excellent, the atmosphere is well preserved,
and the details in excellent taste.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“The writer seems to be a rather inefficient disciple of Mr. E. F.
Benson.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 110w.
=Haney, William H.= Mountain people of Kentucky. $1.50. W: H: Haney, P.
O. box 431, Lexington, Ky.
6–26563.
A book whose purpose is to show the existing conditions in the
mountains of Kentucky and the attitude of the people of this region
toward the improvement of the conditions affecting life and character.
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