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=Maartens, Maarten.=^{[7]} Brothers all. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–21861.
A collection of stories dealing with Dutch peasant life which the author “presents in a most repellent aspect. They are nearly all quite odious people in these short stories—morose, stupid, and rigidly, offensively Calvinistic; lumpish country folk, hard, dishonest business men, repulsive clerics.” (Sat. R.)
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“The grimly facetious turn of most of the sketches is less successful than the soberer and more sympathetic vein of a few.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 56. O. ’09.
“The tales are of unequal merit, but on the whole it cannot be said that the author shows at his best in them. Though he can sentimentalize on occasion, we cannot help feeling that he is often out of sympathy with his subject.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 435. Ap. 10. 120w.
“Differs little from its predecessors—unless perhaps, as it makes smaller display of his versatility, and over-represents a type of humorous tale in which he does not excell.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 163. Ag. 19, ’09. 330w.
“Though these stories concern themselves with people of small horizons and isolated communities where the great tides of life do not wash, yet, being so true and so living, they reach out and touch each of us, fulfilling the title under which they appear.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 453. Jl. 24, ’09. 420w.
“A volume of short sketches of Dutch peasant life admirably drawn, largely painful, but good reading because they give a sense of truth and reality.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 124. Jl. ’09. 70w.
“The motives of the tales are far-fetched, the procedure seems artificial, the humour strained. There is not even the glamour of local colour.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 373. Mr. 20, ’09. 160w.
“But quite apart from the fact that the author has here resorted to the highly reprehensible device of exploiting the imaginary sufferings of children in order to play upon the heartstrings of his readers, he has done his fellow-countrymen a grave disservice by the well-nigh continuous disparagement of his portraiture.”
− =Spec.= 102: 268. F. 13, ’09. 1000w.
=Maartens, Maarten.=^{[11]} Price of Lis Doris. †$1.50 Appleton.
9–28113.
Lis Doris, the son of a Dutch grocer, looks out upon the world with an artist’s eye, rejoicing in the colors of his first soap bubbles and making surreptitious sketches on his father’s wrapping paper. Yetta, the minister’s daughter, loves the artist’s soul in him and mothers and encourages it, finally marrying a man of wealth that Lis may have the money for an education. Unconscious of the price, he becomes the artist she dreamed of; but, before he has shown his work, her jealous husband comes to him and tells him the secret, claiming as a return that Lis shall let him have the credit for painting the pictures that he may win his wife’s respect and thus make her happy. Lis pays the price and condemns himself to be a painter of the portraits he hates and to give up his real life as a painter of nature and the great out of doors. Thus he and Yetta sacrifice their lives for each other and nothing comes of it save the momentary revelation of their great love in the end and their hope of love and eternal life.
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“In places there is a regrettable straining after thrilling effects but no imperfection can blind the reader to the charm of the author’s humour and satire.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 522. O. 30. 220w.
“The book is sunny with a delightful humor and filled with character studies that are inimitable, running the scale of the social chord from high to low. Every page is rich with human life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 742. N. 27, ’09. 1250w.
“Strong and picturesque as his studies are, they arouse the suspicion that it is not merely because they are Dutch that they seem unfamiliar to us. There is something disproportionate in their semblance of life, they are in some instances distorted from their true outline, whether wilfully to suit the purpose of the plot, or unconsciously through the limitations of Mr. Maartens’ powers of expression.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 506. O. 23, ’09. 600w.
=Mabinogion.= Wonder stories from the Mabinogion, by E: Brooks. (Classic stories for boys and girls.) †$1.25. Penn.
8–15724.
A volume of Welsh wonder tales, full of heroic adventure and supernatural incidents. The stories had their origin as early as the fifth or sixth century.
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“It is better illustrated and cheaper in price, and also in appearance, than Lanier’s. The latter is preferable for a library that can have but one.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 311. D. ’08.
“The present book seems to have been carefully done and should find a considerable audience.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1475. D. 17, ’08. 60w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
=McArdle, Fred, and Helmholtz, Henry=, eds.^{[6]} Air brake text for engineers and firemen: a complete treatise on the Westinghouse and New York air brake and signal systems, air brake practice and train handling. $2.50. McArdle & Helmholtz.
9–9355.
“The work contains a treatise on all of the old air brake equipment, in addition to a complete description and treatise of the latest Westinghouse and New York equipments, which are briefly explained and cover all the points necessary to qualify the engineman to pass a thorough examination on air brake operation and train handling.”—Preface.
=McArdle, Fred, and Helmholtz, Henry, eds.=^{[6]} Locomotive text for engineers and firemen: a complete treatise on the engine, electric headlight and standard code of train rules. $2.50. McArdle & Helmholtz.
9–9356.
Aims to assist the inexperienced engineman as well as those more advanced in the service in becoming more proficient in the care and management of the locomotive. The first part deals with locomotive firing; the second with locomotive injectors, and the third with the standard code of train rules and signals.
=McAulay, Allan.=^{[10]} Eagle’s nest. †$1.50. Lane.
W9–318.
“Mr. McAulay has chosen a period and conditions which are new to us in fiction. The eagle’s nest is Corsica, and it is the Corsica of Napoleon’s young days. The hero, however, is not Napoleon, but his friend Domenico Tirolani, who becomes involved in the intrigues which grew up in the island after the French occupation.... The character of the young Bonaparte is deftly kept in tone with that of the Napoleon who was to be evolved from him. The love-interest also is excellent and pathetic.”—Ath.
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“The author’s familiarity with past conditions of Corsican life is remarkable, and his story is spirited and interesting. Nor does it affect the interest in any way that is tragic. We should describe the book, in fine, as a brilliant ‘tour de force.’”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 325. S. 18. 120w.
“This happy art, added to a fine dignity of construction, puts the novel quite above the too fluid current of modern historical romance.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 434. N. 4, ’09. 270w.
“The beginning of a Corsican story provides distinct thrills and is not without promise of sustained interest. The author, however, seems to have wearied of his task just as the climax was in sight.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 525. S. 4, ’09. 400w.
“‘Allan McAulay’ is greatly to be congratulated on turning his faithful study of a generally neglected period of Napoleon’s early career to such fruitful purpose. For this is one of those illuminating and stimulating romances which set people reading history.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 692. O. 30, ’09. 830w.
=Macaulay, Mrs. Fannie C. (Frances Little, pseud.).=^{[11]} Little Sister Snow. **$1. Century.
9–27380.
A charming story about a little Japanese maiden written by the author of “The lady of the decoration.” In early childhood Yuki Chan resolves upon drowning a naughty kitten, but is interrupted in her plan by an American boy. When she grows up, after her parents have engaged her to a middle-aged Japanese officer, the American youth returns and she falls in love with him. There is much of pathos and sweet womanliness in her quiet struggle to overcome this impossible love, in portraying which the author uses great delicacy of touch.
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“In revelation of character and Japanese bearing the story bears the mark of verisimilitude.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 133. D. ’09. ✠
“Thanks to a perfect understanding on the author’s part of the boundary line between pathos and tragedy, tenderness and sentimentality, this is, for English readers at all events, an admirable story.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 489. O. 23. 140w.
“Full of charm and beauty, this little book has a message for the thoughtful far beyond its more obvious motive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 721. N. 20, ’09. 420w. + =Outlook.= 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 100w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 50w.
“A charming story of modern Japan.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 924. D. 4, ’09. 170w.
=McCabe, Joseph.=^{[11]} Iron cardinal; being the romance of Richelieu. *$3.50. McBride, J:
A personal story of the Cardinal de Richelieu. “Mr. McCabe frankly admits, both in the subtitle and in his preface, that he has maintained a special point of view throughout his book; he presents Richelieu’s character and career in a light as romantic as even Bulwer-Lytton ventured to throw on the hero of his recurrently popular drama.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Upon the whole our impression remains that the author has fallen between two stools. While not sufficiently equipped or enough interested to treat of Richelieu as the European statesman, he has not concentrated himself with adequate care upon the literary and romantic aspects of his subject.”
− =Ath.= 1909, 2: 66. Jl. 17. 700w.
“The complete life of this wonderful man remains to be written. Meanwhile this less serious and far less voluminous study of his character, with its many portraits and other attractive features, is welcome.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 511. D. 16, ’09. 210w.
“There is evidence of more kindliness, more human feeling, in this book than we are accustomed to look for in the character of Richelieu. It is a fresh and interesting conception of the man, and as such merits a secure place in literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 640. O. 23, ’09. 900w.
“This one contains more genuine history than most of them, but there is no reference to authorities and no means of checking the statements made except through a general allusion to a large number of works dealing with Richelieu.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 824. Je. 26, ’09. 780w.
“Mr. McCabe’s study of the life and career of Richelieu is to some extent a satisfactory book. It is certainly interesting. One cannot help expressing regret that so lively and interesting a book on a subject so important and absorbing should be marked by defects so easily avoided, defects which matter all the more perhaps because it is not every reader who will be aware of them.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 60. Jl. 10, ’09. 1850w.
=McCarthy, Callaghan.=^{[10]} Causes of poverty. *2s. King, P. S., and son, London.
9–5476.
A work that emphasizes less the maladjustment theory of poverty than the physiographic and social causes looked at from a national standpoint. “The present volume, says Mr. McCarthy, ‘might be described as an effort to evolve a mental picture of the world we live in, to behold before us a working model of this earth and all its belongings, and to realise, from an examination of that model, the causes responsible for human poverty.’” (Spec.)
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“The presentation of the problem as one of exchange is suggestive, but Mr. McCarthy’s treatment of it is magniloquent rather than illuminating.”
− =Spec.= 100: 710. My. 2, ’08. 400w.
“Even if the proportion of unproductively consumed income has been overstated, Mr. McCarthy has written an interesting and suggestive study of poverty looked at from the standpoint of the nation as a whole.” C. C. Carstens.
+ − =Survey.= 22: 802. S. 11, ’09. 430w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.=^{[11]} God of love. †$1.50. Harper.
9–28000.
Florence the beautiful and her gorgeous, pleasure loving, quarrelsome Florentines form the setting for the story of the love of Dante and Beatrice. A note tells us that the archives of the Abbey of Bonne Aventure in Poitou have yielded to the author this version of the greatest love story of all Italy, the story of the obscure young poet, the beautiful etherial girl and their great love which to the end was of the spirit. A wicked suitor, a hard father, and the wild times in which they lived brought about the early death of Beatrice and left Dante, in the words of his chronicler, in “a kind of moral torpor in which all sense of things righteous and things evil was confused.”
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Gorgeous Borgia: a romance. †$1.50. Harper.
9–5203.
A night, a morning, an afternoon and an evening in the life of Cæsar Borgia, are depicted here, tho many moons apart. It is a tale of his cruelty, his tyranny, his professed loyalty to Italy, and his one great passion, the love for Lavinella Orsini. The great Borgia woos her in ignorance of her lineage, while in turn she knows not that he is the tyrant of a rival house. When her people elect her to slay the hated Borgia, she little dreams that it is her lover. The story is true to history in its plots and betrayals, and its delineation of lawless, sensual Roman life.
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“His book does not suggest an intimate knowledge of Cæsar’s times. The events of history are very cavalierly dealt with.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 677. N. 28. 150w.
“An exciting tale.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1034. My. 13, ’09. 220w.
“As a story, the book is weak, its slender thread of a plot being over-weighted with long pages of description and narrative. As a historical picture, an attempt to revivify the mad, strenuous, shameless life of the time, it is hardly more successful, although now and then there is a brilliant page.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 145. Mr. 13, ’09. 230w.
“Mr. McCarthy knows how to tell a story well, and, with considerable allowance for the bad taste the characters leave in the mouth of the reader, the tale itself is a good one.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 120w.
“There is plenty of brisk incident, but the spirit of the renaissance is hardly renewed in these pages.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 765. D. 19, ’08. 200w.
=MacCartney, Mervin.=^{[5]} English houses and gardens in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. *$6. Scribner.
“Consists of a selection of birdseye views of English country houses, made for the most part by Dutch engravers at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, admirably reproduced by means of photography.... The period is a fascinating one, the houses, though in some cases Tudor, being chiefly of the time of Inigo Jones and Wren, and either the work of those masters or of their pupils and followers; while at no time, perhaps, has garden design reached so high a level.... There is an interesting introduction, the greater part of which is devoted to garden design; and in addition there is a short description of each plate, containing much useful information.”—Ath.
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“The material the author had to draw upon was large, and he has made an excellent selection. We notice one or two slight misprints. While the plates reproduce with remarkable fidelity both the spirit and detail of the originals, the considerable reduction in scale is a distinct loss.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 470. Ap. 17. 440w.
“To those who desire to get a strong impression of the formality and dignity of life in the good days of Queen Anne and the neighboring periods, we recommend this volume.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 151. F. 11, ’09. 200w.
=McCasland, Charles Orville.=^{[6]} Right and riches. $1.50. Wilbur pub.
8–18383.
A scientific study of wealth in its relations to producer, consumer and society; the cause of want and its amelioration; the nature and laws of money and the dangers of our centralised system of banking and corporate control; the elements of collective prosperity and individual success.
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“Taking things as they are and allowing Mr. McCasland his definitions of terms, it is hard to find any flaw in his reasoning. The trouble with the book lies in the fact that it is too technical for the ordinary reader, and scholars may not be willing to acknowledge Mr. McCasland as an authority.” R. E. Bisbee.
− =Arena.= 41: 395. Mr. ’09. 500w.
=McClelland, Thomas Calvin.=^{[8]} Mind of Christ: an attempt to answer the question what did Jesus believe? **$1.25. Crowell.
9–21685.
In the following chapters the author sets forth in simple speech the belief of Jesus: Jesus’ idea of God; Jesus’ idea of himself; Jesus’ idea of man; Jesus’ idea of religion; Jesus’ idea of sin; Jesus’ idea of salvation; Jesus’ idea of prayer; Jesus’ idea of immortality; The proof of Jesus’ idea of God; How a man may know Jesus’ God; The seriousness of believing in the fatherhood of God.
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“The theology involved in it is distinctively modern, and it is luminous both in thought and in expression.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 762. D. ’09. 60w.
=McClung, Robert Kenning.=^{[12]} Conduction of electricity through gases and radio-activity. *$1.50. Blakiston.
9–29406.
A combined text-book and laboratory manual that aims to present in simple form the fundamental facts of the subject and explanatory theories, accompanied, where possible, by the description of suitable experiments. The desire has been uppermost to give a student a working knowledge of the main facts and principles of the subjects.
=MacColl, Alexander.= Working theology. **75c. Scribner.
9–6470.
A body of doctrine for the orthodox layman which has resulted from a revision and readjustment of old ideas subjected to the present-day examination and criticism of traditionary dogmas. The chapters are: The religious attitude toward the newer conceptions of truth; God the loving Father, Man the erring child; Divine providence in the play of cosmic processes; Prayer in a world of law; Miracles in a scientific age; The Bible in the light of modern revelation and inspiration; The sense of sin in modern life; The great gospel of the cross; and Things to come.
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“In general the spirit is that of honest facing of difficulty. The volume is calculated to help many toward a ‘theology that will work.’”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1298. Je. 10, ’09. 200w.
=McComb, Rev. Samuel.=^{[12]} Making of the English Bible; with an introductory essay on the influence of the English Bible on English literature. **$1. Moffat.
A work whose purpose is not to give a history of the English Bible, but to point out in the light of recent investigation the debt that the latest revision owes to its predecessors, and to estimate the contributions to it from all sources. Contents: William Tindale—the father of the English Bible; The contribution of Miles Coverdale; The contribution of the Genevan version; The contribution of the Bishop’s Bible; The Roman Catholic contribution; The contribution of the authorized version; The contribution of the Anglo-American version.
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“Though popular in style and treatment, it will be of most use to the student of the text.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 78. N. ’09.
“The story is succinctly told, yet with emphasis where it belongs, and with sufficient illustration by way of parallel texts and exhibition of relationships.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 362. O. 14, ’09. 140w.
“It is not clear to what the sub-title of this book refers. There is no essay on the influence of the English Bible on English literature. Otherwise the volume is admirable.” E. S. D.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 400w.
=McComb, Rev. Samuel.=^{[10]} Power of self-suggestion. **50c. Moffat.
9–14535.
“A small volume containing an address which reviews in the spirit of the movement connected with the Emmanuel church the varieties of aid to be derived from a vigorous and confident appeal to the best within one.”—Dial.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 18. S. ’09. =Dial.= 47: 24. Jl. 1, ’09. 50w.
=McCook, Rev. Henry Christopher.=^{[12]} Ant communities and how they are governed: a study in natural civics. **$2. Harper.
9–27978.
A distinctly informing work that covers mainly those phases of ant life that are developed around ants’ behavior as social animals. A secondary feature of the book is the indication of parallels, more or less distinct, between the communal actions of ants considered simply as natural history, and the communal actions of man, considered in their relations to the highest welfare of the race.
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“This is a fresh and original book. A book delightfully written and delightfully illustrated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 964. N. 27, ’09. 330w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 806. D. 18, ’09. 850w. =Outlook.= 93: 830. D. 11, ’09. 200w.
=McCord, Peter B.= Wolf: the memoirs of a cave dweller. $1. Dodge, B. W.
8–33782.
Purported to be the transcript of an old priest’s work in piecing together meagre scraps of information concerning the cave dwellers. It is in the form of a cave-dweller’s autobiographical sketch and throws light on this half man, half animal tribe, and the development which characterized its evolutionary progress.
=MacCorkle, William Alexander.= Some Southern questions. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–36695.
“Mr. MacCorkle, who is an ex-governor of West Virginia, has a good deal to say about the negro in his series of valuable papers on Southern questions. He accepts the localization of the negro in the South as a permanency, and dismisses all kinds of colonization talk as idle. The Southern whites want and need the negro, he maintains. Considerable space is given to a record of Southern efforts for negro education. The repression of the negro vote is admitted, but the author maintains that the best Southern opinion insists only upon an intelligence qualification, and wishes to disfranchise the ignorant white as well as the black.”—Ind.
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“A man’s desire to preserve his own utterances is easily understood. To understand our difficult social and race problems we need careful studies—not after-dinner oratory. This indicates the strength and weakness of the book.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 720. My. ’09. 100w. =Ind.= 66: 485. Mr. 4, ’09. 120w.
“Although Gov. MacCorkle’s oratorical style may belong to a past age, his political views are decidedly modern.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 221. Mr. 4, ’09. 460w.
“Is entitled to special consideration as witness of what these problems actually appear to the South to be and of the angle in which the South as an active and practical entity looks at them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 78. F. 6, ’09. 640w.
=McCormack, Mary Anna.=^{[11]} Spool knitting. *$1. Barnes.
9–18381.
Tells of the numerous articles that can be made out of the cord or flat web that is made by knitting worsteds over pins stuck into an empty spool.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 44. O. ’09. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 503. Ag. 21, ’09. 90w.
=McCullough, Ernest.=^{[6]} Engineering work in towns and cities. 2d ed. $3. Clark, M. C.
8–28611.
“In the first edition of this book the author divided his subject-matter into two parts, for the technical and for the non-technical reader, placing the two treatments of each sub-division at opposite ends of the book. In this second edition, just issued, this scheme has been abandoned and all the matter on any one subject is to be found at one place. While removing one of the assumed virtues of the old edition—the benefit of the book to non-engineering city officials—this scheme tends much toward the general betterment of the work and makes it more in keeping with its title. Various other changes might be noted, but they are of a somewhat minor character.”—Engin. N.
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“The typography is extremely poor.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 146. D. ’09.
“In its field the work can be commended.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 537. My. ’09. 180w.
“The general impression of the second edition is that, while not differing materially in its matter from the first, the arrangement is much more useful and there is an absence of a certain colloquial style, brought about probably by the removal of many not altogether appropriate chapter heading quotations.” C. G. Barth.
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 691. D. 17, ’08. 180w.
“Taken as a whole, the book will probably be more helpful to an engineer undertaking to manage for the first time the engineering department of a small city than anything else that has been published.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 475. O. 23, ’09. 330w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.=^{[7]} Alternative. †$1.25. Dodd.
9–10493.
A light-weight story of a father and son in which the son improves upon his father’s generation and ideals. Having squandered their fortune Van Pyckes senior sees continuance of his life of ease only thru a wealthy marriage. The son halts before the alternative to such a scheme which presents itself in the idea of entering upon a business career. He chooses the latter course, pursues his own domestic ideas about marriage and witnesses a father’s agitation over the fact that his son should be the first of the old family of Van Pyckes to do any work.
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“Another book whose atmosphere fails to carry conviction.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 100w.
“The farcical swing with which he carries his story swiftly through makes amends for defects in construction and characterization.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 200w.
“It is an airy little tale, full of amusing situations and crisp, delightful dialogue.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr.=^{[11]} Truxton King: a story of Graustark. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–24451.
“Truxton King, big, handsome, good-natured and young, ranges over the face of the earth looking for romance and adventure and finding none, until at last he comes to the natural home of such things—Graustark. There he jumps over the palace wall and meets Prince Robin, and first sets eyes on the heroine.”—N. Y. Times.
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“This most recent addition to the Graustark series will be welcomed by all those who have made the acquaintance of that stirring little principality.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 636. O. 16, ’09. 280w.
“Those who like exciting tales of intrigue, adventure, and heroism of the Zenda school may look here for such a one, and not look in vain.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 515. O. 30, ’09. 170w.
=Macdonald, Duncan Black.= Religious attitude and life in Islam: being the Haskell lectures on comparative religion delivered before the University of Chicago in 1906. *$1.75. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–5544.
Ten lectures which outline the religious attitude and life of Muslims, as opposed to the systematic theology of Islam. The author has turned to the occult for interpretative analogies. He makes himself clear as to his own stand, stating that he is driven to regard telepathy as proved, that the proof of telekinesis—the movement of objects at a distance without contact, approaches certainty; but that there is no satisfactory proof of communication by discarnate spirits. By means of his analogies he sketches the essential outlines, leaving it to the future to make additions and corrections.
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“A scholarly study from original sources; of limited appeal to the average reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 18. S. ’09.
“Altogether the volume is an excellent book.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 185. Jl. ’09. 90w.
“We are indebted to Professor Macdonald for a valuable exposition of one phase of Moslem thought, and we would suggest that the value of his work would be increased by distinguishing between the three sections of Islam, the Semitic, the Aryan, and the Berber. It is only the Aryan that has developed mysticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 164. Ag. 19, ’09. 950w.
“Prof. Macdonald gives a deeply interesting view of the religious life in Islam.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 177. Mr. 27, ’09. 700w.
=Macdonald William.=^{[11]} Dry-farming: its principles and practice. **$1.20. Century.
9–27125.
Sets forth in a straightforward way the principal facts of the new branch of agricultural science known as dry-farming or dryland agriculture. It deals with the conservation of soil moisture during long periods of dry weather by means of tillage together with the growth of drought-resistant plants.
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“A valuable contribution to agricultural literature.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 120. D. ’09.
“We believe that this is the first book to be published on the subject.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 80w.
=Macdonnell, Anne.=^{[12]} In the Abruzzi. *$2. Stokes. W9–26.
A record of a pilgrimage in a land, “strange, uncouth, primitive, little distant from Rome in mileage, incalculably distant in everything else.” The author “discourses of past and present, of brigands and the simple, unquestioning faith of the mountaineers, of their singers and improvisatori, their folk-lore, repeating several legends well worth adding, on account of their charming ‘naïveté’ clothing simple wisdom.” (Ind.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 79. N. ’09.
“Interesting from beginning to end.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 516. D. 16, ’09. 250w. + =Ind.= 67: 1143. N. 18, ’09. 180w.
“Her book is by no means a mere guide-book, but is full of information on all sorts of subjects. We should have indeed nothing but praise for this volume, which, as we have said, is within its limits excellent, if it were not for two matters which go far to spoil its worth. Painstaking and sincere as Miss Macdonell’s work is, it seems to us quite lifeless. The book has some queer mis-spellings and translations.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 179. F. 6, ’09. 780w.
=McDougall, William.= Introduction to social psychology. *$1.50. Luce, J: W.
9–8413.
A presentation which presupposes no familiarity with psychological treatises, but which aims to provide students of all social sciences “with the minimum of psychological doctrine that is an indispensable part of the equipment for work in any of these sciences.” The author discusses the conceptions of instinct and of instinctive processes; elaborates the principle that all emotion is the affective aspect of instinctive process; combats the current view that imitation is to be ascribed to an instinct of imitation; and interprets Mr. Shand’s doctrine of the sentiments; and applies it to the description of the organization of the life of emotion and impulse. The second part of the book treats “The operation of the primary tendencies of the human mind in the life of societies.”
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“A work for students and general readers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 79. N. ’09.
“He has no great acquaintance with social facts, and hence the second section of the book ... offers far less than the first section.” E: A. Ross.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 438. S. ’09. 250w.
“This book has both charm and originality. It forms, in fact, as fresh and stimulating a contribution to psychology as has been made by any writer in recent years.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 754. D. 12. 1600w.
“All in all, Mr. McDougall’s book is well fitted to render a great service to students of the social sciences by giving them a correct psychological point of view and the indispensable minimum of modern psychological doctrine.” C: A. Ellwood.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 168. Je. ’09. 900w.
“Mr. McDougall has made good his claims to a fresh and original treatment of his subject. Whether he is presenting new material or elaborating familiar themes, his grasp is sure and his exposition lucid.” G: E. Vincent.
+ =Hibbert J.= 7: 930. Jl. ’09. 930w.
“My quarrel with Mr. McDougall will not be so much with what he says, nearly all of which I find excellent, as with some omissions to which he himself points.” Frank Granger.
+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 512. Jl. ’09. 1250w.
“The author’s psychology is notably sound, his mode of procedure thoroughly scientific, his illustrative examples happy and his criticisms cogent and moderate in tone.”
+ =Nation.= 99: 331. O. 7, ’09. 630w.
“In bringing together emotion and instinct, Mr. McDougall has made an original contribution to psychological science of the highest value and importance, and even if he does not succeed in carrying his fellow-psychologists all the way with him in his identification of the two, he will have set the problem of their relation in a form which is itself at least half the solution. The book is full of close reasoning, but is written in so lucid a style that it makes very pleasant reading. Its importance is more than academic; there are political theorists at the present day who would do well to take some of its teachings to heart.” W: Brown.
+ =Nature.= 80: 245. Ap. 29, ’09. 550w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 499. Ag. 21, ’09. 520w.
“The most disappointing chapter in the book to the reviewer has been that on development of self-consciousness.” G: H. Mead.
+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 385. D. 15, ’08. 2800w.
=McElroy, John.=^{[10]} Struggle for Missouri. $2. National tribune co., Washington, D. C.
9–19864.
A work of historical significance that gives in swift narrative the story of the struggle between Unionists and Secessionists in Missouri for the supremacy in the early sixties.
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“The author shows just familiarity with his subject and his story is entertaining and instructive, in spite of the fact that he writes as a partisan.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 280w.
=MacFadyen, Allan.= Cell as the unit of life, and other lectures; ed. by R: Tanner Hewlett. *$3. Blakiston.
9–22255.
“The volume consists of four courses of lectures delivered by Dr. MacFadyen at the Royal institution, whilst he was Fullerian professor of physiology there. They are entitled ‘The cell as the unit of life,’ ‘Cellular physiology,’ ‘Recent methods and results in biological inquiry,’ and ‘Toxins and antitoxins.’ A final lecture on ‘The effects of physical agents on bacterial life’ is included.”—Ath.
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“Will be ranked as one of the most important recent works dealing with interesting problems of modern physical science and medicine from the materialistic view-point.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 397. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“The whole series is characterized by clearness of thought and accuracy of statement, and the subject-matter is presented in an attractive form. It is some years since these lectures were delivered, but under the careful editorship of Prof. Hewlett they are as valuable now as when first uttered.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 170. F. 6. 600w.
“For those who are interested in getting at the present position of progressive biologists with regard to the mystery of life and its theoretic and scientific explanations, Professor MacFadyen’s book will have a distinct appeal.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 102. Ja. 14, ’09. 550w.
“The treatment is popular in the best sense of the word and without reference to the literature.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 82. Jl. 22, ’09. 220w.
“The style is always interesting, and the book may well claim to form an introduction to a study of some of the fundamental problems of biology, if not to biology itself.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 123. Ap. 1, ’09. 550w.
“The difficult task, undertaken ‘con amore,’ has been well performed by the editor, and a very readable and acceptable, although from its very nature somewhat out-of-date, ‘introduction to biology’ lies before us.” G. N. C.
+ − =Science, n.s.= 29: 667. Ap. 23, ’09. 400w.
=McFadyen, John Edgar.= Epistles to the Corinthians and Galatians; with notes and comments. (Interpreter’s commentary on the New Testament, v. 6.) $1.50. Barnes.
9–4565.
“The commentaries of Lyman Abbott on the gospels, Acts, and Romans, first published 1875–88, are now continued in this volume, published under the joint general editorship of Dr. Abbott and Professor McFadyen. The Corinthian letters are assigned, though not positively, to 57 A. D. McFadyen inclines to the view that our I Cor. is the painful letter referred to in II Cor., and that II Cor. is one epistle, not a combination of two or more. Galatians he holds to have been written probably about 55 A. D., which view practically implies the acceptance of its North-Galatian destination.”—Bib. World.
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“The notes are copious and skilfully wrought into a continuous expanded paraphrase. The use of the Authorized Version, even to its printing of each verse as a paragraph, is unfortunate.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 288. Ap. ’09. 120w.
“The strength of the work lies in its appreciation of the apostle’s thought. It gives in a more popular form such exposition as one would find, say, in the ‘Expositor’s Greek Testament.’” S. J. Case.
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 67. Jl. ’09. 180w. + =Outlook.= 91: 535. Mr. 6, ’09. 560w.
=Macfall, C. Haldane.= Beautiful children immortalized by the masters; ed. by T. Leman Hare, **$5. Dodd.
9–28434.
“Contains fifty full page illustrations in colors of unusually good reproductions of famous paintings of children. The author in his text has not attempted technical criticism of the pictures, but has told entertainingly the history of the painters and the sitters and has filled in the background with some account of the times they lived in.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is unfortunate that in an art-book the publishers have not avoided using different styles of type on the same page, but for the rest these beautiful children are in a beautiful setting.” Algernon Tassin.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 344. D. ’09. 380w.
“The colored plates delightfully carry out the color schemes in the originals from which they were derived.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1353. D. 16, ’09. 70w.
“Written, if not exactly down to the child’s level, yet in a simple and easy vein. The reproductions are generally good, though we notice occasionally the messiness that almost inevitably goes with this form of printing in its present state of development.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 583. D. 9, ’09. 100w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 801. D. 18, ’09. 130w.
=Macfarland, Charles Stedman=, ed.^{[12]} Christian ministry and the social order: lectures delivered in the Course in pastoral functions at Yale divinity school, 1908–1909. *$1.25. Oxford.
9–15877.
A volume of lectures on social questions dealing “with the relation of the minister to human society and indicating the definite, concrete tasks and problems which face the Christian ministry.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* * * * *
“This work is a valuable contribution to social science, indicating the desire of modern theology for a comprehensive grasp of social problems by the ministry.” S. E. Rupp.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 621. N. ’09. 250w. + =Outlook.= 93: 646. N. 20, ’09. 300w.
Reviewed by J: H. Holmes.
+ − =Survey.= 22: 848. S. 25, ’09. 1550w.
Reviewed by Graham Taylor.
=Survey.= 22: 854. S. 25, ’09. 950w.
=McFarlane, Arthur E.=^{[11]} Redney McGaw: a story of the big show and the cheerful spirit. †$1.50. Little.
9–28951.
The story of a typical New York street gamin who joins a circus just to be transported to a farm out West where he hoped to join a chum. Hardships of earning his living are offset by the excitement of the life and such thrills as result from saving a panther-tamer, preventing a train-wreck and a wild ride on an elephant. The human quality in circus folk is brought out, also their wit and intelligence.
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“His philosophy under trying circumstances is healthy for young readers.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1366. D. 16, ’09. 30w.
“Since the days when James Otis’ ‘Toby Tyler’ was so enthusiastically received by juvenile readers, there has been no more refreshing circus story than ‘Redney McGaw.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1020. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
“It would make anybody laugh to read of the enforced battle between the two tramps.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13. ’09. 120w.
“Mr. McFarland writes with the easy pen of the journalist and the keen observation of a Kipling.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 766. D. ’09. 40w.
=McGhee, Zach.= Dark corner. **$1. Grafton press.
8–34812.
“A story of the uplifting of a lot of rural folk by educational means. The hero is a schoolmaster, who, in addition to being a young man of remarkable intelligence and energy, is now and then extremely entertaining by reason of the humorous views he takes of persons and things with which he comes in contact. A feature of Mr. McGhee’s little volume is the dedication of his story to ‘men of talent, strength, energy, and culture,’ who ‘pursue lives of toil, poverty, and obscurity that they may brighten the minds, ennoble the souls, and increase the opportunities of other men’s children.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“With many rawnesses and roughnesses, it is in some inscrutable way a very likable little story.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 200. F. 25, ’09. 280w.
“He has pictured some interesting bits of Southern life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 103. F. 20, ’09. 180w.
=MacGowan, Alice.=^{[12]} Wiving of Lance Cleaverage. **$1.35. Putnam.
9–27261.
A story set in the Tennessee mountains that tells of the clashing temperaments of a young husband and wife while they “are fighting it out” and learning to agree. “The difficulties that beset Lance and Callista before they reached a happy married haven are of general human interest, but in the case of the hero, take on especial coloring from his temperament—which is distinctly a Tennessee mountain product.... With Callista it is otherwise. Hers is the case of many a spoiled beauty who does not know how to cook.” (Nation.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 134. D. ’09.
“There are most excellent character portrayals all along the way.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 600. D. 16, ’09. 250w.
“Contrasted with the hothouse atmosphere of so much of the fiction of the day and with the subtleties and complexities of its characters this story of children of nature, simple, strong, direct, is as refreshing as a lung-filling breath of their own mountain air.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 726. N. 20, ’09. 300w.
=MacGrath, Harold.=^{[8]} Goose girl; with illustrations by André Castaigne. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–22181.
A narrative of love and adventure in which the main interest centers in a peasant girl, who tends geese in the German state of Ehrenstein. The daughter of the Duke of this principality had been abducted when a child by a band of gypsies and after sixteen years of search was supposed to be found. Further developments proved that it was not the reigning princess but the goose girl who was the stolen child.
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“A harmless tale which has a touch of romantic charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 56. O. ’09. ✠
“The genre is beginning to show signs of wear, the mechanism of its romance is beginning to creak; it is time for the invention of something new.”
− =Ind.= 67: 550. S. 2, ’09. 120w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 501. Ag. 21, ’09. 200w.
=Macgregor, Mary.= Romance of history: The Netherlands. (Romance of history ser.) **$2. Stokes.
9–5227.
A story of the Netherlands for boys the material for which is freely acknowledged to have been drawn from Motley’s “Dutch republic” and Prescott’s “Philip II.”
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“The lurid details of the Inquisition and general style make it less suitable for children’s than for young people’s or even adult’s reading.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 95. Mr. ’09.
“Mrs. MacGregor writes very well, and her book ... will be an excellent introduction to the fuller studies of Prescott and Martin Hume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 53. Ja. 11, ’08. 170w.
=Mach, Edmund Robert O. von.= Art of painting in the nineteenth century. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–34260.
“French, German, British, and American painting are discussed, each in a separate chapter; Italy, Spain and the Netherlands are classed together in one chapter; Russia, Denmark, and Scandinavia in another. A book of 170 pages covering so large a field implies that little more than brief sketches of principal names has been possible. But the preface warns us not to expect ‘art-criticism, nor clever and pithy sayings,’ so we need not be misled. There are thirty-two full-page illustrations.”—Dial.
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“A convenient handbook.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 233. Ap. 1, ’09. 130w.
“A good example of over-condensation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 335. F. 13, ’09. 120w.
=McIsaac, Isabel.= Hygiene for nurses. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–25736.
Discusses with generous use of quotations from good authorities such subjects as food, air, soil, water, sewage, garbage, causes and dissemination of disease, personal, household and school hygiene, hygiene of occupation, disinfection and quarantine.
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“Though intended as a first book for nurses, these chapters ... are not too technical, and equally important, for the housekeeper. They are scientific, clear and very practical.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 292. D. ’08. ✠
“Much of the information is good, but there is far more of it than the average nurse may be expected to comprehend; nor will she be able to use many of the directions unless she already knows too much to need the book.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 529. N. 26, ’08. 120w.
=Mack, Arthur Carlyle.=^{[9]} Palisades of the Hudson. *75c. Palisade press.
9–25288.
A slight volume, fully illustrated, dwelling upon the formation, tradition, romance, historical associations, natural wonders and preservation of the Palisades of the Hudson.
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“Probably nowhere else will one find in convenient compass so much information on this subject.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 540. O. 2, ’09. 100w.
=Mackail, John William.=^{[5]} Springs of Helicon: a study in the progress of English poetry from Chaucer to Milton. **$1.25. Longmans.
9–7035.
Contains the substance of the author’s two official courses of lectures delivered in 1906 and 1908 at Oxford. The subject suggests “that all European poetry is connected with and indebted to Greece; and that English poetry especially is indebted to the Grecian stream, from which it has borrowed, directly and indirectly, at three turning points of its development. These three stages which Professor Mackail has selected in order to study the growth and progress of English poetry as a phase of life, are embodied in Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton. Each of these is treated at considerable length in an essay abounding in erudite, broad, and luminous criticism.” (Cath. World.)
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“An excellent review of the general movement in English poetry as exemplified in Chaucer, Spenser and Milton.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 173. Je. ’09.
“His gift is for detailed appreciation; it is because his book is not concerned with the progress of poetry that it is worth reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 640. My. 29. 680w.
“Professor Mackail is learned and technical without being pedantic; he has to convey subtle appreciations of the supra-sensuous and intangible in terms proper to concrete expression; but he manages to express intelligibly what he wants to say, and he has always something to say that is worth listening to.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 252. My. ’09. 420w.
“In the end, Professor Mackail’s work is rather to be valued for its general suavity of tone than judged in accordance with the correctness or originality of its separate ideas.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 444. Ap. 29, ’09. 960w.
“He does not touch the vital heart of the poetry, nor does he bring it to the point of contact with real life; his criticism does not stimulate, and for purely academic analyses, covering no new ground, there can be little demand.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 195. Ap. 3, ’09. 400w.
“Essays which are not only penetrating and learned, but which give one the thrill and delight of work which has a universal quality.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 408. S. ’09. 470w.
“The immensity of the subject is a difficulty, but the present volume proves the author’s ability to compress a vast amount of good matter into a small space without distorting proportions or confusing his meaning—a rare gift.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 691. My. 29, ’09. 1200w.
“Professor Mackail’s mellifluous prose rises often to eloquence, but it escapes the defect of that quality and is never vapid or obscure. He coins memorable phrases, but he eschews paradox. Last, and it is a high merit in a modern critic, he avoids the kind of pseudo-scientific jargon in which some scholars choose to expound their views. He is never forgetful of the dignity of English prose.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 818. My. 22, ’09. 1900w.
=Mackail, John William.=^{[10]} Swinburne: a lecture delivered before the University on April, 30, 1909. *35c. Oxford.
A tribute to Swinburne the student, the poet, the man.
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“Perhaps it is early yet to give his poetry the full meed of praise and at times Mr. Mackail seems over-cautious, but then it is the way of the world to hesitate before it lays the laurel wreath on the grave of mortality become immortal.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 409. S. ’09. 500w.
“It it an admirable piece of criticism. It abounds with good things,—many of the lecturer’s own, some chosen with rare insight from the utterances of others.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 865. My. 29, ’09. 230w.
=Mackay, Constance D’Arcy.=^{[12]} House of the heart and other plays for children; designed for use in the schools. *$1.10. Holt.
Ten plays suitable ethically, dramatically, and educationally, for public school performances. The plays contain lessons in manners and morals, and are so simple in setting and costumes that, with the full directions accompanying the text, any teacher can stage them successfully.
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“A practical little volume for home or school use.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 798. D. 18, ’09. 60w.
“The collection is really worth having for constant use.” B. L. Israels.
+ =Survey.= 23: 376. D. 18, ’09. 130w.
=Mackay, Mrs. Helen Gansevoort (Edwards).=^{[5]} Houses of glass: stories of Paris. **$1. Duffield.
9–9473.
“The sketches are all of Parisian life, about stupid and lovely women of the half-world and their sordid or tragic stories, the intrigues of clever women of the social world and the attempts of silly American women to tiptoe around the edge of the pit and look down into it without getting their feet muddy. They are told with dramatic effect, and the author has a very good knack for making vivid a scene or a character with an illuminating phrase or sentence.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Frankly, they are wonderfully well done, these short sketches in the Maupassant manner—although, of course, they are not quite Maupassant in quality.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 320. My. ’09. 550w.
“While one may honestly admit a difference of opinion regarding the importance of the subject-matter of this collection of stories and sketches, there can be no question about their vividness of portrayal and their mastery of technique.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 397. Ap. ’09. 730w.
“The best things in the book, artistically, are some of the short impressionistic sketches of phases of life in the restaurants or the streets. Their illusion of Parisian life and scene is unusually good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 240. Ap. 17, ’09. 200w.
“The literary artistry of the book is of a distinctly high order.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 814. Ap. 10, ’09. 70w.
=MacKaye, Percy Wallace.=^{[12]} Poems. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–31271.
Mr. Mackaye knows the trick of setting words aflame to kindle a wondrous soul afire. His art is broad, as this volume attests. From his epic ode read at Fort Ticonderoga, July 6, 1909, and his “Sistine eve,” in which the dramatis personae are figures in the paintings by Michelangelo and Botticelli on the ceiling and walls of the Sistine chapel, to his dainty lyrics seems only a step for this singer who is instinct with melody.
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“No one can read the Ticonderoga ode without a sense of the presence of a large and free imagination. While the ‘Sistine eve’ has a rare beauty of feeling and phrase. The courage and unconventional handling are admirable, but the work is occasionally rough and inharmonious. Mr. Mackaye has abundance of material and the highest aims; he needs more patience and restraint to give his work that touch of art without which genius is crippled.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 651. N. 27, ’09. 210w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Ode on the centenary of Abraham Lincoln. *75c, Macmillan.
9–4103.
A poem delivered before the Brooklyn Institute of arts and sciences at the Academy of music, Brooklyn, New York, February, 1909. “The idea—parallel between the birth in the manger at Bethlehem and that in the rude Kentucky cabin—is as good as it is old, and the opening lines which picture the wilderness about the cabin, the frozen night, the voices of the wild creatures that break the wintry silence just miss being really impressive.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Its regular rime and meter are well suited to its subject, and both thought and feeling find original expression in its lines.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 490. Mr. 4, ’09. 170w.
“Despite the stirring swing of the lines here and there, it must be said that as a whole he has not succeeded in fusing the humbler details of Lincoln’s life with the elevation of his general theme.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 90w.
“Of large Miltonic sound it fails to measure up to the requirements of the case in the article of matter.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 83. F. 13, ’09. 160w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.=^{[5]} Playhouse and the play, and other addresses concerning the theater and democracy in America. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–10640.
In an introduction Mr. Mackaye says: “The vital problems which confront the drama in America to-day are not questions of dramatic art: they are questions which concern the opportunities for dramatic art properly to exist and to mature. Primarily, they are not æsthetic questions; they are civic questions.... They are questions which concern, on the part of dramatic artists, liberation; on the part of the public, enlightenment.” His five addresses are: The playhouse and the play, dealing with conditioning influences of the theatre upon the drama: The drama of democracy, showing a possible goal for our native drama; The dramatist as citizen, treating the civic status of the dramatist’s profession; Self-expression and the American drama, emphasizing need of leadership; Art and democracy, dealing with art as public service.
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“Visionary but suggestive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 173. Je. ’09. =Ind.= 67: 93. Jl. 8, ’09. 230w.
“It is well that they should be offered in this convenient form, for—and this will be admitted even by those who do not agree with all his conclusions—they are full of interesting and pregnant matter.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 469. My. 6, ’09. 750w.
“There is a great deal of earnest thought and a sincere devotion to the drama to be found in Mr. Mackaye’s book. But it leaves the reader cold, for many of the reforms urged are purely Utopian.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 290. My. 8, ’09. 600w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 767. Je. ’09. 140w.
=McKeever, William Arch.= Psychologic methods in teaching. $1. Flanagan.
9–8597.
A three part work which tells a teacher what to see, how to interpret the thing seen, and how to conduct the teaching so as to produce the best results for the child. Part one discusses the principles and methods of teaching; part two treats of the special branches of instruction; and part three presents the subject of moral instruction.
=McKenzie, Robert Tait.=^{[12]} Exercise in education and medicine. *$3.50. Saunders.
9–19600.
“In the present volume there is nothing of the propagandist movement to beguile puny muscle or tight purse strings. A definition and classification of exercise is given in the first chapter, followed by the physiology of exercise and the use of massage and passive motions. Exercise by apparatus and the German system of physical training are outlined in detail, and a comparison is made with the results of such modifications as are in most prominent use in America. An interesting account is given of the jiu jitsu or ‘soft business of Japan.’... The chapters on ‘Playgrounds and municipal gymnasiums,’ ‘Physical education in schools,’ and ‘The physical education of mental and moral defectives’ may be read with profit.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 764. D. 4, ’09. 380w.
“This book represents a distinct advance in the literature on physical exercise. It is well written, and interesting. It contains a good deal of material of scientific value.” T: A. Storey.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 716. N. 19, ’09. 1250w.
=Mackinlay, Malcolm Sterling.= Garcia the centenarian and his times: a biography. *$4. Appleton.
9–9291.
“The biographer presents a brief sketch of the elder Garcia and his activity in Spain, Italy, Paris, and England, and the circumstances in which Manuel and his two sisters, Maria and Pauline, afterward the great singers Malibran and Viardot-Garcia, were brought up—breathing the very atmosphere of opera house and concert hall. There is naturally much space given to the visit of the family to New York in 1825, when the father brought the first Italian opera company that ever came to this country.” (N. Y. Times.) “He gives us an interesting account of Garcia’s method as a teacher, and illustrates his modesty, courtesy, patience, and humour by some characteristic anecdotes.” (Spec.)
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+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 459. Ap. 11. 450w. + =Nation.= 88: 259. Mr. 11, ’09. 770w.
“He has presented a record of this remarkable life, as well as of the two remarkable sisters, that will be an important addition to musical biography.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 41. Ja. 23, ’09. 800w.
“To sum up, the new matter contributed by Mr. Mackinlay might have furnished forth a magazine article, but affords no excuse for the publication of a volume of three hundred and thirty pages.” C. L. G.
− + =Spec.= 100: 618. Ap. 18, ’08. 1750w.
=Maclaren, J. Malcolm.=^{[8]} Gold: its geological occurrence and geographical distribution. *25s. Mining Journal, London.
GS9–181.
The book is divided into two parts, namely the General relations of auriferous deposits and the Geographic distribution of gold. “The longest and most valuable section of the book is occupied by an account of the geological structure and mining history of all the chief goldfields of the world. This part of the work occupies 544 pages. The goldfields are classified by continents. Those of Europe are described first, and in proportion to their economic importance receive longer notice than those of Australia and South Africa. The longest section is that on the goldfields of North America.” (Nature.)
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“Though many geologists may be disposed to differ from the author in some of his conclusions as to the formation of good ores, they will be no less grateful to him for this valuable and trustworthy summary of the voluminous gold literature issued during the past twenty years.” J. W. G.
+ − =Nature.= 81: 34. Jl. 8, ’09. 730w.
“The book is well written, and while it contains much of interest it is doubtful whether it fills any great and pressing need which is not already occupied by other works.” W. R. Crane.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 57. Jl. 9, ’09. 450w.
=Maclaurin, Richard Cockburn.=^{[12]} Light. (Columbia univ. lectures. The Jesup lectures, 1908–1909.) *$1.50. Columbia univ. press, N. Y.
9–18151.
“This book, while not comprehensive enough to serve as a text-book, will meet the requirements of those who wish to acquaint themselves with the experimental part of the work that has given us our modern theory of light. The subjects are treated in the following order: (1) Early contributions to optical theory, (2) Color vision and color photography, (3) Dispersion and absorption, (4) Spectroscopy, (5) Polarization, (6) The laws of reflection and refraction, (7) The principle of interference, (8) Crystals, (9) Diffraction, (10) Light and electricity.”—Science.
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“They are popular in their mode of presentation and at the same time abreast of the latest developments in the science of optics.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 523. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
“The style of the book is clear and concise, and should prove invaluable to the large body of teachers of physics throughout the country. They will find in it much that is scarcely touched upon in the ordinary textbooks and their appreciation of the difficulties of presenting such a subject in the technical language will put them in that sympathetic frame of mind that helps so much toward the understanding of a writer.” Mary Proctor.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 708. N. 13, ’09. 850w.
“The author’s standing as a physicist is a sufficient guarantee that the book is free from errors, and the subject is treated in a very readable manner, free from mathematics and requiring little or no previous knowledge of the subject on the part of the reader. It brings the subject down to date, or as much so as can be expected in a popular treatment.” R. W. Wood.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 768. N. 26, ’09. 170w.
=Maclear, Anne B.= Early New England towns: a comparative study of their development. (Columbia univ. studies in history, economics and public law. v. 29, no. 1.) *$1.50. Longmans.
8–18393.
“Gives in some detail an account of the institutional life of a Massachusetts town of the seventeenth century, by means of a comparison of the institutions of five of the earliest of these towns—Salem, Dorchester, Watertown, Roxbury, and Cambridge.”—Eng. Hist. R.
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Reviewed by H. E. E.
=Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 197. Ja. ’09. 60w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 439. Ag. 8, ’08. 570w.
=McMahan, Mrs. Anna Benneson.=^{[12]} Shakespeare’s love story, 1580–1609. **$2.50. McClurg.
9–27050.
A charmingly illustrated book whose text has grown out of the privilege that the author has taken of selecting a few of Shakespeare’s sonnets from their arbitrary setting by the original publisher and of placing them between the lines of the pages that we know of Shakespeare’s wooing.
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+ =Dial.= 47: 466. D. 1, ’09. 150w.
=McMurry, Charles Alexander.= Special method in reading in the grades; including the oral treatment of stories and the reading of classics. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–33789.
“This book is a combination of two earlier volumes both of which deal with special method in reading.... In the present form the book will be found to contain in the main three lines of treatment of the subject. In the first place, it is a plea for the teaching of reading in all grades for the sake of its content. Secondly, several chapters are devoted to a consideration of the technique of teaching reading to beginners; and thirdly, the book contains a course of study in reading for each of the grades together with illustrative lessons.”—El. School T.
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“Contains a large amount of suggestive and helpful material.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 317. Mr. ’09. 60w.
“The bibliographical material of the book is extensive and valuable.”
+ =El. School T.= 9: 390. Mr. ’09. 460w.
“Even if he has been a little inclined to draw the subject toward himself, his book contains a good many useful hints and observations, particularly so with reference to the primary teaching of reading—to say nothing of the advantage of having the entire matter once worked out and exhibited.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 297. Ag. 5, ’09. 140w.
“The fact that Dr. McMurry speaks with the enthusiasm of conviction and experience should make this work stimulating to primary instructors.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 415. Ap. 22, ’09. 140w.
=Macnaughtan, S.= Three Miss Graemes. $1.50. Dutton.
9–35443.
“The reader makes the acquaintance of three aristocratic and rather superb young ladies, who might be mermaids as far as their knowledge of English society goes. They are chaperoned by a mean and affable lady of title who, though a farcical figure, is portrayed with considerable knowledge of a class who collect acquaintances much as a philatelist collects postage stamps. The author might have spared us that figure, unaccountably dear to fiction, the ass who poses as a literary genius.”—Ath.
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“Skilful character portrayal and the contrasts the plot provides make the main interest in a slight and somewhat vague story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 114. Ap. ’09.
“Humour, irony, and pathos distinguish the first eighty pages of this novel; but there is a noticeable drop when the scene shifts from a Scottish island to London.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 100w.
“Though it lacks the directness and artistic finish of ‘The expensive Miss Du Cane,’ the story has the quaint daintiness of its own heroines and is a pleasant companion for an idle hour, its very gentle verbosity having a certain soothing quality.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 171. F. 18, ’09. 230w.
“The book’s interest and charm lie in the author’s remarkable skill in the portrayal of character and in the cleverness with which she carries on the contrast between the unworldliness of the three girls and their London surroundings.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 71. F. 6, ’09. 540w.
“A story which chiefly impresses us by its grace and beauty, though there is a certain hiatus in the presentment which requires either courage or obtuseness on the part of the reader to overcome.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 118. Jl. 25, ’08. 320w.
“It is clever satire of its acidulated kind. Admirers of Miss Macnaughtan’s earlier work—among whom we desire to be reckoned—will regret that she should have deviated so far from the paths of geniality in which her engaging talents have hitherto been most conspicuously displayed.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 754. My. 9, ’08. 550w.
=MacNutt, Francis Augustus.= Bartholomew de las Casas: his life, his apostolate, and his writings. **$3.50. Putnam.
9–2758.
A biography which seeks to “assign to the noblest Spaniard who ever landed in the western world, his true place among those great spirits who have defended and advanced the cause of just liberty, and, at the same time, to depict the conditions under which the curse of slavery was first introduced into North America.” The author includes the events that best illustrate the character-development of this sixteenth-century historian of early Spanish America, missionary worker, and staunch friend of the Indians.
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“The interest and utility of this able biography is enhanced by its appendices.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 108. Ap. ’09. 900w.
“Is pleasantly written, contains good portraits and a map, and shows careful study of the writings of Las Casas, but does not really add very much to our knowledge of him.” W. L. G.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 830. O. ’09. 290w.
“A fascinating story of Las Casas and his publishers have given the story a material form that is a delight to the eye.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 254. Jl. 29, ’09. 400w.
“The book is an impartial, entertaining record of one of the most important periods of the world’s history. Best of all, Mr. MacNutt has succeeded in fusing a human interest into the dry facts of history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 304. F. 20, ’09. 520w.
“The book is in many ways so satisfactory that one lays it down with a distinct feeling of regret that lack of thorough and careful study has prevented it from being really good.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 388. Ap. 15, ’09. 800w.
“Mr. MacNutt makes him a most vital and interesting figure.” W: A. Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 94. F. 20, ’09. 470w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 507. Ap. ’09. 70w.
“He has spared no pains in making it as authentic and as complete as the thoroughgoing study of documents and books could ensure.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 503. Mr. 27, ’09. 450w.
=Macphail, Andrew.=^{[10]} Essays in politics. *$1.80. Longmans.
A group of Canadian essays in politics dealing with such subjects as the patience of England, Canada’s patent-law, her last political election, commerce, a neighbor’s view of the United States, and British diplomacy in relation to Canada.
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“No one will agree with the author in everything, and all will be pleased by the way in which he puts his paradoxes—as they will seem—at points where his opinions are not shared. We heartily commend Mr. Macphail’s essays, and do not fear that anyone will adopt his opinions as a whole.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 124. Jl. 31. 300w.
“The book is well calculated to offset aggressive publications that assume preferential tariffs as the indispensable basis of federation. There is much in it that rings clear and true.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 383. O. 21, ’09. 530w.
“We can best sum up what we feel about this suggestive and admirable book by saying that if we could have our way we would oblige every cabinet minister at home and throughout the nations of the empire to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest it. Though we may not agree with it in all its details, we are thoroughly at one with the spirit by which it is inspired.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 418. S. 18, ’09. 2000w.
=McPherson, Logan Grant.=^{[6]} Railroad freight rates in relation to the industry and commerce of the United States. **$2.25. Holt.
9–13047.
A book for the general public and younger railroad men which furnishes clear, first-hand information on the present freight rate system and tells how it has been evolved. Preparation for this exposition of the effect of freight rates of the railroads upon the industry and commerce of the United States has taken the writer to every part of the country to interview shippers, representatives of commercial organizations and officers in charge of the traffic departments of railroads.
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“Though somewhat biased in favor of the railroads, it will be a very serviceable volume for students and should be added to large libraries already having Haines’ ‘Railway corporations as public servants’ and Noyes’ ‘American railroad rates.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 44. O. ’09.
“There are several chapters in this volume of particular interest because of their wealth of information. Their main value lies in the extensive data which has been collected rather than in the deductions that are drawn. The volume unfortunately lacks logical arrangement of the subjects discussed.” G. G. Huebner.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 622. N. ’09. 470w.
“It must be admitted that the book is interesting in spite of its defects, for it contains many concrete details in the way of unofficial information gleaned from interviews and intercourse with railway men. On the whole, the book cannot be regarded as a safe guide for the student; neither is it of much real value to those who can detect its defects and erroneous conclusions.” C. W. Doten.
− + =Econ. Bull.= 2: 228. S. ’09. 900w.
“Exhaustive volume.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 658. S. 16, ’09. 400w.
“Few would be inclined to dissent from these conclusions and Mr. McPherson has rendered service in furnishing much new data upon this vexed problem. The work is not fortunately arranged. This is very noticeable despite a serviceable index and a detailed table of contents.” L. C. Marshall.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 479. Jl. ’09. 500w.
“While his study is condensed, and in some respects incomplete ... he has added much to our knowledge of the subject by simplifying for the layman, with great success a very complex system of rate adjustments.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 357. O. 14, ’09. 1200w.
“Takes up the economics and laws of a subject more vexed than any other among present problems, and treats it worthily. Mr. McPherson has a rare talent of compressed and yet luminous exposition.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 674. O. 30, ’09. 570w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 110w.
=McSpadden, Joseph Walker.=^{[10]} Waverley synopses: a guide to the plots and characters of Scott’s Waverley novels. 50c. Crowell.
9–21669.
The third of Mr. McSpadden’s series of synopses of great authors. The plan of the book is to place the various stories in their proper historical sequence, to give a cast of characters and an outline of the plot. There is a general index.
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=Dial.= 47: 241. O. 1, ’09. 40w.
“The work has been done with care and intelligence, and presents such a clear review and summary of the immense mass of Sir Walter’s work as will make it especially valuable for students of English literature in high schools and colleges.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 576. S. 25, ’09. 180w.
=Macvane, Edith.=^{[8]} Black flier. †$1.50. Moffat.
9–14216.
A motor-car story ingeniously piecing together a series of exciting and unexpected happenings. A young man at the moment of his marriage finds an error in the license, hastens off to have it corrected, meets with an accident, is picked up by a young woman, in spite of expostulations is carried off in a motor car to the Scottish border, and there seems powerless while she registers his name as that of her husband. The woman flees while he is charged with the theft of her car. How these events end his intended marriage and start him along another path of romance is the concern of the tale.
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“The book does not carry conviction with it. Nevertheless, it is destined to be widely read and popularly enjoyed, because it does give an exhilarating illusion of the rush and swirl of a mad flight, the breathless onward plunge through space, the fascination of limitless and lawless speed.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 647. Ag. ’09. 470w.
“One of the most fascinatingly ingenious comedies that we have encountered in the fiction of recent years.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 46. Jl. 16, ’09. 470w.
“It takes some effort on the part of the would-be time squelcher to swallow whole this initial situation, but, what with an ever-present sense of its comedy, notwithstanding its distressfulness to her characters, and a good, swinging style, the author has made it entertaining.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 464. Jl. 31, ’09. 600w.
=Macvane, Edith.= Thoroughbred. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–8813.
Deals with a trying situation between husband and wife. The husband, cashier of a large trust company, is accused by the real criminal, the president of the institution, of misappropriating a half million dollars. The “thoroughbred” wife takes a hand in the game, and tho she makes a few false moves, checkmates the malefactor and saves her husband’s reputation.
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“Its plot is well made, its action rapid, and its emotional atmosphere kept at a high figure. Nevertheless it is an entirely artificial story, and, while there is nothing in it that might not happen any day, its inspiration has come from other novels and not from real life.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 146. Mr. 13, ’09. 160w.
=Madách, Imre.= Tragedy of man; tr. from the Hungarian by W: N. Loew. $1.50. Arcadia press.
A drama which in dealing with Adam in his various reappearances since the garden of Eden days deals not with the life of one man, or of the nation, but with mankind as a whole. “The hero is Adam, the eternal type of humanity. The work displays the whole history of man, not merely his past, but his present, and even his future. We witness the whole process of man’s development, up to the time when the human race will be extinguished, and its earthly home become frozen and uninhabitable. Seen through the eyes of the poet, that history appears a huge, grim tragedy. The problem for the poet to solve was, how to compress such an immense subject within the narrow limit of a single drama.” (Introd.)
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“Few books are better calculated to enlarge our continental narrowness and to teach us to respect the intellect and genius of less progressive races.” Bolton Hall.
+ =Arena.= 41: 254. F. ’09. 670w.
“A faithful translation of the great classic, so far as its argument is concerned, but as for reproducing it in English as a poem, the work of Mr. Loew is a failure.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1035. My. 13, ’09. 200w.
“The poet—at least in this version—has not succeeded in imparting any real life to the shifting characters that crowd his canvas. No one ever appears really to want anything or to do anything. It is all talk; and, as to the English, not very good talk.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 98. F. 20, ’09. 1000w.
“There is not, it must be confessed, much poetry in the English version, but a perusal of even a portion of this great poem is worth while for its demonstration of the intellect and genius of the Hungarian people.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 40: 123. Jl. ’09. 100w.
=Maennel, Dr. B.=^{[9]} Auxiliary education; the training of backward children; translated by Emma Sylvester. **$1.50. Doubleday.
9–24001.
Discusses the rise and development of schools for defectives, plan for admitting pupils, the parents, health of pupils, traits, the organization of an auxiliary school and classification of pupils, the program, course of study, methods of teaching, discipline, preparation of pupils for church, relation of state towards schools, the teachers and the principal, the pedagogical value of the schools, and the education of exceptional children in the United States.
=Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Blue bird: a fairy play in five acts; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.20. Dodd.
9–8584.
“Written with charming simplicity, and telling a story admirably suited to childish interests and understanding, this play makes an equally strong appeal to adults by its imaginative symbolism, its freshness of humor and observation, and the inventive spirit which animates its parable. It deals with the dream adventures of Tyltil and Mytil, the children of a wood-cutter who are commissioned by the fairy Bérylune (the very counterpart of an old neighbor, Madame Berlingot) to go in quest of the Blue Bird whose possession will enable man to discover the hidden souls of animals and things, and so deprive them of their last vestige of independence.”—Nation.
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“The child’s naïve point of view is well sustained.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 174. Je. ’09.
“To attract the attention of young people to the romance and the wonders of science, while telling an ingenuous story of fairies and magic, is no easy task; but it is one M. Maeterlinck has accomplished, and that without letting his desire to be instructive fetter the freedom or gaiety of his fancy.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 163. Ag. 7. 1100w.
“Is certainly a very charming piece. It makes as real and as intense an impression as did any of M. Maeterlinck’s earlier successes.” E: E: Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 46: 296. My. 1, ’09. 1500w.
“This fairy play, ostensibly written for children, obviously like many another of the kind intended for grown-ups, is pure joy and optimism.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 765. Ap. 8, ’09. 420w.
“It is possible that some of the original charm of this fascinating vision may have been lost in the translation, but enough remains to prove it a masterpiece of its kind. Only genius could charge a nursery tale with so much significance without robbing it of its childlike character.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 366. Ap. 8, ’09. 900w.
“The play is literature—and poetry—of great power and charm; it is cast in dramatic form not through caprice but through the inherent demands of the theme. The translation merits praise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 207. Ap. 10, ’09. 1200w.
“Unimaginative and literal-minded people are warned off these premises; they will find nothing but nonsense here; but those who like ‘The little white bird’ and ‘Peter Pan’ will delight in the poetic beauty and freshness of feeling of this modern fairy play.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 69. My. 8, ’09. 330w.
“We are sure that children would delight to have it read to them, just as a fairy story of strange creatures that appear natural in the fresh imagination of children.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 792. Je. 19, ’09. 150w.
=Magnus, Laurie.=^{[9]} English literature in the nineteenth century: an essay in criticism. *$2. Putnam.
9–35847.
Not so much a history of English literature between 1784 and the present day as a survey of that literature as a whole and an essay in its criticism.
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“Will be valuable as a supplementary work for advanced students in English literature rather than as a textbook.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 79. N. ’09.
“Mr. Magnus’s style is scarcely satisfying; the issues are apt to be obscured by conscientious epigram and rhetorical exuberance; but the book shows qualities of care and thoroughness, though its conclusions too often engender a spirit of controversy rather than of conviction.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 204. Ag. 21. 800w.
“On the whole it may be said by way of general stricture, he hardly seems to be at the most advantageous point of view somehow. Not only is his formula too cramped; he is almost too much of the thing he criticises to be a thoroly safe critic. The merit of the book consists in its ‘aperçus’ and flashes of insight which are at times exceedingly penetrating.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 710. S. 23, ’09. 320w.
“With Victorian literature in general, he is heartily sympathetic and at the same time discriminating. In dealing with individual writers he is direct, specific, and vivid. The failure of Mr. Magnus to bring into strong relief the main currents of literature in his period is due, in the first place, to the lack of political and philosophical ballast, and in the second to an almost total neglect of foreign influences, arising from a wish to prove the independence of English literature.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 143. Ag. 12, ’09. 1050w.
“The book is distinctly adapted to those readers who already have a pretty wide acquaintance with English literature. For the student to whom the ground is unfamiliar there is the double bewilderment of a multitude of names not met with often enough to become fixed in the mind, and casual references to matters biographical and literary that need to be known as a condition precedent to the enjoyment of such incidental criticism.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 534. S. 11, ’09. 1200w.
“We do not know of any book dealing with the same subject in which the reader, anxious to improve his knowledge of modern literary history, will gain more. We cannot accept all Mr. Magnus’s dicta.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 352. S. 4, ’09. 150w.
=Mahabharata.= Bhagavad gítá “The songs of the master”; tr. with an introd. and commentary by C: Johnston. $1. C: Johnston, Flushing, N. Y.
8–18365.
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 Gítá.
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“Mr. Johnston’s judgments at the outset are not such as to inspire confidence in his guidance. With courageous independence he takes no heed of predecessors. The difficulty of the translator, of course, lies in the philosophical terms. Mr. Johnston evidently desires to make his version intelligible and interesting to English readers. He therefore strives to avoid all technicalities, but he is landed consequently in frequent vagueness and inexactitude. With the ethical and religious vocabulary Mr. Johnston is far more successful, and his deep sympathy with some of the fundamental conceptions of the poem makes his interpretations full of suggestiveness.” J. E. Carpenter.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 7: 700. Ap. ’09. 2850w.
“Can be recommended as the most satisfactory version of the ‘Bhagavad Gítá’ 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.
=Mahaffy, John Pentland.=^{[11]} What have the Greeks done for modern civilization?: the Lowell lectures of 1908–09. **$2.50. Putnam.
9–27603.
A brief, popular summary of the author’s study regarding the influence of Greek civilization upon modern life, showing his conclusions regarding the modern world’s political, social, literary, artistic, and philosophical heritage from the Greeks.
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“These lectures have all the popular qualities and charm of style that characterize the author’s earlier writings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 121. D. ’09.
“He seems to be lecturing to the intelligent workingmen in a mechanics’ institute, or the ‘young ladies’ of a fashionable boarding-school. The broad and deep handling of his theme is also somewhat hampered by the cut and dried academic divisions into which the lecturer divides his subject. It is impossible for Professor Mahaffy to write anything that is not informing, and these lectures, thin and superficial as they must needs be as adopted to the audience the lecturer considered he was to address, are interesting.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 784. N. 6. ’09. 750w.
“We have dealt at greatest length with his chapters on literature and art since they most invite to controversy, and we have touched most on those few points in which we have been presumptuous enough to disagree with the famous Irish scholar whose book has fascinated us.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 720. N. 20, ’09. 1750w.
“These lectures are a valuable contribution to the discussion now going on in the interest of the culture studies which suffer in the pursuit of bread-and-butter studies.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 516. O. 30, ’09. 320w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 763. D. ’09. 70w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.=^{[6]} Harvest within: thoughts on the life of the Christian. **$1.50. Little.
9–15066.
A collection of the scattered, occasional thoughts and reflections of a lifetime bearing upon the conception summed up in “Because I live, ye shall live also.” The underlying theme of the work is the mystical relation of the individual life of the Christian man, and the corporate life of the Christian church, to the life of God in Jesus Christ.
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“A book of this kind from the pen of a distinguished layman will exert an influence among wide circles that would be impervious to the professional divine.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 683. Ag. ’09. 550w.
“A work of devout and disjointed meditations, springing from a narrow and inflexible creed. It must be chiefly of interest to those who share its convictions.” J: Bascom.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 72. Ag. 1, ’09. 1100w.
“They are all marked with deep piety, and some of them show clearly that they were written by one with a very great knowledge of the Bible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 420. Jl. 3, ’09. 400w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 60w.
“We thank Captain Mahan for a piece of self-revelation which is in a high degree edifying and interesting.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 792. N. 13, ’09. 420w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Naval administration and warfare: some general principles, with other essays. **$1.50. Little.
8–31976.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“They contain admirable statements of fact and opinion from the viewpoint of an authority in naval art and history.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 80. Mr. ’09. ✠
“The general reader will not care for the first chapters, dealing with our Board of admiralty and the United States navy department.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 11. Ja. 2. 1300w.
“His method, which, as somebody has said, is to deal with a few large, plain, simple ideas, contributes to render his work intelligible and interesting to the lay mind in a measure very much beyond the degree in which this quality is usually found in books of experts.”
+ =Cath. World.= 88: 681. F. ’09. 700w.
“While every product of Capt. Mahan’s fertile pen deserves careful reading, this latest collection of essays possesses the added merit of exceptional timeliness.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 94. Ja. 28, ’09. 800w.
“The chapter which deals with the organization of the navy department is by far the most important, particularly so as it deals with a subject that is now so very much before the country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 40. Ja. 23, ’09. 1000w.
“Each essay conveys sound information in an entertaining, readable way. It is a volume of essays easily read and well worth reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 888. D. 19, ’09. 420w. + =Spec.= 102: 60. Ja. 9, ’09. 800w.
=Major, Charles.=^{[11]} Gentle knight of old Brandenburg. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–26322.
This gentle knight is fat and a wondrous beer drinker, but nevertheless he plays a heroic role in the love story of the Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, beloved sister of Crown Prince Fritz who was later to become Frederick the Great. Both are cordially hated by their father, the weak, bad-tempered old king who is the prey of Austria’s spies; whose persecution of the sweet princess and whose terrible treatment of courtiers form a strange and complicated story. The hero, kidnapped by the king’s agents for his giant regiment, wins the king by his fearlessness, the princess and her brother by his loyal friendship and at last by a series of complications worthy of the author of “When knighthood was in flower,” wins his heart’s desire.
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=Makower, Walter.= Radioactive substances: their properties and their behaviour. (International scientific ser.) *$1.75. Appleton.
8–33947.
“The author’s aim in writing this volume is to present the chief phenomena and theories relating to radio-activity in a concise and simple form.... All branches of the subject are treated in this book. Beginning with chapters on the nature of gaseous conductivity and on the methods of measurement employed, the author goes on to describe the discovery of the radio-active substances, the nature of the radiations they emit, the emanations, the active deposits from the emanations, and their successive transformations. In the concluding chapters the activity of substances in general and the mechanism of radio-active changes are briefly discussed.”—Nature.
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“A popular treatment in comparison with Rutherford’s works but full and scholarly.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 142. My. ’09.
“That there is room for such a book there can be no doubt. Nor is the book wanting in matter not to be found elsewhere, or only discoverable with difficulty. We have discovered only two clerical errors.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 794. D. 19. 1450w.
“It can be studied with profit before taking up Dr. Le Bon’s treatise in the same series.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 120w.
“In summarising work on points about which there is difference of opinion the author shows a commendable caution, and his verdict usually appeals to one as safe. The book constitutes a valuable addition to the literature of radio-activity, and can be recommended to those interested in that fascinating subject.” J. A. M.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 157. D. 10, ’08. 470w.
“To one at all interested in the progress of physical science this volume will well repay a careful reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 594. O. 9, ’09. 330w.
=Mallet, Bernard.= Thomas George, earl of Northbrook, G. C. S. I.: a memoir. $5. Longmans.
9–14131.
Sketches Lord Northbrook’s family history, his early life, his early private secretaryships, his work in the capacity of Civil lord of the admiralty in Lord Palmerston’s government, of Under secretary at the India office, War office, and Home office, etc; treats at length the period of governor-generalship of India; and devotes the last chapters to his relation to the affairs of Afghanistan and Egypt.
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“He was clear, calm and consistent, almost methodical in his statesmanship; and this book resembles its subject.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 613. Ap. ’09. 340w.
“Mr. Bernard Mallet has admirably performed a most difficult task.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 507. O. 24. 1800w.
“Mr. Mallet writes a plain style, even a trifle stiff at times, but he spares eulogy and evidently purposes to tell the truth.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 439. Ap. 29, ’09. 470w.
“The very attempt which he makes to recognize [Lord Northbrook’s grave defects of temperament and imagination, of judgment and insight] candidly yet with such discretion as not to detract from the impressiveness of the picture which it is his business to present, gives the work the note of insincerity inseparable from such an undertaking conceived and approached in such a spirit.” W: A. Bradley.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 7. Ja. 2, ’09. 400w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 116. Ja. 23, ’09. 300w.
“The book is well proportioned, it is written with unerring taste, it is graceful, and, above all, it succeeds in giving a clear picture of its subject.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 736. N. 7, ’08. 2000w.
=Mallock, William Hurrell.= An immortal soul. †$1.50. Harper.
8–31158.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“From the novelist’s standpoint Mr. Mallock’s book is a clever piece of work, full of action, sparkling dialogue, and vivid pictures of character and manners. He manages the mystification element dramatically enough to make the story not a bad second to ‘Jekyll and Hyde.’ From the philosophical point of view his close is rather impotent.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 88: 685. F. ’09. 580w.
“Readers who do not expect this sort of thing in a novel may well complain that he does not play the game, and will be justified if their quest is for entertainment only. But if they are sufficiently serious of mind to enter into the spirit of the author’s speculations, they will give, if anything, a more absorbed attention to his psychological discussion than to the fictive framework in which it is set.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 84. F. 1, ’09. 700w.
“Much of the time we might fancy ourselves in a laboratory rather than a studio. Yet the story is not without a leisurely, whimsical, well-nigh Peacockian flavor.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 67. Ja. 21, ’09. 440w.
“A story which at no stage fails to hold, both in point of plausibility and deep intellectual interest. Of the supplementary characters it is proper to say that they are far more than ordinarily well done, and that the arguments of science and of the church are fairly presented.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 688. N. 21, ’08. 250w.
“We read on, won by the thoroughness of his work.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 107. Ja. 16, ’09. 400w.
“A really clever romance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 122. Ja. ’09. 60w.
“The book is extremely interesting. It will bore the matter-of-fact, distress the orthodox, and send the inquisitive to works on psychology.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 360w.
“The net result of this dovetailing of alleged scientific fact with fiction is extremely artificial.”
− + =Spec.= 102: 100. Ja. 16, ’09. 700w.
=Mallory, Herbert Samuel.=^{[7]} Tempered steel. $1.50. Fenno.
9–13967.
A story set in the time of the strife between Stephen and Matilda for the English crown. “One hears the cry of battle, and the clash of lances in single combats, and there are maidens in trouble and renegade Knights. The story will make one think of Tennyson and his ‘Idylls of the king,’ and the characters will at once remind one of Lancelot and Guinevere, Modred and Arthur, Paolo and Francesca.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
“If the reader—steeped in naturalism—declines to see much reality in the characters, he is nevertheless entertained in an agreeable and workmanlike manner.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 450. Jl. 24, ’09. 200w.
=Maltzahn, Curt L. W., baron v.= Naval warfare: its historical development from the age of the great geographical discoveries to the present time; tr. from the German by J: Combe Miller. *75c. Longmans.
“The Admiral’s treatise is founded upon lectures he delivered at the German naval academy, of which he for a time was the head. It gives the history of naval development from the earliest times to the present, from the point of view of one who believes thoroughly in the strong navy. With respect to his own country, the Admiral says: ‘The backbone of all success is a navy powerful for combat.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“He is especially competent to treat naval warfare from the German point of view, and what he says is of interest, in presenting the case of those who urge a great navy as necessary to a nation, which is largely engaged in commerce. When these war scares and bugaboos become recognized as figments of the imagination and treated as maladies, this little book will find its true place, for it is a symptom rather than a treatise.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 333. Ap. 1, ’09. 550w.
“An excellent translation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 230w.
=Manchester, Arthur Livingston.= Twelve lessons in the fundamentals of voice production. (Music students’ lib.) $1. Ditson.
8–33831.
A students’ handbook of the essentials of good tone-production, teaching the recognition of the conditions, comfort and firmness which accompany the producing of good tones.
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“A beginner in the study of voice culture may find valuable help in the handy and sensible little treatise.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 869. Ap. 22, ’09. 90w. =Nation.= 88: 368. Ap. 8, ’09. 180w.
=Manly, John Matthews, comp.=^{[7]} English prose (1137–1890). *$1.50. Ginn.
9–12184.
A companion volume to Manly’s “English prose” and, like it, is intended chiefly for use in a general survey of English literature. It is such an anthology of poems important either historically or for their intrinsic merits, as will permit a teacher to make his own selection in accordance with his tastes and the needs of his class. Whole selections rather than excerpts have been chosen in order to show sustained power and control of organic structure.
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“A convenient volume for the small library wishing to have a compendium of representative examples and for any library that has many student demands.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 45. O. ’09. ✠ =Dial.= 46: 375. Je. 1, ’09. 60w.
“In the absence of cheap and reliable single texts, such books make a valuable acquisition for student or even general reader.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 298. Ag. 5, ’09. 80w.
“All things considered—abundance, variety, interest, range, compactness, and legibility—this is decidedly the most useful thing of its kind in the field.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 283. S. 23, ’09. 320w.
=Mannix, Mary Ellen.=^{[5]} Cupa revisited. 45c. Benziger.
9–8573.
“Introduces young folk to the Californian Indian as he is to-day; and incidentally gives them a lesson in history by drawing their attention to the contrast between the Indian’s condition to-day and that which he enjoyed while the missions flourished.”—Cath. World.
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=Cath. World.= 89: 260. My. ’09. 40w.
=Mansfield, Milburg Francisco (Francis Miltoun, pseud.).=^{[10]} Italian highways and byways from a motor car; with pictures by Blanche McManus. $3. Page.
9–13515.
“In the space of 370 not over closely printed pages, diversified by Blanche McManus’s suggestive illustrations, we are hurried from the Genoa Riviera to Naples by way of Tuscany, round through Romagna to Venice, Lombardy, and back to Piedmont.... The book is full of helpful hints, not only regarding byways to seek out, but when these have been sought and found, other directions of a more practical nature concerning distances and inns, garages, and gasolene.”—Nation.
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“The information is of necessity fragmentary and unrelated. It all has a somewhat rushed, sixty-miles-an-hour effect.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 822. O. 7, ’09. 350w.
“The illustrations are always interesting, those in colors being particularly striking.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 442. S. 18, ’09. 130w.
“It may well be a literal ‘vade mecum.’”
+ =Nation.= 89: 24. Jl. 8, ’09. 200w.
=Mantzius, Karl.=^{[6]} History of theatrical art in ancient and modern times; authorized tr. by Louise von Cossel. 5v. v. 5. *$3.50. Lippincott.
5–18107.
=v. 5.= Great actors of the eighteenth century.
“The fifth volume maintains the reputation of the work, and is rightly styled, inasmuch as the time of which it treats was more an age of acting than of dramatic fecundity, ‘Great actors of the eighteenth century.’ The players covered in this survey include Carolina Neuber, Konrad Ekhof, Schröder, Iffland, and Adrienne Lecouvreur among continental celebrities; and such persons of mark on our own stage as Betterton, Cibber, Anne Oldfield, Quin, Macklin, and Garrick.”—Ath.
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“Herr Karl Mantzius knows, as few men do, how to write interesting stage history—knows how to arrange and group his material, and also how to conceal scholarship that is wide and thorough under a style of delightful vivacity. Herr Mantzius is a little unfair to our comedy of the eighteenth century, and indulges, we venture to think, in rather hasty generalizations. Our old comedy writers seem to annoy him by their lack of ‘architetonic mastership.’ Here we seem to strike upon a certain defect of sympathy in an historian who is otherwise admirably catholic in his taste.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 474. Ap. 17. 370w. (Review of v. 5.)
“If the historical acumen of Dr. Mantzius is occasionally dimmed and his sense of proportion dwarfed by Germanic influence, he is nevertheless a painstaking student who has made the history of his craft his life-work. His work is almost monumental; indeed, it should find a place in the dramatic alcove of every library, for in no other single work has so much information concerning the stage been brought within reach of the student and thoroughly indexed.” H. C. Chatfield-Taylor.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 122. S. 1, ’09. 1200w. (Review of v. 5.)
“As an interesting, chatty conspectus the book will be useful to the casual reader; to the student of the stage it offers little save collocation of accepted opinion on the great names of three national stages. The translation is uneven; usually it is competent, but at moments the pronouns squint badly.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 334. O. 7, ’09. 350w. (Review of v. 5.)
“Karl Mantzius is a painstaking historian of the dramatic stage, and his voluminous history is a serviceable work. As a history of English acting in the eighteenth century, Mantzius’s few chapters are woefully deficient.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 269. My. 1, ’09. 1500w. (Review of v. 5.) =Sat. R.= 107: 758. Je. 12, ’09. 110w. (Review of v. 5.)
=Manucci, Niccolo.= Storia do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653–1708; tr. with introd. and notes by W: Irvine. (Indian texts ser.) ea. *$3.50. Dutton.
8–17330.
“With the support of the Government of India and under the ægis of the Royal Asiatic society the elaborate ‘Storia do Mogor,’ sent to Europe by Niccolao Manucci more than two hundred years ago, now first reaches the public as he wrote it, allowing for the change from Portuguese and French and Italian into English.” (Acad.) “Manucci’s story is an exceedingly valuable contribution to the literature of India, less on account of its historical data, however, than for the light it throws on the social conditions of Hindustan and the early missionary efforts of the Roman Catholic church.”—N. Y. Times.
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“It was well worth the research and trouble, for the work is unique in its way, is valuable to students of India, and indispensable to the historian or collector.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 922. S. 21, ’07. 400w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Except for the unquenchable charm of French prose, Manucci’s original memoirs are as superior in interest to Catrou’s adaptation ‘after the model of the Greek and Latin historians’ as the ‘Collects’ are to Knight’s ‘Family prayers.’ When it comes to a question of veracity, there is even less room for argument.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 147. Ag. 10. 2850w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The merits and attractions of the book far outweigh its faults. As a history, it is full of obvious defects; as a picture of certain aspects of Indian life at the close of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, it is wonderfully vivid and real.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 690. Je. 6. 2250w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Mr. Irvine has spent ten years to good purpose over the work.” G. Le Strange.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 369. Ap. ’08. 800w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Mr. Irvine’s footnotes are a mine of information on the subject-matter of the text.” G. Le S.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 406. Ap. ’09. 400w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
“The book is full of good stories and keen-sighted observation of character and manners. As a picture of Mogul life in the seventeenth century, not only at court, but in camp and in the bazars, it is unique; and readers of all kinds, as well as historians, will be grateful to Mr. Irvine for recovering this long-lost author and delivering him from the ingenious disguise of Father Catrou. The authenticity of the illustrations seems incontrovertible. Even in black and white they are an interesting addition to an extremely valuable work.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 254. Ag. 23, ’07. 1750w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It is essentially a book for the student rather than the casual reader. The translator’s notes, which exhibit wide knowledge and exhaustive research, add greatly to the value of the work.” Forbes Lindsay.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)
=Mapes, Victor.=^{[8]} Partners three: a novel. †$1.25. Stokes.
9–8997.
A story “neither tragical, comical, historical, criminal, sociological, nor even romantic-comical-sociological” (Nation.) purporting to be told by a convict serving sentence in Sing Sing for counterfeiting. The incidents chosen out of the latter’s past experience are connected with a benevolent man, a waif who had been picked up in Switzerland and the narrator himself. These are the “partners three.”
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“The whole affair has a freshness of savor for which the dutiful follower of current fiction must be grateful.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 101. Jl. 29, ’09. 430w.
“An idyl of kind hearts that are more than coronets.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 258. Ap. 24, ’09. 360w.
=March, John Lewis.= Theory of mind. **$2. Scribner.
8–25725.
“The theory, in brief, is that all essential traits are in the nature of impulses and instincts; that psychology must be written wholly in the terms of such instincts and impulses, and that we may use such terms as ideal impulses, home-building impulses, and other specialized impulses, to account for every phase of social, personal, or material action.”—Dial.
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“For the general student of psychology it will carry but moderate meaning and less conviction.”
− =Dial.= 46: 54. Ja. 16, ’09. 270w.
“The book as a whole impresses the reviewer as essentially a piece of closet thinking. The earlier chapters strike her as open to considerable criticism from the philosopher, the psychologist, and the scientist; but the later chapters seem worthy of the attention of the student of social psychology and of ethics.” E. K. Adams.
− + =J. Philos.= 6: 361. Je. 24, ’09. 1050w. =Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 120w.
“Mr. March offers a new solution of the riddle of mind and matter—a solution which is admirable for ingenuity and may well commend itself to the serious student of such problems in right of qualities of logic and common sense.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 214. Ap. 10, ’09. 1000w.
=Marden, Orison Swett.= Peace, power and plenty. **$1. Crowell.
9–4136.
Another helpful book that preaches the gospel of optimism and love in their potential aspect. Some of the chapter headings are suggestive: Power of the mind to compel the body; Poverty, a mental disability; The law of opulence; Character-building and health-building during sleep; Health through right thinking; Why grow old?; The miracle of self-confidence; Destructive and constructive suggestion; Worry, the disease of the age; Fear, the curse of the race; Good cheer—God’s medicine; and “As ye sow.”
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 80. Mr. ’09.
“The book as a whole cannot fail to be helpful to the general reader, especially to young men and women and those who are becoming discouraged after long grappling with the grave perplexities of present-day life.” B. O. Flower.
+ =Arena.= 41: 595. Ag. ’09. 2800w.
“Teaches in sententious, forceful style the wisdom of compelling the thoughts to keep always in lines of sanity, harmony, brotherly love, and aspiration.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 47. Ja. 23, ’09. 160w.
=Marden, Philip Sanford.=^{[12]} Travels in Spain. **$3. Houghton.
9–29222.
While mainly the record of a wide-awake traveler’s experiences during a springtime journey from Gibraltar across the Spanish peninsula this book is valuable for the historical and art information running thru its pages. For the prospective tourist in Spain, there is an introductory chapter on “Spanish travel.” The volume is generously illustrated with pictures of the author’s own making.
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“To the stay-at-home traveller, no less than to him of more adventurous mood, the book may be commended.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 514. D. 16, ’09. 180w.
“Art and history and legend, city and country are described in a manner that will make the book of value to whoever follows its author’s itinerary.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1146. N. 18, ’09. 130w.
“Vividness, indeed, is not wanting in his description of a most inspiring country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1078. D. 11, ’09. 150w.
=Margolis, Max Leopold.= Holy Scriptures with commentary. Micah. 75c. Jewish pub.
9–3898.
The first volume in a series of commentaries intended primarily for the teacher, the pupil and the general reader who need help to obtain an understanding of the Scriptures, at once reliable and Jewish.
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“The translation is good and the comments good enough to make us wish for more.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 644. O. ’09. 130w.
“Professor Margolis’ name is a guarantee of the high quality of the scholarship at the basis of this volume. But his attitude toward the textual and the historical criticism is unexpectedly timid. The text of Micah needs much correction, but receives little. The unity of the book is here maintained, though surrendered by practically all recent commentators.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 287. Ap. ’09. 150w.
=Mario, Jessie White.=^{[12]} Birth of modern Italy: posthumous papers of Jessie W. Mario; ed., with introd., notes, and epilogue, by the Duke Litta-Visconti-Arese. *$3.50. Scribner.
The memoirs of an Englishwoman who married an Italian patriot. They are full of the spirit of the Italian revolution, and amount, in reality, to a memoir of Mazzini. “Madame Mario follows the career of Italy’s arch-patriot from his birth to his death, and, as is natural in a woman of English birth, dwells especially upon the years of Mazzini’s exile in England.” (N. Y. Times.) The volume gives inside information from the view point of the revolutionary party of the events from 1830 to 1870.
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“The latest book on this engrossing theme, by the late Signora Mario, is at once attractive yet unsatisfactory. Signora Mario’s prejudices are manifest in her book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 356. S. 25. 1450w.
“Her last volume which has been admirably compiled by Duke Litta, is less autobiographical than those of us who knew Signora Mario would like to have it. To make her acquaintance through her books is to feel the very pulse of the cause to which she consecrated herself. Through her veins throbbed the great Emotion which has the lifeblood of the Italian Risorgimento.” W: R. Thayer.
+ =Nation.= 89: 564. D. 9, ’09. 2700w.
“If the course of the stream of events is lost among the shifting scenery and higgledy-piggledy incidents, the scenes and the incidents themselves are interesting and often vivid. This is especially the case with Madame Mario’s reminiscences.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 692. N. 6, ’09. 650w.
=Mariti, Giovanni.=^{[8]} Travels in the island of Cyprus; tr. from the Italian by Claude D. Cobham; with contemporary accounts of the sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta. *$1.25. Putnam.
“This second edition is increased and improved by translations of contemporary accounts of the final sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta, written respectively by Giovanni Pietro Contarini and Count Nestor Martinengo.”—Eng. Hist. R.
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“Mariti was an industrious traveller, but not a very scientific or over-well-informed recorder. His geographical description is rather curious than valuable.” D. G. H.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 620. Jl. ’09. 200w.
“The narrative is minute and careful in its description, and evidences the mind of the trained observer and of a painstaking recorder.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 398. Je. 26, ’09. 270w.
=Marius, G. Hermine.=^{[12]} Dutch painting in the nineteenth century; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$3.75. Lippincott.
9–9583.
“Beginning with a brief review of the prosaic eighteenth century, so barren of art production in Holland, the author gives a most eloquent account of the great revival of painting in the nineteenth century, inaugurated by Israels and Jongkind and carried on by Mesdag, Mauve, the brothers Maris and others less celebrated. Due consideration is also given to the romanticists, of whom Ary Scheffer was the chief, and to the minor interpreters of genre and landscape subjects, but it is in the chapters on the great Hague school that the interest of the volume culminates.”—Int. Studio.
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“The editing is careless and there is only one index, of artists’ names without dates, which restricts the book’s usefulness in reference work. This is the only book available in English on nineteenth century Dutch art as a whole.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 80. N. ’09. ✠
“That three good books on Dutch painting should appear simultaneously—each, it is to be feared, to the detriment of the other two—is a striking illustration of the keen competition in the literary market. Of these the best is perhaps the one from the pen of Hermine Marius, but it is unfortunately considerably spoiled by the inadequacy of the translation, which throughout retains a foreign ring.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 37: 253. My. ’09. 160w. =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 40w.
=Markham, Christopher Alexander.=^{[10]} Pewter marks and old pewter ware, domestic and ecclesiastical. *$7.50. Scribner.
W9–70.
“A mass of information which all collectors of old pewter will find of utmost value. While disclaiming any intention of going deeply into the history and other aspects of pewter work, which have been fully dealt with by other writers, he gives in the preliminary sections a brief historical survey of the craft, followed by descriptive accounts of domestic and ecclesiastical pewter, together with some useful notes on the manufacture, composition, cleaning and repairing of pewter.”—Int. Studio.
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“Scholarly work.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 273. S. 4. 1200w.
“From the collector’s point of view, the value of the book centres in the concluding four sections occupying more than half the volume, for these contain important lists which should be of material service to him in making selections.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 162. Ag. ’09. 180w.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.=^{[8]} Life of Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock, K. C. B. *15s. Murray, John, London.
“A worthy and affectionate record of the facts of Sir Leopold’s life” (Sat. R.) which follows him “from his starting to join the ‘Samarang’—with a bag of marbles and a bottle of apple-juice in his bag—till his retirement.” (Spec.) It is as the discoverer of the fate of Franklin and the creator of Arctic sledge-traveling that Sir Clements is chiefly known.
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“Sir Clements makes just complaint of the many errors committed during the relief expeditions; but on one point his strictures are unjust. With this reservation, we think this book by far the best ever written on the Franklin search. The story groups itself naturally round the discoverer of the record; the style is lucid and vigorous; and the illustrations and maps are well chosen.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 410. Ap. 3. 1300w.
“He has done the work—and no other living man could have done it—with fine affection and with sailorlike modesty. The tribute to a great Englishman’s memory is worthy.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 564. My. 1, ’09. 500w.
“Admirable narrative.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 21. Jl. 3, ’09. 300w.
=Markham, Sir Clements Robert.=^{[7]} Story of Majorca and Minorca. *7s. 6d. Smith, Elder, London.
A history of the past and present of the two islands, Majorca and Minorca, which will serve as a guide-book for the tourist, and an illuminating text for the student. The author “has set before us with simplicity and enthusiasm the deeds of the brave islanders, and of those whom war and politics have driven to their coasts. He writes always as one who remembers the beauty of the landscape and the manifold associations of church and castle.” (Spec.)
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“Sir Clements Markham has delved into the records with results which he sets forth simply and unpretentiously. His volume will be useful to the many visitors to these romantic islands, and particularly to the student of Mediterranean history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 730. Je. 5, ’09. 120w.
“The tale of these two islands, which have played their part upon the stage of history, was well worth telling, and it has been well told by Sir Clements Markham in an unpretentious little work. We wish the author had read his proofs with greater care, and preserved a better uniformity in the spelling of names.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 617. Ap. 17, ’09. 1300w.
=Marks, Jeannette Augustus.= English pastoral drama from the restoration to the date of the publication of the “Lyrical ballads” (1600–1798). *$1.50. Stechert.
9–2006.
Summarizes the history of the pastoral as a literary form, from the lost idylls of Stesichorus, B. C. 600, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus thru Virgil, Calpurnius and Baptista Mantuanus to Spenser and the acclimatization and naturalization of the pastoral drama in England.
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“The one complaint to be urged against her volume is that it too often reads like jottings from a notebook.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 23. Ja. 2. 350w.
“The earlier and more general chapters are feeble and sophomoric. The latter part of the book ... has some value in so far as it gives brief notices of plays that very few even among professed students of the drama have read. The most valuable section of the book is the bibliography in the appendixes.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 562. Je. 18, ’08. 80w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 410. Jl. 25, ’08. 660w.
“A needful though not highly important work for students of English literature. Scholarly volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 863. Ag. 15, ’08. 130w.
“The book as a whole is too much like an annotated catalogue to make easy and agreeable reading, whilst it is not sufficiently complete to make a really useful catalogue.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: sup. 6. My. 2, ’08. 320w.
=Marks, Jeannette Augustus.= Through Welsh doorways. **$1.10. Houghton.
9–7949.
Eleven excellent stories ranging from the humorous to the pathetic. One tells of an ambitious townsman who after thirty years of failure to win an election secures it finally by presenting the town with its first hearse. Then follows a period of rivalry between the Wynnes and the Joneses over the matter of the first funeral—each having a member at death’s door. One other story looks in upon a dying man who wishes above all else to hear the cuckoo note once more. Being “over early for the cuckoo” the aged wife patiently practices the note among the hills, returns to her garden and softly sings it, granting to Davie his dying wish.
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“They have the charm of the new and remote and are well written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09. + =Atlan.= 104: 687. N. ’09. 30w.
“Too quiet and sombre perhaps to exert a wide appeal, yet unmistakably the product of a rare and finished art.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 403. Je. ’09. 450w.
“This small volume is quite worth while.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 727. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.
“The author has done her work well. If you like quaint and sympathetic sketches of out of the way folk—if the ‘Bonny brier bush’ and its company please you, you should find these Welsh doorways worth looking into.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 10, ’09. 400w.
“The tone of the book is refined, tender, and eminently full of the grace of truth.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 20*. My. 1, ’09. 120w.
=Marks, Jeannette Augustus, and Moody, Julia.=^{[6]} Little busybodies: the life of crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other busybodies. (Story-told science.) 75c. Harper.
9–10975.
Here is set down what five children learn on a journey in search of locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, dragon-flies, May-flies, leaf-hoppers, lace-wings, caddis-worms, butterflies, beetles, bees, wasps and numerous other six-legged creatures. Story interest is combined with the wonders of insect life.
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“Entertaining story. The children’s questions and remarks break up the instruction in a manner that may serve to hold the child’s interest, but that becomes annoying to the grown-up and suggests possible confusion.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 191. Je. ’09.
“Either as a treatise on certain insects or as a story book it is an insult to a normal child’s intelligence or imagination.”
− =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 70w.
“The whole assemblage of incidents and facts is well managed and falls naturally into the author’s purpose. The technical knowledge conveyed is accurately as well as pleasingly given. There is really nothing to criticise seriously, only here and there a questionable slip.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 124. Ag. 5, ’09. 370w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 807. D. 18, ’09. 70w.
=Marks, Lionel Simeon, and Davis, Harvey Nathaniel.=^{[10]} Tables and diagrams of the thermal properties of saturated and superheated steam. *$1. Longmans.
9–17588.
Includes six tables as follows: “the first gives the properties of saturated steam for even Fahrenheit degrees, the second gives the same properties for even pounds, and the third gives the properties of superheated steam.... Tables 4, 5 and 6 will be found convenient in the solution of certain problems and several pages are devoted to an explanation of their use. The last 20 pages of the book are devoted to a discussion of the sources from which the matter for the tables was taken.”—Engin. Rec.
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=Engin. D.= 6: 155. Ag. ’09. 350w.
“The book is commendable in every respect, and it will prove an invaluable companion to those who have to make accurate computations in which the properties of steam are involved.” W: Kent.
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 11. Ag. 12, ’09. 800w.
“A remarkably well arranged and complete utilization of the results of the latest investigations on the properties of steam.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 250. Ag. 28, ’09. 270w.
=Marquand, Allan.=^{[7]} Greek architecture. (Handbooks of archaeology and antiquities.) *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–8999.
A handbook with full bibliography, 400 illustrations, list of abbreviations and index. The subjects treated are as follows: Materials and technique; Forms; Proportions; Decoration; Composition and style; Monuments.
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“A scholarly treatment by an authority and a valuable addition to the literature of archaeology.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 174. Je. ’09.
“The book will, however, be very useful to students, who will not easily find elsewhere so much information about Greek architecture in so small a compass.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 245. Ag. 28. 370w.
“One who already knows the styles and the general history of Greek architecture will find the work valuable, interesting, instructive, and suggestive. It would seem to be primarily intended for such a student, and not for a beginner.” W: C. Poland.
+ − =Class. J.= 5: 94. D. ’09. 750w.
“The illustrations are unusually good.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 314. O. ’09. 20w.
“The long needed book on Greek architecture is now before us. First principles, which some might slightingly regard, are now thoroly dealt with.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1247. Je. 3, ’09. 500w.
“The power of condensation and lucid arrangement could not be shown in a more striking degree than this work presents. Professor Marquand has done his work so clearly, so well, and so completely that the student receives from his book quite enough to serve as a clue of Ariadne in finding his way through the labyrinth.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 1074. Je. 19, ’09. 400w.
“Altogether the book, composed of clear, concise, straightforward statements even on such points as still remain open to dispute, contains much valuable information and is singularly free from theoretical opinion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 430w.
“Professor Marquand’s book is a disappointment. It is unpedantic, detailed, long and very dull. It takes up practically the same matters twice or thrice and says nothing that the reader can remember afterwards.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 259. Ag. ’09. 200w.
“Heavy to the hand and heavy in style. It is not a book of general discussion, but of reference, valuable to the archæologist, the architect, and the student of history.” E. F. Baldwin.
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 597. N. 13, ’09. 150w.
“One looks in vain for anything but the severest succession of well-authenticated facts set down like carefully arranged paving stones of equal size and equal importance. The effect is depressing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 264. Ag. 28, ’09. 270w.
“Professor Marquand has marshalled his facts, diagrams, and photographs admirably, and the mass of information is put clearly and accessibly before the reader.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 924. D. 4, ’09. 110w.
=Marriott, Charles.= Kiss of Helen. †$1.50. Lane.
“The story told in this novel is a love story in which none of the elements of lovemaking commonly so-called enter. It is the essence, the inward flame we are given, the first, fresh, utterly new meeting of man with absolute woman. Woman only possible now, after ages of fragmentary sketches. It is a story, moreover, in which the personal equation of each reader will affect his interpretation. Joan will mean to him, in the last analysis, what woman means to him when he forgets women.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Though the novel has no ethical label, it leaves an impression of a good word said on behalf of the innocence which disregards conventional morality.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 180w.
“Inordinately clever novel. A shining feature of the book is the exceeding freshness and lustre of the conversations. In them, as in narration and in comment, banality has no tiniest part.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 337. Ap. 1, ’09. 550w.
“In breadth of outlook, in a deeper comprehension of modern life and the elements which are now in process of evolution, it is an immense advance upon ‘The column.’ It is a book singularly worth while.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 29. Ja. 16, ’09. 850w.
“The ordinary reader will feel merely provoked by the whimsical perversion of sentiments, which have on the whole a moral foundation, here set forth. It is a pity that Mr. Marriott should not have a more worthy gospel to preach.”
− =Spec.= 100: 754. My. 9, ’08. 180w.
=Marriott, Charles.= Spanish holiday. *$2.50. Lane.
W9–179.
“The account of an unconventional sort of trip taken by the author and his friend ‘James’ thru out-of-the-way corners and through cities and towns in Spain. James has an energetic disposition, and a most efficient faculty for making things happen, as well as a picturesque resourcefulness in getting both into and out of unusual and interesting situations, while the author has a sense of humor, a gift for quaint, amusing or pleasing statement and the knack of effective narration.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Written with no serious intent and suited to the reader who desires impressions rather than information.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 45. O. ’09. ✠ + − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 405. Ap. 3. 130w.
“The author has a pleasant discursive style, and his comments upon the things he saw, the places he visited and the people he met are often amusing and almost invariably interesting.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 163. Ag. ’09. 150w.
“While Mr. Marriott’s volume is not one of great permanent value, it is both intelligent and interesting, and will well repay reading.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 574. D. 10, ’08. 340w.
“James made their journey a very joyous one and the author makes it possible for the reader to get almost as much fun out of it as they did.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 8. Ja. 2, ’09. 200w.
“Mr. Charles Marriott is the usual man in a hurry who takes his holiday in Spain or anywhere else and produces a book illustrated with well-known photographs of the postcard type and some sketches in monochrome of more or less merit.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 764. D. 19, ’08. 140w.
=Marriott, Charles.=^{[11]} When a woman woos. †$1.50. Lane.
“The book is, on the whole, a study of the relations of men and women in the particular institution of marriage. It is an attempt to define what a real marriage is, and it shows very decidedly what it is not.” (N. Y. Times.) “The interesting part of his new book, however, is not the question whether the heroine does or does not marry the hero, but the study of the heroine’s mother, Mrs. Tregarthan. With almost morbid fidelity Mr. Marriott pictures for his readers the terrible consequences to a middle-class household of even a slight tendency to drink on the part of the mother of the family.” (Spec.)
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“There is an amorphousness about ‘When a woman woos’ which might have been averted with a little care. Also, we note a provinciality of tone to which we have referred before. On the other hand. Mr. Marriott has always sympathy and atmosphere and sincerity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 525. My. 1. 140w.
“The book is worth reading more than once.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 687. N. 6, ’09. 950w.
“In its fidelity, its insight into the intricate workings of a woman’s mind the book is an amazing achievement. The novel is a fine instance of true realism as opposed to the stuff, alternately foul and glaring, which often passes under the name. ‘When a woman woos’ is in many ways the best thing Mr. Marriott has done.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 633. My. 15, ’09. 350w.
“The whole description of the life which may go on in out-of-the-way places under the calm surfaces of middle class existence is horrifying in its realism.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 823. My. 22, ’09. 190w.
=Marsh, Richard.=^{[7]} Interrupted kiss. $1.50. Cassell.
A thrilling mystery tale in which “a wealthy usurer is murdered by a burglar, and a number of perfectly innocent persons, including even the heroine, are each made to believe that they struck the fatal blow. The circumstances that create this confusion are neatly devised, and the narrative moves swiftly along to the closing scene, where, in accordance with tradition, all the figures in the story appear unexpectedly in a body.” (Ath.)
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“A story of this description is to be enjoyed all the more because the author makes it clear that he is not wholly unconscious of its absurdity. Mr. Marsh, unlike many writers of melodramatic fiction, has a sense of humour.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 220. F. 20. 150w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
=Marshall, Edward.=^{[12]} Writing on the wall. †$1.50. Dillingham.
A novel founded on Olga Nethersole’s play written by William J. Hurlburt. It portrays relentlessly the terrible state of things existing in a tenement house district of New York. A tenement-house landlord and a young man devoting his life to tenement-house reform are rivals for the hand of a New York society girl. The former wins her and then follows a revelation of her husband’s irresponsibility and greed coupled with infidelity to her. The tangled threads are finally untwisted thru a tragic fire in one of the tenements in which the little son is killed.
=Marshall, H. E.= Story of Napoleon. (Childrens’ heroes ser.) 50c. Dutton. W8–156.
A story of Napoleon told for children.
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“A particularly interesting account of Napoleon the soldier.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 31. Ja. ’09. ✠
“The story is well and fairly told, but we must own that to a child asking whether Napoleon was a ‘true hero’ we should have made a more decisive answer than Mrs. Marshall gives.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 909. Je. 6, ’08. 80w.
=Marshall, Henry Rutgers.=^{[11]} Consciousness. *$4. Macmillan.
A serious and scholarly discussion in a systematic form of the psychological doctrines which have formed the basis of the author’s previous writings. Book 1, Of consciousness in general, treats of the general nature of human consciousness and of other than human forms of consciousness; Book 2, The general nature of human presentations, is an analytic study of the general qualities common to all presentations; Book 3, The self, presents the nature of self as part of consciousness.
=Marston, Anson.= Sewers and drains. $1. Am. school of correspondence.
9–2272.
“Undertakes the difficult task of covering in 150 pages the design of sewerage systems and sewage disposal works, the principles of land drainage and house sanitation, and sewer construction and maintenance. Manifestly, it has been impossible to treat of any of the subjects in more than an elementary way. Only 15 pages are devoted to sewage disposal, and even a smaller number to house sewerage. The most generally useful parts of the book are those on computing the flow in sewers, on the cost of sewers and on specifications.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The subject seems to be systematically covered. The most of the line drawings are well adapted to the text. Many of the half-tone plates, however, are quite as appropriate to any other monograph in the series as to this one.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 692. D. 17, ’08. 100w.
“Viewed as a guide for self-instruction and home study, the book should prove useful to many readers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 83. Ja. 16, ’09. 170w.
=Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis).= Selected epigrams of Martial; ed., with introd. and notes, by Edwin Post. (College ser. of Latin authors.) *$1.50. Ginn.
8–32373.
“The text is made to conform largely to Lindsay’s Oxford text, though the selection is not identical with, and much shorter than, that of the ‘Epigrammata selecta.’ Mr. Post therefore covers less ground than Messrs. Bridge and Lake, but his annotations are more thoroughgoing.... There is also an excellent introduction, in which the views of the best modern authorities, chiefly German, find a reasoned place. It traces the development of the epigram, and its culmination in the literary form which Martial made his own.”—Ath.
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“The careful and scholarly notes are the characteristic feature of the book before us. The only fault we have to find with the Introduction is excessive and needless quotation. The selection of the text seems, on the whole, judicious.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 71. Ja. 16. 480w.
“We are very glad to see at last a good edition of selected epigrams from Martial. A cursory examination convinces us that this is an admirable book with judicious and illuminating notes.” H. T. Peck.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 592. F. ’09. 100w.
“The book’s chief and familiar defect is that it is written for both undergraduate and instructor. It is clearly a book upon which much time has been spent; and it is undoubtedly the best college edition of the poet available.” Paul Nixon.
+ − =Class. J.= 5: 47. N. ’09. 380w.
“There is perhaps no better material for studying the private life of the Romans than this book.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 99. Ja. ’09. 40w.
=Martineau, John.=^{[5]} Life of Henry Pelham, fifth duke of Newcastle. 12s. Murray, John, London.
“Mr. Martineau tells his readers that this book was originally intended to deal only with the Duke of Newcastle’s administration of the war office during the Crimean war, and its interest is chiefly confined to the part of it which relates to that subject.” (Eng. Hist. R.) “With the aid of his diary, Mr. Martineau has constructed a portrait of ducal isolation, political impracticability, and grim Evangelicalism which is most instructive as showing what an unamiable thing aristocracy could be, when it tried, in the day before the Act of reform.” (Ath.)
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“This is a sterling biography, but unfortunately no merits of treatment can invest its subject with any particular interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 712. D. 5. 950w.
“He has not been fortunate in his efforts to obtain biographical information, nor has he perhaps always used such as was available to the best advantage.” W: Hunt.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 387. Ap. ’09. 1350w.
“It seems to us to be an impartial and accurate account of the part played by the Duke of Newcastle as secretary for war and by Lord Aberdeen’s government, told in a good literary style, clear, correct, animated, and with a saving sense of humour.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 760. D. 19, ’08. 1050w.
“It contains many hitherto unpublished letters from Lord Raglan of the first interest. As for the criticism of the book, Mr. Martineau almost out-Kinglakes Kinglake in his defence of Lord Raglan.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 676. O. 31, ’08. 70w.
=Mason, Arthur James.=^{[7]} Memoir of George Howard Wilkinson, bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, and primus of the Scottish church; formerly bishop of Truro. 2v. *$8. Longmans.
A careful biography of George Howard Wilkinson, organizer and preacher, prophet and saint, a man with no special claims to eloquence who was essentially simple and spiritual.
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“The biographer, Dr. Mason, deserves to be praised for his admirable work. The narrative is always clear and never dull, and he allows the man of the book to reveal himself. He should have known, however, that the Episcopal church is not the church of Scotland, and that there is no Primus of Scotland, as he should have known that Gawain Douglas was not the first Scottish poet.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 580. My. 15. 1300w.
“We are grateful for this memoir, which reminds us that there has been a prophet amongst us.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 755. Je. 12, ’09. 1300w.
“The world is certainly richer for having this carefully studied picture of his life. The book, with its eight hundred and fifty pages, may seem somewhat long, but not to the public for which it is meant.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 134. Jl. 24, ’09. 350w.
=Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atwater.=^{[10]} Mystery of Miss Motte. $1.25. Page.
9–11537.
A story of love and mystery in which figure prominently a rector, his curate and the young woman with an Oriental touch for whose hand the two men are rivals. “That both men are in love with the mysterious Miss Motte gives human zest to their spiritual contests, and affords a chance for one of them to turn defeat into moral victory.” (Nation.)
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“Slight, but unusual and interesting.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 27. S. ’09. ✠
“The plan and scope of this little story are rather out of the usual.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 607. Je. 17, ’09. 230w.
=Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atwater.=^{[5]} Spell of Italy. $2.50. Page.
9–9552.
“A collection of articles written by the author as she moved about the Peninsular from city to city. Its chapters are not related one to another, and are quite dissimilar in respect to form and style, although they have as their common purpose the purveyance of instruction about the history, art, literature, scenery, and other characteristics of Italy and the Italian people. The book includes chapters on Naples, Rome, Florence, Perugia, Verona, Siena, and the Apennines.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Enthusiastic and sprightly account.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 45. O. ’09. ✠
“It did, indeed, irritate us, as we read, to find our intelligent countrywoman thus ready to touch upon these various difficult and delicate matters, and to publish in print sentiments and opinions so little tested and sifted. Mrs. Mason may have written in haste and may not have seen proof; but the patrons of her publishers surely pay for careful writing and proof-reading, and editing too.”
− + =Cath. World.= 89: 402. Je. ’09. 630w.
“A beginner who happens upon this volume will at least not waste the hours bestowed upon it.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1241. Je. 3, ’09. 100w.
“A volume of delightfully fresh and original impressions. Mrs. Mason’s style is always breezy and entertaining and there is not a dull page in the volume.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 852. My. 15, ’09. 300w.
“The book is a well-written series of personal impressions with an unusually attractive ‘format.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1078. D. 11, ’09. 110w.
“Her book may be recommended to readers who desire something less impersonal than Baedeker, and less prolix than most of the histories.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 603. Je. 17, ’09. 120w.
“All chapters contain matter of interest to those who care to increase their knowledge of those things which make Italy charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 264. Ap. 24, ’09. 100w. + =Outlook.= 93: 318. O. 9, ’09. 270w.
=Mason, Daniel Gregory.=^{[12]} Child’s guide to music. (Child’s guide ser.) **$1.25. Baker.
9–27751.
A book that “first tells what the elements of music are and the principles which govern the use of those elements in musical structure; then it takes up in turn the piano, the orchestra, the opera, and characteristic features of music heard at a pianoforte recital, an orchestral concert, and an operatic performance.”—Outlook.
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“The book is strongly recommended.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1369. D. 16, ’09. 30w.
“The music-teacher will find Dr. Mason’s ‘Guide’ invaluable; its instruction is done, not by any educational didacticism, but by an entertaining discussion, in which the style is conversational and the spirit unspoiled by any condescension or superiority.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1020. D. 4, ’09. 130w. + =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
“The book, which covers its ground skillfully, thoroughly, and, best of all, interestingly, could be properly understood by older children only; but in the hands of a discerning teacher, it could be made fascinating for the youngest of little piano players.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 807. D. 18, ’09. 80w.
“Its title seems to limit its usefulness. It is called ‘A child’s guide to music,’ but it is in fact a guide that any listener would find illuminating and that even professional critics of musical performances might read profitably. No writer on musical subjects is sounder in his judgments, clearer in his thinking, or more successful in the expression of his ideas than Mr. Mason.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 340w.
=Mason, Daniel Gregory.=^{[8]} Orchestral instruments and what they do: a primer for concert-goers. **$1.25. Baker.
9–14964.
“A popular condensation of the contents of various scientific treatises on orchestration, of which those by Berlioz and Gavaert are the most important. The descriptions of the various instruments of the orchestra are reinforced by photographs of them as played, as well as by brief illustrations from well-known scores showing how the various composers have employed the several voices of the orchestra; and the attentive reader may gain a fair idea of the particular problem which the composer of orchestral music has before him.” (Dial.)
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“A simple, accurate text, written for the untrained concert goer.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 18. S. ’09.
“The author has been fairly successful in accomplishing what he set out to do.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 51. Jl. 16, ’09. 230w.
“He calls it ‘a primer for concert-goers,’ and has written it in such a simple and clear style that the veriest tyro can understand and profit by it. On the other hand, there are many hints which will help even veterans by calling their attention to subtleties in orchestral coloring that may have escaped their attention.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 335. O. 7, ’09. 450w.
“It will serve a useful purpose, for many who go to such concerts constantly are surprisingly ignorant of the different instruments. The pictures, we are fain to believe, are the most valuable feature of the book, and it is one that has not been utilized in such an excellent manner in any other book of the kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 406. Je. 26, ’09. 500w.
“Forms a capital supplement to ‘Guide to music.’”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 877. D. 18, ’09. 120w.
=Mason, Roy.=^{[10]} When I am rich: a novel. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–18059.
The story of an intrepid young college man who, quite down on his luck, enters upon a series of marvellous adventures when once he has tasted success thru substituting wit for ready cash. He begins by ordering four or five hundred dollars worth of clothes and leasing an eighteen thousand a year apartment—this not only on nothing a year but nothing a month. To follow his game of bluff and his success is the purpose of the story.
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“A good wholesome sketch of American independence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 635. N. ’09. 50w.
=Mason, Ruth Little.= Trailers: a novel. *$1.20. Revell.
9–5525.
A bright story of a New York girl whose inclination to emancipate herself from the traditional social thraldom meets with an ambitious mother’s determined rebuff. While she is dutifully trying to cultivate a submissive attitude of mind for a début she goes abroad and meets John Reeve engaged in philanthropic work among the Waldensian Italians. Their romance and her father’s loss of millions combine to bring the mother around to a normal point of view.
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“The author writes in a fresh, bright style, with a frequent touch of humor. Her narrative and descriptive faculty is good, and some of her characters show promise of creative power. But the fabric of her story is ill-made and clumsily put together.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 163. Mr. 20, ’09. 170w.
=Maspero, Gaston C. C.= New light on ancient Egypt; tr. from the French by Elizabeth Lee. *$4. Appleton.
1st ed. W9–39. 2nd ed. 9–8735.
A translation of the author’s “Causeries d’Égypte.” It is a collection of a number of Professor Maspero’s “articles that have appeared over his signature at various times, dealing with all the most important Egyptological discoveries, whether made by English or American spades in temples and tombs, or by German pairs of spectacles in papyri and inscriptions, during the last fifteen years.” (Nature.)
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“Limited in interest to students of Egyptology, for whom it is a good supplementary volume.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 142. My. ’09.
“As for the translation, the best that can be said for it is that it very seldom entirely misrepresents the meaning of the author, though it is far from giving any idea of his clear and brilliant style. It is worth while to translate M. Maspero’s lighter articles for the benefit of those readers who cannot appreciate them in the original, but we think that the work should have been handed to an expert.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 98. Ja. 23. 450w.
“Criticism may be offered, in spite of the note which the author has prepared on the subject on the method of transliterating native names. Deserves a place on the shelves of those who are interested in things Egyptian, and who desire to extend the field and content of their knowledge.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 333. Ap. 1, ’09. 420w.
“The book is translated, on the whole, extremely well. But blemishes can be taken out in a second edition of the book, which, it is to be hoped, will appear in a few years’ time with additions, and with one or two articles, which are somewhat out of date, such as that on ‘Archaic Egypt,’ omitted.” H. R. Hall.
+ − =Nature.= 79: 222. D. 24, ’08. 750w.
“This book bids fair to hold an honored place among the books useful to the general reader. It seems ungracious to find the fly in such a pot of ointment, but it is there in the shape of the French spelling of the names of Pharaohs, persons and places which occur in the hieroglyphic texts.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 286. My. 8, ’09. 1000w.
“We warmly commend this book to our readers.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 268. F. 13, ’09. 430w.
=Masten, Vincent Myron.=^{[11]} Crime problem; what to do about it, how to do it. $1.50. Star-gazette co., Elmira, N. Y.
9–13924.
The author “seeks to analyze present methods of treating crime, and suggests a system extending from so-called primary industrial schools, to which children under fourteen shall be committed, to convict prisons which, with classifications, shall contain life prisoners and habitual criminals. Intermediate stages in the treatment of criminals are outlined through secondary industrial schools and reformatories.”—Survey.
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“It is significant as a reflection of personal experiences in daily contact with criminals.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 420. N. ’09. 40w.
“The first two chapters dealing in a general way with crime are rambling and incoherent. The subject matter of the volume is good and deserves attention.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 607. N. ’09. 140w.
“Poor English, lack of index, bad typography—one wonders whether his proofs were read at all—cannot hide the fact that Col. Masten is a sincere and sound, if not very original, reformer. And his faults are perhaps the faults of his virtues. He is a worker, not a writer.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 440. Jl. 17, ’09. 700w.
“It may be questioned whether Colonel Masten’s book throws much new light upon prison management or prison problems. One misses in it what might be specially expected in a treatment of penology written by an Elmira official, namely, the careful study of reformatory statistics, and an intensive and individual study of the prisoners.” O. F. Lewis.
− =Survey.= 23: 142. O. 30, ’09. 450w.
=Masterman, Charles F. G.=^{[7]} Condition of England. 6s. Methuen, London.
9–21856.
“Mr. Masterman gives us a rough account of England as he sees it, making each class parade past him in turn while he jots down its characteristics.... It is an almost horribly detached record of large failures and only petty successes.”—Spec.
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“Mr. Masterman’s new book can hardly fail to interest any intelligent person into whose hands it may fall.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 62. Jl. 17. 1000w.
“We wish he had retained enough spirit for polemic; some strong belief which served him as a clue through the bewildering maze of the English life he describes. As it is, the book is depressing, saddening, and we are perplexed by an accumulation of disheartening facts and opinions which lead us to nothing but sheer pessimism.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 786. Je. 19, ’09. 1250w.
“It is a brilliant picture, constructed with quick and facile phrases, but we have seldom read anything more depressing. It was a mistake for Mr. Masterman to impose on himself a superficial impartiality. We are not as a rule in favour of ‘blinkers’ for man or beast, but in Mr. Masterman’s case we are sorely tempted to recommend that he be provided with a pair. Then perhaps he will not think everything he passes on the road of life a bogy, and conclude it to be his duty to ‘shy’ at it, and then ‘jib,’ as a protest.”
− + =Spec.= 102: 896. Je. 5, ’09. 2000w.
=Masterman, Ernest W. G.=^{[12]} Studies in Galilee; with a preface by G: Adam Smith. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–27601.
An account, from first-hand information, of Galilee as a whole, its structure, frontiers, divisions, natural products, the resulting characters of its people’s life, and its place in history.
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“A thoroughly original first-hand study of the historic district of Galilee.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 430. D. ’09. 40w.
“Must take its place among the permanently valuable books of Palestinian research. It is a book primarily for scholars, though others will find in it many pages of interest.” C: R. Gillett.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 160w.
=Mathews, Byron Collins.= Our irrational distribution of wealth. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–29608.
“Another excursion of a professional economist into the precincts of sociology. The thesis of the book is, that while there has been an enormous change in the methods and quantity of production, distribution has not changed, but is still on the old basis of manager taking the lion’s share. The panacea for the ills of distribution is found in public ownership, and this thesis is argued interestingly in ten chapters: Introduction; The sources of wealth; Capital’s illegitimate function the key to distribution; Basis of distribution wrong; Land-rent, a gratuity; Interest makes no discrimination; The wage system; the step from legal into economic slavery; Profits, a gratuity; The second distribution; Public ownership the source of permanent improvement.”—Am. J. Soc.
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“A very interesting contribution of a professional economist to the sociological doctrine of the conflict of classes. The one-sided overemphasis on the economic struggle is significant, because it once more furnishes silent, but potent evidence for the raison d’être of modern sociology as an academic discipline, and a factor in the intellectual life of society.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 540. Ja. ’09. 760w. =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 461. Mr. ’09. 90w.
“The weakest chapter is that entitled ‘Legalized economic slavery.’”
− =Educ. R.= 37: 208. F. ’09. 50w.
“This is not a carefully thought out treatise, but a piece of special pleading. At the same time it is well worth careful consideration.”
− + =Outlook.= 90: 798. D. 5, ’08. 200w. =Spec.= 103: 60. Jl. 10, ’09. 60w.
=Mathews, John Lathrop.=^{[7]} Remaking the Mississippi. **$1.75. Houghton.
9–14201.
Presents a correct account of the several engineering methods by which each great division of the Mississippi has been so far developed—the various methods of canalization and regularization—with a correct summary of the cost to date; to which has been added an outline of the newer science, its methods, what it hopes to accomplish, what it will cost, and the far reaching advantages resulting from its operation.
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“A sound and timely study.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 174. Je. ’09.
“He writes as a journalist rather than as an engineer, and the result is an exceedingly readable treatise on a subject about which the majority of our people know altogether too little.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 49. Jl. 16, ’09. 450w.
“It meets a growing demand for fuller information concerning our national resources, aroused by the recent discussion of the needs and methods of conservation; while, at the same time it tends to increase the popular enthusiasm for achievement along that line.” C. W. Doten.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 225. S. ’09. 550w.
“To gain a clear knowledge of the Mississippi river and its navigation system one could hardly ask for a more succinct production than this volume. On one crucial point, however, the author falls into a technical error, and his deductions are, therefore, misleading on the one great question now being agitated, that of giving the Mississippi a deep channel for navigation.” Major C. E. Gillette.
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 21. S. 16, ’09. 2100w. + =Ind.= 67: 883. O. 14, ’09. 120w.
“The book will open something like a new field of romance to the general reader and will prove interesting and inspiring to the professional engineer.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 541. O. 2, ’09. 210w. =Nation.= 89: 74. Jl. 22, ’09. 350w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 338. My. 29, ’09. 650w.
“Not only a readable but also a distinctly valuable work.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 560. S. ’09. 200w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 80w.
=Mathews, John Mabry.=^{[11]} Legislative and judicial history of the fifteenth amendment. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science. Ser. 27, nos. 6–7.) $1. Johns Hopkins.
9–16005.
Gives an account of the “introduction and the working of the article of the American constitution which forbids the denial or abridgment, by the United States or any state, of the right of citizens to vote on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude; and gives the congress power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”—Eng. Hist R.
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“The study is careful and its spirit is judicial.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 607. N. ’09. 140w.
“An elaborate and exhaustive account.” H. E. E.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 836. O. ’09. 70w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 450. Jl. 24, ’09. 160w.
=Mathews, Lois Kimball.=^{[12]} Expansion of New England: the spread of New England settlement and institutions to the Mississippi river, 1620–1865. **$2.50. Houghton.
9–29148.
“An attempt,” the author says, “to entangle, from the complex skein of our national history, the one strand of the New England element.” The chapters following an introduction are: The beginnings of an American frontier; The influence of Indian warfare upon the frontier, 1660–1713; Forty years of strife with the wilderness, 1713–1754; The frontier in war and in peace, 1754–1781; The beginning of the great migrations from New England toward the west, 1781–1812; The planting of a second New England, 1787–1865; The joining of two frontiers: Indiana and Illinois, 1809–1865; The New Englanders as state builders: Michigan and Wisconsin, 1820–1860; Two centuries and a half of New England pioneering, 1620–1865.
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“It is not often that a thesis for a post-graduate degree becomes a substantial contribution to history. That distinction, however, belongs to Mrs. Mathews’ extremely interesting work.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1078. D. 11, ’09. 220w.
“Her book, although clearly intended for the historical student rather than the general reader, is useful to all who would gain an understanding of the process by which New England influence and tradition were extended to other sections of the country.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 879. D. 18, ’09. 300w.
=Matthews, Brander.=^{[12]} American of the future and other essays. **$1.25. Scribner.
9–26987.
Fifteen “apologetic essays on our American walk and conversation.” (Nation.) They are: The American of the future; American character; The Americans and the British; “Blood is thicker than water”; The scream of the spread-eagle; American manners; American humor; The speech of the people; English as a world-language; Simplified spelling and “fonetic reform”; The question of the theater; Persuasion and controversy; Reform and reformers; “Those literary fellows”; Standards of success.
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“It is sprightly, entertaining, clear, at times even forcible—though rarely—and one ought to get ‘forrarder’ with it. Yet one doesn’t. Perhaps the reason is that there is an odd lack of accent and a judicious weighing of opposites which efface every impression about as soon as it is made.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 546. D. 2, ’09. 300w.
“Mr. Matthews has a certain brightness and quickness of perception which one is tempted to call American, a lightness and courage of manner which give his comments the freshness of an open-minded intelligence, and the vivacity of an observer who sees things in their variety and not in a single depressing category. Very good reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 650. N. 27, ’09. 190w.
=Matthews, Charles H. S.= Parson in the Australian bush. $2. Longmans.
9–7566.
“A condensation by the Rev. C. H. S. Matthews of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd, of a series of parish lectures delivered in England on religious and educational conditions in Australia, tending to become a treatise on details of missionary work there with which few will have serious concern.”—N. Y. Times,
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“The fireside traveler, we are afraid, unless he has special interests, will quickly turn in another direction.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 100w.
“There is much that is both interesting and instructive in Mr. Matthews’s pictures of life in the back regions of Australia as viewed from the clergyman’s standpoint.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 1062. D. 19, ’08. 280w.
=Matthews, Franklin.=^{[11]} Back to Hampton Roads; cruise of the U. S. Atlantic fleet from San Francisco to Hampton Roads, July 7, 1908-Feb. 22, 1909. $1.50. Huebsch.
9–27398.
Supplementary to “With the battle fleet,” this book aims to describe and narrate the leading events that marked the homeward run of the fleet from San Francisco to Hampton Roads, by way of New Zealand, Australia, Japan and the Suez canal.
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“His style in this volume is as brisk and jaunty as in its predecessor. The book, with its occasional pictures, is all that one could ask for in its sort.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 517. D. 16, ’09. 150w.
“Mr. Matthews is a newspaper reporter of exceptional merit, and his descriptions are well written.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1367. D. 16, ’09. 70w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 1020. D. 4, ’09. 50w
“Is full of the acute observation of a very clever newspaper man.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
“The author has used a good deal of material that did not appear in his newspaper publications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 721. N. 20, ’09. 150w.
=Maturin, Mrs. Fred.=^{[8]} Petticoat pilgrims on trek. *7s. 6d. Nash, London.
“Describes lightly and humorously her experiences with her maid in and about Johannesburg and other places in South Africa after the war. There is an occasional touch of the pathetic aftermath of war, and now and again we get a bright thought. Mrs. Maturin’s idea is that ‘to analyse life is to spoil it.’ The simple life on trek is her way to happiness.”—Sat. R.
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“She describes [her adventures] in the spirit of one to whom everything that happens, however trivial, is of some moment. The book is a novelty.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 142. Jl. 31, ’09. 110w.
“It is often entertaining, and would be more so if we could be quite sure of knowing when Mrs. Maturin is serious, and when she is romancing.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 544. Ap. 3, ’09. 170w.
=Maude, Frederick Natusch.=^{[12]} Jena campaign, 1806. (Special campaign ser., no. 9.) *$1.60. Macmillan.
9–15509.
“Jena, as the author rightly holds, marks the point at which the French revolution imposed on Europe the theory of the loosely trained armed nation, which at the present day lies with other factors, at the back of the Pacifist movement. But was Europe right? Did not the Prussian battalions really demonstrate that the small army of highly trained long-service soldiers is superior to the loosely trained mass? That is the author’s thesis; and without forcing us to agree with his extreme conclusions, he proves the case, as have most of his predecessors from Klausewitz to de Bonnal, that it was only in the higher command that the Prussians really failed.”—Nation.
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“An unusual book that should attract readers from a wider circle than the special students of military history to whom it is addressed. While disagreeing with many of the author’s historical generalizations, and with a few of his details, we can praise his volume highly for its grasp of the military facts, and for its suggestiveness. The only serious criticism to which he is open on his subject proper is that he does not ascribe to the movements of St. Hilaire nearly enough importance.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 491. N. 18, ’09. 200w.
“A very clear and interesting account of one of the most momentous phases of modern European history. We cordially recommend all those interested in the subject to read Colonel Maude’s book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 10. O. 16, ’09. 140w.
=Maugham, William Somerset.= Explorer. †$1.50. Baker.
9–3205.
A story at the center of which is a daughter’s responsibility in urging a brother on to redeem the honor of the house that had been besmirched by a father who had unconscionably followed the broad way to a felon’s cell. Her lover, “the explorer,” aids her in the task by taking the brother off to Africa, and trying to enlist him in the cause of empire-building. The failure to make a man of him, and the hero’s self-sacrifice and hardships are compensated for in the expedition’s final victory for the British empire.
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“A creditable novel of modern life.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 9. Ja. 4. 230w.
“The faults of the book are its lack of proportion and its occasional sketchiness. Having drawn his characters so carefully, Mr. Maugham might well have devoted more space to their interaction, which is often indicated rather than expressed.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 390. D. 20, ’07. 500w.
“Is quite innocuous and even comparatively pleasant.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 255. Mr. 11, ’09. 230w.
“Mr. Maugham has excellent faculty in the portrayal of character. He has skill in construction, too, and one feels all through the story the strong grip of the author, who had vivid conception of his people, his incidents, and his story before he began to put them upon paper.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 117. F. 27, ’09. 470w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
“Mr. Maugham’s latest novel is interesting as showing how literary perception and instinct may take the place of actual experience. There is a good deal of smart dialogue which would be effective in a play.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 209. F. 15, ’08. 430w.
=Maugham, William Somerset.= Magician. †$1.50. Duffield.
9–7829.
“In this extraordinary book Mr. Maugham plays alternately the parts of the Balzac of the ‘Peau de chagrin,’ the Du Maurier who created Svengali, and an H. G. Wells consistently logical in his most fantastic moments.... Oliver Haddo is a repulsive student of the black art who by his psychic power not only takes possession of a young surgeon’s betrothed, but also creates in her a corrupted secondary personality, and finally kills her in his successful attempt to create Paracelsian ‘homunculi.’”—Ath.
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“Mr. Maugham has in an especial degree the art of controlling his machinery and piling up unobtrusive proofs when they are needed; and, on the whole, the illusion is about as complete as could fairly be demanded. The lighter parts of the book show keen humour and observation.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 715. D. 5. 220w.
“His theme Mr. Maugham handles so realistically, so materially, so hideously, as to excite only loathing and disgust.”
− =Nation.= 88: 255. Mr. 11, ’09. 230w.
“The author shows not a little skill in dealing with the uncanny and tells his tale of the weird and the horrible with a simple sincerity and a constant matching of unhallowed practices with the clean, sweet things of common life that make its effect uncommonly impressive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 88. F. 13, ’09. 520w.
“The book attempts an effect of terror: it produces only nausea.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 798. D. 26, ’08. 110w. =Spec.= 101: 1002. D. 12, ’08. 130w.
=Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens.= Artificial and natural flight. *$175. Macmillan.
9–5179.
Views and experiences on the art and science of aerial navigation. The introduction deals in general terms with the work of the author and other experimenters. Following this the flight of birds and kites is discussed, and the author’s experiments with screws and supporting aeroplanes are recorded; while other important material is found in the appendices.
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“One of the best treatises on the science of aeronautics, helpfully illustrated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 106. Ap. ’09.
“The flight of birds and kites is discussed and then follows the part really important to students of aeronautics—the account of the author’s early experiments with screws and supporting aeroplanes. These are both interesting and instructive and present data that probably have never before been made generally available.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 27. Mr. 18, ’09. 320w. =Nation.= 88: 634. Je. 24, ’09. 420w.
“Sir Hiram Maxim’s book is distinctly disappointing. An account of his early experiments, if somewhat out of date, would be at least of historic interest; but when the author indulges in a tirade against mathematicians, the question which naturally suggests itself is, Where on earth does he find his mathematicians?” G. H. Bryan.
− =Nature.= 80: 222. Ap. 22, ’09. 1050w.
“Sir Hiram S. Maxim has accomplished admirably the task of illuminating for the lay mind the principles upon which the aeroplanists of our day are working, and the means these ingenious and daring gentlemen are using to advance humanity to the flying stage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 57. Ja. 30, ’09. 1300w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 90w.
“A valuable guide to others who may contemplate like work.” O. Chanute.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 282. Ag. 27, ’09. 800w.
=Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace.= Scottish gardens: being a representative selection of different types, old and new. *$6. Longmans.
8–37199.
“The text is by the Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, who dips his pen deep in the love of all growing things, and the full page colored illustrations are from the paintings by Mary G. W. Wilson. After a dissertation on Scottish gardens in general, the author takes up, in separate chapters, over thirty different gardens, making altogether a representative selection of garden types, old and new.” (N. Y. Times.) “He takes a wide range of the subject ... including the Princes gardens in Edinburgh, a famous nursery at Aberdeen, and many gardens more or less famous from Ayrshire to Sutherland.” (Spec.)
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“Misprints are few in the body of the book, but there are some errors in the plant-names that need revision, and there is no index.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 412. Ap. 3. 400w.
“An entirely charming book, although the facts and the conditions with which it deals have no bearing upon gardening in this country.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 805. D. 26, ’08. 200w.
“Very pleasant reading, but the parts directly bearing on horticulture would fill but a small fraction of the book. The book is not exhaustive, and although it gives delightful glimpses into Scottish gardens, it leaves much unsaid. It has no index.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 4. D. 12, ’08. 480w. + =Spec.= 101: 638. O. 24, ’08. 220w.
=Maxwell, William Babington.=^{[12]} Seymour Charlton: a novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–26150.
In his new book Mr. Maxwell “gives his readers in detail the story of a younger son who unexpectedly succeeds to a peerage and great possessions. Seymour Charlton, the hero, falls in love with a girl of the middle class and marries her on his accession to his new dignities.... He is, in fact, a young gentleman who, though serious in mind, is quite incapable of doing any work except on the surface of things. He suffers from this fault in politics and in business. In the latter walk of life he comes to grief, and only saves his name and honor by sacrificing the whole of his private possessions to satisfy the claims of shareholders in the company of which he is chairman.”—Spec.
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“Readers of ‘Vivien’ and ‘The guarded flame’ will be prepared to find this theme treated by Mr. Maxwell in no merely conventional way.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 573. D. 9, ’09. 390w.
“It is a sufficiently absorbing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 739. N. 27, ’09. 470w.
“Mr. Maxwell’s pictures of modern life are ably drawn, if one can accept the language in which he presents them, and the whole book carries one on by sheer force of readability. Mr. Maxwell, at any rate, earns praise for the amount of careful work that he puts into his books, which have enough material in them to furnish at least three novels by less conscientious writers.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 750. N. 6, ’09. 400w.
=Maxwell-Scott, Mrs. Mary Monica.= Madame Elizabeth de France, 1764–1794: a memoir. *$3.50. Longmans.
9–3532.
In this pathetic history of Louis XVI’s faithful sister may be read the sufferings and deprivations of the “Capets” specially during the year that preceded their death on the guillotine.
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“Readable, if of no transcendent merit. Certain serious faults detract from the value of the work, except to the purely uncritical reader.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 146. Ag. 7. 1300w.
“The ‘angelic Princess’ has probably never been so engagingly presented to English readers as now by Mrs. Maxwell Scott; and she has moreover based her narrative on contemporary and other French authorities whose writings, as a whole, have not been available to earlier students in this field.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 463. D. 16, ’08. 140w.
“Mrs. Maxwell-Scott has succeeded in welding together the various accounts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 798. D. 26, ’08. 220w.
“Mrs. Maxwell-Scott’s style is far from attractive.”
− =Sat. R.= 106: 734. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
“This is a touching and well-written life.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 640. Ap. 24, ’09. 400w.
=Mayne, Ethel Colburn.=^{[11]} Enchanters of men: twenty-four studies of fascinating women. *$3.50. Jacobs.
“A collection of lively sketches of some two dozen ladies whose names are well known in the annals of love and beauty, and the author has grouped them under the headings, The royal mistress, The courtesan, The royal lady, The star, The Egeria.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Miss Mayne has some qualifications for her task. It is impossible to read her chapters ... without seeing that she has more right to be treated as an original writer than have many who lightly enter on a similar undertaking. On the other hand, we must be forgiven for saying that her style stands in need of purification.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 583. My. 15. 550w. =Dial.= 47: 457. D. 1, ’09. 150w.
“The sad, fantastic, sometimes happy lives of these heroines are told with a strong feeling for their romance and human quality, with nothing extenuated, nor aught set down in malice. It makes excellent reading.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 633. O. 23, ’09. 1050w.
“Miss Mayne has written her sketches so cleverly that we must regret that she has not set herself, or been set, to do worthier sort of work.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 634. My. 15, ’09. 40w.
=Mayo, Margaret.= Polly of the circus. †$1. Dodd.
8–23540.
A novelization of the play. It tells how Polly, the circus rider, falls from her horse and is taken to a young clergyman’s home where she is restored to health, learns what true service is, and, much to the discomfiture of the meddling deacons, weds her benefactor.
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“Few stories adapted from plays are as well written; slight and unimportant.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 25. Ja. ’09. =Ind.= 65: 1126. N. 12, ’08. 70w.
“Has that quality of ‘heart interest’ so valuable in popular theatrical fiction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 635. O. 31, ’08. 170w.
=Mead, Daniel Webster.= Water power engineering: the theory, investigation and development of water powers. *$6. McGraw.
8–28609.
A book for engineers. “In the preparation of this treatise the author has endeavored to consider all the fundamental principles involved, and to indicate the basis upon which successful water-power development depends.”—Engin. D.
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“If for no other reason, this commendable work should be in the possession of every water-power engineer, on account of the unusually extended and complete bibliography it contains on hydraulic subjects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 663. D. ’08. 740w.
“His book should be found in the library of every hydraulic engineer; it is a valuable work of reference for engineers generally; and students of water-power engineering can profit by its liberal use in their course of study.” F. C. Finkle.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 25. Mr. 18, ’09. 3000w.
“The book is one of the most complete treatises on an engineering subject published in this country and will unquestionably be of value to any engineer engaged in water power development.”
+ + =Engin. Rec.= 58: 622. N. 28, ’08. 940w.
=Meade, Edward Sherwood.= Story of gold. **75c. Appleton.
8–30947.
An untechnical account which describes the processes of discovering and mining gold, the growth of the gold industry and the future of gold production.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 45. F. ’09. ✠
“The book is decidedly readable and most admirably suited to give the ordinary individual a sense of actual personal acquaintance with the gold industry. To the multitude, for whom mining stocks are irresistibly tempting, it is to be most strongly recommended as a book of useful information, interestingly written, and certain to prove a profitable investment.” W. S. Tower.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 737. My. ’09. 400w.
“The pages treating the occurrence of gold in nature are the least satisfactory portion of the work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 215. Ag. 21. 700w.
“The subject matter is of course of a type that can be procured from trustworthy sources by an investigator but has no value over and above that which already exists in those sources, save that it is probably more conveniently put together.” H. P. Willis.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 49. Ap. ’09. 430w.
“With numerous illustrations the author succeeds in making a very readable book. Throughout the volume, however, the discussion is permeated with a questionable theory of the direct relation between the periodical production of gold and industrial prosperity.” L.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 305. My. ’09. 400w.
“A long succession of careless misstatements such as appear in the book becomes wearisome, and creates an atmosphere of prejudice against the author, so that his most lugubrious predictions and stirring calls to action leave the reader unconvinced and apathetic. His main thesis is, of course, tinged with exaggeration.” T. K. R.
− =Nature.= 80: 306. My. 13, ’09. 500w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 109. F. 27, ’09. 1150w.
“In his geology, Dr. Meade is in agreement with Professor DeLaunay, but in his treatment of the economics of gold he is as orthodox as the Frenchman is heretical.” J. F. Johnson.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 544. S. ’09. 630w.
=Meade, Norman Gardner.= Electric motors; their installation, control, operation and maintenance. *$1. McGraw.
8–26689.
“Mr. Meade has evidently written this book for the shop man who does not understand electric motors, but finds himself in need of knowing more about them, theoretically and practically.” (Engin. N.) “He has sought to explain the phenomena of electric motors, describe the leading types of direct and alternating-current motors and their auxiliary apparatus, and give practical suggestions for their installation, care and management. Mathematics have been used sparingly, figures and diagrams being depended upon as far as possible to elucidate the subject.” (Engin. D.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 142. My. ’09. =Engin. D.= 5: 170. F. ’09. 100w. =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 8. Ja. 14, ’09. 300w.
=Meade, Richard Kidder.=^{[7]} Design and equipment of small chemical laboratories. *$2. Chemical engineer pub.
9–7738.
A book for inexperienced chemists. “The first chapter takes up the general arrangement and location of the laboratory and its apparatus. Next come several chapters on stationary equipment. The balance of the book describes and discusses the smaller apparatus and miscellaneous equipment. The book is well supplied with illustrations, and the explanations are made in a clear and direct manner. In connection with each subject discussed, practical details are introduced which will make the book of great value.” (Engin. N.)
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=Engin. D.= 6: 54. Jl. ’09. 120w.
“Of great value to those called upon to superintend the construction and installation of laboratory equipment.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 695. D. 17, ’08. 140w.
“The book seems to have a wider field of usefulness than this summary of its contents would indicate, on account of the simple and clear, though not detailed, descriptions of various small-scale chemical engineering appliances with which any engineer should be acquainted.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 789. Je. 19, ’09. 200w.
=Means, David MacGregor.=^{[7]} Methods of taxation compared with the established principles of justice. **$2.50. Dodd.
9–10265.
An analysis of tax-paying and tax-collecting based on legal rather than economic principles. “Mr. Means distinctly takes the medicinal view of taxation; he thinks it is all, as at present compounded, extremely unpalatable; but he performs a real service in bringing before the reader the fact that the country is suffering from some fiscal ills that require new tax prescriptions.” (Outlook.)
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“The book demands and deserves serious study.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 314. O. ’09. 60w.
“When a few criticisms have been made, it must be recognized that Mr. Means has produced a stimulating, incisive and valuable book.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 236. S. 9, ’09. 1700w.
“Mr. Means’s qualifications for the task indicated by his subtitle are exceptional.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 403. Je. 26, ’09. 1150w.
“An admirably written treatise on the philosophy, and it may be added, the psychology of tax-paying and tax-collecting. No better general review of the different kinds and methods of taxation applied by civilized government since the days of Adam Smith has come to the notice of the Outlook.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 109. My. 15, ’09. 120w.
“For a thoughtful discussion of the whole subject of taxation the reader will do well to consult this new volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 130w.
=Meany, Edmond Stephen.=^{[8]} History of the state of Washington. *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–13526.
“The first period treated is that of Discovery, which extends from prehistoric times to the visits of the ‘Columbia,’ the ‘Lady Washington,’ and the ‘Boston,’ to the Northwest coast.... The period of Exploration covers the Astor project and the long contest with England for the fur-trade and the possession of the territory.... The early period of statehood is described as marked by an extravagance of public expenditure, which was, however, corrected under later administrations. The last chapter is the most novel in the volume, being a description of the results of Federal activity in the state in the shape of surveys, postal and customs service, judiciary, irrigation, etc.”—Dial.
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“A conscientious performance, possessing considerable merit as a compendium of facts relating to the northwest. Some topics are treated more adequately than anywhere else. The author’s information is always respectable, his judgment sane, his sympathies admirable. He has done so well that we are impatient with him for not taking the trouble to do better.” Joseph Schafer.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 167. O. ’09. 1100w.
“A worthy addition to the state histories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 45. O. ’09.
“The book as a whole is deserving a permanent place in the history of the states of the Union.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 405. Je. 16, ’09. 280w.
“His pictures and judgments of men and events, though warmly patriotic, are never extravagant; the detail, though somewhat long drawn for the general reader, is none too elaborate for the public the author has especially in view, the high schools and colleges of Washington itself.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 103. Jl. 29, ’09. 600w.
=Mees, Charles Edward K.=^{[8]} Photography of coloured objects. *50c. Tennant & W.
A guide, for those who have some knowledge of the subject, explaining the theory of color-photography and showing how this theory is applied to the actual operations of the studio.
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“Although the volume is small it deserves an index.”
+ − =Nature.= 80: 489. Je. 24, ’09. 320w. =N. Y. Times.= 14; 454. Jl. 24, ’09. 150w.
=Mehrtens, August Christian.=^{[8]} Gas engine theory and design. $2.50. Wiley.
9–13550.
The following headings indicate the scope of treatment: Principles of operation; Applications; Thermodynamic considerations; Combustion; Fuels; Gas-engine efficiency; Explosive mixtures; Mixing valves and carbureters; Governing; Ignition; Cooling; Exhaust; Selection of type; Determinations of principal dimensions; Forces acting in gas engines; Design and dimensions of parts; Operation; Testing. Complete detailed drawings are then given of a small vertical canoe or boat engine developing about 2–1/2 HP., and of a small horizontal four-cycle gasoline engine of 1/2 HP.—both designed by the author. Tables of the properties of materials, fuels, etc., are included.
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=Engin. D.= 5: 665. Je. ’09. 140w.
“The treatment is everywhere superficial and elementary.” L. S. Marks.
− =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 5. Jl. 15, ’09. 640w.
“In criticism of the book, it may be said that it contains much that is unnecessary in a work of this character, especially matter to be found in chapters relating to design and dimensions of parts and also in the description of the two engines built by the author.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 251. Ag. 28, ’09. 320w.
“There are the inevitable slips of a ‘first edition,’ but they are not numerous. Although the author has attempted to get too much into so small a volume, it must be acknowledged that he has produced a book at once interesting in treatment and clear in language.”
+ − =Nature.= 81: 245. Ag. 26, ’09. 530w.
=Melitz, Leo Leopold.= Opera goers’ complete guide; comprising 299 opera plots with musical numbers and casts; tr. by Richard Salinger. **$1.20. Dodd.
8–37365.
“Instead of telling the story first and following it up with a reference to the principal airs, the author of this volume, who is director of the Stadt-Theater in Basle, always begins by giving the ‘Who’s who’ of each opera, and then tells the story step by step, as it is enacted on the stage.”—Nation.
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“The most complete and up-to-date collection in print.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 106. Ap. ’09.
“An operatic guide book with a difference. In spite of numerous misprints and some errors of translation, the book will be found useful here as it has already been found in Germany.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 147. Jl. 15, ’09. 180w.
“The translator, Richard Salinger, has done his part of the work well.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 47. Ja. 14, ’09. 170w.
“Unfortunately, there are not a few errors in the statement of the plots of more or less importance, some evident misapprehensions on the part of the translator as to the meaning of the text he was translating, and numerous more or less annoying misprints. The book will be of value, because of the great amount of information it contains that is not easily and quickly accessible otherwise.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 119. F. 27, ’09. 230w.
“It is decidedly up-to-date.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 292. F. 6. ’09. 40w.
=Mensch, L. J.=^{[7]} Reinforced concrete pocketbook. $10. Eng. news.
9–13937.
A valuable handbook for one who already has a good knowledge of mechanics and building construction. “Approximately half the book is devoted to building work, but very good tables and their explanations are given for retaining walls of the counterfort type, to round tanks, domes, grain elevators, coal bins, dams, water pipes up to 132 in., diameter for pressure up to 40 lb. per square inch, circular sewers, trolley and transmission poles, chimneys, concrete piles, girder bridges and arches.... A short mathematical discussion is also included concerning the stresses in framed structures due to the monolithic character of properly designed reinforced concrete.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“In its intention and execution, is more nearly like the standard steel handbooks such as are issued by the Cambria and the Carnegie steel companies than any of the others. For those portions of the book which contain the results of routine computation and for the really useful material on estimating and on formwork, we have the greatest commendation. The portion which assumes to give short cuts to what must of necessity be the result of either long experience or tedious computation, we think is dangerous matter to put in the hands of the inexperienced.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 73. Je. 17, ’09. 1050w.
“One of the most serviceable reinforced concrete handbooks from the point of view of the experienced designing engineer. The book deserves little [adverse criticism]. The book is really a valuable addition to the subject, but any one using it must see that the numerous corrections mentioned on page 216 are made throughout the text.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 788. Je. 19, ’09. 450w.
=Meredith, George.=^{[12]} Last poems. *$1.25. Scribner.
9–28254.
In these last poetic utterances of George Meredith “there is nothing which repeats his highest poetic achievement. That was, indeed, to be expected, for the strength for great flights was ebbing when he wrote. But the spirit is untouched, and not only the philosophy remains, but much of the melody which fifty years ago seemed to many the authentic voice of youth and spring.”—Spec.
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“These verses, taken even with the great name they bear, can offer little to posterity. They are not for those who wish to estimate, but for those who have elsewhere learnt to revere and love, their author. We read them for their priceless echoes of a memorable past. [There is] a regrettable laxity in the preparation of a volume which we expected to see produced with the most scrupulous care.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 551. N. 6. 1100w. =Lit. D.= 39: 966. N. 27, ’09. 180w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 701. N. 13, ’09. 150w.
“In this volume, to tell the truth, there is more of the real Meredith than we had anticipated. One or two of the poems are highly characteristic and beautiful examples. We are, therefore, far from being sorry, as we fancied we should be, that the volume has been published.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 4. N. 13, ’09. 670w.
“These last poems show that the voice of the master kept to the end its splendid resonance and his heart its unconquerable youth.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 849. N. 20, ’09. 430w.
=Meredith, H. O.= Outlines of the economic history of England: a study in social development. $2. Pitman.
9–6978.
A concise exposition of the economic history of England from the time of the Saxon invasion down to the present century, with a brief mention in the introduction of the economic development during the Roman occupation.
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“In common with many English text-books it is crowded with facts which are not always sufficiently explained or adequately arranged so as to leave clear-cut and definite impressions on the mind. Occasional summaries at the end of chapters would have been very helpful.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 429. S. ’09. 200w.
“This volume supplies the long-felt want of a manual of economic history at once exact and authoritative in its information, and concise and handy in form.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 260. S. 4. 850w.
“The book does credit to his scholarship. It has, however, pedagogical defects, chief among which is the philosophic discussion in the form of a ‘general survey’ of each period before the facts upon which such general discussion is based have been treated, and a want of concreteness and vividness. It should be added that there are no maps, the bibliography is inadequate, and the index too brief to be of much use.” E. H. Downey.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 478. Jl. ’09. 380w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 148. Mr. 13, ’09. 220w.
“Scholarly and interesting volume.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 638. Ap. 24, ’09. 350w.
=Mero, Everett Bird=, ed. American playgrounds. *$1.50. The Dale association, box 136, Back Bay, Boston.
8–35734.
Concerned with construction, equipment, maintenance and utility of playgrounds. “It explains the police value of the playground; describes games; gives suggestions as to administration, making criticism of the supervision of the playgrounds of certain cities; tells how a playground movement may be started; recounts the history of the organization of public recreation in the United States.” (Outlook.)
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“A useful compilation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 18. Ja. ’09.
“This is one of the rare cases in which a compiled book is really better than one written by a single hand.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 869. Ap. 22, ’09. 260w.
“Throughout, the book shows direct, practical, business-like method.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 645. O. 31, ’08. 250w.
“It is, in fact, a sort of manual on the subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 152. Ja. 23, ’09. 180w.
“Mr. Mero has certainly given us a book containing much practical information.” C. W. Crampton.
+ − =School R.= 17: 647. N. ’09. 350w.
=Merriam, Charles Edward.= Primary elections; a study of the history and tendencies of primary election legislation. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
8–33814.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“It is an indispensable work for reference.” H: J. Ford.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 626. Ap. ’09. 650w.
“The author has done his work well. The book seems to be almost free of errors.” J. H. Reynolds.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 843. My. ’09. 580w.
“The index is inadequate.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 81. Mr. ’09. =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 78. Je. 17, ’09. 300w.
“The great merit of this work is that it is a timely demonstration of the absurdity of the present multiplicity of elective offices.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 21. Ja. 7, ’09. 600w.
“Professor Merriam’s conclusions on the merits of the new system are of the highest practical importance. Professor Merriam has written so clearly, briefly and systematically that an intelligent citizen may secure by an evening’s study a solid grip on one of the pressing political questions of our day while the professed student is inducted into the whole subject of governmental control over party nominations and supplied with guidance for advanced work in the form of an appendix of statutes, digests and bibliography.” C: A. Beard.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 316. Je. ’09. 400w.
“This study of American legislation on the subject should prove extremely useful.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 253. F. ’09. 60w.
“Those who desire the latest and best treatment of the subject should read this little book.” J: H. Perry.
+ =Yale R.= 17: 456. F. ’09. 600w.
=Merrick, George Byron.= Old times on the upper Mississippi: the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863. *$3.50. Clark, A. H.
8–34128.
A book for the general reader no less than student of history. “The author was a pilot on the river for the nine years previous to the war, and besides his own personal recollections he has collected a vast amount of information about the steamboats of the river, the rise and growth of trade, the change and development of its cities.” (Ind.)
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“We know of no better account, from the inside, of steamboating.” J. K. Hosmer.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 595. Ap. ’09. 550w.
“A well proportioned, well written, and vivid account.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 46. F. ’09. + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 495. Ap. 24. 430w.
“The narrative is simple, somewhat monotonous, but the value of the facts still remains.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 378. F. 18, ’09. 90w.
“It is a good book for any one to pick up for a half-hour of recreation, but it is still more than that to any reader who would realize the life of our western rivers a half-century ago.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 36. Jl. 8, ’09. 280w.
“Well-written recollections.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 83. F. 13, ’09. 840w.
“If Captain Merrick had not taken the pains to compile this record many of the facts bearing on the early settlement of those three states might have been lost to the historian.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 509. Ap. ’09. 100w.
=Merwin, Bannister.=^{[6]} Girl and the bill. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–9474.
A tale “of the exciting things that happened to Robert Orme of New York during a two days’ sojourn in Chicago. In the first chapter he sees a girl in an automobile, and buys a new hat, receiving a five dollar bill in his change. These seem simple enough incidents, but they suffice to plunge him straightway into a whirl of adventure. For the girl is the daughter of the Secretary of State, and the bill has directions which reveal the hiding-place of a stolen document—the draft of a treaty between the United States and Germany which must be discovered and signed by midnight of the next day.”—Dial.
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“A light, diverting story of adventure and romance.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 27. S. ’09. ✠
“A breathless tale.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 371. Je. 1, ’09. 270w.
“Out of the whole emerges a very good, readable story, violating probabilities, as it should, but dealing mercifully with sensibilities.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 467. My. 6, ’09. 160w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 216. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w.
=Merwin, Samuel.= Drugging a nation: the story of China and the opium curse: a personal investigation, during an extended tour, of the present conditions of the opium trade in China and its effects upon the nation. **$1. Revell.
8–34255.
A discussion of the opium situation which is of special interest in view of the coming world congress to consider the greatness of the peril and measures for ending it. “Mr. Merwin holds England directly responsible for the introduction of opium into China and believes that so long as India gets $20,000,000 a year from the opium traffic England will stand in the way of China’s attempt to reform herself.” (Ind.)
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+ =Ind.= 66: 325. F. 11, ’09. 160w.
“An unusually frank statement of facts, made after a searching investigation into both the literature of the subject and actual conditions in China, may be found in the book of Mr. Merwin.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 633. Je. 24, ’09. 150w.
“The most interesting portions of the book are the author’s personal opinions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 115. F. 27, ’09. 260w.
=Merz, Heinrich.=^{[9]} Louise, queen of Prussia; tr. by G: P. Upton. **60c. McClurg.
9–23798.
A story of the sufferings and fortitude of Queen Louise of Prussia. Her love of husband, children and country commend her to all who admire purity, truth and devotion.
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“It must surely be a favorite with those children whose hearts are tender and sympathies keen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 677. O. 30, ’09. 60w.
=Metour, Eugene Paul.=^{[6]} In the wake of the Green banner. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–12620.
A swiftly moving tale of the French occupation of Algeria written by one who knows every inch of his ground, the entire structure of Moslem society, and the tricks and traits of the Berber tribes among whose strongholds beyond the Atlas range the main action of the story takes place. Among the characters introduced are a French general, his daughter, her American cousin who is a painter, a Circassian girl, and a Corsican captain with a capacity for valorous deeds commensurate with his love for glory.
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“It is distinctly exasperating to see how easily, with a little knowledge of technique he might have raised this uncommon volume from the second to the first rank.” F: T. Cooper.
− + =Bookmn.= 29: 522. Jl. ’09. 680w.
“Vivid in coloring and brilliant in description, it is the work of a writer who has first-hand knowledge of his subject—knows it, in fact, almost too well for the reader’s comfort, who would like to have the political situation more fully explained, and who is in danger of much bewilderment at the strange local vocabulary. It is weak in its delineation of these characters.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 181. S. 16, ’09. 250w. + − =Ind.= 66: 1344. Je. 17, ’09. 30w.
“The writer evidently has still to learn that a good story is not to be constructed entirely of local color and tumultuous action.”
− =Nation.= 89: 57. Jl. 15, ’09. 150w.
“Is noteworthy because of the intensity of its local coloring. Sometimes a little less attention to detail and a little more swiftness and vividness of movement would have given the same result without the little touch of tedium that, as it is, sometimes mars the pages.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 320. My. 22, ’09. 280w.
=Meyer, Arnold.=^{[9]} Jesus or Paul? tr. by Rev. J. R. Wilkinson. (Harper’s lib. of living thought.) **75c. Harper.
Who was the founder of Christianity, Christ or Paul? This question is dealt with in a religious spirit, while the method employed “is that of a scientific historian who brings the clear, cold light of criticism to bear upon the records of past events, who will not suffer any spiritual interpretation of those events to affect his judgment of the way in which they actually occurred.” “Jesus was the founder of Christianity; for in His Personality God is manifested to us as the object of our adoring worship. He did not ask, nor could He as true Man think of asking, that men should worship Him; He could only call upon men to follow Him. It was St. Paul, who above all others, first expressed the inmost heart of believers as they gaze upon the earthly life of the Master.”
=Meynell, Everard.=^{[10]} Corot and his friends. **$3.25. Wessels.
The usual course of popular biography is followed in this life of Corot thru the first trying years, among which are the inevitably weary ones of apprenticeship on to the developing of definite individuality, and to the period of recognition and success. From the climax of Corot’s fame down the gentler slope to old age, there are word portraits offered of a painter still zealous, still turning out robust work, but including, in his day’s paraphernalia “a hot-water bottle and a young woman with an umbrella.” The expository tone of the book is pleasantly relieved by the living atmosphere that the author creates.
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“The text is entertaining but desultory, the editing careless, the illustrations revelations of the variety of Corot’s work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 121. D. ’09.
“An agreeable and interesting book, if not one of high importance.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 244. Ag. 28. 170w.
“He has brought together all that the desultory student of art history needs to know of this French painter.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 512. D. 16, ’09. 240w.
“A very readable volume, although it must be admitted that some of the anecdotes related are very trivial. The illustrations leave much to be desired.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 36: 164. D. ’08. 200w.
“Is in its way a remarkable piece of bookmaking; few have succeeded in producing so large a volume with so very little in it. It is agreeably enough written, in a fluttering, touch and go, allusive manner, but all it really tells us about Corot might be put in two of its three hundred octavo pages.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 366. O. 14, ’09. 230w.
“For the first time, so far as we know, a complete and adequate biography of the great French painter Corot has been published.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 637. N. ’09. 110w.
“Without any depth of artistic criticism, the book is enjoyable from the picture it gives of the radiant nature of the great painter.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 668. Ap. 24, ’09. 80w.
=Michaelis, Adolf Theodor F.= Century of archæological discoveries; tr. by Bettina Kahnweiler; preface by Percy Gardner. *$4. Dutton.
9–3353.
“A survey of archæological exploration and progress through the area of the undivided Roman empire and its borderlands, and through the period which begins with Napoleon and Lord Elgin and ends with Dr. Evans at Cnossos and the British school at Sparta.”—Sat. R.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 19. S. ’09.
“Probably no man in Europe or America is so well able to form a just judgment of the whole field of classical art, and of what the workers are doing from Dan to Beersheba.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 919. Ap. 29, ’09. 430w. + =Int. Studio.= 37: 170. Ap. ’09. 110w.
“The picture is necessarily sketchy; yet, considering the size of the volume, it is very comprehensive, because not only have the actual finds been recorded, but the more important discoveries in the examination of the material have been noted, so that the achievements of the scholar as well as those of the explorer have been embodied. The chief criticism is that the work is a little one-sided. A few additions would remedy this defect, and it is to be hoped that in a future edition this amendment will be made.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 471. My. 6, ’09. 650w.
“For the student of classical art the volume is of prime interest, since it gives so general a glimpse of the whole field as well as many items regarding the specific work which has been accomplished. The translation is good, and the frank preface of Prof. Gardner is most commendable and helpful.” C: R. Gillett.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 61. Ja. 30, ’09. 1050w.
“Within its limitations, which certainly should have been indicated by the title, it is a distinctly valuable book.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 864. Ap. 17, ’09. 310w.
“The reader can only admire the breadth of knowledge which enables a man to write such a volume single-handed. Professor Michaelis knows nothing of exploration in Cyprus since 1888, or of the progress at the British museum since 1874. Where the author took part in the events described the personal touch gives life to the narrative. Elsewhere the necessity of brevity makes it somewhat jejune.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 182. F. 6, ’09. 220w.
=Michelson, Miriam.=^{[6]} Michael Thwaite’s wife. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–15091.
A story of clever invention based upon a situation that seems impossible to real life. Michael Thwaites, a famous surgeon trained to hard work, loses his heart and, as his close friends thought, his head too when he falls in love with a bewitching minx of a girl whom he had known almost from her babyhood. The young wife’s indiscretions are bravely assumed by her twin sister, Therese, who resembled her so closely that nearest friends were unable to tell them apart. Finally Beatrix, the wilful, elopes, and Therese upon rallying from an illness finds that her friends and even the husband believe that it is she who has run away and they take her for Beatrix. The decalog offers no authority for Therese’s solution of her problem.
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“If the last third of this novel were rewritten, drawn together with a tenser construction, composed with a better balance of background and central figures, it would easily be pronounced one of the best books of the summer.” G. I. Colbron.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 63. S. ’09. 770w.
“Unfortunately, Miss Michelson seems to have taken her plot too seriously. At different times she tries to write like George Eliot, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Robert Herrick, and Frank Norris, when she should have consistently tried to write like Robert W. Chambers.”
− =Nation.= 89: 142. Ag. 12, ’09. 210w.
“Is in its way quite interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 130w.
=Mifflin, Lloyd.= Toward the uplands: later poems. *$2. Oxford.
8–36785.
Libraries would do well to encourage the reading of the sort of verse that Mifflin writes. This volume, including sonnets mainly, justifies the author’s hope that yet he may accomplish the writing of at least one sonnet that shall have no defect. To the gifts of the poet, generously bestowed, has been added a broad sense of proportion pertaining not only to literary form but to the essentials of life. One is sensitive with him to the
“... javelins in the quivering soul From onset of the worldly powers.”
“One rejoices in his faith that men of integrity are the country’s hope; and one experiences with delight the delicacy of his nature impressions.”
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“From Mr. Mifflin’s sonnets it is difficult to make a selection, so many and deserving are the claimants for distinction.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 100. Ag. 16, ’09. 350w.
=Mighels, Ella S. (Mrs. Philip Verrill Mighels).=^{[5]} Full glory of Diantha: a novel of New York life. $1.50. Forbes.
9–15516.
A story in which the heroine, a New York bookkeeper, refuses to marry the junior partner of the firm employing her only because her wooer is not the elemental man of her dreams. She accepts a position in a western mining camp, finds her primitive man, loves him, and later learns that the rudimentary strength of the hero is so crude that he lacks the refining interest in his species upon which all social intercourse is based. A continual clash of wills finally terminates relations between them and Diantha turns to the man, strong of spirit, who had suffered and triumphed for her sake.
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“The narrative is too delightfully absurd to be dismissed as inane by the catholic reader.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 238. S. 9, ’09. 280w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 406. Je. 26, ’09. 350w.
=Mikkelsen, Ejnar.=^{[10]} Conquering the Arctic ice. *$3.50. Jacobs.
9–18568.
“The work of what was known as the Anglo-American polar expedition of 1906–7 is described in detail in this volume recently completed by Ejnar Mikkelsen, the young Danish explorer, who in company with Ernest de Koven Leffingwell, of Illinois, headed the expedition. Although their ship, the ‘Duchess of Bedford,’ was lost in the ice, these young men succeeded in mapping the northern coast of Alaska and acquired much useful knowledge of that region, although their ‘farthest north’ was only the seventy-second parallel, which of course does not entitle them to rank with the polar discoverers.”—R. of Rs.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 121. D. ’09.
“Few books in the now imposing mass of Arctic literature contain more varied matter; none certainly are written with more modesty, or with a greater gift of relating adventure in simple, yet graphic fashion.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 320. Mr. 13. 1200w.
“His story is simply and modestly told, and will be read with interest especially for its account of the natives whose characters and customs he had abundant opportunities to study.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 233. O. 1, ’09. 330w. + =Ind.= 67: 1266. D. 2, ’09. 550w.
“A more interesting account of the adventurous and self-sacrificing life of the Arctic explorer, it would be difficult to find. Two slight errors have been noted—Collingson for Collinson and Serah for Sherard Osborn. It is to be regretted that there was not a better map showing the route of the expedition.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 327. O. 7, ’09. 1300w.
“His story of this great overland trip and of the course of events that preceded it is very well told in his book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 611. O. 16. ’09. 220w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 511. O. ’09. 220w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 433. Ap. 3, ’09. 370w.
“Altogether, it is a delightful book, full of valuable geographical data, and written with an engaging frankness and unflagging high spirits.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 502. Mr. 27, ’09. 950w.
=Milham, Willis Isbister.=^{[7]} How to identify the stars. 75c. Macmillan.
9–16994.
A little handbook, scientific in method and material, which gives constellation tracings and descriptive matter necessary for locating the more conspicuous stars and star groups.
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“For popular reading Martin’s ‘Friendly stars’ or either of Serviss’ works is preferable.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 46. O. ’09.
“To those visionary souls who still take pleasure in naming the constellations we recommend a little book.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 147. Ag. 12, ’09. 20w.
“The special value of the book consists in the fact that these magnitudes are according to the measurements made at the Harvard observatory. For this reason alone the book is invaluable to students of this particular branch of astronomy, while for the popular reader it is a guide to the best literature on the subject.” Mary Proctor.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 539. S. 11, ’09. 1200w.
=Millard, Columbus Norman.= Wonderful house that Jack has: a reader in practical physiology and hygiene, for use in school and home. *50c. Macmillan.
8–19602.
A book for children which “endeavours to convey, without difficult technicalities, all the main points of the physiology of the body—the building of it up from food materials, digestion, the stomach, milk, animal foods, food habits, breathing habits, stimulus, clothing, eyesight, hearing, rest and sleep, infectious diseases, &c.”—Nature.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 31. Ja. ’09.
“It is a valuable contribution to this field of instruction.” J. A. Norris.
+ =El. School T.= 10: 151. N. ’09. 500w.
“The expositions are very simple and attractive. The book may be thoroughly recommended as a good class book.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 307. Ja. 14, ’09. 110w.
“The best book on the subject, both for the school and the home, that the present writer has met with.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 978. D. 26, ’08. 160w.
=Millard, Thomas F. F.=^{[6]} America and the Far Eastern question. **$4. Moffat.
9–10628.
An examination of modern phases of the Far Eastern question, including the new activities and policy of Japan, the situation of China, and the relation of the United States of America to the problems involved. “Broadly speaking, the subject matter of Mr. Millard’s work may be divided into the following five sections: Japan’s foreign relation and internal conditions; Japan in Korea; Japan in Manchuria; the China of to-day, and America in the Philippines.” (N. Y. Times.) “The thirteen appendices containing the texts of treaties and other papers from the treaty of Portsmouth to the Root-Takahira notes, add to the value of the book.” (Dial.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 19. S. ’09.
“The student of international affairs cannot afford to neglect this work.” C. L. Jones.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 196. Jl. ’09. 480w. =Ath.= 1909, 2: 621. N. 20. 320w.
“As the latest study of Far Eastern politics, Mr. Millard’s book should be read by all who desire to follow recent developments there, and even if they question the opinions advanced from time to time they cannot fail to enjoy the treaty-port gossip which enlivens the pages. It is always enjoyable, but rarely convincing.” P. J. Treat.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 324. My. 16, ’09. 1250w. =Ind.= 67: 198. Jl. 22, ’09. 260w.
“In its nature and its attitude toward Japan the book closely resembles B. L. Putnam Weale’s (Mr. Simpson’s) ‘The coming struggle in eastern Asia,’ which appeared last spring. As an argumentative writer Mr. Millard possesses remarkable ability. True, he hazards many a generalization, which, to be convincing, ought to be supported by more substantial facts than are set forth in his book; yet his ardor, his straightforwardness, his fearlessness in facing the logic of his conclusions, make his assertions singularly appealing.” K. K. Kawakami.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 273. My. 1, 09. 1150w.
=Miller, Alice Duer (Mrs. Henry W. Miller).=^{[6]} Less than kin. †$1.25. Holt.
9–14451.
An entertaining story with an ingenious situation. Vickers, a young man who had fled to South America under the cloud of a crime, sees the opportunity to return when a fellow countryman dies whom he resembles and who during his twelve years has been importuned by an aged father to come home. Vickers slips into Lee’s shoes and is received as the long lost prodigal, but finds, not at all to his liking, that in assuming Lee’s identity a most unsavory reputation goes with it. How he took the dilemma by the horns and even won an obdurate maiden is interestingly told.
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“Cleverly constructed story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 27. S. ’09. ✠
“The story is witty, terse, and swift. For a narrative so light, bent purely at amusement, the characterization is surprisingly sharp and vivacious.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 186. Ag. 26, ’09. 200w.
“The situations are developed with humor and cleverness, and the reader’s interest is held to the dénoument.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 398. Je. 26, ’09. 200w.
=Miller, Irving Elgar.=^{[8]} Psychology of thinking. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–10500.
“The book is a text, and persistently holds to the impression of the student with the data and the procedure of the useful thought processes. It tells him what functional value thinking has in the organic scheme; what its connections are with the nervous substrata; what its dependence upon the sensory stream of experience and upon the motor channels of expression; it follows the elaboration of the simpler experiences into the more involved perceptive and imaginative and conceptual fields; and it relates the process to the logical standards of the product in sound reasoning. It sets the whole presentation in an educational frame.”—Dial.
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“His treatment, though germane and adequate to his purpose, yet in no marked degree rises above the conventional and uninspiring presentation of a topic of vital interest.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 51. Jl. 16, ’09. 180w. + =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 80w.
“It is a book for teachers and schoolmen, and for them, perhaps, too elementary, too consciously modeled on other well-known psychologies.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 330w.
=Miller, James Russell.=^{[8]} Bethlehem to Olivet. **$1.50. Crowell.
A life of Christ illustrated by modern painters. Thirty full page reproductions beginning with Henry Lerolle’s “Arrival of the shepherds” and ending with Van Liphart’s “Ascension” are accompanied by brief chapters that follow the life from the manger to the ascension.
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“Dr. Miller has presupposed on his reader’s part a knowledge of the facts of the Bible narrative, and, using them merely as points of departure, brings out the message of each incident for the world of to-day.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 466. D. 1, ’09. 100w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 67: 1353. D. 16, ’09. 70w.
=Miller, Kelly.= Race adjustment: essays on the negro in America. *$2. Neale.
8–24845.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 81. Mr. ’09.
“It makes no pretense at continuity of treatment nor have the repetitions been eliminated. The striking characteristic of the book is its poise and dignity. I consider the book one of the most important yet written by a negro. In a chapter on ‘Roosevelt and the negro’ alone it seems to me the author loses his balance and fails to understand at all the significance of events.” Carl Kelsey.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 212. Ja. ’09. 420w.
“There is no book which more fully and correctly represents the wishes and demands for equal recognition in civil and political rights than does this volume.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 327. F. 11, ’09. 150w. + =Nation.= 88: 91. Ja. 28, ’09. 850w.
“Throws a useful sidelight on the field Mr. Stone has so carefully surveyed. It is all very picturesque reading and excellent things are said from time to time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 16. Ja. 9, ’09. 200w.
=Miller, Peyton Farrell.= Story of Robert Fulton. $1. Peyton F. Miller, Hudson, N. Y.
8–33932.
One of the publications which this year of the Fulton celebration in New York is calling forth. “We are made to feel anew by this author the jovial and genial character of his hero, again we appreciate his pertinacity and steady temper, and again we rejoice in his successes. Fulton was a man whom we all love to honor more for his healthy, sanguine vigor than even for his inventive genius. As an example to our American youth, it is difficult to find one more sturdy.” (Ind.)
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“A little book of a hundred-odd pages, more brightly and personally written than the others.”
+ =Ind.= 68: 378. F. 18, ’09. 100w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 509. Ap. ’09. 60w.
=Miller, Roman John.=^{[11]} Around the world with the battleships. †$1.25. McClurg.
9–27395.
A first-hand account of the voyage that the battleship fleet made around the world in which are given in detail descriptions of the intricacies of the modern battleship, an account of the daily lives and amusements of the sailors and graphic portrayals of enthusiastic welcomes, thruout the entire course of which may be detected the upholding of a fine spirit of patriotism and loyalty to the flag which furnishes reason enough for the disciplines and hardships of a naval life.
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“The publishers were unwise in reproducing the pictures in such inartistic manner.” M. J. Moses.
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1367. D. 16, ’09. 40w.
“Will have attraction for the boy reader. Mr. Miller, frank and genial, shows his inexperience with the pen.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 1020. D. 4, ’09. 120w.
“The text is fragmentary, but none the less full of incident and instruction. The ‘make-up’ of the book is startlingly gaudy.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
“The views of the parades are fine enough to make all good Americans feel exceedingly proud of their representatives who were sent abroad.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 785. D. 11, ’09. 150w.
=Miller, Rev. William.= Latins in the Levant: a history of Frankish Greece (1204–1566). *$5. Dutton.
8–33802.
A history of the Latin states which were established in Greece and Greek islands as the result of the fourth crusade. “Mr. Miller discovered the secret that, if the stories of Corfu and the Duchy of Naxos were told separately, the histories of the other states could be wrought into a connected narrative, in which the main interest is concentrated on Achaia and Athens. The fortunes of Athens and the Peloponnesus have been related in greater detail by Gregorovius in his ‘Geschichte der stadt Athen im mittelalter,’ and Sir Rennell Rodd in his attractive book ‘The princes of Achaia’; but Mr. Miller’s concise narrative represents the fruits of a wider study of special literature.” (Ath.)
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“Of few historical books can it be said more unreservedly that the work is excellent throughout than of this history of mediæval Greece under Latin rule.”
+ + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 94. Ja. 23. 1200w.
“May be commended to the student or the exceptionally earnest traveller. Mr. Miller writes clearly and succinctly; but he does not exhibit the final grace of style that might carry the general reader through the inevitable details of a painstaking history treating of countless and ephemeral petty dynasties.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 117. F. 16, ’09. 300w.
“What one misses most in Mr. Miller’s book is a consideration of the connexion between the events which he records so well and the wider issues of European politics. No living student has more thoroughly mastered the details of the period. The work is as trustworthy and solid as it is clear and pleasant to read.” J. B. Bury.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 135. Ja. ’09. 1050w.
“It is not often that a work of such importance as this swings into our ken. It is perhaps unfortunate that the last words of the author should be a dig at ‘the stern classicist.’”
+ + − =Ind.= 66: 99. Ja. 14, ’09. 1300w.
“As a book of reference Mr. Miller’s work has a value which will not be soon impaired. It is also another striking evidence of the truth of the ‘dictum’ that knowledge and industry do not suffice to make an historian.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 307. S. 30, ’09. 650w.
“It is a confused and crowded period, and it required no small skill to construct a clear and concise narrative such as Mr. Miller has given us.” W: A. Bradley.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 94. F. 20, ’09. 760w.
“Mr. Miller covers more ground than Sir Rennell Rodd.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 702. D. 5, ’08. 1100w.
“In spite of the masses of detail which have been assimilated, the book is so readable, and the interest of the general narrative is so well sustained, that only those who have studied this obscure and intricately complex bypath of history can appreciate how difficult the work of compression must have been, and how ably these difficulties have been overcome by his clear and sequent exposition of the rapid transformations which took place in scenes once so familiar with a very different cast of actors.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 343. F. 27, ’09. 1250w.
=Mills, Enos Abijah.= Wild life on the Rockies. **$1.75. Houghton.
9–8919.
The explorations, adventures, observations and impressions of a government experiment officer in the wilds of Colorado. A sturdy mountaineer, a calm philosopher, a great nature-lover, the author writes of winter excursions, mountain climbing, furred and feathered life, of rocks and trees, all with a love and reverence for unsullied, primeval grandeur. The work is fittingly illustrated and is dedicated to John Muir.
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“Of slight value but considerable interest; too expensive for the small library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 142. My. ’09.
“There is something very genuine in the manner of Mr. Mills’s writing about nature. Perhaps he strains the point a bit at times.” G: Gladden.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 545. Jl. ’09. 480w.
“It is a delightful book on its own account, but its chief charm is in the revelation of the author’s personality.” M. E. Cook.
+ =Dial.= 46: 363. Je. 1, ’09. 350w.
“He delights in recalling the perilous moments of his life, and the graphic stories he tells about them are among the finest things in his book. The chapter in which the wisdom and accomplishments of Scotch are portrayed will give great pleasure to every one of Mr. Mills’s readers who rates himself a dog lover.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 257. Ap. 24, ’09. 740w.
“He knows his territory thoroughly.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 638. My. ’09. 30w.
=Milman, Lena.= Sir Christopher Wren. (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
9–5218.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 19. S. ’09.
“Miss Milman, though critically sound as a rule, does not write exactly from an architect’s point of view. The Index is so incomplete as to be virtually useless. The volume is throughout well written and full of interest, and especially good in its presentment of the central figure in relation to the contemporary social and religious conditions.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 415. Ap. 3. 700w.
“This latest life of Wren is one of the best that has been written. It is both narrative and critical.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 598. O. 24, ’08. 180w.
“We could have wished for rather more technical information and fewer generalities.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 22. Ja. 2, ’09. 450w.
=Milmine, Georgine.=^{[12]} Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the history of Christian science. **$2. Doubleday.
9–29857.
A history of Mrs. Eddy and the Christian science movement that was published serially in McClure’s magazine during 1907–1908.
=Ming, John Joseph.=^{[11]} Morality of modern socialism. *$1.50. Benziger.
9–26447.
Aims to throw light on the bearings of socialistic ethics upon the state, the family and the church.
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“Like all polemic treatments of such subjects, the book bases its charges on very small inductions.” Joseph Jacobs.
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 743. N. 27, ’09. 90w.
=Misawa, Tadasu.=^{[7]} Modern educators and their ideals. **$1.25. Appleton.
9–8594.
“Dr. Tadasu Misawa, in the compass of three hundred pages, sets forth, forcibly, clearly, and developmentally, the problems of modern educators and their ideals. He begins with Comenius and ends with Dr. Harris and President Hall. The survey is of educational ideals, not of methods or measures or institutions, and keeps consistently to the task. The contrasts and individualities of the thinkers are well handled; and the reader takes away the very vital impression that the systems presented grew out of much the same sets of intellectual problems through the increasing purpose of the ages.”—Dial.
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“The selection of materials and method of presentation are good, and it will have some value to students as a supplement to the general histories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 175. Je. ’09.
“The work is concise and commendable.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 300. My. 1, ’09. 150w. =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 20w.
“It is an interesting, interpretive book, and for those who do not wish to read each man’s work in the original, this is a good substitute.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 523. S. 4, ’09. 100w.
=Mitchell, Edward Bedinger.=^{[8]} Shadow of the Crescent. $1.25. Stokes.
9–17586.
“A breakneck and breathless story of a lost ward—a beautiful and mysterious girl—and the adventures into which her guardian fell on account of her.”—N. Y. Times.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 250w.
“Very interesting reading.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 253. Ag. ’09. 50w.
=Mitchell, Hinckley Gilbert.=^{[10]} Genesis. (Bible for home and school.) *90c. Macmillan.
9–26821.
One of the two recent additions to Shaler Mathews’ useful series. In keeping with the purpose of the series this volume places the results of the best modern scholarship on the subject of Genesis at the disposal of the general reader.
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“The notes are just such as the layman needs, illuminating and helpful. With this book in hand, any man can find out for himself the meaning and character of the Book of Genesis.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 429. D. ’09. 100w.
“He assumes the critical position as distinct from the traditionary, according to which the whole book was written by Moses and is of uniform authority. This principle being accepted, the work seems to have been done in a moderate and reasonable way.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 954. D. 4, ’09. 210w.
=Mitchell, John Kearsley.= Self help for nervous women: familiar talks on economy in nervous expenditure. **$1. Lippincott.
9–3555.
Matters purely medical are avoided in this counsel which seeks its audience among sufferers from nervous disorders and their families and friends. Its aim is to teach them the best way to help, control, comfort and even cure patients.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 142. My. ’09. ✠
“The instruction, which deals largely with the economies of nervous expenditure is really good and well suited to help those for whom it is intended.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 82. Jl. 22, ’09. 220w.
“Dr. Mitchell, who is the son of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, in making a specialty of nervous diseases, is following in the medical footsteps of his famous father, while the lucid, compact, and forceful manner in which he expresses his ideas shows that he has inherited also something of the literary ability.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 176. Mr. 27, ’09. 420w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 639. N. ’09. 30w.
=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Venture in 1777. †$1.25. Jacobs.
8–28999.
A story of the winter of 1777 which tells how a Philadelphia boy got possession of a British officer’s map of the forts in and about the city, and rushed it to General Washington’s camp.
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“Charming short story. Too expensive for the small library.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 96. Mr. ’09.
“To read it should be a Christmas pleasure for patriots, mischievous boys, and lovers of both.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 606. D. 17, ’08. 100w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 122. Ja. ’09. 50w.
=Moffett, Cleveland.=^{[7]} Battle. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–13430.
A novelization of the author’s play “The battle” which since December, 1908, has run so successfully and has aroused so much socialistic comment. The story is concerned with the adventures of the richest man in America who, under an assumed name, goes into the slums to win his lost son.
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=Nation.= 89: 122. Ag. 5, ’09. 400w.
“While the novel bears all the ear marks of having been adapted from a play, its theme is sufficiently interesting to raise it above others of its class.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 387. Je. 19, ’09. 140w.
“A good example of that strange mongrel, the ‘novelized play.’” H. W. Boynton.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 633. O. 23, ’09. 90w.
=Moffett, Cleveland.=^{[11]} Through the wall. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–28041.
A clever Parisian detective is pitted against a clever criminal throughout this story. A murder done in a private room of a hotel leads to the arrest of a young American who is in love with a beautiful girl who sells candles in a church. The detective, who saves him after a series of remarkable happenings, hounds the real criminal and finds him to be the stepfather of this girl who is really an heiress but has lost her identity and memory in a fire in which the villain let her mother burn. The inventive genius of the author is taxed to the utmost in devising moves and counter moves. Various new psychological methods are tried on the criminal, and he is also shown moving pictures of the crime, but his wits are too sharp until, in the end, he outwits himself, and the girl is restored in mind and fortune and marries the accused American.
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“A first class detective and mystery story, the interest of which never flags from start to finish.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 134. D. ’09. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 721. N. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Molière, Jean B. P.= A new translation of the verse plays being for the first time rendered into English verse, by Curtis Hidden Page; with an introd. by Brander Matthews. (French classes for English readers, no. 3.) 2v. *$5. Putnam.
8–19168
Includes: The affected misses, Don Juan, Tartuffe, The misanthrope, The doctor by compulsion, The miser, The tradesman turned gentleman, The learned ladies.
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“Still, in spite of occasional lapses, Professor Page’s work is a credit at once to his erudition and to his skill as a writer of English. To him all credit is due for an arduous task skilfully performed.” H. C. Chatfield-Taylor.
+ + − =Dial.= 46: 78. F. 1, ’09. 1600w.
“Professor Matthews’ introduction is marked by all his wealth of knowledge and charm of style. Professor Page’s renderings of the French dramatist are both skilful and agreeable.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 99. Ja. ’09. 80w.
“Molière is very satisfactorily presented to modern English readers in the two volumes. Prof. Page makes good use of the metre he has selected and arrives at a rendering of the spirit, the humor, and the gayety of Molière for which English readers may be grateful. The prose plays are hardly as successful, I think, as those in verse. They do not move as easily and continuously. But this does not imply that the prose translation is inferior in fidelity to the verse.” E: Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 728. D. 5, ’08. 1650w. + =Sat. R.= 106: 492. O. 17, ’08. 180w.
=Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald.= Victoria regina: her court and her subjects. 2v. *$6.50. Dodd.
9–5192.
A history of Queen Victoria and her times from her accession to the death of the Prince Consort in 1862. “We get a sketchy survey of Victorian literature, but no attempt to summarize the results of scientific research, which rendered the reign illustrious. The bulk of the book may be not unfairly described as expanded Court circular, supplemented by correspondence derived from familiar sources.” (Ath.)
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“Readable and gossipy, but devoid of critical insight, and lacking in balance. Politics are handled in a perfunctory manner, and various statesmen receive considerably less than their due.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 364. S. 26. 220w. =Nation.= 88: 17. Ja. 7, ’09. 120w.
“Mr. Molloy’s work is so planned that it undoubtedly will be found very useful to those who need a history of the Victorian age that will tell them as simply and as briefly as possible what went on in England in that very interesting period.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 799. D. 26, ’08. 670w.
“Mr. Molloy makes a good use of his opportunity. Readers will find [three chapters given to the literary history of the period] written with considerable skill, though they will scarcely agree with all Mr. Molloy’s judgments.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 338. S. 5, ’08. 440w.
=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.
8–5355.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The solidity and usefulness of the work is beyond dispute, but no reader, overwhelmed with the accumulation of details, will fail to ask himself whether a little more self-repression would not have produced a pleasanter result.” Ferdinand Schevill.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 576. Ap. ’09. 550w.
“He does for the Venetians what Green and Traill did for the English people, and Burckhardt for the Italians of the renaissance, and by his success he demonstrates afresh that the intimate life, the habits, work, and play of human beings, have a perpetual fascination.” W: R. Thayer.
+ + =Atlan.= 103: 832. Je. ’09. 3800w. (Review of pts. 1–3.)
“After all possible points of adverse criticism have been urged, the fact remains that in no other work is the student of Italian society likely to find so clear, vivid, and exhaustive a discussion of Venetian life, both public and private, as in these six volumes by Professor Molmenti.”
+ + − =Dial.= 46: 22. Ja. 1, ’09. 470w.
“The Molmenti work abounds in pictures illuminating the text, but the text itself is not so much a clear and consecutive story of the memorable deeds of the Republic’s declining days as it is a thesaurus of illustrative detail of its arts, its commerce, costumes, every-day glitter and show of life.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 1139. My. 27, ’09. 500w.
“A work that is a monument of erudition and patient research.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 83. Mr. ’09. 240w.
“This work deserves to have a permanent place among the social chronicles of Italy. The great variety of its subjects, the well-chosen illustrations, and Mr. Brown’s fluent translation will commend it to English-speaking readers, for whom the charm of Venice never grows cold.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 118. F. 4, ’09. 600w.
“In the chapters enumerated the reader becomes his own historian. And for him as well as for the dramatist, novelist, and student of arts and customs they are a perfect mine of information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 600w.
“We have only one regret; it is that, for some unexplained reason, Mr. Brown has not translated the large number of original authorities quoted by the author, so that the text is strewn with considerable portions of untranslated Italian.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 308. F. 20, ’09. 550w.
=Moncrieff, Ascott Robert Hope.=^{[11]} Heart of Scotland. *$3. Macmillan.
W9–198.
“The ‘Heart of Scotland,’ it should be understood, is Perthshire; it is not undeserving of the name, for all that is of the best in the country may be seen in sample there,—mountains, valleys, salmon and trout streams and lochs, picturesque towns, and great historical associations. Pen and pencil are happily combined to do justice to this fine theme. Mr. Palmer’s pictures are well varied, and Mr. Moncrieff mingles the serious and gay with equal success. It was a happy thought to follow the two earlier volumes, ‘Bonnie Scotland’ and ‘Highlands and islands,’ by a third, not inferior, to say the least, to its predecessors.”—Spec.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 46. O. ’09.
“A good book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 792. Je. 19, ’09. 40w.
“This is a very handsome volume, good to look at and good to read.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 493. O. 2, ’09. 120w.
=Moncrieff, Ascott Robert Hope.= Isle of Wight; described by A. R. Hope Moncrieff; il. in color by A. Heaton Cooper. (Colour book ser.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
9–5689.
Depicts the beauties of this historic island and connects with it men and women prominent in English life and letters who have made it a favorite summer home.
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“The book is satisfactory.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1180. N. 19, ’08. 50w.
“The narrative bears the respectable and unexciting character that one would expect. The colored illustrations are vigorous and interesting.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 652. O. 31, ’08. 70w.
=Monroe, Mrs. Harriet Earhart.=^{[11]} Washington: its sights and insights; new and rev. ed., **$1. Funk.
9–26652.
A new and revised edition of a guide book glorified by a bright, lively personality. Mrs. Monroe teaches history, and interprets the meanings of movements and institutions the while the tourist is gaining an outline notion of the architectural construction.
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“Makes available again an informing, well-written guide to the national capital.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1045. N. 4, ’09. 100w.
“It is something more than an ordinary guide-book both in text and in illustrations.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 636. O. 16, ’09. 80w.
=Monroe, Will Seymour.= In viking land: Norway, its people, its fjords and its fjelds. $3. Page.
8–30604.
A survey of the social, economic and political condition of Norway of to-day; a description of its scenery and domestic life; and a brief account of the new king and methods and policies of administering the affairs of this “most democratic country in the world.”
* * * * *
“More entertaining and more attractive in form than Willson’s ‘Norway at home.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 20. S. ’09. ✠
“There are signs that many of the descriptions, both of scenery and people, are at second hand. Though inferior to Mr. Wilson’s ‘Norway at home’ in its survey of Norse institutions in social life, it gives a better account than that book of the arts and the natural features of the country.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 614. My. 22. 620w.
“An unusually attractive book of travel.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 100. Ja. ’09. 50w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1462. D. 17, ’08. 70w.
“The volume serves its purpose very well.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 90. Ja. 28, ’09. 180w.
“W. S. Monroe has found much that is interesting, and sets it forth tersely and well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 755. D. 5, ’08. 80w.
“The volume will be found to be full of interest.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 1108. D. 26, ’08. 300w.
=Monroe, Will Seymour.=^{[11]} Sicily, the garden of the Mediterranean; the history, people, institutions and geography of the island. (Travel lovers’ ser.) $3. Page.
9–21276.
“Seems to touch upon everything from the voyage of Ulysses to the earthquake of Messina, finally adding an annotated list of other books about Sicily in four languages. The author recommends winter as the best time for a tour of the island and discourages walking, cycling and automobiling on account of bad roads and bandits. An unusual feature of the work is the attention given to recent Sicilian writers, musicians and artists about whom most of us know nothing.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“Comprehensive but not particularly entertaining.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 46. O. ’09.
“A sober and sympathetic account of the island.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 824. O. 7, ’09. 110w.
“In no sense a guide-book, it will serve to fill out Baedeker’s excessively skeletonized treatment of Sicily. There are trifling blemishes in a work generally accurate and useful. For a lack of literary distinction no one need criticise Mr. Monroe. He effects what he sets out to do—a sober, well-balanced survey of a complicated subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 461. N. 11, ’09. 400w.
“Mr. Monroe’s ‘Sicily’ is put together in a very businesslike manner. Any one who reads it through and contrives to retain in his memory a reasonable proportion of its contents will have a good working knowledge of the past and present of the island.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 950. D. 4, ’09. 540w.
=Montague, Margaret Prescott.= In Calvert’s valley. †$1.50. Baker.
8–31465.
A story of the West Virginia mountains in which a young business man is led to believe that in a state of intoxication he pushed a man over a cliff to his death, and a young woman is convinced that her rejection of the unfortunate man’s suit caused him to become a suicide. The suspense of these prisoners of conscience, their love for each other, and the final revelations that clear up the mystery are the principal elements in the story.
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“While interesting is not over-exciting and has some good bits of humor and sentiment.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 26. Ja. ’09. ✠
“The whole story is conscientious rather than brilliant, but it sustains a reasonable degree of interest throughout, and is clearly the product of close observation of the mountain folk and the mountain setting.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 86. F. 1, ’09. 230w.
“Miss Montague has the story teller’s instinct. Her characters are well differentiated in general outline, but she has yet much to learn in the art of rounding them out into convincing personalities.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 719. D. 5, ’08. 570w.
“Comedy and tragedy are interwoven very simply and convincingly. The local colour is quaint and amusing, and the plot is so well thought out that only a few readers will guess the dénouement beforehand. The author’s style when describing nature shows an anthropomorphic bias.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 822. Je. 26, ’09. 150w.
=Montaigne, Michael Eyquem de.= Essayes of Michael Eyquem, sieur de Montaigne, gentleman in ordinary to his majesty King Henry III of France; tr. by J: Florio; with an introd. by T: Seccombe. (New library ed.) 3v. *$10. Dutton.
Three volumes whose workmanship is in keeping with the distinction of the subject. “Whatever may be said of Florio’s occasional inaccuracies, his translation of Montaigne has two undeniable merits. It was accepted at once (the first edition is dated 1603) as an integral part of English literature, preparing the way for a succession of essayists from Bacon to Lamb, who have no parallel in any other country; and it succeeded admirably in preserving the spirit of the original.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Seccombe’s introduction is sufficient, if not altogether inspired, or uniformly well-written; the subject leading him, no doubt, to interlard his phrases with unnecessary scraps of French.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 226. F. 20. 110w.
“This limited edition is beautifully made, and of those eleven hundred and fifty copies printed for sale in England and America ‘before the type was distributed,’ none are likely to find their way to the second-hand counters.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Dial.= 47: 19. Jl. 1, ’09. 1050w.
“We could wish that this new and handsomely printed edition had been more generously, or at least differently, planned. It is hard to see any profit in retaining the spelling and, more especially, the eccentric punctuation of the original edition.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 362. Ap. 8, ’09. 1450w.
“The present edition has a charm of its own, due to the careful preservation of the spelling of the early seventeenth century and to the slightly antique character of the type.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 209. Ap. 10, ’09. 950w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 84. Ja. 16, ’09. 420w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 655. My. 22, ’09. 1200w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 684. My. 29, ’09. 1150w.
=Montgomery, Harry Earl.= Vital American problems. **$1.50. Putnam.
8–24847.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The author states that his book is ‘an attempt to solve the trust, labor and negro problems.’ This is rather an ambitious program for one man in one book and invites criticism easily avoided by a more modest statement. ‘Negro problem’ is the poorest section in the book. The author has plenty of ideas which are good. He shows, however, no intimate acquaintance with the actual living conditions of the negro or with the best literature on the subject.” Carl Kelsey.
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 213. Ja. ’09. 700w.
“While intended for the general public it can hardly be expected that this volume will give anyone a real grasp on these problems, though to one already somewhat familiar with them it might be of aid in offering a definite solution.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 106. F. ’09. 150w.
“While he has nothing particularly new to say, his book will be found a sane and thoughtful contribution to the mass of testimony and argument which sometimes illuminates, but more often befogs, the great questions which the American people are facing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 16. Ja. 9, ’09. 140w.
“It will be a useful book, both because of its clarity of statement and of its suggestiveness.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 24. Ja. 2, ’09. 150w.
“He has handled this difficult task very well. His book bears evidence of wide reading and painstaking study.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 192. Mr. ’09. 160w.
=Montgomery, Helen Barrett.= Empire of the East: a simple account of Japan as it was, is, and will be. **$2.50. McClurg.
W9–154.
A book “not technical, historical, abstruse or recondite, but a book describing in simple language Japan as it was, is, and will be.” It omits Japan’s recent material development, its politics and political parties; it does deal with Japanese morality, religion, art, the constitution, home life, the army and navy, and the financial position of the country.
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“It is similar in scope and treatment to, but more concise than Dyer’s ‘Dai Nippon.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 175. Je. ’09.
“Too much is attempted in this book.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 429. S. ’09. 200w.
“On the whole, the author has done well to give us one more book about Japan.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 23. Jl. 1, ’09. 300w.
“Mr. Montgomery shows no superior scholarship or insight into the genius of the people, and he has neither discovered any new sources of information nor been especially diligent in collecting what was known before. His style is dull and his observations commonplace and often repeated. But the book is comprehensive in its scope, moderate in tone and nowhere difficult to understand.”
− + =Ind.= 66: 1243. Je. 3, ’09. 100w.
“We miss the firmness of touch and accuracy of perspective belonging to the long resident. He shows very clearly that he has not mastered the results of the archaeology and philology of Munro or Batchelor.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 633. Je. 24, ’09. 350w.
“Writes with abundant knowledge of his subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 352. Je. 5, ’09. 900w.
“If the point of view were only as good as the cover, and if the English were only as irreproachable as the press-work! Yet the book is withal too ingenuous for condemnation, and young Mr. Gigadibs, with his little liberalities, is rather engaging than otherwise.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 415. S. ’09. 500w. + =Outlook.= 93: 9. S. 4, ’09. 430w.
“We do not set ourselves against his optimistic views. Much that he says is true beyond all question. Mr. Montgomery has written a very interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 303. Ag. 29, ’08. 200w.
=Montgomery, Lucy Maud.=^{[10]} Anne of Avonlea. $1.50. Page.
9–22941.
A sequel to “Anne of Green Gables.” “‘Anne of Avonlea’ contains much the same gentle charm that made ‘Anne of Green Gables’ so delectable a book. Anne is now past sixteen, which is evidently maturity in Prince Edward island, and begins to teach school in the place where she herself was taught. Her old chums are similarly occupied in nearby villages; and she and they, with several of the old characters and some new ones, continue their hushed, secluded, leisurely lives in a way calculated to yield the reader, weary of the steam riveter and the automobile, the career and the fad, a refreshing sense of peace.” (Bookm.)
* * * * *
“Has much of the charm of the earlier book but, while it will be enjoyed by older girls, it is scarcely suitable for a juvenile collection.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 134. D. ’09. ✠
“The book is as simple as a daisy, and if not quite as bewitching as the first we were given, the fault is doubtless with ourselves rather than the little flower.” Margaret Merwin.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 152. O. ’09. 350w.
“It is by no means a great work but is rather a somewhat commonplace story of a school teacher of some imagination.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1355. D. 16, ’09. 170w.
“If the fancy is sometimes exaggerated, it is not in the least morbid, but walks always in lock-step between fun and common sense.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 212. S. 2, ’09. 270w.
“The story will surely be read.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 130w.
=Moody, William Vaughn.= Faith healer. **$1. Houghton.
9–1588.
A psychotherapeutic play which resembles the author’s “Great divide” “only in its use of symbolism, its contemporaneous significance, its compact, pregnant, and occasionally eloquent dialogue, and its dramatic interest.” (Nation.) “It depicts with great skill the aesthetic mediocrity and the irrepressible idealism characteristic of certain middle western communities, and has caught the spirit of the literalistic and yet idealistic type of religion that has made many a community in the middle west a garden for sects.” (Outlook.)
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“A play of excellent literary values, masterly in its use of symbolism and appealing strongly to the imagination.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 143. My. ’09.
Reviewed by E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 330. N. 1, ’09. 700w.
“The play would be stronger if it were clearer in meaning and purpose, more definite in argument and declaration. A thoughtful and suggestive work, which, whether it wins success upon the stage or not, will make a strong appeal to the imagination of all intelligent readers. In literary expression, it is exceedingly felicitous, not only in the appropriateness of the dialogue to the personages concerned, but in the melody of the more oratorical passages.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 175. F. 18, ’09. 660w.
“It is closely written, with many individual lines of great beauty. But the drama, as a whole, has not the straight, direct appeal of ‘The great divide.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 112. F. 27, ’09. 800w.
“The play is more than a picture; it is a symbol; and somehow the symbolism is not persuasive. A great many readers will have the feeling that ‘The faith healer’ is chiefly interesting as a ‘tour de force.’”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 536. Mr. 6, ’09. 420w.
=Moody, William Vaughn.=^{[10]} Great divide: a play in three acts. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–35853.
This successful three-act play is here issued in book form dedicated to Henry Miller. Shorn of its stage accessories, the play makes excellent reading, and the great division between western ideals, morals, and conventions and those of New England is well brought out in the tale of the crude man who marries his wife by force and then makes himself worthy of her, and the wife who suffers long and makes the man suffer as expiation for her wickedness, so characterized by herself, in loving him under such conditions.
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“The brutal situation on which the plot turns is more prominent in the book than on the stage and makes unpleasant reading.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 80. N. ’09.
Reviewed by E: E. Hale, jr.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 330. N. 1, ’09. 1000w.
“It proved to be one of the most successful and effective plays of recent years on the stage, and it does not lose its emotional power in the printing.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 932. O. 21, ’09. 100w. + =Nation.= 89: 387. O. 21, ’09. 350w.
=Moore, Edward Crozier S.=^{[7]} Sanitary engineering: 3d ed. *$14. Lippincott.
9–29219.
“This third edition is even more voluminous and complete than either of its predecessors. Many pertinent alterations and additions have been made and much out-of-date matter has been omitted. The chapters on sewage purification and refuse disposal have been recast and enlarged owing to the rapid advances which have been made in these fields in recent years, and a résumé of the reports of the Royal commission on sewage disposal, 1898–1908, has been added. This work is in two volumes, the first dealing with sewerage and draining, and the second with sewage disposal and refuse destruction.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“The two hundred and more pages on sewage treatment seem to be by far the most useful part of the book for American engineers.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 8. Jl. 15, ’09. 420w.
“This work expresses essentially the viewpoint of British engineers, but, taken as a whole, it is one which will continue to find a place of great usefulness in the libraries of sanitary engineers in this country. The revised edition is naturally of more value than its predecessors, as the data it contains are of more modern application. The work shows signs of careful editing and is profusely illustrated throughout.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 55. Jl. 10, ’09. 600w.
“Is likely to prove of especial value to American engineers in their study of the multiplying problems of sewage disposal.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 396. Je. 19, ’09. 150w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.=^{[6]} Georgian pageant. *$3.50. Dutton.
9–22290.
“This book may not inaptly be summed up as a revolt against ‘Boswell’s Johnson,’ and against those writings of Macaulay which derive their colour and inspiration from it.” (Spec.) The studies are concerned with the Burneys, the Thrales, Dr. Johnson, the Gunnings, Goldsmith, Sheridan and Rev. James Hackman.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 80. N. ’09.
“Mr. Moore’s is no trivial knowledge of the subjects he handles, and he sets it forth with a vivacious pen. His wit is abundant, if sometimes rather boyish, but so is his spleen; and his prejudices, though they undoubtedly help to give colour to his writing, do not serve proportionately to advance his theses. In all these studies the writer has a thesis to maintain, which he works up to with no little skill, and always holds his reader, if he does not invariably convince him. But this thesis is often subordinated to Mr. Moore’s pet prejudices—an inordinate exaltation of Goldsmith and an implacable hatred of Boswell.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 489. Ap. 24. 1200w.
“Even where he is not convincing he is suggestive and original. The book is excellent reading.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 186. S. 16, ’09. 240w.
“The most probable motive for the writing of this book was not the vindication of the fame of a fellow-countryman. It was rather Mr. Moore’s desire for an opportunity to show his own cleverness.”
− =Ind.= 67: 709. S. 23, ’09. 320w.
“Altogether his book is more entertaining than the average writing of the kind on the comedy of the eighteenth century.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 463. My. 6, ’09. 570w.
“He has a witty way with him, an ironic touch which is perhaps a trifle overdone—sarcasm is amusing, but a bit dangerous when too frequently resorted to. The book is none the less hugely entertaining, and merits a place on the shelf devoted to histoires intimes.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 398. Je. 26, ’09. 1100w.
“Mr. Moore knows every inch of the ground, and he possesses the novelist’s gift of seizing the essential situation; but a love of paradox and contradiction leads him occasionally into excesses which it is not easy to pardon.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 309. F. 20, ’09. 530w.
=Moore, John M.=^{[8]} Etchings of the East. *$1. Pub. house M. E. ch. So.
9–25126.
A member of the editorial staff of the Christian advocate has recorded in this series of letters the results of his study of the people, methods of missionary work and the results of missionary labor in Japan, Korea, China and India. It is published “with the earnest hope that some new interest in the non-Christian peoples may be awakened and that some new missionary effort will be put forth as a result of the reading of these letters.”
=Moore, Mabel.=^{[10]} Days in Hellas: rambles through present-day Greece. **$2. Jacobs.
“With a kindly feeling toward modern Greece, and a reverential respect for the past, the author views that land with a curious commingling of the ancient and the present times. Mount Pentelcos, for instance, is seen with its ‘twice-scarred brow,’ the one scar caused by the emissaries of Pericles, the makers of the Parthenon, and the other scar made by ‘Marmor limited,’ a modern company engaged in supplying the world with Pentelic marble. The delineation of Greek character leaves little to be wished for, in spite of the modest statement in the author’s preface that ‘the present volume is not offered in any sense as a study of Greek life or Greek character.’”—Dial.
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“The publisher should have employed a reader of some classical knowledge to correct the proper names, which the author gives in shocking forms. The book is not without some merit.”
+ − − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 93. Jl. 24. 470w.
“Miss Moore has satisfied us that the lay reader who enjoys a medley of Greek life, with its gods and heroes mixed with its modern aspects, more than he does a treatise on archæology will find pleasure in this charming book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 234. O. 1, ’09. 180w.
“When she does tell of the things she did and the sights she saw it is always in an unconventional way, with nothing whatever of the tourist flavor discernible even between the lines.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 673. O. 30, ’09. 330w.
“This book adds nothing to our knowledge of Greece, nor did Miss Moore see very much of the country. She really need not fear that her book will ‘face the vicissitudes of the unknown future’ for long.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 760. Je. 12, ’09. 120w.
“Miss Moore evidently has plenty of humour, plenty of good sense, and is quite capable of sentiment, always gracefully expressed, when occasion demands. It is most excellent reading.”
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1009. Je. 26, ’09. 210w.
=Moores, Charles Washington.= Life of Abraham Lincoln for boys and girls. **60c; (Riverside literature ser.) *25c. Houghton.
9–1383.
A book whose purpose is to give to children an understanding of the great life of Lincoln, an appreciation of the simplicity and purity of his literary style, and a love of the man. It is a faithful, simple, dignified portrayal of a life without a false note, a life whose seriousness is everywhere leavened with humor.
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“Admirably adapted for pupils of the eighth grade and older, and also good for home reading.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 96. Mr. ’09. ✠
“The life is accurately and pleasantly written, and the youth of America will find it both agreeable and profitable reading.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 531. My. ’09. 50w.
“For school use, especially from the fifth to the eighth grades, this brief and interesting life can be recommended without reservation.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 264. F. 4, ’09. 30w.
Reviewed by J. B. Rittenhouse.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 110w.
=Moorhouse, E. Hallam.=^{[6]} Samuel Pepys: administrator, observer, gossip. *$3. Dutton.
W9–117.
Miss Moorhouse has searched the writings of Pepys’s contemporaries for material that would confirm accounts given in the famous diary. Out of the diary itself and the additional matter she has produced an illuminating account of the personality of Pepys, his private and public life, his work as Secretary of the Admiralty, and his contribution to literature.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 20. S. ’09.
“Although we have expressed doubt respecting Miss Moorhouse’s estimation of some of Pepys’s characteristics, we can congratulate her on having produced an excellent picture of the complete man as exhibited not only in the diary but also in his life’s work.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 610. My. 22. 1050w.
“Well known as is the immortal diarist there was certainly a place for Miss Moorhouse’s admirable life and appreciation of Samuel Pepys.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 426. Ag. 19, ’09. 650w.
“We should have been glad to have a much-needed bibliography of Pepys included here, some footnotes, and an adequate index. For the rest, we welcome this volume as a substantial sign of a reviving and better informed interest in a man who has many holds upon our interest.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 140. Ag. 12, ’09. 1800w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 350. Je. 5, ’09. 750w.
“Miss Moorhouse’s book is more entertaining and soundly informative than any other yet written on Pepys, not excepting Wheatley’s ‘Samuel Pepys and the world he lived in.’ Writing sympathetically, yet with keen discrimination, Miss Moorhouse makes no attempt at undue laudation of Pepys, but graphically portrays him as he unquestionably was.” H. A. Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 92: 607. Jl. 10, ’09. 3800w.
=Morawetz, Victor.=^{[7]} Banking and currency problem in the United States. *$1. North American review pub. co.
9–2543.
Discusses the banking problem of our country and the means of providing safeguards against stringent markets and panics. His plan includes an argument based upon the principle of the central bank.
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“The best book on the subject for the average reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 106. Ap. ’09.
“A number of somewhat questionable views are propounded in the earlier part of the book. The popular reader, for whom the book is doubtless intended, will not in the main, however, be led far astray by the introductory pages.” H. P. Willis.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 366. D. ’09. 680w.
“Mr. Morawetz is to be credited with a sincere and able discussion of a difficult subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 366. Je. 12, ’09. 800w. =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 559. S. ’09. 130w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. (Studies of religious dualism, sixth ser.) **$1.25. Putnam.
9–6859.
Ten essays concerned chiefly with religion and philosophy, also with literature in its religious and philosophical bearing. The titles are: The forest philosophy of India; The Bhagavad Gitâ; Saint Augustine; Pascal; Sir Thomas Browne; Bunyan; Rousseau; Socrates; The apology; and Plato.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 107. Ap. ’09. (Review of v. 6.)
“His power of analysis compels admiration even when we dissent most emphatically from the results which it reaches.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 89: 675. Ag. ’09. 1000w. (Review of v. 6.)
“That the high standard of the series is here maintained, if not indeed raised even higher, goes almost without saying. Readers of the earlier volumes cannot afford to neglect this latest.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 267. Ap. 16, ’09. 300w. (Review of v. 6.)
Reviewed by W. B. Blake.
=Dial.= 46: 388. Je. 16, ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 6.)
“They presuppose, possibly, a rather extended knowledge on the part of the reader, but they bear the undisputed marks of scholarly criticism.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 728. Ap. 24, ’09. 520w. (Review of v. 6.) =Nation.= 88: 221. Mr. 4, ’09. 80w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Of his merits—and they are many and fine—it is no longer necessary to speak; the defect in his work may be suggested best by a quotation from an earlier essay in the third series: ‘For we have put away the imagination as one of the pleasant but unfruitful playthings of youth.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 159. Mr. 20, ’09. 240w. (Review of v. 6.)
“It is not too much to say of him that more than any other American writer of his time he holds the professional attitude of the critics who have made criticism a department of literature.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 419. Je. 19, ’09. 950w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Scholarly, artistic, analytical studies.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 250. Ag. ’09. 60w. (Review of v. 6.)
=More, Sir Thomas.=^{[8]} More’s millennium, rendered into modern English by Valerian Paget. $1.50. McBride.
8–32403.
More’s “Utopia” rendered into modern English from the translation of Ralph Robinson.
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“An excellent piece of work, making this classic accessible to the general reader.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 64. F. ’09.
“The present volume merits wide circulation.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 606. Ag. ’09. 140w.
=Morgan, Anna, comp.=^{[6]} Selected readings designed to impart to the student an appreciation of literature in its wider sense. **$1.50. McClurg.
9–15868.
An anthology of prose selections, monologs, poetry, scenes and dialogs, etc., selected with a view to offering the reader a wide range of the best literature that is well-adapted for recital work.
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“Not in any respect superior to the many similar volumes already in use, but contains considerable material not found in them, making it useful in libraries having a large demand for such volumes.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 81. N. ’09. =Dial.= 46: 408. Je. 16, ’09. 40w.
=Morgan, Mrs. Mary Ella.= How to dress a doll. 50c. Altemus.
8–26000.
Fully illustrated this little book prepared by an experienced teacher of sewing gives instruction that can be followed by any child in the matter of doll dressing.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 32. Ja. ’09. ✠
“The book is so written as to make the subject not only plain but interesting to the child.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 396. O. ’08. 100w.
=Morley, Arthur.=^{[8]} Strength of materials. *$2.50. Longmans.
9–18585.
“While the method of treatment follows wellestablished lines in the main, especial attention is given to a number of subjects which have hitherto been accorded little or no attention in books on the strength of materials. Among these are: The strength of rotary disks and cylinders; the bending of curved bars, with applications to hooks; rings, and links; the strength of unstayed flat surfaces, and the stresses and instability arising from certain speeds of loaded machine shafts.”—Engin. D.
* * * * *
“Though prepared primarily for the instruction of engineering students, this work will be found very useful to practicing engineers.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 173. F. ’09. 240w.
“In a word, the book must be considered an excellent piece of work. Few there are, even among those already skilled in strength of materials, who would not find a careful reading of this book an invigorating and profitable experience.” L. J. Johnson.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 12. Ag. 12, ’09. 670w.
“The book is a valuable addition to the library of the engineer who has to undertake the calculation of the stresses and strains in machinery and structures.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 65. Mr. 18, ’09. 400w.
=Morris, Charles.=^{[12]} Home life in all lands. Bk. 2. **$1. Lippincott.
7–28638.
=Bk. 2.= Manners and customs of uncivilized peoples.
In this second journey, instead of peeping into the huts and hovels of men and nations, the author takes his readers “into the palaces of the kings, the grand dwellings of the chiefs and rulers, the splendid halls in which courtiers and people gather to do homage to their head-men or chiefs.”
=Morris, Gouverneur.=^{[11]} Putting on the screws. **50c. Doubleday.
9–28153.
A commuter with a wife and nine children finds himself confronted with the problem of supporting a poverty-stricken aunt, an actress who announces that unless she can prevail upon his generosity she must go to the home for aged women. How the family opens its arms to her, and is kind to her and goes into debt to care for her during a long sickness and how she finally reveals the fact that she is wealthy beyond comprehension and that her cynical and misanthropic spirit directed her in a scheme of testing the family for mere goodness—is all happily set down.
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“A dainty and pretty story with humorous side lights here and there.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 50w.
=Morris, William, and Bax, Ernest Belfort.=^{[7]} Socialism, its growth and outcome. 50c. Kerr.
“Covers the history of socialism in its relation to social history. It traces the development of society in ancient, mediaeval and modern times.” (Survey.) “It is not hard to distinguish Bax’s assertion that socialism shall succeed civilization as civilization succeeded barbarism, and to hear Morris add that not until socialism makes all architecture municipal can we hope to have beautiful cities.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 322. My. 22, ’09. 170w.
“The little volume presents a brief though comprehensive view of social evolution and merits a reading by those who are interested in that historical school begun by Karl Marx.” W. B. Guthrie.
+ =Survey.= 22: 406. Je. 12, ’09. 140w.
=Morrison, Arthur.=^{[10]} Green ginger. †$1.50 Stokes.
9–24894.
A “budget of funny tales and yarns.” “They rely for their humor largely upon the juxtaposition of incongruous ideas. In most of them the precise, somewhat pompous, and most respectable Britisher is carried with every plausibility into unusual and absurd situations.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 92. N. ’09. ✠
“These short stories have probably all appeared in magazines, and some of them are so slight that they might well have been left there. On the other hand, we should have been sorry to miss others.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 435. Ap. 10. 200w.
“Short stories that are all bubbling over with good-humored fun.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 549. S. 18, ’09. 200w.
“It would be easy to multiply instances of Mr. Morrison’s versatility, but we have said enough to indicate the high quality of the entertainment provided in this excellent volume. We must not omit to mention how complete is his mastery of the Essex dialect, and with what a genuine gift of impersonation he varies the dialogue to suit the character of the speaker.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 309. F. 20, ’09. 900w.
=Morrison, Charles Edward.= Highway engineering. $2.50. Wiley.
8–26022.
“The book has been prepared for second year students in the Department of civil engineering at Columbia university, and is intended to emphasize those basic principles which are essential to good highways.” (Engin. Rec.) “The volume contains, with some exceptions, about all that one could expect to find in a text-book for ordinary classes in civil engineering.” (Engin. N.)
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“The chapters that can be most severely criticized are those on asphalt and wooden pavements—with these branches the author shows himself not entirely familiar.”
+ − =Engin. D.= 5: 413. Ap. ’09. 450w.
“The general arrangement of the book is satisfactory. The subject is well presented, and from the literary point of view is generally well done. On the whole it cannot be said that Mr. Morrison’s book is an ideal text-book upon highway engineering.” S. Whinery.
− + =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 428. O. 15, ’08. 940w.
“In most respects it seems well adapted for the purpose for which it is written, but it can be criticized for not giving proper references to many of the quotations which are used in the work, and for the insertion of specifications which in some cases are open to criticism. The work, as a whole, reflects the atmosphere of the study of the subject rather than that of field work.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 58: 391. O. 3, ’08. 130w.
“It contains a great deal of useful information, especially to engineers having to deal with roads in new countries. The elementary principles of road-making are clearly set out, and copies of specifications suitable for different classes of roads are given.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 336. Ja. 21, ’09 700w
=Morse, Margaret Fessenden.= On the road to Arden. **$1. Houghton.
9–7948.
The journey of a modern Rosalind and Celia to a Forest of Arden. They go merely to “enjoy the wilderness and to take nothing from it.” That they find their Orlando and Oliver is to be expected; that they meet them unexpectedly at various points in their wanderings is surprising to Celia, while to Rosalind it is but the working out of a quietly made plan. For was not Orlando the hero of her steamer romance, and would not Celia disapprove unless she could personally conduct Rosalind’s wooing? Birds and flowers and awakening woods form an exquisite setting to the tale.
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“Pleasant little story.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09. ✠
“The story is written in the light, happy style befitting a summer’s idyl. The pages are enlivened by comments on passing men and women that are both amusing and entertaining.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 729. Ap. 24, ’09. 200w.
“Seems like a bit taken out of real life; its people are delightful, its situations are diverting, and the scenes in which its quaint comedy is enacted are extremely dainty and full of charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 350w.
“A double love story very agreeably and whimsically told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
=Morse, William Francis.=^{[12]} Collection and disposal of municipal waste. $5. Municipal journal.
9–6510.
“Part 1 gives a preliminary historical sketch of the work done in American communities from 1885 to the present time.... Part 2 describes the various methods of waste disposal in American towns by incineration.... Part 3 describes the disposal of waste by British high-temperature refuse destructors. Part 4 discusses the disposal of waste by reduction and extraction processes, and gives descriptions of many forms of apparatus used for this purpose. Part 5 discusses the revenue to be derived from waste materials, and describes the various methods of its utilization.”—Engin. D.
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“A text that will be found of timeliness and importance by municipal engineers, and officials charged with the maintenance of sanitary conditions.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 540. My. ’09. 280w.
“We believe it will long stand as the most complete exposition of the first quarter-century of the evolution of garbage and refuse disposal in America. The arrangement of the volume is in some respects poor. Another minor fault of the book is due to the fact that the author has not quite cleared his mind of the old misconceptions as to the relation of garbage disposal to public health.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 46. N. 18, ’09. 1150w.
=Morton, Francis T.=^{[12]} Roman Catholic church and its relation to the federal government. *$2. Badger, R: G.
9–29963.
A brief history of the Roman Catholic church whose object is to set forth its claims, objects and purposes in the past as exemplified in the older countries where it has held sway for centuries and also to show its position in the United States at the present time.
=Moses, Barr.= Dreaming River. †$1. Stokes.
9–3051.
“The tale is that of a young and singularly ill-balanced poet who lives hermit-wise in a lonely farmhouse called Dreaming River. To him comes for protection a girl of sixteen, a penniless orphan, who turns to him as her only kin in obedience to the last wish of her dying father. The growth of love between them, perturbed by blizzards and cyclones, both without and within, makes up the rest of the story, which ends with Dorothy’s surrender.”—Nation.
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“This little story would be negligible were it not for its underlying theme, which possesses sufficient psychologic interest to save the discussion of the work from the pettiness of breaking a butterfly.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 144. F. 11, ’09. 260w.
“Sometimes the author’s manner of telling the story grows a bit monotonous, because he has depended too much on mere narrative. But he has written, nevertheless, a charming little tale.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 118. F. 27, ’09. 270w.
=Moses, Montrose Jonas.= Henrik Ibsen: the man and his plays. *$1.50. Kennerley.
8–33031.
“A comprehensive summary of a considerable body of literature on Ibsen, which will be very useful to those junior students of the Norwegian dramatist who have neither time nor opportunity to consult the original authorities. It contains a sufficiently full sketch of his life; detailed, if not always clear, synopses of his plays; a variety of selected comment and interpretation, mostly of a highly laudatory description; and a liberal proportion of the author’s individual views, which, though sometimes extravagant in their enthusiasm, often evince strong common sense and a power of discrimination never found in the fanatical worshipper.”—Nation.
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“Supplements Gosse’s biography, containing more matter about Ibsen’s writings, but is not so interesting or well written.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 175. Je. ’09.
“The special merit is the thoroughness with which it reflects the recent literature of the subject. Altogether, Mr. Moses has made a useful book, adequate in scholarship and sound in judgment.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 192. Mr. 16, ’09. 260w.
“There is, in fact, no other book of its size in English that contains so much information about Ibsen as this.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1400. Je. 24, ’09. 180w.
“Like many other disciples of Ibsen; Mr. Moses is prone to exaggerate both the achievements and the influence of the master, but he does recognize some of his limitations. The interest of this book suffers much from the author’s crudities of style.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 609. D. 17, ’08. 480w.
“A particularly level-headed and illuminating study of the Norwegian dramatist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 740. D. 5, ’08. 370w.
“The chief critical merit of Mr. Moses’s book is that he has emphasized Ibsen’s constant mental and spiritual dependence on his own country.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =No. Am.= 189: 621. Ap. ’09. 1000w.
“The book is an example of the kind of critical biography which, if it is well done, is the most profitable form of dealing with men of letters and artists. The treatment shows close and conscientious study of the different aspects of Ibsen’s work.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 773. Mr. 3, ’09. 600w.
=Motley, John Lothrop.=^{[6]} History of the United Netherlands from the death of William the Silent to the Twelve years’ truce—1609; new ed. 2v. $3. Harper.
A new edition in strong binding for library purposes.
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+ =Ind.= 67: 144. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 464. Jl. 31, ’09. 80w.
=Mott, John Raleigh.= Future leadership of the church. $1. Y. M. C. A.
8–31484.
The results of a careful and systematic study of the problem of decrease in the rank and file of young men entering the ministry. “Mr. Mott’s present appeal sets forth the problem, its urgency, the obstacles, the favoring influences, and the propaganda called for.... The time has come, in Mr. Mott’s view, for every Christian denomination in its official assembly to determine upon a plan to meet the crisis of a short supply of leaders that will secure effective backing from its entire membership. Supplementary to the book is a sheaf of pithy pamphlets in which eminent men appeal persuasively to students for the claim and the opportunity presented by the Christian ministry.” (Outlook.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 46. F. ’09.
“The volume is closely packed with relevant facts ... and so stated as to constitute an argument of the most compelling kind.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 585. Mr. 13, ’09. 240w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 126. Ja. ’09. 110w.
Reviewed by Graham Taylor.
=Survey.= 22: 853. S. 25, ’09. 380w.
=Moulton, Mrs. Louise Chandler.= Poems and sonnets; with an introd. by Harriet Prescott Spofford. $1.50. Little.
8–35957.
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A one volume edition of Mrs. Moulton’s poems including all contained in three former volumes.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 46. F. ’09. + − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 179. Ag. 14. 530w.
“So many other voices have borne witness both to the beauty of the poet’s character and to the exquisite artistry of her lyrics and sonnets, that even friendship may hardly be said to exaggerate in this instance. Certain it is that no writer stands higher upon the roll of our woman poets than the gracious personality which this volume discloses.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 48. Ja. 16, ’09. 160w. =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“Mrs. Moulton’s verse suffers somewhat from reading in mass; its saccharine taste becomes cloying after a while.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 652. D. 31, ’08. 100w.
Reviewed by J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 56. Ja. 30, ’09. 1400w.
“Her appeal is obvious and simple, and if she rarely reaches the heights, she walks on a pleasant upland where many can follow.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 20. Jl. 3, ’09. 40w.
=Mowry, William Augustus.= Recollections of a New England educator. *$1.50. Silver.
8–33790.
Reminiscences covering the years from 1838–1908 and constituting a history of education in America during that period. “His book is not an autobiography, but a simple narrative of the progress of educational methods and conditions as he has observed them and been a part of them from the time he entered the district school at the age of four years until the present time. It covers all grades of education and the author endeavors to show by constant comparison how tremendous has been the growth and improvement throughout the entire curriculum.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Mr. Mowry’s experiences ... are entertainingly presented.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 117. F. 16, ’09. 260w.
“His book is admirable reading and will be a valuable addition to the literature of American education.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 425. Ap. ’09. 100w.
“A book to be studied rather than one to be read.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 428. F. 25, ’09. 160w.
“Far from being the dry record of a typical pedagog, the recollections are a bright, chatty account of contemporaneous educators and educational movements.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 306. F. 20, ’09. 280w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 3. Ja. 2, ’09. 180w.
“His reminiscences, while certainly not without biographical interest, really give the material for an extremely suggestive comparison between the educational conditions in this country fifty, sixty, and seventy years ago and those at the present time.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 511. Ap. ’09. 90w.
“It is fortunate that these reminiscences have been preserved, for they will serve to aid students to get into touch with original impressions of an important period in American life.” F. A. Manny.
+ =School R.= 17: 650. N. ’09. 450w.
=Moyer, James Ambrose.= Steam turbine: a practical and theoretical treatise for engineers and designers, including a discussion of the gas turbine. $4. Wiley.
8–37678.
“The book commences with a short history of the art, and a condensed but very clear chapter on the elementary theory of heat, in which special attention is given to the entropy-temperature diagram. This is followed by chapters on nozzle and blade design; on the mechanical losses in steam turbines; and on stresses in rings, drums and disks. The subject matter of these chapters, treating solely of theory and design, is concisely and very clearly explained; but, to the average engineer, the most interesting and directly valuable part of the book will be the chapters on current practice.”—Engin. Rec.
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“Better than Neilson on economics and on details of American design, but less full in treatment of the low pressure turbine.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 107. Ap. ’09.
“The author had had unusual facilities for obtaining information regarding the latest results in turbine engineering through his professional connections, and he has embodied these gleanings in a well-ordered and concise but comprehensive text that merits the attention of educators and practicing engineers.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 170. F. ’09. 420w.
“It is rather hard to place this book of Mr. Moyer’s. While excellent in many ways, it would scarcely do for use by students in engineering nor yet is it a handbook for the average operating engineer. In most cases, he does not lay before the reader the experimental data on which he bases his results. Were these presented it would materially increase the value of the book.” A. G. Christie.
− + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 32. Mr. 18, ’09. 950w.
“The author has certainly carried out this subject in a most satisfactory manner.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 335. Mr. 20, ’09. 300w.
=Mügge, M. A.=^{[9]} Friedrich Nietzsche: his life and work. *$3. Brentano’s.
9–14446.
A biography founded upon Frau Foerster-Nietzsche’s “Leben.” It contains a valuable Nietzschean bibliography, also a chronological epitome of all Nietzsche’s writings.
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“As compared with Mr. Mencken’s study, the present work shows a marked superiority in respect both of scholarliness and philosophic insight. The style, too, is more to our taste.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 69. Jl. 17. 300w.
“He gives a full and interesting account of Nietzsche’s strangely varied life; he has provided a really admirable bibliography.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 425. Mr. 13, ’09. 250w.
=Muir, John. Stickeen.= **60c. Houghton.
9–6875.
The story of one terrible Alaska storm-day which the author spent in exploring a glacier. Flying clouds with their rain-floods, ice-cliffs, the majestic ice-cascade, a vast glacier with its tremendous crevasse are the awe-inspiring elements that the author and Stickeen, a daring midget of a dog, battle with for their lives during a few perilous hours. Stickeen’s courage, his big wise fears on the brink of a yawning abyss, his almost human agony when his master dares the ice bridge, his bravery in following after many remonstrances, and his wild joy over deliverance from death hold the reader breathless thru the short 73 pages.
“A stirring tale, exquisitely told; will be liked by older children.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 149. My. ’09. ✠
“This little story of a man, a dog, a storm, and a glacier, is full of the glamour that belongs to the heroic-in-little.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 37. Jl. 8, ’09. 300w.
“It is a notable little story, although so brief, having as much appeal for lovers of the wild as for students of dog nature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 197. Ap. 3, ’09. 440w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 253. Ag. ’09. 70w.
=Mulhall, Mrs. Marion McMurrough.=^{[12]} Explorers in the new world before and after Columbus; and the story of the Jesuit missions of Paraguay, with pre-Columbian maps. *$2.25. Longmans.
“Opens with a résumé of the voyages of the adventurers who ante-dated Columbus, covers the explorations of later times by centuries, and in other chapters deals with the military and naval operations of Europeans in South America. Her final chapter, entitled, ‘Rise and fall of the Jesuit missions,’ is largely the fruit of original research in the Vatican and elsewhere. An interesting feature of Mrs. Mulhall’s book is its display of pre-Columbian maps, including reproductions of Edrisi’s planispheres, which are preserved in the Bodleian library at Oxford, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The contents of the volume hardly fulfil the promise of its title. A few pages are indeed devoted to the ‘Predecessors of Columbus,’ but the Spanish and Portuguese navigators who carried on his work are absolutely ignored, and it would be vain to search for a reference to such well-known explorers as John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Frobisher, Davis, or Hudson apart from discoverers of more recent times, J. Cook, Vancouver, and Ross. The account which the author gives of the ‘Predecessors of Columbus’ is, moreover, misleading.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 102. Jl. 24. 400w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 765. D. 4, ’09. 100w.
“Her book is rather a strange compound. Her pages are packed with facts about adventurers some of whose records are not easily available, and the compilation shows much industrious reading.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 176. Ag. 7, ’09. 200w.
“Mrs. Mulhall conducts us along many picturesque byways of history.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 171. Jl. 31, ’09. 400w.
=Müller, Johannes.=^{[12]} Hindrances of life; tr. by F. F. Strecker. *$1.50. Kennerley.
The hindrances to making the best in life come true are, in the experience of Dr. Müller, grief, fear, worry, lack of assurance, doubt, and the other self in us. These drawbacks to accomplishment, and hence to happiness, the author discusses with insight, and offers helpful suggestions for overcoming their harassing conditions.
=Müller, Margarethe.= Carla Wenckebach, pioneer. *$1.25. Ginn.
8–29596.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“However excellent a German biography she might have given us, she has certainly succeeded in presenting in English a very engaging picture of a strong and inspiring character.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 116. F. 16, ’09. 250w.
“It may be truthfully said that the book is much more than a mere biography. It is a charming bit of writing and a gentle and kindly sketch.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 97. Ja. ’09. 70w. =Ind.= 67: 308. Ag. 5, ’09. 30w.
“A generous and affectionate tribute.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 122. F. 27, ’09. 160w.
“A fascinating portrait-biography of a fascinating woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 819. Ap. 10, ’09. 450w.
“The book is very well written. It will be valuable in high school, normal school, and college as well as in private libraries.” F. A. Manny.
+ =School R.= 17: 575. O. ’09. 930w.
=Mumford, Eben.=^{[12]} Origins of leadership, pa. *50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–21602.
“Leadership is considered first in its relation to the science of sociology and to the social process. It is discussed in both its innate and acquired aspects and its evolution is traced through the associations of some of the lower animals, of children, and, in particular, of hunting people, the main problem being to show its relation to the development of personality and the various institutions.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 608. N. ’09. 330w.
“Its eighty-seven pages can not be accounted a very weighty contribution to the subject. Nevertheless, the author has made a useful preliminary study which might easily be expanded into a much-needed monograph on leadership in primitive society.” Hutton Webster.
+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 416. Jl. 22, ’09. 240w.
=Mumford, James Gregory.= Surgical memoirs, and other essays. **$2.50. Moffat.
8–28080.
“A collection of papers and addresses written during the last decade, beginning with a sketch of ‘The history of surgery,’ embracing accounts of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Pare, Haller, John Hunter, and Lister. A summary follows of ancient achievements in surgery and biographical essays on Cooper, Brodie, Warren, and Bigelow; and the rest of the volume contains addresses to nurses, brief papers on ethics and medical education, and other random papers.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Taken as a whole, the book ... is written with too ready a pen, but is nevertheless pleasant reading and will be useful to many to whom a more scholarly work would be unwelcome.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 400w.
“His book is as interesting to the layman as to the members of his own profession.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 31. Ja. 16, ’09. 760w.
“His pages are distinguished by a broad toleration, eminent fair-mindedness, and when opportunity offers, a sturdy preachment of lofty professional standards.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 318. O. 9, ’09. 220w.
=Mumm, Arnold Louis.=^{[7]} Five months in the Himalaya: a record of mountain travel in Garhival and Kashmir. *$6. Longmans.
9–35862.
Contains an account of the author’s ascent to the top of Trisul, an elevation of 23,406 feet. “The party, after exploring the mountains and valleys of Garhwal, passed on into Kashmir and spent some time there. Mr. Mumm’s volume contains admirable reproductions of photographs taken at the time, the illustrations including four panoramas, twenty-four full-page plates, forty-seven collotypes, and two maps.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 81. N. ’09. + =Nation.= 89: 281. S. 23, ’09. 470w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 180w.
“Mr. Mumm has written a circumstantial account of an arduous expedition that will hold a high rank in the annals of mountaineering.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 452. Jl. 24, ’09. 420w.
“The book affords a very full idea of the character of the peaks and valleys, the passes and people in the Himalaya; an idea which is assisted by the many admirable illustrations.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. Jl. 17, ’09. 350w.
“The book is full of interesting things, besides the mountaineering narratives. One great charm of the volume is to be found in the magnificent photographs of mountain scenery.”
+ =Spec.= 102; sup. 1006. Je. 26, ’09. 200w.
=Mummery, A. F.= My climbs in the Alps and Caucasus; new ed. *$5. Scribner.
1–18807.
“Mrs. Mummery gives the public a few pages of extracts from the last letters received from her husband when in Kashmir, which will be read with interest. They must confirm the belief that his death was caused by a sudden avalanche rather than any more avoidable accident in a rash attempt. For the rest the text of the book is identical with that of the previous edition.”—Ath.
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“No more direct and vigorous narrative of the incidents of mountain travel or hard climbing, of a bivouac with Caucasian shepherds, or a day on the Chamonix Aiguilles, can be found on our bookshelves.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 225. F. 20. 600w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 119. F. 27, ’09. 340w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 49. Ja. 9, ’09. 300w.
=Munby, Alan Edward.=^{[8]} Introduction to the chemistry and physics of building materials. *$2. Van Nostrand.
9–27410.
“An elementary description of the chemical, physical and geological phenomena that must be understood before a good knowledge of the properties of building materials can be gained. The text is extremely elementary, as a rule, but will nevertheless prove desirable reading for undergraduates in technical schools and others who wish to secure some general information on the subject without a prolonged study of the sciences named. While the book was prepared primarily for the British reader, recent advances in the technology of cements made in the United States are mentioned in it.”—Engin. Rec.
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“As preliminary reading it has a field.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 3. Jl. 15, ’09. 300w.
“It will be found to supply in convenient form information rather difficult to obtain readily from any other source.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 139. Jl. 31, ’09. 130w.
“The book will not be so useful to the uneducated or self-educated builder and mechanic as to the one who has had a smattering of school science but is not able to apply it to his work. The use of British names for stone and other building materials impairs the value of the book for the American public.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 286. S. 23, ’09. 270w.
“In spite of a few minor points like these, the book as a whole is well written, and admirably adapted to the class for whom it is intended. It deserves to take a permanent place among the textbooks upon the subject, and in future editions the points referred to will no doubt receive attention.” H. B.
+ − =Nature.= 81: 62. Jl. 15, ’09. 420w.
“The volume is inclusive and explicit in its treatment of the subject, and it furnishes all who are engaged in engineering and technical trades with an excellent work of reference.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 555. S. 18, ’09. 270w.
=Munford, Beverley Bland.=^{[12]} Virginia’s attitude toward slavery and secession. **$2. Longmans.
9–28220.
“Both before and since the civil war it has been almost universally held in the North that Virginia was strongly pro-slavery in sentiment as well as hostile to the Union. Mr. Beverley B. Munford now presents the view that the state was strongly anti-slavery in sentiment, and at the same time friendly to the Union, and that the influences which finally impelled Virginia to secede must be traced to other causes. Mr. Munford marshals an imposing array of historical documents and brings to the support of his position facts which it would be found extremely difficult if not impossible to gainsay.”—R. of Rs.
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“A candid and temperate examination of all the events and currents of sentiment and opinion leading up to the war.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 746. N. 27, ’09. 900w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 764. D. ’09. 100w.
=Munro, William Bennett.= Government of European cities. *$2.50. Macmillan.
9–7553.
An introduction to the study of European city governments which explains the structure and functions of city government in three European countries—France, Germany (the Prussian system is outlined as representative of the German type) and England—and contrasts these with the functions of city government in the United States.
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“It is a book which will prove a great benefit to the serious-minded reader interested in municipal government; but it will probably be used mostly as a reference or textbook in colleges and universities. The style is sometimes too involved for rapid reading—many sentences needing to be broken up and recast.” Howard Woodhead.
+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 122. Jl. ’09. 1400w.
“One of the best studies on municipal government, more scientific than Shaw’s.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 143. My. ’09.
“Dr. Munro’s book is the most important recent addition to the literature of comparative municipal government. It should be read by everyone interested in local government and its improvement.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 609. N. ’09. 400w.
“We are disappointed with this volume. Dr. Munro does not seem to have kept clearly before him the difference of law and practice between Prussia and many of the states of the German empire, or between England and the rest of the United Kingdom. The other defect noticeable in the book, which has, however, features of interest, is the general avoidance of the subject of local taxation, upon which (after all) municipal government rests.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 558. My. 8. 1100w.
“While not cast in so popular form as Shaw’s earlier volumes on the same subject (with which one very naturally compares it) nevertheless it is better fitted for educational classes and for use as a work of reference.” C. R. Woodruff.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 265. S. ’09. 920w.
“Obviously, a book of this character is more suitable for reference than for general reading; but this is more on account of the mass of details which the author found it necessary to present, notwithstanding his admirable condensation, than through any fault of style or method of presentation.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 60. My. 13, ’09. 880w.
“Dr. Munro’s work, scholarly, full and clear, should satisfy curiosity as to British, French and Prussian municipal methods.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1345. Je. 17, ’09. 380w.
“A valuable addition to this literature.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 160. Ag. 19, ’09. 350w.
“The methods of these two excellent books [Goodnow’s Municipal government and Munro’s] upon municipal government are so different and so mutually complementary that whoever desires either will desire both.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 642. O. 23, ’09. 520w.
“The work which he has done is on the whole the most comprehensive, accurate, painstaking and thorough work which has been done in the English language on the subjects which are treated.” F. J. Goodnow.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 315. Je. ’09. 650w.
“Such a body of knowledge is of the greatest value to all students of comparative administration.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 254. Ag. ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Munro’s examination of the duties and function of this checking and revising body [the Prussian ‘Magistrate’] is quite the best part of his book, and well worth close attention. English readers will naturally find a criticism of our own methods of local government more interesting than that of strangers. The present criticism is a little disappointing—too much ground is covered; too little space given to essential details.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 4. S. 25, ’09. 1200w.
“His observations and criticisms are useful, though we are not prepared to allow that the American system, at least in its results, is better than ours.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 284. Ag. 21, ’09. 130w.
=Münsterberg, Hugo.=^{[6]} Eternal values. **$2.50. Houghton.
9–14408.
A translation by the author of his German edition in which he has left out side issues that connected the work with particular German movements and has made additions that refer to recent American discussions. The purpose of the volume is to answer the relativist in his theory that everything is relative, that everything is good only for a certain purpose, for a certain time, for a certain social group, for a certain individual; to show that relativism and skepticism are wrong, that idealism is justified by true science and true philosophy, and that “one may stand with both feet on the rock of facts and may yet hold to the absolute values as eternally belonging to the structure of the world.”
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“So speaks the book, a book sure to attract attention. So runs Professor Münsterberg’s interesting logism, always ingenious when not also brilliant, and in the freedom of it he has successfully transformed the world of values, making that world meet the demands of his selected principle of identity, so long known as the principle of the formal logic and so useful as the fundamental working hypothesis of all positive science.” A. H. Lloyd.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 634. O. ’09. 1350w.
“The work is likely to be called for on account of the author’s reputation but only those schooled in metaphysical and philosophic thought will find it intelligible.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 81. N. ’09.
“Only those schooled in philosophic and metaphysical reasoning will find the book intelligible, and they will declare its method unphilosophical. The book is really a statement of the author’s personal convictions regarding the construction of the moral universe.”
− =Bib. World.= 34: 143. Ag. ’09. 70w.
“Will interest the same set of readers who in this country are accustomed to follow the author’s more philosophical contributions.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 338. N. 1, ’09. 270w.
“Of all the services which Professor Münsterberg has rendered the thinking public in this country this volume is the most worthy and enduring.” A. U. Pope.
+ =Ind.= 67: 879. O. 14, ’09. 1100w.
“The book is very hard reading. Altogether, the ‘Eternal values’ cannot but add to Prof. Münsterberg’s reputation as a profound if not very original thinker.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 798. D. 18, ’09. 780w. =Outlook.= 93: 878. D. 18, ’09. 50w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 255. Ag. ’09. 100w.
=Münsterberg, Hugo.=^{[12]} Psychology and the teacher. **$1.50. Appleton.
9–28281.
“Professor Münsterberg says that one does not study a time-table to decide whether to travel north or south, but, after deciding where to travel, studies the table to discover how to go; so one cannot learn from psychology what the aims of teaching are; but, after deciding on the aims, one can learn from psychology the means. So he divides his book into three parts; the first, which he calls the Ethical part, is on the ‘Aims of the teacher’; the second, which he calls the Psychological part, is on the ‘Mind of the pupil’; and the third, which he calls the Educational part, is on the ‘Work of the school.’ In other words, he presents what he regards as the philosophy that underlies teaching, then the mental facts with which the teacher has to deal, and finally certain conclusions regarding practical questions.”—Outlook.
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“It is largely advice, partly sermonizing, together with some sound exposition of wholesome texts; and the whole, if well shaken and frequently taken, should prove an efficient corrective for much weak sentiment and weaker thinking that passes for wisdom at educational meetings.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 338. N. 1, ’09. 470w.
“A volume of importance.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 878. D. 18, ’09. 160w.
=Münsterberg, Hugo.=^{[5]} Psychotherapy. **$2. Moffat.
9–12057.
“Takes up the phenomena blindly used and as blindly misused in the various systems of ‘mental healing’ and ‘faith cure,’ frees them from mysticism, fanaticism, and fraud, and presents them as they are, with their possibilities and limitations definitely formulated and in some measure explained.”—N. Y. Times.
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“While not technical, neither is it popular, and it will not be directly helpful to the average reader. A book for the special student and for ministers and physicians engaged in the work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 175. Je. ’09.
Reviewed by J. D. Stoops.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 623. N. ’09. 380w.
“No more concrete and valuable application of the larger problem appears on the vista of our present interests than that which affects the attitude toward the maintenance of human health, which means sanity; and Professor Münsterberg’s book finds its significance as a worthy and wholesome influence to this end.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ =Dial.= 46: 292. My. 1, ’09. 1600w.
“The book will, without doubt, be widely read, and will increase in marked degree the interest of the public in psychotherapy.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 189. Ag. 26, ’09. 2200w.
“In some senses the most important of the many volumes that have come from his industrious pen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 271. My. 1, ’09. 1050w. + =Outlook.= 93: 644. N. 20, ’09. 210w.
“It is a pity that the book is intended to serve for propaganda to so many classes. A book frankly addressed to physicians, and another frankly addressed to the layman would have been safer and more acceptable.” Adolf Meyer.
− =Science=, n.s. 30: 150. Jl. 30, ’09. 2200w.
=Murphy, Agnes C.=^{[12]} Melba. **$2.75. Doubleday.
A story of Melba’s life in which the reader is permitted to run up the great diva’s ladder to fame, and to learn the trials and hardships endured at every round. The biography is “brought down to the spring of 1908, all her tours and her appearances being related in detail, and with a number of personal anecdotes that illustrate her energy, her ambition as an artist, her kindheartedness and straightforwardness, and especially her interest and the unselfishness in aiding young artists to success.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is far from being a critical biography. It is a fervent and devoted eulogy.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 702. N. 13, ’09. 750w.
“Independently of its subject, however, the book throws a good deal of light on the psychology of musical hero-worship. Personally we have a distaste for these ‘lauds of the living,’ but in this case they are animated by a perfect sincerity and redeemed by a most engagingly unconscious humour.” C. L. G.
+ =Spec.= 103: 686. O. 30, ’09. 1550w.
=Murphy, Edgar Gardner.=^{[8]} Basis of ascendancy: a discussion of certain principles of public policy involved in the development of the Southern states. *$1.50. Longmans.
9–17972.
“In this volume Mr. Murphy endeavors to formulate the great race question, as the South must see it for her present comfort and future security. Back of all the issues of the moment, he declares, ‘as they may express themselves in this or that phase of definite legislation or of accepted custom, there lies the question of fundamental attitude. Where two social or racial groups,—a stronger and a weaker,—find themselves in inevitable contact upon the same soil, what elementary principles shall ultimately determine the policies of the state?’”—R. of Rs.
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“His earlier volume, which was published five years ago, together with the present book, may interest those people who care for philosophic speculation on such matters and do not insist on practical proposals.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 236. Ag. 28. 130w.
“It seems to be not so much left over material, as surplus philosophizing, which Mr. Murphy here utilizes. For the work is almost pure abstraction. With all of his philosophy, if we understand it, it would be impossible for us to agree; but we can at least recognize a brave and generous spirit in this Southerner writing primarily for Southerners.”
− =Nation.= 89: 57. Jl. 15, ’09. 630w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 377. Je. 12, ’09. 210w.
“It is a good book for both sides in the controversy to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 566. S. 25, ’09. 1400w.
“A tone of courteous, firm conviction expressed in scholarly, elegant style is characteristic of all his writings. Calmness and logic characterize in a high degree his latest book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 160w.
“Its tone is sympathetic and kindly, but it is difficult reading, and its 248 pages are full of intricate phrasing and over-elaboration.” M. W. Ovington.
+ − =Survey.= 23: 169. N. 6, ’09. 950w.
=Murray, John Clark.= Hand-book of Christian ethics. *$2.25. Scribner.
9–5890.
“Tends toward an important simplification, perhaps an entire reconstruction, of Christian dogmatics. No theory can stand except by vindication in practical tests. Professor Murray carries into his discussion from its outset an ethical conception of religion. Viewing religion as attachment to God with the will, his definition of the ethical ideal of Christianity as revealed in Jesus is ‘the realization of God’s will with regard to man.’ This is then exhibited in its pre-Christian evolution, in its New Testament presentations, in its development in individual life and character, in the church, the family, the state, and, finally, in general and special methods of moral culture.”—Outlook.
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“While the work fails to do justice to many problems growing out of a genetic study of morality, it is an unusually excellent discussion of the subject from the point of view with which most clergymen are familiar, and is especially valuable because it expounds morals in terms of defensible psychology.” G. B. Smith.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 471. Jl. ’09. 500w.
“An excellent summary.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 143. F. ’09. 30w.
“Comprehensiveness, insight, discrimination, and lucidity characterize the discussion throughout. Here and there one is disposed to question.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 247. Ja. 30, ’09. 340w.
“The book is a sensible presentation of the subject. It is well written and well arranged, and will be of great service to the student and general reader desiring an introduction to the study of Christian ethics.” Frank Thilly.
+ =Philos. R.= 18: 549. S. ’09. 1400w.
=Musselman, Rev. Hugh Thomas, and Tralle, Rev. H. E.= The Sunday-school teacher’s school. *40c. Am. Bapt.
The first part of this handbook written by Mr. Musselman discusses the work and organization of the Sunday school; the second part by Mr. Tralle deals with its conduct and equipment.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 176. Je. ’09.
=Musset, Paul Edme de.= Mr. Wind and Madame Rain; tr. with permission of the author by Emily Makepeace. (Harper’s young people ser.) †60c. Harper.
9–35180.
A nursery tale composed of material gathered from the unconnected folk-lore recitals of Breton peasants.
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“A cheap reprint that will serve for ordinary use and has the advantage of being lighter in weight. The story is based on legends of Brittany, is full of action and narrated with great charm and simplicity.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 64. F. ’09. ✠
“An enchanting tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 631. O. 24, ’08. 30w.