The book review digest, volume 04, 1908 (part 4 of 7)
“It seems a pity that, with such good material at hand, and with her sympathetic interest in her hero, the author has not given us, in a less sketchy way, some account of Penn’s relations to the political and religious parties of his time, the development of his own opinions, his schemes, and his failure in colonial government.” A. G.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 618. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“In Mrs. Grant’s book the reader will find much not altogether new, but freshly pieced out with new material.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1147. My. 21, ’08. 450w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 600w.
“Simple and candid and sympathetic.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 181. Ap. 4, ’08. 1600w.
“By no means a superfluous addition to the existing memoirs of a great figure in our colonial history. Mrs. Grant’s work is evidently the fruit of careful research.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w.
“A good bit of work. The story of a life very full of interest is told in a sensible, businesslike fashion, without any rhetoric, perhaps without any distinction of style, but in a way which does justice to the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 227. F. 8, ’08. 400w.
=Grant, Elihu.= Peasantry of Palestine: the life, manners and customs of the village. *$1.50. Pilgrim press.
7–37961.
During Mr. Grant’s residence as missionary teacher at Ramallah, near Jerusalem, he visited the mission stations and schools in central Palestine. “Intensely interested in the village folk, Dr. Grant recorded with camera and pencil the details and surroundings of their life—utensils, houses, songs, customs, superstitions, linguistic peculiarities, antiquities.” (Nation.)
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“Peculiarly valuable, not only because of the region in which he worked and from which his material is mainly derived, but also because of a singular combination of painstaking care and sympathetic feeling for the ways and habits of the people of the land. Moreover, he asked himself very practical questions, and in answering them for himself he has gathered material which answers just those questions which the average intelligent man or woman would like to put to the Palestinian explorer, if he could reach him personally.” J: P. Peters.
+ + =Bib. World.= 32: 146. Ag. ’08. 1050w.
“A really valuable addition to the literature on Palestine, and the Bible scholar will find it helpful in the study and in the classroom.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 41. Jl. 2, ’08. 580w.
“Charmingly written and abundantly illustrated. Convenient foot-notes, referring to passages in both the Old and the New Testaments, which are illuminated or illustrated by the book, make it a useful manual for the Bible student.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 171. F. 20, ’08. 260w.
“Written with the utmost simplicity and straightforwardness, and will doubtless be of much interest and value to all who are concerned with the study of folk-life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 70w.
=Grant, Percy Stickney.= Search of Belisarius: a Byzantine legend. **$1.25. Brentano’s.
7–42002.
A poem written in the Spenserian stanza based upon the legend of Belisarius in which the interest is concentrated on the acts and emotions of a single character, “the deus ex machina of an impressive and emotional drama of Byzantine times.”
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“Told in verse which is neither marked by special virtue nor flagrant fault, which, not offending, yet does not linger in the memory. The book has the dignity of a sincere effort and an appreciation of beauty. Tells you a legend, touching, lovely. But it does not add to your understanding of life, because it is written from the outside and not the inside of its author.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 56. F. 1, ’08. 520w.
“A noble poem, whether we consider it from the point of view of Arnold, that true poetry is but a criticism of life and the highest expression of the best literature, or from the other extreme of Poe, that poetry is merely ‘the rhythmic creation of the beautiful.’ The appreciative reader will have keen enjoyment in this work of a man of rare intellectual attainments and spiritual insight, and on laying down the volume will find it no easy task to call to mind another living author equally capable of writing such a poem.” J. S. Auerbach.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 293. F. ’08. 1200w.
=Granville, Roger.= King’s general in the West: the life of Sir Richard Granville. **$4. Lane.
8–34202.
A life which is important for the light it throws on “the drama of the Puritan revolution.” It records the military achievements and domestic short-comings of a man who, “loyal, brave, obstinate, contentious, wrongheaded, rash, overbearing, at times cruel, quarreled with his family, his wife, his friends, his fellow-officers and his superiors to the end, scarcely less of a terror to his own side than to his enemies, yet with a certain curious hold on his followers through it all.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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Reviewed by W. C. Abbott.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 120. O. ’08. 440w.
“One gets vivid glimpses of the age, but we have already many books which are more illuminative.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 188. Ag. 27, ’08. 180w.
=Spec.= 101: 507. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Grasset, Joseph.= Semi-insane and the semi-responsible: authorized American ed. tr. by Smith Ely Jelliffe. **$2.50. Funk.
7–41081.
A work which makes its appeal to the physician, alienist, lawyer and layman. The author believes in responsibility for the diseased as much as for the criminal, and maintains that the question, Should the accused be punished or should he be treated? ought to be considered. The object of the book is to demonstrate that to this burning question the magistrate, assisted by the physician, may make three different replies according to the case in hand: (1) The accused criminal is entirely responsible ... he ought to be put into prison; (2) The accused criminal is entirely irresponsible ... he ought to be treated and placed in a hospital; (3) The accused criminal has attenuated responsibility ... he ought to be both punished and treated.
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“The book is primarily a practical one. In spite of a somewhat loose style and too frequent controversial digressions, the volume arouses interest in its topic.” W. B. Pitkin.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 132. F. 27, ’08. 1070w.
“The work as a whole raises many large and difficult questions. Its main thesis, however, is a thoroughly defensible one, in the light of modern science. It is an indication of a point of view, and a method of approach to all problems growing out of mental and moral aberrations which are certain to command increasing attention and respect.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 235. F. 15, ’08. 750w.
“The volume is well written and is destined to become the expert’s vade mecum in future medico-legal discussions.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 270w.
“Most interesting to the layman, no doubt, is Dr. Grasset’s cumulative clinic of eminent historical instances of demifous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 55. F. 1, ’08. 1320w.
=Gray, Andrew.= Lord Kelvin: an account of his scientific life and work. (English men of science ser.) *$1. Dutton.
“Not strictly a biography, but aims to give a survey of Lord Kelvin’s scientific work with a mere sketch of his personality. The sections describing his methods in the classroom and laboratory will be found the more interesting.... The author gives clearly the impression of the originality and of the enormous vitality and energy of this intellectual giant who ranks with Galileo and Newton.”—Nation.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 307. S. 12. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 270w.
“Except for the well posted scientist, who has made it a point to keep in touch with the minute data of investigation, much that the book contains will be new.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15. ’08. 1250w.
“This book is admirable for scientific students.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 794. Je. 20, ’08. 430w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 474. O. 3, ’08. 420w.
=Gray, Rev. James M.= Antidote to Christian science. **$75c. Revell.
7–23291.
“The author here tries to show wherein Christian Science fails as a religion and where the Bible and Christian Science clash. He closes with a chapter on what the church may learn from Mrs. Eddy’s teachings.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“A little book marked with a sweet temper, a forebearing spirit, and a familiarity with Biblical texts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 863. D. 28, ’07. 210w.
=Gray, Maxwell, pseud. (Mary Gleed Tuttiett).= Suspicions of Mrs. Allonby. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–23105.
Mrs. Allonby, the wife of a London novelist, tiring of fogs, and piqued over her husband’s failure to regard as necessities five new chic and costly hats, finds fault with his relations with his stenographer, and goes off in a huff to the Riviera. Out of motives of protection he bids the stenographer, quite unrecognized by the wife, travel in the latter’s company; and he follows in disguise. A comedy of suspicions ensues, all harmless and without foundation. The story is sprightly and abounds in local color.
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“Whoever, remembering that well-told and interesting story, ‘The silence of Dean Maitland,’ takes up this book with pleasant expectations, is doomed to severe disappointment.”
− =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 420w.
“The author hardly does herself full justice in writing a novel so entirely pleasing to the young ladies who gossip around soda fountains or at the matinees.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 440w.
=Grayson, David.= Adventures in contentment. **$1.20. Doubleday.
7–40003.
“Mr. David Grayson in these papers dwells on country life, its broadening and elevating influences. He describes the beautiful things of nature—the smell of freshly plowed loam on a spring day, when the clouds hang low and the birds are calling from the budding trees; the joy of seeing the little green blades pushing up, of watching them grow and grow till the bearded heads wave with every breath of wind in billows over the field; and, finally, the delight of harvesting the goodly crop. He is fair, too; he admits that country life has its disadvantages.”—Outlook.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
“David Grayson’s merry, commonplace adventures with the book-agent, the millionaire, the infidel, will nourish dozens of earnest readers to whom Mr. Benson’s exquisite interpretation of the one hundred and nineteenth psalm must still be as husks.” Florence Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 107: 711. My. ’08. 200w.
“So sweet-tempered and wholesome is Mr. Grayson himself, so much the most interesting thing about his book, that we feel sure that he must have got the best out of life anywhere, and could have adventured quite as contentedly in a three-room flat a folding-bed and a fire-escape.” M. S. Watts.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 7. Ja. 4, ’08. 2000w.
“His enthusiasm is such that he almost infects a millionaire with his views.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 200w.
=Grayson, William John.= Selected poems; selected and compiled by Mrs. W: H. Armstrong. $1.25. Neale.
7–36212.
Mrs. Armstrong’s aim has been that of rescuing from the forgotten past a few of her father’s poems which should live for the character and ideals revealed in them typical of his genius and of times in the south before the war.
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“He was not one of the grand old masters, yet lovers of American verse will remember him gratefully, and should be glad now to salute him who was about to die.” Christian Gauss.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 290. My. 23. ’08. 350w.
=Green, Alice S. A. (Stopford) (Mrs. John Richard Green).= Making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200–1600. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“The main theses of Mrs. Green’s vigorous and freshly written work are two. The first is that in the course of the three centuries ... the Norman and the Gaelic elements in the population had coalesced so as to produce a race practically homogeneous and a civilisation distinctly national. The second is that the independent national life thus evolved was wantonly arrested from unworthy motives of mercantile jealousy by the policy of the Tudors, and trampled underfoot by the violence of their agents in the Irish wars of the sixteenth century.”—Sat. R.
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“A remarkable book—a history in name, a French pamphlet in nature. It would require a long time to verify her references, and so far as we have done this, we have found the statements on which she relies. But the interpretation of them is another matter.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 117. Ag. 1. 1600w.
“Not a few of Mrs. Green’s generalizations, it is true, appear to rest on insufficient data, giving occasion for the criticism that she inclines to take an over-roseate view. But the great corrective value of her work to students of Irish history is unquestionable, and it should also prove of practical benefit in assisting to uproot prejudices that have long operated to the disadvantage of the Irish people.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 456. O. 24, ’08. 330w.
“If it is impossible not to feel gratitude to Mrs. Green for a book which, whatever else is to be said of it, is undeniably stimulating and informing, it is equally impossible not to regret the spirit of acute partisanship in which it has been written.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 50. Jl. 11, ’08. 1650w.
=Green, F. E.= Small holding. (Country handbooks.) **$1. Lane.
Shows how a small farm of twenty acres or more may be obtained and worked to the owner’s profit.
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“While he has a wide knowledge of conditions as they exist in England, it is extremely doubtful if all his theories could be applied to practical use in this country.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 130w.
“Thoughtful and practical little book.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 450. S. 26, ’08. 600w.
=Green, W. Curtis.= Old cottages and farm houses in Surrey; with introduction and numerous sketches by W. Curtis Green. $7.50. Helburn.
One hundred collotype reproductions of typical surviving examples of Gothic domestic architecture in Surrey, an introduction emphasizing the vitality of the architectural designs of old cottages, and notes and sketches describing and analysing the details of construction constitute a noteworthy contribution to the series of “old cottage” books.
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“Naturally, most of the interest is the photographer’s.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 247. Ag. 29. 360w.
“Mr. Green gives the result of much original research.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 35: 241. S. ’08. 350w.
“While this very beautiful book is primarily intended for the practical architect or student of architecture, the photographs and descriptions will be found full of charm for any one to whom a house means an opportunity to exercise the imagination.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 560w.
=Greenslet, Ferris.= Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. **$3. Houghton.
8–27511.
Material from a wide range of sources has entered into the structure of this biography. While letters and memorials form the ground work of the sketch, the author’s personal knowledge of Mr. Aldrich, gained during a period of close friendship, form the basis for estimates concerning his career, temperament and character, which narrative is supplemented by reminiscences. The biography in addition to being an authoritative “life,” sets Aldrich among a group of his contemporaries.
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“He has used nice discrimination in selecting his material and presents it with dignity, grace and a full appreciation of his subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 259. N. ’08.
“It is in the generous selections from Aldrich’s correspondence that the chief interest of the book lies—by the wise intention of the selfsuppressing biographer. A biography that will not soon be superseded.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 250. O. 16, ’08. 1700w.
“It is difficult to conceive any better biography of Aldrich than Mr. Greenslet’s.” James MacArthur.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 500. N. ’08. 1900w.
“To those who admired the vigor and independence of Mr. Greenslet’s book on Lowell, this later work in the biographical field brings some disappointment.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 810. N. 28, ’08. 560w.
“It is pervaded from the first page to the last by his personality, which was something unique among the men of letters at his period.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 70w.
“If Mr. Greenslet fails to satisfy us anywhere, it is in the last chapter in which he sums up his criticism of Aldrich’s writings. What he says is good and sound, but somehow it is not quite sufficient; it lacks the last transmuting touch.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 331. O. 8, ’08. 370w.
“No more fitting choice could have been made for biographer of Aldrich than Ferris Greenslet. He brings to his subject all needful sympathy and comprehension. He writes of the ‘singularly fortunate life’ of Aldrich with the spirit of one who knew that estimable man of letters well in his later years and understood his nature.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 553. O. 10, ’08. 2750w.
“Mr. Greenslet happily strikes the golden mean between condensation and undue expansion; no one will miss any essential fact, nor will any one feel that the story is a page too long.” H. W. Mabie.
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 718. N. 28, ’08. 2000w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 160w.
=Greenwood, Granville George.= Shakespeare problem restated. *$5. Lane.
8–21629.
The author “attempts to prove that two men, hitherto considered great were both collossal frauds, and that though hundreds of contemporaries must have been in their common secret, not one of them breathed it in life, and all ‘died and made no sign.’ Mr. Greenwood explains the chain of arguments by which moderns believe they have made this discovery, a chain hardly strong enough at any point to bear the burden of proof, and lacking altogether in many of its links.”—Ath.
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“Though the volume itself shows wide and careful reading it is, after all, only an extended ‘case’ prepared by a lawyer who holds a brief for the plaintiff.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 7. Jl. 4. 2700w.
“This book is more or less valuable as a specimen of a myth in the making.”
− =Nation.= 87: 295. S. 24, ’08. 480w.
“It is a well-written book and interesting enough of its kind, and we have no objection to the kind. It can do no harm.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 367. Je. 27, ’08. 1050w.
=Gregory, Caspar Rene.= Canon and text of the New Testament. (International theological lib.) *$2.50. Scribner.
7–42092.
“The title indicates the two separate lines of investigations which [the author] pursues. He does not, like most, assume that an unalterable collection of books—‘the Canon’—exists, but explores the evidence for the early existence of the writings most highly valued by Christians for both private and public use, and therefore classed by themselves as canonical, i. e., standard works.” (Outlook.) He distinguishes an “original text,” a “rewrought text,” a “polished text,” the first and second Syrian revisions and leads up to the concession that “The text of the New Testament is in the main assured.”
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“Professor Gregory’s work on the canon arrests and holds the reader’s interest beyond any book ever written on the subject. Its pages possess a quality of vivid interest, even fascination, very rarely attained by works of like solid scholarship. For a classroom manual, we should have welcomed clearer definition as to the critical points in the history of the canon, and fuller information as to the most recent treatises and discussions of them.” E. J. Goodspeed.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 272. Ap. ’08. 1050w.
“The book is the best on its subjects that we possess. The presentation is popular, even entertaining, in its freshness.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 80w.
“We cannot help thinking that the desire to write a vivid and effective narrative—certainly a most laudable aim in this province of knowledge—has affected the plan of the book, more especially in the section which treats of the text. There is far too much detailed information regarding certain facts and incidents in the history of the documents, and far too little discussion of critical problems and processes.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
+ − =Bib. World.= 32: 430. D. ’08. 940w.
“He has an eye for the essential points of his subject and the gift of clear arrangement and rapid narration.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 536. Jl. ’08. 770w.
“Since so large a treatise must make its appeal chiefly to students, it would seem that the author would have done better to write for scholars only, with greater conciseness, more frequent abbreviation, and consequent emphasis upon matters of real importance.”
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 300w.
“The book is popular in the best sense of the term, being at once readable and accurate.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 308. Ap. 2, ’08. 1100w.
“It is a splendid combination of high scholarship and brilliant style.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 500w.
“Lucidity of statement and cautions expression of opinion on open questions are prominent characteristics of this noble work.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 789 D. 7, ’07. 370w.
“A man who was entirely ignorant of the question could understand every page of Dr. Gregory’s book—or nearly every page.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 798. Je. 20, ’08. 600w.
“We would especially commend to the attention of our readers the account of the Latin translations, of which the Vulgate is but one.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 320w.
=Gregory, Isabella Augusta, lady.= Book of saints and wonders, put down here by Lady Gregory according to the old writings and the memory of the people of Ireland. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–12836.
“S. Brigit, S. Patrick, and S. Columba are given due honour here, but there are also many tales of lesser saints, their hymns and their good works. The two famous ocean stories, the Voyage of Maeldun and the Voyage of S. Brendan, are repeated at length. Thus a good deal of the book is devoted to matter that will not be new to readers who know anything of Irish legend.”—Sat. R.
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“One might search through many workhouses in England, we fear, without discovering so much as a strange oath, not to speak of legends and traditions such as are recorded here. It has pleased us more than almost any book we have read of late.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 264. D. 21, ’07. 1000w.
“Lady Gregory’s literary art is well known, and the present volume is a good instance of it.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 824. D. 28. 90w.
“To a reader who knows not Ireland, one of the strongest of several kinds of pleasure which this book has to give will come from its constant suggestion of the soft, musical, melancholy voices of the players in that company.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 374. D. 6, ’07. 600w.
“Lady Gregory’s style has this great advantage to Irish readers that it carefully preserves the un-English, curiously inverted forms of speech of the Irish country-people.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 154. F. 13, ’08. 930w.
“It is to be regretted, perhaps, that Lady Gregory has seen fit to take such liberties with the English idiom in her enthusiasm for the Gaelic effect.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 50. Ja. 25, ’08. 430w.
“Some of the stories would have gained by more elaboration; they are so condensed as to be obscure. But they are eminently characteristic of the quick imagination, the sensibility, the love of mystery, the gift of temperament, of the Celtic race. They contain episodes and passages of unusual and extraordinary beauty, with much that is prosaic and uninteresting.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 130w.
“Lady Gregory has passed in this book from pagan to Christian legend, and has gleaned from mediæval Irish texts, and coloured in places from her own knowledge of oral tradition, a series of charming old-world stories.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 12. D. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Grenfell, Bernard Pyne, and Hunt, Arthur Surridge=, eds. Fragment of an uncanonical gospel from Oxyrhynchus; with translation and commentary. *40c. Oxford.
A reprint from the Oxyrhynchus papyri of pt. v, no. 840, containing one of the finds made by the Egyptian exploration fund in the mounds at Oxyrhynchus. The fragment pictures dramatically the coming of Jesus with his disciples into the place of purification in the temple, the rebuke of the Pharisee for entering unwashed, and the answer of Jesus to the effect that he and his disciples had been dipped in the waters of life.
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“Insignificant as it seems, its contents bring it at once into prominence for all who are especially interested in the thoughts and words of Jesus.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 518. Jl. ’08. 320w.
“The fragment which Messrs. Grenfell and Hunt have published in this separate form is edited with the care and scholarship which have characterized their previous productions.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 667. My. 30. 540w.
=Bib. World.= 31: 239. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Grey, Zane.= Last of the plainsmen. *$1.50. Outing pub.
8–24293.
The record of a trip which the author took with Buffalo Jones, known as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert, and of a hunt in “that wonderful country of yellow crags, deep canons and giant pines.” The author fulfils his desire to show the color and beauty of painted cliffs and blue-bell dotted aisles in the forests; to give a suggestion of the tang of the dry, cool air; and to throw light upon the life and nature of the remarkable character, Buffalo Jones.
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“A fascinating, out-of-door book, full of the charm of the desert and the cañon.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08. ✠
“Dr. Grey is an enthusiastic sportsman, alive to the picturesqueness both of Western scenery and Western character. He is also a skilful photographer of still life, and has furnished many interesting pictures of the country in which he hunted.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 256. O. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Grey is never dull in his narrative, but one tires of the undue straining after verbal effect in the descriptive bits with which his story is interlarded.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 287. S. 24, ’08. 260w.
“Dr. Grey has a vivid style and a keen sense of dramatic situation, as well as poetic appreciation of the weird beauty and sublimity of the country through which he journeyed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 502. S. 12. ’08. 200w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= George Sand and her lovers. *$3.75. Scribner.
7–36995.
The author “tears away the ‘romance’ of George Sand’s life all drapery that had been left in the shape of ‘hypocrisy.’ He exhibits her as she was, a grisette by blood and instincts, and in the whole conduct of her emotional life. If the story of her ‘romances’ was worth telling in full, which is questionable, here it is told undoubtedly with perfect fulness. Whether it is prudery or not, we infinitely prefer the final chapters—in which Mr. Gribble tells of George Sand’s friendship with Flaubert, of her ‘growing old in dignity,’ and of the genuine importance of her novels—to those in which he expounds his purpose and fulfils his self-imposed mission.” (Spec.)
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=Acad.= 73: 188. N. 30, ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Gribble tells everything there is to tell with perfect frankness, and he brings his evidence from all sources, not betraying any prejudices by the way.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 126. F. 1. 1050w.
“Those interested in this branch of literature will probably not be disappointed in this volume.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 422. D. 16, ’07. 300w.
“It is interesting and informing.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 265. Mr. 19, ’08. 950w.
“Having noted this exception to his title, however, it is but fair to say that the present study has its warrant and justification. His book is written in the interests of truth, not scandal.” Christian Gauss.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 19. Ja. 11, ’08. 1220w.
“Mr. Gribble’s book contains little that is new. It is a string of readable, very readable, gossipy anecdotes and not the portrait of an extraordinary woman.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 187: 277. F. ’08. 1580w.
“The story is not edifying, but it is amusing; and Mr. Gribble tells it with a frank cynicism which is not inappropriate.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 210. F. 15, ’08. 500w.
“This volume will be valuable, from the literary and sociological points of view, as throwing a sidelight on the romantic movement in France. Whether it is a permanent contribution to the ‘literature of the heart’ is quite another matter.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 240w.
=Gribble, Francis Henry.= Montreux; painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis and May Hardwicke Lewis. (Color books.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
The author “draws upon his intimate knowledge of the personages who lend a fascination to the history of Geneva, and he uses Montreux as a name to designate the whole district of the ‘Swiss Riviera,’ a vague region stretching from Vevey to Villeneuve. Six chapters on the Castle of Chillon, its history and associations; and some delightful sketches of the Regicides, the Pietists, the Salvation army, Byron, Obermann, and Madame de Warens—and ‘you see the trick on’t.’ ... The charming illustrations in colour to this pleasant book, by J. and May Hardwicke Lewis, are beautifully reproduced.”—Ath.
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“It is interesting to see how pleasingly a skilful writer like Mr. Gribble accomplishes a difficult task.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 133. Ag. 1. 270w.
“The only novelty in Mr. Gribble’s volume is the illustrations, for the text consists almost entirely of literal transcriptions from the same author’s ‘Lake Geneva and its literary landmarks,’ welded together after the manner of a musical potpourri.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 150w.
“If fault could be found with Mr. Gribble’s text, it is that so much emphasis has been placed on the various historical personages connected with the region as to leave not enough for descriptions of nature.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 580. Jl. 11, ’08. 370w.
“All that has to be told about the place and people is told very pleasantly by Mr. Gribble, and the pictures of the two artists who co-operate have the charm which we are accustomed to look for in Messrs. Black’s ‘Beautiful books.’”
+ =Spec.= 100: 677. Ap. 25. ’08. 200w.
* =Gribble, Francis Henry.= Rousseau and the women he loved. *$3.75. Scribner.
“Justification for this new life in English, of one whom Mr. John Morley (as we still like to call his lordship) has made the subject of an excellent biographical study, is sought for in the recent discovery and publication, by certain delvers in French archives and private papers, of many letters and other documents that throw new light on the philosopher’s idiosyncrasies and demonstrate the palpable untruth of certain portions of his own autobiography.”—Dial.
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“It presents with provoking trenchancy and thoroughness that one-sided view of the darker aspect of Rousseau’s genius which is commonly held in a loose, vague way. The ‘Confessions’ to judge from the evidences of the pages before us, seems to be the only book by his author which Mr. Gribble has studied thoroughly, and even this he misinterprets through taking too low a view of the whole subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 566. N. 7. 820w.
“If one is interested in Rousseau’s life—and who can help being more or less interested?—it is better to have the real facts than falsehoods; and so Mr. Gribble has rendered a not unuseful service.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 414. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“A book of real importance. He argues a good deal from biographical premises, sometimes unsound.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 468. N. 12, ’08. 1200w.
“Mr. Gribble is a careless, slipshod writer, and his work often produces the impression of having been hurried over, its faults being rather those of a man who doesn’t care than of one who doesn’t know.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 594. O. 24, ’08. 740w.
“Lord Morley in his famous essay on Rousseau says of the ‘Confessions’ that their pages are too often contaminated by the ‘reek of the satyr.’ Mr. Gribble has managed, by adopting the point of view he has, to preserve throughout his book much of this aroma without the style which alone makes it at intervals endurable in the original.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 641. N. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Mr. Gribble’s book, almost painfully plainspoken as it sometimes is, will be useful to the English reader of to-day, whom it invites to realise the origin of doctrines which appeal to ‘the blindest part of us, our sensibility.’”
+ =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 450w.
* =Griffis, William Elliot.= Fire-fly’s lovers, and other fairy tales of old Japan. †$1. Crowell.
8–24870.
Representative Japanese fairy tales which include the legend of the Fire-fly princess who holds court among the stamens of the lotus-lily, the story of the dancing tea-kettle, and many tales of giants, dragons, dwarfs and imps of Japan’s picturesque wonder-world.
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“The author has studied Japan, its people, and their customs, and, while original, the work embodies the spirit of Japan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Griffis, William Elliot.= Japanese nation in evolution: steps in the progress of a great people. **$1.25. Crowell.
7–29750.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It is a learned, novel, and interesting argument.” A. K. Parker.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 512. Jl. ’08. 430w.
“Mr. Griffis’ faith in Japan’s possibilities of growth is inspiring. An immense amount of material, geographical, legendary, archæological and historic, produces some confusion when condensed into so small a book, and the frequency of strange names adds further difficulty in reading.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 273. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“The work is one that should find a place in all well-ordered libraries, as it contains precisely the very information that all intelligent people wish to possess about this wonderful people, presented in a most charming manner. The volume is beautifully illustrated.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 121. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“The personal element. Dr. Griffis’s own observation on the state of society under the old régime, is the most valuable feature of the work and distinguishes it from the numerous second hand and superficial books on Japan now in the market.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 528. Mr. 5, ’08. 450w.
“He has brought together, in convenient though somewhat ill-ordered shape, the results of his reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 404. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
“Dr. Griffis refers to his having been an educator in Japan a generation ago. He seems not to have come into direct contact with present conditions there.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 362. Je. 27, ’08. 1100w.
“No book has yet been written which should do more than the present volume to affirm the ground for the Japanese demand for social equality. Dr. Griffis’s book offers a compact and highly interesting, if highly eulogistic, history of Japan from the earliest epoch to our own.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 509. F. 29, ’08. 1400w.
=Spec.= 100: 1006. Je. 27, ’08. 430w.
=Griffith, Elmer C.= Rise and development of the gerrymander. $1.25. Scott.
7–36715.
A doctor’s thesis based upon exhaustive study of source material. He discovers this form of political trickery (“the formation of election districts on another basis than that of single and homogeneous political units as they existed previous to the apportionment, with boundaries arranged for partisan advantage”) a hundred years before 1812, on which latter date it took its name from Governor Gerry of Massachusetts. He reviews the subsequent gerrymanders in various states and the attempts to eliminate them.
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“A painstaking investigation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 502. Mr. ’08. 230w.
=Ind.= 63: 1007. O. 24, ’07. 50w.
“The subject is more interesting than the manner in which it is handled. Professor Griffith rarely philosophizes. He likewise abstains from dealing with the subject as a sociologist. His style is at times obscure. Viewed as a catalogue of misdoings, [the dissertation] is not without value.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 573. S. ’08. 200w.
“Aside from the first or introductory chapter, which is merely personal opinion and poorly worked out, this is a solid piece of research, and deserves commendation.” E. D. Fite.
+ + − =Yale R.= 17: 113. My. ’08. 350w.
=Grimm, Carl Robert.= Secondary stresses in bridge trusses. $2.50. Wiley.
8–12774.
The portion of the field of bridge literature occupied by this book has been heretofore unoccupied. “The author limits his treatment mainly to secondary stresses due to riveted joints in trusses. After some introductory historical notes, a consideration of the nature of the problem and some means for its solution, he presents five methods for the calculation of secondary stresses, devoting a chapter to each one. The four principal methods were developed by Manderia, Muller-Breslau, Ritter and Mohr, respectively, while the fifth one is designated as the method of least work.” (Engin. N.)
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“The author has rendered a valuable service to the engineering profession in this country by writing this book which gives the results of previous investigations and directs attention in an effective manner to the importance of the subject. The book deserves careful study by every engineer who is responsible for the design and maintenance of bridges.” H: S. Jacoby.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 646. Je. 11, ’08. 1650w.
=Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= Fiji and its possibilities. il. (Geographical lib.) **$3. Doubleday.
7–31404.
The author calls herself “a wanderer about odd corners of the globe.” She is the first woman to penetrate into the interior of the Fiji islands. “The reader is continually surprised at the incidents which befell the author, and at her exposition of the manners and customs of a people who thirty years ago were cannibals. She was received with remarkable hospitality by the chiefs of every town through which the party passed, and was treated with the utmost deference and respect at all times.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“She took some very interesting photographs which alone make the book a valuable record, and her story, though written with praiseworthy modesty, inspires the reader with genuine admiration of her pluck. The book would have been greatly improved by the addition of a map.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 198. F. 23, ’07. 170w.
“Though not a serious study the book gives an excellent idea of social and economic conditions on the islands. A bulky, heavy book.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08.
“The account is very lively and interesting. It is, however, diffuse and unsatisfactory.”
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 443. S. ’08. 100w.
“Would be excellent were it not for lapses into subjects beyond the writer’s competence.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 133. F. 2. 860w.
“Her whole book reads as if made up of letters. She tires the reader by repetitions, long digressions, feebly humorous passages, frequent allusions to cannibalism, and prolix accounts of trivial and uninteresting incidents. Her book would have been far more readable had she confined herself to descriptions of the country and the natives.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 107. Ja. 30, ’08. 750w.
“It is always bright and readable, but shows little literary skill. The temptation to idealize and indulge in sentimental description has not been overcome, but, whatever its faults, the book is a timely, educative, and interesting work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 21. Ja. 11, ’08. 700w.
“The book is written with sympathy and evidently from a background of extensive knowledge.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“The author gives the reader an excellent though superficial idea of the conditions under which white people live in these distant islands.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 240. Ag. 24, ’07. 1080w.
=Spec.= 98: 297. F. 23, ’07. 60w.
* =Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= In the strange South seas. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–34208.
A tourist’s impressions derived from leisurely travel among the eastern groups of the South sea islands.
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“Many things in it are truly excellent—notably, certain personal descriptions, and the author’s judicious observations on lepers, missionaries. and manners. But the book is tainted throughout with the taint of journalism.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 300w.
“As far as they go her conclusions are just and accurate, though, as she seems to be unacquainted with the writings of those who preceded her, and to rely for her information on the loose talk of traders, she makes a good many mistakes.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 360w.
“Her book is worth while. The subject matter has been covered before in more or less appreciative fashion by many writers, but few have approached the task with a keener sympathy, a wider vision, and a daintier sense of humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 380w.
* =Grimshaw, Beatrice Ethel.= Vaiti of the islands. †$1.50. Wessels.
8–30710.
The heroine of this tale is the half-caste daughter of a Maori princess and a derelict Englishmen, the drunken captain of a trading-schooner casting about in the South seas. The primitive, guileful, Maori nature within her wars with her English daring and love of adventure. Aside from the interest attaching to the not easily classified heroine, the story is interesting for its other Polynesian types and South sea adventures.
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“Something new in heroines, and stories, too. Her doings ... are adventures unique and perilous enough to have sated the desires of any wandering seeker after excitement.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 706. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
=Grohman, William Adolph Baillie-.= Land in the mountains: being an account of the past and present of Tyrol; its people and its castles; with an introd. by C. Landis. *$3. Lippincott.
7–31993.
A fully illustrated book “which is neither a glorified form of Baedeker nor a treatise on the science of rock-climbing, but a volume dealing, in a fashion fitted to appeal to the ordinary reader, with the history of Tyrol and its feudal castles.” (Ath.)
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“In the present work the author is at his best.”
+ + =Acad.= 73: 11. O. 12, ’07. 400w.
“The pages before us are easy reading, though they disclose some signs of haste.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 231. Ag. 31. 1300w.
“To the mere ‘tripper’ who knows Tyrol only from the piazza of an Innsbruck hotel, this book will not appeal; but to the more serious traveller and reader it will mark a valuable contribution to the history of a brave little land.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 105. F. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is an admirable book, admirably written, dealing exhaustively with all the subjects which fall within its scope, too bulky, indeed, to serve as the traveller’s pocket companion, even if his pockets are large, but nevertheless invaluable to the more intelligent class of tourists who wish to realize and understand, as well as to see, this mountain land which the modern influx of tourists has not yet succeeded in spoiling.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 155. My. 17, ’07. 1080w.
“The work supplies a felt want. Of the charming illustrations with which the volume is adorned ... it is difficult to write in fitting terms.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 143. Ag. 13, ’08. 800w.
“Meantime, not the least interestng chapter of the present volume is the introduction by his American friend, Mr. Landis. It tells us much of a remarkable personality and it makes us wish to hear more.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 754. Je. 15, ’07. 1080w.
“The best part of the book is concerned with the huntings of that mighty sportsman, the Emperor Maximilian, whose fame the author has done much to revive.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 97. Jl. 20, ’07. 380w.
=Grohman, W. A. Baillie-.= Tyrol; painted by E. Harrison Compton; described by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. *$2. Macmillan.
Deals largely with the historical side of the subject and is written by “an old resident, thoroughly familiar with the character and habits of the Tyrolese peasant, as well as with the remoter districts of Tyrol.” (Nation.) “The pictures by Mr. E. Harrison Compton which accompany the text are far better than is usual in such volumes.” (Ath.)
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“In spite of trifling defects we can thoroughly recommend the book, and think it will be useful to those who are planning tours.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 97. Jl. 25. 300w.
“The point of view of the insider, whose familiarity with the land and its people is vital, is often fresher than that of the traveller or the student.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 120w.
=Groot, C. Hofstede de.= Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century; based on the work of John Smith by C. Hofstede de Groot (with the assistance of Dr. W. R. Valentiner); tr. and ed. by E. G. Hawkes. 10v. v. 1, *$7.50. Macmillan.
=v. 1.= Includes the works of Jan Steen, Gabriel Metsu, Garard Dou, Pieter de Hooch, Carel Fabritius, and Johannes Vermeer of Delft. “It is essentially a catalogue and not a treatise on the art of the painters dealt with, though to each is given a short biographical note.” (Spec.)
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“The critical scholarship of Dr. de Groot and the wealth of research lavished on the work by his assistants will render this publication precious for a long time to come.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 159. Ag. 8. 2350w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 170. Ap. ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A useful undertaking, and seems to have been conscientiously and thoroughly carried out.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 270. Mr. 19, ’08. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This work is invaluable for the minute study of the painters.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 60w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Grove, Sir George.= Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. 5v. ea. **$5. Macmillan.
=v. 4.= Begins with an article on Quadrille and continues thru the biographical sketch of Marie Szymanowska.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 277. N. ’08. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“Complaint was made years ago that there was no sense of proportion in this dictionary, and we fear the same objection still holds good.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 107. Jl. 25. 770w. (Review of v. 4.)
“But why should such a dignified and important musical work of reference be disfigured with such a hodge-podge of mediocre and poorly-executed illustrations in these days of pictorial excellence?” G: P. Upton.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 86. Ag. 16, ’08. 550w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The volume is marked by many of the admirable qualities which have distinguished its predecessors. Unfortunately this fourth volume also contains more than its share of blemishes and mistakes.”
+ + − =Ind.= 65: 897. O. 15, ’08. 688w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 79. Jl. 23, ’08. 1300w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 378. Jl. 4, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 256. Ag. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Grundy, Mrs. Mabel Sarah Barnes-.= Hilary on her own. +$1.50. Baker.
8–24457.
The story of a spirited young girl, who finding her home atmosphere stifling, breaks away from it and goes to London to look for a secretaryship. The hardships of position-hunting are leavened by the girl’s frankness and irresistible sense of humor, which qualities recommend her to readers, young and old.
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“Passing over manners, which would have horrified Jane Austen, she is a genuine living being, worth knowing for her hearty picturesque talk and her power of humorous characterization.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 390. O. 22, ’08. 230w.
“The subject is hackneyed enough, but the tale is written with a freshness of touch and a constant liveliness of fancy that makes it entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 620. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Guest, Antony.= Art and the camera. *$2. Macmillan.
7–35390.
A book which makes its appeal especially to “those who wish to attain greater skill in rendering colour in monochrome.” It is a “practical guide-book to the methods of making artistic prints from photographic negatives. The proper appreciation of the artistic possibilities of a subject, the rules governing point of view, composition, lighting and the like, are dwelt upon; and afterward the method of treating negative and print in order to produce such qualities as are shown in the pictures which illustrate the book.”
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“There is a singular freedom from banality and platitude in his book ... and a pleasing absence of the irritating split infinitive. Scattered through the pages are remarks which reveal much keenness of insight and bring a thrill of appreciation to the reader. One pronouncement of Mr. Guest’s, that the task of the worker without colour—the photographer—demands a keener perception of tones than that of the painter, seems to call for some demur.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 794. Ag. 17, ’07. 1720w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 194. N. ’07.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 218. Ag. 24. 80w.
“Mr. Guest’s position is a thoroughly sound and reasonable one; he makes no extravagant claims for photography.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 337. O. ’07. 160w.
* =Gulick, Luther Halsey, and Ayres, Leonard P.= Medical inspection of schools. $1. Charities pub. com.
8–31120.
A by-product of the “Backward children investigation,” research work supported by the Russell Sage foundation. It is a practical, reliable, frank presentation of facts gathered from the study of “retardation” among school-children, a knowledge of which aids in the “betterment and safeguarding of the health and vitality of the future citizens of America.”
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“Cautious without quenching enthusiasm, lucidly exhaustive and admirably arranged, the monograph will assist not a little in the great work, scarcely begun, of supplying the sound body that is needed for the sound mind.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 469. N. 12, ’08. 340w.
“A refreshingly optimistic study of many subjects which will appeal not only to the teacher, but also to the layman. His psychology is, in the main, sound, although his desire to express himself in colloquial language at times leads him astray. His indebtedness to Prof. William James, which is evident throughout the book, might well have been more often acknowledged.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 584. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
H
=Haber, Fritz.= Thermodynamics of technical gas-reactions: seven lectures; tr. by Arthur B. Lamb; with 20 figures. *$3. Longmans.
8–19027.
The author “endeavors to make clear the significance of heat factors in gas reactions, with especial reference to the specific heats of the interacting substances and to the heat evolved during the reaction. The gathering of these lectures into book form has been for the purpose of effecting a contribution to technical, rather than to theoretical, chemistry, and the aim of the author has been to present in the clearest manner the application of the mechanical theory to chemistry.” (Engin. N.)
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“It is a work that will thoroughly interest chemical engineers and metallurgists.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 651. Je. ’08. 260w.
“The whole work is suggestive, illuminating and unique, and should prove most valuable to those who desire to study certain of the phenomena observable during the explosion of gaseous mixtures. The work of the translator has been done most satisfactorily.” L. S. Marks.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 650. Je. 11, ’08. 730w.
“While chemical thermodynamics is certainly still far from having reached finality, it is important for our chemical engineers to know what has been accomplished. This book is an excellent guide for this purpose, although it is by no means easy reading.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 550w.
“After a single perusal of the book the reader may not appreciate the infinite pains, or the critical acumen amounting nearly to inspiration, with which the author has extracted the truth from a great mass of uncertain and frequently contradictory experimental material.” G. N. Lewis.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 344. S. 11, ’08. 460w.
=Hadow, Gerald Elliot, and Hadow, William Henry.= Oxford treasury of English literature. 3v. ea. *90c. Oxford.
=v. 3.= Completes the “treasury” and extends from the Jacobean to the Victorian writers.
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“While fully recognizing the excellent intention of this work, we have some doubts as to its utility.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 181. Ag. 15. 1150w. (Review of v. 3.)
“In general, the brief critical remarks in the introductions are well-balanced despite their extreme brevity and occasional wit.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Hague, Charles Arthur.= Pumping engines for water works. *$5. McGraw pub.
7–42484.
“Furnishes in language as free from technicalities as practicable a description of the principles upon which pumping engines operate, a brief outline of their development and a detailed discussion of their parts, without taking up the actual computation and drafting-room practice of the designer.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The book is worth criticising and well worth improving in a subsequent edition.” n.s. Hill, jr.
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 294. Mr. 12, ’08. 750w.
“The book is far the best work on pumping engines that we have in English at the present time.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 800w.
=Haile, Martin.= James Francis Edward, “the Old Chevalier.” *$4. Dutton.
8–15743.
A study “of Jacobitism in relation to wider issues. The author is thoroughly alive to the significance of the Orleans-Hanover compact; does justice to the Quadruple alliance in its bearing on the Jacobite expedition of 1719; explains the attempt of James to mediate between France and Austria in 1735, and shows how serious a blow to his hopes was the renewal of hostilities between those powers in 1740.”—Ath.
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“A painstaking study.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 65. Ja. 18. 950w.
“As a study of personality, of the Jacobite movement in England, and of the views of a Stuart restoration held by the great powers of Europe, Mr. Haile’s work will be found both thorough and interesting.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“On some points his researches seem to have been thorough and complete; but on many other matters he appears to have contented himself with a priori deductions.” L. M. Larson.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 41. Jl. 16, ’08. 670w.
“Is really an historical study of an exceedingly interesting epoch.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 217. Mr. 5, ’08. 800w.
“Admirably complete and readable volume. The constant introduction of quotation marks tends to destroy the illusion and impede the narrative.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Haile does more than merely write a biography of the Old Pretender; he gives us a thoroughgoing and most valuable study of English Jacobitism, based in many of its details on material hitherto inaccessible to the historian.” H. A. Bruce.
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 121. My. 16, ’08. 3000w.
“Interesting but often too lengthy chapters.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 641. Ap. 25, ’08. 130w.
=Haines, Henry Stevens.= Railway corporations as public servants. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–30619.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Valuable to student, and to general readers interested in the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 138. My. ’08.
“The author is notably open-minded and fair.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 624. N. ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Haines sees as a railway man—he sees as truly as one of the great travelling and shipping and consuming public. The tone and the temper are as admirable as though he might be a university professor of railway economics engaged in academic discussion. His book is an admirable chapter added to the fruitful discussion of railway problems.” J: J. Halsey.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 130. Mr. 1, ’08. 1100w.
“Faults of form and substance do of necessity detract much from the value of the book; but it must not be supposed that it is without merit.”
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 33. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“Other similar utterances seem to indicate that the book was hurriedly compiled and failed to receive proper revision; it certainly did not receive adequate proof-reading.” E. L. Bogart.
− =Forum.= 39: 394. Ja. ’08. 310w.
“The author’s wide experience in railway affairs and his acquaintance with the theoretical side reveal themselves in a clear statement of the development of common carrier service, and of American railway regulation. We note only two errors of fact.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 108. Ja. 30, ’08. 800w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 322. F. 8, ’08. 460w.
“Mr. Haines has written so much on the railway question that it was evidently difficult for him to advance any new ideas.”
− =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Hale, Albert Barlow.= South Americans: the story of the South American republics. **$2.50. Bobbs.
7–36231.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Somewhat superficial, but reliable and very useful for general information. Popular in style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08. ✠
“He will give the average reader a better appreciation of the south continent and the people, but with all this there is still much to be desired. There is no unity of treatment.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 203. Mr. ’08. 170w.
“No recent book on South America is so well adapted to the needs of the general reader as is this one.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 320w.
“This book deserves careful reading. It is too obviously made up of miscellaneous magazine articles written at various periods and loosely connected with each other. Still it makes easy and interesting reading.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“It is written in a readable manner and sympathetic attitude.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 175. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“As long as Mr. Hale confines himself to the details of travel his work is not only helpful, but interesting. Unfortunately, he felt called upon to enter the field of broad philosophical analysis.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 587. D. 26, ’07. 360w.
“Very informative volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 377. F. 15, ’08. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 70w.
=Hale, George Ellery.= Study of stellar evolution: an account of some recent methods of astrophysical research. (Decennial publications, 2d ser., v. 10.) *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–18034.
The modification of the author’s original project to furnish a handbook to the Yerkes observatory has resulted in the adoption of the plan of describing a connected series of investigation, laying special stress on the observational methods employed, in the hope of explaining clearly how the problem of stellar evolution is studied. “The book is one that does not require great technical familiarity, either with astronomy or with physics.... For the physicist, however, and especially for one who has experience with the difficulties and the charm of the experimental side of his subject the book possesses a fascination that is quite unusual.” (Phys. R.) There are over one hundred plates.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“Is of the greatest value to all who are following the developments of what is emphatically called the new astronomy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 407. O. 3. 580w.
“Interesting and valuable work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 44. Jl. 16, ’08. 360w.
“The last part is particularly suggestive and valuable to amateur observers who are provided with moderate sized telescopes and who are skilled in photography.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 700w.
“The author writes of problems to whose solution he has himself made important contributions, of instruments which he has designed, or investigations with which, owing to his acquaintance with other astrophysicists, he has a thorough personal familiarity. This fact, together with the pleasing style and complete absence of any trace of egotism, gives to the book a character and charm that are rarely met with.”
+ + =Phys. R.= 26: 549. Je. ’08. 520w.
“It is non-technical, readable and gives a clear explanation of the purposes and observational methods employed by the author in his notable researches upon the sun and the chemistry of the stars.” C: L. Poor.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 804. D. 4, ’08. 540w.
=Univ. Rec.= 13: 24. Jl. ’08. 760w.
=Hale, William Bayard.= A week in the White house with Theodore Roosevelt: a study of the president at the nation’s business. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–17769.
An accurate, realistic picture of President Roosevelt as he appears at close hand actually engaged in the arduous duties of his office. The chapter headings are as follows: The president in the White house, A view of the president at work, The spirit of the White house, A typical day with the president, A cabinet day at the White house, Giving audiences to two hundred, An estimate of Mr. Roosevelt, and The president on Mr. Roosevelt.
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“It is written effectively and at times picturesquely, if not photographically. One feels that it is all quite true.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 162. Ag. 1, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
=Hall, Bolton.= A little land and a living; introd. by William Borsodi. $1. Arcadia press.
8–19079.
In no way a repetition of the author’s “Three acres and liberty.” The book was stimulated by a letter from Mr. Borsodi to Mr. Hall in which the former points to the farm as the real hope, the one ray of sunshine that is destined to lighten the burden and cheer the lives of the needy of our large cities. Its aim is that of encouraging the overworked wage earner to reach out for a better, saner living, thru cultivating the little lands.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“We heartily recommend this work to all our readers who live on the land and to all those who dream of some time coming into intimate touch with the Great Mother.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 382. O. ’08. 600w.
“The effort to turn towards the land the superfluous population of the cities ... is one that deserves all encouragement not alone for economic but also for higher interests.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 112. O. ’08. 360w.
“His argument is marred by many divagations of one sort or another.”
− =Educ. R.= 36: 522. D. ’08. 80w.
“Lacks in systematic and personal apprehension of the question, but is full of stimulant.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 400w.
“The book should be read not only by those who are immediately interested in improving their life’s prospect, but by those whose prosperity enables them to consider means for the betterment of others less fortunately situated in the matter of worldly goods.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 770w.
“All readers who became interested in the suggestions offered by Mr. Hall in the introductory book will find the facts given in its sequel to be even more valuable and to the purpose.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 80w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 372. S. 12, ’08. 520w.
=Hall, Francis Joseph.= Authority: ecclesiastical and biblical. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–10429.
A discussion of the subject from “the viewpoint of the anti-Protestant wing of the Episcopal church. The author notes and makes acute if not convincing replies to the objections of Protestant writers, who understand ‘ecclesiastical infallibility’ differently from him.”—Outlook.
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“It is difficult to reconcile his idea of authority with the modern world, which is insistent on the freedom of inquiry, and is filled with the spirit of democracy. Dr. Hall’s reconciliation is not likely to stand; he must go one way or the other, or else sit down between two stools.” E. S. Drown.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
− =Outlook.= 89: 128. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Hall, Rev. Francis Joseph.= Introduction to dogmatic theology. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–14566.
“The first of an intended series of ten volumes, covering the entire theological field as commonly outlined. The aim is instructive rather than investigative.... The declaration that ‘every particular Catholic church’ possesses ‘authority in doctrine,’ and his claim that ‘these doctrines are contained in a deposit of faith which was committed to the church of God in pentecostal days; that it is the double advantage of a Catholic theologian that he is taught the premises of his science by the Spirit-guided church, and receives sacramental grace within the church to master the truth thus conveyed to him,’ sufficiently indicate his accepted limitations and the class of readers he may expect to reach.”—Am. J. Theol.
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Reviewed by George Cross.
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 162. Ja. ’08. 140w.
“It requires but moderate acquaintance with the writings of representative Anglicans to be aware that this work will not be accepted as a standard by the Anglican church as a body, but at most a strong minority party in it, the so-called Anglo-Catholics.”
− =Outlook.= 87: 46. S. 7, ’07. 210w.
=Hall, H. Fielding.= Inward light. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–2180.
A book to be read in connection with the author’s “Soul of a people.” It develops the “great and vital principle of truth that underlies Buddhism.” It analyzes the evolution of a soul as it comes into the consciousness of its spiritual power and manifests symbolic perfection of body.
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“Charming, even enchanting in style, but lacks serious acquaintance with facts, and mingles beauty and truth with partial statements and actually false conclusions.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“This work contains twenty-two chapters, not one of which the thoughtful reader will be willing to leave unread. Many of them will call for a second perusal because of the light they throw on many problems that have for ages perplexed the brain of man.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 39: 486. Ap. ’08. 3500w.
“It is impossible to deny that the ‘call of the East’ is clear and alluring in these pages, or that the ‘long long thoughts’ of which the book is a presentation are not quietly and effectively set forth.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 12. Jl. 4. 380w.
“Charming, even enchanting, is this bit of philosophy disguised as a work of fiction. But as a presentation of Buddhism it lacks all the marks of serious acquaintance with originals or reality.” W: E. Griffis.
− + =Dial.= 44: 243. Ap. 16, ’08. 650w.
“In the discussion of various details, such as transmigration, the law of recompense, etc., Mr. Hall is a safe enough guide; but in his tone, in his interpretation of the spirit, he is at the antipodes of the truth.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 283. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
“It would be hard to find a better expression of the gentle spirit of Gautama, the Buddha, than is given in this book. The book is a joy to read.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 131. Mr. 7, ’08. 1100w.
“A mingling of beauty and truth with partial statements and actually false conclusions. It will attract the superficial reader by its glowing language and entertain the more sober mind by its constant challenge to his thought.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 561. Mr. 7, ’08. 550w.
“The style is charming.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 512. Ap. ’08. 50w.
=Hall, S. Roland.= How to get a position and how to keep it, with special hints to various classes of applicants. **50c. Funk.
8–22077.
Hard work is the keynote to the success which Mr. Hall preaches. He gives practical advice on the choice of an occupation; on letters of application; on personal application and letters of recommendation. There are also special hints to various classes of applicants, and a closing chapter on Keeping positions and winning promotions.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 50w.
=Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 100w.
“Even those who have already had practical experience, as well as the business novitiate in wage-earning, can learn much from Mr. Hall’s book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 453. Ag. 15, ’08. 150w.
=Hamel, Frank.= Famous French salons. *$3.50. Brentano’s.
The salon history of French society from early in the seventeenth to early in the nineteenth century—from the Marquise de Rambouillet to Madame Récamier. Each of the nine leaders of salons is sketched in the light of her special gift for attracting and holding the brilliant minds of the day; as, for instance, the wit of Madame du Deffaud and the literary tastes of Mme. Récamier.
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“The narrative is in each case well told, and the author is skilful in selecting from his authorities the passages which have abiding human interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 363. S. 26. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 400. Jl. 18, ’08. 380w.
“A pleasant and interesting book on an agreeable subject. He has chosen nine famous ladies ... in some instances his choice cannot be disputed; in others it can.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 470w.
=Hamilton, Cecily.= Diana of Dobson’s. †$1.50. Century.
8–19716.
A London shop-girl of spirit chafing under the tyranny of Dobson’s drapery establishment comes to open rebellion upon the eve of a windfall. She inherits three hundred pounds, determines to go straight to Paris and to enjoy clothes, freedom, and fun so long as her little fortune lasts. At the end of a month she is penniless but has found a lover, a titled Englishman, whom she dismisses but finds again in a later state of great want.
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“Lively, unobjectionable story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“Though as literature this novel cannot be said to rank high, it is incomparably better than the general popular novel that appeals to the summer reader. It is a bright, interesting and rather unique love story, but it possesses a merit far beyond this.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 393. O. ’08. 870w.
“The impression remains with the reader of a brisk little story written with perfect taste, while it is at heart a genuine song of the sons and daughters of Martha.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 170w.
“The decided charm of this book lies in its clear, unlabored delineation of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
=Hamilton, Clarence G.= Outlines of music history. $1.50. Ditson.
8–7604.
A concise survey of the entire field of musical development, presented in the light of recent research. It is designed for the general reader and the student. It treats alien musical systems; mediaeval music; epoch of vocal counterpoint; development of monophony; Bach, Handel, Gluck; perfection of the sonata form; transition to the romantic style; nineteenth century romanticists, opera, and composers; and the music of the present day.
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“It is an excellent little book, fully abreast of modern musical scholarship.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 50w.
“A concise survey of the whole field of musical development.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“A volume commendably free from superfluous facts.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 339. Ap. 9, ’08. 220w.
=Hamilton, Clayton Meeker.= Materials and methods of fiction; with an introd. by Brander Matthews. **$1.50. Baker.
8–17693.
A constructive study of the art of fiction from which amateurs who have the professional goal in view may see how great fiction has been and must be written. From a study of novels and short stories the author deduces and formulates the general principles of the art of fiction, emphasizing well the importance of understanding the relation between fact and fiction, the distinction between the actual and the real. The book recommends itself to college students, young authors, club members, circulating libraries and general readers. The best specimens of short story which literature affords are used thruout for the illustration of principles.
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“Particularly well adapted for general reading. It does not cover the subject completely and is of comparatively small value for serious study beside Perry’s ‘Study of prose fiction.’”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 259. N. ’08.
“In general the book is no less admirable in expression than in conception: clear and concrete, full of delightful niceties of detail, and not seldom rising into style.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 53. Jl. ’08. 1650w.
“There is plenty of real cerebration, and thoughtful novel readers may gain considerable information and some points of view that will be both new and valuable.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 841. O. 8, ’08. 300w.
“It is, all in all, a suggestive, informing, and thoroughly interesting book, if not profound. The subject scarcely warrants profundity. The book becomes a sort of general survey of the best fiction, helping to revive pleasant memories, to introduce the young readers to writers previously known only by repute. It is a good plan and well worked out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 401. Jl. 18, ’08. 660w.
“It is not too much to say that the very real value of Mr. Hamilton’s book depends far less upon direct and specific research involved in it than upon a certain wise and healthful outlook upon life in general, that lies at the basis of his careful and logical subdivision of his book. It has this vital quality of a book that is really worth while, that where it fails to convince it helps you to clarify your own reasons for believing just the opposite.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =No. Am.= 188: 621. O. ’08. 830w.
“Should be of value to college students, to young authors, and to literary clubs.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 60w.
=Hamilton, James Shelley.= Butt Chanler, freshman. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27804.
A rousing college tale with intimate characterizations of the prevailing customs among American college students of to-day. The hero is a young freshman who is subjected to the usual round of initiatory hazing, to the usual athletic physical hardening process: and in spite of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, is proven to be morally straight and true. There is the usual campus and gridiron setting.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 90w.
=Hamlin, Myra Sawyer.= Persis Putnam’s treasure. †$1.25. Little.
8–30931.
One of the “Nan” stories which follows the rescue of a wealthy girl from morbidness by a group of healthy happy campers.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Hammerton, John Alexander.= In the track of R. L. Stevenson and elsewhere in old France. *$2.40. Scribner.
7–38531.
The author, an enthusiastic follower of Stevenson, devotes nearly a half of his book to the track of the Travels with a donkey and An inland voyage. He goes over the ground supplementing his observations with extracts from what Stevenson wrote about places in the course. Further rambles in Le Puy, in the country of the Camisards and in the town of Tartarin are equally interesting.
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+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 330w.
“A parasitic growth, and a fairly heavy one.”
− =Nation.= 87: 313. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“It would be a delightful thing to devote three or four months to a journey in France, with Mr. Hammerton’s book to show the way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Jl. 11, 08. 800w.
“This is a pleasant book, and may give some hints for future holidays.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1101. D. 28, ’07. 160w.
* =Hammond, Eleanor Prescott.= Chaucer: a bibliographical manual. *$3. Macmillan.
8–28623.
“Without including annotation of the Chaucerian text (except a few well-known cruces), or allusions to Chaucer, or the lighter ‘literary’ essays, or ‘third-hand’ biographies, the author has nevertheless filled a volume of nearly six hundred pages with references, well digested abstracts, independent criticisms, and judiciously selected extracts dealing with all phases of Chaucer’s life and works, as well as the works (in a group by themselves) which have been printed with Chaucer’s or attributed to him.”—Dial.
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“As far as we have tested the book, all the important works on Chaucer are noted in the proper places, and there are very few errors of citation or misprints. The index is good. As far as the author’s work is concerned, then, we have little but praise of the volume, which represents the labor of years.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Her book, as a rule, is marked by a freshness which does not belong to the mere compiler’s work. It is to be regretted, however, that Miss Hammond should so frequently neglect to give the dates of the manuscripts. There is only one omission worth mentioning.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 30w.
* =Hamp, Sidford Frederick.= Trail of the badger: a story of the Colorado border thirty years ago. †$1.50. Wilde.
The subject of desert reclamation is handled here in a vivid picture, of life on the southern border of Colorado “where the fringes of two discordant civilizations overlapped each other—the strenuous Anglo-Saxon and the easy-going Mexican.” Two boys, alert, and physically fit, encounter all sorts of dangers in the way of enemies and wild animals while endeavoring to reclaim a stretch of worthless desert waste.
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“The boys of to-day will find it interesting to compare the conditions here depicted with those that exist at the present time, a single generation later.”
+ N. Y, Times. 13: 655. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Hancock, Albert Elmer.= John Keats: a literary biography. **$2. Houghton.
8–28422.
A biography which brings to bear upon the increasing store of facts concerning Keats’ life, the latter day methods of interpretation and valuation. This sketch is characterized by “an informing of the progressive development of Keats’ genius, the filling in of the background of his life with new authentic and specific details, the interpretation of his poems by his letters and a brilliant account of the posthumous growth of his reputation.”
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“Mr. Hancock is inclined to write staccato. His first few chapters especially strain for effect. The interpretative portion of Professor Hancock’s work, however, is the noteworthy feature of his book.” W. E. Simonds.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 341. N. 16, ’08. 1150w.
“Its success is due to scholarly co-ordination of facts and sane reasoning upon them; its failure is simply that Professor Hancock is too unlike John Keats. Professor Hancock for the most part brings out admirably those component events and experiences which went to the making of Keats. He depicts well many phases of the man: what he misses is the very man himself—the central note of his nature by which all is to be understood. And yet the book is well worth reading.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 584. D. ’08. 3000w.
“A book which is indeed the life of a poet, written by a man stirred by his subject, realizing and making the reader realize those essentials that made Keats Keats, rather than harping on those qualities which he shared with ordinary men, Mr. Hancock has made use of much new material in this book, material which has come to light since Houghton’s and Colvin’s lives.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 140w.
=Hancock, Elizabeth Hazlewood.= Betty Pembroke. $1.50. Neale.
7–41586.
All about a tender-hearted, true-to-self young Virginia maid and her friends and lovers.
=Handbook= of learned societies and institutions: America. $4. Carnegie inst.
=v. 1.= “This first volume deals with societies in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South America. Each entry commences with the official name of the society or institution, its postal address, and the name of the official, if any, to whom communications should be addressed. Notes of its history are given, including dates of foundation and incorporation and changes of name and organisation, and if it possesses a library the number of volumes is stated; its object; time and place of meeting; number of members and fees; the exact titles of its publications and any special publications; the mode of distribution of publications; and a statement of research funds and prizes.” (Nature.)
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“Includes neither art museums nor libraries, though the admission of such libraries and art galleries as publish real contributions to knowledge would have enhanced the value of the work. The further omission of medical and agricultural societies and institutions, and of civic leagues must also be regarded as a serious drawback. Within its field, however, the book cannot fail to be highly appreciated by librarians and scientific workers in general.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 207. S. 3, ’08. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Cannot fail to be of great use to those interested in American societies and their work; its production reflects great credit on all concerned with its preparation and publication.” H. M.
+ =Nature.= 78: 340. Ag. 13, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Haney, John Louis.= Name of William Shakespeare: a study of orthography. *$1. Egerton press.
7–18135.
Aims “to present in convenient form the principal facts that have been elicited concerning the origin and etymology of the name and the vicissitudes of its orthography at various periods of its history.”
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=Dial.= 44: 47. Ja. 16, ’08. 380w.
“Although here and there the essay has a more controversial air, perhaps, than its author intended, it is, on the whole, a fair, complete, and clear exposition of the subject. So far as we have observed, it takes account of every scrap of evidence available, up to the time that it went to print.”
+ + =Nation.= 83: 283. O. 4, ’06. 340w.
=Hanus, Paul Henry.= Beginnings in industrial education; and other educational discussions. *$1. Houghton.
8–21612.
A practical rather than theoretical treatment of some vital present-day educational questions. The first part deals specifically with problems of industrial education in this country, with vocational education, under state auspices; and the second, with some of the results obtained in the secondary schools of Germany.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=Harben, William Nathaniel.= Gilbert Neal. †$1.50. Harper.
8–27805.
The fact that Gilbert Neal for a third time mortgages everything he possesses to keep a lawless, worthless brother from the penitentiary plays small part in this tale except to show the qualities of the young hero’s character. The serious work of the author is the portrayal of the three characters in a fatal triangle and the relations of the hero to each. One of the three, the long suffering wife of a dissolute minister, is the hero’s good angel, who teaches him moderation by saving him from the rash acts of hot headed chivalry.
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“The only human being in the story is one Daggart, village store-keeper and money-lender, and, as he says, ‘just a natural man, by hunky.’”
− + =Nation.= 87: 442. N. 5, ’08. 320w.
=Harding, John William.= Chorus lady; novelized from James Forbes’ play. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–10283.
In this novelization the heroine of the play loses neither her penchant for testing the whole gamut of slang nor her unafraid attitude toward sturdy sacrifice.
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“It would be absurd to pretend that the book is as delightful as the play, but it is a creditable and interesting discharge of a difficult task, and is perhaps the best of recent novelizations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 100w.
=Harding, John William.= Paid in full, by Eugene Walter; a story of modern American life, novelized from the play by John W. Harding. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–16949.
The novelization of a popular play of the season. It is a story of married life in which a whining, weak-willed husband takes to blaming capital, his employer, and his own loyal wife for the ill success which follows in the wake of his anarchism. He becomes a defaulter, thrusts his wife, at the sacrifice of her womanhood, between him and the prison walls which loom up before him. She pays in full her debt of obligation to him by begging his employer, of doubtful morals, for mercy. In the dénouement, the hard hand of the capitalist puts on the velvet glove; Jimsy, the faithful friend, proves his allegiance, but the husband pursues the way of the lost soul to the suicide’s grave.
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“There has been no falling off in the dramatic interest and no serious blurring of the characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 329. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
=Harding, John William.= The time, the place and the girl; from the play of Will M. Hough and Frank R. Adams. †$1. Dillingham.
8–22547.
A story based upon the play, “The time, the place and the girl.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 478. Ag. 29, ’08. 180w.
=Hardy, Thomas.= The dynasts. 3 pts. ea. *$1.50. Macmillan.
=pt. 3.= “In this Part III we see the career of Napoleon in a convulsed Europe draw to its close in the colossal tragedy whose main features are the burning of Moscow and the retreat of the Grand army through the horrors of the Russian winter, the battle of Leipzig, the abdication of the Emperor, Elba, the return, and Waterloo.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Never has Mr. Hardy’s constructive genius mastered so completely as in his latest work difficulties arising from mass of material.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 615. My. 16. 1000w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“There is not a line of poetry in ‘Dynasts.’ Had Mr. Hardy attempted true drama, he must have failed lamentably; but the fact is, he has attempted something else—to get a certain pictorial effect by irregular means—and he has not failed.” H. W. Boynton.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 486. Jl. ’08. 1150w. (Review of pts. 1–3.)
“With the third section, now completing the work, we become conscious of a precipitation, still somewhat cloudy, of the æsthetical, ethical, and philosophical elements hitherto held in solution, and we feel that a great task has been worthily performed.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 307. My. 16, ’08. 2000w. (Review of pt. 3.)
“From the beginning of the sixth act in the famous ballroom at Brussels to the final scene in the wood of Bossu where Napoleon broods over his defeat, Mr. Hardy is at his very best, and in this kind outside of the chronicle plays of Shakespeare there is none better.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 353. Ap. 16, ’08. 1800w. (Review of pt. 1 and 3.)
“The stage is enormous and heroic, but the whole vast play is seen in every corner and from every point of view at once in amazing particularity and with a remembrance of its part in the cosmic scheme.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 249. My. 2, ’08. 2500w. (Review of pt. 1–3.)
“Taking the completed poem, we feel that the poet has attained unity, and that the dramatic quality of the whole is his great achievement.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 462. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w. (Review of pt. 3.)
* =Hare, Christopher.= Courts and camps of the Italian renaissance; being a mirror of the life and times of the ideal gentleman, Count Baldassare Castiglione. *$2.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Hare not merely epitomizes Castiglione’s ‘Cortegiano’ itself, but gives a discursive account of the author’s life and of the stirring events which he saw. Castiglione’s biography was well worth presenting in this fashion, and ‘The courtier’ is always in order. The contacts which such a man has with the great ones of his age, furnish a better insight into the human side of the renaissance than we often get when our attention is primarily directed to Alexander VI, or Julius II, or to the ambitious princes who competed for secular prizes.”—Nation.
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“Many portraits from well-known paintings enhance the impression of reality which Mr. Hare’s agreeable narrative makes upon us.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 140w.
“Altogether Mr. Hare awakens an active desire to possess the ‘Cortegiano’ in its entirety, and what more could any enthusiastic biographer do for his subject?” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 900w.
=Hare, Christopher.= Life of Louis XI, the rebel dauphin and the statesman king from his original letters and other documents. *$2.50. Scribner.
W7–182.
A biography whose material has been supplied chiefly by Louis’s “lettres missives” and “pieces justificatives.” “The two great figures, Louis of France and Charles of Burgundy, sometimes grotesque and sometimes terrible, move against a background of civil wars, desperate sieges, inhuman horrors without end. England with its Wars of the roses is closely connected with France and French politics through the unlucky Queen Margaret. Further off in the picture is the always welcome and delightful presence of her father, the good King René, happy and beloved through all contemporary storms.” (Spec.)
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“Although based on new material, not scholarly in the highest sense.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 184. Je. ’08.
“A cardinal defect of the book as a whole is that the light is not sufficiently concentrated. The excellence of the illustrations goes far to redeem the shortcomings of the text.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 611. N. 16. 1680w.
“This ‘most difficult period of history’ presents a network of tangled politics and a snarl of interminable feuds; and the patience and skill with which Mr. Hare has threaded his way through it all deserves praise.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 421. D. 16, ’07. 530w.
“A new study that aims at supplementing the work of preceding historians.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 139. Ag. 13, ’08. 600w.
“There is no attempt in this volume to idealize the man, but dispassionate evidence is adduced to show that his crimes are to be considered less from the point of view of personal morality than from their aspect of national purpose in an era when France was struggling to be released from the evils of feudalism.” G. S. Heilman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 64. F. 1, ’08. 380w.
“Mr. Hare may be congratulated on having opened a fresh field—at least a fresh point of view—to English readers.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 778. N. 16, ’07. 1460w.
=Harker, Mrs. Lizzie Allen.= His first leave. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–35365.
The author of “Paul and Fiammetta” tells another story in which sympathy for childhood abounds. The hero is an Indian civil servant on leave in England, the heroine, a “high-minded, merry-hearted English girl”; while the other characters are an unprincipled Jew, an English woman, her neglected child, Roger, and a number of lesser individuals culled from the Cockshot Hills.
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“The plot is very slight but the book contains an interesting group of characters who are, for the most part, well worth knowing.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08. ✠
“Mrs. Harker does not always succeed in keeping a tendency to sentimentality under control; but so healthy is the tone of the book, and so agreeable its style, that the final impression it leaves is distinctly pleasing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 723. D. 7. 180w.
“Possesses the initial merit of a genuine charm of style. But, on the other hand, the construction of the story is distinctly loose.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 398. Je. ’08. 400w.
“A readable little story for women.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 90w.
“A slight, pleasant story which it is a little difficult to appreciate at its proper value. Perhaps because the author treats her characters too subjectively, over-editing them, as it were, we feel sure that we should like them all better if we met them in real life than we do through anything that they do or say in her pages.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 450w.
“The plot never thickens and the incidents barely link themselves into a chain; but they are made pleasant reading by the characterization, which is the strong point of the book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“But the charm of the book lies in the delicate understanding, shown by the author, of real human nature. The people are distinct individuals. Each one stands out clearly—faulty, attractive, merry, and true, just such a circle of associations as we would choose for ourselves.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“A pretty, readable story, a little sentimental in spirit, and conventional in design perhaps, but fresh and wholesome.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 520. O. 26, ’07. 100w.
* =Harker, Lizzie Allen.= Miss Esperance and Mr. Wycherly. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–25368.
“This is a story of two charming children brought up by an even more charming old maid and old bachelor. The older people are Scotch and the little boys English, and the scene is laid entirely in Scotland.”—Spec.
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“Will find appreciative readers among lovers of child life or of quiet stories like ‘Cranford,’ with which, however, it suffers by comparison.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08.
“This is a story of exceptional charm. A good style, idyllic simplicity, originality, and tenderness add to the attractions of a work light alike in theme and treatment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 170w.
“Is full of charm and delicacy, with a touch now and then of quiet but delicious humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 571. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
“All lovers of children should read this delicate little study, which, if it cannot escape the accusation of sentimentality, is at any rate very charmingly and sincerely written.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 680. O. 31, ’08. 180w.
=Harland, Marion, pseud.= Housekeeper’s week. **$1.50. Bobbs.
8–23880.
A preliminary chapter entitled Her house in order, is followed by sixteen chapters outlining work for each day of the week, and eight chapters on such topics as marketing, sewing and mending day, care of the body, domestic materia medica, domestic surgery, care of the sick and miscellaneous hints.
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“The book is a compendium of information that will appeal not only to the young and inexperienced housekeeper, but also to her of longer and wider experience.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1126. N. 12, ’08. 120w.
“This new work seems to gather up the fragments of her overflowing domestic knowledge and experience and present them in a clear and attractive manner.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“This is a skilful grouping of suggestions regarding the various forms of housework under the days of the week.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 50w.
=Harnack, Adolf.= New Testament studies; 2, The sayings of Jesus, the second source of St. Matthew and St. Luke; tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson. (Crown lib., v. 23.) *$1.75. Putnam.
8–14753.
“Presents Harnack’s recent discussion of ‘Q,’ the common discourse-source used by Matthew and Luke, to English readers. Harnack reconstructs this source, and declares it to be the work of the age of the apostles, perhaps of the apostle Matthew himself, and more ancient than Mark, for it shows no Pauline influence.”—Bib. World.
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“Harnack’s ‘contribution’ is the most thorough that has yet appeared; immeasurably superior to the attempts of Wendt and Resch, an advance also, chiefly by its greater detail, upon the truly scholarly work of Hawkins, Wernle, and Burton. It suffers, however, from the very rigidity of the author’s method.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 650. O. ’08. 500w.
“The book will not destroy Prof. Harnack’s reputation as a higher critic whose scholarship leads him to no wanton attack on religion, and whose criticisms are distinguished by sobriety of judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 431. O. 10. 550w.
“It is unfortunate that so rigid a two-document hypothesis underlies this stimulating book.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 78. Jl. ’08. 70w.
“The work is an important one for critical study of New Testament literature and the life of Christ.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 578. Je. 25, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by E. S. Drown.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“His acuteness, vigour and freshness make the dullest details interesting. In his reconstruction of the original ‘Q,’ however, we follow him with caution and some slight misgivings.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 10. O. 24, ’08. 370w.
“We cannot always accept Professor Harnack’s criticism, but it is acute and enlightening.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 942. Je. 13, ’08. 500w.
=Harper, Robert Francis; Brown, Francis; and Moore, George F.=, eds. Old Testament and Semitic studies in memory of William Rainey Harper. 2v. *$10. Univ. of Chicago press.
Twenty-six essays contributed by prominent men in fourteen institutions of learning which constitute a tribute to the memory of Dr. Harper and form a worthy expression of the scholarship which it was his life work to promote.
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“The volumes are a mark of progress as well as a testimonial to a great teacher. Reading them with an open mind we have reason not only to be thankful for the past but to be hopeful for the future.” H: P. Smith.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 251. Ap. ’08. 1800w.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 504. Ap. 25. 1100w.
“The whole constitutes a fitting testimony to the esteem felt by American scholars for a peerless teacher, an eminent scholar, and a great man.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 238. Mr. ’08. 120w.
“It goes without saying that the book as a whole is worthy of its purpose in scope, content, and execution, and reflects much credit on contributors and editors alike.” J: P. Peters.
+ + =Bib. World.= 31: 466. Je. ’08. 3400w.
“Two noble volumes of scholarly treatises.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 250w.
“All the articles are fresh, scholarly studies of serious matters connected with Semitic or Old Testament learning. A magnificent monument.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 420. F. 20, ’08. 800w.
+ + =Nation.= 86: 308. Ap. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“The introductory essay ... is a careful and discriminating study of Dr. Harper and his work. The remaining essays are technical in character presenting little of interest except to Old Testament students.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 250w.
“Apart from its memorial significance, this collection of critical studies is a distinct and valuable contribution to the work to which President Harper devoted his life.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 658. Mr. 21, ’08. 220w.
“A fitting tribute to a scholar’s memory, and such as a scholar would desire to have!”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 485. O. 17, ’08. 1000w.
“In scholarship and dignity of form are noble memorials to the enthusiasm for research that characterized the first president of the university.”
+ =Univ. Rec.= 12: 160. Ap. ’08. 580w.
=Harper, Walter Benjamin.= Utilization of wood waste by distillation: a general consideration of the industry of wood distilling, including a description of the apparatus used and the principles involved. *$3. St. Louis lumberman, St. Louis, Mo.
7–37257.
Aims to make good “the lack of literature on the subject of wood distillation, particularly that which relates to the treatment of resinous woods.” The author presents “the different phases of his subject in such a manner that it might be readily comprehended by persons lacking a preliminary scientific education, the information contained being thought sufficient to enable such, if suitably located, to establish and operate a distilling plant on a sound basis.” (Engin. D.)
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“Should prove of essential value to lumber men and others interested in the industry, in furnishing them with a treatise founded on a correct conception of the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 56. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“A brief bibliography ... unfortunately, for the most part, consists of titles, only, without dates, publishers, etc.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 370w.
* =Harraden, Beatrice.= Interplay. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–29739.
“The central situation of this story is a new one. A woman, unhappily married, runs away with a lover, whose sudden death gives her husband the chance to divorce her, which he had refused to do when it might have been a merciful act. Years after, she determines, from the impulse of a new and nobler love, to put away her past, as men do, and give herself to happiness. The theme of the author is equal morality for men and women.”—Outlook.
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=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“It is to be added that the story reads interestingly, particularly in the first half. The characters in modelling and in conversation, are often original, sprightly, and unexpected, the situations fresh and seizing. But one would welcome an interval of emancipation from emancipation.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 497. N. 19, ’08. 370w.
“Miss Harraden has more wit than humor, and she is occasionally overly sentimental. ‘Interplay’ is the best thing she has done, not even excepting her still popular first book, ‘Ships that pass in the night.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 643. O. 31, ’08. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The somber stuff that is the substance of the story is elaborately embroidered with dainty and skillful stitches, making a rich and original bit of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 330w.
“She can think as well as describe, and her characters impress themselves.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 644. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 743. N. 7, ’08. 430w.
=Harris, Maurice Henry.= History of the mediæval Jews from the Moslem conquest of Spain to the discovery of America. 60c. Harris, M. H.
8–21947.
“Deals with a golden age of the Jews, when their literature had a splendid development in Spain until they were forced out by cruel persecution at the end of the fifteenth century. The period includes the time of the mystic Nachmanides, the philosopher Maimonides (the author of ‘The guide of the perplexed’), and the poets Jehuda Halevi and Ibn Gabirol. Translations of some of the works of these poets are given.”—Ind.
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=Ind.= 65: 269. Jl. 30, ’08. 100w.
“A fairly readable and trustworthy summary, whose interest for the average young person is probably not increased by a slightly homiletic flavor. It is none the less a marked improvement on the few existing text-books on the subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 90w.
=Harrison, Constance (Cary) (Mrs. Burton Harrison).= Count and the congressman. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–15151.
The rivals for a charming American girl are an impecunious Italian count and a millionaire congressman. Contrary to the usual situation the titled foreigner possesses the manhood and the congressman is the villain. The latter has built his wealth upon the wreck of the girl’s father’s fortune. She is clever enough to penetrate his scheme, entraps him and wins back enough money to restore, modestly the Stelvio estates at Lake Como.
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“The personages of the novel are simply convenient dummies for furthering the simple action of the story. The dialogue lacks distinction of any sort.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= My Alpine jubilee; articles from London Times, Westminster review, and Cornhill magazine, 1851–1907. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–26234.
Ten short articles and letters including six letters written from Lake Leman last autumn, fifty-six years after the author’s first Alpine trip, also early essays on mountaineering and Sir Leslie Stephen’s Alpine writings. These have been collected and published at the request of the Alpine club of London to aid in the celebration of its jubilee.
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“He writes with the vigour and enthusiasm inspired by the atmosphere of his beloved mountains.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 449. Ap. 11. 250w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 289. My. 23, ’08. 150w.
“The chapters in Mr. Harrison’s volume are of varying value. But all are confidently commended to the lover of the Alps.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 625. Jl. 18, ’08. 520w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= National and social problems. **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–14733.
An appeal to international morality and a plea for social regeneration. The first part deals with international problems, war and imperialism; the second part is occupied with questions of labor, unionism and socialism. “The author purposes a socialism, economic, moral and religious, whereby the reorganization of society as a whole will be secured by a new ethical and religious education, entirely reforming the spirit in which capital, the product of society, shall be used, enjoyed, and controlled for the good of society alone.”
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“A permanent value certainly attached to the second part of the volume.” A. G. P.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 173. O. ’08. 530w.
“Although many have already read most, if not all, of the essays now republished, some at least of them possess a curiously fresh interest at the moment, and are most welcome.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 601. My. 16. 900w.
=Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 340w.
“The half dozen essays in the second section treat of the modern unrest and the impending revolution in the industrial order. In all that he has to say upon this problem he is still the consistent and aggressive Positivist that he has always been.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
“We doubt whether a man who avers that he has learned almost nothing in the last forty years of the nineteenth century is qualified to be a leader of society in the beginning of the twentieth century.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 391. Je. 20, ’08. 530w.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 111. O. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Frederic Harrison would be a more instructive teacher, and, generally, a more useful citizen, if he were not possessed with the dogma of his infallibility.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 1004. Je. 27, ’08. 640w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Philosophy of common sense. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–36260.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“His volumes are of interest despite the fact that they add little to what he had already printed.” W: T. Paullin.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 662. O. ’08. 440w.
“The book is the echo of long-drawn-out controversies over worthless issues.” R. E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 40: 474. N. ’08. 380w.
Reviewed by G: Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 130. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“The book in question has a certain value. Were it not for the title of his latest book one might think that this conclusion was a caricature of common sense.” I. W. Riley.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 663. F. ’08. 1330w.
“The collected issue of these various utterances in defense of positivism as the one and only common-sense philosophy forms a valuable and highly readable sequel to the preceding number of the series.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 18. Ja. 1, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by S. Waterlow.
=Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 130. O. ’08. 700w.
“The work exhibits a philosophical Bourbon who learns nothing and forgets nothing.” I. W. Riley.
− =J. Philos.= 5: 444. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Harrison’s clear style and perfectly frank spirit lend a charm to his work that insure him a hearing with every one interested in philosophical discussion.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 228. Ag. 15. ’08. 430w.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 144. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
“The student of nineteenth century philosophy who desires to conceive aright of the spirit, method, and aims of the system of thought inaugurated by Auguste Comte will find them nowhere delineated more clearly and adequately than in this volume by the most prominent and able of Comte’s disciples.” E. Ritchie.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 558. S. ’08. 460w.
=Sat. R.= 104: 672. N. 30, ’07. 860w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Realities and ideals: social, political, literary and artistic. (Collected essays, v. 4.) **$1.75. Macmillan.
8–26402.
The fourth volume in a series of the author’s essays based on “one coherent scheme of thought—a positivist synthesis—a reorganization of life, at once intellectual, moral, and social, by faith in our common humanity.” This group includes social and political subjects dealing with the relations of England and France, the future of woman, marriage laws, use of Sunday, prohibition, the church, parliamentary reform, etc.; and, under the subject of literature and art, discusses the revival of the drama, decadence in modern art, and concludes with a dozen sketches of prominent past-century Englishmen.
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“Of sheer good writing this volume is full. Of that dignified and impressive eloquence of which Mr. Harrison is a master no better example could be found than in the piece with which the volume opens.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 638. N. 21. 1350w.
“The second part of the book, embracing chapters on literature and art—the first part being devoted to social and political questions—is especially attractive.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 270w.
“The essential characteristic of Mr. Harrison’s writing is always earnestness, tho he often buries it in bland humor or carries it home with stinging wit.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1125. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Harrison ranks among living Englishmen with John Morley as an essayist of originality, weight, and charm, who has also supreme gifts in expression.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 600. O. 24, ’08. 160w.
“Everything that Mr. Harrison writes is so ‘meaty’ and thought-provoking that it seems scarcely necessary to call attention to these qualities in the collection of essays that make up the present volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 170w.
=Harrison, Jane Ellen.= Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides. *$1.65. Putnam.
“The little volume of 168 pages takes the form of a commentary on the famous chapter of Thucydides (II. 15) in which the historian demonstrated the small compass of primitive Athens by the fact that the oldest shrines are all either on the Acropolis or in the adjoining precinct to the south (or southwest). Miss Harrison discusses all the old topographical problems.... She tells us all that is known and much that is conjectured of the earlier pre-Persian Athens on which Pater’s imagination so fondly dwelt, and of the earliest Mycenaean Athens on the Acropolis.” (Dial.) Admirably illustrated.
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“Is by no means too technical to be enjoyed by any intelligent reader who has visited or intends to visit Athens.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 135. Mr. 1, ’08. 340w.
“Things are not really quite so simple and certain as they appear to Miss Harrison’s loyal enthusiasm for Dr. Dörpfeld’s theories. We can recommend to the student or tourist no better introduction to the whole subject than this.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 423. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. 27v. per v. *$2. Harper.
=v. 25. Latané, John Holladay.= America as a world power.
7–41116.
Professor Latané takes up the thread of history where “National problems” left it at the election of 1896. The main field covered is the Spanish war of 1898 and its consequences on the spirit and policy of the American people, and the administrative and economic questions which have demanded solution.
=v. 26. Hart, Albert Bushnell.= National ideals historically traced.
7–41115.
This final volume of the series is a restatement of the achievements and ideals of the American people, illustrated from by-gone events which show the meaning and extent of national progression. The factors of geographic environment, of race and social conditions, political organizations, social and economic activities, relations with other nations are successively treated, and the volume closes with a discussion of the future of American democracy.
=v. 27. Matteson, David Maydole=, comp. Analytic index.
8–2970.
This general index is a consolidation of the compiler’s indexes in the separate volumes of the series, with some additions and corrections. It covers every important event, noted person and historical fact mentioned in the preceding twenty-six volumes, and fully supplements the separate indexes.
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“A worse fault and the only one we find in the book that is at all serious—his presentation falls short at one point of what his task would seem to call for in any view whatever. It is somewhat onesided and ‘northern,’ not in temper or purpose, in both which respects it is commendably broad, but in matter.” E. B: Andrews.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 371. Ja. ’08. 1100w. (Review of v. 22.)
“With much that is good, and much that is helpful, ‘The American nation’ is not an epoch-making work, it is rather epoch-marking.” Max Farrand.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 591. Ap. ’08. 2400w. (Review of v. 1–27.)
“The work seems remarkably free from errors.” A. S. Hershey.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 625. Ap. ’08. 850w. (Review of v. 25.)
“This volume must be classed with the studies of American democracy made by De Tocqueville and Bryce. On the historical side Professor Hart’s work is more complete and stronger than either of the other studies. On the philosophic side, it compares less favorably with the work of the French and the English student.” C. E. Merriam.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 626. Ap. ’08. 550w. (Review of v. 26.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08. (Review of v. 26.)
“Not an exhaustive study, but is clear and concise.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 45. F. ’08. ✠ (Review of v. 25.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08. (Review of v. 27.)
“The author presents a brilliant summary of the last decade of our foreign policy.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 525. Mr. ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 25.)
“With its many excellences, it is to be questioned whether the series as a whole has demonstrated the impossibility or the uselessness of the attempt to attain unity or uniformity in the work of a single master hand.” St. G: L. Sioussat.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 309. My. 16. ’08. 3200w. (Review of v. 22–27.)
“The chapters on the national supervision of railroads and the money question touch on a number of new points and are the best in the book.” F. L. McVey.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 122. Je. ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 24.)
“Professor Dunning has produced the only brief history of the period that commands respect.” (Review of v. 22.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“The volume starts better than it finishes.” (Review of v. 23.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“When perspective shall have been corrected by distance the historian will still find in this volume much to commend in its calm statement of current facts.” (Review of v. 24.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“Many of its chapters have a definiteness unusual in current history.” (Review of v. 25.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
“We are not certain what the editor has tried to do with his ‘American ideals historically traced.’... His volume of essays, some of them interesting and suggestive upon ‘Territorial concepts,’ ‘The man who leads,’ ‘I want to know,’ and the like, is of doubtful value in a great historical work.” (Review of v. 26.)
+ + − =Ind.= 64: 368. F. 13, ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 22–26.)
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 569. N. ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 23 and 24.)
“No volume in this notable series has supplied a more distinct want than Professor Dunning’s.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 25. Ja. 4, ’08. 270w. (Review of v. 22.)
“Two points only in this volume seem to call for comment. The first ... deals with a transition period, in the point of view. How well the author has adhered to his purpose, even a cursory examination of his book would suffice to show. The other point is the author’s judgments of men. Towards the Republican policy as a whole, Professor Dunning’s attitude is prevailingly critical. On the whole, his sympathies seem to lie in this respect with the Liberal Republicans. In his estimates of Republican leaders, however, his criticism is caustic.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2, ’08. 780w. (Review of v. 22.)
“The chronicle of events is reasonably full, and on the whole well-balanced and skilfully arranged, but the narrative is left, as a rule, to tell its own story, with but rare intrusion of the author’s personal judgment.... Their clear and impartial narratives should perform a needed service in discriminating the numerous and conflicting elements of which American politics has of late come to be compounded.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 83. Ja. 23, ’08. 1180w. (Review of v. 23 and 24.)
+ =Nation.= 86: 285. Mr. 26, ’08. 1200w. (Review of v. 25–27.)
“The worst fault one has to find with the book is the inadequate treatment, in the chapters on ‘International arbitration’ and on ‘The forcible collection of public debts’ of the proceedings and discussions of the second Hague conference.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 6. Ja. 4, ’08. 780w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Prof. Hart seems anxious to avoid the reproach of saying undisputed things in a solemn way. He prefers to say highly disputable things in a way as far as possible from solemn, in a style combined of the ‘monographic’ and the journalistic. He has not even taken the trouble to read proofs so far as to avoid repetitions. Inaccuracies are painfully frequent.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 27. Ja. 18, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 26.)
“It is too early yet to write of the period with any finality, but Professor Sparks’s volume certainly affords a comprehensive view of its happenings and its tendencies.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 878. D. 21, ’07. 300w. (Review of v. 23.)
“After reading his chapters on organized labor, the trusts, the tariff, the silver struggle, and the national supervision of railways, the student cannot fail to have a clearer idea, not only of the situation as it was ten and twenty years ago, but of the situation as it now is.... Greatest value attaches to Professor Dewey’s account of the beginnings of the trust movement. His handling of the strictly political occurrences of the twelve years is scarcely so successful.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 24.)
=Outlook.= 88: 379. F. 15, ’08. 320w. (Review of v. 25.)
“The chapters on government are especially valuable, showing as they do a sure knowledge of the views and practices of the past and a keen perception of present conditions; and warm praise should also be extended to Professor Hart’s summaries of our religious, social, intellectual, and territorial development.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 562. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 26.)
“The publishers, for some unfathomable reason, have omitted to indicate on the binding the numerical progression of the volumes—an omission which, of course, militates greatly against the usefulness of the work for ready reference.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 27.)
“Excellent on the whole as is his work of digest and exposition, it still cannot be said to be an authoritative survey, even on the documentary side and from the American viewpoint. This lack of an authoritative grasp is revealed in what may be termed the two-sidedness of his book.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 715. D. ’08. 1400w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Professor Latané elaborates [his themes] with historical accuracy and illumines with his attractive style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 507. Ap. ’08. 220w. (Review of v. 25.)
“Such a series has some advantages over a work by a single author, and also serious disadvantages. The chief ones for our purposes are that the volumes are very uneven, and the point of view of the successive authors is constantly changing. For teachers the first of these defects is the important one, for high-school pupils the second one.” Webster Cook.
+ − =School R.= 15: 715. D. ’07. 200w. (Review of v. 8–14.)
=Hart, Albert Bushnell.= Manual of American history, diplomacy, and government, for class use. $2. Harvard univ., Cambridge, Mass.
8–15335.
“Not only contains a careful selection of the best material from earlier volumes but embodies also significant topics and essential bibliographies adequate to bring the narrative down to the present.” (Am. Hist. R.) “Three detailed courses of ninety lectures each are outlined on the subjects of American history, diplomacy and government. Three shorter courses of thirty lectures each on the same subjects follow. These outlines are supplemented by suggestions for class topics, term reports, etc., and by a valuable chapter on methods and materials, giving directions for the use of books and preparation of reports.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“This volume will be welcomed by the alert teacher even though he may not have access to the wealth of material suggested. It is to be regretted that an index has not been provided.” J. A. James.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 920. Jl. ’08. 270w.
“The arrangement of the volume, and the general character of the material to which reference is made, make the volume of value to the general student.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 444. S. ’08. 130w.
“The volume would doubtless be more serviceable and less formidable to the undergraduate if it were broken into three parts, dealing with history, diplomacy and government separately.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 572. S. ’08. 140w.
“So profuse are these citations that many a college student will be confused by their very number. The instructor and graduate student will profit by Professor Hart’s work more than will undergraduates.”
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 243. Ag. ’08. 200w.
=Hart, James Morgan.= Development of standard English speech in outline. *$1. Holt.
7–2750.
“Not a history of the language, not even in the barest outline, but merely an attempt to show how the Englishman or American of today has come by his pronunciation.” “It is substantially an abridged Middle English phonology, with consideration, however, of the main sound changes in Old and Middle English.” (Nation.)
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“We need hardly say that the information given in this little book is sound, and it is only on the question of aim that we take issue with its author.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 33. Jl. 11, ’07. 250w.
“Furnishes the best existing introduction to the subject of which it treats.” E: M. Brown.
+ =School R.= 16: 270. Ap. ’08. 650w.
=Hartley, Percy J.= My lady of Cleeve. 2 col. il. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–5574.
Set in the times of the Jacobite uprising this story throws into the foreground one Captain Adrian Cassilis, loyal to the claims of William, and the beautiful but shrewish lady of Cleeve, daring in her devotion to the cause of the Stuart restoration. It is the story of a Petruchio and a Katharine whose hostility is echoed in the din of warfare about them. Petruchio subdues his Katharine’s turbulent pride thru service, and wins her for his bride.
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“Not specially well written, but contains a swash-buckle flavor that is attractive.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 220. Je. ’08.
“An unusually good example of the modern Dumas romance, the sort that we expect from Stanley Weyman at his best.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 184. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 50w.
“Second-rate historical romance.”
− =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 220w.
“The workmanship is excellent, there is a twist to the language which gives it an adventurous, generations-back flavor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 200w.
“It is one not especially distinguishable from the large number of its companion romances.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
=Harvey, George B. M.= Women, etc.: some leaves from an editor’s diary. **$1. Harper.
8–30295.
A series of “fugitive observations” which so far as they are concerned with women deal with casuistry, greed, friendship, age, ignorance in management of men, second wives and husbands, taxation of spinsters and bachelors, love, fiction and learning, osculation, woman suffrage, and unequal conditions of men and women. The “Etc.” deals with a variety of subjects including the folly of worry and its cure, disadvantage of great riches, and honesty in advertising.
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“Whoever has read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested these wise follies is armed and equipped for any occasion when men and women meet and the quips pass around.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 370w.
=Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Harwood, William Sumner.= New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. 2d ed. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–33936.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Mr. Burbank has really done some good work, but the critical reader of ‘New creations in plant life’ will be still uncertain both as to its amount and kind.”
− =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 550w.
“All who are interested in the work which Luther Burbank is doing among flowers and plants should read this book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 920. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
=Hasse, Adelaide Rosalie.= Index of economic material in the documents of the states of the United States; prepared for the Department of economics and sociology of the Carnegie institution of Washington. Carnegie inst.
Maine (1820–1904). 75c.
7–24018.
New Hampshire (1789–1904). 50c.
7–29730.
New York (1789–1904). $3.75.
8–9802.
Rhode Island (1789–1904). 75c.
8–14941.
Vermont (1789–1904). 50c.
7–40267.
“Each volume is divided into two parts. Part 1 contains references to general sources of information and descriptive matter arranged according to the character of the publication. Part 2 contains references to particular series of reports, and particular topics, arranged alphabetically. The references under each topic are divided into two groups, viz., ‘serial’ and ‘non-serial.’ Within each of these divisions the arrangement is chronological.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 79. Mr. ’08. (Review of 3 parts.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 185. Je. ’08. (Review of 2 pts.)
“All of this work is pioneer work in the vast store of state documents and fortunately it has all been done by trained library workers who had exceptional opportunities in compiling the material. When these series shall have been completed the economist will have at hand the keys for unlocking most of the state material to which he desires to have access.” L. C. Marshall.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 567. N. ’07. 750w. (Review of 3 pts.)
+ =Nation.= 87: 261. S. 17, ’08. 220w. (Review of 1 pt.)
=Hastings, James=, ed. Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels. 2v. ea. $6. Scribner.
6–44352.
=v. 2.= Labour—Zion. This volume completes Dr. Hastings’ undertaking. Among the valuable articles are those on the gospels: Matthew, by W. C. Allen; Mark, by A. J. Maclean; Luke, by A. Wright; The text of the Gospels, by P. M. Barnard; and The virgin birth, by G. H. Box.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 680w. (Review of v. 2.)
“A stately volume.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 399. My. ’08. 50w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The same excellences and defects that characterized the first volume of this work run through the second volume.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 404. Je. ’08. 900w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is designed especially for preachers, for whom it unquestionably makes accessible many facts suitable for homiletic use. The extreme conservative point of view, however, noted in the first volume is maintained in the second.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 2.)
“On the whole the completed work makes a better impression than did the first volume alone.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 257. My. 2, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The work is as comprehensive as unique.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 265. My. 30, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)
“There is a great deal of overlapping; the same subjects are treated under three or four heads and sometimes twice under the same head. The appendix to the ‘Dictionary’ contains perhaps the most important part of all.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 209. Ag. 15, ’08. 630w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Hatcher, William Eldridge.= John Jasper, the unmatched negro philosopher and preacher. **$1. Revell.
8–23140.
The life story of a negro who as slave and freeman was a preacher of unusual power. “In Dr. Hatcher’s sketch of John Jasper one has a glimpse of an actual character than which there are few more deliciously humorous, more naïvely primitive, more original in the pages of fiction. Jasper was one of the most unique preachers—black or white—who ever filled a pulpit or swayed with his eloquence, acrobatic quite as often as vocal, the throngs that came to hear him.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =Ind.= 65: 788. O. 1, ’08. 220w.
“Dr. Hatcher has rescued a bit of literature, rough hewn and of the soil though it is, that one could ill afford to lose in a world where the over-refinement of the makers of books becomes at times a weariness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 1350w.
=Hatfield, Richard=, ed. Geyserland: empiricisms in social reform; being data and observations recorded by the late Mark Stubble: a tentative ed. $3. Richard Hatfield, 1310 Green court, N. W., Washington, D. C.
8–19013.
A sketch of a reconstructed society. Geyserland is conceived to be a ring-shaped island within the Arctic circle. The inhabitants are a fragment from a wreck of antediluvian cultured people. It is the chief aim of this volume to show how the laws of altruistic Geyserland make the customs, dogmas and restraints of present society seem artificial and futile. In the author’s scheme there is no family life, marriage is regulated by the state, the state owns everything and awards everything.
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“It would be superfluous to condemn the ideas set forth, for the book is its own best condemnation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 425. Ag. 1, ’08. 950w.
=Hauch, Ernst Friedrick, and Rice, Philip Durkee.= Tables of quantities for preliminary estimates. *$1.25. Wiley.
7–36877.
Tables “giving station yardages to the nearest cubic foot, computed from the prismoid formula, for roadway widths from 12 to 32 feet, increasing by arguments of 2 feet, for side slopes from 5° to 35° increasing by 5°, and heights increasing by units from 1 to 50 feet.”—Engin. N.
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“The railway surveyor will find the volume of use when making preliminary estimates according to the method employed by the authors.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 74. Ja. ’08. 110w.
“The only criticism to be made is that there should have been given more complete directions as to the methods of using the tables and a more definite analysis of their mathematical deduction.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 652. D. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Haupt, Paul.= Book of Nahum; a new metrical translation; with an introd., restoration of the Hebrew text, and explanatory and critical notes. *50c. Johns Hopkins.
“Dr. Haupt has the courage of his investigations, and uses all his scholarship to revise the Hebrew text and assign its portions to various periods of Hebrew history. He holds that Nahum is a liturgical compilation in honor of the glorious victory of Judas Maccabaeus over Nicanor in 161 B. C. There are, he says, four poems, of which the two last are taken from much older poems written by one who saw the fall of Nineveh in 606 B. C., while the two first are of the Maccabean period.”—Ind.
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“It will be of value only to the special student, and that too not for its main contentions, which are largely arbitrary, but for the abundance of materials brought together, especially on lexicographical and archaeological topics.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 159. F. ’08. 50w.
=Ind.= 63: 1373. D. 5, ’07. 220w.
“Explanatory and critical notes string together much curious and not always strictly pertinent learning. The positiveness of these divinatory pronouncements is equalled only by the arbitrariness of the critical procedure.”
− =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 140w.
=Hawkes, Clarence.= Black Bruin: the biography of a bear. †$1.50. Jacobs.
8–27116.
A short introduction giving some of the characteristics of “Ursus, the droll” is followed by the life history of a bear from cubhood, during which he was a household pet, on thru dancing and circus-bear periods to the wild again whither he escapes after killing his trainer.
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“The author has skilfully woven into his story much of the natural history of the bear, and he has produced a readable story, but yet ‘Black Bruin’ is not typical.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 180w.
“A marvelous nature story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Great Miss Driver. †$1.50. McClure.
8–25366.
In which an unambitious secretary to the Great Miss Driver sketches her career—the career of a masterful young woman of wealth, a dictator and financier, the possessor of a man’s perspective and sense of justice and the heart of a woman. To her, shortcomings in big men may well be overlooked. “They have their big lives, their big selves, to look after. They can’t spend all the time thinking whether they are doing justice to a woman.”
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“Anthony Hope’s new novel is in its way as good as anything he has for some time produced. The air of the story is somewhat artificial, but there are human sentiments and situations.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 397. O. 3. 400w.
“There is no exaggeration in saying that in literary technique and human interest and the various other qualities that go to make good fiction ‘The great Miss Driver’ is easily the biggest, best rounded, and altogether worthiest story he has ever written.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 28: 379. D. ’08. 760w.
“The ease and politeness of manner with which the story is told may be compared with that of an intelligent, cultivated man who tells a story fascinatingly, yet with a certain deprecatory air, as if he said, ‘But do not let me tire you’ and the reader’s response is, ‘Pray go on, sir; you could not tire me if your tale lasted till morning.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1002. O. 29, ’08. 970w.
“In this book he shows less humor and verbal dexterity than he has led us to expect; but he goes about his task with the air of a man who can handle the tools of the trade, and he produces a novel that, if not extraordinary, is at least entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.
“This is not in the least reminiscent of Anthony Hope, but it’s a good story all the same.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 554. O. 10, ’08. 560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 70w.
“An extremely clever but perhaps a little over-protracted study of a forceful and willful young woman.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 120w.
“Even with what he gives in the earlier half, Anthony Hope does not quite make Jenny Driver credible, though he makes her human, and delightful and new; so human, indeed, that his handling suggests that he is not himself quite sure how far he understands her.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 6. S. 26, ’08. 830w.
“When he writes with the subtlety and finish, the acuteness and sympathy, that are displayed in ‘The great Miss Driver,’ we are reconciled to his abandonment of the domain of fantastic and adventurous romance in which he won his earliest and most resounding successes. There is something artificial in the machinery employed to enable Jenny to turn the tables on her judges and detractors.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 860w.
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope.= Love’s logic and other stories. †$1.25. McClure.
8–10617.
Fifteen short stories with the title piece, a little drama, buried in the middle of the book. The best of them are Mrs. Thistleton’s princess, Miss Gladwin’s chance, and The prince consort. A bit of art in the first of the three is suggested by the fact that the author keeps his scheme to the short story length by causing the principal character—who with money might have been developed into a hero—to be in a chronic penniless state with an overdrawn bank account.
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“Short stories, good, bad, and indifferent.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08.
“Cleverly made stories.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 500. Jl. ’08. 660w.
“Unusually well told in the musing, gently reminiscent manner of the old friend of the family.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 50w.
“Good enough for magazines, but distinctly not worth publication in permanent form.”
− =Nation.= 86: 310. Ap. 2, ’08. 150w.
“All are pervaded with that gentle irony, mildly whimsical humor, and amused acceptance of human foibles with which the author is wont to spice his romantic tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
=Hawley, Frederick Barnard.= Enterprise and the productive process. **$1.75. Putnam.
7–39068.
A theory of economic productivity presented from the point of view of the entrepreneur and based upon definitions secured thru deduction of the scope and fundamental terms of the science of economics. The author aims to present authoritative notions upon the definition, scope, and method of his reconstructed economic theory and discusses fully the four productive factors, land, capital, labor and enterprise.
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“Not a great book, but a serviceable one for students of advanced economic theory.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 185. Je. ’08.
“An acquiescence in the author’s general conclusions necessitates an acceptance of his risk theory of profits, of his perhaps too pronouncedly entrepreneur point of view, and of his extremely restricted conception of the scope of economics.” R. V. Phelan.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 729. My. ’08. 300w.
“The chief contribution of the book is its point of approach. Anyone who will read Mr. Hawley’s argument will also be convinced that he is in contact with a mind of unusual force and acumen. The argument is well planned and consistently worked out. The present writer is not convinced, however, that the author’s method and point of view are inherently superior to those of the classical school.” T. N. Carver.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 123. Je. ’08. 460w.
=Ind.= 64: 419. F. 20, ’08. 330w.
“On the whole it must be said that the author comes out much better in his conclusions than one is likely to expect after a reading of his introductory chapters wherein he expounds his method and sets forth his point of view.” T. N. Carver.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 111. F. ’08. 960w.
“It would be hard to mention another work that has appeared within the past three or four years which is freighted with more solid thinking upon economic fundamentals.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 291. S. 24, ’08. 830w.
“Novel and original contribution to political economy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 141. Mr. 14, ’08. 1250w.
“Is an original contribution to economic discussion both in method and point of view. However, if we find it impossible to indorse Mr. Hawley’s principal contention, his book is helpful in many ways.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 136. S. 19, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. Hawley’s work does not appear, to the reviewer at least, to have produced theoretical results of a high degree of value.” A. S. Johnson.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 532. S. ’08. 1850w.
“The economist will find Mr. Hawley’s working out of his theory of economic productivity exceedingly interesting and original, even though neither premise nor conclusion can be accepted without doing violence to established economic tradition.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 180w.
=Hay, Alfred.= Introductory course of continuous current engineering. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
W 8–37.
“The purpose of this book is to acquaint the reader, assumed to be already familiar with the elements of electricity and magnetism, with the construction of the component parts of an electrical installation. It is largely descriptive, the text being illustrated with diagrams of electrical devices and circuits.”—Engin. N.
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“The work has been prepared for use as an introductory text on continuous current engineering; it is exceptionally well arranged for this purpose.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 297. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The matter is well presented and the work forms a fine companion volume to the author’s excellent treatise on ‘Alternating currents.’ It combines within the same covers the fundamental phenomena and their applications.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 401. Ap. 30, ’08. 50w.
=Hay, Oliver Perry.= Fossil turtles of North America, pa. $7. Carnegie inst.
8–26862.
“A work which not only makes it possible to gain speedy and accurate knowledge of the group of which it treats, but completely paves the way for further progress in its study.” (N. Y. Times.) “The author finds that there are 266 well-defined species of North American fossil turtles—or more than now survive on all the continents. From this it is evident that the turtles are a disappearing group, though yet so abundant as to lend a deep interest to all problems connected with their origin and distribution.” (Nation.)
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“It is far in advance of any [work] that has hitherto been written on its subject, or on the turtle fauna of any other country.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 343. O. 8, ’08. 330w.
“Almost the only fault we have to find with the volume is the absence of a good table of contents, or of a classified synopsis, whereby the serial positions of all the genera and species might be seen at a glance. In all other respects we heartily congratulate Mr. Hay on the completion of such a valuable and heavy piece of palæontological work.” R. L.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 91. N. 26, ’08. 600w.
“This ponderous and splendidly illustrated volume affords naturalists a compact statement of quite all that is known to date of the ancient turtle life on this continent; many of the forms being new to science.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“The Carnegie institution is to be congratulated on the publication of this valuable and useful work.” S. W. Williston.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 803. D. 4, ’08. 700w.
=Hayes, Hiram W.= Paul Anthony, Christian. *$1.50. Reid pub. co.
7–42007.
A story whose scenes are principally laid in Burma in which a young American engineer, a Christian scientist, antagonizes a missionary leader and an army surgeon while winning thru his livable, demonstrable religion most of the other characters of the story. It is interesting as a romance and reveals fundamentally what Christian science “teaches in regard to man’s relation to God, his fellowmen, the problems of sin and sickness and how they are destroyed, and the ideal of life.” (Arena.)
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“It is a book that Christian scientists would do well to circulate very widely, and it is a deeply interesting romance that is very pure and uplifting in its influence and atmosphere,—a good book that merits wide reading.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 251. F. ’08. 950w.
=Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 160w.
“Written with more skill than is usual with propagandist novels.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 695. Mr. 26, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Hays, Joseph W.= How to build up furnace efficiency. 50c. J. W. Hays. 601 Hartford building, Chicago.
A book which deals with the “most common furnace losses and their causes in detail, and makes a strong argument for a liberal use of the Orsat apparatus for furnace gas analysis.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“A booklet that will indicate to the man in charge of a boiler plant where to look for the causes of fuel waste and how to go about stopping them.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1308. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 90w.
“It cannot fail to prove of value to every operating engineer.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Hazard, Caroline.= Scallop shell of quiet. **$1. Houghton.
8–243.
A book of religious verse containing forty Lenten sonnets, an Interlude of fifteen poems, and eight final sonnets composing A cycle of grief ever the death of a friend.
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“[Has] the grace of a deep sincerity.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 180w.
“Shows the subjectiveness of a thinker to whom the world does not present itself in images of form and color, but in whisperings and prayers.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Letters from The Raven; being the correspondence of Lafcadio Hearn with Henry Watkin; with introd. and critical comment by the editor, Milton Bronner. $1.50. Brentano’s.
7–34585.
In Hearn’s early youth he formed a friendship with Watkin, a Cincinnati printer, who became the “Old man” or “Dad” while he himself, because of his gloomy tendencies and love for Poe, was dubbed “The Raven.” These letters from “The Raven” to Watkin cover the former’s experiences in New Orleans, offering a series of “vignettes of his strange Creole life,” experiences in the West Indies, and in Japan.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 186. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 573. My. 9. 200w.
“Though Lafcadio Hearn’s literary reputation will not be enhanced by the publication of ‘Letters from The Raven’ these unstudied early writings give an insight into phases of his personality not revealed by what he wrote for the world at large, nor, except in small measure, by the numerous private letters printed in his ‘Life and letters’ by Miss Elizabeth Bisland.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 46. Ja. 16, ’08. 470w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Perhaps there is an advantage in having them by themselves in this little book. Their flavor gains a certain pungency by this isolation from his general correspondence.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 447. N. 14, ’07. 650w.
“Amid much that is dull and scarcely worth while in these letters of Hearn’s written to Mr. Watkin ... there is also a touch now and again of the curious Hearn imagination and the haunting delicacies of thought that we know in his later writings.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 43. Ja. 25, ’08. 1050w.
“These letters have little, if any, intrinsic importance.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 598. My. 9, ’08. 1200w.
=Heck, Robert C. H.= Steam engine and other steam motors. 2v. ea. *$5. Van Nostrand.
5–4757.
=v. 2.= Deals with The form, construction and working of the engine; and The steam turbine. Whereas the first volume contained theoretical discussions, this one relates to the actual engine and its performance. It is fully illustrated.
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“Very full treatise of specialized character, suitable for large libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 138. My. ’08. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Painstaking and scientific work.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’08. 300w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The two volumes are far from being a complete treatise on the steam engine, and they are scarcely suitable for text-books, but, for reference books, they are to be recommended as giving a better and fuller treatment of some works on this subject.” William Kent.
+ − =Technical Literature.= 2: 456. N. ’07. 800w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Heineman, Theodore William.= Physical basis of civilization: a revised version of “Psychic and economic results of man’s physical uprightness.” $1.25. Forbes.
8–13635.
A demonstration that two small anatomical modifications determined physical, mental, moral, economic, social and political conditions. The author says, “When sexual reproduction among mammalian creatures resembling the quadrumana produced a variation in the ento-cuneiform bones of their posterior extremities and shifted the occipital foramen magnum to a position a little back of the base of the skull, then was the birthday of the human race.”
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“It is only on the side of ethnographic and sociological facts that he is weak. To those who are interested in tracing out the biological roots of human institutions, especially of the family, therefore, the book is to be commended as well worth reading.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 412. N. ’08. 420w.
“The weakness of the book is found in its assumptions. The author has done a good piece of work, especially strong and suggestive in its biological aspect; and he has shown himself to be an able, original and independent thinker.” F. W. Collins.
+ − =Arena.= 40: 478. N. ’08. 450w.
“There is room for a difference of opinion as to the force of this ‘demonstration.’”
− =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Helleu, Paul C.= Gallery of portraits. *$7. Longmans.
A book of plates accompanied by an introduction by Frederick Wedmore. There are reproductions of twenty and more portraits of prominent women. Mr. Wedmore says, “The Duchess of Marlborough, depicted here, is far, very far, from being the only instance of a type drawn from moneyed and, no doubt, cultivated America. The Comtesse de Noailles—a young dame du monde who has found time to give to France more than one volume of introspective poetry—represents the Faubourg and the chateau, and the literary salon where tender and gifted Melancholy leaves Flirtation no chance, and rhythmic Sorrow is poured out with the tea.”
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“Except in one or two of these reproductions, we do not quite recognize the magic for which [M. Helleu’s] name once stood.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 775. D. 14. 180w.
“One of the most elaborate and interesting art books of the season.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Prominent women are presented in the vivacious style of this most brilliant of modern dry-point etchers, who gives a note of piquancy to all his sitters.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 836. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
=Helmolt, Hans Ferdinand and others=, eds. World’s history: a survey of man’s record; with an introd. essay by James Bryce. 8v. ea. $6. Dodd.
7–42036.
=v. 8.= Western Europe in the nineteenth century—The Atlantic ocean.
The subjects treated are The French revolution, Napoleon and reaction; The political and social changes, in Europe between 1830 and 1859; The unification of Italy and of Germany from 1859 to 1866; A summary of important events which occurred in Western Europe between 1866 and 1902. The last chapter “suggests, without describing, the significance of the Atlantic ocean in history (1) as a great dividing barrier, (2) as the training school of nations, and (3) as a medium of world commerce.”
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“The work of the translator has been uniformly well performed throughout the volume. Of minor faults (there are no great ones) we note a few misprints. For the rest of the book is a truly remarkable compendium of a little understood and less appreciated section of the world.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 814. Ag. 24, ’07. 2350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“[The first] four chapters are more or less open to two points of criticism. First, none of the writers has shown at all satisfactorily the great influence of religion, romanticism, capitalism and the improvement in the means of communication in shaping the history of the nineteenth century; they too often lapse into the conventional juiceless political narrative. The fault is not theirs but the editor’s; they fear to be guilty of repetition, in as much as these subjects have already been completely developed as separate topics in volume 7. In the second place, the point of view and the allotment of space seem excessively German. While three chapters are disappointing in that they rather fall from the lofty principles and novel features of the earlier volumes, they nevertheless deserve a place among the best scholarly one-volume accounts of the nineteenth century.” S. B. Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 363. Ja. ’08. 1250w. (Review of v. 8.)
“It is addressed more to scholars but is necessarily too brief to satisfy them. It is pervaded with the spirit of Lamprecht and Ratzel, but at the same time has drawn heavily from Ranke.” Sidney B. Fay.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 835. Jl. ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The translator of each section seems to have been free to follow his or her will, regardless of any one else. These evils are brought out glaringly by the egregious index, whose compiler was evidently incapable of recognizing the same word under two separate spellings or the same person with two qualifications attached to him. We can only regret that the English rendering of a painstaking and useful historical work should be marred by such disgraceful slovenliness in some of its details.” A. C. Coolidge.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 97. O. ’08. 1150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“As a preliminary study for the history of Europe these volumes are in many ways excellent; one cannot however help wishing for references to authorities, for occasional notes, and for a general index.” C. A. S.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 610. Jl. ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 6 and 8.)
“The monumental work of Dr. Helmolt is original, attractive, and thoroughly readable. It places the history of the world in a new light, basing it upon a foundation of geography and ethnography, while at the same time it rests upon a solid structure of the most modern research, and does not suffer, as some other cooperative histories have done, from the collaboration of different writers. It is in every sense of the word a possession for ever.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 6. D. 16, ’07. 1540w. (Review of v. 5.)
“It would, perhaps, have been better if [v. 8] had been rewritten for English readers.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 599. My. 9, ’08. 1600w. (Review of v. 6 and 8.)
“Generally, we may say of these eight volumes that they are full of original work—originality is one of their special merits—that his work is of a very high average of value, and that it has been skilfully put together and methodised by the editor.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 502. Mr. 28, ’08. 1350w. (Review of v. 1–8.)
=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Lighted lamp: a novel. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–27806.
A theosophical story in which a legacy and ill health combine to arouse a Boston spice clerk from the lethargy of a “drab” existence and to send him to Europe where he “suffers the sea change into something rich and strange.” Thru contact with the things of life, with women of flawless, first water type, one in particular who present or absent represents feminine force that has no beginning or ending, his spirit expands. When death cuts him off suddenly the theory is advanced that he had reached his earth limit—he had come to flower and required another incarnation for further development.
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“The reader of this book finds Baedeker daintily disguised by an embroidered cover of romance. The book will hardy prove as interesting to the traveller as to the student of the psychic.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 497. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“In spite of its refined charm ... the book is almost immoral, for it arouses in the reader distinctly criminal sentiments. Mr. Henderson has the ability to charm, a fund of delicate humor, and a background of deep culture; what he lacks is simply the knowledge of how to ‘let himself go.’”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Henderson, David, Lt.-Col.= Art of reconnaissance. *$1.50. Dutton.
War 7–139.
The author “does but remind (in a rather ponderous style) those who may have to undertake reconnaissance, or require it of others, what are the principles which go to make success. This is no mere textbook, though it has rules and examples; but it may best serve as a commentary (it is carefully indexed) for officers who are inclined to study the subject psychologically as well as tactically, and to give common sense its due. They will find here the notes of a thinker rather than the notions of a theorist.”—Ath.
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“It is not unfair to say of it, as of many military works, that it needs viva-voce exposition to make it really intelligible and useful.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 223. F. 22. 600w.
“It contains many valuable hints on one of the most difficult branches of the soldier’s art, and well repays the few hours’ study it demands.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 247. Ag. 9, ’07. 400w.
“The virtue of the book is its shining good sense. Col. Henderson’s style is notably good.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 263. S. 17, ’08. 170w.
=Henderson, George Cockburn.= Sir George Grey. *$4. Dutton.
8–14844.
Scholar, soldier, explorer, governor, Sir George Grey “was the autocrat of three important colonies for long terms and through critical periods, and shaped political and ecclesiastical constitutions, conducted protracted wars, moulded and reconciled aboriginal peoples, ruled without and with responsible ministers, conceived smaller and larger federations, and wound up an historic career by returning as a private citizen to a colony he had despotically ruled, sitting in the popular branch of its legislature.” (Nation.)
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“A valuable contribution to the history of the British empire. Mr. Henderson is to be commended for what he has left out no less than for the accuracy of his general conclusions.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 578. N. 9. 850w.
“The stern retrenchments and the administrative reconstructions by which Grey restored financial equilibrium to a bankrupt colony, and sent it forward on a career of stable prosperity have never before been so fully or clearly described.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 335. Ap. 9, ’08. 1350w.
“Professor Henderson has written the story of [Sir George Grey’s] interesting life with justice and with impartial judgment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 200. Ap. 11, ’08. 250w.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 270w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
=Putnam’s.= 4: 493. Jl. ’08. 160w.
“The importance of this study of his achievements, his failures, and his ideals consists in its lucid suggestion of the lines along which democracy and empire may march hand in hand.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w.
=Henderson, Mrs. May Sturge.= George Meredith, novelist, poet and reformer. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–37625.
A volume of “detailed and minutely introspective criticism” touching each of Mr. Meredith’s great works. From her analysis of his “Essay on comedy” she proceeds to the generalization that the main theme of Meredith’s novels as well as his poetry is the purification of rebellious and intemperate youth.
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“We cannot affirm that this study of Mr. Meredith appears to us wholly good, but it is very far indeed from being bad; it is never egregious.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 286. D. 28, ’07. 1850w.
“This book offers more in the way of the philosophy and general significance of Meredith, goes deeper, views more broadly than the faithful, intelligent, informing account of the ‘Novels of George Meredith’ by E. J. Bailey.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 186. Je. ’08.
“Her book ... affects one like the reading of conscientious journalism which is no longer new. The book has a useful index, which would make it really luminous if it could; but an index cannot do everything.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 227. F. 22. 220w.
“All that Mrs. Henderson has to say [is] interesting and her quotations both beautiful and appropriate.” Eunice Follansbee.
+ =Dial.= 44: 129. Mr. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Mrs. Henderson, undertaking a comprehensive consideration of Meredith’s works in chronological order, has given us the best general survey of them that we possess.” E: C. Marsh.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 385. Ja. ’08. 550w.
“It is thoroughly informed and cleverly executed.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 440w.
“This is one of the most serious of the many serious books which the Meredith worship of the last ten years has produced. If it errs at all, it errs in exaggerating Meredith’s own weakness of placing too much stress upon the philosophy and too little upon the humour as distinguished from the comedy of life.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: sup. 909. D. 7, ’07. 280w.
=Henry VIII., king of England.= Assertio septem sacramentorum; or, Defence of the seven sacraments; re-edited, with an introd. by Rev. Louis O’Donovan; with a preface by James Cardinal Gibbons. *$2. Benziger.
8–5572.
A reprint valuable to the Catholic church both for the orthodox exposition of the church’s crucial dogmas and for the light thrown upon a most interesting epoch of church history.
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“The abundance of references and the full bibliography which the editor gives us indicate that the book is the fruit of intelligent and extensive study.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 258. My. ’08. 550w.
=Henry, George Garr.= How to invest money. **75c. Funk.
8–14682.
Presents the simple principles of investment and aims “to afford the reader a working knowledge of the various classes of securities which are available as investments, and their adaptability to different needs.” (Preface.) The chapter headings are as follows: General principles of investment, Railroad mortgage bonds, Railroad equipment bonds, Real estate mortgages, Industrial bonds, Public-utility bonds, Municipal bonds, Stocks, and Market movements of securities.
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=Lit. D.= 37: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 70w.
* =Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Gentle grafter. †$1. McClure.
Fourteen stories which exploit Jeff Peters’s methods of “unillegal graft.” He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans, he is simply a “reducer of surplusage.” He is not so cock sure in his gentle art that he is never a victim of his own methods. The last story. The ethics of pig, shows how an untrustworthy partner plays a clever counter game and wins.
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“O. Henry possesses, in fact, the genius for conveying in a few strokes, and by the aid of accessories which often seem least concerned with the thing he is achieving, the essence, the living spirit of a place or a type.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 685. N. 21, ’08. 1000w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Voice of the city: further stories of the four million. †$1. McClure.
Twenty-five “cameos” of metropolitan life make up this book, the third “Four million” book. The stories are short, clear cut, and leave distinct impressions first of individuals, second of types.
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“Some of the twenty-five short stories collected in the present volume are in his best vein.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 130w.
“Admirers may call ‘O. Henry’ the American Maupassant, but so long as he continues to hang so far over the abyss of slang they should put the accent on American.”
− =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 470w.
“The spirit of the huge town is in each.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“The book reflects life; it is worth reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 240w.
“These are slighter and more ephemeral than ‘The four million.’”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 532. Jl. 4, ’08. 70w.
* =Henry= of Navarre: a romance of August, 1572. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–30614.
A dramatic story of verve and daring whose scene is laid in Paris during the memorable month of August, 1572, on the eve of the marriage of Marguerite de Valois to Henry of Navarre. The horrors of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the venom and intrigue that lay back of the arch-plotting, and the faithfulness and love of a woman are elements in this vivid, concrete portrayal of facts out of history.
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“The story is full of exciting incident, and the action ... moves rapidly and dramatically to the climax.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Henshall, James A.= Favorite fish and fishing. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–14724.
An ardent angler and nature lover treats of the gentle art of fishing in the following chapters: The black bass, the game-fish of the people; The grayling, the flower of fishes; The trout, the angler’s pride; His majesty, the silver king (tarpon); Florida fish and fishing.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4. 186. Je. ’08. ✠
“Lovers of the gentle art will find much that will interest them and little to criticise in Dr. Henshall’s readable little volume.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 608. Ag. ’08. 780w.
“The work is an authentic natural history within its limits, as well as a guide to the genuine follower of Walton.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 200w.
“In this new book Dr. Henshall has given not only information valuable to the angler, but also it is interesting reading.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1292. Je. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 86: 582. Je. 25, ’08. 230w.
“Dr. Henshall is a learned and pleasing writer, and his book has attractions for a multitude of his kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 330. Je. 13, ’08. 400w.
=Herkomer, Sir Hubert von.= My school and my gospel. *$7.50. Doubleday.
E8–821.
A discussion that has grown out of twenty-one years’ experiment in art education at Bushey. “The story of the rise and progress of an institution from which so much that is good has come is told by Sir Hubert in this book with charming frankness and simplicity. He makes no secret of his purpose or of the methods by which he sought to realize it; and he explains fully both the creed which guided him as a teacher, and the system he used to make his creed intelligible to the student who passed through his hands.” (Int. Studio.)
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“The story is told in a clear, rapid style, enlivened by frequent touches of humor, and, with all its fine and high idealism. He has certainly proved his ability to write an autobiographic narrative not less interesting in its way than Cellini’s.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 109. S. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“It ranks really as a very important contribution to the literature available for the information of both masters and students.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 35: 166. Ag. ’08. 570w.
“It is rather discursive, and it takes careful reading to make sure just what the ‘gospel’ of Bushey was.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 243. S. 10, ’08. 1500w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Master of the inn. **50c. Scribner.
8–14332.
“The central figure of this little story is one of those teachers who appear from time to time among men, whose function is not only to open the eyes but to gladden the heart and to restore the soul. This teacher has about him a little company of men who go to him for regeneration among the mountains of northern New England. Sooner or later every man tells him his secret, and with the telling the poison goes out of his life. There comes finally an overworked surgeon of great eminence who long resists the impulse to confess, but finally opens his heart and reveals the one secret which tortures him, only to find that the wronged man is before him, and to receive not only absolution but health from his hands.”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“A spirit of sweet wholesomeness pervades the little book, and many will wish to read it a second time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 120w.
“This is a beautifully conceived piece of work, wrought out with the care which Mr. Herrick never fails to give his stories.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 84. My. 9, ’08. 200w.
“It is a chapter in American idealism, and it is also an admirable example of the best contemporary American writing.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Together. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–20019.
A strong story “of married lives as lived in America.” Here the veil is withdrawn which usually conceals the struggles of man and wife from the moment they leave the altar. Here are the Lanes, the Falkners, the Johnstons, the Woodyards, and other wedded people working out the problems common to married life. What marriage means to the husband and what his nature demands from his wife: what it means to the wife with her ambition to keep her individuality, to wield social power, to court favor; with her disposition to spend a little more than the five, ten, or twenty thousand dollar income; with her yearning for sentiment, supplied, perchance, by one who has no right to bestow it—these are the themes of Mr. Herricks’ story with its note of partnership triumphant.
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“A realistic, problem novel, forcibly told, and of literary merit. It should be considered only for the library which has a restricted shelf.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“It is a powerful and compelling novel of real life, and at the same time it is one of the most masterful studies of the marriage relation as it obtains in the society of the new-rich in America that has appeared in fiction.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 376. O. ’08. 2900w.
“The threads binding these numerous interests are altogether insufficient, and the crowding of the canvas is wearying as well as inartistic. A few really dramatic scenes tend to relieve the tedium of a story in which every supernumerary has to have its say.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 469. O. 17. 150w.
“The peculiar conditions of American married life, are treated with something of the frankness, the breadth, the sweeping generality of Tolstoi’s ‘Krutzer sonata’ and Zola’s ‘Fécondite.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 580. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“It lacks the virtue of reticence where that virtue is most needed.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 213. O. 1, ’08. 1000w.
“A book of first magnitude, that handles a momentous theme boldly, wisely, sympathetically, and with an insight into racial traits that makes it in the best sense a representative American novel.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 134. Ag. ’08. 1950w.
“Robert Herricks’ novel, large in its intention and painstaking in its working out as it is, fails in reality, in humor, in wisdom.”
− =Ind.= 65: 263. Je. 30, ’08. 430w.
“The novelist has apparently overlooked the fact that in America are still to be found numberless men and women old-fashioned enough to believe in married happiness and helpfulness.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Professor Herrick has done nothing so good as this, nothing so full of energy and truth.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 96. Jl. 30, ’08. 340w.
“A story that is unraveled with rare cleverness and that holds the reader’s attention, in spite of its intricacies and the too transparently ethical intention of the author.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 397. Jl. 18, ’08. 1250w.
“With all its defects, however, the novel is serious, earnest, and thoughtful.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 320w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 250w.
=Hewitt, Mrs. Emma Churchman.= How to train children. **50c. Jacobs.
8–21931.
A condensed account of actual experiences of actual mothers. Suggestions and advice are offered under such headings as Nursery days, Physical and moral defects, Punishment, Preventive measures, General deportment, Pride of possession, Work and play, As to schools, Our future mothers and fathers and The adolescent.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Halfway house. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–19024.
“A story of the present day—and Meredithian to the core.... A girl, married to a gentleman twice her age, finds her nascent love stifled by his egoistic condescension. He is of a great and old family; she, a child of the ‘lower classes,’ a nursery governess when he meets her, has had her girl’s affairs of love or what has passed for it. Believing her an innocent fool, he learns his mistake before the marriage, but goes on stoically, keeping his secret.”—Bookm.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“With all its brilliant intellectual cleverness, this book does not show the writer at his best.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 536. O. 31. 250w.
“I think John Germain is, all in all, the most finely delineated of Mr. Hewlett’s male characters; and he just misses taking the leading place in this story from its heroine. It is the girl’s character that gives the book its originality.” E: C. Marsh.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 602. Ag. ’08. 860w.
“It has all the seeming simplicity of the finest literary art, but its wit, its grace, and its subtle sentiment are qualities that make of it a far more serious book than it pretends to be.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 215. O. 1, ’08. 600w.
“That Mary seems so real a girl and causes us to speculate on her motives, or nature rather, for she scarcely has motives, only sentimental impulses, is a triumph for Mr. Hewlett’s heroine.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 555. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“No doubt, there is comedy somewhere at the core of it. But it is, after all, the inadvertent comedy of circumstance and accident, as things fall out, ludicrous enough, but without any very intelligible motive.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 212. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
“Such value, as the story possesses comes rather more from the manner in which it is told than from the story itself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 365. Je. 27, ’08. 1600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The art of the book is fine and delicate, but it is also simple and true; and the spirit is that of pure romance applied to the conditions of modern English life.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Hewlett’s own careful and distinctive style makes the story his despite the unfamiliar milieu.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 120w.
“One hopes that ‘Halfway house’ will have many readers, as much out of regard for them as for Mr. Hewlett, but one hopes that they will not be numerous enough to confirm him in a method more conspicuous in this last book of his than even in ‘The stooping lady.’”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 487. O. 17, ’08. 720w.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Spanish jade. il. **90c. Doubleday.
8–15299.
Manuela, the “Spanish jade,” “who has escaped from the brutality of her lover, is rescued from the grosser brutality of a rustic mob by the Englishman errant. The lover pursues, and is killed by the jade lest he kill the Briton. The casual pair are linked romantically by the incident, and meet thereafter under the shadow of a Spanish vengeance which is eventually stayed, not by the magnanimity of the Englishman, but by the chivalry of a humble Spanish follower of his.”—Nation.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠
“Brilliant study.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 633. My. 23. 250w.
“The ‘Spanish jade’ may not represent Mr. Hewlett at his best as a story teller, but as proving him a master of technique it is of extreme interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 500. Jl. ’08. 530w.
=Ind.= 65: 555. S. 3, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Hewlett’s mannerism is less insistent here than in most of his fiction, perhaps because the substance of the work is less pretentious.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 468. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“It is a gallant, romantic story, well worth the telling in any form. But it is precisely the sort of story that Hewlett tells the best. Mr. Hewlett’s style is still a little perverse, and a little deliberate in its perversity. To some extent he is the victim of his own rhetorical agility.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 285. My. 23, ’08. 1100w.
“The book is remarkable for its imaginative power and the sheer beauty of its narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
=Outlook.= 89: 325. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“Those who want the real thing in romantic fiction will find it in the ‘Spanish jade.’” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 621. Ag. ’08. 150w.
“The book is a slight romantic sketch, but eminently good of its kind.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 64. Jl. 11, ’08. 100w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Egypt and its monuments. **$6. Century.
8–30606.
The Nile journey is here described by Robert Hichens and pictured in reproduced wash drawings and photographs by Jules Guérin. Mr. Hichens makes poetry out of the wonders of the valley, arouses the “yearning hunger of the heart and the imagination,” recalls the shifting spells cast by sepulchre, temple and mosque; and lends to the narrative the atmosphere of the “mystery of gold, of the mystery of heat and the mystery of silence that seems softly showered out of the sun.”
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“It is the fascination of the country, and not its hotels and routes of travel, that the author has dwelt upon, and not a few of the thousands who now every year visit Egypt, will find pleasure and stimulus in his pages.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 250w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 80w.
“Aside from its rare literary and artistic value the book will prove to be an excellent help to the antiquarian or the traveler in Egypt.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 190w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
“A model of literary charm and artistic excellence that places this volume in the front rank of the season’s notable publications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“We do not recall any American book that equals it in the good taste and sumptuousness of its appearance and the beauty and delicacy of its color printing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 773. D. 12, ’08. 600w.
“It would perhaps be impossible to find two other persons as competent to prepare a fascinating, artistic study of Egypt which should be at the same time a literary tribute and guidebook of the highest order as Robert Hichens and Jules Guérin.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 140w.
“As vivid a picturing of ‘Egypt and its monuments’ as we remember to have seen.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 140w.
=Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Spirit in prison. †$1.75. Harper.
8–25367.
A small island in the Bay of Naples is the scene of this story, the counterpart of whose emotional lights and shadows is found in the sunset, the moonlight, the blue waters, the glimmering lights and the sounds of melody which invariably create atmosphere for Mr. Hichens’ stories. Maurice Delarey betrays his wife for a young peasant girl and dies leaving his wife in ignorance of his sin. The serious business of the story turns on the withholding of the secret from the wife for sixteen years; while a continuation of the mystery touches the lives of Vere, the daughter, and Ruffino, the unrevealed brother, who are drawn to one another without ever knowing the secret of the boy’s birth.
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“There is a very pretty play of varied emotions, together with limitless hints of ‘fine shades and nice feelings,’ while the abounding descriptive passages are often of a rare beauty.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 160w.
“Deserves to be proclaimed as that rare achievement, a sequel that surpasses its antecedent in merit and in interest.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 262. N. ’08. 620w.
“He has written one of the most sensuously suggestive novels of the season.”
− =Ind.= 65: 947. O. 22, ’08. 730w.
“Admirers of Mr. Hichens’s ‘The call of the blood’ will find a satisfactory sequel in the present story. If the former tale was found too harrowing, this will afford a compensatory thrill. That habit of portentous moralizing over the moods of insignificant egoism which we have noted as characteristic of Mr. Hichens in the past is still his darling vice.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 340. O. 8, ’08. 300w.
“Told in an ordinary way, ‘A spirit in prison’ would seem utterly common-place. The mere materials are conventional. But the opulence of color, the mastery of words are indisputable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 1100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 743. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“Would probably be extremely difficult and puzzling reading to any one who did not remember the earlier book.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 636. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
* =Higgins, Aileen Cleveland.= Dream blocks. $1.50. Duffield.
8–30917.
A book of child verse with fifteen charming full-page illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith.
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“The spirit of this little book is better than the execution of its verse.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The fourteen pictures are of a high artistic merit. The infantile pathos and humor, the prophetic element in form and feature of the figures, will cause adults to ponder over the philosophy of child play.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
* =Higginson, Ella.= Alaska: the great country. **$2.25. Macmillan.
8–33137.
Not so much a guide-book or a history as an unconventional and picturesque description of the towns, people, resources, scenery and commercial possibilities of a country of “real splendor, marvellous beauty and poetic and haunting charm.” A book for every Alaskan tourist to read from cover to cover.
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“A picturesque and unconventional description of the country and the life of its people, neither a guide book nor a history, and yet suitable for the traveler to read and carry with him on his trip.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“A sober, carefully prepared work. A plea for the attractions of the land of gold and snow as a place of residence was hardly to be expected from a woman, but in this instance the territory has been fortunate in its advocate.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=Higinbotham, John U.= Three weeks in Holland and Belgium. $1.50. Reilly & B.
8–11792.
Mr. Higinbotham’s swift panorama of Holland and Belgium sights might become a blur to the leisurely tourist who finds it necessary to adjust his mental lens to every fresh view and impression. But to the reader who likes motion and who can “keep up” the author’s impressionism and confidence are not wearing. In description, historical allusion, comment on art, and theological opinions, the author’s mental alertness is commensurate with his tireless activity.
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“Mr. Higinbotham’s observations are so acute and well-balanced that we should like to have fuller records of his journeys.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 348. Je. 1, ’08. 280w.
“This little holiday book should not be taken too seriously, and while Baedeker gives all and more of the necessary information than this summer tourist of three weeks, he does not impart the childlike freshness of discovery that finds joy in observing the Hollander’s unfailing courtesy, and that elegance of service can be obtained for grotesquely moderate tips.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 500w.
“A farrago of disjointed bits of guide book and pointless jests.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 748. S. ’08. 340w.
=Hildebrandt, Alfred.= Airships past and present; together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon; tr. by W. H. Story. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
8–13633.
A sketch of the past and present state of the art of ballooning and its application to scientific ends including the first trustworthy information to be disseminated on the subjects of balloon photography and the use of the carrier pigeon. The book is fully illustrated.
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“The avoidance of technical discussions makes the book easy and pleasant reading for anyone who is interested in the subject.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 653. Je. ’08. 150w.
“In an interesting and instructive volume of considerable size, the author has fully discussed nearly all subjects, at all closely related to aeronautics, so far as they have been susceptible to popular treatment. To the translator belongs no little credit for the smoothness of the English diction.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 545. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
“This work is both timely and authoritative.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 871. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“While the author disclaims all intention of writing a technical text, we feel that the reader may find instruction as well as amusement in these pages.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 655. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“We note a few errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 539. Je. 11, ’08. 300w.
“Some portions of the work are scarcely satisfactory, even from the popular standpoint, the chapter devoted to flying machines, for example, being a collection of scraps of information strung together without any definite scheme.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 562. Ap. 16, ’08. 1000w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 80w.
“A clear and readable account.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 120w.
“There have been hitherto few satisfactory books in English upon aerial navigation. We now have, however, a book by a thorough expert.” O. Chanute.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 20. Jl. 3, ’08. 660w.
=Spec.= 100: 384. Mr. 7, ’08. 270w.
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Decisive battles of the law. **$2.25. Harper.
7–33964.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 695. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“This is an interesting book which does not justify its title.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 40w.
“It is possible to read his book with the comfortable feeling that one is in safe hands, and that the spirited accounts here given of these vexed questions may be enjoyed without fear of being led into false historical paths.” Ward Clark.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 519. Ja. ’08. 1200w.
“The author writes with acute legal knowledge and abundant information derived from painstaking research: and to these he adds a gift for pictorial narrative which suggests a first-rate reporter present at the events he describes.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 19. Ja. 1, ’08. 320w.
“It is this romantic quality that Mr. Hill has seized, and he tells the stories vigorously.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 102. Jl. 9, ’08. 200w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Hill has always shown judicial impartiality, but what partisan bias has crept in may be attributed to the fact that he is more of an advocate than an historian.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 320w.
* =Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Story of a street. **$1.60. Harper.
The story of Wall street from March, 1644, when Governor William Kieft marked its direction by means of a clumsy cattle-guard of felled brushwood, to its present-day development as a “canon of exchange.” Wall street of Stuyvesant’s time, of revolutionary days; Wall street “the haunt of fashion, the heart of business, the school of statesmen, the firing-line of commerce, the battle ground of politics and of money—the scene of financial masterstrokes and speculative orgies ... the law of the money-spiders ... is no mere street or thoroughfare.”
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“Mr. Hill has performed a real service with his book. It is in some respects a sort of liberal education.” I: F. Marcosson.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 359. D. ’08. 1500w.
“Altogether it is a fascinating tale, cleverly told.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 761. D. ’08. 80w.
=Hill, George Chatterton-.= Heredity and selection in sociology. *$4.50. Macmillan.
7–42082.
“Chatterton-Hill’s book consists of three parts. Part 1 is an intelligent summary of the biological doctrine of heredity and germinal selection from the point of view of Weismann.... Part 2 is devoted to social pathology. Suicide, insanity, and syphilis are each in turn discussed as social factors.... Part 3 is devoted to the actual conditions of social selection.”—Nation.
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“Having no first-hand information, the author could justify himself in the publication of such a work only by logical and constructive manipulation of his materials, and he has not done this.” W: I. Thomas.
− + =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 413. N. ’08. 180w.
“For the general idea of the author there is much to be said. His present exposition is not satisfactory and should not be final.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 269. Ja. ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Chatterton-Hill’s science, good so far as it goes, belongs to the last decade of the nineteenth century rather than to the first decade of this.” E. T. Brewster.
− + =Atlan.= 102: 122. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“The general verdict on the volume must be adverse. Under competent tutelage, he has given a good résumé of the dominant biological theory of heredity. Left to himself, he has devised an inconclusive and inadequate analysis of social pathology, and has supplemented it with a rambling, unoriginal, and often self-contradictory disquisition on social programmes and social needs.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 176. F. 20, ’08. 680w.
“From beginning to end this is a very interesting book. It is the result of much thought on great subjects, and it is written in clear and forcible style. However much we may disagree with some of Mr. Chatterton-Hill’s conclusions the book is a book to be read.” F. W. H.
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 586. O. 10, ’07. 600w.
“We find ourselves in direct issue with Mr. Chatterton-Hill with respect to many of the results deduced by him from the facts of current social life.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 580. Ap. 11, ’08. 550w.
=Hilprecht, Hermann Vollrat.= So-called Peters-Hilprecht controversy. *75c. Holman.
A full statement of the Hilprecht case. The first part gives the proceedings of the committee appointed by the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to act as a court of inquiry: the second furnishes supplemental documents, evidence, and statements.
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=Nation.= 86: 425. My. 7, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 128. Jl. ’08. 80w.
=Hinchman, Walter Swain, and Gummere, Francis Barton.= Lives of great English writers from Chaucer to Browning. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–11791.
“The book, which is well-indexed and provided with a select bibliography, consists of thirty-four biographical essays on representative writers from Chaucer to Browning. The various periods of literary history are connected by short links suggesting the character of the transitions.” (Nation.) “Pupils in secondary schools, as well as their elders, will find the book agreeable reading and useful for reference.” (Educ. R.)
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“This work is recommended because of its usefulness in small libraries, supplementing the brief biographical dictionary and cyclopedia articles. The material presented is not only well chosen, authoritative and adequate, but interestingly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 260. N. ’08. ✠
“It is difficult to account for some of the omissions, but the work as we have it is well done.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 121. S. 1, ’08. 80w.
“The treatment is judicious and satisfactory.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 316. O. ’08. 70w.
“Ten biographies ... are not uninteresting in themselves and are well adapted to the kind of readers for whom they are intended. The final chronology and bibliography too are useful in their way. But it is doubtful, after all, whether such a book is likely to supply the literary stimulus which its authors expect from it.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 310. Ag. 6, ’08. 230w.
“In general, the criticism is sound, conservative, and illuminating, and the book should do good service.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 210. S. 3, ’08. 350w.
=Hinckley, Henry Barrett.= Notes on Chaucer: a commentary on the Prolog and six Canterbury tales. $3. Nonotuck press, Northampton, Mass.
8–6086.
“Consists of a commentary on the Prologue to the “Canterbury tales,” and six of the tales, viz.; the knight’s, the nun’s priest’s, the pardoner’s, the clerk’s, the squire’s, and the franklin’s. In fullness and learning the only previous Chaucer commentary comparable with it is that which accompanies Prof. W. W. Skeat’s standard edition of the poet’s work.”—Nation.
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“All that is of value in the book could have been condensed into a short paper for the Modern language association.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 239. Ag. 29. 260w.
“The author often annotates passages which Skeat has passed by, and so his work, apart from its own merits, supplements that of his predecessor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 533. Je. 11, ’08. 280w.
=Hind, A. M.= Short history of engraving and etching, for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers. **$5. Houghton.
A descriptive survey of the history of engraving on metal thruout the various centuries and schools, with a generous account of the work of important engravers, and only enough mention of names of lesser note to keep straight the threads of development and to insure a well-balanced estimate of artistic values. The work closes with a chapter on modern etchers and engravers of different countries. The full appendices give a classified list of engravers, 47 p.; a general bibliography, 20 p.; and an index of engravers and individual bibliography, 60 p.
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“Accurate scholarship and painstaking workmanship are manifest throughout.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 408. D. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1186. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“It necessarily devotes most of its attention to European practitioners of the art of engraving, with the exception, of course, of etching. Yet a work designed to circulate in this country and furnish information to English readers ought to keep its perspectives right.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 811. N. 28, ’08. 450w.
“The book certainly shows admirable condensation.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 640. N. ’08. 70w.
=Hind, Charles Lewis.= Diary of a looker-on. **$2. Lane.
8–30031.
“Impressions of the hour utilized as occasions arise in the columns of journals and periodicals. This is the author’s description of these little essays of criticism of paintings and books, sojournings in continental cities and places, or in English country places or London.” (Sat. R.) “The author explains that ... these contributions [made to various journals] were papers transferred from his diaries, and that the collections appear here divided into months, according to the dates of the original writing.” (Spec.)
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“It is a gentleman-like and desirable form of professional activity, but as devoid of ‘personality’ as any other kind of journalism—for example, the market quotations.” F. M. Colby.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 567. Ag. ’08. 340w.
Reviewed by P. F. Bicknell.
=Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 380w.
“These papers contain something of the intimacy and grace which characterize Stevenson’s essays. The book has a distinct literary flavor, and to read it is as good as a vacation. It is to be hoped that in succeeding editions the numerous typographical errors which mar the present issue will be corrected.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 415. Jl. 25, ’08. 320w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 732. Je. 6, ’08. 220w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Hinds, William Alfred.= American communities and co-operative colonies. 2d revision. $1.50. Kerr.
8–3496.
Thoroly revised and brought down to 1907. “It includes all the well-known experiments, such as the Shaker colonies, Owen’s communities, Brook farm, and the various Fourieristic phalanxes, Cabet’s Icaria and the Oneida community, in addition to a multitude of less known settlements, to say nothing of such contemporary organizations as the Theosophist colony at Point Loma, the Single tax society at Fairhope, Alabama, the Ruskin commonwealth, Upton Sinclair’s Helicon home colony and the Straight Edge.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“He has succeeded in giving us a valuable book of reference abounding in facts but very popular in character.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 126. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Not the least valuable feature of Mr. Hinds’ book is the bibliography at the end of each chapter.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 445. S. ’08. 340w.
=Hird, Frank.= Victoria, the woman. **$2.50. Appleton.
8–12577.
The author says that his purpose has been to place before readers in America some impressions of the influences that affected her early environment, some suggestions of the circumstances that affected her later years. He portrays the Queen as a daughter, a wife, a woman, a mother, a friend and a sovereign, using the Queen’s own words as recorded in letters and diaries. He lends to the whole a background of current history and politics.
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“Readable, interesting, more available for popular use than the ‘Letters.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 237. O. ’08.
“A serviceable and readable book has been produced, and for those who do not and cannot own the voluminous and expensive ‘Letters’ this volume, with its copious extracts from those letters and from the diaries, should serve as a welcome substitute.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
“There is a distinct place for Mr. Hird’s little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 44. Jl. 2, ’08. 260w.
“His work is surprisingly judicial in its tone.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 247. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
“One of the most interesting things in Mr. Hird’s book is to be found in the notices, always judiciously expressed, of the part which the Queen took in politics, foreign and domestic.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 412. S. 19, ’08. 420w.
=Hirth, Friedrich.= Ancient history of China to the end of the Chóu dynasty. *$2.50. Macmillan.
8–3434.
A work which provides a text for students and a book of reference for general readers. It begins with a chapter on the mythological and legendary period and comes down to the third century B. C. While not a purely philological work it follows the linguistic and cultural development of the Chinese people. An appendix of chronological tables gives the dates of the princes of the various states.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 675. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“A much needed work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 187. Je. ’08. ✠
“Owing probably to limitations of space Dr. Hirth has failed to indicate fully the factors which were potent in the earlier development of the Chinese empire, but he has furnished a scholarly and convenient handbook for this period of the history, in more detail than can elsewhere be had in English in an ordered form.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1450. Je. 25, ’08. 120w.
“It does not add largely to our information, but it is a convenient manual for those who desire to gain a knowledge of the uneventful story of China’s existence as a nation.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 138. Ag. 13, ’08. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 130. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 150w.
“A very scholarly study.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 70w.
=Hobart, Henry Metcalf, and Ellis, Alexander George.= High speed dynamo electric machinery. *$6. Wiley.
8–20034.
Deals with the description of designs and construction which comprise “not only the standard methods by which the special conditions imposed by high speed are being met, but also various recent propositions which have not yet withstood the test of time.” “The authors have arranged their material in two main divisions, dealing with the two distinct types of turbo-generator.” (Engin. N.)
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“The work is a high-class treatise and one that should be in the hands of every designer and engineering instructor.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 304. S. ’08. 430w.
“The book will appeal chiefly to those interested, directly or indirectly, in the design of electric generators.” H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 318. S. 17, ’08. 1100w.
=Hobbs, William Herbert.= Earthquakes; an introduction to seismic geology. **$2. Appleton.
7–39003.
A volume devoted to what field geologists have accomplished by making use of the record of the motion of the earth’s disturbances acquired thru perfected seismological experiments. “What has been learned by both of these classes of students, and what are the best supported theories, are made plain in this volume with abundant illustration through diagram and photograph, and with admirable system and arrangement of material.” (Outlook.)
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+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 42. F. ’08.
“Of special value at the present time, not only to students, but also to the general reader who wishes to keep informed in regard to recent scientific advance.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 731. Je. ’08. 280w.
“No intelligent layman can look at this book without being interested, or can read it without substantial gain in knowledge.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 110. F. 16, ’08. 250w.
“It takes rank with the best of the general books on seismology.” R. S. Tarr.
+ =J. Geol.= 16: 477. Jl. ’08. 1550w.
“On the whole the book is a modern and readable presentation of a theme possessing more than ordinary interest.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 494. My. 28, ’08. 400w.
“As an introduction to seismology, or even to seismic geology, it is the most misleading that we know, but for the reader who comes to it with sufficient previous knowledge it contains suggestive passages, and as we perused the book we were haunted by the consciousness that its author was capable of better work; we searched for the word which would describe its character until a marginal heading, in block type, supplied the want in ‘crudeness.’”
− + =Nature.= 77: 481. Mr. 26, ’08. 700w.
“The reader may have full confidence that he is in possession of seismology up to date.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 360w.
“Gives us in his new volume what we believe to be by far the most thorough study of the subject, which is couched in fairly untechnical language, and may be read with a clear understanding by any thoughtful layman.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 41. Ja. 4, ’08. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 119. Ja. ’08. 130w.
=Spec.= 101: 200. Ag. 8, ’08. 60w.
=Höcker, Gustav.= Arnold of Winkelried: the hero of Sempach; tr. from the German of Gustav Höcker. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23292.
A story of the famous Swiss hero which tells us about Knight Schrutan and the Pilatus, the battle of Morgarten, the mystery play at Engelberg, the black death, the robber knights, the tournament at Little Basle, the storming of a Lithuanian castle, and Winkelried’s heroic death.
=Hodges, Rev. George.= When the King came: stories from the four gospels. *$1.25. Houghton.
Stories founded upon the record of the life of Jesus as presented in the gospels. The well-known Bible facts are embellished with numberless details of setting, back of which lies the author’s careful study of the times and their customs.
=Hodgetts, Edward A. B.= Court of Russia in the 19th century. 2v. *$6. Scribner.
8–20526.
A popular rather than a scholarly account of the Russian emperors and court of the last century. The history begins with Alexander I, and concludes with a sketch of Nicholas II and a summary of political conditions in Russia, in which “he acquiesces in the arguments of those who oppose the abolishment of bureaucracy on the ground that the population of the country is too sparse and the rural classes too backward to make a system of local government and elected officials practicable.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Almost every anecdote and every judgment is to be found elsewhere, but the compilation is excellent, and the book one that may be warmly recommended to the general reader. There are a good many small slips, hardly worth mention.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 900w.
“The disadvantage chiefly to be noted in the lack of precision characterizing the author’s method is a tendency to repetition. The diffuse and incidental style of the writing and the extraordinary lapses in English in Mr. Hodgetts’s book conceal genuine virtues.” E. L. Cary.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 379. Jl. 4, ’08. 2000w.
“While containing a good deal of sound and interesting information, it loses much of its value by an exuberance of trifles and an awkward arrangement.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 236. Ag. 15, ’08. 670w.
=Hoernle, Augustus Rudolf F.= Studies in the medicine of ancient India. *$2.60. Oxford.
Written for the purpose of supplying to students of medicine a knowledge of how the subject was taught and practised in ancient India. “Prof. Hoernle begins in the present volume with osteology, or bones of the human body as they were known to the Indians in the sixth century before Christ.” (Ath.)
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“Professor Hoernle has executed his task with the utmost fidelity.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 772. D. 14. 550w.
“As part of a general history of the subject this book is of prime importance.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 100w.
“Altogether Dr. Hoernle, although not a medical man himself, has laid medical men under a deep obligation to him by rendering so easily accessible the knowledge and practice of physicians who tended the sick in northern India some centuries before Christ was born.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 533. Ap. 9, ’08. 450w.
=Hoffman, Frank Sargent.= Sphere of religion: a consideration of its nature and of its influence upon the progress of civilization. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–5160.
A book written for the purpose of interesting young men and women, especially in our colleges, in the study of religion. The author sketches the development of religion from the forms existing among savages to the high spiritual conceptions of to-day. He discusses the various books of religion from the sacred tablets of the Babylonians to Madam Blavatsky’s “Isis unveiled.” Following this are chapters on the relation of the fine arts to religion, religion the key to history, its relations to education, the church and the right of property, the church and the modern state, the scientific method in theology, human immortality and religion, and the present-day conception of God.
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“Its merit lies in its attempt to give an inclusive, bird’s-eye view of a large field. It has the defects of its qualities,—and also some others, the most unfortunate of which is a careless and inexact use of the word ‘religion.’”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 679. O. ’08. 200w.
“It is an exceedingly well written book, which should be in the hands of every thoughtful young man and woman.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 187. Je. ’08.
“Crystal clear is the whole of this eminently sane and practical discussion. Even ‘the man in the street’ will want to finish the book. A landmark in the history of religious thought.” W: E. Griffis.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 377. Je. 16, ’08. 700w.
“Professor Hoffman is an able student and a clear writer, of open mind and fearless pen, but the question may be raised whether it is quite fair to intending purchasers and to libraries to give to such a miscellaneous collection of essays a title which implies a thorogoing and scientific examination of the problems of the philosophy of religion.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 212. Jl. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Professor Hoffman’s spirit is tolerant and progressive, but he covers such a variety of topics and so broad a field that issue may frequently be taken with him, in point both of fact and of opinion.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 445. My. 14, ’08. 170w.
“Prof. Hoffman gives the impression of having tried to cover too broad a field, and the consequence is that his treatment is not thorough.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 736. D. 5, ’08. 250w.
“A well-wrought and desirable addition to the copious modern literature upon its subject. It is wide in its range, imbued with the modern spirit, and insistent on the old and tested truths.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 564. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
=Hofmann, Josef.= Piano playing: a little book of simple suggestions. **75c. McClure.
Aims to present a general view of artistic piano-playing and to offer to young students the results of the author’s observations made during his years of study and public activity. The chapters are the following: The piano and its player; General rules; Correct touch and technic; The use of the pedal; Playing “in style”; How Rubenstein taught me to play.
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“His book contains many hints that throw light on the psychic, imaginative side of playing.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 531. N. 26, ’08. 480w.
“This book is both stimulating and suggestive. It is, indeed, the utterance of a great artist who looks upon his art with the broadest view, and there are few who will not gain profit and some new idea from reading it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 687. N. 21, ’08. 530w.
=Holder, Charles Frederick.= Big game at sea. il. *$2. Outing.
8–9755.
A fascinating, informing book by a sea sportsman who, while following the legitimate lines of deep-sea fishing, now and then is rewarded by a phenomenal haul. He discusses the game monsters of the deep, the equipment necessary for catching them, the qualifications required of the fisher sportsman, and lends to the whole the vigor of the sea and the ecstacy of success.
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“Fascinating stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 124. Ag. 1. 270w.
“Not one of the chapters lacks its own peculiar interest.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 44: 342. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The book will appeal to any one who has a spark of physical enthusiasm.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1298. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“This work is as interesting as the great romance of Victor Hugo’s ‘Travailleurs de la mer,’ and much more realistic.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 766. My. 23, ’08. 250w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 581. Je. 25, ’08. 840w.
“A remarkable book, and should take a high place among the literature of this and kindred subjects.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 277. My. 16, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 338. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“Nothing has appeared containing such detailed, vivid, and lengthy descriptions of the sport now to be enjoyed as this latest work of Mr. Holder. Like many books which are composed of collected magazine articles, the volume contains much repetition, and suffers from want of arrangement. There is, indeed, no index at all, and no order to be discovered.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 333. S. 5, ’08. 630w.
=Hole, Samuel Reynolds.= Letters of Samuel Reynolds Hole, dean of Rochester; ed. with a memoir, by G: A. B. Dewar. *$3. Macmillan.
8–256.
“The collection embraces about two hundred letters, covering nearly the whole period of the Dean’s busy life. They are addressed to all sorts and conditions of men from Archbishop Benson to the Dean’s life-long friend, Joe Birley, who used to be the shepherd’s lad during the ‘old Squire’s’ day at Hole’s ancestral home of Caunton manor, and they give the reader some dim idea of the catholicity of the Dean’s tastes and the width of his influence.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Admirers of the late Dean of Rochester can hardly resist some slight feeling of disappointment at his volume. Mr. Dewar’s introductory chapter is, in many respects, excellent. But it is in no sense of the word a ‘memoir’ and the reader anxious for biographical details is referred to an unilluminating chronological list. Of the letters themselves it is, happily, possible to speak with less reserve.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 273. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“Mr. Dewar has shown both skill and discernment in his brief sketch of Dean Hole. It conveys a good idea of a personality which was singularly attractive.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 472. O. 19. 1750w.
“In choosing the letters for publication, the editor has shown wisdom in picking with a sparing hand and also in not including letters merely because they were written to persons of distinction.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 11. Ja. 1, ’08. 1750w.
“So lacking any thread to knit it together, and so largely made up of scraps—that any sustained interest in it is almost impossible.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 437. Ag. 20, ’08. 100w.
“Partly through the fault of the editor, partly through the scantiness of his material, this book seems likely to cause more disappointment than satisfaction.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 307. O. 11, ’07. 780w.
“Taken separately, they are delightful letters, written in the Dean’s characteristic style and breezy manner. But in these busy times few people are willing to sit down and read 250 pages of notes written, in no matter how pleasant a style, to familiar (and often obscure) friends on ordinary topics of no special interest to outsiders.” J. G. Whiteley.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 3. Ja. 4, ’08. 1100w.
“Witty Dean Hole as he was in life is again witty Dean Hole in the collection of letters.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 875. D. 21, ’07. 290w.
“Mr. Dewar does the subject of his ‘memoir’ full justice. It is the testimony of the one who, besides being a personal friend, is evidently well qualified to take, not a partial and onesided view of the subject of the memoir, but such a view as is comprehensive of the whole man.” Francis Pigou.
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 631. N. 23, ’07. 2100w.
“This book is, we must own, something of a disappointment. We see, indeed, Dean Hole, as we expected to see him, one of the gayest and kindliest of men; but the letters, while they give ample proof of these characteristics, of which no proof was wanted, show little literary quality.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: sup. 906. D. 7, ’07. 490w.
=Holland, Clive.= From the foreland to Penzance: the ports and harbors of the south coast. *$3.50. Duffield.
Giving little of guide-book information the author devotes himself to the picturesque side of the harbors and sea ports of the south coast from the north foreland to Penzance. History, romance, and stories of piracy make up the letter-press; while thirty colored illustrations do artistic justice to the harbors along the course.
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“Mr. Randall’s brush is not nearly so effective with water as with land-locked harbours such as those of Poole, Looe, or Fowey. It is not possible to say very much in praise of Mr. Holland’s letter-press.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 340. S. 19. 600w.
“He has exhibited not only a fine instinct for scenery, wide literary and historical learning, but a profound sympathy with amphibious life of the harbor, the fishing-village, and even the smuggler’s cave.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 672. N. 7, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Holland says his work is not a guide book, but it certainly contains all the information about the country it covers that the ordinary man requires.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 240w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 338. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
=Holland, Clive.= Old and new Japan; 50 col. pictures by Montagu Smith. *$5. Dutton.
8–9079.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 187. Je. ’08.
“From every point of view—literary, scientific and artistic—the work reaches an exceptionally high standard of excellence.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 713. My. ’08. 170w.
“The three chapters of this book which have a real value are those dealing with the festivals still more or less observed by the common folk of Japan, the greetings and language of the country, and the tendencies and future of the Japanese people.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 635. My. 23. 980w.
“A fascinating subject, a writer who knows how to make the most of it, and an illustrator whose work must surprise even the most blasé critic into reluctant admiration,—these are the elements that contribute to the charm.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 190w.
“Montague Smith’s exquisite colors and truthful representations in tint and drawing of Japanese life are far above the quality of the text by Clive Holland, who lives on the surface of the Nipponese scene.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 43. Ja. 2, ’08. 270w.
“One notes inaccuracies even in the few and superficial criticisms of the Japanese.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 404. Ap. 30, ’08. 470w.
“This is a delightful book, and in saying this we have practically indicated its character. The most informing, and on the whole most useful, chapters are those which deal with the domestic and civic life of Japan both in city and country.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 260w.
=* Holland, Elizabeth.= Journal; ed. by the Earl of Ilchester. 2v. *$6. Longmans.
“Readers of memoirs dealing with the last years of the Georgian period are familiar with this dominating figure of the Whig salons, who relegated to herself the office of social and political arbiter, and who not only gave orders to such men as Macaulay and Sydney Smith, but exacted their most implicit obedience. Little, however, has been written of Lady Holland’s earlier years, and it is to fill this gap in her career that the present journal is published. Naturally, these earlier years were identified with Holland house quite as much as were the later ones.”—N. Y. Times.
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“These volumes abound in interest, whether they are considered as contributions to social and literary history or as revelations of character. The latter feature, on the whole, predominates. If space permitted, we could give many illustrations of Lady Holland’s admirable strokes at character. The index is disappointingly meagre.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 599. N. 14. 1500w.
=Nation.= 87: 385. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“Lord Ilchester has the industry and the impartiality necessary to make a great historian, but he must really be more careful about his composition. The footnotes are rather too numerous and detailed.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 579. N. 7, ’08. 1200w.
“Lord Ilchester has annotated these volumes with remarkable care. Scarcely an allusion but is deftly tracked, and he has provided a wealth of family history to elucidate the entries. The second volume is less interesting than the first, for it is full of backstairs political gossip which has by this time lost its point.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 737. N. 7, ’08. 1700w.
=Holland, Rupert Sargent.= Builders of united Italy, 1808–1898. **$2. Holt.
8–24568.
Men who represent the forces that have fused in Italy’s progress towards a united nation furnish subjects for these eight sketches. They are as follows: Alfieri, the poet; Manzoni, the man of letters; Gioberti, the philosopher; Manin, the Father of Venice; Mazzini, the prophet; Cavour, the statesman; Garibaldi, the crusader; and Victor Emmanuel, the king.
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“It is well worth reading by all who admire brave deeds and heroic self-sacrifice. Young people especially should read the book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 348. N. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Holland has caught the enthusiasm without which no historian can either sympathize with or describe the spirit that upheld the Italians in their struggles for freedom and independence.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 508. S. 19, ’08. 100w.
“Excellent little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 637. N. ’08. 100w.
=Holley, Clifford Dyer, and Ladd, Edwin Fremont.= Analysis of mixed paints, color pigments, and varnishes. $2.50. Wiley.
8–4594.
Brings to date the information both on the analysis of pigments and vehicles, and on the practical testing of their properties, as well as shows the demands made of this department of applied chemistry. It is of value “to the paint student and analyst, while also, owing to the authors’ connection with North Dakota paint legislation, additional interest will be felt in the general discussion of the problem of securing efficient paint.”
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“Will have a wide use, both because of its detailed information regarding the composition of the pigments now in general use, and also because of the directions for the analysis of the paints.” Robert Job.
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 435. Ap. 16, ’08. 530w.
“The methods for the analysis of oils seem to be somewhat incomplete, but on the whole the work is a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Should prove of considerable practical value, especially in America, and should be of assistance to analysts who have work of this kind to do, as it brings together much information which is otherwise scattered, and contains a good deal which is not to be found in the well-known manual by the late Mr. Hurst.” A. P. Laurie.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 125. Je. 11, ’08. 560w.
“The work is one of the best contributions to the literature of these subjects that have appeared. Should be in the library of every one having to do with the subjects treated.” A. H. Gill.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 28: 277. Ag. 28, ’08. 270w.
=Holman, Frederick Van Voorhies.= Dr. John McLoughlin; the father of Oregon. *$2.50. Clark, A. H.
7–31427.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It is only in the fact that the author did not examine the problem involved in the virtual martyrdom of Dr. McLoughlin from the broadly historical point of view that any exception can be taken to this admirable book.” F. G. Young.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 620. Ap. ’08. 850w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 275. Ja. ’08. 180w.
“This biography is not, perhaps, a fine specimen of smooth or systematic narration; and it makes no pretention to literary finish. But it possesses the first quality of a biography—it places the living man before us, just as he must have appeared to those who knew him.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 102. O. ’08. 1350w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 200w.
“This book is authoritative, based upon abundant documents, many printed in a full appendix; and although sometimes a bit too effusive, it is, on the whole, a fit presentment of a figure which should not be forgotten.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
=Holmes, Mrs. Bettie F.= Log of the “Laura” in polar seas: a hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906. Mrs. Bettie F. Holmes, 3598 Washington av., Cincinnati, O.
8–4600.
“A rather elaborate diary of a hunting cruise in the summer of 1906, to Spitzbergen, East Greenland, and the island of Jan Mayen.” (Nation.) “The paper is handmade from an Italian mill; the type is the excellent ‘Bodoni’ face, designed and used exclusively by the University press; and the illustrations—photogravure prints from untouched negatives—are all of superlative merit.” (Dial.)
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“By far the most entertaining part of the book deals with the hunts for the great polar bears. The author fails in breathing a distinct personality into her account—a failure, no doubt, which may be a virtue in a log-book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 345. Je. 1, ’08. 430w.
“The style is pleasing and unaffected. The scientific value of the cruise was small. It is as an example of fine book-making that the volume is chiefly noteworthy. Unfortunately the book is without an index and is provided with an inadequate map.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 200w.
=Holmes, Sir Richard Rivington.= Windsor; painted by G: M. Henton. (Color books.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
8–16928.
The history of Windsor and its famous castle is reviewed here by the keeper of the King’s library at Windsor castle. Its towers, its chapel, its park and the borough itself are described and painted in the spirit of reverence and appreciation due this “heirloom of the ages.” It is doubly important, in that the history of Windsor is a kind of epitome of English history since the time of the Norman conquest.
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“It is not a deep book ... but all that is said is trustworthy.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 423. Ap. 4. 320w.
“The modest subordinate text is quite what it ought to be for elucidation, historical, architectural and social.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1150. My. 21, ’08. 140w.
“The illustrations ... impart a distinct charm to a book which should be deservedly popular.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 250w.
“It is a book that will allure the artistic traveller.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 180w.
“This is a good specimen of Messrs. Black’s ‘Beautiful books.’ The subject is a great one, and it has been worthily treated.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 345. F. 29, ’08. 270w.
=Holmes, Richard Sill.= Maid of honor. †$1.50. Revell.
7–38899.
The story of the training of a shrewish young miss whose rude manners arise from her determination not to marry the man she loves because he is a minister. The author writes “of theological problems, making an original old Scotchman chief speaker, and his hero, a young minister, chief actor.” (Outlook.)
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“The love story is negligible, but the sketch of the Presbyterian elder ... bears internal evidence of having been drawn from life.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 755. Ap. 2, ’08. 100w.
“The book is neither a religious nor a problem novel, although its hero is a minister, but is full of sallies of a kindly sort that makes it most entertaining reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 60w.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 62. F. 1, ’08. 170w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 160w.
* =Holmes, Richard Sill.= Victor: a novel. †$1.50. Revell.
8–30535.
A dramatic story of the Pennsylvania mountains at the time of the discovery of oil. It concerns a man wronged in love, his rival, and the manner in which they settle their quarrel; it portrays the effect of sudden wealth upon the mountain folk; and it abounds in plots, good description and pleasing humor.
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“A very ordinary tale of love, murder, and expiation.”
− =Ind.= 65: 1311. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“It is excellent in construction, save for a too frequently bringing together of widely sundered lives, which gives an effect of artificiality. There is good and humorous portrayal of several backwoods characters.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 230w.
=Holmes, Thomas R. E.= Ancient Britain and the invasions of Julius Caesar. *$6.75. Oxford.
8–8462.
A natural sequel to the author’s “Caesar’s conquest of Gaul.” The work “which began as a study of Caesar’s invasions, has expanded in the author’s hands until it has become the whole history or pre-history of Britain down to the arrival of the Romans, and only the closing chapters of the completed book—about one-sixth of the body of the narrative—deal with the campaigns of Caesar.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“For the most part Mr. Holmes’s presentation of the subject is clear, vigorous and extremely readable.” F. N. Robinson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 833. Jl. ’08. 950w.
“The volume is very readable, yet done in a scholarly fashion.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 633. N. ’08. 120w.
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 818. D. 28. 1350w.
=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Holmes has now filled the gap thus left in his former work, by giving us a companion volume, worthy in every respect of its predecessor.” Arthur T. Walker.
+ =Class. J.= 3: 243. Ap. ’08. 900w.
“Is characterized by thoroughness of detail and a clear presentation and careful weighing of facts; it is moreover, written in a most attractive and entertaining style.” Walter Dennison.
+ + =Class. Philol.= 3: 456. O. ’08. 950w.
“His conclusions, though sometimes announced with too great positiveness and finality, generally carry weight.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 411. O. 29, ’08. 300w.
“In spite of certain grave defects and a uniform lack of originality, it is a great monument to the author’s industry.”
− + =Nature.= 77: 601. Ap. 30, ’08. 2550w.
“Painstaking and ... exhaustive research.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 764. D. 21, ’07. 2350w.
“We must indicate one or two weak points in the premises of such very confident conclusions.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 1096. D. 28, ’07. 1750w.
=Holt, Rosa Belle.= Rugs; oriental and occidental, antique and modern; new and enl. ed. *$5. McClurg.
8–29873.
A new and enlarged edition which benefits by the most recent information obtained by investigation thruout the United States, by recent study in the centers of Europe and by personal observation in the Orient. The aim of the book is to present in a concise form certain facts that enable a novice to appreciate the beauty and interest attaching to rugs, and to assist a prospective purchaser in judging of the merits of any particular rug he may desire to own.
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“Now assumes the proportions of an authoritative work. To the care taken to print only what is verifiable, the new edition owes much of its value.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 330w.
=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 100w.
“We must pronounce this work not only useful and beautiful, but also learned.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 220w.
“The compact form, the beautiful illustrations, and the careful text of the present work insure its continued popularity as a work of reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 763. D. ’08. 70w.
=Holtz, Frederick Leopold.= Nature-study: a manual for teachers and students. *$1.50. Scribner.
8–13354.
“A manual for teachers and for students in training schools. Part 1 discusses principles and methods. Part 2 is devoted to subject matter of a biological nature, placing emphasis on life histories and habits and relations to environment and practical bearing on human life. Part 3 outlines a good course for eight grades.”—Ind.
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“It supplements but does not supersede Hodge’s ‘Nature study and life.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 260. N. ’08.
“The book is a valuable contribution to the nature study movement, and deserves to be read by every teacher interested in such work.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 316. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book is agreeably written, with nothing superfluous included.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 16, ’08. 340w.
=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Along the Rivieras of France and Italy. (Old world travel ser.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
The initial volume in a new series whose aim is to do for countries and districts what the “Mediaeval town series” has done for cities. Here are described points along the coast from Marseilles to Pisa, omitting a few towns close to Genoa which have suffered thru manufacturing interests. Twenty-five illustrations in color, as many in black and white, a bibliography, map and index make the volume complete for the tourist.
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“Altogether we congratulate the author-artist and the publishers upon a delightful book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 730w.
“This volume will be an indispensable necessity to all who visit the Riviera, and probably those who have already visited it will find that Mr. Home reveals a world of new interest and beauty of which they will make themselves sharers on their return to the Mediterranean.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 811. N. 28, ’08. 500w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. Home treats his towns and cities both historically and descriptively, and in both respects acquits himself in a very pleasing fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
=Hooker, William Brian.= Right man. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–29648.
A story whose action takes place on a transatlantic liner. “Two men and a girl are the centers of a not too intricate plot, and the stage properties include a violin whose harmonies make discord among the group. A concert, a fist fight, and an engagement lend the spice of variety, and there is just enough of the lived-happy-ever-after element to relieve any anxiety as to the outcome of the adventures.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The story is fairly well written, but the glaring poster-like illustrations are execrable.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 484. N. ’08. 200w.
“The trouble with ‘The right man’ is that, quite unintentionally, the problem is unfairly presented. The book fails in its delineation of types.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 260. N. ’08. 700w.
“One may find a half-hour’s diversion in the reading of Brian Hooker’s novelette.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 635. O. 31, ’08. 130w.
=Hopkins, Herbert Muller.= Priest and pagan. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–9172.
“The priest” is a young Episcopal clergyman, half Jew, who, while rearing the walls of St. Basil’s cathedral in the Bronx loves a maiden as charming as she is willful. “The pagan” is a returned wanderer who after working his way into the good graces of the priest no less than into a corner of his bachelor quarters, steals the maiden and weds her. The dénouement is quite as incomprehensible as it is surprising.
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“As a whole, ‘Priest and pagan’ lacks cohesion, interest, almost human probability. It seems like an accretion rather than a growth, with a prescribed amount of description, conversation, incident, and classical allusion. The dialogue is heavy and sometimes in questionable taste; the characters are uninspired.” R. W. K.
− =Bookm.= 27: 280. My. ’08. 1350w.
“It is a pity that so carefully wrought a story should not prove more effective.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 90. Ag. 16, ’08. 150w.
“It is refreshing to read a story where the ultra-modern, the civic, the suburb, the slum, are the themes, yet where the undignified does not enter, and where morality and even religion are in good social standing.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“A particularly amateurish piece of fiction. The trouble with the story is the fact that the author is not enough at home in the environment he has elected for his people to make the reader feel at home.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The defects are defects in art and in an ideal, so that we miss both charm and stimulus.” E. L. Cary.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Hopkins, R. V. Nind.= Life of Alexander Severus. (Cambridge historical essays, no. 14.) *$1. Putnam.
The short comings, the earnest hard work, the “sagacity and right-mindedness” of this Roman ruler of the third century of the empire are seen in relation to the corrupt and downward tendencies of his times.
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“Contributes little to our knowledge of a period which deserves to be treated by a more competent hand.” H. S. J.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 820. O. ’08. 350w.
“Scholarly and well-written.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 12. Ja. 2, ’08. 90w.
“A happy example of the good work which these foundations have for some years past been the means of calling forth.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 828. N. 23, ’07. 410w.
=Hopkins, William J.= Sandman: his ship stories. il. (Sandman ser.) $1.50. Page.
7–28963.
In which young readers may learn all about the building of a ship, its rigging, its launching, far country experiences, pirate encounters, and castaway adventures.
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“A book to give to adults to read aloud to children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 159. My. ’08. ✠
=Hopper, James Marie, and Bechdolt, Fred R.= 9009. †$1.25. McClure.
8–27364.
Indignation over facts—facts concerning the treatment of convicts in our American prisons—has spurred the authors on to a revelation of many of the existing evils. 9009 is a convict who while intent upon “holding his copper” revolted against the Judas system of espionage, of stalking, of spying, of treachery, of betrayal with which a convict must identify himself in order to become a trusty. His tacit refusal to be dominated by the system is punished for disobedience, and he becomes the victim of a machine, a criminal who arouses pity as does Jean Valjean.
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“We do not recall any recent study in criminology that surpasses the present one in forceful vitality of narration.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 899. O. 15, ’08. 140w.
“The book is, in a sense, not to be classed either in spirit or actual achievement with the typical work of fiction. That is not to say that it is lacking in imagination, power, or the forceful delineation of character. All these qualities it has to a marked degree.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 1000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus).= Odes and epodes of Horace; tr. into English verse corresponding with the original metres by J. Marshall. (Temple Greek and Latin classics, v. 5.) *$1. Putnam.
It has been the business of Dr. Marshall for forty years to offer this translation of the untranslatable Odes of Horace. “The book, like all the volumes of the series, gives the original and the translation on opposite pages. In this case the type is comfortably large and clear.” (Nation.)
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“The odes are priceless exotics, brilliant but scentless. Dr. Marshall’s experiment is perhaps as successful as such an experiment could be. Compared with his last predecessor, Gladstone, he has achieved a veritable triumph.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ =Acad.= 73: 239. D. 14, ’07. 1470w.
“In one thing he has been particularly fortunate—in suggesting the rhythm of the original stanzas, while using forms thoroughly English. He is, as a rule, less successful in the graver poems than in the ‘nugæ canoræ,’ but he is seldom quite flat, and his version as a whole may be heartily recommended to those who are shut out from the original.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 131. F. 6, ’08. 560w.
“The author preserves the original metre and translates line by line, but his English is therefore stilted and un-Horatian.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 291. My. 23, ’08. 50w.
“Though not a complete anthology of Horace’s best, is thoroughly creditable to its editors, and commendable to lovers of the genial poet.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 770. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
=Hord, John S.= Internal taxation in the Philippines. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science, ser. 25, no. 1.) pa. 30c. Johns Hopkins.
7–19437.
“Less a careful review of the new Philippine revenue system, in both theory and practice, than it is an exposition of its content and of the reasons for its adoption with a view to arguing for the removal of tariff barriers between the United States and the Philippines.”—Ind.
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“Not the careful monograph one would expect from the auspices under which it is published and the fact that its author is collector of internal revenue in the Philippines and the chief designer of the internal revenue law of 1904.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 663. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“The introductory section, summarizing the Spanish methods of internal taxation in the Philippines, is not an accurate bit of economic history.”
− =Ind.= 64: 588. Mr. 12, ’08. 100w.
“The pamphlet sets forth very well the content of the new Philippine internal revenue law and its administration, but gives it slight consideration from the point of view of the student of taxation theories and practice.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
* =Hornaday, William Temple.= Camp-fires on desert and lava. **$3. Scribner.
8–30960.
The record of a journey which the author made from Tuscon to Sonoyta in company with Dr. D. T. MacDougal of the Department of botanical research of the Carnegie institute. They traversed a hitherto unknown tract surrounding Pinacate in northwestern Mexico. It is of the wonders of animal and plant life, of the experiences of camp and trail, and of adventures with big game that Mr. Hornaday writes, lending to the whole the atmosphere of mountain and desert.
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“A very cheerful and pleasant book recounting his adventures, ... recording the zoological, botanical, and geographical discoveries achieved, passing on to the kindly reader the mild jests with which the company beguiled the nights and days in the open.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 1450w.
“Mr. Hornaday is the vivacious chronicler of a very interesting journey.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. N. 21, ’08. 350w.
=Hornblow, Arthur.= The profligate. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–16713.
The “profligate” is the foster son of a New York merchant. He is first held responsible then finally cleared of the charge of murdering his foster father. Idler, gambler, criminal are epithets which he determines to live down when of a sudden he finds that he loves a good woman. In order to prove beyond question his innocence of the crime he resolves to find the real criminal. When the latter is traced to his hiding, he is discovered to be the profligate’s own father. Sacrifice and readjustment follow.
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“There is a certain public in America that will deal generously with Mr. Hornblow for writing this story, a public that may be defined negatively as one in which persons of refined literary taste are not included.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 327. Je. 13, ’08. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Horne, Charles F.= Technique of the novel: the elements of the art, their evolution and present use. **$1.50. Harper.
8–15748.
An authoritative work which is fundamental in its exposition of the principles that underlie fiction writing. It is at once a history of the novel, an analysis of its forms from earliest times to the present, and a presentation of the six elements that enter into the development of the modern novel; viz., plot, motive and verisimilitude, character, emotion, background, and style.
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“The author’s theories might not be accepted by most critics and the untrained reader should not take its utterances too seriously.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.
“Professor Horne has brought together a most interesting series of discussions, and his illustrative citations and interludes are admirable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 50w.
“Professor Horne has devoted an immense amount of hard, conscientious work to the preparation of this book, but no inspired teacher would ever think of using it, and we tremble for the fate of the pupils who might be forced to study it under any one else.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 841. O. 8, ’08. 500w.
“And yet, as a whole, unsatisfactory as the book is, still as a piece of academic work it marks an advance upon the profitless editing and reëditing of school and college texts.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 341. O. 8, ’08. 620w.
“Mr. Horne is very thorough in his discussion of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 306. My. 30, ’08. 450w.
“Inasmuch as the author has expended well-nigh one-third of his space upon the development of classic and mediaeval fiction, there is legitimate ground for complaining that his conclusions are at least weakened by the inconsistency and incompleteness of his use of available material.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =No. Am.= 188: 619. O. ’08. 700w.
“It is for intelligent novel readers as well as for novel writers. A wide welcome is due to this masterly work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag. 1, ’08. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 126. Jl. ’08. 90w.
=Horsley, Albert E. (Harry Orchard, pseud.).= Confessions and autobiography of Harry Orchard. $1. McClure.
7–41117.
“After a brief outline of his early life, the tale starts with Orchard’s marriage and his settling down into business for himself, and then follows his career with minute attention to every step down to his arrest, his life in the jail, and his confession to Detective McParland”—N. Y. Times.
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“This remarkable human document, almost stunning to the mind in its simplicity of selfrevelation, produces an overwhelming impression of essential truthfulness. As a book, the unique interest of the confession lies in the insight afforded into the psychology of the man-of-prey.” S: H. Adams.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 57. Mr. ’08. 1300w.
“Its value is seriously impaired because there is no information as to how the book was written, whether by Orchard himself or by dictation or by some one else from various conversations.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 270w.
=Nation.= 86: 170. F. 20, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Apparently simple, straightforward story, utterly without imagination, hanging together from start to finish with absolute compactness and coherency, vivid in detail, and sodden with criminality.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 69. F. 8, ’08. 270w.
* =Hough, Emerson.= Young Alaskan. †$1.25. Harper.
The narrative of exciting adventure which fell to the lot of three Alaskan boys who are castaways in the wild Kaludiak country. Their stout hearts, insuperable energy and quick wit prove invincible against hardship and danger.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Houmas, Mount.= Strange record. $1.50. Neale.
8–18002.
A wealthy young girl whose thoroly sensible ideas about life are at variance with her stepmother’s superficial ones leaves her Brooklyn home, studies medicine and chooses the south for the field of her career. Sentiment against the woman doctor brings her to the point of masquerading as a man, of going to the West Indies, where her professional success is as complete as the masculine mask which she assumes.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 700w.
=Housden, C. E.= Practical earthwork tables. *90c. Longmans.
Tables that have been “prepared for the purpose of facilitating the computation of the cross-sectional areas of embankments and excavations, by reducing the work involved in preparing special sections and in making the necessary calculations from longitudinal and cross-sections of ground over or through which the proposed cut has to be made.” (Engin. D.)
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 653. Je. ’08. 150w.
“His book is inferior in design and application to most of the dozen or more earthwork tables now in print.”
− =Engin. N.= 59: 441. Ap. 16, ’08. 320w.
=Housden, C. E.= Practical hydraulic (water supply and drainage) tables and diagrams. *$1.25. Longmans.
W7–233.
“These tables and diagrams, originally prepared for the personal use of the author, have proved of such use and convenience in ascertaining the sizes of pipes for water supply systems, surface drains and sewers, that they have been published in the present form.” (Engin. D.) “The tables are based upon the formulas of Messrs. Ganguillet and Kutter for the calculation of the flow in pipes and channels.” (Engin. N.)
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=Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.
“It may be a very useful work for some people, but not for those familiar with any of the American books of hydraulic tables.” G. S. Williams.
− =Engin. N.= 59: 541. My. 14, ’08. 220w.
=Housman, Laurence.= Stories from the Arabian nights; retold by Laurence Housman. *$5. Scribner.
8–13714.
“Laurence Housman has taken a half-dozen of the best tales, and from the various authoritative translations has made a version in which the repetitions and indecencies are suppressed and the points of the narrative thrown into relief. He has, in a word, tried to get a result similar to that attained by Galland, in the old French translation, which so long stood as the basis of our English ‘Arabian nights,’ until displaced by an irruption of pedantic Orientalists.” (Nation.)
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“A new version of some of the stories, written by Mr. Housman in prose as graceful as his verse, will be very welcome.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 243. D. 14, ’07. 770w.
“As to the retelling, Mr. Housman takes all sorts of liberties, and we do not blame him. The text is only a peg whereon to hang the pictures, and these are most delightfully whimsical.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 158. F. 8. 1050w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 84. Mr. ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 200w.
“For real charm—a charm quite comparable to Scheherezade’s own—this volume depends upon the indescribably quaint and bewitching illustrations provided by Edmund Dulac.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 848. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Dulac has given them an eastern look with quite uncommon success.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 936. D. 7, ’07. 160w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Five months on a derelict. (Pacific ser., v. 1.) †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
8–20577.
The experiences of a ship’s crew and some lively boys who escaped to a derelict brig and tossed about on the Pacific for five months. Boys will find exciting adventure wholesomely interspersed with geography, natural history, astronomy and mythology. One of the best sailors in the group is Rompey the collie.
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“A book that is obviously intended to be instructive as well as entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
* =Houston, Edwin James.= Wrecked on a coral island. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
A continuation of the experiences of the group of boys who figured in “Five months on a derelict.” Aside from the strong story interest, information is furnished concerning the formation of a coral island, and concerning the plant and animal life of the southern Pacific.
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“A good story and an instructive one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Hovey, Richard.= Holy graal, and other fragments by Richard Hovey; being the uncompleted parts of the Arthurian dramas; ed. with introd. and notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey, and a preface by Bliss Carman. $1.25. Duffield.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“More effectually perhaps than any other book of the year this volume of fragmentary literary remains reawakens us to a sense of the reality, the permanence and power of the poetic spirit.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 850. D. ’07. 580w.
“[Has] a poetry of thought and an intimate skill in form full of larger promise.” Brian Hooker.
+ =Forum.= 39: 526. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“It is impossible to study the conception of the work as a whole without grave misgivings. If nothing else, it is altogether too complicated. Whether for this reason or not, the dramatic interest even of the completed plays is not very great.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 753. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“Much as his untimely death is to be lamented by every lover of verse, it is impossible to consider what remains of his cycle as a great or very significant poem or to believe that even if it were finished, it would be other than a work ‘manqué’ as a whole, a thing of brilliant passages and of splendid promise for the time when the author should have found himself in his own best vein.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 63. Ja. 16, ’08. 650w.
=Hovey Richard.= To the end of the trail; ed. with notes by Mrs. Richard Hovey. **$1.25. Duffield.
8–12814.
Collected and published as a tribute to the memory of a man who was cut off before the fulfilment of extraordinary promise in his verse. Aside from his lyrics are translations from Maeterlinck, Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine.
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“Completes the collected edition of the works of one of our most interesting poets, a man of vivid imagination, of deep, if not broad, sympathies, endowed with insight, sensibility, and the gift of melodious expression.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 287. My. 23, ’08. 900w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Howard, George Bronson.= Scars on the southern seas. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
7–40047.
Among a Pacific mail steamship’s passengers are four people, one of them a young woman, whose thrilling adventures begin with a midocean swim violently terminated by a typhoon that cuts them loose from the liner. Scrambling into the ship’s boat that had been lowered with them they drift to an island where they discover a plot to wrest the Philippines from the United States. Among them is a hero of the Jack London type, who holds at bay a band of Japanese and Chinese mercenaries while the remainder steal a ship and go to Manila for help. Romance mingles with adventure in the usual proportion.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Howard, Oliver Otis.= Autobiography. 2v. **$5. Baker.
7–35640.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The portion dealing with reconstruction has a special value as General Howard was at that time in charge of the Freedman’s bureau.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 43. F. ’08.
“The work is rather a rambling narrative of reminiscences. These pages reveal little historical ability or literary skill, they are yet exceptionally valuable in revealing the character of a high-minded gentleman and patriot.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 469. F. 27, ’08. 600w.
“This is a book to dip into as we dip into Pepys or Evelyn. Even the great length of the autobiography is precluded from tediousness by the multitude of good things with which it abounds.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 236. F. 15, ’08. 250w.
“General Howard has made numerous changes, additions, and corrections, giving new value to a record which, in the first edition, was well received everywhere.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
“The student of military science will find other records more illuminating; for vivid pictures we must search elsewhere. Nevertheless, there are fine qualities, truthfulness, candor, the spirit of humanity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 175. F. 20, ’08. 1000w.
“These well-printed, clearly written volumes exhibit the career of a trained warrior.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 516. S. 19, ’08. 1250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 253. F. ’08. 90w.
=Howard, Oliver Otis.= Famous Indian chiefs I have known. †$1.50. Century.
8–24869.
A Major-general of the civil war tells of his experiences and adventures with Indian leaders, both friendly and hostile. One of the most interesting chapters tells of the long Nez Percé war which was fought with Chief Joseph, whom General Howard followed over fourteen hundred miles before the warrior surrendered. More than twenty chiefs figure in the narrative.
=Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“He has put [into it] the cream of his knowledge of Indian character and of his experience with Indians.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 230w.
“The unique character of these reminiscences make them interesting to readers of all ages.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 90w.
=Howard, Oliver Otis.= My life and experiences among our hostile Indians. $2.75. Worthington.
7–38634.
“Records the author’s observations, adventures, and campaigns among the Indians of the great west. He gives details of their life, habits, religion, ceremonies, dress, savage instincts, and customs in peace and war.” (Lit. D.) The book is fully illustrated.
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“The romance of realism has never been more stirringly demonstrated than in these pages. The tone in which the book is written is elevated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 230w.
“Animated narrative ... which may be commended not only as thoroughly readable but as sympathetic with the effort to raise the American Indian from a condition of ignorant savagery to that of industrious citizenship. The story is full of incidents and anecdotes, and is entertaining as well as instructive.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 250w.
=Howden, J. R.= Boys’ book of steamships. †$2. McClure.
W8–151.
An informing book covering the entire ground of achievement represented by the steamship: its history, principles of design, machinery, development of type, work of the ship, river and lake boats, ocean steamships and their routes in various quarters of the globe.
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“For the boy with a mechanical turn of mind this book is especially profitable, and any boy intending to travel will find it beneficial.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Howden prefaces this interesting account of steamships with a really valuable and most lucid historical sketch of ancient and medieval shipping. We have no hesitation in describing it as one of the best introductions to the study of sailing-ships we have met with. If some of the same ground has been traversed before, much is comparatively unbroken, and has new sidelights thrown on it. Altogether the book is an acquisition for the ‘steamboat’ boy.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 707. N. 7, ’08. 420w.
=Howe, Edward Watson.= Daily notes of a trip around the world. 2v. *$2. Crane & co.
The record of a trip around the world, including Hawaii, Japan, China, the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine and Europe. Every day he wrote a few paragraphs for a newspaper, which, collected, make a continuous history of his journey.
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“The most entertaining record of travel we have read in many a year. The book is a Kansas classic.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 320. F. 6, ’08. 550w.
“They have distinct vitality, unusual humor, and are always interesting, not alone for the information conveyed, but as an expression of an interesting personality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Howe, Mark Anthony De Wolfe.= Life and letters of George Bancroft. 2v. **$4. Scribner.
8–12121.
Letters strung together on a slight thread of narrative and comment tell a story of Bancroft’s life at once authentic and complete. It is especially informing as it relates Bancroft’s political and scholarly activity to his contemporaries and his times.
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“Mr. Howe has done his work judiciously and the picture of the great historian which he presents is at least clear in outline and interesting in detail.” W: MacDonald.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 150. O. ’08. 900w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. 08.
“Though this book should command a wide public on both sides of the Atlantic, its English readers may not unfairly complain that American politics are presented in a manner so allusive as to be almost unintelligible.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 430. O. 10. 1300w.
“This magisterial and critical life of a great historian is very welcome.” W: M. Sloane.
+ + =Atlan.= 102: 275. Ag. ’08. 4100w.
“The tone throughout is serious and dignified. The interest, and often the style, of Mr. Howe’s volumes suffers from unevenness; certain portions have a power of absorbing the reader, while other pages seem colorless.” A. R. Marble.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 267. My. 1, ’08. 2600w.
“Mr. Howe’s work is a clean and admirable addition to American biography.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1093. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 26. Jl. 4, ’08. 1500w.
“Mr. Howe has performed creditably a work of peculiar difficulty. He had to dispose of a large mass of material; but he has confined the narrative within proper limits.... He writes as if devoid of affection for his subject. It is this circumstance which makes the reader finish the book with the feeling that while he has profited somewhat, he has nevertheless missed that keen enjoyment which a good biography should furnish.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 446. My. 14, ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Howe is far from dull. He has taken a good deal of time in the preparation of these volumes, and his care regarding them has been as intelligent as it has been patient.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 254. My. 2, ’08. 3000w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“As a collection of letters this work is most valuable, and little fault is to be found with it; but as a biography it is distinctly open to improvement.” H. A. Bruce.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 616. Jl. 18, ’08. 4800w.
“His ‘Life and letters’ give interesting revelations of all the prominent personalities with whom at one time or another he had come in contact.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 300w.
“The work has been accomplished in excellent taste and with no small literary skill. There are, however, some glaring mistakes in the transcription of letters. A valuable contribution to American literature.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 703. N. 7, ’08. 1900w.
* =Howe, Maud.= Sun and shadow in Spain. **$3. Little.
This volume written by a daughter of Julia Ward Howe tells the story of varied and fascinating experiences while wandering thru Spain. Keen observation, rich imagination, and sprightly wit are quickened into vigorous activity under the spell of the real Spain and her people. Numerous illustrations add reality to the word pictures.
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“Maud Howe is appreciative and sympathetic; she is also impressionable, but the greatest gift of all is hers—she can remember and record her impressions and convey them to her readers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 220w.
“Much of the information supplied by one of the party, who acts as a sort of Greek chorus, would be less wearisome if soberly stated as a matter of fact.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 300w.
“Everywhere the author’s sprightly wit lends life and color to the pictures she has painted of this fascinating country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
“This is a travel book for the light hearted who don’t mind slang or object to the companionship of fellow-travelers disguised under initials.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 30w.
* =Howells, William Dean.= Christmas every day. †$1.75. Harper.
A charmingly told tale of a little girl who begged the Christmas fairy to have Christmas every day in the year, and the monotony of the surfeit of festivity that follows the granting of the request.
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“In the telling of this story there is a certain zest that adds spirit to the little girl’s wish, and the adventures that result therefrom.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“Such a nice story that when you commence you cannot put it down until it is finished.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 360w.
“In taste and sentiment it is doubtful if any Christmas book of the year surpasses this.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 80w.
“It is written with grace, lightness of touch, brilliancy, and literary charm.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 30w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Fennel and rue. †$1.50. Harper.
8–9174.
A study of a young author and his treatment of a woman who tries to trick him into revealing to her the conclusion of his story, publishing serially, on the ground of her approaching death. Discovering the trick, the author writes to his unknown correspondent a stern and indignant letter. These young people afterward meet at a house-party, the author as a guest, the girl as a professional entertainer. The differing social altitudes of the two and their past experiences of each other give a dramatic interest to every chance encounter and present a problem which is solved, or unsolved, with a satirical but delicate touch.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08.
“Mr. Howells’s wit and sense of character nowadays seem attenuated, and as lovers of his work in other days, we regret to find the persons of his small drama bloodless creatures, splitting ethical hairs.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 537. My. 2, 200w.
“A chip from Mr. Howells’s literary workshop, delicately carved and polished, yet highly finished though it be, a by-product none the less.” A. S. van Westrum.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 281. My. ’08. 750w.
“It is all very charming and slyly humorous in the working out, but cannot be said to engage any serious interest.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 180w.
“Mr. Howells has not forgotten how to invent a situation, half-psychical, half sentimental. The old skill is not lacking.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 925. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Howells has succeeded admirably in depicting the excesses to which continual brooding over a trifle may lead those who have no sense of humor. The slender plot is well developed, though it is embedded in a good many pages of banal, but exceedingly life-like conversation, uttered by desperately uninteresting and real people.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
“It is short; the characters are few; the narrative is swift and easy. The dramatic sense of the writer is as fresh as ever and the interest never flags. There is delicate observation in plenty, and there are passages of exquisite description of scenes in which one can imagine the writer himself delightfully absorbed.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 151. Mr. 21, ’08. 800w.
“Another slight story, so far as length goes, but one delicately wrought and with great literary skill.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
“Not by any means a masterpiece and in no way to be compared with the author’s richer product.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 120w.
“Some of Mr. Howells’ readers may wish that he had let his imagination react more decidedly upon his material.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 330w.
“It is no small proof of Mr. Howells’s delicate and distinguished talent that he should have kept a story which trembles on the verge of morbidity pure and sweet throughout.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 900w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Roman holidays and others. **$3. Harper.
8–30605.
Quiet, capacious observation, poetic vision, and ripe reflection characterize these impressions which are made to contrast interestingly with impressions of the same scenes forty years ago. Howells journeys about leisurely, comments upon old landmarks, modern innovations, street scenes, popular customs, manners, the municipal situation, and the Papal church.
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“With that genially serious attention to minute details, that humorous circumstantiality in treating the commonplace, which we have all come to know so well and to like (or dislike) so heartily in Mr. Howells, he has filled a substantial volume with his easy-flowing narrative of a Mediterranean vacation journey.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 220w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 200w.
“One of the charms of the volume springs from the change in the impressions that Italy made upon him after the lapse of more than a full generation since his first visit.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 100w.
“In this new book of Rome and Italy there is a joy and a mellow philosophy that are typical of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 623. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“There is no sadness, in these pages, nothing but a joy and a mellow philosophy that are both typical of the author and of holidays in general.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
“The habit Mr. W. D. Howells formed many years ago of writing charmingly about his holiday doings still clings to him, and manifests itself strikingly in his latest book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 774. D. 12, ’08. 780w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 100w.
=Howells, William Dean and others.= Whole family: a novel by twelve authors. †$1.50. Harper.
Twelve authors have coöperated in producing this character-sketch novel. A chapter is devoted to each member of the family as follows: The father, by William Dean Howells; The old-maid aunt, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The grandmother, by Mary Heaton Vorse; The daughter-in-law, by Mary Stewart Cutting; The school-girl, by Elizabeth Jordan; The son-in-law, by John Kendrick Bangs; The married son, by Henry James; The married daughter, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; The mother, by Edith Wyatt; The school-boy, by Mary R. S. Andrews; Peggy, by Alice Brown; and The friend of the family, by Henry Van Dyke.
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“It is pure vaudeville, but many of the ‘turns’ are characteristic and amusing.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 552. D. 3, ’08. 620w.
“Mr. James and Mr. Howells are, of course, the star performers in this company of twelve, and the rest have all attempted, with more or less success, to play up to them and to carry on a harmonious method of treatment.” F. F. Kelly.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 590. O. 24, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“The book will be keenly enjoyed by all readers of to-day, and the future critic who writes the literary history of this period will not be likely to pass it over in silence.” C. H. Gaines.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 928. D. ’08. 1000w.
=Hoyt, John Clayton, and Grover, Nathan Clifford.= River discharge; prepared for the use of engineers and students. $2. Wiley.
7–28189.
“The book is divided into six chapters, dealing respectively with rainfall and evaporation; instruments used for obtaining velocities and depths; cable-station equipments; wading stations; theory and practices of measuring discharges; weirs and weir formulas; discussion and use of data; together with seventeen tables for facilitating the computations in various hydraulic problems.”—Nature.
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“The volume is certain to meet the needs of engineers, students and capitalists, to whom for the first time much data from government reports is here made readily accessible.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 713. My. ’08. 150w.
“Being practically the only work available dealing with the subject this volume will find a ready reception, and when future editions enable the authors to fill in the omissions and strengthen the weak spots, it should be one of the most valuable works on practical hydraulics printed in the English language.” G. S. Williams.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 650. D. 12, ’07. 710w.
“The authors of the book ... give in a thoroughly practical and useful way the result of their experience, and of the methods adopted in carrying out the work.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 148. D. 19, ’07. 200w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 582. D. ’07. 150w.
=Hubbard, Mina Benson.= Woman’s way through unknown Labrador: an account of the exploration of the Nascaupee and George rivers. **$1.50. McClure.
8–35700.
To correct misleading accounts of Mr. Hubbard’s ill-fated expedition organized for the purpose of exploring the Northwest river draining Lake Michikamau, and the George river draining the northern slope of the plateau to Ungava bay, his wife went over the same ground in a more favorable season. This is a record of her journey, to which she adds her husband’s latter-day diary and a narrative by one of his party, George Elson.
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=Ath.= 1908, 1: 758. Je. 20. 720w.
“Her book should command a wide circle of interested readers. It is to be regretted, however, that her account lacks both definiteness and good form in its presentation; there are hopeless and involved anti-climaxes when striking situations afforded opportunities for quite the opposite effects. One reader, at least, has been pained by the evident depreciation, throughout her book, of Wallace’s services to her husband and loyalty to his memory, as evidenced in the earlier books and by Hubbard’s own diary.” M. A. Havens.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 286. N. 1, ’08. 3850w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 80w.
“This volume contains the diary notes kept by her husband of his own attempt, but its chief interest is in the fascinating story which she has to tell of her own triumph. This book is one of great interest, not only for its own story, but also for the fact that its authoress succeeded where her husband failed.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 472. O. 3, ’08. 1150w.
=Huey, Edmund Burke.= Psychology and pedagogy of reading; with a review of the history of reading and writing, and of methods, texts, and hygiene in reading. *$1.40. Macmillan.
8–4327.
A work for advanced students of this phase of education and psychology, as well as for elementary school teachers. It sets forth the machinery of the subconscious process which one undergoes in transferring the printed page to one’s consciousness. “The material used is the whole body of reference from the experiments of all the psychologists who have occupied themselves in this curious study, supplemented by the writer’s own observations.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“For psychologists, teachers of more than average training and understanding, advanced students, and exceptionally intelligent parents.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. ’08.
“He comes mighty near achieving the direct and simple conversational style for which he pleads. This book undoubtedly sets the high-water mark for books on special method.” W: C. Ruediger.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 36: 203. S. ’08. 770w.
“The author has done for reading what ought to be done for every branch of study.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The book treats the subject more extensively and in a more thorough-going way than has been done heretofore. The experimental work is presented in an unusually interesting manner; and so, indeed, is the entire material. The author thinks it would be best to have children learn to read late, and at home, which they could easily do if left largely to themselves. The present writer thinks Professor Huey is not consistent in the attitude he takes upon this problem.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 500. Ag. 27, ’08. 1300w.
“An attractive study, which is likely to arouse a broader interest in the questions at issue.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 400w.
“A modestly laborious volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 137. Mr. 14, ’08. 1750w.
“The best book on this radically important subject that we have met with.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 655. Mr. 21, ’08. 350w.
“Professor Huey’s book is interesting, well written, and useful.” M. F. Washburn.
+ =Philos. R.= 17: 668. N. ’08. 300w.
“The book brings together an immense amount of material in unusually readable form. It seems destined to arouse interest and stimulate investigation in an important field.” Raymond Dodge.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 178. Ag. 7, ’08. 800w.
=Hughes, Charles Evans.= Addresses and papers of Charles Evans Hughes, governor of New York, 1906–1908; with an introd. by Jacob Gould Schurman. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–14814.
President Schurman has contributed to this volume an introduction which is both a biographical sketch and an estimate of Governor Hughes’s career as a public man. The body of the book contains selected speeches reflecting Mr. Hughes’s political views, classified under the following heads: Public office and party principles; Regulation of public-service corporations; and Occasional addresses.
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“These speeches reveal the man. They should be widely read and studied. They will be an uplift to our young men in this time of graft and self-seeking. In Governor Hughes this ideal of the days of the early republic lives again.” S. L. Woodford.
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1024. My. 7, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 100w.
“His utterances, written and spoken, are notably clear, compact, and forceful in expression, and equally sincere and frank in spirit.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Hughes, Thomas Aloysius.= History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal. *$4.50. Burrows.
7–25073.
=v. 1.= From the first colonization till 1645.
The first volume in a “comprehensive historical series, comprising in different languages an authentic account of the society over the world.” The first part of the work “deals entirely with the first few years of the history of the province of Maryland and is provided with remarkably complete critical apparatus.” (Am. Hist. R.) The second part, known v. 1, pt. 1, includes documents from 1605 to 1838 “applying to the early history of the missions to the Jesuit property and its uses in the Maryland and Pennsylvania missions.” (Nation.)
=v. 2.= Contains the text based upon the documentary evidence which comprised the first volume. “As in all other ecclesiastical history, so here we have much that is sordid—disputes about property, quarrels between secular priests and religious and much else of similar character—but on the whole it is a story of sincere devotion and true Christian heroism.” (Ind.)
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“The author is without question a most learned man and a most careful student. His introduction on the sources, archives and literature of his subject is exceedingly valuable, not only to students of American history, but also to those interested in the Jesuits in any land. His bibliography is extensive and shows that he has investigated most of the authorities and that he appreciates the importance of writing history from the sources.” B. C. Steiner.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 597. Ap. ’08. 2600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This work supplies food for the serious student, rather than easy entertaining reading for leisure hours. It will prove an invaluable mine for future historians.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 816. Mr. ’08. 650w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Even more eloquently than the first volume of the text, testifies to the laborious, painstaking industry which Father Hughes has devoted to his great task. American Catholics will require Father Hughes’ data to be thoroughly and impartially scrutinized before they will be ready to acquiesce in the conclusions which he draws.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 87: 255. My. ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1, pt. 1.)
“In spite of crudity of style, errors of judgment, and an absolute inability to comprehend the point of view of an opponent, Father Hughes has produced an extremely valuable book. It is not too much to say that, after all allowances are made, he has completely changed our ideas of the part played by the Jesuits in the Maryland episode.” W. L. Grant.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 579. Jl. ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A source-book of high value for the ecclesiastical history of the American colonies.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 788. O. 1, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“This work is in the highest sense a work of learning, and while it must reach the shelves of every public library and every college collection, it will also take an honored place in the many private studies where scholarship, conscientious impartiality, and masterly style are valued.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 491. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The author has added comparatively little to what was already known of the first years of Maryland’s settlement; and the many controversies involved in the purpose and methods of that venture have frequently led him off the main track.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work is done with the thoroughness with which Jesuit scholarship is associated, and if the standpoint taken is rigidly that of the society, that is, indeed, only what might have been expected, and constitutes to a large extent the value of this contribution to local Maryland history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is to be hoped that in the volumes to follow he will adopt a less censorious and disputatious tone, and also succeed in drawing his narrative somewhat more closely together than is the case here. Its readability will then be greatly increased without any impairment of its intrinsic worth.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 269. My. 30, ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hulbert, Archer Butler.= Niagara river. **$3.50. Putnam.
8–29355.
“Mr. Hulbert’s book is illustrated with some seventy delightful views. The great commercial importance of Niagara falls, and still greater developments promised in the near future, have led this author to deal first with the river as we find it at present, beautiful and sublime as a feature of natural scenery, but most practically valuable as a mighty power yoked to the wheels of human machinery and turned into an industrial instrument.”—Lit. D.
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“In mechanical execution, as well as in literary style, the volume has decided merits.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 411. D. 1, ’08. 160w.
“It is in every respect an entertaining as well as an informing work, at once popular and scientific.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 350w.
“The book is something more than a work written to order.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 901. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He presents matter of importance in an extremely readable form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 140w.
=Hulbert, Eri Baker.= English reformation and Puritanism, with other lectures and addresses: a memorial; ed. by A. R. E. Wyant. *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–1485.
Part one of this volume contains a number of addresses, testimonials, and other tributes, to Dr. Hulbert. The second part consists of a dozen lectures on the English reformation and Puritanism, with seven occasional addresses.
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“The author has shown good judgment in his selection of phases of the movements treated for special emphasis. His style is vigorous, pungent, and many passages when delivered must have been truly eloquent. The book should find many readers among intelligent laymen as well as among students and ministers.” A. H: Newman.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 317. Ap. ’08. 800w.
“Had Dean Hulbert lived ... it is probable that he would have given these lectures a somewhat more scholarly form and that he would have purged them of some of the errors and imperfections that now detract from their value, especially as regards the more recent history of nonconformity and education in England.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1096. My. 14, ’08. 350w.
“In general we may say that Dr. Hulbert’s point of view is elevated, his horizon broad, and his purpose sincere. His lectures are therefore good history and not cramped by the immediate purpose for which they were prepared.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 352. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
=Univ. Rec.= 12: 119. Ja. ’08. 400w.
* =Hull, William Isaac.= Two Hague conferences. *$1.50. Ginn.
8–28855.
“Professor Hull’s volume is a detailed account of the history and results of each conference. All the topics discussed and all the acts passed are grouped together, the author showing first what was done in 1899 and then in 1907.” (Ind.) “He has analyzed and compared the work of the two conferences by topics and sub-topics, so that we are enabled at a glance to see what advance on any special point—disarmament, arbitration, naval warfare, land warfare, etc.—the conference of 1907 marked over its predecessor.” (Nation.)
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“No one has as yet so completely and adequately covered the second conference, and the volume is therefore the most complete account of the two peace congresses up to date. The volume will become a standard work and will prove especially valuable to editors, librarians and students. We notice only a trifling error or two.”
+ + − =Ind.= 65: 1304. D. 3, ’08. 370w.
“The arrangement of Professor Hull’s book renders it particularly convenient for ready reference.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 386. O. 22, ’08. 440w.
=Hume, Fergus W.= Green mummy. †$1.25. Dillingham.
8–20710.
The green mummy held in its hands some precious emeralds. Therefore a certain antiquarian eagerly desires it and therefore the mummy case is delivered to him, containing the dead body of the man who had been sent to procure the treasure. The story unravels the mystery of the murder.
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“It will puzzle and surprise you as thoroughly as anything else he has published.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 500. S. 12, ’08. 100w.
=Hume, Martin.= Court of Philip IV.: Spain in decadence. *$4. Putnam.
8–3611.
“A worthy sociological study frankly recognizing the intimate relation that court life bears to national life.” (Ind.) “Major Hume’s method is to present a series of pictures, chronologically arranged, of Philip’s life and surroundings, portraying as minutely as need be the other prominent personages of the era, and the social life.” (N. Y. Times.) “Having by birth and upbringing a foot in either camp, he has in most of his other works maintained a critical though friendly attitude towards Spain. In this he writes exactly as a Spaniard might have written on the same theme. In fact, his work is really a Spanish history, written in the English tongue.” (Sat. R.)
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“Major Hume lends a personal interest to his descriptions of the principal personages in the historical drama, and his rapid outline of the political situation is vigorous and effective in its brevity.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 821. D. 28. 1350w.
“Mr. Hume’s claim to have described an important period directly from the sources in a distinctly human and interesting way is well sustained.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 690. Mr. 26, ’08. 600w.
“A formal and judicial history would have been more valuable than these kaleidoscopic views of court life. Still the work is skilfully done, and the presentation of Philip’s incurable frivolity is complete and convincing.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 337. N. 8, ’07. 2000w.
“Errors and inaccuracies ... are by no means absent. A more serious fault of the book is its redundancy.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 16. Jl. 2, ’08. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
“The author’s art has been, through all the maze of detail, and the wealth of documentary evidence, to keep the image of the unlucky king clear and distinct and to enlist our sympathy.” R. B. C. Graham.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 571. N. 9, ’07. 1800w.
“He has compiled a picturesque and superficial book of the court, full of gossip and glittering pageants, but containing little of importance that is new. It cannot be accepted as a wholly trustworthy or scholarly account of his reign.”
− =Spec.= 99: sup. 745. N. 16, ’07. 1700w.
=Hume, Martin.= Two English queens and Philip. **$4.50. Putnam.
“This present volume contains a most clear and reliable narrative of that period in English history when the struggle between the Reformed faith and Catholicism was complicated by political intrigues and schemes which ended in Spain’s standing up as the actual antagonist of England in arms as well as in theological controversy, Mr. Hume tells of Mary Stuart’s marriage with Philip and of the incidents which led to that marriage; the events that followed Mary’s death, including Elizabeth’s refusal of Philip and the advance of the Invincible Armada, with whose defeat this volume ends.”—Lit. D.
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“The particular attraction of Mr. Martin Hume’s historical work lies in his dramatic power, his skill in weaving a succinct, vivid, and rapid narrative. He is picturesque without running to exaggeration, and his familiarity with the records, relics, and monuments of the sixteenth century in Western Europe is complete and under perfect control.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 673. N. 7, ’08. 600w.
“A book like this cannot be measured by the same canons as a serious historical work; it is frankly written to please a large public, and not for the instruction of specialists. We venture to think that in works like this he has found his real vocation, and, provided his readers are adequately warned not to accept all his statements unreservedly, we trust he may continue to live to produce a great many more.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Hume’s story ... is one of great interest—picturesque, dramatic, and vital.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 654. N. 7, ’08. 680w.
=Humphrey, Lucy Henderson=, comp. Poetic old-world: a little book for tourists. *$1.50. Holt.
8–21527.
A volume similar in plan to that of Miss Du Bois, and easily a companion to it. The ground covered is different and there are only fifty poems which both compilers have used in common. Here are poems relating to the voyage, Ireland, England, Scotland, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece and to the return.
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“Useful in libraries not having Longfellow’s ‘Poems of places.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 260. N. ’08.
“This is a delightful book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 60w.
=Ind.= 65: 383. Ag. 13, ’08. 40w.
“The selections, on the whole, are good, most of them familiar enough, but none the worse for that. And the editor has been wise, we think, in looking for pieces that convey some sentiment, personal or historical, connected with a place, rather than for mere descriptions.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 232. S. 10, ’08. 100w.
=Humphrey, Zephine.= Over against Green Peak. **$1.25. Holt.
8–12764.
“Aunt Susan, Jane, and I” make a real living personality of an old white house beside the road in the heart of a Vermont valley. The chapters of this book are of the nature of reveries, with the library, the garden, and the orchard for themes. Here one finds simple-life charm, the love of nature, and the joy of claiming the whole year for a comrade.
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“It is characterized by gentle humor, grace, and refinement.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08.
“It must not be supposed that the book as a whole is not as fresh and exhilarating, to nature-lovers, as the mountain air and mountain scenery that have largely inspired it.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 336. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The reader at once finds that he is not dealing with a commonplace mind.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 553. Je. 18, ’08. 170w.
“A worthy effort to express through poetry rural life in Maine.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 339. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“The reader takes part in the simple tasks and quiet enjoyments cordially, and puts down the little book with the feeling that it has afforded entertainment and that it has about it the unmistakable air of literary grace and refinement.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 100w.
=Hunt, Gaillard.= John C. Calhoun. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–23726.
A biography which furnishes the principal events in Calhoun’s private life and political career, and shows his identification with two opposing popular movements:—“how he helped to form a broad national sentiment, the part he played in the struggle in his state against that sentiment, and his leadership of the triumphant sectional sentiment.”
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“While the work does not show the brilliancy that made Von Holst’s similar biography so notable twenty-five years ago, its fairness to all parties makes it more trustworthy.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 257. O. 16, ’08. 170w.
“The use of more recent sources of history and researches among state papers and publications of Calhoun’s day add the sense of thoroughness and impartiality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 674. N. 14, ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Hunt’s sketch of the life and influence of the Southern statesman is a sympathetic and useful one, and he has supplemented his text with chronological and bibliographical notes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 110w.
=Hunt, Violet.= White rose of weary leaf. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
“Best defined as a sort of modern ‘Jane Eyre’ story.... The Jane Eyre of this story is not an inexperienced young girl, but a sad, disillusioned woman, who has long looked the world in the face, and expects nothing from it but injustice. The Mr. Rochester has been married, not once, but twice.... The spectacular tragedy is not a fire, but a railroad wreck, and even here the wife, though badly hurt, insists upon recovering.... The man, however, allows the other woman to believe that the wife is dead; and from this initial wrong the story moves strongly on to a double expiation, told in a spirit of grim fatalism.”—Ind.
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“The story is undoubtedly clever.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 317. Mr. 14. 300w.
“It is astonishing that a book so faulty should here and there show streaks of such undeniable merit.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 579. Ag. ’08. 220w.
“A disconcerting tale, not to be commended to readers of tender sensibility.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 230w.
“The title of this cumbersome story is suggestive of its effect on the reader.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 456. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“The book is clever, well written (the dialogue and one or two letters, being quite remarkable), and disagreeable.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 409. Mr. 28, ’08. 340w.
“Though distinctly clever as a study of character, is squalidly dreary, and makes very depressing reading.”
− + =Spec.= 101: 135. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
=Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane=, eds. Political history of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
Descriptive note for set in Annual, 1905.
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“As a colorless record of events and a clear elucidation of the history of parties and of political developments in England during the last half of the nineteenth century, the work of Messrs. Low and Sanders is completely successful, and, as a book of reference of this character, it has no rival in the field.” A. G. Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 583. Ap. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Altogether it may be said that in this volume we have an adequate, impartial, and highly readable account of the period it covers. Our chief criticism of the work is rather negative than positive.” E: P. Cheyney.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 523. Mr. ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Hodgkin marshals the known facts with great skill, and brings out a number of valuable points more clearly than any of his predecessors. It is possible, however, that he exaggerates the influence of the Norman conquest.” E: Fuller.
+ + − =Bookm.= 27: 311. My. ’08. 380w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Within the limits he was constrained to observe, it is well-nigh a model of its kind.” E: Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 311. My. ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Unfortunately, he chooses to devote the greater part of the volume to the minute narration of battles and sieges.” E: Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 312. My. ’08. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by E: Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 313. My. ’08. 150. (Review of v. 11.)
“One of the best contributions so far to an excellent work.” E: Fuller.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 314. My. ’08. 250w. (Review of v. 11.)
+ + =Ind.= 64: 1041. My. 7, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 7 and 12.)
“They fully maintain the reputation of the series for solidity and conservatism. As indicative of the machine-made quality which inheres in all the volumes of this series, the fact should be noted that the index [of v. 7] is defective in many particulars.”
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 173. Mr. 08. 300w. (Review of v. 5 and 7.)
“The young man in a hurry will find this volume very useful.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 768. D. 21, ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 12.)
“Generally the authors show a power of seeing all around the subjects which they handle.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 266. F. 15, ’08. 570w. (Review of v. 12.)
“A work of real value.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 134. Jl. 25, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 7.)
=Hunter, Alexander.= Huntsman in the South. *$1.50. Neale.
8–4450.
How the South goes a-hunting and bags its game is told in a sprightly narrative full of the atmosphere of field and stream. Among the most interesting chapters are “A coon-hunt” and “An old Virginia fox-hunt.”
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“Mr. Hunter’s ... hunting stories certainly have the virtue of a lively narrative form.” G: Gladden.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 609. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 50w.
=Hunter, Robert.= Socialists at work. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–11815.
The wide-spread espousal of the cause of socialism, the unquenchable fervor and invincible vitality of its adherents are the themes with which this book deals. It treats of the movement in Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, Belgium, of the progress of socialism, socialism and social reform, socialism in parliaments, socialism in art and literature, and a supplementary chapter on the movement in other countries.
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“The book is one of the best, if not the best, for reading by anyone who wishes to secure an answer to the questions, ‘Who are the socialists? What do they believe? What are they doing? How are they organized?’ and these are the important points to know about this movement.” A. M. Simons.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 263. S. ’08. 740w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. ’08.
“The material would serve well for a series of popular magazine articles entitled, ‘Notes on socialism abroad and at home,’ but as a book it is hardly worthy of the perusal of a student.” Scott Nearing.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 634. N. ’08. 300w.
“Despite these defects the book has some claim to a passing interest. While outlining the social reforms now in progress in Europe, it serves also to bring the reader into intimate contact with the men of the socialistic movement.” J. A. Lapp.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 146. Je. ’08. 600w.
“He reports with enthusiasm and some exaggeration the triumphs of the European parties that bear the same label as himself.”
− =Ind.= 65: 664. S. 17, ’08. 400w.
Reviewed by H. A. Bruce.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 387. Je. 20, ’08. 680w.
“Based as the book is largely upon personal observation and first-hand material, it presents many facts not elsewhere accessible; and it is admirably written. Its charm is largely due to the personal note.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 557. S. ’08. 340w.
“The world-sweep of the movement has never before been so clearly brought before the American reading public.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 130w.
=Huntington, Annie Oakes.= Poison ivy and swamp sumach. *75c. Annie O. Huntington, 31 Glen road, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
8–11102.
Presents “a series of photographs of poison ivy and swamp sumach which make it possible for even the casual reader to recognize leaves, flowers, fruit, and buds, and thereby to be protected against injury. A study of the accompanying text will enable the man who goes fishing early in the spring to distinguish the poisonous sumach without its leaves. There is also a chapter on the treatment of the poisonous eruption.”—R. of Rs.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 188. Je. ’08. ✠
+ =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 264. My. 9, ’08. 70w.
“Miss Huntington has performed a useful service.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 80w.
=Huntington, Ellsworth.= Pulse of Asia. il. **$3.50. Houghton.
7–36725.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 43. F. ’08.
“Although we are not impressed by the striking originality of Mr. Huntington’s method of treating his subject, he is a close and careful observer of what came under his notice, a skilful delineator of character, and a writer of considerable merit.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 178. Ag. 15. 1850w.
“Whatever our conclusions may be in regard to Mr. Huntington’s theories, we must allow him the credit of remarkably lucid presentation of a complex scientific question.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 104. F. 16, ’08. 550w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
“The incidents of his journey are narrated simply, and are often entertaining.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 64. Ja. 16, ’08. 500w.
“With its simple record of perilous adventures, its excellent illustrations, and its clear devotion to science first of all, it forms a noteworthy and inspiring work of travel.” G. A. J. Cole.
+ + =Nature.= 77: 314. F. 6, ’08. 800w.
“It is a record of careful investigation, with intelligent deduction based on scientific observation, but it is likewise a graphic and charmingly written description of journeyings in unfamiliar places.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 413. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“It describes Central Asia in particular. It shows the immense influence exerted by changes of climate upon the history of that region.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 798. Ap. 4, ’08. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 90w.
=Huntington, Helen Manchester.= Sovereign good. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–28983.
An absorbing story of the love of a young dramatist for a woman of the New York smart set twelve years his senior. Her great love, her renunciation, and at last reconciliation with the thoughts of the love that passeth understanding, of essential and sovereign good, are the motifs to which all else in the story is harmonious, artistic embellishment.
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“The lightness of the book’s impact upon the reader’s mind is the more regrettable in view of the writer’s manifestly sincere effort to express the inner eventfulness of commonplace life.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 150w.
“The author is evidently a novice in story writing, and her book is nine parts of talk to one of movement. But the many, many pages of conversation, description and analysis are written with intelligence and taste, and the character of Fidelia King, the lady who loves without response, is made lifelike and attractive.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 529. S. 26, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=Hurst, Edward H.= Mystery island. $1.50. Page.
7–32318.
Adventure lovers will fairly gallop thru these pages of crime and mystery. An embezzler attempting to escape the law hides on an island of the Everglades. His secret and the crime committed to cover it are discovered by the knight of the tale who, fever stricken, wanders thru the cypress swamps, happens to hit a trail, and comes upon the refugee and his unsuspecting party in camp upon the island’s oasis.
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“The author falls into the ruts of conventional fiction when he gets his characters back to civilization; but the island episodes are good.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 180w.
=Hurt, Walter.= Scarlet shadow: a story of the great Colorado conspiracy. $1.50. Appeal to reason, Girard, Kan.
7–40797.
“Treats of the war of extermination waged by the Mine owners’ association against the Western federation of miners. Mr. Hurt has given the side of the miners and has shown in an admirable manner many of the facts in the great conspiracy case. He also rightly holds up for the scorn of honorable citizens the Mine owners’ association and its ill-famed servant, Governor Peabody, and the malodorous Pinkerton thugs.”—Arena.
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“This book is written in the bright, crisp style of the modern alert newspaper man. It contains many strong and some very brilliant passages. It is highly dramatic and often grimly tragic. Much of the work is a vivid historic presentation, and so effective is this portion of the book that we specially regret that the author should have mixed romance with the history. Mr. Hurt’s book will appeal to socialists.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 252. F. ’08. 1100w.
“Any man credulous enough to believe the hundreth part of this book—could one so sublimely guileless be found—would certainly have a pleasant idea of life in the great west to-day. Wholesale murder, abduction, and torture are but incidents in this extraordinary tale. As for the journalistic life, which plays so large a part in the story, it is as saffron-tinted as one would expect from Mr. Hurt’s literary style.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 115. F. 29, ’08. 400w.
=Hussey, Eyre.= That little——: a sporting novel. †$1.50. Longmans.
An irascible father drives his son away from home because the latter will neither go into the English army nor accept a position in a certain London office. Richard goes abroad to seek his fortune, leaving the girl he loves to ride her horses, drive her car and look after his wise little terrier. The country setting makes the story, for the author has the trick of taking “a village in the shires and showing how much diversion and variety, not to mention useful activities, are to be found within and without its borders.”
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“The characters are as familiar as their surroundings. They have all been shown before, sometimes better, sometimes worse.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 150w.
“A genial and pleasant story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 732. D. 14, ’07. 240w.
* =Hutton, Edward.= Country walks about Florence. *$1.50. Scribner.
Mr. Hutton is a guide to the Florence “of old renown” and bids his reader linger in the vineyards, hear songs, see the olives silver in the wind, stoop to the flowers, make haste slowly because of the beauty of the day, and not think of hurry because of the beauty of the night.
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“The Florence of Mr. Hutton’s present book is worth a fireside journey through it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
“A useful addition to the literature of the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 814. N. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Florence and the cities of northern Tuscany, with Genoa, il. *$2. Macmillan.
“Impressions, experiences, reflections.” “You feel that while each palace and church and soaring tower of Florence has its own special message for [the author] and while ‘amid the hurry and bustle of her narrow splendid ways’ he thinks only ‘of old things for a time,’ the appeal of the country life outside of Florence, with its ‘beautiful gay roads,’ its ‘numberless villas whispering with summer, laughing with flowers,’ is even stronger to him, ‘for there abide the old ways and the ancient songs, which you will not find in the city.’” (Bookm.)
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“His present volume, though it contains little that is new in the way of thought or description, has a few chapters agreeable to read, and, scattered up and down pages somewhat overloaded with ornament and disfigured by repetitions, a good many passages of graceful writing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 266. S. 5. 540w.
“Although small, compact and yet comprehensive enough to do valuable service as a supplementary guidebook among the Tuscan cities, the book is written with a sympathetic understanding, an individual touch, a genuine charm of style which make it equally adapted to the needs of those who are preparing for first impressions and of those who are seeking to revive old memories.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“He has a happy quality of seizing an impression and transferring it to words, and his slight historical sketches, though necessarily incomplete, are quite adequate for the purpose he has in hand. His judgments are sometimes biased by feeling, and he does not always understand the Italian temperament.” K. H. V.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 623. Jl. ’08. 200w.
“Worth reading and deserving of shelf room beside Mr. Symons.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 523. Mr. 5, ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Hutton indulges rather too freely in sentimentality. He seems to be an amateur in history, art, in emotion, addressing amateurs. Nevertheless, he succeeds sometimes in speaking about art and life less affectedly than we fear he will.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 20w.
“We are very grateful to Mr. Hutton for the sheaves of golden fact which abound in this closely packed volume. The fifty-three pages on Pisa are the best thing we know in English on the treasures of the city and the fortunes of the Republic.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 237. F. 22, ’08. 650w.
=Hutton, Frederick Remsen.= Gas-engine: a treatise on the internal-combustion engine using gas, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, or other hydrocarbon as source of energy. 3d ed. $5. Wiley.
8–345.
“In the first two editions the author had prominently before his mind the idea of examining what the machine does and how this is accomplished. In this edition, on the other hand, he considers the gas-engine from the quantitative view-point more fully, that is, with the idea of examining the size it must have to do a certain amount of work in accordance with the limits set by natural laws.” (Engin. D.) “There is a more complete treatment of gaseous and liquid fuels and differs from the earlier edition in an expansion of the discussion of producers and of carbureters.” (Engin. N.)
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+ =Engin. D.= 3: 419. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“The subject matter generally is brought up to date in a satisfactory manner, with, however, some notable exceptions. It reads like the first draft of a book, written without verifying the quantities recorded, without digesting the information given, and without any attempt at accurate statement. The reviewer has gone into what may seem to be minor and trivial points, but in this particular case he feels it is necessary to call attention to these inaccuracies and carelessnesses of statement because they occur in practically every paragraph of the first half of the book. It is a pity that they have not been rectified, for the general plan of the book is good; but until they are corrected the book is too unreliable to be recommended for the use of students.” L. S. Marks.
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 438. Ap. 16, ’08. 1100w.
* =Hutton, Rev. William Holden.= Age of revolution: being an outline of the history of the church from 1648 to 1815. (Church universal ser., no. 7.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–20491.
A sketch in which “the author restricts himself to the history of the churches which claim an episcopate transmitted continuously from the first century. He imparts to it an interest, which might have been missed in brief treatment of a long period, by giving prominence to important episodes and representative individuals—e. g., Jansenism and Port Royal, the French revolution, Bossuet and Fénelon, Wesley, Joseph II of Germany. A salient feature of this ‘age of revolution’ impresses the reader who contrasts the present servility of the clergy to the Vatican with the free spirit often manifested then.”—Outlook.
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“His account of the intrigues which led to the suppression of the Jesuits is masterly, and the whole book is singularly readable. On one or two points, however, we are disposed to quarrel with him. On the whole, however, we have nothing but praise for this excellent book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 350w.
=Ind.= 65: 102. Jl. 9, ’08. 60w.
“This valuable little book corrects some current impressions of the eighteenth century.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 581. Jl. 11, ’08. 160w.
=Huxley, Thomas Henry.= Aphorisms and reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley: selected by Henrietta A. Huxley. (Golden treasury ser.) $1. Macmillan.
W8–95.
A little volume of quotations from Huxley’s writings. “An elaborate index makes this little book a veritable boon to the literary worker In need of apt illustrative quotations.” (Dial.)
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“Huxley was one of the meatiest of writers, and bears well this somewhat searching test of the quality of his thought.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 46. Jl. 16, ’08. 80w.
+ =Nature.= 77: 341. F. 13, ’08. 110w.
=Hyatt, Stanley Portal.= Little brown brother. †$1.50. Holt.
8–24469.
A story whose scene is laid in the Philippines after the capture of Aguinaldo. “The hero is a familiar character in fiction—a noble-minded Englishman who, as the result of scrupulous unselfishness, is under a cloud.... The action mostly concerns the attempt of an inadequate force to quell a rising of pulajanes, or murderous Christian fanatics.” (Ath.) “The heroine is a high-spirited English girl who likes men who ‘do things,’ and who shares with her father, a wealthy hemp buyer of Calbayog, a belief that it is the white man’s business to keep the little brown brother in his place with a strong hand.” (Nation.)
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“A story of unusual interest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“The author is at his best in realizing the sympathy which draws brave men together; he touches love with nobility and restraint, but his irony is too fantastic to be convincing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 122. Ag. 1. 130w.
“This book is much bigger and deeper than its central thread of romance.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 263. N. ’08. 600w.
“For sheer graphic force and the rare ability to make one see, it has a kinship with Mr. Dawson’s ‘African nights’ entertainment,’ and with the earlier Kipling, the Kipling of ‘Plain tales’ and ‘Soldiers three.’ The great fault of the book in point of technique is the manner in which it intrudes the writer’s personal views.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 409. O. ’08. 1450w.
“Considered merely as a novel, this book is of unusual interest. But the book is more than a novel; it is also a sensational political pamphlet. The interest of the narrative is overshadowed by the sweeping indictment of the American administration of the Philippines.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 141. Ag. 13, ’08. 560w.
“The book must rely for its popularity upon its merits as literature. And they are not scanty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 740w.
“The great advantage that the story has over bluebooks and reports is that it will be read,—no one who takes up Mr. Hyatt’s story will lay it down unfinished.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 100. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Psychical research and the resurrection. **$1.50. Small.
8–18413.
Contains essays relating to the subjects discussed in the author’s three previous volumes. “The present volume covers more or less of the whole field and may be regarded as a supplement to ‘Science and a future life,’ with conclusions quite the same.” A concluding chapter gives in detail the reasons for not accepting the proverbial story of the resurrection from the point of view of science, and offers the new interpretation of the facts as viewed in the light of psychic research.
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=Ind.= 65: 489. Ag. 27, ’08. 550w.
“The reader, who in opening this book hopes to discover some positive deductions relating to the nature of a future life, will surely close it with disappointment. Nor do we find this discussion of cases in itself very satisfactory, for we are asked to trust not only the writer, but every word of every person whom he trusts.”
− =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 1000w.
“It is impossible for any fair-minded person to read [this book], without admitting, however reluctantly, that he, at least, has preserved something of the scientific instinct and method in his ghost hunting, and that his work and his theories deserve that serious consideration the general absence of which he, now humorously, now bitterly, resents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 363. Je. 27, ’08. 800w.
“It is a great pity that he has seen fit to burden his pages with much controversial material. Still, the book is undoubtedly useful to those who wish to keep abreast of the progress of psychical research in the United States.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 19, ’08. 330w.
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=Iles, George=, ed. Little masterpieces of autobiography. 6v. ea. **75c. Doubleday.
This series comprises six handy pocket volumes of biography as follows: Greatest Americans—Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Marshall and Lincoln; Soldiers and explorers—Grant, Lee, Sherman, Roosevelt, Stanley, Peary, and King; Men of science—Darwin, Huxley, Newcomb, Geikie, Nasmyth, Bessemer, Edison, Acheson, Curie and Carnegie; Writers—Longfellow, Poe, Tennyson, Burns, Scott, Hawthorne, Dickens, Brontë, Eliot, Stevenson, and George; Artists and composers—Millet, Breton, Story, Nasmyth, Stillman, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Liszt, Gounod, Grieg and Haydn; and Actors—Jefferson, Booth, Cushman, Morris, Irving, H. B. Irving, Terry, Mansfield, Salvini, and Ristori; Letters, passages from famous biographies, and pages from diaries enter largely into the sketches.
=Inchbold, A. Cunnick (Mrs. Stanley Inchbold).= Lisbon and Cintra; with some account of other cities and historical sites in Portugal. *$3.50. Duffield.
8–21792.
An interesting, beautifully illustrated presentation of present day Lisbon, Cintra and other Portuguese cities. The buildings, monuments and ruins are seen in their historic settings, and linked with names famous from medieval times; while the questions of modern development and relative power of the cities are given due attention.
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“As she avoids the temptation to gush, the tone of her book is excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 287. Mr. 7. 170w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 515. S. 19, ’08. 120w.
“Mrs. Inchbold’s descriptive style is easy and pleasant, and the colored illustrations, by Stanley Inchbold, add to the artistic attraction of the volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 130w.
“The travellers by proxy will find this an interesting book, with charming coloured illustrations, giving them a vivid picture of a country full of historical buildings of great beauty; and the travellers in practice will learn of a hunting-ground full of promised delights, or will be able to compare notes and impressions.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 645. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Ingalls, Walter Renton.= Lead and zinc in the United States. *$4. Hill pub. co.
8–18051.
Comprises an economic history of the mining and smelting of lead and zinc and the conditions which have affected the development of the industries. “It attempts not so much to stimulate an antiquarian interest in the early discoveries and feeble attempts at exploitation of the lead and zinc deposits of this country, as to direct attention to the natural features, technical improvements and commercial issues which have contributed to the development of the industry.” (Engin. N.)
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“The book, while seemingly compiled with some haste, is for the major part clear, and contains so much pertinent cost data that it will prove valuable for reference as well as for study.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 83. Jl. 16, ’08. 440w.
=Inman, Herbert Escott-.= Wulnoth the wanderer: a story of King Alfred of England. †$1.50. McClurg.
The song of Gyso, the gleeman which saved from the oblivion of the past the heroic deeds of Wulnoth the wanderer, has made possible this drama of the Viking days. Here are immortalized the friendship of Wulnoth for Gruthred; the wanderings, perils, and warrings and his slaying of Hungwar, the Dane; the friendship with Alfred and Bretwalda and his love for Edgiva; and his last fight with Jarl Edric.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 560. O. 10, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 630. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=Ireland, Alleyne.= Province of Burma: a report prepared on behalf of the University of Chicago. (Colonial administration in the Far East.) 2v. ea. *$12.50. Houghton.
7–31201.
These two volumes form the first instalment of Mr. Ireland’s report which was undertaken for the University of Chicago, and which will extend thru twelve volumes. A year of preliminary study in London, two years of travel in the Orient, and three years given to the examination of six thousand volumes, mostly official documents, have been spent in preparation for the task. “The volumes contain masses of information concerning every branch of the administration, even down to the rules for the conduct of the business of the Legislative council” (Lond. Times) furnishing a basis of fair comparisons with other governments.
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“In reference libraries it must become a useful and indispensable handbook in its field.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 16, ’08. 220w.
“A most comprehensive and invaluable compendium.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 584. Mr. 12, ’08. 750w.
“Truly encyclopædic. Of much value to the student of colonial administration.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 378. D. 13, ’07. 300w.
“The reader a little above the average will discover much to attract him in the skilful collation of document and statistical abstract, which, even in the absence of interpretative comment, tell more or less of a story by themselves.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 537. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“The author has been highly successful in these two volumes in amassing material on which he can base comments of permanent value.” G: R. Bishop.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 132. Mr. 7, ’08. 1000w.
“The volumes on Burma promise thorough and painstaking editing for the series.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 523. S. ’08. 1350w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 438. Ap. 4, ’08. 1100w.
“No one who has a serious interest in the great administrative problems of empire can afford to be without access to such an imperial encyclopaedia. We congratulate Mr. Ireland on an enterprise which bids fair to rival the greatest feats of German research.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 302. F. 22, ’08. 1200w.
* =Irving, John.= Stories from the history of Oxfordshire. Oxford.
“Mr. Irving who is head master of a boys’ school at Oxford has made thirty little stories out of the historical and legendary material of a country rich in traditions. It is his purpose to stimulate the child’s interest and imagination, and to lead him imperceptibly on to desire a more substantial acquaintance with history.”—Nation.
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“Mr. Irving has achieved simplicity and lucidity to a laudable extent, and his ‘Stories’ are interesting throughout.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 94. Jl. 25. 160w.
“Desirable book for children’s reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 185. Ag. 27, ’08. 90w.
=Isham, Frederic Stewart.= Lady of the Mount. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–5226.
Set in the northwestern part of France, this story is an illustration of that struggle between métayers and inexorable nobles which entered so largely into bringing on the French revolution. The Mount is a stronghold of the government ruled by an unyielding lord who conceded nothing to the people and pursued only the “set tenure of his way.” The leader of the opposition is the son of a seigneur whom the governor of the Mount had wronged and whose lands he had confiscated. Thru all the strife of uprisings runs the thread of romance—the love of the high-born lady of the Mount for her half-peasant hero.
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“This is one of the best novels of its class that has appeared during the present year.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Ives, Howard Chapin.= Switches and turnouts. 50c. H. C. Ives, Worcester, Mass.
“This study consists of three articles which originally appeared in the ‘Journal of the Worcester polytechnic institute.’ The author calls attention to the following points: First, the descriptions of the different forms of switches and their effect on the lead; second, the statements of practical conclusions to be found at various places in the text; and third, the design of the slip switch, the mathematics of which are believed to be original, not having been found elsewhere by the author.”—Technical Literature.
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“While not developing any new theory, the arrangement of the material is good and the mathematical treatment concise, so that it forms a handy reference book to add to the railway engineer’s handbook.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 100w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 333. O. ’07. 80w.
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=Jacob, Violet.= History of Aythan Waring. **$1.25. Dutton.
8–3675.
Two cousins love “a delightful young Diana of the uplands,” thereby incurring for one of them the jealousy of a vindictive woman. “The hero is found guilty of attempted murder, and sentenced to death. His lady-love is a winsome creature, and his rival, the villain, is remarkably human for a character of his type. Hester is a striking figure; her delineation is a sombre study of the madness which may arise from a woman’s jealousy.” (Ath.)
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“The tale is leisurely melodrama, presented with more fidelity to detail, and rather more logical sequence and characterization, than is usual in this class of story.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 155. F. 8. 130w.
“The characters are vaguely drawn; the dialogue is perfunctory and bookish; the melodramatic plot is dawdling, lifeless, and absurd.”
− =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
“The book is somewhat above the average novel in style, characterization, and vigor of treatment. Mrs. Jacob, however, falls short in the most essential quality in fiction—the dramatic touch.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 100w.
“The story is very well told.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 40. My. 2, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 70 w.
“Nevertheless, though its execution is not so good as its conception, it is a fine story, thoughtful and imaginative. It is because Mrs. Jacob writes so well that we expect her to write better.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 200w.
“It is characteristic of Mrs. Jacob’s method that she is able to dispense with all the trappings and actualities and decorative apparatus of modern society without in the least impairing the intrinsic interest of her story.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 191. F. 1, ’08. 720w.
=Jacobi, Mary Putnam.= Stories and sketches (1860–1871). $1.50. Putnam.
8–11830.
A collection of the writings of Mary Putnam Jacobi which are “partly a memorial to the life of a talented woman, whose notable success as a physician and whose personal influence are worthy to be remembered, and partly a tribute to the intrinsic value of her few literary productions. All of these stories, sketches, and essays, eight in number, date previous to her graduation in 1871 from l’Ecole de Médecine, for after that event she decided to concentrate her energies upon her chosen scientific and professional work.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“They make interesting studies from the historical point of view. Undoubted talent is exhibited in them, but they belong to another day; and probably the author was wise in giving up literary work for the scientific life to which she adhered subsequently.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 40. Ja. 11. 210w.
“Intent as she was on the scientific pursuits that were to be her life work, she could yet write papers of such delicate wit, such incisive expression, such clearness of thought and appreciation of the picturesque as raises them quite above the level of the magazine article for which purpose they served, and makes them as vividly interesting now as at their first printing, thirty or forty years ago.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 319. F. 6, ’08. 310w.
“In the stories and sketches the appeal is usually to the intellect rather than to the emotions, and a striking feature of both these and of the essays is the firm touch with which the author goes to the heart of a character or a situation, and puts its essential feature into terse, telling, and concrete form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 180w.
“A feeling for the supernatural, an appreciation of good style in writing, and a pleasant play of imagination characterize the stories. The book will be of especial value to the many friends of Dr. Jacobi.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 829. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
=Jacobs, Philip P.=, comp. Campaign against tuberculosis in the United States, including a directory of institutions dealing with tuberculosis in the United States and Canada. $1. Charities pub. com.
8–27800.
This work, compiled by Mr. Philip P. Jacobs under the direction of the national association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, is a survey of the Anti-tuberculosis activity during the past ten years. The book has been made possible thru the coöperation of the Russell Sage foundation.
* =Jacobs, William Wymark.= Salthaven. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–30011.
“A little seaport, a simple-minded captain, a pretty girl, a young man full of assurance and ingenuity, a pert maidservant with her sailor lover—we have met their like many a time in his pages, yet his story is so good humored that it is impossible not to enjoy it.” (Sat. R.) “The novel shows a keen appreciation of the conversational cruelties of women of the lower middle class; and an officious captain who contrives to be bedridden in the house of a couple returning from their honeymoon is prodigiously amusing.” (Ath.)
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“Mr. Jacobs is one of those happy men who can be as funny as they please without detracting from the love-interest of their stories.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 603. N. 14. 110w.
“The author is here at his most characteristic. The growth of his familiar episode into a book has not impaired its quality.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 467. N. 12, ’08. 120w.
“There are no thrills and no breathless passages, but it is thoroughly restful and charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 240w.
“The sly turns, the badinage and chaff, the oddly conceived situations, are all Jacobs at his best.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Jacobs has found no fresh ingredients for his latest dish, but his skill in varying the old recipe is so great that we hardly notice this until we have come to the end.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 490. O. 17, ’08. 130w.
“Another of Mr. Jacobs’s delightful stories.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Jacobstein, Meyer.= Tobacco industry in the United States. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–36149.
“Deals in a dispassionate way, yet clearly, with the facts of the development of the tobacco trust which has of late been the subject of such heated presentation and litigation. The book covers the whole field from the first plantations in the colonies to the foreign trade and the tobacco tax.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“Dr. Jacobstein knows his subject and the monograph gives evidence of much careful work.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 446. S. ’08. 130w.
“The author has covered a large field in a relatively small compass but has done it in an eminently satisfactory manner, and has shown both good judgment in his selection of facts and wise discrimination in the emphasis he has given to the different parts of the subject. Few readers of the work will be inclined to feel dissatisfied with the completeness of the author’s statements or the reliability of his conclusions. The monograph is written in an excellent style and proves easy and interesting reading. Perhaps the only serious criticism of the work from scientific standpoint is the lack of a bibliography. Even the references in the footnotes are not abundant and apparently do not include all the sources of information used by the author.” M. B. Hammond.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 124. Je. ’08. 1200w.
=Jacobus, Melancthon Williams=, ed. Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles compared. (Gould prize essays.) 2d ed. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–5163.
The scriptural controversy embodied in the Gould prize essays has resulted in the demand for a justification of the positions assumed by the authors. Such a justification is found in this second edition, which, in addition to the original essays, also includes the sources from which material has been drawn.
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“The bibliography is a valuable piece of work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 228. Je. ’08.
“Extended notes and bibliographies add much to the value of the papers.”
+ =Bib. World.= 31: 320. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“The authors of the essays were somewhat overwhelmed by the mass of facts which they were supposed to include in a brief popular presentation of the subject, and their accounts are bewildering to the reader who is not at home in the history of Biblical translation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 377. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 78. F. 8, ’08. 300w.
“The work thus completed far outranks all others on the same subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 564. Mr. 7, ’08. 220w.
=James, George Wharton.= What the white race may learn from the Indian. *$1.50. Forbes.
8–17541.
Out of the fulness of a varied experience with red men, Dr. James sets down essentials of health and happiness which the Indian observes, and by a study of which the white man may profit. The author rejects the Indian’s shortcomings of slovenliness and dwells upon racial characteristics that are manifested in the lives of the best men and women and which seem to represent their habitual aims, ambitions and desires regarding physical, mental and religious development.
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“His account of the life, labor, customs and mental attributes is excellent. The book is valuable and could be read to advantage by all whites.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 140w.
“Many writers have treated of the Indian in a more or less interesting manner, yet we know of no modern essayist who approaches Mr. James in appealing at once to the artist, the utilitarian and the humanitarian.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 473. N. ’08. 300w.
“The book is no mere apologetic essay in behalf of a wonderful people; it is a characterization of qualities which have been largely overlooked.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 257. Ag. 22, ’08. 400w.
“Both hygienically and ethically this book is profitable in the easy chair, and those who would travel to meet ‘the call of the wild’ will find direction in it.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 582. Jl. 11, ’08. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 125. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=James, Henry.= Novels and tales of Henry James. 23v. $46. Scribner.
7–41582.
A collective and definitive edition of Henry James’s novels. “To each volume the author contributes a preface, telling the circumstances under which he composed the story, the purpose he had in view, the difficulties under which he labored, and the final result as he now views it after the lapse of many years.” (Nation.)
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“The prefaces will be a delight to all Jamesians, even to many who modestly disclaim such a title. To such a one these prefaces may be interesting chiefly as helping on toward one’s conception of the novel as a literary form.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 44: 174. Mr. 16, ’08. 2050w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“The same principles which Mr. James has discust in his other critical writing now take on [in the prefaces] an unwonted intensity and intimacy. They furnish the key to the whole admirable work he has accomplished; and show it as a goodly structure, reared upon a coherent plan.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1–6.)
“These prefaces ... are written, we regret to say, in Mr. James’s most exasperating style. The sentences are clogged with qualifying clauses, as if Mr. James’s readers had not sufficient intelligence and imagination to perceive qualifications in the very frame of the phrase and connotation of the words, but insisted that it all be put down to the last syllable.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 11. Ja. 2, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The prefaces, in spite of the exasperating style, continue as interesting as in the first volumes of the set.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 215. Mr. 5, ’08. 600w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“The preface, in which Mr. James criticises his own work, is somewhat less interesting than earlier prefaces in this edition.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
=Nation.= 86: 511. Je. 4, ’08. 400w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
=Nation.= 87: 115. Ag. 6, ’08. 570w. (Review of v. 11 and 12.)
“If a new quarto of ‘Hamlet’ should appear done over like the text of ‘The Americans’ the judicious scholiast would promptly declare that stage directions had, as inextricably as inexplicably, got tangled up with the text and helplessly corrupted it. Apparently the judicious reader will consult his interest and his pleasure if he reads the new preface very carefully, looks over the revised version for passages of exposition and comment, and then recurs to the original text.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 13. Ja. 11, ’08. 3800w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The most proportioned of his productions after ‘The ambassadors.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 111. F. 29, ’08. 1120w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 128. Mr. 7, ’08. 880w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
“One is glad to have the preface with the new edition, and to any reader who does not yet know Mr. James’s works thoroughly we heartily commend both.” E: A. Dithmar.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 198. Ap. 11, ’08. 1050w. (Review of v. 7 and 8.)
“To these books he has prefaced essays of very considerable length and of characteristic thoroughness, which are really chapters in autobiography.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 145. Ja. 18, ’08. 360w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=James, Henry.= Views and reviews; now first collected; with introd. by Le Roy Phillips. $1.50. Ball pub.
8–16451.
There are included here a dozen of Mr. James’s essays which were contributed to magazines during the sixties and seventies. They are as follows: The novels of George Eliot, On the drama of Robert Browning, Swinburne’s essays, The poetry of William Morris, Matthew Arnold’s essays, Mr. Walt Whitman, The poetry of George Eliot, The limitations of Dickens, Tennyson’s drama, Contemporary notes on Whistler vs. Ruskin, A note on John Burroughs and Mr. Kipling’s early stories. Mr. Phillips says: “A true lover of Mr. James’s work feels the same delightful sense of intimate discovery in touching these early papers that an artist does in finding a portfolio of early sketches by a beloved master.”
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+ =Dial.= 45: 171. S. 16, ’08. 120w.
“These miscellaneous articles by Mr. James have a real interest, often from the topics, still alive after two decades; always for the sake of their accurate thought and penetrating judgments.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1312. D. 3, ’08. 350w.
“Mr. Le Roy Phillips has done something which will give every reader of Henry James a distinct pleasure in collecting these early papers. The clarity of the views, the justice of the criticisms evident in these pages on writers long since become classical, are surprising.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 385. Jl. 11, ’08. 670w.
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 810. Ag. 18, ’08. 270w.
=James, R. A. Scott-.= Modernism and romance. *$2.50. Lane.
8–17229.
“Intended to form a continuous argument; and various authors and books are selected ‘as examples of certain intellectual or emotional forces which are working in our midst and are moulding the psychical organism of society.’ There are sixteen chapters with such captions as ‘Science and vandalism,’ ‘The decadents,’ ‘The apostles of protest,’ and ‘The new romance.’ In each chapter he discusses representative authors; thus under ‘The fugitives’ he writes of Lafcadio Hearn, Miss Edith Durham, Pierre Loti, and Jack London; under ‘The self-conscious poet,’ of Mr. W. B. Yeats, Mr. Stephen Phillips, and Mr. John Davidson.”—Dial.
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“The individual essays in the book are bright as well as thoughtful, although one must often differ from the writer’s opinions, literary or other. Judging the volume as a whole, we must feel, despite the many meritorious parts and frequency of suggestive or even stimulating passages, that the author has not achieved the unity and comprehensiveness for which the title and introduction led us to hope.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 255. O. 16, ’08. 320w.
“Is made up of rambling essays, light in their quality in spite of the formal introduction, and all readable enough.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 840w.
=Jameson, E. M.= Pendleton twins. il. $1.25. West. Meth. bk.
In this Pendleton book the twins occupy the center of the stage. Their frolics and thrilling adventure furnish for the young reader wholesome excitement.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The author understands child nature, and in the midst of fun and mischief keeps a steady view of the inherent honor to be found in well-brought-up children.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 654. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 80w.
=Jameson, John Franklin=, ed. Original narratives of early American history, ea. **$3. Scribner.
7–6643.
=v. 6. Davies, William T.=, ed. Bradford’s history of Plymouth plantation. 1606–1646.
After an eventful career the manuscript of which this volume is a reprint was deposited in the Massachusetts state library where it is protected by a fire-proof safe but daily exhibited under glass to visitors. It is the only extant history of the Plymouth colony’s early years. It tells of reformation and persecution in England, plans for removal, the voyage of the Mayflower, the growth of the colony, troubles with England, the policies of governors, the growth of the Salem church, beside numerous details of struggle and progress.
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“Accepting ‘Narratives of early Virginia’ as it stands, too high praise cannot be given the splendid editorial work which has been done.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 909. Jl. ’08. 500w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 724. My. ’08. 150w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The volume contains an admirable index.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 621. N. ’08. 130w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Ind.= 64: 924. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w. (Review of v. 3–6.)
“Mr. Davis has performed his editorial functions with good judgment and without prejudice, and has kept his comments refreshingly free from the incense of ancestor worship.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 6.)
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w. (Review of v. 6.)
“The editor has given the text a rather more liberal annotation than has been customary in this series of reprints, and has prefaced it with an excellent biographical and historical introduction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 125. My. 16, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 6.)
“An excellent reprint.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 6.)
=Jeanrenaud, Henriette.= Duke of Brittany; tr. from the German by G: P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23710.
The story of the brief career of Arthur, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Constance of Brittany. It records the events of Arthur’s youth, the death of the father, the relations of his mother to Philip of France, the boy’s love for his uncle Richard, his service in the field with Philip, his betrothal to Marie of France, the war with John, and his capture and assassination.
=Jeans, James Hopwood.= Mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism. *$4.50. Putnam.
8–14346.
An elementary text book for the student and physicist, aiming to cover the mathematical theory of a range of electro-magnetism, the understanding of which is necessary before proceeding to the study of special branches or developments of the subject. The work is more elementary than Maxwell’s treatise.
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“We feel that in a treatise which is designed to guide students so far it would have been advantageous to insert more references to the authorities on parts of the subject for which space could not be found.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 18. Jl. 4. 640w.
“The most important book in the field of physics of the year—or of many a year.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 315. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
“In a few places there are slips which can hardly be assigned to the printer. The type of reader for whom the book is best adapted is the student preparing for a mathematical examination, such as the Cambridge tripos, in which theory plays the principal part. It should also, however, prove a good book of reference to the physicist of superior mathematical attainments. For either of these types of readers it seems likely to be a really useful book, so far as its scope extends.” C. Chree.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 537. O. 1, ’08. 1000w.
=Jebb, Camilla.= Star of the salons: Julie de Lespinasse. (Memoir ser.) *$3.50. Putnam.
8–16930.
While the author scarcely lays bare the secrets of Mlle. Julie de Lespinasse’s success as a salonist, she does reveal the fascination of her personality, the intellectual charm which cast its spell over men of ambition and genius, and the piquant sorrow of her love first for the dying Marquis de Mora, and then the Comte de Guibert. “The four great scenes in French society are first depicted in a vivid, entertaining manner, and then Julie de Lespinasse is portrayed among them—an incarnation of the gloom, passion, and heroism hidden beneath the gay, untroubled surface of life in her age.” (Ath.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 503. Ap. 25. 970w.
“The chief feature of interest in this new biography ... is the minute study it contains of the times in which she lived.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1004. O. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Is in substance an informal ‘doing into English’ of the biography, already officially translated, of M. de Segur. It makes, however, with its twenty illustrations, a fresh and delightful contribution to the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 580w.
“The writer is less engaged in the hunt for scandal than is usual in works of this kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 333. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
“Miss Jebb uses the material discovered by M. de Ségur, but refashions it, with feminine wit and love, into a different effect.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 552. N. 7, ’08. 400w.
“It is a sincere, sympathetic, cultivated and even learned biography.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 506. Ap. 18, ’08. 270w.
=Jebb, Caroline Lane.= Life and letters of Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, by his wife Caroline Jebb; with a chapter on Sir Richard Jebb as scholar and critic, by Dr. A. W. Verrall. $3. Putnam.
8–3928.
So far as the biographical portion is concerned it is an informing revelation of the influences brought to bear upon rare birthright ability to produce a profound scholar, teacher, and man of the world in the best sense of the trite expression. His letters “are long and numerous, and are gracefully written, vivid, self-revelatory to a sufficient degree to give them a strong personal flavor, and full of brilliant comment upon people and literature.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 189. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 645. N. 23. 2150w.
“His wife has performed her task as editor with most commendable tact and cleverness, giving enough, even of his letters to her, to show what manner of man he was, and yet never overstepping due bounds.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 330w.
“Written with taste and discretion, free alike from fatuous English and sentimentalism. But, apart from Dr. Verrall’s admirable chapter, she and her helpers have hardly paid attention enough to the scholarly side of the subject. Further she has not attempted any distinct portrait of the man.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 609. N. 16, ’07. 1450w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Character of Jesus. **$1.50. Crowell. 8–24445.
Dr. Jefferson, of the Broadway tabernacle, discusses Jesus, the man, as seen by contemporary friends and enemies. The studies include such phases of Jesus’ character as strength, sincerity, reasonableness, poise, originality, narrowness, breadth, trust, brotherliness, optimism, chivalry, firmness, generosity, candor, enthusiasm, gladness, humility, patience, courage, indignation, reverence, holiness and greatness.
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“The preacher’s attitude is one of healthful devotion, and is not marred either by polemical conservatism on the one hand or by barren criticism on the other.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 367. N. ’08. 60w.
“Among the almost countless host of books on the life of Jesus Christ this volume has a place by itself.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 457. O. 24, ’08. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 757. D. ’08. 50w.
=Jekyll, Gertrude.= Colour in the flower garden. *$3.75. Scribner.
W8–153.
A fully illustrated volume based upon extensive knowledge, wide experience and good taste. The author shows how successfully a garden “may make a picture, or a succession of pictures”; she believes “that color and massing are as important to the gardener as to the artist.” “Of course, it may be said that this is gardening in excelsis. Still, it supplies an ideal; and we are the better for having an ideal, whether we can reach it or not.” (Spec.)
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“The book may be thoroughly recommended to amateur gardeners, while even professionals may obtain from it much useful information.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 274. S. 5. 500w.
“Everyone with a trace of gardening instinct will enjoy Miss Jekyll’s book, and those who work under anything like the same conditions will find it very helpful.” E. K. Dunton.
+ =Dial.= 44: 339. Je. 1, ’08. 460w.
“The volume is worthy of the highest praise from all points of view.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 210w.
“The photographs are charming, and, studied in conjunction with the plans, instructive; but there is considerable repetition in the letterpress.” A. M. Cecil.
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 527. Ap. 25, ’08. 500w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 626. Ap. 18, ’08. 140w.
* =Jenks, Tudor.= Photography for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–18279.
A book for beginners which describes the use of the camera, chemicals and processes, and gives definite instruction on all points of picture taking and making. There are chapters also on the history and chemistry of photography.
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“In his effort to be clear and explicit the author is very verbose, and the book could have been condensed to advantage.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 273. N. ’08.
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 30w.
“A great deal of valuable information and practical advice are contained in Tudor Jenks’s book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 486. S. 5, ’08. 120w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Four philanthropists: a clever satire. 75c. Cupples & L.
With London for a setting this story with many a shrewd scoundrel tells, in the main, how three men started a society to do away with philanthropists. A girl of seventeen is the fourth philanthropist and heroine-in-general, who makes a sure target of the hearts of the other three in her innocent arrow practice.
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“Frankly, it is not up to his standard, and has nothing of the romantic interest which he got out of his stories in earlier days.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 90w.
“The narrative is well-sustained, and, with its avoidance of mere facetiousness, is a bit of agreeable fooling.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 400w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Tangled wedlock. †$1.50. McClure.
8–8097.
A group of sponging artistic and literary freaks of Bohemia form the background of this tale which places well to the fore the self-reliant daughter of one of “The circle” and her lover, a sculptor, who together strike some well-aimed blows at the lotus-eating elect of their Bohemia. The crisp, refreshing methods of the eccentric heroine in dealing with the butcher’s boy who kicked a cat, with her mother’s finances, with the subject of model-posing, and with marriage itself place her in an original class. The unconventional plot with its tangle of marriages is full of novel construction.
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“The pages are enriched with some fine touches of involuntary humor; but on the whole, recalling the dictum that easy writing makes hard reading, one is led to the conclusion that ‘Tangled wedlock’ must have flowed lightly from a facile pen.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 287. Mr. 26, ’08. 100w.
“The ill-chosen title does not prepare us for this very readable and well-written novel. The work is finely tempered, the style one of commendable clarity, and the whole is pervaded by humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 139. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“The satire lacks subtlety, and the psychological analysis with which the other writers have added value to their chaff is wanting.”
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 50w.
“His work is a triumph of manner, and after reading his story it is by the way he has handled his subject rather than by the subject itself that one is impressed.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 52. Je. 11, ’08. 320w.
=Jerningham, Sir Hubert Edward Henry.= From West to East, notes by the way. *$4. Dutton.
7–42345.
Although no portion of Sir Hubert’s travels from Paris to Japan and Manchuria is left unrecorded the interest centers in his impressions of Japan and the scenes of the late war. “The greater part of the volume, therefore, is devoted to an account of the Japanese experiences. These included interviews with several noted men, among others Admiral Togo and Marquis Ito. The government gave him permission to go to Mukden and Port Arthur, the battles and siege of which places are described with much detail.” (Nation.)
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“Sir Hubert writes pleasantly always, if without great literary distinction; he has observed sensibly, and all men of intelligence must be interested in the chatty record of his observations.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 161. F. 16, ’07. 450w.
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 350. Mr. 23. 700w.
“A reading of this book leads one to look upon the author’s report of his six months’ journeying as a sort of ‘disjecta membra,’ written by a man who is capable of more valuable and entertaining writing than is contained in the present volume.” H. E. Coblentz.
− =Dial.= 41: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 250w.
“The work is quite superficial ... [though] free from the faults of the books of the majority of globe-trotters, frequently suggestive, and entertaining from beginning to end.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 59. F. 22, ’07. 600w.
“It is difficult to see the ‘raison d’être’ of the book, except the pleasure which the author evidently had in writing it.”
− =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 230w.
“The author’s descriptions are always gracefully written and are often enthusiastic enough to be vivid, but they reveal only a mind of rather commonplace order. Sometimes his observation was too hasty to be accurate and his generalizations more picturesque than true.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 150w.
“[There are] some vivid descriptions of visits to battlefields of the Russo-Japanese war, and some incisive, picturesquely put opinions of Japanese national policies.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 80w.
“An interesting and well-informed diary. The best part of the book is that dealing with the scenes of Japan’s great struggle with Russia from Port Arthur to Mukden.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 180. F. 9, ’07. 150w.
=Jerrold, Walter Copeland.= Highways and byways in Kent; il. by Hugh Thomson. $2. Macmillan.
8–11802.
Guide book haste is eliminated from these pages which are intended for the sojourner rather than the lightning tourist. “Mr. Jerrold writes but little description—barely enough to keep before the reader’s eye a vague vision of the appearance of the country, but he peoples every road and field, every village and historic relic with an impressive company of spirits, the men and women who have made twenty centuries of history, the figures of legend and tradition, and the characters of history.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The book is pleasantly written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“Some of his illustrations suffer from undue haste. Notwithstanding criticisms, the general charm of the drawings prevails over any possible defects in a few cases. There is a good deal of pleasantly written and slightly informing matter throughout these pages, and certainly the writer takes some pains to relieve them from possible dullness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 34. Ja. 11. 1000w.
+ =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 130w.
“An exhaustive and informing volume.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 694. Mr. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Treated with fulness and fine reminiscent flavor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Jerrold seems to know, with both love and knowledge, every foot of the ground and all its literary and historic associations. The illustrations show a quality in the treatment of picturesque corners and a skill in the suggestion of space and distance comparable with those of Joseph Pennell, although worked out with much more attention to detail than is usual with that artist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 92. F. 15, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Thomson’s figures are specially delightful; never careless and always in the right place, they in no case mar the general effect, as too often foreground figures will.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 45. Ja. 11, ’08. 1250w.
“A book which at any rate will stand for long as the best ‘hors d’œuvre’ to the Kentish banquet.... Mr. Jerrold is staid enough, and though never startling in epithet or enthusiasm, is a very agreeable cicerone. Mr. Hugh Thomson, the illustrator, is very unequal. When he is not good, he is almost bad; but when he is good, he is very good indeed.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 102. Ja. 18, ’08. 470w.
=Jevons, Frank Byron.= An introduction to the study of comparative religion. (Hartford-Lamson lectures on the religions of the world.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–30157.
The author treats his subject from the standpoint of the missionary in foreign countries, who must understand other religions besides Christianity in order to establish common ground for the basis of operation. The subjects treated are immortality, magic, fetichism, prayer, sacrifice, morality and Christianity. Bibliography and index.
=Jewett, Sophie (Ellen Burroughs, pseud.).= Pearl; a middle English poem; a modern version in the metre of the original. **$1. Crowell.
An accurate and melodious modern version of a middle English poem.
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“A translation whose fidelity is instinctive, grace answering to grace. It is not too much to say that Miss Jewett’s translation crowns the series.” K. L. Bates.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 450. D. 16, ’08. 1450w.
=Job, Herbert Keightley.= Sport of birdstudy: a book for young or active people. *$2. Outing pub.
8–17737.
Designed for beginners in bird study, and tells how to become acquainted with the birds of any ordinary country town, how to go about the sport and what the results are likely to be. The book is profusely illustrated and “besides being an accurate piece of scientific work, forms a bird-census of a region never before investigated or written up.”
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“Although written for adult readers, will be enjoyed by many young people.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Job will do well to see that hereafter his fine pictures are not stultified by this pointless use of his text.” G: Gladden.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 605. Ag. ’08. 1000w.
“Deserves most commendation because it shows boys in story form how much pleasure and sport may be found in studying birds in any ordinary country place.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 317. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“It is quite devoid of unwholesome sentimentality, and yet shows for the bird world as loving sympathy as man can well have with the lower species.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“A book to delight the average healthy-minded boy, and one to create an interest in a fascinating form of recreation and study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 356. Je. 20, ’08. 100w.
=Johnson, Allen.= Stephen A. Douglas: a study in American politics. **$2.50. Macmillan.
8–11832.
An interpretation of Douglas’s personality as a representative figure in the controversies that preceded the civil war, covering carefully the circumstances that shaped him into the “natural spokesman of the conservative slaveholding democracy and filled him with the ideas of expansion and local control out of which popular sovereignty was to grow.”
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“Admirable both as a biography and as a contribution to American history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08. ✠
“The very limitation of the subject has led to omissions that prevent the study from being a complete picture of Douglas. The description of the politician, however, is very satisfactory.” C. W. Alvord.
+ =Dial.= 45: 211. O. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“He has given us a brilliant and well-balanced biography. To a notable degree he has succeeded in portraying a man moving in his environment.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“A careful and animated account of a vehement and stormy career.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 280w.
“On the whole, Professor Johnson has made good his sub-title, for he has produced ‘a study in American politics’ that has all the life and realism of a moving picture in which Douglas is the most conspicuous figure.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 360w.
“His style is clear and pleasant, and he quotes so freely from his authorities, naming them so numerously, that his book will be one of authority.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 700w.
“Well constructed, well written, and eminently sensible.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 859. Ag. 15, ’08. 970w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 475. O. 3, ’08. 450w.
=Johnson, Alvin Saunders.= Introductory economics. $1.50. School of liberal arts and sciences for non residents, N. Y.
8–9770.
“In the main Dr. Johnson has written a series of studies illustrating the operation of the two economic principles of diminishing utility and diminishing returns with some additional chapters on general economic subjects such as money, financial institutions, international trade, etc. The volume does not claim to be a general text-book on the whole field of economics. Its aim is rather to reach the lay public than the student body, for the author believes that, ‘in a democratic state economic science should be for the many, not for the few.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“By those economists who hold the productivity theory of distribution, this book can merit naught but praise. It is a clear, logical presentation written in terse English. To that growing group of economists, however, who have broken from the Clark idea of marginal productivity and adhere to the price or exchange theory, the book offers little of value.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 446. S. ’08. 200w.
“In point of scholarship leaves nothing to be desired. Unfortunately the mechanical execution of the volume is not all that is should be.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“Assuming that there is a real need for a book of this character—which some of us will consider questionable—the one before us must be accounted to have met that need very successfully. The style is simple and effective; the illustrations happy; the tone moderate and candid. The peculiar doctrines of the school represented are so diluted by qualifications or contradictions that their objectionableness is much diminished; while the treatment is so concrete as to give an air of complete reality to a body of doctrine which is, to say the least, somewhat transcendental.” F. M. Taylor.
− + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 459. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“If any criticism is to be passed upon his work it is that it is confessedly eclectic rather than hewn from a single quarry. The absence of an index is inexcusable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 233. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“If the other books in this series succeed as well as this one in popularizing modern learning the School of liberal arts will have accomplished much for the education of a large number of Americans who are now deprived of such advantages.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 639. My. ’08. 240w.
* =Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Elm-tree fairy book. †$1.50. Little.
A third collection of Mr. Johnson’s versions of wonder tales. It follows the plans of his two previous volumes. He retains the charm, goodness and interest of the old classics but cleanses them of lies, cruelties, bloodshed and suffering.
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=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“The illustrations are decorative in arrangement, but the characters are rather gross in type.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 38: 765. D. ’08. 50w.
=Johnson, Clifton.= Highways and byways of the Pacific coast. (American highways and byways ser.) **$2. Macmillan.
8–26885.
A book of leisurely tourist jaunts over mountain trails, into rural byways, among mountain foothills, and thru farming regions of the Pacific coast country. Emphasis is placed upon typical and picturesque country life. At the end of each chapter are to be found notes containing suggestions for prospective travelers.
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“A more readable book of travel is not often published.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 200w.
“Besides a book written primarily to entertain, Mr. Johnson has brought together here so much practical information in regard to the places which he has visited that his work should prove to be of value to those contemplating a trip on the western coast of the United States.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Johnson, Henry.= Life and voyages of Joseph Wiggins, F. R. G. S., modern discoverer of the Kara sea route to Siberia; based on his journals and letters. *$5. Dutton.
8–15733.
Captain Wiggins, the Hudson of the Northeastern seas, was the discoverer of the Kara sea route to Siberia. From extracts and journals the story is told of his years of seafaring life and his thirty years of struggle and hardship to open a highway thru the Arctic seas, and of his dying without its establishment.
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“A deeply interesting volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 151. Ag. 8. 1200w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 305. Ap. 2, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 510. Ap. ’08. 30w.
“The book is well written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 21. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
“A spirited story of the undertaking.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1058. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
=Johnson, Herrick.= Ideal ministry. **$1.75. Revell.
8–16404.
Ideal ministry as here set forth “merely brings home to conscience the responsibility attaching to the individual sinners, and the offer of a salvation obtained for each by the cross of Christ as an expiation for their guilt.” (Outlook.) “We may specially mention what seems to us a very sensible summary of the respective advantages of the extempore and the written discourse, and of the memoriter method.” (Spec.)
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“His sage counsels are distinguished by rugged common sense.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 463. N. 12, ’08. 70w.
“That the ideal ministry must be based on the theology of seventeenth-century Presbyterians, as Dr. Johnson insists, none disputes more incisively than his fellow-presbyter, Dr. Carter, in his recent book, ‘Wanted—a theology.’ Nor will the ideal ministry draw Dr. Johnson’s line between sacred and ‘merely secular’ topics, to exclude the latter from the pulpit. All real interests in God’s world, however secular, have a sacred side. But, while open to these criticisms, this volume is, as the work of an acknowledged master should be, a valuable addition to the cultural apparatus of preachers.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 580. Jl. 11, ’08. 300w.
“Much that he says will be found of value. And all through there is manifest a most earnest spirit, and a desire to give his readers or hearers of his very best. We should like to have had a much fuller bibliography.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 595. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Johnson, Robert Underwood.= Poems. 2d ed. **$1.20. Century.
8–16592.
Includes poems formerly published under the titles, “The winter hour,” and “Songs of liberty,” also two new groups of poems under the headings “Italian rhapsody, and other poems” and “Moments of Italy, and other poems.” “Who longs for music merely longs for love” suggests the characteristic philosophy of the poet in abstracting absolute qualities of resemblance and presenting them on the plane of the ideal.
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“Gracefulness and facility are the dominating qualities of Mr. Johnson’s verse, together with a sense of technique, and skill in the using of it.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 265. S. 5. 300w.
“This is clearly a case in which the effect of the whole is greater than the sum of the effects produced by the several parts. For one thing, the collective volume shows us the surprising breadth of the poet’s range.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 63. Ag. 1, ’08. 530w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 389. Jl. 11, ’08. 380w.
=Johnston, Charles H. L.= Famous cavalry leaders. $1.50. Page.
8–22309.
Accounts of the forced marches, dashing raids and glorious charges of fifteen heroes of sabre, spur and saddle: Attila, Saladin, Genghis Khan, Chevalier Bayard, Count Pappenheim, Gustavus Adolphus, Prince Rupert, Old father Ziethen, Frederick William Baron von Seydlitz, Francis Marion, Marshal Ney, Joachim Murat, Jeb Stuart, Phil Sheridan and George Armstrong Custer.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 70w.
“It is a historical book and a good one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 110w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 60w.
=Johnston, Mary.= Lewis Rand. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–23560.
An historical novel set in the administration of Jefferson. Federalist and democrat-republican are pitted against each other in political combat. The hero, Lewis Rand, is a republican; his rival in love and politics, a federalist. Rand, self-made, a protegé of Jefferson, is on the way to fame when he is tempted by Burr to join the latter in his mad and treasonable enterprise of setting up an empire beyond the Alleghanies. The tragedy of Rand’s temptation and fall is powerfully portrayed, intermingled with the gentleness and devotion of the wonderful Jaqueline.
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“The story is in marked advance of Miss Johnston’s earlier ones.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 269. N. ’08. ✠
“An historical novel extending over 450 closely printed pages subjects the reader’s patience to an unduly severe test, and we cannot say that the interest is always maintained; but the charm of Miss Johnston’s writing makes amends for much.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 130w.
“A well imagined and strongly told tale, within the limitations laid down by the conventions of this particular kind of story telling.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 143. O. ’08. 430w.
“The tragedy of Rand’s life is cleverly worked out; though he occasionally indulges in a display of sentimentality that scarcely fits the strong man’s character and tediously delays the march of the action.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 259. N. ’08. 470w.
“The story is a strong one, richly furnished forth with the accessories of historical fact and of the manners of Virginians a century ago. It provides a vivid presentation of a deeply interesting period in our national annals, and it throbs with a very real life, albeit a life romantically tinged.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 294. N. 1, ’08. 600w.
“Made notable by a sudden maturing of its author’s power to portray the depths of character.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1182. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“The book is, we think, a piece of permanent literature and must rank as one of the finest novels of its class which have appeared.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 600. O. 24. ’08. 380w.
“The story is notable for a deepening of thought and maturity of analysis that are almost startling in comparison with its predecessors.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 317. O. 1, ’08. 530w.
“One of the strongest works of fiction that has seen the light of day in America.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 660w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“This story marks a decided advance in Miss Johnston’s power and art.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 361. O. 17, ’08. 340w.
“Some of the customs of the time, notably the method of viva voce voting, are well described.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 70w.
“Will add to her reputation as a serious novelist both by the interest of the plot and by the excellence of the character-drawing.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 887. N. 28, ’08. 250w.
=Johnston, Reginald Fleming.= From Peking to Mandalay: a journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch’uan and Yunnan. *$5. Dutton.
8–34209.
“Mr. Johnston is a district officer and magistrate at Wei-hai-wei. The journey he describes was a result of a long-felt desire to see the various tribes subject to China which inhabit the wild regions of Chinese Tibet and north-western Yunnan. He went neither as a sportsman nor a political agent, but as a scholar—an adventurous scholar, which, we may add, is a very admirable character. Boldness is generally rewarded and Mr. Johnston met with no ill-treatment or even discourtesy in districts supposed to be the most ‘anti-foreign’ in the Empire.”—Spec.
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“Taken as a whole, his work is the most important of its kind that has come under our notice for some years.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 721. Je. 13. 1750w.
“There is a great deal of matter in his book that will interest geographers, ethnologists, and religionists.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
“We cannot profess always to agree with his conclusions, but there is not a page on which he does not earn our respect. Such a work may safely be included among the small number of books of travel which are important.”
+ + − =Spec.= 101: 267. Ag. 22, ’08. 1350w.
=Joly, Henri L.= Legend in Japanese art. il. *$25. Lane.
8–15873.
A description of historical episodes, legendary characters, folklore, myths, religious symbols and of historical and fabulous personages and incidents illustrated in the arts of old Japan. The book contains over seven hundred half-tone illustrations and sixteen full-page color prints.
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“We commend with confidence this sumptuous treasury of research, not only to British collectors, who are sometimes reproached with appraising their ‘curios’ at a purely commercial value, but also to more disinterested lovers of art and legend, who will find in it many golden keys to the genius and spiritual wealth of Japan.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 261. D. 21, ’07. 2500w.
“The work is indispensable to collectors, who will find in it ample, and on the whole accurate, explanations of the subjects of Japanese art, without which no real comprehension of the merits of an example is possible.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 168. F. 8. 450w.
“Far transcends anything heretofore available for reference. In the main it is accurate, the errors being few and of minor importance.” F: W. Gookin.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 211. Ap. 1, ’08. 1100w.
“The enormous amount of matter collected together in the volume bears testimony to the indefatigable zeal with which the author has attacked his subject.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 200w.
“This handsome and interesting book will no doubt be as welcome to collectors of various forms of Japanese art as to the general reader, who will find it excellent entertainment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 286. My. 23, ’08. 450w.
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Jones, Francis Arthur.= Thomas Alva Edison: sixty years of an inventor’s life. il. **$2. Crowell.
8–4377.
A book for every library. It is not alone valuable for its history of the great inventor’s achievements in electricity but for its illustration of the fact that inventing may be learned, if only the creative germ is fostered that lies hidden in most brains. We have Edison at fourteen a shock-headed “news butcher,” newspaper editor and chemical experimenter—all on train-board; at eighteen, “tramp” telegraph operator; at two and twenty an inventor, selling his stock-ticker for forty thousand dollars. Then follow one after another inventions that have astonished the world. Besides his scientific successes, Edison, the man, is portrayed as intensely human.
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“A really fascinating biography which makes no pretence to distinctive literary style but tells the story of the man and the inventor with simplicity, enthusiasm, and sincerity.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08. ✠
“One of the most valuable biographical sketches of recent years.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 730. Je. ’08. 470w.
“With young men possessed of some love of science, fondness for machinery, a taste for experimenting, and a touch perhaps of inventive genius, the book is sure to be a favorite; as a finger-post pointing the way to success for brains and energy, it ought to exert a good influence; and its attractiveness to the lover of biography is beyond dispute.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 126. Mr. 1, ’08. 1750w.
=Educ. R.= 35: 315. Mr. ’08. 40w.
“Is written quite agreeably and sympathetically.”
+ =Elec. World.= 51: 514. Mr. 7, ’08. 120w.
“It is regrettable that the many interesting passages should be so promiscuously peppered with inaccurate and misleading technical matter.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 296. Mr. 12, ’08. 450w.
“The value of the book is limited by the fact that his attitude is entirely uncritical.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 868. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The literary critic and the scientific man, however, will not regard it as a finished piece of work, since it reads too much like a series of newspaper articles, or contributions to ten-cent magazines. But the results detailed in Mr. Jones’s biography are immensely impressive.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 313. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
“It would be a capital book to place in the hands of schoolboys.” G. H. Bryan.
+ =Nature.= 78: 122. Je. 11, ’08. 1000w.
“They who care to watch the wheels of progress go around will like this record of the wizard and his spells.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
“A most human picture of the man himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“We should say that this was in every way an attractive and very likely an inspiring book to put in a boy’s hands, while in its literary character it is perfectly well suited for older readers also.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Jones has made the most of his materials, and the result is a volume of captivating and unusual interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 380. Mr. ’08. 160w.
“It is a very human and vivid picture of an energetic boyhood, and a very stimulating one too; for if he had ideal parents, and especially that type of mother which all great men must have, his boyhood reflects credit on the man himself. We should like to have heard more about them; it is our only disappointment on putting down this fascinating book, which will please both the scientific enthusiast and the student of character.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 994. D. 14, ’07. 140w.
=Jones, H. Stuart.= Roman empire. (Story of the nations, v. 75.) $1.50. Putnam.
8–22316.
For the professional student as well as the lay reader of Roman history. The author aims “to present in a graphic narrative the picturesque and noteworthy periods and episodes of Roman history in their philosophical relations to each other as well as to universal history.”
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“He seems to us wanting in boldness of omission, if we may use such a phrase.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 260. S. 5. 920w.
“A work of great value in itself, and of rare promise for the future.” W. A. Goligher.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 541. Jl. ’08. 740w.
“Probably no more competent writer could be found to tell the story of the Roman empire than Stuart Jones.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 321. Ag. 6, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 454. Ag. 15, ’08. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 254. Ag. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Stuart Jones has done a very great feat.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 792. Je. 20, ’08. 950w.
“A very warm commendation of his book to our readers.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 640w.
=Jones, Rev. John Peter.= India, its life and thought. **$2.50. Macmillan. 8–30291.
Observations and experiences recorded out of thirty years of missionary life in India. Themes which the author discusses are India’s growing unrest, due to the dawning consciousness of strength, India’s many faiths, the Hindu caste system, the gita, popular Hinduism, pessimism, modern religious movement and the progress of Christianity in India.
=Jones, Llewellyn A. A., and Bellot, Hugh H. L.= Commerce in war. *$6. Appleton.
8–8473.
A book providing a full exposition of the rules of international law which govern the commercial relations of neutral and belligerent states. Its value is enhanced by its full quotation from treaties, ordinances, and judgments bearing on subjects of contraband, blockade, continuous voyage, carriage of property at sea, right and formality of search, capture and condemnation, recapture and rescue.
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“The treatment of the subject is extremely practical.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 471. Ap. 20. 1000w.
“Mr. Atherley-Jones has given his views on certain well-known decisions and executive orders with trenchant vigour.” T. Raleigh.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 389. Ap. ’07. 150w.
“It is the fruit of great industry. Some parts of the subject, notably contraband, have been examined with much care. The exposition is generally clear and accurate. There are copious citations from judgments and treaties which make the book useful to those whose library of international law is small. It is the critical side of the volume which is the weakest.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 19. Ja. 18, ’07. 800w.
“Such an exposition cannot fail to prove useful—as the author hopes—to the lawyer, the shipowner and shipper; to diplomatists and consuls: but it will also contribute to the advancement of the freedom of commerce in war.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 200w.
“On all the rules of international law under these headings, governing the commercial relations of the subjects of neutral and belligerent states, Mr. Atherley-Jones’s book is a treasure-house of information.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 607. Mr. 14, ’08. 150w.
“So far as we have examined the digest it seems carefully and lucidly framed, and the book should fulfil the authors’ desires and make an excellent manual of practice.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 504. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.
* =Jones, Plummer Flippen.= Shamrock-land: a ramble through Ireland. **$2. Moffat.
8–33798.
“A good general description in a running, happy-go-lucky way, of Ireland as it is at the present time, with a lot of good pictures.” (R. of Rs.) “In seeking places of interest and scenes of beauty, of course the author visited Lissoy (now better known as Auburn, Goldsmith’s Deserted village), the Lakes of Killarney, Blarney castle, the Giant’s causeway, the Golden vale of Tipperary, and other inviting districts.... There is much more of the sunshine of the Celtic temperament than of its occasional gloom in this study of Pat and his Emerald Isle.” (Dial.)
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“Has just enough of historical and statistical information to be useful without being tiresome, and a wealth of personal observation and experience that make excellent reading.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 260w.
“The photographs illustrating the book are excellent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 50w.
“Mr. Jones not only knows Ireland, but loves it, and writes with enthusiasm and vivacity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 758. D. ’08. 90w.
=Jones, Thomas S.= From quiet valleys; poems. $1.25. G. W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
7–38615.
A book of graceful verse, which borrows its peace-loving themes from nature.
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“Mr. Jones is a poet of nature, and has felt the soothing ministries of woods and fields and skies. His verse, moreover, is freighted with enough of imagination to be truly significant of the life of the spirit.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Aspects and seasons of nature most inspire his volume and fill it with a kind of transparent violet shadow.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 100w.
=Jonson, Ben.= New inn; or, The light heart; ed. with introd., notes, and glossary by George Bremner Tennant. (Yale studies in English, 34.) *$2.50. Holt.
8–12456.
“The justification for this edition is the text, which has been carefully prepared from the earliest editions.”—Nation.
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“The introduction is for the most part a perfunctory discussion of previous discussion, and quite without edification. The notes on the text, although they exhibit much industry, are needlessly copious.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 192. Ag. 27, ’08. 400w.
=Jordan, David Starr=, ed. California earthquake of 1906. *$3.50. Robertson.
7–42337.
Contains eight separate articles each of which discusses the subject from a different viewpoint. “The general scientific or, more properly, geological matters, are treated by President Jordan, Prof. J. C. Branner, G. K. Gilbert, and Dr. H. W. Fairbanks; the more strictly seismological aspects by Dr. F. Omori of the Imperial earthquake investigation committee of Japan; the engineering and architectural lessons, by Prof. Charles Derleth, jr., certain local details by Stephen Taber; and the human side of the sudden calamity, by Mrs. Mary Austin.” (Nation.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“While written from the scientific point of view, they are invested with a good degree of popular interest.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 250w.
“Both scientific and non-scientific readers will find much to interest them in it.” H. H.
+ =J. Geol.= 16: 584. S. ’08. 90w.
“They afford an interesting account of the catastrophe; but the advantage of presentation from different points of view is offset in part by the unavoidable repetitions incident to a compilation.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 338. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“This is a collection of nine well-written essays, which, as might be expected, more or less overlap in their subject-matter.” J. Milne.
+ =Nature.= 78: 27. My. 14, ’08. 800w.
“Mrs. Austin’s contribution is the vivid, human picture of an eye-witness of the catastrophe.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 89. F. 15, ’08. 150w.
“These essays and descriptive papers give perhaps as well as writings can give a clear, comprehensive, and accurate view of the great earthquake and its associated phenomena.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 200w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= Fishes. (American nature series.) il. **$6. Holt.
7–42325.
Less for technical students of ichthyology than for nature lovers and anglers this volume contains practically all of the non-technical material included in Dr. Jordan’s “Guide to the study of fishes.” The fishes used as food and those of special interest to anglers in America receive full attention while both existing and extinct families of fishes are treated in proportion to their importance. The volume of nearly eight hundred pages contains approximately seven hundred illustrations.
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“As the contraction has been effected by means of the scissors and practically no change has been made in the text the connections are not always smooth.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 190. Je. ’08.
“The author’s wide knowledge of this group of animals, his comprehensive selection of interesting data, his terse, lucid, often humorous presentation of his subject, and the superb selection of illustrations, all combine to make this by far the most readable and interesting popular natural history of fishes which has as yet been published.”
+ + =Dial.= 44: 181. Mr. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Presents contradictory and disappointing features.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 290. Mr. 26, ’08. 550w.
“It is difficult to conceive of a better book on the subject, for Mr. Jordan possesses the exact knowledge and infinite patience of the scientific mind with the sympathy and imagination of the great teacher, so that he not only knows his subject, but he also knows how to awaken keen interest and understanding in his readers. There is thus a vital quality to his book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 93. F. 15, ’08. 200w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 120w.
“Dr. Jordan has aimed to make this volume interesting to nature-lovers and anglers and instructive to all.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 170w.
* =Jordan, Edwin Oakes.= Text-book of general bacteriology. *$3. Saunders.
“This book is intended to give a bird’s-eye view of the entire field of bacteriology and, although necessarily largely medical in its scope, it includes also references to the various applications of bacteriology to the arts and industries. Although treating the subject in this general way, it cannot be considered as an elementary book. It is rather a sort of bacteriological Baedeker in which the reader will find references to guide him in whatever direction his interest lies.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“The author’s style is clear and pleasing, and the arrangement of the subject matter is excellent, the frequent side-headings and the very complete index making reference easy. Engineers may find the work somewhat limited on its sanitary side. Throughout the book the more theoretical aspects of bacteriology are, if anything, treated better than the practical applications.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 566. N. 14, ’08. 540w.
“Some of it is a little special for a general reader quite unfamiliar with the subject, but much of the book is easy and pleasant reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 440w.
* =Jordon, Elizabeth Garver.= Many kingdoms. †$1.50. Harper.
8–30707.
Creatures of fancy as well as sturdy flesh and blood mortals of real life people Miss Jordon’s world of stories. The elusive lady of dreams and the invisible child playmate demand of the reader a subliminal flight, while the Henry Smiths—middle aged newly-weds—detain this same reader within the walls of a New York hotel where the two spend their honeymoon too diverted to risk their lives among the crowds of Broadway.
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“There is no startling originality in these pleasant tales, indeed, at times the note is definitely reminiscent, but there are wholesome humor and pathos, and the felicity of description that one has come to expect from Miss Jordon as a matter of course.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 526. N. 26, ’08. 140w.
“For the most part Miss Jordon’s literary workmanship is very clever and of more artistic value than is to be found in a great portion of prolific output of American short stories. She frequently spoils the artistic effect of a scene or of an entire story by overelaborate description of presentation and by unbridled indulgence in adjectives and adverbs.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 720. D. 5, ’08. 220w.
=Jost, Ludwig.= Lectures on plant physiology; authorized English tr. by R. J. Harvey Gibson. *$6.75. Oxford.
8–3923.
The work of the professor of botany in the Strassburg university translated by the professor of botany in the University of Liverpool. “After an introduction, which states clearly the problems and methods of physiology, the author divides the field into three parts: (1) Metabolism, (2) Metamorphosis, (3) Transformation of energy.” (Nation.)
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“Though it lacks the suggestiveness and comprehensiveness of Pfeffer, and can by no means replace that indispensable work, its clear and picturesque style adapts it better to the advanced student and teacher. It is well to have it available in English even at the exorbitant price.” C. R. B.
+ − =Bot. Gaz.= 44: 309. O. ’07. 770w.
“The translator has done his work conscientiously and on the whole satisfactorily.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 1100w.
“The English rendering lacks accuracy. We express our high esteem for Prof. Jost’s lectures. The exposition is extremely lucid, and just what is needed for students taking up the advanced study of physiology.” F. F. B.
+ − =Nature.= 77: 97. D. 5, ’07. 1150w.
=Judd, Charles Hubbard.= Psychology; general introduction: volume one of a series of text books designed to introduce the student to the methods and principles of scientific psychology. *$1.50. Scribner.
7–23072.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“When one recalls the multiple and difficult aims of the work, the result constitutes a notable achievement. Many will vote it the most comprehensive introductory text that has recently appeared. The chapters wide in scope, rich in learning, and intensely practical,—all these produce an impression of fullness and adequacy to be desired in a general introduction. The style is pedestrian, simple, and generally clear.” E. H. Lindley.
+ − =J. Philos.= 4: 713. D. 19, ’07. 600w.
“The most defective portion of this book is that on the formation of the concept, a title which is forced into covering the judgment and the process of reasoning as well.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 1400w.
“Unquestionably the approach to the material is in several chapters somewhat sophisticated, and the absence at many points of definite and distinct lines of demarcation is likely to be felt by the beginner in a disastrous manner.” J. R. Angell.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 432. Jl. ’08. 2500w.
“This volume, taken as a whole, impresses me as an exposition of the author’s system of psychology which is calculated more to interest and challenge the attention of his brother psychologists than that of his students. The author’s style is expository and argumentative, straightforward, but not easy and varied enough to hold the attention of immature readers.” G. M. Whipple.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 114. Ap. 15, ’08. 2600w.
“Professor Judd’s contribution to the available facilities for the teaching of psychology is a notable one. The plan is consistent, the execution capable, the result distinctive.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 27: 775. My. 15, ’08. 2700w.
=Judson, William Pierson.= Road preservation and dust prevention. *$1.50. Eng. news.
8–24251.
Concerned with the problem of the preservation of the surface and the prevention of dust on macadamized roads. “The author has compiled in convenient form a history, taken from the principal engineering journals and publications, of the experiments which have been conducted in recent years attempting to solve the problems, and of the manner, as well as the materials, in and with which they have been carried out.” (Engin. Rec.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08. ✠
“We feel that Mr. Judson has rendered a valuable service in reducing the subject to a condition that permits of comparisons being made and that gives officials who are not experts, reliable information to guide them in the selection of a suitable remedy for the cure of their own local troubles.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 303. S. ’08. 740w.
“Mr. Judson has rendered the road engineers and roadmakers of the whole country a very valuable service in collecting, collating and discussing the great mass of data on the subject, scattered through the periodicals and society transactions.” S. Whinery.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 427. O. 15, ’08. 650w.
“May be referred to with benefit by those who are taking up the subject for the first time.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 306. S. 12, ’08. 170w.
“His book should be in the hands of state and local road officials throughout the country.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 250w.
=Julie’s= diary: a personal record; tr. from the Danish by Julia Le Gallienne. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
A personal record which serves as a “beware!” for girls chafing under the monotony of a colorless life, who demand a little day of eventful happenings. Julie is an austere professor’s daughter. She holds in abeyance her lover who could do no more than transplant her from one home at the mercy of the peace of dullness to another like it. Of her own accord she comes under the hypnotic spell of an actor. Her day once spent on the husks of life she returns to the shelter of Erik’s love, scarred but wiser far.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
“Full of a charm, a delicacy, and an insight rarely met with and refreshing in the extreme. A fine art is required to tell such a story and keep it on its high level. This art the author possessed and the translation retains much of it, though it is not quite first rate.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 260w.
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=Keane, Augustus Henry.= World’s peoples. *$2. Putnam.
8–10848.
“A. H. Keane has gathered into a volume of a little over 400 pages, profusely illustrated from photographs of the originals, a synopsis of the latest—or almost the latest—view of human genesis and a description, often in some detail where the race is barbarous enough to be interesting, of all the divers peoples of the globe, duly subdivided and classified under the usual groups of black, red, yellow, and white.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The formal descriptions, the enumeration of peoples, and the geographical relations are well done, but social and mental questions are not so well handled.” W. I. Thomas.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 123. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 238. O. ’08.
“In spite of its defects, the book is readable, well illustrated, and in some respects a convenient manual. Such a work is needed, and is particularly difficult to produce.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 168. S. 16, ’08. 630w.
“It contains more information about the characteristics of different races, their beliefs and customs, than any other book of its size, as interestingly written as such condensed matter can be, and abundantly illustrated.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
“Like Peschel and Ratzel, to name only the most prominent authors of ethnographies, Mr. Keane has too little system and perspective, and exhibits too little power of renunciation.”
− =Nation.= 86: 222. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Fertile in curious interest and rather unusually up to date.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
“It is in the wealth of detail that its value lies.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 280w.
=Keatinge, Maurice Walter.= Suggestion in education. *$1.75. Macmillan.
E 8–32.
A study in educational psychology, “We are shown the extreme forms of suggestion and dissociation: then we pass to an examination of suggestion in normal waking states. Next come the conditions, preliminary and immediate, under which suggestion is affective. The remaining four chapters, from the seventh to the twelfth deal with the influence of suggestion in the formation of character.” (Dial.)
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“Mr. Keatinge deals interestingly and simply with the psychology of suggestion.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 70. Ja. 18. 450w.
“Very thorough and helpful. The writer has uncommon powers of psychological description: his account of the subconscious, for example, seems to us the best short description we have met (p. 143 ff). He has also in a high degree the art of making his exposition vivid and interesting without being diffuse, by mingling just the right proportions of the concrete and the didactic.” E: O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
=Keays, H. A. Mitchell.= I and my true love. †$1.50. Small.
8–28998.
A story dealing with marriage, divorce, a second marriage, regret, and final reconciliation thru a child of the first marriage.
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“A clever book with a perspective of real life.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 90w.
“A slight and rather clever novel. The pretty child might be fascinating if the author had not made the fatal mistake of letting her be vulgar.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 498. N. 19, ’08. 280w.
“The characters in this book are not puppets, yet they are scarcely real. They are ideas in human form. Her people are conceptions rather than creations. With these conceptions the novelist seems at times to flirt vivaciously. The story is deftly arranged, but savors of impossibility.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Keller, Albert Galloway.= Colonization: a study of the founding of new societies. $3. Ginn.
8–18742.
From the viewpoint of the economist and sociologist the whole history of colonization is covered in this study which aims to meet the needs of college students “both by presenting in English a mass of data not readily accessible, and by arranging the same in such system and order as to emphasize the salient aspects of the process of colonization.” Emigration, colonial trade, race contact and like questions are treated in preference to historical, administrative and legal detail.
=Keller, Helen Adams.= World I live in. **$1.20. Century.
8–30582.
A group of fourteen essays and the poem “The chant of darkness.” Miss Keller shows how rich her deaf-blind world is with three senses—touch, taste, and smell. Some of the chapters are: The seeing hand, The hand of the race; The power of touch; Smell, the fallen angel; Relative values of the senses; The five-sensed world; Inward visions; Before the soul dawn; The dream world; Dreams and reality; and A waking dream.
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“Most interesting book, which, though it concludes with a metrical ‘Chant of darkness,’ will be found to emanate much sweetness and light.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 346. N. 16, ’08. 550w.
“Thruout her small volume of essays a new world is opened up for our consideration, a new standard of physical and spiritual values is formulated.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1124. N. 12, ’08. 250w.
“This certainly is one of the wonderful books.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 60w.
“A unique and intensely interesting bit of autobiography.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 230w.
“A valuable autobiographical contribution to the study of human possibility.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 110w.
“These essays go farther than previous writings of Miss Keller in revealing her psychic experiences.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 100w.
=Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.= American insects; with many original illustrations by Mary Wellman; 2d ed. (American nature ser., group 1.) **$5. Holt.
8–16424.
The revision substitutes a detailed analytical table of contents for the simple list of chapter titles used in the first edition, and gives an additional chapter (Chapter 19) on the subject of insect behavior and psychology.
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“An authoritative semi-popular work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 277. N. ’08.
“Its high merit has been recognized, and that by a constituency not easy to please. It well deserves this patronage.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 122. Ag. 6, ’08. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 393. Jl. 11, ’08. 170w.
“So written as to make it usable by any intelligent person who feels an honest interest in natural history.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Both because of the authority of the text and the accuracy and general excellence of the original illustrations, this work has made a place of its own in scientific literature. For the American naturalist it is indispensable.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 60w.
=Kellogg, Vernon Lyman.= Insect stories. (American nature ser.) **$1.50. Holt.
8–21773.
Strange, true facts of insect life by an authority on insects in story form for young readers. He records interesting observations about wasps, spiders, red beetles, ants and their enemies, orange dwellers, grass-hoppers, May-flies, bees and honey-ants.
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“Though not many children will read it, those who are already interested in the subject will thoroughly enjoy it.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 248. O. ’08.
“Is not a child’s book, in the strict sense; it is written with the child rather than for him. But no intelligent youth can fail to read it with delight and profit.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 166. Ag. 20, ’08. 200w.
“A vast amount of information about wasps, bees, spiders, ants, and other little creatures is charmingly presented by Prof. Kellogg.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 459. Ag. 22, ’08. 750w.
=Kelly, Edmond.= Elimination of the tramp. **$1. Putnam.
8–5259.
A sociological as well as economic study of vagrancy reinforced by knowledge and experience gained during a long residence abroad. The author states his problem, shows the advantage of classifying tramps, and urges the introduction of labor colonies with a view to solving the tramp problem. This latter topic—its success in Switzerland and the arguments in favor of its adoption in America—occupies the main portion of his discussion. He closes with a chapter on indiscriminate almsgiving.
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“This book is a notable addition to the discussion.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 128. Jl. ’08. 100w.
“A brief, informing, highly interesting, practical work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 191. Je. ’08. ✠
“Aside from the question of the value of the method in America, the book gives a very good account of the European colonies and deserves careful consideration.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 714. My. ’08. 100w.
“We think that ... Mr. Kelly’s plan would be an improvement on present conditions, but we cannot think it would eliminate the tramp. The tramp of to-day is the result of conditions of our civilization that must change before their present results pass away.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 301. My. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“Develops what seems to be a very practicable plan adapted to American conditions.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 532. Mr. 5, ’08. 170w.
“A careful study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 26. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
“He expounds his problem and suggested solution with energy and intelligence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 177. Mr. 28, ’08. 80w.
=Kelly, Myra.= Wards of liberty. †$1.50. McClure.
7–35624.
A new group of East Side stories. “Eva and Sadie and Morris still adore Miss Bailey and converse in their ‘near-English’ with her. There is more pathos, and more depth of revolt at some of the hard conditions among the poor, in these stories than in those preceding. ‘Little Bo-Peep’ is a horrible picture of suffering, and some of the others are heavy with sorrows.” (Outlook.)
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“They are really humorous creations, both funny and pathetic; Miss Kelly has, we think wisely emphasized the fun.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 480w.
“Humor in phrase and situation lightens all, while heterodoxy actually rages in some of the tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 130w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 124. Ja. ’08. 140w.
=Kemmerer, Edwin Walter.= Money and credit instruments in their relation to general prices. (Cornell studies in history and political science, v. 1.) *$1.25. Holt.
8–9034.
“A defense of the quantity theory of money from the metaphysical school of economics.... It gives a clear and admirable statement of the quantity theory, in its most modern form, also it aims to present in full strength the theory underlying the value of token money, which supports the recommendations of the ‘Report on the stability of international exchange,’ prepared mainly for Professor Jenks.” J. Pol. Econ.
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“The volume has great value as special reference for students doing advance work in economics. It would hardly be profitable, however, to place the book in the hands of one not thoroughly familiar with the elements of the subject.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 714. My. ’08. 250w.
“The monograph is well balanced theoretically, and there has evidently been a conscientious effort to take account of all of the principal methods of investigation in this field, whatever may be thought of certain applications made of them or of the ways in which the material used is manipulated.” H. P. Willis.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 139. Je. ’08. 840w.
“The study is of the kind which is a credit to American scholarship. Its spirit is not that of a critic seeking to quibble: it makes clear and definite issues which invite to thinking and research. It is a pleasure to take up a volume which shows on every page a desire to discuss the subject impersonally with a purpose of arriving at the truth.” J. L. Laughlin.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 565. N. ’07. 1050w.
“In many ways the best thing that has appeared in monetary investigation for some years past, and quite puts to the blush several rather pretentious works which have recently undertaken to read the burial service over the so-called quantity theory of money.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 385. Ap. 23, ’08. 350w.
“His statistics may be inadequate and his index figures hypothetical, but he has given concrete expression to the real quantity theory, or demand and supply theory, of money, and has indicated very clearly the only method whereby its opponents can discredit it by an appeal to facts.” J. F. Johnson.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 536. S. ’08. 1100w.
=Kemp, Oliver.= Wilderness homes. *$1.25. Outing pub.
8–19727.
Aims to “crystallize and bring into reality that vague longing which the out-of-door lover has felt for a lodge in the wilderness.” Thruout the chapters, which are as follows, runs a note of possibility for the amateur: Making plans, The fireplace, The ax and the tree, Building the cabin, The roof and the floor, The cabin and its environment, Inside the cabin, What it will cost, Some hunting cabins, and A few plans.
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“A book for the amateur, practical in character, sound in advice and restricted to cabins of the less elaborate type.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08. ✠
“The amateur builder will do well to consult the attractive little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 213. Jl. 23, ’08. 50w.
“It is practical in character and sound in its advice. The most serious defect of the manual is its omission of all mention of skylight windows. Mr. Kemp’s book contains no index.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 314. O. 1, ’08. 180w.
“The practical reader, to whom it is addressed, will get from it a large number of valuable suggestions, gathered in the course of actual experience.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 423. Ag. 1, ’08. 1250w.
=Kempson, F. Claude.= Future life and modern difficulties. *$1.25. Dutton.
“The most recent attempt to show that there need be no collision between the postulates of science and the precepts of religion. Its author is a Catholic priest.... The book is in two sections, the first dealing with the difficulties which science is supposed to raise in the path of religious belief, and especially against the hope of a future life, while the second is devoted to a consideration of the scientific and religious arguments for and against the Christian conception of a life after death.”—N. Y. Times.
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“In a word, we rather like the argument of this book: we dislike its atmosphere.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 188. F. 15. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19. ’08. 270w.
=Kennard, Howard Percy.= Russian peasant. *$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13693.
“[The author] has gained his knowledge from personal contact, having lived in the villages of all part of European Russia and studied his subject in illness and health, in peace and war, in times of plenty and of famine. The first portion of the book is devoted to a presentation of village life in all its phases, the second to a study of the outlines of Russian history with regard to the effect of governmental policies upon the peasant masses, and the third to consideration of what he calls ‘Russia’s poison’—the bureaucracy and the church.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Mr. Kennard approaches his subjects with the Englishman’s prejudices against dirt, semioriental ways, religious, social, and political ideas, and in consequence sometimes presents a slightly distorted picture.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 191. Je. ’08.
“A powerful, though overdrawn picture of the interesting people among whom he has done medical work. His general equipment for the difficult task of writing about Russia is insufficient.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 205. Ag. 24. 800w.
“Dr. Kennard ... has certainly had opportunities of a rather exceptional character for studying the Russian peasant; but we cannot say that he appears to us at present to have made the best of them.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 550w.
“The temptation to indulge in fine writing has led the author to mar a good many pages, and has made it necessary for the reader to forgive him some absurdities of style for the sake of the genuineness and interest of the information he gives.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Whether this critic pays his vigorous respects to the political oppression or to the religious superstition in which the Russian child is bred, his comment is worth notice. We hope that a succeeding edition will contain an index.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 489. Je. 27, ’08. 730w.
“The portion of the book which the author devotes to Russian ethnological history is succinct and interesting, and the photographs of village life which are interspersed throughout greatly enhance the value of the volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 125. Ja. 25, ’08. 280w.
=Kennedy, Charles Rann.= Servant in the house. †$1.25. Harper.
8–14511.
The eternal struggle of the human soul between the forces of God and Mammon is the idea which this little drama embodies. The scene is laid in the home of an English clergyman who has lived his life the easiest way by following the course of least resistance, and in consequence has filled his days with profitless deeds. Thru the influence of a brother he is moved to make restitution and to vindicate his manhood.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“It is doubtful, however, whether an English audience may not find the ending grotesque rather than impressive.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 619. N. 14. 730w.
Reviewed by Beverly Stark.
=Bookm.= 27: 408. Je. ’08. 3500w.
“It is a fine failure, as many other things worth reading have been. There is much ingenious and striking use of the dramatic means chosen—as in the excellent dramatic irony, for instance; in fact, there is quite enough to render the reading of the play interesting and amusing.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 36. Jl. 16, ’08. 1500w.
“It is one of the most notable of recent plays, not only on account of its high moral and social purpose, but in its sustained interest, its swift, compact, and logical action and its compliance with the classic laws of dramatic construction. All the unities are faithfully observed. The dialogue is of striking quality.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 407. Ap. 30, ’08. 270w.
“In reading the play, even more than in watching it, the skill and vigor of its construction come out. The individuality of each of the characters, the complete consistency of each, their steady development, the mutual efficiency with which they interact, these are elements of remarkable gift on the part of the dramatist.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 243. Ap. 25, ’08. 1000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“The lofty theme is handled, for the most part, in a lofty way. The play is scarcely less remarkable in manner than it is in matter. It is constructed with an absolute compactness. Finally, the mere writing of this play stands, in the main, upon a level with the masterly structure and the momentous theme. Surely this play is literature, as well as being drama. It deserves to be seen; it deserves also to be read.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 770. My. ’08. 1400w.
“Those who cannot see the play should read the book: those who can should do both.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“Even a reading of the ‘book,’ gives one an impression of dramatic power and literary finish almost as noteworthy as the reverent, compelling vitality of the theme and action themselves. The suggestion of Christ is carried out with reverence and good taste.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 757. Je. ’08. 400w.
=Kent, Percy Horace.= Railway enterprise in China: an account of its origin and development. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–5870.
The story of the struggle in the sixties to build a road in China. “The book is full of information as to the cost of construction, difficulties financial, political, and other, and many other matters.”
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“Mr. Kent has been painstaking in his work, and has produced a book that commands the confidence of the reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 82. Jl. 23, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Kent’s interesting work traces the history of the Chinese railroads through the various stages of development up to the present era of concessions and dominant foreign control.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 360w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 105. Ja. 18, ’08. 210w.
=Kerr, John Graham.= Work of John Samuel Budgett. hf. lea. *$7. Putnam.
In which a collection of Mr. Budgett’s zoological papers recording his labors for science in Africa, are supplemented by a geographical sketch by A. E. Shipley, and a number of papers based on Budgett’s material which has been worked on by a group of embryologists.
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“A volume which adds distinctly to our knowledge of embryology.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 241. S. 10, ’08. 260w.
“The memorial volume, which is a valuable contribution to embryology, will surely not fail of its highest purpose, of perpetuating by its stimulus the tradition which Budgett’s life and work expressed.”
+ + =Nature.= 78: 313. Ag. 6, ’08. 2300w.
“The beautiful volume prepared by his friends and colleagues is a fitting memorial of his life and work and one that stirs a keen sense of the loss that science suffered by his untimely death.” W.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 452. O. 2, ’08. 1000w.
=Kerr, Winfield Scott.= John Sherman: his life and public services. 2v. *$4. Sherman, French & co.
A minute record of Sherman’s full political life the material for which has been furnished by letters, documents, narratives and recital. “The whole period of the civil war and the succeeding era of reconstruction and the resumption of specie payments, in which Senator Sherman played an increasingly important part, are considered in these volumes with unusual minuteness.” (R. of Rs.)
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“It is a biography of the old-fashioned type, written by a man who has been active in politics but without much training in literary work.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 19. Jl. 1, ’08. 240w.
“His style is uninteresting. His volumes are not the contribution to the history of our own times that they ought to be.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 100w.
“On the whole, the book does not displace the briefer and more discriminating volume by Theodore E. Burton.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 194. Ap. 11, ’08. 1900w.
“Mr. Kerr’s work compares unfavorably with the more modest biography ... by Mr. Burton.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 861. Ag. 15, ’08. 530w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 753. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Kilpatrick, Van Evrie.= Departmental teaching in elementary schools. *60c. Macmillan.
8–14729.
An expository treatment advocating departmental teaching, based upon a wide and varied experience in teaching. The author answers objections to the method, and outlines the most effective plan for developing the system.
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“A concise, practical, interesting treatment of departmental teaching.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“A thorogoing exposition of his principles and doctrine.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 317. O. ’08. 60w.
“Few books on school organization are more timely than this one.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 70w.
=King, Alfred Grant.= Practical steam and hot water heating and ventilation. *$3. Henley.
8–7883.
“Describes all features of steam and hot-water heating installations, ventilating plants, warming systems for swimming pools, the business methods of conducting steam-fitting work and the care of heating plants, and gives a large collection of rules, memoranda and tables.... While the book is in no sense an engineering work, it is a good explanation of the scope as well as details of the work done by a contractor for heating and ventilating plants.”—Engin. Rec.
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“This work is one of the most complete and exhaustive yet published on this branch of domestic engineering.”
+ + =Engin. D.= 3: 416. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“It will not appeal to engineers who have much better treatises on heating and ventilation in their possession. The book contains very little theoretical treatment of the subject and what little there is should be revised by an expert.” W. Kent.
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 593. My. 14, ’08. 500w.
“The two common faults of such books, verbosity and inaccuracy, are not present and the author explains his subject in a clear way that can be understood by the steam-fitter and does not offend the technically educated engineer.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 57: 567. Ap. 25, ’08. 170w.
=King, Charles.= To the front: a sequel to Cadet days. †$1.25. Harper.
8–5578.
General King portrays vividly some events that mark the beginning of a young West Point cadet’s career. Cheered to the echo as he receives his diploma, he calls forth a prominent business man’s prophecy that if he were pitted against a keen-witted, sharp, aggressive young business man “he’d be skinned alive—skinned out of his last cent.” But the “sheer grit” that had earned for George Graham deafening applause at his graduation proves equally capable of results in quelling a mine riot and in fighting Indians among the icy flats and snow-patched ravines of the Bad lands.
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“Not so well written as ‘Cadet days,’ of which it is a sequel.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 115. Ap. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 50w.
“The story is graphically written and while a bit highly colored, at least no harm will be done Gen. King’s young readers should they endeavor to imitate young Graham.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 133. Mr. 7, ’08. 150w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Seeming unreality of the spiritual life. **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–18361.
A scholarly and earnest defense of theism and Christianity, in which are discussed at length the causes of the seeming unreality of the spiritual life, those arising from misconceptions as to its nature and those due to a failure to fulfill the conditions thru which alone a way is opened into the “great values.” Other causes which are irremovable, the limitations of our natures and the unobtrusiveness inherent in the very nature of the moral are also considered. Finally a way into reality is pointed out. It is shown how inextricably the spiritual life is knit up with all else that we count most real and also has its own distinct and valuable contribution to make to life.
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“He is earnest, thoughtful and honest in his inquiry; and he leaves the impression of a brave and sincere spirit neither rashly radical nor timidly unprogressive.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse (Mrs. Charles R. Kingsley).= And so they were married. †$1. Dodd.
8–23918.
Portrays “a conflict between common sense and foolishness which results in victory for the former.... An inexperienced young woman is influenced, for a time, by the extravagant pretension of an older woman who worships society, and this influence bids fair to ruin the young woman’s husband. The rescue is accomplished by the combination of a sensible bringing up and an outspoken wise old grandmother.”—Outlook.
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“This little volume is a sermon.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1071. N. 5, ’08. 140w.
“A pretty little story, its appeal solely for the feminine heart.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 525. S. 26, ’08. 180w.
“The author delicately handles the situation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 30w.
“A simple little story.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 90w.
=Kingsley, Rose Georgina.= Eversley gardens, and others. $1.75. Macmillan.
7–42104.
“She describes ... the gardens of her acquaintance and her own. She relates the making of the latter out of a barren field in a very useful and agreeable manner, and in doing so expresses lucidly the results of her experience on many technical points. Her remarks on soil, deep trenching, pruning, growing bulbs indoors in fibre, and the destruction of blight, are excellent guides, readily remembered because they are written in a style not found in text-books.”—Acad.
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“Miss Rose Kingsley exceeds the promise of her title.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 719. Jl. 27, ’07. 240w.
“The world is overdone with ‘gardening books,’ but for such a volume as Miss Kingsley’s ‘Eversley gardens and others’ we have not only room and to spare, but the warmest of welcomes beside.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907. 2: 158. Ag. 10. 650w.
“For practical purposes the book will have little value for Americans, since the English climate is so much kinder to roses and other things. But anyone who is enthusiastic about flowers will enjoy the combination of good sense and artistic feeling with which Miss Kingsley presents the whole process of gardening.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 210w.
“The author has a vein of pleasantry which brightens many of the pages in a charming way.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
“While it is probable that most gardners will find many hints and references to species unknown to them, it is certain that all can learn much from the artistic combinations described by the author, some produced in her own gardens, others in her friends’ gardens.”
+ =Nature.= 76: 412. Ag. 22, ’07. 240w.
“The illustrations are nearly as delightful as the text.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 449. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
=Kinkaid, Mary Holland (Mrs. John Kinkaid).= Man of yesterday: a romance of a vanishing race. il. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–7595.
A story set among the Chickasaws and Choctaws of Indian territory at the time of the division of tribal lands. A white man faithless to his half-breed wife is brought to judgment by her Indian lover. “The passionate race pride of the Indian, his fortitude, his scorn of promise-breaking, are strongly pictured. In Pakali, with her Indian blood and her white woman’s training, lives a heroine fair and tender and brave as heart of romance reader could wish.” (Nation.)
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“The style is rather journalistic but the narrative is interesting and the picture convincing.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 156. My. ’08. ✠
“The author has achieved a distinct triumph in taking us actually into the home life of the present-day Chickasaws, and in making us feel their attitude, their impulses, their standards of right and wrong. It is a noteworthy volume, not soon to be forgotten.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 306. My. ’08. 450w.
“A book that owes nothing to ingenuity of plot or to its author’s imagination, but is a page of passing American history, or, at least, an important footnote.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“A close acquaintance with Indian character and customs is apparent throughout, and with the acquaintance goes an intense sympathy for their passing—a passing whose pathos is heightened in the story by the melancholy acquiescence of the better element.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The descriptive parts are written with much poetic feeling, while throughout the author’s manner is worthy of note for its dignity and simplicity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 226. Ap. 18, ’08. 300w.
“A contribution of much worth to the story of the relations between the two races.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 80w.
=Kinkead, Eleanor Talbot.= Courage of Blackburn Blair. †$1.50. Moffat.
7–34180.
The second volume of Miss Kinkead’s trilogy whose purpose is the presentation of “the three great fundamental relations of life.” It deals with the relation of man toward humanity and makes use of a “modern instance of moral heroism brought into close relations with the Goebel campaign that convulsed Kentucky a few years ago. The hero is a young lawyer and politician who realizes how false is that conception of personal honor which in Kentucky, and in the south generally, requires, a man who is insulted to commit a murder for the vindication of his character.” (Dial.)
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“The story is characterized by a fine idealism and the interest is sustained throughout.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 87. Mr. ’08.
“The fine idealism of this book, to say nothing of its many other admirable qualities, gives it a high place among novels of the year.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 44. Ja. 16, ’08. 370w.
− =Ind.= 64: 183. Ja. 23, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 70w.
=Kinross, Albert.= Joan of Garioch. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–29337.
A story whose action takes place in Russia, principally following the last revolutionary outbreak. While the lover of an English girl is absent in South Africa she saves her father from financial ruin by marrying, supposedly, a French count. The lover returns, determines to find her, accepts a newspaper commission to Russia and fights a winning way thru danger and intrigue in the very strongholds that protect her. It is an intimate account of conditions in Russia after the war, and is unique for portraying a heroine who does not appear.
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“The story is vigorous in its handling of plot, and the personal adventures of its supposed narrator are told with real power.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
=Kintzing, Pearce.= Long life and how to attain it. **$1. Funk.
8–17729.
Simple, sane practical advice by which the every-day man or woman may ward off disease, preserve health, and prolong life. A popular treatise based upon scientific principles.
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“The style is simple, the advice practical, the basis scientific.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 250w.
“His chapters are not empirical, but are based on results derived from the positive conclusions of scientific research.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 229. Ag. 15, ’08. 340w.
=Nation.= 86: 584. Je. 25, ’08. 320w.
“There is nothing startling in his recommendations. Nothing that is absolutely new in his philosophy; it is the directness, clearness, and completeness of his treatment of the various matters that have to do with longevity that makes his work remarkable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 800w.
“Safe and sane are the remarks of Dr. Kintzing regarding the best methods of preserving health.” Charles DeKay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 235. N. ’08. 200w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= In the open: intimate studies and appreciations of nature. **$1.75. Elder.
8–24897.
It is the real Walt Whitman communion with nature that finds its way into the chapters of this delightful book. The impressions made upon poetic men by each new season from “the spring that is felt rather than reasoned about” to the first snow-storm that “soothes and beguiles into submission” are analyzed so closely that the reader is able to recognize them as self-experienced sensations. Joy in nature in all its forms and moods inspires the invitation into the open which reaches the climax of persuasion in the chapters, The mountains, The forest and The sea.
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“His readers will often pay him the subtle compliment of exclaiming, ‘That is just what I have thought.’”
+ =Dial.= 45: 414. D. 1, ’08. 280w.
“A nature book of such unusual literary charm that it deserves to be ranked well above most of the more homely out-of-doors studies of recent years.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 640. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
=Kirkland, Caroline.= Some African highways: a journey of two American women to Uganda and the Transvaal; with an introd. by Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell. $1.50. Estes.
8–19264.
A multitude of observations are set down here, many of them made from steamer deck and car window. There are pictures “for instance, of Asab, the Abyssinian port, where three hundred warriors from the desert (Nubians, Somalis, and Sudanese) were taken on board the author’s ship to fight a native uprising in German East Africa; of the hand-run tram system of Mombasa, supplemented by the gharries, or rickshaws, and the carriages and horses of the Hindu merchants; of the customs of London’s West End found in an English colony in the heart of darkest Africa; of the contrast between English and German colonies in Africa; of the sleeping sickness; of the new conditions in the Transvaal; of the Chinese on the Rand there, and of Lord Selborne’s success in the administration of South Africa.” (Outlook.)
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“The points of interest in this journey she sketches with quick perception, and accuracy of touch.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 267. S. 17, ’08. 450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 660w.
“All through this book keenly pointed little pen-pictures are scattered.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 340w.
=Kirkup, Thomas.= An inquiry into socialism. 3d ed., rev. and enl. *$1.40. Longmans.
8–7382.
A third edition whose changes consist chiefly of “the insertion of references to recent or contemporary events such as help to bear out the views propounded.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“Dispassionate but sympathetic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 120. Ap. ’08.
“An unpretending, sympathetic, eminently fair exposition.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 279. Ja. ’08. 200w.
“It sets forth with remarkable logic, force, and perspicuity the genesis, aims, and claims of the form of socialism which is gaining ground so fast at present.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 87: 103. Ap. ’08. 170w.
“A clear, simple, sympathetic interpretation of socialism.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 636. Mr. 19, ’08. 400w.
“Nothing could be more opportune than the reissue in a substantially unaltered form of this eminently catholic as well as eminently reasonable statement of the socialist case.” Sidney Ball.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 397. Ap. ’08. 200w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 644. D. ’07. 50w.
+ − =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 350w.
Reviewed by Lyman Abbott.
=Outlook.= 88: 538. Mr. 7, ’08. 350w.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 557. S. ’08. 70w.
“May not make a reader a convert, nor would every socialist be satisfied with the unadventurous spirit of Mr. Kirkup’s views, but after reading him we think no one could talk the nonsense with which the topic has made us familiar.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 583. N. 9, ’07. 130w.
“Mr. Kirkup’s volume is an admirable example of the sentiment which makes for socialism, and which fails to see that if Marx’s destructive and constructive theories are rejected some other economic basis of socialism must be put forward.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 250w.
=Klein, Felix.= An American student in France. **$2.50. McClurg.
8–13682.
“Presents the author’s conception of the way things French impress an inquiring, observant, and serious-minded American student of about twenty-one years of age. The student is a composite type, and, naturally, somewhat idealized; hence not thoroughly real and ‘convincing’ to the reader. But that does not prevent one’s deriving a good deal of entertainment and instruction from the Abbé’s frank and comradelike talks on various subjects of historic, political, religious, and literary interest, whosoever may serve as ostensible mouth-piece from page to page.”—Dial.
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“The book is entertaining.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 261. N. ’08.
“The value of his book lies in the fact that under the guise of imaginary conversations he gives the opinions of those Frenchmen who are at the same time sincere Catholics and sincere Republicans.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 35. Jl. 11. 420w.
“The abbé is lively, witty, and observant.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 265. N. ’08. 160w.
“Father Klein is a writer to command attention at all times, but he is not in quite so happy a vein in impersonating the American visitor to France as he was in playing the French visitor to America.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 312. My. 16, ’08. 550w.
“We unreservedly commend it to those who know France, and to those who want to know France.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 102. Je. ’08. 80w.
“On the whole, Abbé Klein has turned out an agreeable book, which is well printed, indexed, and illustrated. If you are visiting France this summer you’ll find the book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 250. My. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“Gives much interesting general information concerning France.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 317. O. 10, ’08. 300w.
“Seriously, the book is interesting as a campaign document on the controversies over modernism and separation, a record of the personal convictions of the author; most of the remainder, if it is anything, is as you please, Baedeker, or Murray, or Joanne.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 560w.
“An entertaining book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 50w.
=Kleiser, Grenville=, comp. Humorous hits and how to hold an audience: a collection of short selections, stories and sketches for all occasions. **$1. Funk.
8–9509.
A book for the amateur, professional reader, speaker, elocutionist, entertainer, after-dinner and impromptu speaker, the politician “who wants to make a ‘hit,’” the business man looking for a good story, and the teacher planning for rhetoricals. Following detailed instruction on how to hold an audience there are more than a hundred and fifty humorous selections and about thirty serious ones.
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“It is an admirable volume of popular selections for the purpose for which it is designed.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 594. My. ’08. 120w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 163. Ag. 1, ’08. 50w.
“A useful handbook.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 200. Ap. 11, ’08. 120w.
* =Kleiser, Grenville=, comp. World’s great sermons; introd. by Lewis O. Brastow. 10v. Funk.
8–33883.
Ten volumes which aim to bring together the best examples of the products of the pulpit since the beginning of Christianity and to present them in handy-volume form. Preachers are represented from Basil of the fourth century to present-day divines, and the sermons have been selected in some cases for their literary and rhetorical excellencies but in every case for the service they may render in solving practical problems of Christian living.
=Knapp, Adeline.= Well in the desert. †$1.50. Century.
8–23557.
A story whose scenes are set on the edge of the Arizona desert. A diseased-burdened man, betrayed and unjustly convicted of crime, escapes from prison, evades falling a second time into the power of his betrayer, and is lead by chance to a wooded and watered plateau where for months he lived alone the life of elemental man. The health and manhood which he builds up stand him in good stead when he again faces civilization and establishes his right to citizenship and to the love of a good woman.
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“Not a remarkable story, but unobjectional and full of exciting adventure.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“It is a romance as wholesome as it is interesting.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 479. N. ’08. 620w.
“The book, viewed as a collection of exciting anecdotes of life in the Southwest, is readable.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 170w.
“It begins with distinction and originality, but it runs into the ordinary and stereotyped story of the West.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 498. S. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The latter part of the romance is a trifle too melodramatic, but taken as a whole the story is alive and worth while. The narrative of the desert is particularly good.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 280w.
=Knight, Edward Frederick.= Over-sea Britain. *$2. Dutton.
War 8–30.
A descriptive record of the geography, the historical, ethnological, and political development, and the economic resources of the empire; the nearer empire, the Mediterranean, British Africa, and British America. (Explanatory title). It is “a careful description of the British colonies in the Mediterranean region, Africa and America, to be followed by a volume on the possessions in Asia and Oceania. The author has adopted a semi-encyclopedic manner of discussion.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“Of special use to prospective colonists and to business men engaged in over-sea commerce.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 192. Je. ’08.
“The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on British world politics.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 505. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Knight’s volume is, on the whole, accurate in its statement of facts; it has undoubtedly been produced with great industry and care, and forms a valuable record in the nature of an imperial gazetteer.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 517. O. 26. 1300w.
“The years 1905 and 1906 are the dates taken for most of Mr. Knight’s figures, and until these figures become too antiquated for the ordinary needs of the reader or student, Mr. Knight’s volume will be well worth a place among the books of ready reference which one likes to keep on the most accessible shelf of the library.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1202. My. 28, ’08. 250w.
“There are minor blemishes, easily corrected in another edition.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 160. Ag. 20, ’08. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 191. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
“A treasury of reference. But the excellent text would seem to merit maps of greater number and detail.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 886. Ap. 18, ’08. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“He has managed to write a not uninteresting and instructive work without colour of any sort. Hence the work should be valuable as a text-book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 200w.
“It is rather too large for school purposes, and scarcely detailed enough to be of use to the specialist, but it should serve as a good reference-book to the general reader who wishes to supplement his newspaper knowledge of imperial history.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 647. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Knight, William Angus=, ed. Memorials of Thomas Davidson, the wandering scholar. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–26349.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“This is hardly a great book, but it deals with a great personality.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 575. N. 9. 1320w.
“These recollections of friends and disciples, with extracts from his letters and other writings, combine to portray, roughly and by suggestion, an inspiring and astonishingly versatile character; but a complete and consistent account of the man, if such be possible, is yet to be written.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 48. Ja. 16, ’08. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 871. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“His biographer narrates instead of presenting—an artistic fault which is no less grave in biography than in fiction. He expects us to take his hero on trust, with the result that, after we have read all that he has to say, his hero remains a vague and cloudy figure.”
− =Lond. Times.= 6: 307. O. 11, ’07. 540w.
“A fitting memorial.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 874. D. 21, ’07. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 113. Ja. ’08. 180w
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= Dawn at Shanty Bay. **$1. Revell.
7–39193.
A story whose “scenes are laid in a Scotch settlement in western New York. The hero is a crusty Scotchman. He inherits his creed and his theory of life from his Covenanter father, who ‘got till his rest wi’out hardly hearin’ tell o’ Christmas, or ony o’ thae new-fangled schemes for worshipping Almichty God.’ But before the end of the story Ronald Robertson Changed his mind about Christmas and several other things.” (Dial.)
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“A pretty story full of the deeper meaning of the Christmas season.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 429. D. 16, 07. 110w.
“A very readable Christmas story of the genre type.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1466. D. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Knowles’s simple little story is typically Scotch in its setting and atmosphere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Knuth, Paul.= Handbook of flower pollination; based upon Hermann Müller’s work, The fertilization of flowers by insects; tr. by J. R. Ainsworth Davis, v. 2. *$10.75. Oxford.
=v. 2.= Deals with “the various methods of pollination in fifty-six families of dicotyledonous plants.... The author deals seriatim with all the genera and species in the natural orders under consideration, describes the structure of the flowers in so far as it affects directly or indirectly the mode of pollination, and cites the various direct observations on pollination made by himself or others.” (Nature.)
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“The value of a work of this kind depends mainly upon the accuracy of its observations, and in the case of the present volume the names of the recorders are sufficient testimony to their trustworthiness. The work of translation has been carried out in a most satisfactory manner.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 371. S. 26. 380w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Such a book cannot be reviewed, for it is an encyclopedia. This translation should greatly stimulate observation in a field too much neglected by American botanists.” J. M. C.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 63. Jl. ’08. 120w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is filled with facts indispensable to the student of biology and helpful to every serious amateur. It cannot honestly be called interesting to the general reader; nevertheless, the general reader can make of it a great deal of use in examining plants from the new point of view.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 890w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Is even more directly a book of reference than the first volume. Will be as welcome to English readers as the more general introductory volume has proved itself to be.”
+ + − =Nature.= 78: 244. Jl. 16, ’08. 450w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Is of great value to American workers.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 28: 345. S. 11, ’08. 780w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Pianolist: a guide for pianola players. **$1. Moffat.
7–40771.
A guide for pianola players suggested by the experience of one who, undeveloped in musical culture, was briefly satisfied with trashy things but who gradually trained himself to appreciate and to understand classical selections from a wide range of composers. The book recognizes the musical-education possibilities of automatic players.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 44. F. ’08.
“Its author, Gustav Kobbé, has always been among the pioneers in clearing new paths, and in this volume, as in his ‘How to appreciate music,’ he is not afraid to express his opinions freely, even when they clash violently with traditional views and prejudices.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 110. Ja. 30, ’08. 170w.
“His book is filled with advice to the pianolist as to how to get the best effects.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w.
=Koester, Frank.= Steam-electric power plants: a practical treatise on the design of central light and power stations and their economical construction and operation. *$5. Van Nostrand.
8–11715.
The author, who is an experienced power plant designer, deals with every phase in the design of light and power plants starting with the preparation of plans, letting of contracts, efficiency, cost and site for the location, and continuing to a descriptive discussion of five typical American and European power plants.
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“He here brings together into a coherent whole the very considerable amount of information which he has accumulated during his professional work in regard to the best approved modern practice in the design, construction and operation of steam-electric power plants.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 526. My. ’08. 320w.
“The book is, on the whole, disappointing. The author has treated nearly everything in a most general way—general in the sense of being vague and indefinite and not in the sense of being broad and comprehensive. The author gives the impression of being a spectator who sees results rather than being a designer of world-wide experience who is elucidating his own work.”
− =Engin. N.= 60: 78. Jl. 16, ’08. 1450w.
=Konkle, Burton Alva.= Life of Chief Justice Ellis Lewis, 1798–1871, of the first elective Supreme court of Pennsylvania. $3.50. Campion & co.
7–10037.
“This is the third biography of eminent Pennsylvanians written by Mr. Konkle. Ellis Lewis was one of the leaders of the Democratic party, and the author’s main purpose in writing his biography is to present the counterpart of the Whig and Republican movements which constitutes the main theme of the author’s life of Thomas Williams.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“Had Chief Justice Lewis been a jurist only, we are told in the preface, ‘the author would have felt no mission to present his career.’ Nevertheless, this life of Lewis is almost wholly devoted to his career as a jurist. Of his influence upon the tortuous course of Pennsylvania politics we get only occasional and fleeting glimpses which whet the appetite for more.” P. O. Ray.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 388. Ja. ’08. 560w.
“In the absence of any general political history of Pennsylvania, biographies like these meet a distinct need, and Mr. Konkle’s legal training, his knowledge of Pennsylvania leaders and characteristics qualify him to supply this need. It is, therefore, to be regretted that a work of much promise and great possibilities is marred by many defects. Whenever the author passes from the analysis of complex political situations to the narration of simple events his style is clear.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 163. Jl. ’07. 380w.
=Kotzschmar, Mary Ann.= Half-hour lessons in music: class work for beginners at the piano. $1. Ditson.
7–33585.
Twelve lessons for teachers of children; the aim being “to see from the children’s point of view, and to explain and illustrate things musical in a way that would appeal to their imagination as well as reason.” The author makes much of the natural enthusiasm and optimism of little people; she believes in class instruction in preference to private lessons; she introduces into each lesson interesting details about the lives of composers.
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+ =Nation.= 86: 179. F. 20, ’08. 170w.
=Kramer, Harold Morton.= Castle of dawn. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–10278.
Two Chicago young people, one a newspaper man and the other the charming daughter of a certain “Graball” Gray are imprisoned under puzzling circumstances in the Ozarks. After a week of hairbreadth experiences, they find that the Castle of Dawn where they have become prisoners in velvet rather than iron is the rendezvous of Nicaraguan revolutionists whom the government is trying to run to cover. It is a sprightly story with a romance that is kept apart from the few melodramatic touches.
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“The surprising thing about ‘The castle of dawn’ is, not that is is a mediocre novel of its kind, but rather, that being so obviously built according to formula, it should be anywhere nearly so good as it is.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 67. S. ’08. 230w.
“It is all very trifling, but it is also very diverting.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 296. N. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book will certainly not fail to hold the attention, and it has many good qualities, but it is too bewilderingly involved for the brain of the average reader.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 310. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Kremer, Ida.= Struggle for a royal child, Anna Monica Pia, duchess of Saxony. il. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–2755.
Here are narrated the experiences of a governess in the house of the Countess Montignoso during 1906. She was sent by the Saxon court to Villa Montauto, for the purpose of helping to return the royal child, Anna Monica Pia, to her father. The book is in the form of a diary and records minutely the daily life of the Countess and of the members of her household.
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“It is mainly taken up with a study of the Countess’s character, and shows much penetration, clear insight, and the ability to philosophise with discretion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 57. F. 1, ’08. 160w.
=Kubinyi, Victor von.= King of Rome; a biography. $1.50. Victor von Kubinyi, box 33, South River, N. J.
7–40865.
In this historical sketch the author has endeavored with painstaking care to evolve the truth concerning Napoleon’s son from all the mass of fact and fiction which has been written concerning him. He sympathetically treats the life of this unfortunate young prince from its beginning in Paris thru his various changing fortunes in Austria up to the day of his untimely death. The biography is supplemented by several illuminating sketches which tend to enlarge and develop the original theme.
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“It is chatty, gossipy in tone; speaks of the Little Corporal with the enthusiasm of a private of the Old Guard, and of the Duke de Reichstadt with the undiscriminating tenderness of a devoted nurse.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 830. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 100w.
=Kuhns, Levi Oscar.= Sense of the infinite: a study of the transcendental element in literature, life and religion. **$1.50. Holt.
8–24253.
With the same method of literary investigation that the author employed in “Dante and the English poets” he traces the evidence to the transcendental element in the literature and religion of the Western world from the time of Plato to the present. The book is addressed to the general reader. Following an introduction which lays out the lines along which the discussion moves there are chapters on What is the infinite, The transcendental view of nature, Romantic lore and the transcendental sense, Plato and Plotinus, Platonism past and present, Mediaeval mysticism, Renaissance and reformation, The Pietistic movement and its influence, The transcendental element and modern life.
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“In few popular works of the present time has the essential spirituality of mystic exaltation been so consistently maintained.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is written with unusual simplicity, in every-day language, with ease and dignity of style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
=Kunz, George Frederick, and Stevenson, Charles Hugh.= Book of the pearl: the history, art, science and industry of the queen of gems. **$12.50. Century.
8–29321.
The combined work of a gem expert and a member of the United States fish commission. It is a handsomely made volume of five hundred and thirty pages covering the entire field of the pearl. It illustrates the use of pearls as objects of art and ornamentation; notes their decorative value as shown in portraiture and in imaginative designs by great artists; assembles theories and facts concerning their origin, growth and structure; sets forth their values, artistically and commercially; describes proper treatment and care; gives the history of pearl fisheries; and emphasizes the importance of conserving the resources and the possibilities of cultivating the pearl-oyster.
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“Encyclopaedic in character, and representing an appalling amount of the most laborious research, the book is nevertheless thoroughly readable.”
+ + =Dial.= 45: 412. D. 1, ’08. 440w.
“The book is a very great success in every way.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 164. D. ’08. 300w.
“Must be pronounced as fascinating as it is learned and authoritative.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 674. N. 7, ’08. 950w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 90w.
“The work as a whole, however, is fairly readable. In quantity and quality of information it should be accounted as one of the most notable works yet produced on a topic connected with jewelry.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 830w.
“Once in a while there is produced a book so comprehensive in its treatment of the subject with which it deals, so manifestly the product of infinite pains in an author eminent in his chosen field, and artistically so beautiful in its finished form, that the reader can hardly help but exclaim at the skill, patience, and labor involved in its production. Such a work is ‘The book of the pearl.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 604. O. 24, ’08. 2350w.
“For those who own pearls, and for those who love pearls, and for those who want to know all about pearls.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 150w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 762. D. ’08. 220w.
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=L.= Dark ages and other poems. $1. Longmans.
Fifty-five religious and secular poems. “Of the sacred poems we should put ‘Lethe’ first, and of the others ‘The English gipsies’ and the charming ‘Cottage inscription.’ Not all of the lyrics are Arcadian. Some are passionate outcries against contemporary follies.” (Spec.)
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“A cultivated and reflective mind, dwelling upon themes of art, religion, history, and the legendary past, finding for its thoughts and fancies a striking form of individual expression.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 62. Ag. 1, ’08. 320w.
“Uniformly effective work. Many examples of two tempers—that of the image maker and that of the meditative listener—mingled in a composite strain of sensitiveness to aesthetic and spiritual impressions.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 424. Ag. 1, ’08. 200w.
“A serious and sensitive mind, with many deep affections, and his composition is both skilful and painstaking.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 728. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“A little lacking in rhythmical finish, but has the merit of ideas, and now and then of fine verse.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 463. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=Ladd, Frederic Pierpont.= The woman pays. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–18368.
A melodramatic story in which the principal characters are a young New York newspaper writer, his wife and a clergyman. The latter, egotistical, self-loving, casts a spell over the woman, wins her from her husband and betrays her honor.
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“It is a tale that is told with some power. Some of the descriptions of a phase of metropolitan life are interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 375. Jl. 4, ’08. 320w.
=Ladd, George Trumbull.= In Korea with Marquis Ito. **$2.50. Scribner.
8–7156.
A study including statements of fact based on personal observation; expressions of opinion based upon the fullest obtainable knowledge of the facts; and certain conjectures ventured after facts have been studied and opinions weighed. Prof. Ladd went to the country to lecture and staid to absorb matters pertaining to international affairs and race psychology. His work is first a narrative of personal experience, and, second, a critical and historical inquiry with many a sidelight on Japan’s greatest statesman.
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“Though he has an obvious pro-Japanese bias, it is impossible to doubt that his story, in the main, is accurate.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 140. My. ’08.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 635. My. 23. 470w.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 224. S. ’08. 60w.
“The volume is well illustrated, and is in every respect a valuable work of its kind.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 248. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Because Professor Ladd clearly shows the vital relation of mission work to its environment (and he is the only writer so far as we know who has done this needed work with such ability), he has done a most valuable and timely service to the growing science of missions. A well written book.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 749. Ap. 2, ’08. 500w.
“The work is timely, the information fresh and reliable, the style is charming. The book is laid down with a feeling that the clouds have been cleared away from a very interesting and hitherto very obscure passage in contemporaneous history.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 656. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
“For the serious student Dr. Ladd’s book by no means supersedes the works of Dallet, Hulbert, and others who have studied Korea in the perspective of history, language and literature.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 850w.
“Can hardly be accepted as [an account] of a disinterested and impartial student. Undoubtedly honest, sincere, and convinced, his book is nevertheless an ex parte statement of a professed friend of Japan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 166. Mr. 28, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 214. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 280w.
“From a competent observer and fair-minded critic and reporter, with very unusual opportunities for correct information, we have the truth about Korea, and Japan in Korea. So enlightening a volume should not lack a good map.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 200w.
“However much careful readers might disagree with the author in several of his opinions on things Korean and Japanese, they will not fail to appreciate the sincerity of his views, and wish that another equally sincere and able work showing the other side of the question might, if that is possible appear to enlighten them.” K. Asakawa.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 350. N. ’08. 760w.
* =La Farge, John.= Higher life in art: a series of lectures on the Barbizon school of France. **$2.50. McClure.
Six lectures which inaugurated the Scammon course at the Art institute of Chicago, in 1903. They are as follows: The school; Delacroix; Millet; Decamps and Diaz; Rousseau, Dupré, Daubigny; Corot. Index.
* =Lagerlöf, Selma O. L.= Christ legends; tr. from the Swedish by Velma Swanston Howard. **$1.25. Holt.
Mainly from the apocryphal New Testament writings are borrowed legends of the early life of Christ which Miss Lagerlöf has made over and expanded into stories near of kin to Swedish folk lore tales. The miracle-working power of the child Jesus is revealed with spiritual discernment from which the ardor of her imagination does not detract.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“All the stories, no matter what their claim may be to authenticity, are eloquent of that spirit of joy and imaginative fervor which from time immemorial has imparted its zest to the celebration of Christmas.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=Lagerlöf, Selma O. L.= Wonderful adventures of Nils; tr. by Velma S. Howard. il. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–33213.
A book which is the result of “years of study of animal and bird life by the author, with legends and folk-lore, which are woven together in the charming story of little Nils, turned into an elf, traveling on the back of a goose with a flock of wild geese, understanding the speech of birds and animals.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Will interest children who like George Macdonald’s fairy tales and the like; will make a place for itself but not be popular.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“I should advise parents to give the book an examination, for its foundation is built upon national characteristics.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 110w.
“Said to be the best book of Sweden’s great fiction writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 749. N. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Lair, Jules.= Louise de la Vallière and the early life of Louis XIV. (Memoir ser., no. 39.) *$3.50. Putnam.
The story of Louise de la Vallière who “was a favorite of Louis XIV., who bore him four children, was discarded for another favorite, and ended her days as a Carmelite nun. The narrative woven around this tale is a revoltingly minute description of the doings of court libertines and intriguers.” (Ind.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 470. O. 17. 300w.
“The book has all the appeal of the romantic novel. To such M. Lair’s careful and accurate work cannot be too strongly recommended.” G: H. Casamajor.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 391. O. ’08. 1800w.
“If there were any scheme of social regeneration that would put to hard labor the people who write and read such unnecessary, and to say the least, unesthetic rubbish, it ought to be welcomed by those who have a kindly interest in humanity.”
− − =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“We have nothing but praise for a charming work charmingly printed.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 397. S. 19, ’08. 420w.
“The translator of this interesting volume seems to have done her work faithfully, though her style is occasionally marred by unfortunate solecisms.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 640w.
“The story of her life is neither instructive nor inspiring, and as told by M. Lair it is so burdened with unsavory detail and false sentiment as to make thoroughly unpleasant reading.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“M. Lair treats his subject with good taste and delicacy, fairness and candour.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 505. O. 3, ’08. 480w.
=Lake, Rev. Kirsopp.= Historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
8–5811.
“An examination of the evidence from the critical point of view, with a result unfavorable to the material view of the resurrection.”—Bib. World.
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=Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 20w.
“Even those who are unable to follow the author in all his criticisms and exegesis must admit the force of his reasoning, and the reverence with which it is presented.” G. E. French.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 6: 691. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 200w.
“The work as a whole is an able piece of historical criticism, conducted in a reverential spirit, and recognizing to the full the limits of historical investigation and the privileges of religious faith.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 306. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“Has a fair claim to be reckoned as one of the really important works upon its subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 97. Ja. 11, ’08. 330w.
=La Monte, Robert Rives.= Socialism: positive and negative. 50c. Kerr.
7–21308.
A group of essays dealing with such subjects as Science and socialism, Marxism and ethics, and The nihilism of socialism.
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“There is no connection between the essays and, on the whole, they do not present as satisfactory a statement of the socialistic doctrines as does Mr. Spargo’s book.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 280. Ja. ’08. 50w.
“He has studied his books, and he writes with dash and cleverness. But his tolerance of persons who do not see with him is by no means gentle.”
− + =Ind.= 63: 1370. D. 6, ’07. 200w.
=La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich H. K.= Undine; tr. from the German by G: P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23095.
“He takes the reader through enchanted forests and among mysterious gnomes and spirits. The malicious Kühleborn, the quaint old fisherman and his dame, good father Heilmann, the worldly Bertalda, the gallant but fickle Huldbrand, are characters full of interest; but most beautiful and lovely in her form of water sprite, and afterwards in the suffering wife when she had found a soul, is Undine.”
* =Lancaster, G. B.= Altar stairs. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“A novel which tells a tale of the South seas, in which a dominating man suddenly finds himself in love with a woman who is bound to another. The hero holds for months in his power the man to whom the woman he loves is bound, but ultimate happiness comes out of it all.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The grip of the story can in no way be conveyed by an outline of the plot, each incident being so firmly built into the general structure that the whole must be envisaged in detail to be appreciated. It would seem as if there might be less wading in gore without sacrificing the sweep and vigor of the story.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Lancaster’s style is not good, and in his endeavor to be characteristic he occasionally becomes unintelligible. But there is a fresh wind blowing through the book that sets the blood dancing.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 583. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
=Lancaster, G. B.= Tracks we tread. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–28459.
A story which “leads us into the sheep-country of New Zealand, among a class superficially more like our Western ranchers than the official Englishman. Yet it is the Briton bearing the sacred torch to the farthest ends of the earth whom we are once again called upon, not unwillingly, to admire; the type of those ‘who go away many times to endings unchronicled; men who love, who conquer, and serve, on the downs, the harsh mountains, the unhandled plains.’” (Nation.)
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“A book of uncommon calibre, rugged, sincere, tremendously virile—a book that pictures the rough, hard men of a rough, hard country frankly, without illusion or euphemism, but with a deep understanding of human nature that makes it a book to linger over.” F: T. Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 27: 102. Mr. ’08. 450w.
“Kipling’s hall-mark is upon it as a whole. Its salient traits are terseness and vividness of phrase, a grim humor prone to deal with the less savory aspects of the theme, and an unconquerable instinct for the romantic aspects.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 380w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Lanchester, F. W.= Aerodynamics; constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight. *$6. Van Nostrand.
8–26416.
“For the first time, as far as we know, this volume brings together in one place all that theory and practice have to contribute to our knowledge of the conditions which govern true flight. The final chapters, dealing with the experimental work of Langley and other investigators, is probably the most interesting to the ordinary reader, who will realise from it how complex are the problems that the aviator has yet to solve.”—Spec.
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=Engin. D.= 4:55. Jl. ’08. 330w.
“Had the author extended the last chapter to include the work of continental writers ... and excluded some of the more shaky theoretical chapters, the work might without exaggeration be called a complete treatise on aerodynamics.”
+ − =Nature.= 78: 337. Ag. 13, ’08. 780w.
“A sound and conscientious piece of work which should be invaluable to the practical builder of aeroplanes.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 199. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
=Landor, Arnold H. Savage.= Across widest Africa. 2v. *$10.50. Scribner.
7–37937.
An account of the country and people of eastern, central, and western Africa, as seen during a twelve months’ journey from Djibuti to Cape Verde. Mr. Landor’s book is not devoted to adventure, “it is concerned with the characteristic features of that country.... The rivers, mountains, elevations and deserts, the flora and fauna, the various complicated tribal divisions and names, the languages and the customs of the tribes, and the host of details which of necessity must constitute the study of the observing traveller, are the objects which appeal to him.” (Dial.)
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“All due qualifications being made, there is a large amount of interesting reading in these two handsome and well-illustrated volumes.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 38. Ja. 11. 430w.
“Abyssinia and the Emperor Menelik form the subject of some very interesting chapters of the book” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 415. D. 16, ’07. 1870w.
“Apparently ignorant of those sciences with which an explorer ought to be thoroughly familiar, Mr. Landor states his observations, his deductions, his impressions, and also those of other people, as if they were infallible dogmas. The result of this, and of his inability to sift evidence in a scientific way, is a tissue of absurdities, enunciated with such a semblance of authority that an unwary reader would assume them all to be well-ascertained facts. Notwithstanding his many errors of fact and of inference ... it is only fair to admit that Mr. Landor’s book makes interesting reading all through; that in no single work is it possible to find so many details of the customs of so many central African tribes; and that, if the author lacks many of the qualities of an historian, he, at any rate, possesses those of a traveller in a high degree.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 330. N. 1, ’07. 1560w.
“Though much of the book is tedious, there is also much that is entertaining, and it enables one to realize vividly how life in the heart of Africa appears to the traveller.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 289. Mr. 26, ’08. 700w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Tales of Troy and Greece. **$1.50. Longmans.
7–34175.
The author has regrouped the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” into two cycles, one called “Ulysses the sacker of cities,” and the other “The wanderings of Ulysses.” “Three other sections recount the tales of the Fleece of gold from traditional matter, being supplemented by Apollonius Rhodius and the fight between Polydeuces and the giant from Theocritus; and the stories of Theseus and Perseus, which depend mainly on summaries contained in Plutarch and Apollodorus.” (Ath.)
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“Delightfully told in the fairy-tale manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Lang, though as simple in style as Mr. Church, differs from the latter in that he pauses to describe customs, arms, and mode of life.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 514. O. 26. 340w.
“Mr. Lang ... puts into his text more substance than is found in the ordinary adaptation or rewritten classic.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1479. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Will prove a sheer delight to any boy or girl of imagination and a feeling for adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 17. Ja. 11, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Lang has attempted a sort of Biblia innocentum version of the Grecian Book of books. The result is an excellent narrative that often vividly recalls the original. The rest of the book is made up of the stories of Theseus, of Perseus, and of the Golden fleece, which are equally interesting, though marred with one or two misplaced modern touches.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 5. D. 7, ’07. 150w.
“Professor Church’s book is story pure and simple; Mr. Lang’s is story embroidered upon, and given a moral, philosophical, and historical complexion by turns. Yet Mr. Lang’s language is quite simple, and the child could accept the narrative at its face value with perfect comprehension.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 713. N. 9, ’07. 1220w.
* =Lang, Leonora Blanche (Mrs. Andrew Lang).= Book of princes and princesses; ed. by A. Lang. **$1.60. Longmans.
8–28404.
True stories “almost as interesting as fairy tales.” They are concerned “with people, little people indeed, yet people of real flesh and blood.... The subjects of the stories, taken from English and French history, deal with the early lives of young persons, some of whom died young, while others grew up to be famous personages.” (Cath. World.)
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“Mrs. Lang writes effectively, but has not altogether succeeded in attaining simplicity of style. The volume is an attractive collection of real stories.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 120w.
“Though the stories are strictly historical in the main, Mrs. Lang has embellished the cold data with lively conversations, and parenthetical comment to suit the story to juvenile taste.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 407. D. ’08. 200w.
=Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
“The young people who are bored by these stories, even though they are true, must be very hard to please.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 706. N. 7, ’08. 880w.
* =Lanier, Sidney.= Poem outlines. **$1. Scribner.
8–27138.
“This slender volume is a poet’s note-book. It records ideas, impressions, figures, pictures, which the poet proposes to use at some future time in a more complete way. It is a collection of fragments, of quick studies, such as a painter makes out of doors when the light is rapidly changing, and which he works up at leisure in his studio.”—Outlook.
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“A little book of poetic outlines that lets [the world] into some of the vagrant moods of one of the most sensitive and sweet-spirited singers of our Southland.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 220w.
Reviewed by Bliss Carman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 605. O. 24, ’08. 730w.
=Outlook.= 90: 594. N. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Larard, C. E., and Golding, H. A.= Practical calculations for engineers; for the use of engineering students, apprentices, draughtsmen, mechanics, foremen, and others practically engaged in engineering work. *$2. Lippincott.
W8–140.
“The general character of this work places it somewhere between the engineering pocket-book and the college text-book. The methods, formulæ, and appliances which a student encounters during a good college course in mechanical engineering are here, not demonstrated, but collected and described, systematically, and applied to such practical examples as are likely to occur in an engineering workshop.”—Nature.
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“It can do best service to men who lack an education in engineering theory, but even many of these, technical college graduates, may find it a guide to improvement.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 298. Mr. 12, ’08. 400w.
“The authors give some most striking examples of the great value of squared-paper work in the systematic plotting of variable quantities in all branches of a manufacturing establishment, and the lessons to be learnt therefrom. This section is extremely suggestive, and will well repay the careful study of all practical engineers.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 555. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
=Lathrop, Elise L.= Sunny days in Italy. **$2.50. Pott.
7–29872.
“An unpretentious volume of agreeable, familiar gossip about a dozen or more of the chief points of interest to which the average tourist sooner or later finds his way. It is a sort of pot-pourri of miscellaneous impressions and information, vivid little pen pictures of a building, a landscape, a crowd at a railway station; useful advice, gleaned from experience, regarding the hiring of apartments, bargaining with cab drivers, traveling in third-class carriages; an accumulated store of observations regarding Italian traits and social customs.”—Bookm.
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“Differs from other books on Italy in describing the little things about the life and customs which other writers have not mentioned, and yet are the things a traveler likes to know about.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“Miss Lathrop has not any real gift of expression; her observation does not seem to have been more than superficial; and apparently her knowledge of Italy is merely that of a tourist.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 447. Àp. 11. 300w.
“Flung together with a well-intentional sincerity, a pleasant and quite feminine enthusiasm which makes agreeable reading.” F: P. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 510. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Unfortunately, at least two-thirds of the book is a perfunctory performance without ‘raison d’être.’ The worst defect of the book, however, is found in the errors in style, with which its pages bristle. Nor is the book free from errors in statement. Yet, in spite of these defects, the book may be recommended for its practical, sympathetic, and in many respects novel account of the Italian customs of to-day.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’97. 430w.
“This is a pleasant book, giving intelligent descriptions of rural Italy as well as of the Italian cities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 120w.
Reviewed by Charlotte Harwood.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 494. Ja. ’08. 450w.
=Lauck, William Jett.= Causes of the panic of 1893. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays in economics.) **$1. Houghton.
7–22103.
“Reviews the industrial and financial history of the decade preceding 1893, and then describes the panic itself. In the account which Mr. Lauck gives of the conditions in Germany, France, and Great Britain his work supplements usefully A. D. Noyes’s ‘Thirty years of American finance’; but in his discussion of events in the United States he adds substantially nothing to Mr. Noyes’s narrative.”—Nation.
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=Nation.= 86: 90. Ja. 23, ’08. 230w.
“It may seem left-handed praise to hint that it is more interesting and useful as prophecy than history, when it purports to be purely and merely history. Yet we doubt that any such treatise could serve a more useful purpose than to light the way to avoidance of past errors and sufferings by the lessons of experience.” E: A. Bradford.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 565. S. 21, ’07. 510w.
* =Launay, Louis de.= World’s gold: its geology, extraction, and political economy; tr. by Orlando Cyprian Williams; with an introd. by Charles A. Conant. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–32340.
A work which examines the problem of the future supply of gold from a scientific standpoint and correlates the influence of this supply with prices and the movement of capital from the financial standpoint. The four divisions of the treatment are: The geology of gold; The geographical distribution of gold in the past and present; The extraction and dressing of gold; and The economy of gold.
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=Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 100w.
=Launspach, Charles W. L.= State and family in early Rome. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Launspach ... devotes about a quarter of his book to the history of the constitutional struggle; his account is not, as the accounts given by lawyers frequently are, a mere string of facts and dates; he has tried to make the story intelligible.... The legal chapters on marriage, patria potestas, and succession, which follow the constitutional sketch, aim at doing no more than summarizing the legal aspect of the family.”—Sat. R.
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“Is one of those books, far too common in England and America, which possess no particular value for scholars, yet do not serve the general reader. The author’s mind is legal and schematic, rather than historical, and he does not seem to realize that many of the foundations upon which he builds ... have been seriously shaken by anthropology and by historical criticism. The most substantial chapters are those on family law.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 438. N. 5, ’08. 350w.
“There appears to be a singular lack of proportion in the space devoted to the various controversial topics, and also great arbitrariness in the distinction between those points which are discussed and those others which are dealt with dogmatically.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 205. Ag. 15, ’08. 1400w.
“There is much of value in Mr. Launspach’s volume. We do not always agree with him. He makes too little, we think, of legend and tradition.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 550. O. 10, ’08. 140w.
=Laur, Francis.= Heart of Gambetta; authorized translation by Violette M. Montagu; with an introd. by J. Macdonald. *$2.50. Lane.
8–13688.
“The heart of this book is the love-letters of Gambetta written to Madame Léonie Léon. Around them are grouped a certain amount of history, a larger amount of inference or conjecture, and a still larger amount of tearful sentiment by M. Laur.” (Nation.) “The new historical fact in the letters here translated is the revelation of the truth that Gambetta deliberately pretended to favour a schism such as would detach the Gallican church from Rome, in order to bring the pope to accept his proposals for the separation of church and state.” (Ath.)
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“The translation is hardly good enough for the letters, which when they first appeared in Paris were praised, above all things, for their style.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 1130w.
“M. Laur’s method is throughout too gushing to pass for that of sober history. He reminds one of a lachrymose Victor Hugo: ‘I wept. All France wept.’ The style is staccato drowned in emotion. But disregarding most of M. Laur’s sentimental embroidering, these letters of Gambetta must be taken as a real contribution to our knowledge of the man.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 520w.
“The book is too good, too thoroughly an analysis of two human hearts, too personal, too intimate not to arouse suspicion that the author has frequently used his imagination in order to seek out dramatic causes for known suggestive results.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 129. Mr. 7, ’08. 1450w.
“The letters in this volume ... constitute an important, but in parts slightly hysteric, contribution to the history of an extremely interesting period in the political development of France. It must be confessed that, from the English point of view, and as a transcript of human emotion presumably at its highest, they are rather disappointing.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 369. S. 12, ’08. 1450w.
* =Laut, Agnes Christina.= Conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the adventurers of England known as The Hudson bay company; new pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and western states. 2v. *$5. Outing.
Tireless examination of records and documents, many of which are unclassified and inaccessible, lies back of Miss Laut’s 800 page story of the Hudson bay company. Beginning with the voyages of Henry Hudson, the author omits none of the exploration that precedes the organizing of the Hudson bay company, and then exploits the company “as adventurer, pathfinder, empire-builder, from Rupert’s land to California—feudal lord beaten off the field by democracy,” pausing for historical details where the empire-builder merges with the colonizer and pioneer.
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“Unfortunately there is no index. Both author and publisher are to be congratulated on a most important and careful work, which is yet alive with human sympathy and full of vivid character drawing.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 700. N. 28, ’08. 2100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Lawson, W. R.= American finance; part first—Domestic. $2. Macmillan.
7–28928.
Mr. Lawson—not the author of “Frenzied finance”—is an Englishman who has written a number of books of this nature including “British economics.” This is a history and discussion of American financial methods in four parts: Evolution, Organization, Creative powers, and Destructive powers.
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“The book seems to want a definite purpose. The writer betrays a lack of economic training and judgment, and at the end one is in doubt as to what Mr. Lawson really thinks about our monetary system and financial methods. Its value as descriptive material is vitiated by bad arrangement and incoherence.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 596. N. ’07. 370w.
“In general the discussion of these questions as of our financial experience as a whole is suggestive and stimulating. It is, however, rather picturesque than analytic.” James Cummings.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 438. Jl. ’07. 580w.
“A very readable account.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 192. Mr. ’08. 150w.
“Though we do not regard Mr. Lawson as a safe guide in matters economic, we gladly recognise that ... he has selected an excellent subject in which he seems to be much more at home.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 118. Ja. 26, ’07. 110w.
“The book is frankly popular and does not pretend to be a contribution to our knowledge on the subject. The author’s style is breezy and his treatment somewhat superficial, but the book is well written and decidedly interesting. The author possesses a clear and sympathetic, if not very profound, understanding of American financial institutions, and his attitude is remarkably broad-minded and fair.”
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 444. F. ’08. 250w.
=Lawton, Frederick.= François-Auguste Rodin. *$1. Kennerley.
8–35518.
A sketch of the celebrated French sculptor, written from first hand materials-from conversations with Rodin, from consultation with his friends and from his correspondence. It is neither a copy nor an abridgement of the larger “Life” but a fresh treatment thruout. The forces which have operated in Rodin’s career, his peculiar genius, and illustrations of his success are discussed with understanding.
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“A good book for the library that cannot afford the larger life by the same author.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 193. Je. ’08.
“Mr. Lawton is keenly interested in the artist of whom he writes, but is so close to his subject that it somewhat overawes him.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 200w.
=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 529. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.
“This little book is written with sympathy and insight, and will be appreciated by those who have not time to read the author’s longer book treating of the greatest figure in European art of the present age.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 50w.
=Layard, George Somes.= Shirley Brooks of Punch; his life, letters and diaries. *$3.50. Holt.
8–6092.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“His life, though in no sense dramatic, was an interesting one; for years he rubbed elbows intimately with all that was best and most brilliant in the upper circles of London’s Bohemia.” Beverley Stark.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 517. Ja. ’08. 970w.
“London of the sixties and early seventies and ‘Punch’s’ inner editorial circle, besides many more intimate matters, live again in its pages.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 424. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“His letters are of the kind that must have filled the recipient with joy, but that somehow in cold print, half a century later, sound forced and schoolboyish.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Layard, bound apparently to make a portly volume, has not digested, selected, and rejected from among his material as carefully as one might wish.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 340w.
“Mr. Layard is sometimes more expansive in this volume than the occasion demands. But on the whole ‘Shirley Brooks of Punch’ is highly entertaining, and a book for which we should be grateful.” H. S. Krans.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 3: 752. Mr. ’08. 500w.
“We do not wish that it had been shorter or substantially other than it is.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 1056. D. 21, ’07. 400w.
=Layard, George Somes.= Suppressed plates: wood engravings, etc.; together with other curiosities germane thereto; being an account of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector. *$4. Macmillan.
8–18752.
In bringing out old books in new dress, plates have been discarded for moral reasons, for lack of artistic merit, and for failure to illustrate the text adequately. The author discusses these suppressed plates, includes many of them in his illustrations, tho none whose moral tone is questioned, and deals at length with palimpsest plates—plates which have had objectionable portions burnished out and which have been adapted to their new use by re-engraving the erased sections.
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“Mr. Layard writes with such extensive knowledge that it is not easy to find holes in his armour. The facts are brought together with so much skill that this volume will rank, both with those who sell and those who buy books, as an acceptable work of reference, entertaining as well as instructive.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 135. F. 1. 750w.
“He treats in a most entertaining manner of a subject which cannot fail to be of the greatest interest to every ardent book-hunter, print-collector, and artist.” G: W. Cole.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 161. Ap. ’08. 1750w.
Reviewed by A. B. Maurice.
=Forum.= 39: 529. Ap. ’08. 2000w.
“People who care for the bypaths and curiosities of the pictorial side of literature will be much interested in Mr. Layard’s new book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 53. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Lea, Frederick Charles.= Hydraulics. *$5. Longmans.
8–10845.
“In this work the author has endeavored to embody the results of the large amount of experimental hydraulic work which has been accomplished during the past decade—especially on the subject of the flow of water—and to indicate the methods used in obtaining these results.”—Engin. D.
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=Engin. D.= 3: 526. My. ’08. 300w.
“The author writes as one having authority and altogether the book appears to the reviewer as the most satisfactory treatment of its subject for the English speaking student that has yet appeared.” G. S. Williams.
+ + =Engin. N.= 59: 541. My. 14, ’08. 1000w.
“Altogether the work forms an excellent textbook, and is cordially to be recommended to students of this most interesting and useful science.”
+ + =Nature.= 77: 530. Ap. 9, ’08. 700w.