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=Daffan, Katie.= Woman in history. *$2. Neale.

9–2.

Twenty-nine women famous for rulership, for qualities of heroism or for beauty constitute this galaxy: Cleopatra; Vashti; Queen Esther; Queen of Sheba; Aspasia; Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi; Mary, the mother of Jesus; Hypatia; Heloise; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Matilda of Flanders; Beatrice Portinari; Joan of Arc; Elizabeth of England; Mary Stuart; Nelle Gwynne; Madame de Maintenon; Madame Pompadour and Madame du Barry; Marie Antoinette; Madame Roland; Charlotte Corday; Madame de Stael; Madame Recamier; Empress Josephine; Maria Theresa; Catherine II; Queen Victoria and Eugenie.

=Daggett, Mabel Potter.=^{[12]} In Lockerbie street: a little appreciation of James Whitcomb Riley. *50c. Dodge, B. W.

9–28407.

A charming appreciation of Mr. Riley as he lives, laughs and sorrows with Lockerbie street. “In Lockerbie street he is one of the folks,” he visits the corner grocery, entertains troops of children, gives generously of his pennies and likewise of his genial, sympathetic personality. Why Mr. Riley has never married, the writer admits, is his own secret; why he stays away from church is summed up in the following: “I don’t go to church only when I have to. I can’t bear the awe and gloom. I don’t like worship that way. It ought to be cheerful and joyful.... It just sort o’ clabbers my mind to go to church.”

=Daggett, Stuart.= Railroad reorganization. (Harvard economic studies, v. 4.) **$2. Houghton.

8–15469.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

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“On the whole, the work appears to me to be excellent. It is one of the few books which have appeared on railways during the past ten years that is worth the serious study of a serious student.” H: C. Adams.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 838. Jl. ’09. 620w.

“Is the most important addition made in 1908 to the book literature upon railroad transportation. The volume has several distinctive merits: It deals with a relatively neglected phase of railroad history and management; it approaches the subject by the scientific highway of induction and careful analysis; and lastly the work has not been done hastily, but is the result of years of study.” E. R. Johnson.

+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 470. Mr. ’09. 600w.

“So far as the work is expository little can be said except in praise. But so far as the work is critical one gathers the impression that the author’s thought has not been quite mature.” H. S. Smalley.

+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 341. D. ’08. 750w.

=Dahlke, Paul.= Buddhist essays; tr. from the German by Bhikkhu Silacara. *$3. Macmillan.

9–15096.

“Dahlke’s ‘Essays’ are a fair presentation of the religion of his Master; for the most part they give a presentation of the texts themselves, taken from the Middle collection of the second book of the Pali canon. They deal with Buddha’s life and with the teaching in regard to life, sorrow, Nirvana, God, morality, asceticism, etc. To these the author adds his own exegesis and conclusions.”—Nation.

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“As each essay is complete in itself and independent of the rest, the plan of the volume involves a certain amount of reiteration and restatement, but the result is undoubtedly a great gain in clearness and precision.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 406. Ap. 3. 750w.

“So far as we have compared the translation with the original, the English version is idiomatic and satisfactory. If only as an antidote to the pernicious ‘mischmasch’ so often offered to the general public as Buddhism this volume would be heartily welcome. Nevertheless, it is not without grave defects; and if space permitted it would be worth while enlarging on these, for they are the defects of the school to which Dahlke belongs.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 173. F. 18, ’09. 950w.

“This is in two points of view a valuable book—first as a full and reliable exposition of an exclusively Oriental system of thought by an appreciative European convert, but chiefly as furnishing a fresh incentive to rid Christianity of accretions which give a starting-point for such religious nihilism.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 595. N. 14, ’08. 260w.

=Dalhousie, Fox Maule.= Panmure papers: being a selection from the correspondence of Fox Maule, Second Baron Panmure, afterwards eleventh earl of Dalhousie, K. T., G. C. B.; ed. by Sir G: Douglas and Sir G: Dalhousie Ramsay. 2v. *$6. Clode, E. J.

9–3530.

“Letters written and received by Lord Panmure while he was at the head of the British war department and a member of Lord Palmerston’s Cabinet, have been the means of disseminating considerable interesting information. The period covered by the correspondence is that during which the British and their allies were fighting against Russia in Crimea. Among those who contributed to the correspondence were Palmerston, Lord Raglan, the Duke of Cambridge, Gen. Sir James Simpson, Gen. Sir William Codrington, Queen Victoria herself, and her devoted husband, the Prince Consort.”—N. Y. Times.

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“What is new is the detailed statement of the practice of the rulers of the nation as to the best mode in which to regulate the fortunes of a most difficult undertaking.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 533. O. 31. 4300w.

“The military student will gain from a study of the letters knowledge that heretofore has not been available of the operations of the British forces in one of the world’s greatest wars. Another very important feature of the correspondence is the light it throws upon the Queen as she followed the course of events in the Crimean peninsula with deeply concerned and intelligent interest.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 770. D. 12, ’08. 920w.

“A most valuable and interesting book; but the editors would have done better if they had reduced its dimensions by omitting about half of the letters, many of which are purely formal.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 761. D. 19, ’08. 390w.

“No student of history can afford to neglect these two stout volumes, which are excellently edited. The despatches tell their own story, and little more than the editing was required.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 674. O. 31, ’08. 1800w.

=Dalliba, Gerda.= Earth poem and other poems; with an introd. by Edwin Markham. **$2. Putnam.

8–25379.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

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“It is an amorphous composition, in which nuggets of poetic diction may be found imbedded. We must call the book the work of a nature at present utterly unregulated, from both the intellectual and the artistic points of view.” W: M. Payne.

− + =Dial.= 46: 51. Ja. 16, ’09. 320w.

“If vagueness of thought, obscureness of language, veiled meanings which are but the echoes of meanings, constitute a poet, then Gerda Dalliba is a poet. The author evidently has youth; she certainly has the courage of invention; what is also important, she has a good ear for rhythm.”

− + =Ind.= 67: 880. O. 14, ’09. 370w.

“With such a subject, the wonder is, not that the poem is so long, but that it is so good—by fits and starts.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 41. Ja. 14, ’09. 150w.

=Dallimore, W.= Holly, yew and box; with notes on other evergreens; the descriptions of the varieties of the common holly are based on the monograph by T: Moore. **$2.50. Lane.

9–616.

“The volume deals with these three elements of the garden, rather than with the garden itself. The illustrations of English holly trees are exceedingly effective, and indicate the high value of the plants in the construction of picturesque combinations.... The volume contains much besides a mere botanical review of the holly. The patient box, which has borne so much mutilation from formal gardeners, and the sombre yew also, find here congenial treatment, but they and a few other evergreen trees are kept a little out of proportion by the greater space deservedly assigned to the hollies.”—Nation.

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“The value of this book centres chiefly on the reproduction of a unique series of illustrations of holly leaves published by the late Thomas Moore in ‘The gardeners’ chronicle’ in the years 1874–6.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 411. Ap. 3. 330w.

“Lovers of trees and of the folk-lore of trees will find in this work much of deep interest.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 470. N. 12, ’08. 200w.

“Full of practical, present day information on the different varieties with helpful suggestions as to their planting and proper care.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 31. Ja. 16, ’09. 730w.

=Daly, Thomas Augustine.=^{[6]} Carmina. **$1. Lane.

9–9231.

Some eighty pieces reprinted from the Catholic standard and times. “Mr. Daly is poet laureate of the peanut peddler. He can also handle Irish dialect and plain English, but other people can do that, while in Italo-American he has no rival. But it is no mere display of ‘dialectics.’ The ballads have point, pathos and human nature.” (Ind.)

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“The sympathy of Mr. Daly’s Italian lyrics even—and they are the best of his book—is not often wistful enough to be real. The occasional exceptions, like ‘Leetla Joe’ and ‘The mourner,’ make one wish there were more of them; and the dedicatory sonnet, ‘To a tenant,’ would honour a richer offering.” Brian Hooker.

+ − =Bookm.= 29: 368. Je. ’09. 200w.

“It contains all the elements of his popularity, which are easily described. He is always sane, he is eminently human and genial, and takes a joyful attitude towards life. The brighter and happier qualities of the Celtic character are revealed in his song. He writes without obscurity and on themes of popular interest. He has something definite to say in each separate piece and knows how to build up a poem. Over all his work, according to his subject, presides a graceful fancy or a true feeling, or a humor that is always natural and agreeable.”

+ =Cath. World.= 89: 399. Je. ’09. 650w.

“They are the sort of thing that you cut out of a newspaper and carry around in your pocket to read to appreciative friends until the clipping is worn out, and then you copy it, unless you know it by heart.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1084. My. 20, ’09. 230w.

“Because of the dialect, or in spite of it, and because of a pretty gift of rhyme and line and a wholesome sentiment, because also of something of romance, of tragedy in the exile’s lot, something oddly appealing in the aspiration of the transplanted Italian especially to be a good American—these little bits of occasional verse have made friends.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 256. Ap. 24, ’09. 200w.

=Dana, John Cotton.=^{[12]} Modern American library economy; as illustrated by the Newark, N. J. Free public library. Pt. 1, *25c; Pt. 5, *75c. Elm tree press; for sale by the H. W. Wilson co.

8–36693.

=Pt. 1.= The lending department.

This pamphlet includes the first section of Pt. 1 devoted to the subject, “The work of the registration desk,” by Sara C. Van de Carr. It discusses minutely the methods and routine of registration, giving diagrams and alphabetical list of special furniture and equipment required for registration work.

=Pt. 5.= The school department.

A pamphlet containing the second section of pt. 5, in which there is discussed the “Course for Normal school pupils on the use of a library,” by Marjory L. Gilson. It gives in outline a course of twelve lessons, with suggestions for practice work and working materials.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 8. Ja. ’09. (Review of pt. 1, sec. 1.)

“Will be helpful to other libraries carrying on or wishing to take up similar courses.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 161. Je. ’09. ✠ (Review of pt. 5, sec. 2.)

“Better redundancy than defect, however, in a work of this kind.”’

+ − =Dial.= 46: 406. Je. 16, ’09. 160w. (Review of pt. 5, sec. 2.)

=Daniels, John.= Outline of economics. *40c. Ginn.

8–30043.

“A very concise synopsis of the entire field of economic science.”—Educ. R.

* * * * *

“Its greatest use will undoubtedly be found as a guide to lecture work by the college instructor.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 453. Mr. ’09. 110w.

“As a guide, the book will help the student get his ideas in order and keep them so.”

+ =Educ. R.= 37: 99. Ja. ’09. 70w.

“He writes lucidly, as he desired to do, and in those cases where a terse statement is adequate his formulation is often excellent. Interesting but hardly important.”

+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 104. F. ’09. 200w. =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 558. S. ’09. 130w.

“To those who attended this course the book will doubtless be of value; it is hard, however, to see how it can serve the other purposes (five in number) which the author indicates for it.”

− + =Yale R.= 18: 106. My. ’09. 140w.

=Darwin, Charles Robert.=^{[12]} Foundations of the origin of species: two essays written in 1842 and 1844; ed. by Francis Darwin. *$2.50. Putnam.

“These two abstracts, one of 1842 and the other of 1844, ... are edited and an introduction is furnished by Francis Darwin. The 1842 essay ... is simply a worker’s outline notes, preliminary to a careful setting forth of the subject.... It is interesting chiefly for two reasons: one, because the outline is Darwin’s—we see how the master worked; the other, because it, in connection with the 1844 essay, shows how his ideas changed and developed in the twenty years from 1839 when he read Malthus to 1859 when the ‘Origin’ appeared. The 1844 essay is much easier and more satisfactory reading than the earlier outline. It is a far more carefully prepared statement of the subject, which was originally written as a sort of ‘insurance policy’ on Darwin’s ideas as to the origin of species.”—Dial.

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+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 333. S. 18. 450w.

“The volume forms an interesting addition to existing Darwiniana.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 389. N. 16, ’09. 350w.

“Almost nothing in his biography brings us into such intimate appreciation of Darwin’s methods of work as this stray outline or “Foundation,” cast aside and never intended for publication.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 413. O. 28, ’09. 470w. + =Sat. R.= 108: 24. Jl. 3, ’09. 200w.

=Darwin, Sir George Howard.=^{[9]} Scientific papers. v. 2, Tidal friction and cosmogony. *$4.50. Putnam.

Nine papers whose underlying thesis is that, whatever the actual constitution of the earth may be, it must be more or less plastic. “The following papers are included in the volume:—(1) On the bodily tides of viscous and semi-elastic spheroids, and on the ocean tides upon a yielding nucleus, (2) Note on Thomson’s theory of the tides of an elastic sphere, (3) On the precession of a viscous spheroid, and on the remote history of the earth, (4) Problems connected with the tides of a viscous spheroid, (5) The determination of the secular effects of tidal friction by a graphical method, (6) On the secular changes in the elements of the orbit of a satellite revolving about a tidally distorted planet, (7) On the analytical expressions which give the history of a fluid planet of small viscosity, attended by a single satellite, (8) On the tidal friction of a planet attended by several satellites, and on the evolution of the solar system, (9) On the stresses caused in the interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains.” (Nature.)

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“Each of the papers in the volume before us contains a summary which the general reader will find perfectly intelligible, and which will give him the opportunity of watching the growth of a vigorous theory and of admiring the combination of poetic imagination and untiring industry which marks its author.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 186. Ag. 14. 400w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Workers in mathematical physics will be grateful to the author for his careful revision.” A. E. H. L.

+ =Nature.= 80: 421. Je. 10, ’09. 1550w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Some features of the author’s work and methods appear to the present reviewer to be of high value in the study of applied mathematics. The collection will thus be something more than a reprint.” E: W. Brown.

+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 212. Ag. 13, ’09. 2200w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Daulton, Mrs. Agnes McClelland.=^{[11]} From Sioux to Susan. †$1.50. Century.

9–26139.

Girls of boarding school age and younger will delight in this story of Sue, the minister’s daughter, the merry, unselfish tomboy who was the main help of her mother in their big happy-go-lucky family but whose slang was a constant distress to both parents. The story tells of her life at home and at school, her troubles and escapades and her gradual development from the “Sioux” whose madcap ways so shocked her elders to Susan lovable and womanly. Her friends, teachers, and small brothers and sisters fill out the tale.

=Davenport, Herbert Joseph.= Exercises in value theory, based upon “Value and distribution.” pa. *25c. Univ. of Chicago press.

“A companion volume to Professor Davenport’s ‘Value and distribution,’ reviewed elsewhere. It is intended for the use of the teacher in the classroom, and consists of specific questions on the various chapters of the larger book. The booklet is printed in such a manner as to make easy the interpolation of other sheets, and for the purpose of annotation by the teachers.”—Yale R.

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=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 712. D. ’08. 80w.

“It should serve a very useful purpose for all who make use in the classroom of the larger work, or for advanced students, to whom it should be valuable in testing mastery of what has been read.”

+ =Yale R.= 17: 460. F. ’09. 100w.

=Davenport, Homer Calvin.=^{[11]} My quest of the Arab horse. *$2. Dodge, B. W.

9–27600.

The record of a search for pure blooded Arab horses whose pedigree could be traced back to the Anezeh tribe of Bedouins. The purpose was a serious one, for the author hoped that by a judicious use of the pure Arabian blood, a breed of horse might be re-established as useful to mankind as was the Morgan horse when it was at its greatest. The story includes much of the romance of the desert and of the journey to it.

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“Has the double merit of being a capital, cheerful, observant and graphic narrative of travel in Turkey and Arabia, spiced with humor, and a tribute to the noble beast he went to seek whose eloquence will appeal to every lover of horses.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1146. N. 18, ’09. 130w.

“The volume is in itself an interesting story of adventure, quite apart from its relation to horses. Horsemen, however, will read the book with peculiar interest.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 200w.

=Davidson, John.=^{[8]} Fleet street, and other poems. *$1. Kennerley.

9–15396.

The last work of a morbid poet who ended his own life. “It contains no new note, it includes most of the different kinds of verse for which John Davidson was rightly famous. In ‘Fleet street,’ and ‘Snow flakes,’ and ‘Cain’ there is that strange mixture of science, imagination, and rebellion (not to say blasphemy) which we have in the Testaments and Mammon dramas. In ‘The crystal palace,’ ‘Rail and road,’ and others we have that genial satiric description of which Davidson is a master. Some of the songs once more display that birdlike note he had at his best; and we have more of the Eclogues which established his reputation with many.” (Ath.)

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“We do not think the volume as a whole will add to the writer’s fame; but it will in no wise diminish it. There is nothing common or poor from cover to cover, and a reader who knew nothing of Davidson’s previous work might form from this small collection a not inadequate notion of his quality.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 36. Jl. 10. 1250w.

“Bitterness is the underlying note of his verse, and mordant irony its characteristic method of expression. Himself out of tune of life, he hears only discords and is powerless to effect their resolution.” W: M. Payne.

− =Dial.= 47: 96. Ag. 16, ’09. 500w.

“In spite of much good, though curious, verse, without which we should be the poorer by a thing unique, the appeal of his poetry draws very much upon the humanity of its author.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 256. S. 16, ’09. 870w.

“These poems should be read with certain prejudices in leash. So read it will appear that though the faults are great the merits are greater.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 427. Jl. 10, ’09. 700w.

“To those who neglected his development since his first three volumes until the last one the notable points are the increase of minute observation; the intent, strained attention to microscopic detail; the unrelieved self-consciousness, the mind turning trebly upon itself and over-intent to every step of its operations. The handling of words is remarkable and the descriptions are exact to the point of eloquence; it is truth hounded and tracked until it shrieks its name.”

+ =No. Am.= 190: 705. N. ’09. 300w.

“Almost sounds like a burlesque of Whitman. Do you wonder that it was not popular?”

− =Putnam’s.= 7: 247. N. ’09. 870w.

“In ‘Cain,’ John Davidson is at his best and worst. It is fine rhetoric occasionally touched with a real emotion that brings it almost to the level of good poetry.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 321. S. 11, ’09. 260w.

=Davidson, John, and Gray, Alexander.=^{[8]} Scottish staple at Veere: a study in the economic history of Scotland. *$4.50. Longmans.

9–14959.

A work that falls readily into two main divisions: “the former, corresponding to Part 1 and comprising the first 112 pages of the volume, gives an admirable summary of the development of Scottish trade up to the close of the sixteenth century; the second, corresponding to Parts 2 and 3, and forming the bulk of the work, describes in detail the history, organization, and development of the Scottish staple in the Netherlands.” (Nation.)

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“The brief bibliography would be better for some well-placed critical comments. The presentation of the subject is clear and logical and the method is scholarly.” W: E. Lingelbach.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 122. O. ’09. 750w.

“Does honor to the industry and intelligence of the late Professor John Davidson and of Mr. Alexander Gray, who has completed the work from Professor Davidson’s notes.” H. M. Stephens.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 617. N. ’09. 500w.

“The work is comprehensively planned, Mr. Gray having succeeded in preserving uniformity of style. It is, however, too often overburdened with unimportant, though not irrelevant, detail; and, having no table of contents and only an imperfect index, is a mine of information not easily tapped.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 526. My. 1. 620w.

“A most careful, thorough, and scholarly study of an important subject in Scotch economic history.”

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 546. O. ’09. 130w.

“This is an able and scholarly book on an important phase of an extremely thorny subject.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 78. Jl. 22, ’09. 1050w.

=Davidson, K. L.= Gardens past and present. *$1.50. Scribner.

Agr9–1576.

“A chatty account of the history and art of gardening in England. The author goes back into the very beginnings of British history and with a graceful pen follows the development of English gardens down to more recent years and then discourses entertainingly and instructively about various kinds of gardens—bulb, herb, rose, water, and others. She gives, evidently out of long experience, much advice about the making of these pleasant places, basing it upon general principles and now and then describing details. But all this is plentifully diluted with interesting information, historical and other, with literary allusions and with bits of description such as nature lovers delight in.”—N. Y. Times.

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“Though of slight practical value in this country the graceful style and often entertaining text will attract garden-lovers.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 70. N. ’09.

“Mrs. Davidson’s book on gardens is more satisfactory than more pretentious treatises; but its value would have been enhanced had it been better produced. The matter of the book is excellent. The author has studied her subject, and is full of garden lore, which she can use so as to interest. She has also good taste.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 230. F. 20. 380w.

“Admirable volume.” S. A. Shafer.

+ =Dial.= 46: 367. Je. 1, ’09. 180w.

“The illustrations on the paper required for half-tones are really good, and the text is above mediocrity.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 203. F. 25, ’09. 340w.

“Especially charming as to text.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 95. F. 20, ’09. 220w.

=Davies, Gerald Stanley.=^{[9]} Ghirlandaio. (Classics of art ser.) *$4. Scribner.

9–18604.

The first volume in English devoted wholly to this member of the minor Florentine artists who together prepared the way for Botticelli, Perugino, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea del Sarto and Michael Angelo.

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“As the only work on Ghirlandaio in English, this volume will be useful in large libraries though in itself an indifferent production.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 10. S. ’09.

“This useful work is carried out in conscientious fashion and with excellent taste.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 244. Ag. 28. 120w.

“Avoiding the too common fault of overlaudation, Mr. Davies traces the gradual development of the master’s distinctive style, dispelling by the way several long-accepted errors.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 338. F. ’09. 300w.

“We can recommend little in this slipshod monograph except the clear type and the good cuts.”

− =Nation.= 89: 148. Ag. 12, ’09. 400w.

=Davies, Henry Rodolph.=^{[6]} Yün-nan, the link between India and the Yangtze. *$5. Putnam.

9–18957.

“While Major H. R. Davies, of the British Army, made his trips thru Yün-nan for a purpose that is suggested in his subtitle, the advocacy, namely, of thru communication between British India and China, he yet furnishes a work of wider interest, in that a great part of the territory he traversed had been previously untrodden, even by missionaries, while much of the remainder had not previously been described. His book is elaborately provided with appendixes dealing with the various tribes of western China, the climate, products, and prospects of the country, etc.”—Ind.

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“Major Davies has added to his clear and carefully written narrative a set of brief chapters and tabular statements dealing with the commercial, industrial, and ethnical aspects of the Yün-nan province.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 639. My. 29. 1350w.

“A work primarily for the geographer, in so far as it is not a commercial survey for a railroad, but containing many pages of interest to the general reader, even tho perilous adventure be lacking.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1138. My. 27, ’09. 140w.

“Theories about railway construction apart, Major Davies’ book is a most valuable gazetteer of the province, a work which all interested in South-western China should get.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 754. Je. 12, ’09. 1600w.

“The interest of Major Davies’s book for most readers will lie in his very acute and lively observations of men and things.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 670. Ap. 24, ’09. 350w.

=Davies, Randall, and Hunt, Cecil=, comps. Stories of the English artists from Vandyck to Turner. $3. Duffield.

9–8431.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

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“A good collection for popular use; contains artists of whom the average library would need no individual biography.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 101. Ap. ’09.

“A book made up in this way can never rank as an authority.”

− =Ath.= 1909, 1: 382. Mr. 27. 570w. + =Ind.= 66: 588. Mr. 18, ’09. 90w. + =Int. Studio.= 36; 252. Ja. ’09. 100w.

=Daviess, Maria Thompson.=^{[9]} Miss Selina Lue and the soap-box babies. †$1. Bobbs.

9–26670.

Miss Selina Lue is a glorified Mrs. Wiggs—glorified to the extent that her philosophy, practical and livable in the extreme, is spiritualized by her unconscious adaptation of the principles of very modern thought, no longer called new thought. She runs a grocery store and incidentally takes care of the neighborhood babies, keeps a sort of day nursery, so to speak; helps along a charming romance; and achieves as a crowning stroke the reconciliation between a lumber king and his son who would paint pictures while the father roared and scolded and disowned him, hoping thereby to compel him to repent and enter a partnership.

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“A sweetly sentimental and very diverting little story.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 89. N. ’09. ✠

“The book makes a pleasant and amusing little character sketch, while the loving kindness that radiates from the person of Miss Selina Lue ought to be sufficient to warm and cheer the most disgruntled and pessimistic reader.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 624. O. 23, ’09. 200w.

=Davis, Charles Belmont.=^{[5]} Lodger overhead and others. †$1.50. Scribner.

9–10027.

These ten stories are like the earlier stories of the author’s elder brother, Richard Harding Davis, and some of the same characters appear. One meets a Van Bibber under another name; pathetic, hardworking vaudeville artists; a butler whose invalid child needs medical attention quite beyond the family resources; and various typical New York characters.

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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 186. Je. ’09.

“There is good work in the ten stories.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 551. S. 2, ’09. 110w.

“After injecting quite a dose of abstract speculation into his first story, our author seems to have had enough. At any rate, he settles down to dispensing narrative of a mildly moralistic, mildly sentimental flavor without particular character or distinction.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 101. Jl. 29, ’09. 230w.

“Although this deft handling sometimes runs a little too far into idealism and the picture is often a little too dimly impressionistic, the stories are altogether delightful.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 304. My. 15, ’09. 240w.

“Occasionally the proprieties get a jolt, but serious disaster is always diverted.”

+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 70w.

=Davis, John.=^{[10]} Travels of four years and a half in the United States of America, 1798–1802; ed. by A. J. Morrison. **$2.50. Holt.

A reprint of a book of travel published in 1803 and dedicated to Thomas Jefferson. The author, John Davis, “was a vagrant from his youth, and is an interesting figure quite apart from the significance of his activities as international author and observer of young America.” His travels extended thru the “southern states of North America” and he was prevailed upon to turn publisher when he observed how poor were the contemporary accounts of travel.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 717. N. 20, ’09. 170w.

“Mr. Morrison’s preface and notes of comparison where other travelers’ accounts agree or disagree with Davis’s enhance the interest for the ordinary reader, and for the historian are invaluable, for they hint at wide vistas of fascinating inquiry.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 789. D. 11, ’09. 730w.

=Davis, Mrs. Mary Evelyn.= Moons of Balbanca. †$1. Houghton.

8–23106.

Mainly children under fourteen figure in this story of the French quarter of New Orleans. Their chief amusement is that of acting out Robin Hood tales, Indian stories, etc., of planning holiday festivities after the southern fashion, and of devising emblems for the months of the year. They skirt with child curiosity upon the edge of a romance which concerns two grown-ups of the story.

* * * * *

“Will not attract many children because of the ‘patois’ and superstitions, but will be enjoyed by a few, especially if read to them.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 190. Je. ’09.

“A skilful blending of social custom and clever adventure.” M. J. Moses.

+ =Ind.= 65: 1477. D. 17, ’08. 40w.

“Is as nice a children’s story as any boy or girl could wish to read.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 580. O. 17, ’08. 220w.

=Davis, Michael Marks.=^{[10]} Psychological interpretations of society. (Columbia university studies in history, economics and public law. v. 33, no. 2.) *$2.50. Longmans.

9–11542.

“Some two years ago the author privately printed as his Ph. D. thesis about one-third of the present volume, i.e., the second section whose title is ‘Social function.’ This is an illuminating study of the theories of Gabriel Tarde. To this have been added section one, ‘The social mind,’ and the last section, ‘Applications.’ The volume is essentially a survey of the theories of various writers.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 71. N. ’09.

“Dr. Davis has covered a wide range of reading and presents his matter in interesting form.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 426. S. ’09. 100w.

“Students of social theory will welcome the evidence he musters as well as the historical facts.” Carl Kelsey.

+ =Survey.= 22: 539. Jl. 10, ’09. 600w.

=Davis, Norah.= Wallace Rhodes: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.

9–9508.

A story whose scene is laid in the cotton delta of Louisiana, and which deals with old southern families—American not French or Creole. The principal characters sketched are Wallace Rhodes, a widower, his son, and Veronica Bowdre, the last of the line of beautiful and alluring Bowdre women. The son intends to marry Veronica who has been careless of the code of her set and has committed social indiscretions. The father sends the son away, and, turning to the young woman with the hope of urging her to relinquish her claim upon the son, falls in love with her himself, marries her, and then plans a course of restitution for his seeming double-dealing.

* * * * *

“No technical merits could make such a plot convincing, or awaken much sympathy for any of the persons concerned.” W: M. Payne.

− =Dial.= 46: 372. Je. 1, ’09. 250w.

“The actual story, entertainingly carried along is made on a foundation quite too artificial to give the book a firm hold on acceptance.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 77. Jl. 22, ’09. 350w.

“Is unusual in both theme and quality. There are some readers doubtless to whom the former will be repellent, and there are others to whom the latter will not appeal.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 240. Ap. 17, ’09. 230w.

“The struggle between parental and filial love and passion is the powerful undercurrent upon which float and sparkle the bubbles of provincial humor, gossip, and social effort. The book is well written, and will be found entertaining.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 20*. My. 1, ’09. 230w.

=Davis, Richard Harding.=^{[6]} White mice. †$1.50. Scribner.

9–13544.

The lion of the tale is General Don Miguel Rojas who has served Venezuela as minister of foreign affairs and who at the moment of the story’s beginning is deep in a dungeon cell underneath the fortress in the harbor of Porto Cabello. The “White mice” are two Americans who set about to nibble the net that had enmeshed the wronged official. Drawn into the story that grows up about this situation are the family of the imprisoned man, all of whom except one daughter distrust the intentions of the liberators, a jealous American consul, a prison doctor, an engineer, and servants. Elements found in Dumas and Anthony Hope mingle in the strategy and the quick action required for successful execution of plans.

* * * * *

“Light, lively tale of average interest.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 186. Je. ’09. ✠

“Mr. Davis in his new book shows himself again a novelist of gift who has set himself no high task.”

+ =Atlan.= 104: 680. N. ’09. 180w.

“The book shows Mr. Davis dextrous in the handling of his tools, but the old spirit of other years—the dash, the fire, and above all the buoyant enthusiasm that marked even the most preposterous pages of ‘Soldiers of fortune’—seems irrevocably gone.” A. B. Maurice.

+ − =Bookm.= 29: 541. Jl. ’09. 1300w.

“The tale is breezy, ‘smart,’ topical, and enlivened by slangy humor. It may be read at a gallop, and put aside without a pang.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 48. Jl. 16, ’09. 120w.

“A very interesting tale.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 423. Ag. 19, ’09. 100w. =Nation.= 89: 77. Jl. 22, ’09. 380w.

“In short, it is a very good sample of its kind, and as summer fiction will serve the purpose admirably.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.

“A breezy, alert story of love, adventure, and revolution.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 763. Je. ’09. 60w.

=Davis, William Stearns.=^{[10]} Outline history of the Roman empire. (44 B. C. to 378 A. D.) *65c. Macmillan.

9–23012.

A brief outline narrative which aims to lead the student into mediæval history by showing him the progress and fall of the Roman empire from which feudal Europe issued.

* * * * *

“The work is brief, clear, and readable. The method, however, does not escape the defects incidental to summarizing historical judgments in brief space. The last chapter, especially, on ‘Christianity and the empire,’ is open to criticism.”

+ − =Cath. World.= 90: 396. D. ’09. 120w.

“The volume is notable for the skill with which a long and moving story has been presented clearly and with precision in such brief space, and for the care with which, in a few words here and there, the author brings out the fact that the happiness and pursuits of the people of the empire were little affected by imperial crimes and tragedies.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 536. O. 2, ’09. 140w.

=Dawson, Rev. Edwin Collas.= Heroines of missionary adventure. (Heroes ser.) *$1.50. Lippincott.

9–593.

Brief biographies of a group of missionary workers whose courage, faith, endurance, resourcefulness and devotion to service entitle them to be classed among the greater heroines of dangerous adventure. Among them are Mme. Coillard, Irene Petrie, Mary Louisa Whately, Mrs. Alexander Duff, Isabella Bird Bishop, Fanny Butler, Mary Reed and Hansina Hinz.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 13: 800. D. 26, ’08. 160w.

“This volume will be found most useful for preparing programmes, as its records are true, and many instances recorded are thrilling.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 977. D. 26, ’08. 170w. + =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 14. D. 12, ’08. 30w.

“Our readers should explore for themselves the treasures which we have left untouched.”

+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 807. N. 21, ’08. 950w.

=Dawson, George E.=^{[11]} Child and his religion. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.

9–28188.

Four addresses prepared at different times which have not the unity of a single work yet which have a common aim: viz., that of bringing the so-called natural processes of life and education into harmony with religious processes. The contents are: Interest as a measure of values; The natural religion of children; Children’s interest in the Bible; The problem of religious education; Index.

* * * * *

“Mr. Dawson loves and understands children and we gladly give him credit for the fresh, candid, and earnest way in which he handles a very difficult problem.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 776. N. 6, ’09. 200w.

=Dawson, William Harbutt.= Evolution of modern Germany. *$4. Scribner.

9–4082.

“At first sight the reader will wonder whether the book is likely to be in any sense parallel to Mr. Bodley’s book on France. He will soon discover that it is not so. Mr. Dawson gives few pictures of German life, dwells little on German politics, and hardly at all on German history. His book is primarily economic, yet by no means exclusively so. It is an elaborate and interesting study of Germany as a trading nation, and it deals by the way with the education and social environment which are the setting of the great trading spirit.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“Scholarly and technical; not a book for the average reader.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 161. Je. ’09.

“Mr. Dawson has succeeded in putting in readable form a mass of information which will prove valuable to every student of industrial advance and international affairs.” C. L. Jones.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 434. S. ’09. 430w.

“A very solid book by one who knows Germany thoroughly, in literature, in statistics, in actual life. The author has wide knowledge, and his opinions, though they are open in many points to attack, do not obtrude themselves. He supplies a reasoned collection of facts, not a partisan presentation of conclusions.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 36. Ja. 9. 1100w.

“His book is a valuable granary of fact for every student who would understand political and economic Germany.” W. H. Carruth.

+ =Dial.= 46: 224. Ap. 1, ’09. 1100w.

“The legislator, the merchant, or the teacher, who is not trained [in the use of statistics] and for whom figures have no fascination, cannot find a more satisfactory and stimulating explanation of the increasing severity of German competition in industry and commerce.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 536. My. 27, ’09. 550w.

“As may be presumed, the whole spirit of Mr. Dawson’s book is conciliatory. Not clearly discerning the inevitable alternative, he encourages foreign industrial nations to compete with Germany and rival her on her own ground.” Walter Littlefield.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 87. F. 13, ’09. 1000w.

“A thorough, comprehensive, and authoritative study.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 227. Ap. 10, ’09. 10w.

“The most interesting part of the book, so it seems to us, lies, first, in the author’s views as to German industrial competition, and, second, as to the policy of nationalization and municipalization.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 246. Ja. 30, ’09. 440w.

“Set forth in a judicial, scholarly way.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 251. F. ’09. 220w.

=Dawson, William James.=^{[11]} Masterman and son. **$1.20. Revell.

9–27031.

A story made up of the usual elements—life, love, business, adventure—thru which runs an unusual relation between a father and son. The son, a young man of honesty of purpose, is pitted against an unprincipled father who treats the former’s fine ideals of right and justice as so many bubbles to be burst by brutally lucid expositions of what business meant from his unscrupulous view point.

* * * * *

“As a story the book has not much interest, but it is full of much wise comment upon the modern ways of the world, the values of life, the forces that go into the building of character, and the various attitudes toward life of thinking men.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 728. N. 20, ’09. 230w.

=Dawson, William James.= Soldier of the future. †$1.50. Revell.

8–24464.

A novel built up about the shortcomings of the church as it exists to-day and the second coming of Christ.

* * * * *

“Considered as a story, the book is a neat little doe-eyed failure, but it abounds in startling visions and situations relating to life and eternity that are likely to leave a lasting impression.”

− + =Ind.= 66: 148. Ja. 21, ’09. 300w.

“So far as the story is concerned, the author does not make it clear what he is at, though there is evident sincerity and conviction on his part. He is confused both in his psychology and in his philosophy.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 568. O. 10, ’08. 210w.

=Dawson, William James, and Dawson, Coningsby W=:, eds.^{[12]} Great English essayists; with introductory essays and notes. (Readers’ lib.) *$1. Harper.

9–28295.

A volume whose aim is to answer in the field of the essay a growing taste for chosen examples of literature which have attained classical value. Following an introductory chapter on The genesis of the essay are six general divisions as follows under which are grouped representative English essays; The classic essay; The letter essay; The short-story essay; The biographical and critical essay; Impassioned prose; The familiar essay. Among the authors whose essays have been drawn upon are: Bacon, Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Brown, Milton, Samuel Johnson, Cowley, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt.

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=Ind.= 67: 1137. N. 18, ’09. 50w.

“Will be found interesting and valuable, not only as an object for close study as well as occasional reading, but also from the fact that it brings together a lot of the literary material which heretofore has been found in more or less remote places.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 761. D. 4, ’09. 250w.

=Dawson, William James, and Dawson, Coningsby W=:, eds. Great English letter writers; with introductory essays and notes. (Reader’s lib.) 2v. ea. *$1. Harper.

The first two volumes in a new series to be known as the “Reader’s library.” The introductory essays furnish a general historic survey of the art of letter-writing, and a critical estimate of the writers and of their relation to the literature of their age, while the selections themselves have been arranged with a view to the illustration of the growth of the art of letter-writing.

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 71. N. ’09.

“The greatest merit of the collection is its admirable catholicity.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 288. Mr. 6. 600w.

“This anthology of English letters, well chosen and well classified, makes good reading. [The index] is almost as laughable as it is slovenly.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 265. F. 4, ’09. 110w.

“The letters are well selected and presented to greatest advantage.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 881. O. 14, ’09. 230w.

“Both essays are rich with genial thought and human sympathy, both show wide and thorough knowledge of literature and its makers, and both are charming in manner. The work of selection has been admirably done and with preliminary essays and the footnotes will enable the readers of a busy age to gain a fairly complete and succinct view of the development of the art of letter writing and of the characteristics and personalities of its greatest English exponents.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 450w.

=Day, Clarence Munro.=^{[6]} Accounting practice. **$6. Appleton.

8–27505.

“As suggested by the title, Mr. Day’s contribution is designed to serve the purpose of a field book of accounting as distinguished from a treatise on accounting theory. Part 1 is descriptive of the methods of making an audit, adjusting the books, preparing the accountant’s report, and planning a general system of accounting records. Part 2 deals with planning and installing cash accounts. Part 3 is composed of drafts of typical accounting forms and documents. Part 4 describes and illustrates reporting forms. While the first few pages contain elementary commonplaces, the contents generally reflect the experience of a practitioner.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“The full text, exhibits and statements of an accountant’s report setting out in detail the methods of presenting the results of an audit are excellent.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 715. My. ’09. 300w.

“Its place in an accountant’s library is more largely for the use of the clerk or junior than for the senior and principal. The technique is well worked out and the suggestions will be most helpful to those who have not already developed a method or technique through which reliable auditing and critical results may be obtained.” F. A. C.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 47. Ap. ’09. 210w.

“It fills a place in accounting literature not before occupied.” F: A. Cleveland.

+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 6. Ja. 14, ’09. 220w.

=Day, Lewis Foreman.=^{[9]} Nature and ornament; being a new treatise founded on the author’s “Nature in ornament,” which is now incorporated in it. 2v. v. 1. *$2. Scribner.

9–35782.

“This is the first of the two volumes written to replace an earlier work, ‘Nature in ornament,’ which the author explains, he has felt to be deficient in the treatment of the ornamental aspect of nature. The present volume is mainly concerned with illustrating the decorative character of natural growth; the second will seek the evidences of natural form in conventional ornament.” (Ath.) “The motto of this book is ‘Ornament for its own sake’ and throughout the lesson he preaches is the submission of natural form to ornament, not the subordination of ornament to nature.” (Int. Studio.)

* * * * *

=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 10. S. ’09.

“It is written with all Mr. Day’s usual facility and knowledge.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 132. Jl. 31. 220w.

“Mr. Lewis Day goes to the very root of the matter.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 37: 254. My. ’09. 220w. =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 50w.

=Dealey, James Quayle.=^{[8]} Development of the state; its governmental organization and its activities. *$1.50. Silver.

9–10159.

Deals with the essential principles of the state and its organization. It traces political development from its beginnings in the hordetribe to its modern attainment in the United States, England, Continental Europe and New Zealand.

* * * * *

“In the first or historical part he has, from the point of view of the adult reader, succeeded almost too well in making it elementary.” C. H. McIlwain.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 169. O. ’09. 580w.

“A good elementary treatment for the general reader.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 10. S. ’09.

“A very comprehensive and useful little volume, interesting and unprejudiced.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 304. Ag. 5, ’09. 50w.

“Of special interest is his discussion of the electorate as constituting, in a sense a fourth department of government. Many of the footnotes and chapter references are cast in an unfamiliar form, and some of them are slovenly.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 209. S. 2, ’09. 150w.

“Professor Dealey, by an excellent analysis of material culled from writers in various fields, has given a broad survey and composite picture.” T: R. Powell.

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 526. S. ’09. 320w.

“Throughout the book there is a noteworthy tendency to tell how the various departments of government actually do their work, rather than to confine the attention to paper constitutions.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 110w.

“One could wish that Professor Dealey had eschewed the outworn classification of economic periods of development and not left the impression that every state must needs pass through these historic epochs, if it develops at all. In spite of a somewhat Latinized diction, Professor Dealey has written a readable and suggestive text-book. He has had constantly in mind not only the whence but the whither of organized society; and the reader is bound to lay down the book with a clearer realization of the responsibilities of citizenship in the modern state.”

+ − =Yale R.= 18: 222. Ag. ’09. 250w.

=Deans, Richard Storry.=^{[7]} Trials of five queens. *$3.50. Brentano’s.

From the standpoint of the modern lawyer the author discusses in this volume the fates of the five queens, Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Mary queen of Scots, Marie Antoinette, and Caroline of Brunswick. “To a politician of the sixteenth century,” says Mr. Deans, “a false accusation, whereby an opponent was caused to be legally condemned to death, was no more a subject of shame than a lying placard is to a party manager of the twentieth century. In those days the game of politics was played with headsmen’s axes, assassins’ daggers, and poison, concocted accusations and forged documents, where now it is played with party cries, misleading statements, untruthful posters, and lying leaflets. In short, the difference was between a murderer and a liar.”

* * * * *

“We have nothing but praise for the main conception and general execution of Mr. Storry Deans’ work. On some subjects which he incidentally treats, such as the French life of Mary Stuart, he is unsatisfactory, and in matters of detail he is from time to time inaccurate.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 788. Je. 19, ’09. 1250w.

“It is no mere piece of book-making, but a scholarly and picturesque study. Mr. Deans writes with a lawyer’s knowledge and considerable historic imagination. He puts very clearly before the reader the points at issue, and enables him to consider the verdict in the light of modern practice. The author seems to us to overrate the merits of Brougham’s speech, in which there was more bombast than eloquence. Denman’s was by far the finer performance.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 578. Ap. 10, ’09. 320w. =Spec.= 103: 837. N. 20, ’09. 500w.

=Dearle, Norman Burrell.=^{[9]} Problems of unemployment in the London building trades; with an introduction by L. L. Price. *3s. 6d. Dent, London.

9–18552.

“The building trade is obviously one in which there cannot be complete continuity of employment, and Mr. Dearle has very appropriately chosen this trade as the field of an inquiry into the problem of unemployment. He lays the facts before us in great detail and with much clearness, and discusses the remedies suggested. He appreciates the need of greater fluidity and adaptability of labour, and takes the view that for the organising of the labour market in London ‘it will be necessary to reduce non-unionism to that feeble minority, chiefly of inferior men, that it is in some other parts of the country.’”—Spec.

* * * * *

“A valuable supplement to Mr. Beveridge’s more general treatment of the problem.” A. B. Wolfe.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 476. Jl. ’09. 100w.

“Mr. Dearle’s monograph, though we do not entirely agree with it, is most informing, and should be studied by every one interested in the problem of the unemployed.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 243. Ag. 14, ’09. 170w.

=Dearmer, Percy.=^{[11]} Body and soul. *$1.50. Dutton.

9–17979.

“In the first place the author writes from the religious point of view.... Secondly, he believes that the healing influence of soul over body does not rule out the use of physical means of healing.... Thirdly, all healing is in the deepest sense ‘natural.’... Fourthly, he rejects the confusing distinction between ‘functional’ and ‘organic’ disease.... There is discussed at considerable length the relation between soul and body through the nervous system. Then follows discussion as to the possibilities of health being produced through the influence of mind, and of the ‘undermind,’ a term substituted for the unconscious. The author then treats of the New Testament miracles of healing, and gives a sketch of the general relation between healing and religious belief.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“In regard both to style and contents this study of the relation between body and soul merits distinct attention.” E: S. Drown.

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 537. S. 11, ’09. 540w. =Outlook.= 93: 644. N. 20, ’09. 60w.

“There is much that is interesting, and indeed admirable, in Mr. Dearmer’s book, but his ideals are not ours.”

− + =Spec.= 103: sup. 490. O. 2, ’09. 260w.

=De Bary, Richard.= Land of promise; an account of the material and spiritual unity of America. *$1.50. Longmans.

9–7059.

“Mr. De Bary casts sweeping glances at our valleys and plains, wonders at our newspapers, patronizes our schools and colleges, sniffs the faint aroma of our religions, admires our restless and masterful energy, apologizes for our political failings, and adores our women: in short, does all the things that a well-bred and ready-to-wear tourist is expected to do, and dresses it all up in catchy phrases and sententious generalizations that sparkle like the tinsel armor of the stage warrior.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“His generalizations are much sounder than those usually found in books of this type.”

+ =Educ. R.= 38: 201. S. ’09. 130w.

“Of all the recent writers who have committed to print their ‘impressions’ of the United States, none, certainly, has outdone Mr. De Bary in high-sounding rhetoric, or rushed with more breathless enthusiasm at the task, weakly imagined by some timid souls to be a rather serious one, of determining our exact place in the social, philosophical, and æsthetic universe.”

− =Nation.= 88: 304. Mr. 25, ’09. 280w.

“It is evident he studied the American people and their institutions with rare intelligence and alertness, and his book, based upon that study, is both generously appreciative and kindly critical. Mr. De Bary’s serious, practical, and sympathetic view of America runs all through his book, but it is only one of the admirable features of the volume.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 17. Ja. 9, ’09. 1350w.

=DeBekker, Leander Jan.= Stokes’ encyclopedia of music and musicians. **$3. Stokes.

8–33829.

“Covers practically the entire field of music; definition of musical terms in several languages, brief but comprehensive articles on theoretical matters, accounts of the musical instruments, biographies of musicians, composers, performers, singers, conductors, writers, lists of the works of the more important composers, and data concerning symphony orchestras, opera houses, academies, and other musical institutions. Some of this information is difficult of access elsewhere.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“While there is little more than half as much material as in Riemann’s ‘Encyclopaedic dictionary of music,’ this work has the advantage of being thoroughly up to date and costing only half as much.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 38. F. ’09. ✠

“Apart from [small] details, the Stokes ‘encyclopedia’ calls for the highest praise; as a modern supplement to other musical dictionaries it is indispensable in every public or private library.”

+ + − =Nation.= 87: 585. D. 10, ’08. 520w.

“This is a remarkable work of completeness and industry in compilation, conveying the maximum amount of information in the minimum of space.”

+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 690. N. 21, ’08. 360w.

“No work of this kind can be without errors; and for the sake of the next edition the following may be noted. In spite, however, of these shortcomings, ‘Stokes’s encyclopedia’ is certainly a volume which ‘no musician’s library should be without.’” D. G. Mason.

+ − =Putnam’s.= 6: 112. Ap. ’09. 240w.

=DeBunsen, Victoria.=^{[12]} Soul of a Turk. *$3.50. Lane.

The outcome of five journeys in Turkey, both European and Asiatic. The author “has a thesis to prove—that a countless number of religious beliefs and practices all over the world are to be traced back to a common origin—and, hardly ever letting this thesis slip from her grasp, she has imparted a unity to this collection of highly varied sketches.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“Mrs. de Bunsen, we think, is a little overconfident in her intuitions and did not always, we think, see so far into the Turk’s soul as she imagined; yet she saw a good deal further than most male observers, and it is clear that her power of sympathy drew the people’s hearts to her, and led them to reveal themselves as they would not have done to a mere tourist, sheltered behind a bristling Cook’s dragoman and a stolid English husband.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 583. N. 13. 1550w.

“It is told in a way that is intensely interesting.” C: R. Gillette.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 160w.

“Mrs. de Bunsen has the honour of adding something to the researches of Dr. Frazer. We thoroughly commend this book to every one who enjoys following the travels of a plucky, entertaining, and exceptionally intelligent woman.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 646. O. 23, ’09. 2000w.

=Deeping, Warwick.= Mad Barbara. †$1.50. Harper.

9–3879.

An exciting tale set in the reign of Charles II. The young heroine—a feminine type of Hamlet—discovers her father’s murderer to be her mother’s lover, one Lord Gore. She accuses him of the deed, attempts to kill him, is adjudged insane and confined in a lonely castle tower, exposed to cold and poor food until rescued by her lover. Something of the strife between Catholics and Protestants of the time of Charles II enters into the plot of the story.

* * * * *

“The whole is rather a disappointment after the author’s earlier work.”

− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 569. N. 7. 100w.

“This is evidently the material for an exciting tale, and the author has used it to excellent effect.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 182. S. 16, ’09. 250w.

“The story is well worked out, although perhaps a little unnecessarily prolonged toward the end, as if the author were loath to leave his characters.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 119. F. 27, ’09. 310w.

=Deeping, Warwick.=^{[11]} Red saint. $1.50. Cassell.

A story of the struggle between the barons and King Henry. “The heroine is a saint that all men reverence—one who works miracles; but the land is overrun with Gascon hirelings. You shall see her head bowed in shame, look upon her pelted of the mob, an outcast with none to do her charity but the other outcasts that follow the camp.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The pictures of the time are vivid and conscientiously reproduced; and the action is full of vigour. The plot is simple, but exceedingly well devised: and the style is good and clean and strong.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 696. Je. 12. 130w.

“There is vividness of incident, picturesque, impressionistic narrative, and the forest background is sketched with deep sense of its beauty. The style, graphic, admirable often, in its power of significant omissions, becomes at times a bit studied and overconscious. This story of a saint makes far deeper appeal to sense than to soul.”

+ − =Atlan.= 104: 685. N. ’09. 300w.

“Taken in cold blood, the result is, of course, more or less preposterous.”

− =Nation.= 89: 573. D. 9, ’09. 380w.

“The thing is evil; but the author does it effectively. He masks the evil, too, so far as he may with stained glass attitudes by the way and a particularly virtuous ending.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 610. O. 16, ’09. 270w.

=De Garmo, Charles.= Principles of secondary education: a textbook. *$1. Macmillan.

7–6800.

=v. 2.= Processes of instruction.

“The present volume deals with the acquisition of facts, and their meaning, the educational status of the high school student, the inductive and the deductive approach to knowledge, and processes of application. Insight and efficiency are the supreme results to be secured by our methods of instruction—insight leading to culture, and efficiency to mental discipline. The aim of the book is to render so clear the principles on which the acquisition of knowledge is based that the teacher will instinctively employ the methods that lead to insight and efficiency.”—Nation.

* * * * *

“Doubtless will do much toward making high school teaching rational and scientific.”

+ =Ind.= 65: 318. Ag. 6, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)

“The book loses in value because it approaches its subject almost wholly from the side of the concept; it presents clearly, completely, and attractively the logical basis of the teaching process wherever that process becomes in any degree scientific; but the living institution with which the book is supposedly concerned, the American high school (now so much the storm-center of educational conflict) is not constantly and concretely present in its pages, and its mission remains, therefore, partly unfulfilled.” H: W. Holmes.

+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 130. Mr. 4, ’09. 2300w. (Review of v. 2.)

“It is not true nor does the author assume that the principles which he urges are not valid in all educational philosophy. His application of these ideas to the work of the high school is, however, new.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 200w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Two rather polar faults appear to the present reviewer to occur to some extent in his works. As a philosopher and former Herbartian, he has a tendency even in a practical work to lean toward abstractions and schemata; while, possibly as a result of habits long fixed by the classroom, his efforts to touch student life and interest tend toward the diffuse and irrelevant. On the whole, the book is well proportioned and gets at the problems of secondary instruction more specifically than any treatise yet published.” F. P. Graves.

+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 114. Mr. 15, ’09. 560w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Taken as a whole this volume, while contributing less to the student than did its predecessor, yet brings together within small compass material that teachers need acquaintance with, and it will help to bring us more fully to consciousness as to the needs of training for secondary school teachers.” F. A. Manny.

+ =School R.= 16: 691. D. ’08. 1000w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Deinhardt, Kurt, and Schlomann, Alfred=, eds. Illustrated technical dictionary in six languages; English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian. v. 1, *$2; v. 2, *$7; v. 3, *$4; v. 4, *$3. McGraw.

Four volumes as follows: v. 1, Machine details and tools; v. 2, Electrical engineering, compiled by Charles Kinzbrunner; v. 3, Steam boilers, steam engines, and steam turbines; v. 4, Gas engines.

* * * * *

“It seems necessary in using these dictionaries to best advantage first to acquire a general familiarity with the scheme of arrangement. After this is done they should be of no little service to engineers working in these languages.”

+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 36. Mr. 18, ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 2–4.)

“Cannot fail to prove of enormous value in international relations. Is undoubtedly the most accurate technical dictionary that has yet been published.”

+ =Nature.= 78: 412. S. 3, ’08. 220w. (Review of v. 3.)

“The scheme of this dictionary and its execution are both excellent.”

+ =Phys. R.= 28: 231. Mr. ’09. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)

=Dejeans, Elizabeth.=^{[5]} Winning chance. †$1.50. Lippincott.

9–12617.

A refined, winsome American girl facing the problem of supporting herself, a blind mother and a crippled brother, is bribed, out of consideration of their restoration to health, to sell her honor to her employer. The story deals with her rebellion, agony and final rescue from the life she loathes. Her real honesty of heart disarms Nemesic determination and one feels that her final happiness is just.

* * * * *

“As a study of social conditions her story has no value whatever; as a story it is conventional.”

+ − =Ind.= 67: 40. Jl. 1, ’09. 70w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 110w.

“In spite of some faults of construction, the book as a whole is so far above the average of our usual immature fiction as to suggest that Miss Dejeans is a writer whose future will be worth watching.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 404. Je. 26, ’09. 300w.

“It holds interest by its melodramatic plot and very obvious appeal to those in search of sensation.” B. L. Israels.

− + =Survey.= 22: 622. Ag. 7, ’09. 160w.

=Deland, Ellen Douglas.= Miss Betty of New York. †$1.25. Harper.

8–31164.

A story for young readers full of innocent pranks and adventures.

* * * * *

Reviewed by K. L. M.

=Bookm.= 28: 500. Ja. ’09. 50w.

“Is in many ways on the right level for boy and girl readers. What is more than wearisome is the boy and girl nonsense that creeps in, how sparingly soever. A story generally wholesome, barring unreproved heedlessness and eavesdropping and a certain absence of spanking.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 255. Mr. 11, ’09. 300w.

“A charming little story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 757. D. 5, ’08. 50w.

“Though old the subject matter is absorbing.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 768. D. ’08. 40w.

=Deland, Lorin Fuller.=^{[11]} Imagination in business. **50c. Harper.

9–28100.

A revised and enlarged treatment of one of the many cardinal qualities that determine an individual’s capacity as a producer. The author discusses mainly the place of imagination in relation to merchandising, distinguishes carefully between imagination and sagacity and imagination and invention, and offers a number of concrete examples of the remedial and constructive work that can be accomplished by use of imagination in any business.

=Deland, Margaret Wade (Campbell).=^{[12]} Where the laborers are few. †$1.50. Harper.

9–27265.

Set among Dr. Lavendar’s people this slight story tells how a preacher-acrobat, during a period of physical healing, drops into the life of the Misses Jay; how the combination of the profane and the religious startled them out of their narrow monotony; and how the youth, eager for education and training, is advised by the good Dr. Lavendar to continue his work in the taverns and on the streets—a work “which most of God’s ministers are not capable of doing.”

* * * * *

=Dial.= 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 130w.

=De La Pasture, Mrs. Elizabeth Bonham.= Catherine’s child. **$1.20. Dutton.

8–23929.

““Catherine of Calais” was one of Mrs. De La Pasture’s most charming and delicate studies of girlhood, and this story of the heroine’s early middle age is chiefly interesting for the manner in which the relationship of mother and daughter—in this case a difficult one—is treated.” (Ath.) “The daughter sulks till the mother lets her go to town with her cousin; when there she is kidnapped by a plot which would stretch even the kindly credulity of the stage; she is discovered in a garret near the Crystal palace at the point of death by the V. C. hero and nursed back by her mother to a consciousness of his affection.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“Not equal to the author’s best work.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 54. F. ’09.

“There are many characters in the book, and they are all human and individual; but the skill with which they are handled is of infinitely greater importance than the plot.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 503. O. 24. 230w.

“There is a delightful and touching fragment of a child’s diary, which, like Lady Sarah’s tirades, reassures one that, however this novelist’s humor may lapse in the conduct of her love-affairs, it undoubtedly exists.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 308. Mr. 25, ’09. 400w.

“She has entangled in a melodramatic plot a set of characters, some of them excellently conceived and a few pretty well carried out, the total effect, however, being such as to discourage the average cheerful reader.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 360w.

“The book is composed of an intolerable deal of gossip.”

− =Sat. R.= 106: 674. N. 28, ’08. 220w.

=DeLeon, Thomas Cooper.=^{[6]} Belles, beaux and brains of the 60’s. **$3. Dillingham.

9–14950.

Chatty, informing chapters reproducing faces and facts of ante-bellum Virginia with generous comment, statement and deductions. There are nearly five hundred reproduced daguerreotypes and photographs. The author’s picture of the southern woman corrects the notion that “the Southern girl, from pinafore to orange blossoms, was educated for a bride, but not for a wife.”

* * * * *

“The book will interest especially those older readers of Southern antecedents who are fond of recalling good old times ‘before the war.’”

+ =Dial.= 47: 75. Ag. 1, ’09. 150w. =Lit. D.= 39: 441. S. 18, ’09. 70w.

“As a succession of flash-light views of the social life of Richmond during the war, the book is not without value, and its reproductions of contemporary pictures are interesting; but a work which is neither history, nor biography, nor genealogy, nor reminiscence, but an undiscriminating mixture of all four, is hard to classify.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 139. Ag. 12, ’09. 200w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 407. Je. 26, ’09. 130w.

=Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Canyon voyage: the narrative of the second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado river from Wyoming, and the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872. **$3.50. Putnam.

8–30303.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“The volume is an absorbing record of dangerous travel in unknown country and of wonderful beauties of natural scenery.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 287. D. ’08.

“Mr. Dellenbaugh has not the advantage of a graphic style, nor is he an artist in writing. His narrative is plain, and often heavy; but it is necessarily interesting on account of its subject.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 614. My. 22. 440w.

“A substantial and extremely interesting volume on the subject. No one could well be more at home in his subject than Mr. Dellenbaugh.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 460. D. 16, ’08. 280w. + =Ind.= 66: 921. Ap. 29, ’09. 550w.

“The book is interesting as a record of brave personal daring; and as a piece of scientific registry, powerful description by pen and illustration, and genuine story-telling it is equally effective.”

+ =Lit. D.= 37: 900. D. 12, ’08. 200w.

“It was decidedly worth writing, this detailed record; a more absorbing, and at times, stirring, story of adventure has not seen the light in a long time, and the author’s unadorned, yet vivid, style enables the reader to share all the emotions of the explorers.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 515. My. 20, ’09. 700w.

“In these later years, when amateur travel in the west is frequent, a detailed record of this kind will be of value to seekers after adventure.” W. M. D.

+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 218. Ag. 13, ’09. 300w.

=Deming, Horace Edward.= Government of American cities. **$1.50. Putnam.

9–8012.

A book on the theory and practice of municipal government which is “chiefly valuable for its historical survey of the development of intelligent municipal rule in modern Europe and its significant comparison of the workings of intelligent foreign systems and our own frequently clumsy local government machinery.” (N. Y. Times.) “The author traces, through many a modern instance, the profound change which is swiftly coming over popular conceptions of city government. He shows, how, since 1880, the line between politics and administration has been drawn more sharply. He devotes still more attention to the strengthening of the conviction that municipalities must be freed from state control and extraneous politics.” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“A good statement of the more progressive theories and ideals, and useful in creating a public sentiment, but not so scholarly or valuable as Goodnow and Fairlie or Rowe.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 135. My. ’09.

“The book offends even more in repeating its own ideas than in borrowing those of others. But in spite of these most obvious defects, the desirability of a wider acceptation of the principles set forth and elaborated bids us welcome Mr. Deming’s coöperation in the task of educating citizens for the more efficient administration of the public business.”

+ − =Dial.= 46: 331. My. 16, ’09. 280w.

“If one were disposed to criticise so splendid a piece of logical reasoning as this, it would be on the ground that the author mars the orderly procedure of his argument by a too frequent reiteration, and by a too rigid exclusion of illustration and of that sort of comparative comment which one finds so helpful in Munro’s book.” C. R. Woodruff.

+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 267. S. ’09. 670w.

“The book should appeal to a broad and various range of readers. It deals with the very fundamentals of municipal government and is presented in a manner which cannot fail to command the respect and admiration of the deepest and most accomplished student of municipal government, while at the same time arousing and holding the interest of those who have before given only a general consideration to the subject or are approaching it for the first time.”

+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 60. My. 13, ’09. 1150w. =Ind.= 66: 1400. Je. 24, ’09. 250w.

“One can find fault only with Mr. Deming’s attempt to turn his book into a proof that cities can prosper solely through democracy—a rather vague term at best.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 366. Ap. 8, ’09. 530w.

“The whole book is an able argument in favor of local self-government, somewhat academic, perhaps, here and there, but sincere and useful.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 181. Mr. 27, ’09. 1200w.

“All who are interested in American city government can hardly fail to approve the concrete suggestions which Mr. Deming makes and which, it may be said, are advocated in the main also by Dr. Rowe.” F. J. Goodnow.

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 313. Je. ’09. 640w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 254. Ag. ’09. 230w.

=De Morgan, William Frend.=^{[12]} It never can happen again. †$1.75. Holt.

9–28954.

Mr. De Morgan’s readers know better than to hurry thru one of his novels. Leisure is demanded for acquaintance with his many and varied characters; who, the author wishes fully understood, do not express his views—political, religious, or otherwise—but “just what the character he was dreaming of seemed to say to him.” There are two distinct groups of men and women in this new story. Lizarann—near of kin to Alice-for-Short—is from the slums; she and her father who is a blind beggar, her drunken uncle, and other “submerged-tenth” friends and associates compose one group; in the other, we find a novelist, his drab-colored wife, and a brilliant young woman who plays upon the writer’s affections. From the first interview with this young woman, which offers the stimulant of a “soul-brush,” to an elopement is a long way and involves a “Deceased wife’s sister’s” argument that furnishes the peg upon which hangs the whole tale. The two groups cross paths but once, at the climax of the drama. But the reader will have to peruse these 688 pages for himself. Brevity permits of no attempt at justice to a De Morgan novel.

* * * * *

“These seven hundred pages of ingenious invention are stamped with the truly creative mark as far as character is concerned, replete with the humor that lights up the depths of life, and rich with the fruits of a ripened intelligence brought to bear upon a wide range of human concerns.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 384. N. 16, ’09. 1100w.

“In ‘It never can happen again’ he is embarrassed by two distinct themes, or groups of characters, and hardly succeeds in getting them to work together plausibly, though there is one supreme point of contact.” H. W. Boynton.

+ − =Nation.= 89: 532. D. 2, ’09. 3000w.

“Whether it is a better book or a less good book than the others the present reviewer finds himself unable to say. It is closer knit as a story. It is a story—there’s no denying that—a story with a plot as well defined as if it were a French farce.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 779. D. 11, ’09. 1300w.

“We must record our impression that Mr. De Morgan has put together too many and too diverse things for one novel to hold in unison comfortably, and that, while humor, character creation, and human sympathy are all here, the total of enjoyment to be had is less than in ‘Joseph Vance’ or ‘Somehow good.’”

+ − =Outlook.= 93: 829. D. 11, ’09. 440w.

=Denison, George Taylor.=^{[5]} Struggle for imperial unity. *$2.25. Macmillan.

9–21021.

“An account of the work the author and other Canadians associated with him have done to prevent dissolution of the political ties that bind Canada to Great Britain and to promote British imperialism.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“From no point of view is Colonel Denison’s book one that can be helpful to neighborly relations between Canada and the United States; but it is one that will not find many more appreciative readers in Canada than it will in this country, for Canadians have long declined to take Colonel Denison as seriously as he takes himself.” E. P.

− =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 192. O. ’09. 470w. + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 71. N. ’09.

“The personal animosities which appear throughout the work mar a story otherwise well told.”

− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 179. Jl. ’09. 170w.

“It is an unneighborly book both as regards Colonel Denison’s fellow-Canadians and also as regards the United States.”

− =Ind.= 67: 827. O. 7, ’09. 700w.

“Some passages offend the American reader.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 52. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.

“The story of his campaigns he tells in his book in a very entertaining fashion, and undoubtedly his story will find many appreciative readers in the three countries with which it deals—that is to say, Canada, England, and America.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 279. My. 1, ’09. 540w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 125. Jl. ’09. 40w. + =Sat. R.= 107: 536. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.

“We cannot always approve his methods and manner; some of his immediate objects seem to us to be undesirable; but we frankly recognize his zeal and his patriotism, and are glad to have from him this description of his work.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 702. My. 1, ’09. 1250w.

=Denney, James.=^{[6]} Jesus and the gospel: Christianity justified in the mind of Christ. **$2. Armstrong.

9–4567.

“Dr. Denney seeks to answer two questions: ‘Is the prevalent conception of Christianity sustained by the New Testament?’ and, ‘Can the Christian religion, as the New Testament exhibits it, justify itself by appeal to Jesus?’ By an elaborate and reasonably critical inquiry, Dr. Denney satisfies himself that both questions must be answered in the affirmative.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“The real difficulty here in accepting the author’s conclusions seems to be in supposing that we can have the sort of attitude demanded without the presence of a certain philosophical position which is fundamentally determinative for any further intellectual exposition of one’s thought of Jesus’ person.” S. J. Case.

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 462. Jl. ’09. 350w. =Bib. World.= 33: 357. My. ’09. 50w.

“His argument is well put, in clear and popular style, without ceasing to be scholarly in character.” E. S. D.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 491. Ag. 14, ’09. 270w.

“Taken as a whole, the book is exceedingly interesting, though in argument Dr. Denney is apt to offend his readers by so openly marshalling his evidence in favour of a preconceived dogmatic conviction. It is the more regrettable as he frequently accuses his adversaries of a like error.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 743. My. 8, ’09. 320w.

=Depéret, Charles Jean J.=^{[9]} Transformations of the animal world; being the authorised translation of “Les transformations du monde animal.” (International scientific ser., v. 94.) *$1.75. Appleton. W9–130.

“Broadly speaking, the aim of the present book may be said to be to show, on the basis of the paleontological data now in hand, the phyletic history of the larger groups of animals existing to-day. Doing this furnishes the occasion for discussing the probable methods through which the observed transformation of animals may be held to have occurred, and also for outlining briefly the history of opinion on these points.”—Dial.

* * * * *

“Somewhat one-sided, but useful for its fresh presentation from a new viewpoint.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 11. S. ’09.

“A book which marshals the data of paleontology and shows their bearing on the problems of evolution is particularly timely in the year when all over the world men are doing honor to the memory of Darwin. Occasionally the translator slips up on a technical detail, but in general the style is accurate and pleasing.”

+ − =Dial.= 47: 76. Ag. 1, ’09. 230w.

“Undoubtedly a general work of this kind is a need of the times, but we fail to see that this volume is an adequate rendering of the factors that accompany evolution. The book suffers from an entire lack of references and illustrations, and in its English dress it contains many serious mistakes.”

− =Nature.= 80: 452. Je. 17, ’09. 650w.

=De Selincourt, Basil.=^{[7]} William Blake. *$2. Scribner. W9–185.

Less a biography than a fair minded work of criticism. Taking for granted the biographical facts presented by Arthur Symons, the author expands such subjects as Blake’s simplicity, force, mysticism, application of symbolism, theories of art, and artistic development.

* * * * *

“Its author has produced on a very hackneyed subject a book full of original suggestion that, with its numerous reproductions of typical drawings, forms a notable contribution to the literature on Blake.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 39: 170. D. ’09. 130w.

“On the whole, we regard these general chapters as the soundest criticism yet published of Blake, and as a desirable corrective to the indiscreet panegyrics of Swinburne, Symons, Yeats, Ellis, and the others who have, to a greater or less degree, lost their common-sense in vaporous enthusiasm. Our main criticism of Mr. de Selincourt is that, having analyzed the imagination so ably and having shown how the grotesque failures of Blake are connected with his systematically false theory of its office, he steps half way and does not apply his analysis to the whole art of Blake.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 355. O. 14, ’09. 1250w.

“It seems likely that his contribution to the appraisal of this extraordinary man will be useful as a check upon the buoyant chorus that is exalting him in recent years.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 417. Jl. 3, ’09. 1100w.

“We now have an estimate of Blake’s life and work more thoroughgoing and balanced than any yet published.” E. F. Baldwin.

+ =Outlook.= 93: 598. N. 13, ’09. 400w.

“Blake’s great gifts are now much too well recognized to need flattery, and we welcome Mr. De Selincourt’s just criticism as a wholesome corrective. He does not hesitate to call nonsense and absurdity by their right names, yet gives praise and admiration generously, where praise and admiration are due.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 785. Je. 19, ’09. 880w.

=De Sélincourt, Hugh.=^{[12]} Way things happen. †$1.50. Lane. W9–315.

The story of Miss Paul, a “gentle lady who has become a specialist in joy despite loneliness and poverty,” (Nation.) one day “met a Stranger in Gray, who made her very happy—until the catastrophe came. She kept her bravery and courage, and after a while her love of life came back and she made others happy, because she was ‘an apostle of joy.’ It is very pleasant to be reminded that things do happen this way, sometimes.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“It is a pity that so charming a whole should be marred by a somewhat affected style; Mr. de Sélincourt’s pen picks its way at times with a mincing primness the example for which could never have been set by Miss Paul’s feet.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 407. O. 28, ’09. 300w.

“We are not so much burdened with books of such graceful simplicity and wholesome optimism that we can afford to miss one when it chances to come our way.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 593. O. 9, ’09. 400w.

=Devine, Edward Thomas.=^{[5]} Misery and its causes. (American social progress ser.) *$1.25. Macmillan.

9–13279.

A sociological study based upon a twelve years’ survey of misery among the New York poor. Contents: Poverty and maladjustment; Out of health; Out of work; Out of friends; The adverse conditions in dependent families; The justice and prosperity of the future.

* * * * *

“The most valuable portion of the book doubtless is the report of the investigation of 5,000 dependent families of New York.” W: L. Chenery.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 120. Jl. ’09. 480w. =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 161. Je. ’09.

“Many valuable additions have recently been made to the literature of the social worker, but none more valuable than this last work of Dr. Devine’s.” F. D. Watson.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 435. S. ’09. 570w.

“Whatever he sets down in this book as the result of observation, or the analysis of facts, goes to show that he is clear-headed, vigorous, practical, and zealous for justice. Written with eloquent simplicity, his book is adapted to teach and to inspire all those who care for the serious things of life.”

+ =Cath. World.= 89: 826. S. ’09. 500w.

“A volume for which all students of the social sciences should be grateful. The work is sane, conservative, and scholarly, yet inspiring in its optimism.” C: A. Ellwood.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 254. S. ’09. 600w.

“Dr. Devine is the first American authority on this subject, and we confidently commend his admirable book to those who wish to be good intelligent citizens.”

+ =Educ. R.= 38: 203. S. ’09. 50w. =Ind.= 67: 369. Ag. 12, ’09. 350w.

“Through this book Dr. Devine is likely once more to win earnest followers for the cause of a true social betterment.” J. A. F.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 480. Jl. ’09. 220w.

“To one familiar with organized charity work the book may let in little fresh light; but it certainly helps clear the air. Professor Devine’s most convincing chapters analyze the disabilities of five thousand families lately assisted by the New York charity organization society; the instances are well selected, and are in themselves persuasive, but they leave open one point of attack. In a few generalities he dismisses the cost of reform; and yet this is precisely the crucial question just now.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 536. My. 27, ’09. 420w.

“The charm of the author’s treatment is its hopefulness.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 477. Ag. 7, ’09. 700w. + =Outlook.= 93: 292. O. 9, ’09. 1000w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 128. Jl. ’09. 70w.

“Those unfamiliar with the theory and technique of present philanthropic effort may well turn to the text of the lectures before us for a reliable presentation of these aspects. The expert (and how far the most studied of men are from knowing the last word on this subject!) will read the book for the inspiration it affords.”

+ =Yale R.= 18: 322. N. ’09. 1400w.

=Devine, Edward Thomas.=^{[12]} Report on the desirability of establishing an employment bureau in the city of New York. (Russell Sage foundation.) $1.25. Charities pub. com.

9–3309.

“This report considers the advisability of establishing an employment bureau on a business basis, but by philanthropic men whose purpose it is to make such a bureau a genuinely effective agency for the remedy of unemployment.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “The first 34 pages embody the report proper; the remainder of the volume consists of a series of appendices, containing the views of many of the most competent American students, on bad distribution of labor as a cause of unemployment, studies made by the Bureau of social research on some phases of the employment bureau question, and other matters of varying interest and value.” (Econ. Bull.)

* * * * *

“The various appendices furnish very useful material for reference purposes on the general subject of unemployment.” G: B. Mangold.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 618. N. ’09. 280w.

“While this unpretending report deals primarily with a local problem, it has much interest for the economist because of its bearing on the problem of mobility of labor, and for the social reformer because of its many suggestions regarding unemployment. In the absence of any thorough study in this field, Mr. Devine has performed a service in pointing out so many of the problems that need investigation. His usual sound judgment and power of clear statement are displayed throughout the report.” H. R. Mussey.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 241. S. ’09. 520w.

=De Voe, Walter.=^{[11]} Doors of life; or, Little studies in self-healing. *$1. Funk.

9–28549.

A health-giving book whose key note is activity. Anything that will turn the blood into new channels and arouse brain cells that have been inactive will, the author maintains, restore health, be it a new diet, a new opportunity to earn more, a new benevolence, new scenery, new friends, physical culture, new science, or a new philosophy of life. If the faculties are quickened there comes a new sense “of unlimited life and of infinite progression of wisdom.”

=Dewar, Douglas.= Birds of the plains. **$4. Lane.

8–31848.

About forty sketches of various birds that are natives of the plains of India. The author sets down some new observations as, for instance, the tailor-bird’s method of building a nest; he takes exception to the dogmatism of modern Darwinism, declaring that “the field naturalist cannot but see that natural selection is turning out rather a failure”; he also objects to the position of John Burroughs in regard to the thinking ability of animals.

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“For though not severely scientific, the descriptions are accurate, and, at the same time, attractively written with abundant humour.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 202. F. 13. 900w.

“The style is excellent and there is a pervading sense of humor which is all too rare a quality with writers on natural history. On some topics, he occasionally becomes rather confused.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 391. O. 22, ’08. 650w.

“Birds’ habits and incidents of their lives are related with all the freshness of the enthusiastic field naturalist.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 420w.

“We do not find Mr. Dewar’s frequent changes from lively to severe—or philosophical, as he would probably prefer to have it—wholly to our taste. There is much to commend in the book, and if the author had not been in too great a hurry to give it to the world it would doubtless have been as good as his former work.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 800. D. 26, ’08. 300w.

=Dewar, Douglas, and Finn, Frank.=^{[10]} Making of species. **$2.50. Lane.

On the side of destructive criticism the authors take exception to “Wallaceism,” “Lamarckism” and “De Vriesism,” “Constructively the authors rediscuss, as the various factors of evolution, variation and correlation, heredity, natural selection, sexual selection and isolation, but without greatly advancing the solution of the mystery how species not only survive but originate. They predict its solution rather on the lines of experiment, especially in breeding, than from the speculative interpretations so common during the past generation and the present time.” (Sat. R.)

* * * * *

“The actual contribution to the sum of our knowledge made by their volume is not great. Their most effective criticism is contained in the chapter dealing with the coloration of animals, where they contend that many naturalists have pushed the various theories of animal coloration and mimicry to absurd lengths.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 333. S. 18. 570w.

“It has singularly few of the faults and many of the real virtues peculiar to amateur science. For the general reader its lack of proportion and self-assertive style place it far below such a book as Jordan and Kellogg’s ‘Evolution and animal life.’ As reference books, Plate’s ‘Selections-prinzip’ and Kellogg’s ‘Darwinism to-day’ remain unsurpassed. The professional biologist will receive neither ‘a rude shock’ nor ‘a fresh impetus’ from Messrs. Dewar and Finn; but he will find in their field notes and in their quotations of breeders’ gossip an occasional grain of wheat.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 363. O. 14, ’09. 500w.

“It is to be regretted that Messrs. Dewar and Finn have made this aggressive incursion into the domain of biological theory. The work as a whole will not add to their reputation; with the majority of readers it will probably have the reverse effect.” R. Meldola.

− =Nature.= 81: 481. O. 21, ’09. 1600w.

“The authors are both Indian zoologists—ornithologists especially—and as such bring up not a few fresh observations and arguments.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 110. Jl. 24, ’09. 650w.

=Dewar, George A. B.= Life and sport in Hampshire. **$3. Longmans.

A nature lover’s observations in Hampshire. The volume is “a collection of articles, gathered mainly from contemporary journalism, and so it possesses no more coherence than is possible to such collections.... Various chapters deal with the singing birds, the flight of birds, their migrations, angling, insects, and shooting.” (Ath.)

* * * * *

“In the matter of acute and sympathetic observation Mr. Dewar is fully equal, if not superior, to other writers on nature. This book is characteristic of his faculties and gifts.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 822. D. 26. 600w.

“One almost feels, after reading the book, as though he had personally experienced something of the charm and beauty of English country scenes and partaken in a certain measure of the keenness of English sport.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 137. Mr. 6, ’09. 480w.

=Dewey, John, and Tufts, James Hayden.= Ethics. *$2. Holt.

8–22532.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“Most comprehensive of recent works on ethics. Probably no more convincing effort to construct a system of moral philosophy by a strictly scientific method has ever been carried out.” G. A. Tawney.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 687. Mr. ’09. 1250w.

“What gives the ‘Ethics’ of Professor Dewey and Professor Tufts a real distinction amid the multitude of ethical textbooks is the fact that it makes the study of ethics appear practical, vital, pertinent to affairs, capable of contributing to the settlement of problems that contemporary mankind is really in doubt about. This is not only a great virtue but also a curiously rare one, in this class of books.” A. O. Lovejoy.

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 140. Ja. ’09. 1700w.

“The best general introduction in English, representing a point of view toward which the great majority of ethical writers are converging. Its attitude is modern, yet conservative, and the treatment is interesting, vital and practical.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 39. F. ’09. =Dial.= 46: 146. Mr. 1, ’09. 100w.

“This book, even apart from its content, is of interest to students of sociology and economics.” C: A. Ellwood.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 335. D. ’08. 500w.

“Their treatment of this world-old subject has much originality and power.”

+ =Educ. R.= 37: 210. F. ’09. 30w.

“In conclusion, we would state our conviction that this book promises to be the foremost textbook of ethics for the next decade.” W. T. Marvin.

+ =Educ. R.= 37: 413. Ap. ’09. 950w. + =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 170w.

“This relevancy to present fact and present tendencies is just the very thing we would expect from the pragmatist attitude, and it does not relieve the book after all from the charge of its comparative failure to set up a definite picture of the attitude of the moral man, in our present transitional or would-be constructive age. It would have been even more edifying and more constructive if it had been less practical and less sociological.” W. Caldwell.

+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 221. Mr. ’09. 3800w.

“I cannot close the review of such a book as this without expressing my admiration of the way in which the authors have accomplished their task.” E. B. McGilvary.

+ − =Psychol. Bull.= 6: 14. Ja. 15, ’09. 3300w.

“It represents the most recent scholarship in psychology, sociology, and ethics. It ought to have a wide reading among all classes of citizens interested in the moral problems of our social, industrial, economic, and political life.” I. E. Miller.

+ =School R.= 17: 204. Mr. ’09. 1150w.

“A credit to American scholarship.” Frank Thilly.

+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 89. Jl. 16, ’09. 1200w.

“An unusual amount of material of value to those who are in the thick of social struggles.” F. A. Manny.

+ =Survey.= 22: 217. My. 1, ’09. 480w.

=Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol.=^{[11]} Other people’s houses. $1.50. Macmillan.

9–28031.

“When the soul of man does battle with the forces of nature, it is the forces of nature which are deathless,” this foreword is perhaps the key note of the story of a girl who is all mind and spirit but is hampered by a weak physique, the petering out of a race of scholars. She loves her great splendid cousin who is good to see, and he, by mere physical greatness, has the world at his feet and chooses for himself a girl of equal physical attainments, while the hampered little cousin refuses wealth at the hands of another man. There is much more in the book than this, there is a minute delineation of various characters, the society woman of a certain type stands before us as she is and it is all drawn with the fearless certainty of one perfectly at home in other people’s houses.

* * * * *

“The scene shifts so rapidly that one’s mental vision is left with that sense of blurred weariness produced in the physical by a cimematograph. This, however, may be the result of literary immaturity, as there is an underlying power in the book that definitely conveys a promise of better things.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 488. N. 18, ’09. 200w.

“A striking and absorbing study of character, and is an effective introduction to a writer whose ability will doubtless place her among the very few American novelists of importance.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 728. N. 20, ’09. 400w.

“A remarkably clever novel in its happy and subtle touching-off to the life of personal traits and social side-lights. One does not expect plot in such a story, but ‘situation’ we should have, and it is here that the story is unsatisfactory.”

+ − =Outlook.= 93: 643. N. 20, ’09. 110w.

=Dewitt, David Miller.= Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and its expiation. *$2.25. Macmillan.

9–4104.

“Mr. Dewitt has studied the official records of the conspiracy trial, of the trial of John H. Surratt and of the impeachment investigation of 1867, and has sought to sift the actual incidents of the plot from the mass of myth and legend in which they have become involved.... Mr. Dewitt throws doubt upon the shooting of Booth by Boston Corbett. He draws a curious parallel between the death of the assassin and that of Robespierre, and if he does not plainly state that Booth committed suicide, at least leaves the reader to infer that his own judgment is in favor of the theory of suicide. The theory is a crotchet, with nothing to sustain it.”—Ind.

* * * * *

“A thankless task, to which moreover our author is able to bring neither a tolerable literary style nor a sense of humor.” E. S. Corwin.

− =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 860. Jl. ’09. 230w.

“The most valuable part of Mr. Dewitt’s book has to do with the military commission that tried the alleged conspirators. Altogether the manner of this book is as objectionable as its material is valuable. One should not write history in a series of rather tawdry purple patches and thereby make it appear ridiculous.” H: T. Peck.

+ − =Bookm.= 29: 192. Ap. ’09. 600w.

“Mr. Dewitt’s [volume] will appeal more to the student, while Miss Laughlin’s will attract rather the general reader. The one approaches the subject in the mood of the jurist who tests every point; the other in the attitude of the witness who gives a narrative.” E. E. Sparks.

+ − =Dial= 46: 297. My. 1, ’09. 760w

“The care and patience with which the work has been prosecuted are evident. Not so much can be said for its judicial temper; it is in parts extremely passionate and violent in statement; and its account of the conspiracy trial seems rather like an impassioned plea for the defense than an historical account of what happened there.”

− + =Ind.= 66: 265. F. 4, ’09. 180w.

“The volume may be highly commended in particular, for its masterly discussion of the trial.” J. B. Rittenhouse

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 200w.

“His method is neither that of the scientific historian nor that of the criminologist, whose right is as clear as De Quincey’s to horrify his readers. Mr. Dewitt indulges in many inappropriate and grandiose phrases, as well as in an unnecessary and rather tiresome use of the historic present. And yet if English readers were unacquainted with one of the most astonishing crimes, and one of the most astonishing trials, in modern history, they cannot do much better than get to know them in this book.”

− + =Spec.= 102: 580. Ap. 10, ’09. 1700w.

=Dey, Frederic Van Rensselaer.=^{[9]} Gentleman of quality. $1.50. Page.

9–7950.

An ingenious tale of mistaken identity. “It concerns chiefly a young American who, after some years of sorrowful vicissitudes, finds himself claimed by the servant, wife and friends of an Englishman of wealth and title as that gentleman himself who, unknown to any one except his wife and servant, had disappeared years before on his wedding day and had never been heard of since.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“The dialogue is awkward and unnatural, and in consequence it is hard to believe in the flesh-and-blood reality of the speakers. But the springs of action are sound, and the incidents, however strange, have as much plausibility as the nature of the affair demands.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 142. Ag. 12, ’09. 200w.

“A tale of mystery, full of curious events that follow crowding upon one another’s heels and of situations that test the hero’s resourcefulness and the reader’s credulity.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 220w.

=Dickens, Charles.= Dickens scenes and characters: scenes and characters from the works of Charles Dickens. *$3. Scribner.

W9–63.

Printed from the original woodblocks there are collected in this book the eight hundred and sixty-six drawings contained in the “Household edition” of Dickens’s novels published in 1870. They represent the work of eleven artists, among them Fred Barnard, Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”), A. B. Frost, J. Mahoney and E. G. Dalziel.

* * * * *

“Will prove a source of perpetual delight to all who lay claim, in any degree, to be considered Dickensians.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 726. D. 5. 200w.

“The scheme was happily conceived, and has been well executed. It is timely too, for there seems to be a decided revival of interest just at present, in the work of Dickens.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 467. D. 16, ’08. 260w.

“To turn over the pages is to see the whole of Dickens in dumb show, so to speak, a rare entertainment.”

+ =Nation.= 87: 601. D. 17, ’08. 80w.

“The book will give pleasure to many readers of the generation that is passing.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 803. D. 26, ’08. 200w.

“The collection before us is a very welcome one, varying, we may say, greatly in merit, but always interesting.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 810. N. 21, ’08. 300w.

=Dickens, Charles.=^{[5]} Miscellaneous papers and plays and poems. (Authentic ed.) $1.50. Scribner.

A volume “made up of as much as can be identified and is considered worthy of preservation of his contributions to The morning chronicle, The daily news, The examiner, Household words, and All the year round, together with a few articles from other sources.”—N. Y. Times.

* * * * *

“Dickens’s journalism will attract a wide circle as containing a good many of the ‘piéces justificatives’ of events, figures, and criticisms in his fiction. It also contains a good deal that is now historically interesting; it emphasizes his untiring zeal for reform now largely achieved; and it shows more directly than his famous books the merits and defects of his education and temperament. Dickens was not a great dramatist, and his verse has never been regarded as deserving serious criticism.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 636. My. 23. 620w.

“Though there is much good reading between the covers of this bulky tome, there is little of rare quality.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 119. F. 4, ’09. 700w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 774. D. 12, ’08. 180w.

“In bulk these two volumes make a handsome addition to the Gadshill edition. In quality there is hardly anything which is really worthy of preservation. Dickens as an essayist had neither thought nor style which gives his work of this kind any permanent value. He wrote good, vigorous, straightforward prose on the topics of the day; and this is the best that can be said of these ‘Miscellaneous papers.’”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 49. Jl. 11, ’08. 1100w.

=Dickins, Mrs. Edith Pratt.=^{[8]} Port o’ dreams, and other poems. **$1. Putnam.

9–7327.

A book of poems whose stanzas distil the clear essence of true melody. “Gettysburg, the desolation of Hagar, an Arab dying of thirst in the desert—these themes are beyond her. But the familiar loveliness of earth; the spirits of the passing months, the dear commonplaces of ordinary loving, the momentary holiness of reverie, are her own to feel and to express. Such things as ‘The queen’s garden’ and ‘Songs of dreams’ are worth many volumes of arid intellection and confused endeavor after passion. They are little, but they are wren songs of real poetry, and very lovely. Let us be grateful for them.” (Bookm.)

* * * * *

“She has neither the mind nor the imagination for rising to the height of great arguments, and her technique fails her except in the simplest measures. But through her little book there runs a thin vein of pure gold.” Brian Hooker.

+ − =Bookm.= 29: 371. Je. ’09. 150w.

“Mrs. Dickins has a happy knack of versifying agreeably the quieter and more sedate appeals of nature.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1266. D. 2, ’09. 100w.

=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.=^{[7]} Is immortality desirable? **75c. Houghton.

9–13618.

The Howard Ingersoll lecture for 1908. It is “a noteworthy contribution to the modern speculative literature on the destiny of man after death. Prof. G. Lowes Dickinson, the author, is less concerned with argument as to the desirability of immortality, per se, than with consideration of what must be the nature of the life beyond the grave to make immortality a thing to be desired by thoughtful men.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“A logical dispassionate, yet illuminating presentation of the various conceptions of immortality and of the widely differing attitudes of mind concerning its desirability.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 162. Je. ’09. + =Dial.= 47: 127. S. 1, ’09. 180w.

“It is from the literary standpoint, and with frequent references to literature that he deals with his topic, clothing his thoughts in the clear and charming prose that has delighted readers of his other books, and exhibiting everywhere sincerity and restraint in the expression of his opinions.” J. E. Creighton.

+ =Int. J. Ethics.= 20: 102. O. ’09. 580w.

Reviewed by G. Santayana.

=J. Philos.= 6: 411. Jl. 22, ’09. 1900w.

“This essay has a grace of language and a subtlety of procedure that few other writers to-day, if any, can command. But it cannot be said that the discussion carries one far or is very persuasive.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 627. Je. 24, ’09. 130w.

“This well-known English writer has added a notable little book to the literature on immortality, written in his fine style and brilliant manner.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 232. Ap. 10, ’09. 20w.

“The essay is finely conceived, stimulating, and, in the main, convincing. It may best be regarded, perhaps, as the ‘non omnis moriar’ of a nature satisfied neither with skepticism nor with accepted beliefs.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 336. My. 29, ’09. 500w.

“‘Is immortality desirable?’ is discriminating but not convincing.”

+ − =Outlook.= 93: 599. N. 13, ’09. 80w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 256. Ag. ’09. 90w.

=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Justice and liberty: a political dialogue. **$1.20. McClure.

8–31838.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“A more philosophical study than many of its kind, and very readable.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 9. Ja. ’09.

“This book does not seem to us so brilliant or interesting as ‘The modern symposium,’ or so profound as ‘The idea of good.’ A fine book, fit more than most we have perused of its like to arouse the dulled conscience of the comfortable, and breathe hope into the disinherited!”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 93. Ja. 23. 2400w.

“In one sense, the dialogue cannot be said to make any contribution to socialistic thought. Sometimes we wish Mr. Dickinson were not keeping his English audience quite so strictly in mind. We may merely say, in closing, that we think the book is worthy of Mr. Dickinson; which implies our belief that it deserves to be widely read by thinking people.” F. B. R. Hellems.

+ − =Dial.= 46: 15. Ja. 1, ’09. 1450w.

Reviewed by T. Whittaker.

=Int. J. Ethics.= 20: 99. O. ’09. 1250w.

“One need not accept all of Mr. Dickinson’s doctrines; but, accepted or not, they set one to thinking.” L.

+ =Nation.= 88: 352. Ap. 8, ’09. 4800w.

“Mr. Dickinson has made a successful attempt to compress into a book of moderate dimensions the leading principles, or, rather, the rival contentions, of those who would reform society according to their respective notions.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 780. D. 12, ’08. 500w.

“Presented brilliantly and forcibly.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 889. D. 19, ’08. 320w.

“We gladly acknowledge the literary ability of Mr. Dickinson’s book, but, as for its conclusions, we find it difficult to find fitting words in which to characterize their folly and futility.”

− + =Spec.= 102: 783. My. 15, ’09. 780w.

=Dickinson, H. N.=^{[10]} Sir Guy and Lady Rannard: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.

9–15997.

A study “of a politician’s progressive insanity caused by overwork and suspiciousness. The politician is Sir Guy Rannard, who, by a system of corruption demanding great skill and industry, is returned by an enormous majority as conservative M. P. for a provincial town. After a period of estrangement, his wife has the misfortune to fall in love with him for the first time, with the result that she is present at the exhibitions of tactlessness, rudeness, and political effrontery which precede the collapse of his intellect.”—Ath.

* * * * *

“The mechanism of the story is admirable and the character analysis clever, but it has no touch of geniality or charm.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 90. N. ’09.

“Among frankly pathological novels we do not recall one which surpasses this study. There is much to admire in the story.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 669. Je. 5. 150w.

“People who find themselves bored by the intricacies of English political campaigns should be frankly warned that ‘Sir Guy and Lady Rannard’ is a volume not to their taste. But to all others it may be commended warmly and even enthusiastically.” F: T. Cooper.

+ =Bookm.= 30: 187. O. ’09. 370w.

“These are familiar enough materials; but the present treatment of them is not without originality.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 279. S. 23, ’09. 300w.

“From first to last the story of this mad baronet is sombre and sad, but it is capitally told. All the characters are well drawn and some of them are very interesting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 539. S. 11. ’09. 250w.

“If it is impossible to feel liking for Sir Guy and his wife, it is also impossible not to be interested in them, and, if the tedium of the earlier part of their history is endured, not to be absorbed in and impressed by the description of the sinister development of Guy’s nature.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 21. Jl. 3, ’09. 250w.

“One might easily multiply the list of his accomplishments and solid qualities, which amount to a formidable total, and yet, owing to his absolute lack of charm or geniality, fail in their ultimate appeal to the reader’s heart.”

− + =Spec.= 103: 23. Jl. 3, ’09. 830w.

=Didier, Eugene Lemoine.=^{[9]} Poe cult, and other Poe papers; with new memoir. $1.50. Broadway pub.

9–17539.

Twenty-three papers dealing with the important incidents in Poe’s life, including the real Poe as he moved among his friends, the influence of women in his poetry, the true story of his love for Mrs. Whitman, an exposition of errors prevalent in the more recent biographies, the truth about Poe as attested by people who knew him, the poet as a social lion, his conversational powers and his striking personality, his latter-day recognition, his status here and abroad, and a critical review of the most generally accepted editions of his life.

* * * * *

“Even readers favorably disposed to Poe will wonder how Mr. Didier manages deftly to avoid all mention of certain topics, and will cavil at his superlatives. Nevertheless, there are two reasons for recommending the book. It represents the loving labors of a pioneer student of Poe whose services have not always received due acknowledgment, and it contains anecdotes, poetical tributes, and other material useful to the student and not easily accessible elsewhere.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 206. S. 2, ’09. 270w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 373. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.

=Diehl, Alice Mangold.= Life of Beethoven. *$3. Doran.

9–22047.

“In this volume the author is almost entirely concerned with Beethoven’s ‘ordinary human life,’ and besides quotations from Reichardt, Rellstab, Spohr, and other writers, and extracts from letters of Beethoven, includes many anecdotes.” (Ath.) “Though neither scholarly nor complete—the volume tells us little of Beethoven’s compositions, or of their character or technique—gives a picturesque and genial account of his personality, habits and friends.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“The volume should appeal to general readers.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 582. N. 7. 560w.

“This biography can hardly be given an important place in the literature relating to Beethoven. It is written in an easy and rather agreeable style, however, and its fullness of personal details concerning this master will interest many people.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 42. Ja. 23, ’09. 500w.

“With all its blemishes, the book is readable and its enthusiasm infectious.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 1104. D. 26, ’08. 330w.

=Dillon, Edward.=^{[12]} Arts of Japan. (Little books on art.) *$1. McClurg.

W6–351.

Uniform with the “Little books on art,” this exposition “is divided into two parts, the first treating of painting and sculpture in connection with a general sketch of Japanese history, and the second devoted to the so-called ‘minor’ arts, colored woodcuts, metal work, netsuke, lacquer and ceramics, a short bibliography is added and the book is illustrated.” (Int. Studio.)

* * * * *

“The author of this unpretending little book is well qualified to write the volume on the arts of Japan in this series.”

+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 662. N. 24. 410w.

“These ‘little books,’ within their acknowledged limitations, are something of a triumph in the making of compact treatises.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 24. N. ’09. 90w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 690. N. 6, ’09. 80w.

=Dillon, Mrs. Mary C.=^{[9]} Patience of John Morland. †$1.50. Doubleday.

9–16802.

A story full of fascination and charm which has for is heroine the beautiful, headstrong Peggy O’Neil of Jackson’s administration. The author draws her Peggy, otherwise Kitty, true to history, yielding to the full play of her imagination in dressing up friends and foes of this wilful daughter of an Irish inn keeper. Her unhappy marriage, her indiscretions, her ostracism at the hands of Washington women. President Jackson’s championship of her integrity, and the patient friendship of the heroic Secretary of state are the principal elements in Mrs. Dillon’s story.

* * * * *

“Tale of mild interest and doubtful history.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 26. S. ’09.

“It is certainly readable enough, at least for those who still care for this much-abused type of historical romance, and the central figure of the book is certainly very much alive and very charming and very feminine in her perversity and her contradictions.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 30: 69. S. ’09. 420w.

“The result is as to fiction a readable but rather commonplace showing of girlish caprice and long suffering chivalry; as to history, a group of names, a list of policies, a mirror of costumes, and a few scenes.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 256. S. 16, ’09. 280w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 492. Ag. 14, ’09. 270w.

=Dimock, Anthony W., and Dimock, Julian A.= Florida enchantments. *$3. Outing pub.

8–31146.

The sportsman’s Florida is pictured and described in this volume by two authors who have come under the Utopian spell of “Florida the fascinating.” “Accounts of crocodile-hunting, tarpon-fishing, canoeing in the surf, searching for wild honey (and finding it), crossing the everglades in a power boat, capturing a seacow, intercourse with the Seminoles, and other more or less thrilling adventures, fill the volume in a manner acceptable to the reader, adventurous or unadventurous.” (Dial.)

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 39. F. ’09.

“The book would be an excellent one to read before going, or on the way, or even after arriving [in Florida].”

+ =Dial.= 45: 409. D. 1, ’08. 250w.

Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.

+ =Ind.= 65: 1463. D. 17, ’08. 140w.

“A most interesting volume.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 815. Ap. 15, ’09. 100w.

“An authentic record of sport.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 219. F. 6, ’09. 270w.

“A breezy and generally admirable account of the sport and fun to be had in the home of the alligator and the manatee.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 754. D. 5, ’08. 150w.

“In this book the pictures are the main feature, though the text is far from being unreadable.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 149. Ja. 23, ’09. 300w.

=Dinsmore, John Wirt.= Teaching a district school: a book for young teachers. *$1. Am. bk.

8–21614.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

“A helpful and practical book for everyday use on the rural school teacher’s desk.”

+ =Educ. R.= 37: 210. F. ’09. 50w.

“Gives the kind of help needed by an untrained beginner.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 20w.

“Mr. Dinsmore’s book is thoroughly sound and as stated before he has arranged a most complete outline for the teacher and I feel sure that the educational work of our country would be materially benefitted could every teacher have access to this estimable little book. The author and the publishers are to be congratulated on its general excellence.” W. H. French.

+ =School R.= 17: 61. Ja. ’09. 800w.

=Ditchfield, Rev. Peter Hampson.=^{[8]} Old-time parson. 2d ed. *$2.50. Dutton.

9–29970.

“The greater part of the book deals with the clergy in post-reformation days, and such themes as ‘The parson and his people,’ ‘The parson preaching,’ ‘The parson’s wife,’ ‘Parish clerks and choirs,’ ‘The hunting parson,’ (with Jack Russell as the chief exemplar), and ‘The parson’s dress.’ Other chapters discuss ‘The Elizabethan parson,’ ‘The sufferings of the clergy of the commonwealth period,’ ‘The superior parson,’ and ‘The parson in literature.’” (Ath.) The popular portion of the book is taken up with setting down the eccentricities and the wit and humor of certain clergy.

* * * * *

“Mr. Ditchfield is to be congratulated on having secured a good theme, and treated it in a worthy and entertaining fashion.”

+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 468. O. 17. 1200w. + =Dial.= 47: 75. Ag. 1, ’09. 250w.

“It seems to us a pity that Mr. Ditchfield in this book should have given so much space to controversial matters of the reformation, and especially to a rather bitter account of the sufferings of the clergy under the commonwealth.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 52. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.

“A eulogy, a defense, and a collection of anecdotes.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 497. Ag. 21, ’09. 1200w.

“He has done good service to posterity by this collection, and no one can read the book without many a hearty laugh. The strong point of this book is not its history; its charm lies in its jokes, its racy anecdotes, and its songs.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 672. N. 28, ’08. 900w.

“A most agreeable book this; a second edition will give, we hope, the opportunity to make a few corrections.”

+ − =Spec.= 101: 591. O. 17, ’08. 1650w.

=Dixon, Clarissa.= Janet and her dear Phebe. †$1. Stokes.

9–3332.

The chronicle of the devotion of two little girls who are separated thru family differences but who go on loving each other with an unalterable affection. Their hopes, their sorrow, their young-wise philosophy, their letters to each other, their stories and poetry—all reveal the heart of the child.

* * * * *

“A sweeter, truer picture of childish philosophy and childish feeling has not been made in a long time.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 142. Mr. 13, ’09. 160w.

=Dixon, H. Claiborne.= Abbeys of Great Britain. (Cathedral ser. no. 11.) *$1.50. Scribner.

9–6981.

Abbeys built by early monks in England, Scotland and Wales pass in review before the reader. “Mr. Dixon prefaces his accounts of the historic buildings with a brief résumé of English monastic history. The monks were the great civilizers of ancient days, and wheresoever they settled agriculture, learning, and the arts began to make their appearance. As they grew rich and powerful they became deteriorated, and with the reformation were swept away. But the ruins of their great houses make the British Isles lovely, and the simple, straightforward, and, withal, loving descriptions of them contained in this little volume cannot fail of attracting many.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“A book of an agreeable and gentle charm.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 86. F. 13, ’09. 280w.

“The book was probably intended to be stronger on the religious than on the æsthetic side. The index could be improved. The book as a whole, however, is a singularly concise and valuable statement of interesting facts.”

+ − =Outlook.= 91: 587. Mr. 13, ’09. 320w.

=Dixon, Thomas, jr.=^{[8]} Comrades: a story of social adventure in California. †$1.50. Doubleday.

9–2040.

A novel dealing with the establishment of a socialistic colony upon a deserted island off the coast of California. The band is headed by the son of a wealthy San Francisco business man who deplores his son’s socialistic proclivities and foresees a cure for his folly in allowing him full bent, secretly donating a million dollars to the cause. The way of disillusionment is the course over which Mr. Dixon conducts his reader.

* * * * *

“In his story of social adventure he conjures up an absurd situation, builds a mighty man of straw, and then thrashes it with all the enthusiasm of a Don Quixote charging a windmill, no man, not even an irresponsible Dixon, has any right, just for the sake of creating a sensation, to so falsify a great social movement as has this irrational teller of tales.” R. E. Bisbee.

− =Arena.= 41: 509. Jl. ’09. 450w.

“Although there is a good deal of mere talk in the story, it sweeps along with a nervous rush, starred with superlatives, and enjoying constantly a high emotional temperature. Mr. Dixon makes his characters do surprising stunts. They develop unexpected and illogical traits without warning, turn summersaults of temperament, and do whatever is necessary to keep the story moving according to the author’s plan. But doubtless there are a great many readers who like the rather bewildering breeziness of style which results from such an unrestrained method.”

− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 470w.

“Especially interesting are the interrogations of one human question-mark whose genius for putting awkward queries is something more than diverting.”

+ =Yale R.= 18: 109. My. ’09. 80w.

=Doctor= says: a book of advice for the household with practical hints for the preservation of health and the prevention of disease. **$1. Jacobs.

9–9256.

A book on medicine for the household which places before the reader in an intelligent and interesting form the chief facts of medicine and surgery, with which it is proper and useful for him to be acquainted. It is an emergency book, a popular text-book of medicine as well as a reference work. It is based upon sound principles of physiology, pathology; treatments are outlined and rules are given for health preservation.

=Dodd, Walter Fairleigh.=^{[12]} Government of the District of Columbia; a study in federal and municipal administration. $1.50. Byrne.

9–20125.

“While primarily a description of the federal and municipal administration of the District, this volume also contains in its opening chapters an historical review of the various governments to which the District has been subjected from 1791 to the present time.”—Am. Hist. R.

* * * * *

“The historical portion of the book is confined to forty pages, but is accurately and clearly written.”

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 190. O. ’09. 70w.

“Students of political science will welcome it while regretting that the work should not have been shorn of some of its crudities. With some exceptions, the task of research has been carefully and thoroughly done, and the narrative, if dry and unadorned beyond that of most monographs, is at least clear and orderly.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 184. Ag. 26, ’09. 250w.

=Dodd, Walter Fairleigh.= Modern constitutions: a collection of the fundamental laws of twenty-two of the most important countries of the world, with historical and bibliographical notes. 2v. *$5. Univ. of Chicago press.

9–2008.

While of importance to lawyers and public men the aim of these volumes primarily is to furnish constitutional texts for use in courses on the subject of comparative constitutional law.

* * * * *

“The collection as a whole is excellent and will prove to be well-nigh indispensable to that large and growing body of students who desire to compare the governmental systems of states so as to gain thereby a clearer knowledge of the underlying principles of political development.” J. Q. Dealey.

+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 828. Jl. ’09. 480w.

“These criticisms, or rather suggestions, are not meant in any way to disparage the work of Mr. Dodd. The collection will prove of inestimable benefit to teachers and students of constitutional law and they owe the editor a debt of gratitude for making it. Especially is he to be commended for giving the documents in translations. Not one scholar in a hundred is acquainted with half the languages represented.” D: Y. Thomas.

+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 845. My. ’09. 480w.

“This scholarly work is the first of its kind in English and will have a large value in the study of comparative constitutional law.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 76. Mr. ’09. + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 180. Jl. ’09. 160w.

“The book of Mr. Dodd is a little wooden.”

− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 314. Mr. 13. 470w.

“The work is well done and it supplies conveniences for which students of political institutions will be grateful.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 221. Mr. 4, ’09. 110w.

“It is a tool for a historian or a textbook for a student, rather than the fruits of study in this department of comparative jurisprudence. In its sphere the book is unique.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 88. F. 13, ’09. 430w.

“An examination of a few of the documents in connection with originals bears out the contention of the translator, although it must be admitted that faithfulness to the letter of the law has sometimes produced an unnecessary awkwardness and an occasional obscurity. Unfortunately the editor does not anywhere state the authoritative text on which he has founded his translation—a serious omission in a scholarly work of this character.” C: A. Beard.

+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 524. S. ’09. 660w. =Spec.= 102: 505. Mr. 27, ’09. 150w. + =Yale R.= 18: 109. My. ’09. 80w.

=Dole, Charles Fletcher.=^{[9]} Ethics of progress: or, The theory and the practice by which civilization proceeds. **$1.50. Crowell.

9–24682.

A discussion whose aim is “to set forth a simple, philosophical, and inspiring vital principle, which governs all ethical questions, and ensures the development of noble, useful, happy character. The treatment touches the great issues of human life, the significance of conscience, the problem of evil, the supposed antagonism between freedom and necessity. The effort is made to treat such questions without any theological or metaphysical prepossessions, but simply from the study of the facts of consciousness.” (Preface.)

* * * * *

“Everything in it, beginning with part 3, would do good in the hands of men of the college age or older, in or out of college, who were intelligent enough to read it. Nevertheless I have somewhat against the reasoning in parts 1 and 2.” A. W. Small.

+ − =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 418. N. ’09. 580w.

“While exception might be taken to some of the author’s conclusions, there is no doubt that the book, on the whole, is a helpful and instructive one.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 959. N. 27, ’09. 160w. + =Outlook.= 93: 227. O. 2, ’09. 230w.

=Dole, Charles Fletcher.= What we know about Jesus. (Christianity of to-day ser.) *75c. Open ct.

8–22964.

“Calls attention to the extreme scantiness, as he thinks, of our trustworthy knowledge of Jesus, yet he finds sufficient evidence to prove that Jesus should not be given any position of supreme uniqueness among other good men of the past. Some of his deeds and words when judged by a true standard seem to be thought actually immoral, the more worthy side of his work was not new, and it was not he but Paul who was principally responsible for the founding of Christianity. The synoptic gospels, or at least so much of them as suit the author’s purpose, are used to illustrate inconsistencies in Jesus’ life and teaching, which are thought to bring him quite to the common level.”—Am. J. Theol.

* * * * *

“Deficient in critical value. His conclusion is not based upon any thorough examination of the sources.” S. J. Case.

− =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 117. Ja. ’09. 210w.

“This book deals rather with what we think, than with what we know, about Jesus, and that in a decidedly negative way. It is too meager a sketch, however, to perform even this task adequately, and is further largely absorbed in the destructive process.”

− =Bib. World.= 33: 216. Mr. ’09. 40w. =Dial.= 46: 118. F. 16, ’09. 50w.

“The book is not worth mention except as a symptom.”

− =Spec.= 101: 785. N. 14, ’08. 120w.

=Dolmage, Cecil G. J.= Astronomy of today. **$1.50. Lippincott.

9–5111.

A popular introduction to astronomy in nontechnical language. The most important present day facts and theories are given without involving the reader in mathematical forms and processes.

* * * * *

“Altogether the work contains an excellent summary of the leading facts of present-day astronomy, set forth in a lucid and interesting way.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 101. Jl. 24. 1200w.

“By the arrangement of the various branches of the subject, the reader is ever led from coordinated generalities to the more specific details, and is always prepared for what he is reading by the knowledge acquired from the previous chapters.” W: E. Rolston.

+ =Nature.= 80: 181. Ap. 15, ’09. 420w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 112. F. 27, ’09. 50w.

“His book, we should say, contains the minimum of the history of astronomical discovery and of present knowledge below which one cannot allow oneself to fall.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: 456. O. 10, ’08. 410w.

“If we regard the amount of space devoted to a subject as indicating to a certain extent the importance of the subject, then this volume shows some rather remarkable conceptions. Too much prominence is given to the opinions of writers of scientific fiction; it is certainly an innovation in a serious work to find H. G. Wells so freely quoted. It may serve the purpose described by its subtitle as ‘a popular introduction in non-technical language.’” C: L. Poor.

− + =Science=, n.s. 29: 349. F. 26, ’09. 660w.

“Mr. Dolmage has brought many aspects of a most fascinating subject within easy reach.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 1002. D. 12, ’08. 320w.

=Donahoe, Daniel Joseph.= Early Christian hymns: translations of the verse of the most notable Latin writers of the early middle ages. *$2. Grafton press.

8–26396.

Metrical renderings of one hundred and sixty Latin hymns ranging in date from St. Hilary’s time to that of Pius VII.

* * * * *

“The biographical notes are interesting, though sometimes too brief; the indexes are accurate; the appearance of the book attractive.”

+ =Cath. World.= 89: 250. My. ’09. 260w.

“This gives us a Christian anthology of great value, the versions being both scholarly and melodious.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 234. Ap. 1, ’09. 70w. + − =Ind.= 66: 488. Mr. 4, ’09. 220w.

“Mr. Donahoe’s renderings of the really great hymns fall very decidedly below the level attained by our best translators of the same verse, even when he does not confine himself to a closely literal version of the original. But in general Mr. Donahoe’s understanding is correct, his pen facile, his spirit sweet and sympathetic, and his versions eminently readable.”

+ − =Nation.= 87: 439. N. 5, ’08. 300w.

“The book is distinctly creditable to its author. A little reflection and some pains might weed out its redundancies and reduce its present plethora to a simplicity more in accordance with the spirit of the old-time hymnologists.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 218. Ap. 10, ’09. 570w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 126. Ja. ’09. 60w.

=Dondlinger, Peter Tracy.= Book of wheat: an economic history and practical manual of the wheat industry of the world. *$2. Judd.

8–23519.

“This work treats of the growing, cultivation, and harvesting of wheat, as well as of the systems of crop rotation, irrigation, and fertilizing employed, the diseases to which this grain is subject, its insect enemies, and, finally the important questions of transportation, storage, marketing, and milling. In short, the writer has attempted nothing less than a complete practical manual of the wheat industry.”—R. of Rs.

* * * * *

“The most complete and scientific work on the subject, covering every phase of the industry.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 9. Ja. ’09.

“He started out to make a reference book to cover the whole field of the wheat industry. In this he succeeds so well that it is not likely that the work will be attempted by another for a considerable time. It appears to be a thoroughly careful piece of work and written by a man who appreciates the economic factors.”

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 192. Ja. ’09. 330w.

“An extensive and fairly exhaustive bibliography in so far as American publications are considered shows that the data presented were derived from the latest and most reliable sources.” J. I. Schulte.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 32. Ap. ’09. 380w.

“Fills a place for which there are no rivals, and it fills that place well and satisfactorily.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 815. Ap. 15, ’09. 330w.

“The chief significance of the book will possibly be found by some persons to consist in the aid it gives to a more inductive study of economic science. For those who think that descriptive and statistical accounts of our various industries should necessarily precede the enunciation of definite economic laws with their proper modifications, this will probably be a welcome volume.” E. K. Eyerly.

+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 306. My. ’09. 300w.

“The grain market would not be the worse off for the information which Mr. Dondlinger’s book contains—information which is clearly and accurately put and strikingly devoid of confusing technicalities. The thirty-three pages devoted by Mr. Dondlinger to the bibliography of wheat deserve special notice.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 343. Ap. 1, ’09. 600w.

“The book is very rich in material of importance to the student of general economics, and its appearance should do much to reform the agricultural views of the text-book writers, which are largely based upon the facts of a bygone epoch.”

+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 564. S. ’09. 250w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 253. F. ’09. 60w.

“It is a book that will be extremely useful not only to business men but as a reference work in schools and colleges.” M. A. Carleton.

+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 1000. Je. 25, ’09. 900w.

=Donworth, Grace.= Letters of Jennie Allen to her friend, Miss Musgrove. †$1.50. Small.

8–30936.

Jennie Allen sets down in letters to her friend, Miss Musgrove, the affairs of her life in a brother’s family where she shoulders a good share of the work and incidentally makes “rappars” and “aperns” for a living. Homely, cheerful philosophy, practical common sense and an abounding sense of humor characterize her observations.

* * * * *

“While from a humorous view-point it is far inferior to the Susan Clegg books by Anne Warner, yet in some respects is more pleasing than are those stories.”

+ − =Arena.= 40: 613. D. ’08. 420w.

“The letters are delightful, altho the spelling is unnecessarily grotesque.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 638. Mr. 25, ’09. 120w.

“At lamentable moments some deplorable punning and other lapses from taste pull the book down below even its own moderate level. But with those drawbacks there is diversion of a plain, amiable, rag-carpetty sort between its covers.”

− + =Nation.= 88: 93. Ja. 28, ’09. 180w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.

“Jennie Allen is the best ever.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 180w.

“In ‘Jennie Allen’ Miss Grace Donworth has created, we believe, a really new character, as deliciously original as ‘Mrs. Wiggs.’”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 122. Ja. ’09. 70w.

=D’Ooge, Martin Luther.= Acropolis of Athens. *$4. Macmillan.

9–5106.

“A sumptuous and elaborately illustrated volume is that which the Professor of Greek in the University of Michigan devotes to the wondrous hill of Athens, the works of its successive generations of builders and artists, the spoilers who wasted them, the conservators who now repair and guard.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The serious student will find the book packed with sifted facts which hitherto he has had to gather for himself from a wide range of writers in various tongues.” J. I. Manatt.

+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 792. Jl. ’09. 350w.

“Valuable for large or special collections; Gardner’s ‘Ancient Athens’ is preferable for general reading.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 101. Ap. ’09.

“The volume may be commended to the close reader of history, the exceptionally serious traveller, and the lover of things Grecian in general.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 408. Je. 16, ’09. 150w.

“The careful work has left only the fewest of negligible errors.”

+ − =Ind.= 66: 696. Ap. 1, ’09. 620w.

“A book of the kind has been much in request, not only by the archæological student, but by every intelligent visitor to Athens. The whole presents a readable, though perhaps rather matter-of-fact, account.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 612. Je. 17, ’09. 650w.

“Prof. D’Ooge designed this book both for general readers and for those wishing to make a minute study of the subject. In this point, and in only this has he failed. Written with careful attention to detail, its lucidity complemented by numerous maps, diagrams, and excellent photographs, the book should be of the greatest value to the student of Greek history.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 150. Mr. 13, ’09. 480w.

“Enriched with the latest fruits of the exploration and study of the ruins of the once most glorious spot in the world, this volume is both a delight to the Hellenic scholar and a valuable souvenir for the cultured traveler.”

+ =Outlook.= 91: 587. Mr. 13, ’09. 150w.

“The production of a scholar and enthusiast on a subject which is deeply interesting to all who have a tincture of Greek letters.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 504. Ap. 17, ’09. 80w.

Dorland, W. A. Newman. Age of mental virility: an inquiry into the records of achievement of the world’s chief workers and thinkers. **$1. Century.

8–26841.

Descriptive note in December, 1908.

* * * * *

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 193. Ja. ’09. 160w.

“It is one of the most stimulating little works of the season.”

+ =Arena.= 40: 608. D. ’08. 260w.

“Most curious and stimulating study of old men.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 200. Ja. 28, ’09. 580w.

=Dougall, Lily.= Paths of the righteous. $1.50. Macmillan.

9–35332.

“Few have dealt more suggestively with the romance of religion than Miss Dougall without deviating from a reverent sympathy with its highest aims. From this point of view, ‘The paths of the righteous’ demands attention as a powerful, and eloquent plea for comprehension and toleration in regard to the question of religious education. But the story is very far from being a mere theological pamphlet. It certainly is a novel with a purpose, but it is singularly free from partisanship. The case of the Nonconformists is at least as fully stated as that of the Anglicans, and though the writer practices an artistic self-effacement, there can be no doubt of her earnest desire to render faithful justice to sincere extremists, while advocating the ‘via media’ as the true solution.”—Spec.

* * * * *

“Too ‘solid’ and informing to be generally popular, but can be heartily recommended to educated readers interested in English affairs.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 90. Mr. ’09.

“Much discussion of religious problems is ... spread over a story of considerable secular interest.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 603. N. 14. 80w.

“While her work in its essentials is an eirenicon, Miss Dougall does not discard the use of wit and satire—satire none the less mordant for its delicacy—to reinforce her argument. The book can be read with pleasure even by those who may be indifferent to its guiding purpose. Miss Dougall’s eloquence and distinction of style, have never been more happily displayed than in these pages.”

+ =Spec.= 101: 679. O. 31, ’08. 1350w.

=Douglas-Lithgow, Robert Alexander.=^{[10]} Dictionary of American-Indian place and proper names in New England; with many interpretations. $7. Salem press.

9–17202.

“Dr. Douglas-Lithgow has here collected into one volume the Indian place and personal names of New England, defining and locating them whenever possible. In the introductory chapter he gives a brief history of the American Indians in New England, which will stimulate the reader’s interest: curiosity is fully aroused by descriptions of these aborigines. The dictionary has two main divisions, “place” and “proper” or personal names. Of these the dictionary of place names occupies three-fourths of the volume and is subdivided by states. The section devoted to personal names is biographical in form.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“That part of the work devoted to the principal American tribes of New England is etymological, as well as definitive, and will be frequently consulted.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 536. O. 2, ’09. 310w.

“It may be said that the dictionary is a work of historical importance.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 498. Ag. 21, ’09. 330w.

=Douthit, Jasper L.=^{[6]} Jasper Douthit’s story: the autobiography of a pioneer; with introd. by Jenkin Lloyd Jones. *$1.25. Am. Unitar.

The story of a pioneer’s labors for anti-slavery, temperance, and liberal religion.

* * * * *

“Tells his life-story with all the charm and moving power of simple truth.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 331. My. 16, ’09. 200w.

“The book is not an important one, except as a human document. It tells a very real story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 322. My. 22, ’09. 150w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 373. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.

=Drage, Geoffrey.=^{[9]} Austria-Hungary. *$6. Dutton.

9–35858.

Sets forth the history and aims of the various nationalities of Austria-Hungary and dwells at length upon the conditions of labor among them. “In Mr. Drage’s opinion, whatever the solution of the southern Slav problem and other problems may be, Austria-Hungary will survive. She may become a federated monarchy; she may alter her form in many ways; but she will not be absorbed into a German hegemony.” (Spec.)

* * * * *

“A thorough, comprehensive and unusually impartial study which will be of use to diplomats, economists, newspaper men and statesmen.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 71. N. ’09.

“This book is useful for reference as it contains a good deal not brought together elsewhere. His statement of the facts sometimes varies, and his final chapters are wanting in clearness, though we can hardly blame him.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 67. Jl. 17. 1100w.

“An admirably clear, thoro and comprehensive work on the dual monarchy.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 708. S. 23, ’09. 860w.

“The author’s sources of information are, as a rule, well chosen, though one is surprised to see among them the ‘Historian’s history of the world,’ and to find too much space given to passing newspaper opinions.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 486. N. 18, ’09. 1050w.

“His volume promises to become of the three [Alden’s ‘Hungary of to-day’; Andrassy’s ‘Development of Hungarian constitutional liberty’; and Drage’s ‘Austria-Hungary’], the most valuable and authoritative contribution on the subject.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 762. D. 4, ’09. 920w.

“The statistical tables and other facts, collected as they have been at different times, are not always up to date. It is superior in some important respects to recent works, for it neither proceeds from a solitary visit to Austria-Hungary nor does it suffer from any particular party prejudice.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 231. Ag. 21, ’09. 1450w.

“What distinguishes Mr. Drage’s book from all the others we have read on the subject is that he gives a very nearly impartial account of everything.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 17. Jl. 3, ’09. 1700w.

=Driesch, Hans.= Science and philosophy of the organism: the Gifford lectures delivered before the University of Aberdeen in the year 1907. *$3. Macmillan.

8–26199.

This first course of lectures delivered before the University of Aberdeen will be followed by another for a concluding course. “The two volumes, it is announced, will be divided into three ‘sections,’ on ‘The chief results of analytical biology,’ ‘Die seele als elementarer naturfaktor,’ and ‘The philosophy of the organism,’ respectively. The first makes up the whole of the present volume, and is subdivided into two ‘parts’: 1, on ‘The individual organism with regard to form and metabolism,’ 2, on ‘Systematics and history.’” (Philos. R.)

* * * * *

“The book is a harassing one for the student, because even ordinary scientific phrases seem to require special definition in order to express the author’s meaning, and the reader is frequently lost in a maze of terminology which appears to lead only to confusion.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 158. Ag. 8. 410w.

“It is very unfortunate that the table of contents gives absolutely no clue to the arrangement of the work. The latter would gain much in intelligibility if the table were made to indicate the general plan of the lectures, as stated later.” M. L. Eastwood.

+ − =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 383. Ap. ’09. 720w.

“That Driesch has written a fascinating exposition of his subject few will deny. Whether we agree with Driesch or not concerning the nature of the unknown factors of development, his attempt to hold our interpretation to the more difficult epigenetic of thought is, we think, deserving of the highest praise.” T. H. Morgan.

+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 101. F. 18, ’09. 2250w.

“It offers only an incomplete development of the author’s position. For this reason, and because of disconnected presentation, of frequent repetition, and of hesitating argumentation, the volume is somewhat unsatisfactory. However, it contains much that is of value by way of summarizing recent work, and much that is suggestive by way of criticism.” E. G. Spaulding.

− + =Philos. R.= 18: 63. Ja. ’09. 2600w.

=Driesch, Hans.=^{[7]} Science and philosophy of the organism, v. 2. *$3. Macmillan.

9–4111.

=v. 2.= The first part of this volume brings to a close the section on “The chief results of analytic biology” which formed the subject matter of volume one, and then concludes with a lengthy discussion of the “Philosophy of the organism.”

* * * * *

“The attempt to carry through the philosophy of vitalism and of Entelechy seems to reveal a great deal of loose thinking and of bad confusion on the part of Professor Driesch. And yet it must be confessed that the volume is suggestive in parts and, on the whole, worth reading.” E. G. Spaulding.

+ − =Philos. R.= 18: 436. Jl. ’09. 3000w. (Review of v. 2.)

“Driesch’s book, though an important and valuable contribution to the discussion over vitalism, is not very successful as a work of popularization. It is ill planned and awkwardly executed, diffuse, involved, and written in a tongue far removed from idiomatic English.” A. O. Lovejoy.

+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 761. N. 26, ’09. 3100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)

=Driver, Samuel Rolles.=^{[9]} Modern research as illustrating the Bible. (Schweich lectures, 1908.) *3s. Oxford.

9–14445.

“The first half of the book summarizes the results of the travels, explorations, and excavations carried on in Egypt, Babylonia, Arabia, and the countries which were occupied by the more immediate neighbors of ancient Israel, while the second half takes up more in detail the excavations in Canaan itself.... In the second half of the book which takes up the excavations at Tell el Hesy, the ancient Lachish, Gezer, Taanach, Jericho, and other Palestinian mounds, especial attention is given to the ‘religious antiquities’—highplaces, mazzebahs, figures of the goddess Ashtoreth, human sacrifices, foundation sacrifices, lamp and bowl deposits, and other objects which have to do with the cults of the ancient inhabitants of Canaan.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“If one may venture a general criticism on such an excellent book, it is to the effect that it furnishes the student no direct help on the problems now so prominent in this field.”

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 643. O. ’09. 300w.

“A careful and brief summary.”

+ =Bib. World.= 34: 70. Jl. ’09. 40w.

“Although necessarily but a rapid survey of the results of these excavations, etc., upon the interpretation of the Bible, this book is especially welcome as the work of one who is primarily a biblical scholar. It must be confessed that Professor Driver lays too little rather than too much stress upon the influence of Babylonia upon Israel.” D. D. Luckenbill.

+ − =Bib. World.= 34: 211. S. ’09. 900w. + =Nation.= 89: 518. N. 25, ’09. 130w. =Spec.= 102: 587. Ap. 10, ’09. 220w.

=Drummond, Andrew Lewis.=^{[8]} True detective stories. †$1.50 Dillingham.

9–18068.

Seventeen detective stories, relating principally to counterfeiting and blackmailing. They range from the banks of the Red river, in the days following the civil war, to Broadway as it is to-day. The biggest, brainiest criminals of almost half a century, both men and women, are introduced to the reader.

* * * * *

“Although these stories are ‘true,’ there is lacking the literary craftsmanship.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 512. Ag. 28, ’09. 250w.

=Dryden, John.= Poetical works of John Dryden. (Cambridge ed.) $3. Houghton.

9–7326.

Includes all of Dryden’s undoubted poetical works, both original and translated, except his dramas, and a number of his critical essays. The chronological arrangement insures a clear conception of the poet’s literary development, and his relation to the politics of the time. The full editorial matter includes in the “notes” a considerable portion of Sir Walter Scott’s Commentary on Dryden.

* * * * *

“The most complete collection of Dryden in popular form.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 193. Je. ’09. =Dial.= 46: 333. My. 16, ’09. 70w.

“Most of the notes are judicious as well as learned, and many are really contributory.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 585. Je. 10, ’09. 400w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 50w.

=Du Bartas, Guillaume De Saluste.= Divine weeks of Josuah Sylvester; mainly translated from the French of William de Saluste, lord of the Bartas; ed. with introd., notes, emendations and excisions by Theron Wilber Haight; collated with the quarto edition of 1608, 1611 and 1613, and the folios of 1621, 1633 and 1641. $2. H. M. Youmans, Waukesha, Wis.

8–28426.

“The divine weeks” has been somewhat abridged, and modernized for this edition, and is supplied with full editorial equipment for the “curious” reader.

=Du Bois, Mary Constance.=^{[11]} Lass of the silver sword. †$1.50. Century.

9–26142.

A group of girls at boarding school are organized into a band of girl knights by a youthful leader who has, in a rudimentary state, all of the qualities of a Joan of Arc. They pledge themselves to fight hard to stand well in their lessons, to help each other, for love of Hazelhurst. Their frolics at school and later their adventures in the Adirondacks are full of wholesome fun and spirit; while their leader, impetuous and clever, is a splendid type of young heroine.

* * * * *

“The book has a healthy tone sure to appeal to wide-awake young people.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 684. O. 23, ’09. 200w.

“The book in style is easily written, with an unfortunate tendency to make use of oversweet adjectives, a fault which mars so much of our fiction. Is wholesome, however.”

+ − =Lit. D.= 89: 1017. D. 4, ’09. 120w.

=Dubois, Paul.=^{[7]} Psychic treatment of nervous disorders (The psychoneuroses and their moral treatment); tr. and ed. by Smith Ely Jelliffe and W. A. White. 6th ed. rev. *$3. Funk.

9–14931.

This sixth revision brings the author’s work to date and elucidates such points as his readers have misunderstood and criticized.

=Dubois, Paul.= Self-control and how to secure it; a translation of the author’s L’education de soi-même by Harry Hutcheson Boyd. **$1.50. Funk.

9–9244.

Supplements the author’s “Psychic treatment of nervous disorders” and “Influence of the mind on the body.” It differs from these works in that it is not devoted so largely to citations of interesting cases and questions but provides a philosophical and direct discussion of what may be accomplished by self-control and how it may be secured.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 162. Je. ’09.

“Many of the opinions advanced appear at first thought rather startling, but the author never neglects to give a rational foundation for his ideas.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 763. My. 1, ’09. 480w.

“Those familiar with Prof. Dubois’s former work will find this particularly interesting, because it illustrates a phase of his mind so different from that which they already know.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 373. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.

=DuBois, William E. B.=,^{[5]} ed. Economic cooperation among Negro-Americans. $1. Univ. press, Atlanta, Ga.

8–31624.

“In this volume Professor W. E. B. Du Bois, the editor, continues his interesting and valuable studies of negro life. The present volume is rather fragmentary in character, and covers a wide range of topics, beginning with an introductory chapter on the economic development of the negro in Africa and tracing his history through slavery and emancipation to the present time. This is followed by extensive quotations of the statistics of the material wealth and development of the church, school, benefit, insurance and secret societies, banks, and co-operative businesses conducted by negroes.”—Ann. Am. Acad.

* * * * *

“This issue, therefore, presents to the student a multitude of facts whose value of course depends largely upon their accuracy. We must probably assume that the majority of them are correct but it so happens that the only comparison made of statistics of church membership shows that they are widely at variance with those given in an earlier publication. This would appear to indicate that possibly not enough attention and time had been spent in checking figures.”

+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 453. Mr. ’09. 170w.

“The book contains a brief but well selected bibliography of the subject which answers as a working bibliography of the economic aspects of the negro problem in general.” U. G. Weatherly.

+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 62. Ap. ’09. 500w.

=DuBois, William E. B.=^{[9]} John Brown. (American crisis biographies.) **$1.25. Jacobs.

9–24274.

A biography constructed from a vast amount of new material which adopts the viewpoint of the “little known but vastly important inner development of the Negro American.” It portrays the work of John Brown not for the negroes but with them.

* * * * *

=Ind.= 67: 1140. N. 18, ’09. 7Ow.

“Dr. DuBois’s work is disappointing in that it betrays no original research and abounds in inaccuracies. His last chapter in the book before us is a notable discussion of the race question as it stands to-day in the light of John Brown’s sacrifice.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 405. O. 28, ’09. 1000w.

=Du Cane, Florence.= Flowers and gardens of Japan; painted by Ella Du Cane, described by Florence Du Cane. *$6. Macmillan.

9–3089.

A book which describes and pictures characteristic Japanese gardens, clever of design and precise in arrangement; which describes certain flowers closely associated with Japan and interprets their meaning and corresponding treatment in gardens; and which tells of the festival associated with the blossoming time of different flowers.

* * * * *

“As a garden book or a book about Japan this one is full of interest.”

+ =Dial.= 45: 467. D. 16, ’08. 200w.

Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.

+ =Ind.= 65: 1460. D. 17, ’08. 100w.

“A readable and informing account.”

+ =Int. Studio.= 36: 336. F. ’09. 180w.

“Since these pictures supplement in a satisfactory manner the most exhaustive treatise in English that we have on Japanese gardens, namely, that by Josiah Conder, the volume is a slight but real addition to our garden literature. [There are] certain slight shortcomings in the work.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 25. Ja. 7, ’09. 650w.

“The book has the best account we have seen anywhere of the way in which Japanese gardens, including the landscape garden, are planned, planted, and made effective.”

+ =Outlook.= 90: 843. D. 12, ’08. 80w.

“The book was wanted, although the subject has already been dealt with more thoroughly, if only to show how totally unlike the real gardens of Japan are so-called Japanese gardens made in England.”

+ =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. D. 12, ’08. 330w.

“This book is attractive to look at, interesting to read, and useful as a treasury of information.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 386. Mr. 6, ’09. 90w.

=Duchesne, Rt. Rev. Louis Marie Olivier.=^{[12]} Early history of the Christian church, from its foundation to the end of the third century; rendered into English from the 4th ed. *$2.50. Longmans.

9–25435.

“The author begins withthe imperial environment, including Judaism, and passes from the apostolic ages to the growth of the first heresies, the foundation of the monarchical episcopate, the formation of the earliest Christian literature, and the early persecutions. He proceeds through the movements and controversies of the second century to the time of the persecutions by special edict in the third century; intervening with attempts at fusion with the later paganism, the development of Alexandrian Christianity, and the consolidation of the hierarchy. The last struggle, beginning with Diocletian’s persecution, is not contained in this volume.”—Eng. Hist. R.

* * * * *

“At length we possess an English version of his study on the early church, a study which, besides augmenting and correcting our previous knowledge of the first ages of Christianity, has helped incalculably ecclesiastical history by setting a model of exact scientific method.”

+ =Cath. World.= 89: 540. Jl. ’09. 1250w.

“Perhaps, for non-specialists in theology, rather too many proper names and too many details are given in the latter part of the book to construct a life-like picture. The translation cannot be regarded as successful. It may seem doubtful whether a translation was needed at all, but it certainly should not have been undertaken by anyone who could not imitate the terse and racy style of the author.” A. G.

+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 820. O. ’09. 560w.

“We would have wished that so wise and interesting a book had been worthily translated. Of classical antiquity and of Church history the present translator is quite ignorant, and though this is not manifest through many pages of flowing narrative it becomes discreditably conspicuous wherever a knowledge greater than that of the general reader is needed to interpret the author’s sense.”

+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 667. N. 27, ’09. 1130w.

“The present book is admirably sound and fair. If it were not for its frequent insistence on the claims of the church of Rome to supremacy, it would be well-nigh impossible to discover anything distinctively Roman in its tendency. And even here it is strictly honest. Monsignor Duchesne’s style is clear and pure, with touches of tender and refined eloquence here and there which have a rare and peculiar charm.”

+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 713. N. 6, ’09. 1750w.

=Dudeney, Mrs. Henry Ernest.= Rachel Lorian. †$1.50. Duffield.

9–7038.

“Rachel Lorian’s husband was fearfully mutilated by a railway accident on his weddingday. So, while acting as a conscientious nurse to the cripple, she fell in love with his artist friend. But they determined not to wrong the husband in act. Later on Rachel, through the defects of her own temperament, threw away her hopes of happiness, but we leave her on the last page rejoicing in the possession of her lover’s child by another woman.”—Sat. R.

* * * * *

“We admire the shrewd, but seldom ill-natured touches of humour in the delineation of subsidiary characters. The style suffers slightly from the influence of Mr. Henry James, also from grammatical lapses.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 127. Ja. 30. 200w.

“What is difficult to understand is why such a good artist did not know when to stop. It is this later part which mars the symmetry of the story and consigns it to a much lower rank in the scale of fiction.” F: T. Cooper.

+ − =Bookm.= 29: 187. Ap. ’09. 630w.

“It is to be hoped that the cleverness of the book—and it is decidedly clever—will not avail to make either its style or its ideas contagious.”

− + =Nation.= 88: 255. Mr. 11, ’09. 300w.

“A noteworthy achievement, and in its creation and development of character, artistic handling of material, and imaginative power it deserves to be classed among the best of current fiction.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 118. F. 27, ’09. 330w.

“An interesting if somewhat sad novel.”

+ =No. Am.= 190: 268. Ag. ’09. 110w.

“The characters who pass before a Cornish background are successfully presented. The book is disagreeable without impropriety.”

− + =Sat. R.= 107: 146. Ja. 30, ’09. 200w.

“The story is powerfully written, and the picture of Francis Lorian, the cripple, is only too lifelike and realistic. But there appears no particular reason why so very painful an incident should ever have been expanded into a novel.”

+ − =Spec.= 102: 310. F. 20, ’09. 310w.

=Dudeney, Mrs. Henry E.=^{[8]} Trespass (Eng. title: Orchard thief). **$1.25. Small.

9–28117.

A close analysis of the hearts and characters of two men and a woman. The young woman betrothed to an honest inn-keeper is lured away from him by a fascinating author. The latter, an egoist, uses the woman’s charm to feed his “twin streams of beauty—his expressed art and his dormant religion.” He betrays her, and in the moment of her agony and despair the faithful Stephen, with his love as big as ever, and quite unquenchable whatever she did, weds her and so protects her and her child. The story’s chief merit lies in the delineation of the selfless Stephen’s character.

* * * * *

“The three persons have individuality, and the writing is effective and germane to the matter.”

+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 650. N. 23. 170w.

“It is pleasant to be able to record so marked an improvement in literary art as is shown by Mrs. Henry Dudeney’s new novel, ‘Trespass.’”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 584. O. 2, ’09. 220w.

“Like ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles,’ it deals boldly with the problems of passion, and may offend in this way, but, like that book also, it is essentially dramatic, a searching exposition of human nature under the stress of conflicting emotions.”

+ − =Outlook.= 93: 276. O. 2, ’09. 110w.

“The whole novel is remarkable.”

+ =Sat. R.= 104: 732. D. 14, ’07. 180w.

“The book may be warmly recommended to those readers who like an interesting story, and if it is not ‘virginibus puerisque,’ it is at any rate unmistakably on the side of the angels.”

+ =Spec.= 99: 993. D. 14, ’07. 220w.

=Dudley, Albertus True.= A full-back afloat. (Phillips Exeter ser.) †$1.25. Lothrop.

8–17995.

“After his first year at college, where he has distinguished himself on the gridiron, Dick Melvin is desirous of making a trip to Europe, and, lacking the funds, is induced to earn his passage over. This he does on board a cattle vessel, and his athletic training proves quite an asset when he finds himself associated with a class of men who are rough and lawless.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“Lively, well told story. A boys’ book, but interesting to girls.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 94. Mr. ’09. ✠

Reviewed by K. L. M.

=Bookm.= 28: 500. Ja. ’09. 100w.

=Dudley, Gertrude, and Kellor, Frances Alice.= Athletic games in the education of women. **$1.25. Holt.

9–4473.

A discussion in which more emphasis is placed upon athletics as a training for citizenship and a part of general education than upon their physical value to the individual, the latter value not being underestimated but subordinated for the reason that it has been covered so generously in many treatments.

* * * * *

“This book fills a real need.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 136. My. ’09. + =Ind.= 66: 1245. Je. 3, ’09. 70w.

“The book is well written and constitutes a forcible argument in favor of the subject in hand.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 724. Ap. 24, ’09. 230w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 126. Mr. 6, ’09. 210w.

“A study which is unique not only with reference to the influence of athletic sports and particularly team games upon women, but with reference to the nature and meaning of athletic sports themselves.” L. H. Gulick.

+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 92. Jl. 16, ’09. 500w. =Spec.= 102: 942. Je. 12, ’09. 100w.

=Duff, John Wight.=^{[9]} Literary history of Rome, from the origins to the close of the golden age. *$4. Scribner.

9–22725.

The tenth volume in Mr. Fisher Unwin’s “Library of literary history.” “It begins with a long introduction, of 57 pages, on the descent of the Romans, their language, character, and religion.... The history proper is divided into two main periods: the earlier literature of the Republic (from the origins to 70 B. C.) and the literature of the golden age, the second period being subdivided into the Ciceronian age (70 B. C. to 43 B. C.) and the Augustan age (43 B. C. to 14 A. D.).” (Nation.)

* * * * *

“We may frankly say that we have not read a better book of the kind, and that he has fulfilled his task with great success. He does, we think, as is natural with a specialist, overrate the importance of his subject. Strange to say, Mr. Duff seems to underrate one of the Latin Masters, the admirable Terence.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 62. Jl. 19. 1150w.

“Professor Duff’s book fortunately contains also a wealth of the essential, such as may be found in no other work on the subject; and this fits it for the wider circle (who may omit the less significant portions if they choose), as well as for the specialists. A sense of monotony in style insists on rising into the reader’s consciousness as often as momentary flagging of interest in the subject-matter gives it opportunity, and is indeed never very far from the surface.” Grant Showerman.

+ − =Dial.= 47: 332. N. 1, ’09. 1800w.

“We do not know any work of moderate dimensions which is more likely to revive or whet an appetite for Latin literature than Professor Duff’s manual. It is packed full of information, and its critical remarks are sound and good.”

+ =Lit. D.= 39: 634. O. 16, ’09. 470w.

“A good scholarly piece of work. It is written professedly for the general reader, but even the professional student of Latin may read it with much pleasure and profit. His critical judgments are usually sound and well expressed, and one gets the pleasant impression that they are based on his own reading of all the authors concerned. His decisions on disputed questions will, of course, not satisfy everybody, but he is always scrupulously fair and courteous.”

+ =Nation.= 89: 185. Ag. 26, ’09. 120w.

“Some of Prof. Duff’s pages are mere catalogues of names and dates; he has not, it would seem, the ability of writing interestingly of uninteresting subjects. But when the subject appeals to him he produces remarkably interesting criticism and comment.”

+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 486. Ag. 14, ’09. 700w.

“So much has been written on Latin authors, especially those of the golden age, that it might appear a difficult and thankless task to take up the tale anew, but Mr. Duff’s success is great enough to justify the experiment.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 200. Ag. 14, ’09. 1550w.

=Dufour, Frank O.= Bridge engineering; roof trusses: a manual of practical instruction in the calculation and design of steel truss and girder bridges for railroads and highways, including also the analysis and design of roof trusses and other details of mill building construction. $3. Am. school of correspondence.

8–30724.

“Under each of the two parts—Bridge engineering and Roof trusses, separately paged as taken from two different volumes of the Cyclopedia—it takes up computation of stresses and the practice of detailing. Stresses are treated entirely analytically, except in a few instances, where graphic diagrams are printed with no other explanation than a reference to a vaguely indicated companion volume. For such an exposition for the theory of stresses as a new student requires—simple, clear and consecutive—the book is satisfactory.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 76. Mr. ’09. ✠

“It suffers somewhat from its association to the Cyclopedia, in its references to other parts of the larger work to which the reader may not have access. For its intended use as an introduction to the study of bridge design it surely has a place, though it can in no way replace the more widely known standard books on the same subject.”

+ − =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 536. N. 12, ’08. 240w.

“Of bridge engineering, however, in its broader sense, there is little in this volume, and the work does not justify its title.”

+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 83. Ja. 16, ’09. 180w.

=Dulles, Charles Winslow.=^{[5]} Accidents and emergencies: a manual of the treatment of surgical and medical emergencies in the absence of a physician. *$1. Blakiston.

9–9255.

The seventh edition of a volume useful in the home and especially in the camp of the engineer or contractor.

* * * * *

“The instructions given in the book are clearly and briefly put, and are accompanied by helpful illustrations.”

+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 48. Ap. 15, ’09. 120w.

“His well-known scepticism as to hydrophobia leads him to advise against resort to Pasteur institutes, on account of bites by presumably rabid animals; but in all other respects the well-indexed little volume may be accepted as a trustworthy compendium of practical information.”

+ − =Nation.= 88: 390. Ap. 15, ’09. 150w.

=Dumàs, Alexandre.=^{[12]} My pets; newly tr. by Alfred Allinson. $1.75. Macmillan.

A translation of “Mes bêtes.” “The work is filled to overflowing with good stories, chiefly animal stories, but there are others besides, and all center around the strange household at Monte Cristo on the Marley road.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“One of the few works of the novelist which may be starred ‘pour la jeunesse.’ But where could one ever find for the country house bookshelf (no matter how many feet to it) a better book than ‘My pets?’”

+ =Nation.= 89: 464. N. 11, ’09. 330w.

“The stories of Vatrian the keeper, with his cutty pipe, of the experiences of a monkey with a soda-water bottle, and countless others told by the garrulous Dumas make delightful reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 685. N. 6, ’09. 210w.

“Ought to be cordially received by all lovers of the great French dramatist, as well as by every man or woman who owns or loves a dog.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 778. D. 11, ’09. 700w.

=Du Maurier, Guy Louis Busson.=^{[8]} Englishman’s home: a play in three acts. †$1.25. Harper.

9–10962.

A play centering in the home of a commonplace Englishman. The family and their friends are seen in a moment of leisure, each endeavoring to amuse himself. When an invading army enters and bullies these harmless peace-lovers, they bustle and complain, sit and shudder, and resent the indignity put upon them but are wholly incompetent to rise and terminate it.

* * * * *

“There is an absolute lack of literary thought or expression.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 162. Je. ’09.

“It may be that the spectator will think the realism of the first act too strong, there is certainly no let-up in the dead-level of stupidity exhibited by touch after touch. Yet not one touch is wrong, and it is probable that each one is necessary to the contrast which is the life of the piece.” E: E. Hale. jr.

+ =Dial.= 47: 68. Ag. 1, ’09. 660w.

“On the whole, ‘An Englishman’s home’ is very interesting; but it is at many moments crude in dramaturgy and does not indicate conclusively that its author will ever be important as a dramatist. It remains a timely journalistic ‘jeu d’esprit’ rather than an earnest work of art. It is a novel, but it is scarcely real.” Clayton Hamilton.

+ − =Forum.= 41: 447. My. ’09. 820w. =Ind.= 67: 931. O. 21, ’09. 170w.

=Dummelow, Rev. John Roberts=, ed. Commentary on the Holy Bible, by various writers; complete in one volume, with general articles and maps. *$2.50. Macmillan.

9–5247.

“A commentary especially written to meet the wants of the ordinary Bible reader. The editor has had the assistance of forty-two scholars in the preparation of the work, though no commentator’s name is attached to his special work. Among these interpreters are the Americans E. L. Curtis, Kent, McFadyen, Paton, G. L. Robinson, F. K. Sanders, and J. H. Ropes, and such English scholars as Peake, W. T. Davison, W. J. Moulton, Wade, Adeney, Plummer, and Colonel Conder. The point of view is that of the historical school, but the application of the historical method is quite conservative and restrained.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“The volume will go far toward popularizing a more intelligent and appreciative conception of the Bible.”

+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 644. O. ’09. 220w.

“A much needed, valuable reference work that can be strongly recommended to public libraries of any size.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 136. My. ’09. ✠

“This volume is likely to prove very useful to teachers and others who wish, without much expenditure of time, to arrive at the meaning of difficult texts, to appreciate the general sense of a passage, and also to find a way to reconcile modern critical views with orthodox belief. The desire for correctness of understanding will, as a rule, be fully satisfied by the comments, and the general articles at the beginning of the work will be found as acceptable as the commentary itself.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 250. F. 27. 450w. =Bib. World.= 33: 287. Ap. ’09. 100w.

“Should prove widely useful to clergymen, teachers, and the laity.”

+ =Dial.= 46: 193. Mr. 16, ’09. 100w. + =Nation.= 89: 103. Jl. 29, ’09. 380w.

“It is a well-edited book.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 195. Ap. 3, ’09. 300w.

“It is a real achievement in compression.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 110w.

“The particular value of Dr. Dummelow’s work lies in the fact that it is complete in one volume.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 510. Ap. ’09. 40w.

“Altogether it is an admirable book to recommend to a busy man who is anxious not simply to read his Bible but to understand it.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 574. N. 6, ’09. 330w.

“It will be seen, therefore, that this commentary, as a whole, represents a school of thought which owns the influence of recent criticism, but does not cease to hold in substance the accepted creed of Christendom. There will be, of course, various opinions on this and that point, but outside the daily diminishing circle of those who hold to theories of verbal inspiration the work will be recognised as a very valuable book.”

+ =Spec.= 102: 187. Ja. 30, ’09. 350w.

=Dunbar, William Philipps.=^{[5]} Principles of sewage treatment; tr. with the author’s sanction by H. T. Calvert. *$4.50. Lippincott.

Agr9–1512.

Sets forth the principles involved in sewage treatment. “The volume is divided into two parts. The first of these is historical. The second part deals with ‘The present position of sewage treatment.’ In the historical portion, the author takes up successively the growth of river pollution and efforts to restrain it by law, and the development of methods of sewage treatment. In part 2 the characteristics of sewage and the objects of purification works are briefly discussed. The author then discusses in considerable detail methods for removing (1) suspended matter and (2) putrescibility. Disinfection is next considered, and after that there are chapters on supervision of disposal works and on the utility and cost of different methods of treatment.” (Engin. N.)

* * * * *

“More detailed and technical than Cosgrove.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 162. Je. ’09.

“One of the best books, if not the best, on sewage treatment ever written. There is scarcely a page of the volume that does not bristle with interesting comment and valuable suggestion.”

+ + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 41. Ap. 15, ’09. 3550w.

“Completely fulfills the expectations of those interested in this branch of sanitary science. No small amount of credit is due the translator, Mr. Calvert, for the important part he has played in placing the book before English readers.”

+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 335. Mr. 20, ’09. 520w.

“It fills a place in the literature of the subject, the requirements of which no existing work completely satisfies.” E: Ardern.

+ =Nature.= 80: 5. Mr. 4, ’09. 700w.

=Duncan, Frances.=^{[6]} When mother lets us garden. **75c. Moffat.

9–35522.

A child’s garden book dealing with the care of the simpler plants and flowers. There are chapters on what plants eat, supplying the family with salad, tub gardens, water gardens, garden play-houses, and growing jack-o’-lanterns.

* * * * *

“More direct and more readily used as a handbook than the author’s ‘Mary’s garden and how it grew.’”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 150. My. ’09. ✠

“An excellent A B C of gardening for children of an older growth—within its limitations.”

+ =Ind.= 66: 1244. Je. 3, ’09. 220w.

“A book which is suited especially to the needs of the youngest gardeners, although containing information of the practical kind for their seniors.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 179. Mr. 27, ’09. 50w.

=Duncan, John Garrow.= Exploration of Egypt and the Old Testament. **$1.50. Revell.

9–12038.

“A beautifully illustrated and popular summary of the results of modern explorations, excavation, and decipherment in Egypt, in so far as it affects Old Testament interpretation. The author’s attitude toward Old Testament criticism is very cautious, and he exhibits much dependence upon his teacher, Professor Petrie, though he does not follow him altogether blindly.”—Bib. World.

* * * * *

“The book, although by no means unreadable, can hardly be depended on from the Egyptological standpoint.”

− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 753. Je. 26. 420w. + =Bib. World.= 33: 287. Ap. ’09. 50w.

“It contains interesting and readable accounts of experiences in the field at Petrie’s camp, but is entirely without value in solving any of those problems of the Old Testament which are involved in Egyptian discovery. He is entirely innocent of any critical knowledge of the Old Testament.”

− + =Nation.= 89: 143. Ag. 12, ’09. 230w.

“Taken as a whole, the book contains more than the title implies. It is eminently readable throughout, and it is well illustrated.” C: R. Gillett.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 159. Mr. 20, ’09. 570w. + =Spec.= 101: 1062. D. 19, ’08. 240w.

=Duncan, Norman.=^{[11]} Going down from Jerusalem. **$1.50. Harper.

9–27602.

The author and illustrator of this delightful volume traversed together that route once taken by Joseph and his family down into Egypt, and they have given us the unchanging East, the glamour of its tradition, its people, and its sacred hills. Pictures and narrative blend happily together to give to the reader the illusion of seeing with his own eyes the desert and the olive groves, of living among tents and camels, and of talking and bartering with the incomparable Moslem and learning much of his religion and philosophy.

* * * * *

“A book that has all the charm of a first visit paid by an observant, highly impressionable traveler to an unknown country.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 1044. N. 4, ’09. 100w.

“A notable book.” C: R. Gillett.

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 767. D. 4, ’09. 100w.

“He has caught the spirit of the East far better than many more pretentious writers.”

+ =Outlook.= 93: 600. N. 13, ’09. 110w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 759. D. ’09. 80w.

=Duncan, Norman.=^{[12]} Higgins, a man’s Christian. 50c. Harper.

9–29364.

Snap shots of daily scenes and daily experiences of a “pilot of souls” among the northern Minnesota lumber-jacks. Higgins is a man among men, and elicits such bar-room remarks as “Higgins’s job is keepin’ us boys out o’ hell; an’ he’s the only man on the job.” “I want t’ tell ye, friend, that he’s a damned good Christian, if ever there was one.” It is of such a preacher and such men that Norman Duncan writes.

* * * * *

=N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 180w.

=Duncan, Norman.=^{[11]} Suitable child. **60c. Revell.

9–28038.

A story of Christmas eve which tells how five passengers aboard the Winnipeg west bound express discover a poor little orphan who is tagged thru to an asylum in Winnipeg, and how they plan a happy Christmas for him. It is a story that grips the heart, and every man, woman and child who reads it will not be content until he has lightened some burdened little heart of its load of loneliness.

* * * * *

“All classes of readers will welcome his story.”

+ =Lit. D.= 89: 1018. D. 4, ’09. 150w. + =Nation.= 89: 538. D. 2, ’09. 40w.

=Dunham, Curtis.=^{[6]} Gambolling with Galatea: a bucolic romance. **$1.15. Houghton.

9–13921.

A diverting rural fantasy in which figure a professor, a poet, a painter, a winsome maiden, a colt, a dog, a pig, a goat, a cow and a bull calf. “With its fine irony for certain schools of contemporary natural history, its real love of domestic animals and understanding of their ways, its appealing love story, its general individuality and charm the story is unique.”

* * * * *

“A diverting rural comedy.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 54. O. ’09.

“The tediousness of the performance is aggravated by the ‘literary’ affectation of its style.”

− =Nation.= 89: 164. Ag. 19, ’09. 140w.

“A most amusing little comedy. At times his fancy seems to gambol a trifle heavily, but the humor of the book is enlivening and its quaint conceit sufficiently diverting.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 355. Je. 5, ’09. 240w.

“The gambols, though lively, are not coarse.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 373. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.

“Is full of wit and humor and quaint description.”

+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 253. Ag. ’09. 50w.

=Dunn-Pattison, R. P.=^{[8]} Napoleon’s marshals. *$3. Little.

The story of how and why Napoleon was led to select his marshals. The story of their services is prefaced by a synopsis of the twenty-six soldiers giving names, dates of birth, and various titles, and includes a column showing how disposed of, and their ages when they died.

* * * * *

“The new book is a real acquisition to the literature of its class.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 389. N. 16, ’09. 330w.

“For the well-read in Napoleonic literature there is little new in this book, yet we imagine that many readers will find some of the details both interesting and instructive. The book is decidedly good, and would be even better had the author refrained from repeating sundry French accounts of the prodigies of valour of the one man against a hundred type ascribed to some of the marshals, which are painfully suggestive of some of Baron Marbot’s performances.”

+ =Sat. R.= 108: 51. Je. 10, ’09. 1200w.

“The volume is a useful contribution to political and military history.”

+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1006. Je. 26, ’09. 320w.

=Dunning, James Edmund.=^{[10]} Master builders. †$1.50. Appleton. 9–16801.

A story that represents the United States on the eve of war with a foreign power. The incidents center about the building of a huge war ship, the attempts of the enemy to steal it, and the outwitting of the plotters by a youth of recognized inconsequence, who turns hero and wins the victory for the Americans.

* * * * *

“Gives an excellent picture of New England shipyard interests but is marred by some unpleasant incidents.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 26. S. ’09.

“Any one thirsting for machinery and machination may here gulp freely.”

− =Nation.= 89: 356. O. 14, ’09. 170w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 484. Ag. 7, ’09. 430w.

=Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer.=^{[8]} Nadir Shah. *$3. Dutton.

A historical novel having for the central figure “Nadir Kuli, the Turcomen robber, soldier, and tyrant, who became Shah of Persia and ruled that country with a rod of iron until an assassin got after him and ended his life. Sir Mortimer has formed some pretty definite conceptions of Nadir and Nadir’s times, and the purpose of his book is to give us the benefit of his study, conjecture, and day dreams, so that we may know approximately what the Near East was like when Nadir was building up the Persian nation.” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“A biographical romance which is at once too romantic to be real biography, and too biographical to be a true romance. We cannot recommend the book to novel-readers ‘pur sand.’ They will find it tedious, in spite of some charming—and some rather realistic—harem scenes.”

− + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 639. N. 21. 1250w.

“Except for the character of the heroine, which savors something too much of the Occident, there is little to offend the sense of verisimilitude.”

+ − =Nation.= 89: 102. Jl. 29, ’09. 340w.

“It certainly would require a good deal of ignoring and a good deal of forgetting to enable one to share with Sir Mortimer his admiring view of Nadir.”

− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 453. Jl. 24, ’09. 470w.

“While the book is worth attention both because of construction and style, it is, as may be fancied, chiefly notable because of its character drawing.”

+ =Outlook.= 92: 870. Ag. 14, ’09. 400w.

“It is on its historical truth and the picture it presents of the times that the value of the work must finally rest. However judged, it must be pronounced a work of great interest and value. It bears evidence of much research and knowledge gained not merely from written records but also from rapidly perishing traditions which it saves from oblivion. No one who wishes to understand the genesis of the Persian character and the unhappy condition of the country to-day should fail to read it. Its clear and forcible style makes this an easy and pleasant task.”

+ =Sat. R.= 107: 309. Mr. 6, ’09. 900w.

=Durand, William Fredrick.=^{[5]} Resistance and propulsion of ships. 2d ed., thoroughly rev. $5. Wiley.

9–4175.

“Professor Durand’s well-known work, which first appeared in 1898, has been revised by the author. Much new matter has been added and somewhat more cut out, with the net result of four pages of reduction. The work represents substantially lectures given by the author to the students in the school of Marine construction at Cornell university when he was in charge of that school. Hence it naturally approaches its subject from the point of view of the student rather than the working naval architect or marine engineer.”—Engin. N.

* * * * *

“While the calculus and mechanics have been freely used by the author, it is, nevertheless, possible, by omitting the parts involving higher mathematics, to obtain a fairly connected idea of the subject from the descriptive standpoint, and also to apply all methods given for purposes of design.”

+ =Engin. D.= 5: 417. Ap. ’09. 240w.

“The typographical work is very good, there being but very few errors. It follows that this book, while valuable and useful to any one interested in its subject, will appeal most strongly to the student who is mostly concerned with theory and principles rather than practical applications.” D. W. Taylor.

+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 50. Ap. 15, ’09. 700w.

=Düring, Stella M.=^{[5]} Love’s privilege. †$1.50. Lippincott.

9–12615.

Following a period of enmity between two rivals one of them is mysteriously shot, and circumstantial evidence is strong against the other rival. The baffling tangle is unraveled in due time, the while misunderstanding and suffering run their full course.

* * * * *

“On the whole, the book provides entertainment of a slightly higher quality than the motive for its writing would lead us to anticipate.” W: M. Payne.

+ =Dial.= 47: 184. S. 16, ’09. 130w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 40w.

=Durley, Ella Hamilton.= My soldier lady. $1.25. Clark.

8–34813.

“Consists of a series of letters written by a lady and conveying ‘big, satisfying slices of Kentucky life’ to a friend who has gone to Japan.... Of course the all-necessary love-motif is interwoven with a graceful lightness of touch which is charming. In a sense these letters may be taken as the other half of the correspondence which make up ‘The lady of the decoration,’ a highly successful book by another author published about two years ago.”—Lit. D.

* * * * *

“Will interest only readers who know the earlier book, to which it is decidedly inferior.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 113. Ap. ’09. ✠

“Clever, bright, and interesting as it is, no one can fail to be refreshed by its sprightliness and clever description of life in the South.”

+ =Lit. D.= 38: 385. Mr. 6, ’09. 110w.

“The letters are gossipy and vivacious and entertaining enough for any young woman alone in a foreign country to have been enlivened and heartened by their reading.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 110. F. 27, ’09. 230w.

=Duthie, Arthur Louis.= Decorative glass processes. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.

9–12266.

“The processes treated of by the author, who has had practical experience of them as a designer and executant, are those involved in leaded lights, stained glass, embossing or ‘etching,’ brilliant cutting and bevelling, the sand-blast, gilding, silvering, and mosaic. Special chapters are devoted to proprietary and patented processes, and at the outset an account is given of the various kinds of glass employed in the processes described.”—Int. Studio.

* * * * *

=Int. Studio.= 37: 171. Ap. ’09. 100w. + =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 25. N. ’09. 80w.

“In spite of a few criticisms, and some further defects from the literary point of view, the book is to be welcomed as an addition to the scanty literature of glass from the pen of a practical glass worker, and it will no doubt find many appreciative readers among those interested in decorative glass.” W. R.

+ − =Nature.= 79: 334. Ja. 21, ’09. 700w.

=Duthie, Rev. D. Wallace=, ed.^{[9]} Bishop in the rough. *$2. Dutton.

This journal, newly edited was prepared by John Sheepshanks a young English clergyman nearly fifty years ago while working among the pioneers of British Columbia. “British Columbia occupies about half the book, and it is no disparagement to the author to say that it is the most interesting part. The Sandwich Islands, China, Mongolia, Tibet, and Siberia do not show such marvellous changes, nor is it in these regions that we see ‘the Bishop in the rough.’”—Spec.

* * * * *

“Although it describes much that has passed away, Mr. Wallace Duthie is fully justified in his opinion that it has lost little of its freshness and interest.”

+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 728. Je. 9. 1200w.

“Both the journalist and the editor have done their literary work well, and the book makes capital reading.”

+ =Dial.= 47: 238. O. 1, ’09. 450w. =Nation.= 89: 362. O. 14, ’09. 150w. + =Outlook.= 92: 872. Ag. 14, ’09. 200w. =Spec.= 103: 135. Jl. 24, ’09. 300w.

=Dutt, W. A.=^{[8]} Norfolk and Suffolk coast. 6s. Unwin, London.

An informing volume dealing with the Norfolk and Suffolk coast from Landguard Fort to the border of Lincolnshire. The topographical history of the coast, its time-wrought changes and striking natural features, places and objects of archæological interest, the history and romance of court life, rates of shipwrecks, life saving deeds, smuggling, and numerous related topics are presented with emphasis on the picturesque aspects.

* * * * *

“It is not easy to see what is the peculiar sphere of utility contemplated by the new ‘Country coast series,’ in as much as the ground covered has already been fully dealt with in the many county guidebooks, of varying status, that recent years have brought forth, Mr. Dutt in the opening volume, ‘The Norfolk and Suffolk coast,’ has set about his task conscientiously, with a praisworthy ambition (not always realized) of imparting freshness and novelty to an old-told tale.”

+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 89. Jl. 24. 1200w.

“It contains an excellent treatise on one of the most famous and interesting of the English counties and one of the foremost.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 596. O. 9, ’09. 80w. =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. Jl. 17, ’09. 450w.

“The subject which Mr. Dutt treats in this volume abounds in many kinds of interest and it has fallen into most capable hands. He has the art of setting off his knowledge to advantage.”

+ =Spec.= 103: 102. Jl. 17, ’09. 320w.

=Dutton, Samuel Train, and Snedden, David Samuel.= Administration of public education in the United States; with an introd. by Nicholas Murray Butler. *$1.75. Macmillan.

8–29852.

“In the preface of this work President Butler distinguishes between the activities of the state, the American people viewed as an organized unit, and those of the government. ‘It is this governmental educational activity with which the present volume deals.’ There are thirty-two chapters treating such subjects as ‘Factors favoring the advance of education’; ‘The national government and education’; Local units of educational administration’; ‘The financing of public education’; ‘The improvement of teachers in service’; ‘The elementary course of study’; ‘The administration of high and normal schools’; ‘Vocational, physical, and correctional education’; ‘Educational statistics’; ‘The widening sphere of public education,’ etc.... The introduction brings together the names of important persons in American education, then follow the significant industrial and social conditions upon which schools depend, and the leading events in national, state, and local school development. There is scarcely a topic from ventilation to pensions, child labor, tuberculosis, festivals, and the school nurse which is not included.”—School R.

* * * * *

“Though not a complete treatment, it is scholarly and valuable.”

+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 39. F. ’09.

“Indispensable will it prove as a hand-book and work of reference for the school expert, for the social worker or the non-professional student of the child problem, and for the young teacher who would know the metes and bounds of the field wherein he has chosen to do his lifework.” J. L. Barnard.

+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 203. Jl. ’09. 650w.

“While the ‘Administration of public education in the United States’ has its defects and limitations, these are, in the majority of cases, of the sort necessarily imposed upon a bit of pioneer work treating of such a rapidly changing field of human action.” E: C. Elliott.

+ − =El. School T.= 9: 524. Je. ’09. 440w.

“Comprehensive and scholarly text-book.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 310. Ag. 5, ’09. 30w.

“Students and teachers of the problems of educational administration looked forward with special interest to the publication of this book; and in the main their high expectations are amply justified. Its limitations are due largely to the nature of its subject-matters.” E. K. Adams.

+ − =J. Philos.= 6: 473. Ag. 19, ’09. 670w.

“The scholarly and very comprehensive volume now before us is a distinct contribution to the literature of education; and it should aid further progress.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 304. Mr. 25, ’09. 160w.

“The treatment is descriptive and accurate. To one accustomed to the somewhat inspirational style of many works on school management this encyclopedic book will prove hard reading. It is essentially a reference book. Fortunately there is an excellent index.” F. A. Manny.

+ − =School R.= 17: 209. Mr. ’09. 320w.

=Dye, John T.=^{[5]} Ideals of democracy: conversations in a smoking car. **90c. Bobbs.

9–10793.

A conversation on subjects relating to democracy and the brother-hood of man engaged in by a professor of political economy and sociology, a banker, a civil engineer, a Catholic bishop, and a professor of law. Some of their ideals are embodied in the following: “The real enemies of democracy are not beyond the sea. They are the false ideals which make the government an instrument by which the few distribute wealth to themselves, monopolize production, exploit labor, create caste, corrupt public life, rob the living and lay burdens on the unborn. These false ideals can not be overcome by the sword or destroyed by battleships, but only by growing intelligence, enlightened self-interest, the coming of a quickened sense of duty, of public service and of social helpfulness.”

=Dykes, James Oswald.=^{[6]} Christian minister and his duties. *$2.25. Scribner.

8–26256.

The work of an English Presbyterian divine “which attests the demand for closer adaptation of the Christian ministry to modern conditions.... E. g., against the Anglican conception of the minister as a priest, Dr. Dykes stands for the New Testament teaching that this can be only in so far as the church itself is ‘a priestly brotherhood of spiritual equals,’ officially represented in its minister. On the other hand, an entire section of the volume is devoted to the subject of public worship, so strongly emphasized by Anglicans, and to the minister’s part therein.... Dr. Dykes’s elaborate treatment of his theme takes note of all particulars that have to do with the minister’s success—even his choice of a wife, his manner in sickrooms, and his precautions in cases of infectious disease.”—Outlook.

* * * * *

“The work may be criticized, along with all practically similar productions, for being oblivious of the social probation which the church is now undergoing. The thought of leadership in social regeneration is absent; only the individual is in evidence. In this respect the book, although excellent in the ground that it does cover, leaves much to be desired by those who are conscious of modern church problems, at least in America.”

+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 498. Jl. ’09. 180w.

“Although written from the standpoint of English social and ecclesiastical conditions, and open to criticism for its lack of emphasis on the work of social regeneration, it is a sane and forceful work, more detailed and comprehensive than Hoyt’s ‘The minister’ which is confined to various aspects of pulpit discourse.”

+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 72. N. ’09.

“The counsels of Principal Dykes will be found well worth attention especially on the subject of the conduct of Christian worship.”

+ =Ind.= 67: 42. Jl. 1, ’09. 60w.

“His lectures on the usual themes of that department of ministerial education are distinguished by sanity of view and force of utterance.”

+ =Nation.= 88: 485. My. 13, ’09. 140w.

“He views his subject from the standpoint of social and ecclesiastical conditions differing from ours. This naturally causes different emphasis on some points of common concern.”

+ − =Outlook.= 90: 318. O. 10, ’08. 300w.

=Dyllington, Anthony.= Green domino: a comedy. †$1.50. Lane.

9–13041.

A slight plot, plenty of color and a good bit of humor mingle in this whimsical story whose scene is laid in the Isle of Wight. “A gentleman clad in a loosely flowing green domino with a peaked hood and carrying a banjo, and his protesting friends, clothed similarly in black, a young, pretty, and widowed ‘ladyship,’ and a matchmaking duchess are the principal characters. The action takes place in a lovely little seaside English town, and the beginning of the romance harks back to a Swiss mountain hotel, where the green dominoed gentleman had seen the face of ‘her ladyship.’” (N. Y. Times.)

* * * * *

“It is long since we have chanced upon so delightful a story of its kind.”

+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 716. D. 5. 130w.

“A pretty story.”

+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 8. Ja. 2, ’09. 160w.

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