accommodate “their prejudices and their tempers to one another” result
in numerous capitulations of serio-comic aspect. “Mr. Masson’s novel
fairly bubbles with humor of the quiet kind, but none the less
effective because of its homeliness and truth to nature.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
“The characters are well drawn and there is much innocent
entertainment in this thoroughly wholesome book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 6, ’07. 230w.
“Tom Masson is in his best vein of humor in this story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 873. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
“A quietly humorous semi-story.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 895. D. 8, ’06. 40w.
Master-man. †$1.50. Lane.
6–28224.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is a book that will win its way quietly. There is about it a
persuasive and unmistakably feminine touch.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 588. F. ’07. 440w.
“This is a story that will interest some people and disgust others.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 320w.
=Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.= In peril of change: essays
written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.
6–6975.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Edward T. Devine.
=Charities.= 17: 463. D. 15, ’06. 770w.
=Masterman, Charles F. G., Hodgson, W. B. and others.= To colonise
England: a plea for a policy. *$1. Wessels.
The first portion of this volume consists of a series of sketches by
Mr. Hodgson “graphically describing the loneliness of rural England;
the waste of its fertile lands given up to rough pasture, wide hedges,
and coppices carefully preserved for the sake of the game, while
cottages fall in ruins, and small farms are swept out of existence....
The second section by Mr. Masterman ... is occupied with details of
schemes which offer a remedy for the creeping paralysis of English
rural life.” (Nation.) The third part of the volume consists of
contributions on the land question from thirteen Liberal members of
Parliament, and part four gives a summary of official testimony issued
by the Board of agriculture.
* * * * *
“The second section by C. F. G. Masterman has a literary value that
should give its author high rank among modern essayists. The third
part ... is the least valuable and least interesting part of the
book.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 262. S. 19, ’07. 1080w.
“Worth reading but [it seems] to leave out of account not a few
considerations which have to be reckoned with in attempting a solution
of the question of the labourer and the land.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup: 463. O. 5, ’07. 340w.
=Matheson, George.= Representative men of the New Testament. **$1.50.
Armstrong.
5–26910.
The author has taken the representative men just as they are presented
and has attempted “without inquiring whence or how they come, to find
the special thought which each reveals.” He discusses John, Nathaniel,
Peter, Nicodemus, Thomas, Philip, Matthew, Zaccheus, James, Barnabas,
Mark, Cornelius, Timothy and Paul.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 27: 80. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“Well adapted for private reading.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 223. Ja. 25, ’06. 60w.
* =Matheson, George.= Representative women of the Bible. *$1.50. West.
Meth. bk.
7–33919.
A volume supplementary to the author’s three books on “Representative
men of the Bible.” After completing ten of the studies the author died
suddenly. The ten with the outline of the eleventh are: Eve the
unfolded, Sarah the steadfast, Rebekah the far-seeing, Rachel the
placid. Miriam the gifted, Deborah the drastic, Ruth the decided,
Hannah the pious, Mary the guiding, Mary the thought-reading, and, in
the appendix, Notes to the study of Mary Magdalene.
* * * * *
“The religious spirit, the poetic genius, and the literary skill of
Dr. Matheson are indisputable. The excessive idealizing into which
such qualities are prone to run appears in his portrait of Rebekah.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Mathew, Frank.= Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank
Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.
5–35680.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Mr. Mathew exhibits a very strong feeling for the picturesque and a
very ardent desire to be exact, complete and impartial.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1355. Je. 6, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Walker’s pictures are admirably reproduced. but their coloring
gives no true impression of Ireland’s tender greens and browns and
grays.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= “Allee same.” †50c. Crowell.
7–22821.
A slum worker in New York takes a Chinese child away from its parents
and the latter to retaliate steal the American’s baby. Seventeen years
of separation lead to a dramatic reunion of parents and children.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Undefiled. †$1.50. Harper.
6–29094.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Judith’s story is abundantly supplied with exciting incident: this is
about all that may possibly be said in its favor, for it is both
unreal in characterization and preposterous in invention.” Wm. M.
Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 380w.
“Seems to aim at the popular suffrage by means of what we might call
the megaphonic method.”
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 124. Ja. ’07. 140w.
=Mathews, Shailer.= Church and the changing order. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–18117.
Mr. Matthews believes that the church in its broad significance of
institutional Christianity is facing a crisis, namely, the need that
it define its attitude toward formative forces now at work. He looks
to the church to correct these forces, to inspire them with its own
ideals, to insure that the results shall bring about a better
to-morrow. He discusses the church in its relation to scholarship, to
the gospel of the risen Christ, to the gospel of brotherhood, to
social discontent, to the social movement and to materialism.
* * * * *
“Broad minded, yet conservative, and highly readable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 169. O. ’07. S.
“He has diagnosed the disorders of the modern world with a skill and
range rare indeed.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 145. Ag. 15, ’07. 680w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 765. Ag. 10, ’07. 470w.
“Perhaps the most important chapters in the book are those which deal
with the church and social discontent and the church and the social
movement. These chapters are deserving of serious consideration by
clergy and laity alike.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 110w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= American character. **75c. Crowell.
6–17850.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A beautifully written and beautifully printed essay.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 219. Ja. ’07. 30w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 639. F. ’07. 130w.
* =Matthews, (James) Brander.= Inquiries and opinions. **$1.25.
Scribner.
7–29534.
“The inquiries, which range from ‘Invention and imagination’ to ‘The
art of the stage manager,’ and the opinions, which are expressed upon
such various subjects as Mark Twain and Maupassant, are the inquiries
and opinions of a writer who is shrewd, clear-headed, well-informed,
‘au courant,’ a craftsman.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“They are comparatively devoid of temperament, of the discursive
touch, of charm; they afford us no unexpected lights or sudden vistas,
but they furnish us many interesting facts and just observations set
forth with singular lucidity and coherence.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 498. N. 28, ’07. 100w.
“His essays are models of that interior logic which follows the line
of vital unfolding of a subject, and his style is lucid to a degree.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 520w.
=Matthews, Irma B.= Under a circus tent. †75c. Jacobs.
7–29099.
Instruction and entertainment are furnished in the stories or life
before captivity which the animals of the circus menagerie tell to a
little boy brought up among them.
=Mauclair, Camille.= Antoine Watteau. *75c. Dutton.
W 7–64.
“M. Mauclair sets out with a double aim; to show that Watteau by his
discovery of the decomposition of tones was ‘the inventor of
impressionism and the link that connects Ruysdael and Claude Lorrain
with Turner, Monticelli and Claude Monet;’ and ‘that in reality
Watteau was no painter of gay and laughing scenes,’ but that
underneath this decorative exterior lay a great soul that had ... been
stricken by what has been called the “malady of the infinite.””—Acad.
* * * * *
“Brief but stimulating monograph. The illustrations to the volume are
well chosen, but the printing leaves much to be desired, subtleties of
modelling and daintiness of brushwork alike being lost in vague
blurs.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 667. D. 29, ’06. 330w.
“Excellent little book for the price.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
“This biographer, like many another admirer, seems to have fallen a
little under the spell of a painter peculiarly liable to hypnotize
those who approach him.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 671. Je. 1. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 36. Ja. 19. ’07. 400w.
=Maud, Constance Elizabeth.= Felicity in France. *$1.50. Scribner.
W 6–392.
“This book is really a guide-book in disguise, being concerned with
the travels of two ladies through Brittany and Touraine, and the
shorter voyage of one of them in Provence.” (Spec.) “Felicity, the
younger of the natives of England, undertakes to ‘chaperon’ an
admirable lady, Aunt Anne, who, in spite of her threescore years and
the fact that she has a granddaughter of 8 years of age, has neither
white hair, nor a lace cap, nor spectacles. Being slight and active,
yet she is athletic. She is ‘a curious compound of an abnormally
intelligent and active boy of 16, and an exceedingly dignified,
stately, and somewhat sarcastic little lady of 60.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The reader must turn for himself to these enchanting pages. If he
does not feel the charm of Felicity’s progress through Mistral’s
Provence, he is to be pitied.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 10. Jl. 7, ’06. 710w.
“Not remarkable as to style but lively and sympathetic, and gives
enchanting glimpses of French life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
“It is a pity that in spite of all the literary gifts this volume
indicates, the author should write in such a slovenly style as she
does. We feel sure that these bright sympathetic, clearly seen
glimpses of French life deserve a little more care from their author
in this presentment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 71. Jl. 21. 170w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 414. N. 15, ’06. 280w.
“The book represents a personally conducted tour of much charm—rich in
the revelation of pleasing characteristics.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 770. N. 24, ’06. 360w.
“The narrative style is constantly pleasing, and there are many choice
bits in the way of ancient legends and modern peasant studies.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 90w.
“Miss Maud writes with a light touch eminently suited to her subject.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 171. Ag. 4, ’06. 120w.
=Maugham, Reginald Charles Fulke.= Portuguese East Africa; history,
scenery, and great game of Manica and Sofala. *$4.50. Dutton.
7–10990.
“Mr. Maugham has collected into book form the knowledge and
experiences gained during an official connexion with the country which
has lasted for some twelve years.... The earlier chapters dealing with
the history, scenery, flora and fauna are followed by others on the
great game and on personal adventures in pursuit. These in turn are
succeeded by what will be to many the most interesting portion of all,
some sixty pages devoted to native customs, characteristics, and
dialects.”—Lond. Times.
* * * * *
“Should be interesting to naturalists at home as well as to travellers
in search of game.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 579. N. 10. 410w.
“As Mr. Maugham has more than ordinary skill in narration and
description, his book will interest the casual as well as the
confirmed reader of records of travel.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“In the earlier part he seems to be rather too general, and not always
quite accurate, in his descriptions; he leaves us with the sort of
feeling that we might be reading of many other portions of tropical
Africa just as well as of the strip which lies along the east coast
immediately south of Zambesi.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 385. D. 16, ’06. 550w.
“Mr. Maugham makes a valuable contribution in this book to the not
very easily obtainable existing stock of knowledge about Portuguese
East Africa.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 860. Ap. 13, ’07. 80w.
=Maurin, M. J.= Pauline Marie Jaricot, foundress of the order for the
propagation of the faith and the living rosary; tr. from the French by
E. Sheppard. *$1.35. Benziger.
“A biography based on that of Mlle. Maurin, a friend of Mlle. Jaricot
in her later years.... The life of one of those women who recall, in a
less conspicuous way, St. Catherine of Siena.... The daughter of a
wealthy bourgeois of Lyons, she was just one of those ladies who,
devoting themselves at an early age to religion, spend their lives in
the quiet practice of good works.... She died in obscurity, and to
most people this biography will be the first revelation that she ever
existed.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“The style of the book, we may add, is for the most part plain and
simple, without dryness, as religious biography should be, and the
English rendering is idiomatic and good.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 180. Ag. 13. 1600w.
“[The author’s] devoted zeal for the honor of his pious heroine
manifests itself in the frankness and enthusiasm which enhance the
intrinsic interest possessed by the story of this remarkable life.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 419. D. ’06. 450w.
=Maxey, Edwin.= International law; with illustrative cases. *$6. Thomas
law bk.
6–11647.
A volume which “embodies the results of Professor Maxey’s many years’
experience as a teacher.... In treatment the emphasis is thrown upon
peace and neutrality rather than upon war. The questions arising out
of the recent Russo-Japanese war are discussed freely and impartially.
There is also a very complete chapter on contraband.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
“On the whole, the work is inaccurate and ill-digested.”
− =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 210w.
“The analysis and the style are clear and concise.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 126. Jl. ’06. 160w.
=Maxse, Frederick I.= Seymour Vandeleur. *$4. Longmans.
War 7–22.
Brevet-Lt.-Col. Vandeleur, soldierly and daring as he was, is engulfed
in the events which surrounded him and the problems which he faced.
“The record of his life is therefore the record of our Imperial
development during the past decade.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“If in his admirable chapters on Uganda and Nigeria he leads us a long
way from his hero, we are contented by the excellence of his
narrative, and his easy presentation of facts which, in a less skilful
hand, might easily be tedious; he becomes on more general subjects,
such as education, so discursive as to call attention to the
disadvantages of the method he has adopted. This, however, is a slight
defect in a delightful book.”
+ + − =Acad.= 69: 12. Ja. 6, ’06. 610w.
“A book which combines literary merit with all the special historical
value arising from the important share which the author himself took
in many of the campaigns which he passes in review.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 448. D. 15, ’05. 620w.
“Col. Maxse presents with animus, vigor, and ability, the whole case
against the people called ‘Little Englanders,’ and in particular shows
what dry rot has done for the British army between Waterloo and the
beginning of the Boer war.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 889. D. 22, ’06. 1420w.
“We do not know any other book which sets out so succinctly and
clearly Imperial achievements which are wholly creditable, and which
are too apt to be forgotten in the present windy war of theories. And
in addition there is the portrait of the brilliant soldier, done with
all the sympathy and knowledge of long friendship.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 1390w.
=Maxwell, Donald.= Cruise across Europe: notes on a freshwater voyage
from Holland to the Black sea. *$3. Lane.
7–19483.
“A light, humorous chronicle of a freshwater voyage in a small boat,
from Holland to the Black sea, by way of Ludwig’s canal, a waterway
begun by Charlemagne which unites the basins of the Rhine and Danube,
but is seldom used and little known.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“The author writes entertainingly of the people he met, the country he
passed through, and the incidents of his voyage; and Mr. Collington
Taylor’s illustrations are delightful.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 642. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“He writes brightly and naturally, and makes little attempt to be
laboriously funny—no small merit nowadays.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 546. N. 3. 170w.
“The entire voyage ... is well narrated, and still better illustrated
by the author himself and another artist.”
+ − =Dial.= 41: 453. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
“The book is a notable one, proving, for the first time, the
possibility of sailing from the west to the east of Europe by a fresh
water route.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 334. Je. ’07. 240w.
+ =Spec.= 93: 146. Ja. 26, ’07. 390w.
=Maxwell, Gerald.= Miracle worker. $1.50. Luce.
7–15322.
The scene of this story is laid in and about Leipzig. A young Afghan
doctor combines the hypnotic power which is his oriental heritage with
wizard skill in surgery to produce a most remarkable change of
identity. By drugs he keeps alive a German countess, dying of burns,
until the day of the execution of a girl who is the exact counterpart
of the countess. By skilful manoeuvering he effects a substitution,
having prepared the countess’ body by means of drugs so that the
tissues would not pass into the death rigour for a prolonged time. He
transfers the memory section of the brain from the dead countess to
the girl whose life he has saved, restores her to health and to the
count who believes only that a restoration was effected by a
skin-grafting operation.
* * * * *
“The story exhibits considerable constructive ingenuity, but is spun
out too much, while the motive of several reprehensible transactions
seems inadequate.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w.
“It is ingenious and up to a certain point interesting, but credulity
and sensibility finally rebel.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 362. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w.
“In the articles of novelty, audacity, and ingenuity of plot this
story ... so far surpasses the average of the fiction which strains
after these things, that it needs only certain refinements of the
story teller’s art and condensation, by a half—or even a third—to be
more than a mere thriller and time-killer. There are skilful minor
touches once in a while, and suggestions of humor even. And the
elements of the gruesome and horrible are played for all they are
worth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 219. Ap. 6, ’07. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace.= Memories of the months. $2.50. Longmans.
In which the year’s happenings are recorded month by month. “Readers
will be able to share with the author of the memories his ‘delight in
the open field, the woodland, and the riverside,’ and if they prove
willing disciples they may in time experience the joy of original
observation for themselves—at least they will learn to study and
appreciate the boundless beauties of nature.” (Nature.)
* * * * *
“The overriding of a harmless hobby is apt to become wearisome. The
illustrations are charming, and are uncommonly well reproduced: whilst
errors of print are few and not of great consequence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 46. Jl. 13. 160w.
“In such a volume one desires perpetually to pencil notes on the
margin, an inclination that generally implies three qualities in the
work; it is pleasant, suggestive and incomplete.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 540w.
“The ability to combine literary grace with scientific accuracy, and
the power to interest, and at the same time to impart useful
information, is unfortunately rare, and we are grateful to Sir Herbert
Maxwell for placing his gifts at the disposal of a large audience by
means of these pages.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 7. My. 2, ’07. 120w.
“Another volume, of delightful rambling along nature lanes, here,
there, everywhere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 70w.
“Literary excellence and scientific accuracy, two qualities which
often do not accompany each other, combine to increase the value of
these notes.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 460w.
=Maxwell, William Babington.= Guarded flame. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–27707.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The impressiveness with which its ethical teaching is enforced is the
justification for much that seems at the time intolerable in the
presentation.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 14. Ja. 1 ’07. 560w.
“There is far too much scientific terminology and a rather incredible
amount of human perfection, but there is also intellectual breadth and
maturity, finely expressed intensity, high moral sensibility.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 35: 123. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Maynadier, Gustavus Howard.= Arthur of the English poets. *$1.50.
Houghton.
7–15547.
“The purpose of Mr. Maynadier’s book is to trace Arthurian legends to
their sources, to tell more fully of their origin and growth, and to
keep more closely to English countries than MacCallum had done. The
new book has grown from a course of lectures delivered at Harvard
university and Radcliffe college in 1900.... The author examines the
sources of Arthur’s immense literary fame and sets forth the divergent
views of various contemporary scholars. Separate chapters deal with
Lancelot, Tristram, and Iseub and the Holy Grail.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“For literary students—as distinct from specialists—who wish to gain a
good general view of the rise and flourishing of the legend the book
will be most useful. The writer is evidently ignorant of the valuable
assistance rendered by the Welsh hagiology in estimating the various
elements which went to the formation of the wonderful story of the
Graal.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 182. N. 30, ’07. 3200w.
“Dr. Maynadier’s treatment of his subject is most scholarly and
sympathetic, and nowhere is it more so than in his discussion of
Tennyson’s presentation in modern form of this old world legend.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 270w.
“Despite some few errors, is the best popular account in the language
of the growth and vicissitudes of the Arthurian legend, particularly
with reference to its earlier development.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
“It is in general a work of original research, and is a contribution
of value to one of the most interesting departments of English
literature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 220w.
“The book, taken as a whole, is one of decided value. It is very
agreeably written, and has a basis of accurate scholarship.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 584. Je. 27, ’07. 1080w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 2: 426. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w.
“Is the most complete treatment of the origin, development, and
history of the Arthurian legends in English poetry that we have.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 280w.
“It is not a work of original scholarship, nor of genius living in its
princely fashion upon other men’s scholarship, but something between,
and in its kind admirable. Once or twice we have been surprised by the
gaps in Mr. Maynadier’s knowledge ... and by his excessive respect for
Tennyson and his misunderstanding of Morris.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 364. S. 21, ’07. 1630w.
“The work was well worth doing and the author has done it well. No
teacher of English can afford to miss reading this delightful book. It
is most scholarly in tone and treatment, and sympathetic in a just
appreciation.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =School R.= 15: 768. D. ’07. 450w.
=Mayor, Rev. Joseph Bickersteth.= Epistle of St. Jude and the Second
epistle of St. Peter; Greek text, with introd., notes and comments.
*$4.50. Macmillan.
“Professor Mayor’s commentary presents the Greek text of these
epistles, abundantly annotated, together with an extended
introduction. The propriety of treating these two epistles together is
obvious in view of their close literary relationship. Professor Mayor
discusses fully the relationship of II Peter to I Peter, concluding,
with most scholars, that they are from different hands.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
=Bib. World.= 29: 480 Je. ’07. 50w.
“His notes here are marked by sound learning and accurate
scholarship.”
+ + =Nation.= 34: 525. Je. 6, ’07. 450w.
=Mazzotto, Domenico.= Wireless telegraphy and telephony; tr. from the
original Italian, by S. R. Bottone. *$2. Macmillan.
6–16742.
“Prof. Mazzotto, a countryman of the inventor Marconi takes up the
subject of what is now called radiotelegraphy, and discusses it
historically and technically ... and places at the service of both
scientific and ordinary readers in clear language all that is known on
the subject up to the present.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Some of the descriptions remain obscured by somewhat longwinded—and
therefore involved—sentences. This defect possibly results from
translation.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 50. Ja. 12. 630w.
“Mr. Bottone’s translation is clear and well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 403. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.
=Meade, Richard Kidder.= Portland cement; its composition, raw
materials, manufacture, testing and analysis. *$3.50. Chemical.
6–32139.
“A book ... which fairly represents to date the American Portland
cement industry, as seen from the standpoint of the technical
staff.... While the chapters on ‘Proportioning raw material’ and on
‘Analytical methods’ are naturally the strongest in the book ... yet
Mr. Meade deals with machinery and processes of manufacture extremely
well.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Mr. Meade is to be congratulated on a really notable effort.
Undoubtedly the book will be well received by the many people
interested in cements, and will occupy a place in cement literature
which every body has known was vacant and which should be filled by
some one competent for the task.” Frederick H. Lewis.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 87. Ja. 17, ’07. 720w.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 123. Je. 6, ’07. 610w.
=Meakin, Annette M. B.= Russia, travels and studies. *$4. Lippincott.
W 6–316.
“Starting with Rousseau’s view that Naples should be visited in summer
and St. Petersburg in winter, Mrs. Meakin makes the Russian capital
the starting-point for a literary, if not literal, journey all over
the European dominions of the Czar, closing with Kieff and the
Caucasus. She gives a great deal of information—historical,
topographical, sociological—which is of considerable interest and
value.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Contains much more definite information on a wider range of subjects,
than the usual personal narratives of travel.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 212. N. ’06.
“This book is a valuable contribution to the too small list of good
books on Russia, because it contains so many first hand observations,
put in such a clear and attractive form.” Samuel N. Harper.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 661. My. ’07. 630w.
“The slips and little errors in the earlier pages are, though
unimportant so numerous that we began to suspect the qualifications of
the writer for the task undertaken. But we gladly admit that in
reading on we found reason to change our view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 891. D. 30. 980w.
“They are somewhat desultory and discursive, but they contain nothing
uninteresting, and they cover fields ordinarily left untouched even in
a country so voluminously written of as Russia.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 393. D. 1, ’06. 150w.
“This volume is an interesting and enlightening narrative of Russia’s
many-sided life, by a woman whose investigations have been thorough
and discerning.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 914. D. 15, ’06. 110w.
“The thing that strikes the reader of Miss Meakin’s ‘Russia’ is a
certain inconsequence of matter and style. We know of no popular book
in English that deals so fully with the treasures of the Russian
monasteries and museums, both public and private. There is a
regrettable weakness in the matter of the names of the Russian
governments.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 151. F. 14, ’07. 450w.
“Every chapter is solid without sacrifice of entertainment. The author
rather skillfully avoids the hackneyed.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 410w.
“We look in vain for a glossary to explain the interesting text in
this well printed, illustrated, and mapped book, brimful of
little-known facts about Russian towns.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 522. Mr. 2, ’07. 280w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 525. Ap. 28, ’06. 1500w.
“The chief charm of this book is that one can take it up at any time
and find something, if not positively new, at once informing and
non-controversial.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 470. O. 6, ’06. 390w.
=Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett.= Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond.
*$3. Dutton.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 679. N. 17, ’06. 300w.
=Meakin, Walter.= Life of an empire. *$1.80. Wessels.
7–38582.
A work whose aim is “to give clear and definite expression to some of
the problems which confront the British Empire.... [The author] first
traces the growth briefly, with compact and vivid narrative, of the
empire from the time of the Romans to the present, presents the
salient features of its different parts, discusses the problems and
the tendencies of each locality, and in the final chapter considers
the necessity of the unity of the empire and how it can be attained.”
(N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Meakin ... displays sound principle and good feeling generally
expressed in commonplaces. On many of the grave questions of which he
writes at length Mr. Meakin has failed to clear his mind. We find also
a good many trifling errors which seem to show some deficiency in the
equipment of our author.”
+ − − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 164. F. 9. 630w.
“His discussion of the color problem in the different localities of
the empire has interest and some practical value for Americans. But
when he finds the cause of race hatred in the southern United States
to be in the struggle for existence the American reader will begin to
feel some doubt as to the keenness of his observation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 420w.
“His book is as flimsy as it is pretentious. His ideas are
cosmopolitan, his economics are childish, and his ways of expressing
himself would not redound to the credit of a schoolboy essayist.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
=Meany, Edmond Stephen.= Vancouver’s discovery of Puget Sound: portraits
and biographies of the men honored in the naming of geographic features
of northwestern America. **$2.50. Macmillan.
7–14804.
The volume deals with the broad general subject of western Canadian
discovery, and is based principally upon the second edition of the
journal of Captain Vancouver, published in London in 1801. Many
interesting portraits supplement the text, and there are biographies
of a number of men whose names now appear conspicuously upon the map
of the North American continent.
* * * * *
“In the main the work is trustworthy. If the portion of Vancouver’s
‘voyage’ had been faithfully reproduced it would require no comment in
this review. But there are numerous errors in copying (changes,
omissions, and insertions) which should have been corrected in
proof-reading.” William R. Manning.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 160. O. ’07. 520w.
“It is disappointing to find so much genuine scholarship expended to,
comparatively speaking, so little purpose.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 800w.
“It would be difficult to exaggerate the interest and charm of these
vivid pages, written, as they were, under the spell and inspiration of
a new world.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 390w.
“This is a valuable contribution to the early history of Puget sound
region of the State of Washington.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 147. Ag. 15, ’07. 960w.
“A volume which adds materially to the early history of this
continent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
“A distinctly original and helpful historical monograph, valuable not
only for the information it affords concerning Vancouver’s voyage
itself and the significance of the names applied to prominent
geographical features of the Oregon country, but for the light it
throws on the operations of Spain in that region and negotiations
which ended in the relinquishment to England of the Spanish
territorial claims.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 250w.
“A noteworthy addition to the subject of Americana in its largest
sense.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 110w.
“This volume is of definite historical importance in the literature of
geographical biography, and a handsome tribute to the memory of a
great Englishman.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 205. Ag. 10, ’07. 440w.
=Mears, Mary M.= Breath of the runners; a novel. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–37599.
One of the runners is a large-souled, unselfish girl, the other a
jealous, narrow-minded, self-constituted rival. Beulah Marcel’s art
career from the lowly rounds of a cameo-cutter’s apprentice to the
point of distinction as a sculptor is unselfishly subordinated to that
of Enid Rahfield spares no effort, good or evil, to win much-coveted
fame. The scene shifts from New York to Paris, and at every pause of
the runners, the love interest creeps in, and with it,
misunderstandings which are fully accounted for at the mention of
“artistic temperament.”
* * * * *
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07.
“There is much knowledge of the art world, much keen insight into the
hearts of men and women, and no small amount of healthful philosophy
of life in this unpretentious story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 24: 488. Ja. ’07. 310w.
=Ind.= 62: 621. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w.
+ − =Nation.= 83: 417. N. 15, ’06. 560w.
“There is something in the youth and freshness, the first poetic
outlook upon dawning life, never to be seized a second time, but which
permeates ‘The breath of the runners.’” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 183: 1058, N. 16, ’06. 1460w.
“The characters are unusual and significant, and they are alive. The
writer has much to learn in the matter of construction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 200w.
=Meline, Jules.= Return to the land. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–19755.
Senator Jules Méline, sometime minister of agriculture, President of
the representative chamber of France, and Prime Minister, has here
given minute and careful instruction on manufacturing and industrial
questions in a most interesting manner. “The great object of the
book,” says Justin McCarthy in his preface “is to convince the world
that the return to the land, and the work that the land still offers
in all or most countries, is now the nearest and the surest means for
the mitigation or the removal of the troubles which have come on the
working populations everywhere, and that the present is the
appropriate time for the beginning of such a movement.”
* * * * *
“M. Méline ... is a statesman of the highest rank, who approaches the
question in a manner that is at once widely philosophic and highly
practical.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 326. O. 6, ’06. 690w.
“He is a clear thinker, and presents his arguments in an attractive as
well as convincing form. He has graced his pages with artistic, at
times almost poetic language, and from cover to cover the book is sure
to interest the reader. To many of his conclusions few would give
assent. The remedies he proposes are foreign to all our habits of
thought. This does not render the argument any the less interesting
and thought-provoking.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 642. My. ’07. 250w.
“It is not likely that we shall learn much that can bear on the land
problems of Great Britain from the leading French Protectionist.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 405. O. 6. 280w.
“Its thorough, though general, and suggestive treatment, promises
interesting reading for Americans.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 238: Ap. 13. ’07. 200w.
“Senator Meline discusses most interestingly an interesting thesis,
with blemishes in detail which are apart from the merits of the idea.”
Edward A. Bradford.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 331. My. 25, ’07. 1270w.
“It is, in fact, in his recommendations, and in his review of the
present state of French agriculture, that his work is most valuable,
for here, by reason of long experience and thorough study, he is
master of his subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 474. Je. 29, ’07. 380w.
“We have much to learn from France, and M. Méline by constantly
drawing examples from England makes his book as instructive reading
for Englishmen as for his own countrymen.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 809. D. 29, ’06. 310w.
− =Spec.= 37: 933. D. S, ’06. 250w.
* =Melville, Lewis, pseud.= Farmer George: a study of the life and
character of George III. 2v. **$7.50. Brentano’s.
“George III.’s home and court life, his relations with his ministers
and other prominent persons of his reign are presented. Fully
described, too, is the king’s trouble with Wilkes, as well as the
attitude of his court and subjects toward the American colonies, from
the Stamp act down to the acknowledgment of the United States of
America.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“In their unambitious style Mr. Melville’s pages are readable enough.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 653. N. 23. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“The book may be popular, and, as it is better that people should know
something about George III. than nothing, it will serve a purpose in
the libraries.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 612, N. 16, ’07. 570w.
=Mendelssohn, Felix.= Thirty piano compositions; ed. by Percy
Goetschius, with a preface by Daniel Gregory Mason. $2.50; pa. $1.50.
Ditson.
7–5083.
Uniform with the “Musician’s library.” The volume includes eight
“Songs without words,” the Sonata in E major, the Rondo capriccioso,
besides various preludes, fugues, studies, etc.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 207. F. 28, ’07. 430w.
=Menpes, Mortimer.= Paris; painted by Mortimer Menpes; text by Dorothy
Menpes. 24 full-page il. in color and line drawings. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–110.
Here the reader finds less of the art galleries, churches, and museums
than of the “life of Paris, and above all, the joy of the life of
Paris.... The streets and boulevards, the cafés and restaurants, the
various forms of amusement, the poverty and the picturesqueness of the
shiftless and generous students of the Latin Quartier, and many other
phases of Parisian existence, are rendered in all their lights and
shades with astonishing accuracy.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is a great accomplishment to have caught as much of it all within
the pages of one book as the Menpes have done.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 120. S. 1, ’07. 390w.
“The ‘Paris’ of Mortimer and Dorothy Menpes may not have much of that
practical quality of serviceableness which we look for in a guide, but
it has a brilliant impersonal style and will supplement in a very
pleasant fashion a work more purely utilitarian. The illustrations in
color, as well as those in line, are smooth and harmonious. The former
are not glaring, but faithful and delicate, with subtle gradations of
tone that are very striking.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1356. Je. 6, ’07. 230w.
“She writes in a somewhat abrupt style; her series of pictures of
Paris life have been jotted down in short, terse sentences, which
somehow fail to match the grace and humour that float everywhere in
the golden, hazy atmosphere of that city. But her book, with its vivid
descriptions, is a pleasant contribution.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 541. Je. 13, ’07. 350w.
“Miss Menpes takes up various manifestations of Parisian ways of
thinking, acting, and living, and manages to invest her subject,
hackneyed though it is, with a great deal of freshness and charm. The
two dozen full-page illustrations in color, devoted to street scenes
and famous buildings, are not equal to the former publications of Mr.
Menpes’s work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 160w.
=Meredith, Ellis.= Under the harrow. †$1.50. Little.
7–12976.
All about three brave hearted girls’ struggles for success on Grub
street in the city of New York. There is a touch of pathos in the
penury that fills the life of these “attic geniuses;” their little
successes, more often reverses, their simple romances, above all their
naturalness and love of life are well worth following thru the pages
of the story.
* * * * *
“Amusing here and there, but unimportant as a whole.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 60w.
“The older generations of readers, who remember Murger’s ‘Scènes de la
vie de Bohème’ and Du Maurier’s ‘Trilby,’ will find Mr. Meredith’s
little story of Bohemian life in New York insipid and futile but it
will not be without interest and encouragement for the younger
generation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w.
“The story has its good points, but produces an uncomfortable
impression at times from the effort of the author to incorporate in it
like patchwork all the smart things possible to collect. Many of the
patches are incongruous.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 90w.
=Meredith, Owen, pseud. (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton).= Personal and
literary letters of Robert, first earl of Lytton, (Owen Meredith); ed.
by Lady Betty Balfour. 2v. *$6. Longmans.
7–26424.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The present winter season has produced at least an average crop of
biographical works, but none of them, so far as we have seen, can
surpass this one for attractiveness and interest.”
+ + + =Blackwood’s M.= 181: 36. Ja. ’07. 5910w.
“It is a far more touching and interesting record than the biography
of many a greater man.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 12: 182. Mr. 16, ’07. 2320w.
=Ind.= 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 290w.
“Considering her object—a picture of the man rather than of his
times—Lady Betty Balfour must be congratulated on a model
achievement.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 88. Ja. 10, 07. 1060w.
“A very interesting book this, and a very interesting man Lord Lytton,
and one who, notwithstanding his distinction as a diplomat, earns our
sympathy because of his ungratified ambition in other directions.”
Jeannette B. Gilder.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 504. Ja. ’07. 1300w.
=Merejkowski, Dmitri.= Peter and Alexis; tr. by Mr. Herbert Trench.
$1.50. Putnam.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In this last volume of the trilogy the faults of the author’s style
become intolerably exaggerated. A lack of symmetry, subordination and
clarity seems to be a general fault with Russian literature and
doubtless also of their life, for a like confusion and aimlessness
appear to characterize their politics.” Edwin E. Slosson.
− =Ind.= 61: 1148. N. 15, ’06. 910w.
=Merrill, George Perkins.= Treatise on rocks, rock-weathering and soils;
new ed. rev. throughout. *$4. Macmillan.
6–46275.
“There has been very little attempt to harmonize conflicting views,
and almost none at independent interpretation. The pages devoted to
rocks and to soils reflect current views rather than suggest new ones.
The chapters devoted to rock-weathering are the best in the book, and
constitute in the aggregate our most authoritative treatise on this
subject.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“The book is especially useful to readers who desire a knowledge of
the general facts and principles involved in the study of rocks and
their change into soils.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Combines a large amount of matter of a purely categorical and
descriptive scientific character with an almost equally large amount
of matter of interest and value to any wide-awake person wishing to
know about the earth on which he lives.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 309. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Having used it for years, the present reviewer has yet to find it
fail him in his classroom needs.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 5. Ja. 5, ’07. 250w.
=Merriman, Mansfield.= Elements of sanitary engineering. 3d ed. *$2.
Wiley.
7–6418.
A new edition of a book published in 1898. “Few changes of importance
have been made in the first 180 pages of the present edition.... The
two chapters on ‘Disposal of sewage’ and ‘Refuse and garbage’ have
been rewritten and extended to cover some of the advances of the past
eight years, and an appendix has been added which contains matter on
water supply and purification supplementary to that in the first
edition.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“Not only a creditable production but practically the only one
covering just its field.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 640. D. 13. ’06. 530w.
=Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester.= Text-book on roofs
and bridges, pt. 4, Higher structures. 3d ed., rev. and enl. $2.50.
Wiley.
7–6418.
“Not a treatise, but only a text-book, and only an elementary
text-book. The authors nowhere pretend to thoroughness in treatment.
They discuss only the principal types of ‘higher structures:’ the
continuous girder, the drawbridge, the suspension bridge, and the
metal arch (the inclusion of the cantilever bridge and three-hinged
arch, which are statically determinate, seems somewhat
inappropriate.)”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book has many excellences, both in plan and detail. A few minor
faults also remain.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 442. Ap. 18. ’07. 490w.
“Despite its brevity and limitations, the work on higher structures by
Merriman and Jacoby is the best general work in America to-day.
Indeed, there is no other one book of the same size that gives so
general a treatment. The volume is worthy of the attention of every
student and designing engineer. It indicates the trend of modern
analysis.” C. Derleth, jr.
+ + − =Technical Literature.= 1: 268. Je. ’07. 1660w.
* =Merritt, Albert Newton.= Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1.
Houghton.
7–37945.
This discussion was awarded first prize in the 1906 Hart, Schaffner
and Marx prize essays in economics. The phases of the subject
presented are the following: Are American railway rates excessive?
Federal control of rates is necessary. Objections to rate-fixing by a
commission, The interstate commerce act and its interpretation by the
commission and by the courts, and A rational plan for public control
of rates.
=Merwin, Samuel and Webster, Henry K.= Comrade John. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33593.
The subtle satire upon our modern tendency to embrace newly coined
religions which underlies this story will not mar the tale for mere
lovers of romance but will make it for those who see the humor in
today’s sects and religious colonies. One Herman Stein has invented a
religion of “toil and triumph” and associates with him in the creation
of a fitting setting for his community a young architect with a
showman’s instinct. To this combined Mecca and Luna Park comes the one
woman. The two men contend for her favor and the one by sacrificing
all to save her gains her love.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Altogether the book, while it cannot be very strongly praised as a
novel of character and motive, has the story-interest strongly
developed and well maintained.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 270w.
=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French
by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.
5–41797.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=Current Literature.= 42: 332. Mr. ’07. 990w.
=Meyer, Balthasar H.= History of the Northern securities case. pa. 60c.
Univ. of Wis.
6–37905.
“The ten chapters in eighty-two pages give a clear, concise, and
readable history of the litigation [in the Northern securities case],
including the genesis of the idea of a holding company and the causes
of organization, the action of the state authorities and the federal
government, with an analysis of the decisions in the main case, and in
the ancillary litigation over the liquidation of the company. The
appendix gives a number of the briefs or documents of the litigation
in a form convenient for reference.”—Yale R.
* * * * *
“It is fortunate that the greatest attempt to effect railroad
consolidation should have had so able a historian as Professor B. H.
Meyer.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 618. N. ’07. 520w.
“A careful and scholarly treatment from the economic view-point.” Wm.
Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 182. Mr. ’07. 370w.
“The style is clear and forcible. In some places, particularly in the
introductory chapters it would seem that the author had studied
conciseness at the expense of the clearness which would have been
gained by fuller amplification of the narrative. The author is
manifestly familiar with the material and thorough and accurate
research is shown throughout. Full justice is done to the dissenting
as well as the prevailing opinions.” Frederick N. Judson.
+ + − =Yale. R.= 16: 208. Ag. ’07. 1040w.
=Meyer, Ernst von.= History of chemistry from the earliest times to the
present day; being also an introduction to the study of the science; tr.
with the author’s sanction by George McGowan. 3d Eng. ed., tr. from the
3d Germ. ed. *$4.25. Macmillan.
This third edition includes additions and alterations which bring the
work down to date.
* * * * *
“The work is convenient, because there is no better one (except
Ladenburg’s, which is too small), and in spite of its numerous
inconveniences. Among these is the avoidance of dates.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 181. F. 21, ’07. 1090w.
“The work is a perfect treasure-house in its wealth of bibliographical
and biographical detail. Its literary charm lies in the simplicity and
directness of its style, characteristics which Dr. McGowan has well
preserved in his admirable rendering into English.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 169. D. 20, ’06. 1100w.
“An unbiased historical research study.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= British state telegraphs. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33625.
Prof. Meyer here resumes his study of the history of public ownership
in Great Britain. It is a two-part story which the author tells of the
British state telegraphs: the purchase of the telegraphs, in 1870,
from the companies that had established the industry of telegraphy;
and the subsequent conduct of the business of telegraphy by the
government. “Both parts contain a record of fact and experience of
importance to the American public at the present moment, when there is
before them the proposal to embark upon the policy of the municipal
ownership and operation of the so-called municipal public service
industries.”
=Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Municipal ownership in Great Britain. *$1.50.
Macmillan.
6–10877.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So far as it goes, the book is a model in its way. No one need feel
any doubt as to where the author stands. It shows an excellent grasp
of the subject and is a scholarly, though somewhat uninteresting,
presentation of the evidence from his own point of view. He no longer
assumes the attitude of the judge, but rather that of the special
pleader.” Garrett Droppers.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 370. Je. ’07. 1850w.
“The best that can be said of Professor Meyer’s book is that it is an
able ‘ex parte’ statement of the case against municipal ownership in
Great Britain.” Delos F. Wilcox.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 528. S. ’07. 1950w.
“A noteworthy contribution, to a vexed question. It is a careful and
minute study, showing vast research and erudition. The work
notwithstanding its appearance of great learning, will, in the opinion
of the reviewers, fail to carry conviction to the reader. The
prejudice of the author crops out too plainly at every turn. The book
smacks more of the library than of the world of affairs.” John H.
Gray.
+ − =Yale R.= 16: 102. My. ’07. 650w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= Public ownership and the telephone in Great Britain.
**$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31983.
Still a further continuation of Professor Meyer’s history of public
ownership in Great Britain. It gives the history, written from
original documents, of the efforts of the British government to
administer the telephone service in England.
=Michael, Mrs. Helen C.= Studies in plant and organic chemistry, and
literary papers; with biographical sketch. *$2.50. Riverside press.
7–17319.
“The volume contains an extended biographical sketch; an introduction
to Mrs. Michael’s work in chemistry, by Dr. Wiley; sixteen papers on
organic chemistry, four of them in German; and four literary papers
which discuss such themes as ‘Science and philosophy in art,’ ‘The
drama in relation to truth,’ Whitman Browning, etc. A photogravure
portrait forms the frontispiece and shows the face of a most
attractive woman.”—Dial.
* * * * *
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 290w.
“The sketch itself is well proportioned and discriminating, and is
thoroughly appreciative of Mrs. Michael’s remarkable powers. Every
student of plant-physiology will be glad to have in this compact form
the scattered papers which, under her maiden name of Abbott, Mrs.
Michael contributed to many scientific publications.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 127. Ag. 8, ’07. 320w.
=Michel, Emile.= Rembrandt: a memorial; il. with seventy plates in color
and photogravure. *$5. Lane.
7–28517.
This volume has grown out of the renewed interest in Rembrandt which
was awakened by Holland’s tercentenary celebration of the birth of the
great master.
* * * * *
+ + =Acad.= 70: 294. Mr. 24, ’06. 300w.
“Altogether this ‘Rembrandt’ will be a book that all lovers of art
will want to have on their shelves and in their hands; and when it is
complete with the special plate that is to be presented to
subscribers, it will be one of the most artistic productions of the
time.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 461. My. 12, ’06. 490w.
“The omission of an index is the great blemish on the work; and this
is intensified by the not over-careful way in which the list of plates
in colour and in photogravure has been drawn up.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 163. Ag. 11. 2550w.
“The book as a whole is one of the best of the art books of the
present season.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 90w.
+ + =Int. Studio.= 29: 274. S. ’06. 210w.
=Int. Studio.= 30: sup. 58. D. ’06. 240w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8. ’06. 80w.
=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Sunnyside Tad. †$1.25. Harper.
7–30440.
Sunnyside Tad and Diogenes, the tawny little pup that he rescued from
drowning, are outcast chums who suffer and rejoice together. The two
in their David and Jonathan relations teach a lesson brimful of love
and fearlessness.
* * * * *
“A first-class boy’s story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
* =Mijatovich, Chedomille.= Royal tragedy; being the story of the
assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga, of Servia. *$2.50.
Dodd.
A full story of the Servian tragedy with all the elements that entered
into the plot and its execution.
* * * * *
“He writes of matters which almost involve passion, but he writes (as
might be expected of him) dispassionately. The story that he has to
tell is full of interest, and he tells it admirably.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 690. D. 1. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“The writer is frankly a partisan of King Milan. Its chief defect lies
in the excessive intrusion of the author’s personality.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 160w.
“M. Chedomille Mijatovich tells the tragic story in a remarkably
interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 293. F. 23, ’07. 2340w.
=Miles, George H.= Said the rose, and other lyrics; with an introd. by
John C. Collins. **$1. Longmans.
7–18559.
“Poems of a writer who died forty years ago. They have been rescued
from the past, and have met with appreciative comment. “The titular
lyric is the plaint of a rose, plucked by a lady to wear upon her
bosom for an hour, and then cast ruthlessly away.... A number of the
poems in this volume are impressions of Italy, particularly of Italian
art, and the influence of Browning is very evident.” (Dial.) A
graceful biographical and critical introduction by Mr. Churton Collins
will serve to acquaint the present generation with the amiable and
gifted man who, in the preceding one, adorned the chair of English in
Mount St. Mary’s college, Emmetsburg.” (Cath. World.)
* * * * *
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 827. S. ’07. 410w.
“Reading the fifty pages of Mr. Collins’s appreciative essay, we learn
anew the lesson of fame’s caprice, for we become acquainted with a
writer of admirable qualities, whose performance certainly deserved
something less than the entire forgetfulness that seems to have become
its portion.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 90. Ag. 16, ’07. 580w.
Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 360w.
“All of the work is accomplished, but none save perhaps ‘Beatrice,’
shows any trace of original talent.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 120w.
=Mill, John Stuart.= Subjection of women; new ed.; ed. with introductory
analysis by Stanton Coit. *40c. Longmans.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Dial.= 40: 239. Ap. 1, ’06. 50w.
=Millard, Thomas Franklin Fairfax.= New Far East. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–10925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is written a little too much in the spirit of a man who feels that he
is tilting against generally accepted opinions, but his volume is none
the less an excellent one, indeed one of the most enlightening we have
on the present Far Eastern situation.” Archibald Cary Coolidge.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 136. Mr. ’07. 560w.
=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= Saul of Tarsus; a tale of the early
Christians; with il. by Andre Castaigne. †$1.50. Bobbs.
6–36043.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Vivid and absorbing narrative.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07.
“One of the most interesting and well-written novels of the year.” Amy
C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 218. F. ’07. 610w.
“As far as historic truth is concerned, there is little fault to be
found with the novel. It is a pity that as much can not be said of the
style. It is lacking in life, and the interest of the reader often
flags.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 26. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 833. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Christmas-making. **30c. Crowell.
7–22861.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A good, optimistic little book, but with nothing very striking about
it, either in contents or style.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 334. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= For the best things, pa. bds. **65c.
Crowell.
7– 26992.
“A trumpet call for striving ‘for the best things,’ an appeal to the
best impulse in the human heart.”
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Glimpses of the heavenly life. **30c.
Crowell.
7–20953.
Belonging to the “What is worth while” series, this little book aims
to give some of the glimpses of the heavenly life which the Bible
reveals.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Morning thoughts. **65c. Crowell.
7–21332.
Page sermons for every day in the year, whose aim is to start the
reader out upon his new day with some actively helpful thought.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 60w.
=Miller, John Henderson.= Where the rainbow touches the ground. †$1.
Funk.
6–44370.
A Kansas cyclone is responsible in a freakish way for the restoration
of property to a man who had surely known the hardships of the
“submerged tenth.” The book is full of local color in which herbs and
simples, and homely philosophy abound.
* * * * *
“We do not share the high opinion of this story which the publishers
seem to entertain nor can we agree with them that the author is a
writer of exceptional power. The ethical tone of the work is good and
the lessons of practical value.”
− + =Arena.= 37: 221. F. ’07. 120w.
“The story is told with a quaint sort of art which will appeal to the
jaded novel-reader.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30. ’07. 160w.
=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= Harry’s
runaway. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–32035.
A sure cure for the runaway malady. The good work of parents in
restraining dissatisfied boys is helpfully supplemented in Mrs.
Miller’s story. Harry Barnes persuades a playmate to run away with
him. Their experiences lead to a half starved condition in which their
parents find them. To make Harry’s lesson more impressive each night
some one drops in and tells a runaway story which shatters some
youthful ideal of heroism and reduces the would-be hero to the
suppliant state.
=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= What
happened to Barbara. †$1.25. Houghton.
7–15599.
A little girl of thirty years ago is the heroine of Mrs. Miller’s
story. “The story has the air of being autobiographical, and is
interesting for two reasons, and two only: It furnishes a kind of
proof that there is a type of healthy child life in which the thing we
know as sentiment is non-existent: and it demonstrates the possibility
of converting into quasi-literary form the amazing gift of being able
to discourse ‘ad libitum’ about absolutely nothing.” (Lit. D.)
* * * * *
− + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 170w.
“It might be, and doubtless is, in the main, a carefully expurgated
account of the part of the author’s own life which lies in the
schoolgirl stage.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 430w.
=Millet, Jean Francois.= Drawings of Jean Francois Millet: 50 facsimile
reproductions of the master’s work with an introductory essay by Leonce
Benedite. *$20. Lippincott.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The disappointment is in the selection. Now and then there is an
obvious blunder in the title given. If a competent technical study of
the merits of Millet’s drawing, as drawing, was unattainable, why not
omit the text altogether and publish a portfolio? Well worth more than
the price asked, if one has the money to spend.”
− − =Nation.= 84: 90. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.
“The volume before us is a really desirable possession, and not merely
another so-called ‘art book.’”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 620. O. 27, ’06. 1200w.
=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Gale, Henry Gordon.= Laboratory course in
physics for secondary schools. *40c. Ginn.
6–31644.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A possible objection to the proposed course lies in the introduction
of the vernier and the micrometer calimeter. The use of these
instruments seems contrary to the authors’ attempt to avoid the
‘creeping-over’ of the methods and the instruments of research and
specialization from the university into the high school, where they
have absolutely no place. The same objection might be urged against
the use of per cent. errors and discussion of accuracy of
measurements. The book is to be commended, not only for its
improvements over older manuals, but also as part of a _completed_ and
_tried_ course.” F. R. Watson.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 168. F. ’07. 280w.
=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achaemenides and
Israel. *$4. Open ct.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“From the first words of the preface ... to the end of the book, there
is so much involved construction and verbiage, combined with misprints
that the author’s ‘reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two
bushels of chaff.’”
− =Ind.= 62: 217. Ja. 24, ’07. 390w.
=Mills, (Thomas) Wesley.= Voice production in singing and speaking,
based on scientific principles. **$2. Lippincott.
6–38905.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07. S.
+ + =Nation.= 84: 18. Ja. 3, ’07. 450w.
“It is scientific in the best sense.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 580w.
=Milton, John.= Complete poetical works; with a biographical sketch by
Nathan Haskell Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Milton’s poetical works uniform with the “Thin paper poets.” The
introduction by Mr. Dole aims to elucidate the circumstances, motives
and intention of each of the poems individually.
=Minchin, George M., and Dale, J. B.= Mathematical drawing. *$2.10.
Longmans.
An exposition of the subject which presupposes a knowledge of analytic
geometry and the calculus so far as methods are concerned, but which
makes no use of theorems proved by them. Nearly half of the book is
devoted to a discussion of conical and parallel projection.
* * * * *
“This book is of rather more interest to the mathematician than the
engineer; it has several features that are of value to both, but is
too brief to be of greatest service to either.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 193. F. 14, ’07. 480w.
=Mitchell, John Ames.= Silent war. $1.50. Life pub.
6–38893.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is no more impressive as a warning than it is interesting as a
romance. The interest of the reader is aroused at the very beginning
and held in leash throughout until the final denouement.” Ellis O.
Jones.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 446. Ap. ’07. 350w.
“The book is in many ways strong. It is original, improbable, and not
so well written as ‘Amos Judd’ and others of Mr. Mitchell’s books.”
Madeleine Z. Doty.
− − =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15. ’06. 250w.
=Mitchell, William.= Structure and growth of the mind. *$2.60.
Macmillan.
W 7–111.
“A treatise on descriptive and genetic psychology in four main parts:
The direct explanation of the mind, Sympathetic and aesthetic
intelligence, The growth of intelligence, and Extension of direct
explanation and the direct explanation.”
* * * * *
“It is, however, frankly technical: it is a book to be studied, not to
be read. It has the discursive form of lectures, yet, after all, of
written lectures that reflect the slow and careful growth of his
phrasing and presentation, and assume a like attentive and painstaking
attitude on the part of the student in the class-room or the study. To
the circle of those specifically minded to follow the pursuit the work
is enthusiastically recommended as a notable addition to the modern
literature of psychology.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 19. Jl. 1, ’07. 350w.
“The fact that the views which are supported are throughout reasoned
views gives it an unusually stimulating quality. And this quality
would be still more in evidence were it not for a certain occasional
elusiveness in the presentation of the argument, which is not
altogether removed by the detail analysis that is provided.” W. G.
Smith.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 6: 218. O. ’07. 1300w.
“It is an abstruse, laborious book, the work of one who is not
fanatically attached to either school, who studies both the direct and
indirect explanations of the structure and growth of mind.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 283. S. 20, ’07. 680w.
“The discursive style and the absence of prominent landmarks would
often give the reader a rather vague idea of the plan of exposition,
were it not for the table of contents, which is a model of scientific
analysis, and almost makes up for the absence of an alphabetical
index.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 1050w.
“Mr. Mitchell’s work will compare very favourably with the best
philosophical books of recent years.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 196. Je. 27, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 50w.
“A stimulating and serviceable guide-book in psychology, devoted to
elaborate and searching criticism for the benefit of readers who are
not in a hurry to run while reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 974. Ag. 31, ’07. 170w.
“One of the most interesting chapters in this book is on the power of
suggestion, or the power of a thought to determine a course of
thought.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 365. S. 21, ’07. 1080w.
=Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.
6–2322.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 743. D. 15, ’06. 230w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Life of Japan. **$3. Baker.
7–28500.
Dr. Miyakawa was educated in America and returning to Japan became
interpreter for the imperial army. He reveals intimately “to millions
of American homes” a knowledge of Japan and Japanese conditions. The
book is dedicated to Commodore Perry whom the author calls the
“national redeemer of Japan.” “The bulk of the book is devoted to
tracing the rapid growth of Japan since the making of the treaty with
the United States, in the reform of its financial system, in the
development of its domestic industry and its foreign commerce, the
expansion of its army and navy, the establishment of a constitutional
form of government, and the adoption of American methods in education
and journalism.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“For the most part, however, the book is accurate and well suited to
the needs of readers who do not care to go deeply into the subjects
treated.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 290. N. 1, ’07. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 536. S. 7, ’07. 1000w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Powers of the American people. Congress, president,
and courts. *$3. N. Hayes, cor. N. Y. ave. & 15th st., Washington, D. C.
A manual of instruction which points out the various powers and duties
which are imposed by the constitution, written by a Japanese
attorney—the first to be admitted to the American bar.
* * * * *
“To the average American student, the book is a primer of the simplest
type. To the foreign lawyer who wishes to become familiar with the
theoretical side of our government the book will be of considerable
assistance, but to a foreign business man or a foreigner studying
modern institutions, the book is of little value, for it lives in the
dim, forgetful past, not in the pulsing present.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 643. My. ’07. 320w.
“While there are some imperfections in the style, and while for the
general reader the book would be more valuable if it had undergone
revision by an English scholar, it is a remarkably clear and
comprehensive statement of the fundamental principles of our American
constitution and might well be commended to the lay reader who desires
to obtain a nonpartisan impression and scholarly view of the nature of
our government and the functions of its various departments.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 302. Je. 8, ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 638. N. ’07. 50w.
Modern pilgrim’s progress; with introd. by the Very Rev. H. S. Bowden.
*$1.60. Benziger.
A description of the “phases of thought through which an educated and
thoughtful woman passed on her spiritual journey from the Anglican to
the Roman faith. The arguments in favor of the Roman faith are as old
as its attractions, and the author does not lay claim to any polemical
originality.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
=Cath. World.= 84: 264. N. ’06. 840w.
“The book is a striking one.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 462. O. 13, ’06. 630w.
“The interest of the book lies in the transparent sincerity of the
writer, and in the manner in which she emphasises the strange fact
that a mind constitutionally restless and hungry for new ideas may be
completely transformed and forever pacified by drugs of sacredotal
anaesthetics.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 100w.
* =Moedebeck, Hermann W. L.= Pocket-book of aeronautics, by H. W. L.
Moedebeck in collaboration with O. Chanute and others; authorized Eng.
ed.; tr. by W. Mansergh Varley. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–29118.
The present work aims to review the history of aerial navigation and
its present development and to give scientific information on the
physics of the atmosphere.
* * * * *
“In this handy little volume we have an excellent comprehensive
summary of the whole subject of aeronautics, and the English reading
public have to thank Major Moedebeck for producing such a work which
has been so capably translated by Mr. Varley.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 100. My. 30, ’07. 370w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w.
“Useful and timely hand-book. No reference is made to the large amount
of data collected with kites in the United States by our Weather
bureau and at the Blue Hill observatory, nor to the more recent
observations with balloons at great heights, which were instituted by
this observatory.” A. Lawrence Rotch.
+ + − =Science=, n. s. 25: 936. Je. 14, ’07. 700w.
=Moffat, Mary Maxwell.= Queen Louisa of Prussia: *$3. Dutton.
6–43228.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A sympathetic and admiring portrayal of Queen Louisa, and a clear and
interesting picture of her times. While it throws no new light on
Prussian history, it never degenerates into a court calendar, but is
dignified and worthy of its subject throughout.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 100. Ap. ’07.
“Well-written, well arranged, and always interesting memoir.” S. M.
Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 493. O. ’07. 400w.
“If not taken as a balanced history of the period it will do no harm,
and may serve to interest casual readers to a period of German history
of crucial importance.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 180w.
“A good deal of new matter not found in Horn or even Lonke. There is,
too, a good index and a fair bibliography, though it lacks any mention
of Martin’s German biography (1887), and is wholly deficient in
American references.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 227. Mr. 7, ’07. 940w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 476. Jl. ’07. 220w.
=Moffat, Rev. James=, ed. Literary illustrations of the Bible, ea. *40c.
Armstrong.
Six volumes of commentaries entitled; The book of Ecclesiastes, The
book of Daniel, The gospel according to Saint Mark, The epistle to the
Romans, The gospel according to Saint Luke, and The book of
Revelation.
* * * * *
“The treatment is novel and interesting, and we think might be
followed with educational effect by every reader of the Scriptures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 289. My. 5, ’06. 210w.
“A small but choice assortment of gleanings from a fruitful field.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 80w.
=Moller, Muriel.= Wood-carving designs. *$2.50. Lane.
“Six sheets of excellent working drawings of panels, frames, etc.,
with examples of furniture suitable for them, as to which Mr. Walter
Crane writes an appreciative foreword.”—Int. Studio.
* * * * *
“Should prove of great utility to the carver in wood.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 251. My. ’07. 100w.
=Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 86. My. ’07. 350w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 70w.
=Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald.= Sir Joshua and his circle. *$6.50. Dodd.
7–13429.
Less of a sketch of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ life and character than a
portrayal of his relations to the group of men and women prominent in
the literature and art of his day.
* * * * *
“Mr. Molloy has re-told the old stories fairly well, and produced the
sort of book that very many people like to read.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 280w.
“The book certainly cannot be said to have been necessary; but it is
written with such infectious good humour and apparent zest, the touch
is so spirited and flowing, the local colour thrown on with so light
and lavish a hand, that it may be skimmed with amusement and
pleasure.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 354. O. 19, ’06. 390w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Molloy’s attempts to be vivacious are
always highly successful, nor does it inspire confidence to describe
scenes as if the writer were present and spoke from memory of ‘wistful
eyes’ and the like.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 31. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.
“Worth reading, and even by those who are already more or less
saturated with Reynolds biographical material.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 290w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo.= Venice, its individual growth from the
earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; tr. from the Italian by
Horatio F. Brown. Sold in 2v. sections, per section, *$5. McClurg.
This is the second installment of Molmenti’s “Venice.” It contains two
volumes as did the first section, and deals with “the golden age” from
the viewpoints of conditioning factors, constitution, climate and
public health, festivals, the arts, industry, scientific movements,
schools, private life, the stage, palaces and houses, fashions,
entertainments, the family and the corruption of manners.
* * * * *
“Mr. Molmenti is certainly a learned man in the limited sense of the
word, that is, he is a collector pure and simple, whose primitive
notion of a book is a succession of scrap-heaps, labelled chapters,
which his readers are set to pick over for bright and valuable matter
appearing here and there like raisins in a cake.” Ferdinand Schwill.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 866. Jl. ’07. 1220w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The ideal volume from the standpoint of the reputable publisher is
one which combines literary interest with an appropriate and
attractive type setting and a new edition that goes far toward the
accomplishment of this are two volumes recently published with the
title ‘Venice.’” Laurence Burnham.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 639. F. ’07. 210w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Among those who have made a serious study of the Venetian past,
perhaps none is more eminent than the Italian historian Pompeo
Molmenti.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 38. Jl. 16, ’07. 1610w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“In the main, we find Molmenti’s verdicts sound, and his attitude
judicial. We must praise the very readable translation of Mr. Horatio
Brown, himself a recognized authority on matters Venetian.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1435. D 12, ’07. 820w.
“Admirably translated by a scholar whose erudition is equal to that of
their author.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: 331. Je. ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“He has what many who attempt works of this kind lack—charm, the gift
of presenting a great body of material so that it not only conveys
information, but gives pleasure.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 499. My. 30, ’07. 1170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The material which enables the author to describe these subjects in
the most minute detail has been collected with the greatest care,
patience and industry from original sources. So complete, indeed, are
the descriptions that in many cases we have pages of sheer
enumeration—of estimable value to specialists, but of doubtful
attractiveness to the lovers of the romantic phases of Venetian
history.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“That the translation itself is excellent goes without saying. The
reader’s pleasure is interfered with by no heaviness of style, no
awkward turn of a sentence. The straightforward tale of the old
Venetians, the most interesting community in Europe, is told with a
frank simplicity, and yet with every detail that can be desired by a
careful student.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 535. Ap. 6, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The book is not a history of events, but of thought and character,—a
far more intricate subject, and one involving a far profounder
knowledge. The erudition is as amazing as ever. Our one complaint is
that Mr. Brown does not underrate the scholarship of his readers.
About one-tenth of the text of the first volume consists of
untranslated quotations from some foreign tongue.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 868. N. 30, ’07. 1350w.
=Moncrieff, A. R. Hope.= Surrey; painted by Sutton Palmer, with 75 il.
in col. *$6. Macmillan.
W 7–171.
Brush and pen have worked in pleasing consonance to reproduce the
“enchanting by-ways” of Surrey. Mr. Palmer’s full-page colored
illustrations are accompanied by description that are “chatty and
spring from point to point very much as William Combe in verse rattled
amiably along as an accompanist and reciter for Rowlandson’s pictures
of the schoolmaster on his trips.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 83: 349. O. 25, ’06. 280w.
“As a rule the neat and simple method of the artist suits the process
fairly well.” Charles de Kay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“Altogether, the book is one of the most agreeable of this series.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 386. O. 13, ’06. 180w.
=Monroe, Will Seymour.= Turkey and the Turks: an account of the lands,
the peoples, and the institutions of the Ottoman empire. $3. Page.
7–26348.
A brief but unified picture, gained thru study and travel, of the
incoherent Ottoman empire and its complex civilization. A chapter is
devoted to the rise, another to the decline of the empire one is given
to the significant events in Turkish history during the past thirty
years, but the most of the book is devoted to matters of purely human
interest, including eight chapters upon Constantinople, its monuments,
characteristic quarters, street scenes, bazaars, baths, kahns,
fountains, mosques and dervishes.
* * * * *
=Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“As a whole, the book is to be commended for the useful information
which it gives, but in some points it merits criticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 349. O. 17, ’07. 310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 160w.
=Montague, Margaret Prescott.= Sowing of Alderson Cree; with a front. by
W. T. Benda. †$1.50. Baker.
7–12272.
Alderson Cree is shot by an enemy and upon his death-bed exacts from
his young son the promise to avenge the deed. “His ‘sowing’ is the
spirit of revenge and hatred which is thus implanted in the child’s
heart, and the reaping comes ten years later, when the boy must choose
between revenge and love. The story has in it all the rough strength
of the mountain valley where the scene is laid and of the rough
mountain people who figure in its pages.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A book of extraordinary sweetness and strength, for in reading one is
led along by the sure touch of the writer, who, born and living all
her days among the mountain people, knows their lives and touches them
with truth and tenderness.” Harriet Prescott Spofford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 1770w.
=Montgomery, Edmund.= Philosophical problems in the light of vital
organization. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–5071.
“This work is divided into two parts: 1, Philosophical survey; 2,
Biological solutions. Some of the problems discussed in the first part
are substance, identity, causation, the problem of the external world,
universals and particulars, innate faculties, subject and object,
etc.... The problems of substantiality, causation, mechanical
necessity, living substance as sensorimotor agent, sentiency and
purpose in movements, teleology in nature, etc., are discussed in the
second part, in conjunction, with the author’s own views.”—Psychol.
Bull.
* * * * *
“Futile as is all such philosophizing, there are valuable practical
applications of biology, in ethics, education, and sociology, and
these Mr. Montgomery has instructively presented, though disadvantaged
by a heavy and otherwise somewhat defective literary style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 621. Mr. 16, ’07. 390w.
“A somewhat peculiar setting forth of a familiar view, relating to
what is here termed the psychophysical puzzle. What is peculiar is the
mystical, or mystifying phraseology in which these views are
presented.” E. A. Norris.
− =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 243. Ap. 25, ’07. 670w.
=Montgomery, Hugh, and Cambray, Philip G.= Dictionary of political
phrases and allusions with a short bibliography. *$2. Dutton.
W 7–84.
A novel book of reference in which “foreign political phrases, terms,
and catch-words of international significance, but with particular
reference to Great Britain, are defined in simple language.” (N. Y.
Times.) “This book will help a hasty journalist to write in such a
fashion as to pass muster with a hasty sub-editor.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Numerous catch phrases of recent political campaigns are discussed
which surely do not deserve a place in a one-volume work of this
character, and even the allusions to strictly English politics are not
treated with comprehension of their relative importance. The worst
fault of the book is the lack of judicial attitude. Almost every page
is tinged with a national prejudice which warps the discussion so as
largely to destroy its value.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 598. N. ’07. 150w.
“Most of the entries fall a little short of the exactness to be
desired in such a dictionary.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 769. D. 15. 1090w.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 250w.
“To any one having occasion to refer to British acts of legislation or
to catchwords of British politics the usefulness of this volume is
obvious.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 904. Ap. 20, ’07. 100w.
=Spec.= 97: 991. D. 15, ’06. 110w.
=Montgomery, James Alan.= Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect. **$2.
Winston.
7–15492.
An exhaustive study of the Samaritans which treats of their history,
theology, and philology, with a closing chapter devoted to the
literary history of the sect.
* * * * *
“It is a mine of information. The author has apparently overlooked
nothing. The method and style are clear and simple, and the book
deserves a place in any library.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 40w.
“A large amount of diligent research is evident.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 141. Ag. 15, ’07. 130w.
“Its account of the romantic story of this curious sect will be an
authoritative work upon the subject, for it presents an amount and
variety of material which can be found nowhere else.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
“The book is a contribution to the literature of an obscure subject.
It makes no pretense to popularity. But it will interest scholars who
will be especially thankful for the careful ‘Samaritan bibliography.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 90w.
“We commend to our readers his volume.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 260w.
=Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, jr.= Analysis of racial descent in
animals. *$2.50. Holt.
6–16987.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Our author undertakes the herculean task, we venture to think
successfully, of setting the study of phylogeny on a surer
foundation.” A. D. D.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 530. Ap. 4, ’07. 990w.
“Every teacher and advanced student of biology should become
acquainted with the views of an author who has studied so many and
widely separated biological phenomena.” Robert W. Hegner.
+ + =School R.= 15: 167. F. ’07. 320w.
=Montresor, Frances Frederica.= Burning torch. †$1.50. Dutton.
The story of an orphan child endowed with second sight which has
descended to her from a Highland ancestor. “The heroine not only does
not marry, she is killed in a railway collision. This, being a kind of
domestic Cassandra, she has foreseen, as, helpless to prevent or to
convince, she has foreseen all the other catastrophes which have
befallen her circle—the suicide of her father, the almost patricide of
her favorite cousin, the violent death in the desert of the man she
loves.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is only just to state that in spite of a considerable lack of
sympathy with its philosophy we read ‘The burning torch’ with an
interest that surprised us.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 731. Jl. 27, ’07. 400w.
“One does not realize it (there are so many diverse interests touched
by a sympathetic and exceedingly observant perception) till nearly the
end; but the tale is compounded of elements which do not coalesce
quite happily.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 212. Jl. 5, ’07. 330w.
=Nation.= 85: 268. S. 26. ’07. 200w.
“Parts of the story are pretty dull, and the style tends to be
tedious, but for all that there is really good stuff in the rather
nondescript and futile whole called ‘The burning torch.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 380w.
“While there are many grim and not altogether pleasant traits
distributed among the actors, there is also a decided hopefulness for
humanity and faith in God pervading the story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 269. O. 5, ’07. 270w.
“A book heavier with fate and fatalities we have never seen. It is not
an easy book to read.”
− =Putnam’s.= 3: 239. N. ’07. 760w.
“Miss Montresor can always be relied upon for a straightforward story
without ellipse or obscurity; she tells it fluently and at some
length, as though she could not help telling it. She has delicacy and
enough observation to make every one of her numerous characters
distinct.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 59. Jl. 13, ’07. 1150w.
=Moody, Winfield Scott.= Pickwick ladle and other collector’s stories.
†$1.50. Scribner.
7–35226.
Sketches of “two hardened bric-a-brac hunters.... Each story breathes
an agreeable leisure, and the thread of the Wyckoffs’ adventures among
the antique dealers is enriched by a shrewd characterization of the
dealers themselves, from Dirck Amstell, the honest Dutchman, to a
proud representative of Du Val upon Fifth avenue.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Unusually well told stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07. ✠
+ =Ind.= 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 130w.
“Dainty in touch, with humor that is real and pervaded by an
atmosphere of good society.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 40w.
“The pleasant surprise of the stories as a whole is that treating of
the infinitely small, they constantly broaden into a larger
perspective.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 523. Je. 6, ’07. 220w.
“Altogether delightful little stories.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.
“After reading much of the fiction of the day, one feels as if in this
modest volume he is really once more in good society.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w.
=Moore, Edward A.= Story of a cannoneer under Stonewall Jackson, in
which is told the part taken by the Rockbridge artillery in the army of
northern Virginia; with introds. by Robert E. Lee, jr., and Hon. Henry
St. George Tucker: il. $2. Neale.
7–21269.
“In which is told the part taken during the civil war by the
Rockbridge artillery in the operations of the army of northern
Virginia.... It is history and romance in one, and at the same time a
chronicle and a picture gallery. To read it is to know intimately the
brave and noble young fellows who formed the company, a command that
proved its mettle in twenty-three engagements.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“We heartily commend the volume as a truthful picture of real war.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 151. Ag. 10. 110w.
“The book possesses genuine value despite occasional eccentricities of
style which careful editing would have avoided.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 340w.
“He tells the story of the four years’ struggle in a clear, direct,
soldier like way, always with a sense of the humorous, and always
sympathetically, like a man to whom life is larger than any one man’s
experience.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“The story is well told, and gives a real insight into the every-day
life and typical privations of the confederate soldier-boy. Mr.
Moore’s sympathetic narrative is full of ‘human interest’ of a very
genuine kind.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 511. O. ’07. 140w.
=Moore, Frederick.= Balkan trail. $3.50. Macmillan.
6–41820.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story throughout is as straightforward and as thoroughly to the
point as could be desired. There is no pretension, the facts are told
in simple style, readable and interesting from beginning to end. The
book as a whole gives a better idea of the life in the Balkan region
than any other similar volume yet published.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 598. N. ’07. 190w.
“He has the capacity to see the really interesting things and record
his impressions so as to convey them to the reader. And this he does
without the tall writing which as a rule disfigures the work of a
newspaper correspondent. He possesses also the gift of humor.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 54. Ja. 12, ’07. 730w.
=Moore, George.= Lake. †$1.50. Appleton.
5–37156.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is Irish to the core, but with a quiet and contemplative
melancholy. Of the few events none is cheap or trite.” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 190w.
=Moore, George.= Memoirs of my dead life. **$1.50. Appleton.
6–42372.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The collection is a rather sickening blend of Henry Harland at his
fluffiest and of Goncourt at his feeblest.” H. T. P.
− + =Bookm.= 24: 479. Ja. ’07. 1080w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 398. Ap. ’07. 1270w.
“It probably contains more of himself than is to be found in the sum
of his other works, which would be equivalent to saying that it
surpasses them in interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 54: 218. F. 9. ’07. 260w.
=Nation.= 84: 62. Ja. 17, ’07. 730w.
“‘The memoirs of my dead life’ is even more dead than Mr. Moore is
wont to be. It is worse than dead—it is defunct.”
− =Putnam’s.= 1: 767. Mr. ’07. 540w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 130w.
=Moore, John Bassett.= Digest of international law. 8v. per set, $10.
Supt. of doc.
6–35196.
Eight large volumes in the preparation of which Prof. Moore,
“analyzed, digested and epitomized diplomatic discussions, treaties,
and other international agreements, international awards, the
decisions of municipal courts, the writings of jurists, the
documents—published and unpublished—of presidents and secretaries of
state of the United States, the opinions of attorneys-general, and the
decisions of state and federal courts.” (R. of Rs.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 466. Ja. ’07. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 120w.
“By far the best feature of these volumes is their admirable analysis
of the subject-matter with which they deal.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 783. Je. 22, ’07. 1550w.
=Moore, John Trotwood.= Bishop of Cottontown. †$1.50. Winston.
6–17871.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story has so much that is excellent in it, and the author’s
spirit is so fine and fair, and his humanity so broad, that it is a
source of sincere regret that the book is so diffuse.”
+ − =Arena.= 37: 108. Ja. ’07. 390w.
=Moore, Joseph Augustus.= School house; its heating and ventilation. $2.
Joseph A. Moore, 28 Conway st., Roslendale, Bost.
5–39873.
“The author has here embodied in convenient form a large amount of
useful information based on his experience during the past eighteen
years in inspecting public buildings in Massachusetts and ‘in
supervising the construction of and testing the various methods of
heating and ventilation, especially in school houses.’ He has also
included further useful matter in the way of quotations from state
laws and regulations on the construction and state supervision of
public buildings.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The book is written in an easily understood, direct manner. It would
constitute a good beginning of a library for a school janitor’s
library.”
+ =Engin. N.= 56: 182. Ag. 16, ’06. 170w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Collector’s manual; with 336 page engravings
and with borders by Amy Richards. **$5. Stokes.
6–43921.
A guide for the collector of antiques in which the author gives
helpful information about old furniture, old glass, brass and copper
articles, English pottery and porcelain, old clocks, pewter, etc.
* * * * *
“Pleasant reading but not particularly valuable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07.
“Mrs. Moore writes definitely and concisely.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 81. F. 1, ’07. 380w.
“These chapters are all full of information, given in a popular,
chatty way from the collector’s standpoint, giving account of shrewd
bargains and the money value of things, rather than of their artistic
merit.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 697. S. 19, ’07. 310w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 270w.
“The book is evidently the work of a practised and ardent pursuer of
this peculiar game, one, moreover, who can point to what exists in old
books about this favorite sport. And yet the space occupied by rather
useless borders might well be filled with careful footnotes.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 208. F. 28, ’07. 480w.
“Not only the collector, but the home builder, will find much in the
book that is of value to him. The illustrations are very good and
clearly show the different articles presented.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 118. F. 23, ’07. 490w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Deeds of daring done by girls. †$1.50. Stokes.
6–40212.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is to be regretted that these stories, which are based on acts of
heroism and are inspiring to girls, should be so poor in workmanship.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 83. Mr. ’07.
=Moore, T. Sturge.= Correggio. *$2. Scribner.
7–35193.
“The originality of the book lies largely in the asides, though the
author does good service in challenging previous vague attempts to
define the peculiar sort of ecstacy wherein Correggio’s Corregiosity
must surely consist. Mr. Moore’s own view is that the master fully
realized himself only a handful of the classical pictures, notably the
Io, the Ganymede, and perhaps the Antiope. As the favored decorator of
the provincial and by no means highly cultured court of Parma.
Correggio lacked the sustaining forces behind a Titian or a
Michaelangelo, frequently availing himself too readily of his own
formulas, seldom realizing the full dignity of his position as
artist.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Not so readable as Brinton’s book in the ‘Great masters’ series, nor
does it contain so much about the life of Correggio, but is much more
exhaustive as to technique.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.
“Rarely have we read a book more bewildering in general plan, and this
in spite of not a little classification into divisions and
subdivisions. It is moreover, written in a style of liquid and
wandering reverie.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2:624. N. 17. 1150w.
“He again devotes rather too much space to the exploitation of his own
critical creed; and he is unnecessarily hard on Mr. Berenson and
Signor Conrado Ricci.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1126. N. 14, ’07. 290w.
“When Mr. Sturge Moore shakes himself free of the other critics and
deals with his professed subject, Correggio, he reveals himself as
admirably qualified for the task. He brings to his work that rare
combination, a practical training in art and a wide knowledge of
literature, with a power of philosophical analysis to which very few
writers on the history of art can pretend. The catalogue ‘raisonné,’
in which Mr. Moore has been helped by his friend. Mr. C. S. Ricketts,
is fairly complete.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 399. N. 30, ’06. 1030w.
“The style is occasionally crabbed, its discursiveness extreme, but as
the sincere effort of a poet’s mind to interpret a most poetical
painter it abounds in wisdom even in the byways of the theme.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 230. Mr. 7, ’07. 620w.
“The result [of defining the temper, address, inspiration and quality
of works], though somewhat spun out in generalizations, is
interesting, suggestive, and important, especially as coming from one
who questions the value of the aims and methods of modern historical
art criticism.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 903. Ap. 20, ’07. 200w.
“There is much in this volume with which it is possible to disagree;
there is, I think, too much controversy in it, and Mr. Moore is not at
his happiest in controversy. Nor is the design of the book quite
satisfactory. But, whatever the faults, I believe that it is on the
main lines of such work as this that aesthetic criticism, if it is to
have any vital hold on the intelligent interests of the world, must
proceed.” Laurence Binyon.
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 799. D. 29, ’06. 1900w.
=Moore, Thomas.= Complete poetical works; with biographical sketch by
Nathan H. Dole. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper poets.”
=Moore, William Harrison.= Act of state in English law. *$3. Dutton.
7–18175.
“A systematic treatment of ‘Matters of state.’ with numerous citations
of important cases. ‘The type of “matter of state” is the matter
between states, which, whether it be regulated by international law or
not, and whether the acts in question are or are not in accord with
international law, is not a subject of municipal jurisdiction.’”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 59. F. 2. ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Moore has taken a generous view of what his subject includes, and
his book is not only interesting to read but it will facilitate the
work of those high legal personages whose dignified labours lie on
this borderland of international and municipal law.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 812. D. 29, ’06. 280w.
=More, Mrs. Louise Bolard.= Wage-earners’ budgets: a study of standards
and cost of living in New York city; with a preface by Franklin H.
Geddings. (Greenwich house series of social studies, no. 1.) **$2.50.
Holt.
7–30623.
A study of the social, economic and industrial life of the
wage-earners of a city neighborhood, based upon an inquiry into the
economic status of two hundred families whose struggle for existence
is most intense. The investigator’s final list was made up of families
who proved able and willing to coöperate with her intelligently and
patiently in keeping simple accounts, and in making careful,
verifiable statements. The statistics are presented in tabulated form
and throw light upon incomes, expenditures and standards of living.
* * * * *
“As a contribution to our concrete knowledge of social conditions the
present work bears the only test to which it need be subjected—it is
accurate, specific, and detailed.” John Cummings.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 560. N. ’07. 560w.
“The value of the book consists, then, in its detailed study of how a
certain class of working people live.” Charles S. Bernheimer.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 1050w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 4 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–45344.
=ser. 4.= This closing series of Mr. More’s essays contains,
“informing and delightful criticisms” of such celebrities as Robert
Stephens Hawker, Fanny Burney, George Herbert, John Keats, Benjamin
Franklin, Charles Lamb and Walt Whitman. There are also three other
essays in the group. A note on ‘Daddy’ Crisp, The theme of ‘Paradise
lost’ and The letters of Horace Walpole.
* * * * *
“Scholarly, thoughtful essays on literature. Style clever, sometimes
charming. For the student rather than the average reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 46. F. ’07. (Review of v. 4)
“Is the most interesting which he has published since his first.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 759. S. 26, ’07. 530w. (Review of v 4.)
“By this time Mr. More has got his philosophy of life sufficiently
well in hand to use it rather as a means of orientating himself with
reference to his subject than as an end in itself.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Nation.= 83: 481. D. 6, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 4.)
“Never here shall we find anything more than comfort and instruction.
The one thing more that we should desire to find is inspiration.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 4.)
“He makes no cheap bid for favor. He dispenses altogether with
smartness, and almost altogether with humor. He is never audacious,
like Mr. Lang, nor ironical, like Mr. Saintsbury. He possesses no gift
of style, but writes in clear, unembarrassed sentences, making a
legitimate demand upon the intelligence of his readers.” Agnes
Repplier.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 88. F. 9, ’07. 840w. (Review of v. 4.)
(Reprinted from Philadelphia public register.)
“By the soundness of his critical method, and by virtue of the range,
depth, and precision of knowledge, combined with literary charm and
human interest, which these essays evince, Mr. More, takes a secure
place in the forefront of American criticism.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 752. Mr. ’07. 1060w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The essays are appreciative, and it is saying little for them to
assert that no one, however familiar he may be with the men into whose
characters and works they probe so tenderly and searchingly, can fail
to receive instruction from the book. Moreover, the style is limpid
and easy; the author is never ‘clever’ or paradoxical, according to
the new fashion; he is never startlingly witty, but always sane and
apt; and a spirit of sweet reasonableness prevades all.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 91. Jl. 20, ’07. 1460w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Morgan, Conway Lloyd.= Interpretation of nature. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–42351.
“This little book is an extension of an article which appeared in the
‘Contemporary review’ of May, 1905. It deals with the scientific and
teleological aspects of the interpretation of nature, the aim of the
book being, in the author’s words, to show that a belief in purpose as
the casual reality of which nature is an expression is not
inconsistent with a full and whole-hearted acceptance of the
explanations of naturalism within their appropriate sphere.” (Int. J.
Ethics.)
* * * * *
“The book is enriched with extremely well selected examples, which
serve to make clear and precise the author’s meaning and to make the
book intelligible and interesting to the general reader.” C. T.
Preece.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 517. Jl. ’06. 670w.
“This little book deals with big questions, and many who have pondered
over them will be grateful to the author for the lucidity of his
argument, which is an expression of his own clear vision.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 265. Ja. 18, ’06. 1410w.
=Outlook.= 84: 940. D. 15, ’06. 200w.
=Morgan, George.= True Patrick Henry. **$2. Lippincott.
7–27032.
An intimately analytical biography of Patrick Henry thruout which the
white light is turned upon him. He lives again in the atmosphere of
the revolution, becomes the center of situations and scenes which he
dominated, is lawyer, orator, soldier, statesman and executive, and is
seen surrounded by his contemporaries and friends. The historical
value of the study is apparent, while it is as fascinating as any
romance.
* * * * *
“The rapid narrative style, plentifully seasoned with personal details
quite upholds the claim of the publishers that the book is ‘as
readable as a spirited romance.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 280w.
=Morgan, James.= Theodore Roosevelt: the boy and the man. $1.50.
Macmillan.
7–31182.
A simple, straightforward, withal complete sketch of our president,
showing the rounds by which he did ascend to the present heights from
which he defends and promulgates America’s sturdiest democratic
principles. “Its aim is to present a life of action by portraying the
varied dramatic scenes in the career of a Man who still has the
enthusiasm of a Boy, and whose energy and faith have illustrated
before the world the spirit of Young America.”
* * * * *
“Written in a mechanical style and without originality but will be
useful until replaced by a better work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07.
“The book is one that will appeal to the ‘plain people.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 350w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
“He has accomplished a difficult task accurately and impartially.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 424. N. 7, ’07. 240w.
“Rarely is a living man so adequately celebrated. Mr. Morgan’s
appreciation of his subject is hearty; his selection of material out
of the enormous mass of Rooseveltiana available is so admirably
calculated to his purpose that the reviewer can do no better than
quote from the text. An almost ideal biography.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 610. O. 12, ’07. 1250w.
“Altogether, this new biography is one of the indispensable books of
its class so far as contemporary literature is concerned.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 635. N. ’07. 300w.
=Morgan, Lewis H.= Ancient society; or, Researches in the lines of human
progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization. $1.50. Holt.
Mr. Morgan classifies his study under four general heads as follows:
Growth of intelligence through inventions and discoveries, Growth of
the idea of government, Growth of the idea of the family and Growth of
the idea of property. His presentation is logical and suggestive.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 63: 1313. N. 28, ’07. 280w.
“It is gratifying to see a reprint of a work which may be called one
of the minor classics among American archeological monographs.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 120w.
“We are glad to see so valuable, scholarly, and interesting a work
again made accessible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 546. S. 14, ’07. 350w.
“Really epoch-marking work in the history of thought.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 537. N. 9, ’07. 180w.
=Morgan, Thomas Hunt.= Experimental zoology. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–3114.
“A work of 450 pages, based on thirty-five lectures; a treatment that
does not pretend to be entirely exhaustive, but for which ‘the plan
has been to select the most typical and instructive cases.’ Divided
into main sections on the Experimental study of evolution; Growth;
Grafting; Influence of environment on the life cycle; Determination of
sex, and Secondary sexual characters.”
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“The novelty of the field covered in this work and the very
fundamental bearings of the data and hypotheses here gathered in a
critical summary combine to make Professor Morgan’s work indispensable
to anyone who wishes critical information of recent movements in the
biological world.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 228. Ap. 1, ’07. 400w.
“Professor Morgan’s book is the best, indeed the only up-to-the-moment
abstract of the results and the various phases of this experimental
investigation of the life and make-up of animals. It is not primarily
a book for the general reader, but there is no other for him on the
same subject. And he can better afford not to understand a few of
Professor Morgan’s references and yet be able to rely on what he does
understand as being true, than to look for a more popular and less
reliable account.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 218. Jl. 25, ’07. 820w.
“There is much original matter, in spite of the space necessarily
given to compilation. The most serious defect is in the index, which
is all too scant for such a mass of diverse subject matter.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 343. Ap. 11, ’07. 490w.
“We may be allowed to compliment the author on his highly successful
execution of an arduous task; his workmanship is marked by
carelessness, lucidity and impartiality, by the salt of good-tempered
criticism.” J. A. T.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 313. Ag. 1, ’07. 1160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 60w.
“The book treats primarily of those subjects and problems of
experimental zoology which have not been considered in other books.
The material which is presented is not always fully digested. Style
and method of presentation present certain features which can be due
only to haste or lack of care.” C. M. Child.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 26: 824. D. 13, ’07. 3920w.
=Morgan, William Conger.= Qualitative analysis as a laboratory basis for
the study of general inorganic chemistry. *$1.90. Macmillan.
6–42922.
“Less a work for the beginner than for the student who has already
acquired a certain familiarity with experimental chemistry. It is in
fact, a comprehensive study of analysis from the theoretical side....
The book is divided into sections, the first of which deals with
general principles, such as mass action, equilibrium, reversible
changes, and dissociation; the second section is devoted to reactions
of the common elements, arranged according to the periodic system, and
the third deals with systematic analysis.”—Nature.
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“To those who want a textbook with ionic notation, and do not mind
having the names of certain elements and compounds written in the
American spelling, this book is to be highly commended.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 543. My. 4. 300w.
“A course of general educational value.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 360w.
“It is simply and clearly written, although the American spelling and
the alternate use of names and symbols in the text are a little
confusing to the English reader. Nevertheless, the book has a distinct
character of its own; it is interesting and suggestive, and will fill
a gap in chemical philosophic literature.” J. B. C.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 582. Ap. 18, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
“The press work of the book is excellent and typographical errors are
very few. There is a complete index.” Jas. Lewis Howe.
+ =Science=, n.s. 25: 535. Ap. 5, ’07. 1120w.
=Morley, Margaret Warner.= Grasshopper land. †$1.25. McClurg.
7–17914.
The foreword to this careful inquiry into the affairs of the denizens
of grasshopperland explains that the book is not for children but for
their “grandfathers and grandmothers who were once boys and girls in
the country and who may be in danger after all these years, of
forgetting about grasshoppers.” But the little volume will not only
refresh the memories of those who have forgotten, but will also tell
those, who never knew, much that is interesting about the ways of the
grasshopper folk. There are many illustrations from drawings.
* * * * *
“She evidently knows a great deal about such insects, and what she
knows she has set forth in very entertaining and lucid form.” George
Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 625. Ag. ’07. 130w.