for children or amateur naturalists, and is couched in literary rather
than scientific form.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 380. Je. 16, ’07. 90w.
“This information will be convenient for teachers by giving them
something more to talk about.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1354. Je. 6, ’07. 80w.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of discovery in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–15411.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Useful in the children’s room as well as in the general library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07. S.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of progress in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–43546.
Short chapters deal with forty-five men who have taken the initiative
along the highroads of statesmanship, invention, scientific research,
benevolent activity and moral earnestness from the days of Roger
Williams to the present.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. 07. S.
“The language is simple and easily understood by the younger readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 70w.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of the army in America. **$1.25. Lippincott.
6–43547.
America’s fighters by land and sea, “striking for liberty and union
and sowing the land with memories of valiant deeds” furnish many a
narrative for the youthful patriot of to-day. There are thirty-six men
in Mr. Morris’ group including men from George Washington to Nelson A.
Miles.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 13. Ja. ’07. S.
“Should be a valuable form of supplementary reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 22, ’06. 100w.
=Morris, Charles.= Heroes of the navy in America. *$1.25. Lippincott.
7–15488.
Accounts of conflicts on the high seas which do honor to both our navy
and the heroes who fought in it. There are chapters upon: John Paul
Jones, William Bainbridge, Stephen Decatur, James Lawrence, David
Porter, Oliver Perry, Farragut, Dewey, Hobson, and a score of others
as brave if not as well known.
* * * * *
“Is exceedingly well adapted to the needs of young readers. Treating
chiefly, although not entirely, of our naval successes, it presents a
rather one-sided and flattering picture of our naval history as a
whole.” Charles Oscar Paullin.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 185. O. ’07. 410w.
=Dial.= 43: 21. Jl. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Morris knows how to tell a story, and his compendium ought to
attract many who do not see their way to attacking the minute Mahan,
the much-questioned Maclay, the entirely discredited Buell, or the
laborious Spears.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 100. O. ’07. 150w.
=Morris, Charles.= Home life in all lands. **$1. Lippincott.
7–28638.
A book that might be used as a supplementary reader for geography
classes. It tells of the people of far-away quarters of the world,
their queer food, strange clothing, curious habits, customs and
methods of securing a living.
=Morris, Charles.= Old South and the new. **$2.25. Winston.
7–36220.
A complete illustrated history of the southern states, their
resources, their people and their cities, and the inspiring story of
their wonderful growth in industry and riches from the earliest times
to the Jamestown exposition.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Morris, George Van Derveer.= Polly. $1.50. Neale.
6–46773.
A fairy tale of love in which it is shown that men love not so much
the reality, the substance, as they do the ideal.
=Morris, J.= Makers of Japan. *$3. McClurg.
W 6–266.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Morris, has given us in his volume a most entertaining and
valuable review of the work of the great statesmen of our rising Far
Eastern neighbor.” Laura Bell.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 233. Ja. ’07. 420w.
“Convenient for newspaper reference, and for all those who do not seek
more than the current notions about distinguished men.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.
=Morris, William.= Stories from Morris, by Madalen Edgar. (Children’s
favorite classics.) 60c. Crowell.
7–22916.
Stories from “The earthly paradise.” The author has held close to
Morris’ rehabilitation of the spirit of the middle ages with its
superstitious belief in magic, and its love of mystery and romance.
* * * * *
“To strip his work of all its poetic beauty, its meaning, and its
intellectual distinction is unfair both to him and his childish
readers.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 568. S. 21, ’07. 320w.
=Morrison, Arthur.= Chronicles of Martin Hewett, detective. $1.50. Page.
7–12979.
A new illustrated edition of the earlier adventures of Hewett whose
“‘well known powers’ are nothing but common sense assiduously applied
and made quick by habit.”
=Morrison, Arthur.= Martin Hewitt investigator. †$1.25. Harper.
A new edition of Mr. Morrison’s detective stories. Martin Hewitt,
master of both the science and art of detective study, is an
interesting personality. In addition to the usual keen perception,
shrewd observation, and deft logic required of sleuths, he operates
the law of human kindness.
* * * * *
=Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 280w.
“The stories present many varied phases of crime, and they are very
well told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 50w.
=Morse, Edward Sylvester.= Mars and its mystery. **$2. Little.
6–31643.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Charmingly written, well worth reading, but deals with perhaps too
much assurance about matters concerning which there are wide
differences of opinion among astronomers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
“His book is carelessly put together, repetitious, decidedly
partisan—and always lively.” E. T. Brewster.
− + =Atlan.= 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 40w.
“The present author takes the viewpoint, rather, of the special
pleader, marshals the evidence that bolsters up the theory he is
advancing, ridicules opinions divergent from his own, and leaves the
reader in a state of wonder as to what arguments might be advanced on
the other side of the question.” Herbert A. Howe.
− + =Dial.= 42: 75. F. 1, ’07. 950w.
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1567. D. 27, ’06. 160w.
“One cannot but admire the ingenuity of his argument, even if unable
to accept his conclusion.”
+ − =Nation.= 34: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 490w.
“The book is a useful guide to further study of the subject, as it
gives full references to the original sources of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’07. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 117. Ja. ’07. 60w.
* =Moryson, Fynes.= Itinerary of Fynes Moryson. 4v. ea. *$3.25.
Macmillan.
“Containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of
Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland,
Italy, Turky, France, England Scotland and Ireland.” This reprint is
the first in full since the original was published in 1617.
* * * * *
+ =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Is worthy of a place on the shelf which contains that delightful work
of ancient travel and whimsical humor, ‘Coryat’s crudities.’”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 748. N. 30, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“Full of interesting matter.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 871. N. 30, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Mosenthal, Philip J.=, and =Horne, Charles F.=, eds. City college;
memories of sixty years; ed. for the Associate alumni of the college of
the city of New York. *$5. Putnam.
A memorial volume recording the life and history of the college of the
city of New York, prior to its removal to its new home on St. Nicholas
Heights.
* * * * *
“The work has been done and notably well done.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 972. Ag. 31, ’07. 160w.
“It is a mosaic of admirable arrangement whose separate stones have
been polished for the setting by a number of distinguished alumni.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 721. S. ’07. 250w.
=Moses, Bernard.= Government of the United States. *$1.05. Appleton.
6–12152.
“This is a sketch of the organization and general methods of working
of the United States government. The subject matter rather outruns the
title, as all grades of government, and not the national alone, are
covered.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “Especially noteworthy is an inclusion
among the topics of that new phase of American government—the
dependencies. Roosevelt’s letter instructions to the Philippine board
and an act of Congress bearing upon it are appended.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“The style of the work is pleasing and there is no unnecessary
padding.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 165. Jl. ’07. 90w.
“The discussion of the various topics are very lucid and followed by
the fullest topical references, perhaps a little too advanced for the
average student.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 256. Ag. 2, ’06. 80w.
=Moses, Josiah.= Pathological aspects of religions. *$1.50. Stechert.
6–32848.
“A dissertation for the doctorate at Clark university, made by a
diligent collection of more or less important instances of the
perversion of the religious instinct, such as mysticism, fetichism,
ritualism, emotionalism, etc.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“There is very little originality perceptible either in his methods or
conclusions.”
− + =Ind.= 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 50w.
“Its value is impaired by a number of misstatements of fact, and by
the author’s lack of training in historical research. The
proofreading, also, is very bad. As Dr. Moses’s general points of view
are good, we feel confident that he will be able to revise his book in
such a way as to bring out more clearly its fundamental idea.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 1000w.
* =Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Children’s books and reading. *$1.50.
Kennerley.
7–38221.
A practical, workable guide to children’s books and reading prepared
after consultation with leading librarians. There are chapters
covering the history of children’s books from early times to the
present day and others dealing with the general purpose of the books
besides a sixty-seven page appendix of book-lists carefully arranged
and classified.
* * * * *
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 50w.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Famous actor families in America. **$2.
Crowell.
6–34709.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Contains much useful material, but little that is new; some of it is
trivial. In spite of it, it will be referred to often in reference
work and will interest readers who care for the drama.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
“Not many of the books which have been published about actors have had
the interest or the literary merit of ... ‘Famous actor families in
America.’”
+ =Ind.= 62: 331. F. 7, ’07. 440w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 90w.
=Moss, Mary.= Poet and the parish. †$1.50. Holt.
6–34369.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 16. Ja. 1, ’07. 380w.
=Mother Goose.= Mother Goose in silhouettes cut by Katharine G. Buffum.
†75c. Houghton.
7–30443.
Mother Goose uniquely illustrated in silhouettes that have a taking
way of speaking for themselves.
=Mott, Lawrence.= To the credit of the sea. †$1.50. Harper.
7–17361.
Eight dramatic stories of the sea and the fishermen of the Labrador
coast: To the credit of the sea, The white squall, The world of
waters, The leaving of a dory, The best man out of Labrador, Uncle Sam
Simmons, To’mie’s luck, and Adrift.
* * * * *
“Will interest the lover of sea yarns.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.
“We are glad to recommend this book as the best its author has
produced.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 359. Je. 1, ’07. 120w.
“The stories ... are quite brutal, yet lightened by attempts at
current popular sentiment.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 477. Je. 29, ’07. 60w.
=Mott, Lawrence.= White darkness and other stories of the great
Northwest. $1.50. Outing.
7–4162.
Sixteen “tales of the blood-and-iron men of the Northland.” Stories of
the trappers and the brave hearts that beat beneath their rough
exteriors, stories of the Indians and the work of the Canadian mounted
police; all are intensely dramatic and are told with much feeling and
few words as befits the lonely snow-curtained land where passions are
elemental and death is a matter of daily encounter. The tales include
beside the title story; Jaquette, The silver fox, The current of fear,
Wa-gush, Follette, The talking of Almighty voice, and others.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
“The stories are all picturesque, and some contain really vivid
descriptive writing. There is a photographic quality about them.
Clean-cut and clever, they have craft, but not art, except, perhaps,
in two cases.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 110w.
“What differentiates the stories of Lawrence Mott from those of Mr.
London is the occasional unforseen flash of generosity and
self-sacrifice, the revelation of tenderness in unexpected quarters,
that shines out like a beacon light across the gloom of the pictures
he draws.”
+ =Bookm.= 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 440w.
“These stories are all of the type known as ‘magazinable;’ which means
that the chances are against their proving (to invent a similar verbal
horror) really ‘bookable.’”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 120w.
“They have less of that strength, boldness, and incisiveness which
make London’s life pictures stand out like silhouettes against a full
white moon, but they have more appreciation of the lights and shadows
in the picture, more gentleness of mood, and a more poetic
appreciation of nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 114. F. 23, ’07. 300w.
“Mr. Mott writes incisively with no waste of words, and he has the
dramatic sense in a high degree, but tragic bloodshed is much more
frequent in his pages than in Parker’s tales of the same sort.” Vernon
Atwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=Mottram, William.= True story of George Eliot in relation to “Adam
Bede.” *$1.75. McClurg.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The reader who picks up the volume in search of a sensation will be
sorely disappointed. It is a jumble of family traditions, diffusely
written, and displaying a marvellous lack of transition: but it is a
genuine production nevertheless.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 293. Mr. 28. ’07. 860w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 113. Ja. ’07. 100w.
=Moulton, Forest Ray.= Introduction to astronomy. *$1.60. Macmillan.
6–14049.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A good text book. Its chief distinctive feature is the exposition of
the ‘planetesimal theory’ propounded as a substitute for the nebular
hypothesis of Laplace.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
“Prof. Moulton’s point of view is his own, in many ways unlike that of
the textbooks in general use. Although the order and emphasis of
presentation may be sometimes criticized, there can be no question
that the book is throughout suggestive and stimulating.” Mary W.
Whitney.
+ + − =Astrophys. J.= 25: 151. Mr. ’07. 920w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 263. Ag. ’07. 160w.
=Moulton, Richard Green.= Modern reader’s Bible: the books of the Bible
with three books of the Apocrypha presented in modern literary form; ed.
with introds. and notes. **$2. Macmillan.
7–34574.
A one-volume edition of the reader’s Bible. The text used is that of
the Revised version and the chapters and verses of the King James
version are noted in figures on the margin. The general divisions
follow the topical arrangement used in the volumes of the smaller
separate editions.
=Moulton, Richard Green.= Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker: a popular
illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy. *$1.50.
Macmillan.
7–29024.
The introduction of Dr. Moulton’s study considers “What is implied in
‘The moral system of Shakespeare.’” Following his preliminary
observations he conducts his inquiry along three lines of thought: the
first presents particular dramas to illustrate what may be recognized
as root ideas in the philosophy of Shakespeare; the second surveys the
world of Shakespeare’s creation in its moral complexity; the third
considers the forces of life in Shakespeare’s moral world, so far as
these express themselves in dramatic forms from personal will at one
end of the scale to overruling providence at the other end.
* * * * *
“The weakness of the book lies chiefly in just this neglect of the
oft-despised sources. The reputation of the work as suggestive and
stimulating is of course deserved, and it will doubtless long continue
to serve as a useful guide in a fruitful kind of study.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 130w.
=Mozart, Johann.= Twenty piano compositions; ed. by Carl Reinecke.
(Musician’s lib., v. 26.) $2.50; pa. $1.50. Ditson.
7–1326.
The twenty selections from Mozart composition are prefaced by a
sympathetic biographical sketch by Dr. Reinecke.
* * * * *
“There is probably no one volume better fitted to arouse the piano
student’s interest in Mozart.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 260. Ap. 16, ’07. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 319. Ap. 4, ’07. 420w.
=Mudd, Samuel A.= Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd; ed. by his daughter,
Nettie Mudd; with preface by D. Eldridge Monroe. $3. Neale.
7–3.
Containing his letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas island, where
he was imprisoned four years for alleged complicity in the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with statements of Mrs. Samuel A.
Mudd, Dr. S. A. Mudd, and Edward Spangler regarding the assassination
and the argument of General Ewing on the question of the jurisdiction
of the Military commission and on the law and facts of the case, also
“diary” of John Wilkes Booth.
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 722. Ap. ’07. 80w.
=Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 63. F. 2, ’07. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 386. Mr. ’07. 120w.
=Mudge, James.= Fenelon: the mystic. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–14595.
An appreciative treatment of Fénelon, his life, character, and
influence is contained in this volume of the “Men of the kingdom”
series.
=Mulford, Clarence E.= Bar—20. $1.50. Outing.
7–23640.
“Twenty-five chapters of gunpowder smoke, of shanty towns in New
Mexico or Texas, thick with dust, pierced with bullets, strewn with
prostrate forms of cowboys. Terse descriptions of alkali plains, of
Gila monsters cayuses and the playful manners of the Bar–20
outfit.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“Delightful one dollar and a half ‘dime novel.’”
+ =Ind.= 63: 942. O. 17, ’07. 180w.
“The narrative is full of swing, so full as to swing past at top speed
without making any particular impression beyond the fact that Bar–20
invariably worsts its enemies.”
− =Nation.= 85: 168. Ag. 22, ’07. 310w.
“A rattling good story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 380w.
* =Mumby, Frank Arthur=, ed. Letters of literary men. 2v. ea. *$1.
Dutton.
7–18132.
Two volumes of letters which begin with Frances Burney and end with
Robert Buchanan. The collection is divided into four groups as
follows: The age of Wordsworth and Scott, The age of Byron, The early
Victorian age and The age of Tennyson.
* * * * *
“Mr. Mumby might have left his work to responsible critics, without
suggesting that it was thorough and painstaking. It is both, and the
volumes afford some of the most interesting reading which we have come
across of late. The editor’s short notes by way of introduction are
capable, and his taste in selection, on the whole, admirable.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 99. Ja. 26. 280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A very attractive and companionable book. In these two volumes you
have not only an index museum to most of the best letter writers of
the last two centuries, but also a quantity of invaluable material for
testing and revivifying many of the salient or amusing passages in
literary annals.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 426. D. 21, ’06. 1300w. (Review of v. 1 and
2.)
“There is a wealth of good reading which is of exactly the right kind
to take up and dip into at any place for a half-hour’s rational
enjoyment.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 356. O. 19, ’07. 170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Mr. Mumby has done his work well. One or two letters could have been
spared.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.
“It is the autobiographical interest of these letters that appeals
most to the reader.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 643. Ap. 27, ’07. 1800w.
* =Munn, Charles Clark.= Boyhood days on the farm: a story for young and
old boys. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
7–38603.
In which the old gambrel-roofed farmhouse with open fireplace, big
woodshed and tall well-sweep, the meadow and stream, and the isolated
school at the cross roads are rescued from oblivion and made the
environment of a farmer lad of the old New England type. The winter
and summer humdrum is pictured with all a youngster’s resentment of
the irksomeness of so tame a life yet it is made the all-important
factor in the sturdy development of a type that has ever been
prominent in the nation’s development.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 769. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
=Munro, Neil.= Bud. †$1.50. Harper.
7–20870.
Bud is a little Chicago girl who steps serenely into the home of her
staid aunts in a Scottish village. She is a contradictory mixture of
owlish wisdom and baby ignorance, and whenever she expresses her
thoughts it is with a goodly bit of slang that shocks her newly found
relatives. It is a charming book with a freshness entirely its own.
* * * * *
“We cannot readily forgive Mr. Munro for permitting the child to have
the inevitable attack of pneumonia in chapter thirteen, and his
descriptive style when elated is like that of Dickens at his worst.
But, after all, Bud is the thing, and Bud, if we may use an expression
that might have come from her lips, is a peach with a stone in it.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 562. Je. 8, ’07. 230w.
“Although the child is overdrawn and speaks a language too
picturesque, and the story has no particular merit, there is a
freshness about it that many will find charming.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠
“Not perhaps a book of solid merit, or dazzling wit, but neither is it
in the least dull or in the least pretentious.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 270w.
“A pretty story this, but badly constructed.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
“She is a fascinating child, and though the book is spun out
unnecessarily, and Mr. Munro’s humour is at times strained, her
dealings with her neighbors make a very pleasant story.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 787. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“Though the little American play-actress is the central figure of this
high-spirited and wholesome entertainment, its abiding charm resides
in the portraiture of the ‘people of the placid, old, half-rustic
world, that lives forever with realities, and seldom sees the passions
counterfeited.’”
+ =Spec.= 98: 908. Je. 8, ’07. 700w.
=Munro, William Bennett.= Seigniorial system in Canada: a study in
French colonial policy. *$2. Longmans.
7–11561.
“Beginning with an introductory chapter on the European background of
French colonization. Dr. Munro traces the history of the seigniorial
grants from 1598 to 1760. After this, with the elaborate critical
apparatus and bibliography of the ‘scientific historian,’ he describes
the relations of the seignior to his superiors and his dependents, and
the fiscal and religious systems of New France. He concludes with
chapters on British Canada which strengthen our growing conviction
that the American revolutionists were uninformed when they made the
famous Quebec act a chief grievance against Great Britain.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Within the limits he imposes on himself he has done his task
extremely well. He is always accurate. The bibliographical apparatus
is excellent and altogether the book attains to a very high standard
both of historical insight and of scholarship.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 171. O. ’07. 1040w.
“For the student of colonial history this book offers a valuable
sidelight; for the Canadian student its direct value must be great. It
will be long before the work has to be done again.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 240w.
“It has been reserved for Professor Munro not only to coördinate
materials which were brought together fifty years ago with those which
have been accumulated by his own efforts, but to supply the proper
perspective, enliven obscure details by critical insight, and set
forth the seigniorial system, as an organic whole.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 283. S. 26, ’07. 1530w.
“The foregoing criticisms, it will be noted, deal with minor matters,
Professor Munro’s book is to be heartily recommended to all students
of Canadian institutions.” F. P. Walton.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 729. D. ’07. 960w.
“It is indeed a mine of information, all the more valuable that it is
written throughout with absolute dispassionateness.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 517. O. 26, ’07. 1000w.
“We congratulate the author on the success with which he has
accomplished his task. The only portion of his work that seems to fall
below the high level reached in the earlier chapters is that which
deals with the period of British control, a phase of the subject which
might well receive separate and fuller treatment.” Charles M. Andrews.
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 321. N. ’07. 600w.
=Munson, John William.= Reminiscences of a Mosby guerrilla. **$2.
Moffat.
6–40255.
Mr. Munson became one of the Partisan rangers at the beginning of
their career and remained until the final surrender. “The spirit of
the author is fair and his admiration of courage impartial. Every one
who rode with Mosby has exciting experiences, hot fighting, fast
riding, and narrow escapes.” (Outlook.) “It is hardly history that he
gives, but rather adventure with a historic setting. Or if it be
called history, it must be classified as of that specialized type
produced south of Mason and Dixon’s line among a people imaginative
and emotional, but not analytical or introspective.” (Ind.)
* * * * *
“Contains much repetition, but is otherwise interesting in the manner
of telling as well as matter, and is characterized by considerable
humor.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 47. F. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 145. Mr. 1. ’07. 590w.
“Tells in a spirited and captivating way the story of Mosby’s
guerrillas.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 618. Mr. 14, ’07. 330w.
=Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 160w.
“This is a plain, clear narrative, told with no pretense of literary
grace or historical accuracy, but with abundance of stirring
incident.”
+ =Outlook.= 84. 842. D. 1. ’06. 80w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.
5–11083.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It is conceived in a somewhat sentimental fashion. The argument,
though expounded in an attractive and popular manner, is, however,
essentially metaphysical.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 377. Mr. 30. 110w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Science and idealism. **85c. Houghton.
6–15720.
“This little book gives the text of a lecture delivered last winter
before the students of Yale university. In it Professor Munsterberg
indicates in brief compass his position in regard to certain
fundamental philosophical problems, restating in somewhat popular form
the theories of the relations of science to experience, and of the
classification of the sciences, which are already familiar to readers
of the books and articles which he has published during the last few
years.”—Philos. R.
* * * * *
“This little book is remarkable in that it presents in clear and
simple outline a system of transcendental philosophy that is
admittedly both abstruse and elaborate.” W. P. Montague.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 161. Mr. 14, ’07. 1370w.
“The form of this presentation is admirably clear and direct.
Moreover, it is throughout dignified and earnest, as becomes an
address on serious topics, and does not seek to gain popularity and
effectiveness by the adoption of slang or phrases caught up from the
man on the street.” J. E. C.
+ + =Philos. R.= 16: 95. Ja. ’07. 520w.
=Murray, A. M.= Imperial outposts, from a strategical and commercial
aspect; with special reference to the Japanese alliance; with a preface
by Earl Roberts. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–38236.
“Colonel Murray makes a strategical and commercial survey of imperial
outposts with a special eye to the obligations of the Japanese
alliance. His book is the result of a journey to the Mediterranean,
Aden, Hong Kong and other British fortified stations, as well as to
Japan and Canada. It is based on first hand-information which should
be useful to all who wish to make a study of the conditions in which
the Empire would find itself on the outbreak of a great war. When
Colonel Murray wants to express an opinion, as a rule he gives that of
an expert whose views he has had the advantage of obtaining
direct.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“If we note those opinions from which we differ, it must be with the
preliminary remarks that there is still more in the book with which we
thoroughly agree, and that the whole of it is suggestive and worthy of
the most careful consideration.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 533. My. 4. 1140w.
“He knows how to put things shortly, and he does not hesitate to state
the conclusions which his information has led him to form, whether
they are or are not favourable to the existing state of things.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 275. S. 13, ’07. 1300w.
“The number of material points touched on is great; the work is one of
much value.” George R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 501. Ag. 17, 07. 1250w.
“Colonel Murray’s is a volume of peculiar interest to the military
strategist of whatever country.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 611. Jl. 20, ’07. 720w.
“It is in no sense of the word authoritative and is but a slight
contribution to our knowledge.” G: Louis Beer.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 745. S. ’07. 70w.
“This book will materially assist the study and closer knowledge of
the Empire from Malta round the world to Halifax.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 660. My. 25, ’07. 230w.
“The book has made us feel two things: first, that we should like to
see every officer in the British army with the wide vision and
interest in the strategical and commercial organization of the empire
which Colonel Murray displays; and secondly, that we should desire
more evidence before accepting all the very definite conclusions of
the author.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 831. My. 25, ’07. 1650w.
=Murray, David.= Japan; rev. ed. (Story of the nations.) **$1.35.
Putnam.
6–37650.
Continuing the history to the close of 1905, with the provisions of
the Treaty of Portsmouth between Russia and Japan, and supplementary
chapters by Baron Kentaro Kaneko.
* * * * *
“Yet deserves a place in a popular library, however, for its
comparative freedom from sentimental and moral judgment of the things
narrated, as well as for its wealth of descriptive, though
uncritically presented data. Mr. Vorse’s two supplementary chapters on
the constitution and the Chinese and Russian wars seem to possess
singularly strong and weak points. Baron Kaneko’s two lectures cannot
be said to deserve a place in a book of history. They are pleas of an
advocate, as well as amenities of an envoy.” K. Asakawa.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 152. O. ’07. 1230w.
“The real claim of the book depends not on the revised features so
much as on the whole view it gives of Japanese history from the
beginning of the empire down to the present time.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 220w.
=Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 95. Ja. 12. ’07. 230w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 753. D. ’06. 80w.
=Murray, James Erskine-.= Handbook of wireless telegraphy; its theory
and practice: for the use of electrical engineers. students, and
operators. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
7–37604.
A handbook which is not encyclopedic yet is more than a simple
exposition of the subject. It is intended for those who understand
something of the theory and practice of wireless telegraphy and who
are familiar with the technical terms.
* * * * *
“The author has arranged what may be fairly considered a most thorough
general treatise of wireless telegraphy, and one bringing together the
latest knowledge and theories.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 540. N. 14, ’07. 490w.
“With all due respect to Dr. Erskine-Murray, we submit that this
handbook is a striking example of how not to write on wireless
telegraphy or any other subject. [Contains] much of intrinsic value
and interest, particularly, for example the seventeenth chapter, on
theories of transmission.” Maurice Solomon.
+ − =Nature.= 76: 563. O. 3, ’07. 660w.
=Murrell, Cornelia Randolph (Mrs. David Gamble Murrell).= What Marjorie
saw abroad. $1.50. Neale.
6–43797.
A bright, wide-awake account of a trip abroad in which are given
helpful bits of information for the prospective traveler. “It is not
intended for a guide-book—only a forerunner.”
* * * * *
“The descriptions are accurate and good, and not so long drawn out as
to be tiresome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 19. Ja. 12, ’07. 120w.
=Muther, Richard.= History of modern painting; rev. ed. continued by the
author to the end of the 19th century. 4v. *$25. Dutton.
A revision of the first German edition, appearing in 1894, which has
been continued to the end of the nineteenth century. “Besides all the
old illustrations from woodcuts and photographs, each of the new
volumes contains about a dozen full-page plates in color—a fine
gallery in themselves.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“For a survey of so wide a field this is just what is wanted; a bold
rather than a subtle vision and a valuable style that carries the
reader along to the next chapter before he thinks of criticising the
last.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 693. Jl. 20. ’07. 790w.
“Suffers precisely from a certain determinism which prevents him from
realizing the artistic life of this period in relation not only to the
past, but also to the future.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 160. Ag. 10. 1480w.
“The whole latter portion of the second volume is inferior to the rest
of the work, and gives the effect of having been written in a much
more hurried and perfunctory manner.” Elizabeth Kendall.
+ + − =Bookm.= 25: 619. Ag. ’07. 1430w.
Reviewed by Anna B. McMahan.
+ =Dial.= 43: 11. Jl. 1. ’07. 130w.
“It is not often that one is permitted to write with unqualified
enthusiasm of a history of art that is encyclopedic in its range, for
the reason that few men who have written upon the subject combine
Professor Muther’s profound erudition, sureness of judgment,
excellence of taste and grace and fluency of expression.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 550w.
“At the end of the English survey only does he fail us.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 167. Ag. ’07. 310w.
“The author, though there is a certain originality in his method
(which is rather psychological than chronological) does not take the
very high rank amongst art critics of the day claimed for him. In
spite, however, of certain peculiarities of style, he has brought
together in a convenient form a vast amount of information, and now
and then hits on a very apt comparison.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 334. O. ’07. 230w.
“Nowhere else can the student turn for an exhaustive critical study of
the nineteenth century, a statement which, in itself, declares the
unique value of this work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 417. S. 21, ’07. 700w.
“Every one—artist, connoisseur, and critic—who desires to learn the
real mission of modern art and comprehend its present status as
individually and still more or less nationally expressed should read
Prof. Muther’s work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 349. Je. 1, ’07. 1620w.
“Americans ... will feel some sense of disappointment, therefore, in
not finding more pages devoted to American art in Dr. Muther’s books.
Dr. Muther writes with an incisive phrase, far removed from the
ponderous, involved style of some of his compatriots.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 550w.
=Muther, Richard.= History of painting; tr. from the Germ. and ed. with
critical notes by George Kriehn. **$5. Putnam.
7–11026.
An “attempt to explain from the psychology of each period its dominant
style and to interpret the works of art as ‘human documents.’” “The
work is in two volumes and contains eighty illustrations. It deals
with the entire development of European paintings from the ‘downfall
of the antique world,’ the fourth century, to the early years of the
nineteenth.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“A valuable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 125. My. ’07.
“The excellent bibliography and the index of artists are additional
merits of these exhaustive, original, sumptuous volumes.” Anna B.
McMahan.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 12. Jl. 1, ’07. 1920w.
“It is only by comparison with the larger work that this two-volume
‘history of painting’ elicits criticism. There is hardly another work
of similar scope that is at once so compact with information and so
pleasant to read.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 110w.
“He seeks the explanation of the painter’s work as a product of the
times. Though Dr. Muther has not been the only writer to employ this
method in the study of art, it is not the general fashion, and his
development of it is conspicuous particularly for the breadth of the
field to which he has applied it. The style is, for a book of the
kind, unexpectedly spontaneous and free from the pedantic touch.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: sup. 51. Ap. ’07. 880w.
“His book reveals considerable familiarity with a very wide range of
art, and may be read with as much advantage as entertainment, if the
reader will constantly remain on his guard and take frequent
opportunities of testing the author’s statements, especially when they
strike him as particularly clever.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 182. Je. 7, ’07. 680w.
“Dr. Muther’s faults are what seem to us the faults of broad
philosophical generalizations based on erroneous or insufficient
premises—the faults of a man who would take a large view of things
without allowing himself to be hampered by inconvenient or tedious
facts, who would, in a word, evolve his camel from his inner
consciousness.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 85. Jl. 25, ’07. 2110w.
“It is more elaborate and less encyclopaedic than ‘The story of art
throughout the ages,’ by S. Reinach, and is hardly a ‘history’ in the
general acceptation of the term. Its principal features are
exposition, criticism and connoisseurship.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 80w.
“His criticism is entirely modern—his appraisements justified by the
effect produced on the modern mind. Vain endeavor, idiosyncrasy,
custom—all are gauged according to the modern standard of satisfying
results.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 580w.
“His books are distinguished from others because, as far as possible,
their author approaches every great movement and every great man from
a purely psychological point of view. The result is gratifying.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 480w.
“From a strictly scientific standpoint the work as a whole is somewhat
lacking in a due appreciation of the racial element in art, for the
author is manifestly more of a psychologist than an ethnologist. And
yet so grateful is one for these fresh, vital and inspirational
volumes that criticism is almost disarmed.” Christian Brinton.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 124. Ap. ’07. 590w.
“Scholarly work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 50w.
=Myers, Frederic William H.= Human personality and its survival of
bodily death; ed. and abridged by his son, Leopold H. Myers. **$3.
Longmans.
7–1302.
An abridged editions of a work whose aim “is principally, to collect
evidence of the phenomena discussed. Nevertheless, the author enters
to some extent, on the more difficult and dangerous path of
interpretation and theory.” (Cath. World.) Following an introduction
the chapter headings are as follows: Disintegration of personality,
Genius, Sleep, Hypnotism, Sensory automatism, Phantasms of the dead,
Motor automatism and Trance, possession and ecstasy.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 144. My. ’07.
“One of the most valuable contributions that has been made to the
literature of psychic science.”
+ + =Arena.= 36: 671. Je. ’07. 520w.
“Without eliminating anything characteristic or typical, the editor
has compressed the original into this one volume.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 254. My. ’07. 280w.
N
=Naish, Ethel M.= Browning and dogma; seven lectures on Browning’s
attitude towards dogmatic religion. *$1.40. Macmillan.
7–6792.
In this volume the author “takes half a dozen poems—‘Caliban upon
Setebos,’ ‘Cleon,’ ‘Bishop Blougram’s apology,’ ‘Christmas eve and
Easter day,’ and ‘La Saisaz’—and subjects them to minute running
analysis.”—Acad.
* * * * *
“In all her two hundred pages there is no note of freshness or
originality, and she has nothing of importance to contribute to our
knowledge either of the special works selected or of Browning’s poetry
in general.”
− − + =Acad.= 70: 328. Ap. 7, ’06. 990w.
“The style is clear and workmanlike, the matter often thoughtful, and
the plan most patiently elaborated. The reader whose concern is with
poetry, the reader, that is to say, who can hop with catholic delight
from Milton to Shakespeare and from Keats to Wordsworth, will not get
through this book. It is too conscientious.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 398. Mr. 31, ’06. 1090w.
=Naylor, James Ball.= Scalawags. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–11210.
This story opens upon a wintry afternoon in a district school house
when a class reciting in “Green’s grammar” is interrupted by a tramp
and his dog who beg shelter and warmth for an hour. The tramp finds
among the pupils a kindred soul who one day joins the wanderer and
casts in his lot with him. Their experiences end in the boy’s
reforming the “bad man,” who in turn plans for the education of the
lad whose mother had been his sweetheart and had found him unworthy.
* * * * *
“Some of the descriptions are fairly well done, but the incidents are
often extravagant, and the characterization cannot be highly praised.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 200w.
=Neame, L. E.= Asiatic danger in the colonies. *$1.25. Dutton.
7–32192.
Six years of study in Asia and South Africa lie back of Mr. Neame’s
portrayal of the subject. He shows “how insidiously the patient and
stable races of the Orient are at work undermining the white man’s
boasted power, and how concrete is the peril.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Undoubtedly the facts presented by the author lead to the conclusion
that the only effective method of securing that a land equally adapted
for Europeans and Asiatics should be made a home for European settlers
is that of almost total exclusion, adopted by Australia, joined to a
fixed determination on the part of Europeans to engage in all forms of
manual work themselves.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
=Ind.= 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 642. D. ’07. 260w.
“Mr. Neame’s book is one of very great value to anybody desirous of
understanding this question, not only in South Africa, but also in
Australia and Canada.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 450w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 413. Je. 29, ’07. 1480w.
* Near East: the present situation in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia,
Bulgaria, Roumania, Turkey and Macedonia. il. *$3. Doubleday.
W 7–173.
An anonymous publication which reveals the author in close touch with
European rulers and prime ministers. “He sipped coffee, smoked
cigarettes, and talked with the ‘various kings and princes of the
Balkan states,’ the Sultan of Turkey, and nearly all the members of
the various cabinets, as well as with people of the middle class and
with peasants, in order to form some conclusion as to the real
situation—political, economical, social, and financial—in this
European hotbed of discord.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The author is animated by strong, though obviously unconscious, bias
against the Hellenic element in the Balkans, as well as against
Germany and Austria.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 661. Je. 1. 550w.
“Every page reveals the author as one who investigates his subject
thoroughly, discriminates his information carefully, and writes
convincingly.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 372. D. 1, ’07. 690w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The book is specially valuable in the light it throws upon Servia.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A trenchantly written volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 639. N. ’07. 110w.
“That he has been told the whole truth and nothing but the truth on
all occasions he does not himself contend. But by separating the grain
from the chaff of official information and relating it to his own
private investigations he claims to have obtained a uniquely accurate
insight into Balkan affairs.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 462. O. 5, ’07. 320w.
=Neely, Thomas Benjamin.= South America, a mission field. *35c. West.
Meth. bk.
6–42354.
A compact presentation of South American missions intended to awaken
interest in the field and its evangelical possibilities.
* * * * *
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 20w.
=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.= Lonesome trail. †$1.50. Lane.
7–19597.
Twenty short stories which are concerned with the Indians of the Omaha
and Ponca tribes, with French and Indian half-breeds, with gamblers
and trappers and ranchmen and [various] types of the frontier.
* * * * *
“One or two of the stories, regarded from the point of view of art,
pure and simple, are excellent specimens of their class. We should be
reluctant to pass judgment on Mr. Neihardt on the strength of this
collection of stories, and we are inclined to think that he will do
better work when he has learnt restraint.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 610. Je. 22, ’07. 270w.
“Despite their undeniable charm and the vivid manner in which they
picture the life of the Indian and the half-breed trapper of the west,
they leave a distinctly depressing effect on the mind.” Amy C. Rich.
+ − =Arena.= 38: 222. Ag. ’07. 130w.
“[The stories] have good workmanship in them; strength of incident and
feeling, and no padding. The author has more feeling for style than
usually falls to the man who knows the extreme limits of
civilization.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29, 60w.
“Mr. Neihardt overdoes his effects very frequently, and he is much
given to allowing his people to talk in grandiloquent style.... It
will be a pity if he continues to allow his excellent endowment of
strength and vividness of imagination to be marred by such obvious
faults of taste and style.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“He gives us an over-accumulation of vivid detail which defeats its
own ends. He is original, he is frequently haunting and inspiring, but
somehow he just ‘misses.’”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 369. S. 21, ’07. 80w.
Nelson’s encyclopaedia; ed. by Frank Moore Colby and George Sandeman.
12v. $48. Nelson.
7–7496.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“On the whole, we think highly of this encyclopedia, which fairly
realizes the German ideal of a konversation-lexicon, and which is
published at a price moderate enough to place it within the means of a
large number of readers.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 259. Ap. 17, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 338. Ag. 8, ’07. 760w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
“The blurred and badly printed illustrations, the poor maps, and the
comparatively large proportion of space given up to subjects of
‘current interest’ are still the points that most seriously detract
from the permanent value of the books.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 56. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w. (Review of v. 5–10.)
“In general, the most obvious faults appear to be (1) too great a
condensation resulting sometimes in vagueness, but oftener in a
failure to bring out properly the comparative importance of real
significance of facts and events, (2) a lack of proportion from which
no encyclopedia is ever free, but which is here possibly more marked
as a result of its bi-national origin, and (3) too great emphasis on
matters of current or contemporary interest, both as to text and
illustration. No great reliance should be placed on the atlas feature
of the work.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 524. Je. 6, ’07. 730w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“Searching through this book at random we are pleased with the
articles, however on the whole.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 1320w. (Review of v. 1–10.)
“Some of the longer articles are comprehensive and as nearly
exhaustive as encyclopedia articles can well be made. The minor
subjects are treated in a terse and condensed manner.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 255. F. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 1–12.)
=Nernst, Walter.= Experimental and theoretical applications of
thermodynamics to chemistry; with diagrams. **$1.25. Scribner.
Ten lectures delivered on the Silliman foundation at Yale university
in 1906.
* * * * *
“The chief value of the work is its suggestiveness and stimulus to
thought and research. It will be of that value to every one who will
‘read, mark, learn and inwardly digest’ its contents.” J. W. Richards.
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 180. Ag. 15, ’07. 790w.
=Nation.= 85: 256. S. 19, ’07. 480w.
“Whether the reader is interested in the fundamental theoretical
speculations or the practical application of the derived formulae,
Prof. Nernst’s series of lectures cannot be too warmly recommended.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 52. N. 21, ’07. 230w.
“Nernst has here produced a thoroughly interesting and readable book
on a very abstruse and difficult subject. As a résumé of the question
of chemical equilibria at high temperatures it will have a distinct
value.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 2: 579. D. ’07. 540w.
=Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Land of make-believe, and other Christmas poems.
**$1.40. Harper.
7–36127.
Mr. Nesbit weaves in rime the fancies of make-believe land that every
child loves to cherish. His poems are all about Christmas and the
unrealities and impossibilities that make a veritable stalk to meet
the sky
“And Jack goes up and down it—we have seen him, you and I.”
* * * * *
“Children will like them, but grown people will like them even
better.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 431. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
“Taking it as a whole the book is a trifle tiresome.”
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 50w.
=Nettleship, Richard Lewis.= Memoir of Thomas Hill Green, late fellow of
Balliol college, Oxford, and Whyte’s professor of moral philosophy in
the university of Oxford; with a short preface specially written for
this edition by Mrs. T. H. Green. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–15903.
“The writings of Thomas Hill Green lie in the three fields of
philosophy, religion and politics. Mr. Nettleship in this memoir ...
brings out the development of the author’s thought in each of these
three fields.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
* * * * *
“The estimate of the thought and personality of the
statesman-philosopher is sympathetic. and appreciative.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 220. Ja. ’07. 90w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w.
“I do not know where one could look for a worthier portrayal of the
philosopher’s life and mind nor for a simpler statement of the central
position of idealism, than in this short biography.” B. Bosanquet.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 117. O. ’07. 1600w.
“So admirable an account of a great man well deserves the wider
circulation which one hopes it may obtain in this independent form.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 110w.
“It is indeed a singularly frank and faithful, and yet loving
account.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 986. D. 15, ’06. 1420w.
* =Nevill, Lady Dorothy.= Leaves from the note-books of Lady Dorothy
Nevill; ed. by Ralph Nevill. *$3 75. Macmillan.
Mr. Ralph Nevill, aided by the note books and the good memory of Lady
Nevill, has produced a book of reminiscences which reflects the
current thought of the period and pictures its prominent men. It is a
supplement to the “History of the Victorian era.”
* * * * *
“There are only slight blemishes on some very bright recollections.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 610. N. 16. 1150w.
“Full of sidelights on many great characters affording with its
cheerful gossip a picture of the times such as the more formal
historian seldom attempts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Ralph Nevill would have discovered a more tactful care of his
mother’s literary reputation if he had resisted the temptation to
publish these notes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 580. N. 9, ’07. 680w.
“Lady Dorothy Nevill’s memory yields a valuable picture of her times.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 777. N. 16. 1800w.
=Nevill, Dorothy, lady.= Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill; ed. by
Ralph Nevill. *$4.20. Longmans.
7–9818.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 101. Ap. ’07.
+ =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, ’07. 280w.
“She chats pleasantly through the pages of this book—always in good
humor and always bright and entertaining.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 506. Ja. ’07. 360w.
=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Dawn in Russia; or, Scenes in the Russian
revolution. *$2.25. Harper.
6–35593.
The author has included in this volume “a diary of the revolutionary
acts which have followed in all parts of Russia the disasters of the
war with Japan.... A catalogue of well-known horrors ... and much
personal evidence of his own, drawn from visits, necessarily short, to
widely separated parts of European Russia.” (Ath.) The volume is
illustrated with cartoons and photographs.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 102. Ap. ’07.
“We should prefer a treatment of the subject in which the record of
the writer’s own observations was distinct from his chronological
account of events which passed during his journeys, but of which he
was not a witness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 730. Je. 16. 280w.
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 208. Je. 8, ’06. 1290w.
“The all-pervading melancholy of Russian life as it manifests itself
in the music and the literature of the nation—all this is treated with
the sympathetic insight and the charming sincerity of true art, yet
with a conversational informality, liberally interspersed with humor,
which gives the reader a pleasing sense of intimacy with the writer,
as well as with an irresistible subject.” Abraham Cahan.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 668. O. 5, ’06. 1520w.
=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Modern slavery. **$2. Harper.
6–18826.
Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.
“Mr. Nevinson’s account is very interesting, the illustrations are
good and the total impression is that it is an account of a truthful
eye-witness.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 220. Ja. ’07. 250w.
=Newberry, Percy Edward, and Garstang, John.= Short history of ancient
Egypt. **$1.20. Estes.
4–21092.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Opinions may differ as to some of the author’s conclusions, but they
give in concise form material which is practically unobtainable
elsewhere in so small a compass, and the book will be found useful. A
defect which might be remedied in future editions is the absence of a
bibliography.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 65. Ja. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Newbolt, Henry John.= The old country: a romance. †$1.50. Dutton.
“The story begins at the present time, and suddenly shifts to the year
in which the battle of Poictiers was fought, The characters for the
most part remain the same, nor does the scene change. Stephen Bulmer,
in the early chapters, is a young Englishman, of Colonial upbringing,
who ‘speaks of things to come as if he saw them.’ In the later
chapters, he is the same Englishman, modified by an Italian education.
But the sense of time has vanished from his brain.” (Acad.) “He is
taken into ‘the backwoods of time,’ where ‘the real work of men was
going forward, with sweat of the brow and blistering of hands, with
action and agony and endurance in place of talk and speculation.’ He
sees that all his doubts are long descended, that Ralph Tremur, the
eternal dissident, is an image of himself, and that the future must
lie with the constructive minds, who serve under discipline and keep
close to the earth in their toil.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“Ingenious as is Mr. Newbolt’s thesis, it is not for that that we
would most highly praise his book. The story is told with a tact and
delicacy rarely found in the modern novel.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 465. N. 10, ’06. 810w.
“In his dedicatory epistle he frankly acknowledges that he has a
purpose and we as frankly state our conviction that that purpose is
wrong. Nor can we commend the machinery of the novel.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 240w.
“Beautiful romance.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 358. O. 26, ’06. 1770w.
“The end far more than atones for the stiffness of the beginning.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12. 548. S. 14, ’07. 110w.
“Very clear indeed is the picture of rural mediaeval England set
before us in the unfolding of the tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 832. Ag. 17, ’07. 200w.
“An uncommonly thoughtful and interesting novel. The style is
distinguished, and there is no lack of good images. It is an admirable
expression of the genuine Tory spirit.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 682. D. 1, ’06. 340w.
“Mr. Newbolt reads his countrymen an eloquent lesson, none the less
profound because it is decked with all the graces of romance.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 789. N. 17, ’06. 1210w.
=Newcomb, Simon.= Side-lights on astronomy; and kindred fields of
popular science. **$2. Harper.
6–34834.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 834. D. 29. 500w.
“Dr. Newcomb’s clear generalization of the progress of astronomy has
great interest and reveals some romance in the work of the
‘far-seekers’ which is lost in the tracing of the details.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1568. D. 27, ’06. 190w.
“A volume which is at once interesting and instructive.”
+ + =Nature.= 75: 294. Ja. 24, ’07. 110w.
“He is certainly a star of the first magnitude in the astronomical
world.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1011. Je. 29, ’07. 440w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Wagner. (Music of the masters ser.) $1. Brentano’s.
5–40985.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Done in a clear terse style, avoiding technical jargon.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 840. D. 29. 130w.
=Newman, George.= Infant mortality: a social problem. (New lib. of
medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–32191.
Dr. Newman studies the distribution and extent as well as the causes
of infant mortality, and directs attention to the best means of
prevention.
* * * * *
“His familiarity with his theme is unquestionable, and the volume of
the facts and statistics that he has arranged and co-ordinated is a
proof of painstaking effort.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 165. Jl. ’07. 450w.
“It is written well and clearly, and should be read by every one who
is interested in preventing the waste of child life which is occurring
not only in England, but also throughout every civilized country.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 17. Jl. 7. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 240w.
“Dr. Newman has gotten together an immense amount of statistical data
bearing upon infant mortality-rates, of which data he makes most
effective use.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 247. Ap. ’07. 150w.
=Lond. Times.= 5: 218. Je. 15, ’06. 230w.
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 104. Ag. 1, ’07. 1280w.
“These thoughtful and intelligent studies cannot fail to interest all
who apply themselves to sociology, political economy and
philanthropy.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 310w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.
+ + =Spec.= 96: 951. Je. 16, ’06. 500w.
=Newmarch, Rosa.= Poetry and progress in Russia. *$3.50. Lane.
W 7–152.
“In five chapters Miss Newmarch considers the literary development of
Russia from Pushkin to the present. In the empire of the Czar,—as,
indeed, throughout the rest of the civilized world, the poets have
been the pioneers of liberty and enlightenment. This phase of Russian
culture is represented by the poets Pushkin, Koltsov, Nikitin,
Nekrassov, Khomiakasov, and Nadson. Translations of a number of the
representative poems from these masters supplement the essays.”—R. of
Rs.
* * * * *
“Her book is practically a re-writing of what is generally known about
Pouschkin, his life and works. Of the translations ... by Mrs.
Newmarch and others perhaps the less said the better.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 698. Jl. 20, ’07. 320w.
“We wish all success to this book: we know of none which will give the
reader more just ideas of what is good in Russian poetry.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 205. Ag. 24. 850w.
“The translations by the author and Prof. Morfill are, for the most
part, without much distinction; those of Miss Helena Frank are
somewhat better. The value of the book lies in its clairvoyant and
interpretive criticisms, which should do much toward creating a
deserved interest in Russian poetry.” Anne Peacock.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 566. S. 21, ’07. 2400w.
=R. of Rs.= 36:. 512. O. ’07. 110w.
“Candidly speaking, the reviewer must allow that the fault is more
with the title than with the actual scope of the book. But when all is
said and done, Mrs. Newmarch deserves to win readers for the poets to
whose humour she has devoted so much scholarly pains and ingenuity.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 454. O. 12, ’07. 1300w.
=Newmarch, Rosa.= Songs to a singer and other verses. *$1.25. Lane.
“A small collection of verse, mainly concerned, as its title
indicates, with the emotions evolved by another’s singing, and suffers
somewhat from the consequent lack of variety.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“These songs might pass muster, as being well up to the average, if
read between staves of music. Considered as poetry, or even verse,
they are weak.”
− + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 183. Ag. 18. 430w.
=Nation.= 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 100w.
“Miss Rosa Newmarch’s lyrics are very slight and quite unambitious;
they flow pleasantly and are free from solecisms and self-conscious
oddities. Just why any one of them was written would perhaps be
difficult to say, for none show much individuality or depth of
feeling.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 389. S. 29, ’06. 120w.
=Newton, Samuel Donald.= Dolorous blade: being a brief account of the
adventures of that good knight of the Round Table, Sir Balin, called “Le
Savage,” done into rhyme by Samuel Donald Newton. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–10041.
A new poetic version of the tragic story of Sir Balin, Le Savage, and
his fateful dolorous blade.
Nibelungenlied; translated by John Storer Cobb. *$2. Small.
6–37588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The form is a rhymed four-line stanza in iambic octometer, the rhymes
being in couplets. It is a jog-trot movement, and grows very
monotonous after a few pages. But a great poem in the higher sense,
this epic is not, and a fair sense of its historical importance is
obtainable from the present version.”
− =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 70w.
“All in all, this effort seems praiseworthy; but a comparison of the
average of the verse with the Lachmann text shows more than one
radical departure from the sense of the original, departures that
other versions seem not to have required.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 158. F. 14, ’07. 720w.
“A fine swinging translation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 40w.
=Nicholson, Frank C.= Old German love songs; translated from the
Minnesingers of the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. *$1.50. Univ.
of Chicago press.
A selection from Minnesong sufficiently varied and extensive to
illustrate roughly the nature and range of the art, indicating the
main lines of its development.
* * * * *
“On the whole, we have real admiration for the manner in which Mr.
Nicholson has carried out his difficult task, and are confident that
his book will prove a stimulus to the study of the subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 158. F. 9. 1170w.
=Dial.= 43: 314. N. 16, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Nicholson’s book is the first attempt to deal with the Minnesang
as a whole, and to give to English readers specimens of the poetry of
all its more conspicuous masters. For this task he is in many ways
exceedingly well equipped; his work is evidently a labour of love, and
he has prepared for it by a very close and intelligent study of his
subject.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 237. Ag. 2, ’07. 2100w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Port of missing men. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–5062.
A stirring drama which involves the throne of Austria is here enacted
among the Virginia hills just outside of Washington. The love story of
the truly American heroine who, in spite of herself, follows her heart
against her reason, and of the hero, heir to much Austrian greatness,
who does his country service and then renounces all for the democratic
life of an American, in itself holds the reader enthralled. But there
are added to it many other interesting characters and some scenes of
war and strategy, which will endear the book to lovers of adventure.
The plot is well devised, the romance pretty, the encounters of both
sword and word are clever; in all the story is a worthy successor to
“House of a thousand candles.”
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
“This tale not only lacks the element of probability ... but it is
wanting in the cleverness of ‘House of a thousand candles.’”
− =Arena.= 37: 447. Ap. ’07. 370w.
“Is frankly only a story of adventure builded on a shop-worn model,
but very well done of its kind.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 85. Mr. ’07. 450w.
“The story is fashioned after the conventional romantic pattern, and
displays no little skill in both plot and characterization.” Wm. M.
Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 220w.
“Something more than a mere catalog of horrors is needed to produce
the thriller aimed at by this type of novelist.”
− =Lit. D.= 34: 510. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 246. Mr. 14, ’07. 360w.
“Except for an occasional pleasing passage of scenic description,
written with a poetic touch and an artistic restraint not evident in
other parts of the book, and now and then a bit of clever
conversational fencing, the novel offers nothing of intellectual
entertainment except its exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 131. Mr. 2, ’07. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 110w.
=Nicholson, Watson.= Struggle for a free stage in London. **$2.50.
Houghton.
6–38899.
“Dr. Nicholson, who is instructor in English at Yale, traces the
history of nearly two centuries in which London tried to free herself
from the theatrical monopoly. The triumph was reached when the passage
(on August 22, 1843) of the parliamentary act known as the Theater
regulation bill deprived the two patent theaters, Drury Lane and
Covent Garden, of their monopoly of playing Shakespeare and the
national drama.”—R. of Rs.
* * * * *
+ =Acad.= 72: 503. My. 25, ’07. 1650w.
“A record so satisfactory is a welcome addition to the libraries of
all who are interested in the drama and its varying fortunes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 586. My. 11. 380w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
“Evidence is scrupulously weighed, original documents are carefully
collated and minutely examined, the whole thing is done with
scientific precision: the artistic aspects of the matter are severely
let alone.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 36. F. 1, ’07. 1080w.
“This book although not likely to prove very attractive to the
ordinary reader of theatrical biography or gossip, will be valuable to
the genuine student of dramatic history.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 467. N. 29, ’06. 830w.
“Mr. Nicholson, who has approached his subject in a thorough and
scholarly manner, has drawn his material from a multitude of sources
including many old documents.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29. ’06. 600w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 90w.
“Mr. Nicholson has given a carefully constructed narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 541. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Key of the blue
closet. *$1.40. Dodd.
W 7–54.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So wholesome and enjoyable a book as this little volume of essays
should find many readers.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16. ’07. 280w.
“It ought to be a compliment to say that this book is thoroughly
sound, genial and interesting, without being in the least clever, and
without any of the little tricks of paradox and epigram that appeal to
our decade.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 32. Ja. 10, ’07. 190w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Lamp of sacrifice;
sermons preached on special occasions. *$1.50. Armstrong.
“The keynote of Dr. Nicoll’s sermons is religious optimism.... The
preacher does not reckon without the sorrows of life ... but the book,
as a whole, and each chapter in particular, impresses upon the reader
the conviction of the writer that they are none of them incurable, and
are in some sense discounted by religious faith.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The pen of a ready and vigorous writer is easily recognizable in his
pages. Equally so is an intensely evangelical spirit.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 150w.
=Spec.= 97: 1049. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
=Nielsen, Fredrik Kristian.= History of the papacy in the XIXth century.
*$7.50. Dutton.
7–2580.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The weakness of the book is to be found ... in its narrowness of
treatment and in its lack of precision of detail. The book sins most
of all by its lack of breadth and of historical proportion.” R. M.
Johnston.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 377. Ja. ’07. 1080w.
“The reader is never pulled up by the difficulty of understanding some
obviously foreign construction, and is not often repelled by ugly
English. The work of a learned Lutheran bishop of broad sympathies and
massive erudition.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 460w.
“In all this Dr. Nielson gives evidence of wide reading and a sane
historical judgment. The book is a mine of interesting matter
collected from innumerable scattered memoirs, collections of
documents, and other works. But though these are presented with a
sufficient impartiality, little attempt is made to interpret their
deeper significance. His narrative is overloaded with detail and
obscured by digressions, which, however interesting in themselves,
would have been better relegated to notes or appendices. Certain
criticisms in detail remain to be made which may prove useful in the
event of a new edition of the book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 9. Ja. 11, ’07. 2230w.
“Timely in the best sense of the word.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 316. Ap. 4, ’07. 470w.
“His two volumes make not only an interesting and careful narrative,
they are also a significant and important contribution to the history
of the past hundred years.” Christian Gauss.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 390. Je. 15, ’07. 2870w.
“We have to thank the Master of Pembroke college, Cambridge for his
excellent editorship of the English translation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 176. F. 9, ’07. 1410w.
“Readers who are acquainted with the language of Holberg, Hans
Christian Andersen, and the Brandes of to-day, with its delightful
post-articles, passive verbs, and amusing numerals, will be well
satisfied with the present version of the Danish text.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 113. Ja. 26, ’07. 2100w.
=Noble, Edward.= The issue: a story of the river Thames (or Fisherman’s
Gat). †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–5686.
(2d ed. with title. Fisherman’s Gat.
7–13441.)
“A story of the Thames estuary, a drama of London’s great river, a
romance of lives of those who come and go in the lesser crafts in
which deep-sea certificates are not required of a man.... Love,
treachery, passion, crime, the stress and strain of dangers afloat and
labour complications ashore; owners, sailors, good simple folk and
smug hypocrites, evil livers and honest dealers—all figure in this
story.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Horror is piled upon horror a little clumsily, so that strength gives
way at times to brute force, and brute force is never convincing. But
the book is essentially one to read. It grips, and its grip is rough
as a sailor’s grip may be.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 286. S. 22, ’06. 170w.
“A drama of real interest, strong in atmosphere, characterization, and
first-hand observation.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 362. S. 29. 350w.
“A strong and unusual story.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 182. Ap. ’07. 430w.
“He has the rare gift of verbal dry-point which fixes a picture
indelibly upon both memory and imagination.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 270w.
“His drawings, which illustrate the book, give their messages better
than his words. But the whole is rich, vivid, comprehensive, and like
his picture of the lives and characters of his sailors, it has the
sharp realization that comes of knowledge.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 322. S. 21, ’06. 390w.
“His chief character, ‘Windbag’ Saunderson, just misses being a
remarkable achievement. But only a few telling artistic touches, a
little more here, and a little less there, would have made it a much
more striking figure and the book much more significant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 135. Mr. 2. ’07. 510w.
“It needs compression and it lacks brightness, but it is ambitious in
its dissection of motives and character.”
− + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 767. Je. ’07. 50w.
=Noble, W. Arthur.= Ewa; a tale of Korea.
$1.25. Meth. bk.
6–36433.
“Mr. Noble shows two Korean heroes with their Asiatic prejudices and
beliefs crumbling away under the influence of western ideas. Both
Sung-Yo, a son of rank, whose chief duty had hitherto been idleness
and incapacity, and his friend, Tong-Siki, of a lower class but.
greater ability, devote their lives to their country and their hopes
of seeing it free.... This little story, with its love interest woven
about a slave girl who becomes a convert to Christianity and suffers
for her faith, may be relied on to find many eager readers.”—N. Y.
Times.
* * * * *
“The book is fairly readable.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1493. D. 20, ’06. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 721. N. S, ’06. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Nolhac, Pierre de.= Versailles and the Trianons; with 60 full-page il.
in col. by Rene Binet. *$3.50. Dodd.
6–40558.
M. de Nolhac is the keeper of the Versailles museum and writes out of
the fulness of his historical information. “He has recorded in
connexion with various portions of the palace the remarkable events
they have witnessed, and in the course of this volume manages to tell
the whole story of the locality.” (Sat. R.) “M. de Nolhac indicates,
in a large and poetic description, how much artistic stimulus the
place contains and will increasingly disengage as ‘the art of
Versailles’ recedes into a softened perspective.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“There is ample guaranty of the historical correctness of the
information he imparts. He writes also with sympathy and enthusiasm.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“It is a pity that no credit is given to the painstaking and able
translator.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 565. D. 27, ’06. 310w.
“An extremely interesting monograph, which might well be a model for
this kind of book.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w.
* =Nordau, Max Simon.= On art and artists; tr. by W. F. Harvey. **$2.
Jacobs.
7–28523.
A series of detached essays thru which may be traced the development
of modern art as represented by the following painters and sculptors:
Whistler, Frank Brangwyn, Rodin, Puvis de Chavannes, Mounier,
Bartholomé, Carriès, Gustave Moreau, Carrière, Zorn, Zuloaga,
Bouguereau. Problems of art are illustrated thruout the treatment of
the classic school of David, the romantic school, the Barbizon clan,
and the realists, to the recent school of symbolism and impressionism.
* * * * *
“There is much that is instructive, much that irritates by its
bumptiousness, and not a little that seems tedious, in his book.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 410w.
“Despite its faults as a purely critical work, the book throughout has
one quality which ranks it with the most valuable art criticism, and
that is its author’s skill in stripping from his subjects those
pretensions to literary motive, which in so many cases obscure the
minds of thinking people as to the real issues in discussion of the
plastic arts and the nature of the motives which alone are responsible
for artistic success,”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 390w.
“Mr. Nordau has not made up his mind, which seems to vary with the
state of the weather, and he contradicts himself again and again. Yet
there is in the book a great deal of wisdom and not a little acute
criticism.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 69. Mr. 1, ’07. 900w.
“We may note also that Dr. Nordau has a keen nose for indecency, and
finds it both where it is and where no one else perceives it. There
are many bits of shrewd criticism and many remarks the soundness of
which leads one, temporarily, to think of the author as of a person
really equipped with some judgment and knowledge of his subject, until
the next incredible caprice upsets the notion and leaves one wondering
what Nordau would be at and what is the real basis of his confidently
pronounced opinions. The translator is to be congratulated on his
success in avoiding foreign idiom and in making his translation read
like a piece of original and only too vigorous English.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 502. N. 28, ’07. 2730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 210w.
=Nordau, Max Simon.= Question of honor; authorized translation by Mary
J. Safford. *$1. Luce, J: W.
7–18817.
A tragedy of present-day Germany in four acts, which deals with the
strong anti-Semite feeling of the Germans by presenting the case of a
young Jewish mathematician, and by showing the odds against which he
fights in his efforts to win a professorship, and finally the insults
to which he is subjected when he asks for the hand of the German
fräulein who loves him. It is a dramatic plea for the man who is
denied position, love, and even life itself because he is a Jew.
* * * * *
“Though the translator has done well, in a few places she might have
done better. The play is excellent reading, and offers food for
thought.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 95. Ag. 16, ’07. 360w.
“It is not at all likely that any manager here would dream of
producing anything at once so undramatic and contentious. But as a
study of one of the problems in European politics it is both
illuminating and interesting.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 42. Jl. 11. ’07. 300w.
=Norris, Mary Harriott.= Story of Christina. $1.50. Neale.
7–21537.
A western girl as unconscious of her beauty as of her great wealth
practices rigid economy during her four years at an Illinois college.
The serenity of her wholly satisfactory life is interrupted by the
co-executors of her estate, one a Chicago lawyer who wishes to marry
her, the other a New York cousin who plans to take her east to be
properly trained by wealthy relatives. She accepts the latter
proposition, becomes plastic to the touch of a skilled social artist,
is led into an engagement with an English duke, breaks it and weds the
man of her old college days who had devoted his life to becoming
worthy of her.
=Norton, Charles Eliot.= Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a sketch of his
life, together with Longfellow’s chief autobiographical poems. **75c.
Houghton.
7–1293.
Written for the Longfellow centenary. The book “can be read through in
less than two hours, and can be bought for less than a dollar; but
neither of these facts should be of use in measuring the amount and
duration of the impression it ought to make upon a receptive reader.
The poems chosen number thirty, and include ‘A psalm of life,’ ‘The
wreck of the Hesperus,’ ‘The bridge,’ ‘The cross of snow,’ and other
favorites, concluding with ‘Morituri salutamus.’... Perhaps the most
valuable point made by Mr. Norton is to be found in the paragraphs in
which he shows how completely Longfellow was the product of a simple
and refined New England, which had gently broken with the Puritan
régime and was filled with an optimistic belief in the orderly
evolution of men to individual and national felicity in a new and
favored world. Purity, naturalness and kindness were the fundamental
characteristics of Longfellow, and these were in the main, the
fundamental characteristics of the people who first welcomed his
self-revealing poems.” (Forum.)
* * * * *
=Current Literature.= 42: 285. Mr. ’07. 1900w.
“He has honored other friends in a more elaborate and impressive
fashion, but none, I think, with more true sympathy and reverent
poise ... than he has displayed in this brief memoir of Longfellow.
The essential facts are given, the right note of praise is struck,
there is no meaningless and confusing parade of literary references
and allusions.” W. P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 555. Ap. ’07. 770w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 57. F. 22, ’07. 870w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Norton’s centenary memorial of Longfellow is perfect in its
kind.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 106. O. ’07. 700w.
“This is a most pleading little book, and worthy of its author,—an
author whom we may fitly describe as one of the most cultivated men
who speak and write the English language, whether on his or our own
side of the Atlantic.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 268. Ag. 24, ’07. 240w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= Flower of old Japan, and other poems. **$1.25.
Macmillan.
7–21391.
Poems in which “the feet of children are set dancing.” They deal with
the Kingdom of dreams in which a journey is made to old Japan. Back of
the fantasy are serious lessons and vivid pictures of Japan with
kaleidoscopic glimpses of pirates, mandarins, bonzes, priests,
jugglers, merchants, ghastroi, etc.
* * * * *
“There is a proficiency in the workmanship that, coupled with Mr.
Noyes’s humorous tenderness in approaching his theme, all but disarms
criticism. Yet if we look at the matter in a cool objective light, it
must be said that the attempt is only partially successful.” Ferris
Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 843. D. ’07. 620w.
“In ‘The flower of old Japan’ ... it is possible to see little but
futile ingenuity in the misdirection of poetic energy.” Wm. Aspenwall
Bradley.
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 539. S. 7, ’07. 1420w.
“Mr. Noyes has the instrument, the lute, in tune, but has not met the
revealing hour which shall give him a message for its strings.” Jessie
B. Rittenhouse.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 364. D. ’07. 260w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= Poems: with an introd. by Hamilton Wright Mabie.
**$1.25. Macmillan.
6–38994.
The poems of an Oxford man, only twenty-six years of age, who is
looked upon in England as destined to “be of the greatest service in
the re-establishment of the great traditions of English song.” “Mr.
Noyes has ‘drawn inspiration from a rather exceptional range of
literature—classic poets, Celtic legends, travellers’ tales, English
ballads, Holy Writ, tales of the road, and Lord Rosebery on Napoleon;
but he has digested this heterogeneous beebread with the eupepsy of
vigorous poetic youth.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Acquaints us with a singer whose note is both fresh and vital.” Wm.
M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 255. Ap. 16, ’07. 390w.
“There is a gusto in his work, a savor of opulence, variety and ease
that is full of hope. As yet Mr. Noyes is a little too adventurous in
his quest of the striking subject, too proud of the mere muscles of
his verse.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 439. N. 22, ’06. 270w.
“Mr. Noyes does not show the faults usual in a young poet. You will
never be in any doubt about his meaning, but neither will you be
carried out of yourself by any exaltation of words, any intensity of
passion, any abandon of beauty.” Bliss Carman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 230w.
“I am sure that [the reader] will not need me to point out their
spontaneous power and freshness, their imaginative vision, their
lyrical magic.” Richard Le Gallienne.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 1179. D. 7, ’06. 1050w.
“He is ... a singer and not a thinly disguised philosopher or a
reformer who has possessed himself of a musical instrument. He has a
voice of compass and sweetness, and his tones flow clear and sweet,
with the courage of a real talent and the richness of a full nature.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 372. F. 16, ’07. 1120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 60w.
=Noyes, Carleton Eldredge.= Gate of appreciation: studies in the
relation of art to life. **$2. Houghton.
7–15336.
A personal record of the author’s “adventures with the problem of
art.” He wishes “to suggest the possible meaning of art to the
ordinary man, to indicate methods of approach to art, and to trace the
way of appreciation.” He believes that the final meaning of art to the
appreciator lies in his sense of its relation to his own experience.
* * * * *
“The book is not a mere summary of art history and criticism, but the
outcome of original study and possesses real value.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 240w.
=Nugent, Maria, lady. (Mrs. George Nugent).= Lady Nugent’s journal:
Jamaica one hundred years ago; ed. by Frank Cundall. *$2. Macmillan.
W 7–122.
Lady Nugent was the wife of the Governor of Jamaica a hundred years
ago and this journal was intended only for her children and friends.
“A great part of the journal is devoted to things personal and
domestic; hence the propriety of its private circulation when, five
years after the writer’s death, it first saw the light in a modest
way.... Historical, biographical, and bibliographical matter is
furnished in abundance.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“All that editorial skill could do to render attractive her sometimes
monotonous chronicling of unimportant details—for she had few others
to record—has been done.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 390w.
“The intrinsic interest of what she has to tell us is not a little
enhanced by the skilful and scholarly editing of Mr. Cundall.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 102. Mr. 29, ’07. 520w.
“This journal [contains] ... pictures of social life drawn by a close
and delicate observer; shrewd comments upon the usages of a
civilization quite alien to everything in the writer’s former
experience; an elaborate account of the process of making sugar;
amusing stories of the ups and downs of diplomatic life; suggestive
sketches of character.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 239. My. 25, ’07. 500w.
“We think [Mr. Cundall] might have omitted far more than he has done.
But there are a good many passages ... which are informing and of
value.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 500. Ap. 20. ’07. 240w.
=Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.= Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, tr. by Fanny
Bandelier. **$1. Barnes.
5–18321.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=Ind.= 62: 153. Ja. 17, ’07. 140w.
O
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Amerigo Vespucci (Heroes of American history.)
*$1. Harper.
7–7447.
His early life amid Florentine surroundings, the avidity with which he
absorbed accounts of Marco Polo’s wonderful journeys, his study of
charts, globes, nautical instruments for the sake of acquiring skill
in cosmography lead up to a very informing narrative of his four
voyages. His relations with Columbus, and the diverging
characteristics of the two explorers are interestingly sketched.
* * * * *
“Scholars will object to his interesting but irrelevant digressions.
It is a real contribution to popular history.”
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 180w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 140w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 60w.
“Within very moderate limits, and in a clear, attractive way, Mr. Ober
succeeds in presenting an interesting portrait of the man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w.
“For several reasons it is less satisfactory than its predecessors.
Far too much prominence is given to secondary figures. There is also
too liberal a piecing-out of the narrative by quotations. Mr. Ober has
paid scanty attention to the results of recent investigations.”
− + =Outlook.= 80: 301. Je. 8, ’07. 240w.
“The story is told in an entertaining way from original, authentic
documents, and is illustrated with portraits and maps.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 30w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand De Soto, and the invasion of
Florida. **$1. Harper.
6–32459.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This little volume is neither dry nor dull, and in its pages is
recreated a good story of the adventures, dangers and thirst for gold
of De Soto and his sturdy band.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 417. Mr. ’07. 550w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand Magellan. *$1. Harper.
7–15946.
Magellan is the subject of this volume in the “Heroes of American
history” series. The story of the life and voyages and tragic death of
the great Portuguese explorer, his discovery of the Straits of
Magellan, Guam, and the Philippines in the first transpacific voyage,
is told in compact detail.
* * * * *
“Worth buying for the small library because of the brevity of material
found in the general works that most small libraries can afford.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 196. N. ’07. S.
“The book is an instructive and interesting one to add to a boy’s
library.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 599. N. ’07. 100w.
“In clear and convincing style, and with candor as well as sympathy,
Mr. Ober traces the short and stormy career of Magellan.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 420w.
“Is even more interesting than the excellent life of Vespuccius.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Ober’s volume is not the least interesting of an interesting
series.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6, ’07. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Vasco Nunez de Balboa. **$1. Harper.
6–37625.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a book for young readers and will undoubtedly hold their
attention. Its chief value is that it presents in rapid story form
facts affording a correct general idea of early Spanish exploration
and settlement.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 643. My. ’07. 110w.
“Young and old readers alike should be interested in the present
volume, especially in its chief dramatic episode, the discovery of the
Pacific.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 523. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w.
=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson.= Jay Cooke, financier of the civil war. 2v.
**$7.50. Jacobs.
7–33957.
A complete biography of this great patriot and marvelous financier in
the preparing of which the author has had the interested aid of the
family and free access to the chests full of letters and documents
preserved by Mr. Cooke during his life. Dr. Oberholtzer presents an
open, good and honest career, and shows how impossible it would have
been for the Federal government to have carried on the civil war
without the help of so great and loyal a financier.
* * * * *
“The historian, who estimates accomplishments by their ultimate effect
rather than by the brilliancy of their execution, is certain to take
larger account of him as time goes on. To such students Dr.
Oberholtzer’s volumes offer themselves as a standard work of
reference.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 546. D. 12, ’07. 960w.
“Dr. Oberholtzer’s voluminous work will be found interesting, not only
to the financier, but to the ordinary reader in search of
entertainment. It should be many years before another life of this
honest man and patriot is called for.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 710. N. 9. ’07. 1940w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 609. N. 23, ’07. 70w.
“Always the view-point is that of an ardent, even an undiscriminating
admirer of Jay Cooke. This, indeed, constitutes the chief defect of a
work that is otherwise of real value.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 790. D. 7, ’07. 450w.
“Dr. Oberholtzer has made a valuable contribution to the history of
the civil war period.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 753. D. ’07. 350w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Don-a-dreams. †$1.50. Century.
6–29530.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 125. Ja. ’07. 210w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Susan. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
7–22115.
“Susan, a beautiful and impossible maid, receives a letter proposing
marriage to her from a young and imaginative peer, who has presumably
fallen in love with her pretty face without ever having spoken to her.
Susan, greatly embarrassed ... consults her mistress, who ends by
conducting her correspondence for her, eventually falling in love with
her correspondent. The climax comes when the young lord—his love
fanned by the beauty of his lady’s letters—discovers that there has
been a mistake, and that the girl whom he saw and loved is the
mistress and not the maid.”—Sat. R.
* * * * *
“Mr. Oldmeadow knows how to write, and should entertain a wide circle
of readers this spring. His book has a sense of character, too, which
is the more effective for not being lost in a cloud of verbiage.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 90w.
+ − =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 240w.
“The sprightly tale of ‘Susan’ is delicately, and at times humorously
feminine, in its grasp of that only constant theme, love, to which it
is a delightfully clever variant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 330. My. 25, ’07. 470w.
“It has a unique and daring plot, and is written with an airiness and
humor that make its pages most entertaining and attractive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“It is a dainty trifle, pleasantly written, but it has, in spite of
its modern setting, no relation to the life and action of to-day. The
story is developed with considerable skill and humour, and although it
is written in the literary diary form, it is never tedious.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 310w.
“[Though] it strains the reader’s credulous powers to breaking-point,
is at any rate lightly and freshly written.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 625. Ap. 20, ’07. 30w.
=Oliver, Frederick Scott.= Alexander Hamilton: an essay on American
union. *$3.75. Putnam.
6–16717.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He ought to have enough discrimination to see the point of view of
the other side and to recognize that his own favorite had some
shortcomings. Neither of these things has Mr. Oliver done.” John
Spencer Bassett.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 398. Ja. ’07. 1090w.
“It is so broad, so generous, so just to both sides in its analysis of
the great struggle for liberty, its estimates of all the actors in
that picturesque drama, it is so evidently a labor of love in an
infinite leisure, above all so classic in style, and so interesting in
mere reading, that, in an era when the American public was more
addicted to serious books than now, it would have become a handbook at
once and exerted a powerful influence.” Gertrude Atherton.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 407. S. 7, ’06. 1500w.
=Ollivant, Alfred.= Redcoat captain: a story of that country, il.
†$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29092.
A story fraught with tender symbolism which “contains the key to the
right of entry into ‘that country’—the country of those who have
learned to remain young in heart and to look out upon life with the
frank serenity of little children.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“The form of nonsense that finds expression in ‘Redcoat captain’ does
not please us at all.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 110w.
“Curious, alluring and altogether unique volume.” Frederic Taber
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 271. N. ’07. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 70w.
“Those who bring the heart and mind of a boy will discover that it is
a striking piece of work, and also that it is a very beautiful
parable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 473. N. 2, ’07. 690w.
* =Olmsted, Frederick Law.= Journey in the back country in the year
1854. 2v. *$5. Putnam.
“This book, originally published in 1860 on the eve of the war of
secession, is one of the most remarkable indictments of negro slavery
to be found in the arsenal of abolitionist literature. It records a
personal study of the conditions and habits of the people of the
south ... [in order] to obtain and report the facts of ordinary life,
not to supply arguments. Mr. Olmstead[Olmsted] was no
abolitionist, ... he aimed at emancipation through the gradual
cultivation and education of the capacities of the slaves, and the
awakening of the masters to the economic waste of the existing system.
His most interesting pages are not those devoted to the sordid
realities of the cotton-fields and the varied conditions of life in
the cabins of the ‘darkies;’ but those which contain a searching and
pitiless analysis of the southern planter and the ‘mean’
whites.”—Spec.
* * * * *
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 310w.
“Negro slavery has gone forever, but the negro problem is still acute,
and those who would understand both the real nature of the ‘peculiar
institution’ and the causes of the great war should study this very
opportune reprint of Mr. Olmstead’s work.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 826. N. 23, ’07. 640w.
=Olney, Oliver, pseud.= Novelty circus company. †$1.50. Jacobs.
7–29151.
How some school boys organized a company and gave a series of circus
performances for the benefit of their town library provides material
for a capital story.
=Oman, Charles William Chadwick.= Great revolt of 1381. *$2.90. Oxford.
6–42914.
“The late André Reville had projected a work on this movement, and had
got together a vast collection of records of trials, inquests,
petitions, and escheators’ rolls for this purpose. Professor Oman has
enjoyed the use of all of these documents, and also includes some new
and unpublished material regarding the poll-tax. He thinks he has
discovered why that impost met with such universal detestation, how
the poorer classes in England conspired to defeat its operation, and
how the counterstroke made by this government provoked the rebellion.”
(Nation.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Oman has written his account without prejudice, and its value, we
imagine, lies less in any thesis it may be thought to establish, than
in the picture it gives of England in 1831.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 57. Jl. 21, ’06. 1460w.
“It is because Prof. Oman’s book, as we have said, supplies a want for
teachers and students, that we have drawn attention to certain points
which will require revision if he should undertake a fresh edition.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 124. Ag. 4. 1810w.
“We have dwelt at what may appear disproportionate length upon his
treatment of the poll tax returns because it is here that he specially
lays claim to originality. What is valuable in his suggestions is not
materially affected by the inaccuracies pointed out above, but we rise
from the examination with a somewhat shaken confidence in the
scientific exactitude of his methods of research. The narrative of the
rebellion itself can be more unreservedly commended. It is full, well
digested, and spirited. But even here we must not look for pedantic
accuracy in details.” James Tait.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 161. Ja. ’07. 2300w.
“Alike from its summing up of recent results, and from the new
material it contains and the freshness and suggestiveness of its
style, this book will be indispensable to the student of the
fourteenth century. It will also find readers beyond the ranks of
professional historians, for it narrates a dramatic story, and
Professor Oman has told it well.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 277. Ag. 10, ’06. 930w.
“The most interesting, if not the most valuable feature of Prof.
Oman’s book, is the diversity of material which it contains. The whole
episode assumes new meaning under his skilful analysis of the causes
which prompted such a widespread and spontaneous uprising.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 557. D. 27, ’06. 940w.
“Brilliant narrative.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 429. O. 6, ’06. 1240w.
“A valuable historical study, picturesque and compact.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 464. O. 6, ’06. 2190w.
=Oman, John Campbell.= Problem of faith and freedom in the last two
centuries. *$2.75. Armstrong.
7–29073.
“A critical review of two centuries of debate upon the problem of
faith and freedom, which arose in the Protestant reformation....
Jesuitism and Pascal’s ‘Pensées,’ English deism and Butler’s Analogy,
Rationalism and Kant on Pure reason, Romanticism and Schleiermacher’s
Discourses on religion, The French revolution, and Newman’s
‘Apologia,’ the Development theory, and Baur’s Church history, the
Theory of experience and Ritschlianism ... make up a conspectus of a
highly diversified field.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“He has ... the defects of individualist Protestantism; but he has
also its good qualities, and that makes his book suggestive and
interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 122. F. 2. 470w.
“His book is full of courage and hope, accepting joyously and eagerly
the results which the best scholarship has attained, and yet cheered
with the outlook for true religion and for the higher interests of
humanity.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 636. S. 12, ’07. 460w.
“It will be seen at once that the lecturer had fixed upon a subject of
great interest and importance, both to the speculative thinker and to
the common man. His selection of material for study and discussion
indicates no less discernment. As an analyst and critic, Professor
Oman exhibits marked ability.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 82. Jl. 25, ’07. 800w.
=Outlook.= 85: 376. F. 16, ’07. 350w.
=Omar Khayyam.= Rubaiyat: a new metrical version; rendered into English
from various Persian sources, by George Roe, with introd. and notes.
**$1.50. McClurg.
6–41520.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He has caught the spirit of Omar—though not, we think, so completely
as FitzGerald—and his translation, though it is not likely to bring
many new worshippers to the shrine of the old tentmaker of Naishapur,
should be welcomed by scholars. Much learning and research have gone
to its making, and the marginal and other notes are valuable; but
judged as literature, it is—inevitably—vastly inferior to
FitzGerald’s.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.
“Workmanlike little book.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 240w.
=Omond, Thomas Stewart.= English metrists in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries; being a sketch of English prosodical criticism
during the last two hundred years. *$2.40. Oxford.
7–37517.
A book for students which not merely enumerates and summarizes but
traces “the gradual development of sound views of verse-structure.”
Mr. Omond divides the two hundred years of his survey into four equal
periods, to each of which he devotes a chapter, as follows: The old
orthodoxy, Resistance and rebellion, The new verse, and The new
prosody.
* * * * *
“In recommending the present pamphlet to our readers, we do not intend
to indorse Mr. Omond’s conclusions, nor to subscribe to his criticism.
We have not yet examined the pamphlet with all the care and thought
which it deserves, and there are points on which we distinctly
disagree with Mr. Omond.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 945. S. 28, ’07. 650w.
“The finest part of Mr. Omond’s book consists in the exposition of his
own ideas.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 465. Ap. 20. 1790w.
“Is one of the most important books on versification that have
appeared since Sidney Lanier’s ‘Science of English verse.’” Edward
Payson Morton.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 33. Jl. 16, ’07. 2210w.
“But neither these strictures nor some omissions and slips and even
misjudgments, which are inevitable in such a work, can change the fact
that the work is carefully done, and is to be received with
gratitude.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 144. Ag. 15, ’07. 1020w.
“Has no competitor in this history of prosody save Prof. Saintsbury.
It is eminently scholarly and conscientious, and a noteworthy and
valuable contribution to this much-debated and still debatable
subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 463. Jl. 27, ’07. 660w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Enoch Strone. †$1.50. Little.
A new illustrated edition. Enoch Strone, mechanic and inventor, in a
moment of humiliation caused by a rejected suit, marries an impossible
factory girl. His struggle between relinquishing his career as member
of parliament and saving his wife from herself ends in his facing his
duty and in finding definite reward.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Lost leader. †$1.50. Little.
6–18998.
“The prolific Mr. Oppenheim has again brought forth a mouse.”
(Nation.) It is a story of English politics in which one Mannering
retired from the political arena, is dragged back to the scene of his
former successes by the villain of the plot, there to suffer intrigues
of both love and politics.
* * * * *
=Ath.= 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 150w.
“Mr. Oppenheim is one of the few writers who can make a political
novel as interesting as a good detective story where the reader is
expecting some one to be shot on every page.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 210w.
“This is a story that grips one from the start, notwithstanding its
opening, which contains a dialog of platitudes.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 480w.
“The truth is, Mr. Oppenheim’s manner is a bit too candidly
professional. He has done the trick many times, and is confident of
doing it many times more; one may imagine him blandly aware of the
fact that it is not much of a trick after all.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 440w.
“There is at least one person in the book—Mrs. Phillimore—which is a
well conceived and convincing character. This is the best thing in the
way of character study that Mr. Oppenheim has done. His hero is a weak
man, and most of the other characters are far from taking the flesh
and bone of reality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The story is readable enough, but not of great importance.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 160w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Malefactor. †$1.50. Little.
7–984.
One finds In the malefactor of Mr. Oppenheim’s story a companion study
to the hero of his “Prince of sinners.” Grown ascetic and bitter
during a period of unjust imprisonment, Sir Wingrave Seaton, at the
end of his confinement, slips into the world incognito for purposes of
revenge. His nature is too generous to permit him to carry out his
scheme of injury. Under the mask of indifference, even cruelty, he is
a philanthropist. After numerous logical digressions the love interest
shapes itself into a typical bachelor’s romance.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07.
“Had Mr. Oppenheim been content to make the outcome of the story a
little less obvious from the beginning, the novel would have gained in
strength.” Amy C. Rich.
+ − =Arena.= 37: 559. My. ’07. 250w.
“Mr. Oppenheim’s latest venture will bring no discredit upon his
reputation as a storyteller.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 404. Je. ’07. 440w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1269. My. 30, ’07. 240w.
“This is a typical example of the modern realistic novel which,
without any pretence to literary art, contrives to hold the interest
of the reader.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.
“An amusing yarn, and not without a moral.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 61. Ja. 17, ’07. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 902. D. 29, ’06. 340w.
“It is the most enticing excuse for suspended mental activity that has
yet come from Mr. Oppenheim’s gifted pen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 47. Ja. 26, ’07. 370w.
“Is a frankly sensational story with little pretence to literary art
but constructed with all that skill in development of power and
exciting interest of which the author is an acknowledged master.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07. 140w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Sleeping memory. †$1.50. Little.
A new edition with frontispiece. The story records a physician’s
experiment of performing an operation upon a willing patient which
results in a loss of memory. With the memory disappears also the soul
of the girl leaving only a superficial, pleasure-loving, heartless
coquette. A second operation restores her to her former self, and
eliminates any memory of her seven months of changed identity.
=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The part of the book dealing with the development and present state
of the law of neutrality is perhaps the most valuable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The general arrangement is admirable; the style is careful, though
sometimes a little cumbrous. Solid merit is the distinguishing
characteristic of these volumes.” T. Raleigh.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 388. Ap. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Orczy, baroness.= Beau Brocade. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–28961.
The daring incidents which give life to this tale take the reader back
to the days of the Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart. Beau Brocade, a
cashiered army officer of high birth, is dropped from the army for
justly chastising a superior officer. He becomes a chivalrous
highwayman, robbing rich men and extortioners and dropping many of the
guineas so secured into Wirkworth’s poor box. His heroism, his
chivalry, all his qualities of knighthood are called into play in
aiding one Lady Patience Gascoyne to free her brother from the charge
of traitorship to the king. As a reward he is restored to the army and
wins the hand of the heroine in spite of the machinations of a titled
rival.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Baroness Orczy writes in a breezy, galloping style, which does not
scorn any amount of meretricious adornment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 320w.
=Orczy, Baroness.= Gates of Kamt; il. by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–21538.
“In ‘The gates of Kamt,’ two young Englishmen discover ancient Egypt
hidden away beyond the desert, with language, customs, Pharaohs,
embalming and all just as it used to be. The author out-Haggards
Haggard in riotous and luxuriant description.”—Outlook.
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“There is no question that ‘The gates of Kamt’ ranks high in its own
class as a piece of pure imaginative audacity.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 601. Ag. ’07. 520w.