The cumulative book review digest, volume 01, 1905 (part 2 of 6)
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 70w.
“A book full of attractive materials.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 512. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
“A remarkable piece of work, encyclopaedic in its scope.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 619. Ap. 29, ‘05. 620w.
=Coe, George Albert.= Education in religion and morals. **$1.35. Revell.
Professor Coe finds the essence of religious education “on the part of the teacher self-revelation and self impartation; on the part of the pupil, self-expression and self-realization.” In other words, all religious education is the “genuine mingling of a developed life in the interests and occupations of an undeveloped life.” (Bib. World). The best field for religious training is in the home, where the most free and natural relations exist. It is by revealing a sincere and self-sacrificing attitude toward life that a religious influence can be exerted.
“It is in the breadth, courage and sanity of his survey of the social situation that the chief merit of his work is found.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9:388. Ap. ‘05. 300w.
“This is a great book—the greatest on its subject since Bushnell’s ‘Christian nurture’ in 1847. It takes religious education off its apex of formal dogmatic instruction, and sets it down on the broad, stable base of sharing the concrete experiences of life. It gives us a point of view; and in the light of that point of view goes forth to challenge all unreality and insincerity. This book should be in the hands of every Christian.” William DeWitt Hyde.
+ + + =Bib. World.= 25: 154. F. ‘05. 1300w. (Statement of its teachings.)
“The treatment of the problem in hand is thoroughly in accord with good psychological and pedagogical practice. The whole work, a worthy complement to Professor Coe’s previous publication on ‘The religion of a mature mind,’ is vitalizing and illuminating in its character and effect.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1011. Ap. 22, ‘05. 910w.
=Cohen, Alfred J.= (Alan Dale, pseud.). Wanted, a cook. (†)$1.50. Bobbs.
A humorous account of the trials and tribulations of a newly married couple. “Two babes in the woods in this wilderness of flats make a pathetic attempt to have a real home, which comes to grief through a succession of disasters in the shape of incompetent or dishonest or impossible cooks. The mistress of the tiny ‘flat’ knows many things, but not how to cook; her experiences are enough to have turned her pretty hair gray, and one wonders if there is for her and women like her any other solution than the ‘apartment hotel,’ which is the only one the book offers.” (Ind.)
=Acad.= 68: 366. Ap. 1, ‘05. 510w.
“Seldom has it been our pleasure to read a more delightful satire on one phase of our present-day urban life. Has treated the servant-girl question in an inimitable manner. Though exaggerated at times as is the wont of the humorist, it is from first to last broadly true, and on the whole the story will prove as excellent a cure for the blues as the first reading of Mark Twain’s ‘Innocents Abroad.’”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 222. F. ‘05. 140w.
“There is a fund of humour and entertainment in ‘Wanted a cook’ which makes it delightful reading.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 200w.
“An airy variation of a very well-worn theme.”
— =Critic.= 46 :480. My. ‘05. 50w.
“Perhaps the most feeling, altho somewhat farcical, presentment of the vexed problem is the latest by Alan Dale.”
+ =Ind.= 58:210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 210w.
=Cohen, Isabel E.= Legends and tales in prose and verse. 75c. Jewish pub.
A compilation of prose and verse on Jewish subjects, most of which concern Bible characters.
“Pleasant and instructive reading for the young.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Colby, Frank Moore.= Imaginary obligations. *$1.20. Dodd.
A volume of dogmatic essays. “Some of his best chapters have to do with ‘The business of writing,’ and ‘Literary compulsion.’ ‘The literary temperament’ is treated in a way that makes the reader squirm in his chair. ‘The temptation of authors’ contains a warning to successful and prolific writers. ‘The danger of spreading oneself thin is that the time surely comes when it is done unconsciously. A man thinks it his thought flowing on like that, when it is only his ink.’ The fitness of Mr. Colby’s title, ‘Imaginary obligations,’ is somewhat imaginary.... But a book must have a title, and for a collection of loosely related essays one will serve about as well as another.” (Dial).
“The range of topics is wide, the comments are pointed, and the style is, on the whole, decidedly racy. No reader can fail to enjoy the wit and the satire even when they are directed against some pet hobby of his. The fun is harmless and it may be found to be accompanied by wisdom.”
+ =Boston Evening Transcript.= :7. F. 10, ‘05. 250w.
“Mr. Colby possesses a good measure of shrewd sense, a wholesome hatred of humbug and a keen eye to detect it, a practised pen, and a knack of terse, incisive, and often striking expression. But with these qualities go their defects: aiming to be brilliant and sententious, he occasionally exaggerates and makes phrases.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 20. Ja. 1, ‘05. 430w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
=Cole, Samuel Valentine.= Life that counts. **75c. Crowell.
This book grew out of a series of addresses given before young people. It deals with some aspects of service but chiefly with certain qualifications of the useful life; viz. sympathy, courage, perseverance and aspiration. These are symbolized by four faces, the face of a man, a lion, an ox, an eagle, the emblem of the four evangelists.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 733. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.= Select poems; ed. by Andrew George. 60c. Heath.
This volume of the Belles-lettres series contains select poems of Coleridge arranged in chronological order, with introduction and notes by the editor.
=N.Y. Times.= 10: 104. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.
=Collier’s self-indexing annual for 1905=: a contemporaneous encyclopedia and pictorial history of men and events of the past year as recorded and described by the world’s foremost specialists in every department of human progress. $5. Collier.
Here the time saver finds in ready-to-use form the “political history of the world and of important current events in the fields of labor, industry, science, invention, the arts, sport, education, religion, and sociology.” “The material has been collated from ‘Collier’s Weekly,’ is preceded by a sketch review of the year 1904, which is to be highly praised as a model of condensed statement, and is arranged in alphabetical order, with many illustrations.” (Outlook).
+ =Outlook.= 79 :501. F. 25, ‘05. 100w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 80w.
=Collins, F. Howard.= Author and printer: a guide for authors, editors, printers, correctors of the press, compositors and typists. *$2.25. Oxford.
“The want of uniformity in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and use of italic type causes continual trouble to all who are responsible for the editorial supervision of scientific literature in any form.... Mr. Collins has prepared his book to help in this end.... The volume contains more than twenty thousand separate entries of words arranged alphabetically. Included among these are abbreviations, disputed spellings, foreign words and phrases, divisions of words, and various rules and explanations which should prove of service to authors and editors.”—Nature.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 560. My. 6. 450w.
=Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 70w.
“In conclusion we can pronounce this compilation useful, if almost without rhyme or reason and certainly not highly authoritative.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 203. S. 7, ‘05. 1220w.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 100. Je. 1, ‘05. 200w.
* =Collyer, Robert.= Augustus Conant, Illinois pioneer and preacher. *60c. Am. Unitar.
This second volume in “True American types” series contains the charmingly simple record of the plucky career of a typical New Englander who was born in Vermont in 1811, went west in the early days as an Illinois pioneer and later became a minister with the staunch support of his young wife. After triumphing over circumstances he met his death in the Civil war as chaplain in the Union army. The author’s account is supplemented by quotations from the quaintly brief entries in his various journals, and the whole forms a significant story of the life of man who wrested happiness and success from a barren environment.
=Colton, Arthur Willis.= Belted seas. (†)$1.50. Holt.
Captain Buckingham enlivens a winter afternoon by recounting his adventures in South America and elsewhere. Leaving the town of Greenough and the girl he had “agreed” to marry, he traversed the belted seas for thirty years, drifting back at last to his old harbor to gaze on the tombstone of his sweetheart, and assist in her daughter’s elopement. His story includes humorous yarns of hotel keeping in a ship carried inland by a tidal wave, of a hidden treasure over which a squatter had calmly built his cabin, and of a whale which put forth to sea with a hen roosting on a harpoon embedded in its side.
“His work is never commonplace, but never before has he been so light-hearted, so effervescent of spirit as here.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 160w.
“Some of his turns of thought are provocative of the heartiest laughter, and he never permits his auditors an instant of boredom.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“The dry, whimsical old captain spins a yarn worth hearing.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1250. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“It is a toy, very ingenious and puzzling, we must admit, but not a genuine specimen of literary handicraft.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 340w.
“Captain Tom’s description of his eccentric mates is occasionally exaggerated to the point of caricature, and his style is inconsistent, wavering between the style of the plain mariner and that of a clever, versatile, even brilliant writer.”
+ — =Nation.= 80 :442. Je. 1, ‘05. 370w.
“A certain knack of conversation and characterization, a certain largeness of view where the differing morals and madnesses of men are concerned, which gives them not only interest, but a sort of oneness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 222. Ap. 8, ‘05. 450w.
“Its humor is both spontaneous and demure, and its comedy pointed and subtle.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“This is of the grotesque, distorted type of humorous story. His observations on human nature are often shrewd and amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 959. Ap. 15, ‘05. 110w.
“Mr. Colton’s sailor men are flesh and blood, though their adventures are the wildest flights of fancy.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 241. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
=Colton, Olive A.= Rambles abroad. $2. Franklin ptg. and engr. co.
The author “recounts at the outset her visit to Naples and Rome, interspersing her narrative of travel with historical discussion.... From Rome she takes us to Vienna, Budapest, Munich, Wartburg and Weimar, thence to Paris. A visit to England and Windsor castle concludes the trip. The pictures are excellent throughout.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
“Miss Colton has nothing new to tell, in this narrative of a brief European trip; but she tells her story simply and well.”
+ =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 130w.
=Colyar, Arthur St. Clair.= Life and times of Andrew Jackson; soldier—statesman—president. 2v. $6. Marshall & B.
Mr. Colyar is a lawyer and an enthusiastic admirer of Jackson. His object in writing these books is to give a sympathetic account of the great Tennesseean, and he has produced a democratic biography which is at times historically biased.
Reviewed by J. S. Bassett.
+ — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 667. Ap. ‘05. 530w.
=Coman, Katharine.= Industrial history of the United States for high schools and colleges. *$1.25. Macmillan.
In this volume Prof. Coman aims “to bring the essential elements of the economic history of this country within the grasp of the average reader, and she has also adapted it for high school and college students.... There are many illustrations in half-tone in the book, as well as a number of maps and diagrams, and, besides the authorities given in the margin, the book is supplied with a list of books and their authors for the general reader.” (N. Y. Times.)
* “It supplements in a highly interesting way the ordinary narrative text-book, and will prove a valuable adjunct in the teaching of the subject.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 390. D. 1, ‘05. 40w.
* “A carefully executed work, packed with information.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 641. S. 30, ‘05. 280w.
* “The book is exceptionally accurate in detail.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 775. N. 18, ‘05. 160w.
“While the author has not always satisfactorily exhibited the economic forces underlying the great movements and events in the history of the United States, she has, on the whole, performed a difficult task well. It is by no means easy to marshal the facts in an interesting way and at the same time bring out their significance; but this the author has succeeded in doing to a praiseworthy degree.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 180w.
* “The book as a whole is a model of clear statement and systematized information.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Commons, John Rogers=, ed. See =Trade= unionism and labor problems.
Companion to Greek studies; ed. by Leonard Whibley. *$6. Macmillan.
“‘The companion to Greek studies’ differs in scope from other books of the same class; for, besides a survey of Greek life, thought, and art in their different branches, it includes a chapter on the physical conditions of Greece, another containing chronological tables of politics, literature, and art, and a chapter on certain branches of criticism and interpretation. While each article has been intrusted to a writer who has made a special study of the subject, it has been the aim of the work to give the substance of our knowledge in a concise form.... It is hoped that the full table of contents and the indexes of proper names and Greek words will increase the value of the book for purposes of reference. Bibliographies have generally been appended to each article to help those who seek further information. Plans, views, and reproductions of ancient works of art have been carefully chosen and inserted in those articles in which illustration seems most necessary.” Preface.
“The lack of references is a serious drawback. As a companion to the reading of Greek authors, a handbook for reference about Greek things, the book is convenient, well arranged and, in all essentials, trustworthy.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68 :102. F. 4. ‘05. 1270w.
“It is not a book, but a compressed encyclopedia, a vast collection of facts crammed into the smallest possible compass. Almost the whole book is interesting, in spite of its compression.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 616. My. 20. 1010w.
“Few volumes have a stronger claim to their places in the library of the classical scholar.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 120. Ag. 10, ‘05. 650w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 114. F. 25, ‘05. 340w.
“What Dr. Smith’s ‘Dictionary of antiquities’ was for students half a century ago this is for those of to-day. In concise form it exhibits the larger and more accurate knowledge gained by recent research, and also treats of subjects not heretofore presented in works of this kind. As a book of reference it is all that could be desired. Its illustrations are both numerous and fine. In this work British scholars have again scored most creditably. In their index of scholars and modern writers Americans are scarcer than the facts require.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w.
“If the object of the compilers was to give the maximum of information in the minimum of space, they have certainly succeeded in the attempt.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 152. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1400w.
“Of its value there can be no question.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 919. Je. 24, ‘05. 940w.
Compatriots’ club lectures. Compatriots’ club lectures: first series. *$2.75. Macmillan.
The Compatriots’ club, a non-partizan body, was constituted in March, 1904, with the object of advancing the ideal of a united British empire. The present volume contains eight lectures. The principles of constructive economics as applied to the maintenance of empire, by J. L. Garvin; Tariff reform and national defense, by H. W. Wilson; Imperial preference and the cost of food, by Sir Vincent Caillard; The evolution of the empire, by Hon. St. John A. Cockburn, K. C. M. C.; The proper distribution of the population of the empire, by H. A. Gwynne; Political economy and the tariff problem, by Prof. W. J. Ashley; Colonial preference in the past, by John W. Hills, and Tariff reform and political morality, by the Rev. Dr. William Cunningham.
“No better text-book could be accepted both by friends and opponents as a starting place for discussion.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 46. Jl. 8. 450w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 191. Je. 16, ‘05. 1170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 347. My. 27, ‘05. 270w.
“These lectures we believe will have a wide-reaching educative effect in preparing opinion for the part which the state will take in the future in many matters from which the individualist theory has excluded it.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 742. Je. 3, ‘05. 1450w.
“It is the work of a group of well-known men, who obviously believe what they write, and who in many respects have advanced beyond the crude fallacies and cheap-Jack promises which have disfigured Mr. Chamberlain’s presentment of his own case. It is worth while to see why such men are protectionists, and where the flaw in their reasoning lies.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 192. Ag. 5, ‘05. 2700w.
=Condit, Edgar Mantelbert.= Two years in three continents: experiences, impressions and observation of two Americans abroad. **$2. Revell.
The author and his wife, starting from Ireland, visited all the capitals of Europe, and then Russia and the Orient. The account of their journey is both humorous and interesting, and they give many valuable and homely details not found in the ordinary book of travels.
“The book is replete with humor, and is all the better because it is so thoroughly American in quality. Mr. Condit’s descriptive powers are excellent. In this the good spirits of the writer always predominates and it is easy reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 128. F. 25, ‘05. 190w.
=Condivi, Ascanio.= Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, tr. by Herbert P. Horne. *$7.50. Updike.
“Condivi wrote a great biography, tho no longer than a Plutarch. It puts Michael Angelo before us a genius yet a man. It is rich in choice anecdote, it describes the rivalries and reverses, the successes and triumphs incident to one of power and resource and ambition, and over all its style and treatment give the time as Castiglione describes it. The work itself and Addington Symond’s praise should have before this prompted a popular English edition. Mr. Horne’s translation is close and con amore, but the book is published in a very limited edition.”—Ind.
“Altogether, the volume is one in which the bibliophile no less than the art student will rejoice.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 51. Ja. 16, ‘05. 290w.
“The format is less notable than the biography of the translation. Mr. Horne designed the type which is here first used. It is chaste and clearly cut, yet the page is not clear.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 569. Mr. 9, ‘05. 490w.
“Condivi’s narrative is always delightful, it is so unaffected and sincere. The present translation is pleasant to read, having plenty of character.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 114. Ja. 28, ‘05. 110w.
=Conley, John Wesley.= Bible in modern light: a course of lectures before the Bible department of the Woman’s club, Omaha. **75c. Griffith & R.
In this series of lectures the author “treats the character and composition of the Bible, manuscripts, translations, light from the monuments; and deals with such problems as the relation of the Bible to science, art, ethics, woman, education, progress.” (Am. J. of Theol.)
“A series of simple, clear and popular lectures.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 390. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
“In a class where a competent leader could fill gaps and expand outlines, the book might serve as a suggestive textbook.” Henry M. Bowden.
+ + — =Bib. World.= 26: 157. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
* =Connolly, James Bennet.= Deep sea’s toll. †$1.50. Scribner.
Eight stories of the Gloucester fishermen entitled: The sail-carriers; The wicked “Celestine”; The truth of the Oliver Cromwell; Strategy and seamanship; Dory-mates; The saving of the bark Fuller; On Georges shoals; and Patsie Oddie’s black night.
* “They are admirably drawn pictures of the hardest life a man can choose.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 360w.
* “Well sustains the reputation won for him by his previous stories in the same field.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 140w.
=Connolly, James B.= On Tybee knoll: a story of the Georgia coast. †$1.25. Barnes.
“This is a short, simple but interesting story of rivalry between some contractors on river and harbor work at Savannah, Ga. The young hero and his older partner have various exciting experiences in executing a contract that involved cutting and rafting some poles for dipper dredges. The rafts were stolen, rescued, cut adrift and finally rescued again. Incidentally there are races, fights and rescues on the water.”—Engin. N.
“One forgives the extravagance of the story for the sake of the exhilarating sea breeze that seems to blow through all the pages.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 518. Jl. ‘05. 290w.
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 635. Je. 15, ‘05. 100w.
— =Nation.= 81: 102. Ag. 3, ‘05. 300w.
“The present tale might be an early effort.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 40w.
=Connor, Ralph, pseud.= (=Charles William Gordon.=) Prospector. $1.50. Revell.
The story of the life of a young minister who goes from the university of Toronto to his work of self-sacrifice in the wilds. He is affectionately called the Prospector because he untiringly seeks out lonely ranches and brings their owners into touch with their distant neighbors. There are vivid pictures of Canadian frontier life and character, and there is, of course, a love interest.
“From cover to cover physical strength is glorified; but it is the physical strength of teachers and preachers, of earnest, deadly earnest, muscular Christians. Literary merit has nothing to do with the author’s success. His English is fairly sound, and that is as much as may be said for the writing.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 43. Ja. 14. 320w.
“The vein is worked a little too hard, and the results forced.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 90w.
“The splendors of home missionaries’ sacrifice have never been more vividly portrayed.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 269. F. 2, ‘05. 170w.
“Interesting as a novel as well as valuable as a picture of Canadian life.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 57. Ja. 14, ‘05. 190w.
=Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzenlowski).= Nostromo: a tale of the seaboard. $1.50. Harper.
Late writers have often turned to the “new lands” of South America for picturesque settings for their stories. Mr. Conrad has laid the scene of his new novel in a republic on the western coast. “In this country an English family has long been settled and has had for its stake the government concession of a silver mine, handed down from father to son, and entailing much disagreeable ‘squeezing’ from successive presidents and dictators. The descendant to whom it has fallen when the present narrative opens is the first one to make it a really valuable property, and in the development he becomes the greatest power in the state, enlisting foreign capital, building railroads, and carrying governments on his pay roll. A final desperate effort on the part of greedy politicians to get control of the goose that lays his golden egg is the main feature of the plot ... but the psychological interest predominates over the adventurous or romantic interest which justifies the author in naming this novel after one of its characters ... one upon whom Mr. Conrad has concentrated his analytical powers.” (Dial).
“A novel ought not to be a snap-shot, it should be a firmly and richly woven fabric. Such is ‘Nostromo.’ Flexible and vivid style.” O. H. Dunbar.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 377. Ap. ‘05. 480w.
“Readers will find in the book ample reward for their pains in perusing it, will often reach the point of exasperation at its lengthy analyses, its interminable dragging-out of incident, and its frequent harking back to antecedent conditions. The work is a very strong one, and we can think of no other writer, unless it be Mr. Cunningham-Grahame, who could have done anything like as well with the same material.” W. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 125. F. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“As a study of South American revolution the book is a monument of realism. There is ever present a psychological question, a moral issue that is as modern as Ibsen.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 557. Mr. 9, ‘05. 700w.
“The love element is slight and in its development irregular, and the adventurous element is not absorbing. The stream of the story is always slender. It glimmers and shimmers most poetically—what there is of it—but even at its broadest and strongest it gives no hint of bearing the reader along with it, and again and again it sinks wholly out of sight amid the silver sands of picturesque description.”
+ — =Reader.= 5: 618. Ap. ‘05. 310w.
=Conrad, Stephen, pseud. (Stephen Conrad Stuntz).= Mrs. Jim and Mrs. Jimmie. †$1.50. Page.
A recital of the experiences of Mrs. Jim at quilting parties, picnics, sociables, weddings, commencements, and fires, interspersed by comments of Mrs. Jimmie. There is much real village life, much satire, and not a little homely philosophy.
* “This story sustains the same relation to love that an old-fashioned ‘experience meeting’ sustains to religion.”
— =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 130w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 513. Ag. 5, ‘05. 370w.
“A tedious story of a country town.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 30w.
=Conway, Moncure Daniel.= Autobiography, memories and experiences. 2v. **$6. Houghton.
A frank autobiography of a long life. Mr. Conway says of himself: “A pilgrimage from pro-slavery to anti-slavery enthusiasm, from Methodism to Freethought, implies a career of contradictions.” Born in Virginia of a slave-holding family, 1832, he prepared for the Methodist ministry; but at twenty-one, alienated from his family and old beliefs, he turned to the Unitarian ministry and took an active part in the anti-slavery movement in the early fifties. In 1863 he went to England to lecture in behalf of the North, and remained in London, where he formed lasting friendships with the “good and great” of his time. His account of his experiences and his pictures of the people whom he knew are of exceptional interest.
“Two very entertaining volumes that will prove of marked interest to the general reader, and may be of considerable service to the historical student. Commendation for their general readableness and attractiveness.”
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 701. Ap. ‘05. 170w.
Reviewed by M. A. De Wolfe Howe.
=Atlan.= 95: 128. Ja. ‘05. 1730w.
* “On the whole Mr. Conway’s volume is the most important book of its kind that has been published during the present year.” R. W. Kemp.
+ + + =Bookm.= 20: 481. Ja. ‘05. 750w.
“Two large volumes, and I do not think there is a dry page in either one of them.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 120. F. ‘05. 920w.
“He has, therefore, won the gratitude due for a compilation that makes easy and attractive reading. But it is emphatically the work of a clever journalist and genial clubman, not of a trustworthy historian. It will not be safe to use the material here collected unless it is otherwise confirmed. Mr. Conway is surprisingly careless even in matters closely connected with his own career.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 36: 564. Ap. ‘05. 1930w.
“In a vivid and picturesque manner ... Mr. Moncure D. Conway tells the story of a strenuous life.” Walter Lewin.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 3: 614. Ap. ‘05. 1300w.
“A man who has lived in such times and amid such associations must from the nature of the case have an interesting story to tell. Fortunately, Mr. Conway is too good a literary craftsman to let the story suffer in the telling.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 755. D. ‘04. 240w.
“We may say without hesitation that it is an instructive, as it is a transparently sincere, record of human experience. The first volume is meant for American more than for English readers.”
+ + =Spec. 94=: 181. F. 4, ‘05. 230w.
=Cook, Albert S.=, ed. See Judith.
=Cook, Albert S., and Benham, A. R.= Specimen letters. *60c. Ginn.
“The range of the selection is unlimited, since it includes Cicero, Pliny, Tragan, Mme. de Sevigné, and Voltaire.... The other eighty-eight letters ... are English or American, beginning with Addison and ending with ‘Ellen G. Starr.’”—N. Y. Times.
“The collection is an admirable one, representative of every form of the epistolary art, and made particularly attractive to the general reader by its freedom from editorial encumbrances.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“As an avowed supplement to Scoones, such of their work as he has not anticipated would have a distinct value.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 344. My. 27, ‘05. 880w.
=Cook, Joel.= Switzerland; picturesque and descriptive. **$2.40. Coates.
A book designed for students and tourists, as well as general lovers of fine book workmanship. Six sections of Switzerland are covered—Western Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland, the Upper Rhine, the Middle Rhine, the great Rhine gorge, and the Lower Rhine, and in addition to the descriptive matter, there are numerous half-tone illustrations. He opens with a rapid survey of the history of the Swiss confederation, followed by descriptions of the Lake of Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey, and Montreux, coming next to the Castle of Chillon.
“He has here attempted to do for Switzerland what he has already done for America, England, and France, by emphasizing with personal impressions those points of human interest which usually receive mere perfunctory notice in the guide books.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 330w.
* =Cook, Theodore Andrea.= Old Provence. 2v. **$4. Scribner.
“The first volume deals with Provence under the Greeks and Romans. Mr. Cook writes entertainingly of the traces of Marius in Provence. He follows his march, camp by camp, through the country until he met the Teutons and the Ambrons on the bank of the Lar.... Volume II of the account of Provence is no less discursive than the first, and no less interesting in the same discursive way. It covers the period from about the time of Charlemagne, say, 900 A. D., to the death of the good King Réné in 1480, with excursions back to Greek, Roman, and Teutonic days and forward to modern times.”—N. Y. Times.
* “We heartily congratulate him on the interest of his book, but are not satisfied with it, for we feel certain that he can and will do better. The book seems to us wanting in plan, and from absence of design to be somewhat confused for the general reader.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 505. O. 14. 710w.
“Mr. Cook has not achieved a history of Provence. But he offers us a guide, indefatigable, vigorous, vivacious, eager to discourse on every subject, and primed with valuable information.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 357. O. 27, ‘05. 940w.
* “There is room for many books about a region so replete with interest, and it can do nobody any harm to read this one; but, while it will not spare the traveller abroad the need of his guide-books, it has not the light and graceful touch and the gift of vivid presentation that will satisfy the reader who stays at home—the ultimate test.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 468. D. 7, ‘05. 1520w.
“A work containing much of interest and importance, and little that is trivial in itself, yet all so badly arranged that the reader has to pick and choose to find what he wants.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 675. O. 14, ‘05. 1060w.
* “Mr. Cook knows his Provence well, but he does not know how to tell about it. Nevertheless the volumes are worth buying and worth reading, for their contents cannot be obtained elsewhere.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 706. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.
=Cooke, Grace MacGowan.= Grapple. †$1.50. Page.
The principal figure in this labor-problem story is Mark Strong who from the ordinary miner’s lot rises to the ownership of a mine. Although once a member of the United mine workers, and still a believer in unions, he will not be bound by the inflexible rules of labor organizations, and employs non-union help. The struggle that ensues gives an opportunity for an exposition of arguments on both sides of the question.
* “The seriousness of the book is relieved by an element of humor which is perhaps better than nothing, although it is a humor of a rather cheap sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 307. N. 16, ‘05. 140w.
=Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
=Cooke, Marjorie Benton.= Dramatic episodes. $1.25. Dramatic.
Ten short plays, each in a single scene, which satirize the follies of the foibles of to-day.
=Dial.= 38: 276. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Cooper, Edward Herbert.= Twentieth century child. $1.50. Lane.
A glimpse into the new nursery, where smart children who make epigrams dwell. Their prayers, lessons, play, social life, punishments and health are discussed.
“The style is a mixture of slap-dash, slang, and fine writing.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 461. Ap. 15. 1020w.
“It is rich in insight, sanity, a wise and sympathetic understanding of his delightful circle of juvenile acquaintance. The whole book is blessedly free from any touch of the patronizing.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 170w.
“The value of his book lies largely in its very personal tone.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 360w.
“Written in a pseudo-serious vein.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 400w.
“The volume as a whole is a clever and unusual combination of anecdote, fiction, biography, and serious discussion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 110w.
“We do not take Mr. Cooper seriously; and the whole performance has an air of artificiality which produces irritation at every page.”
— — =Sat. R.= 99: 710. My. 27, ‘05. 220w.
— =Spec.= 94: 398. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1640w.
=Cooper, James Fenimore.= Last of the Mohicans. 80c; lea. $1.25. Crowell.
In the thin paper and flexible cover of the “Thin paper classics” this favorite Indian story becomes a handy pocket companion.
=Cooper, James Fenimore.= Spy. 60c; lea. $1.25. Crowell.
A volume recently added to the “Thin paper classics.”
=Cooper, Walter G.= Fate of the middle classes. *$1.25. Consolidated retail booksellers.
“The only way to make sure of the general good is to guard the interests of every class with jealous care. This end is best attained when each class realizes that self-protection is the best protection, self-help the best help, and self-respect the surest guaranty of the respect of others.” This forms a part of the watchword of the volume.
* “Force is not lacking in much of what Mr. Cooper advances.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 774. N. 18, ‘05. 540w.
“Despite these criticisms, we think this volume a real contribution to the thought of the day, because characterized by three qualities not too often found in combination in treatises on our industrial problems, namely, a careful study of existing conditions, a sane and non-partisan judgment respecting them, and something of prophetic vision regarding the tendency of industrial progress and the direction in which it should be guided.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 360w.
* “He has no very definite plan of organization, but he has at least sounded a note of warning.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 210w.
=Cooper, William Colby.= Immortality: the principal philosophic arguments for and against it. $1. W: Colby Cooper, Cleves, O.
“A serious and very able discussion, from the purely philosophical viewpoint, of the logical arguments for and against the theory of the persistence of life after the crisis of death.” (Arena.) The author is a physician.
“The method of presentation, however, is less open to criticism than the typography.”
+ + — =Arena.= 33: 674. Je. ‘05. 590w.
“The argument seems conclusive for the survival of life and consciousness, but less conclusive for the survival of the individuality.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 93. My. 6, ‘05. 90w.
=Corelli, Marie (Minnie Mackay).= Free opinions, freely expressed on certain phases of modern social life and conduct. **$1.20. Dodd.
The essays collected in this volume attack newspapers, Americans, and certain unfortunate tendencies which the author discovers in modern English society.
“The style of the essays ... is perhaps even more fervidly enthusiastic than that of the author’s fiction.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 80w.
“The disputatious, not to say censorious, tone of these essays moves the reviewer to remind the writer that people are seldom to be argued or scolded into wisdom. Have the merit of brevity and at times of sprightliness.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 43. Jl. 16, ‘05. 530w.
“Violence, prejudice, a painfully narrow view of life, and a lack of proportion ... shockingly mar her present book.”
— — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 280. Ap. 29, ‘05. 850w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 191. My. 20, ‘05. 180w.
* =Cornes, James.= Modern housing: houses in town and country, illustrated by examples of municipal and other schemes of block dwellings, tenement houses, model cottages and villages. *$3. Scribner.
Mr. Cornes, who as a member of the Leek town council has made a study of the question of housing the working classes, and has conducted some interesting experiments in Leek itself, now writes of these experiments, makes suggestions which will lessen the cost of house construction and “furnishes some suggestive contrasts between the opportunities for building in town and country by the inclusion of some admirably executed plans and pictures of the cottages now on view at the Cheap Cottages exhibition at Letchworth.” (Spec.)
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: 181. D. ‘05. 330w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 347. O. 26, ‘05. 330w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 191. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w.
=Coryat, Thomas.= Coryat’s crudities hastily gobbled up in five moneths’ travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of High Germany and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling members of this kingdome; reprinted from the edition of 1611. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
Altho the humor of the three-score panegyrics which gave the book unusual vogue in its first appearance has somewhat faded with time, there remains much to interest and amuse in this quaint account of travels afoot, of dangers, and of butterflies, of manners and of customs.
“Careful reprint.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 488. My. 6, ‘05. 1360w.
“His latest edition is luxuriously produced, and in every way worthy of him, given the publishers’ rule of not altering or pointing out his mistakes.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 394. S. 23. 920w.
“Coryat’s style, whatever its defects, has often the true Elizabethan richness.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 213. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1600w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 80. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1570w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 670w.
“The quaintness of the original has been preserved, and it would be difficult, indeed, to imagine anything exceeding this work in precisely that quality.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 138. My. 13, ‘05. 350w.
“Those who go through these hundred pages of the ‘Crudities’ do penance indeed.”
— + =Sat.= R. 99: 816 Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.=). Mayor of Troy. †$1.50. Scribner.
“A quaint tale of the Cornish coast. The setting is historical, being that of the threatened Napoleonic invasion.... The mayor of Troy, who is also major of the volunteer artillery ... is ... snatched by ruthless fate from the scenes of his glory, seized by a press-gang ... and carried off to become an ornament of the British navy. The ship which bears him is blown up.... He is rescued by the enemy, and languishes ten years in a remote military prison. Meanwhile ... he is given up for dead, his wealth is distributed according to the terms of his will, and Troy does him all sorts of posthumous honors. When he returns—but we will not reveal what happens, remarking only that it is the unexpected.”—Dial.
* “The book presents us with one humorous situation after another, crowned by an invention so extraordinary that the author may fairly be said to have surpassed his own best previous efforts.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
* “Taken all in all, we should say that Mr. Quiller-Couch has never done much better work than in his ‘Mayor of Troy,’ and that is to praise it highly.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 839. D. 2, ‘05. 780w.
=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller-.= Shakespeare’s Christmas and other stories. †$1.50. Longmans.
“A collection of ripe and forcible stories, of which the least successful is the one which gives its name to the book.” (Lond. Times.) They “range in date from the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century, and range in characters from Shakespeare and Wellington to the fishwives of Saltash and the highwaymen of Tregarrick.” (Ind.)
+ + =Acad.= 68: 925. S. 9, ‘05. 710w.
“We note the usual flavour of distinction in the writing, the scholarly attention to details, the little touches of observation which show how thoroughly the writer has identified himself with the beings of his invention.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 250w.
“His abundant knowledge of archeology and local color is effectively used without being made unduly conspicuous.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 580. S. 7, ‘05. 90w.
“In most of these stories he does himself justice, and that is high praise.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 279. S. 1, ‘05. 480w.
“Has become, for the moment and with exceptions, dull.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 200w.
“Is as good a collection of stories as its title promises, and as this vivacious, ingenious, and voluminous writer always can be depended upon to furnish at wonderfully short intervals of time.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 620w.
“The material and setting of each story are striking and original, the manner of narration attractive and ingenious, yet the general effect is disappointing and unsatisfactory.”
+ — =Sat.= R. 100: 441. S. 30, ‘05. 270w.
=Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller- (“Q.” pseud.).= Shining ferry. †$1.50. Scribner.
John Rosewarne, a stern, proud old man, looking back upon a reckless youth, his son, who follows the Bible after reading into it his own desires, the gentle Peter Benny and his eleven children, a blind boy, and many others enter into this story of a sleepy little sea port town.
“In the last third or so of the book the interest, to our mind, suddenly filters away. The fault is one of structure. The interest of the novel dribbles out along several lines, none of which assumes a principal position and concentrates attention. And such is the reason why we are disappointed with what is in large measure a well-written book, with plenty of character and written in excellent English.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 520. My. 13, ‘05. 460w.
“In this book he seems, for the first time, to have achieved a novel really complete in character, incident, and construction.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 394. Ap. 1. 720w.
“Admirable studies of character. Its charm resides in the touches of gentle sentiment, of quaint humor, and tender feeling with which it is enriched in every chapter. It is a wholesome and human book, to be read with keen delight from beginning to end.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 41. Jl. 16, ‘05. 170w.
“There is a savor in it—a distinction not only of style, but of thought and temper—which will enable it to outlive much fiction that is more strongly wrought.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 270w.
“Is one of the best stories of the year.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1071. My. 11, ‘05. 300w.
“These figures are all well drawn—not over-drawn—neither too diabolical nor too angelic.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 21: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 810w.
“Quiller-Couch has a deft hand at character sketching, and in this latest story of his, one finds many character sketches and little story. Mr. Quiller-Couch has a goodly humor which saves his story from a certain melancholy gloominess which it might otherwise possess too abundantly.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 430w.
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
“There is not a forced or a strained note anywhere. The sense of proportion is everywhere evident in the book, so that when one closes it one is in possession of a little corner of the tapestry of life where not a stitch has been dropped.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 242. Ag. ‘05. 430w.
“One of those novels made to be enjoyed rather than criticised.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 636. My. 13, ‘05. 430w.
=Coudert, Frederick René.= Addresses, historical—political—sociological. **$2.50. Putnam.
The twenty-one addresses of this eminent international lawyer, which his editor has selected for this volume include: International arbitration; The Anglo-American arbitration treaty; The rights of ships; Christopher Columbus; Louis Kossuth; Andrew Jackson; Charles O’Conor, Montesquieu; Chief Justice Waite; France, Morals and manners; Reply to Dumas’s advocacy of divorce; Lying as a fine art; The bar of New York from 1792 to 1892; Young men in politics; and Columbia college.
* “In selecting from among his subject’s addresses those for use in this book ‘P. F.’ has been wholly successful, and has made a volume of much interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 791. N. 18, ‘05. 860w.
* “They are valuable as specimens of a style worth studying by nascent writers and speakers.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 170w.
Course of Christian doctrine; a handbook for teachers. 50c. Dolphin press.
“The aim of the new Sunday-school manual is, as stated in its preface, ‘to bring the new education to bear on the old sacred and unchangeable truths, and to lead the children not only to know, but to love and practice them.’ ... The book suggests such new features as blackboard work, historical tablets, the use of the sandboard, pictures, poems, and the like.... The course mapped out is divided into eight grades, each including instruction in prayers, catechism, Bible history—both Old and New Testament—and Catholic devotions and practices.”—Cath. World.
“The scholarship and originality which mark the first chapter prevail throughout the work.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 670. F. ‘05. 1540w.
=Coutts, Francis.= Musa verticordia. *$1.25. Lane.
From the first poem of this group the volume takes its name. The trial of Dreyfus furnishes the theme of one poem; two others are interpretations of Parsifal and Meistersinger; still others are commemorative in nature. There are also some interesting Spanish folk rhymes.
“Mr. Francis Coutts stands out head and shoulders from the generality of our modern minor poets in that in addition to its technical excellence his verse strikes a strong individual note.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 61. Ja. 21, ‘05. 280w.
“Mr. Coutts’ muse would to us be austere were he not somewhat too vague, too nebulous, for austerity. A mastership of whatever form of verse he essays, a lofty purpose, withal a rooted fealty to poetic sorrow, must be conceded to Mr. Coutts.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
“This attitude of intellectual challenge is characteristic of the entire volume, and it is such touches of ‘sæva indignatio’ that give the author’s work its most distinctive quality.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 273. N. 1, ‘05. 300w.
“It is impossible to read Mr. Coutts without admiration. But he lacks, through nearly all this volume, the human sweetness that is the preservative of poetry.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 168. My. 26, ‘05. 400w.
“Mr. Coutts is always thoughtful and always sensitive to the imaginative import of his ideas.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“He has extreme simplicity and chastity of style, what Stevenson has called ‘the piety of speech,’ a perfect taste, and an instinct for rendering in delicate poetry, evasive moods and fancies. There is also a gravity and austerity. The slightly forced reflectiveness seems to us to be a blemish in much of his work.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 114. Ja. 28, ‘05. 310w.
=Cowan, Rev. Henry.= John Knox, the hero of the Scottish reformation, 1505-1572. **$1.35. Putnam.
In this seventh volume in the “Heroes of the reformation” series, the writer has aimed to “describe those portions of the career of Knox which are most likely to be of general interest: to place his life-work in its historical setting.” This he has done, giving a clear picture of the reformer and his times. References to original authorities are given in foot-notes and there is a complete index.
“Both popular and scholarly.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 400. N. ‘05. 70w.
“While less piquant than Lang’s, is perhaps the better book for the student. With a quick penetration into the particular subject or episode in hand, a strong grasp of the situation, and with clear and rapid movement of style, he makes a good story as well as a trustworthy one.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 110w.
“The author is an advocate, but he is fair, dignified, and moderate in his advocacy of Knox’s side of these questions and of the general course of his conduct as a Puritan leader.” Charles H. Cooper.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 206. O. 1, ‘05. 840w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 190. Je. 16. ‘05. 210w.
“Dr. Cowan’s way of looking at Knox is, of course, not Mr. Lang’s way. Naturally Dr. Cowan’s biography is less interesting.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 650w.
“Dr. Cowan’s work is that of a professor unable to apprehend the spirit of a religion outside his sphere of thought.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 440. S. 30, ‘05. 510w.
=Cowen, Thomas.= The Russo-Japanese war: from the outbreak of hostilities to the battle of Liao Yang. *$4.20. Longmans.
“A trained observer, for many years a war correspondent, describing for newspapers the Boer war, the Japanese-Chinese war, phases of the Spanish-American war, both in Cuba and the Philippines, the Boxer in China, and the siege of Peking, Mr. Cowen treats of the war in the East with exceptional facilities for getting at the facts.” (N. Y. Times). He analyses the reasons for Japanese success, he sums up the cause for Russia’s failures in the statement that “Indecision in emergency has been a characteristic weakness of Russia.” He follows the steps taken by Japan in her preparation for war, showing the methods adopted for meeting the peculiar difficulties to be overcome in opposing the host of Russia’s forces. “Remarkably effective as word pictures are his descriptions of the naval operations in the early days before Port Arthur.... And with it all there is a constant succession of pictures of army and navy life that is positively fascinating in the simple old-fashioned manner in which it is told with no attempt at ‘fine writing.’” (N. Y. Times).
+ + =Nation.= 80: 74. Ja. 26, ‘05. 3220w.
“With the simplicity of a tactical primer the reasons for success and the causes of failure are alike made plain.”
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1430w.
“He writes with a graphic touch and an intimacy with affairs Japanese that give a value to his volume which it otherwise would not possess.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 590w.
* =Cowley, Abraham.= Poems: Miscellanies, The mistress, Pindarique odes, Davideis; verses written on several occasions. *$1.50. Macmillan.
“A very convenient single-volume edition printed in large type, the text edited by Mr. A. R. Waller from the first collected edition of Cowley’s works, published in 1688, the year after his death. This volume presents the variations noted in a collation of the 1668 text with the folio of 1656, the volume of 1663, and the edition of ‘The mistress,’ which appeared in 1647. Errors which have been discovered in the poems are indicated by brackets and are explained in the notes.”—Outlook.
* + + =Acad.= 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 1370w.
* + =Lond. Times.= 4: 309. S. 29, ‘05. 2110w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 120w.
=Cox, Kenyon.= Old masters and new: essays in art criticism. **$1.50. Fox.
“This volume makes no pretensions to be a history of art. It is, as Mr. Cox explains, a series of appreciations of individual masters, and, incidentally, gives a view of the course of painting since the sixteenth century. The artists principally discussed are Michelangelo, Dürer, Rubens, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, William Blake, F. M. Brown, Burne-Jones, Meissonier, Baudry, Puvis de Chavannes, Whistler, Sargent, Saint-Gaudens, Veronese, Perugino, and the Venetian artists, the Pre-Raphaelites, some of the lesser painters of the nineteenth century, and the sculptors of the early Italian renaissance.”—N. Y. Times.
“Kenyon Cox is a master of essays in art criticism, and this collection ... shows him at his best.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 120w.
“If his style lacks that brilliancy which marks the man of great genius ... we have in their stead the sound technical knowledge of the artist, coupled with a keen sense of discrimination.” Albert E. Gallatin.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 259. S. ‘05. 520w.
“Keen insight and a peculiar warmth of description.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 240w.
* “In its new dress, therefore, and with its score of excellent half-tones, the book should find a wider public than ever.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“Taken altogether, perhaps the most notable and significant book of art criticism pure and simple, not only of the year, but of several years.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 691. S. 21, ‘05. 640w.
* “For incisive analysis and illuminative appreciation Mr. Cox’s little book of essays, ‘Old masters and new,’ is the most significant and the most valuable work in art criticism pure and simple issued in many a long day.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“Mr. Cox’s ideas are sound and put with candour and balance.”
+ + + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 88. Je. ‘05. 190w.
“Where Mr. Cox speaks as an artist (and he nearly always does), it is not easy to take issue with him, for he knows remarkably well what he is talking about. Now and then one may disagree with him about other matters.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 461. Je. 8, ‘05. 830w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 282. Ap. 29, ‘05. 300w.
“Short as they are, these ‘Essays in criticism,’ expressed in an excellent style, may be warmly recommended to lovers of art.” Charles de Kay.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 741. N. 4, ‘05. 600w.
* “The author knows his subject, and expresses his thoughts in simple and concise language, so as to make himself intelligible to those of limited observation and experience.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
“There is in all the essays a most unusual clarity of style and probity of judgment.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 879. Ag. 5, ‘05. 760w.
* “Mr. Cox’s essays are vivid, delightful, and spirited discussions of great events in art, and they have a vivacity and surety of judgment which can not but delight the more matured art student.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 110w.
* “Is a practical book of art criticism. It ought to be helpful to novices in art appreciation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 30w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Storm center. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A Civil war story whose scene is laid in the mountains of Tennessee. “The Federal officers who court Southern women in Charles Egbert Craddock’s new story ... are more credible types, and it is the first time in its history that the Civil war has been reduced to a neighborhood affair, but the story of their wooings is the best this author has written in years.” (Ind.)
“This sincere feeling for style, though occasionally it is overdone, is certainly the best thing about a story which barely misses being exceedingly dull. Suffers from a general vagueness and faulty construction.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 234. Ag. 19. 210w.
“The outline of the story has scarcely a single point of novelty, and yet the narrative does maintain its interest.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 140w.
“Slight in substance, and of moderate interest only.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 210. Jl. 27, ‘05. 50w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“The machinery of the story seems to creak at times. But there are elements of power in the novel; ‘it goes.’”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 440w.
“It hardly has the force and depth of the author’s earlier books. Its plot is a little conventional, but there are novel and entertaining incidents.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15. ‘05. 80w.
=Crafts, Wilbur Fisk.= Successful men of today, and what they say of success. $1. Funk.
A new edition, revised, enlarged, and made thoroughly up-to-date, of this popular description of the road to success, based on facts and opinions gathered by letters and personal interviews from five hundred prominent men who tell of their experience along this royal highway, and give helpful hints for those who would follow.
=Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Richards) (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.).= Flute of Pan. †$1.50. Appleton.
The author has converted her play, which was produced in England with small success, into a novel, which, while entertaining, retains the weakness of the stage comedy. The plot hinges on a slight misunderstanding between a young English earl who has gone to Venice to paint and lead the simple life, and the Princess of Siguria who comes to ask him to be her prince consort; other aristocratic characters enter into and complicate the story.
“From the beginning of the book to the end we have not met with a stroke of genuine drollery, or of the humour that is composed of mingled laughter and sympathy.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 615. Je. 10, ‘05. 710w.
“It is indeed, impossible to criticise ‘The flute of Pan’ away from the footlights. Its plot is thin, and it may be styled a comedy of intrigue. But it is very readable and bright and pleasant.”
+ — =Ath.= 1: 746. Je. 17, ‘05. 250w.
“The story is without background; it is a collection of sketches and notes, giving the impression that the writer has never quite made up her mind as to what she is aiming at.”
— =Lond. Times=, 4: 193. Je. 16, ‘05. 450w.
* “In the present story we miss the clever epigrams and the brilliant dialogue which characterized much of her previous work, and there is nothing to take their place.”
— + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.
“It is as a psychologist that she would make her appeal. But psychology is not her strong point. Her methods are those of the dilettante.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 847. Je. 24, ‘05. 1070w.
=Craik, Dinah Maria (Miss Mulock, pseud.).= John Halifax, gentleman. $1.25. Crowell.
All friends of John Halifax will be pleased to see it as one of the attractive “Thin paper classics” series.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Impressions of Japanese architecture and the allied arts. **$2. Baker.
Ten papers which show the development of Japanese art and help the Western mind to a better understanding of it makes up “this series of impressions of the esthetic voicing of Japanese civilization.” Beginning with The genius of Japanese art, the author covers the early and later architecture of Japan; Temples and shrines; Temple gardens; and Domestic interiors. There are also chapters upon The minor arts; A color print of Yeizan; A note on Japanese sculpture; and the Future of Japanese art. The volume is illustrated with some original plans and many unusual pictures.
* “At last we have a volume doing justice to Japanese architecture.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 100w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 35. D. ‘05. 210w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 280w.
* “It is rare that in a discussion of this sort one finds such brilliant diction, fervent imagery, and such a reverent attitude as Mr. Cram manifests. Judged from the standpoint of its purpose the book is beyond criticism. Mr. Cram’s book is one of the most important of the year.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 666. N. 18, ‘05. 220w.
=Cram, Ralph Adams.= Ruined abbeys of Great Britain. **$2.50. Pott.
“The ruins described and illustrated are Glastonbury, Whitby, Lindisfarne, Beaulieu, Netley, Tintern, Gisburgh, Bolton, Jedburgh, Kelso, Rievauix, Byland, Melrose. Dryburgh, Kirkstall, Malmsbury, York, and Fountains. In the concluding chapter Mr. Cram ... estimates the position of the abbeys in English social and economic life and the effect of their suppression upon the moral and religious condition of the people. The book is fully illustrated and has a full index of names and places.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The subject is pursued rather with an interest in the significance of the religious houses in English life and their fortunes in their relations with the State than from an exclusively artistic standpoint.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 36. D. ‘05. 150w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 140w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
=Cramp, Walter S.= Psyche, a romance of the reign of Tiberius. $1.50. Little.
The horrid cruelty of Tiberius and his time is graphically set forth. The story is of Psyche, a beautiful Greek dancing girl, and her lover Gyges, a charioteer in the Roman circus, and the troubles which came upon them through their knowledge of a fatal secret connected with the ambitions of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian guards, to make himself emperor. The story is the result of a careful study of the times, and consequently is unpleasant and full of horrors.
“Mr. Cramp’s story is the result of considerable study and painstaking care, but it lacks ... that strong imaginative quality that makes its characters convincing.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 221. Ag. ‘05. 350w.
“An ambitious and gratifying bit of interpretation.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“Written with conscientious care, but rarely touched by the charm of imagination.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 94. My. 6, ‘05. 60w.
=Craven, John J.= Prison life of Jefferson Davis. **$1.20. Dillingham.
A former edition of this book was published in 1866. The author was surgeon at Fortress Monroe during the time of Mr. Davis’ imprisonment, and the volume gives a full account of the “details and incidents of his captivity, particulars concerning his health and habits, together with many conversations on topics of great public interest.” Copies of the official reports sent by the author to the commanding officer, concerning the prisoner’s physical and mental condition are given in full.
=Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Fair Margaret: a portrait. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Margaret Donne is an English girl, daughter of an Oxford don and his American wife—a girl the description of whose parentage implies a career of unusual interest. When the book opens her parents are dead and she is in Paris with a close friend of her mother cultivating her voice. Three men figure as her admirers, one of them mysterious and probably royal. Margaret becomes an opera singer and meets with success.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Abounds in action and shows its author at his best—and his best is very good.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
* “Mr. Crawford is a born story-teller, but a good deal of the writing in this volume is very commonplace and lacking in distinction of any kind; but the book is worth reading for the sake of the picture of the old artist.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Salve Venetia: gleanings from history. 2v. **$5. Macmillan.
“Brushing aside the didactic history formed by a rapid succession of events and the chronological sequence of great and little names, Mr. Crawford extracts from tradition and monument a narrative which reveals the life of the islanders, the causes of their rise and glory and of their dismal decay, far better than a formal history even when accompanied with skillful and enlightening commentary. Concerning the stories revealed by the monuments, Mr. Crawford’s text is set off with a series of illustrations by Joseph Pennell—splendidly true in their grasp of art and history and delightful as pictorial records of a dying race and its dead culture.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 883. D. 9, ‘05. 310w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Southern Italy and Sicily and the rulers of the South; with 100 original drawings by Henry Brokman. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“No one should by any chance visit Sicily or southern Italy without first having read Mr. Crawford’s book. This new edition puts into one volume, not at all bulky or inconvenient, what was formerly presented in two. The illustrations are capital and are well printed.”—Outlook.
* “Countless touches show that Mr. Crawford thoroughly understands his ground and his people, with a psychological insight that renders especially interesting his theories and deductions.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “Indeed, it is hard to see wherein, within the limits, the work could have been better done. Mr. Crawford’s work is an unexcelled resumé for the historical scholar, the student of history, or for just the lover of good literature.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 550w.
=Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 40w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 90w.
“In every way the edition is satisfactory.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=Crawford, F. Marion.= Whosoever shall offend. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Crawford’s technique becomes, if anything, more refined with each new work that he puts forth, but his substance grows thinner than ever. A forced mechanical invention marks the plot of ‘Whosoever shall offend,’ and the characters are but slightly modified variations of the types that he has been fashioning for the past score of years. The new novel is concerned with a polished villain, who murders his wife and seeks to murder his stepson, all with the sordid object of gaining their fortune for himself, and in the end is trapped and punished according to his deserts. It is all very cleverly managed, but the interest is of the mildest.”—Dial.
“It is a well-written, highly interesting melodrama.... The characters are all good types, the plot is strong, and the Italian atmosphere tempers the sensational occurrences to the colder northern imagination.”
— + =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 100w.
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 38: 16. Ja. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“In this last novel Crawford is at his best. He writes with the charm and the originality of a man at the full tide of his powers.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1133. My. 18, ‘05. 260w.
“The story is ingenious, the sketches of scenery and peasantry admirable, the comments by the way philosophic and thoughtful; the English, of course, of the best-regulated. The reader for the most part, however, remains outside.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 98. F. 2, ‘05. 320w.
“Notwithstanding its horrors, and partly on account of them, ‘Whosoever shall offend’ is simply an agreeable and diverting story, the work of an accomplished writer, who always turns out his creations in graceful form and who has established the right to be called the ‘Norris’ of American fiction.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 496. Mr. ‘05. 370w.
“His theme, as in not a few of his earlier books, is a particularly grewsome and mysterious crime. He appears to tell the story not for the sake of its sensational elements, however, but for the sake of character and social analysis. Contains a fascinating story, a puzzling mystery and its solution, elements in a book which, if well handled, as here, have never yet been known to fail of their effect.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 115. Ja. ‘05. 160w.
=Crehore, Albert Gushing.= Synchronous and other multiple telegraphs: some methods of obtaining independent telegraph circuits on a single wire both with and without synchronism. *$2. McGraw pub.
“The multiple telegraph systems other than synchronous systems discussed in the book are modifications of the Edison Phonoplex, the Varley and other somewhat similar systems; sometimes termed superimposed systems.... The first part of the book is taken up with a description and discussion of instances of the type of telegraph systems just mentioned. The second and third parts of the book relate to methods of obtaining synchronism at distant points; and to synchronous telegraphs, respectively.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by Wm. Maver.
* =Engin. N.= 54: 535. N. 16, ‘05. 590w.
=Creighton, Louise (Mrs. Mandell Creighton).= The life and letters of Mandell Creighton. *$9. Longmans.
The “Life and letters” of Bishop Creighton, the English Phillips Brooks, given to the public by Mrs. Creighton, portray a broadminded, steadfast man, a man who was “intensely loyal to the church and its mission.” “It is a long time since there was published any memoir or volume of letters which shows the Church of England on its best and most lovable side than do these memoirs of Creighton. But their interest is by no means confined to the Church of England. They contain many social studies of England in the second half of the old century; and in particular the chapters which deal with Creighton’s life at Emberton will long be remembered as a classic study of mining, fishing and farm life in the villages on the bleak northeast coast of England.” (Ind.)
“In the hands of Mrs. Creighton the English language is not as apt and flexible an instrument as in those of Lady Burne-Jones, but she shows an equal skill in the selection and arrangement of her material, and perhaps a somewhat greater readiness to admit the weaknesses and limitations of her subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 36: 558. Ap. ‘05. 3120w.
=Ind.= 58: 324. F. 9, ‘05. 670w.
“His widow and biographer, ... has not, although a lady of distinguished literary ability, succeeded in presenting an entirely coherent and harmonious portrait. Mrs. Creighton’s biography is a model of sound literary judgment particularly in its accurate proportion. She has also displayed tact.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 95. F. 2, ‘05. 2120w.
=Crewdson, Charles N.= Tales of the road. $1.50. Thompson & Thomas.
“The author’s object is not merely to tell amusing anecdotes about his own and others’ experiences as commercial travellers ... but to give some practical hints and suggestions to young men just beginning to ‘go on the road’; yet the book is, after all, chiefly a collection of anecdotes.”—Outlook.
* “Some of these are amusing; others are rather tedious. Perhaps it may most aptly be compared with such a book as ‘Letters from a self-made merchant to his son,’ but it lacks the originality and shrewd homely humor which made that book so deservedly popular.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Cherry ribband: a novel. †$1.50. Barnes.
“Raith Ellison, the son of a grim, blind, old Scotchman, lets his eyes rest on Ivie Rysland, the daughter of Sergeant Grif Rysland of his majesty’s dragoons, quartered in Scotland for the express purpose of suppressing the conventicles. For this he is cast off by his father and enlists in Rysland’s troop. In the course of time he comes to be one of the jailers of his majesty’s prison on the Bass, where his own father and brother are confined. Later on, by an unexpected turn of events, he assists at a jail delivery by which his father and brother gain their freedom again. Of course it ends happily.”—Pub. Opin.
* “Is a thrilling drama-novel of the joyous old type of Dumas and Hope—and Crockett.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 470w.
* “This romance is full of charm and vigor. The story shows the author at his best.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Loves of Miss Anne. $1.50. Dodd.
“The story is on the old theme of the apprentice’s love for his master’s daughter—in this case a shepherd boy and a very capricious and spirited girl, who treads the narrow path between fun and ill-breeding with rather uncertain steps. The boy becomes a land-agent, helps to rescue the girl from the insults of a drunken brother, and marries her after some pretty love-making on the hills by moonlight. The tale is told by Miss Anne’s faithful companion.”—Spec.
“Her story may be read with a good conscience.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 126. F. 16, ‘05. 140w.
“There is about the whole book a good humour and good health. It is a pity that Mr. Crockett will not realize that vulgarity is in itself bad art, and in no way contributes to the realism of a narrative.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 145. Ja. 28, ‘05. 340w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= May Margaret. †$1.50. Dodd.
The heroine of Mr. Crockett’s story is the Scottish May Margaret of the famous house of Douglas. The tale reveals how this high-spirited, quick witted maiden presides in turn over the destinies of three wooers. “It is all a fearful matrimonial tangle, but history and not Mr Crockett, is responsible for that, and canonical laws find a way for the legalizing of it—as is with much sly humor set forth in the text.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Is in Mr. Crockett’s best vein. It may be doubted whether the author has made the most of this Æschylean drama; but he has emphasized the actors, and his additions to history tend to fix the picture in our memory.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 714. Je. 10. 170w.
“While not a masterpiece, the tale is strong in its appeal to the two elemental human passions, war and love, viewed through the magic mirror of imagination and set in the enchanted land of Long Ago.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31 :666. N. 4, ‘05. 240w.
“This is not, perhaps, one of his best, but it goes with the gait of the ‘true romance’ ... and is good to read.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 435. Jl. 1, ‘05. 440w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 445. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“Liberties are taken with history, and there are a hundred flagrant anachronisms of style and matter; but the real blemish is that the whole atmosphere is sham antique, and aggressively false.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 196. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1100w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Raiderland: all about Grey Galloway, its stories, traditions, characters, humors. **$2. Dodd.
“A sort of literary guide-book to that part of Galloway which is the locale of the bulk of his fiction. The result is a pleasant medley of facts and fiction, of descriptive touches and old legends, of character sketches and those intuitions which a land gray with history is certain to arouse.” (Pub. Opin.) Of his purpose, the author says: “It is my desire not so much to write a new book about Galloway as to focus and concentrate what I have already written for the use of Galloway lovers and Galloway travelers.”
“A collection of more or less doubtful history but of excellent literary material. The drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell are, as always, delightful.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“To a native of Galloway, or to a person steeped in Mr. Crockett’s books as some are steeped in Stevenson or Scott or Thackeray, the whole may well be delightful. To the ordinary Philistinic reader much of it will appear superfluous—though even he must catch at times the infection of Mr. Crockett’s enthusiasm and feel the charm of this bit and that of panegyric, of reminiscence or local color.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 29. Ja. 14, ‘05. 560w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38 :26. Ja. 5, ‘05. 200w.
* =Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.= Sir Toady Crusoe. (†)$1.50. Stokes.
This new story for boys of all ages tells how that very charming little fellow, Sir Toady Lion, became Sir Toady Crusoe, and of the many remarkable adventures which he and Saucy and Dick and some others had on Isle Crusoe on the Scottish coast, how he befriended a poacher in his father’s covers, how he played the part of local assistant to Providence in behalf of his big brother, Hugh John, and Cissy Carter, by threatening Cissy’s father with two large pistols, and how he did many other strange things in a way very unlike any one else and very like Toady. There are many illustrations by Gordon Browne.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
* “He is an amusing, if improbable little chap, but other children will certainly learn from him neither good English nor good manners.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ‘05. 80w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 120w.
* “Is superior to the ordinary story for children, in its style, humour, characterisation and atmosphere. And yet Mr. Crockett’s tale is not altogether satisfactory, there is too large a mixture of grown-up sentiment in it.”
+ — =Sat.= R. 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.
* =Spec.= 95: sup. 907. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.
=Croiset, (Marie Joseph) Alfred, and Croiset, Maurice.= Abridged history of Greek literature; authorized tr. by G. F. Heffelbower. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“This manual is a compression of the great history of Greek literature, which the authors of this work have published in five volumes, appearing 1887-1899. In accord with this conception of Greek literature as a whole we find their admirable development of each period.... It is the peculiar excellence of this work that it gives no partial and incomplete view of Greek literature, but carries the account of it not only through the Hellenistic period, but through the Christian writers of the first three centuries as well.... Their closing chapters on the Hellenic revival and the last days of Hellenic literature are most illuminating and valuable.”—Educ. R.
“The subject is developed with the beautiful French lucidity which makes readable an account of the dullest epoch, and the brilliant phrasing which is a Frenchman’s birthright cannot be altogether lost, even in translation. The translation by Professor Heffelbower exhibits some curious phenomena.” Grace Harriet Macurdy.
+ + — =Educ. R.= 29: 314. Mr. ‘05. 900w.
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 152. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1290w.
“Mr. Heffelbower’s translation is fluent enough, but full of infelicities when reproducing MM. Croiset’s rendering of gems of Greek literature.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 38. Ja. 12, ‘05. 1440w.
“The translation preserves the spirit, while giving us the idiomatic English so necessary for the young student.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 274.* Mr. ‘05. 140w.
“In spite of these lapses—which, after all, are few in number considering the extent of the work—the book as a whole may be commended to students of Greek literature, who are unable to use the original, as a measurably satisfactory presentation in English of a work of unquestioned excellence.” John C. Rolfe.
+ + — =School R.= 13: 738. N. ‘05. 540w.
=Crosby, Ernest.= Broadcast. *75c. Funk.
Mr. Crosby, the poet reformer and Tolstoyan, shows thru his verses, pictures, messages and meditations, the tyranny which the world’s systems exercise over its powerless victims. His remedy for the times so out of joint lies in making “men pull together” as only “love, cooperation, equal service, true honor and honesty” can accomplish.
“The present volume, though inferior to ‘Plain talk in Psalm and parable’, contains much that is thought-stimulating and helpful. The more we read Mr. Crosby’s writings, the more profoundly are we convinced that he is above all else a moralist and a teacher, and that prose is the field of literature in which he is most effective.”
+ — =Arena.= 34: 334. S. ‘05. 930w.
“But in spite of unpoetic poetry and illogical logic to be found in abundance on the strident little pages of this outcry against our social organization, there are also the results of observation definitely outlined.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 220w.
* =Crosby, Ernest.= Garrison the non-resistant. 50c. Public pub. co.
Mr. Crosby, the disciple of Tolstoy, has taken the facts relating to the life of Garrison as related in “The story of his life by his children” and explains thru them the anomaly that the cause of abolition fathered by a non-resistant was at last decided by the greatest war of history.
=Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson.= Wild Irishman. **$1.25. Appleton.
As Mr. Crosland has numbered the “Egregious Englishman,” and the “Unspeakable Scot” among the scalps of his satire, so now does he display just such designing intentions towards the “Wild Irishman.” His attacks are merciless, and “such chapters as those on ‘Pigs,’ ‘Potatoes,’ ‘Dirt,’ ‘Whiskey,’ and ‘Blarney’ are not exactly calculated to make the native of Erin enthusiastic in the writer’s praise.” (Dial.)
— =Dial.= 39: 210. O. 1, ‘05. 520w.
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 620. S. 23, ‘05. 780w.
— =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 80w.
“As an exercise in literary pyrotechnics the work is out of the ordinary—but we cannot help a disappointment in that Mr. Crosland has not devoted an unusual brilliancy to better uses than mere display.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 447. S. 30, ‘05. 210w.
* + =R of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Cross, Wilbur Lucius.= Development of the English novel. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The seventh edition of Professor Cross’ work which first appeared in 1900. Not only has use proven its principles authoritative, but judgments which the author offered five years ago have stood the test of change and advancement.
“The best of its kind, no doubt, in the language.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 261. Ag. 3, ‘05. 20w.
=Nation.= 80: 435. Je. 1, ‘05. 70w.
=Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 30w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 310w.
“Professor Cross has done a thorough and useful work.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Crowley, Jeremiah.= The parochial school: a curse to the church, a menace to the nation. $1. Published by the author, Chicago.
In a chapter dedicating his work to the “Emancipate Catholic laity of tomorrow” the author makes an appeal to the laity. “‘The parochial school’ lays bare clerical immorality in the United States in a way to rival the story of the church in Latin countries or in Germany before Luther’s day. Sad as is this picture, it is, however, far less painful, than to read how thoroughly good men combine to hide, gloss over, or condone clerical crimes.... Father Crowley devotes much space to the dangers of the parochial school. They are an incubus on the church and a serious menace to her.... The surest way in the world to kill off Catholicism is to give over education to priests and nuns. Witness France.” (Ind.)
+ =Ind.= 58: 207. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1030w.
“He does not attack the Catholic church, but arraigns its priests and prelates who have become corrupted.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 350w.
=Crowley, Mary Catherine.= Heroine of the strait. 75c. Little.
A popular edition of this romance of Detroit in the time of the Ottawa chief, Pontiac. An account of the thrilling events connected with the pitiless siege of Detroit, through which runs the love story of the young Scotchman, Sterling, and Angelique Cuillerier, a brave daughter of the frontier.
=Crowley, Mary Catherine.= Love thrives in war: a romance of the frontier in 1812; with front, by Clyde O. De Land. 75c. Little.
A new popular edition of a lively romance in which Perry, Tippecanoe, and Tecumseh figure. The heroine, a Scotch girl, who has a trio of suitors, promises to marry the man she loathes in order to save the life of her lover. The author has made a thoro study of the scenes and times which she depicts.
=Cruttwell, Maud.= Verrocchio. *$2. Scribner.
“To her biographies of Mantegna and the Robbias our author now presents one of Verrocchio, perhaps the least known and appreciated of fifteenth century masters.” (Outlook). The biographer has aimed to show “upon what dubious evidence the attribution to Verrocchio of such work as the Tornabuoni relief and other inferior sculpture and painting is based, to trace his steady development from the immature work of the Baptism to the full burst of his powers in the statue of the Colleoni, and to arrive at a truer estimate of his artistic capabilities by the rejection of all inferior work, the attribution of which is merely hypothetical, taking as the standard of judgment only such works as are proved beyond possibility of doubt to be authentic.” The book is fully illustrated.
“It is in her purely aesthetic judgments that we find Miss Cruttwell least satisfactory. Taken as a whole, Miss Cruttwell’s study is the most accurate, impartial, and complete that has yet been made on the subject; but it leaves room for some writer touched more deeply by the imaginative aspect of Verrocchio’s work to give him his exact place in the temple of fame.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 116. Ja. 28. 1670w.
“It is a thorough-going essay, notable for its clarification of the master’s works. Her book has gusto; it is written with equal knowledge and enthusiasm. It is one of the best of those monographs to which I have referred as based on system and industry rather than on an original impulse.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 277. F. ‘05. 540w.
“The author has grasped the value of giving attention to the study of the artist’s works at the expense of vague surmises as to his biography.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 186. F. ‘05. 80w.
“A scholarly and appreciative monograph of great importance.” George Breed Zug.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 890w.
“Her book is altogether the best on Verrocchio that we have, in English at least.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 180w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
“Generally speaking, Maud Cruttwell’s work is sober and well informed. One may regret the vagueness of her general views. Few comprehensive works of recent years are as useful.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 77. Ja. 26, ‘05. 920w.
“She leaves us with an impression not to be gained by other readings of the exaltation of the Verrocchio ideal. The biographer and critic renders an equally important service in discriminating between Verrocchio’s own work and those far feebler achievements of his followers sometimes attributed to him.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w.
=Culbertson, Anne Virginia.= Banjo talks. $1. Bobbs.
A group of about fifty negro dialect poems, some of which sing, others dream, and many talk sound common sense.
“Here are many songs, poems and lullabies phrased in the homely terms and picturing the life and character of the Southern negro more accurately than labored essays. And more than this, these simple folk-lore songs, ditties and lullabies are composed with due regard to the laws of versification.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 554. N. ‘05. 990w.
* “Showing very little of the philosophical temper that makes Mr. Dunbar’s work unique, and being considerably less perfect in dialect, they have to their credit a decided imaginative quality, much picturesqueness of diction, and a charming spontaneity of conception and treatment.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* “The volume as a whole, with its humor, its pathos, its jumbled ratiocinations, gives a fairly complete portrait of the southern negro.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 70w.
=Cullum, Ridgwell.= In the brooding wild. †$1.50. Page.
“The tragedy of ‘The brooding wild’ consists in the enmity sown between two brothers, trappers of a straightforward primitive type, by a woman whom they believe to be a mysterious white squaw, queen of an Indian tribe. She is really a very ordinary half-breed conspiring with a rascally trader to rob the brothers.... The climax, in which a lunatic filled with the lust of slaughter breaks away into the wilderness, unfortunately passes the border-line of the grotesque.”—Sat. R.
“The human interest is subsidiary to the landscape. We wish the author had trusted for his effects to the realities of his mighty background, for his conspirators are made of pasteboard while his wolves and dogs and bears are of flesh and blood.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w.
“Unfortunately his ambition has outsailed his power of execution, and from unskilful treatment the story loses the interest promised at the outset.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 619. My. 20. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 450w.
“The story is told with fervor, with a rough, crude force.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 221. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w.
“The book is garishly melodramatic.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 745. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
=Cunningham, William.= Growth of English industry and commerce during the early and middle ages. v. I. 4th ed. *$4. Macmillan.
“In this new edition of the first volume ... substantial additions are found, together with corrections on various points of detail and increased precision of statement.... As it now stands, this volume, which traces the course of industrial progress through early and mediæval England, more nearly than ever before fulfills its author’s purpose of indicating clearly the interconnection between the economic and political facts of the periods reviewed, and of making plain not only the events but the ideas of the time.”—Outlook.
=Nation.= 80: 373. My. 11, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 180w.
=Curtis, Francis.= Republican party. Vols. I and II. **$6. Putnam.
“The work should command serious interest. The very fact that it is honored by a foreword over the name of President Roosevelt, and that the introductory notes ... were written by Senator William P. Frye and Speaker J. G. Cannon, at once arouses interest. By copious extracts from government documents, party platforms and newspaper files, the author shows first the republican party owes its origin neither to enthusiasts nor to a single movement. The party has been consistent through its career, and to-day stands for the three great policies for which it stood at its birth, ‘liberty, honor, and progress.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“But in spite of the fact that the author is neither exact nor entirely conservative in all his statements, the work as a whole must command lasting respect.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 127. Ja. ‘05. 300w.
“The period of the Civil war is handled skilfully and with less partisanship than might have been expected. It will be easily seen that Mr. Curtis’s work will be accepted only by loyal party men, and yet it is of great value to the historical student; in fact, it is a very elaborate historical argument.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 400w.
“It would be ridiculous to call this kind of stuff ‘history’, since it entirely lacks the historical spirit or sense of proportion, still Mr. Curtis has compiled a useful record.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 599. My. 6, ‘05. 1400w.
=Curtis, William Eleroy.= Egypt, Burma and British Malaysia. **$2. Revell.
“Another descriptive informational volume, so many of which have already come from the pen of the same author. Mr. Curtis tells of things he has seen, and garnishes his narrative with a great deal of historical and descriptive information which makes very interesting reading. There are a number of excellent illustrations in this volume.”—R. of Rs.
* “To add anything new to these old familiars would be impossible; but Mr. Curtis’s view-point is at times refreshing.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 39: 377. D. 1, ‘05. 380w.
* “There is in the present book the same easy, confident, and confidential style of sketching and statisticizing (if the word may pass) that makes not unpleasant reading in Mr. Curtis’s previous volume.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 403. N. 16, ‘05. 210w.
* “Its reading will amply repay any one interested in either the ancient or the modern development of the countries treated.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 210w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Curtis, William Eleroy.= Modern India. **$2. Revell.
A vast deal of information has been brought together here, and the author’s method “is to combine with a mass of observations and deductions of his own—the observations taken hastily upon his travels and the deductions—not too carefully checked—statistics, fragments of history, geography, ethnology, guide book information, and what not gathered together from all available sources.” (N. Y. Times.) “The author is happier in his delineation of modern life, and the casual reader will enjoy the descriptions of town and country, plague and famine, peasant and priest.” (Nation.)
* “It is a strange medley of wit and wisdom with error and ignorance, of fun and burlesque with serious study, the good qualities, however, predominating.”
+ — =Ath.= 2: 639. N. 11, ‘05. 1560w.
* “A very helpful book for those who wish data upon which to base a reasonable judgment of the actual state of affairs in that country.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 377. D. 1, ‘05. 300w.
“With much that is statistically accurate, the book unfortunately abounds in printer’s and author’s errors.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 180w.
“It would, no doubt, be hard to find in another single volume such a variety of information about India and Indian affairs, but the assemblage with all its facts and figures, lacks that authority which is necessary to give full value to a work of this kind.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 1160w.
“A feature of particular value to Americans is the exposition of the activities of their countrymen in the religious, educational, economic and social life of India.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* “Another of Mr. Curtis’ encyclopaedic but entertaining books.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 100w.
=Cuthbert, Father.= Catholic ideals in social life. *$1.25. Benziger.
Father Cuthbert’s “desire has been to give expression to the Catholic mind touching some of the most urgent questions of the hour in regard to social life and conduct.” His essays include: The church and personal liberty, The Christian state, The education of women, Marriage, The value of work, The priest and social reform, The responsibility of wealth, The idea of responsibility, Religious aspects of social work, The working man’s apostolate, and St. Francis and you.
“Fresh, hopeful, and courageous essays.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 681. F. ‘05. 540w.
=Cuthell, E. H.= My garden in the city of gardens. **$1.50. Lane.
Gardening in India from October to June furnishes the theme of this “memory with illustrations.” There is a goodly amount of incidental knowledge worked in, such as descriptions of prevalent Indian customs and bits of gossip concerning Hindu every-day life.
“In spite of these faults and such others as an awkward style of writing and the lack of a glossary of Indian words, the book contains a good deal that is of interest in regard to life and nature in India.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 243. O. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“As garden-books go, this one is sufficiently entertaining, and the descriptions are as good as the photographs.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 183. Ag. 31, ‘05. 150w.
“Much of it is good enough reading if the mood fits.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 690w.
“But good as much of the book is, it is a little spoiled by an excess of carelessness in style and a too pointed assertion of individual mannerisms.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 291. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1470w.
=Cutler, James Elbert.= Lynch law: an investigation into the history of lynching in the U. S. **$1.50. Longmans.
Beginning with the origin of the term Prof. Cutler traces the development of the lynch law from 1830 down to date. He discusses the present situation, suggests remedies, and gives charts and statistics.
“The volume will repay careful study, even if exception is occasionally taken to some of the author’s conclusions. The volume represents a great amount of research work and the author is to be congratulated upon the manner in which the material is presented.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 606. S. ‘05. 280w.
+ + + = Ath.= 1905, 2: 296. S. 2. 1860w.
+ =Cath. World.= 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 510w.
“The book is sane, temperate in tone, moderate in statement, and judicial in conclusions. It is the only really valuable treatise on the subject, and is not likely to be superseded.” Walter L. Fleming.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 34. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1310w.
“Dr. Cutler has done much to solve the problem by his laborious, careful, and candid study of the question, which has already made him the leading authority upon a dangerous social disease.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 57. Jl. 20, ‘05. 2110w.
“In his final chapters on the justification of lynching and the remedies for it, Mr. Cutler shows a spirit remarkable for its fairness and an appreciation of the force of circumstances and the historical facts of the situation.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 1850w.
“Careful and dispassionate study of the phenomenon known as lynching.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 380w.
“A well-considered and thoughtful analysis of the facts and figures.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 911. Je. 10, ‘05. 470w.
* “Mr. Cutler’s book should be valuable for its summary of facts, and for the solemn warning that thoughtful Americans may read between the lines.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.
=Cutting, Mary Stewart.= Little stories of courtship. †$1.25. McClure.
“Tales of plain, everyday, middle-class people—people who are not overburdened with the world’s goods, but who are educated, cultured and refined—in short, the people we meet daily about us. The eight stories which make up this volume are very pleasant reading, indeed.”—N. Y. Times.
“This collection does not fulfill all the expectations excited by its unique predecessor, ‘The little stories of married life.’”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 545. Jl. ‘05. 320w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 180w.
“Stories of the book are all simple in their theme, but they gain much by Mrs. Cutting’s sympathetic handling of them.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w.
“The charm of all the stories lies in their perfect naturalness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“Some of these ‘little stories of courtship’ are excellent in their way, indicating shrewd observation and a kindly sympathy. But they are of very uneven merit.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 110w.
“They are gracefully spun, and, without being intense, they have the human touch. They portray life in its usual phases, yet they are not without variety, and they are very genuine in feeling.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 220w.
Cyclopedia of applied electricity; a practical guide for electricians, mechanics, engineers, students, telegraph and telephone operators, and all others interested in electricity. Prepared by a corps of experts, electrical engineers and designers. 5v. $30. Am. school of correspondence.
The text is divided in five parts and contains over 2,000 illustrations. Part I. treats of current measurements, part II. of dynamos, part III. of lightning, part IV. of alternating currents and power transmission, and part V. of telephony.
“We give, therefore, without comment on our part, the opinion passed by the publishers themselves: ‘The practical value of the work as a whole can hardly be questioned.’”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 294. Mr. 16, ‘05. 990w.
“A practical guide and encyclopedia of electrical knowledge that should be of great value to the everyday worker with electricity in all of its applications.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 428. Mr. 18, ‘05. 250w.
=Cynewulf.= Dream of the rood: an old English poem attributed to Cynewulf; ed. by Albert S. Cook. *90c. Oxford.
With the reproduction of this poem from the Vercelli book, the editor offers complete sidelight information including an introduction which discusses the manuscript, translations, authorship—sometimes attributed to Caedmon—and literary characteristics of the poem. There are full notes, an appendix and a glossary.
“This little book is full of valuable and all but convincing facts.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 445. Ap. 22, ‘05. 600w.
“The notes proper are full and interesting, and the glossary unusually helpful.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 686. Je. 3. 280w.
=Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 60w.
=Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 40w.
D
=Dale, Alan, pseud.= See =Cohen, Alfred J.=
=Dale, Thomas F.= Polo, past and present. *$3.75. Scribner.
An authoritative polo handbook. “Mr Dale has succeeded in accomplishing what no previous writer on polo has ever done, that is to present a concise, even graphic, view of the present status of polo throughout the world. The chapters on polo in England, America, India, Australia, and New Zealand, while technical, as the rules of each country are presented in full with illustrative comment, are of peculiar interest at the present time owing to a growing sentiment for an international code of rules.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Dale has the happy faculty of writing entertainingly for the general reader as well as for the scientific student. His book combines both elements.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1090w.
“A short chapter on the elements of polo is as instructive as it can be; and the later portions of the work, which deal with training ponies, stable management, and polo-pony breeding, contain much excellent matter.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 471. S. 30, ‘05. 600w.
=Daniels, Mabel W.= American girl in Munich. †$1.25. Little.
A Boston girl’s account of a year spent as a student of music in Munich. The German life in the little pension, the trials and joys of her fellow students, her professors, and the operas and symphonies she enjoyed, are described in a series of chatty letters to her chum. She meets several real celebrities in the world of music, and weaves into her story a pretty little German love idyl.
“Pleasantly written and full of delightful humor.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“There is not a ponderous page, yet she has attempted to enliven her narrative by weaving into it a boarding-house love story. It would have been wiser to study her German and read her proofs carefully.”
+ + — =Nation=, 81: 83. Jl. 27, ‘05. 680w.
“Delightfully readable are the letters. The book will be primarily interesting to another girl who has been or is thinking of studying abroad, but it is written in a chatty, gossipy manner which makes easy reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 198. Ap. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“A series of bright and entertaining letters. They have a flavor of genuineness quite apart from their mention of real notabilities and places.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 959. Ap. 15, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 70w.
=Dante Alighieri.= Divina commedia; tr. by H. F. Tozer. *$1. Oxford.
“A translation into English prose intended primarily for readers who are not acquainted with Italian. Mr. Tozer has endeavored to give Dante’s meaning as fully and clearly as possible without adhering too literally to the words; and at the same time to present the poem in a fairly readable form.”—Bookm.
“In rendering the poem itself Mr. Tozer’s prose contrasts lamentably with the noble, beautiful, living English and the unerring good taste of Professor Norton.” Abbott Foster.
— + =Bookm.= 21: 418. Je. ‘05. 970w.
“The translator has coped successfully with the difficult task of rendering Dante in English prose suitable for the student. From an artistic standpoint, much is necessarily lacking in the way of music and connotation of style.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“The most obvious quality of Mr. Tozer’s translation is its readableness; its inferiority to Mr. Norton’s lies in a less profound Dante scholarship, and in a certain looseness of style which springs from a tendency to paraphrase, and now from the use of inappropriate words.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 298, Ap. 13, ‘05. 750w.
Reviewed by W. L.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 184. Mr. 25, ‘05. 700w.
=Dante Alighieri.= Inferno: a translation and commentary, by Marvin R. Vincent. **$1.50. Scribner.
“While owning up to the ‘disenchantment’ of any translation,” the author, who is professor of sacred literature in the Union theological seminary, offers his own as a help to ‘make the study of Dante what it should be—a part of the curriculum of every theological institution.’ The translation “is fortified with about 125 pages of notes which comprise a commentary on words and phrases and ideas gathered and sifted from H. F. Tozer’s convenient book of explanation, and from similar publications. The author has also scattered some things of his own with lavish hand—principally in the departments of religions and ethical interpretation, altho there are some of historical fact.” (N. Y. Times).
“The student is led without useless ornamentation directly to the poet’s conception; and that is what most students want.”
+ =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 379. Ap. ‘05. 210w.
“Dr. Vincent has made a very strong, accurate and readable translation.”
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 418. Je. ‘05. 2890w.
“It is far from being a successful translation, for the figurative meanings have almost entirely disappeared with the rhythmical. It is just as far from being a successful poem, for all that Dr. Vincent gives us has already been more concisely expressed in plain prose. These notes are of uniform excellence, and are, as the author intimates, the result of class-room debates. On the chance that there are certain intellects which will more rapidly grasp a blank verse ‘Inferno’ rather than one in genuine poetry like Cary’s or in rhetorical prose like Norton’s, Dr. Vincent’s book may not be deemed entirely superfluous. For such intellects his notes can hardly fail to be otherwise than enlightening and stimulating.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 560w.
“Dr. Vincent announces that he has made a literal translation based on the Oxford text of Dr. Moore.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 759. D. ‘04. 80w.
=D’Arblay, Madame.= See =Burney, Frances.=
=Dargan, Edwin Charles.= History of preaching from the apostolic fathers to the great reformers. **$1.75. Armstrong.
“This, the first of three volumes, carries the subject to the close of the Reformation period. The two that are to follow will treat of modern European preaching and the history of preaching in the United States. Thus a field at present but partially worked will be fully covered. The present volume treats successively of the patristic preaching, its decline after the fourth century, mediæval preaching from the eleventh to the fourteenth century, and the subsequent renaissance.”—Outlook.
“Dr. Dargan gives us a careful view of the historic settings and abundant biographical detail.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 598. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“The author appears to have done very little original research, but he writes a readable style, and has made use of good sources of information.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 271. Ag. 26. 130w.
“We know of no other work of this character in which the combination of pleasing diction and abundant information is more satisfactory. Our author has depended largely upon Protestant authorities on matters connected with the Catholic church. The erudition of the author, his pleasing style and his spirit of equity give to the book a large value.”
+ + — =Baltimore Sun.= : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 490w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 370w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* “The book is a treasury of learning of a certain kind, but the learning is scarcely helpful. As a bibliography, indeed, the volume may be useful.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: sup. 910. D. 2, ‘05. 190w.
=Dasent, Sir George Webbe.= Heroes of Iceland; adapted from the translation of Dasent by Allen French. $1.50. Little.
A tale adapted from Dasent’s translation of “The story of burnt Njal,” the great Icelandic saga, with a preface, introduction and notes by Mr. French. It pictures Iceland in the tenth century, the old pagan life, the dawn of Christianity, and the struggle of mighty heroes.
* “In his comprehensive introduction as well as his notes, the author gives a thoro setting.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 471. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.
“A very convenient form of the greatest of Icelandic stories.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 30w.
* “We have no criticism to make on Mr. French’s execution of his task.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 904. D. 2, ‘05. 280w.
=Dasent, Sir George Webbe.= Popular tales from the Norse. *$2.50. Putnam.
The third edition of an 1859 English classic. “The book contains besides the ‘Tales,’ the introduction of the original edition, which considers broadly the origin and diffusion of folk tales in general, and of the Norse popular tales in particular.... A new part of the book is a memoir of the author by his son, Arthur Irwin Dasent, who gives an account of his father’s career from the time of his birth, on the island of St. Vincent, in 1817, to his death in England, in 1896. It is the story of an extraordinarily full and busy life, and a typically English record, at the same time, of recognition and merited reward.” (Nation).
“These, because of their manner and matter, are as fresh as on the day when they were first given in English garb. Scarcely a writer of recent time has been the possessor of such an English vocabulary or the master of such an English style. Dasent’s ‘Tales’ are in this way not only a singularly remarkable instance of felicitous translation from a foreign language into our own, but are at the same time a well of English, pure and undefiled, and a model of what English prose happily may be.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 114. F. 9, ‘05. 530w.
=Daumier, Honore.= International Studio. Daumier and Gavarni. *$2; *$3. Lane.
A number devoted to Daumier and Gavarni, the two great French cartoonists of the last century. There are two dozen reproductions of their work in color and photogravures, and a hundred illustrations in black and white. Critical and biographical notes on Daumier are translated from an essay of M. Henri Frantz, and there is an essay upon Gavarni by M. Octave Uzanne.
“Will be greatly prized by collectors of the works of the great satirical cartoonists and illustrators. It will prove a valuable addition to the art-collector’s library.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 338. Mr. ‘05. 690w.
“The essays are after all mere introductions to the plates. Incidentally the cartoons furnish a fascinating interpretation of Parisian life and manners. The special numbers of ‘The studio’ are always interesting, but this one is unusually unique and suggestive.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 51. Ja. 16, ‘05. 260w.
=Davenport, Frederick Morgan.= Primitive traits in religious revivals: a study in mental and social evolution. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“This is a purely sociological interpretation of revivals, having no evangelistic bias or motive. In his development of this theme the author has introduced accounts of various revivals of this country and Great Britain.”—R. of Rs.
“His collection of materials in this field is highly interesting, and a valuable supplement to Stoll’s ‘Suggestion and Hypnotismus in der Völker-psychologie.’” W. I. Thomas.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 272. S. ‘05. 160w.
* “It is a valuable contribution to our knowledge. Every minister should read it carefully and take its lessons to heart. The social student will find it helpful in explaining phenomena which have not received the attention they deserve.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 750. N. ‘05. 190w.
Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
+ — =Atlan.= 96: 688. N. ‘05. 500w.
“The treatment of his subject is logical and fairly clear, though with a number of repetitions.” Rolvix Harlan.
+ + — =Bib. World.= 26: 237. S. ‘05. 570w.
“The latter chapters of the book are somewhat disappointing. Instead of calm, scientific analyses or a logical drawing of conclusions, Prof. Davenport indulges in an exposition of his own theories and ideas.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 390. Ag. 17, ‘05. 580w.
“The book is a valuable and highly interesting contribution to the many recent discussions of the place and value of the emotions in moral and religious development.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 20. Jl. 6, ‘05. 1080w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 437. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1660w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 140w.
=Davidson, Andrew Bruce.= Theology of the Old Testament. **$2.50. Scribner.
Principal Salmond has compiled this treatise in Old Testament theology from the manuscripts left by Dr. Davidson. Under the doctrine of God, of man, of sin, of redemption, and of the last things, is given his theological interpretation of the Old Testament.
“It is a pleasure to note throughout both volumes the keenness of observation, the gift of interpretative insight, and the incisive style which are conspicuous in all the writings of the lamented biblicist. It treats the Old Testament as not only a literary, but a moral unit. This is really the essence of the inadequacy and untimeliness of the book. The fact is that these lectures must be repudiated by biblical science in as far as they fail to indicate Israel’s progress in religious thought and make the Old Testament literature an illustration either of the New Testament teaching of our modern creeds. They must also be disowned by the ‘higher criticism,’ of which Mr. Davidson was more or less an exponent, because they fail to apply an ethical test to religious belief.” James Frederick McCurdy.
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 346. Ap. ‘05. 5160w.
“There are many fine discussions of particular problems, and many brilliant individual passages that one would like to quote; but there is no history of the religion of Israel. Will be useful to the preacher who wishes to gather up the teachings of the Old Testament on any given point; but it will be of little value to the student who is trained in modern historical methods.”
— + =Bib. World.= 25: 283. Ap. ‘05. 2340w.
“Containing incisive, profitable, and helpful discussions of some of the fundamental doctrines of the Old Testament.” Ira M. Price.
+ =Dial.= 38: 45. Ja. 16, ‘05. 600w.
“The book contains much good material and is of real value.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 320w.
=Davidson, Rev. John.= St. Peter and his training. *30c. Lippincott.
“Following the New Testament account of the apostle, and setting aside the critical questions it raises, the author finds evidence of its truth in its consistent realism as a portrait from life.”—Outlook.
“The psychological problem involved in the story of Peter’s denial of his Master is better handled, and more justly to Peter, than by most expositors.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 452. F. 16, ‘05. 70w.
=Davidson, John.= Selected poems. *$1.25. Lane.
“Mr. Davidson has drawn from his seven earlier volumes with a shrewd critical sense.... Unusual mastery of narrative construction in verse, his energy of conception and readiness in the fundamental mind-work of poetry, are all shown here at their best in the ‘Ballads,’ which make the bulk of the book.”—Nation.
“He handles the metre with masterly skill, filling it with imaginative life and power. The chief virtue of his ballads is the virile energy of the shaping strength that we feel working in them.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 329. Mr. 18. 850w.
“Mr. John Davidson’s poetic view of the world is as tragical as Ernest Dowson’s; but there is a grim irony of intellectual strength in his work that marks him of a different race of men.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 417. S. ‘05. 340w.
“Uncommonly masculine volume.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 293. Ap. 13, ‘05. 330w.
=Davidson, Rt. Rev. Randall Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury.= Christian opportunity. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The sermons, addresses and speeches delivered by the Archbishop of Canterbury during his recent visit to America make a volume not only temporarily significant but monumental. “The most interesting contents of the volume, of course, are the sermons in Trinity church in Boston, and the address at Faneuil hall. None however, surpasses in excellence of material or stamps Dr. Davidson as a broader scholar than his cordial address to the evangelical ministers at Boston university. ‘We in England,’ he said, ‘have learned in these latter days to recognize better than ever before how splendid an element in the growth of English life and character is due to our Puritan forefathers, and you in New England have come to see that even among those whom your great-great-grandfathers thought were very black, there is something worth having and holding and thus we join hands in behalf of the common cause—the setting forward of our Master’s kingdom in the old world and in the new.’” (Pub. Opin.)
=Atlan.= 95: 705. My. ‘05. 180w.
“The title is happy, for the burden of them all is the greatness of the opportunity here in this new continent. Their level judgment, catholic spirit, and fraternal feeling ...”
+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= : 7. F. 10, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 90w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 58. Ja. 12, ‘05. 190w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w.
=Davidson, Thomas.= Education of the wage earners. *75c. Ginn.
“The record of a unique experiment among the Russian Jews of New York city. As the result of a challenge at the close of a lecture, Professor Davidson organized a class composed almost exclusively of wage-earners from the tenement houses. With them he successfully studied the history of civilization, modern literature, and the history of philosophy.... The volume which is edited by Mr. Charles M. Blakewell, contains a brief biography and characterization of Professor Davidson by the editor.”—Dial.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
“With the interpreting touch of the editor, the inspiring letters of Davidson, and the final words from the pupils, we have a book of very real and personal force.” Lucy Wright.
+ + =Charities.= 14: 642. Ap. 1, ‘05. 540w.
Reviewed by Henry D. Sheldon.
=Dial.= 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 210w.
Reviewed by J. Lawrence Laughlin.
* + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 611. S. ‘05. 370w.
=Davies, D. Ffrangçon-.= Singing of the future; with an introd. by Edward Elgar. *$2.50. Lane.
“In the old warfare between technique and intelligence as regards musical interpretation, Mr. Ffrangçon-Davies declares himself, as we might expect, on the side of intelligence. With him the meaning is everything, and he contends that if the singer thinks the words he is singing, all the rest will follow of itself.... Far from despising vocal technique, the author lays great stress on a sound method, and explains what the basis of that method should be.”—Lond. Times.
“It is a pity that by the copious use of footnotes and parentheses the author should have weakened his case, for by these and other means he qualifies almost everything he says till the reader is at a loss to keep the main drift of his argument in view.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 306. S. 22, ‘05. 610w.
* + + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 420w.
=Davies, Gerald Stanley.= Franz Hals. $1.75. Macmillan.
This latest addition to the “Great masters in painting and sculpture series” is devoted to that Dutch artist of the early 17th century, Franz Hals. All that is actually known or surmised concerning his life is given and there are 35 half-tone reproductions of the author’s best known paintings. There is also a chronological list of his most important pictures, and a catalog of his works arranged according to the galleries in which they are hung.
“Mr. Davies’s work is a fine example of what a sympathetic, imaginative, and withal a learned man may produce from very slender accepted data.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 157. Mr. 11, ‘05. 520w.
=Davies, Rev. John Llewelyn,= ed. Workingmen’s college, 1854-1904. *$1.25. Macmillan.
Records of its history and its work by members of the college. For half a century the workingmen’s college has played an important part in the sociological evolution of England, and its history and development are of general interest. The editor has written a chapter on F. D. Maurice, who was the real founder of the college. Mr. G. W. Trevelyan writes a chapter on “The college and other universities.” Mr. J. P. Elmslie describes “Art teaching in early days,” Mr. C. B. Lucas tells of “The college clubs.” There are many other chapters illustrating the development of this great work from a simple night school to a model institution of its kind.
“The value of the book is enhanced by some excellent portraits; but it lacks an index.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 337. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
=Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 120w.
=Spec.= 94: 18. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1520w.
=Davies, W. W.= Codes of Hammurabi and Moses. *75c. Meth. bk.
A comparison of the laws of Hammurabi and Moses which is designed to help all Bible students. To this end the text of the Hammurabi code is given in small pica type, selected parallels from the Old Testament in long primer, and remarks and comments in brevier.
=Outlook.= 81: 332. O. 7, ‘05. 150w.
=Davis, Foxcroft.= Mrs. Darrell. †$1.50. Macmillan.
In this novel of Washington life Elizabeth Brandon marries Darrell and finds out too late that she loves his friend and cousin Hugh Pelham. Upon Darrell’s death his estate goes to Pelham, who is in Africa, and his lawyers press Elizabeth sorely. This destroys her faith in Pelham and she all but falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous senator, who wishes to divorce his wife and marry her, when Pelham returns. The senator’s daughter also plays an important part in the story.
“The story is slight, the characters shadowy, and the style, except for a strange abundance of ‘non-sequiturs,’ exceedingly commonplace.”
— =Nation.= 81: 148. Ag. 17, ‘05. 310w.
“Not only does he reveal the actions of his characters, but also the train of thoughts that lead up to those actions. Nevertheless ‘Mrs. Darrell’ is a book full of interest.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 379. Je. 10, ‘05. 610w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 210w.
“The book as regards plot and constructive power and development cannot be praised highly, but the love story is in some ways unusually interesting.”
— + =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 80w.
* =Davis, John Patterson.= Corporations: a study of the origin and development of the great business combinations and their relation to the authority of the state. 2v. **$4.50. Putnam.
“This treatise is of great helpfulness to the student of what is now familiarly known as the ‘corporation problem.’ ... The subject is here attacked chiefly from the historical standpoint, from the earliest manifestations of corporate activity in the ecclesiastical organizations of the primitive Christian church to the colonial companies, forerunners of the development companies of to-day. There are, however, chapters dealing with contemporary phenomena at a length sufficient to make the writer’s views concerning the structure, operation, and future of the modern corporation clear.”—Lit. D.
* “Without fully concurring with him, we find his views highly suggestive and stimulating, and ... ‘a particularly welcome addition to economic literature.’”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 580w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 680w.
=Davis, Norah.= Northerner. †$1.50. Century.
The hero of Miss Davis’ first published book is a young New York capitalist who buys a street railway and a lighting plant in an Alabama town. Titanic and aggressive, young Falls underrates the momentum of sectional prejudice even where it carries with it the sanity of a whole town. Mob violence, strikes, and a lynching form the dramatic phase of the story whose other side portrays the loyalty and courage of Joan Adair. This southern girl, tho reared to the fanatic prejudice of her townsmen, could, one is led to believe, champion right and justice impersonally, even tho the process had not been terribly confused with her love for the much misunderstood and ostracized hero.
* “The supreme merit of the book lies, however, in the subtle delineation of Southern life with its love, its fear, its pride, its idealism, and its prejudice.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 664. D. ‘05. 500w.
* “The serious questions of the Northerner are vigorously stated, and some characters and scenes very forcibly presented. The construction is bad, and there is a lot of tiresome talk.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ‘05. 340w.
“The principal value of the story is in its depicting of the life of the half-asleep, half-awake southern town with its new-formed ambitions obscured by the rubbish of old traditions.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 200w.
=Davis, Richard Harding.= Miss Civilization. **50c. Scribner.
“A comedy in one act, founded on a story by the late James Harvey Smith. By means of strategy, the daughter of a wealthy man succeeds in holding three thieves in her home until the arrival of the police, whom she had summoned by telephone when she first heard the burglars trying to file their way into the house.”—Bookm.
“This playlet is admirably suited for parlor and amateur theatricals, where it will furnish both to actors and audiences unalloyed delight.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w.
“This is a lively and amusing play. It is not badly suited for amateur rendering.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 30w.
=Davison, Charles.= Study of recent earthquakes. $1.50. imp. Scribner.
“This copiously illustrated volume ... gives a popular account of the results which have been arrived at by modern seismology.... Rather than grouping seismic phenomena, as we should expect to find them in a text-book, the author has given a concise history of eight disturbances, each of which has a special interest.... A subject attractive to the general reader which is referred to in several chapters as an account of signs which have given warning of a coming earthquake.”—Nature.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 710w.
“Mr. Davidson’s book is well worth reading, whilst the manner in which its contents have been arranged should obtain for it a circulation amongst those who seek for general information.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 532. Ap. 6, ‘05. 630w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 677. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.
=Davitt, Michael.= Fall of feudalism in Ireland. **$2.50. Harper.
“The land league revolution of the Irish people, their struggles to regain possession of the lands confiscated under Cromwellian settlement,—which was virtually continued during two hundred and fifty years,—is set forth in this book.... Parnell is, of course, Mr. Davitt’s hero; and the personal portraiture he gives is both interesting and valuable.”—Critic.
“He writes from a partisan viewpoint and, as might have been expected, makes no attempt to conceal his partisanship. Despite this fact he has done good service to contemporary history by the care he has bestowed on the documentary part of his exhaustive work.” E. P.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 230w.
“Is of great value both as a record and as literature.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 95. Ja. ‘05. 230w.
* =Dawson, Miles Menander.= Business of life insurance. **$1.50. Barnes.
“Mr. Dawson writes as an actuary of long experience, addressing himself primarily to those holding or contemplating the purchase of life insurance. The comparative merits and defects of the various systems of insurance and forms of policy, the methods whereby rates are or should be fixed, the ‘schemes’ adopted by companies to increase their business—in short, almost every topic connected with the subject is discussed with a mingling of criticism, advice, and warning.”—Outlook.
* “Practical suggestive, and soundly informative, this book should find a wide audience.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 320w.
=Dawson, Samuel E.= Saint Lawrence, its basin and border-lands. *$1.35. Stokes.
“In orderly fashion and in often luminous phrase Dr. Dawson sets forth the story of the discovery, exploration, and occupation of the northeastern part of the North American continent. The text is accompanied by some good illustrations and by some especially good maps.”—Outlook.
“This learned Canadian not only enjoys a wide personal knowledge of the region he deals with but is likewise possessed of the critical faculty, which has enabled him to deal satisfactorily with a subject involving a good many disputed points.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 116. Jl. 22. 1210w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Ind.= 49: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 230w.
“His present volume is a critical and scholarly study of the most fruitful era of early North American exploration.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 1920w.
“This volume should appeal to the student of history and to the lover of romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.
“It is a rare treat to read Dr. Dawson’s scholarly and delightful volume.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 478. O. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=Dawson, Thomas C.= South American republics, pt. 2. **$1.35. Putnam.
“Descriptive rather than analytical,” this work presents “an excellent summary of the events leading up to the independence of the South American republics. The first volume, dealing with Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil, was written during the period when he [Mr. Dawson] was secretary of the United States legation to Brazil. During the interval between the appearance of the first and second volumes the author was appointed minister to Santo Domingo. This second volume deals with Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“His exposition of contemporary history is disappointing. There are too many names and dates and too few explanatory remarks. There is a tendency to dwell on the period of the conquest and to leave untouched the difficult business of untangling the innumerable revolutions of the past eighty years. Even as a collection of historical primers its value is seriously impaired by evidences of hasty or inaccurate compilation. To attempt to read the volume through is sufficiently confusing, but the publishers have not improved matters. The illustrations do not illustrate. Moreover, the maps are inadequate and out of date.” Hiram Bingham.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 671. Ap. ‘05. 520w.
“The author has shown great skill in the presentation of the economic situation in compressing the history of eleven republics into two small volumes. In the presentation of the political situation the author has been careful to keep himself free from partisanship or bias. This work when read in connection with Stanford’s ‘Geographical compendium of South America,’ will furnish a clear-cut picture of the present situation in the South American republics.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 338. Mr. ‘05. 250w.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1189. My. 25, ‘05. 200w.
* “Excellent, useful, and most readable book. Mr. Dawson, however, largely owes the remarkable completeness of this work to his familiar acquaintance with the Spanish literature on the subject, and his great personal opportunities for compiling the history of the nineteenth century in South America.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 696. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.
=Dawson, W. J.= Evangelistic note, *$1.25. Revell.
A book of addresses on evangelical topics by a man well known as a successful international revivalist. He resigned the pastorate of the Highburg quadrant church in England to enter a more evangelistic field, and his sermons defend liberal theology and set forth the value of his work.
“His sermons are models of manly appeal to the thinking people of to-day.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 180w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 958. Ap. 15, ‘05. 230w.
“Among the various essays, addresses and sermons in the book the one which gives the whole its title is the best and most adequate, with the additional advantage of being written in clear, forceful, convincing English such as is seldom found in current literature.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 390. Mr. 11, ‘05. 640w.
=Dawson, William James.= Makers of English fiction. *$1.50. Revell.
Dr. Dawson begins with Daniel Defoe and discusses the writers of novels of sentiment from Richardson to Fielding, and to Jane Austen, then he takes up the works of Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, the Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Charles Reade, Charles Kingsley, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, closing the book with chapters on “Religion in fiction” and a “Concluding survey.”
“He is a patient and systematic reader; his powers of analysis are considerable, his sympathies are broad, and he has, what is an extremely valuable gift, the historic sense.” E. C.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 1070w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* “The book is well worth reading, as a comprehensive survey of a development, and as painstaking a work of criticism as has come to us for many a day.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 664. N. 18, ‘05. 280w.
=Day, Emily Foster.= Menehunes. *75c. Elder.
A folklore tale of the Menehunes, the tiny dwarfs of Hawaii, illustrated by Spencer Wright.
* + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 100w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 210w.
=Day, Thomas Fleming.= Hints to young yacht skippers. $1. Rudder pub.
Mr. Day says this handbook is offered in response to many letters from boys and young men “asking for hints on all manner of subjects relating to the care, handling, buying and equipping of small yachts.” Being a practical sailor and yachtsman himself, he knows the necessity of the sort of information he compiles, in fact declares that had he owned such a book in the beginning, it would have saved him time, money, hard work and anxiety.
“The book is full of useful information.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 39. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w.
(Detailed statement of contents.)
=Dealey, James Quayle, and Ward, Lester Frank.= Text book of sociology. *$1.30. Macmillan.
A text book founded upon the sociological writings of Dr. Ward, and especially upon his work, “Pure sociology.” This epitome is stamped with the same characteristics that are emphasized thruout Dr. Ward’s study, viz., the mastery of the impersonal tone over the human. “He carries from his work in physical science a certain abstractness of statement which is partly inseparable from all generalization, but which has the effect of holding the interpretation farther aloof from actual life than is desirable or necessary.” (Am. J. Soc.)
“Comes nearer than any predecessor to satisfying reasonable demands for an elementary textbook in general sociology.” Albion W. Small.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 266. S. ‘05. 1190w.
* “The abridgment has been excellently done.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“It is therefore a wide field that is traversed here under the lead of a stimulating if not always convincing teacher.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 887. Ag. 5, ‘05. 290w.
Decennial publications of the University of Chicago. 1st series, 10v. *$40. Univ. of Chicago press.
Ten imposing quarto volumes, well bound in red cloth, compose the first series of the Chicago university decennial publications and contain two volumes of reports and eight volumes of investigations, the latter consisting of a collection of articles representing the work of research of the several departments of the university, organized during the decennium. Vol. I and II contain President Harper’s report for the first ten years of the life of Chicago university; vol. III contains, part I, Systematic theology, Church history, Practical theology; part II, Philosophy, Education; vol. IV is devoted to Political economy, Political science, History, and Sociology; vol. V includes the Semitic languages and literature, Biblical and patristic Greek; vol. VI deals with the Greek language and literature, the Latin language and literature, Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology, classical archæology; vol. VII turns to the province of Romance languages and literatures, the Germanic languages and literatures and to English; vol. VIII invades the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics; vol. IX treats the subjects of Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, and Geology; and vol. X deals with Zoology, Anatomy, Physiology, Neurology, Botany, Pathology, and Bacteriology.
=Bib. World.= 25: 240. Mr. ‘05. 50w. (States contents of v. 5.)
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 44. Jl. 6, ‘05. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 760w. (Survey of contents).
“The whole series is a remarkable presentation of the intellectual activity which has prevailed at this youthful university during the brief period of its existence.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 593. Ap. 15, ‘05. 410w.
=Deecke, W.= Italy: a popular account of the country, its people, and its institutions (including Malta and Sardinia); tr. by H. A. Nesbitt. $5. Macmillan.
A book which gives a German professor’s account of Italy. “Beginning with the boundaries of the country and the ancient attempts at geographical description, it proceeds to treat of the orography and general features of the surface, goes on to the geology and the climate, giving incidentally an account of the volcanic phenomena and touching briefly on the animals and plants. The various elements of the population are then described, with a short sketch of the history, and a fuller account of products, trade and manufactures, political institutions, finance, internal communications, and education, the church, language, and science, and a topographical description of various parts of the peninsula and the adjoining isles.” (Nation.)
“It is popular in the very best sense of the word. In the first place, it is comprehensive. In the second place, it is compact. The work is simply a marvel of condensation. In the third place, the book is exceedingly readable. The only adverse criticism we have is that the statistics are not quite up to the present, and the reader will want constantly to refer to later tables. But in other respects we do not know of another book on Italy at once so comprehensive, so accurate, and so interesting.”
+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 378. Ap. ‘05. 250w. (States contents of Vol. V.)
“Is all done carefully and well.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 588. My. ‘05. 100w.
“That the book is dull is therefore not surprising; but that it is also full of errors is both surprising and inexcusable.”
— — =Dial.= 38: 95. F. 1, ‘05. 410w.
“It is really nothing more than a compilation of the facts that may be found in condensed form in a half dozen well selected books.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“When we turn to subjects wherein the element of time does not enter so immediately we find reason for little save praise.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 498. O. 7, ‘05. 760w.
“An elaborate account of Italy, worked out with true German thoroughness. It covers pretty nearly every aspect in which the land and its inhabitants can be regarded. Taking the book as a whole, it is a careful and intelligent piece of work, clearly and simply written, and generally accurate. We have noted a certain number of errors in fact, but none of great importance, though there are some errors in nomenclature, and some mistakes in the accounts given of particular places. A book which amounts to an encyclopaedic description of Italy from so many points of view. The topographical part is really something between a gazetteer and a guidebook, fit to be used for reference rather than to be read continuously.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 250. Mr. 30, ‘05. 2290w.
=Deeping, Warwick.= Slanderers. †$1.50. Harper.
“Gabriel Strong is the son of a tea merchant ... is a dreamer, an idler.... Partly to please himself, partly to please his father, partly to save trouble, he makes love to and marries a fine sleek tiger-cat of a woman, and as soon as it is too late repents.” He finds that he loves the daughter of a miser, but swears to love this Joan only in spirit. “Meanwhile the sleek, handsome wife gets bored, goes off elsewhere, and the gossips of the village get busy with the greenwood meanderings of Gabriel and Joan. Hence the name of ‘The slanderers.’ ... They are the parson’s wife, the doctor’s wife, the members of the church guilds, and like fine charitable organizations. And these women are allowed no virtues at all to temper the malignity of their tongues and their feminine proneness to think evil of other people.” (N. Y. Times).
“The style is good and the texture of the English is durable.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
“Mr. Deeping is somewhat crass and crude in his methods with these slanderers. You get the idea that Mr. Deeping imagines religion is a mere cloak for hypocrisy, or a grindstone for sharp knives to slay the reputations of indiscreet idealists. Really the trouble with Mr. Deeping is the lack of enough humor to adjust his burning ethical sentiments, his opulent fleshly imaginings, to each other and to the meridian of average sanity. The story is dragged violently by the hair of its head into an ending which satisfies—if it does nothing else—the average reader’s supposed demand for a happy outcome, but it is distinctly disappointing in spite of patches of purple language.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 117. F. 25. ‘05. 610w.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Deeping’s tapestry has not acquired that soft glory which makes its best beauty. And as for the modern design, it is quite atrocious.”
— — =Reader.= 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 370w.
“Many of his pages glow with genuine romantic beauty.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 477. S. ‘05. 170w.
=Dekker, Eduard Douwes.= (Multatuli, pseud.). Walter Pieterse: a story of Holland. $1.50. Friderici & Garies.
“Walter is in a way a Dutch ‘Sentimental Tommy,’ and the growth of his vivid imagination and literary aspiration among rather sordid surroundings and stolid people is told with minuteness and perhaps a little over-elaborated humor. ‘Multatuli’ is not exactly a Dutch Dickens, but he has some Dickensy qualities.”—Outlook.
“His story is immensely detailed and told in a bygone style of confidentialness, but a style highly animated and frequently witty. The translator, though a Ph. D., affronts style and even grammar at moments.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 520w.
“In fact, you may see in Dekker now touches of Fielding, now of Heine, (he has been called the Holland Heine), now the contemporary iconoclast. Bernard Shaw, whose hatred of ‘respectability’ he shares. Adherents of the new school of novelists, Ibsenites, &c., who are not already familiar with Dekker’s work will not regret a perusal of Mr. Evans’s rendering, nor will the more catholic seekers after real life in fiction—real, yet divorced from sentiment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 39, Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 248. Ja. 28. ‘05. 50w.
=De la Pasture, Mrs. Henry.= Peter’s mother. †$1.50. Dutton.
“The realm of the wholesome commonplace” is chosen for this story. There is Peter’s widowed mother, Lady Mary, whose gentleness is contrasted with the tyrannical selfishness of her son; there is the brilliant Sarah who adores the mother, and to spare her the suffering inflicted by the caddish son, sets to work to wind the youth about her finger. How she succeeds forms one side of a story whose other phase deals with a middle-aged romance involving Lady Mary and two men—“one strong, serene, patient, understanding, the other with a passion so lofty as to sacrifice itself upon its own altar.”
“It is a delightful story, told with a certain distinction and much charm. The whole thing is in harmony.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 149. F. 18, ‘05. 210w.
— =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 30w.
=Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 510. Ag. 5, ‘05. 430w.
“This book is a good illustration of the fact that normal characters can be made interesting.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w.
“An excellent entertainment in which sentiment and humour are most agreeably blended.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 258. F. 18, ‘05. 720w.
=Deledda, Grazia.= After the divorce. †$1.50. Holt.
The author, a young Sardinian, has written a sad story of Italian peasant life. The hero is condemned to twenty-seven years imprisonment for the murder of his uncle. During his confinement, before the confession of the real murderer frees him and establishes his innocence, his baby dies and his pretty young wife, who lacks both money and character, secures a divorce, under the new law which liberates the wife of a convict, and marries a wealthy lover whom she had once rejected. The story is a pitiful one, and when at last the two are reunited they are saddened, disillusioned, and their young happiness is gone forever.
“In style she is as simple and unaffected as Verga himself. She effaces herself almost wholly, she makes you see the primitive life of her little island almost as vividly as though you were there in person.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 270. My. ‘05. 400w.
“The translation appears competent and sympathetic.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 340w.
“As a picture of peasant characteristics and modes of thought it is perfect.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1007. My. 4, 05. 270w.
“As a thing of beauty and a joy forever, the book is a failure; as a manifesto against divorce, it might be adopted by all good Catholics.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 190w.
“It is a human story, and the fact that it apparently has lost something in the translation does not alter the fact that it is still well worth reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 267. Ap. 22, ‘05. 690w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 20w.
“The translator has apparently preserved the color and flavor of the original; her chief fault is a too slavish following.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 592. O. ‘05. 390w.
=Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel.= Breaking the wilderness: the story of the conquest of the far West. **$3.50. Putnam.
It is the aim of this book to “present a review in chronological order of the important events which contributed to breaking the wilderness that so long lay untamed west of the Mississippi, mentioning with as much detail as possible in a single popular volume the principal persons and happenings in proper sequence, but paying special attention to the trapper and trader element, which, more than any other, dispelled the mysteries of the vast region.”
“Barring the deficiencies which mar its critical value, Mr. Dellenbaugh has produced a fairly satisfactory work.” Isaac Joslin Cox.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 169. O. ‘05. 840w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 620w.
“The greatest interest of the book will probably be found to lie in the innumerable and fully authenticated tales of trappers and traders with which its pages abound.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 274. Ap. 16, ‘05. 290w.
“In most, if not all, respects Mr. Dellenbaugh’s book is admirable. The text is a rare combination of history, observation and story telling, and it is beautifully illustrated. The ‘breaking of the wilderness,’ the once savage region west of the Mississippi, by explorer, fighter, trapper and settler is pictured to us as by a vitascope.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 727. Mr. 30, ‘05. 50w.
“Is naturally one of great interest and value.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1110w.
“The chief value of Mr. Dellenbaugh’s work is the presentation of the chronological review of Western exploration in unbroken sequence.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 250w.
“His style is too abrupt, and the separate phases of the history have the appearance of being thrown together.”
+ — — =Spec.= 94: 923. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
* =Denk, Victor Martin Otto (Otto von Schaching, pseud.).= Violin maker; trans, by Sara Trainer Smith. 45c. Benziger.
The story of the gentle, pious Matthias Klotz, son of a poor tailor of Mittenwald, of how he herded his father’s goats and how Jacob Strainer found him, discovered his ambition to become a violin maker, and took him away to his own school at Absam. From him Matthias went to other masters in Italy, and after years of faithful work returned to his father and his old home and founded his own celebrated school in Mittenwald.
=Dent, Edward J.= Alessandro Scarlatti: his life and works. *$3.50. Longmans.
“An ambitious work dealing with the Neapolitan composer.... Without blind adoration of his hero, he has brought himself into thorough sympathy with Scarlatti’s personality, and has studied all his circumstances and his relations to Italian art.”—Acad.
“Appreciation of Mr. Dent’s adventurous excursion into a new path is called for by the attempt as such, and the result of his labours is a handsome volume which should find a place in every music-lover’s library. Accuracy, not elegance of style, has been aimed at, yet there are occasional sentences where Mr. Dent has endeavoured to impart interest to the manner as well as the matter.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 147. F. 18, ‘05. 1470w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 538. Ap. 29. 470w.
* “A work of high importance, which must be accepted as the standard authority on the life and writings of the Verdi of his time.” W. J. Henderson.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 852. D. ‘05. 240w.
“An exhaustive study at first hand from original documents and scores.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 780w.
=De Pue, Edward Spence.= Dr. Nicholas Stone. †$1.50. Dillingham.
An exciting detective story in which Dr. Stone and the Pacific coast manager of a great life insurance company discover that several policy holders have been skilfully murdered. Their investigations bring them thrilling adventures in the Chinese quarter, Dr. Stone narrowly escapes cremation; but they relentlessly follow the strange evidence of strange drugs until they discover the criminal, a wealthy and respected old man, who devises unusual methods of murder for the mere joy of achievement without detection, letting the life insurance money go to an accomplice. There is also a love interest.
“To those who crave in the reading the temporary excitement that attends the perusal of a story filled with murders and murder plots, the detection of crimes in spite of highly scientific methods employed to divert suspicion, and the tragic self-death of the murderer when he discovers that his deeds are known, this book may possess interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 420w.
=De Selincourt, Beryl D.= Home of the first Franciscans in Umbria, the borders of Tuscany and the Northern Marches. *$1.50. Dutton.
“The author describes Assisi, the district of Lake Thrasymene, Monte Casale, and Vallingegno, two Umbrian solitudes, the valley of Rieti, the Marches and La Verna. She has also written an introduction in which she touches on the influence of the personality and temperament of St. Francis, of the places to which he retreated. The thirteen half-tone illustrations are reproductions of photographs taken by Mildred Bicknell.”—N. Y. Times.
“Discriminating and sympathetic introduction. Mrs. de Selincourt’s style, in any liberal spirit of criticism, is of a high average.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 387. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1190w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 143. Jl. 29. 340w.
“A successful attempt to show to what a degree the character and teachings of St. Francis of Assisi were shaped and illustrated by his surroundings.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 225. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.
“A manifest labor of love.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 100w.
“Shows much diligence and contains some interesting and out-of-the-way information.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 502. O. 14, ‘05. 970w.
“The book is full of beauty and pathos, but it leaves us with but a vague idea of what St. Francis really thought.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 320w.
=Deutsch, Leo.= Sixteen years in Siberia, tr. by Helen Chisholm. $3. Dutton.
A new and cheaper edition of “this well-written and convincing account of penal methods and conditions in Siberia by one who has known them to his cost ... the new edition contains ... a preface, in which the translator seeks to estimate the influence of recent events in giving impetus to the reform movement in Russia” and “an appendix, ... a reply by Count von Bülow to a Reichstag interpellation concerning the Königsberg trial of last July, when certain German subjects were prosecuted for smuggling revolutionary literature into Russia.” (Outlook.)
“The volume deserves a wide reading.”
+ + =Ann.= Am. Acad. 26: 588. S. ‘05. 120w.
“Very interesting and informing book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 505. Jl. 29, ‘05. 410w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 170w.
=Devine, Edward T.= Principles of relief. **$2. Macmillan.
Dr. Devine’s experience as general secretary of the New York charity organization society has put him in vital touch with the practical aspects of a great cause. His convincing treatment is arranged under four heads: Part I “is a strong, clear, logical presentation of the essential ‘principles of relief.’ The fundamental and most fruitful idea of this discussion is that there is a normal standard of living which can be known and approximately measured, and that all relief work is to be judged by its success in aiding social debtors to find their place in a normal and well-balanced life.... In Part II is printed a most interesting and instructive collection of typical relief problems.... Part III is a sketch of certain aspects of relief. Part IV gives the story of relief methods at times of disaster.” (Am. J. Soc.)
“While a certain amount of repetition of thoughts already published was inevitable in a systematic treatise, every chapter and paragraph has its justification. Looking back over the literature of charity produced during the last twenty years in America, we are bound to place this volume in the very front rank, with few companions in the specific field; and we must regard it as indispensable to the serious student of the general subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 554. Ja. ‘05. 670w.
“In it are brought to consciousness, perhaps for the first time fully, the underlying principles on which the charity organization society movement is based. Moreover it undertakes to give a comprehensive statement of the elementary principles upon which all relief giving, whether public or private, should rest; and it correlates these principles with the general facts of economics and sociology in such a way as to leave no doubt in the mind of the reader that the author has mastered his subject. The point of view of the book is constructive throughout; and it is safe to say that for many years to come it will be, both for the practical worker and for the scientific student, the authoritative work upon the ‘principles of relief.’ I cannot help feeling, after careful reading, that the book shows too much the bias of the author’s personal field of labor. Its point of view is too exclusively that of the charity organization society worker.” Charles A. Ellwood.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 143. Ja. ‘05. 870w.
“No one who is interested either historically or practically in the subject of charity can afford to neglect this volume.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 340w.
“The book will help us to give a quantitative value to our vague notions about the standard of living and the minimum wage; and no writer has applied this definite standard to the methods of poor relief more thoroughly. Especially valuable to a student is the analysis of typical relief problems, which enables one to arrive at principles of relief much as a study of court decisions takes one to the heart of legal principles. The work will be recognized as one of the chief contributions on this vital subject.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“The book as a whole will be a standard to all charity workers and professional philanthropists, but while not exactly over technical it is too heavy for the average reader, and will probably not interest him to any great extent.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 900. Ap. 20, ‘05. 300w.
“While Mr. Devine’s statement of principles is not very lucid, his practical suggestions are instructive.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 610w.
“The first [volume] stirs the sympathies and supplies the motives for Christian charity; the second broadens the horizon and shows the problem in its world aspects; the third gives the practical and, so far as we can judge, wise counsel in dealing with the problem as it presents itself in American cities.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1440w.
“Dr. Devine’s book is a manual at once of theory and of practice.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 760. D. ‘04. 190w.
“Aside from these few passages [pp. 12, 13, 462], which appear somewhat visionary, the book is eminently sane and practical.” David I. Green.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 81. My. ‘05. 1190w.
=Devins, John Bancroft.= Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.
This report is the result of two months’ careful investigation in Luzon. It gives interesting notes of travel and fully covers the social, political and religious field. It tells what American missionaries are doing and shows that many of the Americans in the Philippines are of a type as greatly in need of missionaries as the Filipinos themselves.
“Dr. Devins’s book is non-discriminating and simple-minded in a high degree.” H. Parker Willis.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 37. Jl. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“Has included in his volume much useful information and much matter interesting and entertaining for one reason and another.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 580. S. 2, ‘05. 1080w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 270w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘06. 140w.
=Dexter, Edwin Grant.= History of education in the United States. **$2. Macmillan.
The work comprises in less than seven hundred pages of text “a survey of education in this country from the landing of the Cavaliers and of the Puritans to the opening of the twentieth century, including in it an historical survey and an analysis of contemporary conditions of education in every state in the Union, of every stage of education from kindergarten to popular lecture courses for adults, and of every phase of educational activity from an account of early schoolbooks to newspapers and periodicals of the various periods, the publication of learned societies and the work of libraries.... The general organization of the work is into three parts: the growth of the people’s schools, higher and special education, and educational extension.” (Educ. R.)
“This book is very attractive in its make-up, but it will prove disappointing to those who hold that the history of education should be history. The declared purpose of the author is to present a mass of fact rather than discussions of historical trend. But instances are far too numerous in which the fact is not even fact.” Elmer Ellsworth Brown.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 657. Ap. ‘05. 420w.
“To compress so much in one volume is a task of no small magnitude, and to say that Professor Dexter has done this with excellent judgment and discrimination is only to give due praise. It is no detraction from the character of the text to say that the most valuable feature of the work is the elaborate bibliography at the end of each chapter and the marginal references which are to be found on every page.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 128. Ja. ‘05. 310w.
“The best work of its class yet published. So far as it goes, it is most thoroughly and skilfully done.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
“The handling of statistics is skilfully done. There is no unity, whole episodes in the history of education are absent, as are also the majority of the important personalities. A more accurate title would have been ‘A historical encyclopedia of American education.’” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 330w.
“The merits of this book are those of comprehensiveness, organization, accurate analysis and classification, and excellent selection of the material to be included in a single volume dealing with so extended a subject; its demerits are an unfortunate lack of accuracy in many details, not all of them unimportant, and a tendency ... to accept stereotyped generalizations without adducing facts to support them, and the omission of any attempt to interpretation. No other single work, of even more than one volume, has ever attempted so much, so that there is little basis for comparison, and little room for criticism, so helpful is the general result. It is easily first of treatises upon the subject.” Paul Monroe.
+ + — =Educ. R.= 29: 202. F. ‘05. 2320w.
“A work of truly encyclopedic comprehensiveness, but nevertheless readable.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 147. Je. 15, ‘05. 1550w.
=Dexter, Edwin Grant.= Weather influences; an empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions. **$2. Macmillan.
A monograph based upon a series of investigations of the committees of New York and Denver, and the effects of the weather changes of their divergent climates, upon their inhabitants. A comparison of the school, criminal, hospital, mortuary, and other records with the meteorological charts of the weather bureau gives the principal data for statistics as to the effect of wind and weather upon disease, drunkenness, insanity, crime, suicide, natural depravity of school children, errors of bank officials, etc.
Reviewed by E. T. B.
=Atlan.= 95: 135. Ja. ‘05. 320w.
=Ind.= 58: 728. Mr. 30, ‘05. 510w.
=Dexter, Henry Martyn, and Dexter, Morton.= England and Holland of the Pilgrims. **$3.50. Houghton.
“The history of the Mayflower ‘Pilgrims’ is an important part of the history of the Protestant reformation in England.... Their most eminent historian was the late Dr. Dexter. The present volume, left unfinished at his death, completes their history by a full account of the environment and experience in which the reforming movement slowly struggled and groped towards the decisive venture, by which the door was opened at Plymouth rock to its great success.... Dr. Dexter’s draft of history, rewritten and edited by his son after further researches in England and Holland, now stands in a completeness to which it is likely that little can be added.”—Outlook.
* “It is a book made by bookmen. Sometimes, as we read, our vision is obstructed; we cannot see the forest on account of the trees. The grand human story seems lost in a mass of antiquarian detail.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 306. N. 16, ‘05. 860w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 600w.
“A loving hand and diligent investigation of the original sources of information to the minutest details are apparent throughout the work.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 575. N. 4, ‘05. 420w.
=Dicey, A. V.= Law and opinion in England. *$3. Macmillan.
Professor Dicey “lays bare to the general reader the dominating influences, intellectual and moral, which characterize the general body of law-making or operating to change it.” (Ath.) “His careful soundings and observations lead him to mark on his chart of the nineteenth century three main currents—the first, the period of old Toryism or legislative quiescence extending from 1800-1830; ... the second is designated as the period of Benthamism or individualism; ... the third is described as the period of ‘collectivism,’—the growth of opinion ‘which favors the intervention of the State even at some sacrifice of individual freedom.’” (Lond. Times.)
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 727. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1130w.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 5. Jl. 1, 1820w.
“Mr. Dicey adds a familiarity with English literature and a simplicity of style in dealing with the most intricate topics and summarising the most extensive developments that will save his work from being relegated to the shelves of law libraries alone.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 282. N. ‘05. 1260w.
“A masterly exposition of the forces which have promoted the course of our modern legislation and a penetrating analysis of the counter-currents and cross-currents of opinion which have delayed or diverted it.” R.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 829. O. ‘05. 250w.
“This is a careful examination of a complex subject.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 500w.
“We know no better piece of work of its kind.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 214. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1930w.
“His chapter on judicial legislation—a most difficult subject—is a model.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 102. Ag. 3, ‘05. 2180w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 884. D. 9, ‘05. 1000w.
“A work of unusual incisiveness and value.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 571. O. 28, ‘05. 460w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 90w.
“We get a history of public opinion from a special point of view, and if it is far from being a history of opinion in its wider aspects during the nineteenth century, it deals with sufficient breadth and in sufficient detail with opinion as it affects the practical interests dealt with by legislation. Much of the best reading in Professor Dicey’s book consists of personal sketches.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 86. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1810w.
“Granted the difficulty of the subject, it may be fairly said that there is no other living scholar who could have handled it in a style so masterly and yet so attractive. Like all Professor Dicey’s books, it is easy to read, and the simplicity and orderliness of the narrative disguise the labour and thought involved in its preparation. There is no novel dogma propounded, but an accepted doctrine is brilliantly worked out in detail. For anyone who wishes a guide to that difficult thing, the intellectual life of a nation, we can imagine no more lucid and stimulating handbook.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 16. Jl. 1, ‘05. 880w.
=Dick, Stewart.= Arts and crafts of old Japan. **$1.20. McClurg.
“If we would understand Japanese art we must accept the conventions,” says the author. The sympathetic attitude which grows out of a careful survey of the forces of Japanese development is necessary for connoisseur and beginner alike. Painting, color printing, sculpture and carving, metal work, keramics, lacquer, and landscape gardening and the arrangement of flowers are covered in the treatment.
“It is by far the best short introduction to the subject of which it treats that has yet appeared.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 278. N. 1, ‘05. 290w.
* “He talks entertainingly and correctly, and yet rather as a student and reader in Europe, than as an observer in Japan itself.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 50w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.
=Dickberry, F.= Storm of London. $1.50. Turner, H. B.
The earl of Somerville, weary of purposeless social life, decides upon suicide one night during a violent storm. When he awakens he looks upon a London from which every vestige of clothes and furniture had been swept away thus removing all outward signs of social distinction. “Yet even when we recognize that the book is in a way an allegory, and a satire upon the shams of modern life, nothing can alter the fact that here is a story which, chapter after chapter, pictures the fashionable life of London, the crowds in the street, the dinners and receptions and public functions, all thronged with men and women in the garb of Adam and Eve before the fall.” (Bookm.)
“The volume may have a certain incisive irony, but it is sadly deficient in good taste.”
— =Bookm.= 22: 37. S. ‘05. 300w.
“An elaborate and tiresome extravaganza, in which the author handles the idea of an unclothed society with cumbrous and offensive satire. There is enough ability in the book to suggest that the writer might do something better.”
— =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 40w.
“It is worth reading. It is undeniably smart.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 468. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.
=Dickens, Charles.= Christmas carol, and Cricket on the hearth. $2. Baker.
The illustrations of George Alfred Williams add much to this very attractive edition of the two Dickens’ stories which have come to be perennially a part of the holiday season.
* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 80w.
* “On the whole it is an excellent book to put into the hands of young people who are nevertheless old enough to appreciate the qualities both of literary and artistic workmanship.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w.
=Dickens, Charles.= Tale of two cities. $1.25. Crowell.
Dickens’ “popular and picturesque” and thoroly authentic aid to the understanding of the terrible days of the French Revolution has ever taken its place beside the histories. This reprint is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”
* =Dickens, Charles.= Tales from Dickens, ed. by Hallie Erminie Rives. †$1.50. Bobbs.
A short cut to the best selections from the best of Dickens’ works has been provided here for the uninitiated Dickens reader as well as the Dickens lover who desires to refresh his memory. On an average of four or five tales have been taken from each story, and many characteristic drawings reproduced.
* + =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
* =Dickerson, Mary Angela.= Wonderful wishes of Jacky and Jean. †$1. Wessels.
The story of two children who had a fairy sparrow that made wishes realities for them. But the sport had trials too which mingle with the wonders of the tale.
=Dickerson, Mary C.= Moths and butterflies. *$1.25. Ginn.
An elementary text-book for use in the upper grammar grades and lower high school classes. The life histories of eighteen moths and nine butterflies are given in parts 1 and 2. Part 3 is devoted to Relationship—practical suggestions. There is also a chapter on how to collect, keep, and study moths, butterflies and caterpillars. The book contains a glossary, an index and over 200 photographs made from life, by the author.
“It will be found a very useful book for the nature study library in schools and for private ownership by pupils of the upper grammar and high school grades.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 272. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.
“A great deal of useful general information is given in the book, and it seems on the whole to be careful and accurate.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 76. My. 25, ‘05. 280w.
“None more suitable from thoroughness of treatment, photographic illustration, and moderate price to do its work in the schools for which it was intended.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 100w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05 100w.
“The work is untechnical, and well adapted to cultivate the intelligent minds of young persons in America.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 919. Je. 24, ‘05. 130w.
=Dickinson, Edward.= Study of the history of music; with an annotated guide to music literature. **$2.50. Scribner.
An aid to the understanding of musical history and criticism prepared by the professor of the history of music at Oberlin. “This volume is intended to clear the way by indicating the problems, the method and the materials” necessary for the study; further, “the narrative and critical portions give a terse and comprehensive summary of music history, show what are the important subjects involved and their connections and relations. The bibliographical sections lead the student to the best critical commentaries in the English language on every phase and detail of the subject.”
“His book is certainly almost unique in its clearness of statement and general usefulness; it is a marvel of condensed information.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 780w.
“There is nothing else in English that is comparable in completeness and suggestiveness for students of musical history.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 540w.
“We know of no short history of music which is its equal. This volume is about equally valuable for reading, for study, and for reference.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 190w.
“A very thorough and illuminating work on the development of music. The biographical and explanatory notes to this volume are very valuable, supplying, with the text, a consecutive narrative of the history of music.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 110w.
* =Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Modern symposium. **$1. McClure.
“This purports to be an account of a meeting of philosophers representing all the various political and social systems of the world. The Conservative, the Radical, the Socialist, the Anarchist, the Scientist, the Poet, and many more, each pleads his own cause. The closing speaker, noted simply as a man of letters, distinctly represents Mr. Dickinson’s theories of life, and attempts to sum up all the virtues of all the other systems.”—Dial.
* “The charm of his style adds a pleasing force to his arguments.”
+ =Dial.= 39:314. N. 16, ‘05. 160w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes.= Religion: a criticism and a forecast. **50c. McClure.
An attempt to discover a religious ideal that can be accepted by the logically constituted mind of modern man, which involves a keen, reverential analysis of the virtues and failings of established religions.
“Not merely is the writer a man of genius; not merely is he master of a style which seems to sweep the whole gamut of human emotion, and to make language rise and fall like the notes of a violin; but he has written a book which should make many think. Its importance lies in its object.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 110. Jl. 22. 230w.
“Mr. Dickinson is especially happy in stating certain general attitudes of mind in order to give us a clear glimpse of where we or others stand in so important a subject as religion.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 480w.
* “These articles were frank and definite discussions of the relation of religion to knowledge. Mr. Dickinson has a clear and suggestive style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 180w.
=Dickson, Harris.= Ravanels. (†)$1.50. Lippincott.
The setting of this story is the South just after the reconstruction period, and its hero haunted by the memory of his father’s murder in those troublous times, feels called upon to avenge it. But his revenge is not sweet, for he is overwhelmed with the horror of his deed, and is only saved from insanity by the soothing influence of the girl he loves.
“Is even better than his first novel.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
“The novel has both strength and character, besides a romantic plot of much dramatic interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“While Mr. Dickson possesses a peculiarly charming literary style and a gift for portraying genial human qualities, he has blundered in the symmetry of his story.”
+ — =Ind.= 58 :1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.
“The tragedy of the story is admirably mellowed with its pathos. The characters are skillfully drawn and a genuine depth of interest is aroused which never flags until the books ends, amid all its sorrows, with happiness and cheer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 246. Ap. 15, ‘05. 480w.
“A dramatic and skilfully written romance of the South, exceptional for the conspicuous absence of all reference to the issues usually raised in novels of this section.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 30w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 150w.
“Is an interesting story, well told, which holds the reader’s attention to the end.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 242. Ag. ‘05. 350w.
“The book contains one of the best trial scenes in recent fiction.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong.= Book of the spiritual life, with a memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. *$3. Dutton.
The larger part of this volume is taken up with the memoirs of Lady Dilke by her second husband. “It shows her as a girl, as an art student, as the wife of Mark Pattison, and the correspondent of many eminent persons, as an art critic, and as the cultured and kind friend of young people and of all movements for the amelioration of human life. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... is a series of Lady Dilke’s mature reflections on the problems of existence and our duty as sojourners here.”—Lond. Times.
“Not even her work, however, remarkable as it was, and in so many spheres of art and thought, will erect in the future such a monument to Lady Dilke as that raised to her by her husband in the brief memoir which precedes ‘The book of the spiritual life.’”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 774. Jl. 29, ‘05. 2300w.
“Sir Charles Dilke, in writing the memoir, has accomplished his difficult task with tact and dignity.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 679. Je. 3. 3150w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 435. N. ‘05. 680w.
“The little memoir ... is a model of what such work should be—informing, sympathetic, and restrained. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... gives evidence of wide reading and a sympathetic outlook.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 179. Je. 9, ‘05. 730w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81 :305. O. 12, ‘05. 970w.
“The memoir dwells (naturally) much upon spiritual and literary aspects, and will be found dull by readers who are not already immensely interested in the woman which it commemorates.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 467. Jl. 17, ‘05. 530w.
“To come into appreciative touch with such a life as hers is to receive an inspiration.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 835. Jl. 29, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 843. Je. 24, ‘05. 1450w.
=Dill, Samuel.= Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. *$4. Macmillan.
“Prof. Samuel Dill, in his new volume ... deals principally with the inner moral life of the time, and gives very little space to its external history and the machinery of government. He treats at some length of the relation of the senate to the emperor in the first century, and the organization of the municipal towns. He also gives a complete survey of the literature and inscriptions of the period.” (N. Y. Times). Each page is supplied with explanatory and reference notes.
“He has mastered with praiseworthy assiduity every authority on his subject, old and new. Yet, though this material is ample, the author makes no attempt to co-ordinate it in such a way as to give the reader a picture of the age as a whole, and of the great psychological laws which governed its development.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 47. Ja. 14, ‘05. 540w.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 125. O. ‘05. 1520w.
“In view of the great importance of this book, and the certainty that it will be regarded as the best work on this period in English, we have taken some trouble to collect matter which will help towards its improvement.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 362. Mr. 25. 1600w.
“Taking the volume as a whole, Professor Dill’s Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius must, it seems to me, occupy a place in the first rank of the histories of social life. That place is secured for it by the sanity of its judgments on social phenomena, by the vigour of its not-faultless literary style, and by its very great learning.” Henry Jones.
+ + + =Hibbert J.= 4: 200. O. ‘05. 2800w.
“Nowhere else can so full and true an account be found of the conditions of Roman society at this time as in this admirable book.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 870. O. 12, ‘05. 1070w.
“And, aside from its inherent importance, its thoughts are so lucidly and attractively expressed that no intelligent reader, whether a Latinist or not, can fail to find it pleasant reading.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 356. My. 4, ‘05. 2890w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 64. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w.
“There is an almost incredible richness and fulness of detail, and yet it is so presented that an intelligible and well-proportioned picture is the result.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 601. S. 16, ‘05. 1320w.
“Professor Dill has laid under lasting obligation those readers who seek to understand the inner life and moral condition as well as the political and external affairs of a given period. While Professor Dill’s prescribed limitation seems to forestall criticism, the question can hardly be repressed whether his picture of society in pagan Rome is quite complete without mention of the great regenerative force which was gathering strength within its bosom and advancing through bitter conflict to victory.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 499. F. 25, ‘05. 880w.
“This is preëminently a book for scholars.”
+ + =R of Rs.= 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 40w.
“His style is rather that of an essayist than of an historian, and he lacks that precision, that careful explicitness, and, above all, that direct citation of authorities which in a learned work are indispensable, while in the selection and use of his materials he often disappoints our hopes. Mr. Dill has learning, industry, and, as numerous passages show, a brilliant pen. If his separate chapters had been published as single essays, they would most of them, we think, have been justly considered excellent. They are rich in what is interesting and delightful.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 2040w.
“The author’s literary skill has enabled him even to make the dry bones of the inscriptions part and parcel of the literature of the period, with which he is indisputably more familiar than any other Englishman living. A work that deserves to rank with Lecky’s ‘History of European morals.’”
+ + + =Westminster Review.= 168: 231. F. ‘05. 210w.
=Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope.= Samuel de Champlain. $5. Morang & co.
“For material, M. Dionne has gone chiefly to Champlain’s own writings and to the reports of missionaries. Designed as a contribution to a popular series [“Makers of Canada”] we do not meet in this book with any long discussion of disputed or technical points; but M. Dionne takes time to consider large issues such as the expediency of Champlain’s attack upon the Iroquois, and is not prevented from breaking a lance at intervals with Faillon. For us the most interesting portion of the narrative is concerned with the taking of Quebec by the English in 1629.”—Nation.
“We do not think that Mr. Dionne praises him too highly in a volume in which the only serious fault we detect is a certain lack of sequence.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 314. S. 29, ‘05. 560w.
“These and all cognate topics are dealt with by M. Dionne with both sympathy and information.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 490w.
* =Spec.= 95: 822. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Ditchfield, Peter Hampson.= Picturesque English cottages. **$2. Winston.
To “Old cottages and domestic architecture in southwest Surrey,” and “The old cottages, farm houses and other stone buildings of the Cotswold district” “must now be added Mr. Ditchfield’s ‘Picturesque English cottages,’ less technical than the others, equally well illustrated, and covering the field more broadly.... The text, covering as it does such subjects as methods of construction, influence of material, the evolution of the cottage, foreign influence upon it, the cottage garden and its flowers, is entertaining, and by no means too technical for the uninstructed reader.” (Nation.)
“Were it not for its binding, the book would be wholly without blemish. So tasteless, so utterly inappropriate a cover.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 267. S. 28, ‘05. 910w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
=Dix, Beulah Marie.= Fair maid of Graystones. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Graystones is a great country house in Suffolkshire, and the action takes place in the time of Cromwell after the surrender of the Cavalier stronghold of Colchester to the Parliamentary forces. The story opens upon a group of Cavalier prisoners. “The hero, Jack Hetherington, prisoner, is fighting a big Roundhead for kicking a dying Cavalier.... All through the brilliantly told tale, Jack fights his way against great odds. He weds the Fair Maid, a neglected orphan, dependent of a great family, and the two young things go out penniless to seek a home.” (Outlook.)
* “The plot, which hinges on a case of mistaken identity, is ingenious, if scarcely probable, and the interest fresh and well sustained.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 794. D. 9. 160w.
* “The story reads agreeably, and adds another leaf to its author’s wreath of laurel.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 260w.
* “There is not much history to trouble about ... but there is good style here, and lively characterization in Miss Dix’s now known manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 839. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
“While there is nothing extraordinary about the plot, it has no tinge of the commonplace, and it is handled with so high an appreciation of artistic values and human interest that one wishes there were more writers like Miss Dix.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 160w.
=Dixon, Amzi Clarence.= Lights and shadows of American life. William H. Smith, 25 Stanhope St., Boston.
Christian talks which will find favor in many Christian homes because they combine orthodox thought, humorous expression, and broad common sense. Such subjects as: Our homes; Our money makers; Our boys and girls; Our amusements; Our Sabbath; Our politics; Our churches; and Our destiny, are discussed.
=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Clansman. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The clansman” is the second book of Mr. Dixon’s trio of historical novels. The first, “The leopard’s spots,” as the author states in his preface, “was the statement in historical outline of the condition of the negro from the enfranchisement to the disfranchisement.” “The clansman” is the sequel, and “develops the true story of the Ku Klux Klan which overturned the revolution régime.” The great issues of the reconstruction period create a giant force which the dignity and strength of Lincoln grapple with for a brief period, and which the evil genius of “The great commoner,” Austin Stoneman, Thaddeus Stevens in thin disguise, dominates thruout the story. Congress’ policy of revenge towards the new South, the impeachment of Johnson, the radical faction’s determination to bestow civic rights upon negroes, the resulting reign of terror in the South under the sway of negroes and carpetbaggers, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan provide stirring scenes thru which runs a double love story.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.
“The clansman may be summed up as a very poor novel, a very ridiculous novel, not a novel at all, yet a novel with a great deal to it; a novel that very properly is going to interest many thousands of readers, of all degrees of taste and education, a book which will be discussed from all points of view, voted superlatively good and superlatively bad, but which will be read.” F. Dredd.
— — + =Bookm.= 20: 559. F. ‘05. 920w.
“One reads not far in the present volume until he is convinced that Mr. Dixon is not to be waved aside as a mere argumentative pamphleteer, but that he has in him literary possibilities of a high order. The advance from the crudities of ‘The leopard’s spots’ is marked, and is seen in every feature.” W. H. Johnson.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 277. Mr. ‘05. 780w.
“Book shows from beginning to end the effort of an unscrupulous partisan to become an artist. The story appears to have been got out of the Congressional Record and pieced together with two or three charming love affairs.”
— — + =Ind.= 58: 325. F. 9, ‘05. 1050w.
“A thrilling romance. It is by no means equally certain that the book paints in any too vivid colors the chaos of blind passion that in the North followed Lincoln’s assassination or the reign of terror that resulted in the South.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1020w.
“Deliberately uses such talent as he has to arouse the worst passions in his readers. There is less vulgarity in the story than might be expected, but restraint has not yet done its full work. The best men, both North and South, will turn from this repellant portrayal of our country and our countrymen.”
— — + =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 230w.
“The dramatic intensity, the color, the incisiveness of Mr. Dixon’s style. It is in the expression of personal opinion, and the characterization of individuals that the strong partisan bias of the book is most plain. Three-fourths of the book are given up to the epoch-making events and radical legislation, that prepared the way for the Ku Klux Klan. ‘The clansman’ consists of a bitter arraignment of Thaddeus Stevens, some vivid portrayals of great scenes, some impassioned pleading, and a modicum of fiction. As a novel it may reinforce, but it will not displace the more artistic presentment of the reconstruction period that another Southerner has given us in ‘Red rock.’”
+ + — =Reader.= 5: 379. F. ‘05. 500w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. Dixon ... is so impressed with the tremendous interest of his country’s history that he has lost his sense of perspective.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 636. My. 13, ‘05. 250w.
=Dixon, Thomas, jr.= Life worth living. **$1.20. Doubleday.
This group of essays and papers sets forth the beauties of nature and the joys of country life. The opening chapter, Dreams and disillusions shows the “horrors of city life”; there are other chapters upon such subjects as—The music of the seasons, The fellowship of dogs, Some sins of nature, The shouts of children, In the haunts of wild fowl, and What is life?
Reviewed by G. W. Adams.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 70. S. ‘05. 620w.
— =Ind.= 58: 1422. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.
“It is not often we are given such an insight into a public man’s private life.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 160w.
=Dods, Rev. Marcus.= Bible, its origin and nature. **$1. Scribner.
“This is the first volume published on the foundation which Lieutenant-Governor Bross, of Illinois, provided in 1879, with a view to the defense of ‘the religion of the Bible ... as commonly received in the Presbyterian and other evangelical churches.’” (Outlook.) It contains the lectures given at Lake Forest college in May, 1904.
* “The book is a polemic, but a gracious polemic.”
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 741. O. ‘05. 670w.
“His work will be of service in disarming prejudice and allaying fears as to the critical study of the Bible.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 200w.
“What is peculiar to himself is the clarity of exposition, the brightness of sympathy, the sound sanity and sincerity of his treatment of a subject which more than anything lends itself to exaggeration and lip service.”
+ + =N. Y. Times= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 750w.
“He states his argument with great ability, and meets objectors with ingenuity and skill.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w.
=Dole, Nathan Haskell.= comp. Latin poets: an anthology. $2. Crowell.
A companion volume to the author’s “Greek poets.” There have been included Latin poets from Plautus and Terence to Juvenal and Lucian. A sketch of each poet’s life followed by representative selections from his works, bringing together material for a complete survey of Roman literature.
* “As far as the originals are concerned, the selections are excellently made, but the versions are very uneven, and had to be.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 408. N. 16, ‘05. 400w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.
“It is, however, a charming collection in which few will miss any favorites.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
Dolly Winter: the letters of a friend which Joseph Harold is permitted to publish. †$1.25. Pott.
Letters from the hero to his friends give the romance of a man of the world who, while temporarily following the simple life in a secluded village, becomes interested in Dolly, whose mother as a result of ill doing, is insane.
“The letters are written in a graceful style and unfold a romantic story with much keenness of wit and other elements of the now almost lost art of letter writing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“An innocuous tale upon well-worn lines.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 16w.
=Donne, William Bodham.= William Bodham Donne and his friends; ed. by Catharine B. Johnson. *$3. Dutton.
“A volume of letters to and from ‘William Bodham Donne and his friends,’ ed. by Donne’s granddaughter, Catherine B. Johnson.... The letters selected attempt to give a connected idea of W. B. Donne’s life and to illustrate his character.... [He] numbered among his ‘friends’ the best-known literary personages of his day.... There are 16 illustrations, including portraits of William Bodham Donne, Fanny Kemble, FitzGerald, John Mitchell Kemble, Trench, Bernard Barton, Blakesley, and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“Considering the difficulty of the task before her, Mrs. Johnson has succeeded remarkably well.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 233. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1120w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 431. Ap. 8. 770w.
“Most of the letters in this book were written by Donne, but a great many were written to him, and it is hard to say which are the more interesting.” Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 159. Ag. ‘05. 1580w.
“The workmanship of both editor and printer is good.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 10. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2380w.
* “Miss Johnson has done her part admirably in editing the letters.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 260w.
“It is altogether a model of what such a record should be.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 206. S. 7, ‘05. 720w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 170w.
“They are the letters of a true literary man, letters that are worth the permanent form in which they are now embodied.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 570w.
“These letters of Donne and his friends ... form a worthy memorial of him.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 593. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
=Donnell, Annie Hamilton.= Rebecca Mary; with eight illustrations in color by Mary Shippen Green. †$1.50. Harper.
Rebecca Mary, a little New England girl, figures thru these sketches. She lives with a prim severe aunt with whom she possesses in common certain family traits. “Being a Plummer meant a great deal. It meant that by no chance must one ever display any of the emotions that one experiences. Neither must one ever show one’s affection; one must have courage to do what is right, no matter how unpleasant; one must be conscientious to a fault, and above all one must do one’s duty if it kills one.” (N. Y. Times.)
“On the whole, Rebecca Mary is worth knowing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 270w.
* “There is no doubt that Rebecca will find her niche in the affections of readers beside that occupied by the immortal Emmy Lou.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “A charming study of child life.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 30w.
=Dopp, Katharine Elizabeth.= Place of industries in elementary education. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
In this third edition a chapter upon “Ways of procuring a material equipment” and “Ways of using it so as to enhance the value of colonial history” is added in order to make the book serviceable as a teacher’s manual. The chapters are entitled—Significance of industrial epochs, Origins of attitudes that underlie industry, and Practical applications. The illustrations are from photographs.
“The most suggestive single work that can be placed in the hands of teachers.” W. I. Thomas.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 272. S. ‘05. 120w. + + =Dial.= 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 180w.
“It is a great satisfaction to meet with a book that moves along an unbeaten path to new points of view on current problems. Such a book is this.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
=Dorman, Marcus R. P.= History of the British empire in the 19th century, v. 2. The campaigns of Wellington and the policy of Castlereagh (1806-1825). *$4. Lippincott.
“A consecutive account of British foreign and domestic policy.... Mr. Dorman pays little attention to affairs in France and central Europe. His point of view is always British and his desire is to elucidate the part played by British statesmen and soldiers in continental affairs.... He introduces a considerable body of new information drawn from the correspondence of British representatives in other countries. He throws light on the Welcheren expedition, on the part played by General Chitroff in betraying information to the British government, on the negotiations between Alexander and Napoleon in 1811, and on the position of Prussia in February, 1812.... The second portion of the history, dealing with the period from 1815 to 1825, is chiefly concerned with the policy of Castlereagh.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The attitude assumed throughout is that of a fair-minded and impartial narrator.” Charles M. Andrews.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 664. Ap. ‘05. 1560w.
=Dorsey, George Amos.= Mythology of the Wichita. $1.50. Carnegie inst.
A volume “collected under the auspices of the Carnegie institution by the Curator of anthropology of the Field Columbian museum of Chicago.... In this collection are sixty myths. The author has written an introductory chapter of twenty-four pages, telling of the history and social life of the Wichita, a group of the Caddoan stock who have stood high among the Indians as regards home life and morality.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 120w.
=Nature.= 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 230w.
=Dorsey, George Amos,= ed. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee. *$6. Pub. for the American folklore society by Houghton.
“As a faithful narrator, Mr. Dorsey translates the indecorous into Latin. The stories he divides into several groups, the ‘Cosmogonous,’ the ‘Boy heroes,’ ‘Medicin,’ ‘Animal tales’; then comes ‘People marry animals or become animals.’ Then there are many stories which are placed under the general heading of ‘Miscellaneous.’ ... The Pawnee delighted in boy heroes.... Indian maidens figure as heroines. A fairly ideal one is ‘the girl who married a star.’ ... The coyote figures in many of the traditions.... The Pawnees have also their medicine bundles. Some of these bundles are believed to have the power of inducing rain to fall.”—N. Y. Times.
Reviewed by Frederick Starr.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 166. S. 16, ‘05. 1570w.
“The book is a very important contribution to American folk lore.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 10. Ja. 5, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Nature.= 71: 417. Mr. 2, ‘05. 160w.
“The notes at the conclusion of this volume add very much to one’s comprehension of the folk-lore of the Pawnees.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 540w.
=Doub, William Coligny.= History of the United States. *$1. Macmillan.
To show that civics forms an integral part of the history of a nation, Professor Doub combines the two subjects in one text, doing away with the necessity of separate books.
=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 217. O. ‘05. 30w.
“In the hands of a well-equipped educator this volume will render a separate study of civics unnecessary.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 267. Ag. 3, ‘05. 70w.
“The author is successful, it appears to us, in his desire to make government so completely an integral part of the history of a nation that the people will rightly see and understand this relationship.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 70w.
* Double-knot and other stories. †$1.25. Benziger.
Mary T. Waggaman, Anna T. Sadlier, Magdalen Rock, Mary E. Mannix, Mary G. Bonesteel, Eugene Uhlrich, Maurice Francis Egan, and seven other Roman Catholic writers have written the thirty stories which make up this volume. Nearly all of them are sweet, simple little love stories, but some are merry ones, like the story of the pretty stenographer, who, thru a misdirected letter, succeeded in marrying a millionaire, and some are sad, like the story of the two lovers who, parted for a life time, met at last as inmates of the Home which the Little Sisters of the Poor provide for the needy and aged.
=Dougall, Lily.= Summit House mystery. $1.50. Funk.
The events recorded here transpire in the shut-away section of the mountains of northern Georgia, where two women seek seclusion. “The story concerns a mysterious crime, and a strong-willed, long-suffering religious woman is the central figure. It recalls, in the solution of the mystery, and in one powerfully dramatic passage, Miss Braddon’s famous ‘Henry Dunbar.’ It also recalls (as vividly) superficial facts of the Borden murder mystery at Fall River about sixteen years ago.” (N. Y. Times).
“One class of fiction lovers will read it for the ‘mystery,’ while another will care more for its delicate, and subtle observations of nature and character, and the admirable English the author commands.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 477. My. ‘05. 220w.
“Miss Dougall’s frequently too fluent descriptive facility is freely exercised. There is beauty, however, in her descriptive phrases, and she can place a scene before the reader’s eyes with just the effect she aims at. The plot is ingenious and sufficiently original, and is remarkably well worked out. Miss Dougall is one of the cleverest of contemporary story tellers. Better still are the studies of character. The novel has value, too, as an impartial comparison by an outsider of Northern and Southern traits of character. It is a readable book, and it deserves success.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“The plot is ingenious and original and remarkably well worked out.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“The plot of this novel is managed with much skill, holding one’s interest without disclosing the solution of the puzzle until the very end. It is a cleverly told tale, with many original points.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 80w.
“This book was published in England under the title ‘The earthly purgatory,’ and the title was well chosen. For the lover of adventure the book is to be commended.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 429. Mr. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* =Douglas, Amanda Minnie.= Little girl in old San Francisco. †$1.50. Dodd.
“The little girl first reached San Francisco in its earliest days. When the book closes, San Francisco is the great metropolis of the West. Giving the life story of the ‘little girl’ from her childhood past her wedding-day, the author also pictures the changes and growth of the city.”—Outlook.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 80w.
* “The book has not only human interest but some historical value.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.
=Douglas, James.= Old France in the new world. $2.50. Burrows.
This detailed description of Quebec in the seventeenth century forms a study of the French occupation of Canada, their explorations into the wilderness, and their struggle with England for supremacy. The volume is fully illustrated with reproductions of old pictures, maps, diagrams and portraits.
* “An important addition to the historical literature of Northern America.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 80w.
“In fact, though Dr. Douglas has trod in paths that had been pretty well blazed out and explored before him, he has achieved a work of value.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 673. O. 14, ‘05. 630w.
“Dr. Douglas’s book may find fit place alongside Sir Gilbert Parker’s ‘In old Quebec,’ Sir John Bourinot’s ‘The story of Canada,’ and the dozen volumes of Parkman’s histories.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 50w.
=Douglas, James.= Theodore Watts-Dunton: poet, novelist, critic. *$3.50. Lane.
Mr. Douglas has exhibited Mr. Watts-Dunton to the world mainly as a novelist and poet. This view does not accord with Mr. Joseph Jacobs’ notion, for instance, which maintains that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s highest place is one among the critics. “The work comprises: (1) Reminiscences and anecdotes concerning Watt-Dunton’s distinguished friends and associates; (2) Watts-Dunton’s last words about Rossetti, and the campaign of slander in connection with his relations with his wife; (3) Unpublished poems by Watts-Dunton; (4) Letters from George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and other distinguished men; (5) An account of the life at the Pines, and the relations between Swinburne and Watts-Dunton; (6) Extracts from Watts-Dunton’s articles in the London Athenæum.” (Int. Studio). The illustrations include Welsh and English landscapes, works of art by Rosetti and others, and both outside and inside views of the Pines, the joint home of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne.
“The volume is precisely what it claims to be—a biographical and critical study, and the subject has been extremely fortunate in his biographer; for Mr. James Douglas is not only a fascinating and discriminating critic, but is in such perfect rapport with Watts-Dunton and his dearest literary companions that the rare sympathy of deep friendship lights up a story that even without warmth would have been fair and fascinating, and gives to it a peculiar charm.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 336. Mr. ‘05. 990w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 95: 426. Mr. ‘05. 510w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 95: 837. Je. ‘05. 1030w.
“The author is an enthusiastic admirer of his subject, not a calm and critical biographer.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ — =Critic.= 46: 451 My. ‘05. 900w.
“The object of Mr. Douglas in this work is to give a general view of the man and his writings. As far as the man is concerned, the work is by no means a formal biography, but rather a series of dissolving views of a strong personality. His [Douglas’] own commentary is rambling and possibly overwrought, but will be found serviceable as a sort of connective tissue whereby the reprinted passages are held together.” W. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 78. F. 1, ‘05. 2880w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 157. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“There is no doubt whatever that Mr. Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences, collected and arranged by one so eminently able as Mr. James Douglas, form a very important addition to contemporary records of the leading lights of the nineteenth century in the literature and art of America and England.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 280w. (Detailed statement of contents.)
“Mr. Douglas’s vicarious autobiography of the mind of Theodore Watts-Dunton is in plan and execution pretty much everything that a study of a living man of letters ought not to be. The chief value of the book is as an anthology of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s scattered and too little known work in criticism, in fiction, and in verse.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 176. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1710w.
“Mr. Douglas in this book has chosen to represent Mr. Watts-Dunton as critic by very few, and those for the most part badly selected, specimens. This book does less than justice to the great position of Mr. Watts-Dunton in contemporary English letters. He lays stress upon the wrong thing, praises his hero for his lesser qualities, reproduces too little of his criticism, and too much of his poetry. Whoever wants to know Mr. Watts-Dunton in his capacity as poet and novelist will find his merits more than sufficiently exemplified and insisted upon in Mr. Douglas’s book.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 4. Ja. 7, ‘05. 2890w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Dowden, Edward.= Montaigne. **$1.50. Lippincott.
The initial volume in the “French men of letters series.” With a clever distribution of detail which Montaigne bequeathed to the world about himself, Professor Dowden “seeks to interpret the author not merely by the facts of his life but also by what he reveals of himself in his writings. And ... Montaigne lays himself bare for the inspection of the reader.” (Dial.)
“He has told the old tale clearly and simply, as far as possible in Montaigne’s own words, and we know no handbook better fitted to enlighten those readers who have not the time or industry to read the essays themselves.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 975. S. 23, ‘05. 1470w.
* “In the admirable biography ... Montaigne’s life and work are considered with sympathetic discretion.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 566. D. ‘05. 790w.
“It is no cut-and-dried biography, but an illuminated record of the mind and soul of the man whom Sainte-Beuve called ‘the wisest Frenchman that ever lived.’”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 168. S. 16, ‘05. 790w.
“For the book itself is evidently no quickly commissioned and machine-made production. It is the result rather of affectionate assiduity, or serious collection of materials, and collation of authorities.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 293. S. 15, ‘05. 1760w.
“What makes this volume specially pleasing is that, in the spirit of ‘entente cordiale,’ it shows the desire to appreciate, with the graceful help of a winning style, the essentially French writer, who nevertheless finds a literary home in all countries.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 300w.
“Prof. Dowden’s ‘Montaigne’ has the quality we always look for in the work of that capable critic. This writer is not a virtuoso among biographers; but what he lacks in brilliancy is more than made up for in sober force.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 665. O. 14, ‘05. 2280w.
* “And it is the distinctive characteristic of Mr. Dowden’s work that in it Montaigne lives for us again. This effect, moreover, is produced with a deftness which defies analysis. The treatment is essentially impressionistic but it is none the less convincing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 715. N. 25, ‘05. 280w.
“A critical and sympathetic account which every genuine lover of Montaigne will prize.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 542. O. 21, ‘05. 390w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 40w.
“He makes Montaigne as interesting as a man’s biography can be made whose real life is contained in his books. Our feeling about the book is rather that it is too much biographic; and that more space should have been given to the study of Montaigne’s influence on French and on English literature.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 501. O. 14, ‘05. 1640w.
* “Professor Dowden’s work is entirely worthy of its attractive setting. We do not think he has ever made a literary sketch so satisfactory.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 908. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.
=Dowson, Ernest.= Collected poems. *$1.50. Lane.
This volume contains all of the poetical works of Ernest Dowson, including “Verses,” published in 1896; “The Pierrot of the minute,” in 1897; and a posthumous collection entitled “Decorations.” Mr. Arthur Symons has written an appreciative memoir to the book.
“[He] wrote in verse with sad sincerity, and in exquisite lingering rhythms and a diction poignant in its reserved perfection.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 416. S. ‘05. 700w.
“The delicate talent of Ernest Dowson is appraised with intelligence, and the subtle sympathy which it so peculiarly needs, in the introductory essay by Mr. Arthur Symons which accompanies the final edition of Dowson’s ‘Poems.’” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 272. N. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“We quote a poem which will illustrate both his musical grave way and the destructive and unpoetical philosophy that he had acquired.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 177. Je. 9, ‘05. 910w.
“A volume of decadent poetry, so called, of exceptionally fine quality.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 302. O. 12, ‘05. 440w.
“The poems before us justify the praise Mr. Symons bestows upon them. They vibrate with feeling, and are stamped with reality, as having been lived before they were phrased.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 678. O. 14, ‘05. 660w.
“We may well believe that a few of these poems at least will live and be treasured, never indeed by the many, but by those who are sensitive to music and choice expression, and to sentiment that is genuine, however fatally stamped with too much sadness, born of disease.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 808. Je. 17, ‘05. 1430w.
=Doyle, (Arthur) Conan.= Return of Sherlock Holmes. $1.50. McClure.
Thirteen short stories which chronicle the last adventures of the famous detective, who now retires from the public gaze to end his days on his Sussex bee-farm. There is the story of the mystery of the second stain, the adventure of the priory school, the adventure of the six Napoleons and others of equal mystery.
“Mr. Holmes is so interesting that he might easily be more so. Moreover, he is not so accurate as of yore.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 397. Ap. 1. 530w.
“The novelist has not shown anything like as much ingenuity in the construction of fresh problems as the detective shows in solving them.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 37: 106. Jl. ‘05. 1340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“Speaking generally, this volume does not average as high as its predecessors; but this is only because its best are not quite equal to the best he has told before.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 360w.
“The stolen examination paper, the missing foot-ball player, and the professional blackmailer, for all his miserable death, seem rather small game for the redoubtable Holmes after the stirring scenes of his earlier days.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 346. Mr. 4, ‘05. 380w.
“The new stories are not so fresh as the old, not so ingenious, nor do they offer that full measure of breathless suspense without which the fiction of crime is only weariness and vexation.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 170w.
=Doyle, Edward.= Haunted temple and other poems. $1. Edward Doyle, 247 W. 125th st., N. Y.
“The haunted temple” by the blind poet of Harlem is a criticism of life. The temple is builded of “the lifeless dross of the heart and the spirit,” the law of construction is “antipodal—not one, with that of the ascending stars and the sun.” Introspection and poetic fervor mark this work and the accompanying poems.
+ =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 50w.
“A daring and somewhat unregulated imagination is the chief characteristic.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Many of his verses are deeply religious in tone and are healthily, almost buoyantly trustful, with an entire absence of morbidness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 270w.
=Drayton, Michael.= Poems. $1.25. Scribner.
“The latest edition to the ‘Newnes’ pocket classics.’ ... Instead of attempting to show every side of Drayton’s work in so narrow a compass, the editor has wisely selected only the best side, and has accordingly presented a very full collection of his shorter pieces.”—Outlook.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 296. My. 6, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1015, Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.
=Driscoll, Clara.= Girl of La Gloria; il. by Hugh W. Ditzler. †$1.50. Putnam.
This love story of Texas, which pictures the rough but romantic life on the plains, is the story of a young New Yorker who falls in love with a girl who is the last of an old Mexican family whose estates have gradually been taken from them by the Americans.
“Miss Driscoll can tell a tale with freshness and an engaging individuality. She has not quite got the knack either of omitting unessential details, or of saving essential ones from being a trifle tedious.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 495. My. 6. ‘05. 310w.
“The author’s diction is commonplace, and her grammar none too sound.”
— — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 556. My. 6. 120w.
“The story is really too good, as stories go, to be treated altogether flippantly.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 601. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
“It is a very little story and very simple.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.
“And nothing in particular to recommend or condemn it.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 20w.
+ — =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 90w.
=Drummond, William Henry.= Voyageur, and other poems. **$1.25. Putnam.
The new French-Canadian poems which make up this volume sing sadly and gayly, by turns, of the hunter, and the pioneer, of home and of country, of youth and of “The last portage” when “De moon an’ de star above is gone, yet somet’ing tell me I mus’ go on.”
“It is only when the author forsakes his patois, and writes in the English tongue, that he lays himself open to serious fault-finding.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 300. S. 2. 390w.
“Heartily can we commend every page of Dr. Drummond’s latest volume.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 190w.
“The patois is not beautiful in itself, and to many readers it may seem a little barbarous; but it is Mr. Drummond’s true material, for the dialect songs have a merit which is absent in the few pieces written in ordinary English.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 391. S. 16, ‘05. 500w.
=Dubois, Dr. Paul.= Psychic treatment of nervous disorders; tr. from the French by Smith Ely Jelliffe, and William A. White. *$3. Funk.
The author both a psychologist and physician gives in this volume of nearly 450 pages the experience and principles of psychic treatment of nervous disorders based upon twenty years of successful specialization and practice in this branch of medical skill. “The strong optimistic tenor of the book, its simple untechnical language, and the directness with which its philosophy is applied to life, make it capable of becoming a vital fact not merely to physicians but to every one who has pondered on the relations between the psychic and the physical.”
“The charm of Dr. Dubois’s style is preserved in spite of the difficulties and occasional errors of translation. The entire absence of pedantry, the constant good nature and wit, a marked dramatic and rhetorical instinct and honest zeal make his book one of the most readable in medical or psychological literature.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 497. O. 7, ‘05. 940w.
=Duckworth, W. L. H.= Morphology and anthropology: a handbook for students. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Duckworth defines the subject-matter of his book as an inquiry into (1) man’s zoölogical position: (2) the nature of his ancestry.... In the classification adopted by Mr. Duckworth, man retains the position assigned to him by Huxley.... Nor has the evidence which has accumulated in the last thirty-three years permitted Mr. Duckworth to make a more definite statement as to the ancestral chain ... of man than was made by Darwin in his first edition of the ‘Descent of man’ in 1871.”—Nature.
“Within the limits at his disposal he has been able to marshal his facts and inferences in a methodical and convincing manner.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 533. Ap. 29. 740w.
“It would not be just to close this review without acknowledging the number of original facts and fresh opinions that mark the pages of this work. The opening chapters are perhaps too condensed. The chapters on the cerebral organization are specially well done, and contain the best exposition yet published of our knowledge of that part of the Primate organization.” A. K.
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 433. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1690w.
“Duckworth’s observations strike us in the main very favorably, as both candid and judicious. A very good and useful handbook.” T. D.
+ + =Science,= n.s. 22: 398. S. 29, ‘05. 680w.
“Is an invaluable piece of exact work, somewhat beyond the needs of the general reader, but admirably adapted to those of the student.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 787, My. 27, ‘05. 180w.
* =Duclaux, Mary (Mary Darmesteter) (Agnes Mary Frances Robinson).= Fields of France: little essays in descriptive sociology. $6. Lippincott.
Madame Duclaux’s interesting description of France and the French is now reissued as “a beautiful quarto with twenty reproductions of water-color sketches by W. B. Macdougall, chiefly in illustration of French dwellings from farm-houses to chateaux.... The seven divisions of the book carry one from Normandy to Provence with apparently equal sympathy and shrewd observation.” (Nation.)
* “One of the most gorgeous of holiday books, and one that deserves to be read from cover to cover, not only because of its subject but for its literary style as well.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Altogether this is a delightful book.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 446. N. 30, ‘05. 310w.
* “Altogether she has made an instructive and attractive book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 877. D. 9, ‘05. 420w.
* “The artist’s work is often amateurish and the arrangement of the pictures awkward.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 692. N. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Dudley, Albertus True.= In the line. †$1.25. Lee.
The third volume in the “Phillips Exeter” series tells the story of a sturdy Boston boy who having worked up to the position of guard on the football team is forbidden by his father to play in one of the crucial games of the season. Opportunity is thus given for arguments on both sides of the much-discussed football question.
“Except in so far as it lends encouragement to football ... the book is bent to encourage all sorts of good things—honesty, democracy, morality, courage, a harmless gayety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 572. S. 2, ‘05. 230w.
=Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant.= Notes from a diary, 1896-1901. 2v. *$4. Dutton.
These volumes close the notes from a diary which contains the record of half-a century ending as the reign of Edward VII. begins. Sir Mountstuart has avoided the chief interests of his life, politics and administration but has preserved “some interesting and amusing things that would otherwise have soon disappeared,” anecdotes, bits of verse, stories of travels, of dinners, and of visits among the most brilliant men of his time.
“Very entertaining volumes. They paint the manners of the time more graphically than any novelist has been able to do.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 356. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1090w.
“They are a treasure-house of entertainment. There is a good deal of pleasant classical lore; there are riddles, too, and jokes galore, so that the ordinary man as well as the scholar should be pleased.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 456. Ap. 15. 1610w.
* “A mirror of the times indeed and it is with sincere regret that I read Sir Mountstuart’s ultimatum that these volumes are his last.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 508. Je. ‘05. 950w.
“Though by no means dull reading are a little cloying if taken in course and at a sitting.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 450w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 508. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w.
“They are bed-candle reading. As such they will divert, interest, and offer diverse suggestion to different people.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 1350w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“Not an unkind word enters these pages. The author is amiable both by nature and grace. He is an accomplished raconteur.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 1020w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“He has made such a contribution to the gaiety of the world as seldom comes from a single pen.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 641. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1960w.
=Duignan, W. H.= Worcestershire place names. *$2.40. Oxford.
A glossary which brings the history and place names of Worcestershire down to date and “has more than a merely local interest; for the English place names, which nearly all have their root in Anglo-Saxon, occur again and again throughout the whole country, and in them England’s early history is latent.” (Nation.)
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 250w.
“It is not surpassed in excellence by any other work of its class with which I am acquainted.” Henry Bradley.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 603. Jl. ‘05. 590w.
=Nation.= 80: 501. Je. 22, ‘05. 200w.
=Dumas, Alexandre.= Three musketeers. $1.25. Crowell.
This novel running almost to the six hundred page limit, depicting the court life of France during the closing years of Louis XII’s reign and the opening years of the Grand Monarch is in this edition fashioned after the “Thin paper classics” model. It offers a complete revised translation with introduction and cast of characters by J. Walker McSpadden.
=Dumas, Alexandre.= Twenty years after. $1.25. Crowell.
An edition of Dumas’ novel which is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”
=Dunbar, Agnes B. C.= Dictionary of saintly women. 2v. ea. *$4. Macmillan.
In volume one “the author has collected the facts and legends concerning thousands of Catholic saints, canonized or beatified maids and matrons, from ancient Britain to the Japan of the seventeenth century, their austerities and charities, their martyrdoms and miracles.” (Outlook.) Volume two draws its material mainly from the “Acta sanctorum,” and “the author’s survey extends over the whole church before the parting of the East from the West, the Western church as a whole to the Reformation, and afterward the Roman church. Besides being of value as a pious work, the dictionary will also be useful as a work of reference.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is written with ardent sympathy and with a highly respectable erudition.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 843. S. ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Every statement is accredited to a certain writer.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.)
* “But Miss Dunbar has worked out the problem in each case, and made a remarkably complete book—the only one of the kind in English we think.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 899. D. 16, ‘05. 480w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Dunbar, Charles Franklin.= Economic essays. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“The volume now before us brings together fifteen essays which had been published in various journals, chiefly in the Quarterly journal of economics, and adds thereto five others which have never before seen the light. With the former, the task of the editor was comparatively simple; the latter, by the pious care of a disciple, have been brought ‘as nearly as possible into the form which the author would have wished’ to give them. The introduction by Professor Taussig, carefully avoiding mere eulogy, is the fit tribute of a student to a revered master. While the book cannot repair, except in slightest measure, the loss which economic science suffered in Professor Dunbar’s death, it is a worthy memorial to one who contributed so much, as teacher, editor, and investigator, to the progress of economic study in the United States.”—Nation.
“Especially helpful are the chapters on the panic of 1857 and the description of the state banking systems in the middle of the century. Serve as admirable examples of interesting and intelligible generalizations based upon trade and banking statistics.” D. R. D.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 203. O. ‘05. 300w.
“Some of those essays are models of careful research. The easy literary style in which they are written should make the volume one of unusual interest to the general public as well as of value to the student.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w.
“He separates fact from fancy, and presents the results of scientific inquiry, largely in the field of banking and currency, in an eminently judicious and scholarly manner.” Arthur B. Woodford.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 112. S. 1, ‘05. 320w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“While it does not do full justice to his attainments, the present volume gives sufficient evidence of Professor Dunbar’s firm hold upon his science in its broadest relations, his skill in handling questions of the day, and his special aptitude for patient and fruitful historical research. All [the five now printed for the first time] display the nice workmanship of the author, and must be reckoned with by him who would write the definitive history of our banking system.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 159. F. 23, ‘05. 830w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
* “It is hardly too much to say that an hundred pages may be selected from Professor Dunbar’s writings which are as well worth preservation and careful study as a similar number of pages in the works of any of the great masters of the science since Adam Smith. Certainly there is no American economist whose writings deserve a higher rank.” G. S. C.
+ + + =Yale. R.= 14: 328. N. ‘05. 1000w.
* =Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Howdy, honey, howdy. **$1.50. Dodd.
“In this collection of verse the ... many-gifted lyrist of his race strikes again almost exclusively those chords of pathos and humor, in purely dialect verse, which have won for the author a quite unique position among America’s ‘minor poets’ of to-day. The publishers have rendered the volume very attractive by adding to the racy metrical text characteristic photographs and tasteful decorations; the former by Leigh Richmond Miner; the latter by Will Jenkins.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “Mr. Dunbar’s part in the volume needs no description, save to say that it is in his characteristic vein and well up to his usual standard in quality.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 60w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 290w.
=Dunbar, Paul Laurence.= Lyrics of sunshine and shadow. **$1. Dodd.
About eighty poems are grouped here which range from the grave to the gay. The author keeps well to his special field of folk lore. A number of the poems are in negro dialect, “portraying the pranks and plottings of a rollicking pickaninny world.”
“His present volume is in no wise disappointing: as in its predecessors we find in ‘Lyrics of sunshine and shadow’ a rich sympathy with the homely characteristic themes treated and a happy deftness in the management of rhyme and rhythm.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w.
“Mr. Dunbar’s poetic inspiration is slender but sincere. He is at his best in simple ballad measures, writing of the common joys of health and out-of-doors.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 190w.
=Duncan, Edmondstoune.= Schubert. $1.25. Dutton.
Modern methods of compilation are employed, modern demands for the conditioning forces of a career are met, and the modern accompaniment of illustrative matter is supplied in this complete life of Schubert recently added to the “Master musicians series.” The biography of Schubert, Schubert the man, and Schubert the musician constitute the three divisions for treatment.
* “His little book is for the most part dull, flat and prosy, overloaded with trivial details, in the midst of which the real essentials are lost sight of.”
— — =Ind.= 59: 990. O. 26, ‘05. 250w.
“The chief fault of Mr. Duncan’s book is a curious habit of repeating biographic details or criticisms in different sections of it. Some of his best and most important things are printed in footnote type in the bibliography.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 170. Ag. 24, ‘05. 700w.
“An agreeable and generally trustworthy biography.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 730w.
“It brings out facts not before known, though it is far from being an ideal biography.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 695. Jl. 15, ‘05. 330w.
* “His own observations are marked not only by the warm personal affection which Schubert invariably inspires in his admirers, but by excellent taste and sound critical judgment.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 763. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.
=Duncan, Frances.= Mary’s garden and how it grew. †$1.25. Century.
Mary is typically the child enthusiast, while her instructor, the kind Herr Trummel, “gardener, horticulturist, retired florist, and above all, Switzer,” teaches her the simple forms of practical, scientific gardening. Aside from the tale of good comradeship existing between the gray haired gardener and the little “Liebchen,” the book is a practical handbook of instruction for all garden makers. It covers the possibilities for the different months, showing what may be accomplished in winter as well as in the favorable summer time. The illustrations by Lee Woodward Zeigler are suggestively good.
“Miss Duncan’s little book, with its helpful illustrations, will do the best sort of missionary work. Her knowledge of her subject is intimate and her teaching technically sound; her graceful English....”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 160w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Dr. Grenfell’s parish, the deep sea fishermen. **$1. Revell.
In this book the author’s “freight is fact ... and the language is vigorous. What he calls Dr. Grenfell’s parish is the long, rocky coast of Labrador and of Newfoundland ... where Dr. Grenfell has labored, and is laboring, sailing the icy seas in fog and storm and tending the bodies (and minding somewhat also the souls) of the scattered dwellers in a vast, drear, country, which is less desolate since he came into it. Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell is an Englishman, and he is commissioned by the ‘Royal national mission to deep sea fishermen.’ ... Mr. Duncan’s account is chiefly concerned, not with the doctor, but with his monster parish and the inhabitants of it.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is a better and more interesting piece of work than either of its predecessors from the same pen.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 450w.
“By his literary gift Mr. Duncan opens the eyes of the least imaginative to the significance of the work he describes.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 471. My. ‘05. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 670w. (Condensed narrative of book).
+ =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 170w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 130w.
“This is indeed a different, and a better tale from any figment of the imagination. It reaches the heart with the force of verity.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 117. Je. ‘05. 460w.
=Spec.= 94: 598. Ap. 22, ‘05. 500w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Dr. Luke of the Labrador. †$1.50. Revell.
Mr. Duncan “has added a new province to the realm of literature. The gray ice-bound fields of Labrador, those stern, grim seas, that virile, simple folk, and its life of tragic monotony,—these things are now possessions to the imagination, possessions of enduring value.” (R. of Rs.) “Doctor Luke is a philanthropist, who, putting aside an early career of dissipation, devotes his life to relieving distress on the bleak coasts of Labrador.” (Ind.)
Reviewed by G. W. A.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 543. Jl. ‘05. 500w.
“With his keen faculty for seizing the essentials and dismissing the superfluous, Mr. Duncan has brought us face to face not only with the rigors and romance of life on the Labrador coast, but with its humor as well—and a varying humor it is, now droll and again grim, but always an accurate depiction. A romance full of interest and charm.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w.
“There is a group of figures of excellent variety and of the best sort of originality, self-stamped as made up of discovery and sympathetic interpretation. The story is perfectly fitted into the strange, wild surroundings.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 97. F. 2, ‘05. 540w.
“As an organic, thoroughly-developed novel, it is a failure.”
+ — =Reader.= 5: 789. My. ‘05. 210w.
“A novel of unusually high merit. But Mr. Duncan has not only a new field to exploit, he has style. The swift yet long and undulating sentences move with a distinctive rhythm that is as fresh as it is new. They tell a strong, beautiful love story. Altogether, ‘Dr. Luke of the Labrador’ is one of the season’s two or three best books.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 170w.
=Duncan, Norman.= Mother. †$1.25. Revell.
Mr. Duncan “lets heaven into the attic shekinah of a vaudeville actress, where she kept her child. Her love for him was the holy effulgence that covered her pitiful, painted life, and sanctified her. It is a fine argument for the way to heaven in women, dramatically expressed and quaintly proved, even if we leave out the philosophy of the ‘dog-face’ man, which to appreciate one must read.”—Ind.
* “The treatment is at once realistic and idealistic, and the two elements do not at all times blend quite harmoniously.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 577. D. ‘05. 170w.
“Norman Duncan’s new story, ‘The mother,’ gives the impression that he wrote it with his light turned a trifle too high and with his keynote of pathos taken an octave above where the reader’s sympathies reach comfortably.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 130w.
* “Altogether, in delicate balance of humor and pathos, in quick clutch upon the heartstrings, in revealing vividness of imagination, the art and spirit of ‘The mother,’ put it in the noble class of ‘Rab and his friends.’”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 540w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 60w.
* + — =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
“Mr. Duncan has consistently progressed in his art, but in no instance more than in ‘The mother.’”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.
=Duncan, Robert Kennedy.= New knowledge: a popular account of the new physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of matter. **$2. Barnes.
“A popular account of the new theory of matter and the relations of the new physics and new chemistry to other sciences.... The discovery of Becquerel and the Curies and its consequences form mainly the subject matter of the book. The author treats of current conceptions, the periodic law, gaseous ions, natural radio-activity, the resolution of the atom, inorganic evolution, and the new knowledge and old problems. There are numerous illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.
“Although some little fault might be found with the arrangement of the book, Prof. Duncan has succeeded in his main object. When allowance is made for the faults here enumerated, the book remains the best of its kind that we have read.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 787. Je. 24. 1450w.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 100w.
“It is not too much to say that no intelligent person can afford to permit this book to go unread. We have failed to find in the book any important inaccuracy, despite the fact that the field covered is so large and the subject-matter so difficult.”
+ + + =Educ. R.= 30: 310. O. ‘05. 740w.
“The style out-flammarions Flammarion in its vividness and its occasional verse quotations. So also is its all-embracing scope an expression of the author’s literary enthusiasm rather than of his scientific earnestness.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 641. Je. 15, ‘05. 490w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1015. My. 4, ‘05. 360w.
“This work is the first attempt which I have seen to bring into suitable compass, in an intelligible manner, the various problems which are occupying the attention of many physicists and chemists. There are few errors, and these are unimportant. Whether the author might not have omitted much fine writing is a question of taste.” W. R.
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 241. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1310w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 121. F. 25, ‘05. 300w.
“His descriptions and explanations are clear even to a layman.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1060w.
“The author has the rare faculty of infusing life into scientific discussion.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 210w.
* “Its author shows himself to be a man of wide reading, thorough scholarship, broad horizon and unmistakable literary talent. I do not find in it one single incorrect statement of fact.” R. A. Millikan.
+ + + =Science,= n.s. 22: 787. D. 15, ‘05. 520w.
“His book shows an admirable power of exposition, and the only fault that one can find with it is that its proofs have not been read with sufficient care, so that a certain number of slips have crept into its pages.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 154. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w.
* =Dunham, Edith.= Jogging round the world. †$1.50. Stokes.
A book with an educational value for children. It is designed to give an idea of interesting characteristics of many parts of the world; it shows riders and drivers, with curious steeds or vehicles in strange lands and at home. Their story is further told by the pictures which give glimpses of the life and manners of remote people.
* + =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 30w.
=Duniway, Mrs. Abigail Scott.= From the West to the West: across the plains to Oregon. †$1.50. McClurg.
This account of a trip by wagon from Illinois to Oregon is too homely to be romantic. The details or daily hardships are given, and there are many characters each with its own story. The squaw-man, the Indian, the run-away slave, and the Mormon all appear in the course of the long journey. Death by the wayside, cholera, a stampede of cattle, and other happenings accentuate the reality of the story and of the long list of characters playing a part in it.
“The book affords an interesting though somewhat idealized picture of the early days, but makes no pretensions to historical or geographical accuracy.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“The book is one which possesses no value as a novel, though it may inspire interest as a curiosity, not of literature, to be sure, but of story writing.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 370w.
=Dunkerley, S.= Mechanism. *$3. Longmans.
This new text book “opens with an introductory chapter in which the usual definitions occur relating to machines, kinematic chains, lower and higher pairs ... this is followed by a chapter ... on simple machines and machine tools. Chapters 3 and 4 deal chiefly with mechanisms of the quadric crank and double slider crank chain forms ... the pantograph finds an important place here.... The next two chapters deal with velocity and acceleration diagrams.... The remainder of the book deals with gear wheels, non-circular wheels and cams.... There is also a section devoted to gear-cutting machinery.... The illustrations are mainly line drawings.... A series of numerical examples at the end of the book will be of much value to students.”—Nature.
“A valuable text-book on mechanism.” E. G. C.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 4. My. 4, ‘05. 610w.
=Dunn, Henry Treffry.= Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his circle. **$1. Pott.
The author was at one time a pupil of Rossetti’s and an inmate of the house on Cheyne walk, and he gives reminiscences of the painter-poet and his circle, which are interesting, reliable, and full of anecdote.
“The editor has made too much of his function; the copiousness of his annotation is out of keeping with the sketchy character of the text, and his introduction is turbid and grandiloquent. Mr. Dunn’s reminiscences are rendered engaging by a certain simplicity and suavity. He gives a clear human outline to that figure of Rossetti of which the commentators have seemed disposed to make a kind of bogy.”—H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 422. Mr. ‘05. 760w.
“Simplicity of style. A graphic contribution to Rossettiana.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Dunn, Jacob Piatt, jr.= Indiana: a redemption from slavery. $1.25. Houghton.
“A revised edition of ‘Indiana’ in the ‘American commonwealth series.’ The author has increased its value in the revision by adding a chapter of about fifty pages on the history of the state since its admission to the Union. Otherwise, the changes made are slight.”—Am. Hist. R.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 724. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
=Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 50w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 64. Jl. 20, ‘05. 270w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.
=Dunn, Martha Baker.= Cicero in Maine, and other essays. **$1.25. Houghton.
Nine delightful essays republished from the “Atlantic,” including, besides the title essay: A plea for the shiftless reader; The meditations of an ex-school committee woman; Piazza philosophy; The Browning tonic; The book and the place; Concerning temperance and judgment to come; Book dusting time; and Education.
“Mrs. Dunn’s style is delightful.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 242. O. 16, ‘05. 500w.
“Thorough comprehension of the value of a sound, sensible, and cultivated upbringing for young people, added to clear-sighted judgment of present conditions and the mellowing glow of good reading spread over all, make an enviable equipment for a writer. All these are evident.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 310w.
“Whether dispensing a mild dose of ‘Piazza philosophy’ or a strong potion of ‘Browning tonic,’ Mrs. Dunn may be counted on to cheer and not inebriate.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 150w.
* =Dunning, William Archibald.= History of political theories from Luther to Montesquieu. **$2.50. Macmillan.
This volume “carries forward to the middle of the eighteenth century the work begun in the former volume, which was confined to ancient and mediaeval history.... Beginning with the reformation, Professor Dunning traces the history of anti-monarchic doctrines of the sixteenth century, the work of the Catholic controversialists and jurists, the law of nations as developed by Hugo Grotius, English political philosophy before and during the Puritan revolution, Continental theory during the age of Louis XIV., and finally, the epoch-making work of Montesquieu himself.”—R. of Rs.
* “The book is a piece of sound and conscientious work, and bears abundant testimony to the wideness of the Professor’s reading.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1134. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 550w.
* “The author is not obscure and is judicial.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 610w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 110w.
=Durham, M. Edith.= Burden of the Balkans. $4. Longmans.
The author was sent to the Balkans by sympathetic English people to distribute relief to the starving inhabitants. She gives an interesting account of the discomforts she endured in the performance of her numerous duties, and the things which she saw among the peasants and in the hospitals. There is much of politics, and she pictures vividly the “lava bed of raw primeval passion ... into which no power dared thrust its fingers for fear of having them burned off.”
“It is easily and pleasantly written, and will give the reader who knows not the Near East a clearer insight into an irritating and unsolved problem than other more weighty and pretentious works.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 338. Mr. 25, ‘05. 610w.
“A parting tribute must be paid to Miss Durham’s nervous and idiomatic English, characteristically that of an educated and refined woman, unspoiled by grammars.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 384. Je. 1, ‘05. 560w.
“Gives a positive picture of conditions there.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 245. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1370w.
“Her enthusiasm adds to the charm and does not detract from the value of these descriptions by an intelligent eyewitness of little known conditions in obscure places.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 241. Jl. ‘05. 310w.
=Dwight, Henry Otis,= ed. Blue book of missions for 1905. **$1. Funk.
A book containing detailed facts and statistics regarding all missions and missionary societies, both Protestant and Roman Catholic thruout the world. Its information is indexed in handy compendium form for clergymen, missionaries and students.
=Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
=Dwight, Henry Otis; Tupper, Henry Allen R.; and Bliss, Edwin Munsell=, eds. Encyclopedia of missions; descriptive, historical, biographical, statistical. **$6. Funk.
In this second and revised edition there is less than two-thirds the amount of matter given in the first edition of thirteen years ago. It contains “data relating to some 5000 cities and towns and villages which are of present importance to the missionary enterprise.” There is also a number of special articles of unusual value, prepared by experts. Another excellent feature is the bibliography that follows special articles upon countries, mission boards, religion and races, as well as some other subjects. (Ind.)
“We commend the general appearance of the work, its clear typography and evidence of careful editing. There is much in this new and admirable encyclopedia to commend. The absence of an index is inexcusable.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 614. Mr. 16, ‘05. 770w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 574. S. 2, ‘05. 680w.
=Dyer, Henry.= Dai Nippon: a study in national evolution. *$3.50. Scribner.
The latest book on Japan by Dr. Henry Dyer, “a hard-headed, thick-skinned Scotchman,” belongs to the literature of knowledge, and will interest especially those who like unembroidered facts and plenty of statistics and tables, and who hate anything like “fine writing,” eloquence or “gush.” The author who established the College of engineering in Japan, has since his return to Great Britain kept in touch with the makers of modern Japan, and “out of the intellectual kinship thus engendered has grown the present work, designed to afford the foreign reader an adequate idea of the spiritual, moral, mental, and material Japan of to-day.” (Outlook). The book does not aim to be a history of Japan, but is rather a study of the influences which have made the country “a member of the community of nations.” The subjects discussed at length are education, the army and navy, means of communication, industrial development, art industries, commerce, food supply, colonization, constitutional government, administration, finance, international relations, foreign politics, social results, the future, and recent events.
“Excellent as the present volume is—among the most lucid and fruitful that have appeared in recent years upon Japan—it is, of necessity, uncritical—accepts the Japanese estimate of themselves and the estimates of their perfervid admirers almost without examination.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 8. Ja. 7. 1430w.
“States all that he sees and knows in terms of plainest common sense. In one point Dr. Dyer has excelled all other writers on Japan. He shows clearly and forcibly, as well as copiously, what the great army of Yatoi, hired assistants and salaried organizers and advisers, in the days of their youth and strength thirty years ago, did for the Japanese in raising their ideals and pointing the way to future success.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w.
* “He marshals many facts frequently overlooked by writers on twentieth century Japan, but essential to a proper appreciation of the problems—social, religious, economic, and political—now confronting the country.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 270w.
“Untrustworthy in theories, perhaps no other single volume gives so wide and correct a view of the main facts in the several phases of Japanese national life.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 337. Ap. 27, ‘05. 2710w.
“A treatise of so comprehensive and illuminating a character as to warrant its inclusion in the front rank of works aiming to present in compact form an authoritative account of the evolution and present stage of development of the Island empire. It is in the author’s discussion of Japanese problems that the highest value of his work lies. Mr. Dyer gives a far better idea than do the majority of writers of the part played by foreigners in the growth of Japan. It is heavy with repetitions not only of idea but of phrase; its diction is at times strangely awkward and at times imbued with the flavor of the ‘blue book’; while inexactitudes of statement are occasionally to be detected.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 497. F. 25, ‘05. 1720w.
=Dyer, Louis.= Machiavelli and the modern state. *$1. Ginn.
“The volume is made up of three chapters, originally delivered as lectures in England in 1899, under the titles ‘The prince and Cæsar Borgia,’ ‘Machiavelli’s use of history,’ ‘Machiavelli’s idea of morals.’ The author was formerly an assistant professor at Harvard.”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“What we have is a series of remarks, some of them on Machiavelli and none on the modern state.... The ‘brilliant allusiveness’ of the style, the great number of irrelevancies, and the florid overtranslations....” Edward S. Corwin.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 685. Ap. ‘05. 240w.
“A valuable little volume.”
=Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 381. Ap. ‘05. 310w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 129. Ja. ‘05. 40w.
“Mr. Dyer, however, without any of Mr. Morley’s charm or Macaulay’s zest, does contrive to say a good deal that is valuable in the course of these most interesting lectures.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 462. Ap. 15, 510w.
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=Earle, Maria Theresa (Mrs. Charles W. Earle).= Garden colour; with fifty full-page il. by Margaret Waterfield. *$6. Dutton.
“An English collaborated production ... fifty-one colored plates ... which are from water colors by Miss Margaret Waterfield. Miss Waterfield herself writes the garden notes for the various months, giving advice in regard to cultivation only incidentally, but chiefly in regard to artistic arrangement—those methods of planting whereby each plant or shrub shows its own beauties to best advantage, while at the same time enhancing those of its neighbors.... It is the principles rather than the actual facts that the various writers wish in this case to enforce. Miss Waterfield’s collaborators include Mrs. C. W. Earle, Miss Rose Kingsley, and other well-known English garden lovers and writers.”—Dial.
=Country Calendar.= 1: 109L. Je. ‘05. 90w.
“One who has considered the subject only casually will certainly get some inspiring suggestions from both pictures and text.” Edith Granger.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 380. Je. 1, ‘05. 480w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1257. Je. 1, ‘05. 130w.
“The contributed text is not so uniformly good as the plates.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“This book is notable both from the standpoint of nature lover and bibliophile.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 369. Je. 10, ‘05. 480w.
=Eastman, Charles A.= Red hunters and the animal people. **$1.25. Harper.
“In the red man’s philosophy, as interpreted by the author, himself a full blooded Sioux, the beasts of the fields and the birds of the air are the brothers of their human fellow creatures. The four-footed and feathered tribes also, in the same philosophy, regard the red man as a brother. They are the animal people, and these stories are stories of them as such—stories which differ not as widely as might be wished from the white man’s animal tales now so numerous.”—N. Y. Times.
“One of the most original and delightful books about animal life that have appeared for a long time, full of interest and information not to be found in text-books. The book is simply and pleasantly written, with no affectation or mannerism.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 105. F. 4, ‘05. 210w.
“With no literary art whatever at his command, he has mistakenly chosen to cast his material in the form of short stories, and has failed with them.”
— =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 120w.
“Is likely at first to be a little disappointing, it is so plain, so lacking in art or artifice. After Mr. Long and Mr. Thompson-Seton, it is like bread-and-butter after dessert. But it nearly, if not quite, justifies the simile, for if the reader sustains his interest long enough his taste will approve the rather homely fare.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 230w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 47. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.
“The book is entertaining as fiction, valuable because of the light it throws on Indian life, and largely interesting as one of the few contributions to our literature made by an Indian.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 230w.
“This is a very pleasing book.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 683. My. 6, ‘05. 180w.
=Eastman, Helen.= New England ferns and their common allies; an easy method of determining the species. *$1.25. Houghton.
“It is a merit of this book that it includes ... the lycopodiums and equisetums, club-mosses and horse-tails. Each plant is provided with a picture, from the press ... and even the unusual varieties and hybrids are included.... The descriptions are good and brief.”—Ind.
“We wish the author had not given us so many fancy English names that have no authority. But it is a good book, and we are particularly glad for the horse-tails and club-mosses.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 320w.
=Eccles, Robert Gibson.= Food preservatives, their advantages and proper use; the practical versus the theoretical side of the pure food problem; with an introd. by E. W. Duckwall. $1; pa. 50c. Van Nostrand.
A volume which sets forth the pure food problem as it is found in practice and theory. “A valuable part of the book is that devoted to showing how little evidence there is for the assumption, commonly made even by chemists, that the process of fermentation is so similar to that of digestion that whatever prevents the one must impair the other.” (Ind.)
“It contains much special pleading, but this is justified by the excessive amount of special pleading that has been done, both in and out of court, against the use of preservatives.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 960. Ap. 27, ‘05. 430w.
* =Eckel, Edwin C.= Cements, limes and plasters: their materials, manufacture, and properties. *$6. Wiley.
The composition and character of the raw materials, the methods of manufacture, and the properties of the various cementing materials are treated in this volume, which is designed for the use of the working engineer. Complete reference lists are given for the benefit of those who wish to make a further study of the subject treated.
* “This is an exceedingly valuable and well-nigh exhaustive work. It is by far the most valuable work on the several subjects that it treats that we have met, and in our judgment may be rightly considered a masterpiece of compilation.”
+ + + =Science,= n.s. 22: 522. O. 27, ‘05. 450w.
=Eckenrode, Hamilton James.= Political history of Virginia during the reconstruction. 50c. Hopkins.
The author “concerns himself almost altogether with the political parties of the reconstruction era. He relates the history of the
Alexandria government, ... and discusses quite fully President Johnson’s attitude toward the Southern states at the close of the Civil war.... He shows that the Republican party in Virginia was for the most part opposed to unlimited negro suffrage, until the Philadelphia convention of 1866, when ‘manhood’ suffrage became a party measure.”—R. of Rs.
“The method of the author is truly critical, the use of the sources satisfactory, ... and the conclusions arrived at are unquestionably justifiable and as accurate as the nature of the subject will permit.” William E. Dodd.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 700. Ap. ‘05. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 140w.
=Eckman, George P.= Young man with a program, and other sermons to young men. *50c. Meth. bk.
The purpose of these sermons is to offer practical reasons to young men for yielding themselves to the sovereignty of Jesus Christ. They treat of the young man and his capital, the young man in his house, at his work, the young man with ambition, the young man and his meditation, and his opportunities, and finally the young man and the supreme passion.
=Edgington, T. B.= Monroe doctrine. $3. Little.
The author, an attorney of over forty years’ practice at the bar of Memphis, Tenn., has brought to his task a long professional experience and an extended study of original sources of information. Altho new material abounds in this presentation of the Monroe doctrine,—including the treaty establishing the Hague tribunal, the Venezuelan boundary case, the settlement of the European claims against Venezuela, and the Panama canal treaty and concession, “its origin, its history, and its application to various exigencies are in this book described with no little narrative skill, with clearness, and with judicial spirit.” (Outlook).
“The book contains errors of fact as well as of judgment. The most serious imperfections are due to a lack of experience in handling sources, especially a lack of acquaintance with public documents. Notwithstanding grave defects the book is interestingly written and suggestive.” John H. Latané.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 601. My. ‘05. 370w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
=Atlan.= 95: 553. Ap. ‘05. 360w.
“Mr. Edgington preserves a calm and historical spirit in all his comments on the interesting subjects of which he treats, and the argumentation in which he not infrequently indulges is that of a candid jurisconsult rather than that of a partisan.” James Oscar Pierce.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 122. F. 16, ‘05. 1190w.
=Edmunds, Albert Joseph.= Buddhist and Christian gospels: being Gospel parallels from Pali texts. *$1.50. Open ct.
The third edition, complete, and edited with notes by Prof. Anesaki of the imperial University of Tokio. The editor “holds to the independence of the fundamental documents of the Buddhist and the Christian scriptures. He only raises the question whether the Gospel of Luke, ‘in certain traits extraneous to the synoptical narrative,’ is indebted to a Buddhist source. This question he submits to the reader who compares the parallel texts here presented. Much more than merely such parallels are presented; pretty nearly every book of the New Testament supplies matter for a comparison with the Buddhist scriptures, which even the amateur in such studies will find interesting. The New Testament suffers nothing in the comparison.” (Outlook.)
“As a contribution to the study of comparative religion from a Japanese scholar, this volume has a peculiar interest as well as a positive value for the student.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 331. O. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 512. O. ‘05. 90w.
=Edwards, Amelia Blandford.= Untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys: a midsummer ramble in the Dolomites. $2.50. Dutton.
In this third edition the text is the same as that of the first edition of 1873, but the footnotes and other explanatory matter that appeared in the second edition of the book have been included in the present volume. The district here described is in that part of the Southeastern Tyrol lying between Botzen, Brunecken, Innichen and Belluno; within this space are the limestone Dolomite mountains. There are numerous illustrations in half-tone.
“Now as twenty-five years ago, the indispensable work is Miss Edwards’ ‘Untrodden peaks.’”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 529. Je. 29, ‘05. 480w.
“A pleasant volume of travel and guidebook information.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 340w.
“A new and welcome edition of a thoroughly readable book of travels.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
=Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham-.= Home life in France. *$2.50. McClurg.
Miss Betham-Edwards’ first hand knowledge of French family and school life has been the outgrowth of years of service as an officer of public instruction. This insight tempers her treatment with sympathy and enthusiasm. She describes every phase of life from the home-keeping which is “the glorification of simplicity,” to the city keeping which is presided over by “indefatigable workers to whom fireside joys and intellectual pleasure are especially dear, and to whom self-abnegation ... becomes a second nature.”
“It is brightly written, and full of entertaining little personal reminiscences of the kind which do more to explain France to the average English mind than pages of psychological studies appealing only to the cultivated few.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 561. My. 27, ‘05. 1360w.
* “Writes with knowledge on a subject she may be said to have made her own, and what is more, she writes sympathetically.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 656. My. 27. 310w.
* “The point of view is impartial, but friendly, and both knowledge of the subject and charm of style characterize the book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 180w.
* “Miss Betham-Edwards discourses with intelligent vivacity and good humor, lightening our darkness, gently removing the prejudice born of ignorance, and steadily building up the respect that rests on knowledge.” Josiah Renick Smith.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 300. N. 16, ‘05. 1180w.
“The value of a book which is in the main not less valuable than interesting is somewhat impaired by this persistent ignoring of the seamy side of life.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 570w.
* “She has succeeded on the whole, in writing a very entertaining book full of detailed information, with statistics that here and there need slight correction.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 491. D. 14, ‘05. 1010w.
“An extremely interesting, and in many ways valuable, book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 1000w.
“The book is an excellent one for the intending sojourner in France, and it will, of course, interest those who have sojourned in that country.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* “A description of French domestic life and conditions which is written with sympathy and enthusiasm.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 50w.
“Miss Betham-Edwards selects matter which on the whole may be intended more for women than for men, but the latter will not enjoy it the less on that account.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 230w.
* “There are also here and there signs of hurry and awkwardness in the style. All this could easily be put right in another edition, which the book, if only for the valuable amount of detail it contains, certainly ought to reach.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 259. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1570w.
=Edwards, William Seymour.= Into the Yukon. **$1.50. Clarke, R.
In a series of papers which were originally home letters, the author tells of the travels of himself and wife thru the Canadian northwest, the gulfs and fjords of the North Pacific, the valley of the upper Yukon, the golden Klondike, and some parts of California and the Middle west. The book gives an apparently unbiased view of conditions on the Canadian Yukon in the summer of 1903. It is profusely illustrated with snap shot photographs.
“If it says nothing new, at least says it brightly and interestingly.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“Mr. Edwards seems to be a clear-sighted observer, and his narration is straightforward and unpretentious. He appears to possess the knack of gathering and summarizing popular opinion without the exaggeration or superficiality usually characteristic of hasty news-gatherers. The most interesting portion of the book is naturally that relating to the Klondike region.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 141. F. 16, ‘05. 920w.
“A readable narrative.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 70w.
=Eggleston, George Gary.= Daughter of the South. †$1.50. Lothrop.
A war’s-end romance which follows the adventurous career of the Commodore of a cotton-buying fleet. While braving great danger for the sake of great profit he encounters the heroine in distress and carries her northward on one of his boats to love and to safety.
“His art must be described as crude. Nevertheless, he tells a story of some interest, and keeps fairly in touch with reality.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“‘Decent under difficulties’ should be the title of this last story.”
— =Ind.= 59: 987. O. 26, ‘05. 60w.
“Exactly like all the rest of his novels.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 557. Ag. 26, ‘05. 290w.
“Altogether, while not by any means a great book, this story is agreeable reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=Eggleston, George Gary.= Our first century. **$1.20. Barnes.
“The design of this book ... is ... to present in a connected and picturesque narrative those facts of American history during the seventeenth century which were characteristic as to life and manners and customs. The book has the story element in a marked degree. It is liberally illustrated.”—Outlook.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 91. Ag. 16, ‘05. 390w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
“After reading this lively little narrative one can without hesitation commend it to those who find the ordinary one-volume histories dry and meagre, and who have not the time or inclination to consult the larger works.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 60w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 797. D. 16, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
=Eggleston, George Gary.= Rebel’s recollections. *$1. Putnam.
A fourth edition of a book first published in 1874, with an additional article upon “The old regime in the Old Dominion.” It contains much that is interesting, and gives a good idea of the Confederate soldier, and the Confederate commissary, also civil administration.
+ =Ind.= 58: 1312. Je. 8, ‘05. 100w.
“The book contains in a very readable form a deal of information about the Confederacy, which Mr. Eggleston had first hand. Mr. Eggleston overemphasizes certain features, but there is a certain advantage in that, for they are just the features which other writers have been apt to ignore.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 390w.
“The book still outranks in interest almost all other reminiscences of the Civil war.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.
=Eldridge, George Dyre.= Milibank case. †$1.50. Holt.
A detective story whose scene is laid in Maine near the Canadian border. The plot centers about the murder of a young lawyer, supposedly without enemies, and involves prominent state politicians. The tangle undertaken by two detectives contains at its close a surprise for detective and reader alike.
“The story is fluently told, and is not ungenial as murders go.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 200w.
“Is only a fair example of the art.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 260w.
=Eliot, Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe.= East African protectorate. $5. Longmans.
“Up to the time of his recent resignation, the author had been commissioner for the British government in the protectorate. He describes the country, its peoples, gives its history, and discusses its prospects as a field for European colonization; he also describes the present system of administration in the protectorate, and writes about the Uganda railway, trade, slavery, missions, a trip down the Nile, animals, etc. The volume is illustrated, and contains several maps.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book gives a great deal of minute and not always interesting geographic information, but it was written by neither a geographer nor an economist, and often produces a sense of vagueness by omitting factors essential to an understanding of the country in its relation to human welfare. Other parts of the book are interesting, and the sociologist might find some useful information in the accounts of the native races.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 589. S. ‘05. 170w.
“Sir Charles Eliot has here provided a much more compact and, within its limits, comprehensive handbook on the subject than was previously available.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 363. Mr. 25. 1260w.
“... Throughout makes the book a most readable one, even to those who have no intention of being lured to it by the glowing pictures he paints.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1790w.
“Nothing could exceed the interest, the deep research and the knowledge shown in the present work.”
+ + + =Sat.= R. 99: 808. Je. 17, ‘05. 1600w.
“One of the best of recent travel books on a subject which is growing daily in interest and importance. The book is an encyclopedia of information, but the reader is never bewildered among the details, and the main problems of the future are lucidly and undogmatically discussed. The style is simple and colloquial, but it is never slipshod.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 552. Ap. 15, ‘05. 2030w.
=Eliot, Charles William.= Happy life. 75c. Crowell.
A new edition of this forceful, kindly book by the President of Harvard university. Under the headings: The moral purpose of the universe; Lower and higher pleasures; Family love; Pleasure in bodily exertion; The pleasure of reading; Mutual service and co-operation; The selection of beliefs; and The conflict with evil, he shows how to “cultivate the physical mental, and moral faculties through which the natural joys are won.”
* “The material is abundantly worth preserving in its new form.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “The points are concrete and practical, and the style is very simple, with a ring of nobility and sincerity about it that is worth more than many epigrams.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 20w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 37: 732. D. 2, ‘05. 80w.
=Eliot, George.= Adam Bede. $1.25. Crowell.
This volume of “Adam Bede” is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.” It takes up little space on the library shelf, and its flexible cover and thin paper make it specially desirable for a pocket edition.
=Eliot, George.= Romola. $1.25. Crowell.
“Romola” in this edition is uniform with the “Thin paper classics.”
=Eliot, John.= Logick primer. *$6. Burrows.
“A reprint of John Eliot’s ‘Logic primer’ of 1672. The ‘Primer’ is an interlinear translation of the Indian text and the reprint is made from a photographic reproduction of the entire book (40 leaves) made in 1889 at the expense of the late James C. Pilling.”—Am. Hist. R.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 716. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
=Elkin, William Baird.= Hume: the relation of the Treatise of human nature, bk. I, to the Inquiry concerning human understanding. *$1.50. Macmillan.
“As a stepping-stone in philosophy from the old to the new, Hume still furnishes staple material to the student. Dr. Elkin here undertakes to make clear the exact ground held by him in his principal philosophical works, the ‘Treatise on human nature’ and the ‘Inquiry concerning the principles of morals.’”—Outlook.
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 410w.
=Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 120w.
“Taken all together, the book is a scholarly, clear-headed, thorough piece of work, straightforward in expression and substantially convincing in the large.” A. K. Rogers.
+ + + =Philos. R.= 14: 615. S. ‘05. 1260w.
=Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe (Mrs. John Elliott.)= Two in Italy. *$2. Little.
Italian studies and sketches, so chatty in form as to be largely in dialog, which give glimpses of Italian life and character under the chapter headings: Anacrap; The inn of Paradise; Buona Fortuna; The Castello; Savonarola Finnerty; In old Poland; and, The hermit of Pietro Anzieri. There are six full page illustrations from drawings by John Elliott.
* “Mrs. Elliott knows Italy better than most Americans, and she knows how to write.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “Readers of ‘Roma beata’ will enjoy this second volume, which, though of slightly different type, is equally permeated by Mrs. Elliott’s individual and entertaining point of view.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 386. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 100w.
=Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot in the forest. †$1. Winston.
This is the first of a new series of Indian stories which continues the adventures of the author’s famous character Deerfoot, the Shewanoe. The time and incidents depicted are those of the Lewis and Clark expeditions. The plot of “Deerfoot in the forest” centers about the rescue of two boys by Deerfoot, and the thrilling adventures attending their return to safe territory.
“All Mr. Ellis’ tales, like those of Castlemon, Oliver Optic and other writers of this class, are replete with interest, action and excitement, and the present volume ... is fully up to the standard set by Mr. Ellis in his popular series of tales that have preceded the present books.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 557. N. ‘05. 570w.
* =Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot in the mountains. †$1. Winston.
This third and last volume of the “New Deerfoot series,” takes the Indian guide and his two boy companions in a whirl of adventure from the Pacific ocean to their home in Ohio. The recapture of Deerfoot’s wonderful stallion, Whirlwind, a single handed encounter with five ferocious braves, and a hair breadth escape in a raging mountain torrent, are among the incidents which will recommend this story to all boy readers.
* =Ellis, Edward Sylvester.= Deerfoot on the prairies †$1. Winston.
In this second volume of the “New Deerfoot series,” the popular Indian hunter accompanied by his two boy friends and his Blackfoot guide makes the dangerous journey from the Ohio to the mouth of the Columbia river successfully, altho the hostile Indians, wild horses, grizzly bears, and other dangers of one hundred years ago beset their path and create many strange adventures for them.
=Elton, Charles Isaac.= William Shakespeare, his family and friends; ed. by A. H. Thompson. *$4. Dutton.
A series of papers, disconnected and sometimes unfinished, which would doubtless have been expanded into an exhaustive work had the author lived, have been collected by and published by Mr. Thompson, with a memoir written of the author by Mr. Andrew Lang. There are chapters on Shakespeare’s early life, on Stratford and London in Shakespeare’s time; on his family and descendants; on the history of Blackfriars’ theatre, and many other subjects of both interest and value. There is a complete and accurate index, which renders this work, with its wealth of facts, of great value to the student.
“Indeed, so much material is furnished, and the learned antiquary ranges so very far afield, that the drift of his argument is not seldom obscured. The book abounds in the best kind of biographical material. It is a work of the very greatest value to the student of Shakespeare.” Charles H. A. Wager.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 194. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1600w.
“This work is a large and scholarly one, with perhaps more of detail about the great poet’s life and surroundings than would be essential to such an idea of the man himself as is given by Mr. Mabie in his picture. Mr. Elton’s volume, however, will be welcomed by scholars.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 758. D. ‘04. 80w.
=Ely, Helena Rutherford.= Another hardy garden book. $1.75. Macmillan.
A book which is not intended to be a treatise upon any of the subjects referred to, or to take the place of other books upon gardening. It is, the author states in the preface, “a brief statement of simple methods of conducting gardening operations, particularly in the small home garden,” and it contains the result of the author’s own experiences in raising vegetables, fruits and flowers. There are chapters on the vegetable garden, fruits, trees—deciduous and evergreen, perennials and other flowers, a garden of lilies and iris, autumn work in the flower garden, and the flower garden in spring. There are many half-tone illustrations from photographs of flowers, trees and gardens, taken at various seasons of the year.
“The new book is wider in its scope than its predecessor.”
+ =Country Calendar.= 1: 9g. My. ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 120w.
“Her books are far from being sentimental, but are infused with a very vigorous personality, and with occasional touches of humor that prove she is not taking herself too seriously.” Edith Granger.
+ =Dial.= 38: 381. Je. 1, ‘05. 370w.
“The charm of the book rests in the reader’s companionship with an intelligent, agreeable woman, who loves her garden.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1254. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“The author of this work places before us her quiet statements in an unobtrusive and instructive manner, and, here and there, gives touches to her sketch which makes the book more than usually readable.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 338. Ap. 27, ‘05. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 160w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“It seems a quite practical book for the amateur gardener.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 50w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05. 90w.
=Ely, Richard T.,= ed. See =Adams. T. S.= and =Sumner, Helen L.= Labor problems.
=Ely, Richard Theodore.= Labor movement in America. *$1.25. Macmillan.
A new and enlarged edition of a standard authority first issued nearly twenty years ago.
* “At present we have no book that could be a satisfactory substitute for Professor Ely’s volume.” A. W. S.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 431. N. ‘05. 50w.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 589. S. ‘05. 50w.
=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 520w.
=Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 50w.
=Yale R.= 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
=Emch, Arnold.= Introduction to projective geometry and its applications: an analytic and synthetic treatment. $2.50. Wiley.
“The first chapter derives the usual theorems of projective ranges and pencils, perspective and involution by means of the anharmonic ratio.... The second chapter deals with collineation.” There is “a chapter on the theory of conics.... The next chapter discusses the conics which pass through four fixed points; ... the cubic curve, defined by a pencil of conics and a projective pencil of lines, is treated at some length.... The fifth chapter, of over forty pages, is devoted to applications to mechanics.”—Engin. N.
“A knowledge of trigonometry and plane analytical geometry is all that is required to understand the book, which is clearly and carefully written.” Virgil Snyder.
=Engin. N.= 53: 183. F. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“The author is a very clever draughtsman, and his skill as a writer is equally pronounced.”
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 77. My. 25, ‘05. 210w.
“The exposition of the interesting connection between collineations and the surprisingly beautiful doctrine of linkages deserves special mention, as do also the clearness, directness and swiftness of style in which the book is written.” Cassius J. Keyser.
+ + + =Science.= n.s. 22: 114. Jl. 26, ‘05. 290w.
=Emerson, Ralph Waldo.= Works. 12 vol. ea. $1.75. Houghton.
Edward Waldo Emerson has carefully edited this twelve volume centenary edition of his father’s works, culling some valuable new material from the author’s note books, “his savings-bank,” he called them. The three volumes recently added to complete the twelve are, “Lectures and biographical sketches,” “Miscellanies,” and “Natural history of intellect and other papers.” “The last of them is provided with an elaborate general index to the entire edition. No less than five papers in this closing volume are now printed for the first time. The editing of these volumes, done by the pious hands of Mr. Edward Waldo Emerson, offers a shining example of what such editorial work should be, and makes the present form of the writings far more desirable than any of the earlier ones.” (Dial).
“The present edition, in its Notes by Dr. Emerson, contains the first complete commentary on the author’s writings.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 220w.
=Dial.= 38: 22. Ja. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“Is manifestly the definitive edition, since it is the most comprehensive and perfect in matter and form.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 40. Ja. 5, ‘05. 780w.
=Emerson, Ralph Waldo.= Emerson calendar; ed. by Huntington Smith. **50c. Crowell.
Suggestions for each day of the year taken from Emerson’s works. By giving cullings which show clear perception of life and its obligations, the editor hopes to render an aid along the line of simpler living.
* + =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 100w.
English essays, selected and edited by Walter Cochrane Bronson. *$1.25. Holt.
The chief purpose of this book is to cultivate a liking for good English prose in the college student who is taking introductory work in literature. The material chosen is therefore interesting in thought and style and the selections are complete in themselves even when entire chapters or essays are not given. Essays by Bacon, Milton, Swift, Addison, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, De Quincey, Carlyle, Macaulay, Ruskin, Newman, Stevenson and others are included, and the volume is fully annotated for class use.
+ =N. Y. Times= 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 100w. * + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 60w.
=Erasmus, Desiderius (surnamed Roterdamus).= Epistles of Erasmus, arranged in order of time: English translations from the early correspondence, with a commentary confirming the chronological arrangement and supplying further biographical matter, by Francis Morgan Nichols. 2v. ea. *$6. Longmans.
“The first volume published in 1901, contained a selection of the letters of Erasmus up to the date of his receipt in Rome of the news of the death of King Henry VII of England (April 21, 1509).... The second volume carries the extant correspondence of Erasmus to the year 1517, when he took up his residence at Louvain. Many of the later letters are not those of Erasmus himself but were written by his correspondents.”—N. Y. Times.
“On the whole this volume fairly maintains the interest roused by the first and must be regarded as a highly important contribution to the whole subject of the new learning.” E. E.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 686. Ap. ‘05. 240w. (Survey of contents of vol. II.)
“These minor writings of the great humanist are chiefly valuable for the light which they shed upon his intensely interesting career. They are strongly marked with the well-known Erasmian characteristics, an easy elegance, a classical spirit, a strong tendency to flattery, a decided turn for quiet irony, and an impulse to break out once in a while into sarcastic flings at religious orders and the Roman Curia.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 684. P. ‘05. 290w.
“The same qualities of careful rendering and intelligent conjecture mark the work of this as of the first volume, and the same little formalities and tricks of usage occur here as there. It offers an indispensable starting-point for every future study of the great humanist.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 39. Ja. 12, ‘05. 570w. (Review of Vol. II.)
“The appendices contain many hitherto inaccessible documents of value to the student of the Reformation epoch.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 160w.
=Erskine, Mrs. Steuart.= London as an art city. *$1. Scribner.
In her little monograph Mrs. Erskine “shows why London is a field for her artistic study on account of its wonderful architecture and wonderful art collections; a literary center with a past as the home of such writers as Dickens, Thackeray ... Goldsmith ... and others, and the home of present workers in art—George Frampton, T. Brock, A. Gilbert, and other sculptors; while among the painters are Sir Edward Poynter, Luke Fildes, John S. Sargent, and a number of others. The volume is fully illustrated with half-tone pictures of buildings, reproductions of well-known paintings, &c.” (N. Y. Times).
=Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 76. Ja. ‘05. 90w.
=Nation.= 80: 33. Ja. 12, ‘05. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 14. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w.
=Esty, William.= Alternating current machinery. $6. American school of correspondence at Armour institute of technology, Chicago.
“The author of the present volume declares that it has been prepared with the special object of giving the beginner, and the so-called practical electrician, a working knowledge of alternating current apparatus, so that he may know how to install and operate it intelligently.... The book is divided into nine different headings, and treats of the alternator, commercial types of alternators, synchronous motor, switchboard and station appliances, special switchboard apparatus, and lightning arresters.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by David B. Rushmore.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 637. Je. 15, ‘05. 590w.
=Evans, Henry Ridgely.= Napoleon myth. bds. *75c. Open ct.
The Napoleonic myths in both literature and art the author measures according to historical fact. The book also contains an introduction by Dr. Paul Carus and a reprint of “The grand erratum” by Jean Baptiste Peres. “The whole is a summary of the results of ‘higher criticism’ as applied to the Napoleon of the popular imagination.” (R. of Rs.)
* “The author does little or nothing to emphasize the difference between fact and legend, or point out the means of distinguishing between the two spheres.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 526. Ap. 29, 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 360w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 512. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
=Everett, William.= Italian poets since Dante. $1.50. Scribner.
The author has converted his lectures, delivered in the famous Lowell course in Boston, into book form with slight revision. His aim is “to show that Italy from the ‘trecento’ down to the end of the eighteenth century gave forth a literature which is great without the contributions of Dante, but which is often neglected and thought of lightly owing to the transcendent genius of that one man. Petrarca, Pulci, Boiardo, Berni, Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo, Tasso, Marino, and the dramatists Goldoni and Alfieri are among the writers concerning whom Dr. Everett discourses with fine academic appreciation and a charming disregard of modern criticism.” (N. Y. Times).
“His attitude towards his subjects is sympathetic, his appreciation is sincere, his criticisms are just and moderate. It is therefore all the more regrettable that he should have allowed his work to stand disfigured by so many slip-shod, loosely constructed and even absolutely ungrammatical sentences.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 646. Je. 17, ‘05. 300w.
+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 379. Ap. ‘05. 260w.
“Dr. Everett’s survey, indeed, embraces only about a dozen names, and treats those for the most part rather sketchily.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 719. Je. 10. 660w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
“The work is luminous and vivid in style, and a delight to the instinct of every lover of literature. Eloquent panegyric upon Milton, and many another purple patch revealed in these pages. From the point of view of the scholar, little exception is to be taken to this work. To say that the book is readable is to do it much less than justice.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 49. Ja. 16, ‘05. 700w.
“A carelessness in the use of language which is often slovenly and sometimes ungrammatical. The most vexatious quality of the book, however, is due to Dr. Everett’s scorn of all methods and opinions save his own. We admit that his views are sometimes refreshingly independent. But his egoism, which is piquant when it wanders away from his subject, is disastrous when he attempts a serious comparison of the Italian poets. Dr. Everett’s short biographies of the poets are generally interesting and clever. His criticisms are erratic, but the copious extracts from Italian poetry with which he illustrates them are very valuable to the general reader.”
+ — — =Ind.= 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 450w.
“His textual illustrations show him to be not only a translator in the finest sense, but also a poet of broad and subtle imagination and of a most delicate harmonic sensibility. The torch of classical effulgence dropped from the hand of Ticknor, of Longfellow, and of Lowell, he has caught up and illuminates anew what once passed for history. On one point, however, we think the doctor might have made a concession to the moderns as a gentle hint for his own permanency. He might have furnished an index. He is also cruel to kill off the poet Carducci, who at this writing is very much alive.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 430w.
“Mr. Everett’s sketches of their lives and works seem adequate and the translations, some of which are original, are vigorous. The author would have improved his work if he had pruned the rhetoric, more suitable for lectures than essays.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 746. Je. 3, ‘05. 310w.
“He is generally just. We do not much like the fun that he makes of the romances. It is somewhat cheap.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
* =Eytinge, Rose.= Memories of Rose Eytinge. **80c; **$1.20. Stokes.
Into her own autobiography Rose Eytinge has introduced a wealth of sidelight information on the American drama of the past fifty years. She was an associate and personal friend of Edwin Booth, J. W. and Lester Wallack, E. L. Davenport and Augustin Daly, and her observations are all from the vantage point of first hand knowledge.
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=Fairless, Michael, pseud.= Grey Brethren, and other fragments in prose and verse. $1.25. Dutton.
Four fairy tales, five papers and five poems make up this posthumous volume. “‘The grey brethren,’ which gives its title to the volume, is a tenderly and reticently touched reminiscence of two maidenly ladies.... A German Christmas eve is a descriptive sketch of characteristic domestic charm. A Christmas idyll is an imaginative fantasy full of fine feeling and thoughtful religion.... Luvly Miss ... is the simple record of a poor child, dying from an accident, and her devout worship of an altogether ridiculous doll.” (Acad.)
“Though slender and unambitious, they are written in a refined style. The poems, as a whole, are the least successful work in the volume.”
+ =Acad.= 62: 520. My. 13, ‘05. 600w.
“This little volume will be welcome to all lovers of ‘The road mender.’ It has, not, indeed, the finished perfection of that book, but some of the stories and poems display the same fine artistic sense, and the same sacramental reverence for natural glory, the same deep tenderness and sympathy.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 560. My. 6. 300w.
“Is marked by an exquisite simplicity of diction and a delicacy of spiritual insight that are far out of the common.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 71. Ag. 1, ‘05. 110w.
=Fairlie, John Archibald.= National administration of the United States of America. **$2.50. Macmillan.
Written chiefly from official records such as the Constitution of the United States, statutes of Congress, administrative reports and judicial decisions, this volume gives an account of the administrative system, treating the legislative and judicial branches only in their direct relations to the executive administration. There are chapters on the powers of the president, the senate, congress, the cabinet, and the various departments and bureaus. A complete bibliography is provided.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 30w.
“Dr. Fairlie’s treatise on this subject is marked by all the scholarly treatment, painstaking accuracy and thoroughness which characterized his work on municipal administration.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 589. S. ‘05. 160w.
“The book is written in a readable style. For the most part it is easily understood.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 12. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1380w.
“A book that is at the same time full, readable and authoritative.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 332. Ag. 10, ‘05. 330w.
“The author has done his work carefully, and his book may be accepted as a generally trustworthy guide.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 466. Je. 8, ‘05. 1040w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 374. Je. 10, ‘05. 570w.
“In style the work is direct and incisive, in treatment accurate and objective, in presentation logical.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 240w.
“Is perhaps the first comprehensive work on this subject that has ever been published.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
* =Fairweather, Rev. William.= Pre-exilic prophets. *35c. Lippincott.
In this volume in the “Temple series of Bible handbooks” “Mr. Fairweather treats of the prophets from Amos down to Jeremiah—Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Jeremiah. The general character of the eighth century before Christ is discussed in the opening chapter, which is followed by a consideration of the value of written prophecy in relation to the Israelitish history of the period, the significance of prophecy for Divine revelation, ‘The older and the new prophecy,’ ‘The golden age of Hebrew prophecy,’ ‘The religious ideal of the prophets,’ ‘The century before the exile.’”—N. Y. Times.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 568. Ag. 26, ‘05. 140w.
* “In the brevity prescribed for it could not be easily improved upon.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 345. Je. 3, ‘05. 40w.
=Falkiner, C. Litton.= Illustrations of Irish history and topography. $7. Longmans.
The period covered by this book is mainly that of the 17th century. The author treats of the history and development of Dublin, and “follows the history of the counties of Ireland giving their origin, constitution, and gradual elimination. What to us is of the greater interest are the accounts of the Irish people by contemporaneous authors. Fynes Moryson describes Ireland as he saw it at the close of the reign of Elizabeth.... The convivial habits of the Elizabethan Irish are dwelt on.... Luke Vernon’s “Discourse of Ireland” it is believed was written about 1619.... The last two chapters give the impressions of Sir William Brereton and a rather dandy Frenchman, M. Jorevin de Rocheford. The latter giving this account of his impression of Ireland, 1666.” (N. Y. Times).
“The notes to these papers are numerous and characterized by scholarly care. In general Mr. Falkiner must be credited with a volume which will be permanently serviceable to students of Irish history.” Edward Porritt.
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 920. Jl. ‘05. 520w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 273. Ap. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“For the rest Mr. Falkiner writes with such exceeding care that he has left little for a critic to find fault with. Here and there, we think, he might with advantage have developed his subject more fully.” R. Dunlop.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 796. O. ‘05. 1750w.
“Mr. Falkiner has been successful in his choice of descriptions determined by their rarity, representative character, and difficulty of procurement by the ordinary reader.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 254. Mr. 30, ‘05. 1230w. (Survey of contents.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 115. F. 25, ‘05. 1480w.
Famous battles of the nineteenth century, 1875-1900, ed. by Chas. Welsh. **$1. Wessels.
This fourth and last volume of “Famous battles of the nineteenth century,” contains an account of the famous battles fought from 1875 to 1900. It includes descriptions of The storming of Kars by Major Arthur Griffiths, The Boer war of 1881, by Archibald Forbes; The bombardment of Alexandria, by Max Pemberton; Port Arthur, 1894; The battle of Manila; and With Roosevelt on San Juan hill, by A. Hilliard Atteridge and other descriptions by these and other authors.
* “The book is designed for boys, who will undoubtedly find it quite to their taste.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “It is not possible to name the collection one of absorbing interest or to praise always either the fairness or the dramatic quality of the battle-pieces, but the book has considerable interest and some value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 810w.
=Fandel, Peter.= Judgment of Paris. $1. Badger, R. G.
The story of the judgment of Paris cast in dramatic form. The awarding of the apple, the chariot race which brings Paris to the notice of his father, Priam, the indignation of princes and people, and the flight of Paris are dealt with in four short acts.
=Fanshawe, Anne Harrison (Lady Richard Fanshawe).= Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bt., embassador from Charles II to the courts of Portugal and Madrid, written by herself; containing extracts from the correspondence of Sir Richard Fanshawe; ed. with introd. by Beatrice Marshall, and a note on the illustrations by Allan Fea. *$1.50. Lane.
“The memoirs were first published in 1830, and were well worth a place in ‘The crown library’ series.... Both Sir Richard and his wife were representative of the highest type of Royalist—cultured, refined and humane. Sir Richard, who died in 1666, devoted his leisure years under the Commonwealth to literary labours of love.... The memoirs yield much information as to the events and social practices of a most interesting period in history.”—Ath.
“Attractive memoirs, which we have read with very great pleasure in the delightful form in which they now appear.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 730. Jl. 15, ‘05. 990w.
“Certainly the memoirs have a charm which is by no means dependent on the time of which they treat.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 142. Jl. 29. 320w.
* “Holds a high place in the biographical literature of the Stuart era.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 447. N. 30, ‘05. 470w.
“Her memoirs are bright and full of good stories of the doings of two and a half centuries ago.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 745. N. 4, ‘05. 760w.
“The editing might have been done with greater skill and energy than Miss Marshall has brought to her task.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 189. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1380w.
=Farmer, James Eugene.= Versailles and the court under Louis XIV. *$3.50. Century.
A beautiful book profusely illustrated. The sketch is a four-fold one including The palace, The park, The king and The court, each of which divisions presents the subject inductively and so prepares the way for the next. Beginning with the plans for the palace and the laying out of the grounds the author leads up to the finished work. With this for a back-ground, the king is presented and viewed from the standpoint of his daily life, methods of work, personal appearance and character, and the intricacies of court etiquette. Then the stage throngs with the gay and the wicked courtiers who were as perfect in manners as corrupt in morals.
* “Our author has given us a volume of real value as an admirable pen-picture of the court.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 659. D. ‘05. 600w.
* “An interesting subject is interestingly handled.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 130w.
* + + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 180w.
* “He does, indeed, depend upon the memoir writers very largely, but he uses them with intelligence, and makes his book a study in the physiology of court life.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 420w.
* “Mr. Farmer has joined his threads skillfully; there is no suggestion of patchwork about his book, which is entertaining to its last page.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 811. N. 25, ‘05. 770w.
* “The reader feels that he has been in excellent company when he lays the volume down with a regret that it is not longer, or one of a series.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 706. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
=Farmer, John S., and Henley, William Ernest.= Dictionary of slang and colloquial English. *$2.50. Dutton.
This is an abridgment of the seven-volume work by the same authors entitled “Slang and its analogues.” It contains slang expressions and their analogues in English and American usage. A list of more than fifty books to which reference and acknowledgment is made in this volume, is given. The first of these is dated 1440.
* + =Nation.= 81:75. Jl. 27, ‘05. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10:276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 220w.
“For ordinary use the present book is ample.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79:1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 130w.
=Farquhar, Edward.= Poems. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
Under three divisions, History, Man and nature, and Devotion, are included poems as varied in length and verse as in subject. They range from long poems such as “King Herod,” and “Christianity in the apostles,” which are cast in poem-drama form, to little verses such as “Microcosm,” and “Clouds and dawn.”
“In his volume of collected poems Mr. Farquhar takes a deeper plunge into the psychological mysteries of youthful hearts, and now and then succeeds in striking a truly poetic note.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10:585. S. 9, ‘05. 90w.
=Fenn, Frederick, and Wyllie, B.= Old English furniture. *$2.50. Scribner.
Mr. Fenn has written the chapters on oak furniture, the walnut period, and the introduction of the making of furniture, while those upon chairs, sofas, painted furniture, and inlaid mahogany and satinwood, are by B. Wyllie. There are ninety-four illustrations of articles either owned by the authors or in collections to which they have access. The volume belongs to the “Newnes library of applied arts.”
“Is ... trustworthy, but it leaves us with a somewhat unpleasant feeling of having been ‘taken in hand.’” Edith A. Browne.
+ — =Acad.= 68:79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 320w.
“The accompanying text is full of valuable information and pregnant hints to the inexperienced amateur.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25:82. Mr. ‘05. 120w.
“What we like especially about the text is its reserve, and quiet tone, and plain statement of the impossibility of fixing dates very closely.”
+ + =Nation.= 80:319. Ap. 20, ‘05. 790w.
“Its style is intimate rather than didactic, impressionistic rather than scientific.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
+ — =Sat. R.= 99:846. Je. 24, ‘05. 660w.
=Fernández Guardia, Ricardo.= Cuentos ticos. $2. Burrows bros. co.
These ten short stories of Costa Rica, have been translated into English by Gray Casement. The author, who is a writer of reputation among Central Americans has strikingly set forth the social, political and religious ideas of Costa Rica in these brief narratives, which combine both pathos and humor. There is a good introduction by the translator; there are also many illustrations of street and country scenes.
“Although here and there reminiscent of Castillian story tellers, the tales and the style in which they are related make one wish to know more of Señor Ricardo and his works.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 400w.
=Ferree, Barr.= American estates and gardens. $10. Munn.
The title of this book misleads one, as the author writes of the country houses, or rather palaces, of our American millionaires. These houses are monuments, not of the taste and personality of the owners, but of the skill and training of the architects and decorators, and there is much grandeur and little domesticity. What is lacking in “Estates,” however, the author amply makes up to us in “Gardens,” and gives most delightful illustrations, many of which are drawn from the well-known Falkner and Bellefontaine farms.
“Whether we regard his book as a record of contemporary and domestic architecture of a certain sort, or as a contribution to sociology, it will be of scarcely less interest a hundred years hence than it is to-day.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 160. F. 23. ‘05. 470w.
=Fetter, Frank Albert.= Principles of economics; with applications to practical problems. *$2. Century.
A book which will be particularly valuable to students and teachers, as it represents the course of instruction which Dr. Fetter has given in his classes. “The theory is illuminated by constant references to practical life, and to such sides of life as college students are likely to come into contact with, and it is also used to shed light on the larger problems of our current social life.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
“In the wealth of material treated, in the judicious employment of all methods of economic study, in the sanity and lucidity of discussion, the book has hardly an equal. Moreover, it is the most readable book on economics that the reviewer has had the good fortune to peruse.” A. S. Johnson.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 144. Ja. ‘05. 1840w.
“Professor Fetter’s book may challenge comparison, on the ground of its intrinsic excellence, with any systematic treatise on economics that has appeared since the days of John Stuart Mill.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 563. Ap. ‘05. 850w.
“Tho having acquaintance with the new, his philosophy is essentially of the old and reveals but few modifications due to an understanding of modern thought and modern conditions.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 333. Ag. 10. ‘05. 240w.
“Among the numerous text-books of economics which have appeared in England and America in the last year or two, Professor Fetter’s book is likely to take high rank. For those who share his views on fundamental economic doctrines, his work may well serve as a first-class text-book. The present writer, while admiring the structure of Dr. Fetter’s course, and appreciating the fact that students following such a course are likely to have a keen interest in economics developed, finds himself in the position of a critic compelled to assail the very foundations of Dr. Fetter’s economic system.” A. W. Flux.
— + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 109. D. ‘04. 2020w.
* “As an economic synthesis bottomed on the accepted modern theory of value and extended to all phases of economic analysis, it stands unsurpassed.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81 :367. N. 2, ‘05. 1000w.
=Fiebeger, Gustave Joseph.= Civil engineering. *$5. Wiley.
A book intended to give military cadets who have to master many sciences and languages as well as military science and tactics an elementary knowledge of civil engineering.
Reviewed by H. N. Ogden.
+ + — =Science,= n.s. 22: 397. S. 29, ‘05. 690w.
=Field, Edward Salisbury. (Childe Harold, pseud.).= Child’s book of abridged wisdom. **75c. Elder.
A little book of rhymed advice amply illustrated with humorously grotesque drawings. The binding is artistic and the wisdom will amuse the parent rather than edify the child. It is upon this order,
“At dinner use your fork and spoon; It may prolong your life, My grandfather once cut himself While eating with his knife.”
* “A series of irresistibly comic verses containing good advice for the young.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 150w.
* “The decorations are clever, and so is the verse it contains.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 25w.
=Fielding, Henry.= Selected essays, ed. by Gordon Hall Gerould. *60c. Ginn.
A book designed to introduce Fielding as an essay writer to both college students and general readers. It contains selected essays from his novels, and some of the best work from the “Miscellanies” of 1743 and the periodicals. The text is in most cases based on the first and second editions. A biographical sketch, an introduction, full notes, and an index are provided.
“To the present volume there is prefixed an introduction ... by which we can see that the praise is lavish rather than discriminating.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 870. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1230w.
=Finerty, John Frederick.= Ireland: the people’s history of Ireland. *$2.50. Dodd.
The first history of the Irish people “pro-Irish rather than pro-English in spirit and view” since McGee’s “History of Ireland,” three-quarters of a century ago. Mr. Finerty, the president of the United Irish league of America, aims to throw “more light in a simple and comprehensive manner on the history of that beautiful island, the blood of whose exiled children flows in the veins of not less than twenty millions of the American people.” The history, two volumes, is a very rapid survey of Ireland from the earliest period down to the career and ascendency of the fearless avenger of Irish liberty, Parnell.
* “Writes from that patriotic point of view, but with no obvious bias that would prevent him from being fair and trustworthy in regard to opposing views.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
* “It will not do to say that his style is everywhere excellent. If Mr. Finerty had studied the history of his native land in the light of European events, the policies of England would have become intelligible to him, and the ‘People’s history of Ireland’ would have been a far more trustworthy work.” Laurence M. Larson.
— — + =Dial.= 38: 412. Je. 16, ‘05. 1230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 162. Mr. 18, ‘05. 630w.
“The work before us, despite its prefatory promise of breadth and fair-mindedness, is itself a striking example of the way in which Irish history should not be written. In so far as the ‘political misfortunes’ of Ireland are concerned, bias prevails—the bias of a narrative constructed along pronounced pro-Catholic lines by an uncompromising sympathizer with the Irish cause. Strictly speaking, moreover, the work is not a history, but merely a chronicle in which the familiar superlatives, epithets, and errors of overstatement and understatement are painfully in evidence. There is also room for criticism from the standpoint of proportion.”
— — =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 340w.
=Firth, Charles Harding.= Plea for the historical teaching of history: an inaugural lecture delivered on November 9, 1904. *35c. Oxford.
In this lecture Prof. Firth finds fault with the present school of history. He also declares history to be neither a science nor an art, “but it partakes of the nature of both. A twofold task lies before the historian. One-half of his business is the discovery of the truth, and the other half its representation.”
“A very plain-spoken expression of opinion, and, as it is always well to have ideals set before us, likely to be useful.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 370w.
=Firth, John Benjamin.= Constantine, the first Christian emperor. **$1.35; **$1.60. Putnam.
“There is ample room for a brief biography of the Emperor Constantine along the lines on which Mr. Firth has constructed his present book. Going directly to contemporary sources, and examining them with an eye keen to the detection of bias, Mr. Firth gives in small compass a careful exposition not only of the career and personality of the first imperial champion of Christianity, but of the period to which he belonged and of the nature and extent of the influence exerted by him on his generation and on posterity. In other words, an analysis is made of the elements essential to a correct evaluation of the validity of Constantine’s claim to greatness.”—Outlook.
“We may, however, fairly criticize the author for having taken no account of some recent investigations which ought not to be ignored.”
— + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 1470w.
“Of this period and of its central figure the author has written sensibly and satisfyingly.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 324. My. 1, ‘05. 570w.
“Mr. Firth makes a slip at the beginning of the book in speaking of the conquerors of Valerion as the Parthians.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 170. My. 26, ‘05. 710w.
“Though written as a volume for a popular series, this book should not escape the attention of scholars, since it is based on a first-hand study of the authorities, and is the fruit of independent reflection.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 128. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1250w.
“It is on the whole, a well balanced piece of work. The book opens with an absurdly bad genealogical table, and continues to practically a dateless limit.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 125. F. 25, ‘05. 780w.
“Indeed we cannot but feel that, if only through an excess of impartiality, he paints the shadows at times all too deeply. And, for a similar reason, we gain the impression that here and there the pagan receives more and the Christian less than his due. We could wish, too, less disquisition regarding the untrustworthiness of the annalists of the period, less detailed picking of flaws—a habit so pronounced as to become tedious. These blemishes, however, are not vital defects. The work is well arranged, well written, and, with the exceptions noted, well balanced.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 501. F. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* “We have little but praise of the writer’s treatment of the ecclesiastical and theological side.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 528. O. 21, ‘05. 810w.
“Mr. Firth’s account of him is an excellent performance.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 360. S. 9, ‘05. 460w.
“Is an interesting biography and an excellent study of an important phase in the earlier history of Europe.”
+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
=Firth, John Benjamin.= Highways and byways in Derbyshire. $2. Macmillan.
“Mr. Firth remarks that his book is of ‘narration rather than description.’ He tells the reader where he may profitably go, and what he may expect to see ... [and] takes occasion to mention the literary and historical associations of the places which he visits.”—Spec.
“Mr. Firth’s ‘Derbyshire’ is to the full as thorough and as companionable as any of its predecessors.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 609. Je. 10, ‘05. 1040w.
“Mr. Firth, has, beyond doubt, produced some five hundred pages of attractive and interesting reading.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 551. My. 6, 2160w.
“Above all, there is a style that stamps the book as more than a guide, yet takes nothing away from its usefulness.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 210w.
* “Mr. Firth has a talent for description.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 1220w.
“There are a few other references to people and scenes of especial interest to the scientific world, but the book will not be valued by these so much as for its bright narrative of literary and historical centers of Derbyshire, and its fine illustrations.”
+ =Nature.= 72: 100. Je. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The drawings ... are singularly charming—are, in fact, when all is said, the best part of a very good book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 710w.
“The book is rich in literary associations and personal anecdotes, and is decidedly readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 60w.
“If a little slapdash at times and opinionated, Mr. Firth writes with real spirit.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 748. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
“Full of interesting matter.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 270w.
=Fischer, George Alexander.= Beethoven: a character study; with Wagner’s Indebtedness to Beethoven. **$1.40. Dodd.
In this study of the great composer’s life and character is given not only the influences under which he developed but the effect which his work had upon the music of to-day and upon the work of Wagner.
“Is perhaps the most rational, convincing, shrewd, and sympathetic estimate yet made.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 70. Ag. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“His method is straightforward enough, but his style is an exasperating journalese, without distinction of any kind. It is not of any special value or significance.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.
“It is a character study rather than a biography and criticism. The chapter on humor is one of the best in the book.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 190w.
“It is presented in a straightforward style, though without much distinction; and what the author has added in the way of critical estimate is unimportant. Nor has he thrown any new light upon the character and artistic nature of Beethoven.” Richard Aldrich.
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.
“A simple, straightforward, and readable biography. An excellent and useful book for the young amateur of music.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.
=Fisguill, Richard, pseud. (Richard H. Wilson).= Venus of Cadiz. †$1.50. Holt.
An American novel with a decided French twang. The scene is laid in Kentucky with an unsophisticated country girl for a heroine and a mushroom grower for her Adonis. Impossible situations follow one another in rollicking succession which involve cases of mistaken identity, mishaps, and weird meetings of moonshiners in caves. It is rightly called an extravaganza.
“The plot is nought, and the manner everything. A racy and rollicking book it is, warranted to dispel the most chronic case of blues.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 116. S. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“It is a rollicking and impossible tale, in which the author gets rather beyond his depth, while the reader is just sufficiently amused to flounder after him in astonishment.”
— =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Fisguill’s story is one which might well have remained in manuscript.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 29: 221. Ag. 12, ‘05. 60w.
=Fish, Carl Russell.= Civil service and the patronage. *$2. Longmans.
“This volume deals with a subject which primarily concerns the citizens of the United States ... the history of the ‘Spoils system.’”—Spec.
“The most valuable part of the book is the second section, dealing with the genesis of the spoils system. This is a genuine contribution to the history of the subject.” L. M. S.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 172. O. ‘05. 1260w.
“This book is distinctly a history of the patronage, and as such deserves recognition as a valuable contribution in this particular field.” Ward W. Pierson.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 606. S. ‘05. 380w.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 169. S. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“His book is brief but thorough.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=Spec.= 94: 559. Ap. 15, ‘05. 170w.
* =Fisher, Ruth B.= On the borders of Pigmy land, **$1.25. Revell.
“A record of missionary experiences in Central Africa, with interesting descriptions of the country and its people.”—Outlook.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 15w.
* “Very interesting is the story she tells in this volume—tells with an admirable combination of the humorous and the serious.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 294. Ag. 26, ‘05. 450w.
=Fitch, William Edwards.= Some neglected history of North Carolina, including the battle of Alamance, the first battle of the American revolution. $2. Neale.
“North Carolina’s claim to be the first battleground of the Revolution is zealously advocated in this monograph, which is, briefly, a study of the ‘viper’ episode of 1765.... In it also is incorporated some interesting documentary matter in the way of legislative acts, Regulator’s ‘Advertisements,’ and contemporary letters and addresses.”—Outlook.
“The work is flimsy, incoherent, prejudiced.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 951. Jl. ‘05. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 179. Mr. 25, ‘05. 960w. (Abstract of contents.)
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 709. Mr. 18, ‘05. 260w.
* =FitzGerald, Edward.= Euphranor: a dialogue on youth. *75c. Lane.
This fifteenth volume of the “New pocket library” contains Euphranor “very fitly presented after the text of the first edition of 1851. Mr. Frederick Chapman, who supplies a preface, dwells upon the value of the little work ... not only as a classic specimen of English prose, but as reflective of Cambridge and its contemporary life, and the author as a part of them.” (Nation.)
* “To possess ‘Euphranor’ in the present convenient form will give pleasure to many lovers of the famous letters and the more famous quatrains.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 850. D. ‘05. 390w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 339. O. 26, ‘05. 90w.
* “A pleasing preface. There are some sixty Greek words and more than twenty mistakes.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 397. S. 16, ‘05. 160w.
=Fitzgerald, Edward and Pamela.= Edward and Pamela Fitzgerald; being an account of their lives; compiled by Gerald Campbell. $3.50. Longmans.
“A volume compiled by Gerald Campbell [their great grandchild] from the letters of those who knew them, in which is told the ‘life story’ of the Irish rebel leader and his wife. Unlike other memoirs of Lord FitzGerald, this is not founded on Thomas Moore’s ‘Life and death of Lord Edward FitzGerald,’ which appeared in 1831. The letters cover in all a period of sixty years—from 1770 to 1831. The object of the first part of the volume is to give a picture of the home life of Lord Edward’s family, and incidentally portraits of the writer of the epistles. No attempt has been made to give a connected account of the story of his life. The letters have been left to show how he was regarded by those who knew and loved him best.”—N. Y. Times.
“On the whole the work of the editor has been well done.” G. H. O.
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 613. Jl. ‘05. 590w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 10. Ja. 7, ‘05. 400w. (Outlines contents).
=Fitzgerald, Percy.= Lady Jean, the romance of the great Douglas cause. *$3.60. Wessels.
A revival of the famous Douglas case, the story of Lady Jean Douglas, who at the age of 50 married a broken down gambler in order to provide heirs for her brother’s estates. The author takes the side of the Hamiltons and contends that Lady Jane’s twin boys were hers not by birth but by purchase.
“Mr. Fitzgerald has, in fact, given us a somewhat repellant chapter of gossip, narrated in a style so slipshod as to suggest doubts as to its accuracy in other points.”
— =Acad.= 68: 147. F. 18, ‘05. 650w.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 779. Je. 24. 490w.
* =Fitzgerald, Sybil.= In the track of the Moors. *$6. Dutton.
“These essays contain no personal reminiscences; they are interpretative rather than descriptive, and they often run far afield into legend, history, politics, race characteristics and development, the inter-play of one race upon another, and other problems remote from the point of view of the guide-book.... It is as a luxurious and leisurely commentary upon travels past or to come, as a collection of delightful essays and beautiful pictures, that ‘In the track of the Moors’ should be judged and enjoyed. The book is the result of collaboration by Sybil and Augustine Fitzgerald, the former furnishing the essays and the latter the pictures. There are sixty-three full-page illustrations excellently printed in color.”—Dial.
* “If the author displays here no great erudition, she certainly shows a real and sympathetic acquaintance with the lands in question, considerable powers of observation, and a pretty taste in the literature of travel.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 729. N. 25, ‘05. 130w.
* “The essayist is equipped for her task by a thorough knowledge of the subject, a gift for analysis, and the ability to put the results of analysis into trenchant and finished form.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 382. D. 1, ‘05. 480w.
* “The feature of ‘In the track of the Moors’ lies essentially in its illustrations.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1381. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “The pictures, much the more satisfactory element, are often charming, although also at times very trivial in subject.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 463. D. 7, ‘05. 240w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.
=Fitzmaurice, Edmond George Petty.= Life of Granville. 2v. $10. Longmans.
The materials used for Lord Fitzmaurice’s biography are mainly extracts from Lord Granville’s diaries and correspondence, from letters from his mother, from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and from a large group of his political colleagues. “The most striking letters which it contains are those which explain the relations of Queen Victoria to her ministers in respect of the conduct of foreign affairs.... The pleasantest portion of the first volume consists of the diary jottings of Lord Granville contained in his letters to the Governor-General of India.... The most important matter treated in the second volume is Home rule, and here again we find new facts which are material.... There are many interesting passages scattered throughout the portions of the book which deal with modern politics.”
“Impartiality is a virtue of which he never loses sight, and though his book does not give us a clear portrait of Lord Granville, it holds within its covers a mass of facts and documents, with which the historian of the nineteenth century will never be able to dispense.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1121. O. 28, ‘05. 1650w.
“Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice’s book is both interesting and important.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 497. O. 14. 2800w.
“Lord Edmond has put together a vast amount of interesting and entertaining information about many people besides Lord Granville. Lord Granville’s own personal charm was perhaps too evanescent a quality to be reproduced on paper.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 338. O. 13, ‘05. 3880w.
“Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice has done a very good piece of work in his life of Lord Granville.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 746. N. 4, ‘05. 1270w.
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 558. O. 28, ‘05. 2320w.
“Even Mr. John Morley has not drawn so full a picture of the unfortunate Cabinet of 1880 as Lord Edmond has been able to supply, and it is certain that no future writer will be able to address himself to this period unless he has thoroughly studied Lord Edmond’s volumes.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 609. O. 21, ‘05. 1760w.
=Flandrau, Rebecca Blair=, tr. See =Kielland, Alexander.= Professor Lovdahl.
=Fletcher, A. E.= Thomas Gainsborough. *$1.25. Scribner.
A volume in the “Makers of British art” series. “If, in the present volume, we are not taught much as to Gainsborough’s technique we gain a good picture of Gainsborough’s age and its degradation in taste; of Gainsborough’s family; of the famous Bath period (the turning point in the painter’s career of Gainsborough’s landscape work) and its relation to Constable’s; of the London life, the king’s favor, the Academy, and, finally, the noble passing. Of the great triumvirate of English portrait painters—Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Romney—working at the same time, Gainsborough was not only the most brilliant artist in, but also the founder of the English landscape school.” (Outlook).
“Excellent thought and carefully gauged appreciation is conveyed in a too dramatic, one might almost say, journalistic, tone.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05, 190w.
“Mr. Fletcher has nothing new or important to tell us of Gainsborough’s art, but he has succeeded, in spite of the handicap of a wordy and inefficient style, in writing a fairly entertaining biography.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 140w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 550w.
“Mr. Fletcher’s is the latest of the rapidly increasing number of Gainsborough biographies. His is a good biography, but not a remarkable book of criticism. For that one will seek Sir Walter Armstrong’s book; not that entire satisfaction is to be had from it either.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w.
=Fletcher, Banister, and Fletcher, Banister Flight.= History of architecture. *$6. imp. Scribner.
A fifth edition, revised and enlarged. The volume is intended for students, craftsmen, and the general reader. It contains over 2000 illustrations including photographs of buildings, exteriors and interiors, maps, plans, and diagrams, and includes a bibliography, a glossary, and a full index.
“The present edition is certainly an improvement on the former ones in clarity and fulness of information.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 440. Ap. 8. 300w.
“Is a veritable encyclopedia of its subject, and presents in compact form an immense amount of information.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 277. Ap. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“The peculiar excellence and convenience of this work....”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 229. Mr. 23, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 169. Mr. 18, ‘05. 290w.
=Fletcher, Charles Robert Leslie.= Introductory history of England, from the earliest times to the close of the middle ages. *$2. Dutton.
“Mr. Fletcher’s book is ‘introductory’ in a double sense. Besides being intended for boys, it stops at the beginning of the Tudor period. In style, it is explanatory, and the author is enabled, by excising a large number of subjects, to treat those that remain with tolerable fulness of detail.”—Nation.
“He gives a fresh and really interesting connected narrative of England’s emergence from barbarism and the beginnings of her national and institutional life. There are surely very many older readers who will find the book more fascinating than most novels.”
+ =Ind.= 58:671. Mr. 23, ‘05. 490w.
“Mr. Fletcher’s avowed object is to avoid intolerable dulness, even when discoursing of the Norman conquest; and without further delay we may as well state that he has succeeded. The dry-as-dust critic might pick holes in some of his statements. But Mr. Fletcher has a grasp of essentials, and some lapses may well be condoned in the case of one whose light touch really does lend interest to the mediaeval history of England.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80:235. Mr. 23, ‘05. 560w.
“The book he has now given us is eminently characteristic, full of his own energetic, practical activity, his love of health, fresh air, and good exercise. Mr. Fletcher’s story is, in the main, highly intelligible and adequately consecutive. He has certainly given us here a sketch of living men by a living man. Peculiarly interesting is the picture attempted of an imaginary village in pre-Norman, Norman, and post-Norman times. A word must also be said in praise of the capital little chapter of geological history.”
+ + =Nature.= 71:385. F. 23, ‘05. 470w.
=Fletcher, Margaret.= Light for new times: a book for Catholic girls. 60c. Benziger.
Four essays which aim to help Catholic girls to enter upon the life which succeeds school days with some practical warning as to what the realities of life will be. They are entitled, Without the way there is no going; Liberty; Responsibility; and Professional life.
* “Miss Fletcher really meets a serious want. Her work is of a high order; her aim is in the right direction.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82:262. N. ‘05. 540w.
=Flint, Austin.= Handbook of physiology. *$5. Macmillan.
The author states that this book is the outgrowth of “a desire to present to students a work that may serve to connect pure physiology with the physiology especially useful to physicians.... I have endeavored to adapt it to the curricula of medical schools where the subject is taught in the English language.... The subject has been treated from a medical standpoint, not unduly neglecting, it is hoped, pure physiology and biology.”
“We cannot leave it without a word of recognition for the extraordinarily lucid style which this veteran professor ... has achieved. It might well be the envy if not the despair of professional writers.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10:649. O. 7, ‘05. 680w.
=Flint, George Elliot.= Power and health through progressive exercise. *$1.50. Baker.
In a plea for heavy work in the gymnasium, the author lays aside light weight systems, and outlines a course in heroic strength-development. He maintains that “it is not much work requiring many slight efforts, but much less work requiring great efforts that make the best quality of brain and brawn.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w.
* =Flood, William H. Grattan.= Story of the harp. *$1.25. Scribner.
The history of the harp is given in this volume, from its earliest form in Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia, also its use in the Jewish temples and Christian churches, its appearance in Ireland, with a full description of Irish harps and harpists, and a discussion of the increasing use of the harp in the orchestra. There are appendices upon the Æolian harp, and Epochs in the history of harp-making. The volume is illustrated.
* + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 190w.
* “A more definite plan, a more skillful presentation, a more detailed and critical discussion and description would have made a book more valuable to the student and not less agreeable to the general reader.” Richard Aldrich.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 360w.
=Flower, Elliott.= Best policy. †$1.50. Bobbs.
Dave Murray, special insurance agent, is the central figure about whom center the incidents which fill these twelve stories. All phases of the life insurance plea are presented, including comedy, tragedy, speculation, failure, error, sacrifice and grievance.
“Considered as fiction the book is one of the brightest and best volumes of short stories of the season.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 551. N. ‘05. 180w.
* “The insurance companies of the country should pay Mr. Flower a royalty on this book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 360w.
“This is a timely book, unique and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 771. N. 11, ‘05. 200w.
“It would make an excellent guide for young insurance agents in the art of soliciting business.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 40w.
“The fact that his stories are good ones, or would be if it were not for the trail of the serpent of bitter knowledge that lies over them, only adds to the seriousness of his offense.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 180w.
=Flower, Elliott.= Slaves of success. †$1.50. Page.
These eight short stories form a study in state politics. The grafter, the boss, the spoilsman, the reformer, the honest country member of the legislature, all are true to their parts and serve to bring out the various phases of American business and political methods as viewed from the inside.
“The eight chapters of ‘Slaves of success’ are rather as many narratives than stories.” Churchill Williams.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 173. O. ‘05. 1030w.
“Is rather a series of sketches than a novel, and the chapters have very unequal merit.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 70w.
“One of the many merits of his book is that it is not one of unalloyed pessimism. ‘Slaves of success’ is not only of absorbing interest, but, if as widely read as it deserves, cannot fail of being a power for good.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 480w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1016. Ap. 22, ‘05. 40w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 676. Ap. 29, ‘05. 320w.
=Flux, A. W.= Economic principles: an introductory study. *$2. Dutton.
Prof. Flux has written an introductory text book and has rendered it unsatisfactory for advanced work by giving no references, save in a general way. His object is to avoid introducing controversies which would interest only students more advanced than those for whom he wrote, and to give himself more freedom of expression than would be possible if he gave credit for each point of doctrine to those who first defined it. The work is, on the whole, of the classical point of view, as found in Marshall, but whatever the economic prejudices of the reader, he will find the work accurate and thoro, as well as modern.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 931. O. 19, ‘05. 230w.
“It is not too much to say that the book is pretty nearly everything else than a textbook could be fairly expected to be; but it is not that. It is accurate, thoughtful, forceful, thorough, critical, logical, learned, temperate, clear; but it is difficult, abstract, and over-condensed; even for the practised economist it is hard reading. This is not to imply that it is not surpassingly well worth while, a positive contribution to the literature and thought of the science—it is all of this; but that only very advanced classes will find the book possible of handing; and for these it covers too wide a field, and can be of great service only for reference purposes or for collateral reading. On the whole, a work of great merit and significance. So much the more could better treatment from the publisher, especially in point of binding, have fairly been expected.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 114. D. ‘04. 660w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 53. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines scope of book).
“It is in some important respects one of the most satisfactory systematic treatises on economics to appear within recent years.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 330w.
=Forbes, J. T.= Socrates. $1.25. Scribner.
The latest in the “World’s epoch makers” series. The political conditions of Socrates’ time, the civic ideal, and the religion of the Greeks are discussed in the introduction. With the environment of the philosopher’s activity established, the author shows how he developed his great system which looks upon the individual as the moral unit.
“Mr. Forbes has done a real service to the educated public by issuing a bright, sound estimate, biographical and critical, of the charm and limitations attaching to the Greek primal path.” James Moffatt.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 4: 227. O. ‘05. 760w.
“While his work is conscientious and sufficiently thorough, it is not always interesting, nor do the discussions leave a clean and clear impression.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 247. S. 21, ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 444. Jl. 1, ‘05. 260w.
“It is an exacting as well as a fascinating subject, and its demands for a comprehensive view and critical insight are well met in the present volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
* =Ford, Paul Leicester.= His version of it. †$1.50. Dodd.
“The pretty little fiction of the horses’ interest in the love affairs of Miss Fairley—who was ‘a beauty, but not what her mother was at her age’—and the noble Major, while the odious Mr. Lewis played the despicable role of villain, is told with great vivacity by the prime movers, the horses.... The book is attractively illustrated by Mr. Henry Hutt, and should be a pretty addition to any Ford collection.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Charming story.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 110w.
* “One of the cleverest of this author’s short stories.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 20w.
=Forman, Justus Miles.= Island of enchantment. †$1.75. Harper.
A romance of Italy in the fourteenth century. The hero is a young captain sent by the Doge of Venice to rescue the island of Arbe from the forces of the Ban of Bosnia. “The story is full of passionate doings and conflicts of love and honor.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Told with gentle and straightforward English that must surely charm. The very simplicity and directness of the plot and prose give the volume its chief character.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 60w.
* “Mr. Forman knows how to mingle love, war and intrigue in a way to compel his reader’s interest, and he has never succeeded better than in this novelette.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1377. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14. ‘05. 50w.
=Forman, Justus Miles.= Tommy Carteret. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The story, which has its beginning in a New York ballroom, goes far. It takes Tommy from his first lovemaking, and assigns him to the nobler role of volunteer scapegoat for the amatory sins of a handsome and heedless father. It exiles the young man ... to ... the back country. It exposes him to weird temptations, comes within an ace of marrying him to a dark-eyed, black-haired hill beauty, threatens him with tar and feathers, puts a bullet into his head, and when hospitals and the doctors....”—N. Y. Times.
“‘Tommy Carteret’ is poor stuff. It is a réchauffé.”
— — =Acad.= 68: 984. S. 23, ‘05. 280w.
“This story is fundamentally unsound, superficially clever, and for the most part entertaining.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 298. S. 2. 280w.
“The story is one of unusual cleverness, and full of surprises to the end.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 517. Jl. ‘05. 520w.
“‘Tommy Carteret’ is quite readable, even entertaining, though it is the kind of book some superior persons sneer at and consign to the limbo of nothingness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 166. Mr. 18, ‘05. 390w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The book is full of sentimental absurdities and affectation, and in the end degenerates into a most unpleasant pseudo-pathological study.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 90w.
“A book that unites so much power and charm, so much insight and kindliness and truth.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 260w.
“In spite of its faults, therefore, it is impossible to condemn the novel entirely, though it is difficult to read it without feelings of sorrow that so vigorous a pen should be employed in so vulgar a manner.”
— + =Spec.= 95: 532. O. 7, ‘05. 180w.
=Forman, Samuel Eagle.= Advanced civics: the spirit, the form, and the function of the American government. *$1.25. Century.
Dr. Forman says, “I have constantly kept in mind the truth that instruction in Civics should have for its aim the indoctrination of the learner in sound notions of political morality.... In Part I. the underlying principles of our government are presented. The essentials are placed first in order.... In Part II. is an account of the governmental machine. In Part III. the every-day work of government is considered and the practical problems connected with the work are discussed.”
“A thoughtful, compact, direct, and comprehensive account of the machinery, operation, and problems of the governmental system.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 110w.
=Fortier, S.= Progress report of co-operative irrigation investigations in California.
“One of the most interesting lines of work here described is an investigation of pumping water for irrigation, by Prof. J. N. Le Conte, of the University of California, and others. Thus far descriptions of 750 pumping plants have been secured. Both field and laboratory tests of pumping plants have been made. These are here summarized briefly, but will be reported on more fully at a later date. Studies of evaporation and methods of applying water to land are also described in the pamphlet.”—Engin. N.
=Engin. N.= 53: 185. F. 16, ‘05. 100w.
=Foster, John Watson.= Arbitration and the Hague court. **$1. Houghton.
“A brief review of events dealing with arbitration up to the convention of The Hague peace conference. It gives the circumstances under which that conference was called, the reasons why The Hague was appropriate for such an assemblage, and the eminent men employed and spirit of the conference.”—Bookm.
“The exposition is clear, the conclusions logical.”
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 275. Ap. 16, ‘05. 190w.
“This is a valuable hand book. His book, however, has the peculiar value of being historical and impersonal.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 269. F. 2, ‘05. 350w.
“His publication, important in more than one respect, is, so far as we know, the first to give, in a small compass and an interesting way, the present status of arbitration and its practice under the Hague convention.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 19. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1390w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Fox, Frances Margaret.= Rainbow bridge. †$1.25. Wilde.
From the “little pilgrims’ home” Marian Lee traverses her rainbow bridge to the ideal home of her dreams where love and privileges abound.
* “Another interesting, natural story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 40w.
=Fox, John, jr.= Following the sun-flag: a vain pursuit through Manchuria. **$1.25. Scribner.
One of our war correspondents who never reached the front gives his impressions of Japan and her people. The account of his experiences in Tokio and in Manchuria, which he traversed in the trail of the Japanese army, is amusing and interesting.
“A book very pleasing in its literary finish. Mr. Fox is very guarded, and is as self-controlled as a Japanese in his intimations.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 170w.
“He has made the work interesting by the sketchy, breezy manner in which it is written, although it is imbued with ... race prejudice against men of darker skin.” Wallace Rice.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 416. Je. 16, ‘05. 550w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 42. Jl. 13, ‘05. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.
“Mr. Fox has made some very pretty copy out of his four months’ stay in Tokio.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 600w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
— + =Outlook.= 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 130w.
“There are some bits of very fine description in this volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
“The book is written in an amusing high-coloured style, and as a record of nothing at all is, in its way, an achievement.”
— =Spec.= 95:51. Ag. 8, ‘05. 130w.
=Fox, Middleton.= Child of the shore; a romance of Cornwall. (†)$1.50. Lane.
Eery incantations on the Cornish shore bring to a farmer’s wife one of the “merry-maids” of the sea as her longed-for child. The girl’s strange beauty and her sympathy with the sea’s moods cause the villagers to regard her with suspicion, and when she is gone they believe the story that she and her sea-sisters have avenged her life’s tragedy by pulling down to the depths of the sea her aristocratic betrayer. Smugglers, wreckers and fisher-folk enter into the story.
“Mr. Fox’s novel is atmospheric, with the result that in spite of occasional passages of some beauty in the actual writing, and an attractive way of introducing his story ... it is tedious.”
— =Acad.= 68:785. Jl. 29, ‘05. 320w.
“The book, however, is pleasingly written.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1:651. My. 27. 210w.
* “It is, perhaps, unfortunate, that material of such unusual possibilities should have been squandered in a ‘first book,’ for as yet the writer’s equipment is lacking in dramatic force.”
+ — =Critic.= 47:477. N. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Fox tells his story well, in a way to touch both the heart and the imagination, but in addition to the story there is the interest of the vivid picture of a quaint, old village and a mode of life long past.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:584. S. 2, ‘05. 550w.
=Francis of Assisi, St. (Giovanni Francisco Bernadone Assisi).= Words of St. Francis; sel. and tr. by Anne MacDonell. *60c. Dutton.
“Friends of St. Francis have left records of what in other men might be called ‘Table talk.’ Others of his sayings have come down to us at one further remove, from friends of the Saint’s friends. Some of these things Miss MacDonell has put together in this volume, trying, as she tells us, ‘to reflect his spirit, his temperament, and his attitude to life rather than his doctrine.’”—Spec.
“An admirable little book.”
+ =Spec.= 94:23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 160w.
=Francis, M. E., pseud.= See =Blundell, Mary. E. (Sweetman).=
=Frankau, Julia (Frank Danby, pseud.).= Eighteenth century artists and engravers. 2v. *$1.50. Macmillan.
“In the regal portfolio of forty engravings, which forms part of her work, [Mrs. Frankau] gives most of her plates to William Ward, who reproduced paintings like Hoppner’s famous Miranda in noble fashion, when he was not designing and stippling dainty circular or oval portraits of feminine types. But in the octavo which contains her text, she fills much of her space with a biographical sketch of James Ward, who valued his gifts as a painter.... The thirty photogravures from his works, which she scatters through her text, are important to the student.”—Atlan.
Reviewed by Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 95:274. F. ‘05. 530w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Selections from the writings of Benjamin Franklin; ed. by U. Waldo Cutler. 35c. Crowell.
One of the thirteen new titles lately added to the “Handy volume classics.” There is an introduction, which sketches the life of Franklin, and notes by the editor.
“The selections in the book are well chosen.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:730. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
=Franklin, Benjamin.= Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; printed from the full and authentic text, ed. by William MacDonald. *$1.25. Dutton.
The editor has made this book a complete biography by providing a biographical preface and an account of Franklin’s later life and his relation to the history of his time.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 947. Jl. ‘05. 30w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“The editor seeks to describe Franklin as the complete citizen—of his city, his country, and the world. The task is superficially done, and is marred by the strong prejudices of the writer.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 90w.
=Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 140w.
=Fraser, Edward.= Famous fighters of the fleet. $1.75. Macmillan.
These “Glimpses through the cannon smoke in the days of the old navy,” set forth the gallant fights fought by the insignificant little English crafts which used to rule the sea. The past and present is strikingly contrasted in the opening chapter, and then follow accounts of the capture of the French ship Foudroyant by a little Monmouth whose namesake today makes her seem a mere toy, the famous ships that bore the name Formidable, the Zebra, whose fighting captain, Faulkner, carried, by storm, a French fort in the West Indies, and others. The requiem of the Téméraire. the subject of Turner’s picture and Ruskin’s oration, is fittingly sounded and the book closes with an account of how Lord Charles Beresford successfully took the little Condor into action during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 350w.
=Fraser, Mary Crawford (Mrs. Hugh Fraser).= Maid of Japan. †$1.25. Holt.
The tale of a Japanese girl with the music of the sea and the glory of the cliffs in her nature. Sixteen years before, her mother had walked into the sea because the Englishman who had wed her sailed away and left her. The young girl’s simple life as shell gatherer is disturbed one day by the coming of a young Englishman who sings love songs to her over the water, clears up the mystery of her parentage, and takes her back to his England.
“She has a wonderful vocabulary, mastery of language, fine literary finish, and a keen sense of the dramatic. There is no false step or slip of the pen in her word drawing and shadings of Japanese life.” William Elliot Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 140w.
“The volume is quite unworthy of the author of the ‘Letters from Japan.’” Adachi Kinnosuké.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 310w.
“The plot is slight, but the story is told with surpassing grace, and possesses to a rare degree both atmosphere and temperament.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 446. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1400w.
“The moral tone is high, the literary finish good, the general effect idyllic, and the typographical presentation unique and agreeable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 592. Jl. 1, ‘05. 80w.
“Whatever this author does is done well, and when she touches Japan she is securely at home. There is nothing sensational or thrilling in the book, but it is bathed deep in Japanese atmosphere.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 200w.
=Fraser, William Alexander.= Sa’-Zada tales. †$2. Scribner.
“Stories supposed to be told by the animals in a ‘Zoo’ in India. The keeper, Sa’ (or Sahib) Zada, in the warm summer nights lets the animals out of their cages, and brings them together to tell stories.... Each of the animals in turn tells of his life in the jungle and how he came to be captured.... They indulge in repartee and sometimes in bad temper, but they are on the whole a happy family, united by their love for their keeper. The book is strikingly illustrated by Arthur Heming.”—Outlook.
* + — =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “Will be a treasure-trove to children who love animals and who love to hear them talk.” May Estelle Cook.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 374. D. 1, ‘05. 200w.
* “Though not a brilliant story-teller, is interesting, and apparently knows a great deal about the creatures that he presents to us.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 511. D. 21, ‘05. 140w.
* “The author’s knowledge of natural history, his skill in story telling, and his humorous sympathy, enable him to thrill the lover of forest creatures and even to thrall jaded readers who may scorn all popular nature books.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Free, Richard.= Seven years’ hard. *$1.50. Dutton.
A record of the Rev. Richard Free’s seven years of pioneer missionary work in that section of the London slums known as the Isle of Dogs, or Millwall. The author himself calls it “a city of desolation,” and he and his wife fight a long and gallant fight against rowdyism and intemperance. Tho the Thames flows through that section, “its waters have become loathsome by human selfishness and folly,” and young and old toil from dawn till dark for a mere pittance; factories fill the district, and dirt and foul odors are everywhere. The erection of the mission building, the establishment of guilds, and the problems to be met with, are well described in this volume.
“It is not a story and it is not a system of sociology, but a series of snap-shots of the life of people ground to earth by employers, debased by drink and ignorance, and indifferent to art, science, history, morals, and religion.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 160w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 1330w. (Review of contents).
“For a picture or series of pictures of an unknown people living in the midst of a Christian civilization, we have seen nothing so graphic as this book of Mr. Free’s since Jacob A. Riis’s ‘How the other half lives.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 180w.
=Freeman, Edward Augustus.= Western Europe in the eighth century and onward. *$3.25. Macmillan.
The late Professor Freeman left the manuscript of this work in the rough, some chapters being merely fragmentary and the editors who are first publishing the book, twelve years after the author’s death, can give it only in an unfinished form; but it is a welcome addition to a period upon which there is little historical light. The period covered opens with the rise and fall of the British Constantine and closes with Theodoric and Chlodowig. It is put before us with the great historian’s usual breadth of view, and accuracy of detail; it is learned and even heavy, but it contains many beautiful and vivid passages, and is the result of the faithful researches of one who was thoroly steeped in the subject and in the times.
“The volume is plainly meant for the specialist, who will find profit in the discussions of the patriciate and donation and in the detailed account of Pippin’s campaigns, in spite of the amount of more or less relevant comparison and allusion with which the author was in the habit of overloading his writings.”
+ + — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 913. Jl. ‘05. 450w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 43. Ja. 14. 540w.
“Excellent as is Freeman’s work, even without his own revision, it is unfortunately impossible to say the same of the editing.” E. W. Brooks.
+ — =Eng. Hist.= R. 20: 548. Jl. ‘05. 1330w.
“This book is thoroughly readable, even if all critics may not find it thoroughly convincing from beginning to end.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 222. F. 11, ‘05. 420w.
“The task of editing the MS. has been performed with scrupulous care. Its difficulty could hardly be exaggerated, for Mr. Freeman had at times only indicated the sources of the references. Our knowledge of this period is so meagre that we are grateful for the light thrown on it by the researches, unfortunately incomplete, of one who had made the subject peculiarly his own.”
+ + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 231. F. ‘05. 180w.
* =Freeman, Mrs. Mary Eleanor (Wilkins).= Debtor. †$1.50. Harper.
“The ‘Debtor’ preys upon his fellow-men because he has himself been ruined in business by a scoundrel, and has not the skill and strength to make an honest fight. His amiable, unreasoning wife, who thinks all creditors mean and vulgar persons; his worn and disillusioned sister, who knows all his faults, but fights for him to save the family; his queer little son with impish instincts and inherited traits ... and, above all, his innocent and faithful daughter, who really saves her father by the intensity and unselfishness of her love—all these are real people. So, too, are the creditors.”—Outlook.
* “As it is the novel seems to lack unity, and in spite of much subtlety and fine workmanship the effect is that of a succession of disconnected studies of character rather than of a single well-proportioned whole.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 396. N. 17, ‘05. 400w.
* “The first interest of the book lies in its fidelity to the small things that make up manners and customs.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 490w.
* “One misses the crispness of style that marked ‘Pembroke’ and ‘Jerome’; one sometimes finds involved sentences and careless phrasing; but the reality, intensity, and force of the novel are remarkable.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 709. N. 25. ‘05. 270w.
=Freer, A. Goodrich-.= Inner Jerusalem. *$3. Dutton.
In telling “what Jerusalem is like” Miss A. Goodrich Freer commands a view from the Holy City itself, with her vantage ground right under the shadow of the Russian tower. Among other noteworthy facts brought out as to life in modern Jerusalem is one which the author presents in these words: “While we sing ‘They call us to deliver their land from error’s chain,’ let us realize that here we may send out our youngest maid, with no further caution than not to get her pocket picked; we may take a cab, certain that our driver, unless he be a Christian, will not get drunk.” (R. of Rs.) There are many full-page illustrations, chiefly from photographs.
“Has contrived to answer a great many interesting questions regarding life in the Holy City, so that the reader rises from the work with a sense of having at last learned just what Jerusalem means to its widely assorted inhabitants, especially to those who comprise the European colonies there. The knowledge displayed in the book is such as could have been acquired only by long residence, and is used with discrimination and a sympathetic outlook upon the curious ramifications of temporal and spiritual power.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 91. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.
* “She has withal, a very pretty wit, racy descriptive power and a clever knack of relating her subject to its graver scientific issues, with the sure result that we are both informed and entertained.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 992. O. 26, ‘05. 430w.
“The style, however, is the same throughout—amusing and light, without being irreverent. The book gives a pleasant and entertaining and, in spite of its limitations, probably the best available picture of actual living conditions in Jerusalem at the present day.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 340. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1380w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 123. Ja. ‘05. 120w.
=French, Anne Warner (Mrs. Charles Ellis French).= Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary. †$1.50. Little.
Aunt Mary, “dreadfully deaf and fearfully arbitrary,” is also seventy years old, immensely wealthy, and unreasonably devoted to her nephew Jack. After getting him out of various scrapes, she becomes discouraged and disinherits him. The body of the book is taken up with an account of the good time which Jack and his college chums give the old lady when she comes to New York on a visit. Knocking about town, indulging in late suppers, motorcar spins and other joys prove so alluring that she forgives Jack, who promptly marries a beautiful young widow, who has played an important part in the story, and Aunt Mary goes to New York to live with them and continue to enjoy the giddy whirl offered by the metropolis.
“Considered as a bright and humorous story, this tale is incomparably superior to the author’s previous work, ‘Susan Clegg and her friend Mrs. Lathrop.’ The general moral atmosphere, especially of the earlier part of the story, leaves much to be desired.”
+ + — =Arena.= 35: 556. N. ‘05. 780w.
* “There is plenty of dialogue in this story, and the plot is lively enough to hold the most frivolous spirit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 250w.
* “Clever little comedy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
“She has only succeeded in producing a broad farce.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.
=Frenssen, Gustav.= Jorn Uhl; tr. by F. S. Delmer. †$1.50. Estes.
Jörn Uhl was the youngest son of a drunken brute. His mother died neglected, his brothers followed his father’s mode of living and Jörn worked the great farm while the others caroused. His career is followed in detail as his character unfolds and he dully plods toward the light, until at last he comes to be a man of mark.
“Really is a fine novel and deserves to be taken seriously. The present translation is good, but fails, we think, to reach the highest excellence.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 588. My. 13. 450w.
“It is a rich, homely book, seemingly artless in its simple sincerity, intensely human in its appeal, touched with poetic feeling that can glorify the humblest material, and genuine in the best sense of the word.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 40. Jl. 16, ‘05. 650w.
“The translation shows remarkable poetic insight and is faithful rather than literal.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1311. Je. 8, ‘05. 280w.
“Freely offered advice to the reader of Jorn Uhl is to skip the story and read the reflections and sermons.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 430w.
“On the whole not ill translated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 326. My. 20, ‘05. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“Unusual story. For many chapters the reader is absorbed in quiet but intensely vivid pictures full of real poetry and throbbing with convincing truth.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 220w.
“Is powerful rather than original, deliberately thoughtful and carefully wrought rather than striking; ... it is the culmination, not the creation, of a genre.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 320w.
“There are tedious passages. There is a want of proportion; there are abrupt transitions from tragedy to a somewhat childlike jollity. But it is for all its artlessness, an attractive story.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 340w.
“While Mr. Delmer’s translation is in the main workmanlike and straightforward, his method of occasionally representing the Low German dialect by using Scotch forms is most disconcerting.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 1150w.
=Friedenwald, Herbert.= Declaration of independence. **$2. Macmillan.
“Dr. Herbert Friedenwald has written an interpretation and analysis of ‘The Declaration of independence.’ As preliminary to his chapters on adopting and signing of the declaration its purpose and philosophy, Dr. Friedenwald points out the close interrelation between the development of the authority and jurisdiction of the Continental congress and the evolution of the sentiment for independence. He shows that as the authority and jurisdiction of congress were extended it adopted various means to further the desire for independence; that the highest point of power was reached by the congress on July 4, 1776, and that it was never again so powerful as on the day it declared independence of England.”—R. of Rs.
“The independence campaign has never been so carefully studied as in this valuable monograph. The book as a whole represents an amount of study that gives great credit to the author’s conscientious scholarship.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 148. Ja. ‘05. 910w.
“Very suggestive study.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 550. Ap. ‘05. 700w.
“An elaborate and careful monograph.” H. E. E.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 612. Jl. ‘05. 250w.
“This is the most scholarly study of the Independence campaign that has been made. The book is a credit to the author’s conscientious scholarship. Written in a rather heavy style.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1423. Je. 22, ‘05. 320w.
* “A careful and deep study of the evolution of the spirit that produced that famous document.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“It is the first attempt to give the general reading public an adequate treatment of the period concerned, and within its compass it does what has been pressingly needed. Here we have knowledge kept within bounds, original authorities sifted and their pith extracted.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 287. O. 5, ‘05. 460w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 110w.
=Friedlander, M.=, tr. See =Maimonides, Moses.= The guide for the perplexed.
From servitude to service: the history and * work of Southern institutions for the education of the negro. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.
A book for students of Southern educational institutions and their problems. There is an outline of the history and work of six of the leading Southern institutions engaged in negro education: Howard university, Berea college, Tuskegee institute, Hampton institute, Atlanta university, and Fisk university.
* “A book of great interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 760w.
* =Frost, Arthur Burdett.= Book of drawings; with introd. by Joel Chandler Harris, and verse by Wallace Irwin. $3. Collier-Fox.
“A new edition of the happy combination of the humor of these men already firm in the hearts of their public.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 20w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
=Frost, Thomas Gold.= Incorporation and organization of corporations created under the “Business corporation acts” of all the states and territories of the United States. *$3.50. Little.
“A treatise describing and comparing the incorporation laws of the various states and territories of the Union. Every step in obtaining a charter, incorporating, issuing stock, and going into bankruptcy is fully described for every class of corporation and with reference to the statutes of every commonwealth. The legislative, judicial, and executive powers of the various branches of the federal and state governments over corporations are given clearly and succinctly, and 185 pages are devoted to a synopsis-digest of the incorporation acts of the several states and territories.”—N. Y. Times.
“It teaches the whole important art of incorporation in a very satisfactory way, and without an excess of citations.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 443. Je. 1, ‘05. 610w.
“This digest is remarkable for its careful condensation of the very wordy acts into a form available for quick and reliable reference. Nothing essential is omitted, and nothing unnecessary is included. As a book for the reference of the lawyer and the information of the prospective incorporator, we do not know of any work comparable to this.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 285. Ap. 29, ‘05. 350w.
=Fuchs, Carl Johannes.= Trade policy of Great Britain and her colonies since 1860, tr. by Constance H. M. Archibald. *$2.50. Macmillan.
“An admirable translation by Miss Constance Archibald of the well-known work of Prof. Fuchs on the fiscal question.... The drawback to the book is that the original was published in 1893, and that the figures are out of date.”—Ath.
“With the exception of a few blemishes, the book is one which it was right to translate. The work of translation and editing has been admirably performed.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 748. Je. 17. 1310w.
“It is a drawback that the book is not brought up to date; Dr. Fuchs has changed his mind at least as to one point since he wrote.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 166. My. 26, ‘05. 670w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 320w.
“We unreservedly welcome this translation of a Freiburg professor’s work.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 312. S. 2, ‘05. 1050w.
=Fuller, Anna.= Bookful of girls. †$1.50. Putnam.
“A half-dozen sketches of as many different types of winsome young womanhood—Blythe, enthusiastic and lovable; Madge, the artistic; Olivia, the young philanthropist; Polly, capable and devoted sister; Di, the dear peacemaker; but best of all, Nannie, who floured her face and did Lady Macbeth in a nightgown to an admiring audience of one—Miss Becky Crawlin, seamstress, whom she afterward took to a real theatre, with many amusing results.”—Outlook.
“The book is adapted for young girls’ reading and has a wholesome and stimulating tone. It should be popular.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 30w.
“A very rare and pleasing collection of girls are these.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 338. My. 27, ‘05. 430w.
=Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 70w.
=Fuller, Robert Higginson.= Golden hope: a story of the time of King Alexander the Great. †$1.50. Macmillan.
An accurate picture of the life of the time, with the wars and conquests of Alexander as a background. The story follows the adventures of Clearthus, a rich young Athenian, in his search for his betrothed, Artemesia, who had been taken from him on the eve of their wedding, thru the influence of a relative who covets the young Greek’s fortune. A Theban and a Spartan accompany him and they become involved in Alexander’s campaigns.
“The characters are conventional, the plot is laboured, and an air of unreality hangs about the whole.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 746. Je. 17. 320w.
“The book ends peacefully, and is one to absorb the attention.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 959. Ap. 27, ‘05. 230w.
“It is as good as many other historical novels of the day.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 320w.
“To readers with a predilection for historical fiction this romance of Alexander’s wars of conquest will more especially commend itself. Others may find it over long and rather too heavily freighted with descriptive detail.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 30w.
“Not without signs of ability and interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 20w.
=Fullerton, Edith Loring.= How to make a vegetable garden: a practical and suggestive manual for the home garden. **$2. Doubleday.
“The illustrations!—truly, they illustrate—everything from seedlings and tools to the aspect of the garden in winter.” (Dial.) “Besides being a good picture book, it contains practical and detailed directions for making the best use of a small garden from the preparation of the soil to the cooking of the vegetables.”—Ind.
“Mrs. Fullerton’s book is a pleasing record of experience.”
+ =Country Calendar.= 1: 109L. Je. ‘05. 140w.
“The writer has managed to avoid everything dull and prosy, without omitting anything essential.” Edith Granger.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 382. Je. 1, ‘05. 300w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1255. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“A very worthy contribution to the world’s sanity.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 600w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.
=Furness, Horace Howard=, ed. See =Shakespeare, Wm.= New variorum edition of Love’s labour’s lost.
=Fyvie, John.= Women of wit and beauty of the time of George IV. **$3. Pott.
The lives of eight famous women are dealt with in this volume: Mrs. Fitzherbert; Lady Hamilton; Mrs. Montagu; Lady Blessington; Mrs. Lennox; Mrs. Grote; Mrs. Norton; and Lady Eastlake. Excellent portraits add much to the interest of this collection of biographies.
“We must be grateful, however, for Mr. Fyvie’s addition to our materials, although we still await the wizard who shall transform them into flesh and blood.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 871. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1130w.
* “As a whole, Mr. Fyvie’s sketches are agreeably and discreetly written, but they contain little evidence of original research.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 205. Ag. 12. 350w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 40w.
“The biographies are told con amore, the women placed before us with firm strokes and careful shading; and the result is wholly pleasing.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 672. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* “In all, Mr. Fyvie, who is indefatigable in research and clever in arranging his ‘finds,’ makes the best of his theme.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 229. Ag. 12, ‘05. 420w.
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=Gallatin, A. E.= Whistler’s art dicta and other essays. $3.50. Goodspeed.
A collection of five essays which originally appeared in the International studio, the Lamp, the Critic, the Weekly critical review of Paris, and the Literary collector. The title essay deals with Whistler’s “Gentle art of making enemies,” “Aubrey Beardsley: man of letters,” contains a review of his last writings as found in “Under the hill, and other essays in prose and verse,” (John Lane). “Notes on three hitherto unpublished drawings by Beardsley,” describes three unfinished sketches here reproduced, a border design for Mallory’s “Le morte d’Arthur.” The closing papers are “Whistler’s realism” and “Whistler’s memorial exhibition,” in Boston, February and March, 1904.
“The volume has little interest but for those already much interested in Whistler and his work.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
=Dial.= 38: 327. My. 1, ‘05. 50w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 24: sup. 100. F. ‘05. 300w. (Reviews each essay.)
“The title of this little volume is somewhat misleading, and its price out of proportion to its value.”
— =Int. Studio.= 25: 366. Je. ‘05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 290w.
“This exquisite volume will be a valuable keepsake to those who admire Whistler. It is remarkable, first, because of its superb print, secondly, because of some remarkable facsimiles, and, thirdly, because of a criticism which may well be a vade mecum to those who would better understand Whistler—to those who have thought him an impressionist, for instance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 110w.
=Gallizier, Nathan.= Castel del Monte; a romance of the fall of the Hohenstaufen dynasty in Italy. †$1.50. Page.
A novel with a most involved and exciting plot which concerns a wicked duke and ex-monk, his lovely kinswoman, Lady Helena, and the beautiful Francesca whom he has taken from a nunnery. There are witches and sorcerers, plots and counterplots, murders and battles. A young nobleman, who loves Lady Helena, is again and again entangled by the wicked duke and dies in her arms at the tragic close of the story.
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 230w.
* =Ganz, Henry F. W.= Practical hints on painting, composition, landscape, and etching. *$1. Lippincott.
This volume “supplies the advice and suggestion, hung on the frame work of graded lessons in drawing and painting, that are ordinarily to be had only in class.... In twelve preliminary lessons the author sets the beginner various tasks in drawing and in painting, with representative illustrations.”—Int. Studio.
* “While perhaps a trifle categorical to the reader, this book should prove a convenient walking stick to many who start along the road of painting alone.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 28: sup. 22. N. ‘05. 120w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 250w.
=Ganz, Hugo.= The land of riddles. $2. Harper.
This book is translated from the German and edited by Herman Rosenthal. The author, a German journalist of Vienna, sent his work originally to the Austrian newspapers in the form of letters. It gives in detail his visit to Russia, the land of riddles, early in 1904, and his conversations with men of all classes of social and official life. He treats of the war; the political situation; the universities, which are “only political camps awaiting the call to arms, and nothing more”; the Jewish question, which there seems no hope of solving, and the unsteady financial standing of Russia, whose foreign credit is a mere bubble. There is a chapter on Ryepin, the great Russian painter, the sale of whose paintings is forbidden abroad, and an account of a visit to Tolstoy. The book as a whole gives a vivid and unpleasing picture of corruption and riddles to which there is at present no answer.
“After reading the introduction, one is apt to get the impression that Mr. Ganz went to Russia with a mind receptive, to say the least, to ‘horrors,’ and that quite naturally he was horrified. The volume has the defects usually inherent to a collection of letters written for popular consumption—prolixity. The writer assumes that his readers are ignorant of everything east of the Vistula.”
+ — =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 1130w.
“Toward solving the ‘riddles,’ the author’s guesses imply only average insight or acumen, but the book is readable, and the style is pleasing.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 170w.
“There is little in the book that adds to the recent knowledge poured forth so profusely concerning that unhappy land. The translation, by Mr. Herman Rosenthal, is into excellent English.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1073. My. 11, ‘05. 420w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 180. Mr. 2, ‘05. 530w.
“In its present English dress the book contains, however, much additional matter, and some of it valuable. He states throughout the truth boldly, as he sees it, and in most cases gives his authority, or authorities, for his facts and conclusions.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1800w.
“Mr. Rosenthal’s translation is excellently well done. The style is smooth and interesting.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 757. D. ‘04. 310w.
=Gardenhire, Samuel M.= Silence of Mrs. Harrold. $1.50. Harper.
The author is a New York lawyer and has chosen his home town as the setting for his novel. The plot hinges upon a marriage in which both a man and a woman promise to ask no questions relative to their respective pasts. The compact is kept, but the husband’s jealousy is aroused, and finally it develops that “Mrs. Harrold” in her youth had eloped with a member of a circus troupe. Her father, following them to the man’s home in Austria, kills her husband, whose own father suffers imprisonment for the crime, the real murderer being shielded by his daughter. There are many complications but the book ends with the complete vindication of the silent wife.
“Had it been half as long, ‘The silence of Mrs. Harrold’ might have been twice as good.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 746. Je. 17, 260w.
“A novel of strong and complex interest.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 391. Je. 1. ‘05. 280w.
“I am firmly inclined to believe that the new novel of intricate plot which Mr. Gardenhire has given us in ‘The silence of Mrs. Harold’ will be warmly welcomed and meet with as wide an appreciation as its merit deserves. Mr. Gardenhire possesses remarkable constructive ability. He knows how to tell a story. The author has handled this question with a dignity and justice and fine feeling that will make the book appeal strongly to women.” James MacArthur.
+ + =Harpers Weekly.= 49: 131. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1340w.
“He knows much that is behind the scenes to the general, and yet his novel lacks atmosphere. One looks on at a carefully constructed Coney Islandish reproduction of New York; one does not feel the throb of ‘the mighty heart’ of the living city. The chief defect of the book is the one most surely fatal to fiction—it is tedious. The author is fluent, ingenious, inventive; but the long and stilted conversations ‘get on to our nerves.’ Now and again we applaud, but before the last page is reached we are exceedingly weary. In short, the novel is not the work of an artist, and so fails to take the reader with it.”
— — + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 92. F. 11, ‘05. 260w.
“It has rarely been our fate to read more prolix, tiresome, and unnatural dialogue than that in this book, while in substance and plot the story is valueless.”
— — =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 40w.
“The book is carefully and easily written.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 215. F. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“The discovery of relationships, the linking together of scattered and seemingly unrelated facts, the many ramifications, show constructive skill of a high order. As a study—thorough, logical and strong—of some complex, sophisticated aspects of New York life the book will rank high.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 620. Ap. ‘05. 520w.
=Gardiner, Ruth Kimball.= Heart of a girl. †$1.50. Barnes.
A book about a child, but one whose contemplative phase belongs to grown-ups. The story traces the workings of a silent, lonely, albeit resourceful girl’s heart from childhood thru her High School days. “We follow Margery to Margaret, and know we are always with a real girl, independent, faulty, sensitive, and generous, imperious among her fellows, yet a favorite and a born leader.” (Outlook.)
“Mrs. Gardiner’s story represents a phase in the psychology of childhood to the study of which such writers as Kenneth Grahame, George Madden Martin, and Marion Hill have contributed.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 270w.
“The book is well written, with much sympathy for the little joys and sorrows that loom so large in childhood, and for the intense loves, ambitions, disappointments, triumphs of the older schoolgirl.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 620. S. 23, ‘05. 650w.
“The strength of this little story lies in the frequent responses it calls up in the mind of the reader, if that reader knows girls.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 190w.
=Gardner, Percy.= Grammar of Greek art. **$1.75. Macmillan.
This volume “presents an attempt to set forth the underlying conventions of Greek art, and the changes which ... they gradually underwent. The mental fashions of the Greek mind in building and sculpture and in painting, are presented with a discussion of the relation between epic, lyric and dramatic poetry to painting and vase decoration. An informing chapter is devoted to the subject of dress and drapery.... Such sculptural problems as the decoration of pediments are carefully analyzed. Interesting light is thrown upon the formation of sculptural types and the Greek tendency to impressionalism.... Illustrations in outline and half tone are sufficiently plentiful to point in every case the discussion and argument.”—Int. Studio.
“Dr. Gardner’s book, though brief, covers a wide range, and is rich in illustration; but we could wish that the beauty of the originals had been better rendered, even at a sacrifice of number.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 660. Je. 24, ‘05. 540w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10:938. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“In all his treatment is suggestive, not exhaustive. Information he supplies, but his aim is rather to teach how to understand. The English style leaves something to be desired.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 184. Ag. 5. 1080w.
“A valuable volume whose only fault is that it fails as an attempt to provide an elementary study of the subject, and presupposes considerable classical training on the part of the reader.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 92. Ag. 16, ‘05. 330w.
=Ind.= 58: 1424. Je. 22, ‘05. 320w.
“Dr. Gardner’s book is one which should be helpful and attractive to all who are familiar with its general subject, and who go to it for illumination and suggestion, with the proper equipment of familiarity with forms not to be had in a mere perusal or study of books.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 88. Je. ‘05. 260w.
* “A handbook that will probably be found very useful by teachers in schools.”
+ =Int. Studio=, 27: 184. D. ‘05. 180w.
“Simplicity is one of the most marked characteristics of the style of the whole book. The principle underlying the treatment is sound.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 416. My. 25, ‘05. 1710w.
“It offers an intelligent and practically unerring method for the judgment of the art of Hellas.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 431. Jl. 1, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 324. S. 2, ‘05. 330w.
* =Gardner, William.= Life of Stephen A. Douglas. $1.50. Eastern pub.
A brief biography compiled mainly from original sources and intended by the author as a dispassionate study. It is a history of the career of Douglas rather than an intimate life story. A detailed account of his work presents him as lawyer, judge, and politician, but while what the man has done is faithfully given there is little of the man himself. The author announces in his preface that he has “not attempted to pronounce judgment on Douglas and his contemporaries but to submit the evidence,” this and this only has he done. The volume has no index.
* “Mr. Gardner has done something toward solving the Douglas riddle.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 891. D. 16, ‘05. 460w.
=Garis, Howard R.= Isle of black fire. $1.50. Lippincott.
This is a boy’s book of adventure. A New York merchant sends out an expedition to an uncharted island where a great lump of radium supposedly worth fifty-five million dollars, is guarded by priests in asbestos robes, who worship it and offer up passing strangers in sacrifice to the “black fire.” There are stirring scenes in which two thousand savages are mowed down by the ship’s guns, and barbaric games and combats, which celebrate the coming of an office boy, George the Fat, as king of the savage kingdom. A comic Irishman relieves the tense situations.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 69. F. 4, ‘05. 310w. (Gives plot.)
=Garland, Hamlin.= Tyranny of the dark. †$1.50. Harper.
A western girl, beautiful and endowed with uncanny psychic powers, struggles between love and hypnotism; the first, represented by a young chemist and biologist, the second, by a clergyman. The story passes thru death and excitement to a happy ending.
“Pleasing and interesting as is the romance considered merely as a novel, its supreme excellence lies in its detailed presentation of certain psychical phenomena.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 206. Ag. ‘05. 8100w.
“It is a good and interesting tale.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 685. Je. 3. 330w.
“It is very delicate and exacting material that Mr. Garland has chosen for his latest novel, and very crudely has he handled it.”
— =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 70w.
“With all his exposition, Mr. Garland does not make clear his own view of spiritualism, and, by closing the story where he does, he evades the most difficult of the problems which he raises.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ — =Forum.= 37: 113. Jl. ‘05. 310w.
— =Ind.= 59: 575. S. 7, ‘05. 200w.
“The scientific portions of the book are the finest and the most absorbing.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 122. Ag. 10, ‘05. 470w.
“Regarded as fiction simply ‘The tyranny of the dark’ is too much encumbered with laborious arguments and citations. Has told his story well.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 343. My. 27, ‘05. 530w.
“Four characters outlined with vigor. A book of more than ordinary power to hold the reader.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 60w.
“The story is an interesting one; in places it grips you. But, compared to some of Mr. Garland’s earlier writings, it must be said regretfully that the book is a disappointing piece of work.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 330w.
=Reader.= 6: 105. Je. ‘05. 280w.
“It is based on a theme of absorbing interest and it is exceedingly well written.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 357. Ag. ‘05. 290w.
“That the story ... lacks genuine literary attractiveness or convincingness on its supernatural side, it would be absurd to deny.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 130w.
=Garnett, Richard.= William Shakespeare, pedagogue and poacher: a drama. $1.25. Lane.
This play, written apparently for study and not dramatic presentation, deals with Shakespeare’s traditional roles of school teacher and poacher. It is necessarily unsatisfactory to Shakespeare lovers and students, who find that his character as here portrayed falls short of the man as shown to us in his works, and the words which Mr. Garnett puts into his mouth, while perhaps Shakespearean, are obviously not Shakespeare.
— =Critic.= 46: 192. F. ‘05. 310w.
“Among the most ingenious and successful experiments upon this baffling theme [attempt to portray Shakespeare as he lived and moved among his fellows] must surely be reckoned the little two-act drama of Dr. Garnett.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 46. Ja. 16, ‘05. 880w.
“While Dr. Garnett’s play is equally open to the charge of being a subject dressed in poetry, rather than poetry incarnate in a fit subject, it is a remarkably readable and pleasant little book.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 73. Ja. 26, ‘05. 380w.
“Dr. Garnett’s respect for the great Elizabethan is not to be doubted, but his drama lends to it no emphasis. It contains agreeable lines, but it is not interesting in development, nor is there any reality in the general effect. Moreover, the figure of Shakespeare is trivial and his speech frequently is elaborate and dull. In no respect is he realized with the distinction and art demanded by a subject so far from the ordinary.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 83. F. 11, ‘05. 480w.
“It is all work at a high level, and the way in which the characters are made to speak in lines which are echoes of the later Shakespeare is extremely skilful. There is a humour, too, in many of the scenes, and much accomplished verse. But it is rather a chapter of Mr. Sidney Lee’s Life turned into dialogue than a substantive drama.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 114. Ja. 28, ‘05. 60w.
=Garrison, William Lloyd.= Words of Garrison. **$1.25. Houghton.
The hundredth anniversary of the birth of William Lloyd Garrison occurs in December, and to commemorate it there appears a small volume of characteristic sentiments from his writings dedicated “to all who hate cruelty, oppression, and war, and believe in the equal rights and perfectibility of mankind.”
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 797. D. 9. 560w.
* “Interesting and really valuable little volume.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 575. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 50w.
=Gaspe, Philippe Aubert de.= Cameron of Lochiel; tr. by Charles G. D. Roberts. †$1.50. Page.
What Gaspé did in his Canadian narrative of the early sixties was “to gather up,” says Mr. Roberts, “and preserve in lasting form the songs and legends, the characteristic customs, the phases of thought and feeling, the very local and personal aroma of the rapidly changing civilization.” The story turns to the days of the last struggle of the English and the French, and tells the life history of two young men, a Scot and a Frenchman, both of whom were educated at the Jesuits’ college in Quebec, and later fought against each other on the plains of Abraham.
“He makes on the whole a very satisfactory translator.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 590w.
=Gasquet, Rt. Rev. Francis A.= Henry the third and the church. *$4. Macmillan.
“A careful study of the relations between England and Rome, from the submission of John to the Papal see on Ascension day, 1213, to the close of his son’s reign. It is written with no desire to defend the Papacy from the charges which were made even by the faithful at the time, and it may fairly claim to represent an unbiased survey of the evidence. The author’s principle has been to let the original documents speak for themselves.” Lond. Times.
“A trustworthy contribution to the story of this long reign on the very points upon which most historians are either silent or provokingly brief.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 102. Jl. 22. 2590w.
“It is somewhat dull and colorless. His conclusions, as it seems to us, are sound, if not novel. His book will be indispensable to the student of the reign of Henry III.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 243. Jl. 28, ‘05. 640w.
* “The high literary merit and abundant learning of this investigation into the relationship between Rome and England in the thirteenth century are all that we might expect.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: sup. 787. N. 18, ‘05. 2020w.
=Gass, Patrick.= Gass’s journal of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ed. by Jas. K. Hosmer. *$3.50. McClurg.
Dr. Hosmer, who contributed to the centennial interest in the Lewis and Clark expedition thru his “Story of the Louisiana purchase,” has added further to the commemoration in the present work. The original jottings of Patrick Gass being no longer extant, nothing of them could be included in Thwaites’ recent “Original journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition,” but the chronicles trimmed and shaped by David McKeehan, under the supervision of Gass, are of so great importance that the re-issue after sixty years is well warranted. A full introduction leads up to the records, and a time-saving analytical key follows the text. The volume is uniform in style with other volumes of McClurg’s “Americana,” with reproductions of the original illustrations.
“Dr. Hosmer has confined his editorial work to supplying an introduction. The volume contains no new contribution, nor does it make the journal of Gass much more valuable as a source. The introduction, in an easy though sometimes rather personal style, always with a view to the picturesque, is a convenient summary of the results of recent research.”
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 450. Ja. ‘05. 510w.
“This excellent reprint.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 131. Ja. ‘05. 90w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 191. F. ‘05. 80w.
* =Gates, Errett.= Disciples of Christ, **$1. Baker.
As one of “The story of the churches” series, this volume takes up the origin, development, and history of the denomination called The disciples of Christ, beginning with the withdrawal of Thomas Campbell from the Seceder Presbyterian church in Western Pennsylvania 1809, thru the time of union with the Baptists, the later separation of the Reformers from the Baptists, the union of the Reformers as Disciples of Christ, their growth and organization down to the present time. There are chapters upon Evangelism, journalism, education and church growth, and Recent tendencies and problems; there is also a bibliography and an index.
* =Gates, Josephine Scribner.= Story of the three dolls. $1.25. Bobbs.
A group of stories for little people including the story of the gold beads which were lost and found on the dog’s neck, the story of the candy heart, which was devoured “lick by lick” by two little girls, and various anecdotes of dogs, birds, horses and fish, “which are absolutely true,” says the author.
* + =Dial.= 39: 450. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=Gautier, Theophile.= Russia, by Theophile Gautier, and by other distinguished French travelers and writers of note; tr. from the French, with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far East, by Florence MacIntyre Tyson. 2v. **$5. Winston.
The entire first volume and one-fourth of the second, treating of the empire of the czars from the beginning to the most recent times, are by Gautier, while separate papers by other well known French writers complete the work. These include: The mir, by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu; The press and censorship, by Gustave Lejeal; The Russian army and navy, by Désiré Lacroix; Religion and sects, by Gustave Lejeal; Literature, by L. Lejar; Russian art, by Marius Vachon; Siberia, by Jules Legras; and others. Fifty photogravures illustrate the volumes.
* “As literature, and as a mine of information, these volumes call for special notice.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 659. D. ‘05. 360w.
* “There is much interesting information and picturesque writing in these volumes.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “The translation ... is mechanical, but on the whole fairly satisfactory.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 170w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1380. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
=Gavit, Helen E.= Etiquette of correspondence. *50c. Wessels.
A thoroly modern compendium, being, as the sub-title states, illustrations and suggestions as to the proper forms in present usage of social, club, diplomatic, military, and business letters, with information on heraldic devices, monograms, and engraved addresses.
“Is the best of its kind.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 157. Mr. 11, ‘05. 960w.
“An excellent compendium, covering everything that pertains to the subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 30w.
=Gaye, R. K.= Platonic conception of immortality and its connection with the theory of ideas. *$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Gaye’s object in this book is to investigate the connection between the theory of ideas and the theory of the immortality of the soul as held by Plato, and in this way to make clear the nature of Plato’s conception of immortality and to determine in what sense he believed in the continued existence of the individual soul: this subject has involved the consideration of the Platonic conception of the soul and of the relation of soul and body.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Yet, whatever we may think of his assumptions, Mr. Gaye’s essay shows decided ability, and is written in a good, clear style.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 429. Ap. 8. 600w.
=Bookm.= 21: 519. Jl. ‘05. 580w.
“The main criticism of the book, however, is that though it makes its points clearly and is for that reason of considerable value for all students of Plato, it has failed to establish satisfactorily that the interpretation of Plato which it adopts is the only possible interpretation or that Plato was really influenced by the difficulties and arguments by which Mr. Gaye assumes him to have been influenced.” A. R. Ainsworth.
+ — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 381. Ap. ‘05. 1500w.
“It is lucidly written and scholarly, but not remarkable for novelty and originality.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 106. Ag. 3, ‘05. 310w.
Reviewed by Paul Shorey.
+ — =Philos. R.= 14: 590. S. ‘05. 1950w.
“Deals in a clear and diligent manner with points in Plato’s doctrine of immortality, and reflects ... with somewhat over-exclusiveness the views of the great gods of Trinity.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 742. Je. 3, ‘05. 40w.
=Gayley, Charles Mills, and Young, Clement C.= Principles and progress of English poetry. $1.10. Macmillan.
“Profs. Charles Mills Gayley and Clement C. Young, in their volume on ‘The principles and progress of English poetry, with representative masterpieces and notes,’ have attempted to show through extracts and by a scientific study of rhythm, melody and movement as well as by historical analysis, how English poetry has developed, and how it has been touched by external and internal influences since the days of Chaucer down to those of Tennyson. Each chapter has a separate introduction descriptive of the school to which the poems included in it are supposed to belong.”—N. Y. Times.
“Merits the attention both of the studious reader of poetry, and of the mechanician in verse—particularly of the youthful apprentice in the art of poesy.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 150w.
“With Professor Gayley’s artistic theory we cannot always agree. It has the great advantage of putting a large amount of poetic phenomena into shape for the student’s use.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 260. Ag. 3, ‘05. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 41. Ja. 21, ‘05. 310w. (Outlines scope.)
“There is a preface ... devoted to the principles of poetry—a valuable book in itself.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 274*. Mr. ‘05. 140w.
=Geddie, John.= Romantic Edinburgh. $2.50. Dutton.
A reissue, without revisions, of a suggestive guide to the study of the landmarks of Old Edinburgh.
=Nation.= 81: 198. S. 7, ‘05. 60w.
“A map is needed—a map or plan, such as Baedeker prints in his guide books. That, and either no photographs or better ones, would make Mr. Geddie’s a well-nigh perfect hand book to Auld Reekie.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 576. S. 2, ‘05. 1120w.
=Geere, H. Valentine.= By Nile and Euphrates. $3.50. Scribner.
A book of both discovery and adventure. The author, at Professor Flinders Petrie’s request, was given an appointment on the staff of the expedition which was sent out to Mesapotamia by the University of Pennsylvania in 1895 to continue the excavation of the ruins of Nippur. He writes of “unsettled, poverty-stricken and neglected Mesapotamia, and well-ordered, flourishing Egypt,” and gives detailed accounts of the work of investigation carried on at Behnesch, Nippur and Babylon.
“So far as we know, there is no other book which paints so vividly the camp of the excavator, or sketches the scenery and life of the Nile and Euphrates valleys, as the one before us.” George L. Robinson.
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 235. S. ‘05. 950w.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
=Dial.= 38: 90. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 450w.
“Mr. Geere writes in a pleasant, lucid style, which rises almost into eloquence when he describes the evening at Mohammerah when the charms of the East first stole upon him.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28. ‘05. 430w.
=Geffroy, Gustave.= National gallery (London); with an introd. by Sir Walter Armstrong. ¼ vel. *$10. Warne.
“The author has treated his subject by subdivision into schools corresponding to the arrangement of the pictures on the walls (an arrangement quite unsurpassed in excellence in any public gallery). The English, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, and French schools are all covered both in the charmingly written text, and the profuse illustrations.”—Int. Studio.
* “One of the most elaborate, as well as one of the most authoritative, art books of the season. His style is often brilliant, and always clear and definite.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 442. D. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“M. Gustave Geffroy’s essays are one and all marked by the keen insight into peculiarities of the style that distinguish him; and they have about them a freshness and originality that is, alas, daily becoming more rare.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 25: 81. Mr. ‘05. 120w.
“The work is a magnificent one—one which makes us feel grateful to author and publisher.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 14. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
* “Great pains have been taken with the mechanical perfection of the reproductions, and the work ranks well.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Unfortunately, many of the photogravures are but mediocre, and most of the process cuts are wretched, so that what should have been a feast of art is little more than an aid to memory.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w.
* “The text is discriminating as well as informative.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 200w.
=Geikie, Sir Archibald.= Landscape in history, and other essays. *$2.75. Macmillan.
“Ten essays and addresses.... Half of them deal with scenery in its geological relations and in its influence on human progress.... They are entitled ‘Landscape in history,’ ‘Landscape and the imagination,’ ‘Landscape and literature,’ ‘The origin of the scenery of the British islands,’ and ‘The centenary of Hutton’s Theory of the earth.’ The others discuss the problem of the age of the earth, ‘Geological time’; two are biographical, ‘The life and letters of Charles Darwin’ and ‘Hugh Miller: his work and influence’; one deals with the place of science in modern education, and the book closes with a paper on the Roman campagna.”—N. Y. Times.
“Sir Archibald Geikie in those thoughtful essays has done something toward elucidating the dependence of man’s intellectual achievement on his physical environment.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 193. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1450w.
“A charming contribution to the literature of his favorite science.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 504. Ap. 15. 980w.
“These essays are very charming, written with great clearness and distinction.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 270w.
* “The essays are popular, rather than technical; and there is very little in them beyond the reach of the average educated man.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 167. Ag. 24, ‘05. 3030w.
“A most readable book, the several parts of which hang well together.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 577. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1560w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 160w. (Outline of contents).
“Charming style in which this volume of varied essays is written. Altogether this volume is stimulating and enlightening, a distinct contribution to the literature of science.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“It is the interweaving of history, mythology, and imagination with the dry light of scientific fact that constitutes the particular fascination of this book.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 312. S. 2, ‘05. 1010w.
“This is a very entertaining and useful field of research, in which we could desire no better guide than Sir Archibald Geikie.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 677. My. 6, ‘05. 650w.
=Geikie, James.= Structural and field geology for students of pure and applied science. *$4. Van Nostrand.
Addressed primarily to beginners in field geology, this handbook is intended also for students preparing to be mining or civil engineers, architects, agriculturists, or public health officers, to whom some knowledge of structural geology is important. It covers the course gone over in the summer course of geology in the University of Edinburgh, a course instituted to give students a further knowledge of practical geology than could be presented in the winter courses. There are numerous illustrations and full-page plates.
“Written with the knowledge and authority of a professor of wide experience, the work is likely to be of much use far beyond the range of University classes. Perhaps the most valuable part of Prof. Geikie’s work is that devoted to geological surveying.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 183. Ag. 5. 430w.
* “The work is excellent in plan, in presentation. It will be very helpful, not only to beginners, but to those who have been well trained in the science of geology.” N. S. Shaler.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 54: 529. N. 16, ‘05. 1250w.
“A very useful handbook, admirable in the freshness and terseness of its descriptions, and the clearness and abundance of its illustrations.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 223. Jl. 6, ‘05. 1620w.
* “A full and well-considered hand-book for use in the sober work of geological surveying or economic investigation, in a country like Scotland, where there are no active volcanoes, earthquakes or glaciers.” B. K. Emerson.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 628. N. 17, ‘05. 970w.
Genealogical records, $1. W. G. DeWitt, 201 E. 12th St., N. Y.
A book of blanks for those who wish to record their family history in systematic form. The spaces for names, notes, dates, and index are indicated, and when filled out will constitute a neat and handy volume for genealogical reference.
=Genung, John Franklin.= Ecclesiastes. **$1.25. Houghton.
A philosophical rather than a critical study. “The author, together with most modern students of the book, rightly discards the word ‘Ecclesiastes,’ the Greek translation of ‘Koheleth,’ in the first place because it is almost certainly an incorrect translation, and, in the second place, as the author appropriately observes, because it ‘entitles what is of all Scripture books the least ecclesiastical.’” (Bib. World.) “He dwells but slightly on the historical background, and then introduces us to the theory that Koheleth was a reaction against the immortality doctrine, recently adopted from the Greeks and pushed into prominence by the Pharisees. The preacher contends against living for a vague futurity, and insists upon living this present life to its utmost.” (Cath. World).
“Genung’s thesis is admirably set forth and strongly buttressed by references to modern literature. But the impression remains that he has rather read into Koheleth a view which one would like to discover there, than revealed the actual nature of the book itself.”
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 168. Ja. ‘05. 530w.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 703. My. ‘05. 480w.
“To a full two hundred pages of discussion the author has added a new translation and a running commentary. Both are excellent, but the latter especially ripples along in clear, crisp sentences that show how much a deft literary touch may do even for a commentary. In fact, the book as a whole exhibits in language and treatment the author’s nice literary taste. In the opinion of the present writer, Professor Genung is not at his best when he discusses, or rather makes fun of, Siegfried’s analysis of Koheleth. Satire is not convincing. The reviewer also feels impelled to enter a non liquet against Professor Genung’s contention that Koheleth represents a reaction against contemporary views of immortality. The solid merit of the serious and painstaking work that has gone into the book will win for it an honored place on many shelves.” William Frederic Badé.
+ + — =Bib. World.= 25: 311. Ap. ‘05. 940w.
“Mr. Genung would have done far better to have examined the book without a philosophical theory as to its nature, but with a critical openness of mind for straightforward evidence. Still, in the introductory portion of the volume, and in the exegetical notes accompanying the translation, there are useful suggestions.”
+ — =Cath. World.= 80: 546. Ja. ‘05. 390w.
“His discussion reveals a well-balanced sense of the literary and spiritual values that are to be found in Koheleth.” Ira M. Price.
+ + =Dial= 38: 45. Ja. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=Ind.= 58: 1368. Je. 15, ‘05. 120w.
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 190. Ja. 21, ‘05. 710w.
=George, Hereford B.=, ed. See =Thiers, Adolphe.=
=Gerard, Dorothea (Mme. Longard de Longarde).= Sawdust: a Polish romance of the Carpathian timberlands. $1. Winston.
Self made, a lover of work for work’s sake, Josef Mayer, has at last achieved success and erected a saw-mill in the Polish Carpathians, having beggared Count Rutkowski and secured his timber lands in a shrewd business deal. Then comes a pretty romance between the count’s daughter and Meyer’s son, which is opposed more strenuously by the peasant than by the nobleman, but which ends satisfactorily in the loss of the Meyer fortune. Royalty, the village folk and the disaffected Jews figure in the story.
“There is also a certain delicacy in the treatment of the love scenes and fidelity to truth in the descriptions of natural scenery that give the story a charm not present in most present-day novels.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 552. N. ‘05. 160w.
“There is, moreover, much skill displayed in the delineation of character and situations alike, and the writer is thoroughly familiar with her material.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 207. O. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The story is told naturally and carefully.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 370w.
“It is full of freshness and originality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 455. Jl. 8, ‘05. 480w.
“A charming combination of capital and labor, with an absorbing love-plot, is ‘Sawdust’.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 383. S. 16, ‘05. 190w.
=Gerson, Virginia.= More adventures of the happy Heart family. $1. Fox.
Another book for the very young in which little mother Heart, papa Goodheart, and the little Hearties all appear, also the Jolly-jumpers and the Valentines, who were “a very elegant family because their grandfather was a saint, so Mrs. Fancy Valentine always wore white lace.” Quaint drawings illustrate the volume.
* “Another one of those delightful children’s books which the grown-ups like as much as the little people.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 795. N. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 767. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Gettemy, Charles Ferris.= True story of Paul Revere. **$1.50. Little.
A short biography of the American patriot whom Longfellow’s poem saved from historical oblivion. His midnight ride is told in his own words, and he appears as a patriotic engraver and dentist as well as public messenger, soldier, and juror. Both Revere and the historical events in which he played a part lose in romance but gain much in reality by this accurate account. Original documents are quoted and Revere’s copper-plate engravings are fully described.
* + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 90w.
“The book shows scholarly work, and is of value historically apart from its narrative of Paul Revere.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.
* “The real value of the book lies in the light which it throws on local Revolutionary history, and especially on the alliance with France and the adoption of the Constitution.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 80w.
=Ghent, W. J.= Mass and class. $1.25. Macmillan.
“Mr. W. J. Ghent, author of ‘Our benevolent feudalism,’ has written ‘Mass and class: a survey of social divisions.’ In his present work, Mr. Ghent seeks to analyze the social mass into its component classes; to describe these classes, not as they may be imagined in some projected benevolent feudalism, but as they are to be found here and now in the industrial life of the nation; and to indicate the current of social progress which, in spite of the blindness of the workers, the rapacity of the masters, and the subservience of the retainers, makes ever for an ultimate of social justice.”—R. of Rs.
“Brilliant arraignment of modern society.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 129. Ja. ‘05. 120w.
Reviewed by Owen R. Lovejoy.
=Current Literature.= 38: 309. Ap. ‘05. 2180w. (Abstract of book.)
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 140w.
“The one criticism offered concerns a fundamental point—Mr. Ghent’s failure to grasp the full meaning of the doctrine of economic interpretation on which he professes to base his whole discussion.” Wesley C. Mitchell.
— + + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 281. Mr. ‘05. 2290w.
* “Probably most psychologists would attach more importance to the part played by ideals than the author does, but in tracing back our present conditions of war between labor and capital to a play of motives that were the direct result of the rapid economic development of our country, he is fundamentally correct. The book is to be criticised in this respect as being too schematic, as not going sufficiently into detail to be at all satisfactory to one’s historical sense.” Amy E. Tanner.
+ — =Psychol. Bull.= 2: 413. D. 15, ‘05. 790w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 760. D. ‘04. 100w.
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 106. My. ‘05. 270w.
=Ghosh, Sarath Kumar.= Verdict of the gods. †$1.50. Dodd.
“With prologue, epilogue, and interludes between the great king, sick unto death, and his faithful chronicler beguiling the painful hours, this Oriental romance details the ordeals—a horrid half-dozen, including burial alive, exposure to wild beasts, and the poison cup—to which Navayan Lal was put for daring to love the Princess Devala. Great bravery and a canny knowledge of hypnotism and other mysteries occult carry him through in safety.”—Outlook.
“Its lucid English style and its fascinating plot. For all these trifling cavils, ‘The verdict of the gods’ must rank as a novel of unusual interest.” Louis H. Gray.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 310. My. ‘05. 1530w.
=Ind.= 59: 575. S. 7, ‘05. 110w.
“Can be recommended as an antidote for ennui in several of its forms.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 570. S. 2, ‘05. 740w.
=Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8. ‘05. 110w.
“Here are more ‘Arabian nights,’ murmurous, beguiling, enchanting in their beauty and strangeness.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 595. O. ‘05. 220w.
=Gibbons, Alfred St. Hill.= Africa from south to north through Marotseland. **$7.50. Lane.
The account of a thoro exploration of Marotseland, made in 1898 by an experienced African traveler. The objects of the expedition were to fix a British boundary line; to determine the Congo-Zambesi watershed; to discover the real source of the Zambesi; and to make such surveys and general investigations as should determine the best place for the Rhodesian railway company to push its line across the river. The account is interesting and valuable, the more so because the Cape to Cairo railway, soon to be completed, will make it possible for the tourist to cover this same ground. Native life and conditions, present government and economic possibilities are treated in detail.
“Is written in a charming style, simple, direct and convincing. Quite apart from its interest and special worth to the Englishman, is its value on account of the new and interesting geographical information it contains. Is one of the most important works of travel of recent years.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 561. My. ‘05. 790w.
“There are at least half a dozen reasons why it should be welcome and why it will take a permanent place among the standard books on African exploration. The best authority in print today concerning the country. There is much detail in the book. Still it is all very readable.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 499. Mr. 2, ‘05. 670w.
=Gibbons, Hughes Oliphant.= History of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. Winston.
“Pine Street church in Philadelphia, the third Presbyterian church founded in that city, is the only one dating from colonial times still on its original site. In the churchyard some three thousand lie interred, including many Revolutionary officers and soldiers. It has been served by a succession of remarkably able ministers.... Originally in a fashionable center, now in a slum neighborhood ... it remains there, consecrated by its history and pledged by its endowment to a perpetuity of service in its changed environment. This handsome and finely illustrated volume is a worthy memorial of seven generations to many more to come.”—Outlook.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 587. S. 9, ‘05. 520w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 170w.
=Gibbs, Philip.= Facts and ideas. $1.25. Longmans.
Short studies of life and literature, which have appeared in various weekly newspapers. There is a brief treatment of a great many subjects, including the French revolution, and the Transvaal war.
“The book aspires to be a sort of elementary substitute for liberal education—a university extension course on things one should know.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 333. My. 20, ‘05. 270w.
“We think that occasionally, in his desire to point a moral, Mr. Gibbs exaggerates. The writer does not go to the heart of his subject.”
— =Spec.= 94: 293. F. 25, ‘05. 340w.
* =Gibson, Charles.= Among French inns: the story of a pilgrimage to characteristic spots of rural France. **$1.60. Page.
“Most daintily attired, all gray and silvery and splendidly pictured, comes ‘Among French inns’ ... with ... an automobile, an indulgent American papa, a managing American mamma, a double love match, and an enviable collection of French, English, and Italian types. Moreover, there is real information about the inns, their table d’hotes, their relative expensiveness and inexpensiveness, and a plenty of historical data.”—N. Y. Times.
* “He defaces almost every page of his book by his badly chosen vocabulary, or his disregard for the rules of English syntax.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 444. D. 16, ‘05. 240w.
* “This new book may well deserve that quaintly descriptive old word ‘fetching.’”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 460. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.
* =Gibson, Charles Dana.= Our neighbors. **$4.20. Scribner.
The present collection, which it is announced, contains Mr. Gibson’s last work in black and white, “is uniform in size, shape, and binding with the nine volumes which have preceded it. It is entitled ‘Our neighbors,’ a phrase generally interpreted to mean all sorts and conditions of men and women. The Gibson Girl is charmingly portrayed, as well as the Gibson Man, the Gibson Dowager, and the Gibson Old Gentleman. There are also the street types ... and cartoons.” (Dial.)
* “Perhaps Mr. Gibson has done his best in black-and-white; at least he will have to do something very good indeed to surpass the general level of ‘Our neighbors.’”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 382. D. 1, ‘05. 260w.
* “Whatever else may be said of Gibson and his work, certain it is that he makes you see what he sets out to show you, and he does it pleasantly and with a deal of humor.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 170w.
* “He leaves us quite at his best, and his humor has never been keener or his technical ability more astonishing than in the present collection.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “The artist is as fresh and interesting as ever.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: sup. 793. N. 18, ‘05. 110w.
=Gibson, William Hamilton.= Our native orchids. **$1.35. Doubleday.
Mr. Gibson had only begun to record his observations on orchids of the Northwestern United States at the time of his death. Mrs. Jelliffe has supplemented his portfolio of sketches and scattering notes with her own results of study, and has produced an orchid handbook of particular value to the amateur botanist, which practically includes all the sixty species of our native orchids, giving keys, descriptions, illustrations and notes.
“This is a book which supplies a want long felt by the amateur botanist, and we give it a cordial welcome.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“A volume, unassuming though it is, of substantial value and interest.” Edith Granger.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 109. S. 1, ‘05. 440w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 271. Ag. 3, ‘05. 50w.
“Satisfactory and intelligible volume.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 477. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1680w.
=Gide, Charles.= Principles of political economy; second American ed.; tr. by C. Wm. A. Veditz. $2. Heath.
The eight editions through which the original French “Principes d’economie politique” has gone, mark a succession of changes in certain sections of the book, but leave the fundamental purpose the same,—that of giving to the reader “a plain statement of the accepted principles of economics, a summary of the unsettled problems of the science, and a clear, brief, and impartial outline of the various solutions that have been proposed. The author is almost as felicitous in presenting a subject that in the hands of most scholars is extremely dull as was Henry George. This work has been brought down to the latest date and evidently no pains have been spared, within certain limits, to present the subject in a broad, up-to-date and comprehensive manner. A third excellence is found in its concrete presentation of the subject.” (Arena).
“Perhaps much of the popularity of the book is due to its catholicity. The arrangement of the material is open to criticism as unnatural and liable to interrupt and confuse the thought. This is not true as regards the general plan of the book, but only as regards topics under the chief heads. Professor Veditz must be given credit and congratulation for the vitality and the up-to-dateness of this book.” Walter E. Kruesi.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 347. Mr. ‘05. 380w.
“It is written in a charmingly lucid manner. By the author’s method of presentation the interest in the subject and its intelligibility have gained rather than lost by the concise and direct treatment. The division and arrangement of the work are also admirable and with the fairly good index enable the reader to find anything he desires with little loss of time. This work, though far less open to criticism than many conventional political economies, falls, in our judgment, far short of meeting the demands of an up-to-date political economy that claims to present impartially the various present-day theories of government. The claim of the publishers, that the book is impartial, is not borne out by the facts.”
+ — =Arena.= 33: 107. Ja. ‘05. 820w.
=Gilder, Jeannette Leonard.= Tom-boy at work. †$1.25. Doubleday.
In this sequel to her “Autobiography of a tom-boy,” Miss Gilder tells of her heroine’s varied career as a bread-winner. At sixteen she was employed as a copyist by a historian, later she worked in the Philadelphia mint, then became in turn a tinter of photographs, an auditor’s clerk, a proofreader, and, finally, a successful newspaper woman. She gives her impressions of New York thirty years ago; and many distinguished literary men, singers and actors of that day enter into her story.
“She has interpreted the whole situation with that shrewd, honest, impersonal intelligence which is founded upon humor and common sense rather than upon the usual sentimental pose of such a writer to her theme.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 786. Ap. 6, ‘05. 370w.
“Miss Gilder writes in a breezy and unconventional style, suitable to the pace at which her tomboy lived and changed professions. Nothing could be more American than the atmosphere and point of view of this book.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 100. F. 2, ‘05. 750w.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= In the heights. *$1. Century.
A little volume of verses containing elegiac poems, poems suggested by music, songs of experience, impromptus, etc. The book closes with The white tsar’s people, reprinted, with additional stanzas suggested by recent events.
“Into almost all of his verse the poet has woven high, fine thoughts that will appeal to the artistic, the intellectual or the conscience sides of life. This is one of the few volumes of verse that we can heartily recommend to our readers.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 550. N. ‘05. 650w.
* =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 30w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 507. D. 21, ‘05. 270w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 748. N. 4, ‘05. 450w.
* “Mr. Gilder’s limpidity and chastity of style are a constant delight, and the turn of his fancy is pleasing.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Gilfillan, Joseph Alexander.= Ojibway; a novel of Indian life of the period of the early advance of civilization in the great Northwest. $1.50. Neale.
The Ojibway in relation to his own kindred and tribe is pictured in this narrative so humane that were it not for his wilderness surroundings, his crude equipments, his superstitious fear, one might count him the owner of some developed instincts. But the recital of the horrible and bloodthirsty relations with the Sioux tribe reveals such abject savagery that the reader fairly recoils from it. The book is made up of these two phases, with many incidental allusions to traits and customs.
“To call the book a novel was a misnomer. It is rather a series of moving pictures in which we see real people doing real things. In spite of careless proofreading, conspicuous faults of diction and unfortunate lack of experienced editing, the story is told with ... simplicity and vividness.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 960. Ap. 27, ‘05. 260w.
* =Gillette, Halbert Powers.= Handbook of cost data for contractors and engineers: a reference book giving methods of construction and actual costs of materials and labor on numerous engineering works. *$4. Clark, M. C.
“The reviewer believes this to be the first handbook on the cost of engineering work that has been published.... The book is divided into fourteen sections, under heads that facilitate quick reference ... preparing estimates, cost keeping, and its corollary, the organization of forces ... earth and rock excavation ... cost of roads, pavements and walks ... stone masonry ... the cost of concrete construction of all kinds ... the cost of water-works, sewers, vitrified conduits and tile drains ... structures in which timber dominates ... steam and electric railways ... the erection and painting of steel bridges ... the cost of railway and topographic surveys ... and the cost of many miscellaneous structures.... The book is illustrated with cuts wherever they add to the text.”—Engin. N.
* “The subject is presented in an attractive manner. Although much information is given, yet the users of the book will desire more. Its usefulness will only be limited by its sale.”
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 527. N. 16, ‘05. 1550w.
=Gilman, Lawrence.= Phases of modern music. **$1.25. Harper.
“A study of the more important phases of music to-day, grouped about appreciative chapters on Richard Strauss, Edward McDowell, Grieg, Wagner, Verdi, Edward Elgar, and Charles Martin Loeffler, with vigorous essays on ‘Parsifal and its significance’ and ‘Women and modern music.’ Mr. Gilman has been the musical critic of Harper’s Weekly since 1901.”—R. of Rs.
“Mr. Gilman writes with penetration and a more than common sympathy, and has a distinctive and charming mode of expression. His work is unusual in appealing both to the technical and the lay reader, and its judgments and illuminations will be valued by students.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 287. Mr. ‘05. 150w.
“The author is endowed with grace of style, and he knows how to bring into relief the interesting features of unattractive subjects.” Ingram A. Pyle.
+ =Dial.= 38: 238. Ap. 1, ‘05. 240w.
“It is not often possible to follow him in all his ways; for they are sometimes oversubtle and elusive. He has not yet the weight of reason and the authority of judgment that will no doubt come to one who reflects and thinks seriously as he does.” Richard Aldrich.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 330w.
“He writes with vividness and sympathy.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 80w.
=Gilman, N. P.= Methods of industrial peace. **$1.60. Houghton.
This book will be gladly received by the student of social movements, as there is increasing demand for new works upon the “labor question,” due to the rapid growth of knowledge thru investigation, and the steady change in facts and phases of the question itself. “The book takes an Anglo-Saxon point of view, since it draws almost as much upon English as upon American experience, besides making considerable reference to Australian and New Zealand developments. It undertakes a good deal more than a discussion of the special machinery designed to further industrial peace, giving a brief but concise statement of the chief facts incidental to the history and present position of trade unionism. [Then the author shows the necessity for the efficient organization of both employers and employed, discusses the “sliding scale,” raises the question of the legal constitution and liability of trade unions.] ... The ensuing chapters deal at some length with the aims and methods of unions, their conduct of strikes and boycotts, and the place borne by the public in relation to their actions. The remainder of the book is given to a general account of trade boards of conciliation, state boards of arbitration, and the methods of legal regulation in force in New Zealand.” (Int. J. Ethics).
“The treatment is characterized by insight, sobriety, and accurate learning.” C. R. Henderson.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 557. Ja. ‘05. 280w.
“If a general criticism might be ventured on the whole book, it would be that too much ground has been covered and that in consequence too little intensity of treatment is shown. On the other hand, the author exhibits an admirable breadth of view and impartiality which must appeal to all readers.” James T. Young.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 602. My. ‘05. 550w.
“The chief value of the book will be the statement, dispassionate, and in clear form, of the main facts of the case and of the principles in accordance with which industrial organization would appear to be moving. Mr. Gilman has traveled over so much ground that he has at times become a little sketchy in his treatment. Description rather than economic analysis is the strong point of the book. In a subject so far reaching, however, it is perhaps unfair to expect more than a broad presentation of the material which will enable others to formulate particular problems and to attempt independent judgments. This Mr. Gilman has done in a manner so interesting as to command the gratitude of all interested in current labor problems.” C. J. Hamilton.
+ + — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 237. Ja. ‘05. 1400w.
“Upon the whole, however, the book is of value. In spite of its inaccuracies and occasional unfairness, it contains much information presented in a readable way, with many references to secondary and some to primary sources. It must also be said that he has generalized too broadly on insufficient evidence, and has been influenced too much by his prepossession for state regulation to give an unbiased interpretation of the strivings of the leaders of employers and of employes towards satisfactory methods of industrial peace.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 178. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1420w.
“He writes with skill and precision. The data on which his conclusions are based are abundant and have been carefully sifted.” Frederick Stanley Root.
+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 84. My. ‘05. 1110w.
=Gissing, Algernon.= Broadway, village of middle England, *50c. Dutton.
A topographical description of one of the villages of the Cotswolds, which dates from the time of Shakespeare, and is the home of some of the distinguished folk of to-day. The little volume is illustrated by Mr. Edmund New.
=Nation.= 80: 247. Mr. 30, ‘05. 280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 270w.
“The present volume should appeal to the lover of England by its clear description of topography and by its apt references to history. In some pages it also reflects the peculiar atmosphere and poetic charm of a typical English village.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 398. F. 11, ‘05. 60w.
=Gissing, George Robert.= By the Ionian sea; notes of a ramble in Southern Italy. *$1.75 Scribner.
“It was a short journey the writer took, from Naples to Reggio, miserably punctuated by an illness in the most depressing inn on the route. The author, deeply moved by such traces of ancient life as he could find, refreshed his mind by study and memoirs of the great men of classic time who dwelt in or wrote of Calabrian hills and streams.”—Outlook.
“His narrative is the expression of a highly cultivated intelligence, but it does not enchant; and its lighter touches are particularly unsuccessful.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
Reviewed by Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The book is worth reading from beginning to end.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 464. Je. 8, ‘05. 1720w.
“Full of the marked personal touch. A veil of slight melancholy hangs over the whole picture, which in a way adds to its charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 110w.
=Gissing. George.= Veranilda. †$1.50. Dutton.
As the posthumous historical novel of one who was essentially a modern realist, this unfinished work has called forth much comment and speculation upon the author’s change of style. It is a romance of Rome in the sixth century, and deals with the historical persons and events of the time of Justinian and Belisarius. Mr. Frederic Harrison, who writes the introduction, considers it the author’s most important work, showing, “his poetical gift for local color, his subtle insight into spiritual mysticism, and ... his really fine scholarship and classical learning.”
“Throughout the style is stilted, the conversations absurd, the action tiresomely slow, and the story destitute of a single throb of real humanity.”
— — =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 180w.
“Besides being cold and formal, ‘Veranilda’ is a rather incoherent tale.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 441. Je. 1, ‘05. 470w.
“A more complete or less welcome metamorphosis in style, subject matter, purpose—everything for which the name of George Gissing has always stood in the minds of those who counted him among the strongest of the latter day novelists—than is to be found in his posthumous historical novel, ‘Veranilda,’ it would be as hard to imagine. What is published is in no sense a fragment or preliminary sketch, but is finished and polished in Mr. Gissing’s best manner.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 118. F. 25, ‘05. 1260w.
“In manner the narrative is dignified and careful. The human and story interests are strong and well maintained. The book is easily one of the best of modern attempts at classical romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 220w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Gissing, George.= Will Warburton: a romance of real life. †$1.50. Dutton.
In this story of self sacrifice in every-day life Will Warburton, when his extensive sugar business fails because of the extravagances of his incompetent partner, supports his mother and sister by secretly becoming a shopkeeper. When his friends at last discover that he has degenerated into a mere grocer, a girl whom he thought he loved, an artist whom he had befriended, and others turn against him, but he finds, when they are gone, that his true friends and his true love still remain.
“‘Will Warburton’ is a monument of ‘art for art’s sake.’ Its arrangement is not quite flawless; we would not quarrel with some of the sequences of chapters: but on the whole, it is a thing of noble shape.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 710. Jl. 8, ‘05. 860w.
“A gain in power, in grasp, and in sympathy. But apart from this important development there is no change observable in the style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 41. Jl. 8. 500w.
“Where he fails, it is for lack of the supreme touch of art, not of the high and ardent intention.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 284. S. ‘05. 450w.
“It is characteristic Gissing, but not good Gissing. His familiar effects are reproduced in a fainter form than of old, and there are no new effects indicating how, with further experiences of life, his talents would have developed.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 209. Je. 30, ‘05. 660w.
“Each character, however lightly touched, is true, true to a hair, stepping forth from the page a rounded, breathing figure. It is excellent in workmanship and large of vision.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 487. Jl. 22, ‘05. 590w.
“Certainly it leaves one with a warmer personal feeling toward the author than did some of his earlier and abler books.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 644. Jl. 8, ‘05. 110w.
“Although not by any means the best of his books, shows no failure in power.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 251. Ag. 19, ‘05. 600w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 750w.
=Given, Charles Stewart.= Fleece of gold. *35c. Meth. bk.
Five lessons derived from Jason’s quest of the Golden fleece are the contents of this work added to the “Modern messages” series. They are The ruling element, The golden quality, The messenger of fate, The active hand, and Ethics of activity.
* =Gladden, Rev. Washington.= Christianity and socialism. *$1. Meth. bk.
“The subjects of these lectures, which were delivered before the students of the Drew theological seminary, are as follows: The Sermon on the Mount as a basis of social reconstruction, labor wars, the programme of socialism, and lights and shadows of municipal reform. Dr. Gladden’s attitude on most of these topics has been made known in earlier works. It has been his endeavor ... to bring Christianity and socialism into ‘more intelligible and more friendly relations.’”—R. of Rs.
* “His volume may be characterized in a word as one of wise counsels.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 120w.
=Gladden, Washington.= Where does the sky begin? **$1.25. Houghton.
Twenty sermons by the present moderator of the national council of Congregational churches. “They are concerned with the difficulties and needs of the religious life of the individual, rather than with the social problems to which Dr. Gladden hitherto has been more inclined.” (Ind.)
“Those who are fortunate enough to read ‘Where does the sky begin?’ will be convinced that he is a preacher of marked spirituality.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 600. Jl. ‘05. 120w.
=Atlan.= 95: 706. My. ‘05. 180w.
“He treats large and serious themes in a large and serious way, with a simple, direct and grave diction.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 154. Ag. ‘05. 100w.
“They are good sermons from the points of view of easy style and sincere moral enthusiasm; but very saddening sermons from their feeble content of doctrine.”
+ =Cath. World.= 80: 547. Ja. ‘05. 200w.
“The twenty sermons here published are earnest, original and thoughtful, with forceful religious appeal and in excellent literary style.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 80w.
=Gladys, Evelyn, pseud.= Thoughts of a fool. $1.50. Rosenthal.
Twenty-six chapters “of virile iconoclasm ... of challenge to all the schools, with unfailing good humor to temper its plain speaking.” “A message to the inner life of man. In keen words the book endeavors to lay bare the heart and mind of the world. Satire, irony, and derision in all their forms are used to expose human nature to its own gaze.” (Bookm.)
“A new writer of vigor and point.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 384. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
=Glasfurd, A. I. R.= Rifle and romance in the Indian jungle: being the record of thirteen years of Indian jungle life. *$5. Lane.
The author has aimed “to present an old, though still engrossing subject in what is perhaps a novel manner: to carry the reader into more direct contact with the surroundings of the Indian sportsman and naturalist, and, while avoiding as much as possible the recital of personal experience with its stereotyped accompaniments, to lead him into the jungle, with all its fascinating variety of scene and season, hill and plain, where in spirit he may make acquaintance or renew an intimacy with its shy denizens and their habits.” The illustrations are taken from photographs or from sketches by the author.
“Has succeeded in preparing a most cunning and admirable blend of fact, romance, weird mystery and sound advice. Search where one will through this entertaining book, one happens always upon sound literature, fine descriptions, good natural history and lively adventure.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 632. Je. 17, ‘05. 890w.
“As sound and readable a book of its class as we have seen for many a day. The book generally, though occasionally a little slack in its phrasing, may be commended to young sportsmen as a guide, and to old as recalling pleasant reminiscences.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 45. Jl. 8. 530w.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
* + =Dial.= 39: 377. D. 1. ‘05. 290w.
“That out of such materials Capt. Glasfurd has succeeded in composing so excellent a book is greatly to his credit.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 206. S. 7, ‘05. 840w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 527. Ag. 12, ‘05. 960w.
“He is an observer and a naturalist, as well as a sportsman, and he imports at times into his narrative an air of mystery and of romance which adds greatly to the charm of his work.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 99: 848. Je. 24, ‘05. 260w.
=Glover, T. R.= Studies in Virgil. $3. Longmans.
“It falls naturally into four parts. The first is a chapter on the age and the man, and in it we are shown how Virgil, himself the child of a darker period, had a vision of a brighter day to come, and taught his countrymen to look forward hopefully to the age which was opening before them. The next consists of three chapters of literary studies: the first treats of the literary influences to which Virgil was subject, the second of his contemporaries, and the third about the growth of the myths about Aeneas. The third portion of the book deals, in three chapters, with the land and the nation, the three topics being Italy, Rome, and Augustus. The last part of the book is on Virgil’s interpretation of life, and here we have chapters on Dido, Aeneas, Hades, and Olympus, and a final summary.”—Nation.
“In the long list of writings on Virgil and his poetry, Mr. Glover’s new book deserves a high place. The chapter about Dido is perhaps the best in the book, and certainly it is one of the most interesting and sensible essays on that famous episode of the Aeneid which we have ever read. The chapter on Aeneas is unconvincing, and almost a failure. Neither do we care much for the last chapter. But as a whole the book ought to be of great assistance to all who wish to get a true conception of the powers and the weaknesses of the greatest of the Roman poets.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 160. F. 23, ‘05. 760w.
=Spec.= 94: 367. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1220w.
=Glyn, Elinor.= Vicissitudes of Evangeline. †$1.50. Harper.
The autobiography of a distracting and unconventional red-haired girl. She is the granddaughter of an earl, but her grand parents “forgot to marry,” and she is brought up by a rich old lady who leaves her to the bachelor heir as a part of his estate. Then come the vicissitudes. There are many characters, a handsome guardsman, a Scotch family, a lovely selfish married woman, and many others. The story is cleverly told and ends happily.
+ =Acad.= 68: 241. Mr. 11, ‘05. 360w.
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1. 420w.
“It has the whipped-cream consistency of its predecessors. It is mildly amusing.” William Morton Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“This Evangeline, though not without the serene egotism of lovely youth, is mighty good company. The men are not half bad, and the book is full of cleverness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 156. Mr. 11, ‘05. 690w.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 40w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The intention of the book seems to be to present a ‘naughty’ heroine. Evangeline is ‘not nice’.”
— =Reader.= 6: 476. S. ‘05. 220w.
“The story is witty, fluent, and amusing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Gocher, W. H.= Wadsworth; or, The charter oak. $2. W: H: Gocher, Hartford, Conn.
“It purports to give all that is ascertainable relating to the hiding of the colonial charter, in 1687, in the famous oak tree at Hartford,—an incident of which Captain Joseph Wadsworth, according to doubtful tradition, was the hero. Wadsworth himself, is made to tell the story of the charter and its hiding, in language that is undisguisedly hodiernal, and with many interpolations of matter remotely or not at all connected with the main theme. The chapters on the Royal oak, on Cromwell, and on the regicides, are of this irrelevant nature. The wording, and still more the spelling, of Joseph Wadsworth’s will, which is printed in full, are so strikingly in contrast with the modernity of his supposed narrative, that not the faintest touch of illusion can cling to the latter. Mr. Gocher’s work is lavishly illustrated from old prints, old portraits, and modern photographs, and is provided with numerous footnotes bearing evidence of painstaking research.”—Dial.
“A mingling of fiction and somewhat delusive fact gives the text ... a doubtful historic value.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 720. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“Mr. Gocher has shown commendable antiquarian zeal in prosecuting his researches; yet his readers will probably wish he had not chosen to weave fact and fiction into the same web in a book that professes to be history rather than a novel.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 130. F. 16, ‘05. 410w.
“A book showing long and careful historical research, this volume will add much to the lore of the Connecticut colony, for the author treats of the story of the regicides, of the New Haven and other colonies, and includes interesting memoirs of Roger Ludlow, John Hooker, John Winthrop, and others who worked so effectively for the establishment of the first pure democracy in the New World.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 32. Ja. 14, ‘05. 1690w.
=Goddard, Pliny Earle.= Morphology of the Hupa language. $3.50. Univ. of Cal. press.
Volume III. of the “American archæology and ethnology” series issued by the University of California. An extended examination of the Hupa language in which the various words and forms have been studied, analyzed and assembled into classes “that an adequate conception of the language as a whole might be obtained.”
=Goff, Clarissa (Mrs. Robert Goff).= Florence and some Tuscan cities. *$6. Macmillan.
“‘The purpose of Colonel and Mrs. Goff in this handsome volume is to describe the most characteristic monuments of Tuscany and to introduce into the account, legends and stories which are not always within reach of the traveler.... On a basis of historical narrative ... Mrs. Goff has given her readers a vivid picture of a city with a passion for politics, a passion for war, and a passion for art. Large attention is given to the churches of Florence.... The volume is richly illustrated in colors by Colonel Goff and issued with a decorative cover.”—Outlook.
“To this charming series of pictures Mrs. Goff has provided an agreeable and easily-written commentary. Too easily written, we fear, to be quite exact in all its information. Mrs. Goff is at her best when she leaves the town for the country, and when she turns from history to describing the life of the Tuscan people of to-day, their festivals, quaint observances and ancient superstitions. The last chapter of the book is devoted entirely to such subjects, and it is one of the most enjoyable.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 235. Mr. 11, ‘05. 430w.
“Mrs. Goff is an excellent guide round Florence, and supplies just the right sort of gossipy commentary for a book of this sort.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 312. S. 2. 120w.
=Ind.= 58: 1069. My. 11, ‘05. 130w.
“Altogether the book is a charming one, likely to be of real value to the traveller, as well as a pleasing memento of some of the fairest scenes in Italy.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 273. My. ‘05. 520w.
“The book seems the most satisfactory of the series.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 381. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 166. Mr. 18, ‘05. 960w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.
“Mrs. Goff’s text is the pleasantest reading. Her touch is light, her knowledge wide, her style entirely natural, her sympathy and insight vivid and kindly. Slips in the book are more numerous than they should be.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 777. Je. 10, ‘05. 1030w.
“The letterpress is written by Mrs. Goff, and contains much disconnected information. It is not quite safe to assume that it is all accurate.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 261. Ag. 19, ‘05. 120w.
=Goldenberg, Samuel L.= Lace; its origin and history. *$1.50. Brentano’s.
The different kinds of lace are arranged alphabetically, with particulars as to their characteristics, their various subdivisions, and the manner in which they are made. The illustrations are especially clear and useful for purposes of lace study. The book contains much valuable information on machine-made laces, with diagrams and explanations of the lace and embroidery machines now in use. It tells also of the nets made for the foundations of certain kinds of lace. The opening article treats of the origin and history of lace.
“The book is well adapted for its purpose, the enlightenment of ‘the busy man of affairs,’ but it is evident our author is hampered by having to express his meaning in English, and sometimes fails to convey what he intends.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 158. F. 23, ‘05. 330w.
=Goldring, W.= Book of the lily. *$1. Lane.
“The author gives a clear general statement in regard to the cultivable species, hybrids, and varieties, and illustrates the handy treatise by exquisite pictures of a few of the best kinds and their most artistic setting.”—Nation.
“It is written for those who delight in flowers and who love their gardens rather than for the connoisseur.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 85. Jl. 15. 500w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 160w.
“The introductory chapter on the geography and history of the lily is particularly interesting, as well as the treatise upon diseases and insect pests—that closes the book.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 369. Je. 10. ‘05. 290w.
“The great value of the book, however, is that it enables one without much trouble to get a conspectus of the whole lily-group. A much too ambitious title.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 156. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w.
=Gomperz, Theodor.= Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy. v. 2 and 3. ea. *$4. Scribner.
Volume I covered the period of Greek philosophy previous to Socrates, volumes II. and III. contain a discussion of Socrates, his life, his followers, and the great philosophical movement which he fathered; also an account of Plato and his philosophy. 13 chapters are given wholly to a critical analysis of the course and structure of Plato’s works.
“It will admirably serve the purpose of the general reader who is interested in philosophy as an element in the history of human culture. And for the technical student who has mastered some of the more rigorous treatises, it will be useful in completing and vivifying his picture of the great thinkers of Greece.” Walter G. Everett.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 123. O. ‘05. 560 w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“It may be said with confidence that Prof. Gomperz has succeeded admirably in accomplishing his design of composing ‘a comprehensive picture’ of the development of Greek thought, in which the historical setting of the narrative, the background of the picture, is ‘not unduly contracted.’ It is written in a vigorous, lively style.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 520. Ap. 29. 2690w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
“It offers not merely a cold technical enumeration of the tenets of the Greek philosophers, but a broad and rational discussion of the permanent significance of each great thought as it presents itself in historical sequence.” Paul Shorey.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 31. Jl. 16, ‘05. 3110w.
“Mr. Berry, like Mr. Magnus, has managed to give his translation the air of real English, and his version is on the whole a great improvement on the curiously abrupt and disjointed style of the original German. It is his moderation, his avoidance of extreme views, that makes Professor Gomperz so satisfactory a critic. The proof-reading of the English translation is far from perfect.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 442. Je. 1, ‘05. 1550w. (Review of v. 2 and 3.)
“The arguments are concisely stated. A rich subject, it is richly treated by this veteran scholar.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. (Review of Vols. II. and III.)
“In his last two volumes Professor Gomperz proves himself to be a thinker and a writer of distinction.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 596. My. 6, ‘05. 1940w.
=Goodhart, Simon P.= See =Sidis, Boris=, jt. auth.
=Goodhue, Isabel.= Good things and graces. **50c. Elder.
The following recipe shows the character of the group: Hygienic bread, Mix together the flour of love, made from the whole kernel (giving the all-inclusive flavor and quality); the leaven of spirit; the salt of common sense; the water of life appreciated. Let this rise in the encouraging atmosphere of patience. Knead and mold in the silence. Butter with cheerfulness, and serve to the entire family.
* “In both form and spirit it is a thorough-going holiday booklet.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* “The book is better than its outward appearance suggests, and is not one to be thrown aside after a single reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 130w.
* “The idea is cleverly carried out, and the directions for breakfast food, game pie, deviled tongue, and so on, are often witty as well as admonitory.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 110w.
=Goodloe, Carter.= At the foot of the Rockies. †$1.50. Scribner.
“Capital short stories of Canadian military and social life in the Northwest, with Indian customs and superstitions as the background.”—Outlook.
“While lacking in individuality, are yet pleasantly readable.”
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 87. S. ‘05. 330w.
“In her treatment, as well as in her situations, Miss Goodloe is rather too markedly Kiplingesque.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 220w.
“The tales have originality and force, with the added element of quiet humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 40w.
=Goodnow, Frank Johnson.= City government in the United States. *$1.25. Century.
Professor Goodnow of Columbia university contributes this volume to “The American state series.” He is known for his authoritative works on “Municipal home rule,” and “Municipal problems.” “In the present work, the author confines himself almost exclusively to a study of American conditions, and at the same time broadens the scope of the inquiry so as to embrace the entire field of city government, so far as that is regarded from the viewpoint of organization and structure.” (R. of Rs.)
“Professor Goodnow’s book will be found eminently readable and useful as a text.” James T. Young.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 348. Mr. ‘05. 670w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
=Atlan.= 95: 554. Ap. ‘05. 420w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
* =Goodnow, Frank Johnson.= Principles of administrative law of the United States. *$3. Putnam.
“In his ‘Comparative administrative law,’ published twelve years ago, Professor Goodnow gave an analysis of the administrative system, national and local, of the United States, England, France, and Germany. The rapid growth of the public interest in our system was thought by Professor Goodnow a sufficient justification for a new book giving a fuller account of American conditions, with special emphasis upon the legal side.”—Dial.
* “The volume is a notable contribution to the literature of public law, and will prove of great use, not only to students, but also to officials in the actual work of administration. But to the writer there appears to be a few omissions of importance, some of which would probably indicate a defect in our constitutional law.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 304. N. 16, ‘05. 1410w.
* “By his masterly grasp of the subject and his power of lucid exposition Prof. Goodnow has rendered great service to students and administrative officers. He has also made a distinct contribution to political science.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 330w.
=Goodwin, Maud Wilder.= Claims and counterclaims. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A young physician, the hero of Mrs. Goodwin’s story, has been rescued from death by a young man for whom he conceives a strong dislike. The situation becomes complicated by the fact that both men love the same girl, and Dr. Dilke is called upon by the father of the girl to endorse the character of a dishonest rival. “How to adjust the heroic savior of one’s life with the counterclaim of truth and of loyalty to a woman beloved is the problem Mrs. Goodwin’s hero has to solve.” (N. Y. Times.).
“One can hardly help feeling that in ‘Claims and counterclaims’ Mrs. Maud Wilder Goodwin has not done justice to a motif and scheme which were very good. Mrs. Goodwin botches her climaxes by improbability or cumbrous narration.”
— + =Lit. D.= 31: 666. N. 4, ‘05. 620w.
“Its unique plot, its life-like characters, its brilliant execution in both dialogue and movement, are all crowned by a novel’s raison d’etre—its absorbing interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 542. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1260w.
=Gordon, Armistead C.= Gift of the morning star. $1.50. Funk.
“He that overcometh ... I will give him the morning star.” The blood of a French mother flowing warm in the veins of her Dunker son sends him out in the world at the age of forty to seek his fortune, his whole being crying out against the repressed life of silent labor on the farm with which his older brother and sister are content. He wins his fortune as a boomer, he loses it in a single night, and in the end comes home again self conquered and content with his Dunker life and his Dunker sweetheart.
“Mr. Gordon has made his book of somewhat incongruous material.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 550w.
“A truly original story of Dunkard character. His pictures have all the vividness of reality.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 100w.
“A forcible and an original tale.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 150w.
=Gordon, John Brown.= Reminiscences of the civil war. $1.50. Scribner.
“A new and moderate-priced edition of one of the very best of Southern books of reminiscences, written by a famous Southern soldier.”—Outlook.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 20w.
=Goss, Charles Frederick.= Husband, wife and home. **$1. Vir.
A collection of forty-six sketches from life. “Such titles as True wife or married mistress, Curing your partner’s faults, Observing conventionalities, A good word for the ‘bad boy,’ Ability of parents to see a joke, Humanizing the beast, Nerve strain, indicate the extent of the field, and it is well dotted with pithy anecdotes and amusing stories. The whole is pervaded by strong and pure moral feeling.” (Pub. Opin.)
“A book of good advice to husbands and wives, easy to read, not so easy to follow, but worth reading and worthy to be followed.”
+ =Bib. World.= 26: 400. N. ‘05. 20w.
“Wide experience and keen observation of real life yield material which is treated with plain common sense, good wit, and no lack of humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 790. Jl. 22, ‘05. 180w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= Coventry Patmore. **$1. Scribner.
This fourth volume of the “Literary lives series,” contains a sketch of the poet’s life by one who knew him well in his later years. There is an account of his childhood, his life in London, and his later years, with a description of his personality, his work, and an estimate of his place in the world of letters.
=Acad.= 68: 265. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1190w.
“His volume is not without its limitations. But it is, on the whole, able, at times brilliant. Among Mr. Gosse’s faults dulness has no place. His book shows discriminating taste.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 389. Ap. 1. 3560w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
=Atlan.= 96: 278. Ag. ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Gosse’s biography is highly interesting; explaining much that is mysterious in Patmore’s poetry through the strange personality of the poet, the biographer adds something of distinct value to the critical estimate. But his conclusions are at least open to debate.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 360w.
“Though he says too little about Patmore’s prose essays, which have singular merits of style, his attractive little volume, with its excellent illustrations, can be recommended to all to whom the more exhaustive Life by Mr. Champneys is not accessible.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 399. My. 18, ‘05. 2210w.
“A delightful little book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1780w.
“A well-balanced and interesting biography. There is a careful, sympathetic, but entirely clear-sighted estimate of Patmore’s poetic gifts and of the value of his work.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 652. Mr. 11, ‘05. 220w.
“Having the helpfulness neither of hostility nor of enthusiasm, and being needlessly apologetic both for Patmore’s domesticity and his mysticism.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 597. My. 6, ‘05. 1050w.
=Gosse, Edmund William.= French profiles. *$1.60. Dodd.
Sketches of French writers nearly all of whom are still living or only lately dead. They are given “in profile” not “from the front” or “from a direct and complete point of view,” and are chiefly “snap-shots, as it were, at authors in the course of their progress.”
“Biography and criticism are deftly blended into an intermediate something and the last thing that the reader need apprehend is to be bored.” Richard Garnett.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 78. Ja. 28, ‘05. 700w.
* “Mr. Gosse owed it to his readers to rewrite and revise more diligently. But his book is an agreeable and profitable one.” Edward Fuller.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 568. D. ‘05. 530w.
“It is far from being an indispensable book, but it is decidedly a useful one.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 624. S. 23, ‘05. 700w.
“A successful book, very agreeable to read, and more likely than any we have lately seen on the subject to attract that difficult creature, the general reader. If not infallible the book is full of interest. Any one who cares at all for French literature, and does not mind a little intellectual irritation, will read it both with pleasure and advantage.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 676. My. 6, ‘05. 1480w.
* =Gosse, Edmund William.= Sir Thomas Browne. **75c. Macmillan.
This volume in the “English men of letters” series, a monograph on Sir Thomas Browne, “bears every sign of care and of minute and skillful investigation. Browne himself is set before us with fullness of detail, his work is analysed with scholarly patience.... Browne was that rare favorite of the gods, a happy man of genius. His serene and serious mind was ever preoccupied with high, impersonal, ‘un-mating things.’ His daily life was that of a fond husband and father; a perfect friend; an alert citizen; a busy and successful doctor. But ... no man of letters ever tasted more deeply the lonely and exquisite gratifications known to the vividly inquiring, experimentalizing mind.” (Lond. Times.)
* “Mr. Gosse has made a careful study of the materials at his disposal and in a comparatively short space embodies all that is known of the famous writer and physician. The faults of the book lie on the surface and may be briefly dismissed.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 1070. O. 14, ‘05. 1500w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
* + =Atlan.= 96: 842. D. ‘05. 310w.
* “To put it crudely, what we miss in Mr. Gosse’s estimate of Browne is a feeling of pleasure. This is a very skilful biography; very intelligent criticism; but it is not the fine, the suggestive, the liberal, and illuminating criticism which we expected from a writer of Mr. Edmund Gosse’s accomplishments.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 333. O. 13, ‘05. 3250w.
* + — =Nation.= 81: 486. D. 14, ‘05. 3140w.
* + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 4. N. 18, ‘05. 890w.
=Gould, George Milbry.= Biographic clinics. v. 3. Essays concerning the influence of visual function pathologic and physiologic upon the health of patients. *$1. Blakiston.
These essays fully cover the ground indicated by the subject, and in them numerous common ailments are unhesitatingly traced to defective eyesight, and much good advice is given for school children and men engaged in literary or clerical work, all of which is borne out by illustrations from life. The technical terms used in the table of contents need not alarm the casual reader, who will find the text clear and easily understood.
=Gower, Edward Frederick Leveson.= Bygone years. *$3.50. Dutton.
Memoirs written by the Honorable F. Leveson-Gower in his 86th year. As he never kept a diary, he chats merrily from memory of well-known people and things he has met with in the course of his long life.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 706. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1030w.
“The author’s style is pleasant, though singularly familiar.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1110w.
Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 346. O. ‘05. 1180w.
“Good humor, good sense, good birth and breeding, an entire absence of airs and pretensions, these are among the qualities that commend him to the reader.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 211. O. 1, ‘05. 390w.
“The volume is worth the attention of those who delight in the pleasant gossip of a genial and generous-hearted man of vast experience and wide information.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 988. O. 26, ‘05. 240w.
“His book is like him, and it will therefore attract and give pleasure to a large number of readers.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 192. Je. 16, ‘05. 1130w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 220. S. 14, ‘05. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 481. Jl. 22, ‘05. 660w.
“It is never dull: it is never absorbing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 568. Ag. 26, ‘05. 470w.
“The book is characterized by good sense and wit and an agreeable conversational style.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 260w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1070w.
=Grafton, Rt. Rev. Charles Chapman.= Christian and Catholic. *$1.50. Longmans.
“The aim of the good bishop ... is ‘not controversial’ but to help souls who are in honest doubt to come into closer union with Christ ... The mass of Christians ... he designates as ‘the sects’ in distinction from ‘the church’ ... To secede from the Anglican church to the Roman is pronounced to be ‘the most terrible sin we believe a Christian man can commit.’”—Outlook.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 330. Ag. 10, ‘05. 70w.
=Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.
=Grant, Mrs. Colquhoun.= Mother of czars. *$3.50. (*12s.) Dutton.
“This ‘Mother of czars’ was the princess Dorothea of Würtemberg who married the Czarevitch Paul, son of Catherine II.... The czar’s two sons were Alexander I. and Nicholas I.... Mrs. Grant’s book consists largely of details of a tour made by the Grand Duke Paul and his wife during the years 1780-81. The most enjoyable time was spent in France.”—Spec.
“A very innocuous sketch of the wife of Paul I. of Russia.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Neither as a study of personality nor as an historical monograph can this volume be praised with much heartiness.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 166. Ag. 24, ‘05. 480w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 329. My. 20, ‘05. 270w.
“Here related in an agreeable, sympathetic, unpretentious way.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.
“With merits as an entertainment this book is marred as an authoritative portrayal of local colour by certain inaccuracies.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 309. S. 2, ‘05. 1130w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 719. My. 13. ‘05. 250w.
=Grant, Robert.= Orchid. †$1.25. Scribner.
The orchid is a society belle in a set where money counts for everything. She marries a wealthy man whom she does not love, then comes to care for a poor man, secures a divorce and the custody of her child, which she later relinquishes to the father in return for two million dollars, and is thereby established once more upon a secure social foundation.
“Clever as it is in its scenes, its dialogues, its enjoyable diversity of types, the real merit of the little volume lies not so much in what it actually gives as in what it suggests. ‘The orchid’ is an interesting example of a psychological problem, worked out along lines almost purely realistic.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 365. Je. ‘05. 480w.
“The novel is as empty of psychological content as a headline. In this novel his style seems to be even more hard and colorless than formerly, his phrasing even more stereotyped and inaccurate.” O. H. D.
— — =Critic.= 47: 90. Jl. ‘05. 750w.
“Judge Grant’s characters are like chessmen: they are well defined and they move in a straightforward and logical manner. This simile does not imply that his characters are wooden, or that the situation lacks complexity.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1008. My. 4, ‘05. 220w.
“Told ... in this accomplished writer’s crispest and most interesting style.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 800w.
“It is a story which not only makes one think, but holds the interest as well.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“A more thoroughgoing study of feminine selfishness and lawlessness is not to be found in American fiction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 90w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 796. My. 20, ‘05. 170w.
“Judge Grant’s sure touch and craftmanship are here, but ‘The orchid’ is hardly a worthy successor to ‘The undercurrent.’”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 758. Je. ‘05. 120w.
=Grant, Robert.= Undercurrent. $1.50. Scribner.
“His theme is the very modern problem of the divorce evil, and he shows us how the undercurrent of emotion eventually triumphs over reason, and sweeps away the intellectual objections which stand in the path of a woman’s happiness. The situation is subtly handled, and one of the oldest of stories thereby acquires new distinction. It is the familiar story of marriage without much thought, the husband’s rapid development into a vulgar brute, and his final desertion of wife and children. Then the right man appears upon the scene, and the deserted wife is torn by the conflict between desire and duty. The plea of duty is voiced by the representatives of church and society, and their argument convinces her intellect, yet it takes only a slight mishap to the man whom she loves to bring about her surrender.”—Dial.
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 15. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w. (Statement of theme.)
“The opposing claims of church and state to the regulation of marriage have never been more interestingly presented than in the debate between the rector and the lawyer in this book.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1008. My. 4, ‘05. 190w.
“As a carefully considered, well-rounded, unimpassioned treatment, this book deserves attentive reading and deep pondering. The legal clearness with which Judge Grant has analyzed the question, and the thoroughness and skill with which he has embodied all its aspects in the individual characters and the action of the story, make ‘The undercurrent’ a constructive master-piece. Its interest is timely, therefore, rather than literary, and its value practical and ethical, not artistic. Neither of these facts, nevertheless, derogates from its literary importance. A notable literary expression of conviction among the books of its day.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 254. Ja. ‘05. 550w.
“Deals with two insistent problems of American society—the problem of enormous wealth and the problem of divorce. Judge Grant treats both with calmness and sanity. The characters and the story by means of which Judge Grant illustrates his views are thoroughly attractive from the point of view of literature. ‘The undercurrent’ is first of all a novel, and an excellent one, and only secondarily a book of purpose.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 210w.
“A sane and two-sided view of this problem. The author is master of many of the secret traits of woman’s nature, he rises with dramatic force to a crisis, and his method is always wholesome. But one must regret his excessive use of monologue, as though he could not let his characters interpret themselves.” J. R. Ormond.
+ + — =South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 96. Ja. ‘05. 140w.
=Granville, W. A.= Elements of differential and integral calculus. $2.50. Ginn.
To meet the need of a modern text-book on calculus which is at once rigorous and elementary, is the rather difficult task of the author. “On the one hand it is necessary to avoid the worthless and even vicious forms of reasoning which mar so many elementary treatises and which are simply intolerable to one educated according to modern standards of rigor. On the other hand, the author must not introduce subtleties of reasoning and logical refinements beyond the needs and comprehension of those who are to use the book. The volume under review is an attempt to solve this problem.” (Science).
“Its first quality is clearness; its second, judicious accentuation. The ground notions are admirably handled, and throughout, the nature and limitations of important theorems are conscientiously indicated.” C. J. Keyser.
+ + + =Educ. R.= 29: 208. F. ‘05. 250w.
“This is a book the main object of which seems to be to enable the student to acquire a knowledge of the subject with little or no assistance from a teacher; and, after a very careful study of it, we are enabled to say that the work is admirably constructed for the purpose.” George M. Minchin.
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 26. My. 11, ‘05. 670w.
“In perusing Dr. Granville’s book one feels throughout that the author has in mind the requirements of modern rigor. We believe the present volume is eminently a safe book to put in the hands of the beginner. He will get no false notions which afterwards will have to be eradicated, with much difficulty; he will, on the other hand, acquire a considerable acquaintance with the principles of the calculus and a good working knowledge of its methods. The relatively few blemishes in this work, the reviewer is glad to state, will be removed in the next edition.” James Pierpont.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 21: 64. Ja. 13, ‘05. 1180w.
“As well in its scope as in its spirit, the work is distinctly more than its author modestly styles it ‘essentially a drill book.’” Cassius J. Keyser.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 22: 115. Jl. 28, ‘05. 150w.
=Gratacap, Lewis Pope.= World as intention: a contribution to teleology, *$1.25. Eaton.
“Under this title the author exhibits the movement which the world shows towards a purposed end. His aim is to help perplexed thinkers out of a state of mind which can neither get on without religion, nor get on with much that is claimed in the name of religion.”—Outlook.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 336. My. 20, ‘05. 360w.
“Mr. Gratacap is certainly an independent and vigorous thinker; though his reading has evidently been more thorough in scientific lines than in philosophical. For lack of proportionate equipment in the latter his contribution to the problems of modern thought is hardly equal to the need.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 400w.
=Graves, Algernon=, comp. Royal academy of arts. v. I. *$11. Macmillan.
This “complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904,” is compiled with the sanction of the president and council of the Royal academy. The artists’ names are arranged alphabetically and their works are listed under their names. Volume I. now issued, covers Abbayne to Carrington.
=Acad.= 68: 623. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 87. Jl. 15. 2560w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 38. Jl. 13, ‘05. 770w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Gray, Charles H.= Lodowick Carliell. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
Lodowick Carliell was a courtier dramatist of the reigns of Charles I and II. The name of Carliell is a conspicuous one in English literature, having as a later representative Thomas Carlyle. The present work includes a sketch of Carliell’s life, a discussion of his plays, and “The deserving favorite.”
“He has shown a German thoroughness of work.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 574. S. 2, ‘05. 540w.
“This is an interesting contribution to the history of the English drama.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 983. Ag. 19, ‘05. 90w.
=Green, Anna Katharine.= Amethyst box. †75c. Bobbs.
The spiriting away of an amethyst box in which was hidden a tiny vial containing a drop of deadly poison is followed by a sudden death. This furnishes the plot for one of Mrs. Green’s characteristic mystery stories into which is woven a double romance. The volume is uniform with the “Pocket book” series.
* “This American writer ... builds better puzzles and controls her surprises more skilfully than any living sensation writer we can call to mind.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1155. N. 4, ‘05. 350w.
“It is an absorbing story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 220w.
* “They are utterly improbable, and full of extravagances and absurdities.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.
=Green, Anna Katharine.= House in the mist. †75c. Bobbs.
The first of these stories, “The house in the mist,” is the tale of vengeance which a wealthy testator wreaks upon his debauched heirs. According to the will they assemble, are apportioned their shares, and then trapped to their death. The harrowing succession of events is relieved only by the escape of the one worthy heir. The other story, “The ruby and the caldron,” shows the steps taken along the wrong scent in recovering a lost ruby.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 210w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 70w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 30w.
=Green, Anna Katharine (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs).= Millionaire baby. $1.50. Bobbs.
The spiriting away of a baby, the heiress to three fortunes, furnishes a plot for a unique detective story. The detective himself, in the race with others for the fifty thousand dollar reward, narrates the steps that lead up to the mystery-solving stroke,—this latter involving a surprise even for the wily disciple of Sherlock Holmes. The book is illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 568. My. 27, ‘05. 340w.
“She is, we think, the best American author of detective tales of the present, and in ‘The millionaire baby’ we have one of her very best books. It is clever in conception and treatment, it holds the interest.”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 340. Mr. ‘05. 260w.
“Granted its fundamental improbability, the plot is skilfully constructed, and the interest of the story is successfully maintained.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 714. Je. 10. 150w.
“As a detective story, ‘The millionaire baby,’ is as clever as anything Anna Katharine Green has written. You will not lay it aside until you know the whole story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 40. Ja. 21, ‘05. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“As a detective story it is ingenious; as fiction in any other sense it is worthless.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 40w.
“A good story of compelling and sustained interest. Is quite the equal of any of the long line of stories which she has created.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 95. Ja. 15, ‘05. 450w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Green, Evelyn Everett-.= Secret of Wold Hall. †$1. McClurg.
The marriage between Marcus Drummond and Lady Marcia Defresne was for the one the fulfillment of a ten-years’ dream—dating back to a moment when a bronzed traveler boy of sixteen rescued a child from her fall over a precipice—for the other, a release for herself and family from pecuniary predicaments. The man loves his wife, and the course of events which awakens her love for him is strongly associated with a mystery. The story has a strong dramatic interest.
=Greene, Frances N., and Kirk, Dolly Williams.= With spurs of gold. †$1.50. Little.
The boy and girl whose galaxy of heroes for special worship includes many knights of chivalry will find some absorbing details given here. The work is authentic, based on histories, chronicles and legends, and sets forth such characters as Roland and Oliver, Richard Coeur-de-Lion, the Chevalier Bayard, and Sir Philip Sidney.
“A number of famous poems accompany the excellent prose in which these tales are set.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
=Greenidge, Abel Henry Jones.= History of Rome during the later republic and early principate. 6 vols. v. I, *$3.50. Dutton.
“The first volume of the six volumes in which Dr. Greenidge plans to compress his history covers some twenty-nine years, from the time of Tiberius Gracchus to the consulship of Marius, B. C. 133 to 104.... In that short period occurred the two agrarian movements, led by Tiberius Gracchus, and, ten years later, by Caius Gracchus, and the Jugurthine war.”—N. Y. Times.
“It will appeal strongly to the general reader ... but it is addressed also to the scholar, as based on the original sources and presenting the results in accordance with the most advanced ideals of history writing.” Joseph H. Drake.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 849. Jl. ‘05. 1310w.
“Both the specialist, who looks for laborious research and painstaking erudition, and the ordinary reader, who sets the main value on perspicuity and brilliancy of narrative, will alike be gratified.” W. A. Goligher.
+ + + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 545. Jl. ‘05. 860w.
“The present volume sustains his reputation for accuracy and penetration, while proving him to possess gifts of a different order. It discloses a large grasp of facts and a weighty style.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 3200w.
“It may be said at once that Dr. Greenidge revivifies Rome, which had been reduced to the deadness of classicality. He creates the Eternal city in the sixth century of its existence, and with exactness and grace shows us its life, its politics, the causes of its troubles, how it met them, and what the final issue was.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 319. My. 13, ‘05. 1330w.
* =Greenslet, Ferris.= James Russell Lowell, his life and work. **$1.50. Houghton.
“A concise view of the life of Lowell, which the author frankly admits to be mainly based on printed sources, chief among which has naturally been the collection of his letters edited by Charles Eliot Norton; but the work was nevertheless worth doing and is very well done.... The book is illustrated with portraits, local views, etc.”—Critic.
* “The author has made judicious use of his abundant and rich material, his personal additions to which have been considerable and valuable.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 573. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “A little difference of emphasis here and there may suggest itself as possible; but in substance the narrative is exactly what it should be. He writes from a firm critical theory, and knows how to back his own opinions. Yet his speech lacks something of firmness and consistency.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 773. N. 18, ‘05. 1670w.
* “Conspicuously free from provincialism of standards and of feeling, conspicuously competent, dispassionate, and, therefore, authoritative.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
* “Beyond any other biography recently written among us, this book gives, by its execution, the impression of a distinct addition to the literary resources of our younger authors.” Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 625. N. 11, ‘05. 1520w.
=Gregg, David; Goodrich, William W., and Carney, Sidney Howard, jr.= Makers of the American republic: a series of patriotic lectures. $2. Treat.
Sixteen historical lectures on the early colonists; The Virginians, Pilgrims, Puritans, Hollanders, Scotch, Huguenots, Quakers, and the old-time doctors, lawyers, and ministers. Columbus, Washington, our patriotic dead, and the black forefathers are also treated.
“Characterized for the most part by a degree of intellectual hospitality and breadth of thought rarely found in similar discussions by trinitarian clergymen.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 220. Ag. ‘05. 370w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 190. Jl. ‘05. 30w.
=Gregory, J. C.= Short introduction to the theory of electrolytic dissociation, *50c. Longmans.
“This is a useful little book for those students who, after taking a course of systematic chemistry, wish to know something of the behaviour of electrolytic solutions.” (Nature.) Its four chapters are entitled The condition of dissolved substances; Ions and precipitation; Hydrogen and hydroxyl ions; Electrolytic and general considerations.
“The language and mode of presentation are simple, and although one might take exception to many points of detail, the book, on the whole, should prove a trustworthy guide.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 606. Ap. 27, ‘05. 100w.
=Grenfell, Bernard Pyne; Drexel, Lucy Wharton; and Hunt, Arthur Surridge,= eds. New sayings of Jesus, and fragments of a lost gospel, from Oxyrhynchus, Part IV. *40c. Oxford.
“The present volume contains for the most part papyri found in the second excavations at Oxyrhynchus in 1903. It will not be as amusing to the general reader as certain of the previous volumes, since it includes but few of the non-legal and non-literary, but excessively human, documents that gave in them such a sparkle of life to the pages of a very dead subject.... The volume contains a goodly number of interesting legal documents, which increase our knowledge of details of Egyptian administration and Graeco-Egyptian law. The number of personal letters is, as we have indicated, very few.”—Nation.
=Nation.= 80: 139. F. 16, ‘05. 990w.
=Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason.= Harvest of the sea: a tale of both sides of the Atlantic. **$1. Revell.
Dr. Grenfell, who for twenty years has worked among the deep sea fishermen on both sides of the Atlantic, gives a picture of these men, their lives, and the revolution, social and religious, wrought by the coming of the mission ship among the fishing fleets.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 651. Ag. ‘05, 210w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 471. My. ‘05. 350w.
“Dr. Grenfell’s narrative of the North Sea fishers especially—considered quite without reference to its value as a record of evangelization—is stirring, full of the life and tragedy of the sea. The account of the Labrador men is briefer and less picturesque.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 243. Ap. 15, ‘05. 320w.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 170w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 508. Ap. 1, ‘05. 360w.
+ + =Reader.= 6: 473. S. ‘05. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Griffith, J. Quintin.= Helps and hints in nursing. *$1.50. Winston.
A text-book for nurses, and a guide for the family which gives the ordinary details of nursing which the doctor wishes carried out in everyday maladies, tells what to do in cases of emergency, gives directions for caring for infants and children, and for preserving the health.
“A practical and sensible book which may be commended to use in families and by all who have to do with illness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 334. Ag. 7, ‘05. 20w.
=Griffiths, Arthur George Frederick.= Fifty years of public service. *$5. Cassell.
Born in India and entering the English army at the time of the Crimean war, as a mere youth, the author saw military service in Crimea, Nova Scotia, Montreal, Gibraltar, and Abyssinia, and civil service in charge of prisons at Gibraltar, Chatham, and Milbank. This account of his career suggests that the material for his novels and detective stories was taken from life.
=Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
“The author’s style has the unstudied fluency of one who is used to writing with the din of the printing-press in his ears and the boy at his side waiting for copy. The book is a worthy addition to the major’s long list of works, grave and gay.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 325. My. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“You would say Major Griffiths had enjoyed his ‘Fifty years of service’ in the living at least as much as you enjoy it in reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 333. My. 20, ‘05. 1410w.
=Griggs, Edward Howard.= Moral education. *$2. Huebsch.
Professor Griggs points out the aim and scope of his work in the following: “a study, as exhaustive as I could make it, of the whole problem of moral culture: its purpose in relation to our society, and all the means through which that purpose can be attained. My aim has been sanity and not novelty, ... to see ‘steadily and whole’ both human life and the process of moral culture that leads to it and make possible the happiest and most helpful living.”
“This volume should be carefully read by every parent and teacher in the land. It is a work at once eminently practical and yet nobly idealistic. He has considered his subject deeply and treats it as only a man of rare insight, a true philosopher and a practical teacher could present a theme.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 330. S. ‘05. 290w.
“He writes with beauty and almost invariably with marked clearness; he develops very instructively and applies to the work of ethical formation the leading results of modern educational investigation.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 126. Ap. ‘05. 580w.
“This book by Mr. Griggs is one of the significant indications of the trend of education in the present time, while in itself it is a decided contribution to the philosophy and method of education. Unlike much of current educational discussion, the parent is not here made subservient to the teacher or entirely ignored.” Leslie Willis Sprague.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 379. Ap. ‘05. 940w.
“The present volume seems to have reached the root of the difficulty which confronts modern educators, for it points out wherein they err by casting aside the old systems and giving entire precedent to new and untried methods. The book is written in a masterly style.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 499. Mr. ‘05. 400w.
“The book addresses itself especially to the teacher, but will be found interesting and helpful to all who are concerned in any way with the rearing of children.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 120w.
=Gronau, Georg.= Titian. $2. Scribner.
The monograph of the great painter not only tells a graphic story of the artist’s life, but describes the picturesque conditions under which he worked, the emperors, dukes and bishops who gave him commissions, forming a romantic background. The book gives the results of the most recent investigations of the authorship of disputed masterpieces, is copiously illustrated with fifty odd half-tones, has a fine bibliography, and a complete index.
“Is not so specialized a piece of work as is the standard biography by Crowe and Cavalcaselle. It is tersely and vividly written, precisely the book for the general reader.” Royal Cortissoz.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 276. F. ‘05. 320w.
“It is quite up-to-date in its attributions. The side on which their usefulness does not seem to increase or greatly enlighten is that of a new word concerning the technical performances of great colourists, draughtsmen and virile painters. But this lapse Gronau has in common with others who write of artists and their work. Such books as these become, in a sense, a kind of superior guidebook to galleries, palaces and churches, but they are not quite what a student or a connoisseur would desire when wishing to be enlightened on the methods, ways, and practices of a master painter. Present book is excellent of its kind.” Frank Fowler.
+ =Bookm.= 20: 556. F. ‘05. 870w.
“Dr. Gronau’s volume, marked by cautious accuracy and disinterested love of truth, is a model for works of its class. It is a thing of high art in itself, and is certainly the best life of Titian that has appeared.” George Breed Zug.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 1000w.
=Grout, Abel Joel.= Mosses with hand-lens and microscope. 26. ed. $1.75 A. J. Grout, 306 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, N. Y.
This second edition “which follows the same general plan as the first edition, is expanded to include 169 of the ‘more common and more easily recognized mosses of the northeastern United States,’ as well as fifty-four of the hepaticæ of the same region.... The text contains something like 118 figures and 39 full-page plates.”—Science.
“In the matter of typography and illustrations, the work is so much of an improvement over its predecessor that it deserves special commendation.”
+ + =Science=, n.s. 21: 816. My. 26, ‘05. 230w.
=Grove, Sir George=, ed. Dictionary of music and musicians; new and thoroughly rev. ed.; ed. by J. A. Fuller Maitland. **$5. Macmillan.
In undertaking the revision of Sir George Grove’s dictionary which appeared twenty-five years ago, the editor aims mainly to bring the work down to date. Mr. Maitland, “a man of erudition, good taste and sound judgment, has critical acumen, and while he is inclined to a thoroughly safe conservatism, such critical remarks as have been admitted are for the most part such as are likely to give the reader a general idea of the special characteristics of the musicians dealt with.” (Ind.)
* “If the succeeding volumes contain as many valuable additions and amplifications as the first, the work will suffice for many years to come, and will remain for all time a monument to the learning, patience, and judgment of the editor.” W. J. Henderson.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 851. D. ‘05. 1100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“At last we have an English musical dictionary not only worthy to be compared with the French and German dictionaries, but surpassing them all in the lateness of its information and in its comprehensive scope. Some of the portraits are unworthy of the general high standard.” George P. Upton.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 310. My. 1, ‘05. 2770w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 671. Mr. 23, ‘05. 600w. (Review of vol. I.)
* “Ably and judiciously edited, and it promises to be an indispensable compendium for those who are genuinely interested in music or in music-makers.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 70w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The editing has on the whole been admirably done, and ... Mr. Fuller Maitland has amply proved, not only his great ability in dealing with a difficult task, but the foresight of those responsible for his selections.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 226. Jl. 14, ‘05. 2020w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Unquestionably the most valuable work of the kind in English, and at present superior to any other in any language, considering its encyclopaedic character and the substantial quality of its most important articles.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 296. My. 6, ‘05. 1710w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Guiney, Louise Imogen.= Hurrell Froude: memoranda and comments. *$3. Dutton.
This volume is in two parts, the first, a sketch of Hurrell Froude and his life, consisting mainly of letters and journals, the second, a collection of comments upon him and his connection with the Oxford movement. Outside of those interested in English religious movements, Hurrell Froude, brother of the historian, and John Henry Newman’s most intimate friend, is perhaps little known, and this book gives in detail the man’s influence upon his associates and the religious movements of his time, as well as his personality and character.
“The author’s style is not always unintelligible and precious, and by dint of a great deal of quotation we are brought fairly near to that strange inspirer of Newman.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 656. My. 27. 230w.
“It is a work of unusually distinguished merit. In the first place, Miss Guiney allows Hurrell Froude to tell his own story. And a second feature of this book which calls for praise is that in the pages which the biographer has written herself, the style is splendid.”
+ + + =Cath World.= 80: 826. Mr. ‘05. 580w.
“As a whole the book lacks literary unity, but it is initiative and gives an intimate glimpse into a circle of singularly real and fervent men. Valuable it is as being illustrative of a phase of the nineteenth century.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 380w.
“She has brought to her task abundant sympathy and much careful preparation. If her judgment is at fault, she has furnished us the means of correcting it in no halting fashion. Her collection of comments is no mere device for confirming her own views.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 214. Mr. 16, ‘05. 2090w.
“Miss Guiney’s book, which she does not call a biography, though in effect it is one, is a sympathetic account of his life, his character, and his work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 380w.
“The editing has been done sympathetically, and, in spite of the opportunity offered for the exercise of a rich and rather over-refined literary style, with restraint.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 390w.
=Spec.= 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 320w.
=Gulick, Sidney Lewis.= Evolution of the Japanese. **$2. Revell.
A fourth edition, revised and enlarged. “It contains a new preface and numerous changes in the text, which have been turned into notes and placed at the end of the chapters to which they belong.” (N. Y. Times.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 370w.
=Gulick, Sidney Lewis.= White peril in the Far East. **$1. Revell.
The author, an American missionary who has lived long in Eastern Asia, discusses the significance of the Russo-Japanese war, which he considers a turning point in the world’s history. He holds that there is no cause to fear the yellow peril, that Japan is western in spirit and civilization, but that the white peril menaces the Orient to-day.
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 559. My. 6. 260w.
“While in no way profound, it is rich in novel and suggestive points of view. It contains one of the best statements of the real causes of the war with Russia yet published, and gives an interpretation of the Japanese attitude toward the conflict that is agreeably clear, concise, and illuminating.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 356. My. 16, ‘05. 580w.
“A concise, clear and comprehensive presentation of the national and international interests involved in present movements and tendencies, viewed as growing from the past.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“Is a model of compactness and illumination.”
+ + + =Reader.= 6: 591. O. ‘05. 280w.
=Gunsaulus, Frank W.= Paths to power; Central church sermons. *$1.25. Revell.
The first group of Dr. Gunsaulus’ sermons to be published. They emphasize his right to be classed with such men as Beecher, Brooks and Spurgeon. “But to feel their power one must surrender for the time to the speaker’s wand and not dissolve the spell by a critical mood.” (Outlook.)
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 839. Jl. 29, ‘05. 150w.
=Gwynn, Stephen.= Thomas Moore. **75c. Macmillan.
The author, who is already known as a novelist and a critic of English-Irish literature, is also an Irishman and consequently found an unusually happy subject in Thomas Moore. The romantic rise of Moore from the Dublin grocery store to London’s rank and fashion is detailed. The critical estimate of his work is fully given, and his part in the last century’s remarkable advance in poetical technique is enlarged upon.
“His life is excellently set forth in this volume, the author having evidently put before him as the object of his task the painting of a faithful portrait. Mr. Gwynn has added considerably to his already very considerable repute by this capital little book, in which he does justice to his subject and to himself.” W. Teignmouth Shore.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 710w.
“Mr. Gwynn had accomplished no easy task with tact and literary skill, if not with accuracy.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 327. Mr. 18. 2340w.
“A sympathetic treatment of the man and his works.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 20w.
“Mr. Gwynn’s book is compact with information and well-balanced criticism.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 70. Ag. 1, ‘05. 450w.
“Delightful little volume.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 330w.
+ =Nation.= 80: 253. Mr. 30, ‘05. 610w.
“Considered as a portrayal of Moore’s character, this book of Mr. Gwynn’s is adequate and satisfactory. It is not, however, eminently successful in evoking for the imagination the world in which the poet lived. As a literary estimate, while it neither observes its subject from a new angle, nor throws new light upon it, it is upon the whole a thoroughly competent and workmanlike performance—an orderly, trustworthy, and comprehensive statement of the established critical opinions regarding Moore’s poetry and prose. Mr. Gwynn has shown himself a safe, if neither a brilliant nor remarkably painstaking critic.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 97. F. 18. ‘05. 2580w.
“Mr. Gwynn has given us an eminently readable book.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 251. F. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“Mr. Gwynn’s estimate of Moore is the most noteworthy thing in the volume.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 370w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“We feel that Mr. Gwynn is making quite a nice and workmanlike book to fill a supposed cap in a respectable series; we admire his visible yet sober efforts to impart a tinge of enthusiasm.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 740. Je. 3, ‘05. 2180w.