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=Nayler, James Ball.= Kentuckian. $1.50. Clark.
This “is a narrative of Ohio in the sixties, and is concerned with the operations of the Underground railroad and the exploits of a gang of horse thieves. The hero is a young man from the other side of the river, who becomes the district school teacher, and falls in love with the prettiest of his pupils. This is not exactly an original invention, but it may be allowed to serve once more.”—Dial.
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Reviewed by William M. Payne.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 140w.
“A delightful old-fashioned story with many midnight turns in it.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
+ =Ind.= 60: 1220. My. 24, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 255. Ap. 21, ’06. 300w.
=Needham, Raymond, and Webster, Alexander.= Somerset house, past and present. **$3.50. Dutton.
“This exhaustive history of the Duke of Somerset’s palace, the illustrations of which include many reproductions of interesting portraits and old prints, embodies the results of much arduous research, in the course of which many new facts have been discovered. It is indeed far more than a mere account of a famous building, for its authors have made excursions into archaeological and topographical by-paths, so that it will appeal to the antiquarian as well as the student of history.” (Int. Studio.)
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“We lay down this book with admiration of its thoroughness, and a clear perception that it is a notable addition to the literature of London.”
+ + =Acad.= 70: 33. Ja. 12, ’06. 1290w.
“The authors have done their work well, and produced an illustrated history of one of London’s most important palaces which is both accurate and interesting.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 65. Jl. 21. 1190w.
“They have interwoven into their history of Somerset house much that is new, or rather much that has never found its way into the pages of the standard English histories.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 160. Jl. 19, ’06. 500w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 26: 88. Mr. ’06. 80w.
“Our author’s vehement protestantism is somewhat too much in evidence.”
+ – =Nation.= 82: 495. Je. 14, ’06. 1580w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 830w.
“The student will find within their pages much to which access is difficult elsewhere.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 376. F. 17, ’06. 240w.
“A capital book, pleasantly written and remarkably accurate.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 824. Je. 30, ’06. 1290w.
=Negri, Gaetano.= Julian the apostate: an historical study; tr. by the Duchess Litta-Visconti-Arese, with an introd. by Pasquale Villari. 2v. *$5. Scribner.
“The author uses the person of Julian as a lay figure on which to arrange his philosophical tenets, in the form of a trophy.” (Lond. Times.) Julian was “a man of brilliant intellect and strenuous morality in revolt from a corrupted Christianity. As such the Emperor Julian gained from the Church of his time the name of ‘Apostate,’ which has stuck to him since. As such he heads a long line of those whom the false representatives of Christianity have scandalized into rejection of the faith presented to them so deformed and smirched.... He is not, however, hindered by his admiration for the austere idealist who is his hero from seeing his faults and fallacies, and pronouncing ‘insane’ his attempt to revitalize and purify an effete and corrupted paganism.” (Outlook.)
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“May not be free from minor defects, but it has this great merit—that there is perfect sympathy between the author and his subject and for this reason it may be said to add to our knowledge of this most fascinating emperor, though it brings to light no new facts about his brief and romantic career. Though some obscurities may be due to the author, the translator shows a disposition, regrettable in what is intended to be a popular work, to employ unfamiliar and borrowed words where simpler terms might with advantage have been used.”
+ + – =Acad.= 70: 87. Ja. 27, ’06. 1510w.
“The work is diffuse, and even repetitious, but never tiresome. Without a knowledge of the original, one may believe the translator to have been for the most part successful.” Francis A. Christie.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 631. Ap. ’06. 1150w.
“The monograph, which is written in a delightfully interesting style, is evidently based on a careful and discriminating study of the original authorities. The translator’s accuracy is almost equal to her taste, but we may note a few trifling corrections.”
+ + – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 262. Mr. 3. 830w.
“Some slips will be found in these two large volumes, and one rather large error—the acceptance as genuine of Julian’s letters to Iamblichus.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 324. Ap. 19, ’06. 600w.
“Gaetano Negri, whose volume has been thoroughly well translated from the Italian, treats his subject with an understanding untouched by partiality.” George S. Hellman.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 529. S. 1, ’06. 1020w.
“His study of the original sources, both pagan and Christian, has given him an intimacy with Julian’s life and Julian’s world which imparts vitality both to his work and to the interest of its readers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1083. D. 30, ’05. 240w.
“Much praise is due to the Duchess Visconti-Arese for the excellent rendering of this work. It is full of boldness and originality. We are only afraid that the unwieldy presentation of his mature reflection may compromise its undeniable merit.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 143. F. 3, ’06. 1800w.
“Signor Negri’s volumes on Julian deserve a cordial welcome. His philosophy of history and his philosophy of religion are almost as vague as Julian’s, and are not very illuminating; but the crowded pictures they contain of Julian and his contemporaries will be found interesting and informing even by those who are familiar with Gibbon and Harnack.”
+ + – =Spec.= 96: sup. 1008. Je. 30, ’06. 1860w.
Nelson’s encyclopædia; ed. by Frank Moore Colby and George Sandeman. 12v. $42. Nelson.
“A high class reference work for busy men. Since there is no pretence to literary merit the lack of it can scarcely be criticized.... Each distinct part on a large subject is treated as a separate article in its appropriate alphabetical order.” (Nation.) “British and American authorities have collaborated in its preparation.... Much of it appears to have been freshly written up to date.... Biographical articles are numerous, and personal estimates, when included, are generally judicious and impartial.... Copious illustrations are a strong point in this work—over fifty full-page plates, plain or colored in each volume, with a multitude of minor sort.... Maps also occur in abundance.... A vast amount of information has been compressed into the very moderate limits of a twelve-volume work.” (Outlook.)
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“To sum up—this first volume leads us to believe that ‘Nelson’s encyclopedia’ will be a compact, accurate, agreeably written presentation of the sum of human knowledge at the entrance of the twentieth century.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 639. S. 13, ’06. 560w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“Despite many grave faults, it is, in concise treatment of topics of general and current interest, perhaps the most useful compilation yet published.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 210. S. 6, ’06. 860w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“It seems as if the ideal cyclopedia had been found for readers of English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 389. Je. 16, ’06. 210w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Careful examination and impartial criticism will yield a favorable opinion of the new work.”
+ + – =Outlook.= 84: 286. S. 29, ’06. 670w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“This is perhaps the most ambitious attempt yet made in this country to produce a low-priced encyclopedia of first-class literary quality.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 384. S. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Topics, brought well up to date and treated with a thoroughness hardly surpassed in more pretentious works.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 34: 512. O. ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Gentleman ragman; Johnny Thompson’s story of the Emigger. †$1.50. Harper.
The ubiquitous office boy of the village newspaper bursts into print in these series of humorous sketches and tells in his own way all about his editor, his editor’s friends and the people of Plainville in general. The result is genuinely funny from the story of how the barefoot cure succeeded so well in Plainville that not one of the patients ever suffered from bare feet again, to the account of how a rural shopping expedition was conducted. An old feud and a tangled three-stranded love interest carry the thread of the story to a happy ending and a double wedding.
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“An ample native Americanism in man, woman, and boy is unfolded with full measure of native American humor in the language of the country, resulting in a fabric, inexpensive but entirely wholesome and clean.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Otis Notman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 623. O. 6, ’06. 80w.
“Literally and hilariously, a ‘howling success.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 250w.
“The book will find favor with many readers who enjoy a good-natured, satirical view of their neighbors.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 429. O. 20, ’06. 100w.
=Nesbitt, Frances E.= Algeria and Tunis; painted and described by Frances E. Nesbitt. *$6. Macmillan.
Seventy colored illustrations picture scenes which the traveler meets by rail from Algiers to Constantine and Tunis. There are streets, buildings, mosques, scenes in the market, in the homes and in the deserts, and there are evening effects with “transparent purity” and “colour in crystal clear.” The accompanying text provides historic and descriptive bits of interest to the tourist.
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“The author does both pictures and print, and does both well; but her sketches are more valuable as well as more delightful than her descriptions.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 278. S. 8. 820w.
“In spite of this laxity of language and of a certain amount of worked-over, guide-book information, the volume is unmistakably written by one who possesses the artistic temperament, a keen eye for color, and upon whom light and shadow exert their magic power.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 289. O. 4, ’06. 530w.
“While the work is delightful from every standpoint to the reader in a quiet library, we trust that, for the sake of the intending traveler, an edition may be published in small compass, even at the risk of omitting the charming illustrations of the present volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 861. Ag. 11, ’06. 100w.
“It is altogether an extremely pretty and artistic gift-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 170w.
“The pen descriptions, too, are very good; now and then we get an element of humour, and now and then of sentiment; but all is marked with a literary touch of unmistakable skill.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 471. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
=Nevill, Dorothy, lady.= Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill. ed. by Ralph Nevill. *$4.20. Longmans.
Lady Dorothy Nevill, daughter of Horatio Walpole, now eighty years old, goes back in her reminiscences to England of the ’thirties. “During a long life—she began to keep a diary in 1840—she has known ‘everybody,’ as the phrase goes; has been on the best of terms with princes, peers, parsons, and peasants; has dabbled in literature and seen much of literary men and women; has enjoyed political meetings and race meetings almost equally; has seen every play and made friends with all the prominent players. But she has never made systematic notes, or kept a journal for long together, so that her reminiscences are what they pretend to be—stories or impressions called to mind after a long lapse of time.” (Lond. Times.)
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“At the end of the publishing season these reminiscences will probably be described as the liveliest volume that it has produced. It is crammed with good things from beginning to end.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 413. O. 27, ’06. 1160w.
“Lady Dorothy Nevill’s recollections resemble nothing so much as drawing-room conversation in its happier moments. They are bright, charitable, rather inconsequential; and if they sometimes descend to trivialities, a pointed anecdote soon brings gaiety back again.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 574. N. 10. 1530w.
“A lively picture of the past and a not less vivacious account of some aspects of the present.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 358. O. 26, ’06. 1110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 230w.
“The book is full of good things, scattered over its pages without much regard to order. The part of the ‘Reminiscences’ which, to be frank, disappoints us is that relating to Lord Beaconsfield.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 102: 550. N. 3, ’06. 1520w.
“It is, then, not as a profound study of men and manners that the reader will find this volume of reminiscences valuable, but rather as a series of brilliantly coloured sketches of social life in early and mid Victorian times.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 788. N. 17, ’06. 1720w.
=Nevinson, Henry Woodd.= Modern slavery. **$2. Harper.
Mr. Nevinson traveled incognito thru the Portuguese province of Angola in west central Africa for the purpose of discovering the true facts of the tyrannical slave-trade secretly carried on by the Portuguese in spite of the Berlin treaty of 1895. The chapters of his book reveal a dark blot on the page of present-day history, and make a plea to the just and compassionate for its removal.
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“His volume deserves careful reading by all who can help in bringing to an end the abominations it pathetically describes, and it ought to be of considerable service in furthering that object. Incidentally it supplies much welcome information about the general conditions of life in this part of Africa.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 762. Je. 23. 840w.
“The book is deeply interesting and gives the impression of being over-drawn in no particular. The author’s tone is moderate and he evidently relates the situation exactly as he saw it and not as he might have seen it.”
+ + =Critic.= 49: 288. S. ’06. 280w.
“Quite apart from its merits as a study of slavery, the book is fascinating in its descriptions of African life and scenery, and is a most admirable book of travel.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 998. O. 25, ’06. 370w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 21. Jl. 5, ’06. 1250w.
“Mr. Nevinson describes in detail and in picturesque and weird language the wickedness and horrors that he went out to see.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 369. Je. 9, ’06. 1270w.
“His narrative impresses us as the work of a careful, keen, and honest observer, and while it includes much resting on hearsay, it also presents evidence that seems imperatively demanding an answer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 528. Je. 30, ’06. 290w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 123. Jl. ’06. 150w.
=Newcomb, Simon.= Compendium of spherical astronomy with its applications to the determination and reduction of positions of the fixed stars. *$3. Macmillan.
“The first of a projected series having the double purpose of developing the elements of practical and theoretical astronomy for the special student of the subject, and of serving as a handbook of convenient reference for the use of the working astronomer in applying methods and formulæ.... The volume now before us ... is for astronomers, who will find it exceedingly useful for reference in their investigations.... The whole is divided ... into three parts; the first on preliminary subjects, the second on fundamental principles of spherical astronomy, and third on the reduction and determination of positions of the fixed stars. The nine appendixes supply a number of handy tables and formulæ.”—Ath.
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“Is the most important addition to the literature of the subject since the appearance of the works of Chauvenet and Oppolzer. The volume is invaluable both to the advanced student and to the professional astronomer. The usual number of misprints, apparently inevitable in a first edition, have made their appearance, but none of those noted are likely to cause the reader any great difficulty.” F. H. Seares.
+ + – =Astrophys. J.= 24: 305. N. ’06. 840w.
“Great care has evidently been used in securing the accuracy which is especially desirable in a treatise of this kind.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 245. S. 1. 630w.
“Much of the information is set down in a readily accessible form for the first time, and all of it by a master hand. Of the value of the book to the student, especially to the beginner, we are more doubtful.”
+ + – =Lond. Times.= 5: 375. N. 9, ’06. 760w.
“We do not know a more excellent book on its subject.” P. H. C.
+ =Nature.= 74: 379. Ag. 16, ’06. 820w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 40w.
“This work is too technical for review in our columns, and we need only say that, for the purpose of the astronomer, it fully comes up to the expectations raised by Professor Newcomb’s great reputation.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 61. Jl. 14, ’06. 240w.
=Newcomb, Simon.= Side-lights on astronomy; and kindred fields of popular science: essays and addresses. **$2. Harper.
Twenty-one popular essays and addresses dealing with the structure, extent and duration of the universe, and with other general scientific subjects, are here gathered together under such chapter headings as: The unsolved problems of astronomy, What the astronomers are doing, Life in the universe, How the planets are weighed, The fairyland of geometry, Can we make it rain? The relation of scientific method to social progress, and The outlook for the flying machine. The volume has two dozen illustrations and a good index.
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=Current Literature.= 41: 688. D. ’06. 580w.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 329. N. 16, ’06. 250w.
“There is a wide field of entertaining information in Professor Newcomb’s book. One can depend upon the accuracy of the information offered ... and one can be sure of picturesque treatment of a subject of the most absorbing interest.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 150w.
“It would be hard to find a serious book more entertaining, or a light book that affords better exercise in reasoning.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 544. D. 20, ’06. 840w.
“We would commend the volume to all desirous of obtaining a trustworthy idea of the present state of astronomical knowledge and of the problems which still baffle the astronomer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 942. D. 15, ’06. 140w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Musical studies: essays. *$1.50. Lane.
“Mr. Newman’s groupings of principles and motives are on a broad and comprehensive scale, and are free from the ambiguity that mars so many works on musical criticism.”
+ + =Dial.= 40: 160. Mr. 1, ’06. 90w.
=Newman, John Henry, cardinal.= Addresses to Cardinal Newman, with his re- Neville. *$1.50. Longmans.
“Before his death, Father Neville, Newman’s literary executor, prepared the contents of this volume for the press. Its main contents are a collection of sixty odd addresses to the Cardinal, with his replies, on the occasion of his elevation to the purple. There is also a prefatory narrative of the events relating to the conferring of that dignity. The letter of Cardinal Nina offering the hat, and Newman’s reply, as well as his letter to the pope, are given in English, while the Italian and Latin forms are found in an appendix.”—Cath. World.
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+ =Cath. World.= 82: 702. F. ’06. 190w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 328. O. 6, ’05. 540w.
“No student of Cardinal Newman should neglect this book.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: sup. 122. Ja. 27, ’06. 310w.
Nibelungenlied; translated by John Storer Cobb. *$2. Small.
The translator says: “In preparing a new translation of the Nibelungenlied, my aim has been to contribute to an expansion of the knowledge of a work that affects us more nearly than the Iliad, for it is the product of the poetic faculties of the race to which we belong. I have followed the original, phrase by phrase, without avoiding the negligencies, the obscurities, the repetitions, that it presents.... The text of the Nibelungenlied has been the subject of extended commentaries and profound study, and I have felt myself bound to render it with most respectful exactitude.”
=Nicholson, Meredith.= House of a thousand candles. †$1.50. Bobbs.
“Persons who enjoy well-written mystery tales will not be disappointed in ‘The house of a thousand candles.’”
+ =Arena.= 35: 110. Ja. ’06. 290w.
“The wonder is, not that Mr. Nicholson did passably well, but that he did not do a good deal better.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – =Bookm.= 22: 495. Ja. ’06. 350w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 155. Mr. 1, ’06. 180w.
“The story is common in type, but unusual in quality.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 48. Ja. 4, ’06. 120w.
“Despite its impossibilities, has won its way into the select circle of the ‘six best sellers.’”
+ – =Lit. D.= 32: 254. F. 17, ’06. 510w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 859. D. 30, ’05. 150w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Poems. *$1.25. Bobbs.
Three score lyric poems which touch the chords of memory, of hope, of love and happiness and sorrow.
“Now ’tis the violins that loudest cry, And now in saddest key the ’cellos sigh. ·········· Chords that are love and life, and even the sharp, Hard pain of death—chords of the golden harp.”
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“In these verses he reveals a delicacy of perception, a love of nature and an appreciation and reverence for the deeper and finer things of life which one would little suspect in the author of ‘The house of a thousand candles.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 36: 221. Ag. ’06. 570w.
“We find in these pieces a graver and more reflective note than in the earlier ones—the natural mark of a maturer experience and a widened outlook.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 207. O. 1, ’06. 240w.
“Despite many fine single lines in the book, it is mainly pleasurable because of its variety of reminiscent moods.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 144. Ag. 16, ’06. 190w.
=Nicolay, Helen.= Boys’ life of Abraham Lincoln. †$1.50. Century.
Authoritative, in that it is based upon the standard life of Lincoln by his secretaries, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, well illustrated and simply told, this young people’s story of the great American citizen will appeal to all young Americans who are some day to become citizens.
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“Miss Nicolay has succeeded in presenting a thoroly human character of a wonderfully human man.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1409. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
“Simple language has usually been employed, but perhaps too sparing use has been made of anecdotes.”
+ – =Lit. D.= 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 70w.
“All in all, it is a very vivid and inspiring narrative, and is bound to take its place in the list of books that ought to be read and reread by every American boy and girl.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 140w.
“This book should be in every public library. It is filled with inspiring, beautiful, pathetic, and humorous stories of the man who gave his life, daily, for his country. The pictures, by Jay Hambridge and others, are usually adequate and artistic.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 580. N. 3, ’06. 250w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.).= Key of the blue closet, a volume of clever essays on life and conduct, men, books and affairs. **$1.40. Dodd.
Thirty essays stimulated largely by personal recollections include such themes as “Never chew your pills,” “Swelled heads,” “In the world of Jane Austen,” “The art of packing,” “The tragedy of first numbers,” and “The key of the blue closet.”
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“His literary gift can clothe the commonplace with attractiveness and invest familiar things with a new interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
“It is this talent for noting immediately, and remembering the little interesting bits of information about persons and things ... that has enabled him to place before us this collection of observations against which at least the fault of dullness can never be brought.” Elizabeth Banks.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 285. My. 5, ’06. 1170w.
“It is full of homely truths, set forth wisely and agreeably for the reading of ordinary mortals.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 887. D. 22, ’06. 120w.
“A book of genial wit and wisdom.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 794. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
=Nicolls, William Jasper.= Coal catechism. **$2. Jacobs.
A little leather hand-book that answers nearly seven hundred questions grouped under twenty-six headings on the subject of coal. The questions are so arranged as to lead an uninformed inquirer thru various stages of the origin, development and uses of coal until a full knowledge of the subject has been obtained.
=Nielsen, Frederik.= History of the papacy in the XIXth century. **$7.50. Dutton.
“These volumes ... are written from a point of view which the English editor, Dr. Arthur J. Mason, of Cambridge likens to ‘that of a large-minded and statesmanlike High Churchman among ourselves.’ The first volume extends to the death of Pius VII. in 1823, the second to the death of Pius IX. in 1878. A third volume, soon to follow, covers the pontificate of Leo XIII. The historian goes back to the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the first fight for ‘the Pope’s infallibility, which was the pith and marrow of the whole contention,’ was won by the Jesuits against the Gallican Jansenists. The subsequent history, which he relates down to the adoption of that dogma by the Vatican council in 1870, might be summarized as the ‘Modern development of ultramontanism into papal autocracy.’”—Outlook.
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“In the execution of his task Nielsen chiefly falls short, in our judgment, by a deficient sense of proportion.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1349. D. 6, ’06. 880w.
“The translation prepared under the direction of Dr. Mason, of Cambridge, England, will be received with interest by scholars.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 768. N. 24, ’06. 360w.
“Bishop Nielsen’s work is a magazine of facts dispassionately related, but somewhat lacking in the broad views of the course and tendency of events which make the narrative instructive to the general reader.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 390w.
=Nitobe, Inazo.= Bushido: the soul of Japan. **$1.25. Putnam.
“A singularly suggestive and winning little book.” Alonzo K. Parker.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 191. Ja. ’06. 500w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 80w.
+ =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 238. Jl. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Nordau, Max Simon (Südfeld).= Dwarf’s spectacles and other fairy tales, tr. from the German by Mary J. Safford. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The translation, by Mary J. Safford, is bald and not very attractive, and the illustrations are poor—in some cases positively bad.”
– + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 893. D. 30. 480w.
=North, Simon Newton Dexter.= “Old Greek,” an old-time professor in an old-fashioned college; a memoir of Edward North, with selections from his lectures. **$3.50. McClure.
“The book is a delightful picture of the man and the teacher.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 91. Ja. ’06. 120w.
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 13. Ja. 6, ’06. 1040w.
=Norton, William Harmon.= Elements of geology. *$1.40. Ginn.
The present work “is the outcome of the need of a text-book of very simple outline, in which causes and their consequences should be knit together as closely as possible.” The author therefore “departs from the common usage, which subdivides geology into a number of departments,—dynamical, structural, physiographic and historical, and to treat in immediate connection with each geological process the land forms and the rock structures which it has produced.”
=Noyes, Ella.= Casentino and its story. **$3.50. Dutton.
To the region of the upper Arno, a retreat of reminiscence associated with the names of St. Francis and Dante, the author has lent an atmosphere “rich in breadth and dignity, in warmth and simplicity.” (Ath.) “She pioneers us with praiseworthy skill and clearness through the tangled maze of feuds and crimes which make up the mediaeval history of the Casentino; and more especially, through the Chronicles of the Counts of Guidi, who were the rulers of that region.” (Lond. Times.) There are twenty-live full page illustrations in color, and many line drawings by Miss Dora Noyes.
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“Miss Noyes has carried out her undertaking with unequal success. The arrangement of the book is unfortunate. Miss Noyes writes with obvious and sincere enthusiasm and apparently, a thorough knowledge of the ground over which she has taken us. But as a writer of ‘landscapes’ she does not succeed. The chapter on the home life of the peasants, their religious observances and their work in the fields is admirable.”
+ – =Acad.= 70: 86. Ja. 27, ’06. 1440w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 5. Ja. 13. 320w.
“The author’s work is worthy of its charming dress. She is full of poetic feeling and knows how to express it.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 113. Ap. ’06. 290w.
“Unfortunately this enthusiasm, and the luxury of indulging a very lively historical imagination, have betrayed the author into generalizations and theories that a scientific analysis of history will not always justify.”
– + =Dial.= 40: 131. F. 16, ’06. 280w.
=Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ’05. 60w.
“The writer’s part is scholarly and literary, showing both conscience and ability.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 11. Ja. 12, ’06. 520w.
“She has an unusual talent for making pen pictures of scenery vivid, and she seems to have overlooked none of the literary, artistic, or historical memorabilia of the valley. If at times her material is spun rather thin, that is a defect inevitable in works of this kind.”
+ =Nation.= 82: 54. Ja. 18, ’06. 260w.
“Miss Noyes knows the Casentino thoroughly, and imparts her knowledge graciously and attractively. Her book is thoroughly readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 24. Ja. 13, ’06. 1080w.
=Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 2, ’05. 60w.
“Though succinct it is never dull, and by the skilful handling of her considerable knowledge, the author has made an intricate subject plain.”
+ + – =Sat. R.= 101: 530. Ap. 28, ’06. 470w.
=Noyes, Walter Chadwick.= American railroad rates. **$1.50. Little.
“Judge Noyes’s book is sound in principle, impartial in spirit, and clear in statement, but its value is lessened by the fact that it is in greater part an elementary presentation of what has been more fully stated by more than one previous writer.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ – =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 184. Jl. ’06. 1090w.
“So central is his theme that the book easily takes high rank in our American literature of railway economics.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 847. Je. ’06. 370w.
“Of the two books, the broader, as the title denotes, is that of Mr. Haines, the more intensive and special is that of Judge Noyes.” H. Parker Willis.
+ + =Dial.= 40: 82. F. 1, ’06. 1470w.
“While there is little that is new in Judge Noyes’s exposition of the principles underlying railway practice, the material is presented with a directness and lucidity that entitle the book to a very high rank in the literature on the subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 60: 282. F. 1, ’06. 150w.
“It may be said that it is as a whole the best balanced book on the subject that the present controversy has evoked.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 203. Mr. 8, ’06. 660w.
“We know of no book which will give the lay reader so clear and so authoritative a statement of the fundamental legal principles which must govern in the determination of the pending question concerning government regulation of railway rates as Judge Noyes’s volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 937. D. 16, ’05. 410w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 124. Ja. ’06. 210w.
=Nugent, Meredith.= New games and amusements for young and old alike. **$1.50. Doubleday.
Mr. Nugent creates for the boy of ten a magic world and makes of his young devotee a veritable wizard. The book contains wonderful soap-bubble tricks, with the recipe used for producing immense bubbles lasting from five to ten minutes; it tells how to engineer yacht races in the clouds, how to make sunshine engines, and how to have a circus on a kite string. There are numerous illustrations made by the author and his collaborator, Victor J. Smedley.
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“The book is distinctly novel in the suggestions offered, and is thus a pleasing departure from its type.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 52. Ja. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Between the cover boards of the ‘New games and amusements’ lies verily an enchanted land.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 2. Ja. 6, ’06. 460w.
=Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.= Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, tr. by Fanny Bandelier. **$1. Barnes.
“This translation, by Mrs. Bandelier, has been made with much care, and will replace that of Buckingham Smith ... as the authoritative English version of the earliest detailed account of the Gulf states.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 524. D. 28, ’05. 390w.
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=O., A. V.= “Jack” by a religious of the Society of the Holy Child. 45c. Benziger.
A true story of how Jack, in the course of a mischievous and adventurous boyhood, changed in the estimation of his friends from an addition to the family which they could not decide whether “to deplore or be proud of,” to “a Christian, a hero, and a gentleman.”
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Columbus, the discoverer. **$1. Harper.
In sketching the life of Columbus for the “Heroes of American history” series, special effort has been made to accentuate the well verified facts in the great discoverer’s career. Meagre facts only are recorded of his youth, but from his arrival at the “hospitable portal of La Rabida” the narrative proceeds on surer authority. The author shows the character of Columbus in public and private relations, and possesses him with the attributes which render him a worthy hero for sane worship.
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“A life of the great discoverer well calculated to interest young people in his personality.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 473. My. ’06. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
“Mr. Ober’s book has one great charm, however, which bursts out occasionally in a way that whets the appetite for more. He has apparently followed in the footsteps of Columbus.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 820w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 507. Ap. ’06. 70w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Ferdinand De Soto, and the invasion of Florida. **$1. Harper.
Uniform with the “Heroes of American history” series. A vivid portrayal of the varying fortunes of De Soto and his band which lends the charm of romance to the historical facts of the memorable expedition. The book is illustrated with reproductions of old pictures and a map showing the course of De Soto’s journeys thru Mexico, Florida and Cuba.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
“A capital account of the life of this particular hero, but with it there may seem to the fastidious reader to be rather too much of the fanciful.”
+ – =Outlook.= 84: 384. O. 13, ’06. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 30w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Hernando Cortés, conqueror of Mexico. **$1. Harper.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 478. Ja. ’06. 30w.
“A readable biography.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 80w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Pizarro and the conquest of Peru. **$1. Harper.
The latest volume in the “Heroes of American history” series. The account is a full one of the man, who with a mere handful of soldiers invaded and made conquest of the Inca’s stronghold in Peru. The volume of less than three hundred pages condenses a great deal of material which has heretofore existed only in a bulky unabridged form.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 483. Ag. 4, ’06. 430w.
“Mr. Ober has condensed, edited, and presented in attractive form the essentials of history, and, having given himself to the study of early Spanish America, seems a competent guide.”
+ =Outlook.= 83: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 80w.
“A good deal of information hitherto only accessible in bulky histories has been condensed and made entertaining in this volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 125. Jl. ’06. 120w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Vasco Nunez de Balboa. **$1. Harper.
In continuation of the “heroes of American history” series. Mr. Ober offers a sketch of Balboa whose valorous exploits are tinged with fascinating romance. The various stages of his career show him a penniless adventurer, self-elected governor of Darien, savior of the settlement when on the point of dissolution, subjugator of the caciques, discoverer of the Pacific, servant of the king, and builder of the first brigantines that ploughed the waters of the Southern ocean. Finally as traitor to his sovereign he is executed in the town he had unwearyingly helped to found.
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+ =Ind.= 61: 1408. D. 13, ’06. 20w.
+ =Nation.= 83: 513. D. 13, ’06. 40w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 34: 759. D. ’06. 30w.
=O’Brien, William.= Recollections. **$3.50. Macmillan.
“It is a charming and finely touched description of the career of a young Irishman of genius in a time of stress and storm.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1330. D. 23, ’05. 670w.
“He tells his tale modestly and sincerely, without striving to put his best foot foremost and without any trace of bitterness towards opponents.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 83: 107. Ap. ’06. 990w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 380. Ap. ’06. 110w.
“Mr. O’Brien’s book takes rank with Mr. Justin McCarthy’s politico-autobiographical reminiscences. While its scope is narrower, its vividness is more intense. The author at times writes, as it were, with his very heart’s blood; and thus writing he cannot fail to command a reading.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + + =Dial.= 40: 37. Ja. 16, ’06. 1910w.
“Lacks the historic value which attaches to Mr. Michael Davitt’s ‘Fall of feudalism.’”
+ =Ind.= 60: 930. Ap. 19, ’06. 380w.
“They constitute in fact a human document wherein may be read not merely the personal characteristics of their author, but the predominating traits of his countrymen.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 453. Mr. 24, ’06. 470w.
“Unfortunately, too. Mr. O’Brien is throughout careless about dates, and the index is little help to anybody who wishes to follow in a serious spirit a rambling and disjointed story.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 4: 439. D. 15, ’05. 1710w.
“The book will be read with interest by all who have lived through those days and who are interested in Irish affairs.”
+ + – =Nation.= 82: 120. F. 8, ’06. 320w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 59. Ja. 13, ’06. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 115. Ja. ’06. 110w.
“So long as Mr. O’Brien keeps to personal touches, and to his delightful Irish humor and sentiment, we find him a very pleasant storyteller.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 493. Ap. 21, ’06. 1550w.
“Both in tone and style the book is a pleasant one, and every one who wishes to form a clear idea of the Nationalist case against the British Government from 1865 to 1883 should make a point of studying it though unquestionably it requires careful checking from other sources.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 302. F. 24, ’06. 1640w.
=Ogden, Horatio Nelson.= Child in the church. 25c. Meth. bk.
The order for the administration of baptism to infants according to the discipline and usage of the Methodist Episcopal church, together with the duties of parents, the apostles’ creed, and the catechism, make up this booklet, which has as a frontispiece a blank certificate of baptism. The volume forms a dainty baptismal gift.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Don-a-dreams: a story of love and youth. †$1.50. Century.
The practical, everyday world seems a very sordid thing to one who follows the story of this dreamer of dreams, who from nursery make-believes and childish day dreams passes into a youth of ideals and is left in his early manhood still a visionary but with many dreams come true. With a skilful touch Don is put before us; misunderstood by a commonplace father, an acknowledged failure at a practical college course, a failure in New York where he tries to make a living as a super at a second class theatre or at anything else, he suddenly blossoms into a recognized genius as a writer of plays. And through years of struggle, from earliest childhood, his love for Margaret, his ideal, burns like a white flame, and in return she loves him, marries him and makes him happy, altho like the rest of the world, she may not always understand him.
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“All the earlier part of the book is shadowy, and hardly prepares us for the vivid, admirable picture of life in New York that comes later.”
+ – =Acad.= 71: 527. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
“It is a book of fine fibre in purpose and execution, romantic, touching, amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 333. O. 18, ’06. 460w.
“‘Don-a-dreams’ is his first novel, but Mr. O’Higgins has made no mistake in his new departure.” Otis Notman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 623. O. 6, ’06. 550w.
“It is all very tenderly and charmingly told, and we like it better because our dreamer is not of those who think wallowing in the mire synonymous with ‘knowing life.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 705. O. 27, ’06. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 200w.
“Its consistent literary quality lifts it far above the level of ordinary fiction.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 840. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Smoke-eaters. $1.50. Century.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 140w.
=Okakura-Kakuzo.= Book of tea. **$1.50. Duffield.
These essays relate to tea, not as a beverage but as an aesthetic symbol. “Within the pages of this volume is condensed the whole philosophy of tea, together with its history, poetry, symbolism and a synopsis of its relation to religion and art as they exist in Japan. The author writes with sympathy ... and with a graceful felicity of expression.” (Ind.)
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=Ath.= 1906, 2: 512. O. 27. 160w.
“Charming group of essays.” Frederick W. Gookin.
+ =Dial.= 41: 105. S. 1, ’06. 1260w.
“What ‘Sartor resartus’ is to the realm of the utilitarian ‘The book of tea’ is to the realm of the esthetic.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 461. Ag. 23, ’06. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 128. Jl. ’06. 50w.
=Okey, Thomas.= Story of Paris. $2. Macmillan.
“The greater part of the 400–odd pages of this volume are taken up with the story of the city from its beginnings as a Gallo-Roman camp to its expansive latter days. The last pages contain generous descriptions of the landmarks, museums, galleries, churches, and theatres of the present.” (N. Y. Times.) “It is not too much praise to say that the book supplements the information contained in Baedeker, and supplies as well a background for the greater enjoyment of such volumes as Theodore Child’s ‘The praise of Paris,’ Richard Whiteing’s ‘Paris of to-day,’ of Amicis’s ‘Ricordi di Parigi.’” (Outlook.)
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=Ind.= 61: 753. S. 27, ’06. 170w.
“The guide is a curious cross between a Baedeker and a Hare, without the satisfying definiteness of the former or the charm of the latter.”
– =Nation.= 83: 167. Ag. 23, ’06. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 434. Jl. 7, ’06. 130w.
“The intending visitor to Paris could hardly have a more valuable vade mecum than Mr. Okey’s little volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 673. Jl. 21, ’06. 100w.
“We are glad to be able to commend highly this little book which fully maintains the high standard which the volumes in this series nearly always attain.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 277. S. 1, ’06. 190w.
“The historical, literary, and artistic aspects of the city are worthily treated.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 60w.
=Oliver, Frederick Scott.= Alexander Hamilton: an essay on American union. *$3.75. Putnam.
The work of an Englishman which gives an estimate of Alexander Hamilton’s character and presents a record of political and historical conditions in the United States in Hamilton’s day. “Mr. Oliver calls his work an essay on American union; but it is far more than that. At bottom it is a grave and singularly eloquent plea for the great union of a close and lofty and disinterested Imperialism. And it is an immense compliment to Mr. Oliver to say that his conclusions and his exhortations are worthy of having been directly inspired by such a figure as Alexander Hamilton.” (Lond. Times.)
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“A very thoughtful and clever essay on the life and work of Alexander Hamilton.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 39. Jl. 14. 470w.
“Tho the book has some marked blemishes, it is so filled with deep and original thinking that it is worthy the careful attention of every student of Hamilton and our early political history. It is written in an interesting, cultured style, which at times becomes brilliant.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 1117. N. 8, ’06. 470w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1170. N. 15, ’06. 20w.
“He has depicted Hamilton with force and clearness, with humour, with sympathy and charm. He has treated a big subject in a large and masterly way. No book has appeared lately which conveys a more valuable lesson or one more tactfully and skilfully unfolded.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 165. My. 11, ’06. 3340w.
“To our minds, his narrative is by far the most interesting and vivid account that has yet been published; but, being neither a publicist nor an economist ... he is positively disqualified from the task of estimating Hamilton’s work.”
+ + – =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 1770w.
“There are some errors of fact, due perhaps to faulty proof reading, but the worst fault is the author’s bias and distortion of facts, which frequently make his conclusions valueless.” R. L. Schuyler.
– – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 357. Je. 2, ’06. 1120w.
“As a portrait of Hamilton the work exhibits most of the defects inherent in all admittedly partisan productions, and it further suffers from the animus apparent in the treatment of those within as well as without the Federalist party who placed themselves in opposition to ‘the little lion.’ But his is a singularly fresh and in many respects a singularly charming study, distinctive alike in point of view, in method, and in style.”
+ – =Outlook.= 83: 204. N. 3, ’06. 450w.
“Mr. Oliver’s book seems to us the most brilliant piece of political biography which has appeared in England for many years. A clear and vigorous style, wit, urbanity, a high sense of the picturesque, and a remarkable power of character-drawing raise much of it to the rank of a literary masterpiece.”
+ + – =Spec.= 97: 58. Jl. 14, ’06. 2040w.
=Olmsted, Stanley=, Nonchalante. †$1.25. Holt.
Student life, especially the life of two American students in a German university town, is cleverly handled in this story, and the nonchalant heroine, with musical aspirations, is well suited to her surroundings. The book presents a phase, a passing episode, interesting and amusing, but superficial in that it deals with that frivolous side of things which is so typical of student days. The cafés, the theatres, the bleak boarding houses are well drawn, and poor Fraulein Mittelini’s tragic struggle for fame is really worthy of sympathy.
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“The author has succeeded ... in giving [the heroine] some genuine fascination. The style is too obviously imitative of that of Mr. James.”
+ – =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 50w.
“The grip of the book is the grip of Miss Bilton—but it is entertaining even when she is off the stage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 287. My. 5, ’06. 540w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 160w.
– =R. of Rs.= 33: 758. Je. ’06. 100w.
=Oman, Charles William Chadwick.= Inaugural lecture on the study of history delivered on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1906. *35c. Oxford.
In this lecture on the teaching and study of history the Chichele professor “perceives the great virtues of the tutorial system. He recognizes a fact which is often overlooked by zealous reformers, that no system of teaching can flourish which does not meet the wants of the learners; and this general truth is in a particular sense applicable to the universities of England.... The fact ‘that must be faced is, that Oxford is a place of education as well as a place of research,’—these words strike the real keynote of Professor Oman’s inaugural address.” (Nation.)
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“It is remarkable for several characteristics and for a good deal of courage. From start to finish it is lively; the writing, while it is occasionally of great dignity is sometimes brilliant and even humorous.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 322. Mr. 17. 1100w.
+ =Nation.= 82: 388. My. 10, ’06. 1100w.
=Omar Khayyam.= Rubaiyat: a new metrical version; rendered into English from various Persian sources, by George Roe, with introd. and notes. **$1.50. McClurg.
The translation adopts a middle course between the versions of Omar which sacrifice the letter to the requirements of good verse and those which in order to be literal, sacrifice the spirit to the letter.
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=Dial.= 41: 400. D. 1, ’06. 70w.
=Omond, George William Thomson.= Bruges and West Flanders; painted by Amedee Forestier; described by G. W. T. Omond. *$3. Macmillan.
In the main Mr. Omond treats his subject historically, but even from this point of view, he catches the spirit of sentiment and romance. “Each one of these quaint, often-despoiled towns has remaining some romantic relics and picturesque buildings—belfry, market-place, Hotel de Ville—old gateways, or churches enriched with paintings.” (Outlook.) “And what Mr. Omond so successfully does for Bruge-LaMorte, he also does for the other towns of West Flanders—Ypres, Furnes, Nieuport—revivifying them with the story of a glorious past.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =Ind.= 61: 754. S. 27, ’06. 160w.
+ – =Nation.= 82: 279. Ap. 5, ’06. 80w.
“He has been deeply touched by the ruined greatness that surrounds prosperous Ostend and would show others how they may come under the spell.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 145. Mr. 10, ’06. 870w.
“While the text of the book is not remarkable in any way, it is written in clear, simple style.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 715. Mr. 24, ’06. 340w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 508. Ap. ’06. 120w.
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 664. My. 26, ’06. 320w.
=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Maker of history. †$1.50. Little.
The plot of Mr. Oppenheim’s new story with a mystery grows out of an episode in which an English youth actually witnesses a meeting between the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany, and turns up in Paris with a loose sheet of a treaty between the two, relative to an attack upon England. How this same Englishman is hidden away in Paris by spies, and why his sister is also abducted, and what sympathies stir one Sir George Duncombe to action in their behalf furnish motive power for a lively story.
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“Is a capital story filled with mysterious and exciting happenings, but one regrets to see Mr. Oppenheim writing down to this level after he has shown that he is capable of such work as ‘A prince of sinners.’” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 35: 447. Ap. ’06. 330w.
“It is an amazing medley, highly characteristic of the author. Without trenching on politics, one may be permitted to doubt the wisdom just now of accentuating the jealousies of nations.”
+ – =Ath.= 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 190w.
“In substance, of course, it is merely a sort of exalted dime novel. But is written with such admirable restraint, such a matter-of-fact style, as though the events were being chronicled for the columns of a conservative daily newspaper, that you are cleverly led on from mild curiosity to a breathless sort of interest.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 633. F. ’06. 560w.
“This stirring story is told with neatness and dispatch.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 40: 154. Mr. 1, ’06. 250w.
“Mr. Oppenheim handles his material cleverly and makes of it a good story of adventure.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1166. My. 17, ’06. 300w.
“The story is told with the vim and dash characteristic of Mr. Oppenheim’s work, and is one of the best tales he has yet produced.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 332. Mr. 3, ’06. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 925. D. 30, ’05. 90w.
“The story proceeds with cumulative interest to the end. The love interest of the story is secondary, but good, although the character drawing is occasionally exaggerated.” Stephen Chalmers.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 15. Ja. 13, ’06. 820w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 385. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Altogether the romance is an exceptionally good specimen of sensational story-telling.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 231. Ja. 27, ’06. 150w.
“It is all nonsense, but it is not boring nonsense.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 8. O. 14, ’05. 420w.
+ – =Spec.= 95: 571. O. 14, ’05. 130w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Man and his kingdom. †$1.50. Little.
Love, intrigue and revolution in a South American state make a riotous setting for Mr. Oppenheim’s story. The man of the hour is a wealthy young Englishman who sides neither with the revolutionists nor yet with the president’s party, but is a friend to both. His Beau Desir, a fertile valley near the town, with two hundred Englishmen to till it would fain express the temper of his neutrality, but the disquieting elements of the town creep into it. There are lively quarrels, attempted murders, and thrilling escapes, all of which have local color and atmosphere.
=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Master mummer. †$1.50. Little.
“Mr. Oppenheim has trodden a beaten path when, it would seem from his earlier success in invention, he might have struck out afresh for himself.”
+ – =Reader.= 7: 562. Ap. ’06. 180w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Millionaire of yesterday. †$1.50. Little.
A new illustrated edition of Mr. Oppenheim’s story that gives a vivid picture of two men, widely divergent types, one an invincible hero, the other a leaner, in the African bush making a grim fight for life and fortune.
=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.
+ =Edinburgh R.= 203: 471. Ap. ’06. 8240w.
“The best and most important part of this system is his rule of giving his readers the law as it is, and not as it ought to be. This, combined with his natural impartiality, makes his book an extremely fair and rational one.”
+ + =Nation.= 82: 373. My. 3, ’06. 460w.
“The arrangement is clear and logical, and the matter of the work is, so far as we have examined it, fully up to date, and presented with acumen and moderation.”
+ + =Spec.= 96: 544. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.
=Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara, baroness.= I will repay. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The scenes of Baroness Orczy’s dramatic tale are enacted in the terrible days of the French revolution. Ten years before its reign of terror, Juliette Marny is compelled by her father to take a vow to bring about the ruin and death of Paul Déroulède, the man who, tho against his will, had killed her brother in a duel. So much for the prologue. When the story opens, the revolution is well under way. Déroulède is a popular leader. Juliette, housed with his mother for safety, loves him, yet is obedient to relentless Fate which is dragging her to the fulfillment of her vow. She denounces him to the terrorists, and in attempting to undo her treachery brings both herself and Déroulède under the Merlin suspect law. Their escape from France closes a chapter of thrilling incidents.
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“There are not so many characters to stage in this book as in a former success of the same author’s, dealing, like this with revolutionary Paris, and we find less variety of scene, less incident: but the same dramatic power is abundantly demonstrated.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 579. N. 10. 150w.
“It is, in truth, a very fair story of its semihistoric wholly respectable sort.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 390w.
“The story is full of exciting situations and thrilling moments.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 798. D. 1, ’06. 100w.
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 869. D. 15, ’06. 630w.
– + =Sat. R.= 102: 648. N. 24, ’06. 90w.
=Orczy, Baroness.= Scarlet pimpernel. †$1.50. Putnam.
“A brilliantly vivid story abounding in dramatic incident.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 80w.
=Orczy, Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara, baroness.= Son of the people: a romance of the Hungarian plains. †$1.50. Putnam.
The old story of the rich and handsome peasant who wins the hand of an impoverished nobleman’s daughter against her will and later, by proving his nobility of soul, turns her scorn to love, is given a charming Hungarian setting in this romance of the plains. The peasant life and character are strongly contrasted with the traditional pride of the nobility; the lines of caste are well portrayed, the priest, the Jew, the aristocrat, and the son of the soil, the thrift of the peasant, the prodigality of the lord are all interwoven with the love story.
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“It is sentimental and of a conventional type, but the setting is new, and so it takes on a novel air.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 1: 227. F. 24. 260w.
“It is a strong and attractive piece of work, vivid in description and characterization, dramatic in action.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 241. O. 16, ’06. 230w.
“The story is well told, and as interesting as any other thrice told tale.”
+ – =Ind.= 61: 825. O. 4, ’06. 110w.
“This really interesting book is hurt by wordiness and repetitions of good effects, yet not unto destruction.”
+ – =Nation.= 83: 59. Jl. 19, ’06. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
“Judicious condensation and elimination would have greatly improved and strengthened ‘A son of the people,’ but it has decided merits as it is.”
+ – =N. Y. Times.= 11: 506. Ag. 18, ’06. 490w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 224. N. ’06. 160w.
“The book interests and attracts despite the poverty of the plot.”
+ – =Sat. R.= 101: 244. F. 24, ’06. 200w.
=Orr, Rev. James.= God’s image in man and its defacement in the light of modern ideals. **$1.75. Armstrong.
Professor Orr discusses “the conflict between the Biblical and the modern view of man—his nature, origin, and primitive condition, his sinfulness and the divine redemption from it. The difference between the so-called Biblical and the modern views is that the former regards God’s image in man as aboriginal, the latter regards it as ultimate. Man’s redemption from sin, therefore, the former regards as a reconstructive work, the latter as constructive or evolutionary.”—Outlook.
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“There can be no question of Professor Orr’s deep religious interest, his courage, his marvelous grasp of the material of present-day learning, and his perception of the seriousness of the questions now pressing for solution; but I do not think that the work under review can give much help to a man who is seized of the significance of the great intellectual and religious movements of the present and feels a sympathetic interest in them.” George Cross.
+ – =Bib. World.= 28: 220. S. ’06. 1290w.
=Ind.= 61: 823. O. 4, ’06. 510w.
“What seems hardly fair in Professor Orr’s argument is the prominence given to Haeckel as the representative of the modern view.”
+ – =Outlook.= 81: 940. D. 16, ’05. 220w.
“Dr. Orr conducts his argument with a creditable moderation of language, and states the problems which he discusses fairly.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 986. D. 9, ’05. 250w.
=Orr, Rev. James.= Problem of the Old Testament considered with reference to recent criticism. **$1.50. Scribner.
“A volume of lectures given at Lake Forest college by Dr. James Orr, of Glasgow. Dr. Orr represents the conservative view in his attitude toward modern criticism. The present volume is largely devoted to the repetition of the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis.”—R. of Rs.
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“The temper of the book is admirable. Dr. Orr’s disposition of his material appears to be excellent. We think it is safe to say that nowhere will the student find in so compact a form an abler arraignment of the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis, which is Dr. Orr’s immediate object of attack, than in the present work.” Kemper Fullerton.
+ + – =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 705. O. ’06. 1720w.
“A comprehensive survey of the chief problems of the Old Testament from the conservative point of view, but considered with fairness and candor.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 27: 399. My. ’06. 20w.
+ + =Bibliotheca Sacra.= 63: 374. Ap. ’06. 440w.
“There is no book in English that presents with such fulness and strength, from the conservative point of view, the problem of the Old Testament.”
+ + =Dial.= 41: 41. Jl. 16, ’06. 350w.
“Professor Orr is astute, a keen logician, and he has made himself a thoro master of his material.”
+ =Ind.= 60: 1490. Je. 21, ’06. 940w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1166. N. 15. ’06. 120w.
“The problem of old Testament is twofold—religious and literary. So far as the principles of the religious aspect of the problem are concerned, we agree with him; but so far as the literary aspect of the problem is concerned, we take leave to doubt.”
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 130. Ap. 12, ’06. 1390w.
“The multitudinous points taken by Dr. Orr against the prevailing critical opinions present to the unlearned reader a formidable array.”
– + =Outlook.= 82: 570. Mr. 10, ’06. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 510. Ap. ’06. 50w.
“We may say that Dr. Orr is a strong conservative, though fifty years ago he would have been regarded as a dangerous radical, that he has stated his subject thoroughly, though not we cannot but think, with an open mind; and that he always expresses himself with courtesy and good taste.”
+ – =Spec.= 96: 305. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
=Osborn, Albert.= John Fletcher Hurst: a biography. *$2. Meth. bk.
A biography which is autobiographic in nature so successfully has the compiler eliminated himself in producing what the Bishop said or what has been said about him. The sketch touches upon his boyhood, education, European experiences, ministerial work, and duties as president of the Drew theological seminary.
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Reviewed by Erl B. Hulbert.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 362. Ap. ’06. 90w.
“The task has been performed with equal loyalty and ability, and the book is every way a fitting memorial of a man of great gifts, high character, and broad influence.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 285. Mr. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Osborn’s biography, in a word, is a worthy memorial of a great Christian and a great American, and a book which should enlarge the horizon and stimulate to a higher life all into whose hands it falls.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 32: 492. Mr. 31, ’06. 430w.
“The only criticism to be brought against this biography is that the index is extravagant in its dimensions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 14. Ja. 13, ’06. 520w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ’05. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 33: 253. F. ’06. 90w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Motormaniacs. [+]75c. Bobbs.
“Pretty little stories they are too, when we are permitted to pause and enjoy them, and the motormaniacs are always entertaining and capital company to the end of the run.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 110w.
“The dialogue is comic, and the narrative runs with a swing and zest which are valuable aids to easy reading.”
+ – =Ath.= 1906, 2: 545. N. 3. 100w.
“The book is full of humour and energy.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 497. O. 6, ’06. 110w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Wild justice. †$1.50. Appleton.
Nine stories of life in the South sea islands which take their title from the first tale. The author spent a number of years among crude Pacific natives with his step-father Robert Louis Stevenson. His characters are drawn from these inhabitants “well-meaning but generally inefficient missionaries, unscrupulous traders, and refugees and adventurers in search of victims. It is not an edifying life, and the manly virtues seem to be conspicuously absent.” (Outlook.)
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“They are all good, but of no one of them can it be said that it is strikingly and exceptionally good.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 240w.
“The tales all have a swing in the telling and show that the author is in his own field.”
+ =Critic.= 48: 476. My. ’06. 70w.
+ – =Lond. Times.= 5: 149. Ap. 27, ’06. 550w.
“The fascination of the unusual pervades its pages.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.
“There is a certain bizarre humor, however, in these tales which somewhat redeems the sordidness of their subject matter.”
+ – =Outlook.= 82: 859. Ap. 14, ’06. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 60w.
=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. 2v. **$5. Macmillan.
“As a whole the work is the first adequate account of the origin, character, and development of the American colonies as institutions of government and as parts of a great colonial system; and it displays, on the part of the author wide and deep knowledge of the documentary evidence for colonial history and rare powers of analysis and interpretation. In a style remarkably clear, forcible and accurate the reader will regret the presence of so many cleft infinitives.” Charles M. Andrews.
+ + – =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 397. Ja. ’06. 3060w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Dynamic factors in education. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“It has been the author’s object to show that in the early years of a child’s school life, ‘motor expression’ in his teaching is ‘essential to all learning.’ He has endeavored to indicate mainly in outline, ‘how the requirements of dynamic education can be provided for in all departments of school work.’ Further, he says in his preface, ‘I have sought to point out that there is a definite order in which the motor powers develop, and that in our instruction we will achieve the highest success only as we conform quite closely to this order.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is clear and, if one is not annoyed by its diffuseness, interesting.”
+ – =Bookm.= 23: 654. Ag. ’06. 180w.
“The book seems poorly suited for the use of the practical teacher for whom it is announced, or the professional student. In spite of the author’s resolution to the contrary, it is burdened with methods of investigation, where results alone should be given.” Edward O. Sisson.
– – =Dial.= 41: 89. Ag. 16, ’06. 580w.
“A fair and comprehensive book. It is sound psychology sensibly applied.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 263. Ag. 2, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 201. Mr. 31, ’06. 310w.
“The whole volume is what the subject is, dynamic, and is as important for parents as for teachers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 83: 90. My. 12, ’06. 200w.
“It is admirably suited to be a handbook for advanced classes who desire to pursue special topics exhaustively, by first reading a guidebook and then following up the literature of the subject. The style is so clear and the treatment so concrete and inductive that the general reader will understand most of it. One of Professor O’Shea’s chief contributions is in selecting those laws and phenomena that have an educational application and clearly showing the application.” Frederick E. Bolton.
+ + =Psychol. Bull.= 3: 367. N. 15, ’06. 510w.
“Is not epoch marking; it is in part what has been said before by other writers, but it has two virtues—it is reasonably complete, and it is of great importance.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 40: 639. My. 19, ’06. 90w.
“On the whole, we know of no more satisfactory discussion of what is thus far known of the evolution of motor control, its relation to education, and of the place of the manual arts in education.”
+ + =School R.= 14: 459. Je. ’06. 510w.
“The style is not so overburdened with ‘educational jargon’ as to interfere with the enjoyment and edification of the general reader.”
+ =World To-Day.= 11: 764. Jl. ’06. 240w.
=Osler, William.= Counsels and ideals; from the writings of William Osler. **$1.25. Houghton.
In culling selections from his less technical lectures and addresses, Dr. Osler aims to offer “individual influence” and “inspiration” to the student or general reader. “Wise counsels abound in this volume—counsels inspired by high ideals and wide experience. The real man whom they present is no more like the individual whose words were so travestied by the press on a recent occasion as to threaten the dictionary-makers with a new word, ‘oslerize,’ than the caricature of the political cartoonist is like its original.” (Outlook.)
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“A book which may be read with pleasure and lasting profit, not only by every member of the medical profession, but also by the general public. Dr. Camac has made his selection with judgment.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 301. Mr. 10. 730w.
+ =Critic.= 49: 95. Jl. ’06. 190w.
“What most impresses one on examining this selection from forty-seven of the author’s fugitive pieces is not only the professional and practical wisdom displayed, and the breadth of view revealed, but also the wide reading in writers not commonly held to be a necessary part of a doctor’s library.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 93. F. 1, ’06. 390w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 929. Ap. 19, ’06. 340w.
“They afford very interesting reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 18. Ja. 13, ’06. 680w.
“What he writes, however, is of household, individual interest, and it is presented in a manner which causes facts to breathe eloquence and conviction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 48. Ja. 27, ’06. 350w.
“To dip into these pages anywhere is to meet with a thoughtful, strong, and sagacious man.”
+ =Outlook.= 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 130w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 33: 256. F. ’06. 90w.
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Conversations on chemistry. Pt. 1, General chemistry; authorized tr. by Elizabeth Catherine Ramsay, $1.50; Pt. 2, Chemistry of the most important elements and compounds; authorized tr. by Stuart K. Turnbull, $2. Wiley.
The authorized translation of Ostwald’s “Die schule der chemie.” Addressed distinctly to elementary pupils, the subject is presented in dialogue, the conversations taking place between master and pupil. Such subjects are treated as substance, properties, solution, melting and freezing, density, compounds, elements, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, air, etc.
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“Miss Ramsay has done her work with much skill, and has made the dialogue not less natural and vivacious than it is in the original.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 364. Ag. 17, ’05. 330w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“Most points are worked out with great ingenuity and address to an entirely logical conclusion. The allusion to things and phenomena of real human interest and the suppression of pedantry are also to be warmly commended. The actual work of translation has, on the whole, been well done.” A. S.
+ + – =Nature.= 74: 173. Je. 21, ’06. 570w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“The chief value of the book, must lie, therefore, in showing something of the spirit and the methods best adapted for arousing the interest of the young pupils in elementary science.” William McPherson.
+ =Science=, n.s. 22: 829. D. 22, 05. 220w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Individuality and immortality: the Ingersoll lectures, 1906. **75c. Houghton.
Professor Ostwald, professor of chemistry at the university of Leipzig, treats the question scientifically. “At the very outset, the lecturer calls attention to the fact that our knowledge ‘is an incomplete piece of patchwork;’” but, he adds, “each one is bound to make the best possible use of it, such as it is, never forgetting that it may at any time be superseded by new discoveries or ideas. In this truly scientific spirit, very remote from the dogmatism of the churches, Professor Ostwald proceeds to consider what immortality may be supposed to be, and what reasons we have for believing it.” (Dial.)
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“The chief value of this work is in showing the attitude which the scientifically trained mind tends to take to those problems where the clear principles and positive methods of the physical sciences do not obtain.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 555. Jl. ’06. 560w.
“The discussion is an interesting one, both from its statement of scientific views and from the glimpse it affords of the mind of the author. It is, nevertheless, strangely incomplete, almost ignoring the deeper questions at issue.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ – =Dial.= 40: 228. Ap. 1, ’06. 1680w.
“It is an exceedingly interesting discourse, and quite up to date, scientifically speaking; it is full of fine moral thoughts, but it contains very little Christian consolation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 116. F. 24, ’06. 230w.
– =Outlook.= 82: 716. Mr. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Ottley, Rev. Robert Lawrence.= Religion of Israel: a historical sketch. *$1. Macmillan.
“It is a readable outline of the history from a modern point of view, chiefly at second-hand.” George F. Moore.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 10: 144. Ja. ’06. 70w.
=Outram, James.= In the heart of the Canadian Rockies. **$3. Macmillan.
“His counsel is sound, and his knowledge reaches far. The volume was well worth writing.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 13. Ja. 6. 560w.
+ =Critic.= 48: 94. Ja. ’06. 20w.
+ + =Ind.= 60: 457. F. 22, ’06. 420w.
“He has succeeded in producing a useful piece of work, which brings together an account of all that has been accomplished in the Canadian Rockies by himself and by other kindred spirits.” G. W. L.
+ + – =Nature.= 73: 362. F. 15, ’06. 720w.
“The book is written by a man who has his soul in the story.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 40: 26. Ja. 6, ’06. 210w.