* =Knight, William Angus=, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the
wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–26349.
The author has collected from various sources estimates, or
characterizations, by friends from opposite points of view—a series of
mental photographs or appraisals of the man—and has allowed these in
their separateness to tell the story of Thomas Davidson’s life and
work.
=Knollys, George.= Ledgers and literature. *$1.25. Lane.
A collection of essays upon such subjects as; A professor of
sentiment, Lunching in the city, On the adventures of living in a
lunatic asylum, An officer of the boys’ brigade, On the cultivation of
the spirit of Greek archaeology, and A week on the Thames.
* * * * *
“[At times] Mr. Knollys, possibly under the influence of a lunch-cake
which he despises, allows the prose-poet in him to diminish into the
poeticule of prose.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 180w.
“Some of these humorously fanciful sketches might also have come from
the pen of Charles Lamb at his desk in the East India house.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 360w.
“These essays, on the whole, are kept up to a very respectable
standard, a standard certainly far higher than that which the ordinary
novelist reaches. But the standard rarely reaches really brilliant and
original work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w.
“There is often common-sense, quite good common-sense in it, but not
wisdom.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 140w.
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= Undertow. †$1.50. Revell.
6–38396.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is a good novel, and a pleasant one, and in every respect worthy of
the author of ‘St. Cuthbert of the West.’”
+ =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 200w.
=Knox, Charles Edwin.= Electric light wiring. *$2. McGraw pub.
7–18292.
The author has considered the wiring of buildings by the two and
three-wire systems only. “The different generating systems, such as
double-generator, single-generator with a balancer set or with
compensating transformers are then very simply outlined by the aid of
diagrams. Methods of wiring buildings approved by the National board
of fire underwriters, and the proper use of conduit, cables, tubes,
porcelain fittings, etc., are described. The author has included
considerable information on the manufacture of interior conductors
with the National code requirements.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The volume presents the subject of building wiring in actual
practice. For this reason the book should be of especial use to young
engineers who have not had time or opportunity to acquire a system of
practice for themselves. To those who have had little opportunity to
approach electrical engineering mathematically, this book should be
equally useful.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.
=Knox, George William.= Development of religion in Japan. **$1.50.
Putnam.
7–6732.
“In three religions ‘the religion of Japan’ finds various expression.
Shintoism is religious patriotism; Buddhism is the faith of the
unlettered and poor; Confucianism is ‘the religion of gentlemen.’
These three have been variously modified during the comparatively
brief period of fourteen centuries covered by historical dates. The
account of these changes constitutes a history of the development of
that innate religious feeling in which all religions root.... The
religion of Japan already finds a fourth expression in Christianity,
as a part of the nation’s new enlightenment.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“With the ease and poise of a trained scholar, he shows us the
development of religion in Japan.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 335. Je. 1, ’07. 1220w.
“Less interesting as a human story than ‘The religions of Japan,’ by
another American author, this work is far superior as the philosophic
presentation of a most fascinating chapter in the grand story of the
human mind.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 224. Jl. 25, ’07. 470w.
“In the possible elements of human interest this book may be lacking
but as a philosophical treatment of a great theme in a spirit at once
catholic, critical, and sympathetic, it is a masterpiece.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 1270w.
“Shows in an admirable manner how the religious feelings of the nation
have been excited, and how in the course of the ages they have changed
and progressed.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 217. Ap. 6, ’07. 890w.
“This volume has interest for the general reader. Its author is
peculiarly qualified for appreciative treatment of his subject by his
long residence in Japan.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w.
=Knox, George William.= Spirit of the Orient. *$1.50. Crowell.
6–34855.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. S.
“He is able to express himself in an easy and graceful style.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 350w.
“This work is, in our judgment, the best volume on the subject that
has appeared. No one who wishes an intelligent grasp of the great
Eastern problem should fail to read ‘The spirit of the Orient.’”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 219. F. ’07. 910w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 314. Mr. ’07. 2110w.
“It is one of the keenest in analysis, perhaps, of any book written on
the Far East.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 810w.
“The still too ignorant Occidental will find not only a sympathetic
study of the peoples and customs of India, China and Japan, but also
an appreciation of the peculiar spirit and problems of each country.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 296. Je. 8, ’07. 1390w.
=Knyvett, Sir Henry.= Defence of the realme. *$1.75. Oxford.
“A hitherto unpublished manuscript now edited by Charles Hughes.
Knyvett was a country gentleman, a soldier and a magistrate who, when
England was, as it appeared, threatened with a Spanish invasion in
1596, composed this little treatise for presentation to Queen
Elizabeth. In it he set forth with the authority of his long
experience his views as to the best way to master, train, equip, and
handle an army to beat off the invasion.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The tract was written in haste. On the technical side the treatise is
at its weakest. It advocates the use of the antiquated longbow.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 688. Ap. ’07. 140w.
“The volume is very pleasant to read and handle.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 280w.
“His style is direct with an occasional quaintness of turn, but not in
itself noteworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 550. S. ’07. 100w.
“Is well edited and commented on by Mr. Charles Hughes.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 149. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.
“The book as a whole is exceedingly interesting as well as curious,
and Mr. Hughes deserves the gratitude of students, not only of history
but of military science, for his discovery of Sir Henry Knyvett’s
pamphlet.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Famous American songs, il. **$1.50. Crowell.
6–35736.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
“The work is admirably adapted for a presentation volume, appropriate
for all tastes.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 109. Ja. ’07. 130w.
“Tells about everything one can in reason wish to know about some
dozen native airs.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 110w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= How to appreciate music. **$1.50. Moffat.
6–38904.
An attempt in wholly untechnical language, to satisfy the desires of
those who enjoy music and wish to know more about it. The volume is
divided into three sections: How to appreciate a pianoforte recital,
How to appreciate an orchestral concert, and How to appreciate vocal
music.
* * * * *
“Enthusiastic, sometimes gushing, but as a whole, interesting,
readable and instructive. Does not replace Krehbiel’s ‘How to listen
to music;’ it is not so well written nor so systematically arranged,
but it is more suggestive and contains material on later composers,
such as Richard Strauss, not to be found in Krehbiel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
“Avowedly ‘popular’ in intent, and even at times a bit careless in
style, the book contains a deal of gossipy chat about musicians.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 560w.
“Here are elucidation, history, criticism, gossip, anecdote, cleverly
commingled, making the book one that can be read for entertainment as
well as instruction.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 445. N. 22, ’06. 390w.
“The seeker after musical knowledge will find much that is
entertaining and instructive in these pages and much that is
suggestive; but we are constrained to say that he is also likely to
find much that is misleading and unbalanced.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Signora. †$1. Crowell.
7–21369.
The incidents of this sketch take place behind the scenes in the
Metropolitan opera house, New York. They are associated with a little
waif that was left at the stage entrance one stormy night when Calvé
and other famous singers were rendering Carmen. The child is adopted
by the company and grows up to be the central figure in a romance
whose side-light touches reveal characteristics of well known singers
who are seen under thin disguises.
* * * * *
“Is as interesting to the older people as to the children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“It is a pleasant story of kindness, and is interesting from its
original setting.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=Koenigsberger, Leo.= Hermann von Helmholtz; tr. by Frances A. Welby.
*$5.25. Oxford.
7–11038.
A translation, slightly abridged, of a well known German work. “This
volume, of absorbing interest, outlines a life which was intimately
bound up in the life of the scientific world during the last century.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Care has been taken to retain what is essential, and the work has
therefore suffered but little. The translation has been carried out
with skill, and the writing is on the whole good.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 410w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 730w.
=Kraus, Edward Henry.= Essentials of crystallography. *$1.60. Wahr.
6–38911.
A book intended for beginners. “A bibliography of forty-one titles of
important reference books and articles is at the beginning of the
book. This is followed by a sixteen-page general discussion of the
properties of crystals their arrangement into systems, the symbols
used, the symmetry, and tractional forms. The systems are then taken
up in order, beginning with the cubic and following through to the
triclinic. The relations of axes, symmetry, and possible classes are
taken up with considerable care in each system.” (J. Geol.)
* * * * *
“The book seems well suited to its purpose, and puts in a concise and
compact form that part of its subject which is absolutely essential
for an understanding of crystallography.” J. C. J.
+ + =J. Geol.= 15: 507. Jl. ’07. 300w.
“The six pages devoted to compound crystals will seem to many
inadequate. Not the least valuable part of the work is an appendix.”
Wm. Herbert Hobbs.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 24: 807. D. 21, ’06. 770w.
=Kropotkin, Petr Alexeivich.= Conquest of bread. *$1. Putnam.
7–11010.
The undertone of Prince Kropotkin’s discussion is that “every society
which has abolished private property will be forced to reorganize
itself on the lines of communistic anarchy.” “He attempts to
demonstrate that communistic and socialistic ideals, despite setbacks
and reactions have ever been approaching nearer to practical
realization.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
“The translator has done his work well, but has been unable to conceal
the extent to which the plausibility of the book rests upon a large
use of vague words and of the fallacy of composition and division when
talking about ‘the people’ and ‘the workers.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 640w.
“He is a close reasoner, a learned traveller, a keen observer, and he
brings into brilliant light uninterpreted truths.” Charles Richmond
Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 230. O. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Kropotkin’s chapters lack the charm and the scientific serenity of
his ‘Autobiography’ and his ‘Fields, factories and workshops.’”
− =Ind.= 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 680w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 150w.
“An extremely interesting exposition of the gospel of anarchy.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 71. Mr. 1, ’07. 960w.
“The present volume adds nothing to what he has said elsewhere and it
is hard to understand why it has been brought out in American dress.”
− =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w.
“Prince Peter Kropotkin lives in another world and talks another
language.”
− =Spec.= 97: 923. D. 8, ’06. 250w.
=Krusi, Hermann.= Recollections of my life; ed. by Elizabeth S. Alling.
**$2.50. Grafton press.
7–26153.
An autobiographical sketch supplemented by extracts from the
educator’s personal records and a review of his literary productions
together with selected essays. The record of the author’s educational
career chiefly identified with the Oswego normal school, is enlivened
“record book” material which afford glimpses into his intellectual
life and his character.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’97. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 140w.
=Kuhn, Franz.= Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton.
*60c. McClurg.
6–35590.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar.= John Huss: The witness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–23894.
In this volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series it has been the
author’s aim “to give a plain, straightforward, and concise account of
the life, death, and influence of one of the world’s most inspiring
witnesses of the truth.”
=Kyle, George A.= Morning glory club. $1.25. Page.
7–12001.
The women of a northern New England town are seized with the spirit of
club organization and the “Morning glory club” is the result. General
improvement, a definite force for good in the town seem to be their
theoretical watchwords yet they go far afield for bits of gossip to
retail indiscriminately at their meetings. An equally gossipy group of
husbands in the background, a village parson who believes that the
club is the devil’s own disguise, a charming young school teacher,
misunderstood and much maligned, and the parson’s son, dismissed from
college for his pranks, furnish some of the personalities with which
the story deals. Comic as well as tragic happenings abound, but all
ends well amid wholesome reform and reconciliation.
* * * * *
“He has displayed no startling originality, but the story is
readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 170w.
L
=Labriola, Antonio.= Socialism and philosophy; tr. by Ernest Untermann.
$1. Kerr.
7–3090.
This volume in the “International library of social science” has been
translated from the third Italian edition, which has been revised and
amplified by the author. In the form of a series of letters, “a
conversation in writing” with Mr. G. Sorei, Labriola has shown “that
we must study the social conditions which were the cradle of
historical materialism, if we would understand its full meaning. He
has demonstrated to us that we must familiarize ourselves also with
the individual growth of the founders of scientific socialism, of its
prominent interpreters, its present day elaborators.”
=Ladd, Horatio Oliver.= Chunda: a story of the Navajos. $1.25. Meth. bk.
6–37926.
“The career of an Indian girl and her lover, who broke away from their
barbaric tribe to learn for its redemption the principles and arts of
civilization. Years afterward they emerge from their training ... and
go back to their native mountain ... to labor together for the
civilization and Christianization of their people.... Dramatic and
tragic interest is added to the narrative, which breathes a deeply
religious spirit throughout with an evident purpose of stimulating a
missionary interest.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
“It is an excellent book for Sunday-school libraries. All that it
seems to lack is a prefatory note to indicate how far it is fiction
and how far it is fact.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
=Lafargue, Paul.= The right to be lazy and other studies. 50c. Kerr.
7–23081.
Papers whose purpose is to incite the socialist to march up to the
assault of the ethics and the social theories of capitalism and
establish a future communist society “peaceably if we may, forcibly if
we must.”
=Lamb, C. G.= Alternating currents: a textbook for students of
engineering. *$3 Longmans.
W 7–137.
“The first seven chapters cover the preliminary statements of the
usual methods of treating alternate-current problems in general, also
of measuring instruments, and discuss the theory of the single-phase
transformer.... A very brief mention of single-phase commutator motors
occupies the eighth chapter.... The rest of the book is devoted to the
consideration of alternators both as generators and motors, and of
induction motors.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“He has succeeded in producing an excellent reference book for
engineers, but from the reviewer’s experience it is too heavy a text
for undergraduates.” Henry H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 635. D. 13, ’06. 530w.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 97. N. 29, ’06. 1510w.
=Lamb, Charles.= Essays of Elia; with an introduction and notes by
Alfred Ainger, and a biographical sketch by Henry Morley. $1.25.
Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this volume is furnished with
such additional helps as a biographical sketch of Lamb, an
introduction and notes.
=Lambert, Preston A.= Computation and mensuration. *80c. Macmillan.
7–30461.
A short course whose chapters are as follows: Approximate computation,
Graphic computation, Method of co-ordinates, Volumes of solids bounded
by planes, Use of trigonometric functions, Use of logarithms, Limits,
Graphic algebra, Areas bounded by curves, Volumes of solids. “These
headings give in a general way the subject matter of the book.
Greatest attention is given to concrete applications of principles.
The solution of characteristic problems is illustrated and several
additional are given for solution at numerous points throughout.”
(Engin. N.)
* * * * *
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 330w.
=Lampson, G. Locker-.= Consideration of the state of Ireland in the
nineteenth century. *$5. Dutton.
“A dictionary of English misgovernment of Ireland.” (Spec.) It is
“expressly, intended to gibbet the incompetence of Ireland’s governors
for five centuries and in suffusing British cheeks with shame to evoke
better intentions for the future.” The author “does not believe
Ireland’s ills will be cured by home rule. He proposes closer union,
rather than separation. Only he suggests that that union be commercial
and social, not political.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Relates, though not in well-arranged order, the chief political
events connected with recent Irish history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 130w.
“It is a combination of history, characterdrawing, political
discussion, and the evisceration of blue books which Mr. Lampson’s
volume offers. He is a shrewd observer of men.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 470w.
“Mr. Locker-Lampson makes an exhaustive examination of Irish
conditions—and finds what others have found. The chief interest of
this book is in the remedy he proposes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 545. S. 14, ’07. 1400w.
=Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 270w.
“It is a pity that so much labor should have been marred by such want
of judgment.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 422. O. 5, ’07. 1630w.
“Regarded, however, as a thesaurus of Irish history, this volume, well
arranged, well indexed, almost too lavishly appendixed, is of the
highest value as a reference book; it is ‘the case’ against Irish
misgovernment.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 93. Jl. 20, ’07. 800w.
=Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo.= Golden days of the renaissance in Rome from
the pontificate of Julius II. to that of Paul III. **$5. Houghton.
6–39434.
Against the glowing background of Rome’s renaissance, Signor
Lanciani’s five distinct figures are traced: “Paul III., who during
the fifteen years that he occupied the chair of St. Peter’s
accomplished such wonders in rescuing Rome from the degradation into
which it had fallen; Michelangelo and Raphael, supreme in art;
Vittoria Colonna, the most cultured of sixteenth century women; and
Agostino Chigi, the banker whose splendid financial abilities and
great wealth gave him the surname of ‘Il Magnifico.’” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A few slips in dates which we have observed may be due to oversight
on the part of the proof-reader, but inconsistency in giving the
modern equivalent for sums of money can hardly be due to that cause.
In general there is good reason to speak well of the book.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 623. Ap. ’07. 840w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“The work is one of permanent value and interest, and a special word
of praise must be given to the illustrations. There is an excellent
index.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 545. My. 4. 1230w.
“Fills a gap in the important series of topographical and antiquarian
studies whereby the most readable of archæologists has done so much to
render the chaotic Rome of to-day an intelligible spectacle to the
passing pilgrim.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 424. Mr. ’07. 1350w.
“The many matters which Signor Lanciani has taken out of their
semi-obscurity in the Italian archives of learned societies and made
available to the English reader, the many stories which he has himself
aided in unfolding, entitle him to not a little gratitude.” Anna B.
McMahan.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 446. D. 16, ’06. 1390w.
“It is really in this elaborate introduction to his main topic that
the professor best proves his originality of thought and literary
skill.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 31: 165. Ap. ’07. 320w.
“The volume contains much hitherto-unpublished information gained from
study of the old monuments.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The general attractiveness of Lanciani’s writing is indubitable. His
sentences run fluently. He is singularly effective in the manner of
telling a story as it were to a single listener. The writer can hardly
hold himself down for two consecutive minutes to the topic he has in
hand. Another fault is the tendency to inaccuracy, which appears so
frequently in matters that can be checked, that it arouses distrust of
the author’s accuracy in matters of perhaps greater moment that lie
within the scope of his peculiar knowledge.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 268. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Rodolfo Lanciani seems now to have reached the age when his
accumulation of knowledge vaguely obscures his point of view as to the
essentials required for popular interpretation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 760w.
“A notable and impressive looking volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“Professor Lanciani, indeed, who, in the course of a gossiping and
diverting book, devotes a chapter to the subject, writes of these
poems with somewhat less than his customary insight.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 880w.
“Signor Lanciani knows his subject thoroughly and at first hand, and
he is able to bring to bear a vast amount of curious and interesting
detail.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.
=Landon, Perceval.= Under the sun. *$4.80. Doubleday.
7–35221.
“Twenty-five chapters written in the course of annual wanderings over
India during the last five years.... Every province in India,
including Burma, is represented.... The final chapter purports to
describe the later days of Nana Sahib.... The book is well
illustrated.”—Ath.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07.
“The chapters are mainly impressions of many Indian cities, and they
are generally correct and just; the writer is faithful as to local
colour, and not less trustworthy as to local smells, which are often
more insistent, if less insisted on by descriptive writers.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 500w.
“Many of his narratives of famous persons and events ... are of
thrilling interest.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Has most of the attractive literary features of the author’s recent
volume on Tibet. The illustrations, an important feature of the book,
include many unusual aspects of India.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 560w.
“Even the reader who has never seen India may enjoy these impressions;
but it is the visitor reading on the spot, or, still more, the old
resident refreshing his memory with them for whom they will have the
greatest charm. As far as it is possible to do so in words, they
certainly convey the impression of the colouring and the atmosphere of
the scenes which they describe.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 391. N. 23, ’06. 780w.
“He certainly has produced a readable book, though many of his
sketches convey less clear-cut impressions of the places than those of
some other writers who have gone over the ground before, Steevens, for
instance; and they lack proportion. Some point is seized on and
overstrained with a discursiveness that causes the reader at times to
lose the thread of the narrative, whilst other more characteristic
features of the picture are omitted.”
− + =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 880w.
“The author has had a quick eye for the distinctive features of the
Eastern wonderland.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Landon’s book is valuable because it comprises suggestive
impressions of an acute observer as to the actual present.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.
“He writes well and picturesquely. Bookmaking of this sort is
overdone, and the chief novelty in it is the account given at the end,
of the last days of Nana Sahib. It is a somewhat incongruous chapter
in such a book, and at best is not a very valuable or entertaining
contribution to history.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: 747. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
=Landor, Walter Savage.= Charles James Fox: a commentary on his life and
character; ed. by Stephen Wheeler. *$2.75. Putnam.
7–29125.
A hitherto unpublished work of Walter Savage Landor’s—a study of the
life and character of the statesman Charles James Fox. The book was
printed in 1812, but suppressed, and the manuscript and all but one
copy of the book were destroyed. “The memoirs were, of course, highly
eulogistic of Fox, and hence a bête noire to Landor, who was in the
habit of hurling abuse with impartial hand at most of the political
leaders of his day.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“It is handsomely set forth and the editorial notes are good and
sufficient.” G. S. Street.
+ =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 880w.
“No reader of discrimination can lay the volume aside without feeling
that, despite its extravagance and occasional perversity it is the
product of a noble and magnificently endowed intellect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 656. Je. 1. 1270w.
“Its present day claim is upon students of literature rather than of
politics. It is the vigorous unconventional prose in which Landor’s
political and literary convictions are expressed that gives the volume
any permanent value that attaches to it.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 881. O. 10, ’07. 490w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1320w.
“As an historical estimate of Fox the book is too polemical to have
much value, but the style has a rare energy and color.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 126. Ag. 8, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 400w.
“Well worth the painstaking labor that Mr. Stephen Wheeler has
bestowed upon it, for in its present form the ‘Commentary’ has both a
literary and a political value.” Edward Porritt.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 664. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.
“A work which, for all its defects, bears in certain particulars the
stamp of true genius.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 562. Je. 13, ’07. 1910w.
“It was certainly well worth publishing, and the editor has done his
work with care and precision.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 130w.
“It is as a glimpse into Landor’s mind, as an additional chapter in
the life of one of the strangest and most original among English men
of letters, that his ‘commentary’ possesses its real and permanent
value.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 292. Ag. 31, ’07. 2430w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Homer and his age. *$3.50. Longmans.
7–2323.
“The present volume, while it contains much that is to be found in its
predecessor [‘Homer and the epic’] is less general, and deals rather
with problems of archaeology, the writer seeking to show that
throughout the Iliad there is a consistency in regard to such details
as the peculiar feudal relations of the chiefs to their over-lord, the
burial of the dead, the use of bronze for weapons, or the descriptions
of armour, which affords convincing proof that all parts of the poem
are approximately of the same date.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“We welcome another powerful counterblast from the graceful and
vigorous pen of Mr. Andrew Lang against the disintegrators of the
poems of Homer.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ =Acad.= 71: 543. D. 1, ’06. 1600w.
“It is a fascinating book, and a noteworthy. Mr. Lang was born too
late to keep the wolf from the door of the Homeric house, but this
championship of Homer will go far to bring the poet’s scattered goods
together again under one roof, to be the heirlooms of Achaean glory.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 624. Je. 29, ’07. 2200w.
“Altogether, from frontispiece ... to finis, the book is one for which
every Homeric student may well be grateful.” J. Irving Manatt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 605. Ap. ’07. 700w.
“We are sorry that Mr. Lang has not treated his subject more
thoroughly, because we are at one with him in most that he says, and
would fain go the whole way if we could.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 38. Ja. 12. 1260w.
“Mr. Lang’s polemic, despite much repetition and some wearisome
details, holds the attention by a wealth of pertinent illustration
from Norse and Old French literature, and by the force and cunning of
his dialectical swordplay.” Paul Shorey.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 248. Ap. 16, ’07. 1450w.
“Excellent book.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 1790w.
“He has evidently written up his notes _currente calamo_, with little
concern for system and unity of presentation, consistency in argument,
or the elimination of wearisome repitition.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 458. My. 16, ’07. 580w.
“Mr. Lang has written such a sound, humane and scholarly book that we
can say directly: This is of the absolute truth.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 26. Ja. 19, ’07. 1630w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 304. Mr. 9, ’07. 1740w.
“Those who love Homer or admire Mr. Lang will take up this volume with
eagerness, only to close it with a sigh, while the critic who dreamed
of finding matter for a pleasant essay discovers that he has to deal
with a dispute the pleadings in which would perplex and weary even the
Court of Chancery.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 1046. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Olive fairy book. **$1.60. Longmans.
7–31208.
Colored plates and numerous other illustrations give additional life
to these tales derived from various sources, from India, France,
Turkey, Armenia, and Denmark.
* * * * *
“As fascinating as those that have gone before. The book is sure to
enthral any child who may possess it, and many persons of more
discreet years.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 90w.
=Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.
“At times are gruesome and without moral, to an extent that prohibits
their being wholesome reading for very young children.”
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 100w.
“The collection is an excellent one—Mr. Lang’s editorship vouches for
that—and one and all are entertaining.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 150w.
* =Lang, Andrew=, ed. Orange fairy book; il. by H. J. Ford. **$1.60.
Longmans.
6–34647.
Mr. Lang says that his stories “‘are taken from those told by grannies
to grandchildren in many countries and many languages—French, Italian,
Spanish, Catalan, Gaelic, Icelandic, Cherokee, African, Indian,
Australian, Slavonic, and what not.’ As he says, the old puzzle
remains—‘why do the stories of the remotest people so closely resemble
each other?’” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 70w.
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lang’s ‘Orange fairy book’ will not have to look far for eager
hands.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 40w.
“High among fairy books must be placed Andrew Lang’s annual offering.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 60w.
“Some of them again, as in past years, too gruesome for child
reading.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“There is less of the gruesome than we seem to remember in one or
other of the earlier volumes, and there are, as usual, some
illustrations of excellent quality.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Poets’ country, il. **$5. Lippincott.
In text and picture the purpose of this book is to trace the relations
of poets with the aspects of “their ain countrie.” Among the poets are
Scott, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Chaucer, Goldsmith,
Keats, Spencer, Moore and Burns. A number of men have participated in
producing the volume.
* * * * *
“The fact is that the ‘spirit of place’ dominates a few poets only,
and a more careful selection would have made this book more
representative.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 520w.
“The book is one to delight lovers of poetry and lovers of the English
country.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It is chock-block full of telling quotations, and it really has
plenty of pleasant and informed matter.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“All the essays included in the volume may be read with great
pleasure.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 300w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Portraits and jewels of Mary Stuart. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–2430.
A pictorial history of Mary Queen of Scots from her tenth year to that
preceding her death. Mr. Lang has selected, in all, thirteen portraits
which he proves to be contemporary and authentic. He is aided in
accepting or rejecting a portrait by jewels represented to be worn at
different sittings.
* * * * *
“Mr. Andrew Lang has now gone over the ground again with an historical
acumen greater than that of any of his predecessors in the field.” J.
H. Pollen, S. J.
+ + =Acad.= 70: 543. Je. 9, ’06. 1160w.
“The text is noteworthy for its criticism, its freshness, and its
suggestiveness.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 193. Ag. 18. 1020w.
“An inquiry from this point of view has added considerably to our
knowledge of the subject, both with regard to portraits and
miniatures. Mr. Lang’s most important result is a rehabilitation of a
fascinating portrait in the possession of the earl of Leven and
Melville.” Robert S. Rait.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 803. O. ’06. 570w.
“With infinite care and rare critical acumen he has summed up the
arguments.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 340w.
“The object of Mr. Lang, supplementing as he does the researches of
Sir George Scharf, Mr. Lionel Cust, Mr. Foster, and others, is rather
to correct over-scepticism and to indicate if possible the claims to
consideration of certain portraits on which doubts are thrown.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 298. Ag. 31, ’06. 2590w.
“Especially in its account of the Queen’s jewels this study is a
valuable addition to the knowledge of all who have not the advantage
of being Scottish antiquarians.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 950w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 557. S. 8, ’06. 2220w. (Reprinted from Lond.
Times.)
“Mr. Lang has had several predecessors in this field of research about
Mary Stuart’s personal appearance and ornaments, but he has drawn
information from original sources, and added some fresh facts.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 150w.
“It is a subject after his own heart, and he has done it ample
justice.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 450w.
=Lang, Elsie M.= Literary London; with introd. by G. K. Chesterton.
*$1.50. Scribner.
7–13410.
Cyclopedic in its manner of treatment and alphabetic in its
arrangement Miss Lang’s book becomes one of handy reference.
* * * * *
“Will prove useful to the tourist who is in search of the spots
associated with the great English writers.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 50w.
“As a book of reference, it has merits, though they do not include
completeness.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w.
“To one who knows London well enough to have its broad map and the
relative position of its neighborhoods in his mind, the book is a
delight. It is a collection of prosaic but agreeable memories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 1180w.
=Langdon, Amelie=, comp. Just for two: a collection of recipes designed
for two persons. 3d ed., rev. and enl. *90c. Wilson, H. W.
A new edition of a popular cook book which deals in amounts small
enough to serve two people without waste.
=Langfeld, Millard.= Introduction to infectious and parasitic diseases,
including their cause and manner of transmission; with an introduction
by Lewellys F. Barker. *$1.25. Blakiston.
7–17014.
A book for nurses, physicians and students which gives a clear
description of the fundamental principles of the causation and manner
of transmission of infectious diseases, and includes chapters on
bacteriology, animal parasites and disinfectants and disinfection.
* * * * *
“For the general reader, it would be hard to find a better concise
statement of the more modern view of micro-organisms in their relation
to disease. But the classification of the non-specific bacteria (p.
51) is somewhat obscure, and the terminology, although justified by
numerous precedents, is inconsistent.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 200w.
=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Kingdom of man. **$1.40. Holt.
7–29194.
This is not “as its title might indicate, an anthropological treatise,
but rather a group of three very interesting and striking essays on
scientific subjects, especially as related to the needs and interests
of humanity. The first is the Romanes lecture at Oxford in 1905, and
is a ... plea that the English universities abandon the compulsory
study of Greek and Latin and make the study of nature an integral and
predominant part of every man’s education.... The second essay is an
outline of the advance in science made in the last quarter of a
century, being the presidential address at the recent meeting of the
British association for the advancement of science.... The closing
essay is on the ‘Sleeping sickness’ which is now devastating tropical
Africa and bids fair to become the third great plague of the
race.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“He has conjured up for us, in the three chapters of this book, a
lurid picture of our position to-day; while, at the same time, he
gives us a masterly exposition of what the new learning will do for
us, both as regards our private and our public affairs. The latest
discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology are here
lucidly set forth; and in such a way that even the most skeptical must
feel that we have too long neglected our duty in this matter.” W. P.
Pycraft.
+ =Acad.= 72: 206. Mr. 2, ’07. 1350w.
Review by Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ =Dial.= 43: 14. Jl. 1, ’07. 740w.
“The volume is a valuable addition to popular scientific literature.
Its skeptical, almost contemptuous attitude toward certain conclusions
of psychologists, quite as well established as the human nature of the
‘pithecanthropus,’ e. g. telepathy, freshly illustrates the streak of
provincialism observable in men of the highest special learning.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’70. 320w.
“A work of interest and scientific insight.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 644. Ap. 27, ’07. 1220w.
=Lansdale, Maria Horner.= Chateaux of Touraine. **$6. Century.
6–34856.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Authoritative, accurate, and charming in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07.
“The only chapter in which the author breaks new ground is that on
Luynes, which relates at some length the history of the descendants of
Charles d’Albert.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 583. My. 11. 180w.
Reviewed by Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 110w.
=Lapponi, Giuseppe.= Hypnotism and spiritism: a critical and medical
study; tr. from the 2d rev. ed. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–11197.
“The doctor carefully distinguishes hypnotism from spiritism; and he
points out the two considerations that have led some writers to
confound them. The first is that hypnotic subjects, as well as
spiritistic media, belong to the neurotic class; the second is that
from hypnotic to spiritistic phenomena the distance is not great, and
very frequently they are found side by side, alternately, or even
together.”—Cath. World.
* * * * *
“The author treats his subject in a simple, popular fashion, and does
not profess to have any personal experience of spiritistic
manifestations, and no expert acquaintance with hypnotism.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 403. Je. ’07. 400w.
=Nature.= 76: 348. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.
“Unquestionably it is highly interesting, but its interest is for
[one] who wants to study the mind of a pope’s physician rather than
occultism, or for an ardent disbeliever in metaphysics who may be
pleased by an agreement with his thoughts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 280w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 710w.
=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Books, culture and character. **$1. Houghton.
6–36012.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 687, Ap. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Larned’s book to some degree shows the limitation under which
many good treatises suffer. They deal with what ought to be, to the
exclusion of what is.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + − =Forum.= 28: 382. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
“The addresses are neither erudite nor ‘literary.’ But they are
commendable for the plain common-sense and simple clear-sightedness
with which they resolve some of the confusions and sophistries of the
day.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 170w.
“The appeal for a more humanistic teaching of history and the
straightforward attack upon many sophistical subtilities of the
present day commend the book to those who are not bored by the plain
good intention and right-minded common-sense.” George H. Browne.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 401. My. ’07. 850w.
* =Lasance, F. X.= Thoughts on the religious life. *$1.50. Benziger.
On the general principles of religious life, on perfect charity the
end of the religious life, on vocation, the vows, the rules, the
cloister virtues and the main devotions of the church.
* =Lathers, Richard.= Reminiscences of Richard Lathers. **$2.50. Grafton
press.
7–21270.
Reminiscences of sixty years of active life spent in South Carolina,
Massachusetts, and New York. Tho a Southerner, the author’s attitude
was against secession and he stood for the preservation of the Union.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The many friendships that he formed during and after the civil war
with men of prominence give a peculiar interest to his letters, which
chiefly make up the present volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 90w.
=Lathrop, Elise.= Where Shakespeare set his stage. **$2. Pott.
6–33547.
“Lovers of Shakespeare will be particularly interested in the Lathrop
volume.”
* * * * *
+ =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 150w.
“The book is a welcome, if not a weighty, addition to the
Shakespearian literature, and will form a profitable companion volume
to an edition of his works.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 466. O. 5, ’07. 180w.
=Latta, Marion Nisbet-.= Handbook of American gas-engineering practice.
*$4.50. Van Nostrand.
7–30142.
A three-part work as follows: 1, Water-gas manufacture, from the
consideration of the fuels and materials to the gas-holder; 2, Gas
distribution, including also a discussion of the various gas-burning
appliances and their attendant data; 3, General technical data,
containing theoretical, mathematical, and technical information on the
properties of gases and steam caloric values, temperature data, etc.
* * * * *
“The sweeping condemnation of any work should ever be unpleasant and
not lightly done. Nothing else seems possible, however, in the case of
this book and gas engineers, should be prompt to disavow it as
representing to any appreciable extent ‘American gas engineering
practice.’” Walton Forstall and Charles J. Ramsburg.
− − =Engin. N.= 58: 531. N. 14, ’07. 1940w.
=Lau, Robert Julius.= Old Babylonian temple records. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–46312.
“In the winter of 1894–95 DeSarzec, the explorer of Tello,
unearthed ... large collections of inscribed clay tablets, estimated
to number about 30,000.... Columbia university acquired 258 of them,
which Dr. Lau has published in this small and handy volume. A little
more than one-third of the tablets he has transcribed. These appear in
facsimile reproduction with a sign list and glossary. Prefixed to this
is a catalogue of the entire collection, containing a description of
each tablet and its contents.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is a fine piece of work, accurately done, and a credit to the
university’s scholarship; while it illustrates the importance to a
university of having access to such original material for study.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 330w.
“Intended primarily for Assyriologists, they contain material of the
first value for the student of the history of mankind.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 414. My. 2, ’07. 600w.
=Laughlin, Clara E.= Felicity: the making of a comedienne. †$1.50.
Scribner.
7–10619.
The story of a stage career. Felicity Fergus, orphaned in babyhood, is
brought up by an austere grandmother who fought the child’s
irrepressible sense of humor, vivid imagination and general spirit of
hero worship. Felicity comes under the spell of an old comedian, who
discovers the spark of histrionism in her, but who discourages an
ambitious aunt in starting the child upon the long road to stage fame.
Nevertheless the start is made, and the reader is given an intimate
view of hardships that pave the way to success, of heartaches and
struggles that lie just back of the footlights. The great charm of the
story lies in the unsullied freshness with which Felicity emerges from
her developing process against odds to grace the high places in her
profession.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“It leaves you with the pleasant feeling that the world is full of
gentle and brave people; that suffering is accounted for by the
sweetening of character under its ministry; and that love will not
pass by on the other side if one’s heart is ready to receive it.”
Harry James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“Studies of theatrical life, that bear the imprint of accurate
knowledge are so few and far between that ‘Felicity’ would still be a
noteworthy book even without the blending of tender humour and pathos
which it in no small degree possesses.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 284. Ap. ’07. 390w.
“It is, on the whole, a novel of such interest and charm that we are
content to accept it, with whatever defects may accompany its
qualities, as one of the most pleasing contributions to the season’s
output of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 500w.
“It is the first American story of stage life that promises to achieve
a popular success, perhaps because it does not go too far below the
surface.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 120w.
“The story gives a very fair idea of the wholesome side of the stage.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 280w.
“The merits of this book lie largely in its freedom from the usual
features of the theatrical novel.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 310w.
“There are some awkward constructions. The story upon the whole,
however, is an admirable one, quite out of the common, and full of
varied interest.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 880w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“It is full of unusual qualities, but there are too many monologues
and duets in it; everybody except Phineas Morton talks too much.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=Laughlin, James Laurence.= Industrial America; the Berlin lectures of
1906. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–37187.
These lectures given at Berlin by Prof. Laughlin of Chicago university
were delivered in the German language and include the following
industrial subjects: American competition with Europe, Protection and
reciprocity, The labor problem, The trust problem, The railway
question, The banking problem, The present status of economic thinking
in the United States.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07. S.
“The volume is to be commended to all who are seeking to understand
these questions.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 468. N. ’06. 120w.
“But while we believe Professor Laughlin has not over-stated the facts
concerning the Senate we wonder at his inability to reason
consistently when he attempts to discuss some other important
problems.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 36: 675. D. ’06. 1950w.
“Interesting and well-written volume.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 314. Mr. 16. 1260w.
“It must be admitted that he has not duly considered in his argument
some very important aspects of the subject.” Charles Richmond
Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 248. O. 16, ’07. 140w.
“Tho much contained therein may appear to us trite and commonplace,
the volume, nevertheless, forms a noteworthy addition to our economic
literature.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1230. N. 22, ’06. 860w.
“There is nothing now in print better worth the attention of American
readers of average intelligence, who are looking for explanations of
those problems at once clear, calm, and of moderate compass.” Horace
White.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 48. Ja. ’07. 2280w.
“Professor Laughlin has acquitted himself creditably, and we trust
that his successors may be equally fortunate in their diplomatic
missions.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 538. D. 20, ’06. 880w.
“The topics touched are pregnant with present and future interest, and
even those who dissent from the author’s views upon highly contentious
matters will find much said in little compass.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 1600w.
“Not all readers will agree with all of Dr. Laughlin’s conclusions.
There can be but few readers, however, to whom the book will not be
suggestive, and that is the highest merit of any work of utility or
art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 252. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.
“It must be said, however, that the lectures are so elementary and the
lecturer’s conclusions so trite that it is doubtful whether they will
be of much use to those who have time for even a brief course of
reading.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 572. S. ’07. 240w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Laurie, Simon Somerville.= Synthetica: being meditations
epistemological and ontological; comprising the Edinburgh university
Gifford lectures of 1905–6. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–19465.
The first of these volumes contains nineteen meditations on knowledge,
the second, eighteen meditations on God and man.
* * * * *
“As we read Dr. Laurie we cannot escape a sense of strangeness,
amounting almost to despair. It all seems aloof and unfamiliar. He has
a language and a terminology of his own, which we can only regard as
gratuitously scholastic and unhomely. There can be no question but
that his thought would have come to us more easily if he could have
written more simply.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 224. S. 8, ’06. 3540w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Acad.= 71: 657. D. 29, ’06. 2110w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Again, the first volume is by no means free from the confusions
between psychology and epistemology, against which Sidgwick uttered an
emphatic warning. However, whether we agree or disagree with the
conclusions drawn—and they are many and controversial—the book well
repays the not inconsiderable trouble of reading it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 267. S. 8. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The interest of these volumes as a whole, apart from the feeling, and
in many parts real inspiration and ‘élan,’ with which they are
written, will probably be found in the comprehensiveness with which
the problem of philosophy is grasped, and the sustained effort that is
made to escape from the Scylla of the static or ‘stagnant’ Absolute
without falling into the Charybdis of subjectivism and pluralism. In
their own peculiar way they contain much that is helpful towards the
restatement of idealism which is the chief philosophical requirement
of the present time. Why this irritating form? It is not only that the
second volume is merely a somewhat less technical restatement of the
first, but in the argument of each there is endless repetition. For
whom, again, is the book written? The uninitiated will find far too
little; the initiated would be satisfied with much less; the
positivist who could understand it if he would is not likely to
persevere long in the attempt. But all this might be passed over if
the writer had not made clear the point on which, as he rightly
perceives, the whole must rest.” J. H. Muirhead.
+ − =Hibbert. J.= 6: 207. O. ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Difficult in expression and intellectually confused as the work is,
its general aim and method as well as its philosophical affiliations
may yet be detected.”
− =Nation.= 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Regard for a rigorously clear form of exposition would have resulted
in the simplification of many passages as well as the elimination of
numerous repetitions. The author also has a tendency to construct for
himself an elaborate terminology quite his own, and to employ unusual
words when those of more general acceptance among philosophical
writers would often have served his purpose equally well. These
defects are the more to be regretted, as Dr. Laurie, at his best, is
the master of a style which is clear, forceful, and not wanting in a
note of distinction.” Walter G. Everett.
− + =Philos. R.= 16: 639. N. ’07. 2370w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It is by no means easy reading, but it will reward a careful study.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 83. Ja. 19, ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=La Villeniere, Toussaint-Ambrose Talour de la Cartrie, comte de.=
Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F: Masson, and
appendices and notes by Pierre Amedee Pichot. *$5 Lane.
W 6–336.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Cartrie’s narrative is thrilling; M. Pichot’s editing almost perfect;
and Mr. Lane’s bookmaking very attractive.” G: M. Dutcher.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 376. Ja. ’07. 600w.
“Certainly M. Pichot’s distinguished success in discovering the
identity of the Count de Cartrie, and in tracing his family history,
is a very pretty piece of highly skilled detective work.” S. M.
Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 492. O. ’07. 370w.
“Though of no particular historical value, sheds a good deal of light
on the condition of provincial France during the months of the
Terror.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 3330w.
=Lavis, Fred.= Railroad location, surveys and estimates. *$3. Clark, M.
C.
6–34656.
A work that combines detailed instruction on modern American methods
of location with data on the estimating of quantities and unit prices.
* * * * *
“Despite the reviewer’s criticism of some of the author’s methods, yet
he quite agrees with the author that the method of location advocated
by him is most thorough and up-to-date, and the best practice. The
book is comprehensive, is an excellent epitome of good modern
practice, and well adapted to the purposes for which it was designed.”
M. P. Paret.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 81. Ja. 17, ’07. 2560w.
“After the teacher has given us what he can out of his study-room,
then the young engineer will turn to such books as this one, gaining
much information and getting by proxy valuable experience which,
without such a book, would cost him much time and pains to acquire.
The railroad engineers will appreciate this book and feel thankful to
its author.” Willard Beahan.
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 174. Ap. ’07. 1950w.
=Lawrence, C. E.= Pilgrimage. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Peruel, an angel of the army of the lost, seeks reentrance into
heaven. Being given a chance, through the influence of Azrael, he
becomes incarnate as a foundling baby in a country called Argovie.
There he grows up as Luke, swineherd to the monastery of St. Donstan,
where the situation between some of the friars vividly recalls
Browning’s ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister.’ The entire book is
devoted to Luke’s spiritual struggles, his persecution by bigoted
monks, by outlaws, and men at arms.... He ends, triumphant, a leper in
a lazar house.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Mr. Lawrence has no quaint humour, no impassioned sincerity, no
superb poetry, that can do justice to such an idea. His book is little
more than pleasantly sentimental; there is no backbone of earnest or
new thought.”
− =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
“His present work, we fear, is too shadowy; too remote from
experience, and too ethereal.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 170w.
=Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w.
“The story is written with unusual delicacy of touch and with a
knowledge of human nature that considering the spiritual quality of
the tale, is somewhat surprising.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Sat. R.= 104: 117. Jl. 27, ’07. 180w.
=Lawrence, Sir Thomas.= Sir Thomas Lawrence’s letter-bag; ed. by G. S.
Layard. *$4. Longmans.
7–28948.
Letters collected from Sir Thomas Lawrence’s voluminous correspondence
which “correct and proper” epistles that they are and having little to
do with his love affairs, tend to banish from the reader’s mind the
story of the artist’s unhappy relations with Mrs. Siddons’ two
daughters.
* * * * *
“In these letters there is a good deal that is valuable as well as
interesting.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 656. D. 29, ’06. 1090w.
“This volume does not make material additions to the known
circumstance of Lawrence’s life as set forth in Williams’s ponderous
biography, but it is undeniably interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 649. N. 24. 1510w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 280w.
“This volume contains much new and interesting personal information
about the great English painter.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 240w.
“It should be added that the illustrations are excellent and well
chosen, and that the ‘Recollections’ by Miss Croft, who was an
intimate friend of the painter for many years, are a very interesting
addition to the book.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 1150w.
“A more delightful volume than Mr. Layard’s it would be hard to find.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 560w.
“We do not relish Mr. Layard’s literary style. It is vehement and
familiar. Nor are the letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence pleasing, as
letters. They are dry and formal and generally ungrammatical and
obscure. The facts of the great artist’s life as exhibited in the
letters are however interesting enough.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 177. F. 9. ’07. 1510w.
“With the material at his command, Mr. Layard might have produced a
satisfactory biography. He has been content to give us this material
(or a part of it) instead of the finished work.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 458. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w.
=Lawson, Thomas W.= Friday the 13th. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–8213.
The spirit of frenzied finance hovers over this tale in which figure a
proud ex-governor of Virginia, who loses in a speculation game carried
on with trust funds, a loyal daughter, and a hero who plays the stock
market to retrieve the Virginian’s fortune. “It may be characterized
as a nightmare of love and stock gambling, wherein the ‘System’ shakes
its gory locks and brandishes a handful of bloodstained razors,
stalking the while prodigious over the necks of its prostrate
victims.” (N. Y. Times.) “What Mr. Lawson attempts to do is to show
the degrading effect of speculation upon character.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The author fails to convince us that his theory is without flaw, or
that it could be depended upon in practice, to produce the results
which he desires.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 140w.
“A crude, shrieking dime novel is this story, and therefore not likely
to be without its host of readers. It is an incendiary book as well.”
− =Ind.= 62: 798. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.
“The reader has an uncomfortable impression of a stuffed dragon and a
stage St. George. But there are stirring incidents in the book, many
pieces of lurid description, and not a little moralizing.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w.
“The delineation of character requires more literary art than Mr.
Lawson, with all his red-hot, hyphenated adjectives, can show, and as
for his plot, it steadily thins instead of thickens. Of course
everyone that has been within a mile of Trinity church knows that the
book, as a picture of Wall Street life and methods, is absurd.”
− =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 410w.
“The moral was Mr. Lawson’s first thought, perhaps, but the book shows
him as a sentimentalist of the deepest dye. He quite loses in the
depth of that sentiment sight of the fashion in which his moral turns
and rends his own chosen personages and protagonists of the tragedy of
greed.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 880w.
=Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Lawson is another offensive partisan in literature—or perhaps I
had better say fiction. It’s a poor novel.” Vernon Atwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 90w.
“We are certain that such a novel as ‘Friday the 13th’ will do little
or nothing to cure the evil of stock-gambling. None of Mr. Lawson’s
characters—if indeed they deserve the name, for they are merely
puppets—are lovely or lovable.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 497. Ap. 20, ’07. 750w.
=Lawton, Frederick.= Life and work of Auguste Rodin. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–13425.
A “life” made authoritative and significant through M. Rodin’s
personal assistance. “From first-hand sources and with infinite pains,
Mr. Lawton has compiled a connected account of Rodin’s career which is
vastly more valuable as a document than as an interpretation.”
(Putnam’s.) “Stress, strain, and struggle have been from first to last
the dominant characteristics of the life of a man who stands almost
alone amongst his contemporaries as a realistic exponent of plastic
art, and who in spite of the great value of everything from his
hand ... is not even now in what can be called easy circumstances.”
(Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“Viewed in the most favourable light it is a useful compilation and
gathering together of scattered fragments of criticism and biography
emanating from more competent pens. It has, consequently, some value
as a work of reference, more especially to the student who is
conversant with Mr. Lawton’s sources of information. A more favourable
opinion of the author would have been created were these sources more
clearly acknowledged. As criticism, his book cannot have, even for the
general reader, more than a slight, and generally borrowed value.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 38. Ja. 12, ’07. 900w.
“The biographer is too near his subject to see him in true relation
with the rest of the world, and the book, pitched on a note of
monotonous laudation, makes small attempt at a balanced judgment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 172. F. 9. 2630w.
“Mr. Lawton’s well-illustrated volume is a work of close and cogent
reasoning, eminently fair and candid, and must promote a better
understanding of the relative positions of representatives of the
plastic art on questions which seem to involve serious but not
necessarily irreconcilable antagonism.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 420w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 164. Ap. ’07. 210w.
“His biographer ... after a sufficiently entertaining yet exhaustive
description of the man and his work, leaves us in considerable doubt
whether Pheidias or Praxiteles or Michael Angelo all together could
bulk as large and satisfy the soul of the esthete as well as the
author of ‘Le Penseur.’” Charles de Kay.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 2360w.
“Though possessing neither psychological penetration nor literary
distinction, the book, because of its size and general sincerity of
purpose, ranks as one of the most important studies yet published on
the solitary plastic Titan of the day.” Christian Brinton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 220w.
* =Layard, George Somes.= Shirley Brooks of ‘Punch;’ his life, letters
and diaries. **$3.50. Holt.
A rather voluminous biography of a London journalist written over
thirty years after his death. It is written from the memorials that he
left of himself in his own letters, diaries and journals.
* * * * *
“The biographer is unnecessarily outspoken at the expense of his
subject.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 680. N. 30. 880w.
“It is so painstaking, its intentions are so honourable, and yet it is
impossible conscientiously to say that more than one-tenth of its
pages are necessary or, indeed, ordinarily readable. Technically the
book is good, for Mr. Layard has a pleasant easy style; but a
biographer’s style is nothing if his judgment is not sound, and in the
disproportion of this work we find the gravest reason to doubt the
soundness of Mr. Layard’s.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 355. N. 22, ’07. 1350w.
“Mr. Layard’s volume was very well worth making.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 1520w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian
church. 3d ed. 2v. *$5. Macmillan.
7–37256.
Originally published in 1867 this work has come to its third edition
which includes additions and changes. “The futility of a fifteen
centuries’ struggle against the nature of things appears throughout
the narrative, and is emphasized by the scandalous conditions reported
in Italy and in Latin America during the latter part of the nineteenth
century. Throughout all these centuries the church has been more
tolerant of concubinage than of marriage among her clergy.... The
republication of this monumental work is timely for the new crisis
which the apparent irreformability of the Vatican seems to be bringing
on.”
* * * * *
“The revision for the new edition has not been so thorough as the
subject deserves. The proof-reading is not quite up to Mr. Lea’s high
standard. It is a pity that references are still given to antiquated
collections ... in cases where the texts cited are to be found in more
correct and more accessible modern editions.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 380w.
“Scholars are already acquainted with the earlier editions, and will
welcome their enlargement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 290w.
“It is non-controversial history, content with a record of facts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 360w.
“It is an accurate and exhaustive account of a clearly defined object,
and well merits the place which is commonly assigned to it among
standard authorities.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 366. S. 21, ’07. 1260w.
“Dr. Lea’s reputation for impartiality and a judicial temper, needed
in this as much as in any subject, stands high, and the reader will
find that it is not undeserved.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 60w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of the Inquisition of Spain. 4v. ea.
**$2.50. Macmillan.
6–2996.
=v. 3.= The first two chapters of Mr. Lea’s third volume are upon
“‘Torture’ and ‘The trial’ and complete his study of the practice of
the Inquisition; five others, beginning with ‘The sentence’ and ending
with ‘The auto de fé,’ cover what he has to tell us of its
punishments; and the closing four, on ‘Jews,’ ‘Moriscos,’
‘Protestantism,’ and ‘Censorship,’ open that survey of its spheres of
action which is to fill also most of his final volume.”—Am. Hist. R.
=v. 4.= The author’s study of the Inquisition, brought to a close in
this volume, results in the conclusion “that its work was almost
wholly evil, and that, through reflex action, the persecutor suffered
along with the persecuted.” The volume deals with curious phases of
doctrine and superstition prevalent at that time, such as sorcery and
the occult arts, witchcraft, Jansenism and the varied political and
social conditions which fostered not only the Inquisition itself but
the tendencies that it was intended to combat.
* * * * *
Reviewed by George L. Burr.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 359. Ja. ’07. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by George L. Burr.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 625. Ap. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by Franklin Johnson.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 342. Ap. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The ripe work of a great scholar, acknowledged to be the greatest
living authority in his field—the history of the inquisition.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“To say that he has written the best book on the subject is scarcely
to convey an adequate idea of its merit, for there is really no book
that deserves to be compared with it.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 127. F. 2. 1280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Written in the impartial spirit characteristic of the author’s
earlier publications, this is the crowning achievement in the career
of the octogenarian who is generally recognized on the continent as
second to no other American historian.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 496. F. 28, ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“No other work of the year approaches this in significance, altho in
the general field of European history there have been some notable
contributions.”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 1231. N. 21, ’97. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The author keeps the larger aspects of the subject well in mind, and
is not afraid to generalize at the proper time, but he is in accord
with the recent tendencies in institutional study in striving to be as
concrete as possible.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 455. My. 11, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“In substance, as we have seen, it is almost immaculate. It is
complete, accurate, impartial. But its form leaves much to be desired,
Mr. Lea seems to have almost gone out of his way to avoid making his
history ‘interesting’ by vivid presentation or captivating style.”
Joseph Jacobs.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 693. N. 2, ’07. 2390w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“There can be no doubt as to Mr. Lea’s views, but he does not write as
a partisan.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Leach, Henry=, ed. Great golfers in the making, by thirty-four famous
players. **$2.50. Jacobs.
A group of autobiographical sketches. “The stories are nearly all on
one plan: Where I was born; when I got my first club; how I learned
the game; where I won my first championship. Almost no direct
instruction is given but the theory of the book appears to be that
golf fulfills the Arabian proverb that the fig-tree, looking on the
fig-tree, becometh fruitful.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 325. O. 10, ’07. 90w.
“Well edited book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
“The egoism is frank and ingenuous, that is what the editor no doubt
wanted, but it is in almost every case quite free from any silly
affectation or any outrageous claims on behalf of the game.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 5. My. 4, ’07. 330w.
“A golfer, whether good or bad, will find this volume interesting, and
it is at least possible that he may learn something from it”
+ =Spec.= 98: 259. F. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Leage, Richard W.= Roman private law, founded on the “Institutes” of
Gaius and Justinian. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–35562.
The book aims “to give as simply as possible the subject matter of the
Institutes of Gaius and Justinian.” This the author does “not by
translating or commenting on the original texts, but by describing
clearly and concisely the substance of the law revealed to us by those
texts. The historical point of view is omitted, except so far as it is
necessarily involved in recording the fact (e. g.) that the forms of
execution under the Antonines were different from those employed under
Justinian.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The book falls between two stools. It is not a simple digest of the
Institutes, nor is it a proper critical treatment of the subject. Many
of the sections show considerable power of lucid exposition, notably
that on servitudes, and again that on legacies and that on dos. There
is a good summary of the slave’s position in the matter of contract.
But it is a pity that an elementary work should contain so many
mistakes, and it is not altogether desirable that a work, professedly
of that particular character, should now and again, on no apparent
principle, give a cursory account of what requires deeper treatment.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 131. Ag. 11, ’06. 1190w.
“The chief objection which can be taken to the author’s treatment of
the subject is that it is not sufficiently Roman. The author has, we
think, followed Maine a little too blindly in several instances.
Despite these blemishes however, the book is, in our view, a great
advance on any previous work of the same character written for the
student, and should prove of considerable utility to him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 410w.
“Mr. Leage’s attempt may be said to be a thoroughly successful one. He
has stated clearly and simply the law of the Institutes, avoiding
controversy and showing good judgment where the evidence is
conflicting. A few passages will need revision in a second edition,
which will no doubt soon be called for.” H. Bd.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 192. Ja. ’07. 520w.
“The work is admirably done, and should prove useful, not only to
elementary students, but to anyone who wishes to be saved the trouble
of referring to the original Institutes.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 150w.
“It will serve admirably for reading with the various titles of the
Institutes either as introduction or review; and we do not suppose
that without such aid even Roman law students found themselves equal
to the bare texts, much less English students.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 764. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“A non-legal reader, if he is interested in historical and social
questions, will find it full of noteworthy matter.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w.
=Leblanc, Maurice.= Exploits of Arsène Lupin; tr. by A. Teixeira De
Mattos. †$1.28. Harper.
7–31976.
Arsène Lupin is a gentleman burglar whose mind, cunning, gracious
manners and clever histrionic powers are all employed in paving an
artistic way for the trickery of his profession. Followed out into
mid-ocean by a wireless message, his disguise wards off suspicion, and
even while crossing he steals money and jewels and tucks them away in
the very kodak that aids him in his love making with the girl whose
aunt he robs; Lupin is his own narrator, and occasionally in whisking
about to an objective point of view he tracks himself to cover with
the reader eager in pursuit.
* * * * *
“The stories, aside from the unaccountable manner of their unfolding,
are of uneven merit, but some are capital.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 280w.
“His adventures are thrillingly and gracefully told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book is lively and witty in the French manner, and the courteous
trial of wits between Arsène and Sherlock Holmes at the end is most
impressive.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 60w.
=Le Bon, Gustave.= Evolution of matter; tr. from the 3d French ed. with
introd. and notes by F. Legge. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–38563.
A translation of the third French edition by Mr. Legge who stands “as
sponsor for the recognition by scientific experts in Europe, England
and America of the value of Dr. Le Bon’s experiments and their
reception in various degrees of the soundness of his theories.” (Sat.
R.)
* * * * *
“We may say, then, that readers who, without being scientific experts,
wish to inform themselves of the latest developments of physical
science may safely trust themselves to the guidance of this book. It
has the prestige on which the general reader must rely; and it is as
fascinating for its literary qualities as for its combination of
marvellous facts and bold speculation and suggestion.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 580w.
“In spite of the faults upon which we have commented, the present book
is one of widespread interest. The translation here given is adequate,
inasmuch as it renders, for the most part into readable English, the
meaning, and—in some cases only too faithfully—the style of the
author. But it has been very badly prepared for the press, and the
misprints are a great deal more frequent in it than they should be.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 200. F. 16. 1620w.
=Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 340w.
“A translation of this work ... was very much to be desired, for it
would be hard to conceive any reading more fascinating.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 209. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
=Le Braz, Anatole.= Land of pardons; tr. by Francis M. Gostling. *$2.
Macmillan.
6–46329.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07.
=Le Dantec, Felix Alexandre.= Nature and origin of life, in the light of
new knowledge. *$2. Barnes.
W 7–76.
“The plan of Professor Le Dantec’s book is admirably adapted for the
amateur student of science, all technical terms being explained in
simple language. The subjects are divided as follows: The objective
study of natural bodies; analysis of natural and vital phenomena;
decomposition into functions; agreement of Darwin’s and Lamarck’s
systems; phenomena, evolution, and bipolarity of living and not living
matter; formation of species and appearance of life. Illustrations in
diagram accompany the volume.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“M. Le Dantec’s book is for the most part a superficial survey of the
present situation as he himself appears to see it.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 944. S. 28, ’07. 1460w.
Reviewed by Raymond Pearl.
− =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Life is chemism, says he. And he says it in the book before us
lucidly, sparklingly, positively—but not convincingly.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 480w.
“Written in a clear simple style, it makes plain to the understanding
of the general reader one of the most fascinating theories of recent
science.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 560w.
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 490w.
“The volume is worthy of philosophical consideration as advocating an
unproved possibility, but the ‘light of new knowledge’ will have to
become much brighter than at present before one can pencil q. e. d. on
the margins of many of the pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 169. Ag. 22, ’07. 290w.
“With a humour which we appreciate he has entirely shirked the
question of _origin_, only referring to it in a casual, half-hearted
sort of way on the last page.” J. A. T.
− =Nature.= 76: 2. My. 2, ’07. 720w.
“The mechanical processes that build up and sustain living bodies are
exhibited in the present volume with remarkable clearness and
completeness. On this side of the subject given in its title it is all
that could be desired.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 437. Je. 22, ’07. 310w.
=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.= Soul’s progress, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–46753.
“The titular piece in his volume is a lyric sequence of some forty
pages—the old poetic wayfaring of the ‘soul’ through the dubious
experiences of life to the ‘higher optimism.’” (Dial.) The remaining
poems reflect equally plainly “the elevated spirit in which he accepts
the call to poetry.”
* * * * *
“Technically there is little fault to find except in the case of the
blank verse, which is not successful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 319. Mr. 16. 280w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 140w.
“There is an engaging fervor in the spirit of his work. Embodied as it
is in clear and fluent verse, with an unusual melody of vowelsound, it
makes a gently insistent appeal, not unlike that to be felt in certain
pieces of Longfellow’s.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 270w.
“Singularly engaging.... ‘The soul’s progress,’ with its fine, high
seriousness of tone and intention, its evidences of an ardent
enthusiasm for the traditional ideals of English verse, and its frank,
youthful assumption of an interest on the part of the world in the
motions of a soul newly awakened to the universality of its own
individual life.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 650w.
“In a pleasing variety of metrical forms, and with sincere poetical
feeling, this vision of advancing spiritual growth through beauty and
truth is presented simply and clearly.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= Voice of the machines; an introduction to the
twentieth century. $1.25. Mount Tom press, Northampton, Mass.
6–46754.
Since this is an age of machines, the author feels that we must learn
to see in this machinery, poetry, religion, love, liberty and
immortality. He puts forth this necessity in chapters entitled The men
behind the machines, The language of machines, The machines as poets,
The ideas behind the machines.
* * * * *
“Some passages go a step beyond the sublime and some of the epigrams
miss fire, but it is so encouraging to find a man who can recognize
contemporaneous poetry that we are not inclined to be critical.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 130w.
“At least he is as eloquent about machinery as the author of Job about
Leviathan, and it is impossible not to approve his eloquence, whatever
reservations one may have about his philosophy.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 490w.
=Yale R.= 16: 109. My. ’07, 110w.
* =Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of
Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–32577.
A reprint in book form of a series of papers on Ibsen published a year
ago in Putnam’s monthly. Her discussion is devoted principally to the
symbolism in the Ibsen drama. “Many essayists before her have probed,
to their own satisfaction, and proclaimed the meaning of many of his
alleged mysteries, and her contention is that each of the social plays
is constructed around one central symbol, a knowledge of which is
essential to a proper understanding of the work. Thus the Tarantelle
is the key to ‘A doll’s house,’ the pistol to ‘Hedda Gabler,’ and
Eyolf and his crutch to ‘Little Eyolf.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It might be dismissed with brief mention—for it has nothing new or
significant to say in the way of either criticism or interpretation—if
it were not so entirely representative of the attitude of a large
class of professed Ibsen worshippers, who have more enthusiasm than
discrimination.”
− =Nation.= 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Lee, John.= Religious liberty in South America, with special reference
to recent legislation in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia; with an introd. by
Bishop John H. Vincent. *$1.25. West. Meth. bk.
7–11041.
In the spirit of broad religious tolerance, the author traces the
movement for religious liberty in the South American republics of
Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
* * * * *
“The volume points out flagrant conditions and aims to create a
sentiment against existing religious intolerance. It is of special
interest to students of religious social and political conditions, and
from either of these standpoints is scientific.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 164. Jl. ’07. 290w.
“Dr. Lee, we repeat, has done a good service in publishing this book;
and if it were read by American Catholics as well as by Protestants,
the world would be the better for it. It is to be regretted that the
author has once or twice slipped into an expression which is
unnecessarily bitter, and, perhaps, even unjust. Neither would the
volume have suffered, if an occasional bit of padding had been left
out.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 882. O. 10, ’07. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 50w.
=Lee, Marian, pseud.= See =Comstock, Anna Botsford=.
=Lee, Sidney.= Shakespeare and the modern stage, with other essays.
**$2. Scribner.
6–38524.
“Although it is composed of papers written at different times and for
various occasions, and although it breaks into three divisions, the
group already cited, contributions to historical and biographical
Shakespeareana, and Shakespearean essays properly so called, the
volume possesses more unity than such collections of occasional
addresses and articles are wont to have.”—Forum.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“Mr. Lee writes here rather as a ‘popularizer’ than an expert, but his
work has none of the slipshod rhetoric of the increasing crowd who
demand the public favour.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1060w.
“It was a happy thought of Mr. Lee’s to write a paper on ‘Pepys and
Shakespeare,’ and this, no doubt, many readers will find the most
amusing thing in the volume.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 220. Ap. 1, ’07. 1090w.
“Mr. Lee’s latest contribution to Shakespearean literature is based,
as all his other books are, upon a scholarship that is remarkably
solid and sane. Hence it is sure to appeal to the limited audience
interested in English and, particularly, in Shakespearean studies.” W.
P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 376. Ja. ’07. 1720w.
“These are good, sound papers, worth preserving; and if we sometimes
wish that the ‘intention’ were kept a little more ‘private’ ... it is
an intention in which all may join.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 385. D. 14, ’06. 1160w.
“Among the most interesting papers in Mr. Lee’s volumes are those on
Shakespere’s philosophy, oral traditions, and the perils of
unscientific research. There is not a dull page in the book.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1160w.
“Though another student of the stage may be moved to dispute an
occasional opinion of Mr. Lee’s, no student of the stage can fail to
feel respect for the solid scholarship which sustains these collected
essays and for the sobriety and sanity which is visible in whatever
Mr. Lee writes.” Brander Matthews.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 900w.
“One of his strongest claims to attention is the fact that he has
rigorously held the speculative impulse in check, and has brought to
the study of the dramatist, not only as much knowledge as any man of
his time, but robust common sense.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 250w.
“In his new volume of essays on Shakespearean subjects he is always
interesting, and instructive, but he is very rarely sympathetic. Mr.
Lee’s essays, however, have a great deal more in them than an
occasional unpleasant hardness of tone. They are full of matter,
lucidly arranged and carefully substantiated. They are serious and
scholarly contributions to the literature of Shakespearean criticism.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 887. D. 1, ’06. 2190w.
=Lee, Sidney.= Stratford-on-Avon: from the earliest times to the death
of Shakespeare; il. by Herbert Railton. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“Among the mass of modern Shakespeariana which grows vaster with every
publishing season, it is a relief to find one book on Stratford that
deals with the town for its own rather than for the great poet’s sake.
This picturesque account of Stratford’s early history,—its old markets
and fairs, its nobility, its guild, its village sports and
industries,—serves not only to make a setting for the life of
Shakespeare, but also to bring out much that, having nothing to do
with him, is nevertheless quaint and characteristic.”—Dial.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07.
“Mr. Lee has revised his text to bring it strictly up to date, and has
added considerable information which historical researches since 1890
have brought to light.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 200w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 185. D. ’06. 190w.
“The book deserves to be read not only as being supplementary of Mr.
Lee’s biography of the poet, but also in connection with George
Brandes’s ‘Life of Shakespeare,’ whose bold theories become more
interesting in the comparison.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 94. D. 15, ’06. 350w.
“The book is written with the seriousness and caution that are
characteristic of all Mr. Lee’s work, and is in all cases based on
documents.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 160w.
“It is accurate, entertaining and handsomely illustrated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Lees, Dorothy Neville.= Scenes and shrines in Tuscany. *$1.25. Dutton.
Twenty-three sketches of Tuscan scenes and customs, written while the
author was connected with an Italian family of the upper class. “To
this family belongs her little six-year-old friend, Mafalda, who, with
her big sister, Francesca, and the contadini on the villa estate, form
a group as interesting as if they were characters in a story.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“We advise every lover of Italy to read ‘Scenes and shrines in
Tuscany.’ It is a careful and delightful piece of work, marred by few
errors of taste or fact.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 533. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.
“Episodes in the daily life of the people, like the Harvest, the
Vintage, and All Souls’ day in Florence, are described with knowledge
and insight. We advise even those to whom a sojourn in Tuscany is a
future experience to read this book.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 480w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 360w.
=Lefevre, Edwin.= Sampson Rock of Wall street. †$1.50. Harper.
7–8216.
The vast centripetal action of all the issues that make toward the
center of a big New York stock-brokerage office shows the author’s
complete understanding of the “technique of speculation.” The son of a
magnate of finance deplores the methods by which his father aims to
get possession of the Virginia central railroad, and plans to outwit
him. In so doing he plays a Wall street game that lacks neither
characters nor situation to make it realistic.
* * * * *
“Spirited and full of incident. Will probably be popular with men.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 230w.
“It makes a fairly interesting story upon a subject that is
essentially devoid of any vital human interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Mr. Lefevre’s growth in his art is constant.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 160w.
“It is a strong and interesting characterization of a modern money
king that Mr. Lefevre has given us.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.
“Is entirely readable. To the diligent reader the story may almost be
recommended as a hand-book and ready reference guide to speculation.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 210. F. 28, ’07. 190w.
“Here is undoubtedly a novel with a purpose—a didactic purpose—a
purpose, too, which will not meet with everybody’s approval.
Fortunately the author as the thing progressed and his scent grew
warm, almost lost sight of his own purpose in his own interest in the
story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 115. F. 23, ’07. 660w.
“It was a bold thing to base a novel so exclusively on financial
battling—for the love story is extremely slight. One feels that the
author has succeeded by sheer weight of ability, but the experiment is
one not to be easily repeated.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.
“Is convincingly realistic.” Vernon Atwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 120w.
“A dreary epic of barter in railway shares, comparing unfavorably with
his brisk short stories.”
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w.
=Leffler, Burton R.= Elastic arch, with special reference to the
reinforced concrete arch. $1. Holt.
6–45715.
A work which contains among new features a deduction of the subject
from one simple equation, graphic application of the easy method of
drawing the closing line of the equilibrium polygon, a correct and
simple method of designing a reenforced concrete section for combined
thrust and movement, and a graphical analysis of an arch for oblique
forces.
* * * * *
“We can commend the book only to the careful and intelligent reader.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 320w.
* =Leger, Jacques Nicholas.= Haiti: her history and her detractors. *$3.
Neale.
7–25045.
The author who is Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary of
Haiti in the United States addresses himself especially to students of
international affairs and political history and to the reader of
sociological literature. The first part deals with the history of the
island from before its discovery by Columbus to the election of
General Nord Alexis to the presidency; the second, with the natural
conditions of the country, the general organization, the customs and
manners of the people, and their continued efforts to better their
condition.
=Legge, Ronald.= Admirable Davis. $1.50. Cassell.
“‘The admirable Davis’ is the valet of a member of the British foreign
office who is sent to an Eastern potentate with an important treaty.
The valet is intimately connected with his master’s adventures, for
which the latter is mostly to blame. The valet, in the end, sets
things to rights.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A crude product on the popular model of ‘The prisoner of Zenda.’”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 438. O. 12. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
* =Legler, Henry Edward.= Poe’s Raven: its origin and genesis: a
compilation and a survey. pa. bds. $3. Philosopher press.
A good deal of interesting material concerning “The raven” has been
collected for this volume. Mr. Legler discusses its genesis and the
circumstances attending the writing and publishing of the poem; gives
the alleged sources of “The raven” including “To Allegra Florence in
heaven,” a chapter from “Barnaby Rudge,” “Lady Geraldine’s courtship,”
“Clare,” “The rime of the ancient mariner,” “The funiao,” and “The
parrot;” discusses the manuscript of “The raven” and adds
bibliographical notes.
=Leigh, Oliver.= Edgar Allan Poe: the man, the master, the martyr.
*$1.25. Morris.
6–32457.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
− =Acad.= 71: 617. D. 15, ’06. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 29. Ja. 19, ’07. 140w.
=Leighton, Joseph Alexander.= Jesus Christ and the civilization of
to-day: the ethical teaching of Jesus considered in its bearings on the
moral foundations of modern culture. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–18115.
A practical rather than technical consideration of the ethical
teachings of Jesus Christ in their bearings on the spiritual life of
civilization, in which no account is taken of the external events of
Christ’s life or of his deeds further than necessary for an
interpretation of the meaning and application of his teaching. It
addresses all “intelligent persons who are honestly and open-mindedly
seeking to determine the relation of the words of the Great Master of
Life and Religion to their own lives and to the complex and confused
life of contemporary civilization.”
* * * * *
“A careful study”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 20w.
=Ind.= 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 440w.
“Professor Leighton would seem to be more at home in the field of
ethics than in matters of New Testament criticism. One can but wish
him well in his doctrine of the freedom of the individual and victory
over the forces of time, but it must be said that a more critical
attitude toward early Christian traditions would have added not a
little to the soundness of his results.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 119. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 766. Ag. 10, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 80w.
* =Lemaitre, Jules.= Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Mme. Ch. Bigot. **$2.
McClure.
In which M. Lemaitre, “the most clear-sighted and independent of
critics” deals with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s influence on the history
of humanity. He shows what propaganda there are in the “Contrat
social,” “La nouvelle Heloïse,” and “Emile,” that helped to
precipitate the revolution.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Is a brilliant picture, painted with the sympathy and the justice of
a true artist.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 290w.
=Lenotre, Gosselin.= Flight of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French by
Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–28490.
The incidents of the flight of Marie Antoinette to Varennes, where she
is overtaken and compelled to return a prisoner flash before us with
panoramic swiftness and dramatic intensity. She is the one strong
figure amid the deplorable weakness of husband, children and
dependents, and “wherever she passes” strikes “the note of something
great, of something gracious, whimsical, and sweet.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“M. Lenôtre’s work is one of minute research, in which no detail is
neglected, and conjecture is never allowed to masquerade as fact.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 379. Mr. 30. 520w.
Reviewed by S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 491. O. ’07. 300w.
“He has used the historical method as severely in determining each
detail of the story as if he were engaged on a far duller task. The
fulness and exactness of the author’s information has not impaired his
sense of the requirements of the story.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 141. Mr. 1, ’07. 1230w.
“It is a scholarly and documented account of a striking episode, told
in an entertaining fashion.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 971. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 310w.
“We have no words in which to criticize this book. If any one who
takes it up can lay it down ere the last page is turned he may be calm
enough to criticize. The whole volume is not only alive, it is on
fire.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1970w.
“The skillful use he makes of this material, balancing probabilities
against probabilities, checking one document by another, and always
picking out with unerring finger the convincing, essential fact, is as
striking as the intensity of life which he manages to give to his
revival of the past.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 490w.
“The volume may have a useful place among historical documents, but it
will be found tedious and almost trivial in its exhaustiveness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.
“There was never another story like this, and told as it is here it
wrings the heart.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 474. Jl. ’07. 540w.
“He has acquired the requisite knowledge; he is endowed with a
delicate and vivid imagination; he has learned how to construct a
story, and, more difficult still, he can tell the story he has
constructed. The book is both easy and pleasant to read in its English
dress, and nothing better can be said of a translation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 241. F. 23, ’07. 1630w.
“One forgets that the English book is a translation, and there can be
no higher praise. No one who cares to study the French revolution at
all, and no one who loves a true story uncommonly well told, including
many interesting characters impossible to be mentioned here, should
neglect to read this book.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 756. N. 17, ’06. 1800w.
=Lenotre, Gosselin.= Last days of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French
by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.
Not a life of Marie Antoinette but a collection of narratives, written
by eyewitnesses, of the life of the royal family from their
imprisonment in the Temple to the execution of the unfortunate queen.
* * * * *
“The book is of poignant interest, and its interest is heightened by
the illustrations.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 87. N. 2, ’07. 890w.
“He has performed a task needing not only research, but restraint, so
that every reader can know the truth and be his own interpreter.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 720w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Certainly no one can deny that the pathos of these narratives is
deep, and exceeds that of any novel, since they deal with real
characters and events.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. O. 19, ’07. 1520w.
“Intensely interesting, if very painful, book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 870. N. 30, ’07. 1270w.
=Leonard, Arthur Glyn.= Lower Niger and its tribes. *$4. Macmillan.
7–11550.
“The book opens with a description of the physical features of the
country, the tribes inhabiting the various divisions, and of the local
traditions, ... Then come chapters on the philosophy of the people as
expressed in certain words in their vocabulary, names, proverbs, and
fables. The third division of the volume is devoted to a discussion of
the ‘natural’ religion of the various tribes dealt with.... Other
chapters take up emblemism, ceremonials, and practices of Naturalism,
etc.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The defect of his book is its verbal exuberance, and its overflow of
theories about the origin of religion.” Andrew Lang.
+ − =Acad.= 71: 623. D. 22, ’06. 1730w.
“Whilst Mr. Dennett’s book suffers from too little synthesis, Major
Leonard’s suffers from too much. His facts, not his theories, will be
valued most by the expert. A rich quarry, but the stone that is to
serve for building purposes must be selected with some care.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 240w.
“Behind his self-complacency and occasional arrogance there is
evidence of real sympathy and insight.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 905. D. 29, ’06. 290w.
=Le Rossignol, James Edward.= Orthodox socialism. (Lib. of economics.)
**$1. Crowell.
7–12999.
A brief exposition and criticism of the Marxian or scientific
socialism. It is a thoroly practical treatment which defines the creed
of socialism and traces the historic rise: discusses the labor-cost
theory of value; the iron law of wages; surplus value; the use of
machinery and its effects upon skilled labor; panics, strikes, and
industrial crises; the struggle of the man with the class; and the
social revolution which has been threatened.
* * * * *
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 596. N. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Le Rossignol makes his points skillfully.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 69. Ag. 1, ’07. 190w.
“Attractively and helpfully presented.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 50w.
“His style is didactic, and his diction clear, but a confusion of
thought is often apparent.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 120w.
=Lethaby, William Richard.= Westminster abbey and the kings’ craftsmen:
a study of mediaeval building. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–19737.
Less a description of the edifice than an account of the craftsmen who
built and decorated it. “The author seeks to rebuild in our
imaginations this ‘supreme work of art’ in all its perfection of form,
its beauty of adornment, its suavity of environment, its church and
chapterhouse, its monastery and mill, its garden and farm, seated by
the side of the king’s palace on the bank of the clear-running
Thames.” (Acad.)
* * * * *
“For genuine love of the past; for unwearied study of its records and
minute observation of its example; for accurate marshalling of facts
and for incontrovertible conclusions, in support of admirable
principles, Professor Lethaby’s book deserves high commendation.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 34. Ja. 12, ’07. 1720w.
“Altogether the work is of first-rate importance—by far the most
authoritative that has yet appeared, and likely to remain so for many
years to come.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 388. Mr. 30. 1530w.
“The book is so thorough a piece of work from beginning to end that
slips are very rare. Mr. Lethaby’s fascinating book is so emphatically
a new departure that no one could have a better or more trustworthy
guide to the glorious abbey church of Westminster.” W. H. St. John
Hope.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 355. Ap. ’07. 1230w.
“The characteristic feature of this new work, the outcome of twelve
years of close research, is its recognition of the importance of
individual craftsmen in the evolution of the great abbey.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 250. My. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Lethaby has rummaged his ‘documents’ to very good effect and has
secured some valuable rays of illumination on the practical
organization of building operations.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 700w.
“Written in a style which must win readers among all who love
Westminster abbey or care to read at all, it contains a body of
research at first hand which we do not hesitate to declare unequalled
in importance by any similar publication on either side of the
channel, for the double reason that there are no such complete records
elsewhere, and no archaeologists possessing Mr. Lethaby’s combination
of qualities.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 103: 303. Mr. 9, ’07. 1670w.
“It is quite safe to say that not since Dean Stanley’s ‘Memorials’ has
a book been written on the abbey which has succeeded in conveying so
much of the fascination of its subject, and not since Sir Gilbert
Scott put together his ‘Gleanings’ has so much fresh light been thrown
on the history of the fabric and its ornaments.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 1500w.
=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by
Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.
5–17608.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The present work is a rather small volume, following the conventional
lines, clear and logical in style, but treating the subject in a very
elementary way.”
+ =Yale. R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 50w.
=Levussove, Moses Samuel.= New art of an ancient people, the work of
Ephraim Mose Lilien. *75c. Huebsch.
6–45172.
Ephraim Mose Lilien is among the younger intellectual Galician Jews
who are reflecting the race’s awakening to newer activity and larger
creative effort. Here are reproduced a dozen or so of his studies in
black and white, and Mr. Levussove points out the excellencies of
style and content as they reveal Lilien’s mastery of the technic of
composition and his understanding of Hebrew nature.
* * * * *
“The work will appeal alike to those who have an interest in the
rejuvenation of an ancient race, and to those who will be attracted by
a technique suggestive of the skill of Japanese decorators and of the
European masters of line-work.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Levussove leaves the reader not only with an understanding of the
highly poetic value of the artist’s work, but with a vivid sympathy
for the racial quality of serious aspiration, which he exemplifies.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 190w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 103. Ja. 19, ’07. 670w.
=Nation.= 84: 140. F. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Levussove entertainingly covers his subject, keeping always in
mind the fact that the awakening art spirit among the Jews is
exemplified by Lilien’s works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.
* =Lewis, Alfred Henry.= When men grew tall; or, The story of Andrew
Jackson. **$2. Appleton.
7–36233.
“Tells the story of Andrew Jackson’s career in, we conceive, precisely
the way Andrew Jackson himself would have delighted to tell it.... It
has the true Jacksonian flavor of unquenchable ardor to twist the tail
of the British lion, supreme contempt for the Spanish Dons, burning
antipathy to the ‘corrupt bargainers’ Adams and Clay—poor
‘Machiavelli’ Clay, as Mr. Lewis persists in calling him—and
unrestrained enmity for ‘serpentine’ Banker Biddle and the rest of the
money crew.”—Outlook.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“It is written in a virile, intense, vehement strain that keeps the
reader wide awake. As a ‘story’ it certainly has much to commend it,
bringing out in vivid relief some of the most dramatic episodes of
Jackson’s life, and being distinctly human from beginning to end.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= Principles of English verse. **$1.25. Holt.
6–27939.
“In the main a plea for common sense as opposed to metaphysics in the
treatment of the subject.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Many a bewildered reader of larger works will be grateful for the
breath of fresh air that comes to them from these pages.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 246. O. 16, ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lewis shies at the notion of the foot in English. If [he] could
take this one logical step, he might give us a book which would reveal
to all who care to penetrate it, the whole heart of the mystery of
English verse-rhythms.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 420. N. 15, ’06. 950w.
“Compact and easily read volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Lewis, Elizabeth.= Lorenzo of Sarzana. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
7–20618.
In Genoa, just before the plague descends upon her, is set this story
of a group of artists, studying under the old Italian Maestro in his
attic studio. A three stranded love motive tangles the plot into which
is woven a double thread of mystery in the persons of a white swathed
figure which haunts a young American art student and a demented
painter who destroys her canvases as soon as she finishes them. All
this throws a glamour over an otherwise modern romance in which a
match-making mother and a dowry hunting Italian figure conspicuously.
=Lewis, Emily Westwood.= Next door Morelands. †$1.50. Little.
7–30990.
A story for girls from twelve to sixteen which tells of the coming of
Corinne, an orphan, from France to the home of an American uncle. The
Morelands are five rollicking children, who initiate Corinne into the
mysteries of their mirth-loving circle.
=Lewis. Rev. Howell Elvet.= With Christ among the miners; incidents and
impressions of the Welsh revival. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
Devotional in its aim and compass this volume contains a series of
personal impressions and incidents of the great Welsh revival of 1904.
It reveals the hearts of the people, shows how they opened to the
coming of the Spirit, rejoices in the good results of the movement
and, to be wholly fairminded, does not overlook its shortcomings.
=Lewis, Mary Elizabeth.= Ethics of Wagner’s The ring of the Nibelung.
**$1.50. Putnam.
7–30.
In which the author recounts “every detail of the legend from which
the Trilogy is compiled and assigns to each one a definite place in an
ethical system which she conceives to have been in Wagner’s mind.” The
cycle she discovers to be “a logical and coherent ethical doctrine,”
which she regards “as presenting a panoramic picture of the evolution
of the human consciousness struggling to free itself from the
hampering conditions of self, until at last, selfless, it is lost in
the Divine Will.”
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“The author of this book has done her work carefully, so carefully
indeed that every detail is weighed and appraised at a certain value,
while in order to facilitate the analytical process the story of the
drama is told in short, bald sentences, often resembling a newspaper
report of a parliamentary debate or proceedings in the law courts.” H.
C. C.
+ − =Acad.= 72: 194. F. 23, ’07. 960w.
“She retells in prose, and it must be admitted prosaically, the
complete story of this drama of gods and men, and gives her
interpretation of its complex symbolism. She does not profess that it
is Wagner’s interpretation, and the reader will not be apt to find it
his own, but he will at least be drawn to think about it, and so, by
getting more meaning from it, he will give to the music more power.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 140w.
− + =Nation.= 84: 42. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Leyds, Willem Johannes.= First annexation of the Transvaal. *$6.30.
Wessels.
7–18148.
A work on the relations of the English and Dutch in South Africa in
which the author has prepared an indictment against Britain’s South
African policy during the past century. “He is not bitter about
England, though he is very bitter about English colonists, and cannot
mention the name of Sir Percy FitzPatrick without losing his temper.”
(Spec.)
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“In this book the author displays the same combination of smart
intelligence and rash blundering which was conspicuous during his
European mission.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 332. S. 22. 1090w.
“The tone of the book is, however, so bitter that he damages rather
than strengthens his cause.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 178. F. 21, ’07. 580w.
“The book is well-written, orderly in arrangement, adroit in argument,
and extremely readable. His narrative is too much a design in snow and
ink to convince even the ill-informed reader.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 492. O. 6, ’06. 1920w.
=Lidgett, Rev. John Scott.= Spiritual principle of the atonement: as a
satisfaction made to God for the sins of the world. 4th ed. *$1.50.
West. Meth. bk.
The twenty-seventh Fernley lecture. The editor in these ten chapters
covers all phases of the atonement, its historical causes, the
Biblical doctrine concerning it, the theology of the atonement, the
satisfaction of God, the ethical perfection of our Lord, the
relationship of our Lord to the human race, the atonement in relation
to the spiritual life of individuals and the atonement and social
progress.
* =Lighton, William Rheem.= Shadow of a great rock. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–18100.
Frontier life and the types of men whom it calls are portrayed here
true to the reckless abandon of “the formless western wilderness.”
* * * * *
“A short story—and a very ordinary, conventional short story that
might almost have appeared in any monthly magazine—and nothing more.”
− =Acad.= 73: 755. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.
“Written in a grandiose style, this story of American pioneering in
the fifties is interesting rather than remarkable.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 150. Ag. 10. 120w.