nevertheless, a good story of the winning of Nebraska in the early
fifties.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 28, ’07. 100w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Where the trail divides; with il. in colors
by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9842.
“As a result of an Indian raid, with its trail of smoking ruins and
scalped and tortured victims, only two human beings were found alive
by the rescue party in the whole devastated settlement—a white girl
baby and an Indian boy, scarcely older or larger. These two waifs are
taken in charge by Colonel Bill Lander, the cattle king, and brought
up together with the same impartial care that he would have bestowed
upon children of his own.” (Bookm.) The story mainly concerns these
two, their ill-assorted union, and an inevitable tragedy.
* * * * *
“A book that needs no borrowed glory to bolster it into notice, a book
which may well stand on its own merits, both for novelty of situation
and keen picturing of character.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 285. My. ’07. 540w.
=Lincoln, Abraham.= Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. 12v. ea. $3.75.
Tandy.
6–3554.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“This is the edition which should be selected for purchase by any
public or private library of importance on account of its completeness
and reliability.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“Altogether, this Gettysburg edition takes its place worthily among
the great editions of our statesmen.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 11 and
12.)
“These two volumes bring to an end a publication of permanent value,
not only in American political history, but to American literature.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
=Lincoln, Charles Henry.= Naval records of the American revolution,
1775–1788; prepared from the originals in the Library of Congress. $1.
Supt. of doc.
6–35020.
“More than half of this volume is occupied by a list of the bonds
filed under the letters of marque, in which are indicated all who are
concerned in the vessels, as master, bonder, owner, or witness. This
is a valuable contribution to history, as the bonds also give the
nature of the ship, and the size of crew and armament, as well as the
state to which she belonged. It will now be possible for investigators
to identify the ship, and from local records trace her
performances.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 930. Jl. ’07. 310w.
“We note some obvious misprints of names.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 330w.
=Lincoln, Charles Z.= Constitutional history of New York from the
beginning of the colonial period to the year 1905. 5v. $15. Lawyers’
co-op.
6–7387.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Expressions of his own opinion on questions of law and conduct are
rare and usually sound. There are few accessible authorities which
have not been examined and digested. The absence of cross-references
to earlier and later pages imposes much needless labor. Except in the
ease of law reports and session laws, there are hardly any citations
of the original authorities, not even of the pages of the convention
reports, from which quotations are made. The book is indispensable to
all constitutional lawyers, legislators, and statesmen in New York. It
will be the standard authority upon the subject for at least a
generation.” Roger Foster.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 392. Ja. ’07. 2370w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 180w.
=Lincoln, Joseph C.= “Old home house.” †$1.25. Barnes.
7–21534.
Eleven stories told by a longshore skipper who watched the goings-on
at “Aunt Sophrony’s wind plantation” and plied his trade of
“amputating the bank accounts of the city folks.”
* * * * *
“In these entertaining yarns Mr. Lincoln succeeds in expressing the
true salt humor of the Cape-Codder.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 235. S. 12, ’07. 160w.
“Presenting eleven of the best tales recently written by the
well-known Joseph C. Lincoln.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Joseph C. Lincoln has not yet come to the end of the fresh strain of
humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 100w.
=Lindsay, Anna R. B.= Spiritual care of a child. **30c. Crowell.
7–31179.
Some suggestive thoughts for the guidance of a child’s spiritual
growth which are based upon definite and continuous teaching. Uniform
with the “What is worth while” series.
=Lindsay, Mrs. Anna Robertson.= Warrior spirit in the republic of God.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
6–42942.
“A plea for the virile element in Christianity, which has too often
been denied an equal emphasis with the feminine.... The outlook is
comprehensive, optimistic, and martial. The conquest to be won is the
molding of the modern environment to spiritual uses. This is the point
in view throughout. Practical suggestions for all social groups show
insight, sympathy, and good sense.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 50w.
“Altogether it is a thoroughly wholesome and tonic book.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 140w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= America’s insular
possessions. 2v. $5. Winston.
7–1324.
A two-volume photogravure edition of a work devoted to America’s
island possessions. The first volume includes the Great Antilles,
Porto Rico, Guam, and Hawaii, while the second is devoted entirely to
the Philippines. The history, growth, political development,
industries, and resources of the islands are treated with little
attention to controversial questions. For which omission in the second
volume the author inserts a chapter of extracts from public addresses
of the former governor, William H. Taft.
* * * * *
“With all its possible weaknesses and omissions, from the point of
view of historical, economic and sociological science, the work is
nevertheless the most comprehensive general treatise on some of our
outlying possessions in relatively small space and for the ‘general
reader’ that exists in the English language.” Carl C. Plehn.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 179. Jl. ’07. 670w.
“In short, as to the past and present, this book is interesting and
valuable. As to the problem of the near future it is almost
voiceless.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 19, ’07. 620w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“The author’s views are frankly stated, but we see no indication that
they have led him either to misreport any facts, to omit in his report
any facts of significance, or to present the facts in false
proportions on false relations.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’07. 790w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= John Smith, gentleman
adventurer. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–29850.
Over the story of John Smith the author has thrown the glamour of
romance. He has written a historical novel in which all that is
history and all that is novel is alike familiar to our ears. It is a
tribute to this early hero which will help to keep him before a coming
generation as a man, a gentleman and an adventurer.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= Panama: the isthmus and the
canal. **$1. Winston.
6–26562.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. 07.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 157. Jl. ’07. 120w.
“Every feature of this vast undertaking is pictured in detail with
simplicity and intelligibility, and without undue argumentative
discussion. Although the book is written in topical style, an index
would enhance its usefulness.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 180w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= Philippines under Spanish
and American rules. $3. Winston.
6–44314.
In this volume “The Philippine islands are treated, descriptively,
historically, industrially, commercially, and politically, ...
Twenty-six photogravure illustrations from photographs are
given.”—Dial.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Lindsay, Thomas Martin.= History of the Reformation. 2v. ea. *$2.50.
Scribner.
6–23686.
=v. 2.= Tracts of the Reformation outside of Germany, of the
ante-pedo-baptist denominations of the period, and of the
counter-Reformation in Roman Catholicism that reached its limit in the
Council of Trent.
* * * * *
“We have dwelt too long on the defects of an excellent book; many of
them are superficial and can be easily remedied. The total impression
left by the two volumes of Principal Lindsay is very favorable; they
are the best thing we have in English on the subject. They combine
scientific worth with literary charm, and will appeal strongly not
merely to students but also to the thoughtful layman.” William Walker
Rockwell.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 874. Jl. ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“When the author works from the sources, he is able, vigorous and
stimulating, but when he trusts his general impressions, he is
sometimes liable to error. On the whole, his volume is a valuable
contribution to our knowledge of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 341. Ap. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The bias against everything Catholic both in form and spirit, and the
belief that Luther made ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ as superior to
the mediæval conception as light to darkness, is unfortunate. No
reader will be misled if he bears in mind that the writer is Principal
of the Free church college in Glasgow.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 176. Ag. 17. 860w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The heroic elements in the life of the great leader are magnified in
a way to satisfy the most devout Lutheran; while the extravagances,
inconsistencies, intolerance, and cruelties of the hero are passed
over as lightly and dealt with as apologetically as anyone could
desire. It is probable that no modern, scientific, Lutheran writer has
presented on the whole so sympathetic an account of Luther.” Albert
Henry Newman.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 394. My. ’07. 830w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is good reading; in parts, absorbing. Dr. Lindsay’s history
deserves to be widely read by ministers and theological students, who
will find it full of ethical and religious suggestions; and the swing
of its style and its subordination of the technical to the vital will
make it for the general reader the standard English work on the
subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1470. Je. 20, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Is taking its place as the standard English work on its important
theme.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“There are but few and slight blemishes in these masterly volumes.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 281. S. 20, ’07. 3100w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“It brings forth new information for many who regard themselves as
sufficiently familiar with the subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 299. Je. 8, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Linville, Henry R., and Kelly, Henry A.= Text-book in general zoology.
*$1.50. Ginn.
6–23318.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Besides being comprehensive and accurate, is readable. In place of
the old stock cuts, it has been freshly illustrated with a large
number of original drawings direct from nature.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 120w.
“The introduction to the science which they have presented seems to
us, not only interesting, but educationally wholesome.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 633. O. 25, ’06. 160w.
“This is a distinct addition to the many textbooks of general zoology
for secondary schools. The plan adopted by the authors seems not only
interesting, but educationally wholesome.” Robert W. Hegner.
+ + =School R.= 15: 233. Mr. ’07. 440w.
=Lippmann, Friedrich.= Engraving and etching. 3d ed. rev. by Dr. Max
Lehrs; tr. by Martin Hardie. *$3. Scribner.
6–33516.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Altogether the book cannot be commended too highly for its educating
value on the subject of which it treats.” Laurence Burnham.
+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 640. F. ’07. 170w.
“The translation ... is all that could be desired.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.
=Lithgow, William.= Totall discourse of the rare adventures and
painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travayles from
Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Africa.
*$3.25. Macmillan.
7–28951.
Lithgow’s work “contains many picturesque descriptions of cities and
customs as they seemed in the early seventeenth century to the eyes of
a roving Englishman. He was tortured in Spain as a spy, and thereafter
ceased his wanderings, which covered, he tells us, over 36,000 miles,
chiefly traversed on foot.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“It is a record of the most varied and often diverting character,
written with a spirit and in a style which should ensure a large sale
for the reprint before us.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 430w.
“The publishers have treated a book of great interest in their usual
sumptuous fashion.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 760w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 280w.
“The narrative is well worth reprinting in the ‘Library of travels.’”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 554. N. 3, ’06. 190w.
“His rare adventures are well worth reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 1540w.
=Littlehales, George W.= Altitude, azimuth, and geographical position;
comprising graphical tables for finding the altitude and azimuth, the
position-line, and the variations of the compass; and for identifying
observed celestial bodies, and finding the course and distance in great
circle sailing. *$25. Lippincott.
6–24890.
“An attempt to bring within the grasp of the ordinary navigating
officer those more recondite methods of his art, which, for their
complete understanding, involve a considerable knowledge of
mathematics and nautical astronomy. Great circle sailing, astronomical
determinations of the compass error, Sumner’s method for finding the
position of a ship, all involve the solution of spherical triangles,
and it is the function of the present work to substitute for the
conventional logarithmic solution of these triangles the use of
certain diagrams here published in great detail.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The labour undergone in the preparation can only be appreciated by
those used to such matters; and the result in the saving of labour and
time to practical navigators, by a graphical process easy to
understand and follow must lay them under a deep debt of gratitude to
the author. We feel sure that his method will be extensively adopted.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 74. Jl. 20. 250w.
“As respects accuracy, the charts appear adequate to all demands of
nautical practice.” George C. Comstock.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 1200w.
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 1000w.
=Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 50w.
=Livingstone, Alice.= Sealed book. $1.50. Fenno.
7–5060.
Much mystery and some adventure complicate the already tangled plot of
this story which is built upon the old melodramatic plan. The hero,
who is supposed to have attempted the murder of his father, disappears
and is thought to be dead, the beautiful heroine lives on, a society
queen accepting the attentions of the villain. Eighteen years later
the villain’s true character is exposed and it is found that the hero
and heroine have all this time been secretly married and their grown
daughter appears in time to have a love affair of her own before the
book reaches its happy ending.
* * * * *
“Usually in modern sensational literature, books are not sealed unless
they contain something of a particularly startling nature, and we
approach this one, prepared to revel in hairbreadth escapes, dark
plots, and thwarted villainy. We are not disappointed.”
− =Acad.= 71: 111. Ag. 4, ’06. 410w.
“A long story of mystery and extraordinary coincidences which is
tolerably exciting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 182. Ag. 18. 120w.
“Four [stories] are skillfully tangled together into a whole mystery
as gloomy as the old English castle of Wrendlebury Towers. And in the
end every thread is as satisfactorily untangled again as heart could
desire.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 170w.
“The interest grows more intense to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
=Lloyd, Albert B.= In dwarfland and cannibal country: a record of travel
and discovery in central Africa. *$3. Dutton.
The author is a missionary-explorer with more than ordinary zest for
thrilling adventure. This record follows his course far into the
wilderness of Central Africa to the “forest of pygmies in whom Stanley
was so much interested, and he had the best of opportunities for
studying and describing this strange nation of dwarfs, who have kept
their identity as a race from time immemorial.” (Outlook.) “With
boatmen of the cannibal Bangwa tribe he sped down the Aruwimi, and at
night in the villages saw their savage dances and the orgies of their
warriors over the kola-nut pot.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The reader who gets beyond the common place narrative and reflections
of the opening chapters will be likely to continue to the end.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 263. S. 19, ’07. 460w.
“It is rather a pity that he did not find some literary friend to edit
his book and correct his weird ideas as to the form and function of
the sentence. Otherwise his naive and straightforward style adds to
the charm of his work and makes it all the more vivid.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 1470w.
“The book is, as a personal narrative of experience, decidedly
readable, but it has the usual fault of books of this kind in that it
relates too minutely and without careful discrimination the
unimportant as well as important matters.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 971. Ag. 31, ’07. 200w.
=Lloyd, Albert B.= Uganda to Khartoum: life and adventure on the upper
Nile with pref. by Victor Buxton. *$3. Dutton.
7–35191.
An English missionary’s account of five years’ experience in the
northern provinces of the British Uganda Protectorate.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“One of the most fascinating books we have come across for a long
time. He has the art of selection. He knows how to convey a vivid
impression, and refrains from burdening the reader’s memory with
unnecessary details.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 650w.
“Alike for readers interested in missionary work in Africa, and for
those interested in it as a land of adventure, Mr. Lloyd’s book will
be satisfactory. H. E. Coblentz.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 300w.
“It is written without system or plan, and is artless and inconsequent
in its style—sometimes almost ludicrously so.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 866. Ap. 18, ’07. 500w.
“As a record of travel, sport and adventure the book has considerable
interest, and the author gives a clear idea of the customs and
superstitions of the natives.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Lloyd is a missionary and something more; he seems to blend the
qualities of a Livingstone with those of a Selous.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 250w.
=Lloyd, Henry Demarest.= Man, the social creator. **$2. Doubleday.
6–16757.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Whenever they were written, at intervals during the last ten years of
his life, it was when he was at his best. The loftiness of spirit and
sententiousness of style indicate moments of exceptional clarity of
vision and elevation of soul.” Graham Taylor.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 483. N. ’06. 1090w.
“As a whole the book is a germinal, thought-provoking book. It is
deeply religious and ethically lofty. It is written in Mr. Lloyd’s
luminous, eloquent style, with many flashing epigrams and keen strokes
of wit. Occasionally the thread of the thought is not quite as smooth
as if Mr. Lloyd had lived to finish it, but the work of the editors is
exceedingly well done. Probably no two people in more complete
sympathy with Mr. Lloyd’s thought and work could be found than his
sister and Miss Addams.” Eltweed Pomeroy.
+ + =Arena.= 36: 569. N. ’06. 780w.
“The painful labor of compiling a posthumous volume has been performed
with tact and skill, and the book is a precious contribution to the
thought of the new century.” Florence Kelly.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 466. D. 15, ’06. 1610w.
“Naturally the treatment is somewhat fragmentary and at times vague;
as a whole, however, the editors have succeeded in giving to the
exposition both symmetry and connectedness. The book, as a whole,
contains deeply suggestive writing in a style which curiously recalls
both Emerson and Carlyle. It is a pity that the proofreading should
have been so wretchedly done.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 370w.
=Loane, M.= Next street but one. $2. Longmans.
W 7–77.
“This book, mainly about the poor who are always with us and may be
supposed to live in the next street but one, is the work of a trained
nurse.... The book is a collection of studies of family and economic
conditions; each chapter contains a wonderful variety of personal
illustrations and is entertainingly written.... The conclusions and
deductions are convincing, as they are drawn from specific
incidents.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“She has a great gift for telling stories.... There is no attempt at
formal or systematic treatment; the author puts down her experiences
and reflections, just as they occur to her, in an easy, natural way. A
little overstatement does not appreciably detract from the value of
her charming and enlightening book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 99. Mr. 29, ’07. 1330w.
“The mere data contained in this work is wonderful. The method of
chatty and sympathetic treatment is even more to be admired.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 470w.
“[One] will find Miss Loane’s womanly common-sense and robust humour
an admirable corrective to the pleas for sapping the strength of the
nation which are the evil fashion of the hour.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 281. F. 23, ’07. 1730w.
=Lock, Robert Heath.= Recent progress in the study of variation,
heredity, and evolution. *$2. Dutton.
7–12650.
“The book begins with an introduction in which are briefly discussed:
Linnaean species, Jordan’s species, variation, mutation, discontinuity
of species, the work of Mendel and evolution theories. Later chapters
are largely given to a fuller discussion of the topics here
introduced. The first half of the book is rather elementary....
Natural selection, evidences of evolution and ‘biometry’ are treated
in detail.”—Science.
* * * * *
“The style is clear, but in many sections so many highly technical
terms are used that the lay reader will be in trouble. The concluding
chapter at least, however, should be carefully read by all who are
dealing with problems of human progress.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 640. My. ’07. 110w.
“On the whole, this is probably the best available book from which the
layman may get a reasonably complete and nontechnical account of
recent investigations in the last two of the three fields covered.
Unfortunately, the treatment of the subjects is not strictly even and
impartial.” Raymond Pearl.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 209. O. 1, ’07. 280w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 511. Ag. 29, ’07. 150w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 259. Ag. 23, ’07. 810w.
“The subjects and their facts are well arranged, but are set forth
with a heaviness of diction which makes it difficult for any one
except a biologist already familiar with the subject properly to
correlate the facts as he reads. The sphere of usefulness of this
volume will be among senior biological students rather than among
either advanced scientists or general readers.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 230w.
“An elementary but generally clear and skilful exposition of the
present aspects of the evolutionary problem.” F. A. D.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 573. Ap. 18, ’07. 1490w.
“Even in the driest parts of the work there are sharp and valuable
criticisms of the theories of the day.” Francis Ramaley.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 840. Mr. 1, ’07. 830w.
“The author is no Miss Agnes Clerke; but he is at his best in his
somewhat discontinuous sketches of the history of the idea of
‘mutation.’”
+ =Spec.= 99: 204. Ag. 10, ’07. 820w.
=Locke, William John.= Beloved vagabond. †$1.50. Lane.
6–37606.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is told with delightful humor, but also with realism not
altogether pleasing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
“Pleasant is the word! Fantastic, improbable, impossible! Granted
freely, that and more!” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 119. Ja. ’07. 420w.
“It is delightful because it is full of the breath of springtide and
Bohemianism.”
+ =Current Literature.= 42: 461. Ap. ’07. 880w.
“The hero is one of the most genial and human figures ever encountered
within the pages of a book. It would take a very stern moralist indeed
to find him, despite his obvious faults, anything but sympathetic and
lovable in all the phases—even in most sordid—of his picturesque end
eccentric career.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 142. Mr. 1, ’07. 690w.
“There is many a novelist much better known who might well envy Mr.
Locke the privilege of having written ‘The beloved vagabond.’”
Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 525. Mr. 1, ’07. 1530w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 766. Mr. ’07. 570w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 810. D. 29, ’06. 730w.
“On the whole [Mr. Locke] must be congratulated on the skill, the
spirit and the tact with which he has composed these exotic variations
on a Rabelaisian theme.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 989. D. 15, ’06. 750w.
* =Lockwood, Laura Emma.= Lexicon to the English poetical works of John
Milton. *$3. Macmillan.
7–37515.
“Miss Lockwood has used the text of the Globe edition, and retained
the modern spelling; in the arrangement and classification of the
meanings of words she has followed the ‘New English dictionary.’
Except in the case of the very commonest words, she has aimed at
making her record of occurrences complete, and she has laid particular
stress on definitions.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“We have attempted to test the work by a single short poem, the
‘Lycidas,’ and we have only [a few] points of criticism on that
difficult poem. Nevertheless, this is a very valuable work.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1003. O. 24, ’07. 330w.
“This is a welcome work and will henceforth be indispensable to any
serious student of the poet. Of course, only systematic use can prove
the accuracy of such a book in detail, but the impression which one
gains from a cursory examination of its pages is that the task has
been accomplished in a reliable and painstaking manner.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 515. D. 5, ’07. 210w.
=Lodge, Henry Cabot.= Frontier town and other essays. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–34821.
The frontier town is Greenfield, Mass., the 150th anniversary of whose
incorporation was celebrated in 1903. The other essays are on the
Senate, Samuel Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Hoar, The United
States at Algeciras, etc.
* * * * *
“All of the essays are written in Senator Lodge’s agreeable manner;
he, at least, has preserved a literary finish in these essays upon
historical and allied subjects. It is often refreshing to find such a
book, which does not pretend to add to the store of human knowledge,
but presents old views and known facts in a pleasing and attractive
form.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 701. Ap. ’07. 440w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07.
=Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 70w.
“As a whole, the contents of the volume have less distinction than the
same author’s ‘Fighting frigate and other essays,’ but that any man in
public life should be able to write so much and so well is itself
gratifying.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 482. D. 6, ’06. 180w.
“To our surprise we find Mr. Lodge at his clumsiest in speaking of the
matters which concern him, or our interest in him, most.” H. W.
Boynton.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 1185. D. 7, ’06. 750w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver.= Substance of faith allied with science; a catechism
for parents and teachers. **$1. Harper.
7–9613.
Thru questions and answers the author formulates a way to achieve a
harmonious condition in which the Divine Will is perfectly obeyed. His
task has been that “of formulating the fundamentals. or substance of
religious faith in terms of Divine Immanence, in such a way as to
assimilate sufficiently all the results of existing knowledge and
still be in harmony with the teachings of the poets and inspired
writers of all ages.” The book is addressed to the many who experience
some difficulty in recognizing the old landmarks amid the rising flood
of criticism.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 168. O. ’07.
“We can hardly doubt that even his catechism, when preached by
himself, is interesting and profitable; but we venture to suggest that
if he seems to find it practically a source of inspiration, that is
because any man so combining learning and good-will is worth listening
to, whatever his topic.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
− + =Dial.= 42: 341. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.
=Ind.= 62: 911. Ap. 18, ’07. 470w.
=Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
=Outlook.= 85: 879. Ap. 20, ’07. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 60w.
“We have rarely seen a simpler or clearer account of what science can
teach us now on such fundamental problems as the formation of the
earth and the development of life; it will be a real boon to the
religious teacher; though, simple as it is, we doubt whether he could
make it intelligible to children.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.
“His book we are sure, will be a source of happiness and consolation
to many who, confused by the new discoveries of history and of
science, have become shaken in their religious faith.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 946. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
* =Loftie, Rev. William J.= Colour of London, historic, personal and
local; with an introd. by M. H. Spielmann; il. by the Japanese artist,
Yoshio Markino. *$6. Jacobs.
“Mr. Loftie has interpreted the term ‘colour’ in its broadest sense
and has drawn extensively upon the wonderful traditions of the great
metropolis; indeed, the most interesting chapter in the volume is
devoted to the history and description of the Tower. To many, however,
the most attractive feature of the book will be the series of
delightful illustrations by Mr. Yoshio Markino, reproduced in colour
and monotone, the originals of which were recently exhibited at the
Clifford gallery in the Haymarket.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“As for the letterpress by Mr. W. J. Loftie, its chief defect is that
it has nothing to do with the pictures. From the antiquarian and
topographical points of view it seems to us of very high interest,
marked by strong common sense and enmity to popular fables.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 501. My. 25, ’07. 1060w.
“The artist ... has given us a London which is new. Mr. W. J. Loftie
as an antiquary, has naturally and properly given us in the text
anecdotes which are old, though pleasantly treated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 612. My. 18. 420w.
“Mr. Loftie writes of a few of the myriad aspects of London ...
treating them all in a delightfully suggestive fashion, with a true
feeling for the oddities and ramifications of his subject. The
enterprising young Japanese seems to know all parts of his beloved
London, and to have observed it with the stranger’s open-mindedness
and the artist’s sensitiveness to effect.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Possessing a delicate sense of colour and tone harmony, the artist
has been inspired by some typical scenes of London street life to
produce a number of drawings which are extremely fascinating, and bear
the stamp of exceptional ability.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Loftie has done his share of the work in a competent manner.
These drawings, the larger part of them in color, ought to make the
fortune of any book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 230w.
“His drawings are equally admirable for simplicity, spontaneity, and
sincerity—so much so, indeed, as quite to take all of one’s attention
in opening the well-printed book, even though its text be by such an
erudite authority as is Mr. W. J. Loftie.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 340w.
“Well above the colour-book average.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 626. My. 18, ’07. 290w.
=Loliee, Frederic.= Short history of comparative literature from the
earliest times to the present day. *$1.75. Putnam.
7–18136.
“M. Loliée’s aim is to present a picture of the literary output of all
the centuries: to mark the periods of growth, florescence and decay,
and to indicate the relations of one product to another.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“We have read this work with dismay and disappointment. And as for M.
Loliée’s comparisons, they are fit only to be made at a penny-reading.
It remains to add that the book is very ill-translated, and that it
bristles with misprints.”
− − =Acad.= 70: 423. My. 5, ’06. 1520w.
“As a result of such a gigantic undertaking, confined within the
narrow limits of 350 pages, his book is conspicuous for broad surveys
and vague generalities. By its lack of close individual
characterization and accurate detailed description it lies at the very
antipodes of Sainte-Beuve’s critical method. The translation is not so
good as it might be.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 970w.
“Each step in his work is so carefully taken and the proportions so
well maintained that one can have no possible doubt of the underlying
truth of his whole theme.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 338. My. 25, ’07. 800w.
“It is certainly safe to say that the wider a reader’s acquaintance
with the literature of the world, the more benefit he will get from M.
Loliée’s work. It has been well translated by Mr. Power.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 190w.
=Loliee, Frederic.= Women of the second empire: chronicles of the court
of Napoleon III; comp. from unpublished documents; tr. by Alice M.
Ivimy. *$7. Lane.
In this volume “pageant ... defiles before you in all its
magnificence. The empress Eugenie, who set the fashion to the women of
Europe, the Countess de Castiglione, Madame de Rutz, Laure de
Rothschild, the Princess Mathilde, Countess le Hon and many others—all
pass on their way, and the place of each in the procession is defined.
As each passes too you learn something of her character and
attainments; and in a discreet whisper stories are told of her
doings.... Moreover it is illustrated with fifty-one photographs of
the celebrities, superbly reproduced.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“Exceedingly well written and interesting as gossip may be. But M.
Loliée’s preface and work are more reasonable and without that
desperate brightness—of a salesman exhibiting wares. He has been
untiring in his search for information and successful. The translation
is well done.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 600w.
“The volume appears ... like ‘the book of the opera,’ and a very light
opera at that.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 460w.
“Amusing, shocking, interesting, disgusting, trivial, important,
sometimes by turns and sometimes all on the same page is M. Frederic
Loliée’s book of biographical sketches.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 289. My. 4, ’07. 920w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 90w.
“It all smacks too much of a society’s journal’s small talk about
pretty faces and dresses.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 130w.
“Brilliant and amusing as M. Loliée’s book undoubtedly is, such a tone
of cynicism rather repels any one who has ever had even a passing
acquaintance with members of that long-dead society whose actual charm
he does not, we think, quite succeed in perpetuating here.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 129. Jl. 27, ’07. 1490w.
=London, Jack.= Before Adam. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–7191.
Mr. London sets about the novel task of deducing from the dream
glimpses of the present day sleeper, evidences of his evolution from
the ape. For instance, the falling-through-space dream is a racial
memory which dates back to our remote ancestors who lived in trees and
who experienced terrible falls. “It is decidedly ingenious, this story
of tree dwellers, cave dwellers and fire makers, who are masters also
of the bow and arrow—of three stages of human evolution going on side
by side in a remote geological age.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“In the subject of his latest story, ‘Before Adam,’ Mr. Jack London
shows no diminution of his characteristic audacity. This is a brave
endeavor to enlist our interest in these dim denizens; but it falls
short of complete success. The story occasionally stirs our curiosity,
but never our sympathy.” Harry James Smith.
− =Atlan.= 100: 125. Jl. ’07. 1640w.
“It may be the result of a good deal of scientific research into the
latest accepted theories of evolution and atavism, but the popularity
of a work of fiction is seldom in direct ratio to its scientific
accuracy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 310w.
“The story fails to make a distinct impression upon the reader, who
finds in it, in the last analysis, but another animal story of the
type that has been so popular during the last decade or so.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.
“Jack London’s unbridled imagination is here exhibited in full
career.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 420w.
“Jack London has performed a wonderful feat in so describing the lives
and passions of these rudimentary beings. He has builded a romance of
the unknown ages, of the creatures that may have been, and endowed it
all with poignant reality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 690w.
“In one respect ‘Before Adam’ is weak; it is too truth-loving as
regards scientific records to leave much room for the emotional
aspects of life. The story is a sort of literary ‘tour de force,’ ably
done and curiously fascinating.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 260w.
=London, Jack.= Love of life, and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29686.
A group of characteristic Jack London stories set in “the rim of the
polar sea.” Cold and hunger battle with the love of life, even
humanity itself is often chilled into insensibility, and the animal
instinct of self preservation at all hazards remains. The stories are
Love of life, A day’s lodging, The white man’s way, The story of
Keesh, The unexpected, Brown Wolf, The sun-dog trail and Negore, the
coward.
* * * * *
“All good, some of them of distinctive merit. Not so brutal as some of
his earlier stories of this author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Taken altogether these stories have all the good points of their
author’s work—strength, aliveness, vividness of colouring.” J.
Marchand.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 419. D. ’07. 470w.
“They are quite equal to his previous accomplishments in this
direction, and are not approached by the efforts of any other writers,
save Elizabeth Robins’s ‘The magnetic north,’ which remains the chief
achievement in arctic romance.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 450w.
“This is much the usual Jack London thing: wolf-dogs and miners and
Indians; starving and freezing and killing.”
− =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 680w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Jack London certainly has the story-teller’s gift, and he uses it to
the greatest effect when he tells us of the north.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 80w.
=London, Jack.= Moon-face; and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–32351.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Of varying interest and merit they seem, by the natural limitations
of the short story, to hinder the powers of the author from coming
into full play.”
− + =Cath. World.= 84: 833. Mr. ’07. 190w.
“These short stories of Mr. London’s are rather poor stuff, as lacking
in quality as in imagination; and there is little to be said for them
on the score of originality.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 178. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
* =London, Jack.= The road. †$2. Macmillan.
Jack London is the invincible tramp in these pages. Often enough the
vulnerable heel is exposed to the arrows flying thick in “hobo” land,
but by means of quick wits, his alertness and master strength he wards
them off. “The road” records his round of underworld experiences which
began at eighteen, and it abounds in tramp tricks, tramp scrapes, and
tramp vernacular, interesting both to the curious reader and the
student of sociology.
=London, Jack.= Scorn of women; in three acts. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–43530.
A three act comedy, with Dawson City in 1897 as its setting. “The
heroine is a dazzlingly beautiful and very rich dancer, who is
worshipped by all the men and suspected by all the women.... The
incidents of Arctic life are portrayed with unmistakable veracity, and
the humors and mystifications of a masked ball, under frontier
conditions, are set forth with freshness and vivacity.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
=Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 80w.
“In the last act there is a touch of the wild which is, perhaps, a
trifle too realistic, but the piece as a whole, is decidedly
entertaining, and contains some well-drawn sketches of character.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 495. D. 6, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
“The length of the second act and the numerous irrelevant episodes
might weaken the play on the stage, but there can be no question about
the dramatic effect of the conclusion.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 180w.
=London, Jack.= White Fang. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–35449.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a capital story, marred a little by the brutality of detail
given in the fight with the bull-dog.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.
“His tale is packed full of absurdly precious idioms, literary
‘clichés’, and pompous little mannerisms.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 161. F. 9. 270w.
“The illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull are not the least good
thing about the book. The virility of this artist is as strong and as
alive as that of the author he companions, but there is a greater
sense of self-control in it, a power of restraint and reserve which
makes his work a lasting delight.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 599. F. ’07. 950w.
“The manner in which the author manages to interest one in the history
of the wolf is an achievement.”
+ + =Current Literature.= 82: 111. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“It would be an exaggeration to call this novel a socialistic tract in
disguise, but it is certainly not the least clever stroke of its
author’s that he has succeeded in interweaving into a dog-and-wolf
story so subtle a reminder of the pressure of feral conditions in the
midst of civilized human society.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + − =Forum.= 38: 547. Ap. ’07. 1020w.
“The Canadian wolf needs the rehabilitation which the Indian wolf owes
to Kipling, and Mr. London is entirely successful in expressing his
litheness, which is worthy of rikki-tikki at his best, his hardihood,
and the germ of the fidelity which remains the master attribute in the
dog. Some scenes are admirably vivid bits of natural history.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 46. F. 8, ’07. 550w.
“Done in this author’s best style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 40w.
+ − =Spec.= 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 360w.
* =Lonergan, W. F.= Forty years of Paris, il. **$3.50. Brentano’s.
Contemporary Paris as seen thru the eyes of a newspaper correspondent.
Mr. Lonergan “has attended sittings of the Chamber and the courts, met
many politicians and men of letters, unhitched Boulanger’s carriage,
talked with Clémenceau, interviewed Zola, corresponded with Halèvy,
and had a squabble with Sardou. In the midst of his feverish
existence, however, he found the time to read something else than
newspapers, namely, some books on Taine, Renan, and Abbé Loisy,
especially the latter; and he gives us the benefit of his readings.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“The genial and observant spirit which is visible in Mr. Lonergan’s
new volume on Paris inclines us to praise it, and to recommend its
purchase to our readers.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 110. N. 9, ’07. 320w.
“There are a good many small mistakes, and some unnecessary passages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 400w.
“While this narrative, covering the main events of recent history,
does not take the place of Seignobos or Hanotaux, it supplements,
thanks to its generous supply of gossip from the editorial rooms and
the ‘brasseries,’ those more dignified and reserved chronicles.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It contains a good deal of more or less entertaining gossip, more or
less valuable criticism, literary and dramatic, and some pages well
worth reading on the conflict with the Vatican.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Brier-patch philosophy. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–34265.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A book somewhat different from his previous animal studies, but
equally well worth reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 805. D. 22. 150w.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 177. D. 20, ’06. 170w.
“When Mr. Long is describing the habits of animals, and telling us
stories about them, he is interesting and readable; but when he puts
his own ideas into the mouth of a wild rabbit, the result is apt to be
a little tedious.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 160w.
* =Long, William Joseph.= Whose home is the wilderness: some studies of
wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–37000.
A book of intimate observations recorded at the end of a season of
“Watching the wild things.” It aims first, to show some of the
unrecorded facts of animal life exactly as the author has seen them;
second, to reproduce as far as possible the spirit of the place and
the hour, and to let one also feel something of that gladness and
peace which the author has always found in the silent places.
Long day; the story of a New York working girl as told by herself.
*$1.20. Century.
5–29965.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 26. Ja. ’07.
Reviewed by Margaret Dreir Robins.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 484. D. 15, ’06. 1180w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Araminta and the automobile. †50c. Crowell.
7–21370.
Araminta and the automobile, The deception of Martha Tucker, and While
the automobile ran down are three stories which reveal “cheerful
Americans” in the act of testing the joys and sorrows of the motor
car.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Bath in an English tub; il. by Robert A.
Graef. †75c. Barnes.
7–11578.
A series of letters written to the New York sun which give the
author’s experiences in England.
* * * * *
“It is not a guide book, but is franker and funnier than most guide
books and will be appreciated by all who have been there.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Loomis sees the absurdities of life and relates them with
cheerful vivacity.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Lorimer, Norma Octavia.= By the waters of Carthage. **$2.50. Pott.
7–4809.
“There is something fresh and original about this book of travel. The
writer ... expresses herself in letters to her husband, and her
observations are full of personal bits and scrappy digression.... The
Oriental life of Tunis is presented in all its color and variety, and
the ruins of Carthage are suggested with quite an imaginative
touch.... The photographs, by Garrigues, a Tunis photographer, are
unusually fine.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The book is open to many criticisms, with its bits of improbable
romance and its free and easy style; but it is really interesting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
− =Spec.= 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 360w.
=Loti, Pierre, pseud.= Disenchanted. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–32677.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The work is written in Loti’s beautiful style, but is less
superficial in character than many of his stories.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 108. Ja. ’07. 410w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 109. Ja. ’07. 730w.
“As a matter of fact, M. Loti conspicuously fails to present the case
of the contemporary harem in its most telling light. It strikes the
present reviewer that the author’s taste runs somewhat excessively,
for once, to the sentimental.” H. G. Dwight.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 718. Mr. ’07. 1790w.
“Superbly translated by Clara Bell, the new book by Pierre Loti is no
less than irresistible.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 240w.
=Lottridge, Silas A.= Familiar wild animals. *60c. Holt.
6–13335.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07. ✠
+ =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 30w.
=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= Text of Shakespeare; its history from
the publication of the quartos and folios down to and including the
publication of the editions of Pope and Theobald. **$2. Scribner.
6–36417.
The third instalment of Prof. Lounsbury’s work on “Shakespearean
wars.” “An elaborate account of an eighteenth-century literary
controversy, of which the protagonists were Alexander Pope, author of
‘Dunciad,’ and the Shakesperean scholar, Lewis Theobald, the original
hero of that famous and infamous poem.” (Forum.)
* * * * *
“Dr. Lounsbury, with a learning, a penetration and a scholarly
thoroughness beyond all praise, has added to his already invaluable
Shakespearean labours by attacking the thorny subject of Pope,
Theobald, and the text of Shakespeare; has cleared the tangled brake
and disclosed matters which had been long forgotten.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 605. D. 15, ’06. 880w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“His style is heavy, and he writes at unnecessary length, labouring
points that have long been pretty clear to those who know anything
about the subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 540w.
“In style, this volume is delightfully clear and entertaining, despite
some rather painful ‘longueurs.’ Professor Lounsbury wears his
learning lightly, and the reader, therefore, feels no burden.” Charles
H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 39. Ja. 16, ’07. 1510w.
“He has rendered a new critical edition of the ‘Dunciad’ and a
revising of Pope’s biography necessary, and a fuller life of Theobald
desirable—despite the fulness and excellence of his own treatment of
the great commentator’s career; and, all the while, he has been
steadily nearing the goal he originally set himself of tracing the
history of the works and fame of William Shakespeare.” W. P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 373. Ja. ’07. 1150w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 99. Ja. 10, ’07. 370w.
“Much of this investigation of necessity wanders far from Shakespere;
but it is difficult to see how it could have been avoided, and the
substantial results of the author’s researches ought to silence the
critic who is inclined to quibble over the appropriateness of the
title of the volume.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 416. N. 15, ’06. 1360w.
“It is for these additions to exact knowledge and for the tedious
labor spent in exhaustive investigation of dusty sources that students
will be grateful to a volume condensing for them the results of ardent
toil. But the general reader will find it almost equally rewarding for
its extraordinarily vivid representation in the surroundings and
atmosphere of their age of two notable figures.” Elisabeth Luther
Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 834. D. 1, ’06. 2140w.
“While scholars and students will gratefully acknowledge Professor
Lounsbury’s notable contribution to Shakespearean literature, the
lasting importance of his work in this field lies in the clear light
it throws on the conditions in which the dramatist lived, and the
method or order of his growth.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 330. O. 19, ’07. 310w.
“Another book that must take an eminent place among recent
contributions to Shakespeare literature—if, indeed, it be not by far
the most important and the most interesting in its special field of
criticism—is ‘The text of Shakespeare.’” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 724. S. ’07. 1250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by George H. Browne.
+ + =School R.= 15: 304. Ap. ’07. 520w.
“A book which deserves the attention of every one interested in the
history of English literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 979. Je. 22, ’07. 1690w.
=Louthan, Hattie Horner.= “This was a man:” a romance. $1.50. Clark.
6–45355.
The author emphasizes the sentiment that “the only safe principle in
our American life lies in ignoring social distinctions and in paying
homage to what each man really is.”
* * * * *
“The vulgarity of it consists in the author’s effort to interpret the
scandalous lives of two Don Juans by the free use of their own
vocabularies.”
− =Ind.= 62: 603. F. 28, ’07. 130w.
“It is a very tangled skein of events that this novel presents to the
reader to unravel, and there is little unity of plan or plot, but
these faults are partially atoned for by a certain freshness and
exuberance of feeling and expression that give the book the stamp of
human interest.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 130w.
“The principal incidents of the story border on melodrama. There are
some parts of genuine dramatic interest and the character of the
rector is well drawn.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Lovett, Robert M.= Winged victory. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–12977.
The whole story is animated by the spirit of the heroine who champions
thru early life the cause of a feeble-minded brother, and later that
of an unsuccessful man whom she marries because he needs her. She was
“winged in her hope; armed in her faith. In the presence of the great
fulfillment of life all individual complications of mere living seemed
contemptible and petty. She walked firmly, exulting in her strength.”
* * * * *
“The book ... is rich in interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 230w.
“The story is interesting and cleverly wrought, but is marred by a
vein of the sort of sentimentalism that affects the modern amateur
sociologist, and by a false sense of values in the social life of the
college community.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 310w.
“The climax is long in coming, and when it does arrive one fails to
see clearly its relation to most of what has gone before.”
− =Ind.= 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w.
“While the book is seriously lacking in unity and coordination, it has
features of genuine merit.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“All the virtue of this story lies in the first of its three parts.
Here is an affectionate and reverent study of child-nature, grateful
enough in the midst of our sentimental or facetious or condescending
manipulations of the child as literary ‘copy.’”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 460w.
“The book as it stands is excellently written, in a style free from
literary self-consciousness; American in its ideals, and full of
firsthand interest in human character. Because of this very freshness
the title is not quite fortunate; used here it gives an academic touch
in spite of its real beauty.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 315. My. 18, ’07. 690w.
=Low, Sidney James Mark.= Vision of India as seen during the tour of the
Prince and Princess of Wales. *$3.50. Dutton.
W 7–6.
A general picture of the life and social conditions in India today.
Beginning with Bombay, the author takes us thru the cities of
Rajputana, to Punjab and the borders, past the cities of the Moghuls
on to Bengal, Madras and the Southland. There is an account of the
Mohammedan college at Aligarh, a discussion of the Indian army, and a
concluding chapter which raises the question of the endurance of the
present strange form of Indian government.
* * * * *
“Mr. Sidney Low, in ‘A vision of India,’ ... is admirable: thoroughly
detached and non-official, but conservative in the best sense, in
spite of a good deal of criticism of British faults.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 1160w.
“A book so profitably full and accurate, so acute in observation, and
so enlivening, that it may be called a remarkably illuminating book
about India.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Low’s book is full of facts; it is brightly and ably written; and
we hope that many members of our ‘not too attentive democracy’ will
turn over these pages to see what our Indian empire is like.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 180. My. 18, ’06. 1780w.
“Our only quarrel is with the title Mr. Low has chosen, for there is
more careful study than ‘vision’ in his book; but it is better for
that.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 15. Jl. 4, ’07. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 770w.
“Mr. Low’s [book is valuable] because England’s course for the future
is clearly and impressively disclosed.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
Reviewed by F. A. Steel.
=Sat. R.= 102: 199. Ag. 18, ’06. 370w.
“The book might with advantage have been considerably shortened. But,
on the whole, it is an excellent piece of work, showing India as it
appears to a keen observer, whose mind has been trained in the study
of peoples and politics.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 131. Jl. 28, ’06. 2040w.
=Lowell, Percival.= Mars and its canals. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–45164.
On the hills of northern Arizona, Mr. Lowell built an observatory and
equipped it with apparatus for a life study of Mars. He offers in this
volume the deductions from his observations to date. Not only does he
convince the reader that Mars is inhabited but “that the inhabitants
of Mars are carrying on a system of irrigation for agricultural
purposes on an immeasurably larger scale than has ever been dreamed on
our planet, that they possess a high degree of agricultural and
mechanical intelligence, and a degree of moral development so far in
advance of any we have yet reached that in all probability war is
among them unknown.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“A longer and rather more serious book than that of Morse on Mars.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07.
=Ath.= 1907. 1: 478. Ap. 20. 480w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 670w.
“With all respect, then, to Professor Lowell, and with all trust in
the accuracy of his observations, they seem explicable enough without
any idea of Mars being inhabited. It seems pretty clear that he has
let his imagination run away with him.” George M. Searle.
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 577. F. ’07. 5900w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 211. F. ’07. 1790w.
“Whether the reader can accept the author’s conclusions or not, he
will at least be forced to admit, after reading ‘Mars and its canals,’
that the book is an exceedingly able and interesting exposition of the
subject.” Herbert A. Howe.
+ =Dial.= 42: 76. F. 1, ’07. 1170w.
“In every way the work is a worthy presentation from a recognized
Martian leader. Mr. Lowell’s observations have every claim to
acceptance. The theories propounded are by no means so clear.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1567. D. 27, ’06. 290w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 108. Ap. 5, ’07. 1510w.
“The most adverse critic cannot but admire the tireless industry with
which the planet has been scanned night after night, every noteworthy
appearance regarded, and the mass of facts thus acquired moulded into
a consistent whole.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 710w.
“Written in a very clear style, free from scientific technicalities,
and illustrated by maps and diagrams, so that the non-expert layman
can understand it.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 142. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 120w.
“While this book is published as a popular exposition of the most
recent investigations, it presents practically all that is known, or
thus far suspected, presumably, concerning this planet and its
inhabitants.” Herman S. Davis.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 25: 499. Mr. 29, ’07. 520w.
=Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of the
United States: Florida. 1562–1574. *$2.50. Putnam.
5–32489.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 423. Ja. ’07. 370w.
=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Canadian war of 1812. *$4.15. Oxford.
6–30901.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 429. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“That the results do not present much that is novel is due rather to
the diligence of Mr. Lucas’s predecessors than to his own lack of
zeal. The few errors ... do not bear directly upon the narrative.”
Carl Russel Fish.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 433. Mr. ’07. 430w.
=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Historical geography of British colonies, v.
1. *$1.25; v. 2. *$1.90. Oxford.
=v. 1.= The Mediterranean and Eastern colonies revised and brought up
to date by R. E. Stubbs.
“This volume begins with Gibraltar, and travels through the
Mediterranean by way of Malta and Cyprus to the Asiatic islands of the
Far East. Except for the three European possessions and Somaliland in
Africa, the book deals exclusively with the islands in the Indian
ocean and the minor Asiatic possessions.”—Nation.
=v. 2.= West indies rev. and brought up to date by Chewton Atchley.
“This volume deals not only with the West Indian islands proper, from
Jamaica round to Trinidad, but also with the Bermudas, the Bahamas,
the mainland colonies of Guiana and Honduras, and even the far distant
possessions in the Cape Horn region—the Falkland islands and South
Georgia.”—Nature.
=v. 6.= Australasia, by J. D. Rogers.
A history of the southern continent and the islands of the Pacific.
* * * * *
“Its revision has been most carefully carried out, and the politician
will be as grateful for the precise statement of recent changes as the
historical student will be for the more ample scale on which the
earlier stages of exploration and settlement are treated.” W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 414. Ap. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work of revision has been satisfactorily accomplished.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Mr. Rogers himself has apparently taken great delight in the writing
of the book. Every page seems to be a labor of love, with its clever
descriptions, witty allusions, apt quotations, Biblical and classical,
and swift judgments of men, of policies, and of events.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 190. Ag. 29, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Mr. Lucas has accomplished his task most successfully.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 245. Ja. 11, ’06. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed. Another book of verses for children, il.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
7–32337.
An anthology of “Poetry-for-children” which is capable of a many-sided
appeal to the imagination, and which, the author hopes, will serve as
a preparation for the real poetry of the grown-up. A poem’s fitness
for being read aloud has been a principal consideration for including
it.
* * * * *
“Is a delightful compilation, and noticeably excellent in the method
of its arrangement.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Lucas has a sound taste in humor and in literature at large, and
he seems equally to have good judgment in his choice of what will
please children.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 110w.
“It would be difficult to get a more valuable edition for household
use.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 30w.
“Altogether a most suitable and acceptable nursery, schoolroom, and
playroom anthology.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 160w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Character and comedy. *$1.25. Macmillan.
The first part of this book “consists of pleasant little essays of a
Lamblike gentleness and humor, but the best of the book is the second
part, ‘Life’s little difficulties,’ in which by means of life-like
letters the tiny social tragedies of small places are told with
exquisite dexterity and good nature.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Lucas is a pretty humorist, and in this dainty volume he shows,
very prettily, the variety of his range.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 290w.
“A most delightful book.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1317. N. 28, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Lucas knows how to write trifles with something much better than
dignity; with a cheerful communicativeness and transparent candour
that make every reader his warm friend.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 300. O. 4, ’07. 820w.
“The informality, intimacy, unaffected humor, of these unpretentious
papers make them delightful reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
“Mr. Lucas’s last, but not least charming, book of essays.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 521. O. 12, ’07. 1580w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Fireside and sunshine. **$1.25. Dutton.
7–29018.
Nineteen “Lamb like” essays upon such subjects as; breakfast,
squirrels, clothing old and new, the days of the week, and letter
writing.
* * * * *
“His pages not only have the expected Elian air, but also something of
a sybaritic savor, a more than suggestion of the gourmet, a
Dickens-Lamb-Scott enjoyment of the things of sense as embodied in
certain favorite eatables and drinkables.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 500w.
“This writing is in Mr. Lucas’s well-known vein—agreeable, vivacious,
with bits of interesting observation of men, women, and beasts, and
with touches of gentle humor. The matter, however, is rather thin,
good enough for a casual contribution to the London ‘Outlook’ or
‘Country gentleman,’ but much of it hardly worth preservation in
permanent form.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 338. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w.
“Among the best collections of essays of this day of their popular
revival.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 520w.
“Whether old or new or half new, the essays may be commended to the
public as excellent reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 791. N. 17, ’06. 420w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Forgotten tales of long ago. $1.50.
Stokes.
7–35046.
Twenty stories, from early writers for children, of a period ranging
from 1790 to 1830, with three later contributions. “In the discovery
of an anonymous production entitled ‘Lady Anne’ the editor finds his
reward for much fruitless rummaging. We share his gratification, for
it is a gem well worth preserving.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Interesting to the occasional child who fancies quaint tales, and to
all students of children’s literature. Well printed and illustrated,
and attractively bound.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. 50w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Friendly town: a little book for the
urbane. $1.50. Holt.
6–10500.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 140w.
“Among anthologies the book deserves an exceptional place.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
“It would be difficult to find a collection of more appealing verse
and prose than this.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed. Gentlest art: a choice of letters by
entertaining hands. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–32334.
The gentlest art, according to Mr. Lucas’ interpretation, is that of
letter-writing. This anthology of letters is varied in content and
includes a wide range of letter-writers, many of them well-known
eighteenth and nineteenth century English people. There are eighteen
headings under which letters are grouped, some of them being Children
and grandfathers, News bearers, The grand style, The little friends,
Urbanity and nonsense, Literature and art, Humorists and oddities, The
pen reflective, Rural recluses, and Shadows.
* * * * *
“A more charming volume it would not be easy to find.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Listener’s lure: a Kensington comedy. †$1.50.
Macmillan.
6–32676.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is the best of England, old and new, told at random in letters
which also serve to piece out one of the prettiest love stories of the
year.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 180w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in London. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–32702.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07.
“He here shows himself to be an uncommonly shrewd observer of the many
and varied aspects of the great metropolis, and the no less
heterogeneous ways and moods of its teeming population.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Lucas takes his London lightly, skims the cream, revives the
reader with the most modern frivolous bits of information, and never
oppresses him under a load of facts. A good modern map is needed.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 610w.
=Luce, Robert.= Writing for the press: a manual. 5th ed. pa. 50c.
Clipping bureau press.
7–18088.
The fifth edition revised. It is a guide for beginners, furnishing
information and instruction on all matters relating to the preparation
of copy for the press.
* * * * *
“The book is worth its room, were it only for the copious lists of
words and phrases—correct and incorrect—common mistakes, and trite
expressions, which it contains.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 682. Ag. ’07. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 191. Ag. 29, ’07. 70w.
“The handiest and most useful work of reference in its line we have
ever seen.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 368. Je. 8, ’07. 170w.
=Lupton, Arnold, Parr, G. D. A., and Perkin, Herbert.= Electricity as
applied to mining. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
“Electrical theories and principles are dealt with at considerable
length.... Less than one third of the book is given over to the
applications of electricity to mining.... For the mining engineer,
colliery manager, or others who are contemplating the adoption of
electricity for power or lighting and who know little or nothing of
electricity, the book presents many valuable features.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 527. N. 15, ’06. 290w.
=Lusk, Graham.= Elements of the science of nutrition. *$2.50. Saunders.
6–41748.
“Scientific analysis of the processes of nutrition, and the chemical
constituents of various foods, together with numerous explanatory
tables. Contains separate chapters on ‘The food requirements during
the period of growth’ and on metabolism under abnormal and diseased
conditions, including anaemia, diabetes, fever, and gout.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The discussion is usually illuminating, but here and there a more
liberal summary of generalization would be most helpful to students at
least to beginners, who need broad statements rather than an
enumeration of facts whose bearing they do not easily apprehend.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Prof. Graham Lusk is to be congratulated on having produced a very
interesting and important book.” W. B. H.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 413. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w.
=Luther, Mark Lee.= Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33211.
Jean Fanshaw is right as a trivet, though wilful and a born fighter.
Her ungovernable temper sends her to the reform school, she escapes,
but is persuaded by a clean, strong young artist rusticating in
near-by woods to return and serve out her time. She does it, goes
forth with a clear record, and enters the maelstrom of shopgirl life
in New York. Her fight against the temptation on every hand is finally
rewarded when her artist hero of long ago finds her and makes her
castles in Spain a reality.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Lyford, James Otis.= Life of Edward H. Rollins: a political biography.
$1.50. Estes.
6–41541.
“The political activities of New Hampshire, which state Rollins
represented in both Congressional houses, are here set forth in
sufficient detail to make the book of interest as a study in that
field. But it chiefly aims to set Senator Rollins, an able,
conscientious, useful man rightly in history.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“His style is clear and graceful, and skill is shown in the selection
and arrangement of salient facts, as well as due sense of proportion.
It is the only book which has thus far appeared which gives a clear,
orderly and accurate narrative of the political life of New Hampshire
during this important epoch, and by his painstaking labor Mr. Lyford
has made a distinct contribution to the history of the state.” James
F. Colby.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 906. Jl. ’07. 710w.
“This is a good example of the political biography.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 823. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
=Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, 07. 180w.
=Lyle, Eugene P., jr.= Lone star. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–25502.
A tale of the winning of Texas which begins with the Mexican exclusion
of Americans and ends with the battle of San Jacinto. The book is
autobiographical in nature, the narrator figuring “as blunderer and
sometimes as dupe, but always retrieves himself by candor and a high
courage.” (Nature.) Such personages as Crockett, Houston, Bowie and
Austin figure in the narrative.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07. ✠
“Mr. Lyle has chosen to open his novel with a few pages of rather
aggressive smartness; but once in motion, he flings aside spangles and
rides gallantly to the close. His tale is a captivating one.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 350w.
“He has marked individuality of style, he understands the mechanics of
plot construction, he has considerable skill in the portrayal of
character, and he can write English without making a blunder on every
other page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w.
=Lynde, Francis.= Empire builders. †$1.50 Bobbs.
7–26019.
A story for would-be captains of industry which follows the enterprise
of putting thru a difficult section of railroad, with no obstacle
wanting that “nature, rivals, inside treachery and high finance” could
present. The young engineer with the determination of a Titan
surmounts them all. He “outgeneraled and outfought the unscrupulous
old grafters and finally brought some of the more decent among their
enemies over to his own way of thinking.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Fairly good reading for its class.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 164. O. ’07. 270w.
“This story is not so powerful as the title intimates.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 130w.
“Capital reading, even if it may seem wildly exaggerated at points.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The book is crisply written, has action and life, and holds the
interest throughout.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w.
=Lysaght, Sidney Royse.= Her Majesty’s rebels. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–35217.
“Back in the days of tumult and shouting, of bitter strife and
fostered crime, of no-rent manifestos and coercion bills, Her
Majesty’s rebels, led by one of the greatest political leaders of the
century, had Ireland in a ferment.” (Ath.) In this time of unrest the
story has its setting, and the hero is Parnell in the disguise of
Michael Desmond, “a notable hero, compounded of giant strength and
strange weakness—a man, in fact, and a man full of magnetic force to
draw men and women to him, now the victim of a passion he would not
stop to control, now cold, reserved, and unscrupulous.... It is seldom
we are given a picture of the Ireland of the early eighties half so
finished, or so just as Mr. Lysaght’s.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Few Irish books of such good parts have come into our hands since
Carleton’s days, for few authors hold the balance so accurately or
write so restrainedly and so simply as Mr. Lysaght, content to fill
their pages with the moving figures of men, animated by the spirit of
life itself.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 188. F. 23, ’07. 590w.
“Compelling story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“The worst fault, indeed, of the story is a certain want of what
journalists style actuality.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 250. Mr. 2. 270w.
“Mr. Lysaght often shows a keen perception of character without the
art of sustained development. Many of his people are quite shadowy. He
is likewise guilty of self-indulgence in the matter of length.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 267. Mr. 21, ’07. 440w.
“Apart from its general fairmindedness, the book is notable for many
passages affording welcome relief to its prevalently serious
character.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 295. F. 22, ’07. 1540w.
M
=Maartens, Maarten.= New religion: a modern novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–29090.
A novel which embodies a satire on the medical profession whose aim is
to disgust people with doctors and medicine. “Mr. Maartens gives us no
inkling of what we are to do without doctors, but one of his
characters whose legs have been mutilated in an accident is restored
by faith. Several surgeons pronounce his case hopeless unless he will
have both legs amputated. He refuses and is healed by prayer. Perhaps
Mr. Maartens is an apostle of Faith healing or Christian science in
disguise.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“There is not a human character in the book, and not a wise idea. It
is pretentious, badly constructed and badly written.”
− − =Acad.= 73: 928. S. 21, ’07. 700w.
“Such a book will not please those who seek for sensation; but as a
criticism of modern western civilization, especially of its excessive
care of the body, and neglect of the spirit, ‘The new religion’ has
its charm and claim.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 362. S. 28. 240w.
“Will not bear comparison with ‘Dorothea,’ still less ‘God’s fool,’
but it contains interesting characters, witty comments and pathetic
scenes, and its satire, unfair and exaggerated, like all satire,
nevertheless has point and significance.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 440w.
“The personages in the novel are masterly portrayals, but they do not
excite the reader’s sympathy, while the story, as a whole, in spite of
its many brilliant passages, is not entirely convincing, and leaves
the impression that in the treatment of his main theme the author has
not been free from a tendency to exaggeration, which rather weakens
his arraignment of the medical profession.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 759. N. 16, ’07. 380w.
“We have not believed in the loves or the diseases; nor have we
profited by the satire; but we have been very much entertained, and
wit and fantasy are good, call them what you will.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 870w.
“Somehow the author has failed to hit the key; the story is neither
fantastic enough nor sober enough to be more or less than a gentle
irritant.”
− =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 80w.
“The characters and happenings of the story are mere pegs on which to
hang the author’s theories, but none the less the pages of the book
are illumined with numerous flashes of wit and startling examples of
acute observation.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. S. 28, ’07. 1300w.
=Maartens, Maarten.= Woman’s victory and other stories. †$1.50.
Appleton.
7–35218.
“The book takes its title from the caption of the first story, but it
is suitable for the collection as a whole. For most of the stories
recount a contest of some sort, of wit or will, or feeling, or
intention, between people of opposite sex, in which the woman is
usually the victor.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that work so admirable as the stories mentioned and some
others should be jostled by work so feeble and inferior as ‘The
diamonds’ and several stories better unnamed.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 161. Ag. 18, ’06. 390w.
“Will appeal to students of human nature, and lovers of analytical and
psychological stories, but not the casual fiction reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“The book exhibits to advantage the author’s creative power and
artistry.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 200w.
“One can only wonder that a novelist of Mr. Maartens’ standing has
cared to gather in permanent form these unimportant contributions to
various periodicals.” A. Schade van Westrum.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 190. Ap. ’07. 820w.
“The skill in representing women joined with one or other of the
hatreds makes up more than a few vivid stories of action and the
number of apparently swiftly sketched moments, impressions of persons
and moods, which have the artistic quality of a fine etching and must
have taken quite as much work.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 284. Ag. 17, ’06. 390w.
“The tales in the present collection display in form a factitious
versatility; in substance they are rather monotonous.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 420w.
“This present sheaf of short stories gives evidence, for the most
part, of little more than the habit of writing, although there is, now
and then, a bit of clever craftsmanship or a stroke of subtle
character-drawing.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 95. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
“There is a fineness and acuteness in these sketches, for they are
little more, that few fiction writers of our day could equal.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 60w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 40w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Famous stories every child should know; ed. by
Hamilton W. Mabie, assisted by Kate Stephens. **90c. Doubleday.
7–29005.
“Dickens, Ruskin, Hawthorne, Ouida are among the authors represented,
and the Biblical story of Ruth is also included. There is an
introduction by Mr. Mabie in which he emphasizes the value of really
good literature for children and the unfortunate amount of cheap
literature written especially for them, and the uselessness of the
goody-good and unreal stories.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Will be found more useful for reference than general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 208. N. ’07.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 70w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright, ed.= Heroes every child should know. **90c
Doubleday.
6–36046.
“Heroic figures of many races, ages, and types are here presented for
young people to admire—some legendary, some semi-legendary, but for
the most part men of actual and recorded deed, like David, Roland,
King Alfred, Robert Bruce, Washington, Lee, Lincoln, and Father
Damien. The stories are told by recognized writers of ability and
fame, and the narratives have been selected not only because of the
subjects but because of dramatic and vivid story-telling
power.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“To read it strengthens one’s pride in humanity.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 677. N. 17, ’06. 150w.
“Most happy in its title as in its contents.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 40w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Legends that every child should know; a
selection of the great legends of all times for young people; il. and
decorated by Blanche Ostertag. **90c. Doubleday.
6–32353.
Legends as told by famous authors in verse and prose, with some
adaptation from other collections. Among them are Hiawatha, Beowulf,
Childe Horn, Sir Galahad, Rustem and Sohrab, The seven sleepers of
Ephesus, Guy of Warwick, Chevy Chase, The fate of the children of Lir,
The beleaguered city, Prester John, The wandering Jew, King Robert of
Sicily, The life of Beato Torello da Poppi, The Lorelei, The passing
of Arthur, Rip Van Winkle, The gray champion, The legend of Sleepy
Hollow.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. ✠
“A book judiciously supervised by Mr. Mabie.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1410. D. 22, ’06. 30w.
“Many an older person would profit by conning the legends. Mr. Mabie’s
introduction is interesting, even though not illuminating.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 90w.
=McAdoo, William.= Guarding a great city. **$2. Harper.
6–18052.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume would have been much stronger had the author dropped the
controversial tone and found a more logical arrangement for his
material.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 320w.
=McAllister, Addams Stratton.= Alternating current motors. *$3. McGraw
pub.
6–42400.
“This is a general treatise on single-phase and polyphase induction
motors, synchronous motors and convertors, and single-phase commutator
motors.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is good, plain physics from beginning to end.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 230w.
=McArthur, Peter.= Prodigal and other poems. *$1. Kennerley.
7–19470.
Two score verses which range in subject from a mother’s lullaby to an
Indian wind song, from Bob Fitzsimmons to Sarah Bernhardt, from
sentiment to slang.
* * * * *
“Is a thoughtful poet, although his inspiration is apt to be a little
tame.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 43: 92. Ag. 16, ’07. 260w.
“Shakespeare himself stands like a ghost behind the word-play and
clever artistry of Peter McArthur.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 400w.
=McCabe, Joseph.= Talleyrand: a biographical study; with 25 portraits
including a photogravure frontispiece. *$3. Appleton.
7–35192.
The author aims to present Talleyrand as a “consistent and
intelligible personality.” The study is a defense of the man “who had
faith in no principle, gratitude to no master, loyalty to no cause;
who loved money, power and pleasure and sought each without scruple.”
* * * * *
“From the historical point of view the book cannot be compared with
Lady Blennerhasset’s detailed biography.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“He has written a readable book, giving an artistic sketch of the life
of one of the most remarkable men, and certainly the most skilful
diplomatist of the period; but the work is at several points sketchy
and inadequate, and lacking here and there in knowledge and soundness
of judgment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 190. F. 16. 1200w.
“His biography is interesting if not convincing.” Joseph O’Connor.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 3840w.
“Mr. McCabe, accordingly, must be said to have failed completely in
his efforts to make out a case for the gentleman of many
governments—albeit he has done some service in brushing away sundry
myths that in the course of the years have clustered about the figure
of this man of mystery.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 336. Je. 15, ’07. 610w.
“Has set out to solve the enigma, and in the solution to redeem his
subject’s reputation. That his task was difficult Mr. McCabe,
doubtless, would not deny; that he has been to some extent successful
in this task is high praise, nothing but the highest praise is due to
his masterly and fascinating defence.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 111. Ja. 26, ’07. 2400w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntley.= Illustrious O’Hagen. †$1.50. Harper.
6–39729.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A clever, but scarcely edifying story.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 104. Ap. ’07. 100w.
“Here ends our entertainment, a romantic one withal, and a merry.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 12: 145. Mr. 1, ’07. 290w.
“It is a stirring tale written with the author’s accustomed grace and
with a certain wanton sprightliness, which, for all its fascination,
is a distinct lowering of his literary standards after the grave
beauty and fine exaltation with which he wrote ‘The flower of
France.’”
+ =Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 220w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntley.= Needles and pins. †$1.50. Harper.
7–18594.
The old adage of “When a man marries his trouble begins,” is here
applied to François Villon, the “beggar rhymer” whom Louis of France
ennobled when Lady Katherine of Vaucelles loved and married him. When
the story opens they have begun their married life on Katherine’s
estate in Poitou, where her new lord is ill received. There is much
fighting and bloodshed and also much marital skirmishing before Villon
wins his wife’s respect and learns how to keep her love.
* * * * *
“Notable in the novel are its gaiety and brightness, and its deft
literary workmanship. We must not seek dull realism here; it is a
field of sheer entertainment.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 693. Je. 8. 180w.
“The tale is told with quiet humour, sympathy, and an underlying vein
of poetry that lends a definite charm to many of the pages.” Frederic
Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 370w.
“Mr. McCarthy presents Villon in the light of a perfectly monogamous
Shelley. Apart from this somewhat trying piece of originality, the
book has merit.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07. 260w.
“It is a more thoughtful book than ‘If I were king,’ a harder book to
write, a book with much subtle analysis, and quite probably McCarthy
himself likes it better. It’s a question whether the public, fain to
stay unjarred in their rose-colored dream of romantic passion, will
agree with his possible estimate.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 450w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 690. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.
=McClellan, Elisabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607–1800. **$10; hf.
lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
4–33115.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The chapter on uniforms in America, 1775–1800, is more complete than
anything of the kind we have seen before, and the glossary of the
nomenclature of dress, while it is hardly so full as that to be found
in the ‘Cyclopaedia of costume,’ is curious and useful.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 245. Mr. 9, ’07. 450w.
“Elisabeth McClellan and Sophie Steel have written and illustrated a
work invaluable for reference on the subject of dress in America. The
pictures, often copied from originals yet extant, are beautiful; the
portraits of governors most interesting; and the glossary of the odd
language of dress—it rivals that of heralds in eccentricity—is
extremely useful.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 18. Ja. 18, ’07. 1550w.
* =MacClintock, Porter Lander.= Literature in the elementary school.
*$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37019.
Such topics are discussed as the service rendered by literature in the
education of children, the kind of literature and the elements of
literature serviceable in the elementary school, the story, folk-tale
and fairy-story, hero-tales, nature and animal stories, symbolistic
stories, fables, poetry and drama. The presentation of the literature,
the correlations of literature and outside reading are also treated.
=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Old time notes of Pennsylvania. 2v. *$8.
Winston.
6–9611.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=MacColl, Hugh.= Symbolic logic and its applications. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–29053.
“Points on which he lays considerable stress, and in which he does not
command the uniform assent of the other symbolic logicians, are
these:—(a) that he takes statements and not terms to be in all cases
and necessarily the ultimate constituents of symbolic reasoning; (b)
that he goes quite beyond the ordinary notation of the symbolists in
classifying propositions according to such attributes as true, false,
certain, impossible, variable; (c) that in regard to the existential
import of propositions, while other symbolists define the null class O
as containing no members, and understand it as contained in every
class, real or unreal, he, on the other hand, defines it as consisting
of the null or unreal members, O_{1}, O_{2}, O_{3}, &c., and considers
it to be excluded from every real class. A chapter is devoted to the
solution of Prof. Jevon’s so-called inverse problem.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“There are some respects in which Mr. MacColl appears too much
dominated by ordinary language. The present volume is interesting and
instructive, and the points in which it is incontrovertible are much
more numerous than those in which it is open to doubt.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 396. Mr. 31. 1480w.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 1. N. 1, ’06. 190w.
Reviewed by John Grier Hibben.
=Philos. R.= 16: 190. Mr. ’07. 2020w.
=McCook, Henry C.= Nature’s craftsmen: popular studies of ants and other
insects; il. from nature. **$2. Harper.
7–12257.
A book which has grown out of a series of nature articles printed in
Harper’s magazine during the past four years. The papers deal
principally with popular phases of insect and aranead life, with
themes drawn chiefly from the author’s own specialties, ants and
spiders. In addition, the products of some original studies have been
included, as, for instance, wild bees, water-striders, caddis-flies,
wasps and ant-lions.
* * * * *
“Well written, printed, illustrated and bound.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 168. O. ’07. S.
“One of the most interesting and instructive entomological
publications of recent date. Its method is popular in the best sense
of the term.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 950w.
Reviewed by George Gladden.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 230w.
“The character of the contents, the interesting nature of the
observation related, and the clearness and grace of the author’s
style, all combine to place the book in the first rank of popular
natural histories.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 366. Je. 16, ’07. 460w.
“An admirable volume for the open shelves of the public or school
library.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 190w.
“There is throughout a strict adherence to truth and a spirit of
careful research. Close to the ideal type of nature book, well
written, well printed, and well illustrated.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 290w.
“The book is written in a very pleasing style throughout, with the
exception of the last few pages, which bear signs of haste.”
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 516. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“In his years of close study of insects he has seen many a weird
spectacle of which he writes here most entertainingly.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“The stories contain so little that is technical, and that little so
easily explained, that teachers and others who wish to interest
children in insect study will find the book one of the most valuable
of all the flood of nature books which recent years have brought
forth.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.
“Although free from technical terms, Dr. McCook’s work is thoroughly
scientific in its treatment.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 640. My. ’07. 80w.
“Well suited for the general reader who is interested in entomology.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 120w.
=McCrackan, William Denison.= Italian lakes. (Little pilgrimages ser.)
Il. $2. Page.
7–15494.
“Mr. McCrackan first gives a brief general description of the ‘lakes
of azure, lakes of leisure,’ and then takes up, one by one, the lakes
themselves, the points of greatest interest upon or near their shores,
and the journeys to be made from each.” (N. Y. Times.) “The
picturesque towns and villa gardens on the shores are vividly
described, and not only those which are famous the world over, but
many which have succeeded in shyly hiding their loveliness from all
eyes but those of the author, who has done his work with conscientious
thoroness. The last chapters deal with people who had more or less
connection with the towns on the lakes.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Enthusiastic, trustworthy, but not remarkable in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 169. O. ’07.
“A very readable and not unprofitable book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 220w.
“He is enthusiastic and sympathetic, and every lake and island has for
him its own special charm, its own distinctive beauties and its own
historical or artistic associations.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 230w.
“It is a pleasure to commend ‘The Italian lakes.’ We have noted a few
errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 330w.
“He has always a keenly appreciative eye for whatever is striking or
picturesque or beautiful, and lets none of it escape the traveler’s
attention, from the snowclad peaks in the background to the flowers by
the wayside.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 290w.
“Certainly it offers to tourists and sojourners a feast contrasted
with the scant fare with which, perforce, they have had to be content
in reading their necessarily condensed Baedeker, Meyer, Murray, or
Boniforti.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 567. Je. 13, ’07. 400w.
=McCullough, Ernest.= Engineering work in towns and small cities. $3.
Technical bk. agency.
7–19430.
“After discussing the city engineer and his duties the author takes
up, in turn, roads and streets, sidewalks, curbs and gutters,
pavements, sanitation in general, drainage, sewerage, water supply,
concrete, building departments, miscellaneous data (in the course of
which a few paragraphs on lighting are given), contracts and
specifications, office systems, records, field work and engineering
data. Appendixes are devoted to concrete mixing machines, trenching
machines, bibliography, trade literature and specification
index.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is unique, for one of its class, in the amount of
information it contains on how to do things. Much of this is based on
the practical experience of the author, and the balance, for the most
part, has been selected with good judgment.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 638. D. 13, ’06. 490w.
* =MacCurdy, Hansford, and Castle, William Ernest.= Selection and
cross-breeding in relation to inheritance of coat-pigments and
coat-patterns in rats and guinea-pigs. (Carnegie institution of
Washington. Publication no. 70.) pa. 50c. Carnegie inst.
7–21347.
The results of the authors’ recent researches which have included the
study of a thousand animals throughout several generations.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by T. H. Morgan.
+ =Science=, n.s. 26: 751. N. 29, ’07. 480w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Daughter of Anderson Crow. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25508.
It is not the real but the adopted daughter of Anderson Crow, town
marshal, about whom this story centers. After many adventures
including a kidnapping and a hold up, in which the inhabitants of the
small western village in which the tale is set, play a part, the
parentage of Rosalie is discovered and her real wealth and position
made known.
* * * * *
“The humour and spirit of the book are well sustained by the
illustrations.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 170w.
“Since the pursuit of literature, on the part of both authors and
publishers—has transmuted itself from the desire to do something worth
while into the endeavor to hit the bull’s eye of popular taste, that
fact is perhaps justification for Mr. McCutcheon’s numerous books.
Otherwise it is impossible to understand why they should be either
written or published.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 670w.
“In addition to the various good qualities of the author shown in the
book there is a good bit of character drawing in Crow.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Mr. McCutcheon, who told a good story in ‘Jane Cable,’ tells a better
one in ‘The daughter of Anderson Crow.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 582. N. 9, ’07. 270w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Jane Cable. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–27704.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The plot does not strike one as being particularly probable, and the
action is a little jerky and uncertain.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 11. Jl. 6. 80w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 459. Ap. ’07. 850w.
“It is admirably done up to a point, but somehow it fails to carry
conviction. It is at least a hundred pages too long. It is discursive
where it should be reticent, verbose where it should be merely
suggestive.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 540w.
=McDavid, Mittie Owen.= Princess Pocahontas. $1.25. Neale.
7–32383.
A simple story of Pocahontas, her brief career and her relation to the
English colonists.
* =Macdonald, Alexander.= In search of El Dorado: a wanderer’s
experiences. $2. Jacobs.
“True romances, no fiction with the ‘Deus ex machina,’ at the
psychological moment, but unadorned risks, escapes, and adventures ...
and little epics of comradeship—impressions of men to whom gold and
jewels are much, but to whom loyalty is the one thing better.” They
are adventures of the Klondike, the Never-Never Land of Australia, and
British New Guinea.
* * * * *
“The chief merit of the work lies in its graphic pictures of life in
the mining camps, and of the quaint humours of their inmates, whom the
author portrays in the most kindly spirit. As Mr. Macdonald in his
preface lays claim to entire accuracy in geographical detail, we may
mention one or two points on which his memory seems to be at fault.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 759. D. 2. 520w.
“At times his adventures are a little too marvelous, the coincidences
a bit too striking, and the luck or ill-luck slightly too much
colored; but we can appreciate the stories for they are capitally
told.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 170w.
“Their adventures are worth the telling, and Mr. Macdonald has told
them well. These are right good stories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 699. N. 2, ’07. 140w.
“He has experiences to recount which we do not expect to find outside
the boy’s adventure book. He writes admirably and picturesquely,
notwithstanding his reminder that he knows more of the rifle than the
pen.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ’05. 320w.
“No book of the kind we have come across for long so decidedly merits
reading.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 473. O. 6, ’06. 180w.
=MacDonald, Frederick W.= In a nook with a book. *$1. Scribner.
7–24202.
“Mr. Macdonald’s eighteen short chapters touch on all sorts of themes
dear to bibliophiles.... While he writes understandingly of the church
fathers and historians, and of the Anglican divines, from Latimer and
Jewell to Mozley and Liddon, this ministerial book-lover can also
gossip about Pepys and Mrs. Piozzi and Charles Lamb, and is even
caught quoting, with admirable effect, from Eugene Field’s
‘Bibliomaniac’s prayer.’”—Dial.
* * * * *
“It is clear that, like some divines of an older period, he belongs
both to literature and religion.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 45. Ja. 12. 340w.
“A little volume of unusual charm. This is the most brightly
entertaining book about books that has fallen into our hands for a
long time.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 169. S. 16, ’07. 400w.
“Of actual criticism in Mr. Macdonald’s book there is little, but that
good.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 20. Ja. 18, ’07. 790w.
=Macdonald, Frederika.= Jean Jacques Rousseau: a new criticism. *$6.50.
Putnam.
7–11002.
An “attempt to rehabilitate” the character of Rousseau by showing that
he has ever been viewed in the light of the false reputation which
attached itself to him as the result of a conspiracy between two
contemporaries.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Macdonald has presented a very good case in a very bad manner.
Her book is narrow in scope, and written in an uncritical frame of
mind.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 470. O. 20. 1960w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 175. F. ’07. 1500w.
“So far as the impression made by the book on the present reviewer is
concerned, the future of the reputation of ‘the virtuous Jean Jacques
Rousseau’ lies still on the knees of the gods.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 327. F. 7, ’07. 1230w.
“She writes rather like the advocate who sought to secure the
acquittal of his client by abusing the plaintiff’s attorney. That is
the weak side of her work. But she has nevertheless made a literary
discovery for which credit must be ungrudgingly accorded.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 337. O. 5, ’06. 1850w.
“Her work is an honor to her head and heart, and as a repository is
indispensable to every Rousseau library.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 556. D. 27, ’06. 3490w.
“Mrs. Macdonald has only brushed away some calumniating gossip; the
main questions at issue are as they were a century ago.” James
Huneker.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 1330w.
“However significant the results of Mrs. MacDonald’s investigations
may prove, she herself has not worked them out in a manner above
criticism.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 337. Je. 15, ’07. 900w.
“The new evidence which she has unearthed is so striking that it
cannot be lightly put aside.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 487. O. 20, ’06. 2630w.
* =Macdonald, George.= Princess and the goblin. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–12642.
A charming new edition of George Macdonald’s most popular children’s
story. The original wood engravings after the drawings of Arthur
Hughes have been retained, and Miss Maria L. Kirk has contributed some
attractive colored illustrations embodying the atmosphere and spirit
of the story.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.
=Macdonell, Anne.= Touraine and its story; il. by A. B. Atkinson. *$6.
Dutton.
W 7–36.
Leisurely does Miss Macdonell conduct her follower thru the land of
chateaux, and takes him into the byways of the “thousand valleys.”
“Indeed, she finds more of the flavor of by-gone days in the lesser
castles, where there are no guides to hurry the visitors, and where
the shabbiness and quiet decay give the imagination free rein. It is
to these that she takes her readers; to the grim fortresses, also,
that guarded the lands: to the humble dwellings that nestled in the
shadow of the lordly manors; and to the rivers—shy and silent or swift
and rapacious—that water this ‘Garden of France.’” (Dial.)
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“The book is especially strong on its historical side.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 575. My. 11. 450w.
“Her history systematizes and rounds out the story of the twelve
individual chateaux, as told by Miss Lansdale, and her itineraries
sometimes duplicate but often supplement the other writers.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 380w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 180w.
“One that, in spite of all the competitors already in the field, will
undoubtedly hold its own, so beautiful are many of the illustrations
it contains, so freshly is the apparently inexhaustible theme
treated.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 364. F. ’07. 330w.
“Perhaps the difference between her writing and that of Mr. Cook is
chiefly the difference between the man and woman author. His is more
complete. Hers is more picturesque, more literary, more diffuse, above
all, more personal. It is inseparable from herself as a traveller; and
if we sometimes feel a little too much colour, a faint desire for dry
bones and for form, we also feel that her style has more charm than
that of her predecessor.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 432. D. 28, ’06. 950w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“A sympathetic chronicler has been found in Miss Macdonell who
possesses the historical knowledge which is essential in treating of
this district of France where every site has its story and
association; she also has no little capacity for describing scenery
and introducing the incidents appropriate to the locality.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 56. Ja. 12, ’07. 220w.
“The blemishes are so really insignificant that we feel safe in
recommending the book, with its pretty illustrations, to all who care
for a fascinating subject.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 200w.
=McFadyen, John Edgar.= Prayers of the Bible. $1.75. Armstrong.
7–7187.
“Contains valuable devotional and liturgical material, together with
discussions of the character and content of both Old and New Testament
petitions.” (Ind.) It is divided into four parts; The prayers of the
Bible, Modern prayer, The prayers of the Bible collected and
classified, and Biblical prayers for modern use.
* * * * *
“It is a timely contribution to the understanding of the devotional
elements in the Bible by an interpreter thoroughly in sympathy with
the modern scientific and historical spirit.”
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 159. F. ’07. 60w.
“The method of the author is scientific, the spirit devout. The study
of biblical prayer is of interest alike to the student of the Bible
and to the man of religious life and temper whether he be a student or
not. To both, this volume will prove of interest and value.” Frederick
Carl Eislen.
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 297. O. ’07. 600w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 60w.
=MacFall, Haldane.= Ibsen, the man, his art and his significance; il. by
Joseph Simpson. *$1.50. Shepard, Morgan.
7–3098.
A running narrative composed of the plots of the plays and the
incidents of the biography. The material is drawn chiefly from Jaeger,
Brandes, Gosse, Archer and Boyesen.
* * * * *
“Boiled down, his enthusiastic chapters amount to a fair exposition of
some portions of Ibsen’s genius.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 283. Mr. 23, ’07. 30w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07.
“His individual contribution is a jerky emotional commentary, which
makes a brave pretense of being impressive, but exhibits no particular
insight or sense of perspective.”
− =Dial.= 42: 116. F. 16, ’07. 270w.
“This book ... is a curious compound of indiscriminating eulogy and
sound criticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 680w.
“We fear MacFall has read too much Shaw.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 242. Ap. 13, ’07. 610w.
“On the whole, though doubtless Mr. MacFall would resent it, his book
is a good one for beginners.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 110w.
=McGaffey, Ernest.= Outdoors: a book of the woods, fields and
marshlands. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–14649.
“Mr. McGaffey’s book tells of the pleasures of out-door life in the
fields and prairies and marshlands of the northern part of the
Mississippi valley, and it is written from the point of view of the
hunterman and fisherman who take the chase of fur, scales, and
feathers more as an excuse for getting into the open than as an object
in itself.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
Reviewed by George Gladden.
− =Bookm.= 25: 623. Ag. ’07. 410w.