are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I
press toward the mark.”
* =Jenkins, Stephen.= A princess and another. $1.25. Huebsch.
7–38268.
A story which has grown out of a study of the records of French
soldiers who took part in our revolution. The interest centers about
the events that lead to the identification of a French child that had
been kidnapped by a jealous uncle and sent to America in charge of a
girl who became a colonist’s bondservant. Not until he had grown to
manhood and had been courtmartialed as a British spy does he come face
to face with the treachery that had kept him from his father and his
birthright privileges.
=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Citizenship and the schools. *$1.25. Holt.
6–18602.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a collection of essays that deserves the attention of
public-school workers for its vital contact with the real present, its
courageous but temperate idealism, and its sane counsels. It is
characterized rather by a semi-proverbial style than by sustained
argument, and contains numerous fresh and terse presentations of wise
and weighty principles and practical conclusions.” Edward C. Hayes.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 569. Ja. ’07. 230w.
“The presentation is always interesting and illuminated by a wealth of
happy illustrations.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 217. Ja. ’07. 160w.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 442. Jl. ’07. 170w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 573. S. ’07. 80w.
=Jenks, Jeremiah Whipple.= Political and social significance of the life
and teachings of Jesus. 50c. Y. M. C. A.
6–46236.
“This is not a book to read, but a manual for study. About a series of
twelve topics Professor Jenks groups references for reading,
suggestive quotations, and stimulating comment.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 160. F. ’07. 70w.
“Among many recent works on the social teachings of Jesus this is of
unsurpassed value. For all pastors and other teachers in this field,
too often neglected in the churches, it is an eminently desirable
help.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 190w.
* =Jenks, Tudor.= Electricity for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–33979.
Mr. Jenks “tells in concise and simple language the progress of
electricity, showing its discovery and its practical uses. A
commendable feature is the combination of biography with scientific
accomplishment.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The book will please any young electrician from ten years up.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
“He has made the present volume interesting as well as valuable
reading not only for children but for older people interested in the
subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Goldsmith. **$1. Barnes.
7–10578.
“Mr. Jenks does not attempt to go into over-much detail in recounting
his subject’s life. His effort is rather to give a rapid moving
picture of the man’s development from childhood and of his years of
struggle and final success. And this he projects against a background
of the chief events of the time in England, upon the continent, and in
America.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Capital reading for young people.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 60w.
=Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w.
“The volume is a good sample of hasty bookmaking.”
− =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25. ’07. 160w.
“Approaches his subject in a spirit so intensely sympathetic that it
becomes controversial. For the general reader the scheme upon which
the book is laid out is excellent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 340w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= When America was new. †$1.25. Crowell.
7–30468.
The homes of the colonists during the seventeenth century furnish the
material for Mr. Jenks’s sketch. He tells of the home making, indoor
life, manners and customs, what the colonists knew and thought, their
books, reading and education, the women and children, the growth of a
new people to the point of independence and union.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
“While the language used is simple enough for a child to grasp its
meaning easily, the book is one which older people can read with
pleasure and profit.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Jenks has tried to do for young people what we are sure will be
appreciated by many older heads.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 110w.
=Jennings, Edward W.= Under the Pompadour. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
A romance which begins with an eighteenth century smuggling adventure.
“There are plots and counterplots, political and personal, and
although the hero, to judge by his own narration, was the most
innocent idiot that ever acted cat’s paw to a lovely woman, and played
cup-and-ball with kingdoms without an inkling of it, the reader
finishes the book with a distinct liking for him. The heroine is quite
out of the common, and very charming.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“A story told in the first person is hampered by the restricted point
of view involved, the impossibility of relating all things as they
happen, and the modesty which prevents the hero from eulogising
himself. Apart from these drawbacks Mr. Jennings has written a
readable story of life, the simplest forms of life, the meaning both
in England and France.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 130w.
“When all is said, if at times quite preposterously opulent in
material it is still a very entertaining, even plausible and suitably
told story.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Edward W. Jenning’s story is no worse, certainly, and perhaps a
little better, than the average of its numerous predecessors in the
same class.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 190w.
“If the reader does not like it we shall think him a real realist, and
we shall be sorry for him accordingly.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 240. N. ’07. 340w.
=Jennings, Herbert Spencer.= Behavior of the lower organisms. **$3.
Macmillan.
6–24590.
“This book is eminently worthy of the excellent series [‘Columbia
university biological series’] to which it belongs, for it is the most
detailed, accurate and complete description, analysis and
interpretation of the behavior of lower organisms in existence. More
than this, the work stands alone, the first representative of a class
of books in which animal behavior is to receive thoroughly scientific
treatment.”—J. Philos.
* * * * *
=Current Literature.= 42: 217. F. ’07. 2090w.
“By his researches Professor Jennings has made himself the authority
on the behavior of unicellular organisms. His book is admirable with
respect to material, method of presentation and form. Its future
influence will certainly be tremendous, for it is a work which will
determine the direction of research as well as mould popular and
scientific opinion. It is the most important book on animal behavior
that has ever been written.” Robert M. Yerkes.
+ + + =J. Philos.= 3: 658. N. 22, ’06. 4800w.
“Professor Jennings’s admirable presentation of the results of his
observations in this most attractive field of study will appeal to the
professionals and laymen. The style of the book is clear,
straightforward, and convincing.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 424. N. 15, ’06. 840w.
“From the standpoint of the contribution of facts, the book is
exceedingly valuable. That portion of the book dealing with the
analysis of behavior has a somewhat doubtful value because of its
vagueness and complexity, and its constant allusions to pleasure and
pain and to other physical processes in man. The final chapter dealing
overtly with the relation of the behavior of lower organisms to
psychic behavior should be undoubtedly greatly modified when the book
comes to a second edition.” J. B. W.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 228. S. 15, ’07. 1070w.
“It would seem that Jennings in his enthusiasm for his own views had
become blinded to the real strength of the tropism theory and not only
was unable to accord it fair treatment, but also lacked appreciation
of its real value. It is to be regretted that a book excellent in so
many particulars should be marred by so considerable a defect.” G. H.
P.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 548. O. 25, ’07. 610w.
=Jensen, Carl O.= Essentials of milk hygiene; tr. and amplified by
Leonard Pearson. **$2. Lippincott.
7–23316.
A practical treatise on dairy and milk inspection and on the hygienic
production and handling of milk, for students of dairying and
sanitarians.
* * * * *
“A valuable contribution to the inspection of milk, and his treatise
is well translated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 243. Ag. 31. 640w.
=Jephson, Henry.= Sanitary evolution of London. *$1.80. Wessels.
A narrative of the sanitary history and conditions of life of the
people of London based upon the experiences, inferences and
conclusions of men in a position to observe how London people live,
including the principal measures passed from time to time by the
legislature and the administration of those measures by local
authorities charged with their administration.
* * * * *
“The book is valuable as an outline of the sanitary legislation
affecting Greater London, and as an abstract of reports of health
officers and others during a number of decades past. The book would
have gained, both in interest and in force, if the author had put more
of his information in his own language and had used smaller type for
such quotations as he employed, and had grouped or classified his
discussion more thoroughly.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 541. N. 14, ’07. 510w.
“It is regrettable that Jephson has overburdened his book with too
many quotations, which are too tiresome for the ordinary busy layman
who should read it, and which obscure the generalizations.” Charles E.
Woodruff.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 1700w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 719. Je. 8, ’07. 1000w.
“A very interesting and instructive history of London sanitation.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 865. Je. 1, ’07. 1350w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Tinker two: further adventures of the admirable Tinker.
†$1.50. McClure.
6–34688.
A sequel to the “Admirable Tinker.” The multiform activity of the
invincible young hero, is suggested in the following: “Tinker adopts
people. He adopts a sister, a pretty child near his own age, and a
daughter, a beautiful young woman who is quite grown, and a Russian
revolutionist to boot. Tinker is a matchmaker, though as a real boy he
cannot endure to be kissed. Tinker is a detective and a fugitive from
justice. He drives a big motor car ... and he goes tiger hunting in
the leafy coverts of Beauleigh park. Tinker is an amateur actor as
well. He plays female roles to admiration in a blond wig and a
pinafore.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“For interesting as this story is—and it must be confessed that it
goes with a good swing—it will not bear reading a second time, and the
author has a command of workmanship that we feel sure is wasted on
such unlikely happenings.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 400. O. 20, ’06. 140w.
“If one can get over the irritation caused by a small boy who is
allowed to go anywhere and do anything—indeed, encouraged by adults to
act as a man—the series of adventures here presented will be found
entertaining.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 543. N. 3. 80w.
“It is astonishing how ingenious Mr. Jepson has been in giving both
adventures and conversation a turn so refreshingly original and
whimsical, and, in a way, so human, that it is impossible not to feel
at the end (unless you are one of the serious) that this playfulness
is of the identical sort which prevents Jack—in knickerbockers or a
full beard—from becoming a hopelessly dull boy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 673. O. 13, ’06. 560w.
“Mr. Jepson’s playful vein is refreshing. The novelist’s
responsibility rests very lightly on his shoulders; he simply shares
with the reader his own enjoyment of his original and impossible
little hero.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 50w.
=Jermain, Mrs. Frances D.= In the path of the alphabet: an historical
account of the ancient beginnings and evolution of the modern alphabet.
$1.25. W. D. Page, Fort Wayne, Ind.
6–46295.
A painstaking history of our alphabet which gives in popular form the
results of much research, and follows the “path” from a time before
the earliest hieroglyphics and cuneiform inscriptions down to modern
times with accounts of modern explorers in this field of inquiry.
* * * * *
“An excellent treatise clearly epitomizing a large amount of laborious
research.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 507. Ap. ’07. 50w.
=Jerrold, Maud F.= Vittoria Colonna; with some account of her friends
and her times. *$4. Dutton.
7–32139.
A new biography of this gifted woman whose friendship not only with
Michael Angelo, but with bishops, cardinals, popes, artists and poets
made her a conspicuous figure of her time. Many of her sonnets are
included in this volume which also contains a complete bibliography,
genealogical tables, and an index.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Jerrold has not given us a final ‘life’ ... but she has produced
a pleasant book treating of movements and personalities which must
always be full of interest for students of the renaissance and human
nature.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 126. Ag. 3. 390w.
“A book to be recommended, and to be enjoyed.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1152. My. 16, ’07. 190w.
“Though Mrs. Jerrold’s prose is often marred by anacoluthia, her
verses are almost invariably equal in charm and style to the originals
which they so faithfully translate.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 342. Ap. 11, ’07. 670w.
“[Mrs. Jerrold] has gleaned from all the sources of information with a
truth-seeking hand, and in all matters of fact has produced an
authoritative biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 690w.
“While this latest biography of Vittoria Colonna lacks some of the
grace of Mrs. Ady’s studies, it is a book full of charm and
inspiration.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 635. My. ’07. 140w.
“Mrs. Jerrold has marshalled her facts with industry and judgment and
has produced a work which can be read with pleasure.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 530w.
“She has collected all the available information on her subject, but
has hardly made the best use of it. Arranged with more skill, the
picture would have been far more telling.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 676. Ap. 27, ’07. 1590w.
=Jevons, Herbert Stanley.= Essays on economics. *$1.60. Macmillan.
5–42515.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by H. J. Davenport.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 640. D. ’06. 510w.
=Jevons, William Stanley.= Principles of economics: a fragment of a
treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
5–33567.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The only novel thing about the work is its arrangement, which
suggests in many respects an improvement over the traditional
arrangement of the time.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 185. Mr. ’07. 150w.
=Joachim, Harold Henry.= Nature of truth: an essay. *$2. Oxford.
7–2578.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author’s argument is genuine and sincere throughout, his analysis
of current theories patient and thorough-going, his criticism of them
acute and searching. Moreover, the book is written in a style that
befits a philosophical treatise. Philosophic reflection cannot fail to
be furthered by the stimulating and helpful criticism contained in Mr.
Joachim’s book. That criticism will certainly assist in clearing away
much sham knowledge and in preparing the ground for the ‘construction’
that is to come.” G. Dawes Hicks.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 6: 197. O. ’07. 5220w.
“Mr. Joachim does not discuss the view of truth commonly described by
the term Pragmatism, and it is doubtful whether the reasons given for
this omission are adequate. There can be no doubt that Mr. Joachim’s
book is a very valuable contribution to philosophy, though it
confessedly leaves some fundamental difficulties unsolved.” J. S.
Mackenzie.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 264. Ja. ’07. 250w.
“It seems to the reviewer that his main contribution to the subject
lies in the various criticisms he takes up apart from the rather
unsatisfactory negative result.” M. Phillips Mason.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 264. Ag. 15, ’07. 800w.
=Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Birch-tree fairy book. †$1.75. Little.
6–40590.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The stories have been softened by dropping ‘savagery, distressing
details, excessive pathos’ from the old versions.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 528. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Country school, il. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–30474.
In which the author preserves the salient features of the schools of
the last century in their picturesque and poetic aspects. He writes
from personal experiences of friends and acquaintances, and goes back
to the year 1830.
* * * * *
“Readers who have had similar experiences will find Mr. Johnson a very
competent conductor back to the happy land of childhood.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
“All is told in an animated and entertaining manner.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Farmer’s boy. **$1.50. Crowell.
7–29711.
A companion volume to “The country school.” It is a faithful portrait
of the farmer boy of fifty years ago who was a sturdy product of
sunshine and fresh air ready in all seasons to undertake the primitive
tasks allotted to him.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Johnson has exercised unusual diligence and skill in the
selection of material, and text and pictures alike contribute to an
intensely realistic view of scenes and incidents that are fast fading
into oblivion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 40w.
“We question whether the child himself will be interested in Clifton
Johnson’s one hundred photographs of child-life in New England, which
strung together with voluminous text, is published as the ‘Farmer’s
boy.’ But grown-up readers will find these photographs, even if just a
bit posed faithful pictures of ‘Childhood’s simple life.’”
− + =R. of Rs.= 36: 767. D. ’07. 60w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Highways and byways of the Mississippi valley. **$2.
Macmillan.
6–40988.
An addition to the “Highways and byways” series. The journey from the
mouth of the Mississippi to its headwaters carefully avoids the usual
highways of travel. The author-traveler “haunts the country roads,
lodges with the farmers, studies life in the negro cabins, wins the
confidence of the common people, and gets them to talk of their lives
and toil and their aspirations, if they have any, and out of the
humdrum he garners what is quaint, characteristic, and little known.”
(N. Y. Times.) His illustrations are made from snap shots taken along
the way.
* * * * *
“The treatment is popular, does not furnish a great deal of
information, but presents a vivid and faithful picture.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07. S.
“Is a book of social studies rather than a technical work.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 140w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 452. D. 16, ’06. 290w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1496. D. 20, ’06. 190w.
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
“Especially valuable is his knack for penetrating without offence into
the more intimate life of the farmers, lumbermen, and villagers, so
that we get much that is practically first-hand material for the study
of the average social life of the great valley.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 509. D. 13, ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Johnson is a voluminous writer, but he has written no book of
more interest to Americans than this one.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 841. D. 8, ’06. 340w.
“The book is eminently readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 80w.
=Johnson, Eleanor H.= Boys’ life of Capt. John Smith. (Young people’s
ser.). †75c. Crowell.
7–26621.
Dedicated to all American boys who are interested in the beginnings of
their country, this sketch follows as nearly as possible the
explorer’s own words. And to give more of the man’s personality to the
volume, some of his letters are appended.
=Johnson, Emory Richard.= Ocean and inland water transportation.
**$1.50. Appleton.
6–20201.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 467. N. ’06. 500w.
“We believe the book is a useful one for the commercial courses of
study now becoming popular in our institutions of learning and that it
should be included in the reference libraries of engineering schools
and engineering societies. The practicing engineer who meets problems
in connection with the economics of water transportation will find in
it up-to-date information obtainable only with great difficulty from
other sources.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 195. F. 14, ’07. 300w.
“For the general reader the book has comparatively little interest,
since it is necessarily elementary in matters most likely to attract
him.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1094. My. 9, ’07. 440w.
“The entire lack of general treatises upon the subject of water
transportation will incline teachers and students of the subject to
extend a warm welcome. The most valuable portions of the volume are
the chapters devoted to ocean transportation. Far less satisfactory is
his discussion of shipping subsidies.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 21. Ja. 3, ’07. 600w.
“The book is of importance, making, with its predecessor, almost the
sole complete succinct presentation of the problems which confront the
transportation managers and the lawmakers of the United States.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 414. Je. 23. ’06. 160w.
=Johnson, George Ellsworth.= Education by plays and games. *90c. Ginn.
7–26152.
“Its first part is a study of the meaning of play, its relation to
work, and its application to education. The second part is a series of
games chosen from a thousand or more, and judiciously graded for
progressive use. The author has wisely chosen the older forms in all
the games, thus giving the pupil the key to many references in
literature and folklore quite unintelligible if he knew only the
modern variations of the original game.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.
=Johnson, Thomas Cary.= Virginia Presbyterianism and religious liberty
in colonial and revolutionary times. 50c. Presbyterian com.
A sketch of the services of Presbyterians during colonial and
revolutionary days to the cause of religious liberty.
=Johnson, Trench H.= Phrases and names, their origins, and meanings.
**$1.50. Lippincott.
“In alphabetical order the author has gone through a great number of
names and phrases heard in everyday speech, colloquialisms and
expressions and references of less usual occurrence, explaining in
brief statement their origin and meaning. In the preface the author
says that his sole design has been to account for the origin of
popular phrases and names.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“This is a very curious book that teems with every possible kind of
error. Had it been much elaborated and compiled by a man of learning
it might have been useful; the hotch-potch before us is almost too bad
to serve as a groundwork for a book of reference.”
− =Acad.= 72: 136. F. 9, ’07. 890w.
“The book is uncritical in its popular derivations, many of which have
been long exploded; and extremely careless in quoting foreign
languages. It is difficult to believe that the author knows Latin or
Greek. If he does, he ought to have seen that some care was taken with
his ‘proofs.’”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 223. F. 23. 140w.
“Compact and handy volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.
“It is one of those books which, once you start to read, lure you on
from page to page and you rise longing to trip up your friends on all
sorts and kinds of catchy little points.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.
“Many errors and defects may be found, but the book gives much
out-of-the-way information.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 260. F. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Johnson, Willis Fletcher.= Four centuries of the Panama canal; with
maps and illustrations. **$3. Holt.
6–42401.
“The design of Spanish adventures in the fifteenth century is being
fulfilled by American engineers in the twentieth.” So says Mr.
Johnson, and he deals with the incidents and circumstances leading
from Columbus to Roosevelt. His aim is to give the “salient and
essential features of the ‘story,’ with as little as possible of
detailed description of the Isthmian country, of its conditions of
resources, soil, climate, people, of the technical features of the
canal and its auxiliary work.”
* * * * *
“The book shows its newspaper origin by such glaring inaccuracies as
those referred to above, by the fact that it comes quite down to the
date of publication, by its newspaper English, and by its readability.
It is interesting reading, and we need for easy consultation such an
account of the origin and progress of the Panama republic and its
relations with the United States.” J. Russell Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 684. Ap. ’07. 880w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. ’07.
“In dealing with the technical features the author has been led into
several errors. Some result from his bias in favour of a sea-level
canal, which he makes no effort to conceal. These errors, however, are
not of great importance, and do not detract in great degree from the
merits of the book. It is but just to say that on the whole the work
is very creditable and will form a useful addition to the library of
any student of Isthmian canal affairs.” Peter C. Hains.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 429. Mr. ’07. 700w.
“Exhaustive historical study.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 126. F. ’07. 190w.
“The views and information which he imparts may be regarded as
authoritative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 340w.
“This is the most thorough and comprehensive work that has yet
appeared on the Panama canal. The discussion of the engineering side
of the question is very inadequate. For a work of such detail,
covering a new field, it is—except when the author gets enthusiastic
and eloquent—remarkably free from errors.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 920w.
“We should have had the assistance of a large map in detail; the
clearly printed small maps in color inserted with the text are useful,
but inadequate. As a whole. Dr. Johnson’s volume seems the most
exhaustive contribution yet made to the popular understanding of a
great subject.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 300w.
“In matters having a legal or semi-legal character, the author is not
at his best.” J. B. Moore.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 139. Mr. ’07. 430w.
“Described in a satisfactory manner.” G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 200w.
“Is a praiseworthy contribution to our knowledge of the project.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1012. Je. 29. ’07. 430w.
=Johnston, Alexander.= American political history, 1763–1876. 2v. ea.
*$2. Putnam.
5–36483.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The exigencies governing the author in their preparation account
largely no doubt for the remarkable compression that characterizes the
several studies; the style is concise, the narrative compact, and the
discussion penetrating and rigorous. The solid worth of the author’s
contributions is shown by the infrequency of editorial corrections.
The editor’s method of indicating his additions to the text leaves the
reader in perplexity at times.” F. I. Herriott.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 480. N. ’06. 920w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editor’s method of citation and cross reference cannot be
commended either for lucidity or seviceableness. Professor Johnston’s
acuteness in discerning the vital and fundamental facts in the
currents of our political life, his remarkable industry, accuracy and
thorough-going research constantly impress one.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 162. Jl. ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Johnston, Mrs. Annie Fellows.= Little colonel’s knight comes riding.
$1.50. Page.
7–33204.
The little colonel, in this ninth volume of her series, finds her own
true knight and leaving her girlhood behind her, fares forth in veil
and orange blossoms to begin her new life near her old home.
* * * * *
“No boy or girl will be harmed, but only mildly entertained, by the
chronicle.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
=Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton.= Liberia. 2v. *$12.50. Dodd.
6–44331.
Cyclopedic in treatment and, accordingly extensive in scope, the
author covers a vast amount of ground in his two large volumes. The
first is devoted to the history of the Liberian republic from 1847 to
the present time, incidentally revealing Great Britain’s and America’s
colonization policy. The second is devoted to the fauna, flora and
anthropology of the country, the latter being treated in its
historical, physical and social aspects.
* * * * *
“Less objective than Lindsay’s book ... well written, interesting and
the most comprehensive book on the subject which has yet appeared.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 10. Ja. ’07.
“Our complaint against Sir Harry Johnston is that, with all his
cleverness and brilliance as a draughtsman ... he is somewhat wrong in
his perspective, if not also in his facts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 63. Jl. 21. 1970w.
“The interest with which the welfare of the negro race is followed in
this country should secure for the book the attention to which it is
entitled by virtue of the industry and learning that have been
bestowed upon it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 234. Je. 29, ’06. 610w.
“A vast amount of intelligent and widely diversified labor has been
expended upon these volumes, which give a comprehensive view of the
Republic of Liberia.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 470w.
“It is a book not only of great utility to the traveller, but of
genuine interest to the untravelled; and the wonderful illustrations
from the author’s brush and pencil are sufficient of themselves to
fire the imagination.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 201. Ag. 11, ’06. 1330w.
=Johnston, John Black.= Nervous system of vertebrates; il. *$3.
Blakiston.
6–35709.
“A text-book of functional neurology. The unit of description is the
functional system of neurones, that is, the aggregate of related
neurones which co-operate in the performance of any given type of
reflex movement.... While this work is primarily a text-book of the
morphology of the nervous system, its great merit lies in the fact
that its facts so far as they go also express the functions of the
parts, so that comparative physiology and comparative psychology will
both find in it an immediate point of departure, for their special
researches.”—Science.
* * * * *
“A volume of this kind has been needed in English.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1178. N. 14, ’07. 110w.
“The book will be of great use to all engaged in instruction or
research. It would be easy to point out omissions in the text and
topics which deserve more adequate treatment. Satisfaction with
certain features of the author’s terminology is alloyed by his
indifference to the labors of his predecessors in that regard.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 20. Ja. 3, ’07. 730w.
“The book gives the impression of having been written by an able
zoologist interested in neurology, rather than by a pure neurologist,
and therein lies a good deal of its value. In the present work the
author presents a very readable and succinct account of his subject,
which forms a valuable and welcome addition to the literature relating
to it.” W. Page May.
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 73. N. 28, ’07. 1040w.
“The basis of the work is sound and the leading conclusions abundantly
supported by the singularly concordant results of the studies of the
new school of comparative neurologists.” C. Judson Herrick.
+ =Science=, n.s. 24: 845. D. 28, ’06. 1100w.
=Johnston, Mary.= Goddess of reason [a drama]. **$2. Houghton.
7–16726.
Miss Johnston’s first drama “opens in Brittany on a summer morning in
1791, and the curtain falls at the end on the banks of the Loire at
Nantes. The plot is as skillfully devised to awaken and sustain
interest from the beginning to the end as any of Miss Johnston’s
stories, and not until the last scene does the reader face the
solution to the problem. The play has a beautiful setting of terraces
and ancient homes, and the refinement, dignity, and wit of the old
order, set in striking contrast to the turbulence, the passion, the
intense conviction, of the revolutionary movement.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The piece is conceived in terms of romantic situation, and for that
reason it is the most readable poetic drama in the popular sense of
the word, that has lately been seen.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 849. D. ’07. 530w.
“Deserves no permanent place in the library, and on the stage would,
in its present shape, be soporific.”
− =Ind.= 63: 570. S. 5, ’07. 200w.
“A rather extraordinary literary performance, very uneven in
character. Altho there is a certain richness of historic background
and a vividness of characterization, the defects of the piece are
glaring.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 140w.
“If much of the verse is simply fluent prose cut into lengths, if
there are many crude and not a few broken, halt, or utterly
commonplace lines, there are occasional passages of uncommon
descriptive power, full of pretty imagery and verbal eloquence, and
some that thrill with ardor, scorn, or vigorous passion.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 460. My. 10, ’07. 850w.
“Readers of her other work will not be disappointed, for in the
‘Goddess of reason’ she gives full play to her power over romantic
situations, poetical backgrounds, and sentiment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
“As romantic as her stories and as interesting. As a drama ‘The
goddess of reason’ is probably too complex for successful
presentation. It is lyrical rather than dramatic; but as a piece of
writing, both in construction and diction, it will advance Miss
Johnston’s reputation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 453. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
“The verse is very dainty and musical, though Miss Johnston takes
strange liberties with metre, and the final tragedy is finely
conceived and executed. Our one criticism would be that her talent is
a little too delicate to reproduce the rude horrors of the
revolution.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 180w.
=Johnston, Robert M.= Leading American soldiers. (Biographies of leading
Americans.) **$1.75. Holt.
7–24610.
The initial volume in a series to be devoted to leading Americans.
Thirteen soldiers from George Washington to Joseph E. Johnston are
sketched here in the light of their military fitness and attainment.
“Their principal battles are treated in considerable detail, which
makes the book, as a whole, a composite military history from the
interesting view-point of dominant personalities.”
* * * * *
“Neither his sanity nor his splendid lack of bias enables him to weed
out the sheep and the goats; he makes no allowance for
contemporary—and therefore untrustworthy—records.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 140. N. 16, ’07. 870w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 167. O. ’07. S.
“From fifteen to sixty-five pages are given to each subject, including
the main facts of his life and an outline of his campaigns, with
intelligent criticism of them. This criticism, tho briefly expressed,
is the valuable feature of the book and makes it worth a careful
reading, especially by those who have accepted the traditional
opinions found in the popular histories.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 124. S. 1, ’07. 220w.
“Though many things in the story of American soldiers strike us
differently we do not fail to recognize in this narrator knowledge,
fairmindedness, and good sense.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 378. O. 24, ’07. 900w.
“In spite of the number of contradictions and many inaccuracies in
this book, the arrangement is scholarly, brief, precise, and contains
in a very few pages the most important events which have made the men
whose lives are described from the point of view of the American
reader, historical characters. I am placing this book in my library as
a useful index to other books in which the lives of the same men are
described more in detail. I would recommend it to every military
student as a material addition to his military library.” W. G. Haan.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9, ’07. 240w.
“This also is a valuable compendium for those who wish to know our
wars in outline but have not the time or inclination to read of them
in detail.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 101. O. ’07. 240w.
“For the reader who is puzzled to know how to choose between the
numerous and voluminous biographies of the great captains of our Civil
war period this compact volume performs a real service in preserving
the essentials.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 381. S. ’07. 150w.
“This is an excellent book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 673. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
=Jones, Chester Lloyd.= Consular service of the United States, its
history and activities. $1.25. Pub. for the Univ. of Pa. by Winston.
6–25758.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This is a timely and scholarly monograph based on a careful study of
documentary sources, interviews with officials of the consular service
and on personal observation of American consulates in Europe.” J. W.
Garner.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 482. N. ’06. 750w.
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1095. My. 9, ’07. 240w.
=Jones, Harry Clary.= Electrical nature of matter and radioactivity. $2.
Van Nostrand.
6–16984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07. S.
“A book which on the whole justifies its existence by the treatment,
found in the last seventy-five pages, of the results of investigations
and discussions so recent that they have not yet found place in other
books on radioactivity. The book as a whole lacks somewhat in unity of
treatment, the different sections differing considerably in value and
in method of presentation.” R. A. Millikan.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 300. F. 22, ’07. 820w.
* =Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.= Love and loyalty. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago
press.
7–37980.
A book of sermons preached to boys and girls which “represent a
cross-section of twenty-five years of a busy city ministry.”
=Jones, John William.= Life and letters of Robert E. Lee, soldier and
man. $2. Neale.
6–30495.
An intimate sketch of Lee which has been the result of a personal
study of the man and a careful handling of the mass of facts contained
in letters and various papers and documents.
* * * * *
“The few pages of personal reminiscences of Lee are perhaps the most
interesting part of the book.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 470. Ja. ’07. 50w.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 469. Ap. 20. 320w.
“Dr. Jones’s volume gives a fairly readable collection of letters and
other data regarding General Lee. But it is marred by a narrow
partisanship and a good deal of inaccuracy of statement.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 30, ’07. 290w.
“Dr. Jones writes with excellent spirit as to the bitterness of the
past.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 514. O. 13, ’06. 100w.
“His title is imposing, his fulfilment scant. He does not in the least
accomplish the purpose announced in his preface of giving his subject
fresh treatment. Unfortunately, he fails all along the line. He has a
few unpublished letters to set out, but these are all of slight
importance; they are buried under a mass of other letters reprinted
from previous books on the subject, and there is no system to indicate
to the reader which letters are hitherto unpublished and which not.”
− + =Nation.= 83: 466. N. 29, ’06. 390w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= College and the man: an address to American
youth. 80c. Am. Unitar.
7–13491.
A book addressed to students who look forward to making the most they
can of themselves. It is a plea for higher education, for better
preparation for the duties of life.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 255. Ap. 20, ’07. 110w.
* =Jordan, David Starr.= Human harvest. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–28174.
A revision and an enlargement of Dr. Jordan’s “Blood of the nation,”
which gives a more extended exposition of “the decay of races thru the
survival of the unfit.”
=Jordan, David Starr.= Philosophy of hope; originally published under
the title of The philosophy of despair. *75c. Elder.
7–16384.
A robust optimism is preached in this brief monograph, which searches
the sources of pessimism, discovers their weakness, and finds a surer
foundation for “that philosophy of joy and hope which must be the
mainspring of successful life.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 428. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
=Jordan, David Starr, and Kellogg, Vernon L.= Evolution and animal life.
**$2.50. Appleton.
7–29033.
An elementary discussion of facts, processes, laws and theories
relating to the life and evolution of animals. “The first three
chapters are occupied with preliminary definitions of evolution and
discussions of the physical basis of life, the simplest form of life,
the meaning of species, and similar fundamental points. The next eight
chapters deal with the various theories as to the methods of evolution
which have been proposed, and the facts and supposed facts of nature
on which they have been based. The remaining ten chapters are devoted
to special topics related to the subject of evolution.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“It would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a better work to
put into the hands of serious students of evolution, to be used either
as a text-book or for so-called ‘collateral reading.’” Raymond Pearl.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 340w.
“Lack of care in the legends is characteristic of the illustrations.
This apparently petty criticism of the English has as its excuse the
well-known fact that both the authors are, when they try, masters of
literary style. One cannot escape the convictions that this book was
hurriedly, even somewhat carelessly, ‘reeled off,’ out of the abundant
knowledge of the busy authors. Mistakes of fact are rather few.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 818. O. 3, ’07. 1240w.
“Notwithstanding the extreme condensation, the text is clear and
pleasant reading, brightened by original similes.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 426. N. 7, ’07. 570w.
“The book is perfectly capable of being understood by the reader who
is not trained technically in science, provided that he will give it
his fair and careful attention.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 250w.
=Joseph, Horace William B.= Introduction to logic. *$3.15. Oxford.
7–29050.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Joseph’s work as a whole shows much learning, industry and
acuteness; and we can only express our regret that a logician of such
evident ability has restricted his researches within the narrow
traditional limits and neglected to avail himself of the powerful
instrument which modern symbolic logic has placed at his disposal.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 638. My. 25. 930w.
“The author has attempted to escape the reproach of dryness, which is
proverbial in books of this character, by introducing controversial
matter. The book as a whole is well knit together and certainly not
without value, but it cannot be recommended as a text-book for
beginners.” Adam Leroy Jones.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 215. Ap. 11, ’07. 980w.
“The strength of the book lies in the sound judgment which the author
has displayed in knowing whom to follow than in any new ideas of his
own. A good book and worth reading, though we think it would have been
better if the author could have brought himself to compress it.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 680. D. 1, ’06. 1760w.
=Joutel, Henri.= Joutel’s journal of La Salle’s last voyage, 1684–7.
*$5. McDonough.
6–14763.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A fine historical volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 250. My. ’07. 320w.
“This edition of Joutel’s Journal is so admirable in many respects
that it seems ungrateful to offer any criticism. At the same time it
does appear somewhat regrettable that in selecting the text for it the
most complete one available was not taken.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 12: 283. My. 1, ’07. 1870w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 154. Ja. 17, ’07. 40w.
=Jowett, Benjamin.= Interpretation of Scripture, and other essays. *$1.
Dutton.
W 7–97.
“The present essays are nearly all on Biblical and theological
topics.... They reveal the keenness and force as well as the
limitations of the great Master of Balliol, a character sketch of whom
by Sir Leslie Stephen appropriately introduces them.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 42: 232. Ap. 1, ’07. 40w.
“It would be difficult to find a volume containing more valuable
material on Biblical subjects in cheaper form than is here offered.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 90w.
“An endeavor altogether deserving of commendation.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w.
=Nation.= 84: 454. My. 16, ’07. 80w.
“This collection is of historical importance as well as of intrinsic
value.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 481. F. 23, ’07. 170w.
=Joyce, Patrick Weston.= Smaller social history of ancient Ireland.
*$1.25. Longmans.
“An abridgment of the author’s large and important work on the same
subject.... He has treated very fully and in an interesting way the
government, military system and law, the religion, learning, and art,
the trades, industries, and commerce, the manners, customs, and life
of the ancient Irish people as they were before the Anglo-Norman
invasion.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Certain criticisms which were made with reference to the larger work
hold true in equal measure of the abridgment, though they are perhaps
less fairly urged against a popular production.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 917. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“The main traits of this early society are clearly and convincingly
portrayed, and, in spite of certain minor defects of treatment, such
as the too frequent introduction—for the non-Celtic reader—of the old
Irish terms, and of the unnecessary comparisons with Greek and Roman
customs, it is the most instructive sketch of ancient Irish society
that has yet appeared.” A. C. Howland.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 430. Mr. ’07. 2040w.
“Dr. Joyce’s work has been done with due regard for the methods and
responsibilities of scholarship.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 247. My. ’07. 440w.
“It is a valuable composition, accurate and full of sound learning.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 197. F. 28, ’07. 200w.
“The author ... has not made his book a mere array of dry facts. It is
all told interestingly, and with comment and allusion, and occasional
entertaining reference to tradition or literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 350w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 714. D. 8, ’06. 220w.
* =Judd, Charles Hubbard.= Psychology; general introduction: volume one
of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to the
methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–23072.
“Professor Judd indicates in his preface the four basic principles
which characterize the treatment of mental phenomena in this work. 1.
The functional view is adhered to thruout. 2. The genetic method of
treatment is followed.... 3. The physiological conditions of mental
life have been emphasized.... 4. The dominant importance of ideation
as a unique and final stage of evolution is strongly insisted on. ‘The
work is intended to develop a point of view which shall include all
that is given in the biological doctrine of adaptation, while at the
same time it passes beyond the biological doctrine to a more elaborate
principle of indirect ideational adaptation.’”—Educ. R.
* * * * *
“While the language of the discussion may be a trifle difficult for
the teacher, yet if he perseveres and masters the thought he will be
amply repaid in the new and stimulating outlook on mental life here
presented.” J. Carleton Bell.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 416. N. ’07. 2080w.
“On the whole, the book is an excellent treatment of the general
principles of psychology, and may be confidently recommended to all
earnest students of the science.” W. B.
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 540. S. 26, ’07. 510w.
=Jude, Alexander.= Theory of the steam turbine. *$5. Lippincott.
7–7508.
“The theory of the steam turbine forms altogether the least essential
part of the book, whereas the principles that should govern the design
form its most important portion. There cannot be any question but that
the book has been written for the use of the designers of turbines....
The most important chapter titles are: Historical notes on turbines;
Velocity of steam; Types of steam turbines; Practical turbines;
Efficiency of turbines; Turbine vanes; Disk and vane friction in
turbines; Strength of rotating disks; Governing steam turbines; Steam
consumption of turbines; The whirling of shafts; Speed of
turbines.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is, on the whole, very satisfactory. It is well gotten up
and the large number of numerical examples worked out add materially
to its value.” Storm Bull.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 636. D. 13, ’06. 630w.
=Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules.= Literary history of the English
people, from the renaissance to the civil war. v. 2. *$3.50. Putnam.
7–35185.
“M. Jusserand continues his English version of the ‘Histoire
littéraire du peuple Anglais;’ the present instalment is half the
original second volume, which appeared in 1904, and went from the
Renaissance to the Civil war. This stops just before the drama; it
takes in Spenser, Sidney, and ‘Euphues,’ but the predecessors of
Shakespeare are kept for the second part.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 440. O. 13. 590w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“He may be heartily welcomed by every lover of English literature as a
well-formed sympathetic and brilliant critic.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“A work of solid merit and a valuable contribution to the history of
English literature.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“Brilliant in every chapter and every page, it puts forward an
original view, drawn from life—from the life that M. Jusserand brings
into all his writings. There is never any suspicion here of
‘index-learning’ or merely law-abiding criticism. M. Jusserand does
not go out of his way to traverse ordinary accepted judgments, but his
opinions, even when they agree with the majority, are uttered with
such a zest as commonly goes with paradoxes and extravagances.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 376. N. 9, ’06. 900w. (Review of v. 2, pt.
1.)
“Owing partly to the liberty of selection which the design of the book
permits, and still more to an unfailing charm of style, there is not a
dull page in the volume. As regards the style of the book in its
English dress, we may remark that the natural order of subject and
verb is inverted with a frequency which is irritating and opposed to
English idiom. On the whole, however, the work is satisfactorily
executed.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 247. Mr. 14, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“The translation is so nearly perfect that, but for a few phrases here
and there, in which the French idiom overcomes the English, the book
gives the impression of being written in English, and in a sort of
English as unusual as the French from which it is set over. It may be
said, indeed, that this is a literary history in the very obvious
sense that its form is touched with the indefinable, unmistakable
charm of literature, and thus contributes to and continues the noble
development which it traces.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 74. F. 9, ’07. 1580w. (Review of v. 2, pt.
1.)
“It is not too much to say that if the third volume is equal to its
two predecessors, M. Jusserand will have given us what is on the whole
the best history of the literature of our language which has yet been
written.” Brander Matthews.
+ + + =No. Am.= 184: 759. Ap. 5, ’07. 1380w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
“The volume is never dull and never superficial; but it is very long
and very diffuse; it deals with an enormous variety of subjects; and
at last, after five hundred and fifty pages, it stops short without
having reached the confines of mature Elizabethan literature, and
without having touched upon Elizabethan drama at all.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 457. Mr. 23, ’07. 1850w. (Review of v. 2, pt. 1.)
K
=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Aboard the Hylow on Sable
Island bank. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–28976.
The Hylow was a fishing schooner and two boys came aboard her as
stowaways; the one, a messenger boy, carried off by mistake while
helping the other, an English lad, to escape the officials who would
have deported him. The account of their voyage will interest other
boys and teach them much of the ways of the sea and the sea-men and of
the life on the Newfoundland banks.
* * * * *
“[Adventures are described] with sufficient frequency to sustain the
interest without exceeding the bounds of probability.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 140w.
“A vivid picture is given of the fisherman’s life on the Newfoundland
banks.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“No very definite idea of sea life is gained from this story; there is
a great deal of nautical dialogue in it and very little action.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 70w.
=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Joey at the fair. 75c.
Crowell.
6–27349.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The tale is well told and cannot fail to be the source of much
pleasure to young readers.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 222. F. ’07. 170w.
“A fresh, vigorous little story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
=Kaufman, Herbert, and Fisk, May Isabel.= Stolen throne; illustrated by
Howard Chandler Christy and Hermann Rountree. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–14250.
“The story of the Duchy of Stromburg, of which the Russians are
planning to gain possession, and the plotting Slav is shown in his
deepest dye. As seems to be almost invariably the case in such
contributions to current literature, the hero of the story is an
Englishman of ancient race and no particular occupation—a man who is
finally awakened to real life by the fascination of a woman.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“Extravagant as the story is, it is not without interest. If it is an
imitation of Anthony Hope, it is a very good article of its kind.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 200w.
“The adventures are of the purest romance untroubled by any hint of
realism—but interesting and entertaining withal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 317. My. 18, ’07. 560w.
“A high degree of literary workmanship in which are blended Mrs.
Fisk’s well known qualities of subtlety and humor, and Mr. Kaufman’s
long-recognized gift as a natural story teller of much vitality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
* =Keays, Hersilia A. M.= Road to Damascus: a novel. †$1.50. Small.
7–31480.
A young wife, unbeknown to her husband, adopts his child born out of
wedlock. The story abounds in struggles which result from her
fastkeeping of the secret such as “the desire of the child to know who
he is, the antagonism between the boy and his unguessed father, the
irritation of the husband at her insistence upon keeping this alien
element in their life, and the determination of the woman that neither
of them shall know the truth. Toward the end Richarda seems to sum up
the whole book when she says: ‘It is the sweat of one soul for another
that counts.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“It is as bare of incident as an Ibsen drama. And like an Ibsen drama
it grips the attention as the years of its movement roll by. The book
has a certain distinction of difference from the flood of novels, not
only because of the artistry of its handling, but also because it is
not concerned with material things and the outside facts of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 450w.
=Kebbel, Thomas Edward.= Lord Beaconsfield and other Tory memories. *$4.
Kennerley.
7–37964.
A sketch which is written entirely from the biographer’s own personal
experiences and which is not indebted either to “books or hearsay.”
With a freedom that departs at times from anecdote, narrative and
description, the author turns to “such reminiscences as are in any way
connected with the name and fame of the Tory leader, showing how his
influence permeated all ranks of society, and how wide and how deep
was the impression created, apart from all political considerations,
by his unique personality.”
* * * * *
“There are a good many slight inaccuracies in the volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 450w.
“Few American journalists, one imagines, would have the material,
drawn from their own experiences, upon which to base so charming and
informing a volume of reminiscences as this.” Edward Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 185. O. ’07. 1200w.
“It is as a Boswell to Beaconsfield that Mr. T. E. Kebbel will make
his strongest appeal to American readers of English political
biography.” Edward Porritt.
+ =Forum.= 39: 102. Jl. ’07. 1990w.
“Some [chapters] are distinctly trivial, and scarcely worth
publication, even in an English Tory magazine.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 420w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 350w.
“His Disraelian reminiscences are as much personal as political, and
throw pleasant sidelights upon the strange personality of the chief.
We do not, however, find him always accurate in his retrospect.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 139. My. 3, ’07. 520w.
“Is rather thin spun ‘copy.’ Still the book has a good deal of lightly
entertaining political and personal gossip, which might while away an
idle hour.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.
“They are memories of one who only saw from afar, but judged shrewdly
of what was happening. Within these bounds the book is a good one,
interestingly written, and well put together, and altogether worthy of
a few hours of a busy man’s time.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 1860w.
“The best features of Mr. Kebbel’s volume are those that have the
Boswellian flavor.” Julius Chambers.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 134. S. ’07. 1650w.
“A book of rare and manysided interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w.
“The ‘Memories’ which refer to Lord Beaconsfield ... will remain, it
may be said, the most important part of the book. The historian who
would rightly appreciate the ‘Educator of the Tories’ must certainly
take them into account. ‘Tory journalism and literature’ is, at least
to the journalist, one of the most interesting of Mr. Kebbel’s
chapters.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 905. Je. 8, ’07. 1300w.
=Keeler, Charles Augustus.= Bird notes afield: essays on the birds of
the Pacific coast with a field check list; il. with reproductions of
photographs. 2d ed. *$2. Elder.
7–19063.
A revised edition of a bird book for the ornithological tourist to
California. “A certain skeleton of scientific classification”
underlies the work “in order to convey to the uninitiated some inkling
of the systematic grouping of the various species.” The first part of
the volume describes the life and habits of the birds, the second,
furnishes a descriptive list with a key for classification.
* * * * *
“Mr. Keeler’s text shows ... much accurate and discerning
observation.” George Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 710w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 110w.
“Taken all in all this is the best popular work which has appeared on
the birds of the Pacific coast region—interesting both to the
Californians and to the bird-lover of other, less favored lands.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 370w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w.
“All Californians, and especially visitors to the state from the east
may profit greatly by the information contained in Mr. Keeler’s
interesting book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 150w.
=Keith, Marion.= Silver maple, a story of upper Canada. †$1.50. Revell.
6–34644.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Kelley, Florence.= Some ethical gains through legislation. *$1.25.
Macmillan.
5–33677.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by A. G. Spencer.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 459. D. 15, ’06. 1790w.
=Kellogg, Vernon L.= Darwinism to-day. **$2. Holt.
7–29032.
A discussion presenting simply and concisely to students of biology
and to general readers the present-day standing of Darwinism in
biological science, and outlining for them the various auxiliary and
alternative theories of species-forming which have been proposed to
aid or replace the selection theories.
* * * * *
“The value of Professor Kellogg’s book to the working student of
organic evolution cannot be overestimated. It is a book that the
student must have at hand at all times, and it takes the place of a
whole library. No other writer has attempted to gather together the
scatted literature of this vast subject and none has subjected this
literature to such uniformly trenchant and uniformly kindly
criticism.” David Starr Jordan.
+ + + =Dial.= 43: 161. S. 16, ’07. 1500w.
“Although the volume contains comparatively little new work, it is
none the less valuable as a summary to date of investigations.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 475. N. 21, ’07. 1120w.
=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.
4–32737.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
=Charities.= 17: 469. D. 15, ’07. 230w.
=Kelly, Edmund.= Practical programme for working-men. $1. Scribner.
7–22709.
“After discussing the influence of environment upon man, and pointing
out the evils of private property and competition on the one hand and
the present impracticability of ‘orthodox’ Socialism on the other, he
makes an amazing suggestion, viz., that the ‘unwealthy’ classes
organize in order to secure a candidate for the next Presidential
election, possibly absorbing the Democratic party! The ‘practical
programme’ itself is then discussed, and a nationalization and
municipalization of industries is considered expedient in opening the
road to coöperation.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“As a theoretical discussion the book has some merit. It is pretty
weak as a practical program.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 338. S. ’06. 50w.
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
=Atlan.= 99: 279. F. ’07. 130w.
“Many of the questions raised, though not always clearly answered, are
very thoughtful and timely and the book closes very much stronger than
it opens.” W. B. Guthrie.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 469. D. 15, ’06. 620w.
“Of the book as a whole it may be said that a superabundance of
rhetoric has somewhat usurped the place of scientific reasoning, and
it can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to sociology.”
Eunice Follansbee.
− =Dial.= 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 180w.
“It is an admirable example of keen analysis and strong constructive
reasoning.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 177. Mr. ’07. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 70w.
=Kelly, Myra.= Isle of dreams. †$1.25. Appleton.
7–14256.
“The heroine of the story is a young woman artist who ... is believed
by herself and her friends to be on the high road to ... success. At a
country house, whither she had gone as a week-end guest, she finds
that it is her host who has been buying all her paintings. Deeply
wounded and humiliated by the discovery that her public is represented
by only one man ... she rushes home and off to Europe without giving
him a chance to make his explanations. She stays away for a year ...
and wins some real fame in the shape of a salon medal, and while she
is gone her admirer makes chivalric amends. And, of course, she comes
back.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Is not, by any means, equal to her short stories of slum children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“Her novel would appear to indicate that she lacks the novelist’s
greater gift of imagination; the power of visualizing to herself the
web of her invention.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 160w.
“While ‘Katherine Merrill’ and ‘Robert Ford’ are on the whole
well-drawn characters, they are marred by that fatal gift of young
novelists—smartness, which has a blasting effect upon style. Another
fault which looms large in the book is affectation. In spite of these
very palpable defects, however, the book has good points.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 170w.
“Imagining a really strong, if painful situation, instead of bravely
and patiently unravelling it, she positively submerges it in sugary
optimism. It should, however, be confessed that her method will
undoubtedly give perfect satisfaction to those readers who look upon a
novel as a mental form of sweetened pepsin.”
− =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 860w.
“Her admirers will be disappointed to find that she does not handle
this new medium with the skill that she showed in her use of the short
story.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w.
“The same qualities which brought her success in the depiction of the
east side children will charm the readers of her first novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“The novel has touches of humor and good characterizations, but it is
not extraordinary—only one more entertaining, pleasantly written,
unimportant story.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 40w.
* =Kelynack, Theophilus Nicholas=, ed. Drink problem in its
medico-sociological aspects, by fourteen medical authorities. (New lib.
of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–29117.
“Contains fifteen chapters, written by fourteen medical men, many of
whom are known as advocates of the temperance movement. The articles
range from such highly speculative subjects as the evolution of the
alcoholic to the practical means which should be taken to arrest the
spread of alcoholism.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Upon the purely social aspects of the liquor problem the book is not
as complete as one could desire. One or two absurd statistical errors
have crept into the text. On the whole, then, the work will be found
exceedingly valuable for the scientific student of the liquor problem,
and will furnish a mass of useful and reliable facts for the practical
temperance reformer.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 611. N. ’07. 510w.
“For those who are interested in the subject Dr. Kelynack’s book
furnishes interesting reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 414. Ap. 6. 280w.
“The volume may be unreservedly recommended as a careful study of the
various problems which have to be handled.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 336. Mr. 2, ’07. 250w.
=Kempster, James Aquila.= Salvage. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–39730.
The hero of this novel is, at the opening of the story, a penniless
outcast. He quarrels with a stranger, fancies he has killed him, puts
on his clothes, takes his money, and comes to New York where he begins
a new life and wins wealth and friends. Of course the stranger is not
dead, but crosses the hero’s path again and there are complications
galore and a much entangled love story.
* * * * *
“The characters are alive and the atmosphere is fresh.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 102. Jl. 11, ’07. 280w.
“There has not been much attempt by the author—or if there was an
attempt it was without success—to make either the story or its
separate incidents seem credible or its characters lifelike.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 380w.
“A successful story of its kind, with no underlying philosophy or
special motive, but good in plot and style.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Kennedy, Charles William, and Wilson, James Southall.= Pausanias: a
dramatic poem. $1.25. Neale.
7–22893.
Pausanias, beloved of Sparta, is tempted by his thirst for power and
his sudden passion for the Byzantine maid, Cleonice, to ally himself
with Xerxes and turn traitor to his faithful wife and to Greece. How
he yields but is held to his honor by the death of the maid he cannot
win is told in the three acts of this well wrought poem, which closes
with his own tragic death.
=Kennelly, Arthur Edwin.= Wireless telegraphy: an elementary treatise.
**$1. Moffat.
7–482.
As stated in its preface this is “a presentation of the elementary
facts concerning the nature and operation of wireless telegraphy in
language as free from technicality as possible, and without the use of
algebra, so as to permit of the book being submitted to the
consideration of persons not technically versed in electricity or its
applications.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07.
“The author ... explains in language comprehensible to any one who has
studied elementary physics as much about the principles and the
apparatus as any but an expert needs to know.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 90w.
“A careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Kenney, Courtney Stanhope.= Outlines of criminal law; rev. and adapted
for American scholars by James H. Webb. *$3. Macmillan.
7–8557.
“This volume is a revision, adapted for American scholars, of the
second edition of the well-known work of Courtney Stanhope Kenny, of
the University of Cambridge. The changes chiefly consist in the
insertion of citations of American cases and paragraphs bearing on our
own laws and the omission of some irrelevant matter.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The volume is chiefly designed as a textbook for law students. It is
admirably adapted for this purpose. Its usefulness will, however, be
greater for a large number of persons who wish to know more definitely
about criminal law will find this manual very valuable.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 649. My. ’97. 200w.
“A particularly well written text-book.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w.
“Broadly, the book covers the subject as completely as a general
treatise of its compass (400 8vo pages) may. It is a very handy volume
to have around the house in a day so full of casuistical questions,
and judicial activities so many, various, and novel as at present.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 171. Mr. 23, ’07. 990w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 574. S. ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 170w.
* =Kent, Charles Foster.= Israel’s laws and legal precedents, from the
days of Moses to the closing of the legal canon; with plans and
diagrams. (Students’ Old Testament, v. 4.) **$2.75. Scribner.
7–20667.
The legal portion of the Old Testament is arranged in five general
divisions: (1) personal and family laws; (2) criminal laws, comprising
injuries to persons, property, and society; (3) human laws,
emphasizing the duty of kindness to animals and men; (4) religious
laws, defining obligations to God; and (5) ceremonial laws, containing
minute directions regarding worship and the ritual.
* * * * *
“The volume does not profess to be a commentary, yet in the footnotes
to the translation there is scattered a large amount of valuable
information relative to ancient Hebrew society and every opportunity
is taken to illustrate or contrast the Hebrew codes of law with that
of Hammurabi. By the aid of this volume, the study of the legal books
of the Old Testament is made lucid and interesting.” John E. McFadyen.
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 378. N. ’07. 980w.
“A thoro, accurate, and scholarly treatment of this exceedingly
interesting subject.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 50w.
“Prof. Kent reaches a field where a classification and rearrangement
of the Scripture text is of great value to the student of the
development of Hebrew religion and social usages.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’06. 230w.
=Kent, Charles Foster.= Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament.
**$1. Scribner.
6–14527.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This book perhaps lacks the charm of style and the closely
articulated structure necessary to secure for it the widest reading
and to enable it to hold the reader’s interest, but it is packed full
of information and will do good wherever it goes.” Ira M. Price and
John M. P. Smith.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 270w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 123. My. ’07. ✠
“On the whole, however, Professor Kent has presented a large and
difficult subject in small compass and popular form, with admirable
clearness, fairness, and success. A copy of his book should be in the
home of every church member in the country.” George A. Barton.
+ + − =Bib. World.= 29: 73. Ja. ’07. 540w.
“Old Testament students of all shades of opinion must be grateful to
him for an orderly and painstaking presentation of the complicated
legal system of the ancient Jews. Moreover, his work is highly
valuable as giving an insight into the methods of higher criticism,
and as such should be welcomed by such students as desire to be
acquainted with an intellectual position before they either support or
condemn it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 240w.
=Kenton, Edna.= Clem. †$1. Century.
7–26020.
A clear-cut western girl with crudities of heredity, training and
environment comes into sudden wealth and innocently unashamed, skirts
upon the edge of conventional society. She is twenty-six and possesses
the integrity of a man. She falls in love with a youth of twenty who
is loyal in spite of the determination of his little fashionable set
to end his infatuation. The story dwells upon the mother’s cruel
scheme of flicking the girl upon the raw by inviting her to an
exclusive house party, counting her son’s disillusionment as a result
of the gulf which she will spare no pains to make apparent. Clem rises
phoenix-like from the fire of her persecution and shames the
persecutor’s snobbishness by means of her heroic sense of honor quite
beyond their comprehension.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Considered either as a love story a psychological story or a social
satire, ‘Clem’ is eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 162. O. ’07. 730w.
“The author has accomplished a difficult thing in an excellent
manner—a manner that is more than literary.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w.
“If you want a book ... in which every sentence stands up and kicks
with its boots on for the ideas it represents, read what Clem has to
say.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 490w.
“Clever in its conception and sometimes approaching the brilliant in
its execution. The other characters in the book, although less
prominent than Clem are sketched very cleverly and have, to an unusual
degree, the touch of life and actuality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Too much piazza talk and too little probability mar the general
effect.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 60w.
=Keon, Grace.= “When love is strong.” $1.25. Benziger.
7–17046.
A bank robbery and the search for and discovery of the robber form the
plot of this novel which, contrary to the usual detective story,
hinges upon the love of the heroine for the guilty man who has become
her husband, and whom she raises to her own level by the help of her
Catholic faith. It is really a tale of regeneration through love,
altho much of the book is concerned with the unravelling of a mystery
in which hypnotism plays a part.
* * * * *
“Miss Keon’s very good story is artistic enough to deserve the
attention of mature readers who are not too sophisticated by
indulgence in contemporary problems-plays or the bold realism which
caters to the prevalent taste.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 690. Ag. ’07. 70w.
=Kephart, Horace.= Book of camping and wood craft, a guidebook for those
who travel in the wilderness. *$1.50. Outing.
6–45323.
Everything the camper could wish for in the line of practical
suggestions on outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and
fish, camp cooking, forest travel, how to avoid getting lost and what
to do if one does get lost, living off the country, what the different
species of trees are good for from the camper’s viewpoint, backwoods
handicrafts in wood, bark, skins and other raw materials, the
treatment of wounds and other injuries, etc., can be found in this
little volume. There are many illustrations from photographs.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07.
“Mr. Kephart buttonholes you gently, fixes you with his woodman’s eye,
and if you can escape the longing to start for the wilderness at the
first vacation moment you must be an unusual man.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 160w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 40w.
“Should be the friend of every intending sojourner in the wilderness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w.
“The volume is small enough to go in the duffel-bag, but packed full
of the facts and suggestions, and redolent of the atmosphere of the
woods.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 210w.
=Ker, William Paton.= Sturla, the historian. *35c. Oxford.
7–29019.
“This is the ‘Romanes lecture’ of the year.... Sturla was one of the
products of that very strange growth, Icelandic culture.... Vacant, or
nearly vacant, as far as we know, from the beginning of time, Iceland
was settled in the tenth century by some Norwegian gentry, who desired
to be free from an intrusive royal government.... Late in the life of
this strange community came the literary development. In Snorri
Sturlason it found its greatest expression, and Sturla was the son of
Snorri’s brother, Thord.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 716. Ap. ’07. 50w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1080w.
“Professor Ker has a light touch and a playful humor not often to be
found in the expert. Gives us glimpses which will certainly do what is
the true object of a lecture,—make the hearer or reader study the
subject for himself.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 390w.
=Kern, John A.= Idea of the church; aspects, forms and activities.
$1.25. Pub. house M. E. church So.
7–25171.
A study of the church, actual and ideal, in its most significant
features.
* =Kernahan, Coulson.= The Dumpling. il. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
This story “deals with a reincarnation of Napoleon, nicknamed ‘The
Dumpling,’ who is filled with a noble love of his fellow men, if only
they be poor enough, and sees no other way of bettering their
condition than by indulging in robbery and murder, plotting in an
opium den, and evolving the picturesque combination: ‘God, Napoleon
and the Dumpling strike with a granite arm.’” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“Coincidences rage throughout the book, but impossibilities are more
rampant still. There is no characterization, but there is a speech
eleven pages long about labour, delivered by a murderous madman. The
grammar is uncertain, and the style is frequently facetious. It is
possible that there is a public which demands such books; it is a
thousand pities that Mr. Kernahan should condescend to cater for it.”
− =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 567. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The whole novel is quite impossible, the most insatiable lover of
sensation could hardly find satisfaction in it, and it is difficult to
understand how a writer of Mr. Kernahan’s standing could submit such a
work to public criticism.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 80w.
“Is an excellent melodrama. The reader of the story is hurled from
adventure to adventure in a breathless manner, but it must be
confessed that the interest is well kept up and does not flag.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 626. O. 27, ’06. 160w.
=Kerr, Alvah Milton.= Diamond key and how the railway heroes won it. il.
†$1.50. Lothrop.
7–8218.
With their scenes laid in the mountain regions of Colorado and
Arizona, these stories show how courage and devotion to purpose
dominate the laying of tracks, the building of bridges, and the
tunneling of mountains for the western railroad. “Each of the twelve
is represented by a deed of rare heroism or one which shows
conspicuously a quick and ready hand and a cool, resourceful head.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Some gems of the story-teller’s art, very pure in ray. Strictly
speaking, it is not a novel, yet the ten stories are so welded
together by the rails of the ‘Western central,’ the brotherhood of the
characters, and the common atmosphere of the events, that the book
possesses a oneness unattained by many a professed unity. They are
thrilling healthful tales, told in crisp, lucid, scintillating
English.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=Kerr, Walter S.= Arcadian proscript: a historical drama in five acts.
pa. $1. Walter S. Kerr & co., P. O. box 377 Oakland, Cal.
7–17379.
The Grand Pré which Longfellow’s poem immortalizes furnishes the
setting of Mr. Kerr’s drama. His hero is a “proscript,” a legal
outlaw. The British governor of Nova Scotia “is one of the villains of
the play which is tragic, of course, and romantic, and was obviously
designed for theatrical representation.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Has evidently worked with great zeal and unmistakable faith in the
historical value of his subject. It is graphically written and full of
movement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 260w.
* =Kester, Vaughan.= John o’ Jamestown. †$1.50. McClure.
7–36098.
History and love are mingled in this tale of an English vicar’s son.
His love-making is interrupted when he embarks for America and becomes
closely identified with the fortunes of Captain John Smith. “The story
chronicles the career of the latter, his rescue at the hands of
Pocahontas, his brave services on behalf of the Jamestown colony, in
the face of jealous opposition and treachery, the injuries which
forced him to return to England, and the ghastly winter of bloodshed
and famine which followed.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“That is really the only serious defect of the book,—a weakness of
structure. And since the great majority of the reading public care
little for structure so long as a book is readable, there is no
question that the vivid portraiture, the stirring incident, the
manifest sincerity of purpose of ‘John o’ Jamestown’ will give
abundant pleasure to a large number of readers.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 409. D. ’07. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“An exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
“While there is nothing very unusual in the telling, the author,
Vaughan Kester, uses the abundant material well.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of steel mill buildings and the
calculation of stresses in framed structures. 2d ed. *$4. Engin. news.
6–37208.
The first edition of this book was issued in 1903. This new edition
contains much additional matter the major part of which is confined to
the part of the work on stresses.
* * * * *
“The problems give evidence of thorough preparation, and the data are
so arranged that the graphic solution will be confined within the
limits of the standard sheet adopted, thereby economizing the
student’s time.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ =Engin. N.= 56: 633. D. 13, ’06. 760w.
=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of walls, bins and grain elevators. *$4.
Eng. news.
7–23625.
“Professor Ketchum’s latest work is divided into three parts, treating
of the three branches indicated by the title. The first part is a
presentation of the theory, or the theories, of retaining walls....
The second part takes up the subject of coal bins, ore bins, etc.,
giving theory, principles of design, cost and actual examples.... Part
three is on the design of grain bins and elevators.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Anyone desiring to make a specialty of this line of work cannot
afford to be without this book, and it will no doubt be a valuable
assistant to any specialist, as showing the different ways of meeting
different conditions. The most disappointing feature of the book is
the treatment of theory, of which there is too much.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 73. Jl. 18, ’07. 2650w.
=Keys, Alice Maplesden.= Cadwallader Colden: a representative eighteenth
century official. **$2.25. Macmillan.
6–40257.
“A very entertaining account of New York politics before the
Revolution. By taste, Colden was a speculator in science....
Circumstances drew him into the political and factional differences of
the day.... Miss Keys bases her narrative largely upon manuscript
material.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The style is a bit loose, the manner a bit casual: one is perhaps
somewhat at sea in the mass of facts, unrelieved for the most part by
any very suggestive generalization. Whatever the ‘general reader’ may
think, the specialist will nevertheless be grateful for much new light
on the web of intrigue which enmeshed the colonial governors from
Burnet to Clinton.” Carl Becker.
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 350w.
“Writes in a full mastery of her subject. As a result, her work is a
valuable study in political biography.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.
=Kidd, Dudley.= Savage childhood: a study of Kafir children. $3.50.
Macmillan.
7–7554.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In the work before us he has to a certain extent broken new ground,
and performed his task excellently.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 168. F. 9. 2020w.
“His book may be relied on as accurate in its statements of fact.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by H. Rider Haggard.
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 265. Mr. 2, ’07. 2230w.
=Kidd, Walter.= Sense of touch in mammals and birds. *$1.90. Macmillan.
“A great number of facts are here brought together concerning the skin
structure of the hands and feet of mammals. The chief forms of
epidermic modification are shown to assume eleven leading types in
eighty-six mammals that are dealt with. Eleven birds examined show
only one type of epidermic modification, though the degree of this
varies much. After describing the papillary ridges in a variety of
animals, Dr. Kidd discusses the physiology of the sense of
touch.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“It is not at all concise, it is not very clear, and it has no index.
It seems to us that a great deal of labor has been misspent.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 90w.
=Nation.= 85: 334. O. 10, ’07. 240w.
“Although the subject is by no means new, the author has studied it in
a fuller manner than at least most of his predecessors.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 76: 101. My. 30, ’07. 240w.
“Dr. Kidd’s book is the most important contribution to the matter
since Miss Whipple’s paper was published.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 170w.
=Kildare, Owen Frawley.= My old Bailiwick. †$1.50. Revell.
6–38913.
“The author of ‘My Mamie Rose,’ Mr. Owen Kildare, has given us a
picture of the Bowery ‘bum’ in this volume of stories and sketches.”
(Ind.) He says “Beds, bunks, cots ... can be had on the Bowery for as
little as 5 cents a night, and because there are men who have lost the
faculty of earning, begging or even borrowing that sum, a nocturnal
procession of over 10,000 parade in our streets, winter and summer,
from midnight until dawn.” He speaks well of the work of the Young
men’s Christian association but finds little that is acceptable in the
“spectacular methods of the Salvation army” and the “mission workers.”
* * * * *
“He has intertwined comment and description, so that one not only gets
a vivid idea of the ‘bum’ and the reason for his continuing a
‘has-been,’ but also an understanding of the difficulties encountered
in endeavoring to raise him out of the mire and the futility of the
efforts some agencies are making toward that end.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1360. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.
“The most impressive idea one gets from his book is, perhaps, that of
a vast amount of wasted time, effort, money and good intentions on the
part of those who wish to do something for the region of which he
writes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 360w.
* =Kimball, George Selwyn.= Lackawannas at Moosehead; or, The young
leather stockings. il. *$1.25. Ball pub.
7–37270.
A nature book in the form of an account of the adventure of a party of
college boys with two guides who hunt, fish, camp and study the
secrets of woodcraft.
=King, Cardenio Flournoy, jr.= Boy’s vacation abroad: an American boy’s
diary of his first trip to Europe. $1.50. Clark.
7–978.
The author “writes as a boy at school would be expected to write—from
the boy’s point of view and with a boy’s interesting enthusiasms....
He assures his readers that he ‘lost a lot of fun writing the book.’
The pictures are many and usually good.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The book is very well illustrated and is as interesting as could be
expected under the circumstances.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 90w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 160w.
“The main Interest of the book is the simple and boyish manner in
which the record has been kept.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 590w.
=King, Charles.= Captured: the story of Sandy Ray. $1.50. Fenno.
7–15592.
“An ‘out of the way cantonment’ known as Camp Boutelle, a traitor
caught in his own toils but possessed of a daughter as fair as she is
misunderstood, a young lieutenant newly come from the States.” these
are the chief factors in General King’s new story of an army post in
the Philippines. (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The story will be of most interest to military men. To the general
reader it seems prolix at times. The characters are fairly well drawn
and there are some interesting descriptions of characteristic Filipino
warfare.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 210w.
=King, Gen. Charles.= Rock of Chickamauga. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–22113.
A civil war story whose events center about General George H. Thomas.
Its historical details, presented from intimate observation, are
accurate and show something of the relation of Sherman, Grant and
Stanton with Gen. Thomas. There is romance mingled with the alarms of
war and a charming heroine to make it worth while.
* * * * *
“As a humble monument to the memory of the commander whom he entitles
‘the noblest Roman of them all’ the book should have special interest
for all lovers of civil-war history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 300w.
“Gen. King ... is much more at home in the thick of battle than in the
turgid and mystifying love vicissitudes of his hero.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from
modern psychology. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Practical, helpful, enlightening and well grounded.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07.
=King, Leonard William, and Hall, H. R. H.= History of Egypt, Chaldea,
Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the light of recent discovery. Grolier
society, N. Y.
7–10615.
“A supplement to the longer work which Messrs. Hall and King were
commissioned to write with the purpose of supplying a full account of
all the important discoveries not already included therein. Of the
nine chapters five are devoted to Egypt and the remaining four to
western Asia.... The photogravures ... are of a high order, and the
other illustrations, many of which are from unpublished photographs by
the authors, are exceedingly interesting and numerous.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“We have noticed some slips in the book. But these are trifles which
do not reduce the merit of a most excellent book.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 588. N. 9. 1980w.
“The authors have traversed the field of recent discovery and
research, have extracted the vital facts, and have set them down with
care and criticism.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 225. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w.
“Taken as a whole, it is admirably done. The geographical arrangement
is somewhat confusing, but perhaps a strictly chronological account
would have been less easy to understand. Certainly nowhere else are
the results of modern scholarship so well summed up, nor can one find
the credit for labors and success so punctiliously given.” Holland
Thompson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 638. O. 6, ’06. 1300w.
=King, Most Rev. William.= Great archbishop of Dublin, William King; his
autobiography, family, and a selection from his correspondence; ed. by
Chas. S. King. *$3. Longmans.
“William King played a most important part in church and state.... He
was well described as ‘a state Whig, a church Tory, a good bishop.’...
His kinsman Sir Charles King here prints for the first time a
translation of the archbishop’s Latin autobiography and many letters
adding extracts from correspondents already published, with notes on
family history and cognate matters.... King corresponded with Swift,
Addison, Berkeley, and many churchmen and politicians.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 452. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“The occasional theological notes [of the editor] are blots upon his
pages, and lead us to put little trust in his discretion. The ‘Oxford
movement’ and the very appearance of a crucifix are bugbears to him.
We will not quote any of these outbreaks, lest we should prejudice the
reader against an interesting and useful book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 469. O. 20. 2100w.
“The most that can be said for the book is that it furnishes
illustrations not only of the character and activities of Archbishop
King, but also of some of his contemporaries and of Irish life and
politics.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 330w.
“He has done his work with care. The notes are generally accurate and
sufficient.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 335. O. 5, ’06. 1270w.
“The autobiography is interesting, and throws valuable light on
contemporary social conditions, as do the letters.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 250w.
=King, William Benjamin.= Giant’s strength. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11209.
Paul Trafford, the giant of the tale, is a rich coal king. The forcing
process that has made him a monopolist has been sheltered behind the
law, and when the necessary laws did not exist he bought legislatures
to pass them. The machinery of his system crushes one Roger Winship
whose family is a living judgment upon Trafford’s methods and success.
The dramatic element and the strong ethical lesson are to be found in
the romance which springs up between the daughter of Trafford and
Roger Winship’s son, both of whom are ready to renounce their life
happiness for the principle which renders it impossible for young
Winship to accept one penny of Trafford’s wealth.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.
“The book is, on the whole, a sincere and careful piece of work, the
author’s tendency to preach—excusable, perhaps, in a book dealing with
such a theme—being kept steadily in hand.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 150w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. King has appreciated the epic possibilities of this theme and has
given us an interesting picture of a modern financial Titan.... In the
hands of a master craftsman it would indeed be a fascinating theme,
and is perhaps the one reserved for the long-awaited American master.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w.
“Neither the father nor the lover is convincingly drawn, but the slow
development of the daughter Paula’s character under the stress of
trial and trouble is admirable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 710w.
“There is much to admire in the character-drawing, but occasional
false notes indicate that the author had not fully mastered his
material.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 300w.
“Mr. King has not bestowed on the persons in his story, those
continuous small industrious touches which amount in the mass to real
significance. But he has written a direct story, all of one piece,
which is interesting throughout, and frequently dramatic.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 168. Ag. ’07. 1070w.
=Kingsbury, Susan Myra=, ed. Records of the Virginia company of London,
1619–1624. 2v. $4. Supt. of doc.
6–38015.
A work whose value is suggested in the fact that it makes accessible
to students for the first time history that has been shut up in
carefully guarded manuscript for two centuries. The volumes contain a
careful transcript of the court records of the Virginia company, with
introduction, notes, bibliography, and index.
* * * * *
“Many efforts have been made through a period of nearly fifty years,
to secure the publications of these priceless records of our first
colonizing company. But all those who have taken part in former
efforts to publish ought to rejoice that they have failed, since the
delay has resulted in bringing out, in the fulness of time, a much
better edition than would have been produced earlier.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A work of fundamental importance to the student of American history.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 406. Ap. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“As material of history its value cannot be too highly estimated.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The text now appears in full for the first time, and all the
excellencies noted in the first volume are continued in the second.
The index is, unfortunately, entirely inadequate, and it is difficult
to see on what plan it was prepared.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“These papers are all of great value to the student of the beginnings
of American history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“From the student’s standpoint, too, the value of the present
publication is increased by Miss Kingsbury’s elaborate expository and
critical introduction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Exhaustive and scholarly introductory essays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Princess and the ploughman. †$1.25. Harper.
7–18593.
A pretty pastoral this, altho it is set in the present time. Mary, the
princess in distress, is to inherit a large fortune from a spinster
aunt if she marries before her twenty-third birthday. The ploughman, a
recluse and a farmer, offers her his name in order that she may secure
her fortune and promises to ask nothing in return. Of course they are
madly in love with each other, else he would not have made the offer,
nor she accepted it, but each is proud so they marry but to part and
it is long before they come to know each other’s hearts.
* * * * *
“An idyllic little novel, infused with grace and sly humor. Men and
women both ought to like it; and for the suspiring college girl, it
can not but prove a tonic.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 438. Jl. 13, ’07. 190w.
“Their story is a bit of romantic absurdity, or a sweet and refreshing
love idyl, as the individual reader’s view-point will determine.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 180w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Those queer Browns. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25050.
A sequel to “The singular Miss Smith.” Miss Smith who left her Back
Bay luxury to become a servant in order to study sociological
conditions marries Mr. Brown, a Harvard professor, who plays
foundryman and boards with Miss Smith’s employer. They spend a year in
the New York slums, and this story records their experiences.
* * * * *
“There is plenty of fun in ‘Those queer Browns,’ but plenty of sound
sense, too, and amateur philanthropists would undoubtedly profit by
reading it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 300w.
“Is entertaining, often bright, and sometimes keen.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Truthful Jane. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–5685.
“The familiar drama of the poor relation.... Jane Blythe, a beautiful,
high-spirited girl, is flung by fate on the charity of her London
relatives.... Baited by her cousin, who is envious of her beauty and
insufferably patronized by her aunt and uncle, she ... resolves to put
the sea between herself and her blood relatives. The story of Jane’s
battle for her rights in her hard environment is told with the real
touch of humor.... In the crisis of Jane’s trials the inevitable
knight of romance turns up in the person of John Everett, who marries
her and takes her back to England.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“There is a thoroughly human touch in the handling of the whole
story.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.
“Not a remarkably good story, but it has a certain modest integrity
which places it above the ruck of petty inventions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 105. F. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Kinross, Albert.= Davenant. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–13436.
“An American publisher of brains and heart tells an Irish mother and
her son in London his experience with a crippled, original, and
brilliant hack writer in that city, whose work, rejected at home,
finds acceptance here, and to whom America becomes a symbol of free,
generous, brotherly life.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Mr. Kinross has humour, and he has irony. This work is the work of a
man who can rise to a considerable achievement. He has pathos also.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 330w.
“Full of a quality that comes near being charm, but fails just short
of it. The style is too self-conscious, and the whole scheme lacks
simplicity, so that the mind is taxed by its suggestiveness.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 355. Je. 1, ’07, 220w.
“The story is wholly off the well-defined lines of fiction, is told in
an unhackneyed way, with a vein of deep feeling and of unforced humor.
There is a deeper strain in the book for those who read it with
imagination; for it is safer to venture the assertion that Mr. Kinross
had before him not only the America of gross materialism, but America
as a symbol of great and beautiful ideas.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 270w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.= Puck, of Pook’s hill. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–35734.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So hidden and delicate is the intention, that the book has been
reviewed merely as a series of fairy tales; so spontaneous that one
even wonders if Mr. Kipling himself knows the full extent of his
accomplishment.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 113. Ja. ’07. 1080w.
“Mr. Kipling has apparently passed through that political fever which
for so long a time made him almost unreadable. His genius is restored
to itself, and he writes as one would always have him write. For this
reason alone I would rejoice in the new book. It is a brilliant
performance, and it is a golden promise.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 926. N. 2, ’06. 2700w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 510. Ja. ’07. 580w.
“Not only shows him grand master of the English language, but marks
his ability to fit with perfect verbal clothing any subject he may
pick out.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 90w.
=Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner (Olney) (Henry Hayes, pseud.).= Marcia: a
novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–9553.
An autobiographical society novel in which the heroine at twenty-one
“refusing to gain riches as the price of her ancestral acres and home
accepts a position as secretary to a woman of wealth, and the story
begins.... Mrs. Kirk introduces us to high-minded men and women, who
eschew gambling and abhor divorce, who recognize the existence of
duty, and are loyal to obligation.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠
“‘Marcia’ is remarkable for nothing but the facility with which a
practiced hand can make a fairly readable tale out of indifferent
material.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 200w.
“Its merit rests almost wholly upon its truth to nature and its
interesting psychological analysis.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 180w.
“Unfortunately, the workmanship of the novel is not equal to its
excellence of intention. Its characters are characters rather than
people. The book is, however, sincere and wholesome, and will not
disappoint the public which Mrs. Kirk has already won.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Ministry of beauty. **$1.50. Elder.
7–18089.
An ontological discussion of beauty, life, religion, philosophy, work,
health and happiness, with chapters on The world message, The heart of
it, The tendency of good, The preacher, The teacher, and The poet. The
author treats of good in its abstract sense and emphasizes strongly
the development of ethical perception to the point of consciousness of
truth’s expression.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Where dwells the soul serene. **$1.50. Elder.
7–19460.
A group of essays similar in teaching to those included in Mr.
Kirkham’s “Ministry of beauty.” They make their plea for the
impersonal idea of truth to which the Christian scientists have
wakened. Among the essays are Elements of freedom, The ideal of
culture, The idea of religion, The nature of prayer, The beauty of
poise, Ethical relations, Wealth, Free aims, Higher laws, and The soul
of nature.
=Kirkup, Thomas.= History of socialism. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“This third edition ... has been revised at a few points and enlarged
by some forty pages. The first twelve chapters are substantially
unchanged, but the thirteenth, treating of the growth of socialism,
has been completely rewritten to bring it up to date. The concluding
chapters deal with the alleged forces now making for the coming of
socialism, and review in a dispassionate, if sympathetic way the
philosophy of the movement.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“But none have surpassed Mr. Kirkup in philosophical grasp of the
essentials of socialism, or have presented the doctrine in more
intelligible form.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 190w.
“No man who reads this generous and impartial volume, the work of a
socialist sufficiently broadminded to appreciate the weak points of
the propaganda and optimistic enough to analyze modern progress from a
healthy point of view, can but feel that such a contribution to the
literature of the subject must help to ameliorate old
misunderstandings and enmities.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 580w.
“We question whether the spirit of cheerful optimism and an amiable
love of compromise, which are the characteristics of this volume, are
an adequate mental equipment for a treatment of the subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 1030w.
=Kiser, Samuel Ellsworth.= Thrills of a bell boy. 60c. Forbes.
6–16496.
“S. E. Kiser, under this title, writes in his well known style. His
bell boy is a close observer and sees many things in the hotel where
he works in an humble capacity, hiding a philosopher under his
careless exterior. John T. McCutcheon has happily illustrated the
text.”—Ind.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 230w.
=Kitson, Arthur.= Captain James Cook, “the circumnavigator.” *$4.50.
Dutton.
7–28952.
Mr. Kitson departs from the material from which narratives of Cook are
usually produced, and has gone to the Admirality papers for data. This
story of the discoverer of the Sandwich islands tells of one who made
the best use of every opportunity as fast as it presented itself. “It
tells the remarkable experiences of the man who, after rising from
cabin-boy in a collier to captain in the royal navy, discovered
Australia, sailed three times around the world, and was killed, as we
all know, by the natives of the Sandwich islands.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“Cook’s latest biographer, while a most faithful and painstaking
chronicler is either devoid of the capacity of awe, wonder, and
romance which the voyages of Cook excite, or he has put these
qualities under severe restraint.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 626. Je. 29, ’07. 1400w.
“There has been until now no complete or satisfactory biography.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 229. Ag. 31. 3200w.
“To say that Mr. Kitson never stumbles would be fulsome; it is enough
to say that his errors are few and unimportant and will not prevent
his book from being accepted as a standard.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 187. Je. 14, ’07. 1470w.
“Mr. Kitson’s work shows great painstaking labor; he corrects several
misstatements of previous biographers, and adds some new and
interesting facts.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 123. Ag. 8, ’07. 1370w.
“His book is entitled to take rank as the most careful, trustworthy,
and complete record of Capt. Cook’s life that has yet been published.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w.
“It may be cordially praised as a capital piece of narrative writing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.
“Mr. Kitson has made some discoveries about the life of the great
explorer, Captain Cook, which are well worth the trouble he has
expended on them, and they leave the voyages neither less nor more
fascinating than they were before.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 944. Je. 15. ’07. 1420w.
=Kitson, Charles Herbert.= Art of counterpoint and its application as a
decorative principle. *$2.50. Oxford.
7–38043.
“The work of a man of wide views, yet of one who values the work of
antiquity, and is careful to show how rationally the new has been
developed from the old. There is a large class of contrapuntists, both
in England and in Germany, at the present day, who are accustomed to
sneer at the ancient writers, and to whom the researches of Rockstro
and others are anathema. It is satisfactory to see that Dr. Kitson is
not of this number; he has evidently studied Morley and the ancients
thoroughly, and his very concise résumé of ancient practice is so
little superficial that we see at once that he is deeply read.”—Lond.
Times.
* * * * *
“He writes well and clearly, and his treatise is excellent alike on
the modern and ancient counterpoint. Such a book should do much to
dispel the popular delusion that counterpoint is dry.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 150w.
“Dr. Kitson’s ‘The art of counterpoint,’ we are pleased to say is not
one of the many treatises on that subject which are based on previous
treatises.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 280w.
=Kittrell, Norman G.= Ned, nigger an’ gent’man: a story of war and
reconstruction days. $1.50. Neale.
7–25078.
Desiring to learn details of the fate of two members of his family who
fell in the civil war, a northerner makes his first journey into the
south. He becomes a guest of true southern aristocrats, faithful
representatives of the very highest class of southern society. The aim
of the story seems to be that of modifying a northerner’s abhorrent
attitude toward the system of slavery by dropping him into
surroundings where master and negro alike are bred to the chivalry of
the “quality.”
=Kleiser, Grenville.= How to speak in public. *$1.25. Funk.
6–42418.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work as a whole is so excellent we feel it would be difficult to
overstate its value to serious students.”
+ + + =Arena.= 37: 220. F. ’07. 420w.
“A good deal is taken for granted. The author’s system is nowhere
treated clearly as a whole. There is no very plain intimation as to
the time is desirable to be given to each chapter. There are exercises
and selections, and there are brief passages of exposition and
comment, but there is hardly sufficient organization of the material
to make the method easy to follow.” W. B. Parker.
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 322. O. ’07. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.
=Klenze, Camillo von.= Interpretation of Italy during the last two
centuries: a contribution to the study of Goethe’s “Italienische reise.”
*$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–18308.
One of the decennial publications of the Chicago university. In this
study Goethe’s “Italienische reise” is compared with the travels of
his predecessors of the eighteenth century to show how far Goethe was
original and to what degree he has been supplemented.
* * * * *
“The book is a work of research representing a vast amount of reading
and labor, and will be of service to any one who desires to follow the
story of modern culture and intellectual life.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 460w.
“Dr. von Klenze’s style and treatment do not, we regret to say, rise
above the level of the doctor’s dissertation; while there is too much
cataloguing of details and too little original reasoning and writing,
some important facts are left out.”
− =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w.
=Knauss, William H.= Story of Camp Chase; a history of the prison and
its cemetery. $2.20. Pub. house M. E. ch. so.
6–22869.
“An interesting volume, compiled by a Southerner, but written
impartially.... Made up of letters, extracts from documents, and
personal recollections of the civil war, dealing especially with the
Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Johnston’s island in Lake Erie,
and Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, as well as other places. Records
are given of the disposal of the prisoners.... The numerous
illustrations include several maps and diagrams of cemeteries, with
graves marked, so that friends can locate them.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The author has given his later years devotedly to this noble work,
and has contributed in no small degree to the restoration of good
feeling between the once hostile sections.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w.