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=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Aboard the Hylow on Sable Island bank. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–28976.
The Hylow was a fishing schooner and two boys came aboard her as stowaways; the one, a messenger boy, carried off by mistake while helping the other, an English lad, to escape the officials who would have deported him. The account of their voyage will interest other boys and teach them much of the ways of the sea and the sea-men and of the life on the Newfoundland banks.
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“[Adventures are described] with sufficient frequency to sustain the interest without exceeding the bounds of probability.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 140w.
“A vivid picture is given of the fisherman’s life on the Newfoundland banks.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“No very definite idea of sea life is gained from this story; there is a great deal of nautical dialogue in it and very little action.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 70w.
=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).= Joey at the fair. 75c. Crowell.
6–27349.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The tale is well told and cannot fail to be the source of much pleasure to young readers.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 222. F. ’07. 170w.
“A fresh, vigorous little story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 851. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
=Kaufman, Herbert, and Fisk, May Isabel.= Stolen throne; illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy and Hermann Rountree. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–14250.
“The story of the Duchy of Stromburg, of which the Russians are planning to gain possession, and the plotting Slav is shown in his deepest dye. As seems to be almost invariably the case in such contributions to current literature, the hero of the story is an Englishman of ancient race and no particular occupation—a man who is finally awakened to real life by the fascination of a woman.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Extravagant as the story is, it is not without interest. If it is an imitation of Anthony Hope, it is a very good article of its kind.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 886. Je. 1, ’07. 200w.
“The adventures are of the purest romance untroubled by any hint of realism—but interesting and entertaining withal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 317. My. 18, ’07. 560w.
“A high degree of literary workmanship in which are blended Mrs. Fisk’s well known qualities of subtlety and humor, and Mr. Kaufman’s long-recognized gift as a natural story teller of much vitality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
* =Keays, Hersilia A. M.= Road to Damascus: a novel. †$1.50. Small.
7–31480.
A young wife, unbeknown to her husband, adopts his child born out of wedlock. The story abounds in struggles which result from her fastkeeping of the secret such as “the desire of the child to know who he is, the antagonism between the boy and his unguessed father, the irritation of the husband at her insistence upon keeping this alien element in their life, and the determination of the woman that neither of them shall know the truth. Toward the end Richarda seems to sum up the whole book when she says: ‘It is the sweat of one soul for another that counts.’” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“It is as bare of incident as an Ibsen drama. And like an Ibsen drama it grips the attention as the years of its movement roll by. The book has a certain distinction of difference from the flood of novels, not only because of the artistry of its handling, but also because it is not concerned with material things and the outside facts of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 450w.
=Kebbel, Thomas Edward.= Lord Beaconsfield and other Tory memories. *$4. Kennerley.
7–37964.
A sketch which is written entirely from the biographer’s own personal experiences and which is not indebted either to “books or hearsay.” With a freedom that departs at times from anecdote, narrative and description, the author turns to “such reminiscences as are in any way connected with the name and fame of the Tory leader, showing how his influence permeated all ranks of society, and how wide and how deep was the impression created, apart from all political considerations, by his unique personality.”
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“There are a good many slight inaccuracies in the volume.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 470. Ap. 20. 450w.
“Few American journalists, one imagines, would have the material, drawn from their own experiences, upon which to base so charming and informing a volume of reminiscences as this.” Edward Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 185. O. ’07. 1200w.
“It is as a Boswell to Beaconsfield that Mr. T. E. Kebbel will make his strongest appeal to American readers of English political biography.” Edward Porritt.
+ =Forum.= 39: 102. Jl. ’07. 1990w.
“Some [chapters] are distinctly trivial, and scarcely worth publication, even in an English Tory magazine.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 420w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 62. Jl. 13, ’07. 350w.
“His Disraelian reminiscences are as much personal as political, and throw pleasant sidelights upon the strange personality of the chief. We do not, however, find him always accurate in his retrospect.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 139. My. 3, ’07. 520w.
“Is rather thin spun ‘copy.’ Still the book has a good deal of lightly entertaining political and personal gossip, which might while away an idle hour.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 77. Jl. 25, ’07. 190w.
“They are memories of one who only saw from afar, but judged shrewdly of what was happening. Within these bounds the book is a good one, interestingly written, and well put together, and altogether worthy of a few hours of a busy man’s time.” Wm. E. Dodd.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 1860w.
“The best features of Mr. Kebbel’s volume are those that have the Boswellian flavor.” Julius Chambers.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 134. S. ’07. 1650w.
“A book of rare and manysided interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 746. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w.
“The ‘Memories’ which refer to Lord Beaconsfield ... will remain, it may be said, the most important part of the book. The historian who would rightly appreciate the ‘Educator of the Tories’ must certainly take them into account. ‘Tory journalism and literature’ is, at least to the journalist, one of the most interesting of Mr. Kebbel’s chapters.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 905. Je. 8, ’07. 1300w.
=Keeler, Charles Augustus.= Bird notes afield: essays on the birds of the Pacific coast with a field check list; il. with reproductions of photographs. 2d ed. *$2. Elder.
7–19063.
A revised edition of a bird book for the ornithological tourist to California. “A certain skeleton of scientific classification” underlies the work “in order to convey to the uninitiated some inkling of the systematic grouping of the various species.” The first part of the volume describes the life and habits of the birds, the second, furnishes a descriptive list with a key for classification.
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“Mr. Keeler’s text shows ... much accurate and discerning observation.” George Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 624. Ag. ’07. 710w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 110w.
“Taken all in all this is the best popular work which has appeared on the birds of the Pacific coast region—interesting both to the Californians and to the bird-lover of other, less favored lands.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 370w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w.
“All Californians, and especially visitors to the state from the east may profit greatly by the information contained in Mr. Keeler’s interesting book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 126. Jl. ’07. 150w.
=Keith, Marion.= Silver maple, a story of upper Canada. †$1.50. Revell.
6–34644.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 17. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Kelley, Florence.= Some ethical gains through legislation. *$1.25. Macmillan.
5–33677.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by A. G. Spencer.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 459. D. 15, ’06. 1790w.
=Kellogg, Vernon L.= Darwinism to-day. **$2. Holt.
7–29032.
A discussion presenting simply and concisely to students of biology and to general readers the present-day standing of Darwinism in biological science, and outlining for them the various auxiliary and alternative theories of species-forming which have been proposed to aid or replace the selection theories.
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“The value of Professor Kellogg’s book to the working student of organic evolution cannot be overestimated. It is a book that the student must have at hand at all times, and it takes the place of a whole library. No other writer has attempted to gather together the scatted literature of this vast subject and none has subjected this literature to such uniformly trenchant and uniformly kindly criticism.” David Starr Jordan.
+ + + =Dial.= 43: 161. S. 16, ’07. 1500w.
“Although the volume contains comparatively little new work, it is none the less valuable as a summary to date of investigations.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 475. N. 21, ’07. 1120w.
=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.
4–32737.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
=Charities.= 17: 469. D. 15, ’07. 230w.
=Kelly, Edmund.= Practical programme for working-men. $1. Scribner.
7–22709.
“After discussing the influence of environment upon man, and pointing out the evils of private property and competition on the one hand and the present impracticability of ‘orthodox’ Socialism on the other, he makes an amazing suggestion, viz., that the ‘unwealthy’ classes organize in order to secure a candidate for the next Presidential election, possibly absorbing the Democratic party! The ‘practical programme’ itself is then discussed, and a nationalization and municipalization of industries is considered expedient in opening the road to coöperation.”—Dial.
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“As a theoretical discussion the book has some merit. It is pretty weak as a practical program.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 338. S. ’06. 50w.
Reviewed by John Graham Brooks.
=Atlan.= 99: 279. F. ’07. 130w.
“Many of the questions raised, though not always clearly answered, are very thoughtful and timely and the book closes very much stronger than it opens.” W. B. Guthrie.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 469. D. 15, ’06. 620w.
“Of the book as a whole it may be said that a superabundance of rhetoric has somewhat usurped the place of scientific reasoning, and it can hardly be regarded as a serious contribution to sociology.” Eunice Follansbee.
− =Dial.= 42: 110. F. 16, ’07. 180w.
“It is an admirable example of keen analysis and strong constructive reasoning.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 177. Mr. ’07. 320w.
=R. of Rs.= 34: 383. S. ’06. 70w.
=Kelly, Myra.= Isle of dreams. †$1.25. Appleton.
7–14256.
“The heroine of the story is a young woman artist who ... is believed by herself and her friends to be on the high road to ... success. At a country house, whither she had gone as a week-end guest, she finds that it is her host who has been buying all her paintings. Deeply wounded and humiliated by the discovery that her public is represented by only one man ... she rushes home and off to Europe without giving him a chance to make his explanations. She stays away for a year ... and wins some real fame in the shape of a salon medal, and while she is gone her admirer makes chivalric amends. And, of course, she comes back.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Is not, by any means, equal to her short stories of slum children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“Her novel would appear to indicate that she lacks the novelist’s greater gift of imagination; the power of visualizing to herself the web of her invention.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 160w.
“While ‘Katherine Merrill’ and ‘Robert Ford’ are on the whole well-drawn characters, they are marred by that fatal gift of young novelists—smartness, which has a blasting effect upon style. Another fault which looms large in the book is affectation. In spite of these very palpable defects, however, the book has good points.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 170w.
“Imagining a really strong, if painful situation, instead of bravely and patiently unravelling it, she positively submerges it in sugary optimism. It should, however, be confessed that her method will undoubtedly give perfect satisfaction to those readers who look upon a novel as a mental form of sweetened pepsin.”
− =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 860w.
“Her admirers will be disappointed to find that she does not handle this new medium with the skill that she showed in her use of the short story.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 640w.
“The same qualities which brought her success in the depiction of the east side children will charm the readers of her first novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“The novel has touches of humor and good characterizations, but it is not extraordinary—only one more entertaining, pleasantly written, unimportant story.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 40w.
* =Kelynack, Theophilus Nicholas=, ed. Drink problem in its medico-sociological aspects, by fourteen medical authorities. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.
7–29117.
“Contains fifteen chapters, written by fourteen medical men, many of whom are known as advocates of the temperance movement. The articles range from such highly speculative subjects as the evolution of the alcoholic to the practical means which should be taken to arrest the spread of alcoholism.”—Ath.
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“Upon the purely social aspects of the liquor problem the book is not as complete as one could desire. One or two absurd statistical errors have crept into the text. On the whole, then, the work will be found exceedingly valuable for the scientific student of the liquor problem, and will furnish a mass of useful and reliable facts for the practical temperance reformer.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 611. N. ’07. 510w.
“For those who are interested in the subject Dr. Kelynack’s book furnishes interesting reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 414. Ap. 6. 280w.
“The volume may be unreservedly recommended as a careful study of the various problems which have to be handled.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 336. Mr. 2, ’07. 250w.
=Kempster, James Aquila.= Salvage. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–39730.
The hero of this novel is, at the opening of the story, a penniless outcast. He quarrels with a stranger, fancies he has killed him, puts on his clothes, takes his money, and comes to New York where he begins a new life and wins wealth and friends. Of course the stranger is not dead, but crosses the hero’s path again and there are complications galore and a much entangled love story.
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“The characters are alive and the atmosphere is fresh.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 102. Jl. 11, ’07. 280w.
“There has not been much attempt by the author—or if there was an attempt it was without success—to make either the story or its separate incidents seem credible or its characters lifelike.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 867. D. 15, ’06. 380w.
“A successful story of its kind, with no underlying philosophy or special motive, but good in plot and style.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 47. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.
=Kennedy, Charles William, and Wilson, James Southall.= Pausanias: a dramatic poem. $1.25. Neale.
7–22893.
Pausanias, beloved of Sparta, is tempted by his thirst for power and his sudden passion for the Byzantine maid, Cleonice, to ally himself with Xerxes and turn traitor to his faithful wife and to Greece. How he yields but is held to his honor by the death of the maid he cannot win is told in the three acts of this well wrought poem, which closes with his own tragic death.
=Kennelly, Arthur Edwin.= Wireless telegraphy: an elementary treatise. **$1. Moffat.
7–482.
As stated in its preface this is “a presentation of the elementary facts concerning the nature and operation of wireless telegraphy in language as free from technicality as possible, and without the use of algebra, so as to permit of the book being submitted to the consideration of persons not technically versed in electricity or its applications.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 98. Ap. ’07.
“The author ... explains in language comprehensible to any one who has studied elementary physics as much about the principles and the apparatus as any but an expert needs to know.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 90w.
“A careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Kenney, Courtney Stanhope.= Outlines of criminal law; rev. and adapted for American scholars by James H. Webb. *$3. Macmillan.
7–8557.
“This volume is a revision, adapted for American scholars, of the second edition of the well-known work of Courtney Stanhope Kenny, of the University of Cambridge. The changes chiefly consist in the insertion of citations of American cases and paragraphs bearing on our own laws and the omission of some irrelevant matter.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The volume is chiefly designed as a textbook for law students. It is admirably adapted for this purpose. Its usefulness will, however, be greater for a large number of persons who wish to know more definitely about criminal law will find this manual very valuable.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 649. My. ’97. 200w.
“A particularly well written text-book.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 40w.
“Broadly, the book covers the subject as completely as a general treatise of its compass (400 8vo pages) may. It is a very handy volume to have around the house in a day so full of casuistical questions, and judicial activities so many, various, and novel as at present.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 171. Mr. 23, ’07. 990w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 574. S. ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 170w.
* =Kent, Charles Foster.= Israel’s laws and legal precedents, from the days of Moses to the closing of the legal canon; with plans and diagrams. (Students’ Old Testament, v. 4.) **$2.75. Scribner.
7–20667.
The legal portion of the Old Testament is arranged in five general divisions: (1) personal and family laws; (2) criminal laws, comprising injuries to persons, property, and society; (3) human laws, emphasizing the duty of kindness to animals and men; (4) religious laws, defining obligations to God; and (5) ceremonial laws, containing minute directions regarding worship and the ritual.
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“The volume does not profess to be a commentary, yet in the footnotes to the translation there is scattered a large amount of valuable information relative to ancient Hebrew society and every opportunity is taken to illustrate or contrast the Hebrew codes of law with that of Hammurabi. By the aid of this volume, the study of the legal books of the Old Testament is made lucid and interesting.” John E. McFadyen.
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 378. N. ’07. 980w.
“A thoro, accurate, and scholarly treatment of this exceedingly interesting subject.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 430. N. ’07. 50w.
“Prof. Kent reaches a field where a classification and rearrangement of the Scripture text is of great value to the student of the development of Hebrew religion and social usages.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 229. S. 12, ’06. 230w.
=Kent, Charles Foster.= Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament. **$1. Scribner.
6–14527.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This book perhaps lacks the charm of style and the closely articulated structure necessary to secure for it the widest reading and to enable it to hold the reader’s interest, but it is packed full of information and will do good wherever it goes.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 270w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 123. My. ’07. ✠
“On the whole, however, Professor Kent has presented a large and difficult subject in small compass and popular form, with admirable clearness, fairness, and success. A copy of his book should be in the home of every church member in the country.” George A. Barton.
+ + − =Bib. World.= 29: 73. Ja. ’07. 540w.
“Old Testament students of all shades of opinion must be grateful to him for an orderly and painstaking presentation of the complicated legal system of the ancient Jews. Moreover, his work is highly valuable as giving an insight into the methods of higher criticism, and as such should be welcomed by such students as desire to be acquainted with an intellectual position before they either support or condemn it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 688. Ag. ’07. 240w.
=Kenton, Edna.= Clem. †$1. Century.
7–26020.
A clear-cut western girl with crudities of heredity, training and environment comes into sudden wealth and innocently unashamed, skirts upon the edge of conventional society. She is twenty-six and possesses the integrity of a man. She falls in love with a youth of twenty who is loyal in spite of the determination of his little fashionable set to end his infatuation. The story dwells upon the mother’s cruel scheme of flicking the girl upon the raw by inviting her to an exclusive house party, counting her son’s disillusionment as a result of the gulf which she will spare no pains to make apparent. Clem rises phoenix-like from the fire of her persecution and shames the persecutor’s snobbishness by means of her heroic sense of honor quite beyond their comprehension.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Considered either as a love story a psychological story or a social satire, ‘Clem’ is eminently worth while.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 162. O. ’07. 730w.
“The author has accomplished a difficult thing in an excellent manner—a manner that is more than literary.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 691. S. 19, ’07. 580w.
“If you want a book ... in which every sentence stands up and kicks with its boots on for the ideas it represents, read what Clem has to say.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 490w.
“Clever in its conception and sometimes approaching the brilliant in its execution. The other characters in the book, although less prominent than Clem are sketched very cleverly and have, to an unusual degree, the touch of life and actuality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 330w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“Too much piazza talk and too little probability mar the general effect.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 60w.
=Keon, Grace.= “When love is strong.” $1.25. Benziger.
7–17046.
A bank robbery and the search for and discovery of the robber form the plot of this novel which, contrary to the usual detective story, hinges upon the love of the heroine for the guilty man who has become her husband, and whom she raises to her own level by the help of her Catholic faith. It is really a tale of regeneration through love, altho much of the book is concerned with the unravelling of a mystery in which hypnotism plays a part.
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“Miss Keon’s very good story is artistic enough to deserve the attention of mature readers who are not too sophisticated by indulgence in contemporary problems-plays or the bold realism which caters to the prevalent taste.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 690. Ag. ’07. 70w.
=Kephart, Horace.= Book of camping and wood craft, a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness. *$1.50. Outing.
6–45323.
Everything the camper could wish for in the line of practical suggestions on outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and fish, camp cooking, forest travel, how to avoid getting lost and what to do if one does get lost, living off the country, what the different species of trees are good for from the camper’s viewpoint, backwoods handicrafts in wood, bark, skins and other raw materials, the treatment of wounds and other injuries, etc., can be found in this little volume. There are many illustrations from photographs.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07.
“Mr. Kephart buttonholes you gently, fixes you with his woodman’s eye, and if you can escape the longing to start for the wilderness at the first vacation moment you must be an unusual man.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 566. Mr. 7, ’07. 160w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 40w.
“Should be the friend of every intending sojourner in the wilderness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 140w.
“The volume is small enough to go in the duffel-bag, but packed full of the facts and suggestions, and redolent of the atmosphere of the woods.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 38. My. 4, ’07. 210w.
=Ker, William Paton.= Sturla, the historian. *35c. Oxford.
7–29019.
“This is the ‘Romanes lecture’ of the year.... Sturla was one of the products of that very strange growth, Icelandic culture.... Vacant, or nearly vacant, as far as we know, from the beginning of time, Iceland was settled in the tenth century by some Norwegian gentry, who desired to be free from an intrusive royal government.... Late in the life of this strange community came the literary development. In Snorri Sturlason it found its greatest expression, and Sturla was the son of Snorri’s brother, Thord.”—Spec.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 716. Ap. ’07. 50w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 52. F. 15, ’07. 1080w.
“Professor Ker has a light touch and a playful humor not often to be found in the expert. Gives us glimpses which will certainly do what is the true object of a lecture,—make the hearer or reader study the subject for himself.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 390w.
=Kern, John A.= Idea of the church; aspects, forms and activities. $1.25. Pub. house M. E. church So.
7–25171.
A study of the church, actual and ideal, in its most significant features.
* =Kernahan, Coulson.= The Dumpling. il. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
This story “deals with a reincarnation of Napoleon, nicknamed ‘The Dumpling,’ who is filled with a noble love of his fellow men, if only they be poor enough, and sees no other way of bettering their condition than by indulging in robbery and murder, plotting in an opium den, and evolving the picturesque combination: ‘God, Napoleon and the Dumpling strike with a granite arm.’” (Acad.)
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“Coincidences rage throughout the book, but impossibilities are more rampant still. There is no characterization, but there is a speech eleven pages long about labour, delivered by a murderous madman. The grammar is uncertain, and the style is frequently facetious. It is possible that there is a public which demands such books; it is a thousand pities that Mr. Kernahan should condescend to cater for it.”
− =Acad.= 71: 399. O. 20, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 567. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The whole novel is quite impossible, the most insatiable lover of sensation could hardly find satisfaction in it, and it is difficult to understand how a writer of Mr. Kernahan’s standing could submit such a work to public criticism.”
− =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 80w.
“Is an excellent melodrama. The reader of the story is hurled from adventure to adventure in a breathless manner, but it must be confessed that the interest is well kept up and does not flag.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 626. O. 27, ’06. 160w.
=Kerr, Alvah Milton.= Diamond key and how the railway heroes won it. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
7–8218.
With their scenes laid in the mountain regions of Colorado and Arizona, these stories show how courage and devotion to purpose dominate the laying of tracks, the building of bridges, and the tunneling of mountains for the western railroad. “Each of the twelve is represented by a deed of rare heroism or one which shows conspicuously a quick and ready hand and a cool, resourceful head.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Some gems of the story-teller’s art, very pure in ray. Strictly speaking, it is not a novel, yet the ten stories are so welded together by the rails of the ‘Western central,’ the brotherhood of the characters, and the common atmosphere of the events, that the book possesses a oneness unattained by many a professed unity. They are thrilling healthful tales, told in crisp, lucid, scintillating English.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
=Kerr, Walter S.= Arcadian proscript: a historical drama in five acts. pa. $1. Walter S. Kerr & co., P. O. box 377 Oakland, Cal.
7–17379.
The Grand Pré which Longfellow’s poem immortalizes furnishes the setting of Mr. Kerr’s drama. His hero is a “proscript,” a legal outlaw. The British governor of Nova Scotia “is one of the villains of the play which is tragic, of course, and romantic, and was obviously designed for theatrical representation.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Has evidently worked with great zeal and unmistakable faith in the historical value of his subject. It is graphically written and full of movement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 260w.
* =Kester, Vaughan.= John o’ Jamestown. †$1.50. McClure.
7–36098.
History and love are mingled in this tale of an English vicar’s son. His love-making is interrupted when he embarks for America and becomes closely identified with the fortunes of Captain John Smith. “The story chronicles the career of the latter, his rescue at the hands of Pocahontas, his brave services on behalf of the Jamestown colony, in the face of jealous opposition and treachery, the injuries which forced him to return to England, and the ghastly winter of bloodshed and famine which followed.” (Bookm.)
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“That is really the only serious defect of the book,—a weakness of structure. And since the great majority of the reading public care little for structure so long as a book is readable, there is no question that the vivid portraiture, the stirring incident, the manifest sincerity of purpose of ‘John o’ Jamestown’ will give abundant pleasure to a large number of readers.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 409. D. ’07. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“An exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
“While there is nothing very unusual in the telling, the author, Vaughan Kester, uses the abundant material well.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of steel mill buildings and the calculation of stresses in framed structures. 2d ed. *$4. Engin. news.
6–37208.
The first edition of this book was issued in 1903. This new edition contains much additional matter the major part of which is confined to the part of the work on stresses.
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“The problems give evidence of thorough preparation, and the data are so arranged that the graphic solution will be confined within the limits of the standard sheet adopted, thereby economizing the student’s time.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ =Engin. N.= 56: 633. D. 13, ’06. 760w.
=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of walls, bins and grain elevators. *$4. Eng. news.
7–23625.
“Professor Ketchum’s latest work is divided into three parts, treating of the three branches indicated by the title. The first part is a presentation of the theory, or the theories, of retaining walls.... The second part takes up the subject of coal bins, ore bins, etc., giving theory, principles of design, cost and actual examples.... Part three is on the design of grain bins and elevators.”—Engin. N.
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“Anyone desiring to make a specialty of this line of work cannot afford to be without this book, and it will no doubt be a valuable assistant to any specialist, as showing the different ways of meeting different conditions. The most disappointing feature of the book is the treatment of theory, of which there is too much.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 73. Jl. 18, ’07. 2650w.
=Keys, Alice Maplesden.= Cadwallader Colden: a representative eighteenth century official. **$2.25. Macmillan.
6–40257.
“A very entertaining account of New York politics before the Revolution. By taste, Colden was a speculator in science.... Circumstances drew him into the political and factional differences of the day.... Miss Keys bases her narrative largely upon manuscript material.”—Nation.
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“The style is a bit loose, the manner a bit casual: one is perhaps somewhat at sea in the mass of facts, unrelieved for the most part by any very suggestive generalization. Whatever the ‘general reader’ may think, the specialist will nevertheless be grateful for much new light on the web of intrigue which enmeshed the colonial governors from Burnet to Clinton.” Carl Becker.
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 12: 696. Ap. ’07. 350w.
“Writes in a full mastery of her subject. As a result, her work is a valuable study in political biography.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 242. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.
=Kidd, Dudley.= Savage childhood: a study of Kafir children. $3.50. Macmillan.
7–7554.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In the work before us he has to a certain extent broken new ground, and performed his task excellently.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 168. F. 9. 2020w.
“His book may be relied on as accurate in its statements of fact.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 170w.
Reviewed by H. Rider Haggard.
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 265. Mr. 2, ’07. 2230w.
=Kidd, Walter.= Sense of touch in mammals and birds. *$1.90. Macmillan.
“A great number of facts are here brought together concerning the skin structure of the hands and feet of mammals. The chief forms of epidermic modification are shown to assume eleven leading types in eighty-six mammals that are dealt with. Eleven birds examined show only one type of epidermic modification, though the degree of this varies much. After describing the papillary ridges in a variety of animals, Dr. Kidd discusses the physiology of the sense of touch.”—Spec.
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“It is not at all concise, it is not very clear, and it has no index. It seems to us that a great deal of labor has been misspent.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 90w.
=Nation.= 85: 334. O. 10, ’07. 240w.
“Although the subject is by no means new, the author has studied it in a fuller manner than at least most of his predecessors.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 76: 101. My. 30, ’07. 240w.
“Dr. Kidd’s book is the most important contribution to the matter since Miss Whipple’s paper was published.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 170w.
=Kildare, Owen Frawley.= My old Bailiwick. †$1.50. Revell.
6–38913.
“The author of ‘My Mamie Rose,’ Mr. Owen Kildare, has given us a picture of the Bowery ‘bum’ in this volume of stories and sketches.” (Ind.) He says “Beds, bunks, cots ... can be had on the Bowery for as little as 5 cents a night, and because there are men who have lost the faculty of earning, begging or even borrowing that sum, a nocturnal procession of over 10,000 parade in our streets, winter and summer, from midnight until dawn.” He speaks well of the work of the Young men’s Christian association but finds little that is acceptable in the “spectacular methods of the Salvation army” and the “mission workers.”
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“He has intertwined comment and description, so that one not only gets a vivid idea of the ‘bum’ and the reason for his continuing a ‘has-been,’ but also an understanding of the difficulties encountered in endeavoring to raise him out of the mire and the futility of the efforts some agencies are making toward that end.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1360. Je. 6, ’07. 240w.
“The most impressive idea one gets from his book is, perhaps, that of a vast amount of wasted time, effort, money and good intentions on the part of those who wish to do something for the region of which he writes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 847. D. 8, ’06. 360w.
* =Kimball, George Selwyn.= Lackawannas at Moosehead; or, The young leather stockings. il. *$1.25. Ball pub.
7–37270.
A nature book in the form of an account of the adventure of a party of college boys with two guides who hunt, fish, camp and study the secrets of woodcraft.
=King, Cardenio Flournoy, jr.= Boy’s vacation abroad: an American boy’s diary of his first trip to Europe. $1.50. Clark.
7–978.
The author “writes as a boy at school would be expected to write—from the boy’s point of view and with a boy’s interesting enthusiasms.... He assures his readers that he ‘lost a lot of fun writing the book.’ The pictures are many and usually good.”—Lit. D.
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“The book is very well illustrated and is as interesting as could be expected under the circumstances.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 90w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 160w.
“The main Interest of the book is the simple and boyish manner in which the record has been kept.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 237. Ap. 13, ’07. 590w.
=King, Charles.= Captured: the story of Sandy Ray. $1.50. Fenno.
7–15592.
“An ‘out of the way cantonment’ known as Camp Boutelle, a traitor caught in his own toils but possessed of a daughter as fair as she is misunderstood, a young lieutenant newly come from the States.” these are the chief factors in General King’s new story of an army post in the Philippines. (N. Y. Times.)
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“The story will be of most interest to military men. To the general reader it seems prolix at times. The characters are fairly well drawn and there are some interesting descriptions of characteristic Filipino warfare.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 101. F. 16, ’07. 210w.
=King, Gen. Charles.= Rock of Chickamauga. †$1.50. Dillingham.
7–22113.
A civil war story whose events center about General George H. Thomas. Its historical details, presented from intimate observation, are accurate and show something of the relation of Sherman, Grant and Stanton with Gen. Thomas. There is romance mingled with the alarms of war and a charming heroine to make it worth while.
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“As a humble monument to the memory of the commander whom he entitles ‘the noblest Roman of them all’ the book should have special interest for all lovers of civil-war history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 489. O. 5, ’07. 300w.
“Gen. King ... is much more at home in the thick of battle than in the turgid and mystifying love vicissitudes of his hero.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 490. Ag. 10, ’07. 120w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from modern psychology. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Practical, helpful, enlightening and well grounded.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 44. F. ’07.
=King, Leonard William, and Hall, H. R. H.= History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the light of recent discovery. Grolier society, N. Y.
7–10615.
“A supplement to the longer work which Messrs. Hall and King were commissioned to write with the purpose of supplying a full account of all the important discoveries not already included therein. Of the nine chapters five are devoted to Egypt and the remaining four to western Asia.... The photogravures ... are of a high order, and the other illustrations, many of which are from unpublished photographs by the authors, are exceedingly interesting and numerous.”—N. Y. Times.
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“We have noticed some slips in the book. But these are trifles which do not reduce the merit of a most excellent book.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 588. N. 9. 1980w.
“The authors have traversed the field of recent discovery and research, have extracted the vital facts, and have set them down with care and criticism.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 225. Mr. 7, ’07. 570w.
“Taken as a whole, it is admirably done. The geographical arrangement is somewhat confusing, but perhaps a strictly chronological account would have been less easy to understand. Certainly nowhere else are the results of modern scholarship so well summed up, nor can one find the credit for labors and success so punctiliously given.” Holland Thompson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 638. O. 6, ’06. 1300w.
=King, Most Rev. William.= Great archbishop of Dublin, William King; his autobiography, family, and a selection from his correspondence; ed. by Chas. S. King. *$3. Longmans.
“William King played a most important part in church and state.... He was well described as ‘a state Whig, a church Tory, a good bishop.’... His kinsman Sir Charles King here prints for the first time a translation of the archbishop’s Latin autobiography and many letters adding extracts from correspondents already published, with notes on family history and cognate matters.... King corresponded with Swift, Addison, Berkeley, and many churchmen and politicians.”—Sat. R.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 452. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“The occasional theological notes [of the editor] are blots upon his pages, and lead us to put little trust in his discretion. The ‘Oxford movement’ and the very appearance of a crucifix are bugbears to him. We will not quote any of these outbreaks, lest we should prejudice the reader against an interesting and useful book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 469. O. 20. 2100w.
“The most that can be said for the book is that it furnishes illustrations not only of the character and activities of Archbishop King, but also of some of his contemporaries and of Irish life and politics.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1212. My. 23, ’07. 330w.
“He has done his work with care. The notes are generally accurate and sufficient.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 335. O. 5, ’06. 1270w.
“The autobiography is interesting, and throws valuable light on contemporary social conditions, as do the letters.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 250w.
=King, William Benjamin.= Giant’s strength. †$1.50. Harper.
7–11209.
Paul Trafford, the giant of the tale, is a rich coal king. The forcing process that has made him a monopolist has been sheltered behind the law, and when the necessary laws did not exist he bought legislatures to pass them. The machinery of his system crushes one Roger Winship whose family is a living judgment upon Trafford’s methods and success. The dramatic element and the strong ethical lesson are to be found in the romance which springs up between the daughter of Trafford and Roger Winship’s son, both of whom are ready to renounce their life happiness for the principle which renders it impossible for young Winship to accept one penny of Trafford’s wealth.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07.
“The book is, on the whole, a sincere and careful piece of work, the author’s tendency to preach—excusable, perhaps, in a book dealing with such a theme—being kept steadily in hand.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 601. My. 18. 150w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. King has appreciated the epic possibilities of this theme and has given us an interesting picture of a modern financial Titan.... In the hands of a master craftsman it would indeed be a fascinating theme, and is perhaps the one reserved for the long-awaited American master.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 724. My. 4, ’07. 230w.
“Neither the father nor the lover is convincingly drawn, but the slow development of the daughter Paula’s character under the stress of trial and trouble is admirable.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 363. Ap. 18, ’07. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 710w.
“There is much to admire in the character-drawing, but occasional false notes indicate that the author had not fully mastered his material.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 300w.
“Mr. King has not bestowed on the persons in his story, those continuous small industrious touches which amount in the mass to real significance. But he has written a direct story, all of one piece, which is interesting throughout, and frequently dramatic.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 168. Ag. ’07. 1070w.
=Kingsbury, Susan Myra=, ed. Records of the Virginia company of London, 1619–1624. 2v. $4. Supt. of doc.
6–38015.
A work whose value is suggested in the fact that it makes accessible to students for the first time history that has been shut up in carefully guarded manuscript for two centuries. The volumes contain a careful transcript of the court records of the Virginia company, with introduction, notes, bibliography, and index.
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“Many efforts have been made through a period of nearly fifty years, to secure the publications of these priceless records of our first colonizing company. But all those who have taken part in former efforts to publish ought to rejoice that they have failed, since the delay has resulted in bringing out, in the fulness of time, a much better edition than would have been produced earlier.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 424. Ja. ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A work of fundamental importance to the student of American history.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 406. Ap. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Ind.= 62: 567. Mr. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“As material of history its value cannot be too highly estimated.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 84. Ja. 24, ’07. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The text now appears in full for the first time, and all the excellencies noted in the first volume are continued in the second. The index is, unfortunately, entirely inadequate, and it is difficult to see on what plan it was prepared.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“These papers are all of great value to the student of the beginnings of American history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 250w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“From the student’s standpoint, too, the value of the present publication is increased by Miss Kingsbury’s elaborate expository and critical introduction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 93. Ja. 12, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Exhaustive and scholarly introductory essays.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 967. Ag. 31, ’07. 240w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Princess and the ploughman. †$1.25. Harper.
7–18593.
A pretty pastoral this, altho it is set in the present time. Mary, the princess in distress, is to inherit a large fortune from a spinster aunt if she marries before her twenty-third birthday. The ploughman, a recluse and a farmer, offers her his name in order that she may secure her fortune and promises to ask nothing in return. Of course they are madly in love with each other, else he would not have made the offer, nor she accepted it, but each is proud so they marry but to part and it is long before they come to know each other’s hearts.
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“An idyllic little novel, infused with grace and sly humor. Men and women both ought to like it; and for the suspiring college girl, it can not but prove a tonic.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 613. O. 26, ’07. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 438. Jl. 13, ’07. 190w.
“Their story is a bit of romantic absurdity, or a sweet and refreshing love idyl, as the individual reader’s view-point will determine.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 180w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Those queer Browns. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25050.
A sequel to “The singular Miss Smith.” Miss Smith who left her Back Bay luxury to become a servant in order to study sociological conditions marries Mr. Brown, a Harvard professor, who plays foundryman and boards with Miss Smith’s employer. They spend a year in the New York slums, and this story records their experiences.
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“There is plenty of fun in ‘Those queer Browns,’ but plenty of sound sense, too, and amateur philanthropists would undoubtedly profit by reading it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 300w.
“Is entertaining, often bright, and sometimes keen.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 90w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.= Truthful Jane. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–5685.
“The familiar drama of the poor relation.... Jane Blythe, a beautiful, high-spirited girl, is flung by fate on the charity of her London relatives.... Baited by her cousin, who is envious of her beauty and insufferably patronized by her aunt and uncle, she ... resolves to put the sea between herself and her blood relatives. The story of Jane’s battle for her rights in her hard environment is told with the real touch of humor.... In the crisis of Jane’s trials the inevitable knight of romance turns up in the person of John Everett, who marries her and takes her back to England.”—Lit. D.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07.
“There is a thoroughly human touch in the handling of the whole story.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.
“Not a remarkably good story, but it has a certain modest integrity which places it above the ruck of petty inventions.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 105. F. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Kinross, Albert.= Davenant. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–13436.
“An American publisher of brains and heart tells an Irish mother and her son in London his experience with a crippled, original, and brilliant hack writer in that city, whose work, rejected at home, finds acceptance here, and to whom America becomes a symbol of free, generous, brotherly life.”—Outlook.
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“Mr. Kinross has humour, and he has irony. This work is the work of a man who can rise to a considerable achievement. He has pathos also.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 330w.
“Full of a quality that comes near being charm, but fails just short of it. The style is too self-conscious, and the whole scheme lacks simplicity, so that the mind is taxed by its suggestiveness.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 355. Je. 1, ’07, 220w.
“The story is wholly off the well-defined lines of fiction, is told in an unhackneyed way, with a vein of deep feeling and of unforced humor. There is a deeper strain in the book for those who read it with imagination; for it is safer to venture the assertion that Mr. Kinross had before him not only the America of gross materialism, but America as a symbol of great and beautiful ideas.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 270w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 250w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.= Puck, of Pook’s hill. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–35734.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“So hidden and delicate is the intention, that the book has been reviewed merely as a series of fairy tales; so spontaneous that one even wonders if Mr. Kipling himself knows the full extent of his accomplishment.” Mary Moss.
+ + =Atlan.= 99: 113. Ja. ’07. 1080w.
“Mr. Kipling has apparently passed through that political fever which for so long a time made him almost unreadable. His genius is restored to itself, and he writes as one would always have him write. For this reason alone I would rejoice in the new book. It is a brilliant performance, and it is a golden promise.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =No. Am.= 183: 926. N. 2, ’06. 2700w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 510. Ja. ’07. 580w.
“Not only shows him grand master of the English language, but marks his ability to fit with perfect verbal clothing any subject he may pick out.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 126. Ja. ’07. 90w.
=Kirk, Mrs. Ellen Warner (Olney) (Henry Hayes, pseud.).= Marcia: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–9553.
An autobiographical society novel in which the heroine at twenty-one “refusing to gain riches as the price of her ancestral acres and home accepts a position as secretary to a woman of wealth, and the story begins.... Mrs. Kirk introduces us to high-minded men and women, who eschew gambling and abhor divorce, who recognize the existence of duty, and are loyal to obligation.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 135. My. ’07. ✠
“‘Marcia’ is remarkable for nothing but the facility with which a practiced hand can make a fairly readable tale out of indifferent material.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 200w.
“Its merit rests almost wholly upon its truth to nature and its interesting psychological analysis.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 180w.
“Unfortunately, the workmanship of the novel is not equal to its excellence of intention. Its characters are characters rather than people. The book is, however, sincere and wholesome, and will not disappoint the public which Mrs. Kirk has already won.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 159. Mr. 16, ’07. 510w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Ministry of beauty. **$1.50. Elder.
7–18089.
An ontological discussion of beauty, life, religion, philosophy, work, health and happiness, with chapters on The world message, The heart of it, The tendency of good, The preacher, The teacher, and The poet. The author treats of good in its abstract sense and emphasizes strongly the development of ethical perception to the point of consciousness of truth’s expression.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Where dwells the soul serene. **$1.50. Elder.
7–19460.
A group of essays similar in teaching to those included in Mr. Kirkham’s “Ministry of beauty.” They make their plea for the impersonal idea of truth to which the Christian scientists have wakened. Among the essays are Elements of freedom, The ideal of culture, The idea of religion, The nature of prayer, The beauty of poise, Ethical relations, Wealth, Free aims, Higher laws, and The soul of nature.
=Kirkup, Thomas.= History of socialism. *$2.25. Macmillan.
“This third edition ... has been revised at a few points and enlarged by some forty pages. The first twelve chapters are substantially unchanged, but the thirteenth, treating of the growth of socialism, has been completely rewritten to bring it up to date. The concluding chapters deal with the alleged forces now making for the coming of socialism, and review in a dispassionate, if sympathetic way the philosophy of the movement.”—Nation.
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“But none have surpassed Mr. Kirkup in philosophical grasp of the essentials of socialism, or have presented the doctrine in more intelligible form.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 190w.
“No man who reads this generous and impartial volume, the work of a socialist sufficiently broadminded to appreciate the weak points of the propaganda and optimistic enough to analyze modern progress from a healthy point of view, can but feel that such a contribution to the literature of the subject must help to ameliorate old misunderstandings and enmities.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 66. F. 2, ’07. 580w.
“We question whether the spirit of cheerful optimism and an amiable love of compromise, which are the characteristics of this volume, are an adequate mental equipment for a treatment of the subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 646. Ap. 27, ’07. 1030w.
=Kiser, Samuel Ellsworth.= Thrills of a bell boy. 60c. Forbes.
6–16496.
“S. E. Kiser, under this title, writes in his well known style. His bell boy is a close observer and sees many things in the hotel where he works in an humble capacity, hiding a philosopher under his careless exterior. John T. McCutcheon has happily illustrated the text.”—Ind.
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=Ind.= 61: 1400. D. 22, ’06. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 411. Je. 23, ’06. 230w.
=Kitson, Arthur.= Captain James Cook, “the circumnavigator.” *$4.50. Dutton.
7–28952.
Mr. Kitson departs from the material from which narratives of Cook are usually produced, and has gone to the Admirality papers for data. This story of the discoverer of the Sandwich islands tells of one who made the best use of every opportunity as fast as it presented itself. “It tells the remarkable experiences of the man who, after rising from cabin-boy in a collier to captain in the royal navy, discovered Australia, sailed three times around the world, and was killed, as we all know, by the natives of the Sandwich islands.” (Outlook.)
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“Cook’s latest biographer, while a most faithful and painstaking chronicler is either devoid of the capacity of awe, wonder, and romance which the voyages of Cook excite, or he has put these qualities under severe restraint.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 626. Je. 29, ’07. 1400w.
“There has been until now no complete or satisfactory biography.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 229. Ag. 31. 3200w.
“To say that Mr. Kitson never stumbles would be fulsome; it is enough to say that his errors are few and unimportant and will not prevent his book from being accepted as a standard.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 187. Je. 14, ’07. 1470w.
“Mr. Kitson’s work shows great painstaking labor; he corrects several misstatements of previous biographers, and adds some new and interesting facts.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 123. Ag. 8, ’07. 1370w.
“His book is entitled to take rank as the most careful, trustworthy, and complete record of Capt. Cook’s life that has yet been published.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 475. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w.
“It may be cordially praised as a capital piece of narrative writing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 791. Ag. 10, ’07. 260w.
“Mr. Kitson has made some discoveries about the life of the great explorer, Captain Cook, which are well worth the trouble he has expended on them, and they leave the voyages neither less nor more fascinating than they were before.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 944. Je. 15. ’07. 1420w.
=Kitson, Charles Herbert.= Art of counterpoint and its application as a decorative principle. *$2.50. Oxford.
7–38043.
“The work of a man of wide views, yet of one who values the work of antiquity, and is careful to show how rationally the new has been developed from the old. There is a large class of contrapuntists, both in England and in Germany, at the present day, who are accustomed to sneer at the ancient writers, and to whom the researches of Rockstro and others are anathema. It is satisfactory to see that Dr. Kitson is not of this number; he has evidently studied Morley and the ancients thoroughly, and his very concise résumé of ancient practice is so little superficial that we see at once that he is deeply read.”—Lond. Times.
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“He writes well and clearly, and his treatise is excellent alike on the modern and ancient counterpoint. Such a book should do much to dispel the popular delusion that counterpoint is dry.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 150w.
“Dr. Kitson’s ‘The art of counterpoint,’ we are pleased to say is not one of the many treatises on that subject which are based on previous treatises.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 193. Ag. 29, ’07. 280w.
=Kittrell, Norman G.= Ned, nigger an’ gent’man: a story of war and reconstruction days. $1.50. Neale.
7–25078.
Desiring to learn details of the fate of two members of his family who fell in the civil war, a northerner makes his first journey into the south. He becomes a guest of true southern aristocrats, faithful representatives of the very highest class of southern society. The aim of the story seems to be that of modifying a northerner’s abhorrent attitude toward the system of slavery by dropping him into surroundings where master and negro alike are bred to the chivalry of the “quality.”
=Kleiser, Grenville.= How to speak in public. *$1.25. Funk.
6–42418.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This work as a whole is so excellent we feel it would be difficult to overstate its value to serious students.”
+ + + =Arena.= 37: 220. F. ’07. 420w.
“A good deal is taken for granted. The author’s system is nowhere treated clearly as a whole. There is no very plain intimation as to the time is desirable to be given to each chapter. There are exercises and selections, and there are brief passages of exposition and comment, but there is hardly sufficient organization of the material to make the method easy to follow.” W. B. Parker.
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 322. O. ’07. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 220w.
=Klenze, Camillo von.= Interpretation of Italy during the last two centuries: a contribution to the study of Goethe’s “Italienische reise.” *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–18308.
One of the decennial publications of the Chicago university. In this study Goethe’s “Italienische reise” is compared with the travels of his predecessors of the eighteenth century to show how far Goethe was original and to what degree he has been supplemented.
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“The book is a work of research representing a vast amount of reading and labor, and will be of service to any one who desires to follow the story of modern culture and intellectual life.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 42. Jl. 16, ’07. 460w.
“Dr. von Klenze’s style and treatment do not, we regret to say, rise above the level of the doctor’s dissertation; while there is too much cataloguing of details and too little original reasoning and writing, some important facts are left out.”
− =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 380w.
=Knauss, William H.= Story of Camp Chase; a history of the prison and its cemetery. $2.20. Pub. house M. E. ch. so.
6–22869.
“An interesting volume, compiled by a Southerner, but written impartially.... Made up of letters, extracts from documents, and personal recollections of the civil war, dealing especially with the Confederate prisoners at Camp Chase, Johnston’s island in Lake Erie, and Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, as well as other places. Records are given of the disposal of the prisoners.... The numerous illustrations include several maps and diagrams of cemeteries, with graves marked, so that friends can locate them.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The author has given his later years devotedly to this noble work, and has contributed in no small degree to the restoration of good feeling between the once hostile sections.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 619. Mr. 14, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 160w.
* =Knight, William Angus=, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–26349.
The author has collected from various sources estimates, or characterizations, by friends from opposite points of view—a series of mental photographs or appraisals of the man—and has allowed these in their separateness to tell the story of Thomas Davidson’s life and work.
=Knollys, George.= Ledgers and literature. *$1.25. Lane.
A collection of essays upon such subjects as; A professor of sentiment, Lunching in the city, On the adventures of living in a lunatic asylum, An officer of the boys’ brigade, On the cultivation of the spirit of Greek archaeology, and A week on the Thames.
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“[At times] Mr. Knollys, possibly under the influence of a lunch-cake which he despises, allows the prose-poet in him to diminish into the poeticule of prose.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 547. N. 3. 180w.
“Some of these humorously fanciful sketches might also have come from the pen of Charles Lamb at his desk in the East India house.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 328. N. 16, ’06. 360w.
“These essays, on the whole, are kept up to a very respectable standard, a standard certainly far higher than that which the ordinary novelist reaches. But the standard rarely reaches really brilliant and original work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 340. Mr. 16, ’07. 210w.
“There is often common-sense, quite good common-sense in it, but not wisdom.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 830. N. 24, ’06. 140w.
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= Undertow. †$1.50. Revell.
6–38396.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is a good novel, and a pleasant one, and in every respect worthy of the author of ‘St. Cuthbert of the West.’”
+ =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 200w.
=Knox, Charles Edwin.= Electric light wiring. *$2. McGraw pub.
7–18292.
The author has considered the wiring of buildings by the two and three-wire systems only. “The different generating systems, such as double-generator, single-generator with a balancer set or with compensating transformers are then very simply outlined by the aid of diagrams. Methods of wiring buildings approved by the National board of fire underwriters, and the proper use of conduit, cables, tubes, porcelain fittings, etc., are described. The author has included considerable information on the manufacture of interior conductors with the National code requirements.” (Engin. N.)
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“The volume presents the subject of building wiring in actual practice. For this reason the book should be of especial use to young engineers who have not had time or opportunity to acquire a system of practice for themselves. To those who have had little opportunity to approach electrical engineering mathematically, this book should be equally useful.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 750w.
=Knox, George William.= Development of religion in Japan. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–6732.
“In three religions ‘the religion of Japan’ finds various expression. Shintoism is religious patriotism; Buddhism is the faith of the unlettered and poor; Confucianism is ‘the religion of gentlemen.’ These three have been variously modified during the comparatively brief period of fourteen centuries covered by historical dates. The account of these changes constitutes a history of the development of that innate religious feeling in which all religions root.... The religion of Japan already finds a fourth expression in Christianity, as a part of the nation’s new enlightenment.”—Outlook.
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“With the ease and poise of a trained scholar, he shows us the development of religion in Japan.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 335. Je. 1, ’07. 1220w.
“Less interesting as a human story than ‘The religions of Japan,’ by another American author, this work is far superior as the philosophic presentation of a most fascinating chapter in the grand story of the human mind.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 224. Jl. 25, ’07. 470w.
“In the possible elements of human interest this book may be lacking but as a philosophical treatment of a great theme in a spirit at once catholic, critical, and sympathetic, it is a masterpiece.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 1270w.
“Shows in an admirable manner how the religious feelings of the nation have been excited, and how in the course of the ages they have changed and progressed.” K. K. Kawakami.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 217. Ap. 6, ’07. 890w.
“This volume has interest for the general reader. Its author is peculiarly qualified for appreciative treatment of his subject by his long residence in Japan.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 260w.
=Knox, George William.= Spirit of the Orient. *$1.50. Crowell.
6–34855.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. S.
“He is able to express himself in an easy and graceful style.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 218. Ja. ’07. 350w.
“This work is, in our judgment, the best volume on the subject that has appeared. No one who wishes an intelligent grasp of the great Eastern problem should fail to read ‘The spirit of the Orient.’”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 219. F. ’07. 910w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 314. Mr. ’07. 2110w.
“It is one of the keenest in analysis, perhaps, of any book written on the Far East.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 561. D. 27, ’06. 810w.
“The still too ignorant Occidental will find not only a sympathetic study of the peoples and customs of India, China and Japan, but also an appreciation of the peculiar spirit and problems of each country.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 296. Je. 8, ’07. 1390w.
=Knyvett, Sir Henry.= Defence of the realme. *$1.75. Oxford.
“A hitherto unpublished manuscript now edited by Charles Hughes. Knyvett was a country gentleman, a soldier and a magistrate who, when England was, as it appeared, threatened with a Spanish invasion in 1596, composed this little treatise for presentation to Queen Elizabeth. In it he set forth with the authority of his long experience his views as to the best way to master, train, equip, and handle an army to beat off the invasion.”—Nation.
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“The tract was written in haste. On the technical side the treatise is at its weakest. It advocates the use of the antiquated longbow.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 688. Ap. ’07. 140w.
“The volume is very pleasant to read and handle.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 280w.
“His style is direct with an occasional quaintness of turn, but not in itself noteworthy.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 550. S. ’07. 100w.
“Is well edited and commented on by Mr. Charles Hughes.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 149. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.
“The book as a whole is exceedingly interesting as well as curious, and Mr. Hughes deserves the gratitude of students, not only of history but of military science, for his discovery of Sir Henry Knyvett’s pamphlet.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 240w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Famous American songs, il. **$1.50. Crowell.
6–35736.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
“The work is admirably adapted for a presentation volume, appropriate for all tastes.”
+ =Arena.= 37: 109. Ja. ’07. 130w.
“Tells about everything one can in reason wish to know about some dozen native airs.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 110w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= How to appreciate music. **$1.50. Moffat.
6–38904.
An attempt in wholly untechnical language, to satisfy the desires of those who enjoy music and wish to know more about it. The volume is divided into three sections: How to appreciate a pianoforte recital, How to appreciate an orchestral concert, and How to appreciate vocal music.
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“Enthusiastic, sometimes gushing, but as a whole, interesting, readable and instructive. Does not replace Krehbiel’s ‘How to listen to music;’ it is not so well written nor so systematically arranged, but it is more suggestive and contains material on later composers, such as Richard Strauss, not to be found in Krehbiel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
“Avowedly ‘popular’ in intent, and even at times a bit careless in style, the book contains a deal of gossipy chat about musicians.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 560w.
“Here are elucidation, history, criticism, gossip, anecdote, cleverly commingled, making the book one that can be read for entertainment as well as instruction.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 445. N. 22, ’06. 390w.
“The seeker after musical knowledge will find much that is entertaining and instructive in these pages and much that is suggestive; but we are constrained to say that he is also likely to find much that is misleading and unbalanced.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 380w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Signora. †$1. Crowell.
7–21369.
The incidents of this sketch take place behind the scenes in the Metropolitan opera house, New York. They are associated with a little waif that was left at the stage entrance one stormy night when Calvé and other famous singers were rendering Carmen. The child is adopted by the company and grows up to be the central figure in a romance whose side-light touches reveal characteristics of well known singers who are seen under thin disguises.
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“Is as interesting to the older people as to the children.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“It is a pleasant story of kindness, and is interesting from its original setting.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
=Koenigsberger, Leo.= Hermann von Helmholtz; tr. by Frances A. Welby. *$5.25. Oxford.
7–11038.
A translation, slightly abridged, of a well known German work. “This volume, of absorbing interest, outlines a life which was intimately bound up in the life of the scientific world during the last century.” (Nation.)
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“Care has been taken to retain what is essential, and the work has therefore suffered but little. The translation has been carried out with skill, and the writing is on the whole good.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 410w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 416. My. 2, ’07. 730w.
=Kraus, Edward Henry.= Essentials of crystallography. *$1.60. Wahr.
6–38911.
A book intended for beginners. “A bibliography of forty-one titles of important reference books and articles is at the beginning of the book. This is followed by a sixteen-page general discussion of the properties of crystals their arrangement into systems, the symbols used, the symmetry, and tractional forms. The systems are then taken up in order, beginning with the cubic and following through to the triclinic. The relations of axes, symmetry, and possible classes are taken up with considerable care in each system.” (J. Geol.)
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“The book seems well suited to its purpose, and puts in a concise and compact form that part of its subject which is absolutely essential for an understanding of crystallography.” J. C. J.
+ + =J. Geol.= 15: 507. Jl. ’07. 300w.
“The six pages devoted to compound crystals will seem to many inadequate. Not the least valuable part of the work is an appendix.” Wm. Herbert Hobbs.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 24: 807. D. 21, ’06. 770w.
=Kropotkin, Petr Alexeivich.= Conquest of bread. *$1. Putnam.
7–11010.
The undertone of Prince Kropotkin’s discussion is that “every society which has abolished private property will be forced to reorganize itself on the lines of communistic anarchy.” “He attempts to demonstrate that communistic and socialistic ideals, despite setbacks and reactions have ever been approaching nearer to practical realization.” (R. of Rs.)
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“The translator has done his work well, but has been unable to conceal the extent to which the plausibility of the book rests upon a large use of vague words and of the fallacy of composition and division when talking about ‘the people’ and ‘the workers.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 380. Mr. 30. 640w.
“He is a close reasoner, a learned traveller, a keen observer, and he brings into brilliant light uninterpreted truths.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 230. O. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Kropotkin’s chapters lack the charm and the scientific serenity of his ‘Autobiography’ and his ‘Fields, factories and workshops.’”
− =Ind.= 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 680w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 441. Jl. ’07. 150w.
“An extremely interesting exposition of the gospel of anarchy.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 71. Mr. 1, ’07. 960w.
“The present volume adds nothing to what he has said elsewhere and it is hard to understand why it has been brought out in American dress.”
− =Nation.= 84: 20. Jl. 4, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w.
“Prince Peter Kropotkin lives in another world and talks another language.”
− =Spec.= 97: 923. D. 8, ’06. 250w.
=Krusi, Hermann.= Recollections of my life; ed. by Elizabeth S. Alling. **$2.50. Grafton press.
7–26153.
An autobiographical sketch supplemented by extracts from the educator’s personal records and a review of his literary productions together with selected essays. The record of the author’s educational career chiefly identified with the Oswego normal school, is enlivened “record book” material which afford glimpses into his intellectual life and his character.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’97. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 718. N. 9, ’07. 140w.
=Kuhn, Franz.= Barbarossa, tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
6–35590.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 21. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Kuhns, (Levi) Oscar.= John Huss: The witness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–23894.
In this volume in the “Men of the kingdom” series it has been the author’s aim “to give a plain, straightforward, and concise account of the life, death, and influence of one of the world’s most inspiring witnesses of the truth.”
=Kyle, George A.= Morning glory club. $1.25. Page.
7–12001.
The women of a northern New England town are seized with the spirit of club organization and the “Morning glory club” is the result. General improvement, a definite force for good in the town seem to be their theoretical watchwords yet they go far afield for bits of gossip to retail indiscriminately at their meetings. An equally gossipy group of husbands in the background, a village parson who believes that the club is the devil’s own disguise, a charming young school teacher, misunderstood and much maligned, and the parson’s son, dismissed from college for his pranks, furnish some of the personalities with which the story deals. Comic as well as tragic happenings abound, but all ends well amid wholesome reform and reconciliation.
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“He has displayed no startling originality, but the story is readable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 170w.
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=Labriola, Antonio.= Socialism and philosophy; tr. by Ernest Untermann. $1. Kerr.
7–3090.
This volume in the “International library of social science” has been translated from the third Italian edition, which has been revised and amplified by the author. In the form of a series of letters, “a conversation in writing” with Mr. G. Sorei, Labriola has shown “that we must study the social conditions which were the cradle of historical materialism, if we would understand its full meaning. He has demonstrated to us that we must familiarize ourselves also with the individual growth of the founders of scientific socialism, of its prominent interpreters, its present day elaborators.”
=Ladd, Horatio Oliver.= Chunda: a story of the Navajos. $1.25. Meth. bk.
6–37926.
“The career of an Indian girl and her lover, who broke away from their barbaric tribe to learn for its redemption the principles and arts of civilization. Years afterward they emerge from their training ... and go back to their native mountain ... to labor together for the civilization and Christianization of their people.... Dramatic and tragic interest is added to the narrative, which breathes a deeply religious spirit throughout with an evident purpose of stimulating a missionary interest.”—Outlook.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 110w.
“It is an excellent book for Sunday-school libraries. All that it seems to lack is a prefatory note to indicate how far it is fiction and how far it is fact.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 938. D. 15, ’06. 130w.
=Lafargue, Paul.= The right to be lazy and other studies. 50c. Kerr.
7–23081.
Papers whose purpose is to incite the socialist to march up to the assault of the ethics and the social theories of capitalism and establish a future communist society “peaceably if we may, forcibly if we must.”
=Lamb, C. G.= Alternating currents: a textbook for students of engineering. *$3 Longmans.
W 7–137.
“The first seven chapters cover the preliminary statements of the usual methods of treating alternate-current problems in general, also of measuring instruments, and discuss the theory of the single-phase transformer.... A very brief mention of single-phase commutator motors occupies the eighth chapter.... The rest of the book is devoted to the consideration of alternators both as generators and motors, and of induction motors.”—Nature.
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“He has succeeded in producing an excellent reference book for engineers, but from the reviewer’s experience it is too heavy a text for undergraduates.” Henry H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 635. D. 13, ’06. 530w.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 97. N. 29, ’06. 1510w.
=Lamb, Charles.= Essays of Elia; with an introduction and notes by Alfred Ainger, and a biographical sketch by Henry Morley. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this volume is furnished with such additional helps as a biographical sketch of Lamb, an introduction and notes.
=Lambert, Preston A.= Computation and mensuration. *80c. Macmillan.
7–30461.
A short course whose chapters are as follows: Approximate computation, Graphic computation, Method of co-ordinates, Volumes of solids bounded by planes, Use of trigonometric functions, Use of logarithms, Limits, Graphic algebra, Areas bounded by curves, Volumes of solids. “These headings give in a general way the subject matter of the book. Greatest attention is given to concrete applications of principles. The solution of characteristic problems is illustrated and several additional are given for solution at numerous points throughout.” (Engin. N.)
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+ =Engin. N.= 58: 427. O. 17, ’07. 330w.
=Lampson, G. Locker-.= Consideration of the state of Ireland in the nineteenth century. *$5. Dutton.
“A dictionary of English misgovernment of Ireland.” (Spec.) It is “expressly, intended to gibbet the incompetence of Ireland’s governors for five centuries and in suffusing British cheeks with shame to evoke better intentions for the future.” The author “does not believe Ireland’s ills will be cured by home rule. He proposes closer union, rather than separation. Only he suggests that that union be commercial and social, not political.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Relates, though not in well-arranged order, the chief political events connected with recent Irish history.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 757. Je. 22. 130w.
“It is a combination of history, characterdrawing, political discussion, and the evisceration of blue books which Mr. Lampson’s volume offers. He is a shrewd observer of men.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 142. Ag. 15, ’07. 470w.
“Mr. Locker-Lampson makes an exhaustive examination of Irish conditions—and finds what others have found. The chief interest of this book is in the remedy he proposes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 545. S. 14, ’07. 1400w.
=Outlook.= 87: 589. N. 16, ’07. 270w.
“It is a pity that so much labor should have been marred by such want of judgment.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 422. O. 5, ’07. 1630w.
“Regarded, however, as a thesaurus of Irish history, this volume, well arranged, well indexed, almost too lavishly appendixed, is of the highest value as a reference book; it is ‘the case’ against Irish misgovernment.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 93. Jl. 20, ’07. 800w.
=Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo.= Golden days of the renaissance in Rome from the pontificate of Julius II. to that of Paul III. **$5. Houghton.
6–39434.
Against the glowing background of Rome’s renaissance, Signor Lanciani’s five distinct figures are traced: “Paul III., who during the fifteen years that he occupied the chair of St. Peter’s accomplished such wonders in rescuing Rome from the degradation into which it had fallen; Michelangelo and Raphael, supreme in art; Vittoria Colonna, the most cultured of sixteenth century women; and Agostino Chigi, the banker whose splendid financial abilities and great wealth gave him the surname of ‘Il Magnifico.’” (Dial.)
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“A few slips in dates which we have observed may be due to oversight on the part of the proof-reader, but inconsistency in giving the modern equivalent for sums of money can hardly be due to that cause. In general there is good reason to speak well of the book.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 623. Ap. ’07. 840w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“The work is one of permanent value and interest, and a special word of praise must be given to the illustrations. There is an excellent index.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 545. My. 4. 1230w.
“Fills a gap in the important series of topographical and antiquarian studies whereby the most readable of archæologists has done so much to render the chaotic Rome of to-day an intelligible spectacle to the passing pilgrim.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 424. Mr. ’07. 1350w.
“The many matters which Signor Lanciani has taken out of their semi-obscurity in the Italian archives of learned societies and made available to the English reader, the many stories which he has himself aided in unfolding, entitle him to not a little gratitude.” Anna B. McMahan.
+ + =Dial.= 41: 446. D. 16, ’06. 1390w.
“It is really in this elaborate introduction to his main topic that the professor best proves his originality of thought and literary skill.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 31: 165. Ap. ’07. 320w.
“The volume contains much hitherto-unpublished information gained from study of the old monuments.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The general attractiveness of Lanciani’s writing is indubitable. His sentences run fluently. He is singularly effective in the manner of telling a story as it were to a single listener. The writer can hardly hold himself down for two consecutive minutes to the topic he has in hand. Another fault is the tendency to inaccuracy, which appears so frequently in matters that can be checked, that it arouses distrust of the author’s accuracy in matters of perhaps greater moment that lie within the scope of his peculiar knowledge.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 268. Mr. 21, ’07. 1340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 810. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“Rodolfo Lanciani seems now to have reached the age when his accumulation of knowledge vaguely obscures his point of view as to the essentials required for popular interpretation.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 309. My. 11, ’07. 760w.
“A notable and impressive looking volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 765. Mr. 30, ’07. 270w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 30w.
“Professor Lanciani, indeed, who, in the course of a gossiping and diverting book, devotes a chapter to the subject, writes of these poems with somewhat less than his customary insight.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 430. Ap. 6, ’07. 880w.
“Signor Lanciani knows his subject thoroughly and at first hand, and he is able to bring to bear a vast amount of curious and interesting detail.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 29, ’07. 250w.
=Landon, Perceval.= Under the sun. *$4.80. Doubleday.
7–35221.
“Twenty-five chapters written in the course of annual wanderings over India during the last five years.... Every province in India, including Burma, is represented.... The final chapter purports to describe the later days of Nana Sahib.... The book is well illustrated.”—Ath.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 124. My. ’07.
“The chapters are mainly impressions of many Indian cities, and they are generally correct and just; the writer is faithful as to local colour, and not less trustworthy as to local smells, which are often more insistent, if less insisted on by descriptive writers.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 828. D. 29. 500w.
“Many of his narratives of famous persons and events ... are of thrilling interest.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 250w.
“Has most of the attractive literary features of the author’s recent volume on Tibet. The illustrations, an important feature of the book, include many unusual aspects of India.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 207. Ag. 10, ’07. 560w.
“Even the reader who has never seen India may enjoy these impressions; but it is the visitor reading on the spot, or, still more, the old resident refreshing his memory with them for whom they will have the greatest charm. As far as it is possible to do so in words, they certainly convey the impression of the colouring and the atmosphere of the scenes which they describe.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 391. N. 23, ’06. 780w.
“He certainly has produced a readable book, though many of his sketches convey less clear-cut impressions of the places than those of some other writers who have gone over the ground before, Steevens, for instance; and they lack proportion. Some point is seized on and overstrained with a discursiveness that causes the reader at times to lose the thread of the narrative, whilst other more characteristic features of the picture are omitted.”
− + =Nature.= 75: 268. F. 17, ’07. 880w.
“The author has had a quick eye for the distinctive features of the Eastern wonderland.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Landon’s book is valuable because it comprises suggestive impressions of an acute observer as to the actual present.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 60w.
“He writes well and picturesquely. Bookmaking of this sort is overdone, and the chief novelty in it is the account given at the end, of the last days of Nana Sahib. It is a somewhat incongruous chapter in such a book, and at best is not a very valuable or entertaining contribution to history.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: 747. D. 15, ’06. 150w.
=Landor, Walter Savage.= Charles James Fox: a commentary on his life and character; ed. by Stephen Wheeler. *$2.75. Putnam.
7–29125.
A hitherto unpublished work of Walter Savage Landor’s—a study of the life and character of the statesman Charles James Fox. The book was printed in 1812, but suppressed, and the manuscript and all but one copy of the book were destroyed. “The memoirs were, of course, highly eulogistic of Fox, and hence a bête noire to Landor, who was in the habit of hurling abuse with impartial hand at most of the political leaders of his day.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is handsomely set forth and the editorial notes are good and sufficient.” G. S. Street.
+ =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 880w.
“No reader of discrimination can lay the volume aside without feeling that, despite its extravagance and occasional perversity it is the product of a noble and magnificently endowed intellect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 656. Je. 1. 1270w.
“Its present day claim is upon students of literature rather than of politics. It is the vigorous unconventional prose in which Landor’s political and literary convictions are expressed that gives the volume any permanent value that attaches to it.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 881. O. 10, ’07. 490w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 138. My. 3, ’07. 1320w.
“As an historical estimate of Fox the book is too polemical to have much value, but the style has a rare energy and color.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 126. Ag. 8, ’07. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 400w.
“Well worth the painstaking labor that Mr. Stephen Wheeler has bestowed upon it, for in its present form the ‘Commentary’ has both a literary and a political value.” Edward Porritt.
+ =No. Am.= 185: 664. Jl. 19, ’07. 1810w.
“A work which, for all its defects, bears in certain particulars the stamp of true genius.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 562. Je. 13, ’07. 1910w.
“It was certainly well worth publishing, and the editor has done his work with care and precision.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 130w.
“It is as a glimpse into Landor’s mind, as an additional chapter in the life of one of the strangest and most original among English men of letters, that his ‘commentary’ possesses its real and permanent value.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 292. Ag. 31, ’07. 2430w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Homer and his age. *$3.50. Longmans.
7–2323.
“The present volume, while it contains much that is to be found in its predecessor [‘Homer and the epic’] is less general, and deals rather with problems of archaeology, the writer seeking to show that throughout the Iliad there is a consistency in regard to such details as the peculiar feudal relations of the chiefs to their over-lord, the burial of the dead, the use of bronze for weapons, or the descriptions of armour, which affords convincing proof that all parts of the poem are approximately of the same date.” (Spec.)
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“We welcome another powerful counterblast from the graceful and vigorous pen of Mr. Andrew Lang against the disintegrators of the poems of Homer.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ =Acad.= 71: 543. D. 1, ’06. 1600w.
“It is a fascinating book, and a noteworthy. Mr. Lang was born too late to keep the wolf from the door of the Homeric house, but this championship of Homer will go far to bring the poet’s scattered goods together again under one roof, to be the heirlooms of Achaean glory.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 624. Je. 29, ’07. 2200w.
“Altogether, from frontispiece ... to finis, the book is one for which every Homeric student may well be grateful.” J. Irving Manatt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 605. Ap. ’07. 700w.
“We are sorry that Mr. Lang has not treated his subject more thoroughly, because we are at one with him in most that he says, and would fain go the whole way if we could.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 38. Ja. 12. 1260w.
“Mr. Lang’s polemic, despite much repetition and some wearisome details, holds the attention by a wealth of pertinent illustration from Norse and Old French literature, and by the force and cunning of his dialectical swordplay.” Paul Shorey.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 248. Ap. 16, ’07. 1450w.
“Excellent book.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 75. Mr. 8, ’07. 1790w.
“He has evidently written up his notes currente calamo, with little concern for system and unity of presentation, consistency in argument, or the elimination of wearisome repitition.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 458. My. 16, ’07. 580w.
“Mr. Lang has written such a sound, humane and scholarly book that we can say directly: This is of the absolute truth.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 26. Ja. 19, ’07. 1630w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 304. Mr. 9, ’07. 1740w.
“Those who love Homer or admire Mr. Lang will take up this volume with eagerness, only to close it with a sigh, while the critic who dreamed of finding matter for a pleasant essay discovers that he has to deal with a dispute the pleadings in which would perplex and weary even the Court of Chancery.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 1046. D. 22, ’06. 1850w.
=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Olive fairy book. **$1.60. Longmans.
7–31208.
Colored plates and numerous other illustrations give additional life to these tales derived from various sources, from India, France, Turkey, Armenia, and Denmark.
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“As fascinating as those that have gone before. The book is sure to enthral any child who may possess it, and many persons of more discreet years.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 478. O. 19. 90w.
=Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 70w.
“At times are gruesome and without moral, to an extent that prohibits their being wholesome reading for very young children.”
− =R. of Rs.= 36: 764. D. ’07. 100w.
“The collection is an excellent one—Mr. Lang’s editorship vouches for that—and one and all are entertaining.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 748. N. 16, ’07. 150w.
* =Lang, Andrew=, ed. Orange fairy book; il. by H. J. Ford. **$1.60. Longmans.
6–34647.
Mr. Lang says that his stories “‘are taken from those told by grannies to grandchildren in many countries and many languages—French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Gaelic, Icelandic, Cherokee, African, Indian, Australian, Slavonic, and what not.’ As he says, the old puzzle remains—‘why do the stories of the remotest people so closely resemble each other?’” (Sat. R.)
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+ =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 110w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 52. F. ’07. ✠
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 511. O. 27. 70w.
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 408. D. ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lang’s ‘Orange fairy book’ will not have to look far for eager hands.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 40w.
“High among fairy books must be placed Andrew Lang’s annual offering.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 70w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 718. N. 3, ’06. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 632. N. 10, ’06. 60w.
“Some of them again, as in past years, too gruesome for child reading.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 34: 765. D. ’06. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“There is less of the gruesome than we seem to remember in one or other of the earlier volumes, and there are, as usual, some illustrations of excellent quality.”
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 659. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
=Lang, Andrew=, ed. Poets’ country, il. **$5. Lippincott.
In text and picture the purpose of this book is to trace the relations of poets with the aspects of “their ain countrie.” Among the poets are Scott, Shelley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Chaucer, Goldsmith, Keats, Spencer, Moore and Burns. A number of men have participated in producing the volume.
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“The fact is that the ‘spirit of place’ dominates a few poets only, and a more careful selection would have made this book more representative.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 520w.
“The book is one to delight lovers of poetry and lovers of the English country.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 377. D. 1, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 397. O. 31, ’07. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It is chock-block full of telling quotations, and it really has plenty of pleasant and informed matter.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 788. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“All the essays included in the volume may be read with great pleasure.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 133. Jl. 27, ’07. 300w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Portraits and jewels of Mary Stuart. *$2.75. Macmillan.
7–2430.
A pictorial history of Mary Queen of Scots from her tenth year to that preceding her death. Mr. Lang has selected, in all, thirteen portraits which he proves to be contemporary and authentic. He is aided in accepting or rejecting a portrait by jewels represented to be worn at different sittings.
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“Mr. Andrew Lang has now gone over the ground again with an historical acumen greater than that of any of his predecessors in the field.” J. H. Pollen, S. J.
+ + =Acad.= 70: 543. Je. 9, ’06. 1160w.
“The text is noteworthy for its criticism, its freshness, and its suggestiveness.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 193. Ag. 18. 1020w.
“An inquiry from this point of view has added considerably to our knowledge of the subject, both with regard to portraits and miniatures. Mr. Lang’s most important result is a rehabilitation of a fascinating portrait in the possession of the earl of Leven and Melville.” Robert S. Rait.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 803. O. ’06. 570w.
“With infinite care and rare critical acumen he has summed up the arguments.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 30: 90. N. ’06. 340w.
“The object of Mr. Lang, supplementing as he does the researches of Sir George Scharf, Mr. Lionel Cust, Mr. Foster, and others, is rather to correct over-scepticism and to indicate if possible the claims to consideration of certain portraits on which doubts are thrown.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 298. Ag. 31, ’06. 2590w.
“Especially in its account of the Queen’s jewels this study is a valuable addition to the knowledge of all who have not the advantage of being Scottish antiquarians.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 418. N. 15, ’06. 950w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 557. S. 8, ’06. 2220w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Lang has had several predecessors in this field of research about Mary Stuart’s personal appearance and ornaments, but he has drawn information from original sources, and added some fresh facts.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 150w.
“It is a subject after his own heart, and he has done it ample justice.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 173. Ag. 4, ’06. 450w.
=Lang, Elsie M.= Literary London; with introd. by G. K. Chesterton. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–13410.
Cyclopedic in its manner of treatment and alphabetic in its arrangement Miss Lang’s book becomes one of handy reference.
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“Will prove useful to the tourist who is in search of the spots associated with the great English writers.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 48. Ja. 16, ’07. 50w.
“As a book of reference, it has merits, though they do not include completeness.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 57. Ja. 17, ’07. 380w.
“To one who knows London well enough to have its broad map and the relative position of its neighborhoods in his mind, the book is a delight. It is a collection of prosaic but agreeable memories.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 885. D. 22, ’06. 1180w.
=Langdon, Amelie=, comp. Just for two: a collection of recipes designed for two persons. 3d ed., rev. and enl. *90c. Wilson, H. W.
A new edition of a popular cook book which deals in amounts small enough to serve two people without waste.
=Langfeld, Millard.= Introduction to infectious and parasitic diseases, including their cause and manner of transmission; with an introduction by Lewellys F. Barker. *$1.25. Blakiston.
7–17014.
A book for nurses, physicians and students which gives a clear description of the fundamental principles of the causation and manner of transmission of infectious diseases, and includes chapters on bacteriology, animal parasites and disinfectants and disinfection.
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“For the general reader, it would be hard to find a better concise statement of the more modern view of micro-organisms in their relation to disease. But the classification of the non-specific bacteria (p. 51) is somewhat obscure, and the terminology, although justified by numerous precedents, is inconsistent.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 238. S. 12, ’07. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 465. Jl. 27, ’07. 200w.
=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Kingdom of man. **$1.40. Holt.
7–29194.
This is not “as its title might indicate, an anthropological treatise, but rather a group of three very interesting and striking essays on scientific subjects, especially as related to the needs and interests of humanity. The first is the Romanes lecture at Oxford in 1905, and is a ... plea that the English universities abandon the compulsory study of Greek and Latin and make the study of nature an integral and predominant part of every man’s education.... The second essay is an outline of the advance in science made in the last quarter of a century, being the presidential address at the recent meeting of the British association for the advancement of science.... The closing essay is on the ‘Sleeping sickness’ which is now devastating tropical Africa and bids fair to become the third great plague of the race.”—Dial.
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“He has conjured up for us, in the three chapters of this book, a lurid picture of our position to-day; while, at the same time, he gives us a masterly exposition of what the new learning will do for us, both as regards our private and our public affairs. The latest discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology are here lucidly set forth; and in such a way that even the most skeptical must feel that we have too long neglected our duty in this matter.” W. P. Pycraft.
+ =Acad.= 72: 206. Mr. 2, ’07. 1350w.
Review by Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ =Dial.= 43: 14. Jl. 1, ’07. 740w.
“The volume is a valuable addition to popular scientific literature. Its skeptical, almost contemptuous attitude toward certain conclusions of psychologists, quite as well established as the human nature of the ‘pithecanthropus,’ e. g. telepathy, freshly illustrates the streak of provincialism observable in men of the highest special learning.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’70. 320w.
“A work of interest and scientific insight.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 644. Ap. 27, ’07. 1220w.
=Lansdale, Maria Horner.= Chateaux of Touraine. **$6. Century.
6–34856.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Authoritative, accurate, and charming in style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07.
“The only chapter in which the author breaks new ground is that on Luynes, which relates at some length the history of the descendants of Charles d’Albert.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 583. My. 11. 180w.
Reviewed by Harriet Waters Preston.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 422. Mr. ’07. 110w.
=Lapponi, Giuseppe.= Hypnotism and spiritism: a critical and medical study; tr. from the 2d rev. ed. by Mrs. Philip Gibbs. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–11197.
“The doctor carefully distinguishes hypnotism from spiritism; and he points out the two considerations that have led some writers to confound them. The first is that hypnotic subjects, as well as spiritistic media, belong to the neurotic class; the second is that from hypnotic to spiritistic phenomena the distance is not great, and very frequently they are found side by side, alternately, or even together.”—Cath. World.
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“The author treats his subject in a simple, popular fashion, and does not profess to have any personal experience of spiritistic manifestations, and no expert acquaintance with hypnotism.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 403. Je. ’07. 400w.
=Nature.= 76: 348. Ag. 8, ’07. 390w.
“Unquestionably it is highly interesting, but its interest is for [one] who wants to study the mind of a pope’s physician rather than occultism, or for an ardent disbeliever in metaphysics who may be pleased by an agreement with his thoughts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 173. Mr. 23, ’07. 280w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 425. Jl. 6, ’07. 710w.
=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Books, culture and character. **$1. Houghton.
6–36012.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 687, Ap. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Larned’s book to some degree shows the limitation under which many good treatises suffer. They deal with what ought to be, to the exclusion of what is.” Wm. T. Brewster.
+ + − =Forum.= 28: 382. Ja. ’07. 1210w.
“The addresses are neither erudite nor ‘literary.’ But they are commendable for the plain common-sense and simple clear-sightedness with which they resolve some of the confusions and sophistries of the day.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 170w.
“The appeal for a more humanistic teaching of history and the straightforward attack upon many sophistical subtilities of the present day commend the book to those who are not bored by the plain good intention and right-minded common-sense.” George H. Browne.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 401. My. ’07. 850w.
* =Lasance, F. X.= Thoughts on the religious life. *$1.50. Benziger.
On the general principles of religious life, on perfect charity the end of the religious life, on vocation, the vows, the rules, the cloister virtues and the main devotions of the church.
* =Lathers, Richard.= Reminiscences of Richard Lathers. **$2.50. Grafton press.
7–21270.
Reminiscences of sixty years of active life spent in South Carolina, Massachusetts, and New York. Tho a Southerner, the author’s attitude was against secession and he stood for the preservation of the Union.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The many friendships that he formed during and after the civil war with men of prominence give a peculiar interest to his letters, which chiefly make up the present volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 90w.
=Lathrop, Elise.= Where Shakespeare set his stage. **$2. Pott.
6–33547.
“Lovers of Shakespeare will be particularly interested in the Lathrop volume.”
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+ =Ind.= 61: 1403. D. 22, ’06. 150w.
“The book is a welcome, if not a weighty, addition to the Shakespearian literature, and will form a profitable companion volume to an edition of his works.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 466. O. 5, ’07. 180w.
=Latta, Marion Nisbet-.= Handbook of American gas-engineering practice. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
7–30142.
A three-part work as follows: 1, Water-gas manufacture, from the consideration of the fuels and materials to the gas-holder; 2, Gas distribution, including also a discussion of the various gas-burning appliances and their attendant data; 3, General technical data, containing theoretical, mathematical, and technical information on the properties of gases and steam caloric values, temperature data, etc.
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“The sweeping condemnation of any work should ever be unpleasant and not lightly done. Nothing else seems possible, however, in the case of this book and gas engineers, should be prompt to disavow it as representing to any appreciable extent ‘American gas engineering practice.’” Walton Forstall and Charles J. Ramsburg.
− − =Engin. N.= 58: 531. N. 14, ’07. 1940w.
=Lau, Robert Julius.= Old Babylonian temple records. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–46312.
“In the winter of 1894–95 DeSarzec, the explorer of Tello, unearthed ... large collections of inscribed clay tablets, estimated to number about 30,000.... Columbia university acquired 258 of them, which Dr. Lau has published in this small and handy volume. A little more than one-third of the tablets he has transcribed. These appear in facsimile reproduction with a sign list and glossary. Prefixed to this is a catalogue of the entire collection, containing a description of each tablet and its contents.”—Nation.
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“It is a fine piece of work, accurately done, and a credit to the university’s scholarship; while it illustrates the importance to a university of having access to such original material for study.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 330w.
“Intended primarily for Assyriologists, they contain material of the first value for the student of the history of mankind.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 414. My. 2, ’07. 600w.
=Laughlin, Clara E.= Felicity: the making of a comedienne. †$1.50. Scribner.
7–10619.
The story of a stage career. Felicity Fergus, orphaned in babyhood, is brought up by an austere grandmother who fought the child’s irrepressible sense of humor, vivid imagination and general spirit of hero worship. Felicity comes under the spell of an old comedian, who discovers the spark of histrionism in her, but who discourages an ambitious aunt in starting the child upon the long road to stage fame. Nevertheless the start is made, and the reader is given an intimate view of hardships that pave the way to success, of heartaches and struggles that lie just back of the footlights. The great charm of the story lies in the unsullied freshness with which Felicity emerges from her developing process against odds to grace the high places in her profession.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“It leaves you with the pleasant feeling that the world is full of gentle and brave people; that suffering is accounted for by the sweetening of character under its ministry; and that love will not pass by on the other side if one’s heart is ready to receive it.” Harry James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 133. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“Studies of theatrical life, that bear the imprint of accurate knowledge are so few and far between that ‘Felicity’ would still be a noteworthy book even without the blending of tender humour and pathos which it in no small degree possesses.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 284. Ap. ’07. 390w.
“It is, on the whole, a novel of such interest and charm that we are content to accept it, with whatever defects may accompany its qualities, as one of the most pleasing contributions to the season’s output of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 500w.
“It is the first American story of stage life that promises to achieve a popular success, perhaps because it does not go too far below the surface.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1268. My. 30, ’07. 120w.
“The story gives a very fair idea of the wholesome side of the stage.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 593. Ap. 13, ’07. 280w.
“The merits of this book lie largely in its freedom from the usual features of the theatrical novel.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 310w.
“There are some awkward constructions. The story upon the whole, however, is an admirable one, quite out of the common, and full of varied interest.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 189. Mr. 30, ’07. 880w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“It is full of unusual qualities, but there are too many monologues and duets in it; everybody except Phineas Morton talks too much.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 115. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=Laughlin, James Laurence.= Industrial America; the Berlin lectures of 1906. **$1.25. Scribner.
6–37187.
These lectures given at Berlin by Prof. Laughlin of Chicago university were delivered in the German language and include the following industrial subjects: American competition with Europe, Protection and reciprocity, The labor problem, The trust problem, The railway question, The banking problem, The present status of economic thinking in the United States.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07. S.
“The volume is to be commended to all who are seeking to understand these questions.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 468. N. ’06. 120w.
“But while we believe Professor Laughlin has not over-stated the facts concerning the Senate we wonder at his inability to reason consistently when he attempts to discuss some other important problems.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 36: 675. D. ’06. 1950w.
“Interesting and well-written volume.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 314. Mr. 16. 1260w.
“It must be admitted that he has not duly considered in his argument some very important aspects of the subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 248. O. 16, ’07. 140w.
“Tho much contained therein may appear to us trite and commonplace, the volume, nevertheless, forms a noteworthy addition to our economic literature.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1230. N. 22, ’06. 860w.
“There is nothing now in print better worth the attention of American readers of average intelligence, who are looking for explanations of those problems at once clear, calm, and of moderate compass.” Horace White.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 48. Ja. ’07. 2280w.
“Professor Laughlin has acquitted himself creditably, and we trust that his successors may be equally fortunate in their diplomatic missions.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 538. D. 20, ’06. 880w.
“The topics touched are pregnant with present and future interest, and even those who dissent from the author’s views upon highly contentious matters will find much said in little compass.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 2. Ja. 5, ’07. 1600w.
“Not all readers will agree with all of Dr. Laughlin’s conclusions. There can be but few readers, however, to whom the book will not be suggestive, and that is the highest merit of any work of utility or art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 252. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.
“It must be said, however, that the lectures are so elementary and the lecturer’s conclusions so trite that it is doubtful whether they will be of much use to those who have time for even a brief course of reading.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 572. S. ’07. 240w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 115. Ja. ’07. 230w.
=Laurie, Simon Somerville.= Synthetica: being meditations epistemological and ontological; comprising the Edinburgh university Gifford lectures of 1905–6. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–19465.
The first of these volumes contains nineteen meditations on knowledge, the second, eighteen meditations on God and man.
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“As we read Dr. Laurie we cannot escape a sense of strangeness, amounting almost to despair. It all seems aloof and unfamiliar. He has a language and a terminology of his own, which we can only regard as gratuitously scholastic and unhomely. There can be no question but that his thought would have come to us more easily if he could have written more simply.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 224. S. 8, ’06. 3540w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Acad.= 71: 657. D. 29, ’06. 2110w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Again, the first volume is by no means free from the confusions between psychology and epistemology, against which Sidgwick uttered an emphatic warning. However, whether we agree or disagree with the conclusions drawn—and they are many and controversial—the book well repays the not inconsiderable trouble of reading it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 267. S. 8. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The interest of these volumes as a whole, apart from the feeling, and in many parts real inspiration and ‘élan,’ with which they are written, will probably be found in the comprehensiveness with which the problem of philosophy is grasped, and the sustained effort that is made to escape from the Scylla of the static or ‘stagnant’ Absolute without falling into the Charybdis of subjectivism and pluralism. In their own peculiar way they contain much that is helpful towards the restatement of idealism which is the chief philosophical requirement of the present time. Why this irritating form? It is not only that the second volume is merely a somewhat less technical restatement of the first, but in the argument of each there is endless repetition. For whom, again, is the book written? The uninitiated will find far too little; the initiated would be satisfied with much less; the positivist who could understand it if he would is not likely to persevere long in the attempt. But all this might be passed over if the writer had not made clear the point on which, as he rightly perceives, the whole must rest.” J. H. Muirhead.
+ − =Hibbert. J.= 6: 207. O. ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Difficult in expression and intellectually confused as the work is, its general aim and method as well as its philosophical affiliations may yet be detected.”
− =Nation.= 84: 390. Ap. 25, ’07. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Regard for a rigorously clear form of exposition would have resulted in the simplification of many passages as well as the elimination of numerous repetitions. The author also has a tendency to construct for himself an elaborate terminology quite his own, and to employ unusual words when those of more general acceptance among philosophical writers would often have served his purpose equally well. These defects are the more to be regretted, as Dr. Laurie, at his best, is the master of a style which is clear, forceful, and not wanting in a note of distinction.” Walter G. Everett.
− + =Philos. R.= 16: 639. N. ’07. 2370w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It is by no means easy reading, but it will reward a careful study.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 83. Ja. 19, ’07. 1230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=La Villeniere, Toussaint-Ambrose Talour de la Cartrie, comte de.= Memoirs of the Count de Cartrie; with introd. by F: Masson, and appendices and notes by Pierre Amedee Pichot. *$5 Lane.
W 6–336.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Cartrie’s narrative is thrilling; M. Pichot’s editing almost perfect; and Mr. Lane’s bookmaking very attractive.” G: M. Dutcher.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 376. Ja. ’07. 600w.
“Certainly M. Pichot’s distinguished success in discovering the identity of the Count de Cartrie, and in tracing his family history, is a very pretty piece of highly skilled detective work.” S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 492. O. ’07. 370w.
“Though of no particular historical value, sheds a good deal of light on the condition of provincial France during the months of the Terror.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 3330w.
=Lavis, Fred.= Railroad location, surveys and estimates. *$3. Clark, M. C.
6–34656.
A work that combines detailed instruction on modern American methods of location with data on the estimating of quantities and unit prices.
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“Despite the reviewer’s criticism of some of the author’s methods, yet he quite agrees with the author that the method of location advocated by him is most thorough and up-to-date, and the best practice. The book is comprehensive, is an excellent epitome of good modern practice, and well adapted to the purposes for which it was designed.” M. P. Paret.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 81. Ja. 17, ’07. 2560w.
“After the teacher has given us what he can out of his study-room, then the young engineer will turn to such books as this one, gaining much information and getting by proxy valuable experience which, without such a book, would cost him much time and pains to acquire. The railroad engineers will appreciate this book and feel thankful to its author.” Willard Beahan.
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 174. Ap. ’07. 1950w.
=Lawrence, C. E.= Pilgrimage. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Peruel, an angel of the army of the lost, seeks reentrance into heaven. Being given a chance, through the influence of Azrael, he becomes incarnate as a foundling baby in a country called Argovie. There he grows up as Luke, swineherd to the monastery of St. Donstan, where the situation between some of the friars vividly recalls Browning’s ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister.’ The entire book is devoted to Luke’s spiritual struggles, his persecution by bigoted monks, by outlaws, and men at arms.... He ends, triumphant, a leper in a lazar house.”—Nation.
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“Mr. Lawrence has no quaint humour, no impassioned sincerity, no superb poetry, that can do justice to such an idea. His book is little more than pleasantly sentimental; there is no backbone of earnest or new thought.”
− =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 280w.
“His present work, we fear, is too shadowy; too remote from experience, and too ethereal.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 170w.
=Ind.= 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 120w.
=Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w.
“The story is written with unusual delicacy of touch and with a knowledge of human nature that considering the spiritual quality of the tale, is somewhat surprising.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Sat. R.= 104: 117. Jl. 27, ’07. 180w.
=Lawrence, Sir Thomas.= Sir Thomas Lawrence’s letter-bag; ed. by G. S. Layard. *$4. Longmans.
7–28948.
Letters collected from Sir Thomas Lawrence’s voluminous correspondence which “correct and proper” epistles that they are and having little to do with his love affairs, tend to banish from the reader’s mind the story of the artist’s unhappy relations with Mrs. Siddons’ two daughters.
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“In these letters there is a good deal that is valuable as well as interesting.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 656. D. 29, ’06. 1090w.
“This volume does not make material additions to the known circumstance of Lawrence’s life as set forth in Williams’s ponderous biography, but it is undeniably interesting.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 649. N. 24. 1510w.
+ =Dial.= 42: 82. F. 1, ’07. 280w.
“This volume contains much new and interesting personal information about the great English painter.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 240w.
“It should be added that the illustrations are excellent and well chosen, and that the ‘Recollections’ by Miss Croft, who was an intimate friend of the painter for many years, are a very interesting addition to the book.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 407. D. 7, ’06. 1150w.
“A more delightful volume than Mr. Layard’s it would be hard to find.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 56. Ja. 26, ’07. 560w.
“We do not relish Mr. Layard’s literary style. It is vehement and familiar. Nor are the letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence pleasing, as letters. They are dry and formal and generally ungrammatical and obscure. The facts of the great artist’s life as exhibited in the letters are however interesting enough.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 177. F. 9. ’07. 1510w.
“With the material at his command, Mr. Layard might have produced a satisfactory biography. He has been content to give us this material (or a part of it) instead of the finished work.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 458. Mr. 23, ’07. 1360w.
=Lawson, Thomas W.= Friday the 13th. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–8213.
The spirit of frenzied finance hovers over this tale in which figure a proud ex-governor of Virginia, who loses in a speculation game carried on with trust funds, a loyal daughter, and a hero who plays the stock market to retrieve the Virginian’s fortune. “It may be characterized as a nightmare of love and stock gambling, wherein the ‘System’ shakes its gory locks and brandishes a handful of bloodstained razors, stalking the while prodigious over the necks of its prostrate victims.” (N. Y. Times.) “What Mr. Lawson attempts to do is to show the degrading effect of speculation upon character.” (Nation.)
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“The author fails to convince us that his theory is without flaw, or that it could be depended upon in practice, to produce the results which he desires.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 140w.
“A crude, shrieking dime novel is this story, and therefore not likely to be without its host of readers. It is an incendiary book as well.”
− =Ind.= 62: 798. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w.
“The reader has an uncomfortable impression of a stuffed dragon and a stage St. George. But there are stirring incidents in the book, many pieces of lurid description, and not a little moralizing.”
− + =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w.
“The delineation of character requires more literary art than Mr. Lawson, with all his red-hot, hyphenated adjectives, can show, and as for his plot, it steadily thins instead of thickens. Of course everyone that has been within a mile of Trinity church knows that the book, as a picture of Wall Street life and methods, is absurd.”
− =Nation.= 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 410w.
“The moral was Mr. Lawson’s first thought, perhaps, but the book shows him as a sentimentalist of the deepest dye. He quite loses in the depth of that sentiment sight of the fashion in which his moral turns and rends his own chosen personages and protagonists of the tragedy of greed.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 124. Mr. 2, ’07. 880w.
=Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Lawson is another offensive partisan in literature—or perhaps I had better say fiction. It’s a poor novel.” Vernon Atwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 90w.
“We are certain that such a novel as ‘Friday the 13th’ will do little or nothing to cure the evil of stock-gambling. None of Mr. Lawson’s characters—if indeed they deserve the name, for they are merely puppets—are lovely or lovable.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 497. Ap. 20, ’07. 750w.
=Lawton, Frederick.= Life and work of Auguste Rodin. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–13425.
A “life” made authoritative and significant through M. Rodin’s personal assistance. “From first-hand sources and with infinite pains, Mr. Lawton has compiled a connected account of Rodin’s career which is vastly more valuable as a document than as an interpretation.” (Putnam’s.) “Stress, strain, and struggle have been from first to last the dominant characteristics of the life of a man who stands almost alone amongst his contemporaries as a realistic exponent of plastic art, and who in spite of the great value of everything from his hand ... is not even now in what can be called easy circumstances.” (Int. Studio.)
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“Viewed in the most favourable light it is a useful compilation and gathering together of scattered fragments of criticism and biography emanating from more competent pens. It has, consequently, some value as a work of reference, more especially to the student who is conversant with Mr. Lawton’s sources of information. A more favourable opinion of the author would have been created were these sources more clearly acknowledged. As criticism, his book cannot have, even for the general reader, more than a slight, and generally borrowed value.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 38. Ja. 12, ’07. 900w.
“The biographer is too near his subject to see him in true relation with the rest of the world, and the book, pitched on a note of monotonous laudation, makes small attempt at a balanced judgment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 172. F. 9. 2630w.
“Mr. Lawton’s well-illustrated volume is a work of close and cogent reasoning, eminently fair and candid, and must promote a better understanding of the relative positions of representatives of the plastic art on questions which seem to involve serious but not necessarily irreconcilable antagonism.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 290. My. 1, ’07. 420w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 164. Ap. ’07. 210w.
“His biographer ... after a sufficiently entertaining yet exhaustive description of the man and his work, leaves us in considerable doubt whether Pheidias or Praxiteles or Michael Angelo all together could bulk as large and satisfy the soul of the esthete as well as the author of ‘Le Penseur.’” Charles de Kay.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 2360w.
“Though possessing neither psychological penetration nor literary distinction, the book, because of its size and general sincerity of purpose, ranks as one of the most important studies yet published on the solitary plastic Titan of the day.” Christian Brinton.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 126. Ap. ’07. 220w.
* =Layard, George Somes.= Shirley Brooks of ‘Punch;’ his life, letters and diaries. **$3.50. Holt.
A rather voluminous biography of a London journalist written over thirty years after his death. It is written from the memorials that he left of himself in his own letters, diaries and journals.
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“The biographer is unnecessarily outspoken at the expense of his subject.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 680. N. 30. 880w.
“It is so painstaking, its intentions are so honourable, and yet it is impossible conscientiously to say that more than one-tenth of its pages are necessary or, indeed, ordinarily readable. Technically the book is good, for Mr. Layard has a pleasant easy style; but a biographer’s style is nothing if his judgment is not sound, and in the disproportion of this work we find the gravest reason to doubt the soundness of Mr. Layard’s.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 355. N. 22, ’07. 1350w.
“Mr. Layard’s volume was very well worth making.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 758. N. 30, ’07. 1520w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church. 3d ed. 2v. *$5. Macmillan.
7–37256.
Originally published in 1867 this work has come to its third edition which includes additions and changes. “The futility of a fifteen centuries’ struggle against the nature of things appears throughout the narrative, and is emphasized by the scandalous conditions reported in Italy and in Latin America during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Throughout all these centuries the church has been more tolerant of concubinage than of marriage among her clergy.... The republication of this monumental work is timely for the new crisis which the apparent irreformability of the Vatican seems to be bringing on.”
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“The revision for the new edition has not been so thorough as the subject deserves. The proof-reading is not quite up to Mr. Lea’s high standard. It is a pity that references are still given to antiquated collections ... in cases where the texts cited are to be found in more correct and more accessible modern editions.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 380w.
“Scholars are already acquainted with the earlier editions, and will welcome their enlargement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26, ’07. 290w.
“It is non-controversial history, content with a record of facts.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 360w.
“It is an accurate and exhaustive account of a clearly defined object, and well merits the place which is commonly assigned to it among standard authorities.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 366. S. 21, ’07. 1260w.
“Dr. Lea’s reputation for impartiality and a judicial temper, needed in this as much as in any subject, stands high, and the reader will find that it is not undeserved.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 27. Jl. 6, ’07. 60w.
=Lea, Henry Charles.= History of the Inquisition of Spain. 4v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–2996.
=v. 3.= The first two chapters of Mr. Lea’s third volume are upon “‘Torture’ and ‘The trial’ and complete his study of the practice of the Inquisition; five others, beginning with ‘The sentence’ and ending with ‘The auto de fé,’ cover what he has to tell us of its punishments; and the closing four, on ‘Jews,’ ‘Moriscos,’ ‘Protestantism,’ and ‘Censorship,’ open that survey of its spheres of action which is to fill also most of his final volume.”—Am. Hist. R.
=v. 4.= The author’s study of the Inquisition, brought to a close in this volume, results in the conclusion “that its work was almost wholly evil, and that, through reflex action, the persecutor suffered along with the persecuted.” The volume deals with curious phases of doctrine and superstition prevalent at that time, such as sorcery and the occult arts, witchcraft, Jansenism and the varied political and social conditions which fostered not only the Inquisition itself but the tendencies that it was intended to combat.
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Reviewed by George L. Burr.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 359. Ja. ’07. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by George L. Burr.
=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 625. Ap. ’07. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by Franklin Johnson.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 342. Ap. ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The ripe work of a great scholar, acknowledged to be the greatest living authority in his field—the history of the inquisition.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“To say that he has written the best book on the subject is scarcely to convey an adequate idea of its merit, for there is really no book that deserves to be compared with it.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 127. F. 2. 1280w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Written in the impartial spirit characteristic of the author’s earlier publications, this is the crowning achievement in the career of the octogenarian who is generally recognized on the continent as second to no other American historian.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 496. F. 28, ’07. 1130w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
“No other work of the year approaches this in significance, altho in the general field of European history there have been some notable contributions.”
+ + + =Ind.= 63: 1231. N. 21, ’97. 110w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Lit. D.= 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The author keeps the larger aspects of the subject well in mind, and is not afraid to generalize at the proper time, but he is in accord with the recent tendencies in institutional study in striving to be as concrete as possible.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 455. My. 11, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“In substance, as we have seen, it is almost immaculate. It is complete, accurate, impartial. But its form leaves much to be desired, Mr. Lea seems to have almost gone out of his way to avoid making his history ‘interesting’ by vivid presentation or captivating style.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 693. N. 2, ’07. 2390w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
=Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 90w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“There can be no doubt as to Mr. Lea’s views, but he does not write as a partisan.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 425. Mr. 16, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
* =Leach, Henry=, ed. Great golfers in the making, by thirty-four famous players. **$2.50. Jacobs.
A group of autobiographical sketches. “The stories are nearly all on one plan: Where I was born; when I got my first club; how I learned the game; where I won my first championship. Almost no direct instruction is given but the theory of the book appears to be that golf fulfills the Arabian proverb that the fig-tree, looking on the fig-tree, becometh fruitful.” (Nation.)
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=Nation.= 85: 325. O. 10, ’07. 90w.
“Well edited book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 380w.
“The egoism is frank and ingenuous, that is what the editor no doubt wanted, but it is in almost every case quite free from any silly affectation or any outrageous claims on behalf of the game.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: sup. 5. My. 4, ’07. 330w.
“A golfer, whether good or bad, will find this volume interesting, and it is at least possible that he may learn something from it”
+ =Spec.= 98: 259. F. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Leage, Richard W.= Roman private law, founded on the “Institutes” of Gaius and Justinian. *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–35562.
The book aims “to give as simply as possible the subject matter of the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian.” This the author does “not by translating or commenting on the original texts, but by describing clearly and concisely the substance of the law revealed to us by those texts. The historical point of view is omitted, except so far as it is necessarily involved in recording the fact (e. g.) that the forms of execution under the Antonines were different from those employed under Justinian.” (Nation.)
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“The book falls between two stools. It is not a simple digest of the Institutes, nor is it a proper critical treatment of the subject. Many of the sections show considerable power of lucid exposition, notably that on servitudes, and again that on legacies and that on dos. There is a good summary of the slave’s position in the matter of contract. But it is a pity that an elementary work should contain so many mistakes, and it is not altogether desirable that a work, professedly of that particular character, should now and again, on no apparent principle, give a cursory account of what requires deeper treatment.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 131. Ag. 11, ’06. 1190w.
“The chief objection which can be taken to the author’s treatment of the subject is that it is not sufficiently Roman. The author has, we think, followed Maine a little too blindly in several instances. Despite these blemishes however, the book is, in our view, a great advance on any previous work of the same character written for the student, and should prove of considerable utility to him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 162. F. 9. 410w.
“Mr. Leage’s attempt may be said to be a thoroughly successful one. He has stated clearly and simply the law of the Institutes, avoiding controversy and showing good judgment where the evidence is conflicting. A few passages will need revision in a second edition, which will no doubt soon be called for.” H. Bd.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 192. Ja. ’07. 520w.
“The work is admirably done, and should prove useful, not only to elementary students, but to anyone who wishes to be saved the trouble of referring to the original Institutes.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 150w.
“It will serve admirably for reading with the various titles of the Institutes either as introduction or review; and we do not suppose that without such aid even Roman law students found themselves equal to the bare texts, much less English students.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 764. Je. 16, ’06. 170w.
“A non-legal reader, if he is interested in historical and social questions, will find it full of noteworthy matter.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w.
=Leblanc, Maurice.= Exploits of Arsène Lupin; tr. by A. Teixeira De Mattos. †$1.28. Harper.
7–31976.
Arsène Lupin is a gentleman burglar whose mind, cunning, gracious manners and clever histrionic powers are all employed in paving an artistic way for the trickery of his profession. Followed out into mid-ocean by a wireless message, his disguise wards off suspicion, and even while crossing he steals money and jewels and tucks them away in the very kodak that aids him in his love making with the girl whose aunt he robs; Lupin is his own narrator, and occasionally in whisking about to an objective point of view he tracks himself to cover with the reader eager in pursuit.
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“The stories, aside from the unaccountable manner of their unfolding, are of uneven merit, but some are capital.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 280w.
“His adventures are thrillingly and gracefully told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book is lively and witty in the French manner, and the courteous trial of wits between Arsène and Sherlock Holmes at the end is most impressive.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 60w.
=Le Bon, Gustave.= Evolution of matter; tr. from the 3d French ed. with introd. and notes by F. Legge. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–38563.
A translation of the third French edition by Mr. Legge who stands “as sponsor for the recognition by scientific experts in Europe, England and America of the value of Dr. Le Bon’s experiments and their reception in various degrees of the soundness of his theories.” (Sat. R.)
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“We may say, then, that readers who, without being scientific experts, wish to inform themselves of the latest developments of physical science may safely trust themselves to the guidance of this book. It has the prestige on which the general reader must rely; and it is as fascinating for its literary qualities as for its combination of marvellous facts and bold speculation and suggestion.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 495. My. 18, ’07. 580w.
“In spite of the faults upon which we have commented, the present book is one of widespread interest. The translation here given is adequate, inasmuch as it renders, for the most part into readable English, the meaning, and—in some cases only too faithfully—the style of the author. But it has been very badly prepared for the press, and the misprints are a great deal more frequent in it than they should be.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 200. F. 16. 1620w.
=Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 340w.
“A translation of this work ... was very much to be desired, for it would be hard to conceive any reading more fascinating.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 209. F. 16, ’07. 310w.
=Le Braz, Anatole.= Land of pardons; tr. by Francis M. Gostling. *$2. Macmillan.
6–46329.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 45. F. ’07.
=Le Dantec, Felix Alexandre.= Nature and origin of life, in the light of new knowledge. *$2. Barnes.
W 7–76.
“The plan of Professor Le Dantec’s book is admirably adapted for the amateur student of science, all technical terms being explained in simple language. The subjects are divided as follows: The objective study of natural bodies; analysis of natural and vital phenomena; decomposition into functions; agreement of Darwin’s and Lamarck’s systems; phenomena, evolution, and bipolarity of living and not living matter; formation of species and appearance of life. Illustrations in diagram accompany the volume.”—Lit. D.
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“M. Le Dantec’s book is for the most part a superficial survey of the present situation as he himself appears to see it.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 944. S. 28, ’07. 1460w.
Reviewed by Raymond Pearl.
− =Dial.= 43: 210. O. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Life is chemism, says he. And he says it in the book before us lucidly, sparklingly, positively—but not convincingly.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 510. Ag. 29, ’07. 480w.
“Written in a clear simple style, it makes plain to the understanding of the general reader one of the most fascinating theories of recent science.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 560w.
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 115. Ap. 12, ’07. 490w.
“The volume is worthy of philosophical consideration as advocating an unproved possibility, but the ‘light of new knowledge’ will have to become much brighter than at present before one can pencil q. e. d. on the margins of many of the pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 169. Ag. 22, ’07. 290w.
“With a humour which we appreciate he has entirely shirked the question of origin, only referring to it in a casual, half-hearted sort of way on the last page.” J. A. T.
− =Nature.= 76: 2. My. 2, ’07. 720w.
“The mechanical processes that build up and sustain living bodies are exhibited in the present volume with remarkable clearness and completeness. On this side of the subject given in its title it is all that could be desired.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 437. Je. 22, ’07. 310w.
=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.= Soul’s progress, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–46753.
“The titular piece in his volume is a lyric sequence of some forty pages—the old poetic wayfaring of the ‘soul’ through the dubious experiences of life to the ‘higher optimism.’” (Dial.) The remaining poems reflect equally plainly “the elevated spirit in which he accepts the call to poetry.”
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“Technically there is little fault to find except in the case of the blank verse, which is not successful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 319. Mr. 16. 280w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 140w.
“There is an engaging fervor in the spirit of his work. Embodied as it is in clear and fluent verse, with an unusual melody of vowelsound, it makes a gently insistent appeal, not unlike that to be felt in certain pieces of Longfellow’s.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 270w.
“Singularly engaging.... ‘The soul’s progress,’ with its fine, high seriousness of tone and intention, its evidences of an ardent enthusiasm for the traditional ideals of English verse, and its frank, youthful assumption of an interest on the part of the world in the motions of a soul newly awakened to the universality of its own individual life.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 650w.
“In a pleasing variety of metrical forms, and with sincere poetical feeling, this vision of advancing spiritual growth through beauty and truth is presented simply and clearly.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 110w.
=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= Voice of the machines; an introduction to the twentieth century. $1.25. Mount Tom press, Northampton, Mass.
6–46754.
Since this is an age of machines, the author feels that we must learn to see in this machinery, poetry, religion, love, liberty and immortality. He puts forth this necessity in chapters entitled The men behind the machines, The language of machines, The machines as poets, The ideas behind the machines.
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“Some passages go a step beyond the sublime and some of the epigrams miss fire, but it is so encouraging to find a man who can recognize contemporaneous poetry that we are not inclined to be critical.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 130w.
“At least he is as eloquent about machinery as the author of Job about Leviathan, and it is impossible not to approve his eloquence, whatever reservations one may have about his philosophy.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 120. Ap. ’07. 490w.
=Yale R.= 16: 109. My. ’07, 110w.
* =Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–32577.
A reprint in book form of a series of papers on Ibsen published a year ago in Putnam’s monthly. Her discussion is devoted principally to the symbolism in the Ibsen drama. “Many essayists before her have probed, to their own satisfaction, and proclaimed the meaning of many of his alleged mysteries, and her contention is that each of the social plays is constructed around one central symbol, a knowledge of which is essential to a proper understanding of the work. Thus the Tarantelle is the key to ‘A doll’s house,’ the pistol to ‘Hedda Gabler,’ and Eyolf and his crutch to ‘Little Eyolf.’” (Nation.)
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“It might be dismissed with brief mention—for it has nothing new or significant to say in the way of either criticism or interpretation—if it were not so entirely representative of the attitude of a large class of professed Ibsen worshippers, who have more enthusiasm than discrimination.”
− =Nation.= 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Lee, John.= Religious liberty in South America, with special reference to recent legislation in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia; with an introd. by Bishop John H. Vincent. *$1.25. West. Meth. bk.
7–11041.
In the spirit of broad religious tolerance, the author traces the movement for religious liberty in the South American republics of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
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“The volume points out flagrant conditions and aims to create a sentiment against existing religious intolerance. It is of special interest to students of religious social and political conditions, and from either of these standpoints is scientific.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 164. Jl. ’07. 290w.
“Dr. Lee, we repeat, has done a good service in publishing this book; and if it were read by American Catholics as well as by Protestants, the world would be the better for it. It is to be regretted that the author has once or twice slipped into an expression which is unnecessarily bitter, and, perhaps, even unjust. Neither would the volume have suffered, if an occasional bit of padding had been left out.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 882. O. 10, ’07. 330w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 50w.
=Lee, Marian, pseud.= See =Comstock, Anna Botsford=.
=Lee, Sidney.= Shakespeare and the modern stage, with other essays. **$2. Scribner.
6–38524.
“Although it is composed of papers written at different times and for various occasions, and although it breaks into three divisions, the group already cited, contributions to historical and biographical Shakespeareana, and Shakespearean essays properly so called, the volume possesses more unity than such collections of occasional addresses and articles are wont to have.”—Forum.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“Mr. Lee writes here rather as a ‘popularizer’ than an expert, but his work has none of the slipshod rhetoric of the increasing crowd who demand the public favour.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 648. N. 24. 1060w.
“It was a happy thought of Mr. Lee’s to write a paper on ‘Pepys and Shakespeare,’ and this, no doubt, many readers will find the most amusing thing in the volume.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 220. Ap. 1, ’07. 1090w.
“Mr. Lee’s latest contribution to Shakespearean literature is based, as all his other books are, upon a scholarship that is remarkably solid and sane. Hence it is sure to appeal to the limited audience interested in English and, particularly, in Shakespearean studies.” W. P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 376. Ja. ’07. 1720w.
“These are good, sound papers, worth preserving; and if we sometimes wish that the ‘intention’ were kept a little more ‘private’ ... it is an intention in which all may join.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 5: 385. D. 14, ’06. 1160w.
“Among the most interesting papers in Mr. Lee’s volumes are those on Shakespere’s philosophy, oral traditions, and the perils of unscientific research. There is not a dull page in the book.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 444. N. 22, ’06. 1160w.
“Though another student of the stage may be moved to dispute an occasional opinion of Mr. Lee’s, no student of the stage can fail to feel respect for the solid scholarship which sustains these collected essays and for the sobriety and sanity which is visible in whatever Mr. Lee writes.” Brander Matthews.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 42. Ja. 26, ’07. 900w.
“One of his strongest claims to attention is the fact that he has rigorously held the speculative impulse in check, and has brought to the study of the dramatist, not only as much knowledge as any man of his time, but robust common sense.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 482. F. 23, ’07. 250w.
“In his new volume of essays on Shakespearean subjects he is always interesting, and instructive, but he is very rarely sympathetic. Mr. Lee’s essays, however, have a great deal more in them than an occasional unpleasant hardness of tone. They are full of matter, lucidly arranged and carefully substantiated. They are serious and scholarly contributions to the literature of Shakespearean criticism.”
+ + − =Spec.= 97: 887. D. 1, ’06. 2190w.
=Lee, Sidney.= Stratford-on-Avon: from the earliest times to the death of Shakespeare; il. by Herbert Railton. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“Among the mass of modern Shakespeariana which grows vaster with every publishing season, it is a relief to find one book on Stratford that deals with the town for its own rather than for the great poet’s sake. This picturesque account of Stratford’s early history,—its old markets and fairs, its nobility, its guild, its village sports and industries,—serves not only to make a setting for the life of Shakespeare, but also to bring out much that, having nothing to do with him, is nevertheless quaint and characteristic.”—Dial.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07.
“Mr. Lee has revised his text to bring it strictly up to date, and has added considerable information which historical researches since 1890 have brought to light.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 461. D. 16, ’06. 200w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 185. D. ’06. 190w.
“The book deserves to be read not only as being supplementary of Mr. Lee’s biography of the poet, but also in connection with George Brandes’s ‘Life of Shakespeare,’ whose bold theories become more interesting in the comparison.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 94. D. 15, ’06. 350w.
“The book is written with the seriousness and caution that are characteristic of all Mr. Lee’s work, and is in all cases based on documents.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 437. N. 22, ’06. 160w.
“It is accurate, entertaining and handsomely illustrated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=Lees, Dorothy Neville.= Scenes and shrines in Tuscany. *$1.25. Dutton.
Twenty-three sketches of Tuscan scenes and customs, written while the author was connected with an Italian family of the upper class. “To this family belongs her little six-year-old friend, Mafalda, who, with her big sister, Francesca, and the contadini on the villa estate, form a group as interesting as if they were characters in a story.” (Nation.)
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“We advise every lover of Italy to read ‘Scenes and shrines in Tuscany.’ It is a careful and delightful piece of work, marred by few errors of taste or fact.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 533. Je. 1, ’07. 930w.
“Episodes in the daily life of the people, like the Harvest, the Vintage, and All Souls’ day in Florence, are described with knowledge and insight. We advise even those to whom a sojourn in Tuscany is a future experience to read this book.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 480w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 360w.
=Lefevre, Edwin.= Sampson Rock of Wall street. †$1.50. Harper.
7–8216.
The vast centripetal action of all the issues that make toward the center of a big New York stock-brokerage office shows the author’s complete understanding of the “technique of speculation.” The son of a magnate of finance deplores the methods by which his father aims to get possession of the Virginia central railroad, and plans to outwit him. In so doing he plays a Wall street game that lacks neither characters nor situation to make it realistic.
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“Spirited and full of incident. Will probably be popular with men.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 349. Mr. 23. 230w.
“It makes a fairly interesting story upon a subject that is essentially devoid of any vital human interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Mr. Lefevre’s growth in his art is constant.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 799. Ap. 4, ’07. 160w.
“It is a strong and interesting characterization of a modern money king that Mr. Lefevre has given us.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.
“Is entirely readable. To the diligent reader the story may almost be recommended as a hand-book and ready reference guide to speculation.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 210. F. 28, ’07. 190w.
“Here is undoubtedly a novel with a purpose—a didactic purpose—a purpose, too, which will not meet with everybody’s approval. Fortunately the author as the thing progressed and his scent grew warm, almost lost sight of his own purpose in his own interest in the story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 115. F. 23, ’07. 660w.
“It was a bold thing to base a novel so exclusively on financial battling—for the love story is extremely slight. One feels that the author has succeeded by sheer weight of ability, but the experiment is one not to be easily repeated.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w.
“Is convincingly realistic.” Vernon Atwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 619. Ag. ’07. 120w.
“A dreary epic of barter in railway shares, comparing unfavorably with his brisk short stories.”
− =R. of Rs.= 35: 761. Je. ’07. 80w.
=Leffler, Burton R.= Elastic arch, with special reference to the reinforced concrete arch. $1. Holt.
6–45715.
A work which contains among new features a deduction of the subject from one simple equation, graphic application of the easy method of drawing the closing line of the equilibrium polygon, a correct and simple method of designing a reenforced concrete section for combined thrust and movement, and a graphical analysis of an arch for oblique forces.
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“We can commend the book only to the careful and intelligent reader.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 320w.
* =Leger, Jacques Nicholas.= Haiti: her history and her detractors. *$3. Neale.
7–25045.
The author who is Envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary of Haiti in the United States addresses himself especially to students of international affairs and political history and to the reader of sociological literature. The first part deals with the history of the island from before its discovery by Columbus to the election of General Nord Alexis to the presidency; the second, with the natural conditions of the country, the general organization, the customs and manners of the people, and their continued efforts to better their condition.
=Legge, Ronald.= Admirable Davis. $1.50. Cassell.
“‘The admirable Davis’ is the valet of a member of the British foreign office who is sent to an Eastern potentate with an important treaty. The valet is intimately connected with his master’s adventures, for which the latter is mostly to blame. The valet, in the end, sets things to rights.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A crude product on the popular model of ‘The prisoner of Zenda.’”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 438. O. 12. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
* =Legler, Henry Edward.= Poe’s Raven: its origin and genesis: a compilation and a survey. pa. bds. $3. Philosopher press.
A good deal of interesting material concerning “The raven” has been collected for this volume. Mr. Legler discusses its genesis and the circumstances attending the writing and publishing of the poem; gives the alleged sources of “The raven” including “To Allegra Florence in heaven,” a chapter from “Barnaby Rudge,” “Lady Geraldine’s courtship,” “Clare,” “The rime of the ancient mariner,” “The funiao,” and “The parrot;” discusses the manuscript of “The raven” and adds bibliographical notes.
=Leigh, Oliver.= Edgar Allan Poe: the man, the master, the martyr. *$1.25. Morris.
6–32457.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
− =Acad.= 71: 617. D. 15, ’06. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 29. Ja. 19, ’07. 140w.
=Leighton, Joseph Alexander.= Jesus Christ and the civilization of to-day: the ethical teaching of Jesus considered in its bearings on the moral foundations of modern culture. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–18115.
A practical rather than technical consideration of the ethical teachings of Jesus Christ in their bearings on the spiritual life of civilization, in which no account is taken of the external events of Christ’s life or of his deeds further than necessary for an interpretation of the meaning and application of his teaching. It addresses all “intelligent persons who are honestly and open-mindedly seeking to determine the relation of the words of the Great Master of Life and Religion to their own lives and to the complex and confused life of contemporary civilization.”
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“A careful study”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 80. Jl. ’07. 20w.
=Ind.= 63: 571. S. 5, ’07. 440w.
“Professor Leighton would seem to be more at home in the field of ethics than in matters of New Testament criticism. One can but wish him well in his doctrine of the freedom of the individual and victory over the forces of time, but it must be said that a more critical attitude toward early Christian traditions would have added not a little to the soundness of his results.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 119. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 766. Ag. 10, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 127. Jl. ’07. 80w.
* =Lemaitre, Jules.= Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Mme. Ch. Bigot. **$2. McClure.
In which M. Lemaitre, “the most clear-sighted and independent of critics” deals with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s influence on the history of humanity. He shows what propaganda there are in the “Contrat social,” “La nouvelle Heloïse,” and “Emile,” that helped to precipitate the revolution.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Is a brilliant picture, painted with the sympathy and the justice of a true artist.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 57. Jl. 13, ’07. 290w.
=Lenotre, Gosselin.= Flight of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.
7–28490.
The incidents of the flight of Marie Antoinette to Varennes, where she is overtaken and compelled to return a prisoner flash before us with panoramic swiftness and dramatic intensity. She is the one strong figure amid the deplorable weakness of husband, children and dependents, and “wherever she passes” strikes “the note of something great, of something gracious, whimsical, and sweet.” (Lond. Times.)
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“M. Lenôtre’s work is one of minute research, in which no detail is neglected, and conjecture is never allowed to masquerade as fact.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 379. Mr. 30. 520w.
Reviewed by S. M. Francis.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 491. O. ’07. 300w.
“He has used the historical method as severely in determining each detail of the story as if he were engaged on a far duller task. The fulness and exactness of the author’s information has not impaired his sense of the requirements of the story.” Henry E. Bourne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 141. Mr. 1, ’07. 1230w.
“It is a scholarly and documented account of a striking episode, told in an entertaining fashion.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 971. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 310w.
“We have no words in which to criticize this book. If any one who takes it up can lay it down ere the last page is turned he may be calm enough to criticize. The whole volume is not only alive, it is on fire.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 408. D. 7, ’06. 1970w.
“The skillful use he makes of this material, balancing probabilities against probabilities, checking one document by another, and always picking out with unerring finger the convincing, essential fact, is as striking as the intensity of life which he manages to give to his revival of the past.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 58. Ja. 17, ’07. 490w.
“The volume may have a useful place among historical documents, but it will be found tedious and almost trivial in its exhaustiveness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 44. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.
“There was never another story like this, and told as it is here it wrings the heart.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 474. Jl. ’07. 540w.
“He has acquired the requisite knowledge; he is endowed with a delicate and vivid imagination; he has learned how to construct a story, and, more difficult still, he can tell the story he has constructed. The book is both easy and pleasant to read in its English dress, and nothing better can be said of a translation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 241. F. 23, ’07. 1630w.
“One forgets that the English book is a translation, and there can be no higher praise. No one who cares to study the French revolution at all, and no one who loves a true story uncommonly well told, including many interesting characters impossible to be mentioned here, should neglect to read this book.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: sup. 756. N. 17, ’06. 1800w.
=Lenotre, Gosselin.= Last days of Marie Antoinette; tr. from the French by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell. *$3.50. Lippincott.
Not a life of Marie Antoinette but a collection of narratives, written by eyewitnesses, of the life of the royal family from their imprisonment in the Temple to the execution of the unfortunate queen.
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“The book is of poignant interest, and its interest is heightened by the illustrations.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 87. N. 2, ’07. 890w.
“He has performed a task needing not only research, but restraint, so that every reader can know the truth and be his own interpreter.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 339. N. 8, ’07. 720w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“Certainly no one can deny that the pathos of these narratives is deep, and exceeds that of any novel, since they deal with real characters and events.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. O. 19, ’07. 1520w.
“Intensely interesting, if very painful, book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 870. N. 30, ’07. 1270w.
=Leonard, Arthur Glyn.= Lower Niger and its tribes. *$4. Macmillan.
7–11550.
“The book opens with a description of the physical features of the country, the tribes inhabiting the various divisions, and of the local traditions, ... Then come chapters on the philosophy of the people as expressed in certain words in their vocabulary, names, proverbs, and fables. The third division of the volume is devoted to a discussion of the ‘natural’ religion of the various tribes dealt with.... Other chapters take up emblemism, ceremonials, and practices of Naturalism, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The defect of his book is its verbal exuberance, and its overflow of theories about the origin of religion.” Andrew Lang.
+ − =Acad.= 71: 623. D. 22, ’06. 1730w.
“Whilst Mr. Dennett’s book suffers from too little synthesis, Major Leonard’s suffers from too much. His facts, not his theories, will be valued most by the expert. A rich quarry, but the stone that is to serve for building purposes must be selected with some care.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 832. D. 29. 240w.
“Behind his self-complacency and occasional arrogance there is evidence of real sympathy and insight.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 43. F. 8, ’07. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 905. D. 29, ’06. 290w.
=Le Rossignol, James Edward.= Orthodox socialism. (Lib. of economics.) **$1. Crowell.
7–12999.
A brief exposition and criticism of the Marxian or scientific socialism. It is a thoroly practical treatment which defines the creed of socialism and traces the historic rise: discusses the labor-cost theory of value; the iron law of wages; surplus value; the use of machinery and its effects upon skilled labor; panics, strikes, and industrial crises; the struggle of the man with the class; and the social revolution which has been threatened.
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 596. N. ’07. 140w.
“Mr. Le Rossignol makes his points skillfully.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 69. Ag. 1, ’07. 190w.
“Attractively and helpfully presented.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 50w.
“His style is didactic, and his diction clear, but a confusion of thought is often apparent.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 5, ’07. 120w.
=Lethaby, William Richard.= Westminster abbey and the kings’ craftsmen: a study of mediaeval building. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–19737.
Less a description of the edifice than an account of the craftsmen who built and decorated it. “The author seeks to rebuild in our imaginations this ‘supreme work of art’ in all its perfection of form, its beauty of adornment, its suavity of environment, its church and chapterhouse, its monastery and mill, its garden and farm, seated by the side of the king’s palace on the bank of the clear-running Thames.” (Acad.)
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“For genuine love of the past; for unwearied study of its records and minute observation of its example; for accurate marshalling of facts and for incontrovertible conclusions, in support of admirable principles, Professor Lethaby’s book deserves high commendation.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 34. Ja. 12, ’07. 1720w.
“Altogether the work is of first-rate importance—by far the most authoritative that has yet appeared, and likely to remain so for many years to come.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 388. Mr. 30. 1530w.
“The book is so thorough a piece of work from beginning to end that slips are very rare. Mr. Lethaby’s fascinating book is so emphatically a new departure that no one could have a better or more trustworthy guide to the glorious abbey church of Westminster.” W. H. St. John Hope.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 355. Ap. ’07. 1230w.
“The characteristic feature of this new work, the outcome of twelve years of close research, is its recognition of the importance of individual craftsmen in the evolution of the great abbey.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 250. My. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Lethaby has rummaged his ‘documents’ to very good effect and has secured some valuable rays of illumination on the practical organization of building operations.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 636. O. 19, ’07. 700w.
“Written in a style which must win readers among all who love Westminster abbey or care to read at all, it contains a body of research at first hand which we do not hesitate to declare unequalled in importance by any similar publication on either side of the channel, for the double reason that there are no such complete records elsewhere, and no archaeologists possessing Mr. Lethaby’s combination of qualities.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 103: 303. Mr. 9, ’07. 1670w.
“It is quite safe to say that not since Dean Stanley’s ‘Memorials’ has a book been written on the abbey which has succeeded in conveying so much of the fascination of its subject, and not since Sir Gilbert Scott put together his ‘Gleanings’ has so much fresh light been thrown on the history of the fabric and its ornaments.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 1079. D. 29, ’06. 1500w.
=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.
5–17608.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The present work is a rather small volume, following the conventional lines, clear and logical in style, but treating the subject in a very elementary way.”
+ =Yale. R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 50w.
=Levussove, Moses Samuel.= New art of an ancient people, the work of Ephraim Mose Lilien. *75c. Huebsch.
6–45172.
Ephraim Mose Lilien is among the younger intellectual Galician Jews who are reflecting the race’s awakening to newer activity and larger creative effort. Here are reproduced a dozen or so of his studies in black and white, and Mr. Levussove points out the excellencies of style and content as they reveal Lilien’s mastery of the technic of composition and his understanding of Hebrew nature.
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“The work will appeal alike to those who have an interest in the rejuvenation of an ancient race, and to those who will be attracted by a technique suggestive of the skill of Japanese decorators and of the European masters of line-work.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 149. Mr. 1, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Levussove leaves the reader not only with an understanding of the highly poetic value of the artist’s work, but with a vivid sympathy for the racial quality of serious aspiration, which he exemplifies.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 804. Ap. 4, ’07. 190w.
=Lit. D.= 34: 103. Ja. 19, ’07. 670w.
=Nation.= 84: 140. F. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Mr. Levussove entertainingly covers his subject, keeping always in mind the fact that the awakening art spirit among the Jews is exemplified by Lilien’s works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 44. Ja. 26, ’07. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.
* =Lewis, Alfred Henry.= When men grew tall; or, The story of Andrew Jackson. **$2. Appleton.
7–36233.
“Tells the story of Andrew Jackson’s career in, we conceive, precisely the way Andrew Jackson himself would have delighted to tell it.... It has the true Jacksonian flavor of unquenchable ardor to twist the tail of the British lion, supreme contempt for the Spanish Dons, burning antipathy to the ‘corrupt bargainers’ Adams and Clay—poor ‘Machiavelli’ Clay, as Mr. Lewis persists in calling him—and unrestrained enmity for ‘serpentine’ Banker Biddle and the rest of the money crew.”—Outlook.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“It is written in a virile, intense, vehement strain that keeps the reader wide awake. As a ‘story’ it certainly has much to commend it, bringing out in vivid relief some of the most dramatic episodes of Jackson’s life, and being distinctly human from beginning to end.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 788. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= Principles of English verse. **$1.25. Holt.
6–27939.
“In the main a plea for common sense as opposed to metaphysics in the treatment of the subject.”—Dial.
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“Many a bewildered reader of larger works will be grateful for the breath of fresh air that comes to them from these pages.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 246. O. 16, ’06. 60w.
“Mr. Lewis shies at the notion of the foot in English. If [he] could take this one logical step, he might give us a book which would reveal to all who care to penetrate it, the whole heart of the mystery of English verse-rhythms.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 420. N. 15, ’06. 950w.
“Compact and easily read volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, ’07. 100w.
=Lewis, Elizabeth.= Lorenzo of Sarzana. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
7–20618.
In Genoa, just before the plague descends upon her, is set this story of a group of artists, studying under the old Italian Maestro in his attic studio. A three stranded love motive tangles the plot into which is woven a double thread of mystery in the persons of a white swathed figure which haunts a young American art student and a demented painter who destroys her canvases as soon as she finishes them. All this throws a glamour over an otherwise modern romance in which a match-making mother and a dowry hunting Italian figure conspicuously.
=Lewis, Emily Westwood.= Next door Morelands. †$1.50. Little.
7–30990.
A story for girls from twelve to sixteen which tells of the coming of Corinne, an orphan, from France to the home of an American uncle. The Morelands are five rollicking children, who initiate Corinne into the mysteries of their mirth-loving circle.
=Lewis. Rev. Howell Elvet.= With Christ among the miners; incidents and impressions of the Welsh revival. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
Devotional in its aim and compass this volume contains a series of personal impressions and incidents of the great Welsh revival of 1904. It reveals the hearts of the people, shows how they opened to the coming of the Spirit, rejoices in the good results of the movement and, to be wholly fairminded, does not overlook its shortcomings.
=Lewis, Mary Elizabeth.= Ethics of Wagner’s The ring of the Nibelung. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–30.
In which the author recounts “every detail of the legend from which the Trilogy is compiled and assigns to each one a definite place in an ethical system which she conceives to have been in Wagner’s mind.” The cycle she discovers to be “a logical and coherent ethical doctrine,” which she regards “as presenting a panoramic picture of the evolution of the human consciousness struggling to free itself from the hampering conditions of self, until at last, selfless, it is lost in the Divine Will.”
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“The author of this book has done her work carefully, so carefully indeed that every detail is weighed and appraised at a certain value, while in order to facilitate the analytical process the story of the drama is told in short, bald sentences, often resembling a newspaper report of a parliamentary debate or proceedings in the law courts.” H. C. C.
+ − =Acad.= 72: 194. F. 23, ’07. 960w.
“She retells in prose, and it must be admitted prosaically, the complete story of this drama of gods and men, and gives her interpretation of its complex symbolism. She does not profess that it is Wagner’s interpretation, and the reader will not be apt to find it his own, but he will at least be drawn to think about it, and so, by getting more meaning from it, he will give to the music more power.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 498. F. 28, ’07. 140w.
− + =Nation.= 84: 42. Ja. 16, ’07. 250w.
=Leyds, Willem Johannes.= First annexation of the Transvaal. *$6.30. Wessels.
7–18148.
A work on the relations of the English and Dutch in South Africa in which the author has prepared an indictment against Britain’s South African policy during the past century. “He is not bitter about England, though he is very bitter about English colonists, and cannot mention the name of Sir Percy FitzPatrick without losing his temper.” (Spec.)
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“In this book the author displays the same combination of smart intelligence and rash blundering which was conspicuous during his European mission.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 332. S. 22. 1090w.
“The tone of the book is, however, so bitter that he damages rather than strengthens his cause.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 178. F. 21, ’07. 580w.
“The book is well-written, orderly in arrangement, adroit in argument, and extremely readable. His narrative is too much a design in snow and ink to convince even the ill-informed reader.”
− + =Spec.= 97: 492. O. 6, ’06. 1920w.
=Lidgett, Rev. John Scott.= Spiritual principle of the atonement: as a satisfaction made to God for the sins of the world. 4th ed. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
The twenty-seventh Fernley lecture. The editor in these ten chapters covers all phases of the atonement, its historical causes, the Biblical doctrine concerning it, the theology of the atonement, the satisfaction of God, the ethical perfection of our Lord, the relationship of our Lord to the human race, the atonement in relation to the spiritual life of individuals and the atonement and social progress.
* =Lighton, William Rheem.= Shadow of a great rock. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–18100.
Frontier life and the types of men whom it calls are portrayed here true to the reckless abandon of “the formless western wilderness.”
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“A short story—and a very ordinary, conventional short story that might almost have appeared in any monthly magazine—and nothing more.”
− =Acad.= 73: 755. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.
“Written in a grandiose style, this story of American pioneering in the fifties is interesting rather than remarkable.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 150. Ag. 10. 120w.
“Occasionally marred just a little by ‘fine writing,’ [it] is nevertheless, a good story of the winning of Nebraska in the early fifties.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 28, ’07. 100w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Where the trail divides; with il. in colors by the Kinneys. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–9842.
“As a result of an Indian raid, with its trail of smoking ruins and scalped and tortured victims, only two human beings were found alive by the rescue party in the whole devastated settlement—a white girl baby and an Indian boy, scarcely older or larger. These two waifs are taken in charge by Colonel Bill Lander, the cattle king, and brought up together with the same impartial care that he would have bestowed upon children of his own.” (Bookm.) The story mainly concerns these two, their ill-assorted union, and an inevitable tragedy.
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“A book that needs no borrowed glory to bolster it into notice, a book which may well stand on its own merits, both for novelty of situation and keen picturing of character.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 285. My. ’07. 540w.
=Lincoln, Abraham.= Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. 12v. ea. $3.75. Tandy.
6–3554.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 160w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“This is the edition which should be selected for purchase by any public or private library of importance on account of its completeness and reliability.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 678. Mr. 21, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“Altogether, this Gettysburg edition takes its place worthily among the great editions of our statesmen.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“These two volumes bring to an end a publication of permanent value, not only in American political history, but to American literature.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 85: 524. Mr. 2, ’07. 110w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
=Lincoln, Charles Henry.= Naval records of the American revolution, 1775–1788; prepared from the originals in the Library of Congress. $1. Supt. of doc.
6–35020.
“More than half of this volume is occupied by a list of the bonds filed under the letters of marque, in which are indicated all who are concerned in the vessels, as master, bonder, owner, or witness. This is a valuable contribution to history, as the bonds also give the nature of the ship, and the size of crew and armament, as well as the state to which she belonged. It will now be possible for investigators to identify the ship, and from local records trace her performances.”—Nation.
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 930. Jl. ’07. 310w.
“We note some obvious misprints of names.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 288. Mr. 28, ’07. 330w.
=Lincoln, Charles Z.= Constitutional history of New York from the beginning of the colonial period to the year 1905. 5v. $15. Lawyers’ co-op.
6–7387.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Expressions of his own opinion on questions of law and conduct are rare and usually sound. There are few accessible authorities which have not been examined and digested. The absence of cross-references to earlier and later pages imposes much needless labor. Except in the ease of law reports and session laws, there are hardly any citations of the original authorities, not even of the pages of the convention reports, from which quotations are made. The book is indispensable to all constitutional lawyers, legislators, and statesmen in New York. It will be the standard authority upon the subject for at least a generation.” Roger Foster.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 392. Ja. ’07. 2370w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1233. N. 21, ’07. 180w.
=Lincoln, Joseph C.= “Old home house.” †$1.25. Barnes.
7–21534.
Eleven stories told by a longshore skipper who watched the goings-on at “Aunt Sophrony’s wind plantation” and plied his trade of “amputating the bank accounts of the city folks.”
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“In these entertaining yarns Mr. Lincoln succeeds in expressing the true salt humor of the Cape-Codder.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 235. S. 12, ’07. 160w.
“Presenting eleven of the best tales recently written by the well-known Joseph C. Lincoln.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Joseph C. Lincoln has not yet come to the end of the fresh strain of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 100w.
=Lindsay, Anna R. B.= Spiritual care of a child. **30c. Crowell.
7–31179.
Some suggestive thoughts for the guidance of a child’s spiritual growth which are based upon definite and continuous teaching. Uniform with the “What is worth while” series.
=Lindsay, Mrs. Anna Robertson.= Warrior spirit in the republic of God. **$1.50. Macmillan.
6–42942.
“A plea for the virile element in Christianity, which has too often been denied an equal emphasis with the feminine.... The outlook is comprehensive, optimistic, and martial. The conquest to be won is the molding of the modern environment to spiritual uses. This is the point in view throughout. Practical suggestions for all social groups show insight, sympathy, and good sense.”—Outlook.
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=Nation.= 84: 133. F. 7, ’07. 50w.
“Altogether it is a thoroughly wholesome and tonic book.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 140w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= America’s insular possessions. 2v. $5. Winston.
7–1324.
A two-volume photogravure edition of a work devoted to America’s island possessions. The first volume includes the Great Antilles, Porto Rico, Guam, and Hawaii, while the second is devoted entirely to the Philippines. The history, growth, political development, industries, and resources of the islands are treated with little attention to controversial questions. For which omission in the second volume the author inserts a chapter of extracts from public addresses of the former governor, William H. Taft.
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“With all its possible weaknesses and omissions, from the point of view of historical, economic and sociological science, the work is nevertheless the most comprehensive general treatise on some of our outlying possessions in relatively small space and for the ‘general reader’ that exists in the English language.” Carl C. Plehn.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 179. Jl. ’07. 670w.
“In short, as to the past and present, this book is interesting and valuable. As to the problem of the near future it is almost voiceless.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 263. S. 19, ’07. 620w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
“The author’s views are frankly stated, but we see no indication that they have led him either to misreport any facts, to omit in his report any facts of significance, or to present the facts in false proportions on false relations.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 479. Je. 29, ’07. 790w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= John Smith, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–29850.
Over the story of John Smith the author has thrown the glamour of romance. He has written a historical novel in which all that is history and all that is novel is alike familiar to our ears. It is a tribute to this early hero which will help to keep him before a coming generation as a man, a gentleman and an adventurer.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= Panama: the isthmus and the canal. **$1. Winston.
6–26562.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 11. Ja. ’07. S.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 148. My. 07.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 157. Jl. ’07. 120w.
“Every feature of this vast undertaking is pictured in detail with simplicity and intelligibility, and without undue argumentative discussion. Although the book is written in topical style, an index would enhance its usefulness.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 180w.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-.= Philippines under Spanish and American rules. $3. Winston.
6–44314.
In this volume “The Philippine islands are treated, descriptively, historically, industrially, commercially, and politically, ... Twenty-six photogravure illustrations from photographs are given.”—Dial.
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=Dial.= 41: 454. D. 16, ’06. 220w.
=Lit. D.= 33: 856. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Lindsay, Thomas Martin.= History of the Reformation. 2v. ea. *$2.50. Scribner.
6–23686.
=v. 2.= Tracts of the Reformation outside of Germany, of the ante-pedo-baptist denominations of the period, and of the counter-Reformation in Roman Catholicism that reached its limit in the Council of Trent.
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“We have dwelt too long on the defects of an excellent book; many of them are superficial and can be easily remedied. The total impression left by the two volumes of Principal Lindsay is very favorable; they are the best thing we have in English on the subject. They combine scientific worth with literary charm, and will appeal strongly not merely to students but also to the thoughtful layman.” William Walker Rockwell.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 874. Jl. ’07. 1180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“When the author works from the sources, he is able, vigorous and stimulating, but when he trusts his general impressions, he is sometimes liable to error. On the whole, his volume is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the subject.” Franklin Johnson.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 341. Ap. ’07. 180w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The bias against everything Catholic both in form and spirit, and the belief that Luther made ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ as superior to the mediæval conception as light to darkness, is unfortunate. No reader will be misled if he bears in mind that the writer is Principal of the Free church college in Glasgow.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 176. Ag. 17. 860w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The heroic elements in the life of the great leader are magnified in a way to satisfy the most devout Lutheran; while the extravagances, inconsistencies, intolerance, and cruelties of the hero are passed over as lightly and dealt with as apologetically as anyone could desire. It is probable that no modern, scientific, Lutheran writer has presented on the whole so sympathetic an account of Luther.” Albert Henry Newman.
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 394. My. ’07. 830w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is good reading; in parts, absorbing. Dr. Lindsay’s history deserves to be widely read by ministers and theological students, who will find it full of ethical and religious suggestions; and the swing of its style and its subordination of the technical to the vital will make it for the general reader the standard English work on the subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1470. Je. 20, ’07. 520w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Is taking its place as the standard English work on its important theme.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“There are but few and slight blemishes in these masterly volumes.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 281. S. 20, ’07. 3100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It brings forth new information for many who regard themselves as sufficiently familiar with the subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 299. Je. 8, ’07. 280w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Linville, Henry R., and Kelly, Henry A.= Text-book in general zoology. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–23318.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Besides being comprehensive and accurate, is readable. In place of the old stock cuts, it has been freshly illustrated with a large number of original drawings direct from nature.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 204. S. 6, ’06. 120w.
“The introduction to the science which they have presented seems to us, not only interesting, but educationally wholesome.”
+ + =Nature.= 74: 633. O. 25, ’06. 160w.
“This is a distinct addition to the many textbooks of general zoology for secondary schools. The plan adopted by the authors seems not only interesting, but educationally wholesome.” Robert W. Hegner.
+ + =School R.= 15: 233. Mr. ’07. 440w.
=Lippmann, Friedrich.= Engraving and etching. 3d ed. rev. by Dr. Max Lehrs; tr. by Martin Hardie. *$3. Scribner.
6–33516.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Altogether the book cannot be commended too highly for its educating value on the subject of which it treats.” Laurence Burnham.
+ + + =Bookm.= 24: 640. F. ’07. 170w.
“The translation ... is all that could be desired.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 346. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.
=Lithgow, William.= Totall discourse of the rare adventures and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travayles from Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Africa. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–28951.
Lithgow’s work “contains many picturesque descriptions of cities and customs as they seemed in the early seventeenth century to the eyes of a roving Englishman. He was tortured in Spain as a spy, and thereafter ceased his wanderings, which covered, he tells us, over 36,000 miles, chiefly traversed on foot.” (Outlook.)
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“It is a record of the most varied and often diverting character, written with a spirit and in a style which should ensure a large sale for the reprint before us.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 633. D. 22, ’06. 430w.
“The publishers have treated a book of great interest in their usual sumptuous fashion.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 224. F. 23. 760w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 310. Ap. 4, ’07. 280w.
“The narrative is well worth reprinting in the ‘Library of travels.’”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 842. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
=Sat. R.= 102: 554. N. 3, ’06. 190w.
“His rare adventures are well worth reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 931. D. 8, ’06. 1540w.
=Littlehales, George W.= Altitude, azimuth, and geographical position; comprising graphical tables for finding the altitude and azimuth, the position-line, and the variations of the compass; and for identifying observed celestial bodies, and finding the course and distance in great circle sailing. *$25. Lippincott.
6–24890.
“An attempt to bring within the grasp of the ordinary navigating officer those more recondite methods of his art, which, for their complete understanding, involve a considerable knowledge of mathematics and nautical astronomy. Great circle sailing, astronomical determinations of the compass error, Sumner’s method for finding the position of a ship, all involve the solution of spherical triangles, and it is the function of the present work to substitute for the conventional logarithmic solution of these triangles the use of certain diagrams here published in great detail.”—Engin. N.
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“The labour undergone in the preparation can only be appreciated by those used to such matters; and the result in the saving of labour and time to practical navigators, by a graphical process easy to understand and follow must lay them under a deep debt of gratitude to the author. We feel sure that his method will be extensively adopted.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 74. Jl. 20. 250w.
“As respects accuracy, the charts appear adequate to all demands of nautical practice.” George C. Comstock.
+ + =Engin. N.= 57: 194. F. 14, ’07. 1200w.
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 310. O. 3, ’07. 1000w.
=Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 50w.
=Livingstone, Alice.= Sealed book. $1.50. Fenno.
7–5060.
Much mystery and some adventure complicate the already tangled plot of this story which is built upon the old melodramatic plan. The hero, who is supposed to have attempted the murder of his father, disappears and is thought to be dead, the beautiful heroine lives on, a society queen accepting the attentions of the villain. Eighteen years later the villain’s true character is exposed and it is found that the hero and heroine have all this time been secretly married and their grown daughter appears in time to have a love affair of her own before the book reaches its happy ending.
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“Usually in modern sensational literature, books are not sealed unless they contain something of a particularly startling nature, and we approach this one, prepared to revel in hairbreadth escapes, dark plots, and thwarted villainy. We are not disappointed.”
− =Acad.= 71: 111. Ag. 4, ’06. 410w.
“A long story of mystery and extraordinary coincidences which is tolerably exciting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 182. Ag. 18. 120w.
“Four [stories] are skillfully tangled together into a whole mystery as gloomy as the old English castle of Wrendlebury Towers. And in the end every thread is as satisfactorily untangled again as heart could desire.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 170w.
“The interest grows more intense to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
=Lloyd, Albert B.= In dwarfland and cannibal country: a record of travel and discovery in central Africa. *$3. Dutton.
The author is a missionary-explorer with more than ordinary zest for thrilling adventure. This record follows his course far into the wilderness of Central Africa to the “forest of pygmies in whom Stanley was so much interested, and he had the best of opportunities for studying and describing this strange nation of dwarfs, who have kept their identity as a race from time immemorial.” (Outlook.) “With boatmen of the cannibal Bangwa tribe he sped down the Aruwimi, and at night in the villages saw their savage dances and the orgies of their warriors over the kola-nut pot.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The reader who gets beyond the common place narrative and reflections of the opening chapters will be likely to continue to the end.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 263. S. 19, ’07. 460w.
“It is rather a pity that he did not find some literary friend to edit his book and correct his weird ideas as to the form and function of the sentence. Otherwise his naive and straightforward style adds to the charm of his work and makes it all the more vivid.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 522. Ag. 31, ’07. 1470w.
“The book is, as a personal narrative of experience, decidedly readable, but it has the usual fault of books of this kind in that it relates too minutely and without careful discrimination the unimportant as well as important matters.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 971. Ag. 31, ’07. 200w.
=Lloyd, Albert B.= Uganda to Khartoum: life and adventure on the upper Nile with pref. by Victor Buxton. *$3. Dutton.
7–35191.
An English missionary’s account of five years’ experience in the northern provinces of the British Uganda Protectorate.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 99. Ap. ’07.
“One of the most fascinating books we have come across for a long time. He has the art of selection. He knows how to convey a vivid impression, and refrains from burdening the reader’s memory with unnecessary details.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 404. O. 6. 650w.
“Alike for readers interested in missionary work in Africa, and for those interested in it as a land of adventure, Mr. Lloyd’s book will be satisfactory. H. E. Coblentz.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 300w.
“It is written without system or plan, and is artless and inconsequent in its style—sometimes almost ludicrously so.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 946. O. 17, ’07. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 866. Ap. 18, ’07. 500w.
“As a record of travel, sport and adventure the book has considerable interest, and the author gives a clear idea of the customs and superstitions of the natives.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 238. Ja. 26, ’07. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 384. Mr. ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Lloyd is a missionary and something more; he seems to blend the qualities of a Livingstone with those of a Selous.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 250w.
=Lloyd, Henry Demarest.= Man, the social creator. **$2. Doubleday.
6–16757.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Whenever they were written, at intervals during the last ten years of his life, it was when he was at his best. The loftiness of spirit and sententiousness of style indicate moments of exceptional clarity of vision and elevation of soul.” Graham Taylor.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 483. N. ’06. 1090w.
“As a whole the book is a germinal, thought-provoking book. It is deeply religious and ethically lofty. It is written in Mr. Lloyd’s luminous, eloquent style, with many flashing epigrams and keen strokes of wit. Occasionally the thread of the thought is not quite as smooth as if Mr. Lloyd had lived to finish it, but the work of the editors is exceedingly well done. Probably no two people in more complete sympathy with Mr. Lloyd’s thought and work could be found than his sister and Miss Addams.” Eltweed Pomeroy.
+ + =Arena.= 36: 569. N. ’06. 780w.
“The painful labor of compiling a posthumous volume has been performed with tact and skill, and the book is a precious contribution to the thought of the new century.” Florence Kelly.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 466. D. 15, ’06. 1610w.
“Naturally the treatment is somewhat fragmentary and at times vague; as a whole, however, the editors have succeeded in giving to the exposition both symmetry and connectedness. The book, as a whole, contains deeply suggestive writing in a style which curiously recalls both Emerson and Carlyle. It is a pity that the proofreading should have been so wretchedly done.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 99. Ag. 2, ’06. 370w.
=Loane, M.= Next street but one. $2. Longmans.
W 7–77.
“This book, mainly about the poor who are always with us and may be supposed to live in the next street but one, is the work of a trained nurse.... The book is a collection of studies of family and economic conditions; each chapter contains a wonderful variety of personal illustrations and is entertainingly written.... The conclusions and deductions are convincing, as they are drawn from specific incidents.”—N. Y. Times.
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“She has a great gift for telling stories.... There is no attempt at formal or systematic treatment; the author puts down her experiences and reflections, just as they occur to her, in an easy, natural way. A little overstatement does not appreciably detract from the value of her charming and enlightening book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 99. Mr. 29, ’07. 1330w.
“The mere data contained in this work is wonderful. The method of chatty and sympathetic treatment is even more to be admired.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 470w.
“[One] will find Miss Loane’s womanly common-sense and robust humour an admirable corrective to the pleas for sapping the strength of the nation which are the evil fashion of the hour.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 281. F. 23, ’07. 1730w.
=Lock, Robert Heath.= Recent progress in the study of variation, heredity, and evolution. *$2. Dutton.
7–12650.
“The book begins with an introduction in which are briefly discussed: Linnaean species, Jordan’s species, variation, mutation, discontinuity of species, the work of Mendel and evolution theories. Later chapters are largely given to a fuller discussion of the topics here introduced. The first half of the book is rather elementary.... Natural selection, evidences of evolution and ‘biometry’ are treated in detail.”—Science.
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“The style is clear, but in many sections so many highly technical terms are used that the lay reader will be in trouble. The concluding chapter at least, however, should be carefully read by all who are dealing with problems of human progress.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 640. My. ’07. 110w.
“On the whole, this is probably the best available book from which the layman may get a reasonably complete and nontechnical account of recent investigations in the last two of the three fields covered. Unfortunately, the treatment of the subjects is not strictly even and impartial.” Raymond Pearl.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 209. O. 1, ’07. 280w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 511. Ag. 29, ’07. 150w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 259. Ag. 23, ’07. 810w.
“The subjects and their facts are well arranged, but are set forth with a heaviness of diction which makes it difficult for any one except a biologist already familiar with the subject properly to correlate the facts as he reads. The sphere of usefulness of this volume will be among senior biological students rather than among either advanced scientists or general readers.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 230w.
“An elementary but generally clear and skilful exposition of the present aspects of the evolutionary problem.” F. A. D.
+ − =Nature.= 75: 573. Ap. 18, ’07. 1490w.
“Even in the driest parts of the work there are sharp and valuable criticisms of the theories of the day.” Francis Ramaley.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 25: 840. Mr. 1, ’07. 830w.
“The author is no Miss Agnes Clerke; but he is at his best in his somewhat discontinuous sketches of the history of the idea of ‘mutation.’”
+ =Spec.= 99: 204. Ag. 10, ’07. 820w.
=Locke, William John.= Beloved vagabond. †$1.50. Lane.
6–37606.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is told with delightful humor, but also with realism not altogether pleasing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 78. Mr. ’07.
“Pleasant is the word! Fantastic, improbable, impossible! Granted freely, that and more!” Mary Moss.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 119. Ja. ’07. 420w.
“It is delightful because it is full of the breath of springtide and Bohemianism.”
+ =Current Literature.= 42: 461. Ap. ’07. 880w.
“The hero is one of the most genial and human figures ever encountered within the pages of a book. It would take a very stern moralist indeed to find him, despite his obvious faults, anything but sympathetic and lovable in all the phases—even in most sordid—of his picturesque end eccentric career.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 142. Mr. 1, ’07. 690w.
“There is many a novelist much better known who might well envy Mr. Locke the privilege of having written ‘The beloved vagabond.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 525. Mr. 1, ’07. 1530w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 766. Mr. ’07. 570w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 810. D. 29, ’06. 730w.
“On the whole [Mr. Locke] must be congratulated on the skill, the spirit and the tact with which he has composed these exotic variations on a Rabelaisian theme.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 989. D. 15, ’06. 750w.
* =Lockwood, Laura Emma.= Lexicon to the English poetical works of John Milton. *$3. Macmillan.
7–37515.
“Miss Lockwood has used the text of the Globe edition, and retained the modern spelling; in the arrangement and classification of the meanings of words she has followed the ‘New English dictionary.’ Except in the case of the very commonest words, she has aimed at making her record of occurrences complete, and she has laid particular stress on definitions.”—Nation.
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“We have attempted to test the work by a single short poem, the ‘Lycidas,’ and we have only [a few] points of criticism on that difficult poem. Nevertheless, this is a very valuable work.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1003. O. 24, ’07. 330w.
“This is a welcome work and will henceforth be indispensable to any serious student of the poet. Of course, only systematic use can prove the accuracy of such a book in detail, but the impression which one gains from a cursory examination of its pages is that the task has been accomplished in a reliable and painstaking manner.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 515. D. 5, ’07. 210w.
=Lodge, Henry Cabot.= Frontier town and other essays. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–34821.
The frontier town is Greenfield, Mass., the 150th anniversary of whose incorporation was celebrated in 1903. The other essays are on the Senate, Samuel Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Hoar, The United States at Algeciras, etc.
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“All of the essays are written in Senator Lodge’s agreeable manner; he, at least, has preserved a literary finish in these essays upon historical and allied subjects. It is often refreshing to find such a book, which does not pretend to add to the store of human knowledge, but presents old views and known facts in a pleasing and attractive form.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 701. Ap. ’07. 440w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07.
=Lit. D.= 33: 595. O. 27, ’06. 70w.
“As a whole, the contents of the volume have less distinction than the same author’s ‘Fighting frigate and other essays,’ but that any man in public life should be able to write so much and so well is itself gratifying.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 482. D. 6, ’06. 180w.
“To our surprise we find Mr. Lodge at his clumsiest in speaking of the matters which concern him, or our interest in him, most.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =No. Am.= 183: 1185. D. 7, ’06. 750w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver.= Substance of faith allied with science; a catechism for parents and teachers. **$1. Harper.
7–9613.
Thru questions and answers the author formulates a way to achieve a harmonious condition in which the Divine Will is perfectly obeyed. His task has been that “of formulating the fundamentals. or substance of religious faith in terms of Divine Immanence, in such a way as to assimilate sufficiently all the results of existing knowledge and still be in harmony with the teachings of the poets and inspired writers of all ages.” The book is addressed to the many who experience some difficulty in recognizing the old landmarks amid the rising flood of criticism.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 168. O. ’07.
“We can hardly doubt that even his catechism, when preached by himself, is interesting and profitable; but we venture to suggest that if he seems to find it practically a source of inspiration, that is because any man so combining learning and good-will is worth listening to, whatever his topic.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
− + =Dial.= 42: 341. Je. 1, ’07. 900w.
=Ind.= 62: 911. Ap. 18, ’07. 470w.
=Ind.= 63: 1236. N. 21, ’07. 40w.
=Outlook.= 85: 879. Ap. 20, ’07. 280w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 638. My. ’07. 60w.
“We have rarely seen a simpler or clearer account of what science can teach us now on such fundamental problems as the formation of the earth and the development of life; it will be a real boon to the religious teacher; though, simple as it is, we doubt whether he could make it intelligible to children.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 276. Ag. 31, ’07. 280w.
“His book we are sure, will be a source of happiness and consolation to many who, confused by the new discoveries of history and of science, have become shaken in their religious faith.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 946. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
* =Loftie, Rev. William J.= Colour of London, historic, personal and local; with an introd. by M. H. Spielmann; il. by the Japanese artist, Yoshio Markino. *$6. Jacobs.
“Mr. Loftie has interpreted the term ‘colour’ in its broadest sense and has drawn extensively upon the wonderful traditions of the great metropolis; indeed, the most interesting chapter in the volume is devoted to the history and description of the Tower. To many, however, the most attractive feature of the book will be the series of delightful illustrations by Mr. Yoshio Markino, reproduced in colour and monotone, the originals of which were recently exhibited at the Clifford gallery in the Haymarket.”—Int. Studio.
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“As for the letterpress by Mr. W. J. Loftie, its chief defect is that it has nothing to do with the pictures. From the antiquarian and topographical points of view it seems to us of very high interest, marked by strong common sense and enmity to popular fables.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 501. My. 25, ’07. 1060w.
“The artist ... has given us a London which is new. Mr. W. J. Loftie as an antiquary, has naturally and properly given us in the text anecdotes which are old, though pleasantly treated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 612. My. 18. 420w.
“Mr. Loftie writes of a few of the myriad aspects of London ... treating them all in a delightfully suggestive fashion, with a true feeling for the oddities and ramifications of his subject. The enterprising young Japanese seems to know all parts of his beloved London, and to have observed it with the stranger’s open-mindedness and the artist’s sensitiveness to effect.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 376. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
“Possessing a delicate sense of colour and tone harmony, the artist has been inspired by some typical scenes of London street life to produce a number of drawings which are extremely fascinating, and bear the stamp of exceptional ability.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Loftie has done his share of the work in a competent manner. These drawings, the larger part of them in color, ought to make the fortune of any book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 230w.
“His drawings are equally admirable for simplicity, spontaneity, and sincerity—so much so, indeed, as quite to take all of one’s attention in opening the well-printed book, even though its text be by such an erudite authority as is Mr. W. J. Loftie.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 340w.
“Well above the colour-book average.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 626. My. 18, ’07. 290w.
=Loliee, Frederic.= Short history of comparative literature from the earliest times to the present day. *$1.75. Putnam.
7–18136.
“M. Loliée’s aim is to present a picture of the literary output of all the centuries: to mark the periods of growth, florescence and decay, and to indicate the relations of one product to another.”—Spec.
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“We have read this work with dismay and disappointment. And as for M. Loliée’s comparisons, they are fit only to be made at a penny-reading. It remains to add that the book is very ill-translated, and that it bristles with misprints.”
− − =Acad.= 70: 423. My. 5, ’06. 1520w.
“As a result of such a gigantic undertaking, confined within the narrow limits of 350 pages, his book is conspicuous for broad surveys and vague generalities. By its lack of close individual characterization and accurate detailed description it lies at the very antipodes of Sainte-Beuve’s critical method. The translation is not so good as it might be.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 143. Ag. 15, ’07. 970w.
“Each step in his work is so carefully taken and the proportions so well maintained that one can have no possible doubt of the underlying truth of his whole theme.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 338. My. 25, ’07. 800w.
“It is certainly safe to say that the wider a reader’s acquaintance with the literature of the world, the more benefit he will get from M. Loliée’s work. It has been well translated by Mr. Power.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 65. Jl. 14, ’06. 190w.
=Loliee, Frederic.= Women of the second empire: chronicles of the court of Napoleon III; comp. from unpublished documents; tr. by Alice M. Ivimy. *$7. Lane.
In this volume “pageant ... defiles before you in all its magnificence. The empress Eugenie, who set the fashion to the women of Europe, the Countess de Castiglione, Madame de Rutz, Laure de Rothschild, the Princess Mathilde, Countess le Hon and many others—all pass on their way, and the place of each in the procession is defined. As each passes too you learn something of her character and attainments; and in a discreet whisper stories are told of her doings.... Moreover it is illustrated with fifty-one photographs of the celebrities, superbly reproduced.”—Acad.
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“Exceedingly well written and interesting as gossip may be. But M. Loliée’s preface and work are more reasonable and without that desperate brightness—of a salesman exhibiting wares. He has been untiring in his search for information and successful. The translation is well done.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 600w.
“The volume appears ... like ‘the book of the opera,’ and a very light opera at that.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 17. Jl. 4, ’07. 460w.
“Amusing, shocking, interesting, disgusting, trivial, important, sometimes by turns and sometimes all on the same page is M. Frederic Loliée’s book of biographical sketches.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 289. My. 4, ’07. 920w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 90w.
“It all smacks too much of a society’s journal’s small talk about pretty faces and dresses.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 130w.
“Brilliant and amusing as M. Loliée’s book undoubtedly is, such a tone of cynicism rather repels any one who has ever had even a passing acquaintance with members of that long-dead society whose actual charm he does not, we think, quite succeed in perpetuating here.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 129. Jl. 27, ’07. 1490w.
=London, Jack.= Before Adam. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–7191.
Mr. London sets about the novel task of deducing from the dream glimpses of the present day sleeper, evidences of his evolution from the ape. For instance, the falling-through-space dream is a racial memory which dates back to our remote ancestors who lived in trees and who experienced terrible falls. “It is decidedly ingenious, this story of tree dwellers, cave dwellers and fire makers, who are masters also of the bow and arrow—of three stages of human evolution going on side by side in a remote geological age.” (Ind.)
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“In the subject of his latest story, ‘Before Adam,’ Mr. Jack London shows no diminution of his characteristic audacity. This is a brave endeavor to enlist our interest in these dim denizens; but it falls short of complete success. The story occasionally stirs our curiosity, but never our sympathy.” Harry James Smith.
− =Atlan.= 100: 125. Jl. ’07. 1640w.
“It may be the result of a good deal of scientific research into the latest accepted theories of evolution and atavism, but the popularity of a work of fiction is seldom in direct ratio to its scientific accuracy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 25: 183. Ap. ’07. 310w.
“The story fails to make a distinct impression upon the reader, who finds in it, in the last analysis, but another animal story of the type that has been so popular during the last decade or so.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 210w.
“Jack London’s unbridled imagination is here exhibited in full career.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 420w.
“Jack London has performed a wonderful feat in so describing the lives and passions of these rudimentary beings. He has builded a romance of the unknown ages, of the creatures that may have been, and endowed it all with poignant reality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 690w.
“In one respect ‘Before Adam’ is weak; it is too truth-loving as regards scientific records to leave much room for the emotional aspects of life. The story is a sort of literary ‘tour de force,’ ably done and curiously fascinating.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 762. Je. ’07. 260w.
=London, Jack.= Love of life, and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29686.
A group of characteristic Jack London stories set in “the rim of the polar sea.” Cold and hunger battle with the love of life, even humanity itself is often chilled into insensibility, and the animal instinct of self preservation at all hazards remains. The stories are Love of life, A day’s lodging, The white man’s way, The story of Keesh, The unexpected, Brown Wolf, The sun-dog trail and Negore, the coward.
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“All good, some of them of distinctive merit. Not so brutal as some of his earlier stories of this author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 202. N. ’07.
“Taken altogether these stories have all the good points of their author’s work—strength, aliveness, vividness of colouring.” J. Marchand.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 419. D. ’07. 470w.
“They are quite equal to his previous accomplishments in this direction, and are not approached by the efforts of any other writers, save Elizabeth Robins’s ‘The magnetic north,’ which remains the chief achievement in arctic romance.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 655. N. 2, ’07. 450w.
“This is much the usual Jack London thing: wolf-dogs and miners and Indians; starving and freezing and killing.”
− =Nation.= 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 594. O. 5, ’07. 680w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Jack London certainly has the story-teller’s gift, and he uses it to the greatest effect when he tells us of the north.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 80w.
=London, Jack.= Moon-face; and other stories. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–32351.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Of varying interest and merit they seem, by the natural limitations of the short story, to hinder the powers of the author from coming into full play.”
− + =Cath. World.= 84: 833. Mr. ’07. 190w.
“These short stories of Mr. London’s are rather poor stuff, as lacking in quality as in imagination; and there is little to be said for them on the score of originality.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 178. F. 9, ’07. 180w.
* =London, Jack.= The road. †$2. Macmillan.
Jack London is the invincible tramp in these pages. Often enough the vulnerable heel is exposed to the arrows flying thick in “hobo” land, but by means of quick wits, his alertness and master strength he wards them off. “The road” records his round of underworld experiences which began at eighteen, and it abounds in tramp tricks, tramp scrapes, and tramp vernacular, interesting both to the curious reader and the student of sociology.
=London, Jack.= Scorn of women; in three acts. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–43530.
A three act comedy, with Dawson City in 1897 as its setting. “The heroine is a dazzlingly beautiful and very rich dancer, who is worshipped by all the men and suspected by all the women.... The incidents of Arctic life are portrayed with unmistakable veracity, and the humors and mystifications of a masked ball, under frontier conditions, are set forth with freshness and vivacity.” (Nation.)
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=Canadian M.= 28: 399. F. ’07. 80w.
“In the last act there is a touch of the wild which is, perhaps, a trifle too realistic, but the piece as a whole, is decidedly entertaining, and contains some well-drawn sketches of character.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 495. D. 6, ’06. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 778. N. 24, ’06. 80w.
“The length of the second act and the numerous irrelevant episodes might weaken the play on the stage, but there can be no question about the dramatic effect of the conclusion.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 461. O. 5, ’07. 180w.
=London, Jack.= White Fang. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–35449.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a capital story, marred a little by the brutality of detail given in the fight with the bull-dog.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 274. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.
“His tale is packed full of absurdly precious idioms, literary ‘clichés’, and pompous little mannerisms.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 161. F. 9. 270w.
“The illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull are not the least good thing about the book. The virility of this artist is as strong and as alive as that of the author he companions, but there is a greater sense of self-control in it, a power of restraint and reserve which makes his work a lasting delight.” Grace Isabel Colbron.
+ + =Bookm.= 24: 599. F. ’07. 950w.
“The manner in which the author manages to interest one in the history of the wolf is an achievement.”
+ + =Current Literature.= 82: 111. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“It would be an exaggeration to call this novel a socialistic tract in disguise, but it is certainly not the least clever stroke of its author’s that he has succeeded in interweaving into a dog-and-wolf story so subtle a reminder of the pressure of feral conditions in the midst of civilized human society.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + − =Forum.= 38: 547. Ap. ’07. 1020w.
“The Canadian wolf needs the rehabilitation which the Indian wolf owes to Kipling, and Mr. London is entirely successful in expressing his litheness, which is worthy of rikki-tikki at his best, his hardihood, and the germ of the fidelity which remains the master attribute in the dog. Some scenes are admirably vivid bits of natural history.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 46. F. 8, ’07. 550w.
“Done in this author’s best style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 40w.
+ − =Spec.= 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 360w.
* =Lonergan, W. F.= Forty years of Paris, il. **$3.50. Brentano’s.
Contemporary Paris as seen thru the eyes of a newspaper correspondent. Mr. Lonergan “has attended sittings of the Chamber and the courts, met many politicians and men of letters, unhitched Boulanger’s carriage, talked with Clémenceau, interviewed Zola, corresponded with Halèvy, and had a squabble with Sardou. In the midst of his feverish existence, however, he found the time to read something else than newspapers, namely, some books on Taine, Renan, and Abbé Loisy, especially the latter; and he gives us the benefit of his readings.” (Nation.)
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“The genial and observant spirit which is visible in Mr. Lonergan’s new volume on Paris inclines us to praise it, and to recommend its purchase to our readers.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 110. N. 9, ’07. 320w.
“There are a good many small mistakes, and some unnecessary passages.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 400w.
“While this narrative, covering the main events of recent history, does not take the place of Seignobos or Hanotaux, it supplements, thanks to its generous supply of gossip from the editorial rooms and the ‘brasseries,’ those more dignified and reserved chronicles.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 470. N. 21, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“It contains a good deal of more or less entertaining gossip, more or less valuable criticism, literary and dramatic, and some pages well worth reading on the conflict with the Vatican.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Brier-patch philosophy. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–34265.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A book somewhat different from his previous animal studies, but equally well worth reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1906. 2: 805. D. 22. 150w.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 177. D. 20, ’06. 170w.
“When Mr. Long is describing the habits of animals, and telling us stories about them, he is interesting and readable; but when he puts his own ideas into the mouth of a wild rabbit, the result is apt to be a little tedious.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 653. Ap. 27, ’07. 160w.
* =Long, William Joseph.= Whose home is the wilderness: some studies of wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–37000.
A book of intimate observations recorded at the end of a season of “Watching the wild things.” It aims first, to show some of the unrecorded facts of animal life exactly as the author has seen them; second, to reproduce as far as possible the spirit of the place and the hour, and to let one also feel something of that gladness and peace which the author has always found in the silent places.
Long day; the story of a New York working girl as told by herself. *$1.20. Century.
5–29965.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 26. Ja. ’07.
Reviewed by Margaret Dreir Robins.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 484. D. 15, ’06. 1180w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Araminta and the automobile. †50c. Crowell.
7–21370.
Araminta and the automobile, The deception of Martha Tucker, and While the automobile ran down are three stories which reveal “cheerful Americans” in the act of testing the joys and sorrows of the motor car.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Bath in an English tub; il. by Robert A. Graef. †75c. Barnes.
7–11578.
A series of letters written to the New York sun which give the author’s experiences in England.
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“It is not a guide book, but is franker and funnier than most guide books and will be appreciated by all who have been there.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Loomis sees the absurdities of life and relates them with cheerful vivacity.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 432. My. 9, ’07. 50w.
=Lorimer, Norma Octavia.= By the waters of Carthage. **$2.50. Pott.
7–4809.
“There is something fresh and original about this book of travel. The writer ... expresses herself in letters to her husband, and her observations are full of personal bits and scrappy digression.... The Oriental life of Tunis is presented in all its color and variety, and the ruins of Carthage are suggested with quite an imaginative touch.... The photographs, by Garrigues, a Tunis photographer, are unusually fine.”—Outlook.
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“The book is open to many criticisms, with its bits of improbable romance and its free and easy style; but it is really interesting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
− =Spec.= 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 360w.
=Loti, Pierre, pseud.= Disenchanted. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–32677.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The work is written in Loti’s beautiful style, but is less superficial in character than many of his stories.” Amy C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 37: 108. Ja. ’07. 410w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 109. Ja. ’07. 730w.
“As a matter of fact, M. Loti conspicuously fails to present the case of the contemporary harem in its most telling light. It strikes the present reviewer that the author’s taste runs somewhat excessively, for once, to the sentimental.” H. G. Dwight.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 718. Mr. ’07. 1790w.
“Superbly translated by Clara Bell, the new book by Pierre Loti is no less than irresistible.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 35: 122. Ja. ’07. 240w.
=Lottridge, Silas A.= Familiar wild animals. *60c. Holt.
6–13335.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 82. Mr. ’07. ✠
+ =Ind.= 61: 261. Ag. 2, ’06. 30w.
=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= Text of Shakespeare; its history from the publication of the quartos and folios down to and including the publication of the editions of Pope and Theobald. **$2. Scribner.
6–36417.
The third instalment of Prof. Lounsbury’s work on “Shakespearean wars.” “An elaborate account of an eighteenth-century literary controversy, of which the protagonists were Alexander Pope, author of ‘Dunciad,’ and the Shakesperean scholar, Lewis Theobald, the original hero of that famous and infamous poem.” (Forum.)
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“Dr. Lounsbury, with a learning, a penetration and a scholarly thoroughness beyond all praise, has added to his already invaluable Shakespearean labours by attacking the thorny subject of Pope, Theobald, and the text of Shakespeare; has cleared the tangled brake and disclosed matters which had been long forgotten.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 605. D. 15, ’06. 880w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 2: 241. D. ’06.
“His style is heavy, and he writes at unnecessary length, labouring points that have long been pretty clear to those who know anything about the subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 253. Mr. 2. 540w.
“In style, this volume is delightfully clear and entertaining, despite some rather painful ‘longueurs.’ Professor Lounsbury wears his learning lightly, and the reader, therefore, feels no burden.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 39. Ja. 16, ’07. 1510w.
“He has rendered a new critical edition of the ‘Dunciad’ and a revising of Pope’s biography necessary, and a fuller life of Theobald desirable—despite the fulness and excellence of his own treatment of the great commentator’s career; and, all the while, he has been steadily nearing the goal he originally set himself of tracing the history of the works and fame of William Shakespeare.” W. P. Trent.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 373. Ja. ’07. 1150w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 99. Ja. 10, ’07. 370w.
“Much of this investigation of necessity wanders far from Shakespere; but it is difficult to see how it could have been avoided, and the substantial results of the author’s researches ought to silence the critic who is inclined to quibble over the appropriateness of the title of the volume.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 416. N. 15, ’06. 1360w.
“It is for these additions to exact knowledge and for the tedious labor spent in exhaustive investigation of dusty sources that students will be grateful to a volume condensing for them the results of ardent toil. But the general reader will find it almost equally rewarding for its extraordinarily vivid representation in the surroundings and atmosphere of their age of two notable figures.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 834. D. 1, ’06. 2140w.
“While scholars and students will gratefully acknowledge Professor Lounsbury’s notable contribution to Shakespearean literature, the lasting importance of his work in this field lies in the clear light it throws on the conditions in which the dramatist lived, and the method or order of his growth.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 330. O. 19, ’07. 310w.
“Another book that must take an eminent place among recent contributions to Shakespeare literature—if, indeed, it be not by far the most important and the most interesting in its special field of criticism—is ‘The text of Shakespeare.’” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 2: 724. S. ’07. 1250w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by George H. Browne.
+ + =School R.= 15: 304. Ap. ’07. 520w.
“A book which deserves the attention of every one interested in the history of English literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 979. Je. 22, ’07. 1690w.
=Louthan, Hattie Horner.= “This was a man:” a romance. $1.50. Clark.
6–45355.
The author emphasizes the sentiment that “the only safe principle in our American life lies in ignoring social distinctions and in paying homage to what each man really is.”
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“The vulgarity of it consists in the author’s effort to interpret the scandalous lives of two Don Juans by the free use of their own vocabularies.”
− =Ind.= 62: 603. F. 28, ’07. 130w.
“It is a very tangled skein of events that this novel presents to the reader to unravel, and there is little unity of plan or plot, but these faults are partially atoned for by a certain freshness and exuberance of feeling and expression that give the book the stamp of human interest.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 130w.
“The principal incidents of the story border on melodrama. There are some parts of genuine dramatic interest and the character of the rector is well drawn.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Lovett, Robert M.= Winged victory. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–12977.
The whole story is animated by the spirit of the heroine who champions thru early life the cause of a feeble-minded brother, and later that of an unsuccessful man whom she marries because he needs her. She was “winged in her hope; armed in her faith. In the presence of the great fulfillment of life all individual complications of mere living seemed contemptible and petty. She walked firmly, exulting in her strength.”
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“The book ... is rich in interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 230w.
“The story is interesting and cleverly wrought, but is marred by a vein of the sort of sentimentalism that affects the modern amateur sociologist, and by a false sense of values in the social life of the college community.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 310w.
“The climax is long in coming, and when it does arrive one fails to see clearly its relation to most of what has gone before.”
− =Ind.= 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w.
“While the book is seriously lacking in unity and coordination, it has features of genuine merit.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 120w.
“All the virtue of this story lies in the first of its three parts. Here is an affectionate and reverent study of child-nature, grateful enough in the midst of our sentimental or facetious or condescending manipulations of the child as literary ‘copy.’”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 460w.
“The book as it stands is excellently written, in a style free from literary self-consciousness; American in its ideals, and full of firsthand interest in human character. Because of this very freshness the title is not quite fortunate; used here it gives an academic touch in spite of its real beauty.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 315. My. 18, ’07. 690w.
=Low, Sidney James Mark.= Vision of India as seen during the tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales. *$3.50. Dutton.
W 7–6.
A general picture of the life and social conditions in India today. Beginning with Bombay, the author takes us thru the cities of Rajputana, to Punjab and the borders, past the cities of the Moghuls on to Bengal, Madras and the Southland. There is an account of the Mohammedan college at Aligarh, a discussion of the Indian army, and a concluding chapter which raises the question of the endurance of the present strange form of Indian government.
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“Mr. Sidney Low, in ‘A vision of India,’ ... is admirable: thoroughly detached and non-official, but conservative in the best sense, in spite of a good deal of criticism of British faults.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 1: 606. My. 19. 1160w.
“A book so profitably full and accurate, so acute in observation, and so enlivening, that it may be called a remarkably illuminating book about India.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 372. Je. 16, ’07. 270w.
“Mr. Low’s book is full of facts; it is brightly and ably written; and we hope that many members of our ‘not too attentive democracy’ will turn over these pages to see what our Indian empire is like.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 180. My. 18, ’06. 1780w.
“Our only quarrel is with the title Mr. Low has chosen, for there is more careful study than ‘vision’ in his book; but it is better for that.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 15. Jl. 4, ’07. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 292. My. 4, ’07. 770w.
“Mr. Low’s [book is valuable] because England’s course for the future is clearly and impressively disclosed.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
Reviewed by F. A. Steel.
=Sat. R.= 102: 199. Ag. 18, ’06. 370w.
“The book might with advantage have been considerably shortened. But, on the whole, it is an excellent piece of work, showing India as it appears to a keen observer, whose mind has been trained in the study of peoples and politics.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 131. Jl. 28, ’06. 2040w.
=Lowell, Percival.= Mars and its canals. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–45164.
On the hills of northern Arizona, Mr. Lowell built an observatory and equipped it with apparatus for a life study of Mars. He offers in this volume the deductions from his observations to date. Not only does he convince the reader that Mars is inhabited but “that the inhabitants of Mars are carrying on a system of irrigation for agricultural purposes on an immeasurably larger scale than has ever been dreamed on our planet, that they possess a high degree of agricultural and mechanical intelligence, and a degree of moral development so far in advance of any we have yet reached that in all probability war is among them unknown.” (Outlook.)
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“A longer and rather more serious book than that of Morse on Mars.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 69. Mr. ’07.
=Ath.= 1907. 1: 478. Ap. 20. 480w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 100: 262. Ag. ’07. 670w.
“With all respect, then, to Professor Lowell, and with all trust in the accuracy of his observations, they seem explicable enough without any idea of Mars being inhabited. It seems pretty clear that he has let his imagination run away with him.” George M. Searle.
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 577. F. ’07. 5900w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 211. F. ’07. 1790w.
“Whether the reader can accept the author’s conclusions or not, he will at least be forced to admit, after reading ‘Mars and its canals,’ that the book is an exceedingly able and interesting exposition of the subject.” Herbert A. Howe.
+ =Dial.= 42: 76. F. 1, ’07. 1170w.
“In every way the work is a worthy presentation from a recognized Martian leader. Mr. Lowell’s observations have every claim to acceptance. The theories propounded are by no means so clear.”
+ − =Ind.= 61: 1567. D. 27, ’06. 290w.
=Lond. Times.= 6: 108. Ap. 5, ’07. 1510w.
“The most adverse critic cannot but admire the tireless industry with which the planet has been scanned night after night, every noteworthy appearance regarded, and the mass of facts thus acquired moulded into a consistent whole.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 317. Ap. 4, ’07. 710w.
“Written in a very clear style, free from scientific technicalities, and illustrated by maps and diagrams, so that the non-expert layman can understand it.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 142. Ja. 19, ’07. 320w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 120w.
“While this book is published as a popular exposition of the most recent investigations, it presents practically all that is known, or thus far suspected, presumably, concerning this planet and its inhabitants.” Herman S. Davis.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 25: 499. Mr. 29, ’07. 520w.
=Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida. 1562–1574. *$2.50. Putnam.
5–32489.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 423. Ja. ’07. 370w.
=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Canadian war of 1812. *$4.15. Oxford.
6–30901.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 429. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“That the results do not present much that is novel is due rather to the diligence of Mr. Lucas’s predecessors than to his own lack of zeal. The few errors ... do not bear directly upon the narrative.” Carl Russel Fish.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 433. Mr. ’07. 430w.
=Lucas, Charles Prestwood.= Historical geography of British colonies, v. 1. *$1.25; v. 2. *$1.90. Oxford.
=v. 1.= The Mediterranean and Eastern colonies revised and brought up to date by R. E. Stubbs.
“This volume begins with Gibraltar, and travels through the Mediterranean by way of Malta and Cyprus to the Asiatic islands of the Far East. Except for the three European possessions and Somaliland in Africa, the book deals exclusively with the islands in the Indian ocean and the minor Asiatic possessions.”—Nation.
=v. 2.= West indies rev. and brought up to date by Chewton Atchley.
“This volume deals not only with the West Indian islands proper, from Jamaica round to Trinidad, but also with the Bermudas, the Bahamas, the mainland colonies of Guiana and Honduras, and even the far distant possessions in the Cape Horn region—the Falkland islands and South Georgia.”—Nature.
=v. 6.= Australasia, by J. D. Rogers.
A history of the southern continent and the islands of the Pacific.
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“Its revision has been most carefully carried out, and the politician will be as grateful for the precise statement of recent changes as the historical student will be for the more ample scale on which the earlier stages of exploration and settlement are treated.” W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 414. Ap. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work of revision has been satisfactorily accomplished.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 242. S. 20, ’06. 780w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Mr. Rogers himself has apparently taken great delight in the writing of the book. Every page seems to be a labor of love, with its clever descriptions, witty allusions, apt quotations, Biblical and classical, and swift judgments of men, of policies, and of events.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 190. Ag. 29, ’07. 770w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Mr. Lucas has accomplished his task most successfully.”
+ =Nature.= 73: 245. Ja. 11, ’06. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed. Another book of verses for children, il. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–32337.
An anthology of “Poetry-for-children” which is capable of a many-sided appeal to the imagination, and which, the author hopes, will serve as a preparation for the real poetry of the grown-up. A poem’s fitness for being read aloud has been a principal consideration for including it.
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“Is a delightful compilation, and noticeably excellent in the method of its arrangement.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 515. O. 26. 190w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Lucas has a sound taste in humor and in literature at large, and he seems equally to have good judgment in his choice of what will please children.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 544. N. 9, ’07. 110w.
“It would be difficult to get a more valuable edition for household use.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 30w.
“Altogether a most suitable and acceptable nursery, schoolroom, and playroom anthology.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: sup. 640. N. 2, ’07. 160w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Character and comedy. *$1.25. Macmillan.
The first part of this book “consists of pleasant little essays of a Lamblike gentleness and humor, but the best of the book is the second part, ‘Life’s little difficulties,’ in which by means of life-like letters the tiny social tragedies of small places are told with exquisite dexterity and good nature.” (Ind.)
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“Mr. Lucas is a pretty humorist, and in this dainty volume he shows, very prettily, the variety of his range.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 334. S. 21. 290w.
“A most delightful book.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1317. N. 28, ’07. 60w.
“Mr. Lucas knows how to write trifles with something much better than dignity; with a cheerful communicativeness and transparent candour that make every reader his warm friend.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 300. O. 4, ’07. 820w.
“The informality, intimacy, unaffected humor, of these unpretentious papers make them delightful reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
“Mr. Lucas’s last, but not least charming, book of essays.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 521. O. 12, ’07. 1580w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Fireside and sunshine. **$1.25. Dutton.
7–29018.
Nineteen “Lamb like” essays upon such subjects as; breakfast, squirrels, clothing old and new, the days of the week, and letter writing.
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“His pages not only have the expected Elian air, but also something of a sybaritic savor, a more than suggestion of the gourmet, a Dickens-Lamb-Scott enjoyment of the things of sense as embodied in certain favorite eatables and drinkables.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 500w.
“This writing is in Mr. Lucas’s well-known vein—agreeable, vivacious, with bits of interesting observation of men, women, and beasts, and with touches of gentle humor. The matter, however, is rather thin, good enough for a casual contribution to the London ‘Outlook’ or ‘Country gentleman,’ but much of it hardly worth preservation in permanent form.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 338. Ap. 11, ’07. 200w.
“Among the best collections of essays of this day of their popular revival.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 302. My. 11, ’07. 520w.
“Whether old or new or half new, the essays may be commended to the public as excellent reading.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 791. N. 17, ’06. 420w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Forgotten tales of long ago. $1.50. Stokes.
7–35046.
Twenty stories, from early writers for children, of a period ranging from 1790 to 1830, with three later contributions. “In the discovery of an anonymous production entitled ‘Lady Anne’ the editor finds his reward for much fruitless rummaging. We share his gratification, for it is a gem well worth preserving.” (Ath.)
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“Interesting to the occasional child who fancies quaint tales, and to all students of children’s literature. Well printed and illustrated, and attractively bound.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. 50w.
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 652. N. 24. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 60w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Friendly town: a little book for the urbane. $1.50. Holt.
6–10500.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Ind.= 62: 733. Mr. 28, ’07. 140w.
“Among anthologies the book deserves an exceptional place.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
“It would be difficult to find a collection of more appealing verse and prose than this.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed. Gentlest art: a choice of letters by entertaining hands. **$1.25. Macmillan.
7–32334.
The gentlest art, according to Mr. Lucas’ interpretation, is that of letter-writing. This anthology of letters is varied in content and includes a wide range of letter-writers, many of them well-known eighteenth and nineteenth century English people. There are eighteen headings under which letters are grouped, some of them being Children and grandfathers, News bearers, The grand style, The little friends, Urbanity and nonsense, Literature and art, Humorists and oddities, The pen reflective, Rural recluses, and Shadows.
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“A more charming volume it would not be easy to find.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 874. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Listener’s lure: a Kensington comedy. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–32676.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is the best of England, old and new, told at random in letters which also serve to piece out one of the prettiest love stories of the year.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 502. F. 28, ’07. 180w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in London. **$1.75. Macmillan.
6–32702.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 12. Ja. ’07.
“He here shows himself to be an uncommonly shrewd observer of the many and varied aspects of the great metropolis, and the no less heterogeneous ways and moods of its teeming population.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Lucas takes his London lightly, skims the cream, revives the reader with the most modern frivolous bits of information, and never oppresses him under a load of facts. A good modern map is needed.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 560. D. 27, ’06. 610w.
=Luce, Robert.= Writing for the press: a manual. 5th ed. pa. 50c. Clipping bureau press.
7–18088.
The fifth edition revised. It is a guide for beginners, furnishing information and instruction on all matters relating to the preparation of copy for the press.
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“The book is worth its room, were it only for the copious lists of words and phrases—correct and incorrect—common mistakes, and trite expressions, which it contains.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 682. Ag. ’07. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 63: 763. S. 26, ’07. 70w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 191. Ag. 29, ’07. 70w.
“The handiest and most useful work of reference in its line we have ever seen.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 368. Je. 8, ’07. 170w.
=Lupton, Arnold, Parr, G. D. A., and Perkin, Herbert.= Electricity as applied to mining. *$4.50. Van Nostrand.
“Electrical theories and principles are dealt with at considerable length.... Less than one third of the book is given over to the applications of electricity to mining.... For the mining engineer, colliery manager, or others who are contemplating the adoption of electricity for power or lighting and who know little or nothing of electricity, the book presents many valuable features.”—Engin. N.
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+ − =Engin. N.= 56: 527. N. 15, ’06. 290w.
=Lusk, Graham.= Elements of the science of nutrition. *$2.50. Saunders.
6–41748.
“Scientific analysis of the processes of nutrition, and the chemical constituents of various foods, together with numerous explanatory tables. Contains separate chapters on ‘The food requirements during the period of growth’ and on metabolism under abnormal and diseased conditions, including anaemia, diabetes, fever, and gout.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The discussion is usually illuminating, but here and there a more liberal summary of generalization would be most helpful to students at least to beginners, who need broad statements rather than an enumeration of facts whose bearing they do not easily apprehend.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Prof. Graham Lusk is to be congratulated on having produced a very interesting and important book.” W. B. H.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 413. Mr. 14, ’07. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 138. Mr. 9, ’07. 40w.
=Luther, Mark Lee.= Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33211.
Jean Fanshaw is right as a trivet, though wilful and a born fighter. Her ungovernable temper sends her to the reform school, she escapes, but is persuaded by a clean, strong young artist rusticating in near-by woods to return and serve out her time. She does it, goes forth with a clear record, and enters the maelstrom of shopgirl life in New York. Her fight against the temptation on every hand is finally rewarded when her artist hero of long ago finds her and makes her castles in Spain a reality.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Lyford, James Otis.= Life of Edward H. Rollins: a political biography. $1.50. Estes.
6–41541.
“The political activities of New Hampshire, which state Rollins represented in both Congressional houses, are here set forth in sufficient detail to make the book of interest as a study in that field. But it chiefly aims to set Senator Rollins, an able, conscientious, useful man rightly in history.”—Ind.
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“His style is clear and graceful, and skill is shown in the selection and arrangement of salient facts, as well as due sense of proportion. It is the only book which has thus far appeared which gives a clear, orderly and accurate narrative of the political life of New Hampshire during this important epoch, and by his painstaking labor Mr. Lyford has made a distinct contribution to the history of the state.” James F. Colby.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 906. Jl. ’07. 710w.
“This is a good example of the political biography.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 916. Ap. 18, ’07. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 823. D. 1, ’06. 220w.
=Outlook.= 85: 526. Mr. 2, 07. 180w.
=Lyle, Eugene P., jr.= Lone star. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–25502.
A tale of the winning of Texas which begins with the Mexican exclusion of Americans and ends with the battle of San Jacinto. The book is autobiographical in nature, the narrator figuring “as blunderer and sometimes as dupe, but always retrieves himself by candor and a high courage.” (Nature.) Such personages as Crockett, Houston, Bowie and Austin figure in the narrative.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 178. O. ’07. ✠
“Mr. Lyle has chosen to open his novel with a few pages of rather aggressive smartness; but once in motion, he flings aside spangles and rides gallantly to the close. His tale is a captivating one.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 211. S. 5, ’07. 350w.
“He has marked individuality of style, he understands the mechanics of plot construction, he has considerable skill in the portrayal of character, and he can write English without making a blunder on every other page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w.
=Lynde, Francis.= Empire builders. †$1.50 Bobbs.
7–26019.
A story for would-be captains of industry which follows the enterprise of putting thru a difficult section of railroad, with no obstacle wanting that “nature, rivals, inside treachery and high finance” could present. The young engineer with the determination of a Titan surmounts them all. He “outgeneraled and outfought the unscrupulous old grafters and finally brought some of the more decent among their enemies over to his own way of thinking.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Fairly good reading for its class.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 164. O. ’07. 270w.
“This story is not so powerful as the title intimates.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1006. O. 24, ’07. 130w.
“Capital reading, even if it may seem wildly exaggerated at points.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The book is crisply written, has action and life, and holds the interest throughout.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 45. S. 7, ’07. 100w.
=Lysaght, Sidney Royse.= Her Majesty’s rebels. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–35217.
“Back in the days of tumult and shouting, of bitter strife and fostered crime, of no-rent manifestos and coercion bills, Her Majesty’s rebels, led by one of the greatest political leaders of the century, had Ireland in a ferment.” (Ath.) In this time of unrest the story has its setting, and the hero is Parnell in the disguise of Michael Desmond, “a notable hero, compounded of giant strength and strange weakness—a man, in fact, and a man full of magnetic force to draw men and women to him, now the victim of a passion he would not stop to control, now cold, reserved, and unscrupulous.... It is seldom we are given a picture of the Ireland of the early eighties half so finished, or so just as Mr. Lysaght’s.” (Ath.)
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“Few Irish books of such good parts have come into our hands since Carleton’s days, for few authors hold the balance so accurately or write so restrainedly and so simply as Mr. Lysaght, content to fill their pages with the moving figures of men, animated by the spirit of life itself.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 188. F. 23, ’07. 590w.
“Compelling story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 136. My. ’07.
“The worst fault, indeed, of the story is a certain want of what journalists style actuality.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 250. Mr. 2. 270w.
“Mr. Lysaght often shows a keen perception of character without the art of sustained development. Many of his people are quite shadowy. He is likewise guilty of self-indulgence in the matter of length.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 267. Mr. 21, ’07. 440w.
“Apart from its general fairmindedness, the book is notable for many passages affording welcome relief to its prevalently serious character.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 295. F. 22, ’07. 1540w.