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=Kagay, Daniel Martin.=^{[12]} Eastside boys. $1. Roxburgh pub.
9–27743.
Does not deal with boys from the East Side of New York as the title might lead the reader to suppose but from the manufacturing district of a certain town called Albion. It is a faithful portrayal of the American youth, his pranks, jealousies, friendships and good times.
=Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.).=^{[9]} Found by the circus. †$1. Crowell.
9–30320.
A laughter-producing story of a lively youngster, Joey Carter, who is visiting a prim maiden aunt. Aunt Jane takes Joey to the “Great and Only Circus,” where once under the spell of the new sights and sounds she forgets her nephew who, tired and sleepy, crawls under the seat of the monkey wagon and is carried to the next town. How the affable and jewelled-bedecked showman makes capital of the lost boy and later craftily detains the frantic Aunt Jane as an added attraction to the “Great and Only” is amusingly portrayed.
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“The story is an excellent and amusing picture of life behind the scenes in an old-fashioned circus.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 535. S. 11, ’09. 230w.
=Kaplan, Jacob Hyman.=^{[8]} Psychology of prophecy: a study of the prophetic mind as manifested by the ancient Hebrew prophets. *$1.50. Julius H. Greenstone, 915 N. 8th st., Philadelphia.
8–34134.
“In Part 1, ‘What is a prophet?’ the author undertakes to correct certain popular misconceptions as to the nature and function of prophecy. This task occupies about one-half of the book and is but a popular statement of the commonly accepted results of scholarship concerning this subject. Part 2 briefly disposes of ‘Prophetic genius.’ pointing out its analogies to human genius in general and describing the prophets as ‘the perfected embodiments of the Hebrew genius, that is, they were the political, economic, social and religious geniuses of Israel all in one.’ In Part 3, the theme of the book ‘Psychology of prophecy,’ is taken up. Here are discussed in succession ‘Prophetic call’; ‘Premonition, prescience, and prediction’; ‘Revelation’; ‘Dream, vision and audition, ecstasy’; and ‘Inspiration.’ The book gathers up and presents in accessible and interesting form a large amount of material on these subjects not otherwise easily obtained.”—Am. J. Theol.
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“It is to be heartily recommended to all students of these subjects as the best discussion yet put forth.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 485. Jl. ’09. 180w.
“This is an excellent summary of the facts accessible to us regarding the nature of Hebrew prophecy.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 140. F. ’09. 60w.
=Kaye, John Brayshaw.=^{[12]} Trial of Christ, in seven stages; a poem. *$1. Sherman, French & co.
9–28123.
A poem that gives, besides the meager details of the Gospels, the probable facts of the procedure, language and conduct of everything that was concerned in the trial of Christ. The seven stages of the poem are: The betrayal, arrest, and hearing before Annas; Before Caiaphas; Before the Sanhedrin; Before Pilate; Before Herod; Again before Pilate; The crucifixion.
=Keep, Austin Baxter=, comp. History of the New York Society library; with an introductory chapter on libraries in colonial New York, 1698–1776. $7.50. Scribner.
8–34672.
The authentic story of the discouragements and difficulties endured in the establishing of the Society library in New York. “The compiler has made diligent and exhaustive search in all sorts of records, official and other, and especially in the minutes and account books of the library and the journals of the day, until it is hardly in exaggeration to say that he must know more of the actual condition of the library at any given date than any one then living could have known it.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The value of the work to the local historian and genealogist is of course paramount, but it is also of importance as a study in library organization.... On the side of library administration, however, the character of the library’s collections and the policy pursued in making them, the use of the library, its extent and nature, the equipment of the institution, etc., there is disappointingly little.” W. D. Johnston.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 85. Jl. ’09. 320w.
“Had the subject been one of national importance or interest, sources could not have been studied more carefully. But for all his literary skill and his long array of facts and personages, one is conscious throughout the narrative that there is something decidedly artificial about it all—that the author is engaged in a kind of ‘tour de force.’”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 197. F. 25, ’09. 180w.
“This information, painfully and patiently gathered, he has conveyed in a surprisingly agreeable and interesting manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 798. D. 26, ’08. 670w.
=Keith, Marian.=^{[12]} Treasure Valley. $1.50. Doran.
8–32386.
A village story with plenty of characterization and a slight plot. “It is about two men, warm friends both of whom are beggared by the same villain, who come together again years afterward in a village in Ontario, where one of them finds the sweetheart who has been waiting for him all the years and the other finds peace and content after bitterness and sorrow. But the people who live in Treasure Valley, where nearly all the action takes place, are delightfully quaint, as amusing as any that have appeared in fictional pages in a long time.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The plot is somewhat vague and entirely negligible. If one is not too particular about artistic effects he can find recompense in the book’s frank and lively humor.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 768. D. 4, ’09. 210w.
=Keller, Albert Galloway.= Colonization: a study of the founding of new societies. $3. Ginn.
8–18742.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The book is of value to the thoughtful general reader quite as much as for the purposes of a college class—a value enhanced by a small but well-selected bibliography.” H. P. Judson.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 861. Jl. ’09. 650w.
“Best extant treatment of the subject from the newer, sociological point of view.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 43. F. ’09.
“He has made a clear, readable history. The dry bones are not reshaped out of scientific recognition by the personality of the author, but they are vitalized by his sane and frequently sage interpretations. As treating a special topic of the broad subject of sociology the book will be welcomed both inside and outside of the university.” A. E. Jenks.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 14: 536. Ja. ’09. 1000w.
“The discussion of the monopoly systems is especially to be commended. The last two chapters are the most valuable contributions made by the book. Much of the material presented is available elsewhere. For the average college student, however, the book fills a real need. It is readable and concise enough to be used as a valuable book for supplementary reading.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 197. Ja. ’09. 200w.
“Within its scope, and with special reference to its view point it forms a valuable contribution to the general literature of the subject, while for American readers it has distinct value and must hold a place by itself till a more comprehensive study, based on further research, shall displace it.” J. A. LeRoy.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 42. Ap. ’09. 830w.
“Its style is not unattractive, its arrangement is good, and its standard of accuracy is high.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 413. Ap. 22, ’09. 370w.
=Kelly, Florence Finch (Mrs. Allen Kelly).=^{[5]} Delafield affair. †$1.50. McClurg.
9–7041.
“The scene is New Mexico, the action ranging over the desert and the plains from a great ranch to the nearest market town, and involving the use of all the weapons of the country—lariat, six-shooter, quick-thrown knife, to say nothing of the strong right arm and the steady fist of the Anglo-Saxon. The plot provides the piquant situation of an avenger hot on the trail of an enemy, who all the time is, unknown to him, his trusted friend and the confidant of all his schemes.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Of chief interest for its picture of political and social conditions in the Southwest.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 187. Je. ’09.
“The story moves with the rush of a reckless ride across the ‘mesa’ to its inevitable end. It is told with animation.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1032. My. 13, ’09. 150w.
“Altogether it is a tale more than likely to cause the unsuspecting reader who picks up the book, thinking merely to kill an odd half hour before going to bed, to sit up a great part of the night.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 136. Mr. 6, ’09. 320w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 170w.
=Kelly, Florence Finch (Mrs. Allen Kelly).=^{[12]} Rhoda of the Underground. $1.50. Sturgis & Walton.
9–29503.
As the title suggests this story turns back to war times. A Southern girl comes under the spell of “Uncle Tom’s cabin,” and thereafter enlists her sympathy and energy in the cause of helping fugitive negroes over the Underground railway to Canada. Story interest and dramatic situations abound.
=Kelly, Myra (Mrs. Allan Macnaughton).=^{[11]} Golden season. **$1.20. Doubleday.
9–24016.
“The intention here seems to be the genial satirizing of conditions in a normal co-educational college in New York city and the Boswellized Johnson is a certain Elizabeth. In effect, the satire is caricature, and the geniality is of a hard kind nurtured by fibs and by joy in the confounding of others—the fibs and the joy of Elizabeth. Upon a chapter like that of the mothers learning to play kindergarten games, caricature sits easily and extracts a smile without any great pain. But the humorousness of lying is no greater in college affairs than in financial ones.”—Nation.
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“There are a host of minor characters who are delightfully amusing, or gently pathetic figures, finely drawn, alive and true. They are of more value than the incidents, amusing though some of these last be, and of far more value than the principals. There is a subjectiveness in Miss Kelly’s style which has always been characteristic of her work, but which is now growing into a mannerism it would be wise to check.” J. Marchand.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 266. N. ’09. 730w.
“The initial chapters are somewhat disappointing, it is true, for the author’s rightful field is unquestionably among her small East side citizens. But Elizabeth improves upon acquaintance, and it is safe to predict that no reader will close the volume without a kindly feeling for this fun-loving girl.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 962. N. 27, ’09. 200w.
“A whole volume of commercial trickery is gloomy, and so is this one as a whole, amusing in sundry spots though it be.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 356. O. 14, ’09. 120w.
“The story of the college life is told with great vivacity, and whether or not the faculty of any school would claim it as its own from the description given by the writer’s facile pen, the reader chortles with glee and hopes that it is all true, every word.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 597. O. 9, ’09. 250w.
“Amusing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 651. O. 23, ’09. 10w.
=Kelly, Myra (Mrs. Allan Macnaughton).= Rosnah. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–32646.
“Miss Kelly’s tale is concerned with the adventures of a young Irish heiress who impersonates the daughter of an irascible old general just returned from long Indian service. His children have been sent home in their early years and have grown to manhood and womanhood practically strangers to their parents as well as to each other. The situation is farcical, but it has unpleasant elements of which Miss Kelly seems unaware.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A pleasant story of Irish country life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 25. Ja. ’09. ✠
“A story of modern Ireland, with a commendable richness of local colouring, an abundance of diverting brogue, and incidentally some aspects of the economic problems confronting Irish landlords.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 77. Mr. ’09. 360w.
“We have read Myra Kelly’s work with interest but it will hardly be accepted with the same enthusiasm as her short stories of the lower East side.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 984. D. 26, ’08. 110w.
“Some of the characters are well drawn, and there is a pleasant Hibernian flavor to the dialogue and many of the minor events. But the story as a whole is loosely written and appears to have been thrown together in haste. It will not add to her reputation.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 712. N. 28, ’08. 200w.
“The story is written with humor and sprightliness, and contains interesting pictures of Irish life among those of her people who love Ireland and hate her oppressors.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 108. Ja. 16, ’09. 140w.
=Kelman, John, jr.=^{[5]} From Damascus to Palmyra. *$6. Macmillan.
9–18449.
“Mr. Kelman has a fine subject in attempting to realize and describe the romantic history of Palmyra, the past and present of Damascus and other places, the weird Syrian desert, the temples, tombs, and other memorials of bygone Empire. The description of the mental and physical effect of the desert on the western traveller would alone lend the book a certain distinction.... Mr. Kelman’s literary touches are often richer in true Eastern colour than the coloured illustrations themselves, and the book loses nothing in attractiveness from the fact that it was ready for the press before the recent changes in Turkey had taken place. Hence it enjoys the curious distinction of being the last of the countless records of the impression which Oriental rule of the older days made upon the mind of the modern traveller from the west.”—Sat. R.
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“The book is eminently readable from end to end, and not only readable, but also scholarly. One or two pardonable slips may be pointed out.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 492. Ap. 24. 1250w.
“Mr. Kelman had an almost embarrassing wealth of material to draw upon both from books and personal observation; he has made an admirable selection, and worked it up effectively.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 802. D. 26, ’08. 170w.
=Kemp, E. G.=^{[11]} Face of China. **$6. Duffield.
Thru a comparison of the trying conditions attending travel in China in 1893 and the comfortable ones apparent to-day, Miss Kemp shows what advancement has been made in the country along commercial, political, social and educational lines.
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“A brightly written book of sprightly adventure, the pages of which are, however, disfigured by slovenly English and inaccuracy as to facts.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 491. O. 23. 650w.
“A very inviting book.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 455. D. 1, ’09. 320w.
“She writes pleasantly, but a longer residence would have taught her that reform does not necessarily follow edicts deprecating malpractice; while more careful inquiry would have enabled her to assure herself that his Majesty’s government, while scrupulously fulfilling their promises in regard to opium, desire only proof that China is doing her part.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 666. N. 27, ’09. 250w. + =Spec.= 103: 650. O. 23, ’09. 550w.
=Kenealy, Arabella.= Whips of time. †$1.50. Little.
9–7440.
A story built up about an experiment made in the interests of science to prove that environment is a greater factor in development than heredity. A doctor exchanges two babies at birth; in the keeping of the murderess he places the baby of the woman of culture and rank, and to the latter gives the criminal’s offspring. Not only does his experiment fail, but Nemesis invades his household and dire is the vengeance.
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“An interesting, and, on the whole, original story. The author’s taste for melodrama is throughout conspicuous.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 97. Ja. 23. 130w.
“Belongs to the class of books that make no pretensions to high literary value, and are accepted at their face value by the general public, whose verdict is therefore just about commensurate with their real worth.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 647. Ag. ’09. 400w.
“The story is not a pleasant one, but its mechanism is skilfully put together, and it is made the vehicle of a strong human interest.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 183. S. 16, ’09. 250w.
“Dr. Kenealy has treated her psychological problem in a human way and has shown much ingenuity in so complicating the story as to keep the issue long in doubt. There is skill also in the development of character, especially of the several young people concerned, and humor in the portrayal of odd English country types.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 174. Mr. 27, ’09. 230w.
“The characters in the book, evil and good, noble and simple, are excellently drawn, and though in fact the novel is sensational, it is well conceived and well written.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 20*. My. 1, ’09. 200w.
“There is plenty of incident in the story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 248. F. 20, ’09. 180w.
=Kennedy, Charles Rann.= Winterfeast. †$1.25. Harper.
8–36392.
A viking homestead in Iceland furnishes the scene for this tragedy of the eleventh century. Suspending during nearly a score of years the retribution demanded for a lie, the time comes for its mission of evil to be fulfilled. It is presaged by the half human cries, the storm and thunder which on Winterfeast bode only sorrow, by the evil Ufeig who reveals to an apparently peaceful household the treachery of its stalwart son Valbrand, who had lied to his brother in order to win the latter’s sweetheart. The merciless Nemesis strikes blow upon blow leaving only stunned quiet in her wake.
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“A tragedy of great power and strong moral tone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 43. F. ’09.
“It is simpler in its main lines than even that of ‘The servant in the house,’ but there is a perpetual by-play of allusions, a twisting of motives, a complication of misunderstandings that play about the fundamental structure of the plot as the angled and twining ornament of a Gothic cathedral plays about the pillars and arches. To suggest the idea of ornament may, however, be more or less misleading, so clear and rapid and unadorned is the language of the play, and so strictly are the classic unities preserved.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Atlan.= 103: 73. Ja. ’09. 3000w.
“It is quite evident from the tenor and the tone of the drama that he intended to make a tragedy; and it is just as evident, upon studious consideration, that he succeeded only in making a melodrama. The play has considerable literary merit, and is well worth reading. It is written in a sort of William Morris prose, eloquent with connotative archaism. It reveals a great deal of poetic feeling,—a strong sweep and a frequent grandeur of emotion.” Clayton Hamilton.
− + =Forum.= 41: 26. Ja. ’09. 2000w. + =Ind.= 66: 427. F. 25, ’09. 280w.
“It is a play of powerful imagination and excellent literary and dramatic workmanship, which will well repay the attention of the intelligent reader.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 636. D. 24, ’08. 50w.
“He has erred in execution, not in intention. He has made Fate too capricious, so much so that its caprice becomes a perverted law of his drama. The moment came for his characters to take Fate into their own hands, and they did not do it; thereafter they cease to interest as human beings. But his aim was high, even his partial accomplishment a sign of better things on the American stage.” W. P. Eaton.
− + =No. Am.= 189: 294. F. ’09. 1700w. =Outlook.= 91: 336. F. 13, ’09. 170w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 256. F. ’09. 60w.
=Kennedy, James Boyd.=^{[8]} Beneficiary features of American trade unions. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science. Ser. 26, nos. 11–12.) pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
9–4493.
“An excellently worked out intensive study of the benefit features of American trade unions. The work describes systems of insurance against death and disability, sick, out-of-work and superannuation benefits, and the methods of administration of these varied forms of relief.” (Ann. Am. Acad.) “The local unions are not included, except where it is necessary to show the development of national systems out of local practices or where the conduct of a national system restrains or makes use of local agencies.” (Econ. Bull.)
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“Best presentation of the subject in print.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 140. My. ’09.
“The author has made a valuable addition to the literature on the American trade union.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 185. Jl. ’09. 80w.
“The monograph has a good index and it serves the purpose of an authentic and valuable guide to the beneficiary activities of all national unions.” J: R. Commons.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 140. Je. ’09. 370w.
=Kennedy, Mrs. M. G.=^{[11]} Our boys and girls: how to interest and instruct them in Bible study. 75c. Wilde.
9–25951.
Gives to Sunday school workers the benefits of a life time of study and practice along the lines of efficient Sunday school service. It deals with the common needs of the average teacher.
=Kennelly, Arthur Edwin.=^{[7]} Wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony. (Present day primers.) 2d ed. **$1. Moffat.
9–10505.
For the new edition the text of the 1906 work has been revised to include the results of progress made in wireless telegraphy during the past three years, and adds an account of wireless telephony.
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“One of the best works for the general reader, clear, untechnical, authoritative. More complete than Massie’s book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 195. Je. ’09. ✠
“Those interested in these modern forms of communication will find in it a clear, scientific, easily comprehended, and non-mathematical treatment of the subjects.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 56. Jl. ’09. 70w.
“Is written for the general reader as well as for the technical student.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 985. My. 6, ’09. 110w.
“If the reader really does read and digest the book he may pass for a very fair authority on wireless in a large and respectable circle.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 524. S. 4, ’09. 1300w.
=Kent, Charles Foster.= Historical Bible for schools and colleges. 6v. ea. **$1. Scribner.
=v. 1.= Heroes and crises of early Hebrew history.
8–17902.
“The first volume of a series covering both Testaments and intended to make ‘the most valuable constructive results of modern biblical discovery and research’ accessible in ‘popular practical form.’ Volume 1 presents the biblical material in Professor Kent’s own translation, analyzed into its constituent sources which are arranged in parallel columns when they narrate the same event, and are provided with brief introductory and explanatory notes.”—Bib. World.
=v. 2.= The founders and rulers of united Israel from the death of Moses to the division of the Hebrew kingdom.
8–21946.
“Volume 2 follows close upon the heels of Volume 1. Characterized by the same aim, method and arrangement as its predecessor, it ought to put the student in intelligent possession of the main facts and forces operative in the pre-prophetic period of Israel’s history.”—Bib. World.
=v. 3.= Kings and prophets of Israel and Judah from the division of the kingdom to the Babylonian exile.
9–14411.
“This third volume of the ‘Historical Bible’ covers that period in Old Testament history that is richest in literary and spiritual achievements.”—Bib. World.
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“As a teachers’ handbook, the work is open to criticism at one point. At the end of each section is a paragraph entitled ‘Aim and teachings,’ in which the author sums up the more important religious truths of the narrative. If these could have been put a little more suggestively, or interrogatively, rather than dogmatically, the student would be stimulated to discover for himself what the author has now discovered for him.”
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 319. Ap. ’09. 220w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“An excellent text for use in schools, Bible classes or by individual students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 15. Ja. ’09. (Review of v. 1.) =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 15. Ja. ’09. (Review of v. 2.) =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 16. S. ’09. (Review of v. 3.)
“The plan of the series seems well adapted to the needs of those for whom more elaborate and technical presentations are confusing.”
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 149. Ag. ’08. 90w. (Review of v. 1.) + =Bib. World.= 32: 221. S. ’08. 80w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The volumes are thus to be heartily recommended. They present an adequate translation, illuminating historical notes, and a sane religious application.” I. G. Matthews.
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 426. Je. ’09. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“It can be unreservedly recommended to the teacher and student who are willing to do a little actual work in order to secure a just appreciation of the Old Testament.”
+ =Bib. World.= 34: 70. Jl. ’09. 50w. (Review of v. 3.) + =Ind.= 66: 708. Ap. 1, ’09. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“These handbooks will be found helpful in the study of the history of the Hebrew nation and the development of its religious beliefs, and are adapted to those for whom Professor Kent’s ‘Student’s Old Testament’ is too elaborate and involved.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 39. Ja. 14, ’09. 180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) + =Nation.= 89: 412. O. 28, ’09. 100w. (Review of v. 3.)
“This series puts into the hand of the English-speaking reader the generally accepted results of the criticism of the Old Testament.” E. S. Drown.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 606. O. 24, ’08. 100w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Their translations of the text retain the best features of the common version, and, by embodying the results of modern scholarship, lessen the reader’s dependence on commentaries, as is desirable in a manual for popular use. For this it seems admirably planned.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The way in which the history and the prophecy are made mutually illustrative is excellent, and the whole book is likely to be very useful to the student.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 490. O. 2, ’09. 350w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Keppel, Frederick.=^{[12]} Christmas in art. **$2.50. Duffield.
9–27931.
“The work of the well-known connoisseur of prints and engravings. The many illustrations are chiefly reproductions of rare prints of the Nativity by fifteenth and sixteenth century artists; but there are some more familiar pictures. Each is accompanied by a paragraph of comment, skilfully contrived to bring out its essential quality or especial point of interest. The text discusses, in rambling, informal fashion, the pictures and their artists, Christmas music and poetry, and quaint Christmas customs in many lands.”—Dial.
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+ =Dial.= 47: 465. D. 1, ’09. 90w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1353. D. 16, ’09. 100w.
“There are rare examples of German and Spanish masters, and one or two charming cuts from miniatured manuscript.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 609. D. 16, ’09. 110w.
“A particularly interesting collection of reproductions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 801. D. 18, ’09. 150w.
“The collection of Mr. Keppel is a Paradise of dainty devices, a mine of priceless and imperishable delights.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 839. D. ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Keppel’s text not only contains valuable information on the art side of his subject, but is a genial, discursive essay on Christmas. Not the least interesting pages of the book record personal boyhood reminiscences of Christmas in Ireland.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 786. D. 4, ’09. 130w.
=Kerr, Estelle M.= Little Sam in Volendam. **$1.25. Moffat.
9–7135.
In verse and pictures is told the story of a little boy’s trip thru Holland where windmills, wooden shoes and caps abound.
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Reviewed by K. L. M.
=Bookm.= 28: 498. Ja. ’09. 40w.
“The pictures and rhymes will please many youngsters, although they are somewhat stilted in conception.” M. J. Moses.
− + =Ind.= 65: 1471. D. 17, ’08. 20w.
“The children will like the rhymes which give an idea of the life of the children in Holland, and the difference between the customs there and in America.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 702. N. 28, ’08. 50w.
“Miss Estelle M. Kerr has written verses, not so very well, but made the pictures in very good style.”
− + =R. of Rs.= 38: 767. D. ’08. 30w.
=Kershaw, John B. C.= Electro-metallurgy. (Westminster ser.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
9–5181.
Gives an account of the industrial developments of electro-metallurgy for the student of limited knowledge of chemistry or electrical science. The subjects considered are: Aluminum; gold and silver refining; calcium carbide and acetylene gas; carborundum; copper extraction and refining; ferro-alloys, graphite; electrothermic reduction of iron and steel; lead refining; calcium, carbon bisulphide; carbon tetrachloride; magnesium; phosphorus; silicon; nickel; sodium; zinc; detinning of tin plate.
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“This book gives us the impression that it was written and published before the author was quite ready with his materials. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Kershaw has produced a book which contains a large amount of interesting information.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 135. Ja. 30. 680w.
“He presents in this work much matter that will be found of interest by those who desire to have correct information regarding this modern utilization of electric energy.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 53. Ja. ’09. 180w.
“The political economist will find this book very suggestive.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 556. D. 3, ’08. 240w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 38. Ja. 23, ’09. 160w.
“The author has collected much valuable information in this rapidly developing field.”
+ =Phys. R.= 28: 231. Mr. ’09. 80w.
=Ketchum, Milo Smith.= Design of highway bridges and the calculation of stresses in bridge trusses. *$4. Eng. news.
8–32509.
“In some 550 well-printed pages the author covers the entire field, including the superstructure and the substructure on the one hand, and trusses and arches of steel, reinforced concrete and timber on the other. The book begins with a chapter on loads and weights of highway bridges, where much of the information is compiled from many sources. It abounds in tables and diagrams, and will enable the engineer to estimate the weight of any beam or truss bridge he is likely to attempt to design.”—Engin. Rec.
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“As the first book on the specific subject of highway bridges that has been published for some time, it is deserving of the most careful consideration.”
+ =Engin. D.= 5: 535. My. ’09. 450w.
“It is a matter of regret that the author’s treatment of the subject, in general, seems to be content with expounding current practice in ordinary highway bridge building, without making a more serious effort to elevate that practice. A little more painstaking care in writing would make the book, in parts, easier reading, and more harmonious with his mathematical work.” A. W. Buel.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 13. F. 18, ’09. 2550w.
“It deserves attention because it is the only modern American book devoted to highway bridges exclusively, and in many ways these bridges differ from the much studied and discussed railway structures. The author has succeeded in bringing together in one volume much information on highway bridges, and while the whole has not been welded together into a homogeneous mass, his book will prove of value to students and engineers interested in highway bridge building.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 167. F. 6, ’09. 500w.
“This book meets a distinct want, and it will be especially useful to the young designer, in view of the fact that the author has given special attention to the problem of the design of the substructure, which is usually quite neglected in books on bridge design.” T. H. B.
+ =Nature.= 81: 393. S. 30, ’09. 500w.
=Key, Ellen K. S.= Century of the child. **$1.50. Putnam.
9–5891.
A work which has gone thru more than twenty German editions. The author, a well-known champion of woman’s emancipation, severed her connection with this movement twelve years ago, and since has turned her energies to the broadening of woman’s conception of her natural mission of wife and mother. Her chapters, as follows, are characterized by originality, revolutionary insight, and ethical purpose: The right of the child to choose his parents; The unborn race and woman’s work; Education; Homelessness; Soul murder in the schools; The school of the future; Religious instruction; Child labor and the crimes of children.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 140. My. ’09.
“Mrs. Key’s program for an ideal education, though acknowledged as a ‘mere dream,’ is an interesting forecast of the education of the future.” N. M. S. Nearing.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 208. Jl. ’09. 220w.
“It is unfortunate that the author’s most radical views, and those that are likely to be thought subversive of morality, are set forth in the opening chapter, which concerns marriage and parenthood; for many readers will be turned aside at this point and miss the chapters on education which are the most valuable part of the book.” C. L. Hunt.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 325. My. 16, ’09. 1200w.
“The book contains wise and weighty words which seem well calculated to make mothers and fathers think.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 560. Ap. 3, ’09. 400w.
“Many of Ellen Key’s ideas are familiar to us, and are found in practice in our schools. Many others are most radical. But the whole book breathes a love for the child, a respect for his individuality, and a sincerity that are most attractive.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 75. Jl. 22, ’09. 300w.
“Her argument is not always all that could be desired. It is often sloppy in method and expression, and it lacks the clear-cut, incisive manner of the logical mind. She has observed much and read widely, but she has often lacked discrimination in the one and has been too credulous in the other. Her statements, for instance, about certain developments in America will doubtless be convincing enough in Germany, but in this country will not enhance the credibility of her statements about things elsewhere. To American readers she will seem often to be beating a man of straw, because here the woman movement has taken a different direction from that which it is following in Germany.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 128. Mr. 6, ’09. 1000w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 511. Ap. ’09. 180w.
“Nobody will regret a study of Mrs. Key’s book. It is suggestive, interesting, and earnest even if somewhat chimerical.” K. L. Maurice.
+ − =Survey.= 22: 680. Ag. 14, ’09. 920w.
=Khuddakanikaya.=^{[5]} Sayings of Buddha, the Iti-Vuttaka: a Pali work of the Buddhist canon for the first time translated, with an introd. and notes by Justin Hartley Moore. (Columbia univ. Indo-Iranian ser., v. 5.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
9–4569.
“The first translation into an Occidental tongue of the ‘Sayings of Buddha.’ The date and author of the original are unknown, but internal evidence shows that the collection cannot have come from Buddha himself and it is impossible to surmise how much, if any, is authentic tradition of his words.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Adds an interesting volume to our literature of Buddhism, and one of considerable value to students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 132. My. ’09.
“A translation of this has been a desideratum. The English of the translation is well enough, but a very considerable number of errors of interpretation and some of fact compel the judgment that the task was undertaken before the writer was fully prepared for his task.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 385. Ap. 15, ’09. 90w.
“Evidently the form in which it comes to us, with its wearisome repetitions, is mnemonic. As one of the canonical books it is indispensable to the student and is not without interest for the general reader.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 193. Ap. 3, ’09. 230w.
=Kidd, Benjamin.= Individualism and after; the Herbert Spencer lecture delivered in the Sheldonian theatre on the 29th May 1908. *35c. Oxford.
9–7554.
“The central thesis of the lecture is that, in the thought and life of the western world, an organic view of society has been rapidly displacing the individualism which was dominant until well after the middle of the nineteenth century. Accompanying this development there has been, as he shows, a rapid and continuous extension of the functions of government, and an abandonment of the doctrine of unqualified competition. Herbert Spencer is taken as the chief representative of individualism.”—Nation.
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“Mr. Kidd pronounces, as it were, the funeral oration over individualism. This has, of course, often been done before, but no one has done it better than Mr. Kidd.” C. A. E.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 1: 345. D. ’08. 150w.
“Even while accepting Mr. Kidd’s leading contentions, one feels the need of a more exact definition and a closer criticism of the terms and conceptions which he so freely uses.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 215. S. 3, ’08. 460w.
=Kidd, Dudley.=^{[7]} Kafir socialism and the dawn of individualism: an introduction to the study of the native problem. *$2.75. Macmillan.
8–24294.
A scientific study of the relation of the Kafir to the white government whose main thesis is that interference with tribal institutions is undesirable and mischievous. The first part of the treatise looks at the natives as they are and notes that their attitude is essentially socialistic. “The latter half of Mr. Kidd’s book is a plea for a truly constructive native policy based on a correct understanding of native needs.” (Spec.)
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“While many of Mr. Kidd’s conclusions are open to question, he has provided a noteworthy contribution to an important subject. The two things which he appears to us to lack are a certain imaginative insight (for, with all his experience, he fails to understand the native as Livingstone or Mary Kingsley understood him), and—strange as this may seem, in view of some parts of his book—a sufficient respect for the process of evolution.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 726. Je. 13. 1000w.
“To separate Mr. Kidd’s useful suggestions from the mass of tedious verbiage in which they are concealed would be a thankless task. The one redeeming feature of the book is the fact that from the various anecdotes and from the quotations from scientific writers the popular reader may possibly gain the conception that the Kafirs as subjects of Great Britain should be treated with at least some knowledge of their habits and customs.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 180. Mr. ’09. 300w.
“We commend this book as the most widely informed, well-balanced, and sympathetic study of the native problem that we have met with.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 708. My. 2, ’08. 1450w.
=Kidder, Frank Eugene.=^{[6]} Building construction and superintendence, pt. 1, Masons’ work. 9th ed., rev. and enl. $6. Comstock.
9–9631.
“This new edition embodies all of the old matter, with the exception of obsolete descriptions and discussions, and has added thereto much that is modern. By far the greatest advance in masonry construction since the original edition of the book has been in the line of fireproofing and in concrete and reinforced concrete, so that it is natural that the most pronounced revision and addition should be in the chapters treating these subjects.... In addition to these additions revisions have been made in the discussions of caisson and cantilever foundations, needing and underpinning and bricks and brickwork. Over 400 new drawings have been added and the tables and appendices amplified.”—Engin. N.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 61. O. ’09. =Engin. D.= 5: 664. Je. ’09. 300w. + =Engin. N.= 51: sup. 61. My. 13, ’09. 300w.
“In the revision Professor Nolan has taken up the work with a full understanding of the secrets of the success of the book and has not attempted to change its character.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 644. My. 15, ’09. 170w.
=Kikuchi, Dairoku, Kurai no na.=^{[12]} Japanese education: lectures delivered in the University of London. *5s. Murray, John, London.
E9–1296.
“The chief interest of the book lies in the description of Japanese elementary education, and the methods used in moral education. The child begins by simple lessons on ordinary virtues, such as order and punctuality; then follows instruction in home relations and loyalty, and then he passes on to more detailed lessons of daily conduct, such as friendship, honesty, kindness, generosity, modesty, courage, and manners. All these virtues are illustrated by tales and examples. Later on the children have lessons on the higher social virtues, such as patriotism, co-operation, honour, tenacity of purpose, public duty. It is enjoined on the teachers that, in addition to the formal lessons, every opportunity should be taken of instilling these and similar precepts into the minds of the children.”—Sat. R.
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+ =Sat. R.= 108: 171. Ag. 7, ’09. 1200w.
“His qualifications for the task of making Japanese education intelligible to Englishmen are incontestable. Moreover, he combines a singular gift of lucid exposition in the English language with a knowledge of our national life and circumstances, which enable him to appreciate the points requiring special explanation, and to render them easily intelligible. From the technical point of view alone the book should be valuable to those engaged in educational work, whether as administers or as teachers.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 815. N. 20, ’09. 1500w.
=Kimball, Dexter Simpson, and Barr, John Henry.=^{[12]} Elements of machine design. *$3. Wiley.
9–24920.
“A book that aims to give the college student the general principles of an engineering subject without going into practical details. It deals chiefly with the theory of equations pertaining to machine elements, and gives very brief descriptions of the nature and functions of those elements. Much of the subject-matter is commonly taught in a course on the mechanics of materials. As stated in the preface, ‘the treatise is in no sense a handbook neither is it a manual for the drafting room.’”—Engin. Rec.
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“The book is intended primarily for engineering students, but it will also prove of interest to the practicing designer.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 428. N. ’09. 270w.
“The book is doubtless well adapted to the needs of the particular students for whom it was prepared, but as a working reference for designing machinery it is too meager, while as an introduction to design it seems too voluminous.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 559. N. 13, ’09. 240w.
=Kimball, Sumner Increase.=^{[12]} Joshua James: life-saver. (True American types.) *60c. Am. Unitar.
9–25284.
The fourth volume in the “True American types” series. It is a biography of a life-saver, a simple, unpretentious man, who for sixty years rendered the United States devoted, heroic service in one of her life-saving crews. While exploiting the courage of one man the sketch represents one phase of our national character little known, to which the element of authority is added thru the fact that the writer has been general superintendent of the life-saving service since its inception.
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“The reader is brought into intimate touch with a career of unpretentious heroism which deserves to rank high among the inspiring annals of human endeavor, endurance, and sacrifice.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 450w.
=King, Basil.=^{[5]} Inner shrine: a novel of to-day. †$1.50. Harper.
9–12616.
A French-Irish girl born into an illustrious French family is the heroine of this story which opens on the eve of a duel between her American husband and a lying Frenchman who had cast reproaches upon her good name. The husband is killed and the incidents of the story (which changes scene from Paris to New York) following a season of deep remorse grow out of her splendid struggle to prove her worthiness. Thruout this portion of the story are traced three developments her own, that of the Frenchman who after long months is led to restore her good name, and that of a wooer who in spite of evidences to the contrary believes for a time the Frenchman’s slander.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 187. Je. ’09.
“Throughout is a certain remoteness from actuality, which makes one wonder whether the author really knows the life of which he is writing, or whether he is making up the wicked people, and the good who play the dangerous game.”
+ − =Atlan.= 104: 681. N. ’09. 750w.
“A story that is better written than the substance of it deserves, and for all its good writing is apt to seem needlessly long drawn out.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 526. Jl. ’09. 370w.
“It is certainly a striking novel, although highly artificial and even tricky. Its chief merits are cleverness of invention and dramatic effectiveness; its defects are found in its unconvincing characterizations and its failure to make certain important features of the action seem plausible.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 370. Je. 1, ’09. 480w.
“It is not a well-constructed book; it is not a pleasant book; it is not even a plausible book—and yet it is one of those books that will be read and discussed and considerably overrated because, with all its faults, just a few of the characters do possess the merit of a living personality, the power of direct personal appeal.” Philip Tillinghast.
− + =Forum.= 41: 619. Je. ’09. 400w. =Ind.= 67: 424. Ag. 19, ’09. 80w.
“The dialog is clever and the story one to be enjoyed by all who care for a bright, briskly told narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 350. S. 4, ’09. 300w.
“There are interesting situations in this story, there are even brilliant bits of dialogue, but there is little in its actual content, whether of incident or interpretation, to arouse anything approaching emotion in the reader who looks upon fiction as a responsible art.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 489. My. 13, ’09. 500w.
“It makes a strong, dramatic, promising start, which, despite that it is a very readable and entertaining book, is not fully sustained to the close.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 670w.
“The tale is tense, dramatic, full of striking situations, and brilliantly told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 381. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“The double problem is handled cleverly, and the book holds the attention closely, although it neither charms nor amuses.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 389. Je. 19, ’09. 280w.
“The mainspring of the story is, it will be seen, a scandal; the whole savor of it, beneath its agreeable perfume of style, is that of operabox and smoking-room morality. Its issues, its persons, are essentially trivial.” H. W. Boynton.
− =Putnam’s.= 6: 493. Jl. ’09. 300w.
“A novel of undeniable power. The plot is skillfully developed, and the style serves to heighten the interest of the narrative.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 761. Je. ’09. 120w.
=King, Charles.=^{[5]} Lanier of the cavalry; or A week’s arrest. †$1.25. Lippincott.
9–7831.
Once more General King chooses a war setting for his story. It concerns a wronged young cavalry lieutenant about whom is woven a web of intrigue and mystery directly traceable to jealousy and debt.
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“If one does not care greatly for the finer arts of fiction he can spend a pleasant hour over the book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 261. Ap. 24, ’09. 200w.
=King, Franklin Hiram.=^{[8]} Ventilation for dwellings, rural schools and stables. *75c. Franklin H. King, Madison, Wis.
8–37680.
Treats the facts upon which successful ventilation depends, and the application of theoretical conclusions to practical problems facing the parent, the teacher and the farmer. It is illustrated with diagrams and views of buildings.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 44. F. ’09. ✠
“The volume may be commended specially to parents, teachers, and stock owners.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 127. Ap. 1, ’09. 80w.
=King, Georgiana Goddard.= Way of perfect love. $1.25. Macmillan.
8–27521.
A symbolic poem which is “a decorative composition, half pastoral, half lyric masque, done after the manner of the early Renaissance painting.... The Duchess, we should fancy, is the adventurer who leaves her enclosed gardens where her handmaidens bedeck and shield her and where the Duke would fain shelter her from all experience, to go with the unknown and unfelt, with the Wayfarer to try life.... Hers is the modern nature to which renouncement is negation and atrophy, but which learns and grows only by absorption and assimilation, and ultimately finds its vocation in the administrative life of ceaseless growth and readjustment and therefore allies itself with the Duke, the man of science and the modern.”—No. Am.
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“The value of the poem is quite aside from whatever may be the chosen parable, and lies in the delicacy and carefulness of its workmanship and in the wealth of its fancy.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 425. F. 25, ’09. 300w.
“Who knows and loves the great era of Italian painting will find the hours spent in reading this poem not unlike a stroll into the placid background of an Umbrian painting. It is no light pleasure for the moment to be led from the dust and din and clatter of our modern life into this ‘flowery nunnery.’” L. C. Willcox.
+ =No. Am.= 188: 930. D. ’08. 1300w.
“A poem of refinement and genuine poetic feeling. Its greatest fault is lack of simplicity.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 550. N. 7, ’08. 350w.
=King, Gertrude.=^{[6]} Landlubbers. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–8575.
A story of the experiences of an Illinois school teacher and a bibulous Englishman who are left behind on a wrecked ocean liner. The fight for life against odds complicated by the rescue of the ship’s adventuress from a boat that had put to sea on the night of the catastrophe, furnishes thrills for readers who enjoy hair breadth escapes from death.
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“Undoubtedly will give just great pleasure to that considerable section of the American reading public which has a liking for wild, impossible, nightmarish ocean tales of love and adventure, for it is out of that sort from beginning to end, with an eye-opener, a thrill and a cold shiver for every page.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 600w.
=King, Henry Churchill.=^{[7]} Laws of friendship, human and divine. (Haverford library lectures.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–8407.
“It is one of the first articles in the creed of Oberlin’s president, Dr. Henry Churchill King, that the prime purpose and highest end of life is the cultivation of friendship with God and man; and this little book of his states the laws governing this friendship as they were formulated in the author’s lectures at Haverford college, in the course known as the Haverford library lectures. To Dr. King ‘the problem of friendship is the problem of life itself’; and the essentials of true friendship are, first, integrity and breadth and depth of personality; second, deep community of interests; third, mutual self-manifestation and answering trust; and, fourth, mutual self-giving.”—Dial.
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“It is written with Dr. King’s well-known lucidity, and will doubtless be read widely and with great profit.”
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 500. Jl. ’09. 80w.
“Inspiring yet practical and suggestive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 171. Je. ’09. ✠
“The book is inspiring and helpful.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 329. My. 16, ’09. 340w. =Educ. R.= 38: 315. O. ’09. 30w.
“A good book for an age little given to seeing visions or indulging in dreams. It treats its great theme, human and divine, ‘con amore,’ yet without rapture.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 52. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
=King, Henry Churchill, and others.= Education and national character. *$1.50. Religious education assn.
Thirty-three addresses selected from a larger number given at the fifth convention of the Religious education association. “Among the contributors are such men as President King, Professors Peabody, Stewart, Coe, Votaw, Drs. Abbott and Gladden, Dean Hodges, and others well known. ‘Our national need,’ President King affirms, ‘is a religious need.’ The moral and social principles inseparable from religion receive an equal emphasis in this volume.” (Outlook.)
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“They present important aspects of the religious life of America in a strong and suggestive way.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 144. F. ’09. 30w. + =Outlook.= 91: 382. F. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.=^{[6]} Glass house. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–6846.
A story about a woman who towards middle age takes to story-writing and neglects her three children. “A wealthy business man, who has a grudge against her husband, an unsuccessful architect, schemes to carry off the woman’s young daughter on his yacht to Europe, and also contrives a plan by which he hopes to foil the hopes and ruin the budding success of the architect. The latter’s acumen prevents the success of this design, and a fifth-rate actor, who has picked up a speaking acquaintance with the girl, ends his villainous plot with regard to her. And then the wife and mother decides to reform and declares she will never write again.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“It is a book that is worth reading and then putting aside to be read many times again. The finish of her writing is always literally ‘ad unguem.’” H. T. Peck.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 405. Je. ’09. 1100w.
“The book is not without an occasional crudity, but its net results might well be envied by many another contemporary writer of wider and bigger reputation.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 614. Je. ’09. 750w.
“If the moral is not loudly demanded by the public, the fable at least is mildly readable.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 122. Ag. 5, ’09. 300w.
“A pretty story, written with considerable skill, but drawing its inspiration from the author’s imagination rather than from knowledge of real men and women.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 294. My. 8, ’09. 180w.
“A sympathetic novel, one of the best in our opinion that Mrs. Kingsley has written.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 124. Jl. ’09. 80w.
=Kingsley, Florence Morse.=^{[11]} Star of love. †$2. Appleton.
9–27029.
The life of Queen Esther, the star of love, at the corrupt court of Xerxes is here pictured in a vivid fashion that well supplements the Bible story. The benign influence of the gentle Hebrew maiden over the dread king who lives in suspicion of intrigue and deception is charmingly shown, and she appears in glowing contrast to the wily queen mother, the wife of Hamon, and others of the court. She is true to herself and her love, be it in the royal gardens of ease, or on the day of dread and danger when she faced her enemies with her little son in her arms and a prayer to the one God on her lips. There are eight illustrations by Arthur E. Becher in soft oriental tones.
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“An absorbing romance.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 464. D. 1, ’09. 110w.
“Miss Kingsley will add materially to an already wide and favorable reputation by this latest novel.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 782. N. 6, ’09. 280w.
=Kingsley, Rose Georgina.= Roses and rose-growing; with a chapter on “How to grow roses for exhibition,” by the Rev. F: Page-Roberts. *$2. Macmillan.
Agr9–1598.
“To amateurs and professional cultivators who wish to inform themselves as to what is latest and best in regard to roses, we can cordially recommend this modest volume. Miss Kingsley brings to her task literary skill, and a fair experience in the selection and cultivation of roses, for both of which she is indebted to the late Charles Kingsley of Eversley.”—Nation.
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“The color plates in this book are exceptionally accurate and beautiful.” S. A. Shafer.
+ =Dial.= 46: 367. Je. 1, ’09. 230w.
“All garden lovers may welcome this instructive and charming book.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1032. My. 13, ’09. 140w.
“She has made good use of the standard books, new and old, and has succeeded in preparing an attractive handbook such as Kingsley himself would have been delighted to use.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 147. F. 11, ’09. 280w. =Spec.= 101: 1062. D. 19, ’08. 130w.
=Kinross, Albert.= Joan of Garioch. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–29337.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The story is harmless and too well written to be classed with cheap melodrama, but it has no literary quality or particular merit.”
− + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 25. Ja. ’09.
“He has done better work, but this is of its kind excellent. Some time elapses before we are well in the saddle, as the plot is jointed in sections.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 715. D. 5. 140w.
“Although the love-interest is kept well in the background, there are all sorts of romantic compensations for this defect, and the interest of the story does not flag in a single chapter.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 263. Ap. 16, ’09. 270w.
“Is an important story, marking as it does a new level for the novel of adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 76. F. 6, ’09. 230w.
“It is possible to read the adventurous part of the book and merely glance at the romance. On these conditions the novel may be recommended to those who are interested in the Lettish rising, and Russian politics generally.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 24. Ja. 2, ’09. 170w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.=^{[12]} Abaft the funnel. *$1.50. Dodge, B. W.
9–28704.
“A gleaning of hitherto uncollected papers—stories and sketches—contributed to Anglo-Indian periodicals in the years 1888–1890.... Inquiry reveals ‘Abaft the funnel’ to be what it seems, an exhumation of material which Kipling had doubtless reckoned safely buried in the files of the Allahabad ‘Pioneer’ or elsewhere.... They contain the crude substance of the Kipling, who, in his young twenties, took the world by storm. The ‘Plain tales’ and the other early volumes were made up of precisely such stories as these—many of them written hastily as newspaper fillers.”—Nation.
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“If it is only occasionally we find the Man Who Was at his best, ‘Abaft the funnel’ offers many illustrations of the old Kipling at his worst.”
− + =Bookm.= 30: 319. D. ’09. 1450w.
“The thirty papers collected under the title ‘Abaft the funnel’ stand as they originally came from his hurried pen. Most of them are sketches rather than tales, and of slight intrinsic value.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 460. N. 11, ’09. 400w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.=^{[10]} Actions and reactions. †$1.50. Doubleday.
9–26138.
The eight stories which are gathered into this volume are unrelated in subject, but each bears the unmistakable mark of its author, and each is followed by a poem which to a certain extent reflects the spirit, if not the sense, of the prose preceding it. The tales are entitled: An habitation enforced; Garm—a hostage; The mother hive; With the night mail; A deal in cotton; The puzzler; Little foxes; and The house surgeon. They range geographically from England to India, and, in characters, from men to our dumb brothers.
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“A casual collection of reprints which as a whole do not adequately represent Kipling’s genius.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 133. D. ’09. ✠
“There is hardly a tale in this volume which is not unmatchable in its kind, in its alertness, knowledgeableness, the quick understanding of human nature revealed by every scrap of dialogue.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 453. O. 16. 1700w.
“Without doubt the new book offers excuse for the sneering references that have been common of late years: ‘the work of a talented writer who was once a genius.’ As for the verse, it is Kipling at his worst. But there are two stories that offer the perfect Kiplingite a ray of hope.”
− + =Bookm.= 30: 321. D. ’09. 370w.
“The rough, swift force is gone, the youthful cynicism, and the journalistic dash. The ‘actions and reactions’ of his latest volume would have been recorded by the young Kipling in a tenth the space here employed. They are the careful product of a responsible middle-aged practitioner.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 460. N. 11, ’09. 380w.
“The old vigor, the old heart-searching eye, and the old bold phrase that strips naked what the eye has seen and flashes it clean-cut full upon you—all here are unimpaired; pervaded somehow with a subtler essence, an intangible nexus which holds within itself things too dim for words, yet real enough for feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 670. O. 30, ’09. 800w.
“Mr. Kipling is as successful as usual in his new book. It is the combination of strength and tenderness that makes Mr. Kipling’s work remarkable.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 3. O. 16, ’09. 1300w.
“Happily the riddle-reading powers of his admirers are not seriously taxed in his new volume of stories, and the poems in which, after his wont, he sums up the tendency and moral of each of his stories are more than usually incisive and illuminating.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 564. O. 9, ’09. 1150w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.=^{[5]} Kipling stories and poems every child should know; ed. by Mary E. Burt and W. T. Chapin. **$1.20. Doubleday.
9–11260.
Another volume in the “What every child should know” series. The editor has skimmed the cream of Kipling’s poems and juvenile stories, making a collection of virile classics rich in local color and full of alimental qualities.
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“A very useful volume for the small library that cannot afford the complete books, and for teachers of primary and grammar grades.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 191. Je. ’09. ✠ + =Dial.= 47: 24. Jl. 1, ’09. 130w.
“Here the two editors have trampled on worthy material and have pieced it together in most artificial fashion.” M. J. Moses.
− =Ind.= 67: 1359. D. 16, ’09. 70w.
“The editor has doubtless been actuated by excellent motives, but it is unfortunate she did not set at defiance the demands of teachers, and aim only to satisfy the children.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 1020. D. 4, ’09. 150w.
“Undoubtedly they have some rich material here, but that is Kipling’s fault; he cannot be harmed by the commonplace remarks at the head of the selections, printed in excruciating type, and serving as superfluous connective tissue.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 538. D. 2, ’09. 80w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 798. D. 18, ’09. 110w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.= With the night mail: a story of 2000 A. D.; together with extracts from the contemporary magazine in which it appeared. **$1. Doubleday.
9–8570.
A tale which chronicles a trip from London to Quebec by dirigible balloon during the hours of a single night in the year 2000 A. D. Kipling’s quick imagination copes bravely with the struggle of the numerous flitting packets to keep well to their five-thousand foot lanes, and the excitement of a storm during which a fellow liner succumbs to its fate and is swallowed by the Atlantic. The narrative “is filled with a strange technical jargon, relieved by some remarkably vivid passages of description.” (Nation.)
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“Here all the terms are unknown not merely to literary men but to everybody of this generation, yet the story is readable and comprehensible enough. Kipling does not rely upon the knowledge of his readers, but on their intelligence.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 814. Ap. 15, ’09. 280w.
“The story is a good enough one of its kind. It is a pity that he is so destitute of ideas that in the interval of two years and a half since ‘Puck of Pook’s hill’ he has been able to prepare no better apology for a book.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 364. Ap. 8, ’09. 160w.
“The conviction is strongly borne in upon you that this man is hardly less seer than artist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 216. Ap. 10, ’09. 420w.
“Absorbing short tale.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 253. Ag. ’09. 120w.
=Kirbye, J. Edward.= Puritanism in the South. *75c. Pilgrim press.
8–36696.
Correcting at the outset the historical inaccuracy that the Puritan was in New England and the Cavalier in the South, the author shows that the colonial south contained Puritans, Huguenots, Cavaliers, German, Irish, Scotch and French. He shows that the difference between North and South originated in the differing land systems, the farm and the plantation, which affected their social, intellectual and religious ideals. He discusses conditions in Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, and answers, in closing, the question, What is Puritanism in the South?
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“The style is journalistic, and the matter is determined by temporary interest rather than historical value. It is scarcely necessary to point out minor mistakes in a volume which is not to be taken as serious history and which has no index.”
− =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 186. O. ’09. 350w.
=Kirk, John.=^{[5]} Biographies of English Catholics in the eighteenth century; ed. by J. H. Pollen and Edwin Burton. *$2.75. Benziger.
9–14581.
Intended as a continuation of Dodd’s “Church history.” There are some thousand sketches. “The names, arranged in alphabetical order, belong to every conspicuous rank of society, those of the clergy and gentry predominating. Many of the names have rich historical associations, stretching back far beyond the bad days of the reformation.” (Cath. World.)
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“His great mass of biographical notes are now published and will be of prime value to whoever is destined to carry out the work. Even in their present shape they assist us to form a fair idea of the conditions of English Catholics from the days of Anne down to the close of the penal times.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 244. My. ’09. 280w. =Spec.= 101: 1063. D. 19, ’08. 60w.
=Kirk, William=, ed.^{[11]} Modern city: Providence, Rhode Island, and its activities; a collection of essays by members of the faculty of Brown university. *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
9–26166.
Presents the physical characteristics, the racial element, the commercial and industrial growth, the labor conditions, and the governmental, financial, educational, aesthetic, philanthropic, and religious activities of a typical American city. The work is less a complete description of any one city than a survey of its distinctive characteristics.
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“Chapters on ‘Population,’ ‘Labor,’ and ‘Finance,’ to mention such as are of interest to the economist, are good, while that on ‘Industry’ is lamentably weak—mostly eighteenth-century history. There is, in fact, throughout the book, a rather uncertain wavering between historical fact and present-day conditions which not only is disconcerting in this description of a ‘modern city’ but also results in some unfortunate gaps.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 651. N. ’09. 180w.
“It should prove a valuable collection of ‘mémoires pour servir.’”
+ =Nation.= 89: 353. O. 14, ’09. 50w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 776. D. 4, ’09. 320w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.=^{[6]} Mexican trails. **$1.75. Putnam.
9–7928.
“An account, admirably and fully illustrated, of what is loveliest, most picturesque, and most interesting, historically and from other points of view, in Mexico; and it is a result of a three years’ residence in the country and of long horseback tours over a large part of the Republic. The author knows Mexican life and character from intimate personal experience, and, being a veteran and accomplished writer, his pen does full justice to the many-sided charm of his subject.”
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“Gives a very good idea of local conditions and of the status of Mexican Indians.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 171. Je. ’09. =Ind.= 66: 1240. Je. 3, ’09. 80w.
“The narrative is refreshingly free from statistics and chapters on the financial resources of the country and the political situation. As an artist is said to catch the expression of his model, so Mr. Kirkham has succeeded in portraying the individuality, the elusive spirit of Mexico.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 516. N. 25, ’09. 500w.
“It is rather a pity he does not give us a fairly full record of his Mexican days instead of a series of glimpses of the life and scenery with which he came in contact. But he might have written much more fully about the impressions he enjoyed while he was roaming about in localities not often visited by Americans.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 198. Ap. 3, ’09. 330w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 765. Je. ’09. 50w.
“Altogether, this is a book to be read.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 494. O. 2, ’09. 170w.
=Kirkham, Stanton Davis.= Philosophy of self-help. **$1.25. Putnam.
9–4135.
Auto-suggestion is the means of self-help which the author uses thruout this presentation. He reviews the body of truth which constitutes the normal field of the mind’s activity; considers at length the nature and activity of the mind and its relation to the body; and concludes with such logical deductions and inferences as may be drawn with reference to mind building and character forming, thru a practical application of the principles discussed.
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“The philosophy is idealistic and inspiring to a degree and the last third of the book, which presents the philosophy in detail, will bear rereading.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 427. S. ’09. 130w.
“One is glad at last to find a book written not only in tolerably good English, but also with a precision of thought, a sequence of ideas that are understandable, and answerable, and withal, a book typical of the movement for which it stands. Mr. Kirkham expounds a practical philosophy, a popular philosophy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 244. Ap. 17, ’09. 800w.
=Kirkland, Winifred.=^{[10]} Introducing Corinna. **$1. Revell.
9–24329.
A story of a college girl after college days are over that gives an account of Corinna Sargent’s year as head mistress of Bramley Hall. Corinna, a typical girl-graduate, brings all her ingenuity, and tact to bear on the problem of managing a difficult set of girls not much younger than herself. Through her understanding of girls, she succeeds where those older and wiser than she have failed.
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“Librarians and mothers should welcome such a charming, straightforward romance. For several years we have met with no story so fresh, so frank, so picturesque, and so holding in its sympathetic, distinctive portrayal.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1365. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
“It is just the ‘romance’ for a ‘betwixt and between’ girl.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1027. D. 4, ’09. 40w.
“The plot is defective in places, but the general tone is wholesome.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 598. D. 16, ’09. 50w.
=Kirkpatrick, Edwin Asbury.=^{[9]} Genetic psychology: an introduction to an objective and genetic view of intelligence. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“The plan underlying the work is that of coining in one exposition the underlying types of behavior of our own complex mentality and the antecedent and simpler varieties characteristic of the structurally simpler organisms. There thus results a conception of behavior as a consistent and expanding procedure, and of the mental factor in it as again an organic principle in a still larger whole. Nor is this left vague and generic; it is coördinated with the amœba and the insect and the fish and fowl; it binds dog and ape with these, and these with men.”—Dial.
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“A helpful contribution to the equipment for presenting to the young idea some adequate notion of its own ancestry and conditions.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 23. Jl. 1, ’09. 200w.
“We could not wish a more wisely balanced, better adapted introduction. The classification and interpretation of instincts are doubtless somewhat more scholastic in their sharp distinctions than the facts allow.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 210. S. 2, ’09. 200w.
=Kitton, Frederick George.= Charles Dickens. *$3.50. Appleton.
To the material which Foster drew upon for his biography a third of a century ago has been added for this “life” a considerable amount of new material including Dickens’s private correspondence.
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“To his work there is introduced a number of intimate touches from the hand of the novelist himself which give it a unique flavor.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“It is in its total effect an abridgment of the work of his predecessor: What it suppresses—the intimate comment and criticism of Dickens’s bosom friend—is of the highest interest and value; what it adds—a few scraps of information and letters—does not contribute any new and important ‘fact of life or character.’”
− =Nation.= 87: 607. D. 17, ’08. 780w.
Reviewed by Stephenson Browne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 598. O. 24, ’08. 2000w.
“A fascinating life fascinatingly told, and one which no lover of Dickens can leave unread without depriving himself of a great pleasure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 621. O. 24, ’08. 20w. =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 240w.
“Mr. Kitton is an enthusiast; he could not be more offensively panegyrical if Dickens had died last week. Unfortunately he has very little humor, and a great knack at quoting the passages from Dickens’s letters, and dwelling upon the incidents of his career, which idolaters might choose to ignore.” H. W. Boynton.
− =Putnam’s.= 5: 493. Ja. ’09. 430w.
=Kitts, Eustace J.=^{[7]} In the days of the councils. *10s. 6d. Constable, A., and co., London.
A book whose “substance and core is a careful setting forth of the various methods for terminating the schism proposed or followed at one time or another, coupled with a clear enumeration of the difficulties that thwarted each new effort in behalf of religious peace and unity. The documentation is not always entirely satisfactory, owing to the circumstance that the author, although his studies have carried him back to the original sources, leans largely upon the excellent secondary works dealing with the period, and frequently yields to the temptation of referring undisputed facts to them.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“A sound and painstaking, though a by no means original, work. But though even-tempered as the historian should be, Mr. Kitts pays the price for this cold merit by his failure to endow his leading personalities with the warm breath of life.” Ferdinand Schevill.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 801. Jl. ’09. 620w.
“Instead of the coat of many colours that this picturesque adventurer deserved, has produced a sorry piece of patchwork. Here was an author who was setting out to rewrite Bryce and Creighton without either grace of style or accuracy of statement. First of all, Mr. Kitts has given his book a double-barrelled title, and both barrels miss fire. By all means let him complete the story, but let him spare his readers the jumble of second-hand quotations and irrelevant facts with which his first is crammed.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 214. F. 13, ’09. 1000w.
“It is just, sensible, and competent, and it is put together with workmanlike skill which would do credit to a professional historian. The kind offices of some friend might have saved Mr. Kitts’s book from such slight slips, which occur chiefly when he goes outside his own period, and we mention them only in order that they may be removed in a later edition. They do not seriously interfere with the special interest and value of the book. His book is written with vigour and freshness, and he retains the reader’s interest throughout.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: sup. 635. Ap. 24, ’09. 1400w.
=Klein, Charles.=^{[5]} Music master; novelised from the play as produced by David Belasco. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–7830.
A novelized version of the play in which David Warfield has achieved his greatest success. It turns upon a wife’s desertion of her husband, a German musician, her flight to America with their child, and the father’s struggle with poverty during twenty years of searching for the lost daughter.
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“Novelization of the play, indifferently well done.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09.
“It is a readable tale, and though occasionally verbose, will probably appeal to a large circle of readers.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 246. Ap. 17, ’09. 220w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 240w.
=Klein, Charles, and Hornblow, Arthur.=^{[12]} Third degree. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–29769.
A strong, impressive arraignment of the abuses in this country of the police system. The son of an old New York family marries a girl of character, but one whose parentage is unworthy the recognition of the husband’s family. They disown the son; he sinks into dissipation and debt; and is finally accused of murder. He becomes a victim of the police officials, but is saved from the “chair” by his clear-headed, stout-hearted wife who believes absolutely in his innocence, and whose wit and good sense enable her to win against the tremendous odds imposed by the law.
=Kleiser, Grenville.= How to develop power and personality in speaking; with an introd. by Lewis O. Brastow. **$1.25. Funk.
9–703.
A handbook, particularly valuable to the student of homiletics, which gives suggestions and exercises under the following heads: Power and personality in speaking, How to develop physical power, How to develop the speaking voice, How to build a vocabulary, Power in English style, How to develop the imagination, Dramatic power in speaking, How to train the memory, Power of illustration, Power in conversation, Power in extemporaneous speaking, Power in holding an audience, Power in prayer, and Power in service and repose. Part 2 contains helpful selections for study and practice.
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“Practical manual of instruction in pulpit oratory.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 78. Mr. ’09.
“We take pleasure in heartily recommending this volume to all persons interested in the subject discussed.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 393. Mr. ’09. 320w. + =Ind.= 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 50w.
“Though the book is designed to be especially helpful to ministers, its sound and fundamental method should make it generally useful.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 415. Ap. 22, ’09. 130w.
“Whoever examines the book, however, will find that any person desirous of increasing his power as a public speaker may benefit greatly from Mr. Kleiser’s practical instructions and suggestions.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 114. F. 27, ’09. 210w.
=Knapp, Margaret Lizzie.= But still a man. †$1.50. Little.
9–4954.
A story whose keynote is found in Pope’s line “A minister—but still a man.” The hero is a young man just turned out of the theological seminary into the world. He finds his niche in a small valley town, serves and stimulates his parish, and suffers the usual small-town persecutions. The real concern of the story is the mission of the one woman in opening this hero’s eyes to the height, the depth and the fulness of love which when understood swept away a great cloud of resentment and hatred that had hung over his life.
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“The religious tone is dominant but not unpleasantly obtrusive.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 91. Mr. ’09. ✠
“It gains a strong hold upon us by its naturalness, its earnestness, its variety of character and incident, its gleams of poetry and humor, and its clear, unaffected style.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 182. S. 16, ’09. 300w.
“There is much excellent work in the depiction of these strongly individualized characters. Her story of Gordon Dale’s first parish is one of strong human interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 116. F. 27, ’09. 200w.
=Knight, Charles Robert.= Animals of the world for young people; with an introd. by Tudor Jenks. **$2. Stokes.
8–31036.
“Here are described all the existing mammals, with the exception of those that are very rare and almost unheard of nowadays, and in his introduction Mr. Jenks, after giving the scope of this work, outlines briefly the general structure and anatomy of the animals treated in the volume. There are forty full-page coloured plates, which represent two hundred animals.”—Bookm.
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“An interesting and instructive book.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 502. Ja. ’09. 70w.
“The text is concise.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 65: 1480. D. 17, ’08. 30w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 756. D. 5, ’08. 60w.
=Knight, Edward Frederick.= ^{[7]} Awakening of Turkey: a history of the Turkish revolution. *$3. Lippincott.
9–35780.
A detailed account of the Turkish revolution which confirms other authentic reports and which “contains some new material, such as the diary of Niazi Bey after he had declared the revolution and taken to the hills at Resna; and it differs essentially from some of the Times telegrams in its testimony as to the later character of the Committee of union and progress.” (Spec.)
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“A well written, timely work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 16. S. ’09.
“Mr. Knight is almost Thucydidean in his minute account of what Niazi did and said during the two weeks of insurrection.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 188. Ag. 26, ’09. 320w.
“It is no slight to Mr. Buxton’s interesting volume, entitled ‘Turkey in revolution,’ to say that Mr. Knight’s work is the most thorough account that has appeared in the English language.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 500. Ag. 21, ’09. 1350w. + =Outlook.= 92: 825. Ag. 7, ’09. 350w.
“Mr. Knight says all that an extreme partisan could to justify everything that the revolutionary party has done to establish the military despotism which has taken the place of the rule of the Sultan Abdul Hamid. His knowledge ... has not saved his work from glaring inconsistences. There is, however, some value in Mr. Knight’s description of the secret society which with the co-operation of local freemasonry fomented the revolution by means of assassinations which Mr. Knight gladly justifies as necessary to its work.”
− + =Sat. R.= 107: 726. Je. 5, ’09. 380w.
“We notice a few mistakes in the book. In spite of a certain provocative tone which we think unnecessary in the circumstances—for are we not all friends of Turkey now?—Mr. Knight’s book is to be heartily recommended as a piece of clear and informing narrative worthy of his reputation.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 858. My. 29, ’09. 1900w.
=Knopf, Siegmund Adolphus.=^{[9]} Tuberculosis: a preventable and curable disease; modern methods for the solution of the tuberculosis problem. **$2. Moffatt.
9–17599.
“The book is intended not so much for physicians as for philanthropists, social workers. publicists, teachers, consumptives and the people at large. Besides the fundamental chapters explaining the sources of infection and the modern methods of treatment, there are sections on the duties of the physician, the duties of municipal health authorities, of state and federal authorities, of employers, school teachers, educators, newspapers, clergymen, charity organizations and ordinary citizens.”—Survey.
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“Not so specialized and comprehensive as the N. Y. Charity organization ‘Handbook’ (now out of print) and less informing on the technical side than Newsholme’s ‘Prevention of tuberculosis,’ but better adapted for general reading than either and perhaps the best work in print for popular use. It should be on the shelves of every public library.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 43. O. ’09.
“Dr. Knopf’s book is quite as optimistic as that of Dr. Otis. If the book is to be read, as seems to have been the intention, by tuberculosis patients, it is too bad that it was not made a little lighter. The heavy calendered paper makes it weigh several pounds.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 1208. N. 25, ’09. 170w.
“The validity of what this author has to say can scarcely be called in question, for there is no more zealous student of tuberculosis in America, or for that matter in Europe.” I. W. Voorhees.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 464. Jl. 31, ’09. 800w.
“It deals in a thorough and most satisfactory manner with one of the most important problems of the human race.” G: M. Kober.
+ =Science=, n. s. 30: 447. O. 1, ’09. 1600w.
“It is clearly, and interestingly written, conveying throughout the impression of well-balanced judgment on all disputed questions, and of very wide familiarity with all branches of the subject. The book will certainly be of the greatest value as a storehouse of information such as would be needed by those who are to speak on the subject of tuberculosis, or to undertake any portion of the educational campaign. It is curious that less than half a page is devoted to the subject of nutrition, and about the same space to rest, while the value of fresh air is admirably illustrated in scores of pages and from every point of view.” R: C. Cabot.
+ − =Survey.= 22: 678. Ag. 21, ’09. 1000w.
=Knott, Cargill Gilston.= Physics of earthquake phenomena. *$4.75. Oxford.
GS8–443.
“The work is a condensed but very clear review and discussion of the phenomena and causes of earthquakes. The earth is consistently viewed from the standpoint of physics and of the physicist, who regards the rocky crust as a medium of greater or less elasticity in which vibrations are produced and through which they are propagated. In this discussion the larger features of the shocks, such as their distribution and periodicity, are explained; the means of detection and measurement are analyzed in a general way, and the more prominent instruments are described.”—Nation.
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“The book presents a timely and excellent statement of the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 175. F. 18, ’09. 240w.
“Dr. Knott has confined himself to the physics of earthquakes, a department of their study with which he is well qualified to deal, and of which, more than any other, an adequate textbook was required. To a large extent the book deals with matters contained in other manuals, the treatment differing only in form and more than usual correctness, and frequently in an unusual point of view.”
+ =Nature.= 79: 184. D. 17, ’08. 900w.
=Knowles, Robert Edward.=^{[11]} Attic guest: a novel. **$1.20. Revell.
9–26805.
A story, autobiographical in form and strong in heart interest, in which are set down the experiences of a gay southern girl who married a sturdy Scotch preacher and learned some bitter lessons in his Canadian church with its surplus of patricians who had “bought their way to the seats of the mighty.”
=Knowlton, Frank Hall.=^{[5]} Birds of the world: a popular account. (American nature ser.) **$7. Holt.
9–7956.
A book written in simple, concise, popular style designed less for the specialist than the general reader. It is furnished with an introduction by Frederic A. Lucas on the anatomy of birds which leads up to scientific classification. There are numerous fine illustrations in color and engraving.
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“Fills a gap that existed for untechnical descriptions of birds of several foreign countries.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 171. Je. ’09.
“There is no doubt that the book fills a real want. It is extremely satisfactory thus to have presented the latest information obtainable in this field of nature-study.” L. S. Keyser.
+ =Dial.= 46: 361. Je. 1, ’09. 1400w.
“To those who would pursue such studies, or who would excite an interest in them in their families, we would recommend this volume, with its excellent descriptions, its numerous illustrations, and its brilliantly colored plates.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 766. Ap. 8, ’09. 400w.
“The most serious drawback to the book is its unwieldy size and its weight of seven and a half pounds.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 39. Jl. 8, ’09. 800w.
“Very excellent, succinct, and trustworthy account of the ‘Birds of the world,’ and we hope it will, despites its bulkiness and weight, meet in the United States, and in England also, with the appreciation it fully deserves.” F.
+ − =Nature.= 81: 421. O. 7, ’09. 1300w.
“A book about birds that attempts to describe the salient characteristics of nearly 4,500 varieties may be regarded, and quite properly, as a monumental undertaking.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 305. My. 15, ’09. 1350w.
“The method of treatment not only includes scientific accuracy and comprehensiveness, but supplies that information which the general reader is likely to require concerning the habits and distribution of, it may be said, every known member of the bird family.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 638. My. ’09. 150w.
“The author has surveyed the most pertinent literature so well, and has preserved so sane a judgment in dealing with it, that he is a guide to be trusted on all matters of which he treats. His errors will be found to be chiefly those of omission.” F. H. Herrick.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 27. Jl. 2, ’09. 750w.
=Knox, Dorothea Heness.=^{[8]} Heart of Washington. $1.50. Neale.
9–22003.
A story with little pretention to literary claims which is built up about the love of Washington for Esther Denis, the misunderstandings that separated them and his marriage to Martha Custis.
=Konody, Paul G.; Brockwell, Maurice W.; and Lippmann, F. W.=^{[12]} National gallery. 2v. *$8. Dodge.
To illustrate the uniqueness of London’s colossal gallery “the sumptuous plates of these two volumes have been got together, while the text follows the long and splendid procession—placing the painters and filling in the gaps which even so bountiful an array of plates must leave in the specimens of the world’s illustrious artists. The text devotes itself equally to the historical position and to the temper and personality of its subjects, and is clear and succinct.”—Bookm.
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“The general effect of every plate is one of remarkable fidelity. There is a swing in the text which proclaims that it is mainly intended for popular reading; but in the matter of dates and facts the latest researches have evidently been utilized. There are some ‘flowers of speech.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 322. Mr. 13. 420w. (Review of v. 1, pts. 1–6.)
“It may be doubted if there is any other popular guide to the history of painting which gives such an admirable, condensed account of a subject which has given birth to a whole library. The descriptive particulars on the flyleaf of each picture are not so full as they might be.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 652. My. 29. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Perhaps the most notable accomplishment of the season’s art-books.” Algernon Tassin.
+ + =Bookm.= 30: 343. D. ’09. 230w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Konta, Annie Lemp.=^{[12]} History of French literature; from the oath of Strassburg to Chanticler. **$2.50. Appleton.
A comprehensive outline history of French literature produced in keeping with modern methods of study. Proper proportion is maintained thruout, both as to the importance of the various forces of literary development and the modern estimate of their value. The volume furnishes an excellent text for college classes.
=Kramer, Harold Morton.= Chrysalis. †$1.50. Lothrop.
9–7042.
Opens with a Yale-Harvard football game and then shifts scene to Spokane and the Palouse. The story is strongly tinctured with a western flavor, and deals with politics, the rounding up of a band of rustlers, and a young lawyer’s growth out of chrysalis thru the influence of a strong, fine-spirited western girl.
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“Political and financial intrigue form the substance of the narrative, and, together with a certain admixture of physical violence, gives it virility.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 48. Jl. 16, ’09. 100w.
“His up-to-date picture of life in Washington, with its action centering in Spokane, has plenty of the color and the flavor of the people and the region.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 209. Ap. 10, ’09. 260w.
“A very characteristic story of present-day life in city and country in the Northwest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 160w.
=Krans, Horatio Sheafe=, ed.^{[12]} English love poems, old and new. **$1.25. Putnam.
9–30314.
A little volume of lyrical poetry from which have been excluded such lyrics “as, amorous though they be, are still sicklied with the cast of thought and philosophy ... verses whose ardor has cooled in quest of fantastic conceits and of ingenious rhetorical devices; and verses in which love is but the plaything of a pretty wit or antic fancy.” The poems that have been admitted to its pages are brief, spontaneous, song-like lyrics, impassioned or aglow with feeling; simple, direct, and immediate in their appeal.
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“The selection is good. The illustrations were better omitted.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 571. D. 9, ’09. 110w.
=Krapp, George Philip.=^{[9]} Modern English; its growth and present use. *$1.25. Scribner.
9–22256.
“Presents in popular form the results of a very thorough historical study of English inflections, syntax, vocabulary, and pronunciation.” (Forum.) “While the very reverse of provincial, it is a book that could hardly have been written anywhere but in America, its note throughout being frankly and refreshingly democratic. Its conclusions, therefore, are not likely to find full favor with the creators of artificial ‘authority,’ or with academic conservatives in general.” (Dial.)
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“There are surface failings. The book itself is an exceptionally good one, and will doubtless be read widely and with profit.” C. B. Wright.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 177. S. 16, ’09. 750w.
“Is a very sensible and serviceable book; and it is only because it is so bold in thought and lively in presentment that the reader feels summoned at times to couch a lance and ride at tourney with the author.” Clayton Hamilton.
+ − =Forum.= 42: 277. S. ’09. 2700w.
=Krehbiel, Henry Edward.= Chapters of opera: being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time. **$3.50. Holt.
8–37086.
An important work whose first seven chapters deal with the earliest operatic performances in New York, and follow the development of existing taste, appreciation, and interest in the lyrical drama; and whose remaining chapters deal with the quarter-century history of the Metropolitan opera house. The record of vicissitudes thru which the institution has passed is interspersed with estimates of operas, conductors, singers, and also with humorous anecdotes. The volume is handsomely illustrated and contains a good index.
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“A complete and interesting survey of operatic history in New York city.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 44. F. ’09.
“It is only the irrepressible ‘modernist’ who will take issue on this point with Mr. Krehbiel. For others—indeed, for the ‘modernist’ himself—‘Chapters of opera’ will furnish a generous measure of entertainment, enlightenment, and edification; and for many it will be indispensable.” Lawrence Gilman.
+ + − =Bookm.= 29: 86. Mr. ’09. 1300w.
“A book which is not only a valuable and interesting compendium, but delightful to read.” G: P. Upton.
+ =Dial.= 46: 398. Je. 16, ’09. 500w.
“It is valuable as a record and reference book either for writers who need the information professionally, or for those who wish to freshen up pleasurable memories.” G. I. Colbron.
+ =Forum.= 41: 480. My. ’09. 1050w.
“The musical editor of the New York ‘Tribune’ was preeminently fitted for the task he set himself and he has carried it thru with brilliant success.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 368. Ag. 12, ’09. 400w.
“The record of the facts is here presented, not only in a readable manner, but without bias, and with a painstaking accuracy of which only two other musical scholars in this country—Philip Hale and O. G. Sonneck—would be capable.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 636. D. 24, ’08. 930w.
“Both as opera guide and reference book Mr. Krehbiel’s volume should appeal to music lovers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 744. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“He writes in a delightfully engaging manner, with humor, allusiveness, and an abundance of the personal note. Seekers after the facts of the record, however, will find them all copiously and compendiously set down.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 799. D. 26, ’08. 1050w.
“The book is painstaking as a history, but is at the same time readable by virtue of its many anecdotes and passages of personal reminiscence.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 292. F. 6, ’09. 100w.
“Absorbingly interesting volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 255. F. ’09. 200w.
=Kreps, Elmer Harry.=^{[11]} Science of trapping. 60c. Harding, A. R.
9–18378.
Describes intimately the fur-bearing animals of this country, their characteristics, values and habits, and gives practical methods for their capture.
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“Covers its ground in a very businesslike way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 677. O. 30, ’09. 80w.
=Krüger, H. Gustav Edouard.=^{[9]} Papacy: the idea and its exponents. (Crown theological lib.) *$1.50. Putnam.
Traces the outline history of the papacy, its idea and its exponents from the earliest times.
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“The translators have done their work exceptionally well. There are a few misprints: pp. 191, 210, 271. Possibly German affairs sometimes receive slightly more than their due attention, but there is, on the whole, probably no book on the subject at once so illuminating, so trustworthy and so readable. It should be widely welcomed by ministers, laymen, and scholars.”
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 652. O. ’09. 200w.
“For the reader who does not know the facts the historical background is insufficient. For one who does know the facts they are unnecessary. Yet within these self-imposed limits, Dr. Krüger has well performed his task.” E: S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 511. Ag. 28, ’09. 1100w.
“Professor Krüger’s book, though distinctly anti-Papal, is a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 246. Ag. 14, ’09. 280w.
=Küchler, Carl G. F.=^{[9]} Elizabeth, Empress of Austria; tr. by G: P. Upton. **60c. McClurg.
9–23800.
Sketches the life of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria. Her estrangement from her husband, the lack of sympathy in her relatives and the tragic death of her son, Prince Rudolph, are some of the events which made her life one of the saddest in the history of royalty.
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+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 677. O. 30, ’09. 50w.
=Kuehnemann, Eugen.=^{[6]} Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard university (May 19, 1869-May 19, 1909). **$1. Houghton.
9–14956.
Originally written for the “Deutsche rundschau,” of Berlin this essay will appear in its May and June numbers “as an homage of Germany to President Eliot on his retirement from office and at the same time to America in the person of her representative educator.” The chapters are: Introduction, The university at the time of Eliot’s inauguration; The college under Eliot’s administration; The professional schools under Eliot’s administration; Eliot’s educational philosophy; Eliot’s social philosophy (The ideals of American democracy); Eliot’s life, public activities, personality.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 17. S. ’09.
“The book is an important memorial of the Eliot régime.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 24. Jl. 1, ’09. 150w. =Educ. R.= 38: 204. S. ’09. 40w. + =Ind.= 67: 308. Ag. 5, ’09. 110w.
“To us, naturally, the little essay brings little that is new. If Prof. Eugen Kuehnemann errs anywhere it is in laying somewhat exaggerated emphasis on President Eliot’s devotion to the cause of American democracy. The German reader is a bit in danger of drawing wrong conclusions concerning the aristocratic tone of the average American university other than Harvard.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 579. Je. 10, ’09. 160w.
“There should be a good deal of encouragement for doubters in the pages of this book, and certainly for every one who reads it a better understanding of the ideals that have made Harvard what we find it to-day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 386. Je. 19, ’09. 320w. + =Spec.= 103: 566. O. 9, ’09. 270w.
=Kuropatkin, Alexei Nicholaevitch.=^{[5]} Russian army and the Japanese war: being historical and critical comments on the military policy and power of Russia and on the campaign in the Far East; tr. by Capt. A. B. Lindsay and ed. by Major E. D. Swinton. 2v. *$7.50. Dutton.
War9–53.
A volume of memoirs in which Gen. Kuropatkin discusses the policies which led up to the Russo-Japanese war, and gives a full account of the conflict. “It is a matter of singular interest, to note that Kuropatkin has not made his memoirs the vehicle for a protest against his government for the latter’s cavalier treatment of him during the course of the war. The book is thus not, as might have been expected, a sort of ‘apologia,’ but it is a straight, impersonal handling of a great historical theme. The present English translation does not cover much more than a fourth part of the original work in Russia.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 172. Je. ’09.
“Though there are passages that are hopelessly profuse this work makes a decided contribution to our knowledge of the war. It brings us nearer to an understanding of Russia’s defeat and to a realization of her future ambitions in the Far East.” C. L. Jones.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 209. Jl. ’09. 480w.
“Students of war and politics will welcome the appearance of these two volumes.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 527. My. 1. 880w.
“In genuinely illuminating and informing qualities, the four chapters devoted to this theme [the reasons for the Russian reverses and the Japanese successes during the recent war] have not been surpassed, and it may be doubted whether the Tsar himself, were he so inclined, could speak more authoritatively upon the subject.” F: A. Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 47: 65. Ag. 1, ’09. 1550w. + =Ind.= 67: 197. Jl. 22, ’09. 600w.
“This is an important, albeit a somewhat heavy, work.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 352. S. 4, ’09. 570w.
“An excellent translation.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 583. Je. 10, ’09. 1050w.
“In the literature arising from the recent war between Japan and Russia these memoirs are undoubtedly destined to hold an authoritative position.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 274. My. 1, ’09. 620w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 150w.
“This book is valuable, in fact, because a great deal of it constitutes an excellent treatise on the art of war, on the value of good communications, of the necessity of politics and strategy being in harmony with one another, on the need for resolution and foresight on the part of the government powers of a country as well as for efficiency in tactical respects on the part of the troops.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 17. Jl. 3, ’09. 1500w.
“It can hardly be doubted that the more interesting portions have been selected, and the work of both translator and editor leaves nothing to be desired. It would not be difficult to multiply instances showing that in many cases when blame is thrown upon subordinate officers, or even upon private soldiers, the Commander-in-Chief was himself the principal offender.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 782. My. 15, ’09. 1900w.
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=Ladd, Frederic Pierpont.= One fair daughter. $1.50. Kennerley.
9–4955.
This “fair daughter” hating poverty marries a man whose heavy face was the color of the tallow upon which the fortunes of his family had been builded. A young clergyman falls victim to her wiles, thinks it is his mission to save her soul, in so doing sells his honor, gives up his church, and then discovers that the woman whom he had stolen is less concerned about her soul than about the luxuries without which life would pall.
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“The author has been too intent upon his story to make all his characters fit his theme. His heroine is not illy portrayed, and she is not without some degree of convincingness. But the situations into which the clergyman, supposed to be an honest-minded, high-principled man, allows himself to be drawn from the start are so humiliating as to make the man absurd.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 194. Ap. 3, ’09. 210w.
=La Farge, John.= Higher life in art: a series of lectures on the Barbizon school of France. **$2.50. Doubleday.
8–37207.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 44. F. ’09.
“To a picture lover the book is full of charm and to an art student it overflows with helpfulness.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 426. F. 25, ’09. 320w. =Int. Studio.= 39: sup. 23. N. ’09. 20w.
“Numerous illustrations, happily, for the most part, chosen from examples to be found in this country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 388. Mr. 6, ’09. 530w.
“The facts rehearsed are to be found elsewhere; what interests is the light thrown, incidentally, upon Mr. La Farge himself, his own art, and his attitude toward the art of others.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 233. Mr. 4, ’09. 180w.
“He makes familiar and comprehensible the fundamental truths which commonly are shrouded in formulas and technical words.” E. L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 30. Ja. 16, ’09. 1000w.
“These talks are full of suggestion: some of the best things are merely dropped and left.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 262. Ag. ’09. 400w.
“The volume is one of inspiring quality and of high value.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 335. F. 13, ’09. 680w.
=Lamson, Zachary Gage.= Autobiography of Captain Zachary G. Lamson, 1797–1814; with introd. and historical notes by O. T. Howe. $1.25. Clarke.
8–34124.
“Gives all too briefly some of the incidents of an active and honorable career in the merchant service between the years 1797 and 1814.* *... The story is especially valuable in the many side lights it throws upon nautical matters during the time of the Napoleonic struggle. It is edited by O. T. Howe, who gives a painstaking and accurate account of the state of the American mercantile marine at that period and of the international complications which beset our efforts to carry on trade under the prohibitory conditions of Napoleon’s Berlin and Milan decrees on the one side and the British Orders in Council on the other.”—Nation.
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“Few books of its size, if any, contain so much in these respects that is worthy of reading and preserving.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 16. Ja. 7, ’09. 160w.
“Interesting and valuable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 32. Ja. 16, ’09. 300w.
=Lancaster, F. Hewes.=^{[12]} Marie of Arcady. †$1.25. Small.
9–28273.
Set among the descendants of the exiles of the land of Acadie in the basin of a bayou along the lower Mississippi, this quaint story of a land of “small farms and large loves and of loyalty to love” is a transcript of life as it is lived among the Cajan people. The young Marie Micou, a lonely unselfish girl, almost breaks her heart in relinquishing the love of the stalwart Aluin because the glad-eyed friend who had been good to her loves him too. Around this central theme the story is built.
=Lanchester, Frederick William.=^{[8]} Aerodonetics, constituting the second volume of a complete work on aerial flight; with appendices on the theory and application of the gyroscope, on the flight of projectiles, etc. *$6. Van Nostrand.
9–6513.
A technical work dealing mainly with the following points: the conditions of longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability; the theory and use of scale-models; theories of soaring flight; and a large number of experimental verifications.
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“It is to be regretted that Mr. Lanchester has not made some attempt to bring his equations more into conformity with ordinary well-recognised notation. Mr. Lanchester’s observations and experiments are deserving of the most careful consideration.” G. H. Bryan.
+ − =Nature.= 80: 221. Ap. 22, ’09. 1050w. =Spec.= 101: 745. N. 7, ’08. 40w.
=Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo.=^{[12]} Wanderings in the Roman campagna. **$5. Houghton.
9–30395.
The fourth volume in a brilliant and authoritative series on Rome. Natural beauty, picturesqueness, rich historic association, art interest abound in the campagna; of these attractions the author discourses freely, adding an authoritative account of many important discoveries and lending to the whole a personal note that interests and charms the reader. The chapters are: The land of Saturn; The land of Horace; The land of Hadrian; The land of Gregory the Great; The land of Cicero; The land of Pliny, the younger and the land of Nero. The volume is handsomely made and fully illustrated.
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“A popular, yet authoritative account.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 658. O. 23, ’09. 20w.
=Landor, Arnold Henry Savage.=^{[12]} In the forbidden land; new one-volume ed. $3. Harper.
9–29220.
A popular, one-volume edition of the author’s account of his journey into Tibet, his capture by the Tibetan Lamas and soldiers, his imprisonment, torture and ultimate release.
=Landsberg, Grace F.=^{[7]} A B C of philosophy. 75c. Fenno.
9–18056.
A primer of less than a hundred and fifty pages which gives in brief, concise form an outline of philosophy from the time of Thales, the father of philosophy, to the present day. Aside from its reference value it is designed as a suggestive, nutshell presentation of the theories of philosophy for the general reader.
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=Educ. R.= 38: 206. S. ’09. 30w.
=Lane, Elinor Macartney.= Katrine: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
9–7828.
Katrine, the heroine of this tale, is a charming Irish girl whose father is overseer of a North Carolina plantation. The love-making of the head of the house of Ravenel, the separation due to his family pride, Katrine’s triumph thru her gift of song, the man’s struggle for manhood mastery, and the final reunion are elements in a most entertaining story based on the facts of an actual singer’s career.
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“Less interesting than ‘Nancy Stair,’ but a pleasant, wholesome story, specially successful in depicting the Irish temperament.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 148. My. ’09. ✠
“Katrine, less individual in type than Nancy, never for a moment wears her convincing air of being alive.”
+ − =Atlan.= 103: 703. My. ’09. 200w.
“A pleasantly readable and quite harmless little volume, although not for a moment to be ranked in the same class with this author’s ‘Nancy Stair.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 318. My. ’09. 200w.
“One lays it aside with the feeling of having met an adorable woman-spirit, not Katrine’s, but the author’s own, of having listened to great music and of having walked at evening in an old-fashioned garden.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 760. Ap. 8, ’09. 600w.
“In ‘Katrine’ are to be found all the requisites of a satisfactory love-story, and this winning, irresistible Irish girl bids fair to become as popular as her predecessor, Nancy Stair.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 725. Ap. 24, ’09. 200w.
“Graceful and charming.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 515. My. 20, ’09. 200w.
“There are many elements of popularity in the book, and it will no doubt prove a satisfactory successor to ‘Nancy Stair.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 192. Ap. 3, ’09. 310w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 140w.
“Has vivacity, wit and insight.”
+ =No. Am.= 189: 921. Je. ’09. 140w.
“It is beautifully told, and the viewpoint throughout the book is an exalted one.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 760. Je. ’09. 70w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Maid of France: being the story of the life and death of Jeanne D’Arc. *$3.50. Longmans.
9–8027.
The Church of Rome by its special decree of beatification has admitted Joan of Arc to the ranks of the candidates for canonization. This action implies recognition of the very conditions emphasized in Mr. Lang’s championship of the peasant girl of Domremy. The biography is not written “in the soothing spirit of leisurely research. It has a vivacity inspired by the two master passions of literature, love of the subject as a vital issue, and a strong objection, both temperamental and reasoned, to the author (Anatole France) who has most lately treated it.” (Nation.)
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“Mr. Lang’s admiration of the Maid would not let him stop with a refutation of error, but made him go forward to produce a readable and, on the whole, a sound biography of Jeanne. He too has read deeply in the literature of the fifteenth century, though not so prodigiously as M. France, and his side-lights are thrown more faithfully, if somewhat less luxuriantly. A few of his conclusions will be disputed in minute detail.” F. C. Lowell.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 803. Jl. ’09. 500w.
“The author’s issue with Anatole France’s iconoclastic conception and exposition, in his recent ‘Vie de Jeanne d’Arc,’ gives the narrative a controversial tone that detracts from its interest for general reading, but as a valuable and scholarly work it will hold an important place.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 105. Ap. ’09.
“Apart from the criticism and the polemics, the book is good to read. In his desire to worst his adversary he sometimes presses a point dangerously far. He has given us the life, ‘complete and critical,’ hitherto lacking in this country.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 248. F. 27. 1000w.
“If Mr. Lang’s careful citations from the documents and his minute scrutiny of the evidence have now and then interfered somewhat with the easy flow of the narrative, his book is none the less profoundly interesting and a welcome addition to the literature of the subject.” E: Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 88. Mr. ’09. 1450w.
“Takes its place, with all due respect to Mr. Lowell’s work, as the most complete and critical English work on the subject.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 88: 826. Mr. ’09. 950w.
“While the author has apparently written for the general reader, he has not forgotten the needs of the serious student.” L. M. Larson.
+ =Dial.= 46: 260. Ap. 16, ’09. 2000w.
“It is well for English readers at all events to have a ‘Life’ written by one who can stand apart from this conflict.” C. L. Kingsford.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 787. O. ’09. 1100w.
“Careful, critical, and, perhaps we may add, exhaustive monograph.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 386. Mr. 6, ’09. 260w. + − =Nation.= 88: 169. F. 18, ’09. 850w.
“His achievement, while disconcerting alike for her detractors of 1431 and those of 1909, opens a new path in the story of biography where the supernatural has hitherto veiled and obscured from rational view the faith and sincerity of the subject.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 157. Mr. 20, ’09. 2150w.
“The author seems to have consulted the archives diligently; and yet there is little that is new in the book and not to be found in that of Mrs. Oliphant published in 1896 and in Mr. F. C. Lowell’s ‘Life.’”
+ =No. Am.= 189: 782. My. ’09. 240w.
“On the subject of Jeanne’s trial Mr. Lang makes some interesting suggestions, though on the main points he adds little to our knowledge.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 78. Ja. 16, ’09. 1700w. + =Spec.= 102: 130. Ja. 23, ’09. 2600w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Sir George Mackenzie, king’s advocate, of Rosehaugh, his life and times, 1636–1691. *$4.20. Longmans.
9–15743.
A far reaching knowledge of Scotland’s history lies back of this sketch of “Bluidy Mackenzie” who “began his career, like most political lawyers, in Opposition. In 1661 he defended, unsuccessfully, the Marquess of Argyll against a charge of treason. In 1681 he prosecuted, successfully, the Earl of Argyll, his first client’s son, on a similar charge. In the interval the young advocate had made himself so conspicuous at the Bar and in Parliament that Lauderdale took him up and finally made him King’s advocate. Unlike most lawyers, Mackenzie was interested in history, philosophy, and belles lettres. Indeed, he was himself a poet, an historian, and a Stoic pen. It would be going too far to say that the King’s advocate was a sceptic; but we gather that his religion was ‘that of all sensible men.’” (Sat. R.)
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“Mr. Lang shows his usual minute and varied learning, and brightens the gloomy and stormy sketches over which he passes with occasional flashes of wit. While it has many merits, the book is hard reading. We are lead through labyrinths of detail, events are alluded to rather than described, and to use the author’s own words in another connection, ‘his characters are as numerous as the grains on the ribbed sea sands.’” A. L. Cross.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 814. Jl. ’09. 420w.
“Solid and valuable as this work is, we are by no means delighted with its style.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 695. Je. 12. 1100w.
“On the whole, the discussion is sane and convincing, far more calm and judicious in tone than the author’s vigorous English usually permits.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 406. Je. 16, ’09. 250w.
“This book is, like all his other works, deeply interesting, it adds much to our knowledge of the life of its subject, and it presents him in a far more favorable light than ever before.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 165. Ag. 19, ’09. 600w.
“Mr. Lang has treated his subject with thoroughness and with a sympathy that does not go too far. We recommend the present work especially to lawyers.” G: S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 287. My. 8, ’09. 800w.
“Partly owing to his cryptic and bald style of writing, and partly owing to the fact that there is not very much about Mackenzie’s private life, Mr. Andrew Lang has contrived to write a dull book about an interesting subject.”
− =Sat. R.= 107: 275. F. 27, ’09. 950w.
“Mr. Lang has such a strong equipment of learning, and so genuine an imaginative sympathy with his subject, but we cannot but regret that he should not have given more time to the shaping of his material. He has written the standard book on Mackenzie; but he might have made it a great deal better if he had remembered Sheridan’s remark about easy writing and hard reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 377. Mr. 6, ’09. 1400w.
=Lang, Leonora Blanche.=^{[12]} Red book of heroes. **$1.60. Longmans.
W9–326.
“Heretofore Mr. Lang and his wife have dealt largely with folk-lore and legendary romance; now they find it necessary to turn to reality. As a trade-mark, they adhere to the rainbow nomenclature, but ‘The red book of heroes’ claims to be history, wherein the lives represented are marked by two dominant characteristics, honor and courage.” (Lit. D.) Accounts of such heroes as Florence Nightingale, John Howard the philanthropist, Hannibal, Father Damien, the apostle of the lepers, the Marquis of Montrose, the little Abbess, and others.
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“The children who get so charming a book should be delighted.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 523. O. 30. 60w.
“The editor is now prompted to exploit the heroic in actual history, and this first attempt is very inviting.” M. J. Moses.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1364. D. 16, ’09. 80w.
“The young reader will gain much inspiration from these careers.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1020. D. 4, ’09. 140w. + =Nation.= 89: 539. D. 2, ’09. 60w.
“It would surely be an abnormal child who would not welcome ‘The red book of heroes’ among his Christmas gifts.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 709. N. 13, ’09. 130w.
“Mrs. Lang has a very pretty story-telling gift of her own, while Mr. Lang does his part in giving the books a background of scholarship.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 601. N. 13, ’09. 140w.
“In things of every kind which are to be pleasant in the using, skilful mixing goes a long way. As for the ingredients, they are of the best quality and plentiful.”
+ =Spec.= 103: sup. 718. N. 6, ’09. 750w.
“It is not quite as easy reading as the ‘Story of the magic Persians,’ but the sketches hold a mint of information, with enough action and idealism mixed in to keep the interest of any child.” B. L. Israels.
+ =Survey.= 23: 376. D. 18, ’09. 60w.
=Lang, W. H.= Australia. (Romance of empire ser.) *$2. Stokes.
8–22307.
A narrative written by a surgeon who spent twenty years in the Hume district on the borders of Victoria and New South Wales. “There are touches of geology, ethnology and mythology about his chapters which serve to leaven the purely adventurous side of his narrative. The doings of the early settlers and explorers, of convict, colonist and bushranger, are described by one who has an irrepressible love of Australia, ‘a great gem, flashing in the crown of the king.’ To him Australia has only one drawback—want of water, but that she is making good by means of artesian boring.” (Sat. R.)
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“He possesses considerable knowledge of the country he writes about. We must therefore confess to some disappointment that his work is marred in the earlier chapters by discursive remarks, typographical errors, and other mistakes, some of which might have been avoided if he has seen the volume through the press himself.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 641. My. 23. 1100w.
“In conception and treatment the volume falls short of being either historical or descriptive, and apparently aims to set forth only the unusual and the striking in the history of the Australian continent. His style is a bit crude, but his presentation of scenes and incidents is often quite vivid.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 230w.
“Although apparently always conscious that he is writing for the young, has done Australia well.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 732. Je. 6, ’08. 130w.
=Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray=, ed.^{[10]} Treatise on zoology. pts. 1 and 7. ea. *$5.25. Macmillan.
=Pt. 1.= Introduction and protozoa.
An introduction concerned with the definition of zoology is followed by a series of separate treatises by various biologists which aim to give a general outline of the entire subkingdom protozoa from a zoological point of view.
=Pt. 7.= Appendiculata. Third fascicle, Crustacea.
“The book preeminently is a zoological treatise, dealing with the purely zoological side of the matter: morphology, anatomy, embryology and the systematics. With regard to this, it is a complete success, and should be used, by zoologists, not only by the side of other textbooks, but is apt to supersede the latter, thus becoming, for the present time, the standard text-book on crustaceans.”—Science.
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“It may be said at once that in no previous work has the phylum of the protozoa been so thoroughly and adequately treated, or better illustrated. The student in this department of zoology will find it indispensable. The articles are accurate and trustworthy, and the criticisms of the work of others just.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 185. Ag. 14. 1050w. (Review of pt. 1, 1st fascicle.)
“As a basis for more specialized work in different lines of protozoan research, the book has a greater value than any of the others of more limited scope that have appeared in the last few years. Unfortunately, as with all such collaborated works, the various groups of protozoa are not equally well presented, and the treatment of some of the topics indicates plainly that the authors are writing from a library rather than a laboratory knowledge of the subject.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 285. S. 23, ’09. 450w. (Review of pt. 1, 1st fascicle.)
“This volume worthily upholds the high standard attained in its companion fascicle, with which it forms a comprehensive treatise on the protozoan of outstanding excellence.”
+ − =Nature.= 80: 152. Ap. 8, ’09. 1150w. (Review of pt. 1, 1st fascicle.)
“Dr. Calman’s volume is especially strong in the morphological and systematic aspects of carcinology. With the yearly increasing output of research, the trustworthy text-book becomes more than ever necessary, and the modern English student is fortunate with sets of Lankester’ and ‘Sedgwick’ on his shelves.” G. H. Carpenter.
+ =Nature.= 80: 361. My. 27, ’09. 1100w. (Review of pt. 7, 3d fascicle.)
“Anybody desiring to get any information within the range as defined above will surely find it here, and not only this, but he will find the account given up to date.” A. E. Ortmann.
+ =Science=, n.s. 30: 766. N. 26, ’09. 800w. (Review of pt. 7, 3d fascicle.)
“All of the articles are fairly clear and well-written expositions of the structures and modes of life of the several types of Protozoa, but with the exception of the sections on Mycetozoa and Radiolaria there is little that is new or above the average of an ordinary textbook, while there are few references to literature later than 1906. The paper is altogether too thick and clumsy however, making a heavy and poorly bound volume, which will never stand the wear of ordinary use.” G. N. C.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 888. D. 17, ’09. 580w. (Review of pt. 1, 1st fascicle.)
=Lathbury, Eva.=^{[6]} Long gallery. †$1.50. Holt.
9–14515.
A leisurely story of English life thru whose romance is traced the influence of dead ancestors whose portraits hang in the long gallery of Southern Court. Mystery weaves its spell about the characters, including two brides, their mothers, and the men who wooed them. The mystery, heart tragedies, and memories all seem to lie dust covered in an old play room in the Court until a dying woman’s servant draws them out into the light.
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“The book is distinguished by subtle characterization and much imagination of a delicate and whimsical variety.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 55. O. ’09.
“A story of unusual quality, written with uncommon distinction of style. The book possesses few elements of popularity, but it will hold the discriminating reader as much by its finesse of style as its interesting play and interplay of characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 409. Je. 26, ’09. 500w.
“The story is at times involved, but it is well told, it shows creative power, imagination, sincerity, and its ideas are essentially of human interest.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 8. S. 4, ’09. 110w.
=Lathbury, Eva.=^{[12]} Sinking ship. †$1.50. Holt.
9–29256.
A story of the stage, tense, introspective, in which three generations—a granddaughter, a mother and daughter—struggle to give expression of their temperamental individuality. We have the impossible grandmother with her love for stage tinsel, frumpery and flash, which, in her last moments, turn into grinning horrors; the mother, half mad with inner revolt against idyllic productions with their fancy dresses and scenic effects, who clutches at a young dramatist’s play, built up about her, and creating for her a “new skin which she slips into”; and the daughter, Sibyl, who symbolizes the new stage that is to grow out of the old one with its mist and shadow, who says: “Some day, some day very soon, the theater will give up to us, and we shall paint the truth there; we’re growing tired of pretense. Some day the false gods will be turned out and the true God will come in.”
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“With keen penetration and merciless portrayal Miss Lathbury delineates in vivid scenes the characters of the actress herself and of her mother, daughter, and husband, who are all on the stage.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 764. D. 4, ’09. 200w.
“The book is so wordy that its intention is nebulous: and Miss Lathbury makes very little of what seemed a promising contrast between the three women.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 508. O. 23, ’09. 350w.
=Latifi, Alma.=^{[10]} Effects of war on property; being studies in international law and policy; with a note on belligerent rights at sea, by J: Westlake. *$1.50. Macmillan.
War9–23.
“This is not a study of the entire field indicated by the title. Five studies present various phases of the law of war as applied to property. Especial emphasis is placed on topics hitherto little treated by writers on international law. The method of treatment is practical rather than jural. The chapters indicate the field covered: Property of enemies and neutrals on land; Effects of conquest on property; Property of enemies and neutrals at sea; Exceptions to the rule of capture of property at sea; Inviolability of private property at sea.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
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“The last two chapters constitute the chief contribution made, though there are many points in the other chapters on which interesting evidence is presented from the Spanish-American, South African and Russo-Japanese war.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 427. S. ’09. 120w. =Nation.= 89: 124. Ag. 5, ’09. 300w.
“His failure to make use of the large body of precedents collected by Mr. Moore in his ‘International arbitrations’ and in his ‘International law digest,’ and the omission, apparently, to examine at first hand the cases growing out of the Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars blemish an otherwise valuable series of studies on the effects of war on property. The lack of a table of the cases discussed and cited makes the book defective also as a law manual.” G: W. Scott.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 548. S. ’09. 1000w.
=Latimer, Robert Sloan.=^{[12]} Liberty of conscience under three tsars. **$1.50. Revell.
“An account of the advance made in the Russian empire since the Crimean war toward the ideal of personal liberty in matters of religion. The Czars referred to are Alexander II., Alexander III., and Nicholas II., who is now on the throne.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Will be found serviceable on account of its broad outline of the history of the origin of the Russian sects, and their treatment by the Russian government, which is the Orthodox church. The book is not intended for serious students, but for the general public—the English general public, more by token, and, to judge from its sentimental tone, chiefly for its women.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1267. D. 2, ’09. 70w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 764. D. 4, ’09. 170w. =Spec.= 103: 316. Ag. 28, ’09. 290w.
=Laughlin, Clara Elizabeth.= Death of Lincoln. **$1.50. Doubleday.
9–3344.
A detailed account of Lincoln’s death, the events leading up to it, Booth’s life, the plot, the assassination and the penalty.
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“The author possesses an admirable style and has threaded together the facts and evidence in her possession in such a manner as to make an absorbingly interesting volume.”
+ =Arena.= 41: 393. Mr. ’09. 130w.
“The readers of this volume, be they young or old, will have a far more ‘realising sense’ than it is likely they have already of the conditions which made possible the assassination and the consequence.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 84. Mr. ’09. 1100w.
Reviewed by E. E. Sparks.
+ =Dial.= 46: 298. My. 1, ’09. 200w. =Ind.= 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 40w. =Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 20w.
“A remarkably vivid and dramatic piece of work, and without desecrating the sanctity of the scene or descending to melodrama, she has placed the events of the last few hours of Lincoln’s life on earth so sympathetically before us that we seem to have been with that hushed company.” J. B. Rittenhouse.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13, ’09. 450w.
=Laughlin, James Laurence.=^{[12]} Latter-day problems. **$1.50. Scribner.
9–28275.
Professor Laughlin discusses scientifically the following economic subjects and uses language sufficiently untechnical to be understood by all: The hope for labor unions; Socialism a philosophy of failure; The abolition of poverty; Social settlements; Political economy and Christianity; Large fortunes; The valuation of railways; The guaranty of bank deposits; The depositor and the bank; Government vs. bank issues.
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“Professor Laughlin’s book is clear, keen, scholarly, suggestive; but it has the defect which often characterizes the product of the study: it shows greater familiarity with economic theories than it does with the actual facts of modern industrial life.”
+ − =Outlook.= 93: 876. D. 18, ’09. 350w.
=Launay, Louis de.= World’s gold: its geology, extraction, and political economy; tr. by Orlando Cyprian Williams; with an introd. by Charles A. Conant. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–32340.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“The most comprehensive book to be had on the subject of gold production and its relation to the world’s economy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 141. My. ’09. + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 719. My. ’09. 280w.
“His work on gold may be read with much interest, whether the reader be geologist, miner, metallurgist, or economist. The translation has been done with accuracy and judgment.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 292. Mr. 6. 400w.
“While M. De Launay is both interesting and reliable in the sections of his book dealing with the geology, the distribution, and the mining and extraction of gold, he is much less reliable when he deals with the politics and economics of the gold question.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 589. Mr. 18, ’09. 530w.
Reviewed by W. H. E.
+ =J. Geol.= 17: 192. F. ’09. 110w.
“He is caught tripping in his economic thinking by Mr. Conant.” L.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 305. My. ’09. 380w.
“This is a wonderfully complete tho concise essay on a subject about which accurate information has not always been easily accessible. The work is well and fluently translated.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 983. D. 26, ’08. 240w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 109. F. 27, ’09. 400w.
“A singularly useful and lucid manual for the student alike of the geology, the extraction, and the political economy of gold.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 63. Ja. 9, ’09. 430w.
“Professor DeLaunay’s book is valuable for its detailed and presumably accurate description of the geological and technical features of the subject, but it would be greatly improved by the elimination of its puerile economics.” J. F. Johnson.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 545. S. ’09. 190w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 253. F. ’09. 100w.
“Taken as a whole, the work is well and logically written and fairly accurate in facts and figures. It is a work which will be read with interest by both technical and non-technical readers, and especially by those interested in the financial aspect of money and metals.” W. R. Crane.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 300. F. 19, ’09. 300w. =Spec.= 102: sup. 638. Ap. 24, ’09. 300w.
=Launspach, Charles W. L.= State and family in early Rome. *$2.50. Macmillan.
9–2061.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“A readable and generally interesting book for those with tastes similar to his own. As he appears, however, to be quite ignorant of the present state of discussion and criticism in the investigation of his subject, it must be said in all candor that his work has no value for the student.” S. B. P.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 375. Ja. ’09. 240w.
“It is a lawyer’s treatment of one department of Roman law—the relation of the family to the state; and we know not where an intelligent student could find a better exposition in brief of a long and thorny subject. We congratulate the author on his sound and sensible book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 193. F. 13. 750w.
“Regarded as the production of an amateur this book is both laudable and interesting; but it is difficult to see why it should be published.” W. A. G.
− =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 394. Ap. ’09. 300w.
=Laut, Agnes Christina.=^{[12]} Canada, the empire of the North; being the romantic story of the new dominion’s growth from colony to kingdom. *$2.50. Ginn.
9–26653.
Miss Laut’s story begins with the early discovery and exploration of North America and proceeds swiftly and accurately to the Confederation of 1867. “To re-create,” says Miss Laut, “the shadowy figures of the heroic past, to clothe the dead once more in flesh and blood, to set the puppets of the play in life’s great dramas upon the stage of action,—frankly, this may not be formal history, but it is what makes the past most real to the present day.” It is to the realistic conception of her task that the author owes the dramatic quality of this work.
=Laut, Agnes Christina.= Conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the adventurers of England known as The Hudson’s bay company; new pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and western states. 2v. *$5. Moffat.
8–31815.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“It will serve a distinct use in the field of popularized history, but it is not always convincing, and the serious student will turn to Mr. Burpee’s volume for the sober recital that, while less entertaining, confines itself within the exact region of facts.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 16. Ja. ’09.
“Compared with the mass of original documents which Miss Laut has managed to unearth ... the foundation of the earlier histories appears meagre and inadequate.” L. J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 46: 139. Mr. 1, ’09. 1450w.
“The fascination of exploration and of the wild life of the wilderness could hardly be more vividly portrayed than in ‘Conquest of the great Northwest.’”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1399. Je. 24, ’09. 650w.
“The first complete history that has been written of a body of men who had sole possession for hundreds of years of a territory larger than the whole of Europe.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 106. Ja. 16, ’09. 580w.
“To fill out the picture is all very fine, but it is hazardous; and we think Miss Laut in particular might show more caution. In truth, an adherence to the bare words of her sources would have given often vividness enough.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 142. F. 11, ’09. 470w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 124. Ja. ’09. 210w.
=Law, Robert.=^{[11]} Tests of life: a study of the First epistle of St. John; being the Kerr lectures for 1909. *$3. Scribner.
“This work, not primarily homiletic in its interest ... is a historical and doctrinal exposition of the First epistle of John, and originally constituted the Kerr lectures for 1909 at the Glasgow college of the United free church. The style, structure, aim and authorship of the epistle are discussed briefly, but the main purpose seems to be to expound its teaching. The method chosen is not that of continuous comment. Passages that deal with the same theme are grouped into one treatment, and critical notes are inserted from time to time.”—Am. J. Theol.
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=Am. J. Theol.= 13: 649. O. ’09. 150w.
“This work is a serious and well-proportioned commentary. He is over-inclined to detect later theology in the epistle.”
+ − =Bib. World.= 33: 357. My. ’09. 70w.
=Lawson, Andrew Cowper.= California earthquake of April 18, 1906: report of the state earthquake investigation commission. 2v. v. 1, in 2 pts. $17. Carnegie inst.
=v. 1.= Part one contains an account of the geology of the coast system of mountains, a complete discussion of the San Andreas rift and assembled phenomena attending the San Francisco earthquake. Part two includes a discussion of the greater havoc of earthquakes in the soft ground sections, general effects of the earthquake in question, and a comparison of it with other seismological disturbances in the same region.
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=Nation.= 88: 174. F. 18, ’09. 600w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The illustrations are by far the most informing and the most interesting photographs of the earthquake which have been published.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 526. S. 26, ’08. 410w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Lawton, Frederick.=^{[6]} Third French republic. *$3.50. Lippincott.
W9–115.
An anecdotal account of the progress of the Third republic from the end of May, 1871 to the year 1908. During twenty years of acquaintance with people prominent in politics, literature and art the author has been gathering material which has not yet found its way into permanent form.
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“It is not easy to see for whose use the author designs it. It cannot be for students, as the book is inaccurate and incomplete. Nor does it possess compensating qualities for the general reader, being slipshod in style and barren in ideas. It contains some sound and acute criticism which deserve a worthier setting.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 582. My. 15. 750w. + =Dial.= 46: 406. Je. 16, ’09. 200w.
“In spite of this ambitious scheme the work lacks proportion and bears evidence of hasty writing and superficial knowledge. His book does embody some useful material that might be left unnoticed by a more careful historian.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 628. Je. 24, ’09. 320w.
“Frederick Lawton deserves thanks from everybody interested in France and in recent European history for the good work he has done in his ‘Third French republic.’ It is a book of much value and one which no student of contemporary politics can neglect.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 401. Je. 26, ’09. 950w.
“On the whole it is accurate, but it fails to give the Catholic case with any real force or fairness. We really cannot see any adequate excuse for bringing out this kind of thing in a large volume with elaborate illustrations. It is not attractive in itself, nor made justifiable by profound acquaintance with diplomatic history. The chapters on literature, science, and art are ludicrously inadequate if they are intended to give English readers any idea of the great French writers and artists of the last thirty years.”
− + =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 6. My. 22, ’09. 200w.
“A very readable book. Its most valuable part, we think, is to be found in the summaries of science, literature, art, as they have been developed during these four decades.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 505. Mr. 27, ’09. 180w.
=Lea, Homer.=^{[11]} Valor of ignorance. **$1.80. Harper.
9–29140.
A work in military literature that commands the attention of every student of United States history and of the science of war. Its object is to show how unprepared the United States is for war and to prove the possibility of a Japanese conquest of Western America. In the first part the author shows that America is excessively opulent and arrogant without military power to defend its opulence or support its arrogance. Wealth cannot safeguard against foes, he says, and arbitration is an illusion. In the second part, he shows logically how the Japanese might seize and hold the Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California.
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“Written in an amazingly highfalutin’ style, bristling with historical generalizations.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 1149. N. 18, ’09. 150w.
“Mr. Lea has written a very daring and startling book. Under the marshaling of this bright and conscientious author they tell a story which every American would do well to ponder.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 962. N. 27, ’09. 230w.
“Entertaining reading.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 764. D. ’09. 150w.
=Lea, James Henry, and Hutchinson, J. R.= Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln. Special ed. *$10. Houghton.
9–5537.
Here are recorded the results of investigation conducted in England and America by one who believes in hereditary genius and who has been able to trace Lincoln’s ancestry four generations further back than it has been carried before. “In England the family were ‘ostensible yeomen, with a dominant strain of gentle blood in their veins’; in America, they were plain pioneers, with fine inherited traits.” (Nation.)
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“By far the most notable volume which has been published so far this year in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.” I. M. Tarbell.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 859. Jl. ’09. 300w.
“Altogether Mr. Lea’s contribution is decidedly the most original that the centenary has evoked.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 233. Ap. 1, ’09. 300w.
“An excellent piece of special genealogical investigation.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 277. Mr. 18, ’09. 260w.
“The collaborators have told entertainingly the story of the Lincoln family through ten successive generations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 242. Ap. 17, ’09. 230w.
=Lea, John.= Romance of bird life: being an account of the education, courtship, sport and play, journeys, fishing, fighting, piracy, domestic and social habits, instinct, strange friendships and other interesting aspects of the life of birds. *$1.50. Lippincott.
8–37685.
“A fascinating account of the habits and customs of all manner of birds, telling how they are educated from the moment they emerge from the shell, how much they know by instinct and how much they have to be taught, of how they carry on their courtships, what they do for recreation, how they take their journeys, how they fish and fight and steal and act the pirate, their domestic virtues and vices, their strange friendships and their social habits, and many other queer and interesting things that most people would never dream of in connection with birds. It deals with birds all over the world, from those as familiar as the barnyard goose and hen to those of the least known kinds, while one chapter has something to say of extinct species.”—N. Y. Times.
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“In such a ‘pot-pourri’ one naturally finds errors, but fewer than would be expected; and most of these occur in the quotations from other writers.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 147. F. 11, ’09. 260w.
“Possibly the ‘romance’ is a little overstrained in places, and ordinary incidents in a bird’s general life habits sometimes magnified or transfigured into something more wonderful. Unlike most of the popular bird books published in recent years this one fills a vacant place.”
+ − =Nature.= 81: 99. Jl. 22, ’09. 470w.
“Written with charming simplicity and rich with illustrations and anecdote, with which [he] makes vivid [his] statement of scientific fact.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 774. D. 12, ’08. 170w.
“It is certainly one of the most fascinating, suggestive, and readable of the season’s gift-books.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 706. N. 7, ’08. 700w.
=Le Bon, Gustave.= Evolution of forces. (International scientific ser., v. 91.) *$1.75. Appleton.
8–16427.
“The first half of the book is devoted to a discussion of the principles of physics, including the fundamental conceptions of time, space, energy, and matter, and the principle of the conservation of energy and of matter from the point of view of Le Bon’s theory.... The second half contains an account of experiments, with numerous illustrations by the author in support of his views. Some simple electrostatic experiments are described from which he draws truly astonishing conclusions. The latter part is devoted to a description of his experiments on phosphorescence and ‘black light.’ This portion of the book will be found very instructive to those who are interested in the little-known subject of phosphorescence.”—Nature.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 79. Mr. ’09.
“Dr. Le Bon’s literary style is clearness itself, even although the clearness may be purchased in some instances by frequent repetition. We have noticed a few misprints.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 701. Je. 6. 1700w.
“Dr. Le Bon certainly exhibits great originality and a powerful imagination.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 583. D. 10, ’08. 170w.
“The book is clearly written, and the interest is maintained throughout. We can recommend it to readers who are interested in revolutionary ideas of physics and in the spectacle of the débâcle (according to Le Bon) of a large amount of scientific doctrine. We would suggest, however, that the reader need be under no obligation to consider the statements contained in it as the latest accepted scientific gospel.”
+ − =Nature.= 79: 121. D. 3, ’08. 1300w.
Reviewed by W. S. Franklin.
− =Science=, n.s. 29: 580. Ap. 9, ’09. 450w.
“Dr. Le Bon’s very interesting book has been competently translated by Mr. Legge, and should be studied by every reader who is interested in this fairy-tale of science.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 199. Ag. 8, ’08. 440w.
=Lecky, Elisabeth (van Dedem) (Mrs. W. E. H. Lecky).=^{[12]} Memoir of the Rt. Hon. William Edward Hartpole Lecky, M. P., O. M., LL. D., D. C. L., Litt. D., member of the French institute and of the British academy. *$2.50. Longmans.
9–28242.
“A chronicle of Lecky’s outer life, of his activities and widespread intellectual interests and achievements, historical, philosophical, political, with never a glimpse of the man himself. This is a memoir of a wondrous brain, and to some extent of a character, so far as it exprest itself in thought and work, but of our human brother there is not a glimpse.”—Ind.
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“The limitations of her materials taken into account, she has produced a most interesting and always tactful biography.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 552. N. 6. 1250w.
“Within the lines thus laid down, the book is packed with diversified interest for the student of our own times.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1140. N. 18, ’09. 100w.
“A memoir that embodies so many of his own qualities of tact, proportion, and reserve.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 571. D. 9, ’09. 2350w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 756. D. ’09. 140w.
“Perhaps the Irish parts are the most valuable, because it is so difficult to find an impartial history of Ireland. Mrs. Lecky has done her task exceedingly well. We cannot pay her a higher compliment than to say that it is executed with masculine judgment and skill.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 535. O. 30, ’09. 1150w.
“It would not be easy to praise too highly the skill and the unerring taste with which Mrs. Lecky has brought together the none too numerous documents of her distinguished husband’s career.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 605. O. 16, ’09. 2500w.
=Lecky, William E. H.= Historical and political essays. *$3.50. Longmans.
8–31477.
Fourteen essays including the following: Thoughts on history, The political value of history, The [British] empire, Carlyle’s message to his age, Mme. de Staël, Israel among the nations, The private correspondence of Sir Robert Peele, and Formative influences.
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“Some of these essays seem to be written from the standpoint of the controversialist rather than of the historian, but the book as a whole well repays perusal both for its matter and for its literary style.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 596. Ap. ’09. 260w.
Reviewed by W: E. Lingelback.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 436. S. ’09. 630w.
“This collection of essays and addresses fully justifies its publication.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 98. Ja. 23. 330w. =Nation.= 87: 626. D. 24, ’08. 60w.
“Men like Lecky are forceful influences in both moral and intellectual development, and every reader of these essays will be rewarded with many thoughts and suggestions that may well serve him as sign posts on the road of culture.” G: S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 55. Ja. 30, ’09. 260w.
“His essay on Carlyle is a good example of common sense in judgment upon genius.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 177. Mr. ’09. 200w. + =Spec.= 102: 705. My. 1, ’09. 500w.
=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.=^{[11]} Yzdra: a tragedy in three acts. **$1.25. Putnam.
8–1689.
A drama based upon an anonymous story told in the “Secreta secretorum,” a book widely read during the middle ages. The story tells of a Hindu princess who, after being fed without her knowledge upon poisons, became poisonous herself, and is used as the tool of her father’s empire to propose betrothal to Alexander the Great, and so, thru a kiss, to bring death to the hero before he should invade India. The love between the conqueror and the princess, her discovery of the taint in her blood, her decision to ruin her own country to save her lover’s life, and the great struggle between his ambition and his love for Yzdra—all afford material which the dramatist has worked into shape with fine power.
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“The author has interwoven humor, wisdom, Eastern religion, and superstition into the thread of his story. He has consistently and effectively depicted the characters of the play.” G: S. Hellman.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 613. O. 16, ’09. 950w.
“There are both grace and strength in this drama, and it also possesses the movement and spirit needed for presentation upon the stage.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 832. D. 11, ’09. 220w.
=Lee, Jennette Barbour.= Simeon Tetlow’s shadow. †$1.50. Century.
9–4193.
Simeon Tetlow is a railroad president, and the personification of his road. “It might almost be said that he was the road. Its minute ramifications and its great divisions were hardly more than the nerves and arteries that threaded Simeon Tetlow’s thin frame.” John Bennett, the secretary, is the “shadow.” He is “hands and feet” for his chief, “almost it might seem, lungs and a few other vital organs.” Miss Lee shows intimately the developing and expanding influence which the quiet secretary exerts over the magnate until the latter awakens to the meaning of brotherhood service.
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“There is no love element, but the realistic details of business and office management give a certain interest to the slight story, which is well told.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 91. Mr. ’09. ✠
“John Bennett is the chief actor, and his feats are as probable as those of the heroes of Messrs. Oliver Optic and Henty. Accepted as a novel of sentiment and not of commercial life, the story may be enjoyed for its fluency and sweetness.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 443. Ap. 29, ’09. 680w.
“In nearly all the book there are a freshness and originality of style and a poetic touch that have made it possible for the author to bid defiance to the actualities of life and yet to write a very acceptable story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 146. Mr. 13, ’09. 370w.
“A book with the blessed quality of difference. The story has in it an uncommon human quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 200w. + − =Outlook.= 92: 21. My. 1, ’09. 380w.
=Lee, Sidney Lazarus=, ed.^{[5]} Life of William Shakespeare. New and rev. ed.; with a new preface. *$2.25. Macmillan.
9–10641.
A new edition revised to include: the results of the author’s researches during the past ten years; errors have been corrected, bibliographies have been brought down to date, and important additions have been made to the bibliographical information. In a new preface of twenty-four pages Mr. Lee points out five newly discovered references to Shakespeare: to the personal character of Shakespeare’s father; to Shakespeare’s sojourn in London; to the possession of a coat-of-arms; to the dramatist in his declining years and to Shakespeare as a property owner.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 196. Je. ’09.
“Mr. Lee has made revisions, in a brief, but satisfactory style.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 69. Jl. 18. 90w.
Reviewed by E: Fuller.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 635. Ag. ’09. 550w.
“It is very well that a handbook like this should be accurately leveled up from time to time.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 90. Jl. 8, ’09. 130w. + − =Nation.= 89: 168. Ag. 19, ’09. 180w.
“It still stands as the sanest, most readable, and most useful of all the biographies.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 302. My. 15, ’09. 130w. + =R. of Rs.= 39: 768. Je. ’09. 150w. + =Sat. R.= 106: 582. N. 7, ’08. 60w.
=Lee, Vernon.= Gospels of anarchy and other contemporary studies. **$3.50. Brentano’s.
8–22324.
A group of essays on such subjects as Emerson; Tolstoy; Nietzsche, and the Will to power; Prof. James and the Will to believe; Rosny, Ruskin, H. G. Wells, “Deterioration of soul,” and “The economic parasitism of women.”
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“May we gently ask, as we read these pages, filled with opinions expressed with uncouth violence of language, whether such a manner of writing can carry us over the difficulties of the way? What has become of what was once a style—artificial, imitative, but a style?”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 301. S. 12. 740w.
“Vernon Lee shows all her old qualities of brightness and insight, and writes with a certain masculinity of thought with femininity of expression.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 415. Jl. 25, ’08. 1900w.
=Lee, Vernon.=^{[11]} Laurus nobilis. **$1.50. Lane.
9–23736.
Chapters on “Art and life” that “explain beauty as a natural uplifting force.” (N. Y. Times.) “Three significant coincidences, early pointed out, indicate the line of argument followed by the author. These coincidences are: ‘that between development of the æsthetic faculties and the development of the altruistic instincts; that between development of a sense of æsthetic harmony and a sense of the higher harmonies and universal life; and, before everything else, the coincidence between the preference for æsthetic pleasures and the nobler growth of the individual.’” (Dial.)
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“Parts of the volume are charmingly written, and certain pages of ‘The art and the country’ show the author at her best. Unfortunately, there are other passages both obscure and slipshod.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 460. O. 16. 520w.
“In spite of the much fine writing in the book, one feels the earnest sincerity of it all. The book is one to read slowly and take to heart.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 289. O. 16, ’09. 300w.
“The book is the fruit of a spirit that lacks neither charm nor distinction, but always the ardor to embody these qualities in a form of quite authentic memorableness.”
− + =Nation.= 89: 288. S. 23, ’09. 300w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 606. O. 16, ’09. 550w.
“It is long indeed since we have met with a volume of art criticism so wise, so attractive, so suggestive. The book is indeed too full of charm, originality, and wisdom to be quickly read or dealt with in a few lines. It should be bought and studied.”
+ + =Spec.= 103: 515. O. 2, ’09. 470w.
=Leeds, Charles Carley.=^{[12]} Mechanical drawing for trade schools. Machinery trades ed. (Carnegie technical schools text books.) *$2. Van Nostrand.
9–10798.
A text prepared “for the purpose of grounding those engaged in the machinery trades in the principles of mechanical drawing and to familiarize them with the methods in vogue in drafting rooms. The course is divided into a series of 58 lessons. The subjects treated are: Use of instruments, lettering, sketching, tracing, projection drawing, sectioning, drawing to scale, assembly and detail drawing, sections, intersections and development, conventionalities used in drawing, spur and bevel gears, worm and gear, and the periphery and plate cam.”—Engin. Rec.
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“The method of arrangement of this book at once commends itself for its simplicity and convenience. It can scarcely be considered to be, in a higher sense, a text book of mechanical drawing, but it presents a course of lessons which is well designed to make a reasonably competent draftsman of anyone who conscientiously goes through with it, and it will minimize the need of a personal instructor.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 51. N. 18, ’09. 530w.
“Much of the work is similar to that found in other text books on mechanical drawing, and it is difficult to see wherein this text would surpass them for use in trade schools. The sequence of the work is well planned, but it seems that an endeavor is made to cover too much ground. Throughout the work too little is left for the students’ originality, there being a great deal of almost straight copy work.”
− + =Engin. Rec.= 60: 587. N. 20, ’09. 190w.
=Lees, Frederic.=^{[5]} Summer in Touraine: the record of a sojourn among the châteaux of the Loire. *$2.75. McClurg.
W9–153.
A volume of generous proportions lavishly illustrated, presenting not “the pageant of a summer only but the whole pageant of the renaissance in France.” From art folios, archaeological dictionaries, forgotten pamphlets, ancient manuscripts and musty memoirs of historical societies the author has gleaned architectural, historical and topographical information concerning the Loire country which he has worked into attractive form for the traveler to whom he dedicates his book.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 172. Je. ’09.
“The pages of Mr. Lees lead us to fear that he went to Touraine without that general knowledge which should have been the foundation of a book instructing others.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 582. My. 15. 1100w.
“Few travel books afford more pleasant entertainment than this delightful sketch of sojourns.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 47: 235. O. 1, ’09. 270w.
“This volume is one of the best of its class, adequate, sane and helpful.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1246. Je. 3, ’09. 160w.
“Mr. Lees is not a pictorial writer, and occasionally he trips up in his syntax, but he tells his story without affectation, and he strikes a fair balance between description and history.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 628. Je. 24, ’09. 200w.
“A book that is in many respects more complete and more interesting than any of its predecessors. Its especial value consists in the fact that its author has had access to many châteaux now in the hands of private owners who permit no public invasion of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 387. Je. 19, ’09. 520w.
“He writes with knowledge, sometimes enthusiastically, at others critically. To those who contemplate a tour in this charming region his book is the best preparatory course they could have as a guide for the eye and mind.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 604. My. 8, ’09. 200w.
“There cannot be a better testimonial to the book’s merits than the fact that its pages are turned with interest, its illustrations studied with delight, by people of a foreign language, yet who are, after all, its most capable critics, under those very summer skies of beautiful Touraine.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 465. S. 25, ’09. 270w.
=Lees, George Robinson.=^{[5]} Witness of the wilderness, the Bedawin of the desert: their origin, history, home life, strife, religion, and superstitions in their relation to the Bible. $1.25. Longmans.
9–16832.
A work of apologetic, historical and archaeological importance which is based upon personal observation supplemented by the best contemporary authorities. “Mr. Lees’ main purpose is to draw attention to the resemblances between modern Arab life and the occasional glimpses which the Old Testament, and, less profusely, the Gospels, throw upon the character, morals, manners, and customs of these tribes. He also discusses briefly the nature and effects of Mahometanism; and tells us how far the Bedouin accepts its tenets and practices its code.” (Cath. World.)
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“A charming little book.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 248. My. ’09. 460w.
“This book exhibits at least once a vice not easily forgiven, in a tendency to an allegorical interpretation which quite equals that of the ancient Alexandrian theologian Origen.” C: R. Gillett.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 159. Mr. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Leete, Frederick De Land.=^{[6]} Every-day evangelism, personal, trained, co-operative. $1. West. Meth. bk.
9–7953.
The evangelistic side of a pastor’s and layman’s everyday Christian mission is set forth practically in this volume. It sounds the individual note in the work of the world’s redemption and so emphasizes personal responsibility.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.=^{[12]} New poems. *$1.50. Lane.
Poems into which rare vision, deep insight, and symbolism enter so largely that it “is idle to measure these delicate, impalpable things with the yard stick of a cold and practical criticism, or to arraign Mr. Le Gallienne because he gives us too much fairy food and too little meat; the more surely he trusts his instinct as to what he shall give us, the truer artist he proves himself.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“When all is said, however, these war songs, once read, will not allure again. It is a paradox that in a borrowed form, as that of Omar of Hafiz, Mr. Le Gallienne is able not only to move us with the spell of art but to express his own feeling far more convincingly than he expresses it in the group of love poems in the present volume. Here is everything but form, but the unaccountable something needed to crystalize passion into art. Once only, perhaps, does it enforce itself inevitably, in that strong, but-aloe-tinctured, sonnet, ‘I heard a liar say my love doth cease.’” J. B. Rittenhouse.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 693. N. 6, ’09. 2200w.
“It is both easy and difficult to be severe with Mr. Le Gallienne. It is easy, because he can be so very irritating. It is difficult for much the same reason that it is difficult to be severe with a pretty child who is tiresome. His preciosity is often quite unendurable, yet his best effects lie so near to preciosity that it seems unreasonable to ask him to be less precious.”
− + =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 5. O. 16, ’09. 850w.
=Legge, Ronald.=^{[6]} Hawk: a story of aerial war. $1.50. McBride, J:
9–12618.
Love, intrigue and war are involved in this story which demonstrates the theory that attack by air-ship is a possibility at the present moment.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 352. Je. 5. ’09. 430w.
=Lehár, Ferenc.=^{[6]} Merry widow: a novel founded on Franz Lehár’s Viennese opera, “Die lustige witwe,” as produced by Henry W. Savage. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–11258.
A novelization of the opera which of necessity omits something of the fun and frolic which have captivated large audiences.
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“To those who are not familiar with the original it will appear merely a poorly written and illogical hodge-podge of sentimental romance and cheap humor.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 387. Je. 19, ’09. 80w.
=Lehmann, Rudolph Chambers.= Complete oarsman: with chapters by T. S. Kelly, R. B. Etherington Smith, and W. H. Eyre. *$3. Jacobs.
8–36772.
A handbook which is the result of careful scientific study of the subject and which discusses the history, growth, art, forms of rowing and rowing principles, and famous crews and regattas. The book is fully illustrated.
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“A very complete English manual.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 79. Mr. ’09.
“Mr. Lehmann has a combination of qualities for his task believed by us to be unrivalled. Almost each time that we have found something we thought wrong we have remembered that we were in pages by Mr. Kelly or Mr. Etherington Smith.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 123. Ag. 1. 1300w.
“There is a most interesting chapter on the style adopted by countries other than our own.” R. P. P. Rowe.
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 137. Ag. 1, ’08. 1600w.
=Lenygon, Francis.=^{[10]} Decoration and furniture of English mansions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. *$10. Scribner.
“An interesting account of the decorations and furniture assembled in No. 31, Old Burlington Street, by a firm with which the author is connected. The house was built by Lord Hervey in 1720, and passed into various hands. At present it appears to be the home of various admirable examples of English decoration and furniture. The book is divided into chapters dealing with the successive periods of furniture from that of the early English renaissance—tapestries, wood panelling, plaster ornamentation, paintings, damasks, gesso-work, carpets, and other matters. It is plentifully illustrated with handsome photographs, and contains a useful catalogue of reference books.”—Ath.
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“Mr. Lenygon has a tasteful knowledge of his subject, and his treatise should prove serviceable to many amateurs and collectors.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 303. S. 11. 200w.
“The text imparts no small knowledge of the decorative work of the great architects whose genius for these lesser things is often overlooked, and also of the manufacture of tapestries, carpets, lacquer, mirrors, and other accessories.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 519. D. 16, ’09. 200w.
“Embracing as the illustrations do every imaginable class of domestic decoration and furniture ... they should prove of great value to the designer and craftsman of to-day.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 38: 163. Ag. ’09. 200w. + =Sat. R.= 108: 199. Ag. 14, ’09. 950w.
=Leonard, Mary Hall.= Grammar and its reasons. *$1.50. Barnes.
8–12816.
“A series of chapters, not only on the parts of speech, inflection, construction and similar topics but also on questions connected with the teaching and the general significance of the subject, such as the place of grammar in the school course and the like.”—Ind.
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“Not complete enough for a treatise, but a helpful tool for ready reference.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 17. Ja. ’09. ✠
“The best feature is the quotations with which the several chapters open. The book itself lacks any very distinctive characteristic, and its scholarship does not appear to be always of the best.”
− + =Educ. R.= 36: 523. D. ’08. 40w.
“The discussions are uniformly plain and clear, marked by good common sense and a disposition to simplify the study as much as possible.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 309. Ag. 6, ’08. 100w.
=Lepelletier, Edmond.=^{[6]} Paul Verlaine: his life—his work; tr. by E. M. Lang. *$3.50. Duffield.
A “life” written by Verlaine’s friend from boyhood. “M. Lepelletier maintains that Verlaine’s supposed extreme depravity was a legend created and encouraged by himself, the product of a poet’s imagination poisoned with alcohol and morbidly reacting against his real desires for good.... Verlaine’s extraordinary Bohemian life is told fully, sympathetically, and tenderly. Perhaps it is too apologetic on the whole, and with too much of the theory that genius excuses or condones vice.” (Sat. R.)
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“The English version is fluent and agreeable to read, except for some obvious Gallicisms, necessary, ‘for the purpose of space,’ to abridge the original. The translator lacks education. The book would be more satisfactory, for the English reader at any rate, if it included a good selection of the fine verse which gave Verlaine a reputation in spite of his disorderly career.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 558. My. 8. 250w.
“We take leave of our gifted, bad, sad, mad brother, thanking M. Lepelletier for his generous, loyal work, which will achieve its aim because it will probably be accepted as the standard on its subject, and the translater for an able and literary achievement of a by no means easy task.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1138. N. 18, ’09. 270w.
“It is a valuable contribution to the history of French poetry. It contains, moreover, some vivid pictures of French literary society of an earlier day where many a figure now famous is pictured in their early years of struggle.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 782. N. 6, ’09. 550w. + =Lit. D.= 39: 1073. D. 11, ’09. 200w.
“Failure fully to perceive and disengage one side of Verlaine’s personally constitutes the one serious defect in a work that is otherwise a wholly admirable interpretation of a great poet whose life involved the extremes of glory and misery.” W: A. Bradley.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 757. D. 4, ’09. 2100w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 755. D. ’09. 90w.
“No other book reveals so much of Verlaine’s life and poems as this does.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 470. Ap. 10, ’09. 280w.
=Leroux, Gaston.= Perfume of the lady in black. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
9–6576.
“M. Gaston Leroux’s new tale of the detective cleverness of Rouletabille presupposes familiarity with his earlier ‘Mystery of the yellow room.’ Same heroine, same villain, same hero, same detective, same admiring commentator. The new story begins where the old one left off, but the scene is shifted, and the criminal is more infernally clever than ever. The ‘dénouement’ taxes our credulity somewhat, but that does not matter, as we have the full benefit of the mystery and its intricacies nearly all the way.”—Ind.
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“Is no better than its predecessor, and it is no worse; which implies neither high praise nor serious disparagement.” Rupert Ranney.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 199. Ap. ’09. 450w.
“Those who read the original story will find the sequel fully as good of its kind.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 764. Ap. 8, ’09. 160w.
“‘The perfume of the lady in black’ can be described as inferior to the ‘Mystery of the yellow room’ and yet remain a tale of mystery and ‘ratiocination’ very far above the average.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 282. Mr. 18, ’09. 200w.
“It is a cleverly contrived and, barring the tendency of the superhumanly ingenious young newspaper detective to relapse into absurd and semi-hysterical sentiment, well-written detective story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 160. Mr. 20, ’09. 200w.
=Leroy-Beaulieu, Pierre Paul.= Collectivism: a study of some of the leading social questions of the day; tr. and abridged by Sir Arthur Clay. *$3. Dutton.
9–7580.
The translation and abridgment of a book that “has been regarded as the acutest and most searching analysis of the various communistic and socialistic schemes, and in particular, while allowing the waste inevitable under any exaggerated system of competition, it shows with remorseless logic the inability of collectivism to meet the laws of supply and demand in domestic exchange, and still more emphatically in foreign trade.”—Nation.
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“While it is not a profound or sympathetic presentation of its subject it is nevertheless a virile, well written criticism, and one adapted to set to thinking any who would thoughtlessly abandon the advantages of our present form of economic organization.” H: R. Mussey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 198. Jl. ’09. 350w.
“Making proper allowance for his bias, one may trust the descriptions and definitions of this writer as fairly representative.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 301. My. 1, ’09. 90w.
“Sir Arthur Clay has done a good work well in abridging and translating ‘Collectivism.’ To those who talk loosely of socialism as at least a tendency in the right direction and as the necessary step of progress or evolution, the clear thinking and wide knowledge of Leroy-Beaulieu’s treatise may be strongly recommended. Such doubting minds will here meet with facts.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 361. Ap. 8, ’09. 180w.
“The book truly possesses cosmopolitan virtues as well as suitability to a subject of permanent interest. It is this quality of solid worth which distinguishes the book from many other concurrent publications.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 332. My. 22, ’09. 250w. =Outlook.= 91: 817. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 128. Jl. ’09. 50w.
“Most warmly do we commend this admirable work to the study of all who seek to understand the development of a controversy which in our own country has only just begun.”
+ + =Spec.= 102: 267. F. 13, ’09. 780w.
=Lethaby, William Richard.=^{[9]} Greek buildings represented by fragments in the British museum. *$4.20. Scribner.
9–15533.
A three part work dealing with the Temple of the Ephesian Diana, the Tomb of Mausolus and the Parthenon.
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“It is difficult to see why the book was written, or rather published, at least in this form. The whole volume makes the impression of being in the form of rough notes on points that happen to have interested the writer, intended to be worked out properly later. As is natural in a book of this sort, misstatements are frequent, and the serious student must be warned against them.”
− =Nation.= 89: 219. S. 2, ’09. 700w. =Spec.= 100: 345. F. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Any one who will take this little tractate to the museum and study the remains by its help will certainly learn much.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 981. Je. 20, ’08. 170w.
=Letters= from G. G.^{[11]} **$1. Holt.
9–27269.
A little volume of refreshing, entertaining letters that perpetuate a real platonic friendship between a Nice Girl and a Youth. They write of “love and life and death; of dogs, of themselves, and one another; of mice and men and modern instances; of trifles light as air; of all that one does and hears in the course of a day’s work, and hands on because it means a laugh or tear; of all that goes to make people and their lives.”
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“They are quite commonplace, entirely on the surface, dealing with the trifling facts of life, rarely and superficially only, with ideas or emotions.”
− =Ind.= 67: 1210. N. 25, ’09. 230w.
“For the entertainment of an idle hour one could hardly find in a day’s search a more engaging book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 751. N. 27, ’09. 210w.
=Letters=^{[10]} written by a gentleman in Boston to his friend in Paris, describing the great fire, with introductory chapters and notes by Harold Murdock. *$5. Houghton.
9–23233.
“The present volume blends direct historical narrative with much imaginative detail. Mr. Murdock writes here on the basis of personal experience reinforced and amplified by documentary evidence. An introductory chapter describes Boston as it was on the eve of the great disaster.” (Nation.) The edition is limited to 500 copies.
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“One must admire the skill with which he has used his material.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 241. O. 1, ’09. 300w.
“The story of the great fire is told with considerable amplitude by an observant, active, and well-informed anonymous citizen, who seems to have retained his sense of humor and of literary style in the midst of the general calamity.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 332. O. 7. ’09. 180w.
“As fiction the letters are good, but the mind of their supposed writer is of a time twenty-five years later. ‘The’ Boston fire still lacks a historian at once accurate, comprehensive, and entertaining. Unless he can be as entertaining as Mr. Murdock he may as well refrain from writing and allow ’1872’ to become the accepted chronicle.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 569. S. 25, ’09. 1600w.
=Letts, W. M.=^{[8]} Diana dethroned. †$1.50. Lane.
9–35848.
“A story of two families—English country families—and a picture of English country life and the people who move in it. The central figure is a healthy kind of Diana, indeed, and the central male figure—Robin, of the other house, with whom she is in love—is a masterly etching of the negatively virtuous type—the type that so appeals to a maternal woman and brings her so much sorrow by its childish weaknesses.”—N. Y. Times.
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“Story of the transformation of a girl, ‘half vestal, half schoolboy,’ who responds only to the moods of nature, into a woman who accepts her heritage of love, pity and self-sacrifice. The charm of the story lies not so much in its character analysis as in its appreciation of English outdoor life.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09.
“Its integral charm resides in the quiet artistry of the telling, and the consistently gracious atmosphere in which it moves.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 64. Jl. 17. 130w.
“Glints of wit and humor are not lacking. A little worldliness invades the pastoral. Wisdom and even piety have their say in wholly unaffected fashion. The threads of the tissue are drawn together just a little loosely, but the interest does not die out.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 122. Ag. 5, ’09. 320w.
“A substantial piece of work, and it is well done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 481. Ag. 7, ’09. 200w.
“This story, well written though it is, makes anything but exhilarating reading.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 202. Ag. 14, ’09. 180w.
=Levering, Julia Henderson.= Historic Indiana: being chapters in the story of the Hoosier state from the romantic period of foreign exploration and dominion through pioneer days, stirring war times, and periods of peaceful progress, to the present time. **$3. Putnam.
9–5241.
A brief account of what is “most memorable, striking, and picturesque in the past and present-day history of Indiana.” It includes the various phases of development of the commonwealth—the foreign dominion on the Wabash, the plain tale of early settlers, Indiana’s salient part in war, the development of her natural resources and the position that she has come to assume among the states in provisions for education, and the enactment of liberal laws.
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“A decided credit to the author and to the state.” J. A. Woodburn.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 860. Jl. ’09. 450w.
“A distinct contribution to western history, though with some unfortunate omissions.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 141. My. ’09.
“Such volumes have their legitimate use in popularizing the knowledge reached at the time of publication.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 104. Ag. 16, ’09. 110w.
“While in general Mrs. Levering only retells a well-known story, her narrative notes a number of matters which, if ever mentioned, have been forgotten or not sufficiently recognized.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 581. Je. 10, ’09. 1000w.
“Her treatment of the development of the Hoosier state and her study of the pioneer period are upon such broad lines that they will be of value to all for whom the titanic struggles that have made a nation out of a wilderness are matters of interest. It is true she is guilty of too many adjectives, and her constructions are often slovenly. In her account of the immigration, moreover, she has failed to give that complete picture of the development of the state which seems to have been her intention.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 118. F. 27, ’09. 850w.
“No one could desire a more informative review of the conditions attending the transformation of the ‘western country’ from an Indian-infested wilderness into a region of prosperous and progressive commonwealths. She would be more convincing were she less uniformly eulogistic.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 816. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w.
=Levitt, Dorothy.=^{[5]} Woman and the car; ed. with introductory articles by C. Byng-Hall. **$1. Lane.
9–18567.
Written by a noted amateur woman motorist this volume “contains the results of her own practical experience, and is full of advice, written in a simple, chatty style, for women motorists, whether beginners or experts. She considers the questions of the cost of the car and its upkeep, the best ways of dressing, how to manage the mechanism of a car, gives practical instructions about driving, and about how to avoid and how to mend troubles, and devotes several chapters to motor manners, expenses of motoring and the growing popularity and usefulness of the small car. The volume is copiously illustrated.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 17. S. ’09.
“This is a practical little volume, yet not in the least degree technical.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 406. Ap. 3. 220w.
“A useful and interesting handbook.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 309. My. 15, ’09. 160w.
=Lewis, Caleb.=^{[12]} Almost fairy children; or, The cozy evenings of brother and sister. †$1.25. Bobbs.
9–22622.
A dozen stories told to two children by an old fisherman whose cozy cabin lured the listeners to it night after night.
=Lewis, Frank Wesley.=^{[7]} State insurance, a social and industrial need. *$1.25. Houghton.
9–8934.
Based upon a study of workingmen’s insurance and old-age pensions in continental Europe, this work discusses the desirability of state insurance, analyzes the most important laws now in operation, outlines the problems connected with it for our own country and offers suggestions for their solution.
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“The book is argumentative rather than expository, is well written, popular and very readable. For the student Henderson’s ‘Industrial insurance’ is perhaps more valuable because of its greater wealth of material.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 141. My. ’09.
“The author concludes in favor of state insurance, but his conclusions lack definiteness and directness.”
− =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 606. N. ’09. 280w.
“In general the author’s position is sound, although he is often visionary and impracticable. Moreover, he has undue reverence for the economy of the state and the honesty of its officials (p. 50). The work is somewhat discredited by what seems an unwarranted attack upon what the author calls existing institutions.” M. H. Robinson.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 2: 161. Je. ’09. 550w.
“The book is intended for the public rather than the economist and does not pretend to be either a thorough or a scientific treatment of the subject. But it can well be recommended to the general reader who desires a clear, sympathetic, and sane statement of the reasons in favor of workingmen’s insurance—a subject about which a greater knowledge on the part of the public is much to be desired.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 650. N. ’09. 500w.
“Altogether, Mr. Lewis has made out a strong case. He does not strengthen it, however, by presenting mere estimates of outlay for poor relief (p. 20), when the census statistics are available; or by using rickety estimates of the distribution of wealth in the United States (p. 15); or by citing unreliable enthusiasts and sensationalists as authorities or ‘Competent observers.’”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 188. Ag. 26, ’09. 300w.
“There is nothing socialistic or doctrinaire about Mr. Lewis’s arguments. They are orthodox to the last degree, and convincing to those willing to be convinced.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 534. S. 11, ’09. 450w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 110w.
=Lewis, Lawrence.= Advertisements of The Spectator; with appendix of representative advertisements now for the first time reprinted, and an introductory note by G: Lyman Kittredge. **$2. Houghton.
9–16896.
A study of the literature, history and manners of Queen Anne’s England as they are reflected in the commercial columns of The Spectator, as well as an illustration of the origins of advertising.
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+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 418. O. 9. 1200w.
“His work is done with neatness and a stroke of the Addisonian humor.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 482. Ag. 26, ’09. 270w.
“We recommend all who know the ‘Spectator’ only as it is stript of its commercial, literary, and theatrical notices, to read this unique work which will lead them the way to a ‘Spectator’ doubly charming from the commentary furnished by its advertisements.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 442. S. 18, ’09. 430w.
“But, pleasantly as Mr. Lewis fulfils the promise of his sub-title, the value of his book would be considerably greater had he not seen fit to isolate the ‘Spectator’ from its predecessors and contemporaries. It is particularly to be regretted that he has neglected the ‘Tatler,’ which serves even better than the ‘Spectator’ to answer some of the problems that beset a student of the Queen Anne periodical considered as a business enterprise.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 98. Jl. 29, ’09. 230w.
“There is much diversion and considerable instruction to be found in this book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 441. Jl. 17, ’09. 1100w.
“No student of eighteenth-century society should neglect these advertisements.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 10. O. 16, ’09. 180w.
“We must be content with thanking Mr. Lewis for his excellent execution of an excellent idea.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 690. O. 30, ’09. 1300w.
=Lewis, Myron Henry.=^{[10]} Waterproofing: an engineering problem. *50c. Eng. news.
A paper read “before the Municipal engineers of the City of New York, which explained in a general way the necessity for waterproofing, the various methods of doing the work, the details of the different methods, and the specifications for waterproofing adopted by various companies or suggested by the author.”—Engin. Rec.
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“On account of the importance of the subject and the scarcity of literature in reference to it, this pamphlet is one that every engineer, contractor and builder should have.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 247. S. ’09. 160w.
“The paper is a good summary of information regarding the present state of the art.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 308. S. 11, ’09. 100w.
=Lewis, William Draper=, ed. Great American lawyers: the lives and influence of judges and lawyers who have acquired permanent national reputation, and have developed the jurisprudence of the United States; a history of the legal profession in America. subs. 3/4 cf. Contributors’ ed. 8v. v. 1. $7.50. Winston.
7–21395.
A cooperative work which when completed will include brief biographies of ninety-six men. “Its aim is to provide, by means of a series of biographical sketches, a comprehensive view of the development of the jurisprudence of the United States, and also to afford a clear understanding of the influence exercised by American judges and lawyers in shaping the life of the nation.” (Outlook.)
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“By no means devoid of interest to the intelligent layman. In the somewhat perplexing task of selecting the subjects for the sketches, the editor, on the whole, has shown excellent judgment.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 145. F. 11, ’09. 1400w. (Review of v. 1–4.) =N. Y. Times.= 13: 745. D. 5, ’08. 230w. (Review of v. 1.)
“For the most part, the authors of the different papers have been content to rely on secondary sources for their information; and the majority of them betray a tendency to eulogize rather than to draw judicially impartial portraits. There is also noticeable in certain cases a cheerful disregard for the findings of modern historical research, with respect more particularly to pre-revolutionary conditions. But apart from these limitations and an occasional lapse into dullness, little fault is to be found. Some of the sketches, moreover, possess literary charm.”
+ − =Outlook.= 91: 337. F. 13, ’09. 360w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Library=^{[7]} of southern literature; comp. under the direct supervision of southern men of letters; Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, editors in chief, C: W. Kent, literary editor. 15v. per set $80-$200. Martin & Hoyt co., Atlanta, Ga.
9–7940.
Resembling the “Warner library” somewhat in plan this work when completed will include fifteen volumes. Each author represented is given a biographical sketch which precedes examples of his work. “The critical and biographical introductions have been carefully prepared under the supervision of Prof. Charles W. Kent of the University of Virginia, and with the cooperation of a formidable array of college presidents, congressmen, clergymen, and other distinguished people.” (Nation.) The first two volumes, the only ones to appear so far, include forty authors.
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“Like all subscription works, this one is made ‘to sell,’ but it is fairly obvious that salability has not been the only end in view, and that ideals of intelligent writing and sound judgment have informed the entire plan.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 330. My. 16, ’09. 380w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“These volumes from Dixie follow the model set by the late Mr. Warner’s series, and follow it well.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 12. Jl. 1, ’09. 170w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Lieckfeld, G.=^{[5]} Oil motors: their development, construction and management: a handbook for engineers, owners, attendants, and all interested in engines using liquid fuel. *$4.50. Lippincott.
9–27951.
A descriptive work with evidence of practical experience. “The motors described are particularly those adapted for portable work, such as for airships, automobiles and traction engines, with a few references to engines like the Diesel. The latter part of the book is given over to notes on erection and attendance of engines and some explanation of the causes of peculiarities of operation and remedies for them.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“On the title page it is described as ‘a handbook for engineers, owners, attendants and all interested in engines using liquid fuels.’ In endeavoring to serve three masters at one time, all three have been scantily and to some extent unsatisfactorily treated. The translation has not been done particularly well.” L. S. Marks.
− + =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 3. Ja. 14, ’09. 730w.
“The arrangement of the subject matter ... is to be commended.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 526. Ap. 17, ’09. 320w.
“There are several important omissions in the book.”
+ − =Nature.= 80: 246. Ap. 29, ’09. 360w.
=Lighthall, William Douw.=^{[8]} Master of life: a romance of the five nations. $1.50. McClurg.
A romance of “woods and waters and prehistoric scenes” which deals with the League of the five nations, or Iroquois, founded by Hiawatha. It pictures the red man’s mind, life, and melancholy; interprets his mysticism, his chivalry and his reverence; and reveals his heroism, his broad thought and his gentle heart.
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“As a picture of life among the different tribes of Indians, their customs in peace and in war, the book has much merit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 498. Ag. 21, ’09. 110w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.=^{[11]} Dominant dollar. †$1.50. McClurg.
9–24327.
Portrays “some curiosities in character and custom ... and just these keep the reader’s attention, in spite of an inward protest against another beautiful girl face on the cover. The power of money is shown to be for good, and that in unusual ways.”—Outlook.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09. ✠
“It is a strong, wholesome, clean-cut piece of work, so strong and finished that the assurance of unusual capacity it gives makes doubly deplorable the untimely death of the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 694. N. 6, ’09. 180w. + =Outlook.= 93: 559. N. 6, ’09. 50w.
=Lillie, Frank Rattray.=^{[5]} Development of the chick. *$4. Holt.
8–34623.
“The arrangement of the material and the plan of the book are in general much the same as in other embryological treatises, and embody the conventional ideas regarding the presentation of the subject to students. An introduction, dealing briefly with certain of the general biological principles on which any study of embryology depends, prepares the way for the detailed consideration of the course of the developmental processes in the chick. The account begins with the formation of the egg, and follows this with the detailed description of the development of the embryo and its organs day by day up to the time of hatching of the chick.”—Dial.
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“To attract any special attention, a book of this kind must be markedly superior to others in the same general category. This requirement is well fulfilled by Professor Lillie. The superiority of the present work lies rather in the manner of treatment than in the matter discussed. The few minor inaccuracies of statement which the reviewer has noted have without exception been upon points where the author relied on some statement in the literature of the subject rather than upon his own observations.”
+ − =Dial.= 46: 267. Ap. 16, ’09. 270w.
“Will be heartily welcomed; for there has long been need of a new textbook or a thorough revision of the best old one.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 120. F. 4, ’09. 170w.
“The beginner, having worked through the book and some or all of the literature, will have gained a very erroneous idea of what modern embryology really is. One of the handsomest books available for embryological study, and it will be indispensable in every laboratory, though we should not care to regard it as a text-book of embryology for the student in quest of the scientific principles underlying animal development.” B.
+ − =Nature.= 80: 271. My. 6, ’09. 1200w.
“While exhaustive and painfully erudite in detail, the work is not technical in expression and is easily intelligible to the general reader as well as to the student of embryology.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 639. My. ’09. 50w.
“The book contains the inevitable errors of a first edition.” L. W. Williams.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 30: 217. Ag. 13, ’09. 870w.
=Lincoln, Abraham.=^{[9]} Anthology of the epigrams and sayings of Abraham Lincoln; collected from his writings and speeches; ed. by Francis D. Tandy. 75c. Tandy.
8–30961.
An anthology of the sayings of Lincoln from his authenticated writings and speeches. The selections are made from “The complete works of Abraham Lincoln” with a reference at the end of each indicating volume and page from which it is taken.
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+ =Ind.= 66: 985. My. 6, ’09. 40w.
=Lincoln, Abraham.= Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: being extracts from the speeches, state papers, and letters of the great president; (ed. by Marion Mills Miller.) **50c. Wessels.
8–30717.
The authenticity of these extracts is emphasized by a supplementary line giving source and date.
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“Not the least valuable, though possibly the smallest volume in the year’s crop of Lincoln books.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 465. D. 16, ’08. 60w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 82. F. 13. ’09. 130w.
=Lincoln= centennial medal. **$5. Putnam.
8–34130.
“Contains an actual medal with Lincoln’s head on the obverse, and on the reverse the date of the Emancipation proclamation (January 1st. 1863), with a facsimile of the President’s signature. The medal is from the hands of M. Jules Édouard Roiné of Paris, and is certainly an admirable piece of work. The volume contains a paper by Professor George N. Olcott on the origin and symbolism of the medal, an essay by Mr. Richard Lloyd Jones on the purpose and character of the centennial celebration, and some of Lincoln’s characteristic utterances,—his ‘Farewell address’ at Springfield, the Proclamation itself, the famous letter to General Hooker notifying his appointment to the chief command of the Army of the Potomac, &c.”—Spec.
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=Dial.= 46: 117. F. 16, ’09. 160w. + =Ind.= 66: 328. F. 11, ’09. 60w.
“This medal is so altogether pleasing that one is tempted to cut it out and let the book find its own fate. The ‘Characteristic utterances’ of Lincoln, being seven and very brief, are scarcely enough.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 575. D. 10, ’08. 160w. + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 750. D. 5, ’08. 110w. =Spec.= 102: 101. Ja. 16, ’09. 140w.
=Lincoln=, Abraham, tributes from his associates, with an introd. by the Rev. William Hayes Ward. 60c. Crowell.
“The list of contributors contains many famous names, among them those of George William Curtis, Major Gen. Howard, George S. Boutwell, Frederick W. Seward, Thomas L. James, Frank B. Carpenter, Theodore L. Cuyler, Grace Greenwood, and Gen. Egbert L. Viele. In his introduction to the reminiscences the Rev. Dr. William Hayes Ward lays stress upon the fact that notwithstanding the views of a large number of persons are presented there is nothing in any of them that breaks the harmony of the whole. From every point of view Lincoln is noble.”—N. Y. Times.
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+ =Ind.= 66: 262. F. 4. ’09. 480w. + =Nation.= 88: 166. F. 18, ’09. 40w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 200w.
“Not important as a permanent addition to literature, but interesting and valuable as an interpretation of a great and enigmatical character.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 293. F. 6, ’09. 60w.
=Lincoln, Jonathan Thayer.=^{[10]} City of the dinner-pail. **$1.25. Houghton.
9–26312.
A first-hand discussion of the labor situation from the manufacturer’s point of view. The author who is an employer of labor emphasizes the need of a better social understanding between the man who buys and the man who sells labor. The chapters are: The city of the dinner-pail: The average American citizen and the labor problem; The man and the machine; The time-clock; Trade-unionism and the individual worker; and The city of luxury. Mr. Lincoln affirms that something must restore the individuality which, in the course of industrial evolution, has been losing out thru unionism, and the increasing use of machinery.
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“Even if there is no addition to knowledge it is something to discover a business man who can interpret the real meaning of trade unions, read the employers a lesson of patience, and keep his faith in the soundness of national life.” C. R. Henderson.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 421. N. ’09. 60w. =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 77. N. ’09.
“Its agreeable style, its spirit of reasonableness, and its tone of reality, make it a welcome contribution to the literature of the labor question and of social problems in city life.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 337. N. 1. ’09. 360w.
“But what is all too rare, either in sociological essays or in technical treatises, is the quality which we find in this book, namely literary excellence. Taken as a whole, the book is one which every true lover of democracy and of the perpetuation of our social institutions will find benefit in reading.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 40. O. 14, ’09. 400w. + =Ind.= 67: 983. O. 28, ’09. 350w.
“The relations between labor and capital are discussed with marked intelligence and fairness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 629. O. 23, ’09. 400w.
“This is a book that will help to solve what is called the labor problem, because it will give to the employer and the employee a better understanding of each other.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 599. N. 13. ’09. 240w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 638. N. ’09. 160w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby.=^{[11]} Keziah Coffin. †$1.50. Appleton.
9–24450.
“Trumet, Cape Cod, is the setting of Mr. Lincoln’s new novel. Keziah is a female ‘Cy Whittaker.’ She was deserted by a worthless husband who, she asserts contrary to general opinion, is not dead. She is, therefore, not free to marry the man who loves her. There is also a second love story in the book.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The humor lacks something of the spontaneity of his former work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09. ✠ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 650. O. 23, ’09. 60w.
“It is a simple tale of simple people, in whom, nevertheless, runs the red blood that makes plain, every-day life a strong story in the hands of a strong writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 751. N. 27, ’09. 180w.
“Is rich in Cape Cod character, and Keziah’s shrewd remarks on human nature are keenly amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 30w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby.=^{[6]} Our village. **$1.50. Appleton.
9–11524.
A group of sketches with the author’s familiar Cape Cod setting. They are as follows: Our house; A Cape Cod clambake; The old maids; The school picnic; Our oldest inhabitant; Teacher; A Christmas memory. “Dreamy stories of foreign-bound vessels that never returned, romances that were nipped in the bud, and oft-repeated yarns of ancient mariners are among the author’s recollections.” (Lit. D.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 188. Je. ’09.
“An interesting memory book of New England customs and scenes, and should be very popular with readers who are familiar with the New England of a former generation.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 1344. Je. 17, ’09. 60w. + =Lit. D.= 38: 902. My. 22, ’09. 150w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 292. My. 8, ’09. 130w.
=Lindsay, C. H. A. Forbes-.= Washington: the city and the seat of government. (Photogravure illustrated books.) $3. Winston.
8–27374.
“History and description, and sufficiently minute details concerning our governmental machinery, are relieved with numerous agreeably tinted photographic views of principal buildings and places of interest. The pages that treat of journalism in Washington, the educational institutions of the city, the Library of Congress, and other matters relating to learning and literature, are especially inviting. The chapter on the social life of the capital is also good reading, but (best of praise) too short.”—Dial.
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“A compact, useful, and also ornamental volume.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 462. D. 16, ’08. 170w.
“The author has managed to put into a comparatively small book a mass of information which is at once accurate and attractively propounded.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 900. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“The ground has been recently travelled over by other writers, who are more entertaining and less inaccurate than is the present author.”
− =Nation.= 87: 548. D. 3, ’08. 350w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 17. Ja. 9, ’09. 180w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 21. Ja. 2, ’09. 150w.
=Lindsey, William.=^{[10]} Severed mantle. *$1.35. Houghton.
9–27996.
Provence in the time of the troubadours is re-created in this volume. In the story of Raimbault, the lad who adopts the severed mantle of his patron Saint Martin, to remind him of his vow to live a life of love and purity, the author has shown that the troubadour of the twelfth century took life earnestly and dreamed great dreams. He carries the boy through hardship and adventure but leaves him true to himself, and true to his dual not divided, allegiance to God and to his lady.
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“Mr. Lindsey has successfully reproduced the life of this period with its atmosphere of mystery and intrigue, love and mysticism.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 962. N. 27, ’09. 250w.
“There are not a few traces of the tyro in the present performance. It is a creditable ‘tour de force,’ but it is far from a masterpiece. Whatever the book has of intrinsic interest is due to Mr. Lindsey’s happy bits of translation from the Provençal song of the period.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 573. D. 9, ’09. 400w.
“In all these passes you may follow young Raimbault, knight of the old romance. He is merely a modern copy, of course, but the copy is not ill-done.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 622. O. 23, ’09. 430w.
=Lipman, Jacob Goodale.= Bacteria in relation to country life. (Rural science ser.) **$1.50. Macmillan.
8–27113.
A discussion of bacteria, their structure and growth, their connection with the problem of health and comfort, and their uses in relation to air and water, sewage, soil fertility, barnyard manure, milk and dairy products, food preservations, and fermentation.
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“An excellent, semi-technical treatise, pronounced by an expert the best yet published.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 17. Ja. ’09. + =Nation.= 88: 230. Mr. 4, ’09. 230w.
“It may be recommended to all those who desire to obtain a general knowledge of the functions of bacteria and the important ‘rôle’ they play in relation to daily life, while the intelligent agriculturist will find a large amount of Information which should aid him in his work.” R. T. Hewlett.
+ =Nature.= 81: 63. Jl. 15. ’09. 670w.
“Very thorough and painstaking account.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 127. Ja. ’09. 130w. =Spec.= 102: sup. 158. Ja. 30, ’09. 110w.
=Lloyd, Alfred Henry.= Will to doubt: an essay in philosophy for the general thinker. (Ethical lib.) *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–13764.
“This book which ‘might be described as an introduction to philosophy,’ though it is ‘addressed quite as much to the general reader or rather to the general thinker, as to the prospective student of technical philosophy,’ is an attempt to show that ‘the contradictions, duplicity, and vacillation’ of the human experience, by preventing any ‘fatal digression’ from reality, enable us through our doubts ‘to believe in the very things we doubt’; and that ‘doubt is essential to real belief.’” (Int. J. Ethics.) “The largest portion of the book is given up to an examination, first of the ordinary, then of the scientific views, and the usual confusions and contradictions inherent in experience are set forth.” (Philos. R.)
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“A masterly essay in philosophy written by one who is evidently thoroughly at home in philosophic thinking. He aims to appeal to the general reader as well as the student of philosophy, and there is a freshness and individuality about his style that is attractive; but the discussion is too fundamental and abstract, and the reasoning too close, and the philosophical view-point too new to allow the book to be of great value to any but the trained student.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 314. Ap. ’09. 750w.
“Some assumptions, which play no unimportant part in the argument of the book, receive no satisfactory examination, and no reasons are given for supposing them to be true. This defect, coupled with a plentiful use of some unintelligible distinctions, and the lack of definition of the meaning, and consequently in the use of some words, make the book exceedingly obscure and unconvincing, and as ‘an introduction to philosophy’ practically worthless. So many of its assertions may mean so many different things.” A. R. Ainsworth.
− =Int. J. Ethics.= 19: 259. Ja. ’09. 400w.
“The whole book is interesting, and I confess to a pretty general sympathy with the doctrines expressed therein. I would mention the treatment of contradiction and of the continued life of humanity as especially good. On the other hand, I seriously doubt whether this book will prove illuminating to the general thinker not already trained in philosophy.” J. A. Leighton.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 665. N. 19, ’08. 770w.
“Prof. Lloyd’s argument is interesting, and is ably, if not always convincingly, developed, but suffers from his somewhat perverse and strained efforts after brilliance of style.”
+ − =Nature.= 77: 534. Ap. 9, ’08. 250w.
“Though often interesting, and sometimes suggestive, must nevertheless be characterized as lacking in clearness of statement and in accuracy of reasoning. One great virtue, however, must be conceded to it; it is not stereotyped, and even in its faults, which are great, it avoids the academic commonplaces.” G. N. Dolson.
− + =Philos. R.= 17: 668. N. ’08. 470w.
=Lloyd, Arthur.=^{[5]} Every-day Japan. *$4. Cassell.
9–15392.
A thoro acquaintance with Japan during twenty-five years of residence there renders the author’s account intimate and authoritative. He enumerates the conditioning elements in the national development, naming loyalty as the great national asset; discusses the national policy; sketches Japanese characteristics and leads the reader to form an intelligent opinion upon the handling of Japanese problems.
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“A good corrective to the many volumes by superficial observers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 17. S. ’09. =Nation.= 88: 420. Ap. 22, ’09. 220w.
“No one could be more kindly, more sympathetic, more appreciative of all that is best in the national character and most attractive in the national life: But he is not blind to Japanese faults.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 504. Mr. 27, ’09. 440w.
=Loane, M.=^{[7]} Englishman’s castle. $2. Longmans. W9–152.
A volume of essays founded upon practical experience of the author’s work as nurse among the poor—“a record of her ‘cases,’ interspersed with the morals to be drawn from them.” “They are pictures of the home life of the underpaid and the unemployed who make up a very large percentage of the English people, and they show a great prevalence of want and wretchedness throughout the country. One of the lessons they convey to the intelligent reader is that the conditions in which the industrial classes of England are placed are full of peril to the country, and that the future of the country probably depends quite as much on what shall happen to its working people as upon any other influence to which it shall be subjected.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 173. Je. ’09.
“New light on old questions is always welcome, and it is precisely this that Miss Loane is able to supply.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 152. Ag. 7. 240w.
“Miss Loane’s book makes a pretty thorough exposition of the people with whom she deals. Nobody in England knows this people better than she does, nobody has studied them at closer range and with greater intelligence, and nobody has written about them in a more effective fashion. She sets before the statesmen and philanthropists of England the real inwardness of their greatest problem.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 389. Je. 19, ’09. 550w.
“A human document which supplies the concrete instances demanded to enforce the general principles laid down by Mrs. Bosanquet. It is a pure accident that the two books have appeared together, and yet one is so exactly complementary of the other that it is difficult not to feel that the genius of accident determined to strike a shrewd blow against the cult of pauperism.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 422. Mr. 13, ’09. 1100w.
=Locke, James.=^{[10]} Plotting of Frances Ware. †$1.50. Moffat.
9–14414.
A story of political intrigue against the Russian government. There appears on the scene of a Harvard archeologist’s researches, way off in Turkestan, an escaped convict. The scientist and his sister befriend the refugee who in turn draws the girl, all unconscious of crime, into his plots. He weds her, involves her heavily in his scheme, and finally himself falls victim to treachery while the wife is saved by the British consul.
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“A swiftly moving straightforward story, not too harrowing to the feelings.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 91. N. ’09.
“It makes a straightforward and highly interesting story, swift and logical in movement, and not too harrowing to our feelings.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 47: 181. S. 16, ’09. 250w.
“[The heroine] is fairly enmeshed in a tangle of plotting and counter-plotting and criss-cross intriguing, which the author has contrived with a good deal of cunning. But he does not seem to possess many other of the novelist’s qualifications.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 329. My. 22, ’09. 200w.
=Locke, William John.= Septimus. †$1.50. Lane.
9–562.
The keynote of this story is a “sort of grownup Simple Simon solemnly carrying water in a sieve, so to speak, and makes you rather proud of him for so doing.” (Bookm.) He is an eccentric young Englishman, a mathematician, an inventor and an impractical, tender hearted visionary. As for the woman of the tale—“she is really the modern young woman. And perhaps you have seen her learn the lesson of life—exchange the goddess for the woman. It is a marvelous change, and so far as the memory of the present writer runs has not been attempted before as Mr. Locke has attempted it.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“A quaintly humorous story of far more than ordinary literary merit.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 54. F. ’09. ✠
“It is all Mr. Locke’s huge joke, and it is good fun.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 193. F. 13. 250w. + =Atlan.= 103: 711. My. ’09. 1100w.
“Let us place it unhesitatingly above such earlier books as ‘Derelicts,’ and ‘Where love is,’ but just as surely below ‘The morals of Marcus Ordeyne,’ and ‘The beloved vagabond.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 594. F. ’09. 1550w.
“The satisfaction which we get from this, as from Mr. Locke’s other recent novels, is intellectual rather than emotional, and is of the keenest sort.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 46: 263. Ap. 16, ’09. 310w.
“It is even better than some of his very early productions. But the present tendency is to proclaim it as a sort of masterpiece, a crowning glory around the pinnacle of his recently achieved fame. A good many people of fair average intelligence will take this contention seriously. And that will be an infinite pity.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ =Forum.= 41: 180. F. ’09. 2500w.
“His creations are whimsical to a degree, the situations bizarre, yet we love them too much to laugh at them; his people are eccentric in their goodness and in their weakness, but they are not absurd, and we succumb at once to the elusive but very enchaining charm of Septimus.’”
+ =Ind.= 66: 699. Ap. 1, ’09. 300w.
“It all makes up a pleasant fantasia, perhaps, rather than a novel in the ‘strenuous’ sense now commonly attached to the term; and for this, one is inclined to say, so much the better.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 117. F. 4, ’09. 440w.
“An achievement which marks him as the successor of Du Maurier and the heir—along with that other wise man, William de Morgan—of the mantle of Thackeray.” H. I. Brock.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 36. Ja. 16, ’09. 970w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 376. Je. 12, ’09. 200w.
“Once more Mr. William J. Locke has given us one of his slight, but very engrossing, tales.”
+ =No. Am.= 189: 783. My. ’09. 180w.
“The book as a whole is perhaps a little lighter and less thoroughly worked out than ‘The beloved vagabond,’ but it is a rare romance, most delightful even when closest to the fantastical, abounding in cheerfulness, surprising in its turns of wit and action, and quietly optimistic in its kindliness and its recognition of the unselfish side of humanity.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 107. Ja. 16, ’09. 300w.
“‘Septimus’ affords so much real entertainment that the reader will hardly be inclined to cavil at some disappointments.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 211. F. 13, ’09. 950w.
“We find Mr. Locke an unequal artist. He is an idealist, but he is afflicted with spasms of unnecessary realism.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 135. Ja. 23, ’09. 900w.
=Lodge, George Cabot.=^{[8]} Herakles [dramatic poem]. **$1.25. Houghton.
8–33151.
A poetic drama constructed about Herakles, his madness, his labors and the deliverance of Prometheus. “It is not so much a stage-play, but rather a poem, which the poet has chosen to cast in dramatic form.” (Dial.)
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“The poem as read is satisfying to the lover of noble thought and lovely imagery. Whether it be really a dramatic development, I cannot be so sure; but still the drama is a remarkable achievement, and one of which we may well be proud.” E: E. Hale, jr.
+ =Dial.= 47: 69. Ag. 1, ’09. 650w. =Ind.= 65: 1174. N. 19, ’08. 30w.
“Here also is the smell of the academic lamp. The blank verse moves with dignity, but the poet is stirred by memories of Hellenic legends, not by life. The Hellenic dramatists felt life in the legends—we in this piece get the glamour only.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 801. D. 26, ’08. 80w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.=^{[6]} Ether of space. **75c. Harper.
9–13944.
A new volume in Harper’s “Library of living thoughts” which gives in compact form the conclusions of Sir Oliver Lodge’s investigation of the nature and properties of the ultra-material luminiferous medium. His chapters scientifically lead up to and justify the idea of the reality and substantiality, and vast though as yet largely unrecognized importance, of the ether of space.
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“A clear, succinct account, written for readers having a knowledge of the elements of physics.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 78. N. ’09.
“Nobody can write in a way better suited to the popular comprehension than Sir Oliver Lodge, when he chooses, and the little book before us is a model of clear exposition.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 158. Ag. 7. 580w.
“It may be unreservedly commended.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 206. S. ’09. 70w.
“A most entertaining book on the fascinating branch of physics he terms ‘The ether of space.’ The book furnishes much material for thought, and has been handled in an entertaining as well as scholarly manner.” Mary Proctor.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 397. Je. 26, ’09. 1400w. + =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 5. My. 22, ’09. 70w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Immortality of the soul. (Eng. title, Man and the universe.) *$1. Ball pub.
8–29637.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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Reviewed by St. George Stock.
=Hibbert J.= 7: 451. Ja. ’09. 1600w.
“We believe that the average man, in whose throat the dogmatism of both sides has begun to stick, will read the book with gratitude, not as offering a solution of the difficulty, but as letting in light.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 996. D. 12, ’08. 1050w.
=Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph.= Science and immortality. **$2. Moffat.
8–28409.
A group of essays which discuss the persistence of personality after death proving the immortality of the soul by scientific evidence. The book is divided into four parts: Science and faith; Corporate worship and service; The immortality of the soul; Science and Christianity.
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Reviewed by D. C. Macintosh.
=Am. J. Theol.= 13: 632. O. ’09. 600w.
“His opinions are of much interest and will afford help and inspiration to many.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 17. Ja. ’09.
“There is nothing notably new in the way of argument, and much of it comes suspiciously near to what may be termed special pleading.”
− =Dial.= 46: 22. Ja. 1, ’09. 400w.
“His complete failure to exemplify the ideals of scientific method, and to satisfy the cravings of the intelligent among the audience to which he appeals, must be evident to one who reads the book itself, even without careful analysis and without special search for the basis of the author’s conclusions.” H. R. M.
− =Nation.= 87: 657. D. 31, ’08. 1700w.
“It very promptly appears, of course, that the author is prepared to accept as evidence in the case certain so-called ‘occult experiences’ which most other scientists reject offhand. The book as a whole is stimulating to the thoughtful and open minded, and if it fails to appeal either to orthodox scientist or orthodox religionist it is in the nature of these two that they should be deaf to appeals.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 569. O. 17, ’08. 2100w.
“An extremely valuable contribution to the literature of the present important crisis in modern thought.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 627. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“The value of Sir Oliver’s admirable volume ... does not lie in any striking originality of thought, but in the fact of its existence as a rational mediation between science and religion.” G. C. Mars.
+ =No. Am.= 189: 458. Mr. ’09. 2100w.
“The book is throughout suggestive, and ought to be of real help to those who are puzzled how to preserve their spiritual faith in an era whose advancing knowledge has done so much to destroy their old creeds.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 151. Ja. 23, ’09. 770w.
=Loliée, Frédéric.=^{[11]} Life of an empress (Eugénie de Montijo); English version by Bryan O’Donnell. *$4. Dodd.
9–8738.
A biography of Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III, facts for which have been gained from people who knew her, from letters and diaries.
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“The claim to original information that the French author makes in his preface must be viewed with a critical eye. A great many mistakes are to be noted; and about many other passages there is much to be said by way of doubt.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 678. N. 28. 1150w. =N. Y. Times.= 14: 657. O. 23, ’09. 40w.
=Lombroso, Cesare.=^{[11]} After death—what? Spiritistic phenomena and their interpretation; rendered into English by William S. Kennedy. **$2.50. Small.
9–28193.
In entering the field of spiritistic and psychic phenomena after an “honorable career” in criminal anthropology that placed him to the forefront of social pathologists, the author’s momentary hesitation, due to prejudice, gave way to candid conviction that there was truth to be revealed and that it was his duty to reveal it. He surveys the whole field of spiritistic phenomena from their first appearance in savage tribes and early civilized races down to present-day races. He treats of telepathy, clairvoyance, auto-suggestion, mesmerism, premonition, identity, doubles, haunted houses, tricks and biology of the spirits.
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“He is deservedly regarded as a singularly original and independent thinker, of absolute intellectual fearlessness, and possessing a happy facility for rendering his views in a language understandable by the untrained mind. All these traits are in evidence in his latest book, dealing with a subject of more universal interest than any of which he has formerly written. The more carefully one reads his book, the stronger must the impression grow that the marvels which he recounts with such boundless enthusiasm are in reality the work not of an intermediary between this world and the next, but of an uncommonly clever and resourceful trickster.” H. A. Bruce.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 258. N. ’09. 1350w.
“A volume which, considered logically or charitably, should receive the solace of neglect. Presents through three hundred and fifty pages an amazing exhibition of credulity, which it is difficult to reconcile with the author’s unassailed reputation, and his recognized contributions to complex aspects of modern science.” Joseph Jastrow.
− =Dial.= 47: 284. O. 16, ’09. 1600w.
“It is unfortunate that a lack of logical connection characterizes the book—the chapters following one another in no definite order; while the translation is mediocre, and there are a number of errors noticeable in the spelling of proper names. These faults aside, the book has very decided interest. The book is filled with ‘cases’ that are of interest, and will repay a careful perusal.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 39: 538. O. 2, ’09. 450w.
“Without any prejudice one wonders after a reading of this book whether the author did not give undue credence to many of the stories here set forth. The reviewer is sorry that after a careful reading of this latest contribution to spiritistic literature he fails still to be convinced that many or most of these extraordinary happenings are not clever tricks of deception.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 621. O. 23, ’09. 1100w.
“The book is interesting, entertaining, even at times amusing, but it is not convincing.”
− + =Outlook.= 93: 830. D. 11, ’09. 390w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 763. D. ’09. 120w.
=London, Jack.=^{[10]} Martin Eden. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–22752.
When twenty-one, Martin, uncouth and untutored, a sailor round the world before the mast, rescues a San Francisco society man from a street assault, he is brought into this man’s home and there learns of books, poetry, and the ideal things of life. Held to his task by his love for a girl who seems the embodiment of taste and culture, he battles against all odds, wrests from the world an education and tries to wrest from it a living by writing of the things which life has shown him and with which his brain is seething. But the way is hard and his tools are crude, his friends, his tradesmen, and at last even his love turn from him because he cannot become a conventional money getter. Then comes a dazzling literary success. At once they flock about him and offer all they refused him in the days of need. But his disillusionment is complete and in his bitterness he weakly throws away all that his strength has won.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 92. N. ’09.
“This lack of comprehension of his own limitations is the conspicuous fault of his latest volume. The fault lies not so much with the plot, which is of the thinnest, as with a distorted perspective of life.” F: T. Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 30: 279. N. ’09. 1100w.
“It is unfortunate that Mr. London could not invest his hero with the attributes that awaken sympathy, so that we might at least mourn the abrupt termination of his career.” W: M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 47: 386. N. 16, ’09. 630w.
“It seems best to accept this story not as real history, but as an earnest and truthful record of what Mr. London might have been if he had been Martin Eden instead of being limited by himself. Whatever the readers of this story may think of Mr. London’s views of life, the passionless courage with which he sets down the failure of such views to satisfy the eternally human heart commands respect for him.”
− + =Ind.= 67: 980. O. 28, ’09. 1650w.
“Such of the reading mob that may be attracted to his history are likely to discern a good deal of autobiography therein, and to be stirred piquantly by its daring adumbrations of various well-known proper names.”
− =Nation.= 89: 406. O. 28, ’09. 650w.
“Aside from any value in this connection as a human document, what the book chiefly shows is that Mr. London, who writes so eloquently about the ‘primordial beast’ and seems to our far from primordial eyes to understand something about the beast in question, is quite at sea when he tries to write about that ordinary society which is variously described as decent, as respectable, as cultured, or as good, and, in his language, as bourgeois.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 631. O. 23, ’09. 750w.
“It is not a very sane or well-balanced book, but there is much wholesome truth in it.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 633. O. 23, ’09. 250w.
“Is, to be entirely frank, tedious.”
− =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 40w.
=Long, Charles Massie.=^{[5]} Virginia county names. *$1.50. Neale.
8–36778.
An analysis of the county nomenclature of Virginia showing how its one hundred counties were named.
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“Dr. Long has written a very entertaining story in tracing the names of the Virginia counties.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 285. My. 8, ’09. 180w.
“Dr. Long shows in an interesting way how these names reflect to a certain extent the thoughts and feelings of historic Virginians.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 383. S. ’09. 80w.
=Long, John Luther.= Felice. †$1. Moffat.
8–28990.
A story of the Italian quarter of Philadelphia in which the father of hungry children steals bread, is arrested, and in time finds a friend and champion in Martinos, a barber, who secures the prisoner’s release and becomes his patron saint.
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“It is told with much delicacy and sympathy, and has a pleasing foreign atmosphere.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 25. Ja. ’09. ✠
“We do not recall that the word Christmas is employed in the story of ‘Felice,’ but the atmosphere of that blessed and somewhat emotional season is about it.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 67. Ja. 21, ’09. 200w.
“Mr. Long has evidently been at some pains to make this a dialect story, and that this fact is evident rather mars an otherwise delightful piece of work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 8. Ja. 2, ’09. 190w.
“The bare outline of the story does not convey in the least an idea of its moving pathos or its entertaining humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 750. N. 28, ’08. 160w.
=Longueville, Thomas.=^{[5]} Curious case of Lady Purbeck: a scandal of the 18th century; by the author of The life of Sir Kenelm Digby. $2. Longmans.
“The author of ‘The life of Sir Kenelm Digby’ has made a very vivacious tale out of the woes of the first (and last) Lady Purbeck, the wife of Buckingham’s brother, and the daughter of Sir Edward Coke and Lady Elizabeth, his spouse.... Poor Lady Purbeck, who was a very mild sinner with great excuses, was fated to become a public sacrifice to the moralities when notorious offenders walked about unabashed.”—Spec.
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“The doing of this piece of investigation must have been a pleasure, the reading of it is not uninteresting. But there are many questions better worth while.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 178. O. ’09. 360w.
“It must be confessed that his later chapters are somewhat lacking in personal interest.” F. C. M.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 617. Jl. ’09. 200w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 304. My. 15, ’09. 400w.
“Fascinating volume.”
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 536. Ap. 24, ’09. 420w.
“The slight tale was well worth telling when the writer possesses such a gift of crisp and precise English.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 578. Ap. 10, ’09. 300w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Holiday touch, and other tales of undaunted Americans. †$1.25. Holt.
8–29333.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“They touch life lightly and at queer angles, but always with good humor and optimism.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 55. F. ’09.
“They are little tales of life all the year around, warranted to please the most unpleasant man at any season. Mr. Loomis has a cork genius that floats his imagination high above the weariness of this world while laying his scenes in the midst of it.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 639. Mr. 25, ’09. 250w.
“He who reads them will laugh many times.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 7. Ja. 2, ’09. 110w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Just Irish. $1. Badger, R: G.
9–10469.
An account of Mr. Loomis’s travels in Ireland, intended as such, not as amusement. Considerable local color is given by incidents, but the book is more a recital of facts than readers of “Cheerful Americans” might expect. The facts given pertain chiefly to the social, rather than the industrial condition of the Irish of to-day. There is no attempt to exploit Irish ways for the amusement of the rest of us—the tone being thoroly sympathetic and appreciative.
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“Slight, humorous sketches of travel experiences.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 17. S. ’09. ✠
“He makes no profession of serious dissertation; he writes only to amuse. The various scenes of Irish life which fell under his notice, the people with whom he came in contact, the experiences which befell him, are told in his breezy, jocular style with good effect.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 395. Je. ’09. 600w.
“Mr. Loomis had a perfectly good time in Ireland, and he loves to talk about it. Moreover, every one who gets the book will love to read about it, for though the author complains that he did not find that ready wit and repartee in the Irish which he had expected, he keeps his own sense of fun.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 303. My. 15, ’09. 670w.
=Loomis, Charles Battell.=^{[12]} Little Maude and her mamma. †50c. Doubleday.
9–28267.
Three humorous, bedtime stories in which little Maude and her mamma figure respectively in a runaway, a shipwreck and a fire. Poise on the part of the child, together with the mother’s ready acquiescence, to a point approaching imbecility gives the story its humorous touch.
=Lorenz, Rev. Edmund Simon.=^{[8]} Practical church music: a discussion of purposes, methods and plans. **$1.50. Revell.
9–10979.
“A compact, well-written encyclopedia which can be made of practical value if studied by pastors, choir leaders and music committees. Members of choirs might profit by reading such chapters as treat of church solos, choir rehearsals, and the serious import of the service which they lead. The first appendix gives a list of books helpful in the study of church music and of hymns, the second devotes more than a dozen pages to titles of chosen music for choir and solo use, and the third gives outlines and subjects for song sermons and services.”—Ind.
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“Is specially praiseworthy because, from cover to cover, the author never forgets that church music should be an act of worship; at the same time he is broad enough, while discriminating against rubbish, to value in its place the ‘gospel song.’”
+ =Ind.= 67: 145. Jl. 15, ’09. 200w.
“Mr. Lorenz knows very well what he is talking about. He is not troubled with many artistic scruples in his discussion of church music, and he has taken pains to clear himself of any old-fashioned ideas about dignity and ideals. From the author’s point of view his book is highly successful.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 464. Jl. 31, ’09: 670w.
“If we disagree with every position Mr. Lorenz takes up as regards church music it is by no means to assert that his book might not have a value for others who would agree. We can only say that we should carefully avoid the church which should adopt it as a handbook.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 267. Ag. ’09. 150w.
=Lorenzini, Carlo.= Adventures every child should know: the marvellous adventures of Pinocchio; ed. by Mary E. Burt; from an original translation by Augustus G. Caprani. (Every child should know ser.) **90c. Doubleday.
9–4295.
An immortal Italian classic for children which relates the adventures of the little wooden puppet, Pinocchio. “The book is an allegory, and an incentive to action and thought, a guide to self-control, self government, self-determination.... It is a child’s book, a teacher’s book, a parents’ assistant, a guide to common sense, a book of fun, a serious book, a fairy-tale, a treatise on ethics.” (Translator’s note.)
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“Its concise style and picture words are well calculated to hold the attention of children. A few scenes in the book, however, might be considered too gruesome for the child mind.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 192. Ap. 3, ’09. 270w.
=Lorenzini, Carlo (C. Collodi, pseud.).=^{[10]} Pinocchio: the adventures of a little wooden boy; tr. by Joseph Walker. †$1. Crowell.
9–24941.
A new translation of this captivating Italian juvenile story, for which the translator has prepared a brief introduction including a word about the author and an outline of the allegory.
=Lorraine, Rupert.=^{[7]} Woman and the sword. 75c. McClurg.
A swashbuckling romance set in the times of the Thirty years’ war in which the action centers about the rescue of a spirited English girl from the clutches of a villainous Austrian count who had taken advantage of her moment of pique to abduct her. Her rescuer is a middle aged soldier of fortune who traverses nearly the half of Europe to end the girl’s misery and to punish the crime-sodden count.
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“A stirring tale.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 538. O. 31. 120w.
“The story as a whole, like so many of its school, is read with interest, and—perhaps ungratefully—ridiculed in the cold light of later judgment.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 238. S. 9, ’09. 180w.
“While it is frankly written to pass the time for the idle reader, it is neither common place in workmanship nor negligible in material.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 451. Jl. 24, ’09. 250w.
=Louis, Henry.=^{[9]} Dressing of minerals. *$8.50. Longmans.
GS9–359.
“Gives an account of the theory and practice of the dressing of minerals (including coal), which will prove useful to mining engineers and metallurgists, to manufacturers who supply the necessary appliances, and especially to students who are preparing for either of these professions. The author has drawn upon the very large amount of practical work which has been done by manufacturers of apparatus, and numerous excellently illustrated descriptions of standard machines and devices are included.”—Engin. D.
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+ =Engin. D.= 6: 55. Jl. ’09. 250w.
“An excellent treatise on this very important subject, and on which the literature is so meagre. The work should commend itself as a reference both to the student and the practical worker in ore dressing and coal washing. The book offers many valuable suggestions to its readers, and while it is not complete, it is of sufficient scope and sufficient detail to commend itself readily and to merit the attention of any one interested in mineral dressing operations.” W. G. Haldane.
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 26. S. 16, ’09. 800w.
“A book which will prove of much value to students of mining engineering.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 503. O. 30, ’09. 600w.
“The book is well written and interesting, more especially, perhaps, in those parts that deal with theoretical considerations which relate to the construction of the machines.”
+ − =Nature.= 81: 91. Jl. 22, ’09. 1000w.
=Lounsbury, Thomas Raynesford.=^{[10]} English spelling and spelling reform. **$1.50. Harper.
9–26304.
The author bids his readers take issue with the state of mind that recommends the old spelling only on account of custom and prejudice, that defends it thru ignorance, that makes it an object of veneration thru superstition. His volume is a plea for spelling reform in which he collects, combines and “puts in a form easily comprehensible by the general reader, the widely scattered facts that go to show the character and characteristics of English orthography,” and brings out “with distinction the deep-seated disease under which it labors.”
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“The tone of the book is aggressive and the author’s temper far from judicial, but it is, nevertheless, a learned, spirited and amusing work.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 120. D. ’09.
“We have said that Dr. Lounsbury’s volume is contentious, aggressive, destructive. It is certainly one which no opponent of simplified spelling can afford to ignore. But it has value and interest quite apart from its contention. It is full of construction. And there is not a dull page in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 644. O. 23, ’09. 720w.
“The entire subject is treated consecutively and with great clarity of style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 639. N. ’09. 100w.
=Lovell, Ingraham, pseud.=^{[11]} Margarita’s soul: the romantic recollections of a man of fifty. †$1.50. Lane.
9–26806.
The story of a young savage and her training. “Our author has shown himself ingenious in providing a special sort of savage, a girl of mingled Italian, New England, and Virginia blood, who has been kept sedulously ignorant of civilization by a recluse father. The real interest of the story lies, of course, in the totally unexpected things which Margarita does in circumstances in which civilization provides a formula which everybody else obeys with mechanical precision. Margarita does not know the formula. Therefore, when Margarita is kissed—or when Margarita is lonely—or when Margarita is hungry or angry—Margarita is worth watching.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Altogether, however, ‘Margarita’s soul’ is a book for which we ought to be grateful. It is off the beaten track, refreshingly new and earnest and tenderly strong. The best thing about the book is its originality. It owes no conscious debt to any other author.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 384. D. ’09. 850w.
“Makes unusually pleasant reading for those who do not mind a discursive and reminiscent treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 636. O. 23, ’09. 470w.
“Just because it is discursive and easy-going the book is emphatically enjoyable. We should be hard put to it to name a better American novel of the month.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 514. O. 30, ’09. 140w.
=Low, Alfred Maurice.=^{[11]} American people: a study in national psychology. **$2.25. Houghton.
9–28143.
The author traces the development of the American national consciousness from the earliest times to the revolution, showing the relation of historical facts to psychological progress in order to prove that the American people “have not sprung from the air but are, similar to all other highly developed races, the product of evolution”; in their case political and sociological. He observes that American is not merely a geographical expression, but the name of a country whose people present distinct. coherent, and highly individual traits and characteristics distinguishing them from all other people.
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“From a Catholic point of view, Mr. Low’s work presents agreeable aspects.”
+ =Cath. World.= 90: 390. D. ’09. 600w.
“His spirit is admirable. His style lacks a little in sobriety, and still more in simplicity and logical order. There are minor errors or defects, regrettable only as interfering with the effect of careful and valuable work.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 692. N. 6, ’09. 870w. + =Outlook.= 93: 649. N. 27, ’09. 150w. =R. of Rs.= 40: 764. D. ’09. 90w.
=Low, Will Hicok.= Chronicle of friendships. **$3. Scribner.
8–30913.
Reminiscences of painters and men of letters associated with Paris and Barbizon forty years ago which reveal especially the friendship of Robert Louis Stevenson, his cousin, R. A. M. Stevenson, and the author.
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“A work of unusual interest and great charm.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 79. Mr. ’09.
“Mr. Low writes with admirable discretion and taste, and he writes extremely well to boot.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 125. Ja. 30. 920w. + =Lit. D.= 37: 902. D. 12, ’08. 60w.
“Many efforts have been made, both in fiction and in reminiscences, to paint the life of artists and of art students, but we know of none so successful as this.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 662. D. 31, ’08. 440w.
“Delightful book of reminiscences.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 686. N. 21, ’08. 1450w. + =Spec.= 102: 668. Ap. 24, ’09. 70w.
=Lowe, Paul Emilius.=^{[12]} Electric railway troubles and how to find them. $1.50. Drake, F: J.
9–22202.
“Innumerable practical points, brought out only by the experience that a repairman or a motorman would be expected to gain, are combined in this volume with what an engineer would call bits of very elementary theory.... It may be best briefly described as a guide to the proper inspection, testing and repair of motors, controllers, lightning arresters, substation apparatus, and the minor electrical fittings of an electric car.”—Engin. N.
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“The author has compiled in this volume considerable instructive information that will furnish the student with a guide in motor operation.”
+ =Engin. D.= 6: 247. S. ’09. 70w.
“The book is intended for mechanics and seems admirably to fill their needs. It is a welcome addition to books of this class, which in times past have too often been loosely compiled, or disjointedly written.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 47. N. 18, ’09. 100w.
=Lowell, Percival.=^{[12]} Evolution of worlds. *$2.50. Macmillan.
In substance, a course of lectures delivered before the Massachusetts institute of technology. In his eight chapters Professor Lowell traces the course of heavenly bodies from the darkness out of which they spring to the darkness to which they return. It is with the cycle of birth, growth and decay that he deals in chapters under the following headings: Birth of a solar system; Evidence of the initial catastrophe in our own place; The inner planets; The outer planets; Formation of planets; A planet’s history; Death of a world.
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=N. Y. Times.= 14: 757. D. 4, ’09. 190w.
=Lowell, Percival.= Mars as the abode of life. *$2.50. Macmillan.
8–36795.
Eight lectures delivered at the Lowell institute in 1906. They “outline a new science, which the author calls a science of planetology, the history of the career of a planet considered as such, dealing as it does with the genesis and development of what we call a world.” (R. of Rs.) He makes application of the law of evolution as it has been and is operating on our own planet; he shows that the action of the sun in decreasing oceans and the density of air results in canals to utilize the “failing resources of water. In such a state as this Mr. Lowell believes the planet Mars now to be; the ‘canals’ seen there he thinks to be evidences of the handiwork of intelligent beings.” (Dial.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 45. F. ’09.
“It would be impossible to condense what is said on the subject in the work before us, but we would strongly recommend those interested to read it for themselves. Personally we feel with Mr. Bryant—(‘History of astronomy,’ p. 215) that ‘the assumptions involved are so great that Prof. Lowell’s very plausible explanation can hardly be called convincing.’”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 2: 186. Ag. 14. 220w.
“The outward appearance of the book is just as delightful to the eye as its subject matter is to the mind.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 87. F. 1, ’09. 430w.
“A book which will prove to readers of intelligence more fascinating than any novel of the year.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 260. F. 4, ’09. 880w.
“In the volume before us, which may be looked upon as a delightful essay on the birth and development of worlds, Prof. Lowell has presented us with a vein of thought which will appeal to a very wide circle of readers.”
+ =Nature.= 80: 212. Ap. 22, ’09. 1000w.
“It is only fair to say at once that Mr. Lowell’s book at once stirs the imagination and clears the subject marvelously of the clouds of misapprehension with which hasty discussion of his sensational seeming announcements has fogged it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 781. D. 19, ’08. 2300w.
“The book is fascinatingly readable, and to the lay reader little short of convincing in its conclusions.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 336. F. 13, ’09. 580w. =R. of Rs.= 39: 253. F. ’09. 340w.
“It may be said that this book has not the dignity of a grand speculation. Possibly some of Professor Lowell’s quips and his cuts at the enemies of his theories are inappropriate, judged by the usual academic standard, but for ourselves we do not profess to lament the junction of raciness and profundity. There is room for men who carry their learning lightly.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 303. F. 20, ’09. 2100w.
=Lowes, Emily Leigh.= Chats on old lace and needlework. *$2. Stokes.
W9–1.
An informing book on the subject of laces giving historical, artistic, utilitarian and commercial points of interest. “Many of the book’s illustrations are derived from that wonderful storehouse of treasures, the South Kensington museum.” (Ind.)
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“Not so valuable or satisfactory as the older, more expensive works, but will fill the needs of the average library both for history and identification purposes.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 79. Mr. ’09.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1460. D. 17, ’08. 80w.
“Is timely as well as filled with a recondite learning and a refinement of taste equally rare.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 904. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
“Its style is colloquial and its text is arranged with an eye to easy assimilation. The book belongs to the get-wise-quick class, but its size and arrangement make it a convenient handbook for household use, and as such it may be recommended.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 586. D. 10, ’08. 200w. + =Spec.= 101: 414. S. 19, ’08. 280w.
=Lowndes, Mrs. Marie A. Belloc-.= Pulse of life: a story of a passing world. †$1.50. Dodd.
9–2771.
“The story deals with the tangle of evil and good within a small social circle, in present England. A group of men and women belonging to the Roman Catholic nobility are the actors, and the action is complicated by the introduction of a Russian element. The tale is of the world, emphatically worldly and of doubtful profit.” (Outlook.) “Like most women, the author is happiest in her portraits of women. The slight portrait of the trained nurse, with her professional interest, and real indifference, is one of the best things in the book, which shows throughout refinement and distinction.” (Ath.)
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“This book has dignity and a certain amount of remote interest, but it is almost inhuman in its curious lack of spontaneity.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 318. Mr. 14. 260w.
“Never was a book more unluckily named; the title serves as a perpetual reminder of just what this long, solid, carefully written novel lacks—the pulse of life.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 199. F. 25, ’09. 350w.
“An admirable example of what may be called well-bred fiction. It has elements of tragedy, of pathos, and of humor, but something of technical ability is wanting to give these various elements their proper emphasis and place. No lover of good fiction will fail to find enjoyment in its clever pages.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 128. Mr. 6, ’09. 340w.
“There is much to interest the novel-reader but there is nothing to amuse him. The atmosphere is somber and the effect is unhappy, leaving the reader to ask, Of what use is it all?”
− + =Outlook.= 91: 533. Mr. 6, ’09. 120w.
“In spite of its many good points the book is not successful as an artistic whole. It is disjointed, the style is often diffuse and clumsy, and the realism is not the natural effect of lifelike description, but a quality consciously striven for by the author, even at the expense of some lapses from good taste.”
− + =Spec.= 100: 304. F. 22, ’08. 260w.
=Lowndes, Mrs. Marie A. Belloc-.=^{[9]} Uttermost farthing. $1.25. Kennerley.
A keen, self-controlled American diplomat and the cultured, neglected wife of an English millionaire have loved for years but repressed their feelings, then give way to them and leave Paris together for a week of secret happiness. En route the woman dies of heart disease and the complicated consequences which follow this tragic end tax to the utmost the resourcefulness of the diplomat, who lives an incredibly clever lie to save the woman’s honor.
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“The passionate conventionality underlying this novel is justified by careful art and strong human interest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 361. S. 26. 120w.
“The story is remarkably well written, with grave, restrained power and pathos and an emotional tensity that is sustained with no little skill at a high pitch to the end.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 523. S. 4, ’09. 300w.
=Lownhaupt, Frederick.= Investment bonds, their issue and their place in finance: a book for students, investors, and practical financiers. **$1.75. Putnam.
8–36725.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
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“Compares very favorably with Greene’s ‘Corporation finance,’ the standard work on this subject, and its less technical treatment adapts it better for the general reader, though it is of value to the trained man as well.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 105. Ap. ’09. ✠
“In his discussion and illustrations the author displays a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge of the facts of financial history.” T: W. Mitchell.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 210. Jl. ’09. 270w.
“It will make a strong appeal to that large class of young men who during the business hours of the day are busy with the routine of office and financial work, but who through reading are seeking a broader view and a better basis for the exercise of judgment—the young men who will fill a large part of the important business positions of the future.” F: A. Cleveland.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 44. Ap. ’09. 300w.
“The treatment given to the subject in some parts is less effective than it would be if the textual matter were better organized; that is, it does not readily yield to analysis. These, however, are not serious defects. The informational value of the contribution must give it a permanent place in the literature of finance.” F: A. Cleveland.
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 6. Ja. 14, ’09. 310w.
“It is probably the best general treatment of the subject available, but it is to be regretted that the author has not attempted a more thorough discussion of some of the general principles involved.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 168. Mr. ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Lownhaupt’s excellent little book is not comparable with competent financial advice—which includes much hardly to be put into print—and yet it may fill a useful niche in the library of a student, whether he is pursuing his course in academic shades or in the haunts of bulls and bears.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 136. Mr. 6, ’09. 200w.
=Lucas, Sir Charles Prestwood.=^{[5]} Historical geography of the British colonies. 6v. v. 5, pt. 2. *$1.10. Oxford.
8–14683.
=v. 5, pt. 2. Egerton, Hugh E.= Canada: historical.
9–8767.
A history of Canada treated in three parts: Book 1 covers the pre-Union period to 1841, closing with a chapter on the early history of the Maritime provinces; Book 2 deals with the practical realization of the union of the two Canadas, now Ontario and Quebec, and the early operation of responsible government; Book 3 considers briefly the Dominion of Canada from 1871 to the present day.
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“Professor Egerton has maintained an admirable proportion in his treatment of the field assigned him. A number of maps are distributed through the volume; but those purporting to represent the railways of the Dominion are most misleading. According to these there is in Canada but one railway and its connections—the Canadian Pacific railway.” Adam Short.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 349. Ja. ’09. 800w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 2.)
“In his previous writings Mr. Egerton has been far from exhibiting close adherence to the received British view. In his book he is driven to a somewhat colourless statement of the orthodox Canadian view.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 237. Ag. 29. 450w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 2.)
“He has written by far the best history of Canada available. It is clear, scholarly, comprehensive and well-informed. From a literary point of view, his general abstinence from comment and speculation is a distinct failing, while if the work is to be judged as a school-book, we imagine that boys would prefer the more glowing and discursive style of ‘picturesque’ historians of the old school, to that of these austere and encyclopædic pages.” T.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 409. Ap. ’09. 140w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 2.)
“To one who has a general idea of events in Canada in the last century and a half it will be an excellent guide.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 372. S. 19, ’08. 160w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 2.)
=Lucas, Sir Charles Prestwood.=^{[7]} History of Canada, 1763–1812. *$4.15. Oxford.
9–16814.
“Deals with selected phases of North American history, from the inauguration of British government in Canada, after the treaty of Paris of 1763, to the close of Sir James Craig’s administration in June, 1811.” (Am. Hist. R.) “It is not so much a narrative of Canadian history as an analysis, exceedingly acute and scholarly, of the causes and consequences of certain events that mark the period.” (Nation.) “There are a couple of appendices: the first of which contains the text of the Treaty of 1783, and the second, which is a natural sequel, contains a summary of the proceedings connected with the settlement of the boundary between Canada and the United States. The volume is enriched by a number of excellent maps.” (Am. Hist. R.)
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“From a literary point of view the volume is quite successful, the author is careful as to his facts and the narrative of events is simple, direct and interesting.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 840. Jl. ’09. 820w. =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 120. D. ’09.
“His ‘History of Canada’ not only deals adequately with a critical period in colonial history, but is also enlightening and convincing.” G. B. Hertz.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 812. O. ’09. 760w.
“His work is sharply defined from all previous attempts to write a history of this period; it corrects a number of errors into which previous historians had been led, because they lacked the original documents now available.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 17. Jl. 1, ’09. 400w.
“Sir C. P. Lucas has enjoyed advantages in his official capacity which, even though he wrote less well than he does, would make his colonial histories valuable. Occasionally he packs his pages so full of facts that they leave little more impression on the mind than the reading of a dictionary of dates or a summary of geography.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: sup. 3. My. 22, ’09. 470w. + =Spec.= 102: 347. S. 4, ’09. 30w.
=Lucas, Clarence.= Story of musical form. *$1.25. Scribner.
9–35335.
An untechnical treatise. The author “begins by showing the necessity for form in music, and then treats of rhythm, melody, and scale, including exotic scales, tonic and dominant, and their implications, cadences, phrases, and sentences, which last involve a word on leading motives. He explains counterpoint, imitation, canon and fugue. Curiously enough, then, equal temperament is the next subject; it is a prelude to a brief discourse on harmony. The more detailed exposition of form is preceded by remarks on purity of style. Then Mr. Lucas describes song form, variation forms, rondo and sonata forms.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 80. Mr. ’09. ✠
“Most books on musical forms are, unfortunately, so technical, so dry, so crammed with details, that the general reader shuns them. For this reason one must welcome Mr. Lucas’s volume.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 96. Ja. 28, ’09. 450w.
“He rambles on more or less entertainingly or suggestively, and says many interesting things; also, not unnaturally, some on which issue might be taken with him.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 48. Ja. 23, ’09. 270w.
“It is written with such sprightliness and vivacity that it entertains while it instructs the reader; at the same time, it is so clear that it can hardly fail to direct the reader to paths in the domain of music which he never trod before.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 292. F. 6, ’09. 240w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.=^{[10]} One day and another [essays]. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–35861.
The twenty-six kindly little essays upon everything under the sun which fill this little volume will make good pick-up reading for odd moments. You may choose what you will; roses, men and affairs, old tales, pigeons, dogs, literature or, now and again a bit of pleasant moralizing, the author has a word for every mood.
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“Good for reading aloud.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 78. N. ’09. + =Dial.= 47: 390. N. 16, ’09. 300w.
“Excellent as these exercises in fancy may be in themselves, a whole volume of them brings satiety.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 546. D. 2, ’09. 350w.
“Mr. Lucas is at his best when he is chatting about some quaint book or character which he has met and delighted in, and which he is pretty sure that the reader has not met.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 706. N. 13, ’09. 500w.
“Most pleasantly humorous and friendly, is his new volume of essays.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 514. O. 30, ’09. 70w.
“Censure would be beside the point, as there is nothing to censure. Serious appreciation would be equally out of place, as it would spoil the effect of these essays to take them too seriously. We have here pleasantness quintessentialised. It is a book to keep upon the table. If it were put up on the shelf, it would probably never get taken down, which would be the greatest of pities.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 510. O. 23, ’09. 120w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, ed.^{[11]} Some friends of mine: a rally of men. *$1.25. Macmillan.
9–27283.
A companion volume to “The ladies’ pageant.” Mr. Lucas assembles for his “rally” men whom he groups under the following heads: Chance acquaintance; Urban humorists; The country gentlemen; Good servants; Two cricketers; The simple minds; Two borrowers; Human divines; The law; The healers; Nimrod’s heroes; The champions; The adventurers; Wild Irishmen; The masters; Monk and lover; Six painters; The poets; The talkers; Two book worms; Collectors; The patriots; Teachers of youth; The gentle; Last of all. Under each head he introduces sketches of men taken from the writings of literature from Plutarch’s time to the present.
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“A large part of this material will be absolutely new to the average reader, who will find this volume, if the least witty, far from being the least interesting of the Lucas anthologies.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 465. D. 1, ’09. 160w.
“Mr. Lucas’s modest volume contains a fine collection of pages apt for reading aloud.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 576. D. 9, ’09. 230w.
“Full of amusement and instruction.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 659. O. 23, ’09. 10w.
“Is as pleasant a book as has come from the press for many a day. There is not a dull extract in it. It is like a gathering of entertaining and odd people, with every one of whom the reader would like to make acquaintance.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 851. D. 18, ’09. 1250w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.=^{[9]} Wanderer in Paris. *$1.75. Macmillan.
9–24643.
The unrestraint of the title is everywhere apparent in Mr. Lucas’s entertaining book. His impressions are those of an outsider in the recording of which there has been preserved the freshness of the first sensations; while from the point of authenticity, his wanderings afford material that will interest and instruct tourists who know their Paris well. The art galleries, curio shops and the external beauties of the city call his best descriptive powers into use.
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“It presupposes some knowledge of history, literature and art, but is redeemed from guidebook aridity by the graceful personal touch.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 78. N. ’09.
“In spite of too much quotation of Carlyle’s ‘French revolution,’ the book is readable, though defaced by a terrible number of misprints, French and English.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909. 2: 180. Ag. 14. 350w.
“To grasp and retain the very essence of the charm of the places he visits, and to convey an intimate sense of that quality to his readers,—this is the difficult task Mr. Lucas accomplishes. His books are not for the specialist, though the specialist should enjoy them; nor for the tourist’s valise, though they are in a sense guide-books, idealized guide-books. The catholic interests of their author embrace the diverse tastes of a multitude of readers.” M. A. Havens.
+ =Dial.= 47: 508. D. 16, ’09. 1650w.
“Mr. Lucas is the best possible guide for the super-traveler. He seems never to have forgotten anything that he has once read, and he has all his resources on tap at the right moment; yet one never feels a sense of suffocation from his profusion.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 636. O. 16, ’09. 250w.
“Here is joined to many of the useful services of the guide, the charm which belongs to mellow style and regnant humor.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 353. O. 14, ’09. 30w. + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 596. O. 9, ’09. 200w.
“Is a bit dull and insular and perfunctory and compares not well with, for instance, the ‘Walks’ of M. Georges Cain.”
− =No. Am.= 190: 840. D. ’09. 170w.
“He has keen insight, and his frequent ‘hittings off’ of French traits and French character and his occasional comparisons of Gallic and British are apt and telling.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 514. O. 30, ’09. 250w. + =R. of Rs.= 40: 760. D. ’09. 140w.
“The cause of the book’s shortcomings may be perceived at a glance. To modern people there is nothing so strange in modern Paris that a mere description should entrance us. Paris Mr. Lucas has never ceased to look at as an outsider looks; he has not got to the secret of its charm, fascination and enchantment.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: 259. Ag. 28, ’09. 1250w.
“Of course there are passages which will provoke any Englishman who knows Paris at all well to dissent, but it is to be remarked that all these deal with matters of opinion, not of fact. We have read a good deal about Paris, but nothing in the not too scientific spirit which has given us so much pleasure as this book. The illustrations by Mr. Dexter are very effective, in our opinion because they combine extreme clearness with a certain pallor in the brightness of the lighting in a manner truly characteristic of Paris.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 239. Ag. 14, ’09. 2400w.
=Lucas, St. John.= Rose-winged hours. *$1.40. Longmans.
“An anthology intended as “a garland of familiar flowers.” Out of some two hundred and fifty pieces, forty-four come from Shakespeare, eighteen from Donne, fourteen from Sir Philip Sidney, thirteen from Campion, eight from Herrick, five from Michael Drayton, and four from Samuel Daniel. Of the moderns, the two Brownings are represented by twenty, W. S. Landor by nine, Shelley by seven, Wordsworth by five, and Tennyson by four pieces.” (Spec.)
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“As an anthology the book is far above the average.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 815. D. 26. 160w. =Dial.= 45: 464. D. 16, ’08. 90w.
“Many of the best things are here and none but the best. It would have been better to exclude altogether so small a handful of living poets if it was necessary to exclude a dozen others whom we could name.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 144. Ja. 30, ’09. 100w.
“It is a very attractive selection.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 786. N. 14, ’08. 100w.
=Lucy, Henry W:=^{[7]} Sixty years in the wilderness: some passages by the way. *$3. Dutton.
9–22718.
“The wilderness of Mr. Lucy’s title is the wilderness of brick and mortar and multitudinous human beings struggling for existence, fighting for fame and fortune.” (N. Y. Times.) “His specialty has been his reports of parliament.... He takes the right points and gives them just the proper prominence. And he is admirably equitable in his treatment of party matters. The virtue of English political life on which he enlarges in this volume, the personal friendliness which is unshaken by the storms of party, is exemplified by his method.... For a book dealing almost wholly with politicians, their ways and their doings, the element of political opinion is amazingly small.” (Spec.)
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“We heartily commend this pleasant book.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 462. Ap. 17. 520w.
“Written in a brisk and effective style, though with many of the lapses and inelegances of the current journalistic manner, ‘Sixty years in the wilderness’ is likely to meet with such favor as to encourage the issue of a second volume.” P. F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 91. Ag. 16, ’09. 1200w.
“Humor and lightness of touch are Mr. Lucy’s outstanding characteristics. It is these characteristics that will secure for Mr. Lucy’s autobiography its widest acceptance.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 365. Ag. 12, ’09. 850w.
“Good nature, a gentle humor, absence of bitterness or of style that bites—these are the qualities which the writer has long identified with his name, and they mark this latest book of his.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 52. Jl. 15, ’09. 90w.
“A cheerful book, and pleasant reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 405. Je. 26, ’09. 1300w.
“There are some passages, we must own, which it might have been better to omit. But the volume is eminently readable.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 582. Ap. 10, ’09. 340w.
=Lutz, Mrs. Grace (Livingston) Hill-.=^{[10]} Phoebe Deane. †$1.50. Lippincott.
9–25180.
When the fates endowed Phoebe Deane with a love of beauty and a delicate refinement that craved books, and a pleasant environment they offset their kindness by leaving her, orphaned in a New York state farm house, a drudge dependent on the bounty of her half brother and his sharp-tongued wife. The dismal life the young girl led here is pictured in an appealing and pathetic fashion, and when a wicked old widower, who is their neighbor, begins to persecute her with his attentions and she is made the object of false scandal to further his suit it seems that she must marry him and lose all hope of happiness. But the man who is worthy of her rescues her at the right moment and all is well. The time of the story is 1830, and there is a vague historical background.
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“A pretty wholesome story of the frankly artificial kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 627. O. 23, ’09. 180w.
=Lützow, Franz H. H. V.=^{[8]} Life and times of Master John Hus. *$4. Dutton.
9–23750.
A painstaking biography of Bohemia’s famous national hero, Jan Hus. “In this goodly volume of about four hundred stately octavo pages we have a picture of the real Hus drawn by a patriotic hand, impartially presented, with the opinions of friend and foe carefully analyzed, and all religious bias eliminated.” (Ath.)
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“We hope that this book will find many readers; it is the record of a great and glorious life, the details of which have been unduly ignored by western Europe.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 666. Je. 5. 820w. =Ind.= 67: 1140. My. 18, ’09. 110w.
“It is written in a spirit of ardent admiration for the man who stands in the author’s mind as the chief representative of their common fatherland, yet with admirable temper and evident anxiety to do justice to all reasonable opposition.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 436. N. 4, ’09. 620w.
“Had Count Lützow been less impartial, his work might be passed with slight notice. Writing in the spirit he has, it is hard to see how any reader can follow the narrative without a tribute to its logic and sense of justice.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 485. Ag. 14, ’09. 1000w.
“Though it suffers somewhat from repetition and amassed detail, is yet scholarly and reliable and is the best English life there is of Hus.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 559. O. ’09. 300w.
“A volume of standard worth.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 917. Ag. 21, ’09. 320w.
“A learned historian, whose competence has been shown by earlier English works, he writes our language with ease and accuracy, though we would have wished that a more careful reading of the proofs had removed some slight blemishes and some errors in the printing of Bohemian names.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 478. O. 16, ’09. 1950w.
“In this volume he has added to his reputation by placing before English readers a well-informed and pleasantly written account of one of the two episodes in the history of Bohemia which have special interest for this country, and both of which have stood in need of being retold in English from the Bohemian standpoint.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 202. Ag. 7, ’09. 1200w.
=Lyman, William Denison.=^{[8]} Columbia river: its history, its myths, its scenery, its commerce. (American waterways.) **$3.50. Putnam.
9–15979.
Belongs to the “American waterways” series and gives an authoritative narrative of the series of events in the history of the Columbia and presents the remarkable scenic features from the headwaters to the mouth of the river.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 18. S. ’09.
“It is in all respects an excellent book.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 829. O. 7, ’09. 250w.
“He writes with the historical sense. At the same time he has by no means neglected the scenic aspects of his subject.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 540. O. 2, ’09. 110w.
“For the most part, we find him trustworthy, and hold his book to be not only fascinating but thoroughly studied and packed with valuable knowledge.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 207. S. 2, ’09. 170w.
“Prof. Lyman tells the story exceedingly well. He is very full and precise in his presentation of what may be called the early history of the Columbia valley.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 468. Jl. 31, ’09. 600w.
“We advise all visitors to the Seattle fair to familiarize themselves with Mr. Lyman’s book.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 126. Jl. ’09. 160w.
=Lynd, Robert.=^{[11]} Home life in Ireland. *8s. Mills and Boon.
A book written “with the laudable object of showing that the differences and contrasts and quarrels of Irishmen are not essential, as resulting from an ineradicable difference of race, but temporary and curable. Mr. Lynd has strong hopes that with the allaying of these causes of dissension the future of Ireland will be different from the past, and that a new patriotism will combine all the forces of the nation into a noble harmony by resolving the present discords.”—Ath.
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“This is a book full of interesting gossip—in the main, too, a very fair book. In most of his estimates of classes we agree with Mr. Lynd; regarding the landlords we fancy that he has no great store of knowledge at first hand, and takes his cue from the political press.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 488. O. 23. 830w.
“We naturally have said more about points of difference than about points of agreement; but our criticisms do not touch the real value of the book. It is the work of a close and interested observer. Keep the grain of salt at hand and all will be well.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 652. O. 23, ’09. 480w.
=Lynde, Francis.= King of Arcadia. †$1.50. Scribner.
9–6573.
An enclosed valley in the middle Rockies is the scene of the story in which a young irrigation engineer, representing the interests of the farmer wars against a cattle king, a Virginian of true Southern type, who is greedy for the isolation of his vast tract of grazing land. The story grows into unity through the influences that are brought to bear upon the ambitious southerner to relinquish his selfish scheme and to transform his tract into a sure-enough kingdom of Arcadia, and the leisurely but definite progress sustained by the engineer in his wooing of the Arcadian king’s daughter.
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“A dramatic, well told tale, full of adventure and mystery.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 27. S. ’09. ✠
“It all makes an entertaining, good-humored, and perfectly superficial story, well supplied with dramatic incident, and told, for the most part, in a form of dialogue too smart to bear much relation to ordinary human speech.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 264. Ap. 16, ’09. 240w.
“The sentiment does not go very deep, the characterization is on the surface, but the incidents are many, and the story has a wholesome atmosphere of activity, determination, courage and manliness.”
+ − =Ind.= 66: 764. Ap. 8, ’09. 200w.
“There is the breath of out-of-doors in every page, while the general tone of the novel is clean and wholesome.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 726. Ap. 24, ’09. 230w.
=Lyndon, Lamar.= Development and electrical distribution of water power. *$3. Wiley.
8–11462.
A book for engineers whose “object is to show the relations between the available water power, the works and machinery for developing it, and the final use to which the energy will be put. Accordingly, the author first explains the nature of the hydraulic development, including dams, canals and flumes and water-wheels; then the features of the electrical equipment, including dynamos, transformers, conductors, pole line, lightning protection, switching and controlling apparatus, and finally describes two foreign and seven American developments as typical of the results of the study.” (Engin. Rec.)
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“Mr. Lyndon’s book possesses some features of novelty, and the work should be of particular interest to those engineers whose activities do not tend to give them knowledge and experience in the trend of hydraulic and electrical power developments.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 74. Jl. 16, ’08. 330w.
“The volume brings together in compact form a large amount of information previously available only in technical journals.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 308. Mr. 13, ’09. 240w.
=Lyon, Harris Merton.= Sardonics: sixteen sketches. $1.25. Stuyvesant press.
9–12878.
A book of unpleasant sketches material for which, manipulated according to the school of realism, has been selected from wretched, degraded walks of New York life. “Take for instance such a story as the one bearing the laconic title, ‘In the Black-and-Tan.’ It pictures with such pitiless frankness the promiscuous, unclean, befuddled crowd who constituted a lively evening at Yellow Mamie’s, that you fairly smell the reek of whiskey and rank tobacco.” (Bookm.) “In a number of the stories, notably the opening one, ‘The father,’ in which a man who had deserted his wife and child tries years afterward to make things up with the son, there is clever sketching of character in broad outlines.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“There is much strength, much grimness, and a good deal of irony packed away in these sixteen brief sketches, which in spite of a certain youthful crudeness, are more promising than the maturer work of many a successful writer. Mr. Lyon has something of the Maupassant attitude toward life.” F: T. Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 29: 79. Mr. ’09. 500w.
“They are faithful enough pictures of the fetid and sodden life that ferments and rots in the deeps of a big city, and they are written with considerable skill, although at times the straining after effect is too manifest.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 28. Ja. 16, ’09. 150w.
=Lyons, A. Neil.=^{[9]} Sixpenny pieces. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of “the lower phases of life from the consulting-room of an East End doctor. These tersely written sketches of the patients of Dr. Brink—an outspoken, kindly, and capable man, who contrives to make an income of 1,200 l. a year out of the modest sixpences his patients pay him—are full of humor and pathos, sometimes rather painful in their realism, but never wanting in sympathy and tolerance.”—Ath.
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“He conveys the impression that he has lived among the people whom he describes, so intimate is his knowledge of their modes of thought and speech, so swift and certain is his touch in picturing their peculiarities.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 93. Jl. 24. 210w.
“The author’s deep sympathy never obviously expressed but all-pervading, his unusual power of observation, the humor and the penetration shown, make the book of unusual value, while the occasional over-audacity or flippancy of expression never for a moment conceals the seriousness of the work.”
+ =Atlan.= 104: 684. N. ’09. 240w.
“The reader can concern himself with the misery of it if he likes. Otherwise, the humor is the obvious thing. The stories are all cleverly written and show keen observation and a graphic pen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 499. Ag. 21, ’09. 170w.
“He is an artist, yet his human concern for his material is always discernible under his occasionally relentless handling. For the few false notes in the book the poor in it are not responsible.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 21. Jl. 3, ’09. 400w.
=Lyons, Andrew W.=^{[5]} Grammar of lettering. *$2.50. Lippincott.
9–15107.
“We can commend this book very heartily to those who are interested in lettering on a large scale, such as sign-writing, mural inscriptions, etc. They will find in it not only a very clear account of the principles on which the form of letters depends, but also a practical course of construction in the actual writing, or rather painting, of the letters themselves, and a full account of the materials and implements to be used.”—Ath.
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“More useful for sign-painters than for architects or art students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 173. Je. ’09.
“It should be in the library of every school of art and architecture in the country.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 21. Ja. 2. 140w.
“It is thus a book for the sign-writer and student in Trade schools, rather than for the art student and architect, who should be interested in the history and philology of the alphabet and of literal forms.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 332. My. 16, ’09. 100w.
“It is a useful volume in spite of the misnomer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 243. Ap. 17, ’09. 90w.