new enough to compensate for the disappointment this point of view
causes the nature lover. Nevertheless, Mr. McGaffey’s appreciation of
the background of these naturalistic plays in one act is so delicate
and often so poetically worded as to gain him grateful
acknowledgment.” May Estelle Cook.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 370. Je. 16, ’07. 550w.
“The style of the book vouches for itself.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 70w.
=Nation.= 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 100w.
“Will give a pleasant hour to any one who loves and knows the
out-of-doors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 330w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 60w.
=McGehee, Lucius Polk.= Due process of law under the federal
Constitution. $3. Thompson.
6–32130.
A volume which “deals accurately and clearly with a subject of which
some phase or other is under daily discussion. The regulation of
railway rates, the protection against impure food, the suppression of
child labor and of monopolies, the validity of a decree for divorce
based on constructive service, are but a few of the problems in which
‘due process’ is involved.... The rules expounded are as far as
possible based on decisions of the Supreme Court of the United
States.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The author ... succeeds in being concise as well as readable; and he
criticises modestly, but firmly.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 190w.
“The text of the book is admirably unobstructed by confusing detail.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 624. O. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“He displays a sense of proportion and a faculty for generalization,
arrangement and concise and exact statement which render his work
lucid and readable and remarkably free from the clumsiness of much
legal writing.” Thomas Reed Powell.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 541. S. ’07. 1180w.
=McGinley, Anna M. A.= Profit of love: studies in altruism; with preface
by Rev. George Tyrrell. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–4504.
“Is the world growing in love as well as in knowledge? This is the
fundamental question dealt with in the present volume of essays on
human love and its relation to our common daily experiences.... The
dedication of the series ‘to my neighbor’ is significant, and the aim
of the author thruout is to show from a study of the elementary laws
of natural growth that the trend of all human progress is toward
universal brotherhood, enlightened and sustained by a supremely
dominant altruism rather than by man-made laws.... It deals with
principles rather than with their practical application, tho many
useful hints in this direction can be easily gathered by way of
influence.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“The main point is: Has this book power and vitality enough to arouse
views, thoughts, ambitions of any kind in the mind of its readers?
This book has that power and vitality, and we wish a wide circulation
for it.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 705. F. ’07. 840w.
“The book is deeply spiritual, but it does not belong to the
conventional and still less the conventual type of such writings.
Certain accepted educational and religious notions are called in
question with a frankness which, while it may alarm the timid, cannot
fail to prove stimulating to the thoughtful, and for these alone the
book is intended.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 162. Jl. 18, ’07. 390w.
=McGrath, Harold.= Best man. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–30162.
Three stories: “The best man,” “Two candidates,” and “The adventures
of Mr. ‘Shifty’ Sullivan,” make up this volume. The first is the story
of a young lawyer who finds that the millionaire father of the girl he
loves has made more millions by a dishonest transaction and he is torn
between love and duty of disclosure. He chooses duty, but the girl’s
grandfather comes to the rescue and the honest lawyer is able to keep
her love and to see the wrong righted. The second is a tale of love
and politics, and the last tells of how a young minister fought a good
fight.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 140w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Half a rogue. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–43779.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There is nothing new and striking about the story as a study of
American life; while as a romance pure and simple it is far inferior
to the ‘Man on the box.’” Amy C. Rich.
− + =Arena.= 37: 221. F. ’07. 190w.
“There is very little plot in the story, tho much diversity of
incident marks the rather lively narrative. Upon the whole, it is a
good machine-made novel.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 160w.
“We cannot give unstinted praise to Mr. McGrath’s last novel. His
tendency to be epigrammatic is occasionally a trifle wearisome.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 3. Ja. 5, ’07. 880w.
“A bright, entertaining story.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 100w.
=Macgregor, David Hutchison.= Industrial combination. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–12496.
“Everything that can be said either in favor of or against trusts,
cartels, and unions is stated fairly and minutely.... [The author]
analyzes with much skill the various phases of modern
organizations—their productive efficiency, the greater or less risk as
compared with competitive methods, their bargaining strength, their
resources—and discusses at length their relation to labor, especially
in connection with trade unions. He sums up his general views in the
two final chapters—the attitude of public opinion and legislation.”—J.
Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“No student of combinations can afford to dispense with this book and
no reader will fail to learn from it. Copious material has been used,
but it has been so adequately digested that the reader will nowhere
find himself overburdened with detail, though the touch of reality is
preserved throughout by the illustrations selected. The arrangement
suits well the method of treatment.” S. J. Chapman.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 393. Ap. ’07. 990w.
“Mr. Macgregor’s style and mode of presentation are disappointing. His
method, while detailed, is essentially abstract. There is no guiding
purpose visible in the work. It is altogether a fair and impartial
study of the subject, and in this respect is wholly admirable. But
there seems to be no point to which the author is aiming. It is as if
he did not see the wood for the trees, and yet the trees are all
abstractions, not concrete things. This quality will prove a serious
handicap to the success of the work.” Garrett Droppers.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 120. F. ’07. 710w.
“The most careful scientific study which has yet been made in this
field of investigation. Mr. Macgregor’s conclusions are generally as
sane as his methods of procedure are correct. The chief, if not the
only ground for criticism is his disposition to take too seriously
‘official’ material dealing with the trust movement in the United
States.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 153. F. 14, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 768. N. 17, ’06. 310w.
“Mr. Macgregor does not share the view of his compatriot, Mr.
Macrosty, that cartels and trusts are stages in a movement toward
socialism. The reasons for his dissent from that view are given in the
third division of his book and must be considered the least
satisfactory part of his work.” Henry L. Moore.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 337. Je. ’07. 660w.
=Spec.= 97: 177. F. 2, ’07. 300w.
“Perhaps the most instructive feature of the work is its discussion of
the effects of the protective tariff upon the operation of the trusts.
On the whole the work is a valuable addition to the literature of the
general trust movement. It is, however, likely to find its chief
usefulness among the scholarly students of the subject since it is
marred by the constant use of technical terms many of which seem to
have been coined by the author and which he does not usually explain.”
Maurice H. Robinson.
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 330. N. ’07. 1050w.
=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Outlines of the history of painting,
from 1200–1900 A. D. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–30483.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In small compass is given all the information that has so far been
scattered through encyclopedias.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 65. F. 2, ’07. 310w.
=Mach, Ernst.= Space and geometry in the light of physiological,
psychological, and physical inquiry. *$1. Open ct.
6–34085.
“The first essay deals with the relation of the spatial concept to the
senses. In the second we have an attempt to trace the natural
development of geometry from psychological causes, while the last
essay discusses the subject from the point of view of physical
inquiry. Incidentally, a number of illustrations are introduced, some
of which are admirably adapted for teaching purposes.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“The translation is well-nigh perfect.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 519. D. 13, ’06. 580w.
“There could be no more suitable book for giving the elementary or
secondary teacher some intelligent ideas about geometry than Dr.
Mach’s series of essays.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 603. Ap. 25, ’07. 210w.
“We certainly have to thank the Open court publishing company for
adding this little book to the other works of Professor Mach that they
have published in English.” W. T. Marvin.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 259. Ag. 15, ’07. 670w.
=Machen, Arthur.= Hill of dreams; il. by S. H. Sime. †$1.50. Estes.
“The ‘Hill of dreams’ is a study of the perverted mental and moral
development of a boy with an absorbing love of the beautiful. ‘Beauty
for beauty’s sake’ and ‘art for art’s sake’ his cult are accustomed to
call it when they drench a poisonous swamp with perfumes and cover it
with rose leaves.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“There is something sinister in the beauty of Mr. Machen’s book. It is
like some strangely shaped orchid, the colour of which is fierce and
terrible, and its perfume is haunting to suffocation by reason of its
intolerable sweetness.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 273. Mr. 16, ’07. 330w.
“His Muse is a kind of Lilith—not a drop of her blood is human—and
thus, except from the decorative point of view, he leaves us cold.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1. 317. Mr. 16. 410w.
“Although written with noticeable ability, the book in itself has not
sufficient strength to deserve attention here, did it not mark a
curious morbid phase of English fiction in which sound, color, and
scent are put to superfine uses by neurotic young gentlemen who should
be shut up, or set at manual labor.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w.
“This ‘Hill of dreams’ is like nothing so much as a long-drawn-out bad
dream from which one awakens with a feeling of thankfulness that it
isn’t true, after all.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.
=Mackail, John William=, ed. Select epigrams from the Greek anthology.
*75c. Longmans.
“A new edition of ... a book which has long been out of print.... The
word ‘epigram’ is the equivalent of ‘inscriptions,’ and the greater
number of the pieces have this character,—lines inscribed on tombs and
altars and votive offerings and family memorials. In the anthology as
we know it to-day other verses have been added, fragments of idylls,
lyrics, quotations, from forgotten gnomic and dramatic poets.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Mr. Mackail’s introduction is an entirely delightful piece of work.
The subtle and beautifully expressed analysis of the Oxford professor
of poetry makes it quite a different thing from the ordinary
introduction to a classical edition.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ =Acad.= 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1560w.
“This little volume alone suggests that Greek is ‘worth while.’”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 441. Ap. 13. 140w.
“Would that the number of Americans who could make use of so
delightful a book were many times greater.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 40w.
“Its charm is its homeliness, its intimate appeal, and its amazing
range.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 779. N. 17, ’06. 1580w.
“It is not easy to choose where there is so much beauty and pathos.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 581. Ap. 13, ’07. 220w.
=MacKaye, James.= Economy of happiness. **$2.50. Little.
6–28423.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume seems to be the work of a man who has not stopped
learning, and who is likely to use the clues in the present argument
to good purpose in further study of social problems. He is well
entitled to a hearing. The absence of an index is unfortunate.” A. W.
S.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 566. Ja. ’07. 920w.
“Is an elevated and closely knit moral system with an outcome frankly
socialistic.” John Graham Brooks.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 279. F. ’07. 580w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 119. F. 24, ’06. 110w.
=MacKaye, James.= Politics of utility: the technology of
happiness—applied: being book 3 of “The economy of happiness.” **50c.
Little.
6–37899.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is well written and contains some very incisive criticisms
of modern society, and several interesting economic distinctions and
theories, but on the whole, it can be fairly said that the average
thinker would find difficulty in seeing just where the proposed scheme
differs from modern socialism.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 641. My. ’07. 250w.
=Ind.= 62: 102. Ja. 10, ’07. 80w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 313. My. ’07. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 45. Ja. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 230w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Jeanne d’Arc. *$1.25. Macmillan.
6–35545.
“In constructing his drama Mr. Mackaye has focused the interest upon
the child nature of the present heroine—the simplicity that the
records abundantly show was hers—and the mystery of power and
inspiration behind that simplicity. The contrasting character is the
Duc d’Alençon, a skeptic with a rationalism which differs in no
essential from that now in vogue.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A dignified and poetic treatment of one of the noblest of all
possible themes. Such publications are among the most welcome signs of
the times.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 463. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
“There are passages that quite thrill you in the first act of Jeanne
d’Arc. But at the same time there is a kind of inconsequence about the
piece as a whole which destroys, at least to some extent, the effect.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 222. Jl. 25, ’07. 400w.
“It is a succession of moods and pictures with no real dramatic knot,
and with but one or two dramatic situations; and the traditions of
Jeanne d’Arc are sentimentalized to such a degree that they cease to
be quite convincing, either as history or as material for tragedy
embodying a criticism of life.”
− =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 23, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 806. D. 1, ’06. 240w.
“An excellent poetical drama eminently fitted for the stage.” Louise
Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 110w.
“While Mr. Mackaye has not succeeded in fusing this mass of material
into a wholly organic drama, he has succeeded much more nearly in
doing so than would have seemed probable at the outset.” Jessie B.
Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 348. Je. ’07. 240w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Sappho and Phaon: a tragedy, set forth with a
prologue, induction, prelude, interludes, and epilogue. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
7–17376.
In the prologue of this drama the dramatist has imagined the players’
quarter of a theatre of Herculaneum to be unearthed. An archaeologist
present finds a papyrus scroll containing the players’ copy of “Sappho
and Phaon.” The play presents Sappho created entirely from the bits of
her verse that have been preserved. Among Sappho’s lovers are
Pittacus, the Mitylene tyrant, and Alcaeus, while Sappho herself loves
Phaon, a slave, who is bound to his slave mate Thalassa. Pittacus
relinquishes his suit while Alcaeus persecutes Phaon. The tragedy
grows out of these conditions, and into it are woven the traditional
vengeance of the gods, with the modern note of symbolism and
mysticism.
* * * * *
“The trait that lingers in the mind as the finest promise is the way
in which he has invested the old passionate story with intimations of
tender and wistful humanity.” Ferris Greenlet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 848. D. ’07. 700w.
“The least convincing episodes in Mr. MacKaye’s very unusual and
interesting work are those in which, to suit his own fancy rather than
fact, he has endeavored to restore to us the life, customs and habits
of the ancient Roman stage.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 569. S. 5, ’07. 650w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“Dr. Mackaye’s work is the most notable addition that has been made
for many years to American dramatic literature. It is a true poetic
tragedy, classic in form and spirit, not always glowing with the fire
of genius, but nevertheless charged with happy inspiration; dignified,
eloquent, passionate, imaginative; and thoroughly human in its
emotions.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 504. My. 30, ’07. 1060w.
“A work of unusual merit, in which the author’s high aspirations are
measurably justified by his powers of expression, and his feeling for
the spirit of Greek life and art is shown to be allied with
knowledge.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 1540w.
“Considered as a poem to be read ... ‘Sappho and Phaon’ surpasses all
his earlier productions. Considered as a play to be acted, it does not
pass beyond their ineffectiveness.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 880. Ag. 16, ’07. 1490w.
“Here once more Mr. Mackaye’s fantasticality runs riot.” Louise
Collier Willcox.
− =No. Am.= 186: 96. S. ’07. 140w.
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 452. Je. 29, ’07. 460w.
* =McKenzie, F. A.= Unveiled East. *$3.50. Dutton.
A serious dissertation upon the growing imperialism of Japan as
attested by her territorial expansion, increased fighting power, and
aggressive commercial campaign. The author offers his deductions as a
warning to Great Britain and the United States whose trade and
prestige are being threatened.
* * * * *
“We are inclined to fear some little prejudice on the author’s part.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 575. My. 11. 520w.
“His book is well-balanced and reserved in opinion and in fact, and
makes interesting and profitable reading for anyone concerned in Far
Eastern affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 370w.
“Altho Mr. McKenzie’s book is avowedly written for a purpose ... it is
not lacking in entertaining descriptions of the countries he has
visited, and furnishes, on the whole, a valuable contribution to the
literature dealing with the problems of the Far East.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 390w.
“Although we are quite unable to accept all Mr. McKenzie’s conclusions
with regard either to Japan, China, or Russia, his book certainly
constitutes a skilful presentation of the case of Korea.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 238. Ag. 2, ’07. 1200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 474. Ag. 3, ’07. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“We call it ‘remarkable’ for, though the book is full of faults of
manner, including an undue sentimentality, and of arrangement,
including constant repetitions, yet it has the great merit of stating
adequately a point of view which has hitherto been confined to the
conversation of certain Far East residents.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 262. Ag. 24, ’07. 1150w.
=Mackenzie, John Steuart.= Lectures on humanism. (Ethical lib.) **$1.25.
Macmillan.
7–33950.
“Prof. Mackenzie’s own humanism is described as ‘a point of view
from which human life is regarded as an independent centre of
interest’—as contrasted with a naturalism and supernaturalism which
seek the explanation of human life either in the forces around man
or in some powers distinct from man and those forces. In the light
of that description the influence of humanism in philosophy,
politics, economics, education, and religion is studied, and the two
closing chapters examine the limitations and implications of
humanism.”—Nature.
* * * * *
“Prof. Mackenzie’s lectures provide excellent reading. The
metaphysical expert is offered, in a final lecture, a few choice nuts
to crack; whilst for the sociological expert—if, indeed, there is such
a person, it matters less if the argument comes scarcely within bowing
distance of him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 437. O. 12. 730w.
=Ind.= 63: 1369. D. 5, ’07. 820w.
“While in the earlier part of the book discussions are somewhat
abstract and sometimes obscure, even those not metaphysically trained
can read with perfect understanding, lectures iv-ix., which deal with
the applications of these teleological principles to politics,
economics, education, and religion.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 448. N. 14, ’07. 600w.
“Prof. Mackenzie fears that the style of treatment may be regarded as
sketchy; sketchy it is, and the title of the volume perhaps induces
expectations that are not realised; but undeniably the work has
substantial merits.”
+ − =Nature.= 76: 220. Jl. 4, ’07. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 300w.
* =MacKinlay, Malcolm Sterling.= Antoinette Sterling and other
celebrities. **$3.50 Appleton.
These stories and impressions of artistic circles have for their
central figure Madame Sterling. In her youth she studied under the
most famous teachers of Europe and later became an interesting factor
in American music tho “no singer is likely in the future to achieve
such a position as she undoubtedly held with so limited a repertory or
such disregard for the higher technical developments of the art.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. MacKinlay’s memoir of his mother, written in a spirit of true
filial piety, yet with refreshing candour, is well worth reading by
amateurs as well as professionals.” C. L. G.
+ =Spec.= 96: 617. Ap. 21, ’06. 2100w.
=McKinney, Mrs. Kate Slaughter.= Silent witness. $1.50. Neale.
6–46772.
A story of hurried action built up about a crime and the accusation of
the wrong man.
* =Mackinnon, Albert G.= Tangible tests for a young man’s faith. *75c.
West. Meth. bk.
This book offers a remedy for the belief that one must look to
scholars for an answer in all matters pertaining to religious belief.
It is intended to aid self help in arriving at conclusions regarding
the truth of the gospel.
=MacKinnon, James.= History of modern liberty. set, *$10. Longmans.
6–15083.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. Mackinnon has produced a superlatively good book, marred only by
an occasional looseness of style that detracts from the dignity of an
important work.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 421. Mr. 16, ’07. 1690w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Macklin, Herbert W.= The brasses of England. (The antiquary’s books.)
*$2.50. Dutton.
7–38576.
“In this volume, the chronological as opposed to the class division
has been adopted, with the advantage of bringing its subject into a
closer relation with history. The earliest brass is that of Sir John
Daubernon at Stoke D’Abernon. This is dated 1277. Nineteen other
examples belong to the next half-century, the latest but one being
another Daubernon at the same place (1327). These are treated at
length. The regular series begins with chap. 3. The Plantagenet,
Lancastrian, Wars of the roses, and Tudor periods are successively
dealt with. A chapter is given to the spoliation of the
monasteries, ... and another to the Elizabethan revival. The
illustrations are plentiful and excellent.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The indexes are thorough, and the whole arrangement will be found
convenient to the hasty searcher as well as pleasant to the more
leisurely reader.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 2: 104. Jl. 27. 580w.
“The numerous and interesting brasses of Lancashire and Yorkshire and
of the other northern counties are not included, and his book thus
falls short of being a complete account of the brasses of England.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 300w.
“Though it contains little that is new, and some of the illustrations
have been copied or reduced from those in other books, the author has
managed to give a certain freshness to a somewhat hackneyed theme by
connecting it more closely than has hitherto been done with the
history of the country in which the quaint memorials of the dead he so
eloquently describes were produced. The various appendices dealing
with minor groups of brasses, which might perhaps have been with
advantage incorporated in the text, display a really remarkable grasp
of a subject that would appear to be practically inexhaustible.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 168. Ag. ’07. 220w.
“The entire book is certain to interest students of the literature and
art of the centuries in which monumental brasses were produced.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 312. O. 3, ’07. 800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 356. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
Reviewed by Charles De Kay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 452. Jl. 20, ’07. 2000w.
“He has already earned a right to champion the cause of brasses, and
his thorough and comprehensive survey of them gives him a further
claim to plead for their better perservation.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 686. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.
=Spec.= 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.
=Maclaren, Alexander.= Expositions of Holy Scripture. 30v. ea. *$1.25.
Armstrong.
“A commentary on the entire Bible, in 30 volumes. Sold in series of
six volumes. The treatment proceeds on the plan of an ‘anthology of
the passages best suited for homiletic treatment in the expository
method.’”
=ser. 1.= Genesis, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Matthew.
=ser. 2.= Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers; Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges,
Ruth and the First book of Samuel; Second book of Samuel and the First
book of Kings; St. Mark, 2 v.; and Acts of the Apostles, 1st. v.
* * * * *
“Full of insight and suggestiveness.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w. (Review of first ser.)
“The work is rather voluminous and diffusive, making it cumbersome and
expensive for practical use.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 90w. (Review of first ser.)
“Dr. Maclaren is always intent on spiritual truths, felicitous in
drawing instructive modern parallels to ancient experiences, ingenious
in making unpromising sentences yield fruitful lessons, and putting
fresh point into trite texts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 200w. (Review of second ser.)
=Macleane, Douglas.= Reason, thought and language; or, The many and the
one: a revised system of logical doctrine in relation to the forms of
idiomatic discourse. *$6. Oxford.
7–29051.
A book whose object is “to strengthen and revivify formal logic by
bringing into close connection with the living facts of thought and
speech.” “His work is rather a restatement and a defence of
traditional doctrines.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“This is a pleasantly written, discursive, fairly comprehensive book
on logic, and a notable feature of it is the unusual number, variety,
and freshness of the examples given. The chief objection which Mr.
Macleane has failed to meet is that the more intentionally formal our
logic the less can the actual risk of ‘ambiguous middle’ be taken into
account.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 606. D. 15, ’06. 620w.
“Apart from the defects of the traditional standpoint, Mr. Macleane’s
book has much to recommend it. Though in some places needlessly
prolix, the author generally expresses his views with much sense,
point, and an abundant supply of appropriate and often humorous
examples.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 185. Ag. 17. 1880w.
“In so far as it deals with logic as an art, Mr. Macleane’s book will
be useful for reference even if it is too long and discursive for the
classroom. In his discussion of extra-logical subjects, he is not
always convincing.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w.
“There can be no question of its learning and ability. Formal logic is
apt to be heavy reading to the average mind, and the lavish
introduction of this relieving element of bright and amusing
illustration is a real gain in the lengthy and solid volume before
us.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 518. O. 26, ’07. 1370w.
=Macleod, Mary.= A book of ballad stories. $1.50. Stokes.
7–35074.
Many old friends will be found in new prose dress. Patient Griselda,
The beggar’s daughter of Bethnal Green, Thomas the rhymer, The Robin
Hood cycle, King Cophetua and the beggar maid, The friar of orders
gray, and two score more.
* * * * *
“Much of the charm of the originals is unavoidably sacrificed in the
change of form.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 53. F. ’07.
“Prof. Edward Dowden has written an excellent historical introduction.
[She turns] the swinging rhythm into something else without weighing
carefully the taste for poetry which young people largely possess.”
− + =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=McMahan, Mrs. Anna B.= Shakespeare’s Christmas gift to Queen Bess.
**$1. McClurg.
7–33927.
A story woven around the first presentation of “A midsummer night’s
dream” at the court of Queen Elizabeth.
* * * * *
“A whimsical bibelot, which may be counted upon to please fastidious
readers both in substance and mechanical features.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 160w.
=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Byron in Italy; being a selection of
the poems and letters of Lord Byron which have to do with his life in
Italy from 1816 to 1823. **$1.40. McClurg.
6–34853.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In one sense the compiler is certainly a follower of Byron—in the
carelessness of her style. The information which she imparts could be
read just as easily in almost any literary history. The selections
from the letters and poems are aggravatingly cut about by lacunæ and
curtailments.”
− =Acad.= 72: 92. Ja. 26, ’07. 650w.
“Is a pleasant, if not quite equal companion to the admirable ‘With
Shelley in Italy,’ which appeared last year. The new book has a little
the air of having been made as an afterthought, or to order, because
of the merited success of the earlier.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 500w.
“It does not throw any new light on Byron or help us to more
understanding or enjoyment of his poems.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 150. F. 2, ’07. 120w.
=McMahan, Anna Benneson=, ed. With Wordsworth in England. **$1.40.
McClurg.
7–31456.
A selection of the poems and letters of William Wordsworth which have
to do with English scenery and English life. An author’s viewpoint and
the world he looks upon are no where better commanded than from the
subjective realm of his own poetry, for that reason this volume of
Wordsworth’s verse is offered as “a guide to some of his well-beloved
haunts.”
* * * * *
“Mrs. McMahan has already proved herself ... a singularly inspiring
guide to intimate acquaintance with recondite poetic treasure.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 370w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“The volume is thus an excellent supplement to Mr. Rannie’s (which is
illustrated less freely), although her own introductions and comments
are of no special value.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 521. D. 5, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Bliss Carman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 701. N. 2, ’07. 1280w.
=McMaster, John Bach.= History of the people of the United States, from
the Revolution to the Civil war. v. 6, 1830–1842. **$2.50. Appleton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The volume before us presents a coherent, comprehensive, and
illuminating narrative. It is not a series of monographs, but gives
the impression of the progressive development of national powers in
relation to one another. A few typographical errors have been noted.”
C. H. Levermore.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 899. Jl. ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 6.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07. S. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 179. Mr. 16, ’07. 890w. (Review of v. 6.)
“This big book, which may well be called a life-work, is a mine of
information. All the severest demands of the new school as to
scholarship and industry are fully met, and there is in it a wholesome
human sympathy.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 251. My. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 6.)
=McNaugher, John=, ed. Psalms in worship; a series of convention papers
bearing upon the place of the Psalms in the worship of the church. *$1.
Un. Presb.
7–18116.
These papers were presented at two Presbyterian conventions called to
promote the claims of the Psalms in the field of worship and they are
now published in the hope that they may influence the Christian church
at large to “restore the Psalms to their true place in the hearts and
on the lips of Christian believers.” The volume contains “a
comprehensive statement of the reasons for the exclusive use in
worship of the Bible Psalms. Definitely argumentative discussions of a
doctrinal and critical kind are in the forefront. Others of broader
type succeed.”
=Macnaughtan, S.= Lame dog’s diary. †$1.50 Dodd.
6–6931.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The whole is like a bit of ‘Cranford’ with a few more masculine
complications.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 190w.
=McPherson, Logan Grant.= Working of the railroads. **$1.50. Holt.
6–43941.
“The author does not so much analyze the technical work of the
individual railroad departments as the general principles which they
pursue in their work.... The separate chapters deal with construction
and operation, traffic, accounting and statistics, financial and
executive administration, correlation and integration of the railroads
and with their relations to the public and the state.” (Ann. Am.
Acad.) “It would pay the railroads to buy a million copies of this
book and place it in the hands of the public for educational
purposes.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. S.
“The general and elementary principles of railroad transportation are
explained in an interesting way.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 416. Mr. ’07. 210w.
“In a most scientific and careful manner it presents the various
functions of railroading.” John J. Halsey.
+ =Dial.= 42: 282. My. 1. ’07. 1170w.
“The value of the book lies in the fact that it is a clear and concise
exposition of its subject, written by one who is both a practical
railroad man and a trained economist.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 1211. My. 23, ’07. 390w.
“While the attitude of Mr. McPherson is naturally favorable to the
railroad, he is very fair in his treatment of mooted questions.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 570. N. ’07. 130w.
“To the subject of actual government control and regulation, and to
the arguments that support this agitation, Mr. McPherson has given a
careful and impartial study.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 290w.
“A modest attempt, distinctly successful within its limits, to explain
the operation of an American railway.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.
=Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 470w.
“This little volume provides material for instruction in railroad
economics, much needed, but difficult of attainment by most teachers.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 559. S. ’07. 120w.
“For those who wish to get a good general outline of the railroad
situation in this country without going much into details, Mr.
McPherson’s book can be heartily recommended, and not the least
important part of it is the list of references with which the book
concludes.” Ray Morris.
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 326. N. ’07. 1280w.
=Macray, Rev. William Dunn.= Register of the members of St. Mary
Magdalen college. Oxford, from the foundation of the college, v. 5.
*$2.50. Oxford.
=v. 5.= “The present volume consists of two portions. In the first we
have extracts from the registers and accounts, in the second
biographical notices of fellows and demies,—every one may not know
that ‘Demy’ is the Magdalen name for a scholar.... There is a quite
indescribable medley of facts in the extracts. All of them will have
an interest for members of the college, and many have a general
significance.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1907. 1: 44. Ja. 12. 490w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The extracts in the volume have been carefully compiled.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 88. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 5.)
+ =Spec.= 97: 685. N. 3, ’06. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Famous painters of America. **$2.50.
Crowell.
7–30413.
This book does not discuss art, altho it deals with artists. The
personal and picturesque side of men known to the casual reader is
presented here with much amusing anecdote and comment. The lives of
Benjamin West, Copley, Stuart, Inness, Vedder, Homer, La Farge,
Whistler, Sargent, Abbey and Chase are given and there are three dozen
handsome full page illustrations from photographs of the artists and
their works.
* * * * *
“The book is not well written, is florid in style, but contains
material on some of the later artists of which little is to be found
elsewhere except in magazine files or expensive works.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 195. N. ’07.
“It ought to appeal to the holiday buyer who is interested in art from
the outside.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 404. D. ’07. 190w.
“While its point of view is popular there is nothing superficial about
its method.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 200w.
“The author has done what he has tried to do, which is more than can
be said about every writer.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1121. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“The general reader might find some mild entertainment in it—it makes
no pretense to give any information about art.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 50w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 361. D. ’07. 30w.
“It is anecdotal in the extreme.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 760. D. ’07. 50w.
=McTaggart, John Ellis.= Some dogmas of religion. *$3. Longmans.
7–7484.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Dr. McTaggart is a master of clear definition and concise
ratiocination. Indeed, his clearness and conciseness are of such
exquisite quality that almost of themselves they afford the impression
of wit.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 320. Mr. 17. 1240w.
=Cath. World.= 84: 563. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“This arbitrary method of criticism seems to us to vitiate a good deal
of the book. It is undeniably clever, and very many good things are
said; and it fully sustains Dr. McTaggart’s reputation as a clear
thinker and a lucid writer; but much of it is likely to produce
irritation rather than reflection.” David Phillips.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 383. Ap. ’07. 2260w.
“This very curious volume has interest as disclosing a personality and
as illustrating a phase of thought. It is written in a simple almost
childlike style, without the slightest pretence. The author does not
seem to be aware of the conflict and incompatibility of the various
elements in his mind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 591. My. 12, ’06. 1240w.
=MacWhirter, John.= MacWhirter sketch book; being reproductions of a
selection of sketches in color and pencil from the sketch book of John
MacWhirter, designed to assist the student of landscape painting in
water color. $1.50. Cassell.
“Wonderfully exact reproductions of sketches in color and pencil by a
famous Scotch water colorist, designed to assist the student. There
are no fewer than twenty-four full-page reproductions of water color
studies, the landscape being generally either Scotch or Swiss or
Italian.... There is an introduction by Edwin Bale, and some
interesting notes by the artist are also included.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The pencil sketches, even the slightest of them, will be found of
value by the student.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 304. My. 11. ’07. 130w.
“In spite of this flavour of a bygone time, there are one or two
sketches which have in them that freshness and charm which are so
often worried out of finished exhibition pictures.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 542. Ap. 6, ’07. 130w.
=Macy, Arthur.= Poems. *$2.25. Clarke, W. B.
5–36098.
“A memorial volume of an unusually pleasant quality.... Mr. Macy was
essentially the poet of good-fellowship. If such an impulse does not
produce, in his own phrase, ‘Poetry with a big P,’ yet ... it does
possess a very comfortable and lasting appeal.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is informed with a genuine warmth of sentiment, a Thackerayan
humor, and a mellow morality, and is expressed with a clean music of
phrase.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ’05. 300w.
“Mr. Macy showed a felicity in the choice of words and an almost
unerring ear for perfection of rhyme, combined with an unusual
exactness in the use of difficult meter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 523. Ag. 25, ’06. 230w.
=Madden, John.= Forest friends: the woodland adventures of a boy
pioneer. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–12644.
It is of a little lad of seven with a passionate, enduring love of the
forest and its wild inhabitants that Mr. Madden writes. The
experiences that result from a child’s quick fascination of things of
the woods are told reflectively out of the fulness of the man’s
memory.
* * * * *
“A good example of the static drama. It fills a real need in supplying
a record of the animal life of regions near at hand in the early days
of man’s occupation.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 42: 369. Je. 16, ’07. 630w.
“Will be read with profit by many other men’s sons.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
“Although no new facts are added to our store of knowledge, it is a
relief to read a book treating of just ordinary creatures with
ordinary habits.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.
“Not necessarily for the boy, but quite as attractive to the boy’s
father.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
=Madison, James.= Writings; comprising his public papers and private
correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the
first time printed: ed. by Gaillard Hunt. *$5. Putnam.
=v. 6.= “This volume covers the years 1790 to 1802. There is little
that is new.... About half of it consists of Madison’s speeches in the
First Congress, ... his various contributions to Freneau’s ‘National
gazette,’ ‘Helvidius,’ his speech on the Jay treaty, and his Virginian
report of 1799–1800. The rest is correspondence, embracing a dozen or
so of family letters.... There are also a few new letters, and from
Madison’s assumption of the secretaryship of state in May, 1801, an
important series of instructions to the American representatives in
England, France, and Spain. The footnotes, though not numerous, are
almost uniformly good.” (Am. Hist. R.)
* * * * *
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 697. Ap. ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The printing of so many speeches is of doubtful utility, as the
reporting of that day was notoriously defective, and these summaries
can only be comprehended from their context in the ‘Annals.’ The space
thus occupied could have been better employed by including more of the
correspondence, and especially the letters to Jefferson. The notes of
the editor are judicious and accurate.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Madison, Lucy (Foster) (Mrs. Winfield Scott Madison).= Maid of Salem
towne. †$1.25. Penn.
6–11309.
Into this story of the charming little maid who came so near being
hanged for a witch, and who was rescued in dramatic fashion by her
friends at a critical moment, are woven sketches of the good old
colony folk including Cotton Mather himself. The whole forms a vivid
picture of life in a time more picturesque than comfortable.
* * * * *
“Most happily told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 880. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
Madonna of the poets; an anthology of only the best poems written about
the Blessed Virgin. *85c. Benziger.
“An anthology covering a long period of literature. Many of the
verses ... are far from being widely known to-day. Robert Grosseteste,
William Forest, Richard Rowlands, Ben Jonson, Sir John Beaumont,
George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, represent the
inspiration of the Madonna in English life, from the middle ages till
long after England had ceased to be Catholic. Among the modern
contributors are Wordsworth, Newman, Hawker, Aubrey de Vere, Coventry
Patmore, George Macdonald, Father Tabb, Alice Meynell, Louise Imogen
Guiney, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Rudyard Kipling.” (Cath.
World.)
* * * * *
“A very curious mingling of pieces.”
+ − =Acad.= 70: 374. Ap. 21, ’06. 1340w.
=Cath. World.= 84: 558. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Measure of the hours; tr. by Alexander Teixeira
de Mattos. **$1.40. Dodd.
7–15583.
Some new essays and others lately appearing in magazines are included
among the twelve of this group. The collection “is somewhat
heterogeneous, and ranges over questions of morality, social duty,
literary appreciation, scenery and popular science.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A book of fragments, not all of equal value.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 1150w.
“All of them are admirably translated, so far as one may judge without
comparing the French, by Mr. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, and many of
them offer something novel and worthy of more than a moment’s
pondering.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.
“The main interest of nearly all these essays is essentially that of
the earlier volumes; the aim is still to combat insensibility to the
possibilities of unguessed mysteries in what lies around us.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 546. Je. 13, ’07. 870w.
+ =Nature.= 76: 198. Je. 27, ’07. 120w.
“Maeterlinck can weave mysticism, educe a moral, out of whatever comes
to his hand. The merit of his style, of its pellucid originality, is
the metaphor and that metaphor generally a single type,
personification. It is no willful trick of style, no imposed
elaborateness of location. It is the simple expression of his vision.”
Florence Wilkinson.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 662. O. 19, ’07. 1570w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 100w.
=Maffitt, Emma Martin.= Life and services of John Newland Maffitt; il.
$3. Neale.
7–429.
A sympathetic sketch of Captain John Newland Maffitt, seaman,
surveyor, commander, author and patriot.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 90w.
=Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 80w.
* Magda, queen of Sheba; tr. into French from the original Ghese, by
Hugues Le Roux, and from the French into English by Mrs. John Van Vorst;
with an introd. by Hugues Le Roux. **$1.20. Funk.
The alleged romance of the historic Queen of Sheba translated from
“The glory of the kings,” an ancient royal Abyssinian manuscript.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
“Textually it is a remarkable book—curiously compounded of stately
phrases imitated from the authorized version and other phrases
singularly bald, modern, and pedestrian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 695. N. 2, ’07. 1680w.
“The volume, which is half story, half study, has an undoubted
literary charm as well as historic value.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 80w.
=Magill, Edward Hicks.= Sixty-five years in the life of a teacher.
**$1.50. Houghton.
7–9847.
“Dr. Magill’s career as a teacher began when he was sixteen. He is now
over eighty, so that his career as an educator literally spans the
whole history of the development of American education.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“The work is very unpretentious in style and naïve in its
simple-hearted revelations of the writer’s feelings, filial, paternal,
and professional.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 258. Ap. 16, ’07. 240w.
=Educ. R.= 34: 208. S. ’07. 80w.
“Given with much detail, and forms one of the most interesting
chapters of American educational history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 678. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.
“Taken as a human document, this autobiography has something of the
charm and flavor of the old-time Quaker journals, their unconscious
wholesomeness and delightful naïveté.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 810w.
“To those interested in educational matters his book would have been
of more value if it had had more of the pedagogical and less of the
personal note.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 195. Mr. 30, ’07. 390w.
“It is ... an exemplification of the rule that autobiographies are
never dull.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 104. O. ’07. 480w.
=Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet.= Master spirit. †$1.50. Little.
6–35732.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“If it had been handled with considerably more restraint, and if the
characters concerned had been a little more like ordinary human beings
and not quite such impossible combinations of superlative virtue and
cleverness, vindictiveness and villainy, it might easily have made a
better book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 24: 591. F. ’07. 340w.
“Is the strongest novel yet written by Sir William Magnay.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 180w.
=Mahaffy, John Pentland.= Silver age of the Greek world. *$3. Univ. of
Chicago press.
6–20870.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“After all, it is the only book of its kind. Nowhere else can one get
a connected survey of what the Greeks were doing and thinking and
saying under the dominance of that empire whose social life has been
depicted in such a scholarly and yet fascinating manner by Professor
Dill.” B. Perrin.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 580w.
“It is much to be regretted that a scholar of distinction should have
published a work which everywhere exhibits the wide range of his
learning, but which seems to bear clear signs of hasty compilation and
an imperfect appreciation of what readers may justly look for in a
costly and, it might have been presumed, authoritative work.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 116. Ja. 26, ’07. 750w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= From sail to steam: recollections of naval life.
**$2.25. Harper.
7–32861.
This narrative of naval affairs, much of it in the form of personal
reminiscences, tells of the change from sail to steam power, and so
becomes a history of the old navy and the new. It is an authoritative
account and although intimate, none the less permits of impersonal
conclusions and generalizations.
* * * * *
“A very attractive book, which albeit devoid of much striking incident
or much stirring adventure, is full of Captain Mahan himself.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 356. N. 22, ’07. 1870w.
“A capital book, this, to take up of a winter’s evening, when the day
has been long and trying.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 610. N. 23, ’07. 210w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 100w.
“The author has, indeed, ‘let himself go,’ which must have been a very
pleasant change from his usual austerity of construction and argument,
and the reader shares the delights of the escapade. The mixture of
autobiography, anecdote and essay is only less casual than the
autobiography Mark Twain is publishing.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 614. O. 26, ’07. 7800w.
* =Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Some neglected aspects of war; together with
The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture
of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.
“A group of articles demonstrating the necessary and righteous part
played in modern civilization by war, broadly considered, and the
impossibility of replacing it shortly by any other agency, the
conditions of the world remaining as they now are.”
=Maine, Sir Henry James.= Ancient law with introduction and notes by Sir
Frederick Pollock. **$1.75. Holt.
7–26409.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 221. Ja. ’07. 360w.
+ + =Nation.= 84: 159. F. 14, ’07. 480w.
=Maitland, Frederic William.= Life and letters of Leslie Stephen.
*$4.50. Putnam.
7–15902.
The biographer holds the reader’s attention close to the moral and
intellectual qualities “which gradually made Leslie Stephen the first
among English critics and thinkers and one of the most influential
among English moralists.” (Nation.) “Quite apart from the admirable
literary form of the record, Professor Maitland has presented us with
the portrait of an intensely human character, who took life, sunshine
and thunder alike, with a free forehead and a free heart.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Will amply repay reading.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 463. N. 10, ’06. 1620w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 684. D. 1. 1830w.
“The biography now published should be the most welcome of books to
all whose interests are engaged in the highest ideals of thought and
conduct.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 102. F. 16, ’07. 3000w.
“It may be doubted if the present year will bring us from England a
biographical work surpassing this in real literary distinction and
literary value.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 178. F. 2, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Maitland has done as well for Leslie Stephen as Leslie Stephen
did for Fitzjames, and the only possible ground of complaint is that
he has not given us quite enough of himself.” Sir Frederick Pollock.
+ + + =Living Age.= 252: 153. Ja. 19, ’07. 2990w. (Reprinted from
Independent Review.)
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 384. D. 16, ’06. 2290w.
“He has composed a biography which thrills in every line with
affection and admiration for his hero, but never lies.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 12. Ja. 3, ’07. 2410w.
“Part of its charm is the unconscious subsidiary portrait that the
biographer has done of himself.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 14. Ja. 12, ’07. 1520w.
Reviewed by Ferris Greenslet.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 195. Ja. 18, ’07. 1680w.
“For American readers the book would have been better had the author,
or editor—for he is more editor than author—given a little more
historical background. Historically the letters need some
interpretation.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 759. Mr. 30, ’07. 1720w.
“It has not a trace of the cant of conventional biography. He has the
double advantage of having known Stephen intimately and of having
deserved to know him.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 633. F. ’07. 1000w.
“Professor Maitland’s book is neither a criticism, nor an
appreciation, nor a panegyric; it is a living and breathing portrait
of a modest, strong, active-minded, melancholy, tenderhearted man. The
lights are not heightened, the shadows not deepened.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 580. N. 10, ’06. 1920w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the merits of Mr. Maitland’s
work. Written in a style which rivals Stephen’s own in nervous
strength, and excels it, perhaps, in colour and certain whimsical
humour, it presents a most living portrait of a most vital being.”
+ + + =Spec.= 97: 1047. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
=Malet, Lucas, pseud.= See =Harrison, M. S. K.=
=Malim, Margaret F.= Old English woodcarving patterns; from oak
furniture of the Jacobean period. *$4.50. Lane.
7–29184.
“A large portfolio containing reproductions of facsimile drawings from
rubbings, designed especially for teachers, students and classes.
Thirty examples are shown on twenty plates.... All the patterns given
in this portfolio have been collected from genuine pieces of old oak
furniture from various parts of the country.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
=Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 85. My. ’07. 510w.
“A really useful portfolio.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 130w.
* =Mallock, William Hurrell.= Critical examination of socialism. **$2.
Harper.
A controversial treatment of the entire subject of socialism which may
serve as a first introduction to the subject and which points out with
equal fairness the strong and weak points of the system as it exists
at the present time. The author discusses the historical beginning of
socialism, Marxian socialism, the proximate and ultimate difficulties,
individual motive and democracy, Christian socialism, the just reward
of labor, interest and abstract justice, equality of opportunity and
the social policy of the future.
* * * * *
“The book contains some crudities of plan and detail and an
inexcusable number of grammatical or typographical errors.”
− =Engin. N.= 58: 296. S. 12, ’07. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
* =Malvery, Olive Christian.= Soul market. †$1.50. McClure.
The experiences and observation of Miss Malvery who impersonated
various types of slum folk for the sake of studying their lives at
close range.
* * * * *
“The cleverly delineated views from an inner standpoint are more fresh
and impressive than methodical statistics.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 133. F. 2. 210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Manly, John Matthews=, comp. English poetry, 1170–1892. *$1.50. Ginn.
7–11577.
A high school and college text which includes between fifty and sixty
thousand lines of poetry from the beginning of the Middle-English
period down to the death of Tennyson. Intrinsic worth and beauty, and
special significance in the history of English literature have
determined the choice of the poems.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 400w.
=Mann, Charles Riborg, and Twiss, George Ransom.= Physics. *$1.25.
Scott.
5–33989.
In Professor Mann’s thoroly modern textbook, “intended for third or
fourth year high school or freshman collegiate students ... he has
abolished such problems as ‘let the forces a, b and c meet at the
point q’ and substituted real concrete examples of the applications of
physical formulae. He has substituted photographs of modern machinery,
such as turbine engines, motors and loop-the-loop, for the antiquated
and diagrammatic illustrations of the old text-books.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Professor Mann has made a special effort to make the student realize
that physics is a practical subject and necessary to the understanding
of the operations of daily life. Some of his pictures seem unnecessary
and somewhat kindergartenish.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 259. Ag. 2, ’06. 170w.
=Nation.= 83: 203. S. 6, ’06. 60w.
=Mann, Horace K.= Lives of the popes in the early middle ages. v. 2 and
3: The popes during the Carolingian empire, Leo III. to Formosus,
795–891. ea. *$3. Herder.
These volumes “include a period of thirty-three years and six
pontificates,—Popes in those days very seldom even approached the
‘annos Petri.’ This was the time of the ‘false decretals,’ and Mr.
Mann is at great pains to show that the Popes with whom he is
concerned did not use the evidence which these forgeries offered to
support their claims.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“He has gone over his sources with painstaking care, and has thrown an
extensive mass of historical erudition into an easy and well-ordered
narrative. If there is anything in this volume against which one might
feel inclined to utter an adverse criticism, it is the polemical note
which strikes us as over-assertive in Father Mann’s pages.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 84: 413. D. ’06. 410w. (Review of v. 3.)
“As Mr. Mann has given us the facts, we need not be in any way
prejudiced by his deductions. But here we think the value of the work
before us ceases. It will be known as a handy and compendious book of
reference (it would be still more handy if the index were not so
inadequate), and though we cannot deny that the author has, to some
extent, read himself into the atmosphere of the early middle ages, he
gives us little that is new or original in the encyclopaedic knowledge
which he has so diligently culled from well-known sources. To literary
style he disclaims all pretension, but by the want of it his volumes
miss the charm which might otherwise surround his subject.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 2. Ja. 4, ’07. 1300w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
=Spec.= 96: sup. 1017. Je. 30, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Though we differ from Mr. Mann on various points, we may sincerely
congratulate him on bringing this learned work to a successful
conclusion.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 238. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w. (Review of v. 3.)
Manners and social usages: revised and corrected. $1.25. Harper.
A complete revision of a standard work which offers suggestions for
proper conduct in all the ordinary walks and emergencies of life. It
is based on broad principles of good taste and consideration for
others, and on the social conditions of our country.
* * * * *
“We know of no other book that so amply meets the need.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 226. Jl. 25, ’07. 170w.
“The present volume is excellent of its sort, well-written, clear,
tactful. It tells the social aspirant all he needs to know.”
Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 266. Ap. 27, ’07. 640w.
=Mannix, Mary Ella.= Patron saints for Catholic youth. 60c. Benziger.
=v. 3.= Includes St. Francis Xavier, St. Patrick, St. Louis, St.
Charles, St. Catharine, St. Elizabeth, St. Margaret and St. Claire.
=Mansfield, Blanche McManus (Mrs. M. F. Mansfield).= Our little Dutch
cousin. †60c. Page.
6–18353.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The visit of a little New York boy to his cousin in Holland is the
pretext for much interesting information that an American child would
most enjoy.”
+ =Bookm.= 24: 530. Ja. ’07. 40w.
=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Automobilist
abroad; with il. and decorations by Blanche McManus. *$3. Page.
7–21289.
“Mr. Miltoun ... might have called his book ‘The automobilist’s hotel
abroad,’ for in his running commentary on the roads and routes of
Europe he lays special emphasis upon the methods of catering to
motorists, and he has no hesitancy in mentioning by name the good and
inferior inns one may meet in different towns.... The European
motorist will find considerable practical information in the closing
chapters of the book. One gives a short account of the leading
European races and winners; another tells how to join the touring club
of France, and another gives a comprehensive digest of the automobile
regulations, custom duties, and methods of securing drivers’ licenses
and registrations in different countries.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Miltoun’s enthusiasm for the motor-car, however, does not
overbalance the practical and practicable problems of touring abroad.
Every point of such a tour ... is adequately and interestingly
recounted by the author of this book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 211. O. 1, ’07. 730w.
“His book has the distinction of being one of the first satisfactory
volumes of travel written by an automobilist.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 308. O. 3, ’07. 770w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 340w.
“While not exactly an automobilist’s vade mecum, it contains all the
essential elements of a motor guide through Europe, presented through
the medium of a personal and very practical experience.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 432. Jl. 6, ’07. 1020w.
=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Castles and chateaux
of old Touraine and the Loire country; il. by Blanche McManus. $3. Page.
6–29521.
Leisurely wanderings thru the Loire country have made possible in this
sketch more of atmosphere and historic setting than conventional
rambles usually permit. It is Touraine’s feudal and Renaissance
châteaux that chiefly occupy the author. Blois, with its counts who
rivalled in power and wealth the churchmen of Tours and the dukes of
Brittany, Cambord with its master-builders’ massive art, Amboise, the
rival of the capital in cradling the thought and action of fifteenth
and sixteenth century monarchs, are described, with many another
château, in the light of their monumental glory. The volume is
handsomely illustrated.
* * * * *
“It is a pity that Mr. Miltoun should continue to present his material
in so disorderly a form. His arrangement lacks both method and
sequence, and his style has a qualified and uncertain ring that is
very annoying.”
+ − =Dial.= 41: 394. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“Old Touraine ... is here vividly portrayed with brush and pen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15. ’06. 120w.
“Thus we have in this book, a series of personal impressions unrolled
like a panorama, the course of which is stayed from time to time,
while author and artist bring up something from the past which may
pleasurably instruct without a too heavy laying on of archæology,
history or architectural technique.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 769. N. 24, ’06. 450w.
“Both in pictures and text much of interest and value is furnished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1. ’06. 160w.
“This is a pretty and attractive but rather confusing book. Though
very pleasant reading, the book as a whole, rather lacks proportion,
repetition is not absent, and the wanderings become a little
bewildering.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 641. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
=Mansfield, Milburg F. (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Rambles on the
Riviera: being some account of journeys made en automobile and things
seen in the fair land of Provence; il. by Blanche McManus. $2.50. Page.
6–29989.
Not a book of historical or archaeological importance, not a
conventional book of travel or a “glorified guide book,” but a record
of personal observations on the picturesque, romantic and
topographical aspects of the French Riviera proper.
* * * * *
Reviewed by William Rice.
=Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 572. S. 15, ’06. 580w.
=Mantle, Beatrice.= Gret: the story of a pagan. †$1.50. Century.
7–29091.
An Oregon lumber camp furnishes the setting of this story whose young
heroine is more the daughter of the camp than of her selfish father
who spends his wealth in the cities and returns home now and then to
nag and to criticise the unrestrained manner in which his wife is
bringing Gret up. The wild free life of the camp, Gret’s unthinking
joy in its content suffer never an interruption until love comes when
she is changed into a thoughtful woman.
* * * * *
“A sterling book unmarred by convention.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 270. N. ’07. 580w.
“With so much of the smart and the tailormade in our fiction, it is a
pleasure to come now and then upon a novel which holds one such human
breathing creature as Gret.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 590w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“But vivid as Gret’s personality is made and absorbing as is the story
of her triumphs, there is never a moment when either gets out of the
realm of romance into commonplace reality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 300w.
“Altogether the story has a refreshing novelty, and is well worth
reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
* =Marble, Annie Russell.= Heralds of American literature: a group of
patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50. Univ.
of Chicago press.
The aim of this book is to recount in detailed study, and largely from
original sources, the lives and services of a group of typical writers
during the pioneer days of national growth, who revealed the standards
and aspirations of their time, and who announced the dawn of a
national literature, although their own products were often immature
and crude. The group includes Franklin, Francis Hopkinson, Philip
Freneau, John Trumbull, a group of Hartford wits, Joseph Dennie,
William Dunlap and Charles Brockden Brown.
=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= By wit of woman. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–16736.
“Given the ingredients of the girl, the prince, the
kingdom-in-the-mountains, garnished with palaces, gold-laced
officials, and highly spiced with an unprincipled lady spy, one can
stir together a romantic pudding that is sure to appeal to the average
appetite.... The author ... has sought to do nothing more than to turn
out precisely such a readable yarn.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“A novel devoid of evidence of artistic ambition.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 1: 662. Je. 2. 150w.
“Obviously one need claim nothing strikingly new for the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 419. Je. 30, ’06. 250w.
=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= In the cause of freedom; with a front. in
colors by Archie Gunn. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–16375.
“A travelling Englishman comes upon a Polish maiden, in the company of
a notorious conspirator, both pursued by the police, in a village of
Russian Poland. The conspirator is dispatched early in the game, and
the maiden is left on the Englishman’s hands. Being highspirited and
impressionable, the Englishman is nothing loth to accept the charge,
and the pair lead the police a merry chase all the way to Warsaw,
where the action culminates in street riots and other forms of
excitement.”—Dial.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 42: 379. Je. 16, ’07. 110w.
“The pages fairly sizzle with excitement from beginning to end.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 500. Ag. 17, ’07. 130w.
“If our credulity had not been strengthened by much similar strong
food, it would be overtaxed to learn of the succession of hairbreadth
escapes and gallant rescues credited to Robert Anstruther, the hero.
But, if we must read these romances, it is less fatiguing to believe
than to question.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
=Marden, Orison Swett.= Optimistic life; or, In the cheering-up
business. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–27001.
Thirty-eight chapters of optimistic wisdom which constitute what might
be termed the “scriptures of the toilers.” The keynote is the higher
success, and Mr. Marden points out how and when it may be discovered
in all phases of business. He discusses such subjects as business
integrity, the need of proper vocations, leaving one’s troubles at the
office, the difference between work and drudgery, the cost of an
explosive temper, and the habit of not feeling well.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 564. S. 21, ’07. 180w.
* =Marden, Philip Sanford.= Greece and the Aegean islands. **$3.
Houghton.
7–36985.
A book of travel and description which will serve as a guide to many
who have the Grecian archipelago in view and as a book of reminiscence
to all who have taken the journey. Entering Greece by “the front door
of the kingdom”—by way of the Piræus—the tour includes Athens, Delphi,
Mycenæ, Nauplia, Epidaurus, Olympia, and among the islands, Delos,
Samos, Cos, Cnidos, Rhodes, and others. The book is handsomely
illustrated.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.= Richard III, his life and character
reviewed in the light of recent research; with a portrait and a map.
*$3.50. Dutton.
7–10996.
In which the character of Richard III is rehabilitated, and this last
of the Plantagenets is made to appear as “a good son, a devoted
husband, and a loving father;” in which it is affirmed “that he
cherished his relatives, was a kind and trusty friend, and an
honorable and magnanimous foe.” (N. Y. Times.) The defense goes to
prove that the two sons of Edward IV. did not die in the reign of
Richard III. but survived until after the accession of Henry VII.
* * * * *
“He seems to imagine that to repeat a statement over and over again
makes it true, and that citations from earlier writers take the place
of original documents.”
− =Acad.= 72: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 1220w.
“The reasoning that Sir Clements Markham uses is very ingenious but
hardly convincing, and he does not improve his case by attempting in
his closing chapter to show that Mr. Gairdner is inconsistent in his
portrayal of Richard.” N. M. Trenholme.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 134. O. ’07. 870w.
“His book is ingenious, bright and readable; he marshals his arguments
cunningly, and he scores some good points. But it is not too much to
say that he approaches the whole subject in the spirit of an advocate,
and consequently his essay can hardly be considered a serious addition
to historical literature.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 220. F. 23. 750w.
“Had Sir Clements been content to show that the allegations of Tudor
historians were in some matters unfounded, we might have been more
ready to accept a verdict of not proven on the serious charges; more
than this he has not after all been able at the best to establish.” C.
L. Kingsford.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 579. Jl. ’07. 1190w.
“Shakespeare students as well as those interested in English history
cannot afford to neglect the volume. It is based upon critical
research, and makes out a strong case against Henry.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1122. N. 7, ’07. 380w.
“He has shown us how very uncertain any verdict must be, and he has
done good service in sweeping away many of the myths with which Tudor
prejudice and falsehood have obscured the reign of Richard III.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1570w.
“If he could have imposed upon himself something of the cynical temper
and cool judgment with which Horace Walpole, first of Richard’s
defenders, wrote his ‘Historic doubts,’ his book would have been
doubled in value to the general reader.” Florence Finch Kelley.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 226. Ap. 6, ’07. 1390w.
=Outlook.= 87: 350. O. 19, ’07. 3900w.
“Sometimes the chain of argument is really pitiable. That most
fallacious method of writing history is adopted, that of treating
official versions and transparent pretexts as actual facts.”
− − =Sat. R.= 103: 657. My. 25, ’07. 840w.
“Though we judge him to have failed in his main contention, the author
has painted a vivid picture of the epoch between the battles of
Northampton and Bosworth; he has bestowed the skill of a trained
geographer in elucidating the topography of Towton, and Wakefield, and
Barnet; and he was swept into limbo a mass of crude absurdity.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 175. F. 2, ’07. 1720w.
=Marks, Edward C. R.= Mechanical engineering materials: their properties
and treatment in construction. 60c. Van Nostrand.
“A very useful little volume of information on methods of manufacture,
properties and tests of steel, iron, copper and the various copper,
manganese, tin and aluminum alloys used, for the most part, in
machinery.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The one criticism of this book is that the author has selected a too
pretentious title.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 197. F. 14, ’07. 60w.
* =Marks, Mrs. Mary A. M.= England and America. 1763–1783. 2v. *$6.
Appleton.
7–34222.
Something of the spirited attitude which Mrs. Marks assumes toward her
work is summed up in the statement that her book is the Tory reaction
against the monopoly of office by the Whigs and the consequences of
that reaction, the loss of American colonies and an addition of
£129,000,000 to the national debt. “The years covered by this history
are those in which the final effect of the causes of the American
movement toward independence are studied, as well as the conduct of
England brought to face the new situation. A characteristic of the
book, its determining characteristic, is that it keeps to the point of
view of the time and the point of view of the English.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“To students of history this book should be invaluable; it puts things
in a clear, simple light, and is the work of one who has made careful
research into the records of the period.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 675. Jl. 13, ’07. 420w.
“A spirited piece of work, to which much conscientious search has been
devoted and which displays sobriety of judgment in dealing with the
motives of individuals placed in desperate circumstances. Though Miss
Marks as a rule writes clearly, if rather colloquially, she is guilty
of an obscure allusion or two.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 209. Ag. 24. 680w.
“She has produced a book which is very readable and interesting in
spite of obvious faults. The style, which is equally free from the
dignity which was formerly and the dullness which is now thought
appropriate to history, is too often careless and even slipshod. The
arrangement is not happy. There is a disregard of proportion and not
seldom a superfluity of unimportant detail. It is the most serious
defect of the book that the author writes throughout as a partisan.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 265. S. 6, ’07. 1800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. ’07. 240w.
“It is apparent that this work violates the most fundamental
requirements of modern scholarship. Nor is it in minor points more
satisfactory. Gross blunders, glaring inconsistencies and
ill-considered conclusions abound. While the narrative is lively, its
style is more undignified than that usually countenanced by the Muse
of history.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 1000w.
“Thoroughness, fullness, and fairness are the distinctive
characteristics [of the book] which into the bargain is written with a
keen sense of the dramatic value of the great events of twenty years
whose history she narrates.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 350w.
“Miss Marks has studied the period thoroughly, and her work can hardly
fail to take a permanent place among the authorities on the subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 330w.
=Marriott, John A. R.= Life and times of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland.
*$2.25. Putnam.
7–25683.
“Mr. Marriott has not only written a life of the young statesman whose
career and character inspired one of Matthew Arnold’s most brilliant
essays, but he has also given us a masterly treatise upon one of the
most absorbingly interesting periods of English history,” (N. Y.
Times) viz., “the times of Laud and of Strafford, of vexed issues in
church and state, of the petition of rights and the grand
remonstrance.... Among the most charming of his chapters are those
describing Falkland’s existence before the revolution, in his
well-loved home at Great Tew.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Marriott has done a real service in conveying to us in a volume
of absorbing human interest so much of the vital charm and personality
of the man. He has managed in masterly fashion to disentangle the real
points at issue. He has given us an estimate of Falkland’s character
that bears the impress of truth.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 383. Ap. 20, ’07. 1470w.
“In the industrious and sympathetic analysis of Falkland himself, of
his character and the part he played, Mr. Marriott’s work appears to
us to suffer from the fact that he sets out with a strong
preconception, a preconception founded, no doubt, upon close and
loving study before he began his book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 61. Jl. 20. 2060w.
“This is a delightful book, on a delightful subject. Mr. Marriott is a
historian of the new school in so far as he is a student and scholar;
but, unlike many of his contemporaries, not so far as to be a
scientific pedant. He never forgets the importance of the personal
element, and is a painter no less than a critic.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 153. My. 17, 07. 2300w.
“The facts are well presented, the characters clearly drawn, but the
transmuting skill is not present that would make literature of one of
the richest themes in English history.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 103. Ag. 1, ’07. 1100w.
“May well be deemed a representative type of the highest literary
scholarship of our time.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 373. Je. 8, ’07. 500w.
“There is thus ample reason for the biography now written by Mr. J. A.
R. Marriott. It is not a book of inspiring interest.” H. Addington
Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 783. D. 7, ’07. 3250w.
“We have no fault to find with Mr. Marriott’s graceful biography of
one of the most interesting figures in a fascinating age except the
air of confessorship and greatness eclipsed by a conspiracy of
detraction which he throws around the ‘apostle of moderation and
martyr of the via media.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 751. Je. 15, ’07. 1290w.
“In pleading the claims of Falkland to consistency and foresight he
has produced a sober and well-balanced study of those times, so sorely
out of joint, against which his hero was doomed to struggle in vain.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 54. Jl. 13, ’07. 2550w.
=Marsh, Harriet B.= Point of view in modern education. 60c. Public
school.
“Consists of a collection of lectures delivered before Mothers clubs.
It is an attempt to state in simple concrete terms the changes in
ideas in education brought about by fundamental, philosophical,
scientific, social and religious thought.”—Bookm.
* * * * *
“Despite the naïve manner in which most complex problems of science,
of ethics, or of social, practical or economic relationships are
settled, the lectures are at least suggestive and give a point of view
of education differing from the formal and mechanical one.”
+ − =Bookm.= 23: 219. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“There is much sound advice and instruction in these pages, which will
repay the study of a teacher.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 823. Mr. ’07. 360w.
=Marsh, Richard.= Who killed Lady Poynder? †$1.50. Appleton.
7–26342.
“‘Who killed Lady Poynder?’ is a story of nearly 130,000 words,
constructed on the principle which has produced so many rattling
stories in the past, that of supplying really damning evidence against
every person, male or female, who has any connection with the plot at
all. Lady Poynder was shot in her own house in London. The author’s
ingenuity is expended in showing how many persons had or might have
had the opportunity and motive for the murder.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Granting one tremendous coincidence—a coincidence of coincidences, in
fact—the reasoning is plausible and the tale entertaining enough. But
in respect to method it is a horrible example of the effect of trying
to put a novel of mystery and a novel of manners between the same
covers.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 280w.
“A promising situation, surely, for a vigorous minded novelist, and
Mr. Richard Marsh is quite equal to it in the remainder of the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 633. O. 19, ’07. 140w.
=Marshall, H. E.= Island story: a child’s history of England; with col.
pictures by A. S. Forrest. *$2.50. Stokes.
7–35150.
A child’s history of England to be placed not at the lesson-book end
of the shelf, but with “Robinson Crusoe” and the like,—so the preface
suggests.
* * * * *
“The especial value of this book is that the stories include legendary
as well as historical events. Well written, though with no particular
quality of style; beautifully made as to paper and print, but
illustrated by poor colored pictures.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07.
“It is not a history, if by that we mean facts and dates alone, but if
we want motives as well, and the personality of the chief actors, then
this thick ornamental book accomplishes its aim admirably.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 764. D. ’06. 60w.
“It is eminently readable, a success, we would say, in what looks much
easier than it is, telling a story in simple words.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 1091. D. 23, ’05. 80w.
* =Marshall, Herbert Menzies, and Marshall, Hester.= Cathedral cities of
France. *$3.50. Dodd.
7–32829.
A finely illustrated book of French cathedral cities which serves to
enlighten the stay-at-home tourist and to refresh the memory of one
who has covered the ground.
* * * * *
“Is one of the best of its class. [The authors’] very lack of
familiarity with the country might make their original notes of travel
the more valuable, as they are evidently intelligent as well as
artistic observers.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 556. N. 2. 580w.
“The author seems oppressed by the weight of her authorities.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 1, ’07. 140w.
“Her knowledge of architecture is singularly accurate and
discriminating.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
“The writing is simple and dignified; the pictures are in some cases
clear and attractive, but in others show that blotchy, messy surface
which is still the bane of most color printing.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The pictures have a charm of their own, even to those who are
familiar with the most famous of the buildings with which they deal in
so original and unconventional a way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 828. D. 14, ’07. 330w.
“The authors of this book have been more successful than many of their
predecessors. They have lingered in the localities and have fortified
their observation, by some study of what others have written.
Unfortunately, though they always indicate quotations, they by no
means always mention whence they came. We regret that Mr. Marshall’s
great skill as a draughtsman is often neutralized by the failure of
the medium he has chosen to convey what he was clever enough to
perceive.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 230w.
=Marshall, John.= Constitutional decisions; ed. by Joseph P. Cotton, jr.
2 v. ea. *$5. Putnam.
5–39509.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A compilation of the constitutional decisions of Marshall is well
worth the making. It seems captious to mention two typographical
errors—in volume one, page 255, where, ‘1858’ is printed for ‘1758,’
and in volume two, page 1, where ‘1875’ appears instead of ‘1775.’”
Frederick C. Hicks.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 475. N. ’06. 990w.
=Marston, Edward.= Fishing for pleasure and catching it, and two
chapters on angling in North Wales, by R. B. Marston. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–34385.
“The book is quite varied in its contents, turning aside from the
author’s own angling experiences to extracts from the nature books of
William J. Long, paraphrases of portions of ‘The song of Hiawatha,’
and other not very intimately related subjects.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 40: 396. Je. 16, ’06. 100w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 120w.
“Readers who know how pleasantly Mr. E. Marston can write need not
have his new volume any further recommended.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 546. Ap. 7, ’06. 300w.
=Marti, Karl.= Religion of the Old Testament: its place among the
religions of the nearer East. (Crown theological lib., no. 18.) *$1.25.
Putnam.
7–37540.
“A sketch giving a bird’s-eye view of the development of Israel’s
religion in its relation to other religions of western Asia. The point
of view is that of the historical school of which Marti is a leading
representative.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“An interesting and suggestive sketch.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 239. S. ’07. 40w.
“The novice will scarcely appreciate the skill with which Professor
Marti has selected salient facts and the features which need to be
kept prominent, and avoided confusing the learner by a mass of
details.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 760. S. 26, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 100w.
“It is a pity that so good a book should be published without an
index.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 140w.
“It is a valuable contribution to a great theme by one who has devoted
his life to its study. Not only the general reader, for whom it is
especially intended, but the theologian will learn not a little from
its pages.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 127. Jl. 27, ’07. 1390w.
=Martin, Benjamin E., and Martin, Charlotte M.= Stones of Paris in
history and letters. $2. Scribner.
6–35587.
A new edition of a book which traces the history and letters of Paris
thru its structures. There are numerous illustrations from
photographs.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 251. Mr. 2. 530w.
“An entirely admirable book.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 710w.
“The streets of Paris have also been carefully scanned and a most
entertaining story has been created out of the assembled material and
has been skillfully synthesized.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1397. D. 22, ’06. 110w.
“In all essential respects the work holds its own.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 90w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 682. N. 17, ’06. 20w.
“We have a good deal more of the real social and political history of
the French capital than is found in many a more pretentious historical
work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 111. Ja. ’07. 100w.
“The charm of these records is unquestionable, and for this reason, as
we have said before, the faults in their construction may be
overlooked.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 201. Ag. 10, ’07. 1390w.
=Martin, George Madden.= Abbie Ann. †$1.50. Century.
7–29096.
Abby Ann, Emmy Lou’s successor, is a little Coal City inhabitant, who
with only a father’s care has not made much headway towards the
graces. She is a spirited little miss who is finally sent away to
school, to the school that had once claimed her mother as a pupil.
Children will take keen delight in the part Abbie Ann plays in
bringing about a reconciliation between her father and two very
austere aunts.
* * * * *
“The story is told with much of the sympathy and humor that
characterizes ‘Emmy Lou’ by the same author, but the incidents of this
book will appeal more to a child than those of its charming
predecessor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 209. N. ’07. ✠
“‘Abbie Ann’ skips into our affections as gaily as she skipt along the
railroad station at the opening of another bright story by the author
of ‘Emmy Lou.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 796. N. 23, ’07. 260w.
“The little girl is sure to be warmly welcomed by other little girls
outside the story books.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 60w.
“Not only shows that she understands her art thoroughly, but, like
Mrs. Burnett, she lets the facts move the reader, and abjures
adjectives.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w.
=Martin, Mrs. Helen Reimensnyder.= Betrothal of Elypholate, and other
tales of the Pennsylvania Dutch. †$1.50 Century.
7–30437.
The sturdy qualities of Mennonite men and maidens are revealed in
their life and lovemaking with which these stories deal.
* * * * *
“Decidedly more interesting than the longer stories by the same
author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07. ✠
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The contrasts that she depicts by bringing in now and then an
outsider from the city, or a son who has gone into the outside world
and won success and culture, are almost too vivid to be artistic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 676. O. 26, ’07. 130w.
“The tales are charmingly written and disclose a phase of unusually
interesting life.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Martin, Helen R. (Mrs. Frederic C. Martin).= His courtship; il. by
Alice Barber Stephens. †$1.50. McClure.
7–15920.
A professor of psychology rusticating among the Pennsylvania Dutch
during his vacation, becomes interested in a much persecuted slave of
the kitchen. That the girl proves to be the daughter of cultured
parents and had been kidnapped in infancy, that during her bondage she
had found solace and books in a haunted room suggest the lines along
which the professor may make some impersonal observations for the
cause of psychology but more especially for his own personal cause of
happiness.
* * * * *
“The author is certainly more successful when she confines herself to
Dutch characters, and has in this case spoiled an excellent short
story by expanding it into the more ambitious novel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07.
“The book is a curious mingling of keen-eyed observation, great
naturalness in narrative and dialogue, and exasperating artificiality
of construction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 80. S. ’07. 440w.
“A story marked by unusual powers of penetrating observation.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 220w.
“This is a short story which made up of its mind to grow into a novel,
and got spoiled in the process.”
− =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.
“The author’s management of the dialect is commendable, for she does
not overdo the matter and put in dialect for its own sake.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w.
“As long as she portrays the Mennonites, or the ordinary Dutch, she
has a field unique and worthy of her talents, but in introducing
outsiders from the gay world she strikes as ordinary a note as did the
fascinating Jubilee singers of long ago when they tried to sing our
concert pieces.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 100w.
=Martin, Louis Adolphe.= Text-book of mechanics. *$1.25. Wiley.
6–17261.
=v. 1.= Statics. “This is the first part of a text-book designed for
an introductory course to applied mechanics, for use in colleges and
technical schools. The author has arranged the book so that statics
only is covered in this volume.”—Engin. N.
=v. 2.= Kinematics and kinetics. “Chapters are included on the
following subjects: Kinematics—Rectilinear motion of a particle;
curvilinear motion of a particle; motion of a rigid body;
Kinetics—Kinetics of a particle and of the mass-center of a rigid
body; application of the equations of motion for translation and for
rotation; work and energy; impact.” (Technical Literature.)
* * * * *
“The book is a very good one for class work in technical schools.”
Amasa Trowbridge.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 50. Jl. 12, ’06. 390w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The fundamental principles of elementary mechanics are presented in
simple manner and in logical order in this volume.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07, 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Technical Literature.= 2: 334. O. ’07. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Martin, Martha Evans.= Friendly stars. **$1.25. Harper.
7–14831.
A personal friendship with the stars which the author shares with her
readers. It is an untechnical study and points out to the naked eye
the most interesting facts about the stars. Their rising and setting,
their number, colors, distances, movements and distinguishing
characteristics are made clear to the observer who has had no
preparatory instruction.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07. S.
“The delicate, yet sure and accurate touch of the author, and her
genuine love for the sky, combine to charm the reader, and to make him
wish to have the book within reach, in case he too is a lover of the
heavens.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w.
“The graceful introductory note of commendation from Doctor Jacoby
leaves nothing more to be said as to the scientific accuracy of the
author’s work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 160w.
“This volume will appeal to the beginner in astronomy and to the
general reader quite as much as to the astronomer.” W. E. R.
+ =Nature.= 76: 412. Ag. 22, ’07. 180w.
“[Told] in a plain simple way, quite free from the technical language
which baffles the unscientific mind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 254. Ap. 20. ’07. 620w.
“A useful and even interesting study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.
=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Mexico’s treasure-house (Guanajuato): an
illustrated and descriptive account of the mines and their operations in
1906. $3. Cheltenham press.
6–40260.
“A full account, with many illustrations, of the mines of a region
which has been pronounced more ‘thoroughly mineralized’ than any equal
portion of the globe.... Perhaps the most suggestive parts of the
volume are those which tell of the new methods, mostly devised by
Americans, to draw fresh wealth from the old workings.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The story of what has been done, and the discussions of present
conditions in the Mexican labor market and in industry are the
features that render the book valuable. These subjects are treated in
an interesting manner, and so far as the reader can judge, with
impartiality and accuracy.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 641. My. ’07. 500w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 187. Mr. ’07. 250w.
“The description is technical and highly detailed.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 80w.
=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Through five republics (of South America); a
critical description of Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela
in 1905; il. *$5. Dodd.
6–18334.
The subtitle furnishes the scope of this book of which the author
says: “First, I believe it is timely, in view of the enormous advances
made by the South American republics of late years, and the amount of
British capital invested therein. Secondly, I have in my journalistic
capacity been enabled to gather much information of value, which I
have found no opportunity for utilising in the newspapers I have
represented, but which, accompanied by illustrations and somewhat
fuller descriptions, should be acceptable as a critical account of the
countries visited.”
* * * * *
“The book contains a great deal of information—though it lacks
arrangement.”
+ − =Acad.= 69: 1366. D. 30. ’05. 270w.
“A book which will be found of some value by commercial men and
possibly by politicians. In matters apart from trade and figures Mr.
Martin is hardly a safe guide. There are minor inaccuracies scattered
throughout the volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 760. D. 2. 1300w.
“The industry with which Mr. Martin has collected his figures and
endless minutiae is commendable in spite of the rather deadening
effect when they are all massed and offered you in lieu of
entertainment.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 63. Ja. 17, ’07. 450w.
“Perhaps no book ever was written the illustrations to which more
completely supplemented the shortcomings of the letter-press.” George
R. Bishop.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 2580w.
“If only Mr. Martin had ‘boiled down’ these four hundred and
sixty-five closely printed pages, and set forth plainly his
conclusions, it would have been better. As it is, we do not quite know
what he means.”
+ − =Spec.= 95: 1130. D. 30, ’05. 240w.
=Martin, Sir Theodore.= Monographs: Garrick, Macready, Rachel and Baron
Stockmar. *$3.50. Dutton.
6–41036.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07.
“In less than a hundred pages this accomplished man of letters and
wise commentator on things dramatic has produced a model brief
biography [of Garrick].” S. M. Francis.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 490. O. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Each is interesting, the paper on Stockmar having many touches of
intimacy.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 86. Jl. 21, ’06. 80w.
=Martin, William A. P.= Awakening of China, il. from photographs.
(Geographical lib.) **$3.80. Doubleday.
7–19477.
Written as a result of close-range study this work represents China as
“the theater of the most important events now taking place in the
world.” It is an optimistic study, and the author “aims to explain
those subterranean forces which seem to be raising the China of to-day
from the bosom of the deep. Political agitation, whether periodic like
the tides or unforeseen like the hurricane, is in general superficial
and temporary, and the present reform movement in China, the author
believes, has its root in forces more deep seated than such sporadic
phenomena.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Optimistic in tone, philosophic in temper.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07.
=Ath.= 1907, 2: 439. O. 12. 700w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 690w.
“‘Awakening of China’ maintains Dr. Martin’s reputation as a leading
authority on Chinese affairs, and though some allowance must be made
for the optimism of a writer whose deep sympathy and interest have
induced him to spend the evening of his days among the people where
his life work has been done, it is a valuable and interesting
contribution to our knowledge.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1200w.
=Nation.= 85: 60. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“Not many authors are so well qualified as Dr. Martin to write a great
book on the movement now taking place in China.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 440. Jl. 13. ’07. 1960w.
“It is safe to say that no volume yet issued in this valuable series
is of such immediate importance as Dr. Martin’s work. But it is
rounded out by an index so hopelessly inadequate as to be a burden
rather than a help to the student who would use the work for reference
purposes.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 266. O. 5, ’07. 1900w.
“A well informed work, and describes, in a readable, though somewhat
succinct manner, the process of transformation now going on in China.”
G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 746. S. ’07. 30w.
“Dr. Martin’s book is scarcely equal to the expectations which the
reader naturally forms from its title and its general appearance.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 743. N. 16, ’07. 1290w.
=Marx, Karl.= Capital: a critique of political economy. $2. Kerr.
6–43940.
=v. 2.= This second volume devoted to the circulation of capital is
edited by Frederick Engels and is translated from the second German
edition by Ernest Untermann. Pt. 1, deals with The metamorphoses of
capital and their cycles, pt. 2, with The turn-over of capital, and
pt. 3, The reproduction and circulation of the aggregate social
capital.
* * * * *
Reviewed by Ernest Untermann.
+ =Arena.= 38: 457. O. ’07. 3480w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This edition is well made, and easy reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 151. Mr. 9, ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Outlook.= 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Marx, Karl.= Revolution and counter-revolution; or, Germany in 1848.
50c. Kerr.
Articles collected and brought forward from the years 1851–1852. They
form an “invaluable pendant to Marx’s work on the coup d’état of
Napoleon III.,” and give readers some idea of the conditions under
which Marx was working and under which he prepared the papers as well
as his “Achtzehnte brumaire” and “Zur kritik der politischen und
oeconomie.”
=Marx, W. J.= For the admiral. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–28959.
A story for young people which turns back to France in the 16th
century when Catholics and Huguenots were engaged in hostilities. The
hero is a youth who enters upon the perilous undertaking of carrying
an important packet to the Huguenot leader, Admiral de Coligny, and
later joins him in a campaign filled with daring adventure.
* * * * *
“It is by much the best book of its kind sent us for review this
season, and stands head and shoulders above its rivals.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 607. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Marzials, Sir Frank Thomas.= Moliere. $1. Macmillan.
Illustrated with reproductions of portraits and title-pages this
little volume contains “a bibliographical criticism of the man of
letters.” (N. Y. Times.) “The literary criticism is particularly good.
The great dramatist’s genius has never been better appreciated.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“It is a seemly little book.” Brander Matthews.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 792. D. 1, ’06. 990w.
“Sir F. T. Marzials writes with unflagging spirit, and shows a sane
and sober judgment.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 250w.
=Masefield, John=, ed. Sailor’s garland. $1.50. Macmillan.
7–12996.
An anthology of sea poems. Miscellaneous poems, poems based upon
historical fact, poems of mermaids and sea spirits, of pirates and
smugglers and love poems are found here. The last thirty pages are
devoted to a collection of sea chanties with a goodly bit of
interesting folk-lore.
* * * * *
“The exercise of a little judgment might have made it so much better.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 490w.
“The selection is good and wise, one we should like to see in the
forecastle, as well as in the saloon of every British ship afloat.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 827. D. 29. 660w.
=Ind.= 61: 883. O. 11, ’06. 30w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 44. F. 8, ’07. 1170w.
“Containing a surprising amount of good seaverse.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 100. F. 16, ’07. 1170w. (Reprinted from
Lond. Times.)
+ − =Spec.= 97: sup. 760. N. 17, ’06. 210w.
* =Mason, Alfred E. W.= Broken road. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–37552.
An Indian prince educated at Eton and Oxford and a young Englishman
continuing the work of opening the great road thru Chiltistan begun by
his father, are the principal figures in this story which deals with
the English rule over India.
* * * * *
“It is a vigorous story, and a strong story—an earnest story also. The
lights and shades are cleverly put in, and the narrative in Mr.
Mason’s hands becomes a veritable fragment of Doom.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 682. N. 30. 270w.
“The style suffers from a touch of the overemphatic, a slight
suggestion of parade in its implication of significances, which the
story does not go deep enough to warrant. But in spite of these
shortcomings, the author succeeds in conveying to us his own regretful
sense of life’s contrasts, ironies, and frustrations.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“His new book will rank with his ‘The four feathers’ as a capital
piece of clear, direct, romantic narrative—intensely exciting, yet not
unduly sensational.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w.
=Mason, Alfred E. W.= Running water. †$1.50. Century.
7–7196.
Whatever of deep sentiment, of resolution and also of villainy there
is in the tale is magnetically associated with the ice fields of the
Alps above Chamonix. There is an unrelated company of people upon the
stage of the little drama, chief among whom is a brave-hearted girl
who took her lesson of life from the Alpine guides—“If you have
knowledge that can save a life—well you have got to use it, that’s the
law.” Tired of her mother’s vain life, she hunts up her father, whom
she has never seen, and tries to operate the law she had learned by
saving a soul from the net which her dissolute father had drawn about
it. The tale is one of her failures and successes.
* * * * *
“Here it would seem that all the elements that go to make a novelist
of the highest rank were present, and yet the novel itself belongs to
the hopeless second grade of literature.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 205. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w.
“The characters are more than ordinarily well-drawn, but the
situations are painful, and, on the whole, the book leaves an
unpleasant impression.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
“It is a sheer melodrama on one side, but so treated as to appear a
human document.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 270w.
“A thoroughly readable story.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 300. My. ’07. 750w.
“Elements of human and natural interest combine to make a tale of
singular fascination, over which the mountain glamour is cast with
such compelling effect that it acts as a shaping influence upon the
lives of all the persons chiefly concerned.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 460w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 350w.
“The book ends tamely, and leaves an impression of casual
workmanship.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 70. Mr. 1, ’07. 270w.
“The story is told with great fluency—too much, in fact. Throughout it
resembles the last act of those congenitally three-act plays to which
a fourth is added, to lengthen the entertainment till supper-time.”
− =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 390w.
“It is a pretty and pleasing tale notwithstanding the numerous
extremely repulsive people who move through its pages.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 160w.
“While he always interests his reader’s mind, does not always convince
him as to the plausibility of the incidents.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 717. Mr. 23, ’07. 230w.
“The author is really more concerned with telling his story than with
portraying character and interpreting experience, but the very story
he selects to tell proves how wide-spread, for the moment, is the grip
of the ideal upon the mind of the novelist.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 185. My. ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 764. Je. ’07. 40w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 369. Mr. 23, ’07. 810w.
“Happily named, but unequal, romance.”
− + =Spec.= 98: 377. Mr. 9, ’07. 1320w.
=Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Romantic composers. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–43759.
Following an introductory chapter on Romanticism in music, there are
studies of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Berlioz and Liszt.
“In his two previous volumes Mr. Mason has already dealt with
Beethoven and his forerunners, and with the development of composition
from Grieg to Brahms; in his present volume he fills the gap, and
traces the wandering paths which led from one to the other of these
frontier lines.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07. S.
“That Mr. Mason so singularly misapprehends the essential significance
of modern music seems little short of lamentable, for it vitiates what
would otherwise be an influential and important body of critical
writing.” Lawrence Gilman.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 77. Mr. ’07. 1460w.
“To the study of the widely varying natures. Mr. Mason brings acute
musical perception, a sure grasp of his thesis, and an intelligent
sympathy which never weakens into partisanship.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. ’07. 270w.
“This series of essays, tho they would be both servicable and
satisfactory to the professional musician, are quite intelligible to
the average reader, and will find their best public among
concert-goers who wish to get the most out of their concerts.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 497. F. 28, ’07. 330w.
“His book is an excellent piece of work throughout; delicate and
sensitive in criticism, clear and often felicitous in style, marked by
wide knowledge and carefully considered judgment. Now and again his
taste appears to us a little fastidious.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 14. Ja. 11, ’07. 650w.
− + =Nation.= 83: 518. D. 13, ’06. 280w.
“This book is written with more flexibility and interest of style than
his earlier one on ‘Beethoven and his forerunners.’” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 148. Mr. 9, ’07. 1030w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 114. Ja. ’07. 70w.
* =Mason, Edith Huntington.= Real Agatha. **$1. McClurg.
The will which leaves a man’s millions to his step-daughter contains a
clause intended to thwart fortune-hunting husbands. The Honorable
Agatha must surround herself by “not less than five nor more than six”
young women of her own age each of whom is to be known as the
Honorable Agatha. The caprice of the real Agatha moves her to assume
the rôle of private secretary to her chaperon, leaving the field to
the six Agathas and the puzzled suitors. Of course the real romance
concerns the secretary and a young lord who in the face of convention
woos her.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 428. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
=Masse, Henri Jean L. J.= Oxford. (Langham series of art monographs.)
*$1. Scribner.
6–46316.
A handy pocket volume of information which will interest the traveler.
The picture accompaniment does full justice to the historic university
town.
* * * * *
“It is as unreadable as a guide-book, and more like one than anything
else, yet we imagine it would be an inefficient guide. For those who
love dessicated information it may have its place, but its place is
not in a series of art monographs.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 185. F. 21, ’07. 70w.
“That peculiar rhetoric which guide books almost infallibly possess
does not taint the language here. Considering the shortness of the
book ... its amount of information is amazing. It does not seem
possible that one single art treasure can have been omitted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 390w.
“In many ways it would be vastly superior to the ordinary guide-book.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 6, ’07. 90w.
* =Masson, Thomas Lansing.= Bachelor’s baby, and some grown-ups.
**$1.60. Moffat.
7–29740.
“Here are to be found short stories, dialogues, whimsical-serious
essays, strings of modern apothegms, bits of verse, and what
not.”—Nation.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 40w.
“To speak of the volume comprehensively is not easy, considering its
hodge-podge make-up, nor are any of the component elements important
enough in themselves to need particularization. Mr. Masson’s wit is
facile, occasionally smart, often pungent, never very penetrating.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“There is always a touch of whimsicality in the treatment, whether the
author is writing a treatise on the decadence of husbands or a
pathetic short story. There is always also vivacity of style, a sense
of humor, and much good-natured irony intertwined with warm human
feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 715. N. 9, ’07. 160w.
=Masson, Thomas L.=, comp. Humor of love: an anthology. **$2.50. Moffat.
6–45700.
A two-volume anthology; one, a selection of humorous writings on love
in verse, the other, a similar treatment in prose.
* * * * *
“Two more delightful volumes could scarcely be conceived.”
+ + =Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 220w.
“Is done from a full knowledge of the lighter erotic literature in
English with an excellent ‘flair’ for the things that are at once
graceful and amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 50w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 1. Ja. 5, ’07. 1110w.
=Masson, Thomas Lansing.= Von Blumers; il. by Bayard Jones. **$1.50.
Moffat.
6–41275.