The book review digest, volume 04, 1908 (part 3 of 7)
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“It is perhaps unfortunate that the title of Mr. Clark’s new book is one that is not likely to appeal to many who might find its chapters most helpful.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5. ’08. 330w.
“This is largely a helpful book, partly an unhelpful.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, 08. 240w.
=Clark, John Bates.= Essentials of economic theory as applied to modern problems of industry and public policy. *$2. Macmillan.
7–36896.
“Consists, first, of a set of chapters restating ‘Economic statics’ and giving in summary form the doctrines already set forth in the ‘Distribution of wealth.’ A second part then gives the contributions to ‘Economic dynamics.’ The chapters in this second part deal largely with matters such as are sometimes grouped under the head of ‘applied economics.’ As a whole the volume is expected by the author to be ‘available for use in classrooms not as a substitute for elementary textbooks, but as supplementary to them. It omits a large part of what such books contain, presents what they do not contain, and tries to be of service to those who wish for more than a single introductory volume can offer.’”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“The book is written in readable style, being much less drawn out than the author’s earlier work, ‘The distribution of wealth.’” F. D. Watson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 515. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“An original and very able treatment of the more theoretical aspects of his science. Some of the [special points in his treatment] require further criticism before his exposition can be accepted, but all are well worth study and show a sound theoretical and scientific genius.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 179. Ag. 15. 950w.
“Whether the style will be found simple by the persons whom the book is designed to reach, I am not so sure.” F. W. Taussig.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 20. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
=Ind.= 65: 156. Jl. 16, ’08. 300w.
“It need hardly be said that in this volume Professor Clark shows again the qualities which have won him so distinguished a place among living economists. He is original and ingenious, and does not fear to pioneer boldly into new fields of thought. Those who so adventure deserve high praise, and not the less so if they themselves prove sometimes to have made a start in the wrong direction. His style retains all its grace and finish, his courtesy is unfailing, and a fine personality shines through the pages.” F. W. Taussig.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 38. Ja. ’08. 1850w.
“Modern political economy is a study in dynamics rather than statics, and the levels reached are the resultants of forces, rather than of adjustments under the calm persistence of gravity. There is need for a new political economy, designed to meet these conditions, and Prof. Clark makes an illuminating attempt to supply the need.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 8, ’08. 1200w.
“To the general reader, unacquainted with the complicated terminology and finely drawn distinctions of most writers of modern economic treatises, much of Professor Clark’s book will prove uncommonly hard reading. Comprehensive and stimulating as his treatise is, it necessarily fails to discuss in detail all of the many topics of present-day interest on which it touches.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 323. F. 8, ’08. 780w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“The student ... will find much that is acute and interesting in Professor Clark’s presentment of the subject. He must, however, be prepared to face mathematical diagrams, algebraic signs, and a few cryptic headlines.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 541. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“It can hardly be denied that, in certain respects, the work is disappointing, and in the short space available here attention will be mainly confined to some of the points as to which the reviewer takes issue with the author.” A. W. Flux.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 228. Ag. ’08. 1250w.
* =Clark, L. Pierce, and Diefendorf, Allen Ross.= Neurological and mental diagnosis. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–19607.
“A brief outline of essentials suited to the need of the practitioner dealing with diseases of the nervous system or the mind.”—Nation.
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“It would perhaps have aided the student, especially, if the various tests for determining the state of the motor functions had been placed together, for the reason that all such tests, in a case where it is necessary to use them, are more apt to be recalled if they are associated in the student’s mind.” J. G. Fitzgerald.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 666. N. 19, ’08. 730w.
“As a whole the presentation is good and helpful.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 529. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
=Clarke, Sir George Sydenham.= Fortification: its past achievements, recent development, and future progress. 2d ed. *$4.50. Dutton.
War 7–141.
A revision after seventeen years which includes the lessons bearing upon national defence supplied by the four great contests between nations which have occurred since the book first appeared. “Therefore in this edition, [the author] has been enabled to start from the ground which it had formerly been necessary to capture, to omit certain passages which have become obvious, and to apply himself to the fresh aspects of the problem which the flux of time has brought with it.” (Sat. R.)
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“Contains some new matter which will be found of interest both by military and by naval students.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 39. Jl. 13. 370w.
“Another edition should correct the few misprints, especially in the French quotations. The work naturally appeals directly to the officer, and especially to the artilleryman and the engineer, but it should do more than this in helping to shape an intelligent public opinion.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 1100w.
“This book should be in the possession of every United States senator and representative, as well as of all persons interested in our national legislation. It is written by the greatest living authority on the subject, the secretary of the imperial defence committee, from whose views one may dissent only on grounds which will bear the most rigorous investigation.”
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 289. F. ’08. 2650w.
“The later portions of the book, which to a large extent deal with gun-mountings and other adjuncts, will be less appreciated.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 116. Jl. 27, ’07. 1200w.
“A most learned and intricate treatise on cupolas, reduits, enceintes, gun-mountings, and explosives, while his study of the evolution of modern battleships, as presented in pedigree form, is the most illuminating guide to the mysteries of naval classification that has ever delighted the eyes and understanding of a layman.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 334. S. 7, ’07. 770w.
* =Clarke, Helen Archibald.= Browning’s England: a study of English influences in Browning. **$2. Baker.
A review of the English influences that may be found reflected in the poetry of Browning. The chapters are as follows: English poets, friends and enthusiasms; Shakespeare’s portrait; A crucial period in English history; Social aspects of English life; Religious thought in the nineteenth century; and Art criticism inspired by the English musician, Avison. The author studies separate poems and analyzes them to show the direct poetical inspiration. An indispensable book for classes in Browning.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Clarke, Helen Archibald.= Browning’s Italy. **$2. Baker.
7–37032.
Miss Clarke discusses Browning’s Italian interests in five chapters as follows: “The dawn of the renaissance, Glimpses of political life, The Italian scholar, The artist and his art, and Pictures of social life. For each she supplies the needed background of history, connecting it with the poetry by liberal quotations.” (Dial.)
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“A conscientious piece of work which will undoubtedly prove helpful to many students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 77. Mr. ’08.
“It is a conscientious piece of literary scholarship rather than a book for travel lovers. The book ought to serve as a good introduction to a knowledge of the poet.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 180w.
“The historical studies are complete enough to interest students of Browning, because of the new light they cast on the sources of his love for Italy and on the relation between the historic facts of the records and his poetic interpretation of them.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 220w.
“It will be a great help to the reader by putting the poems into their historical framework.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1468. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
“We must, in justice, confess that Miss Clarke’s compilation is admirably adapted to minds which have not yet thought for themselves; and as there are many such minds, her book ought to be popular. We have noted several misprints and solecisms. It lacks an index, which is necessary, especially to the many extracts from Browning.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 130w.
=Clarke, T. E. S.= Life of Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury: 1, Scotland, 1643–1674, by T. E. S. Clarke; 2, England, 1674–1715, with bibliographical appendices, by H. C. Foxcroft; with an introd. by C. H. Firth. *$4.50. Putnam.
8–18697.
Three writers have co-operated in producing this life of Bishop Burnet. C. H. Firth contributes an introduction, discussing Burnet’s place “not as a moralist or a divine or a politician, but as an historian.” T. E. S. Clarke describes his family, education, work at Saltoun as parish minister, and at Glasgow as professor of divinity, until in 1674 he began his work in the south. Miss Foxcroft carries the history from his settlement work in London in 1674 to his death in 1715.
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“This biography of Burnet is one of such substantial merit that it will doubtless take its place as the final authority on the subject.” A. L. Cross.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 857. Jl. ’08. 1000w.
“As regards the main theme Mr. Clarke’s work is in all respects satisfactory. Throughout the forty years of incessant activity which compose the second portion of Burnet’s career, through every phase and into every cranny, we are guided by Miss Foxcroft’s industry and deft treatment. Prof. Firth’s [part of the work] is elaborately and conclusively discussed. There is no side of this part of the subject which is not treated with fullness and with his usual lucidity.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 121. F. 1. 1550w.
“The Scottish section has been ably and judiciously handled. Miss Foxcroft’s work is a model for interesting fulness combined with precision.” J. K. Hewison.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 582. Jl. ’08. 1850w.
“This life of Burnet will remain the permanent authority on the subject; it is a great addition to our information, and it is a sound and convincing defence of Burnet, when defence is necessary or possible.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 388. D. 20, ’07. 1560w.
“The joint authors have accomplished their task admirably; they have produced a book that is at once documented at every step, and thoroughly interesting. They have both faced the weaknesses of Burnet’s character without flinching, yet have avoided party prejudice.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 150. F. 13, ’08. 2180w.
“Professor Firth has contributed an admirable introduction. The Rev. T. E. S. Clarke ... contributes a careful and well-informed account of Burnet’s early life. Miss Foxcroft’s work has the same solid and enduring qualities as that of Mr. Clarke. It is admirably well-informed, is commendably free from the lues Boswelliana which is the besetting disease of the biographer, and treats a large subject on an adequately large canvas. Perhaps it may be objected to both writers that their work is now and then lacking in brightness and literary sparkle.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 729. D. 14, ’07. 1680w.
“The whole picture of Burnet in this book gives just the right impression of Shakespearean rotundity to the Bishop’s personality, and, though it may seem paradoxical to say so, recalls that suggestion of British vigour and directness which underlies all the amiable foibles even of a Falstaff. Miss Foxcroft’s only fault comes from the fact that she is so bubbling over with knowledge and sense of fun that she sometimes makes allusive references to facts not so well known to the uninstructed reader as to herself.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 150. Ja. 25, ’08. 1550w.
=Claude, chef de la police de surete=, 1807–1880. Memoirs of Monsieur Claude, chief of the police under the second empire; tr. by Katharine P. Wormeley. **$4. Houghton.
7–36947.
“Miss Wormeley, well known as the translator of Balzac, has selected from these memoirs for this volume those chapters and parts of chapters which seem likely to have at this day a real interest for English readers. She has rejected an immense amount of what must be very dull reading indeed relating to police regulations, prisons, and ephemeral subjects. But the episodes here described have to do with M. Claude’s connection with political intrigues, and with mysteries and remarkable crimes.”—Outlook.
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“The translation is admirable but the book has no value for the student of French history, though it may be of mild interest to the lover of detective stories. The selections have evidently been made with an eye to the picturesque. The style is melodramatic and ejaculatory.”
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 644. Ap. ’08. 280w.
“A curious and uncommonly interesting book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“Miss Wormeley ... shows that she is capable of good work; but her sceptical faculties should have been more frequently brought into play in editing the ‘Memoirs.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 207. Ag. 22. 930w.
“The translation, as might be expected from Miss Wormeley, is spirited and idiomatic.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 77. F. 1, ’08. 550w.
“After carefully reading this book, the reviewer can use the hackneyed phrase in its literal sense, ‘There is not a dull line to be found in it.’”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 95. Ja. 18, ’08. 550w.
“There is no view more authentic and more interesting than that given in these pages of the progress and the operations of the conspiracy of which for twenty years France was the victim.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 34. Ja. 18, ’08. 550w.
“The book is certainly good reading, and makes one wish for more, if more material as good as this may be drawn from the French original.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 876. D. 21, ’07. 160w.
“His revelations have but little value except in relation to the spy work of Germans before the war.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 175. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“The narrative is told in the simple, direct style of the diary of a simple, direct man of the world who yet has retained something of the naïvete of the old-time soldier.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 444. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“This volume will be found very interesting reading by every one who cares for the byways and the wrong side of history.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 750. My. 9, ’08. 450w.
=Clay, Grover.= Hester of the hills. $1.50. Page.
7–31284.
A tale of the Ozarks in which a northerner finding among the “crackers” a physically perfect type of young woman, educates and marries her. His failure to consider the question of love in a union which should insure him against frail posterity results in various surprises for him which play havoc with his plans.
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“As a photograph of life among the cracker farmers and hunters of Missouri, the book is not without significance. As a ‘romance’ it is singularly uncouth.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 250w.
“If the treatment of the theme of this novel were as novel as the theme itself, the result would be a noteworthy piece of fiction instead of one but mildly interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 200w.
=Clegg, Thomas Bailey.= Bishop’s scapegoat. †$1.50. Lane.
8–14664.
An English vicar takes it upon himself to end the life of a French scoundrel in Paris. He chokes him and leaves him for dead. A physician whom the dying man had wronged, comes in upon him, but will not resuscitate him. The physician is tried for murder, convicted and transported to a penal colony in the South Pacific, where he is ministered to by a devoted daughter. The vicar’s son, now a bishop of the See of Capricornia, loves the daughter, but hesitates to marry her because she is the child of a murderer. Explanations finally bring events to a happy issue. “The story is inspired with a deep sense of the beautiful in nature, the instinctive goodness of the human heart, and the divine meaning of life.” (Ath.)
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“The chief characters appear in telling situations, and we find for the most part a fine balance and sense of proportion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 757. Je. 20. 130w.
“One is irritated by a series of rather inartistic surprises. The book is worth reading; it is fresh, wholesome, and entertaining.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 360w.
“There are passages of description and narrative in this novel of sufficient merit to raise it considerably above the average level.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1036. Je. 27, ’08. 200w.
=Clergue, Helen.= The salon: a study of French society and personalities in the 18th century. **$3. Putnam.
7–36984.
“Beginning with a careful study of the origin, growth, and influence of that peculiarly French social development, the salon, Mrs. Clergue proceeds to paint portraits of the better-known among those women who were famous in the eighteenth century as the hostesses and directing heads of these gatherings; Madame du Deffand, Madame d’Epinay, Mlle. de Lespinasse, and the ‘Queen of the Rue St. Honoré’ and Madame Geoffrin.”—Spec.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 132. My. ’08.
“It cannot be said that these studies add any facts to those already known. They are marked, however, by a spirit of sympathetic intelligence, and, on the whole, by a laudable regard for accuracy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908. 2: 363. S. 26. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 333. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
“All of the studies are decidedly interesting both from a psychological and a sociological point of view.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
“All of Miss Clergue’s characterizations are interesting.” E. J. Putnam.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 365. Je. ’08. 450w.
“She is a diligent student of the period and her bibliography is well-nigh exhaustive, but she does not tell us much which has not already been said as well, and sometimes better, by others.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 238. F. 22, ’08. 1220w.
“These bright and impartial sketches are very helpful towards realising the nature and effect of the various ‘salons’ in which the Revolution, one may say, was talked into being. They also suggest amusingly, with a clear and uncommon wideness of view, the extraordinary changes of a hundred years.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 186. F. 1, ’08. 1500w.
=Clews, Henry.= Fifty years in Wall street. *$3. Henry Clews, 15 Broad st., N. Y.
8–18389.
Brings to date the author’s “Twenty-eight years in Wall street.” It is a history of financial events told in conversational style by one who in his long career has known personally the Wall street leaders. Pt. 1, Wall street; pt. 2, Speculation; pt. 3, Capitalists and financiers—U. S.; pt. 4, Business.
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“The new chapters add little of importance. It is not creditable for an author or publisher, in re-issuing a book under a new title, to neglect all changes in the older chapters.”
− =Nation.= 86: 543. Je. 11. ’08. 280w.
“It is difficult to name any other single book which gives the narrative of financial affairs so well as Mr. Clews’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 230w.
=Clifford, Lucy Lane.= Proposals to Kathleen. †$1.50. Barnes.
8–7894.
A young woman pauses on the eve of her marriage to “a clever, well-off, fairly well-off, that is, well-connected, well-placed” man with whom she is not in love, and indulges in reminiscences, aided by letters which she is about to destroy, of past lovers, their love-making and proposals. It is her farewell to maidenhood and its dreams.
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“It is the clever portrayal of the heart of a woman whose idea is to become entirely worldly, although she has not yet reached that state.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
“Her original whimsical ideas and forms of expression give the book a piquant relish not to be found elsewhere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Clouston, R. S.= Sir Henry Raeburn. (Newnes art lib.) il. *$1.25. Warne. W 8–53.
The seven pages of biographical and critical text are followed by forty-eight full page reproductions of the more notable paintings of this artist who is the pride of Scotland.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
=Nation.= 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 279. F. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Clouston, R. S.= Sir Thomas Lawrence, P. R. A. (Newnes art lib., no. 27.) il. *$1.25. Warne.
W 8–69.
As the son of an easygoing innkeeper, the early talents of this self-taught painter had comparatively little guidance tho plenty of encouragement. The biographical portion of the volume sketches the steps that led to membership in the Royal academy, to a knighthood, and finally to the presidency of the Academy. Forty-eight reproductions of his pictures illustrate his range as well as his “technical and temperamental” limitations.
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“Valuable mainly because of the illustrations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 173. Je. ’08. ✠
“The text is of little importance.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 452. My. 14, ’08. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 243. Ap. 25, ’08. 450w.
“Compact but suggestive estimate.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 170w.
=Cody, Grace Ethelwyn.= Jacquette: a sorority girl. †$1.25. Duffield.
8–3429.
Whether secret societies in schools help or harm development on broad lines is the problem dealt with in this story of high school life.
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“While the appeal of the book must necessarily be somewhat limited, its atmosphere is wholesome.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“A charming tale told with simplicity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 69. F. 8, ’08. 50w.
“An excellent story for girls and boys.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
=Cody, H. A.= Apostle of the North: the life and memoirs of William Carpenter Bompas, D. D., first bishop of Athabasca, 1874–1884, bishop of Mackenzie river, 1884–1891, bishop of Selkirk, 1891–1896; with an introd. by Rev. S. P. Mattheson. *$2.50. Dutton.
The story of a devoted missionary’s hard work and self-sacrifice in the wilderness of the far northwest. The sketch reveals strength, purpose, steadfastness and great power of love.
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“The tone of the book cannot be called quite broad and tolerant.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 216. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
“A saintly man, and a sympathetic, clearly drawn portrait of him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 470w.
=Spec.= 100: 506. Mr. 28, ’08. 430w.
=Coghill, Stanly.= Hathor. *75c. Robertson.
7–2749.
The work of a young western writer who died recently. An introductory note contributed by a friend tells the reader that the poems are “the overtone of a strangely beautiful soul that was always seeking for a half-remembered and perhaps, in this world at least, unattainable glory.”
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“This little book is distinctly worth while. Its ideas are mostly echoes, and it is too much tinged with the melancholy in which youth is apt to revel, but it has harmony, and flowing rhythm, and something of the historical imagination.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.
=Nation.= 85: 589. D. 26, ’07. 90w.
=Cohen, Emily Solis-, jr.= David the giant killer, and other tales of Grandma Lopez. $1.25. Jewish pub.
8–16561.
Bible stories retold for a group of story-hungry little people. They are as follows: David the giant killer, In Shushan the capital, The sacrifice at Modin, The hidden smithy, The fall of Michmash, At the fork of the roads, Carmel, Amid the alien corn, How Daniel became judge, and The golden image.
=Coke, Henry John.= Open hatchways. †$1.50. Lane.
“The development of character in a girl, vain, passionate, with a taste for French novels, but at heart pure and true, under the stress of being wooed by three typical lovers—the good prig, the stupid guardsman, and the clever, fascinating adventurer—is the study which has engaged Mr. Coke’s attention.”—Ath.
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“A curiously incongruous book. Well and carefully written, it is interesting enough to carry the reader to the end of the thirty-four chapters. There is a touch of George Meredith in the characters (as well as the names) of Mrs. Boadle and Sir Ralph Wychard, though they are, unfortunately, too slightly drawn to contain more than a very faint hint.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 170. N. 23, ’07. 200w.
“He has not succeeded in chaining the attention of his readers. He strikes no new note. The plot is threadbare; the characters are of a well-known type; they act as we all know they will, and are not endowed with any real individuality. The mild philosophy of the heroine’s father, irrelevant to the action, is not a little boring.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 763. D. 14. 180w.
“Distinguished by a fresh and sincere handling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 15. Ja. 11, ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Coke knows something of Harrow and Cambridge life, and has apparently read Schopenhauer and Kant, but such experience and information are not uncommon, nor in themselves sufficient justification for writing a novel.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 733. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
=Colby, Charles W.= Canadian types of the old régime, 1608–1698. **$2.75. Holt.
Against a wilderness background into which crept historical interest with the coming of Jacques Cartier, are set, each in turn, types of the old régime, which stand for aspects of French colonisation. There are Champlain, the explorer; Bribeuf, the missionary; Hébert, the colonist; D’Iberville, the soldier; Du Lhut, the coureur de bois; Talon, the intendant; Laval, the bishop; Frotenac, the governor; and The woman.
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“No one could call this book heavy, and yet even the erudite might find much in it that would repay perusal.” L. J. Burpee.
+ =Dial.= 45: 291. N. 1, ’08. 840w.
“The volume is written in light and graceful style, but with due regard for firm historical bases. It not only makes interesting reading, but gives perhaps as clear a notion of what the old régime in Canada was at its best as may be found anywhere in a single volume.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 561. O. 17, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 700w.
“Sympathetic and illuminating studies of old-time Canadian worthies.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 200w.
* =Cole, William Morse.= Accounts, their construction and interpretation. *$2. Houghton.
8–31984.
A handbook for business men and students of affairs prepared by the assistant professor of accounting in Harvard university. It is not meant for an encyclopaedia of book keeping forms and practice but it is comprehensive for principles. Part 1 discusses book keeping practice and the philosophic basis upon which it rests. Part 2 deals with the analytical side of accounting, the last chapters making general principles more concrete by applying them to the problems of different lines of business in which they may be best illustrated.
=Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.= Biographia literaria; ed. with his aesthetical essays by J. Shawcross. 2v. *$2.75. Oxford.
8–28959.
A reprint of the original text with a valuable introduction and a quantity of notes by Mr. Shawcross, to which have been added a few of the lesser-known Coleridge essays on the principles of aesthetics.
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“[Mr. Shawcross is] an artist who has made of that meat [Coleridge’s prose] a savoury and wholesome dish to tempt the languid palate.... Plainly, Mr. Shawcross shuns all controversy, choosing rather to give the fruits of a patient and expert study of Coleridge’s prose than to enter into minute and, for his purpose, idle disputes.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 247. F. 29. 2700w.
“Mr. Shawcross shows himself intimately in touch, not only with all that Coleridge has written, and others have written about him, but with most of what he read.” Basil de Sélincourt.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 944. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Shawcross’s introduction repays a careful reading; it not only fulfils its first intention of clearing up the relation of Coleridge to Kant and Schelling, but throws light on the whole international movement of romanticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 850w.
“Its excellence lies in the variety of interesting subjects with which it deals, in the mass of curious information it contains, in the acuteness and originality so abundantly scattered over its pages.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 376. Mr. 7, ’08. 1600w.
=Collins, Varnum Lansing.= Continental congress at Princeton (1783). *$3. University library, Princeton, N. J.
8–13283.
“A special study of the coming of the Congress to Princeton, New Jersey, after the revolt of the Pennsylvania troops drove its members from Philadelphia.... The chapter on Princeton in 1783, that on the reception given the Congressional visitors, and on the presence of the members of Congress at the annual commencement exercises of the college, present a true picture of the accustomed quiet of the Jersey village, broken by momentous incursion. Monotony of narrative is prevented by the description of the visits of General Washington to Congress, of the arrival of the Dutch minister, and of the theft from the village postoffice of a mail-bag which contained the official correspondence of the members of Congress.”—Dial.
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“Has fashioned his material into a readable narrative. The volume is one that will appeal to the general reading public, and is yet of value to the student.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 92. Ag. 16, ’08. 320w.
“Well fills a vacant niche in the history of the confederacy.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 437. Ag. 20, ’08. 260w.
“The interest lies mainly in three directions: the story itself, with its vivid portrayal of the personages concerned at work and at play; the official activities of Congress and the business actually transacted at Princeton; and, lastly, the significance of the events from the point of view of our national development. Each of these aspects is amply and admirably worked out.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 441. N. 5, ’08. 1200w.
=Colvill, Helen Hester.= Lady Julia’s emerald: a novel. †$1.50. Lane.
A story with a London background. The emerald of the title with its copper setting and its mystic charm enters into the plot of the tale whose interest is centered about a wonderful girl of struggles and dreams. “The story of Lesley’s cramped childhood, of her longed-for and finally realized three months of work and freedom as an artist, together with her love story have the same charm of freshness and conviction which are inherent in herself, although one cannot but doubt that such a girl would have evolved from a parentage and up-bringing of the sort she suffered.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The writer’s shifting attitude as to the mysticism surrounding Lady Julia and her emerald is disconcerting. All the characters are convincing except the widow who pursues her formerly rejected suitor.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 100w.
“Miss Colvill is the mistress of a firm and pleasant style through which glimmers an agreeable humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Comstock, Harriet T.= Janet of the dunes. †$1.50. Little.
8–975.
Mrs. Comstock has woven about her unafraid, dream-filled heroine of the dunes a story of simple shore life. It is interrupted only by the inevitable summer boarder who with palette and brush attempts to catch the glow of the hills and the deep beryl of the waves. Janet, the adopted daughter of “Captain Billy” of the Life saving crew learns from these same city folk the lesson that awakens her from childhood to womanhood. A young artist teaches her the lesson of love, and a man of the world who, she discovers, is her father, shows her some of the tragedies of love. She comes thru her experience sane and unspoiled.
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“It is quite an unpretentious story. But the book is worth reading, not only for the sake of the story, but also because it contains a dozen memorable characters of an unfamiliar type, whose acquaintance it is a pleasure to make and to retain.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 101. Mr. ’08. 420w.
“But from the delighted reader’s point of view Janet is adorable and logical, and most refreshing after the sophisticated heroines that belong to modern fiction as fever belongs to the sick man.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 694. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
“There is enough true sea charm in her descriptions to make one wish that she had had the courage to celebrate her shore and her shore worthies without recourse to the form of fiction.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 129. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
“Janet is quite a likable person in her own way. If her creator has not managed to draw her after a very original pattern, still she is likable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 90w.
“While some of the conversations and situations fail to ring true, the heroine is a spirited and lovable girl, the surroundings and manners of the life-savers on our coasts are described with the vividness that comes from personal association, and the climax of the story rouses real interest in the reader.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 140w.
“A story of refreshing interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Conant, Charles Arthur.= Principles of banking: being the second part, separately issued, of The principles of money and banking. **$1.75. Harper.
8–15781.
The financial crisis of 1907 has made particularly opportune the appearance of this second part of a work published three years ago. The author’s hope in presenting the work is that it “will contribute something to the development of sound financial knowledge and do its share towards removing the fetters imposed by a defective currency upon American commerce in its conquest for supremacy in the world’s markets.” He treats the subjects under the following heads: The principles of banking currency, The evolution of commercial banking, and The co-operation of the factors of exchange.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“We think that even in these hard times the needed capital should have been secured for providing a new index.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 42. Jl. 9, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Conant’s books are as well qualified for rereading as for reprinting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=Conant, Martha Pike.= Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century. (Columbia univ. studies in comparative literature.) *$2. Macmillan.
8–3276.
A doctoral monograph which brings together in convenient form “brief characterizations of the Oriental apologues, satires, and letters that run all through the eighteenth century and form an integral part of the romanticism of the nineteenth. Miss Conant makes this connection with the romantic movement the guiding thread of her book, and in her concluding chapter, ‘Literary estimate,’ deals with this theme directly and convincingly.” (Nation.)
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“No adequate study of the influence of the Oriental tale in England was ever compiled until Miss Martha Pike Conant, Ph. D., of Columbia university, wrote her elaborate, yet thoroughly interesting little volume.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 261. S. 5. 1350w.
“We will note but two questions concerning Dr. Conant’s conclusions.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 17. Jl. 1, ’08. 400w.
“On the whole, her work is useful, though pedestrian in tone.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Conant’s book will be attractive, not only to students of literature, but to those who enjoy the occasional quaint and unusual tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 520w.
“An interesting by-product of literary scholarship.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 840. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
=Conder, Claude Reignier.= Rise of man. *$3.50. Dutton.
“It is mainly the political and religious progress of the race that is described in this volume. There is a brief sketch of the development of mathematical, astronomical, geographical, chemical, biological, and archaeological knowledge; an account of early man (prehistoric remains, language, race); a history of civilization, ancient, mediaeval, and modern; and a description of the religions of the world, more than half the book being devoted to this last topic.”—Nation.
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“The scheme is defective in that it omits sociological and ethical history, which was, perhaps, passed over from lack of space. The immense mass of facts is handled with considerable skill: the points described are in general wisely chosen, the style is easy and clear. We miss in his exposition a clear statement of the ideas that have controlled the progress of civilization.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 190. Ag. 27, ’08. 900w.
“Occasionally Col. Conder demonstrates an amazing ingenuousness and naïveté. His book is one for scholars, by a scholar, but it is also one for the general public, thanks largely to the lucidity and elegance of its style.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 740w.
“This bird’s-eye view of a vast field gives interesting distinctness to a large variety of important details. It may be accepted in the main as sufficiently accurate, though more recent research and criticism occasionally correct it.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Conley, Rev. John Wesley.= Young Christian and the early church. (Christian culture courses. Baptist young people’s union of America.) **50c. Am. Bapt.
8–20485.
A sketch of the history and literature of the apostolic age designed for Baptist young people.
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“The young people require a more modern treatment of the apostolic age than Dr. Conley offers them.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 222. S. ’08. 100w.
=Connolly, James Brendan.= Olympic victor. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–23917.
“An expanded short story, having for hero the winner of the Marathon race at the first revived Olympic games at Athens a few years ago. Mr. Connolly was a member of the American team which took part in the games, and he has evidently taken the incidents of the race as he saw them and added enough of a romantic motive to make a story.”—Outlook.
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“Alive with a fine Greek spirit of ancient and modern sport, which will make it interesting to boys.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“It is a well written and appealing story.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 898. O. 15, ’08. 160w.
“It is quite as delightful as any of his Gloucester stories, though it is of an entirely different sort.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 486. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mildly entertaining.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 70w.
=Conrad, Joseph.= Point of honor: a military tale. †$1.25. McClure.
8–27098.
A tale of the times of Napoleonic warfare which follows the private contest of two officers in different regiments of hussars. A series of duels, started upon a trifling provocation, is fought thru years of military service, at intervals, according to military rulings when the rank of the combatants was the same. The murderous hot-headedness of the one is made but the more diabolical by the calm, reasoning honor of the other who off the dueling ground never fails to do his adversary a good turn.
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“The charm of the tale consists in the lightness and humor with which it is told.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1066. N. 5, ’08. 150w.
“The tale is swifter in movement and holds the attention better than ‘The secret agent’ or ‘Nostromo.’ The characters of the principals are well delineated, with touches of quiet humor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 160w.
“The pleasure of the acquaintance of the hero of this little tale is worth making at the expense of an hour’s agreeable reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Cook, Frederick Albert.= To the top of the continent: discovery, exploration and adventure in sub-arctic Alaska; the first ascent of Mt. McKinley, 1903–1906. il. **$2.50. Doubleday.
8–7371.
The entire story of Dr. Cook’s two expeditions, the one that failed and the later one that was successful. Thousands of miles of trackless wilderness were covered in reaching the foot of this Alaskan mountain, then began an ascent “over glaciers, up almost perpendicular slopes of crusted snow down which avalanches were continually thundering. Torrid heat and polar cold were at times combined: for the bright burning sunbeams caused to fall ‘from our faces big beads of perspiration which froze in icy pinnacles on our garments.’” (Nation.) See Cumulative book index for contents of appendices.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 132. My. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 346. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“The book is beautifully illustrated, and if a folding map in colors had been added the volume would be beyond reproach.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 44. Jl. 2, ’08. 270w.
“The appendices prove that Dr. Cook is no amateur, for his geological, biological, and economic notes on Alaska are of high scientific value and enhance immensely the practical worth of the book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 489. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
“Uniqueness of adventure constitutes the special interest of this account. It is to be regretted that there is no index, and that the routes of the expeditions are not marked on the map, as it is difficult from the narrative alone to trace them.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 405. Ap. 30, ’08. 600w.
“For the general reader the book is of great interest, not only because of its record of heroic struggles against discomforts, dangers, and appalling obstacles and final achievement, but also because Dr. Cook had time and skill to note by the way so many fascinating things.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“This is one of the most remarkable mountaineering narratives which we have seen. The story is most graphically told, the descriptions of scenery show considerable literary art.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 590. O. 17, ’08. 1550w.
=Cook, Joshua Flooce.= Old Kentucky; with papers by Theodore Roosevelt, Champ Clark, and Reuben T. Durrett. *$3. Neale.
8–19876.
Based upon well authenticated facts this study portrays characters of Kentucky, from the negro and poor white people to the makers of the state; the mode of life, superstitions and peculiarities of the humblest as well as the first citizens of the state.
=Cooke, George Willis=, comp. Bibliography of Ralph Waldo Emerson. *$5. Houghton.
8–14938.
“Prepared upon the same general plan as the same author’s ‘Bibliography of James Russell Lowell.’ The alphabetical list of single titles giving the place and date of first appearance and subsequent reprints, fills fifty pages. This is followed by the chronological list of separate works, with their various editions; lists of works edited by Emerson; collected works; volumes of selections, or compilations containing poems or essays by him; biographies, notices, poems addressed to Emerson, etc.”—Nation.
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“A notable piece of work.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’08. 130w.
“From the point of view of the collector of first editions it is unfortunate that there is no list of books and pamphlets such as make up a set of first editions.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 283. S. 24, ’08. 480w.
“As a piece of pure craftsmanship Mr. Cook’s ‘Bibliography’ is admirable, making no claim to completeness, but arranged in an orderly manner, covering a large amount of information, unchoked by mere pedantic detail, in all respects what an intelligently constructed book of reference should be.” E. L. Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 481. S. 5, ’08. 1250w.
=Cooke, Jane Grosvenor.= Interrupted honeymoon. †$1.50. Barnes.
7–34774.
A honeymoon quarrel is followed by a separation. “The behavior of this misguided pair is a fine example of the good old New England trait of ‘cussedness’: and the convalescence of their happiness is attended by an exhausting number of relapses.” (Nation.)
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“This story begins pleasantly—so pleasantly that for the sake of the beginning one wades in exasperation through sloughs of despond, doggedly determined to unearth the reason why Sarah left William on their wedding journey.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2, ’08. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. D. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The author of this story, has a pleasant style and the knack of personality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 110w.
=Coolidge, Archibald Cary.= United States as a world power. **$2. Macmillan.
8–19878.
A volume which has grown out of a series of lectures delivered at the Sorbonne during 1906–07 as the Harvard lectures on the Hyde foundation. It is a controversial study of the part which the United States plays in the great drama of world politics. The author discusses Formation and growth, Nationality and immigration, Race questions, The Monroe doctrine, The Spanish war, The acquisition of colonies, The Philippine question, and the United States in relation to France, Germany, Russia, England, Canada, Latin America, China and Japan, The Isthmian canal, and The United States in the Pacific.
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“The book is not intended as a purely historical discussion but as an interpretation and appreciation of our present international position. It fulfils its object well.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 620. N. ’08. 250w.
“It is written with a studied moderation of statement and avoidance of personal feeling.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 784. O. 1, ’08. 220w.
“The work of such an historian and publicist as Prof. Coolidge will be an appreciable and grateful aid in the comprehension of the common duty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 555. O. 10, ’08. 1450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“Minor errors of fact occur, but few controversial statements are hazarded.” J. A. Le Roy.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 719. D. ’08. 430w.
=Coolidge, William A. B.= Alps in nature and history. *$2.50. Dutton.
8–34201.
“In this book the author gives us the harvest of forty years’ exploration and study. There is a most interesting account of the political history of the range from the earliest days, and special chapters on those high-roads of history, the great passes. There are chapters on the animals, and a paper by Mr. Yeld on Alpine flowers. There are several delightful chapters on the customs of the villagers, especially during the long winters when they live their life undisturbed by tourists. Finally, there is a complete explanation of the whole topography of the range, which even to those who know the Alps will reveal many new facts.”—Spec.
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“The book contains some very valuable and interesting statistics about the mountains and passes.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 140w.
“It is a vast encyclopedia of Alpine knowledge, arranged in a systematic, available form, and especially full in respect to topographical detail.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 390. O. 22, ’08. 900w.
“It is a guidebook not only for the practical Alpine traveler, but for the fireside tourist as well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The maps and illustrations in this volume are very helpful. Particularly interesting are the chapters on ‘The Alpine folk,’ their political allegiance, mother tongues, and religion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 60w.
“No other writer has the same intimate knowledge of the whole Alpine mountain system. Not the least of the merits of Mr. Coolidge’s book is the comprehensive appreciation which it shows for every phase and season of the life of the mountains.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 406. S. 19, ’08. 1550w.
=Cooper, Edward Herbert.= Marquis and Pamela; pictures by Julia Roper. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–8092.
A story whose scenes are enacted in the “smart set” of British society. “‘Reading one day a novel of Ouida’s’ is the way in which Mr. Cooper opens one of his chapters; and it is manifest under whose influence he has written this lurid tale.... It is full of mistresses, gambling, swindlers and vices of varying kinds; and its heroine is not Ouida’s ingenue, but a very soiled and selfish young person.... There are many lords and baronets in his pages; but the worst enemies of that society have never painted it so black.” (Ath.)
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“It is compact of what is designed to be sordid realism. We do not, however, think it convincing in this respect.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 150w.
“A good deal of sentimentality, some preaching, and a few French puns masquerading as humor tend toward making a very dull piece of reading matter.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 255. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
=Copping, Arthur E.= Gotty and the guv’nor. $1.50. Kennerley.
Gotty is a fisherman of the Thames estuary and the “Guv’nor” is a middle-aged business man who buys a fishing bawley at Leigh, appoints Gotty its skipper, and makes a holiday cruise along the south coast of Cornwall. Gotty is “thick-headed, but shrewd and entirely captivating”; given to philosophical utterances, quick-witted comments and droll humor.
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“It is a genial light story, unstrained, effortless, wholly delightful and without alloy.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 873. S. 7, ’07. 540w.
“His fisherfolk and water-side idlers ought to amuse many travelers at this season; their talk is well managed, and makes good reading. The narrator’s style is not so effective.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 92. Jl. 27. 240w.
“The book is a most delightful bit of character sketching of old Leigh fishermen and ’longshoremen as the dramatis personae in a meandering tale of mild adventure, fraught with genuine humor and beguiling interest.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The text of this book is hardly worth the pictures.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 180w.
“The illustrations by Will Owen preserve the spirit of the story and enhance its humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 30. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Coppo, Giovanni di.= Legend of the holy Fina, virgin of Santo Gimignano, now first tr. from the trecento Italian: with introd. and notes by M. Mansfield. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
This legend follows the life, penance, and good deeds of a saint of medieval Italy. “It is offered to readers appreciative more of the poetry of past days than of the mere dry bones of history.” The book is bound in brown leather in antique style, with clasps.
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“Is wholly unworthy of the good paper and press work expended upon it.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 180w.
“Students of Italian literature as well as of mediaeval history will find much here to interest them.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3. ’08. 120w.
=Corbett, Julian Stafford.= England in the Seven years’ war: a study in combined strategy. 2v. *$6. Longmans.
8–8464.
Shows that in order to understand the conduct of the war it should be approached from the naval rather than from the military side. The war has been viewed broadly, due care being given to the correlation of all the elements brought into play during a campaign. “Mr. Corbett, as far as we know, is the first to take a comprehensive view of the war, and to disentangle the harmonious purpose running thru England’s efforts.” (Spec.)
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 682. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“The book is the result of careful investigation, offers some new material and contains but few errors.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 174. Je. ’08.
“If it were possible to disentangle the narrative parts of the work from the theories which Mr. Corbett advances as the result of his investigations one would have nothing but praise for it; but as the sub-title shows, it is quite as much a contribution to strategical theory as to history, and on that side one feels, albeit reluctantly, obliged to differ very considerably from Mr. Corbett.” C. T. Atkinson.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 585. Jl. ’08. 1950w.
“The history as a whole cannot be praised without reserve, for it falls short of the highest class. From the first to the last page there is a perceptible preoccupation with present-day conditions, and an anxiety to measure events by the standard of naval principles that are often over-elaborated and far from convincing. A certain carelessness of style detracts considerably from the value of an otherwise excellent piece of work.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 470. My. 21, ’08. 1100w.
“Within its self-imposed limitations however, the book in its entirety is entitled to the highest praise. It is a distinct contribution to our knowledge, and is doubly welcome because of the attractive form wherein it is conveyed. While perhaps occasionally unduly rhetorical, Mr. Corbett’s style is in general forcible, and above all clear.” G: L: Beer.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 279. My. 16, ’08. 1300w.
“Though his book is full of lessons in the art of war he never allows himself to dogmatise, and the same legally trained instinct which makes him chary of drawing conclusions from events prevents him from passing harsh sentences on men’s actions. Mr. Corbett puts plenty of life and movement into his history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 80. Ja. 18, ’08. 1450w.
“In his use of original materials the author shows himself a scholar, but no pedant. There are a few omissions in this book. His style too, is not always on a level quite worthy of the fine treatment of his subject. As a whole this study is a book of great moment, and deserves the attention, not merely of the naval officers to whom it was originally addressed, but of all serious students of government.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 787. My. 16, ’08. 2000w.
=Corbin, John.= Which college for the boy? leading types in American education. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13754.
Presents the typical aims of the different colleges, shows what sort of young men go to each, shows what its traditions are, what its authorities aim to do and what they are actually doing. The chapter headings are suggestive: Princeton, a collegiate university; Harvard, a Germanized university; Michigan, a middle-eastern university; Cornell, a technical university; Chicago, a university by enchantment; Wisconsin, a utilitarian university; The farmer’s awakening; The small college versus the university; and The question of expense.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 174. Je. ’08.
“So much stress, indeed, is laid upon the defects that a conscientious parent ... would almost inevitably lay it aside with the firm conviction, ‘At all events, not one of these six.’” R. W. Kemp.
− =Bookm.= 28: 274. N. ’08. 1100w.
“If the careful parent wishes to learn something about the peculiar temptations his son will be exposed to at any of the universities in Mr. Corbin’s list, the social advantages he will enjoy, the athletic sports most in vogue, and (in a general way) the departments of learning most successfully cultivated, he will do well to read this attractive, well-illustrated book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 67. Ag. 1, ’08. 230w.
“The book is all the more valuable from its frankly personal tone, since this does not interfere with a fair appreciation of the distinctive merits of each university.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 720. S. 24, ’08. 240w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 123. Jl. 25, ’08. 1300w.
“Its influence will be rather upon the colleges themselves than upon prospective students.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 570w.
“A contribution of practical value to the educational problem which must be solved by so many anxious parents and ambitious young people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
“The book is specially to be commended because it comes from the hands of a man who knows college life at first hand both in this country and at Oxford.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“A reading of Mr. Corbin’s book will put the inquirer in possession of a great deal of very useful information which he could not possibly glean from the official publications of the colleges and universities in question, and although Mr. Corbin refrains from giving advice to parents as to where to send their sons he certainly presents many facts which most parents would do well to take into account before deciding such a question.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 300w.
=Corner, Mrs. Caroline.= Ceylon, the paradise of Adam: the record of seven years’ residence in the island; with 16 full-page il. *$4. Lane.
8–16439.
A book of fact and fiction well blended. “Having resided in the island for seven years, the author writes of the many peculiar institutions, customs, and manners of the Ceylonese. Much of the book is written in dialogue, with comments in solution,—a method of composition which calls the reader’s imagination into play, but which does not entirely satisfy any desire he may have for an extended explanation of Ceylonese life. If we are to believe the records of this volume, life in Ceylon is more interesting and diverting than in any other part of the world.” (Dial.)
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“Miss Corner would have pleased the general reader more if she had been more expository and less fictional in her narrative.” H. E. Coblentz.
− =Dial.= 44: 348. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“The reader is bored only by the authoress’s insistence on her own gentility.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 10. Jl. 2, ’08. 100w.
“She has an eye for the picturesque and an unflagging wonder for the striking and the unusual, and she has written about it all with a constant sense of humor, a charming, whimsical vividness, and a never failing perception of the dramatic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22. ’08. 130w.
“A very amusing book, not without some seriousness of meaning.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1008. Je. 27, ’08. 260w.
=Cortes, Hernando.= Letters of Cortes: the five letters of relation from Fernando Cortes to the Emperor Charles V; tr. and ed., with a biographical introd. by Francis A: MacNutt. 2v. **$10. Putnam.
8–14522.
The first English edition of five lengthy letters in which is given an authentic account of the conquest of Mexico from the standpoint of the conqueror and of the conquered. Full explanatory notes accompany the text, in addition to which are a biography of Cortes, and appendices containing bibliographical material concerning Mexicans of prominence, and historical matter relating to the civilization, origin, religion of the ancient race.
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“Mr. MacNutt has edited these valuable reports with care and ability. The printer has not been uniformly successful in coping with Spanish names and phrases, but the blemishes on the whole are few and slight.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 57. Jl. 16, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. McNutt has done his work of translation in the way most acceptable to both the special student and the general reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 350w.
“It is no small service that the editor has rendered to students of history by bringing them together for the first time in an English form.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 373. S. 12, ’08. 350w.
=Cortissoz, Royal.= Augustus Saint-Gaudens. **$7.50. Houghton.
7–40526.
A timely monograph handsomely illustrated which is in the main devoted to criticism but which contains many a reminiscent passage. Mr. Cortissoz pronounces Saint-Gaudens “not only our greatest sculptor, but the first to break with the old epoch of insipid ideas and hidebound academic style, giving the art a new lease of life and fixing a new standard.”
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“A brief but important monograph presenting discriminating and authoritative criticism and slight but significant and interesting biographical notes. Should be owned by all libraries that can afford it, because of the importance of subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 77. Mr. ’08.
“Sympathetically written.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 233. F. 22. 280w.
“Altogether it must be ranked as the leading American art-book of the year.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“A beautiful tribute, and yet there is a feeling of strain, of an effort to make a book out of a monograph, and there is a suspicion of padding in the makeup of the volume.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 692. Mr. 26, ’08. 600w.
“There is no thought here of making a vulgar concession to the mob; there is thought only of the sympathy, the emotion, by which the greatest men of genius in all ages have been moved.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: sup. 73. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The little monograph is as interesting as it is scholarly and convincing, an essay that is thoroughly enjoyable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
“Mr. Cortissoz has delivered himself of valuable and illuminating criticism in a style of singular grace and distinction.” H. S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 750. Mr. ’08. 650w.
“All the illustrations in the book are excellent, and show what care has been bestowed upon them.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 300w.
=Cotes, Sara Jeannette.= Cousin Cinderella. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–24455.
A Canadian girl and her brother take a flat in London and the girl tells, after a delightful fashion, how she succeeded in “becoming a part of it all.” From Towse, the cook, and the grocery boy to a real live Duke “seen on a hearth rug and not in a procession,” we have interesting pictures of people and settings. “Miss Canada” furnishes not only fresh viewpoints of things English and American but an elucidation of some matters of sentiment involving a lord, an American girl and a ruined ancestral estate.
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“The girl’s criticisms of the people, conventionalities, traditions and precedents are not only naïve and humorous but analytical and penetrating. A book that will interest only a small proportion of novel readers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“There is a good deal of quiet laughter in ‘Cousin Cinderella’; and the better one knows London, the more one will be inclined to enjoy the book.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 145. O. ’08. 180w.
“The humor of the monologue is delightful.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Its wit and social photography are what make the book entertaining, as it undoubtedly is.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“The book is delightful. The general sketches of society and the drawings of the various personalities, great and small, are admirable.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Couch, Mabel Quiller-.= Troublesome Ursula. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of a little girl “of the elder-sister type who is taken from her baby charges and widowed mother to live with a stern grandmother.” (Ath.)
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“There is, we think, some improbability in the details of poor Ursula’s closing adventure; but this is a trifling blemish in a capital book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 180w.
“A very good story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 70w.
“Is a charming little story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. D. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Coulton, George Gordon.= Chaucer and his England. (Memoir ser.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–33921.
“After the briefest sketch of the rude England of Edward III, Mr. Coulton takes up Chaucer’s boyhood and youth, and traces his career as King’s squire, ambassador, and man of affairs to his last days. Then he has some entertaining pages on the London and Westminster neighborhood and institutions of Chaucer’s day, and devotes three chapters to an admirable exposition of the ‘Canterbury tales.’ The concluding chapters relate to influences and ideals of the times, the poverty spread by the war, the relations of the priests to the people, and the quality of the merriment in ‘Merry England.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“The manner of quoting is puzzling, not to say irritating. The index is insufficient for a book of such complexity.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 443. N. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“Mr. Coulton’s chapters on the poem are lucid and readable. His account of Chaucer’s times is well written. This is not a profound work but it is surely an engaging one, that well repays perusal.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 537. O. 3, ’08. 1200w.
“He really knows his sources and moves with some ease from one to another. And we feel at the end of his book that it is bound to give excellent food to the imaginations of numbers of unlearned readers and to compel others to go to the fountain heads.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 366. S. 19, ’08. 1250w.
“An unusually interesting book, certainly not the less so for being occasionally provocative. Mr. Coulton has well-defined convictions, and insists on them. He rides, a little too violently we think, a hobby here and there.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 634. O. 24, ’08. 750w.
=Court= life of the second French empire, 1852–1870, by Le petit homme rouge. *$2. Scribner.
7–36951.
The author hides behind “Le petit homme rouge,” the gossipy ghost that is made responsible for history or myth, gossip or scandal, joke or anecdote which are included here. “Among the many items of innocent interest with which his pages are sprinkled may be mentioned the account of the luxury indulged in by the imperial household. While the Empire, all unsuspected by the pampered inmates of the Tuileries, was tottering to its fall.” (Dial.)
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“The principal defects are in matters of style, although in general the book reaches the level of good journalistic writing.” F. M. Anderson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 645. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“On the whole, the writer is so accurate and so well-informed that his book makes serious claim to be treated as history. It is at least the backstairs view of the history of a period in which the backstairs played the leading part.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 759. Je. 22. 1070w.
“The book furnishes entertainment and amusement, which is probably its prime purpose.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 429. D. 16. ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 100w.
“His book is a delight to those who like their history well dashed with the spice of personalities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 447. Ag. 15, ’08. 800w.
=Cox, John Charles, and Harvey, Alfred.= English church furniture; with 121 il. (Antiquary’s books.) *$2.50. Dutton.
8–5837.
In this volume “the arrangement of the text and illustrations is strictly systematic. Chapter 1 deals with the altar, and the accompanying rails and screens; chapter 2 with church plate, chalice, and paten, cruets and flagons, and even the leather cases in which such plate is kept; chapter 3, with the piscina and the sedilla; and chapter 4, with choir-screens and rood-lofts. Thus the whole book, divided into thirteen chapters, offers a useful account of what one needs to know when visiting ancient churches, or when preparing to build and adorn a church.” (Nation.)
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“It is in many ways a completion of Parker’s well-known ‘Glossary,’ and a mine of carefully ordered information.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 487. O. 19. 680w.
“The joint authors of this most useful book have managed to invest the driest technical details with an interest that cannot fail to appeal even to those who have never hitherto considered church furniture from any but the prosaic point of view.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 171. Ap. ’08. 220w.
“There is a pleasant mixture of archaeology with modern criticism.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 452. My. 14, ’08. 380w.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 908. D. 7, ’07. 360w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Fair Mississippian. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–29332.
The hero of Miss Murfree’s new story is a young man who having completed an elaborate course of study abroad is obliged to dismiss temporarily his dream of power on account of his father’s death and shattered fortunes. He turns to pedagogical work and engages in preparing three Southern boys for college. The story is concerned with his life in this home on a cotton plantation, with his thrilling adventures with river pirates and floods, and with his romance in which a widow ten years his senior is the altogether charming heroine.
=Cradle= of the rose. **$1.50. Harper.
8–30708.
Brittany is the scene of this story which bears upon the present church and state crisis in France. The wife of an English ambassador, during the latter’s absence in the Orient on diplomatic business, returns to Brittany, the land of her birth, there receives the homage which her wealth and ancestors command, and, aided by a young Breton nobleman, organizes a Royalist insurrection, is betrayed by a servant, and prefers a watery grave to capture and death at the hands of enemies.
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=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“The story is developed skillfully and with constant appreciation for whatever is beautiful or interesting in the Breton country or in its people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 360w.
=Crane, Walter.= India impressions. $2.50. Macmillan.
8–5823.
A book for the general reader which may serve as “an addendum to the lately published reminiscences” (Dial.) full of anecdotes illustrated by comic drawings.
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“The volume may nevertheless be recommended to these who do not desire scientific truth, but rather wish for an artist’s opinion on the beauties of Indian landscape and architecture.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 330w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
“The illustrations by the author could not fail in themselves to make the book attractive.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 172. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“The work is, in short, without sufficient excuse for being, but having been written, does no harm. At any rate the pen-and-ink sketches are new and some of them are funny.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 80w.
“An artist with this opportunity of travel has naturally much that is interesting to tell us. About political matters Mr. Crane does not say much, nor does he make us wish that he had been more copious in his deliverances on this subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 781. N. 16, ’07. 260w.
=Crapsey, Algernon Sidney.= Re-birth of religion; being an account of the passing of the old and coming of the new dogmatic. **$1.50. Lane.
8–1487.
Dr. Crapsey condemns the current system of religion as antiquated and outworn and substitutes a new system entirely away from Christian creeds. The “new dogmatic will instruct in all that concerns the ethical life, and will seek to bring the soul in contact with that which is good, so that the evil shall not be in the mind at all.”
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=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 674. O. ’08. 40w.
“His work is constructive rather than destructive and is worthy of a place in every library where there is no fear of truth.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 39: 490. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
“The author is as sure of his ground as he is earnest and courageous, and we cannot otherwise than wish him well; but at several points we find ourselves asking whether we are not escaping from one crassness to fall into another.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 212. Ap. 1, ’08. 400w.
=Ind.= 64: 977. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
“Very little is found in these pages which is not often heard, in somewhat less piquant style, from the more liberal pulpits of the orthodox churches.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“If the truth be spoken, the book is utterly devoid both of scholarship and of theological insight. It is hardly more than a combination of the commonplace and the untrue. The book abounds in inaccuracies and misstatements. They show loose thinking, lack of scholarship, and carelessness of expression. The volume would attract no attention and would not be worthy of serious notice were it not for the prominence in which circumstances have placed its author.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 746. N. 23, ’07. 520w.
“It appears to us to be characterized in many places by inconsistency, inaccuracy, and superficiality. There is much that is admirable in the volume, especially in the author’s presentation of the doctrine of social salvation, but as an interpretation of the new dogmatic it is inferior to other volumes by other authors of the broad school who have preceded him.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 876. D. 21. ’67. 630w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Diva’s ruby. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–26829.
Completes the trilogy of which “Fair Margaret” is the first volume and “The primadonna” is the second. Mr. Crawford tells a whole story in his prologue, the while he is affording his tale an artistic preparation. He takes the reader into a ruby mine, where is enacted a weird drama in which an oriental maiden for the love of a golden-bearded Englishman divulges the hidden cave’s secret of rubies, and is deserted for her pains. The plot of the story proper grows out of the theft of a ruby and the final struggle in which the Greek financier, Logotheti, and the American millionaire, Van Torp, do battle for the hand of Margaret.
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“She remains one of Mr. Crawford’s most consistently drawn characters.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 602. N. 14. 130w.
“Frankly, it is the best story Mr. Crawford has given us in a number of years.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 261. N. ’08. 650w.
“Is far and away the most readable of the three books devoted to the lady.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“Really, there is little to be said of such storytelling as this; an able-bodied, intelligent, grown man ought to be in better business.”
− =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“There is mystery enough for a detective story, love within love, murder, wealth. There are also Crawford’s shrewd and felicitous characterizations, and his sparkling wit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 570. O. 17, ’08. 540w.
“It is possibly the most dramatic tale in the series.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“May be read and enjoyed independently or as a sequel to the other members of the trilogy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“It is entertaining, and it holds the attention to the very end. It does not belong, however, with Mr. Crawford’s really good work.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 100w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Little city of Hope: a Christmas story. †$1.25. Macmillan.
7–38261.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“A pretty story, obviously padded.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
“A pretty, graceful story.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 728. D. 7. 80w.
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 550. Ja. ’08. 70w.
“Pessimists ought to read it, and optimists will enjoy it.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 429. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1465. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“It is a story which will delight both children and grown-ups, it is so exquisitely told.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104. sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 40w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Primadonna: a sequel to “Fair Margaret.” †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–13275.
A well developed sequel to “Fair Margaret.” Two years have passed and Margaret Donne who made her debut on the lyric stage has become submerged in Margarita da Cordova, a full-fledged primadonna, unspoiled by contact with “coarse-fibered colleagues and cynical impressarios.” Characters of musical Bohemia and men of literary and commercial fame unite to furnish a setting for this heroine, whose character development is consistently drawn to its maturity with due emphasis placed upon the value of temperament.
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“Though a story of crime and mystery, it is not, perhaps, the kind of mystery which gives the best scope to Mr. Crawford’s powers.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 200w.
“The book at best does not rise above the Wilkie Collins type.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 396. Je. ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Crawford is drawing some very real characters in this triptych of portraits.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Crawford’s hand becomes not less deft but more nonchalant as the years go by.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 650w.
“It would be impossible for Marion Crawford to write anything but a good novel. But in the midst of his spell weaving we seem nowadays to fall on blanks and pauses, digressions and explanations, well written in themselves, but unworthy of the witch-stuff that we have grown to expect from the pen of the much-loved novelist.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“The second half shows relaxation of grip.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“When he is not soliloquizing or moralizing he is very entertaining and bright.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 500w.
“There are also occasional lapses into that bad faith with his readers, to intensify their interest or perplexity, which the writer of the sensational should be very careful to avoid.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 600w.
“‘The primadonna’ has not the charm of the best of Mr. Marion Crawford’s novels of modern Italian life, but by its judicious blending of sensational incident with careful character-drawing it makes a wide appeal, and is eminently calculated to maintain the popularity of its indefatigable author.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 425. Mr. 14, ’08. 850w.
=Crawford, Mary Caroline.= Among old New England inns. $2. Page.
7–36234.
Here Miss Crawford tells of her visits to old New England inns and recalls their peculiar part in the public life of “the brave days of old.” It is a matter for special comment that colonial inns were bound up with the church, frequently being located next door to the places of worship. The reasons for this, the “part inns played in early history, their social and political associations, and the odd characters who frequented them” are set forth in chatty and informing manner.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 38. F. ’08.
=Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“The book is crowded with interesting lore.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1468. D. 19, ’07. 80w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“All of which Miss Crawford puts down with good taste and diligence.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 9. Ja. 4, ’08. 280w.
“This is one of the many interesting popular books which reproduce the habits of life and the homes of the older America. One of the minor foot-notes to New England history.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
* =Crawford, Mary Caroline.= St. Botolph’s town: an account of old Boston in colonial days. $2.50. Page.
8–28847.
A history of old Boston from the first settlement down to the revolution which is embodied in a series of portraits of prominent men and women.
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“A work full of zealous research and written in an agreeable style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 270w.
“There are some repetitions from the former volumes. And the style leaves something to be desired, being, to say the least, neither original nor distinguished.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
“Handsomely gotten up and written in interesting style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 260w.
=Creasy, Sir Edward Shepherd.= Fifteen decisive battles of the world, from Marathon to Waterloo; new ed. $1.25. Harper.
8–30944.
A new edition containing the complete text of Creasy’s “Fifteen decisive battles” and eight additional battles as follows: Quebec, Yorktown, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Sedan, Manila bay, Santiago and Tsu-Shima. The battles are described by well-known historians and are accompanied by chronological lists of important events.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 120w.
=Creed= of Buddha, by the author of “The creed of Christ.” *$1.50. Lane.
8–15891.
“In addition to the several chapters in which the author sets forth and discusses the teachings of Buddha, he enters into a comparison of the view-points of the East and the West.... In another chapter he discusses ‘the bankruptcy of Western thought,’ by which he means that the higher thought of the Western world has come to a point where it no longer has anything to offer in response to its own demands. In the final chapter he sets forward the theory that it remains for Western intellect to borrow and assimilate the ethical ideas of the East and evolve from these ‘a science of the soul’ that will enrich the Western poverty of thought.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The layman who wishes to get a clear idea of the ethical teaching of Buddha, apart from his philosophy, will find a concise and illuminating discussion and interpretation of ‘The creed of Buddha,’ by this anonymous author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 220w.
“It is suggestive and stimulating, and even if we doubt its being a correct representation of the philosophy of the Buddha, it contains much that will do the European reader no harm to keep in mind.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 425. O. 3, ’08. 1050w.
=Creel, George.= Quatrains of Christ; preface by Julian Hawthorne. **75c. Elder.
8–22554.
The esoteric meaning of Christ’s life and mission gleams forth from these quatrains which tell the wonderful and radiant story with reverence and spiritual insight. The quatrains “are in form, the Rubaiyat of Omar over again; but save that they are full of veritable poetry they are as different from them in purpose and issue as light is different from shadow.” (Preface.)
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=Ind.= 65: 898. O. 15, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
“This new poet seems a real interpreter of the religious life.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 566. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
=Cresson, William Penn.= Persia; the awakening East. **$3.50. Lippincott.
8–17797.
“The author, who is a prominent architect of Washington. D. C., and a fellow of the Royal geographical society, tells the story of a caravan journey across Persia, old Kurdistan, and the countries of the middle east taken by himself and his brother. His book, however, is more than a description of the country, for he pays especial attention to the political condition of the countries through which he passed, and throws a great deal of light upon the so-called awakening of Persia and upon the diplomatic complications caused by the rivalries and conflicting interests of Russia, England, and Germany in that remote part of the world. The book is profusely illustrated.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A volume well written and well illustrated, but Mr. Cresson does not live up to his avowed purpose as indicated by his title and his introductory statements.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 620. N. ’08. 220w.
“The value of the volume is not impaired because its politics, is a little out of date.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 557. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Notwithstanding the somewhat superficial character of the book, it is instructive, and the author’s style makes it easy reading, while the photographic illustrations add much to its interest and attractiveness. We regret that there is neither map nor index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 189. Ag. 27, ’08. 650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
“While not so exhaustive, scholarly, or authoritative as is Professor Jackson’s recently published book, Mr. Cresson’s may prove to be even more popularly instructive; certainly it is a good preparatory book to read before attempting the other.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Well and interestingly written account of the present condition of the Shah’s empire.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 110w.
=Crocker, Francis Bacon.= Dynamo-electric machinery: an authoritative treatise on the theory, constructive details, calculation, characteristic curves, and design of dynamo-electric machinery. $1.50. American school of correspondence.
8–23578.
“The book is intended for correspondence instruction, and is well arranged for this purpose. There are four sections to the book covering the fundamental principles and various classes of generators, calculations and characteristic curves. A valuable feature of the work is a well-selected list of problems relating to the design, construction and operation of such generators, appropriate solutions being given in outline.”—Engin. Rec.
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“Good as his previous work has been, he may be said in this work to have crystallized clearly and summarized succinctly the fruitful results of study, practice and didactic disquisition, and is to be congratulated upon a book that to a certain extent does him justice and that cannot fail to be a helpful guide to the aspiring electrical engineer.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 362. Ag. 15, ’08. 370w.
“Anyone who is seeking a lucid and logical presentation of the very elements of the design of direct-current generators will not be disappointed with this text.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 320. S. 17, ’08. 500w.
“Overlooking [several] shortcomings, the book may be considered as an excellent elementary text relating to standard low-speed direct-current generators.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 280w.
=Crockett, Charles Winthrop.= Methods for earthwork computations. *$1.50. Wiley.
8–10844.
“The author formulates a series of rules by means of which the terms requisite for the numerical computation of volumes by the prismoidal formula and the average end area method may be written directly from the notes, without any intermediate steps and without drawing any figures, the symbolized form of the rules enabling the computer to apply them without difficulty.”—Engin. D.
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=Engin. D.= 3: 651. Je. ’08. 230w.
“The book as a whole presents the subject of the computation of earthwork quite clearly and fully. The rules derived could be more readily understood by the student if expressed in words as well as by formulas, as the notation used in some of the special cases is not evident even by reference to the summary. In general, however, the statements are clearly made and the methods easily followed.” C: L. Crandall.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 640w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Deep moat grange. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–9175.
A tale of murder and mystery with a north of England setting.
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“Great skill is shown in the handling of so numerous a company. We fancy, however, in spite of this and the excellence of the local colouring, that the tragic element is a trifle too lurid.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 150w.
“A soufflé of slang and shudders.”
− =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“The plot is well managed and the style is sprightly and vivid, although Mr. Crockett is prone, as usual, to be amazingly long-winded and to use three times as many words as are necessary for the telling of his story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 256. My. 2, ’08. 180w.
“A crazy tale about crazy people.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Iron lord. (English title, Vida; or, The iron lord of Kirktown.) il. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–274.
An unscrupulous ironmaster sends his wife and daughter to sea with orders for the ship to be scuttled at a suitable moment. The child is rescued and unknown to her father grows to womanhood in his mining village. The story introduces a variety of characters and situations that are more or less identified with the final achievement of the father’s repentance.
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“Let the reader read if he chooses. The book will not injure his feeblest virtues, but do not let him purchase it under the impression that he is buying one of S. R. Crockett’s dark o’ the moon tales.”
− =Ind.= 65: 210. Jl. 23, ’08. 320w.
“The plot of the story, if its sequence of incidents can be called a plot, is loose and struggling, and conventional enough to be worthy of the respect due to age. There are a number of exciting incidents very well related, and there are some excellent scenes portraying the life and work of the employes of the Incubus mines. These last are, indeed, the best part of the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
“Is it possible that Mr. Crockett is trying how far a well-established favourite can presume on the indulgence of the fiction-reading public? Mr. Crockett has a masterful way of picturing women and their ways that recalls Charles Reade, and the dialogue is as vigorous as ever.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 533. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
* =Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Redcap adventures. †$1.75. Macmillan.
8–24454.
A continuation of “Red cap tales.” They are drawn from “Ivanhoe,” “The fortunes of Nigel,” “Quentin Durward,” “The pirate,” and “A legend of Montrose,” the portions being retold in a manner simple enough to interest children.
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“Will be sure to hold his young readers.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 50w.
“The connecting links are excellent, while the stories are told with spirit.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 60w.
“The volume is attractive in every way. For itself, and as a foretaste of the great teller of tales, whom many people do still read, the book is most acceptable.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 707. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Cromer, Earl of.= Modern Egypt. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.
8–8125.
A two-volume work which sets forth “how this ancient land has been policed, financed, and irrigated after the latest European models.” (Lit. D.) It makes its appeal to the Englishman for its detailed story of General Gordon and his mission to Khartoum; to the student of history for the light thrown on European diplomacy and politics; to the student of political science for the manner of solving difficult problems and handling troublesome policies; to the student of ethnology for the light thrown upon the race development question.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 133. My. ’08.
“Earl Cromer’s volumes are at once thorough, scholarly and sympathetic.” C. L. Jones.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 725. My. ’08. 600w.
“He writes with a largeness of view, a generosity of temper, and a sense of responsibility which belong characteristically to the man who has been at the helm of Egypt through his eventful and fruitful quarter of a century.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 345. Mr. 21. 1750w.
“The opinions of so acute and well-informed a statesman, even when not on the scene, are of great value.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 376. Mr. 28. 3300w.
“It is and will continue to be the most reliable and illuminating history of a momentous epoch in British foreign politics.” J: W: Russell.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 492. Jl. ’08. 1350w.
“No one has [told the story of English rule] so well, as Lord Cromer.” J. W. Garner.
+ =Dial.= 44: 237. Ap. 16, ’08. 1300w.
“Since the days of Cæsar, Lord Cromer is the first great ruler who has written his own story in such vigorous, clear and noble language.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 747. Ap. 2, ’08. 1200w.
“It is the highest tribute we can pay to this book to declare that he has manifestly carried out his noble purpose and he has related his experiences with modesty, succinctness, and eloquence.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 490. Ap. 4, ’08. 850w.
“Teachers of English would do well to weigh the style of these volumes. A master of lucid statement and apt phrase, able to convey his thought vividly and precisely in language which yet attracts no more attention to itself than the dress of a woman of perfect taste. The book is so noteworthy because the intellect and the character which have gone to its making are so exceptional.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 235. Mr. 12, ’08. 1550w.
“We are confident that Lord Cromer’s book, as a whole, would have left a better impression upon candid minds had he refrained from his too evidently labored attempt to justify his course in respect to the governor generalship appointment and the Zobeir episode.” C. R. Miller.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 149. Mr. 21, ’08. 5000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“Should be read and re-read by all who have aught to do with the government of dependent races.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 346. Je. 13, ’08. 2550w.
“His story of his achievements is well worth reading, well worth studying.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 493. Jl. ’08. 500w.
“The chapters dealing with the financial and economic reforms in Egypt are most interesting, and the whole is one of the most noteworthy historical works of the past decade.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 70w.
“Without attempting to pose as a political philosopher, he yet gives us ... a number of principles of political action, which are all marked by that sanity and simplicity of judgment, that broad and masculine good sense, which has been the foundation of his success.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 374. Mr. 21, ’08. 3200w.
“Valuable in a high degree from the historical side.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 374. Mr. 7, ’08. 2400w.
“He sees how the oriental mind works, and takes the necessary steps to keep his own mind free from either prejudice or entanglement. [The book] is throughout written, not only with the force, directness, and good sense which would be expected from its author, but also with no little insight and literary charm.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 420. Mr. 14, ’08. 2000w.
=Cronson, Bernard.= Pupil self-government: its theory and practice. *90c. Macmillan.
7–36886.
The scheme for pupil self-government as outlined, developed and operated by a New York principal. Ethical as well as civic training is insured through the author’s methods. The book is fully illustrated, and furnished with blank pages for notes.
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“Not entirely satisfactory because of its scrappy character, but suggestive and especially useful as there are no other books on the subject and only occasional brief magazine articles.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 175. Je. ’08.
“The principal who is interested in the subject will find in this book a very definite statement as to methods and as to conditions essential for success.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 110w.
=Crooker, Rev. Joseph Henry.= Church of today: a plea. *75c. Pilgrim press.
8–12536.
A practical treatment of the church problem, of the obstacles in the way of the attainment of the church’s ideals, of religion as a corporate life, of the church’s contribution to modern life and inspiration, and of the functions of the church as a social institution.
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“Though the author is a liberal thinker, his work is quite conservative in tone. It is a strong, able and earnest plea for closer union of men and women for the carrying forward of the fundamental truths of religion and the elevation of society to a higher and nobler plane of existence.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 390. O. ’08. 300w.
“Is remarkable both for comprehensiveness and sobriety. The author works up to the line of truth, and rarely if ever transcends it.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 381. Je. 16, ’08. 370w.
“A modern and candid statement of the problem before the church.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 160w.
=Cross, Victoria.= Religion of Evelyn Hastings. $1.50. Kennerley.
Evelyn Hastings’ religion evolved from childhood and girlhood experiences is the religion of living, constant prayer. It is materialistic inasmuch as it limits the omnipotence of God, and it permits of dream communion with absent loved ones.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
* =Crothers, Samuel McChord.= By the Christmas fire. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–33150.
A collection of wise and humorous essays by the author of “The gentle reader” and “The pardoner’s wallet,” which will incite in the reader as he smiles and chuckles a feeling of peace and good will toward all his fellows. Besides the Bayonet-poker, Christmas and the literature of disillusion, Christmas and the spirit of democracy, with their hopeful and kindly Christmas philosophy, the book contains the essays, The ignominy of being grown-up and On being a doctrinaire.
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“A new volume of those charming, humorous, observant papers of his, which often lead one nowhere in particular, but benefit him none the less all the way.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1173. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Although the spirit of Dr. Crother’s style is optimistic and hopeful, there is an undercurrent of whimsical warning for the contented.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“One finds a wealth of entertainment which is not the less delightful because it carries with it an abundance of intellectual profit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“Is quite good enough to take its place in the ‘Standard library of pleasant books’ which some wise publisher will some day bring out.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 661. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
=Crouch, Frances.= Feminine finance. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–36412.
Here are set forth in amusing fashion the high-handed methods to which two bachelor maids resort in bringing about the payment of a promissory note which an unfortunate woman holds against her cousin.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Entertainment of the lightest variety may be found by easily pleased readers.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 843. D. 21, ’07. 100w.
=Crowninshield, Francis W.= Manners for the metropolis: an entrance key to the fantastic life of the 400. **$1. Appleton.
8–31014.
A humorous Baedeker to the social realm. It contains concise rules of deportment for all the more important social ceremonies—“from a tete-à-tete to a betrothal, a picnic to a funeral, a partié-carrée to a divorce, an ushers’ dinner to a Turkish bath, and a piano recital to a rout. It also contains excellent advice on the choice of a motor car, a summer residence, a wife, or a brand of cigar.” (Preface.)
=Crowninshield, Frederic.= Under the laurel. **$1.50. Dodd.
7–34589.
A book of poems divided into three groups as follows: Miscellaneous poems, Sonnets, and Character studies and narrative poems.
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“Contain little that is distinctive, such qualities of sincerity and imagination as they do possess are much obscured by faulty expression.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 795. D. 21. 310w.
“It is a source of real joy to meet with a collection deserving, as does Mr. Crowninshield’s, a generous welcome from the world of culture.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 875. D. 7, ’07. 200w.
“He is not sure enough of his rhythms, and is somewhat too fond of unusual words to set the sensuous chords within us vibrating, but, as a seeker after the meaning of life, perplexed at times, often indignant, always courageous, he stands notably apart from the crowd.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 260w.
“In his shorter pieces, where he is more narrowly impelled by his idea, he is most nearly successful.” Christian Gauss.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
=Crozier, Alfred Owen.= The magnet. †$1.50. Funk.
8–1779.
A novel which embodies the Wilmington lawyer’s methods of winning out in a campaign against predatory wealth now looking for its greatest triumph in a central government bank. Mr. Crozier’s aim is not to injure Wall street’s useful and harmless business but to purge it of its dangerous powers and practices, to end margin gambling, and the demand for usurious interest rates. The book thrills with such problems, and portrays a tigerish, conscienceless Wall street magnate pitted against an honest, daring, invincible United States senator. The battle is to the strong—the strong in courage and principle.
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“‘The magnet’ is a book that should be bought, read and circulated by every patriotic American between now and the coming election. This we say in spite of the author’s amazing protection views and in spite of his failure to realize that the more the government seeks to regulate criminal corporations, the more those corporations will debauch politics for the sake of the enormous revenue that can be wrested from the people so long as they control the regulating force of government and are able to continue their career of lawlessness.” B. O. Flower.
+ + − =Arena.= 39: 479. Ap. ’08. 5300w.
“His moral purpose in exposing financial iniquities in high places is deep-seated and throughout the story it remains persuasive.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“Of course it should never have been written under the head of fiction ... but as a treatise on stock gambling the book has genuine force, and perhaps is even not without its message.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 251. My. 2, ’08. 100w.
=Cruttwell, Maud.= Guide to the paintings in the churches and minor museums of Florence: a critical catalogue with quotations from Vasari. (Art collections of Europe ser.) *$1.25. Dutton.
8–18753.
A critical guide book, illustrated with numerous miniature reproductions of pictures and frescoes.
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+ =Ind.= 64: 1300. Je. 4, ’08. 40w.
“It is a painstaking and apparently accurate piece of work, and should prove of great value to the traveller interested in art.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 41. Jl. 9, ’08. 80w.
“The criticism is helpful to the tyro as well as to the advanced student.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 624. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Cuenot, G.= Deformations of railroad tracks, and the means for remedying them. *$2. Railway gazette.
8–3513.
“Gives the results of many experiments on the lines of the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean railway. The deformations studied include creeping, the reduction of gauge on tangents, the spreading of gauge on curves, the compression of tie at its supports, the tearing out of screw spikes, the poor holding of the joints, and the vertical deformation of the rail.” Engin. Rec.
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“The various matters are discussed scientifically and in detail. The mechanical work on the book is rather poor. The translation is also somewhat awkward at times. A more serious matter is the entire omission of an index.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 661. D. 12, ’07. 700w.
“The monograph is such a valuable contribution to the subject of track deformation that it deserves a very careful study.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 56: 721. D. 28, ’07. 430w.
* =Culbreth, David M. R.= University of Virginia: memories of her student-life and professors. *$5. Neale.
A volume of reminiscences written by a “casual alumnus” who entered the University of Virginia in 1872. He gives intimate pictures of the working of the inner life of the institution—of its class room and debating society, social and religious life, of its students and professors, and its environment and ideals. Across the whole moves the spirit of Jefferson, its founder and supporter.
=Cunningham, Brysson.= Treatise on the principles and practice of harbour engineering; with 18 pl. and 220 il. in the text. *$5. Lippincott.
8–21779.
“The book on ‘Harbor engineering’ is introduced by an historical chapter tracing the growth of navigation with its necessary concomitant, the harbor.... The second chapter is devoted to harbor design and the effect upon such design of the configuration of the land, the tides and winds and the climatic conditions of the place. The next six chapters take up the methods and materials of harbor construction.... Finally a chapter is given to channel demarcation, signals and lighthouses.”—Engin. N.
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“To the profession in general the discussion of the behavior of structural materials in and about sea-water will be the most valuable part of the book. In particular the study of the effect of sea-water on concrete is worthy of separate publication.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 650. Je. 11, ’08. 430w.
=Curle, Richard H. P.= Aspects of George Meredith. il. *$2. Dutton.
8–16941.
After an introduction which estimates Meredith as novelist and poet and defines afresh idealism, realism and poetry, the author deals with the following subjects: Meredith’s personality explained by atmosphere and style, Philosophy of nature, Lyrical view of nature, Philosophic conception of social problems, Insight into character, The eloquence of Meredith, etc.
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+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 200w.
“A blend of fun and poetry, and, especially, youth.” F. M. Colby.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 454. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Curle’s careful nuances of definition at times weary the reader without pleasurably enlightening him.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 18. Jl. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Much, perhaps most, of Mr. Curle’s philosophy is true enough, and not a little of his criticism is substantial and helpful; but, judging the book as a whole, we frankly do not take pleasure in this tone of literary religiosity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 464. My. 21, ’08. 400w.
“There is nothing much to ridicule in Mr. Curle’s book, and much to honestly admire. The analyses of the various novels are suggestive and illuminative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 231. Ap. 18, ’08. 700w.
=Currency= problem and the present financial situation: a series of addresses delivered at Columbia university, 1907–1908. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–8335.
A series of addresses thru which run “an unexpected harmony of thought, and a close agreement not only as to the ultimate ideal to be attained in our financial relations, but as to the next step to be taken in the legislative reform of our currency.” (J. Pol. Econ.) See Cumulative book index for contents.
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“No more timely or important treatment of the problems which now confront the American people has appeared anywhere than will be found in this volume.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 520. My. ’08. 100w.
“Some of the most prominent men of affairs in New York have contributed to the volume and it is evident that they are speaking out of the fulness of practical experience, and have thought deeply on various subtle points of theory.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 463. Jl. ’08. 160w.
=Curriculum= of the elementary school; reprinted from Teachers college record. (v. 7, nos. 1 and 4; v. 8. nos. 1, 3 and 4.) $2. Teachers college, Columbia univ.
A curriculum for the first seven grades of the public school. “As an indication of how means may be adjusted to ends, of how teachers of widely differing temperaments may be united in purpose, and of how a norm may be utilized to direct concerted action throughout a large institution, the study of the curriculum herein given is particularly worthy of attention.”
=Curtin, Jeremiah.= Mongols: a history; with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. **$3. Little.
7–40050.
Mr. Curtin’s panoramic view is epic in its sweep of “vital historical events” which have had so large a share in aiding or marring the development of Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a closely written, illuminating history of the rise of the Mongol empire and its decadence, popular in treatment yet scholarly in its authenticity and choice of material.
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“Notwithstanding the imperfections of this work ... it puts before the public the outlines, at least, of an epic of such wonderful interest and which is so little known to us, that we must be thankful that it has seen the light.” W. W. Rockhill.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 562. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“Nothing in this volume is so readable as the seven animated pages of ‘Foreword.’”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 528. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“A scholarly, comprehensive, authentic work upon the rise and fall of the Mongolian empire.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 133. My. ’08.
“The volume is one of the most important historical works of recent years.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 497. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Valuable to the ordinary reader, and with its index and map will be a useful addition to the library. In its composition, Mr. Curtin has followed the bent of his genius; but it cannot accurately be called a history.” W: E. Griffis.
+ =Dial.= 44: 178. Mr. 16, ’08. 850w.
“Will be eagerly read, particularly at the present time, as a contribution of first importance to the literature which aids us to comprehend, if not to understand, the Orient.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 207. F. ’08. 80w.
“It fulfills none of the conditions demanded by modern historical methods. Fact and fable are mingled without any attempt at criticism and without reference to sources, and the essential relations of cause and effect are entirely ignored. It is a monotonous and repulsive narrative of battles and sieges, devastation and slaughter.”
− =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
“One can not say that this is the ideal book on the Mongols, and yet it is probably the best single work on the subject yet published in English.”
+ + − =Lit. D.= 36: 95. Ja. 18, ’08. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Complexity is an almost insuperable fault of the book from the unlearned reader’s point of view, though chapters like that which deals with the so-called Assassin commonwealth ... are of great interest, and the whole volume is of immense value.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 31. Ja. 18, ’08. 1900w.
“Written by a great scholar, one who knew Asiatic history as have few.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 650. Mr. 21, ’08. 1500w.
“A noteworthy contribution to American scholarship.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 252. F. ’08. 230w.
=Curtin, Jeremiah.= Mongols in Russia. **$3. Little.
8–30035.
A continuation of “The Mongols.” Beginning with a detailed history of Russia previous to the Mongol invasion, the author proceeds to a study of the domination of the Mongols in Russia after their expulsion from China by the founders of the Ming dynasty. From the Mongol invasion the history continues thru two hundred and forty years of Mongol rule and oppression to the breakup of the Golden Horde at Sarai in 1505.
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“Fills a gap in English historic literature and fills it well.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 850. D. 5, ’08. 320w.
“When you have waded through the 481 pages you have no more ordered idea of the relations of Russian and Mongol than you had when you opened the volume, though you have perhaps learned many names and incidents.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 669. N. 14, ’08. 1300w.
=Curtis, Carlton Clarence.= Nature and development of plants. **$2.50. Holt.
7–34596.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“That this book successfully meets the demand intended to be supplied by the author is certain, and this is abundant justification for anyone who has the courage to run the gauntlet with a new book.” R. H. Pond.
+ + − =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 455. D. ’07. 590w.
“The author, meanwhile avoiding the more technical sides of his subject, carries his argument forward in a style so clear and simple that the most inexperienced reader may easily follow the fascinating story.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 215. Ap. 1, ’08. 270w.
“Quite the best general text-book of botany that has recently come to our attention. The book is beautifully made as well as well proportioned, clearly written, and attractively illustrated.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 50w.
“A careful examination has shown the treatise to be trustworthy. It is, moreover, interesting, and it should be very useful.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Dr. Curtis has produced an excellent and readable book which may be confidently recommended for the use of junior classes in this country.” J. B. F.
+ =Nature.= 77: 436. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
=Curwood, James Oliver.= Courage of Captain Plum. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–30131.
A stirring tale of the Mormon colony on Beaver Island, in Lake Michigan. At the center of the plot lies the perfidy of James Jesse Strang who as self proclaimed king ruled the island during the administration of Franklin Pierce. Captain Plum, who visits the island in the interests of righting a grievance of piracy, is plunged into the thick of a revolt, and, at the peril of death, snatches two persecuted young women from the meshes of the Mormon net.
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“The tale is well told and abounds in exciting, melodramatic scenes.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Curwood is to be congratulated upon having utilized an insignificant crumb of national history for the making of a well-constructed and interesting tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 657. N. 7, ’08. 320w.
* =Curwood, James Oliver.= Wolf hunters: a tale of adventure in the wilderness. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–20578.
A thrilling tale of adventure in the Canadian wilderness. A young half-breed, his tenderfoot friend, and a toughened Indian pathfinder, share perilous dangers in the north country during a winter of trapping, wolf hunting and Indian fighting. The gruesome find of a cabin containing the skeletons of two men, who from all evidences, had fought to death, results in the discovery of the location of a gold mine. The author ends his story with the return to the post. The hunt for the gold mine, postponed until spring, would furnish good material for a sequel.
=Cushing, Otho.= Teddyssey. $1. Life pub.
7–33618.
Humorous drawings after the “mock heroic order” which picture eleven episodes in the life of President Roosevelt.
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“The President is the subject of perennial interest to all good Americans, and whatever may be their political affiliations they will find Mr. Cushing’s pictorial account of the particularly strenuous moments in a strenuous career entertaining and possibly not without food for thought.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 430. D. 16, ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1469. D. 19, ’07. 40w.
=Cuthell, Edith E.= Wilhelmina, margravine of Baireuth. 2v. *$6. Appleton.
6–33598.
A biography of Wilhelmina, sister of Frederick the Great. “Miss Cuthell follows the fortunes of her heroine, using for the most part the Margravine’s own pencil, as traced in her memoirs and in her voluminous correspondence with the king, her brother, and with her literary father-confessor Voltaire.” (Sat. R.)
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“Miss Cuthell, although her method is at times too crude and colloquial to be altogether pleasing, has given us a picturesque and readable account of a woman who is invariably interesting.”
+ − =Acad.= 70: 35. Ja. 13, ’06. 1700w.
“These deductions [poor style and deplorable Latin] from the value of an entertaining and not unimportant historical biography are regrettable, especially as most of them might have been avoided by a little more care in the correction of the press.”
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 858. D. 23. 1230w.
“Except where it touches on the English marriages and, on the war, the book is very interesting, though it is written in a vulgar, slipshod style that seriously mars its attractiveness and sometimes, as in the symbolic allusion to music at the outset, degenerates into pure nonsense. Some of the illustrations are good.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 44. F. 9, ’06. 1170w.
“Miss Cuthell has performed a valuable service to literature in presenting in vivid and masculine English a new life of the Margravine of Baireuth, who will always remain one of the most fascinating characters in history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 620w.
“As a biography the book is inclined to err on the side of length, and the style is occasionally slipshod, while a number of obvious blunders should be corrected, but the author deserves praise for giving us a thorough and always brightly written account of a really interesting personality.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 101: 82. Ja. 20, ’06. 2860w.
“The ideal biographer should be first artisan, then artist. Miss Cuthell shows well in the former capacity by her skill in quarrying the extensive material of her subject and her industrious archival researches in Berlin and London, and also by her examinations of certain controversial questions touching the authenticity of the Margravine’s memoirs. But as artist the lady leaves something to desire.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 621. Ap. 21, ’06. 2400w.
=Cutting, Mrs. Mary Stewart.= Suburban whirl. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33206.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Seems almost too purposeful for the caliber of the characters involved.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 312. F. 6, ’08. 120w.
“There is a similarity about Mrs. Cutting’s suburban ladies that makes them seem as if they had been cut out after the same pattern and provided with different coloring and wardrobes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 6. Ja. 4, ’08. 390w.
“The author’s humorous appreciation of certain disadvantages of such place of residence enliven her serious and forceful consideration of some of the causes that make for marital infelicity in town and country.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 126. Ja. ’08. 160w.
=Cutting, Mary Stewart.= The wayfarers. †$1.50. McClure.
8–19022.
Another story dealing with the problems of married life. The lure of wealth induces a young suburbanite to assume a trying factory managership under a coarse, greedy taskmaster. It is the shadow of the struggle to “make good” that darkens the home for a time and in this half-light the true-as-steel character of the wife is revealed and the essential manhood of the husband.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“It is full of careful portraiture, luminous little flashes of sympathetic understanding ... but according to the strict requirements of construction, the novel as a whole lacks cohesion.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 576. Ag. ’08. 760w.
“She presents understandingly both sides of a very intricate problem of human existence.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
“A book of close appeal to those who study life and to those who live.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 330w.
“Mrs. Cutting presents a set of exasperating characters in her clever novel and casts them in a domestic drama that is distinctly depressing and at times extremely harrowing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 660w.
D
=Daggett, Stuart.= Railroad reorganization. (Harvard economic studies, v. 4.) **$2. Houghton.
8–15469.
“This four-hundred-page work is the result of an investigation extending over a period of several years, during which the author collected, classified, and carefully studied the facts concerning a large number of railroad reorganizations. Nine chapters are devoted to the study of the reorganization of some of the greatest railroad systems in this country.... The tenth and concluding chapter constitutes a general treatment of railway reorganizations in which are framed rules and general principles deduced from the preceding study.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“Mr. Daggett’s work on ‘Railroad reorganization’ is doing an inestimable service in discussing one of the most recondite as well as most important phases of railway management—and mismanagement.” J: J. Halsey.
+ =Dial.= 45: 165. S. 16, ’08. 980w.
“The work should be of great aid to the investor who is involved in any of the current reorganizations, as well as an important source of materials for class-room study.” T: W. Mitchell.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 535. O. ’08. 1800w.
“While these studies show great attention to accuracy of statement and an unusual grasp of the sources of information, yet the reader is not burdened with unnecessary detail. Excellent judgment has been displayed in the selection of the significant events and in the omission of irrelevant material. Too much praise cannot be ascribed to this scholarly book. It approaches the study of corporation finance from the right direction.” F. H. Dixon.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 721. D. ’08. 1100w.
=Dahlgren, Ulric, and Kepner, William Allison.= Text-book of the principles of animal histology. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–19603.
“After seven introductory chapters dealing with protoplasm, the cell, multicellular organization viewed from the phylogenetic and from the ontogenetic standpoints, mitosis and amitosis, epithelium and glands, connecting, supporting and filling tissues, there are taken up in order, tissues for the production of motion, electricity, light and heat; tissues connected with circulation, sensation, pigmentation, alimentation, ductless glands; tissues concerned with respiration, gas secretion, excretion, protection, reproduction, accessory reproductive tissues and tissues for the nourishment of the young.”—Science.
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“The most careful scrutiny reveals almost no defects. It easily takes first place among histologies, chiefly because of the invaluable comparative element.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 144. Ag. 13, ’08. 480w.
“The work as a whole is much more than a text-book, for it contains a large amount of original observation here published for the first time. This applies to every chapter, but particularly to those which deal with the production of light and electricity, and with the sense organs. In the opinion of the writer the most serious criticism of the work for use as a text-book is that it ‘falls between two stools’; it can be used advantageously only by advanced students who have had a pretty thorough training in zoology, while much of the material described is quite inaccessible to average classes.” E. G. Conklin.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 520. O. 16, ’08. 1150w.
=Dalliba, Gerda.= Earth poem and other poems; with an introd. by Edwin Markham. **$2. Putnam.
8–25379.
“An earth poem” sets forth man’s needs, capabilities and progress thru long eons of evolution from materialism to spiritual understanding. “In the first part, Children of sod, man is seen in his mere sense-hunger and earth-wrestle; in the second part, Children of air, man begins to wonder over life and to send his restless heart across the stars; in the last part, Children of sun, man dreams of the long purpose of God and fares forth in daring adventures of spirit.” (Edwin Markham’s introd.)
=Darwin, Leonard.= Municipal ownership. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–16481.
A series of four lectures delivered at Harvard in 1905 which reveal England’s attitude towards the relations of taxation, wages, direct employment, and subjects allied to the question of public ownership. He maintains that the great evil of municipal ownership lies in the indirect results of municipal employment, and shows the influence a local policy exerted even by a small body of municipal employees. “His own remedy for existing evils is not municipal ownership, but a continuance of the system of private ownership, with insistence on short-term franchises and wise restrictions.” (Outlook.)
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“Recommended for libraries which do not have Major Darwin’s larger work entitled ‘Municipal trading.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“Attempting to present the arguments, both for and against municipal ownership, it fails to command the respect of either advocates or opponents of increased functions for the municipality, nor does it deal with the subject in a sufficiently scholarly manner to raise it above the necessity of taking sides.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 442. S. ’08. 160w.
“We take pleasure in commending the book as a fair presentation of most of the stronger of the arguments against municipal ownership, while at the same time reviewing, often with approval, some of the arguments for municipal ownership.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 542. My. 14, ’08. 600w.
“With a naive generosity he supplies his own reductio ad absurdum.”
− =Ind.= 65: 722. S. 24, ’08. 400w.
“As well worth reading as an example of scholarly argument as to obtain a concise statement of opinion from the most unprejudiced and authoritative writer on the subject of municipal ownership.”
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 389. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Darwin’s treatment is far less partisan and far more convincing than Professor Meyer’s. It may fairly be described as a calm and judicious discussion, having for its object the pointing out of better ways of controlling public utilities than have obtained in the past.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 563. Mr. 7, ’08. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Darwin is so well known as a great fighter against municipal extravagance that his views must be of interest. Disappointingly here he comes to no conclusion, and consequently gives little help in solving what has now become an essentially practical question. He treats the question of municipal corruption too complacently.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 801. D. 28, ’07. 570w.
“Contains scholarly and dispassionate arguments.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 640. Ap. 25, ’08. 1800w.
=Dasent, Arthur Irwin.= John Thadeus Delane, 1817–1879, editor of “The London times”: his life and correspondence; compiled from hitherto unpublished letters by his nephew, Arthur Irwin Dasent. 2v. *$7.50. Scribner.
8–20731.
A sketch of the working life of Delane who at the age of twenty-three became editor of The London times—“a biography which, unlike some others, keeps documentary evidence carefully separate from gossip.” (Ath.) “We ascribe his ascendancy in politics and society to the fact that he was an honourable English gentleman, endowed with a double dose of mother-wit, and, placed by accident in a commanding position, with the strength to be just, to tell the truth, and, above all, to be master of his own house.... It is surely a rare combination of moral qualities that makes a man loved and hated, feared and trusted, and that made John Delane ‘the greatest editor the world has ever seen, or is ever likely to see.’” (Sat. R.)
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“In editing his uncle’s correspondence Mr. Dasent, we consider, should have been much more liberal with foot-notes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 501. Ap. 25. 1800w.
“An extremely clear picture of an extraordinary man.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 43. S. ’08. 1400w.
“Written in a style that comes so near to being good as almost to tantalize the reader. We must bestow a word of praise upon the excellent index and occasional footnotes, and the two clear portraits of Delane.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 56. Ag. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“To pass swiftly over the defects of these volumes, they are diffuse and padded, yet leave much lacking. We are let very little into the inner life of Delane.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 467. My. 21, ’08. 1350w.
“Of eulogy there is no lack, even if it is not always discriminating.” E: Porritt.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 296. Ag. ’08. 1750w.
“It is, indeed, something more than a biography, for Delane was so conspicuous a part of the history of his time that Mr. Dasent necessarily reviews that history in considerable detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 626. Jl. 18, ’08. 480w.
“The biography of such a man is bound to be of absorbing interest; and Mr. Dasent’s only difficulty has been that of selection.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 533. Ap. 25, ’08. 2400w.
“Mr. Dasent’s style is not light nor easy; he distracts the reader with numerous unnecessary footnotes, and he has not bent the materials to his will, but has rather let them take charge of him. The tokens of his industry, however, are everywhere, and nothing can disguise the instructiveness of these volumes.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 619. Ap. 18, ’08. 1850w.
=Daulton, Agnes McClelland.= Fritzi, or The Princess Perhaps, il. †$1.50. Century.
8–8100.
A story for children whose little heroine loses her mother in a New York accident, and, too young to remember her home and father in Germany, is taken by a blind musician and his wife, who develop her young genius for the violin and train her in matters of self reliance. Later she becomes the temporary possession of a palmist who deserts her; then chance drops her into a Staten Island “eyrie” with a nest full of frolicsome boys and girls. Here she experiences her first home happiness, and thru the aid of her kind friends finds her long-lost father.
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“Is written with such knowledge of human nature of all ages that it will appeal to their elders quite as much as to the youthful members of the family.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Mrs. Daulton has a charming narrative style, and manages to make her readers as much in love with the characters she draws as they were with Fritzi.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
=Davenport, Cyril James.= Book: its history and development. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–18737.
Written from the craftsman’s point of view, this study begins with a chapter on Early records in which the author follows the steps in the evolution of true writing from the chaos of inscription. In like manner he follows the steps that mark the evolution of bindings, paper, type and printing, and illustrations: after which are chapters devoted to the perfection and ornamentation of bindings, and to book-binding materials and tools. There is a bibliography following each chapter, and an index at the end of the book.
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“Probably no other Englishman possesses so wide and detailed a knowledge of the history of bookbinding and the commercial and artistic development of the art. On other aspects of his subject he writes with much less authority, and occasionally with some confusion of thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 370w.
“The volume is remarkably free from technical terms, and the interested reader who desires to inform himself as to the history and development of book-making, as well as the many processes through which a volume passes, cannot afford to miss this excellent contribution.”
+ =Bookm.= 28: 51. S. ’08. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 170. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“All lovers of books may find pleasure in this skillful but untechnical account of their history and manufacture. Mr. Davenport’s style is clear and attractive, and the book is profusely illustrated in the best meaning of the word.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 462. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 50w.
=Davenport, Cyril J. H.= Jewellery. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
A twenty-five page introduction tells something of the work of Eligius, the patron saint of jewellery, and of Cellini; of early jewellery in various countries; and of the treatment of precious stones. The chapters of the body of the book are: Necklaces; Pendants; Diadems; Earrings, nose-rings, labrets; Bracelets; Finger rings; Pins and brooches. Bibliography and index.
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“Is as general in its application, and as critical in its comparison of the habits of many nations and many times, as could be desired.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 110w.
“Has the double value of practical usefulness to the craftsman and interest to the general reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 656. N. 7, ’08. 380w.
* =Davenport, Cyril James.= Miniatures, ancient and modern. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
An introductory chapter treats of miniature painting of antiquity, following which are three chapters devoted to English miniatures, one on foreign miniatures, one on enamels and one on wax miniatures. Illustrations, bibliography and index.
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“A sound explanation of this minute and delicate portrait painting. It is desirable that the title of his book should be changed so as to describe more exactly its contents.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 170w.
“Combines artistic criticism with practical detail in an extraordinarily compact form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 340w.
=Davenport, Eugene.= Principles of breeding: a treatise on thremmatology; or, The principles and practices involved in the economic improvement of domesticated animals and plants; with appendix by H. L. Rietz. $2.50. Ginn.
7–32122.
Seeks its audience among the students of agriculture in colleges and experiment stations and practical breeders upon the farm. It aims to define the problems involved in animal and plant improvement, to free the subject from the prejudice and tradition that have always befogged it, to bring to the study whatever facts are known to biological science, to recognize and define present limitations of knowledge and to indicate directions from which understanding is to come. It urges exact methods of study and practice.
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“The only book published on the general subject of reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“The index is very full. Prof. Davenport is to be congratulated on so happily combining scientific accuracy with practical advice.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 380w.
“If it has failings the book has great merit.”
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 51. My. 21, ’08. 650w.
=Davenport, Herbert Joseph.= Value and distribution: a critical and constructive study. *$3.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–6683.
The author explains that there is nothing new in his entrepreneur point of view in the computation of costs and in the analysis of the process by which distributive shares are assigned, that it need be only “clearly distinguished, consistently held and fully developed.” To this end he rids the science of the doctrines that do not belong to it and selects, articulates and expands the necessary propositions bearing upon the subjects of value, demand and cost.
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“This is an excellent technical book on economic theory which, while it is exceedingly well done and ought to be in all libraries large enough to buy books for the academic student of economics, is beyond the understanding of the general public.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 176. Je. ’08.
“A lengthy and ponderous volume leading to no practical conclusions. It is certain that he has placed before the economic world a book which will be read only by a few because of its difficult phraseology, unnecessary indulgence in detail quotations and involved investigations into the questions which do not concern even the average economist.” Scott Nearing.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 631. N. ’08. 260w.
“The chief objection to the author’s own views are that they lean too much in the direction of the impressionistic school of economics which frequently mistakes figures of speech for facts, and the quantitative expression of a thing, or, rather, the expression of the quantity of a thing for the thing itself.” T. N. Carver.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 115. Je. ’08. 600w.
“This book, the reviewer believes, will in future years rank as the best and ripest fruit of a period of intensive critical study of economic theory.” A. S. Johnson.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 380. Je. ’08. 2350w.
“It is the irony of fate that the work must be a sealed book except to that inconsiderable number of trained economists who have followed the windings of the higher economic analysis of the past two decades. To read the book is altogether too much like trying to follow Lasker playing three games of chess at the same time.”
− =Nation.= 87: 416. O. 29, ’08. 460w.
“The book is profound and technical and not well suited to popular reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 222. Ap. 11, ’08. 350w.
“Undoubtedly an original and in some ways a stimulating work, it is unduly elaborate, distressingly wordy, and cumbered with a most formidable terminology.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 264. My. 30, ’08. 330w.
=Univ. Rec.= 12: 161. Ap. ’08. 400w.
=Davey, John.= Tree doctor: the care of trees and plants. *$2. Saalfield.
7–36735.
A book of judicious advice and instruction based upon a study of trees, their injuries, diseases and methods of preservation.
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“From first to last, the author presents the whole matter just as an enthusiastic tree-doctor might talk to a sympathetic audience. But we must express regret that so good a book should be without index or even table of contents. Even the two hundred photographic reproductions, most of them good and well-chosen, cannot make up for this unnecessary defect.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 383. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
“Some readers may be disappointed that Mr. Davey does not go more thoroughly into the science of tree doctoring, but what the volume lacks in this respect is more than compensated for in the well-directed appeal for intelligent education in the principles of tree life instead of merely emotional admiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w.
=Davidson, Augusta M. C.= Present-day Japan. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Founded upon a study of the ethical forces and the national religion of the Japanese, their daily goings in and comings out,—their social life, and their amusements.” (Dial.) It touches “lightly the surface of Japanese life, or if seriously attempting to enter the arcana of thought and inheritance, shows little acquaintance with the historic monuments or the native literature except through translations. For this very reason, it may be, the work will be attractive to those who prefer to know about the Japan of to-day and do not care to probe phenomena for reasons. The text is based on letters written at the time and on the spot, and afterwards topically arranged.” (Nation.)
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“There are few books about Japan more illuminating and entertaining than this one.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 346. Je. 1, ’08. 500w.
“As sympathy is itself a key to interpretation, many of the popular customs, festivals, and daily acts are made more intelligible to us by this educated English woman than by the average traveler who writes.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 180w.
“Her book is reminiscent of letters written from foreign lands for publication in a village weekly newspaper.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 331. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Davidson, Lillias Campbell.= Catherine of Braganca: infanta of Portugal and queen consort of England. *$5. Dutton.
8–21033.
Five hundred pages which aim to “trace the blameless life of Catherine of Bragança and to unfold the wrappings that leave long hidden the character refined and ennobled by much unnecessary suffering; to unwind webs, and to disentangle threads.” It is a biography based upon long research, and becomes a defense and an apology for the life of the unhappy queen of Charles the second.
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“We have felt bound to call attention to the lapses in taste and judgment which are the outstanding features of a book claiming notice as a serious contribution to historical learning.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 174. Ag. 15. 2000w.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 214. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 300w.
“The book should take its place alongside those other books of good women, Maud Jerrold’s ‘Vittoria Colonna,’ for instance, and Sidney Lee’s ‘Queen Victoria.’”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 316. O. 10, ’08. 430w.
“Mrs. Davidson’s book gives an excellent, picturesque account of England, and especially of London during Charles’s reign. We think a biographer’s chief end has been successfully reached: Catherine herself is and remains the central figure.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 234. Ag. 15, ’08. 1550w.
=Davies, F. H.= Electric power and traction. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–21956.
This book is intended to appeal to members of trades allied with electrical engineering. “Four chapters deal with the generation and distribution of power.... Two chapters are devoted to D. C. and A. C. motors, and their principles are expounded.... The chapters on the application of electric power are the best in the book, and the advantages of electric driving are clearly brought out.... The last ten chapters of the book are devoted to electric traction.” (Nature.)
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 54. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“It is devoted to English methods and machinery when the minor, but notable, departures from well-known American practice are noted.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 191. Ag. 13, ’08. 640w.
“It contains a good deal of sound practical information, and can be recommended to the class of readers for whom it is intended.”
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 74. N. 28, ’07. 660w.
“It covers practical ground, and at the same time is technical enough to meet with the approval of those who are fairly well grounded in the study of electrical science.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 60w.
=Davies, Randall.= English society of the eighteenth century in contemporary art. (Portfolio monographs.) *$2. Dutton.
7–37521.
To the impressions of eighteenth century society gained from books and letters, Mr. Davies has added the “oddities and characteristic features” that the art of the century reveals. He sees the eighteenth century thru the paintings of Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Copley, Zoffany, Rolandson, Stubbs and others.
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“The idea of this volume is a good one, and the result should not be missed by anyone interested in old manners and old pictures.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 162. N. 23, ’07. 240w.
“From the scanty materials at his disposal, he has succeeded in producing an agreeable book.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 661. N. 23. 640w.
“May be called a happy vade mecum for readers of the novels and letters of the period. It is not an erudite book. The charm of the book lies in the parallel reproduction of eighteenth century life in text and illustration.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 170w.
“Throws an interesting light on the gay life of a time in English history that was far from being commonplace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 836. D. 14, ’07. 70w
“His book is something of a curiosity in literature, and is worth having, not only because of the pictures, which are beautifully reproduced, but because the chapters in which the phases of the day are described have been written with knowledge and sympathy.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 590. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
=Davies, Randall, and Hunt, Cecil=, comps. Stories of the English artists from Vandyck to Turner. $3. Duffield.
A book for the general reader not well versed in art but who may be “interested to learn what manner of men they were who founded the art of painting in England or who worthily sustained the traditions of their greater predecessors.” The man himself is the theme in each instance; so there are given personal details, anecdotes, scraps of gossip, and bits of conversation to guide the reader in forming an idea of the character, habits and thoughts of the painters introduced.
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“Within the narrow field chosen the work is acceptably accomplished by the free and acknowledged use of material gathered by others. It is, therefore, not surprising to find an almost equal meed of praise bestowed upon each artist in turn, and the uninformed reader will have to look elsewhere for anything like discrimination.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 726. D. 5, ’08. 400w.
=Davis, Charles Belmont.= Stage door. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–15297.
Ten stories of New York stage life. “The stories are alike in taking their savor from the stage, and generally develop the idea that the people of the theatre are much like other folks, having their own failings, to be sure, but developing unsuspected virtues under trial as well.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Realistic and well written stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08. ✠
“The author’s study is the triumph of atmosphere, the triumph of environment.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 450w.
“The tales are slender in texture, but they are entertaining, with much atmosphere of newspaper life as well as dramatic, and both touched with the pen of a familiar.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 306. My. 30, ’08. 250w.
“Stories which have originality, plot-invention, and unusual skill in narrative.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 40w.
“Without preoccupying himself overmuch with the graces of style, Mr. Davis creates a very satisfactory and convincing atmosphere for the up-to-date characters introduced in these clever tales.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 110w.
=Davis, Charles H. S.= Consumption: its prevention and cure without medicine. *$1. Treat.
A new edition which contains additional chapters on bovine tuberculosis, the use of milk, general tuberculosis, marriage and offspring, and a list of institutions in the United States where tuberculosis patients are received.
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=R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 80w.
=Davis, George Breckenridge.= Elements of international law: with an account of its origin, sources and historical development. 3d ed. $3. Harper.
8–23585.
The third edition of a text-book for students into which have been incorporated the results of the work of the second Peace conference. The appendix includes the texts of the several treaties and declarations concluded at the Hague, on October 18, 1907, and such notation and comment as will enable them to be understood readily. A number of chapters have been recast and amplified.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 276. N. ’08.
“Mr. Davis has put under obligation not only every student of law, but every publicist and newspaper editor who needs a reliable book of reference on the international questions of the hour.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 469. O. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Davis, Nathaniel Newnham-.= Gourmet’s guide to Europe. 2d ed. *$1.50. Brentano’s.
The second edition of a book devoted to the interests of the epicurean tourist through Europe. There are directions for luxury-loving people concerning where to eat, what to eat and what to avoid.
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“Should be appreciated by many travellers.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 447. Ap. 11. 120w.
“The greater part of our way lies through a succession of menus and national tastes that is instructive, interesting, and valuable from the practical point of view, but lacks the touch that makes literature.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 330w.
“A veritable masterwork of its own genre.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 389. Jl. 11, ’08. 970w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Congo and coasts of Africa. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–37527.
Mr. Davis records what he saw and heard in the Congo region, picturing much of the former and vouching astutely for the latter. He writes entertainingly of the Berlin conference, the “stewardship” of King Leopold, the failure of the latter to fulfil the letter of his promises, and the resulting present state and outlook of the Congo situation.
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“Written in the author’s usual graphic style. Will appeal to some readers, familiar with his other books, who would not read a valuable and reliable work on the subject.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08.
“The reader who wishes to be entertained will find this book one hard to lay down. He who reads to get information on the subjects covered by the title will be greatly disappointed.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 500. Mr. ’08. 180w.
“A ‘good work’ in other than a literary sense.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 180. Ag. 15. 780w.
+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 823. Mr. ’08. 270w.
“This is an interesting record.” E. D. Jones.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 134. Je. ’08. 320w.
“It certainly contains nothing that is new or authoritative.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1289. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
“Has made no noticeable contribution to our knowledge of a question on which issue has been joined so sharply. Even as journalism the book is slovenly.”
− =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 270w.
“His ignorance of the political history and origin of the Congo Free State is abysmal, and the amount of his geographical misinformation stupendous.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 827. D. 14, ’07. 1120w.
“Has made a very readable travel book out of his experiences in equatorial Africa.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 70w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Vera the medium. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–17791.
Whether Stephen Hallowell, at the point of death, shall return his millions to their rightful owner or leave them to a charitable institution—the latter being the scheme of a legal adviser to throw the control of the fortune into his own unscrupulous hands—is to be decided during a séance conducted by Vera the medium. She has been instructed to decide in favor of the tricksters, but under the influence of the man who had bared to her view the falsity of her life, at the crucial moment of the séance, she repudiates the fraud and dishonesty of her seamy profession.
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“Of more than ordinary interest, written in the author’s best style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08.
“There is in it scarcely a trace of Mr. Davis’s former power of vivid narration.”
− =Ind.= 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 60w.
“The material is not of a durable kind, but it is well-tailored.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“The book has a certain interest, but it is of an artificial and not elevated sort. Possibly the book’s strongest merit is the distaste it inspires with the sort of life which it describes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 330w.
“Must be regarded as a short story of double the average length rather than as a novel. So looked at, it has pith, life, and plot interest.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 80w.
“The movement is as brisk and the style as crisp as usual.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 120w.
=Davis, Theodore M.= Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou. *$12.50. Dutton.
8–20521.
Including The finding of the tomb, by Theodore M. Davis; Notes on Iouiya and Touiyou, by Gaston Maspero; Description of the objects found in the tomb, by Percy E. Newberry; and Illustrations of the objects, by Howard Carter.
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“Perhaps the most important part of the book [is] in the shape of a catalogue with full descriptions of the different objects found in the tomb from the capable pen of Prof. Newberry. One of the handsomest publications we have seen for some time.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 724. D. 7. 1150w.
“The publication takes its place at once as a valuable contribution and as a definitive work.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 17. Ja. 2, ’08. 410w.
=Dawson, Mrs. Nelson.= Enamels. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.
A helpful little volume for the handicraft student and general reader. An introduction touching briefly upon the origin, history and development of enameling precedes the following chapters: Cloisonné enamels; Champlevé enamels; Painted enamels; Oriental enamels; Irish enamels; and Modern enamels. A list of books and articles on enamels and an index complete the volume.
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“This breach in logical sequence is a matter of regret, for nothing is more to be desired than a treatise which shall insist upon the unity of design and of processes between East and West, the middle ages and modern times. In short, the value of the book ceases with page 140, and the close of the discussion of European enamels.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 558. D. 3, ’08. 360w.
“The history and the description of different methods are given with care and spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 220w.
=Dawson, William James.= Prophet in Babylon: a story of social service. †$1.50.
Revell. 7–31420.
John Gaunt, the rector of a prosperous New York church, awakens from the preaching which has been along the line of least resistance, “speaks out, consequently incurring the wrath of his fat flock, and finally [goes] out into the highways and byways,—according to his Master’s bidding,—and establishes a great, unselfish League of universal service, a new social force, that ‘League of universal service, whose emblem is the cross, whose motto is the union of all who love in the service of all who suffer.’” (R. of Rs.)
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“It is not without flaws in treatment and taste, and to some readers will be unconvincing, but its sincerity and strength will as certainly attract others.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 708. My. ’08. 100w.
“Dr. Dawson ... seems to be suffering from religious, if not moral, megalomania. The methods used for his propaganda are evangelistic, sensational, and meretricious. And we cannot think Dr. Dawson’s novel a serious contribution to the solution of the question.”
− =Ind.= 64: 370. F. 13, ’08. 620w.
“A serious attempt to express in the form of fiction the upshot of his speculations as to the connection between religion and modern life.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 106. Ja. 30, ’08. 700w.
“This story will be widely read, and with good desert. It will miss its appeal to a certain class of minds because of the strain of mysticism and miraculousness that runs thru it. The Hellenists will be repelled by its abounding Hebraism. But on the whole it is well suited to find the hearts of all those who love a story of purpose and moral passion.” C: Ferguson. “I have read every word of it, and I doubt if anyone who starts the book can help going through it to the end. It is strong, vital, and it handles a great theme that is bound to attract attention and do good.” C: H. Parkhurst. “I think so much of Dr. Dawson’s book that I have already recommended it to my congregation as a good book to read, and I expect personally to give away quite a number of copies of it.” P. S. Grant.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 857. D. 28, ’07. 3350w.
“Dramatic situations, striking personalities, pathetic and tragic incidents, domestic love and sacrifice, are interwoven with literary skill, and the whole is suffused with religious passion and enthusiasm for humanity.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“The whole story shows Dr. Dawson’s keen analysis of character, his sympathetic and high-minded idealism, and his fine English style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 120w.
“We do not assert Dr. Dawson’s novel to shine forth as a literary masterpiece; far from this we could point out bad flaws in treatment, technique, taste. But we do affirm that here before us lies a book inspiring and uplifting through its clean, direct sincerity, integrity, virility.”
+ + − =R. of Rs.= 37: 127. Ja. ’08. 360w.
=Day, Clive.= History of commerce. (Longmans’ commercial text-books.) *$2. Longmans.
7–22933.
Professor Clive “begins his story with thirty pages on antiquities, but gets down to serious business in his description of medieval commerce—town, sea and levant trade, gilds, fairs, economic theory and exploration. Modern commerce begins with the opening of the sea routes, and here our author reviews the origins of commercial enterprise, mercantilism and the development of credit—taking up each European nation after a general survey of economic principles. The industrial revolution—machinery, international trade and recent economic transformations—receives the proportion of space which its importance warrants, and for the benefit of the American student nearly one-third of the volume is devoted to the commercial history of the United States.” (Ind.)
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“The best general treatise on the subject in English.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08.
“This is the best single-volume treatise that has thus far appeared in English on the history of commerce. From the bibliographical standpoint the book is a model.” E. R. Johnson.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 517. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“Writing as he does from a great university in the United States, he takes a point of view which coincides with that of his own country, but those who are not his fellow-citizens may also read his volume with pleasure and advantage.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 820. D. 28. 730w.
“A work of this kind, in the production of which the author has had but little help from similar attempts by predecessors in the endeavor, cannot be expected to attain anything like perfection before it reaches a second or a third, or even a fourth edition, a success to which this one will, no doubt, attain.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 86: 548. Ja. ’08. 470w.
“Will undoubtedly take front rank in the all too meager text-book literature of the subject, tho one cannot help regretting that the author, who is well equipped for the task, had not undertaken a more monumental work. The chief features of the book are excellence of arrangement, proportion, clearness of presentation and extensive bibliographical apparatus.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1177. N. 14. ’07. 160w.
“Some shortcomings may be noticed. The author, in pitching the key of his discourse, sometimes strikes too low. Some indefiniteness is permissible in so general a text, yet it would often be a good investment to have the exact fact.” J. P. Goode.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 309. My. ’08. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 376. Je. 8, ’07. 120w.
“This work is an interesting specimen of the new textbooks which the subject requires.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 590w.
=Day, Holman Francis.= Eagle badge; or The Skokums of the Allagash. †$1.25. Harper.
8–29336.
The Maine lumber tracts are once more the scene of a wilderness sketch which is a companion piece to “King spruce.” The young hero is a gritty lad who joins a driving crew, who by hard knocks develops the muscle and alacrity necessary for facing a jam’s toils and perils, and who eventually thru heroic service succeeds the retiring Andy Tedd as master of the drive.
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“Boys who like stories of out-of-door adventure will be apt to read this tale of the Maine forests a second time. The story is wholesome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 160w.
=Day, Holman Francis.= King Spruce: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
8–11702.
A strong story of the Maine timber regions in which Dwight Wade, a young college man, invincible in the might of essential manhood, is pitted against a timber-baron personified in King Spruce. For daring to love the magnate’s daughter, Wade receives from him only anathemas and curses. He plunges into the hard life of the woods, where his winning struggles against fire and flood, tyrants and bosses, treachery in ambush and in the open elicit the “well done” alike of friend and foe.
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“The descriptions are vivid, the situations often verge on the melodramatic, and the love story is inadequate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08.
“It is too much technical speech for easy reading, but we do not need to understand all the terms employed to enjoy the tale, which is both virile and exciting.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 349. Je. 1, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Day’s story stands up like a mountain peak among lesser fellows for its large proportions and virile treatment.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 18, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
“It has the breath of the woods in it, not nature faking woods, but the real thing, and is moreover an excellent tale, with love that suits the wild setting, rough humor and a philosophy that has the merit of vitality. There is a sense of bigness about it, whether of muscle or environment; a deep breath taken into lusty lungs, the full sound of a man’s voice.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“Like all Mr. Day’s stories and poems, it is fresh and is inspired by honest love of the woods and the woods-people. It is sure to be widely read.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Day, James Roscoe.= Raid on prosperity. **$1.50. Appleton.
7–36714.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Presents a side of the vital question of trusts on which little is written, and is, therefore, useful for debates particularly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08.
“The chancellor of the Syracuse university has made himself a foremost champion of the Standard oil company and its confederates, with the result that public antagonism has roused his temper, and his style has become furious. Dr. Day must produce a substitute policy more consistent with economic progress and actual conditions if he is to command the respect we would fain give to all college presidents.”
− =Ind.= 64: 418. F. 20, ’08. 300w.
“It is not argument at all. It is extreme glorification on the one hand, and bitter denunciation on the other.”
− =Nation.= 86: 290. Mr. 26, ’08. 550w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 754. Mr. ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 100w.
=Day, Lewis Forman.= Enameling: a comparative account of the development and practice of the art. *$3. Scribner.
W8–71.
“In this volume enameling is dealt with from its historic rather than from its technical point of view. Mr. Day treats the beginnings of the art in early times as the result of the goldsmith calling in the glassmaker to help him. The different varieties of Champlevé, Cloisonné, Limoges, and other enamels are all clearly described in separate chapters of the book.” (Spec.) “To quote almost his own words, he has sought to put in a handy, readable, and intelligible shape the gist of what he has learnt from the works of many able specialists; to write a book for the beginner which shall smooth his way to understanding; and to point out the progress of one of the most ancient of the arts.” (Ath.)
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“Mr. Lewis Day ... avoids, on the one hand, the appearance—it is often no more—of great learning; on the other, triviality and misleading platitude.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 805. D. 21. 870w.
=Int. Studio.= 33: 337. F. ’08. 50w.
“In this book he has produced a model work of its kind.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 70w.
=Dean, Sara.= Travers: a story of the San Francisco earthquake. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–24768.
Travers, driven from service as a British army officer under suspicion of theft, tires of braving the odium of his accusation and determines to reap the profits of his reputation. He turns burglar and is in the act of robbing a Palace hotel guest of her diamonds when the earthquake shocks him to his better senses and effects a moral revolution. He rescues the girl, administers to her wants during the days following, and even wins her love through service.
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“That the author has a big theme, one may even say without fear of contradiction, a tremendous theme, becomes evident before we are a third of the way through the volume. That she has handled certain phases of it with real power and an intelligent recognition of what she is trying to do must also be conceded. And if, at the end, we are forced to admit that the plot was bigger than the execution of it, that is not to the author’s discredit, because only one of the giants among the makers of fiction could have told that story as it deserves to have been told.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 101. Mr. ’08. 700w.
“The relation of the man and the girl, however fancifully brought about, is a sound and credible one. In short, though the tale is not of power, it is of interest both as a story and a document.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 153. F. 13, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 330w.
=Dearmer, Mabel White (Mrs. Percy Dearmer).= The sisters. (English title, The alien sisters.) †$1.50. McClure.
8–8089.
“The two sisters of the title are daughters of one father; one the delicately nurtured and fine-natured child of a wife of supreme sweetness and beauty of character; the other the illegitimate daughter of a vulgar and avaricious courtesan, who is presented only too realistically. The two love the same man. Hypnotism and the subliminal consciousness are dragged in to give a modern touch.”—Outlook.
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“With bolder handling the story, which is full of incident, might well have been dramatic; from a coarser pen it would certainly have been offensive; but Mrs. Dearmer’s work is neither the one nor the other. The plot is evolved with too great elaboration of detail to be specially effective.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 413. Ap. 4. 200w.
“The scenes that hurt are not introduced in the detestably ‘knowing and showing’ manner of lesser novels, but a greater writer, we think, would have conveyed the moral with less offence.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 468. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The study of the two characters is detailed and interesting. The story is told with much strength and skill and shows a good deal of power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 80w.
“Most painful in character, and the undoubted intellectual ability of the author, and even her genuine moral intention, do not compensate the reader for the sorrow and suffering he is called on vicariously to suffer.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
“Mrs. Dearmer’s new novel, though its ultimate lessons are sound enough, probes the seamy side of nature too deeply to suit the requirements of all readers, and cannot be recommended without reserves.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 674. Ap. 25, ’08. 550w.
=Deeping, (George) Warwick.= Bertrand of Brittany. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12223.
This is a story of mediaeval adventure. The hero is the neglected son of an unloving mother who blasts his youth with her heartless taunts. The faith and trust of a little maid of seven spurs him on at last to a vindication of himself in a tournament at Rennes. After that through the changing fortunes of war Bertrand carries with him this memory which causes him to perform deeds of heroism by which his manhood is finally triumphantly revealed.
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“The book gives a faithful picture of the times, but is neither inspired nor has it much atmosphere.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Deeping has a good story to tell and he tells it well.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 90w.
“This is the author’s success that he has created an illusion of the life in ancient Brittany that is faithful to the modern imagination of that period.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 149. Jl. 16, ’08. 340w.
“It has a certain youthful gusto which should commend it to the honest citizen.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The action is rapid, and the coloring rich and vivid. Warwick Deeping does this sort of thing better than he does stories of modern life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Deering, John Richard.= Lee and his cause; or, The why and how of the war between the states. *$1.50. Neale.
7–41770.
Historical items “more or less involved in the solution of questions which have arisen as to the rightfulness of secession; the origin and conduct of its cause; the character, motives and sentiments of the people who espoused and defended it as well as of those who forced them to fields of blood.” (Preface.)
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“The book belongs to that increasing group of works by Confederate veterans in which, thru iteration and allusion to the perfect character of General Lee, the attempt is made to save the South from infamy in history.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Perhaps this little volume of memorial day sentiment and of countless purple patches made up of fancy and fact, is not entirely worthless.”
− =Nation.= 86: 557. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.
=De Guerin, E. W.= Malice of the stars. †$1.50. Lane.
A woman somewhat inclined towards a crooked path is wooed and won by a man who believes her to be good and honest. “Thankful to be rescued from all that impended, she was a good wife, and a good mother both to their own children and to his by a former marriage. But finally came the time of revelation and retribution for the misdeeds of her youth. Then her husband’s love saved the day, and out of something that came near to being wreckage for every one concerned, his devotion wrought a salvation that turned out to be ‘somehow good.’” (N. Y. Times.)
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“There is much that is good in this story and a little that is bad. It is written with a charming humour and a real and sympathetic knowledge of, at any rate, womankind. The plot is weak and sensational and smacks strongly of a serial in a halfpenny paper, and even a marked unconventionality of treatment ... does not save it from mediocrity.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 298. D. 28, ’07. 100w.
“He offers us no little entertainment: a story of mystery and complexity of motives, of unhappy passion and abiding repentance, woven around a plot of cunning structure, told, too, with much delightful humour and some real insight into human character. Defects of style ... will, we trust, be remedied in future volumes from the same pen.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 684. N. 30. 90w.
“Related with much lifelikeness and with a certain mastery of touch and charm of manner that make it a very readable tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Friendship of Anne. †$1.50. Wilde.
7–26962.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Here is the generous one, the impulsive one, the good one, the shoddy one. With such characters it is not a surprise to find the narrative developing mechanically—a striving to be clever.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1483. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
“It is very interestingly told; the characters depicted in it are natural and are developed in a lifelike manner. There is plenty of incident, and the author evidently understands girls and school-girl life thoroughly.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
=Deland, Margaret Wade.= R. J.’s mother, and some other people. †$1.50. Harper.
8–15300.
Six short stories as follows: R. J.’s mother, The Mormon, Many waters, The house of Rimmon, A black drop, and The white feather. Here are portrayed the simple tho deep things of common experience that lie close to universal suffering and awaken in the reader a sense of sympathy and kinship.
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“None, with the possible exception of the title story, comes up to her best work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 219. Je. ’08. ✠
“Skill and invention are shown in all but one of the six stories.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 695. Je. 6. 150w.
“If ‘R. J.’s mother’ has its shortcomings, they are more than offset by the fine workmanship in such a story as ‘Many waters.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 577. Ag. ’08. 570w.
“The tear they bring to the easy eye is not, one reflects, a tear to be proud of. The fact of artifice is too readily apparent, the means employed too patent.”
− =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“The stories may be taken very seriously by serious persons, or they may be read merely for their interest by the frivolous. But the tales will live in memory even as did the story of Helena Ritchie’s temptation and her triumph.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 600w.
“The new volume holds a bit of quiet tragedy, more than a hint of comedy, and an insight into silent grief and an outlook upon final joy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 40w.
“A book of delightful short stories.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 980. Je. 20, ’08. 220w.
=De La Pasture, Elizabeth.= Deborah of Tods. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–23924.
An American edition of the author’s first book written before “Peter’s mother” and “The lonely lady of Grosvenor square.” “A self-reliant Devonshire young woman, who owns and works her own farm, marries an elderly Major, a typical clubman and worldling. Under the glamour of the fact that he knew her father as a brother officer, and even lent him money, poor Deborah takes her Major for a noble soul. The tale of her disillusionment is told with simplicity, and she is to the end a wholesome, large-hearted, lovable woman.” (Outlook.)
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“The character is unusual and well drawn, and the delicacy and refinement of the author’s earlier stories are prominent.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠
“In stories like this, with their naïve waiver of those psychological and pathological problems which encumber our fiction, there is much to content and soothe, if not profoundly edify, the old-fashioned reader who resents, now and then, the increasing claims of the story-teller to be guide and philosopher as well as friend.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 195. F. 27, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 87. F. 15, ’08. 130w.
“There is, however, no sign of immaturity in the workmanship, no indication of extreme youth in the tale as a whole—unless a certain sober freshness, a clear-eyed idealism be thus accepted. The entire novel leaves behind it a scent as sweet and comfortable as wild herbs and balsam, young grass and ripe fruit.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“A little compression would have improved the book.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 130w.
=De la Pasture, Mrs. Elizabeth Bonham.= Grey knight. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–15880.
The story of a titled Englishman of sixty who weds the woman of thirty-three who in the capacity of trained nurse had cared for him thru a critical illness. Family oppositions and misunderstandings run their course before affairs are turned into a placid channel. “The most attractive parts of the story are the descriptions of the Welsh country in which most of the action passes, and of the fine old Norman castle which is the property of Sir Harry Gwynne, the elderly hero.” (Spec.)
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“The descriptions of Wales and of life in an old manor house are good.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08. ✠
“Though constructed from unpromising materials, the story has much of Mrs. de la Pasture’s usual charm.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 130w.
“Depends for its interest on delineation of character rather than on construction of plot.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 398. Je. ’08. 400w.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 250w.
“An excellent field for her delicate scrutiny of human motives in the everyday relations of life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“The author has proved herself so unmistakably serious by her previous work as to deepen the sense of disappointment in her lack of craftsmanship.” E. L. Cary.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 391. Jl. 11, ’08. 1350w.
“The sketches of the ordinary persons in the book are drawn with Mrs. de la Pasture’s accustomed skill, and the whole volume is eminently readable.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 834. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
=De la Pasture, Elizabeth.= Unlucky family. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
8–8101.
Thirteen members constitute the family whose misfortunes are amusingly set down in this story. They inherit a country estate and a deal of money and enter upon a course of blunders in assuming the responsibilities of their luxurious surroundings “with dukes and admirals and mayors as calling neighbors.” (Nation.)
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“The humor is rather English, and of the kind that will be irresistible to one and tiresome to another, as humor is apt to be, English or American.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
“Her gifts of delicate humour and characterization are thrown away in the region of broad farce, and the conjunction with Mr. E. T. Reed seems to us unfortunate.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 728. D. 7. 100w.
“Capital fun.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 253. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“The series of ridiculous contretemps involved have the kind of virtual plausibility which distinguishes good nonsense from mere inanity.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 170w.
“A humorous story which smiles and chuckles.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
“A diverting blend of extravaganza and reality.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Of course, neither the story nor the pictures can be said to have much to do with life or nature; but this does not prevent them from being amusing.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 903. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
=De la Ramée, Louise (Ouida, pseud.).= Helianthus. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–26831.
Ouida’s last story, published, as she left it, in its incomplete form. Helianthus is a land, supposedly Italy, in which is enacted an international drama whose poignant note is liberty. The characters include the royal family; the action turns on the situation of Prince Elim, the people’s idol, when he finds himself brought by accident into the direct succession to the throne at a time when he is engrossed in the cause of the revolutionists. Many rulers of Europe figure in the story.
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“Resembles her earlier books in many of its flamboyant qualities, its exaggeration, but also in its revelation of a continued power of a beautiful talent.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“In spite of defects, perhaps because of them, it smacks of ‘Ouida’ on every page, and is another interesting revelation of her remarkable talent.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=De La Warr, Constance, countess.= Twice crowned queen. *$3. Appleton.
7–42478.
The life story of Anne Duchess of Brittany, wife first of Charles VIII. of France and afterwards of Louis XII. Her rather dull life takes something of color from its settings, but first to last she was conceded to be a great lady.
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“Although Lady De La Warr has made diligent use of the best available material, the result of her efforts is a somewhat pale presentment.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 610. N. 17. 1570w.
“The Countess De La Warr is not a very lively historian, though she describes the costumes and trappings worn at pageants with great accuracy and particularity, and records faithfully all the essential facts.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 470w.
“Lady De La Warr has written a pleasant and careful monograph vividly reproducing contemporary life, on one of the most interesting personalities of the period when the Borgias reigned at Rome.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 871. N. 30, ’07. 780w.
=Deledda, Grazia.= Ashes; tr. from the Italian by Helen. H. Colvill. †$1.50. Lane.
A Sardinian story of peasant life in which the hero, illegitimate of birth and deserted by his mother, is brought up in his father’s household. “He grows up ardent, ambitious, and idealistic, the two great aims of his life being to win a position which shall enable him to marry his patron’s daughter, and to find and reclaim the mother who had deserted him in his childhood. The conflict of these aims makes up the drama of ‘Ashes.’” (Nation.)
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“A profoundly melancholy book, but its sadness is tempered by many passages of great idyllic charm, and it would be unjust to call it morbid.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 200w.
“Most readers will feel that the story wanders through its fascinating setting too slowly, with too many dreamy pauses and backward looks. It is, as a whole, a readable and adequate rendering of ‘Cenere.’”
− + =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 340w.
“Is tense with the tragedies born of love and of hate and of the destiny man makes for himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 50w.
* =Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Canyon voyage: the narrative of the second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado river from Wyoming, and the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–30303.
A narrative of a government expedition which is practically a continuation of the author’s “Romance of the Colorado river.” It contains the full story of the Powell’s second expedition under the direction of the Smithsonian institution, and gives the daily experiences and actual camp life of the explorers at the same time furnishing in its accuracy of statement a trustworthy guide for navigating the river as far as Kanab canyon. The book is handsomely illustrated.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 260w.
=De Morgan, William Frend.= Somehow good. †$1.75. Holt.
8–4365.
A headstrong girl had gone from London to India to marry a young officer. On her way she falls into evil hands and is betrayed. She continues her journey, marries her lover who is awaiting her; after the ceremony, the truth of her wrong to him becomes known and a separation follows. After nearly twenty years of absence from his wife, during a complete suspension of memory and loss of identity, the husband, thru an accident, finds shelter in the wife’s home, now in London. At this point the story opens, and is an intimate analysis of the peculiar situations that would attend such a lapse of memory no less than a handling of the Magdalene’s wrong, from the standpoint of him who for spiritual charity’s sake would not cast the stone rather than from the scribes’ and Pharisees’ condemnatory point of view.
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“It is characterized by deliberation, quiet, often quaint, humor, remarkable character drawing, and delightful literary style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08.
“The book has real charm. One of the good things in it is the description of a London fog. This is so well done that the seasoned Londoner may almost catch his breath.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 252. F. 29. 500w.
“‘Somehow good’ makes me fully aware of Mr. De Morgan’s as a solid corporeal head and shoulders, set square and calm above the fiddling impatience and impotence which shrills its wares in the popular market place of letters.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 176. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“The plot, while simple in one sense, is extremely ingenious and complicated in another. And the writer’s style—simple and natural, freighted alternately with rich humor and warm-hearted philosophy—is so enjoyable on its own account that it makes garrulity a virtue, and gives point to the most pointless of digressions.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 132. Mr. 1, ’08. 970w.
“The book is not one to be swallowed at a gulp like most novels of the day. It is to be leisurely sipped, so as to enjoy the flavor. Every paragraph has its charm, and after reading it one wants to read it aloud to those few friends who share one’s own good taste in literature.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 369. F. 13, ’08. 860w.
“The fact that we have to record is that on this theme Mr. De Morgan has written a book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any in the range of fiction.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 152. F. 13, ’08. 900w.
“If you are of those that know not Joseph, the son of Christopher (builder, drains promptly attended to) and Alice that was short for Alicia, yet love your Thackeray, you may chance it safely enough—and have your reward. If you know Joseph and Alice you do not need to be told anything more.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 67. F. 8, ’08. 1150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“Those who like leisurely narrative, shrewd observation, and gentle satire will find the novel mellow and quietly entertaining. It is a book to read at one’s ease, not to rush through in order to kill an idle hour.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 511. F. 20, ’08. 300w.
“An extraordinary example of creative power.” E. L. Cary.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 4: 617. Ag. ’08. 350w.
“Though granting his style to be lightly touched by Meredithian eccentricity, one must avow of this man that the distinction belongs to him of having written some real English literature.”
+ + − =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 150w.
“It is formless, it is prolix, it is magnificently old-fashioned, it is built up on improbabilities and coincidences.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 241. F. 22, ’08. 450w.
“To define the secret of Mr. De Morgan’s success is not easy. But we should be inclined to attribute it, first and foremost, to his unfeigned and wholehearted enjoyment in the exercise of his great gifts as a born storyteller. He loves his characters.... He is an inveterate optimist.... He is an improvisatore with a touch of the clairvoyant; and as he is entirely on the side of the angels, and at the same time a most entertaining companion, the popularity of such a benefactor may be welcomed without misgiving or reserve.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 230. F. 8, ’08. 570w.
=Dennis, Rev. James Shepard.= New horoscope of missions. (The John H. Converse lectures on missions, 1907.) **$1. Revell.
8–15498.
Lectures which summarize from a missionary point of view the significance of the awakening and development in principal mission fields. The titles are as follows: A new world consciousness; Strategic aspects of the missionary outlook; A new cloud of witnesses; Fresh annals of the kingdom; The message of Christianity to other religions. Index.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
“Such a book as this should be put especially into decadent churches, of which there are far too many. It might rouse them from shameful stagnation.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 140w.
“Students of the subject will find interesting and valuable this summary.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 60w.
* =Dennistoun, James.= Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino; illustrating the arms, art and literature of Italy from 1440–1630; new ed., with notes by Edward Hutton. 3v. **$12. Lane.
Reprinted verbatim in the original three-volume form. While finding most of Dennistoun’s facts sound, the editor disagrees as to critical estimates. “In the divisions dealing with art Mr. Hutton has found it necessary frequently to disagree both with the facts and views expressed by Dennistoun. When the work was first published, it was these divisions which called forth most praise from critics, but many of the opinions he gave utterance to, especially those concerning modern tendencies, will fail to find general acceptance now.” (Int. Studio.)
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“The work as a whole, containing as it does much matter of interest that cannot easily be found elsewhere, will prove a desirable acquisition to the library of the student of Italian history.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 36: 166. D. ’08. 400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Hutton’s notes, written as they are with wide knowledge and with the greater steadiness of the present day, add so much to the value of the work as to increase one’s regret that he did not produce an original volume. Pleader though he may be, and not always in the best cause, Dennistoun is still a charming writer.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 669. N. 28, ’08. 1500w.
“Dennistoun’s book is valuable chiefly as a storehouse of curious and varied information, collected with great industry from a multitude of out-of-the-way sources; and it has the additional merit of being written in a distinguished and pleasant, though a slightly pompous, style. As Mr. Hutton points out, the chapters upon art are the weakest part of the book. Not only do they suffer from inevitable deficiencies in knowledge, but their whole point of view strikes the modern reader as curiously out of date.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 838. N. 21, ’08. 1100w.
=Denys, Nicolas.= Description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia); tr. and ed., with a memoir of the author, collateral documents, and a reprint of the original, by W: F. Ganong. (Publications of the Champlain society, v. 2.) Champlain society, Toronto.
8–19184.
One of a series of reprints elucidating the history of French exploration and occupation of what is now British North America.
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“We are under especial obligations to Professor Ganong for this excellent translation of Denys’s work, and for the painstaking and scholarly manner in which he has accomplished his difficult task. Some readers will doubtless wish that the bracketed English words intended to clear passages from ambiguity, as well as the French words likewise in brackets, which are readily found in the French text, had been left out altogether or placed at the bottom of the page, leaving the page clear. These however are minor blemishes in a good piece of work.” J. P. Baxter.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 161. O. ’08. 830w.
“Denys gives admirable simple descriptions.” J. P. W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 828. O. ’08. 150w.
“Denys’s book possesses no charm of style; but his omnivorous eye and his painstaking, businesslike method of observation and narrative have resulted in a mass of information in regard to the geography, resources, and fauna of the old Acadia.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 800w.
=Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 150w.
=De Saix, Tyler.= Man without a head. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–22800.
A detective story which “has to do with two murders widely separated in time and place, but strikingly similar in method. The victim’s head is removed with surgical skill and taken away by the murderer. In each case a respectable and honored gentleman is suspected of the crime, but each time he has disappeared.” (Outlook.)
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“It is good of its class.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 160w.
“It is not only ingenious to the nth degree, but it is written with a knowledge of human nature and a touch of imagination rarely found in these stories of murder and mystery.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 270w.
“The story is gruesome but readable.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
=De Selincourt, Hugh.= Great Ralegh; being the life and times of Sir Walter Ralegh. (Memoir ser. v. 40.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–34204.
Written for the general reader this biography aims “to make the character of Ralegh live again, and draw a picture of the times in as lively a manner as the author sees it.” “There are several chapters in the book which alone would make its perusal worth while—particularly the chapters dealing with the friendship of Ralegh and Spenser, Ralegh’s trial, and his life in the Tower.” (Outlook.)
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“On the whole, the volume must be pronounced a most readable contribution to the lighter side of Elizabethan history; and some peculiarities of style and taste should not be allowed to depreciate the excellent work of selection, and, we may add, criticism, which it represents.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 327. S. 19. 880w.
“The liveliness with which the story is told will recommend it to one already familiar with the facts.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 256. O. 16, ’08. 260w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 566. O. 17, ’08. 320w.
“A book which is written professedly for the general reader rather than for the special student must be judged as a piece of literature, and as such the present work is typical of the times in its failure to distinguish between vivacity and a cheap smartness and between legitimate illustration and irrelevance.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 750w.
“It is not critical ... and it is spun out to an unconscionable length. Yet it is impossible to read it without real enjoyment, so full is it of ‘atmosphere,’ so rich in philosophic touches and flashes of terse, vivid characterization.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
“We cannot say that the author before us has added anything of value to the controversy. He gives us no new facts.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. O. 24, ’08. 1950w.
=De Selincourt, Hugh.= High adventure. †$1.50. Lane.
“In intention, this is a delicate and very serious study of an idealistic temperament perplexed by the facts of sex till, under the stress of an innocent love and marriage, the problem solves itself.”—Nation.
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“The disjointed quotations from the classics have an air of being dragged in, and the various specimens of gush would come more aptly from the lips of an Early Victorian maiden than an advanced folk here portrayed.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 204. Ag. 22. 150w.
“From no point of view can much be said for it as a novel.”
− =Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. De Selincourt is a very thoughtful writer. He is, indeed, rather too thoughtful, like his hero, who is apt occasionally to bore us with his perpetual concern about his state of mind and his lack of purpose.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 582. N. 7, ’08. 90w.
=Desmond, Harry W., and Frohne, H. W.= Building a home. **$1.80. Baker.
8–35360.
A book of fundamental advice for the layman about to build. In a thoroly practical manner the authors discuss the selection of a site, the respective duties of architect and builder, materials, methods of construction, details of equipment, drainage, plumbing, heating, ventilating, and decoration.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 177. Je. ’08. ✠
“The book is a strong presentation of the architect’s side of the case.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 400w.
“The work seems to us indispensable to a home seeker who intends to build for himself.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 562. O. 17, ’08. 150w.
“In general, it may be said that estimates of cost can scarcely be held to be of value.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 475. My. 21, ’08. 200w.
“A book brimming full of sensible, practical, and most wholesome advice.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 281. My. 16, ’08. 180w.
“A book which will be invaluable to any one who purposes to build a home now or hopes to do so at some future time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“The suggestions made are practical and based upon sound architectural principles.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w.
* =Dewe, Rev. Juhl Adalbert.= History of economics; or, Economics as a factor in the making of history. *$1.50. Benziger.
8–14737.
“An elementary textbook on general economic history, and economic thought.... The writer declares that the influences which shape the events of history, may be summed up under three categories: physical surroundings, religion, and economics; and he seeks to show how the first and last named (for religion is rather slighted) have affected history from Greek and Roman times to the present.” J. Pol. Econ.
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“It is scarcely adequate as a history of economics; there is too much vagueness in the facts collected; their significance and correlation are not brought out with the fullness required by even an introductory scientific study of economics.”
− + =Cath. World.= 87: 553. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“It will be of service as a companion to the ordinary textbooks in which, especially in the older ones, this feature is almost entirely neglected.”
− + =Cath. World.= 88: 263. N. ’08. 120w.
“His style is clear and succinct, and his scholarship admirable. The book may be found valuable either for general reading or for a textbook.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 424. N. ’08. 80w.
“It would be difficult to say much in favor of the volume. Though of the most elementary character, it shows a lack, not only of scholarship, but even a fair knowledge and grasp of the subject, besides being poorly written, especially as regards arrangement.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 635. N. ’08. 120w.
=De Weese, Truman A.= Principles of practical publicity; being a treatise on the art of advertising. 2d ed. **$2. Jacobs.
8–31176.
A valuable practical complement to W. D. Scott’s “Psychology of advertising.” It is a treatise on the successful adaptation of advertising to all lines of commercial enterprise. “Its aim is to cover the broad field of commercial publicity, showing the relation of advertising to modern business without elaborating any abstruse or far-fetched theories that are advanced to explain its influence upon the public mind.” (Preface.)
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Dewey, John, and Tufts, James Hayden.= Ethics. *$2. Holt.
8–22532.
A text whose significance lies in its effort to awaken a vital conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of reflective thought in dealing with them objectively and definitely. Part 1, deals with historic material—the beginnings and growth of morality; Part 2, treats of the different types of theoretical interpretation; and Part 3, discusses some typical social and economic problems which characterize the present.
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“If this is not the ideal text-book in ethics for which we have been waiting so many years, it is, at least, a very good substitute for it. These perhaps inevitable omissions can weigh little against the general utility of the work both as to form and content. The references are abundant and interesting, the index and table of contents adequate, and the style fresh and vigorous. It should appeal not only to the special student of ethics, but to those in economics, politics, and sociology as well.” Norman Wilde.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 636. N. 5, ’08. 1600w.
“Above the level of textbooks. The choice and arrangement of material are admirably calculated to indicate the methods and the general direction of ethical analyses. From the teacher’s point of view the work is of singularly even merit throughout; but its second and third divisions are most attractive to the general reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 560w.
“In several respects this work, among the many of its kind appearing in recent years, is eminently valuable, especially for the ample treatment given to ethics in the world of action in civil society, amidst the relations of political, economic, and family life.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 500w.
=Dewey, Thomas Emmet.= Poetry in song, and some other studies in literature; with an introd. by Charles Moreau Harger. $1.50. C. M. Harger, Abilene, Kan.
7–41998.
“This volume contains essays on poetry in song (a somewhat extended piece of work), on literary truth, on several of the world’s recognized great poets, and on Masonry in its aspects to the state and the individual (the author had long felt the charm of Masonry, and stood high in the craft), together with a few simple, earnest poems which were unquestionably worth preservation in this form.”—Outlook.
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“These lectures were deservedly very popular, and they bring out with great clearness the beauties and characteristics of true poetry. The selections are made with admirable appreciation of what is choicest and best.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 159. Ja. 16, ’08. 160w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 327. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Diamant, Sidney.= Curves for calculating beams, channels and reactions; a manual for engineers, architects, designers, draughtsmen, builders and contractors. *$2. McGraw.
8–21493.
A set of diagrams for computing graphically the sizes of beams and channels used in floor construction and their reactions. “Separate diagrams are given for the various intensities of loading, which range from 80 to 500 lbs. per sq. ft. Full instructions are included for using the diagrams and the assumptions made in their preparation are stated. Tables for live and dead loads and general values for combined live and dead loads accompany the instructions.” (Engin. D.)
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“The book should prove decidedly valuable to those having many such computations to make.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 306. S. ’08. 120w.
“When the designer has become familiar with the use of the tables, as he should in a short time, they should prove very convenient and, since a nicer adjustment between size and spacing may be made, quite economical.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Dick, Stewart.= Heart of Spain: an artist’s impressions of Toledo. il. *$1.25. Jacobs.
7–42350.
“The ‘Heart of Spain,’ to the author, is the city of Toledo, and the graphic way in which the grim old capital is shown to epitomize the life history of the peninsula justifies the choice of words. The book is avowedly a series of personal impressions, not a guide book, yet one could use it for the latter purpose and get a much better insight into the spirit of the place than by seeking the list of double-starred attractions usually brought to the attention of the tourist.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“Light but interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 134. My. ’08.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Dick is an artist as well as a devotee, and his slight descriptions of the scenes he loves are often charming pieces of word-painting.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 270w.
* =Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Justice and liberty: a political dialogue. **$1.20. McClure.
Argument characterizes this dialogue which is conducted by a philosopher, a banker and a gentleman of leisure. “Martin and Harington are both idealists, while Stuart [the banker] is the practical man of the world. Harington’s ideal is an aristocracy of the Platonic type, which is founded on status, or hereditary caste.... Martin’s ideal is a democracy, which shall neither be an ochlocracy nor an official oligarchy, but shall be founded on equity or equality of opportunity, to be obtained, so far as we can discover, by making everybody ‘life-tenants’ or life-owners of the products of their faculties, and abolishing bequest. The State is to be owner of all property, but is to lease its various forms for life to individuals, if they choose and are capable of management, while the lazy, the timid, and the incapable are to receive State wages.” (Sat. R.)
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“Is far below a book he wrote in 1895, ‘The development of parliament.’ Mr. Lowes Dickinson does not solve the problem. The cultivated democracy of Athens still haunts his mind, but he forgets that it was founded on slavery.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 643. N. 21, ’08. 520w.
=Diehl, Alice Mangold.= True story of my life: an autobiography. **$3.50. Lane.
Mme. Diehl, novelist, writer, musician, writes unreservedly of her precocious childhood days, her debut in Paris, her return to England where she engaged in “a brave and unflagging struggle to care for her growing family. There are apparently no reserves in the story: her mother’s imperiousness, her husband’s foibles, her own failures and triumphs in fighting off the ‘wolf,’ are recorded with such fidelity that we seem to be turning the pages of a diary.” (Dial.)
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“One of those discursive autobiographies of non-famous persons which chronicle an immense amount of unimportant private history and must rely chiefly on their realism for their charm.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 48. Ja. 16, ’08. 280w.
“Lovers of the chronicles of music cannot fail to be interested in Mme. Diehl’s stories.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 245. Mr. 12, ’08. 500w.
“There are times when we fancy that we have found our way into a ‘Palace of truth.’ For the most part she is sufficiently kindly in her notices of events and people. Sometimes, however, it would have been better for her to have held her hand, when for instance, she tells us about the stormy period of her marriage.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 439. S. 28, ’07. 160w.
=Dillon, John M.= Motor days in England. **$3. Putnam.
8–20148.
An illustrated account of a motor trip thru the southwestern part of England—east of London, north to Leamington. Instead of the guide book with its impersonal note, the reader enjoys the glow of personal enthusiasm along the journey. In town and countryside, architecture and landscape are commented upon, as well as places and buildings, sacred and profane, of historical interest.
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“There is no justification for its being offered to the general public.”
− =Ind.= 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Dillon has read widely and appreciatively; and the literary and historical associations are always uppermost in his mind. His remarks on these subjects, however, are rather obvious, his quotations familiar.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 576. Jl. 2, ’08. 140w.
“A document of considerable general interest, with informing descriptions of places of historic or architectural interest and of literary associations, which every intelligent traveler and sight-seer will want to know.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 376. Jl. 4, ’08. 170w.
“These journeyings are very pleasantly described.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 330w.
=Dinger, Henry C.= Handbook for the care and operation of naval machinery. *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–8476.
A practical handbook which “gives concisely, but clearly, very complete information as to the best methods used in the engineering department of naval vessels and contains a great deal of information as to the current practice of the Bureau of steam engineering of the navy department in regard to the design of details, fittings and auxiliaries. In addition to the main engine and its auxiliaries ... it deals with joints and packing, stuffing boxes, feed and filter tanks, feed-water heaters, evaporators and distillers, refrigerating plant, gages and thermometers, piping, valves, and all other machinery or fittings connected with machinery on naval vessels.” (Engin. N.)
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“There is no doubt that this book will be of great use to those for whom it is intended, and of interest to all who have to deal with naval machinery.” D. W. Taylor.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 437. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
=Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 250w.
=Dinsmore, John Wirt.= Teaching a district school: a book for young teachers. *$1. Am. bk.
8–21614.
A book whose object is that of helping the district teacher in solving his problems and discharging his duties. It is based on long research and careful investigation, and while offering specific help on the organization and maintenance of a good school, it urges high ideals and worthiness for the profession of teaching.
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“The earnest, conscientious spirit of the work is as admirable as its practicable, detailed instructions are valuable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 185. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“A practical, comprehensive, and exceedingly lucid treatise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 465. Ag. 22, ’08. 260w.
=Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.= Charm of the English village. *$3. Scribner.
8–20520.
A volume “in which churches, manor houses, rectories, farms, inns, mills, bridges, cottages, barns, crosses, greens, dovecotes, and even such minor details as sundials and weathercocks, are described and pictured. The writer pleads with eager eloquence for the preservation of time-honored survivals of the long ago, and mourns over the reckless destruction of buildings that should have been treasured as heirlooms of the nation.”—Int. Studio.
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“We do not wish to undervalue Mr. Jones’s work, which strikes us as adequate and interesting; but the constant attention which the author pays to it is distracting. The result is that the letterpress is disjointed and scrappy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 728. Je. 13. 260w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 167. Ag. ’08. 230w.
“An attractive collection of descriptions and comments.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 244. S. 10, ’08. 200w.
“The charm of the elder England has a kind of sturdiness, a downright dependence on tangible and visible qualities that make it comparatively easy of definition, and this definition is what Mr. Ditchfield attempts and accomplishes in his handsome little volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 463. Ag. 22, ’08. 760w.
“This is a very pleasing book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 908. Je. 6, ’08. 180w.
=Diver, Maud.= Great amulet. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of Anglo-Indian life in which a British army officer weds an artist, permits a misunderstanding to separate him from her on their wedding day, and effects a reconciliation five years later. “Such wider issues as frontier warfare, Himalayan exploration, and cholera camps play a large part in the action, and are handled with sympathy and power.” (Ath.)
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“The story errs perhaps on the side of length. The author’s men and women are clearly drawn, and nearly always impress us as real people; and her style shows refinement and distinction.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 600. My. 16. 120w.
“There are too many climaxes, and the tendency is toward hysteria rather than realism.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Dixon, E.=, ed. Fairy tales from the Arabian nights. il. *$250. Putnam.
Edited and arranged from the version based on Galland, with numerous illustrations by John D. Batten.
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“A capital selection of fairy tales.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 30w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 90w.
=Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
=Dobson, (Henry) Austin.= De libris. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30143.
A volume dealing with books and matters relating to books, interspersed with the author’s poetry “gay with wit” and bearing upon the themes of his essays. Some of his chapters are as follows: Books and their associations; The parent’s assistant; Modern book illustrators; A French critic on Bath; Thackeray’s “Esmond”; and Fresh facts about Fielding.
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“Yet though he shows little desire to marshal facts in set order and sequence, only dull readers will fail to perceive that he is writing from a fullness of knowledge, which many professors might envy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 608. N. 14. 600w.
“He is not at his best in it, but even so he is worth reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“Of the papers as a whole, it may fairly be said that they lack distinction of substance or style. The verse is even farther below the standard.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Dobson belongs among the most charming poets and the most agreeable prose writers of our time.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 611. N. 14, ’08. 100w.
=Dock, Christopher.= Life and works of Christopher Dock, America’s pioneer writer on education; with a translation of his works into the English language by Martin G. Brumbaugh, and an introd. by S. W. Pennypacker. **$5. Lippincott.
8–17821.
“Interesting in point of time, this, the earliest American book about school teaching, is remarkable for insight into human nature, for the admirable character which it revealed, and for its minute statement of an educational method which substituted the law of love for the rule of force, long before the change had been made in the school world.”—Nation.
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“His writings possess a special interest for all who are engaged in educational work, and they are, moreover, one of the foundation-stones of American culture.” I: R. Pennypacker.
+ =Dial.= 45: 166. S. 16, ’08. 900w.
“Probably the educational historian will find interest in the ‘Life of Christopher Dock,’ but the general reader will wonder at the attempt to rescue Dock from the sleep of oblivion.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.
“Dr. Brumbaugh ... has shown fine editorial taste and skill in the making of the book, and in writing the life of the pious schoolmaster he seems to have left no source of information uninvestigated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
=Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 230w.
=Dodd, Anna Bowman.= On the knees of the gods. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–3428.
A tale of Athens during the time of Alcibiades. It tells of the romance of a slave girl and an Athenian nobleman. The parents of Ion come between the lovers and send the youth off to war where he is captured and enslaved. His ransom is paid by his sweetheart who has been made free, and whose final happiness includes the discovery that she, too, is descended from a royal house of Athens.
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“To the last chapter the description is sustained. There are some errors to correct. The chief blemish is the curious spelling.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 350w.
− =Nation.= 86: 236. Mr. 12, ’08. 430w.
“The story is, indeed, not without interest and excitement, but there is a feverishness in the manner in which it is imparted that wearies the reader. Yet there is a fresh passion in some of the love passages and a delight in pictorial scenes and natural beauty, with enough feeling for plot to make the reader heartily wish Miss Anna Bowman Dodd would care enough for her art to put better work into it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 260w.
“The effort to make an impression of mild gayety, unlimited luxury of living, and pagan beauty is too apparent. Something more should have been left to the imagination of the reader.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Dodd, William Edward.= Jefferson Davis. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–820.
A sketch of Jefferson Davis intended “not to justify or even defend the course of the foremost leader of the Confederate cause; but simply to relate the story of that remarkably tragic life and to correlate his career to the main current of American history.”
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“The author is not always accurate in his statements. Deserving of wide and thoughtful consideration.” C: F. Adams.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 878. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“As a biography the book is satisfactory; as a history it is not adequate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 178. Je. ’08.
“Notwithstanding his superior qualities, Professor Dodd must take heed lest his errors furnish hostile critics with weapons for his own destruction.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 700w.
“Prof. Dodd has written this history with a scholarly grace and manly sympathy that makes it in itself delightful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
“Professor Dodd has performed a difficult task well, writing sympathetically of the President of the short-lived Confederacy, yet not allowing his sympathies to run away with his judgment.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 230w.
=Dodge, Theodore Ayrault.= Napoleon: a history of the art of war. (Great captains.) 4v. il. ea. **$4. Houghton.
4–13231.
=v. 3.= Covers the period of Napoleon’s decline from the beginning of the peninsular war to the end of the Russian campaigns.
=v. 4.= Deals with the history of the art of war from the battle of Lutzen thru Napoleon’s last campaign.
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“This work constitutes an invaluable addition to military literature; certainly there is nothing else in English possessing the same scope and exhaustiveness, and, perhaps, it is not too much to say that the student may search every other language in vain for a general military history of the most consummate of the great captains which is better than Colonel Dodge’s ‘Napoleon.’” F: L: Huidekoper.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 578. Ap. ’08. 2400w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“A scholarly work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 134. My. ’08. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The thoroughness with which he has carried out his task is apparent even to the civilian reader.” R: W. Kemp.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 167. Ap. ’08. 1550w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Colonel Dodge marshals facts and figures with passionless veracity. In the concluding volume, the author has put forth to the utmost his powers of profound investigation and lucid description.” J. R. Smith.
+ =Dial.= 44: 173. Mr. 16, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The author lacks the balanced judgment, wide information, and sense of preciseness in language, without which the attempt at framing historical generalities becomes a snare.”
− =Nation.= 86: 397. Ap. 30, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“These volumes confirm the very high reputation of Gen. Dodge as a military historian. It is to be regretted that the illustrations and maps, though notably frequent, are scarcely worthy of the general merits of the book.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 293. My. 23, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“These volumes present a broader, clearer, and more illuminating study of military development as affected by the Napoleonic wars than can be found in the writings of any of the earlier essayists.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 836. Ap. 11, ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= Pilgrims, and other poems, priv. ptd. pa. $2.50. Dole.
7–42340.
The lengthy poem of the title is an illustration of the application of the symphonic form to English poetry. The historical theme is carried thru four movements, each of which includes “a number of motifs or passages or whatever may be their technical designation, with their pace and rhythm rather superfluously indicated by such comments as presto, agitato, and the like—an odd instance of linguistic involution or potenzierung, as the Germans would call it.” (Nation.) A group of short poems complete the volume.
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“Beyond this amusing transference of nomenclature and a kind of lowering of intellectual tone, it is impossible to see anything characteristically musical in Mr. Dole’s research or to take it for more than an entertaining experiment.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 400w.
“At times he has, and again he seems to have lost, that magic which transmutes the things of everyday into the everlasting possession.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= Teacher of Dante, and other studies in Italian literature. **$1.75. Moffat.
8–11089.
Seven studies in Italian literature. The first gives the title to the volume and relates to Brunetto Lattini whose influence is traced in “The inferno.” The remaining essays are Dante and the picturesque, Lyric poetry and Petrarch, Boccaccio and the novella, The rise of the Italian drama, Goldoni and Italian comedy, Alfieri and tragedy.
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“Seven delightful chapters.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 178. Je. ’08.
“On the whole, however, our impression is rather unsatisfactory; for we cannot escape the feeling that the book might have been made much more valuable by its well-known author, as well as more attractive.”
− + =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 130w.
“A volume that, considered either as a contribution to knowledge, or as a summary of familiar facts, might be justly dismissed as of little value.”
− =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 270w.
“He never fails, also in keeping a clear background of the social and political life of the time and in showing how out of this grew the characteristic forms of literary expression.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 170w.
“All the chapters afford interesting and profitable reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 865. Ag. 15, ’08. 450w.
=Dorland, W. A. Newman.= Age of mental virility: an inquiry into the records of achievement of the world’s chief workers and thinkers. **$1. Century.
8–26841.
In which the author answers the question, What has been the age of the acme of mental activity as shown by the records of the famous men of modern times? He gives the results of investigation into the lives of 400 workers and thinkers, and his conclusions show that the average initial age of mental activity is twenty-four, and that its acme lies between forty and sixty.
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“The handling of the theme is light, indeed statistically quite inadequate; but the gathering of data of first notable achievements, of the period of the ‘magnum opus’ of the length of productive activity of the world’s great workers, does leave in its wake a realistic sense of notable accomplishment in the later years.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 120w.
=Dorner, Herman B.= Window gardening. il. **$1. Bobbs.
8–11765.
A book of cultural directions based upon an extended experience in handling house plants which suggests methods of treatment that will enable one to care for his plants intelligently and to be confident of success.
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“There is no extraneous matter, and for the inexperienced the little volume will be a real help.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 352: Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 30w.
“The instructions are succinct and clear.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 350. Je. 13, ’08. 70w.
=Doubleday, Roman.= Hemlock avenue mystery. †$1.50. Little.
8–6663.
A new edition of a popular mystery story in which a young attorney comes to sudden death, the supposition being that his rival and enemy killed him. The story involves two women suspected of participation in the crime, while a third one who had really slain the man by accident was wholly unconscious of the deed. A young newspaper reporter unravels the tangle which suspicion and doubt are alone responsible for.
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“This is, we think, the best detective story by an American author that has appeared in recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 733. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 80w.
“We must demur against a disposition in the present entertainer to disregard the rules of the game. The erroneous suspicions should not depend on a series of coincidences, each alone credible enough, but in the mass impossible; nor should we in the end be mocked by finding there was no murder at all.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“Mr. Doubleday’s plot is ingenious, and the solution is well concealed and theoretically possible although certainly extremely improbable.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 50w.
=Doughty, Charles Montagu.= Wanderings in Arabia: an abridgment of “Travels in Arabia deserta”; arranged with introd. by E: Garnett. *$4.50. Scribner.
8–21785.
An abridgment of an important travel book published twenty years ago. The excision extends to the scientific matter chiefly, while the author preserves with care the charm and picturesqueness of the original volume.
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“His book fully deserved reprinting, and we are grateful to Mr. Garnett for making it accessible, now that the original edition cannot be had, and for making it less unwieldy. Had he been a little more ruthless, he would have done perhaps an even greater service to the literature of travel: for to literature, in the true sense, Mr. Doughty’s book belongs.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 536. My. 2. 1300w.
“His style has an oddly archaic flavor, but it is wonderfully direct and trenchant, in fit correspondence with the incisive quality of his insight.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 354. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is an achievement in the realm of pure literature apart from its interest as an account of remarkable journeys.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 500w.
“A book containing the most intimately true and penetrating account of desert life ever written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 114. Jl. 25, ’08. 1500w.
“Not since the Elizabethan voyagers has there been any parallel to it either in style or in Quixotic adventure. A man taking it up casually might imagine that he was reading one of Hakluyt’s volumes.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 377. Mr. 7, ’08. 2000w.
=Douglas, Hugh A.= Venice on foot. *$1.50. Scribner.
W 8–12.
Leaving the gondolas to the sightseers who are satisfied with the usual course of waterways, Mr. Douglas sets out on foot and explores bridges and back alleys. “He contents himself with showing the way to palaces, churches and galleries, and then leaving us at the door, to the tender mercies of our Baedekers. But in his own way, he does cover very completely the entire maze of streets in ten well-arranged walks, each calculated to occupy a couple of hours. Any one with ten days at his disposal could spend a portion of each day in no better way than by intrusting himself unreservedly to Mr. Douglas’s guidance.” (Bookm.)
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“So far as we have tested it we have found it accurate; its type is clear, and its form convenient for the pocket, and no visitor to Venice should be without it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 150w.
“Should do some useful missionary service, in disseminating the simple truth that there is no more direct, thorough and altogether instructive way of exploring the city than by walking.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 300w.
“It is a model of clearness, conciseness, and concrete information.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The maps are clear and the directions explicit, so that no one of ordinary intelligence should have any difficulty in following them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 190w.
=Dow, Earle Wilbur.= Atlas of European history. *$1.50. Holt.
7–29562.
Especially useful to teachers of history in schools and colleges. This atlas gives a history almost exclusively by maps and charts of the different peoples of Europe.
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“While on the whole the work is to be highly commended, yet it is not entirely above adverse criticism.” W. R. Manning.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 668. Ap. ’08. 600w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 39. F. ’08. ✠
“The presentation is made in detail great enough to meet the needs of one intent upon a special field and embodies the results of the best historical map making.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 270. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 20w.
“Excellent work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 87: 254. F. ’08. 140w.
“While the work is not faultless, it is a very creditable and valuable undertaking and should greatly stimulate the study of place in connection with the development of history.” G: L. Scherger.
+ − =School R.= 16: 690. D. ’08. 300w.
=Dowd, Jerome.= Negro races: a sociological study. 3v. ea. *$2.50. Macmillan.
7–40054.
=v. 1.= The first of a series which in three volumes will cover “a sociological study of mankind from the standpoint of race.” This instalment treats of the life of the most primitive of the black races: the Negritos (pygmies and Hottentots of South Africa), the Nigritians (Ashantis, Dahomans, and Central African blacks), and the Fellatahs (of Central Sudan).
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“The chief criticism against the book from a sociological standpoint is that it makes the total social life depend too exclusively on economic conditions. On the whole, however, the book is deserving of high praise. If Professor Dowd succeeds in keeping the other volumes up to the high standard of the first, the complete work will be one of great value to every serious student of sociology.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 855. My. ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Dowd has given us the best description of the African negroes in brief compass yet produced. The book should be carefully read by all who have to deal with negroes in any way, or who are interested in social studies.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 518. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“It is in high degree valuable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 207. F. ’08. 50w.
“Of the book as a whole it must be said that it leaves on the mind of the reader the impression of a conscientious inventory.” C. H. Hawes.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 442. Jl. 30, ’08. 1200w.
“The volume contains considerable interesting material on the economic life of these primitive races.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 390. Je. ’08. 260w.
“The author has assumed rather light-heartedly a task too difficult and encyclopædic for any save the hand of a profound and highly gifted scholar.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
“The material presented is sadly deficient in accuracy and in completeness, and the point of view is vague and one-sided.” Franz Boas.
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 729. D. ’08. 930w.
“An important work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The whole deserves careful study, though we must not be understood as accepting the author’s conclusions and suggestions.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Downes, Alfred M.= Fire-fighters and their pets. il. †$1.50. Harper.
7–38206.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Not written for children, but will interest boys particularly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 11. Ja. ’08. ✠
“The tragedy and the heroism in the work of our firemen, and the comedy, and sometimes the tragedy too, of the mascots to which they are so devoted, are set forth in stirring style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 49. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Doyle, A. Conan.= Round the fire stories. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28056.
“If an author might choose his time and place as an artist does the light and hanging of his picture,” says Mr. Doyle, “these tales might well be read ‘round the fire’ upon a winter’s night.” They deal with the grotesque and the terrible. Among the seventeen stories are the following: The pot of caviare, ingenious in its horror; The club-footed grocer; The sealed room; The Brazilian cat; and The lost special.
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“Two or three of the tales are so uncompromisingly artificial that one regrets their inclusion in the collection. Again and again the sly and highly intellectual humor of the author is in evidence, even in his quite seriously conceived tales.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 440w.
“There is not a page of the book which the most timorous of his admirers might fear to read at midnight, though there are murders, ghosts, visions, and spiritualistic materialisations. Sir Arthur reduces them all by his methods to a condition of ponderable solidity in which they can be handled without a tremor. These things are not of his genre, he should not attempt them.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 547. O. 31, ’08. 400w.
“The reader who takes up the book may make sure of having quite enough thrills to last him for some time.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 594. O. 17, ’08. 140w.
=Doyle, A. Conan.= Through the magic door. **$1.25. McClure.
8–16226.
The magic door is the portal thru which one passes from the outer world to the world of books where stand comrades for every mood and aspiration. In a series of essays Mr. Doyle gives in a “hurry-never” fashion an account of his literary tastes and experiences. It is a new role for Mr. Doyle to assume before the public, but one likes it because it is the idealistic background from which could emerge even the eminently practical Sherlock Holmes.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 235. O. ’08. ✠
“As a genial introduction to literature it has a certain value; but from another point of view its interest is greater as a revelation of the author’s own literary history.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 824. D. 28. 450w.
“To the mind of the present reviewer one must hark back to Thackeray’s ‘Roundabout papers’ to find more ingenuous, agreeable reading of this kind.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 597. Ag. ’08. 1200w.
“As an essayist and critic his style is informal and agreeable.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Here is ... the country gentleman of ripe reading, and sound, if not very profound scholarship.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Forum.= 40: 128. Ag. ’08. 1450w.
“The present book is merely a rambling account of what he likes and what he does not like.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 550w.
“It is all pleasant gossip, bearing the impress of a clever, wholesome mind; an alert and many sided mind, too, if not essentially profound. A writer who can and will make a whole chapter out of the joy of reading Macaulay’s essays, who can still glory in Gibbon’s ‘Decline and fall,’ is unspoiled by cheap, modern ideas, and untouched by pedantry.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 265. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.
“It has an enjoyable quality which is sometimes more agreeable than greatness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 812. Ag. 8, ’08. 350w.
=Spec.= 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Drake, Allison Emery.= Discoveries in Hebrew, Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Basque, and other Caucasic languages; showing fundamental kinship of the Aryan tongues and of Basque with the Semitic tongues. *$6. Herrick bk.
8–448.
A book whose “discoveries” are addressed to comparative philologists in which the author concludes that Hebrew is the mother tongue from which both Aryan and Semitic languages have been derived.
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“Scholars who are acquainted with ‘Authorship of West-Saxon gospels’ will probably be disposed to hope that the author’s new book deserves consideration. If such is their expectation, it will be, we fear, disappointed.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 475. Ap. 18. 220w.
“The conclusion is in direct conflict with the findings of every scientific student of comparative philology.”
− =Bib. World.= 32: 223. S. ’08. 70w.
=Educ. R.= 35: 206. F. ’08. 50w.
“With such limber license of comparison and all the dictionaries to resort to, any conclusion desired can be reached, and would justify the definition of comparative philology as that science in which the vowels count for nothing and the consonants for very little.”
− =Ind.= 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 230w.
“His work bristles with philological impossibilities. The volume is unworthy of serious attention, and its only interest arises from its being one of those strange works that spring from the union of a certain kind of learned industry with misdirected ingenuity.”
− =Nature.= 78: 77. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Draper, George Otis.= More: a study of financial conditions now prevalent. **$1. Little.
8–8153.
A book of theories derived from twenty years of practical experience in creation and investment. He discusses after a novel fashion such subjects as the following: the many that are less rich, division of profits, dishonesty, incomes, law not justice, socialism, antagonism to property, how wealth increases, millions, trade unions, trusts, tariff, expenditure, savings, currency, reform, destroying confidence, public ownership, lack of track, retail profits and possible perfection.
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“The author’s purpose is commendable, and many of his observations are just and useful, but we cannot think that he has been successful in making either a readable or very helpful book.”
− + =Educ. R.= 35: 521. My. ’08. 50w.
“Positive, plain-spoken and somewhat superficial.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 695. Mr. 20, ’08. 100w.
“A volume well worth reading by either wage earners or wage payers, or whoever buys or sells.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 184. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
=Draper, William Franklin.= Recollections of a varied career. **$3. Little.
8–26882.
Personal reminiscences whose range is suggested in the following excerpt: “My public experience,—as a soldier in time of war, a member of Congress while great questions were under consideration, and a diplomat, also in war time,—would be hard to equal in variety; and my private life covers invention in important lines, and a business career, commencing as an employee and closing as the head of a large industrial establishment, perhaps the largest in Massachusetts that is owned by its managers.”
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=Dial.= 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 350w.
=Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“It is the quality of directness and plain common sense as applied to the narrative of a notably successful and varied career which gives to the book an interest really genuine and quite exceptional.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 599. O. 24, ’08. 700w.
“The story of a life that is interesting and remarkable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 547. D. 3, ’08. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 620. O. 24, ’08. 1300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 70w.
=Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Philosophy of the spirit: a study of the spiritual nature of man and the presence of God, with a supplementary essay on the logic of Hegel. **$2.50. Putnam.
8–16563.
“Taking account of the present positions reached by psychology, and advancing beyond these, Mr. Dresser devotes himself to a study of the higher nature of man as related to the creative life, or spirit, the dynamic ground of all existence, activity, and reason.” (Outlook.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 40w.
* =Dresser, Horatio Willis.= Physician to the soul. **$1. Putnam.
8–30363.
A book for “teachers, ministers and others who wish to become physicians to the soul,” in which the author applies the idealism of his previous volumes to individual problems. The chapter headings are as follows: An ideal occupation; Mental attitudes; Besetting self-consciousness; Persistent fear; Spiritual quickening; A letter to a skeptic; The Emmanuel movement; The power of the spirit; and The true Christian science.
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“The position he takes is in the main so eminently sane, reasonable, and convincing that his ‘A physician to the soul’ must be reckoned one of the most helpful books of its kind issued within the year.” H. A. Bruce.
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 704. N. 28, ’08. 260w.
=Drewitt, Frederick G. D.= Bombay in the days of George IV: memoirs of Sir Edward West, chief justice of the king’s court during its conflict with the East India company; with hitherto unpublished documents. $3.50. Longmans.
8–3992.
“In the main an account of an almost forgotten episode in Indian history, the quarrels between the king’s judges and the executive government in Bombay in the second quarter of the last century.... The present work places the case of the king’s judges before the public. It is an attempt to vindicate the action of Sir Edward West, who was the last recorder and the first chief justice of Bombay.” (Eng. Hist. R.) “Aside from the light thrown upon West’s personality by Dr. Drewitt’s volume, students of economic thought will be interested in the occasional references therein to West’s economic writings.” (Econ. Bull.)
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“Altogether the volume fills, in the most acceptable manner, a conspicuous gap in the personal aspect of ‘the first, though not the name-father and greatest of the Ricardian school.’” J. H. Hollander.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 31. Ap. ’08. 830w.
“This book may well be recommended to those who take an interest in the study of English life and society in India. The copious extracts from Lady West’s diary give considerable insight into the way in which Europeans lived in India in the beginning of the last century. In this respect the book will repay perusal.” E. J. T.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 411. Ap. ’08. 280w.
=Drucker, Aaron P.= Trial of Jesus, from Jewish sources. 25c. Bloch.
8–10427.
“Jewish traditions, as indicated by Rabbi Drucker, while they differ from the New Testament narratives, do not really oppose or contradict those narratives, but rather confirm and corroborate them. The learned Rabbi stoutly maintains that Jesus was not tried by a Jewish court, that the charges brought against him were un-Jewish, and that the Jewish people were betrayed by the Romans.”—R. of Rs.
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=Bib. World.= 32: 151. Ag. ’08. 130w.
“Highly interesting brochure.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 789. D. 7, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Drummond, William Henry.= Great fight: poems and sketches; ed. with a biographical sketch by May Harvey Drummond. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–28424.
A volume which brings together the poems and sketches which remained unpublished at the time of Drummond’s death. Some are connected with his life at Kerr Lake, in the Cobalt district, where he died; some are in dialect, and deal with the French-Canadian life; and still others relate to his own people, the Irish. Mrs. Drummond has contributed a biographical sketch including facts of his life and comment upon his poems.
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“Will be welcome to the many readers, on both sides of the line, of ‘The habitant’ and ‘Johnnie Courteau.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=Du Bois, Mary R. J.=, comp. Poems for travelers. *$1.50. Holt.
8–33902.
Poems selected from literature of all ages whose themes are associated with historic and classic localities in the track of the tourist in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Greece.
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=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 110w.
“In breadth of choice, ‘Poems for travellers,’ is superior [to ‘Poetic old-world,’] but its arrangement is not so good.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 80w.
=Duncan, David.= Life and letters of Herbert Spencer. 2v. **$5. Appleton.
8–17798.
By request of Herbert Spencer expressed in his will, Dr. David Duncan supplements Mr. Spencer’s “Autobiography” by means of this objective study including the biographical materials that were omitted from the philosopher’s own record of his life. “The sixty-two years included in the autobiography have been treated by Dr. Duncan in just about one-half of the present volume of five hundred and fifty pages. The rest contains the subsequent twenty years which Spencer had not dealt with. In addition there are several appendices, one by Spencer entitled ‘Physical traits and some sequences’ which would have found its proper place in the ‘Autobiography’; another entitled ‘The filiation of ideas.’” (Sat. R.)
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“It includes a great deal of valuable new matter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 235. O. ’08.
“This is one of the most important biographies of the year; a work that should find a place in all well-ordered libraries.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 267. S. ’08. 1200w.
“On the whole, we cannot say that Mr. Duncan’s portrait is more vivid or more interesting than Spencer’s own self-revelation.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 5. Jl. 4. 2350w.
Reviewed by T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 10. Jl. 1, ’08. 1400w.
“It is a work well worth doing, for it is the permanent and authentic record of a man, who, by his individual life work, created a new era of philosophical thought. And Mr. Duncan has done the work well.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 261. Jl. 30, ’08. 1600w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 242. S. ’08. 330w.
“Dr. Duncan ... has prepared them in workmanlike manner, and does succeed in giving the reader a somewhat more intimate view of Spencer’s character.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 161. Ag. 1, ’08. 1150w.
“Mr. Duncan’s book contains a good deal of new matter that was well worth printing. Much of the first volume is merely a weakened paraphrase of the ‘Autobiography.’”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 534. Je. 11, ’08. 2250w.
“It is the chief merit of this book that it displays all his traits in the just proportion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 800w.
“Dr. Duncan’s editing has been skillfully done.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 121. Jl. ’08. 900w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 520w.
“He seems to me to have performed a task of infinite difficulty, with admirable spirit and skill.” R. M. Wenley.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 760. N. 27, ’08. 2200w.
“The biographer has shown remarkable judgment in what he has included and excluded.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 232. Ag. 15, ’08. 1800w.
=Duncan, Edmondstoune.= Story of minstrelsy. (Music story ser.) *$1.25. Scribner.
7–40289.
Facts in the history of minstrelsy are recorded from the times of Druid bards, Saxon scalds and gleemen down to the end of the Stuart period, comprising “references to the first Christian church, Saint Cecilia, monks and miracle plays, the Elizabethan period, music in the time of Chaucer, old glees and madrigals, etc. There is, besides, an interesting chapter on songs and a bibliography of the literature of minstrelsy, including a very complete list of collections of old songs.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“In a rambling yet agreeable style, Mr. Duncan gives much curious information about minstrelsy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“His style is rambling; he does not aim at framing a regular history, but like Ritson in his ‘Dissertation,’ links together ‘little fragments and slight notices’ that may ‘serve to gratify a sympathetic curiosity.’”
+ =Nation.= 86: 315. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
“On the widely inclusive subject he has discoursed agreeably, without parade of scholarship, yet with evidences of wide if not always accurate reading.” Richard Aldrich.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Every man for himself. †$1.50. Harper.
8–26677.
Out of the mouths of Newfoundland fisherfolk proceeds the ordained strength of wise philosophy, the religion of helpfulness and human kindness. One of the best of this group of Mr. Duncan’s stories is “The wayfarer” in which Tumm, the clerk of the trader Good Samaritan, tells all about the perplexity of Abraham Botch of Jug Cave in fathoming the mystery of his soul. Botch says: “’Tis all come down t’ this, now: that I is. An’ if I is, I was an’ will be. But sometimes I misdoubt the was; an’ if I loses my grip on the was, Tumm, my God! what’ll become o’ the will be?”
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“The difficult dialect will deter many people from reading them.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08.
=Ind.= 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 370w.
“The author is at his best, on the whole, in such a strange and haunting tale as that of Abraham Botch ... and in the grim tragedy of ‘slow Jim Tool.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“Wintry gleams of humor play about some of the narratives, but the compelling interest in all, cruel or kind, is the undercurrent of steady faith in God and man.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 504. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
“The same rare sympathy, knowledge of the human heart, and appeal to healthy sentiment that won us in ‘Dr. Luke of the Labrador’ characterize these tales.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 80w.
=Duncon, John.= Lady Lettice, vi-countess Falkland; ed. with introd. by M. F. Howard. *$2. Dutton.
W8–115.
A companion to the Life of Lord Falkland. It is a reprint of the 1649 edition, the principal part of which is a biography written by Lady Falkland’s chaplain in the form of a letter to her mother. This letter is interspersed with extracts from correspondence between Lady Falkland and her chaplain, embodying a discourse on spiritual grief and comfort.
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“The account given in these pages of her prayers and works of charity, of her struggles with herself, and of her kindness and generosity to all about her is very pathetic, and it is also of historical value and interest as a more or less typical picture of the life of a devout churchwoman of the seventeenth century.” Eva Scott.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 794. O. ’08. 260w.
“There is altogether too much pious ejaculation and too little narrative in the good chaplain’s memorial, but through all his religious platitudes there shines the image of one of those beautiful and unworldly women of the seventeenth century.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 520w.
=Dunkerley, S. Hydraulics.= 2v. ea. *$3. Longmans.
W 8–14.
=v. 1.= Hydraulic machinery.
This volume discusses in seven chapters the following subjects: The flow of a perfect fluid; Fluid friction; Hydraulic pressure machines; Reciprocating pumps; Simple machines—turbines; Centrifugal pumps; and Researches on flow in pipes and on the theory of lubrication.
=v. 2.= Resistance and propulsion of ships.
“It brings together in a clear and compact form the modern theories of stream-lines and wave-motion, and summarises experimental investigations on resistance and propulsion.” (Nature.)
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“The details of Prof. Osborne’s researches and the descriptions of certain apparatus before-mentioned make the work a desirable addition to recent hydraulic literature. Some misspellings of proper nouns will doubtless be corrected in future printings.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 3: 71. Ja. ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Engin. D.= 4: 666. D. ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Chapter 7 is devoted to Professor Reynolds’ researches on flow in pipes and on the theory of lubrication, and for those not having access to the ‘Transactions of the royal society,’ this chapter is worth the price of the book, if the loose methods of citation and proof-reading which are apparent elsewhere have not vitiated the material it contains.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This book has a great many typographical errors. For the purposes of the ordinary student the treatment of plane stream lines around a cylinder and of waves of translation is quite as adequate as the original papers by Rankine and Scott Russell.” D. W. Taylor.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 535. N. 12, ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is one of the best resumés of British research in hydraulics that has yet appeared. Its defects, outside of the poor proof-reading, lie in the references to machinery that can hardly be considered typical of the state of engineering at present.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 56: 637. D. 7, ’07. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
“On its merits the book deserves, and will receive, favourable recognition from all interested in the subjects of which it treats. Certain errors in mathematical formulae occurring in the book should be corrected in future editions. There is evidence, too, that the book was, for the most part, completed some time ago; as it gives no account of valuable experimental investigations made during the last two or three years in this country and the United States.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 659. O. 29, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dunmore, Walter T.= Ship subsidies: an economic study of the policy of subsidizing merchant marines. **$1. Houghton.
7–39520.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Not detailed, but an unprejudiced, comprehensive, and scholarly summary of arguments on a subject of great present-day interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08.
“A well-balanced, carefully-written book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 174. My. ’08. 170w.
“The value of Mr. Dunmore’s book lies in his lucid and careful examination and summary of the causes which led to the loss of the place which the United States once held in the ocean carrying trade, and of the arguments for and against further government aid to the ocean transport business.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1043. My. 7, ’08. 400w.
“To speak in general terms, the discussion is largely a summary of arguments upon the question at issue—a summary which is convenient because of arrangement, (this is marred by typographical errors in part 3), and because of an analytical table of contents. The range of materials consulted is not as wide as one would wish and the book must be characterized as ‘useful’ but by no means ‘final’—possibly not even as ‘authoritative.’” L. C. Marshall.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 119. F. ’08. 420w.
“His narrative is as convincing as his argument.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 101. F. 22, ’08. 950w.
“The chief value of Mr. Dunmore’s book lies in his answer to the question, How shall we increase our foreign trade marine?”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 81. My. 9, ’08. 1500w.
“It is a meritorious work, painstaking and unbiased, though brief and necessarily incomplete.” Royal Meeker.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 720. D. ’08. 700w.
=Dunning, Harry Westbrook.= To-day in Palestine. **$2.50. Pott.
7–38636.
“Substantially a reproduction in print of the information which the author gives to the parties whom he takes through the country, together with descriptions of the scenery and the present condition of the places visited. As the result of observations of ten journeys during the last fifteen years, he has a high opinion of the character and capabilities of the people.”—Nation.
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“His chapters are too condensed to be of great value to the student or interest to the general reader.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08.
“The want of an index detracts much from its usefulness as a book of reference.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“The necessary condensation of the subject matter, of which there is too much for the size of the book, gives it the haste generally associated with such reading matter.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
=Durham, Robert Lee.= Call of the south. $1.50. Page.
8–9811.
A race-problem story whose purpose “is plainly to enforce by a horrible example the argument that any attempt to give social recognition to the negro must needs result in the mingling of the races.” (Dial.)
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“Mr. Durham has created a disagreeable situation, and made the most of it.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
“The situation ... might have been made to yield an interesting picture of human life, if there had been a more successful effort to show us the complex workings of the human mind.” E. L. Cary.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 150w.
=Durland, Kellogg.= Red reign: the true story of an adventurous year in Russia. il. **$2. Century.
7–32827.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“An interesting book less sensational and better written than Fraser’s ‘Red Russia’; but neither of them to be compared in permanent value with Pares’ ‘Russia and reform.’”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 40. F. ’08. ✠
“This book will rank as one of the most important as well as most interesting of recent accounts of conditions in Russia.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 519. Mr. ’08. 250w.
“This is a work that will interest all students of present-day conditions, and especially those who have at heart the cause of social justice and free government.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 38: 671. D. ’07. 970w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 192. F. 15. 120w.
“Mr. Durland seems to us the ideal newspaper reporter—born, not made—with an unfailing sense for the thrilling, the striking, the pathetic, the place, and the persons.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1034. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“Illustrated, indexed, written carefully, each sentence judicially weighed, this is the book of the hour about Russia.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 25. Ja. 4, ’08. 460w.
“The best book on present-day Russia that has so far been written, for completeness, clearness, and picturesqueness of treatment.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 270w.
“Worthy of more than casual reading. Written in a graphic, nervous, journalistic style which holds the attention throughout.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 130w.
=Dutton, Maude Barrows.= Tortoise and the geese, and other fables of Bidpai. †$1. Houghton.
8–28835.
The fables here translated into English were written about 300 B. C. They embody the moral wisdom and philosophy of Bidpai, a sage of India. Starting in Sanscrit, they have passed into Pehlevi, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew and on to modern languages. They take their place beside Esop’s fables.
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“La Fontaine and Aesop drew from this Indian philosopher, and we should imagine, to judge by the present book, surpassed him in liveliness.”
− =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 50w.
=Dyar, Muriel Campbell.= Davie and Elisabeth, wonderful adventures. †$1. Harper.
8–29338.
The simple happenings of a quaint, sweet spirited, contented couple who try daily to make up to each other for their childless estate.
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=Earhart, Lida Belle.= Systematic study in the elementary schools. (Columbia university contributions to education. Teachers college series, no. 18.) Teachers college.
8–22123.
A thoughtful discussion based upon long experience. The divisions of the study are as follows: The nature of logical study, Relation of logical study to the study of the text-book, The ability of children in the elementary school to study, Are pupils being taught to study systematically in the elementary schools? and Can pupils in the elementary school be taught to study systematically?
=Earp, Edwin Lee.= Social aspects of religious institutions. *75c. Meth. bk.
8–2648.
“Prepared as a syllabus for the studies of theological students in a department of thought not familiar in divinity schools. It was natural that a wide territory should be covered, as religion touches all forms of life. From the technical standpoint no one subject could be exhaustively treated in such a plan, but the young minister is brought into sight of numerous problems and stimulated to follow them under the guidance of specialists.”—Am. J. Soc.
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Reviewed by C. R. Henderson.
=Am. J. Soc.= 13: 858. My. ’08. 80w.
“He shows that he fails to distinguish between the duties which a man can discharge to another man and those which he can discharge only through or to a social group. It is no wonder then that this book makes little concrete contribution to the supply of the most insistent demand made upon the church.” A. T. Burns.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 667. O. ’08. 640w.
=Eastman, Charles Alexander.= Old Indian days. †$1.50. McClure.
7–33219.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
“The light which the author throws upon Indian motive and sentiment, for he always shows how and why the Indian’s action is reasonable, from the Indian’s point of view, makes his book very interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 560w.
“For simplicity and modesty the book has a charm not found in many Caucasian authors, and Dr. Eastman’s contribution to good storytelling is conspicuous and his principles well worthy of imitation by white writers.” I. L. Bridgman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 621. F. ’08. 360w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 70w.
=Eaton, John.= Grant, Lincoln, and the freedmen: reminiscences of the civil war with special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi valley, from Jan. 1862–1865; Ethel Osgood Mason, collaborator. *$2. Longmans.
7–38431.
“These reminiscences have to do chiefly with the civil war, having special reference to the work for the contrabands and freedmen of the Mississippi valley. An interesting biographical sketch of General Eaton, prepared by Miss Ethel Osgood Mason, serves as an introduction to the volume.”—R. of Rs.
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“The memoirs are well-planned, well-written and interesting throughout. By way of introduction and setting, Miss Mason, who has shared in their preparation, adds an admirable biographical sketch and appreciation of the author.” P. S. Peirce.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 657. Ap. ’08. 470w.
“It is a distinct contribution to history and a very interesting book for the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 135. My. ’08.
“The most valuable part of the book is a summary of Eaton’s work among the blacks of the Mississippi valley during the war.” W. L. Fleming.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 520. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“A work of much interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 226. F. 22. 850w.
“Is an interesting and valuable addition to the historical literature of the civil war period.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 136. Mr. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The book contains an unusual number of good stories of Lincoln and of Grant.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 70w.
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 164. F. 1, ’08. 360w.
“This book makes a real contribution to our knowledge of the actual processes of emancipation and of the two men who did most to compass it.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 680w.
“There is something altogether winning about the tone and temper of this book. Next to the account of the work among the freedmen, Eaton’s narrative of his intercourse with Grant is the most suggestive part of the volume.” W. A. Dunning.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 320. Je. ’08. 1200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 114. Ja. ’08. 70w.
“The story which he tells is one of great interest.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 231. F. 8, ’08. 470w.
=Eaton, Walter Prichard.= American stage of to-day. *$1.50. Small.
8–31171.
Contains chiefly articles which the author as dramatic critic for the New York sun has contributed to that paper. A chapter on Our infant industry (the creating of an American drama) shows that the authors who are at the fore in the movement are dramatists who connect our drama with life, who are leading our stage on toward better things by making it a vital force in the community. Informing descriptive and critical chapters follow which measure up some of the successful present-day plays.
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“If not of any importance or weight, the book is certainly readable.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1179. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Eaton is a young man of much natural ability, fortified by extensive reading, who has a copious vocabulary, a fluent and attractive style, a pretty wit, the courage of his opinions, and a fine contempt for those who do not happen to agree with them. But he is lacking in catholicity of taste, breadth of view, and power of comparison.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 471. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“The book is not quite as large as the title. It will not circulate in so many states. But it is all readable. It is a cheerful and buoyant little work, which is rare when the subject is theatrical.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 687. N. 21, ’08. 880w.
=Eddy, Arthur Jerome.= Ganton & co.: a story of Chicago commercial and social life. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–28058.
A story built up around the indefatigable energy and industry of one Ganton of a mammoth meat-packing concern. Social and labor problems abound, with a full characterization of the self-made man of low ideals whose god is money and whose highest aim is commercial power.
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“Because the ponderous indomitable far-seeing figure of old Ganton is never out of our sight for a moment, whether he is on the scene or not; because his mood controls at all time the mood of the book; because in short the tempo of the story is so admirably sustained from first to last,—because of this the comings and goings of a little world of rather unimportant people becomes fraught with a rather vital interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 380. D. ’08. 530w.
“He has attempted only to make a study of life, customs, and character against the background of a huge business concern. On the whole, the task has been rather too large for him, but he must be credited with remarkable success in his delineation of the personality of old man Ganton.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 556. O. 10, ’08. 670w.
=Edminster, Clothier Franklin.= Structural drawing. $2.50. Pub. by the author; for sale by Williams.
7–38620.
“The book opens with the usual instructions concerning drafting materials, which are followed by a collection of geometrical problems. Simple projection such as is used in preparing working drawings is then explained, after which structural drafting is taken up in detail.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The mechanical draftsman who may have, from time to time, structural drawing to do, as well as the student and mechanic interested in structural drawing, will find this work of value.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 420. Ap. ’08. 130w.
“As a portfolio of plates supplementary to oral instruction the book may have some value to a beginner, but the paucity of explanatory text deprives the drawings of much of their usefulness. The drawings themselves would be clearer if they had been drawn with a view to reproduction.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 120w.
“The book as a whole is an excellent outline of the somewhat special class of drafting necessary for steel.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 56: 692. D. 21, ’07. 220w.
=Edwards, Alba M.= Labor legislation of Connecticut. (Publications of the American economic assn. Third ser., v. 7, no. 3.) pa. $1. Macmillan.
7–30620.
The purpose of the author is “to discuss the labor legislation of Connecticut historically and critically, and ... to trace the economic effects of the different laws.” “In scope the work covers factory legislation (including child labor), the employment contract, employers’ liability, boycotting and blacklisting, free public employment bureaus, mediation and arbitration, the union label, the barbers’ license law, and convict labor, with a separate chapter on the State bureau of labor statistics.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“A valuable contribution to the literature of social legislation.” J. L. Barnard.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 521. Mr. ’08. 350w.
“May be placed side by side with Miss Whittlesey’s work on the labor legislation of Massachusetts. The information is valuable, and generally it is presented in a plain, straightforward manner, though at times the main points are somewhat obscured by a mass of historical detail.” J: C. Kennedy.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 120. F. ’08. 850w.
=Edwards, John Harrington.= God and music. *$1.25. Baker.
A new edition which corrects errors and eliminates the more fanciful portions. The object is still to “give reasonable proof that music, by its constitution, correlations, and effects, discloses a Supreme Being.”
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“Vague, dogmatic, diffuse, and rather tiresome.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 474. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
* =Egerton, Hakluyt.= Liberal theology and the ground of faith: essays towards a conservative re-statement of apologetic. **$1.25. Dutton.
“A contribution towards a conservative restatement of religious thought” which is directed in part against the “new theology” of Dr. Campbell. There are two essays, Liberal theology and The ground of faith. “His attitude toward science and toward the Bible is distinctively liberal. The apostolic presentation of Christian doctrine is viewed as ‘temporal,’ changeable in changed times. The conservatism he stands for is contrasted with liberalism, not as non-progressive, rather as not preoccupied with ‘novelty.’” (Outlook.)
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“Mr. Egerton has written a brilliant and valuable essay [Ground of faith]. It deserves to be published by itself, and not to be discounted by being bound up with the longer and greatly inferior treatment of ‘Liberal theology.’” E. S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 670w.
“With no unkindly words for his opponents, he reasons in a calm, irenic style against all modernists of the Ritschlian and Hegelian type.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 170w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Two gentlemen of Virginia. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–22541.
“Mr. Eggleston, scion of an excellent Virginia family, brought up in the west, and domiciled in the North these many years, writes of Virginians specifically for the New England reader—his book Virginians have the same relation to the real Virginian that the black-faced comedian in the minstrel show—of which Northern audiences are so fond—has to the real cornfield darky.... This particular story deals with a pretty girl who was saved from a convent in New Orleans, with an old gentleman of the old school, with a grand dame of the old school, and with two young men who are in love with the pretty girl.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The book fails of its purpose, because it has not enough virility to save the men of the book from mere foppishness.”
− =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
“By and large Mr. Eggleston’s Virginians are fantastic figments—the delicacy of his heroines and the theatricality of his heroes is all of melodrama and none of life.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
=Eggleston, George Cary.= Warrens of Virginia: a novel founded on the play of William C. De Mille. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–22798.
A story based upon the play whose subject “belongs to Mr. Eggleston’s chosen field, but the spirit sought in the play was the spirit of Thomas Nelson Page—of ‘Marse Chan’ and ‘Meh Lady’—not the spirit of ‘Dorothy South.’... The love story is the old story—the story of ‘Meh Lady’—of the girl of the South and her lover of the North—of battles, scoutings, captures, life in prison, chivalrous conduct on both sides, (and the reverse,) misunderstandings, bitterness, and reconciliation.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mr. Belasco’s atmosphere is romance, his instrument illusion. Mr. Eggleston produces no illusions.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Egypt= and how to see it; il. by A. O. Lamplough. **$1.40. Doubleday.
8–35364.
A handy little guide for the Egyptian tourist, whose aim is to point out the things most worth seeing, and to help the traveler to economize time, money and fatigue. “The text is written in a style considerably less impersonal than that of the out-and-out guide-book, but it is systematically arranged, and there are outlines of tours of various length, an English-Arabic vocabulary, lists of hotels and banks, time-tables of the Egyptian state railway, and much other useful information for travellers. And a traveller through Egypt everyone who looks at Mr. Lamplough’s pictures will long to become.” (Dial.)
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“Appears to be a practical, useful guidebook.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 135. My. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
=Eldridge, George Dyre.= In the potter’s house. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–4438.
“This exhibition of shapes of clay includes the wide extremes that may be met in a Maine village untouched by modern thought. It embraces the minister who is of the oldest theological type, and the particularly unpleasant and explicit primitive man. Between these are to be found every shade of the godless and the hell-fearing; deacons and Dogberries with varyingly elastic views of theology and conduct.”—Nation.
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“While certain incidents may be classed as ‘powerful’ the really strong is outweighed by the repellant.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“Though the author has failed in creating the impression he presumably intended to create, he has written with sincerity, and he succeeds in holding the reader’s interest in the thread of his story. The book is a promise rather than a performance.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
“It will be admitted that there is a great deal of strength in [the book].”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Eldridge, William Tillinghast.= Meryl. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–9814.
A story of kidnapping and theft planned for the purpose of depriving a young girl of her heritage. The drama is enacted on the shores of Winnepesaukee lake, and one Bob Hernald, booked for a rest at a club house, chances all unwittingly to play into the hands of the kidnappers. Straightway he learns of his mistake, and atones for his blunder by proving most useful in solving a mystery and rounding up a villain. He does not go unrewarded by the heroine.
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− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 351. Je. 20, ’08. 180w.
=Elgood, George S.= Italian gardens, after drawings by G: S. Elgood, R. I., with notes by the artist. *$12. Longmans.
8–14727.
The descriptive and historical bits concerning the formal, time-honored gardens of Italy here so handsomely pictured have been subordinated to the drawings. The gardens reproduced are those surrounding Roman, Florentine and Tuscan villas, villas of Frascati, Viterbo and northern Italy. Fountains, clipped trees and hedges, foliage in masses, and flowers of varied hues all test the artist’s skill for reproduction.
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“His strength lies in detail, whether it be a blaze of colour, as in the group of crimson azaleas, or some beautiful spot with an architectural feature as a centre; but the garden in its broader and serener aspects is hardly represented here.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 768. Je. 20. 560w.
“A fitting companion to the delightful book on English gardens which Mr. Elgood brought out some four years ago.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 250. Ja. ’08. 360w.
“The artist has studied his subject exhaustively, but, we regret to say, prosaically, for in these water-colours the wonderful poetry and romance of the villa gardens of Italy have escaped the painter.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 50w.
* =Eliot, Charles William.= University of administration. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–32425.
The N. W. Harris lectures for 1908. They compass all the branches of university administration in its numerous departments of teaching, in its financial and maintenance departments, its museums, laboratories, and libraries, in its extensive grounds and numerous buildings, and in its social organization. The chapters are: University trustees; An inspecting and consenting body—alumni influence; The university faculty; The elective system; Methods of instruction; Social organization—the president—general administration.
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“We may look upon this volume as an epitome, or record, of a life devoted to the service of Harvard, and, through Harvard, of the nation and the world—a devotion and a service for which the fitting reward is the gratitude and regard of thousands of men and women and the approval of conscience.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 2000w.
=Elliot, George F. S.= Chile: its history and development, natural features, products, commerce and present conditions; with an introd. by Martin Hume. *$3. Scribner.
7–40116.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“There has been little attempt to go back to the original sources. Indeed the great collections of documents do not appear to have come within Mr. Elliot’s horizon. The book should really be judged simply as an entertaining handbook. From this standpoint the work has been well although rather hastily done.” Hiram Bingham.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 919. Jl. ’08. 550w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08. ✠
=Dial.= 44: 181. Mr. 16, ’08. 250w.
“The account of economic conditions will be of greatest value to the more general reader rather than the economist.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 635. N. ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 122. F. 29, ’08. 170w.
“The only thing that can be suggested as an improvement to this work is the addition of a smaller and more easily handled map for frequent reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 290w.
“A perusal of Mr. Elliot’s book certainly leaves the impression that it is a compilation made at home rather than a digest of data acquired personally on the spot. It is not devoid of interest and, so far as it goes, it does justice to the Chileans, but it is too deficient in selection, proportion and topical arrangement to be of much value to the public.” W: R. Shepherd.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 348. Je. ’08. 650w.
“He has produced a clear and readable narrative. Mr. Scott Elliot’s book should prove invaluable to those who want to know something about the most virile and the most law-abiding of all the South American peoples.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 103. Ja. 18, ’08. 520w.
=Ellis, Elizabeth.= Fair Moon of Bath. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–8093.
Bath is the scene of this story of the times of the Jacobite uprising. The hero is an intrepid youth who readily enlists his wits and sword in the cause of romance and whose Hanovarian sympathies are never allowed to come between him and his friendship for friends pledged to the House of Stuart. The heroine, the Moon of Bath, is less exacting and more charming than the usual cloak-and-sword story heroine.
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“A light, pleasant book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“A good example of the fiction produced by the theory that its ultimate and highest function is merely to entertain.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 580. Ag. ’08. 280w.
“Miss Ellis is to be congratulated upon her success in dealing freshly with this well-worn theme.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 180w.
“The motive power is neither history nor human nature, and, except for a pleasant touch here and there of fancy, the story left us uninterested and unmoved. If the author would try another branch of the art the result might be very different, for the book shows dramatic power and a sense of humour.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 381. D. 13, ’07. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is an excellent specimen of its sort, light and daintily written, with verve and taste to attract any one who likes work well done, aside from the mere story interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 245. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Ellis, Havelock.= Soul of Spain. **$2. Houghton.
8–17935.
Twenty years of close study and close scrutiny lie back of Mr. Ellis’ impressions which offer a series of inductions and psychological conclusions. Some of his sixteen chapters are the Spain of old romance, The women of Spain (in which he refutes the “Carmen” idea of the woman of Spain), The art of Spain, Velasquez, Spanish dancing, Don Quixote, The gardens of Granada, Seville in spring, and Spanish ideals of to-day.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 179. Je. ’08.
“It is unquestionably one of the best books on Spain published during the last few years. We have noted a few oversights for correction, apart from misprints.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 820w.
“There is perhaps little that is new in the book, yet the discussion, being philosophical and suggestive, forms interesting reading.” G: G. Brownell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 113. S. 1, ’08. 400w.
“His latest book is a delightful blend of the comments of a thoroly informed and appreciative traveler and the observations of a keen student of races and social affairs.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 614. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“The book, as a whole, both pleases and stimulates.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 480w.
“One of the best and most enlightening books on Spain and the Spaniards that have ever appeared. Mr. Ellis is that rare combination, a scientist who is also a poet, and he is sensitive of much that scientists, as such, never feel.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 262. My. 9, ’08. 1070w.
“We may be grateful to him for his careful and often profound study of the character of the people.” A. J. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 748. S. ’08. 500w.
“Seldom, if ever, we are persuaded has there been written a more closely woven, subtle, and fascinating analysis of a national character and type by a writer of another widely different stock than Havelock Ellis’ ‘Soul of Spain.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 170w.
=Ellis, John Breckenridge.= Arkinsaw cousins: a story of the Ozarks. †$1.50. Holt.
8–5878.
The Thornberry cousins whose “little nothingnesses” of every-day life make up this story include individuals differing in occupation and standing, but clannish in family relations and loyal to their cousinship claims. It is the homely, intimate pictures of humdrum village life, enlivened by clear cut characters that give the book a touch of realism and charm.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 155. My. ’08. ✠
+ =Ind.= 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 600w.
“‘Arkinsaw cousins’ is striking among stories of its kind for its spontaneity, its zest born of affectionate intimacy with the subject. Consequently, though it is not without crudity of detail, the affair as a whole is unusually refreshing.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“It is a sprightly narrative, told with a good deal of humor, especially in its portrayal of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Not an inviting picture. The effect of the narrative is crude, though there is good material in it.”
− + =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Elson, Arthur.= Music club programs from all nations. $1.25. Ditson.
7–39405.
Giving an historical outline of each national school of music, with questions for study, and a series of programs for the use of clubs and other organizations. In arranging his programs, Mr. Elson offers three grades: easy, medium and difficult.
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“The selections have been made with judgment, and the whole work will prove a distinctly practical help to students of music.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 100w.
“The distinct value of this publication lies in its direct appeal to common sense and ordinary intelligence. Stripped of the mystifying ‘shibboleth’ of the average singing master, the treatise well deserves study from either professional or amateur.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 120w.
“Undoubtedly meets a genuine need.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“Such a book, undoubtedly, has been a desideratum. Excellent judgment is shown in the choice of pieces. Mr. Elson’s book might also be used as a brief sketch of the history of concert music.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 134. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
=Elton, Oliver.= Modern studies. *$2.10. Longmans.
8–5194.
These essays characterized by “their good sense and compendious material” include informing studies on Tennyson, Swinburne, George Meredith, Henry James, Living Irish literature, Recent Shakespeare criticism, The meaning of literary history, Giordano Bruno in England, Literary fame, Color and imagery in Spenser and A word on mysticism.
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“Without the vigour of poetic originality, he has the beautiful correctness of poetic sensibility. If we say, then, that his critical work is not very great work, we must add that it is very fine work—work that, in the present condition of our civilization, is becoming dangerously rare.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 818. D. 28. 1000w.
“His traditions of literary criticism are the best; his appreciation of the growing importance of natural science in the literary field is significant of his keen and forward vision; his advocacy of comparative literature must win unhesitating approval; his outlook on life is clear and wide; his sympathies are at once advanced and catholic.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 206. Ap. 1, ’08. 2800w.
“Altogether this is a book of erudition and insight, although its materials are not always fused into complete uniformity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 530w.
“Is a wholly delightful book, scholarly, acute, and invariably interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 131. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
“Solid and versatile attainment is the principal quality that strikes us in reading these reprinted essays. In respect of illumination their merits are patchy. Above all—to state at once the most serious defect and so have done with it—they rather lack that first of critical virtues, simplicity. To read these essays is to breathe the atmosphere of enlightened but rather thick quarterlies.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 766. D. 21, ’07. 1420w.
“Each ‘study’ appears to us to be a masterpiece of compressed and accurate knowledge.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 267. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
=Eltzbacher, Paul.= Anarchism; tr. by Steven T. Byington. $1.50. Tucker, B: R.
8–5260.
“Through extracts from the writings of anarchists we have a methodical presentation of the views of Godwin, Proudhon, Stirner, Balcuim, Kropotkin, Tucker, and Tolstoi, as well as summarizing chapters giving the opinion of the author. The translator, a follower of Tucker, adds a critical preface pointing out the strong and weak points in the book and some critical notes especially in the chapter on Tucker, which has also been augmented by him.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“The book is particularly timely. The style is scientific in the extreme, heavy and uninteresting, yet to the student in search of the fundamental principles underlying the science of anarchy, the facts are presented in a masterful way, worthy of the highest commendation.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 442. S. ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Eltzbacher deserves great credit, not only for his own fair and luminous exposition of the philosophy of anarchy, but also for the manner in which he has presented the thoughts of the greatest anarchistic masters in their own words. The work ... should find a place in the libraries of all thinkers interested in political, social and economic philosophy.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 380. Mr. ’08. 1100w.
“Every public library should have for completeness’ sake some representative of this school of thought, and this small volume presents it in its most authoritative and least objectionable form.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 350w.
“This translation makes available for English readers one of the most complete and concise accounts of the teachings of the leading anarchists.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 247. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“The weakest part of the book is the preliminary statement of Dr. Eltzbacher’s own views on law, the state, and property—views presented with needless wordiness and repetition, difficult to grasp and made more difficult by a fondness for terms of many syllables.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 565. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
“This is perhaps the handiest and most satisfactory manual on the teachings of leading anarchists. The book should be in the hands of all students of modern movements who have not time to investigate for themselves.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 558. S. ’08. 130w.
=Emerald= and ermine: a tale of the Argoat by the author of “The martyrdom of an empress.” *$1.50. Harper.
7–33591.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Is a reversion to type, absurd because it is out of drawing with the mind of the times.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
− =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“There is a vivid quality to these pages, and the characters are drawn with an intense sympathy, a sympathy that communicates itself to the reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 66. F. 8, ’08. 180w.
=England, Minnie Throop.= Statistical inquiry into the influence of credit upon the level of prices. (In Nebraska. University. University studies. v. 7, no. 1.) pa. $1. Univ. of Neb.
7–19450.
“A monograph inspired by the question ‘does business create money or money create business.’ It is a statistical argument in favor of the quantity theory of money, or rather of the influence of credit on prices, in opposition to the views held by Professor Laughlin, who has maintained that this is a reversal to cause and effect. The method employed by Miss England ... consists in noting the years of lowest and highest points for prices, clearings, loans, note circulations, deposits, etc.”—Yale R.
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=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 571. N. ’07. 200w.
“The tables which Miss England has constructed are of much value and interest to the economist even though we may not all concur in some of the conclusions she draws from them. These criticisms, however, relate more to the form of the statement than to the contentions of Miss England, against whose statistics, and the general conclusions from them, we have no fundamental objections.” I. F.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 238. Ag. ’08. 640w.
=Enock, C. Reginald.= Andes and the Amazon: life and travel in Peru. *$5. Scribner.
7–38359.
The Peru of romance gives way in this treatment to the Peru of present day practicalism. The author is a mining engineer who in the light of modern progress discusses with professional keenness the mineral wealth, the undeveloped resources of the country, the prospects of creating means of access to the interior, and the facilities of communication for commercial purposes. Good maps illustrate, and an index adds to the value of the book.
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“It should be of service to those whose interests, commercial, scientific or geographical, are concerned with that wonderful part of the world.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 163. N. 23, ’07. 320w.
“In describing the Peru of to-day, Mr. Enock is at his best. His philosophy is not deep, but his statements are often interesting. There is little that throws any light on modern Peruvian history or politics.” Hiram Bingham.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 664. Ap. ’08. 400w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Enock’s criticism of the various institutions and his comments on South American relations are essentially different from those of a citizen of the United States, nevertheless they do not detract from the utility of the book.” H: R. Ringe.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 728. My. ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Enock’s book presents a sufficiently graphic picture of some aspects of the country in an early transitional stage, but its treatment is too slight and unscientific to make it of much permanent value. To the general reader it may be more confidently recommended, for it contains hardly a dull page.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 679. N. 30. 1650w.
“His rovings were conducted in such a hearty spirit, with such a commendable leisure, and are written down in such a pleasing manner, that his book adds much to our rapidly accumulating library on South American affairs.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 200w.
“It is as a scientific engineer and a mining expert that Mr. Enock is especially strong. On the subject of the church in Peru he shows he can write in a spirit of pure prejudice on a subject of which he has no first-hand knowledge.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 1150w.
“Every student of Spanish America owes him a debt of gratitude, for he has made a study of modern Peru such as no other foreigner has ever attempted.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 300w.
“One of the best of recent books about South America. Mr. Enock is a good traveler, whose records of his travels is blemished only by an occasional and unsuccessful attempt at fine writing.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 851. D. 21, ’07. 370w.
“Informative text.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 140w.
“Although Mr. Enock’s book is entertaining and in many respects instructive, it is too desultory to give the reader anything like a complete view of Peruvian conditions. As literature, its value is seriously impaired by an irresistible bent toward fine writing.” W: R. Shepherd.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 349. Je. ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Enock writes with a fullness of knowledge—and a superfluity of words—gained by much travel across the mountains into the Montana. He is but slightly historical, though he has not a little to tell of the vestiges of Inca civilisation; and the chief interest of the book lies in its graphic sketches of scenes and people.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 640. N. 23, ’07. 220w.
=Erman, Adolf.= Handbook of Egyptian religion; tr. from the original German by A. S. Griffith. *$3. Dutton.
8–35517.
A popular manual which serves as a guide to the Berlin Imperial museums. During more than thirty years the author has studied the monuments of Egyptian religion and his conclusions set down here represent the working basis of the Berlin school’s theories.
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“An excellent popular presentation by an authority on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“Perhaps the greatest inversion of facts to fit the author’s theories occurs in Prof. Erman’s constant resort to punning or assonance as a link between unrelated words. The book is an excellent guide to the rich Egyptian museum of Berlin.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 117. Ag. 3. 1000w.
=Essays=, philosophical and psychological, in honor of William James, professor in Harvard university, by his colleagues at Columbia university. **$3. Longmans.
8–12972.
These nineteen essays “diverse in point of view, in subject, and in quality,” (Nation.) contributed by nineteen expounders of philosophy and psychology, treat of ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, logic, psychology, and the history of philosophy. The book is a tribute to Professor James’s work and his influence on his colleagues.
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“This sort of book is the delight of the reader and the despair of the reviewer.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 430. O. 10. 830w.
“The present papers are on a high level of excellence.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 160w.
“The book, as a whole, is easy and pleasant reading, and shows serious attempts to grapple with some of the most important problems of philosophy. The method of short essays has the drawback that no really difficult subject can be treated as fully as would be necessary for an adequate discussion; but, within the inevitable limitation, many of the essays will be found stimulating and highly suggestive.” B. Russell.
+ =Hibbert, J.= 7: 203. O. ’08. 1700w.
“For those interested in the development of philosophy in America, and qualified to do serious reading on the subject, a more excellent index to the present status could hardly be found. It is to be regretted that none of these admirers of Professor James is capable of imitating his light and lively style.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 780. O. 1, ’08. 670w.
“This beautiful volume is an honor not only to William James, but to the contributors.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 37. Jl. 9, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“It is a book whose tone is distinguished for breadth and tolerance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 422. Ag. 1, ’08. 660w.
“Apart from all personal association ... this volume has a distinctive value.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 626. Jl. 18, ’08. 170w.
“Remarkable volume of essays.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Their interest is less their positive contribution to thought than the light which they cast upon the directions in which American thought is moving.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 267. Ag. 22, ’08. 1500w.
=Eve, George W.= Heraldry as art: an account of its development and practice, chiefly in England. *$5. Scribner.
8–15734.
“A ‘trade catalogue’ of the well-known engraver of book-plates and designer of heraldic decorations whose name appears on the title-page, a considerable percentage of the large illustrations being from examples of his own works. The book contains some three hundred pages, mostly made up of the elementary chapters which appear in the work of every writer on heraldry who has not got beyond the limits of the current handbooks.”—Ath.
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“In many ways it is as good a work as any other manual at present in the field for the beginner in heraldic art.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 295. Mr. 7. 230w.
“Will prove extremely useful to designers who have occasion to introduce heraldic symbols into their work. Mr. Eve is thoroughly at home in the subject, and his exposition of the rules governing the use of heraldic figures is both lucid and exhaustive.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 337. F. ’08. 70w.
“The utility of such a popular treatise as this must lie in its illustrations, unless indeed it is wrought into a rather dull book of reference, a mere glossary of technical terms.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 219. S. 3, ’08. 480w.
+ =Spec.= 99: 829. N. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Everts, Katherine Jewell.= Speaking voice: principles of training simplified and condensed. **$1. Harper.
A practical handbook whose aim is to furnish simple, practical instruction in the training of the speaking voice. Miss Everts demands only fifteen minutes each day for the training which will convert “our high-pitched, harsh, hard American instrument of torture into the low-toned, efficient agent of personality it was intended by nature to be.” The divisions of the study are the following: The tuning of the instrument; Learning to re-enforce the tone; The technique of the instrument; and Studies in the vocal interpretation of literature.
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“A vivacious discussion of the proper management of the voice in ordinary conversation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 628. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“Miss Everts’s interesting and thoroughly usable book combines in rare degree the knowledge of the mechanism of the voice with skill in making practical suggestions for individual study.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 611. N. 21, ’08. 500w.
=Everyman=: a morality play; ed. with an introduction, notes and bibliography by Montrose J. Moses. *$1. Kennerley.
8–20701.
A student’s “Everyman” furnished with an eighty-page introduction tracing the dramatic development of which it is a part; with notes; and with a bibliography of works concerning the different periods surveyed in the introduction.
=Ewald, Carl.= Old room; tr. from the Danish by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–10275.
“A study of domestic tragedy, complicated by the strange moods of an abnormal man and a still more abnormal woman. Over all hovers the furtive shadow of that madness which gives to the story its dreadful climax. The old room is a secret chamber which sturdy ancestors consecrated as the altar of the family and the home.”—Bookm.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“If one is strongly addicted to Ibsen, and delights in allopathic doses of the dismal, ‘The old room’ may be very heartily endorsed. For what Carl Ewald started out to do has been very admirably done.”
+ =Bookm.= 27: 240. My. ’08. 350w.
“This searching allegory probes deeper than all the ‘divorce novels’ ever written. The little volume is as full of suggestive symbolism as an Ibsen play, and its simple but illusive language will be as variously interpreted by different readers.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 809. Ap. 3, ’08. 550w.
=Nation.= 86: 469. My. 21, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. An. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is as modern, as openly significant, and as puzzling and elusive in its significance as an Ibsen drama, and far more beautifully and poetically imagined and worked out. The translation seems to have preserved to a remarkable degree the unique flavor of the original. It possesses the welcome distinction of not being illustrated.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 650w.
“We do not see in it the great beauty of form or thought claimed for it by its admirers, and especially by the translator. It will appeal to readers who crave the somber excitement offered by several continental writers of dramatic fiction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Ewart, John S.= Kingdom of Canada, imperial federation, the colonial conferences, the Alaska boundary, and other essays. $2.50. Morang & co.
8–19240.
“John S. Ewart, the Canadian lawyer and publicist, has brought together in a volume of some 370 pages a number of public addresses and several essays—all devoted to the large problems of Canada’s political destiny. Independence is not the goal toward which Mr. Ewart would point the way—that is to say, not independence in the sense of political separation from the British empire.”—Nation.
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“While there may, therefore, be differences of opinion as to the correctness of all Mr. Ewart’s conclusions, his essays may be taken as representative of the views of at least one strong and growing school of thought in Canada; and to that extent they are of distinct interest and value.” L. J. Burpee.
+ =Dial.= 45: 210. O. 1, ’08. 850w.
=Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 230w.
=Spec.= 101: 101. Jl. 18, ’08. 140w.
* =Excerpta= Cypria; tr. and transcribed by Claude Delaval Cobham. *$6.30. Putnam.
“The book, of over 500 quarto pages, is made up of extracts in English dress concerning the character, history, and antiquities of the island, gathered from the works of eighty different travelers of varied nationality, ranging in date from Strabo to the second half of the last century. A few documents are included, and a rather full bibliography appended, including one on the not yet forgotten Cesnola controversy.”—Nation.
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“The book is eminently readable, and the translations are made in good style, and, so far as tests have been possible, with reasonable accuracy. But the compiler’s assertion that within the range of the individual excerpts nothing has been omitted which directly concerns the island is not quite true, at any rate of the quotation from Strabo.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 462. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“Cyprus is a treasure island for historical research. A guide for this terra incognita has now been found in Mr. C. D. Cobham. No one could be better fitted to point out its sights.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 518. O. 24, ’08. 1150w.
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=F., C. R. L.= Mr. Gladstone at Oxford, 1890. *$1. Dutton.
Simply an account of a visit which Mr. Gladstone paid to Oxford late in life as a guest of the Fellows of All Soul’s college. “Odds and ends on all sorts of subjects, history, the classics, the personal side of politics, life ‘then and now,’ art and music, are given.” (Sat. R.)
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“The little book gives glimpses of Gladstone that one is thankful not to have missed.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“If we can imagine Boswell become a self-conscious Oxford don, extremely afraid of his eminent friend and yet privately aware of being better informed than he on all topics, we should have had a document like the present instead of his master-piece.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 290. S. 24, ’08. 750w.
“The author ... has, perhaps, given us a more intimate view of the great English stateman’s recreation hours than any work of the kind previously attempted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 474. Ag. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Unfortunately C. R. L. F. seems somewhat wanting in the imagination that rekindles. Let us agree that some of the scraps here given are very entertaining. It is not easy to put the book down till most of it has been read.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 81. Jl. 16, ’08. 1050w.
“Not only a very pleasant narrative, but a real contribution to our knowledge of the man.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 367. S. 12, ’08. 1500w.
=Fagan, James O.= Confessions of a railroad signalman. **$1. Houghton.
8–25159.
Mr. Fagan’s confessions are the outgrowth of his experience as a signalman during twenty years. His shrewd observations and logical deductions regarding mismanagement of railroads and incompetency of employes may well cause railroad officials disquieting moments. The book aims to stimulate reform. “He does not content himself with an idealist’s statement of what ought to be, but takes into account existing conditions in the operative departments of our great railroads, and attempts to show how with all the recognized difficulties of administration there may yet be worked out a scheme that will assure a far smaller proportion of fatalities in the running of our trains.” (R. of Rs.)
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“Clear, thoughtful papers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 258. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Fagan, in his present book, forcefully discusses, with more than ordinary intelligence, some of the problems in American railroading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1005. O. 29, ’08. 220w.
“One cannot feel sure, after reading this book, that the case for the employee has been fully presented, or that officials have been charged with their proper share of responsibility.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 519. N. 26, ’08. 350w.
“His book certainly deserves the attention of railroad men of all kinds.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 564. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“To the layman Mr. Fagan’s writings on the subject of railroad accidents impress themselves as singularly judicious, fair, and well considered.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 635. N. ’08. 240w.
=Faguet, Emile.= Literary history of France. (Library of literary history.) $4. Scribner.
7–36933.
An authoritative survey of French writers and their works from the origin of French literature in the middle ages to the end of the nineteenth century. M. Faguet makes a point of the influences in French literature directly traceable to English literature.
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“Poor as his book is on the whole, and even mischievous in parts, it yet has a redeeming feature in the liberal tribute which the author pays to the greatness of England’s greatest novelist, Samuel Richardson.” Rowland Strong.
− + =Acad.= 73: 142. N. 16, ’07. 1200w.
“Scholarly, enthusiastic, independent in judgment, suggestive, and readable. A defect in the book is the lack of English rendering of many of the extracts.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 180. Je. ’08.
“The facts are right; and the inferences from them often right; but where are the ideas, the personal views of things, which give value to a living book?”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 435. O. 12. 1350w.
“Is not only the newest, but one of the best. What is professedly translation, the history itself, is very well done by the anonymous translator, and either for reference as to literary and biographical facts, or for critical disquisitions on the work of particular authors, the English reader may go with complete satisfaction to the history of M. Faguet.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 733. D. 14, ’07. 280w.
“After the publication of such a volume as this, ignorance or neglect is indeed without excuse. It is literally crammed with information; every page is interesting and valuable. We must, however, express our regret that the translation is hardly on so high a level.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 270w.
=Fairbanks, Arthur.= Athenian lekythoi, with outline drawing in glaze varnish on a white ground. (Univ. of Michigan studies. Humanistic ser., v. 6.) *$4. Macmillan.
8–852.
“The white Athenian lekythoi, or oil-jugs form a distinct class in the history of Greek vase-painting. The two large classes into which the author divides his material are lekythoi in which the lines of the drawing are in glaze, and lekythoi in which the lines are in dull color. The present volume deals with the glaze-outline lekythoi; the second class is reserved for another occasion.”—Nation.
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“The present monograph supplies a much-felt need.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 408. Ap. 30, ’08. 800w.
=Spec.= 100: 943. Je. 13, ’08. 60w.
=Fairlie, John Archibald.= Essays in municipal administration. **$2.50. Macmillan.
8–2954.
“The author has here gathered together various of his public addresses and a number of valuable articles, now in many cases revised, which had previously appeared in different periodicals, besides adding a few new ones. Of two of the groups of essays one centers around ‘the problems of organization and the legal relations of the cities to the state’ and the other deals with ‘municipal functions and activities.’ A third group contains the portion of the volume which is new (about one-sixth), and gives brief sketches of various municipal activities in Europe, among which may be mentioned rather neglected Vienna.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“It is well up to Professor Fairlie’s former standard. Only two errors of any consequence have been noted.” A. R. Hatton.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 409. N. ’08. 1100w.
“The essays are helpful and instructive, the facts are reliable, and the book plainly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 181. Je. ’08.
“The make-up of the book is good, it is provided with a usable index and its contents are such as to make it well worthy of ownership by any and all serious-minded students of one of our greatest problems, the government and the proper functions of municipalities.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 433. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Some of the chapters are worth preservation in a book, but others are already out of date.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 438. Ag. 20, ’08. 220w.
“The essays of the third group are hardly more than ‘observations,’ as the writer calls them, and are inferior to the rest of the volume in value.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 246. Ap. ’08. 130w.
“In general it is a serviceable and informing compend, touching various phases of city history, organization, and administration.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 286. S. 24, ’08. 400w.
“It is a pity that Prof. Fairlie is unlikely to have a numerous circle of readers, owing to the nature of his topics, but the judicious will recognize the thoroughness of his work, and the industrious will find in the book a storehouse of facts, and ample references to original authorities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 270. My. 9, ’08. 400w.
“In outline form, Professor Fairlie’s work covers a wide range, and students of municipal government will find it helpful in many ways.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 300w.
“All the papers are worth reprinting in their present form.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 571. S. ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Farman, Elbert Eli.= Egypt and its betrayal: an account of country during the periods of Ismâil and Tewfik pashas, and of how England acquired a new empire. **$2.50. Grafton press.
8–10621.
A discussion based upon personal experiences of the author while United States consul-general at Cairo, and Judge of the International court of appeals at Alexandria. The author attacks England’s policy and points out the possibilities and short-comings of the Cromer administration.
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“The book is decidedly well worth reading, especially for those already somewhat familiar with the subject, to hear ‘the other side,’ if for no other reason.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 623. N. ’08. 240w.
“We should have liked the book better if Cromer and his administration had been left out and treated of in a separate work.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 280w.
=Outlook.= 89: 864. Ag. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Farrar, James M.= Junior congregation. 1884–1908. **$1.20. Funk.
8–29743.
Outlines in a practical way Dr. Farrar’s methods used in perfecting his young people’s organization known as the “Junior congregation.”
=Farrington, Herbert M.= Gates that shall not prevail. †$1.50. Lane.
“In this volume the limelight is always in evidence. It plays round the head of the modern St. Anthony, who is a famous preacher in the East End, and poses for the picture which is to set all London talking; it dances round Violetta, frail and fair; and lights her path to a public confession; and it envelopes both the prologue, where the story of his mother’s dishonour is related to the schoolboy whom we next meet as Brother Paul of Hoxton, and the equally dramatic close, where he discovers a father in the peerage.”—Ath.
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“A strong, inspiring and uplifting romance.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 260w.
“The picture is too highly coloured to afford sustained pleasure, but should appeal—and that not unsuccessfully—to the popular taste.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 120w.
“The author of this book is not devoid of humour.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 119. Jl. 25, ’08. 130w.
=Farrington, Margaret Vere.= Fra Lippo Lippi: a romance. **$1.75. Putnam.
Set in the atmosphere of Fra Lippo Lippi’s art and its inspiration, this is the pathetic story of his love for the beautiful nun of Santa Margherita, Lucrezia Buti, and of the shadow cast upon it by the venomous interference of the jealous princess Beatrice. The book contains four photogravure illustrations.
=Faulkner, John Alfred.= Erasmus, the scholar. (Men of the kingdom.) *$1. West. Meth. bk.
8–5815.
Erasmus the scholar, the impartial friend and critic of Catholic and Lutheran alike, is portrayed thruout the course of his great labor of love to bring both bodies to a mutual concession. The study is an important one because in the light of modernism freed from theological difference one may best interpret this great Erasmian spirit which is coming to its own.
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“The frequency of acknowledged quotation gives an air of frankness to the work which is hardly borne out by an examination of the many unacknowledged quotations, especially in the translations, which are not only freely borrowed, but are mangled at discretion in a way to make their defenseless authors wince. The best parts of Professor Faulkner’s work are his little summaries of Erasmus’s supposed views on doctrinal points.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 170. O. ’08. 320w.
“Professor Faulkner’s memoir is not only adequately appreciative of his subject, but also duly critical, not wanting in humor, and illuminated by ample extracts from Erasmus’s famous works.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 266. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
=Faunce, Rev. Daniel W.= Mature man’s difficulties with his Bible. *75c. Am. Bapt.
8–9798.
Addressed not so much to theologians, nor yet to men of leisure who may read extended treatises, but to busy men who still find time to read the newer books and magazines which raise questions concerning biblical facts. The chapters treat the Bible in relation to mathematical certainty; scientific spirit; historical spirit; the morality and method of the Bible; and the biblical Christ and human thinking.
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“A book containing many good things. But on the whole it must be pronounced inadequate to its purpose. The author does not fully grasp the difficulties occasioned to the Bible student by the modern scientific world-view.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 80. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“Contains much sensible counsel concerning Scripture.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1405. Je. 18, ’08. 80w.
* =Fay, Charles Ryle.= Co-operation at home and abroad; a description and analysis. *$3. Macmillan.
8–33820.
“An English university scholar, a research student in the London School of economics, gives in this volume a vast amount of valuable information covering the entire field of co-operative activity in European countries—(1) in banking, (2) in agricultural societies for production, sale, and land tenure, (3) in workers’ societies for production and sale, (4) in co-operative stores, social and industrial, concluding with an account of co-operative law, and a large bibliography.... It is ‘not the herald of socialism, nor is it a means to combat it,’ but simply a natural outworking of the associative instinct in a line of self-help not cultivated by socialism.”—Outlook.
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=Ath.= 1908, 2: 267. S. 5. 170w.
“A work of wide and varied practical interest for social workers is this.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 596. N. 14, ’08. 220w.
“It does not detract at all, but in our judgment rather enhances, the value of Mr. Fay’s work, if we see reason to demur to some of the distinctions which he draws.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 806. N. 21, ’08. 1350w.
=Fea, Allan.= Nooks and corners of old England. *$2.50. Scribner.
W7–227.
Away from beaten tracks “the author covers with pencil and camera counties as widely apart as Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, and he has reproduced over fifty excellent photographs of both known and unknown manor-houses, churches, hamlets, and interiors. One can only be grateful to him for his notes on Beckington castle, Croscombe church, with its wonderful canopied pulpit, Melplash court, said to have been a residence of Nell Gwyn, Postlip hall, with its Elizabethan gables, and Hautboys hall, a beautiful old Tudor house, a few miles to the south-east of Oxford. In no sense a guide-book proper.” (Acad.)
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“A sensible, chatty record of devious wanderings in the byways of old England, and as such may be honestly recommended to those who are not in a hurry and who love old England.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 651. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.
“The most we can say of the book is that it may prove attractive to those who are content with cursory descriptions of attractive places, and may lead the ordinary tourist to things of particular interest in his own country.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 237. Ag. 31. 280w.
“Mr. Fea has a large store of curious information.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 530w.
=Fenn, George Manville.= Trapped by the Malays. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A book which recommends itself to girls as well as boys. It is the story “of a young English officer, not much more than a boy, and his exciting experiences in the English dominions on the other side of the world. Captured by treachery by a native prince, he and one of his soldiers escape on the rajah’s elephant, with which they have made friends.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mr. Manville Fenn continues to deserve well of the youth of England.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 652. N. 23. 130w.
“An exciting story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 60w.
“In this tale of bayonet and kris Mr. Manville Fenn shows all the spirit, the humor and the knowledge of character and place which have made his stories so popular with both young readers and those whose business it is to select books for them.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 170w.
=Ferris, George Hooper.= Formation of the New Testament. **90c. Am. Bapt.
7–28619.
A “study of the rise of the books of the New Testament to pre-eminence among early Christian works, and the causes contributing to it.”—Bib. World.
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“Mr. Ferris sketches the rise of the New Testament canon with bold and telling strokes.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 274. Ap. ’08. 350w.
“An able and intelligent study. The presentation is popular and at the same time scholarly.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 50w.
“He has given the results of his study in clear flexible English, that never declines and never wearies the reader. This is a piece of excellent theological writing.” E: A. Wicher.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 138. Ag. ’08. 980w.
“A forceful and enlightening study. It should establish the author’s reputation as a writer on religious history who can at the same time master facts and exhibit their vital bearing.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“There can be no question, however, but that Mr. Ferris has put his finger upon the source of endless confusion of mind and barrenness of doctrine.... Awakening to the facts which Mr. Ferris has brought into the clear must serve as an emancipation to not a few.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 241. Mr. 12, ’08. 700w.
“A careful, scholarly, courageous work.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 795. Ap. 4, ’08. 800w.
=Fessenden, Francis.= Life and public services of William Pitt Fessenden. 2v. **$5. Houghton.
7–37243.
A biography of a man “best entitled to rank as Maine’s prime contribution to American statesmanship.” It is the “story of a public man who never ‘put his ear to the ground’ to listen for the voice of duty, never ‘climbed into the band-wagon’ in search of office, never chose to go against his conscientious judgment a hair’s breadth rather than ‘get left.’” (Dial.)
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“To such a hero, this book is a fitting tribute.” D: M. DeWitt.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 622. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 136. My. ’08.
“William Pitt Fessenden was a great senator and deserved a proper biography, but it cannot be said that the volumes by his son fulfil the need. The author shows slight acquaintance with the historical literature of his period.” W. L. Fleming.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 521. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“A piece of biography so morally invigorating as to deserve, in its own very different way, a place alongside the reminiscences of Carl Schurz.” W. H. Johnson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 73. F. 1, ’08. 500w.
“A good life.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 753. Ap. 2, ’08. 450w.
“The literary form and method of this work mark it as a real addition to the historic literature of the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 450w.
“The arrangement of the matter is defective, but the matter itself is of the first class.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 127. F. 6, ’08. 2650w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 630w.
“A work which, if in parts rather dry reading, is a distinct contribution to American political biography. Some of the numerous letters and autobiographical statements which it contains throw fresh and really helpful light on civil war men and measures.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 379. F. 15, ’08. 430w.
“Few biographies written by relatives show less bias—less of what Macaulay was fond of calling the ‘lues Boswelliana’. The narrative sometimes backs and fills in a manner that is confusing, and exception could easily be taken to some of the statements; yet, as a whole, the work has been well done.” P. L. Haworth.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 132. Mr. ’08. 850w.
“Full and very satisfactory account.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 180w.
=Field, Louise Maunsell.= Katharine Trevalyan. †$1.50. McClure.
8–10431.
Against the unhealthy background furnished by craven types selected from fashionable New York, the author places his unworldly-minded heroine. She is drawn into a net of matrimony by a contemptible fortune hunter, frees herself from its meshes, and slips away disillusioned, having discovered that reciprocity—a thing she had never experienced—is at the foundation of the human bond. Her supreme moment comes when real love proves the truth of her theory and she is no longer outside of life.
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=Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 370w.
“It has plenty of flesh-and-blood characters, and an easy style, but it falls short of absorbing the attention.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 242. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Field, Michael, pseud. (Catherine Bradley and Edith Cooper).= Wild honey from various thyme. *$1.65. Wessels.
“A collection of sonnets and lyrics of which, the inspiration is mainly classical, but which show an unclassical luxuriance of imagery.” (Spec.)
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“The undoubted poetical taste and feeling displayed ... are largely discounted by a serious lack of discriminating power.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 414. Ap. 4. 330w.
“Here are nearly two hundred lyrics and sonnets, packed with thought, and arresting in their originality of expression.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 63. Ag. 1, ’08. 450w.
=Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 150w.
“Each of the poems in the present collection conveys to the mind a picture with color and design and atmosphere.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“The work is always musical and accomplished, and now and then, as in ‘Chariclo,’ it attains real distinction.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 40w.
=Figgis, John Neville.= Studies of political thought from Gerson to Grotius, 1414–1625; the Birkbeck lectures delivered in Trinity college, 1900. *$1.10. Putnam.
7–32802.
A literary revision of the Birkbeck lectures, delivered nearly ten years ago. The author discusses the transition of political thought from the province of the church to that of the state. “The nature and source of all authority is the final object of political research. From this everything else flows easily: communication is established on this basis with all the controversies that distracted medieval society and that form the subject of this book. The relationship of church and state—involving of necessity interminable arguments about the nature of a state, its rights, its moral code—the position of the individual in society: such are some of the catchwords of dispute throughout this fruitful period of political theorising.” (Sat. R.)
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+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 145. Ag. 10. 2200w.
“In detail, unfortunately, the volume leaves a good deal to be desired.” P. V. M. Benecke.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 352. Ap. ’08. 800w.
“This is an extremely valuable contribution to historical and political science. It embodies broad suggestion rather than detailed information; it is philosophical, not descriptive. A deep and accurate scholarship is revealed on every page, and the insight that gives life and usefulness to mere learning is not less conspicuous. There are very few points on which a critic familiar with the subject would venture to question the accuracy of Mr. Figgis in either his facts or his interpretations.” W: A. Dunning.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 708. D. ’07. 1320w.
“We congratulate Mr. Figgis on the publication of these lectures, and we hope that the wider audience will appreciate their value.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 455. O. 12, ’07. 1300w.
* =Filippi, Filippo de.= Ruwenzori: being an account of the expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, to the snow ranges situated between the equatorial lakes of Central Africa; tr. by Caroline de Filippi. *$8. Dutton.
“The volume is introduced with a preface written by the Duke himself. As compiled and written Signor de Filippi’s book is a narrative describing the adventures as well as the scientific researches of the Duke’s party from Mombasa to those snow-capped peaks in the interior, which were called by the ancients ‘Mountains of the moon.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“The translation is satisfactory, and the illustrations fully deserve this second mention in so brief and general a notice as the present one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 560w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 665. N. 14, ’08. 980w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Fillmore, Millard.= Millard Fillmore papers; ed. by Frank H. Severance. (Buffalo historical soc. Publications, v. 10–11.) 2v. *$7. Buffalo hist. soc.
A memorial prepared to perpetuate the name of the organizer and first president of the Buffalo historical society. “Besides the ‘Fillmore papers’ there are biographical introductions, an historical address by General J. G. Wilson, some interesting reminiscences and a dozen or more portraits. The papers themselves are arranged by Mr. Severance chronologically under appropriate headings and consist chiefly of legislative speeches, political addresses and private correspondence.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“The editor has shown excellent judgment, excluding the trivial or local matter which is too often allowed to cumber the pages of historical society publications. In both volumes few errata have been noticed and only a few slight errors. On the whole, one derives from these papers an increased respect for the honest conservatism of the man’s character and a deepened sense of his limitations as a statesman.” T. C. Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 876. Jl. ’08. 600w.
“While Mr. Severance has evidently spared no pains, and has collected in his introduction and notes a mass of data for which some future biographer will be grateful, his editorial work cannot be unqualifiedly praised.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 122. Ag. 6, ’08. 700w.
=Finley, William Lovell.= American birds, studied and photographed from life. il. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–36870.
“The text is divided into twenty-one chapters, each treating some one species or group of species, from the hummingbird to the golden eagle. Most of the studies were made in the extreme west ... but with few exceptions all have closely related eastern representatives, with habits differing but slightly. The facts relate chiefly to the conduct of parents at the breeding season and to the appearance, growth, and general characteristics of the young.” (Nation.) The illustrations, chiefly from Herman T. Bohlman’s photographs, are numerous and excellent.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08.
“One is tempted to dare a superlative and call this the most delightful bird book that has been written.” M. E. Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, 07. 300w.
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 50w.
“Fortunately, whatever errors the text might contain, the pictures can be trusted.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 51. Ja. 2, ’08. 240w.
“The text is uneven. Some chapters are excellent and thoroughly enjoyable; others are spoiled by a padding of unimportant details of uninteresting actions. The work is accurate as to observation and forms a real addition to our knowledge of Western bird life. It is, however, as a splendid record of the photographer’s skill in portraying the more intimate home life of wild birds that the volume deserves especial mention.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 17. Ja. 2, ’08. 440w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The text is delightful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 110w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 112. Ja. ’08. 160w.
“The chapters on the ‘Hummingbirds’ and the ‘Barn owls’ are especially interesting and instructive.” R. W. Hegner.
+ =School R.= 16: 272. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“In spite of the criticisms of such matters as are here suggested, the volume is a fresh contribution to popular ornithology, and is both interesting and informing in an unusual degree.” F. H. Herrick.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 182. Ja. 31, ’08. 2450w.
=Fisher, Herbert Albert L.= Bonapartism: six lectures delivered in the University of London. *$1.15. Oxford.
8–19594.
Six lectures which show that the Bonapartist governments of both First and Second empires “were to a large extent inspired by the same principles, rested upon the support of the same intellectual and social forces, ... and shared in the same kind of ruin.” The lectures are as follows: The bequest of the revolution, The growth of a legend, The Napoleonic state, Napoleon and Europe, The rise of the Second empire, and The downfall.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 686. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“That the author has telling gifts of historical presentation is clear on every page; his lucidity and power of summary are aided by a constant attention to literary form, and by a skilful use of some striking bits of literary material.” Victor Coffin.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 870. Jl. ’08. 960w.
“Deftness of touch and a happy choice of illustrative details are among the attractions of this volume. Among the chief defects of his method of treatment is that it tends to undue emphasis; and at several points we think that Mr. Fisher’s statements are strained, just as his style is occasionally tense and overloaded with adjectives.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 279. Mr. 7. 1400w.
“Vigorous and suggestive in grasp of matter and style of treatment.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“He ranges from the campaign of Italy to that of Sedan with a strong grasp of fact and a power of generalization that never flags. The book has the true historic ring, and should be useful for students of the period.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 150w.
“He writes about ‘Bonapartism,’ a word which he does not define, the existence of which he does not prove, and he has consequently produced by a tour de force a work of coruscating phrases, of high lights and deep shadows, but one which will not command the assent of the historian, the politician, or the man of common sense.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 303. Mr. 7, ’08. 1200w.
=Fisher, Irving.= Rate of interest: its nature, determination and relation to economic phenomena. *$3. Macmillan.
7–36195.
Professor Fisher of Yale bases his thesis largely upon the theories of Rae, Boehm-Bawerk and Landry. He expands these former versions of the theory by the introduction of an “income concept.” The solution he offers is that the rate of interest be made to depend upon the character of the income stream.
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“This is a notable work. Professor Fisher has made an enduring contribution to the progress of economic thought in emphasizing the peculiar psychical relation which the value of income sustains, through the principle of discount, to the value of capital.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 501. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“The treatise throughout is ‘Fisheresque’ ... that is to say, it is worked out with the author’s well known and unflinching thoroughness and his merciless (from the reader’s point of view) marshalling of details. It is also characterized throughout by a certain scientific hard-headedness which is not always found nowadays in writings upon capital and allied topics.” T. N. Carver.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 25. Ap. ’08. 700w.
Reviewed by H. J. Davenport.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 635. D. ’07. 3050w.
Reviewed by E. A. Bradford.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 820w.
=Spec.= 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Fisher, Sydney George.= Struggle for American independence. 2v. **$4. Lippincott.
8–14831.
A continuation and enlargement of “The true history of the American revolution” with which, a few years since, the author startled out of their complacency people who were willing to avoid “their own country’s birth pangs.” Rejecting tradition and substituting facts ascertained from original sources, the volumes become “an excellent corrective, worthy of careful study by all who would know of the revolution as it was.” (Ind.)
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“He has gone to the original sources for information; his citations and references are numerous and valuable; the arrangement of his material is good, and his style is readable and attractive. Yet however creditable his work, it must be confessed that the author seems excessively ‘otherwise-minded,’ and his spirit of criticism and correction seem, in a measure, to outrun his spirit of historical impartiality and fairness.” J. A. Woodburn.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 143. O. ’08. 1150w.
“Gives a full, detailed, interesting account but is written in a bad spirit and sometimes places wrong interpretations and emphasis upon accepted facts.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 181. Je. ’08.
“His ‘true’ history of the American revolution does not differ in large degree from those heretofore written.” E. E. Sparks.
+ =Dial.= 45: 110. S. 1, ’08. 970w.
“The story here told is interesting and convincing. Mr. Fisher has good literary ability and the faculty of knowing a point when he sees it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 96. Jl. 9, ’08. 680w.
“Whether Mr. Fisher’s position be admitted or rejected, his volumes cannot be overlooked by any who wish to be well informed upon the origins and fundamentals of our nation or the future of England’s colonial relations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 1150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 160w.
“However he may have erred in detail, he has taken a large view of a large subject, has explored it with painstaking, honest effort, and, despite his unfortunate preface, has written a book that will be enjoyed even by those most inclined to dissent from its conclusions.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 39. S. 5, ’08. 1700w.
“He has made a commendable attempt to deal frankly with this evidence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 110w.
“There is no end to the histories of the war of independence, but Mr. Sydney Fisher can give a good reason for writing his.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 870w.
=Fisk, George Mygatt.= International commercial policies, with special reference to the United States: a text book. (Citizen’s lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–39069.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 102. Ap. ’08. ✠
“The work is valuable for its clear English, its direct statements and its rounded treatment of a broad subject within the compass of a text-book of less than three hundred pages, including the excellent bibliographies appended to each chapter.” F. D. Watson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 522. Mr. ’08. 230w.
“On the whole the book is a worthy addition to the ‘Citizens’ library,’ and will prove stimulating to college students taking courses in commerce or economics.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 495. Ag. 27, ’08. 170w.
“Throughout the book the treatment is concise—possibly, at times, too concise—and is descriptive and expository rather than controversial. The book is especially strong on its pedagogical side.” H. S. Smalley.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 168. Mr. ’08. 750w.
“A very useful handbook.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 564. S. ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 60w.
=Fitzpatrick, Samuel A. O.= Dublin: a historical and topographical account of the city; il. by W. Curtis Green. (Ancient cities.) *$1.75. Dutton.
8–3118.
“Six of Mr. Fitzpatrick’s eleven chapters are given to the different periods of the city’s life; another deals with Trinity college. The social life of the city from the time when records of the subject begin to be available, the municipal history, the theatre, which has achieved no small distinction, are successively treated, and there is a separate account of ‘Historic houses and distinguished Dubliners.’ The cathedrals of Christ church and St. Patrick are duly described.”—Spec.
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“Is not only the best book that has so far been written on Dublin—it is the best volume which has yet appeared in the series.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 627. Je. 29, ’07. 420w.
“The author is a careful man, and has learnt a great deal about his subject.... In recording so many facts an author cannot be infallible, and we add some suggestions, which may be of use when a new edition is in sight.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 754. Je. 22. 1080w.
“The volume is not so attractive in style or dress as Mr. Chart’s, but as a guide to Dublin, old and new, it is equally exact and useful. There is no modern map.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23. ’08. 100w.
“To many the most interesting part of the text will be its account of early history. That of Dublin is specially interesting.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
“A carefully written and interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 169. Ag. 3, ’07. 180w.
=Flammarion, Camille.= Mysterious psychic forces. **$2.50. Small.
7–30610.
The author “describes his first experiences at seances, his own experiments, with Eusapia Paiadino, the experiments of the Dialectical society of London and of Sir William Crookes and others, drawing from them his own theories and conclusions.” (Lit. D.)
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=Dial.= 45: 119. S. 1, ’08. 320w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14. ’07. 60w.
“An honest record of long and careful scientific study.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 417. Mr. 21, ’08. 400w.
“A complete account of the like investigations on the continent of Europe has as yet been wanting. This book comes nearer than any other to filling the gap.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 846. D. 21, ’07. 580w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 40w.
=Flandrau, Charles Macomb.= Viva, Mexico! **$1.25. Appleton.
8–28075.
A description of Mexico and the Mexicans which gives an intimate insight into the social, political, religious, and commercial life. It is the traveler’s Mexico that is projected in panorama upon the author’s canvas with the certain details that catch the tourist’s eye but which are too often omitted from guide books.
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“An entertaining book in which the author with unrestrained frankness quaintly discusses Mexican things that interest him. It touches upon social, religious, political, and business topics, and handles them all in bold, independent fashion and with as much carefulness as a writer with a whimsical and somewhat humorous disposition could be expected to exhibit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 440w.
=Fleming, John Dick.= Israel’s golden age: a story of the United kingdom. (Handbooks for Bible classes.) *45c. imp. Scribner.
8–32325.
“The standpoint of the author is historical, his spirit is profoundly religious.... The difficulties of the narratives of this early period are frankly recognized and the religious limitations of the time are fully allowed for, but the emphasis of the book is on the positive and progressive elements in the history, rather than upon its defects and weaknesses.”—Bib. World.
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“A student who works through the period of Saul and David under Professor Fleming’s guidance will have a new conception of Old Testament history and religion.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 341. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“The author possesses interpretative insight in a marked degree, and is master of a pleasing style. The historical judgment of the author is well balanced and his book may be highly commended to all teachers of Bible classes.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 79. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Professor Fleming has treated it in a scholarly manner.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 60w.
“Professor Fleming has found his way through the conflicting sources with no small skill, and his manual affords sufficient help for the serious student to form his own opinions intelligently.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 110w.
=Fleshman, Arthur Cary.= Educational process. (Lippincott’s educational ser.) $1.25. Lippincott.
An attempt, the author says, to organize a new doctrine of education out of an old theory of thought. The author yields to the latter-day conclusions that life is a spiritual process; that activity is spiritual. He takes the problems of education out of the domain of the mechanical, experimental, physiological, physical and psycho-physical and explains them as spiritual processes.
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“Is neither original in method nor brilliant in style.”
− =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Fletcher, Beaumont.= Richard Wilson. (Makers of British art ser.) *$1.25. Scribner.
8–33825.
A sketch which aims to give proper prominence to a famous landscape painter whose merit during the century and more since his death has been overlooked. The sketch takes into account the conditioning factors of his life, his education, and his place in art. The volume is made complete by reproductions of his pictures, a list of authorities consulted, and an index.
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“It is quite time something of the sort should have appeared.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 45: 208. O. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“That the facts are so few may well be no fault of the author, but as much cannot be said for the paucity of ideas.”
− =Nation.= 86: 542. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.
“To those interested either in his work or in the larger question of the development of landscape art the book can be recommended. Whether agreeing with the author’s estimate of the artist’s importance or not, the facts presented and the opinions of other writers freely drawn upon give value and interest to the biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 312. My. 30, ’08. 480w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 533. Jl. 4, ’08. 450w.
=Fletcher, Ella Adelia.= Law of the rhythmic breath: teaching the generation, conservation, and control of vital force. *$1. Fenno.
Explains the bare truths of the rhythmic breath as taught in ancient Hindu philosophy and developed by the author.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 668. N. 14, ’08. 170w.
=Fletcher, Horace.= Optimism, a real remedy; with a foreword by William Dana Orcutt. **75c. McClurg.
8–1690.
Horace Fletcher, identified with furthering the Gladstonian doctrine of excessive chewing, shows the life-prolonging influence of physiologic optimism. He discusses the passing of medicine, optimism as opportunism, and happiness after fifty.
=Fletcher, J. S.= Book about Yorkshire. *$2. McClure.
“A book about Yorkshire, with thirty-two illustrations, half of which are attractive sketches in colour, covers the wide field of things worth seeing and saying as well as a single volume could. Much more might, of course, be said about scenery, and charms of wood and water; but these things are in the guide-books, and we think the author was well advised in laying stress rather on Yorkshire dialect, customs, folk-lore, and oddities as well as the churches, castles, and great-houses which always figure in these county records.”—Ath.
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=Ath.= 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 130w.
“All in all, his book is an important contribution to the literature of his country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 540w.
“He has selected and arranged his material admirably.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 338. S. 12, ’08. 250w.
“He has used his eyes and the historical records with judgment, and has done his best to give us a real notion of the wealth of interest and association that lies in the great shire.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 65. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
=Fletcher, Joseph Smith.= Harringtons of Highcroft farm. il. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–8308.
The story of a Yorkshire homestead which introduces an over worked, much abused young hero. “There is something pleasant about the air of the sixties, which is the period of this tale. Uncle Benjamin stands for what villain there is, and Uncle Dick is that misunderstood and self-sacrificing artist whom we may remember even further back than the sixties. And is not the wilful daughter of an earl who weds in due time with the yeoman’s son a creature of that bygone generation?” (Ath.)
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“The very headings of the chapters acquaint us that we are committed to an old-fashioned and somewhat dull story.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 613. N. 17. 150w.
“Chronicle is a better name than novel for this book. Its interest is not so much in how it all turns out as in the personality of every separate member of the Harrington family.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 102. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“The manner of the book is charming, quiet, placid, but with much depth and richness of feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 233. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
=Fletcher, Joseph Smith.= Mothers in Israel: a study in rustic amenities. †$1.25. Moffat.
8–19023.
The two “mothers in Israel” are two Yorkshire farmers’ wives with marriageable daughters. They begin their backbiting when they learn that the young minister has become engaged to the schoolmistress. The rustic amenities referred to in the sub-title are lying, slander, evil-speaking, and malice. “There are not wanting graphic touches of village landscape and figures, and if some readers feel cheated out of tragedy, others will take comfort in comedy, for the curtain falls on backbiters thoroughly frustrated, if not in the least reformed.” (Nation.)
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“He handles [Yorkshire village life] tenderly and with a sense of humour.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 130w.
“The study is made with the utmost seriousness of intention, and the utmost solemnity of belief.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 200w.
“The book is redolent of fresh Yorkshire butter, sun-baked fields, and blooming chestnuts, and it makes amusing and restful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 198. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The author has managed to invest his characters with reality.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 342. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.
“Apart from the special purpose of the book, ‘Mothers in Israel’ is a well-constructed picture of life in a Yorkshire village, and the portraits of the two principal characters and of the clergyman’s housekeeper, Elizabeth, are drawn in a very clear and lifelike manner.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 383. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Flexner, Abraham.= American college: a criticism. **$1. Century.
8–30713.
An analysis of the educational procedure of the American college from the moment when it tells the secondary school how the boy is to be made ready for college to the day when he receives his bachelor’s degree. The chapters are as follows: The problem defined, The development of the college, The college and the secondary school, The elective system, Graduate and undergraduate and The way out.
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“The author’s tone is very dogmatic, far more so than either his experience or his knowledge of the subject would seem to justify. What he has chiefly done is to record his impressions of the impressions of other people. Mr. Flexner’s aims are of the best but his diagnosis is faulty and his information is neither sufficient nor exact.”
− + =Educ. R.= 36: 513. D. ’08. 720w.
=Fling, Fred Morrow.= Mirabeau and the French revolution. 3v. v. 1. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–25730.
=v. 1.= The youth of Mirabeau.
The first instalment of a three part biography. The divisions as outlined for the three volumes accord with the well marked phases of Mirabeau’s life, and are as follows: (1) His youth; (2) His public career to the beginning of the revolutionary crisis; (3) His activities in the assembly. The aim is to study Mirabeau as a product of his times, to follow his emergence from a background of historical conditioning forces. In this first volume the sketch of his first twenty-five years is preceded by a presentation of the struggle against arbitrary government in France, and of the origin and rise of the Riqueti, also by four chapters on the direct antecedents of Mirabeau.
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“It is careful, learned, and rich in bibliographical references.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 809. N. 28, ’08. 740w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is characterized by a large and coherent plan, a mastery of voluminous material, a power of presenting characters in just relief against the background of the age, by moderation of judgment and detachment of view. The style is marred by an occasional awkwardness of phrase and a translation at times too literal. The note at the bottom of page 153 contains some errors of dates.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Prof. Fling has achieved something very like a masterpiece in [its] kind. If the forthcoming volumes are as interesting and valuable as the first they will be welcome to all students and to the general reader as well.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 575. O. 17, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Floy, Henry.= Compilation of the records of the Colorado Springs lighting controversy; with an introd. and epitome. *$4. Illuminating engineering pub. co., N. Y.
8–3931.
“In an introductory section, the author gives a historical résumé of the case, together with comments on its main features and conclusions.... The report of the testimony comprises the great part of the contents of the book.”—Elec. World.
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“The book will be of particular value to central stations having municipal contracts for street lighting.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 730. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“It is a work that will be of permanent value to electrical engineers and lawyers throughout the country.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 528. My. ’08. 300w.
“The immediate interest of the book to engineers lies in the statements under oath of several men generally recognized as experts in arc-lamp illumination.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 210. F. 20, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Flynt, Josiah.= My life; with an introd. by Arthur Symons. *$2. Outing. pub.
8–30135.
The self-written “life” of the man, who, instinct with human curiosity, sounded the depths of the under-world and brought back experiences which he casts in the human document form. Early life, his rebellion against order, his days in a reform school, his escape and early tramping experiences, his voyage to Germany as a coal-passer, his life and wanderings in Europe, the friendship with Arthur Symons whom he called his literary god-father, his meeting with Tolstoy are all full of human interest.
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“His narrative is all the more characteristic from its lack of polish. Like all that he has written, it is extremely interesting, even though far less interesting than his talk is said to have been.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 338. N. 16, ’08. 1850w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1176. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
“The book will perhaps sufficiently appeal to those who care for autobiography for its own sake. There is much of the joy of vagabondage in it, little of achievement. The telling of the story is easy, in spite of its disjointed quality. In the latter part of the book coherence is lacking, and its anecdotal quality is but mildly interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Fogazzaro, Antonio.= Politician; being the English tr. of his “Daniele Cortis,” done by G. Mantellini. $1.50. Luce, J. W.
8–4034.
A strongly emotional story of a young Italian politician’s love for the wife of a thoroly bad senator. Duty prevails to the point of renunciation, grief is quelled by the call to work, and one must be satisfied with the triumph of moral justice.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 556. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“The American reader who happens to possess no special knowledge of the affairs of church and state in modern Italy may find it more readable than the novels of the trilogy. Not only is the English thoroughly shiftless and awkward, nowhere rising to the plane of Fogazzaro’s Italian, but the pages are sown thick with the most astonishing errors in translation.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Translated into excellent and sympathetic English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 96. F. 15, ’08. 60w.
“A keen, fond eye for natural scenery, and the passionate Italian temperament of the interlocutors, pervade the narrator. This, as well as ‘The sinner,’ while not lacking in dramatic situations and tragic interest, has little of that significance for the neo-Catholic movement which gave such popularity to ‘The saint.’”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 652. Mr. 21, ’08. 170w.
=Folwell, William Watts.= Minnesota, the North star state. (American commonwealths.) **$1.25. Houghton.
8–29356.
A concise narrative, based upon original sources, in which events are unfolded in their relation to the political and economic development of the state without diminution of their dramatic interest. The author has been identified with the public interests of the state for the past forty years, holding for many years the chair of Political Science at the state university.
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“Mr. Folwell offers a readable compend of the state’s history, and by reason of having had access to several sources of original information not previously available he has made considerable additions to those already before the public. The final chapter would have been of more interest and value had it treated more fully recent political developments.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 653. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Folwell writes with considerable dash and vigor, and with a frankness that will scarcely be relished by the survivors among the land and timber manipulators and other corruptionists who were so much in evidence in Minnesota during its formative period. This frankness, however, and an uncompromising insistence on viewing the facts of history from the standpoint of a sturdy morality, far more than compensate for certain minor defects in treatment and construction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 789. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
=Fontaine, Lamar.= My life and my lectures. *$3. Neale.
8–16524.
The experiences of an invincible hero who as school boy, Indian, hunter, or civil engineer, escaped the arrows aimed at the vulnerable heel. During sixteen years he wandered in China, Egypt, India, Palestine and South America after which he enlisted with the Fourth Mississippi infantry of the Confederate army.
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“In spite of the savage delight he had in killing and fighting and in writing about it ad nauseam, the author has a graphic way in relating details of adventure that is often admirable. The book with all its brutality, bad grammar, and conceit, was well worth while as presenting a character the like of which may never be seen again. One ought to be sufficient.”
− + =Lit. D.= 37: 228. Ag. 15, ’08. 730w.
“He tells of [his adventures] interestingly and with happy, pleasant, humorous touches that serve to lighten the narrative of peril and of suffering.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 140w.
=Forbes, Henry Prentiss.= Johannine literature and the Acts of the apostles. (International handbooks to the New Testament, no. 4.) **$2. Putnam.
7–15616.
“The general view taken of the Acts is that ‘it is history in the ancient, Oriental, religious, not in the modern, Occidental, critical sense.’ The Fourth gospel is regarded as an idealization of material more or less historical by ‘an Asian Christian’ of the second century, and is presented as such with the remark, ‘The truth of fiction may be most lifegiving; it is the ideal which endures.’”—Outlook.
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“One will find much suggestive treatment of important passages without the confusion of encyclopedic detail. A bibliography might have been added without defeating the object of the series and one finds the index to the four volumes too compact.” R. H. Ferris.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 479. Jl. ’08. 670w.
“Concise and useful introductions and commentaries prepared from the critical point of view.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 480. Je. ’07. 30w.
“The author contrives to inspire faith in his guidance as a well-equipped interpreter, with stores of learning of which he makes no parade, and sufficient warmth of religious sympathy to prevent anyone from being wounded by his clearcut decision.” J. E. Carpenter.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 460. Ja. ’08. 220w.
“Mastery of critical material, however it be interpreted, and spiritual appreciation of Jesus are alike conspicuous in this volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 132. S. 21, ’07. 190w.
=Ford, Sewell.= Side-stepping with Shorty. il. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–12803.
Sprightliness, sympathy with human nature and an abounding sense of humor are the requisites for “side-stepping with Shorty.” When once the reader has acquired the necessary momentum, there is no stopping until he reaches the last page. For Shorty makes no pauses for observation; he sees in transit, thinks while on the move, and delivers himself of his wit at every breath. The twenty skits present people with their foibles lying close to their saner ideals.
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“The substance has that essential vulgarity of which a sound realism, however unflinching, is never really in danger.”
− =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 180w.
“Shorty sees a good deal of life and tells about it with a zest and an unconventionality of expression that make his stories as breezy as the sidewalks round about the Times building on a windy day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 90w.
“A very humorous story, containing some of the mirthful qualities of ‘Mr. Dooley,’ Dickens’s Sam Weller, and the dry wit and shrewdness of Mark Twain.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 80w.
=Forel, August Henri.= Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and disease; authorized tr. from the second German ed. by Herbert Austin Aikens. (Science ser., no. 16.) **$2. Putnam.
7–20717.
The first part of the book contains an “outline of the author’s view of mental phenomena, and of the relation of mind to brain, a singularly brief but neat and clean cut account of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system, and an illuminating consideration of development and of the significance of the Darwinian doctrines and the mnemetic engraphy of Semon.... The second part treats of the pathology of the nervous life.... Nervous hygiene in the most general sense is treated in the last third of the book.” (Nation.)
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“Dr. Austin Aikins has performed his task of translation well and faithfully, and there is a good index.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 276. S. 7. 480w.
“With no unusual programme or originality of view, or indeed with any notable message to deliver, Professor Forel has used his intimate acquaintance with the phenomena from all sides to set forth in plain language a convenient survey of the data now available for the understanding of the hygiene of the mind.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 583. O. 8, ’08. 520w.
“The work is a clear and sensible treatment of the questions involved, and deserves to be widely read.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 500. N. 28, ’07. 220w.
=Forster, Hugh O. A-.= English socialism of to-day: its teachings and its aims examined. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–17762.
A criticism of socialism, polemical in its nature, written from the point of view of the British politician who maintains that he owes his liberties to the protection of the British constitution: “but that the constitution lends itself readily to legislation coercive of his liberties where such legislation is thought to be necessary on behalf of a depressed section of society.” The author deals only with the socialism of the active propagandist who is negligible in his practices however right his theories may be.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“The book shows throughout a woeful lack of understanding of economic principles and is written in a prejudiced and bombastic style which is as unscientific and blatant as the most extreme socialist pamphlets which he criticises.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 440. S. ’08. 90w.
“When he discusses economical questions, they are handled so briefly that the result is far from satisfactory.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 158. F. 8. 330w.
“In much of this discussion the argument is attenuated, being little more than the assertion that a majority of the English people do not desire such changes as the socialists favor.” F. A. Fetter.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 147. Je. ’08. 300w.
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Arnold-Forster’s original contributions are not disparaged when it is said that the main usefulness of his book lies rather in the selections and arrangements of his authorities than in the original additions, for nobody has done just this thing, and it is a thing which much needed doing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 1700w.
“He does not help matters by the abuse, invective, and sarcasm with which he assails socialism in general and English socialism in particular.” W. A. Bruce.
− + =Outlook.= 89: 386. Je. 20, ’08. 1000w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 302. Mr. 7, ’08. 300w.
“His criticism of the ordinary propaganda of socialism is most effective, and as it is throughout documented by appropriate references to socialist authorities, his book will be most useful.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 465. Mr. 21, ’08. 630w.
=Forsyth, Rev. Peter Taylor.= Positive preaching and modern mind: the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching, Yale university, 1907. *$1.75. Armstrong.
8–9053.
“The lecturer exalts the place of preaching with a fresh emphasis. It is essential to worship. It is the creed of the church, expressed for the stimulus and growth of the Christian body. It must be modern, taking account of science and criticism, though it must not preach these. But while all is conceded to criticism—Bible, historical Jesus, theology—‘gospel’ is above criticism. And ‘gospel’ is that the divine Christ through atonement expiates human guilt, so that in Him the holy God actually redeems men.”—Bib. World.
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=Bib. World.= 31: 400. My. ’08. 120w.
“The book is stimulating and suggestive, and should especially be read by those liberal divines who will most dissent from it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 436. Ag. 20, ’08. 400w.
“These lectures on preaching are throughout a keen struggle in favour of reality, and it is hard to know which to admire more, their moral earnestness or their intellectual grip.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 387. D. 20, ’07. 450w.
“It is a long time since the subject of Christian preaching has been approached with such thoroughness and such deeply religious earnestness as in these Yale lectures of Principal Forsyth.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 284. Mr. 26, ’08. 400w.
“Short, pithy, illuminative sentences, biting, clear, and sometimes humorous, are what men want. And they will find them here. Yet it is to be confessed that this style sometimes becomes monotonous. Its very agility wearies the reader, who longs for a rest in the easy swing of the discarded ‘period.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 250w.
“Though they provoked dissent as a harking back toward scholasticism, these lectures are certainly virile and vitalizing, and quite up to the high standard of the Yale lectureship. Notwithstanding their defects, there is a note of moral life and inspiration throughout these lectures which is both tonic and timely.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 560. Mr. 7, ’08. 600w.
“It is refreshing to find someone courageous enough to say these and other unfashionable things, and able to say them racily.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 24. Jl. 4, ’08. 460w.
=Foster, Maximillian.= Corrie who? †$1.50. Small.
8–30937.
The story of an orphan child’s struggle to discover her identity which was craftily guarded by relatives who wished to control her money.
=Foster, William Trufant.= Argumentation and debating. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–19899.
A book in which the author is concerned with the art and method of debating rather than the formulation of the principles. “While it insists rigorously upon method, order, and system, as the ‘back-bone of argument,’ it avoids all pedantries of classification and terminology, and addresses itself strictly to practical ends.... A copious appendix gives specimens of analysis, briefs, material for briefing, a forensic, and a complete specimen debate, a model for instruction to judges and for the formation of a debating league, together with 275 debatable propositions.” (Nation.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“It is scientific in method and helpful in suggestion to the student.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16. ’08. 40w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“Is one of the most satisfactory books in this field.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Four-Pools= mystery. †$1.50. Century.
8–8103.
The mysterious events here recorded take place on a Southern plantation whither a New Yorker, a worn-out lawyer, goes for a vacation. The series of uncanny happenings, culminating in a tragedy, involve the prospects and honor of the youngest son of the house of Radnor. The mystery is finally cleared up by a New York newspaper man, a quick witted Irishman. Plantation life, negro superstition and fear of the “ha’nt”, and the honor of the southern gentleman are clearly portrayed.
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“A rattling good detective story, not up to Conan Doyle’s best, but with decided ‘go,’ and without the objectionable features which so frequently attend the tale of mystery.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“This story is one of the best mystery tales of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The story itself is a good one, but nothing positively astonishing. The chief virtue of the book is that it introduces in the character of Terry K. Patten an amateur detective of real individuality; potentially the most entertaining figure of this kind that has appeared since Sherlock Holmes.”
+ =Bookm.= 27: 235. My. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 150w.
“There is a verve to the story which, it seems, would survive dramatization, for there is no waste of words, the padding being ‘blue penciled’ to the skeleton.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08, 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“A rather clever specimen of its class, better written than many crime-tales, and original in its subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
* =Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft (Mrs. Alfred Laurence Felkin).= Miss Fallowfield’s fortune. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–29869.
A woman longing for wealth finally inherits it, weds late in life a clergyman, is lost at sea on her honeymoon, supposedly the husband too. Her property was to revert to a niece in case the wife survived her husband; if he should be the last to die, it passed to his son. The legal question of a successor, a romance, and the final return of the husband furnish incidents in plenty.
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“The plot is thin, and not devoid of what may be called common-place improbabilities.”
− =Ath.= 1908. 2: 603. N. 14. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“It has a better constructed and more reasonable plot than this author has ever made use of before, and the incidents and characters are woven together with rather more skill than she has heretofore shown. A strong and earnest religious feeling permeates the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 250w.
“It is an ill-assorted jumble of religious precept, misplaced melodrama, and many amusing conversations between rather stupid persons.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 751. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
“The author moralises at great length throughout this disjointed story. The plot is not of sufficient interest to make us resent such interruptions, but unfortunately the moralising is banal in the extreme.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 644. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
=Fox, Edgar Alonzo.= Pastor’s place of privilege and power in the Sunday school. 75c. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.
7–39010.
In this book is found “A compilation of ideas” expressed by prominent writers on the subject of the pastor as a factor in the Sunday school work.
=Fox, John, jr.= Trail of the lonesome pine. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–27497.
“The story, briefly told, is that of the growth and development of a particularly beautiful and attractive mountain girl, ‘June’ Tolliver, a fascinating and picturesque heroine who finally added the training of the cities to the charm of the mountains. The development of her mind and love for ‘John Hale, engineer’, the hero, a human man of triumphs and mistakes, furnishes the thread around which is woven the stirring tale of feuds and fighting in the Kentucky mountains and the arousing of a mountain village to a realization of law and order through the pluck and determination of the young engineer.”—R. of Rs.
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“Mr. Fox’s world is a wholesome one, and he inspires his readers with an increased respect for the elemental things of life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 268. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Fox’s minor characters are more truly set forth than his hero and heroine, and the incidents of the plot are more plausible than the plot itself. For the enjoyment of such a book one must fall back on the local colour.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 364. D. ’08. 950w.
“The author presents very admirably the poetic side of mountain life, even lifting the spirit of its feuds into something like rude knight errantry.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 20w.
“It is melodrama—granted; but melodrama of so high a grade, so joyous an enthusiasm, and so compelling an interest as to give its reader an hour of uncritical pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
“He has invested a somewhat simple and not especially original tale of the Southern mountains ... with a new sense of reality and a very winning charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 570. O. 17, ’08. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“It is one of the freest, most vigorous and interesting pieces of writing that will fall into the hands of American readers this autumn.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by Agnes Repplier.
=Outlook.= 90: 701. N. 28, ’08. 320w.
“In ‘The trail of the lonesome pine’ Mr. Fox has exceeded even the strength and beauty of ‘The little shepherd of Kingdom Come.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 632. N. ’08. 1000w.
=Francis of Assisi, St.= Little flowers of St. Francis of Assisi; newly revised and augmented version of the tr. by T. W. Arnold. (Art and letters lib.) *$3. Duffield.
A collection of episodes or “the fairest and choicest flowers of the seraphic life of St. Francis and his companions.” “In this popular and mystical legend, St. Francis, encircled with a halo of love and charity, and shining with pure glory which no cloud of criticism is able to dim, appears like a knight of the San Graal in the immortal legend of the north.” Contains some quaint illustrations reproduced from a fourteenth century manuscript.
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“We can recommend it to any one in search of a first-class edition of this classic of religious literature.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 680. N. 28. 350w.
“These illustrations convey very happily the mediaeval atmosphere.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 579. D. 10, ’08. 70w.
=Frank, Henry.= Mastery of mind in the making of man. $1. Fenno.
8–24255.
A study of the practical application of the laws of psychic force, telepathy, and mental magnetism to man’s mental, moral and physical requirements. The first division of the study is devoted to the psychic factors; the second, to the physical instruments; and the third to the moral agents.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 484. S. 5, ’08. 110w.
=Frankau, Mrs. Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Heart of a child. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11080.
From Sally Snape of the gutter to Lady Kidderminster, prominent in London society, is a long way. Yet the author has spanned the chasm with a development as convincing as it is phenomenal. A wondrous crown of bronze hair set off the pallor of Sally’s face, the green of her eyes and the slightness of her figure. In the tailor shop, in the pickling factory, in the show-room of a London shop, and in a London music-hall, Sally earned an honest living; immune from temptation, she was sound to the core. Without wiles or affectation, she unconsciously works her way to Lord Kidderminster’s heart, loves and is loved; with his home for a background she loses her sharp outlines but nothing of her truth and simplicity.
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“A sense of reality in this novel overbears the incongruities and improbabilities of conduct, character, and incident. The nature of the girl shows originality of conception.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 349. Mr. 21. 300w.
“Mrs. Frankau has attempted to maintain the affirmative side of a thesis.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 303. My. ’08. 1000w.
“The author’s realism, as exhibited in her earlier books, has often come near to being disgusting, but in the present instance, save for a few touches of vulgarity, it is realism of a good and honest sort.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“It is a clever book and an entertaining one, and a welcome one for its wholesome tone.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 551. S. 3, ’08. 90w
“The sordid cataloguing is done with brisk touch and with affronting thoroughness.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 333. Ap. 9, ’08. 250w.
“The heroine’s childlike heart is rather difficult to believe in, but otherwise the story is cleverly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 182. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 337. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“Few books of recent publication hold the reader’s attention more closely.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 39. My. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Sarah Snape, the heroine of Mrs. Frankau’s story, does not prove her case, because she is an impossible creature.”
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 241. My. ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 765. Je. ’08. 100w.
“Though the book is rather the presentation than the interpretation of character, and misses in more ways than one a breadth of handling, it well deserves to be read for the very qualities that make Sally an acquisition to her new station.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 442. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.
“It is a fine bit of work. The one scene which we should like to see away is in chap. 21.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 582. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Franklin, Fabian.= People and problems: a collection of addresses and editorials. **$1.50. Holt.
8–14656.
Gleanings from the editorial work of a man who was called from the chair of mathematics in Johns Hopkins university to become editor of the Baltimore news. There are four addresses and about sixty editorials. Of the latter many relate to conditions which have passed, but the chapters are none the less valuable as sidelights on events of the last decade and more.
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“In these editorials, we find a distinctly refreshing viewpoint put forth by a thinker of more than usual sympathy and breadth.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 624. N. ’08. 180w.
“There is enough of present interest in the book to give it life as a whole, while every page is marked by a style so little ‘journalistic’ as to make the entire volume attractive.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 300w.
“These comments on current events are not merely of historical interest, but are valuable as examples of the best style of American editorial writing, sensible and well informed as well as pertinent and readable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 157. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.
“But the chief impress of Professor Franklin’s previous studies must be sought in that moderation, with that striving after the just and fair statement, which most strikes one in these collected writings.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 270w.
“It is a good thing, as a sort of monument to journalism, that the work of one of its ablest exponents should thus be put into permanent form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 300. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
“We find the viewpoint that of the thoughtful, cultured American student who has radical ideas but believes in applying them conservatively and the clear, lucid style which characterizes all good newspaper editorial writing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=Franklin, William Suddards, and McNutt, Barry.= Elements of mechanics: a textbook for colleges and technical schools. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–23872.
“Contains many novel examples as a result of his determined efforts to bring together the abstract and concrete which the average student keeps in separate compartments of his brain. Thus we find that in the laundry it is the force, 4π^2n^2rm which wrings the water from the clothes, and that if a batsman will solve the equation Mxy = k he can tell just where to hit the ball so that the bat will not sting his hands.”—Nation.
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“The diagrams and sketches used in this book are new and to the point, the problems are numerous, and the discussions logical and concise.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 100w.
“Does not present any new features worthy of notice, except that inaccuracies and lack of precision in the statement of scientific principles are numerous.” E. G. C.
− =Nature.= 77: 29. N. 14, ’07. 350w.
=Fraprie, Frank Roy.= Castles and keeps of Scotland. $3. Page.
7–39017.
Being a description of sundry fortresses, towers, peels, and other houses of strength built by the princes and barons of old time in the highlands, islands, inlands and borders of the ancient and Godfearing kingdom of Scotland. History and romance as well as architectural characteristics are brought together here and excellent illustrations add to the value of the sketch. Uniform with Francis Miltoun’s “Castles and chateaux of old Touraine” and “Castles and chateaux of old Navarre.”
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“The principal value of the book lies in its usefulness and convenience, bringing together, as it does, information only to be found by consulting many books.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 136. My. ’08.
“As the only popular hand-book on the subject, it will be sure to find an eager welcome.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 57. Ja. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Is a storehouse of Scotch history and romance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
“An interesting and, to the traveler, valuable handbook.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 190w.
=Fraser, Edward.= Champions of the fleet: captains and men-of-war and days that helped to make the empire. *$1.50. Lane.
W8–35.
“It is made up of tales of the English navy and of the fighting men who through the centuries since Elizabeth’s time have made for it a long and glorious history. He tells how many of the famous names still carried by English battleships were first chosen by the great Queen herself in a characteristic combination of high-heartedness and shrewd policy. Much space is given to stories of Trafalgar and to the fleet in Nelson’s time. There is a chapter also on what the navy did for Clive in India, and there are many stories of the building of famous ships and of their deeds in battle.”—N. Y. Times.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“In painting his portraits of ships and men Mr. Fraser has made full and skilful use of local colour.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 547. N. 2, ’07. 220w.
“Mr. Fraser, if he has not unearthed very much that is new, has certainly rediscovered some things and given us fresh sidelights on others. The illustrations are excellent and in keeping, and contribute to the making of an eminently fascinating book.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 380w.
=Fraser, Edward.= “Londons” of the British fleet: how they faced the enemy on the day of battle and what their story means for us to-day. *$1.50. Lane.
“A well-written account of the six naval vessels which have borne the name of London, from the time of Oliver Cromwell to Edward VII. Incidentally there are woven into the thread of the story many bits of fact and gossip which throw light on naval life and manners”—Nation.
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“The volume is eminently readable and instructive.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 560w.
“Mr. Fraser has collected an astonishing amount of interesting information concerning the building of the ‘Londons,’ their services and their crews. He quite rightly tells us plenty of the naval history of the time. Indeed, he almost loses his equanimity and sequence of ideas in holding up Lord Sandwich’s administration to contempt, running to so much repetition and redundancy as to impair our appreciation of his ordinary lucidity.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 811. N. 21, ’08. 460w.
=Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.= Shoulders of Atlas. †$1.50. Harper.
8–18373.
Against the familiar New England background Mrs. Freeman portrays another group of fascinating people. There are Sylvia and Henry Whitman, who, when a windfall comes, regret the fashion in which Henry had been wont to sour his shoe-shop drudgery with chronic discontent; there is Sylvia’s boarder, the schoolmaster, reveling in the old mahogany of the new home; his assistant, a beautiful woman whose brief career and whose death are shrouded in mystery; there is the altogether charming Rose Fletcher, who slips into the lives of East Westlandites and lays siege to every heart; and there is Rose’s rival, a passion-mad girl who resorts to tears for herself and poison for others. Sylvia is the Atlas of the title. She bears a burden of conscience which in the end proves unwarranted.
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“This note of mystery is forced throughout, but none the less the book is full of human interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 38. Jl. 11. 220w.
“This novel outranks ‘Jerome’ and ‘Jane Field’ and Mrs. Freeman’s other dramas of conscience and of New England.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 280w.
“The book is disappointing, because it is disjointed and repellent.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 325. S. 5, ’08. 140w.
“In the Aunt Sylvia of this tale Mrs. Freeman has produced another of her little masterpieces of New England portraiture.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 500w.
“An absorbing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 345. Je. 13, ’08. 320w.
“This study of the conscience of a plain New England woman will interest any who have problems of their own and redeems the blemishes of the book already mentioned.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 450w.
“Hard in style, but startling in its rendering of human nature in type and individual.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Freeman, William George, and Chandler, Stafford Edwin.= World’s commercial products: a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses; with contributions by T. A. Henry, C. E. Jones and E. H. Wilson. *$3.50. Ginn.
7–22708.
“The subtitle of this work, ‘A descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses,’ indicates far more clearly than does the title the scope and character of the book. The work is not primarily for the specialist, technicalities and tables of statistics being carefully excluded, while the illustrations, colored plates, and maps run into the hundreds.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“It is to be hoped that the book in general is more accurate than the chapter on corn which I have critically examined as a test.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 709. My. ’08. 350w.
“The merit of the book is that it presents in the English language a good general summary of information concerning the more important economic plants, their cultivation and commercial utilization.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 644. D. ’07. 110w.
“An important omission is a summary of the commercial values and exportable surplus of the agricultural staples of different lands. The maps, together with the illustrations, are perhaps as valuable as the letterpress itself.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 255. F. ’08. 70w.
=Freemantle, Elizabeth.= One and I. †$1.50. Jacobs.
8–23925.
In the form of a diary an engaged girl writes of her doubts and misgivings on the subject of her feelings for “The One.” She believes that “only an infatuation can make one content—nay, even eager—to marry in comparative poverty, and thus couple with connubial bliss the elevating companionship of saucepans and potato peelings.” How the “big white love” creeps into her heart, and is fostered by the voices of field and forest, the cries of pain and anguish, is recorded with simplicity and fidelity to the human heart.
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“It is simply the patter of a wide-awake, breezy, wholesome and vital woman.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times=. 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“A vein of quiet humor runs through it all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Original gentlemen. †$1.50. Little.
8–26824.
Twenty-two short stories brim full of life and humor. The initial story, “An original gentlemen” tells of the experiences of a New Yorker abroad who upon losing his letter of credit answers an advertisement for “an original gentleman, speaking perfect English.” His originality being called upon to extricate a young woman from a trying situation is taxed beyond its powers and he bribes to his assistance a resourceful head waiter. Complications once swept out of the way, the field is left to romance as whimsical as it is serious.
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“This is one of the very best, if not indeed the best of Anne Warner’s books.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 100w.
“Miss Warner’s most charming quality is the way in which she lets her characters talk, the while revealing themselves with apparent unconsciousness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 33: 548. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
* =French, Anne Warner.= The panther; a tale of temptation. †$1.25. Small.
8–29870.
An allegorical tale of temptation in which a panther, growing from a furry ball to the huge proportions of a lion symbolizes the increasing struggle in a young woman’s soul to overcome sin.
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=Arena.= 40: 483. N. ’08. 470w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=French, Anne Warner.= Seeing England with Uncle John. †$1.50. Century.
8–8098.
A new chapter of Uncle John’s traveling experiences. He takes for a companion a “living encyclopaedia” in the person of an old college professor, sails for Liverpool, sending word ahead to Yvonne and Lee, now living in Oxford, to meet him, but neglecting to give date and name of steamer. The result is a merry gallop thru England with the niece and nephew in close pursuit. The niece in her “‘letters home’ romantically presents the guide-book information that Uncle John authenticates in his inimitable way.”
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“This is the best work that has come from the pen of this popular author, if we except ‘The rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.’”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“An unusually entertaining example of this type. Some of the minor characters are a little overdone.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 16, ’08. 300w.
“As the author states, the method is stenographic; it is therefore inartistic. And consequently, as the native humor has little savor, one prefers the twenty odd pages of index. Yvonne’s letters, it should be said, are fairly pleasant feminine reading.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 211. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“The best thing about the book is that it improves steadily up to the very last chapter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 630w.
“‘Seeing England with Uncle John’ is not as funny as seeing France with him, but Miss Warner has made it amusing enough, though it should not be read at one sitting.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 150w.
* =French, Lillie Hamilton.= House dignified: its design, its arrangement, and its decoration. **$5. Putnam.
8–28317.
A book designed to aid people of wealth in exercising taste in the important matter of designing, arranging and decorating their homes. “The method of the book is to take up separately the different parts of the house—hall, salon, dining-room, stairway, library, fireplaces, windows and doors, and so on—to study their relation to the whole house and to one another, and the fitness or unfitness of different plans of decoration, furnishing, and equipment.” (Outlook.)
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“Her suggestions, tho written for the rich, can profitably be read and followed by any householder who has the large happiness ‘to be seated in the mean.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1064. N. 5, ’08. 280w.
=Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 300w.
“A worthy treatment of a subject most desirable for consideration.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 150w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Peter Moor’s journey to Southwest Africa: a narrative of the German campaign; tr. from the original with the consent of the author, by Margaret May Ward. †$1.25. Houghton.
8–23712.
“Peter Moor is an average young German workman who joins the naval corps and is well pleased with being a soldier in time of peace. He is sent with his battalion in 1903 to quell the rising of the blacks in Southwest Africa. In language simple and straightforward almost to quaintness he tells the detailed story of the trip to Africa, the march into the interior, the fighting, the journey home. It is like looking thru a window into another’s soul. For he tells not only the outer but the inner things, the feelings, the motives that govern action, the sensations that fill the soul at important and at trivial times.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Frenssen has in this work contrived to make an exceedingly interesting story out of materials which provide little in the way of romantic or sentimental appeal.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 160w.
“One of the most impressive peace documents ever prepared.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 420. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“The translator has certainly well translated a little, simple tale for the purpose of showing ‘the hardships and horrors and the unnecessary cruelty’ of war.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 671. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 950w.
“In the annals of war it ought to become a classic. It is a book that ought to bring true the translator’s hope that it might aid the cause of peace.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“That the story is absorbingly interesting and beautifully told every reader will agree, and we add with pleasure that the translation is worthy of the book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 398. S. 26, ’08. 360w.
“This is a notable book, both for what it actually tells and for the questions which it suggests.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 713. N. 7, ’08. 300w.
=Frothingham, Paul Revere.= Temple of virtue. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–29414.
“The emphasis placed on [temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude] by Plato and Aristotle is pointed out, and their nature is explained and illustrated. But the final discourse, ‘The altar of love,’ calls attention to the pagan blindness to the highest virtue of all, love—the love of God and one’s neighbor. The book is a help to right living, and it is written in an unpretentious and pleasing style, with occasional apt quotations from Bacon, Harnack, Aquinas, Paulsen, Franklin, Pausanias, and a considerable range of other writers, ancient and modern.”—Dial.
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“Unity of design, however, holds together all the variety of detail, and each chapter is succinct, simple, and direct. The little volume can be read pleasantly and profitably at a single sitting, or it can be digested piecemeal.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 291. N. 1, ’07. 180w.
“Mr. Frothingham writes in a gentle, pleasant style, with much persuasiveness.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1044. My. 7, ’08. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 50w.
=Frye, Prosser Hall.= Literary reviews and criticisms. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–27523.
Thirteen essays clear of discernment and sound of judgment dealing with the Elizabethan sonnet, with French writers—Balzac, George Sand, Zola, Maupassant, Corneille, Anatole France, Sainte-Beuve; with Hardy’s naturalism, Hawthorne’s supernaturalism, with Swift, Dryden and Emerson.
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+ − =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 900w.
“Here are thirteen studies of the kind which some persons still think impossible outside of France, studies which help deliver men now from the flippancies of modish tastes and again from the solemn arrogance of perverted scholarship. His charming variety has distracted him from the deeper consistencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 365. O. 15, ’08. 1000w.
“There is intellectual grasp in cataloguing and classifying his subjects which is in excess of his susceptibility to their charms. One cannot take quite without protest some of the statements which Mr. Frye tosses off as axiomatic truths.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 1000w.
“The thirteen essays here collected bring good entertainment and profitable thought to the easy chair in one’s library. Instructive as Mr. Frye is, he has his limitations.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 270w.
* =Fuller, Henry Blake.= Waldo Trench and others. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–23926.
Seven short stories dealing with the American colonies at Florence, Rome, Venice and other Italian cities. Contents: Waldo Trench regains his youth; New wine; A coal from the embers; For the faith; Eliza Hepburn’s deliverance; Addolorata’s intervention; and The house-cat.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4; 269. N. ’08.
“Yet, in spite of the humor, the technical skill in the manipulation of words and phrases (Mr. Fuller has not read his Henry James in vain), we are left cold and critical. The author can do better work than this; he has done it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Those who have not yet had the pleasure of reading any of Mr. Fuller’s writings will be quite astonished when they discover how much cleverness and fun is concealed between the Quakerish-looking covers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 90w.
“The ‘high dilutions’ of Henry James and Mrs. Wharton ... lack zest and sparkle.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 60w.
=Fuller, Robert Hart.= South Africa at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22497.
“This volume, like Mr. A. Maurice Low’s ‘America at home,’ is evidently part of a series intended to afford an intimate view of the conditions obtaining in different countries.... Besides discussing present-day social and political problems, Mr. Fuller’s volume covers a wide range of topics, from descriptions of South African scenery and town and country life, to chapters on the country’s resources and industrial possibilities.”—Outlook.
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“His experience is wide and first-hand, his style very fair, his temper admirable. Nothing could be more sympathetic and generous, without sentimentality or lack of shrewdness, than his treatment of the Boers.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 330w.
“So skillfully has he supplemented personal knowledge with the knowledge accessible from reports, letters, and other documents, that his book contains a great deal of information helpful to those who would learn what the South African is like, what manner of land it is in which he dwells, and what the future seems to hold for him.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 628. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Fuller, Robert Higginson.= Government by the people: laws and customs regulating the election system and the formation and control of political parties in the United States. **$1. Macmillan.
8–13760.
“A convenient manual for the study of American government, so far as it is conducted through the agency of political parties.... It consists of an elementary discussion of the laws and customs governing the holding of elections and the organization, methods, agencies and means of control of political parties in the United States. It contains a great deal of useful and well-arranged information expressed in simple language, regarding the nature of elections, the qualifications for voting, the nomination of candidates, primary elections, corrupt practices and the part played by political parties in our public life.”—Ind.
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“Useful for reference rather than for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08. ✠
“The facts here given are such as should be thoroughly known to every voter.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 732. Je. ’08. 200w.
“A perfect mine of information which is of value to the American citizen and voter. The book is particularly useful just at this time.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 90w.
“It is a little book which deserves to be studied in the schools as a part of the instruction in civil government.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1352. Je. 11, ’08. 130w.
“The book should prove useful for reference, and for instruction in college courses in government.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 170w.
“While the book is limited in its references, which are principally to the state of New York, it has general value.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 572. S. ’08. 100w.
“A book that will be found interesting and useful to every American citizen desirous of learning the mechanism of our political system.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 190w.
=Fulton, Charles Herman.= Manual of fire assaying. il. $2. Hill pub.
7–37731.
This manual “gives all the data necessary to teach the subject to students or beginners, or to assist an experienced man in running an office, including keeping the instruments and apparatus in the best order, handling large amounts of work per day and new or unusual ores, and making such corrections in the work as will give the highest degree of accuracy.” (Engin. N.)
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“This is undoubtedly the best book upon the fire assay for gold and silver, as well as the most scientific discussion of the subject, that has yet been produced. It is written in a clear and easy style, which is less tiresome to read than most treatises of so technical a character. The index is as complete as a great majority of indexes to scientific books, but it falls far short of what it should be.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 651. D. 12, ’07. 500w.
=Furnival, Frederick James.= Babees’ book: medieval manners for the young, done into English with an introd. and notes by Edith Rickert. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
A reprint of one of the “divers treatises touching the manners and meals of Englishmen in former days.” It is primarily a book on courtesy as it was taught in homes of medieval England. The volume is bound in brown leather with clasps.
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“Miss Rickert has done her work with tact and scholarship.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 430w.
“[Has] a readable and decidedly entertaining introduction. The flavor of these old poetical and prose exhortations to courtesy and good manners has been preserved with all its quaintness.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
* =Furnivall, Frederick James, and Munroe, John.= Shakespeare’s life and work. Cassell.
An extra volume added to the “Century Shakespeare” series. It deals with Shakespeare’s early life, and details of schooling, discusses the chronological order of his plays, and his four periods of literary activity; following which are chapters on “My experience in Shakespeare work” and “Shakespeare as revealed in his works.”
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“Dr. Furnivall indulges in his own form of spelling, and, we notice, writes ‘Shakspere’ in his text, while the various title-pages have the different spelling we give above.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 473. O. 17. 200w.
“No man knows his Shakespeare better than Furnivall, and a lively, picturesque story he has made of the early life of the great dramatist, the conditions about him, followed by a careful exposition of his successive plays. A better manual for Shakespeare classes or for private reading cannot be found.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 170w.
“We do not expect anything new, but we find not a little illustration gathered from the writer’s very extensive acquaintance with the literature of English life and manners. We may not be able to accept all the writer’s conclusions, but they are eminently suggestive.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 592. O. 17. ’08. 670w.
=Futrelle, Jacques.= Simple case of Susan. †$1.25. Appleton.
8–13276.
A rollicking comedy. Susan, the wife of a lieutenant, lunches with another lieutenant and is observed by a former suitor who, to the best of his belief, informs Marjorie Stanwood, the young woman at his side, that Susan’s companion is her husband. When Marjorie is wooed persistently by Susan’s luncheon companion, complications arise, which are finally swept away in an elopement in which Marjorie’s father and his automobile unconsciously aid.
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“For the most part the story bubbles frothily along, evoking an occasional smile—a trifle much, much lighter than air.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 160w.
=Futrelle, Jacques.= Thinking machine on the case. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–9816.
A series of detective stories built up about Professor Augustus Van Dusen, a scientific detective, who is introduced to the reader at a game of chess, having been challenged by a champion as a result of exploiting the theory that by the use of logic a man who had never played the game could defeat the greatest master. The professor, after a morning’s instruction, played, won and heard his antagonist exclaim “you are a brain—a machine—a thinking machine.” It is this clever “thinking machine” which we see at work on a series of detective marvels.
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“What, above all, marks Mr. Futrell’s work in this as well as the earlier book, is not the cleverness of any particular tale, but rather the consistent excellence and fertility of invention of them all.” R. A. Whay.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 496. Jl. ’08. 770w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Fynn, Arthur John.= American Indian as a product of environment; with special reference to the Pueblos. **$1.50. Little.
7–34805.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Not a well-balanced book. Despite its amateurishness and some very obvious padding, both useful and interesting to a student of the subject, but not to the average reader.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 12. Ja. ’08.
“From the standpoint of the general reader the book must prove decidedly interesting and suggestive. It is well written in an easy entertaining style, and must be regarded as a very acceptable contribution to the growing literature popularizing the geographic control of racial development.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 710. My. ’08. 250w.
“An instructive book that might well be used by high-school students for collateral reading is Mr. Fynn’s study of the American Indian. Both the text and illustrations are good.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.
“This is, with certain reservations, a pretty good book; it takes hold of the subject in the right way, and it is clear and simple.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 244. Mr. 12, ’08. 200w.
“He has set forth only the salient features of the environment of primitive life, and he has treated these with a view to the tastes and capacities of the general reader and not of the student. It is a book for popular consumption.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 866. D. 28, ’07. 250w.
“All of Doctor Fynn’s comments are of interest to the general reader as well as to the student of anthropology.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 757. D. ’07. 100w.
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* =Gaige, Roscoe Crosby, and Harcourt, Alfred=, comps. Books and reading. (Humanity essays.) **$1.50. Baker.
8–29755.
An anthology of the “most human things said about books” including some eighty odd contributions. The groups into which the selections are gathered are as follows: By way of preface; My book and heart; Friends in council; The little ships; Some ancient worthies; The glorious court; Philobiblon; To those who write; Beside the fire; and Complete essays.
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“Has been compiled with care and devotion, and contains some of the choicest passages in literature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 810. N. 28, ’08. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 643. O. 31, ’08. 170w.
* =Gairdner, James.= Lollardy and the reformation in England: an historical survey. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
8–34724.
An historical survey which is made under the following heads: The Lollards, Royal supremacy, The fall of the monasteries, and The reign of the English Bible. “The first of these deals, in a fairly full and entertaining fashion, with the rise, spread, and subsequent decline of Lollardy, and the general position of affairs on the eve of the reformation.” (Ath.)
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“The most severe critic would find it difficult to catch Dr. Gairdner tripping on his own ground; but there is a curious lapse with regard to an important religious house which played a significant part in the story of the suppression. A work of the highest standard, wherein is marshalled, with innate honesty of purpose, an abundance of facts concerning a most complex and perplexing period of English history in Church and State.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 499. O. 24. 2300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
“In most cases we disagree with his interpretation, and we have spoken of his work as biassed. But his bias, while it governs his argument, has not led him into anything of the nature of misrepresentation of facts. His work is careful, conscientious, and learned.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 883. N. 28, ’08. 2000w.
* =Gale, Zona.= Friendship village. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30534.
A village of no definite geographical location is the scene of happenings which are recorded by one who drops quietly into the life and ways of the towns-folk for a short season. From the lowliest to the village autocrat, the chronicler selects her types, and gathers them into a sheaf for the reader. The volume has a large brotherhood-of-man value in its lessons of neighborly kindness and charity, in its substitution of the spirit of simplicity and genuineness for superficial worldliness.
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“We close the book, lingeringly, just as we should leave so friendly a town, with the feeling that America is sound at the core, while it is possible to recognize the truth of such affectionate portraiture.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1248. N. 26, ’08. 230w.
“We mean no offense by comparing the book with ‘David Harum,’ Calliope being a feminine David, and many of the scenes being similar. This book especially makes for higher thinking and better living, and emphasizes the existence of these virtues in lowly places as well as high.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 656. N. 7, ’08. 470w.
“Miss Gale is a newcomer who has quietly taken her place with those who can bring a smile on the face of life.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 662. N. 28, ’08. 120w.
“There are genuine every-day Christian faith and hearty fellowship in these pretty, homely, and decidedly clever sketches.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=Gallizier, Nathan.= Sorceress of Rome. il. $1.50. Page.
7–36915.
The second volume in the author’s trilogy of romances on the medieval life of Italy. Old monkish chronicles have furnished the material for the story which in the main tells of impassioned love of Otto III, the boy emperor, for Stephania, the wife of Crescentius, their deeds to outwit friend and foe, the tragedy of their life and death.
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“Undoubtedly the author is giving us only such facts as he deems necessary to a clear understanding of the times and the events he chronicles; but the average reader would have been better satisfied to be somewhat less instructed and somewhat more entertained.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 673. F. ’08. 290w.
“Fantastic, over-drawn, surfeited with the extreme and the erotic, the production was not worth the labor and research expended upon it.”
− =Cath. World.= 86: 834. Mr. ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
“It is a well-written tale, full of color and action, whose pages teem with weird wonders and gruesome surprises.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 210w.
=Galsworthy, John.= A commentary. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–33812.
“A series of little pictures, or idylls, strangely disquieting, of misery and comfort, satiric, ironic, tragic. The chapters bear such captions as ‘Old age,’ ‘Fear,’ ‘Fashion,’ ‘Sport,’ ‘Justice’; but these abstractions are the shadows cast by characters of flesh and blood.”—Nation.
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“These sketches are determined etchings from life, but have been bitten-in without much regard to art.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 126. Ag. 1, 120w.
“A series of stories that really deserve to be preserved because of their literary merit, and because of the curious light they shed upon the two natures of poverty.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1305. D. 3, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Galsworthy’s animating motive, a desire to puncture the thoughtless complacency of the comfortable classes, has produced in this volume of organically related sketches a work of original distinction.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1. ’08. 370w.
“He puts these reflections into various mouths, they occasionally miss any particular illumination, they do not favor continuous reading, and here and there they too obviously suggest the notebook. Yet there is throughout the volume a clearness of thought, a fine treatment of circumstance, a sane, sardonic humour which would atone for much more serious defects and interest us even more in the author than in his present material.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 826. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Island Pharisees. Revised and rewritten. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–27808.
Richard Shelton, a young Englishman born to the “ninety desiring peace and comfort for their spirit ... who will have it that the fashions need not change, that morality is fixed, that all is ordered and immutable” joins the ten Pharisees who grope for a philosophy to uphold the conviction that “All things that are, are wrong” in place of “All things that are, are right.” This story depicts subjectively the struggle of Shelton as he is torn between social conventionality and allegiance to the tramp with whom and with whose philosophy his whole nature sympathizes.
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“Shelton falls immeasurably short of his purpose; he is too weak a vessel for his message, emotionally and intellectually. Wishing to strike at the fundamental evils of society, he succeeds only in impeaching order and respectability. He is not virile, but puerile.”
− =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 420w.
=Galsworthy, John.= Villa Rubein. $1.50. Putnam.
8–20136.
A highborn English girl and a poor peasant artist are the principal characters in this story whose incidents grow out of the struggle between class tradition and the will of youth that knows no allegiance to convention.
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“Whether judged by itself or as a measure of his subsequent advancement, ‘Villa Rubein’s’ publication in this country can only heighten, not diminish, the reputation Mr. Galsworthy has already won.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 47. S. ’08. 950w.
“One wonders what is the motive of the book. It is so much like life as to be meaningless. The absolutely tame ending obscures its drift.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 119. Ag. 6, ’08. 360w.
“It is a sustained story of human emotion and absorbing incident.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13. ’08. 200w.
“It is good enough to make one wish it were better.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Gardenhire, Samuel Major.= Purple and homespun. †$1.50. Harper.
8–12767.
With scenes shifting from Washington to the East Side of New York and to London this story portrays the determination of a young, self-made United States senator to show himself worthy to marry the daughter of a British ambassador, in spite of the fact that he traces his origin to the slums of New York. The willingness to recognize American democratic true worth is opposed by the English traditional demand that every god have his Olympian corner.
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“Mr. Gardenhire’s book has the merit of originality, but he needs to free himself from artificiality, and his knowledge of English society is evidently slight.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 150w.
“Mr. Gardenhire’s style is stodgy, but he has packed a good deal of experience into his pages, and thereby made them quite readable.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Gardenhire has somewhat disorganized his story by hypodermically injecting an East Side romance, together with a touch of socialism.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 379. Ag. 13, ’08. 140w.
“On the whole, the affair is labored and inconclusive.”
− =Nation.= 86: 580. Je. 25, ’08. 520w.
=Gardiner, Ruth Kimball.= World and the woman. †$1.50. Barnes.
7–38265.
“The story is that of a woman who tries to make her way in Washington society without money, and of the desperate straits into which she fell.... The main part of the tale is concerned with her life there, the devious ways into which her struggles force her, the daughter’s social success and final marriage.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Here is another novel which quite ruthlessly unmasks the double-dealing, pretence, and petty spite which play so sinister a part in the social life of the capital.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 280w.
“The pictures of Washington society are written with much color and cleverness and many a touch of cynicism. The characters stand out very distinctly, although a bit weak in some places, and the story is developed with a good deal of intensity and charm.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 15. Ja. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Gardner, Edmund Garratt.= Saint Catherine of Siena: a study in the religion, literature and history of the XIV century in Italy, with some unpublished letters of St. Catherine. *$4. Dutton.
8–14840.
A study from original sources of Italian life and thought as reflected in the work and personality of Saint Catherine of Siena, “the successor of Dante in the literature and religious thought of Italy, and the connecting link between St. Francis of Assisi and Savonarola.”
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“A book which gives for the first time a satisfactory chronology, rectifies many misconceptions, and leaves us with a full and rational account of the progress of events.” V. D. Scudder.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 845. Jl. ’08. 870w.
“An admirable work, both scholarly and interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Gardner has told Catherine’s story with a completeness scarcely attempted by any of his predecessors.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 500. O. 24. 780w.
“Here indeed is the full story of Catherine’s activities from the beginning, narrated with sympathy and reverence only equalled by historical acumen and literary skill.” V. D. Scudder.
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 452. Jl. ’08. 3700w.
“The orderly arrangement of the book is particularly noteworthy; notwithstanding the wealth of detail, clearness is never sacrificed.” L: J. Block.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 83. Ag. 16, ’08. 2400w.
“Scholarly in an old-fashioned way, and well written. Obviously the work of a devout Roman Catholic scholar, not a scientific investigator of history, it is inevitably colored by the habit of mind of the believer. Yet the book is rich in documentary value for the student of the times.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 90w.
“Rarely do we find the critical faculty so happily blended with enthusiasm. The book is perhaps, the best which has been written about Italy by an Englishman since the death of John Addington Symonds; and indubitably it is the best ever written about St. Catherine.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Into the pitfall [of copious detail] Mr. Gardner has fallen with ready feet. Nevertheless, his study of Catherine and her times is full of interesting glimpses and suggestions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 360w.
“The volume under consideration, apart from its value to students and to all intelligent readers, has a peculiar charm of style.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 650w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Gardner, however, insists upon the times rather than the life. Not that we quarrel with the scholarly writer for this: he has set himself a certain task; he has clearly defined it; and he has carried it to an end with an orderly sequence and a wealth of erudition that excite our warmest praise and liveliest admiration.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 208. F. 15, ’08. 1250w.
=Gardner, William Amory.= In Greece with the classics. **$1.50. Little.
8–14834.
“On a slight thread of pleasant narrative of the author’s own hasty spring tour in Greece are strung original translations of the passages from the Greek poets, which one would wish to recall, upon the Acropolis, at Conolos, Marathon, Aegina, Eleusis, Mycenae, Delphi, Olympia, or Corfu. The original texts are given in a convenient appendix.”—Nation.
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=Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 60w.
“Our author, having come with a thirst, has drunk his draft to the full, not at Dirce’s or Arethusa’s fount, but at that well undefiled the Greek spirit.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1148. My. 21, ’08. 240w.
“Is the kind of guide book for which the sentimental traveller, bored to extinction by archaeology, has been yearning. There is no attempt at completeness, and the relevancy of some of the selections is questionable. The translations, while lacking distinction, are readable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 137. Ag. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Garland, Hamlin.= Shadow world. †$1.35. Harper.
8–29371.
Here are recorded a series of surprising experiments with psychical phenomena conducted by Mr. Garland among a group of his friends, some half-afraid, some avowedly skeptical, while all were curious and earnest. A number of the actual sessions of this group with a psychic present are given in detail for the purpose of showing evidence concerning the process of mediumship. Then follow experiments throwing light upon the more elusive part of the problem—the question of identity. The volume records dignified, serious investigation that was conducted in the interests of science.
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=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“It is the nature of a crank to go off on any tangent, and Mr. Garland has offered the largest tangent ever provided for a soul-sniffing public.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
“Offers practically nothing new for consideration and investigation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 586. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“For the benefit of those inclined to take his book at all seriously it may be added that the ‘phase’ of mediumship with which it is almost wholly concerned is precisely that which has been most conclusively demonstrated to be permeated through and through with fraud.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 752. N. 28, ’08. 270w.
=Garnett, Porter.= Bohemian jinks: a treatise. *$1.50. Porter Garnett, Bohemian club, San Francisco.
8–21800.
An account of the woodland midsummer dramatic and musical performances given, one a year, by the Bohemian club of San Francisco at the close of a two-weeks’ encampment.
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“The book makes very interesting reading.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Porter Garnett has put a great many of us under obligations to him by giving us his little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 488. S. 5. ’08. 760w.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 367. D. ’08. 470w.
=Garnett, Theodore Stanford.= J. E. B. Stuart (major-general) commander of the cavalry corps, Army of northern Virginia, C. S. A. *$1. Neale.
7–42107.
An address delivered at the unveiling of the equestrian statue of General Stuart, at Richmond, May 30, 1907. It furnishes a suggestive outline for a fuller biography which it is hoped the author will soon undertake.
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“The address by Judge Garnett furnishes a good outline of Stuart’s career.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 140w.
=Garvie, Alfred Ernest.= Studies in the inner life of Jesus. *$2.25. Armstrong.
8–19128.
A study of the mind, heart, and will of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels. “Two men constantly struggle for the mastery in this volume—the Scotsman and the German, the dogmatic theologian and the religious psychologist, and when the balance is not maintained it is the latter that usually goes under.” (Hibbert J.) In justifying his study of the inner life of Jesus Dr. Garvie says “an exaggerated importance is attached to a knowledge of contemporary customs and costume” and that “enough has been written about the scenery, the upholstery, and drapery of the life of Jesus.”
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“Dr. Garvie’s studies ... are not only the work of a scholar, but of a spiritual seer; of a man who thinks deeply as well as widely. The outlook is modern, but is balanced by distinctly conservative leanings.” W. Jones Davies.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 934. Jl. ’08. 1500w.
“Principal Garvie will have a wide hearing, but his work would have gained from greater conciseness.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Garvie’s conclusions are conservative.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 210w.
* =Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis Aidan.= Greater abbeys of England. *$3–50. Dodd.
8–27782.
“Here we have brief histories of [thirty-one] abbeys, beginning with St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, and ending with Whitby. Every name among the [thirty-one] is more or less famous, but among the most celebrated are St. Albans, Battle, Furness, Fountains, Glastonbury, Rievaulx, Sherborne, and Tintern.”—Spec.
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“These pictures are for the most part full of charm and supply accurate ideas of the condition of a large number of the ruined and dismantled abbeys of England. He has managed to write in a bright and interesting fashion on each of the thirty-one greater abbeys herein described. His selection of information for this series of short essays shows a thorough mastery of the subject, and in several cases details are supplied which have seldom, if ever, found their way into print.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 767. Je. 20. 1300w.
“The book is written from a strongly sympathetic standpoint, which is not the least of its charms, and with its mine of information and admirable illustrations, commends itself to the reader as a valuable contribution.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“The stories of the various abbeys are told in good English and with the same ripeness of knowledge as in his other works on the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 170w.
“The task of setting these beautiful ruins and their history before American readers has been well done. The fireside traveler is likely to enjoy the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
“The illustrations would alone make the book valuable. We could wish, indeed, that they had stood by themselves, or been accompanied by a neutral account.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 793. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
=Gates, Eleanor.= Cupid, the cow punch. †$1.50. McClure.
7–37708.
“This is not so much a novel as a collection of magazine stories, loosely connected and numbered as chapters. Cupid is the name of Alec Lloyd, a cowboy, who, besides being a philosopher and sentimentalist, has a local reputation as a matchmaker. The narrative comes from him and is in dialect.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Overdone, but will interest a good many.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 52. F. ’08.
“Is clean, wholesome, and amusing—in other words, not commonplace.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book shows an intimate knowledge of the western plains, and is full of good, honest fun.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
“While Cupid’s good nature and clever turns of phrase are infectiously amusing, one is left rather breathless at the end.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 39. Ja. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Gause, Isaac.= Four years with five armies. *$2. Neale.
8–3950.
A short history of campaigns, privations and engagements within the experience of one who served in the armies of the Frontier, of the Potomac, of the Missouri, of the Ohio and of the Shenandoah.
=Gauss, Henry Colford.= American government: organization and officials; with the duties and powers of federal office holders: an original summarization; with a compilation of data from original sources. $5. Hamersly.
8–6616.
A standard work of reference on the structure and regulations of the American government and the duties and powers of federal officials whose aim is to make federal practice “less of a mystery to the millions who are at once the sovereigns of the respective states and of the federal nation.”
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“The information is complete, encyclopedic in scope, but without literary pretension. Not for general reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 236. O. ’08.
“There are serious limitations upon the usefulness of the book, because no sense of proportion is maintained.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 443. S. ’08. 120w.
“The fault of the book is that its policy in matters of detail is not at all uniform. In general, the expository matter is clear and accurate, treating of actual practice rather than theory.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 313. Ap. 2, ’08. 450w.
“The compilation contains nearly nine hundred pages, and every one of them is informative, giving just the sort of information which a busy publicist, journalist, lawyer, or merchant often requires at short notice.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 563. Mr. 7, ’08. 250w.
* =Gebhardt, George Frederick.= Steam power plant engineering. *$6. Wiley.
8–27111.
“The author devotes chapters to fuels, boilers, furnaces, superheaters, coal and ash handling, chimneys, mechanical draft, steam engines, turbines, condensers, feed water and feed heaters, pumps, separators and traps, piping lubrication, general costs, testing and typical specifications. In each chapter a rather elementary description is made to lead up to a condensed discussion of the most recent practice.”—Engin. Rec.
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“But slight adverse criticism can be made on the book, and that only in a few minor details. The whole work seems modern, comprehensive and reliable and, while professedly prepared for students, it should serve as a good memory aid for the older engineer and a guide for the younger. Its bibliographies alone make it a valuable reference.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 534. N. 12, ’08. 750w.
“Cannot fail to be of value to engineers in general, and, as a reference, will prove useful to steam specialists.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Gehring, Albert.= Racial contrasts: distinguishing traits of the Graeco-Latins and Teuton’s. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–26696.
A study in race psychology made with the purpose of differentiating the moral, intellectual and spiritual qualities revealed in the literature, life, and art of the Græco-Latin people from the characteristics of the Teutonic race as seen in the same fields. The following divisions are made in the study: Racial contrasts, The fluctuations of beauty and morality, On homology of thought and action, On temporal expansion and contraction, and Organic evolution in the light of comparative philology.
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=Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 280w.
“These essays promote breadth of intellectual view, hospitality to new ideas, freedom from provincialism and prejudice, generosity of spirit toward all men.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 458. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
=George, Edward Augustus.= Seventeenth century men of latitude; forerunners of the new theology. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–14321.
The life and writings of some broad-minded men in a century of narrowness constitute the theme of this study. Among them are John Hales, William Chillingworth, Benjamin Whichcote. John Smith, Henry More, Jeremy Taylor, Sir Thomas Browne, and Richard Baxter.
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“While not a contribution to scholarship, the general reader may find this little labor of love a helpful supplement to the closely-packed article on latitudinarianism and Cambridge Platonism in volume 5 of the ‘Cambridge modern history.’” A. L. C.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 171. O. ’08. 340w.
“It shows no philosophical grasp and makes little or no pretense to connect these English writers with the great currents of European thought. It is written with enthusiasm. It ought to have great refreshment for those to whom Tulloch’s work is too long and too solid.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 190w.
“In Mr. George’s story of their lives and varied experiences, illuminated with ample citations from their writings, one recognizes a work of loving and careful research.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 491. Je. 27, ’08. 200w.
* =George, W. L.= France in the twentieth century. **$1.75. Lane.
A discussion of conditions in France of today, bearing upon church and state, social life, and literature and the drama.
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“The author is too prone to generalization which is not always accurate. His inaccuracy also extends to specific facts.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 36. Jl. 11. 740w.
“In the great political struggle between Church and State he is openly and avowedly on the side of the latter. It is the one topic on which he loses his attitude of careful, cold analysis and becomes a militant partisan. Throughout this part of the book the reader sees the English part of Mr. George in conflict with the French part. He gives both a chance to be heard, and the self-revelation of the conflict between the two adds no little to the charm of a thoughtful, comprehensive, and eminently readable book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 699. N. 28, ’08. 970w.
“On the whole his views are sensible if not very original.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 398. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
* =Gerhard, William Paul.= American practice of gas piping and gas lighting in buildings. *$3. McGraw.
8–17561.
“Chapters of greatest interest to engineers are on (1) the arrangement of gas pipes in buildings, (2) specifications, tables, rules and regulations of companies in regard to piping generally, (3) piping systems for coal, water, natural, air and acetylene gases, (4) testing of piping installations, (5) burners, (6) pressure regulators, (7) globes and holders, (8) fixtures, (9) bibliography. The chapters more easily read by laymen are on topics like prejudices against and fallacies of using gas, advantages of gas as an illuminant and for heat and power, gas meters and gas-meter stories, interior illumination, lighting of country houses, relations of gas companies to consumers, practical hints for consumers, accidents and dangers to public health.”—Engin. N.
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“For the ordinary householder probably a half of the book will be a little too technical and too tedious to hold his attention until he gets well into the back half and finds there the general hints, suggestions and discussions which he can more readily grasp.”
− + =Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 660w.
“The book is undoubtedly the most complete and authoritative in its special field, the use of gas by the consumer. It should be a great help to the architect in answering the many questions clients ask regarding gas supply, for it is a book that may be safely recommended to any house owner as a guide.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 567. N. 14, ’08. 680w.
=Gerhard, William Paul.= Modern baths and bath houses. *$3. Wiley.
8–3516.
“A comprehensive treatment of water baths for private dwellings, municipalities, schools, factories, military barracks, prisons, hospitals, clubhouses, etc. The classes of baths named are, of course, indoor establishments. In addition there is a chapter on river and sea baths. Besides water baths, the author treats in considerable detail of air and sun baths, and medical and electric-light baths.”—Engin. N.
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“An excellent book on different forms of baths.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“Altogether the book is a very useful addition to the literature of sanitation and of social welfare. It contains more repetitions than are pleasant to a person who reads the book from beginning to end. It is a far more comprehensive work than ‘Public baths and wash-houses,’ by Alfred W. S. Cross.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 207. F. 20, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 499. My. 28, ’08. 40w.
=Gerhard, William Paul.= Sanitation of public buildings. $1.50. Wiley.
7–37728.
“The public buildings here considered are hospitals, theaters, churches and schools. In addition, the various buildings and accessories of markets and abbatoirs are taken up. The selection of sites, some of the elements of general design, water supply, lighting, heating, ventilating, cleansing, plumbing, sewage and refuse disposal are the main divisions under which each class of buildings is treated. Fire protection is also given a prominent place.”—Engin. N.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08. ✠
“The book is well written, and the layman who is interested in civic affairs will find it easy reading and not so technical in its terminology as to be tedious.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 69. Ja. ’08. 340w.
“As a manual in the true sense of the word ... the volume deserves commendation. It would serve admirably for the use of boards of health and their inspectors.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 58: 655. D. 12, ’07. 230w.
“What he has to say on school sanitation and his detailed advice for the care and cleansing of schoolrooms should be studied by parents, teachers, superintendents, and school boards, while his chapters upon church, theatre, and hospital sanitation are of import to all who frequent these edifices.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 40. Ja. 25, ’08. 190w.
“A useful little work. It is believed that this is the first American book to treat these subjects in a practical way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 384. Mr. ’08. 80w.
=Gerry, Margarita Spalding.= Toy-shop: a romantic story of Lincoln the man. **50c. Harper.
8–25742.
A child’s lisped request for tin soldiers sent Lincoln, burdened with the nation’s troubles, one day to a toy shop. While selecting them, and marshaling them quite unconsciously into drilling order, and listening to the French shop-keeper’s eulogies of Napoleon’s methods of warfare, the inspiration comes to Lincoln to put Grant at the head of the Union army. It is with this incident that the little volume deals.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“A study of Lincoln the man which is very human and tender.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=Gibbs, George Fort.= Medusa emerald. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–35622.
An “emerald unaccountably disappears while being displayed to the guests on [board Alexander Wharton’s] yacht one evening, suspicion falls on a young man, Edward Dillingham, who refuses to empty his pockets, as all the other men insist on doing. After this the evil powers of the stone certainly appear to wreak themselves upon the suspected youth. However, all’s well that ends well; the matter is finally cleared up satisfactorily, after many adventures by sea and land that follow with kaleidoscopic variety and rapidity.” (Outlook.)
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=Ind.= 64: 208. Ja. 23, ’08. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
=Outlook.= 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
=Gibbs, Philip.= Romance of George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham and some men and women of the Stuart court. *$3.50. Putnam.
8–12964.
This favorite of James I. and Charles I. who in history and in fiction figures so courageously and so daringly is here portrayed in the light of patriot, egotist, and friend—always the darling of fortune. His many-sided nature now gleams out on the side of virtue and again close-linked with vice. He stands out as the “greatest and last example and victim of a political system which may fairly be called in his case a system of favoritism tempered by assassination.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“He has written one of the brightest, cheeriest, and most readable books that have come under our notice for a long time. The inevitable passages of special pleading do not offend us, because in every case Mr. Gibbs is honest enough to emphasize the saving clauses, and because it is perfectly clear that he does not realize that it is special pleading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 595. My. 16. 2400w.
“He has got his materials well together, and has made a book that can be read with interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 218. Mr. 5, ’08. 500w.
“Not by any means ignoring the larger historical issues, English and European, of Buckingham’s career, he shows a special sensibility to its human and picturesque aspects. The result is a book both readable and valuable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 126. Mr. 7, ’08. 800w.
“We are not surprised that Mr. Gibbs, who has the right touch for work of this kind, has made a very readable book on the subject.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 474. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
“He can hardly be said to have made a cool or unbiassed study of Buckingham.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 133. Jl. 25, ’08. 1450w.
* =Gibson, Adam H.= Hydraulics and its applications. *$5. Van Nostrand.
“An attempt has been made to consider the science, and its application to the design of hydraulic machinery, in a manner suitable for a student who has some initial knowledge of mechanics.”
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“The book stands in much the same relation to the works of Merriman and Church that Cotterill’s does to the ordinary treatise on mechanics. The subject matter is not handled with uniform discretion, some parts being excellent and others rather loosely thrown together, and the language in places is that of a lecturer rather than of a writer, and worst of all, the citations of experimental data are not always accurate.” G. S. Williams.
+ − =Engin. N.= 90: 534. N. 12, ’08. 1700w.
“We think that in one or two cases the matter might have been arranged to rather better advantage, but, on the whole, we have no hesitation in saying that the book is an excellent contribution to the literature of the subject, and embodies the result of no little personal investigation and research. It is specially a student’s book, and will appeal more particularly to those who are already equipped with some fundamental knowledge of hydraulics.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 218. Jl. 9, ’08. 800w.
=Gilbert, George Holley.= Interpretation of the Bible: a short history. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–6097.
“Beginning with the Jewish interpretation of the Old Testament, Dr. Gilbert traces the history of the interpretation of the Scriptures through the Catholic and the Alexandrian Fathers, the mediaevals, the reformers, the movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, down to the birth of scientific interpretation in the nineteenth.” (Bib. World.) It “deserves commendation to all Bible readers who are concerned for reality, for the facts inlaid in the Scriptures, and for their meaning.” (Outlook.)
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“Covers a large field which has been but lightly touched upon.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 182. Je. ’08.
“The careful reading of this book would be a liberal education for the average man.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Its defects are due chiefly to its brevity. Within so brief a compass the author could not do justice to many phases of this important and interesting subject. The book lacks the fulness and ornateness of language, the wealth and variety of illustration, the suggestiveness and brilliancy of Farrar’s; but as a brief, clear, strong and careful presentation it occupies a field all its own and will serve a useful purpose.” J: C. Granbery.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 214. S. ’08. 870w.
“This treatise keeps the salient and noteworthy to the front, and allows one to follow interestingly a remarkable and instructive history.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 95. Jl. 30, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 80w.
“Professor Gilbert has made an interesting contribution to the curiosities of literature in his numerous citations of Biblical interpretations from Philo Judæus to Jonathan Edwards.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 270w.
=Gilbert, Nelson Rust.= Affair at Pine Court: a tale of the Adirondacks. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–30455.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“On the whole the book is entertaining, especially in the bits of naive moralizing on every subject from the cleanliness of the poor to Christian Science, that cling like mistletoe to the trunk of the story, and appeal potently, if unconsciously, to the reader’s sense of humor.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2. ’08. 110w.
=Gilbey, Sir Walter, and Cuming, Edward W. D.= George Morland: his life and works, il. *$6. Macmillan.
8–17200.
An authoritative biography which makes its appeal to the lay reader as well as to the student. “We have for the first time a plain, unvarnished Morland, a just estimate of his character as an artist and a man.” (Ath.) Fifty reproductions of Morland’s pictures add to the value of the volume.
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“It is far and away the best of the many books on Morland. The weakest feature of the book is the apology for an index.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 295. Mr. 7. 1000w.
“This admirable volume forms a valuable and important acquisition to art literature on account of the completeness of the biographical portion and the excellence and number of the illustrations.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 34: 83. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“Morland’s warm brown tone, however agreeable in the original oil paintings, does not harmonize with white paper and printer’s ink, and as colored book illustrations the plates are singularly ineffective, not to say unpleasant.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 317. Ap. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Gilbreth, Frank B.= Field system. *$3. Clark, M. C.
8–2205.
A work which gives in detail the open methods for proper, prompt and economical execution of work which have made Mr. Gilbreth’s contract business so successful. “The various forms employed throughout the different stages of work are given, with explicit instructions for their use in ordering materials, checking work, keeping time sheets, etc. Instructions are also given on the mixing of cement and concrete, the handling of forms, use of drills, care of engines, air compressors and hoists, pumping, etc. Throughout the work are interspersed tables and formulas.” (Engin. D.)
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 189. F. ’08. 350w.
“It should prove stimulating to every one concerned in the conduct of engineering work, [tho] its arrangement is heterogeneous and confused, in parts.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 202. F. 20, ’08. 750w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Fire divine. *$1. Century.
7–32169.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08.
“This volume is one of the very few books of verse that have appeared in recent years that is worthy of a place in the library of lovers of poetry instinct with the ethical spirit.”
+ + =Arena.= 38: 675. D. ’07. 460w.
“Now and then, irregular rhythms are essayed in this volume, and even poems in prose, but these experiments we cannot regard as upon the level of the work done in accordance with the rules of the poetic art.” W: M. Payne.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 76. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
“On the whole, it is, perhaps, these rhythmic intermissions of Mr. Gilder’s on one subject and another which give his book a kind of distinction or difference, lending it a bold, adventurous. innovating air, among the increasing legions of mildly meritorious versifiers, whose names have outgrown enumeration.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 180w.
“This latest book by Richard Watson Gilder, who holds an unchallengeable place among the poets of to-day, is above all a poet’s book. There is much else, genius of the féministe type, vital and large-hearted, if not rugged technique as fluent and varied as it is delightful, nobility of ideal, and a reality of feeling that lifts the product it permeates to the summits of enduring poesy.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 859. D. 28, ’07. 1200w.
“In this volume he also continues his experiments with relaxed meters; not always with success.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 143. Ja. 18, ’08. 350w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= Poems. $1.50. Houghton.
A complete edition of Gilder’s poems containing the substance of his nine books of verse and also additional pieces which have not appeared in a collection. Mr. Gilder’s versatility due to broad sympathies, love of mankind, human instinct, and the dreamer’s idealism accounts for his wide range of verse. There are poems dealing with the affairs of every day life; poems characterizing men of worth and genius; and poems which bring to the consciousness the immortal value of certain monuments of music and art.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 80w.
=Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron.= Government regulation of the Elizabethan drama. (Columbia univ. studies in English.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–24263.
Based upon official documents of the time, this monograph “deals first with the general regulation of the drama by the central government then traces the rise of the master of the revels and of the extensive powers which finally came into his hands, and follows this with a study of the censorship of which the master was the official administrator. Then follows a detailed account of the local regulations in London and of the long and bitter strife which was waged between the municipal government and the royal authority as to whether the drama should or should not be enacted in the city. A chapter upon the Puritan victory ends the study.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A very thorough piece of work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 218. O. 1, ’08. 40w.
“The author has gone into the subject very thoroughly and presented in clear and succinct form, although perhaps a little dry in manner, an immense accumulation of facts.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 517. S. 19, ’08. 260w.
=Gill, Augustus Herman.= Engine-room chemistry. *$1. Hill pub.
8–813.
“Aims to give such information concerning oils, fuels and the phenomena of combustion and steam-raising, all expressed in fairly nontechnical language, as will enable the average reader to understand what is necessary from the point of view of chemistry to obtain the maximum efficiency in the power plant.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“Accurate little book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 137. My. ’08.
“The book is not intended to appeal to the chemist or technical man. It is too elementary to do this. On the other hand, it is hardly practical to give the uneducated man a volume which, in one hundred pages, tries to give him sufficient knowledge to enable him to undertake analyses which the student of chemistry never performs until he has studied the fundamental principles on which such analysis is based, for at least a year or a year and a half.”
− + =Engin. D.= 3: 72. Ja. ’08. 320w.
“If there is any criticism to be made of the book it is that to read or study it intelligently probably somewhat better knowledge of inorganic chemistry is necessary than even a good engineman or the superintendent of a small shop may be expected to possess.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 59: 81. Ja. 16, ’08. 500w.
“A little book, professedly written for the engineer and engine man, but useful for a much wider circle of readers.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 56: 692. D. 21, ’07. 260w.
=Gill, George Creswell.= Beyond the blue-grass; a Kentucky novel. $1.50. Neale.
8–12785.
A picture of the life of the people among the hills of Ginseng county, beyond the Blue-Grass region. “Almost all of his characters are rural Kentuckians, and we see them in their homes, at work on their farms, and congregated in their villages, all of them picturesque and all of them more or less interesting.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Is not thrilling and his style is quite lacking in literary quality: but there is a certain merit in his book in spite of its shortcomings.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 441. Ag. 8, ’08. 100w.
=Gillette, Halbert Powers, and Hill, Charles Shattuck.= Concrete construction: methods and cost. *$5. Clark, M. C.
8–13350.
Treated from the viewpoint of the builder of concrete structures. “The authors have collected ... a vast number of examples of concrete work. These are presented in concise form, with the unimportant details removed; there is an attempt to preserve a certain uniformity of treatment so as to permit comparison between similar constructions. In addition to these specific examples the authors have added, in connection with every branch of work, general instructions deduced from observation and formulas for quantity and cost estimates.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The work should prove of exceeding value not only to contractors and engineers ... but to designing engineers and architects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 53. Jl. ’08. 420w.
“On the whole, the book is a welcome addition to concrete literature. It is frankly a compilation and suffers from some of the ordinary faults of a compilation, but the work of compiling has been done with so much more care than is usual in such books and so much original matter has been added that the statistical nature, often the bane of collated material, is largely lost. We believe every concrete designer and constructor should have a copy.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 653. Je. 11, ’08. 950w.
“While the expert engineer may glean some points from the book, it is liable to prove dangerous in the hands of inexperienced men, especially as to its cost features.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 300w.
=Gillmore, Inez Haynes.= June jeopardy. $1.50. Huebsch.
8–17784.
Around a diamond necklace worth a half million and its paste counterpart is woven a story whose exciting events are all crowded into a single night. The character cast includes maids and their lovers, robbers, scheming servants, and the dog Veritas.
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=Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
“The story puts very little strain on one’s mental powers, and, with the added attraction of a quick-moving plot, ought to find favor with summer readers:”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 240w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande: a guide to the opera; with musical examples from the score. *$1. Schirmer.
7–41522.
Complete instruction with full consideration for the inspirational side is offered in this little volume. Mr. Gilman discusses Debussy and his art, The play—its qualities and its action, and The music—a revolutionary score, and the themes and their treatment.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Stories of symphonic music: a guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures, and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day. **$1.25. Harper.
7–35627.
A practical handbook for the concert-goer which offers in compact, accessible form, information which will enable him to listen intelligently to orchestral music. “It tells stories which underlie the most important works in the orchestra repertoire, describing the drama, legend, picture, mood, or poem which the music expresses. It presents clearly and without technical analysis the basis of every considerable descriptive work in the symphonic repertoire.”
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“A compact little book, for intelligent concert goers rather than professional musicians. Scrappy and journalistic.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08.
“The comment is of a highly intelligent character, providing real information and avoiding the meaningless rhapsodizing into which writers upon music are tempted to fall.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 433. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“It is a compilation from many sources, but it is well made, and the book will serve a useful purpose—it is in all respects worthy of place on the music-lover’s shelves besides Mr. George P. Upton’s series on the ‘Standard’ operas, oratorios and so on.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 106. Ja. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Gilman has covered the field well, and collated thoroughly all the annotators.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 320w.
“The information contained in his volume really ought to be printed in the programmes distributed in the concert-halls. Is one of Mr. Gilman’s most useful and readable contributions to musical literature.” H: T. Finck.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 281. F. ’08. 1650w.
“A useful handbook for the opera and concert goer.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 30w.
=Gladden, Washington.= Church and modern life. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–9795.
A practical as well as inspirational study, seeking an audience among pastors and teachers but aiming to arouse to activity the young men and women to whom the future of the church is committed. The author shows that the roots of religion are in human nature; that like all living things, religion grows; that our religion is Christianity; that Christianity is a social religion; that as the life of religion is nurtured in social worship and service, so its fruit is gathered in the transformation of society; that the church has imperfectly performed its function; that a new reformation is called for; that the church is called to redeem society; and that for the redemption of society a new evangelism is needed.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08. ✠
“The book is a good one to put into the hands of those who are inclined to be discouraged over the outlook for the church.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 494. Ag. 27, ’08. 280w.
“Dr. Gladden’s essay will make for sanity as well as earnestness in the current debate on the relation of religion and the church to social reform.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 10. Jl. 2, ’08. 160w.
“The book is interpretative of the present movement in the American churches, and will add to that movement both guidance and new impulses.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 391. Je. 20, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 640. My. ’08. 80w.
=Glasgow, Ellen Anderson G.= Ancient law. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–2945.
The hero of this novel is a modern Jean Valjean, who goes wrong on the stock exchange and after five years of imprisonment seeks refuge in a southern town under the name of Smith. “It is a long, weary, beaten road that he travels, and he is but the concrete embodiment of a world-old tragedy and world-old problem which has survived crumbling ages. What makes him distinct among many of his brothers is an all-encompassing vision that comprehends both the letter and the spirit of the law that enchains him. Herein is the keynote of an absorbing and convincing story.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The characters are drawn with a sure, skilful hand, the story uncommonly well told.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 52. F. ’08. ✠
“In spite of these drawbacks the book is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 180w.
“Its figures, with one exception, are puppets, not human beings. They have no blood or breath of their own. We may be thankful for the lack of funny business in Miss Glasgow’s book, but we have still to regret its lack of proportion, of perspective, of that indefinable circumambient atmosphere, of insight and sympathy with which true humour surrounds its material.” H. W. Boynton.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 59. Mr. ’08. 860w.
“Miss Glasgow’s latest novel has both dignity and charm, although certain almost melodramatic happenings, huddled into the closing chapters, do not seem quite in keeping with the sincerity and restraint of what has gone before.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 14: 134. Mr. 1, ’08. 520w.
“But Ellen Glasgow has ascended. She has omitted the family portraits and most of the pedigrees in her new story and made ready for a long, wide sweep of the wings. She has not parted company with the populace. She has simply assumed a nobler attitude to it.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 469. F. 27, ’08. 720w.
“Miss Glasgow writes, as always, with fluency, gravity, and a species of ‘empressment’ which may go a long way toward achieving the effects of depth and subtlety. [The story has an] anti-climax, and [it] sinks through chapters of crude melodrama.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 152. F. 13, ’08. 480w.
“It is a book calculated to make you pause in the survey of rapid-fire fiction and realize that here is the real note of study, of character, and of observation. It is indeed a novel of dignity and of distinction.” I. F. Marcosson.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 53. F. 1, ’08. 1480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 250w.
“There are many fine and haunting passages.” L. C. Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 187: 445. Mr. ’08. 1100w.
“The book is eminently dignified and worthy. In its nature it is less entertaining than other novels by Miss Glasgow, but it is a fine piece of literary work notwithstanding.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 511. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“She has silhouetted several characters with extreme cleverness, but, more than this, she has chosen a situation and developed it up to an interesting point with some of Mr. Howells’ skill, concluding the story where it is evidently impossible for her to go on. There are very grave defects in her hero’s character, defects that are inconsistencies, for whose weakening influence on the story Miss Glasgow alone is responsible.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 80w.
“The story is founded on a basis of false sentiment and false psychology.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 760. Je. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Though written in a different vein from some of Miss Glasgow’s other books, none the less this story furnishes very excellent reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 505. Mr. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Glover, Ellye Howell.= “Dame Curtsey’s” book of novel entertainments. **$1. McClurg.
7–34781.
A veritable mine of suggestion for the hostess who entertains a great deal. The plans for parties, dinners, luncheons, and games have been thoroly tested and are offered in so great variety that there is something for every day of the year.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 183. Je. ’08. ✠
“[Contains] many things that are exceedingly valuable in the way of suggestion to the entertaining hostess.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1469. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
=Goddard, Harold Clarke.= Studies in New England transcendentalism. (Columbia univ. studies in English.) *$1. Macmillan.
8–14677.
A doctoral thesis. “Taking these five—Channing, Alcott, Emerson, Parker, and Margaret Fuller—as the foremost representatives of the movement in New England from traditionalism to free thought, Dr. Goddard goes into a minutely inductive study of its genesis and nature, beginning with an investigation of the intellectual and literary influences that affected each of the five in their environment, their reading and studies, and their influence on each other; after which he discusses their relations, severally, to practical life.” (Outlook.)
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“He has the true scholarly spirit and a certain aptness for getting the ear of his audience.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 380. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
“The grasp of general ideas, the sound and penetrating criticism, the orderly marshalling of material, and the literary virtues ... lift this thesis above the mass of ephemeral doctoral dissertations, and give it permanent and substantial value.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 500w.
“This monograph is rich in its personal portrayals of the notable characters it is concerned with, and is also a most valuable contribution to the religious and philosophical history of the first half of the nineteenth century.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 865. Ag. 15, ’08. 350w.
=Godfrey, Edward.= Structural engineering. bk. 2, Concrete. lea. *$2.50. Edward Godfrey, Monongahela bank bldg., Pittsburg, Pa.
“The book starts with a chapter headed ‘A survey of the field of concrete design and construction, in which will be found some theses,’ which is a rapid survey of the scheme of the book. This is followed by a short treatment of the materials which go to make up concrete structures, and the methods of handling, finishing and constructing the concrete. Next there are given some isolated cost figures of no exact value, as the conditions under which the work was carried on are omitted. This completes the original portion of the book. There follow articles selected from Engineering news, and thirty pages of cuts.”—Engin. N.
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“Altogether Mr. Godfrey’s work is a valuable contribution to the literature of concrete and concrete engineering.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 527. My. ’08. 300w.
“In his theory the author is sound; the main objection to his presentation ... is an almost too apparent didacticism and a slight intolerance of any other views but his own. The plan is ambitious and it seems a pity to have it fall so far short of its proper usefulness on account of easily-corrected details of arrangement and composition. The physical make-up of the book only adds to the confusion.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 543. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
=Engin. Rec.= 57: 540. Ap. 18, ’08. 350w.
=Godfrey, Hollis.= Man who ended war. †$1.50. Little.
8–28057.
A stirring novel which exploits an ingenious scientific achievement. A man who conceals his identity informs nations that he is destined to stop all war. He orders disarmament, gives a year for it, and, at its end, when no move is made, proceeds single handed to destroy one battleship after another making use of his remarkable and mysterious invention.
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“It is a very interesting and wholly manly story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 573. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Godrycz, John.= Doctrine of modernism and its refutation. *75c. McVey.
8–17779.
The author “follows the text of the Papal encyclical against modernism, and first gives his statement of what modernism is in a form for easy reply, and then follows it by a ‘Refutation.’... His refutation begins by asserting that modernism is based on positivism, which is rationalistic and irreligious.... He supports his attacks on the modernists by quotations from Newman Smyth and George Washington, and concludes that ‘one of the greatest persecutions that ever swept over the church is preparing in Europe.’”—Ind.
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+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 686. Ag. ’08. 700w.
− =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 170w.
“Interesting is it to thoughtful Protestants.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 330w.
=Goerens, Paul.= Introduction to metallography; tr. by Fred Ibbotson. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–21497.
A study of the structure of metals which contains much information quite inaccessible to the American student. The first section deals with the physical properties of matter, including allotrophy, cooling curves, and pyrometry; the second, on the physical mixture, deals with the theories of solutions and freezing-point curves of aqueous solutions, fused salts and alloys; the third and fourth are concerned respectively with practical microscopy of metals and the metallography of iron and its alloys.
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“We believe it will find important service as a text-book, and as side reading for practicing metallurgists. The lack of lucidity is, we think, the fault rather of the form and substance of the original text than of the translator.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 79. Jl. 16, ’08. 920w.
“In the whole, the book is hardly more than an introduction into the subject, but as such it is valuable and will prove useful to students of this subject.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 300w.
“Enough has been said to show that the standard work on metallography is yet to be written, but that students will find Dr. Goerens’s book admirable as affording them a glimpse of the methods of investigating metals and alloys.” T. K. R.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 387. Ag. 27, ’08. 630w.
“The exposition of the theoretical side of the subject is not as complete as it might have been but it will give the beginner an excellent idea of equilibrium phenomena. The explanations of the freezing-point diagrams have been duplicated unnecessarily, perhaps not for the beginner, but certainly for those using the book for reference. For the latter class of readers there is too much detail.” H: Fay.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 489. O. 9, ’08. 420w.
=Goodrich, Albert Moses.= Cruise and captures of the Alabama. *75c. Wilson, H. W.
7–27369.
Material that came to light with the publication of the naval records of the rebellion has been supplemented here by Captain Semmes’ diary, which after the war was expanded into a memoir, by diaries of the Alabama’s officers, and by various consular reports. The material worked over with care has been presented in a trustworthy form, readable and informing.
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“A graphic, impartial, and trustworthy résumé, based upon the documents of what was perhaps the most picturesque and important episode of the ocean warfare.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 192. F. 27. ’08. 140w.
=Goodrich, Arthur Frederick.= Gleam o’ Dawn. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–17835.
A story of the Canadian border whose hero is a young half-breed, a poet in feeling and an artist in expression. The spiritual within him wars against the elemental savage desire to avenge the death of his mother, Gleam o’Dawn, who had been deserted by his white father. On the side of vengeance he is spurred on by an Indian who had been his father’s rival; the white path of forgiveness is urged by the “li’l brown girl” whom he loves. Repentance, revenge, tragedy and conquest are the subjective notes of the book.
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“The plot is slight, and the story somewhat sensational, but it is breezy, graceful, full of the charm of outdoor life, and contains some excellent characterizations.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08.
“Mr. Goodrich is to be congratulated upon having first designed a worthy pattern, and then upon having woven it with delicate and skilful art.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 503. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“One is tempted to think that a masterly short story has been partly sacrificed to the mistaken call of length.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 120. Ag. 6, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“The plot has many threads, yet it never becomes tangled, and it is brought to a powerful climax, in the virility and tenseness of which there is no touch of melodrama.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 374. Jl. 4, ’08. 360w.
=Gordon, Alexander R.= Early traditions of Genesis. *$2.25. Scribner.
8–9521.
“Embodies a reverent and at the same time thoroughly scientific reconstruction of the traditions and historical facts recorded in the earlier portions of the book of Genesis.”—Ath.
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“This book cannot be praised too highly for its scientific method and its thoroughness. It is written with full mastery of the earlier literature and brings many new and valuable suggestions to the solution of the problems. It may unhesitatingly be recommended as the best book in English on the subject, and it is doubtful whether there is a better treatise in any other language.” L: B. Paton.
+ + + =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 466. Jl. ’08. 2450w.
“The author is fully abreast of the most recent discoveries and speculations, and he also possesses the power of lucid and attractive exposition. Valuable additions to the work are the appendixes. The index is inadequate.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 188. F. 15. 500w.
“The method is thoroughly critical and historical, and excellent use has been made of the best literature. The results achieved indicate breadth of view, sanity of judgment, and a competent independence of opinion. This is certainly all in all the best book in English on the early stories of Genesis.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 238. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“This book is a valuable and welcome piece of constructive criticism by one who has a sympathetic appreciation of all that is elevating in Hebrew tradition.” A. A. Madsden.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 140. Ag. ’08. 1250w.
“He is content to walk mainly in trodden paths; but he has seen things for himself by the way.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 350w.
“This is one of the best books we have read for a long time.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 546. O. 31, ’08. 780w.
“We must be content with saying that Professor Gordon’s theories show great learning and ingenuity, and that the whole book is well worth careful study. This or that theory may fail to satisfy us, but the effect of the whole study is largely to widen our outlook.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 156. Ja. 25, ’08. 150w.
=Gordon, Armistead C.= Robin Aroon: a comedy of manners. *$1.25. Neale.
8–28989.
A story of the South just before the revolution in which the spirit, grace, hospitality and glory of old colonial days are happily depicted. Captain Paul Jones figures in the tale.
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“An interesting and amusing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, 08. 100w.
=Gordon, C. H. C. Pirie-.= Innocent the Great. *$3. Longmans.
8–3997.
“The essay is divided into ten chapters, which deal with the period of Pope Innocent’s pontificate, the person and family of the Pontiff, his dealings with the empire, the fourth crusade, the Pope and Sicily, his dealings with the Albigensians. Innocent III. and England, difficulties with the city of Rome, etc., and the character of the Pope. Besides these chapters, the book contains six appendices, four maps, and eight genealogical tables.”—Acad.
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“Our author has brought to his work some important qualities of a real historian; he endeavours, for example, to guage the spirit of the times about which he writes, and to judge the deeds and opinion of the chief actors by the standards of the days in which they lived, and not too hastily to condemn them by measuring their works and sayings by the principles or practices of more modern times. He has also obviously taken great pains to understand his materials, although perhaps in some cases he has given himself unnecessary trouble.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 55. O. 26, ’07. 1680w.
“The essay is an undigested product. The diction of the book is fairly startling by its affectation. A more serious criticism of the work is its inaccuracy.” E: B. Krehbiel.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 664. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“This is a portentous work eked out with appendixes, but of little real value.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 351. Mr. 21. 200w.
“Though it does not add to historic knowledge, it contains much that has not hitherto been easily accessible to English readers. It is provided, too, with many references to original authorities, with useful appendices, and good maps.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 379. D. 13, ’07. 1440w.
“A hopeless style might be excused if the things it was intended to convey were worth the telling; but at no point of his narrative does Mr. Pirie-Gordon rise to the height of even a modest demand for historical soundness.”
− − =Nation.= 86: 11. Ja. 2, ’08. 470w.
“It cannot honestly be said that he throws any new light on a baffling period, or brings us to any more vivid understanding of the pontiff under whose sway papal pretensions reached their high-water mark. The author would do well in the future to prune his style of its very irritating classicisms and other affectations.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 500w.
=Gordon, William John.= Round about the North Pole. *$5. Dutton.
8–10293.
An account of the heroes of arctic exploration. “In telling the story of the different expeditions from that of Sir Hugh Willoughby in 1553, to Robert Peary’s in 1906, the author has divided the region into sections, beginning with Spitsbergen and following the circle to Greenland, describing the exploration of each section by itself. The main incidents and achievements of the various expeditions are grouped together with numerous extracts from journals and anecdotes.” (Nation.)
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“As a popular account of Arctic adventure the book has its use; but the serious history of Arctic exploration is still to seek.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 151. Ag. 8. 820w.
“A more inspiring record of bravery, endurance, sacrifice of self for the sake of one’s comrades, unflinching devotion to duty in the face of deathly peril, it would be difficult to find.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“As an introduction to Arctic travel for the use of those to whom references to original sources are unnecessary we do not know a better book, nor do we think that a work of this kind, where a vast amount of a material is condensed within a few pages, could on the whole be made lighter or more readable without sacrificing its serious character.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 538. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
“We recommend this volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 101: 23. Jl. 4, ’08. 450w.
=Gore, Charles.= New theology and old religion: being eight lectures, together with five sermons. *$2. Dutton.
8–14749.
These lectures and sermons constitute an apologetic which places the new and the old side by side, and on the one hand points to the benefits to be derived from a study of the new, while on the other maintains that the old contains scientific beliefs which cannot be abandoned but which are integral to the creed of Christianity.
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“The five sermons at the end, to our thinking are the most valuable part of the volume. Like all Bishop Gore’s writings, they are a little unattractive and hard. His style is lucid without grace, and strong without elasticity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 183. F. 15. 2000w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 128. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“In maintaining these views, Bishop Gore represents the sane, sensible, English attitude which is to be expected of him. While his treatment will not satisfy all who are in sympathy with modern science, yet on the whole it is reasonable and helpful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 258. My. 2, ’08. 500w.
“This volume might be described as a kind of Anglican Catholic encyclical on Modernism: interesting but inconclusive to the man who is animated by the modern spirit.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
“His weak point is his style; he tries to be simple and impressive, but only succeeds in being heavy. At present he treats his hearers as if they were children, and not very good ones.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 796. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
* =Gorky, Maxim.= The spy: the story of a superfluous man. $1.50. Huebsch.
A realistic story of revolutionary Russia which depicts the workings of the secret service and the bitter trials of the revolutionist in his struggle for liberty. In the portrayal of the “superfluous man” from stunted childhood to weak, anaemic manhood the author reveals in all their flagrant hideousness the abortive influences rife in Russia to terminate manhood development and to produce betrayers of the Judas type.
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“The reader may have to set his teeth, not to say to hold his nose, as he reads—but he will be convinced if he sticks it out that this life of which Gorky writes is a fact.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 1000w.
“In his characteristic vivid manner the author realistically describes revolutionary Russia of the present day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Father and son: biographical recollections. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–36407.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“One of the most fascinating and interesting pieces of literature that has been issued of recent years. It is a great book, but for our part we scarcely like this close anatomisation by a son of a father.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 1450w.
“Written with great charm, with delicacy of feeling, poetic insight, and not a little humor.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 41. F. ’08.
“If the writer should achieve anything like lasting remembrance, it will be due to this work rather than to any of the studies, essays, or verse in which his learning and versatility have won praise. This book is unique.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 6. Ja. 4. 1800w.
“As a personal revelation, this book must take its place in the small group that includes such vital records of the soul as Amiel’s ‘Journal’ and ‘The story of an African farm.’” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 527. Ja. ’08. 1200w.
“No book could better show the vast difference between plausible but wholly imaginary biography and autobiography ... on the one hand, and the actual record of a human soul on the other, than this detailed account of the warring of two discordant temperaments.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 96. F. 16, ’08. 1520w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 315. F. 6, ’08. 470w.
“If it be not a document, as the writer calls it, is, we admit, an extremely subtile and fascinating analysis of two human minds.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 330w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 197. F. 27, ’08. 1850w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 694. My. 30, ’08. 1250w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Henrik Ibsen. (Literary lives.) **$1. Scribner.
7–41565.
A biography which sketches the influences, positive and negative, that set the great poet to weaving such an individual life tapestry. Ibsen’s adventures as an author are recorded with an idea single to their unity. There is no attempt to set forth the plots of his dramas, nor to treat the spurious “lessons” and supposititious “problems” which so many look for in Ibsen, but to recognize among the “irregularities and audacities,” qualities of merit Mr. Gosse says that it has been Ibsen’s misfortune to attract people who “treat all tulips and roses as if they were cabbages for the pot of didactic morality.” The closing chapters deal with his last years, and his personal and intellectual characteristics.
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“A compact, agreeable, informing biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 78. Mr. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Gosse has rarely given such proof of his vivacity as in this biography.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 364. Mr. 21. 400w.
“Mr. Gosse has drawn an admirable portrait of Ibsen—from a definite point of view; and it goes without saying that this point of view is entirely Mr. Gosse’s own.” Archibald Henderson.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 260. Ag. ’08. 580w.
“Mr. Gosse has by no means, as he seems to think, made ‘obsolete’ the standard biography of Ibsen by Henrik Jaeger. That solid performance is likely to outlast many such books as the one Mr. Gosse has given us, agreeable and informing as it is, and it hardly becomes him to belittle a work which is so much more searching and philosophical than his own.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 108. F. 16, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Gosse’s life of Ibsen is well fitted to supplement the running commentary of Mr. Archer’s introduction. We have in English no other book which gives what we need to know about the man and his methods to understand his achievements.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 921. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Gosse’s book is more complete than those of Jaeger and Rudolph Lothar, and it is also more concise; but it falls short of both in understanding and in sympathy. The figure of Ibsen reflected by the curved mirror of Mr. Gosse’s mind is almost a caricature. Still the book is not without merits. It is briskly written, though not always in good taste, and it gives a fairly just estimate of the plays.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 660w.
“To humanize this sphinx is plainly Mr. Gosse’s aim; if he has not wholly succeeded, he has at least given us a most interesting, sane, and authoritative biography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 142. Mr. 14, ’08. 700w.
“To be noted as of curious interest is the fact that, while Mr. Gosse sometimes adopts the statements of certain Norwegian authorities on Ibsen and his work, he sometimes ignores no less authoritative assertions when they happen to conflict with his pet theories on the subject.” S. R. Cook.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 238. My. ’08. 300w.
“His sense of character is too strong to be hushed down by his natural instinct for hero-worship. Just as he sees Ibsen, so does he display him. And the irrepressible sense of character is enforced by a not less active sense of humour.” Max Beerbohm.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 330. Mr. 14, ’08. 1600w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Borderland studies. 2v. v. 2. *$1.50. Blakiston.
7–20140†.
Miscellaneous addresses and essays pertaining to medicine and the medical profession, and their relations to general science and thought. Some of the chapters are: The history of the house, The seven deadly sins of civilization, Disease and sin, Some intellectual weeds of American growth, and Concerning crank, megalomaniac, morphinomaniac, dotard, criminal and insane physicians.
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“While the author commonly has the professional reader in mind, the layman will find much of interest besides getting a good idea of the cleverness of the writer, of his fondness for mannerisms, which are almost sophomoric, and of his use of the sledge-hammer even when a tack-hammer seems quite sufficient.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 145. Ag. 13, ’08. 250w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Concerning Lafcadio Hearn; with a bibliography by Laura Stedman. **$1.50. Jacobs.
8–14835.
A series of impressions intended to be of service to anyone who may undertake the task of furnishing a critical estimate of the methods and development of Hearn’s imaginative power and literary development. They deal “with the young man as we find him, uneducated, friendless, without formed character, with a lot of heathenish and unrestrained appetites, crippled as to the most important of the senses, poverty-stricken, improvident, of peculiar and unprepossessing appearance and manners, flung into an alien world in many ways more morbid than himself.”
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“On the whole, the picture of Hearn drawn by Dr. Gould does not differ materially from that to which we were accustomed. It is a little sharper in outline, a little more explicit in detail, that is all.” F: W. Gookin.
+ =Dial.= 44: 300. My. 16, ’08. 1200w.
“The reader of the book will desire rather less repetition and a few more authoritative facts.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1348. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“In the actual details of Hearn’s life Dr. Gould presents not much that is new. By far the most valuable parts of the book are those in which Hearn’s literary activities are traced.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 1100w.
“We have not had enough stylists to be able to afford to neglect the memory of Hearn, and Dr. Gould has done a welcome service in so efficiently covering the ground while avoiding the miry and unwholesome places.” G: S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 252. My. 2, ’08. 950w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 250w.
“Some readers, we are sure, will be sorry that these pages have been written. They are singularly painful. Many things were against Hearn. And yet we cannot find fault with the book. It presents a very curious picture; and if it leaves a painful impression, one feels at the same time that it makes, or ought to make, for righteousness.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 711. N. 7, ’08. 350w.
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-=, ed. Book of nursery songs and rhymes. **$1.50. McClurg.
With short introductions and ten pages of historical notes there are given here seventy-seven songs, ten game rhymes, a hundred and more jingles. The illustrations and borders are the work of members of the Birmingham art school.
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“I cannot believe in half-hearted scholarship and on the other hand I fail to recognize the need for scholarship in relation to rhymes and jingles in a book for young folks.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 63: 1484. D. 19, ’07. 140w.
+ − =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 50w.
=Gould, Rev. Sabine Baring-.= Devonshire characters and strange events. *$7. Lane.
8–32992.
Having previously dealt with the greater names of Devonshire fame, Mr. Baring-Gould now turns to the sixty or seventy minor characters. There are rascals and worthies, simple citizens and men with slight claim to erudition, sailors and clergymen, doctors and poets. They are called Devonshire “oddities,” and the author portrays them with their peculiarities on the outside.
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“This book is thus frankly a book of gossip, and, as we have said, makes capital reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 550w.
“Scrappily put together, to be sure, but containing a good store of entertainment.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“This is an odd book. The compiler has managed to bring within his covers much curious information, both about characters and events.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 500w.
“We can promise our readers many happy hours in the perusal of this volume, for it contains eight hundred pages, has some excellent portraits, and is a mine of interesting matter.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 500w.
=Graham, David.= Grammar of philosophy. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–26258.
“A robustious apology, by a Scotch barrister, for the philosophy of the Scottish school.... In the blessed and reverently capitalized name of Common Sense, all the great non-Caledonian thinkers and even the heterodox Scots—Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Mill, Darwin, Leslie, Stephen—are quite simply shown to be intellectually akin to the inmates of Bedlam, though less consistent than the latter in the matter of practice. Intuitive ethical truths like those of mathematics; the argument from design; the foundation of the legal institution of the dock in the eternal nature of things—these and many similar archaisms are triumphantly demonstrated.”—Nation.
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“The philosopher may find other lay contributions to philosophy that are as anachronistic and as absurd; but he will not in many summers find another so breezily refreshing in its anachronism and so consistently amusing in its absurdity.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 450w.
“The author is an ingenious, though not convincing barrister-at-law.”
− =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Graham, Harry.= Group of Scottish women. *$3.50. Duffield.
A series of biographical portraits of Scotswomen of the past who by reason of their heroism, courage, piety or wit, have affected their generation and lent to it the strength of their individuality. Among the women so treated are Dervorguilla; “Black Agnes of Dunbar”; Jane, Countess of Sutherland; Elizabeth, Duchess of Lauderdale; Lady Grisell Baillie; Ann, Duchess Buccleuch and Monmouth; Catherine, Duchess of Queensberry; Mrs. Alison Cockburn; Elspeth Buchan; Jane, Duchess of Gordon; Lady Anne Barnard; Mrs. Grant of Laggan; Lady Louisa Stuart; and Mrs. Clementina Stirling Graham.
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“This is a lively and entertaining book, dealing at its best with the leisure and gaiety of bygone days, and written in a style appropriate to so light a theme.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 2: 359. S. 26. 1000w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 630w.
“A reaction takes place in the reader’s mind when he ... discovers that the author is selecting among materials for the purpose merely of amusing.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 470w.
“The Captain writes with brilliancy and ease, is of an epigrammatic habit, and has many a shrewd or amusing comment to make on his heroines and their times, which he indicates in each case, and succeeds in making real enough to excite interest.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 594. O. 24, ’08. 380w.
“The book is eminently entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 550. N. 7, ’08. 180w.
“A series of lively and sympathetic sketches.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 70w.
“As biography the book before us is of average quality. That is to say, the early part is worse and the end is better than the common run of such books. It is no exaggerated praise to say that Mr. Harry Graham tells us as much about our own age as the past.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 546. O. 31, ’08. 780w.
“He feels it his duty to give a sentence a humorous turn even when the subject does not demand it. and the result is sometimes a galvanized gaiety which is a little trying. There are a few trifling blunders of fact and a few odd opinions. Captain Graham has written an entertaining hook, which, unlike so many gossiping biographies, suffers from no faults of taste. He has also the gift, which is becoming painfully rare to-day, of writing Scottish dialect in its correct and classical form.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 330. S. 5, ’08. 1350w.
* =Grahame, Kenneth.= Wind in the willows. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–29339.
“A simple-hearted Mole, a Water Rat of a poetical temperament, and a wealthy, boastful, and extravagant Toad, with a fine Tudor mansion and a passion for motor-cars, are the principal personages in Mr. Kenneth Grahame’s story.” (Ath.) “From broad farce and the most grotesque combinations of animals and things and speech this book now and again touches poetry as one touches it in life, incidentally, and by the way.” (Outlook.)
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“The author seems not to have given himself up whole-heartedly to his fantasy, and is apt to hinder the charm of his incongruities by spasmodic efforts to make them congruous. These cavillings apart, the book, with its scenes of river, forest, and field, and its whimsical incursions into the human world, forms an all but perfect blending of idyll and inconsequence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 643. N. 21. 200w.
“Some may call it nature faking of the baldest sort, but such pedantry carries its own punishment. The book is not easily classified—it is simply destined to be one of those dog-eared volumes which one laughs over and loves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 430w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 662. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
=Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.= Quaker and courtier: the life and work of William Penn. *$3–50. Dutton.
8–16919.
“The book is not strictly a history. It is a ... study of Penn’s character and career by ‘a direct descendant,’ with considerable citation of letters and contemporaneous writing and an agreeably woven web of comment on the men and manners and conditions of the time.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Subject to a few reservations, the book is written pleasantly and unaffectedly enough. It contains, indeed, we think, nothing that is at once new and important.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 477. Ap. 18. 1000w.
“Mrs. Grant tells her story pleasantly, and throws about the events of her great ancestor’s life a good deal of the historic framework that such a narrative requires; but apart from the use she has made of a few hitherto unpublished letters, she cannot be said to have produced an original work or one that fills any aching void in literature.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 400w.