The book review digest, volume 04, 1908 (part 5 of 7)
=Lea, Henry Charles.= Inquisition in the Spanish dependencies, Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, The Canaries, Mexico, Peru, New Granada. **$2.50, Macmillan.
8–1774.
A volume which supplements the author’s series of histories on the inquisition. It throws light on the workings of the inquisitorial system as operated by the colonial tribunals in the new world, and the retarding effects upon the development of the Spanish-American colonies.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 689. Ap. ’08. 30w.
Reviewed by G: L. Burr.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 847. Jl. ’08. 1350w.
“The volume is marked by the characteristic excellences of its predecessors: a style which is useful, without possessing much literary charm, an inexhaustible knowledge of his subject, and an organization of his materials so exact, and so natural that the reader easily follows the narrative.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 311. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“Throughout the work, a closer chronological arrangement at times might have conduced to greater clearness.” J. A. Robertson.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 455. S. ’08. 550w.
“Ranks easily with his strongest and best.” L. M. Larson.
+ + =Dial.= 45: 294. N. 1, ’08. 80w.
=Ind.= 64: 1043. My. 7, ’08. 450w.
“He has always the great advantage of looking at the subject as a whole, and viewing it against the background of the parent institution.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 263. Mr. 19, ’08. 500w.
“The ground to be gone over is so large and the records are so scanty that the treatment is necessarily less detailed and vivid than in the other volumes.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 99. F. 22, ’08. 1000w.
=Outlook.= 89: 392. Je. 20, ’08. 130w.
“To those who are interested in the theme it seems unfortunate that Dr. Lea should have omitted the history of the Spanish inquisition in the Netherlands, Chile and the La Plata provinces. An inclusion of these areas would have rounded out the view most admirably.” W: R. Shepherd.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 328. Je. ’08. 550w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 637. My. ’08. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 563. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 400w.
=Lea, Homer.= Vermilion pencil: a romance of China. †$1.50. McClure.
8–9531.
A young Breton priest, detailed to instruct the wife of a wealthy mandarin, falls in love with her and they elope. They are caught, the husband subjects his wife to the terrible torture of the lyngchee, while the lover identifies himself with the “Deluge family,” a secret revolutionary society, whose symbol draws to him crowds who aid in rescuing the condemned woman. “The book is more than a novel—it is a human document.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A lurid and grotesque impression of China.”
− =Nation.= 86: 354. Ap. 16, ’08. 230w.
“The most remarkable piece of fiction the year thus far has brought. The story itself is not overpowering in its ingenuity, but in its opening of glimpses into a world all but unknown to the west, it is of very great interest, and in its undeniable penetration of character and power of description it merits the wide attention which beyond doubt it will receive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 138. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“A story full of exciting scenes and revelations about China and the Chinese.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 230w.
“Mr. Lea’s story is rather too tragic and too horrible in its descriptions of Chinese tortures to be agreeable but it is a sincere picture of a beautiful character in the person of its heroine, and of her influence over a great Chinese official through her loveliness and brilliant mind in abolishing evil and injustice.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
“This appears to us the most valuable novel on the subject of China as yet penned in the English language, none existing, besides, that so well combines instruction with entertainment.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 767. Je. ’08. 400w.
=Lear, Edward.= Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave; ed. by Lady Strachey of Sutton court. *$3.50. Duffield.
8–28968.
Edward Lear, the pioneer limerick maker, caricaturist, and landscape painter, is self revealed in these letters in which “mingle tenderness, a whimsical humor, and the power to see the visible world as pictorial material.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Lady Strachey is to be congratulated on the publication of letters which reveal a pleasant personality. We have no doubt that Lady Strachey’s venture will come to a second edition, and offer some corrections in view of that event.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 760. D. 14. 830w.
“A volume of characteristic and amusing letters.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 217. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 787. O. 1, ’08. 400w.
“We have read these letters with continuous delight. They fully satisfy such expectations as may have been aroused by Lear’s long-famous ‘Book of nonsense’; in other words, they justify Lear’s reputation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 562. O. 17, ’08. 1250w.
“These are delightful letters and fully satisfy any expectations about them which might have been aroused by Lear’s long famous ‘Book of nonsense.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 80w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 90w.
“They reflect the temper and interests of his prime, and are so personal in their tone that we gain from them a vivid picture of the quaint personality that so continually suggests Thackeray’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 493. S. 12, ’08. 2050w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The book is exactly of the kind which one can pick up from a shelf in an odd minute of spare time and dip into here and there with enjoyment.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 230. S. 26, ’08. 240w.
* =Leaves= from a life. *$3.50. Brentano’s.
8–31145.
Supposedly from the pen of a daughter of William P. Frith, the English painter, these sketches contain anecdotes of Browning, Tennyson, Du Maurier, Leighton, Dickens, Trollope, and many other celebrities in arts and letters.
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“It is a good-natured, simple-minded, humorous presentation of a great slice of mid-Victorian England, a canvas full of figures rendered with practically no technique at all. The slipshod condition of the author’s style is almost incredible.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“Laughter-loving pages. They are the record of a woman who has seen much of life, who loved it in its full course and loves it now in retrospect. Her book will amuse people from the first page to the last.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 437. Ag. 8, ’08. 1100w.
=Leavitt, Sheldon.= Paths to the heights. **$1. Crowell.
8–15159.
The record of the work of a physician who abandoned drugs and entered the field of mental healing. His experience lies between orthodox theology and Christian science and is full of practical suggestion.
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“We read the book and find it rational and instructive in many respects.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ − =Arena.= 40: 387. O. ’08. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 340. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
=Le Blond, Elizabeth A. F. (Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond) (Mrs. Main).= Mountaineering in the land of the midnight sun. *$3.50. Lippincott.
A narration of the author’s experiences in climbing thirty-three mountains. “It was delightful,” she writes, “to think that we could start when we liked, return when we liked, and have the cheering rays of the sun always visible. In the north, too, we found all the picturesqueness of Lapp and reindeer, all the repose of a land where no tourists are seen, all the magnificence of ice-clad mountains and spires of rocks mingled with the softer beauty of lake and fjord.”
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“There is much detail which can interest only the keen mountain climber. The interest for other readers lies in the fact that the book shows, as no other within our knowledge does, how delightfully a summer can be passed in camp or in one of the little settlements in this region. To the vivid word pictures are added 71 reproductions of photographs, which show not only the wondrous scenery, but also many of the stirring incidents of the ascents.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 437. N. 5, ’08. 260w.
“There are some very interesting passages in ‘Mountaineering in the land of the midnight sun,’ for the author, besides being a good climber, is a charming writer, who relates her experiences wonderfully well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 220w.
=Lee, Gerald Stanley.= Inspired millionaires: a forecast. $1.25. Mount Tom press.
8–17551.
Mr. Lee looks forward to the time when some millionaire will conduct a factory that “will rank with Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Homer’s Iliad, and the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah.” He believes that the question of human labor is one that belongs to the arts and humanities, and not merely to the sciences; that the factory, if enough soul is poured in, should be as spiritual as a church and as educational as a school. “His fresh way of putting some old facts and truths is not unlike the wholesome freshet that leaves behind it a fertilizing deposit.” (Outlook.)
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“These essays are as light as gossamer in substance, and their intellectual quality will not appeal to the common mind at all. The spirit of the book is wholesome, the manner is pleasing, it is surely harmless, and it may have more than an aesthetic influence.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 350. Je. 20, ’08. 800w.
“The author puts much that has been said on social problems into a breezy and original form which holds attention through all the amplification and reiterations of his central idea.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 300w.
=Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Ibsen secret: a key to the prose dramas of Henrik Ibsen. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–32577.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It is not a safe book for beginners.”
− =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 194. Je. ’08.
“The ingenuity she displays in demonstrating her thesis is equaled only by her success in draining the plays of red blood and humanly vital signification.” Archibald Henderson.
− =Atlan.= 102: 259. Ag. ’08. 360w.
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 209. S. ’08. 40w.
“Will be of value to many readers, especially elementary Ibsenites, not because it tells what the symbols are and mean, but because it tells how to track them.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 922. Ap. 23, ’08. 180w.
“As a whole, Mrs. Lee’s little treatise strikes one more as a series of somewhat iterative talks, loosely strung together and considerably too dilute for grown folks. Her ideals are sound and helpful for earnest young people desirous of writing papers on Ibsen.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 158. Mr. 21, ’08. 670w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Limbo and other essays; with a new drama, Ariadne in Mantua. *$1.50. Lane.
A new edition of Limbo and other essays which also includes the new drama Ariadne in Mantua. “This is a little play in which the forces of Tradition, Discipline, and Civilization ‘triumph over the mere forces of =Nature.=’ It is a closet drama, and the action is improbable; nevertheless it rises to a moving, even pathetic climax.” (Nation.)
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“‘Ariadne in Mantua’ seems to us an exceptionally charming closet drama.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ =Dial.= 45: 82. Ag. 16, ’08. 860w.
=Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 70w.
“It is not always apparent what Miss Paget is talking about, and she is frequently guilty of rhetorical indiscretions which mar an otherwise pleasant style, but her essays contain much agreeable suggestion of an aesthetic nature.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 354. Je. 20, ’08. 130w.
“‘Ariadne in Mantua’ is treated, we need hardly say, with ‘Vernon Lee’s’ own peculiar distinction, and both in refined thought and beautiful prose the drama is worthy of her.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 869. My. 30, ’08. 470w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Sentimental traveller: notes on places. *$1.50. Lane.
8–3114.
Vernon Lee takes her readers into Italy, Germany, Switzerland and France and thru her impressionistic word-painting helps them to catch and retain “portraits set in frames of their own familiar scenery.” “Many interesting and important personages are mentioned or met with, and anecdotes are told of most of them. Churches and castles and peasant abodes are entered and admired, and works of art receive words of commendation or disapproval.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The descriptions are still admirably done; but there is a surfeit of them. The reflections are still those of a highly cultivated mind, but nothing new or moving.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 34. Ja. 9, ’08. 220w.
“It is all the work of a woman of wide and easy culture, possessing a pleasing fancy and no imagination. The book is obvious, but kindly, for all its condescension, a condescension none the less marked that it is probably unconscious.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 9. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
“The charm of her writing lies in its lightness of touch, a quality particularly evident in her slight but sure comment upon now this, now that place, as a butterfly might go from flower to flower.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 378. F. 15, ’08. 320w.
“‘Vernon Lee’ has written many delightful things, but nothing perhaps more keenly suggestive and charmingly convincing than the first chapter of her new book. Full of human as well as artistic interest. No one will question their originality and charm.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 24. Ja. 4, ’08. 550w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Studies of the eighteenth century in Italy; new ed. *$6. McClurg.
A new edition for whose unchanged text the author offers some apologies, yet refuses “to lay indifferent hands, and even skeptical eyes upon it.” It was written out of the fulness of youthful fancies, and is permitted to remain the log-book of the author’s exploration, the inventory of her enchanted garret. A new thirty-five page preface “expounds and glorifies” the phase of her study dealing with music. See Cumulative book index for contents.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 681. N. 28. 250w.
“The illustrations are excellent and contribute their share to the vividness that is perhaps the salient characteristic of the work.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ =Dial.= 45: 401. D. 1, ’08. 2500w.
“Correctness, orthodoxy, can be had for the asking at any academic counter; Miss Paget deals in something better.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 704. N. 28, ’08. 600w.
=Lees, Dorothy Nevile.= Tuscan feasts and Tuscan friends. *$1.75. Dodd.
8–18700.
The author’s experiences while living as governess in Florentine families who spent their summers among the hills of Tuscany have furnished the material for this description of life in and about a villa. “She draws a delightful picture of certain Tuscan children.... Among the particularly good chapters are those giving an account of a Tuscan fair, of the funeral of a contadina’s baby, of the exquisite Tuscan irises and the preparation of the orris-root perfume.” (Nation.)
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“Two defects in the book are excessive sentimentality and the literal translation of Italian remarks.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 194. Je. ’08.
“Without any appreciable gift for writing, the author is yet able to bring before us the well-known scenes she describes just because she has felt their beauty and loved them.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 687. N. 30. 200w.
“The book has two irritating blemishes. Miss Lees is so stirred by Italy’s fatal gift of beauty that she pauses continually to soliloquize in platitudes with exuberant sentimentality. The other defect is her habit of translating the remarks of her Italian acquaintances literally from the Italian idiom and in the Italian order, and by this libellous method making the most graceful appear the most imbecile of tongues.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“There is richness of legend, story, and customs in [this book].”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The style becomes rather commonplace and monotonous.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 170w.
“An agreeable book.” A. I. du P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 745. S. ’08. 100w.
“These bright vivacious sketches of hers call for no review, only for commendation. They are instinct with the true everyday life of Tuscany. The writer has a quick ear, a quick eye, the faculty of appreciation, the gift of enthusiasm and a very agreeable humour.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 237. F. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Little dinners with the Sphinx, and other prose fancies. **$1.25. Moffat.
7–36411.
Mr. Le Gallienne resumes his conversation with the lady of the opals, bridging a separation of four years since the last “little dinners.” In addition to the title story there are other prose fancies as follows: The death of the poet; The butterfly of dreams; My castle in Spain; Once-upon-a-time; The little joys of Margaret; What’s in a name; Revisiting the glimpses of the moon; Eva, the woodland and I; and The dream documents.
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“Mr. Le Gallienne’s hand has not lost its dexterity as long as he can fashion tales like these, and if his gift of philandering has a little failed it may be replaced by a more masculine and robust genius, and both he and his readers may be the richer.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 250w.
“These stories, in fact, with their exquisite images and lovely language, are like those creations of Norse mythology that appeared beautiful women when they faced you, but should they turn their backs, proved to be no other than empty shells. To be sure, if one kept the right point of view they were fair to look upon—and that is something to be thankful for.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 259. D. 28, ’07. 270w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Omar repentant. *75c. Kennerley.
A temperance sermon embodied in a poem. It serves as a warning to youth losing itself on “the vine-trellised path to hell.” It is an antidote to the Rubaiyat in setting forth the subtle harmfulness of the vine instead of its glory.
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“No matter the duration of the author’s mood, it is good sense and not bad poetry.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 613. S. 10, ’08. 300w.
“It is a book in a different vein from the author’s other volumes, perhaps, yet it possesses the distinct flavor of his art, and could not have come from another’s hand.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 230w.
=Leger, Jacques Nicholas.= Haiti: her history and her detractors. *$3. Neale.
7–25045.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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=Ind.= 64: 693. Mr. 26, ’08. 250w.
“Haiti, at last, has a champion who is entitled to be heard; for he speaks from fullness of knowledge, and from a position of political eminence sends forth no uncertain sound.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 450w.
“This book deserves to be widely read.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 116. Ja. ’08. 120w.
=Legge, Arthur E. J.= Pilgrim jester; a poem. **$1.25. Lane.
A poem whose subject is “contemporary society, the fermenting must of modern circumstance.” “‘The pilgrim jester,’ a symbolic blend of Socrates and ‘The beloved vagabond,’ walks through modernity wisely smiling, contemplating all forms of creeds. To the sandspinning multitude, the blind mouths of Law, Church and State, to the philosopher, the demimondaine, the poet, the frustrate woman, the laborer, he holds up in turn amid appropriate surroundings the mirror of a gently sympathetic scepticism.... He shadows forth a philosophy not unlike the clearer teachings of Stevenson, of Browning, of Whitman: that living is worth life, and only fear is evil.” (Forum.)
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“Though his indictment of established modes of thought is not free from little touches of self complacency ... and his philosophy, in one of its aspects at least, recalls the unassailable optimism of Dr. Pangloss, the book shows much observation and humour, and its technique is admirable.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 796. D. 21. 120w.
“For all its casual beauties his book remains a breathless body, his idea a disincarnate ghost; great in conception, perhaps—but unexpressed for want of artistry in the expression.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 525. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The characters, including the jester, would have lived more intensely had the author been less hobby-haunted than he is. But there is vivacity in it all which proves the thought sincere, and gives it a value in spite of its being unoriginal.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 760. Je. 13, ’08. 650w.
“Mr. Arthur Legge is that rare thing among modern writers, a satirist who is also a poet. His ‘Pilgrim jester’ has passages which are not unworthy of the author of ‘Don Juan.’ Great skill in versification, a keen sense of the ironies of life, and something of prophetic wrath are joined with a delicacy of imagination and a capacity for sustained melodious flights which make his little book worthy of note by all lovers of good literature.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: sup. 119. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Leith, W. Compton.= Apologia diffidentis. *$2.50. Lane.
8–16412.
A pathological study of the disease of shyness written in an autobiographical strain that carries conviction.
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“The matter of the book, unfortunately, is not sufficient to carry all its superstructure. There are passages of pathos, and here and there a touch of insight; but on the whole the writer has scarcely enough to say to justify the decorated way in which he says it.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 282. Mr. 7. 1550w.
“Distinguished on every page for beauty of style. The shy fraternity will need no word of ours to lead them to this book. But we hope that what has been said here will turn the lover of literature to the volume also, knowing as we do that it holds for him a pleasure not often vouchsafed in these days of universal scribbling.” J: J. Holden.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 101. F. 16, ’08. 2000w.
“The style is so carefully elaborated, at times so precious, that it suggests insincerity. Perhaps the book, if taken in small doses, would seem a thing of firmer texture.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“This is a study in style as well as a study of shyness. It is a very flower of culture. One hardly finds anywhere in English prose a happier faculty of sympathetic description of nature, that nature which the solitary finds his refuge from man.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 138. Mr. 14, ’08. 700w.
“The book has high literary merit; the style is full of melody and colour, and the rich dreamy sentences rise into the air like wreaths of fragrant incense-smoke.” A. C. Benson.
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 368. Mr. 21, ’08. 600w.
=Leland, John.= Itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535–1543. ed. by Lucy Toulmin Smith. 2v. ea. $4. Macmillan.
7–25493.
=v. 1.= Contains pts. 1 and 2. It “comprises the antiquary’s journeys through twenty-three counties. Some of these are touched upon but slightly. The western counties, however, of Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall are dealt with at considerable length.” (Ath.)
=v. 2.= Contains pts. 3 and 4, and an appendix consisting of the detached part of Leland’s ‘Collectanea’ found in Cheltenham. “Notes, chiefly concerned with men and lands, culled from rolls and pedigrees or set down by Leland from hearsay, go to make up part 4; Part 5 is narrative ‘Itinerary,’ but, the original being lost, Miss Toulmin Smith has been obliged to rely here on Stow checked by Burton.” (Sat. R.)
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“Forms an indispensable book of reference to those interested in the history and antiquities of the west of England. Deserves a place in every well-furnished library.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 36. Jl. 13. 820w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For the editorial part of the work we have nothing but praise. The notes are few, but to the point.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 540. My. 2. 600w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The text of these two excellently printed volumes seems to be above reproach, and all students of English history will be grateful to Miss Toulmin Smith for the immense care she has devoted to the preparation of it. It would be a great pity if Miss Toulmin Smith’s excellent work were to suffer from the want of an adequate index.” A. G. Little.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 569. Jl. ’08. 730w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“We congratulate Miss Toulmin Smith upon the manner in which she has edited this valuable work, which is admirably printed, with a satisfactory index.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 246. Ag. 9, ’07. 1200w. (Review of v. 1.)
“His ‘Itinerary’ will always stand as a work indispensable to the student of English topography and life of the sixteenth century. Its value is chiefly for the scholar and the local antiquarian.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 99. Jl. 30, ’08. 980w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 175. Ag. 10, ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editing is well done, and though a proper name has here and there been allowed to escape, the index is satisfactory.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 105: 638. My. 16, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
* =Leland, Walter S.= Boiler accessories: a complete and authoritative treatise on the various accessories of the boiler room and engine room essential to economical operation, together with practical instruction in their use. $1. Am. school of correspondence.
8–30357.
A handbook prepared for self-instruction and home study. Its three divisions are: Special constructions and mechanical aids, Control and supply devices, and Boiler troubles and tests. “The subjects embrace settings for boilers, types of furnace construction, forced and induced draft, steam and water gauges, safety valves, feed and blow-off apparatus and piping, including fittings and insulation.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“One usually expects something more pretentious, however, when the words ‘complete and authoritative treatise’ are employed.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 180w.
“The book seems to well serve its purpose of a not-too-technical manual of boiler appurtenances.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 537. N. 12, ’08. 480w.
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 652. D. 5, ’08. 190w.
=Lemaitre, Jules.= Jean Jacques Rousseau; tr. by Jeanne Mairet, Madame Charles Bigot. **$2.50. McClure.
7–39534.
M. Lemaître holds the view of the majority of critics “that Rousseau, in the last analysis, was a madman, rendered insane by the cumulative effect of prolonged disease and real and imaginary persecution; that his ‘pathology’ was the foremost factor in determining his career and ideas; and that it is impossible to acquit him of gross and unpardonable inconsistencies between his theories and his manner of life.” (Outlook.)
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“Has faithfully presented all facts which are necessary for a complete picture of the man’s character and mind.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08.
“They are written in a free-and-easy style, and are rather familiar talks than formal addresses.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 45. Jl. 16, ’08. 240w.
“Interesting and very readable volume. Not a little of the decided charm of the book lies in the fact that the author reveals himself quite as much as he does his subject. The fatal defect of his argument is his neglect of—or shall we say unfamiliarity with?—the progress of thought during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” G: H. Casamajor.
+ − =Forum.= 40: 57. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“A rather awkward translation. In the light of the Macdonald documents, M. Lemaitre would seem to be an unduly harsh commentator; and, granting their invalidity, he still is certainly most unsympathetic. It is unquestionably most readable and most stimulating. It possesses many passages of high analytical value.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 320w.
“Well worth reproduction in English. On the whole they have been adequately translated.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 641. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
“Treats the generally odious details of his countryman’s life with more philosophical indulgence, dwelling more insistently on that strain of madness which is the kindest explanation of some of Rousseau’s extraordinary actions.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 842. N. 21, ’08. 70w.
=Lenk, Dr. Heinrich von.= Marie Antoinette’s youth; tr. from the German of Dr. Heinrich von Lenk by G: P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
8–23568.
A story from childhood to the perilous days of the Reign of terror gives a clear insight into the unfortunate queen’s character and the circumstances which led up to her death.
=Lenôtre, Gosselin.= Daughter of Louis XVI: Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte de France, duchess d’Angoulême. *$4. Lane.
8–33929.
The story of the daughter of Louis XVI, her tragic separation from her father, mother, brother, and aunt who were sent to the guillotine, her release and her exchange on the Swiss frontier for Austrian prisoners, and her residence in Austria and marriage to the Duc d’Angoulême.
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“M. Lenôtre’s latest revolutionary study, though not perhaps so interesting as some of those that precede it, is marked by the same excellent qualities of exhaustive research, calm judgment, and lucid narrative. Mr. May’s translation has merit; but ‘sapiential work’ (p. 313) is scarcely happy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 471. O. 17. 1150w.
“Enough new material has been included to make the work interesting, even to those who are already tolerably familiar with the general facts of Marie Thérèse’s career.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 434. Ag. 8, ’08. 980w.
“Those who are fascinated—may we not say as Shakespeare was?—with the tragedies of royal houses are under obligation to M. Lenôtre, the writer, and Mr. J. Lewis May, his translator.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 22. Jl. 4, ’08. 470w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 545. O. 10, ’08. 450w.
=Lenz, Max.= Napoleon: a biographical study; tr. from the German by Frederic Whyte, il. *$4. Putnam.
8–3126.
A biography which aims to interpret phases of Napoleon’s character rather than to present an exhaustive history of the man or his times. Emphasis is placed upon the development of his mind, his literary attempts, his dreams and early ideals, his philosophy that man exists for the state, and the character of Napoleon as he reveals himself in documentary material.
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“Details are not the matters in which Professor Lenz was interested. His eye is ever on the Titanic struggles of Napoleon’s genius amid the maelstrom of historic forces. The translation is of uncertain merit.” G. S. F.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 868. Jl. ’08. 950w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08. ✠
“The fact is that Dr. Lenz has narrated in too great detail the early part of his story.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 40. Jl. 11. 580w.
“Although it is not free from errors that one does not look for in the writings of a distinguished Berlin professor, it delights the reader from time to time by its felicitous summaries of complex situations. The attitude of sympathetic observer, which Dr. Lenz assumes, often results also in well-balanced interpretations of Napoleon’s motives and plans, impossible to those who are always hunting for evidences of Satanic intrigue.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 279. My. 1, ’08. 400w.
“One must on the whole conclude that, although the book is not entirely without interest on the side of the character of Napoleon the non-combatant, it was hardly worth the honor of translation.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 350w.
“A comprehensive study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 644. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“The translation is rather indifferently executed by Mr. Frederick Whyte. There are many ‘lives’ of Napoleon far more informing than this latest one—Rose’s, Fournier’s, Sloane’s, to mention a few of the best. Moreover, the value of Dr. Lenz’s work for the student is much diminished by the absence of bibliography or references.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 500w.
“We do not recall any biographer of Napoleon who has recognized more clearly the psychological change wrought in his character by the process of events than has Max Lenz in this biography.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 813. Ag. 8, ’08. 530w.
“From the trail of the serpent of Anglophobia this volume is certainly not free.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 642. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
=Le Queux, William.= Lady in the car. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A collection of magazine stories. “This volume recounts a series of episodes in the career of a person known as ‘the Prince’—a species of Raffles on an international scale. Both in England and abroad he masquerades as the Kaiser’s cousin with striking impunity, and, fortified by a bewildering array of magnificent motor-cars, effects divers sensational swindles and robberies, contriving incidentally to deceive many confiding females in an apparently heartless manner, despite the author’s tribute to him as one who ‘has never, to my knowledge, played an honest woman a scurvy trick.’” (Ath.)
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“The first chapter shows some sense of comedy, but those which follow are on conventional lines, and can hardly be considered up to the standard of average sensational fiction.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 634. My. 23. 160w.
“Most of the stories are tiresome, and none of them are convincing.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Le Queux, William.= Pauper of Park lane; a mystery of east and west. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–8090.
A tale of mystery which centers about a Jewish financier’s methods of trapping a murderer—a secret agent in the employ of the Servian government.
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“The threads of the narrative are many; and as some seem taken up only to be dropped, we are soon reduced to a fitting state of bewilderment.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 283. Mr. 7. 130w.
=Leroux, Gaston.= Mystery of the yellow room: extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, reporter. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
8–19097.
“Here is a room with all its windows barred on the inside, no chimney, no openings of any kind but one door, which is locked on the inside by a young woman, whose father is in the next room and close to the outside of the door, a servant with him. Suddenly from inside the yellow room come shrieks and shots. When the door is broken down the daughter is found wounded on the floor, the furniture thrown about, and absolutely no one else is there. The girl could not and did not make all the wounds on her. Query, who did it?”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08.
“‘The mystery of the yellow room’ has all but one thing. It fails to carry entire conviction.” Beverly Stark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 603. Ag. ’08. 500w.
“The interest lasts to the end of the book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 554. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“For sheer originality and ingenuity we reckon this the best detective story published for some time.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 75. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
“The publishers advertise it as suited to reading on a railway journey. It is a correct appreciation, and places the book accurately as a literary effort.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 426. Ag. 1, ’08. 320w.
“The plot is elaborately worked out, and few can guess the answer before the author chooses.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 957. Ag. 22, ’08. 150w.
=Lescarbot, Marc.= History of New France; with an English translation, notes and appendices by W. L. Grant, and an introd. by H. P. Biggar. 3v. v. 1. Champlain society, Toronto.
A reprint of Lascarbot’s “Histoire de la Nouvelle France,” published in 1609. “An introduction, by Mr. Biggar, gives briefly and clearly the little that is known of Lescarbot’s life, of his personal connection with New France and of the motif of his book. Then the translator of the book, Mr. Grant, describes the method and the aim of the translation, the various accessory materials and some further details of consequence.... There follows the translation of the first two books, made from the edition of 1618, immediately after which is an exact reprint, in smaller type, of the corresponding French original.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“It seems ungracious to note flaws in a work so good, and indeed they are few. We miss a bibliographical account of Lescarbot’s book, though we naturally expect it, and the notes, especially upon Lescarbot’s sources, are at times unsatisfyingly brief. And the system of connecting the pagination of translation and French is not the most convenient.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 602. Ap. ’08. 540w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It must not be forgotten, however, that Lescarbot’s history possesses an importance of its own as literature, and that in this respect it has no rival in the early books of New France. Mr. Grant’s translation as a whole is admirable, and worthy of a place beside Otis’s ‘Champlain’ and Shea’s ‘Charlevoix.’ The text, however, offers opportunities for many more useful notes than Mr. Grant has seen fit to give, and Mr. Biggar’s introduction might have been considerably enlarged.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Lesdain, Count de.= From Pekin to Sikkim, through the Ordos, the Gobi desert, and Tibet; with a preface by John Murray; with maps and illustrations. *$4. Dutton.
W8–118.
A remarkable wedding journey made by Count de Lesdain and his nineteen year old bride, from Pekin across Northern China, the Ordos and the Gobi desert, then south over the highlands of Tibet into India. It was undertaken to gratify a wish to cross country hitherto unknown, and to increase the geographical knowledge of the day.
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“The interesting portion of his book seems to us to be that relating to the fairly well-known Chinese province of Kansuh.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 178. Ag. 15. 1200w.
“The narrative lacks color and action, and even the real geographical contributions are not clearly set forth.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 180w.
“It gives a vivid picture of life and conditions in little known parts of the empire.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 577. Je. 25, ’08. 320w.
“The blessed sense of humor was not absent, and the book is brightened by many pages of reflected experience, which must have served to ease the days and weeks of hardship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 320w.
“Adds a new chapter to geographical information.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 958. Ag. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Letters= from a workingman, by an American mechanic. **$1. Revell.
8–28322.
“Familiar talks in the most unconventional and occasionally even slangy diction, directed to workingmen at large by a man who had actually been a mechanic and worked side by side with the men whom he was addressing.... Such titles as “Human nature in the shop,” “Spies in the shop,” “Exploiting the working class,” “Tenement-house neighbors,” “Settling the strike,” “Labor and the saloon,” and “The workingman and the church,” give a fair idea of the field covered by this book.”
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“The writer is a man of intelligence who takes pride in his work and has a sturdy independence of character. His point of view is always interesting and instructive, although his comments on men and things and conditions may not be always of much value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
“It is not necessary to agree in every point with the views put forth in this book to appreciate its earnestness and its sympathy with the worker and the unemployed, and especially with the worker who belongs to the skilled class, and whose intelligence is lively and active, though not infrequently misdirected.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 400w.
=Lewes, Vivian Byam.= Liquid and gaseous fuels, and the part they play in modern power production. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
8–13632.
“Treats the subject of liquid and gaseous fuels from a popular but comprehensive point of view, and it is not intended to take the place of the standard treatises on the several branches of the subject.”—Engin. N.
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 280w.
“The author is a master of his subject, writes in a clear and often interesting style, and he has made a useful book which is worthy of a place in any engineer’s library.” W: Kent.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 432. O. 15, ’08. 400w.
“There is one point which Prof. Lewes appears to have overlooked. He considers that the alcohol will be either manufactured from potato starch or saw-dust.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 98. D. 5, ’07. 930w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 584. O. 17, ’08. 80w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= An American patrician; or, The story of Aaron Burr. **$2. Appleton.
8–5600.
A biography of Aaron Burr which in the form of fiction includes also a group of contemporaries. “Adopting the view that Burr’s scheme of western conquest involved no traitorous designs, Mr. Lewis contrives to arouse a good deal of sympathy for his hero.” (Outlook.)
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“This is an ultra-lively galloping picture of the times. No modern newsboy could call the day’s news on the highways with more disregard of classic forms. That there is a vividness which puts the wars, factions, and policies of the day in gay colors before us is not to be gainsaid. The truth of the colors may well be questioned. As to the method of putting on colors there can be no question.”
− =Nation.= 86: 492. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“Apart altogether from the truth or falsity of his portrait of Burr, he draws a grossly distorted picture of the times and of the historic personages with whom Burr had to do. For this reason Mr. Lewis’s latest adventure in ‘fictional’ biography is far more deserving of censure than of praise.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 882. Ap. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry.= Wolfville folks. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–16469.
The honor of Wolfville reposes in the keeping of the Old Cattleman, who is the narrator of the “doings” of Wolfvillites; to Doc Petts, “the genteelest sharp, an’ the best eddicated, that ever dwells in Arizona”; to Sam Enright, “the soul of fairness”; to Cherokee Hall, “predestined kyard-sharp”; and other frequenters of the Red Light. This chapter of Wolfville excitement records the disappearance of the landlady’s husband, her willingness to install a successor and the alacrity with which the hunting for the lost man begins.
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“Rollicking sketches.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08.
“We like these gentlemen of imaginative, figurative speech, and welcome ‘Wolfville folks.’”
+ =Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Taking dialect and story together, the book more nearly than any other we can recall tugs at those muscles of mirth that Artemus Ward first played upon. One feels almost like an Englishman discovering American humor.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“They are much more interesting and amusing than if they and their purely imaginary dialect were true to life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 140w.
=Lewis, Charlton Miner.= Genesis of Hamlet. **$1.25. Holt.
7–39507.
A discussion which brings into composite view the theories of Coleridge and Werder in explaining the Hamlet of Belleforest, Kyd, and Shakespeare. The author in his summary says: “Coleridge finds that Hamlet’s delays are due to internal difficulties, for which he is to blame. Werder finds that they are due to external difficulties for which he is not to blame.... We will say with Coleridge that Hamlet’s difficulties are internal, and with Werder that he is not to blame for them; but we must add, in disagreement with both disputants that these difficulties are not the causes of the delay. The causes of the delay are those external difficulties which have vanished into the fourth dimension.”
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“An eminently sane and readable essay toward a rational appreciation of Shakespeare.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 340w.
“The method employed in this book is suggestive of the process of qualitative analysis in the chemical laboratory.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 730w.
“The book has none of the dulness which so often characterizes the discussion of pedantic problems and is as interesting to the layman as to the Shakespearian scholar.” S. R. Cook.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 4: 237. My. ’08. 300w.
=Lewis, George Randall.= Stannaries: a study of the English tin-miner; awarded the David A. Wells prize for the year 1906–07, and published from the income of the David A. Wells fund. (Harvard economic studies, v. 3.) **$1.50. Houghton.
8–5604.
“The tin mines of Britain appear at the very dawn of our historic knowledge of the island as its special attractiveness to foreign traders; accompany its whole story as an influential and picturesque element; and are still today an essential part of the life of the southwestern counties, and a factor in the national policy. Moreover the tin mines and the tin miners have always stood in a peculiar and far from easily understood position; in a certain sense monopolized and exploited by the crown; in another sense privileged and favored beyond other interests and other classes of inhabitants. It is this interesting and obscure history that Mr. Lewis has elucidated in the present volume.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“In this book, historians have at their service, for the first time, a clear, adequate and interesting explanation of what has formerly been a poorly comprehended institution, and the narrative of a previously unwritten chapter of English history.” E. P. Cheyney.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 841. Jl. ’08. 850w.
“Very scholarly study.” R. V. Phelan.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 634. N. ’08. 400w.
“For some topics, Dr. Lewis has not given sufficient definitions, assuming a knowledge of the terminology on the part of the reader. But this is due to his own intimate knowledge of the whole subject, which is apparent throughout the work.” D. C. Munro.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 120. Je. ’08. 640w.
“A piece of sterling work. It is true that the book lacks distinction of other than a workmanlike order. His conception of his task is scholarly rather than scientific; and while he sets forth minute details upon certain matters of minor import, he does not make clear what manner of man the Cornish tinner has been and is to-day, and how he has developed into his present estate.” W. C. Mitchell.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 387. Je. ’08. 800w.
“His treatment of economic and social conditions in the tinmining counties is a distinct contribution to the social history of England—in some sections worthy of Green; while his book as a whole must for a long time to come be ranked as the standard work of reference in its field. The bibliography is especially commendable for its inclusiveness.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 377. Ap. 23, ’08. 220w.
“A subject well worth attention, and he has treated it in a manner reflecting credit on himself and on the ‘Harvard economic studies.’” C. D.
+ + =Yale R.= 17: 240. Ag. ’08. 430w.
=Lewisohn, Ludwig.= Broken snare. $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
8–28063.
“More than most works of fiction, this is a story of a man and a woman, to the exclusion of all other personalities; of their love and its consequences, to the exclusion of all other interests. The woman is an ardent creature, cramped by the conditions of a peculiarly mean and sordid existence; the man has the artist’s temperament, and what he imagines to be deep convictions concerning the futility of the marriage-bond. The two agree to join their lives without the usual legal proceedings, and set out for a honeymoon in the South.” (Dial.) Then come a break, separation, suffering, reconciliation, and reunion according to the demands of human society.
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“This is a strong and well-written study of one phase of the marriage problem.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 481. N. ’08. 500w.
“It is not a book for the young person to read, but it is one from which the mature mind can get nothing but good, and one which offers a singular satisfaction to the artistic perceptions.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 300w.
“It is a novel of rather unusual quality in its serious intent, its clearness of vision, and its workmanship. The author might sometimes have developed his story, it is true, with more reticence and equal power, and so have run less risk of offense.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=Lidgett, John Scott.= Christian religion: its meaning and proof. *$2.50. Meth. bk.
7–37982.
“‘An attempt to explain and verify the Christian religion by means of the fatherly-filial relationship.’... The author divides his work into three books, of which the first deals with the history and task of the Christian evidences.... [His second book on Christianity as the absolute religion] outlines the content of the Christian religion; for, as he says, we must know what a religion is before we can vindicate its truth.... The third and last book is entitled The proof of the Christian religion. The primary argument advanced for the truth of Christianity is that it is indispensable to the full realization of the noblest human life, and that its consciousness of filial relationship to God gives abounding satisfaction and spiritual power.”—Am. J. Theol.
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“The author takes a comprehensive view of his subject, and his main thesis is consistently, even though somewhat awkwardly, worked out.” B: L: Hobson.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 499. Jl. ’08. 1250w.
“The volume clearly evinces the author’s cultured and vigorous mind. But while it may seem that its arrangement of topics might be recast with advantage, our time requires a more radical betterment of it—a clear and consistent distinction between the constant and the variable elements with which it is concerned, the religion and its associated theology.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 340w.
=Liebich, Louise (Mrs. Franz Liebich).= Claude-Achille Debussy. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
8–8847.
A critical and biographical sketch of Debussy which emphasizes the originality of his genius. The contents are as follows: Hand and soul, in which his personality is described; Modus operandi; Choral, orchestral and instrumental works; Songs and piano pieces; Pelleas and Mélisande; As writer and critic. A chronological list of Debussy’s works and several portraits makes the undertaking but more complete.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 195. Je. ’08.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 134. Ag. 1. 280w.
=Dial.= 44: 316. My. 16, ’08. 50w.
=Nation.= 86: 223. Mr. 5, ’08. 700w.
“We have on many occasions expressed our objection on general grounds to the issue of biographies of living celebrities, musical or otherwise, while they are still in mid-career. Subject to this reservation, we can cordially commend Mrs. Liebich’s genial and enthusiastic sketch of the most advanced living representative of French music.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 339. F. 29, ’08. 250w.
=Lilley, Alfred Leslie.= Modernism: a record and a review. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–13710.
Mainly a collection of newspaper and magazine articles on the present problems of Roman Catholicism. “Although Mr. Lilley has confined himself in this volume to comment on the Modernist movement in the Roman Catholic church, and more specifically to the exponents of that movement in France, he has made it clear that modernism is a movement affecting the whole of Christendom.” (Nation.)
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“Whatever may be thought of Mr. Lilley’s opinions—and we are far from sharing them all—he has done extraordinarily good service in calling attention to the present condition of thought and feeling.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 300w.
“Mr. Lilley understands and appreciates the ‘Modernists’ position far better than anyone else outside their communion.” H. C. Corrance.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 930. Jl. ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Lilley is thoroly acquainted with his subject, and writes agreeably and kindly.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1349. Je. 11, ’08. 70w.
“It is remarkable for the lucidity of its exposition and for its complete freedom from intellectual and religious frivolousness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 16. Jl. 2, ’08. 1300w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 364. Je. 20, ’08. 700w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 376. Mr. 21, ’08. 1500w.
“Mr. Lilley gives us the results of a careful and sympathetic study. We do not agree with all that he says.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 581. Ap. 11, ’08. 380w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Dissolving circle. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–11084.
An impressionistic study of the life among a group of men and women in the “divorce colony” of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The principal character is a struggling doctor who, tho not a member of the colony, is working painfully to divorce himself spiritually from a girl who had given up his love for that of an unregenerate man. The doctor’s mission becomes that of compelling the unworthy suitor to be true to the wronged girl.
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“Aside from a tendency to indulge in fantastic flights of fancy, the author on the whole keeps himself commendably in the background.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 306. My. ’08. 270w.
“A want of unity in the plot and the heavy handling of a delicate theme are the most conspicuous faults.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 380. Jl. 4, ’08. 190w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Quest eternal. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–22346.
The story of a boy’s and later a man’s reserve, struggle and self denial to see the playmate of his youth and finally the deity of his dreams become a famous singer.
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“A prologue, which, taken by itself, is one of the best things he ever wrote. Taken as a whole it preaches a sane and wholesome optimism. And this, in a measure, suggests the technical shortcoming of the book—namely, that its mood is not sufficiently sustained.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 381. D. ’08. 370w.
“The story has originality, both in conception and development, and its pages carry something of that significance in which too much of American fiction is lacking.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 578. O. 17, ’08. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 50w.
“The situation may be strained at times, but the author never fails to absorb the reader’s attention and command his respect for the characters he draws.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 200w.
=Lilly, William Samuel.= Many mansions: being studies in ancient religions and modern thought. *$3. Benziger.
8–21815.
“As a general introduction we find the sacred books of the East briefly tabulated under Max Müller’s guidance, but with special reference for Buddhism to Professor Rhys Davids, for the Avesta to M. Darmesteter, for the Chinese religious classics to Dr. Legge, and for the Koran (we prefer this accepted spelling) to H. E. Palmer.... Mr. Lilly is concerned with metaphysics, not with popular religion ... and quotation from experts overflows in his pages, which describe the old Hindu creeds merely in passing, while they are copious on Buddhism and Islam, and furnish monographs on Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer. The concluding essay sums up and appraises ‘the newest view of Christ,’ as set out in Professor Pfleiderer’s work, ‘Die entwickelung des Christenthums.’”—Acad.
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“A learned volume. He employs a somewhat academic, though very readable style. Mr. Lilly’s authorities in every instance are the best, and commonly the latest.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 135. N. 16, ’07. 900w.
“In riper quality, and with more mellow sympathy, Mr. Lilly presents or re-presents in his latest volume a good deal of the material which, nearly a quarter of a century ago, he published in his ‘Ancient religion and modern thought.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 248. My. ’08. 300w.
=Spec.= 99: 827. N. 23, ’07. 250w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby.= Cy Whittaker’s place. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–27807.
Bayport, in the Cape Cod region, is the scene of this tale of village doings. Cy Whittaker after years of absence comes back rich to Bayport, effaces every bit of modern improvement in his old home, and restores it to the old homely, quaint conditions of his boyhood days. Cy’s village cronies, the child that walks into his home and heart, and the school teacher are the principal characters in a tale full of humor and human kindness.
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“Here is a pleasant, homely, simple-minded story that gives the reader much the same sort of enjoyment he would get from a performance of ‘Shore acres’ or ‘The old homestead.’”
+ =Nation.= 87: 525. N. 26, ’08. 230w.
“On the whole, if you haven’t been down Cape Cod way this summer—or even if you have—you may do worse than take a trip some quiet evening to Mr. Lincoln’s Bayport.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 500w.
“Humorous, human, and wholesome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 10w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Lindsay, C. H. A. Forbes-.= Daniel Boone, backwoodsman. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–24465.
A preliminary chapter is devoted to a survey of the country in which Boone’s life was passed and to a brief statement of the facts of his early career. The narrative proper begins with Boone’s migration with a band of forty neighbors to Kentucky, and continues with facts and some fiction to illustrate the trials and achievements, the disasters and triumphs of frontier life.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 386. D. ’08. 40w.
“Would be commendable as a biography, if it were not partly fiction; where there is a paucity of authentic data, the author feels compelled to invent. But Mr. Forbes-Lindsay has a picturesque style.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 550. D. 3, ’08. 40w.
“To cast much of the story into conversational form ... has its drawbacks, in the uncertainty of the reader who likes to be sure as to just where fiction ends and fact begins. It all weaves in together to make a vivid picture of the toils, perils, pleasures, and heroisms that went into the conquering of the frontier.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 280w.
“Interesting historical tale for boys.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 630. O. 24, ’08. 20w.
=Litchfield, Grace Denio.= Narcissus, and other poems. **$1. Putnam.
8–12552.
The volume “takes its title from the initial poem, which fills two-thirds of the book’s sixty pages, a narrative in rhymed pentameter of the life and death of the ill-fated youth. A dozen or more short poems on varied themes fill out the book.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 43. Jl. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The Greek story is told with grace and skill.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 70w.
“Miss Litchfield’s muse really sings, no matter what the measure, and there is fire in the love poems, and in the descriptive lines there is rich and beautiful color.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 524. S. 26, ’08. 270w.
=Litchfield, Grace Denio.= Supreme gift. †$1.50. Little.
8–9529.
The portrayal of a ruined man’s daughter staggering under the burden of her father’s debts. The scene is Washington, and poor people with small savings are the ones most involved in the failure. Joan’s supreme gift is honor which she preserves at the expense of happiness and finally health. While it is not the custom now-a-days for a heroine, glorious in her young strength and beauty, to lay down her life for a cause, it seems the only logical way out of this sea of difficulties.
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“A well-intended book with a wrong-headed thesis.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1147. My. 21, ’08. 350w.
“One searching earnestly for the novel ‘as she is advertised to be,’ must be bitterly disappointed in this volume.”
− =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 150w.
“If the emotional values had been more carefully considered the result would have been a novel of some intensity and strength.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
=Litta, Duke.= Soul of a priest. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–33161.
A polemical story whose attack is made against the Roman Catholic church. It describes first the influences which induced a young Italian nobleman to enter the priesthood, and then gives the progress of his disillusionment, and the rejection of his vows.
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“The bitterness of the author’s strictures is of a nature to awaken in the fair-minded reader a considerable degree of sympathy with the institution attacked.”
− =Acad.= 73: 953. S. 28, ’07. 80w.
“Occasional statements betray imperfect acquaintance with rules and customs of the Roman church.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 230. S. 21. 300w.
“The interest of the story lies in the struggle and awakening of a soul, not in an indictment of the Roman Catholic church. As it is, the Duke Litta has succeeded in marring what is otherwise an unusually forceful book.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 305. My. ’08. 350w.
“Less a work of literary art than a pamphlet to promote deplorable and un-Christian prejudice.”
− =Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 90w.
“The bitter and even petulant spirit in which the book is written detracts from its value as a contribution to anti-clerical literature. The narrative, however, in spite of some inconsistencies and its lack of incident, has a certain unity of effect and holds the attention throughout.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 400w.
“Psychological analysis worked out unusually well and narrative of a simple, straightforward style, combined in the form of a novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 212. Ap. 11, ’08. 40w.
“The story is well written, serious in tone, and an admirable study of spiritual conflict.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 766. Je. ’08. 100w.
* =Little, George.= Life on the ocean; or, Twenty years at sea; with an introd. by W. Clark Russell. †$2. Lippincott.
The republication of a book of sea adventure which appeared nearly a century ago, and which “to the marine archaeologist,” says Mr. Russell in his introduction, “must prove extremely interesting.”
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“There is an old-fashioned flavor about the book ... which gives us a strikingly convincing picture of that life on the ocean which filled our grandfathers with the wild longing to run away to sea.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 200w.
=Lloyd, Francis Ernest.= Physiology of stomata. $1.50. Carnegie inst.
8–9545.
“Lloyd has given us a careful study of the behavior of the stomata in two desert plants, Fouquieria splendens and Verbena ciliata, made at the Desert botanical laboratory of the Carnegie institution. He addressed himself particularly to the question of the regulation of transpiration by stomatal movements, and furnishes conclusive evidence that the stomata in these plants, where there are no complications in the way of pits, plugs, or other contrivances, are not able to adjust the transpiration to the ‘needs’ of the plants.”—Bot. Gaz.
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“This is a careful and thorough piece of work, highly creditable to the laboratory from which it comes.” C. R. B.
+ + =Bot. Gaz.= 46: 62. Jl. ’08. 350w.
=Nation.= 87: 57. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
Reviewed by C. C. Curtis.
=Science=, n.s. 28: 409. S. 25, ’08. 800w.
=Lloyd, John.= Captain’s wife. $1.50. Kennerley.
8–15725.
A story with an Arizona setting in which army officers, their families, ranchmen, miners, and savages figure. The heroine is an eastern girl who secretly marries an army captain, then during a lapse of memory, induced by a terrible fight, forgets him and marries another. A final readjustment follows misunderstanding and suffering.
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“The writer’s touch is light and keen, and his little novel ... runs along at full speed.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 160w.
“A good story of army life. The plot, though not very intricate, is well contrived.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Loane, M.= From their point of view. $2. Longmans.
8–35515.
Social studies in which the author’s conclusions are deduced from first-hand impressions of life among the poor. As a district nurse and the superintendent of district nurses she has come close to people’s problems, and her stories of “the lives in the squalid homes, of the daily struggles for progress, of the neglect which breeds unhappiness and disease will find their counterpart in the experiences of the district worker whether her activities are confined to East End, London, or New York.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 221. Je. ’08. ✠
“Where she is guided by her own experiences, her conclusions are almost always shrewd and sound: where she generalizes they seem less well founded.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 645. N. 21. 250w.
“The particular value of the book is its freedom from sentimentality. Students in sociology will find much in the book to repay them for the time spent in reading it, and the general reader will be entertained by a constant succession of good stories.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 367. Je. 27, ’08. 270w.
“In Miss Loane we find the happiest combination of the qualities required for the task she has undertaken—the task of making the British people understand what should be their true attitude towards poverty.”
+ + =Spec.= 105: 503. Mr. 28, ’08. 1900w.
=Locke, James.= Stem of the crimson dahlia, il. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–3426.
“A thrilling story of conspiracy that plunges the reader from the first chapter, when the hero picks up the stem of a faded and torn dahlia on the Bridge of Galata, in Constantinople, into a whirl of strange adventures and breathless happenings. A charming American girl, anxious to put a king on the throne of Bulgaria, a king to lead his people to a glorious freedom, comes soon and startlingly into the story.... The setting is picturesque; Russians, Bulgarians, Americans, peasants, and aristocrats rub elbows from page to page.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The exciting beginning is well kept up throughout, and we are grateful to Mr. Locke for a steady supply of sensation which does not give time to think over improbabilities.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 398. O. 3. 60w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
“He plays fair to the last page. A good, stirring plot will often hold one if there be nothing or little else to recommend it. But in ‘The stem of the red dahlia’ there is the added fascination of the thing well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 82. F. 15, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Lockwood, George Browning.= New Harmony movement, by G. B. Lockwood, with the collaboration of C. A. Prosser, in the preparation of the educational chapters. *$1.50. Appleton.
5–16517.
“Concerned with the history of two important communities which had their seat at the village of New Harmony, Ind. The first of these was the settlement of the Rappites, early in the nineteenth century, which after ten years gave place to the society founded by Robert Owen.... It is claimed for the New Harmony community that it was a pioneer in the establishment of infant schools, kindergartens, trade schools, and industrial schools and a part of the free public-school system.”—R. of Rs.
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“It is a good supplement to the volumes of Mr. Podmore, the books together setting forth this important episode of nineteenth century life as has not been done before.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 356. Ap. 16, ’08. 50w.
“The most important chapter in this book is devoted to his educational experiment.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 836. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 252. F. ’08. 150w.
=Locy, William Albert.= Biology and its makers. **$2.75. Holt.
8–21045.
An untechnical account of the rise and progress of biology, which aims to bring under one view the broad features of biological progress, and to increase the human interest by writing the story around the lives of the great biological leaders. The first part deals with The sources of biological ideas except those of organic evolution; the second treats of The doctrine of organic evolution.
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“It is entertainingly written, and, better than any other existing single work in any language, gives the layman a clear idea of the scope and development of the broad science of biology.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 298. N. 1, ’08. 420w.
“Professor Locy meets the demand for an up-to-date, reasonably complete and interesting account of the development of biology tolerably well. While in the main, in regard to essential points, the book is entirely accurate, minor errors in the spelling of proper names occur with annoying frequency.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 785. O. 1, ’08. 320w.
“The drawback to the division into two parts is the necessity of cross-references and repetitions, for no phase of biological progress can logically be separated from the doctrine of organic evolution.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 268. S. 17, ’08. 470w.
“Professor Locy has made a good selective use of an embarrassing wealth of material, and has not neglected to give their place to the important subsidiary sciences.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 260w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Immortality of the soul. (Eng. title, Man and the universe.) *$1. Ball pub.
8–29637.
In substance given as a Drew lecture in Hackney college, October, 1907. The discussion deals first with The transitory and permanent—the bodily presentment, and the essence or intrinsic reality; and second with The permanence of personality.
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“We think that Sir Oliver Lodge’s friends and admirers—and their name is legion—cannot but be sorry that he should have published this book. A well-deserved reputation in one branch of science does not enable its possessor to speak ex cathedra on others in which he is not expert.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 686. N. 28. 2250w.
=Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Outlook.= 89: 768. Ag. 1, ’08. 150w.
“What, another new-modelled religion from the ever-ready knight? No, only some old ‘Hibbert journal’ and ‘Contemporary’ friends, the familiar cheap thought in a more expensive dress.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 580. N. 7, ’08. 1300w.
=Lomas, John.= In Spain. *$2. Macmillan.
8–26238.
A revised, rewritten and enlarged edition of “Sketches in Spain.” It aims to furnish information on the spot, may be used as “sole guide and counsellor.” “It is a full but utterly uninspired account of what the traveller would encounter in passing from the Spanish frontier at San Sebastian to Cadiz in the South, and thence from one to another of the Mediterranean seaports, up to Barcelona; afterwards, to Zaragoza, Bilbao, Leon, and Santiago.” (Nation.) A folding map and illustrations add to its value.
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“As a rule, Mr. Lomas is well informed, his judgments are sensible, and, though a little verbose, he avoids the rhetoric to which most writers on Spain seem prone.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 264. S. 5. 230w.
“Will be most helpful to the traveller, and more especially to the antiquarian or the ecclesiologist.” G: G. Brownell.
+ =Dial.= 45: 115. S. 1, ’08. 760w.
“The whole is thoroughly pedestrian. Scarcely one illuminating remark is met with in the 344 pages. There is not even anything absurd, or glaringly incorrect, to flag one’s interest.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 38. Jl. 9, ’08. 180w.
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 481. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=London, Jack.= Iron heel. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–3084.
The manuscript which furnishes the story of the Iron heel records events occurring between the years 1912 and 1932 but from the view-point of seven centuries in the future. Mr. London portrays the terrors of a supposititious oligarchy—the monstrous offshoot of capitalism—with its reign of the iron heel; his spirit of prophecy guides him to revolutionary crises, brought about by socialism, that break the rule of the capitalist oligarch, and, after three centuries, usher in the era in which the world-movement of labor comes into its own—the era of the brotherhood of man.
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“Considered from a literary and imaginative point-of-view, is one of his greatest works of fiction. He has seen and felt the tragedies of the poor to-day throughout Christian lands; and those things have, we think, made him unduly hopeless and have unfortunately so colored his thought as to make his book a detriment rather than a help to the cause of social justice in our days.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 503. Ap. ’08. 2000w.
“Such books as this ... have a mischievous influence upon unbalanced minds, and we cannot but deplore their multiplication.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 44: 247. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“Semi-barbarians, to whom this sort of stuff appeals, may possibly tear down our civilization; they will never lay a single brick of a nobler civilization.”
− =Ind.= 64: 865. Ap. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The gore through which, in the course of these pages, we are invited to wallow, is far more of his taste [than peaceful conquest]; three hundred years of it is not a day too much for him.”
− =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
“This is not a pleasant book to read; as a work of fiction it has little to commend it; and as a socialist tract it is distinctly unconvincing.” H. A. Bruce.
− =Outlook.= 89: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 760. Je. ’08. 150w.
=London, Jack.= The road. **$2. Macmillan.
7–39522.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Mr. London’s book is far from pleasing reading, but it carries a tremendous lesson with it—a lesson that men of conscience and high-minded patriots cannot afford to overlook. It is a book that will help on the social revolution that is making for a better and nobler civilization.”
+ + − =Arena.= 39: 124. Ja. ’08. 270w.
“One has to search diligently through the book to find any quality or trait (not purely physical) that is not vicious.” E: E. Hale, jr.
− + =Dial.= 44: 301. My. 16, ’08. 400w.
“In spite of his frankness he does not give the impression of sincerity and strict accuracy. He is too smooth a story-teller to be altogether plausible and he takes such manifest delight in his skill and success as a liar when he was beating his way across the continent that we involuntarily wonder at what date he abandoned the habit.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 170w.
“Written with Mr. London’s usual command of clear, incisive English and powers of terse, vivid description.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 861. D. 28, ’07. 470w.
=London municipal society.= Case against socialism: a handbook for speakers and candidates; with a prefatory letter by A. J. Balfour. *$1.50. Macmillan.
8–21561.
“This work was prepared in England as a handbook for use there in the campaign against the spread of socialism. It comprises a compact statement of the main points in the dispute, with abundant footnote references to authorities.” (R. of Rs.) “This useful compilation contains a mass of sound arguments and useful facts and figures, and should prove of no little value, not only to speakers and writers, but to all who wish to acquaint themselves with the great controversy of the hour.” (Spec.)
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“Although the volume is directly intended for ‘candidates,’ there are statements inviting consideration from many who are not partisans of either side.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 507. Ap. 25. 360w.
+ − =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 200w.
“As a campaign textbook it is of more than usual value.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 50w.
“The best feature of the work is the moderation with which it is written. Except for an occasional outburst of indignation at the folly of some particularly ridiculous socialistic paradox, the writer shows a commendable coolness and absence of rhetoric. ‘Socialism and religion,’ [is] the only chapter which we regret in the book.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 747. My. 9, ’08. 2350w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Whose home is the wilderness: some studies of wild animal life. il. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–37000.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Written in the author’s usual interesting manner.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 115. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Seems to us a little thin in comparison with previous volumes from the same hand; but there is no denying the talent of Mr. Long, who is one of the best present-day writers on the world of living things.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 764. D. 14. 60w.
“He usually manages to turn his shooting into a joke, and to tell entertainingly how his interest in his intended victim overcame his desire for meat.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 350w.
“Many passages in this attractive volume bear equally eloquent testimony to the closeness with which its author has observed the habits of the creatures he loves so well and describes so graphically.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 77: 393. F. 27, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 230w.
“Though Mr. Long is a prolific writer, his standard of excellence has not fallen off.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 646. Ap. 25, ’08. 210w.
=Longueville, Thomas.= Marshall Turenne; by the author of “A life of Sir Kenelm Digby,” etc.; with an introd. by Brigadier-general Francis Lloyd. *$4.50. Longmans.
8–10271.
A biography of this contemporary of Cromwell and Condé which is “drawn mainly from Ramsay, but is seasoned by Napoleon’s comments and enlivened by anecdotes from contemporary memoirs. Turenne is one of the men who are always worth reading about, and we are given a vivid picture of him.” (Eng. Hist. R.)
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“The author leans heavily on Ramsay, and quotes largely from Napoleon’s ‘Abstract of the wars of Marshal Turenne.’”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 861. Jl. ’08. 540w.
“The record of affairs at the French court is too long in a work which should deal mainly with military matters. In the account of these the lack of the critical faculty is only too apparent.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 207. Ag. 22. 230w.
“The account of Turenne’s operations is not always easy to follow. It is a pleasure to turn the pages of a book so well printed and illustrated, but the map at the end should have shown western Europe as it was in the seventeenth century, and omitted railways.” E. M. Ll.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 408. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“The author has exercised extreme discretion and sound common sense. He has never permitted himself to become so immersed in the seventeenth century maze of politics and warfare as to neglect the more humanly appealing biographical elements to be found in character study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 229. Ap. 18, ’08. 1400w.
“In these days when personal aims and objects supply the place of worthier motives, the life of a man of character is exactly the kind of literature which our young officers should read, and for this reason especially we welcome the appearance of this book. As a military history we are not by any means so well pleased with it.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 111. Ja. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“Though the author struggles manfully with an extremely difficult period, he is evidently less successful as a writer of civil and political than of military history. The figure of Turenne stands out plainly enough, but against a background which seems unnecessarily confused and vague.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 639. Ap. 25, ’08. 1500w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Holiday touch, and other tales of undaunted Americans. †$1.25. Holt.
8–29333.
“America ahead” is the note which sounds out in this group of entertaining stories—the buoyant, invincible, never-say-die note of the ingenious Yankee. Here are accounts of a joke played upon a prestidigitator just arriving in Boston; of the generosity of a well-known American philanthropist; of a penniless artist’s experience with a New York dinner invitation which omitted to mention the place; and of a bride’s unwillingness to be daunted by the non-appearance of the bridegroom on two successive occasions named for the ceremony.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Knack of it: some essays in optimism. **75c. Revell.
8–23515.
A collection of essays which descant upon the leavening knack of self mastery, and of bringing harmony out of our every day affairs. Mr. Loomis says, “Wake up. Live. Be happy. Let us all be happy together. Hands all round. It’s only a knack.”
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“It is written with that kind of artificial cheerfulness often observed in the professionally happy. But this should not discredit the performance, since nine-tenths of those who read it will never discover that what Mr. Loomis calls ‘The knack of it’ is really a jack-in-the-box performance at so much a jump.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1243. N. 26, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 517. S. 19, ’08. 80w.
“Just the sort of vigorously optimistic advice that fits in with this vigorous age of ours.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 613. O. 24, ’08. 170w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Poe’s “Raven” in an elevator, and other tales, il. †$1.25. Holt.
7–29153.
The third edition of “More cheerful Americans.” The initial story which gives the book its title, tells of a reader’s mishap in being hung up in an elevator with only his head visible to the audience that poured out of the apartment into the halls when the hostess announced the accident and also the fact that the entertainment would proceed. From the sub-level of the cage he renders the “Raven” to the accompaniment of the rapping and tapping of tools. Other tales as humorously conceived follow.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 53. F. ’08.
“The incongruous is what appeals to Mr. Loomis, the juxtaposition of unfamiliar ideas, the truly American quirk that finds humor in the most unlikely materials and maintains all the while a deceptive gravity. There is a deal of healthy philosophy incorporated in the book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 856 D. 21, ’07. 220w.
=Lorey, Eustache de, and Sladen, Douglas.= Queer things about Persia, il. *$3.50. Lippincott.
8–1464.
“The simple, but entertaining, record of the experiences and impressions gained during two years’ residence in the Persian capital by a young member of the French legation. M. de Lorey describes his house, his servants, street scenes, bazaars, a dinner at the palace of the Grand Vizier, a reception by the late Shah, and a religious play, ‘Kassem’s marriage,’ a veritable Mohammedan Oberammergau.”—Nation.
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“A curious and acute observer with a pleasant gift of story-telling.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 206. Ag. 22. 430w.
“This is the sort of book which will appeal to the casual reader of books of travel, and it will not be uninteresting even to the well-read student of Persian life and manners.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 107. F. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The book, together with the views and photographs from life, gives as faithful a presentation of the mysteries of the land of Xerxes as an Occidental can hope to achieve.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 110w.
“Much interesting and valuable information is given in regard to marriage and divorce, and the position of woman.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“He has made good use of his opportunities, and there are few phases of Persian life which he has not described in graphic language. Still these faults, and the jerky style which Mr. Sladen often affects, cannot quite destroy the reader’s interest in one of the most complete accounts of Persian life ever written.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 767. D. 21, ’07. 660w.
“If you want to know the Persian as he is, read M. Eustaehe de Lorey, from whose dictation Mr. Douglas Sladen has presented us with a fascinating and most instructive book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 190w.
=Lorimer, George Horace.= Jack Spurlock—prodigal; by F. R. Gruger. †$1.50. Doubleday.
8–16951.
By the author of “Letters of a self-made merchant to his son.” “The story relates, in the picturesque language of the young man himself, the last act in the sowing of a crop of wild oats and the successive steps in the reaping of it. In the course of the harvesting the boy, with the aid of a delightful old reprobate of a colonel of Southern extraction, manages to gather in a pretty fair crop of domesticated grain as well. When the prodigal finally returns to the parental fold, he does not come empty-headed if he does come empty-handed.” (Outlook.)
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“Humorous extravaganza.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 177. Ag. 15. 200w.
“One cannot believe that anything of the kind ever happened, or could happen, but it is very distinctly funny, and the happy phrase, the neat epigram, or the jest in earnest, invariably arrive at the moment, when credulity threatens to grow tired.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 303. My. 30, ’08. 900w.
“A lively and well-told story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
“The story is told rapidly and in racy language.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 536. Jl. 4, ’08. 180w.
“When it is translated into English, we shall be better able to give it critical attention.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 80w.
“There are two reasons why English readers will like this book,—first, because most of the episodes are delightfully droll in themselves; and secondly, because the writing is a liberal education in the American language.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 169. Ag. 1, ’08. 1200w.
=Loughnan, R. A.= New Zealand at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–22496.
A volume of a series dealing with various countries “at home.” “Mr. Loughnan in an unpretentious way manages to leave a well-defined impression on the reader’s mind of the forces which go to make the New Zealander-born as loyal to the Empire as he is to his colony. His chapters cover town life and country life, wealth, agriculture, mining, labour, religion, literature, art, sport, the position of woman and the rest of it, and their special merit is that they can be read by those who know New Zealand as well as by those who want to know it.” (Sat. R.)
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“Mr. Loughnan’s book is one in which, in spite of the interest of the subject, it is difficult to take much pleasure. His geographical chapters are so ill-planned as to be almost unintelligible in the absence of a map, his opening chapter on the population tells the reader absolutely nothing about it.”
− =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 260w.
“Some of the most interesting chapters of the book relate to the characteristics and treatment of the Maoris, the inhabitants of the country before the advent of the European.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 466. Ag. 22, ’08. 300w.
“If the book has a fault it is that its eulogy is unrelieved; the New Zealanders have done things deserving of the praise he gives, but the things that could be criticised he either ignores or dismisses with a humorous touch.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 274. Ag. 29, ’08. 300w.
=Lounsberry, Alice.= Garden book for young people. **$1.50. Stokes.
8–12186.
Information about the making of a garden, about the names, habits, and seasons of plant life in story form “after the model of the Rollo books.” The book is fully illustrated.
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“It is useful especially because of a good index to flowers. The style is too diffuse. Children would enjoy it more and find it more practical if it contained less story.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 226. Je. ’08.
=Ind.= 64: 1299. Je. 4, ’08. 80w.
=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.= Standard of usage in English. *$1.50. Harper.
8–12736.
In this volume of essays the dictum is laid down that the standard of speech is the usage of the cultivated. They are the law givers whose edicts it is the grammarian’s duty to record. The writer further affirms that usage must also be good usage and present usage. Good usage is something which must be learned, and in the acquisition grammars often hinder more than they aid. Knowledge of good usage can be acquired only by association with the best speakers and writers. Much space is taken up in illustrating these principles.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“A dash of humor, with occasionally a bite of sarcasm, gives flavor and relish to Professor Lounsbury’s pages. The book is excellent reading as well as sound doctrine.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 16. Jl. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The reader, whether or not he agrees with the author’s general principles, is bound to be pleased by his treatment of his special instances.” G: P. Krapp.
+ − =Educ. R.= 36: 195. S. ’08. 2600w.
“But there is delight in every chapter, some for readers of one kind and some for readers of another.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 148. Jl. 16, ’08. 650w.
“It is hard to conceive what audience Professor Lounsbury’s volume of essays in popular philology will benefit. A volume of protest against ‘schoolmastering the language’ should give better evidence that the writer has mastered his language.”
− =Nation.= 86: 583. Je. 25, ’08. 670w.
“It would be a bold man who should assume to differ with the professor on his specialty, and the newspaper writer who should do so would be ungrateful as well, considering the professor’s generous treatment of newspaper usage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 275. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
“Pleasantly written little book, as unpedantic and as unpedagogic as possible, as full of good-humor as it is of humor.” Brander Matthews.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 300. Ag. ’08. 900w.
“The net influence of these scholarly and entertaining essays makes for the encouragement of educated independence in preferring language that is idiomatic and natural to what is formal and precise.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 42. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 758. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Lovell, William H.= Plane table and its use in surveying. *$1. McGraw.
8–22566.
“While not containing any additional information than the usual chapter on the plane-table in any of the standard works on surveying, the compact form of this little book by Mr. Lovell may make it useful for those learning map plotting by use of the plane-table.”—Engin. N.
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“The present book could have been very much improved as well as made more nearly worth the price asked, by the inclusion of more examples and illustrations of the methods of use, and a more detailed explanation of the methods of a solution of the various problems.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 4: 418. O. ’08. 170w.
“The instructions regarding the practical use of the instrument and its equipment are much better than the treatment of the three-point problem, which is rather too confused to convey a clear understanding to the student approaching for the first time this most important factor of plane-table surveying.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 100w.
=Lovett, James D’Wolf.= Old Boston boys and the games they played. **$1.50. Little.
“A book which grew out of memories recalled at a dinner given by Samuel Cabot to a group of the old boys “who had known early-day athletic prowess.” It tells all about how the boys and youths enjoyed themselves playing ball on the Common, running with the fire engines, rowing on the Charles river, snowballing, playing tricks, and otherwise putting in vigorous days. Incidentally, too, there is a good deal of description to the life and times of the Boston of those days.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“For the history of cricket, football, baseball, and rowing, Mr. Lovett’s chapters are of value; and as giving a picture of mid-nineteenth-century open-air pastimes in Boston, they are highly entertaining. One small error, or seeming error, noteworthy because so unexpected, may be mentioned. In commenting on the unvarying order of boys’ games, the year round, Mr. Lovett makes marbles come after tops. Is it possible that the present cheerful sign of spring, the nimble marble, has not always made its appearance with the retreat of snow and mud?”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 216. O. 1, ’08. 330w.
“The book will be of much interest to the boys of to-day, especially the Boston boys.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 650. N. 7, ’08. 200w.
=Low, A. Maurice.= America at home. *$1.75. Scribner.
8–26412.
A book written for Englishmen which the author says “does not pose as a profound critique of American psychology, nor a minute investigation into social and political conditions in the United States, but rather as a rapid presentation of the phases of life which have appealed to me, and I trust may interest the reader.” Some of the chapters are: The American political system; Bosses, big and little; The American girl; Washington, the republican court; The almighty dollar; and Social customs.
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“Mr. Low’s book is of very unequal merit, and the best chapters, those which deal in a clear and accurate way with our political institutions, are of no especial value to the American reader. In short, this book is not at all valuable, but it contains some effective summaries and a few good anecdotes.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 162. Ag. 20, ’08. 650w.
“Rapidly sketched, but in the main shows an intelligent understanding of conditions and ambitions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6. ’08. 150w.
“All chapters are characterized by a trenchant style and entertaining subject-matter. Mr. Low supplies a corrective ... for the most of his generalizations which, if considered alone, might leave an erroneous impression.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 627. Jl. 18, ’08. 400w.
=Lowell, Abbott Lawrence.= Government of England. 2v. **$4. Macmillan.
8–16501.
A book of detailed information rather than one of political philosophy which is a survey of Great Britain’s present political system. The most important divisions of the work are The organization and construction of the government, The working of the political parties and The courts of law; other sections deal with Social government, Education, The colonies and dependencies and Foreign relations.
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“It stands in distinguished isolation by reason of its comprehensive plan, the masterly way in which the plan has been developed, and the sympathetic insight with which Mr. Lowell has described and analyzed the spirit in which English people work their Parliamentary and municipal institutions.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 140. O. ’08. 1250w.
“A work of the first magnitude, accurate and full as to facts and evidence, and impartial and dispassionate in treatment.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“We think it is not too much to say that this is the most important historical work of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 40: 380. O. ’08. 970w.
“Prof. Lowell is so firm an admirer of Whig principles and the British constitution as created and explained by Whigs that he hardly makes sufficient reservation of still-existent and important old Tory views.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 760. Je. 20. 950w.
“In this important book Professor Lowell has done for England what Mr. Bryce has done for the American commonwealth.” T. Raleigh.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 809. O. ’08. 860w.
“The comprehensiveness of Mr. Lowell’s book, the insight into English character by which it is so signally marked, and the accuracy which so generally characterizes definite statements, all contribute to make it of the highest permanent value to students of political science the world over.” E: Porritt.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 123. Ag. ’08. 1900w.
“Of the greatest value as a work of reference, and is a book that can be read from beginning to end, and there are sections which will amply repay re-reading.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 375. Ag. 13, ’08. 1100w.
“The reader will acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the author of this really remarkable work, not only for its wealth of learning and boldness of reasoning, but for its topical arrangement and the scholarly simplicity of its style.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 326. S. 5, ’08. 900w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
“He gives us literally a handbook of English government brought up to date. It sustains every test of accuracy. If one were to hesitate a fault, or rather a defect in interest, it would be that Prof. Lowell does not often enough make biography a handmaiden to his exposition of constitutional rule and procedure.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 36. Jl. 9, ’08. 850w.
“One of the chief features of the value as well as the charm of Prof. Lowell’s admirable volumes ... is that he treats the government as a ‘going concern,’ or, in the more dignified language of science, as a living organism. The author’s style is happy. It fits the work, is simple, direct, lucid, sober without undue gravity, and lightened by touches of humor that deepen the impression of the writer’s easy command of his subject matter.” E: Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 403. Jl. 18, ’08. 2250w.
“It is free from those prejudices from which an English political writer could hardly be free. It is free from American prejudices.”
+ + =Outlook.= 90: 839. D. 12, ’08. 1350w.
“Few criticisms can be made upon a work at once so well conceived and so admirably executed. Some matters, however, that one might expect the author to discuss are passed over.” J. M. Mathews.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 712. D. ’08. 880w.
“A study of British government comparable in thoroughness and insight with Mr. Bryce’s monumental work on the American commonwealth.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 230w.
“Apart from many other useful qualities, the main value of this book lies in its text-book nature.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 106: 268. Ag. 29, ’08. 1700w.
* =Lownhaupt, Frederick.= Investment bonds, their issue and their place in finance: a book for students, investors, and practical financiers. **$1.75. Putnam.
Covers for the first time investment bonds as a separate subject. “The contents of this book have been developed with reference to two principal ideas, that of the relation of the bond to its issuing corporation, and the general investment aspect of the instrument. These central ideas have been developed to treat of classification of issuing corporations and specific issues; process of issue and the practices of negotiation; market, in its extent and general conditions; interest, in its definition, methods, and times of payment; security, in its relationship to various types; default and its effects; reorganization and how accomplished, etc., together with other important features.” (Preface)
=Lucas, Bernard.= Fifth gospel: being the Pauline interpretation of the Christ. $1.50. Macmillan.
8–26838.
A psychological rather than a philosophical method has been adopted in this study. “The assertion is possibly true, though it suggests strange problems, that ‘It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the gospel of apostolic times was not the teaching of Jesus, but the good news about Jesus, His life and death and resurrection, looked at from the point of view of their religious significance.’ The author proceeds, true to his psychological method, to examine the effect of this gospel on the soul of St. Paul, and also the form or expression of the gospel after the apostle has analyzed that effect.” (Ath.)
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“The unnamed writer of ‘The fifth gospel’ has as qualifications for theological work a method which is not hackneyed and a reasonable comprehension of difficulties.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 631. My. 2. 540w.
“A spirited and skilful sketch of the main elements in the religious experiences and thought of Paul, psychologically investigated.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 400. My. ’07. 20w.
“This little book is a real contribution to Christian Apologetic, in view of present difficulties. Its success does not lie in well-arranged arguments, but in the strength of its thought, which finds full expression in a masculine, straightforward style.” R. A. C. MacMillan.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 6: 688. Ap. ’08. 850w.
“The work is a strenuous, tho not very logical and consistent defense of the physical resurrection as an historic fact and an essential of Christianity.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1438. D. 12, ’07. 100w.
“If our writer’s attitude to the apostle and his Christian development is open to criticism at all, we should be inclined to see its vulnerable point in a tendency to forget how near Saul of Tarsus was to the actual date of Jesus of Nazareth.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 122. Ap. 19, ’07. 1130w.
“It is a vigorous piece of writing throughout and deserves the attention and the thanks of theologians.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 460. O. 12, ’07. 340w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Anne’s terrible good nature, and other stories for children. †$1.75. Macmillan.
A group of wholesome stories about healthy, natural children. “Roderick, the small boy cricketer; Christina, who disobeyed and spoiled her doll; Mary Stavely, who became one of a pair of Anti-Burglars, and kept a most entrancing account of her proceedings; the Little Mother who kept a Christmas shop for a day—every one of these children, led by the ‘terrible’ Anne, is absolutely convincing. Though her adventures may be rather unusual, as children they always keep their own place—and that is in our hearts.” (Outlook.)
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“Delicate traits of fancy are not entirely lacking, but the narrative thread is mostly exiguous, and the humour scarcely seems of the description which appeals successfully to children.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 505. O. 24. 80w.
“Whimsical enough to amuse a child, and yet never baffling him by a subtle wit intended for an older audience, these stories are inimitable.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 400w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Ladies’ pageant. *$1.25. Macmillan.
A collection of prose and verse whose theme is woman. It is prefaced by F. W. Bain’s account of Twashtri’s materials used in compounding woman. Woman appears in this volume as the poets have seen her, understood her, and eulogized her in all phases, times and climes.
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“The theme offers plenty of scope for variety, and there is no lack of that quality in Mr. Lucas’s book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 120w.
“There has been gathered much that is very interesting.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1006. O. 29, ’08. 80w.
“There is no index (a sad fault).”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 493. N. 19, ’08. 230w.
“It most surely would make an acceptable present to any woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Over Bemerton’s: an easy-going chronicle. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28632.
“The narrator in Mr. Lucas’s new book ... is a man of fifty-five, who after thirty-three years in the Argentine, returned to London, with a modest competence.... In our opinion he never left London at all but fell asleep, like Rip Van Winkle, in a second-hand bookseller’s shop or at the Oval when he was two-and-twenty, and woke up at fifty-five with precisely the same tastes, the same love of London, old books, cricket, the music-halls, and eccentric goodness.... When it is added that his lodging-house-keeper is a waiter of the old school; that his son is a famous music-hall singer, and his daughter ‘dresser’ to a fascinating actress; that an honest but vitriolic editor lives in the rooms overhead; that one of his nephews is a journalist and the other a county cricketer; that his elder niece is an angel and the younger a ‘suffragette’ who studies at the Slade school and consorts with Fabians,—it is not difficult to guess what use Mr. Lucas makes of his opportunities.”—Spec.
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“Naturally the whole narrative saunters through a bookish atmosphere at a pace of leisured ease, with here and there a gleam of gentle humour, alternating with nice points of observation and kindly human touches.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 537. O. 31. 120w.
“Irrelevance and discontinuity are here a legitimate device, but it does seem at times as if Mr. Lucas was irrelevant from haste rather than from design.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 270w.
“There is no author in England or America to-day who can equal Mr. E. V. Lucas in the ability to write about Things in General with charm and cleverness, and that sure, delicate touch which can always reveal some new interest in ordinary things, and can always do it gracefully and entertainingly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 450w.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 661. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“It’s excellence is contemplative, speculative, reminiscent; at times somnolently reminiscent.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. O. 24, ’08. 480w.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 548. O. 10, ’08. 1500w.
=Lucas, Reginald.= Colonel Saunderson, M. P.: a memoir. *$4. Dutton.
A sketch of the country gentleman in politics—an Irish land-holder, a strong Unionist and a bitter opponent of home rule. “The first thing about him was that he was a country gentleman, a landowner who loved his duties, a sportsman, a man with intense local affections. His patriotism was based on Castle Saunderson as the unit, Ulster, Ireland, Britain, the Empire being the larger multiples.” (Spec.)
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+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 668. My. 30. 370w.
“Though he was not in the first rank, to read this book puts one in close contact with men of the first rank and with the momentous events in English history for the past forty years.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 208. S. 3, ’08. 250w.
“A vivid picture of the human side of a man who endeared himself to the heart of the English people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 592. O. 24, ’08. 110w.
“Mr. Reginald Lucas writes this biography as ‘an avowed personal partisan,’ and he is equipped with an intimate knowledge of his subject. But though a frankly affectionate, Mr. Lucas is also a discerning critic, and duly notes the foibles of his hero.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 693. My. 30, ’08. 1230w.
“One of the most successful specimens of a not very easy form of literature. It is just such a tribute as the wisest kind of friend might prepare to a long friendship, very sincere, human, and straightforward.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 130. Jl. 25, ’08. 1350w.
=Lucas, St. John W. L.= Oxford book of French verse, XIIth century-XIXth century. *$1.90. Oxford.
8–9513.
Concerned mainly with the poetry of Renaissance and the nineteenth century. There is a noticeable leaning toward the romantic to the exclusion of narrative and dramatic verse.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“Excellent anthology of French verse.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1051. D. 21, ’07. 300w.
=Lucy, Henry W.= Memories of eight parliaments, 1868–1906. **$2.50. Putnam.
Memories which have grown out of a close and constant observation of parliamentary life in its many aspects. The first part of the volume is devoted to men whom the author has known, including a group of five prime ministers besides Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. John Morley, Lord Hugh Cecil, Lord Courtney and Lord Randolph Churchill. The second part deals with manners, and treats of the drama at Westminster, Parliamentary manners, Procedure in two hemispheres, A new house for the Commons, The lungs of the House of Commons, and Bulls in the Westminster china shop.
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“The careful reader is rewarded by many good things, generally, but not invariably, kind.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 285. Mr. 7. 650w.
“The value of Mr. Lucy’s book lies precisely in its informal miscellaneousness.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 15. Jl. 2, ’08. 1000w.
“It is not history in the ordinary sense that he writes, nor does that sort of history seem to possess very keen interest for him. It is the game that delights him, and as a game he describes it. Mr. Lucy is nothing if not readable. Perhaps he is most readable where he is most in earnest.” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 273. My. 16, ’08. 1400w.
“There is none of the cant of false modesty about the writer of this book. He looks you in the face from his frontispiece and you are assured straightway on his title-page that ‘on anything relating to Parliament Mr. Lucy speaks as an expert.’”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 306. Mr. 7, ’08. 450w.
“A master of the written word and descriptive phrase.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 903. Je. 6, ’08. 500w.
=Ludlow, James Meeker.= Jesse ben David: a shepherd of Bethlehem. il. **$1. Revell.
7–38030.
The story of the Christ birth as shepherds, seers, soldiers, Jews and Romans saw it and commented upon it, with curious illustrations and marginal decorations in color.
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“The English is modern but dignified and adequate and the incidents worked out in the vivid form of fiction, gain a fresh interest.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 432. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
“Something of the mysticism and light of Bethlehem’s star finds lodgment in the story that goes to make up the book.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1465. D. 19, ’07. 70w.
− =Nation.= 86: 15. Ja. 2, ’08. 280w.
=Lungo, Isidoro del.= Women of Florence; tr. by Mary C. Steegmann. **$2.25. Doubleday.
8–2186.
Lives over the old days of Florence, revealing the influence that woman has exerted upon Florentine life and history. “The author simply presents a picture of Florentine women, authentic and vivid, largely drawn from the Paradiso, for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and from private records which show domestic life in the Italian Commune with exquisite reality. These women are studied from three standpoints—historical reality, legend or tradition, and poetical idealization.” (Outlook.)
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 652. N. 7, ’08. 1500w.
“A book for the curious and leisurely reader. The author, if he errs at all, leans to the side of idealism. The work is translated sympathetically.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 549. N. 7, ’08. 500w.
“The book is really interesting, though the originally rather high-flown and pompous style does not gain in naturalness through translation.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 129. Ja. 25, ’08. 280w.
=Luther, Mark Lee.= Crucible. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33211.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The story offers little more than a variation of a few well-worn themes, but the action moves rapidly from point to point, and the dramatic effects are skilfully contrived.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 45. Ja. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Mr. Luther is as devoid of literary genius as a hen is of musical sense, but he has produced a popular story because he has written literally of things about which people like to gossip.” Mrs. L. H. Harris.
− + =Ind.= 64: 184. Ja. 23, ’08. 510w.
=Luther, Martin.= Letters of Martin Luther; selected and tr. by Margaret A. Currie. *$3.75. Macmillan.
8–18069.
“The five hundred letters [contained in this volume] include a period of thirty-nine years from his ordination to the priesthood to the week of his death in 1546. The Pope, the Emperor, princes, church dignitaries, his fellow-workers and bosom friends, his wife, and many others, each serve to reflect a view of his strenuous, eventful life, both inner and outer, in all the changes of thought, feeling, and experience.”—Outlook.
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“It is a pity that the worth of so good a selection as has been made by the present translator should be largely impaired by her unscientific method and imperfect acquaintance with the subject, as well as by numerous errors in form and rendering.” Preserved Smith.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 899. Jl. ’08. 770w.
“The edition is not scholarly. The volume is worth having, in spite of its shortcomings.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 333. S. 19. 180w.
“Mrs. Currie has ... on the whole been wise in her selections. It is a great pity that a volume otherwise so handsomely and carefully prepared should not have been submitted to thorough criticism by an expert German scholar.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 381. Je. 16, ’08. 500w.
“We have here an amiable attempt to do a really worthy piece of work with an altogether insufficient equipment.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 660w.
“Naturally [the letters] do not give a complete picture of the man or of his stormy career, but they have been chosen with judgment and sympathy, and are intensely interesting. The notes accompanying them are useful though somewhat insufficient. Their value would be enhanced by a fuller and more careful index. It is to be noted with gratitude that these letters are rendered into most satisfactory English, simple, flexible, expressive, and natural. They constitute a work unique in its value and interest.” E: Cary.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 193. Ap. 11, ’08. 1600w.
“Readers of the history of the reformation are here provided with a most valuable companion-book.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 265. My. 30, ’08. 170w.
+ − =Spec.= 100: 900. Je. 6, ’08. 1500w.
=Lutz, Grace Livingston H.= Marcia Schuyler. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–5229.
Set in the times of full skirts and poke bonnets this story opens upon the wedding preparations for the marriage of a winsome, willful Kate to a strong and good David. On the eve of her marriage she elopes with a young lieutenant and her angry father urges the benumbed lover to wed in her place the younger sister, Marcia. After a period of trials and heartaches Marcia wins her husband’s love when he comes to understand her worthiness and Kate’s heartless frivolity and duplicity.
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“Girlishness is the key-note. Little new, brilliant, or finished in the way of narrative writing can be discovered. The book needs a very hot day and a hammock.”
− =Nation.= 86: 402. Ap. 30, ’08. 200w.
=Lynn, Margaret=, ed. Collection of eighteenth century verse. *$1.10. Macmillan.
7–39508.
This volume of verse includes the poems which are the landmarks of eighteenth century development in poetry. The anthology is concluded by notes which furnish terse estimates of the peculiar service rendered to the world of letters by each author represented.
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=Dial.= 44: 182. Mr. 16, ’08. 60w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 30w.
“Worth while. The selections are well chosen, abundant, and are edited with sufficient notes. Secondary schools will find the book excellent for reference work or supplementary reading.”
+ =School R.= 16: 419. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Lyon, Thomas Lyttleton, and Montgomery, Edward Gerrard.= Examining and grading grains; new ed. *60c. Ginn.
7–17674.
A handbook which gives the methods for testing the germinating of seeds and their purity. Corn, oats, barley, and wheat chiefly are treated.
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Reviewed by Bertha Chapman.
=El. School T.= 8: 465. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“Is worth notice as a pioneer in an important development of agricultural science.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 266. S. 19, ’07. 220w.
=Lyster, Mrs. Gertrude Agnes=, ed. Family chronicle; derived from notes and letters selected by Barbarina, the Hon. Lady Grey. *$5. Dutton.
8–18702.
“This chronicle of an English family and its connections represents English life at its best. In it we see sturdy physical and mental vigor, simplicity, sincerity, and straightforwardness of manner, unaffected devotion to morals, and an impressive measure of accomplishment.” (Outlook.) “Besides personal, social, and literary matters, it furnishes vivid sights of the Crimean war, where Grey served on the Hannibal, and of Cape Colony, to command which station he was appointed in 1857.” (Nation.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 41. Jl. 11. 400w.
“Such a volume is naturally desultory; therein lies much of its charm. This one gives us, however, some interesting side-lights on historic events.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 238. S. 10, ’08. 620w.
“The letters in this volume ... are often full of juicy anecdote and pithy opinion. They reveal such shrewdness and acuteness that we seem to see the Gallic united with the Anglo-Saxon.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 43. S. 5, ’08. 330w.
“It is a pleasant gossipy book, charmingly illustrated, and full of readable items.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 239. F. 22, ’08. 950w.
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* =Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Christmas to-day. **75c. Dodd.
8–31020.
“The substance of Mr. Mabie’s ‘Christmas to-day’ is an imaginary talk of a group of friends before a Christmas fire, and touches those changes of condition and feeling, those transformations of thought and sentiment, which separate the men and women to-day as by a great gulf from the men and women who heard the story of Bethlehem as a contemporary event.”—Outlook.
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“It is handled in Mr. Mabie’s accustomed easy and readable style.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 465. D. 16, ’08. 60w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1465. D. 17, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, ed. Essays that every child should know. (Every child should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.
8–7181.
Essayists from Addison and Steele to Charles Dudley Warner and Thomas Bailey Aldrich are represented in this child’s book. “Though these essays would by no means all rank as among the greatest works of the kind in the language, many of them are justly famous, and all of them have been chosen with a view to meet the appreciative faculties of comparatively young readers.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Extracts from various sources, all of a high standard and valuable to those interested in developing the minds of young people; but not at all likely to meet any demand made by a child visiting a library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 160. My. ’08.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The essays or narratives are, in every case, written simply, and most of them would appeal to the young imagination vividly.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright=, comp. Stories new and old: typical American and English tales; selected with introductions by Hamilton W. Mabie. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–18574.
A selection made in the interest of good reading with the purpose of presenting material for comparison of the earlier and later style of short stories and for the study of leading short story types or varieties. The stories are taken from Dickens, Hawthorne, Stevenson, Poe, Wister, T. B. Aldrich, William Austin, Dr. John Brown, J. Henry Shorthouse, and James Lane Allen.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“A very delightful reading for boys and girls, as well as for men and women.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 525. D. ’08. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 439. Ag. 20, ’08. 70w.
“The ten he has selected are stories worth reading, studying, and comparing one with another.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 386. Jl. 11, ’08. 400w.
=Outlook.= 89: 622. Jl. 18, ’08. 330w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright, and Stephens, Kate=, eds. Heroines that every child should know; tales for young people of the world’s heroines of all ages. (Every child should know ser.) il. **90c. Doubleday.
8–5881.
A stimulating volume for young readers including among its heroines the following: Alcestis, Antigone, Iphigenia, Paula, Joan of Arc, Catherine Douglas, Lady Jane Grey, Pocahontas, Flora MacDonald, Madame Manon Jeanne Philipon, Grace Darling, Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison and Florence Nightingale.
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“An interesting volume, and a useful one.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 160. My. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 50w.
“Sure to interest children and written with literary charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 414. Jl. 25, ’08. 100w.
“The book will, of course, appeal especially to girls, and seems, in our judgment, to be one of the very best of the series.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 797. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Macaulay, George Campbell.= James Thomson. (English men of letters ser.) **75c. Macmillan.
8–9515.
More valuable than the inclusion of some new facts concerning the production of Thomson’s plays, his relations with Lyttelton, and the tenure of his successive posts under the government “are the author’s contributions, in the way of appreciative comment, toward a better understanding of Thomson as a poet of nature, and a more accurate determination of his influence on the poetry of his century, not only in England but also in France and Germany.” (Dial.)
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“The poet has found in Mr. Macaulay a sober, sympathetic, and scholarly biographer, and a critic who does not allow his reasoned judgments to be impaired by any passion for brilliant paradox.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 597. My. 16. 1400w.
“As a careful study of a not superlatively prepossessing theme, the little volume deserves nothing but praise.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 300w.
“Though we have been compelled to say that Mr. Macaulay does not seem to have done all that could and should be done with his brief, we are also compelled to point out that his discussion of Thomson’s poetry is, on the whole, competent, interesting, and suggestive.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 85. F. 15, ’08. 1400w.
“Mr. Macaulay belongs to the scholastic school of critics. He is always careful, laborious and accurate; but he is never very illuminating, nor very profound.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 421. Mr. 14, ’08. 2000w.
=Macaulay, Thomas B. M.= Marginal notes by Lord Macaulay; selected and arranged by Sir George O. Trevelyan. **50c. Longmans.
7–36134.
“It was Macaulay’s habit to write notes upon the margins of books that he read and especially of the astonishing number of books that he read again and again. In this little book, Sir George has made an entertaining discourse out of these notes, quoting many that are not highly important, to be sure, but also reproducing many sound and judicious observations. The historical reader will be particularly interested in the series of comments relating to Cicero, whose combination of the literary, oratorical and political life made him an object of especial interest to Macaulay.”—Am. Hist. R.
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 643. Ap. ’08. 140w.
“Make very pretty reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 786. Je. 27. 780w.
“No one who takes up this volume can fail to carry away from it something of his industry, his honesty, his noble and lifelong devotion to the great literature of the world.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 332. N. 1, ’07. 1500w.
“The habit is generally to be discouraged, but Macaulay has certainly fallen into safe and very competent hands.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 21. Ja. 4, ’08. 420w.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 743. N. 16, ’07. 830w.
* =McBeth, Kate C.= Nez Perces Indians since Lewis and Clark. **$1.50. Revell.
8–12811.
“Barring some historical matter, this is a sketch of the life and work of the author and her sister among these Indians for a period of a quarter of a century, and a general account of missionary activities. It contains practically nothing relative to the life of the Indians, but really tells what the white man has done for them, particularly in matters religious, and portrays the development of churches.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“While the scope of the book is not wide, the history is worth preservation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 626. N. ’08. 80w.
“Her intimate knowledge of the customs and folklore will make her work of value to all students of the Indian race.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 180w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= Short history of our own times: from the accession of Queen Victoria to the accession of King Edward VII.; a new ed., rev. and enl. **$1.50. Harper.
8–5814.
A new edition which extends the story to the beginning of King Edward’s reign, and even beyond his accession in cases where issues, opened in Victoria’s reign, came to a close in the first years of her successor’s rule.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 121. Ap. ’08. ✠
“The best single volume history of modern England to be had.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 533. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
“It is late in the day to say how entertainingly this history is written; it is never too late to protest against the printing of such a volume without maps or chronological tables.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 216. Mr. 5, ’08. 70w.
“The rather small type and the narrow margins which have been necessary in order to bring the entire book into the compass of one volume do not add to its comeliness and for some readers may lessen its usefulness.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 146. Mr. 14, ’08. 130w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Duke’s motto. †$1.50. Harper.
8–23545.
A stirring tale of love and intrigue set in the times of Louis XIII. In the background are plenty of rascals ready with trained swords to aid the villain in ridding his path of the Duke de Nevers, the one man who stands in way of winning wife, rank and fortune. Henri de Lagardere, the best swordsman of Europe, plunges into the game of avenging the duke’s death. During twenty years he lays his plans and brings them to a dramatic climax when the villain’s lifetime of treachery is exposed and punished.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 270. N. ’08.
“The author does his part so ardently and zealously that the reader is carried from episode to episode on a tide of interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 549. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“It is patent ... that this ‘melodrama’ ... has been very hastily and carelessly constructed.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 730. Je. 6, ’08. 110w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Seraphica. †$1.50. Harper.
8–4440.
An adventure romance of the time of Louis XV., when a regent was ruler of France. An alliance arranged to bring harmony to two rival duchies could not be consummated because of the wilfulness of a little duchess and the obstinacy of a young prince, whose heart had already been given to a court favorite. When the little duchess learns that the prince has refused even to look at her photograph and has fled to Paris, she decides to follow him, win his affections, and then avenge herself by spurning his love. The duchess escapes from home in male attire which she soon discards. In the role of a tavern maid, who aspires to be an actress, she makes friends with the prince, extricates him from many difficult situations and has a golden opportunity to take full and sweet revenge—but she doesn’t.
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“Essentially stagy. Brisk and light of foot, careless and gay.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 546. N. 2. 170w.
“Mr. McCarthy makes, all things considered, the most of his opportunities offered by a plot so inherently improbable.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 307. My. ’08. 300w.
“Is a gay little butterfly romance floating above the tangled ambitions and the graver policies of the times.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 209. Jl. 23, ’08. 230w.
“An animated and effectively costumed story, ripe for a fall from the bookshelf to the footlights.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 309. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“A thoroughly delightful tale. The book possesses far more coherence, authority, and literary quality than the author has previously shown himself capable of—more, in fact, than are usually apparent in our current fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 250w.
“An entertaining and ingenious plot.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 100w.
“The story is not one which we would recommend ‘virginibus puerisque,’ but it is all through on the right side.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 781. N. 16, ’07. 140w.
=MacClintock, Porter Lander.= Literature in the elementary school. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–37019.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“A book designed for teachers’ use, but somewhat lacking in those qualities that would make it of highest value—directness, definiteness and capability of being translated into every-day use in the classroom.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 262. N. ’08. ✠
“The chapters on the folk tale and the fairy story and on myth as literature are especially good.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 208. S. ’08. 40w.
“The book is unquestionably authoritative. It is so important, so well balanced, so scientific, so artistic, so human, so exquisitely adequate to the task proposed, that it ought to become a gospel. Teachers ought to buy it as they buy dictionaries—and read it better.” E. H. Lewis.
+ + =El. School T.= 8: 347. F. ’08. 780w.
=McClung, Mrs. Nellie Letitia.= Sowing seeds in Danny. †$1. Doubleday.
8–9810.
A frontier Manitoba town furnishes the background for this tale in which a delightful little Irish girl and her brother Danny teach lessons of child wisdom and helpfulness.
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“The style is very poor, the plot slight and far from original, but there is much of the same kind of homely humor and sentiment that made ‘Mrs. Wiggs of the cabbage patch’ unique and popular.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“There is an atmosphere of kind thinking about the loosely constructed narrative which gives an otherwise unpretentious tale a sufficient reason for existence.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 604. Ag. ’08. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 260w.
“The humor and sentiment which the members of [a very interesting Irish] family exhibit in their homely lives are what make the book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 446. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
“A wholesome, optimistic story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 120w.
=McCormick, Frederick.= Tragedy of Russia in Pacific Asia. 2v. *$6. Outing pub.
8–2962.
A serious, unimpassioned account of the Russo-Japanese struggle, written by a special representative of the Associated press who went thru the entire war. Mr. McCormick writes vividly of the principal battles from the opening shot at Port Arthur to the triumph of the “Japanese military” at Mukden. He further discusses the peace and armistice, the Russian, the Japanese and the Chinese in the war, the elimination of Korea, the rise of Japan, Eastern consolidation and the elimination of the West, and the position of America.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 141. My. ’08.
“There is no other book on the war which combines so many elements of excellence. The work of Mr. McCormick is a commentary on the values of civilization as they revealed themselves in a great struggle.” P. S. Reinsch.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 635. N. ’08. 450w.
“We are glad to possess the volumes for their many merits.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 239. Ag. 29. 450w.
“The value of Mr. McCormick’s work arises wholly from the intimacy with which the author was acquainted with the conditions, the personalities, and the events of the war. Mr. McCormick is very far from being an historian. Yet, despite more or less serious limitations, a perusal of his volumes is sufficient to give the assurance that they contain much that is essential to a full knowledge of the war, and a good deal that one may never be able to lay hold of elsewhere.” F: A. Ogg.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 97. F. 16, ’08. 1700w.
=Ind.= 64: 750. Ap. 2, ’08. 170w.
“For accuracy and authenticity may rank perhaps with Kinglake’s ‘Crimean war.’ Mr. McCormick is not only a clever writer, but an artist, and his own sketches are among the most interesting illustrations of this brilliant work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 418. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The narrative is often obscure, ill-connected, largely speculative, and carries in consequence no large sense of authority.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 512. Je. 4, ’08. 270w.
“A more satisfyingly illustrated record of its kind would be hard to find. The reader who followed the events of the war as closely as he could from the material then available, will find here a far more vivid view than he was able to get then.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 84. F. 15, ’08. 1850w.
“A clear and graphic account.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 310. Je. 6, ’08. 900w.
“No doubt it is extremely interesting to be able to realise the American view of affairs in the Far East, yet we cannot but reflect that it would be far pleasanter to study it in a style less irritating.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 612. N. 14, ’08. 1150w.
=McCullough, Ernest.= Reinforced concrete: a manual of practice. $1. Cement era pub., Chicago.
“This book has been written for the purpose of supplying a working manual, full of practical hints for men not technically educated and with as little as possible of theoretical discussion.” (Engin. D.) “The pages are full of useful hints as to methods, the kinds of tools to use, the personnel of the force, the conduct of the work, form design and construction, all quite clearly and correctly stated.” (Engin. N.)
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“Much of the matter is original, and the work is in no sense a compilation.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 416. O. ’08. 150w.
“It is frankly a ‘manual of practice,’ and as such it is as complete as its limited size admits. It is only when it leaves practice to take up theory that its usefulness diminishes.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 190. Ag. 13, ’08. 480w.
“Mr. Ernest McCullough handles his subject in a sane way that is quite refreshing. It is exceedingly easy to read and quite up to date in its statements and warnings. A few lapses are usually to be found in the best book, and in this case may be mentioned the defining of the modulus of elasticity as a force, which is perhaps only a little lax.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 448. O. 17, ’08. 200w.
=Maccunn, John.= Six radical thinkers. *$1.70. Longmans.
W 7–109.
Six expository essays as follows: Bentham and his philosophy of reform, The utilitarian optimism of J. S. Mill, The commercial radicalism of Cobden, The anti-democratic radicalism of Carlyle, The religious radicalism of Mazzini, and The political idealism of T. H. Green.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 142. My. ’08.
“An interesting volume, subject, however, to the drawback that the treatment of political philosophy in chapters devoted to and distinguished by the names of individuals is never thoroughly satisfactory. The treatment of the lives is pleasant, and any reader, learned or ignorant, may peruse them with some advantage.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 288. Mr. 9. 1000w.
“The style is forceful and clear, and the crisp, short sentences enforce attention from beginning to end. Equally helpful to the reader is the author’s manner of seizing upon certain sharply contrasted features in each of the six radical systems, features which, because antithetical, one would scarcely expect to find side by side in a single political philosophy. Of the writers treated in this book T. H. Green is the one with whom Professor Maccunn appears to be most thoroughly in sympathy.” M. S. MacDonald.
+ + =Philos. R.= 17: 347. My. ’08. 350w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the technical skill with which Professor Maccunn has used his six Radicals ... as stepping-stones for traversing a difficult period in political and philosophical thought. The argument has a perfect continuity. The essay on Cobden we find the least satisfactory in the book, because it is so ‘judicial’ that it is in fact rather nebulous.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 575. Ap. 13, ’07. 1600w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Husbands of Edith. †$1.25. Dodd.
8–13724.
Young Medcroft, a London architect, who has arranged with his wife to visit cousins of hers in Vienna whom he has never seen, finds that it would be vastly to his advantage to seem to be off on that trip and yet remain in London to fight a coming bill. So he induces a New York friend to play the rôle of husband to Edith. The humorous situations growing out of the substitution reach their climax when the masquerader falls in love with the wife’s sister and defies the horrified relatives by openly making love to her. It is an uncommonly good comedy in plot and execution.
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“Mr. McCutcheon has never written a more entertaining tale.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 211. Jl. 23, ’08. 150w.
“An unblushing piece of newstand literature which will doubtless please the audience at which it is aimed.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 56. Jl. 16, ’08. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 220w.
“Described in the author’s most entertaining manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.= Man from Brodney’s. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–23920.
A South sea island is the scene of this tale into whose composition Mr. McCutcheon works his favorite ingredients. Two Englishmen, smarting from domestic irritation, go to the island of Japat, south of the Arabian sea, amass a fortune equal to Monte Cristo’s, die and leave it to two grandchildren who must marry in order to possess it; otherwise it would go to the islanders. The fact that each heir had already married complicates the settlement which involves heirs, lawyers, islanders, and indirectly a beautiful princess with copper-colored hair. The man from Brodney’s, counselor for the islanders, is the hero of the all-conquering McCutcheon type.
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“Mr. McCutcheon has his usual success in writing an interesting story, and in making the impossible plausible.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1247. N. 26, ’08. 160w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 523. S. 26, ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=Macdonald, Mrs. Frederika.= Iliad of the East: a selection of legends drawn from the Sanskrit poem, The Ramayana. *$1.50. Lane.
A reprint of a popular version of the mythological tales in which Valmiki’s The Ramayana abounds. The purpose remains the same as it was stated in 1870, “to bring home to English readers the proofs of the resemblance between some special qualities characteristic of the modern sentimental temper and the sentimental temper which penetrates old Indian poetry.”
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+ =Dial.= 45: 169. S. 16, ’08. 380w.
“Will serve to renew interest in a clever and popular abridgement of the huge epic Ramayana.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 554. Je. 18, ’08. 160w.
“A treat for a new generation. The book does not represent any scholarly effort to reproduce the original Sanscrit, but is merely a collection of stories delightfully told through the medium of a French translation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 410. Jl. 25, ’08. 720w.
“The editor, in her admiration of Buddhism, evinces a radical misconception of Christianity, derived from its mediæval theology.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 814. Ag. 8, ’08. 170w.
* =Macdonald, George.= Princess and Curdie. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–23533.
A reprint of this child’s favorite with twelve illustrations in colors by Maria L. Kirk.
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“This is another of the books which are never outgrown.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=MacDonald, Robert.= Mind, religion and health. **$1.30. Funk.
8–30268.
A discussion of the psychological principles underlying mental and religious therapeutics; a call to the church to apply these principles in ministering to those who are afflicted either in mind or body; and an appreciation of the Emmanuel movement, with an account of the practical good accomplished.
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=Ind.= 65: 1184. N. 19, ’08. 140w.
“This is a timely and judicious book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
=Macdonald, William=, ed. Documentary source book of American history, 1606–1898. *$1.75. Macmillan.
8–23907.
“Gives satisfactory evidence that a wise principle of selection has been followed in choosing documents to illustrate the history of the United States from the time of the founding to the close of the Spanish war. In all, nearly two hundred items are included, comprising colonial charters, acts of Parliament and Congress, treaties, resolutions, and executive papers.”—Outlook.
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“The student who has this book as an adjunct to his narrative text may easily double the efficiency of his work.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 268. O. 16, ’08. 80w.
“In the aggregate the collection will meet the need of most students. We can only regret that the editor has not extended the period of his compilation, in order to include some of the commoner documents of the last ten years.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5, ’08. 130w.
“There is very little to criticise in Professor Macdonald’s compilation, barring a conspicuous absence of documents illustrative of the first steps in territorial expansion.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 363. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
=MacDougal, Daniel Trembly.= Mutations, variations, and relationships of the oenotheras, by D. T. MacDougal, A. M. Vail, and G. H. Shull, pa. $1. Carnegie inst.
7–37035.
A further account of evolutionary studies upon the oenotheras (evening primroses). Seeds representing the species in cultivation in the principal botanical gardens of the world have been received in America and have been sown for cultural investigation. These with a number of forms native to North America are included in the papers of the present volume.
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=Bot. Gaz.= 45: 61. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“An investigation which for minuteness and exhaustiveness is without parallel. The part of this memoir which has interested us most is that which deals with the origin of mutants from strains of Oenotheras different from that which de Vries found at Hilversum and observed his classical series of mutations in.” A. D. D.
+ + =Nature.= 78: 10. My. 7, ’08. 700w.
=McFadden, Elizabeth Apthorp, and Davis, Lilian E.=, comps. Selected list of plays for amateurs and students of dramatic expression in schools and colleges; with an introd. by Ludella L. Peck. *$2. Miss E. A. McFadden, Box 328, Cincinnati, Ohio.
8–4425.
A wide range of plays is included in the list suitable for all occasions. There are plays for children, out-of-door plays, Christmas plays, etc., all systematically arranged for the amateur’s benefit.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08.
“Promoters of school entertainments will be grateful for this compilation.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 60w.
“The volume will prove serviceable.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 46. Jl. 2, ’08. 120w.
=Macfarland, Charles Stedman.= Infinite affection. *$1. Pilgrim press.
7–36403.
Here is outlined “the theology of a young man who has hospitably submitted himself to what is termed ‘modern thought.’” He believes that “we can no longer confine inspiration to the Bible, the incarnation to Christ, or religion to a church” and that Christ “is actually what man is prophetically,” and that man can reach the perfection of the great Exemplar.
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“This work, by one of the most brilliant and deeply thoughtful of the younger ministers of the Congregational church, merits wide circulation. It is instinct with lofty spirituality and the living faith that makes religion most vital to those who thus believe.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 249. F. ’08. 1700w.
=Outlook.= 88: 46. Ja. 4, ’08. 190w.
* =McFee, William.= Letters of an ocean tramp. *$1.50. Cassell.
“Under the thin disguise of letters from a dead friend Mr. McFee presents us with impressions of life afloat, as seen from the point of view of third engineer on board a small trading steamer. One is puzzled at first to understand whether it is fact or fiction; it is overwhelmingly literary, fastidious (and a little self-conscious) in style, full of moralization and philosophy, and crammed with allusions to eminent authors—Ruskin, Pater, Nietzsche, Heine, Boileau, Beaumarchais, Borrow, Browning, and many others.”—Ath.
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“He never forgets himself in his subject, as other sea-writers do.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 508. O. 24. 260w.
“Whatever he sees in persons or things—the romantic, pathetic or the fascinating—in foreign climes, he describes in virile English, which is both descriptive and philosophic, and in which the reminiscent and anecdotal are not absent.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
=MacGowan, Alice.= Judith of the Cumberlands. †$1.50. Putnam.
8–28314.
Here the charm and spirit of life in a primitive mountain settlement are brought vividly to view. Fires of old feuds yet smoulder; the illicit still works in secret cover; and the new justice of the peace finds himself on shifting ground. But light comes to the chaotic region of the “Turkey Tracks,” when plots and counterplots with their reign of doubt and pain and misunderstanding give way to the love of a strong man for the maid of the Cumberlands.
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“Her book is simply a rude, unvarnished picture of mountain folk drawn with a cool literalness which brings into the foreground all their coarseness, with little of the finer touches of intelligence to soften it.”
− + =Ind.= 65: 1121. N. 12, ’08. 350w.
“A book that combines historical value with so good a story is a book to be praised.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 140w.
“There is no shadow of imitation in the author’s work, but it recalls some of the best early writing of Miss Murfree, and has an especial freshness of its own.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 160w.
=Macgowan, Rev. John.= Sidelights on Chinese life. *$3.75. Lippincott.
8–3983.
“Dr. Macgowan’s volume professes to give no more than the general views of the salient points of the Chinese character. In fact, it consists of a series of essays in which the author descants on the various phases of Chinese life from the cradle to the grave. He has much that is interesting to say on these topics, and we derive from a perusal of his pages an enhanced regard for the Chinese people.”—Ath.
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“If we have a fault to find with Mr. Macgowan, it is that he deals too often in the superlative degree in his paraphrases of facts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 785. Je. 27. 820w.
“A series of informing and interesting chapters.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 410. D. 1, ’08. 180w.
“It is an authoritative and illuminating book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 440w.
“It may be pointed out, not as a criticism but as a caution, that Dr. Macgowan is writing of the Chinese of the South, who differ in many material respects from their compatriots of the North. His chapter on Chinese education is out of date, and it is a pity that so modern a book should not have given more than a notice of a few lines to the drastic changes that are taking place in the Chinese educational world.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 49. Ja. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“One cannot read many pages without discovering the mark of the writer who has firsthand information: and yet Mr. Macgowan detracts from what might have been a much more illuminating book by careless writing, which involves him in many seeming contradictions and repetitions, and by such trite reflections as a satirist once called ‘Glimpses into the obvious.’”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 151. Ja. 25, ’08. 1850w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Lure of the mask. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–17786.
A lilt from an Italian opera sung by a well-trained voice from out a blurring New York fog begins for young Hillard, who from his bachelor quarters hears the siren note, a romance all atingle with adventure. It ends happily in an Italian villa after the trail of a titled serpent has been obliterated.
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“This novel is pervaded by a morally enervating atmosphere whose subtlety and insinuating character render it all the more injurious, and nullify any possible good of the vocal morality that from time to time confronts the reader.”
− + =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
* =McIlwaine, Richard.= Memories of three score years and ten. *$3. Neale.
8–19140.
Nearly four hundred pages of “memories” from out a long useful life as student, pastor, soldier, chaplain, and college president. The events of his life are related to the development of Virginia’s political, religious, and educational interests of the past half century.
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“A notable contribution to the biographical literature of the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
=M’Intosh, John Geddes.= Industrial alcohol: the production and use of alcohol for industrial purposes and for use as an illuminant and as a source of motive power. *$3. Van Nostrand.
Agr 7–2204.
“The first of these books, after describing the properties of grain, or ethyl, alcohol, and the general principles of fermentation, takes up the manufacture of alcohol from [its many sources]. A long chapter is given to the description of the various methods of distillation and rectification of the alcohol obtained from the above sources. The concluding chapter gives in more or less detail the uses of grain alcohol in the arts, the principal part being devoted to its action as a solvent.”—Engin. N.
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“This book will certainly be of great use in pointing out the successful processes in use abroad, and will, therefore, serve a highly important role in the development of American industrial alcohol.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 70. Ja. ’08. 530w.
“The book on the whole is well written and is carefully indexed. The diagrams are numerous and well chosen. The book serves a useful purpose in bringing together under one head much interesting and valuable information.” L. P. Kinnicutt.
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 424. O. 17, ’07. 210w.
=McIntyre, John Thomas.= In the dead of night. il. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–12558.
The thrilling side of night life in New York city is portrayed in this story of adventure which begins by kidnapping an innocent man, placing him in another man’s shoes, and requiring him to work his way thru a maze of mystery.
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“Mr. McIntyre has been unusually successful in ravelling up his mystery, but, as too commonly happens in these stories, the solution is an anticlimax.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 558. Je. 18, ’08. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 80w.
=McIntyre, John Thomas.= With fighting Jack Barry. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–28972.
John Barry whose name is linked with many a naval achievement before and during the revolution is the hero-in-general of this exciting tale. Yet the young reader who is fast upon the heels of adventure follows Bob Fairly in his struggle to keep possession of a mammoth ruby presented by the French king to a Fairly for service. Once stolen, its recovery furnishes as exciting a series of incidents as ever a Sherlock Holmes attempted to untangle.
=McIntyre, Margaret A.= Cave boy of the age of stone. (Stories of primitive life for primary grades.) *40c. Appleton.
7–15587.
Here the author has worked into story form the progress made by the cavemen and moundmen. She tells how primitive people lived, how they fared, how they fished, how they trapped and killed wild game, and how they used the margin of time for development.
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“An interesting and readable account. For children of the primary grades.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 22. Ja. ’08. ✠
“Miss McIntyre must be commended for a happy thought. The story is sufficiently interesting to attract [children].”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 578. My. 9. 130w.
“The matter is all excellent and her book, In scheme, most acceptable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
=Spec.= 100: 426. Mr. 14, ’08. 200w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Mater: an American study in comedy. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–29017.
A satirical comedy in which a mother resorts to what she deems justifiable deception in aiding her son, opposed to bribery, to win a political fight. “The play is remarkable for two reasons; first because satire is applied poignantly to American conditions in the guise of charming fancy and poetic allegory; second, because it subjects American life, as portrayed on the stage, to a literary treatment that adds to Mr. Mackaye’s poetic reputation—a sense of humor that sinks below situation and touches character.” (Ind.)
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“After reading the play, we are still doubtful whether its democratic ideas are quite clear, and whether or not its levity is sufficiently under control. But the book is an achievement to the decided credit of Mr. Mackaye.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1063. N. 5, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Mackaye has done a sparkling piece of literary work, but with a flavor of cynicism which is not altogether agreeable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 344. O. 8, ’08. 360w.
“It is a little too fine, perhaps, for the popular theatre, but will surely appeal to the reader of taste and intelligence. Its satire is keen, and the character of ‘Mater’ has unusual charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 559. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Scarecrow; or, The glass of truth: a tragedy of the ludicrous. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–7173.
Mr. Mackaye, author of “Sappho and Phaon,” uses New England in the days of witchcraft for a setting of this his first prose drama, and acknowledges his indebtedness to Hawthorne for inspiration. “It is an imaginative study of New England temperament, as a local phase of broader human psychology.” The comic theme has for its underlying idea “the sense of human sympathy which is, it would seem, a more searching critic of human frailty than satire.”
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“We find the piece to have these three excellent possibilities, of significance, scenic capacity, and construction, what does it lack? We think it lacks coherence.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 380. Je. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is fairly well constructed, and has enough movement to keep the reader steadily interested.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 784. O. 1, ’08. 330w.
“It is a play of vigorous imaginative richness and often of colorful, felicitous diction. The satire may be readily appreciated but is not an essential to enjoyment. For the story and the manner of telling are in themselves highly diverting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 315. Je. 6, ’08. 930w.
=McKean, Thomas.= Master influence. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–13277.
A story whose central figure is a girl who, indifferent to her “smart set” surroundings, gropes for an influence that can lift her above ennui. Hospital work is more alluring than doctors, men of dreams or dukes. But one day a young politician, a leader of men, reveals his power thru love and becomes her “master influence.”
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=Ind.= 65: 550. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
=McKenzie, Frederick Arthur.= Tragedy of Korea. *$2. Dutton.
8–32329.
An anti-Japanese narrative covering a period of thirty years during which the history of Korea has been linked with international developments. The author’s conclusions all emphasize his view that Japanese rule in Korea has been unnecessarily harsh and cruel.
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=Ath.= 1908, 1: 476. Ap. 18. 840w.
“The statements of fact and the assertions of opinion which Mr. McKenzie has set down in his little book are abundantly worth giving to the world.” F: A. Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 45: 289. N. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“Though obviously intended to be fair, scarcely makes as much allowance for the difficulties of the conqueror as circumstances might seem to warrant. He is a trained observer, and has a graphic, picturesque style that gives life and color to the page.” Adolphe Klauber.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 433. Ag. 8, ’08. 1650w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 120w.
* =Mackinder, Halford John.= The Rhine: its valley and history. *$3.50. Dodd.
8–24297.
The history and geography of the Rhine valley take precedence in this informing Rhine book over its natural beauty and romance. “The reader is given a wonderful bird’s-eye view of that great valley which has seen so much of the history of Europe. By presenting landscape in bare, almost mathematical, lines he succeeds in forcing a novel aspect upon the reader’s mind, much as in another sphere Mr. Hardy in his ‘Dynasts’ presents us with the bones of history, and therefore with a fresh view of it.” (Spec.)
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“A text which is, in a scholar’s eyes, worthy of its surroundings. The fault of it is, perhaps, for the general reader, that in dealing with a subject of such romantic interest, he has clung too closely to topographical detail. He has not allowed the romance of the great river to inspire him. In the spelling of names Mr. Mackinder is a trifle inconsistent.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 456. Ap. 11. 1100w.
“The work shows careful study and patient labor, and is good to read by itself or to use as a supplement (even though a ‘colored supplement’) to Murray or Baedeker.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 461. D. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 577. D. 10, ’08. 50w.
“One of the most beautiful travel books of the year.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 90w.
“We commend this book as a unique guide to the essentials of both European geography and history. Without abating one jot of his scientific purpose, Mr. Mackinder has succeeded in making his narrative as fascinating as a romance.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 500. Mr. 28, ’08. 1400w.
=M’Laren, R. S.= Mechanical engineering for beginners. *$1.75. Lippincott.
8–32659.
“In this book the author has endeavored to give in broad outlines the information it is necessary to possess concerning the ordinary branches of mechanical engineering, and at the same time to go sufficiently into detail to enable the beginner to make all the calculations likely to be required during the earlier stages of his study.”—Engin. D.
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“For a young man who is thinking of taking up a mechanical engineering course at a technical school, the book will serve as an admirable introduction thereto. Young draftsmen and machinists desiring to know something of mechanical science will have their interest whetted by reading it, for the calculations included are extremely simple, and invite, rather than repel a continuance of study.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 56. Jl. ’08. 150w.
“If the author had entirely left out his chapter on electrical things he would have an admirable book, but that one section is grossly misleading in important and elementary matters. Throughout the book the student needs to bear in mind that British practice is dealt with and that American ideas depart from this widely at times.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 82. Jl. 16, ’08. 780w.
=McLaws, (Emily) Lafayette.= The welding. †$1.50. Little.
7–34773.
The south before the war furnishes the background for this story which follows the career of the ambitious son of a Georgia cracker. Abolitionists and their opponents figure true to history, and there appear such notable ones among them as Garrison, Lincoln, Greeley, Clay, Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, President Buchanan and Alexander H. Stephens.
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“As a novelist Lafayette McLaws has many superiors in American fiction; that is, many people who can make their characters more vital and convincing, but we know of no historical romance that presents so fine or true a picture of life in the South and in the national capital from forty-nine to sixty-five as is given in ‘The welding.’”
+ − =Arena.= 38: 691. D. ’07. 540w.
“The more personal side of the narrative is constantly interesting, and we heartily congratulate Miss McLaws on her work.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 695. F. ’08. 400w.
“She has the national rather than the sectional consciousness and hates slavery both from the humanitarian and patriotic standpoint. She offers really valuable information concerning social conditions in the South prior to the war.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 330w.
=Nation.= 86: 106. Ja. 30, ’08. 270w.
=McMillan, Archibald Harold.= Telephone law: the organization and operation of telephone companies. *$3. McGraw.
8–22088.
A compact and concise handbook of legal information designed to serve the practical telephone man rather than the practicing lawyer. All of the matters pertaining to the organization of telephone companies are discussed in relation to the laws governing them, including a thoro examination of the statutes of different states.
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“This excellent work will be found of use by others than telephonists and may be heartily recommended.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 259. Ag. 1, ’08. 250w.
“Mr. McMillan’s book gives valuable information for men in a certain line of enterprise; it is compiled from authoritative sources and put together in a style that is consecutive, concise and understandable.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 302. S. ’08. 370w.
=Engin. N.= 60: 186. Ag. 13, ’08. 50w.
=Macmillan, Rev. Donald.= Life of George Matheson. *$2. Armstrong.
8–9534.
A biography of Scotland’s celebrated blind preacher. “Blind at his entrance to Glasgow university, but winning its highest honors, minister to a city parish with nearly two thousand communicants and a multitude of poor, assiduously visiting them, but never preaching the same sermon twice, while continually addressing the public through the press, he was one of the few heroic souls whose energy has wrung triumph out of seemingly hopeless disaster.” (Outlook.)
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“A sympathetic and appreciative biography.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 690. Mr. 26, ’08. 950w.
“Is a most stimulating book. While it is full of lessons for every one, it appeals especially to young men or women who, laboring under some great physical infirmity, feel that for them an actively useful life is an impossibility.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 148. F. 13, ’08. 320w.
“The note of eulogy that recurs throughout this record of an extraordinary career is justified by the facts.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 47. Ja. 4, ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Macmillan has given us a touching record of a great life, which was singularly fruitful of good in adverse conditions.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1100. D. 28, ’07. 360w.
=Macnaughton, Miss S.= The expensive Miss Du Cane. †$1.50. Dutton.
A novel abounding in types. “The story is one of the slightest, just the awakening and growth of love between two very likeable young people at a house party.... Nobody is made to say or do anything for the purpose of carrying the story along. The talk, of which there is a great deal, and the action, of which there is very little, all of it merely makes the reader acquainted with the people, and whatever happens is the natural development of the characters and the situations as they react upon one another.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Miss Macnaughton is too clever, has too much of the novelist’s instinct, not to manage her people with skill, and not to make many shrewd comments on women and life; but we are forced to admit that she has not escaped the sin of monotony.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 62. F. 22, ’07. 350w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 654. N. 7, ’08. 740w.
“The story is not convulsed by storms of elemental passion—the setting precludes high tragedy—but it has affecting as well as shining moments.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 258. F. 16, ’07. 1400w.
* =McNeil, Everett.= Boy forty-niners; or, Across the plains and mountains to the gold-mines of California in a prairie-schooner. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27102.
The first of three volumes intended to picture to the eyes of the younger generation something of the perils and hardships endured across country in 1849, to the gold field of California. This story deals with the experiences of two boys who travel down the Ohio river, up the Mississippi and Missouri and on across the mountains, encountering the hardships of thousands of emigrants to whom the lure of gold was irresistible.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 100w.
“Its chief virtue is of the unrefined diamond sort, its atmosphere suspensive.” M. J. Moses.
− + =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“Any newsboy would enjoy this narrative, however clumsy the writing. The book is not to be recommended for children who can get better, but some librarians may welcome this story as a stepping-stone to higher things.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 551. D. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Macrosty, Henry William.= Trust movement in British industry. *$2.50. Longmans.
W7–120.
“In this volume the author shows not only that the combination movement has made substantial progress in Great Britain, but that it presents similarities to the movement in protectionist countries at so many points as to necessitate the conclusion that there are behind it world causes more fundamental than tariff vagaries. The book is divided into an introductory chapter, twelve chapters describing combinations in different industries and a chapter presenting a ‘Survey and conclusions.’ In the introduction a convenient classification of combinations is suggested which forms the skeleton for the descriptive chapters which follow.”—Pol. Sci. Q.
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“The volume is a bit disappointing because it represents nothing more than results which might be obtained by an ordinary legislative commission. The book is hard to read. The paragraphs are long and tiresome. The style is clumsy. We need thought—but that thought must be transmitted by means of good English.”
− − + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 281. Ja. ’08. 140w.
“A comprehensive and fairly detailed narrative. We can only regret that in his summary and conclusions as to the mass of material presented the author has not ventured into more detail.” C. W. Wright.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 42. Ja. ’08. 700w.
“An admirable survey.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 181. F. 20, ’08. 500w.
“[The chapters] give every evidence of exhaustive research and accurate scholarship.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 558. S. ’07. 320w.
“For this scholarly and impartial treatise we have nothing but praise. Our readers will find in his pages a very full and detailed account of the most important instances of trust combination in this country.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 263. Ag. 24, ’07. 2220w.
Reviewed by G. H. Montague.
=Yale R.= 17: 109. My. ’08. 750w.
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker=, comp. Handy book of synonyms. (Handy information series.) 50c. Crowell.
7–22888.
A practical desk guide to words in daily use, giving their definition and parallel meaning.
=Macvane, Edith.= Duchess of dreams. †$1.50. Lippincott.
8–14334.
The story tells how a social climber of Newport reaches an enviable height of popularity as the prospective hostess of a Romanoff princess, how at the last moment the princess on account of illness fails to arrive, and how the undaunted hostess substitutes a girl from the coast of Maine who had a French mother and a gift for play-acting—a duchess of dreams.
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“In places she is a little unconvincing and her characters lack personality.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 93. Jl. 25. 100w.
“All that one asks in such a coil is pleasing style and sustained interest and here are both to the reader’s hand.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 110w.
“People who like this sort of story will be apt to recommend this literary sweetmeat to their friends as ‘perfectly dandy’ or ‘just charming.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 101: 238. Ag. 15, ’08. 100w.
=Macy, John Albert.= Edgar Allan Poe. (Beacon biographies.) **75c. Small.
8–7372.
Without extenuating or accusing, this sketch seeks to treat the biographical facts of Poe’s life with fairness to the poet and to give the reader a right view of the man as seen from modern days and interests.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 262. N. ’08. ✠
“It contains everything that the busy man or woman wants to know about the author of ‘The raven’ and ‘The bells.’”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 106. O. ’08. 800w.
“His little book sustains the general excellence of the series to which it belongs.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 66. Ag. 1, ’08. 350w.
“We are glad it was Mr. Macy and not some one else who did it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 206. Jl. 23, ’08. 120w.
“His critical comment, interspersed throughout the narration, runs for the most part in the common groove, although occasionally we can not follow him.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 488. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Many new things are told of his life that have been unknown and unheard of until now.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“He has followed the generally accepted facts, but his interpretation of them is eminently sane and cool, free from prejudice, and unmuddled by any unnecessary mixing up of moral and intellectual judgments. A vein of grim, dignified, and restrained humor runs through the work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 321. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
“The brief ‘Life’ is not in any sense a finality; its style is too journalistic; but it is an interesting account of a perplexing career.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 110w.
“An admirable little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 110w.
“His critical dicta we cannot always accept.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 981. Je. 20, ’08. 200w.
=Madden, Eva Annie.= Two royal foes. il. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33904.
“The story has a historical background, its scenes being in Prussia at the time of the invasion by Napoleon. The story opens with the Battle of Jena, through which the heroine, a peasant girl, is left an orphan. She then goes to live with her grandfather, and the two have many adventures. Queen Louisa of Prussia also figures in the novel.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Quaint, pretty, unpretentious story. History seems well founded and characters are life-like.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 23. Ja. ’08. ✠
“There is a certain very charming German atmosphere thruout ‘Two royal foes’ and yet we are baffled. For without condemning it, we needs must criticise it for its diffuse story, for its over-exact narration of Napoleon’s ravages in Prussia, and for the very slight juvenile strain in its pages.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1481. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 70w.
“A charming historical story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 30w.
=Madison, James.= Journal of the debates in the convention which framed the constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787; as recorded by James Madison; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.
8–20180.
Madison’s journal is the only complete record of the constitutional convention extant. It is a continuous chronicle of the proceedings of the convention and has been reproduced in these two volumes with notes which include a comparison of the journal with the records kept respectively by Robert Yates, Rufus King and William Pierce.
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“A number of errors have been left uncorrected. The debates have been edited in a careful and scholarly manner.” W. F. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 915. Jl. ’08. 410w.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 625. N. ’08. 140w.
“This whole admirable edition of Madison’s ‘Journal’ will be a boon both to scholars and to less ambitious students of the constitution and its history.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 36: 101. Je. ’08. 100w.
“No further edition of the Madison notes will be needed for many years.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 786. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
“This work will bring into the hands of teachers, scholars, and students of national politics a historical document of the first importance, edited and printed in the best style and at an exceedingly moderate price.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 258. Ag. 22, ’08. 180w.
“Does not give a definitive edition of the debates, and much remains yet to be done in the study of available material. The convenient form of this reprint is hardly sufficient to justify its existence, and there are not a few misprints which could have been avoided.”
− =Nation.= 87: 94. Jl. 30, ’08. 230w.
“An exhaustive index makes the work thoroughly usable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
“It shows textual differences from the earlier editions over which it is a vast improvement, if only from the standpoint of convenience for reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 534. Jl. 4, ’08. 210w.
“Of the several editions of this invaluable journal which have appeared since Madison’s death by far the most satisfactory is the new two-volume edition edited by Mr. Gaillard Hunt. The special value of Mr. Hunt’s work lies in the fact that he has compared the statements made by contemporary writers with the corresponding entries in Madison’s journal.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Intelligence of the flowers; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.20. Dodd.
7–36869.
An essay on the signs of reasoning in flowers which “is a complement to his essay on bees ... [The author] wishes ‘merely to recall a few facts known to every botanist,’ and has ‘no intention of reviewing all the proofs of intelligence which the plants give us.’ He confines himself almost entirely to the delicate arrangements for cross-fertilization, describing them with as great scientific accuracy as if he were not a poet.” (Dial.)
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“A charming companion piece to the ‘Life of the bee.’” Florence Converse.
+ =Atlan.= 101: 710. My. ’08. 200w.
“The charm of the book lies nevertheless in the fact that he is a poet.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 280w.
“It is a unique combination of fact and fancy, scientific in its statements, humanistic in its interpretation of them, mystical in its philosophy, poetical in its expression.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 158. Ja. 16, ’08. 60w.
“Is a good example of the decorated giftbook.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 150w.
“The translation preserves most of the original’s charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
“A translation of extraordinary refinement.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 112. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“Is ostensibly a nature book, but the delicate imagination and exquisite literary style of the author are so persuasive and charming throughout the book that it is really a work of literature.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 50w.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Pélléas and Mélisande; tr. by Erving Winslow; with an introd. by Montrose J. Moses. **$1.50. Crowell.
8–22493.
An edition of Maeterlinck’s play for which Mr. Montrose J. Moses has written an introduction revealing Maeterlinck’s mastery of delicate and strange intuitions, enumerating the fragments of his philosophy and calling attention to his spectral background and dramatic theory. The volume is a fitting holiday offering with its marginal decoration and excellent illustrations.
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=Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 100w.
“The translation is ... prosaic and discordant: poorer even than the Alma Tadema version.”
− =Ind.= 65: 843. O. 8, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Winslow’s translation is adequate. Mr. Moses contributes a readable, painstaking introductory essay. As a Mary Garden picture book the Crowell edition of ‘Pélléas and Mélisande’ deserves cordial praise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 603. O. 24, ’08. 400w.
=Mahabharata.= Bhagavad-gita; or, The message of the master; compiled and adapted from numerous old and new translations of the original Sanscrit text by Yogi Ramacharaka. 2d ed. 75c. Yogi pub.
7–15127.
A trustworthy English version of a poem embodying the essence of Vedantic philosophy. The translation is accompanied by a general introduction and separate introductions to each of the eighteen books of the Gita.
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“Can be recommended as the most satisfactory version of the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ in the English language. It would be possible to point to a good many passages in which, in the opinion of the present reviewer, he has not used the best equivalent for the technical terms of the Sanskrit or has failed to reproduce the force of the original.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 117. Ag. 6, ’08. 400w.
“Those who wish to know something at first hand of the essence of Vedantic philosophy will find this fine translation, with its admirable expository commentaries, a convenient and satisfactory little volume.” J. H. Coates.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 445. Ag. 15, ’08. 2200w.
* =Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Naval administration and warfare: some general principles, with other essays. **$1.50. Little.
8–31976.
A collection of papers including “a few large, plain, simple ideas” concerning naval matters which the general reader ought to know. Captain Mahan discusses The principles of naval administration, The United States navy department, Principles involved in the war between Japan and Russia, Objects of the United States naval war college, The practical character of the United States naval war college, Subordination in historical treatment, The strength of Nelson, The value of the Pacific cruise of the United States fleet, and The Monroe doctrine.
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+ =Ind.= 65: 1185. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“Ought to be in the hands of every intelligent man.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 852. D. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Each essay conveys sound information in an entertaining, readable way. The socialism of this book is of the ‘Fabian’ school, educative and opportunist; its weapons are not carnal but spiritual.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 888. D. 19, ’08. 520w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Some neglected aspects of war; together with The power that makes for peace, by Henry S. Pritchett, and The capture of private property at sea, by Julian S. Corbett. **$1.50. Little.
7–41543.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“Books like the present volume do, in our judgment, incalculable injury by catering to the military spirit.” B. O. Flower.
− =Arena.= 39: 592. My. ’08. 410w.
=Ath.= 1908, 1: 286. Mr. 7. 60w.
“There is nothing new in it excepting the preface, which is a summing up of the argument. Yet it is very well worth having and reading, or re-reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 100. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
=Outlook.= 88: 43. Ja. 4, ’08. 380w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’07. 90w.
“It would certainly be well if the apostles of peace at any price—and we have many in our midst—would study Captain Mahan’s admirable and dispassionate essays.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 210. Ag. 16, ’08. 220w.
=Spec.= 100: 461. Mr. 21, ’08. 1700w.
* =Maire, Frederick.= Modern pigments and their vehicles: their properties and uses considered mainly from the practical side, and how to make tints from them. $2. Wiley.
8–1476.
“The manual is written for the men who use or sell pigments, and who mainly want to know what they can expect of them. It is especially designed to be of value to the young man who is starting out to learn the painter’s trade. The various pigments which are used in compounding colors and tints are taken up in order, beginning with the yellow pigments, and dealing with the reds, greens, blues, browns and blacks, respectively. Their history, early use, methods of mining and preparing for market, and adulterations, are described.”—Engin. Rec.
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“For the purpose for which it was written this book should be of value.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 170w.
“A most excellent book written by one who evidently knows the practical side thoroughly. There are several books which are more scientific and chemical, but there is none which will be of greater value to the chemist, the practical man or the young apprentice at the painter’s trade.” A. H. Gill.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 843. D. 11, ’08. 120w.
=Maitland, Frederic William.= Constitutional history of England: a course of lectures. **$3.50. Putnam.
“These lectures discuss the public law of Great Britain at five periods. The first period runs from 1066 to 1307, the second period extends to 1509, the third to 1625, the fourth to 1702, and the fifth to the closing years of the nineteenth century. Much of the ground covered by the lectures was later traversed by Prof. Maitland in his carefully written ‘History of English law,’ ‘Domesday book and beyond,’ ‘Township and borough,’ and other publications, to the preparation of which he devoted a great deal of time and study.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The publication of these lectures in their original form, under the care of such a competent and sympathetic editor as Mr. Herbert Fisher, is a matter for congratulation on behalf of a large body of teachers and students alike.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 394. O. 3. 820w.
“The plan of the work is unique. The editorial supervision is done with that discrimination and good judgment which characterizes all the work of Mr. Fisher.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 662. S. 17, ’08. 680w.
“What he has written is in the main indisputable, and needs no revision. By contenting himself with established facts he has rendered his work of almost as much value to-day as it was twenty years ago.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 339. O. 8, ’08. 1250w.
“Persons familiar with the works of Prof. Maitland that were published in his lifetime will have little use for this posthumous volume; but we believe Mr. Fisher is quite right in saying that the study of the Cambridge lectures will serve as an excellent introduction to an exhaustive inquiry into English constitutional history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 483. S. 5, ’08. 450w.
“Is distinguished by profound erudition and clearness of exposition. A good many popular misconceptions, perhaps more prevalent here than in England, are cleared away, and a better understanding had of the factors making for England’s continued strength and stability.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 316. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
=Major, Charles.= Uncle Tom Andy Bill: a story of bears and Indian treasure. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28633.
A book of lively, wholesome stories of adventure which Uncle Tom Andy Bill, seventy and reminiscent, selects from his boyhood experiences.
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“A new juvenile which will receive a ready welcome.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 40w.
“Even if the older reader may not care so much for the treasure and the bears as the boy, he will admit that the story is a true and lively picture of life half a century ago in what is now the middle west, but was then the frontier.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 844. D. 12, ’08. 120w.
=Makower, Stanley V.= Perdita: a romance in biography. *$4. Appleton.
8–34595.
A sketch of Mary Darby Robinson whose beauty was passed down to posterity by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney and other artists, who was a favorite pupil of Garrick and as Perdita captured the affections of George, Prince of Wales. “As here told, the story is a veritable microcosm of eighteenth-century life, not only the relation of the first important intrigue of a royal debauchee; so the mere lover of scandal will be compelled, whether he will or no, to see things in their right perspective.” (Ath.)
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“The faults are few and far between, and the merits considerable. The latter far exceed those of the ordinary popular biography, and the impression left is that of literature rather than book-making.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 315. Mr. 14. 1700w.
“The present book tells her capricious career with an admixture of fiction which does not jar with the known facts, and which certainly makes sprightly reading.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 595. O. 24, ’08. 130w.
“The book that lies before us will certainly appeal to all novel-readers as well as to the smaller public which prefers its history and biography unspiced by imagination.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 504. Mr. 28, ’08. 420w.
=Mallock, William Hurrell.= An immortal soul. †$1.50. Harper.
8–31158.
A study of girlhood at the point of its emergence from the school room into the world where coquettishness, seriousness, ingeniousness and young philosophy struggle with one another for the upper hand. The problem of double personality appears and with it two lovers, a clergyman and a scientist, who claim to be respectively interested in the heroine’s soul health and the psychological problem which she embodies.
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“A fine piece of irony, though the simple will devour it for its sensation.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 641. N. 21. 240w.
“The descriptions of English rural life are true and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 617. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Mallock. William Hurrell.= Critical examination of socialism. **$2. Harper. 7–39227.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The book is, on the whole, one of the best attacks on socialism although purely theoretical.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 143. My. ’08.
“Mr. Mallock’s analysis appears to us radically unsound.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 447. S. ’08. 550w.
“[In the second part of the work] the Socialists and their opponent, Mr. Mallock, are equally academic—their illustrations are equally in the clouds, except where examples quoted by Mr. Mallock err in the opposite direction of an over-practical crudity.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 191. F. 15. 800w.
“On the purely intellectual side, his criticisms, valid or otherwise, will arouse fruitful thought and discussion; but though we must admit that he justly accuses many socialists of improperly prejudicing the subject, we cannot acquit him of this same fault.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 39. Ja. 16, ’08. 1650w.
“This volume, on account of its compactness of argument, felicity of illustration and dialectical cleverness, cannot be ignored or scorned by the socialist editors and pamphleteers who are preaching a new evangel.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 636. Mr. 19, ’08. 650w.
“On its positive or non-controversial side the book before us merits no particular comment. Where it is not positively erroneous it is merely commonplace.” R. F. Hoxie.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 540. O. ’08. 430w.
“With all his cleverness Mallock is unconvincing. To deal effectively with socialism, one must have some genuine capacity for appreciating the need and the possibility of social betterment, and Mallock’s work makes the impression of one whose social sympathies are atrophied.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 491. My. 28, ’08. 700w.
“Mr. Mallock’s book will be read with interest by all who heard his lectures in sundry American cities, and it might well attract an even larger number in its elaborate form. The topic is worth it, and the treatment is at least easier reading than Marx’s.” E: A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 30. Ja. 18, ’08. 1030w.
“He is both clear and clever; but he is not always conclusive.” Lyman Abbott.
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 539. Mr. 7, ’08. 530w.
“His analytic and literary powers as shown so brilliantly in his former well-known work, ‘The reconstruction of religious belief,’ characterize also this little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 118. Ja. ’08. 120w.
“What the situation requires is a successful apology for the system of liberty and free exchange which, with many lets and hindrances, has during historical times been becoming the progressive basis of existing society. Mr. Mallock’s book, though it is not specifically addressed to this aspect of the controversy, makes its definite contribution thereto, and it is more valuable in this respect than as a hostile criticism of the nebulous aspirations of socialism.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 940. Je. 13, ’08. 1000w.
=Malvery, Olive Christian.= Soul market. $1.50. McClure.
8–13767.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“This book owes a charm to its nondescript character. There is a quality very warm and human and engaging in this casual narrative.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 592. D. 26, ’07. 610w.
“A series of first-hand views of London life on its pathetic side, with much of the sociological interest, is brought out under the title of ‘The soul market.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 117. Ja. ’08. 30w.
=Manchester, Arthur Livingston.= Twelve lessons in the fundamentals of voice production. (Music students lib.) $1. Ditson.
8–33831.
Deals with the fundamentals of tone production. The purpose is to present simply and in easily understood terms the essentials of good tone production in such order, and the accompanying instruction and exercises with such definiteness that the difficulties which discourage students may be at least minimized.
=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).= Castles and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces including also Foix, Roussillon and Bearn, il. $3. Page.
7–38519.
Uniform with “Castles and chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire country.” Geographically the rambles cover the French slopes of the Pyrenees from the Atlantic Gulf of Gascony to the Mediterranean Gulf of Lyons and on to the Rhône. The feudal chateaux and fortified bourgs of this region furnish the author abundant material for his appreciation of their architecture, comments on the manner of living in far-away times, and for his chatty presentation of men and manners of to-day.
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“The title of this handsomely bound and illustrated volume scarcely does justice to its contents.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 681. Ag. ’08. 450w.
“The text combines descriptive and historical material with personal impressions.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 80w.
=Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 90w.
“A work which summarizes his knowledge in good pedestrian prose and, being carefully indexed, should be valuable for purposes of reference.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 625. F. ’08. 180w.
=Mansfield, Milburg F.= In the land of mosques and minarets. $3. Page.
8–15291.
Another Mansfield-McManus collaboration which takes the reader to the less frequented places of Tunisia and Algeria. It is full of information “both ordinary and unusual, about the lives, manners, and customs of the natives, the country itself, and the line of contact between the natives and the many-nationed crowd of aliens.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 58. D. ’08. 50w.
“He has set before us a glowing panorama of Algerian life and scenery.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 258. Ag. 22, ’08. 120w.
“The text is written entertainingly and gives no end of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 200w.
“It contains much information interesting alike to the traveler and to the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 44. S. 5, ’08. 60w.
“This is a very pleasantly written and readable volume, well set off with illustrations.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 338. S. 5, ’08. 330w.
=Marble, Annie Russell.= Heralds of American literature: a group of patriot writers of the revolutionary and national periods. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–39037.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The result of her labors, however, displays neither the extent of learning—except in matters of somewhat gossipy detail—the grasp of her subject, nor the command of style needful to justify three hundred pages and more about matter of which scholars as well as general readers may contentedly remain ignorant.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 662. Ap. ’08. 100w.
“An extensive bibliography, carefully classified, a full index, and careful annotation will commend the book to students. Mrs. Marble writes fully and entertainingly.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 110. F. 16, ’08. 300w.
“An entertaining little book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 600w.
“Mrs. Marble, whose method is largely descriptive and biographic, has put the knowledge about this group of writers into very convenient form.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 98. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 30w.
=Marchmont, Arthur Williams.= My lost self; il. by Alex. O. Levy. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–8096.
Cuthbert Dalrymple, a young New Yorker of the exclusive, law-abiding set loses consciousness through a mysterious blow. When a second blow restores him he finds that he has been ruled for a season by a lower personality—that he is in Sicily and the most feared of a band of desperadoes. His chief business in his restored state is that of fighting to protect the Sicilian heroine against intrigue and danger in wild surroundings.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 297. S. 12. 130w.
“Whatever may be said as to the credibility of such events as depicted it cannot be denied that they follow one another with a rather fascinating rapidity.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 377. Jl. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Marden, Orison Swett.= He can who thinks he can, and other papers on success in life. **$1. Crowell.
8–30895.
A group of forcible editorials reprinted from Success magazine including the following: He can who thinks he can; Getting around; Education by absorption; Freedom at any cost; What the world owes to dreamers; The spirit in which you work; Responsibility of power; An overmastering purpose; Has your vocation your unqualified approval? Stand for something; Happy, if not why not? Originality; Had money but lost it; Sizing up people; Does the world owe you a living? What has luck done for you? Success with a flaw; and Getting away from poverty.
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“Undoubtedly it will be helpful in many ways to many men.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 320w.
=Marden, Philip Sanford.= Greece and the Aegean islands. **$3. Houghton.
7–36985.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Recommended because it is as good as, or better than, any other general book on the subject.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 196. Je. ’08.
“On the whole, we think it will amuse, but hardly instruct, the reader.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 39. Ja. 11. 480w.
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 409. D. ’08. 200w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 120w.
“An altogether delightful book. We sincerely wish that it might be generally read to or by secondary schools and colleges in Greek or in ancient history.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 312. Mr. ’08. 80w.
“It is, however, odious to weigh mint and anise and cumin in the presence of a really fine work.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 1567. D. 26, ’07. 970w.
“The illustrations are admirable, and would make a book of much value and interest worth possessing.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 193. F. 27, ’08. 300w.
“There is a ground which this volume covers as no other has yet done. With this volume in hand any intelligent traveler should find the rough places made smooth, with the direction and information that the stranger craves.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 41. Ja. 4, ’08. 140w.
“It will also prove useful to the intending traveler in those regions, for the writer gives an accurate and not exaggerated picture of the incidents inevitable to such an expedition. As a guide the author is only moderately well informed. He clearly knows nothing of the mediæval history of Greece.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 113. Ja. 25, ’08. 200w.
“A very pleasant and useful book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1009. Je. 27, ’08. 260w.
=Margoliouth, David Samuel.= Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus. *$3.50. Dodd.
7–38520.
“Professor Margoliouth tells his readers some interesting facts about these three famed Eastern cities. The buildings of the Fatimide and Ayyubid eras are described. The sovereigns who ruled over Cairo are treated at length, and nothing essential is missed in the historical sketches given of Jerusalem and Damascus.”—Lit. D.
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“It bears throughout the stamp of an individual mind, well stored with the original sources familiar to the learned author, but able to take independent views and here and there to draw a luminous generalization.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 152. F. 8. 1600w.
“Is intensely interesting both in its historical account and its description of these three great cities. Is certainly one of the most beautiful of the series.” Justin McCarthy.
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1421. D. 12, ’07. 210w.
“The text has the rare merit of being trustworthy.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 320. F. 6, ’08. 200w.
“Very superior to the greater number of the colour books that have recently been issued, for it would be of permanent value even without the illustrations.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 343. Je. ’08. 350w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 346. N. 15, ’07. 1460w.
“It must frankly be said that the history of Cairo here given is dreary reading. The illustrations are beautifully executed with carefully worked-out detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 240. Mr. 12, ’08. 550w.
“The text of Mr. Margoliouth’s book differs from that of most volumes which describe the history of Cairo or Jerusalem or Damascus because it has been written by one long immersed in the atmosphere of the Orient and of the Arabic language.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 48. Ja. 4, ’08. 300w.
“The artist gives us only the picturesque or artistic scenes in the Oriental cities he delineates, and wisely passes by the dirt or the dull ugliness amidst which they are set; and the historian would do well to follow his example where literary interest and not historical completeness is his object.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 52. Ja. 11, ’08. 800w.
“This attractive volume appeals in equal measure to lovers of art and students of history.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 473. O. 3, ’08. 1000w.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.= King Edward VI, an appreciation, attempted by Sir Clements R. Markham. *$3. Dutton.
8–10272.
A eulogistic treatment of a “period of anarchy in which a Tammany ring of titled ruffians ... left England the legacy of a pauper class.” (Sat. R.) The precocious Edward VI of this book “was a statesman who understood the self-seeking, unprincipled character of the politicians about him; a princely boy who had more sense in his little finger than both his uncles put together had in their whole bodies.” (Nation.) The author exploits the young king’s learning, his interest in geography, his fondness for games; and above all argues that he was neither a tool nor a figurehead.
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“Unluckily, Sir Clement’s passion for historical paradox does much to spoil the effect of his nervous and sympathetic narrative.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 380w.
“Sir Clements’s knowledge of the period is not profound, and it is only his own idiosyncrasies which make his book remarkable.” A. F. P.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 199. Ja. ’08. 380w.
“It is not, we think, possible to say that Sir Clements Markham has added anything to our knowledge of the reign, or that his confidently-expressed judgments enable us to understand better the men and women who played their part in it. The chief interest of the book lies in the details of Edward’s interest in such subjects as geography and exploration, a much more healthy occupation for him than his boyish attempts at theology.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 358. N. 22, ’07. 630w.
“The book contains many excellent portraits and much useful biographical and genealogical information, but its conclusions will hardly find acceptance at the hands of fair-minded historians.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 96. Jl. 30, ’08. 770w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 471. Ag. 29, ’08. 840w.
“While we dissent entirely from Sir Clements’ estimate of the reign, we must say that his pages make pleasant reading. Pageantry and heraldry he understands, and he gives a brilliant description of his young hero’s coronation. Interesting and original also are the pages in the book that tell of the Tudor navy and the ‘first Arctic expedition.’”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 206. F. 15, ’08. 1000w.
− + =Spec.= 101: sup. 704. N. 7, ’08. 1100w.
=Marks, William Dennis.= Finances of gas and electric light and power enterprises: electric railways, electric light stations, gas works, oil motor cars. 4th ed. $4. William D. Marks, 623 Park Row bldg., N. Y.
7–27171.
“Five chapters have been added to the present edition. Included in the new matter is a digest of some of the evidence in the recent lawsuit (not yet settled) over the reduction of the price of gas in New York city to 80 cts. per 1,000 cu. ft. There is also included a paper on ‘Railway rates for electric railways.’”—Engin. N.
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“The book as a whole contains a large amount of information, statistical and descriptive, on various phases of the subject indicated by the title.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 79. Jl. 18, ’07. 140w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 49. Ja. ’08. 100w.
=Marriott, H. Crittenden.= Uncle Sam’s business; told for young Americans. $1.25. Harper.
8–28399.
An informing story which shows Uncle Sam as ruler, captain of industry and public servant. In the first instance Uncle Sam is shown as law-maker, judge, ambassador, society man, trader, soldier, sailor, peace-maker, and immigrant; in the second, as builder, house-cleaner, store-keeper, builder of war ships, manager of public lands, maker and distributer of money; in the third, as farmer, chemist, forester, weatherman, and patron of science and art.
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“The information is rather disconnected and the style wordy and careless, but the book has value in connection with the study of civics.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 311. D. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 385. D. ’08. 80w.
“It should meet the present demand for instruction without drudgery.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 337. O. 8, ’08. 140w.
“Older people may obtain clear ideas of governmental matters upon which they have not been well informed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
=Mars, Gerhardt Cornell.= Interpretation of life; in which is shown the relation of modern culture to Christian science. **$3. Appleton.
8–18359.
A work written from the Christian science standpoint which makes a stirring appeal to every thinker. Dr. Mars “discusses successively the natural world-order in its evolution, inorganic and organic; then the supranatural or rational world-order; next the threefold unity of reason, in science, art, and ethics; then the threefold interpretation of reason, theoretical, aesthetic, and ethical; then ‘the pedagogy of pain,’ involving the problems of evil, sin, and atonement, or reconciliation.” (Outlook.) He closes with a defense of Mrs. Eddy.
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“It is as suggestive as it is lucid, as logical and closely reasoned as it is profoundly thoughtful and convincing to the reason.” B. O. Flower.
+ + =Arena.= 40: 258. S. ’08. 8000w.
“The work will not be of much value in proselyting, but it ought to exert a good influence inside the church in checking the disposition to scoff at scientific methods and defy common sense.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 432. Ag. 20, ’08. 700w.
“Christian science ... has at last found an expositor and defender who really knows something, who has read widely and intelligently, who can compare and reason, and who does write English that means something.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 349. Je. 20, ’08. 880w.
“Fundamentally as we disagree with many of Dr. Mars’s conclusions, we believe that so long as these problems exist such earnest attempts to solve them cannot be useless. He at least brings to consciousness many of the contradictions of our social order and he thinks nobly of man.” Christian Gauss.
− + =No. Am.= 188: 771. N. ’08. 1750w.
“Dr. Mars’s surprising conclusion should not in sober judgment impugn the solid merits of the work to which it is, in strict logic, no more than an appendix.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 767. Ag. 1, ’08. 480w.
=Marsh, Charles Fleming, and Dunn, William.= Manual of reinforced concrete and concrete block construction. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“Presents in compact handbook form the necessary information required in the design, construction and supervision of reinforced concrete work. The text is based upon that of the third edition of their favorably-known quarto treatise, ‘Reinforced concrete.’ the demonstrations or reasoning, however, upon which the formulas are based, being omitted in order to keep the work within handbook limits.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 545. N. ’08. 340w.
“Its main faults for American sale are its rather unwieldly size ... and its use of British standards of measurement and practice. A very good designing hand-book, a trifle obscure, perhaps, in some of the theory, but still quite valuable to the office-man in concrete work.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 539. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“Some of the methods of design employed in the book will be questioned by some engineers, but the book as a whole is excellent.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 475. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
=Marshall, Archibald.= Exton Manor. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–3427.
English country life is depicted here in a manner to create atmosphere and with it the feeling of knowing the characters intimately. In this Exton Manor community a social war is waged which has for its cause the question of marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. The episode is used to test the Christianity, apart from Churchmanship, of a group of people prominent among whom are a clergyman’s busy-body wife and an adherent of the Woman’s reformation league.
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“The book is a long one.... It moves with all the slowness of the old three-volume novel; and it moves with that slowness just because the author is not an analyst ... but shows you life itself.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 330w.
“A tale of much more than ordinary excellence, which moves slowly and is not strong in plot, but which introduces real people who live out very real lives and command interest to the end.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 111. Ap. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Marshall succeeds in keeping our interest to the end, for his people are living people, and never once do they descend to caricature.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 300w.
“There is enough that is good in this book, and enough that shows possibilities for later work from the author, to justify serious criticism.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 178. Ap. ’08. 900w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 579. Je. 25, ’08. 560w.
“The details are painted in with so much fidelity and with such loving care that it has with good reason recalled to most reviewers the works of Anthony Trollope.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 200w.
“The story that he unfolds in his successive chapters is an interesting one, while as a study of contemporaneous life it is strong, keen and humorous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“Is one of the most carefully written and thoroughly worked out pieces of fiction that has appeared in England for a long time past.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 611. F. 29, ’08. 300w.
“There is very little art in it; but the fact that such a chronicle should only occasionally be boring proves a skill in the chronicler which is sure to commend him to the many readers to whom gossip makes a more direct appeal than art.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 562. My. 4, ’07. 450w.
“Mr. Marshall has written nothing better than this, and we might say nothing nearly so good. We heartily recommend this calming book to a bustling age.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 462. Mr. 23, ’07. 150w.
* =Marston, Edward (“Amateur Angler,” pseud.).= Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton: a sketch of their lives and family connection. *$2. Longmans.
An octogenarian has brought together late material which further illuminates the history of the famous angler, Izaak Walton, and has presented it with the quiet enthusiasm of fellow sympathy.
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“A book of somewhat disjointed notes on the two worthies.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 400. O. 3. 360w.
“The story of how Ken became bishop alone makes the book worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 751. D. 5, ’08. 450w.
* =Martin, Edward Sandford.= In a new century. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–27778.
Twenty-two essays telling “of the consequences of too much success, of some advantages of the common lot, of the remuneration found in reading and writing, of the prospects of ‘Society’ in America, of riches, character, and money, of the profound need in our leaders of what he calls the spiritual quality, of the seashore and the inland countryside, of the purpose and use of deafness, and many another subject handled with skill and distinct literary ability.” (Outlook.) See Cumulative book index for contents.
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“Mr. Martin is a genial philosopher, but his teaching is none the less timely and vigorous.” E: Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 324. D. ’08. 500w.
“What he says is always worth reading, and he always says it felicitously.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“Very much up to date and very typically American is this collection of essays.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 540w.
“His sturdy, uncompromising stand for truth, and civic and personal righteousness, is clothed in a form of grace, and sparkles with the irony admissible to a thoroughly refined mind.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 797. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
=Martin, George Madden.= Letitia: nursery corps, U. S. A. il. †$1.50. McClure.
7–37709.
Stories of army life with a little girl in the foreground whose happiness is less in the hands of a heartless mother and a self-centered father than in the keeping of her “striker” guardians. “In one of the stories the canteen question is viewed from a familiar standpoint—that with the abolishment of the army saloon the soldiers seek amusement in worse places. Another shows how the social distinctions of army life extend even to the children of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Humorous setting-forth of some of the unromantic features of army life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 19. Ja. ’08.
“This forlorn little waif, remaining unspotted by her very wordly world, the reprehensible morals and manners from which she springs, and the problems of post life as seen here, are compounded of paper and printer’s ink.”
− =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 80w.
“Six commonplace short stories of life at an army post are all one finds in this book by the creator of the winsome Emmy Lou.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 2. Ja. 4, ’08. 140w.
“The stories are amusing and give a good insight into wandering military life. But the language is sometimes marred by obscurity owing to an obvious effort to imitate Kipling’s style.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 170w.
=Martin, Helen Riemensnyder.= Revolt of Anne Royle. †$1.50. Century.
8–25996.
This story follows the development of a lonely child from the age of eight thru years of struggle against the authority of a stern guardian and the snobbishness of his relatives, thru years of growing self assertion and revolt against imperious control, on to maturity and happiness. There is also a portrayal without exaggeration of a worldly minded clergyman, whose shallowness is strongly contrasted with the results of service achieved by a young curate of determination and power.
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“The story is forced and unnatural and many of the characters are exaggerated, but as a clever love tale it will be acceptable.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 303. D. ’08.
“Whether considered as a love romance or as a sectional view of American life, the story is one of the best American novels of the season.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 482. N. ’08. 220w.
“If the reader can conceive of a story that combines the old-fashioned charm of the ‘Wide, wide world’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ with the fresher interest of a modern romance, he will have some idea of the fascination of this remarkable book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1249. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The dénouement is not unforeseen, but the bits of artifice relied upon to sustain the plot interest and attain a fit ending are forgivable in view of the real interest in the people of the book, which is never wanting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 701. N. 28, ’08. 480w.
“The story is overweighted, and the effect is neither agreeable nor artistic.”
− =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Martin, Percy Falcke.= Mexico of the twentieth century. 2v. *$8.50. Dodd.
8–4360.
“An authoritative and exhaustive account of present-day conditions in our neighbor republic, written in the hope of remedying popular ignorance and prejudice in regard to a country whose geography, social and economic conditions, and facilities of travel are as a sealed book to Europeans and even to other Americans.”—Dial.
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“A valuable compendium. Readable, letter press excellent, illustrations admirable, binding only fairly durable.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 80. Mr. ’08.
“The book contains much that is of value, and almost everything that will be sought for in such a work. But it is padded with a great deal of gossip, here slightly out of place, as having often little or no connexion with the subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 549. N. 2. 730w.
“He knows his subject thoroughly. He treats it in so many different aspects that the seeker after any conceivable piece of information will be likely to find just what he wants somewhere in these two volumes.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“Although more pretentious is in reality less valuable than Mr. Starr’s book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl. 23, ’08. 120w.
“He has piled up a mountain of facts, has amassed what should be most useful to both the Englishman and the American.” G. R. Bishop.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 421. Ag. 1, ’08. 1500w.
“As an aid to promoters, industrialists, and investors generally, Mr. Martin’s volumes have special value.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 277. F. 1, ’08. 350w.
“Verbose and chaotic volume.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 640. N. 23, ’07. 360w.
“The fault we find is that Mr. Martin gives us information which is quite unnecessary, and has really little or nothing to do with Mexico, and yet declares that he has been forced to omit things obviously more pertinent for want of room.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 990. D. 14, ’07. 1700w.
=Martin, William Frank.= Sir Harry Vane: a drama in five acts. $1.25. Roxburgh pub.
8–5897.
A drama based upon historical facts selected from the period of Vane’s occupancy of the governorship of the Massachusetts Bay colony, 1636–1637. Political and theological controversies form the background of the drama, conspicuous among whose characters are Sir Harry Vane, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley.
=Mary Stuart, queen of Scots.= Queen Mary’s book: a collection of poems and essays; ed. by Mrs. P. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot. *$3.50. Macmillan.
8–16438.
“A translation of a collection of poems and essays written at intervals during her life, beginning with her Latin exercises at the age of twelve, and ending with the essay on adversity written in prison. Its best features are the five excellent reproductions of works in her handwriting, and an appendix containing the original texts in a generally accurate form.”—Ath.
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“The editor is, in fact, not qualified to do good editorial work.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 819. D. 28. 1150w.
“It cannot be denied that there is a strange pathetic interest in ‘Queen Mary’s book.’ The pathos of the book lies in the poems and prose compositions of the queen herself, which are here for the first time brought together in a single volume. Our only quarrel with the book is that all the originals are not added.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 102. Ja. 30, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Stewart-Mackenzie Arbuthnot does not pretend to be an historian or a critic of eminence. Her part, we may say, is to show her convictions by laying a flower on Mary’s grave, by adding a stone to the wall of defence against her enemies. And her work is done in a candid spirit.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 342. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
=Marzo, Eduardo=, comp, and ed. Art of vocalization. 3 bks. pa. ea. 75c. Ditson.
Shows to Americans with their beautiful singing voices the necessity of a “hurry never” creed if they would reach the goal of excellence attained by Europeans. Exercises for voice culture are selected from the works of Lablache, Panofka, Randegger, Marchesi, and others.
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+ =Nation.= 86: 451. My. 14, ’08. 150w.
* =Masefield, John.= Captain Margaret: a romance. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of a perilous journey to the Spanish Main whither Captain Margaret, dreamer no less than swordsman, goes from England to help the Indians against the oppression of Spain. The story tells how the renegade husband of Captain Margaret’s former sweetheart comes, with his wife, aboard the captain’s ship as it was putting out to sea, how he pretended to his wife to be nobly bent upon fighting for the Indians when in truth he is fleeing from justice, how the captain’s quiet, restrained power is a foil for the husband’s perfidy, how the wife finally recognizes it, how the colony fails but how love triumphs.
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“It is a good yarn, full of colour and movement.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 92. Jl. 25. 230w.
“The psychology, and occasionally the dialogue, are strangely modern. But the story is finely conceived.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 455. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
“We must say that the last chapter atones for some of the incredibilities, as it contains passages which are noble and moving, and will, we think, be very grateful to every reader.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 99. Jl. 18, ’08. 1000w.
=Masefield, John.= Tarpaulin muster. $1. Dodge, B. W.
8–10282.
Twenty-four stories, chiefly sea-tales with the tang of the salt in them, the changing lights that draw colors from old ocean, and sounds that range from alluring siren refrains to the creaking of cordage and the booming of breakers. A veritable classic is “Being ashore” which, contrary to the title, is a magnificent description of a run off River Plate, with the writer possessed of the spirit of the wind and the ecstasy of the spray.
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“Mr. Masefield is a genuine sailor author, and his work merits support.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 574. My. 11. 150w.
“Writes vividly of his themes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 341. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
“To approach it in the same spirit that one opens an artist’s sketch-book is to guard against disappointment in not finding sea yarns of a stirring sort, and to insure appreciation of the author’s pleasant style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 540. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Masefield is a master of strange effects. Writing of the sea or of Irish fairies, of whom he possesses an intimate knowledge, he leaves a feeling that haunts.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 21. Jl. 6, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Masefield challenges notice on a higher plane as a sea-folklorist (if we may be allowed the barbarous expression) and an interpreter of sea-magic; and, though the quality of his work is unequal, at its best it is very fine indeed.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 801. My. 18, ’07. 1300w.
=Mason, Caroline Atwater.= Binding of the strong. †$1.50. Revell.
8–23544.
A story based upon historical facts concerning the hasty courtship and marriage of John Milton and Mary Powell. Into the background are woven facts of political strife and upheaval, while well to the fore are the desertion of the wife and the reconciliation effected by Delmé Davies, whom in the wife’s absence Milton had learned to trust and to love.
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“It is a pleasing and happy story, in spite of the fact that ‘they’ did not marry in the end. It will make the great poet more real to some readers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 544. O. 3, ’08. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“Pleasantly told tale.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 634. N. ’08. 90w.
=Massey, Gerald.= Ancient Egypt: the light of the world: a work of reclamation and restitution. 2v. *$12. Dutton.
8–13676.
“The volumes are divided into twelve books, in which Mr. Massey has treated ... the various forms of sign language and Egyptian wisdom as the source from which was derived most of the knowledge of the ancient world and the religion of the modern.”—N. Y. Times.
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“In any case his book would be of no value except as a compilation. But, further, he had little idea of what is and what is not permissible in logical argument; very few of his syllogisms are without a flaw; he has no perception of what is possible or impossible in respect of philological comparisons, and he was dominated by a fanatical belief with regard to the origin of Christianity which at once takes his book out of the realm of science.”
− − + =Nature.= 77: 291. Ja. 30, ’08. 950w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 89. F. 15, ’08. 160w.
“Very interesting work.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 490. Je. 27, ’08. 500w.
=Massey, Wilbur Fisk.= Practical farming. *$1.50. Outing pub.
7–40013.
A book for farmers and agricultural students which treats of the care of the soil and crop production.
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“Is well written, in an easy style.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“In every way this book is of decided value.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 612. S. 10, ’08. 500w.
=Massie, Walter Wentworth and Underhill, Charles R.= Wireless telegraphy and telephony popularly explained; with a special article by Nikola Tesla. **$1. Van Nostrand.
8–22565.
Aims to give in simple untechnical language a clear idea of the reception and development of wireless communication. The author describes the substance thru which signals are sent, the theory of the propagation of waves, method of generating and receiving the waves, the apparatus used, the uses, limitations, and possibilities of wireless telegraphy—both commercially and financially.
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=Engin. D.= 4: 547. N. ’08. 120w.
“The authors of this little work have succeeded better than one might expect in the task of giving the lay reader simple ideas of wireless telegraphy and telephony.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 130w.
“The book cannot fail to be helpful to one wishing to obtain a fair idea of the principal features of wireless communication, for the authors have handled the subject in an instructive manner.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 503. O. 31, ’08. 140w.
“The explanations are simple and clear and the descriptions are not overloaded with technical details.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 50w.
“Deals fairly well with the first part of the title, giving the theory of electro-magnetic wave motion in an especially clear manner. Wireless telephony is but slightly touched upon.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 343. O. 8, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 30w.
=Masson, John.= Lucretius, epicurean and poet. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–15762.
A work which represents the painstaking study of a lifetime. “Dr. Masson’s scheme includes a survey of Roman history in the time of Lucretius, a study of the influences working in the man, and an exhaustive exposition of the qualities of his work” (N. Y. Times.) including chapters on the atomic theory derived by Epicurus from Democritus, taken up by Lucretius, and revised by Gassendi.
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“A careful perusal of Mr. Masson’s work has impressed us so favorably that we think that his book, rightly understood, cannot fail to extend and increase the knowledge and appreciation of one of the greatest of Roman poets.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 329. S. 19. 800w.
+ =Class. J.= 4: 47. N. ’08. 40w.
“A good piece of work.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 151. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Dr. Masson could not well treat the subject without giving much valuable material. But as a whole, the work is irritating and unsatisfactory. Dr. Masson’s work suffers fundamentally from lack of reflection.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 381. Ap. 23, ’08. 1100w.
“The whole hook provides rare entertainment for the mind fitted to receive it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 152. Mr. 21, ’08. 650w.
“For a faithful exposition of this noble poem this volume is unrivaled.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 126. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“A reading of Mr. Masson’s substantial book and a fresh reading of the poet suggest that a wholesale appreciation of Lucretius comes natural nowadays either to persons who shut their ears to the music of words, or whose interest—and this is perhaps the case with Mr. Masson—lies really in the history of science.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 535. Ap. 25, ’08. 1000w.
“The relation of Lucretius’s scientific reasoning to modern thought has been discussed by Dr. Masson in the present volume with a knowledge and insight which leave little to be desired.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 299. F. 22, ’08. 2100w.
=Masson, Thomas Lansing.= New Plato; or, Socrates redivivus. **75c. Moffat.
8–10888.
Socrates steps out of the pages of Plato into Mr. Masson’s humorous colloquies as easily as he quits the steerage of the Lusitania and takes up his headquarters at the Mills hotel. He acquaints himself with New Yorkers, visits their homes, and discusses with true modern insight such subjects as The married life, The gambler, The bridge player, Socialism, Learning, Surgeons, Philosophy, The missionary, and The nature of happiness.
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“Probably no parodist has so struck the modern note as he has done in his ten brief colloquies. His English imitates successfully, and often amusingly, the Jowett style. He would have done well to submit his proofsheets to a Greek scholar before publication.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 338. Je. 1, ’08. 340w.
“Mr. Masson’s wit is subtle and his humor is elusive. But both pervade his writings and give them appreciable value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 238. Ap. 25, ’08. 260w.
=Mastin. J. B.= Immortal light. $1.50. Cassell.
A romance with a scientific accompaniment which steers the reader to the South Pole. “Mr. Mastin pictures races of mankind far higher in development than ourselves as dwelling near the South Pole.... We see his travellers pass through solids, on ether, by a natural law applied by human intelligence to the art of locomotion. Instead of Eskimos, they meet radiant persons who can talk in all languages, but understand thought without speech. Instead of icefields, they find a pretty country where the panther grazes like a sheep. But the Pole itself is in a prohibited, region guarded by electricity.” (Ath.)
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“The story is wildly improbable, but confronts incredulity with a considerable display of scientific detail. A strong religious feeling animates the last part of the book, but we think the author errs in linking his deism with the conception of a polar Eden.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The details are worked out in a fairly interesting manner, and the novel deserves notice, as it points to the way in which further developments in scientific attainment may serve as the foundation for a higher spiritual evolution in human beings.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 68. Ja. 11, ’08. 150w.
=Mathews, Catharine Van Cortlandt.= Andrew Ellicott: his life and letters. **$2.50. Grafton press.
8–13374.
Sets forth the work and character of “a foundation-builder,” a man who laid out the city of Washington, completed the survey of Mason and Dixon’s line, negotiated with the Indians and helped to settle numerous boundary disputes for the government.
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“This revival ... of an old, honest, capable and useful member of a half-forgotten world, is a refreshing event. If the new ‘prosperity associations’ would encourage such revivals, American libraries would be the better for it.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 437. Ag. 20, ’08. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 100w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Flame dancer. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–24467.
Mystery, oriental mysticism and romance mingle in this story which deals mainly with the disappearance of some jewels acquired by a millionaire from the treasure of the flame dancers and sought by the chief of the ravished shrine—a Chinaman who wields the art of See-foo-tee, or double hypnotism.
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“No doubt this story will delight people who like to have their heads spin as they take their literary pabulum.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 240w.
=Mattapoisett, Mass.= Mattapoisett and old Rochester, Massachusetts; being a history of these towns and also in part of Marion and a portion of Wareham. (Grafton historical ser.) **$2. Grafton press.
7–26622.
Early history of Rochester prepared under the direction of a committee of the town of Mattapoisett. “As dealing with one of the oldest settlements in Plymouth colony, it contains a good deal which is of more than local moment.” (Bookm.)
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“It would have been more satisfactory if the author had supplied references, in foot-notes, to original authorities, though in some cases the information is given in the body of the text.” M. W. Jernegan.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 660. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“Though full of detail, is successful in avoiding the drone of the village chronicler.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 513. Ja. ’08. 100w.
“Is a new instance of good historical work resulting from a town or church celebration.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1203. My. 28, ’08. 150w.
“Is an admirable example of local history intelligently compiled by the co-operative method and written with a view to a larger than purely local interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 50w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Inquiries and opinions. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–29534.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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Reviewed by Archibald Henderson.
+ − =Atlan.= 102: 259. Ag. ’08. 340w. (Review of chapter on “Ibsen the playwright.”)
“Essays of varying merit. Some of them might better have been left to the temporary honor of the popular magazine, to be read and enjoyed and forgotten; others deserve the doubtful permanence given to-day by publication in book form.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 137. Mr. 1, ’08. 250w.
“I have had no hesitation in expressing divergent views from those set forth in this volume, not only because the book is in the main so fine, but because its author enjoys honest dissent fully as much as praise. For the benefit of the next edition, one or two minute slips may be mentioned.” W. L. Phelps.
+ + − =Forum.= 39: 377. Ja. ’08. 1900w.
“It actually looks in some cases as though Professor Matthews had made too violent a wrench to get away from the academicism natural to his profession and were in danger of overleaping the saddle altogether.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 220w.
“It is in the chapter devoted to ‘Ibsen the playwright’ that he most commands attention.” S. R. Cook.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 238. My. ’08. 300w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Short-story: specimens illustrating its development; ed. with introd. and notes by Brander Matthews. *$1. Am. bk.
8–1920.
The specimens illustrating the development of the short story are preceded by an introduction which traces the growth of the form thru the history of literature and seeks to set forth its slow attainment of the essential type.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 222. Je. ’08.
“The editor contributes some fifty pages of critical matter, which are highly interesting, both because they exhibit a man riding a hobby, and because they provide a sympathetic and penetrating study of the subject.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 112. F. 16, ’08. 80w.
=Ind.= 65: 311. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
=Matthews, Frank Herbert.= Principles of intellectual education. *75c. Putnam.
8–3283.
A short, compact discussion which passes for a good illustration of the English method of treating educational theory. “What are the general qualities of mind which education is able to develop, if any? followed later by the natural sequel: What is the best means of doing so? The answer to the first question is ‘flexibility and exactness’; the second answer the reader must deduce from the investigation and statement of the ‘principles of intellectual education—the subject of the volume.’” (Ath.)
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“For the matter of the book we have only praise, but the manner leaves much to be desired. In spite of blemishes, however, the book is good.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 260. S. 7. 1100w.
“The very fact that one could not well say that the author leans distinctly to either side [the outgoing activity emphasized by Froebel, and the inworking of the world upon the growing mind which is the foundation of Herbart’s doctrine] shows that he is not a slavish follower but a self-respecting thinker.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 109. F. 16, ’08. 480w.
“The book can be strongly commended to teachers as, on the whole, an orderly exposition of contemporary educational ideals.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ =School R.= 16: 207. Mr. ’08. 700w.
=Matthews, Franklin.= With the battle fleet. $1.50. Huebsch.
8–30928.
The cruise of the fleet of sixteen American battle ships from the leaving of Hampton Roads on December 16, to dropping anchors in San Francisco harbor on May 6. The stops, receptions tendered, routine and social life on an American man-o’-war, and lessons of the cruise make reading as interesting as it is informing.
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“His active participation and his fresh descriptive instinct are far above the ordinary.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1478. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“A book that offers not a little information.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 30w.
“Informative and entertaining.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 639. O. 31, ’08. 150w.
“One of the best recent examples of intelligent and graphic narrative and description in the form of newspaper correspondence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 760. D. ’08. 120w.
=Maude, E.= Oriental campaigns and European furloughs: the autobiography of a veteran of the Indian mutiny. *$2.50. Wessels.
The experiences of a fighting man, a veteran of the Indian mutiny, who tells the story of his life from the time that he went out with a cadet ship in 1843 until 1887 when he retired.
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“Possessing a certain old-time simplicity which somehow reminds one of Xenophon’s ‘Anabasis’ and those marches of twelve parasangs to an inhabited city, this is somehow a decidedly refreshing sort of book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 468. Ag. 22, ’08. 240w.
“This is a pleasant and unaffected record of experiences in war and peace.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 711. My. 2, ’08. 260w.
=Maunder, Edward Walter.= Astronomy of the Bible: an elementary commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture. *$2. Kennerley.
An astronomical commentary on the Bible, quite free from technicalities. The general divisions of the treatment are as follows: Book 1, The heavenly bodies; Book 2, The constellations; Book 3, Times and seasons; Book 4, Three astronomical marvels, Joshua’s long day, The dial of Ahaz, and the star of Bethlehem. A table of scriptural reference and an index complete the volume.
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“In Biblical astronomy, indeed, the present work may be considered almost an exhaustive treatise; and if some of the author’s conclusions are not universally accepted, all are well worthy of thoughtful discussion.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 216. Ag. 22. 1100w.
“The standpoint of the author is that of a believer in Holy Writ, who is free from those notions of inspiration that modern science has rendered untenable, and is to be classed as a devout man well acquainted with the latest teachings of science and eager to use them in classifying obscurities in the Scriptures.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 299. N. 1, ’08. 360w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 506. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“There is much in the book that is interesting and valuable; when the author gets outside the supposed necessities of his apologetic he is well worth attention.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 480. O. 3, ’08. 180w.
=Maxwell, W. B.= Hill Rise. 75c. Cupples & L.
8–271.
“In this story there is a certain moral hidden, which we take to be the recuperative and redemptive power of hard work. In reality the hero of the novel is an old builder, in whom the snobbish treatment of his neighbors on the Hill of Medford, with its 18,000 inhabitants, has engendered a passionate hatred. He buys the estate of Hill Rise with the intention of rooting out the snobs, and he all but fails. The story holds us by the interest of this battle.”—Ath.
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“His touch is pleasant, light, and humorous at times; at others sufficiently earnest. Mr. Maxwell is one of the few writers who are always interesting, and the main reason is that he keeps in close touch with human nature.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 361. S. 26. 230w.
“Is quietly successful in its quality and interest as a clever satire upon self-sufficient uselessness.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1040. My. 7, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Maxwell knows how to tell a story, and therefore the faults of his somewhat limited outlook may be forgiven him.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 594. O. 17, ’08. 300w.
=Mayer, Clarence.= Telephone construction: methods and cost. *$3. Clark, M. C.
8–23074.
“Presents a simple and comprehensive system for collecting, analyzing and recording the various costs involved in telephone line construction, giving examples of the forms and blanks used for the different divisions of the work, and explaining clearly the methods employed in computing, proportioning and prorating the costs.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Engin. D.= 4: 415. O. ’08. 200w.
“The book recommends itself as being a volume of exact records of experience and not of theories and opinions.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 429. O. 15, ’08. 250w.
=Maynard, Samuel Taylor.= Small country place. **$1.50. Lippincott.
8–17270.
“The book covers not only the treatment of buildings and grounds, but offers definite suggestions regarding the planting of gardens and orchards, poultry-keeping, dairying, and many other interests connected with the small rural or suburban place. The author has passed more than thirty years of his life in teaching botany and horticulture and has endeavored to make his book thoroughly practical. The book is fully illustrated.”—R. of Rs.
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“The principles of the practices outlined might be more thoroughly discussed to advantage. The arrangement and style are good, and the facts accurate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08. ✠
“The text and illustrations combined promise to prove profitable to a large number of the class of readers for whom the book is intended.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 316. S. 17, ’08. 140w.
“His book would be admirable if it were not in reality three or four books squeezed and contracted into one.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 390. Jl. 11, ’08. 280w.
“No one who owns a country house or has the plan of one burgeoning in his imagination will care to ignore a book that contains so much valuable information and so few waste words.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 461. Ag. 22, ’08. 470w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 127. Jl. ’08. 70w.
=Mayow, John.= Medico-physical works; being a translation of Tractatus quinque medico-physici. (Alembic club reprints, no. 17.) *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–3602.
“A larger volume than most of its predecessors, and contains the ‘Medico-physical works’ of John Mayow, who as early as 1668 in chemical matters relating to combustion, respiration, and other vital activities, anticipated opinions which were not established for another hundred years. The text is a translation of the five essays of the Oxford edition of 1674. The editors have noted the main facts of Mayow’s life and a few explanations in a rather brief preface.” (Nation.) “The basis of Mayow’s work was his recognition of the existence in the air and in common nitre of extremely subtle particles to which he gave the name ‘nitro-aërial spirit.’” (Nature.)
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“Judged by a few random comparisons with the original text, the translation is exact and good, but we are not quite in accord with the limitations as to explanations which the translators have set themselves. Nor is the comment as to the neglect of Mayow altogether just.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 450. My. 14, ’08. 300w.
+ =Nature.= 77: 339. F. 13, ’08. 600w.
=Meehan, Michael.= Mrs. Eddy and the late suit in equity. $2.25. Michael Meehan, Concord, N. H.
8–8275.
Records with justice to Mrs. Eddy the out-of-court events and utterances that led up to, grew out of or resulted from the late suit brought against her.
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“It is well that a reliable and exhaustive history of the famous suit in equity ... should appear in substantial form for preservation.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 591. My. ’08. 600w.
* =Megargel, Percy Freeman, and Mason, Grace Sartwell.= Car and the lady. †$1.50. Baker.
8–22795.
This is a story, based upon actual happenings, of a transcontinental motor race, which tested both the respective merits of rival cars and the manhood and hardihood of two lovers, an Italian and an American, who were rivals for the hand of a spirited New York girl.
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“One of the best of the numerous motor stories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 245. O. ’08. ✠
“There are exciting events in plenty, and the story moves with appropriate swiftness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 491. S. 5, ’08. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
* =Meier-Graefe, Julius A.= Modern art; tr. from the German by Florence Simmonds and George W. Chrystal. 2v. *$10.50. Putnam.
“A comparative study of the formative arts, being a contribution to a new system of aesthetics.” “In his exhaustive work he traces the source of modern art to Rubens, following its development through the careers of the great men and movements that have come since his day down to the present time. He brilliantly analyzes such great protagonists and varied characters as Delacroix, Daumier, Constable, Ingrès, Manet, Millet, Gaughin, William Morris, Van Gogh, Renier, Renoir, etc., and shows in an intellectual manner how they influenced the events of their respective periods.”—N. Y. Times.
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“These plates call for more than casual attention, not only because they contribute much to the attractiveness of the volumes, but because they form an unusually representative collection covering the entire period dealt with in the book. As reflected in what is apparently an excellent translation, this style is sometimes lucid and at other times a mixture of clever epigram and verbosity in which the leading thought is not readily disentangled from a wealth of illustrative imagery that obscures it. But always there is entertainment and mental stimulus.” F: W. Gookin.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 400. D. 1, ’08. 900w.
“Now and then in the chaos of words one seems to catch an idea by the tail, but one can never hold it long.”
− =Nation.= 87: 612. D. 17, ’08. 260w.
“For the first time we have presented such a full study of modern international activities, causes, and effects.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
“A series of discursive, thoughtful, suggestive essays, which seem quite as effective in English as in their original German. The volumes are lavishly illustrated as to quantity and poorly as to quality. Our critic, in truth, seems not so remarkable for his review of English or German or any other painting as in his account of French art.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 796. D. 5, ’08. 670w.
“With most of Herr Meier-Graefe’s views, though he has a good deal to say that is of interest and incites to argument, I more or less acutely disagree.” Laurence Binyon.
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 635. N. 21, ’08. 520w.
“His passionate bias for anything and everything French colours the whole book. Herr Meier-Graefe has great ability; he has at command a vast amount of information and a ceaseless store of sometimes striking and suggestive aphorisms. If he kept to generalities, and did not illustrate by tangible examples, we should find him a great deal more persuasive than he is.” Laurence Binyon.
− + =Sat. R.= 106: 662. N. 28, ’08. 1850w.
=Mencken, Henry L.= Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. *$2. Luce, J. W.
8–4452.
Nietzsche is here translated into terms familiar to all readers. He is considered the “high priest of the actual,” divine mysteries are lunacies to him, he believes with Schopenhauer that philosophy is comfortless because it is the truth. The will to live is the only thing that must concern us, moral codes are simply expedients found helpful in successful endeavors to live. The book sets forth how his philosophy rejects Christianity and democracy; how it points out the evolution of the human race thru the immoralist to the superman; how it combats ideas held holy and impeccable by mankind to-day.
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“A very able elucidation of a distinctive field of modern thought.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“Though we dissent profoundly from the appreciation of Nietzsche expressed in this volume, we have to thank the author for his keen analysis and clear statement of the ideas and principles that characterize the philosophy of the Superman.”
− + =Cath. World.= 87: 398. Je. ’08. 750w.
“Mr. Mencken has produced a very readable book and a better presentation of Nietzsche to the English reader than is elsewhere available. Critically speaking, it has one serious fault,—that the reader is often left in doubt as to where the author is speaking his own views and where he is merely presenting those of Nietzsche.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 19. Jl. 1, ’08. 330w.
“One of the most interesting and instructive books that has come from the American press in many a long day. The presentation of Nietzsche’s philosophical teachings is both intelligent, intelligible, and highly amusing.”
+ + − =Educ. R.= 35: 508. My. ’08. 550w.
“His exposition of Nietzsche’s philosophy is clear, simple, and orderly, quite free from the cobwebs of metaphysics; if he shows bad taste in the details of writing, this may be passed over as a mark of zeal in imitating his master. We can commend the exegesis, though we repudiate the conclusions.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 312. Ap. 2, ’08. 600w.
“It is evident that Mr. Mencken possesses the requisite sympathy, and withal a certain clear, forceful, even ardent style, a keen and thorough-going intellect, knowledge of men, and a sense of humor. He is not hampered by prejudice nor dismayed by traditions, and he is able to leave out inessentials without destroying the harmony of what remains. He has made a good book and gives us a pretty fair conception of just what Nietzsche was and what he stood for.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 420w.
“Whatever may be thought of Nietzsche’s philosophy, there is here a clear exposition of it in vigorous, straightforward language, together with a really interesting and thoughtful biographical memoir.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 42. My. 2, ’08. 200w.
=Meriwether, Colyer.= Our colonial curriculum, 1607–1706. $2. Central pub. co., Washington, D. C.
8–13757.
“The author covers a wide field and gives excessive space to a consideration of the curriculum of schools and universities in England and other European countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book has eight chapters as follows: Elementary course, The general college course, Ancient languages, Theology and philosophy, Geography, history and modern language, Mathematics, Science, Disputation.”
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“In spite of its incompleteness the book represents much study and should be in the library of all persons interested in this field.” Marcus W. Jernegan.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 910. Jl. ’08. 480w.
“What the book lacks is the ability to interpret the lessons which the facts brought together teach.”
− + =Educ. R.= 36: 103. Je. ’08. 80w.
“An excessive modernity, including a style not infrequently verging upon the flippant, characterizes the book.”
− =Nation.= 86: 552. Je. 18, ’08. 150w.
* =Merriam, Charles Edward.= Primary elections: a study of the history and tendencies of primary election legislation. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–33814.
Traces the development of the legal regulation of party primaries from 1866 down to 1908, sums up the general tendencies evident in this movement, discusses some of the disputed points in the primary problem, and states certain conclusions concerning our nominating machinery.
=Merrick, Leonard.= Lynch’s daughter. †$1.50. McClure.
8–29737.
A story of tainted millions. Lynch’s daughter, an American girl, weds a poor English artist who gains her consent to refuse one cent from a father who is known as “the devastating trust magnate, the debaucher of politics, the infamous multi-millionaire.” Her trials under the strain of poverty lead her to a period of estrangement from her husband during which she returns to her father, is solaced for a time, then suffers remorse, renounces her wealth, and, finally finds full compensation in her husband’s love and genius.
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“May be read without dread and with pleasure.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 580. D. 10, ’08. 270w.
“As a whole, we have found ‘Lynch’s daughter’ superior alike in charm and verity to ‘The worldlings.’ Take it as a fantasy, if you can, make allowances for its appeal to the commoner kind of readers if you will, and you will find much in it to repay perusal.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 568. O. 10, ’08. 1300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 90w.
“It is not a great work of art, but Mr. Merrick may be congratulated on having produced a book which is thoroughly entertaining, while at the same time depicting every-day life with homely fidelity.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 873. N. 30, ’07. 200w.
=Merrill, Lilburn.= Winning the boy; with an introd. by Judge Ben B. Lindsey. **75c. Revell.
8–11441.
“The author has brought together, in an entertaining and instructive manner, some stories and essays on boy life that every parent, teacher, and other individual interested in children should read. No man is better equipped, and in my judgment, more capable of speaking and writing helpfully and wisely upon the subject than Dr. Merrill.”—Introd.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 239. O. ’08.
“Is in very truth a book, as the publishers declare on the cover, ‘for every parent, teacher or person interested in children.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 208. Ap. 11, ’08. 240w.
=Merrill, Selah.= Ancient Jerusalem. **$6. Revell.
8–10618.
Dr. Merrill thru the years of his exploration and later consulship devoted himself to his study of the ancient topography of Jerusalem. “The gist of Dr. Merrill’s thesis is that ... the original city of Jerusalem lay not on the eastern, or Temple, hill, but northward of the present Zion, or westerly hill, in the neighborhood of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; and that the Acra, which play so prominent a part in the story of the Maccabean contests, was located at this spot.” (Nation.)
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“His view’s on many points are striking, and his presentation is original and interesting.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 79. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“Few scholars probably will accept Dr. Merrill’s general conclusions, and in details he contributes little to our knowledge of Jerusalem not already available in other volumes.”
− =Ind.= 65: 41. Jl. 2, ’08. 560w.
“Dr. Merrill is quite out of sympathy with modern views, and especially with modern views of the date and composition of Old Testament books, and on that account he fails to use the Bible effectively in his topographical studies. Moreover, his whole presentation is one-sided; he cites only that which tends to support his positions.”
− =Nation.= 86: 560. Je. 18, ’08. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 154. Mr. 21, ’08. 200w.
“The author has viewed the subject from all sides, and given his conclusions in a scholarly form.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 440. Ag. 8, ’08. 240w.
“Dr. Merrill’s noble work has a value that can hardly be overestimated.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 352. Je. 13, ’08. 340w.
=Merritt, Albert Newton.= Federal regulation of railway rates. **$1. Houghton.
7–37945.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“It should be in large libraries or in any library whose patrons have special interest in the subject, because of its compact summary of arguments.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 143. My. ’08.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 716. My. ’08. 250w.
“A careful and dispassionate piece of work.” J: J. Halsey.
+ =Dial.= 44: 130. Mr. 1, ’08. 950w.
“A clear and concise presentation of the problem.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 389. Je. ’08. 160w.
“A better brief than this in defense of the Inter-state commerce commission has hardly been produced. Dr. Merritt’s book is scholarly and useful.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 860. D. 28, ’07. 510w.
“A useful review of the chief decisions of the Interstate commerce commission. Not only is the book out of date, but some of its statements are questionable.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 186. Mr. ’08. 170w.
=Metcalfe, Richard Lee.= “Of such is the kingdom,” and other stories from life. 3d ed. $1. Richard L. Metcalfe, Lincoln, Neb.
7–37252.
An optimistic tone pervades this book which draws the mind of man from selfishness and brutality, hypocrisy and insincerity, double dealing and lack of candor to the temple of childhood where there is sincerity and truth, to the “Kingdom of never grow old” where there is relief from the meanness and the malice of the world.
=Metchnikoff, Elie.= Prolongation of life: optimistic studies. *$2.50. Putnam.
8–12571.
Pasteur’s successor here continues his warfare against disease, old age and death. “Although Metchnikoff in this new book does not claim to have made the ultimate discovery in biology that will at once conquer the evils of disease and death, nevertheless he does reach certain definite conclusions as to the causes for the relatively short duration of human life, and having found what he believes to be these causes he makes what are at least tentative suggestions looking to their modification.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“The work is suggestive.” Scott Nearing.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 456. S. ’08. 250w.
“Dr. Chalmers Mitchell has performed his task as a translator in a most satisfactory manner, for the book reads as though it had been written in English.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 624. N. 16. 200w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 102: 124. Jl. ’08. 220w.
“Although Professor Metchnikoff’s book is important on account of its topic, and interesting and suggestive in its treatment of it, it is impossible to praise it very highly from a literary standpoint.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 270. My. 1, ’08. 1350w.
“The book deserves a wide and careful study.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 314. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“The book is one that will be widely read by the general public on account of its frank and simple style, altho he makes no effort to dodge the use of scientific terms or to palliate his conclusions to meet popular taste.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 864. Ap. 16, ’08. 1000w.
“While an ultra-materialist, Metchnikoff is enthusiastically optimistic as to the future of the race, and his work is a help toward ideal living.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 491. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 371. D. 6, ’07. 1030w.
“He writes with the spirit of a seeker after truth. His book, while highly suggestive, is intended to be neither exhaustive nor conclusive. Its purpose is rather to point out the problems of somatic limitations, and the principles involved in attempting their ultimate solution.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 710w.
“A remarkable book in many ways. The whole range of literature is ransacked by the author, and the facts and opinions collected are discussed with an originality, a width of view, and knowledge that give the book an especial fascination and constantly arrest the attention.”
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 289. Ja. 30, ’08. 820w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 25. Ja. 18, ’08. 2900w.
“When he comes finally to discourse upon morality, he illustrates afresh the unwisdom of specialists who disregard the maxim ‘Let the shoemaker stick to his last.’”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 769. Ag: 1, ’08. 440w.
Reviewed by Charles DeKay.
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 233. N. ’08. 1550w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 382. Mr. ’08. 160w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 244. F. 22, ’08. 350w.
“It is to be regretted that Professor Metchnikoff has not more clearly defined his use of such purely relative terms as ‘pessimism’ and ‘optimism;’ but whatever meaning he attaches to the word ‘pessimism,’ whether he regards it as an attitude of the mind or as a matured judgment arrived at only after study of life’s problems, we absolutely dispute the assumption that the intellectual world is at present pessimist.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 120. Ja. 25, ’08. 1250w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= British state telegraphs. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33625.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“The work of a partizan who is unable to write disinterestedly, but the only available book on an exceedingly interesting and important subject. The facts are fairly accurate, but twisted out of their natural meaning and import.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 15. Ja. ’08.
“It is highly probable that if the evidence has been given its proper weight the dark picture here presented might prove less sombre.” S: E. Sparling.
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 731. My. ’08. 300w.
“His conclusions are in the main directly contrary to those of the recent commission appointed to investigate public ownership in Great Britain.”
− =Arena.= 39: 122. Ja. ’08. 250w.
Reviewed by J. W. Garner.
=Dial.= 44: 71. F. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Is worthy of the most serious consideration by every student of municipal affairs.” F. L. McVey.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 128. Je. ’08. 360w.
=Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 450w.
− =Forum.= 39: 395. Ja. ’08. 280w.
“It is, in fact, giving more credit to Mr. Meyer than is his due—perhaps more than he himself would claim—to describe his book as a study of the working of state ownership of telegraphs. It is an examination of some of the weaknesses of the system, with an overemphasis on each of the defects exposed.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 256. Ja. 30, ’08. 1200w.
“He is a prosecuting attorney rather than a judge, and it must be admitted that his indictment is thorough.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 360w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 321. F. 8, ’08. 200w.
“Admirable little book.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 341. F. 29, ’08. 850w.
=Meyer, Hugo R.= Public ownership and the telephone in Great Britain. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–31983.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Brings together an important mass of material which is combined and treated in such a way as to produce a distinctly partizan and prejudiced piece of work. Useful for debate because the preponderance of published matter on the subject takes the other side of the question.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“Will prove of great help to those who wish to marshall on one side all that can be said against public management. Room is left for a more rounded and judicial treatment of the subject.” E: W. Bemis.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 527. Mr. ’08. 550w.
“An ably written, extremely partisan brief.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 208. F. 20, ’08. 530w.
“As pictured by Mr. Meyer, there is no redeeming feature in the long chronicle of stupidity, ignorance, incapacity, mismanagement, and political intrigue which make up the state operation of these industries. As may be imagined, such a black case against government management of industry is not secured without some distortion of facts; statistics abound and give a ‘vraisemblance’ of finality to the discussion, but a careful selection of only those favorable to his case absolutely vitiates the conclusion.” E. L. Bogart.
− =Forum.= 39: 395. Ja. ’08. 280w.
“Mr. Meyer pays little heed to this attitude of English people toward expenditure, and attributes the lack of progress in telephone development to the muddle-headedness of the government.”
− =Ind.= 64: 257. Ja. 30, ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Meyer’s book is rather a curious sample of social psychology than a useful contribution to a solution of the telephone problem.” J. R. Commons.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 631. N. ’08. 900w.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 670w.
− =Outlook.= 88: 321. F. 8, ’08. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 100: 342. F. 29. ’08. 1300w.
=Mijatovich, Chedomille.= Servia and the Servians. *$3. Page.
“The volume consists of chapters on the history, religion, and national characteristics of the people, including special chapters on the peasant, the music, the literature, and the economic possibilities of Servia. An appendix contains a specimen of the Servian national poems and of Servian folklore, and gives some interesting statistical information of the most recent data upon the country of King Peter. There are sixteen full-page illustrations, chiefly from photographs taken by the author, landscape views and peasant type.”—R. of Rs.
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+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 569. My. 9. 880w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 905. D. 12, ’08. 150w.
“He has written of them sympathetically, of course, but at the same time with discrimination.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 563. O. 10, ’08. 280w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 250w.
=Miles, George Henry.= Review of Hamlet. **$1. Longmans.
7–39206.
A new edition of a work which appeared in 1870. “Miles sees in Hamlet superb intellectual strength and a strong and tender conscience which guides the whole course of the prince’s conduct. And, he argues, the secret of the tragedy’s hold on men is that it mirrors forth the struggle between passion and conscience, and the sharp antithesis between fate and Providence; and throws across the action of life the deep shadow of the world to come.” (Cath. World.)
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“There is more education in this book than is to be found in many specimens of what are called, through courtesy or bland presumption, courses of English literature.”
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 693. F. ’08. 880w.
“It throws light upon aspects of the play which the great army of Shakespearian critics have left exceedingly dark.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 12. Ja. 4. ’08. 640w.
=Millais, John Guille.= Newfoundland and its untrodden ways. il. *$6. Longmans.
8–3111.
“Primarily for hunters and naturalists, dealing with the fauna of the country and the chase of its wild beasts and birds. But Mr. Millais has also much to tell of the daily life of the islanders and the customs of the Micmac Indians, of whom he has made a special study.... There are a dozen beautiful photogravures and colored plates and nearly a hundred line drawings and half-tones, either by Mr. Millais or photographed.”—Dial.
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“Makes the reader interested in his adventures.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 759. Je. 20. 70w.
=Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“To all who wish to know about Newfoundland and her attractions for the tourist, the man of business, or the sportsman, we can strongly recommend Millais’s book. It is the best work that has ever been written on the natural history of the island.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 198. F. 27, ’08. 1000w.
“In works of the present nature, Mr. Millais is at his best; and his best, alike with pen and pencil, is, it is almost unnecessary to say, very good indeed.” R. L.
+ + − =Nature.= 77: 223. Ja. 9, ’08. 400w.
“It is a breath-taking experience to pass with Mr. Millais into the virgin forest, to see with his eyes, and, without the dangers and discomforts, to enjoy with him the fascination of the big game hunt.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 200w.
“We like the book above all else for a quality which goes very near to mysticism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 272. F. 29, ’08. 950w.
“If it is the mark of a good travel book to make the reader earnestly desire to go to the places described, then this is a highly successful work, Mr. Millais’s vivid narrative, and a wealth of beautiful illustrations, convey a most attractive picture of the island and its sport.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 673. Ap. 25, ’08. 1400w.
=Miller, Elizabeth Jane.= City of delight: a love drama of the siege and fall of Jerusalem. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–9528.
Against the historical background of the fall of Jerusalem, Miss Miller has sketched a romance of compelling charm. The hero, Philadelphus, a Judean prince, great grandson of Judas Maccabeus, was wedded at the age of ten to a child of four. After fourteen years of separation they are to be reunited in Jerusalem whither Laodice is conducted by a treacherous servant who plays into the hands of Salome bent upon usurping Laodice’s place. At the same time a jealous cousin leaves Philadelphus for dead, hastens to Jerusalem and also becomes a usurper. For the rest of the tale it is a battle royal, attended by confusion, between the revived Philadelphus and Laodice and their enemies Salome and the pretender.
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“The story is far inferior to ‘The yoke.’ though we think it is almost as good as ... ‘Saul of Tarsus.’”
+ =Arena.= 39: 510. Ap. ’08. 550w.
“The plan is a good one, the story interesting, the setting admirably chosen. If the execution were only as good as the design! Even as it is, the glint of historic interest gives the book a welcome dignity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 427. My. 7, ’08. 250w.
“In descriptive detail and collocation of events it holds its own with many similar novels which are called classics. The author has observed consistency throughout. There is a simple but dramatic plot, few characters, and every evidence of sincerity. It is to be hoped that the book will find the appreciation it deserves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 255. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
“The book is the strongest and best written Miss Miller has so far done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
=Miller, Elmer Isaiah.= Legislature of the province of Virginia: its internal development. (Columbia univ. Studies in history, economics and public law.) *$1.50. Longmans.
8–1371.
An historical account of the subject from the beginning of the government of Virginia to the revolution of 1776.
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“A methodical and useful study, though the author makes dull reading of the development of our chief colonial legislature, whose history might easily be made interesting.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 652. Ap. ’08. 90w.
“There is one slip in the very learned and valuable monograph.” H. E. E.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 617. Jl. ’08. 140w.
“A very interesting and readable contribution.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 666. S. 17, ’08. 170w.
=Miller, Frank Justus.= Two dramatizations from Vergil: 1, Dido—the Phoenician queen; 2, The fall of Troy; arranged and translated into English verse. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–29879.
Includes “Dido: an epic tragedy” which appeared in 1900, and also a new dramatization, The fall of Troy. It is a helpful supplement to the text for classes in Vergil, and affords a play which has been staged with satisfactory results.
=Miller, Mrs. Harriet (Mann) (Olive Thorne Miller, pseud.).= The bird our brother. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–14948.
Information which goes to reveal the bird’s kinship with the human family is treated here in a popular sense for the general reader. Chapters treat of the bird’s individuality, intelligence, language, altruism, education, affections, courtship, home, amusements, means of defense and attack, odd ways, equipment, and usefulness to us.
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“A unique addition to bird literature, which will be interesting to the adult bird-lover, but will not appeal to readers in general as do the author’s earlier and more individual writings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 263. N. ’08. ✠
“It will be a valuable defense for those who uphold the same theories, though for pure delight in the reading one cannot help grudging the pages that are thus taken from the writer’s record of her own discoveries.” M. E. Cook.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 343. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
“The modern psychologist will undoubtedly question the author’s point of view in reading so much human life into bird life; but aside from this possible quibble about interpretations, the book is certainly interesting reading, and forms a good climax to the series of books which this author has contributed.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1295. Je. 4, ’08. 180w.
“It seems invidious to criticise such an excellent book, but it must be confessed that the author is somewhat handicapped in her efforts to preserve a dispassionate attitude by her ardent affection for the world of birds.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 18. Jl. 2, ’08. 150w.
“Will surely add to her reputation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 316. Je. 6, ’08. 250w.
* =Miller, Kelly.= Race adjustment: essays on the negro in America. *$2. Neale.
8–24845.
Nineteen essays which discuss the various phases of the negro problem, and the questions that enter into a full solution. Some of the chapters are as follows: Radicals and conservatives; As to the leopard’s spots; An appeal to reason on the race problem; The negro’s part in the negro problem; Social equality; Religion as a solvent of the race problem; Rise of the professional class; Eminent negroes; What Walt Whitman means to the negro; The artistic gifts of the negro; A brief for the higher education of the negro; Roosevelt and the negro.
=Milligan, Rev. George.= St. Paul’s epistle to the Thessalonians: the Greek text; with introd. and notes. *$2.60. Macmillan.
A commentary and exegesis. “Two purposes are apparent in the present commentary on Thessalonians, one to follow Swete, Mayor, and Robinson in filling up what was lacking in the task which Lightfoot, Westcott, and Hort had set before themselves; the other, to bring to bear upon the language and grammar of the Thessalonian letters the results of the author’s investigations in papyri, inscriptions, and ostraca.” (Am. J. Theol.)
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“Thorough acquaintance with the literature of the subject, catholicity of outlook, caution in the expression of opinion, and a distinct winsomeness in the personal equation are in evidence throughout the book.” J. E. Frame.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 487. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“Is especially welcome, since the need of it was great.” G. E. French.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 942. Jl. ’08. 540w.
“This is a most careful contribution to the exegesis of the New Testament.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 268. F. 15, ’08. 360w.
=Milligan, Robert H.= Jungle folk of Africa. **$1.50. Revell.
8–25385.
Impressions gained during seven years of missionary work in West Africa. “He dissents from the view he has found presented in recently published books about the Dark Continent, that its people are physically ugly, mentally stupid, morally repulsive, and everlastingly uninteresting ... and pictures the Africans he met as a very interesting people, constituted, like the rest of us, with brain and soul and capacity of one sort and another not essentially different from his own. He rates these people as human beings, and finds many of them distinctly lovable.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Is as readable and interesting a book of travel as one can wish for.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1181. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“A book that is remarkable for its vitality, picturesqueness, humor, and literary quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 360w.
“The book is entertaining and far more illuminating than many of the travelers’ accounts that have appeared in recent years.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 90w.
=Millikan, Robert Andrews, and Mills, John.= Short university course in electricity, sound and light. *$2. Ginn.
8–31127.
A course built up around laboratory outline which represents one semester’s work. The method is analytical rather than descriptive, and the book contains sixteen chapters on electricity, five on sound and seven on light.
=Mills, Lawrence Heyworth.= Avesta eschatology compared with the books of Daniel and Revelations; being supplementary to Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achæmenids and Israel. 50c. Open ct.
8–5564.
“In this thin octavo the aged Zend scholar gives his conclusion that the doctrines of angels, devils, the resurrection and the eternal life were adopted by the Jews at the time of the exile from the religion of Media and Persia.” (Ind.) “This work ... ought to be a reliable source of information regarding Zoroastrian conceptions of the future.” (Bib. World.)
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“The work is valuable as a compendious statement of the more important teachings of Zoroastrianism.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 524. Jl. ’08. 130w.
“The biblical side of the treatment is too largely fanciful.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 400. My. ’08. 30w.
“The author often sees parallelisms that are not convincing, and his arguments are at times inconclusive. The book is not easy reading, but deserves critical study, for Mills was one of the best Zend scholars.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 1045. My. 7, ’08. 170w.
“This essay ... presents a peculiarly interesting chapter in the study of comparative religion.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 266. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Mills, Weymer Jay.= Van Rensselaers of old Manhattan. **$1.50. Stokes.
7–38597.
A novel set in “the days of New York when brocades, powder and patches were worn.... The heroine rejoices in the name of India, and is a hoyden, as her starched old Tory relative appropriately but impolitely informs her. Still, she is so attractive that her path is literally besieged by the gallants of the day.... The other characters include the hero, a young Tory of fallen fortunes, a desperate and most repulsive villain, and an actress; while George Washington appears upon the scene, though very cursorily.” (Outlook.)
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“The whole is in the style of an acute Christmas card many times multiplied. Incidentally there is some text.”
− =Nation.= 86: 84. Ja. 23, ’08. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 657. O. ’07. 50w.
“There is very little plot, too much declamation, and a constant striving to produce atmosphere that is too apparent and therefore fails of its effect.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 40. Ja. 4, ’08. 180w.
* =Milman, Lena. Sir Christopher Wren.= (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
A life of Christopher Wren, the celebrated architect of St. Paul’s cathedral, for which the material has been carefully sifted, and which benefits by the present day view-point and triumph of photography.
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“Miss Milman has written a most interesting life of a fascinating personality.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 165. D. ’08. 340w.
“Upon the whole, the biography justifies itself. It was well worth doing, and it is done well.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 421. O. 29, ’08. 900w.
=Milne, John Stewart.= Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times. *$4.75. Oxford.
8–9768.
A first venture into an untried region. “From all available ancient authors who touched on medical matters Milne has collected the references which throw light on the description or use of an appliance. This material he supplements by illustrations from the more important museums and collections of Europe. In the text the instruments are grouped under suitable divisions, but no account is taken of devices for the reduction of deformities, or of splints and related appliances.” (Nation.) The volume is fully illustrated.
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“A useful and interesting book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“Dr. Milne had virtually a virgin soil, and he has worked it in a thoroughly scientific manner until it has yielded a rich harvest.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 243. Ag. 31. 1000w.
“Learned and interesting treatise.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 306. O. 11, ’07. 1100w.
“An attractive study of the subject. Although the book itself is well indexed, the plates are not indexed, so that to find any figure is a matter of some difficulty. The bibliography, which appears to have been put together somewhat hurriedly, pays too little attention to journalistic literature.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 472. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Dr. Milne has done his work so well and so accurately that as this monograph is the first dealing with the subject it must remain for a long time the standard authority until further finds prove or disprove some of the disputable conclusions drawn by the author. The monograph presupposes a considerable amount of knowledge on the part of the reader. He must in the first place be skilled in the practice of his profession, he must be interested in its antiquities, and he must be a fair classic. These qualifications being granted, the book is most excellent reading, and throws abundant light, not only on the subject of which it treats, but also on many collateral points.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 468. S. 5, ’07. 450w.
=Mincoff, Mrs. Elizabeth, and Marriage, Margaret S.= Pillow lace: a practical handbook. *$5. Dutton.
8–5855.
Not a book for connoisseurs, but a guide to amateurs in the actual making of lace. “The first chapters contain a short historical survey of the art of lace-making from its earliest known period, that is to say about the year 1520; also brief accounts of its manufacture in different countries and towns. The rest of the book, from the third chapter to the last, is entirely practical, describing tools and methods of lace-making, and giving a large number of patterns with full explanations, and working diagrams, and directions for tracing and rubbing.” (Sat. R.)
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“The book is the first in English treating the subject especially from the viewpoint of the maker.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“The authors have very sensibly made their explanations as short as possible, relying much on the excellent diagrams.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 199. F. 15. 1270w.
“The book has practical interest for those who wish to teach art industries to women who need to become self-supporting.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 170w.
“Those who desire to know and apply the principles underlying a large class of laces, will find it an almost inexhaustible treasure house. Though a little bulky, it is a practical manual.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 224. Mr. 5, ’08. 400w.
“Mrs. Mincoff’s book is somewhat expensive in proportion to the cost of the tools, but it is well and fully illustrated, and we hope that it will have the effect of persuading women to be industrious in a useful artistic way.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 85. J. 18, ’08. 300w.
“The lessons are carefully graduated and clearly expressed.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 127. Ja. 25, ’08. 240w.
=Ming, Rev. John Joseph.= Characteristics and the religion of modern socialism. *$1.50. Benziger.
8–16212.
A book whose aim is that of stimulating inquiry to the end of reaching reliable conclusions concerning the moral and religious attitude of contemporary socialists. The discussion falls under two heads, The characteristics of modern socialism and The religion of socialism.
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“Father Ming has drawn up a powerful arraignment, amply sustained with testimony, against atheistic socialism; and it will serve the purpose of warning Catholics against it.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 544. Jl. ’08. 1050w.
“The author’s own religious belief appears to have biased his treatment of the subject.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 711. D. ’08. 80w.
=Minot, Charles Sedgwick.= Problem of age, growth, and death: a study of cytomorphosis, based on lectures at the Lowell institute, March, 1907. (Science ser., no. 21.) **$2.50. Putnam.
8–24260.
Presents arguments and evidence to support the following laws and corollary: “First, rejuvenation depends on the increase of the nuclei. Second, senescence depends on the increase of the protoplasm and on the differentiation of the cells. Third, the rate of growth depends on the degree of senescence. Fourth, senescence is at its maximum in the very young stages, and the rate of senescence diminishes with age. As the corollary from these, we have this—natural death is the consequence of cellular differentiation.”
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“An interesting and suggestive volume.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
“Possesses a more or less general and popular interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 469. O. 3, ’08. 400w.
“With his usual skill and lucidity the author develops his views concerning these questions which he has studied carefully for many years.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 366. O. 15, ’08. 320w.
=Mistral, Frederic.= Memoirs of Mistral, 1830–1877; rendered into English by Constance E. Maud, with Lyrics from the Provençal by Alma Strettell. *$3.50. Baker.
8–8543.
“The memoirs of Mistral not only recount the steps which were taken by him and his confrères in the Felibres movement, but they are filled also with charming details of Provençal farm life, the legends and primitive customs of the Provençal peasantry; there are many little personal anecdotes that give a picturesque view of some of the poet’s experiences at school and on the paternal farm, and his amusing contact with some of his peasant neighbors. The whole leaves the reader with the belief that there may still be room for the romantic troubadour, the follower of the ‘Gay science’ in our modern civilization.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A book of quite unusual charm, but not essential to the economical library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 105. Ap. ’08.
“Admirably translated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 577. N. 9. 1300w.
“The book has (to give it the highest of all praise) charm: it captivates the reader and holds his attention to the end. Miss Maud’s translation is smooth, but ... not always grammatical.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + − =Dial.= 44: 36. Ja. 16, ’08. 2440w.
“A delightful volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 18. Ja. 11, ’08. 1200w.
“Throughout full of interest and charm.” H. S. Krans.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 751. Mr. ’08. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 381. Mr. ’08. 160w.
“Miss Maud adds some footnotes. For the duplicate note on the ‘trees of liberty’ and the somewhat vague note on ‘les Aliscamps,’ it might have been well to substitute a note on the meaning of that puzzling word ‘Félibrige.’ But good service has been done. To read about the man who knows so much about his country and feels so truly about it is a fine antidote to an English winter; refreshing too to get new knowledge about a literary revival so spontaneous, so free from the squalor of politics.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 700. D. 7, ’07. 1080w.
=Mitchell, Evelyn Groesbeeck.= Mosquito life: the habits and life cycles of known mosquitoes of the United States. il. **$2. Putnam.
7–39002.
An account based on the investigations of the late James William Dupree, surgeon-general of Louisiana and upon original observations by the author. “The book is replete with information concerning the mosquitoes of the United States, especially those of New York, New Jersey, and Louisiana. The anatomy of the adults, larvæ, and pupæ is described, and an illuminating account of their habits, flight, and breeding-places is given in detail. The relation of mosquitoes to malaria, yellow fever, elephantiasis, and other diseases, is treated in a popular way, and a description of the means of control of these pests is supplemented with an account of their principal enemies.” (Dial.)
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“The drawings would have been more useful if magnifications had been given, and more acceptable from a technical point of view if more contrast had been employed, and if the direction of lighting had been consistently used, at least in contiguous drawings.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 214. Ap. 1, ’08. 380w.
“An entertaining (although loosely written) book about the subject in general.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 338. Ap. 9, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 204. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
“One may learn from this book a great deal about the lives of mosquitoes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 130w.
“For health inspectors, for those interested in sanitation generally and for physicians this book will be especially useful. On the whole this is a very useful book; with plenty of faults and an abundance of points that might be criticised if criticism is fault-finding; but altogether considered it is commendable.” J: B. Smith.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 28: 22. Jl. 3, ’08. 780w.
=Mitchell, Henry Bedinger.= Talks on religion: a collective enquiry, recorded by H: Bedinger Mitchell. **$1.50. Longmans.
8–14747.
“A group of fifteen friends in council meet monthly for a comparison of views on fundamental questions about religion. The group includes men in scientific, literary, church, and business life, some of them university professors and men of international reputation.” (Outlook.) These “talks” show the manner in which they grapple with religious and philosophical questions of the day. “They exhibit both skeptical and constructive thinking at their best, they tend to clear the air of religious thought.” (Outlook.)
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“This book is of exceptional interest because of the place of its origin, the personnel of its speakers, and the subject-matter of its discussions.” I. W. Riley.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 488. Jl. ’08. 1700w.
“It is a highly stimulating book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1308. D. 3, ’08. 130w.
Reviewed by G: A. Coe.
=J. Philos.= 5: 661. N. 19, ’08. 1100w.
“It would be impossible to indicate adequately in the course of a single review the rich variety of theme, felicity of expression, and breadth of spirit which characterize ‘Talks on religion.’” G. C. Mars.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 614. O. ’08. 2200w.
“For those who lack the opportunities of mental sharpening in the private discussions of cultured minds this volume is a most attractive substitute.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 582. Jl. 11, ’08. 200w.
=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Red city: a novel of the second administration of President Washington. †$1.50. Century.
8–30709.
Philadelphia is the scene of this story of Washington’s second administration in which Hugh Wynne and Aunt Gainor reappear. The hero is a Huguenot émigré who with his mother is grief-stricken over the wanton murder of his father at Avignon by the revolutionists. His life in a Quaker home and love for a Quaker maiden, his work in Hugh Wynne’s employ, his relation to affairs of state, and his methods of avenging his father’s death suggest the outline of the tale steeped in the atmosphere of the times.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 303. D. ’08. ✠
“In French matters, he slips occasionally. It is a real story of real human interest, and its action is often exciting beyond the limits of Quaker sobriety.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45: 456. D. 16, ’08. 300w.
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
“A book full of charm and feeling, a novel which is less a novel than a panorama of a brick-built town.” Agnes Repplier.
+ =Outlook.= 90: 699. N. 28, ’08. 360w.
=Mitchell, Wesley Clair.= Gold, prices and wages under the greenback standard. (Univ. of Cal. publications in economics, v. 1.) *$5. Univ. of Cal.
8–14358.
“Contains five chapters of text covering a total of 283 pages (with the included statistics), the remainder of the book being given over to elaborate statistical tables showing rates of wages, relative prices, etc.... Dr. Mitchell describes his volume as ‘the statistical apparatus of a book still to be written,’ the chapters of the text being intended merely to expound the nature of the figures and the modes of getting the results.” (Econ Bull.)
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“Such a pace as is here set for the academic monograph will be hard to follow.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 280. My. 1, ’08. 60w.
“It is not too much to say that, taking the present volume with his earlier contribution, he has done the most satisfactory piece of work on the history of the greenbacks and their effects that has yet appeared, and in the course of so doing has contributed something to the process of putting American price statistics upon a rather better basis.” H. Parker Willis.
+ + =Econ. Bull.= 1: 137. Je. ’08. 660w.
“In fact, the book is beyond praise.” J. L. Laughlin.
+ + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 629. N. ’08. 950w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Life of Japan. **$3. Baker. 7–28500.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“Dr. Miyakawa’s object in writing the book is clearly one of which all progressive men of both nationalities must approve, that of bringing the two peoples to a clear understanding of each other, and the work is well calculated to fulfil this object.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 281. Ja, ’08. 150w.
“In structure, style and dress, shows just what a book ought not to be.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 44. Ja. 2, ’08. 100w.
“Though the text does not impress one as having as great originality and influence as some other books on Japan, there is in it a certain forcefulness and even fascination, for in it we learn the better to appreciate the peculiar Japanese way of looking at men and things.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 44. Ja. 4, ’08. 280w.
=Miyakawa, Masuji.= Powers of the American people; Congress, President, and courts (according to the evolution of constitutional construction). 2d ed., rev. **$2.50. Baker.
8–24433.
Constitutional government of the United States as viewed by a Japanese attorney. The edition has been carefully revised thruout. All criticisms, objections and controverted points have been thoroly considered; all sections and some chapters have been abridged and additions made; and changes from technical to popular form have been made to suit the better a wide range of readers.
=Moffett, Cleveland.= King in rags. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–36249.
A sociological story whose three leading characters maintain respectively the following attitudes toward the question of poverty: Poverty is an ugly beast ... created by the greedy and luxurious rich for their own undoing; poverty is the lot of the weak and unworthy, the survival of the unfittest; poverty would disappear if there were a fair division of the products of toil.
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“The main defect of the book is its sentimentalism—a pit into which reformers are apt to fall. But, despite its inconsistencies and improbabilities, it is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 253. F. 29. 150w.
“It is assuredly not a commanding exposition of its theme or in any large way sensational. But while obviously, even naïvely, a vehicle for a moral, the story slips along so easily that it affords no chance to escape the appalling facts it marshals relating to the conditions of labor and living in our city.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 84. Ja. 23, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“One derives the impression that the author grew a bit tired of ‘A king in rags’ before he put the cap to his climax. Nevertheless, a novel the interest of which does not flag through nine-tenths of its unfolding is worthy of serious consideration. Let it be said that Mr. Moffett’s first novel, though not, perhaps a great achievement, is, at the very least, a most brilliant promise.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 74. F. 8, ’08. 700w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo.= Venice, its individual growth from the earliest beginnings to the fall of the republic; translated from the Italian by Horatio F. Brown. pt. 3, 2v. *$5. McClurg.
Two volumes constituting the third and last instalment of Molmenti’s history. It treats fully of Venice and its decadence.
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=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 70w.
“They are probably the most elaborate and instructive volumes on Venetian manners and customs yet attempted.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 622. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Molmenti, Pompeo Gherardo, and Ludwig, Gustav.= Life and works of Vittorio Carpaccio: tr. by Robert H. H. Cust. *$15. Dutton.
8–14763.
A volume “of archaeological and artistic interest” which has appeared with the revival of Carpaccio. Its keynote is the faithful manner in which the painter mirrored in his pictures the Venetian life of the fifteenth century.
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“The one quality lacking in this otherwise admirable book [is] that of a convincing system of critical argument in support of the authors’ often plausible views.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 134. F. 1. 1270w.
“Pictorially as well as from the point of view of scholarship the work is exhaustive.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
“English readers are fortunate in having put before them Mr. Cust’s skilful and admirable translation of this excellent work.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 620w.
“It is sure to take rank as the standard work on the long-neglected master of whom it treats.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 33: 335. F. ’08. 400w.
“The book is a notable addition to the body of historical art criticism, and the translator, Robert H. Hobart Cust is to be highly commended for having placed this volume within the reach of the English reading public in a version that is at once readable and authoritative.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 800w.
“It is just as important to unearth an old friendship as it is to unearth an old picture. Professor Molmenti’s sumptuous volume does both. The most important-looking of the season’s books on art.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 873. D. 21, ’07. 540w.
“It is exhaustive, laborious, and learned. But though we leave the book satiated with facts relating to the externals of the work of Carpaccio, we feel that we are unsatisfied.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: sup. 643. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
=Molnár, Ferencz.= Devil; adapted by Oliver Herford. *$1. Kennerley.
8–26860.
A three act play adapted from the Hungarian by Oliver Herford. The devil in the guise of a modern society man takes a hand in overcoming whatever of resolution and honorable purpose remain in the minds of a man and woman who are wrestling with the temptation of forbidden love.
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“Oliver Herford’s adaption of Ferencz Molnar’s play ... is on the whole rather a clumsy effort. Points which probably gave value to the original have been considerably blunted in translation.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
“It bears the same marks of haste as the stage production. Grammatical and typographical errors abound, speeches are assigned to the wrong persons, and even the leading characters are misnamed.”
− =Outlook.= 65: 790. O. 1, ’08. 130w.
* =Monckton, C. C. F.= Radio-telegraphy. *$2. Van Nostrand.
“Contains a general exposition of the principles underlying the subject, together with a description of a large amount of the apparatus and methods used by the various companies.” (Nature.) “Although not so complete as Prof. J. A. Fleming’s work, it gives the general reader a good account of the rapid progress in the new art of wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony.” (Nation.)
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“Mr. Monckton is successful in making his exposition of the various systems of transmission and reception, now in use, intelligible to the non-scientific reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 150w.
“Mr. Monckton is to be congratulated on having written a very interesting and valuable book.” C. C. G.
+ =Nature.= 78: 505. S. 24, ’08. 1050w.
=Montgomery, Harry Earl.= Vital American problems. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–24847.
The trust problem, freight-rate problem, government ownership, labor problem, and the negro problem are five vital problems discussed with calm, sane and deliberate judgment.
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“The reader will find the proposed remedies set forth with more reasonableness than the rather assertive confidence of the author’s language might suggest; while the array of statistical and other data gives the book a value for popular reference.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 338. O. 8, ’08. 200w.
=Montgomery, Rev. Henry Hutchinson=, ed. Mankind and the church; being an attempt to estimate the contribution of great races to the fulness of the church of God, by seven bishops. *$2.25. Longmans.
“Two Indian bishops, the archbishop of the West Indies, a bishop in Japan, another who was for some years in China, and the bishop of New Guinea speak of the Anglican communion as they have seen it in their dioceses, its strength, its weakness, its successes, and its failures. They speak for the Mohammedans and the Hindus of India, for the Japanese and the Chinese, for the negroes, and for the population, other than Malay, of the largest island of the Pacific.”—Spec.
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“It is written in a manner which will give enjoyment to every cultivated reader.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 435. O. 10. 300w.
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 260. My. ’08. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 763. N. 30, ’07. 150w.
“Highly interesting and valuable introduction furnished by Bishop Montgomery.”
+ =Spec.= 89: 994. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
=Montgomery, Lucy Maud.= Anne of Green Gables. $1.50. Page.
8–18572.
“A farmer in Prince Edward’s island ordered a boy from a Nova Scotia asylum, but the order got twisted and the result was that a girl was sent the farmer instead of a boy. That girl is the heroine of this story.” (N. Y. Times.) “Anne is a sort of Canadian ‘Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm’ in her imaginativeness, love of high-flown language, and propensity to get into scrapes. But the book is by no means an imitation; it has plenty of originality and character.” (Outlook.)
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“A story that all girls from 12 to 15, and many grown-ups, will enjoy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 274. N. ’08. ✠
“The author’s probable intention was to exhibit a unique development in this little asylum waif, but there is no real difference between the girl at the end of the story and the one at the beginning of it. All the other characters in the book are human enough.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 280w.
“It will please grown-up people quite or nearly as well as the school-girls for whom it is primarily designed. It ought to have a wide reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 956. Ag. 22, ’08. 100w.
=Moody, Walter.= Men who sell things; observations and experiences of over twenty years as travelling salesman, European buyer, sales manager, employer. **$1. McClurg.
7–41593.
A book of sound advice which is the outcome of knowing every round of the ladder. Alertness and poise are the salesman’s essentials acquired “thru the natural law of infinite patience, constant study of new conditions, clear adaptation of means to ends, infinite devotion to instant duty, and absolute fidelity to his house as it is and yet may be.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“While the book is not of a technical nature, nevertheless the fact that so many engineers are connected with the selling departments of their firms ... will make it one of value to many technical men.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 306. Mr. ’08. 100w.
=Ind.= 64: 321. F. 6, ’08. 50w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Trial marriage. 75c. Empire book co.
8–19570.
“The author’s aim in this novel seems to be to demonstrate how inevitable are the fetters of law and custom which, forged at the dawn of civilization, have now linked themselves into the life and thought of the twentieth century; we are, he maintains, so strongly bound in many ways that a return to more primitive usage would be impossible.... With regard to the scientific care and education of the young, Mr. Moore puts forth theories not yet advocated by the most advanced socialist, only to demonstrate their futility.”—Ath.
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“We think that he has thus fallen between two stools, and has written neither interesting fiction nor a useful political tract.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 263. S. 7. 170w.
“We are told that in England Mr. Moore is considered witty but this does not appear in [this book], although [it] is full of dialogue into which much glitter has been introduced. It is not the glitter of a naturally brilliant man, however.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 54. F. 1, ’08. 1170w.
=Spec.= 99: 267. Ag. 24, ’07. 150w.
=Moore, Frederick.= Passing of Morocco. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–21029.
An account of the recent outbreak in Morocco and the resulting French expeditions, interspersed with descriptions of Moroccan life.
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+ =Ind.= 64: 1289. Je. 4, ’08. 250w.
“One point only is made which we have not seen sharply brought out elsewhere, and that is the ruthlessness with which the French have been carrying on the campaign against the Shawia tribesmen.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 319. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 40w.
“Here is an eyewitness worth hearing. Mr. Moore, we think, has a more pliant and engaging style than before.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 748. My. 9, ’08. 1400w.
=Moore, James Hall.= Defence of the Mecklenburg declaration of independence. *$1.50. Stone & Barringer co.
8–17535.
An attempt to prove the authenticity of the documents which Carolinians hold to have been drawn up by the citizens of the county of Mecklenburg, May 20, 1775, in which they declared their independence of England. The author storms the Hoyt strongholds of opposition and incidentally throws light on some of the obscure phases of the revolution.
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“Mr. Moore adds almost no new facts to the controversy, and his literary skill is not large.”
− =Ind.= 65: 98. Jl. 9, ’08. 320w.
“He possesses neither the historical sense nor the critical acumen of Mr. Hoyt. As a complete expression of what can be said in favor of the declaration his book has value.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 116. Ag. 6, ’08. 250w.
“It is difficult to see where he has made any impression on Mr. Hoyt’s position, which is practically that taken by Adams and Jefferson.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 411. Jl. 25, ’08. 1550w.
“There can be no doubt that Mr. Moore’s book is to the pro-Mecklenburg literature what Mr. Hoyt’s is to the anti-Mecklenburg—the best that has yet been published.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 623. Jl. 18, ’08. 360w.
* =Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Delftware, Dutch and English. **$1. Stokes.
8–26011.
The initial volume in “The collector’s handbooks” series. It is a guide to many styles of Delftware, explains its nature and tells the story of its production from 1672 to the present time, including Oriental influence and the origin of designs for decoration.
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“Mrs. Moore’s book has been judiciously and interestingly compiled.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“Follows the plan of her earlier books in its chief features and is quite up to her standard.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 684. N. 21, ’08. 170w.
=Moore, Norman.= History of the study of medicine in the British Isles. *$3.40. Oxford.
The Fitz-Patrick lectures before the Royal college of physicians of London, for 1905–6. “The inner title, ‘History of the study of medicine in the British Isles,’ is somewhat misleading, since Dr. Moore does not attempt to show precisely how practitioners were trained. What he has done is to pick out various medical men of different periods, and to sketch partly their training and partly their methods as indicative of the general state of medical study in Great Britain at the time.” (Nation.) “The whole is a curious combination of science, tradition, and what we may, perhaps, call white magic.” (Spec.)
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“Dr. Moore’s volume is rather episodic and biographical than historical in any broad sense; but what he writes is of extreme interest, and may well form a basis for further work since he has gone to original sources for the facts.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 650w.
“It is very creditable to Dr. Norman Moore that he has made time to consult original authorities, and that he has cast his results into four such interesting chapters.” D’Arcy Power.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 550. Jl. 08. 1150w.
“An exceedingly entertaining and instructive book, despite the somewhat rambling and unsystematic treatment.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 495. My. 28, ’08. 300w.
“Dr. Moore’s book is a most interesting and scholarly contribution to the history of medicine.”
+ + =Nature.= 78: 25. My. 14, ’08. 1900w.
“All this deserves, and, so excellent is Dr. Moore’s method, will easily secure, careful attention.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 544. Ap. 4, ’08. 400w.
=Moral= training in the public schools. $1.50. Ginn.
7–28175.
Two essays that received respectively first and second prizes offered by an anonymous California citizen for the best essays written on the subject.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 144. My. ’08.
“This collection of views is well deserving of study for much valuable pedagogical instruction that it contains. It is, too, a pregnant, ready-made text for a powerful article in defense of our parochial schools.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 86: 824. Mr. ’08. 400w.
“No teacher can afford to neglect a careful reading of the book.” E: O. Sisson.
+ =Dial.= 44: 276. My. 1, ’08. 600w.
“Is distinctly worth reading and reading again.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 103. Ja. ’08. 80w.
“On the whole, sound, sane, suggestive, instructive, inspiring, seem to the reviewer the adjectives that most fitly describe this little book. It is worthy the attention of teachers.” C. T. Lane.
+ =El. School T.= 8: 463. Ap. ’08. 650w.
“The volume is a notable contribution to the discussion of moral education and allied problems, and the simplicity of treatment makes it easy reading. The absence of an index is to be regretted.” W. S. Monroe.
+ + − =J. Philos.= 5: 51. Ja. 16, ’08. 380w.
“The book deserves attention from parents as well as teachers.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays, 5th. ser. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–14376.
=ser. 5=. A fifth volume of “Shelburne essays.” There are eleven in number, and they deal with such subjects as The Greek anthology, The centenary of Longfellow, Dickens, Chesterfield, Gissing, and Donald G. Mitchell.
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“Their literary merit warrants their purchase in book form by larger libraries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 292. D. ’08. (Review of v. 5.)
“In the pages of so accomplished a literary artist as Mr. More one looks for, and finds, many an apt phrase that lingers in the mind.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 93. Ag. 15, ’08. 140w. (Review of v. 5.)
“The book is a valuable outcome of much knowledge and wise deliberation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 352. Je. 20, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Whatever Mr. More writes, however, has the value of thorough and competent workmanship; but a little salt of wit, an occasional lightness of touch, would cheer his readers without weakening the fiber of his very scholarly work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 811. Ag. 8, ’08. 260w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Morgan, George.= True Patrick Henry. **$2. Lippincott.
7–27032.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“One omission it seems to the reviewer has been made: the sectional conflict in Virginia which paralleled and followed the Stamp act controversy.” W: E. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 652. Ap. ’08. 500w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08.
“The writer’s imagination occasionally runs riot when he attempts to reconstruct the scenes through which the orator of Virginia moved.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 823. D. 28. 190w.
“The author also brings in many details of persons and events that distract attention from the main current of the narrative.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 80. F. 1, ’08. 240w.
“It is the chief defect of Mr. Morgan’s book that he claims too much, in too many directions.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 591. D. 26, ’07. 1920w.
“This is a biography which, if somewhat colored by the zeal of hero-worship, is profitable as well as pleasurable reading.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 320w.
=Morgan, George Campbell.= Analysed Bible. 3v. ea. **$1. Revell.
7–33562.
A commentary to be complete in about thirty volumes which attempts to preserve a unity by analysing the books of the Bible into large logical sections. Volumes one to three are as follows: Genesis to Esther; Job to Malachi; Matthew to Revelation.
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“These analyses are always clever, but sometimes at least not sufficiently supported by the text.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 31: 478. Je. ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The analyses and titles are generally striking and rhetorical rather than simply faithful to the works discussed.”
− =Bib. World.= 31: 480, Je. ’08. 70w. (Review of v. 3.)
“While these three volumes, containing brief introductions to all the books of scripture, might be useful for a Sunday school Bible class, yet they are vitiated by an utter lack of criticism, and by a failure to put the reader at all in touch with the way of regarding the Bible that should be inevitable to every modern man.” E. S. Drown.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 21, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=Morgan, James.= Abraham Lincoln. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28434.
Mr. Morgan aims not to form a history of the civil war, nor to give an analysis of Lincoln’s character but to write a simple straightforward story of his life in its true sequence. This plain story of essentials is a “series of dramatic pictures of the struggles and achievements of a common man in whom a race of common men is exalted. In the preparation of his book Mr. Morgan has made use of the various accessible authorities, presenting those incidents in his hero’s life which are most significant and essential.” (R. of Rs.)
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“He tells a story, simple and straightforward—one that will interest and inspire the young American reader.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 387. D. ’08. 60w.
“Mr. Morgan is much more than a faithful compiler. He has points of view of his own, and seizes with individual judgment upon the facts worth while.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 905. D. 12, ’08. 90w.
“Mr. Morgan tells his story pleasingly, and presents in it a very good sketch of Lincoln’s remarkable career.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 593. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 633. N. ’08. 170w.
“We do not see that he tells us anything new about Lincoln. A book about Lincoln is, we might say, always welcome; when carefully and sympathetically written it is a thing to be highly appreciated.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 887. N. 28, ’08. 150w.
=Morley, John.= Critical miscellanies, v. 4. *$1.50. Macmillan.
A group of “fugitive pieces, yet perhaps not altogether without a clue.” (Preface.) The subjects are as follows: Machiavelli; Guicciardini; A new calendar of great men; John Stuart Mill, an anniversary; Lecky on democracy; A historical romance; and Democracy and reaction. The appendix furnishes explanatory and bibliographical notes.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 293. D. ’08.
“The volume is commended to those who enjoy a literary style of the highest excellence, allusive yet never obscure, deep reflection enriched by wide literary knowledge and rendered precise by personal experience in governmental affairs, fair-minded treatment of opposing views, and a vindication of political idealism.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 176. O. ’08. 330w.
“A work of real value to serious persons and merits a place in all well-ordered libraries.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 473. N. ’08. 330w.
“Lord Morley reflects in every page he writes the influence of the best culture of the day.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 61. Jl. 18. 2000w.
“With his clear style, wide reading and ever present note-book, he is one of the most delightful of transmitters that we have.” C. M. Francis.
+ =Bookm=, 28: 146. O. ’08. 2000w.
“The book is good reading and wholesome for us Americans. It will help us to think straight about some of our own immediate problems, although it does not deal with any one of them directly.” Brander Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 40: 213. S. ’08. 1000w.
+ + =Ind.= 65: 615. S. 10, ’08. 130w.
=Lit. D.= 37: 564. O. 17, ’08. 220w.
“The charm and value of these essays depend largely on the fact that they are the product of a rich mind, which has thoroughly digested its knowledge, and has tested books by experience.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 234. S. 10, ’08. 1650w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Putnam’s.= 5: 111. O. ’08. 360w.
“The great merit of these ‘Miscellanies’—the fine flower of essay-writing—is that they ‘set men on thinking’ about politics.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 48. Jl. 11, ’08. 2150w.
“We have no other writer with quite the same outlook,—the sane and broad-minded liberalism, the candour, the earnest desire for the truth, the tolerance for human imperfections.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 18. Jl. 4, ’08. 1650w.
=Morris, Gouverneur.= Footprint, and other stories. †$1.50. Scribner.
8–6985.
Eleven stories, creepy and gruesome for the most part, which smack more of the fatalist’s fancy than of the imagination which characterizes wholesome adventure. The stories are The footprint, Paradise ranch, Captain England, The execution, Simon L’Ouvrier, A Carolina night’s dream, The stowing away of Mr. Bill Ballad, The explorers, The little heiress, The best man, and The crocodile.
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“Gruesome short stories varying in merit. Some of them are decidedly clever, some grotesque or horrible, and all are more or less disagreeable, and incline to the morbid.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“Mr. Morris ought to change his course. Nevertheless, I am glad that before mending his ways he has given us this volume. If these stories are not great, they are at least different, and their rather highly spiced originality is welcome to a jaded appetite.” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 283. My. ’08. 500w.
“One might discuss at some length Mr. Morris’s methods of fiction, for they are good methods, and might be studied with profit by many better known and far more prolific writers of to-day.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 307. My. ’08. 350w.
=Ind.= 64: 974. Ap. 30, ’08. 170w.
“They show Mr. Morris to excel most of the short-story writers of the day in his use of the Stevenson manner, which he combines with Edgar Allan Poe matter. The knack of descriptive narration he has in an uncommon degree, whether his pictures be first hand or not. The sense of futility is the chief defect of what are otherwise capital tales.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 219. Mr. 5, ’08. 300w.
“Nine stories of a very depressing aspect. It seems as though the choicest bits of horror had been suggested by Poe, and the cynicism by Maupassant.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 269. My. 9, ’08. 130w.
“Very clever but sometimes intensely disagreeable studies of the horrible and grotesque.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 653. Mr. 21, ’08. 80w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 300w.
=Morris, Harrison Smith.= Lyrics and landscapes. **$1. Century.
8–12818.
A collection of poems by the author of “Madonna and other poems” and “Tales from ten poets.” “Mr. Morris strikes his deepest note in Destiny, a Phi beta kappa poem, although we regret to find in these dignified verses a veiled apology for our latter-day American imperialism.” (Dial.)
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“Neat and decorous compositions, not exactly inspired, but mildly pleasing.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 64. Ag. 1, ’08. 130w.
“His poems have no great philosophical content, perhaps; but in his ode to ‘Night’ he succeeds unusually well in a kind of eye and ear impressionism quite legitimate after its own fashion.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 250w.
=Morrow, William C.= Lentala of the South seas: the romantic tale of a lost colony. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–24468.
A tale of the hardships of a band of colonists cast away on an island in the South seas. “The book is nothing more than an account of the savages’ attempts to hoodwink and destroy the white invaders, and the white men’s final conquest, thanks to the timely aid of a volcano, an earthquake and a thunder-storm. There is also an adopted daughter of a cannibal king, who figures somewhat largely in the book.” (Bookm.)
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“Somewhat uninspired, and much too long.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 28: 146. O. ’08. 340w.
“Is more or less exciting, but is written in a style whose affectation of simplicity results in being decidedly irritating.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 512. S. 19, ’08. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 170w.
=Morse, Hosea Ballou.= Trade and administration of the Chinese empire. *$2.50. Longmans.
8–18747.
“Portrays the present state of the Chinese empire, with such record of the past as will enable the reader better to comprehend the present.” (Sat. R.) “The two opening chapters, written by the Rev. F. L. Hawks Potts, President of St. John’s College, at Shanghai, present a condensed but readable sketch of the history of China from the earliest times to the present. Mr. Ballou then in a dozen chapters elucidates the system of government.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A much needed book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“A useful compendium.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 365. S. 26. 850w.
“Is the first to put into succinct form a fairly complete account of those practical matters concerning which the man of affairs, whether of business or of state, most wishes information. The book lacks an analytical table of contents, which would have greatly enhanced its value for just those readers for whom it is particularly designed.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My 23, ’08. 320w.
“Mr. Morse is impartial—as impartial, at any rate, as a man who knows his subject can be. An eminently informative book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 758. Je. 13, ’08. 1650w.
=Mosby, John Singleton.= Stuart’s cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign. **$2. Moffat.
8–8120.
Col. Mosby’s aim is that of clearing the name of Gen. Stuart from aspersions cast upon it in records made by Gen. Lee’s staff-officers. It gives a sketch of the battle of Chancellorsville and the cavalry combat which opened the Gettysburg campaign and justifies Gen. Stuart’s movements.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 197. Je. ’08.
“It cannot be said that Col. Mosby proves all his points; but he does prove some of them, and throws new light on others.”
− + =Dial.= 45: 43. Jl. 16, ’08. 420w.
“Col. Mosby goes against all the accepted authorities; he takes to task all of Lee’s biographers and staff officers; he makes raids in all directions upon historical positions, and he fires volleys here and there, some of which are effective and some of which go off harmless into the air.”
− =Nation.= 87: 37. Jl. 9, ’08. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 215. Ap. 11, ’08. 80w.
“Col. Mosby is, of course, a partisan. But his account is interesting, it brings out neglected aspects of the famous battle.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 305. My. 30, ’08. 1100w.
=Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann, ritter von.= Stories of Jewish home life. $1.25. Jewish pub.
7–40796.
Five stories as follows: Aunt Guttraud, Schlemihlchen, Rav’s Mine, Jephthah’s daughter, and Rascholchen. In them the great heart of humanity throbs and goodness triumphs. The settings and colorings are distinctively Jewish.
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“Should be as fascinating to the Gentile reader as many stories of Gentile hearth and fireside experience have been to the Jews.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 350w.
=Moses, Bernard.= South America on the eve of emancipation: the southern Spanish colonies in the last half-century of their dependence. *$1.50. Putnam.
8–15885.
“A sketch of social conditions in South America during the period immediately preceding the severance of relations with the mother country. The most interesting chapters are those dealing with the characteristics of the colonial city and the developments of social classes under Spanish rule.”—Nation.
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“Without making any attempt to exhaust the subject, Professor Moses has succeeded in giving excellent pictures of life and institutions in the pre-revolutionary era.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 164. O. ’08. 660w.
“This work errs in details, sometimes in essential details. For the purpose in view, this must be pronounced a very useful and entertaining little work.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 787. O. 1, ’08. 420w.
“Should be carefully read as an introduction to the study of Latin-American institutions.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 262. S. 17, ’08. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 50w.
=Moses, Edith.= Unofficial letters of an official’s wife. **$1.50. Appleton.
8–29360.
A group of chatty informing letters which the wife of Professor Moses wrote while residing in Manila during the governorship of Mr. Taft. One finds all the bits of Philippine “hearsay” most entertainingly set down, including the appearance and characteristics of the natives, housekeeping problems, incompetency of servants, discomforts of climate, social life in Manila, amusements, holiday revelry and excursions out from Manila.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Children’s books and reading. *$1.50. Kennerley.
7–38221.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“It would be too much to expect that all should agree with the selection of recommended books, but the choices are sane, on the whole, and if not carefully balanced, and satisfactory in all particulars, are suggestive. Bibliographical information concerning title is frequently inaccurate, incomplete, and faulty in form.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 106. Ap. ’08.
“While there is much in it that is sound, practical, and useful, we cannot give it unqualified praise; it is, as the author himself admits, an incomplete and unfinished sketch. There are many slips, errors, and omissions, sadly needing correction.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 180. Mr. 16, ’08. 500w.
“It is especially valuable to librarians, with whose needs the author is familiar.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 751. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“May be trusted as a safe guide in a problem that becomes yearly more difficult.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 260w.
=Mosso, Angelo.= Palaces of Crete and their builders. *$5.25. Putnam. 8–12966.
“An account of certain excavations and investigations in the famed land of the Minotaur, which carry the history of the Cretans back authentically to the neolithic period and furnish much interesting material for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and antiquaries generally.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The translation is excellent.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 833. D. 28. 1550w.
+ =Class. J.= 4: 47. N. ’08. 40w.
“The personal element often becomes obtrusive. Moreover, there are many mistakes in the text. With all its faults, however, the volume has a pleasing freshness and spontaneity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 357. Ap. 16, ’08. 500w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 86. F. 15, ’08. 400w.
“Dr. Mosso’s is no dry-as-dust narrative. He knows how to be entertaining, and he is entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 655. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w.
“The book is a rambling and often rather absurd work, written about things archæological by one who is no archæologist, but knows a good deal about skulls and something about divers natural sciences. The author ... has a strong bent towards rhapsodical and even dithyrambic meditation, and indulges it to the full. The book is worth examination, however, and even purchase, for its illustrations.”
− − + =Sat. R.= 105: 207. F. 15, ’08. 1050w.
“Whatever we may think of Signor Mosso’s ethnology, his book will be found full of interesting detail, which we may or may not connect with his anthropology.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 648. Ap. 25, ’08. 400w.
=Motley, James Marvin.= Apprenticeship in American trade unions. (Johns Hopkins univ. studies in historical and political science. Series 25, nos. 11–12.) 50c. Johns Hopkins.
8–7186.
A monograph whose chief emphasis is placed upon the historical development of apprenticeship and upon the critical analysis of union regulations. There are chapters on apprenticeship as regulated by government, custom, trade-unions and trade agreement.
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+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 696. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“This is an admirable scholarly piece of research, of the highest credit to its author and the economic seminary of Johns Hopkins university. There is but one place where I would raise a question, and that is in the difficult attempt to classify the unions according to the extent to which they enforce apprenticeship as a prerequisite to membership.” J: R. Commons.
+ + − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 49. Ap. ’08. 530w.
=Motley, John Lothrop.= Motley’s Dutch nation; being the Rise of the Dutch republic (1555–1584); condensed, with introd., notes, and a brief history of the Dutch people to 1908, by W: Elliot Griffis. $1.75. Harper.
8–12133.
An abridgement of Motley’s “Rise of the Dutch republic” and an independent sketch of Dutch history, from A. D. 1584 to 1907 constitute respectively the two broad divisions of this volume. The latter brings the history down to date, showing the social, political, and economic situation and problems of the Dutch nation.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 229. Je. ’08.
“A more useful single-volume treatment of Dutch history is hardly to be found.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 316. My. 16, ’08. 50w.
“We confess to a feeling of sorrow and affront on seeing Motley abridged. But the work has been as well done as was possible.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 765. My. 23, ’08. 170w.
“Contains only a single map, and that is inadequate. Such an omission is unpardonable.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 93. Je. 30, ’08. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 378. Jl. 4, ’08. 300w.
=Moulton, Richard Green.= Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker: a popular illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy. *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–29024.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
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“The difficulty of the attempt [to collect the moral lessons in Shakespeare into a system] is increased with the rigidness of the system and the formality of the treatment, and Prof. Moulton’s treatment is formal even to pedantry.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 91. F. 15, ’08. 290w.
=Muir, M. M. Pattison.= History of chemical theories and laws. *$4. Wiley.
6–45162.
“Mr. Pattison Muir does not claim to write a history of chemistry; he traces the growth of knowledge and opinion on such matters as the nature of the elements from the crude conceptions of the alchemists through the strict atomic theory down to the current ideas about ions and electrons. Similarly he deals with the nature of chemical change, which with the conception of element and compound form the two special ideas marking off chemistry from the other sciences.”—Sat. R.
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“Certainly the author has given the information in a most readable and fascinating manner, which will render his book useful and attractive to a wider circle than merely chemists and physicists.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 543. My. 4. 600w.
“Mr. Muir has displayed great learning and much literary ability.” W. R.
+ =Nature.= 75: 601. Ap. 25, ’07. 900w.
“We can recommend Mr. Pattison Muir’s treatise to any serious student of chemistry; it is just the book for a clever boy who has learnt all the routine, and now should begin to think more abstractly and generally.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 85. Jl. 20, ’07. 300w.
“The feeling of growth and organic interrelation is kept admirably before the reader. The style is attractive and the mode of presentation lucid and interesting. The book is not only suggestive, but highly readable—there is not a dry page in it.” Alexander Smith.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 27: 304. F. 21, ’08. 800w.
=Mulford, Clarence E.= Orphan. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–6662.
With the plains as a habitat, clumps of chaparral to hide in, cowboys to hunt him down, and Apache bands to match his deadly aim, the Orphan, outlaw and terror of Ford’s Station is the fascinating hero of this tale. In the development of the story, it is revealed that his vengeance is directed only towards cowardly, irritating, petty specimens of cowboy humanity; that underneath his rough exterior are splendid manhood and courage; and that he is as chivalrous as a knight of old when called upon to defend women. There is plenty of wild west adventure with which mingle the dust and heat of the plains.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“The book is as virile as the life it describes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
=Müller, Margarethe.= Carla Wenckebach, pioneer. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–29596.
An intimate sketch of “a very unusual, very vital human being” who, born and educated in Germany, became a wanderer, living in six countries and having a variety of bread-winning experiences, and finally finding her place as professor at Wellesley where she remained until her death. The invincible spirit of hard work characterized her life which is portrayed by her friend and successor.
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“The account of this remarkable woman’s life is very interesting. One would scarcely suspect, but for Professor Müller’s prefatory confession, that English was not the author’s mother tongue.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 582. D. 10, ’08. 600w.
=Mullins, Rev. Edgar Y.= Axioms of religion. **$1. Am. Bapt.
8–14676.
Beginning with the new test of denominationalism and other themes leading to the truth of the soul’s competency in religion, Doctor Mullins proceeds to show that religion has its axioms no less than other realms of knowledge and experience. He gives the theological, the religious, the ecclesiastical, the moral, the religio-civic and the social axiom.
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“His conclusions are those of a sincere and cultivated man, and merit a respectful attention from the reader, be he or not a Baptist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 381. Jl. 4, ’08. 120w.
=Munro, Neil.= The Clyde; river and firth. *$6. Macmillan.
8–18705.
“The river ‘from a mossy cup in a nook of barren hill,’ and the estuary down to Ailsa Craig, are shown under many phases of wind and weather, with castles, mountains, hillsides, waterfalls, villages, orchards, and fishing pools; the harbour and shipping: and the yacht-flecked lower waters and mountain-girt lochs, with endless glens and islands and landmarks of history since the Norsemen’s time.”—Ath.
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“The fidelity of the sketches is as marked a characteristic as their winsomeness. Some press errors ... are venial blemishes in a beautiful book, which is an excellent memorial of the Clyde, viewed through three happy temperaments.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 95. Ja. 25. 1120w.
“A beautiful and a readable volume.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 216. Ap. 1, ’08. 300w.
“The colored illustrations ... are of the character to which we have become so well accustomed in these picture books—at times clear and almost beautiful, at times a mere daub of crude colors.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 147. F. 13, ’08. 100w.
“Mr. Munro writes with his enthusiasm well in hand, and the illustrations are more pleasing than is always the case in this class of book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 211. F. 15, ’08. 230w.
=Munroe, Kirk.= Under the Great Bear. †$1.25. Harper.
A book for boys which narrates the adventures of a young mechanical engineer who goes to Newfoundland and Labrador in the interests of a copper company. There are encounters with icebergs, blizzards, wrecks, smuggling enterprises, to whet a healthy imagination, and underneath all there is a mind single to duty and definite accomplishment.
=Münsterberg, Hugo.= On the witness stand: essays on psychology and crime. **$1.50. McClure.
8–13667.
A book for judges and lawyers which presents a deeply psychological study of crime and its various methods of detection and prevention. The author discusses at length the many illusions which often affect the minds of witnesses, the errors which are due to the defective memory of witnesses, and the influence often exerted upon testimony by suggestion in court and by hypnotic influence. The book leaves no point untouched which has to do with modern ideas and methods in dealing with crime.
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“The last chapter, concerning the prevention of crime and use of modern psychological knowledge in this connection is the most valuable and suggestive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 198. Je. ’08.
“An extremely important little volume, which should be read by everyone who has to do with criminal courts or who is interested in problems of crime.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 627. N. ’08. 130w.
“The unsatisfactory initial chapters are, however, largely redeemed by the remaining portion of the book.” F: T. Hill.
− + =Bookm.= 27: 406. Je. ’08. 600w.
“How little or how much one may sympathise with Professor Munsterberg’s methods and conclusions, one may unhesitatingly approve his emphasis of attention to the problem as a psychological one.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 45: 38. Jl. 16, ’08. 1750w.
=Ind.= 65: 664. S. 17, ’08. 330w.
“The main contention of the book is open to serious question.”
− =Nation.= 86: 472. My. 21, ’08. 700w.
“Prof. Münsterberg talks fact and common sense; he defines what can, and especially what can not, be done with hypnotism. Thus he performs a great and much-needed service—a service that ought to put many a pseudo-mystic out of business and rescue numberless dupes from the swindlers who are robbing and killing them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 237. Ap. 25, ’08. 700w.
“His book is most suggestive, interesting and valuable, although marred here and thereby a tendency to dogmatism.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 127. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“There is a good deal of interesting and perhaps profitable information in what the professor tells in his chapters.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 255. Ag. ’08. 160w.
* =Murdoch, W. G. Burn-.= From Edinburgh to India and Burmah. *$3.50. Dutton.
A pictorial journey with text to amplify it. The author’s impressions “were gathered at the time of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and are mingled with many digressions and reflections. The author saw southern India first, and was charmed with it, but found it eclipsed in every respect by Burmah. Thence he returned to Calcutta, and made his way back to Bombay viâ Benares, Agra, and Delhi.” (Ath.)
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“The book itself is pleasantly written, and even on the wellworn themes of P. and O. voyages and Indian travel fresh impressions from a capable observer are welcome. There are too many misprints.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 303. S. 12. 380w.
“His notes on his journey are in the nature of a diary, and run smoothly and fluently, carrying the reader easily along through scenes which a heavier literary cicerone would render tiresome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 120w.
=Murdock, Harold.= Earl Percy’s dinner table. Special ed. *$5. Houghton.
7–39216.
“The author does not attempt to set forth in fictional form the Boston of 1774–5, but pictures it in vivid, dramatic narrative, in which figure constantly the chief actors of the time, both British and colonial. Earl Percy’s hospitable board is the scene of the greater part of the narrative, and the reader gets from the conversation of his guests picturesque accounts of the state of public feeling in the town, but toward the end there are stirring descriptions of the fighting at Lexington and at Bunker Hill. The final pages recount the later histories of Earl Percy’s guests. Copious notes in the back of the book explain historical references and quote authorities.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The notes are, perhaps, more interesting than the text.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 416. Ap. 4. 400w.
“The atmosphere of the period has been remarkably suggested throughout the story, which holds the interest of the reader to the end.” Laurence Burnam.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 310. My. ’08. 220w.
“An unusual book—an historical monograph possessing both unquestionable authenticity and rare distinction of style.” E. K. Dunton.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 71. F. 1, ’08. 1230w.
“A unique bit of historical recreation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 38. Ja. 25, ’08. 160w.
=Putnam’s.= 3: 754. Mr. ’08. 350w.
=Murphy, Thomas Dowler.= British highways and byways, from a motor car: being a record of a five thousand mile tour in England, Wales and Scotland; with 16 il. in color, and 32 duogravures from photographs. 2 maps. $3. Page.
8–5245.
Good maps, and excellent illustrations increase the value of Mr. Murphy’s well arranged information concerning British cities, and rural Britain.
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“An excellent guide. The incidental information about hotels and garages will save many moments of worry.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 347. Je. 1, ’08. 240w.
“He has succeeded in giving us something more readable and more literary in character than the ordinary compendiums. The author’s love of historic places and of beautiful scenery makes the book of considerable value as a vade mecum.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1294. Je. 4, ’08. 260w.
“An agreeably written and attractively illustrated book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 60. Jl. 11, ’08. 70w.
=Murray, John, and Miller, Marion Mills.= Round up: a romance of Arizona; novelized from Edmund Day’s melodrama, il. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–11703.
Prospectors, ranchmen, outlaws, and Apaches, with a western heroine or two furnish the characters for this novelized melodrama set in Arizona and Mexico. “It is decidedly a stirring tale, abounding in thrills—fights and famine, torture and deceit, love and vengeance.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The ‘novelizers’ have done their work well, but those portions which form the cement holding the dialogue together seem sometimes a bit labored.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 302. My. 30, ’08. 150w.
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=Nash, Henry Sylvester.= Atoning life. **$1. Macmillan.
8–12601.
A book instinct with the spirit that reforms, with the atoning life that lies at the root of good society, at the foundation of human fellowship. Dr. Nash says: “One of the pressing needs of ministers and laymen alike is a vital theology that springs from life and, returning quickly to the life out of which it sprang, gives form and clarity to experience.” It is with this vital theology that the book deals.
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“Those who know Dr. Nash’s previous works will expect to find here deep scholarship and spiritual power and striking forms of speech. They may not expect to find such complete simplicity of style as will add clearness to depth. But just such a combination is to be found here.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 607. O. 24, ’08. 140w.
“Here is a small book but a great one, in which deep and patient study issues in such terse expression that one should willingly give it two or three readings to absorb its fullness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 352. Je. 13. ’08. 400w.
=National civic federation.= Municipal and private operation of public utilities; report. 3v. $10. National civic federation.
8–2952.
A report representing two years of exhaustive investigation which comprises three volumes—one containing the conclusions arrived at and the other two the statistics of plants examined, upon which these conclusions are based.
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“These three volumes as a whole present the most valuable compilation of statistics concerning municipal affairs yet published in the United States. Whatever limitations are present are in large degree unavoidable, for the complexity of the subjects to be treated makes it unusually difficult, if not impossible, to draw from the facts a conclusion that will be convincing to all.” C. L. Jones.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 731. My. ’08. 600w.
“Far superior to anything of the kind heretofore published. It is to be regretted that the general review of the whole investigation contains so little in the way of judicial weighing and balancing.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 59: 291. Mr. 12, ’08. 6000w.
“This is probably the first time that such a complete discussion of the subject has been presented under conditions so favorable for clearing away the unessential assumptions and disputed facts that make the usual article on the subject hardly worth reading.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 56: 693. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“The volumes are supplied with very minute indexes, which will enable a student to secure information on almost any point involved in the discussion of municipal operation.” D. R. Dewey.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 337. Je. ’08. 850w.
=Neff, Elizabeth.= Altars to Mammon. il. †$1.50. Stokes.
8–5884.
The story of a young Methodist minister’s struggle against the over-powering money-methods by which a millionaire would gain entrance to the kingdom of heaven. “The pastor is fresh from a theological seminary, and the scene of the story is a sordid little town where the pull is toward the open saloons away from the churches.” (Ind.)
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“The wealthy capitalist who grinds the faces of the poor and salves his conscience by building churches has been worked to death of late, and ought to be allowed a season of decent retirement.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 44: 245. Ap. 16, ’08. 300w.
“The story is written after the manner of E. P. Roe, and should have a wide circulation among those who admire the commonplace, even in heresies. It is realistic in situations, literal in details, and indicates that the author has good principles, excellent convictions, shrewd insight, everything except genius.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 810. Ap. 9, ’08. 200w.
“The tale is at once a good story and a faithful study of material and spiritual conditions in American life. Its style is somewhat marred by too much insistence upon the uncouth speech of many of its characters—a thing that is always bad art, even if it is absolute truth.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
=Neihardt, John Gneisenau.= Bundle of myrrh. *$1. Outing pub.
8–1681.
“The title explains itself when you find the book is not just a collection of short poems but a symphony with first keynote the riotous joy of the flesh, working up in the last songs to the voicing of penitence, the birth of the spirit and of the vision.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It may seem at first as if the singer were straining a little impotently in the modern way to feel for the feeling’s sake, yet the expression is not wholly feeble or insincere.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 35. Jl. 9, ’08. 280w.
“You are distinctly conscious of something in Mr. Neihardt’s work besides the observance of schoolish rules not to accent prepositions nor introduce Alexandrines in iambics. You are conscious in every line of great passion and great beauty, as well as the technique that is good because it is unconscious of itself.” A. C. Laut.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 83. F. 15, ’08. 1100w.
“Mr. Neihardt has shown considerable daring in some of the poems. It is to be hoped that he will not make the mistake of thinking that nudity is strength, and that in order to show that one is independent and virile he must exhibit all his emotions unclothed rather than clothed upon by the imagination.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 260. My. 30, ’08. 750w.
=Neilson, Robert M.= Steam turbine. 4th ed. rev. and enl. *$4.20. Longmans.
A book for the average engineer who is equipped with a fair scientific knowledge. The text has been revised to square the presentation with the development of the steam turbine during the past six years.
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=Engin. D.= 3: 527. My. ’08. 300w.
“The whole presentation is weak and ineffective for the needs of engineers or students of engineering. It might serve very well as an introduction to the subject, but even for such a purpose is too voluminous.” C: E. Lucke.
− =Engin. N.= 60: 188. Ag. 13, ’08. 1200w.
=Neumann, Angelo.= Personal recollections of Wagner; tr. from the fourth German edition by Edith Livermore. **$2.50. Holt.
8–29008.
Boswellian intimacy pervades this volume, which reveals the great master of music “behind the scenes”—both figuratively and literally. The student of music gains a new and authoritative understanding—aided by numerous letters—of the history of the Nibelungen cycle in various European countries; he gets intimate glimpses of Wagner, and such musicians as Wahnfried, Seidl, Nikisch, the Vogls, and others; and above all he catches the meaning of the exaltation and its reaction which the musical temperament can experience so intensely.
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“The publication of this volume of memoirs is proof that the supply of biographic literature on the subject of Wagner has not yet become exhausted, and also that interest in it shows no sign of flagging.” L. M. Isaacs.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 361. D. ’08. 500w.
“It has more interest than the novels of the day; it tells a moving and heroic story; it abounds in characteristic anecdotes and incidents; it places the master and his immediate entourage before us in clear light; it brings us into close intimacy with the great people and great artists of the place and period.” L: J. Block.
+ =Dial.= 45: 398. D. 1, ’08. 1850w.
“Here is material worth preserving and giving to the world, a valuable chapter added to the definitive life of Wagner and to the history of his music.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1177. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“The translation by Edith Livermore is generally smooth and idiomatic, but there are some strange and quite inexplicable errors.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 447. N. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“The translation preserves remarkably well the lively personal charm of the original. A good index, which was lacking in the German edition, adds to its value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 549. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Newcomb, Charles Benjamin.= Principles of psychic philosophy. **$1.40. Lothrop.
8–10430.
Principles which are intended to arouse one to a consciousness of the power of his higher self to command his brain and body. Power, unlimited activity, invincible might are the keynotes. His brief chapters are devoted to the following subjects: God, nature, man, psychism, suffering, selfishness, responsibility, adjustment, power, freedom, healing, and fulfillment.
=Newman, Ernest.= Richard Strauss; with a personal note by Alfred Kalisch. (Living masters of music.) *$1. Lane.
8–30389.
“The story of Strauss’s life is told briefly, of necessity, for there is little to tell, apart from his evolution from a conservative composer of absolute music to the most audacious and grotesque of programme-music makers. The symphonic poems are not analyzed in detail, but considerable space is given to the operas, including ‘Salome.’”—Nation.
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 410. O. 3. 540w.
“A little perverse, perhaps at times, in its bestowal of praise and stricture, yet one of the most interesting volumes publisht thus far in the ‘Living masters of music’ series of monographs.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1186. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“His little book on Richard Strauss is one of the best things he has done, yet it is likely to exasperate both the detractors and the admirers of that sensational composer; the one class because of what they will regard as overpraise, the other because of what they will resent as over-censure.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 420. O. 29, ’08. 800w.
“This is by far the best book that has yet appeared in this series, and is one of the best discussions of the career and work of Strauss that this much-discussed musician has evoked.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 720w.
“Altogether Mr. Newman has made a courageous and admirable contribution to the literature of an engrossing subject—the amazing, saddening, preposterous, inspired, incomparable tone-poet from Munich.” Lawrence Gilman.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 934. D. ’08. 1700w.
=Newman, Richard Brinsley.= Belle Islers. il. †$1.50. Lothrop.
8–10613.
In a homely setting of a simple country town the writer has placed the family of a pure-minded minister of the gospel. The story is told by a son who recounts in a humorously satirical style the doings of the people in the village. The losing fight which his father wages against the sins of modern society is touchingly and truthfully portrayed.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 213. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
=Newmarch, Rosa.= Tchaikovsky: his life and works, with extracts from his writings, and the diary of his tour abroad in 1888; ed. by Edwin Evans. *$2.50. Scribner.
To Mrs. Newmarch’s story of Tchaikovsky’s life published in 1899, six chapters, covering two hundred pages have been added by Edwin Evans. They are Instrumentation, Form, Idealism, Nationalism, Individuality and Criticism.
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“Mr. Evans gives long analyses of selected works, and these, from certain expressions he uses, we take to have been originally delivered as lectures to students, and in that shape, the illustrations being played, they probably proved easier to follow, and therefore more interesting.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 219. Ag. 22. 320w.
“Why write pages of explanations which are intelligible to those only who do not need them?”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 473. My. 21, ’08. 380w.
“His career ... is carefully and understandingly set forth.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 388. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.
=Newsholme, Arthur.= Prevention of tuberculosis. *$3. Dutton.
8–33920.
Written primarily as a manual for medical officials, showing the latest recognized methods for controlling tuberculosis. “While written for an English public, it has no limitations, or style or expressions which bar it from American circulation.” (R. of Rs.)
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“Minor points detract scarcely at all from the value of a book which is well worth reading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 520w.
“Will be welcome to the lay reader as well as to the medical practitioner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 490. S. 5, ’08. 350w.
“The book should be found useful to all medical practitioners, members of hospital boards, and to all persons interested in the progress of preventive medicine.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 510. O. ’08. 70w.
=Nicholas, Francis Child.= Power supreme: a novel of church and state in South America. $1.50. R. E. Lee co., Boston.
8–20675.
“A romance of the rubber forest, not on the Kongo, but in the wildest part of South America; a passionate indictment of the Church in her dealings with the Indians, who, at the expense of frightful labor, bring down the loads of rubber to the river; a description of a revolution which the Indian helps win but is betrayed by his leader; such is the story of ‘The power supreme.’”—Ind.
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“The story is strong and realistic, unmistakably the work of one who has been personally familiar with the country in which the scene is cast, and the manners and character of the people who fill his stage.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 408. D. ’08. 200w.
“It is told in a simple and straightforward narrative style that does not gloss over his own vices and failures, and is not devoid of graphic force in its portrayal of anti-clerical and revolutionary feeling.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 264. Jl. 30, ’08. 170w.
“As a sincere and serious record of a day and a race and an evil order of things, it has a painful interest and a grim value.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 213. S. 3, ’08. 320w.
“The plot is kept well in hand, and the action is swift.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 442. Ag. 8, ’08. 340w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Little brown jug at Kildare. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–25998.
“This tale takes up the important question of what the governor of North Carolina really did say to the governor of South Carolina. Both governors having disappeared from public view, their charming young daughters take up the cares of administration, assisted each by a young man who happens in. There follows a net work of plot and counterplot, invasion and counter-invasion, which nearly precipitates a war, but ends in wedding bells.”—Outlook.
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“Wholesome in tone, full of excitement and some fun.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“‘The little brown jug at Kildare’ is to the novel what the farce-comedy is to the drama.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 481. N. ’08. 520w.
“We recommend [it] as a sovereign specific for loathed melancholy or any other form of the blues.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 300w.
“If he does not write after the manner of George Barr McCutcheon, he takes a certain whimsical quality of imagination from a very similar source.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1070. N. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Nicholson has written an amusing book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 538. O. 3, ’08. 640w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The book aims to amuse—and it does.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
=Nicholson, Meredith.= Rosalind at Red Gate. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–38599.
Miss Patricia Holbrook to relieve herself of the persecutions of a degenerate brother bent upon a settlement of the family fortune which she has in trust takes the latter’s daughter and seeks seclusion at St. Agatha’s school. Their champion and protector is one Larry Donovan who is spending his summer at a nearby estate. The tale furnishes the varied factors of rivals, doubles, a Cain and Abel, and an Italian or two who instinctively ally themselves with the Cain of the story. There are to be found humor, mystery, comedy and a narrowly averted tragedy.
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“This is we think the best American mystery story of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 39: 125. Ja. ’08. 170w.
“A sprightly, agreeable story, with not the slightest pretensions to originality.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 665. F. ’08. 860w.
“The author does not quite repeat his earlier great success.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 208. Ja. 23, ’08. 90w.
“For the invention of preposterous but fairly engaging plots the author of ‘The house of a thousand candles,’ will suffer no loss of reputation through this latest novel.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 62. Ja. 16, ’08. 260w.
“Although the mystery is a distracting affair and the love element proportionately interesting, all but the most casual readers will realize that the feature in which lies its greatest merit is the delineation of character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 868. D. 28, ’07. 260w.
=Nicolay, Fernand.= Napoleon at the Boulogne camp; based on numerous hitherto unpublished documents; tr. by Georgina L. Davis. *$3.50. Lane.
8–3124.
“An uncritical, but pleasantly discursive narrative, dealing with the flotilla, the state of public opinion, the episodes of the struggle along the coast, and the personality of Napoleon.”—Ath.
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“This volume has gained in interest by modesty of purpose. The value and interest of the volume is heightened by an excellent, thoroughly idiomatic translation.” H. M. Bowman.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 641. Ap. ’08. 450w.
“This work, though lacking in critical insight and thoroughness, abounds in interesting details; and it was well worth while to present it in English.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 154. Ag. 10. 580w.
“For a task of this sort the author seems unfitted, for he gives more credence to the random and inexact recollections of Constant than to the results of the researches of Desbrière, based upon official papers preserved in the Archives of war and marine.”
− =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 200w.
“The anecdotes he has strung together ... are not always entertaining, or vital, or even plausible.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“We find accordingly much new material and considerable information of a personal nature about Napoleon.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 16. Ja. 11, ’08. 80w.
“M. Nicolay has collected a vast quantity of details about the Boulogne period. In fact, he somewhat overlays his subject with this multitude of details.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 986. Je. 22, ’07. 330w.
=Nicoll, Michael John.= Three voyages of a naturalist: being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the “Valhalla” R. Y. S.; with an introd. by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Crawford. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–14717.
A diary of the observations made by a young naturalist who accompanied Lord Crawford upon three cruises made in his splendid yacht, the “Valhalla.” They circumnavigated the African continent in the first voyage; went to the West Indies and back for the second; while the third took them around the world. Remote islands are described and the new contributions they offered to the naturalists’ realm of science.
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“The most interesting part of the whole book, though not the most satisfying, is the chapter on the author’s visit to Easter island, the home of the colossal statues, facing the ocean from their platforms.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 446. Ap. 11. 860w.
“There is a simple realism which permits the reader to accompany the author in thought to the various remote islands visited, to see them more or less as he saw them, and to search with him for the rare and new birds so many of them harbored.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 44: 344. Je. 1, ’08. 800w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 539. Je. 11, ’08. 1050w.
“The work of an acute observer, who knows what to look for, and how to describe in readable language what he has seen. Although containing little that is absolutely new, may be commended as a well-written narrative of the experiences of an eager naturalist in remote islands.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 32. My. 14, ’08. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 353. Je. 20, ’08. 240w.
“To the naturalist the book must be of quite unusual interest on account of the many new species described.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 583. Ap. 11, ’08. 460w.
=Nicoll, William Robertson, and Seccombe, Thomas.= History of English literature. 3v. **$6. Dodd.
7–37996.
Interpreting literature in a broad sense rather than in its more technical aspects this is a work for the general public rather than for specialists and scholars. It emphasizes the biographical part of literary history at the expense of literary criticism and of literary origins and movements.
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“Those familiar with these pages will be able to give a fairly intelligent opinion—or rather the echo of a fairly intelligent opinion—upon almost any author or book that happens to be mentioned, but the thoughtful reader will miss that suggestiveness which would have set his own thoughts to work without perhaps furnishing him with matter for superficial conversation.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 625. D. 22, ’06. 1500w.
“Makes a useful addition to the histories of English literature but would be selected after the library owned old standards.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 227. Je. ’08.
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 126. Ap. 19, ’07. 1000w.
“With all its faults, of plan and execution, the book is not only valuable, it is really readable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 732. N. 16, ’07. 1400w.
“In a word, the book, as a whole, lacks greatness—it has not the large perspective of Taine, nor is it written in the glowing style of Jusserand, nor is it marked by the literary judgment of Courthope.”
− + =Outlook.= 89: 38. My. 2, ’08. 1100w.
“Will no doubt please all who like to read about books rather than read the books themselves.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
=Spec.= 95: 764. N. 11, ’05. 150w.
“The work shows a most praiseworthy completeness. Omissions there are, but we are not sure that they may not have been deliberately made.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: sup. 645. Ap. 27, ’07. 1200w.
=Nicolls, William Jasper.= Brunhilda of Orr’s Island. †$1.50. Jacobs.
8–17253.
The romance of a New Yorker who aimlessly whiling away time in his yacht steams into Casco bay where he picks up the fair-haired Valkerie and carries her to her island. She is a merry minx and leads her adoring Siegfried an exciting chase. There are touches of local color which lend reality to the story for people who know Casco bay and its islands.
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“For some readers the setting of this love story—on the Maine coast—and the lively conversation will compensate for lack of incident and originality of plot.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08.
“The padding has accomplished its work, and the result is an amiable little story which in shunning depth has also escaped sentimentality.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 289. S. 24, ’08. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 120w.
“The story ... is well told, and much charm is added to the narrative by the frequent introduction of what seem to be real bits of Orr’s island life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 436. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Niecks, Frederick.= Programme music in the last four centuries: a contribution to the history of musical expression. $8. Novello.
7–27022.
“Our author begins his book by asking the pertinent question, What is programme music? Many, he tells us, regard it as music which imitates sounds ... while others taking a wider view, look upon it as that ‘which not only describes, but expresses.’ Of these different kinds the author traces the history from the sixteenth century down to the present time. After two short chapters on early vocal specimens of programme music, he turns to instrumental music.”—Ath.
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“Prof. Niecks’s book is a veritable cyclópædia of information on programme music, and full of valuable comments and criticisms.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 391. Mr. 30. 900w.
“Professor Niecks traces its development and gradual transformation with much acumen and erudition; his book is the most elaborate and valuable treatise on the subject in any language.”
+ + =Nation.= 86: 361. Ap. 16, ’08. 800w.
=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.= Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future; authorized tr. by Helen Zimmern. **$1.50. Macmillan.
No philosopher since Hegel has acquired such influence over modern European culture as Nietzsche. This work is meant on the one hand to explain more clearly in prose form the ideas expressed poetically and somewhat obscurely in “Thus spake Zarathustra”; and on the other hand it is meant as a prelude to his great work “The will to power.” Making the ethical end the highest excellence of society, favoring a true aristocracy as the best means for elevating society, he discusses such subjects as Prejudices of philosophers, The free spirit, The religious mood, Natural history of morals, We scholars, Our virtues, and What is noble?
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“The book is to be read and meditated on by the few. To the multitude it will be simply the massing of words, without coherence and almost without meaning. The general impression made by the book is that it emanates from a mind of tremendous individuality.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 39: 121. Ja. ’08. 230w.
“This version should form a quite successful book and should have considerable circulation.” G. R. T. Ross.
+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 517. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“As a protest against effeminacy, hyper-sentimentalism. misguided sympathy, and exaggerated socialism, Nietzsche’s book mirrors certain undercurrents in the thinking of our age, but as a serious contribution to the science of ethics or as a practical guide to life, it does not possess the value which the writer of the introduction claims for it.” F. Thilly.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 75. Ja. 30, ’08. 1440w.
“Miss Zimmern ... has in the present volume turned his German into fluent and easy English.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 12. Ja. 2, ’08. 140w.
“It will interest and instruct those who are unfamiliar with Nietzsche’s philosophy to read what the philosopher has to say here on the natural history of morals and other subjects.”
+ =Nature.= 77: 460. Mr. 19, ’08. 80w.
“To the plain man, nourished on the precepts of the old-fashioned morality, this latest deliverance of Nietzsche will seem to be made ‘behind the looking glass,’ in a topsy-turvy world of its own.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 4. Ja. 4, ’08. 1950w.
“The translation is in most respects all that could be desired.” G. N. Dolson.
+ − =Philos. R.= 17: 557. S. ’08. 340w.
=Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.= Human, all too human: a book for free spirits; tr. by Alexander Harvey. (Library of science for the workers.) 50c. Kerr.
8–7591.
Not a socialist book but one that “tells facts about human conduct to those who are not afraid to read them.”
=Nation.= 86: 376. Ap. 23, ’08. 50w.
=Noble, Margaret E. (Sister Nivedita).= Cradle tales of Hinduism. *$1.60. Longmans.
8–13677.
The author of “The web of Indian life” has reproduced here for the school-room and nursery a number of stories from the Puranas and the two great epics of India. “In the legends which Miss Noble has brought to us across the sea [the snakes and monkeys, the forest boy and the villagers] are steeped in an atmosphere which no European imagination can ever counterfeit.” (Spec.)
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“It is not a book for children primarily; it will interest all lovers of the magic and the human.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 564. D. 19, ’07. 120w.
“The reader will be well advised to accept these versions with some reservation, for a double reason. In the first place, there is too much of the Bengali spirit in them; secondly, all the eroticism and coarseness which are unhappily so prominent in this literature, and especially in that characteristic of Bengal, have necessarily been rigidly suppressed, and the student who reads these stories for the first time may be led to form an impression of their delicacy and purity of sentiment which will soon be dissipated on acquaintance with the originals.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 605. Ap. 30, ’08. 450w.
“If we are to understand our fellow-subjects in the East we must begin at the beginning, and this pleasant introduction to the lore of the Hindu cradle will help where more ambitious books would fail.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 128. Ja. 25, ’08. 360w.
=Nojine, E. K.= Truth about Port Arthur; tr. by Captain A. B. Lindsay; ed. by Major E. D. Swinton. *$5. Dutton.
W 8–120.
The version of Port Arthur presented by the accredited Russian war correspondent. “M. Nojine’s principal themes are the unpreparedness of Port Arthur for a siege, largely due to the incapacity of General Stoessel, and his contempt for the Japanese and the divided authority and quarrels amongst the officers entrusted with the defence.” (Sat. R.) “We learn little that is new about the actual fighting of the siege, but a great deal about the almost incredible conflict of authority between Stoessel and General Smirnoff.” (Ind.)
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=Ath.= 1908, 1: 508. Ap. 25, ’08. 230w.
“M. Nojine’s book must stand on the shelves with the half dozen others that tell the terrible story of that siege—but as a Philippic rather than as a narrative.”
− + =Ind.= 64: 1452. Je. 25, ’08. 200w.
“M. Nojine’s book is the first to marshall details into broad lines easily followed; and this without apparent effort at being vivid or picturesque.”
+ =Nation.= 37: 100. Jl. 30, ’08. 640w.
“Must be read by all who would get a detailed knowledge of the famous siege as seen by a Russian of the new school. Its general truth is beyond question, but its partisanship is evident, and one somehow gets from it the impression that it proves too much.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 326. Je. 13, ’08. 820w.
“From his own point of view, the story is told with vigor and picturesqueness.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 491. Je. 27, ’08. 370w.
“This is the first really satisfactory connected story about the siege of Port Arthur and its final fall that we have yet seen.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 123. Jl. ’08. 220w.
=Sat. R.= 105: 666. My. 23, ’08. 300w.
=Nolhac, Pierre Giraud de.= Petrarch and the ancient world; ed. by John W. Mackail. (Humanist lib., no. 3.) $6. Updike.
8–838.
“The author regards Petrarch as the initiator of the Renaissance, and upholds this theme with knowledge and skill, although he recognizes the poet’s obligations to his masters, Virgil and Cicero. Not the least interesting and certainly the most novel part of his monograph is that which deals with Petrarch’s library—its contents and character as reconstructed from the references found in his own works.”—Outlook.
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 411. Ap. 4. 100w.
“Notable contribution.” A. R. Marble.
+ =Dial.= 44: 378. Je. 16, ’08. 450w.
“The work in its present form is the pleasantest of introductions to the study of Petrarch’s relations to the revival of learning and to the beginnings of modern classical culture.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 489. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
“A real classic would have been more acceptable in this admirable setting than this information and discussion about such a classic.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 31. Ja. 18, ’08. 480w.
“M. de Nolhac has written carefully and with enthusiasm about certain aspects of Petrarch’s relations to the world of letters of his time.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 326. F. 8, ’08. 140w.
=Noorden, Karl Harko von=, ed. Metabolism and practical medicine; tr. by I. Walker Hall. 3v. v. 1, *$4; v. 2 & 3, ea. *$6. Keener.
Agr 7–2016.
A translation of the first volume of von Noorden’s “Handbuch der pathologie des stoffwechsels.”
=v. 1.= The physiology of metabolism, by Adolf Magnus-Levy “treats of normal metabolism in all its different phases.... It is a veritable mine of numberless detailed facts and corresponding references to the original literature.” (Science.)
=v. 2.= The pathology of metabolism, by Karl von Noorden and others, deals with starvation, in over feeding, in fevers, and in diseases of the digestive tract, respiration, the liver, the blood and the kidneys.
=v. 3.= Metabolism of special conditions, by Karl von Noorden, Carl Neuberg, L. Mohr, and others.
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“There are marked differences of opinion among medical men as to the utility of this line of study, but all will be glad to have the enormous material in a fairly convenient and accessible form; and many of the discussions will be found to be inspiring quite apart from the validity of some of the conclusions. The translation is fresh and often rather free, but appears to be adequate as judged by a dozen comparisons quite at random.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 132. F. 6, ’08. 280w. (Review of v. 3.)
“[Volume 1] should prove exceedingly valuable to the investigator who wishes to look up definite facts with the minimum waste of time. It is to be regretted that the scholarly character of this valuable work should have suffered at the hands of the translators. They have evidently done their part in great haste, with little regard for English style, and sometimes without even bringing out the correct sense of the original.” Otto Folin.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 439. O. 4, ’07. 840w.
(Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Norris, Henry Hutchinson.= Introduction to the study of electrical engineering. *$2.50. Wiley.
8–348. (2d. ed. rev. 8–20679.)
“The author states that the plan of this work is to take the every-day experience of the student as the basis of a general survey of electrical application. The treatment covers fundamental electrical and magnetic quantities, materials of electrical engineering and magnetic circuits, construction and operation of generating station, transformers and motors, and their applications, electric lighting and heating, electrical measurements, and the transmission of intelligence.” (Elec. World.)
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“The book is lacking in depth ... but the accuracy of presentation more than compensates for this deficiency.”
+ − =Elec. World.= 51: 731. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“A very complete index adds considerably to the value of the book.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 417. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The present book suffers seriously through a looseness and inaccuracy of expression, especially in the earlier preparatory chapters, that is often surprising.”
− + =Engin. N.= 59: 206. F. 20, ’08. 1400w.
“The volume is well illustrated and deserves a very careful study by instructors in high schools and academies who wish to make their courses of real value instead of a means of smearing the youthful intellect with a skim coat of worthless generalities.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 167. F. 8, ’08. 600w.
“The writer has succeeded admirably in dealing with the side of the subject which he has selected.”
+ =Phys. R.= 26: 545. Je. ’08. 110w.
=Norris, Mary Harriott.= Veil: a fantasy. $1.50. Badger.
8–444.
A theosophical tale which illustrates ideas of reincarnation held by the cult.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 168. Mr. 28, ’08. 300w.
=North, Arthur Walbridge.= Mother of California; with an introd. by Cyrus C. Adams, il. **$2. Elder.
An historical sketch of the little-known land of Baja California, from the days of Cortez to the present time, depicting the ancient missions therein established, the mines there found, and the physical, social and political aspects of the country; together with an extensive bibliography relative to the same. (Explanatory title.) It is fully illustrated and makes its appeal to “those who look ahead beyond the opening of the Panama canal and to all interested in California history.”
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“It contains a fairly full sketch of the history of the country from the days of the Conquistadors to the present.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 684. Ag. ’08. 560w.
“Mr. North’s style is suited to his subject matter, mostly arid, but blossoming at times into semi-tropical rhetoric. But the book is timely and useful.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 751. Ap. 2, ’08. 350w.
“The volume is one that will deeply interest all those who care for geographical and historical research and also all those who take delight in the romance of history. Mr. North writes in a graphic and interesting style, although it is marred sometimes by indulgence in a too florid rhetoric.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 231. Ap. 18, ’08. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 636. My. ’08. 150w.
=Norton, Grace=, comp. Influence of Montaigne: his personal relations to some of his contemporaries, and his literary relations to some later writers. **$1.50. Houghton.
“Contains, drawn from French and English writers, comments on Montaigne, allusions to him and plagiarisms from his writings.”—Nation.
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+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.
“Is extremely interesting.” E: Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
=Norton, Grace=, ed. Spirit of Montaigne: some thoughts and expressions similar to those in his essays. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–16222.
“Made up of parallel passages expressing thoughts like those of Montaigne, among which the works of Bacon, Locke, and Rousseau stand foremost.”—Nation.
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+ =Nation.= 87: 53. Jl. 16, ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by E: Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 400w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 579. Jl. 11, ’08. 220w.
* =Nott, Charles Cooper.= Mystery of the Pinckney draught. **$2. Century.
8–33815.
A work which may be considered authoritative and final concerning the much mooted question of Pinckney’s draught of the constitution. The author shows what the original document contained, shows why the charges against the verity of the second document are false, in short, covers step by step a course of vindication that solves the problem and clears up the mystery.
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=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
=Noyes, Alfred.= The Golden Hynde and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–5889.
This poetry is well symbolized by the Golden Hynde, the dream craft that skims the glittering foam, sailing on to the golden gateway, over golden seas. Many of the poems turn upon classical themes, with such exceptions as A seventh birthday, In honor of Algernon Charles Swinburne, To England in 1907, The call of the spring.
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“He is certainly of the rank of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Watson, and he surpasses the former in freshness of vision, the latter in facility of utterance.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 61. Ag. 1, ’08. 820w.
“For all his volubility he thinks deeplier and sanlier, feels with a fresher ardor, and versifies with a more catholic skill than many of the worthies did at his years. He has not, indeed, learned blank verse; but he has already come near to it.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 528. Ap. ’08. 600w.
“He knows how to include in his compositions something besides the mere splendor of vision.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 34. Jl. 9, ’08. 250w.
“‘The Golden Hynde’ will not enhance Mr. Noyes’s reputation, but it should not detract from it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 183. Ap. 4, ’08. 1000w.
“When an intellectual or moral purpose gets in his way, he usually misses that perfect emotional fusion of content and expression which is poetry. Mr. Noyes is by far the most promising of all the younger English poets, because of his vigor and variety, his freshness of personality, and his ease of art.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ + − =No. Am.= 188: 451. S. ’08. 1200w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 261. My. 30, ’08. 300w.
=Nuelsen, John L.= Some recent phases of German theology. *75c. West. Meth. bk.
8–7161.
Three lectures by the Professor of exegetical theology in Nast theological seminary covering the present state of modern biblical criticism in Germany, the views of the person and work of Jesus Christ, and the “modern-positive” school of theology. The author, while not approving the conservatism of one class of theologians, laments the radicalism which presents an almost obliterated and an ineffectual Christ, and the vague mysticism which seeks no objective basis—no foundation outside of ourselves.
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“This is a meaty little book, not of equal value throughout. As a report of the varying phases of German theology at present and less recently, it is lucid and instructive, showing on one side a high and dry conservatism, on another a reckless and arid radicalism, and between these some mediating varieties.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 86. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
=Nutting, Mary Adelaide, and Dock, Lavinia L.= History of nursing, the evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
7–41533.
Discusses the aid which animals render each other; the care of the sick in primitive times; nursing in India, Ceylon, Egypt, Assyria, Palestine, Greece and Rome; the hospitals of the early Christian church; use of nursing among monastic orders; nursing orders of the crusades; the rise of the city hospitals; Florence Nightingale’s work; and the Treaty of Geneva and the Red cross.
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“Perhaps no book that has been written in recent years brings out more clearly the value of the Christian brotherhood of man in making life more livable, under unfavorable circumstances, than this scholarly and exhaustive history of nursing. We commend its really absorbing pages to all those who are interested in what men and women have done and may do to alleviate human suffering.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 638. Mr. 19, ’08. 550w.
“An instructive as well as entertaining story.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 221. Mr. 5, ’08. 550w.
“We could wish that every woman who is likely to be called to such duties—and who is not?—should read it.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1007. Je. 27, ’08. 300w.
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=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Guide to the West Indies and Bermudas. *$2.25. Dodd.
8–7374.
A guide, including illustrations and maps, to every island in the West Indian archipelago. It gives descriptions of each one, its attractions, resources, climate, history, hotels, as well as routes thither from the Atlantic ports of the United States, Canada, England and Europe.
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“Indispensable to the traveler, as there is no other complete guide.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 107. Ap. ’08. ✠
+ =Dial.= 44: 355. Je. 1, ’08. 100w.
“An excellent book ... on an untouched subject.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 220w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 282. Mr. 26, ’08. 150w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
“A thorough and reliable guide.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 510. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“Tells us all that can be wanted.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 239. Ag. 15, ’08. 60w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= John and Sebastian Cabot. (Heroes of American history.) **$1. Harper.
8–11834.
Mr. Ober clears up some of the doubts that have obscured the claim of these discoverers to the mainland of North America. He narrates their voyages, portrays vividly the thrill of enthusiasm that stirred England, Venice and Spain when new world riches were the talk and dream of king and peasant, and discusses the sturdy elements that formed the character of the Cabots.
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“Offers information but is not scholarly in treatment, nor distinctive in style.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 200. Je. ’08.
+ =Dial.= 44: 383. Je. 16, ’08. 170w.
“He has taken great pains to make his sketch as nearly accurate as possible, and he writes with judgment and impartiality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 320. Je. 6, ’08. 150w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Juan Ponce de Leon. (Heroes of American history.) **$1. Harper.
8–9496.
Aside from the quest for the fountain of perennial youth which has always lent romance to the name of Ponce de Leon, here are recorded many daring adventures of the explorer among the islands of the new world where he is revealed as a hardy soldier, an honorable cavalier, and a noble man.
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“The book is an entertaining one, and a contribution, in its way, to historical literature.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 315. My. 16, ’08. 220w.
“Told in succinct and interesting narrative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 150w.
=O’Connor, Vincent C. S.= Mandalay, and other cities of the past in Burma. *$5. Appleton.
8–20523.
“A resuscitation of the past of Burma as it finds expression in its cities, the centers of a by-gone day.” “The spirit of the East possesses him, and amid the deserted pagodas, the ruin-strewed jungles, the mouldering scenes of vanished glories, he knows how to discern and interpret the subtle charm that appeals to every traveller whose footsteps have wandered among the relics of departed greatness in Asia.” (Lond. Times.)
* * * * *
“Much that is both valuable and beautiful in Burma possesses also the characteristic of impermanence, and the fact is of itself good justification for this volume.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 733. D. 7. 720w.
“His book ought surely to be read with delight even by those to whom the wonders of the Orient are but a vague vision.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 378. D. 13, ’07. 770w.
“His book is not easy reading, except to those familiar with the country and its history.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 499. N. 19, ’08. 630w.
“Of hardly less interest than his story of Mandalay are the stories Mr. O’Connor tells of the older cities of Burma.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 638. O. 31, ’08. 380w.
“The author knows his Burma from end to end; he writes with equal sympathy of its past history and its wealth of natural and artistic beauty.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 908. D. 7, ’07. 550w.
=Oesterley, William Oscar Emil.= Evolution of the Messianic idea: a study in comparative religion. *$1.25. Dutton.
8–26835.
“The elemental emotions of fear, the sense of dependence on a higher power, and the desire for happiness, accordingly give rise to three primordial myths found among widely diverse peoples.... The spiritual truths enveloped in these misty conceptions it was the mission of Israelite teachers to clarify, and this process of development is Dr. Oesterley’s theme.”—Outlook.
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“We must confine our remarks to criticism of a few leading ideas. We must also remark that the apologetic parts of the book are by no means happy all through. Dr. Oesterley’s work is, however, on the whole, likely to prove very useful to a wide circle of readers. It is stimulating, earnest, frank, and full of interesting information.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 662. My. 30. 1100w.
“It is an illuminative piece of scholarship in comparative religion. It hardly needs saying that readers of the Testament will find profit in this book.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, ’08. 280w.
=Oesterley, Rev. W. O. E., and Box, G. H.= Religion and worship of the synagogue. *$3. Scribner.
8–11732.
“The authors, both of them clergymen of the Church of England, write with equal knowledge and fairness, in the belief that Judaism and Christianity are complementary and belong together, and that the advocates of each can only be true to their respective faiths by mutual fellowship and respect for one another’s convictions. A survey of Judaism from the New Testament to the present day necessarily covers a great variety of subjects, the classic literature or sources, the theology, the current practice; on all of these Mr. Oesterley and Mr. Box give adequate information.”—Sat. R.
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“The authors have approached the theme in a proper spirit of sympathy and discrimination; they have made good use of the best authorities at their command; and they have also done whatever was possible to gain personal impressions of several of the customs they describe.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 319. Mr. 14. 350w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 325. F. 8, ’08. 510w.
“This excellent work supplies what has long been wanted, a clear and dispassionate account of Judaism such as the ordinary reader can understand.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 105: 24. Ja. 4, ’08. 270w.
“Very instructive volume.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 650. Ap. 25, ’08. 150w.
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Grand army man. †$1.50. Century.
8–24451.
Mr. O’Higgins in novelizing David Belasco’s play has aimed to translate into the form of fiction the flavor of Warfield’s acting, and the charm of Belasco’s stage. Here as in the play the effort is spent on the development of the simple, tender hearted Wes’ Bigelow whose only shadow across a serene sky is due to the misdeeds of the wayward foster-son.
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“The book contains the essentials of the play, with enough fine material replete in imaginative power and human interest to make an absorbingly fascinating novel of human life.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 480. N. ’08. 200w.
“He has accomplished his task in as agreeable a manner as the process will allow. He has poured his own originality into the work, rounding out in word pictures that which Mr. Warfield so adequately brought out in his acting.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 180w.
“Mr. O’Higgins has succeeded in turning out a little volume which will be welcome to those who want an enduring record of a fleeting playhouse impression, and which has some interest as fiction on its own account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 511. S. 19, ’08. 570w.
“The book will not disappoint the many friends of Wes’ Bigelow among his Grand army comrades and others.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 70w.
=Okey, Thomas.= Old Venetian palaces and old Venetian folk. *$6. Dutton.
W7–195.
A volume which grew, says the author, “from a pilgrimage about Venetian streets and canals ‘for the purpose of identifying and precisely indicating the position’ of the palaces referred to by Ruskin, Fergusson, Street, and other students of Venetian architecture. The chief examples are described in the order of their erection, and grouped as Byzantine, Gothic, or Renaissance. From the writings of the three great Venetian diarists has been drawn an accompanying picture of life in the palaces in the days of Venice’s greatest glory. There are fifty beautiful illustrations in color, and others, possibly more valuable to the student, in black and white, by Mr. Trevor Haddon, besides several reproductions from Ruskin’s studies of Venetian architecture.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A book that will delight all lovers of Venice.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 150w.
“Is the most important and the most valuable of all these new volumes on Italian themes. This is a scholarly and a thoroughly workmanlike book.”
+ + =Ind.= 64: 524. Mr. 5, ’08. 200w.
“This book is not only much better intrinsically than his historical sketch of Venice, but it also is free from the pot-boiler aroma that pervaded that effort.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 38. Ja. 9, ’08. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 617. N. 23, ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Okey knows his Venice well. He has ransacked history and legend for illustrative comment, using both with judgment, and indeed with restraint.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 50. Ja. 11, ’08. 930w.
=Olcott, William Tyler.= Field book of the stars. **$1. Putnam.
7–26464.
This guide “is gotten up in very compact form, presenting in fifty diagrams the appearance of the skies at different seasons and the location of all the important constellations. Accompanying each diagram is a brief explanation. There is nothing of either a technical or a theoretical nature, and nothing has been included which cannot be studied with either the naked eye or an opera glass.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=Dial.= 43: 385. D. 1, ’07. 50w.
“Of this sort the book is a model of simplicity and brevity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 130w.
“For assistance in the geography of the heavens, and for choosing particular objects that are suitable for naked-eye or opera-glass study this little book is the most complete and the most practicable that has thus far appeared. The diagrams are simple, clear, and admirably adapted to class or individual use. The author’s work is excellently done. The book is timely and teachable, and there is little of moment in it to criticize. Every high-school teacher of astronomy ought to have it and to use it in his classes.” G. W. Meyers.
+ + =School. R.= 16: 346. My. ’08. 1100w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Aunt Maud. +$1.50. McClure.
8–20135.
Tells how a niece is so clever regarding her aunt’s announced match-making schemes that she takes matters into her own hands and swears the young man to secrecy over a compact to play a part for a month during which time they are to seem engaged while in reality they are only “taking each other’s measure.” “The result is a series of emotional incidents, described with much vivacity and minuteness, and leading to an event which amiably and not quite unexpectedly vindicates the tactics of Aunt Maud.” (Nation.)
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“A book worth bringing to the attention of readers who like incursions into the domain of sentiment that is not sentimentality.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 69. S. ’08. 380w.
“It is a sensible book for young girls.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 70w.
=Nation.= 87: 187. Ag. 27, ’08. 240w.
“The central love-story is treated with so much originality and discretion that we are at a loss to understand the author’s fiasco over his more ambitious portrait.”
− + =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 7. S. 26, ’08. 250w.
=Oldmeadow, Ernest J.= Virginie. †$1.50. McClure.
8–4038.
This story is really the continuation of a deus ex machina’s task to bring happiness to the daughter of the woman whom he had loved and lost. The protector is a chemist and he administers to Virginie, on the eve of an odious marriage with a dissolute count, a Monte Cristo potion which causes temporary suspension of life. He chooses a British lover for her, an amateur archaeologist, to whom he delivers a wax statue packed in ice with a silver trumpet in its hand. The statue comes to life and is beautiful. As Virginie comes out of the trance of body, the Englishman emerges from his trance of soul. The guardian sees to it that there are plenty of adventures to test the lover’s sincerity and heroism before he confesses the truth to him.
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“The author writes with attractive lightness, and we have been amused by the feats of the special maker of providence for the young people. It is a pleasant story, except that too much is made, we think, of eating and drinking.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 513. O. 26. 110w.
“The author has developed an absurd situation with a gravity that is almost obtuse.”
− =Ind.= 64: 1453. Je. 25, ’08. 300w.
“The story is written with much cleverness and skill, and is plausible enough to be entertaining, even if the reader does not find the evasive and resourceful Italian, who is really a famous French scientist, entirely convincing.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 77. F. 8, ’08. 370w.
“A more improbable tale than ‘Virginie’ would be hard to find.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 512. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Is all wrong from beginning to end. It is not merely the wild extravagance of the conception, unworthy though that be of a writer of Mr. Oldmeadow’s powers, but it is the whole atmosphere of false sentiment in which the story is steeped that offends.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 642. N. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Oliver, Thomas.= Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social and medical points of view. *$3. Dutton.
8–27120.
“Treats of the diseases incidental to a great variety of occupations in factories, workshops, mines, potteries, and other employments where many persons labor together.”—Nation.
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“In every case the information supplied is ample, and the best-known methods for abolishing or lessening the evils attendant on each occupation are given with commendable brevity. Several statements and facts are repeated at short intervals in almost identical words—a blemish which can be easily removed in the next edition of what must prove a highly useful book of reference. There is an excellent index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 421. Ap. 4. 420w.
“It is an excellent, simple, and untechnical description of the diseases due to gases, poisons, dust, etc.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 543. O. ’08. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 216. S. 3, ’08. 540w.
“In a comparatively small book Dr. Oliver has succeeded in bringing together a vast amount of useful information on all sorts of subjects. The facts with which he has dealt are not drawn up in any very orderly array, and throughout one finds a certain vagueness which may well tend to make the reader feel that he is treading on ground too uncertain to bear definite action. In some places where definite directions are given they are contradictory.” A. E. B.
+ − =Nature.= 78: 627. O. 22, ’08. 1050w.
=Ollivant, Alfred.= The gentleman. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–28993.
A continuous series of adventures both on land and sea that result in thwarting the plot of Napoleon to kidnap Nelson just before the battle of Trafalgar. Napoleon’s agent is an Irish rebel—the Gentleman—whose charming personality and bravery won the admiration and respect of his enemies. The rescuing party consists of a few sailors and fighting men of whom a fifteen-year old midshipman is the first in valor and resourcefulness.
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“An ingenious, breathless story, of decided literary merit, that men and older boys will enjoy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08. ✠
“The last fight of the ‘Tremendous’ is one of the best naval battles in fiction.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 676. N. 28. 330w.
“A distinctly bigger achievement than either of its author’s earlier books; and, one is tempted to add, the book best entitled of any story written in English since the days of Robert Louis Stevenson to trace its ancestry straight back to the purest strain of the romantic novel.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ + =Forum.= 40: 510. N. ’08. 2000w.
“Take three parts of Stevenson to one of Charles Kingsley, flavor with reminiscences of Blackmore, beat violently, and serve in paragraphs à la Charles Reade—such seems to have been the formula for this rather extraordinary book.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
“One can only call it melodrama; but it hurries the reader along without a halt on a single page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 796. D. 19, ’08. 720w.
“The book is marred a little by hints of torture and by some passages which may try the nerves of haters of bloodshed and cruelty, and sometimes the author’s style, purposely made sharp and concise, becomes a little too Victor Hugoish in abruptness. But, criticism aside, the romance is one of the best of its class; it holds the imagination with intentness.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 748. N. 28, ’08. 180w.
=Olmstead, Albert Ten Eyck.= Western Asia in the days of Sargon of Assyria, 722–705 B. C.: a study in oriental history. (Cornell studies in history and political science.) **$1.25. Holt.
8–17886.
“Represents seven years of study during which the author was for a year a Fellow at the American school for oriental studies, under Professor Schmidt, and had the inestimable advantage of a careful topographical study of a portion of the territory covered by Sargon’s campaigns.... Among the points most valuable is his study of the perplexing ‘Muzri’ question raised by Winckler. Also of much interest is the account of Sargon’s campaigns to the north against the Mannai and Khaldians (Chaldeans) until he was slain in battle with the Cimmerians, as this brings him into relation with tribes whom our author recognizes as Aryan.”—Ind.
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“This book is a good example of the systematic work that must be done on every period of Babylonian-Assyrian history before an adequate history of those nations can be written.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 224. S. ’08. 90w.
“An admirably careful, thoro and adequate study of Sargon’s campaigns, and has close bearing on biblical accounts.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 266. Jl. 30, ’08. 220w.
* =Olmsted, E. Stanley.= Emotionalist: the romance of an awakening to temperament. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–30250.
The story of an American girl’s struggle for temperament which if added to her gift of a beautiful voice, to her ambition and energy would insure a much coveted career. She pursues her study in Germany, meets a man who takes a hand in developing her temperament with the result that he loves her, and sacrifices his happiness for her art only to see her turn aside from it and marry a Fifth avenue oil-magnate.
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“A clever piece of work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 680. N. 14, ’08. 300w.
=Oman, John Campbell.= Brahmans, theists, and Muslims of India. *$3.50. Jacobs.
8–436.
Studies of goddess-worship in Bengal, caste, Brahmanism and social reform, with descriptive sketches of curious festivals, ceremonies and fakirs.
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“An excellent book on the practice of religion as distinguished from the doctrines or philosophies. Useful in connection with so called accounts of religion which are purely idealistic.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 200. Je. ’08.
“A special master-key to the problems of Indian life and thought.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 259. S. 7. 2750w.
“The work contains a great deal that is full of human interest, but its value had been much enhanced by greater compression and more reflection of a suggestive sort upon the phenomena presented.” James Lindsay.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 138. O. ’08. 340w.
“Mr Oman’s evidence is all the more valuable and convincing in that he approaches the speculative realms of Hindu thought with broad-minded tolerance and sympathy, whilst he is too sound a student to ignore or to minimize the more repellent aspects of Hinduism.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 276. S. 13, ’07. 1700w.
“The many pages devoted to subjects already treated by the other writers, such as caste and the history of Hindu theism, are not of great worth, and give the impression of having been taken in great measure from previous authors. On the other hand, Mr. Oman’s own observations and studies from life in India, his descriptions of the Holi festival and the Mohammedan fakirs deserve a permanent form.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja, 30, ’08. 150w.
“He has evidently written con amore, and with wide and diverse knowledge, and his pages give to the reader a singular feeling of being in touch with at least some of the actualities of this alien and mysterious life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 102. F. 22, ’08. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 384. S. ’08. 60w.
* =Onken, William Henry, and Baker, Joseph Black.= Harper’s how to understand electrical work; a simple explanation of electric light, heat, power and traction in daily life; with a dictionary of electrical terms prepared by Joseph H. Adams. $1.75. Harper.
8–33039.
A book which answers for boys and girls the questions how and why machinery moves when the force behind it is electricity. It is the story of the every day uses of electricity indicating the universality of its application. The author shows how electricity is made; how it is used for light, heat, power and traction; in the home, on the farm, in hospitals, on steamships, in mines, in the manufacture of steel; for protection, as a destroyer, and for the transmission of intelligence.
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“Here is a book that makes the sharp and proper divisions as to methods and apparatus, and tells with precision just what is involved in lighting as distinguished from traction, in telegraphy as different from telephony. Our own opinion is that it will find a large circulation on account of the boldness with which it gives engineering data and diagrams.”
+ =Elec. World.= 52: 1252. D. 5, ’08. 400w.
“It is a deep book for a boy ... but one that will stimulate his mind if he be mechanically inclined.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: 694. D. 17, ’08. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= The avenger. †$1.50. Little.
8–13951.
A mystery story with a profusion of ingredients ranging from political intrigue to private revenge. The book differs from other of Mr. Oppenheim’s stories in that the man who takes life, the avenger, is a most reputable citizen of London, who can’t understand why, if on the battlefield one is held blameless while taking brave men’s lives, a man who rids society of lives that breed corruption should be condemned. He has the courage of his conviction and rids the world of three decadents, consoling himself with the belief that it is a moral act.
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“Amongst the makers of sensational fiction Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim ranks as a past-master.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 42. O. 19, ’07. 250w.
“An absurd, wholly improbable, yet readable tale.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“There is not a dull page in the volume and many of the scenes are highly dramatic.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 125. Jl. ’08. 120w.
“Considered as an invention merely, the story is neat and effective.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 352. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“Unlike most detective stories his plots are not mechanical and his people not marionettes.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 552. S. 3, ’08. 100w.
“The avenger’s folk are nicely alive—all who are not killed. Its manner places it in the class of novels of comfortable manslaughter—smooth-running, readable, pleasantly puzzling.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 516. Je. 4, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether it is a lively, thrilling, and captivating story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“Altogether a rattling good story of its sort.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 427. Ag. 1, ’08. 360w.
“Is notable for its cleverness in placing before the readers a murder problem apparently simple but really all but insoluble.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 50w.
“Entertaining romance.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 623. Ag. ’08. 100w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Great secret. †$1.50. Little.
7–40278.
A story of intrigue woven about an international conspiracy hatched by Germany and involving Great Britain. The outwitting of the band of German conspirators in London is a clever piece of interference, conducted by one Lord Leslie Wendover alias Leslie Guest, aided by a renowned English cricket player, and a charming American girl.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 157. My. ’08.
“An exceptionally able story of the kind.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 39: 506. Ap. ’08. 180w.
“It is not likely that ‘The great secret’ will be distinguished for merit above its fellow; but it may achieve a mild distinction in this country because its author has allowed himself to indulge in gentle sarcasm at the expense of the American woman. This is not one of those mystery stories which offer a real challenge to the reader’s analytical faculty. The truth is that Mr. Oppenheim, entertaining as he may sometimes be, is sadly superficial.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 61. Mr. ’08. 1000w.
“Although one cannot cease to protest against the utter improbability of the general plot and many situations of this story, nevertheless curiosity is aroused from the first and carries us along to the finish.”
− =Cath. World.= 87: 262. My. ’08. 100w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 421. F. 20, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 513. F. 29, ’08. 150w.
“There is no permanence and vitality in the plot to give it more than an ephemeral existence.”
− =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Phillips Oppenheim leaves us with a headache. He is so amazingly strenuous, and his characters pass through such terrible experiences in rapid succession that our nerves are shattered before we get to the end of the volume.”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 562. My. 4, ’07. 120w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Long arm of Mannister. †$1.50. Little.
8–23549.
A man who had been the victim of the dark plotting of eight conspirators takes his revenge upon each in turn. The punishment is administered single-handed, and for variety, ingenuity, boldness and thoroness can scarcely find its parallel in fiction.
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“The story is better written than some of Mr. Oppenheim’s recent thrilling romances and will hold the reader’s interest from start to finish.” A. C. Rich.
+ =Arena.= 40: 483. N. ’08. 170w.
“Mr. Mannister’s methods are too simple to greatly absorb a generation of readers that has known Sherlock Holmes.”
− =Cath. World.= 88: 408. D. ’08. 70w.
“Here Mr. Phillips undertakes to show, in a thrilling succession of anecdotes, that the way of the transgressor is much harder than the Biblical aphorist dreamed it. He has succeeded remarkably.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 581. D. 10, ’08. 200w.
“This may not be Mr. Oppenheim’s best work, but the narrative is compact, lively, and exciting—a diverting companion in an idle hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 320w.
* =Orczy, Emmuska, baroness.= Elusive pimpernel. †$1.50. Dodd.
8–33437.
“A sequel to ‘Scarlet pimpernel,’ in which intrigue, romance, and love go hand in hand along a path of real historical limitations and extent. It is a new story, a new telling of certain episodes of the French revolution, in which are continued the career of the Scarlet pimpernel, that daring and mysterious young English soldier of fortune, and the intrigues of the terrible yet fascinating French agent, Chauvelin.”—N. Y. Times.
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“If the reader can accept the improbabilities, he will find the story entertaining.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 504. O. 24. 120w.
“The story ... is told with a rush of incident and with not a little imaginative power.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 698. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
“The interest is wrought up to the very highest pitch. Nor is the tale a mere succession of startling incidents, made to look natural, and very cleverly joined together.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 680. O. 31, ’08. 230w.
=Orczy, Emmuska, baroness.= In Mary’s reign. (English title, The tangled skein.) 75c. Cupples & L.
8–14959.
“This is a sentimental tale of the days of Mary Tudor, with a fairly ingenious plot. There is an innocent maiden, a very good English lord, a double, and two very wicked Spanish diplomatists who speak with a scarcely veiled sneer and contrive most diabolical plots.”—Acad.
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“The style is of the most jerky and suburban type. The characters, moreover, are entirely melodramatic.”
− =Acad.= 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“The romance is of the machine-made order, nor does it give any adequate picture of the times. Its popular merit will probably be that it has dramatic moments.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 200w.
=Ind.= 65: 153. Jl. 16, ’08. 100w.
=Nation.= 86: 288. Mr. 26, ’08. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 266. My. 9, ’08. 30w.
“There is none of the vigour shown in the ‘Scarlet pimpernel.’”
− =Sat. R.= 103: 818. Je. 29, ’07. 170w.
=Orgain, Kate Alma.= Southern authors in poetry and prose. *$2. Neale.
8–23871.
A collection of biographical and critical essays, with selections from the writers. Among the groups of twenty-six men and women briefly sketched are Sidney Lanier, Augusta J. Evans, William Gilmore Simms, John Esten Cooke, Joel Chandler Harris, Elizabeth Whitfield Bellamy, George Washington Cable, Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Nelson Page.
=Osborn, Henry Fairfield.= Evolution of mammalian molar teeth, to and from the triangular type. *$2. Macmillan.
The first volume in a series of six Biological studies and addresses. “The purpose of the book is the collection of the writings of the author on this question and the extension of them by other observations and illustrations in support of the tritubercular theory.” (Nation.)
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=Nation.= 86: 243. Mr. 12, ’08. 150w.
“The author has succeeded in placing trituberculism on a much more secure and unassailable basis than it ever previously occupied.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 77: 435. Mr. 12, ’08. 800w.
“The whole book gives evidence of the most painstaking work. Perhaps its most delightful feature is the judicial fairness and frankness with which the whole evidence is reviewed and discussed.” R: S. Lull.
+ =Science=, n.s. 27: 341. F. 28, ’08. 1200w.
=Osborne, Charles Francis=, ed. Historic houses and their gardens: palaces, castles, country places and gardens of the old and new worlds described by several writers, illustrated with plans and photographs; with introd. by Frank Miles Day. $6. Winston.
8–22109.
A beautiful volume of folio size, with heavy glazed paper, large type, and numerous finely reproduced illustrations. The text includes thirty chapters, each of which is devoted to the description of some historic house and its garden. An introduction states some of the fundamental principles that ought to govern the relation of houses and their gardens. A wide range of selection is offered including houses in England, Spain, Italy, Austria, Japan, India, France, Mexico, and the United States.
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“The book will bring travellers’ joy, whether reminiscent or imaginary, to those who turn its pages.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 413. D. 1, ’08. 400w.
“There are thus scattered through the volume many welcome suggestions; and the appreciative reader may find in this rather bewildering abundance material for deductions which a work of narrower scope would not afford.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 272. S. 17, ’08. 350w.
“A very beautiful and instructive illustrated volume.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 526. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
“In the main the book is harmonious in style and method, and in every case the reader receives pleasurable impressions of the beauty of the places and agreeably rendered information as to their association and history.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 866. Ag. 15, ’08. 200w.
=Osgood, Elliott I.= Breaking down Chinese walls, from a doctor’s view-point. **$1. Revell.
8–5266.
A clear exposition of Chinese conditions and the place which medical missionary work has assumed in the Christianizing of China. “The author has shown that the missionary ‘must demonstrate by living illustrations the superiority of Christianity over heathen systems’; that dispensaries, hospitals and schools have been opened to prove the advantages of a Christian civilization; and that the home-life of the missionary is as effective an agency in regeneration as the pulpit and the hospital.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 717. My. ’08. 220w.
“A convincing and distinctly illuminating account of experiences in China.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1451. Je. 25, ’08. 100w.
“The fervent religious note throughout the book is so deep and earnest and heartfelt that it must command respect even from those who have no sympathy with the evangelical movements.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 174. Mr. 28, ’08 150w.
“Is interesting reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 312. Je. 6, ’08. 280w.
=* O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Linguistic development and education. *$1.25. Macmillan.
7–36885.
“Part 1 treats of the ‘Non-reflective processes in linguistic development’ and includes chapters on prelinguistic expression, early reaction upon conventional language, parts of speech in early linguistic activity, inflection and word order, and development of meaning for verbal symbols. Part 2 on ‘Reflective processes in linguistic development’ treats of acquisition of word ideas in reading, acquisition of graphic words, development of meaning for word ideas in reading, development of efficiency in oral expression, processes in graphic expression, and development of efficiency in graphic composition, and acquisition of a foreign tongue. Each chapter is followed by a summary and at the close of the book is a very good bibliography and index.”—School R.
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“With the exception of several chapters, the book will be read chiefly by specialists. The style, however, is forceful and agreeably simple.” G: B. Mangold.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 457. S. ’08. 300w.
“The volume occupies a field of its own and is of value to those interested in child-study. It has also some worth as suggesting the probable origin of language and as farther suggesting proper methods of education.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 40: 474. N. ’08. 130w.
“It is not unfair, perhaps, to say that the chief value of the book lies in the organization of material scattered about in special articles and separate treatises, so as to present a comprehensive view of the whole process of linguistic development, rather than in the new facts reported, or new theories propounded. To have made this body of opinions accessible in the form of an outline of theory is to have performed a worthy service to education.” W. B. O.
+ =El. School T.= 9: 53. S. ’08. 400w.
“Of the three books that Professor O’Shea has written, this will probably be of the most permanent value. It has more of the merits and fewer of the defects of the other books and treats of a definite subject with such completeness that it is not likely to be soon displaced by any other book.” E. A. Kirkpatrick.
+ =School R.= 16: 624. N. ’08. 620w.
=Osler, William.= Alabama student, and other biographical essays. **$2. Oxford.
“The topics of these essays are all biographical, among the subjects being John Keats, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Locke, Sir Thomas Brown, Harvey, William Pepper and Alfred Stillé. The Alabama student who supplies the subject for the main title was Dr. John Bassett of Huntsville, a devoted physician and student in medicine of the early half of the last century.”—Lit. D.
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“The history of medicine appeals most to the best educated in the profession, but in the hands of a writer like Prof. Osler it is in itself an education.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 442. O. 10. 440w.
“Dr. Osier gives not only the conventional facts in a man’s life, but has added much by way of personal comment that is distinctive in itself and frequently charming.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 602. O. 24, ’08. 200w.
“In many respects the gem is the last essay of all, the Harveian oration of 1906.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 555. D. 3, ’08. 870w.
“Earnest, candid, not lacking in humor, lucid and virile, not infrequently adorned by the allusions of a scholar who is too wise to be a pedant, Dr. Osler’s observations are always interesting and frequently brilliant.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 636. O. 31, ’08. 1600w.
“They are marked by good sense and discrimination, graced with a pleasant style, and ballasted with the results of enthusiastic research. Primarily they were intended for doctors, but we hope that their publication in this form will give them the much wider audience which they deserve.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 503. O. 3, ’08. 1750w.
=Ostrovsky, Alexander Nicolaievich.= The storm; tr. by Constance Garnett. *$1. Luce, J: W.
The scene of this drama is laid in a small provincial town on the upper Volga. A sharp-tongued mother, a weak-willed son, and a sweet-tempered daughter-in-law are the principal characters. The tyranny of the mother drives the son’s wife to reckless relations with a merchant’s son. Between the girl’s pangs of conscience and her uncontrollable fear of thunder, she is moved, during a terrifying storm, to make confession, and later, in a fit of remorse, drowns herself.
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“It is a play that would make practically no appeal to any English speaking audience, but the development of character and action, if it may really be called that in the sense in which the word is used on our stage, will prove interesting to the reader. And the book should find a place in the library of every student of the drama.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 295. My. 23, ’08. 480w.
=Owen, Charles Henry.= Justice of the Mexican war: a review of the causes and results of the war, with a view to distinguishing evidence from opinion and inference. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–22535.
Maintaining that those who declare the Mexican war unjust base their charges mainly on opinion and inference, that to avoid intricacies and contradictions they followed the line of least resistance and attributed it all to slavery cabal, the author concerns himself with the causes as they are conceived to arise from the Monroe doctrine. Aside from being a justification of the war the discussion is a criticism of the methods of some noted historians.
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“There is room for a book which shall bear the title of this one, but it must be written by a student familiar with the westward movement and able to discriminate between sources of information and opinions of irresponsible journalistic historians.”
− =Ind.= 65: 789. O. 1, ’08. 340w.
=Ind.= 65: 1178. N. 19, ’08. 60w.
“The book is well worth reading as a patriotic defense of our government and its armies.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 398. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 461. Ag. 22, ’08. 630w.
“We must dismiss his book as inconclusive.”
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− + =Outlook.= 90: 315. O. 10, ’08. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 383. S. ’08. 80w.
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=Packh, Baroness M. de.= Twenty years in Siberia, and Leaves from my Russian diary. $1.25. Guarantee pub.
8–2942.
A human document describing the humiliation and suffering of undeserved exile in Siberia during twenty years, and the later exultation over the execution of plotted vengeance. The diary reflects upon the thraldom which Russia suffers in the throes of traditional inhumanity.
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“A good deal of knowledge of the Russian people marks the book. It is sadly marred by an unbridled use of adjectives and exclamations.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 207. Ap. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Pagani, Rev. G. B.= Life of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati; tr. from the Italian. *$3. Dutton.
The biography of a man much persecuted by orthodox thinkers. Rosmini believed “that there was one absolute, indivisible, eternal, immutable Truth, which remained unaffected by the stupendous March of the Intellect of Man.” “The man Rosmini, with his wonderful gifts of grace and mind, is admirably portrayed; and the events of his life, both those of a public and those of a more personal or domestic character are related in that happy measure which is the mean between dry baldness and prolixity of detail.” (Cath. World.)
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“We can heartily commend the translation of Father Pagani’s curiously naïve but devout and interesting life.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 184. N. 30, ’07. 1150w.
“For all the interest of Rosmini’s personality, Father Pagani has succeeded in writing a dull book.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 340w.
“The task is one that called for no common measure of tact, prudence, and evangelical courage. All these qualities, as well as high literary talent, are evinced in this life.”
+ =Cath. World.= 87: 553. Jl. ’08. 750w.
“The book, whatever its defects, has much that is valuable and instructive about it.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 438. S. 28, ’07. 330w.
=Page, James Madison, and Haley, M. J.= True story of Andersonville prison: a defense of Major Henry Wirz. *$2. Neale.
8–9498.
Written in the interest of truth and fair play this narrative aims to reduce friction between the North and the South, especially that caused by the exaggerated and often unjust reports of Major Wirz’s cruelty and inhumanity to the Union prisoners.
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=Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 755. Je. ’08. 200w.
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Old Dominion: her making and her manners. **$1.50. Scribner.
8–7373.
Twelve essays are included in this volume, taking up different phases and characteristics in the life of Virginia since its foundation, showing how great a part in the nation’s development is justly due to the heroic deeds and sublime fortitude and endeavor of the men of the Old Dominion. They are as follows: The beginning of America; Jamestown, the birthplace of the American people; Colonial life; The revolutionary movement; Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia; The southern people during reconstruction; The Old Dominion since the war; An old neighborhood in Virginia, and An old Virginia Sunday.
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“A note which runs through all Mr. Page has ever written is evident here also: the judgment and the language are too frequently those of one who supposes character to be absolutely determined by status. All heroic characters are gentlemen; the villains are outside the charmed circle. This is not life; it is not even ante-bellum Virginia life.” W: E. Dodd.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 182. O. ’08. 500w.
“Offers valuable material to the historical student and delightful essays to the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 201. Je. ’08.
“This volume has the usual literary charm of Mr. Page’s writings.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 627. N. ’08. 100w.
“The book is a good example of the service a practiced writer may perform in re-casting the work of scientific historians for the benefit of average readers.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 382. Je. 16, ’08. 260w.
“The chapters on personal reminiscence ... show Mr. Page’s attractive personal touch, and are worth reading.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 210. Jl. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Mr. Page constantly relates his narrative to larger events and keeps a moving background of world history insofar as it has connection with his subject. And if sometimes in his account of affairs in the Old Dominion he sees with a magnifying eye, the fault can be pardoned as only the manifestation of a loyal son’s loving pride in his native state.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 294. My. 23, ’08. 200w.
“Written with all the usual charm of Mr. Page’s style.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 220w.
“One of the most interesting histories of exploration and colonial times.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 508. Ap. ’08. 100w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Robert E. Lee: the Southerner. **$1.25. Scribner.
8–30716.
“Mr. Page’s book is not merely a biography of General Lee, altho it is a narrative of the career of the hero from two points of view—the man and the soldier. The biographical feature of the work, however, is secondary to what was evidently the author’s main purpose in writing—an analysis of General Lee’s military genius. Incidentally the author furnishes a succinct account of the battles fought in the Union war, finally leading up to a comparative estimate of the claims to military greatness made by the two contending generals in that war—Grant and Lee.”—Lit. D.
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+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 160w.
“It will delight Southern men, but in the North there will be sharp criticism of it, in which it will be contended that the pride of a Virginian in one of the noblest sons of Virginia has guided Mr. Page in the making of his book, so that he has written unqualified eulogy rather than cold, impartial history.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 640w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 130w.
* =Page, Thomas Nelson.= Tommie Trot’s visit to Santa Claus. †$1. Scribner.
8–35741.
The story of an indulged little boy who meets a street boy with a dog and a sled and starts on a trip with him to the north pole, the home of Santa Claus. Their adventures are wholesome and entertaining.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 25: 384. D. ’08. 100w.
“Wholly devoid of novelty or originality.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 65: 1472. D. 17, ’08. 30w.
“The events are too evidently constructed in a conventional manner to disguise the stilted moral of the rich little boy and the poor little boy.”
− =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 40w.
“The story is an exciting one.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 703. N. 28, ’08. 140w.
“It lacks vital interest.”
− =R. of Rs.= 38: 764. D. ’08. 80w.
=Paget, Stephen.= Confessio medici. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–5617.
The modesty of the author’s attitude is expressed in the statement, “I only want to confess what I have learned, so far as I have come, from my life, so far as it has gone.” The book may be regarded as a physician’s classic, and is made up of the mild, reflective observations of a physician who has lived and seen and believed.
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“Full of a warm-hearted kindliness and a quiet humour that appeal directly to all who take an interest in suffering humanity.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 293. Mr. 7. 650w.
“It is written in many moods, sentimental, practical, reflective and pugnacious, and in a style that is brisk, sententious, a little too emphatic, but always readable.” C. M. F.
+ − =Bookm.= 27: 596. Ag. ’08. 1400w.
“Every page of the book ... is good reading, whether the reader be doctor or patient, or neither. The writer’s style will delight the connoisseur.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 213. Ap. 1, ’08. 470w.
“It is agreeably free from technicalities, and it takes Stevenson’s view of the calling.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 45. Jl. 2, ’08. 370w.
“A pleasant book.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 351. Ap. 16, ’08. 200w.
“We wish that every student of medicine during his student days would read, mark, learn and inwardly digest their practical wisdom and happy maxims, and many a practitioner whose finer feelings have perhaps become blunted by too close contact with a stringent life would rise up the better from their perusal.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 54. My. 21, ’08. 120w.
“A capital book, none the worse, but all the better, for being written about the profession which ought to be, to him, the most interesting subject in the world. The book is a flower of ‘culture.’ This author’s style is so good that on almost every page it will remind the reader, in some turn or phrase, of Stevenson.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 115. F. 29, ’68. 1220w.
“It remains only to say as emphatically as possible that every one who knows the intellectual refreshment of clear, unconventional thought expressed with insight and wit will give this anonymous writer a cordial welcome.”
+ + =Outlook.= 88: 610. Mr. 14, ’08. 550w.
“Sometimes he writes as though he feared lest his work should smell too much of the lamp, and he throws in a few grains of jauntiness to show that no one could possibly hate elaboration or self-consciousness more than he; but he throws them in apologetically. At other times he is all jauntiness with no apology.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 19. Jl. 4, ’08. 1700w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Tent dwellers. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–29352.
The story of a camping experience in the wilderness of Nova Scotia. The moving spirit of the company is a “cave-, a cliff- and a tree-dweller in his soul and the gods of his ancestors were not to be gainsaid.” The greater wilderness that welcomes, teaches and takes one to its heart is the wilderness portrayed here.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 293. D. ’08. ✠
“This is the rarest of things, a book of outdoor life written simply, swiftly, and honestly.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 605. D. 17, ’08. 380w.
“The author relates the story of their trip with a liveliness, a sense of humor, a notable faculty for humorous narrative, and an ability to put into words—and not too many words either—the fascination of the wilderness that give his book an unusual quality. Enjoying its savor so much one deplores all the more Mr. Paine’s sad habit of using singular verbs with plural subjects.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 300w.
=Paine, John Knowles.= History of music to the death of Schubert. *$2.40. Ginn.
7–35630.
Descriptive note in Dec. 1907.
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“Scholarly and conservative in treatment, well proportioned and arranged, especially valuable for estimates of the great classics.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 81. Mr. ’08.
“The editor might by means of foot-notes have brought the book as much as possible up to date.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 549. My. 2. 400w.
“Though in a sense unfinished, the work is no mere torso. It is a dignified, lucid, and sympathetic account of the great steps in the development of the art, from the earliest music of the Greeks and Romans down to 1828, the year of Schubert’s death. Professor Howard’s task as editor has been carried out with discrimination and loving care.” J. R. Smith.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 100. F. 16, ’08. 430w.
“It is a genuine pleasure to have his lectures on the history of music in form for reading and use as a text-book. They may be unreservedly commended whether one is disposed to lay stress on breadth of view, splendid scholarship, or agreeable treatment.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 35: 102. Ja. ’08. 150w.
“Of high excellence, as far as it goes, thoroly sane, careful and judicious in spirit.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 752. Ap. 2, ’08. 80w.
“Professor Howard ... has done his editorial work conscientiously.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 87. Ja. 23, ’08. 500w.
“His work is well proportioned and well arranged in detail.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 865. D. 28, ’07. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 254. F. ’08. 80w.
* =Paine, Ralph Delahaye.= Stroke oar. $1.50. Outing pub.
8–33155.
A college story which turns on the rivalry between the captain and the stroke oar of a Yale crew. At a critical moment the stroke oar is kidnapped and carried thousands of miles away. His adventures while attempting to get back to New Haven in time for the Yale-Harvard race, insure only a suggestion of the thrills to be experienced in the race itself with the stroke oar back to win the day.
=Pais, Ettore.= Ancient Italy: historical and geographical investigations in Central Italy, Magna Graecia, Sicily and Sardinia; tr. from the Italian by C. Densmore Curtis. *$5. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–5246.
A series of articles which has resulted from an exhaustive study of the ancient history of the Italian tribes. The review embraces the relations of these peoples with the surrounding nations and throws light on the history of Greece.
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“In these papers we must recognize that there is a large amount of constructive work of a high order; it is the more to be regretted that many of the conclusions seem at best but probabilities.” C. H. Moore.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 95. O. ’08. 800w.
=Class. J.= 3: 208. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“Notwithstanding some inconsistencies and an occasional mistake, the work certainly adds new interest as well as fresh knowledge to early Italian and Sicilian history.” G: W. Botsford.
+ − =Class. Philol.= 3: 451. O. ’08. 840w.
+ − =Ind.= 65: 263. Jl. 30, ’08. 440w.
“Minor criticisms should not detract from the sincere appreciation of the profound knowledge and the intellectual keenness of the author. The translator has been faithful; but he has left an excessive number of misprints; and still more unfortunately, his English is defective in grammar as well as in general smoothness and lucidity.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 493. My. 28, ’08. 700w.
“A work of remarkable scholarship. Is for students only, for it is written without a trace of vivifying imagination or of attractiveness in style.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 334. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
=Outlook.= 88: 514. F. 29, ’08. 40w.
=Palmedo, D. Petri-.= How to use slide rules. 50c. Kolesch & co.
8–12802.
A labor-saving device designed for the engineer. It describes the construction and the uses to which the slide rule may be put.
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“The author’s style is clear and his expositions will be easily understood.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 150w.
“The little book noted above is more compact than the usual treatise, but otherwise is like many others in its contents.”
+ =Engin. N.= 59: 439. Ap. 16, ’08. 130w.
“An unusually satisfactory little book.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 390. O. 3, ’08. 200w.
=Palmer, Frederick.= The big fellow. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–25371.
The portrayal of a splendid type of American. The story shows many parallels with incidents in the career of Mr. Taft. “The big fellow is a genial, indefatigable, big-hearted, clear-headed giant. He begins his career on leaving college by working in a pick-and-shovel gang, becomes a lawyer and a judge, and is finally made governor of one of the islands in our Far Eastern possessions. His experiences there illustrate the difficulties of the task we undertook when we accepted the Philippines, and the spirit of unselfishness in which on the whole that task has been carried out.” (Outlook.)
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“The narrative is wholesome and interesting though crude in places.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 271. N. ’08. ✠
“Mr. Palmer’s envisagement of the whole problem is essentially superficial, and his mouthings about duty and destiny will ring hollow to readers who have followed with anything like close attention the history of our unfortunate experiment on imperialism.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 45. 455. D. 16, ’08. 480w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 420w.
“A novel, yea, even a love story, whose chief interest—and it is exceptionally interesting—does not lie in its story and not at all in its love element. It is well worth reading by anyone who wants to get inside knowledge of our problems in the Pacific.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 496. S. 12, ’08. 480w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The tale is first of all a readable, entertaining story; secondarily a kind of defense of what Mr. Bryan calls imperialism.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 170w.
=Palmer, George Herbert.= Life of Alice Freeman Palmer. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–12560.
This biography becomes at once a work of love, a portrait of a notable woman, and a historical sketch of leadership in college reconstruction. Professor Palmer writes intimately of his wife’s life, work and character, especially emphasizing the years during which she occupied the president’s chair at Wellesley. Simplicity and indefinable charm of manner characterized a woman whose life testified to essential womanhood’s fundamental and intuitional philosophy.
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+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08. ✠
“It is, however, not so much the record of and finish that combine to make it almost an ideal book of its kind.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 372. Je. 16, ’08. 2000w.
+ + =Ind.= 65: 611. S. 10, ’08. 600w.
“The inspiration her memory gave is present and potent on every page.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 37: 28. Jl. 4, ’08. 700w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 124. Jl. 25, ’08. 1400w.
“It may well be doubted if any man ever before wrote for the general public so charming and acceptable a book about his own wife.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 180w.
“The tone of panegyric, however legitimate, becomes cloying in a short time. The important question raised, and perhaps solved, by the book is the adjusting of two busy lives in marriage.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 444. My. 14, ’08. 300w.
“Rarely if ever has an unattainable ideal of combined reticence and frankness been more closely approximated. Prof. Palmer is far from lacking appreciation for the eminence of his wife either in character or in achievement, but he also has and exercises in due measure a keen sense of proportion.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 276. My. 16, ’08. 800w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“To those who knew and loved Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer this book will be a friend; to those who knew her not it will be a revelation of a great soul and an inspiration to noble living.”
+ + =Outlook.= 89: 262. My. 30, ’08. 600w.
“It is, however, not so much the record of Mrs. Palmer’s public services as the intimate study of the woman herself that gives this biography its distinction and ranks it among the vividly human books of the season.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 754. Je. ’08. 150w.
“This is one of the rare books which one wishes to share with many others.” F. A. Manny.
+ + =School. R.= 16: 687. D. ’08. 680w.
* =Palmer, George Herbert, and Palmer, Alice Freeman.= The teacher: essays and addresses on education. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–32424.
Three groups of papers: problems of school and college, and Harvard papers contributed by Professor Palmer; and Papers by Alice Freeman Palmer. The first group evolves a philosophy of education thru dealing with the practical problems of teaching: the second discusses The new education, Erroneous and necessary limitations of the elective system, College expenses, and The teacher of the olden time; the third deals with Three types of women’s colleges, Women’s education in the nineteenth century, Women’s education at the World’s fair, and Why go to college?
=Palmer, William Scott.= Church and modern men. *$1.20. Longmans.
“The central underlying thought of these essays is the active immanence of the self-limiting Infinite in man, giving rise to revelation from within outward, in a growing religious experience, and a consequently growing theology, changing as it grows, while ever at the root the same.”—Outlook.
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“The style of the book, its subtle and elastic use of language, its delicacy and breadth, alone make it worth reading. But the real value of the volume lies in its appeal to the leaders of the English church to look beyond their own borders.”
+ =Ath.= 1908. 1: 346. Mr. 21. 750w.
“These pages may be cordially commended both to shepherds and sheep.” G. Tyrrell.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 707. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“In this small volume of thoughtful essays a cultured and religious layman reasons with the reactionaries and obscurantists among the Anglican clergy.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 612. Mr. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Park, Joseph C.= Educational woodworking for home and school. *$1. Macmillan.
8–10294.
Deals with (1) The enumeration, description, and illustration of woodworking tools; (2) woodworking machinery; (3) classification, description and properties of various woods; (4) fastenings; (5) the finishing of wood surfaces; (6) examples of suitable objects to make; (7) instruction in woodturning, with examples for practice.
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“Under a capable instructor the work should prove of undoubted educational value.”
+ =Engin. D.= 3: 652. Je. ’08. 140w.
“Teachers in this country will be well advised in consulting this excellent text-book.”
+ =Nature.= 78: 630. O. 22, ’08. 300w.
=Parker, Theodore.= American scholar; ed. with notes by George Willis Cooke. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–39034.
A collection of essays written by Theodore Parker in the forties and fifties of the past century. Mr. Parker shows what a debt to the whole community men of superior culture owe, a debt which is discharged in representing the higher facts of human consciousness to the people, expressed in the speech of the people, in thinking with the sage and saint, but talking with common men. There follow critical essays on Emerson, Channing, Prescott, Hildreth’s “United States,” Macaulay’s “History of England,” Buckle’s “History of civilization,” Henry Ward Beecher, Dr. Follen and German literature.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Theodore.= Discourse of matters pertaining to religion; ed. with a preface by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–38887.
A reprint of the work written more than a half century ago “by which the author will be most permanently remembered.” The author stated in his preface that “it is the design of this work to recall men from the transient shows of time to the permanent substance of religion; from a worship of creeds and empty belief, to a worship in the spirit and in life.”
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Theodore.= World of matter and the spirit of man: latest discourses of religion, ed. with notes by George Willis Cooke. *$1. Am. Unitar.
7–39391.
Of the sixteen pieces in this volume, the six sermons on “The revelation of God in the world of matter and mind,” and the two on “The theological and philosophical development of New England” have never been in print. The other eight appeared in tract and pamphlet form but have never previously found their way into any American volume.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 146. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Parker, Thomas Valentine.= Cherokee Indians, with special reference to their relations with the United States government. (Grafton historical ser.) **$1.25. Grafton press.
7–38633.
Based chiefly upon printed official sources, Dr. Parker tells the story of the Cherokees, giving “a most interesting and unprejudiced narrative of the Cherokee history in the West, covering the dissensions that arose between the earlier and later immigrants, the divided attitude toward the civil war, the reconstruction principles of the Treaty of 1866, and finally the events that led to the opening of Oklahoma.” (Am. Hist. R.) “The author is critical of the government’s attitude toward the Indians, which he says has been ‘one of treaties violated, of promises broken, and of partisan prejudice where there should have been judicial fairness.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
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“The rhetorical form of the latter part of the book is seriously affected by the insertion of extraneous material, the subject-matter proper being very much condensed. On the whole, however, the work is worthy of very favorable comment. It is practically free from historical errors, and those that do occur are of slight importance. The book is a fair illustration of what ought to be done for every Indian tribe within the limits of the United States.” A. H. Abel.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 184. O. ’08. 870w.
“This is a very good, brief, historical account of the Cherokee Indians, especially as concerns their relation to the United States government.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 449. S. ’08. 120w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Bookm.= 26: 514. Ja. ’08. 160w.
“The narrative is interesting, if somewhat annalistic; and the facts are generally accurate. In the broader relations of the Indian question, the book is very weak.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 256. O. 16, ’08. 320w.
=Parmelee, Maurice.= Principles of anthropology and sociology in their relations to criminal procedure. (Citizens lib. of economics, politics, and sociology.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–22622.
Gives “clear and reliable summary of the theories of criminology of the Italian school, and especially of Lambroso, Garofalo and Ferri.... The central idea of the book is the superior importance of procedure, as compared with the penal code. The author recommends the abolition of the law jury except for political offences; the appointment of trained judges and prosecutors, both to be educated in criminology and sociology as well as in law; the indeterminate sentence, with scientific study of the criminal at the trial and afterward, with a judicial board to revise the sentences periodically; scientific methods of dealing with evidence, as suggested also by Professor Münsterberg; and the use of experts employed by the state, and not representing private parties, during the trial.”—Dial.
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“The discussion is in every way strong and clear, and deserves the careful study of all intelligent citizens.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 349. N. 16, ’08. 230w.
“Tho American judges and lawyers may look with cynicism and skepticism on such a volume, students of sociology will find it helpful in working toward a loftier basis of treatment for the criminal.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1123. N. 12, ’08. 270w.
“Mr. Parmelee’s book is notably concise, direct, and logical in statement, and gives in compact form a fairly complete view of this important subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 671. N. 14, ’08. 1050w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Last voyage of the Donna Isabel: a romance of the sea. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–26195.
A tale of thrilling sea adventure which follows the search for a Spanish treasure ship that sailed from Guayaquil for Cadiz in 1753. The time of the story is the year 1879, and the Antarctic’s “heaving leagues of watery solitude” furnish the setting; while chief among the searching party are the hero whom strange circumstances had made leader, and the wife of a British lord. The love interest vies with the wonders of sky and sea and the thrill of perilous adventure.
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“A good sea yarn told with considerable spirit.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 246. O. ’08.
“It must be reckoned among the most successful of Mr. Randall Parrish’s inventions.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 295. N. 1, ’08. 220w.
“This is a good yarn, reeled off with considerable spirit. Its characters are hardly more than the good old stock-puppets.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 236. S. 10, ’08. 170w.
“In our view the proper thing is to take Mr. Parrish’s story in the spirit in which he offers it, and enjoy it, and not worry over the fact that there are some unheard of and undreamed of things in it.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 700w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 746. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
=Parrish, Randall.= Prisoners of chance: the story of what befell Geoffrey Benteen, borderman, through his love for a lady of France. †$1.50. McClurg.
8–9526.
A story reproduced from an old manuscript which has a historic basis. It is set in the Louisiana province in the sixties of the eighteenth century and follows the mighty efforts of one Geoffrey Benteen to save from the fate of death the husband of the woman he loves.
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“Though carelessly written ... it shows an advance upon his previous work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 223. Je. ’08.
“A facile, stirring book.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 724. Je. 13. 120w.
“It is an excellent example of the sort of romantic narrative which Mr. Parrish has cultivated with marked success, and upon which he has brought to bear the fruits of much serious historical investigation.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 351. Je. 1, ’08. 400w.
“The book, in a word, is nothing if not ample in reach and thoroughgoing in invention.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 448. My. 14, ’08. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 50w.
“Randall Parrish’s former stories, although they proved him to be of the stuff of which good novelists are made, were marred by such crudity of style and method as made them rather a promise than an achievement. But in every respect ‘Prisoners of chance’ is a notable advance upon his previous work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 269. My. 9, ’08. 600w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 342. Je. 13, ’08. 130w.
Reviewed by E. L. Cary.
=Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 70w.
=Parsons, John Denham.= Nature and purpose of the universe. *$6. Wessels.
Deals with the much debated question of human immortality. Discusses soul, body, matter, Buddhism, psychical research, spiritualism, incarnation, theology, the Bible, life, and death.
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“Although it is clear that Mr. Parsons has read widely and thought for himself, it does not seem likely to us that any considerable number of persons will be physically or mentally able to follow his reasonings in all their sinuous windings by means of such a volume as the present.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 14. Ja. 5. 200w.
“The worst thing, perhaps, about the work is its style, which does the treatment grave injustice. In a work of this kind, it has seemed more desirable to give some insight into the real scope and design of the work, rather than deal mainly with matters of criticism. But its manifold points of learning and interest can scarcely be set forth in a review.” James Lindsay.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 18: 260. Ja. ’08. 900w.
“It would perhaps be easier to discover the nature and purpose of the universe than the nature and purpose of this book. It has been vouchsafed to only a few to have definite information on this subject, and Mr. Parsons has been even less successful than others in his attempt to solve this riddle.”
− =Nation.= 86: 108. Ja. 30, ’08. 380w.
“If the author knows what he means, and he cannot possibly, no other human being will have the slightest glimmering of it.”
− − =Sat. R.= 102: 618. N. 17, ’06. 180w.
=Partridge, Anthony.= The distributors. †$1.50. McClure.
8–28064.
The author offers a diversion quite unparalleled in fiction in the doings of a polite and exclusive circle known as “The ghosts.” Exhausting what their friends called “esoteric rubbish,” but craving amusement, the members of this group enter upon a series of bold robberies and turn the spoils over to charitable institutions. After they run their daring course they are steered back into normal channels and the curtain falls upon a serene, apparently unscathed, circle.
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=N. Y. Times.= 13: 618. O. 24, ’08. 80w.
“A weird sort of novel, and one that leaves a distinctly bad taste in the mind. It is a daring and uncanny theme, and one that invites to discussion of its psychological possibility. But the author offends against both probability and the instinctive sense of human justice in his resolution of the problem.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 675. N. 14, ’08. 250w.
=Partsch, Herman.= Messages to mothers: a protest against artificial methods. **$1.50. Elder.
8–14355.
The collected utilitarian results of a series of vital human nature studies undertaken during twenty-three years of medical practice. With a view to eliminating preventable ills he presents a simple scheme for right diet, care and treatment of mother and child, and for the conservation of power in physiological functions.
=Pastores, Los.= Los pastores, a Mexican play of the nativity; tr., introd. and notes by M. R. Cole; with illustrations and music. (Memoirs of the American folk-lore society, v. 9, 1907.) *$4. Houghton.
7–11974.
Carefully edited to show comparison of various accessible versions, this play is of “interest as a survival on American soil of a form of drama which we usually associate with Europe in the Middle ages.” (Am. Hist. R.) “It is probably a seventeenth century production. It varies in style ‘from doggerel to the distinction of good Spanish models.’ The actors are the shepherds, the hermit, Lucifer, and the archangel Michael. The message of the nativity is announced, producing varying effects upon the different actors. The shepherds seek the babe and render adoration to him. A combat takes place between Michael and Lucifer, in which the latter is finally subdued.” (Dial.)
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“The subject-matter ... is of very uneven literary merit and contains frequent inconsistencies, and an unexpected amount of humor. The introduction, notes, music of the songs, and photographs of the actors in costume add much to the value of the work.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 935. Jl. ’07. 250w.
“The spirit of the play is on the whole good. There are fine passages, but there is also a good deal of coarse by-play.” Frederick Starr.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 244. Ap. 16, ’08. 1100w.
=Paternoster, George Sidney.= The master criminal. 75c. Cupples & L.
7–42014.
The “master criminal” is a man who devotes his intellectuality, strong character and courage to the furthering of crime. “His morbid, perverted nature causes him to hate all his fellowmen and to injure them in every possible way.” (N. Y. Times.) “He has planned to strike a father thru his son, but love interferes, the love that purifies and ennobles. It may interest the reader to know that it was this master criminal who planned the theft of the antique snuffboxes from the London home of Mr. Wertheim—Floerscheim he is called in the story.” (Ind.)
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“The book will furnish rather entertaining occupation for an hour or two.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1037. My. 7, ’08. 100w.
“For all who are fond of the hectic flush in fiction the story, whose scene is laid in London, will be an entertaining tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 185. Ap. 4, ’08. 150w.
=Paton, Lewis Bayles.= Jerusalem in Bible times. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–26700.
A handbook giving in convenient form the results of the latest archaeological researches. The author gives carefully sorted facts concerning the sites, archaeology, and the history of Jerusalem, accompanied by numerous illustrations and maps.
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“An excellent handbook for students and travelers. The book not only evinces familiarity with the results of recent investigation, but itself makes a worthy contribution to the sum of existing knowledge about Jerusalem.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 365. N. ’08. 60w.
=Patterson, John Henry.= Man-eaters of Tsavo and other East African adventures; with a foreword by F: Courteney Selous. $2.50. Macmillan.
8–4611.
The thrilling experiences of Col. Patterson among the man-eating lions of Tsavo become an “epic of terrible tragedies.” How he succeeded in bringing to an end these savage depredations by killing eight lions constitutes a most intense story of adventure.
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“It should prove intensely attractive to boys, and not less so to their elders. It is strange, however, that a writer who evidently knows Swahili should adhere to the obsolete method of writing an apostrophe after initial m and n.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 548. N. 2. 570w.
“The story he tells us is given very simply and quietly, with no aiming whatever at effect. It does not need it; the facts are overpoweringly dramatic by themselves.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 338. N. 8. ’07. 610w.
“Col. Patterson is an engineer and a sportsman rather than a man of letters but his book is full of interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 350w.
“No boy’s book of imaginary adventures published at this season is likely to make its reader hold his breath more frequently than this modest but veracious record. There is a good deal else in the book which will interest the sportsman as well as the general reader, though if the book were fiction we should be inclined to describe those parts which do not deal with the man-eaters as an anti-climax.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 459. O. 12, ’07. 220w.
“The story, indeed, is so amazing that the reader might at first suppose it to be exaggerated. But quite apart from the entire absence of artifice in Colonel Patterson’s style, which is itself an evidence of truth, an overwhelming amount of independent testimony supports the genuineness of all the details.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 669. N. 2, ’07. 2450w.
=Patterson, Joseph Medill.= Little brother of the rich: a novel. $1.50. Reilly & B.
8–23548.
“The story concerns a young man, son of a country parson in Indiana, who won his way by his athletic prowess into the selected and richest set of Yale undergraduates, and afterward, with the help of these same young men, rose by way of a broker’s office to affluence and a position in society in New York.” (N. Y. Times.) Sordid facts of fashionable social life in New York are exploited.
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“It would not be worth while to take this novel seriously enough to laugh at it, were it not put forth, like Mr. Sinclair’s fustian, as socialistic or the work of a socialist.” J: Macy.
− =Bookm.= 28: 279. N. ’08. 1300w.
“In the judgment of the intelligent reader, has little excuse for being.”
− =Lit. D.= 37: 812. N. 28, ’08. 230w.
=Nation.= 87: 389. O. 22, ’08. 320w.
“The workmanship of the story is distinctly amateurish, and the matter fails to carry conviction. Also the theme is somewhat threadbare and the details are more so. But the book is readable.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 472. Ag. 29, ’08. 400w.
“Mr. Patterson has delivered a telling blow at the evils that he uncovers.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 38: 508. O. ’08. 170w.
=Paulin, George.= No struggle for existence, no natural selection. *$1.75. Scribner.
A critical examination of the fundamental principles of the Darwinian theory. “This is a book by a mature scholar written for the purpose of establishing the Lamarckian theory against the Darwinian. The second part of the book is devoted to a reactionary refutation of the Malthusian doctrine of population.” (Am. J. Theol.)
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=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 674. O. ’08. 40w.
“The book before us is altogether interesting, although it mainly consists of an attack on well-known theories. His views are open to serious criticism. The book is written in a pleasant style, and contains much food for thought.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 187. Ag. 15. 700w.
=Payson, William Farquhar.= Barry Gordon. †$1.50. McClure.
8–27100.
The fiery blood of undisciplined southern ancestors is in Barry Gordon’s veins, which uncurbed, causes expulsion from college and rejection at the hands of the girl he loves. During a period of wandering he gathers courage for a great sacrifice from which he emerges a conquered self, and is restored to his early forfeited happiness.
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“So amateurish a writer as Mr. Payson can awaken no belief in the reality either of the gallant Col. Gordon or of his son.”
− =Nation.= 87: 553. D. 3, ’08. 200w.
“A good story, written with vigor and skill and dash.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 614. O. 24, ’08. 280w.
“Exciting tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 100w.
“The story is not of especial value, but it. is entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 502. O. 31, ’08. 100w.
=Peabody, Josephine Preston.= Book of the little past. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–24442.
A book of child verse full of child problems and child-philosophy. A note of the seriousness with which children are wont to interpret all play as work is suggested in the lines:
“And now I have the boat to mend And all our supper to pretend. I am so Busy, all the day, I haven’t any time to play.”
The illustrations are done by Elizabeth Shippen Greene.
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“She sometimes strains to copy Stevenson, without quite approaching him.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 522. N. 26, ’08. 70w.
“Some really deserve to rank with Stevenson’s melodies in his ‘Child’s garden of verses.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 511. O. ’08. 30w.
=Pearson, Charles William.= Literary and biographical essays: a volume of papers by the way. *$1.25. Sherman, French & co.
8–19169.
Essays in the following subjects: Poetry, Early American poetry, The art of poetry, The English language, Alexander Pope, Macaulay, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Ruskin, James Martineau, Longfellow, Washington, and Lincoln.
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“The biographical essays are as a rule excellent. In the case of John Ruskin, we think the author has slighted the subject and failed properly to interpret the great philosopher, critic and teacher.”
+ − =Arena.= 40: 478. N. ’08. 260w.
“While the essays lean a little to the pulpit treatment, they are wholly and wholesomely adapted to the general reader who may happen to take a lively interest in the best literature of our time. There is here and there an oversight in the proofreading.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1069. N. 5, ’08. 470w.
“One of those unnecessary books which the world will willingly let die.”
− =Nation.= 87: 71. Jl: 23, ’08. 320w.
=Pearson, Robert Hooper.= Book of garden pests. (Handbooks of practical gardening.) *$1. Lane.
8–8130.
An English work designed for English cultivators. Here are “set forth in clear language, devoid of unnecessary scientific terms, the evils to which garden and orchard are subject—and they are not few—and also how to deal with each pest as it occurs.” (Ath.)
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“It is a book which we recommend all gardeners, amateur or professional, to purchase, and keep for reference in the day of trouble.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 766. Je. 20. 130w.
“Mr. Pearson’s book will supplement some excellent American treatises, especially those which have been given out by our experiment stations and in our garden libraries.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 191. Ag. 27, ’08. 200w.
“The American gardener will find its chapters suggestive and in some instances distinctly useful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 253. Ag. ’08. 60w.
=Peck, George Record.= Kingdom of light. **$1. Putnam.
7–21301.
A corporation attorney’s confession. “Mr. Peck tells us that Concord ‘was in its day, and will long continue to be, a greater force in this nation than New York and Chicago added to each other.’ In that elevated spirit his little book is written. The pity of it is that means will never be found for giving it such wide distribution among those who need its philosophy, as the help of a great railroad gave to ‘A message to Garcia.’” (Lit. D.)
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“As captivating and convincing a plea for devotion to the ideal in the midst of common life as one often runs across.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 472. F. 27, ’08. 90w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 140w.
=Peck, Theodora.= Sword of Dundee: a tale of “bonnie Prince Charlie.” †$1.50. Duffield.
8–17830.
A sprightly tale set in Jacobite times in which the representatives of two Scottish clans are rivals for the hand of spirited Agnes of Anchnacarry, with Stuart loyalty, who devotes her wit and courage to the cause of Prince Charlie all the while proving true to her lover of Clan Cameron.
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“The loyal young heroine’s adventures are many and exciting, and in following them the reader so far catches the spirit of that eventful period as to be willing to overlook the author’s occasional failure to keep the machinery running smoothly and noiselessly.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 304. D. ’08. ✠
“She has evidently studied the period. It is the more pity that her work should be marred by incongruities.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 504. O. 24. 180w.
“An interesting romance based on one of the most romantic episodes in Scottish history.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 273. O. 3, ’08. 230w.
=Peele, Robert.= Compressed air plant for mines: the production, transmission, and use of compressed air, with special reference to mine service. $3. Wiley.
8–24250.
In which “all the well-known makes of air compressors are described, their principles of operation and details of construction are discussed, and their good and their not so good features are pointed out with such impartiality that those most numerously employed in actual work find no more favor than those which are less frequently met.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The book is a useful presentment of its subject in many respects, and offers a safe guide to the practitioner, as far as it goes. It is only occasionally marred by minor defects.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: 319. S. 17, ’08. 560w.
“A very complete and convenient summary, at once useful and usable with not the slightest suggestion of padding. The author quotes authorities quite profusely and perhaps not always after sufficient scrutiny.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 363. S. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Peile, James H. F.= Reproach of the gospel: being the Bampton lectures for the year 1907. *$1.80. Longmans.
7–42089.
Professor Peile states that “The influence of Christianity on mankind at large is, and has been, strangely disproportionate alike to its high claims and to the reasonable expectation of those who saw its beginnings.” This conviction, the cause, and the remedy constitute the subject of a discussion which places its emphasis upon the conduct rather than the creed of Christianity.
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“Though Mr. Peile’s book is in no sense great, and does not stimulate thinking like Dr. Bussell’s more valuable work, it is an impressive appeal to the Christian world to take its Christianity as seriously as its worldliness.... As a volume addressed, not to the academic, but the ‘respectable’ world, this book could hardly be surpassed.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 665. My. 30. 520w.
Reviewed by G. Hodges.
=Atlan.= 102: 124. Jl. ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by James Seth.
=Hibbert, J.= 6: 910. Jl. ’08. 1450w.
“Professor Peile tells us that the true object of his lectures was to make his hearers think, and in this he has succeeded.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 464. Mr. 21, ’08. 1350w.
=Pell, Albert.= Reminiscences of Albert Pell, sometime M. P. for South Leicestershire; ed. with introd by Thomas Mackay; with an appreciation by the Right Hon. James Bryce. *$5. Dutton.
8–32328.
Albert Pell was a man of rugged independence, a practical and skilful farmer, a Tory of prominence in the party ranks, tho an avowed Free Trader, and a philanthropist in spirit, while sincerely showing his detestation of its cant. This book records his views and includes his collection of good stories told about political personages of importance.
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“The book is remarkable in the way it endears the author to us.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 192. F. 15. 1100w.
“Certainly nothing so distinctly good in English non-political autobiography has found its way into ‘The Independent’ office for the last twenty years.”
+ + =Ind.= 65: 438. Ag. 20, ’08. 280w.
“In his racy, unaffected language he offers a series of pictures of English life in hall, farmhouse, and cottage, which are a real addition to the literature of social England.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 93. Jl. 30, ’08. 400w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 160w.
“This volume is as full of good stories, well told, as an egg of meat; and everyone should read it who wishes to travel from George IV to Edward VII and to laugh by the way.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 758. Je. 13, ’08. 1350w.
“This is a book which should not be missed by any one who enjoys racy humour and a genuine revelation of character.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 422. Mr. 14, ’08. 1450w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Amateur motorist. **$3.75. McClurg.
“A book for amateur motorists, written by an amateur motorist, relating his experiences in the hope that others may profit thereby.... The 70 pages given to a description of the leading cars, with illustrations and prices, flavor somewhat of a catalog.”—Ind.
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“The book contains practical hints of a sound character, but it would not be easy to say precisely what good end it is destined to serve. Its disadvantages are these: from the standpoint of the experienced motorist, it offers nothing new; from the standpoint of the novice, it is needlessly verbose in some directions, and, upon the whole, neither explicit nor comprehensive.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 685. N. 30. 460w.
=Ind.= 65: 950. O. 22, ’08. 120w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Sir Richard Escombe: a romance. †$1.50. Harper.
8–18372.
A story of the ruined Medmanham Abbey and the famous Society of St. Francis founded there during the stirring days of Sir Francis Dashwood, John Wilkes, Churchill, the poet Whitehead and the villainous Lord Harborne. It concerns mainly the relations of Sir Richard Escombe with the society, his efforts to end it, and his relations thru trial and misunderstanding with Kitty Dulcimore of Sherbourn in the county of Warwickshire.
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“Despite its staginess, it is a fairly brisk and cheery story.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 716. D. 5. 130w.
“Melodrama of the carefully matured, carefully selected variety, that with a judicious blending of realistic detail may be warranted not to offend the sensitive literary palate.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 66. S. ’08. 580w.
“A highly readable piece of work.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 455. D. 16, ’08. 220w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1245. N. 26, ’08. 50w.
“There is an ingenious story, there are court portraits, social caricatures, wild Irish extravaganza, even idyllic patches. The language fairly wallows in artificiality.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 97. Jl. 30, ’08. 340w.
“If it does not endure much thinking or analysis, that is no great fault, since its readers will be disposed to little of either.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 398. Jl. 18, ’08. 420w.
=Pendleton, Louis Beauregard.= Alexander H. Stephens. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–11395.
From sources new and old the author has gathered together material for this biography which follows a great life full of tragedy both public and private as well as full of triumph and usefulness. It is suited to the modern reader and is desirable “not only because of the peculiar personality of one of the ablest of the southern statesmen of the old régime, and because of his association with great events as vice-president of the southern confederacy, but because he was one of the most consistent figures in the long struggle between the champions of state sovereignty and the supporters of federal supremacy.” (Preface.)
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“A book to be taken rather seriously. Mr. Pendleton is weakest, I think, in his discussion of the question of the right of secession.” W. G. Brown.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 155. O. ’08. 860w.
“The best available book on the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 240. O. ’08.
“Mr. Pendleton’s life of Stephens is less partisan and better informed than some of the southern biographies that have recently appeared.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1146. My. 21, ’08. 300w.
“Without adding anything valuable to the printed materials, Mr. Pendleton has given a good popular account of this pathetic career.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 556. Je. 18, ’08. 750w.
“A comprehensive and interesting life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 800w.
+ =Outlook.= 89: 860. Ag. 15, ’08. 920w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 122. Jl. ’08. 80w.
“This life is worth reading first as a study of the man, secondly for the light it throws on the struggle between North and South.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 372. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Penhallow, David Pearce.= Manual of the North American gymnosperms, exclusive of the cycadales but together with certain exotic species. *$4.50. Ginn.
7–23272.
“The book is divided into two parts, the first entitled “Anatomy,” the second “Systematic.” Under anatomy (192pp.) a detailed account of the regions and elements of mature gymnosperm wood is given, including discussions of durability, decay, and general phylogeny. In the systematic part (157pp.) a synopsis of the genera and species of cordaitales, ginkgoales, and coniferales is presented, based entirely on wood characters, and including so far as possible the economic values.”—Bot. Gaz.
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“A very painstaking and a unique book. The book will certainly be highly useful in its practical applications and also as a great assistance in the recognition of fossil material.” J. M. C.
+ =Bot. Gaz.= 45: 417. Je. ’08. 620w.
Reviewed by C: E. Bessey.
+ =Science=, n.s. 28: 609. O. 30, ’08. 600w.
* =Pennell, Elizabeth Robins (Mrs. Joseph Pennell), and Pennell, Joseph.= Life of James McNeill Whistler. 2v. *$10. Lippincott.
Whistler who authorized the Pennells to write his biography, during a number of years before his death furnished them with personal reminiscences, anecdotes, correspondence, and various other data. This material with the addition of other first hand facts gathered from his family after his death is ample for the complete intimate, sympathetic biography which has been produced. “As a collection of Whistler pictures, also, the work is of remarkable value, the reproductions made for the Pennells, at Whistler’s order, bringing to light etchings and drawings which have not before been made public.” (Lit. D.)
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“The book is a conscientious endeavor to put before the reader Whistler as he really was—as he appeared to those privileged to know him intimately. A few inaccuracies have crept in. The numerous illustrations constitute a feature of great interest. Taken together they afford a more extended glimpse of the range and character of Whistler’s art than has hitherto been available.” F: W. Gookin.
+ + − =Dial.= 45: 448. D. 16, ’08. 2000w.
“The Pennells appear to have maintained a balance both of judgment and taste that fully justifies the artist’s choice and designation of them.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 36: sup. 59. D. ’08. 300w.
“Is unusually complete, supplying many details regarding the famous, eccentric artist which have hitherto been lost in obscurity.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 906. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
“One may sometimes take exception to the particular form of praise indulged in.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 532. N. 26, ’08. 2000w.
“The pattern of intercourse and incident is intricate enough, and the background of misunderstanding and injustice that frequently appears is, of course, sombre, but the harmony of the whole is marvelously kept, and the reader sees a Whistler of many sides but of one inspiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 682. N. 21, ’08. 2200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 747. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“One of the most interesting chapters in Mr. and Mrs. Pennell’s book is the account of Whistler’s experiment in teaching, the ‘Académie Carmen.’” Laurence Binyon.
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 571. N. 7, ’08. 1800w.
“The book is a sympathetic record rather than an impartial criticism, and the painter’s personality, no less than his art, is treated with loving approbation.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 779. N. 14, ’08. 1700w.
=Peple, Edward Henry.= Spitfire. †$1.50. Moffat.
8–24456.
An “ingenious yarn of the sea and stolen jewels and characters at cross purposes.... ‘The Spitfire’ is a yacht, and it is strongly suggested by several people, beside the author, that the name describes the heroine of the yacht’s log for its last eventful voyage.”—Ind.
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“A good story, of the kind which does not depend upon minute analysis or subtile psychology for its interest.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 786. O. 1, ’08. 280w.
“There is plenty of action in the plot, and if occasionally the author permits himself a certain amount of license in grammatical construction, and loads his descriptive passages with colloquialisms, he no doubt hopes thus to preserve the atmosphere of the story, which is not that of the classics.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 541. O. 3, ’08. 260w.
=Perry, Arthur Cecil, jr.= Management of a city school. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–10626.
Here are discussed the problems of public school administration from the standpoint of the principal, rather than that of the superintendent or the teacher. The author sets forth the work of the principal; his duties; his responsibilities to the state, public, authorities, and pupils; his problems; and the principles which should direct his administrative work.
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“Suggestive and helpful.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 202. Je. ’08.
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 60w.
“The book should be helpful to young principals and to those who are fitting themselves for such work; and it can be read with profit by all who are concerned in the work of the public schools.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 140w.
=Perry, Bliss.= Park-Street papers. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–28842.
Five papers concerned with the Atlantic monthly, with its Park street home, and with some of its distinguished writers of the past. The contents are: Atlantic prologues, (five toastmaster addresses); The centenary of Hawthorne, The centenary of Longfellow, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Whittier for to-day; and The editor who was never an editor.
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“Graceful essays.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 263. N. ’08.
“Marked by his customary geniality of temper and lightness of touch, with just enough of artistic detachment to lend grace and freedom to his style without rendering it too coldly impersonal, ‘Park-Street papers’ maintain the high standard of their author’s work as essayist and literary critic.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 297. N. 1, ’08. 300w.
“Those who read the sober little volume will feel nearer, kinder to that dignified periodical, the ‘Atlantic monthly,’ just as they might feel more intimate with any other old ‘grande dame’ after looking at her family album and the skeletons in her closet.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1244. N. 26, ’08. 160w.
“He has the ‘toastmaster’s’ fondness for life under its social, cultivated, and genial aspects, and, having a genuine esteem for the characters of his guests, displays at times a toastmasterly indulgence to their literary deficiencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 437. N. 5, ’08. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 785. D. 19, ’08. 430w.
=Person, Harlow Stafford.= Industrial education: a system of training for men entering upon trade and commerce. (Hart, Schaffner and Marx prize essays.) **$1. Houghton.
7–22413.
“The volume deals with the training required by young men who would fit themselves for the higher positions in industry or commerce, and the need of providing such training in the United States.... His opinion clearly is that while commercial training should be offered in high schools, collegiate courses, and professional departments, the ideal conditions can be found, only in distinctly professional instruction, open solely to those who have already completed a liberal education.”—Nation.
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“Admirable brief discussion entirely from viewpoint of higher education.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 82. Mr. ’08.
=Cath. World.= 87: 112. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“We disagree strenuously with the implication in the author’s statement that ‘the training for work should not be weakened by having to carry the burden of training for culture.’ The monograph is an interesting and valuable study.” David Kinley.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 115. F. ’08. 500w.
“His book is a useful contribution to an important branch of educational discussion.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 80. Ja. 23, ’08. 190w.
“The book is suggestive rather than exhaustive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 188. Ap. 4, ’08. 600w.
=Peters, Rev. John Punnett=, ed. Annals of St. Michael’s; being the history of St. Michael’s Protestant Episcopal church, New York, for one hundred years, 1807–1907. **$3.50. Putnam.
7–31234.
“The history of St. Michael’s church of this city is more than an account of the founding and growth of a particular parish, with its petty trials, its varying fortunes according to the abilities of its leaders, and its trivial enterprises of merely parochial significance.... It constitutes an important part of the history of the development of the upper part of New York city, its old families, its marvelous material changes, its schools, hospitals, orphanages, and institutions for the variously afflicted.”—Nation.
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“A model of what a history of an important church should be.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 321. F. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The story is told with fidelity to fact, skill in narration, and with an enthusiasm that sustains the reader’s attention throughout.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 220. Mr. 5, ’08. 470w.
“Mr. Peters has assembled much that is of great interest in the development of New York.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 729. N. 16, ’07. 170w.
* =Peters, Rev. Madison Clinton.= Justice to the Jew; new ed. rev. **75c. McClure.
8–9751.
“The present edition of a work published nine years ago, and now re-written, is a strong statement of facts which demonstrate the irrationality of prejudice against any Jew because he is a Jew. It comes with peculiar force from one who confesses that he himself was once blinded by such prejudice.”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 278. N. ’08.
“Dr. Peters is not always duly careful in statement or temperate in language, but blemishes of such sort are venial in comparison with the unreason and inhumanity at which he strikes.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 884. Ap. 18, ’08. 100w.
* =Peters, Rev. Madison Clinton.= Strenuous career, or Short steps to success. *$1.25. Laird.
8–17545.
“The volume is packed with edifying examples of worldly success attained in the face of obstacles; and these are strung together on a thread of good common-sense moralizing. The author warns his readers that the fruits of success turn to ashes in the mouth unless the success sought be a high and worthy one. True success, he points out, ‘lies not in getting what you desire, but in achieving that which will elevate and ennoble yourself and at the same time confer some benefit on your kind,—a success which will be measured by its contribution to the world’s welfare and happiness.’”—Dial.
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“It is characteristic of the country.” F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 20. S. ’08. 800w.
“The combination of worldly wisdom with sound moral standards, which the author shows, makes the book a safe and helpful one to put in the hands of aspiring youths.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 257. O. 16, ’08. 170w.
=Phillips, Alfred E.= Surveying. $1.50. Am. school of correspondence.
8–8482.
“Gives in clear form practical instruction in the use of surveying-instruments and the method of plain surveying, including plotting, levelling, triangulation, line running, cross sectioning, traversing and other details of field work.”—Engin. Rec.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 294. D. ’08.
“While it has little to distinguish it from any one of many similar works, yet it seems to be well adapted to the purposes of a correspondence school.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 659. D. 12, ’07. 50w.
“The information is given in a clear manner.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 57: 26. Ja. 4, ’08. 60w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Old wives for new. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–8091.
The story of a man who weds a thin slip of a maiden. “Sophy, the slip grows fat—and grows fat with all the pomp and circumstance of flesh. No details are spared. Meanwhile Sophy’s husband (who herds railways like sheep) grows ever more natty and fastidious.” (N. Y. Times.) “By this time neither loves the other, so they obtain new partners without disgrace or even embarrassment.” (Ind.)
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“It is a powerful story, as unpleasant as it is vividly faithful to conditions as they exist.”
+ − =Arena.= 39: 509. Ap. ’08. 750w.
“As vigorous and straightforward a story as we have now come to expect from this writer.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 495. Jl. ’08. 700w.
“It would be useless to try to find a moral in this incoherent fabrication, which is one of the most revolting books, in both incident and general plan, that we have ever read.” W: M. Payne.
− − =Dial.= 44: 350. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“In making so much of the purely physical attractions and repulsions between unhappily mated characters, Mr. Phillips offended the instinct for decency of the sounder millions of Americans.”
− =Ind.= 64: 808. Ap. 9, ’08. 750w.
“Setting out with a theme which is ignoble in most of its external aspects, he has not a touch to refine or even to lighten it.”
− =Nation.= 86: 264. Mr. 19, ’08. 350w.
“Substance is furnished by some very truthful pictures of real every-day America—good and bad—but the author has depended—like the makers of many modern plays—upon his ‘specialties’ to catch the public.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 187. Ap. 4, ’08. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 20w.
“There are introduced scenes and incidents that are far from nice reading, that are vulgar and disgusting in themselves, whatever may have been the author’s moral purpose.”
− =Outlook.= 88: 838. Ap. 11, ’08. 130w.
“Mr. Phillips has lavished paint on his picture to a degree approaching vulgarity.” Charlotte Harwood.
− =Putnam’s.= 4: 621. Ag. ’08. 130w.
+ − =R. of Rs.= 37: 762. Je. ’08. 70w.
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–30248.
A slight story that tells how a maltreated little waif darted into the life of a dispirited gold hunter, and how the lad’s coming was the beginning of happier days at the Gulch tho not until a severe test of courage proved the boy’s metal.
=Phillips, Stephen.= New poems. **$1.25. Lane.
7–34791.
A group of poems including practical pieces, and verse that appeals to the emotions and to the sense of beauty.
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“Not up to the average of the author’s earlier work, but the large libraries will want it for the student and lover of English literature.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 82. Mr. ’08.
“We fear that Mr. Phillips’s reputation will gain but little by this volume. Good lines—indebted for their charm, in great measure, to hints of Tennyson—stand out from the ruck with an added prominence; and, on the other hand, lines are not lacking which are noteworthy by reason of their inferiority.”
− + =Ath.= 1908. 1: 156. F. 8. 1100w.
“Left entirely to his own resources, Mr. Phillips does not seem to us a vertebrate poet, but he can drape the limbs of old romance in very graceful folds.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 44: 74. F. 1, ’08. 320w.
“If this were the author’s first volume, one would call it promising; from a proved craftsman it is merely slovenly.” Brian Hooker.
+ − =Forum.= 39: 527. Ap. ’08. 400w.
“The best of Mr. Phillips is not his thought nor his emotion, nor the interaction of both; it is his expression. He is content, as a rule, to take a good story or a respectable idea, and tell it with all the resources at his command. The new book as a whole, gives the impression that the poet has come to a pause in his development. The old qualities are here, with a finer feeling than before for the point where enough has been said.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 364. N. 29, ’07. 1150w.
“Like most of the lesser versifiers of the day, his virtue is in the sensuous, unthinking perception of beauty.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 590. D. 26, ’07. 280w.
“The present volume is very well worth reading as an exemplification of his skill, and especially as showing, upon the whole, a distinct advance upon the ‘Poems’ of 1900.”
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 849. D. 21, ’07. 460w.
“There are good lines in Mr. Phillips’s poem, but there is very little uplift of vision, and sometimes his verse drops to a level of commonplace prose.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 142. Ja. 18, ’08. 370w.
“He is now a deft workman in his own spacious vein. These verses for the most part have a fluent tinkle, a kind of obvious succulence, which makes them in a way readable. Such readability, however, is more remote from true standards of poetry than any amount of frankly bad verse.”
− + =Sat. R.= 104: 637. N. 23, ’07. 280w.
“The poems almost without exception are characteristic of Mr. Phillips’s best work.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 709. N. 9, ’07. 1770w.
=Phillips, Stephen, and Carr, J. Comyns.= Faust; freely adapted from Goethe’s dramatic poem. **$1.25. Macmillan.
8–24861.