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=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.
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“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.
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“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.)
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=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.
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+ =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.
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“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.”
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“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.
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“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.”
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“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.
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=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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.”
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+ =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.
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+ =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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.)
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=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.
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“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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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=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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.)
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“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.
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+ =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.)
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“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.
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“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.
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“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.
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=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.
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=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.
“Granted her situation, the author has made the human heart terribly convincingly true to it.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 515. Ag. 29, ’07. 270w.
“Baroness Orczy has a vivid imagination and a fertile fancy, and she has woven a gorgeous web of splendid pageants and beautiful scenes and no end of exciting adventures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 150w.
=Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
=Ormond, Alexander T.= Concepts of philosophy. 3 pts. *$4. Macmillan.
6–35520.
The three parts to Professor Ormond’s book are, “(1) an analysis which sets forth the two methods by which man seeks to realize his world: the method of external observation ... and the method of inner reflection ... (2) a synthesis which, while it justifies the two methods revealed by the analysis, sets forth the necessity of a synthesis of them and an attempt to realize it; (3) a series of deductions, which might more properly be called corollaries, dealing with a number of themes of general philosophical interest.” (Nation.)
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+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 69. Jl. 20. 300w.
“It is remarkably free from blemishes of the polemical spirit, a thoroughly notable and helpful addition to our standard works on the philosophy of religion. It is to be hoped that the next edition of the work will give us a good index.” J. Macbride Sterrett.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 4: 46. Ja. 17, ’07. 2160w.
“We confess that Professor Ormond’s book has aroused in us the suspicion that he has—without malice, we may admit—developed his philosophy in support of certain beliefs, but has not exhibited it as a source from which those beliefs spontaneously sprung.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 108. Ja. 31, ’07. 1900w.
“Clear and straight thinking characterizes Dr. Ormond’s work throughout.”
+ + =Outlook.= 84: 676. N. 17, ’06. 340w.
“Professor Ormond’s last book takes, in the opinion of the reviewer, a very high place among recent systematic works of philosophy. A large measure of agreement with his conclusions may emphasize this judgment; but the powers of analysis and the philosophical insight which the book reveals, any unprejudiced critic must recognize. Compared with the remarkable clear cut treatment of the scientific concepts, the religious concept is largely taken on trust, and this seems to me the point in which the book is weakest.” A. K. Rogers.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 425. Jl. ’07. 3980w.
“To many, and especially to non-professional readers, is likely to seem much fresher and more interesting than [‘Foundations of knowledge’].” Arthur O. Lovejoy.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 339. N. 15, ’07. 1200w.
“The book may well be read by those who are not philosophical specialists, for, unlike much American philosophical work, it is written in lucid English, and is largely free from the preposterous terminology affected by certain modern metaphysicians.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 630w.
* =Orr, Rev. James.= Virgin birth of Christ. (Bible teachers’ training school lectures, 1907.) **$1.50. Scribner.
7–31231.
“The aim of these lectures is ‘to establish faith in the miracle of the Lord’s incarnation by birth from the Virgin, to meet objections, and to show the intimate connection of fact and doctrine in this transcendant mystery.’ The purpose is not to discover truth but to defend it.” (Bib. World.) There is an appendix giving the opinions of living scholars.
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=Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w.
“He never quotes an opponent’s position unfairly, nor intentionally presses his own argument beyond his honest conviction of its worth. His book is probably the clearest and strongest defense of the traditional view that can be made at the present time.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 590w.
“Dr. Orr is a past master in argument. He keeps the main point at all times clearly in mind, marshals his facts in effective order, is shrewd in the discernment of an opponent’s weak points, understands how to make his adversaries appear to refute each other, and, above all, lends to the weight of his reasoning the force of sincere and positive religious conviction. His attitude however, is that of a doughty defender of the faith, a polemic theologian. not of an historical critic or a seeker after light.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 449. N. 14, ’07. 750w.
=Osborne, Duffield.= Angels of Messer Ercole: a tale of Perugia. (Little novels of famous cities.) il. †$1.25. Stokes.
7–28457.
The scenes of this series of novels are all laid in some city of the Old world vitally interesting from the standpoint of history. “Mr. Osborne has selected Perugia and the period of Vannucci Perugino as the place and time of his romance. The artist and his pupil, Raffaello. appear as characters, but mostly the tale is devoted to the love of the Lady Ottavia, daughter of the noble house of Baglioni, for Messer Ercole, another pupil of Perugino.” (Lit. D.)
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=Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w.
“Both author and publisher have begun promisingly and expressively their intended Series of ‘Little novels of famous cities.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 614. O. 26, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Adventurer. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–31207.
Somewhat similar to “The wrecker” written by the author and his step-father, Robert Louis Stevenson. Answering an advertisement for men willing to take risks for great gain, “the adventurer” enlists in a mysterious project of seeking treasures hidden beyond the South American pampas.
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“In spite of this defect of taste, and the too liberal amplification of a plot which, is at best, only a conceit, ‘The adventurer’ bids fair to take its place among a not too numerous company of Stocktonian and Stevensonian kindred.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 518. D. 5, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“If the culmination has in it a hint of flatness, if the ending is more or less smothered in detail, it must be conceded that no solution possible to put into words would have quite the quality expected by the irresponsible and exacting reader.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
“The opening chapters are capitally managed so as to excite curiosity and foreshadow a mystery. [Later] the tale becomes ordinary and hardly worth while even as a plot-story.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 90w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Schmidt; il. by Allen True. †50c. Crowell.
7–21226.
Schmidt is a stolid East-Side German shopkeeper. “The inner Schmidt was as much a butter-slicer and ham-shaver as the outer article. He was consistently Schmidt all the way through.” Yet when he loved Ella, his colorless life changed, he became a man of feeling, capable of joy and grief. It is the human note in the story that holds the reader.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Three speeds forward: an automobile love story with one reverse. †$1. Appleton.
6–31657.
The motor mad hero and heroine of this story meet unconventionally by the roadside when the heroine’s car breaks down opportunely and all goes well save for the sorry fact that her parents cannot bring themselves to approve of a young man who made his fortune thru the invention of a popular puzzle. The hero, undaunted, sets about winning them to his cause, despite the puzzle, and finally succeeds by cleverly mending a break in their car, a break which he had with equal cleverness previously arranged for.
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“While it has its amusing moments, its humour is for the most part distinctly thin and rather forced.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 617. N. 16. 160w.
“It is a bright and sprightly little story, very strongly flavored with gasoline, but quite readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 563. S. 15, ’06. 440w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Tin diskers; the story of an invasion that all but failed. †50c. Altemus.
6–25690.
“An amusing although entirely trivial short story about an American girl who has curious adventures in England, growing out of the recent newspaper sensation known as ‘treasure-hunting.’”—Outlook.
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“This is a bright, breezy love story written with no other object than to entertain. One of Mr. Osbourne’s best short stories”
+ =Arena.= 36: 574. N. ’06. 260w.
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 45. S. 1, ’06. 30w.
=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. *$3. Macmillan.
=v. 3.= “The present volume contains a history of British colonial administration during the period under review, together with treatment in some detail of the external development of Virginia and of domestic relations in the other royal provinces. The author attempts in this volume, to trace the history of the British systems of control as a distinct and separate feature of colonization.”—R. of Rs.
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“Mr. Osgood combines in a remarkable degree the quality of patient research and a mastery of numerous details with the power of philosophic generalization.” Hugh E. Egerton.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 804. O. ’07. 1490w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This work marks an epoch in the writing of colonial history.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 444. N. 14, ’07. 2250w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Admirable work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 494. Ag. 10, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 3.)
“It is distinctly a product of real scholarship, distinguished by a constant and conscientious weighing of authorities and a keen discrimination between the trustworthy and the unreliable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 968. Ag. 3, ’07. 990w. (Review of v. 3.)
=R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Individuality and immortality. 1906. **75c. Houghton.
6–4176.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by W. A. Hammond.
=Philos. R.= 16: 211. Mr. ’07. 510w.
=Ostwald, Wilhelm.= Letters to a painter on the theory and practice of painting; authorized tr. by H. W. Morse. *90c. Ginn.
7–3698.
The technique of painting is dealt with in these letters which advocate the “empirical experimental” method. The artist’s explanation of the rise of his “tools,” of pastel painting, pigments, fresco oils and tempera is given, also a discussion of academies, etc.
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“The art student will find in these letters much food for reflection, particularly in the treatment of media, their optical characteristics and results.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 44. Jl. 16, ’07. 160w.
“The placing of the book in the hands of every art student would do more for the cause of sound education than any number of lectures on aesthetics.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 241. S. 12, ’07. 440w.
“Will be found attractive to the lay reader interested in painting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 110w.
“Professor Ostwald’s scientific explanations ... may at least stir up a more vital interest among professional artists and lead them toward independent investigations useful to themselves and others.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 358. D. ’07. 290w.
=Otto, Rudolf.= Naturalism and religion; tr. by J. Arthur Thomson and Margaret R. Thomson. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–18190.
“The present volume by a Göttingen professor gives in a compact form to the general reader the main points in the great controversy that now seems to have been fought almost through.... He points out that it is not in the proper domain of science, but ‘in the teacup of logic and epistemology that the storm in regard to the theories of the universe has arisen.’ And he acutely concludes that the theory of naturalism, that there is no such thing as free creative mind, is refuted by its own existence as the actual progeny of such a mind.”—Outlook.
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“He pursues [his argument] with enthusiasm as well as with logical force.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 391. Ap. 25, 07. 330w.
“Presented here in eleven chapters by a discriminating thinker, as hostile to exaggerated assertions in a religious as in a scientific interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 22, ’07. 230w.
=Oudin, Maurice A.= Standard polyphase apparatus and systems. *$3. Van Nostrand.
7–27156.
The fifth edition revised and enlarged to keep pace with the notable increase in the size of apparatus units and in the development of appliances for their control and protection.
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“As a whole the book is readable, interesting and stimulating. Will be intelligible to any one who is reasonably familiar with electrical machines.” Henry H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 536. N. 14, ’07. 670w.
=Outcault, Richard Felton.= My resolutions: Buster Brown. †750. Stokes.
6–35950.
Buster Brown becomes a sage, a philosopher, and a humorist by turns in Mr. Outcault’s “Resolutions.” Of course it is Mr. Outcault with his little favorite as a mouthpiece, yet Buster and Tige suddenly grow virtuous beyond their years.
=Oxenham, John.= Long road. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–10620.
The long road is the way that marks the exile’s journey from Russia to Siberia. Traveled by a Russian and his wife and child in punishment for the offence of snuff-taking, it terminates in a little Siberian village where the grim cruelty of a despot governer works havoc in hearts and homes.
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“But when all is said, it remains a straight-forward narrative, capable of giving pleasure to a not too exacting or critical public.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
“Notwithstanding the painful incidents of their travels, the effect of the story is inspiring, not depressing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠
“It verges more than once upon melodrama, but at least it pictures the desolation of unbroken stretches of snow with a haunting force not easily to be duplicated in modern fiction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 360w.
“The story is deeply moving and is related with knowledge of the life depicted and a rare degree of artistic strength.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 370w.
“A charming story, charmingly told.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.
“We cannot but be grateful to Mr. Oxenham for remembering mercy and for permitting his readers to close a novel of unusual sincerity and strength with minds less penetrated by the wrongs and the anguish of its hero than by his moral victory and ultimate peace.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 860w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 210w.
“He has exceeded his former work in human sympathy, quiet charm, and dramatic force. For freshness of sentiment and vividness of narrative it seems to us unexcelled by any recent romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 360w.
“Mr. Oxenham’s vein of pathos is melodramatic—and therefore false.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 35: 763. Je. ’07. 240w.
=Oxenham, John.= Man of Sark. il. †$1.50. Baker.
7–29685.
A story which tells “in the first person, of the adventures of a sturdy youth who seeks his fortune as a privateer during the Napoleonic wars. Although loyal to England, he is mistaken for a Frenchman after an exciting engagement, and his English captors take him to a prison stockade by the North sea. When he escapes and finds his way back to Sark, he is welcomed as one from the dead. He is also just in time to rescue the maiden whom he has loved all his life from the hands of certain villainous persons who have abducted her.” (Dial.)
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“The vivid account of island life and customs, of landscapes and sea-scapes relieves the obsession produced by this competent villain.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 180w.
“The author has evidently steeped himself in the history, the folk-lore, and the customs of the island folk whom he describes, and tells a tale that is deeply appealing and full of varied interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 150w.
“To sum up, ‘A man of Sark’ shows a brisk imagination and capable workmanlike treatment of wholesome, legitimate material.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 400. O. 31, ’07. 240w.
“The novel is very well written, with much poetic feeling and with a certain distinction of style, which, with its vigorous manner and its hardy and manly characters, makes it a very pleasing romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 612. O. 12, ’07. 170w.
“It is a stirring story, but one likely to please the young rather than the experienced reader.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 180w.
=Oxley, James Macdonald.= North overland with Franklin. †75c. Crowell.
7–22915.
This volume in the “Crowell’s young people series” tells the story of the boy Denis who went with Franklin and his party from York factory overland to the farther north and whose flute cheered the men in time of despair and danger. It is a tale of hunting and adventure, of hardship and of peril.