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=Yardley, Maud H.= Sinless. *$1. Fenno.
An emotional story growing out of the almost inconceivable situation of an unconscious exchange of wives. Two men return to England and their wives after ten years residence in India. That the wife of one should greet the husband of the other, be accepted in turn as his wife and neither find out the mistake for sometime seems a little short of impossible. The confusion is aided by the fact that both women responded to “Nell,” and both men were named “Kenyon.”
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“Miss Yardley nurses her material with such skill and keeps her secret so well that the close of the chapter, where she allows the truth to burst on us, is a triumph of dramatic effect.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 150w.
“The improbability is redeemed by the very delicate way in which the consequent tragedy is handled.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 439. O. 13. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 498. Ag. 17, ’07. 120w.
“After [the first twenty-five pages] the story flows languidly in a stream of verbosity.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 434. O. 6. ’06. 150w.
=Yeats, William Butler.= Poetical works. 2v. v. 1. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–43534.
This is a volume of Mr. Yeats’ lyrical poems, and will be followed in the spring by a second containing his dramas. Here are to be found “Ballads and lyrics,” “The wanderings of Oisin,” “The rose,” “The wind among the reeds,” “In seven woods,” “The old age of Queen Meave,” and “Baile and Aillinn.”
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“Not all Mr. Yeats’s gifts of music and Celtic magic avail to make the volume other than a little tedious.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ − =Atlan.= 100: 850. D. ’07. 350w.
“It seems doubtful whether in the mass Mr. Yeats’ lyrical poetry can be appreciated save by a cult or will be remembered save by the curious. Yet there are fine things in the volume.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 430w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The fact that he is occasionally carried away by his love for the old fairy legends of his native land must not be held against him. It is only occasionally that he transcends common sense and loses sight of reason in a fog of mysticism.” Bliss Carman.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 68. F. 2, ’07. 1770w.
“Foremost—indeed, as far as permanent value goes, entirely alone—in this year’s output stands the volume of Mr. Yeats’s collected dramas.” Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + =No. Am.= 186: 92. S. ’07. 840w.
=Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 80w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For Mr. Yeats’s poetry I have more respectful sympathy than liking. I wish I liked it better. I feel quite sure that it deserves affection. Often in phrases and occasionally in whole lyrics it is exquisite. And it is always admirable in intention, but, somehow, it lacks something. It does not give the thrill. It is wanting in the pull on the heart.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 118. Ap. ’07. 770w.
“Here the intangible, the illusive and elusive weave their shadowy world, and one knows not when he returns from it what shapes he has met; but he knows that he has been in an enchanted place and that his spirit was stirred.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 363. D. ’07. 590w.
=Yost, Casper S.= Making of a successful husband: letters of a happily married man to his son. **$1. Dillingham.
7–24184.
“The book is in the form of letters from a father who has found marriage a success to his son. They begin with the young man’s announcement of his engagement, and are carried on through indefinite intervals of time as the young husband makes known one and other problems of married life. The letters consider the questions of boarding or keeping house, the wife’s allowance, the bride’s relations, should women work, and other practical and sentimental matters.”—N. Y. Times.
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“They are all written in an easy, natural style, enlivened with anecdotes, and show much common sense of an up-to-date variety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 517. Ag. 24. ’07. 180w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 30w.
* =Yost, Casper S.= Making of a successful wife. **$1. Dillingham.
7–36141.
The letters of a father to his daughter give some interesting advice, plenty of humor and a good deal of marital philosophy. “In the first letter John Sneed gives his consent to the marriage of his daughter, and in those ensuing he advises her on his problems of married life.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The tenth [letter] deals with [the problem] of raising a family, and presents homely truths in a pleasant fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 713. N. 9. ’07. 90w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 759. D. ’07. 30w.
=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Christopher Columbus and the New world of his discovery. 2v. *$6.50. Lippincott.
7–3929.
“The central object of Mr. Young’s work is to reveal to the reader what he conceives to be the personality of Columbus. He has tried to discover, from a reverent examination of monographs, histories, essays, memoirs, and controversies, what Columbus did and what he was. In order that his portrait might not lack reality, he has endeavored to bring out even his hero’s defects.”—Lit. D.
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“It is picturesquely, vivaciously and vigorously written, with here and there a touch reminiscent of Carlyle. He does not, however, strike us as an infallible witness, and ‘modern historical research,’ which may dispose of Washington Irving, is not perhaps always on the side of Mr. Filson Young.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 627. D. 22, ’06. 1150w.
“The most serious deficiency in Mr. Young’s work is not its occasional errors, but its great lack of the true historical spirit of interpretation. It is the work of a clear and versatile writer, but not of a historical scholar. It will amuse and interest the general reader and not seriously mislead him as to the career of Columbus, but from it he will gain little instruction in historical interpretation.” E. G. B.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 656. Ap. ’07. 630w.
“Is deserving of high praise, and upon the whole it is trustworthy, notwithstanding the conjectural details which are introduced in order to impart life and colour to the little that is known of the early days of Columbus.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 576. N. 10. 1390w.
“The one great and glaring defect of Mr. Young’s work lies in the spirit of levity that more or less pervades it.” Anna Heloise Abel.
− + =Dial.= 42: 342. Je. 1, ’07. 1000w.
“The knowledge of motives and mental processes of Columbus which Filson Young displays in his new two-volume life of the navigator is enough to make the world of Columbian scholarship stand aghast.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1154. My. 16, ’07. 340w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 218. F. 9, ’07. 230w.
“Mr. Young can tell a story tersely, rapidly and vividly when he chooses. But he seldom chooses so to tell it. He is too prone to listen to that demonic whisper which bids him tell it with abundance of florid embroidery; so that where we look for Columbus and his deeds, adventures, and sufferings, we too often find Mr. Filson Young and his words, conjectures, and fond inventions.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 1730w.
“The defects of his own work illustrate the inevitable weakness of history written by one who has not saturated himself with its materials. No student of the Columbus narratives will fail to find in [the Earl of Dunraven’s] valuable essay an explanation of many things left partly or wholly in the dark by the editors of Columbus’s writings.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 271. Mr. 21, ’07. 1180w.
“Nothing has come from the presses recently which is able to give a deeper insight into the character of the discoverer of America than the two-volumed work of Filson Young just issued.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12:26. Ja. 19, ’07. 360w.
“It is our opinion that he has pressed the theories of the picturesque school to a dangerous extreme, and he could have attained his purpose with even greater surety, and without any sacrifice of the dramatic elements of the story, by writing with more restraint.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 855. Ap. 13, ’07. 1330w.
“The book, take it for all in all, is interesting although badly written, and its unflinching, almost infernal honesty of purpose places it far above the too-abundant crop of ‘Memoirs,’ ‘Lifes’ and ‘Notes’ about the doings of quite unimportant men, which literally stuff the libraries.” R. B. Cunninghame Graham.
+ + − =Sat. R.= 102: 576. N. 10, ’06. 1750w.
=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Mastersingers. *$1.25. Lippincott.
“A republication, with some additions, of a series of essays on musical subjects which appeared several years ago and which has therefore won something more than ephemeral recognition in England and America.... Some of the essays are ‘programme’ interpretations of great symphonies like Beethoven’s Pastoral and Tschaikowsky’s Pathetic; ‘Tristan and and Isolde’ is a more objective description of Wagner’s great drama of love and death; and ‘The spirit of the piano’ is a very just appreciation of Chopin’s genius.”—Dial.
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“As the work of so youthful a writer ... these papers display a remarkable maturity of thought and even world wisdom; and the fervid intensity of many passages is intelligible and excusable.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ =Dial.= 42: 224. Ap. 1, ’07. 170w.
“They are agreeable and somewhat highly wrought examples of the ‘subjective,’ literary criticism.” Richard Aldrich.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 763. N. 17, ’06. 320w.
=Young, Alexander Bell Filson.= Wagner stories **$1.30. McClure.
The stories of the Wagner operas from “Flying Dutchman” to “Parsifal” are told “for the benefit of those idle people who go to the opera without having taken the trouble to read the poem on which the music is founded. They are the larger proportion of audiences, and this handy guide to knowledge ought to help them. They will get not only a very good idea of the stories themselves, but a fairly definite idea, in Mr. Eric Maclagan’s metrical translations of detached passages, of that curious amalgam which Wagner constructed out of partly poetical and partly musical elements.”—(Sat. R.)
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“Both useful and attractive.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 615. My. 18. 140w.
=Nation.= 85: 404. O. 31, ’07. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“A serious book for young people but the old tales are well told in a manner that older people will find interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 50w.
“The writing of Mr. Young’s book is done with fluency, and is best when it tries least to ‘be inspired with some breadth of the emotional atmosphere which it is the peculiar quality of Wagner’s music to produce.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 270w.
=Young, Egerton Ryerson.= Battle of the bears. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–27029.
Mr. Young’s stories of life in the northland all aim to catch and hold aspects of life which are fast disappearing as civilization penetrates the wilderness haunts of wolves and bears. “His pictures of nature as he saw it in that frozen world are remarkable, while the makeshifts to which he was forced to resort, the privations which he had to endure, give to the reader an insight into life in this north country such as has never been before portrayed.”
=Young, Rida Johnson, and Coleman, Gilbert P.= Brown of Harvard. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–18595.
“The quite simple story of Brown, who is wrongfully suspected by his sweetheart and her mother, suffers in silence to shield the quite stereotyped villain, who would have been much more wisely dealt with if his weakness had had the tonic of publicity, and who inevitably wins the boat race.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The lively plot, full of ingenious and surprising incidents, and the very striking dénouement make the reader unwilling to lay down the book until he has finished it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 397. Je. 15, ’07. 100w.
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=Zangwill, Israel.= Ghetto comedies. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–15120.
Fourteen stories of the Jew. Some are little comedies but in some the comedy element is pathetically lacking. The model of sorrows, Anglicization, The Jewish Trinity, The Sabbath question in Sudminster, The red mark, The bearer of burdens. The Luftmensch, The tug of love, The Yiddish Hamlet, The converts, Holy wedlock, Elijah’s goblet, The hirelings, and Samooborona.
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“Strong, artistic, short stories of the Jew.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.
“We are grateful to him for a book of interesting stories, which give his readers problems to ponder—and some, maybe, also reason for despair.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 788. Je. 29. 390w.
“Never has he proved more plainly that a special theme in no way hampers an artist, if only the artist be sufficiently strong and fecund to resist over-specialization and to remain alive and sentient within his chosen field.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 430. Je. ’07. 1120w.
“The reader feels as tho he has been wandering in a land of grotesques. More than a touch of exaggeration mars some of his best tales.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 360w.
“Although in one way the book may be taken as an ironical open letter to the Christian nations, showing them what their centuries of oppression have done to debase their victim, it is also a work rich in understanding and humor, a very quick and true sympathy, and that fearless satirical directness which, when it comes (as it does so very infrequently) from one of this race, is always so telling.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 158. My. 17, ’07. 670w.
“In reading these stories (fourteen in all) it is impossible not to feel that merely as a writer of fiction Mr. Zangwill has gained greatly in the past decade. Moreover, his point of view has broadened, and while his sympathies and enthusiasms are as distinctively national as ever, while he still loves so tenderly that he can find fault, or even laugh, he never falls into that partisan sentimentalism which would rob his Jewish pictures of their unflinching sincerity.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 23, ’07. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 70w.
“They have all the realism, the almost grim impartiality of their predecessors.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“They have the compelling force of reality.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 90w.
“When a writer of fiction sets out to defend or attack some system of religion or philosophy or politics or social economy, he must beware of producing a lecture instead of a tale. Mr. Zangwill, an enthusiastic Zionist, has frequently yielded to this weakness, and his ‘Ghetto comedies’ show that he is not done with it yet.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 280w.
“What one is perhaps most conscious of when reading Mr. Zangwill is the sureness of his level. His stories are not all of the same value but one is sure when beginning each of them that it will lead somewhere.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 624. My. 18, ’07. 540w.
“Alike in matter and manner this is a book of singular and engrossing interest.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 1470w.
=Zartman, Lester William.= Investments of life insurance companies. **$1.25. Holt.
7–451.
A book which does not attempt to reflect any of the agitation attending the recent official investigation of life insurance companies, but undertakes the “more congenial task of tracing the beneficent influences which life insurance accumulations have exercised upon the economic development of the country and the relation of those accumulations to social welfare.”
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“Will interest readers of thoughtful mind, although it is somewhat restricted in scope, and does not consider many of the most interesting aspects of insurance. Extremely well done.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 107. Ap. ’07.
“The author’s conclusions appeal to the reader as thoroughly sane and the recommendations as wise and salutary.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 184. Mr. ’07. 220w.
“His method is rigorously scientific, and the result is a most useful contribution to the subject.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 164. F. 14, ’07. 380w.
Reviewed by Edward A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 180. Mr. 23, ’07. 2020w.
“There is much information in his book concerning the character and cost of insurance investments.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 120w.
“This little hand-book should be of much interest and value to those who are responsible for the safe and profitable investment of trust or other funds, and to the policy-holder, now somewhat alive to insurance problems who desires to know how his savings are being cared for.” J. M. Gaines.
+ =Yale R.= 16: 213. Ag. ’07. 490w.
=Zimmern, Helen.= Italy of the Italians. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–6779.
“Her aim is not so much to describe the Italy of the past as actual conditions in the peninsula. In that description she is thoroughgoing, she dips beneath the surface. She has interesting things to say about the court, artists, authors, archæologists, scientists, inventors. dramatists, and journalists. But, what is more striking, she seems equally at home whether putting such a poet as Ada Negri or such an archæologist as Giacomo Boni in their proper places, or in discussing agrarian and fiscal conditions. Her treatment of those conditions should commend it to students of economics.”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 133. My. ’07. S.
“Miss Zimmern’s facts appear to be almost wholly drawn from her knowledge of the northern and central districts of the peninsula, with the result that the peculiar difficulties of administration with which the government is confronted in the South and in Sicily are passed over in silence. The book bears signs of having been written in a hurry, and evidences of careless proof reading abound. This indifference to style is particularly to be regretted in the case of an author who can write well when she pleases. A word of commendation must be given to the unusually complete index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 194. F. 16. 840w.
“Her equipment as a scholar and writer on many subjects, artistic, philosophic, and literary, has given her a power of condensed generalization.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 187. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.
“The least successful chapters are those on art and literature. Where facts are concerned. Miss Zimmern is instructive; where personal bias filters through, her position is radical, anti-church.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 412. D. 13, ’06. 290w.
“An interesting and valuable book on Italy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 574. Mr. 9, ’07. 150w.
“The whole volume is one of remarkable interest.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 892. D. 1, ’06. 280w.
=Zueblin, Charles.= Decade of civic development. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–674.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
=Charities.= 17: 508. D. 15, ’06. 770w.
=Zuylen van Nyevelt, Suzette van, barones.= Court life in the Dutch republic, 1638–1689. *$4. Dutton.
7–11547.
A history of Holland from 1638–1689 in which “we have family life in the upper classes, religious influences, literature and art, society and diplomacy! The bitterness between the Orangeists and anti-Orangeists, the strife of parties, the cumbrousness of the Dutch system of government, are all sympathetically explained.” (Nation.)
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“Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt pilots the reader ably through the complicated genealogy of the house of Nassau. Her grasp of her subject and her wide sympathy both for the ill-fated and lovable Stuarts and the harder-headed and somewhat uncompromising Princes of Orange, would make a less dramatic period interesting.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 545. D. 1, ’06. 910w.
“The book fills a gap in the popular historical library, and is excellently written. It should be widely read.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 1: 379. Mr. 30. 700w.
“On the whole this is an admirable historical study.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 912. Ap. 18, ’07. 580w.
“The real value of this excellent book, illustrated and indexed as it is, consists in its descriptions, rich in coloring, of the social life of the period, the Dutch golden era.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 137. F. 7, ’07. 540w.
“Though the Baroness van Nyevelt writes in strained and dignified style, the picturesqueness of her subject matter gives vividness to every page of her interesting narrative.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 844. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“The baroness’ book is a painstaking and readable contribution to the understanding of the great age of the Dutch republic. If we compare Mr. Barker and the Baroness van Zuylen van Nyevelt when they cover the same ground, it seems fairly clear not merely that the baroness is better acquainted with the best literature of the subject, but is more accurate, more fair and more critical in the proper sense of that term.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 525. Ap. 27, ’07. 750w.
=Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, Wherry, Elwood Morris, and Barton, James Levi=, eds. Mohammedan world of to-day: being papers read at the first missionary conference on behalf of the Mohammedan world held at Cairo, April 4th–9th, 1906. **$1.50. Revell.
6–41773.
“These papers exhibit the actual state of things both for better and for worse, as seen by eye-witnesses long conversant with the facts. They report both the difficulties in the way of betterment and the encouraging successes here and there achieved. For an understanding merely of the problems in world-politics which grow out of Mohammedanism these papers are valuable, much more for those which appeal to humanitarian and Christian sympathy. They effectually dissipate the allusion that Mohammedanism is on the whole, a beneficent religion, suited to the character of its adherents. Statistics, maps, and illustrations enrich the volume.”—Outlook.
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“As in all books of this character the essays vary greatly in merit. Especial mention should be made of those treating Arabia and India, which are excellent.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 631. My. ’07. 610w.
“The book has many serious blemishes: it omits North Africa from the field of view; its index is of little use; and its illustrations, good enough in their way, are hastily collected from the stock in general circulation. But its defects do not destroy its interest nor its profound importance as a careful exhibit of the practical results of Islam upon the races that have committed themselves to its guidance.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 801. Ap. 4, ’07. 830w.
“They correct some widely current misinformation.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
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