The cumulative book review digest, volume 01, 1905 (part 3 of 6)
“Mr. Gwynne, who has done his work with much skill and sympathy, has never allowed his judgment to be influenced.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 555. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1890w.
=Gwynne, Paul.= Bandolero, †$1.50. Dodd.
A book which gives a vivid picture of Spanish peasant life. The story concerns the only son of the Marquis de Bazan who is kidnapped by his father’s enemy, a “bandolero,” and brought up on an Andalusian farm. The boy falls in love with his playmate, the bandit’s daughter, and altho her father violently opposes their marriage, he at last not only gives his consent but sacrifices his life for the son of his enemy. Altho the plot is melodramatic, the scenes of country life are homely and humorous.
“The romance is thoroughly interesting, and has a considerable degree of literary charm.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“A good melodramatic novel. The author must know his Spain far better than most men.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 191. Mr. 25. ‘05. 300w.
“As has been said by some one, Mr. Gwynne knows the Spanish peasant as well as Miss Wilkins knows the New England farmer. It is this part of this book, as it was with his former story, which attracts us in Mr. Gwynne’s work. The plot of the story ... seems to us on the melodramatic order and less worthy of praise.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 180w.
“A logical, well-atmosphered story whose interest is steadily sustained and whose denouement is satisfactory.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 473. S. ‘05. 180w.
“Mr. Gwynne has painted for us the large sun-lit landscape of the Andalusian plains and the slow comedy of village life with a certainty of touch and a depth of colour which are entirely admirable. But apart from merits of atmosphere and scenery, he has a very stirring story to tell and much excellent character-drawing. Mr. Gwynne, though he deals with the favourite constituents of melodrama, is always a serious novelist, and his characters are as carefully studied as his plot. Mr. Gwynne has found a field in which he need fear no rival, and we welcome a book so full of freshness and vitality.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 90. Ja. 21, ‘05. 400w.
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=Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August.= Evolution of man: a popular scientific study; tr. by Joseph McCabe. *$10. Putnam.
The present translation has been made from “the fifth (enlarged) edition of the German work. The abstruse and puzzling phenomena of embryology occupy the whole first volume.... The second volume is devoted to the vexed problem of our ancestry—beginning with the lowest forms of life and working upwards thru ‘Our worm-like ancestors,’ ‘Our fish-like ancestors,’ ‘Our five-toed ancestors,’ and ‘Our ape-like ancestors.’ But besides these we have some luminous chapters on the evolution of the nervous system, sense organs, vascular system, and so on. A summary on the ‘results of anthropogeny’ closes the book.” (Acad.)
Reviewed by W. P. Pycraft.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 489. My. 6, ‘05. 1680w.
* “As always, he is prodigious of learning, fertile alike in illuminating suggestion and extraordinary new words; and as always, totally at sea as to what may reasonably be said in a popular book.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 682. N. ‘05. 410w.
* “A translation which is, on the whole, excellent.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 512. D. 21, ‘05. 360w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 224. Ap. 8, ‘05. 330w.
“The broad fact of development and the main details of the process are undeniably given by Prof. Haeckel with a wealth of illustration and a positiveness of statement which aids both understanding and memory, even if it somewhat obscures the complexity of the problem and the insecurity of the conclusions to which one is lead.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 569. S. 2, ‘05. 1660w.
“It is unfortunate that more care has not been taken with the translation and proof-reading, in the latter especially with regard to proper names. On the whole, however, the translation is readable and set forth in idiomatic English.” J. P. McM.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 137. Ag. 4, ‘05. 1550w.
=Haeckel, Ernest Heinrich.= Wonders of life. *$2. Harper.
This volume is supplementary to the author’s “Riddle of the universe,” and is an answer to the thousands of letters and the many published attacks the first work called forth. It contains a quantity of biological information and is probably too technical to be popular. “His whole method of argument is based on the continuity of life, the unity of nature, and his metaphysics grows out of his biology. The book is divided into four parts, in which he treats respectively of the knowledge, the nature, the functions and the history of life. Altho he is now in his seventy-second year he has not lost the skill in classification and terminology which has given him his special reputation, and he uses effectively the tabular form and parallel columns to elucidate his theories and to contrast them with those of his opponents.” (Ind.)
“The chapters on ‘Forms of life,’ ‘Monera,’ and ‘Nutrition’ are written by a master in these fields and tend to compensate for the enormous mass of paralogisms and unproved assertions that constitute perhaps the greater part of the remaining chapters.” C. W. Saleeby.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 82. Ja. 28, ‘05. 700w.
“Yet the book must be respected for its learning, and is absorbing even when not convincing.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 383. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
“The book is translated into good English, but there are various slips or misprints in names and technical terms.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 232. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1000w.
=Ind.= 58: 206. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1130w.
“It [the translation] is on the whole clear and vigorous, but it betrays inexpertness. The translator has not the vaguest idea of what he is translating. Defective proofreading.... This book expresses the sincere convictions of a veteran who has done much for biology.”
+ — =Nature.= 71: 313. F. 2, ‘05. 1550w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
“Notwithstanding this obscurity in parts, the whole book is fairly clear as to its tendency.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 570. S. 2, ‘05. 1210w.
=Outlook.= 79: 505. F. 25, ‘05. 390w.
“After one wades through this terrible terminology of the scientific philosopher he is gratified, however, to find that he has been led always to a clear conclusion. Such is the nature of the question that much depends on the original bias of the reader.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 860w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 383. Mr. ‘05. 100w.
“Has been well translated by Mr. Joseph McCabe.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 200w.
“On the whole we find it disappointing. In the present book we got a mass of biological information, often of the most obscure kind, set forth with all the ability of an acknowledged master in this branch of science: but in conjunction with this we get a considerable quantity of loose thinking of a kind which passes for philosophical often presented in a very superficial manner.”
+ — =The Westminster R.= 163: 103. Ja. ‘05 530w.
=Haenssgen, Oswald H.= Suction gas. $1. Gas engine pub.
“Written, according to the author, to supply the lack, in this country, of information on the subject of suction gas producers, and more briefly of their first cost, cost of running and possible utility and development.”—Engin. N.
Reviewed by Alfred B. Forstall.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 220w.
=Hafiz, Mohammed Shems-ed-Din.= Odes from the Divan of. Freely rendered from literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne. *$1.50. Page.
“Hafiz has the epicureanism of Omar Khayyam without his philosophy. He sings of nothing but wine and love.... Mr. Le Gallienne has not merely translated, he has transmuted the odes into true English poetry, and any one but an antiquarian will prefer to read them in this form rather than in the literal versions.”—Ind.
“In short, while Mr. Le Gallienne has not found much more to tell us in this than in his last Persian study, he has not shown any greater poetical merit; but, on the contrary, by his more ambitious metrical scheme and greater dependence upon himself, he has been led into worse technical blunders.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1123. O. 28, ‘05. 980w.
“The only fault we have to find with Mr. Le Gallienne is that he is inclined to make his task easy by diluting his poetry until it flows freely. With more pains he might have kept more of the terseness and spirit of the original.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 687. S. 14, ‘05. 540w.
“His work is frankly not a translation by a scholar, but a poet’s version of another poet. Jarring notes like these are the more discordant when one thinks of the beauty of so much of his version, and remembers the undoubted ability of Mr. Le Gallienne.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 665. N. 4, ‘05. 710w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 798. N. 25, ‘05. 330w.
“Many of these odes have the lyrical quality, and that while they may not be in all points acceptable to Oriental scholars, they give to the reader sufficiently well the effect of Persian imagery and the essence of the poet’s feeling.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 44. S. 2, ‘05. 220w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 120w.
=Haggard, Andrew Charles Parker.= Silver Bells, †$1.50. Page.
Stories of hunting and fishing abound in this tale of a man who leaves home and friends for the care free life of the Canadian Indians. Silver Bells, an Indian girl, is the heroine.
“Col. Haggard has gone back to Fenimore Cooper for his model in this story. The story may amuse boys, perhaps.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 347. My. 27, ‘05. 370w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Ayesha: the return of “She.” †$1.50. Doubleday.
In this sequel to “She.” the book which thrilled and fascinated twenty years ago, “Holly and Leo search full sixteen years for Ayesha and find her at last, the priestess of a strange religion, half Isis-worship, half fire-worship, on a lonely mountain in no man’s land at the back of beyond, there are hair-breadth escapes from avalanches and from mad Khans who hunt people to death with bloodhounds, mysterious doings in great temples and on the roof of the world, fierce battles, in which nature fights for Ayesha against her old foe Amenartas.... And Leo Vincey having won, after many an ordeal, his bride, dies on the eve of bliss and Ayesha herself, now half goddess, half weak and wilful woman, passes away from the earth forever.” (Lond. Times.)
“Not all the wishes that we could form of submitting our imagination to that of the author result in a moment of illusion.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1026. O. 7, ‘05. 260w.
“‘Ayesha’ fails to exercise the fascination of ‘She’; and the reason must, perhaps, be sought, not in Mr. Haggard, but in ourselves. ‘Ayesha’ deserves indeed a vogue only second to that of her previous incarnation.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 538. O. 21. 230w.
“Has our taste changed and our discrimination grown keener through the intervening years, or has the pen of Mr. Haggard lost its magic?” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 22:236. N. ‘05. 510w.
“If the reader will lay aside doubt and scepticism for the old ready belief, he cannot fail to feel again the old pleasure, the old interests, and the old thrills.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 140w.
“‘Ayesha’ is not ‘She,’ and the lovers of ‘She’ are a little stiffer in the mental joints.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 460w.
“No doubt, allowing for the disillusionment of years, this sequel is as well-wrought as its original. Probably it is even superior geographically, ethnologically, theologically, and pyro-technically.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39:572. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* “‘Ayesha,’ continuing ‘She,’ betokens no weariness and no decay.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 762. D. ‘05. 70w.
“The novel shows fine imagination, but it is surely an artistic mistake to throw doubt on the reincarnation story which readers of ‘She’ were bound to accept.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 595. N. 4, ‘05. 880w.
“As in all Mr. Haggard’s stories, there are some admirable adventures, and the tale is told with much skill.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 657. O. 28, ‘05. 370w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Gardener’s year. *$4. Longmans.
There are two gardens described in this book, one on the eastern shore of Suffolk, where the author, by planting a certain beach-grass, has successfully checked the inroads of the sea, and the other at Ditchingham, where he has three acres under cultivation. He has six glass houses and two ponds in which he grows aquatic plants. With the assistance of two gardeners he raises fruit, vegetables and flowers, making a specialty of orchids. There are 25 illustrations from photographs.
“In the volume under notice he details his joys and sorrows as a gardener in a manner which is well nigh certain to prove very acceptable to the vast army of garden lovers.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 60. Ja. 21, ‘05. 630w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 503. Ap. 15. 350w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 296. Ap. 13, ‘05. 920w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 553. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1840w.
=Haggard, (Henry) Rider.= Poor and the land; being a report of the Salvation army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England; with a scheme of national land settlement, and an introduction by H. Rider Haggard. 75c. Longmans.
By permission of the British government, Mr. Haggard’s report to parliament of the results of his investigation of the Salvation army colonies is re-printed in book form. It contains full descriptions of these colonies with reports of conversations with the colonists, letters, etc., and is illustrated from photographs.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 440w.
“Any one who believes in state-aided emigration as a cure for some of our graver social evils will be grateful to Mr. Haggard for his thorough investigation of the question and his thoughtful proposals towards a solution.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 354. S. 9, ‘05. 1580w.
=Haile, Martin.= Mary of Modena, her life and letters. *$4. Dutton.
“The biography of the ‘fascinating’ princess—the only Italian queen who ever shared the English throne—as it appears in her own letters and the dispatches and letters of her contemporaries.... The volume is illustrated with photogravures.”—N. Y. Times.
* “A valuable addition to the history of her time.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1197. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
“But it is heaped together rather than written, and the author has no gift of historical portraiture. Here and there interesting facts emerge; there is, alas, no life in the whole.”
— + =Lond. Times.= 4: 361. O. 27, ‘05. 720w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 340w.
“An interesting book on the life of a young woman of little importance.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 840w.
* “Is a sympathetic survey of Mary’s life. The interest is both historic and sentimental.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
“The one source of regret is that Mr. Haile, manifestly tireless in research and an adept in converting the results of research into narrative has not preserved a judicial attitude.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 250w.
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.= See =Knipe, Emilie Benson.=
=Haines, Alice Calhoun.= See =Mar, Alice.=
* =Haines, Henry Stevens.= Restrictive railway legislation. **$1.25. Macmillan.
This volume is made up of twelve lectures given by the author in April and May, 1905, at the Boston university school of law, “the purpose being to present the manner in which legislation and judicial decisions have affected the operations of railway corporations in their relations to the public.”
* “Perhaps the most interesting portion of Col. Haines’s book, and a unique and valuable record to the student, is the historical matter which it contains.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 930w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
* “The author discusses in an academic spirit, and without heat, questions which are the subject of very heated discussion by the press and by public men. The volume will be valuable to all students of this subject whether they deal with it from the point of view of the publicist or of the railroad manager.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 190w.
* “Conservative discussions of the whole question, conducted in a judicial temper.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 938. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 80w.
=Haines, Jennie Day=, comp. Sovereign woman versus mere man: a medley of quotation. **$1. Elder.
In these well chosen quotations from writers of both sexes and many ages the compiler has compared and contrasted man and woman in various phases and stages of their being. The left hand page applies to sovereign woman, the one facing it to mere man, and they are presented as heroines and heroes, spinsters and bachelors, wives and husbands, and as related to love, matrimony, fads, fame, ways, work, religion and many other things. The marginal decorations and general get up make the volume an attractive gift-book.
* “The quotations, which are of very miscellaneous authorship, possess more than a superficial aptness, and there is a refreshing absence of that attempt at epigrammatic smartness which spoils most books of this type.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
=Hains, Thornton Jenkins.= Black barque. †$1.50. Page.
The adventures of a sailor aboard the slave-ship, Gentle Hand, on her last cruise in the year 1815, form the subject of this new romance of the sea.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 519. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“In spite of its exaggerations, it is probable that one does not get from this story a very erroneous idea of slave ships, as they were in 1815.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 315. My. 13, ‘05. 610w.
“Language somewhat surprising for the rough character he makes himself out to be.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 906. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Hains’s story—one of pure adventure—is vivid and exciting.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 473. S. ‘05. 90w.
* + =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 180w.
=Haldane, J. W. C.= Life as an engineer; its lights, shades and prospects. *$2. Spon.
“This volume would make an excellent present for a lad with a taste for mechanics, or for a young man thinking of an engineer’s occupation.... The reader learns something not only of the marvels of machinery ... but of the likelihood of earning a living in this particular line.... The author has given an autobiographical form to his book, relating his experiences at various great centres of industry, as at Glasgow and at Birkenhead.”—Spec.
=Spec.= 94: 147. Ja. 28, ‘05. 300w.
=Hale, Edward Everett.= Man without a country. *25c. Little.
A new edition of a story “written in the darkest period of the Civil war to show what love of country is.” A young army officer, court-martialed for treason charges, curses the United States and wishes that he may never hear its name again. As punishment his wish is granted, and for fifty years he is “a man without a country.” He is carried on one long cruise after another by government vessels and barred from hearing or seeing a word from home.
=Hale, Edward Everett=, jr. Dramatists of to-day. *$1.50. Holt.
Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck: being an informal discussion of their significant work. This book is exactly what it declares itself to be in the fore-going sub-title, but in its informal discussion is matter of much interest, for the dramatists and their dramas are discussed from the viewpoint of both literature and the stage. They and their works are chatted about and compared in a fireside fashion that makes the reader feel as tho he had entertained a pleasing and instructive guest, one who can vividly revive memories of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “L’Aiglon,” “Die versunkene glocke,” “Magda,” “Sweet lavender,” “The second Mrs. Tanqueray,” “Candida,” “Paolo and Francesca,” and “Ulysses.”
“These papers are what is called readable: chatty, urbane, a little ostentatiously inconsequent, perhaps, and familiar not always in the best sense.” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 95: 842. Je. ‘05. 580w.
“Strangely immature judgments and ... oddly egotistic digressions from which the author forgets to return. He has an amazing capacity for misunderstanding the things he writes about.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
— — =Critic.= 47: 90. Jl. ‘05. 160w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“An amiable and quite unacademic vagueness is ... the chief characteristic. His English style leaves much to be improved.”
— =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 290w.
“His little book, modest in style and also in spirit, is a fresh and entertaining piece of writing.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 138. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
=Hale, Harris Grafton.= Who then is this? a study of the personality of Jesus. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
“The personality of Jesus is exhibited as in a normally human development, attaining thru communion with God a transcendence beyond all measure of comparison. The work avoids technical theology, but its Christological view is clearly of the Ritschlian type. Mr. Hale is a Congregational minister.”—Outlook.
“Not without attractiveness from a literary point of view.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 160w.
“This is, on the whole, a strong book. The method of the work is inductive, and its style is clear and vigorous.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.
=Hale, William.= Dauntless viking. $1.50. Badger.
The foreword states that “this story of the Gloucester fisheries is a conscientious study of the local life and color as it actually exists.” It follows the fortunes of a young viking who comes to America and casts his lot among the fishermen of Cape Ann, and is told in the broken English of the sons of Norway. It describes a hard life and does not close upon a happy ending, but lets the hero win success and happiness, and then ends grimly.
=Hall, Charles Cuthbert.= Christian belief interpreted by Christian experience. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
These lectures were delivered in India, Ceylon and Japan on the Barrows foundation, 1902-1903, and are now submitted to Western readers in book form that they may see “the manner and style of the work done in India for Indians.” Written in that spirit of broad sympathy which is essential if the Christian would successfully approach the non-Christian mind, they appeal to all creeds, to all ages, to all seekers after God.
“The foremost merit of President Hall’s ‘Barrows lectures’ is their supreme tact, their gracious Christian courtesy.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 752. S. 28, ‘05. 490w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 140w.
“The tone of the book is ironic and characterized by the true Christian spirit of a broad catholicity.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 413. S. 23, ‘05. 530w.
=Hall, Edward.= Henry VIII.; with an introd. by C: Whibley. 2v. *$12. Grafton press.
This text is reprinted from the folio edition of 1550. In its quaint English it gives an account of the social rather than the political phases of the reign of the “high and prudent prince, King Henry the Eighth, the indubitate flower, and very heire” of Lancaster and York. It gives a brilliant and interesting picture of the early 16th century, it narrates faithfully, but lets many great heads go to the block without comment. It was safer so in those times.
“Admirable alike in print, paper, format, style, and introduction.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 9. Ja. 7, 1030w.
“This present book disarms critics, so far as concerns Hall’s gift of seeing things, and of using a dignified old English which now and then ... rises to something like splendour.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 291. F. 25, ‘05. 1620w.
* =Hall, Jennie.= Men of old Greece. †$1.50. Little.
Four chapters graphically sketching history and biography are “Leonidas,” “Themistocles,” in which this hero is set in the midst of the events that led up to the victories of Marathon and Salamis, “Phidias and the Parthenon,” and “Socrates.” The illustrations include eight full-page plates and a number of drawings suggestive of types, customs and dress.
* “Makes good reading for the boys of to-day.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 220w.
=Hall, R. N., and Neal, W. G.= Great Zimbabwe, Mashonaland, Rhodesia. *$6. Dutton.
“This is a detailed account of two years’ (1902-1904) examination work on behalf of the government of Rhodesia.... Mr. Hall writes briefly on the area of the ruins, burial places of the old colonists, absence of inscriptions, two periods of gold manufacture, the Elliptical temple, the Acropolis ruins.... Chapters are given to the Acropolis, the people, their customs, manners, religions and habits, the ruins, ancient architecture, relics and finds, the Elliptical temple, etc.... The volume is profusely illustrated from drawings and photographs.”—N. Y. Times.
“However fascinating these researches into hoary antiquity may be, the great value of Mr. Hall’s work consists in its ample and careful description of the ruins as they are, and in the plans and photographs which illustrate it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 501. Ap. 15. 1250w. + =Nation.= 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 610w. =N. Y. Times.= 10: 185. Mr. 25, ‘05. 390w.
“In the main his account is intended for the archæologist rather than for the general reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 80:139. My. 13, ‘05. 330w.
=Halsey, R. T. H.= Boston port bill as pictured by a contemporary London cartoonist. Grolier club.
“Through the associations of the remarkable series of cartoons described and beautifully reproduced the author is led to tell directly or incidentally almost everything that is known about the Port bill ... [He] traces, through little-known letters, newspaper accounts, and pamphlets, public and private opinion about the Port bill both in England and America.... Five of the mezzotint cartoons ... were the work of one man, Philip Dawe, a pupil of Hogarth.... Other humorous mezzotints ... were put forth by anonymous cartoonists, and the subject is further fitly illustrated by portraits from contemporary prints and pictures of statues and famous historical buildings.”—Outlook.
+ + =Outlook.= 79:907. Ap. 8, ‘05. 580w.
=Halstead, George Bruce.= Rational geometry. $1.75. Wiley.
Altho Euclid still holds its place as the one authoritative text book on geometry, modern criticism tends to make pure reason the only court of appeal, and doubts the reliability of the intuition of our senses. This “Rational geometry” upholds this view, using points, lines and planes as the names of things, the physical conception of which is not necessary. “The object is to deduce the conclusions which follow from certain assumed relations between these things, so that if the relations hold, the conclusions follow, whatever these things may be. Space is the totality of these things; its properties are solely logical, and varied in character according to the assumed fundamental relations. These assumed relations which develop space concepts that are apparently in accord with vision constitute the modern foundations of Euclidean space.” (Science). At a hasty glance the book does not appear to differ from ordinary text-books, diagrams are given, but not as essential to the argument. Altho the method of development is new, all the school propositions of both plane and solid geometry are eventually developed.
* Reviewed by E. T. Brewster.
=Atlan.= 96: 682. N. ‘05. 180w.
“The aim of modern rational geometry is to pass from premise to conclusion solely by the force of reason. Mr. Halstead is the first to write an elementary text-book, which adopts a modern view, and in this respect his ‘Rational geometry’ is epoch-making. It seems as if the present text-book ought not to be above the heads of the average elementary students, and that it should serve to develop logical power as well as practical geometrical ideas.” Arthur S. Hathaway.
+ + =Science,= n. s. 21: 183. F. 3, ‘05. 1090w.
=Hamilton, Sylla W.= Forsaking all others: a story of Sherman’s march through Georgia. $1.50. Neale.
A Union soldier, by persistent kindness to a fiery daughter of the South wins her, and makes her see that though her home lies devastated in the wake of Sherman’s army, and her childhood’s lover lies dead upon the battle field, a great right has grown out of these many wrongs. The book gives a vivid picture of Georgia’s sufferings during the war, and of the brutality of Sherman’s men.
=Hammond, Captain Harold.= Pinkey Perkins: just a boy. †$1.50. Century.
Wholesome fun pervades this story of Pinkey, the boy, his pranks, his love affairs, and his troubles. The reader’s sympathy is wholly with him in his contests with an over-zealous teacher, in his celebration of April fool’s day, and July fourth, and in his encounters with old Hostetters, for Pinkey is always quick-witted, and never malicious.
“Is a little different from most boys’ books. He is never monotonous, however.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
=Hammond, Mrs. L. H.= Master-word, †$1.50 Macmillan.
A story of Tennessee, which treats of the race question. Viry, whose mother is three parts white and whose father is a Southern gentleman, feels the call of the white race but is doomed to be relegated to the black. Loathing any affiliation with them, she is one of them, and the slight arguments used by her dead father’s wife, who forgives her husband and nobly tries to do her duty by his alien child, neither help her nor solve the problem. There are other characters and an account of the development of the phosphate region.
“It is the first compassionate, intelligent interpretation ever written by any white person, North or South, of that pathetic class of men and women who suffer the loneliness and humiliation of a peculiar condition. The sympathetic attitude of the book merits all praise, and it is a story full of incident and interest.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 902. Ap. 20, ‘05. 470w.
“The author has written with sincerity and with a high purpose; and, although there are things regrettable in her book, and she has fallen short of her aim, she has done some admirable work, and has achieved a striking story, quite out of the ordinary.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 130. Mr. 4, ‘05. 790w.
“The story is unusual in its nobility of spirit and its sanity.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“It is admirably constructed and well carried out save for a somewhat forced and over-pathetic conclusion.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 100w.
“‘The master-word’ is a book that stands far above the average of contemporary fiction.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 245w.
=Hampson, W. J.= Radium explained. **50c. Dodd.
“This little book ... will ... serve a useful purpose in giving an elementary acquaintance with the subject of radio-activity, so far as that is accessible to those with little scientific knowledge.... Probably one of the most valuable chapters in the book is that on the medical aspects of radium.”—Nature.
“The language is simple and clear and should be comprehensible to any one with the ordinary knowledge of chemistry and physics.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1366. Je. 15, ‘05. 140w.
— — =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 160w.
“The explanations given of the experimental properties of radium are, so far as we have observed, clear and accurate.” R. J. S.
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 530. Ap. 6, ‘05. 610w.
“As a preparation for the further study of the new element, or for those who wish merely to keep well abreast of the world to-day, his little volume has an important place.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 442. Jl. 1, ‘05. 310w.
=Outlook.= 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 30w.
“Dr. Hampson has a fine sense of value and proportion, both in subject matter and style.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Hanauer, J. E.= Tales told in Palestine; ed. by H. G. Mitchell, *$1.25. Jennings.
A collection of folk-lore stories of ancient and modern Palestine, gathered by a long-time resident of that land, and a contributor to the publication of the Palestine exploration fund. The folk-tales fall into five groups: “Anecdotes more or less historical,” “Legends of saints and heroes,” “Stories of modern miracles,” “Tales embodying popular superstitions,” and “Specimens of oriental wit and wisdom.” There are a few helpful notes and numerous illustrations.
“As entertaining as any book of travel could be. Its combinations of shrewdness and superstition, naiveté and astuteness, its worldly wit and wisdom so other-worldly than our own, furnish an agreeable and wholesome mental recreation for a leisure hour.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 80w.
“Charming weird folk-lore tales.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 60w.
=Hanchett, Henry Granger.= Art of the musician: a guide to the intelligent appreciation of music, **$1.50 Macmillan.
The purpose of this book is “to supply the demand of those mature lovers of music who wish to understand the aims and purposes of a composer, some of the methods of his work, and to get some ground for fairly judging his attainments and results. It aims to supply such information as should make concert-going more satisfactory, listening to music more intelligent, and that may assist in elevating the standards of church, theatrical and popular music.”
“Undoubtedly there is need of books of this kind, but it is to be feared that this one will not accomplish its excellent object, because of the author’s diffuseness and lack of lucidity.”
— =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 90w.
“A unique and useful book, and one which goes far to demonstrate his theory that music can be thoroughly and usefully taught without teaching the art of performance.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 419. Je. 16, ‘05. 420w.
“In short, it is a treatise on how to listen to music that he gives us, and it is a very good one.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 693. S. 21, ‘05. 640w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.
“And while Mr. Hanchett may not have got to the bottom of all that he discusses, much of what he says is useful and much will be illuminating to the intelligent student who follows him through his discourse and scrutinizes the examples he gives.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 410w.
“Useful, however, as this book is sure to be, it is not free from certain evident defects.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 400w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 835. My. 27, ‘05. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
=Hancock, Harrie Irving, and Higashi, Katsukuma.= Complete Kano jiu-jitsu, *$4.50. Putnam.
The Kano system of jiu-jitsu, the official jiu-jitsu of the Japanese government is dealt with in this volume. It also contains chapters on the serious and fatal blows and on kuatsu, the Japanese science of the restoration of life.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 100w.
“Beyond doubt, it is the most comprehensive work on the subject in England.” Adachi Kinnosuké.
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 389. Ag. 17, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 118. Ag. 10, ‘05. 230w.
“The volume is the most helpful and comprehensive treatise on jiu-jitsu that has yet been published.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 571. S. 2, ‘05. 1130w.
“A manual of the most approved form of the Japanese art of combat.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 60w.
“So far as we have examined, every trick is sufficiently pictured and explained.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 415. S. 23, ‘05. 550w.
=Spec.= 95: 263. Ag. 19, ‘05. 30w.
=Hancock, Harrie Irving.= Physical culture life: a guide for all who seek the simple laws of abounding health, **$1.25. Putnam.
The purpose of this book is “to represent in a clear and succinct way, the real aims and methods of the physical culture movement that is marching onward in England and the United States.” The reader is urged to follow “the plain and easily learned laws of physical culture.” and is told how to exercise the individual muscles of his body, and how much depends upon water and fresh air. The volume is well illustrated.
Reviewed by Eustace Miles.
— + =Acad.= 68: 491. My. 6, ‘05. 760w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 422. Je. 16, ‘05. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 271. Ag. 3, ‘05. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 89. F. 11, ‘05. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 140w.
=Hand, James Edward=, ed. Ideals of science and faith: essays by various authors. **$1.60. Longmans.
A series of ten essays, each from a different hand, and divided into two groups. The first six are included under the general title, “Approaches through science and education,” and deal “with the possible contemporary relations between science and religion (relations of an ironical nature) from the standpoint of the lay expert.” (Science). They are as follows: Physics, Sir O. Lodge; Biology, J. A. Thompson; Psychology, J. H. Muirhead; Sociology, V. V. Branford; Ethics, B. Russell; General and technical education, P. Geddes. The second group, entitled “Approaches through faith,” presents the clerical standpoint in its various phases as follows: The Presbyterian approach, J. Kelman; A Church of England approach, R. Payne; The church as seen from the outside, P. N. Waggett; The Church of Rome, W. Ward.
=Atlan.= 95: 702, My. ‘05. 640w.
“Is conceived after an admirable plan. The minority of essays, which are good, are so thoroughly good, that they lift the work up to a high rank as a sadly-needed eirenicon.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 80: 675. F. ‘05. 1150w.
“A rather prosy introduction. The essays are of various degrees of merit.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 87. F. 1, ‘05. 640w.
“It deserves to be commended. A very remarkable series.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 41. Ja. 5, ‘05. 970w. (Summary of book.)
Reviewed by Charles M. Bakewell.
* + =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 105. O. ‘05. 3530w.
“The plan of the work is novel, even daring, and conjures up piquant expectancy. No doubt the work is tentative, not conclusive. The collection remains notable and has everything to recommend it to reflective men, no matter on which side of the fence their main pre-suppositions happen to lie.” R. M. Wenley.
+ + — =Science,= n.s. 21: 26. Ja. 26, ‘05. 760w.
* =Handel, George Frederick.= Songs and airs; ed. by Ebenezer Prout. pa. $1.50; cl. $2.50. Ditson.
The two volumes of Handel’s songs, one for high voice, the other for low, are recent additions to “The musicians library.” The songs in each are prefaced by a sketch of Handel’s life and a brief note on his different compositions.
* =Hanotaux, Gabriel.= Contemporary France, tr. from the French. 4v. ea. *$3.75. Putnam.
This “record of the inner diplomacy of the great powers of Europe during the last thirty years” is issued in four volumes, each complete in itself. The political figures of each period are brilliantly described. Volume I. France in 1870-1873, treats of the Franco-Prussian war and the close of the second empire; Volume II., France in 1874-1878, gives the history of the Broglie cabinets together with the attempt to restore the monarchy. Volume III., covers 1879-1889 and Volume IV., 1890-Dec. 31, 1900.
* “The part of the volume which deals with art and letters strikes us as poor.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 260w. (Review of v. 2.)
* “The most interesting chapters are perhaps those which attempt to survey the soul of France, as it expressed itself in literature and the arts in the years succeeding the war.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 385. N. 10, ‘05. 630w. (Review v. 2.)
* “The second volume of M. Hanotaux’s monumental work emphasizes the good qualities of its predecessor. First of all, the narration bears the marks of intimate experience. The volume is thus a distinct and notable contribution to history.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review v. 2.)
* =Harben, William Nathaniel.= Pole Baker; a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
Another story of northern Georgia of which Pole Baker, who has already appeared as a humorous character in “Abner Daniel,” is the central figure. He is here made not only humorous but forceful and even dramatic and he tells many good yarns and plays an important part in the love affair of an unsteady young merchant and a girl named Cynthia.
* “A somewhat crude if spirited story. There is no part of the narrative that impresses one either with its reality or its charm. As a novel, it cannot be considered a success.”
— =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “The translations given of the sadness and splendor of married love, the whimsical veracity of the whole conception, shows this to be the author’s best work in fiction so far.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1228. N. 23, ‘05. 210w.
* “If they are occasionally innocently coarse they are yet very truly and forcibly moral in intention.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 100w.
=Harbottle, Thomas Benfield.= Dictionary of battles from the earliest date to the present time. *$2. Dutton.
This book is a companion volume to “Dictionary of historical allusions.” The author, who has compiled several excellent dictionaries of quotations, died while this work was going to press, so the proof-reading and indexing was done by Colonel P. H. Dalbiac, who had collaborated with him in earlier works. The book is brought close to date—there are five entries under the heading Russo-Japanese war.
“The more modern battles are more efficiently dealt with than the ancient, and we look in vain for any mention of the wars of the ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Israelites. With this exception the book is adequate.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 140w.
“It is a handy compendium, but must be used with caution. Too many details are given to insure freedom from error.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 140w.
“A little more pains on his part, however, would have improved his book exceedingly. The location of the various battlefields is invariably omitted.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 310w.
“Such a book has an evident if rather limited scope of usefulness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 90w.
“We have fairly tested the Dictionary of battles and have not found it wanting.”
+ + =The Westminister Review.= 163: 233. F. ‘05. 160w.
* =Hardy, Rev. Edward John.= John Chinaman at home, **$2.50. Scribner.
The author “for over three years was chaplain to His Majesty’s forces at Hong Kong.... His volume is a very medley of things Chinese,—Chinese cities with their local peculiarities; Chinese food, medicine, clothes, houses and gardens, servants and laborers; customs of marriage, burial, and mourning; Chinese boys, women, and girls, their manners, education, punishments; religions, superstitions, spirits, monks and priests, foreign missionaries, New Year devotions and rites, government,—and much more.”—Dial.
* “A simple-minded, chatty and amusing work.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 120w.
* “For one who contemplates a hurried journey through the lands of the ‘Son of Heaven,’ Mr. Hardy’s book will be a most acceptable eye-opener to Chinese characteristics.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 320w.
* “To write so readable a book on China, in a vein both sympathetic and critical, is in itself no mean feat.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 505. D. 21, ‘05. 430w.
* “The author’s style is extremely readable and vivacious. His book contains a great deal of real information.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 150w.
* “If the author is not always judicial in his conclusions nor strictly accurate in his statements, he is very readable and gives a fair all-round view of the Chinaman that is slowly being transformed by the very agencies he is here shown to despise.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 598. N. 4, ‘05. 940w.
* =Hare, Christopher.= Dante the wayfarer. *$2.50. Scribner.
“As the author remarks in his preface, Dante’s great poem is ‘a marvellous record of travel,’ and the book follows his journeys from first to last, recording, as the poet does, all the varied incidents of his wayfaring, his observations of man and beast and bird, the vicissitudes of climate and weather, and whatever else, however trifling, could enter into the itinerary.”—Critic.
* “In this book ‘he’ has many times miswritten, mismetred, and misinterpreted his author. Sometimes it appears that he is merely careless or genuinely ignorant; at others that he is wilful. Indeed the inception of the book seems due to wilfulness.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 1075. O. 14, ‘05. 1030w.
* “How much this record must illustrate the poem one would hardly imagine before reading the book.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Tourists intending to visit the places he describes cannot do better than secure his book. As an authority on Dante—that is another matter.” Walter Littlefield.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 848. D. 2, ‘05. 940w.
* “It has a delicate biographical flavor, is not without critical value, and may be commended alike to students of the master and to those who have yet to penetrate the depths with him, and with him ascend the heights.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 716. N. 25, ‘05. 210w.
* “If the author’s first idea is not new, he has carried it out entirely on his own lines, and in an attractive manner.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: sup. 789. N. 18, ‘05. 1410w.
* =Harland, Marion, pseud. (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune), and Van de Water, Virginia.= Everyday etiquette. **$1. Bobbs.
A practical manual of social usages which sets forth the “Gospel of Conventionality” for the especial benefit of those who thru changed fortune find themselves in a new social environment. There are chapters upon such subjects as; invitations, calls, letter-writing, weddings, the debutante, the chaperon, gifts, mourning, the table, etiquette at home and in public, the church, and mistress and maid. The book does not cover a brilliant social season, but it is a helpful volume for the home and concerns itself with daily conduct and modest entertainment.
=Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf.= Expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.
“Dr. Moffatt ... is a competent translator of Prof. Harnack’s notable work. Since its publication in Germany in 1902 the book has commanded attention; and as it is the first exhaustive history of the Christian mission, it is well that it should be in the hands of those English readers whose ignorance of German does not interfere with their interest in the beginnings of Christianity and the advance of the early church.... One of the most valuable parts of Prof. Harnack’s book is that which deals with the extension of Christianity down to 325 A. D.”—Ath.
* “It is the best account that we have yet had of the way in which Christianity spread over the civilized world. Where the book is disappointing is in its attempted explanation of the remarkable way in which Christianity spread, and in its inadequate treatment of external influences.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 1258. D. 2, ‘05. 670w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It hardly requires to be said of any work by Prof. Harnack that it is marked by richness of historical detail; and it may be confidently asserted that this one will maintain his high reputation as an ecclesiastical historian.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 463. O. 1730w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
* “It is an indispensable work of reference as to Christian activities in that period.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1159. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“It has many of the characteristic defects of the author, but it has also, in a very marked degree, his particular merits; it is vigorous, original, full of life, and, above all, draws its material straight from the original sources.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 298. S. 22, ‘05. 1330w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Much of this is now ‘common form,’ after the researches of Schürer, not to speak of the now antiquated work of Dollinger, but Harnack puts his points with less pedantry than the former, and with better equipped scholarship than the latter. Yet much will be new even to the expert student.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 580w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The subject of course is interesting; the treatment is not, except to those who dig deeply into theology.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 676. O. 14, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 370w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =Spec.= 95: 656. O. 28, ‘05. 1590w.
=Harold, Childe=, pseud. See =Field, Edward Salisbury.=
=Harper, Vincent.= Mortgage on the brain. †$1.50. Doubleday.
“The strange woman who is the central personage of this queer story has three distinct personalities.... [She] is Lady Torbeth, the cultivated, self-centered, high-minded wife of a British peer.... She is also a Miss Errington, neurotic and erotic, and a Miss Leighton, sentimental and innocent.... The problem is to expel the two superfluous personalities from the brain of Lady Torbeth. This is accomplished by ... the employment of radio-activity, electricity, hypnotism, and mumbo-jumbo jargon.”—N. Y. Times.
“The story is almost plausible. It is deeply interesting, even thrilling.” Albert Warren Ferris.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 67. S. ‘05. 1200w.
— =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 80w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 200w.
“As a story Mr. Harper’s novel is ill-constructed and unsatisfactory.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 248. Ap. 15, ‘05. 600w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Harper weaves a strange and fascinating web of incidents, somewhat bewildering in its shifting, glimmering improbability, but none the less suggestive and taking.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 763. Je. ‘05. 80w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Critical and exegetical commentary on Amos and Hosea. **$3. Scribner.
“Dr. Harper is in thorough sympathy with the modern analytical method of the study of the Bible. He correctly says that the reconstruction of the text is the first duty of a commentator in the study of such writers as Amos and Hosea.... He also recognizes the profound moral and spiritual significance of the Old Testament history.”—Outlook.
“It is painstaking, accurate and thorough in scholarship, fair and sound in judgment, full and impartial in the statement of contrary opinion, and mindful of its text. In general, President Harper represents the view of the modern critical scholarship. His views on many particular passages will be questioned.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 580w.
* “President Harper’s ‘Amos and Hosea’ fully sustains the reputation of American Old Testament scholarship, and are the best and fullest exposition of those most important prophets.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“But taken as a whole his book combines thorough technical scholarship with large measure of ethical and spiritual insight, and we think his ‘Commentary on Amos and Hosea’ will take its place among the best in this very excellent series.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 340w.
* “Professor W. R. Harper’s commentary on these two prophets is the fullest that has appeared in English. Our chief complaint is that it is too full; the original scripture lies almost buried under the mass of authorities and opinions.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 1300w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Priestly element in the Old Testament: an aid to historical study for use in advanced Bible classes. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
A revised and enlarged edition of Dr. Harper’s work in which there are new chapters upon the Literature of worship, legal, historical, hymnal, and on the Permanent value of the priestly element.
“It is a valuable aid to the historical study of the worship, ritual and laws of the Old Testament and is especially full in its references to authorities.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 50w.
“As a standard type of excellence among manuals for Biblical study this volume, available for various methods of teaching, is unsurpassed.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 900. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Prophetic element in the Old Testament, $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
These studies are intended primarily for students in colleges or theological seminaries, but the author has endeavored to make them suitable also for advanced classes in Sunday schools. Part 1, covers The general scope of the prophetic element in the Old Testament; Part 2, The history of prophecy through Hosea. The studies are concise and scientific in treatment. Appendices include A table of important dates, A chronological table of the religious life of Israel, The prophetic vocabulary, and An analysis of the Hexateuch.
“It is a complete guide to this period of prophetic work. Its method is inductive and constructive.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 398. N. ‘05. 70w.
“This is the needed complement to Dr. Harper’s work on ‘The priestly element.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 140w.
=Harper, William Rainey.= Religion and the higher life: talks to students. *$1. Univ. of Chicago press.
Religion as presented by President Harper in these talks to students is an attractive but very serious thing, to be gotten and kept only by the bravest struggle. He summons his hearers to meet the peculiar and tremendous responsibilities which rest upon them as college men, and tells them with an almost fatherly sympathy and undertone of pleading how religion will help them in a most practical way to meet the sufferings and temptations which await them. Noteworthy are the chapter on Our intellectual difficulties, in which he shows that doubts are not inconsistent with the Christian life, but are in fact inevitable, and the chapter entitled Bible study and religious life, in which he argues that the supreme spiritual value of the Bible is independent of the literary and historical criticism to which it is properly subjected.
“The sympathy with young life is unmistakable. The altruistic spirit breathes through every address. The treatment of religious difficulties is robust and sensible.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 603. Jl. ‘05. 440w.
=Atlan.= 95: 706. My. ‘05. 200w.
“His moral counsels, admonitions, and warnings are simple and straightforward, his tone is natural, his language without pretence.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 125. Ap. ‘05. 350w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 100w. (States doctrine of essays.)
=Harper, William Rainey.= Trend in higher education. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
Dr. Harper presents a series of observations which have been made along the way towards the yet unreached goal of a formulated philosophy of the trend in higher education. He shows that the conspicuous elements which characterize the movement—among them college self-government, freedom from ecclesiastical control, and right of free utterance—all point towards the “growing democratization of higher educational work.” Some of the chapters are, “The university and democracy,” “Some present tendencies of popular education,” “The university and religious education,” “Waste in higher education,” “Dependence of the West upon the East,” “The business side of the university,” “Are school teachers underpaid?” “Why are there fewer students for the ministry?” “University training for a business career,” “Coeducation,” etc.
“The articles, with the exception of some brief occasional addresses, are vital and frank almost to the point of bluntness. The treatment is fair, and no attempt is made to criticize a particular institution by insinuation. Dr. Harper takes a vigorous and business-like attitude, modern but not radical.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 271. Ap. 16, ‘05. 2210w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 273. Ag. 3, ‘05. 60w.
“He makes no attempt to deal with the subject in a systematic way; the papers are somewhat desultory and disconnected.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 259. Ag. 11, ‘05. 880w.
“On the whole the book is that of a man of learning of no very pronounced views, who may be called an educational opportunist.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 259. S. 28, ‘05. 360w.
“The value of the book and the chief interest of it consists in the total effect of the assembled material.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 164. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1130w.
“What gives most vital value to the volume is its discussion of what the university and the church have to do with the problems of democracy and religion, as well as with those of education. Such criticisms from such a source cannot be waived aside; they may be thought too sweeping; exceptions exist; but Dr. Harper’s ‘record of observations here and there’ is a needed reveille.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 220w.
=Harriman, Karl Edwin.= Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.
On his journey across the continent from Boston to San Francisco, a young Harvard man wins the girl he loves and learns thru her to understand the spirit of the West. With the girl he wins her “Uncle Jack” the capitalist whose support for one of his father’s business ventures he has come so far to seek. There is a detailed account of the trip over the Santa Fé and a description of the Grand canyon.
“The note of personality in the author’s pictures of things Western is the best feature of the story, which for the rest, lacks something of high-bred delicacy in its portrayal of young love and is of the slightest texture.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 478. Jl. 22, ‘05. 190w.
=Harris, Charles.= Pro fide: a defence of natural and revealed religion. *$3. Dutton.
“The author, an accomplished theologian of the Anglican church, has written for intelligent laymen, as well as for the clergy and students preparing for the ministry. He is well versed in the literature of his subject, whether hostile or friendly to his purpose of vindicating the rationality of Christian theology. His standpoint is indicated by his belief that the sayings of Jesus to his disciples ‘undoubtedly confer a supernatural authority of some kind’ upon the Church.”—Outlook.
“While his work in a number of points fails of meeting the full demand of a strictly scientific apologetic, its spirit is admirable. Its full repertory of the evidences and arguments advanced by parties in the great debate presents materials for independent judgment as well as for views for which he contends.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 220w.
“Mr. Harris’ text-book on Christian apologetics like Mr. Pullan’s on early Church history, will be extremely useful to those who are already on his side and are in need of a short, clear, able statement of their case; but we doubt whether it would convince an opponent.”
+ — =Sat R.= 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w.
=Harris, J. Henry.= Fishers. $1.50. Lane.
A poor fishing-village in Cornwall forms the setting of this novel, and the narrow views of the simple, superstitious fisher-folk are strongly contrasted with the broad-minded outlook of Uncle Zack, who is a progressive power, and a wholly charming character. The romance of the story is furnished by Robert Pendean the son of a successful Wall street speculator. Robert, while at Harvard develops a taste for Utopian social ideals and his father gives him five million dollars and sends him to Europe in the hope that he will acquire a taste for “high finance.” He drifts into Cornwall, falls in love with Mary Vaughan, and these two, to the joy of Uncle Zack, develop a co-operative enterprise among the fishermen and build a model fishing village near the dilapidated old town.
“A thoughtful and well-written novel, a romance in which the common life of a poor fishing village is invested with rare charm, while with a few exceptions the ethical ideals evinced are wholesome. It is to us a matter of much surprise to find a writer who while not evincing the bravery of thought or grasp of fundamental principles that mark the writings of advanced economists and practical idealists among modern social philosophers, is nevertheless far in advance of many conventional religious, ethical and social teachers, striving to justify the gaining of wealth through speculation in Wall street.”
+ — =Arena.= 33: 108. Ja. ‘05. 920w. (Story of plot.)
=Harris, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus, pseud.).= Told by Uncle Remus, †$2. McClure.
The inimitable Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox are just as entertaining as ever in this new series of escapades in spite of the fact that Uncle Remus says “I done got so ol’ dat my min’ flutters like a bird in de bush.” The book is characteristically illustrated by A. B. Frost, Frank Verbeck and J. M. Condé.
* =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 25w.
* “Permeated by the same sly humor that has given Uncle Remus his unique position among lovers of good stories.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 444. D. 16, ‘05. 190w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
* “Shows the familiar vein unexhausted.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* “Joel Chandler Harris’s new Remus stories are as full of the humor and charm of negro lore as ever.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 864. D. 2, ‘05. 610w.
* “It is the same old Uncle Remus, and the same old marvelous tales of animal lore, full of gentle humor and kindly negro wisdom.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Harrison, Edith Ogden (Mrs. Carter Henry).= Moon princess. **$1.25. McClurg.
The youngest and most beautiful of the princesses of the moon asks as a boon of her moon-queen mother that she and her brother, the sun prince Dorian, may spend their honeymoon upon the earth. They and their retinue pass down a silver ladder made for them by the moon sprites, and visit all parts of the earth and the caves of the ocean. They are told about the little dwellers of the marsh, and the rainbow sisters, and hear stories of the jewelled beach, the lost ocean, the princess Sunset and many others. The book is full of fanciful conceits and is charmingly illustrated in color by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
* “A nice new fairy story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 190w.
* “A simply told and prettily fanciful tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 20w.
=Harrison, Frederic.= Chatham, **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Fundamentally out of sympathy with the work which is Chatham’s chief glory—the creation of the British empire” (Spec.), Mr. Harrison follows Pitt’s career “through the long years in opposition, through the days of savage attacks upon Walpole, upon ‘the brilliant Carteret, the vacillating Pulteney, the tricky Newcastle,’ the king’s ‘Hanoverian policy,’ the rivalries in the Commons with Henry Fox and Murray, who was later Lord Mansfield; the tenure of the Pay office and the marvel of Pitt’s perfect honesty, the support of the Pelham ministry (and certain inconsistencies thereto appertaining), till at last, in 1756, ‘the terrible cornet of horse,’ the bugbear of governments, became ‘First minister,’ though under the nominal leadership of the Duke of Devonshire.” (N. Y. Times.)
“A life of William Pitt, the elder, without sympathy and without conviction.”
— — =Acad.= 68: 267. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1830w.
“Mr. Harrison brings much freshness of treatment to bear upon Chatham’s career, particularly during its earlier periods. A singularly dignified portrait of a figure of lonely majesty.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 394. Ap. 1. 1480w.
“With all its brevity, Mr. Harrison’s study of the elder Pitt is as would be expected, of the most finished character.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 277. Ag. ‘05. 310w.
“Mr. Harrison is no indiscriminate eulogist.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 527. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
“A compact but comprehensive biography of the great statesman.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Frederic Harrison’s monograph, however, is for the present the best study there is of Chatham.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 96. Jl. 13, ‘05. 600w.
“No one who has dealt of late with the career of the Great Commoner has shown a deeper admiration of his nobler and more positive qualities.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 266. S. 28, ‘05. 1400w.
“Mr. Harrison begins dryly enough, but in the end he has managed to convey to his reader something—a vital something—of his own feeling for the bigness, the nobility, the splendor of the man and his ideas.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1420w.
“Mr. Harrison has painted Pitt in language which, without bringing the great commoner from the pedestal whereon posterity has placed him, enables us to measure him in due proportion both as man and as statesman.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 384. Je 10, ‘05. 2620w.
“Mr. Harrison has pierced the veil of mystery that shrouded the great Chatham and shown him as he must have been.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Harrison had a magnificent opportunity, but English readers when they wish a short satisfactory account of Chatham in their own tongue must still rely on Macaulay’s two superb essays supplemented by Mr. Walford Green’s recent admirable and sober biography.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 632. My. 13, ‘05. 810w.
“Mr. Harrison has produced an interesting and spirited book, but it is disfigured by this fatal lack of sympathy and in consequence by a tone of petty and irrelevant criticism.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 512. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1330w.
=Hart, Albert Bushnell=, ed. American nation: a history from original sources by associated scholars. v. 1-5. *$9; v. 6-10. *$9. Harper.
This series, of which the present volumes form the first section, is to contain twenty-six volumes with one volume of index and one of maps. Section one is in five volumes. Vol. I., The European background of American history, by E. P. Cheney: vol. II., Basis of American history, by Livingston Farrand; vol. III., Spain in America, by E. G. Bourne; vol. IV., England in America, by Lyon G. Tyler; vol. V., Colonial self-government, by Charles M. Andrews; vol. VI., Provincial America, by Evarts B. Green: vol. VII., France in America, by Reuben G. Thwaites. With frontispieces and maps.
“Not without shortcomings ... (the faults of omission), this work is charmingly simple, direct, and comprehensive. The work must therefore prove a boon to schools and to the general public, which have too long been at the mercy of the hobby-rider and the sensation-monger. It is conservative and refreshingly healthy in tone throughout.” W. H. Holmes.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 638. Ap. ‘05. 1060w. (Review of vol. II.)
“In many respects no better introduction to American history could be desired. It seems, moreover accurate in a degree very unusual in general statements covering so wide a field. It is on the side of omissions that the book can be most seriously criticized.” Victor Coffin.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 858. Jl. ‘05. 1680w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Dr. Tyler is particularly happy in tracing beginnings. The great fault of the book is Dr. Tyler’s bias against the Puritan and for the cavalier. On the whole Dr. Tyler’s treatment leaves an impression of slightness. Dr. Andrews keeps to the historical point of view ... and his vision is sane and comprehensive. Dr. Andrews has accomplished a great task worthily. It means something not merely to scholarship but even to the comity of nations that at last we have a popular history of our colonial era, untainted by provincialism. Dr. Andrews is always clear and most always forceful; but I venture to call attention to a few errors and weaknesses.” Willis Mason West.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 869. Jl. ‘05. 3440w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “Judging by the first series, the history will be, when complete, a monumental work fitted to stand comparison with similar productions of the English and German students.” Carl Kelsey.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 753. N. ‘05. 600w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
“A series of well-written monographs of undoubted value. Professor Cheney [in vol I] presents such a basis for the study of beginnings of American history that the general reader is under large debt for the information thus put in readable and compact form. Within the scope of his treatment [vol II], however, he has given us a satisfactory piece of work. [Vol. III.] Like the rest of the works, rather written down to what the author considers the standard of public intelligence. Nevertheless it views its subject with a breadth and force that make the treatment commendable. [Vol. V.] Accurate and interesting. The style of the monographs is in general rather dry, and yet it is readable and interesting to those who use the volumes for study.”
+ + + =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 1120w.
“The author of this volume [vol. I] has had a difficult task, and has done it admirably. The story is told delightfully and with care; but the necessity for compression causes occasionally a lack of clearness. The author [of vol. II] himself informs us that his task has been one of condensation, and the results are especially evident in the first third of the volume, which is somewhat below the general average of interest. The chief service of this portion of the book will be its suggestiveness and the references in Professor Farrand’s excellent bibliography. The many striking summaries of events and characterizations of individuals which one finds throughout the book [in vol III]. [In vol. IV] President Tyler has given us a scrupulously fair and a very interesting work. The author gives us no detailed study of institutional growth, but a general narrative. Here one inevitably compares President Tyler’s work with that of the late Mr. Fiske, with results not at all to the disadvantage of President Tyler. [Vol. V]. This is very certainly the best general account of this period that has yet appeared. One feels that the author not only has intimate acquaintance with the old sources, but also has been fortunate enough to reach considerable new material. Professor Andrews is especially to be congratulated upon the catholic view of colonial history that he presents to us. As successful as his descriptions of institutions is the author’s delineation of personality. We must not omit commendation of the bibliographical matter appended to each volume. Volumes like that of Professor Bourne will take their place as standard works. For the general reader, ... the work will prove a mine of information interestingly told, well arranged, and attractively published.” St. George L. Sioussat.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 190. Mr. 16, ‘05. 3050w.
* “The editor of the coöperative history of which these volumes form a part deserves congratulation upon the success with which the process of ‘linking,’ which here is so very necessary, has been carried out.” St. George Sioussat.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 236. O. 16, ‘05. 2100w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
* “However, from the standpoint of critical scholarship, the authors leave American history very much as they found it. The cooperative plan has precluded a consistent and systematic treatment of the development of British colonial policy and American commercial interests, and the economic analysis is not keen or original.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 872. O. 12, ‘05. 770w. (Review of v. 6-10.)
* “Tho the series cannot escape some of the limitations of the monographic method, yet it has already taken the place which it will hold for many years of the most important reference history of our country.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 1-10.)
“Never fail to be direct and lucid. The value of the series as a whole can hardly be overestimated.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 304. S. 22, ‘05. 3340w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
“Taking the five volumes as a whole, the general verdict must be one of cordial approval. All the writers have succeeded in attaining brevity and compactness without falling into an elementary style, while the volumes of Professor Bourne and Professor Andrews must be given high rank as substantive contributions in their respective fields. The literary form, though in no case striking, is meritorious and of fairly even quality.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 96. F. 2, ‘05. 2440w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
* “As a condensed account of a peculiarly difficult period, written in the light of modern historical scholarship, the volume is a commendable piece of work, and a worthy addition to the series in which it appears.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 306. O. 12, ‘05. 1200w. (Review of v. 6.)
“He has made a careful and discriminating use of his material, and apart from a useful text has given us a valuable critical essay on the authorities.” Robert Livingston Schuyler.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 480. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1110w. (Review of v. 6.)
“Prof. Thwaites, while hardly possessed of a fascinating style, is always readable. His work is brief, clear, and always to the point.” R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 860w. (Review of v. 7.)
“Prof. Howard’s work compares favorably with the best volumes of the ‘American nation’ series that have yet appeared.” R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 980w. (Review of v. 8.)
* “Prof. Van Tyne has succeeded in turning out a fresh, original, and, considering the limitations of space imposed, an adequate history of the Revolution.” R. L. S.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 680. O. 14, ‘05. 760w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w. (Review of v. 7.)
“A survey at once broad and specific, and of high value to the student desirous of obtaining the latest word of modern research. It is as a helpful work of reference rather than as a ‘popular’ history, in the usual acceptation of the term, ... it will deservedly win a place on the library shelves.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 38. S. 2, ‘05. 1790w. (Review of v. 1-6).
“Like Professor Van Tyne—and, for that matter, like almost all the writers who have as yet contributed to the series—[Mr. McLaughlin] shows a firm grasp of detail and perspective, and his exposition is such as to leave all that is salient impressed on the scholar’s mind.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 331. O. 7, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 588. O. ‘05. 560w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
* “The scheme of the history is on the whole good, though we are bound to say that some of the writing is uninspired, and not in the same rank of literary production as much of the work by American writers in the volume of the ‘Cambridge modern history’ dealing with the United States.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 694. N. 4, ‘05. 700w. (Review of v. 1-5.)
=Hart, Albert Bushnell.= Essentials in American history (from the discovery to the present day). *$1.50. Am. bk.
This is one of a series of text books which includes a volume each on ancient, medieval, modern, and English history. “The volumes are intended for use in secondary schools, and contain lists of references and topical questions, but apart from this pedagogic machinery they have little in common with the ordinary schoolbook. The authors have addressed themselves avowedly only to those things which have been vital and significant to the development of the civilizations treated respectively in the several works.” (Outlook.)
“The somewhat original grouping of topics in the Colonial period is the book’s most distinguishing feature. Upon the whole this work of Professor Hart deserves commendation and should meet with a cordial welcome among a wide circle of teachers.” Frank Greene Bates.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 166. O. ‘05. 1240w.
“While the historic narrative is necessarily compact and free from all attempts at rhetorical writing or dramatic presentation, the books are essentially selective in that they purposely omit confusing details.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 442. Je. 17. ‘05. 70w.
* =Hart, Jerome.= Levantine log book. **$2. Longmans.
All the reverence with which one likes to approach the Holy Land is shattered by the genially sarcastic observations which the author makes upon all his observant eyes saw in the Levant. His Levant includes Stamboul, Smyrna, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, Thebes, Alexandria and other places naturally included in this itinerary, and his log book is a record of cheerful disillusionment, but the pictures he draws are amusing enough to compensate for the shock his revelations bring. The volume is illustrated with photographs, many of which were taken by the author.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “A gossipy, vivacious account of travel.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 30w.
* =Harte, Francis Bret.= Her letter, His answer, and Her last letter. $2. Houghton.
“For the present reprint, these old favorites have been literally, as the title-page has it, ‘pictured’ by Mr. Arthur I. Keller.... The illustrations, a few more in number than the stanzas, are in color or in tint, some from wash-drawings and others from pen-and-ink sketches. They catch both the humor and the sentiment of the verses, and the artist has not forgotten that the life of Poverty Flat is now a full generation behind us.”—Dial.
* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “‘Her letter’ is certainly one of the artistic triumphs of the season’s output.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 385. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 90w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
=Hartley, Charles Gasquoine.= Pictures in the Tate gallery. *$3.50. Dutton.
A study, with twenty reproductions, of the famous gallery presented to the British nation by Sir Henry Tate. There is a general summary of modern English art; the treatment is by epochs represented in the gallery.
“The brief essays ... are well written and instructive ... and the illustrations are thoroughly representative.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: 273. My. ‘05. 160w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 90w.
“A general summary of modern English art written in a popular manner, and as such may prove a useful book, for there is discrimination in the criticism.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 115. Ja. 28, ‘05. 40w.
* =Harwood, Edith.= Notable pictures in Florence. *$1.50. Dutton.
The author “aims to help the uninitiated in art matters.... Miss Harwood arranges her artists alphabetically, giving us some account of their lives and their most important works, and telling where these are to be found, with small illustrations, good only for assistance in remembering the compositions. She includes the principal artists represented in the Belle Arti, the Uffizi, and the Pitti, along with frescoes in the churches.”—Nation.
* “The book is good to read, full of interesting historical detail, and ample in quotations from writers ancient and modern in prose and verse.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 270w.
* “The pleasure it has given the writer to set down her impressions may do something toward removing the suggestion that the book lacks a good reason for existence.” Chas. de Kay.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 741. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* “A book distinctly better than the customary ‘center-table’ variety, the text is better than the pictures, but that is not saying that the text is either original or adequate enough.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
=Harwood, W. S.= New creations in plant life: an authoritative account of the life and work of Luther Burbank. **$1.75. Macmillan.
“Following the brief account of Mr. Burbank’s career down to the present time. Mr. Harwood has a chapter on his methods of work in general. He then passes on to a discussion of the individual creations of the breeder, describing the trees created by him, the amaryllis and the poppy, the potato and pomato, lilies, plums, and prunes, the ‘Shasta’ daisy, cacti, breeding plants for perfumes, etc. There are also chapters on breeding and grafting and the commercial aspect of the work; a description of a day with Mr. Burbank, and his personality. The volume is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Given reasonably clear English and logical presentation, the actual information in this book could be condensed into a magazine article.” C. R. B.
+ — =Bot. G.= 40: 459. D. ‘05. 600w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 80w.
“Here and there the style is a little difficult to follow. We can recommend this volume as a readable and truthful description of a remarkable career.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 388. N. 9, ‘05. 510w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 709. O. 21, ‘05. 290w.
* “Contains the most complete and comprehensive account of Mr. Burbank’s great achievements, his methods of work, and his personality. His book is eminently readable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 250w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.
=Hatch, Ernest Frederick George.= Far Eastern impressions. *$1.40. McClurg.
Impressions of Japan, Korea and China, being the author’s recollections of a tour of those countries made some three years ago. His memory is fortified by facts and opinions collected at the time in his note books and the whole is cast in narrative form. While the industrial and political aspects receive first attention, the historical and social phases are fully and fairly presented and the book will undoubtedly fulfill its object of further stimulating public interest in the great Far Eastern problem. There are three maps and eighty-eight illustrations from photographs.
* “Mr. Hatch’s impressions are not mere chance gatherings and ill-digested glimpses; they are acute and weighty observations upon the things that appeal to a business man interested in politics. The volume is well indexed, well illustrated, and written in a clear and forcible style.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 378. D. 1, ‘05. 390w.
* “A capital book for the investor and fortune seeker.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1479. D. 21, ‘05. 90w.
* “The illustrations seem about as valuable as the text, for little of purely original matter of any great importance enters into the book, which is rather too rich in quotations.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 290w.
* “The book is an interesting one to read in connection with Lord Curzon’s and Mr. Norman’s much larger and exhaustive volumes on the same subjects.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 80w.
=Hatch, F. H., and Corstorphine, George Stewart.= Geology of South Africa. *$7. Macmillan.
“The book is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the pre-Karroo rocks.... The Karroo rocks are adequately dealt with in part II.... The coastal system, including the Uitenhage and Umtavuna Cretaceous rocks, profusely illustrated with typical fossils, occupies part III.... Part IV briefly discusses the igneous rocks of doubtful position.... Part V discusses the correlation of the South African strata.”—Nature.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 278. Ag. 26. 1460w.
“The volume might be more truthfully entitled ‘A geognostic account of British South Africa.’ Thus regarded the work is good and should prove of much practical value.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 266. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1510w.
“The authors have certainly succeeded in their self-imposed task ‘to correlate and systematise the valuable results of both official and private work.’” W. G.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 346. Ag. 10, ‘05. 980w.
“Admirable summary provided by these two most competent geologists.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 374. S. 16, ‘05. 1620w.
=Spec.= 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w.
=Hatch, Louis Clinton.= Administration of the American revolutionary army. **$1.50. Longmans.
A monograph, “Harvard historical series X,” which first treats of the evolution of the Continental army and discusses the relation between Congress and the commander-in-chief. There are also chapters on “Appointment and promotion” of officers, setting forth the states’ jealousies; “Foreign officers;” “Pay and half-pay,” the real contrasted with the apparent pay of the soldiers; “Supplying the army,” its mismanagement and the suffering at Valley Forge; “Newburg addresses;” and “Mutiny of 1786, and disbandment of the army.”
“A valuable chapter on the subject of the ‘Appointment and promotion’ of officers, showing the jealousy of the members of Congress for the rights of their states. The chapter on ‘Foreign officers’ is the least valuable in the volume, adding little to the account in Tower’s ‘Lafayette’ and that in Wharton’s ‘Diplomatic correspondence.’ The following chapter, on ‘Pay and half-pay,’ is, on the other hand, a real contribution. ‘Supplying the army,’ the mismanagement in the feeding and clothing of the army, and the consequent suffering at Valley Forge is, on the whole, the most accurate account we have, and is stated with moderation and without sentimentality. The ‘Newburg addresses’ in the following chapter are, however, treated in a fuller and more conclusive manner. The book is well organized and well written. It is a source study of high merit. There is a valuable bibliography and a good index.” C. H. Van Tyne.
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 401. Ja. ‘05. 730w.
* =Hatzfeldt, Paul.= Hatzfeldt letters: letters of Count Paul Hatzfeldt to his wife; written from the headquarters of the King of Prussia, 1870-71; tr. from the French by J. L. Bashford. *$4. Dutton.
“The Countess ... says in her introduction that the letters ‘throw so much light on the great events of 1870-1’ as well as on the character of the writer, that she thinks they will be ‘interesting to many people who only know hitherto of Count Hatzfeldt’s public services.’ ... Candor, however, compels one to deny the accuracy of the first statement.... Count Paul was not behind the scenes in those great events ... his letters ... were merely family letters.... As to throwing light on the diplomat’s character, they may do that; but merely that he loved his family, wanted to be with them.... The letters were written almost daily—sometimes more than one a day—from Aug. 2, 1870, to March 6, 1871, those from and after Oct. 7, being dated from Versailles.”—N. Y. Times.
* “While, however, a little more care in editing might have avoided some blemishes, we welcome the volume as throwing light on many historical characters and events. The index is unfortunately poor, though fairly accurate as far as it goes. There are a few errors in the text.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 499. O. 14. 1490w.
* “In fact, so far as the public is concerned, the translation is far better than the letters themselves.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 660w.
* + =Sat. R.= 100: 754. D. 9, ‘05. 1090w.
=Havell, E. B.= Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri, and the neighborhood. *$1.50. Longmans.
The object of this volume is “to assist those who visit, or have visited, Agra to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest epochs of Indian art.” The author, who is the principal of the government school of art at Calcutta, gives a brief historical introduction followed by a detailed treatment of the buildings and tombs at and about Agra. There are 14 illustrations in half-tone from photographs, four plans, an index and footnotes.
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 269. Ap. 6. ‘05. 110w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 9. Ja. 7, ‘05. 240w.
“The book appears to be at least as good as most books of its kind and better than many.”
=Hawkins, Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope, pseud.).= Servant of the public. †$1.50. Stokes.
A story not of the stage, but of an actress: a character study of Ora Pinsent, a creature of whim and folly, and ever behind the failure she makes of living and the cloud her attractive, clinging, and uncertain personality casts over those who cross her path, is the glory of her triumph behind the footlights. There is slight reference to her public career, but its success seems measured by the detailed failure of her private life.
“We cannot regard ‘A servant of the public’ as other than a failure. It is sufficiently interesting to wile away an hour or two, but not so interesting as to fulfil the promise to which the early career of its author gave rise.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 1025. O. 7, ‘05. 820w.
“Marks an improvement in some ways on ‘Double harness.’ The canvas is less crowded, and the attempt to unravel cross-purposes and conflicting motives is less strenuous yet more successful.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 396. S. 23. 590w.
“One of the few heroines of this season’s fiction that will not easily be forgotten.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 234. N. ‘05. 350w.
* “The ostensibly piquant history of Miss Ora Pinsent is, after all, dull reading.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 140w.
* “The story is written in a vein of grave comedy, pleasing but not stirring in effect. Its half-dozen chief characters are delicately defined, while its diction is an acceptable compound of natural dialogue, engaging description, and agreeable social philosophy.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 310. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* “Altho the plot is a little tenuous, yet Mr. Hope treats it with much solidity.”
+ — =Lit. D.= 31: 886. D. 9, ‘05. 570w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 910w.
“There is a sound as well as subtle philosophy to be read between the lines of this unusual book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 602. S. 16, ‘05. 880w.
“As a clever study of a character often met with in real life, but not so often attempted in fiction, this story offers unusual attractions.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 220w.
* “As an analysis of a temperament and an artistic presentment of individual problems the novel is wrought out with skill and ability.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 140w.
“Mr. Hope’s fine comedy manner has no better example than ‘A servant of the public.’ Lacking the dramatic vitality of ‘Double harness,’ this story is almost as interesting, for it deals, keenly, good-humoredly, with that fascinating subject, the dramatic instincts of a woman.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 320w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 50w.
“The finish of the story illustrated an art of which Anthony Hope is attaining real control. He gives by a very delicate succession of blunting touches, an admirable imitation of the dulling effect of time.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 630w.
“Subject to the limitations of his theme, in the choice of which we are ready to admit that opportunity as well as temperament may have been a governing factor, we have little but praise for the skill, the tact, and the subtlety with which Mr. Anthony Hope has handled it.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 395. S. 16, ‘05. 1160w.
=Hawks, Wells.= Red wagon stories; or, Tales told under the tent. 50c; pa. 25c. Ottenheimer.
In “these realistic sketches, reminiscent of traveling circus days, ... the men who make the great show go, the bill poster, the press agent, the boss canvasman, the bandmaster, and the ticket seller, give us, in their rough and ready manner, a cheery view of their good-humored personalities in the breezy stories they relate when seated around the ring bark between performances.... In all there are eleven stories.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 277. Ap. 29, ‘05. 140w.
=Hawthorne, Hildegarde.= Poems. $1. Badger, R. G.
A little volume of delicate poems by the granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 160w.
Reviewed by William Morton Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 140w.
“A graceful lyric gift, a vein of pretty fancy, and a habitual mood of ideality are very little inconvenienced by disturbing mental processes.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 150w.
“In Miss Hawthorne’s work a certain respect for the purity of the poetic impulse is invariably felt. She neither trifles nor bungles with her art, but approaches it sincerely and with intelligence. Her verse, therefore, even when it is of the slightest, has a delicate, veracious property that charms.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 250w.
=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= Marble faun. $1.25. Crowell.
A volume of the “Thin paper classics,” with an introduction by Katharine Lee Bates, and a frontispiece showing the Grand Salon, in the Capitoline Museum.
=Hay, Helen.= See =Whitney, Mrs. Helen Hay.=
=Hayden, Arthur.= Chats on old furniture: a practical guide for collectors. **$2. Stokes.
The author “begins with a bibliography, and follows this with a glossary.... He then proceeds to deal separately with various periods of style. The first chapter is given to the French renaissance, the second to the English, the Jacobean and Queen Anne styles, and the styles of the successive Louises, with that of the empire. Finally we have an account of the famous English makers. Each chapter has an appendix of recent sale-prices.”—Spec.
“Is an admirable compendium of all that has been written on the subject.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 272. Mr. 18, ‘05. 900w.
=Ath.= 1905, 1: 377. Mr. 25. 490w.
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 846. Je. 24, ‘05. 200w.
“A useful and instructive volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 110w.
=Hayes, Helen.= Her memory book. $2. Harper.
An elaborately decorated volume of blank pages in which a young girl may keep a record of her social life, her “coming-out” party, dinners, teas, balls, card parties, and out of door sports, there is even space for samples of her favorite gowns and newspaper notices; the final page is headed by a wee winged figure with veil, and orange wreath.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 701. O. 14, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 30w.
=Hazlitt, William Carew,= ed. Faiths and folklore. *$6. Scribner.
“This is really a new edition of Brand and Ellis’s ‘Popular antiquities of Great Britain,’ but it is now for the first time alphabetically arranged—an immense improvement—and has also been enlarged and improved. The title, as given above, sufficiently indicates the classes of topics treated.”—Outlook.
“The author has collected a good deal of folklore, which it is useful to possess in alphabetical order, but many of the entries would have been improved by revision.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 39. Jl. 8. 1710w.
“Mr. Hazlitt has added some material to the old book, but neither in quantity nor in quality is it worth while. Most of it is newspaper clippings culled at random, and both in arrangement and in subject shows no sense of proportion or definite plan.”
— =Dial.= 39: 119. S. 1, ‘05. 320w.
“The work is a rarely quaint storehouse of legend, allusion, antiquarian information, and bygone usages.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7. ‘05. 60w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w.
=Healy, Patrick Joseph.= Valerian persecution: a study of the relations between church and state in the third century, A. D. **$1.50. Houghton.
An historical monograph, which is not a sectarian work, but which sets forth in the light of recent investigation, the true history of this period in which the early Christians suffered much at the hands of the Roman state.
* “The character of Dr. Healy’s work may be briefly indicated by saying that, while it satisfies the exacting standards to which the modern writer of history must conform, it will not fail to fascinate the intelligent reader who takes up a book of history, not for severe study, but partly for instruction, partly for entertainment. Clear alike by its methodic arrangement and its simple style, lively and vivid without falling into the rhetorical, the narrative flows smoothly on, and, though abounding in detail, never becomes tedious or monotonous.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 403. D. ‘05. 1070w.
* “Painstaking as he has been in piecing together his material, he does not always seem to have understood the sphere to which the statements he copied down applied. This will not prevent his book’s being useful to a large circle of readers to whom the sources from which he draws are not accessible.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 374. N. 3, ‘05. 540w.
“Dr. Healy’s work is not everywhere selfconsistent.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 346. O. 26, ‘05. 1100w.
“A carefully written monograph.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 385. O. 14, ‘05. 140w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Exotics and retrospectives. Shadowings. A. Japanese miscellany. In ghostly Japan, ea. $1.25. Little.
The general title, “Stories and sketches of Japan,” includes in popular form four volumes of the short papers written during the last few years of the author’s life. The volume entitled “A Japanese miscellany,” “would have fitted,” says the N. Y. Times, “the whole series excellently well for it is altogether Japanese.... Bits of antiquarian and ethnological investigation; little papers of research in all kinds of interesting matters relating to the people whom the author loved so well; Japanese stories retold from curious old Japanese books, with Mr. Hearn’s own version of traits and occurrences that have come under his observation; a few of the exquisitely artistic and suggestive tales, impressions, descriptions, which no one but a Hearn could write—these fill the four volumes with such a wealth of entertaining as well as valuable material that, in reading them, one constantly marvels how any one man found time or patience to gather and assimilate it all into one such orderly shape.”
“He does not so much attempt to define, as to convey by means of his charmingly expressed and equally charmingly conceived ideas, some notion of the other half of the world, and the ideals as well as the daily life of the East.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 40. Ap. ‘05. 230w.
“Together they offer an extraordinary variety of apercus of Japanese character and customs and beliefs, subtly apprehended, and expressed in a style infused with sympathy, phantasy, and color.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 68. Ja. 26, ‘05. 330w.
“It is here that we gain some idea of the painstaking study, for infinite capacity for details, the special sympathy and appreciation that formed the solid basis of that wonderful power of vivid portrayal and poetic fancy that have made all of Mr. Hearn’s work unique and delightful. Certainly no one can afford to miss the insight into the very spirit of Japan, which is to be gained from these books. He, more than any other English writer, was fitted to be their prophet, and he nobly began his task, even if he did not have opportunity to complete it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 68. F. 4, ‘05. 1010w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Japan. **$2. Macmillan.
The author, an American journalist, son of a Greek mother and an Irish father, took a Japanese name and a Japanese wife and lived the life of a native teacher, in order to interpret sympathetically the Japanese mind and its products to the Western world. Altho frankly devoted to the country, he surpasses her enemies in admiringly laying bare the realities. “One cannot quote, one must read this work. It shows the Japanese under his armor, modern science. The Japanese, outwardly, are ruled by treaties, diplomacy, governments, codes, imperial diet, armies, and battleships—all modern and external. Inwardly they—that is, forty-nine millions of them—are governed by ghosts. The graveyard is the true dictator. It is ever their ‘illustrious ancestors’ who achieve victories.” (Critic).
“Probably three greater errors were never compressed into a single sentence than this from p. 27: ‘The real religion of Japan, the religion still professed in one form or another by the entire nation, is that cult which has been the foundation of all civilized religion and of all civilized society—ancestor-worship.’ The close and frequent points of influence which religion exercised upon politics and morality in Japan can nowhere else be so well studied as here.” E. Buckley.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 545. Ja. ‘05. 2460w.
“Is a classic in science, a wonder of interpretation. It is the product of long years of thought, of keenest perception, of marvellous comprehension. Hearn outdoes the missionaries in dogmatism, exceeds even the hostile propagandist in telling the naked truth. His book is a re-reading of all Japanese history, a sociological appraisement of the value of Japanese civilization, and a warning against intolerant propaganda of any sort whatever.” W. E. Griffis.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 185. F. ‘05. 710w.
“Both the prose and the poetry of Japanese life are infused into Mr. Hearn’s charming pages. Nobody, so far as we know, has given a better description of the fascination which Japanese life has at first for such as enter into its true spirit, and of its gradual disappearance. The swan-song of a very striking writer.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 530w.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Letters from the raven. *$5. Mintie press.
In this volume of letters and poems, Hearn tells of his life in the South, gives his views on the negro question, and his impressions of Memphis, New Orleans, and New York. The verses are both light and serious, and there are translations from negro and Creole love songs.
=Hearn, Lafcadio.= Romance of the Milky Way, and other studies and stories. **$1.25. Houghton.
“This small posthumous volume ... presents half a dozen ... graceful trifles, all but two Japanese in theme, preceded by a short biographical and appreciative notice ... by Mr. Ferris Greenslet. ‘With the exception of a body of familiar letters now in process of collection,’ says this editor, ‘the present volume contains all of Hearn’s writing that he left uncollected in the magazines or in manuscripts of a sufficient ripeness for publication.’”—Dial.
* “The last work of Lafcadio Hearn lacks nothing of that delicacy of expression, of that beauty and depth of thought which caused his earlier books to be sought after and cherished by the ‘many who are yet the few.’”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1257. D. 2, ‘05. 850w.
“The exquisite art of Hearn’s pen stamps the little book as a notable one.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 276. N. 1, ‘05. 580w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1478. D. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 510. D. 21, ‘05. 400w.
=Heath, Dudley.= Miniatures. *$6.75 Putnam.
“The chief object of the book is to present a historical account of the art which shall be suggestive and stimulating to further study and appreciation rather than to attempt an exhaustive catalog or an authoritative guide for the specialist.”—Ind.
“Mr. Heath has done his work with exceptional thoroughness and skill. The closing pages are given up to ‘Foreign portrait miniaturists’ and we read of Italy, Germany, and France, but not a word of America or the United States.” Charles Henry Hart.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 202. O. 1, ‘05. 1960w.
“Mr. Heath has taken up the consideration of his subject with enthusiastic zeal as well as with discrimination.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“The present volume has been designed on too ambitious a pattern.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 276. S. 1, ‘05. 940w.
=Heath, William.= Heath’s memoirs of the American war: ed. by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, **$2.50. Wessels.
“This is the third and decidedly the most important of the ‘Source books of American history’ thus far issued under the direction of Rufus Rockwell Wilson. General Heath’s memoirs, which were originally published in 1798, and, so far as we are aware, have hitherto been reprinted only in a limited edition, are of direct value to the student of the war of the Revolution, constituting a first-hand account of many of the operations connected therewith, and assisting to an appreciation of the men and conditions of the period. The author served as a major-general in the American army throughout the long conflict, his military activity dating from the battle of Concord, where he took part in the harrying of the retreating British.”—Outlook.
“The editor’s introduction, notes, and appendixes are excellent in their way.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 285. Mr. ‘05. 80w.
“The book is of value also for its accounts of the disposition of Burgoyne after his surrender, of Arnold’s treason, and of the surrender of Cornwallis.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 204. Mr. 16, ‘05. 170w.
“His diary is, as stated, gossipy, redolent of army life and its trifling incidents. Well worth rescuing from the dusty obscurity of library shelves.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1740w.
“In its present form it should command a wide audience, its value to the modern student being increased by the intelligent annotations of its present editor.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 340w.
“In this new dress ... these memoirs form a valuable addition to our source books of American history.”
+ + + =Reader.= 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 330w.
=Heigh, John.= House of cards. †$150. Macmillan.
The pen-name John Heigh has aroused genuine curiosity among the lovers of a “morsel of mystery.” “The corrupt league between business and politics is the leading note, but the strength and grace of the story lie in the narrative of the life and portrayal of the character of Kriemhild West, of the friendship of Eliot and Cards, of the bluff, hearty and honest personality of John Heigh.” (Ind.)
“The style is epigrammatic without being laboured, the dramatic situations are handled with artistic restraint, and a vein of quiet humor runs all through the book.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 220w.
“Written in an exasperating style. There is very little story about the book but instead a great deal of shrewd comment and incisive characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
— + =Dial.= 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 400w.
“An exceptionally bright and striking story. He has the art of telling a story, of putting each incident, rightly proportioned, in its proper place, of making his characters speak for themselves and justify their existence.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“It is not often that a lesson of serious import is conveyed in fiction with such delicacy of style, charm of humour, and literary effectiveness as here.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 140w.
“Bricks of humor, satire, pathos, a couple of tragedy keystones, and all these joined with the mortar of realism into a magnificent edifice, built upon the rocks of cleverness.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w.
=Heilprin, Angelo.= Tower of Pelee. **$3. Lippincott.
Professor Heilprin, of the Yale scientific school, and author of “Mont Pelée and the tragedy of Martinique,” was in Martinique at the time of the great eruption in the summer of 1902 and has visited the islands twice since that time, ascending Pelee many times. This volume is an illustrated study of the great West Indian volcano, and the strange tower of lava which rose so mysteriously from the crater’s mouth, and crumbled away in constantly falling fragments. He also gives the after-history of the tower and explanations of the phenomena.
“An important contribution to our knowledge of the ways of volcanoes. The book is written with more care than preceding volumes from the same hand.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 203. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“It is in the wide and sympathetic interest stirred by the tragic fate of St. Pierre that Professor Heilprin’s volume finds its justification. Author is a man of versatile scientific attainment, a general naturalist and geographer rather than a geologist or volcanologist, and with the journalist’s eye for the effective (albeit not always essential or accurate) details. A tendency to introduce irrelevant matter. In giving the results of Prof. Moissan’s analysis of fumerole gases from St. Pierre, the author curiously omits nitrogen which formed 55 per cent of the whole.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 137. F. 16, ‘05. 1730w. (Abstract of contents.)
Reviewed by J. S. F.
+ =Nature.= 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 490w.
=Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.
“His study is both scientific and popular.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 100w.
“The illustrations, indeed, can hardly be matched, so effective is their representation of the volcanic phenomena.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.
* =Helm, W. H.= Aspects of Balzac. **$1. Pott.
“The greater part of the book is reprinted from the ‘Empire review.’ ... Two articles run through the women and men of Balzac, and another deals with Balzac’s idea of the English and his admiration for various English authors. In ‘Balzac and Dickens’ essential differences between the French realist and the ‘respectable English author’ are well indicated.... In ‘Literary references in Balzac’ ... the influence of Sterne and Richardson is rightly pointed out.”—Ath.
* “He gossips freely and with abundance of humour (which seems occasionally introduced for the purpose of mollifying the general reader) concerning the characters in Balzac’s immense world, and sets down the main conclusions about the novelist which most expert readers have reached.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 493. Ap. 15. 260w.
* “It contains entertaining information about the novelist and his novels, presented in a clear, direct, offhand manner, which agreeably does not exact too much patience from the reader.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 838. D. 2. ‘05. 530w.
=Henderson, Charles Hanford.= Children of good fortune: an essay in morals. **$1.30. Houghton.
The philosophy that preaches salvation thru good fortune is set forth under the headings: The problem; Human conduct; Right and wrong; Efficiency; Worth; The moral person; Individual morality; The cardinal virtues; The doctrine of automatic goodness; Social welfare; The morality of the four institutions; Occupations; Immediacy; The moral outlook.
* “The work is written in a charming style, and possesses keen penetration and moral insight.” W. C. Keirstead.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 781. O. ‘05. 880w.
* + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 798. D. 9. 390w.
“Mr. Henderson’s books, moreover, are not written from strange heights which none but the moral philosopher can scale. They are clear and simple, showing a rare firsthand knowledge of the larger life. They combine to an unusual extent the attitudes of the observer and the experimentalist; they are at once dispassionate and enthusiastic.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 354. My. 16, 05. 1840w.
“At all events the book is good reading, fit to stimulate thought and apt even to produce effects upon conduct itself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 460. Jl. 8, ‘05. 640w.
“Such a book is a moral tonic.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 343. Je. 3, ‘05. 450w.
“Dr. Henderson’s book is stimulating, and represents an interesting attempt to provide a working basis for moral conduct.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 100w.
=Henderson, Charles Richmond, and others.= Modern methods of charity. **$3.50. Macmillan.
An account of the public and private systems of relief in the principal countries of Europe, the British empire, and the United States; also a special treatment of Jewish charities. It is a book for active workers in any field of philanthropy, as well as for students.
=Acad.= 68: 151. F. 18, ‘05. 350w.
* “It is not philosophy, it is not theory; but it is a foundation upon which theory and philosophy may be erected. It is the product of the hardest and most tedious delving, searching, translating, comparing and verifying.” Ernest P. Bicknell.
+ + — =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 426. N. ‘05. 790w.
“Encyclopaedic compend.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 556. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
“The book is almost encyclopaedic in character, and hence more likely to be referred to on special topics than to be read through as a treatise. The volume has too many details which are not digested and which are not of valuable significance, and altogether too many statements which do not convey clear and helpful ideas; while some information that should be found in it is unhappily lacking.... The misleading generalizations which the editor has allowed to appear at frequent intervals throughout the volume.” B.
+ — =Charities.= 14: 639. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1870w.
Reviewed by Max West.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 269. Ap. 16, ‘05. 560w.
“We regret to say, the editor seems to have a very inadequate conception of the comparative method of study and of scientific methods in general.”
— — =Nation.= 80: 422. My. 25, ‘05. 960w.
“It is a scientific study in what we may call the methodology of public relief for public poverty.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“A useful compendium.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
=Henderson, George Francis Robert.= Science of war; ed. by Neil Malcolm. *$4. Longmans.
The author of “Stonewall Jackson” called the Herbert Spencer of military tactics was a master of the theory and practice of the art of war. This collection of essays and lectures which separately have been regarded as authoritative along their respective lines of thought, treat such subjects as “War,” “Strategy,” “The tactical employment of cavalry,” “Tactics of the three arms combined,” “Training of the infantry for the attack,” “Military criticism and modern tactics,” etc. The fourteen essays are preceded by a memoir by Col. Henderson’s staunch admirer and patron, Lord Roberts.
“Henderson is at his best in driving home with quiet persistence, and with the help of countless apt examples, the lessons of pure military warfare.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 728. Jl. 15, ‘05. 810w.
“In the present volume there are many contradictions. So, too as regards style itself.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 687. Je. 3, 670w.
“Reading them we get the real measure of the man; we realize the extraordinary compass of his knowledge, the wise way in which he looked on professional things, his power to put before his hearers or his readers matter for deep thought, and repaying any amount of thought bestowed on them.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 200. Je. 23, ‘05. 2270w.
“It is rare for the reviewer to open the pages of a book in which there is so little to criticise, so much to admire.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 346. O. 26, 05. 730w.
“Those in the volume before us are minor only in the matter of quantity, not at all in that of quality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 1020w.
“An admirable contribution to the serious study of the art of war.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 153. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1580w.
=Henderson, Henry F.= Religious controversies of Scotland. *$1.75. imp. Scribner.
“The story of the dozen storms that differences of opinion have generated in the Scottish church during the last two centuries.... Some of the chapters in this volume relate to recent contentions about the higher criticism; others to conflicts equally serious in their time, but now forgotten.”—Outlook.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.
“Generally. Mr. Henderson has treated a very difficult subject in a satisfactory way.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 755. My. 20, ‘05. 300w.
=Henderson, Howard.= Ethics and etiquette of the pulpit, pew, parish, press and platform. $1. H. A. Schroetter, Covington, Ky.
A second revised edition of this manual of manners for ministers and members, which may prove helpful to those who have had no home training and who know nothing of common social usages.
=Henderson, John.= West Indies; painted by A. L. Forrest; described by John Henderson. *$6. Macmillan.
The text deals almost wholly with Jamaica and its people, chiefly its negroes. Much information upon the flora, the commerce, and various matters of interest to the tourist are given. The illustrations are done in color.
“Mr. Forrest has done better in this volume than he did in its predecessor, ‘Morocco.’ Mr. Henderson’s text falls considerably short of the artistic level of its illustrations.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 217. Ag. 12. 260w.
“Their joint work is a very attractive book. Its illustrations are charming. Mr. Henderson’s descriptive chapters are not to be taken too seriously; they are light, bright, and rapid, not to say slap-dash here and there, and they display, as is only to be expected, not a few of the defects of those attractive qualities.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 199. Je. 23, ‘05. 580w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 200w.
“The book is very interesting, and within the limits which we think we have found, is valuable as a study of some of the phases of subtropical America.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 451. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1410w.
“The pictures of negro types are full of character and individuality. The reproductions are unusually good. The text of the book consists of the observations of a traveler, chatty and genial, but not penetrating to any great depth.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 696. Jl. 15, ‘05. 60w.
* =Henderson, R. S.= Earthwork tables. 2 pts. $1.50. Eng. news.
This useful book of tables is divided into two parts: Part I. Preliminary earthwork tables, giving cubic yards per 100 feet for level sections, to which is added a graphical method of estimating quantities from a profile. Part II. Earthwork tables, giving the volume in cubic yards of prismoids 100 feet long by the average end area method.
* “The reviewer knows of no other similar table that equals it for range.” Halbert P. Gillette.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 650. D. 14, ‘05. 640w.
=Henderson, William James.= Pipes and timbrels. $1.25. Badger, R: G.
“A new volume of poems.... Pictures, music, dreams, and reminiscences of the classic world are the flowers that grow in Mr. Henderson’s garden, and from these he makes a most acceptable bouquet of the pretty old-time ‘mixed’ variety.”—N. Y. Times.
“There are poems in blank verse, sonnets, songs, and in all the meter is good, in some excellent. There is thought in all the poems, and it is poetic thought.” Eltweed Pomeroy.
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 219. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
“A certain compliance with the rules of prosody, a flavor of the sentiment of poetry, an inspiration toward the best, characterize these verses.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 60w.
Review by W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. ‘05. 240w.
“Contains many lovely lines and a few successful technical experiments.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 265. Ap. 22, ‘05. 300w.
* =Henry, Arthur.= Lodgings in town. †$1.50. Barnes.
“To interest yourself in others, to go with the tide of the great city and observe closely every possible condition, is Mr. Henry’s recipe for happiness. Add to this an especial care for one person in particular—like Nancy—and the picture is complete. The faith that kept firm hold of the youth who began his New York life possessed of one clean collar and a poem must be the kind that moves mountains. Particularly good are the descriptions of the office where Nancy worked and the Baxter street lodgings where she and her poet lived.”—Outlook.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 350w.
=Henry, Arthur.= Unwritten law. †$1.50. Barnes.
The purpose of this book is to show how, in our modern social system, ignorance of the laws themselves and of the crime done in breaking them often leads to tragedy. A German engraver, who loses his savings thru the speculations of his banker, sets innocently to work to support his family by engraving bank notes for himself, the result is Sing Sing. One daughter, simple and unlearned, comes to grief, while her sophisticated and selfish sister marries well. The book treats of both the upper and the lower classes, and of the many problems of modern life. The setting is New York.
“Handful of tragedies in the guise of a novel.”
— =Acad.= 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 420w.
“The book is animated by a fine seriousness, a single-minded sincerity, which pertain to the best and highest in American art and thought. It exhibits a certain crudeness, a certain toughness of fiber, which may militate against its right appreciation by the fastidious.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 778. Je. 24. 750w.
* “Is an encouraging example of that best sort of realism. The style is simple, at times almost to the point of baldness. It will inevitably provoke discussion; it will arouse some antagonism; but it cannot fail to make people think.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 267. My. ‘05. 980w.
“There is no kind of excuse for the excessively plain speaking in which this book indulges. It impresses one as the work of a reporter rather than that of a constructive novelist.” Wm. M. Payne.
— — =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 200w.
“The book has, perhaps, no merely literary merit, it is crude in plot and exhibits much bad taste in incident, but it has a certain sincerity in strength, and a vividness, too, in places.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 220. Ap. 8, ‘05. 710w.
=Henry, O., pseud. (Sydney Porter).= Cabbages and kings. $1.50. McClure.
The author, who has lived many years among the people of the South American republics, draws upon his fund of experience in this breezy story which recounts the adventures of an energetic American in the land of popular revolutions. “The characters range from the native brown-skinned maiden to the daughter of an American banker, and from a peon to an absconding president. The game proceeds much like a rattling good comic opera—and the characters have many opportunities to spin yarns of the kind that have already made famous the name of ‘O. Henry.’” (Pub. note.).
“A book of very unusual interest and cleverness. The general popularity will necessarily be limited by the fact that it is essentially a man’s book. A number of the chapters might be taken bodily from the book and held up as admirable examples of short-story telling.” Stanhope Searles.
+ =Bookm.= 20: 561. F. ‘05. 530w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w.
“The inimitably breezy style of story telling is retained in the main episodes. Has weakened the structure of the whole. The characters, so delightful in the original stories become less real, less convincing on their new stage.”
— + =Ind.= 58: 328. F. 9, ‘05. 210w.
“Pure burlesque, but lively, ingenious, and slangily humorous, South American intrigue, Yankee resource, the colossal impudence of the American fakir, and the romance of unusual love complications, are all worked together into a semi-connected story, parts of which have been already used as magazine tales.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 94. Ja. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=Herbert, George.= English works, newly arranged and annotated and considered in relation to his life, by G. Herbert Palmer. 3v. *$6. Houghton.
“Herbert, though a minor poet, is established in English literature as are few minor poets of the seventeenth century. His poems have been constantly reprinted for general readers.... The form of this edition is altogether admirable. The print is clear and restful to the eye, the margins are wide ... and the volumes comfortable to hold. The notes to the poems are printed opposite to the poems, so that one has the poem on the right-hand page, the corresponding notes on the left-hand. The illustrations are interesting and apt. The portrait of Herbert published here, for the first time as the frontispiece to volume I., is a notable addition to literary portraiture.”—Nation.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Of the more specific work of the editor one may say that it is at once scholarly and literary, minute in its exegesis yet mindful always that a poet and not a ‘corpus vile’ is under discussion.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1230. N. 23, ‘05. 870w.
“The annotations are very thorough. The study of the matter and style is exhaustive.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 384. N. 9, ‘05. 1880w.
“It will ever hold its place, as one of the triumphs of American scholarship in editing English classics, alongside such works as those of Furness and Child. These latter are bigger and on bigger subjects, but they are not better done.” Cameron Mann.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 2470w.
“Has done his work as biographer and editor con amore.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.
* “Every help to the reader’s eye and mind for the appreciation of Herbert will be found in these volumes, so great is the labor of love which Professor Palmer, with his own fine intelligence and training, has wrought for the most lovable and the most human of our religious poets.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 1480w.
* =Herford, Brooke.= Eutychus and his relations. *70c. Am. Unitar.
Under this profound title appear the witty old-time pulpit and pew papers written from a layman’s point of view, which were first published anonymously during the early years of their author’s ministry, 1860-1861. They include quaintly humorous disquisitions upon: A ‘lay’ view of sleeping in church; Some people who always come late; Praising God by proxy; Pews; A country tea party; Over-much discourse; Unsocial worship; Parsonic acid, and other kindred subjects.
=Herford, Charles Harold.= Robert Browning. **$1. Dodd.
“The biographical element is sufficient, but is subordinate to the exposition of the poet’s work in the order of its production. The true biography of Browning can be written in no other way.... A clear perception of this fact, and a definite though not a rigid application of this fact to his material, give Professor Herford’s study a true biographic as well as an interpretative quality.”—Outlook.
“Prof. Herford’s study of Browning is in many respects complementary to that of Mr. Chesterton’s published last year. The style is, for the most part sober and balanced though there are occasional flashes of rather loose rhetoric, and the author has an odd habit of falling at intervals into comments which are banal or tasteless.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 14. Jl. 1, 1580w.
“In scale it stands midway between Mr. Chesterton’s and Prof. Dowden’s; in quality it is to be compared rather with the latter.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 279. Ag. ‘05. 760w.
“There could hardly be a better brief estimate of Browning’s genius than Professor Herford has given us.” Edward Fuller.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 247. S. ‘05. 390w.
“The commentator knows his Browning well, has availed himself of the best and latest authorities, and manifests a considerable degree of sympathetic appreciation; but he is hampered in his presentation by a clumsiness of expression. Numerous misquotations from the poems ... do not strengthen our confidence in Professor Herford or his book.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 400w.
“The necessity to be poetic, to live up to his matter, has been too much for him.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 457. Ag. 24, ‘05. 220w.
“This is likely to stand as one of the best of the numerous short critical lives of its provocative poet.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 531. Je. 29, ‘05. 350w.
“His treatment of Browning the poet and man shows considerable insight and unusual sanity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 304. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“His study of Browning is intelligent, sympathetic, and well balanced.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 1015. Ap. 22, ‘05. 280w.
“He has a gift of selection and juxtaposed selection which remarkably increases the pleasure of reading this sort of criticism. But the scheme of the book runs parallel with how many others.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 849. Je. 24, ‘05. 110w.
“We are not wholly in agreement with his estimate of the poet. Our chief difference is in regard to Browning’s literary form. The criticism generally, we greatly admire.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 558. Ap. 15, ‘05. 580w.
* =Herrick, Christine Terhune=, ed. Lewis Carroll birthday book. 75c. Wessels.
A little birthday book that will delight “Alice in wonderland” admirers.
* “As a birthday book, it is hardly a success, and the selections do more credit to the compiler’s familiarity with her author than to her sense of appropriateness.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* “Mrs. Christine Terhune Herrick has made the selections for the volume and nobody could have done it with more sympathy and understanding.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=Herrick, Francis Hobart.= Home life of wild birds: a new method of the study and photography of birds. **$2. Putnam.
The “new method” consists in carrying away the nest with its eggs or young birds and also its immediate surroundings and setting it up before a green tent where it may be watched and photographed at leisure. 150 photographs of thirty species of our common birds attest the value of this method. The author also gives the results of his close observation of the nests.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1152. Je. 1, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 263. S. 28, ‘05. 320w.
Reviewed by Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 530w.
“The volume is a valuable contribution to the scientific knowledge of bird habits.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 150w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Common lot. $1.50. Macmillan.
The story is of a young architect who has grown up in the belief that he is heir to his uncle’s millions. When the fortune is left to charity, he takes up the common lot of toil unwillingly and is weakly led away from his young ideals by the desire for money. When his personal and professional honor are compromised, he is held to his expiation by his young wife whose unflinching faith in him forces him to be the man she thinks he is. It is a vivid representation of business life in Chicago, and the philosophy of the book is summed up in the closing sentence—“Fortunately there are few things that do make any great difference to real men and women,—and one of the least is the casual judgment of their fellow-men.”
“‘The common lot’ is worthy of wide circulation. It cannot fail to do good.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 450. Ap. ‘05. 460w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 11. Ja. 7. 280w.
“An interesting and impressive story.”
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 181. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Reader.= 5: 258. Ja. ‘05. 570w.
“There is a good deal of character drawing in the book that is at once delicate and strong, and the story of how Francis Hart did not inherit the millions he hoped for, took up the common lot of toil, and what came of it, is among the best in recent fiction.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
=Herrick, Robert.= Memoirs of an American citizen. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A country boy, tired of his lot runs away to Chicago to make his fortune. His autobiography follows with an unusually strong personal note even for a self-told tale of the career which starts with service as a grocery wagon driver and reaches the ranks of the Chicago capitalist. The way is made by “turning Texas steers into dressed beef and Iowa hogs into leaf lard and sausage,” which would seem honorable enough did not analysis of his methods of operation reveal a dulled sense of moral obligation to people at large, the city, and any competing organization.
“No more absolute unswerving merger of the author in the character of his hero, of his self-effacement in the interest of good art, could ever be conceived of.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 132. O. ‘05. 970w.
“Professor Herrick does not appear to have a powerful imagination, and his literalness, and even his unusual power of penetration, do not in themselves suffice to carry a story otherwise deficient.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 170w.
“The story seems to be rooted in bitter cynicism and to embody the very philosophy of despair.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 510w.
“Is not in so happy a vein. The author sees things too big, and he has not enough confidence in the virtue of the American people, which will outlast transient vices.”
— =Ind.= 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“This is not a book that we should care to see in the hands of youth.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 205. S. 7, ‘05. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Herrick’s book is a book among many and it comes nearer reflecting a certain kind of recognizable, contemporaneous American spirit than anybody has yet done.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 482. Jl. 22, ‘05. 620w.
“The story is worked out with extraordinary virility, realism, and truth. Deserves reading, not only because of its subject and its moral force, but because of the thorough, faithful, and even artistic way in which the material is handled.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 935. Ag. 12, ‘05. 290w.
* “It is penetrated by genuine intensity of spirit, and shows the hand of a high-minded and accomplished workman.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 707. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“One of the most refreshing qualities of the story is its sanity.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 330w.
* “But one thing Prof. Herrick has achieved in spite of himself; he has somehow put,—no, hammered,—together a rough image of the American self-made man.”
— + =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 150w.
=Hess, Isabella R.= St. Cecilia of the court. †$1.25. Revell.
“In Flanery Court, where Cecilia (otherwise Angelina Sweeney) lives, poverty rules.... Miss Hess ... has told a pathetically pretty story of the life of a poor little red-haired saint—her struggles against the hardships of life, her drunken mother, her little brother Puddin’.... There is Jim Bellway, who taught the make-believe saint, quite unconsciously, how to become a real one; and there is Mr. Daniels, who Cecilia, quite unconsciously, brought back to the straight and narrow path—and so on; and though the story wades through tears, it nevertheless ends in a burst of sunshine.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
“Touches portraying the generosity, loyalty, and cheerfully borne privations of the poor are the best feature of this story of New York tenement life.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 136. S. 16, ‘05. 70w.
=Hewett, Rev. G. M. A.= The rat. *$2. Macmillan.
Having arrived at the old age of three years, this hoary rat sits down to write his memoirs, recounting his many adventures in English mills and cornfields. He discourses on his wives and gives his conclusions upon boys, men, ferrets, and women. He also gives an exhaustive treatment of traps. There is much delineation of rat-character, and the experiences of a traveled friend who had lived in the sewers of London and Paris are given. The book is illustrated with colored pictures.
“A work which we commend to young and old alike.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 404. Ap. 1. 160w.
“It is a very English story of a very English rat intended primarily for English children and supposed to be told by the rat himself.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 520w.
* =Hewlett, Maurice.= Works. Ed. de luxe. IIV. ea. *$3. Macmillan.
The five hundred numbered sets of this edition de luxe are sold by subscription only. The volumes are appearing one a month in the following order: The forest lovers; Richard Yea-and-Nay; Little novels of Italy; New Canterbury tales; The queen’s quair; The fool errant; The road in Tuscany in two volumes; Earthwork out of Tuscany; Pan and the young shepherd and songs and meditations in one volume; Fond adventures.
* + =Nation.= 81: 426. N. 23, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 844. D. 2, ‘05. 2450w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
* + =Outlook.= 81: 525. O. 28, ‘05. 80w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Fond adventures: tales of the youth of the world. †$1.50. Harper.
Four short stories of mediaeval romance, The heart’s key, Brazenhead the Great, Buondelmonte’s saga, and The love chase.
“Knowing well the possibilities of Mr. Hewlett’s fine ability, we lay down this latest volume with great disappointment.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 419. Ap. 15, ‘05. 520w.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10. 220w.
“One feels that in these few crowded, tumultuous pages there is more of the real essence of Florentine life than in the whole length and breadth of George Eliot’s ‘Romola.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 515. Jl. ‘05. 600w.
“Mr. Hewlett is at his best in these short stories.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 93. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“Taken as a whole, the impression remains that the book is made up of work done early in Mr. Hewlett’s literary career, and denied publication until now.”
— =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Not one of these stories is lacking in intrinsic interest, yet one’s dominant impression in closing the book is not of any of the characters or events, but of the cleverness of Mr. Hewlett.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + — =Forum.= 37: 111. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“But it is ‘The love chase,’ the last story of the series, in which Mr. Hewlett probably surpasses anything he has ever written.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1309. Je. 8, ‘05. 820w.
“A volume of stories, splendid stories, full of action and passion, with an undercurrent of laughter, all carried off with great spirit and style. They are told in wonderful words, so apt and abundant.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 440. Je. 1, ‘05. 1130w.
“These four stories of Mr. Hewlett’s are as rich in imagery and as glowing in color as any that he has ever written.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 810w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“These stories are remarkable rather for atmospheric quality than for construction or force of characterization.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 200w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 871. Je. 3, ‘05. 190w.
“The tales are medieval; rich in quality, decorative in effect and fascinating always.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 92. Je. ‘05. 180w.
“The quaint and pleasing title of Mr. Hewlett’s new book serves as a preface for tales more deserving of the first adjective than the last, except in so far as artistic work is, in a sense, always deserving of the term ‘pleasing.’”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 360. Ag. ‘05. 340w.
“His style, his vision, his passion—these are always there.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 250w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 680. My. 6, ‘05. 830w.
=Hewlett, Maurice.= Fool errant. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The “fool” of Mr. Hewlett’s new story is an English youth with a very ardent temperament who goes abroad to complete his studies. He is guilty of many hot-headed indiscretions, chief among which is his boyish passion for the wife of his stern tutor. A pilgrimage of expiation follows his declaration of love for her. Much of the interest of the tale centers in the phases of Italian life of high and low degree which he encounters. “He has in his journeyings a quick-witted companion, who rescues him alike from rash promptings of his ‘daemon’ and from foes from without.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Mr. Maurice Hewlett, it may be said at once, has achieved a notable success in the latest of his books.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 750. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1440w.
“‘The fool errant’ will not make so wide an appeal to the general public as several earlier volumes of Mr. Hewlett’s. It lacks the tumultuous passion of ‘Richard yea-and-nay’, the epic bigness of the ‘Queen’s quair.’”
+ =Bookm.= 22: 36. S. ‘05. 800w.
“The novel shows, on the whole, an advance over its predecessors. Has proved, by the charm and animation of his tale, that imagination and a sense of style need not, under favourable circumstances, seriously interfere with the writing of a good novel.” Edith Wharton.
+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 64. S. ‘05. 1660w.
“It is possible, though the statement is not to be made dogmatically, that Mr. Maurice Hewlett, in all his succession of legitimately showy triumphs, has done nothing better than this history of a ‘fool.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 451. N. ‘05. 370w.
“We feel that he is simply saturated with the life of the time and the color of the environment and that he has reproduced these things with marvelous fidelity. This is the chief title of the book to praise, and a high title it is.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 113. S. 1, ‘05. 510w.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“Told with sureness of touch and undeniable brilliance.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 430w.
“A story of intense interest and a literary achievement of a very high order.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1180w.
“As a faithfully wrought and vigorous piece of fiction-writing the book is unusual.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 883. Ag. 5, ‘05. 240w.
* “May be counted among the notable books of the second half of the year.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 708. N. 25, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Hewlett draws a brilliant picture of a decadent period.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 260w.
“A book very subtly conceived and very admirably written.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 218. Ag. 12, ‘05. 580w.
“This brilliant study in the picaresque seems to us one of the most successful of Mr. Hewlett’s works.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 359. S. 9, ‘05. 310w.
=Hewlett, Maurice Henry.= Road in Tuscany. **$6. Macmillan.
Mr. Hewlett’s own words are perhaps best descriptive of the freshness of his view of life and art in Tuscany. He calls it “a companion of travel and leisurely, sententious commentary of the country,” and he strikes its key-note in his opening remarks. “His plan for the book has the freshness which marks its rendering of details. ‘Let the history, fine arts, monuments and institutions of a country be as fine as you please, its best product will always be the people of it, who themselves produced those other pleasant spectacles. I have always preferred a road to a church, always a man to a masterpiece, a singer to his song; and I have never opened a book when I could read what I wanted on the hillside or by the river bank.’” (Reader). He consistently subordinates art galleries to peasants, but gives legends, history, and piquant references to the art and literature of the country, with a lavish hand.
“Is one of those rare books having charm, and one which gives no less insight into Mr. Hewlett than into the hearts of all the dead and living Tuscans of whom he writes. Mr. Hewlett’s one fault, regarded as a cicerone, is that he gives us life in superabundance; he gives it to us often at the cost of other things which we are loth to sacrifice. Now guidebooks the very best of them, while they make excellent servants, are bad masters, Mr. Hewlett’s not excepted. Flippant he is, at times, perverse, even arrogant: but he understands the Tuscans, and he loves them. Whoever goes to Florence without ‘The road in Tuscany’ goes but half equipped.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + — =Bookm.= 20: 557. F. ‘05. 1860w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 479. My. ‘05. 150w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 179. Mr. 2, ‘05. 920w.
+ + =Reader.= 5: 500. Mr. ‘05. 830w.
“One of those genial, leisurely, charming books, with a touch of infinite knowledge, that we find in the combination of the artist and traveler. It reveals the real Italy, with its color and fragrance, which is known only to those who get away from the towns and cities. Typographically, the work is elegant, and the pictures really illustrate.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 123. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“His artistic suggestiveness never fails; his ideas and conclusions especially with regard to such unfamiliar places as Volterra, Cortona, Arezzo, and many more, seem almost invariably right.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 88. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1870w.
=Heywood, William.= Palio and Ponte. Methuen, London.
This “account of the sports of central Italy from the age of Dante to the XXth century” dwells upon a phase of Italian history almost unknown to literature. The Italian idea of sports was closely allied to the Greek idea of games, and they often grew out of rivalry in neighboring communities or celebrated some historic or civic event. Mr. Heywood shows their importance in the life of the mediæval Italian city, and pictures Lorenzo de’Medici, Sodoma, the painter, and Caesar Borgia racing their horses at Sienese pali.
“The style throughout is clear and simple,—in general not of marked quality, but occasionally showing such vigor and even beauty that one is tempted to wish for more such pages even at the sacrifice of some of the by-paths of erudition.” Ellen Giles.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 107. S. 1, ‘05. 1490w.
“Mr. Heywood has undertaken his study of these sports in the spirit of a true historian, and his researches have revealed a new side of Italy to English readers. But our author is more than a student of archives. He has bursts of eloquence in his style. He has interwoven a vast amount of local history, especially Sienese, since no Anglican, save perhaps Mr. Langton Douglas, knows his Siena better. Mr. Heywood tastes what he describes. He has gone to sources not merely in his facts, but in his inspiration. He has not compiled a book, but has written one for which all lovers of Italy can only be grateful.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 119. F. 9, ‘05. 940w.
“Without a real love of Italy, and an unusually deep understanding of Italian character, this book could not have been written.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 19. Ja. 7, ‘05. 1970w.
=Hibben, John Grier.= Logic, deductive and inductive. $1.40. Scribner.
“Logic, so far as merely formal, is proverbially dry. In its application to living interests it becomes a succulent source of intellectual pleasure. Professor Hibben has aimed to invest it with this attractiveness, especially in his illustrations of inductive knowledge.”—Outlook.
“These are not only modern, but fresh in a degree as welcome to the student as it is unusual, and they are drawn from a wide range of science.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 100w.
“It is comprehensive and accurate in statement, systematic and free from trifling and irrelevant subtleties. On the other hand, the discussions of the early chapters seem to me somewhat too difficult and technical to afford the beginner the guidance he needs.” J. E. C.
+ + — =Philos.= R. 16: 725. N. ‘05. 1120w.
=Hibbert, Walter.= Life and energy; an attempt at a new definition of life; with applications to morals and religion. $1. Longmans.
“The thesis of these four addresses—originally delivered at the Polytechnic institute, London—is that life is not matter, is not energy, but an unceasing nonfactorial directive control of energy and its transformations.”—Nature.
“Mr. Hibbert puts most of his points clearly, and much of what he says has considerable force. But it is doubtful if the range of ideas within which the book moves is adequate to the problem. The main position is not unassailable, and the deductions from it in regard to morals and religion are occasionally fanciful.”
+ — =Nature.= 71: 271. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w.
“Neither the method of treatment nor the style of the book seems to us particularly happy.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 170w.
* =Hichens, Robert Smythe.= Black spaniel and other stories. (†)$1.50. Stokes.
The story of the black spaniel is an uncanny tale of a man who lost a dog-friend at the hands of a vivisectionist, of a doctor who met his death thru the bite of another spaniel on which he was cruelly experimenting, and of the awful revenge which the dog lover took upon this dead doctor reincarnated in a third black spaniel. The creepy atmosphere is well sustained thruout. The volume also contains eleven shorter stories, most of which have the Arabian desert for a background, and all of which are most original in theme.
* “Mr. Hichens, thorough decadent as he is, can make his decadence big; and it is wrong of him to make it as petty as this.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1079. O. 14, ‘05. 640w.
* “To our thinking, ‘Mr. Greyne’ is the pick of the book.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 608. N. 4. 220w.
* “‘The black spaniel’ occupies only the first third of the book, but nothing that follows has the least power to blur the effect of the spaniel’s whine. The following eight stories ... are slight things, episodes rather artfully and artistically told. They will be read with pleasure and forgotten without difficulty, while ‘The black spaniel’ will be read with terror and forgotten never!”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 340. O. 13, ‘05. 550w.
* “Not worthy of the genius of the author of ‘The garden of Allah.’”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* “The title-story is of the gruesome kind most tediously spun out, the second ‘The mission of Mr. Eustace Greyne’ is funny and satirical and the best in the book.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 600. N. 4, ‘05. 130w.
* “Few modern story tellers are more expert in their art, and this book would be well worth reading for the workmanship alone, had it not also something of the charm of unfamiliar and unhackneyed material.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 658. O. 28. ‘05. 270w.
=Hichens, Robert.= Garden of Allah. $1.50. Stokes.
A woman, longing for peace, and a renegade monk seeking refuge from himself and filled with remorse at his desertion of his high calling, meet and seek rest and happiness in the “Garden of Allah,” the African desert. The story is one of passion, struggle, and renunciation, the woman finally leading the monk, who has become her husband, back to his monastery.
“In brilliancy falls short of ‘The woman with the fan,’ on the other hand, the intensity with which he reproduces an atmosphere of beauty creates an almost physical sense of well-being. In addition to a very genuine gift of imagination, he has learned how to tell his story.”
— + =Atlan.= 95: 697. My. ‘05. 190w.
“The book, from the point of view of writing, is decidedly heavy. The immorality of the book is, to our minds ... gross. Is not a worthy nor an artistic creation; it is a reeking monstrosity.”
— — — =Cath. World.= 81: 545. Jl. ‘05. 830w.
“In this striking novel Mr. Hickens immeasurably surpasses all his previous work.... Is a wonderfully handled tragedy, advancing with masterly logic from premise to conclusion.... Very rarely in an English book is there to be found such an exhibition of descriptive skill.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 474. My. ‘05. 400w.
“In all the three essentials of invention, style and thought, this performance is highly commendable, and entitles Mr. Hichens to more serious consideration than ever before.” W: M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Hichens has written his masterpiece.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 787. Ap. 6, ‘05. 230w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“The critics have seemed to agree that in this novel Mr. Robert Hichens has done something big, strong and lasting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“A singular but powerful story, in many respects the best work of this author. An absence of the morbidity that is too common with him. There are, however, a plain speaking ... that sometimes, it will seem to many readers, overstep the limits of taste. In manner the romance is in an intense style, sometimes a little exalté, but never, or rarely, falling into mere high-flown ‘fine writing,’ although single passages, taken out of their connection might give that impression. Brilliant with color and bathed in African atmosphere.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Hichens has taken a great stride forward in this unusual story.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“It is useless to attempt to describe Mr. Hichens’s word-pictures of the beauties of the deserts and the emotional paroxysms of Domini and Boris. They must be read to be appreciated.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 214. F. 11, ‘05. 430w. (Outlines plot.)
* “Beauty and power,—these are nobly conspicuous in Mr. Hichens’ tale, so loftily free from the small or paltry, so fervently reciting a grievous fault, a great love, a grand renunciation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 759. D. ‘05. 80w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth=, ed. Hawthorne centenary celebration at the Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts, July 4-7, 1904. **$1.25. Houghton.
The addresses and letters delivered and read at the centenary celebration, including a speech by Charles T. Copeland. Papers by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliot, Julian Hawthorne, and Moncure D. Conway, and contributions from John S. Keyes, Frank Preston Stearns, F. B. Sanborn, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lothrop, Dr. Richard Garnett, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Miss Beatrix Hawthorne, John D. Long, Henry Cabot Lodge, Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, Robert S. Rantoul, Judge Robert Grant, Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, John Hay, and Mrs. James T. Fields.
+ =Critic.= 47: 96. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
“The book is a worthy memorial of an important event in our literary annals.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w. (Outline of contents).
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 207. Ap. 1, ‘05. 520w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 520. Ap. 8, ‘05. 210w.
* =Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.= Part of a man’s life. **$2.50. Houghton.
“Very enjoyable chapters of reminiscence, observation and reflection, that have of late been enlivening the pages of the ‘Atlantic.’ Two chapters have been added ... as also many portraits and facsimile copies of letters.” (Dial.) The volume contains: The sunny side of the transcendental period; The child and his dreams; English and American cousins; American audiences; The aristocracy of the dollar; “Intensely human”; Letters of mark; Books unread; Butterflies in poetry; Wordsworthshire; The close of the Victorian epoch; Una Hawthorne; History in easy lessons; The cowardice of culture.
* “These ripe and scholarly chapters—ripe with the varied experience of eighty years and more, and scholarly with the scholarship of a lover not only of books, but of men—have an interest and value far exceeding anything that another pen might contrive to say about them.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 266. N. 1, ‘05. 2160w.
* “We congratulate the author on carrying to his eighty-second year an intellect the eye of which is not dimmed, nor its natural vigor abated.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 428. N. 23, ‘05. 1260w.
* “He has seen much and thought much and done much, and he has the way of making all that he writes seem interesting. Yet it must be confessed that a good deal of his reminiscence and anecdote is here spread out pretty thin.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 783. N. 18, ‘05. 700w.
* “A very interesting if somewhat random collection of experiences, recollections, and opinions of Col. Higginson.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 820. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “It should not be inferred, however, that the work is obviously didactic, for the very contrary is the case, so pleasantly have the lessons read been interwoven with anecdote and reminiscence. And from the autobiographical standpoint, or rather from the standpoint of unconscious autobiography, its value is high.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 713. N. 25, ‘05. 390w.
* “There is great scope to a work which stretches all the way from child-dreaming to problems of philosophy and higher mathematics.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 665. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
* “Col. Higginson has written several volumes of reminiscences and autobiography, none of which is more entertaining than his last book.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 140w.
=Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, and MacDonald, William.= History of the United States from 986 to 1905. $2. Harper.
This “turns out to be Colonel Higginson’s ‘History of the United States of America,’ with some revisions of the original text, and continued from Jackson’s administration down to the present date. It has a new set of illustrations and maps.”—Dial.
“The whole constitutes a readable and attractive one-volume history, which ought to supply the demand—if there be one—for a short and comprehensive narrative.”
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
“Is one of the most readable histories of this country ever written.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“On the whole the work is one of the most valuable single volumes covering the entire period of American history that we have.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 394. Ag. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Six new chapters have been added, bringing the story down to the present. Externally these chapters conform to the earlier ones, but the treatment is less partial and they reflect present scholarship much better.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 373. My. 11, ‘05. 110w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 180w.
=Hill, David Jayne.= History of diplomacy in the international development of Europe, v. I. **$5. Longmans.
An exhaustive study of the history of diplomacy complete in six volumes. Volume I is entitled The struggle for universal empire, and the following volumes include The establishment of territorial sovereignty, The diplomacy of the age of absolutism, The revolutionary era, The constitutional movement, and Commercial imperialism.
“It is refreshing to find one of our public men willing to devote his energies to scholarly occupations, and able to produce a work of such high excellence as, judging from the first installment, Mr. Hill’s ‘History of European diplomacy’ promises to be.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 82: 263. N. ‘05. 1150w. (Review of v. 1.)
“What Mr. Hill has written is accurate and readable enough for the most part, but it will not compare with the books by Bryce and Fisher, to say nothing of the erudite works of French and German scholars.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 817. O. 5, ‘05. 400w. (Review of v. 1.)
* “A carefully written summary of European international history.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 15w.
“In his first volume, coming down to the year 1250, he merely restates, and not with the hand of a practised mediaevalist, a great deal that was in no need of such a repetition.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 280. O. 5, ‘05. 300w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It was carefully thought out in the first instance, and then executed in the most satisfactory manner.” William E. Dodd.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 553. Ag. 26, ‘05. 2800w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The results of investigation are handled with a narrative skill that invests the driest facts with the interest of freshness; the tone throughout is scrupulously impartial, and the requirements of perspective are unfailingly observed.”
+ + + =Outlook= 81: 329. O. 7, ‘05. 1530w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 200w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Hill, Frederick Trevor.= Accomplice. †$1.50. Harper.
“A murder mystery treated from a new angle—that occupied by the foreman of the jury. After this foreman (a scholarly, retiring man) has been sworn in, he comes into possession of special knowledge of the case, tries to resign, but is forced to continue, and plays a far more important part in the drama than might be expected.”—Outlook.
“Sensational the book certainly is; yet there is undeniably some good realism in it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 518. Jl. ‘05. 180w.
“This book is above the average of its class, and will provide an hour of entertainment for the most jaded of readers.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 90w.
“Is worth mentioning because of the unusual way the mystery is unraveled.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 640. S. 14, ‘05, 60w.
“There is a marked absence of the gruesome in this cheerful little novel of murder and courtship. Furthermore, the solution of the mystery is not without originality.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 122. Ag. 10, ‘05. 240w.
“The chief faults of the book are matters of artistic finish.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 338. My. 27, ‘05. 210w.
“In plot and management the story is quite unusual and really exciting. The love story is by no means so good.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 100w.
“Little more than a fairly good amateur detective story with a dash of sentiment.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w.
* =Hill, George Francis.= Pisanello. *$2. Scribner.
A book which offers for the first time to the English reader information about Pisanello heretofore acquired only from the Italian, French or German. The sketch of this “greatest of medallists and one of the most fascinating of Italian artists ... gives us, what we really want, the fullest and clearest account of Pisanello’s career that is available from the extant material, and a detailed characterization of his works.” (Lond. Times.)
* “In treating of his work in painting Mr. Hill’s scholarly monograph shows an admirable admixture of enthusiasm and restraint. Of his work as medalist ... Mr. Hill’s erudition almost forbids discussion.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 729. N. 25. 1490w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1483. D. 21, ‘05. 320w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 32. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “Is written with competence and understanding.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 750w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 240w.
* “Mr. Hill has written a scholarly essay, which, on the whole, reveals very thorough research along what is almost a bypath of art.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 769. N. 25, ‘05. 290w.
* “The volume is one of the most interesting of an interesting series.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.
* =Hills, Lucius Perry.= Memory of song. $1. Franklin ptg.
In 1894, when Patti sang at Atlanta, Georgia, the author, inspired by her voice, wrote a few verses on the back of his program, telling how—
“All the while sweet harmonies crept down into my heart, And nestled in a home from which they never can depart.”
They were afterward published in a souvenir booklet. This volume contains these verses, revised, and illustrated from photographs and paintings from life by V. A. Richardson.
=Hinkson, Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A.).= Daughter of kings. $1.25. Benziger.
A proud Irish girl who traces her family back to Adam, comes, at the suggestion of her friend, the duchess, who knows of her poverty, to take charge of the household of John Corbett, a wealthy English widower who has made his money in trade, and here she learns that there are gentlemen who are not gently born. There are many love stories involved and there is a touch of socialism and a description of Irish peasantry and an epidemic of fever among them.
“The Irish portions of the book especially abound in traits of shrewd observation and humour which show how different a picture the author, if only she chose, might have given us.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 587. My. 13, ‘05. 140w.
=Hinkson, Mrs. Katharine Tynan (Mrs. H. A.).= Julia. $1.50. McClurg.
An Irish story, with the simple modern setting of a country estate, but which has the old-time theme of the fairy tale; for the young lord sees and loves Julia, the ugly duckling of the family of one of his tenants, and makes her Lady O’Kavanagh. The crude selfishness of Julia’s sisters is contrasted with the selfishness found in finer clay among the gentry, and there are some great characters whose loving service is in stronger contrast still.
“Under the cunning hand of Mrs. Hinkson the story develops so easily and plausibly that these seeming improbabilities never tax the credulity of the reader. All the characters, too, are drawn with strong individuality.”
+ =Cath. World.= 82: 122. O. ‘05. 260w.
“The book has its charm.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 140w.
“A pleasant story of Irish country life, charmingly told.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 375. Je. 10. ‘05. 450w.
“Her story is a pretty little romance, the charming Irish flavor of which is more than a matter of nomenclature and appropriate description.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.
“This is a most delightful little story. The love-story is prettily given, but the real charm of the book lies in its portraiture and its Irish atmosphere.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 372. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.
=Hiroi, Isami.= Statically-indeterminate stresses in frames commonly used for bridges. **$2. Van Nostrand.
This work is the outgrowth of a series of lectures given by the author to his students in Civil Engineering in the Tokyo Imperial university. It aims to save time and labor by furnishing solutions of those problems most commonly met with in the practice of a bridge engineer, and contains chapters upon: Trussed beams; Viaduct bents; Continuous girders; Arches with two hinges; Arches without hinges; Suspension bridges; and, Secondary stresses due to rigidity of joints.
* “This book forms an important contribution to the literature of bridge engineering. It is the first attempt to present in the English language in a single volume the principal cases of statically indeterminate stresses occurring in the practice of the bridge engineer, the solution of which is based exclusively on the method of least work. The book deserves a place in the library of every bridge engineer.” Henry S. Jacobi.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 530. N. 16, ‘05. 1730w.
=Hirst, Francis Wrigley.= Adam Smith, **75c. Macmillan.
Mr. Hirst first treats of Adam Smith, the man, the absent-minded, but keenly observant, Scotchman, and then takes up Adam Smith, the philosopher, and examines his lectures, his “Theory of moral sentiments,” and his “Wealth of nations.”
“Indeed it is a distinct service of this little book, which will doubtless be more generally read than any other life of Smith, that no reader can leave it with the false impression of Smith as a closet philosopher interested only in questions of ethical or economic theory.”
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 11: 195. O. ‘05. 320w.
“Excellent monograph. A lucid and attractively-written exposition of Smith’s economic theories.”
+ + =Contemporary R.= 87: 303. F. ‘05. 380w.
“More complete and satisfactory than Roe’s exhaustive ‘Life,’ on account of new and important material discovered more recently.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 188. Ag. ‘05. 30w.
“The task the author set for himself he has accomplished with thoroughness and even with interest: for there is about this biography no suggestion of dullness.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 170. S. 16, ‘05. 300w.
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1128 My. 18, ‘05. 550w.
“He adds little that is new either of information or criticism. Still the volume should find a welcome. It is well written, graceful and entertaining, and with an intelligent appreciation of Adam Smith’s traits of character as well as of the traits of style, method, scope and insight that have made the ‘Wealth of Nations’ a masterpiece of the science and of English literature. The most attractive portions of the book are those that turn about Adam Smith’s intimate life and his contact with men and affairs.”
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 136. D. ‘04. 110w.
“Mr. Hirst’s monograph, although not deficient in originality, is necessarily largely a digest of these the best of its predecessors. Patient culling of fugitive sources of information is also apparent, however, and as a conscientious and luminous account of the famous Scotchman it should be welcomed by all desirous of obtaining an intelligent idea of the factors shaping his view of life and the world.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 187. Ja. 21, ‘05. 2250w.
Historians’ history of the world; ed by H: Smith Williams. $72. Outlook.
“A comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages.” These twenty-five volumes are composed of long and short extracts taken from the most eminent authors and most authentic sources for each country and period. They form not only a world history but also an anthology of historians.
“In general it seems to me that the series appears at its best in the volumes on the ancient Orient, Greece, the Roman empire, and perhaps Russia. Taken all in all, the series has the unevenness of quality of every historical library.” Edward G. Bourne.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 610. Ap. ‘05. 990w.
“By a curious fatality the portions of an historian’s work upon which he was least fitted to write are chosen as bits of mosaic suited for those particular parts of the history. One part of the work of the editor he has done with remarkable skill and that is the fitting of the parts so closely and skilfully that the reader rarely feels that there is any break. Also he has very fairly judged the amount of space properly assigned to each country and age. Taken as a whole, it is a magnificent undertaking and serves a great and useful purpose.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 555. Mr. 9, ‘05. 810w.
* “Tho the choice of materials shows a greater sense for literary than historical merit, yet, for popular use, that is more essential.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 100. P. 18. ‘05. 880w. (Survey of contents of vols. XIX-XXIII.)
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 750. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2980w.
=Hobart, George Vere.= Silly cyclopedia; containing copious etymological derivations and other useless things, by Noah Lott (an ex-relative of Noah Webster); embellished with numerous and distracting cuts and diagrams by L: F. Grants. 75c. Dillingham.
This little volume declares itself to be “a terrible thing in the form of a literary torpedo which is launched for hilarious purposes only” and is “inaccurate in every particular.” It is a collection of jocose epigrams cast in dictionary form, and if taken in small doses may prove amusing.
“It is full of the sort of stuff indolent, good-humored folks like to retail on the piazzas of country hotels. It is all harmless.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 462. Jl. 15, ‘05. 530w.
=Hobart, George Vere (Hugh McHugh; Dinkelspiel, pseuds.).= You can search me. †75c. Dillingham.
John Henry here figures thru a series of theatrical ventures in company with his side partner, Bunch Jefferson. “One Signor Petrikinski, prestidigitator, is the star of the venture, and his clever handling of not only John Henry and Bunch, but of Uncle Peter Grant and Mr. William Grey, is amazing reading.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Written in the picturesque and highly descriptive style of the rest of this series.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 9, ‘05. 120w.
“Slangy, rather vulgar, funny for those who like the cheaply comic.”
— + =Outlook.= 79: 655. Mr. 11, ‘05. 10w.
=Hobhouse, L. T.= Democracy and reaction. $1.50. Putnam.
“A pessimistic view of modern English society by a ‘Little Englander,’ a disciple of Cobden, a strenuous believer in Jeremy Bentham and in the Manchester school, who regards all departure from individualism, whether in industry or politics, as a reaction towards despotism, and who yet draws back from the conclusions toward which his own reasoning leads him, and endeavors skilfully, but in our judgment not successfully, to reconcile the individualistic theories of our own time.”—Outlook.
“While well written, the book is full of expressions, which lead one to believe it the work of a disappointed politician, rather than that of a fair critic.” Ward W. Pierson.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 603. My. ‘05. 400w.
* “No summary, however, can do justice to the wealth of thought that this little book contains, to the freshness and power with which familiar themes are handled, and to the width of outlook which every page reveals.” G. P. Gooch.
+ + + =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 499. Jl. ‘05. 1890w.
“All the first part of the book, giving an account of the Reaction and its causes, is excellent. We do not remember to have seen anywhere, in so small a compass, a better analysis of the extraordinary changes in sentiment and opinion produced in the last thirty years. As to the great body of Liberal doctrine, the author is on firm ground.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 254. Mr. 30, ‘05. 1070w.
“To one who believes, as we do, that the present conditions in England and America, both industrial and political, are those of a higher stage of intellectual and moral progress than those of the first half of the nineteenth century, the volume is chiefly valuable as an exposition of perils which attend this progress, and of which society needs to be warned, and against which it needs to guard itself.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 160w.
“He writes moderately, and does not mar his argument by any of those personalities which are too freely indulged in by writers of his way of thinking. His book is, indeed, in its way, scientific.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 340w.
“This is a book which furnishes abundant material both for the active politician and the student.”
+ + =The Westminster Review.= 163: 106. Ja.
=Hocking, Joseph.= Coming of the king. †$1.50. Little.
The search for a black box in which lay a marriage contract between Charles Stuart and a Welsh girl, Lucy Walters, whose son, if the contract were found, would be heir to the English throne, provides the series of adventures which make up this story. The time is that of the restoration, the scenes are of court and country. The dashing young hero fails to find the paper, but finds instead beautiful Constance Leslie with a price upon her head and marries her.
“A tedious novel of the swashbuckling type.”
— — =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 120w.
=Hodgson, John Evan, and Eaton, Frederick A.= Royal academy and its members, 1768-1830. *$5. Scribner.
A somewhat pompous history of the Royal academy from the time of its founding by King George III. in 1768. Its growth, management and prestige are given and the volume is fully illustrated.
“It is not a glorious record, this of Messrs. Hodgson and Eaton, but as though to atone for its meagre episodes it is composed in a proud and vaunting style.”
— + =Acad.= 68: 511. My. 13, ‘05. 1120w.
“Of the work as a whole it may be said that it has a full measure of that serenity in face of criticism which is eminently characteristic of official histories.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 696. Je. 3. 2840w.
* =Critic.= 47: 474. N. ‘05. 250w.
“Although rich in historical material, illustrations, and appendices, and containing valuable biographical sketches, fails to give that view of art development which the reader would naturally be led to expect.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 68. Ag. 1, ‘05. 550w.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 503. Je. 22, ‘05. 350w.
“This record has much that is valuable and interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 1170w.
“A comprehensive and interestingly written history.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10. ‘05. 60w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“It tells us very little that is not to be found elsewhere, arranges it badly, and carries the story no further than 1830.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 700w.
=Hoffmann, Franz.= Little dauphin; tr. from the German by George P. Upton, *60c. McClurg.
The pathetic figure of Louis Charles, second son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, figures thruout this story according to the ordinarily accepted theory that he was confined in the Temple and after the execution of the King and Queen was at the mercy of the cruel keeper. The volume belongs to “Life stories for young people.”
=Hoffmann, Julius.= Amateur gardener’s rose book, tr. from the German by John Weathers, *$2.50. Longmans.
The book is written not so much for professional gardeners and nurserymen, as for garden lovers who devote special attention to the cultivation of the rose; the object being to enlarge their knowledge on the subject, and to reproduce a book that will serve as a practical and concise adviser.
“The point that makes this volume a necessity to the amateur beginning his collection of roses is the twenty beautifully colored plates.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 340w.
“Does not approach in usefulness Mr. Foster-Melliar’s ‘Book of the rose,’ and far less in delightful reading Dean Hole’s ‘Book about roses.’ However, the book is probably worth adding to a rosarian’s shelf.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 314. S. 2, ‘05. 1440w.
* + + =Spec.= 95: 472. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.
=Hogg, Ethel.= Quintin Hogg. $3. Dutton.
In this biography of her father, the author gives a complete and intimate account of his life and work in the London slums. A famous Eton foot-ball player, he often made his influence felt by sheer physical force, and this was perhaps the secret of his remarkable success. He founded the Ragged school, and the famous Polytechnic, and his life is a story of the most practical kind of philanthropic work. There is an introduction by the Duke of Argyll.
“The book is needlessly long, and is disfigured by numerous exclamation points.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 93. F. 2, ‘05. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 53. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1350w. (Condensed biography.)
+ =Outlook.= 79: 247. Ja. 28, ‘05. 180w. (Survey of Hogg’s life.)
=Holdich, Thomas Hungerford.= India. $2.50. Appleton.
The author’s knowledge of the geographical conditions of India is reliable as he was at one time superintendent of the survey of India. After giving an historical sketch of the country, “he proceeds to a study of the geography of the frontiers bordering Baluchistan and Afghanistan; he describes Kashmir, the Himalayas, and the Peninsula, then Assam, Burma, and Ceylon. He tells us about the people, the political geography, the agriculture, revenues, railways, minerals, and climate and he puts India before us as we will not find it elsewhere. The work is amply indexed, and is provided with a wealth of maps and diagrams.” (Outlook).
“The book and its maps are creditable to all concerned, and will unquestionably prove of great value to seekers for information about the region of British India and its dependencies.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 402. Ap. 1. 2080w.
“The results of all former investigations are well digested and epitomized.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
“With few exceptions his work will rank high with the other volumes of the series.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 201. Mr. 16, ‘05. 440w.
“Altogether, as a representative volume on India for the library, this book is about the best to be had.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 97. Jl. 13, ‘05. 780w.
“This excellent and useful book supplies a real want, and gives to the reader a broad geographical description of the real continent of India.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 160. My. 19, ‘05. 1060w.
“Avoiding ‘statistics and details,’ the author has here compressed into one volume an immense amount of geographical and ethnological information regarding the peninsula itself and the frontier, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Assam, and Burma. The most valuable part of ‘India’ is, of course, the geographical description, where the author is on his own ground. The literary-historical side is mortar to the bricks of the altar.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 117. F. 9, ‘05. 230w.
“He has produced a topographical description of the Indian empire which, in spite of minor errors.... is not only interesting to read, but accurate and well proportioned on the whole.”
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 268. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 2. Ja. 7, ‘05. 570w. (Summary of facts in book.)
“His volume has the ring of authority on every page. It is equally valuable for steady reading or as a work of reference.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 150w.
“The product of years of study in the country of which he writes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 200w.
=Holdsworth, Annie E. (Mrs. Eugene J. Lee-Hamilton).= New Paolo and Francesca. †$1.50. Lane.
A modern variation of the old story. The heroine has promised her dying father that she will wed the elder of her twin cousins, who will inherit her father’s title and estates. She fulfils her pledge in spite of the fact that she loves the younger brother, and the result is tragedy. The story is further complicated by the discovery that her lover is the true heir, and her husband in reality is the younger brother, the two having been changed in infancy.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 460w.
“Nothing but praise, however, is to be said for the art of the author. In description, in delineation of character and in that subtle and compelling power by which the imagination of the reader is held enthralled, the work is noteworthy. It is to be regretted that a story so charming in its style, so fascinating in its atmosphere and so powerful in the handling of the theme should be so depressing in its influence on the mind.” A. C. Rich.
+ — =Arena.= 33: 453. Ap. ‘05. 250w.
“It is well told, and the author has enough coloring matter in her vocabulary to paint the national history of a whole continent.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 218. Jl. 27, ‘05. 110w.
— + =Sat. R.= 99: 779. Je. 10, ‘05. 170w.
=Holland, Clive.= Japanese romance. $1.50. Stokes.
A young English artist sailing eastward to paint the wonders of Japan, meets a beautiful English girl on the steamer and admires her apparently merely in an artistic way. Arriving at Nagasaki he falls in with two former fellow-students at Paris, one a Japanese, the other a Scot who has taken a Japanese wife. Thru these he becomes involved in many social complications and finally marries Mio-Lan, a lovely Japanese maid. Later he begins to long for the English girl he had met on the steamer and the story becomes a tragedy for Mio-Lan.
“The merit of the story lies not in the sentiment and flower women, but in the characters of the modern Japanese, Mr. Yumoto, and the Scottish expatriate.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 370w. (Outlines plot.)
=Holland, Robert Afton.= Commonwealth of man. **$1.25. Putnam.
“The Slocum lectures of 1904, delivered at the University of Michigan ... revised by the author in the light of the discussion that followed the publication of Mr. Edwin Markham’s poem, ‘The man with the hoe,’ which, in the opinion of Mr. Holland, consisted chiefly of a series of socialistic fallacies set to stormful music.’”—R. of Rs.
“There are eleven lectures, all pretty vigorous writing and not bad reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 420w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 310w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 510. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Around the world with Josiah Allen’s wife. †$150. Dillingham.
The inveterate traveller, Samantha, accompanied by Josiah Allen and a sick grandson, for whose health the trip is undertaken, starts on a journey around the world with a party which includes a Dorothy, who enlivens the trip by marrying in spite of her chaperone. Samantha’s characteristic descriptions and comments include much of interest on Hawaii, the Philippines, India, Egypt, the Holy Land, and many European states, while she frequently attempts to set right whatever she thinks may be wrong, even instructing the Empress Si Ann on her duty.
* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 60w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 774. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen’s wife, pseud.).= Samantha at the St. Louis exposition. $1.50. Dillingham.
Samantha, as unique and widely known as any book character ever created, is at her best in these “episodin’” bits of wit, pathos, and clear visioned common sense. In the story, Josiah Allen discovers that his farm had come into the possession of the Allen family the year of the Louisiana purchase, that his ancestors had paid fifteen dollars for it, the same sum, he said, “with the orts left off,” that was given for Louisiana. The Allens celebrate this discovery by taking a trip to the Exposition. A group of interesting companions serve only to enhance the characteristic observations of Samantha, which are better than ever.
“Feminine frailty and masculine arrogance and the sexual inequalities of social customs and the laws continue to furnish material for her satire and weakly witty garrulity.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 212. Ja. 26, ‘05. 110w.
=Hollis, A. C.= Masai, their language and folk-lore. *$4.75. Oxford.
A study of the language, myths, traditions, enigmas, proverbs, and customs of this fast vanishing East African race by the chief secretary of the East African Protectorate, assisted by native authorities.
“Mr. Hollis’s is the fullest study yet made. It is impossible to do justice in the course of an ordinary notice to this exceedingly interesting book, which is, moreover, absolutely free from padding of the ordinary kind.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 742. Je. 17. 2420w.
“In describing the mythology, folklore, and customs of the Masai he has hit upon a method as scientific as it is original.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 143. My. 5, ‘05. 460w.
“For the first time the civilized world has been presented with an authoritative work on the Masai language, customs, and folklore, by Mr. A. C. Hollis. It is the authoritative study of the Masai people; and it is satisfactory to record that the author confines himself mainly to facts and not to theories.” H. H. Johnston.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 83. My. 25, ‘05. 1200w.
“Mr. Hollis’ grammatical treatise is a study in itself. The book is worthy of the greatest attention.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 309. S. 2, ‘05. 1330w.
=Holmes, Gordon.= Mysterious disappearance. $1.50. Clode.
The usual crime, shrouded in the usual mystery, the rapid succession of events, the story action that palls not for a moment are all here. But the book surpasses others of its kind in the clever comparison of two distinctive types of detectives. There is Claude Bruce, barrister, “subtle, analytic, introspective,” and there is his foil, the Scotland yard inspector, a part of the machine, “direct, pertinacious, self-confident ... a slave to system,” one whose method, as the barrister comments, “works admirably for the detection of common place crimes, but as soon as the region of higher romance is entered, it is as much out of place as a steam roller in a lady’s boudoir.”
=Holmes, Mary Jane Hawes.= Abandoned farm. †$1. Dillingham.
The romance of a young girl who becomes a waitress at a summer house party on an estate once owned by her grandfather. She is known as waitress no. 1, and her ladylike mien, even in white cap and apron, charms the rich young master of the house who loves her even before he discovers that the estate is really hers. The volume also contains a story called Connie’s secret, which hinges upon a sham marriage by which the girl believes herself to be legally bound to the man who has deserted her.
* =Holmes, Oliver Wendell.= One-hoss shay, with its companion poems. $1.50. Houghton.
A delightful Christmas edition of Holmes’ humorous poems, “The one-hoss shay,” “How the old horse won the bet,” and “The broomstick train,” illustrated by Mr. Howard Pyle in colors and black and white.
* + + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 170w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 70w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
=Holt, Martin.= Out of bondage. $1.25. Benziger.
Renie, a pretty Catholic girl, kept in the country with no knowledge of life or of her own parentage, serves the cruel Mrs. Sherwood well until her death and then flies forth into the world to enjoy her freedom. She encounters many tragic things, but her courage enables her to straighten out a serious tangle and save the man she loves from a murderer’s death.
=Holyoake, George Jacob.= Bygones worth remembering. 2 vols. *$5. Dutton.
The author, who has for many years taken an active part in all movements toward the bettering of the conditions of the working classes gives interesting details concerning the progress of the English nation during the last few decades and reminiscences of Harriet Martineau, Mazzini, Kossuth, John Stuart Mill, Lord Shaftesbury, Garibaldi, and Gladstone. There are many illustrations.
“In this later book the gold is beaten rather thin; and, in fact, the reminiscences—which are none of them to be described as wildly exciting—are eked out with extracts from newspapers.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 145. F. 18, ‘05. 1230w.
“As a contribution to the history of the political and social progress of the nation these ‘Bygones’ are of great value.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 232. F. 25, 1490w.
Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 605. Ag. ‘05. 1780w.
Reviewed by Jeanette L. Gilder.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 156. Ag. ‘05. 1430w.
“Frank egotism is evidenced on every page. Mr. Holyoake has a strong sense of humor, but his manner of writing is such that it is not always easy to discover when he is jesting and when he is in earnest.” Edith J. R. Isaacs.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 106. S. 1, ‘05. 1180w.
* =Ind.= 59: 988. O. 26, ‘05. 230w.
“He states many facts, he corrects many fallacies, that should claim the consideration of historians of British politics during the nineteenth century. Seldom have we read a book breathing a more tender, tolerant, and judicial spirit.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 127. Ag. 10, ‘05. 1380w.
“These pages and people are all interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10, ‘05. 1590w.
“A further characteristic of the author’s opinions and reminiscences is a whole-souled optimism which, pervading his book, manifests itself perhaps most impressively in the final chapter.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 85. S. 9, ‘05. 2280w.
“We are not sure that all the ‘Bygones’ which Mr. Holyoake recalls are ‘worth remembering.’”
— =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 340w.
* =Home, Andrew.= Boys of Badminster. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A tale of English schoolboy adventure whose hero is Jack Coverdale, broad shouldered enough to bear the burden of his own scrapes and those of less honorable companions. “There is an attempt at kidnapping, with exciting cricket games and boys’ pranks, all of which must be read to be appreciated. There is another good story, ‘A row in the sixth,’ at the end of the book, which is a big one.” (N. Y. Times.)
* “Good characterization and plenty of humor should make this a success.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 30w.
* + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 320w.
* “Mr. Home has the happy knack of rousing an expectancy which he never disappoints.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 7. D. 9, ‘05. 100w.
* “Mr. Home does his best, not wholly without success, to make it seem possible, and constructs a good story out of it, as school stories go.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 693. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
=Home, Gordon Cochrane.= Evolution of an English town. *$3.50. Dutton.
The old town and castle of Pickering in Yorkshire, and the country of Pickering vale are dealt with here from pre-glacial times down to the beginnings of 1905. “It is really surprising to find how much may be learned relating to ethnology, archæology, and ancient customs from this curious piece of local antiquarian study.” (Outlook.)
* “The quality and number of the illustrations greatly enhance the value of the book. We have only noticed one misprint.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 922. S. 9, ‘05. 750w.
“The book furnishes a pleasing type of local history to which other essays in that field will do well to conform.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 211. O. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“The book commends itself to special readers more than to the general traveler.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1111. N. 9, ‘05. 110w.
“Makes altogether a charming book for lovers of things old, picturesque and curious.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 810w.
=Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 110w.
* =Home, Gordon.= Normandy: The scenery and romance of its ancient towns. *$3.50. Dutton.
The author has profusely illustrated this volume with colored plates and pen-and-ink sketches. “Mr. Home says his book is not a guide, but simply ‘an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.’ But it will serve as a guide if need be, for the author, with that curious naiveté of the Englishman, names inns and hotels without fear of being accused of advertising; and as he says, ‘any one using the book as a guide would find in his path some of the richest architecture and scenery that the province possesses.’” (N. Y. Times.)
* “Is chiefly of interest for its beautiful colored plates, which give clearer impressions of Normandy’s varied and wonderful scenery ... than any words, however perfectly chosen, could hope to do. Mr. Home is sufficiently an artist to write, as well as paint, like one. He wins the reader’s approbation by his first sentence.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 170w.
* “A very successful attempt has been made to convey, by means of pictures and description, a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* “The book will certainly give us a better notion of Normandy than Mr. Menpes’s much more multitudinous blots can convey to us of Brittany or any other place.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 180w.
* “A charming book on Normandy. The book is one to read and keep, and to take with one on his trip to the old duchy it describes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 851. D. 2, ‘05. 510w.
* “Its text is illuminative, graphic, and sympathetic. Mr. Home has produced a work on Normandy to appeal to every one who has ever visited that interesting region.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.
* “Mr. Home knows something of architecture and describes with feeling and taste.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 14, D. 2, ‘05. 240w.
=Hooker, Katharine.= Wayfarers in Italy. **$2. Scribner.
A fourth edition of a book about the out-of-the-way places of Italy, by one who has left the beaten and over-described paths to hunt for old books and lost Madonnas, and study the life, habits, and temperament of the village and country folk.
“Is well deserving of the many editions it has passed through.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 410w.
“A fresh, informing, and thoroughly charming book in one of the oldest fields in the world.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.
=Hope, Anthony=, pseud. See =Hawkins, Anthony Hope.=
=Hopekirk, Helen=, ed. Seventy Scottish songs. $2.50. Ditson.
These seventy songs include the folk-music student’s favorites. They have been gathered from the Lowlands and the Highlands, from the remote mountainous regions and from the western isles. The volume is uniform with the “Musicians library.”
* “A very interesting and valuable work.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* “Those who care only for popular tunes with any serviceable accompaniment will find this selection acceptable; whereas the epicure who likes his folk-music pure and unadulterated will be likely to object to many passages in which the arranger has exercised her faculty of harmonizing with too little regard for the racial essence of the tunes.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 110w.
=Hoppenstedt, J.= Problems in manoeuvre tactics; with solutions for officers of all arms, tr. by J. H. V. Crowe, *$1.60. Macmillan.
In this volume the original German organizations have been adapted to those of the British army in order to assist its officers in studying for examinations, and furthering their knowledge of the art of war. Four maps have been provided.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 671. My. 20, ‘05. 920w.
=Hornaday, William Temple.= American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. **$3.50. Scribner.
“The author has had many years’ experience as a field naturalist in America and the far East, and as director of the New York zoölogical park, gives much information in an interesting style, illustrating his text with maps, charts, and drawings. “The object of this book is to make nature available to laymen; it is also particularly addressed to teachers and parents.” It is intended to be plain, practical and direct, as well as systematic and scientific.... The field covered includes all the principal types of vertebrates found in North America.” (Science.)
“We find here much practical and economic zoölogy, invaluable matter on the extinction of American species, and the setting right of many ancient and silly myths. Clear exposition is exhibited in many sections of the book. The drawings, while of uneven merit, are full of life and action and have good teaching value. The author aims to amuse as well as to instruct.” W. K. Gregory.
+ + — =Science=, n. s. 21: 346. Mr. 3, ‘05. 1510w.
* =Home, C. Silvester.= Common sense Christianity. *35c. Meth. bk.
“This book aims at being a popular contribution to the art of Christian defence.” The author believes that a policy of vigorous attack is necessary to oppose the work of many who maintain that for the twentieth century a new religion is needed.
=Horner, Joseph.= Engineers’ turning. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
A well-illustrated text which considers the principles and practice in the different branches of turning. A feature of the book is the important section devoted to modern turret practice; boring is another subject treated fully; a chapter on tool holders illustrates a large number of representative types; screw-cutting is treated at length; and the last chapter contains a good deal of information relating to the high-speed steels and their work.
=Horner, Joseph.= Tools for engineers and woodworkers. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
A comprehensive work whose object is “to give an account of such tools as are commonly used by engineers and woodworkers, written chiefly from the standpoint of the men who have used them, and who desire to understand the principles which underlie the forms in which those tools are found. Practical instruction for their employment, as suggested by the writer’s own experience, have been added.”
“Although there is necessarily a good deal of the descriptive catalogue in a work of this kind, yet this one is so well put together, its brief descriptions are so clear, and above all the endless varieties of tools enumerated are brought to one’s notice in so logical an order, their classification is so essentially scientific, that it may be regarded as in a sense a finished monograph of one phase of evolution.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 280. Ag. 26. 420w.
* “The author has written a clear and comprehensive description of various groups of tools.”
+ =Engin. N.= 54:529. N. 16, ‘05. 120w.
=Hornung, Ernest William.= Stingaree. †$1.50. Scribner.
Stingaree, a one-time London clubman, now a robber in Australia, “sticks up” (Australian for hold up) mail coaches and banks in a manner both theatrical and gentlemanly. On one occasion he operates among a company of amateurs, forcing them to give a concert, and makes use of the occasion to introduce a girl with a beautiful voice to a prominent composer. He is afterward released from jail just in time to don evening clothes and hear this girl as a prima donna.
“Of no importance from the literary standpoint, the present volume yet contains ten very readable and ingeniously worked out stories.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 716. Je. 10, 180w.
“The stories are all fluent, ingenious, and diverting, and will be found readable enough.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Series of ingenious tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 292. My. 6, ‘05. 250w.
“On the whole, his adventures being as hazardous and exciting as those of his predecessor he should be equally well beloved.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“The tales ... are dashing, daring, entertaining, and show considerable inventiveness without disclosing any special literary power.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 143. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 210w.
“He is a real creation.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 593. O. 05. 220w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 90w.
“Mr. Hornung who has much aptitude for sensational fiction has exhibited little ingenuity or originality in these tales.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* =Hornung, Ernest William.= Thief in the night: further adventures of A. J. Raffles, cricketer and cracksman. †$1.50. Scribner.
The third series of the adventures of Raffles goes back to the earliest days of the cracksman and Bunny, his foil. One of the nine tales portrays the disloyalty of the thief in losing for Bunny his sweetheart, another, and quite the most ingenious of the group, is that of a little “job” at Lord Thornaby’s town house where Raffles diverted from himself the suspicions of the “Criminologists’ club.” All thru Raffles is still the same terrible expert burglar.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1177. N. 11, ‘05. 310w.
* “Unfortunately the reader’s taste has been whetted for better things, and he looks in vain for the quick turns and the conquering of difficult situations of the earlier yarns.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “The newer stories, while they seem somehow to lack the snap and go of the earlier ones, are nevertheless not very different in quality, and if you are not tired of the old Raffles they may be trusted to furnish entertainment for an idle hour.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 727. O. 28, ‘05. 160w.
* “Those unacquainted with the cracksman will find admirably written stories retailing the exploits of a gentleman burglar of the most marvelous skill and finesse, and an unusually winning personality.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 530. O. 28, ‘05. 70w.
* “His mind works with all its old rapidity and originality, but he is less convincing and beguiling.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
* “It is not so mischievous as its predecessors, because it is not nearly so well done.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 90w.
=Horsley, Walter C.=, tr. =See La Colonie, Jean Martin de.=
=Hort, Fenton John Anthony.= Village sermons. * $1.75. Macmillan.
Dr. Hort, a noted scholar and Christian gentleman, writes with simplicity for the country folk with whom he had to deal as the parson of a Hertfordshire village. The sermons “are generally founded on some incident of the day’s service, some sentences in a psalm, or more often some petition in a collect.” (Lond. Times.)
* + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 470w.
* + — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 70w.
* “We must confess that the sermons strike us as being highly conscientious but a trifle dull. Yet here and there, genius shows itself in the easy power of expressing a great deal in a few words.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 190. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w.
=Horton, George.= Monk’s treasure. $1.50. Bobbs.
Ta Castra, an island of the Cyclades, in the Ægean sea, is the scene of a series of adventures in which a young American, buying up Greek argols for his uncle’s firm, and his interpreter, a sturdy Scotchman, figure conspicuously. The American straightway becomes involved in breaking up an alliance between a beautiful Greek bond-girl and her belligerent betrothed, Spiro. Thru treasure, hidden in a monastery, he proves the girl to be a duchess, and outwitting the monks and Spiro alike, escapes with Polyxene and her bags of gold.
“Those who love a story for the story’s sake will be sure to enjoy Mr. Horton’s latest romance.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 565. My. ‘05. 120w.
“The recovery of the wealth against the cunning machinations of the monks supplies a number of exciting and tragic events to sustain interest in a story which otherwise is rather lightly worked out.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 293. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“Crude romance.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 80w.
“A good story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.
=Hosking, Arthur Nicholas=, comp. and ed. Artist’s year book. $3. Art league pub. assn., Chicago.
A handy reference book wherein may be found interesting data pertaining to artists, and their studio, home and summer addresses for 1905-1906. Recognized merit has been made the standard of selection for this list.
* =Hough, Emerson.= Heart’s Desire. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Heart’s Desire is a little settlement hidden away in a corner of the West “where men have gone to live at peace—without law and without women.” “The inhabitants dozed in the sunshine, smoked, drank, gambled a little, toiled fitfully, fought occasionally, and dreamed a good deal. Then the railroad came and the dreams were gone. Along with the railroad came Constance and the old vexations that troubled Eden and have troubled every assemblage of men ever since.” (Pub. Opin.) It is a picture of rough Western life with clever character delineation.
* “A singularly pleasing story of the west o’ dreams.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “A more vivacious tale of far western life one does not often get.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
* “In vigor and spontaneousness it seems to us Mr. Hough’s best work in fiction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
* “It is idyllic, impossible, and extremely entertaining.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 220w.
=Houston, Edwin James.= Electricity in every-day life. 3v. $4.50. Collier.
“These volumes aim to give to the general reader a comprehensive knowledge of the history of electricity, the principles and laws that govern its action, and its practical applications in every-day life.” (Outlook.) There are eight hundred illustrations which present electricity as applied to modern industry and as used in laboratories, and in the home.
“Without trace of romance and yet in an eminently attractive style, the author has made comparatively clear the vagaries of electricity.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“The style is clear and pleasant. Abstruse technicalities are carefully avoided, and no part of the book will be difficult of comprehension for the average well-informed man who has made no specialty of electrical subjects.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 330w.
=Outlook.= 79: 502. F. 25, ‘05. 30w.
“He succeeds well in popularizing technical subjects. The present work is voluminous, but never wearisome.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w.
=Howard, George Elliott.= History of matrimonial institutions chiefly in England and the United States. *$10. Univ. of Chicago press.
“In the three volume work ... Prof. George E. Howard deals chiefly with the matrimonial institutions of the English race, prefacing his treatment of the subject with an analysis of the literature and the theories of primitive matrimonial institutions. Professor Howard’s treatise covers practically every phase of the subject that calls for treatment, and gives elaborate biographical data relating, not only to the institution of marriage itself, but to almost every conceivable phase of the sex problem that has been treated in our literature.”—R. of Rs.
“To students of sociology this work is one of importance.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 607. Ap. ‘05. 1070w. (Abstract of book).
Reviewed by E. T. B.
=Atlan.= 95: 137. Ja. ‘05. 650w.
“Professor Howard’s volumes are admirable studies and a much needed supplement to the famous works of Starcke and Westermarck.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 784. Ap. 6, ‘05. 720w.
* “A scholarly and profound inquiry.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“For even the general public Professor Howard’s volumes cannot fail to be both interesting and instructive, for they deal attractively with the most human of all institutions, and contain a mass of facts nowhere else obtainable.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 55. Ja. 19, ‘05. 2270w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘05. 120w.
“An immense bibliographical index at the end of the third volume completes the usefulness of the work as a book of reference, and it is as a book of reference that it will be chiefly used and valued.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 617. Ap. 29, ‘05. 830w.
=Howard, John R.=, comp. See =One= hundred best American poems.
=Howe, Frederick Clemson.= City: the hope * of democracy. **$1.50. Scribner.
“A novel interpretation of municipal affairs.... Mr. Howe ascribes most of the ills to which the American city is heir to economic and industrial, rather than to political or ethical causes.... Mr. Howe’s remedy for the present evil conditions consists in offering opportunity to labor, in taxing monopoly, and in the abolition of privilege.”—R. of Rs.
* “Mr. Howe’s main arguments in favor of municipal ownership are strong, and much of his abstract reasoning in favor of the single tax is well put, although less convincing to most people; but the author is too sweeping in his advocacy of the adoption of these measures and in his claims for resulting benefits.”
+ — =Engin. N.= 54: 648. D. 14, ‘05. 610w.
* “Dr. Howe, in a spirited and striking description of the American city, interprets its myriad phases from the economic standpoint.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
* “Is a good deal of a theorist, but, happily also, he is very much of a student. Mr. Howe’s book, we fear, will not advance that result as much as it might have done had it been more soberly written.” E. C.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 773. N. 18, ‘05. 970w.
* “His book is a frank discussion of municipal problems as they are actually encountered in the more typical of our American cities. The prevailing note is one of optimism.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 230w.
=Howe, Maude.= See =Elliott, Mrs. Maude Howe.=
=Howells, William Dean.= London films. * **$2.25. Harper.
The volume is made up of Mr. Howells’ characteristic talks about London weather, London streets, London noises, churches, parks, buses, slums, children, and bobbies—often with humorous comparison with the corresponding phenomena in New York. He tells, too, about society out of doors in Rotten Row and Piccadilly. Some of the matter has already appeared in some of the magazines. The book is provided with sixteen full-page illustrations and is bound to match the author’s “Literary friends and acquaintances.”
* “These films do not amount to so comprehensive or extensive a survey as Emerson achieved. But they are very fascinating, and are written with the clarity and richness of style which constitute Mr. Howells one of our foremost writers of English to-day.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 717. N. 25. 1740w.
* “Its ‘films’ are far more interesting and significant than some that Mr. Howells has shown; they are indeed in his happiest analytic vein.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 270w.
* “The book is in no whit inferior to those masterly studies in Italian life.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1227. N. 23, ‘05. 880w.
* “A series of delicate and charming impressions of London in many of its aspects, social, civic, and meteorological.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 820w.
* “Easily takes its place among the few most noteworthy books of the season.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 130w.
* “He is still master of the gentle irony, the subtle, mischievous suggestion, the humorous backward glance, that have fascinated his readers for years.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Miss Bellard’s inspiration. †$1.50. Harper.
“It was nothing short of inspiration which made Miss Lillias Bellard decide to visit her aunt and uncle, the Crombies, in order to consider quietly the question of marrying a certain eager young Englishman. Mr. and Mrs. Crombie had ... taken a cottage in the New Hampshire hills. Miss Bellard’s intention was to watch the domestic conditions of the Crombie household before rushing recklessly into matrimony. But coincident with her visit came that of the Mevisons, a couple trembling upon the verge of separation. Thus Miss Bellard was treated to a variety of domestic relations which produced varying effects upon her.”—N. Y. Times.
“Charming and idyllic comedy which at once tickles and instructs. Mr. Howells has written no more delightful story for years.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 41. Jl. 8, 310w.
* “The book is undeniably a delicate and diverting piece of satire and full of those illuminating sidelights upon human foibles and frailties that make Mr. Howells inimitable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 610. Ag. ‘05. 1500w.
* “The charm of Mr. Howells’s style is the only inducement offered the ‘gentle reader’ in this book.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 452. N. ‘05. 240w.
“Has a charm altogether out of proportion to its pretensions.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 280w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1152. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“The whole thing is dainty and amusing, and the irony so suavely expended that some readers may fail to detect it, and hence be a little puzzled as to the degree of the author’s facetiousness.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 790w.
“It is as if Mr. Howells’s vision were being contracted instead of enlarged as the years go on. He stops short now at the surface; and delicately and gracefully as he plays about on it, we regret his arrested development.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 209. Je. 30, ‘05. 520w.
“Is a light comedy with enough social satire to remind us that Mr. Howells is not just fooling for our summer holiday.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 101. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“Mr. Howells has not lost any of his cunning in portraying the delightfully illogical phases of the feminine mental processes. Altogether it is a decidedly entertaining book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Has all the lightness, the charming comedy touch, of his earlier work, and yet is not lacking in serious purpose. The studies of temperament are both skillful and convincing. It is quite certain that Mr. Howells has written nothing in a happier style; the vein of humor which runs through the book is as fresh as in his earlier work, and parallel with it runs a vein of quiet, kindly irony equally effective.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 190w.
“Beyond a doubt the story is amusing, but to Mr. Howells’ real devotees it must be rather hard sledding.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 650w.
* “Though but a slight love tale, embodies a maturity of conception, a surety of view, a subtle phraseology, an exquisite use of irony, and, withal, a sedate, appeasing dignity.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 70w.
“The book is mainly a study—and a very clever and shrewd study—of one type of American girl. But all the subordinate characters are carefully drawn.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 124. Jl. 22, ‘05. 830w.
=Howells, William Dean.= Son of Royal Langbrith. $2. Harper.
The story is the tragic one of the weakness of a good mother who lacks the courage to tell her son of the iniquities of his dead father. He grows up in the belief that his father is a noble and heroic character, and when the truth is revealed to him, through the courtship of his mother by the country doctor, he suffers greatly in the loss of his ideal. An opium eater and his loyal daughter enter into the story. The setting is a small New England manufacturing town.
“Is in many respects the best bit of work Mr. Howells has done of late years. One is inclined to read it slowly, lingering in enjoyment of the charming style, and appreciating to the full the perfect picture of New England life in the minute details that Mr. Howells so loves to dwell on. It is a pity, however, that in his love of realistic detail, Mr. Howells should be led into writing passages which, to say the least, mar the artistic effect of his work. He has set such a dainty dish before us that we cannot bear even one drop of grease to spoil the taste.” C. Harwood.
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 184. F. ‘05. 560w.
“The one objection which the average reader has been known to make against the work of Mr. William Dean Howells,—namely, that that distinguished novelist is too fond of the insignificant,—cannot be brought against ‘The son of Royal Langbrith.’ That the working out of this theme is masterly it is superfluous to add.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
“What lends peculiar charm to Mr. Howells’s best work is the fact that it could only have been written by an American. It is in the delicacy and tact with which it is hand sovereign merit of the story resides.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 22. Ja. 7, ‘05. 960w.
=Hubbard, Arthur John, and Hubbard, George.= Neolithic dew-ponds and cattle-ways. *$1.25. Longmans.
“The author endeavors to solve the question of the water-supply of the Neolithic dwellers in hill-encampments on the downs in the south of England. There were apparently no wells, and they had to depend on the ‘unfed’ artificial dew-pond.... Closely connected with the dew-ponds are the cattle-ways down which primitive man drove his herds from the entrenched settlement to water.... There are numerous and very clear photographs.”—Nation.
“Altogether the book is one to be read with interest and profit by everyone at all interested in the evidences relating to our ancestors of the stone age.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 589. My. ‘05. 220w.
“Contains much suggestive and interesting matter, and is very good reading, but not wholly convincing.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 151. Jl. 29, 1080w.
“The whole study is well worth reading even by those who have no immediate interest in antiquarian topography.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 360. My. 4, ‘05. 830w.
“The construction of dew-ponds by the early inhabitants of Britain has often been glibly asserted, but few, if any, have furnished such clear and circumstantial evidence as the authors of this short treatise.”
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 611 Ap. 27, ‘05. 610w.
=Hubbard, Gardiner Greene.= Collection of engravings. See =United States=, Library of Congress.
=Hubbard, Sarah A.=, comp. See =Catch= words of cheer.
=Huckel, Oliver.=, tr. Lohengrin, **75c. Crowell.
A companion volume to Mr. Huckel’s “Parsifal” which appeared in similar form two years ago. “It is a version for the general reader. It is not a libretto for the music. It gives a cumulative impression, the composite effect of words, scenery, action, and it is hoped, the spirit of the musical interpretation ... the spirit of the original text in a free version rather than in a strictly literal one.”
* “The poem is preceded by an admirable introductory chapter relating to the work, the whole forming a little volume which will be highly prized by lovers of this noble music-drama.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 557. N. ‘05. 140w.
“It gives the reader a much better impression of the drama than the ordinary literally translated libretto can furnish.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
* “The verse is smooth and dignified.”
+ =R of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 30w.
=Huckel, Oliver.= Melody of God’s love; a new unfolding of the twenty-third psalm, *75c. Crowell.
An interpretation of the twenty-third psalm which divides it into three melodies: In green pastures, a song of the sweet and pleasant experiences of life; Through the valley of the shadow, a song of the harder and deeper and more sorrowful experiences of life; and, In the house of the Lord forever, a song of the exultant and triumphant and heavenly experiences of life here and hereafter.
“A series of meditative essays in poetic vein, but without great distinction of style.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 20w.
=Huffcut, Ernest Wilson.= Elements of business law; with illustrative examples and problems. *$1. Ginn.
This volume is intended as a text-book for students in commercial courses in high schools and colleges and it sets forth the fundamental principles of business law, giving simple concrete examples which show them in their actual application to business transactions. Problems taken from decided cases are given at the end of each chapter. The book is based upon the common law and a glossary of legal terms is provided.
=Hughes, Hugh Price.= Life of Hugh Price Hughes, by his daughter. 3d ed. *$3. Armstrong.
“Mr. Price Hughes broke in early life with the traditional conservatism of the Methodist body, and allied himself with the Liberation society.... The greater part of the volume is taken up with the spiritual activities with which” he “occupied his strenuous life. These were very various in kind. Not the least interesting among them is the part which he took in the reunion conferences at Grindelwald.”—Spec.
“She tries to set down all her father ever did or said, with little order of time and not too much of logic; yet large abstractions obscure practical details.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 354. My. 4, ‘05. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 480w.
“This story of his life will be read in all branches of the Church. It deserves to be. It needs to be.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 143. Ja. 14, ‘05. 270w.
“We must frankly say that there is a certain magniloquence of diction and general exuberance about Miss Hughes’s description of her father’s life and work which we could wish away; but these do not hinder us from recognizing a really striking personality. There are, indeed, more serious faults in Miss Hughes’s book than those of diction and manner. It would not have cost much trouble to ascertain the facts.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 181. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.
* =Hughes, Rupert.= Zal: an international romance. †$1.50. Century.
The tale of a young Polish pianist’s battle for recognition in New York. There is the artist and dreamer’s “deathless enthusiasm” which dominates Ladislav Moniusko and Rose Hargrave, a wealthy New York girl, whose father had set her apart for an English duke.
* “The book is of value, not only because of its musical quality, but because it enlarges information and intensifies sympathy for what may truly be called the land of genius.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 856. D. 2, ‘05. 630w.
* “The contrast between the Polish and American natures is excellently indicated.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
=Hugo, Victor.= Notre Dame de Paris. $1.25. Crowell.
A volume in the “Thin paper classics” series, translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood.
=Hugo, Victor.= Toilers of the sea. $1.25. Crowell.
A translation from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood, uniform with the other attractive volumes of the “Thin paper classics” series.
=Hulbert, Archer Butler, and others.= Future of road making in America. (Historic highways in America.) *$2.50. Clark, A. H.
Volume XV closes the series of monographs on the history of America as portrayed in the evolution of its highways of war, commerce, and social expansion, in the “Historic highways of America” series. Besides the first essay, which gives the title to this volume, Mr. Hulbert’s symposium includes “Government co-operation in object-lesson road work,” by Martin Dodge; Maurice O. Eldridge’s “Good roads for farmers,” Prof. Logan Waller Page’s “The selection of materials for macadam roads,” and E. G. Harrison’s “Stone roads in New Jersey.” There will be a final volume devoted to an index.
+ — =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 928. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
“The later volumes of the series present both the merits and defects of the earlier ones. They are entertaining and often suggestive, but always incomplete. The material is ill arranged, and a surprising amount of it is reprinted from other books.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 322. My. 1, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 15 and 16.)
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 183. F. 16, ‘05. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 390w.
“A model of what an index should be.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 514. Ag. 5, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 16.)
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 449. F. 18, ‘05. 120w.
“[The index] is model work of its kind.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 838. My. 27, ‘05. 120w. (Review of v. 15 and 16.)
=Hume, Fergus.= Mandarin’s fan. †$1.25. Dillingham.
A jade fan causes a deal of trouble in Mr. Hume’s new story. It is at the bottom of a plot which involves the good name of a Chinese official, the fortunes of a worthy young Englishman, the satisfaction of a Chinese god, Kwang-Ho, and the happiness of a young English girl. Never has the author presented so motley an array of men and women from which to select the real criminal.
“His ‘heathen’ are of the conventional and traditional sort, but the dialogue is spicy, the plot intricate, and the personages are set in lively contrast to each other.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 70w.
“Clever as the plot is, there are several woefully weak links, though a rapid reader is pretty sure to overlook these while engrossed in the really thrilling story. Contrary to his usual custom, Fergus Hume has given us better character drawing than plot in this tale of a fan.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 262. Ap. 22, ‘05. 230w.
“The author appears frequently quite as much in the dark in trying to fix on one of his puppets the crime involved as is the patient and mystified reader. There is here no real flesh and blood.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 706. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w.
=Hume, Fergus W.= Secret passage. †$1.25. Dillingham.
The secret passage contains all the strange things which are the natural accompaniments of secret passages. An eccentric old lady is found stabbed to death in her room and there is no clue to the murderer. A clever young detective takes up the case and a number of people become involved in it; several love stories past and present serve to make matters more complicated, and in the end it is discovered that the murdered old lady was really somebody else in disguise, and that the only person not suspected of the crime is the guilty one.
“Another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 230w.
=Hume, Martin Andrew S.= Spanish influence of English literature. $2. Lippincott.
Ten public lectures re-written fill this portly volume. Its aim is “to provide for English readers a comparative study of Spanish literature in special relation to its points of contact with the literature of our own country.”
“Major Hume does not succeed in persuading us that he has attained to any clear conception of what is meant by literary influence.”
— =Acad.= 68: 99. F. 4, ‘05. 840w.
“But these faults of arrangement, selection, and taste are minor defects in comparison with the want of knowledge and the inaccuracy which the book shows. Instances of reckless assertion are numerous in every chapter.”
— — — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 365. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1200w.
“The book, moreover, seems to be pervaded by an exaggerated sense of the importance of its thesis.”
— =Dial.= 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“A cursory reading of this volume will reveal that it commits two unpardonable sins: first, that on points of scanty information, it jumps at brilliant conclusions without an effort to gather adequate facts; and second, that in matters of minute and detailed learning it generally takes its knowledge bodily from a source nowhere mentioned.”
— — =Nation.= 81: 78. Jl. 27, ‘05. 2810w.
“These phenomena of European literary history, Mr. Hume presents clearly and intelligently enough, but without that attention to detailed evidence which would have made his principal chapters somewhat more convincing.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 589. S. 9, ‘05. 890w.
“We are obliged to him for a most interesting book, which brings together facts unknown to ninety-nine in every hundred of the great reading crowd.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 407. S. 23, ‘05. 2020w.
“Though we cannot praise unreservedly either Mr. Hume’s style or his arrangement, yet both are greatly superior to Mr. Underhill’s; and it is just in those chapters in which he comes into competition with Mr. Underhill that Mr. Hume is at his best.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 514. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1180w.
* =Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp.= Wives of Henry VIII. **$4.50. McClure.
Major Hume portrays King Henry as “a weak, vain and boastful creature, the plaything of his passions, and the tool of those great minds about him who worked solely to further their own religious and political aims.” Catherine of Aragon claims the longest consideration, in which the “pathetic and noble” picture is offset by the less agreeable light thrown on her period of widowhood. The author “gives a pitiless picture of Anne Boleyn—of her utter lack of generosity, her meanness of spirit, her frivolity, and her vanity.” Katherine Howard furnishes the best subject of study from a “psychological and romantic point of view,” while Katherine Lady Latimer is presented as “amiable, tactful and clever and evidently ‘managed’ her fickle husband with great intelligence.” (Acad.)
* “The latest and by far the clearest account of these six queens.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1196. N. 18, ‘05. 1500w.
* “Major Hume in this, his latest book, and certainly one of the most deeply interesting he has written, is just sufficiently partial to make us feel that he is human.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 603. N. 4. 1420w.
* “Altogether the book is one which supplies the reader with plenty of ideas and impressions, though there are times when one gets lost in the mazes of the game Mr. Hume is exposing, and wonders if the game is all really there.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 896. D. 16, ‘05. 1410w.
=Humieres, Robert d’ vicomte.= Through isle and empire; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. **$1.40. Doubleday.
“The psychology of the Englishman is a curious subject for a French writer, but it is one very entertainingly treated by Vicomte d’Humières. He divides his book into four parts, following his quarry out of England into Egypt, India, and through Deccan, but always in amiable pursuit; witness Mr. Kipling’s indorsement in a prefatory letter.”—Outlook.
Reviewed by Robert C. Brooks.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 380. Je. ‘05. 2200w.
“Admirably translated into English.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 250w.
“He uses as sharp a wit as Max O’Rell in describing British customs, manners, sports and institutions; but his criticism is much more just and much less bitter.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 782. Ap. 6, ‘05. 480w.
“Readers may differ in opinion of the author’s estimate of British character, but all will agree as to the charming quality of the recorded impressions and sketches of travel.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w.
“His description of English manners is not without humour and incisiveness, and his view of India, native and British alike, is marked by sympathy and insight.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 220w.
“Brilliant and lightsome pages.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 592. Ap. 22, ‘05. 2210w.
=Humphrey, Seth K.= Indian dispossessed. **$1.50. Little.
A plain statement of the wrongs which the Indians have suffered at the hands of the government of the United States, backed by extracts from official records. There is little rhetoric but there are many facts. The crowding out process as it affected various tribes and reservations is given in detail and the final chapters: Dividing the spoils, and Uncle Sam, trustee, make the most ardent patriot stop and ponder. There are sixteen full page illustrations from photographs of Indian chiefs.
* “By taking only those instances wherein the Government or its representatives have been conspicuously unfair in dealing with the Indian, Mr. Humphrey succeeds in making out a pretty strong case against the white man. He has used his material well and has made the most of it.”
— =Ind.= 59: 1231. N. 23, ‘05. 410w.
“We ascribe to this author the best intentions, but we do not think his book will render any real service to the Indian cause. All that he says may be true, but he does not tell all the truth.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 210w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 668. N. 18, ‘05. 260w.
=Humphreys, Alexander Crombie.= Lecture notes on some of the business features of engineering practice. $1. Dept. of business engineering, Stevens institute of technology, Hoboken, N. J.
“This book is, we believe, the first of its kind—namely, a book of lectures on business methods for students of engineering.” (Engin. N.). It contains lectures upon Notes on contracts, Estimates and specifications, three lectures on Accounting, three on Accounting as applied to repairs and depreciation, Systems of classification—taxes, Analysis of a balance sheet and Analysis of data.
“So well does he handle the subject that interest is awakened from the start, and it not allowed to lag.”
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 635. Je. 15, ‘05. 860w.
=Huneker, James Gibbons.= Iconoclasts: a book of dramatists. **$1.50. Scribner.
Studies of modern continental dramatists. A review of Henrik Ibsen’s work is followed by impressions and criticisms of the dramas of August Strindberg, Henry Becque, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Hervieu, “The quintessence” of Shaw, Maxim Gorky’s “Nachtasyl,” Hermann Sudermann, Princess Mathilde’s play, Duse and D’Annunzio, Villiers del Isle Adam, and Maurice Maeterlinck.
“If Mr. Huneker would abandon his strain after originality and epigram, and would be content to be natural and reposeful, his chances of enduring success would be better.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 690w.
“What one misses in his work is the repose, the finish, the, it may be, studied avoidance of mere epigram, mere cleverness, which gives so stable a charm to such criticism as that of Mr. Symons.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =Atlan.= 95: 841. Je. ‘05. 1100w.
“Mr. Huneker’s brilliant book holds substantial refreshment and work of more than transient value. Is saturated with his subject, yet has preserved an invaluable sensitiveness to impressions.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 89. Jl. ‘05. 380w.
“Mr. Huneker’s manner of writing is pointed and almost brilliant, but the journalistic origin of his essays is too apparent.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 357. My. 16, ‘05. 250w.
“His style is not exactly engaging, and we hold some of his admirations to be misplaced; but, when all is said, ‘Iconoclasts’ is a capital book, lively, informing, suggestive.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 218. Jl. 7, ‘05. 1040w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 88. F. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 184. Mr. 25, ‘05. 450w.
“Mr. Huneker’s style is brilliant, audacious, often paradoxical, and full of sweeping generalizations. He knows his subject thoroughly.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 370w.
=Hunt, Agnes.= Provincial committees of safety of the American revolution. $1. Western reserve university, Cleveland, O.
“The present work comprises five chapters. In the first three the committees or councils of safety in the New England, the middle, and the southern colonies respectively are dealt with; the fourth presents a general view of the character and work of these bodies; while the fifth and last seeks their origin in preceding English and colonial experience. The investigation rests almost wholly upon the sources; and the result is thoroughly enlightening for many important questions connected with the struggle for independence.” (Am. Hist. R.) “Every special student of the American revolution will find this work very useful for its collection of facts, its table of the powers of the committees in the several states, and its convenient bibliography of works relating to the subject.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
Reviewed by George Elliott Howard.
+ + =Am. Hist.= R. 10: 689. Ap. ‘05. 390w.
“Is a real contribution to the study of the American revolution.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 340. Mr. ‘05. 110w.
* =Hunt, Violet.= Cat. *$2. Macmillan.
“The cat’s story of the women folk with whom she lived, and whose sentimental attitude toward herself she inwardly despised while she endured it for the sake of the loaves and fishes. Of course it is a story for girls.... It deals with a cat and her family of kittens and with Auntie May, who is still young, and a love affair of Auntie’s.... Miss Hunt ... arranges it so that the young man who loves Auntie May shall hate cats—hate them so that the very presence of one in the room makes him frantic. And Auntie May, when it come to the test, prefers her man to her cats.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 40w.
* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 404. N. 24, ‘05. 490w.
* “Good reading and wholesome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 890. D. 6, ‘05. 230w.
* =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 12. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
* =Spec.= 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* =Hunt, Rev. William, and Poole, Reginald Lane.= Political history of England. 12v. ea. *$2.60. Longmans.
This twelve volume work on English political history is announced under the following authorship: Volume I. 1066, Thomas Hodgkin; II. 1066-1216, Professor George B. Adams; III. 1216-1377, T. F. Tout; IV. 1377-1485, C. Oman; V. 1485-1547, H. A. L. Fisher; VI. 1547-1603, A. F. Pollard; VII. 1603-1660, F. C. Montague; VIII. 1660-1702, R. Lodge; IX. 1702-1760, I. S. Leadam; X. 1760-1801, Rev. W. Hunt; XI. 1801-1837, Hon. G. C. Broderick and J. K. Fotherham; XII. 1837-1901, Sidney J. Low.
* “The professed student will revel in this book, in its accurate scholarship, in its clearness of style and arrangement, in its maps and indexes, and, above all, in the invaluable appendix which Dr. Hunt’s unique knowledge of the original authorities of the period has enabled him to draw up.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1097. O. 21, ‘05. 510w. (Review of v. 10.)
* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 569. O. 28. 1050w. (Review of v. 10.)
* “There is not much that is new or startling either in Mr. Hunt’s narrative or in his opinions; it is on his sober and wholesome common sense that the reputation of this book will depend, and this is not the least important recommendation of such a series as the present.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 346. O. 20, ‘05. 1380w. (Review of v. 10.)
* “A very useful book, in which the sense of proportion, the volume of information, and the continuity of narrative are good.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 429. N. 23, ‘05. 870w. (Review of v. 10.)
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 716. O. 21, ‘05. 210w. (Review of v. 10.)
=Hunter, (Wiles) Robert.= Poverty, **$1.50. Macmillan.
The author has been actively engaged for ten years in university-settlement work in New York, Chicago, and London, and his book aims to awaken the unthinking and unseeing to a realization of the grim and terrible conditions existing among our poor. He describes evils, points out remedies, and sets forth the pitiful struggles of the underpaid and underfed wage-earners. The book is divided into seven chapters: Poverty, The pauper, The vagrant, The sick, The child, The immigrant, and Conclusions.
=Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.
“In his volume, entitled ‘Poverty,’ Robert Hunter has rendered for the United States the same service that Frederick Engels rendered to England sixty years ago by the publication of his volume on ‘The condition of the working class.’ No student of philanthropy, or of sociology, can afford to ignore this book. But when all deductions on the ground of inclusiveness have been made, the arsenal of facts here brought to the attention of the critic must command the respect of the candid.” Florence Kelley.
+ + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 555. Ja. ‘05. 370w.
“The conscience literature of social progress receives an important contribution in ‘Poverty.’ This work, within certain limits, is strong, fine and deserving of great praise. Mr. Hunter’s remedial measures are for the most part sane, reasonable, just and necessary, and they will appeal to tens of thousands who would be frightened if one proposed more fundamental measures. Books like this are of immense value at the present period in our conflict against the sordid materialism that is ranging itself with reaction and subtly, when not aggressively, opposing the ideal of democracy and social progress.”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 219. F. ‘05. 1480w.
“There is a certain literary quality to Mr. Hunter’s book which will insure it a wide vogue. Mr. Hunter’s book is not one that commands our confidence.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ — =Atlan.= 95: 555. Ap. ‘05. 320w.
“While it will meet with objections and while there is room for differing with many statements of the author, the work is a distinct contribution to the literature of sociology.”
+ + =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. ‘05. 590w.
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 399. Je. ‘05. 580w.
“The author shows a wide and intimate knowledge of his subject, and he has recorded his observations and conclusions in a scholarly, frank, and sympathetic spirit. When he speaks of the cure of the difficulty, his position is necessarily less strong and less satisfactory.” Constant Huntington.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 90. Ja. ‘05. 660w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 155. Mr. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“Mr. Hunter has head as well as heart, and his book both convinces and inspires. The best chapter is that on ‘The child.’ The poorest chapter is that on ‘Immigrants.’ ‘Poverty’ is fairly well written and will undoubtedly be a standard book on the subject for the next few years.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 97. Ja. 12, ‘05. 970w.
* “Impressions are quite elaborately reinforced throughout by statistics and authorities, and, to this extent, they are calculated to mislead the unwary.” Mary E. Richmond.
+ — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 506. Jl. ‘05. 490w.
“The author has faced a grave problem resolutely. He has stated it in clear terms. He has gathered together the best and most intelligent thought upon the subject. Mr. Hunter’s book is a landmark in the American literature upon the subject.” S. G. Lindholm.
+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 277. Mr. ‘05. 1160w.
“Such a book as this stands in deplorable contrast with Mr. Rowntree’s study of poverty in York.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 70. Ja. 26, ‘05. 380w.
“The book as a whole, has one aim—namely, to show the grievous need of certain social measures calculated to prevent the ruin and degradation of those working people who are on the verge of poverty. Mr. Hunter’s book on ‘Poverty’ is the most impressive and important book of the year. Every page is crowded with vital matter. There is no high coloring; only a plain, quiet statement of the frightful facts. The book should attract national attention. It should have a million readers.” E. Markham.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 1. Ja. 7, ‘05. 2090w.
“His volume is sympathetic rather than scientific—the work of one who is first a philanthropist, and second a student. It is human—intensely so. It has the defects of its qualities. Looking at the problem of poverty from the view point of the poor, it is somewhat too somber in its interpretation of existing conditions.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 902. Ap. 8, ‘05. 540w.
“The most telling facts that he presents are facts drawn, not from official reports, but from actual experience and observation. As a record of such data his book is an extremely valuable contribution to sociology.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 220w. (States scope of book).
“It is to be regretted that Mr. Hunter did not make a more judicious and careful use of his statistical material. There is much else that is of interest and value in the books.” J. E. Cutler.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 86. My. ‘05. 1290w.
* =Hurll, Estelle May.= Bible beautiful: a history of Biblical art. **$2. Page.
“The book aims to trace the development of Bible illustration from the crude pictures of the catacombs to the splendid art of the mediaeval mosaics, cathedral façades, stained glass windows, and mural frescoes, and finally to the modern work, mostly English, of the last two centuries. Three special indices are provided; one of artists, for the art student; one of places, for the tourist; and one of Bible subjects for Bible students.” The volume is uniform with the “Art lover’s series” and about fifty half-tones of various types of sacred art. (Dial.)
* “An interesting and comprehensive, though distinctly popular, study of Biblical art.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “She well describes the pictures which themselves describe the Bible.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Husband, T. F., and Husband, M. F. A.= Punctuation: its principles and practice. **75c. Dutton.
The first part of this book is historical and, beginning with the earliest inscriptions which had no separation of words or punctuation, it traces the development of punctuation and shows why it is needed. How it should be used is the subject of the second part which gives a full discussion of the uses of each stop.
“Messrs. Husband appear to be too sensitive to the look of stops, to the suggestion of a skeleton, and their own sparing use of them is the one fault in a good book.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 978. S. 23, ‘05. 1150w.
“A practical little volume, which is also strong on the theoretical side, and may be commended as a guide to a neglected subject.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 469. O. 7. 260w.
“The book seems to us both widely useful and entertaining.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 618. S. 23, ‘05. 520w.
“The book does good service in showing the growth of our system of punctuation, and most of the authors’ positions are well taken and carefully reasoned out.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 100w.
=Hussey, Eyre.= Miss Badsworth, M. F. H. †$1.50. Longmans.
Hugo Badsworth, master of Cranston Hounds has an old-maid sister and a niece, both of the same name, Lavinia. Upon his death, a will, made in jest, is discovered stipulating that unless Miss Lavinia Badsworth follows the hounds upon certain occasions his money is to go to a reprobate nephew. The niece fulfills the terms of this will for her aunt and all is well.
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 243. Ap. 15, ‘05. 340w.
“Although somewhat diffuse it is pleasantly told.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 709. My. 27, ‘05. 330w.
“The book ... can best be described by the adjective ‘breezy.’”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 200w.
* =Hutchinson, Horace Gordon,= ed. Big game shooting. 2v. *$7.50. Scribner.
“The ‘Country life’ volumes on Big game shooting under the competent editorship of Mr. Horace Hutchinson, contain an exhaustive account of all the larger game animals of the world, from the Scottish red-deer to the African elephant. The first volume deals with Europe and America.”—Spec.
* “The style is graceful, easy, and animated, and the interest never flags, because the author is unaffectedly interested in the subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 775. N. 18, ‘05. 580w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 869. N. 25, ‘05. 410w.
=Hutchinson, Horace G.= Two moods of a man. †$1.50. Putnam.
The two moods which war for the ascendancy in young Hood are one which compels allegiance to the gypsy wife whom he had married after the Romany rite, and another which bids him desert the gypsy and marry a high minded Philadelphian. His philosophy which claims the divine right of the Greek “daemon” to guide him is a cloak for his selfishness. Intense enthusiasm and reactionary suffering show him to be absolutely without poise.
“This is an extremely interesting, yet deceptive story, in which the cleverness of the telling often dazzles and obscures the true significance of incidents and motives.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 759. Jl. 22, ‘05. 390w.
“It is with exemplary and judicial dispassionateness that Mr. Hutchinson analyzes and depicts his man with two moods. But apart from this non-committal tone of the narrative, the novel deserves nothing but praise.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 73. Jl. 15, 330w.
* “The book is written with a simple distinction, and is filled with suggestive and quotable passages. An unusual character study.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 80w.
“A book of almost startling originality and of very unusual interest.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 790w.
* “Is hardly a successful novel, though it has merit as a succession of scenes.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 282. Ag. 26, ‘05. 320w.
“The beginning of the book, with the pictures of life in the gipsy van, though not worked out in detail, furnishes pleasant reading; but Hood’s philosophic utterances are not impressive.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 150w.
=Hutten, Baroness von.= He and Hecuba. †$1.50. Appleton.
A poor English rector who is atoning for the passionate past by faithful service to his flock at the expense of himself, his invalid wife, and his neglected children, meets a beautiful southern woman who awakens in him his buried youth, and he takes up his pen and writes an anonymous book of his young days and of his downfall. The book sells, but he is obliged to denounce it from the pulpit because of his bishop’s crusade against it. Unhappy complications follow and other characters bring into the story all the elements of tragedy.
* “There are excellent bits of portraiture in this story,—bits which make one regret that the book as a whole should be stamped as frankly and crudely melodramatic.”
— + =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 120w.
* “This novel is uneven, with some good touches, but, as whole, painfully harrowing, cheaply melodramatic, and decidedly unwholesome in its treatment of love. In an obvious attempt to achieve strength, the author has only compassed a cheap and florid rankness.”
— =Lit. D.= 31: 965. D. 23, ‘05. 580w.
“She mars, too, by faults of taste, which belong to the current school of fashionable fiction, a story which in its elements is true and strongly human and developed with no little skill and cleverness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 637. S. 30, ‘05. 460w.
“There is doubt, however, as to her soundness in dealing with moral questions and the wholesomeness of her manner of making her characters play about the edges of social sin. Those who found it difficult for this reason to like ‘Pam,’ with all its cleverness, will feel the same objection here.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 526. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.
=Hutten, Baroness von.= Pam. †$1.50. Dodd.
The story of Pamela Yeoland whose mother, Lord Yeoland’s daughter, outrages her family by eloping with a popular tenor who deserted his wife and family for her. They live happily, however, in Bohemia, among disreputable and brilliant associates. Little Pam, at the age of ten, is taken from these surroundings by an apparently respectable grandfather, and her observations of her new and conventional life lead her to the conclusion that marriage is both undesirable and unhappy. This belief colors her own love affairs. The book closes when she is still young and her future is undetermined.
“A novel of considerable psychological insight. The book, though written with a light touch, deals subtly with some deep questions.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 22: 233. N. ‘05. 580w.
“The novel is artistic to the last degree, and absorbing as a play by Shaw.” Carolyn Shipman.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 474. My. ‘05. 590w.
=Ind.= 58: 615. Mr. 16, ‘05. 290w.
“Is quite as interesting from its logical working out of a problem in social ethics as it is for its strong character sketching and literary style.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1008. My. 4, ‘05. 190w.
=Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“It is interesting, even sinfully interesting. To the thoughtful reader ‘Pam’ holds both an immoral and a moral.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 206. Ap. 1, ‘05. 580w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
“The figure of the quaint little girl and her talk are decidedly pleasing and out of the ordinary. We care much less for her when she is a young woman.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 90w.
“It is the most daring story that has appeared in many months. It is an interesting book of artistic purpose, and therefore a book to be read by the liberal-minded.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 119. Je. ‘05. 410w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 240w.
“‘Pam’ belongs in the main to the category of the ‘emancipation novel.’ To describe it as dangerous or immoral in tendency would be unfair and unjust, for, while it is emphatically not suitable for the consumption of the young person, no grown man or woman could take harm from its perusal. Yet the lesson ... of the story of Pamela Yeoland is so sound and obvious that, beyond the reserves already made, we are not disposed to insist on the freedom with which it is handled.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 144. Ja. 28, ‘05. 900w.
=Hutton, Edward.= Cities of Umbria. *$2. Dutton.
Mr. Hutton “tells of the cities of Umbria, Perugia, Assisi, Spoleto, Orvieto, Urbino, and others less known; of the art of Umbria, with its great names, Perugino, Pintoricchio, and of Umbria Mystica, the Umbria of Assisi, St. Francis and Brother Elias, of Sta. Clara and Joachim di Flore.... His book is illustrated in color after drawings by Mr. A. Pisa, and a number of photographs of pictures to illustrate the section on Umbrian art.”—Acad.
“There is so much solid backbone of historical and artistic knowledge to support his raptures that they are not merely rapturous.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 935. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
“He has ruined his natural power of description by a disastrous attempt to combine the styles of Ruskin, Swinburne, d’Annunzio and Mr. Berenson.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 269. Ag. 25, ‘05. 630w.
“His book is destined to prove an invaluable companion for the tourist he so heartily scorns. We shall probably wait many a long day for a better book on Umbrian painters and Umbrian saints.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 246. S. 21, ‘05. 1190w.
“The book has much that is useful and valuable as a contribution toward the understanding of the Italian life and spirit in their manifold manifestations, much that is suggestive much that is concrete and firmly to be taken hold of.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 590w.
“The text is well written, readable, trustworthy, clearly put, and often has atmosphere, but, despite not a few clever touches, it seems to us in the main unoriginal.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 277. S. 30, ‘05. 180w.
=Hutton, Laurence.= Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton. Recorded by Isabel Moore. **$2.50. Putnam.
Informal chats in which Hutton tells of his life, his friends, and his fads. The volume is full of interesting anecdotes for he numbered among his friends the greatest actors, artists and men of letters in England and America, and he had a collector’s mania for death masks, play-bills, inscribed books and portraits.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 783. Je. 24. 220w.
“One of the most interesting books of its class that has been written in a long time is ‘Talks in a library with Laurence Hutton.’” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 510. Je. ‘05. 770w.
“On the whole, for its wealth of literary, dramatic, and miscellaneous reminiscences the book is one of the best of its kind. The editor deserves a warm word of praise for her part in the work.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 17. Jl. 1, ‘05. 490w.
“Are likely, no doubt, to be found entertaining by those who care for the more gossipy, intimate sort of confidences about public characters.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 639. S. 14, ‘05. 120w.
“It is a miscellaneous collection of literary and personal gossip, a good deal of which is new and most of it decidedly interesting.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 443. Je. 1, ‘05. 610w.
“As the last word, and the very characteristic word, of a cultivated, genial observer with a genius for friendship, it will give much pleasure.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 325. My. 20, ‘05. 970w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 388. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“This is a very informal book, and gains by its unpretentious intimacy of style.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 643. Jl. 8, ‘05. 270w.
“One of the most readable books of the year.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 942. Je. 17, ‘05. 460w.
“The book is rich in stories, and if he sometimes points a moral we suspect he can often adorn a tale.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 343. S. 9, ‘05. 900w.
“An eminently readable book. He is always interesting, always natural, always kindly.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 300w.
=Hyde, William DeWitt.= From Epicurus to Christ: a study in the principles of personality. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“A lucid exposition of the fundamental principles of the Epicurean, Stoic, Platonic, Aristotelean, and Christian philosophies.... The book is made up of extracts from the founders of each system, together with quotations from modern writers on the subject, as well as scholarly comments on both by President Hyde.”—R. of Rs.
=Atlan.= 95: 704. My. ‘05. 410w.
“An extremely interesting presentation of old principles in a new setting, together with keen suggestions of their modern exponents, tend to convince the reader that Mr. Hyde himself is far from lacking in certain principles of personality.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 220w.
“Here discourses on ethics and philosophy in a familiar and breezy sort of way.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1075. My. 11, ‘05. 180w.
* =Ind.= 59: 1161. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“The book is hortatory and not historical. The only serious criticism to be made on the book is the order of the chapters.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 212. Mr. 16, ‘05. 460w.
“The book fulfills its purpose admirably. The author has a firm grasp on the fundamental principles of the systems which he discusses and, in addition, a remarkable insight into the practical merits of the different theories. He writes forcibly and with an abundance of illustration. For general reading the book is interesting, suggestive, and helpful.” H. W. Wright.
+ + =Philos. R.= 14: 373. My. ‘05. 530w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 70w.
“Professor Hyde has produced a very readable book on Greek and Christian ethics; it is clear and popular.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.
“Is one of those extremely clever and almost painfully ‘up-to-date’ metaphysico-theological books which America produces in such abundance.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 119. Ja. 28, ‘05. 420w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Ethics of Greek philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. $2. Higgins.
An essay first given as a lecture before the Brooklyn ethical association (1896-7). It treats of the teachings and influence of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and is illustrated with their portraits. Copious editorial notes by Mr. Higgins and extracts from the works of the philosophers show their close relation to modern thought. The volume concludes with a brief life of Socrates.
“It would be difficult to find a better brief presentation of the matter.” Gerald B. Smith.
+ + + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 396. Ap. ‘05. 170w.
“The conspicuous absence of historic insight, of breadth and impartiality of view, of even an approach to scholarly discrimination, forms strange qualifications for the editing of a volume bearing the ambitious title, ‘The evolution of ethics.’”
— — =Ind.= 58: 384. F. 16, ‘05. 290w.
=Hyslop, James Hervey.= Science and a future life. **$1.50. Turner, H. B.
“An attempt to popularize and condense the evidence buried in the Society for psychical research’s voluminous reports on Mrs. Piper’s trances, for one of the bulkiest and most detailed of which Dr. Hyslop was himself responsible.”—Nation.
“Is the most important critical book relating to psychical research that has appeared during the present year.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 325. S. ‘05. 3250w.
“It belongs therefore with a group of books, numerable on the fingers of one hand, which, treating of matters occult, articulate with a body of fact and doctrine in aspect at least scientific.” E. T. Brewster.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 689. N. ‘05. 680w.
“To those who cherish as something precious the reputation of science and the worth and ideals of the votaries thereof, equally with those who draw from religious faith a sensitiveness and a healthy-mindedness that make for intellectual refinement and stability, the volume is nothing less than offensive.”
— =Dial.= 39: 242. O. 16, ‘05. 480w.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 179. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1580w.
“He has added to his extracts some sensible comments and a careful comparison of the telepathic and the spiritistic explanation, the latter of which he prefers.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 300w.
“Altogether, Prof. Hyslop’s book is the broadest and most understandable work in accord with an intelligent ambition for what this new science can and will do that we have read up to date.” Pendennis.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 430. Jl. 1, ‘05. 690w.
=Outlook.= 80: 1068. Ag. 26, ‘05. 860w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 256. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
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=Ihlseng, Magnus C., and Wilson. Eugene Benjamin.= Manual of mining. *$5. Wiley.
“Based on the course of lectures delivered at the school of mines of Colorado, Prof. Ihlseng’s book, which is regarded in America as the best text-book on the subject, has been enlarged under the joint authorship of Mr. Wilson to include coal mining.... The book is divided into two parts, mining engineering and practical mining. The former deals with prospecting, preparatory work, methods of mining, power generation, hoisting machinery, electric generation and water power ... underground haulage systems, ... pumping, mine gases, ventilation, ... and accidents in mines. The second part deals with shafts, ... tunnels and gangways, drilling and boring machines for explorations, miner’s tools, channelers, drills and coal-cutters, and blasting.”—Nature.
“The book has no American competitor, and it is superior to any other book in the English language covering the same broad field.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 293. Mr. 16, ‘05. 1060w.
“The book contains much useful information, but the lack of method in the arrangement cannot fail to militate against its use as a textbook.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 53. My. 18, ‘05. 360w.
Indian stories retold from St. Nicholas. 65c. Century.
The best of the stories of Indian life and legend contributed to St. Nicholas by well-known travelers and writers have been collected here for “out of hours” reading for young children. The book is the first of a series of historical stories, now in preparation, which in order will include “Colonial stories,” “Revolutionary stories,” “Civil war stories,” and “Our national holidays.”
“Capital tales of Indian legend and adventure.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 7w.
=Inge, William Ralph.= Faith and knowledge. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Mr. Inge’s sermons are chiefly doctrinal.... The subject most frequently recurring is the dependence of faith upon knowledge, the author opposing the Ritschlian view that faith is independent and master in her own sphere.”—Ind.
“A series of well-written sermons of rather more than ordinary power.”
+ + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 400. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
“They disappoint the reader by an absence of intellectual virility and ‘grip,’ and a certain passionate enthusiasm which sweeps the interest of the reader into its current.” F. E. Dewhurst.
+ — =Bib. World.= 26: 74. Jl. ‘05. 490w.
=Ind.= 58: 500. Mr. 2, ‘05. 70w.
“These sermons are thoughtful, scholarly, finely spiritual. I should not think of calling them great or powerful. But they are good—at times quite suggestive, though in places tolerably commonplace. The author is not merely preacher and rhetorician but, one is pleased to find, a capable spiritual thinker. The style is always clear and good.” James Lindsay.
+ + — =Int. J. Ethics.= 15: 385. Ap. ‘05. 1220w.
=Ingersoll, Ernest.= Island in the air. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Fifty years ago some plucky resourceful young people were cut off from their elders, as they all travelled westward to found a new home, by a landslide which held them fast upon a bit of table land, an island in a sea of air. The story tells of their adventures with Indians and wild animals and their final escape. There is also much information upon archaeology, geology, and the use of drugs.
“Exactly the sort of narrative to please adventurous boys and girls.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 70w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 768. D. ‘05. 60w.
* =Innes, Arthur Donald.= England under the Tudors. *$3. Putnam.
“‘England under the Tudors’ ... is the fourth (the second in order of publication) of Professor Oman’s ‘History of England’ in six volumes, and is, therefore, a companion volume to Mr. Trevelyan’s ‘England under the Stuarts.’ ... Mr. Innes ... has produced a competent book on this troubled epoch.”—Lond. Times.
* “Mr. Innes has carefully interpreted each reign in the light of these views and they give to his narrative a consistency and unity which will make his book especially valuable to the younger student and to the general reader, to whom it is more particularly intended to appeal.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 419. D. 1, ‘05. 660w.
* “Mr. Innes’s work has not the brilliance of Mr. Trevelyan’s installment, but it is thoroughly adequate for its purpose, and shows even greater signs of sound judgment. If it is not so readable, it is perhaps more trustworthy. It is this sane judgment which characterizes Mr. Innes’s treatment of difficult and disputed questions, and makes his book so valuable an introduction to the study of the whole period. If the other volumes of the series are executed as well as the two already at hand, the reading public will at last have an adequate history of England.” Joseph Jacobs.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 869 D. 9, ‘05. 1550w.
International catalogue of scientific literature: First annual issue. N-Zoology. pt. 1, Author catalog: pt. 2, Subject catalog, ea. *$8.40. imp. Blakiston.
“The work is planned to include the zoölogical literature for the year 1901, altho one is compelled to analyze the preface in order to determine the period covered since no record of its extent appears on title page of either part.... Part I. contains the general explanations, with the scheme of classification and an index thereto in English; and this matter is repeated in French, German and Italian. Following these, the author catalog fills 260 pages and lists 5,918 titles. Part II., which is about three times as voluminous, contains at the close a list of journals with abbreviated titles and the topographical classification. More than 1100 pages are filled with the subject references proper. The addition to each phylum of a list of names of new genera and species will commend itself to all as a most desirable feature.”—Science.
“With respect to promptness, completeness and accuracy the results are distinctly inferior to those already achieved for zoölogy by several bibliographic agencies.” Henry B. Ward.
+ — =Science=, n. s. 21: 147. Ja. 27, ‘05. 1380w.
=Ireland, Alleyne.= Far Eastern tropics: studies in the administration of tropical dependencies. **$2. Houghton.
The author spent many months in the Far East in the service of the University of Chicago, and the present volume contains carefully collected data and studies of the governments and commercial conditions of the tropical dependencies of Great Britain, Holland, France, and the United States, also a new map of southeastern Asia prepared by Mr. Ireland, himself, and an appendix containing statistics.
“We should like to recommend it as a very able study in comparative colonization in the tropics.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 719. Jl. 8, ‘05. 170w.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 937. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
* “It is for the most part clearly written in an interesting style, it gives just the facts which an American might wish to know, and its conclusions are given with an impartiality, honesty and forcefulness which must carry the greatest weight in the minds of the unprejudiced.” James T. Young.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 755. N. ‘05. 860w.
“He is courageous in his outspoken comment upon all that he finds wrong.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 718. Je. 10. 740w.
“Mr. Ireland has wit and vision, and in his style are clearness and force. He has made a difficult subject interesting.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 265. S. ‘05. 220w.
“There is every evidence of careful and painstaking study; and the book has the unusual merit of being on the whole, definite and precise in its statements.” H. Parker Willis.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 36. Jl. 16, ‘05. 1660w.
+ — =Ind=, 58: 1363. Je. 15, ‘05. 770w.
“It stands out from a copious literature as a valuable contribution to the study of comparative colonization.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 230. Jl. 21, ‘05. 1300w.
“Mr. Ireland is an effective writer, clear, vigorous, and direct, putting his points in a broad way. Mr. Ireland strikes us as being rather too sweeping in his views, and rather too confidently positive in his expression of them.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 145. Ag. 17, ‘05. 2950w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 221. Ap. 8, ‘05. 200w.
“Altogether, it is the most satisfactory work on tropical dependencies that has yet been published, and is indispensable both because of its first-hand information and its acute suggestions.” Stanhope Sams.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 512. Ag. 5, ‘05. 2020w.
“It is safe to say that nowhere else can be found so many facts, or facts so clearly stated, about the particular places and problems concerned as are gathered in this book.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 500w.
“On the whole it is a well-considered work.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 510w.
“Sound knowledge and deep care disclosed.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 407. S. 23, ‘05. 890w.
+ + =Spec.= 94: 945. Je. 24, ‘05. 1650w.
=Irving, Edward.= How to know the starry heavens: an invitation to the study of suns and worlds. **$2. Stokes.
“An introduction to the study of astronomy, written, not as a text-book, but with the intention of arousing the reader’s interest in this great subject, and stimulating him to the study of text-books.”—Outlook.
“On the whole, the book may be characterized as a fresh, up-to-date, and stimulating series of short essays on the worlds that people space.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 274. Ap. 16, ‘05. 320w.
“The diction, moreover, is simple and direct. In all respects it is a book admirably adapted for the average reader.”
+ + =Ind.= 38: 1421. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w.
“The wonders of the universe are described in a fascinating way.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 143. Ja. 14, ‘05. 50w.
=Irving, Washington.= Selected works. $2.50. Crowell.
Five tiny volumes each measuring about two inches by an inch and a half include selections from “Tales of a traveller,” “Christmas sketches,” “The Alhambra,” “The sketch book,” and “Bracebridge hall” respectively. The books are perfect little models in thin paper, clear type and limp leather binding.
* + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 100w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1380. D. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 80w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Irving, Washington.= Rip Van Winkle. **$5. Doubleday.
Mr. Arthur Rackman has made fifty paintings to illustrate this new edition of Rip Van Winkle, and they are all reproduced in full color. “Each of them is a marvel of his Dureresque detail, his grotesque elaborateness, and of the strange bizarre life which beats on every inch of his paper.... Half of the charm of the book lies in the quaintness and originality of the pictures of Rip’s life among ordinary mortals before and after his long sleep in the mountains—in the humour of the old burghers, the beautiful delicately-figured landscapes, the village scenes with their happy mixture of grace and humour.... The winning and tender beauty of his women and children would alone make this book an artistic treasure.” (Lond. Times.)
* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 730. N. 25. 250w.
“Among the Christmas books which will pour from the press during the next three months it will be hard to rival this delightful volume.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 340w.
“The humor and the poetry of Irving are all in the pictures, without a hint of the theatrical quality.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 640. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
* “It is difficult to understand for whose pleasure this latest edition of ‘Rip Van Winkle’ is designed. It cannot be taken seriously as an ‘art book,’ the drawings are not sufficiently good, while at the same time it is too sumptuous a production to put into the hands of an ordinary child.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
=Irwin, Wallace Admah.= At the sign of the dollar. $1. Fox.
In this cleverly slangy book of verses
“Statesman, lawyer, business man Rob-as-rob-will or catch-as-catch-can, At the jolly old sign of the Dollar.”
The topics are strictly American and up to date, and the verses in their own satirical way point a few morals. Niagara be damned, Frenzied finance, To the pure all food is pure, To an Indian skull, and Fall styles in faces, are fair samples.
* + =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “It is humorous, fresh and glib.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
* =Isham, Samuel.= History of American painting. *$5. Macmillan.
In this volume the development of art in this country is traced from its beginning and the conditions which influence it, the social aspects of art, and the personality of the artists are discussed. Much space is given to the lives of some of the earlier painters, the rise and development of the National academy of design is described, also early institutions now dead and forgotten. There are twelve full-page photogravures and 100 text illustrations.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1375. D. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* “The book is interesting to read now, and should prove of great value in the future.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 530w.
* “The truth is that Mr. Isham has written a book about New York painters with passive sympathy for tradition and convention and with some reference to the development of art in the whole country.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 760w.
J
=Jabez, Brother, pseud.= See =Koons, U. S.=
=Jackson, Charles Ross.= Tucker Dan. †$1.25. Dillingham.
Tucker Dan and his chum, Mickey, indulge in a series of pranks and practical jokes thru-out these pages. Good old Uncle Binny is the usual victim altho the village doctor and a rival for the affections of the pretty Martin twins also suffer.
“The style is simple, with here and there little bits of homely humor and philosophy, though the latter is well-nigh lost and soon forgotten.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w,
“It is one continual laugh from beginning to end.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 869. Je. 3, ‘05. 100w.
* =Jackson, Charles Tenney.= Loser’s luck. †$1.50. Holt.
A Central American princess, the last of the line of Montezuma, leads what would have been a farce comedy revolution had not the brave lads who believed in her and her dream, died fighting for her. A young American millionaire, his yacht, and a college professor who chances to be his guest are all stolen by this daring young woman, whose personal charm wins these prisoners to champion her forlorn cause. The story is pathetically humorous, but it is also most unreal.
* “On the whole, a readable and briskly moving, if far from natural story.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 100w.
* “An unusually readable tale.” H. I. Brock.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 900w.
* “A lively romance of whim and adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* =Jackson, E. L.= St. Helena, the historic island from its discovery to the present time. *$3. Whittaker.
“We naturally expect that Napoleon’s sojourn at St. Helena would be made much of; instead, we have an orderly description of the island and a chronological account of the events which have happened there.” (Outlook.) “The photographic illustrations have a curious worth. Some of these were taken shortly after the Boer war, and show the Boers yet interned in the island.” (Nation.)
* “For a book of reference, in spite of its lack of an index, it has its utility.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 445. N. 30, ‘05. 70w.
* “This volume is strangely matter-of-fact, but on that very account has a certain restful charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* =Jackson, Edward Oscar.= Love sonnets to Ermingarde. $1. Badger, R: G.
These love sonnets “are exactly one hundred in number, and their recipient has reason to be proud of the imagery and emotion which she evokes in the soul of her poet. It is the Shakespearean model that Mr. Jackson follows, both as to form and to diction.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
* + =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. 1, ‘05. 200w.
* “They are refined in form, rich in feeling, and swarm with suggestions that appeal to the bookish mind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 170w.
=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Mother and daughter. **$1.25. Harper.
Twenty short chapters for mothers upon the management and training of their daughters.
“The style of the essay is simple and straightforward, and the matter itself bears favorable comparison with any other book of its kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 214. Ap. 8, ‘05. 120w.
=Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 634. Ap. 22, ‘05. 80w.
=Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Tommy Postoffice: the true story of a cat. *75c. McClurg.
The adventures of Tommy Postoffice were many and all cat-lovers will read with interest how Tommy came to the Hartford postoffice in a mail sack, how he aided Cupid, what he did at the cat and poultry show, and what an important place he filled in the postoffice where all the gray-coated men were his fast friends and defenders.
* “It is brightly told, and will interest children, and their elders who like cats.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 80w.
* =Jackson, Mrs. Gabrielle Emilie Snow.= Wee Winkles and Wideawake, †$1.25. Harper.
“One of the nicest stories possible about a nice little girl and her brother, whose real names are not Winkles and Wideawake at all. They are six and eight years at the time of the story, which tells about the nice times they have together playing house, playing that papa is a whale in the water and taking a swim on his back; having birthday parties, and doing other interesting things. Mary Theresa Hart has made the pictures.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 90w.
* “To the little folks of six to nine, the stories being plainly told, will appeal more directly.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 766. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Jackson, Helen Hunt.= Ramona. $2. Little.
A new edition of this picturesque story of American life, with an introduction by Susan Coolidge and illustrations by Henry Sandham.
* “A popular but not in any sense a cheap edition.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 387. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
+ + =N.Y. Times.= 10: 658. O. 7, ‘05. 280w.
* “A very satisfactory edition.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 100w.
=Jackson, Mrs. Margaret Doyle.= When love is king. †$1.50. Dillingham.
Todhunter Payson, who as a child philosophizes over his homely face thus:—“I was born that way.... You know nothing makes the way you’re born. It just happens an’ then you have to stay that way all your life,” and Luke Lyttle “gentleman to his small finger tips” are chums in boyhood, rivals in love, friends all the way. The development of the sturdy Tod from a homeless waif into a man who sways his world is not overdrawn but is true to the principles of a self-made career.
“The book is well worth reading. The people are natural and consistent, the story is well told and interesting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“A well-written, excellently constructed novel.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 110w.
“It is real, vivid, and compelling.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 120w.
=Jackson, Wilfrid Scarborough.= Helen of Troy, N. Y. $1.50. Lane.
“The story concerns two young men of London, who have been engaged in a duel with a German, arising from a quarrel caused by their mutual love for a young American heiress. The plot turns on the efforts which the Englishmen and the hero of the tale, a chance passerby, who has been induced to be a second, make to flee from the consequences of a supposedly serious wound sustained by the German. The disordered state of affairs existing during the recovery of the wounded man furnish amusement to the story.”—Bookm.
“It is a rollicking farce. He has style, observation and a pretty gift of dialogue, so that his characters talk with a naturalness which immensely heightens for the moment the plausibility of his widely impossible plot. Mr. Jackson appears to have entrusted the reading of his proofs to unskilled hands.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 150. F. 18, ‘05. 260w.
“It is a pity that Mr. Jackson, whose style is otherwise good and virile, should help to mar the English language by certain small mannerisms.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 237. F. 25, ‘05. 310w.
“Mr. Jackson has deft wit and an unforced originality.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05 80w.
“This very lively and entertaining book. The thing has a sort of tang of ‘The new Arabian nights’ of Mr. Stevenson, a prankish irresponsible air, combined with a style decidedly precious and deliberate.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 23. Ja. 14, ‘05. 490w. (Outline of plot).
+ — =Spec.= 94: 557. Ap. 15, ‘05. 260w.
=Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob).= Golden heart and other fairy stories, **$1.25. Doubleday.
All who love good old-fashioned fairy tales will enjoy these eight new stories, and will be eager to know how, in Golden heart, the ugly prince rescued a bewitched princess from a rock in the sea; how Grimaçon, the dwarf, helped the Princess Moonflower, and how Ella wished for the peacock’s tail and got it. Other stories are: The sorcerer’s sons and the two princesses of Japan; The dovecote; The pelican; The cherry trees; and, Jack Frost—a story for very little children. The volume is illustrated with drawings by May Sandheim.
* “The tales by no means conform to the modern insipid and bloodless standard for juvenile fairy stories and ought to make a direct and lively appeal to the eager imagination of any healthy child.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 780. N. 18, ‘05. 160w.
=Jacob, Violet (Mrs. Arthur Jacob).= Interloper. $1.50. Doubleday.
Mrs. Arthur Jacob, who made a sudden reputation in her former novel, “The sheep stealers,” now writes a story of country life in Scotland. The interloper is a young man who returns to his mother’s old home from a sojourn in Spain with the man who has always passed as his father,—all unconscious of the blot on his birth, the suspicions of the neighbors, and the presence of his real father in the vicinity. The situation is well handled and the social tragedy skilfully averted. There are many well-drawn characters in the book, the loyal heroine, the grand dame, the villainous family lawyer and many interesting villagers.
“When you lay down ‘The interloper’ you feel that you know intimately a half-dozen interesting people whom you did not know before. Mrs. Jacob is rich in the supreme gift of the novelist—character depiction. A melodramatic ending, trite in conception, and ill-fitting. Mrs. Jacob did not set out to tell an emotional story. She set out to reflect life in a small, old-fashioned Scotch town and its environs, and she has succeeded in masterly fashion. She has given us a delightful comedy of manners written in a style remarkable for power, simplicity and grasp. Out of the ruck of cheap fiction this book rises to real, permanent value. It is not only worth reading, it is worth a place on the book-shelf.”
+ + — =Reader.= 5: 383. F. ‘05. 370w.
=Jacobi, Charles Thomas.= Printing: a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books, *$2.50. Macmillan.
“A third revised and enlarged edition.... The completeness of the book will be apparent from a brief list of its chapters, which number thirty-five. They are in seven divisions, and deal with typefounding, composition (thirteen chapters), proofreading, hand-press work (six chapters), illustrated and color work, motive power, machine printing (six chapters), and warehouse work (four chapters).”—N. Y. Times.
+ =Nation.= 81: 203. S. 7, ‘05. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 410w.
* =Jacobs, William Wymark.= Captains all. †$1.50. Scribner.
This new collection contains “half a score of the tales this author has taught laughter-loving English readers to expect from his pen. This brand is well-known and well-liked.” (Ath.) They include amusing stories of sailormen, longshoremen, and the people of a little English village.
* “The book is thoroughly enjoyable.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 608. N. 4. 170w.
* “Adds notably to the world’s stock of humorous enjoyment.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
* “The stories are not all as good as the earlier ones, the humor often growing out of situations that are forced, and the characters lack their old delightful naïveté.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 829. D. 23, ‘05. 160w.
* “The book is merely a collection of magazine stories, and their cumulative effect is a little disappointing.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 725. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Mr. Jacobs is an artist with a literary conscience as well as a most engaging humourist, and, to borrow the familiar saying, though his genre is not great, he is great in his genre.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 613. O. 21, ‘05. 740w.
=Jacobus, Melancthon Williams=, ed. Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles compared; the Gould prize essays. 50c. Bible teachers’ training school, N. Y.
“In 1903 Miss Helen Gould offered three prizes for popular, brief essays on ‘The origin and history of the Bible approved by the Roman Catholic church’ and ‘of the American revised version.’ Two hundred and sixty-five essays were presented. The prizes were won by Rev. William Whitely, L.L.M., LL.D., Rev. Gerald Hamilton Beard, B.D., Ph.D., and Charles B. Dalton, Esq. These three essays are published in this volume. Of course, they cover much the same ground. The limits of space imposed were such that the authors could give only a somewhat bare and crowded statement of facts.”—Am. J. Theol.
“The first two essays are very full, accurate, and well proportioned. The third leaves something to be desired in accuracy, especially regarding the exactness of the present biblical text (p. 140). The chief value of the third essay lies in certain quotations from contemporary Catholic sources.” Irving F. Wood.
+ + — =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 743. O. ‘05. 300w.
“These three constitute what must now be regarded as the standard work on a theme of controversy that greatly needed enlightenment.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.
=James, Bartlett Burleigh.= History of North America, Vol. V. $6. Barrie.
The fifth volume of the series edited by Professor Guy Carleton Lee, treats of the colonization of New England and was written by Professor James of Western Maryland university. The chronological table begins with the sailing of the Mayflower and is brought down to the passage of the Stamp act. There is a careful examination of the motives of the Puritans in coming to New England, and the founding of the settlements of Connecticut and Rhode Island is given in detail. The closing chapter is devoted to the causes which led to the Revolution. There are many excellent illustrations.
“The work is of the most comprehensive character. The treatment of an extended topic is carefully and philosophically worked out.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 101. F. 18, ‘05. 970w.
* =James, George Wharton.= In and out of the old missions of California: an historical and pictorial account of the Franciscan missions. *$3. Little.
This interesting volume covers a broad field successfully. It begins with the founding of the California missions, then gives a chapter upon Junipero Serra and his coadjutors, followed by a discussion of the Indians at the coming of the padres and at the present time. An especially noteworthy chapter deals with the secularization of the missions, and in twenty-one chapters is given an account of as many individual missions, followed by a chapter upon nine mission chapels or Aristencias. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the volume is its treatment of mission architecture and interior decoration. A careful survey of the mural decorations of the missions is followed by a pictorial account of the furniture, pulpits, doors, and other woodwork, crosses, candlesticks, and other silver and brass ware, and of the various figures of the saints found at the missions. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs made expressly for this book.
* “An interesting and adequate treatment of a fascinating theme.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 444. D. 16, ‘05. 340w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 1040. D. 23, ‘05. 130w.
* =James, Henry.= English hours. *$5. Houghton.
“This reprint of some of Mr. James’ essays descriptive of England is happily illustrated by the drawings of Mr. Joseph Pennell. The essays include London; Browning in Westminster abbey; Chester; Lichfield and Warwick; North Devon; Wells and Salisbury; An English Easter; London at midsummer; Two excursions; In Warwickshire; Abbeys and castles; English vignettes; An English New Year; An English watering-place; Winchelsea, Rye and ‘Denis Duval;’ Old Suffolk.”
* + =Acad.= 68: 1225. N. 25, ‘05. 800w.
* “Mr. James is like his simple original self in this charming book.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “These interpretations of English life carry the reader with them by their quality of tonic freshness, which takes the place of the bewildering curiosity about everything and nothing characteristic of the late novels.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 260w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 8, ‘05. 220w.
* “But these lapses though apparent are rare—more apparent, indeed, on account of their rarity—and it is impossible to resist the engaging enthusiasm, the fine freshness of mind which he brings to bear on the variety of topics and places about which he chatters in the fugitive papers bound up in this volume.”
+ + — =Sat.= R. 100: sup. 5. D. 9, ‘05. 730w.
=James, Henry.= Golden bowl. $2.50. Scribner.
“Four principals and two particularly diverting subordinates make up the role of characters” in this story whose action centers about the marriage of an American girl to an impoverished foreigner. “The four are Adam Verver, widower, and his daughter, Maggie, Americans,—the husband of Maggie, an Italian prince, and Charlotte Stant, a young woman of exquisite intelligence, and paramount charm, American by birth, cosmopolitan by nature.” The elements of tragedy are fostered thru the prince’s yielding to his former love for Charlotte Stant, the princess’ friend, and now Adam Verver’s wife. The strength of the story is embodied in the princess’ determination to win back the love of her husband, “which she vows must be as complete and perfect as the original crystal of the broken bowl, that picturesque property of the story that takes so unique a part in the development of the plot.” (Reader).
“The intellectuality overpowers the sensuous and objective traits proper to a novel, until one has the impression of reading an abstruse treatise of psychology rather than a tale. Despite exasperations of detail, the novel in the main is masterly. The three leading women are differentiated with the nicest skill: each is living and persuasive. But it fairly ranks as a master-work—if a master-work flawed by some of his obscurest later mannerisms.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 1020w.
“The book is clear to those who think Mr. James worth a little trouble. The method, in spite of its inwardness, is detached, cold, and, if the word is possible, a little cruel. But its mental agility, its likeliness, its atmosphere, are perfect.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 332. Mr. 18. 530w.
=Atlan.= 95: 696. My. ‘05. 190w.
“Another two volumes of abstruseness, another long discussion of a situation that only scandal mongers are supposed to discuss; again the same old heavy respectability where nothing is bad because it is not named; again the heroic sweetness of two characters, that is always his saving grace, that makes us read him.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 153. Ja. 19, ‘05. 700w.
“In the end you have your reward—a story, a situation, which, as you think about it, pierces the obscurities and strikes you in the eyes, like the low red autumn sun pushing out of a mass of black clouds.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 74. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1380w.
“A book of mixed ugly and charming aspects. Never has the art of description been brought nearer to that of painting.”
+ + — =Reader.= 5: 380. F. ‘05. 1290w.
“A book so pregnant with fundamental brainwork, so rich in suggestiveness, and so accomplished in execution. The book is clearer, and, for that very reason, more vital, than the works of what one may call his middle period.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
* =James, Henry.= Question of our speech: The lesson of Balzac; two lectures, **$1. Houghton.
“In the first essay, delivered as a commencement address at Bryn Mawr, Mr. James has well emphasized the overlooked needs in America of ‘a virtual consensus of educated people to impart to our speech a coherent culture.’ ... The second essay in the volume, ‘The lesson of Balzac,’ is a notable piece of literary criticism in its concentrated vigor, its elucidation of the novelist’s art, and its nicety of phrase. Recognizing in Balzac the master-artist of modern fiction.”—Dial.
* “These essays will raise a divergence of opinion, as does all of Mr. James’s literary work; but however widely readers may differ from his point of view, all will recognize the stimulating intellectual quality.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 311. N. 16, ‘05. 620w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 764. D. 9, ‘05. 200w.
=James, Montague Rhodes.= Ghost stories of an antiquary. $1.50. Longmans.
Eight old fashioned ghost stories with all the gruesome and hair-raising qualities which a story of their kind could possess. The eight are Canon Alberic’s scrap-book, Lost hearts, The mezzotint, The ash tree, Number 13, Count Magnus, “Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad,” and The treasure of Abbot Thomas.
“Mr. James manages at times to give you a pretty well-defined creepy feeling—but his ghost stories are not quite the real thing in spite of the pains he takes to pile up detail in the setting and leave the horror itself as undefined, shapeless, and elusive as may be.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 483. Jl. 22, ‘05. 580w.
“There can be no question about the literary merit of these eight stories, and of the ingenuity which Dr. James has shown in their construction.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 925. Je. 24, ‘05. 170w.
=Jamison, Cecilia Viets (Mrs. Samuel Jamison).= Penhallow family; a story. †$1.50. Wilde.
A little wanderer, back from India to her father’s old home, is dropped into an uncle’s family where three self-centered, noisy youngsters ruled by a hard task-mistress, “Aunt Gordon,” make life miserable for the new-comer. Her brave helpfulness in bringing happiness out of the confused and warring forces of the household frames a lesson for every young reader to profit by.
=Jane, L. Cecil.= Coming of Parliament, 1350-1660. (Story of the nations, no. 73.) **$1.35. Putnam.
“The general scheme of this volume is indicated by its title. It deals more especially with the development of the Constitution within the three centuries with which it is concerned, and it is an attempt to trace the steps by which Parliament attained to a permanently important share in the government of England. While stress is laid upon this theme, other sides of the national life have not been ignored.” (N. Y. Times.) There are many illustrations, a map of England, and a chronology.
“What Mr. Jane has really written is an English history of a period. But, while its accuracy it notable, it has other merits which are astonishing. The events of the period, particularly towards the close, were many and complex and stirring; yet, although this book is almost as compact as an encyclopaedia, it is so fluent and fascinating that one reads it with the delight which is given by great romance. Mr. Jane, it is true, is not without predilections. His imagination is attracted by the navy. In all other respects, though invariably he arrests attention, he is coldly judicial. Besides being exceptionally well-informed, our historian brought to his task a fresh, independent and penetrating intellect.” W. Earl Hodgson.
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 78. Ja. 28, ‘05. 840w.
“As a book professedly concerned with ‘the coming of parliament’ and the place of parliament in national life, it cannot be said to have any particular merit or value, or to render of less service any of the accepted histories of English constitutional development.” Edward Porritt.
— — + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 917. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“We have failed to find in the latest issue of this well-known series any general connexion with the subject of parliamentary government or the least pretension to originality of thought or vigour of delineation; whilst research is wanting.”
— — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 200w.
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
+ — — =Bookm.= 21: 525. Jl. ‘05. 1260w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“It is obvious from the text that Mr. Jane has broken no new ground in the research for the Parliamentary side of his book.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 212. Jl. 27, ‘05. 420w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 185. Mr. 25, ‘05. 350w.
“Mr. Jane’s book is interesting reading, even if he sometimes tangles the thread of his story of Parliament.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 293. My. 6, ‘05. 1190w.
“Adds little or nothing to the history of Parliament which cannot be found in any of the accepted works on the English constitution. There is nothing, moreover, that is attractive about Mr. Jane’s literary style.”
— — =Outlook.= 79: 1057. Ap. 29. ‘05. 710w.
“Mr. Jane’s book is not always ‘easy reading,’ but is reliable, a quality which will conceal many literary sins.”
+ + — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 200w.
“The volume will have its uses, but we should have preferred something more to the purpose.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 324. S. 2, ‘05. 200w.
=Janssen, Johannes.= History of the German people at the close of the middle ages; tr. from the Germ, by A. M. Christie. v. 7-8. *$6.25. Herder.
“These two volumes cover the period between the years 1550-1580.... Within those thirty years fell such events as: The religious conference at Worms in 1557, the Diet of Augsburg in 1559, the Grumbach-Gotha conspiracy for a Lutheran empire, the effects in Germany of the religious wars in France and the Netherlands, the war against the Turks, the establishment and progress of the Jesuits in Germany, and the concluding sessions and general effect of the Council of Trent. These great events and many others of similar moment are treated with Janssen’s well-known fulness of detail, abundance of scholarship, and sturdy Catholic spirit.”—Cath. World.
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 117. Ap. ‘05. 610w. (Review of vols. VII. and VIII.)
=Japp, Alexander H.= Robert Louis Stevenson; a record, an estimate, and a memorial. *$1.50. Scribner.
The author who, thru a common interest in Thoreau, came to know Stevenson well in his early Edinburgh days, gives a critical discussion of his life and works, with some new facts and some newly published letters.
“It contains a good deal of valuable matter presented in the most scrappy and disjointed way; as well as some matter which is not valuable at all.” H. W. Boynton.
+ — =Atlan.= 96: 280. Ag. ‘05. 200w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 358. My. 16, ‘05. 480w.
“The criticism on Stevenson’s various styles in his varied work is often acute and just. Altogether the book in parts has a strong interest for the Stevenson enthusiast, but will hardly attract the general reading public.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 708. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w.
“This is a very informing book, a contribution of distinct value to our knowledge of R. L. Stevenson.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 146. Ja. 28, ‘05. 330w.
=Javal, Emile.= On becoming blind: advice for the use of persons losing their sight; tr. by Carroll E. Edson. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Dr. Javal, who lost his sight at the age of 62, writes to the families of those who are blind or in danger of becoming so. He gives advice as to their treatment, suggestions on amusement, and there are chapters upon memory, marriage, the psychology of the blind and the sixth sense.
“The style of the book is simple, direct and scholarly.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1483. Je. 29, ‘05. 220w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 137. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w.
“The book is a pleasure to read even on the part of those whose interest is not immediately claimed by the subject.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 225. My. 20, ‘05. 710w.
=Jeans, James Hopwood.= Dynamical theory of gases, *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Jeans ... in the first seven chapters, follows fairly closely on conventional lines, and deduces the Boltzmann-Maxwell law of distribution, the minimum theorem, the law of partition of energy, and the isothermal equations according to the Boyle-Mariotte and van der Waals’s laws. In chapter VIII the author throws over the principle of conservation of energy and assumes that his gas is a dissipative system in which loss of energy occurs by radiation.... In chapters IX and X, Mr. Jeans considers application of the theory of a non-conservative gas, particularly in connection with rates of dissipation of energy and ratios of specific heats. We thus have a definite attempt to break away from traditional methods and boldly introduce the notion of dissipation into the kinetic theory.... In the remaining chapters Mr. Jeans deals with ‘free path phenomena’ such as diffusion, conduction of heat, viscosity, and the escape of gases from planetary atmospheres. In this work he is more on the ordinary lines.”—Nature.
“Misprints and minor errors are delightfully few. The book is a piece of conscientious work by one who has already made valuable contributions to this subject. It belongs rather with the classical work of Burbury and of Boltzmann than with any of the attempts at a simple or more popular presentation.” W. P. Boynton.
+ + + =Astrophys. J.= 22: 224. O. ‘05. 780w.
Reviewed by G. H. Bryan.
=Nature.= 71: 601. Ap. 27, ‘05. 870w.
=Jebb, Richard.= Studies in colonial nationalism. *$3.50. Longmans.
“An attempt ... to present a modern view of imperial evolution, ... the result of three years’ travel and study among the self-governing states of the empire ... which should be studied by all who wish to understand the trend of colonial aspirations, whether they agree with them or not.”—Acad.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 469. Ap. 29, ‘05. 570w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 942. Jl. ‘05. 170w.
“His observations on America, though justly calling attention to many undoubted and serious faults indicate on the whole an exaggerated and distorted view of our public life.” Willard E. Hotchkiss.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 607. S. ‘05. 640w.
=Ath.= 1905. 1: 494. Ap. 15. 730w.
“Mr. Jebb’s book has no small originality. His book contains not a few inconsistencies. Almost every page of it is instructive.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 166. My. 26, ‘05. 940w.
“Everything he says is stated with a confidence that dreams not of the possibility of contradiction. This makes the book attractive.” Charles W. Thompson.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2880w.
“It is essentially a work that will be welcomed, not derided in Canada and Australasia. And that is to say no small thing of its merits, and of the success with which its author has achieved his object.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 897. Je. 17, ‘05. 1720w.
=Jefferies, (John) Richard.= Bevis; the story of a boy. $1.50. Button.
A new edition of a book for boys written many years ago and founded upon Mr. Jefferies’ own boy-hood idealized. Mr. E. V. Lucas states in his introduction that it is “a long and eloquent, and, I think, successful argument in favor of the wisdom of leaving boys to themselves, and allowing independence and self-reliance to oust for the time being school books and tutors.”
“‘Bevis’ is a wholesome and delightful book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.
“Full of his intimate knowledge of nature, and full also of sympathy with and knowledge of the interests and characteristics of boys.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. 8, ‘05. 40w.
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Faith and life. **30c. Crowell.
Under the text “Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen” (Heb. xi. 1), Dr. Jefferson discusses the relation which faith bears to life. The booklet is attractively bound in white, with gold lettering and a holly design in green and belongs to the “What is worth while series.”
=Jefferson, Charles Edward.= Minister as prophet, **90c. Crowell.
Originally given as a series of lectures before the Bangor theological seminary, these talks are “clear, luminous, pithy, cogent, full of practical suggestions” for ministers, students and the general public. The following chapters show the minister’s present position in general affairs; The dimension of the work, The three men involved (the physical man, the mental man, the spiritual man). The growing of sermons, Form and manner, The place of dogma in preaching.
“There are many books on the Christian ministry, and few are smaller than this and few more valuable.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 331. Ag. 10, ‘05. 90w.
“The general tone and spirit of these lectures is uplifting, clarifying, and stimulating to high endeavor.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1014. Ap. 22, ‘05. 300w.
=Jelliffe, Smith Ely.= Introduction to pharmacognosy. *$2.50. Saunders.
This is the first adequate English treatment of pharmacognosy, and will be welcomed by the special student. “The work falls into three divisions, animal drugs, vegetable drugs without organic structure, and vegetable drugs with organic structure. The first division is appropriately small, and the last constitutes the major portion of the work. A goodly treatise on each drug is found, embracing references to its origin; discussions of its gross structure, microscopic structure and features recognizable in its powder; and mention of constituent substances present.... Excellent original illustrations accompany a large number of the descriptions.” (Science.)
“The discussions are in the main botanically correct and the style is fairly clear. Imperfections aside, however, it is well within the truth to say that this volume is the nearest approach which has yet appeared towards filling the need of the day in this country.” Charles H. Shaw.
+ + — =Science=, n. s. 21: 625. Ap. 21, ‘05. 290w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= Captain Myles Standish. *$1.20. Century.
A biography of Myles Standish, the Pilgrim’s captain, which tells the story of the people of the Mayflower and of their captain’s service to them as leader, lawgiver, trader, and physician. The account is accurate to the sacrifice of many romantic traditions.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 60w.
“It is intended, perhaps, more for youthful than for mature readers, although we imagine it will interest these as well. Is practically a history of the Plymouth settlement.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 649. O. 7, ‘05. 490w.
“Mr. Jenks’s account gives an impression of accuracy and care, but it lacks picturesqueness and any romantic quality.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 524. O. 28, ‘05. 70w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 210w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Milton, **$1. Barnes.
Uniform with “The lives of great writers” series this volume contains a popular description of the conditions in England during the reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles, of Puritan and Cavalier, and of the life of the blind poet himself and his relation to these surroundings. There is a frontispiece portrait of Milton, a bibliography and a chronological table.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 80w.
“The author is luminous rather than critical, gives a touch of imagination to the accuracy of facts, and inspires with fresh human interest a national movement commonly thought of as only bitter and austere.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 230w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
“The book is both instructive and readable.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 715. O. 21, ‘05. 270w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
* “It will be found extremely helpful to an understanding of the Puritan period in English history.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 140w.
=Jenks, Tudor.= In the days of Shakespeare; with introd. by Hamilton W. Mabie. **$1. Barnes.
“One of the series of ‘Lives of great writers.’ ... This little volume consists of a personal picture of the Stratford boy, and the London actor and man of affairs. There is also a helpful explanation of some of the principal plays, with suggestive comments.”—R. of Rs.
“For the purpose for which it is intended—that is, as a literary substitute for the textual and verbal approach to the subject which has hitherto prevailed—it is to be commended.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 840. Ap. 13, ‘05. 50w.
“The book is readable and will likely give the ordinary reader a much better idea of what the playwriting business was in Elizabeth’s reign, what the work Shakespeare actually did was, than many much more pretentious volumes can do.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 460w.
“Proceeds, as an open-minded student, to unroll a fascinating panorama.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 260w.
“Mr. Jenks has handled his material well.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 58. Ja. 12, ‘05. 670w.
“A new and ‘worth while’ Shakespeare book.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 381. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
=Jephson, Lady.= Letters to a debutante. *$1.25. Lippincott.
These letters are addressed to Violet, who is gently told how to be sweet and happy in chapters upon The art of happiness, The need for controlling the tongue, The ethics of dress, On country house visiting, The choice of literature, Are elopements justifiable? Concerning wit, The advisability of friendships with men, and other subjects of interest to the young girl who longs to be a social success.
* + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 20w.
“On the whole, however, the lady gives wholesome enough advice—albeit most of it has been given to other debutantes many times before.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 620. S. 23, ‘05. 450w.
“While Lady Jephson’s form is throughout aphoristic, she lacks the gift of saying the inwardly true thing in memorable words, and that is the particular gift one looks for in a book of this sort.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 502. O. 7, ‘05. 740w.
=Jepson, Edgar.= Lady Noggs, peeress. †$1.50. McClure.
“Lady Noggs, properly called Lady Felicia Grandison, is the small niece and ward of a prime minister, whose peace of mind is continually disturbed by pranks and escapades of the most extraordinary nature.... A background romance between the governess and the secretary is engaging and real by way of contrast.”—Outlook.
“The object of these few remarks is to cordially commend Felicia, within her suitable literary bounds, as a pleasant holiday companion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 328. My. 20, ‘05. 560w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 130w.
=Jernigan, Thomas R.= China in law and commerce. *$2. Macmillan.
From these pages “one may glean not merely knowledge of the political and commercial life of the country, but a better understanding of the Oriental mind. The physical features, the resources, the people of China; the state, provincial, district, town, and family organization, the anomalies between legal theory and business customs, the native banking system, the weights, measures, and currency employed, the Empire’s transportation facilities” (Outlook) are all fully treated.
“Mr. Jernigan is not an inspiring writer. But there is a great deal that is valuable in his book, and his statements are accurate and apposite.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 398. S. 23. 820w.
“A volume which will be indispensable to every student of the civilization of the Far East.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 694. S. 21, ‘05. 550w.
“The thing essential in compiling a book of this kind is sympathetic perception, and Mr. Jernigan has evidently cultivated this faculty, during his residence in China, with no little success.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 262. Ag. 18, ‘05. 800w.
“Here in one handy book is choice and exact information, carefully sifted, tested, and arranged concisely and in an orderly manner. There is a good index to this noteworthy book.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 84. Jl. 27, ‘05. 780w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 280w.
“The subjects ... find exhaustive discussion, and ... are treated carefully and intelligently.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 382. S. 16, ‘05. 220w.
“A scholarly volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 100w.
* “An unpretentious book, containing a large amount of well-selected and well arranged information.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.
=Jernigan, Thomas R.= China’s business methods and policy, *$3.60. Wessels.
The author, ex-consul general of the United States at Shanghai, prefaces his book with the statement that he has sought to find “some of the elementary principles which base and influence business and social China and to present them without unnecessary detail.” His papers give a clear and accurate treatment of China’s administrative system, land tenure, sources of revenue, law courts, finances, social regulations, commercial trend, educational and consular systems, and foreign relations.
“There is a want of cohesion about this work; it seems more a collection of papers than a treatise. The work will be found useful when any important event takes place in China in connection either with its foreign or with its internal policy, as a sort of reference-book.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 121. Ja. 28, ‘05. 220w.
=Jervey, Theodore D.= Elder brother. $1.50. Neale.
“A novel in which are presented the vital questions confronting the South growing out of the Reconstruction, and in which the author defines the true relations now existing between the races in the South.” Specifically, it presents the political, social, and economic history of a southern city during this period. There are many characters of all classes but interest centers about two brothers who become social and political leaders.
“The book, if it is not a novel to carry the reader along—it is not that—is an exceedingly valuable, truthful, and interesting study. There is certainly no other picture of the period which approaches it in these vital points.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 528. Ag. 12, ‘05. 730w.
“It is a good picture of conditions—and perhaps, after all, its solution of the problems confronting the South is the only practical one.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 911. Je. 10, ‘05. 240w.
=Jessel, Frederick.= comp. Bibliography of works in English on playing cards and gaming. *$4.40. Longmans.
“Gaming in this sense includes dominoes, conjuring, card-tricks and so forth. Mr. Jessel has described the title of every work he has found, however slight, on cards or gaming; and he has included all books which contain allusions of sufficient importance to be recorded, even works of fiction which depend on gaming for their plots or contain scenes which illustrate the mode of playing some particular game. Periodicals have not been forgotten.... The bibliography is in alphabetical order of the names of authors, but the index at the end enables subjects to be searched for without difficulty.”—Acad.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 646. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
* “We can recommend it not only to libraries, but also to clubs for card-room reference, and to all who wish for a ready means of finding out what has been written in our language about cards and gaming.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 683. N. 18. 630w.
=Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
* “Probably as complete as any other in English.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.
=Jevons, William Stanley.= Principles of economics: a fragment of a treatise on the industrial mechanism of society and other papers. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“The fragment in a mere outline, but it comes from a master hand and is doubly welcome at a time when the need for restatement of definitions is particularly evident.”—Acad.
“The volume is one that we cordially welcome, and it is bound to meet with the high appreciation of a discriminating public.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 609. Je. 10, ‘05. 1290w.
“Probably much that is already printed would have been greatly revised before it appeared, and yet, imperfect as it is, the careful student of economics will lose a great deal if he does not master this volume.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 362. S. 16. 1470w.
“The book may be said to be well justified, even though it be equally clear that the form and title and bulk of it fall somewhere between the questionable and the indefensible.” H. J. Davenport.
+ — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 600. S. ‘05. 1180w.
“A word of gratitude is due to the editor, who has spared no pains to elucidate what the author left unfinished and obscure.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 243. Jl. 28, ‘05. 780w.
“It cannot be said that the fragments now published offer anything of great value. Mr. Higgs has performed his editorial labors in an admirable manner.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 245. S. 21, ‘05. 1330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 377. Je. 10, ‘05. 350w.
* =Jewett, John Howard (Hannah Warner, pseud.).= Con the wizard, †50c. Stokes.
This little volume in the Christmas stocking series, tells how the wizard-bird, Con, changed Teddy Mann and the pets of Mistress May into the form of the man or beast they envied most, and how they were glad, after a time, to be changed back and become themselves again. There are eight illustrations in color by Edward R. Little, and numerous illustrations in black and white by Oliver Herford.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
Jewish encyclopaedia; ed. by Isidore Singer. 12v. per v. $6. Funk.
Everything which in any way concerns the ancient or modern life of the Jewish people and which has either historical or literary value can be found in this “Descriptive record of the history, religion, literature and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest time to the present day.” Prepared by more than four hundred scholars and specialists under the direction of Cyrus Adler, I. K. Funk, F. H. Vizeletly and others. There are twelve massive volumes and two thousand illustrations.
“In spite of some minor defects, should prove a valuable work of reference to all interested in Jewish history.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 170. F. 25, ‘05. 880w. (Outlines scope of Vol. VIII.).
“Has much the same merits and defects as its predecessor.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 370w. (Review of Vol. IX.)
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 791. Jl. 29, ‘05. 280w. (Review of v. 10.)
“The enterprise has now gone far enough to leave no doubt that the high standard of excellence set up by the editors will be reached.”
+ + + =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 523. Jl. ‘05, 580w. (Review of v. 1-10.)
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 140. Jl. 29. 610w. (Review of v. 9.)
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 239. Ag. 19. 310w. (Review of v. 10.)
+ =Bib. World.= 26: 159. Ag. ‘05. 70w. (Review of v. 10.)
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 577. S. 7, ‘05. 620w. (Review of v. 9 and 10.)
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 30w. (Review of v. 9-11.)
* “This encyclopaedia will be essential in any well equipped library.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1484. D. 21, ‘05. 100w. (Review of v. 11.)
“The standard cannot be said to be rising. Still, if only for its wealth of biography, especially English and American, the book is indispensable for reference.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 290. Ap. 13, ‘05. 110w. (Review of Vol. IX.)
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 382. N. 9, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 10.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1730w. (Survey of contents of Vol. IX.)
“The tenth volume is as valuable as any of its predecessors.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 480w. (Review of v. 10.)
“As a work of world-wide comprehensiveness this is one to enrich any library.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 190w. (Outlines scope of volume IX).
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 10.)
* “This great work, the joint product of Jewish and Christian writers, fully sustains its early promise as it nears its completion.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 890. D. 9, ‘05. 230w. (Review of v. 11.)
“Nearly all subjects mentioned [in volume IX] are treated at great length, in good spirit, with thorough scholarship.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 389. Mr. 11, ‘05. 550w.
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 260w. (Review of v. 10.)
* “Volume XI. is exceptionally rich in politico-economic material.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 730. D. 2, ‘05. 320w. (Review of v. 11.)
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 256. F. ‘05. 270w. (Outlines scope of volumes VII and VIII).
* “It can be affirmed without hesitation that, taken as a whole, the work is a contribution to general knowledge which, for the future, will be nothing less than indispensable.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 790. N. 18, ‘05. 1240w. (Review of v. 8-10.)
=Job, Herbert Keightley.= Wild wings: adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of America on land and sea. **$3. Houghton.
A simple story of the author’s conflicts and conquests as he hunted with his camera “the wild hardy birds of the sea, whose strong wings make them masters of the elements.” His search took him from the Magdalen islands to the Florida keys and he gives pictures of pelicans, kittiwakes and gannets, of laughing gulls, cormorants and auks, of plovers brooding their young, and of the great horned owl mothering her owlet. There are 160 of these photographs.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 287. S. ‘05. 90w.
“No such collection of ‘portraits’ can be found anywhere else.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 387. Je. 1, ‘05. 440w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1251. Je. 11, ‘05. 340w.
“His book should appeal to a large circle of readers, especially the ornithologist, the sportsman, and the nature-lover, as well as the omnipresent camera fiend.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 171. Ag. 24, ‘05. 620w.
* “Despite its somewhat pedantic title, this book is much above the average of works of the same general nature.”
+ + =Nature.= 73: 123. D. 7, ‘05. 500w.
“‘Wild wings’ should not only appeal to nature and bird lovers, but there is much in its pages to interest sportsmen as well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“Without doubt this book is a contribution to the world’s sanity, while at the same time its science is duly respected.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 402. Je. 17, ‘05. 410w.
=Outlook.= 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 60w.
“Quite as entertaining as most hunters’ stories.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 768. Je. ‘05. 180w.
John Van Buren, politician, †$1.50. Harper.
“‘John Van Buren, politician,’ is a young up-state lawyer, who comes to New York, joins Tammany hall, wins the favor of Boss ‘Coulter,’ and is sent to the state legislature, where he is speedily made acquainted with the darker aspects of legislative life. The story of his adventure in politics and of his lovemaking ... is told in a volume that is a curious combination of novel and guide to the sights of New York.”—Outlook.
“The book has no style, and but slight interest considered as a story. Its implied ethics, moreover, are of a highly dubious character.” Wm. M. Payne.
— =Dial.= 39: 114. S. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 166. Mr. 18, ‘05. 360w.
“Were it not for its intimate portrayal of the methods whereby Tammany achieves political success, it would be of little value or interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 653. Mr. 11. ‘05. 140w.
“The picture of the sessions of the general assembly at Albany is graphic and possibly true to the life, although the coloring is probably too strong and the lines too heavy.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 549. Ap. 8, ‘05. 150w.
“The book does not preach anything, clean politics or foul; it simply reflects conditions as a keen observer would find them.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 594. O. ‘05. 180w.
* =Johnson, Burges.= Pleasant tragedies of childhood. †$1.50. Harper.
“Experiences more or less tragical to babies and children, but pleasantly told in Mr. Johnson’s verses and humorously depicted in Miss Cory’s sketches. Fathers and mothers will be amused by them, and the juvenile victims—some of them at least—will enjoy the pictures.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 584. D. ‘05. 70w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 50w.
* “This is an exceedingly attractive picture book.”
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 90w.
* “One of the really delightful books about children of the present season.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 90w.
* “Some of the verses are very witty.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 767. D. ‘05. 90w.
=Johnson, Burges.= Rhymes of little boys. **$1. Crowell.
A truly charming book of little boy verses, which little girls and grown-ups will enjoy also Goin’ barefoot, Bein’ sick; Gettin’ well; Cookin’ things; Makin’ things; Gettin’ washed; and two score others set forth little boy philosophy in little boy language, and following these are some verses to or about little boys, among them an exquisite tribute to Frank R. Stockton. The volume is bound in plaid gingham, with decorative title and end leaves by Mrs. John Carpenter.
* “The naïveté of small-boy egotisms, generosities, rivalries, has never been, and, it would seem to us, could never be, better done than in Mr. Johnson’s clever and sympathetic verses.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 150w.
* “This volume is sure to win for its author a wider appreciation of his really unique work.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1389. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
“The introductory poems strike a note of tenderness and reverence of unusual purity and beauty.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 120w.
* “We like his verse for its insight, literal though it often is.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 60w.
* =Johnson, Clifton=, ed. Oak-tree fairy book; il. by Willard Bonte. $1.75. Little.
Here are the old favorites reproduced in wholesome form with the savagery, harrowing details and abnormal pathos eliminated, and with the charm retained.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 60w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 481. Jl. 22, ‘05. 160w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 210w.
=Johnson, Owen.= In the name of liberty. $1.50. Century.
A story of the French revolution in which the personal struggles of the actors are silhouetted against the greater struggle of the nation in the background. Barabant, a young enthusiast, allies himself with the Girondins and falls with them, to be saved from the guillotine only by the sacrifice of Nicole, a flower-girl, whom he has made his wife in prison, and who gives up her life for his. The course of the story runs subjectively close to the people; their whims, their morbid curiosity, their unrestrained impulse and anger, and their hatred for the aristocrats distort their vision thru the bloody days of the terror which is followed in grewsome detail.
“Mr. Johnson has devised a fresh and unhackneyed story, with a heroine quite apart from the usual types.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
“Owen Johnson has written a good story, with several unusual points about it that entitle it to notice.” Priscilla Leonard.
+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 371. Ap. ‘05. 1440w.
“A fresh and interesting view of a subject that would seem to have been exhausted of all novelty. One can but admire the cleverness with which he has made reality and fiction supplement and sustain each other while keeping the reader’s attention wholly engrossed by the very simple and pathetic love story of Nicole and Barabant. A vivid and vigorous handling of a subject that has been used to the point of threadbareness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 133. Mr. 4, ‘05. 610w.
“A rather unusually spirited tale. Mr. Johnson has created two or three flesh-and-blood characters, has put them into trying crises, and has made them work out their own moral salvation or ruin as they respond or fail to respond to the test. The book has life and energy.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 246. Ja. 28, ‘05. 90w.
“The sure touch of the confident master is lacking. There is over-emphasis, a too great insistence on the individual when the mass should have been brought into the foreground. Viewed as a whole the book is an effective piece of word painting.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 710w.
“Mr. Johnson’s story has merits of its own unborrowed from Dickens or any one else. One of them is a saving sanity of expression.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 618. Ap. ‘05. 370w.
“Well and swiftly told, and probably of breathless interest to the unsophisticated mind.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 30w.
=Johnson, Sidona Viola.= Short history of Oregon, **$1. McClurg.
This book covers the early discoveries, the Lewis and Clark explorations, settlement, government, Indian wars, and progress. In concise form it gives a full account of that interesting region. It is illustrated with numerous halftones.
“A short but comprehensive account of the state.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 131. Ja. ‘05. 60w.
=Johnson, William Henry.= French pathfinders in North America. $1.50. Little.
The author has made his narrative suitable in every respect to young readers. He tells of the discoveries and adventures of such men as Cartier, Jean Ribaut, Rene de Laudonnière, Champlain, Nicollet, Joliet, La Salle, and Father Hennepin, in an interesting fashion, basing his story, upon standard authorities; he has provided notes upon Indian tribal connections and customs, and introductory chapters which deal with the origin and distribution of the Indian race and give a view of Indian society.
* =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “Mr. Johnson’s descriptions of the great French explorers are calculated to serve the purposes he had in view and to stimulate curiosity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 781. N. 18, ‘05. 450w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
=Johnson, William Henry.= Sir Galahad of New France, †$1.50. Turner, H. B.
This romantic story of a young Frenchman, who, lost and alone in the new world, is befriended by an Indian girl who leads him back to his people and in whom he awakens such intellect and religious fervor, that he comes to love her and takes her back to France and makes her his wife, is based upon the attempts of the French Huguenots to settle America in the sixteenth century. The historical element, however, is subordinated to the forest love story.
* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 10w.
* + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 300w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=Johnson, Wolcott.= An old man’s idyl. *$1. McClurg.
A homey story, an autobiography in scattered diary form, in which a husband and father tells of his late love, his happy marriage, his honeymoon in Europe, and the birth of his two little girls who grow up, are educated, and finally marry, leaving him to look back over a long life which they and their mother rounded out into a perfect idyl, and a prayer.
“This old man’s little ‘idyl’ has a peculiarly reminiscent, speculative flavor which now and then recalls Ik Marvel and George William Curtis and others of that school of amiable and dearly beloved dreamers.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 372. Je. 10. ‘05. 220w.
“The story is not an intellectual one. It is not an intense one. Tenderness and sanity, good will and unaffected English make the progress of the recital agreeable and almost imperceptible. Mr. Johnson is to be congratulated upon the sincerity and simplicity of this unpretentious little volume.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 106. Je. ‘05. 230w.
=Johnston, Charles, and Spencer, Carita.= Ireland’s story; a short history of Ireland for schools, reading circles, and general readers. **$1.40; school ed. *$1.10. Houghton.
Beginning with the legendary past, this volume follows the history of Ireland down to modern times. In the discussions the authors touch upon the Irish church, home rule, land purchase, the Irish in America, on the continent, and in the British empire. The Irish literary revival is fully treated and there is a closing section on the derivation of Irish names. The book is illustrated with views, portraits and maps.
“Written in a quiet, almost gentle style, the narrative moves calmly forward and is easily followed. The treatment is sufficiently fair and charitable to satisfy any reader in whom the virtue of tolerance is properly developed.” Laurence M. Larson.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 411. Je. 16, ‘05. 590w.
“The writers of the present work have managed to condense a vast amount of information into their sketch of some 400 pages.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 96. Ag. 3, ‘05. 250w.
“The first five chapters ... absolutely worthless for any purpose whatever. The rest of the volume, however, appears to be of some value.”
+ — =N. Y.= Times. 10: 354. Je. 3, ‘05. 590w.
“A well-arranged outline history of Ireland. The authors, while frankly revealing both their political and their religious sympathies, write with moderation and fair-mindedness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 90w.
“All in all, this volume gives an excellent epitome of Irish history.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 150w.
“A book which ought to have a place in the libraries of our high schools.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 440. My. ‘05. 70w.
=Johnston, Rev. John Octavius.= Life and letters of Henry Parry Liddon, canon of St. Paul’s cathedral and sometime Ireland professor of exegesis in the University of Oxford. $5. Longmans.
A detailed and sympathetic account of the life and character of the late Dean Liddon, strict ritualist and devoted Puseyite who was almost constantly involved in controversy. It is a faithful record of unfaltering devotion to duty and his steady advancement to well-earned success; his friendly relations with Gladstone and Salisbury and his refusal to accept a bishopric from either; his success as a pulpit orator; his famous sermons; his pleasing personality, high scholarship and untiring energy.
“A worthy addition to the literature of biography.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 234. Ap. 1, ‘05. 2020w.
=Spec.= 94: 180. F. 4, ‘05. 400w.
=Jones, Amanda Theodosia.= Rubáiyát of Solomon, and other poems. $1.25. Alden bros.
One-third of this new volume of poems “is given up to versification, in the familiar rubáiyát form, of certain of the sayings of Solomon and Koheleth.... It is elsewhere in Miss Jones’s volume that we must look for her most meritorious verse. We find it, for example, in the group of ‘Kansas bird songs,’ in the lyrics of childhood, the tender personal tributes, and the pieces that touch on contemporary history.” (Dial.)
“It can truly be said that she has looked upon the sun and has been undismayed; for, at intervals ... the clear voice of this fearless and fiery-hearted Deborah has been heard and heeded by those who may be reckoned as the jealous custodians of the gates of song.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 412. N. ‘05. 1650w.
“There is in the book always a first-hand view of nature,—often a touch of mysticism. Some of the experiments are not fortunate, but now and again there is a narrative poem, or a lyric that clings to the memory.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 414. N. ‘05. 290w.
“After a long silence, Miss Jones has put forth a new volume of poems, which may perhaps secure for her work something of the appreciation which has long been its due.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 275. N. 1, ‘05. 480w.
* “The variety of achievement in this modest volume is in pleasing contrast to that offered in most collections of its size.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 802. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.
* =Jones, E. Griffith-.= Economics of Jesus; or, Work and wages in the kingdom of God. *35c. Meth. bk.
A study of the money parables,—“a series of problems arising out of the deep-seated and manifold inequalities of life.” The little volume belongs to the “Freedom of faith” series.
=Jones, Henry Arthur.= Manoeuvres of Jane: an original comedy in four acts. **75c. Macmillan.
“Mr. Nangle, a wealthy widower, places his wilful daughter in charge of Mrs. Beechinor, retired matron of a young ladies’ boarding-school, in the hope that she will transfer her affections from a man who is in moderate circumstances to Lord Bapchild, a nephew of Mrs. Beechinor’s, Jane arranges matters to suit herself and marries the man whom she loves.”—Bookm.
“The situations are the work of an undoubted expert, and the dialog is skilfully written. Now that Oscar Wilde is dead, Mr. Jones has only one equal in England, the Ibsenized Pinero.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 140w.
“It reads well, although the literary form emphasizes the fact that it is really more of a farce than a comedy.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 30w.
=Jones, Henry Arthur.= Mrs. Dane’s defence. **75c. Macmillan.
This four-act play was given in New York in the years 1901-1902. It concerns a woman with a past and a skilful lawyer who forces the truth from Mrs. Dane.
“Undeniably clever.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1060. Ap. 29, ‘05. 20w.
=Jones, Rev. J. D.= Elims of life, and other sermons. *$1. Revell.
“These are discourses by a prominent Congregational pastor in England.... The spiritual and ethical element predominates, the form is plain and lucid, the aim is practical.”—Outlook.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 100w.
=Jones, Jenkin Lloyd.= Dying message of Paracelsus. pa. 50c. Unity pub.
“Appropriate as an Easter gift, and dedicated as such by the [author] to his Browning classes, is this elegantly printed pamphlet, illustrated by Albrecht Dürer’s picture of ‘Melancholia.’ ... A few paragraphs of Mr. Jones’s lecture on Paracelsus accompany Browning’s text as introduction and commentary.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 856. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.
=Jones, Paul.= Commercial power of Congress. $5. priv. ptd. C. S. Nathan, N. Y.
The object of this book “is to trace the history and show the present authoritative interpretation of that pregnant declaration of the constitution of the United States: ‘Congress shall have power ... to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.’” (N. Y. Times.) Present interest centers about the application of this provision to trusts and railway rates.
“It is carefully done, but lacks a table of cases.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 258. S. 28, ‘05. 80w.
“It bears evidence of a lot of painstaking work, is written in a style excellent for its purpose, and offers very few of those slips of the pen or the proofreader that are apt to invade in force the pages of the amateur.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 312. My. 13, ‘05. 900w.
=Jones, Rufus Matthew.= Social law in the spiritual world, **$1.25. Winston.
“While the title at once suggests the famous work of the late Henry Drummond, and the book is in a way an attempt to deal with the same problems as those discussed in his Natural law in the spiritual world,’ Professor Jones is concerned rather with the psychological aspects of the subject than with the biological. In his view, there is a greater stress to-day in the psychological than in the so-called natural sciences.”—R. of Rs.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 134. Mr. 4, ‘05. 120w. (Outlines scope).
“Professor Jones very tersely sums up the present-day meaning of personality and social relationship. His discussion of the modern religious problem is from a somewhat novel point of view.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 180w.
=Jones, Samuel Milton.= Letters of labor and love. **$1. Bobbs.
Thirty-eight letters originally dictated by Mayor Jones, Golden Rule Jones, to his stenographer and delivered to his women with their wages. Each letter begins, Dear Friends, and closes, Very faithfully yours, and in each the master and man meet on common ground as brothers. Equality, coöperation, harmony, fellowship, patriotism and even picnics and vacations are advocated in these letters, and many other subjects of general interest are discussed.
=Jonson, Ben.= Plays and poems, *$1.25. imp. Scribner.
“This latest addition to the irresistible ‘Caxton’ series is the representative work of Jonson as a dramatist and as a poet.... The frontispieces and the title-pages in this series ... are often as in the case of this volume, admirable pieces of typographical and illustrative work.”—Outlook.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 70w.
=Jonson, Ben.= Devil is an ass; ed. with introduction, notes and glossary by William Savage Johnson. $2. Holt.
A contribution to the “Yale studies in English.”
=Jonson, Ben.= Poetaster; a thesis presented to the faculty of the graduate school of Yale univ. in candidacy for the degree of Dr. of philosophy; ed. by Herbert S. Mallory. $2.50; pa. $2. Holt.
This 27th volume in the “Yale studies of English” series, contains the text of the play, a long critical introduction, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index.
=Jonson, Ben.= Staple of news: a thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate school of Yale univ. in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of philosophy; ed. by Dr. De Winter. $2.50; pa. $2. Holt.
This twenty-eighth volume in the “Yale studies of English” series contains the critical text of Jonson’s play, with elaborate notes, a glossary, and an introduction.
=Dial.= 38: 276. Ap. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“The least satisfactory part of the work is that devoted to bibliography, which contains, as usual, a number of inaccuracies.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 922. Je. 24, ‘05. 300w.
=Jonson, G. C. Ashton.= Handbook to Chopin’s works, **$1.50. Doubleday.
“A sort of a ‘musical Baedeker.’ ... It has been the author’s aim to make his book equally useful and helpful to concert-goers, for whom it forms a permanent analytical programme, to pianists, and to those amateurs of music who can now, owing to the pianola, pursue for the first time a systematic and co-ordinated study of Chopin’s works.... A brief account is given of each composition.... The volume opens with a brief sketch of Chopin’s life, which is followed by short preliminary chapters on various aspects of his work.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 238. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“An exceptionally valuable book, which every devotee of pianoforte music should have at hand for daily reference.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“It is likely to be a useful compilation for hurried reference.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 110w.
=Jordan, David Starr.= Guide to the study of fishes. 2v. **$12. Holt.
Dr. Jordan’s work is encyclopedic in its scope, and “treats of the fish from all the varied points of view of the different branches of ichthyology. In general, all the traits of the fish are discussed, those which the fish shares with other animals most briefly, those which relate to the evolution of the group, and the divergence of its various classes and orders most fully. The extinct forms are restored to their place in the series and discussed along with those still extant.” (Dial.)
“The most comprehensive treatise on American ichthyology.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 84. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1680w.
“There is no thorough classification or system. The table of contents of the chapters make matters only worse. A single page with an outline of the arrangement would be a boon.” H. C.
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 625. O. 26, ‘05. 1600w.
=Jordan, Kate (Mrs. F. M. Vermilye).= Time the comedian. †$1.50. Appleton.
A man who was about to elope with a woman who is to desert for him her husband and child is shocked on the eve of their departure by the suicide of the husband with one of his wife’s guilty letters in his hand. He will not marry her now, but gives her a liberal allowance, and years later when he has come to love her daughter, his old letters to her mother keep them forever apart.
* “The characters are well drawn and the plot worked out logically ... and the story is written with a sureness of touch and a briskness that keeps the interest unflagging throughout.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 90w.
“A bright, entertaining society novel, not without a moral for light, frivolous, and selfish people of both sexes.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
Jubilee gems of the Visitation order. Sisters of the visitation of Holy Mary. *$1. Christian press.
“The present publication aims successfully at giving, in clear and simple language, an authentic account of the foundation of the order, and a picture of the ideals which have obtained in the community and borne fruit in the saintly lives of its members.... It will help to fill the lamentable lack of books suitable for Catholic school premiums.”—Cath. World.
“The volume is well gotten up and attractively written.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 406. Je. ‘05. 350w.
=Judd, Sylvester.= History of Hadley, including the early history of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Mass. *$6. H. R. Huntting & co., Springfield, Mass.
This work was originally published in 1863. It is now reprinted with an introduction by Geo. Sheldon and family genealogies by Lucius M. Boltwood.
“Introduction is, by the way, decidedly more interesting than Mr. Judd’s ‘History.’”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 399. S. 23. 320w.
“His compilation is replete with authentic information as to manners and customs, and is highly browsable.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 198. S. 7, ‘05. 330w.
“The new edition will find a wider field than the first met, and should create and fill a demand for itself.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 541. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1010w.
Judith: an old English epic fragment, ed. by Albert S. Cook. 40c. Heath.
This volume is section I of the “Belles-lettres” series contains the text of Judith, passages from the Vulgate Judith, an introduction, bibliography, and glossary.
* =Judson, Frederick Newton.= Law of interstate commerce and its federal regulation. *$5. Flood, T. H.
“The volume is divided into two parts, the first part, comprising about one-fourth of the book, deals briefly with the power of the federal government over interstate commerce and with the statutes that have been enacted in the exercise of that power. Part two discusses in more detail the interstate commerce act of 1887, the anti-trust law of 1890, the safety appliance legislation of 1893 and 1896, and various other minor acts of legislation regarding interstate commerce. The latter part of the book is devoted to the presentation of information regarding ‘procedure before the Interstate commerce commission.’” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
* “The volume is systematically arranged, it is well proportioned and carefully written. It is both a good treatise and a valuable book of reference. Neither the lawyer nor the economist interested in transportation can afford to neglect part two of Mr. Judson’s book.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 756. N. ‘05. 310w.
* “Mr. Judson has a good power of statement, and his volume is a valuable addition to the literature of the subject.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 247. S. 21, ‘05. 230w.
Juliana, ed. by William Strunk. 40c. Heath.
A volume in section I of the “Belles-lettres” series, English literature from its beginning to the year 1100. The original text of the Exeter manuscript is given, all deviations being indicated in the variants. An introduction discusses the text, the author, and the legend, and complete notes, bibliography, and glossary are provided.
“The notes have been most carefully edited, the type is clear, and the notes and glossary are adequate.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 340w.
=Jungman, Beatrice.= Norway: text by Beatrice Jungman; with 75 il. in col. by Nico Jungman. *$6. Macmillan.
“Mrs. Jungman does not concern herself ... with the past history of Norway, except with a few of its legends; nor does she allude to the present unsettled state of its politics. But the fact of Norwegian unrest ... makes ... an interesting background to her brilliant series of passing impressions.... Mr. Jungman is a charming artist, ... and he has done nothing more attractive than these portraits of Norwegian girls and children.... His sketches of Norwegian landscape are also most characteristic.”—Spec.
“She is always readable,—partly, no doubt, because she is so absolutely unpretentious; and the book is a welcome addition to an interesting and valuable series.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 645. Je. 17, ‘05. 430w.
“The limited scope of his work suffers considerably by comparison with the comprehensive title of the book.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 791. Je. 24. 660w.
“The ‘text’ is friendly gossip about a trip in Norway, quite natural, with no straining after effect. The colour of the pictures is gay; it is too vivid for our liking.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 748. Je. 3, ‘05. 110w.
“Mrs. Jungman’s ‘text’ is quite as interesting, in its way as her husband’s pictures.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 922. Je. 24, ‘05. 270w.
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=Kasson, John A.= Evolution of the constitution of the United States of America and history of the Monroe doctrine. **$1.50. Houghton.
An edition in a form convenient for the general reader of a work published in memorial volumes, at a high price, in 1887 for the Constitutional centennial commission. “Mr. Kasson gives a clear but condensed recital of the conditions preliminary to the original ‘Confederacy:’ a statement of the infirmities and ineffectiveness of the Articles of confederation; the recognition of the failure of those articles by the patriots of the revolution; the successive steps by which they sought the consent of the states to a general convention to provide a substitute government; and finally the manner in which they accomplished the organization of a nation.” (R. of Rs.)
Reviewed by C. L. Raper.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 340. Mr. ‘05. 150w.
“This ought to be a good handbook for beginners, but is not a lawbook, and does not cover the field occupied by such a book as Cooley’s well-known treatise.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 188. Ag. 31, ‘05. 900w.
Reviewed by R. L. S.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 67. F. 4, ‘05. 530w.(States scope of book).
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 150w. (States scope of book).
=Katherine, pseud.= See =Stephens, Louise G.=
=Kaye, Percy Lewis.= English colonial administration under Lord Clarendon, 1660-1667. 50c. Hopkins.
In his monograph, Dr. Kaye presents colonial administration under the following heads: The official colonial system, The Royal charters of Connecticut and Rhode Island, The founding of Carolina and the conquest of New Netherland, The Royal commissioners in New England and Results.
=Keats, John.= Poems; ed. with an introd. and notes by E. de Selincourt. $2.25. Dodd.
“Mr. de Selincourt has wisely left the significant irregularities of orthography as Keats left them; and he has grouped the poems in a logical and significant order, relegating to an appendix certain nonsense rhymes and doggerel ditties that have stood hitherto side by side with ‘La Belle sans merci’ and the ‘Ode to Malta.’ The text stands midway of an introduction and a body of notes that preserve an even-handed balance between ideal and textual criticism.”—Nation.
* “The prefatory study is the result of much original and painstaking research and the notes leave no clue to the sources of the poet’s ideas untouched.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 326. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1420w.
“In the mean time we commend most heartily to the public his introduction and notes to this edition.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 534. O. 21. 3260w.
* “It is safe to say that no one who has this new edition will feel the need of any other: to that extent at least it is definitive.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 150w.
“Is likely to stand as the best edition of the poet for the critical student of poetry as a fine art.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 383. N. 9, ‘05. 310w.
“His industry is commonly attended with judgment. And so his effort ... has yet been a real success. It is complete if he has succeeded in producing the ‘definitive’ edition of Keats. And it seems that it has really done that.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 705. O. 21, ‘05. 1140w.
“The notes are so full as to class this volume with texts for the expert rather than for the ordinary reader.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 120w.
=Keen, William Williams.= Addresses and other papers. *$3.75. Saunders.
The truth about modern surgery told by a master surgeon is of value both to the members of the medical profession and the general reader. Dr. Keen treats the historical and antiquarian aspects of practical anatomy, covers the ground of modern surgery, shows the position of the medical college to-day, its mission and needs, and closes with an address on “The surgical reminiscences of the Civil war.”
“The subjects are discussed in excellent English, and with exactness, though without the technical language.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 484. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1280w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 511. Ag. 5, ‘05. 220w.
“These papers are of interest chiefly to physicians and surgeons; but some of them are of value to readers outside of the medical profession.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 590. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Keith, Marian.= Duncan Polite, the watchman of Glenoro. †$1.50. Revell.
Pathos and humor are skilfully blended in this story of a small Canadian town where English, Irish, High and Lowland Scotch are found. Duncan McDonald, called the polite to distinguish him from all the other McDonalds, is the hero of the tale which concerns the discord which a young and modern minister engenders in an old kirk, where he wins a youthful following in spite of the elders’ aversion to all new things.
“It is a fresh, clean story, likely to interest young people in spite of the prayerful tension in the atmosphere of the tale.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 60w.
“Anyhow, it wad hae made a bonnie, wee short story.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 470w.
=Kellogg, Vernon.= American insects. **$5. Holt.
“This volume aims to provide a general, systematic account of the principal insect families as they exist in America, written with the greatest regard for scientific accuracy and thoroughness, but in such a way as to interest the average intelligent reader. A chapter on ‘Insects and disease,’ giving an account of the researches which have determined beyond any question the part played by mosquitoes in the spread of malaria and yellow fever, is of special timeliness just now.”—Outlook.
“We have in this simple volume a whole library of insect lore, brought into convenient compass, abundantly illustrated and clearly printed.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 383. O. ‘05. 110w.
“Readable and profusely illustrated, it gives a great amount of information about the insects of this country, in such a manner that it is available to any intelligent person. With all its merits, Prof. Kellogg’s book is a little too much of a compilation to be ideally satisfactory.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 164. S. 16, ‘05. 690w.
“It seems that nothing needed to make this a complete guide to the study of our American insects has been omitted. The style of the book is in general popular and adapted to the average intelligent reader.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 340w.
“In general, entomologists will agree with the schemes of classification.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 207. S. 7, ‘05. 690w.
“Not only is an excellent reference book, but ... contains much interesting reading for any nature-lover.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 100w.
“The minor defects noted detract little from its real value, and Professor Kellogg’s volume will be welcomed as one of the best general text-books on the subject covered.” C. L. Marlatt
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 563. N. 3, ‘05. 1160w.
=Kellor, Frances A.= Out of work. **$1.25. Putnam.
“Miss Kellor’s previous studies of convict women and correctional institutions gave her an admirable preparation for the investigation of employment bureaus.” (Am. J. Soc.) Her researches have been carried on in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, with the result that her material is first hand. She discusses the employment agencies, their treatment of the unemployed, and their influence upon homes and business. The last chapter is devoted to state and municipal laws.
“No previous study has accumulated such a wealth of information on this vital problem. The author has very properly aimed to give a clear and adequate statement of the entire situation and has dealt out advice sparingly. Yet she has probably suggested about all the measures for betterment which give any promise of immediate usefulness.” C. R. Henderson.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 10: 558. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
“The work is well done. This volume should command the attention of housekeepers and employers generally, as well as students, for it indicates that the reign of graft is not confined to political positions, and the corrupting influences of many agencies are clearly set forth.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 131. Ja. ‘05. 220w.
“It is an admirable piece of work. The work thorough and well-planned; and the facts stated in an impartial and interesting manner; simple and entertaining as well as scientifically valuable.” Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 279. Mr. ‘05. 580w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“The volume is worthy of high praise and it should be widely read.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 99. Jl. 13, ‘05. 290w.
Reviewed by S. P. B.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 295. Mr. ‘05. 530w.
“An interesting study of employment agencies. The value of Miss Kellor’s book lies largely in the undoubted authenticity of the information on which it is based. The book should be read by all who are interested in reforming the abuses of employment agencies in American cities.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 760. D. ‘04. 190w.
=Kelly, Myra.= Little citizens. †$1.50. McClure.
Miss Kelly’s narrative had to do with a “polyglot brood of future Americans,” children of the New York east side Jewish colony. She “shows us these little citizens at work and play in a New York school. Their parents are pedlars, seamstresses, and costermongers.... They are timid, ignorant, unwashed. But the children they send shrewdly and faithfully to school ... are enchanting. Of course they are naughty. Miss Kelly is at once too honest and too artistic to write stories about little saints.... But they are clever, affectionate, and teachable.... They speak an odd dialect that we take to be a graft of the Yiddish on American; and at school their ways are most humorous and entertaining.” (Acad.)
“Miss Myra Kelly’s ‘Little citizens’ are as strange to us as the countries of their birth, and their charm is partly the charm of novelty. She has presented them with originality and freshness and with a convincing sympathy.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 480w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 90w.
“For real insight into the child mind with its misconceptions and limitations, so hard for an adult to understand, these stories are only equalled by those of ‘Emmy Lou.’”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 502. Mr. 2, ‘05. 210w.
“They pile up material for the future, and are in the present prodigiously amusing.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 260w.
“In the representation of their terrible manners, their extraordinary dialect and their oriental warmth of heart, the author shows keen observation, delightful humor, and no mean order of creative talent. Miss Kelly’s book is amusing, and it is unconsciously, unintentionally, and therefore delightfully, instructive. The dialect is picturesquely and easily handled.”
+ + + =Reader.= 5: 623. Ap. ‘05. 380w.
“The volume may be highly recommended as containing sketches of an original and attractive kind.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 754. My. 20, ‘05. 150w.
=Kendrick, A. F.= English embroidery. *$2.50. Scribner.
“A well-illustrated guide for students and collectors to the history of art embroidery in England from the middle ages down to the eighteenth century, with descriptions of the important examples of this work that have been preserved.”—Outlook.
“He writes, moreover, from a liberal and genuinely artistic standpoint, and is not carried away by a love of mere curiosity.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 760. Je. 17. 500w.
“It is seldom that a book on a special subject is so interesting and readable throughout.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 60. Jl. 20, ‘05. 1350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 313. My. 13, ‘05. 300w.
=Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.
=Kennedy, John Pendleton=, ed. Journals of the house of burgesses of Virginia, 1773-1776. *$10. Putnam.
The publication of these documents by the Library board of Richmond will be welcomed by all students of this most interesting period in Virginia’s history. The editor has provided a valuable introduction containing numerous extracts from contemporary newspapers and unpublished “Broadsides.” The letters and minutes of the Colonial Committee of Correspondence are appended to the Journal of each year.
“The work of editing the volume has been ably done.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 44. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w.
“A very satisfactory introduction.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 585. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.
“The editor, John Pendleton Kennedy, State Librarian, has performed his task with judgment, and the result is highly creditable to the state.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 144. Ag. 17, ‘05. 770w.
=Kennedy, Sidney Robinson.= Lodestar. †$1.50. Macmillan.
In their rambles thru the Connecticut hills, two friends, a novelist and a painter, meet a refined and well educated country girl, with whom they both fall in love. A great-hearted millionaire enters the story, and there are many amusing complications.
“One of the pleasantest of summer books.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.
“Something of a disappointment.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 680w.
“Clever and readable novel.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 100w.
=Kent, Arminie Thomas.= Otia; ed. by Harold Hodge. **$1.25. Lane.
Some thirty essays, and critical reviews reprinted from various magazines, and about twenty poems, serious, sentimental and satiric, which were written between 1881 and the author’s death in 1903.
“The book intrinsically strikes us as a failure.”
— =Acad.= 68: 80. Ja. 28, ‘05. 690w.
“In treating a writer who pays such attention to the small points of style, and who incidentally sneers at ‘the shallower sort of American scholars,’ an American reviewer feels justified in pointing out minute defects.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 45. Jl. 16, ‘05. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 215. Ap. 8, ‘05. 260w.
“Among the essays, the best, we think, are those which deal with the technique of literature. Of the poems, we should place first the sonnet to the memory of Lord Beaconsfield, where the form leaves very little to be desired.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 93. Ja. 21, ‘05. 70w.
=Kent, Charles Foster=, ed. Israel’s historical and biographical narratives, from the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom to the end of the Maccabean struggle. **$2.75. Scribner.
“Professor Kent has undertaken the bold task of rearranging the writings of the Old Testament in their logical and chronological order. The aim is not merely to arrange the books, but to break them up into their component parts, and to indicate the sources from which they were originally drawn, presenting in a practical and intelligible form, the results of modern critical research. ‘The student’s Old Testament’ is to be divided into six volumes:—(1) ‘Narratives of the beginning of Hebrew history’; (2) ‘Historical and biographical narratives’; (3) ‘Prophetic sermons, epistles, and apocalypses’; (4) ‘Laws and traditional precedents,’ (5) ‘Songs, psalms, and prayers;’ (6) ‘Proverbs and didactic poems.’ The work is intended for general readers, not for specialists only.”—Lond. Times.
“Results of very various degrees of certainty are embodied in his volume. But his work will be invaluable to the student who uses it with discrimination.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1060w.
“It is a credit to the university served by Professor Kent.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.
=Kent, Charles Foster.= Narratives of the beginnings of Hebrew history, from the creation to the establishment of the Hebrew kingdom. **$2.75. Scribner.
Impelled by the demands for a constructive presentation of the facts regarding the literature of the Old Testament, Professor Kent has undertaken a series of six volumes presenting successively the narrative of the beginnings of Hebrew history, historical and biographical narratives, prophetic sermons, epistles and apocalypses, laws and traditional precedents, songs, psalms, prayers, proverbs, and didactic poems; thus covering the entire Old Testament. This first volume, “The student’s Old Testament,” is a modern and scholarly translation, with a systematic, logical classification of the early narratives found in the books from Genesis to Ruth. Various versions of the ancient stories are presented side by side, so that they can be read like the gospels of the New Testament, in their original form.
“Its information is full and eminently trustworthy. In the notes the editor is careful not to be over-dogmatic.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 140. Jl. 29. 530w.
“Its scholarly character, its conservative and constructive spirit, its admirable rendering of the text, its ample helps for proper interpretation, and its large promise of good things to come in the subsequent volumes, assures the reader that a most serviceable work has been added to the apparatus for biblical study.” H. L. W.
+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 309. Ap. ‘05. 1020w.
=Ker, William Paton.= Dark ages, **$1.50. Scribner.
“Professor Ker, of University college, London, presents, under special title of ‘The dark ages,’ the first volume of a series of ‘Periods of European literature,’ to be edited by Professor Saintsbury.... He begins with an attempt to define this much-abused term.... Chronologically he limits his period by the decline of Roman culture on the one hand and the year 1100 on the other.... In the second chapter, ‘The elements,’ we are given a general survey of the whole period.... The main body of the volume is then divided into two parts, treating respectively the ‘Latin authors,’ and ‘The Teutonic languages’; and a short final chapter on the literature of Ireland and Wales completes what is at best but a hasty survey of a vast field.”—Am. Hist. R.
“There are enough learned references here to challenge the literary expert at every turn. Indeed, we can hardly see how any one can understand this book to whom the things it deals with are not already perfectly familiar. To such a one it offers a somewhat confused résumé of matters he should know already. For the young student it is far too abstruse, and for the general reader it lacks the unity and concentration which alone can command his attention. Mr. Ker’s bane is fine writing; he has a certain sense of humor that now and then is useful, but it leads him into long ways around where directness and compactness are prime necessities.” E. E.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 628. Ap. ‘05. 410w.
“By wise selection of his materials, lucid exposition, and occasional happy characterization, he maintains the interest even of those who are prepared to find the Dark ages pretty dull and unprofitable. Of actual error we think the work will be found to contain very little.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 382. My. 11, ‘05. 940w.
=Kerr, Robert Pollok.= Blue flag: or, The Covenanters who contended for Christ’s crown and covenant. 75c. Presbyterian com.
The origin and history of the Covenanters is accurately and stirringly presented in this little book which is intended for class study in Sunday schools and young people’s societies. To this end a series of questions is given at the close of the volume.
* =Kerst, Friedrich,= comp. Beethoven: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words: tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.
Much of the material used for compiling this Beethoven handbook has been drawn from letters, reports of conversations, and diaries heretofore unavailable. The author has classified his cullings under appropriate chapter headings, and they serve to enlighten Beethoven lovers upon the great composer’s spiritual, philosophical and human observations.
* =Kerst, Friedrich,= comp. Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words; tr. and ed. by H: E: Krehbiel. *$1. Huebsch.
From material gleaned here and there, the author has pieced together “an autobiography of Mozart written without conscious purpose, and for that reason peculiarly winning, illuminating and convincing. The outward things in Mozart’s life are all but ignored in it, but there is a frank and full disclosure of the great musician’s artistic, intellectual and moral character, made in his own words.”
* =Kester, Vaughan.= Fortunes of the Landrays. †$1.50. McClure.
This story “begins and ends in an Ohio town, and is essentially a picture of life in that community; but the adventures of certain of its characters take us at times to the far West with the forty-niners—to Salt Lake City in the early days of Brigham Young, to the closing scenes of the Civil war, and to the prairies of Kansas. The story is one of three generations, not only of the Landrays, but of the other families with whose fortunes theirs are associated.”—Dial.
* “On the whole, a solid and capable story, with flashes of brilliancy.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 70w.
* “A novel whose interest, although complicated, is remarkably well sustained. Its faults of incoherency do not prevent it from being a fairly readable production.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 240w.
* “The chief merit of the story lies in its character drawing.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* “This story is unsatisfactory. There is good work in it; but the general scheme is weak. Characterization is one of Mr. Kester’s strongest qualities.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 220w.
=Ketcham, Heber D.= Certainty of the kingdom and other sermons. The Methodist pulpit. Second series, *50c. Meth. bk.
In the hope that the ways of God may be made more plain to his readers, the author offers these eight sermons entitled, The certainty of the kingdom, Our sonship, The will, the pivot of destiny. The unveiled vision, Paul, the preacher, and Life’s procession of the seasons.
=Key, A. Cooper-.= Primer of explosives, for the use of local inspectors and dealers. *35c. Macmillan.
“The author gives a short description of the manufacture of the chief explosives, but its great value will be found in the sections devoted to special risks with each class, the methods of storing and packing, and a particularly useful chapter on the general construction and management of a store, the destruction of explosives, etc. It is certain that a careful study of the book by local inspectors will lead to a better understanding of the whole question of explosives.... For those traders and users who have the handling of these goods after they have left the manufactory the book should be equally valuable.”—Nature.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 962. S. 16, ‘05. 130w.
“Is what such a handbook should be.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 369. S. 16. 250w.
“This little book should prove to be of great value to those for whose benefit it has been mainly written.” J. S. S. B.
+ + =Nature.= 72: 507. S. 21, ‘05. 220w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 638. S. 30, ‘05. 220w.
=Khan,—(Hadji), and Sparroy, Wilfrid.= With the pilgrims to Mecca, *$3.50. Lane.
An account of Mr. Khan’s journey to Mecca in 1902 as a special correspondent of the Morning Post. The author is a Mohammedan and speaks Arabic fluently. He tells of the various rites and ceremonies which must be performed by the pilgrims, and of their strange religious feasts and festivals. There are also chapters upon bazaars and social life in the holy city, the whole being enlivened by the original humor of the author’s guide. There is a closing chapter upon the slave market by Mr. Sparroy.
“A book which gives perhaps the most vivid and picturesque account of the great pilgrimage which has ever been written in English, compared with which the well known narratives of Burckhardt and Burton are dry, jejune and colourless. For vigour of style and picturesque treatment of Hadji Khan may be compared with the famous traveller, Palgrave, with the latter’s tendency to embroider the narrative at the expense of accuracy.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 329. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1240w.
“A welcome book for our libraries.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 220w.
“No portion of the book lacks interest for the curiously inclined, and it is admirably and graphically written.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 383. Je. 1, ‘05. 580w.
“It is unfortunate that little reliance can be put on our author’s accuracy. With the pictures of society and trade in Mecca it is different; these are most lively in color and give every appearance of truth.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 319. Ap. 20, ‘05. 560w.
“For an insight into the mind of the Oriental, and more particularly of the followers of the prophet, with the ceremonies of his faith, we know of nothing equal to the work under notice.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 165. Mr. 18, ‘05. 820w.
“Every detail of the ‘pilgrim’s progress’ from his arrival at Jeddah is minutely set forth, and that with a force and local colour that increases one’s interest.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 315. S. 2, ‘05. 300w.
=Kielland, Alexander L.= Professor Lovedahl; tr. from the Norwegian, by Rebecca Blair Flandrau. *$1.25. Turner, H. B.
“A romance from the Northland. The love of money and power lead to the downfall of a society man and to the gradual ruin of a whole community. The author aims to put corruption and cant in their proper places.”—Bookm.
“A story pre-eminently Scandinavian in its matter, inspiration, and outcome. Nobody in it is happy; few people in it are good. It is all horribly futile and Scandinavian.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 250w. (Outline of plot).
=Kildare, Owen.= My Mamie Rose: the story of my regeneration. $1. Baker.
A popular edition of this autobiography of a child of the Bowery, a newsboy, a “beer slinger” in a notorious dive, a pugilist, one who could not read or write until he was thirty, who now at thirty-eight earns his living by his pen, and upholds the cause of right. It is the story of how this development of the real man in him came about thru the influence of his Mamie Rose, the little school teacher who died on the eve of their marriage, and also, tho perhaps he would not admit it, thru the influence of his pal, the bull pup Bill.
“‘My Mamie Rose’ is a true love story, a human document and a photograph of slum life as it is to-day. Its effect will be to demolish theories of environment and to inspire the settlement worker with greater hope.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 975. S. ‘05. 280w.
=Kinealy, John Henry.= Centrifugal fans: a theoretical and practical treatise on fans for moving air in large quantities at comparatively low pressures. *$5. Spon.
“This compact little treatise is devoted mainly to the theory of centrifugal fans. There is included in it, however, a brief outline showing the evolution of the present usual commercial type of centrifugal fan and some practical information concerning the less common types, such as the cone type, running without a casing, and disk or propeller fans. The work is primarily devoted, however, to the ordinary commercial fan for use in heating and ventilating work or for mechanical draught.”—Engin. N.
“It is difficult to see how this work can be of material value to the practicing engineer.” D. W. Taylor.
— =Engin. N.= 53: 644. Je. 15, ‘05. 2060w.
=King, Charles.= Medal of honor: a story of peace and war. *$1.25. Hobart.
This is not one of General King’s garrison stories, altho it is of course a story of the army. Its hero, Ronald Fane, who wins the medal of honor and the girl he loves, is first an instructor at West Point, and after active service against the Apaches becomes instructor in military tactics at a western university. There are many complications and the plot is skilfully tangled and skilfully straightened out again.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 380w.
* =King, Charles Francis.= Soldier’s trial. $1.50. Hobart.
A sub-title declares that this novel is, “an episode in the canteen crusade,” and it does set forth the army sentiment against the well meaning outsiders who defeated the ends of temperance by abolishing the canteen; but the book is largely concerned with a garrison scandal caused by a beautiful Spanish girl with two husbands and many lovers. There are several unsavory episodes and the book draws, perhaps, a less pleasing picture of army life than any of General King’s army stories.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Personal and ideal elements in education. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“President King writes for the scholar a conservative interpretation of the results gained by men like Coe, Starbuck, and Leuba in their researches concerning psychology of conversion and allied themes.... The chapters were first delivered as papers before religious conventions.... The volume contains President King’s inaugural address, another plea for the retention of the old-time college course.”—Dial.
Reviewed by Henry D. Sheldon.
=Dial.= 38: 272. Ap. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* “His plea for less of the mechanical and more of the personal in education is worth the attention of teachers and of all interested in the methods which are at this moment forming the future citizen.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 180w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
=King, Henry Churchill.= Rational living: some practical inferences from modern psychology, **$1.25. Macmillan.
“President King ... has brought together the ‘four great emphases’ of psychological study in popular form, and pointed out their direct practical bearing on the conduct of life. For the satisfaction of those who have not at hand the works of the masters in psychology, he quotes these freely, so that the reader may judge of the adequacy of the grounds on which are based the practical counsels which they suggest for rational living in respect to growth, character, happiness, and influence. In conclusion it is shown that ‘just these ideal conditions to which psychology leads us Christ declares to be actual.’”—Outlook.
* “A serious and amazingly comprehensive study.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 582. D. ‘05. 100w.
“The peculiar merit of President King’s work is that he has presented the fundamental facts of psychology, together with the practical counsels which they impose for a life in rational accord with our nature, more comprehensively and completely than any preceding writer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.
Kingdom of Siam. See =Carter, A. Cecil=, ed.
=Kingsbury, Sara.= Atonement, $1. Eastern pub.
The sweat shop, the college settlement, and the college itself, each points its own moral in this story of Marion, the niece of a millionaire, who turns from a life of luxury to work among the poor. Her self sacrifice, however, is not rewarded by personal happiness for, in the renunciation of Roger, her betrothed, she suffers equally with him as he works out his expiation for the betrayal of a daughter of the sweat-shop, who was employed in his great department store.
=Kingsley, Charles.= Hypatia. $1.25. Crowell.
A new volume in that pleasing pocket edition: the “Thin paper classics.”
=Kingsley, Mrs. Florence (Morse).= Resurrection of Miss Cynthia. †$1.50. Dodd.
Miss Cynthia, a spinster of thirty-three, who has lived a narrow, cramped little life is told by her doctor that, owing to an affection of the lungs, she has only one more year to live. Instead of repining she decides to make her last days happy ones so she throws off all the traditions of her house, discards black for bright colors, and goes out to enjoy light and sunshine. As a result she finds both health and an old lover.
* “Clever and pleasant tale.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 758. D. 2. 240w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 651. O. 7. ‘05. 290w.
=Kinzbrunner, Charles.= Testing the continuous current machine in laboratories and test-rooms: a practical work for students and engineers. $2. Wiley.
“This work is a laboratory manual giving detailed instruction for carrying out numerous experiments upon direct current machines. The author has had constantly in mind the necessity of planning the exercises with a view to their practical application and has endeavored to make the book useful to engineers as well as to students.”—Engin. N.
“It is a pleasure to commend Mr. Kinzbrunner’s manual to American readers and to state that it deserves to be classed with the somewhat similar works of Nichols, Swenson, and Frankenfield, and other well-known writers of electrical laboratory manuals.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + + =Engin.= N. 53: 638. Je. 15. ‘05. 820w.
=Kipling, Rudyard.= Seven seas. * *$2. Appleton.
“In a green and gold cover, with an old-fashioned ship on it riding high before the wind, reappears this famous volume of verse by the unofficial laureate of Great Britain. The pages are adorned with decorative borders in green.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 70w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
=Kirk, William Frederick.= Norsk nightingale: being the lyrics of a “Lumberyack.” **75c. Small.
“Faithful Norsk-English dialect, Western slang, cleverness in rhyme and structure, and odd incongruity of familiar stories put in a queer form—all help to make the poems amusing in a new fashion.”—Outlook.
“Novelty and freshness, and no little ingenuity as a parodist, salute us in this volume of dialect verse.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 384. O. ‘05. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 190w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 246. My. 27, ‘05. 60w.
=Kiser, S. E.= Charles the chauffeur. $1. Stokes.
“The story of the social and financial aspirations of a well-meaning and very able young chauffeur, who never killed anyone unless he had to in order to make a certain run, and who would handle a machine as few chauffeurs can.... The story, told by Charles himself and frequently spelled phonetically, abounds in descriptions of a highly diverting nature.”—N. Y. Times.
“For those who enjoy humor of a broad up-to-date kind this will be just the kind of story they will like.”
+ =Sat. R.= 10: 342. Je. 10, ‘05. 270w.
=Kitton, Frederic George.= Dickens country. $2. Macmillan.
A volume in the “Pilgrimage” series. A brief biography of the novelist which, in following his life, gives with the places, persons and incidents mentioned the part each played in his stories. There are fifty full-page illustrations in half-tone, including pictures of Dickens himself and of the places connected with him.
“In ‘The Dickens country’ we have a work worthy of the subject and of the writer. Wherever he [Dickens pilgrim] may list to go, he should carry this book with him—a sure and faithful guide, and a pleasant travelling-companion.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 126. F. 11, ‘05. 1140w.
“The work has been done so faithfully and so fully that it need never be attempted again.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 169. S. 16, ‘05. 430w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 156. Mr. 11. ‘05. 280w.
“The book is coherent and accurate.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 168. Mr. 18, ‘05. 870w.
“He had thoroughly mastered the subject, and wrote out of a well-filled mind.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 923. Je. 24, ‘05. 220w.
=Kittredge, George Lyman.= Old farmer and his almanack. *$2.50. Ware.
Some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas’s “Farmer’s Almanack”; together with extracts, curious, instructive, and entertaining, as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter.
“There are, indeed, not a few purple patches sewed into this crazy-quilt, but they are hid from our eyes unless we find clues in the capacious index.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 507. Je. 22, ‘05. 1080w.
“An interesting volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 217. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1160w.
“A highly interesting book.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 436. S. 28, ‘05. 240w.
=Klein, Felix.= In the land of the strenuous life. **$2. McClurg.
Kindly impressions of the United States, its institutions and its people by one whose object was to see and describe the things of our land which might serve as profitable examples to his “poor beloved France.” The Abbe visited New York, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis and the World’s fair, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia, and also saw something of Canada. His volume is dedicated to President Roosevelt and is an author’s translation of his successful French work.
* + =Critic.= 47: 580. D. ‘05. 110w.
“The good literary style of the English version, made by the Abbé himself, and the highly entertaining character of the narrative, will no doubt make it a favorite in this country also.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 162. S. 16, ‘05. 2210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 719. O. 21, ‘05. 210w.
“The wit and brilliancy that shine upon every page, and illuminate the acute judgments made by Abbé Klein, give a unique charm to the record, and will attract many readers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 270w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 190w.
=Knapp, Oswald G.=, ed. Artist’s love story. *$3.50. Longmans.
The letters of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mrs. Siddons, and Maria and Sally Siddons help to tell the story of the love affairs of the artist and the two daughters of the great actress. Both girls died early of consumption and Lawrence died a bachelor, but lived to break other hearts. The book is illustrated with lithographs and facsimiles taken from drawings and portraits done by Lawrence.
+ =Dial.= 38: 130. F. 16, ‘05. 270w.
“Its peculiar value consists in the light it casts upon an age when people cultivated and enjoyed their emotions more than they did wisdom or intelligence.”
+ + =Ind.= 68: 612. Mr. 16, ‘05. 860w.
=Knight, William A.= Retrospects. Vol. I. *$2.25. Scribner.
“Any book from the pen of Dr. William Knight, the Wordsworth scholar and St. Andrews professor, is sure to be richly worth the reading.... After noting, in his preface, the indisputable benefit to be derived from communion, whether personal or thru books, with ‘characters that are strong, original, exalted and benign, that are many sided, fertile-minded and ideal,’ he says a word condemnatory of that distorted presentation of a man’s life which is not seldom found in the so-called critical biography.” (Dial). “Professor Knight ... adds to fuller and more formal accounts of his literary contemporaries odds and ends of which he has had personal knowledge.” (N. Y. Times). Among the most interestingly discussed are Carlyle, Browning, Frederick D. Maurice, and Matthew Arnold. A second volume is promised.
“Is a treat. Without conscious idealization, therefore, or any embroidery or amplification of plain facts and spoken words, Professor Knight has produced some chapters of fragmentary biography that are as fascinating as they are convincing, their very charm indeed largely lying in their evident truthfulness and their admirable restraint.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 117. F. 16, ‘05. 2760w. (Survey of contents).
“‘Retrospects’ is, on the whole too much involved in the academic and professionally literary point of view to inspire such interest as a more human account of the same people must needs call forth.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 29. Ja. 14, ‘05. 840w. (Survey of contents).
* =Knipe, Emilie Benson=, il. Girls and boys: with new stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.
Pictures and verses of present day American children at home and at play. There are eight full-page illustrations in colors.
=Knowles, Frederick Lawrence.= Love triumphant. **$1. Estes.
A volume containing ninety poems, grouped into five sections and singing of human love, divine love, love triumphant over guilt, and love of country.
“In Mr. Knowles’ poems we find the imaginative genius of the true poet, the grace of the accomplished versifier and the prophet’s high and noble appeal to the reason and sense of right in man, all in so eminent a degree that his work holds for us a special charm.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 557. My. ‘05. 3050w.
“Graceful workmanship.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 199. Mr. 16, ‘05. 240w.
“Mr. Knowles’s volume contains some very good verses. But there are also some very bad ones.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 1016. My. 4, ‘05. 150w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“The illustrations are all very well reproduced, and beneath each one a full description, with sizes, etc., is given, a most useful feature, making reference and identification easy.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 82. Mr. ‘05. 150w.
=Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 180w.
“Mr. Knowles, while not disdaining the graces of rhythm and rime, and while taking the most sweet and serious things of life as subject matter, yet contrives to give a strain of real music that comes refreshingly, and to voice the themes that carry swift appeal to the heart.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 730w.
“As one reads on through the book and rereads, the rhetorical virtuosity becomes more obvious and the poetry less.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“He gives us flashing poetic thoughts, but he cannot show them in such beauty as to move the soul. He is at his best in expression when, abandoning the labored incentive of the magazine demand, he tells simply some little story with feeling in it.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 640w.
=Knowles, Robert Edward.= St. Cuthbert’s: a novel. †$1.50. Revell.
“The pastor of a large Presbyterian church in Canada gives here in semi-romantic form the story of his parish. Most of his characters speak Scotch dialect.” (Outlook.) A love story of which the clergyman’s daughter, Margaret, is the heroine, runs thru the book.
* “He has given us the best study of mingled pathos and humor that we have read for several years.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1264. D. 2, ‘05. 320w.
“The book is not without passages rich in humor and pathos, but it is too didactic, and in some particulars lacks the restraint which many readers would naturally expect of a clerical pen.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
“The interest and value of the book lie in its revelation of Scottish traits, in its author’s appreciation of a noble bedrock of granite character underlying the soil infertile of the flowers of speech.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 726. O. 28, ‘05. 220w.
=Knowles, W. Pitcairn.= Dutch pottery and porcelain. *$2.50. Scribner.
A guide to the collector and student in attributing specimens to the correct maker and factory and period. The author is himself a connoisseur and famous collector, and “tells us the alphabet from which pottery and the different makes of porcelain are constructed. Then, by the aid of a few historical facts, he creates a Dutch atmosphere. When we are sufficiently acclimatised he traces the development of the industry from the time when the potter-baker accepted the assistance of the seller of clay and went into partnership with the potter-turner, till he finally collaborated with the potter-painter, and the porcelain factory came into existence.” (Acad.) The volume belongs to the “Newnes library series.”
“Our author is a reliable, as well as an entertaining guide.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 79. Ja. 28, ‘05. 460w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 466. Je. 8, ‘05. 840w.
“His knowledge of the literature and history of the Dutch art is put at the disposal of his readers in a simple and engaging way, aided by beautiful colored plates of many museum pieces.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 190w.
=Knox, George William.= Japanese life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.
“After an introductory chapter on ‘The point of view,’ notable for its liberal-minded common sense, Dr. Knox reviews briefly, but clearly and interestingly, the history of Japan from the traditionary period down to the present time. Chapters VI and VII are taken up with Buddhism and Confucianism; Chapter VIII ... gives an account of the efforts made in the eighteenth century to spread Confucianism by popular preaching and quotes at length from one of the curious Confucian sermons. So important in Dr. Knox’s mind is the influence of the samurai and his philosophy upon the Japanese of to-day that he devotes three chapters to this subject. The quotations from the autobiography of Arai Hakuseki in Chapter X are as informing as anything that has lately come to us about feudal Japan.”—Ind.
“In this readable volume Dr. Knox has succeeded in compressing into small space a great deal of interesting matter about Japan.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 211. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 758. D. ‘04. 50w.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actors and their homes. $1.50. Little.
Little chats about the home side of John Drew, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, E. H. Sothern, and Francis Wilson with closing chapters on the Lamb’s club and the Players. There are many illustrations taken from photographs of the actors at home.
* “These sketches are deservedly popular, for they combine dignity with interest, in a field where such a combination is rarely achieved.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Famous actresses and their homes. $1.50. Little.
Word pictures and photographs of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Julia Marlowe, Annie Russell, and Mrs. Fiske, when off stage, also chapters upon, The actress’s home behind the scenes; The actress’s Christmas; and Some actresses in summer.
=Kobbé, Gustav.= Loves of great composers. *$2.50. Crowell.
In an easy conversational manner the real romance in the lives of Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner is set forth. Several of the stories are based upon untranslated material, and many popular errors are corrected. The volume is illustrated from photographs, and includes portraits of the composers themselves and of Constance, wife of Mozart; Countess Therese von Brunswick, the “immortal beloved” of Beethoven; Mendelssohn’s wife and sister; Clara Schumann; and a reproduction of the famous pastel of Countess Potocka.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “The accounts are entertaining, and the reader is grateful for their complete avoidance of sentimental rhapsodizing.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* + + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 130w.
* “Mr. Kobbe’s book is curiously entertaining. It is not a rehash of old and stale matter in a new binding, but is the result of personal investigation and study.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “Two charmingly written volumes.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w.
=Kobbe, Gustav.= Opera singers; a pictorial souvenir. $1.50. Ditson.
“A profusely illustrated pictorial souvenir of the most famous living opera singers, with their biographies.... This handsome work is interesting as giving intimate glimpses of opera folk.... The artists considered in this attractive book are Nordica, Calvé, Eames, Melba, Sembrich, Ternina, and Schumann-Heink, and Caruso and Jean and Edouard De Reszke. There is also a chapter on ‘Opera-singers off duty.’”—R. of Rs.
“Besides being full of anecdotes, the compilation is of great value as giving biographic sketches of the singers taken down from their own lips, sometimes with the aid of stenography.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 30w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 10: 510. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
* =Kobbé, Gustav.= Wagner and his Isolde. **$1. Dodd.
“The correspondence and journals of Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck, which have lately appeared, are the basis of this volume, which gives the whole story of that fascinating period of Wagner’s life. The author obtained from a friend of Mme. Wesendonck some personal impressions of her, and some photographs that are reproduced herein.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 40w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 467. D. 7, ‘05. 80w.
* “To the student of Wagner’s music these letters afford some interesting commentary from the composer.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 432. O. 21, ‘05. 230w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 50w.
* =Kolle, Frederick Strange.= Fifty and one tales of modern fairyland, †$1.50. Grafton press.
“The tales are really new, and entertaining as well. They teach good lessons without obtruding the moral aim, and many of them are based on modern scientific discoveries and processes. Even the balloon and the automobile—a ‘conscientious’ one, not the ordinary unprincipled sort—figure in the stories. The illustrations by Flora Sheffield are in keeping.”—Critic.
* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 15w.
* “And one finds them exactly what one might expect sterilized fairy tales to be—made of quite tasteless and sawdusty particles.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2. ‘05. 370w.
* =Konody, Paul G.= Filippino Lippi. $1.25. Warne.
This volume in the “Newnes art library” contains a brief life of Filippino Lippi and sixty-four full-page reproductions of his works.
* + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 442. S. 30. 190w.
* “Is a more serious performance than most of the contributors to this series have offered us.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 130w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.
=Koons, Ulysses Sidney (Brother Jabez, pseud.).= Tale of the kloster: a romance of the German mystics of the Cocalico. †$1.50. Am. Bapt.
A description of life in the curious celibate community of Ephrata, where German mystics, refugees to Pennsylvania from the persecutions which followed the Hundred years war, endured the hardships of the pioneer. There is also a love story interwoven with danger and suffering and the rigid life of the brotherhood.
“As a representation of the manners and feelings of the time and the strange community the story has its own value. It is written with simplicity and grace.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 140w.
“Rather violently injected a love story. Every contribution to American history which recognizes the proportionate importance of the different ingredients which have gone to the composition of our national stock and so helps to a broader and fuller understanding of our national development deserves recognition and encouragement.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 94. Ja. 19, ‘05. 340w.
=Kropotkin, Petr Alexieevich, kniaz’.= Russian literature. **$2. McClure.
A very complete account of Russian literature from its beginning in mythology and folklore to the present day, with much personal information about its great figures and copious extracts from its masterpieces.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 656. Je. 24, ‘09. 610w.
“The work of Prince Kropotkin is very comprehensive in view of its scope. The English of Prince Kropotkin’s book is fairly good, although occasionally stiff and unidiomatic.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 70. Jl. 15, 2060w.
“The greater part of the book, devoted wholly to the nineteenth-century writings, treated from the author’s novel point of view and full of the charm of his attractive personality, make this volume, in spite of some glaring misprints, a very desirable addition to Russian literary history.” Henry James Forman.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 1520w.
“Prince Kropotkin has given us a work of absorbing interest, colored, no doubt, by his own political philosophy, but discriminating and profound in its judgment of aesthetic values. Of the English language, as his readers well know, he is an absolute master.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“But he has done us an especial service by making accessible information concerning the younger Russian writers whom we want to know something about.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 638. S. 14, ‘05. 610w.
“Prince Kropotkin’s book is admirable, and, so far, at any rate, as the later Russian literature is concerned, should supercede all other works of the kind in our language.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 150. My. 12, ‘05. 1550w.
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 526. Je. 29, ‘05. 1780w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1890w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 247. My. 27, ‘05. 320w.
“In our opinion the most satisfactory treatise which has yet appeared in English on the literature of Russia.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 99: 774. Je. 10, ‘05. 2260w.
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=La Colonie, Jean Martin de.= Chronicles of an old campaigner, M. De La Colonie, 1692-1717; from the French of Walter C. Horsley. *$4. Dutton.
“These memoirs of the war of the Spanish succession have been unknown to English readers, and in this adequate translation have real historic value. Curious sidelights on military customs and methods of war two hundred years ago are included. The ‘old campaigner’ had a bluff, rugged, and not uninteresting personality. There are portraits and other illustrations.”—Outlook.
“The book is preëminently for military men, being devoted to the details of battles and sieges, of marches and counter-marches. Other readers will find it tiresomely prolix. Both translator and printer appear to have done their work well. Portraits, plans of battles and a copious index are duly provided.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 158. Mr. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“It cannot be said that the book is a substantial addition to historical knowledge, but it is pleasant reading and is beautifully illustrated with portraits and plans.” I. S. Leadam.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 808. O. ‘05. 1610w.
“This book contains little information regarding politics or society, but certainly deserves to be known by all who care to study warfare as an art.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 461. Je. 8. ‘05. 410w.
“The translation of the memoirs by Mr. Horsley has its special merit, as it gives an excellent idea of the methods of warfare at the close of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The translation is remarkably well done, and the notes at the foot of the pages of great value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 70. P. 4, ‘05. 1300w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* =La Fontaine, Rachel Adelaide.= Days and hours of Raphael, with a key to the hours. **$1. Grafton press.
“A little manual of art study, substantially bound, copiously illustrated, and intended for the tyro in matters aesthetic. The full page plates in half-tone, including, besides the seven ‘Days’ and the twelve ‘Hours,’ two portraits of Raphael, are of excellent quality. The accompanying notes of explanation are very elementary, presupposing little knowledge of art or mythology on the part of the reader.”—Dial.
* “It is a pity, seeing her effort for simplicity, that the author does not couch her ideas in less obscure and tortuously constructed sentences.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 110w.
* “The explanations of the illustrations the book contains are comprehensive and interesting. The book will have a place in any collection of Raphaeliana.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.
=Lahontan, Armand Louis de Delondarce, baron de.= New voyages to North America; reprinted from the English ed. of 1703, with a facsimile of original title pages, and 24 maps and il., and the addition of introd., notes, and analytical index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites; (with bibliography by Victor Hugo Paltists). 2v. *$7.50. McClurg.
Two books of adventurous travel in the heart of North America. The author came to New France at the age of seventeen in 1683 with a detachment of French marines, and he writes of experiences which cover many years, giving “an account of the customs, commerce, religion and strange opinions of the savages,” with geographical information and personal comment. “There is also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages,” and “an account of the author’s retreat to Portugal and Denmark and his remarks on their courts.” His book was very popular when first published but the truth of the whole was later doubted because of one chapter, which gave in detail an apparently fictitious story of the discovery of the River Long.
“These volumes display enthusiasm as well as erudition, and render accessible a great quantity of curious information. The labour that has been bestowed both on the letters themselves and on the bibliography is worthy of the highest praise.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 386. Ap. 8, ‘05. 1050w.
“The foot-notes are admirably done, and a long introduction describes entertainingly the character of the writer and his narrative. Mr. Paltsits in this, as in preceding volumes of the series, contributes a scholarly and satisfying bibliography.”
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 946. Jl. ‘05. 100w.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 590. My. ‘05. 130w.
Reviewed by John J. Halsey.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 14. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1060w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 211. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.
“Dr. Thwaites’s editorial notes are similar in quality to those which have accompanied his ‘Jesuit relations’ and other works of Western travel. The Introduction, however, contains one or two slips.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 13. Jl. 6, ‘05. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 95. F. 11, ‘05. 190w.
“Mr. Reuben Gold Thwaites’s notes add much to the value of the text.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 180. Mr. 25. ‘05. 460w.
* =Laking, Guy Francis.= Furniture of Windsor castle, by Guy Francis Laking, Keeper of the king’s armory; published by command of His Majesty King Edward VII. *35c. Dutton.
* “A sumptuous book, appearing as an imperial quarto, bound in half leather, with the British royal monogram in color on one side. The collection at Windsor castle is well-known for its fine specimens of Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. periods, as well as the best examples of the most famous craftsmen of the past two centuries—Jacob Chippendale, Riesener, André Bouille, Gaspar Teune, and many others. The introduction to the book treats of the starting of the collection and its growth, from the beginning of the seventeenth century down to the present day.... The illustrations, presenting pictures of the finest specimens in the collection, are in photogravure.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: 185. D. ‘05. 120w.
* “It is evidently the work of one who has a good knowledge of technical history and an eye that can discriminate between original work and restorations.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 428. D. 8, ‘05. 360w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
=Lamb, Charles and Mary.= Works and letters, v. 6 and 7. *$2.25. Putnam.
“Here certainly is the largest, richest edition of the ‘Letters’ which has been published, clearly superior to some in size, to others in the quality and scope of the notes, and to all as a book that is easy and pleasant to read. In short, Mr. Lucas seems to come near to an inaccessible perfection, as well as to have produced the best edition of the ‘Letters’.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 605. Je. 10, ‘05. 1890w. (Review of v. 6. and 7.)
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 680. Je. 3. 4290w.
“Mr. Lucas’s copious and most interesting notes are the fruit of years of loving study and research. To him Lamb is indeed ‘Saint Charles’; yet his chief editorial merit lies, perhaps, in giving us Saint Charles un-canonized.” William Archer.
+ + =Critic.= 47:50. Jl. ‘05. 1260w.
=Dial.= 38: 360. My. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“The editor has used extraordinary pains to make clear the innumerable allusions to persons and things well known to correspondents, but unknown to us.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 108. F. 18, ‘05. 390w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 1520w.
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 640. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1780w.
* =Lamb, Charles, and Lamb, Mary Anne.= Tales from Shakespeare. *$2.50. Scribner.
“A small quarto, liberal and very clear in print, and adorned for each play by a full-page colored design from the pencil of Norman M. Price. These designs are, in point of merit and attractiveness in perfect keeping with the rest of the elegant volume, and will impress and educate the taste of any child who reads the classic by himself.... The portraits of the authors after those in the National portrait gallery face the bordered title-page.”—Nation.
* + + =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 120w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
* “We recall no edition of Charles and Mary Lamb’s ‘Tales from Shakespeare’ comparable at all points with that just issued by Jack in London.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 299. O. 12, ‘05. 120w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 712. O. 21, ‘05. 360w.
* “This is a handsome book, worthy in form of its contents.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 692. N. 4. ‘05. 110w.
* =Lamb, Osborn Rennie.= Essay on the drama. $1. Ames & R.
This essay which discusses the drama in its various phases is developed under the divisions Criticism is not analysis; The aesthetic essential in drama; The play of the people; Sympathy as a dramatic force; The dramatic power of terror; Humor in drama; Reflective thought in drama; and Scenery and music in drama as an aid to the creation of atmosphere. The essay may prove suggestive to dramatic critics, and it will certainly help the average reader to form his own opinions and to challenge the “misstatement and false argument” so often found in newspaper criticism.
=Lamb, Osborn Rennie, and Dixon, H. Claiborn.= Iberian: Anglo-Greek play. $1.50. Ames & Rollinson press.
Following the ancient dramas in unities of time, place and theme, “The Iberian” combines in a one-act play “the beauties of the ancient Greek drama with those of the modern romantic play, so as to adapt the same to the stage and scenario of to-day.” Athens is the scene of the play, 435 B. C., the time.
=Lamia, pseud.= See =Austin, Alfred.=
=Lamprecht, Karl Gotthard.= What is history? Five lectures on the modern science of history; tr. from the Germ. by E. A. Andrews, **$1.25. Macmillan.
One of these lectures was first given at the Congress of arts and sciences in St. Louis, and the other four at the sesquicentennial of Columbia university. The subjects treated are Historical development and present character of the science of history; The general course of German history from a psychological point of view; The translation to the psychic character of the German present; Universal mechanism of psychic periods of transition; Psychology of the periods of culture in general; and Problems of universal history.
“‘What is history?’ is throughout suggestive and provocative, though the work of translation has not been skilfully performed; indeed, the English version is in one or two passages unintelligible.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 801. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1480w.
“The translation inevitably suffers from such conditions. In spite of them it gives us a rendering which is clear, readable, and reliable for sense, and which is a useful contribution toward an English terminology of the subject. Many inexcusable inaccuracies in detail occur, however.” Asa Currier Tilton.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 119. O. ‘05. 1360w.
“Unfortunately the book abounds in abstruse terminology borrowed from psychology and kindred sciences.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 590. My. ‘05. 380w.
“Mr. Andrews has done his work well, and made a good rendering.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 529. Ap. 29. 60w.
+ =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 60w.
“Throughout, indeed, the translation scarcely helps to clear up the obscurities of the original.” A. G.
+ — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 604. Jl. ‘05. 390w.
“Professor Lamprecht has a clumsy method of presentation ... and he adds to the difficulty by much elusiveness of demonstration and by an awkward terminology. Professor Lamprecht’s method may be good psychology, it certainly is not history.”
+ — — =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 2270w.
“If well translated, they would constitute a very stimulating volume.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 439. Jl. 1, ‘05. 530w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1062. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 190w.
“There is a meaning, we doubt not, in his words, but it is very hard to get at.”
— =Spec.= 94: 719. My. 13, ‘05. 190w.
“Their appeal is to the student of the science of society rather than to the historian proper.”
+ =Yale R.= 14: 107. My. ‘05. 100w.
=Lancaster, G. B.= Sons o’ men. †$1.50. Doubleday.
A collection of short stories which “deal with the men who herd and shear the sheep in South New Zealand and save them from storm and snow at the cost of hardships scarce endurable. At times, too, the native plays a part.” (R. of Rs.)
“Through such books hope grows less forlorn.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 761. Je. ‘05. 210w.
* “Lively reading—and informative as well.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 758. D. ‘05. 170w.
“Mr. Lancaster reaches a high level of excellence in ‘The story of Wi.’”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 23. Ja. 7, ‘05. 100w.
=Lancaster, R. V.= Creed of Christ: a study of the Gospels. 60c. Presbyterian com.
The author states in his preface, “I have caught a glimpse of Jesus from what, to me, is a fresh viewpoint,” and this he voices in his book, which is divided into two sections: The introduction, and The creed. Under the latter head he discusses, The scriptures; God; Satan; Sin; Redeemed men; The kingdom; The second coming; The final glory, and Kindred subjects.
“His volume is careful, painstaking, conscientious, but without insight or imagination, and so without literary quality.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 569. N. 4, ‘05. 360w.
=Landon, Percival.= The opening of Tibet. $3.80. Doubleday.
“Mr. Landon gives in ‘The opening of Tibet,’ an account of Lhasa, the history of Tibet, the folk-lore and manners of the Tibetans, and the present relations with the rest of the world, with which he became acquainted as the representative of the London Times with the mission sent by the British government to Lhasa. The book is profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs and sketches and maps.” (N. Y. Times). An introduction is provided by Col. Younghusband, who headed the mission to the Forbidden land.
“The book is ponderous in size, wide in its scope and interesting reading. Including the numerous appendices, the range of information extends from the frogs and fishes of the country to the folklore, art, religion and amazing priest-craft of the people.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 591. S. ‘05. 170w.
“Regrettable that some errors of fact and date should have crept into the earlier and historical pages of the work.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 231. F. 25. 2440w.
“Fine descriptive writing, indeed, is characteristic of Mr. Landon’s work throughout.”
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 305. My. ‘05. 1100w.
“His style is a model for the writer of travel books.” W. E. Griffis.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 560. Je. ‘05. 790w.
“Is a virile and picturesque narrative of great general interest. All in all, it is a welcome addition to the annals of travel and exploration.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 345. Ap. ‘05. 3400w.
“Mr. Landon has the genius of the true reporter for weaving a large amount of detail in an interesting ‘story,’ but he gives no map or index.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1186. My. 25, ‘05. 370w.
“The work is conceived on broader lines, historically and philosophically, than the rival volume of Mr. Candler.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 273. Ap. 6, ‘05. 1710w.
“A characteristically British presentation of a most interesting and somewhat delicate subject. The vast amount of information which Mr. Landon has collected ... This is not a solemn book altogether.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 116. F. 25, ‘05. 2590w.
“The Tibetan expedition was fortunate to have with it a writer so competent to do justice to its romance, so sympathetic towards Tibetan life, so eagerly inquisitive and retentive of impressions, and above all, the possessor of a style so dexterous and graceful.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 365. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1620w.
=Landor, Arnold Henry Savage.= Tibet and Nepal. *$5. Macmillan.
“In his book, Mr. Landor tells about a second journey to Tibet. He describes the natives, their costumes, and religion, and the country through which he passes, besides recounting adventures on the way. He has provided numerous colored and black-and-white pictures, being reproductions of sketches made on the spot. These illustrations are portraits of the native men, women, and children, scenery, churches, animals, &c. In the opening chapter the author writes of his preparations for this visit.”—N. Y. Times.
“This odd, unsatisfactory and fascinating essay. The present writer can only say that for his part, he believes his author to be sincere and correct, and one of the pluckiest, truest-hearted and most enterprising men in the world to boot.... One of the cleverest, too, for the drawings in colour and black and white display a very acute artistic sense and an exquisite perception of the beauty and grandeur of mountain scenery.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 101. F. 4, ‘05. 570w.
“It is difficult to take Mr. Landor seriously, and we find it impossible to follow his tour geographically.”
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 334. Mr. 18. 530w.
“The illustrations with which Mr. Landor has liberally besprinkled the story of his achievements are even more astonishing than the text.” H. Addington Bruce.
— =Bookm.= 21: 307. My. ‘05. 520w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 230w.
“Apart from some apparent faults, the book is decidedly agreeable and even exciting reading, and presents in many ways an intimate picture of the life of the Tibetans and their innumerable curious customs. The colored pictures are striking and effective.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 130w.
“It is a weird and fascinating story, told in the author’s best vein.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“He traveled only on the outskirts of the country, and he makes some obvious mistakes; but he writes with an assumption of the highest expert knowledge. This swashbuckling air does not reassure the reader; but when it comes to climbing snow mountains our imagination falters far behind him.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 179. F. 4, ‘05. 280w.
=Lang, Andrew.= Adventures among books. *$1.60. Longmans.
Seventeen essays are collected in this volume. Adventures among books, Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson, Rab’s friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. Morris’s poems, Mrs. Radcliff’s novels, A Scottish romanticist of 1830, The confessions of St. Augustine, Smollet, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The paradise of poets, Paris and Helen, Enchanted cigarettes, Stories and story telling, The supernatural in fiction, An old Scottish psychical researcher, The boy.
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 324. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1970w.
“It holds the sound criticism which proceeds from good taste and wide knowledge, though it is so lightly presented as to seem mere butterfly work.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 368. Mr. 25. 470w.
“But one forgives Mr. Lang his little affectations for the sake of his delightful humor, his literary touch, and his real bookishness.” Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 409. My. ‘05. 1770w.
“Those who have a taste for books about books will hunt long before they will find one more tickling to the palate than Mr. Lang’s ‘Adventures among books.’” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 409. Je. 16, ‘05. 2240w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1170w.
“They are very high class work of the moment rather than work of a permanent quality.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w.
“Mr. Lang’s account of his own ‘adventures among books’ is full of teaching and attractiveness. So indeed are all the papers that make up this volume.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 250w.
=Lang, Andrew.= History of Scotland from the Roman occupation. V. 3, *$3.50. Dodd.
The period covered in the third volume of Mr. Lang’s history begins with the accession of Charles I., and continues to the end of Argyll’s rising, 1625-1688. “With always interesting details, he carefully considers successively the Protestant disruption, the riot in St. Giles’s church and its consequences, the bishops’ war, the Scotch invasion of England, the relations of the commonwealth to Scotland, finally the restoration.... It is true that the period was one of theological, political, and physical conflict, measured by the battles of Aberdeen, Auldearn, Alford, Kilsyth, Carbinsdale, Dunbar.... But out of the general swaying, struggling mass of men rise certain commanding figures who receive characteristic treatment from Mr. Lang—Hamilton, Montrose, Charles the First, Sharp, Argyll, Cromwell.” (Outlook).
“If the present volume maintains the standard of excellence set by its predecessors it does not escape the shortcomings that characterized them. The proportion is occasionally obscured and the connection of events lost sight of, by the inclusion of details which although interesting are unrelated. The disposition of the material and the general structure of the volume are, on the other hand, excellent; and some of the characterizations—notably those of the two Argylls, Montrose and Archbishop Sharp—are altogether vital and admirable.” Gaillard Thomas Lapsley.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 150. O. ‘05. 1400w.
“The impression received from this work is that the author is not attempting to write a formal history of Scotland, but is rather using the materials he has collected and studied to test the accuracy of earlier works by well-known authors. The result is that while those who are intimately familiar with the details of Scottish history will find Mr. Lang intensely interesting as a critic and as a shrewd investigator, uncovering new sources of information, the ordinary reader must frequently be puzzled to understand the connection and relation of events. But in respect to exact statement of doubtful events at least, Mr. Lang’s work is a fine example of modern scholarship, being based on a careful analysis of the documents and other sources available for the study of Scottish history.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 19. Ja. 1, ‘05. 470w.
“He is, as usual, at his best in appreciations of character, and, as usual, he sees important points which have generally been ignored. His work suffers somewhat from its great accuracy in points of detail. Mr. Lang has gone to the original sources, and ... he has thrown fresh light on many obscure topics, and he has brought a sane and enlightened judgment to bear on the numerous controverted issues in his story.”
+ + =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 799. O. ‘05. 710w.
“He takes little or no thought about style, but simply jots down the facts in a succession of short sentences. The modern passion for scrutinizing all the sources and presenting their results in the most plain and summary fashion has seized and carried away this accomplished man of letters. The chief blemish of the book is the spirit in which it is written. We might have expected Mr. Lang, in dealing with men and events that lie two centuries and a half behind him, to show that calmness and detachment which befit the philosophic historian. The best parts of his book, and certainly the most readable, are those which describe the campaigns of that brilliant leader [Montrose].”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 13. Ja. 5, ‘05. 2240w.
=R. of Rs.= 30: 756. D. ‘04. 70w.
“It is less frequently relieved by what Stevenson termed its author’s ‘incommunicable humour.’ There is, further, in this volume a good deal more than we have noticed before of Mr. Lang’s ‘perversity.’”
— + + =Spec.= 94: 716. My. 13, ‘05. 2850w.
=Lang, Andrew.= John Knox and the reformation. *$3.50. Longmans.
In his account of the life of John Knox, Mr. Lang has endeavored to get behind enveloping traditions and reveal the real man. He criticises Knox’s history carefully and disagrees with it. He gives much Scottish history and an interesting account of Knox’s struggle with Mary Stuart and his onslaught upon Mary of Guise in which is much gentle irony.
“Even in exposing the enormities of John Knox he keeps his literary temper, and instead of breaking the reformer’s head with a bludgeon, gently pricks him with the pin-point of his scorn.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 585. Je. 3, ‘05. 1580w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 942. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“The book is exceedingly lively in tone and style, but is, we think, rather spoilt throughout by the apparent desire to make points.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 230. Ag. 19. 2020w.
“But because the work is as true and impartial as it is, it is the best life of Knox we have.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 693. Ag. ‘05. 470w.
“Mr. Lang writes as a man of letters, without much respect for popular traditions or what the elders consider orthodoxy. He goes not only to the sources, but back of tradition, even to the intensely human John Knox. Lang makes Knox not less great, but more human.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 381. O. ‘05. 310w.
“From the beginning to the end of his book, Mr. Lang employs all the resources of his literary art, irony, denunciation, special pleading, to discredit the great Reformer.” Charles H. Cooper.
— =Dial.= 39: 206. O. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“But what separates Mr. Lang from his colleagues in this literature is a marked lack of sympathy with the public life of his subject. That he writes a charming book is a matter of course.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 190. Je. 16, ‘05. 460w.
“Mr. Lang has studied his subject as few of the more solemn of his biographers have, and exhibits in his entertaining book a very human, powerful, and not unlikable Knox.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 432. Jl. 1, ‘05. 990w.
“It would command universal admiration (out of Scotland general assent) if it were not for a satirical style, which hardly befits history.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 440. S. 30, ‘05. 580w.
* =Lang, Andrew.= Oxford. *$1.50. Lippincott.
“This edition has fifty illustrations reproduced from drawings or etchings by J. H. Lorimer, Alfred Dawson, Toussaint, Brunet-Debaines, Ernest Stamp, Lancelot Speed, T. H. Crawford, R. K. Thomas, and Joseph Pennell, and there are one or two rather charming drawings to which no artist’s name is given. The book itself is too well known to need discussion now.”—Acad.
* “The present edition makes a very pleasant gift-book.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 444. N. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 825. D. 2, ‘05. 1380w.
* =Lang, Andrew,= ed. Red book of romance. **$1.60. Longmans.
“‘All the stories were done by Mrs. Lang out of the old romances,’ says the editor, who proffers excellent advice as to what should be read, being the sworn foe of the youthful prig. Mr. H. J. Ford has provided alluring illustrations, some of which are full of bright color. The stories come largely from the North, which produces, perhaps, the best romances in the world; but we have also ‘The tale of the Cid,’ ‘Don Quixote’s homecoming,’ ‘Cupid and Psyche,’ ‘Guy of Warwick,’ and others.”—Ath.
* “It is full of the kind of entertainment always provided by its compiler.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
* + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 576. O. 28. 110w.
* “No better reading for the young will be found among this year’s Christmas books.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “The book is rich in appearance and varied in contents.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
* “The stories are all told by Mrs. Lang and are in a graceful easy style, except for a trick of generalization in a would-be humorous fashion, and occasional unpleasant affectations.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21. ‘05. 150w.
* “A fine book for a holiday gift either for a youngster, or an old person with a young heart.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.
* “Mrs. Lang has written the stories out of the old romances and has done it admirably.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 130w.
* =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 9. D. 9, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Spec.= 95: 692. N. 4, ‘05. 310w.
=Lankester, Edwin Ray.= Extinct animals. *$1.75. Holt.
“A peep at the strange and wonderful history of extinct animals” thru which the author hopes to awaken in young people an interest in its further study. The volume embodies a corrected shorthand report of a course of lectures adapted to a juvenile audience given by the author during the Christmas holidays, 1903-4 at the Royal institution, London. The lantern slides used in the lectures have been converted into process blocks to illustrate the volume, there are over two hundred illustrations and drawings, many of which are from photographs of specimens in the Natural history museum.
* “It may safely be said that since the days of that ‘most delightful collector and explorer of the earth’s crust, Dr. Gideon Mantell,’ there has been published no book on this subject combining so successfully the virtues of accuracy and attractiveness.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 357. O. 27, ‘05. 1010w.
“We give the book a hearty welcome, feeling sure that its perusal will draw many young recruits to the army of naturalists and many readers to its pages.”
+ + + =Nature.= 73: 6. N. 2, ‘05. 1140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 657. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
“It is well adapted to arouse the interest of adult as well as youthful minds in a fascinating branch of study.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 180w.
“Appealing chiefly to young people ... the author adopts an easy, somewhat conversational style, as free as possible from unnecessary technicalities. But simple and elementary though the book is, it is by no means confined to matter already well known even to scientific readers.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 597. N. 4, ‘05. 1680w.
=Larned, Josephus Nelson.= Seventy centuries of the life of mankind. 2v. $4.50. C. A. Nichols Co., Springfield, Mass.
“These volumes are evidently intended for the general reader who wishes an intelligent grasp of the broad outlines of general history.... The biographical prefaces to each period are unique and useful, the index is good, the illustrations are chosen with discrimination.”—Ind.
“The arrangement of the work is not striking and the impressions conveyed are not clear cut. He has made remarkably discriminating use of excellent and recent materials available in English.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 810w.
* “Makes the serious error of a chronological arrangement regardless of the logical sequence of events, and he divides time into periods measured by the lives of great men—a method destructive of real historical unity.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1155. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Unlike most abridgments, it is extremely readable, and is well calculated to stimulate the beginner to further inquiry. When all is said, however, the excellencies of the work outweigh its defects.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 984. Ag. 19, ‘05. 470w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 130w.
=Larson, Laurence Marcellus.= King’s household in England before the Norman conquest. 50c. Univ. of Wis.
A monograph submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. First comes a discussion of the relations of the king and his nobles, the eorls, gesiths, and thegns; then the various officers of the royal household, the king’s reeve, seneschal, butler, chamberlain, staller, and house-carls are considered and the development of their offices is traced.
“Exhibits much more originality and power of research than the average doctoral thesis, it also displays a linguistic equipment and a lucid style. He has carefully exploited charters, laws, chronicles, sagas, lives of saints, and poetic monuments in quest of evidence bearing on his subject; and the result is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon institutions.” C: Gross.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 631. Ap. ‘05. 690w.
“Is an admirable study of a subject beset with great difficulties. Dr. Larson deserves warm praise for the skill which he has shown.”
+ + + =Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 140w.
=Latham, Charles.= Gardens of Italy: a series of over 300 illustrations from photographs of the most famous examples of Italian gardens, with descriptive text by E. March Phillipps. 2v. $18. Scribner.
“A pair of very sumptuous folio volumes containing the collected series of photographs of Italian gardens by Mr. Charles Latham.... These fine photographs have more than an artistic charm; one dwells on them all with delicious memories.” (Lond. Times.) “As a photographer of architecture, and especially of gardens, Latham stands among the ablest.... Some descriptive text by E. March Phillipps accompanies the pictures. It is of a gossiping, semi-historical sort.” (Nation.)
* “He who has never seen them will find the present treatment at once comprehensive and suggestive.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 381. D. 1, ‘05. 330w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 215. Jl. 7, ‘05. 100w.
“The value of such a splendid collection of photographs as Mr. Latham’s is so evident, and the expense of securing them so great, that it is much to be regretted, that they should not be accompanied by plans.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 341. O. 26, ‘05. 380w.
“Miss Phillipps brings to her descriptive text those elements of knowledge which are most conducive toward a pleasant and worthy realization of her work.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 760w.
* “The text leaves somewhat to be desired; there is in it much too little of the noble art of landscape gardening.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 160w.
=Laurvik, John Nilsen=, tr. See =Michaelis, Karin.=
=Laut, Agnes Christina.= Pathfinders of the West. **$2. Macmillan.
This volume “tells the story of the men who discovered and explored the great Northwest. First among the explorers of the land west of the Mississippi the author places Pierre Radisson, claiming precedence for him over Marquette, Joliet, and La Salle.... The discovery of an account of Radisson’s voyages, written by himself, the authenticity of which has been generally admitted by scholars, has induced the author to popularize the story of his life in the West and rescue his name from oblivion.” (Cath. World.) There are many illustrations, an historical appendix and an index.
“But whatever we may decide as to Miss Laut’s theory as to the Mississippi and Lake Superior discoveries, two facts remain: first, Radisson and Groseillers were pathfinders—in the real sense—to Hudson Bay; and, secondly, the author has made a readable translation of much of Radisson’s narrative.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 199. O. ‘05. 420w.
“More absorbing than the most thrilling romance of imaginary heroes.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 128. Ap. ‘05. 230w.
“Her work is not merely authentic, and founded, as history must always be founded, on the original documents, but it is vivified by the touch of an artist.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 353. My. 16, ‘05. 1260w.
=Nation.= 80: 318. Ap. 20, ‘05. 1120w.
“Asks us to readjust our notions of the early history of the western United States. Miss Laut is doing a work which deserves well of historians in following up to their sources the stories and traditions of the Western history of our country and retelling the stories in her characteristically clear style.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 160w.
=Lawson, Publius Virgilius.= Bravest of the brave. Captain Charles de Langlade. $1.50. Log cabin inn, Menasha, Wis.
Altho the hero of this sketch fought upon the other side in the French and Indian war and the Revolutionary war, he compels the interest of Americans as a great French-Canadian pioneer. The account of some of the “ninety-nine battles, skirmishes and border affrays” in which he took part is stirring.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 135. Ja. 26, ‘05. 410w.
“From materials in the possession of the Wisconsin historical society, and from other sources, Mr. Lawson has constructed a most interesting sketch of this ardent pioneer and fighter.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w.
=Lawson, Publius Virgilius.= Prince or creole: the mystery of Louis Seventeenth. $1.50. G. Banta pub. co.
An attempt to prove that the late Rev. Eleazer Williams, who devoted his life to missionary work among the Indians, was really the boy king, son of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and that instead of dying in the Temple prison, Paris, he was sent to America where he grew up as the son of a half-breed.
“He has not marshaled his evidences; his brief is a hodge podge; his statements, made with much éclat, are unsubstantiated by references. He has not even the grace of style to make his book interesting.”
— — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 363. Je. 3, ‘05. 430w.
“If he does not succeed in winning his readers to his way of thinking, Mr. Lawson may at least take to himself the credit of having recounted, in an entertaining way, a narrative of high interest altogether apart from that naturally attached to historical mysteries.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 446. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
=Leach, Albert Ernest.= Food inspection and analysis, for the use of public analysis, health officers, sanitary chemists, and food economists. $7.50. Wiley.
“The foregoing title very well describes this book written by one of America’s analysts of longest experience in this field of chemistry.... Food inspection, its principles and the precautions necessary in its conduct are ably, though briefly discussed.... The mass of information gathered in American laboratories together with the more recent developments in European food inspection, ... the author has ably systematized and condensed.... Nearly two hundred carefully compiled tables of composition are given, and upward of fifty tables showing the physical characters, chemical constants, etc., of food constituents, are introduced.... The worker in the field of food chemistry will find of great value the list of bibliographic references with which each chapter closes.”—Science.
“Few American contributions of importance seem to have escaped his notice. No important class of foods has failed to receive careful consideration. As a guide to special analytical methods the work is no less valuable. In literary style, the book is clear and concise. There are a few striking omissions. All considered, however, this book is the best manual on its special subject in the English language, possibly in any language.” William Frear.
+ + + =Science=, n. s. 21: 465. Mr. 24, ‘05. 1610w.
* =Learned, Arthur G.= Eve’s daughters: epigrams about women from world-wide sources. Compiled by a mere man and portrayed by A. G. Learned. $1.75. Estes.
“These epigrams, made by men concerning women and compiled by ‘a mere man,’ include wise and witty sayings from the works of such men as Goethe, Hugo, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Emerson, Shakespeare, Euripides, Thackeray, Ruskin, Byron, Bourget, Maupassant, and many others ... about the widow, the coquette, the flirt, the debutante, the prude, the summer girl, and the best and highest type of womanhood as well. The work is designed as a gift-book, and is beautifully illustrated by Mr. A. G. Learned with delicate marginal line drawings, and more elaborate full-page designs.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The epigrams contained herein are famous; the numerous illustrations are not.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 10w.
* “The volume belongs to the large class of pretty and amusing gift-books which are intended not for systematic reading, but for pleasant companionship in an idle hour.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
* “The epigrams have been chosen with considerable judgment.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1384. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 29. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “The selection of the quotations has been carefully made.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
=Ledoux, Louis Vernon.= Songs from the silent land. **$2. Brentano’s.
An attractive little volume which contains about forty poems on such subjects as life, love, nature, and thought.
“All may be said to be ‘sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,’ rather than to evince any novel or original thought on the author’s part. Yet the verse itself is at least of average merit.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“These two examples show Mr. Ledoux to have refined sensibilities and something of the poetic vision; and they are fairly representative of a body of work that is finished in execution and uniformly pleasing.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“Mr. Ledoux’s poems strike a pure and high note.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 447. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
=Lee, E. Markham.= Tchaikovsky. $1. Brentano’s.
The second volume in the “Music of the masters” series. Mr. Lee’s exposition at no time loses sight of the object of the series which is helpfulness to the “plain man,” and in so doing he analyses, summarizes and holds up to broad day the vitalizing facts of Tchaikovsky’s musical genius. The symphonies, chamber music, orchestral works, piano-forte music and songs are discussed in turn with illustrations of the principal themes.
“His criticism is searching and candid as well as sympathetic, and his descriptions are picturesque.” Richard Aldrich.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 170w.
=Lee, Rev. Frank T.= Bible study popularized. *$1.25. Winona pub.
“The first chapter in this book is devoted to general information about manuscripts and translations, and closes with commendation of the American revision. A chapter on personal Bible study follows. The rest of the book is taken up with illustrations of different methods of Bible study—by books, by historic periods, by characters and incidents—and a concluding chapter on expository preaching.”—Bib. World.
“The style is simple and clear, although the range of subjects required too much condensation. The critical standpoint is quite conservative. The historical sketches are compiled from ordinary sources.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ + — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 390. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
Reviewed by Irving F. Wood.
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 315. Ap. ‘05. 450w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 253. F. ‘05. 60w.
=Lee, Robert Edward, Capt.= Recollections and letters of General Robert E. Lee, by his son. **$2.50. Doubleday.
“The author allows Gen. Lee’s letters, written to his most intimate ones, to form the body of the book. As these letters were written without any idea of their being made public, this book turns the light on the man as he really was.” (Ind.) “The hero of the Confederacy, seen through the eyes of his youngest son, stands forth a living personage, a kindly husband and father no less than an ideal commander, not unduly elated by victory, nor unduly cast down by defeat.” Some of the chapters are devoted to “Services in the United States army,” “The confederate general,” “The army of northern Virginia,” “Fronting the army of the Potomac,” “The surrender,” “A private citizen,” “President of Washington college,” “The idol of the South,” “Lee’s opinion of the late war,” “An ideal father,” and “The reconstruction period.”
“Such comments as Captain Lee has added are delightfully told and in perfect good taste. The style is simple, but betrays a practiced hand.” John R. Ficklen.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 674. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
Reviewed by M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 133. Ja. ‘05. 630w.
“A true representation of himself. The book does not attempt to exalt Lee.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 155. Ja. 19, ‘05. 350w.
* “A charming work, which should be read by every Northern man who finds himself intolerant of southern heroes.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“The story is gentle and soothing, and it will not disappoint those who may wish to forget the horrors of war and the screech-owls of peace.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 54. Ja. 19, ‘05. 190w.
“One cannot read this book without being convinced of the man’s disinterested motives and nobility of character, nor can we wonder that he developed qualities of leadership.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 30: 754. D. ‘04. 160w.
“If we must look elsewhere for a proper appreciation of the soldier, we cannot read these Recollections without gaining a clearer knowledge of the dignity and kindliness which distinguished the private citizen.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 220. F. 11, ‘05. 2420w.
=Lee, Sidney Lazarus.= Great Englishmen of the sixteenth century. **$1.75. Scribner.
The contents of this volume are based on a series of eight lectures delivered at Lowell Institute, Boston, in the spring of 1903. After an opening chapter on the Renaissance in England, “he has vivified the personalities of these half-dozen men,—More, Sidney, Raleigh, Spenser, Bacon and Shakespeare,—and has made them show forth almost the entire activity of the age.” (Dial).
“It contains no original discoveries, no profound generalizations, no subtleties of criticism. But it gives the results of sound scholarship and sound common sense in a dry but pleasant way. Perhaps the best essays in the book are those on More and Bacon.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 73. Ja. 21. 2090w.
“With commendable fairness and conscientious criticism Mr. Lee has handled the virtues and the weaknesses of his subjects. This volume of essays is a valuable addition to literature on the subject.”
+ + + =Cath. World=, 81: 549. Jl. ‘05. 540w.
“The versatility of the intellect and the imagination of their age was never better shown than in this charming account of these five men.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 187. F. ‘05. 80w.
“The book is no mere rehashing of the commonplace. Mr. Lee endeavors to place these men before us in the light of their personal environment as well as in the greater light of their relation to their time.” J. W. Tupper.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 123. F. 16, ‘05. 930w.
“Delightfully written biographies ... prefaced by the best sketch of the intellectual spirit peculiar to the sixteenth century which we remember anywhere to have read.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1074. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“One great merit of the book is the catholic sympathy it displays with minds of very different types.... The admirable marshalling of the facts.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 116. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1220w.
=Lee, Vernon, pseud. (Violet Paget).= Enchanted woods, and other essays on the genius of places. *$1.50. Lane.
A “rag-bag of impressions” the author calls her “pilgrimage through the open and hidden ways where, without any noisy calling, the Genius loci meets her. In Italy ... at every time of year; at Pisa, Ravenna, Venice; among Tuscan churches in summer ... in the last fir-woods of the Apennines ... she sees what Keats might have seen.” (Spec.)
“There is also in the book, besides its charm, a sympathetic insight into the past, born of wide and intimate knowledge, a sanity, a clearness of vision and perspective, all of which make the author a delightful companion.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 240w.
“The habitual grace of Vernon Lee’s style is present in these pages, and her unfailing vivacity makes her the most delightful of couriers and engaging of companions.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 120. S. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“This is made up of just what the guide book leaves out, the personal equation, the temperamental interpretation.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1070. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“What gives the book a permanent value is her thorough knowledge of the literature, the art, and the architecture of these countries in whose remote corners she has from time to time made her home.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 33. Jl. 13, ‘05. 310w.
“They are not very deep, many of them are quite superficial, but they are charming, and if not full of thought themselves, may easily cause thought in those who read them.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 780w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 280w.
“The many little essays are very like ‘Vernon Lee’s’ other work, which is always pretty and delicate, and shows a capacity for arriving at the genius of places.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 637. My. 13, ‘05. 170w.
“Her remarks contain much more than empty fancy and personal enjoyment; she sees, but she also thinks, and so the book is worth reading for its wisdom as well as its beauty.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 330. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1550w.
=Leech, John.= Pictures of life and character. $1.50. Putnam.
A collection of the cartoons of John Leech, taken mainly from Punch.
* =Ind.= 59: 1390. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
“They have historic value, no doubt, for manners and customs, for dress, etc. In some the humor of the drawing suffices; in many the legend is necessary for the smile.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 723. O. 28, ‘05. 200w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
“It is pleasant to have in this book so full and satisfactory a collection of John Leech’s pictures.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. O. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=Lefevre, Edwin.= Golden flood. †$1. McClure.
The story of a young chemist who outwitted both the president of New York’s largest bank and the richest man in the world by depositing assay office checks to the amount of several millions a week until the great financiers believed that he manufactured his gold in his laboratory is cleverly told. Wall street and the reader are excited until the young man has made his fortune and explained his methods.
“Mr. Lefevre’s delightful sense of humor would sufficiently commend his book, were it not also remarkable for its technical adroitness and its excellent character touches.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 90w.
“This is an exceedingly interesting story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 359. Je. 3, ‘05. 300w.
“Mr. Edwin Lefevre has constructed an interesting story with a most ingeniously worked out dénouement. It is a dénouement in the very simplicity of which lies its strength.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“That story, however, has more than its element of uniqueness to recommend it. The studies in the characters of great financiers, Gentile and Jew, are of unusual vividness and verisimilitude.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 120w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Painted shadows. †$1.50. Little.
These are not stories, nor essays, nor a part of prosaic today; they are verily painted shadows, as clear, as fanciful, and as elusive. There is much charming verse and much poetic prose, and many truthful things which strike home to a troubled soul. “The youth of lady Contantia,” “The shadow of a rose,” “What of love? What of fame?”—they were real only so long as they ran before us, shining shapes of promise. They were real only so long as they were shadows. “Old silver,” with its exquisite song, “The woman of dreams,” “Household gods,” “Dear dead woman,” “The two ghosts”; they and the others form a book which will be dear to all who love what is good and beautiful in literature.
“Devotees of the realistic school in literature will never enjoy Mr. Le Gallienne’s work, but for those who value a story more for its fine literary quality than for its fidelity to the real conditions of life, his beauty of phrasing and delicacy of imagination hold a charm which never grows old.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 221. F. ‘05. 160w.
“... In ‘Painted shadows,’ where pretty phrasing usurps the place of beautiful thought, where the mental amiability of the author’s attitude is unsupported by any vigor or nobility of utterance.”
— + =Reader.= 5: 784. My. ‘05. 570w.
“Le Gallienne’s style, when at its best, is one of the finest things in contemporary literature. It is distinctly at its best in ‘Painted shadows.’ Should add materially to Mr. Le Gallienne’s reputation.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 116. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
“He touches life with a delicate brush. His plots are not strong, or very purposeful; but they have the true aroma of my lady’s boudoir. He does not hesitate to use the impossible fancies of mediaeval romance to bring his stories to a desired consummation.” J. R. Ormond.
+ =The South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 98. Ja. ‘05. 180w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard.= Romances of old France. **$1.50. Baker.
Daintily bound, with marginal drawings the floral designs of which, in pale green ink, wander across its pages, this small volume contains the old stories of King Florus and the fair Jehane; Amis and Amile; The tale of King Coustans the emperor; Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dammartin; Aucassin and Nicolete; and The history of over sea, all retold in the author’s own delicate fashion with little digressions and comments.
* + =Critic.= 47: 581. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “Mr. Le Gallienne’s style is graceful, piquant, and spirited, without being archaic; and he tells as much of the stories as most readers will care to hear.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 120w.
* “He is near enough to his readers in lack of deep learning and near enough to his subjects in romantic feeling to give his work an undoubted interpretative value.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 830. D. 2, ‘05. 500w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 100w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 753. D. ‘05. 20w.
=Le Gallienne, Richard,= tr. See =Hafiz.= Odes from the Divan of.
=Legg, Leopold George Wickham=, ed. Select documents illustrative of the history of the French revolution and the constituent assembly. 2v. *$4. Oxford.
The editor’s aim is “to tell the story of the Revolution ‘almost in the words of the Frenchmen of the time.’ For this purpose he has made his selections chiefly from ... such journals as the political part of the Mercure de France, edited by Mallet du Pan, Mirabeau’s Courrier de Provence, and Brissot’s Patriote français.... Occasionally the texts of laws vital to the comprehension of the period are inserted in the body of the work, while others fill about one hundred pages of the appendix.” (Dial.)
“Along with numerous capital features there are some grave defects. The finding apparatus is not what it should be. The dogmatic manner and the partisan spirit which mark these comments are particularly out of place in a work which will probably find its chief use among university students.” Frank Maloy Anderson.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 196. O. ‘05. 500w.
“Mr. Legg’s selections are made with excellent judgment, and are all interesting.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“Two volumes of extracts that are well worth the editorial care he has lavished upon them.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 14. Jl. 6, ‘05. 580w.
“Mr. Legg’s book is admirably edited, it supplies not only a charming refreshment but a valuable and even an indispensable assistance to the serious student of the French revolution.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 279. Ag. 26, ‘05. 850w.
=Legge, Arthur E. J.= Ford, The. †$1.50. Lane.
“The ford in question connects the lands of an old-fashioned peer with those of a new soap-boiler, and its use gives cause for a feud between the houses. On this basis it is clear that a love affair between the millionaire’s son and the peer’s daughter is, as the doctors say, indicated. But the peer’s middle-aged cousin and heir, Paul Gleddayne, unwittingly introduces complication. He had loved the soap-boiler’s wife, and Mr. Legge very frankly tells us that Ralph Harrold, the jeune premier, might have been Paul Gleddayne’s son, though he happens not to be. Paul at any rate is very fond of him for his dead mother’s sake, and is distressed to find himself in the young man’s way alike in politics and love.”—Sat. R.
“The cynical indifference with which he depicts the lax morality of his men and women detracts much from an otherwise admirable piece of work.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 947. S. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“It displays close observation and an unusual knowledge of life, and tells its story in excellent style, terse and graceful. The characters are drawn with vigor, and altogether the book is quite out of the ordinary in both its plot and its workmanship. While it is interesting, however, it fails to compel interest.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 707. O. 21, ‘05. 300w.
“There is a pervasive air of marital infidelity about the book which should make it popular. Mr. Legge labours his points unnecessarily, and might with advantage refrain from working up to very obvious epigrams.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: 345. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.
“His novel is only incidentally melodramatic, and primarily appeals to the reader as a study in character, not as a sensational romance. A book which is characterized more by charm than by strength.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 730w.
=Lent, Edward Burcham.= Being done good. *$1.25. Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
A sufferer from rheumatism gives his experience with physicians of various schools in their attempts to cure him. “Blisters and red-hot cautery” is followed by disquisitions upon Turkish and electric baths, patent medicines, liver cures, hot-water treatment, and osteopathy. The humor is so genial it will not offend even those who are ridiculed.
“Here we have a satire, a humorous, but none the less biting satire, upon the medical science of today and those who apply its principles.”
+ =Baltimore Sun.= :8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 120w.
“In genuine humorous style.”
=R. of Rs.= 31: 384. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
=Leonard, Mary Finley.= Story of the big front door. 75c. Crowell.
This volume of the “Twentieth century juveniles” tells of the doings of the Hazeltine children who lived behind the big front door, of Ikey Ford, and other boys and girls, of their aunts, uncles, and neighbors, their plays and their clubs. The children are good children who openly repent of their pranks, and the gentle strain of moralizing which runs thru the book fits it for Sunday school use.
* =Leonard, William Samuel.= Machine-shop tools and methods. $4. Wiley.
A third revised and enlarged edition of a book which represents Mr. Leonard’s “lectures on shop practice and machine design, given to the students in the Michigan agricultural college. The text is concise, comprehensive, and clear.... The description of the machines and tools is good and covers the principal details without useless words. The names of the machine parts, tools and fixtures are those used in general shop practice.”—Engin. N.
* “The book as a whole is undoubtedly the best one on machine shop practice that has yet appeared.” William W. Bird.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 529. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
=Le Poer, John Patrick.= Modern legionary. $1.50. Dutton.
A story uniform with Roger Patrick’s “Frontiersman.” “The tale is told by the hero, an Irish boy of sixteen, who joins the French foreign legion and is sent to Algeria. He describes the life of the ‘legionary’ among Chinese, Berbers, and other semi-savage tribes; and recounts several adventures.” (N. Y. Times).
“The chief characters are drawn boldly and effectively, and the scenes are described with a certain raciness which makes the story worth reading.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 782. Je. 24. 430w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 502. Jl. 29, ‘05. 450w.
“It is not easy to dismiss the idea that a vast deal of fancy is intermingled with the fact, so extraordinary are the adventures accredited to the narrator. Book leaves an unpleasant taste. But with all its cynicism and unquestionable offenses against the canons of good taste, it is not without value as a protest against the evils of militarism and war, a forcefully worded indictment reciting the evils attendant upon armed strife.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18, ‘05. 180w.
* =Le Queux, William.= Czar’s spy; the mystery of a silent love. 50c. Smart set.
A young Englishman, the hero of this story, becomes involved in a series of strange happenings which occur in Italy, England, Scotland, Finland, and Russia, and include ghastly murders, robberies and plots. The maneuvers of a mysterious yacht owned by a band of international criminals, the dark deeds of the strangler, governor of Finland, and the sufferings of the beautiful young heroine whose enemies have rendered her deaf and dumb because she knows their guilty secret, form but a part of the thrilling and complicated plot.
* “It is a story that sets out to harrow your feelings and keep them harrowed till the end, which is as happy as possible.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* =Le Roy, James A.= Philippine life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.
“Mr. Le Roy’s aim has been rather to set forth the social constituents of the population than to describe in minute detail the customs and manners of the people. He regards all Filipinos ... as the crude recipients of the blessings or curses of the American system. In this light he studies their religion, their tribal life, their family organization, and their social status. On questions which are still undetermined and uncertain he refrains from pronouncing judgment.”—Pub. Opin.
* “Mr. Le Roy’s writing is always fair-minded and non-partisan in attitude. Is both instructive and readable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 350w.
* “Everything considered, it is one of the best studies of the essential character of the Filipinos which has yet appeared.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 725. D. 2, ‘05. 370w.
=Le Strange, Guy.= Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, Mesopotamia, Persia and Central Asia, from the Moslem conquest to the time of Timur. *$4. Macmillan.
“Mr. Le Strange’s book is nominally a geography, but it is more than that—it is a fairly close description of Western Central Asia during the time of its greatest prosperity, with especial reference, of course to the geography of the country.”—N. Y. Times.
“We cannot express our gratitude to him better than by hoping that he will resume his laborious task and publish another volume as well indexed and as admirably provided with maps as that which he has already given us.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 268. Ag. 25, ‘05. 2140w.
“Of course such a book cannot be very readable, but its value for the students of mediaeval Hither Asia cannot be exaggerated, and even for the student of civilization in the broad it will be full of suggestion.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 360. N. 2, ‘05. 380w.
“The book is extremely suggestive and provocative of thought; it tells such tales as it has to tell in an interesting way, and throws a strong side light on the civilization of the Arab ‘misbelievers’ at the time when Christian Europe was groveling in outer darkness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 664. O. 7, ‘05. 860w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Le Strange has earned the gratitude of students for the valuable work which he has done in the field, comparatively unexplored, of Arabian geography.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 505. O. 7, ‘05. 350w.
=Lethaby, William Richard.= Mediaeval art from the peace of the church to the eve of the Renaissance, 312-1250. *$2. imp. Scribner.
“The book is divided into twelve chapters, of which the first deals with the age of Constantine.... Four chapters following this treat of the Romanesque and Byzantine.... Then comes chapter VI., which deals with the peculiar characteristics of the later Middle ages.... This chapter introduces the treatment of Gothic art, which fills the second half of the volume. The discussion of it stops with the fourteenth century. There are 66 full-page, half-tone prints and 125 text cuts.”—Nation.
“But while Mr. Lethaby has assimilated the important results of foreign research, he is thoroughly independent in his judgments.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 758. Je. 17. 1260w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 186. F. ‘05. 130w.
“The treatment is so cursory that the reader often finds little more than a list of monuments. Mr. Lethaby’s book as a whole shows no new grasp of the subject, no general principle or underlying philosophy whereby to coördinate many artistic movements.” George Breed Zug.
— =Dial.= 38: 320. My. 1, ‘05. 430w.
“In Mr. Lethaby’s book we have an admirable summary of the two chief styles of medieval art—the eastward culmination, or Byzantine school, and the western, or Gothic.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 260w.
=Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 16. Mr. ‘05. 50w.
“Two apparent characteristics of Mr. Lethaby are a laudable willingness to take pains, and a marked readiness to adopt positive opinions—to reach final conclusions and avow them.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 339. Ap. 27, ‘05. 1230w.
“His book is crowded with illustrations, yet there is not one too many.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 95. Ja. 7, ‘05. 110w.
“It has one rather serious defect in the lack of clear bibliographical definitions of at least of all the more important books and sources referred to.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 119. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1700w.
“In this book, besides the lucid descriptions of the technical parts of the Gothic architect’s work, there are passages of rare insight into the spirit of mediaeval builders.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 270w.
=Levasseur, Pierre Emile.= Elements of political economy; tr. by Theodore Marburg. *$1.75. Macmillan.
Following practically the four-fold division of this subject, viz., production, distribution, exchange and consumption, M. Levasseur’s work is “characterized by clearness and originality of presentation, forcefulness of treatment, and conservatism of viewpoint.” (Outlook.) The work is inadequate on the subjects of the great industrial and economic questions of the day, monopolistic production, unionism and strikes, etc. There are no indexes and no lists of references.
“It is short, succinct, interesting. It may well be used to supplement other books. The translators’ work is well done.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 110w.
“Lack of logical treatment renders M. Levasseur’s book almost incomprehensible to the beginner, for whom it is evidently intended.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 212. O. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“Levasseur’s ‘Elements’ is fluent, commonplace, eclectic.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 931. O. 19, ‘05. 190w.
“On the whole the work is disappointing. It is decidedly inferior to several good textbooks which already exist in English.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 503. Jl. 29, ‘05. 910w.
“The merits of the original are somewhat dimmed in the present version, wherein the phraseology is at times so awkward as to leave the author’s meaning seriously in doubt.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 360w.
“This work is regarded as valuable chiefly for its sound and well-balanced statements of economic truths, and for its clear discrimination in dealing with new theories.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 70w.
=Levetus, A. S.= Imperial Vienna. *$5. Lane.
An account of the history, tradition and arts of Vienna, according to the sub-title. “The volume ... is both more and less than its subtitle implies. There is a good deal of ‘history’ (141 pages out of the 416), an indefinite amount of ‘tradition,’ and a very little (ten pages) about ‘art, including sculpture and painting under Franz Josef’; but there is, in addition, something about literature, the theatre, dancing, court festivities, society, education, and the life of the common people. And, of course, the guide-book element is all there—description of streets, squares, buildings, monuments, churches, palaces, &c. The whole is enlivened by more than 150 well-selected, and for the most part, very clever illustrations from sketches in charcoal, pencil, and pen and ink.” (Nation).
“An admirable literary and artistic memorial of one of the most interesting of European capitals.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 90w.
“Unfortunately the numerous illustrations by Erwin Puchinger are scarcely equal to the text they supplement; they lack character and atmosphere, and are devoid of the feeling for their subject which is so distinctive a charm of the work of Miss Levetus.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 24: 369. F. ‘05. 220w.
“Has consulted good, though not many, sources, and is not sensational in the treatment of her topics. At its best utterly devoid of literary grace, it contains many sentences of almost incredible crudity, and some which make one wonder how they could have escaped the eye of the most careless proof-reader.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 140. F. 16, ‘05. 710w.
=Lewis, Alfred Henry (Dan Quin, pseud.).= Sunset trail. †$1.50. Barnes.
Cattle days, and Dodge City, the crown of the Texas cattle region, furnish the time and place for this breezy story. Bat Masterson, who is a real person, is the hero, and as sheriff has many adventures and shows much courage, finally winning the love of a Boston girl by killing seven Indians before her eyes.
* “The book is not compelling in interest.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Lewis’s keen wit and almost hypertrophied sense of the ridiculous makes the volume intensely interesting to those who have any well developed humor of their own.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“Except for Mr. Lewis’s ‘manner,’ they are much like other Western tales.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 368. Je. 3, ‘05. 330w.
“These stories have less fun and more gore than Mr. Lewis’s well-known ‘Wolfville days.’”
— =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 110w.
“Interesting adventures they are—full of roughness and readiness and gun play.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 210w.
“The story is packed with adventure, and there is so steady a flow of quiet, often grim humor in it that the reader forgets that for once he is not getting his customary scenes of sentiment.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 361. Ag. ‘05. 270w.
=Libbey, William, and Hoskins, Franklin E.= Jordan valley and Petra. **$6. Putnam.
Two volumes containing more than 150 halftones of photographs, record the interesting and instructive features of a journey from Baerut to Jerusalem, covering forty-one days. The first volume gives minute descriptions of the make-up of a caravan, methods of dealing with the natives, the itinerary of the journey, statements as to the history of the places visited, etc. The second volume is devoted to a description of Petra, where for five days the party camped in the heart of the city.
* “Many interesting, unique, and valuable features.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 380. D. 1, ‘05. 750w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 128. Ag. 10, ‘05. 790w.
“Apart from this unimportant drawback of mixing pulpit and physical geography, however, the book is excellent, and gives a good description of the present condition of the country through which the Israelites passed before they entered the Promised land.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 605. S. 16, ‘05. 1290w.
“Apart from its scientific and antiquarian interest, their narrative is enlivened with incident, adventure, and humor.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 884. Ag. 5, ‘05. 450w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 210w.
=Lillibridge, William Otis.= Ben Blair: the story of a plainsman. †$1.50. McClurg.
The author takes Ben Blair, of worse than unknown parentage, starts him along that well trodden road in fiction—Western ranch life, then makes of him a real hero, true to his ideals, a supporter of law and order, a staunch friend, a dauntless lover, and he places this Dakota plowman in triumphant contrast to a New York clubman. While the situations are not new in type, they are certainly new in treatment and strongly handled, and one regrets that the book did not appear sooner, before the constant march of Western writers had won its ground away.
=Lilly, William Samuel.= Studies in religion and literature. *$3.25. Herder.
“A collection of nine essays.... Some of the subjects treated are: ‘What was Shakespeare’s religion?’; ‘A French Shakespeare (Balzac)’; ‘A nineteenth century Savonarola (Lamennais)’; ‘Cardinal Wiseman’s life and work’; and ‘Concerning ghost stories.’”—Cath. World.
“The ground covered is extensive, and the skill and versatility displayed are of the unusual order that we expect from Mr. Lilly. But whatever the topic, or whatever the attitude toward it, Mr. Lilly’s work is always interesting and instructive reading.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 830. Mr. ‘05. 160w.
=Lincoln, Joseph Crosby (Joe Lincoln, pseud.).= Partners of the tide. †$1.50. Barnes.
A Cape Cod story in which “a small boy is adopted on the death of his parents by two maiden kinswomen, goes to school, and falls under the influence of the captain of a vessel in the coasting trade. After some years on board his ship ... they become the joint owners of a wrecking schooner. The interest of the story is pretty well divided between the young fellow’s love for a neighbor and schoolmate and his business success.” (Dial.)
“Without being remarkable, the book inspires a hearty liking.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 70w.
“It is in the sketches of New England character threaded upon the narrative that its chief attractiveness lies.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 90w.
“The book is rural drama of the sort that appeals to the rather old and the rather young.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 123. Ag. 10, ‘05. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“It is all written in the best sort of sea talk, and is altogether about as good an example of a sea yarn as often gets into print.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 433. Jl. 1, ‘05. 630w.
“Honest fun and oddity of character make the tale lively reading.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 70w.
“A salty story, full of quaint characters with quaint turns of speech.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 974. Je. 24, ‘05. 270w.
Lincoln and Douglas debates; ed. by Archibald Lewis Bouton. *60c. Holt.
Professor Bouton, as a teacher of argumentation has felt the lack of available material illustrative of the thrust-and-parry of actual debate and has prepared these selections to supply the deficiency, choosing them because of their value both as masterpieces of the art of debate and as historical documents. Of the seven Lincoln-Douglas debates in the senatorial campaign of 1858 in Illinois, those at Freeport, Galesburgh and Alton are printed here entire, prefaced by Lincoln’s speech of June 16 at Springfield, with which he opened the campaign, and supplemented by the famous Cooper institute address of Feb. 15, 1860. The volume is well annotated for class use.
=Lindsay, Charles Harcourt. (Charles Harcourt, pseud.).= Good form for men. **$1. Winston.
The prescribed code is made the authority for this “guide to conduct and dress on all occasions,” yet the suggestions are flexible enough to include frequent conditions that are outside the scope of established rules. The book is convenient in form and concise in treatment.
“This is probably the most valuable book of the character that has appeared in America.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 553. N. ‘05. 180w.
“What he says as a rule is to the point and unexaggerated.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 70w.
“It is written in good faith, if not in good form, and contains hints that should be helpful.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 555. Ag. 26, ‘05. 940w.
* Liquor problem, **$1. Houghton.
“The somewhat celebrated Committee of fifty for the investigation of the liquor problem was organized in 1893, and has since that time through its sub-committees published no less than five volumes embodying the results of its labors. Of these volumes two of considerable size considered the physiological aspects, one was occupied with legislative aspects, one with economic aspects, and one with ‘substitutes for the saloon.’”—N. Y. Times.
* “For the general reader this little book is the most important treatise upon the subject. It should receive wide attention.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 749. N. ‘05. 150w.
* “It is unfortunate that this final volume does not make any reference to the experience of the last five years, nor to the sharp criticism made upon the work of the committee.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 871. O. 12, ‘05. 880w.
* “Constitutes, as might be expected from the character of the investigating parties, about as sane a statement of the real conditions of the liquor problem as can be obtained within small compass. The value of the book seems to be chiefly in the papers contributed by Dr. Billings and President Eliot.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 310w.
* =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 160w.
=Litsey, Edwin Carlile.= Race of the swift. †$1.25. Little.
Seven stories of wild animals and the tragedy which follows their trail in their quest of food. The title story tells of the plucky run of a mother fox foraging for her little ones; The robber baron is the story of a feudal hawk; The ghost-coon tells of a coon which was white but not a ghost; The spoiler of the folds, follows the hunt of a gray-wolf; The fight on the tree-bridge is waged between an old raccoon and a little coon-dog; The guardian of the flock is the tragic tale of a sheep dog turned traitor; and The King of the Northern slope depicts the last fight of a great wild cat. The volume is illustrated by Charles L. Bull.
* “The stories have marked individuality, though the subjects of them ... have been treated very often before. Each tale moves rapidly and firmly, with perfect adherence to the facts of animal life, and without sentimentality.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 130w.
“These seven tales ... are unusually interesting reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 771. N. 11, ‘05. 300w.
=Little, Archibald John.= Far East. *$2. Oxford.
“A volume of that excellent geographical series, ‘The regions of the world.’ ... The book is no mere compilation, but written out of a full experience. Most of the chapters are occupied with China historically and geographically.... The description of the Yangtse valley is especially good and complete, for on this Mr. Little writes with unique knowledge. There are also interesting chapters on Mongolia and Turkestan, and a very good and full account of Tibet and the various approaches to that land.”—Spec.
“The style of the book is everywhere lucid, its thought is everywhere original and stimulating, and even dry geographical details are vivified by their connexion with human history.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 361. S. 16, ‘05. 2400w.
“It is the kind of book of which there has been genuine need for some time.”
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 276. N. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“Is a capital illustration of what may be accomplished by judicious condensation. Every sentence counts, and the ultimate result is not a confusing jumble of facts and figures—as it might easily have been—but a clear-cut picture, the details of which are unmistakable.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 626. O. 28, ‘05. 140w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 1900w.
“We congratulate Mr. Little on having given us a most readable volume, full of information, and yet with that local colouring which is an essential for a book to command the attention of the general reading public.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 626. O. 26, ‘05. 780w.
“It is an admirable summary of the geography and peoples of the Far East, interesting to read, valuable for reference, and with an abundance of excellent maps that will well repay study.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 705. O. 21, ‘05. 2510w.
“If not technically a geographical expert, Mr. Little possesses quite enough scientific knowledge to enable him to deal intelligently with the problems at issue; while his personal knowledge of the region and people enables him to infuse into his descriptions the special interest at which the ‘Regions of the World’ series aims.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 409. S. 23, ‘05. 1720w.
“Is a most comprehensive and scholarly work, written by one who has a lifelong knowledge of the Far East, and is, in addition, an accomplished geographer.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 528. O. 7, ‘05. 320w.
=Littlefield, Walter=, tr. See =Noussanne, H. de.= Kaiser as he is.
=Livingston, Luther Samuel.= Auction prices of books. 4v. *$40. Dodd.
“The editor of ‘American book-prices current,’ ... not satisfied with that meritorious labor, has undertaken to combine selectively his own series with the English of corresponding title, and with earlier sources antedating both. Of the four quarto volumes to result we have the first—A to Dick, ‘Auction prices of books.’ ... This is one of those enterprises concerning which the bare statement as just made is all-sufficient for the connoisseur.”—Nation.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 775. Je. 24. 1590w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 264. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1710w. (Review of v. 2.)
* “Mr. Livingston has evidently not spared himself trouble to make this section complete.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 604. N. 4. 880w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 352. My. 4, ‘05. 220w.
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 53. Jl. 20, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 2.)
+ + =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3.)
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 424. N. 23, ‘05. 360w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 324. My. 20, ‘05. 420w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 497. Jl. 29, ‘05. 550w. (Review of v. 2.)
“More and more, as it nears completion, does Mr. Livingston’s work commend itself to those who have to do with books.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 622. S. 23, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3.)
* “The value of the work will increase.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 843. D. 2, ‘05. 220w. (Review of v. 4.)
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 947. Je. 24, ‘05. 470w. (Review of v. 1.)
“There is nothing very remarkable in this portion.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 615. O. 21, ‘05. 140w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Lloyd, Nelson (McAllister).= Mrs. Radigan: her biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal and the memoirs of J. Madison, †$1. Scribner.
A satire upon New York social climbers in which Mrs. Radigan climbs, her beautiful sister Pearl climbs with her, and young Jones, the real estate agent, is pulled up hanging to their skirts. The titled Englishman, the complacent bishop and the cotillion leader appear in the story, which overflows with good humor.
“The book is sprightly and clever without being over-clever, and it is written by one who knows his ground.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 477. N. ‘05. 260w.
“The story, being satire, but satire of a kindly nature, is very bright reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 619. S. 23, ‘05. 430w.
“A rather clever satire, varying from the obvious to some delightfully subtle thrusts at modern American society.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 150w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 761. D. ‘05. 100w.
=Locke, William John.= Morals of Marcus Ordeyne. †$1.50. Lane.
A London bachelor, contentedly engaged upon a “History of renaissance morals” whose life is filled by his valet, his cat and Judith, his clever neighbor, comes upon a beautiful oriental child strayed from a Syrian harem and takes her to his home. This girl wakens his slumbering passions, she elopes with a daredevil fellow, but in the end, chastened and developed, returns to Ordeyne.
“His style is delightful, pointed, witty and finished. But for all his admirable craftsmanship there is something wanted, and that an essential—vitality.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 664. Je. 24, ‘05. 420w.
“The chief distinguishing quality of the story, however, is found in the literary and artistic merit rather than in its ethical worth. Clearly it is a tale written to amuse. The author possesses a peculiarly brilliant and finished style.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 107. Jl. ‘05. 430w.
“It is clever throughout, despite the sentimentalism.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 587. My. 13. 280w.
“It is a refreshingly whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 364. Je. ‘05. 670w.
“The story is intensely interesting from first to last, besides being rich in the sort of literary and scholarly allusiveness that appeals most strongly to the cultivated mind.” William Morton Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 820w.
=Ind.= 59: 335. Ag. 10, ‘05. 60w.
“It is entirely original in conception, and the plot is carried out with great skill. The conversations are particularly clever.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 307. My. 13, ‘05. 710w.
“Unusual, striking, and brilliant to a degree is this story.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 220w.
“The changes of scene are frequent, the note of passion is dominant, and the conclusion, if not unexpected, is gratifying.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 472. S. ‘05. 190w.
“The story is unconventional, it is interesting, and it is well written.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 812. Je. 17, ‘05. 510w.
=Lockhart, John Gibson.= Life of Robert Burns. *60c. McClurg.
Uniform with the “Library of standard biographies,” this volume contains in handy compact form the text of the edition of 1820. It has been annotated, and an index added for the use of students and readers.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 30w.
=Lockhart, John Gibson.= Life of Sir Walter Scott. *60c. McClurg.
The Lockhart life of Scott has appeared in an abridged form, newly edited with notes for the student’s use. It is uniform with the “Library of standard biographies.”
=Lodge, George Cabot.= Cain: a drama. **$1. Houghton.
A drama dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth. It presents Cain as an heroic defender of free thought, to whom is revealed:
“The power of life, the glory of rebellion. The fire and love of liberty, the pride Of freedom, poverty, solitude, and pain.”
He kills his brother that he may not live to pollute humanity by spiritual bondage, and for the sake of the light he carries, willingly becomes “an outcast from the laws of men.”
“The diction of the poem is almost as severe as its outline, and is sustained throughout at a lofty pitch.” Wm. Morton Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 46. Ja. 16, ‘05. 740w.
“Is a veritable volcano of poetry, pouring out real fire, mingled with smoke and ashes. What Mr. Lodge lacks is the saving sense of humor. He has undoubted force and passion. The whole play gives the impression of reversed dynamics.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 783. Ap. 6, ‘05. 80w.
“His mastery of poetic structure is still imperfect. Yet, when all due abatement has been made, ‘Cain’ is a book of interesting promise. There is here, moreover, in both substance and form, much to reward attention.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 73. Ja. 26, ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Lodge’s drama is a personal and passionate reading of the story of Cain and Abel, in which Cain is presented as a Biblical Prometheus daring the wrath of heaven to bring light to the souls of men. He is the archetype of the modern free-thinker, while Abel is the cowardly formalist.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 18. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w.
=London, Jack.= The game. †$1.50. Macmillan.
A story of the prize ring showing two types of fighters,—one a fine specimen of manhood, the other fashioned after the brute order. There is an idyllic romance too, which of course concerns the higher minded boxer and a very human young maiden who grows jealous of her rival “the game.” The author has drawn the savage side with deft realism, both from the participant’s and the spectator’s viewpoint.
“Mr. London has in this book made a very decided advance in the matter of style.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 809. Ag. 5, ‘05. 300w.
“This book is simply a good and spirited little report, rather too loud for quiet tastes. There is nothing elemental here; this is sheer street-bred sensuality, if it is anything.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 138. Jl. 29. 300w.
“He has produced at least one story which of its kind seems to the present writer very nearly flawless—‘The game.’”
+ + + =Bookm.= 22:35. S. ‘05. 620w.
“It is of the most banal and ordinary stamp, utterly lacking in the dramatic power with which its author has been credited hitherto.”
— — =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 110w.
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1480. Je. 29, ‘05. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. London seems for the first time unaccountably out of his element and outside of the verities.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 528. Ag. 12, ‘05. 730w.
“Mr. London’s stories are never lacking in power, dramatic quality, and picturesqueness, but his love for the strenuous and the tragic has led him to end his story in a way that is fairly brutal.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 837. Jl. 29, ‘05. 80w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w.
“The description of the fight itself which forms the greater portion of the book is skilfully done. But it is only good journalism.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w.
=London, Jack.= The sea wolf. $1.50. Macmillan.
“A ferryboat sinks in the San Francisco harbor, the passengers perish, but Humphrey Van Weyden, critic, æsthete, typical specimen of hyper-civilization, is picked up by the ‘Ghost,’ and compelled by the captain of that ‘hellship’ to become cook’s scullion. Van Weyden is a creature of overdeveloped brain-power, physically a plaything in the hands of Wolf Larsen, the ship’s captain, and thus arises a struggle between the primitive brutalities of the natural man and this last product of the twentieth century.... The plot has further and rather more conventional ramifications, but it is primarily the fight between the beast in man and the man who has worked out the beast that holds our attention, and, secondarily, the overshadowing personality of Wolf Larsen.”—R. of Rs.
“We do not wish to deny the cleverness of much in ‘The sea-wolf,’ but we must protest against this picture of rampant inhumanity and brutality.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 14. Ja. 7, ‘05. 310w.
“This romance is one of the strongest and most original stories by an American novelist that has appeared in recent years. The story though powerful and quite out of the ordinary lines of romance, is not a novel that we can heartily recommend to the general reader.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 452. Ap. ‘05. 610w.
“Thus the story becomes essentially an account of the development of character under extraordinary conditions, and its aspect as a narrative of adventure is obscured by its aspect as a psychological study. It is not a pleasant tale to read—it is too strongly seasoned to be that,—but it acquires a certain fascination in the course of its telling, and fairly grips the attention in its culminating passages.” W. M. Payne.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 16. Ja. 1, ‘05. 440w. (Outline of plot).
“Altho thousands read in ‘The sea-wolf’ nothing but an exciting tale, yet the ethical theorem is developed by argument and illustration with a symmetry and completeness rare even in a serious treatise.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 39. Ja. 5, ‘05. 820w.
“This latest book is the high-water mark of the author’s power. Virile, forceful, dashing though he has been from the first entry into literature, he can do nothing more memorable than this story of a hellship, manned by brute beasts, under a sea-wolf. It is in the cruelty, the peace, the awfulness, the beauty of the sea, that Mr. London has outdone himself as well as others. The book is not food for babes, but for lovers of the sea. He must own strong nerves who would ship with Wolf Larsen, but the Iliad of the ocean is opened before him.”
+ + + =Reader.= 5: 378. F. ‘05. 600w.
“In depicting that fatal struggle between him and Van Weyden, Mr. London remains entirely impartial. The book is neither a glorification of the ‘overman’ nor of his opposite. We are told of the two, and of their fight for life, with swift directness, with sincerity and strength.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 115. Ja. ‘05. 500w.
=London, Jack.= Tales of the fish patrol. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The broad bays about San Francisco, and the rivers that run into them, are sources of revenue of fishermen of several diverse nationalities—Chinese, Italians, and Greeks. The life of the fish patrol, whose duty it is to enforce the fishing laws, furnishes plenty of opportunities for adventures, exciting and often dangerous. The stories in this volume describe some of these adventures simply but dramatically.”—Outlook.
“It is ostensibly a book for boys, but it is good reading for others as well.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 579. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.
* “Have the freshness and vigor of the sea and not a little of its heroism.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.
* “The stories have a fresh realism and a curt vigor which show first-hand work.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 140w.
=London, Jack.= War of the classes. **$1.50. Macmillan.
The book is made up of six socialistic studies entitled: “The class struggle,” “The tramp,” “The scab,” “The question of the maximum,” “A review,” “Wanted: a new law of development.” and “How I became a socialist.” It is Mr. London’s purpose, he declares in his preface, to “enlighten, to some slight degree,” the minds of a few capitalists.
“It is an interesting thought-provoking volume, to be read and pondered, but truths and half truths are so interwoven that it is scarcely a safe guide.”
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 100w.
“It is marred somewhat by repetition and lacks the coherence and cogency of a logical whole. With all these defects, however, the ‘War of the classes’ is no whit inferior in the vigour of its style and the sweep and rapid movement of its thought to any of Jack London’s work.” Robert C. Brooks.
+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 61. S. ‘05. 1990w.
“Some of Mr. London’s best and most lasting work is to be found in these pages. It is regrettable, however, that certain discrepancies in the text have not been more carefully edited.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1190. My. 25, ‘05. 140w.
* “Develops the socialist attitude on modern social antagonisms in his characteristically forcible and striking style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1158. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 249. Ap. 15, ‘05. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 550w.
“The essays are full of half-truths, and half-truths that need statement. We advise the student of modern industrial problems to read this book; but to be slow about accepting either its picture of conditions or its proposals for remedies.”
— + =Outlook.= 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 520w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 795. My. 20, ‘05. 290w.
+ — =Reader.= 6: 595. O. ‘05. 390w.
+ — =R. of Rs.= 32: 510. O. ‘05. 130w.
=Loney, S. L.= Elements of trigonometry; with answers. *90c. Macmillan.
This volume “is mainly taken from pt. 1. of the author’s ‘Plane trigonometry,’ and is designed as an easier text-book.”—Nature.
“Altogether an admirable piece of work, and we can pay it no higher compliment than to say it is well on the level of those other text-books for which Professor Loney is so well known.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 130w.
“The subject is treated in the usual way, and there is nothing to call for special mention.”
+ =Nature.= 71: 507. Mr. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* =Long, John Luther.= Heimweh and other stories, †$1.50. Macmillan.
“Eight stories, or rather novelettes.... In the first of these, which gives its title to the book, we are told the story of a day labourer and his wife, from the day of their marriage to their death.... ‘The siren’ ... describes a courtship carried on by two bold swimmers, who, at last, swim out too far from land, and are drowned.” (Ath.) The remaining stories are: The loaded gun; Liebereich; “Jupiter Tonans;” “Sis;” Thor’s emerald; and Guile.
* “His aims are right, and so, for the most part, are his methods.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 686. N. 18. 280w.
* “Too much sentimentality, not enough humor, and an unfortunate lack of compression. Mr. Long’s ingenuity and facile expression prevent them from being wholly bad.”
+ — =Critic.= 47: 578. D. ‘05. 50w.
* “These stories do not lack imagination, but at times the gayety seems forced, and the conversations are jerkily vivacious.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 90w.
* “He has a sense of atmosphere, his point of view is individual, and he is not without that kindly humour which laughs while it sympathises. But he is terribly sentimental.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 6. D. 9, ‘05. 170w.
* =Long, John Luther.= Miss Cherry Blossom of Tokyo. †$2.50. Lippincott.
A reincarnation of this Japanese romance, in which wide margins, Japanese flowers and fancies which wander across the text, and various full page illustrations, some of which are in color, lend to the interesting story of Sakura-San and the “excellent barbarians” from England and America who play at cross purposes thruout its pages a new and subtle charm.
* “In this and ‘Madame Butterfly’ he is seen at his best.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 583. D. ‘05. 20w.
* + =Dial.= 39: 449. D. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* “The author has contrasted Oriental and Occidental traits in his well-known style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1378. D. 14, ‘05. 30w.
* =Nation.= 81: 381. N. 9, ‘05. 80w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 822. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
* “Told with charm and well-rendered Oriental atmosphere.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 683. N. 18, ‘05. 50w.
* =Long, John Luther.= Seffy; a little comedy of country manners. †$1.50. Bobbs.
Old Baumgarten, a Pennsylvania-German and Maryland farmer, has set his heart upon marrying his great slow going son, Seffy, to a red-headed, tempestuous girl, named Sally, who owns the lands lying between his farm and the railroad. He almost brings this about, but Seffy’s reticence allows another lover to come between him and his sweetheart. Sally marries out of spite and comes to bitterly repent of it, while old Baumgarten curses his son, knocks him down and sends him out into the world where he learns to fight for things and to get them. In the end he comes back to claim all that he lost in his youth.
* + =Dial.= 39: 447. D. 16, ‘05. 140w.
=Long, William Joseph.= Northern trails: stories of animal life in the far north. *$1.50. Ginn.
“Mr. Long takes the reader with him ... to the barren shores of Labrador and Newfoundland. Wolves, we meet, that guide lost children home, and then disappear into the wilderness; a wild goose that caresses his mate goodbye at the approach of the hunter, before going out to fight for his home and young; and Pequam, of the weasel family, that tempts an Indian to abandon his trail, by killing a deer and leaving it across the track. These animals and many more—whales, polar bears and salmon—are all introduced to us in the midst of their wild, unfrequented haunts. All are endowed with almost human intelligence and reason, after the manner of interpreting their actions which Mr. Long has made so popular.”—Ind.
* “There is a charm about Mr. Long’s book that few writers for children attain.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1287. D. 9, ‘05. 150w.
* “His stories have a charm and an excellence of their own.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 39: 373. D. 1, ‘05. 190w.
“We are willing to let the disputed question of instinct or intelligence go, however, and on the strength of the splendid descriptions of nature and the always evident love of the wild, accord this volume a high place among ‘books of the trail.’”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 873. O. 12, ‘05. 250w.
“Mr. Long assures us of the accuracy of his data, and maintains the reasonableness of his inferences.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 290w.
* “Aside from the controversial side as to whether these eight stories are to be classified as natural history or fiction, these tales of the Northern trails are dull and lifeless.” Mabel Osgood Wright.
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 872. D. 9, ‘05. 560w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 718. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
“His this year’s story is vigorous, delightful, and refreshing.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 100w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 130w.
Long day. See =Richardson, Dorothy.=
=Loomis, Charles Battell.= Minerva’s manoeuvres: the cheerful facts of a return to nature. †$1.50. Barnes.
A novel which “recounts the experiences of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Vernon and their city-reared colored cook, Minerva, during a summer sojourn in the country.... A fine silk thread of a plot runs through the book, stringing together the many humorous situations.”—Pub. Opin.
* + =Critic.= 47: 478. N. ‘05. 80w.
“It is a good book to read aloud, but only a chapter or two at a time.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 696. S. 21, ‘05. 130w.
* “The unexpected endings of the many humorous situations will keep the reader in a gale of mirth, and when he lays the book down after the last chapter, he will feel that he has found a new friend in Minerva.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 520w.
* “Is more in the nature of a vaudeville show than anything else, and it is not possible to describe all of the attractions which Mr. Loomis offers. They are surely worth a reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 800. N. 25, ‘05. 460w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 88. S. 9, ‘05. 50w.
“It is not an uproarious story; its humor is quiet; it possesses the subtle turn which is symptomatic of its author.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 384. S. 16, ‘05. 230w.
=Lord, Eliot; Trenor, John J. D.; and Barrows, Samuel June.= Italian in America. $1.50. Buck.