as seen by a traveler from Altruria. The tall, bleak apartment houses,
the social distinctions, and the greed for gain impress him so
strongly that he says at the very outset,—“If I spoke with Altrurian
breath of the way New Yorkers live, I should begin by saying that the
New Yorkers do not live at all.” Part 2 contains an account of
Altruria as seen by the American wife whom he takes home with him, and
who has a difficult time adjusting her American ideas to a country
which has neither money nor social gradations, and, where lord and
farmer work happily for their living, side by side.
* * * * *
“Done in the author’s usual delightful manner.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“Unhappily, these sociological criticisms are not conveyed in an
interesting form of fiction. We cannot be absorbed in Mr. Homos’s love
affair with an attractive American widow, and we are thrown back for
diversion on his strictures on American conditions.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 250w.
“He is writing, not a thesis on the future economics of the world at
large, but a kindly satire, a sort of twentieth century parable.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 394. Je. ’07. 270w.
Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.
=Bookm.= 25: 434. Je. ’07. 1230w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 670w.
“In this novel, dealing with a theme peculiarly congenial to him, we
have an example of Mr. Howells’s style arrived at its perihelion.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 330w.
“We should rather be thankful for a piece of very grateful fancy, and
not the least for a deft and witty introduction which is an almost
faultless little piece of irony.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 165. My. 24, ’07. 530w.
“The account of these plutocrats endeavoring to maintain the forms of
an obsolete social order verges perilously upon comic opera. This,
however, is of small consequence, the point of interest being that
with Mr. Howells’s deep love of humanity as he finds it, the apostle
of realism in American fiction should care to spend (almost waste) his
precious gifts upon such a toy of the imagination as the island of
Altruria.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 134. My. 9, ’07. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 170w.
“Certain it is that whatever be our attitude toward socialism, or our
opinion of what we may presume to be Mr. Howells’s own theories, we
must needs enjoy the exquisite literary flavor of these letters to and
from Altruria, and can hardly fail to be lifted to a higher plane by
the author’s own sincere enthusiasm of humanity and widely inclusive
sympathies.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 297. My. 11, ’07. 3370w.
“Mr. Howells has written in his characteristic whimsical vein.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 581. Je. 15. ’07. 210w.
“Mr. Howells writes, not as a reformer with a grievance, but simply as
a lover of his kind, perturbed over current errors but too wise to let
them warp his judgment.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 127. S. ’07. 650w.
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 339. Je. 15, ’07. 400w.
“Somehow, it leaves the reader not half so kindly disposed toward his
fellow-men, not half so eager to make this a better world, as he was
after reading ‘Lemuel Barker’ or ‘Silas Lapham.’” Vernon Atwood.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 290w.
“It embodies much cogent criticism of every important phase of
American life.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Howells is always welcome in whatever guise his message comes,
and a special interest attaches to his new romance, since it exhibits
his distinguished talent in an unfamiliar light.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 836. My. 25, ’07. 840w.
=Hoy, Mary Lavinia Thompson (Mrs. Frank L. Hoy).= Adrienne. $1.50.
Neale.
6–46252.
A southern story of Civil war days in which the fair play-day world is
transformed for a group of irresponsible Southern girls into a dreary
world of waiting and anxiety.
=Hoyt, William Henry.= Mecklenburg declaration of independence. **$2.50.
Putnam.
7–15929.
A study of evidence that the alleged early declaration of independence
of Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, on May 20, 1775, is spurious.
* * * * *
“The last page leaves the reader as helpless as the first, in ability
to separate hearsay from evidence. But the book is valuable as a
history of a controversy.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 123. S. 1, ’07. 400w.
“The book offers a very good example of an historical investigation,
conducted in a judicial spirit, and carries conviction with its
conclusions. The illustrations are excellent, but nothing can excuse
the absence of an index.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 187. Ag. 29. ’07. 540w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 120w.
* =Hubbard, Elbert (Fra Elbertus, pseud.).= Little journeys to the homes
of eminent orators. (Little journeys, new ser.) $2.50. Putnam.
7–36125.
An unusual aggregation of orators is presented here. The group
includes Pericles, Mark Antony, Savonarola, Marat, Ingersoll, Patrick
Henry, Starr King, Henry Ward Beecher and Wendell Phillips.
* * * * *
“It is an incongruous array in time, character, and purpose, but the
author brings out strongly their common characteristics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 100w.
“The book has real interest, especially to that curious boy, or man,
who ‘wants to know.’”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 618. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Hubbard, Frank McKinney.= Abe Martin, of Brown county, Indiana. il.
**$1. Bobbs.
7–15475.
Mr. Meredith Nicholson characterizes Abe Martin as a “Plato on a
cracker barrel; or radiant Socrates after Xantippe’s departure to
visit her own folks in Tecumseh township.” Cartoons of Abe’s neighbors
who are characterized in epigram appear, accompanied by brief
bibliographical bits. Then follow the “mirth-provoking epigrams”
themselves, which do justice to an Artemus Ward.
=Hubbard, George H.= Teachings of Jesus in parables. *$1.50. Pilgrim
press.
7–16710.
“Mr. Hubbard recognizes the fact that the parables of Jesus were
addressed to plain people.... He abstains from dogmatizing and from
critical exegesis, and gives a free homiletical exposition of what he
sees as the central truth of the short story.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“These popular and interesting expositions of the parables reveal
clear religious insight, practical common-sense, and no small degree
of literary skill.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 79. Jl. ’07. 20w.
“Fresh thoughts in new points of view make this volume a helpful
addition to the abundant literature of its subject. Those who have
read any number of works upon the gospel parables find need to
supplement or correct one author by another, and this volume, though
excellent, occasions no exception to that experience.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 140w.
=Hubbard, Winfred D., and Kiersted, Wynkoof.= Water-works management and
maintenance. $4. Wiley.
7–21739.
“Part 1., which fills 217 out of a total of 419 pages, deals with the
securing of water supplies from various sources, and the selection and
installation of pumps; Part 2, 167 pages, discusses more particularly
the various features of management and maintenance, but also
necessarily contains much that relates to construction work; and Part
3, 35 pages, treats from various points of view the subjects of
franchise, water rates and depreciation.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07.
“The title of this important book is somewhat misleading, as less than
half the volume is devoted to the management and maintenance of
water-works. Along with a reproduction of many facts already well
known to every competent water-works man, and many citations from
papers which have already been frequently published, there are a great
many useful and practical suggestions nearly all of which are in the
line of good modern practice. All of these make the work a valuable
addition to water-works literature.” Dabney H. Maury.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 294. S. 12, ’07. 1720w.
+ =Nature.= 76: 517. S. 19, ’07. 340w.
=Huber, John Bessnes.= Consumption. **$3. Lippincott.
6–17682.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work, though burdened by a too ambitious title, is really a very
valuable compilation of the facts of the present day anti-tuberculosis
campaign in this and other countries.” Christopher Easton.
+ + − =Charities.= 17: 493. D. 15, ’06. 980w.
=Huchon, Rene.= George Crabbe and his times, 1754–1832: a critical and
biographical study; tr. from the French by Frederick Clarke. *$5.
Dutton.
W 7–149.
With less of narrative and more of criticism, M. Huchon aims to write
“a psychological biography of the poet, with a view to the
interpretation of his works.”
* * * * *
“The picture he presents of the young Crabbe is clear and convincing.
When in the later portion of his book he is dealing with the actual
poems he develops these tendencies at which he has previously hinted,
with great skill, so that he brings the reader very close to the
intimate side of the poet’s character.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 286. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w.
“As a biographer M. Huchon is full, clear, and precise, rivalling the
late James Dykes Campbell in his zest for research and verification.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 407. Ap. 6. 2090w.
“At times the narrative is too discursive ... but on the whole it is a
just and clear biography, with sympathetic interpretation.” Annie
Russell Marble.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 39. Jl. 16, ’07. 1290w.
“To speak frankly, a book that proposes to introduce an English poet
to the French, and yet in some 700 pages scarcely quotes a line of his
verse as he wrote it, seems to us an absurdity. The truth is that it
has gone a long way to spoil an admirable book. It is an injustice to
the French reader; to the English reader it is a constant annoyance.
And yet the book, even as it is, deserves to have plenty of English
readers.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 193. Je. 21. ’07. 1370w.
“Its abundance of literary judgment is presented rather in dispersion
than compactness, for the purpose of elucidating the biographical
theses; and the complete proportion and harmony preserved throughout
may well be considered the crowning achievement of the work.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 1170w.
“Though the French scholar may have prepared a better biography than
the younger Crabbe’s, time will have to judge whether he has written a
better book.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 491. Ag. 10, ’07. 1790w.
“Is distinctly original and unconventional.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 41. S. 7, ’07. 1720w.
“Of M. Huchon’s volume (not at all badly translated by Mr. Clarke) we
may say, in one word, that it is the work of an expert. If only as a
piece of social history the work is full of value. Our main praise,
however, we reserve for the judgment and taste with which M. Huchon
has made his quotations.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 462. Ap. 13, ’07. 1020w.
* =Huck, A.= Synopsis of the first three Gospels arranged for English
readers; ed. by Ross L. Finney. *$1. Meth. bk.
An English version of Huck’s “Synopse,” a Greek harmony used widely in
Germany as an aid to Holtzmann’s “Hand-commentar.” “The present volume
exhibits Mark as the basal work of the evangelic records, the use of
Mark by both Matthew and Luke, the collection of Logia, and the
material peculiar to each evangelist. The use of this harmony does not
blind the student to the special characteristics of the several
evangelists and their relations of mutual dependence, as is often the
case with the older manuals.”
* * * * *
“The work is faithfully done, but it is based on Huck’s second edition
in 1898. This is most unfortunate, as in his recent third edition,
1906, Huck has fundamentally remodeled his work, greatly improving and
enriching it.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 80w.
“This is decidedly the best harmony for historical study, and its wide
use would promote greatly the knowledge of the New Testament.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1314. N. 28, ’07. 190w.
“This harmony, which follows the order of Mark, is the most useful in
existence for historical students.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 398. O. 31, ’07. 140w.
=Huckel, Oliver.= Modern study of conscience. (Boardman lectureship in
Christian ethics.) 50c. Univ. of Pa.
7–13922.
The study looks into the origin and nature of conscience, its means of
education and enlightenment, and finally considers the grounds for the
present and perpetual authority of conscience.
=Hudson, Charles Bradford.= Crimson conquest: a romance of Pizarro and
Peru. il. †$1.50. McClurg.
7–32156.
A story of aboriginal America. The events fall in the period of
Pizarro’s conquest of the Peruvian chief and his determined hosts. The
hero, Viracocha Christoval, is one of the bravest of the Castilian
knights and the heroine is an Inca princess for love of whom
Christoval fights against his own army. Barbaric splendor and Spanish
chivalry combine in producing splendid dramatic coloring.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“There is not a bit of harm in the book, except that it is very long
and strikes us as being very dull.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 678. O. 26, ’07. 90w.
=Hudson, William Henry.= Crystal age. **$1.50. Dutton.
“This is a second edition of a book published in the eighties.... One
Smith of Great Britain loses consciousness through a fall and wakes to
find himself in a crystal age of organized human beings with senses of
exquisite keenness and souls of crystal purity.... The cloud on
Smith’s horizon is the strange fact that warmer than fraternal love is
unknown. The passion that he conceives for a daughter of ‘The house’
brings him against a blank wall of incomprehension. For the perfecting
of the race it has come about that its renewal is vouchsafed only to
elect morals who must be fitted for their high office by a sacred
training. A cryptic catastrophe ends the story, leaving the reader
free to suppose anything.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Lond. Times.= 5: 368. N. 2, ’06. 1060w.
“Like most stories of the impossible future it contains its touches of
the credible among the prevailing absurdities and the occasional touch
of the tiresome amid many fascinations. Unlike most, it has the ring
of genuine poetry, the zeal of the open air, kinship with beauty of
all sorts, and a relieving glint of humor.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 341. Ap. 11, ’07. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.
=Hueffer, Ford Madox.= England and the English: an interpretation. **$2.
McClure.
7–19051.
The three divisions of Mr. Hueffer’s book, “The soul of London,” “The
heart of the country,” and “The spirit of the people,” constitute a
view of modern life. “Mr. Hueffer here dedicates himself to essays in
descriptive impressionism” (Ath.) offering to the traveler in and
about London almost every type to be met with and revealing an
intimate understanding of prevailing conditions.
* * * * *
“The volume may be profitably read by anyone proposing a trip to
England for the introductory impressions it affords of the people and
their environment. The reader of serious purpose will feel no little
disappointment that the ‘interpretation’ is not more interpretative.
The author’s over-fondness for dissertation is a blemish that grows
more trying to the reader as he advances.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w.
“Here is an antidote to the tour of the sights which leaves an
American visitor far better informed about historical monuments and
the homes of distinguished Englishmen than any English resident, but
without any real insight into the lives and ideals of the English of
to-day. It is a pity that a volume otherwise admirably got up should
be marred by so many errors in proofreading. Their number is
inexcusable.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 148. Ag. 15, ’07. 400w.
“As for the success of the book in its desire to interpret for us the
spirit of England and her people, that is as it may be. But it does
give a wonderful series of pictures—a vitascope, as it were, of life
on the island, yet not a photographic one; for each picture is tinged
with the personality of the author, if it be no other than the desire
he feels that his personality shall not intrude.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 650. O. 19, ’07. 2900w.
“A voluminous ‘author’s note’ is prefixed, supplemented by one of
similar length, in which egotism and over-sophistication of view-point
and utterance contend, as, indeed, they do throughout.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w.
“A rather ambitious volume which, on the whole, fairly reaches its
aim.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 100w.
=Hueffer, Ford Madox.= Hans Holbein the younger: a critical monograph.
*75c. Dutton.
6–1911.
Uniform with the “Popular library of art.” “A striking feature of Mr.
Hueffer’s text is his comparison of Holbein with Dürer. Both stand
between the Old World and the modern, between the old faith and the
new learning. With Dürer the old age ends; with Holbein a new age
begins.... Dürer stands for the great imaginers who went before—the
Minnesingers, the Tristan poets, the great feudal upholders. As
defining his country’s great place in art, Holbein represented what
Bach did in music—namely, completeness and thoroughness in getting out
of a preceding epoch and in getting into our own.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Is a model of what such a study should be.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 285. N. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Authoritatively informing, sufficiently critical and admirably well
written.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 818. O. 4, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 329. My. 19, ’06. 240w.
“A worthy addition to that attractive series.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 670. Jl. 21, ’06. 180w.
=Hugo, Victor.= Novels. 8v. ea. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the thin paper sets. The eight volumes included are Les
Miserables, two volumes, Notre Dame, Ninety-three, Toilers of the sea,
Man who laughs, Hans of Iceland, and Bug Jargal.
=Hugo, Victor.= Poems; ed. by Arthur Graves Canfield. $1. Holt.
6–43525.
A student’s edition of Hugo’s poems in handy form, containing an
introduction, biographical summary and notes.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w.
=Hugo, Victor Marie, viscomte.= Victor Hugo’s intellectual
autobiography; tr. with an introd. by Lorenzo O’Rourke. **$1.20. Funk.
7–21356.
A translation of “what will hereafter be regarded as Victor Hugo’s
ultimate Confession of faith. The volume dates from the period of the
great romanticist’s exile in the English island of Guernsey, to which
he fled when Napoleon III. usurped the throne of France. It is
composed of a group of rhapsodies on such themes as ‘Genius’, ‘Life
and death’, ‘Reveries on God’, in which the most versatile of
nineteenth century men-of-letters sets down his final convictions on
art, on religion, and on life.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Of the sons of the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo, it seems to us,
was preëminent as a transmitter of the light.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 38: 263. S. ’07. 9000w.
“An interesting and, on the whole, a well-written volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 238. Ag. 31. 600w.
“A graceful and scholarly translation.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1469. Je. 20, ’07. 610w.
“A well-written and illuminating piece of work, being not only
critical but to some extent biographical.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 131. Jl. 27, ’07. 170w.
“The effect of the volume in its English form is of a wild medley of
jerky phrases.”
− =Nation.= 85: 124. Ag. 8, ’07. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“Lorenzo O’Rourke, has contrived to throw into his rendering some of
the eloquence of the Titan—more than a suggestion of his volcanic
force and white hot rush of his burning words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 414. Je. 29, ’07. 1050w.
“The whole book is but a last illustration of Hugo’s incomparable gift
of phrase-making, of his self-consciousness, his egotism, his reliance
upon a superb, but purely external, literary gift, upon a craftmanship
that apparently never was in close communion with its possessor’s
essential inner self, which, instead, always looked abroad for
stimulation to the intellectual, social or political preoccupations of
the hour.” A. Schade Van Westrum.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 783. Ag. 2, ’07. 1470w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w.
“We cannot but feel however, that Mr. O’Rourke is not always qualified
for his task.”
− =Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.
=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Ohio river; a course of empire. **$3.50.
Putnam.
6–35979.
The sixth river to be treated in the series known as “Great waterways
of America.” “The illustrations which are numerous, are from
photographs, old prints, maps, and paintings, and are a distinct
contribution to the value of the book.... The age of the canoe, the
flatboat, and the steamer, as he names the divisions of the Ohio’s
history, are each treated fully and entertainingly, in a fashion to
vivify the heroes of each period, from La Salle, Boone, and the
Clarks, to St. Clair, ‘Mad Anthony’ Wayne, and the rest of the Indian
fighters who in their turn were supplanted by the heterogeneous
multitude of pioneers.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“By far the most valuable portions of the book are those which deal
with the distinctly human side of the subject—the conditions of
pioneer existence with which the emigrant had to wrestle, the life of
flatboatman and trader, the reign of outlaw and rowdy, the
intermingling of racial elements, and particularly the jealous contact
of Yankee and Virginian on the north and south banks of the river. So
far as political history is concerned, the student will find nothing
new. The book is unfortunately subject to the limitations and defects
of a hasty and somewhat scrappy narrative.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 662. Ap. ’07. 790w.
“A useful survey, not scientific, but helpful in illustrating the
successive phases of social life on the river.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 68. Mr. ’07.
“Mr. Hulbert brings to his work unusual qualifications, for he unites
a local interest and pride in the region of which he writes, with a
large perspective, and accuracy and perseverance in research with
picturesque and pungent style.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 395. D. 1, ’06. 320w.
“Fewer extracts and more concise treatment would make for vividness,
but the book, with its excellent illustrations, shows careful research
and gives a thoro knowledge of the region with which it deals.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 220w.
“Comes near to being a model of what such a book ought to be.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Hulbert has made what we are inclined to think is a most
intrinsically important addition yet made to the Messrs. Putnam’s
series.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w.
“There is no chapter in this book which is not of historical interest
and value. But without depreciating its genuine worth, it must be said
that the treatment should have been more systematic and complete.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 60. Ja. 17, ’07. 910w.
“On the whole the author has produced a volume of great historic value
and interest.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 12. Ja. 5, ’07. 2300w.
=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Pilots of the republic. *$1.50. McClurg.
6–41537.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 721. Ap. ’07. 50w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S.
“Narrated in a pleasant popular manner.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 147. Mr. 1, ’07. 260w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 457. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.
“The book is a direct and forceful contribution to American history,
and is well printed, as its text merits.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Hulbert’s style is attractive and in general, his presentation of
historical facts is good. One of the best chapters of the book is that
on Marcus Whitman, the hero of Oregon.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 250w.
=Hulbert, Homer Beza.= Passing of Korea. **$3.80. Doubleday.
6–32372.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Exhaustive, authoritative, and readable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07.
“The author has long resided in the country, and is conversant with
its language and literature. He is, we believe, the first writer on
Korea who possesses the latter indispensable qualification.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 765. D. 15. 1720w.
“Certain fundamental changes which are coming about as results of the
late war in the far east are described with insight and vigor.”
Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 43: 85. Ag. 16, ’07. 900w.
“One of the best books on Korea that has yet been written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 114. Ja. 26. ’07. 1440w.
“In so far as it is a picture of the social life of a backward people,
it is intensely interesting; but Mr. Hulbert is bitter when he
ventures on politics, so much so that one feels that he should have
named his book ‘The betrayal of Korea.’ He has nothing good to say of
the Japanese. Mr. Hulbert knows Korea and Koreans thoroughly, and
writes of both authoritatively and attractively.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 620w.
=Huling, Caroline A.= Letters of a business woman to her niece. *$1.
Fenno.
7–508.
In a series of personal letters to a young woman there is a vast deal
of sound sense which forms a general and impersonal contribution to
conduct. The writer is a woman of keen observation and ready
sympathies who has solved her problems of business life in a great
city thru experience, and from her fund of acquired wisdom, talks
freely to her niece. Matters of conduct, morals and dress are taught
with matter-of-fact allegiance to independence and dignity.
* * * * *
“The advice is sensible, if trite.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 41. Ja. 26, ’07. 1220w.
=Hull, Walter Henry=, ed. Practical problems in banking and currency;
being a number of selected addresses delivered in recent years by
prominent bankers, financiers, and economists. **$3.50. Macmillan.
7–17036.
The sixty addresses included in this volume cover the period since
1900 and deal authoritatively with practical problems as they affect
actual conditions. The papers are grouped in three sections; General
banking, Banking reform and currency, and The trust company, and they
discuss these subjects in three various subdivisions and from various
points of view. The volume is intended as a reference book in
connection with studies in banking and currency.
* * * * *
“The collection will be found useful to students of our monetary
situation even though few of these papers have any such value as would
make them worthy of a permanent place in the literature of money.” L.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 494. O. ’07. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 296. My. 11, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 560w.
“It brings together a mass of valuable information not usually dealt
with—or, at any rate, not dealt with in detail—in the standard
textbook.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 972. Ag. 31, ’07. 480w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 560. S. ’07. 150w.
“The present volume is a valuable addition to our knowledge and
understanding of the theory of credit, and when this is said no fuller
acknowledgment of is importance can be made.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 642. N. 2, ’07. 310w.
=Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Through Portugal. **$2. McClure.
7–25498.
The author says that this volume is a self-prescribed penance for his
former injustice toward the most beautiful country and the most
unspoiled and courteous peasantry in Southern Europe. So he makes
amends for hitherto rating the Portuguese as a Spaniard without any
good qualities. His greatest interest centers in such places as
“Bussaco, Thomar and Leiria, of which he gives a vivid series of
impressions, picturesque, alert, and eminently good-humoured.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“His vivid description of the scenery and the people, and his
observations on art, history and archaeology make up a book of more
than usual interest and charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07. S.
“The easy, flowing style of the book takes one from one scene to
another without effort, and the vivid descriptions enable the reader
to ‘see without traveling.’”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 594. N. ’07. 140w.
“The book is charmingly illustrated, and abounds in engaging, sincere
enthusiasm.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 350. Mr. 23. 190w.
“Whatever Mr. Hume describes in and about Oporto, Bussaco, Coimbra,
Alcoboca, Cintra, Lisbon, or places of lesser note, is done with a
well-considered and creditable enthusiasm, and in an unusually
graceful style.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 200w.
“It ought to be a revelation to those who know Portugal only from a
guide book, or who think of it only as an unimportant strip of
seashore to be neglected for royal Spain.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 236. S. 12, ’07. 490w.
“The fault we have to find with the clever sketches in colour is that
they are somewhat faint in tint and rather too much en vignette.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 190w.
=Hunt, Thomas Forsyth.= How to choose a farm. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–26525.
“The chief elements considered are: First, character and topography of
the soil; second, climatic conditions, including healthfulness and
water supply; third, location; fourth, improvements. A complete and
somewhat technical classification of the soils of the United States is
given, along with the crops best adapted to them.... The subject is
treated from an economic point of view, abundant statistical data
being given in support of statements.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The book suffers through an attempt to cover too wide a field. The
style is ordinary. Though at times involved, it is generally lucid.
The subject is treated practically and dispassionately. The book is
valuable to persons considering the possibility of owning or living on
a farm.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 216. Ja. ’67. 310w.
“A remarkable volume for the amount of information that has been
compressed without loss of enthusiasm and dryness of style.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 270w.
=Hunt, Rev. William=, ed. Irish parliament, 1775; from an official and
contemporary manuscript. *$1.20. Longmans.
7–26445.
An interesting addition to the literature of Parliament. It is a
reprint of a manuscript, supposedly a confidential document, prepared
probably with the object of guiding the Irish government in its course
of bribing the Parliament. Dr. Hunt has prefixed an introduction
describing the regime of the time.
* * * * *
“The volume adds less than might be expected from a document
introduced by Dr. Hunt.” C. Litton Falkiner.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 811. O. ’07. 770w.
“As a collection of character-portraits by a keen, if prejudiced
critic, the black list of Sir John Blaquiere presents a very curious
study.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 116. Ap. 12, ’07. 1950w.
“Had the manuscripts been put forward quite alone it would have told
its own sordid story, and more graphically than any monograph on the
Irish parliament that now exists it would have exemplified the
character of the institution that disappeared at the Union of 1800.”
+ =Nation.= 35: 78. Jl. 25. ’07. 1600w.
“The book adds nothing of the substance to what is already known of
the state of politics or of political morality in the period
immediately preceding Grattan’s. Though Mr. Hunt’s essay exhibits the
acumen and judgment which are characteristic of all his work, it
supplies nothing of importance which cannot be as readily found in
familiar authorities.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 368. S. 21, ’07. 660w.
=Spec.= 98: 544. Ap. 6, ’07. 100w.
=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane=, eds. Political history
of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“We must confess that Mr. Fisher’s portrait of Henry VII. is not
satisfactory.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 159. F. 16, ’07. 1310w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We leave his book convinced of its very great historical, and we
might add literary value.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 247. Mr. 9, ’07. 2270w. (Review of v. 4.)
“He writes, not as an advocate pleads, but as a judge sums up. And the
outcome is real history.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 722. Jl. 27, ’07. 1340w. (Review of v. 7.)
“In some respects, in a freshness and newness of viewpoint, the volume
has an advantage over its predecessors. For this, however, the author
must share the credit with the peculiar opportunity offered by the
field assigned him. This part of English history has been somewhat
neglected by English historians of the last generation.” Benjamin
Terry.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 613. Ap. ’07. 1520w. (Review of v. 3.)
“One error of real importance is the ascription of arbitrary power to
the ‘Warden’ of London, who was appointed by the king when the
citizens were deprived of the right to elect a mayor.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 165. F. 10. 920w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Marked both by great merits and considerable defects. Professor
Oman’s faults do not much matter; but the accumulated weight of scores
of small errors becomes serious. To these limitations must also be
added a too rigid adherence to mere chronological order, some want of
perspective, a judgment that is not always mature, or even consistent,
and occasional weakness of insight into constitutional and economic
problems. The result is to diminish the value of an interesting work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 65. Ja. 19. 3020w. (Review of v. 4.)
“It is beyond question an admirable example of history treated from
the ethical point of view. Probably it is the ablest instance which
has been produced in modern days, and some of its descriptions—such as
that of Bamburgh and its neighborhood—rival in their own fashion those
of Froude or of Macaulay. Here, if any where, history is human and
attractive. The emotional interpretation of events has excluded much
that is proper matter for the historian.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 468. Ap. 20. 420w. (Review of v. 1.)
“One most important aspect of the times is too scantily, or at least
too allusively, treated. We get no adequate impression of the economic
problems which loomed large at this period.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 655. Je. 1. 2460w. (Review of v. 5.)
“There is a something wanting.... It is pulsation, life.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 471. O. 19. 2080w. (Review of v. 7.)
Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 150. Ja. ’07. 1210w. (Review of v. 3.)
“If, however, we are hardly prepared to endorse all the opinions which
are scattered through Mr. Brodrick’s pages we gladly acknowledge the
clearness and accuracy of his narrative. We do not know where it is
possible to find a better summary of English history during the first
third of the nineteenth century.” Spencer Walpole.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 183. Ja. ’07. 1330w. (Review of v. 11.)
“The book is written from a large and almost exhaustive study of all
available sources.” James Gairdner.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 364. Ap. ’07. 1980w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Mr. Oman’s clear and forcible narrative presents a review of the
period which is in all its main aspects substantially sound.” C. L.
Kingsford.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 576. Jl. ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The [fifth] volume ... contains what is probably the best account of
Henry VIII yet written.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1527. Je. 27, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 4. and 5.)
“Able and exhaustive book. It will be an unfailing resource of the
student, while it proves the despair of the captious critic; for its
author can never be found nodding, and he puts forward no plausible
theories to serve as a target for the enemy’s bullets.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 5: 50. F. 16, ’06. 850w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The best history that has yet been written of the reigns of the first
two Tudor princes. Whether he looks for instruction or for amusement,
the reader who takes up Mr. Fisher’s book will not be disappointed.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 21. Ja. 18, ’07. 2010w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Within the limits thus prescribed for him, Mr. Montague has produced
a model book, and if sometimes these limits seem irksome to the
reader, they must have been more so to the writer.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 194. Je. 21, ’07. 1360w. (Review of v. 7.)
+ + =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 410w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“Although the high praise bestowed on this series in earlier notices
must be continued yet as the volumes accumulate certain deep seated
weaknesses begin to show more conspicuously.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 146. Ag. 15, ’07. 720w. (Review of v. 7.)
“His present work is authoritative, and based upon the results of the
most recent scholarship. It is a valuable contribution to the
literature of one of the most significant periods of English history.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 630w. (Review of v. 4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 880w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A little of Macaulay’s art would make his reliable history more
entertaining.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 487. Ag. 10, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 7.)
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 96. Ja. 12, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Perhaps an over-zealousness for detail is manifest, here and there,
as, for example, in the discussion of foreign relations, but even
where detail is most abundant the sense of continuity and unity and
interest is preserved. And, on occasion, Mr. Fisher shows himself
capable of rising to heights of superb eloquence.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 763. Mr. 30, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It is regrettable to find economic conditions practically unnoticed.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 480w. (Review of v. 7.)
“Professor Tout has done his work well; his volume is essentially
military and narrative history, accurate enough and full enough, it
may be hoped, to satisfy students and general readers for many a
decade.” Charles A. Beard.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 21: 700. D. ’06. 620w. (Review of v. 3.)
“A clear, scholarly and adequate account which will find a serviceable
place in the literature of the period.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 188. Mr. ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Unhappily the volume is marred in many places by vehement expressions
and loose characterizations which seem unworthy of so dignified a
work.” Charles A. Beard.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 522. S. ’07. 740w. (Review of v. 11.)
“As a narrator ... he is admirable; his style is clear and, without
striving after epigram, epigrammatic.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 559. My. 4, ’07. 1430w. (Review of v. 5.)
“We must say, however, that Professor Montague’s flag is hoisted at
once, and that there is scarcely an attempt to be fair to the side he
does not like. We are not imputing to Mr. Montague any deliberate
‘suppressio veri.’ But his history has a particular focus. It proceeds
on the assumption that one man may steal a horse while another may not
look over the hedge.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 483. O. 19, ’07. 920w. (Review of v. 7.)
“In style, judgment, and exhaustive knowledge of sources it leaves
little to be desired.”
+ + + =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 490w. (Review of v. 5.)
“A broad, accurate, restrained and scholarly book. Admirable in its
reliance on this authority and objectivity of the records, it is,
however, a book which will appeal to the scholar rather than to the
general reader.” Chalfant Robinson.
+ + =Yale R.= 10: 324. N. ’07. 900w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Huntington, Arria Sargent.= Memoir and letters of Frederic Dan
Huntington, first bishop of Central New York. **$2. Houghton.
6–39740.
“In a career so varied as that of Dr. Huntington’s there is much of
general interest. Nourished in what might be termed evangelized
Unitarianism, and educated by orthodox Congregationalists, he became
pastor of a Unitarian church, and subsequently preacher to Harvard
University and Plummer professor of Christian morals. On change of
view he was made rector of an Episcopal church in Boston, and later,
for thirty-five years bishop of central New York.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The biographer has produced a pleasing picture of one of the most
conscientious and useful men of the American church.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.
“This book is for the few—for those who find a delight in simplicity
and clarity and stability.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 860w.
* =Huntington, Ellsworth.= Pulse of Asia. il. **$3.50. Houghton.
7–36725.
A journey in central Asia illustrating the geographic relation between
physical environment and man, and between changes of climate and
history. Mr. Huntington gathers up the various hypotheses relating to
geography, meteorology. archeology, folk-lore and history and combines
them into a consistent geographic theory of history. The book is the
outcome of personal adventure from which an analytical mind has
deduced material which is a worthy contribution to science.
=Huntington, Helen.= Days that pass. **$1.25. Lane.
7–9785.
Some fifty little verses, slight and pleasing.
* * * * *
“All thoughtfully fashioned and delicate in expression.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 110w.
“A volume of slight but graceful verse.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 70w.
=Hurll, Estelle May.= Portraits and portrait painting, being a brief
survey of portrait painting from the middle ages to the present day. il.
$2.50. Page.
7–30411.
In this survey the aim has been to show what has been contributed to
the art of each age and by each nationality as well as by the several
most notable portrait painters. The work sketches history, temperament
and types, throwing sidelights on subjects as well as painters. Some
famous portraits are included among the illustrations.
* * * * *
“The ability ... to hold the reader’s interest by a crisp style, and
by a skilful presentation of salient points and large issues, is
evident throughout the book, which is an unusually satisfactory
example of its class.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
“She has the valuable gift of awakening promptly the desire to examine
at first hand the subject of her description.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 357. D. ’07. 280w.
=Huston, Paul Griswold.= Around an old homestead; a book of memories.
*$1.50. Meth. bk.
6–39445.
“This ‘book of memories,’ though it celebrates a particular house,
will serve to stir home memories in the heart of anyone who has lived
in the country. It has much to say of the house itself, the open fire,
the orchards, the woods, the squirrels, the dogs, and the activities
of farm life.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“A finely-made book, whose open print and abundant pictures will
especially delight old people.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 41: 389. D. 1, ’06. 120w.
“It is a sympathetic book to handle as well as to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
=Hutchinson, Alfred L.= Limit of wealth. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–22404.
A narrative based upon a report made in 1944 by a committee appointed
by the Eurasian conference, which represented the allied powers of
Europe and Asia to investigate the system of government in the United
States, by which that nation had so quickly outclassed the old nations
of the world. The narrative presents the findings of this committee
and shows us a United States based upon Utopian laws, the most
significant being that which allows the accumulation of wealth by any
individual but which limits his ultimate sale of it.
* * * * *
=Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 350w.
=Ind.= 63: 1061. O. 31, ’07. 160w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 501. O. ’07. 170w.
“Mr. Hutchinson’s book is at least written by one who understands
present conditions. From these conditions he draws logical
conclusions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.
“On the whole, we think these publications are more useful in giving
the student of the present economic conditions a historical background
than in giving to the reformer any clear light on methods for their
improvement.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 539. N. 9, ’07. 360w.
* =Hutchinson, Frances Kinsley.= Our country home. **$2. McClurg.
7–36734.
A delightful account of how two people—a man who had always wanted a
farm, and a woman who had never wanted a country house—were captivated
by a bit of Wisconsin woodland bordering upon a lake. They immediately
become the owners of seventy-two acres of this wilderness and in a few
year bring about a wonderful transformation, each step of which
combining the artistic with the practical, is recorded in this fully
illustrated volume.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Hutchinson tells her story most entertainingly, giving many
suggestions to readers who are interested in having country homes of
their own.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 300w.
=Hutchinson, Jonathan, jr.= Leprosy and fish eating: a statement of
facts and explanations. *$3.25. Keener.
The object of this work is stated in the preface to be “to carry
conviction to the reader that the fundamental cause of the malady
known as true leprosy is the eating of fish in a state of commencing
decomposition.”
* * * * *
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 703. Je. 9. 580w.
“In criticising Mr. Hutchinson’s theory we do not in the least desire
to belittle his work, which is of the greatest interest, and his book
is a valuable contribution to the epidemiology of leprosy.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 412. Mr. 14, ’07. 740w.
“We can lay down Mr. Hutchinson’s book with a feeling of greater
respect for his perseverance than for his judicial capacity.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 380w.
+ =Spec.= 96: 504. Mr. 31, ’06. 180w.
=Hutchinson, Rollin William, jr.= Long distance electric power
transmission; being a treatise on the hydro-electric generation of
energy; its transformation, transmission and distribution. *$3. Van
Nostrand.
7–10589.
“One-third of the book is devoted to the principles and practice of
hydraulics.... The electrical section of the book opens with a brief
study of the electric generator and its accessories.... Following this
is a long chapter on the transmission line.... Transformers, motors
and rotary converters have each a separate chapter.... The book closes
with a few illustrations from actual practice of transmission-plant
construction.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“As an epitome of the subject indicated in the title, the book is
excellent. It is well-balanced in several parts and leaves the reader
with an impression that the problem of power transmission is a large
one.” Henry W. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 439. Ap. 18, ’07. 450w.
“The treatment is concise, the language clear, and the mathematics
elementary. A work in which theory and reliable every-day experience
are well and judiciously combined.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 270. Je. ’07. 230w.
* =Hutten, Baroness Bettina von.= The halo. il. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–36982.
An unusual situation is handled by the author here. To free herself
from drudgery and poverty as well as the retinue of ineligibles which
her mother has forced upon her, an impulsive girl engages herself to a
mere boy and later finds out that it is his father, the wizard of the
violin, whom she loves, notwithstanding the fact that there is a wife.
“The book is really a study of the artistic temperament.”
* * * * *
“There is about some of the people an air of verisimilitude and
actuality; but one looks in vain for that fineness of perception,
nicety of phrase, and sense of true contrast which would have added
greatly to the whole.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 220w.
“Gives us in ‘The halo’ much the same wide range of life and variety
of type that contributed to the popularity of ‘Pam’ and its sequel.”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 407. D. ’07. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Is disappointing, owing to the improbability of the main situation.
The situation is intense enough, and novel enough; but it lacks,
somehow, that touch of reality, of sympathetic interest, which is ever
needed to bring the reader completely en rapport with the joys or
tribulations of the dwellers in romance.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 850w.
“The portrait of the violinist is an admirable sketch in the florid
style, and it is a pity that the extreme depravity of mind which
taints the atmosphere of the story like an unpleasant odour should
prevent readers from enjoying the pictures of Anglo-French life in
London, which are both amusingly and picturesquely drawn.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 672. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Hutten, Baroness Bettina von.= One way out. **$2.50. Dodd.
6–38553.
The hero, who is something of a cad, proposes to three girls in one
evening and is refused by each in turn. A fourth proposal, one which
promises an acceptance, he does not make. The explanation of all this
forms the story.
* * * * *
“The book is a slight rollicking comedy of English life, told with
much vivacity and considerable skill in the invention of incident.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 888. D. 22, ’06. 290w.
“Apart from its holiday make-up, the novelette has little to commend
it.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 893. D. 8, ’06. 30w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–52.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“An enthusiastic and well sustained treatment of Spanish life and
scenes. At times sentimental and pseudo-philosophic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07. S.
“After reading the book, the reviewer suggests, as a more fitting
title, ‘Spanish phantasies’ or, ‘Sobs of the desert.’ George G.
Brownell.”
− =Dial.= 42: 135. Mr. 1, ’07. 1240w.
“A piece of the true literature, in which the very spirit of the
scenes described has been caught and reproduced.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 84. Jl. ’07. 240w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini: a study
of a fifteenth century Italian despot. *$4. Dutton.
7–11548.
A record of fact retold as fiction. “The volume, which is a study of
the ‘Quattrocento’ in Italy, with the principal figure an Italian
despot, is supposed to be a translation of ‘the memoirs of the most
material transactions’ in the life of Malatesta, ‘written in Tuscan by
Pietro Sanseverino, with a sketch of his own life and account of his
meeting with Leon Battista Albert.’... The book is fully illustrated
with photogravures of portraits, documents, etc.” (N. Y. Times)
* * * * *
“As a means of arriving at this result he has invented a contemporary
of his hero who shall tell the tale for him. The idea is ingenious and
gives rise to some pages of interesting reflection and comment by the
old humanist in the course of his narrative. Yet in this very scheme
lies also the initial weakness of the book.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 655. D. 29, ’06. 920w.
“Although the memoir is a fiction the author has held loyally to
historic fact and shows remarkable familiarity with the authorities as
is evidenced by notes and references.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 122. My. ’07. 110w.
“Alternately we are tantalized by our author’s refusal, as historian,
to go one step beyond his documents, and annoyed by his airy
readiness, as novelist, to brush aside a difficulty, without making
the slightest effort to clear it up.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 97. Ja. 26. 1420w.
“A product that is neither history nor romance something that
historians will not read because they must regard it as fiction, while
novel readers will avoid it because it advertises itself as history.
In his attempt to be too clever Mr. Hutton has overreached himself.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 1151. My. 16, ’07. 390w.
“This is an excellent book, worthy to be read by every lover of good
English, and unquestionably the finest piece of work Mr. Hutton has as
yet done.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 559. D. 27, ’06. 850w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 828. D. 1, ’06. 350w.
“Might perhaps have been as well expressed with slightly less evident
straining after effect.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 210w.
“There is but one real blot in Mr. Hutton’s fine work of art, and that
should be instantly painted out or painted over; Sanseverino describes
as an eye-witness a supposed brutal murder by Sigismund of an
Ultramontane lady.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 270. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.
“It is an artistic piece of work, with a few flaws indeed, for only a
consummate artist could have kept it quite on the same level
throughout.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 214. F. 9, ’07. 1500w.
=Hyde, A. G.= George Herbert and his times. **$2.75. Putnam.
7–2429.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Such virtues as the merely careful and temperate writer, whose gifts
do not include art or style, may command, his book has.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 313. Mr. 16. 1820w.
Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.
=Putnam’s.= 1: 631. F. ’07. 530w.
=Hyde, Henry M.= Upstart. †$1.50. Century.
6–34689.
“Pat, ‘the upstart,’ son of a drunken Irish soldier who yet dies a
heroic death, and of a bighearted washerwoman, fights his way up
bravely, is not ashamed of his mother or of his finespirited and jolly
Aunt Bridget, makes his mark as a lawyer and politician, and finally
‘gets the girl’—the daughter of a raging Berserker of a Swede (we
suppose it is a Swede, the book says ‘Dootchman’), who is ‘King’ of
the country all about, and with his six stalwart boys has terrorized
the people.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“It is a realistic narrative, simple and straightforward, with touches
of humor, and unpretentiously successful in its execution.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 100w.
“Mr. Hyde has written a novel that is interesting as a story and not
without value as a document of that phase of American life that is
seen in the Middle West.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w.
“The book has some strikingly good qualities which, since it is a
first novel, give promise of good work in the future. It has also some
strikingly bad qualities. This atmosphere of unconscious democracy is
the best thing in the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 390w.
“Altogether, this is a vigorous tale, homely but dramatic.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 584. N. 3, ’06. 130w.
=Hyde, Rev. James.= Old faith re-stated. *60c. Warne.
The subjects treated are the cardinal articles of the Christian faith,
the titles for the chapters being taken from Scriptures; as “What
think ye of Christ?” “The Word was God,” “If thou wilt enter into
life, keep the commandments,” “When the Son of Man shall come in His
glory.” The aim of the restatement of faith is to aid the church in
getting back to its original foundation.
=Hyrst, H. W. G.= Adventures in the great deserts, romantic incidents
and perils of travel, sport, and exploration throughout the world.
*$1.50. Lippincott.
6–45335.
“Desert stories of twenty-four travellers and explorers.... The
majority of these explorations belong to the first half of the last
century, and the arms and equipment of the men, often single-handed,
who undertook them must appear miserably inadequate to any
schoolboy.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“This volume is, in stirring details, in no way inferior to its
companions.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 120w.
“On the whole, the author has produced a good and entertaining volume.
He is content to write simply and let the actual facts supply all the
thrills required to stimulate juvenile interests.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 100w.
“There is material enough to keep a boy’s interest up to the highest
pitch, and the book is well put together.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 260w.
* =Hyrst, H. W. G.= Adventures in great forests. **$1.50. Lippincott.
“The author observes that the period 1760–1860, which is roughly
covered by his book, was the golden age of forest wanderings, and not
unreasonably deplores the wasteful destruction of one of the finest
features of nature. In this volume we are introduced to sportsmen and
explorers in all parts of the world, from Stedman on his march through
the forests of Guiana to De Saulcy botanizing in the forest region of
the Jordan.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Will revive recollections in adults; and inspire the young reader
with something of the spirit of the past.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 90w.
“Recorded in a style which should attract all juvenile readers.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 635. O. 24, ’07. 160w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Borderland of psychical research. **$1.50.
Turner, H. B.
6–33631.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Many of his sentences are so obscure and confused as to be almost
unintelligible.” Henry W. Wright.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 80w.
+ =Arena.= 86: 670. Je. ’07. 600w.
“Its aim is cautious, its method conservative and its theme of
absorbing interest.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 79. Mr. ’07. 1380w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H.
B.
5–17300.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Henry W. Wright.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 361. Ap. ’07. 150w.
I
=Ibsen, Henrik.= Collected works of Henrik Ibsen; rev. and ed. by
William Archer. 11v. ea. $1. Scribner.
6–39770.
An edition of Ibsen to be complete in eleven volumes, translated by
Mr. Archer whose version was approved by the late poet. All the
volumes have new introductions by Mr. Archer. The volumes are as
follows: Feast at Solhang, Lady Inger, Love’s comedy; Vikings,
Pretenders; Brand; Peer Gynt; Emperor and Galilean (2 parts); League
of youth; Pillars of society; Doll’s house; Ghosts; Enemy of the
people; Wild duck; Rosmersholm, Lady from the Sea; Hedda Gabler,
Master builder; Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, and When we dead
awaken.
* * * * *
“It will be long before these handsome and cheap red volumes are
likely to be superseded as the standard edition of Ibsen.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 288. Mr. 23, ’07. 1390w. (Review of v. 2–4, 6 and
7.)
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 84. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1–11.)
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 163. Ag. 10, 760w. (Review of v. 9.)
+ + =Dial.= 42: 117. F. 16, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 2, 3, 6 and
7.)
=Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 8.)
+ =Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Mr. Archer makes good use of the material that has appeared since the
first editions.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1495. D. 20, ’06. 150w. (Review of v. 2, 6 and 7.)
=Ind.= 62: 622. Mr. 14, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“This new copyright edition is indispensable to the student or reader
of Ibsen for two reasons, it is the only complete and authoritative
translation in English, and the series of introductions which William
Archer has contributed forms the best exposition and analysis of the
dramas that we have in the language.”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 824. O. 3, ’07. 250w. (Review of v. 5, 9 and 10.)
“Is particularly timely, not only for the comprehensive view of that
playwright which it presents thru the introductions as well as in the
rounded mass of his writing, but also for the example offered by one
who, with all his faults, is nevertheless one of the great modern
dramatic technicians.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1–11.)
“Mr. Archer’s work gives notable distinction to this edition of
Ibsen’s writings. Exceptional care has been taken to secure accuracy
of text.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 1–7.)
“Ibsen’s language is much more direct—much more English, one might
almost say—than that of his translator. The diction of Mr. Archer is
too often circuitous and stilted. The introduction to each play throws
valuable light both on the plays and their author. Together, these
introductions will form a pretty complete review of Ibsen’s life, as
well as of his art. His introductions form the first systematic survey
of Ibsen in English.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 17. Ja. 3, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 2, 3, 6 and
7.)
“Of the translations, that by Mrs. Marx-Aveling ... is by far the most
successful. Mrs. Archer’s [translations] show unmistakable kinship to
those undertaken by William Archer himself. There is in them the same
stiff and stilted language, the same conventional artificiality, the
same failure to make the tone of the original audible.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 417. My. 2, ’07. 570w. (Review of v. 7 and 9.)
=Nation.= 85: 170. Ag. 22, ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 10.)
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 477. N. 21, ’07. 1620w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 631. O. 19, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Where [revision] appears it has been done with good judgment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ibsen, Henrik.= Letters of Henrik Ibsen; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik and
Mary Morrison. *$2.50. Duffield.
5–42524.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is impossible within the limits of a review to suggest a tithe of
the interesting things in this valuable human document. Suffice it to
say ... that the translators have done their work in a most
praiseworthy fashion.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 477. Ja. ’07. 1690w.
=Iles, George.= Inventors at work; with chapters on discovery. **$2.50.
Doubleday.
6–36472.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 94. Ja. ’07. 460w.
“The book is a very superficial but also very inclusive collection of
references.”
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 230w.
“It is a contribution to popular rather than technical literature, but
in the main fails to fulfil the promise of its title in that it does
not show us the inventor at work, but aims rather to catalog the
results of invention in certain departments of the world’s work.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 676. Mr. 21, ’07. 790w.
* =Inchbold, A. Cunnick.= Under the Syrian sun; the Lebanon, Baalbek,
Galilee, and Judæa. il. *$6. Lippincott.
7–29089.
Pictures and descriptions of Syrian countries with a great deal of
sunshine and warmth in both.
* * * * *
“The chief merit of this book lies in the coloured plates, most of
which are interesting, while a few are of great beauty. The
letterpress, oddly unconcerned with the pictures, is a lady’s account
of her travels—pleasant, but much too wordy—interspersed with a lot of
trite and often worthless information which simply embodies the
commonplaces of social intercourse in a land where every one sets up
for an authority.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 809. D. 22. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, *07. 20w.
“[Has] a compelling charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Indiana state teachers’ association.= In honor of James Whitcomb Riley.
50c. Bobbs.
6–16282.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 140w.
=Ingalls, Walter Renton=, ed. Lead smelting and refining, with some
notes on lead mining. $3. Eng. and mining journal.
6–46366.
A reprint of various articles pertaining to the mining, smelting and
refining of lead.
* * * * *
“Notwithstanding the number of different authors who have discussed
the various questions, the whole book is very concise in its
treatment, and there is an astonishingly small amount of duplication.
The book is not a complete textbook of the subject of which it treats,
but presupposes a knowledge on the part of the reader of the
fundamental principles involved. For the use of practitioners and as a
supplement to textbooks of the subject it is of great value.” Bradley
Stoughton.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 195. F. 14, ’07. 540w.
=Inge, William Ralph.= Truth and falsehood in religion. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–8274.
In six lectures delivered to undergraduates of the University of
Cambridge, Mr. Inge’s object “is to commend Christianity as a
religious system to the attention of thoughtful young men.... He
candidly admits the difficulties of the subject, and recognizes the
defects of much of the current Christianity and the value of modern
scientific and philosophical thought. Religion, he holds, is not
chiefly an affair of the intellect; the necessary postulate, or act of
faith, is the belief that our higher reason is in vital ontological
communion with the power which lives and moves in all things, and most
chiefly in the spirit of man.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 40w.
“Though we cannot regard his treatment of the Logos idea as
convincing, we can heartily commend the spirit of his lectures.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 359. D. 27, ’06. 570w.
“Thoroughly judicious and constructive.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 843. D. 1, ’06. 190w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Eight secrets. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–42426.
“This is the life story of an ingenious American boy who works out his
destiny despite all sorts of difficulties and dangers and who is
helped in his struggle by a wideawake girl. Both live in a simple
Pennsylvania village and both are endowed with unusual inventive
talent, which enables them to do things of a rather extraordinary
nature.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 295. Mr. 23, ’07. 300w.
“The story is full of varied incidents. It will instruct as well as
amuse young readers, for whom it is intended.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 150w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 100w.
“We unhesitatingly pronounce this one of the best boys’ books of the
season. Mr. Ingersoll is always to be depended upon for faithfulness
to nature, and whether he deals with animals or with boys he gives us
the genuine thing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 43. Ja. 5, ’07. 140w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Life of animals: the mammals. *$2. Macmillan.
6–18321.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“We do not expect that this book will be successful in this country:
we have already many publications of a similar sort which are as good,
and which avoid, of course, the spelling and diction of our
neighbors.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 201. F. 16. 90w.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 176. D. 20, ’06. 670w.
“The book has great merits, and we do not know of anything by an
English zoologist which exactly covers the same ground.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 310w.
=Ingersoll, Robert Green.= Philosophy of Ingersoll, ed. and arranged by
Vera Goldthwaite. **$1.50. Elder.
6–42943.
“The pungent quotations are arranged under various headings, so that
it is possible in a few moments to get the gist of Ingersoll’s views
on any main subject of human interest.” (Dial.) “The subjects are
arranged under such titles as Life, Cause and effect, Nature, Man and
woman, Marriage, Love, Home, Children, etc.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 455. D. 16, ’06. 50w.
“In brilliant epigram, in exquisite imagery, and flashes of wit and
humor, it shows the hater of superstition and cant in a manner
impossible to be revealed by a prejudiced perusal of his entire works,
where the finest thoughts are very often turned to unworthy abuse and
ostentatious irony.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Inman, Herbert Escott.= Did of Didn’t-think: a fairy story for boys and
girls; il. by W. Tayler. †$1. Warne.
The “didn’t-thinks” of the young hero of this tale result in such
things as his wiping the fluff from a butterfly’s wings, locking the
kitten in the coal bin, and melting the nose of his sister’s doll. He
is visited by the fairy queen who punishes him by taking him to the
land of Didn’t-think to find the Did.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Innes, Charles Herbert.= Air compressors and blowing engines, specially
adapted for engineers. *$2. Van Nostrand.
W 7–82.
“The book begins with the application of thermodynamics to the
compression of air under various circumstances.... The second chapter
is concerned with experiments on compressors.” (Nation.) The remainder
of the book is concerned with descriptions of various valves, blowers,
and compressors.
* * * * *
“While the book contains no distinctly new matter, it is distinctly
valuable because of the scarcity of literature dealing with this
subject.” Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 634. D. 13, ’06. 570w.
=Nation.= 84: 117. My. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Innis, George S.= Wycliffe: the morning star. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–18306.
This volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series is an adequate answer
to the question “What would a busy, earnest man want to know about
John Wycliffe and his work?”
* * * * *
“It is the story of a great man, told in a spirited style for plain,
busy, and earnest people by one who has imbibed all that history
relates of that ‘morning star of the reformation,’ and has reproduced
it in a well-digested and graphic abridgment, from which nothing
essential seems omitted.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 576. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
=Ireland, William W.= Life of Sir Henry Vane. *$3. Dutton.
6–2311.
“The story of this remarkable Puritan is told with vigor and effect by
Mr. Ireland, who, tho not a ‘professed’ historian and decidedly in
sympathy with his hero, writes with good judgment under his frank
recognition of the many sides to the Puritan-Royalist
controversy.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“While finding Mr. Ireland’s book lacking in some ways, its good
purpose, scholarship, and sound republican spirit lead the reviewer to
commend it as throwing much light upon its hero and the age in which
he moved.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 369. Ja. ’07. 1040w.
“There are many minor inaccuracies in the book, but its main defect is
the want of a firm, definite outline, which is due to imperfect
comprehension of the man and the period.” C. H. F.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 414. Ap. ’06. 170w.
“His volume bears evidences of careful and independent research, and
tho the style is sometimes pedestrian, interest is readily sustained
to the end.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1234. N. 22, ’06. 130w.
“Dr. Ireland’s limits require a severe process of selection, yet he
includes much that is almost offensively superfluous. It would be
impossible in this review to point out all the faults of type, faults
of phraseology, faults of grammar that disfigure these pages. A single
rapid reading has shown no less than sixty in four hundred and forty
pages. The history is by no means immaculate.”
+ − =Nation.= 82: 248. Mr. 22, ’06. 1140w.
“The book, we grant, is a scholarly and interesting presentment of a
noted man and a glorious period. We believe it would have been better
had the author considered if, only to confute them as unsound and
extravagant, the conclusions of his co-laborers.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 950w.
“Mr. Ireland has said the final word, and incorporates in his volume a
vast amount of original literature which, although familiar to
students of English history, has not hitherto been employed in
elucidating the character of the fourth Governor of Massachusetts.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 368. Je. 9, ’06. 1740w.
“Dr. Ireland succeeds in making his portrait singularly attractive
without the use of flattering or adulatory phrases.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 87. F. ’07. 670w.
“If his conclusions must largely be rejected, his book is nevertheless
substantially helpful in some respects. It has certain corrective
value, and—albeit in a rambling way—brings together from many
scattered sources a quantity of interesting data shedding new light on
the period.”
+ − =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 250w.
“It abounds in all the stale old schoolboy rants and third-hand
formulas about liberty and tyranny, about priestcraft, Protestantism.”
− =Sat. R.= 101: 304. Mr. 10, ’06. 1060w.
* =Irving, Henry Brodribb.= Occasional papers, dramatic and historical.
**$1.50. Small.
Eight essays on subjects as follows: The English stage in the
eighteenth century, Colley Cibber’s apology, The art and status of the
actor, The calling of the actor, The true story of Eugene Aram, The
fall of the house of Goodere, The Firalder case, and The early life of
Chief Justice Scroggs.
* * * * *
“Mr. Irving’s [defense of the profession and art] is one of the best
yet written.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 415. O. 27, ’06. 1090w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“‘The English stage in the eighteenth century,’ being decidedly the
most able and interesting paper in a volume which deserves these
epithets in no common degree.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 310w.
=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Random rhymes and odd numbers. il. **$1.50.
Macmillan.
6–41958.
“Humorous verse on timely subjects.... In the best we find not only
remarkable deftness in the use of rhyme and meter, but much
good-humored and shrewd comment in verse on questions and incidents of
recent news interest.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Shows the range of his humor and metrical skill, and is always good
reading. But it fails to show quite the poetic energy of the volume of
‘Chinatown ballads,’ of which we lately had to speak.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w.
“It is after all the vein of seriousness running through the volume of
gay verse that makes Mr. Irwin’s ‘Random rhymes and odd numbers’ more
than the light amusement of a passing hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 560w.
“Mr. Irwin is really a sort of poetic Dooley.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= Shame of the colleges. $1.25. Outing pub. co.
7–22412.
In these days of the muck rake almost everything has figured in the
literature of exposure and now the dread instrument is run “over the
field of waving rah-rahs.” Dedicated to Leland Stanford Junior, this
little volume with its amusing illustrations makes its witty
accusations in a series of papers entitled Harvard, the crimes of the
amalgamated-gentleman trust; Vassar, delicious but dyspeptic;
Princeton, frenzied but unashamed; The University of Chicago, a
self-made antique; Yale, the democratic machine at Yale; and West
Point, a reign of drill-terriers.
* * * * *
“Might almost be described as a small body of liquid verse entirely
surrounded by dull prose.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 442. Jl. 13, ’07. 300w.
=Irwin, William Henry.= City that was: a requiem of old San Francisco.
*50c. Huebsch.
6–23693.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It deals with facts as well as feelings, but he wrote from the heart,
and every word shows it. He caught and expressed something of the
spirit of a light-hearted city whose charm even the most casual
visitor never failed to feel.”
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 60w.
Island stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c.
Century.
7–29584.
A good deal of geography is entertainingly taught here. Robinson
Crusoe’s island as it is to-day is sure to interest boys to whom it
has been bequeathed as a “playground for the imagination.” Then there
are the Philippines, the Hawaiian islands, the Cannibal islands,
Madeira and Samoa, and interesting experiences that fall to the lot of
the story-teller while sojourning in them.
* * * * *
“This book contains ... stories that every normal boy will read with
avidity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 110w.
=Ives, George Burnham.= Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes. *$5.
Houghton.
7–10313.
“By means of a series of classifications, the bulk and detail of Dr.
Holmes’s work have been made accessible from several points of
approach. There are six lists concerned with Holmes’s own work and
four relating to matter written about him.... There is subjoined
information as to the circumstances under which the poem or book was
written and first published, with other relative items. Such a work is
of course essentially a guide book.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Ives’s work has been done well.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 1260w.
“This is a very careful piece of work, and while absolute completeness
is not claimed for its data, one may be confident that nothing of
great importance is likely to have been omitted. The present task has
not been performed in the spirit of meticulous yet critically
undiscriminating diligence of which the bibliographer is sometimes
guilty.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 218. Ap. 6, ’07. 2150w.
J
* =Jacberns, Raymond.= Discontented schoolgirl. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of the English school days of an impish little girl of
French and English parentage. “In the Juvenile fiction of a bygone
generation Marcella would have been held up as an awful warning to
young readers, and would probably have incurred some terrible fate as
a punishment. Now her disobedience, insolence, ingratitude to a kind
guardian, and general insubordination, are gleefully related as being
rather amusing than otherwise, and the happy ending to the story is
indirectly due to her bad behaviour.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
=Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams.= Persia past and present. **$4.
Macmillan.
6–33596.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“For the general reader the work possesses all the elements that go to
make books of travel in strange lands interesting reading. For the
scholar the book is valuable both for the richness of its
bibliographical references and for its own contributions to the
subject.” George Melville Bolling.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 602. Ap. ’07. 1740w.
“An exhaustive and scholarly work, well illustrated, fully indexed.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07.
“It is a book of travel and of research, and is of interest and value
alike to the scholar and the traveler,—an unusual combination, for few
travelers are scholars, and few scholars are travelers.” Dora Keen.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 659. My. ’07. 1090w.
“It is hardly possible to overpraise the vivid representation by Prof.
Jackson of what he actually saw.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1160w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 66. Mr. 1, ’07. 1390w.
Reviewed by George R. Bishop.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 443. Jl. 13, ’07. 2500w.
“It has enduring value. It has scientific power. It has historical
interest and, what is rarer, the feeling for what is genuinely
interesting in history. It has a sense of the humanity of life, the
poetry, the mysticism.” Charles Johnston.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 446. N. ’07. 1320w.
“A volume which has a permanent value, and will take its place by the
side of those of Sir Robert Ker Porter and Lord Curzon.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 432. Ap. 6, ’07. 790w.
“The information which he gives is to a certain extent limited by his
absorption in his own studies.... He is however fully conversant with
the work of his predecessors, and he does not fail to provide an
excellent general survey of the ground they have covered. The
excellent photographs of the Sassanid rock-cut monuments reproduced in
this book will be of great value to archaeologists.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 623. Ap. 20, ’07. 910w.
=Jackson, Charles Ross.= Sheriff of Wasco. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–16754.
Wasco County, Oregon, terrorized by an outlaw of numberless crimes and
unheard of cruelty elects a young railroad man its sheriff. The story
follows the trail of the outlaw with the determined young officer
until he brings down his inhuman prey and wins the love of a
millionaire’s daughter whom he has rescued from the bandit’s clutches.
It is a wild tale in which brute passions are described with a
strength and vividness that does not admit of delicacy.
* * * * *
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.
=Jackson, Frederick Hamilton.= Shores of the Adriatic: the Italian side.
*$6. Dutton.
7–13428.
“The twenty-two chapters treat of the seaboard provinces ... and
small, well-known places. Mr. Jackson describes the churches,
dwellings, and other places and things of archaeological and artistic
interest, telling something, too, about the people and their
characteristics in the various towns. There are also extracts from the
histories of churches, pictures or persons, the towns themselves, as
well as the political and national history of the places visited. The
illustrations ... are photographic reproductions, drawings, plans,
etc. of buildings, natives, scenes, interiors, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“His descriptions of architecture are exceedingly close and careful,
though at times rather too technical for the layman to follow quite
clearly: and the historical matter which he gives suffers from a
compression which perhaps was unavoidable. He has spared neither time
nor labour in his work, and has produced a valuable and delightful
book.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 186. F. 23, ’07. 1400w.
“If this volume has a few weak points—one of which is a very imperfect
index—these are more than counterbalanced by many and solid merits.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 582. My. 11. 900w.
“A good book; in fact, the only fault one is inclined to find with it
is that it is too monotonously good. A little more liveliness would
atone even for a lapse in grammar.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 120w.
“Lovers of fine architectural construction and decorative detail will
delight in the many fine drawings that enrich Mr. Jackson’s delightful
volume.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 276. Ja. ’07. 320w.
“His work from the mere fact of its bulk could never serve as a
guide-book. The want of maps, too, is a serious drawback in a
practical hand-book. On the other hand, for those who ask for charming
impressions, the volume is too practical, too conscientious. Very
different and full of detail are his architectural descriptions, and
here we feel him thoroughly at home.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 400. N. 30, ’06. 1360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 876. D. 15, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Jackson has discovered and described three or four times as many
things as the ordinary traveler would find out for himself, unless he
were, indeed, a many-sided man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 456. Jl. 20, ’07. 330w.
“It contains much information clearly and compactly put. Nevertheless,
we wish that the author’s manner were more vivacious, and that the
color of the history described were as equally evident as its
outline.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Jackson has described and drawn with a care worthy of all praise.
One regrets a little this somewhat stolid tone as one turns over the
only work of value which an Englishman has ever written on this
region.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 860w.
=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle E. S.= Wee Winkles and her friends. †$1.25.
Harper.
7–30868.
Another chapter in Wee Winkles’ life telling of her dolls, the little
baby kittens, and of Jerry, the fire-engine horse, that rescued
Wideawake from an old tumble down house where an accident had befallen
him. Any child might profit by the lesson of love for animals that is
taught thruout the story.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 30w.
“The author has mastered this art, and her story deals with simple
incidents, in simple language, well suited to hold the interest of the
little readers.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 70w.
=Jackson, Henry Latimer.= Fourth gospel and some recent German
criticism. *$1.10. Putnam.
“The present volume takes up in detail the authorship, historicity,
criticism of the gospel according to St. John, the identification of
John the beloved apostle and John of Ephesus, and the Fourth gospel
and the Synoptics. The footnotes are numerous and full.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A very useful compendium. The frequent summaries are helpful to the
reader and make amends for some needless repetition.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 368. Ap. ’07. 80w.
“A careful, judicial, and up-to-date examination of the Johannine
problem.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 40w.
“The book may be strongly commended, especially for its accuracy of
information and impartiality in presentation of both sides of a
controversy, and it is hoped that it will receive attention from any
who may suppose that Professor Sanday and Principal Drummond have
spoken the last word on this important subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 453. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.
“The book is a valuable supplement to Ernest F. Scott’s essay on the
theology of the fourth gospel.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 750. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
=Jackson, Holbrook.= Bernard Shaw. *$1.50. Jacobs.
W 7–187.
“Mr. Jackson discusses Shaw in the fourfold aspect of man, Fabian,
playwright and philosopher and proves to his own satisfaction that Mr.
Shaw is the incarnation of all that is best in modern thought.”
(Nation.) “Mr. Jackson shows that the real Shaw is a serious man with
a serious purpose, ‘that all his art has been an evolution toward a
means of expression for the sake of propaganda,’ and quotes his
admirable Fabian tracts to prove that if Shaw has undertaken to
transform sociology from a ‘dismal into a joyous science,’ it is from
no lack of earnestness but from a fine sense of the adaptation of
means to ends.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Truth to tell, Mr. Jackson has so soaked himself in the Shaw drama,
the Shaw economics, ethics, and politics, and the Shaw philosophy,
that he is not able to stand sufficiently away from his subject to see
him objectively. His whole book is oppressed with the weight of Mr.
Shaw’s personality.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 376. S. 28. 580w.
“The book is well written, and, in its biographical pages especially,
highly entertaining.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 321. N. 16, ’07. 370w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
“Still, since ‘it is obvious that’ Mr. Shaw, like Alice, is incapable
of explaining himself and needed some one to write him down to the
level of the hyper-self-conscious middle class, Mr. Jackson has
performed the kind office very fairly well.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 261. Ag. 30, ’07. 1450w.
“The book is also likely to prove interesting to connoisseurs in human
intellectual vagaries, not only because it is cleverly written, in a
way that often reflects what the faithful call the Shavian attitude
and manner but because it gives an apparently authoritative summary of
Mr. Shaw’s various theories, social, political and the like, and
furnishes some significant facts which may help to account for a good
many of them.”
+ =Nation.= 85:334. O. 10, ’07. 490w.
=Jackson. Lucie E.= Feadora’s failure; il. by J. Macfarlane. $1. McKay.
7–22917.
A book for young people which records the rebellion of six spirited
children against the rule of their wilful, inexperienced,
eighteen-year old sister who insists upon managing the household and
servants when the mother dies.
* =Jacob, Robert Urie.= Trip to the Orient: the story of a Mediterranean
cruise. **$1.50. Winston.
7–9812.
In the main a revised and elaborated personal journal of the
happenings incident to a seventy-day tour of the Mediterranean
districts.
* * * * *
“The book itself is likely to interest few, if any, outside of the
restricted circle of those who happened to take the same tour or are
planning to take a similar one in the future. The book has lost much
through the inferior quality of the illustrations.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 594. N. ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Jacobs, William Wymark.= Short cruises; il. by Will Owen. †$1.50.
Scribner.
7–16484.
“These cruises, largely by sailors, but of the land or at the most, of
the port, are in the author’s familiarly amusing vein.... The
practical joke, the admonition by craft, the object lesson through
wile have their perfect work in these pages. If the fun possibly makes
especial appeal to masculine readers, feminine ones should observe
that it is always the woman who gets the best of it.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“This volume is fit to stand on the shelf beside ‘Many cargoes’ and
‘Sea urchins.’”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 873. S. 7, ’07. 210w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.
“To be frank, the sailormen we meet with in these pages—at all events,
where they are deepwater sailormen—are not in the least the real
thing; but they are much more amusing than the real thing is wont to
be, and so we welcome their appearance.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 1170w.
“There are, we regret to say, signs in his latest book that Mr. Jacobs
is tiring. He is still funny, but he has receded further from life.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 300w.
“His invention is varied, his humour on his chosen lines of cartoon
and caricature, boundless, and his mastery supreme of what in
respectful homage we venture to term slanguage.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.
=James, George Wharton.= Wonders of the Colorado desert (southern
California). **$5. Little.
6–43916.
Two volumes, each containing over two hundred and fifty pages, tell of
“strange, wonderful and beautiful things ... unknown to cities and to
the unobservant eye.” Mr. James locates the desert with a good deal of
exactness because the world at large is misled by the word “Colorado.”
He has gathered together in the volume twenty-four years of
observations and experiences all characterized by the vague sense of
mystery surrounding an untamed, unused and unnourished stretch of
country. There is a wealth of pictures attending his sketch of rivers
and mountains, cañons and springs, life and history.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07.
“It is a book that it is a genuine pleasure to recommend to
discriminating readers.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 327. Mr. ’07. 940w.
“A remarkable and valuable work.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 350w.
“To many people who are quite ignorant of the Colorado desert, and
this includes nearly every one outside the desert and vicinity, the
book will be full of pleasant surprises. Perhaps the chapters on the
wild animals, birds, reptiles, insects and plant life of the desert
contain as many surprises as any in the book.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 550. My. 16, ’07. 510w.
“A very comprehensive and interesting work.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 42. Ja. 3, ’07. 410w.
“Written ‘con amore’ and under the immediate inspiration of the
unwonted scenes which they describe, the volumes will have an intimate
appeal for those interested in the wonders of their own land.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 300w.
“Actual perusal inspires a wish that the author had limited his field
and compressed his material into one volume. He should remember that a
plethora of superlatives only weakens a eulogy.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 294. Mr. 28, ’07. 520w.
“He has gifts of observation far above the common and the literary art
of vivid and picturesque description.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 121. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.
“Occasionally the reader feels that the author is giving a little too
much detail, and, is even inclined to question whether the material
might not to advantage have been presented in a single volume.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 42. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 90w.
=James, Henry.= American scene. **$3–Harper.
7–5704.
After an absence of nearly a quarter of a century Mr. James viewed
once more his native land, and wrote in the style which he has made
his own, of what his eyes, fresh after long absence, saw in her. New
England, in the autumn, New York in the spring, The Bowery, Newport,
Washington, Richmond, Charleston, and sunny Florida, the beauty of
them, the very atmosphere and air of them are to be found between
these covers.
* * * * *
“The book is undeniably difficult to read; full of psychological
subtleties, involved expression, baffling to the average reader.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07.
“Throughout four hundred and sixty-five broad pages there is no oasis
in the level, unbroken expanse of Jacobean style. Nor has his style
improved with years. In this latest example it has an irritation once
absent; for to the defects of his own qualities he has added
carelessness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 282. Mr. 9. 2640w.
“Despite his consummate analytic power, perhaps not the one after all
to whom we should willingly allow the last word on what America stands
for.” James F. Muirhead.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 566. O. ’07. 1330w.
“Mr. James is, if at his worst, also at his best in this book.” Edward
Clark Marsh.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 188. Ap. ’07. 1270w.
“The book is one to read in at length, if not to read through. Its
pages are strewn with the happiest phrases and turns of expression.
They teem with passages of exquisite artistry, which, without
reference to the scenes and objects so delicately depicted, are a joy
to the lover of the gracefully elaborate, the subtilely expressive and
still more subtilely suggestive, in English prose.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 176. Mr. 16, ’07. 1570w.
“No book which Mr. Henry James has written makes so severe a tax on
the loyalty of even his most enthusiastic readers as his ‘American
scenes.’”
− =Ind.= 63: 95. Jl. 11, ’07. 1090w.
“Crowded, sensitive, intricate book, probably the most remarkable book
of impressions of travel which we possess. It cannot be pretended that
it can be read without considerable concentration of attention; once
drop the finespun thread, and you are lost. But to follow it out to
the end is to have a positive revelation of the amount of insight and
exactness of expression which can be packed between the covers of a
single book.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1970w.
“A work of marvellously keen and subtle analysis; it transfixes the
defects and shortcomings of American civilization with unerring
thrusts; but it is less successful on the positive and synthetic side.
Its vision is, if anything, too personal, too microscopic.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 266. Mr. 21, ’07. 1260w.
“It would be impossible within reasonable limits to give much idea of
the rich and fantastic humor that plays about the revisited towns of
America, leaves behind it suggestions to awaken our serious thought.”
Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 221. Ap. 6, ’07. 1760w.
“There is but one way in which to read ‘The American scene:’ refuse to
let it antagonize you, remember constantly that it is the utterance of
a ‘restored absentee;’ and with every page you will come more and more
under the charm of his descriptions and the subtlety of his
judgments.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 214. My. 17, ’07. 1830w.
=Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 450w.
“He has written not a guide-book, but a drama, the drama of a
continent: and he has contrived with illuminating subtlety that the
‘persons’ of it shall be not the varieties of humanity upon its
surface, but the evidences, the more or less enduring records of their
aspiration and their content.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 395. Mr. 30, ’07. 2400w.
“The faults we have to find with it are only the faults which cling to
all Mr. James’s work. He is exceedingly difficult to read. Mr. James
writes with such urbanity and so genuine a love for the land that the
most nervous patriot could not take offence at his pages, while to a
certain limited class of readers they will be a source of acute
intellectual pleasure.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 334. Mr. 2, ’07. 1750w.
=James, William.= Pragmatism: a new name for some old ways of thinking.
**$1.25. Longmans.
7–20643.
“A popular presentation of pragmatism. Professor James claims
Socrates, Aristotle, Locke, Berkeley and Hume as pragmatists. But
these “forerunners of pragmatism used it in fragments; they were a
prelude only. Not until in our time has it generalised itself.” The
volumes teach that truth comprises all principles, ideas, and beliefs
that lead in the long run to the best practical results. Pragmatism is
the same method in philosophy that utilitarianism is in ethics, which
pronounces monogamy right and gambling wrong, not by previous
intuition, but by the test of experience. What wears best is good;
and, because proved good, is true.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“We should not be doing justice to Professor James’s style did we not
refer to the colloquialisms and American slang which abound in the
book.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 772. Ag. 10, ’07. 1180w.
Reviewed by I. Woodbridge Riley.
=Bookm.= 26: 215. O. ’07. 2070w.
“His presentation of the pragmatic method is of course unique by
reason of the author’s own charming literary style, comprehensive
knowledge of philosophy, literature and philosophy, literature and
philosophical principles, and great skill as an expositor.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 630. S. 12, ’07. 930w.
“The lectures contain nothing new, and, on the whole, nothing that was
not more concisely put in some of these previous pronouncements; but
it is always a pleasure to hear Professor James talking.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 210. Jl. 5, ’07. 730w.
“Professor James has an unconventional way of dealing with
philosophical questions, so that by graphic illustrations and by
simple language he attracts attraction and wins assent.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 970w.
“It is scarcely possible to exaggerate one’s appreciation of the
lucidity and skill with which so abstract a topic has been treated.”
Joseph Jacobs.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 527. Ag. 31, ’07. 2610w.
Reviewed by Carolyn Shipman.
=No. Am.= 185: 884. Ag. 16, ’07. 1950w.
“His well-known, vivacious and breezy style of address, garnished here
and there with racy colloquialisms, working, as it does, to enliven
attention to his arguments, is itself felicitously pragmatic.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 748. Ag. 3, ’07. 330w.
“Professor James’s volume is interesting and stimulating throughout,
and it is needless to add that it contains a deal of practical wisdom
and much useful advice which all philosophers would do well to heed.
And it seems to me to be much stronger in what it affirms than in what
it denies.” Charles M. Bakewell.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 624. N. ’07. 4780w.
“I am therefore bound to record the opinion that the present volume
fails to rise to the level of its author’s reputation. There is
something too much of ‘the large loose way’ about it.” R. M. Wenley.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 26: 464. O. 11, ’07. 2480w.
=James, Winifred.= Bachelor Betty. **$1.25. Dutton.
7–23302.
“Bachelor Betty is a vivacious young Australian girl who comes over to
England to seek her fortune as a journalist. She is an independent
young person who means to make the best of things, and for this
purpose she adopts an aggressively cheerful attitude, extracting fun
out of all sorts of unpromising material.... ‘There is not,’ she
writes, ‘one woman in a hundred who chooses an independent life
because she prefers it’.... We know full well that whimsical Betty
with her continual babble and chatter, her delicate philanderings with
the ‘youngest man,’ the ‘oldest man’ and other admirers will come at
last into the safe haven of matrimony.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“All her characters are made living by some touch or phrase which
renders the least important of them a personality.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 706. Jl. 20, ’07. 230w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Here is an author who takes herself not too seriously, and knows how
to entertain us. We find sanity and humanity also in the development
of the story.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 120w.
“What redeems it entirely from the commonplace is the author’s lively
turn of phrase and fresh, untrammelled observation.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 320w.
“Her talk is quite pleasant, too, and every now and then she says
quite womanly-characteristic things in a quite womanly-characteristic
way. There is nothing very remarkable about it, but there have been
worse love stories—many of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 400w.
“We should have found ‘Bachelor Betty’ much more amusing but for the
author’s obvious determination to be humorous at all costs. Is full of
promise and we feel sure is only an earnest of better work to come.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 148. Ag. 3, ’07. 310w.
=Jameson, E. M.= Peggy Pendleton. $1.25. West. Meth. Bk.
A first rate story for young readers. The heroine, Peggy Pendleton,
found favor with those who enjoyed “The Pendletons,” and here she
continues the fulfillment of numerous budding promises, among them
good cheer, generosity, and quick thoughtfulness for others.
=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American
history. per. v. **$3. Scribner.
7–6643.
A series of twenty volumes entitled “Original narratives of early
American history,” undertaken under the auspices of the American
historical society and edited by J. F. Jameson. “The series is to
consist of such volumes as will illustrate the early history of all
the chief parts of the country, with an additional volume of general
index. The plan contemplates, not a body of extracts, but in general
the publication or the republication of whole works or of distinct
parts of works.” (N. Y. Times.)
=v. 1. Olson. Julius E., and Bourne, Edward G.=, eds. Northmen,
Columbus, and Cabot.
6–36882.
This first volume of the series is divided into three parts: “The
voyages of the Northmen,” edited by Professor J. E. Olson, which
presents the saga in Hauksbok and that in Flatey-jarbok, together with
some minor Northern and papal pieces; “The voyages of Columbus” and
“The voyages of John Cabot,” edited by Professor E. G. Bourne.
=v. 2. Burrage, Henry S.=, ed. Early English and French voyages,
1534–1608.
6–44365.
The account of these voyages is largely taken from Hakluyt and covers
the voyages of Cartier, Hore, Hawkins, Drake, Gilbert, Barlowe, Lane,
White, Grenville, Brereton, Pring, Waymouth, and Popham.
=v. 3. Hodge, Frederick W., and Lewis, Theodore H.=, eds. Spanish
explorers in the southern United States, 1528–1543.
7–10607.
“This volume includes the contemporary accounts of the three most
important Spanish explorations in the region now comprised in the
southern part of the United States. These are Cabeza de Vaca’s
narrative of his remarkable wanderings, the account of the expedition
of Hernando de Soto by the gentleman of Elvas, and Pedro de
Castaneda’s narrative of the expedition of Coronado. Apart from the
requirements of the series there was not the same necessity for the
issuing of this particular volume as for the other two as two of these
narratives already have been published in handy and inexpensive form
under the competent editorship of Messers. Bourne and Winship
respectively.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
=v. 4. Grant, William Lawson=, ed. Voyages of Samuel de Champlain,
1604–1618.
7–22899.
This volume includes extracts from the writings of Champlain from
which the student may construct a theory of the value of Champlain’s
work as explorer and colonizer.
=v. 5. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner=, ed. Narratives of early Virginia.
7–33220.
“Selections from the doughty John Smith fill about two-thirds of the
volume; the remaining contents include narratives and letters by
George Percy, Lord De-la-Ware, Dion Diego de Molina, Father Biard,
John Ræfe, and John Pory. The period covered is that from the first
settlement to the dissolution of the Company in 1624 by the aggrieved
monarch.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Most serviceable and in all ways to be welcomed is this volume. But
it might have been made still more serviceable.” C. Raymond Beazley.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 654. Ap. ’07. 940w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This publication edited by Dr. Burrage is one which meets a long-felt
want. The reader has sufficient information about the narrators, both
historical and bibliographical to whet his appetite and increase his
interest.” P. Lee Phillips.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 692. Ap. ’07. 460w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by G. P. W.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 926. Jl. ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)
“If the remaining volumes are edited with a similar degree of skill
and intelligence as these under review, the series will prove to be a
most admirable one and will be recognized as a standard collection of
source publications.” Herman V. Ames.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 183. Jl. ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
+ + =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 30w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Dial.= 42: 266. Ap. 16, ’07. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5)
“There is a sanity and freedom from controversial bitterness in the
editorial portions which commends the volume warmly to us.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 41. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Each narrative has been carefully edited as to an introduction and
foot-notes, an excellent index being added.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 140w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Nation.= 84: 245. Mr. 14, ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Furnishes the best possible introduction to a further study of the
large and intricate problem of Spanish explorations in America.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Nation.= 85: 493. N. 28, ’07. 610w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“To a careful student it is simply invaluable, the many footnotes
giving the various authorities on any possible disputed point.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 71. F. 2, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The notes, without being burdensome, are adequate for purposes of
explanation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 481. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Mr. Grant, the editor, succeeds well in elucidating difficult points
and illuminating obscure passages.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 190w. (Review of v. 4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The selection and editing could not, in fact have been better done
for the purpose which the editors had in view.” H. Cabot Lodge.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 1289. D. 21, ’06. 2100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It seems a pity, however, that room was not found for the Ribaut,
Laudonnière, and Le Moyne narratives, having to do with the early and
ill-fated French settlements in Florida and South Carolina.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 570. Je. 13, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The reprint is well adapted to the use of both the special student
and the general reader of history. From the standpoint of the latter,
however, it is to be regretted that Mr. Grant has not seen fit to
write a more detailed biographical introduction.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 4.)
“One could wish that President Tyler had expanded his introductory
comment on certain of the documents.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 3.)
=R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Janet, Pierre.= Major symptoms of hysteria: fifteen lectures given in
the medical school of Harvard university. *$1.75. Macmillan.
7–23068.
A summary of the psychological research work of the French in the
subject of hysteria is given in this series of lectures. They treat of
Monoideic somnambulisms, Double personalities, Convulsive attacks,
Motor agitations, Paralysis, The troubles of vision, of speech, and
other phases of the disease.
* * * * *
“On the whole, one may say that this is the most readable and
interesting book on clinical psychology since the days of John
Abercrombie and his ‘Intellectual philosophy.’” Irving Wilson
Voorhees.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 1230w.
=Janssen, Johannes.= History of the German people at the close of the
middle ages. v. 9–10, *$6.25. Herder.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Janssen has done a service for Catholic scholarship which it
would be hardly possible to overestimate.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 566. Ja. ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
=Janvier, Thomas Allibone.= Santa Fé’s partner. †$1.50. Harper.
7–29432.
Palomitas, bearing a striking resemblance to Wolfville, is the scene
of the pranks played by Santa Fé Charley, a professional gambler who
frequently assumes the garb and speech of a minister, and his partner,
the Sage-Brush Hen, who together entertain tenderfoot easterners with
mock hangings, stage holdups and shootings. “More folks in Palomitas
has names that had tumbled to ’em than the kind that had come regular.
And when they sounded regular they likely wasn’t.”
* * * * *
“Humorous yarns of life in a mining town forming a continuous
narrative, told in the first person in the racy vernacular of the
place.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“The book has charming freshness and a southwestern flavor that is
delightfully amusing, and suggestive of conditions that have been
rapidly passing away.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 533. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
“It is all good magazine copy, though hardly more.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 306. O. 3, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Janvier has latterly been playing not unskillfully with the
picturesque material invented and bequeathed to literature by the late
Bret Harte.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Jastrow, Joseph.= Subconscious. *$2.50. Houghton.
6–16729.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As a result of incontinent use of rhetorical figures, the size of the
book has been made unduly large. For this fact alone the book becomes
tedious to the man whose time is limited. The lack of a critical and
scientific form of presentation, of specific historical references,
and of close articulation with the results of advanced researches in
experimental and analytical psychology, prevents the book from having
any wide sphere of usefulness in the psychological research world.”
John B. Watson.
− − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 558. Ja. ’07. 1380w.
“The rich material of the much better told observation is too often
hidden in the elaborate context. It is indeed difficult to say to
which kind of public the book would adapt itself.” Adolf Meyer.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 79. Ja. 31, ’07. 1840w.
“In spite of a few criticisms ... the book is a strong and interesting
one, displaying the extent and intent of Dr. Jastrow’s grasp on the
field which it covers.” Knight Dunlap.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 24: 848. D. 28, ’06. 2090w.
“A useful, well-reasoned and careful investigation. The book is,
unfortunately, much too long and diffuse.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 537. Ap. 6, ’07. 2400w.
=Jaures, Jean Leon.= Studies in socialism; tr. with an introd. by
Mildred Minturn. **$1. Putnam.
6–14021.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The presentation of the subject is able and its spirit tolerant.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 217. Ja. 180w.
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 280. F. ’07. 1230w.
“The merit of the whole volume is not in any new matter, so much as in
the calm, direct way that things are stated. It is one of the most
satisfying presentations of the fiery subject that one can find.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 834. Mr. ’07. 280w.
“Optimistic yet sane, of strong convictions yet conservative, M.
Jaurès has not laid himself open to the familiar accusation that
socialists beg the question, for he has gone to its very roots. The
beauty of his diction has been well preserved by his translator.”
Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 42: 111. F. 16, ’07. 280w.
=Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse.= Essays and addresses. *$3.50. Putnam.
A collection of seventeen essays made by the author’s wife from a mass
of literary material left by Sir Richard Jebb. “Nearly all deal with
one or another phase of Greek literature or life, or with its
influence upon the intellectual life of our own time.” (N. Y. Times.)
Some of the subjects are The genius of Sophocles, Pindar, Lucian,
Sophocles and the trilogy, The influence of the Greek mind on modern
life, The position of classical studies, and Humanism in education.
* * * * *
“Lady Jebb should receive the thanks of all lovers of scholarship and
humane letters for collecting these papers by her distinguished
husband.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 9. Jl. 6. 1570w.
“Prof. Richard Jebb ... united in a remarkable degree profound
scholarship with the capacity for graceful and luminous exposition.
And these qualities are so manifest in every page of this present
volume that the reader is moved quite as much by admiration for the
man’s mental gifts as by interest in what he says.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 270w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 172. My. 31, ’07. 1650w.
“These extracts ... are typical of the salient characteristics of the
writer, that rare combination of profound and ripe scholarship with
worldy wisdom and insight, that grasp of first principles, which
showed him that scholarship is one and indivisible and can convey the
same message in a different guise to the first classic and the budding
extensionist.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 816. Je. 29, ’07. 1150w.
“The occasional and less formal work of a great scholar or writer can
hardly fail to contain much that is both of personal interest and
permanent value nor is the present volume wanting in either merit.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 203. Ag. 10, ’07. 970w.
=Jefferies, Richard.= Essays. 3v. ea. 75c. Crowell.
7–26039–41.
The three volumes reprinted in this set are Nature near London, The
open air, and The life of the fields. Each is furnished with an
introduction by Thomas Coke Watkins which reflects the author’s
passionate love for nature in all its aspects. The lover of woodland
and stream will find in Jefferies a companion for all his moods.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= New crusade: occasional sermons and
addresses. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–25555.
“A group of sermons whose aim is to aid in reclaiming our Holy
Land—America—from the Saracen of the twentieth century—the rum-seller,
the gambler, the unprincipled politician, the unscrupulous capitalist
and the anarchistic wage-earner. Consecrated personality and Christian
unity are the watchwords in bringing about international peace.”
* * * * *
“Their tone is militant and virile; they lift up the standard and
eloquently call to arms against the forces at work in the community
for moral decay.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 90w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Old year and the new: the art of
forgetting. **75c. Crowell.
7–28171.