The cumulative book review digest, volume 01, 1905 (part 4 of 6)
“The pretty evident purpose of this volume is to reverse the prevailing American prejudice against the Italian as an immigrant and material for United States citizenship.... [It] uses ... the argument ... of statistics, and its authors ... attempt to show first of all that the Italian settler is economically a good thing for the country.... Secondly, they produce evidence that in the particulars of disease and crime he does not supply more than his quota ... and, thirdly, they argue from data which they present that he ... adapts himself very completely ... to American ways of doing and thinking.”—N. Y. Times.
“The book as a whole is general in its treatment, somewhat objectionable because of frequent quotations, and partakes too much of the loose character of magazine articles. The spirit of the book is much to be commended.” Emily Fogg Meade.
+ — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 609. S. ‘05. 460w.
“The book is optimistic, discriminating and instructive.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 532. My. 18, ‘05. 110w.
“Is of normal simplicity and clearness.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 579. S. 7, ‘05. 120w.
“There is room for believing that ‘The Italian in America’ will be a potent instrument in molding a saner public opinion.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 666. N. 4, ‘05. 800w.
“But the labors of others are here presented in logical sequence and in a sympathetic spirit, resulting in an interesting and readable book. The book is not free from dubious assertions.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 361. My. 4, ‘05. 1040w.
“It will strike many perhaps that Messrs. Lord, Trenor, and Barrows have omitted some essential facts, but both the facts presented and the inferences drawn are interesting in substance—even when the manner of presentation is dry. Taken all together the cumulative evidence for the Italian collected by the authors is impressive.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 259. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1050w.
“Welcome as a wholesome corrective of fallacy and prejudice.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 140. My. 13, ‘05. 460w.
=Lorenz, Daniel Edward.= Mediterranean traveller, *$2.50. Revell.
A compact practical guide-book which covers southern Spain, Morocco, Algiers, the chief cities of northern Africa, Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt. Much historical and general information is given, a bibliography precedes each chapter, and there are many maps and pictures.
“This compact work ‘fills a long felt want.’ The proof reading has not been done by a classical expert.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 190. Ag. ‘05. 160w.
“The text is in some portions accurate and business-like, but in others it reveals amateurishness, and some inaccuracies and misprints.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“The excellence of its method and treatment of the many countries bordering on the great interior sea of Europe are unquestionable.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4, ‘05. 260w.
“‘The Mediterranean traveler’ will find here in one volume what elsewhere must be picked out of several.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 451. F. 18. ‘05. 60w.
=Loring, Andrew.= Rhymer’s lexicon; with an introd. by George Saintsbury. *$2.50. Dutton.
“The lexicon is divided into three parts—Finals, Penults, and Antepenults. The words have been grouped according to the accented vowel sound and placed in columns in the alphabetical sequence of the letters which follow this sound.... Each part of the lexicon has fourteen vowel divisions, adopted for reference purposes; and the divisions are enumerated in a table of contents, which also includes key words illustrating the vowel sounds.”—N. Y. Times.
“In size and arrangement it is admirable; it might have been larger still without being any better.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 678. Jl. 1, ‘05. 280w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 623. My. 20. 450w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 409. Je. 17, ‘05. 290w.
“Altogether an able book, full of aid to those who make rhymes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 531. Ag. 12, ‘05. 320w.
“The arrangement is novel, at first sight a little intricate, but truly scientific.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.
“This may be a very useful book.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 791. My. 27, ‘05. 240w.
=Loring, J. Alden.= Art of preserving animal tracks, $1. J. A. Loring, Owega, Tioga co., N. Y.
“Mr. Loring describes in this pamphlet a very ingenious and apparently effective method of making molds, and from the mold, casts of the tracks of mammals and birds, large and small.... The operation itself is clearly and minutely described, and seemingly could be easily managed by any intelligent boy.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 757 Mr. 25, ‘05. 130w.
* =Lothrop, Harriet Mulford Stone (Margaret Sidney, pseud.)= Ben Pepper. †$1.50. Lothrop.
This is the tenth volume in the popular “Little Pepper” series. “The hero is Ben, Mother Pepper’s first-born, her ‘steady-as-a-rock’ boy. Christmas shopping in which the Little Peppers take a lively hand, Christmas philanthropies, the usual quota of accidents and pranks, and, finally, Ben’s decision as to whether he will go to college or enter a business office, ‘beginning at the very bottom,’ are the features of the story.”—Outlook.
* “Mrs. Sidney has made him as interesting as others of the Pepper family.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 70w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Lott, Noah, pseud.= See =Hobart, George Vere.=
* =Lottridge, Silas A.= Animal snap-shots and how made. **$2. Holt.
A simple narrative concerning the birds and mammals which the author has come to know in the course of various vacations spent in studying and photographing them. The pictures illustrate the facts and some of the series represent the work of years. The object of the book is to arouse, especially in young people, a living interest in the animals about them. There are chapters on the woodchuck, skunk, muskrat, fox, mouse, squirrel, blue bird, robin, bobolink, crow, owl, hawk and others.
=Lovett, W. J.= Complete class book of naval architecture; practical, laying off, theoretical, with numerous il. and nearly 200 full, worked-out answers to recent education department examination questions. *$2.50. Longmans.
“This work is intended primarily for British students attending technical classes.” It “covers the whole field of naval architecture, theoretical and practical.”—Engin. N.
“In this country its field as a text-book will necessarily be limited, and as a reference book its treatment of the various subjects, except elementary ship calculations, is inadequate.” D. W. Taylor.
+ — =Engin. N.= 53: 529. My. 18, ‘05. 1030w.
=Low, Berthe Julienne.= French home cooking. **$1.20. McClure.
The author, tho a Frenchwoman by birth, has lived in this country twenty-five years. She says: “This is not a book for restaurants, hotels, or people who can afford a chef. Most Americans have formed their ideas of French cooking from hotels, restaurants, or formal dinners, and have never known the home cooking, which is more simple and more wholesome. It is also less complicated.... The recipes which I shall give are used in well-to-do families and constitute what is called in French the ‘bonne cuisine bourgeoise.’” She starts with the very arrangement of the kitchen and instructs in those little tricks by which the French are able to obtain distinction and flavor in their cookery.
+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 60w.
“Mrs. Low’s formulas are in the main so excellent that it would be invidious to discriminate. Her success is unequivocal and decisive.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 78. Ja. 25, ‘05. 490w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 34. Ja. 21, ‘05. 330w.
=Low, Sidney.= The governance of England. *$2.25. Putnam.
“A well-informed, well-written, and interesting description of the government of Great Britain, beginning with a definition of the British constitution, so difficult of characterization, but explained by Mr. Low in a thoroughly rational and comprehensive way.... Mr. Low gives a very interesting account of the place and function of the prime minister, of the cabinet, of the privy council, of both houses of parliament, and of every other form and function of government in Great Britain.” (Outlook). “The main view of Mr. Low is that of Lord Salisbury and Mr. Balfour, that the power of the house of commons is declining and must continue to decline, while that of the cabinet, and especially of the inner cabinet, is increasing.” (Ath.)
“Is a most able and valuable production, marked, too, by unusual excellence of style. If we name points on which we have doubts as to whether Mr. Low is right, it is with the profound feeling that he has given great attention to a subject in which he evidently takes much interest, and the facts of which, so far as they are generally available, he has mastered.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 79. Ja. 21. 1980w.
“There can be little but praise for the author’s literary style. It is easy, strong and clear, and with a light touch and aptness of allusion that never detract from the weighty theme.” John William Russell.
+ + + =Bookm.= 22: 57. S. ‘05. 1400w.
“There are many clever and some acute observations in the book; but, in our judgment, the view given of the English constitution is superficial, and in some cases erroneous.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 400. My. 18, ‘05. 2010w.
“Very admirable book. The plan of the work is so excellently conceived and executed that only one or two objections are suggested by a first reading. One is to the title. The other objection is to an occasional drop into triviality and the college graduate habit of quoting mere hackneyed phrases and tags from other languages. There are occasional slips in the printing and in the statements. The particular excellence of this work has already been indicated as being an interpretation of the English constitution as it operates to-day. The value of this book is very greatly increased for American readers by the frequent comparisons instituted between the English and American political systems.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 132. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1650w.
“Probably no book has yet appeared which, in so untechnical and comprehensive a way, places before the reader the elaborate, highly complex, and thoroughly democratic governmental system.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 79: 448. F. 18, ‘05. 200w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
* =Lowell, Mrs. Carrie Thompson=, comp. Art lovers’ treasury; famous pictures described in poems; forty-eight reproductions of famous pictures accompanied by poems of noted writers, with text by Carrie Thompson Lowell. **$1.20. Estes.
“Forty-eight pictures are reproduced in half-tone, and the editor writes a running comment, treating a group of paintings and sculpture under some general heading, such as ‘Mythology in poetry and sculpture,’ ‘Legends of the saints,’ or ‘Pictures translated into verse.’” (Dial.) “An attempt has been made to assemble famous pictures and pieces of sculpture, and to bring into association with these certain poems that have been inspired by the various works of art that are pictured, or which have been written descriptive of them.... Many of the best artists are represented, as well as poets such as Dante, Keats, Browning, Longfellow, Whittier, Markham, and some others.” (Ind.)
* “An excellent companion volume to Miss Singleton’s ‘Great portraits’ is this compilation of Mrs. Lowell.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 30w.
* “Pictures and poetry are thoroughly representative, and the arrangement, though necessarily loose holds the reader’s interest.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 446. D. 16, ‘05. 130w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 100w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 150w.
* =Lowery, Woodbury.= Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida. 1562-1574. **$2.50. Putnam.
“This, the second of Mr. Lowery’s monographs on the history of Spanish colonization within the present limits of the United States, deals with the Florida settlements of the period 1562-1574, and like its predecessors, is based on a careful study of original sources.... An interesting feature is—comprehensive exposition of the tribal organization, characteristics and customs of the Florida Indians. The work contains several maps, more than thirty bibliographical and critical appendices, and a good index.”—Outlook.
* “Scholarly work.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
* “A treatise not only of prime interest but of solid value, as embodying a broader and more than usually judicial statement of the vexed themes involved.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 600w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 786. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.
* “So cautious is he, and so frequent are his references to and citations from authorities, that from the narrative standpoint his book is at times arid and tedious. But it is unquestionably of distinct value to the historical student.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.
=Lowrie, Rev. Walter.= Gaudium crucis: a meditation for Good Friday upon the seven words from the cross. *90c. Longmans.
Meditations upon mercy, judgment, love, joy and sacrifice, confirmation, accomplishment and duty, and filial trust. The book is designed for those who are unable to attend the Good Friday services, and to assist the clergy in preparing their sermons.
=Outlook.= 79: 705. Mr. 18, ‘05. 70w.
* =Loyson, Mme. Emilie Jane (Butterfield) Meriman (Mme. Hyacinthe Loyson).= To Jerusalem through the lands of Islam, among Jews, Christians, and Moslems. $2.50. Open ct.
“‘A tour of Christian exploration.’ Pere Hyacinthe and his wife (who is an American) travelled from Algeria to Jerusalem, by way of Arabia and Egypt, and the travels are described in a lively and vigorous style.... The idea of the book is not the travel, so much as the relativity of religions of the peoples studied ... and Madame Hyacinthe Loyson’s point is the universal brotherhood of ... the religions of Allah and Jehovah and the Christian religion. In the co-operation of the three—and in the honouring by modern Christianity of some of the grander and simpler elements of the other two faiths, she sees the regeneration of the world.”—Acad.
* “There is a breadth of view in the book, enthusiasm and some little of that spirit which sees good in ‘every country but its own.’ It will not please theologians, but it may stimulate the thoughts of the ordinary religiously-minded man or woman.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1237. N. 25, ‘05. 260w.
* “Everywhere in the book there is the intense spiritual earnestness of a good woman holding conferences with the leading representatives of Islam.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 39: 379. D. 1, ‘05. 340w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 384. O. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 60w.
=Lucas, Abner H.= Call of to-day. *50c. Meth. bk.
Sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Montclair, N. J. They include: The religion for to-day; Work for to-day; The commanded strength; Joy for the morning; The mighty appeal of usefulness; Re-enlisted strength; and The complete life.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall=, comp. Book of verses for children. $1. Holt.
Some 200 verses which Stevenson, Browning, Shakespeare, Goldsmith, Lewis Carroll, Riley, Longfellow, Scott, Rossetti, and many others have written for little folks are gathered into this delightful volume, with old ballads, rhymes and songs of Christmas.
“Altogether, the little volume is one of the most desirable of such collections (in small space) now to be got at. There seems to be something in it for all good juvenile tastes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 575. S. 2. ‘05. 230w.
* =Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Life of Charles Lamb. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
Mr. Lucas “has tried as far as possible to keep the story of the life to the words of the original performers and their contemporaries.... At a wave of his hand witness after witness gets up to testify in his own words and tell the reader what he knew of Lamb during the period in question.... We are able to see the actual environment of Lamb between 1815 and 1825, surrounded ... by the normal frequenters of these ‘noctes’ such as George Dyer, Fenwick, Robert Fell, Martin Burney, G. Burnett, Randal Norris, George Dawe, Ayrton, Phillips, Alsager, and Barren Field. The portraits of most of these intimates of the Mitrecourt and Inner Temple-lane are limned with a delicate and artistic curiosity. Lamb is depicted in this circle as he lived.... For all the very happiest things that have ever been said about Lamb the enthusiast will find a happy-hunting-ground in these two volumes.”—Lond. Times.
* “Only once, so far as we have noticed, is he betrayed into something like over-confidence in his minute research.”
+ + — =Acad.= 95: 999. S. 30, ‘05. 1810w.
* “Of the man Charles Lamb—the ‘human mortal,’ as distinguished from the thinker and writer—Mr. Lucas’s pages reflect a true and lively image. He is less successful in reproducing the intellectual features of his subject; while his portraits of certain of Lamb’s contemporaries—notably that of Coleridge—are not far removed from travesty.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 756. D. 2. 880w.
* “Is likely to prove of more importance than the recent edition of ‘The works and letters of Charles and Mary Lamb,’ of which he was the editor. It will not supersede the ‘Life and final memorials’ of Talfourd, but it contains, mainly in the form of letter and anecdote, much of supplementary value, and some matter which is absolutely fresh.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 844. D. ‘05. 1080w.
* “Taking Mr. Lucas’s biography as a whole there is a wealth of entertainment in its pages which it would be difficult to overestimate. The part that we are least sanguine of recommending is the appendix, which seems to us a heavy incubus upon a book which ought to carry not an ounce of superfluous material.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 297. S. 22, ‘05. 2440w.
* “Mr. Lucas has drawn upon a large fund of fresh material, and has so generously told the story of both lives in the language of his subjects that this biography is really an autobiography.” Hamilton W. Mabie.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 380w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 200w.
* “Above all other things Mr. Lucas’s work is one which abounds in the essential characteristic of biographical work—sympathy. The vast compilation of tiny details of personality and character are not thrown together haphazard but are arranged chronologically, and indexed in a masterly manner.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 820. D. 23, ‘05. 690w.
* “The first really complete and adequate Life of that singularly delightful writer and admirable man.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 653. O. 28, ‘05. 1550w.
=Lucas, Edward Verrall.= Wanderer in Holland. *$1.75. Macmillan.
“The combination of Mr. Lucas as narrator with Mr. Herbert Marshall as illustrator has given us a charming volume.... It was a happy idea to intersperse photographs of some of the more famous Dutch pictures. Mr. Lucas is an admirable guide and visitors to Holland could not have a more agreeable commentator on their travels past or future.... He not only abounds in wise and quaint comments himself, but is the cause of our remembering the wisdom of others.”—Sat. R.
“‘A wanderer in Holland’ is, of course, no substitute for Murray or Baedeker, rather is it their essential complement.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 920. S. 9, ‘05. 1050w.
“If the success of a book of travels is to be measured by the travel-fever it excites in the veins of its readers, this volume should have a warm welcome.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2:571. O. 28. 2300w.
“And now we have found all the fault we care to find with this charming guide. To say that it ranks a long way after ‘The inland voyage’ is only to say that Stevenson is dead. We welcome in it a like sense of intimacy—it wears the face of a friend—it talks.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 292. S. 15, ‘05. 1150w.
* “Mr. Lucas makes no pretension to connoisseurship, but his untechnical remarks on pictures are nearly always interesting, and, to one reader at least, prove the most attractive part of his writing.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 150w.
“The fact is Mr. Lucas comes near being in his book exactly what one would like a well-informed and companionable fellow-traveler to be if one were seeing Holland with one’s own eyes.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 920w.
“In short the book is notable among books of travel and description for its readable qualities and discriminating and individual taste.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 120w.
* “A book of more than ordinary merit—a book with genuinely original qualities.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 826. D. 23, ‘05. 150w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 755. D. ‘05. 60w.
“As we might have expected from his record, he neither bores nor dogmatises but his book is full of information and not a little wise reflection.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 370w.
“It is as a critic of character and manners and a chronicler of art that Mr. Lucas interprets his function as a guide.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 468. S. 30, ‘05. 1330w.
=Luccock, Rev. Naphtali.= Royalty of Jesus and other sermons. *50c. Meth. bk.
Beauty of thought and simplicity of language mark these sermons which apply the teachings of Christ to the conditions of to-day under the titles: The royalty of Jesus; The fullness of Christ; The power of a surrendered life; The face of Jesus Christ; The brook in the way; The gospel for an opulent civilization; The cry of the disinherited; The song of Moses and of the Lamb.
=Lucian (Lucianus Samosatensis).= Work of Lucian of Samosata; trans, by H. W. Fowler, and F. G. Fowler. 4v. *$4. Oxford.
Four handy volumes in which the translators have happily rendered idiom by idiom and “literary allusions, quotations, and technicalities of law, philosophy, or art are neatly turned to apt analogues. They sound every note in Lucian’s compass, from the mock-heroic serio-satiric eloquence of the Nigrinus, the angry contempt of the False prophet and the Death of Peregrine ... to the solemn trifling of the Fly ... and the demonstration by Socratic induction in the ‘Parasite’ that dining out is better than dining.” (Dial.) The fourth volume contains a list of notes which explain all allusions to classical biography and mythology.
* “The renderings of Messrs. Fowler have all the ease and ‘élan’ of a work originally written in English.” R. Y. Tyrrell.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 846. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1680w.
“Their translation is decidedly good; they have ventured on some daring modernisms, but these we can tolerate if only lightness is secured.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 294. S. 2. 2420w.
“The translation is admirably executed in the freer manner of Jowett’s ‘Plato.’” Paul Shorey.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 233. O. 16, ‘05. 1850w.
“The editors ... deserve high praise for the clearness and vigour of their translations.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 265. Ag. 25, ‘05. 1520w.
“This Fowler translation is a work of high art, for which its authors are to be thanked.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 717. O. 21, ‘05. 610w.
“The translators have with admirable fidelity, vigour, and vivacity reproduced the writings of one whom such a critic as Erasmus reckoned not only among the most entertaining, but also the most instructive, of ancient authors.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 713. N. 4, ‘05. 1870w.
=Lucke, Charles Edward.= Gas-engine design. **$3. Van Nostrand.
“The book is divided into three parts: 1, Power and efficiency, with rules for deciding on the necessary piston displacement; 2, Stresses on the various parts of the engine and also with the various cylinder arrangements as affecting the turning effort and balance; 3, The necessary dimensions of the various parts to resist the stresses with both empirical and theoretical formulæ for the computation.”—Engin. N.
“It is a very notable addition to the literature on the gas engine.” Storm Bull.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 526. My. 18, ‘05. 1170w.
=Lützow, Francis, count.= Lectures on the historians of Bohemia. Oxford.
The Ilchester lectures for the year 1904 “have their origin in a wish to do something for the Bohemian cause by illustrating before a foreign audience the wealth of Czechish traditions.... While Count Lützow alludes briefly to his contemporaries, the chief of his attention is devoted to the chronicles of the Middle ages and the era of the Reformation. Here the conditions fixed by a popular course of lectures compel him to be brief in his notice of all save the now famous authorities like Cosmas, Benes of Weitmil, Lawrence of Brezof, Sixt of Ottersdorf, and Paul Skála.... He gives us simply and tersely the results of the most recent research on technical points in conjunction with Palacky’s views on the larger issues.” (Nation.)
“The count, who is a master of our language, goes through the list of Bohemian historians, estimating their merits and furnishing characteristic extracts. These are translated into very clear and succinct English. Excellent book.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 710. Je. 10. 1860w.
“To many of our readers we can best convey an impression regarding the style and quality of his work by stating that it resembles a compressed Wattenbach with an element of current political interest added.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 85. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1300w.
=Lyall, Sir Alfred Comyn.= Lord Dufferin, the life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. *$7.50. Scribner.
The life of a man to whom fate gave great opportunities, and who was big enough to handle and hold them. He was a central figure in many of the political events of the last half of the nineteenth century, he served as Governor-general of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to St. Petersburg, to Constantinople, Rome and France. This biography is compiled from his journal, his letters, and the recollections of his friends.
“But the real value of the book lies in the information it supplies in regard to the great movements in foreign and colonial politics that have been going on during the last thirty years.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 144. F. 18, ‘05. 1580w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 201. F. 18. 1560w.
“Making every deduction for the imperfections inseparable from even the best biographies, one reaches the conclusions that here a really great subject has been treated both adequately and effectively.” Lawrence J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 58. Ag. 1, ‘05. 1520w.
=Ind.= 58: 1358. Je. 15, ‘05. 1040w.
* “His book is frank yet discreet, and marked in all its parts by delicacy of perception.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 342. O. 26, ‘05. 3370w.
Reviewed by Joseph O’Connor.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 193. Ap. 1, ‘05. 3250w.
“What is to be regarded as the official biography. It is official also in its discreetness—a discreetness at times carried to extremes, dimming perception—and in the highly eulogistic tone maintained throughout. It may safely be said that Sir Alfred, while presenting a work obviously open to criticism, has also presented one of direct value to the historical student, and of interest to the general reader.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.
“Sir Alfred Lyall seems to us to have chosen the best way in which to tell the story of Lord Dufferin’s life.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 253. F. 18, ‘05. 930w.
=Lydston, G. Frank.= Diseases of society. **$3. Lippincott.
“A study of social conditions in this country. The police criminal, the anarchist, and the large number of moral and physical law-breakers are here discussed. The author also deals with such questions as the oppression of wealth, the rights and wrongs of organized capital and labour, the negro question, and the offences of society at large. The book is well illustrated.”—Bookm.
“The style, although brilliant at times, is open to much criticism. It is verbose, often disconnected and rambling. In spite of many blemishes the book is of great value. With the general thesis of the book and a large percentage of the conclusions, the reviewer is in hearty sympathy and heartily commends it to students of social problems.” C. Kelsey.
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 350. Mr. ‘05. 1040w.
“His examination of the question of crime seems exhaustive, his inferences inevitable.” Albert Warren Ferris.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 528. Jl. ‘05. 660w.
“While here and there is much that is interesting, although at times crudely presented, the author like many others who write upon the subject errs in trying to prove too much from insufficient premises and newspaper gossip, and this is especially true when he treats of craniometry and physiognomy.” Allan McLane Hamilton.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 183. Ag. ‘05. 1140w.
“It has not the air of a serious book of science, and indeed contains here and there a misplaced facetiousness.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 360w.
“As monographs the parts are incomplete, and the whole is neither sufficiently unified for the ordinary reader, nor clearly cut for the student. Nor is the style attractive.”
— + =Nation.= 81: 63. Jl. 20, ‘05. 680w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 600w.
“This is really a study of the vice and crime problem from a medical standpoint.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 170w.
=Lyle, Eugene P.= Missourian. †$1.50. Doubleday.
Mr. Lyle finds material for his first story within the tottering Empire of Maximilian. The hero is one of Jo. Shelby’s band who, refusing to surrender after the fall of the Confederacy, offered their services to Maximilian in Mexico. Din Driscoll, Missourian, Confederate officer, the “storm center” in every fight, and the exquisite, capricious Jacquelin d’Aumerle, secret emissary of Napoleon on business of state, figure almost grotesquely in a series of thrilling adventures which result from defending each other from intrigue and death. In the end this airy coquette of two imperial courts chooses to find her happiness within the confines of a shut-away Missouri farm.
* “The fact is Mr. Lyle has been absorbed by his material, instead of absorbing it.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 718. N. 25. 200w.
“Here, for instance, is an example of literary over-seasoning, which, far from being exceptional, is fairly characteristic of the book’s style.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 22: 135. O. ‘05. 550w.
“We should be grateful to Mr. Lyle for having given in this novel a new and adequate setting for the American hero of love and war.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 930. O. 19, ‘05. 860w.
“Yet, dramatic, picturesque, brilliant in attack and technique as the book undoubtedly is, the interest in it is largely spectacular.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 586. O. 21, ‘05. 510w.
“It is crude enough in certain details, but its reading leaves no doubt as to the fact that Mr. Lyle possesses extraordinary vision and power to communicate what his imagination sees.” L. L.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 880w.
* “Admirably fresh and lively tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 823. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
“The history is accurate, but unimportant; the romance is of vast importance and fairly accurate.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w.
=Lyman, Olin Linus.= Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Lakes. $1.25. Amsterdam.
The brief career of Commodore Perry (1785-1819), midshipman, lieutenant, commander of Lake Erie, and the American squadron in the Mediterranean is given in this volume which is “a eulogy rather than a biography.” (N. Y. Times.)
“As an elementary history the book is good. It should make rather a good ‘reader.’ Mr. Lyman has padded his book tremendously, and has indulged in ‘fine writing’ of the worst sort. The author is very chary of dates.”
+ — — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 275. Ap. 29, ‘05. 370w.
=Lynch, Frederick.= Is life worth living? **30c. Crowell.
A new volume in the “What is worth while series.” A message of comfort showing that life in God’s world is truly worth living, that there is but one answer to the question for those who believe in the life eternal.
=Lytton, Lord Bulwer-.= Last days of Pompeii. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the “Thin paper classics,” this pocket volume is printed on opaque “Bible” paper in large clear type, is bound in limp leather, and contains a frontispiece of the author.
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=Maartens, Maarten (J. M. W. van der Poorten-Schwartz).= My poor relations. †$1.50. Appleton.
Fourteen unpleasant stories of life in a little Dutch village, where the people are degraded and low in mind and morals. In “The mother” Mary Quint vainly struggles to help her son conquer his inherited love of drink. “Jan Hunkum’s money,” “Fair lover,” “The summer Christmas,” “The notary’s love story,” “The banquet,” and the rest, are all horridly true, and are told in a vivid style that makes them almost too real.
“The book is as oppressive as a nightmare.”
— =Critic.= 47: 189. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“Most of the fourteen stories herein told are pathetic almost to tragedy.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 213. Ap. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“All the stories, while not calculated to make one laugh, will undoubtedly keep one’s interest alive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“It would be hard to name a book in which the characters are so uniformly disagreeable as in this collection of short stories.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“One may go so far as to compare them to De Maupassant’s though hardly to that master’s best.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 764. Je. ‘05. 120w.
=Mabie, Hamilton Wright.= Fairy tales every child should know. **90c. Doubleday.
Twenty four “once upon a time” fairy tales collected from various countries to amuse and stimulate the imagination of the child of today. They include such familiar stories as, Hans and Gretel, Ali Baba, The golden goose, One eye, two eyes, three eyes, Blue beard, Red riding hood, The ugly duckling, Tom Thumb, Jack the giant killer, Jack and the bean stalk, and Puss in boots.
=Dial.= 39: 20. Jl. 1, ‘05. 60w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 160w.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 371. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w.
“In one respect the book appears to us defective, in that it does not state by whom the particular version of each of these child classics was written.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 443. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.
* + — =R. of Rs.= 32: 768. D. ‘05. 80w.
* =Mabie, Hamilton Wright,= ed. Myths every child should know: a selection of the classic myths of all times for young people. **90c. Doubleday.
“This volume is uniform with ‘Fairy tales every child should know.’ It collects for children’s reading and for school use sixteen myth-stories which belong to the world’s literature and appeal to the young imagination. Hawthorne’s ‘Wonder-book’ and ‘Tanglewood tales’ furnish half the material.... Charles Kingsley’s ‘Greek heroes,’ Mr. Brown’s ‘In the days of the giants,’ Mr. A. J. Church’s ‘Stories from Homer,’ Mr. Mabie’s ‘Norse stories,’ and Miss Emerson’s ‘Indian myths’ are the other sources. Mr. Mabie furnishes an introduction.”—Outlook.
* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 432. D. 8, ‘05. 40w.
* “We could wish that Mr. Mabie had put his interesting preface before a more consecutive and less heterogeneous collection.”
* + — =Nation.= 81: 490. D. 14, ‘05. 230w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 120w.
* “They are rather stiffly told and frequently the style is too difficult and elaborate to be easily understood by children.”
— + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. D. 9, ‘05. 110w.
=McAlilly, Alice.= Hilda Lane’s adoptions. $1.50. Meth. bk.
Hilda Lane, kept from the man she loves for twenty years by a war time misunderstanding, adopts a sturdy waif named Robert, and a negro girl, Liberty, and educates them. Liberty grows up to offer her life to white fever sufferers, and Robert, on the eve of a successful career and engaged to marry a lovely southern girl, discovers that there is negro blood in his veins and nobly consecrates his life to the uplifting of the black race. The book is chiefly occupied with the negro question.
=McAlilly, Alice.= Larkins wedding. $1. Moffat.
“An apotheosis of good nature and neighborly kindness. A worthy washerwoman related grammatically to Mrs. Partington arranges the wedding of her daughter. The respect both have won in their town inspires the interested villagers of higher social position to make the pathetic efforts of Mrs. Larkins turn out a happy success. A change in bridegrooms adds to the general jollity, and the two Larkins, mother and daughter, disappear in a haze of prosperity and sentiment.”—Outlook.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10:650. O. 7, ‘05. 340w.
“The story is told with many touches of humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
=Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st baron.= Essays; ed. by Lady Trevelyan. $6. Putnam.
These six compact little volumes contain nothing but the text of the essays and preface as edited by Lady Trevelyan, the author’s sister. There are several illustrations in each volume—mainly engravings and portraits.
“Edition is as satisfactory for the purposes of the reader of Macaulay as a modest man can desire, handy enough to permit you on occasion to put a volume in your coat pocket and take it with you upon a journey, yet entirely fit for the library shelves. For it sacrifices to compactness not size of type (and the eyes of the reader) but an easily dispensable surplus of margin.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10:92. F. 11, ‘05. 250w.
“Admirably planned for thoroughly comfortable reading, and to take up small space in a library. For a good edition which meets all the requirements of the average reader, and of a size which makes it possible to carry the volumes about when one travels, we do not recall a better edition than this.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 120w.
=Macbean, L., and Brown, John.= Marjorie Fleming. **$1.40. Putnam.
The famous account of “Pet Marjorie” by Dr. John Brown is here reprinted, with much later information and her journals and letters hitherto unpublished. There are fourteen illustrations, including pictures of the little girl taken alone and with Scott.
* “We commend this book, sure that it will become a precious possession.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1098. O. 21, ‘05. 1000w.
“Should be welcomed by all admirers of Dr. Brown’s earlier story of her.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 50w.
+ =Dial.= 38:52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 120w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 3. Ja. 7, ‘05. 390w.
=McCall, Sidney.= Breath of the gods. †$1.50. Little.
Little Yuki, a samurai’s daughter, the last of her honorable race, has been educated in Washington and returns to Japan with the American minister to Tokio, his wife and daughter. Her story is the story of the heart of Japan, the nobility, the love of country, the cruelty; and when she tramples on her own love and the love of the young Frenchman, Pierre, and marries Prince Haganè at the command of her father and the call of her country, she typifies the cheerful sacrifice of the individual to the system, which is, perhaps, the keynote of Japan. The time is that of the present war with Russia, the tragedy is horrid and occidental.
“‘The breath of the gods’ is one of the most artistic novels of the year. We doubt if any American writer has given us a truer or more intimate insight into the life and the spiritual and intellectual concepts of the Japanese than has the author of the ‘Breath of the gods.’”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 331. S. ‘05. 1190w.
“The genre painting, although too crowded with details, is good; but the end is disappointing.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 575. O. 28. 310w.
“In her work one sees an unbounded admiration of traits not fully comprehended, rather than a keen and sympathetic understanding of the Japanese ideals and their visible exponents.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 814. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“Putting aside the truth or improbability of the story, the book is interesting in all parts and thrilling in some.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 670w.
“‘The breath of the gods’ is worthy of the author of ‘Truth Dexter.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 364. Je. 3, ‘05. 530w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 395. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w.
“As a story the book is written in a somewhat hectic and turbulent fashion, and its early promise is hardly fulfilled by the melodrama of its conclusion.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 390. Je. 10. ‘05. 50w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 160. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 358. Ag. ‘05. 210w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= History of our own times. v. 4 and 5. ea. *$1.40. Harper.
“These two volumes conclude the ‘History of our own times,’ begun by Mr. McCarthy some twenty-five years ago. The five volumes taken together cover the entire reign of Queen Victoria.... This work ... is rather a series of essays than a continuous history. All of the important events of the period come in for consideration. The greatest of these for the empire at large was the Boer war.... The interest and value of these volumes rests upon the fact that they are the work of a man who knows intimately what he is writing about.”—N. Y. Times.
“Looking at the work as a whole, we can only describe it as glib, fluent, popular—not by any means as a thoughtful and far-reaching study of men and the events of our time, and of the tendencies of those great movements which they have generated.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1118. O. 28, ‘05. 1940w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 541. O. 21. 110w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “But Mr. McCarthy is always readable, and the entertaining quality of his work will undoubtedly be of value in bringing to the negligent reader some familiarity, at least, with the main features of later English politics.” E. D. Adams.
+ =Dial.= 39: 435. D. 16, ‘05. 1390w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“It does not read like the work of a man behind the scenes, or tell us anything that we have not already read in the newspapers. Mr. McCarthy writes without any sense of proportion, and freely scamps the essential in order to make room for padding. All that can truthfully be said is that Mr. Justin McCarthy has the trick of being mildly readable even when he is platitudinous and obvious.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 371. N. 3, ‘05. 900w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“He tells the story in a simple, intelligible way. He is never dry, tedious, discursive, labored, or involved. It is not adverse criticism to say that he has not written a weighty history.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 743. N. 4, ‘05. 1050w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
“He is always interesting, and though sometimes gossipy and sometimes affected by personal prepossessions, he writes with singular fairness of temper. His history is journalistic rather than scientific.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 190w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “It is very interesting and of considerable use to students of recent events.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 764. D. 9, ‘05. 160w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* “We are sorry that we cannot say that it is even a good book of reference, for Mr. McCarthy is not methodical enough, nor detailed enough, nor accurate enough to make himself an authority on facts. The English is slovenly.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 726. D. 2, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
* + — =Spec.= 95: 871. N. 25, ‘05. 300w.
=McCarthy, Justin.= Irishman’s story, **$2.50. Macmillan.
An autobiography giving the author’s experiences in newspaper work, his visits to America, and his parliamentary career (1879-1902), covering the Parnell period with its sudden close and the breaking up of the Nationalist party.
“Historical students who may turn to either of these volumes will be compelled continuously to keep in mind the nationality and political environment of the writers; for with both Davitt and McCarthy every Irishman on the popular side is a patriot, an orator, or a statesman.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 454. Ja. ‘05. 170w.
“A record sufficiently varied and full of incident to have a sure claim on public interest. It would rank with such a narrative as Mr. Riis’s rather than with literary autobiographies, or with intellectual documents like Spencer’s account.” H. W. Boynton.
+ + =Atlan.= 95: 427. Mr. ‘05. 270w.
“A delightful melange of reminiscence, description, autobiography and anecdote, and will be read with genuine enjoyment.”
+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 820w.
“From first to last these autobiographical chapters have a charm.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 1310. Je. 8. 670w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Dryad. †$1.50, Harper.
“The hero is the son and heir of Duke Baldwin of Athens, who ruled near the close of the thirteenth century. The heroine, Argathona, is a dryad, who remained in the Eleusinian wood after the gods departed. There are numerous adventures—joustings, conspiracies, battles, enchantments—related with cheerful disregard of everything except the interest of the reader.”—Pub. Opin.
“He has not succeeded in creating the right atmosphere. Mr. McCarthy has found a beautiful theme and in spite of his cleverness has handled it so roughly that he has deprived it of its external charm and has not developed the possibilities of its inherent beauty”
— =Acad.= 68: 366. Ap. 1, ‘05. 570w.
“Mr. McCarthy must be congratulated on having so deftly handled the supernatural that one hardly feels the impossibility of Argathona.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“Decidedly the best that Mr. McCarthy has done.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
+ — =Ind.= 58: 958. Ap. 27, ‘05. 240w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“A very readable tale after its own unreal fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 539. Ag. 19, ‘05. 50w.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 960. Ap. 15, ‘05. 50w.
“Selecting a somewhat vague historical period, he devises an impossible plot, worked out by impossible characters. A rather pleasing piece of make-believe.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 633. Ap. 22, ‘05. 90w.
“It may be said indeed that he has woven in this story a tapestry whose grace of design and exquisite harmony of color all lovers of this kind of story will approve. There is something Tennysonian in the silken softness of his style and in his imagery.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 120. Je. ‘05. 210w.
“The story is told with Mr. McCarthy’s usual verve and lightness.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 762. Je. ‘05. 70w.
“Mr. McCarthy contrives to get a real touch of poetry into his descriptions of the forest.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 681. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.
=McCarthy, Justin Huntly.= Lady of Loyalty house. †$1.50. Harper.
“A story of Cromwell’s time, with the brilliant Lady Brilliana Harby as the storm centre. Dangers without end beset the lady and her admirers true and false, the whole ending happily when the clang of wedding bells replaces the clash of swords.”—Critic.
=Critic.= 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 40w.
“A pretty tale and a merry one. This is mostly a skipping, happy-go-lucky story, a seventeenth century scherzo.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 787. My. ‘05. 330w.
“Is a brisk and breezy romance. There is little or no attempt at historical accuracy or minute coloring, a fact that is quite refreshing. Mr. McCarthy is content to tell a swift and fascinating story, in which effort he succeeds thoroughly.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 119. Ja. ‘05. 110w.
=McCaul, Ethel.= Under the care of the Japanese war office. $1.50. Cassell.
An English woman’s account of her recent visit to Manchuria to inspect the work of the Japanese Red cross society. Their efficient system is given in detail and there are many incidents and descriptions typical of the land and the people.
“Gives many interesting glimpses of the kindly side of war.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 300w.
“Miss McCaul is an honest, straightforward writer, and her book is a tonic.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
“The practical advantages to be derived from a study of the volume under review cannot be questioned.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 163. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1230w.
“Her letters here collected have in them much of interest, but are overloaded with too detailed narrative of personal experiences.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 453. F. 18, ‘05. 140w.
“Unpretentious, but able and interesting little book. It contains much that is valuable to a student of military medicine.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 54. Ja. 14, ‘05. 100w.
=McClain, Emlin.= Constitutional law in the United States. *$2. Longmans.
“This text book on American constitutional law is published in the “American citizen” series, edited by Prof. Hart.... The classical bibliography and references at the beginning of each chapter together furnish opportunity for a more extended study of the subjects dealt with in the text.... The volume is divided into eight parts ... first ... the System of government.... Part II. explains how the government is organized. Parts III., IV., and V. deal with the nature and scope ... of the legislative, the executive, and the judicial branches of the government; Part VI. concerns itself with the relations of the states to each other and to the federal government. The last two parts are on the relations of the individual to the government and on civil rights.”—N. Y. Times.
“It is an able, fresh, vigorous treatment of the subject, handled with assurance and with considerable novelty in method.”
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
“Covering in a cursory way so vast a field, the book is necessarily in many respects unsatisfactory. It has, however, the decided merit of containing a selected general bibliography, topical bibliographical references for each chapter, an analytical table of contents, and a fairly satisfactory index.”
+ + — =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 591. My. ‘05. 220w.
“The volume is very well adapted either for private reading or for classes of civics or history in our schools.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 543. Jl. ‘05. 120w.
“The clear arrangement and concise style, the subordination of detail, and the avoidance of a mere mechanical order in the presentation of topics save it from stereotyped formality or dull abstruseness. On the whole, we should expect to see McClain supplant Cooley to a considerable extent in the schools and colleges.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 449. Jl. 8, ‘05. 750w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 130w.
=McClellan, Elizabeth.= Historic dress in America, 1607-1800; with an introd. chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisiana; il. in color, pen and ink, and half-tone by Sophie Steel, **$10; hf. lev. or mor. **$20. Jacobs.
“The work begins with the time of the earliest Spanish occupation of the continent, and concludes with the opening of the nineteenth century. Within this period the dress of men and women, nobles, commoners, and soldiers, is minutely described, the illustrations being from contemporary prints, old portraits and similar authentic sources.”—Reader.
“The text is accompanied by excellent illustrations. Its attempt at completeness and the care used in arrangement suggest that its greatest value is as a book of reference. Therefore it is a matter of regret that references for the large number of quotations are not more frequent.”
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 715. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 649. My. 27. 610w.
“This exhaustive and well illustrated volume on the American dress of the past should hold a position among the most authoritative works on the subject.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 565. Je. ‘05. 110w.
* “A valuable book of reference.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 70w.
“Nothing approaching the completeness of the present work has yet been offered.”
+ + + =Reader.= 5: 626. Ap. ‘05. 120w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 682. My. 6, ‘05. 270w.
=McClure, Alexander Kelly.= Our presidents and how we make them. $2. Harper.
The present revised edition brings this book of reference down to date. An account of the Roosevelt-Parker campaign is given with a narrative of its various conventions.
“As a whole this is a convenient and reasonably accurate handbook of American national politics, and only here and there does the author make a statement that seems questionable.” H. T. P.
+ + — =Bookm.= 22: 84. S. ‘05. 860w.
“All these summaries, if not very critical in tone, are readable and to the point.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 80w.
“It is not only a valuable record, but also interesting history.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 670w.
“The style remains involved and awkward and the diction careless.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.
=McCook, Rev. Henry Christopher.= Senator: a threnody. **$1.25. Jacobs.
This poem is a tribute to Marcus Hanna, written by a life-long friend. It is divided into five parts: A prologue of a life; Village scenes; Transformed villagers; A plea for immortality; and The life beyond.
“All conducted with a skill evidencing considerable homiletic experience.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 90w.
=McCrackan, William Denison.= Fair land Tyrol. **$1.60. Page.
An enthusiastic description of “happy Tyrol,” in which are mingled beauty of landscape, and quaint peasant charm: the toymakers and innkeepers of to-day: the patriots and minnesingers of yesterday. The traveller is shown where to find interesting sights and scenes and is given a knowledge of the part that he may understand the Tyrolese of the present. The illustrations are reproduced from photographs.
“The book is readable and interesting.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 791. Jl. 29, ‘05. 160w.
+ + — =Ath. 1905=, 2: 173. Ag. 5. 1270w.
“A pleasant account of one of the most delightful of European districts.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
“Readable for itself, and giving an excellent notion of the country, the book is also usable side by side with a guide book, as an intelligent and interesting description of the principal places in the country.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 528. Je. 29, ‘05. 660w.
“As a whole his book is disappointing, childishly enthusiastic, and not at all convincing as either guide book or account of travel in the Tyrol. It is full, however, and one will not go astray in following Mr. McCracken as a guide.”
— + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 780w.
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 70w.
“There is no distinction about the style, which is sometimes slipshod.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 126. Jl. 22, ‘05. 90w.
=McCracken, Elizabeth.= Women of America. **$1.50. Macmillan.
As a result of several years of observation of the American woman as she is found in the large towns and small all over the United States, Miss McCracken gives her to us in all her phases, the professional woman and the club woman; her ideals and her achievements.
“This misleading book.... Harmfully sentimental spirit in which the fourteen articles ... are written. No information is offered to the seeker after fact; and for the theorist there is no basis of discussion. The book is simply a rambling series of unilluminating anecdotes, strongly personal without being strongly vital in tone.” O. H. D.
— — =Critic.= 46: 281. Mr. ‘05. 600w.
“The book is often unjust in its criticism, fulsome in its praise, illogical in its attempts at argument. It could not be called a serious contribution to sociological literature, partly because it is a vitascope of photographs from a car window instead of the careful canvasses of a Millet, who has known his subjects long, and loved them well.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 439. F. 23, ‘05. 460w.
“The book has far too wide a title.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 338. Ap. 27, ‘05. 640w.
“Thus, the book is not made up of official statistics, but is the fruit of personal meetings with women and visits to the scenes of their occupations.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 128. Ja. ‘05. 140w.
“The art of making what has appealed to herself appeal to her reader has been mastered by Miss McCracken.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 616. Ap. 29, ‘05. 970w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Nedra. †$1.50. Dodd.
The elopement of a young couple from Chicago who start for the Philippines via New York and London, travelling as brother and sister, forms the basis of this story which is turned into an amusing extravaganza by a ship wreck in mid-ocean which leaves the hero stranded upon the island of Nedra with a new heroine, a girl whom he has rescued by mistake.
“He has given us the kind of story Americans like, incredible, daring, delightful and a little absurd.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1154. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
* “Like most of Mr. McCutcheon’s novels, ‘Nedra’ is not a matter for critical appreciation. One may say it is ‘apart’ from it rather than ‘beneath it.’”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 420w.
“It belongs to the novels of recreation pure and simple, and well fulfills its purpose of robbing the reader of the sense of time.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 240w.
“The story is lively, entertaining, and very improbable.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 50w.
=McCutcheon, George Barr (Richard Greaves, pseud.).= Purple parasol; with il. by Harrison Fisher, and decorations by C: B. Falls. †$1.25. Dodd.
The owner of a purple parasol, a gray dress and a sailor hat is shadowed by a young lawyer who hopes to pile up evidence for a divorce case against the erring wife of an old husband. The story becomes a romance when the owner of the parasol turns out to be a young and beautiful girl.
+ =Bookm.= 21: 652. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
“Has the merit of lightness and brevity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 278. Ap. 29, ‘05. 130w.
“A slight and rather foolish story.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 40w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.
=McCutcheon, John Tinney.= Mysterious stranger and other cartoons. *$1.50. McClure.
Over one hundred and fifty cartoons which have appeared during the past year or so in the Chicago Tribune are gathered into this volume. The author expresses the hope that his drawings “may have a permanent interest because of the great historical importance of the period they encompass” but aside from political matters much space is given to genial take-offs of President Roosevelt as bear-hunter and glad-hander, and satires of child life.
* “As a comic history of our own times they are not without value.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 572. D. ‘05. 40w.
* “The cartoons are well worth embodying in a form less transient than the pages of a daily newspaper.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 383. D. 1, ‘05. 250w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1379. D. 14, ‘05. 60w.
“Preserves too much that is trivial and vulgar (not in the most odious sense), and would have been the better for a severe screening. On the whole we find the collection rather dreary.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 382. N. 9, 05. 190w.
=MacDonnell, John de Courcy.= King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and the Congo. *$6. Cassell.
The main object of this book “is to tell once more the story of the origin and progress and methods of government of the Congo Free State, and to refute the charge that Leopold has not fulfilled the pledges made under the Berlin act.” (Nation).
“The writer’s arguments, however, are not convincing, and we wish we could attribute their unreality to ignorance of the subject in hand.”
— — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 584. My. 13. 2800w.
=Nation.= 81: 62. Jl. 20, ‘05. 590w.
“The weakness of the book is its redundancy and its tendency to exalt into great virtues the king’s most commonplace actions. Its attenuated special pleading minimises but does not destroy whatever usefulness as a record it may possess.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
* =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 290w.
=McDougall, W.= Physiological psychology. *40c. Macmillan.
This “tiny little volume ... presents a clear account ... of the elements of scientific psychology, and is thoroughly up to date.”—Acad.
“Small and unambitious though it be, this book is worth more than the little space it would fill in the library of the student of mind.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 416. Ap. 15, ‘05. 370w.
* =McFadyen, John Edgar.= Introduction to the Old Testament. $1.75. Armstrong.
“Mr. McFadyen sums up accurately and concisely the established results in regard to each book of the Old Testament, avoiding positive assertion where the facts do not warrant it. The inexpert reader will get from this book in a small compass a clear idea of the results of criticism and also of the common-sense method by which they have been arrived at.”—Acad.
* “Mr. McFadyen writes in a most interesting style: and successfully brings out both the human interest and the religious value of the several books.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1222. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
* + + =Outlook.= 81: 889. D. 9, ‘05. 160w.
=MacFarland, Charles Stedman.= Jesus and the prophets; an historical, exegetical, and interpretative discussion of the use of the Old Testament prophecy by Jesus and his attitude towards it. **$1.50. Putnam.
“Holding Jesus to be more than a prophet, Dr. MacFarland sees that he was called to the work of a prophet, to meet a spiritual exigency, as the ancient prophets in their time had done.... As Jesus’ disciples misunderstood the prophets, so they misunderstood and still misunderstand his use of them.” (Outlook.) The author is a Congregational minister.
“No one should hereafter use Dr. Briggs’s or any of the older works on Messianic prophecy as authorities without parallel reference to this newer treatise.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 151. Jl. 20, ‘05. 230w.
* “A careful and scholarly examination of the relation of Jesus to Old Testament prophecy.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Dr. MacFarland’s work is of unusual importance for the setting right and clarifying of erroneous and confused notions, an excellent specimen of the application of critical method for the realization of religious values.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 344. Je. 3, ‘05. 370w.
=Macfarlane, Isabella.= Royal knight: a tale of Nuremburg. †$1.25. Dillingham.
A story of 15th century Nuremburg, and of twin sisters of a poor and widowed mother, one betrothed to a wool-merchant’s son, the other, loved by a young German officer whose father is chief magistrate. Because the girl holds her honor above her love, the magistrate’s son attempts to force her consent by accusing her mother of witchcraft. Imprisonment and torture follow, but thru the loyalty of the daughters and the advent of their champion, who is no other than Emperor Maximilian, all ends happily.
=N. Y. Times.= 10:304. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.
=Macfarlane, Walter.= Laboratory notes on practical metallurgy: being a graduated series of exercises. *80c. Longmans.
“This little book is apparently intended as a first course for beginners in practical work in a metallurgical laboratory.... It consists of a series of practical exercises, all well within the grasp of the average boy, graduated and well arranged with a view of developing the habit of observation.... The student is introduced to furnace work.... The preparation of the ordinary common alloys follows.... Later, the more complex subject of the principles on which the process for the extraction of copper, lead, gold, and silver from their ores depend is dealt with. The book concludes with a few elementary exercises in assaying gold and silver ores, and the analysis of coal and coke.”—Nature.
+ =Engin. N.= 53: 639. Je. 15, ‘05. 170w.
“The book contains much useful information for junior students, and can be recommended for their use.”
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 413. Mr. 2, ‘05. 220w.
=MacGowan, Alice, and Cooke, Grace MacGowan.= Return: a story of the sea islands in 1739. †$1.50. Page.
In a stirring romance the authors reproduce people and scenes of colonial South Carolina and Georgia. In it Diana Chaters, the belle of Charleston, and a young Virginian of the historic family of Marshall figure prominently. This heroine, “the heartless coquette, is publicly jilted as the result of a brutal wager. How she takes her shame, and how she builds it into her life, is told by the authors with skill and upon somewhat new lines.” (Outlook.)
“‘Return’ is a capital love-story, one of the very best romantic novels of the year.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 447. O. ‘05. 600w.
* “For the most part the story develops naturally, the characters have actual personality, and the savour of romance is well maintained.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 220w.
“The book is written in an excellent literary style.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 98. Jl. 13, ‘05. 240w.
“A capital tale of love and adventure.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 329. O. 6, ‘05. 420w.
“A book of fresh, wholesome romance.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 410w.
“A love-story with plenty of color and movement. It is all very well done, vivid, dramatic; but the story is too overcrowded with characters; there are too many side issues. Not a little excision as well as condensation would have greatly improved a vigorous story.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 195. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“A story with original strength and some novel situations. The characters are admirably individualized, the action is lively, and the whole picture excellently drawn.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1. ‘05. 90w.
“‘Return’ is a well told tale, and interesting from the first line.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“It is difficult to conceive of a story in which the element of picturesqueness enters more effectively.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 240. Ag. ‘05. 220w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Enchantment. †75c. Bobbs.
A group of Mr. MacGrath’s short stories which abound in daringly novel situations. The five are “A night’s enchantment.” the adventure of the lady in the closed carriage, “The blind madonna,” the adventure of the golden louis, “No Cinderella,” the adventure of the satin slipper, “Two candidates,” the adventure in love and politics, and “The enchanted hat,” the adventure of my lady’s letter.
“Without being in any way remarkable ... will provide amusement and entertainment.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 110w.
“Is a collection of five of Mr. MacGrath’s stories—good ones too.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 70w.
* =MacGrath, Harold.= Hearts and masks. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The sprightly record of a night’s adventure in which the principal participants bent upon attending a masked ball thru a fluke are mistaken for clever thieves. The plot which thickens about the innocent imposters for a time, and which is later cleared up, furnishes an exciting hour for the most sated fiction appetite.
* “Constructed with an art that holds the reader’s interest from the first page to the last.”
+ =Dial.= 36: 445. D. 16, ‘05. 180w.
* “It is a book to be read in a half hour, but it contains adventure enough to last a lifetime.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 885. D. 9, ‘05. 300w.
=MacGrath, Harold.= Princess elopes. †75c. Bobbs.
The chief figures in this story of rapid action are the madcap Princess of Barscheit, her grumpy uncle intent upon a suitable marriage for her, and a young American medical student. The American consul tells the story of a series of adventures capped by the princess’s escape from marrying the redfaced Prince of Doppelkinn. That she finds the young American with her on this journey is certainly not distressing to her, and that he turns out to be the long lost heir of Doppelkinn and a much worthier suitor than the father are facts which atone for her matrimonial hardships.
+ =Dial.= 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 309. My. 13, ‘05. 510w.
“This tale ... will be found altogether diverting, if not convincingly real.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 40w.
=Mach, Edmund Robert Otto von.= Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture, to accompany a collection of reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture. *$1.50. Bureau of University travel.
“Dr. von Mach’s book is not a ‘handbook’ in the ordinary sense of the word, but a descriptive catalogue of five hundred plates and forty-five text illustrations representing works of Greek and Roman sculpture.... The description and discussion of each work is preceded by a note giving the material, place, and date of discovery when known, museum or other collection in which the work is now preserved, and some bibliographical information.”—Nation.
“The author shows in this book the excellencies of his former work. He states his conclusions boldly and independently.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1365. Je. 15, ‘05. 530w.
“Certainly Dr. von Mach’s style leaves much to be desired. While we cannot recommend Dr. von Mach as a perfectly wise guide to such as wish to know Greek art, we are glad to express our belief that the university prints, accompanied by this handbook, will be of great service to the student.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 417. My. 25, ‘05. 1220w.
=McIvor, Allan, pseud.= Overlord. $1.50. W. Ritchie.
This story of the peons of Canada is a frankly unhistorical tale of the freeing of Canada from England in a great war in which the “Habitans” and serfs under the leadership of the overlord defeat “Pitchener,” the English general. The overlord, aside from his feudal ownership along the upper St. Lawrence, owns several United States railroads, consequently the president, tho ostensibly neutral, aids him, and in return receives Canada as a gift from his grateful hands when England is finally defeated.
“A history which is frankly fictitious. The most surprising thing in the book is the bitterness toward England and the English.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 44. Ja. 5, ‘05. 370w.
“In this curiously heaped up and involved lot of fiction are a vast number of tags and ends of stories and undigested ideas, the winnowing of which would be hopeless here. It’s a very long, queer book.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 470w. (Outline of plot).
=Mackaye, Harold Steele.= Winged helmet. †$1.50. Page.
France in the sixteenth century when Charles of Bourbon was rebelling against Francis I. is the setting. The story is one of fighting and adventure, of a nobleman who ill-uses his lady, and of my lady’s maid who saves her mistress from Saracen slavery by luring a villain into quicksand, and does other daring things. In the end the lord and lady are reconciled and the maid reaps as her reward the title of Lady of Ravelle.
“An improbable tale, convincing as we read.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 158. Jl. 20, ‘05. 100w.
“A light romance—rather under average weight in fact. Nor in spite of the wings on the helmet and the out-of-the-common incidents mentioned, does it make up in spirit what it lacks in baser qualities. It cannot carry even its own feathery self as a gallant should.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 149. Mr. 11, ‘05. 370w.
“A spirited romance of the Weymanesque school. Characters and scenes are well imagined and the story ingeniously contrived; but the flow is unpleasantly interrupted by repeated transitions from the usual narrative form to diary extracts and the like.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 762. Mr. 25, ‘05. 50w.
=Pub. Opin.= 38: 943. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
=Mackaye, Percy Wallace.= Fenris, the wolf: a tragedy. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“Fenris the wolf, son of Odin, troubles the serenity of Heaven with his barkings of defiance, and with his wolfish desires for Freyja, the betrothed of his brother Baldur. In the prologue, Odin ordains that Fenris, Baldur, Freyja and himself shall leave their heavenly estate and become four mortals. The action of the play consists in the conversion of Fenris to charity and human love.... The action passes before rune-stones in the northern forest at daybreak or twilight, in prison chambers and by deep forest pools.”—Nation.
+ =Critic.= 47: 288. S. ‘05. 100w.
“There is much beauty in Mr. Mackaye’s work, beauty of poetry and thought; he is strong, tender and imaginative, and the more we study his play, the more we wish either that it were not a play at all or that we might see it acted.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 283. S. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“As a whole the play fails a little of tragic impressiveness precisely because of a certain forcing of the note. It is, nevertheless, a poetic venture, of a sincerity and magnitude for which there can be nothing but admiration.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 18. Jl. 6, ‘05. 460w.
=McKean, Thomas.= Vortex. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The serenity of two lives—Anna of the Titian red hair, and her artist husband Paul—is jeopardized by a scheming Jesuit who plots to get possession of the wife’s fortune for the Church. He uses as a foil Elena, an actress, who serves as a model for Paul’s masterpiece Spring. In the swirl of complications Father Lamian’s real relations to Elena come to light, showing a misspent youth and a deeply designing nature.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 270w.
“The story is weak and poorly written, annoyingly commonplace in expression, and quite unnecessary.”
— — =Outlook.= 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 30w.
=McKechnie, William Sharp.= Magna carta: a commentary on the great charter of King John. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“Each chapter of ‘Magna carta’ is given in its original Latin, with an English version by Dr. McKechnie following it in smaller type, after which comes the commentary. The book includes a select bibliography and a list of the authorities consulted by the author, a general index, and an index to statutes. In appendices are documents relative to or illustrative of King John’s Magna carta.”—N. Y. Times.
“One feels compelled to state that although for want of something better this work will undoubtedly be consulted, nevertheless taken as a whole it cannot be regarded as of more than mediocre value.” Henry Lewis Cannon.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 137. O. ‘05. 920w.
“A scholarly and authoritative work based on the results of the latest critical research, devoid of rhetorical flourish and meeting the requirements of the lawyer and the historian. The book is well planned. We are grateful to our author for clearing up the problems of Magna Carta in so scholarly and definitive a fashion.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 635. S. 14, ‘05. 830w.
* “Very readable book.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1157. N. 16, ‘05. 30w.
“He has given us what will long remain as the standard work on Magna Carta, a book remarkable alike for its solid learning, its fertility in suggestion, and its characteristic note of moderation and sweet reasonableness.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 152. My. 12, ‘05. 1810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 270w.
“The first exhaustive commentator on ‘Magna carta’ since the days of Richard Thompson.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 193. My. 20, ‘05. 280w.
“We should be disposed to dismiss his book as nothing more than a text-book of unusual thoroughness were it not for one saving merit. Mr. McKechnie is not afraid of discussing an abstract and complicated question.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 250. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1170w.
“His conclusions, like his style, are not always inspired, or beyond criticism or revision.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 642. Ap. 29, ‘05. 2120w.
=McKibben, Julia Baldwin.= Miriam. $1.25. Meth. bk.
Miriam, whose birth is hid in mystery, is brought up as a slave in an old-fashioned southern household. She is freed by her master, and educated in the north where no none knows of the taint in her blood. After bravely renouncing love and happiness, confessing to her lover and friends the truth, she learns that by birth she is an honored daughter in the home where she was once a slave.
* “A story of the old South of no literary value, and as foreign to fact as many others that have been written on similar lines.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w.
=Mackie, Pauline Bradford.= Girl and the kaiser. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The presence of the kaiser upon the pages of this simple little love story lends a certain dignity and makes the plot possible, but has no real historical significance. Wilhelmina, who has been brought up in America, comes to Germany to visit her uncle, the Admiral von Uhland, and his pleasure loving French wife. Here she meets two young naval officers, and upon the occasion of the kaiser’s visit to her uncle she learns of the strict paternalism practiced in the German army and navy, and that a rich wife is essential to a poor officer. This is where the denouement comes in. In the end the kaiser, who has taken a fancy to her, in his favorite role of destiny, points out to her the sensible road where she finds both wealth and love.
“Is a charmingly bright and unconventional story. Though by no means a great story, is one of the most clever little romances of the season.”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 250w.
=McKinley, Albert Edward.= Suffrage franchise in the thirteen English colonies in America. $2.50. Ginn.
The purpose of the author has been “to present the dynamic or developmental aspect of the subject, rather than the analytic; he has not been content with a mere summary of the suffrage qualifications in the several colonies, but has endeavored to trace the growth of the colonial ideals and practices respecting the elective franchise.”
“Mr. McKinley’s volume is full of interest. Taken in connection with Mr. Bishop’s ‘History of elections in the colonies,’ the whole ground seems thoroughly covered.” F. W. S.
+ + + =Am. J. Soc.= 11: 134. Jl. ‘05. 230w.
“In general there is shown the most conservative scholarship. The immense amount of material consulted, the care in the verification of its vast number of mere facts, and the patience shown in the organization of the mass of data, calls forth the highest praise for the author’s scholarship.” John L. Conger.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 608. My. ‘05. 530w.
=McKinley, Charles E.= Educational evangelism: the religious discipline for youth. *$1.25. Pilgrim press.
Clergymen, and all who are interested in the religious training of boys and girls from 16 to 20 will find much of value in this essay, which discusses the religious needs of youth and gives suggestions as to how the church may meet them.
“It is one of the most sensible and thoughtful presentations of what the spiritual discipline of youth should be, both through the pulpit and in the school, that has recently appeared. He shows himself an original thinker, a man of insight, and a true lover of youth.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 110w.
“Though a small book, this is full of judicious thought well worthy of thoughtful consideration.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 759. Mr. 25, ‘05. 150w.
=McKinley, William.= Tariff. $1.75. Putnam.
“The essay was written in 1896, when Mr. McKinley was governor of Ohio, and while the information he had gained as chairman of the ways and means committee was still fresh in mind. Naturally the legislative and political aspects of the tariff are the ones to which most attention is given. The author recognizes his difficulty of dealing with the subject in a non-partisan way, but states, ‘It has been my honest endeavor to do justice to all directly participating in the events narrated. It has been my aim to present as completely as possible a review of proposed tariff legislation since the close of the Civil war to the present time, as well as a sketch of the measures actually enacted, to the end that the student may observe the trend and purpose of the leading political parties in respect to this economic question.’”—Ann. Am. Acad.
“The essay was intended for general readers and its merits fully justify its being put into book form.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 133. Ja. ‘05. 240w.
=McLain, John Scudder.= Alaska and the Klondike. **$2. McClure.
The author, who is editor of the Minneapolis Journal, accompanied a special sub-committee of the Senate committee on territories to Alaska in the summer of 1903 and in a series of articles for his paper discussed the resources and possibilities of the country. These articles now appear in book form revised, and including statistical information on commercial and industrial operations down to 1904.
“His book is conservatively written, is interesting and seems to be believable.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 592. S. ‘05. 420w.
“It is the most complete and also the most trustworthy book of its class that has appeared up to the present time.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 70w.
“The book should serve for a long time ... in the capacity of an authoritative reference work.” Wallace Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 385. Je. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“A clear picture of Alaska—its history, population, occupations, resources, and problems.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 428. S. 23, ‘05. 660w.
“Few of his statements can be designated as erroneous, and these are mostly of slight importance.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 19. Jl. 6, ‘05. 890w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 172. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“An exceedingly interesting book of travel, which ... justifies the claims of the publishers that it has practically the accuracy and trustworthiness of a public document.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 1810w.
“Not only an entertaining record of travel, but a compact statement of the conditions, resources, and needs of the territory. Unquestionably the ground is not fully covered, but the amount of information derivable from the work is such that for all general purposes the treatment is adequate.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 92. My. 6, ‘05. 210w.
“The present treatise is the best that has so far appeared. It is broadly comprehensive.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 595. O. ‘05. 260w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
=McMahon, Anna Benneson=, ed. See =Shelley, Percy Bysshe.=
=McManus, Thomas J. Luke.= Boy and the outlaw. $1.50. Grafton press.
The author, whose boyhood was spent in Harper’s Ferry, where he witnessed the famous raid of John Brown, has woven his recollections of that time into a story in which a Virginia boy discovers a wounded mulatto, one of Brown’s men, the day after the raid, and attempts to conceal the outlaw from the authorities. The resulting adventures comprise the story, in which a Virginia squire, a doctor, a young lawyer and others figure.
“A story that moves swiftly and directly and contains a good deal of pleasant humor and excellent character-drawing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 117. Ja. ‘05. 70w.
=Macphail, Andrew.= Essays in Puritanism. **$1.50. Houghton.
Taking Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Margaret Fuller, Walt Whitman and John Wesley as the subjects of his essays, the author has written a series of sketches which give a better picture of the individual types than of Puritanism.
“An uncommonly readable and instructive book.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 43. Jl. 16, ‘05. 440w.
+ — =Ind.= 59: 818. O. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“He mingles with his sharp and sometimes acrid treatment of Puritanism a good deal of sound and discriminating comment on its more attractive side, but on both sides of his view of Puritanism he leaves an impression that he has not very thoroughly worked the matter out.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 280. Ap. 29. ‘05. 650w.
“These essays are bright, readable, entertaining, but they are also sometimes smart and a trifle flippant in style, and, in their dealing with philosophical thought, superficial. His view, no less than his style, is journalistic.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1013. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.
“His book has many attractions; one of them is the pertinence with which he makes reflections, called forth in the first instance by the past, apply to the present. And he has a way of discerning the real greatness of the men whom he describes.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 294. F. 25, ‘05. 230w.
=Macquoid, Mrs. Katharine Sarah Gadsden.= Pictures in Umbria. *$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a volume of purely ‘impressions de voyage’ by an intelligent observing woman inspired by the history and landscape of Umbria.... The author has a distinct liking for showing the life of the people by describing their physical characteristics and relating their conversation, and by throwing these things in contrast with the characteristics of the ancient race.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 823. Ag. 12, ‘05. 530w.
* “This one is neither too historic nor too artistic to suit many tastes.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 479. N. ‘05. 60w.
“The text is so trite and prosaic that it gives the impression of being written merely for the sake of furnishing a setting for the fifty original illustrations.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 117. S. 1, ‘05. 160w.
* “Written in a bright and picturesque style, and full of interesting anecdotes.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 183. D. ‘05. 110w.
“When all has been said, the illustrations are by far the most interesting features of the book. It is worth publishing for them alone.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 129. Ag. 10, ‘05. 380w.
“The book will form an entertaining companion for the fireside tourist, for it is intimately written in unadorned, direct narrative style.” Walter Littlefield.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 130w.
=Macquoid, Percy.= History of English furniture. 20 pts. v. I, pts. 1-3. per pt. *$2.50. Putnam.
“The history has been divided into four parts: ‘The age of oak,’ comprising furniture from 1500 to 1660; ‘The age of walnut,’ from 1660 to 1720, showing the varied influences of the Restoration and Dutch designers; ‘The age of mahogany,’ lasting from 1720 to 1770, in which the introduction from France of fresh ideas in design clearly marked another change, and ‘The composite age,’ from 1770 to 1820, inspired by an affectation of all things classical, combined with an unbalanced taste.... There are nearly 1000 illustrations in the entire work, and sixty of these are in the exact colors of the originals.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + — =Ath.= 1905. 1: 631. My. 20. 730w. (Review of v. 1.)
“This book will be valuable, not only to lovers of old furniture, but to art students interested in wood-carving.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 155. Jl. 20, ‘05. 560w. (Reviews v. 1., pt. 1.)
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: 273. My. ‘05. 230w. (Reviews vol. I., pts. 1-2.)
+ =Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 240w. (Reviews vol. I., pt. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 350w. (Reviews vol. I, pts. 1-3.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 541. Ag. 19, ‘05. 490w. (Review of v. 1. pts. 4 and 5; v. 2, pt. 6.)
* “It is unnecessary to add anything to what we have already said concerning the importance and elegance of this work, which is absolutely unsurpassed in its field.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 2, pts. 6 and 7.)
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 110w. (Review of v. 2.)
* =McSpadden, Joseph Walker.= Stories from Wagner. (Children’s favorite classics.) 60c; (Astor lib.) 60c; (Waldorf lib.) 75c; (Handy volume classics.) limp lea. 75c; pocket ed. 35c. Crowell.
“The stories considered in this little volume are; Four from the ‘Ring’ dramas, also ‘Parsifal, the pure,’ ‘Lohengrin, the swan knight,’ ‘Tannhauser, the knight of song,’ ‘The master singers,’ ‘Rienzi, the last of the tribunes,’ ‘The flying Dutchman,’ and ‘Tristan and Isolde.’”—R. of Rs.
* “For the non-musical as legend and fairytale, for the young music lover who has still in anticipation the Wagner music drama, it is a capital little book.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 407. N. 16, ‘05. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 751. D. ‘05. 60w.
* =McVickar, Henry Whitney.= Reptiles. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The story is based upon a wager made by three men that in five years after marriage they will feel the same devotion to their wives that they felt before marriage. Two, a wealthy young Englishman and an American clergyman, were for the affirmative, one, a clever young cynic, for the negative. When the bets were called, the clergyman was prepared to pay the full amount like a man of honor, the young Englishman to compromise with a third, but the cynic refused to take the money, because he, too, lost, since he still loved his wife.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The story is told in a rather impressionistic style, which frequently leaves something to be desired.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 794. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
* “A thoroughly disagreeable novel.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 40w.
=Macy, Jesse.= Party organization and machinery. *$1.25. Century.
Party organization is described in its relation to presidential, congressional, and senatorial leadership. Professor Macy traces party development pathologically rather than historically from its real beginning in Jefferson’s administration, as a township or county organization, up through state, congressional, and national committees. The development of the committees is given, Tammany, and the differing party management in various states are fully treated.
“Students of political and constitutional history will find it of great service ... because it treats the problems wisely and brings home to the reader forcibly the significance of party organization as a fact.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 948. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
“Prof. Macy deals with his subjects sympathetically. The mode of presentation is concrete.” F. I. Herriott.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 606. My. ‘05. 650w.
Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.
=Atlan.= 95: 552. Ap. ‘05. 300w.
“This study in political pathology will be a welcome addition to the books available to the student of political science. There seems to be nothing omitted from this little hand-book that any student of party methods or management could possibly wish to know.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 660w.
“Survey is very broad. As a rule, Professor Macy is direct and explicit but he is not always consistent, and we note occasional slips liable to lead to misconstruction of his position. Whatever there is of error, however, is not sufficient to vitiate the value of his work.”
+ — =Outlook.= 78: 1043. D. 24, ‘04. 290w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 30: 761. D. ‘04. 230w.
=Madison, James.= Writings; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. v. 5, 1787-1790. subs. *$5. Putnam.
“Mr. Hunt’s third and fourth volumes, consisting chiefly of Madison’s notes of debates in the Federal convention, brought us down to the date of its adjournment in September, 1787. The present volume carries us but two years and a half farther.... Of a hundred and eight letters printed by Mr. Hunt there are only a dozen that have not been printed before.... Six came from the Madison papers, two from the collections of the New York library, two from the Virginia historical society, one from a North Carolina source, and one, a letter of some interest written to Philip Mazzei, was once the property of Guizot and is now in a private collection in Berlin.... Madison’s speeches in the Virginia convention occupy nearly a fourth of the volume. His speeches in the first two sessions of the First congress, running to nearly as great extent, are also given.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Mr. Hunt’s annotations are apposite and intelligent.” J. Franklin Jameson.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 691. Ap. ‘05. 330w.
“It is a disagreeable task to criticise a volume which shows so much care and intelligent arrangement, but there is evidence of some hasty proofreading, or perhaps of slovenly copying. The notes are full and judicious.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 271. Ap. 6. ‘05. 560w.
* =Maeterlinck, Maurice.= Old-fashioned flowers, and other out-of-door studies. **$1.20. Dodd.
“Half a dozen studies of flowers in colors by Mr. Charles B. Falls, and attractive type, paper, and binding lend to the small volume an air of distinction which matches the unusual quality of M. Maeterlinck’s style. Flowers, like animals, have distinct personalities for M. Maeterlinck, but his frequent personifications are aesthetically justified by the real feeling that they express.”—Dial.
* “A delightful ‘little volume of nature sketches.’”
+ =Dial.= 39: 448. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “A little volume of his most subtle and characteristic essays.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 836. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
* “Characterized by the singular beauty of Maeterlinck’s style, the tinge of mysticism, and the interpretation of thought by sentiment which have given all his books subtle individuality.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 442. D. 16, ‘05. 40w.
=Magnay, Sir William, 2d baronet.= Prince of lovers. †$1.50. Little.
A story founded upon the secret chronicles of two states lying in the midst of the Hungarian forest. The time is after the close of the Thirty years’ war, when some two hundred of these independent states existed in Germany. The princess of one state is about to be betrothed, against her will, to the heir of the other, when the heir disappears. Disguised as a young lieutenant, he comes to her father’s court and wins her love. After nearly losing his life and his throne in a series of daring adventures, he elopes with the princess and comes to his own. A crafty chancellor, a soldier of fortune, and an unscrupulous villain add to the plot.
“His story is commonplace, and the telling always undistinguished.”
— =Acad.= 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Ath. 1905,= 1: 746. Je. 17. 110w.
“Is full of exciting incident and of well-marked characters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 330w.
“The romance is not a bad specimen of its type.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 714. My. 6, ‘05. 250w.
“To label this novel as old-fashioned, is to pay a compliment, not cast a slur. It is to say that the author has taken pains and time, that his creation is shapely, and dignified.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 119. Je. ‘05. 390w.
=Magnus, Hugo.= Superstition in medicine; tr. from the German by Julius L. Salinger. **$1. Funk.
A history of the erroneous ideas and fanciful beliefs that have prevailed in the world with regard to sickness and its cure from the days of ancient Rome to the present time.
=Mahaffy, John Pentland.= Progress of Hellenism in Alexander’s empire. $1. Univ. of Chicago press.
In a series of lectures, which represent the compendium of a long and brilliant development of human nature, the author addresses not only the general reader who wishes to know something of the expansion of Greek ideas toward the East, but the specialist who needs general views of the whole into a corner of which his particular field fits. He treats Xenophon as the precursor of Hellenism, and brings the influences down to the part they perform in modern Christianity.
“There is little in the book (beyond novelty of presentation) which cannot be found elsewhere. It is less excusable that it treats too exclusively of problems of the author’s own raising, too little of those current at the present time.” W. S. Ferguson.
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 189. O. ‘05. 310w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 420. Je. 16, ‘05. 480w.
“Such occasional indistinctness does not, however, detract appreciably from the general luminousness of the picture, from the inspiriting nerve and freshness which we learnt long ago to associate with Dr. Mahaffy’s utterances and which show no signs of failing.” E. B.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 822. O. ‘05. 320w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 159. My. 19, ‘05. 560w.
“Dr. Mahaffy has made a mistake in attempting to deal in so small a compass with so vast a question as the spread of Hellenism.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 344. S. 9, ‘05. 1420w.
“They are readable and discursive, but they would not convey a very clear impression of the period which they profess to describe to any save finished scholars.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 353. S. 9, ‘05. 1400w.
=Mahan, Alfred Thayer.= Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812. 2v. **$7. Little.
The authoritative and widely directed study of Captain Mahan on the influence of sea power upon history has resulted in a series of most important volumes. In turning his attention to this phase of the War of 1812, he has brought to light some entirely new material from government and private documents, has treated with special clearness the subject of the imprisonment of American seamen, and has given emphasis to the records of American privateers. The author traces the train of causes of the war from 1651, in order to make clear Great Britain’s course. The work is strongly bound and illustrated.
“No one who reads his latest work will hesitate to say that it is in all respects worthy to rank on the same level as its predecessors. The vein is as rich as ever, and it is worked with no abatement of skill and no diminution of profitable output. He is occasionally prolix, and the construction of his sentences is sometimes clumsy and involved.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 366. N. 3, ‘05. 2760w.
* “His discussion of the conditions which caused the war is the best we know of anywhere.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 777. N. 18, ‘05. 1160w.
* “But whatever its defects, ‘Sea power in its relations to the war of 1812’ must be rated, like its distinguished predecessors, a substantial contribution to the history of naval warfare and a suggestive exposition of the force of the doctrine of ‘preparedness.’”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 831. D. 2, ‘05. 940w.
=Mahler, Arthur.= Paintings of the Louvre; Italian and Spanish, in collaboration with Carlos Blacker and W: A. Slater. **$2. Doubleday.
“A handbook of the Italian and Spanish sections of the celebrated art gallery, and includes also a history of the art of Italy from the early workers in the Byzantine manner to the Renaissance, while the part devoted to the Spanish schools is given up mainly to Velasquez and Murillo. The illustrations show examples of the work of these artists as well as of Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and others.”—N. Y. Times.
“The illustrations are numerous, but too much reduced and too indistinctly printed to do more than remind one how inadequately they represent the originals.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1111. O. 21, ‘05. 340w.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 475. N. ‘05. 70w.
* “The criticism is of the old school, Vasari’s pleasing tales being repeated with an apparent obliviousness of the incredulity into which they have fallen through the researches of such moderns as Berensen, Fry, and others.”
+ — =Dial.= 39: 391. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.
“The book, as embodying the latest results of research, is to be relied on. The criticism is unoriginal and often extremely commonplace. It is well arranged, the English is smooth.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 278. O. 5, ‘05. 190w.
“The only charge to be brought against his text is the overstudious avoidance of anything like emphasis. The final chapter on Spanish paintings shares the merits of the others—clearness, simplicity, intelligence.” L. L.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 637. S. 30, ‘05. 1030w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 511. O. ‘05. 60w.
* “The historical, biographical, and technical constituents of this commentary are quite readable.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 795. N. 18, ‘05. 490w.
* =Maitland, John Alexander Fuller.= Joseph Joachim. *$1. Lane.
This volume in the “Living masters of music” series “is only some sixty pages in length and is divided into five sections dealing with Joachim’s career, violin playing, teaching, influence, compositions, each of which is necessarily summarized in the briefest manner.... Having quickly disposed of the facts of his career, there is space found for interesting personal reflections upon the playing and influence of Joachim. His character, moral and artistic, which is one, is well summed up.”—Acad.
* “Is a good specimen of condensed biography.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 110w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 304. O. 12, ‘05. 450w.
=Maitland, J. A. Fuller=, ed. See =Grove, George.=
=Major, Charles.= Yolanda, maid of Burgundy. * †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The time is when Edward IV. reigned in England, and Louis XI. sat upon the French throne. Then Charles of Burgundy, styled Charles the bad, was feared as the richest and most powerful prince in the country, and it was Mary, his beautiful and gentle daughter, who was the pawn that the wicked prince would have gladly sacrificed for his own ambitious aims.... It is a story bristling with intrigue and adventure, with meetings after dark, and love and scorn and villainy and fine ladies traveling unattended, and mystery galore, and always through it all runs the theme of love—the love of a brave man for a beautiful girl.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 220w.
* “A readable story, though not a high literary achievement.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 711. N. 25, ‘05. 110w.
* “Is a very good story of its kind.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 796. D. 16, ‘05. 210w.
* “Charles Major once more shines through brilliant incapacity when he attempts ‘Yolande.’”
— =R. of Rs.= 32: 761. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Malcolm, Napier.= Five years in a Persian town. *$3. Dutton.
“This is an interesting description of Yezd, ‘in the very center of Central Persia,’ where the author was for some time engaged in missionary work, and enjoyed unusual opportunities of mixing with all sorts and conditions of people. The experience of such a stay as he says apologetically, is not a traveler’s experience, but what of that?... the sympathetic picture of Yezd scenery, life, and manners which he has drawn with minute and vivid accuracy is as memorable as it is rare.”—Ath.
“The real value of ‘Five years in a Persian town’ lies in the sympathetic study of native character and modes of thought. In this respect Mr. Malcolm will not easily be surpassed, combining, as he does, keen insight and a curious subtlety of imagination with an incisive style relieved by delightful touches of dry humor.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 69. Jl. 15. 1680w.
“A keen, but quiet and unobtrusive, sense of the humorous aspects of things runs thru the author’s pictures of Yezdi life and enhances the attractiveness of the volume.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 190w.
“The book fulfils its purpose excellently, and makes a fair guess at some Persian characteristics.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 286. O. 5, ‘05. 650w.
“Mr. Malcolm has given us a very interesting, amusing and instructive account of Persian life.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 530. O. 21, ‘05. 320w.
* =Mallock, William Hurrell.= Reconstruction of religious belief. **$1.75. Harper.
“Mr. Mallock attempts to aid ‘the thoughtful man of to-day,’ either ‘in justifying his old belief by supplying it with new foundations, or in building up some new belief which may possibly take its place.’ Mr. Mallock demonstrates that, when science has said its last word, it inevitably leaves us in some region outside itself in which ‘an intellectual solution of the contradiction between scientific and religious principles must be found.’”—R. of Rs.
* “Science can never find a complete explanation of phenomena. The attempt to show that it can, and to dispense with philosophy, is the cardinal error of Mr. Mallock’s book; it finally leads him to pure scepticism, from which he jumps into blind credulity. Much of the book is of considerable value. The whole of the third part, in which the case for scientific agnosticism is criticised, is admirable, particularly the demonstration that chance has no real existence.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 1171. N. 11, ‘05. 2190w.
* “It is a good book to be read at a single sitting, like a good novel. To say that it is interesting, well written, and appropriate to the times, is to offer it the merest justice; but to describe it as a complete success is perhaps going too far. Perhaps it would be more successful if it were less complete.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 440. D. 16, ‘05. 1470w.
* “The soundest part of Mr. Mallock will be found in the considerations which he develops in his earlier chapters rather than in the more pretentious ‘solution’ which he proclaims in his concluding book.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 355. O. 27, ‘05. 1920w.
* “Mr. Mallock offers nothing really new in his argument, but it derives a novel coloring from its relations to recent scientific views, and piquancy from his wit and humor. The book is brightly written and the thought is throughout interesting. The proof-reading leaves something to be desired.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 451. N. 30, ‘05. 1020w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 752. D. ‘05. 100w.
* “He is doing good service not only to the cause of religious apology, but to society, and above all, to truth, which has suffered long and much from the timidity of science to push its conclusions to logical issue.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 5. O. 14, ‘05. 1860w.
=Mann, Henry.= Adam Clarke. $1. Popular book co.
“A narrative of the experiences of a family of British emigrants to the United States in cotton mill, iron foundry, coal mine, and other fields of labor.” The author, whose work as a newspaper man has brought him in contact with the phases of life treated in this story, tells of the abuses at the immigrant office, and scores the protectionists, the settlement workers, the Pittsburg militia, and the Pennsylvania railroad. The many hardships suffered by all of their class are vividly detailed as the history of the Clarke family progresses.
“The ferocity of the painted picture is such that nobody is likely to take it as a literal transcription of conditions—but nobody who knows the city or human nature will doubt the existence of a substantial basis for some of the author’s fury. To be sure he is a partisan, and as is the way of partisans, his eye is single and fixed. Well-informed and well-balanced people may read it with profit. It might be less good for incipient anarchists.”
(Outline of plan).
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 52. Ja. 28, ‘05. 1180w.
“As a novel the work calls for no consideration, but it is deserving of attention as an obviously sincere attempt to present the grievances and sufferings of the poor in a manner that will quicken sympathy to action. Unfortunately, ... the writer, through ignoring the reverse side of the shield and through undoubted exaggeration, tends to repel rather than attract the thoughtful reader, and to inflame rather than broaden the thoughtless.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 651. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.
=Mann, Hugh.= Bound and Free: two dramas. *50c. Badger, R: G.
An argument for sex-emancipation, for doing away with marriage, the family, the home as they exist to-day. The author calls the dramas which illustrate his point Bound, and Free, he makes the chief characters in each declare that they can love many men, or women, as the case may be, at the same time and in the same way, but can love but one supremely, their soulmate. Most conventional people will consider this book immoral.
* =Mannix, Mary Ella.= Children of Cupa. 45c. Benziger.
A pathetic story of the eviction of the Cupa Indians from their home in California on the Warner ranch, told in connection with the experiences of a family of campers who spent six weeks of the last summer the Indians remained on their ancestral lands at the Hot Springs on the old reservation, and learned to know the people and to sympathize with them, and to understand their life and the part the missions played in it.
=Manzoni, Alessandro.= Sacred hymns [Gl’ inni sacri] and the Napoleonic ode [Il cinque maggio] of Alexander Manzoni; tr. by Joel Foote Bingham. *$3. Oxford.
The translator has aimed “to give the exact sense of the author.” The Italian texts are also given in the appendix and there is a portrait of Manzoni, a biographical preface, as well as historical introductions and critical notes.
“Dr. Bingham’s translations are painstaking, and, if one knows the original, one can recognize that he has given an equivalent for many of Manzoni’s thoughts; but the metrical charm and the poetry have evaporated. Whoever desires a complete outfit of notes and critical opinions on Manzoni’s hymns and ode will find them in this book.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 211. Mr. 16, ‘05. 390w.
“We have nothing with this rendering.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 676. My. 20, ‘05. 140w.
* =Mar, Alice=, il. Japanese child life, with new stories and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. †$1.50. Stokes.
The strange faces, quaint costumes, odd games, amusements and occupations of the little Japanese children are prettily set forth in picture and verse. There are eight full-page illustrations in color.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 894. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “The stories and little poems have grace, quaintness, and charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 1039. D. 23, ‘05. 90w.
=Marble, Annie Russell.= Books in their seasons. **30c. Crowell.
Uniform with the “What is worth while series,” this little volume pleads for not “the gentle reader,” but “the sane reader,” suggests some authors and books, and asks the reader in his own further choosing to follow nature’s moods and seasons, to read books fitting to the time, and in harmony with the outer world.
=Marchmont, Arthur William.= Courier of fortune. †$1.50. Stokes.
“The story is placed in a town known as Morvaix, ruled badly, viciously, by one Duke de Rochelle. Reports of the misrule reach the ears of the Duke de Bourbon, the suzerain lord, and he sends his son Gerard secretly to investigate the charges. This Gerard does, and a remarkable chain of circumstances so adjusts matters that the young man falls in love, and is loved in return by the very girl that de Rochelle means to make his own. Here is fire and tinder in plenty.”—Pub. Opin.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 90w.
* =Marden, Orison Swett.= Choosing a career. **$1. Bobbs.
The founder and editor of “Success” has prepared a volume which will undoubtedly prove valuable to all those who need practical aid in selecting a life-work. In part one, he discusses the considerations which are related to the choice of a life-calling, such as parental influence, environment, health, money making, and the temperamental and mental qualities which different lines of work demand. Part second. Suggestions as to possible careers, contains sound advice and helpful suggestions by men and women whose choice has brought them success in their various callings. Twenty-eight different trades and professions are treated in as many chapters. The book is illustrated with the photographs of some of those who have chosen wisely.
* =Marden, Orison Swett.= Making of a man. †$1.25. Lothrop.
“The cheerful philosophy that Dr. Marden has preached in previous books he insists upon in this which consists of a series of talks especially intended for young men. Examples of the world’s heroes are cited, the world’s leaders of thought are liberally quoted, anecdotes are given; and thus, by precept, illustration, and in symposium of opinions, Dr. Marden reinforces his own teachings in regard to perseverance, ‘self-honor,’ courage, self control, money, success, ‘Moral daring,’ and kindred subjects.”—Outlook.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.
* “He preaches self-control, determination, rectitude, industry, thoroughness, courage—and who would gainsay him?”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 400w.
* “Dr. Marden’s style is full of inspiration and suggestion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 639. N. ‘05. 60w.
=Margoliouth, David Samuel.= Mohammed, the rise of Islam. **$1.35. Putnam.
This fortieth volume in the “Heroes of the nations” series, “gives first a survey of the conditions of Arabia and Arab life at the time when Mohammed first appeared.... The biography of the prophet consists largely in following the military, political, and religious campaigns with which he spread the religion of Islam, and which Mr. Margoliouth traces in detail.... His genius, according to this biographer, was equal to the emergencies, but not too great for them.” (N. Y. Times.)
+ =Dial.= 39: 312. N. 16, ‘05. 310w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 660. O. 7, ‘05. 510w.
“Apart from the dragoon-like treatment of the question of the prophet’s sincerity and of all phases of his religious development, and despite defects of verbosity and discursiveness, the book is of no uncertain value.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 230w.
* =Marks, G. Croyden.= Hydraulic power engineering. *$3.50. Van Nostrand.
In this second edition the author has enlarged the work for the purpose of including some examples of new developments connected with hydraulic pressing and lifting machinery, and introducing illustrations of typical valves and machines. The text has also been fully revised.
=Marriott, Charles.= Genevra. $1.50. Appleton.
This is more than a character study, it is also a soul study of a girl of twenty-nine whose young days have been spent quietly on a Cumberland farm. Hopelessly out of touch with the simple folk around her, she turns to poetry as an emotional outlet and has written a number of magazine poems and is publishing a book of verses when the story opens. The young artist, Leonard Morris, wakes all the slumbering fires of her nature, she is gloriously happy and her poems sing of it; when she finds that he fails to understand her, her publisher is the first to detect it in the new note of her work. It is a single hearted story of loyalty to love and to work. There are some good minor characters, her commonplace and ungenial family are drawn with pathetic humor.
“Her life-story is a tapestry of severe design and sombre hue.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“It is not an exceptionally original theme, but it is not that it easily lends itself to dramatic situations, strong character contrasts, and the expression of vivid emotions—all valuable adjuncts in novel making—and the author of Genevra has used every one of them to good advantage, besides giving ample evidence of his being the possessor of the same subtle force and style that rendered his previous book notable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7. ‘05 1070w.
=Marshall, Archibald.= House of Merrilees. †$1.50. Turner.
A mystery surrounds the house of Merrilees. Its master dies suddenly, his body disappears and with it his fortune which he had converted into jewels. The mistress of Merrilees had died abroad some years before, and it was given out that their infant son died with her. A young cousin takes possession of both the estates and the mystery and discovers the real heir in the person of his best friend. There is also a love interest.
“Mr. Marshall has conceived a sufficiently ingenious plot for his novel of mystery; but he does not succeed in gripping the attention and holding it from the start to the gasp of satisfied excitement at the finish.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 198. Mr. 4, ‘05. 200w.
“This is an excellent story of a mystery so well and so artistically concealed that the final disclosure gives rise to a feeling of pleasure, not only at the nature of the surprise, but also at its inevitableness.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 555. My. 6, 180w.
* “It all makes exciting reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 861. D. 2, ‘05. 260w.
* “Is surprisingly good reading.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 90w.
“Mr. Marshall is quite entertaining, his imagination is lively, and possibly he may regard the novel as a huge joke.”
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 745. Je. 3, ‘05. 260w.
“The book will while away an unoccupied hour very pleasantly.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 718. My. 13, ‘05. 160w.
=Marshall, Beatrice.= Queen’s knight errant. †$1.50. Dutton.
A romance of the days of Raleigh and the virgin queen. A little girl is washed ashore in Devon on the land of a recluse alchemist named Vidal. A neighboring esquire takes charge of the child and brings her up with his own sons. The romance of this waif who turns out to be Vidal’s sister, and one of these sons is woven about Raleigh’s love affair with Mrs. Throgmorton, their secret marriage, and the anger of the queen.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 660w.
“Too high-flown in style to suit the present taste.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 452. F. 18, ‘05. 20w.
* =Marsland, Frank.= Occupations in life; a fund of practical information and business advice for boys and young men. $1.50. C. E. Fitchett, 57 Warren st. N. Y.
The author who is a mercantile reporter with the Bradstreet company, draws easily upon his fund of professional experience in offering business counsel to young men. The advice emphasizes an early selection of life work, a careful use of spare hours for promoting interests along special lines of work, and a better understanding of conditions in the business world and the world of occupations.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 586. S. 9, ‘05. 300w.
=Martin, Edward Sanford.= Courtship of a careful man. †$1.25. Harper.
“A collection of short stories of New York life, having a peculiar quality of their own. Quite modern in effect, they have a background of good breeding distinctly American. The conversations among different members of the families represented are clever, and exhibit a complete and happy knowledge of the world.”—Outlook.
“In this latest book we find Mr. Martin in rather lighter vein than is his wont, but as always, excellent company.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 545. Jl. ‘05. 240w.
* “Clever and disappointing book.” Frances Duncan.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 454. N. ‘05. 260w.
“Few writers of fiction can be reproached with too light a touch, but we should say that Mr. Martin is one of them.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 378. My. 11, ‘05. 470w.
“The entire collection of stories is delightfully light, breezy, and easy and attractive reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 272. Ap. 22, ‘05. 310w.
“Both the author’s style and his characters may be fitly described as alluring.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 1058. Ap. 29, ‘05. 60w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 100w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Martin, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert.= Homer Martin; a reminiscence. *$1.50. W: Macbeth, N. Y.
This beautiful memorial gives us but a slight glimpse into the life of the author’s artist husband, whose landscapes, into which he has put his best self, she feels are better able to interpret him than she. It is illustrated by half tone reproductions of Martin’s better known paintings.
“In the distinction of its perfect English, its reserve where there might have been enthusiasm, and its sincerity where there was room for flattery, it is a very model for biographers.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 550. Ja. ‘05. 150w.
“This little sketch was well worth doing. While very modestly done, Martin’s claims to greatness are fully presented.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 70w.
=Martin, Helen Reimensnyder.= Sabina, a story of the Amish. $1.25. Century.
Sabina, a pretty Amish maid with wistful eyes, is haunted by a face of strange ugliness which appears from time to time as a warning of impending disaster to herself or family. A young artist comes to her home as a summer boarder, and Sabina falls in love with him. Everything points towards tragedy, but the face and her infatuation for the artist are alike banished by a fever, and she returns to her people and her Amish lover. The real charm of the story lies in the Pennsylvania-German dialect and the local color.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 644. S. 30, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 120w.
“Although the characters of Sabina and Tillie are similar, although there is practically the same atmosphere and environment, the second book does not equal the first.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 130w.
=Martin, Hiram=, ed. See =Smet, Father Pierre-Jean de.= Life, letters and travels of.
=Martindell, Mrs. Charlotte S.= Diary of a bride. **$1. Crowell.
“If I must choose between dusting unread books and reading undusted ones, may the wise fates help me always to choose the latter. I hate dusty, grimy books and shall make a desperate effort both to read and dust.” So says this bride, and she is as good as her word to establish in her home making and her heart-keeping an admirable poise.
=Martineau, James.= Tides of the Spirit. *$1. Am. Unitar.
“Selections from the writings of James Martineau. The book is edited by the Rev. Alfred Lazenby, who contributes a sympathetic introduction—an essay on ‘the master who first opened mine eyes to the spiritual realities of life and taught me to see the divine within the human.’”—Dial.
=Dial.= 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 60w.
=Marvin, Frederic Rowland.= Companionship of books, and other papers. **$1.50. Putnam.
The author has collected in this volume many papers upon as many subjects all of which show the touch of one who has lived a scholar’s life. The title essay calls the reader’s attention to the author’s chosen friends in the world of books, then follows an essay on autograph treasures, and one called Modern builders of air-castles, which treats of the Brook farm experiment. Papers upon matters historical, literary, and religious, follow. The varied subjects and the brevity of their treatment make the book one which may be profitably picked up in odd leisure moments.
* “It is a frightful hodge podge of subjects, but one may find a number of things of more or less curious interest in the heterogeneous mass.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 917. D. 23, ‘05. 300w.
* Mary the queen. 50c. Benziger.
A story of the virgin Mary for little people.
=Maskell, Alfred.= Ivories. $6.75. Putnam.
A notable addition to the “Connoisseur’s library.” The author traces his subject to every land in every period. He discusses the achievement of the earliest dynasties of Assyria and Egypt, shows the high place of the Byzantine work, devotes a chapter to Japanese and Chinese ivory sculpture, treats some of the technical phases of carving, and concludes with a chapter on the nineteenth century and present day products of the art. There are numerous beautiful illustrations in photogravure and half tone.
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 247. Ag. 19. 1540w.
“The first compendious account in any language of the progress of ivory carving thru-out the world’s history. A high standard of excellence is set in this book; it cannot fail to take rank at once as the authoritative work upon the subject of which it treats.” Frederick W. Goodkin.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 239. O. 16, ‘05. 1750w.
“The present volume will be found satisfactory and very comprehensive.”
+ + =Ind.= 59:696. S. 21, ‘05. 240w.
“If he could have trusted our capacity and interest a little further he would have given us both less and more, and his book might perhaps have gained something in coherence, completeness, and proportion.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 284. S. 8, ‘05. 1120w.
“While our praise, therefore, cannot be very hearty, this still remains the largest book of the sort, with the most complete display of pictures.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 171. Ag. 24, ‘05. 1070w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 500w.
“In all his chapters, however, along with much technical information, Mr. Maskell enlightens the reader with keen and original observations on the significance of the various epochs.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 170w.
“One of the excellent features of this learned book is the manner in which the information has been presented. Clearness of thought and arrangement is to be found throughout.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 18. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1490w.
=Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley.= Truants. $1.50. Harper.
An exciting story of London life in which the truants are a young married couple living with the rich and domineering father of the husband. To escape this tyranny the young man leaves his wife and sets forth to carve a new fortune for her and for himself. He at last joins the Foreign legion in Africa and wins distinction, but is called home by the news that his foolish young wife has fallen into the clutches of an adventurer. The real interest lies in the character of Pamela Mardale and her lover who protect and assist the truants and thereby find their own happiness.
“There is a good deal of variety about this romance, but it is not a very organic piece of work. The best part of it is that devoted to the Foreign legion, of which the author seems to have made a special study. It is fairly new ground for the average reader.” W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“He writes in a prosaic manner of the most romantic passions.”
— =Ind.= 59: 216. Jl. 27, ‘05. 80w.
“‘The truants’ is a departure from two established canons of art: that the heroine must be interesting, and the motif adequate. The author’s style has distinction, color and restraint; his product is fiction to be read, not fiction manufactured to be sold.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 254. Ja. ‘05. 420w.
“Sure to awaken the reader’s interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 120w.
=Mason, Arthur James.= Historic martyrs of the primitive church. *$3.20. Longmans.
The author “has aimed to present nothing which may not be relied upon as historically true.... He has endeavored, he writes, to present the stories of the acts of the martyrs during the first three centuries of Christianity in a plain and straightforward manner, with only such explanations and illustrations as the ordinary reader may require; he has omitted lengthy discussions, unnecessary dates, questions of genuineness, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 230w.
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 938. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
“The narratives are set forth in graphic form, and Dr. Mason has accomplished a most interesting task.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 653. My. 27. 460w.
“Mr. Mason writes of them with tender sympathy, devout veneration, and scholarly competence.”
+ + + =Cath. World.= 81: 397. Je. ‘05. 210w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 224. Ap. 8, ‘05. 160w.
“Has brought together in a sifted and trustworthy form the chief records of the passion of the primitive martyrs.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 99: 810. Je. 17, ‘05. 1270w.
“A most valuable contribution to the history of Christian life.”
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 198. Ag. 5, ‘05. 340w.
=Mason, Daniel Gregory.= Beethoven and his forerunners. **$2. Macmillan.
Dr. Mason, who sent out his “From Grieg to Brahms” two years ago, has now rendered the musical world another distinct service. “It has been said of Dr. Daniel Gregory Mason that he often ‘expresses what one has felt, but never quite formulated.’” The book “opens with a chapter on ‘The periods of musical history,’ touches on ‘Palestrina and the music of mysticism’ and ‘The principles of pure music,’ followed by biographical and critical studies of Hadyn, Mozart, and Beethoven.” (Dial.)
“Displays that firm grasp of the subject which makes it interesting as well as valuable reading for the student. There is a chord of sincerity in all that Dr. Mason writes; and while he is never pedantic, his work shows remarkable insight into the origin and development of musical works.” Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 237. Ap. 1, ‘05. 390w.
“The book itself is altogether a better book—a more creditable piece of writing than its predecessor.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 41. Jl. 6, ‘05. 410w.
“The author has a happy gift of turning a phrase so that it is easily remembered, and a still more valuable gift of a right judgment, which makes his phrases helpful and not misleading.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 195. Je. 16, ‘05. 300w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 380. My. 11, ‘05. 170w.
“It is doubtful if this book of Mr. Mason’s will prove as valuable or find as wide acceptance as his earlier one. Mr. Mason ... gives much that is valuable in the contemporary discussion of music.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 530w.
“One of the few writers of to-day who can see the philosophy of musical development in its relation to the general progress of the world, and can, moreover, write about this in an entertaining way. The touch is that of one who not only knows but feels his theme in its greatness.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 252. F. ‘05. 110w.
* =Masson, Thomas Lansing (Tom Masson).= Corner in women. **$1.60. Moffat.
“A collection of more or less humorous sketches furnished to periodicals, and especially to ‘Life,’ in recent times, and well supplied with short stories, fables, epigrams, squibs, jokes, and humorous verse, with a Gibson girl cover and many other pictures.”—Outlook.
* + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 20w.
* “All the ‘follies’ are clever, and there is plenty of variety in both subject and manner of treatment.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 80w.
* + + =Ind.= 59: 1383. D. 14, ‘05. 90w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 765. N. 11, ‘05. 160w.
* “Like all other books of its kind, this volume suffers from what might be called unstable humorous equilibrium, but it contains many really funny things.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
* =Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney.= In peril of change: essays written in time of tranquility. *$1.50. Huebsch.
“Mr. Masterman ... attempts to describe the tendencies of English civilization, to estimate the nature of its dominant ideals, and to point out recent changes which have occurred in these, the nature of the foundation upon which they rest, and the likelihood of catastrophes in the future. That he is also filled with a passionate sense of the injustice of the system which both creates and evangelizes the slums, and with a hatred for the idols of the marketplace, is evident on every page and lends pathos to much of his writing.”—Ath.
* “A good deal of it is mere journalism. With the modern journalist’s eye for effect and instinct for phrasing, Mr. Masterman has also a good deal of his love of sweeping statements. It is just this lack of balance, this emotionalism, which we think injures the writer’s style. His rhetoric is too monotonous, and his pathos too recurrent, to be effective. In our opinion, then, the book is clever, interesting, and useful, but hardly great. At the same time we welcome its appearance.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 38. Jl. 8. 1430w.
* “He has studied the life of the poor closely, and has pleaded their cause with passionate conviction. He has moreover all the gifts of a very persuasive writer, and his style, always easy and attractive, rises sometimes to heights of a real eloquence. Mr. Masterman’s defects are the defects of his qualities.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 376. S. 16, ‘05. 1480w.
* “Nobility of temper; catholicity of personal; literary, and religious, though hardly of political appreciation; and frequently a striking felicity of phrase are among the notes of Mr. Masterman’s essays.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 355. S. 9, ‘05. 1260w.
=Matarazzo, Francisco.= Chronicles of the city of Perugia, 1492-1503, tr. by Edward S. Morgan. *$1.25. Dutton.
“Matarazzo tells the story of Perugia under the rule of the Baglioni, that clan of full-limbed men and lovely women, whose delicate complexions and golden locks filled and dazzled him with such a sense of their more than human beauty that he almost forgot their crimes in his fervid, well-nigh amorous, worship of their splendor and their strength. Such is the chronicle which Mr. Morgan has ventured to do into English; and it is hardly too much to say that the English is as good as the Italian.”—Nation.
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 634. Je. 17, ‘05. 1250w.
* “Mr. Morgan’s translation, as a piece of English, is most admirably done; the archaic flavor he has imparted to the story has a distinct charm. There is one complaint to be lodged against him, however: we think he should have put his readers in a position where they would be better able to judge of Matarazzo’s veracity.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 82: 412. D. ‘05. 530w.
“A fascinating picture of the moral, social and religious conditions of society in a typical Italian city during the Renaissance.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 816. O. 5, ‘05. 190w.
“We have never seen a translation which has more completely caught the spirit of the original.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 522. Je. 29, ‘05. 140w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 270w.
“A careful English translation.” Walter Littlefield.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 170w.
“In these chronicles, Matarazzo ... displays a clear, picturesque style. He is sometimes garrulous, it is true, but seldom prolix.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 642. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
=Mather, Persis.= Counsels of a worldly godmother. †$1.50. Houghton.
“We cannot imagine a goddaughter who would not turn a grateful ear to the tactful ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother,’ by Mrs. Mather. The witty and diplomatic woman of the world, who here attempts to direct a debutante to the right path to genuine social success, is not in any undesirable sense of the word ‘worldly.’ She stands for the best that Society with a large S is capable of producing, and she points to the way of attaining that best and of escaping the pitfalls of sham, snobbery, notoriety, and ostentation. While her counsels are addressed primarily to those who are striving to get on in society, they can be followed with advantage by all aspirants to sweet and gracious womanhood.”—Pub. Opin.
“No less wise than witty are these ‘Counsels of a worldly godmother.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 550w.
“While she never appeals to a particularly high motive or sets up a lofty ideal, the common sense and the sparkle of her curtain lectures may attract notice when more serious writing would fail.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 428. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 636. N. 11, ‘05. 180w.
=Mathew, Frank.= Ireland; painted by Francis Walker; described by Frank Mathew. *$6. Macmillan.
Subjective views of the country taken by an artist in colors and another in words. The book “is no more than a quiet introduction to Ireland” without statistics and without wrangling. “We find a sympathy with the poor, a love of wild nature, an appreciation of modest perfections, an absence of all ill-temper or rancour which are rare and refreshing in a book about Ireland.” (Ath.)
“On the whole the geography is accurate, and the painter’s sketches are in their outline so also. We cannot lay down this interesting book without the feeling that it is in many senses over-coloured.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 216. Ag. 12. 840w.
“Ireland is a sadder, grayer country than Mr. Mathew has described or Mr. Walker painted.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 201. S. 7, ‘05. 460w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 360w.
=R. of Rs.= 32: 125. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“He is not always accurate. But he knows his history, and he makes it interesting to others.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 813. Je. 17, ‘05. 280w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Billy Duane. †$1.50. Dodd.
A story of politics and society in New York, which concerns an estranged couple. Billy Duane, the mayor, turns his Madison avenue house into political headquarters in his wife’s absence. Mrs. Billy objects to rough politicians and cigar stumps, but is fond of roulette at any cost and is discovered at the game when a dress-making establishment is raided by the police. The affairs of the Duanes and numerous friends of their type form the plot, which works out happily, ending with a reconciliation.
“With the flashes of inspiration characteristic of this writer. The book is written on a more pretentious scale than its author’s ability in character-drawing seems to warrant.”
+ — =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 30w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 173. Mr. 18, ‘05. 570w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 393. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w.
“A style that is a composite of ‘The duchess’ and certain more modern and strenuous American writers.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 70w.
“It lacks neither rapid movement nor interesting central theme, but is written in an irritating staccato style ... which makes it hard to read.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 70w.
=Mathews, Frances Aymar.= Marquise’s millions. **$1. Funk.
An American girl in France, direct heir to her aunts’ immense estate, learns that it has been the life long intention of these relatives to bequeath their millions to “The Nineteenth Louis” when he should return to France and to his rights. She contrives with the aid of an ambitious mother and a scheming lover to have the latter impersonate the long absent Louis and win the fortune. Finally, her honor asserts itself, she discloses the intrigue, and starts out to battle with life alone.
* “This is a romantic little tale of devotion to the Bourbon cause, light, readable and effective rather than well written.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1033. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.
=Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“This is a sprightly tale.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 342. My. 27, ‘05. 490w.
“An original situation which the author has devised and cleverly made much of.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 141. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
“A really delightful story.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w.
=Mathews, Shailer.= Messianic hope in the New Testament. *$2.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“The messianic hope of the Pharisees is formulated as a criterion for historical interpretation. With its aid a study is made of the messianic ideas of Jesus, the New Testament doctrine of judgment and justification through faith; the messiahship of Jesus as the basis of the apostolic theodicy; the messianic age and its forerunner the gift of the spirit; the resurrection of the body; the coming of the kingdom; the ‘consummation.’ As a conclusion there is shown the distinction between the essential and the formal elements of historical Christianity made possible by such an investigation.”—Pub.’s note.
* “A very able treatment of this theme, conservative in spirit, yet thoro in research.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“Is the best monograph on the subject with which we are acquainted.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 982. Ag. 19, ‘05. 620w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 220. Ag. 12, ‘05. 360w.
=Mathot, R. E.= Gas engines and producer gas plants. tr. from the French by Waldemar B. Kaempffert. $2.50. Henley.
A practical treatise setting forth the principles of gas engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas engines and producer gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines.
“The original is very clearly written and the translator has succeeded in preserving this clearness.” Storm Bull.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 527. My. 10, ‘05. 280w.
=Matthews, (James) Brander=, ed. American familiar verse. See Wampum library of American literature. v. 3.
=Matthews, (James) Brander.= Recreations of an anthologist. **$1. Dodd.
Eleven brief papers, by-products of the author’s work upon his four anthologies. There are essays upon “Unwritten books.” “Seed corn for stories,” “American epigrams,” “Carols of cookery,” “Recipes in rhyme,” “The uncollected poems of H. C. Bunner,” and “The strangest feat in modern magic.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 96. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
“A volume of pleasant literary essays.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 54. Ja. 16, ‘05. 70w.
“Entertaining little volume.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 197. Mr. 9, ‘05. 600w.
=Matthews, Mary Anderson.= Love vs. law. $1.50. Broadway pub.
The interestingly sketched career of a young Wellesley graduate who returns to her Missouri home and determines to study law. This fair Portia is admitted to the bar, conducts many a successful case, becomes an advocate of equal rights, but withal loses not for a moment her girlish winsomeness nor womanly courage. Eventually she becomes wholly reconciled to the part that Cupid plays in staying the progress of her profession.
=Mauclair, Camille.= Auguste Rodin; the man, his ideas, his work. $4. Dutton.
In this account of the sculptor and his work, the sculptor speaks for himself and his admiring biographer speaks for him; between them we are given a view of the methods of Rodin, and his valuable views upon the education of other sculptors.
“Though M. Mauclair is rather the advocate than the critic, his book, if only for the many quotations from the master’s conversations, is of genuine interest.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 407. Ap. 1. 1360w.
“A precise though rather over-eulogistic statement of Rodin’s personality and work, and a study of the artist’s psychology and its application to his personal ideas upon the technical principles of sculpture and his methods of work.”
+ + — =Critic.= 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 160w.
“M. Mauclair is ... a violent partisan.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 439. Je. 1, ‘05. 590w.
“M. Camille Mauclair does not leave us with the feeling that we know the man Rodin.” Charles de Kay.
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 257. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1630w.
“From its pages a just appreciation of the artist can be gained.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 227. Ag. 12, ‘05. 1340w.
=Maude, Aylmer.= The Doukhobors. $1.50. Funk.
Mr. Maude, who made the arrangements with the Canadian government which led to the migration of the Doukhobors to Canada, and who thru his keen sympathy with the work of Tolstoi was early drawn into a close study of this peculiar people, is especially fitted to write such a work. It contains a history of the Doukhobors, and traces their connection in the past with the Lollards, Anabaptists, Quakers and other sects. It also gives a vivid account of their migration to Canada, and of the famous “pilgrimage” in 1902, which was finally checked by the Canadian government. The author finds in the waywardness of so strange a sect, in their lack of appreciation of the favor granted by the Canadians, a proof that Tolstoi, sincere and earnest and far-seeing as he is, is yet not infallible in point of judgment. Incidental to his account of “The Christian commune of universal brotherhood” Mr. Maude also takes a stand for individual ownership of property. The book, he says, is a public apology for his having helped, however unwillingly, to mislead the Canadian government as to the nature and religion of the people he has settled among them.
=Acad.= 68: 608. Je. 10, ‘05. 810w.
“To Mr. Elkinton’s book that of Mr. Maude may justly be looked upon as a pendant.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 103. Jl. 22. 1190w.
“The disconnectedness and lack of sequence in his chapters ... and the large amount of irrelevant matter make the book something of a conundrum to the reader until he reaches the final chapter.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 213. Jl. 27, ‘05. 460w.
“At last we have a work from which the student of sociological experiments and systems, as well as the ordinary laymen, can obtain a fair, clear, and sufficiently complete conception of the truly ‘peculiar’ Russian sectarians about whom so much that is prejudiced or erroneous has been written.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 212. Mr. 16, ‘05. 2180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 69. F. 4, ‘05. 1470w. (Abstract of book).
“Although not very well put together, is an extremely interesting study of ‘a peculiar people.’”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 401. F. 11, ‘05. 410w.
“His book is not so good as it should be from a deficiency in the need of perspective; or perhaps a readiness to use up old material.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 635. My. 13, ‘05. 700w.
=Spec.= 94: 519. Ap. 8, ‘05. 560w.
=Maule, Francis I.= Only letters. **$1. Jacobs.
“In the approaching season of the American exodus to Europe, this gay record of pleasant travel, written by an intelligent man to his brother, will prove a welcome addition to the books set aside to read on the steamship. From England, Russia, Egypt, and here and there between, the writer gathered impressions.”—Outlook.
“He is gifted with an extraordinary vocabulary, keen perceptions, and a vast treasury of real American humor, sometimes a trifle exasperating, but never by any chance dull.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 961. Ap. 15, ‘05. 80w.
=Maurer, Edward R.= Technical mechanics. $4. Wiley.
“The author shows close sympathy with the point of view of the beginner, and appreciation of the fact that at certain points the conventional treatment of fundamental principles fails to meet the need of the ordinary student. As features of Maurer’s book may be mentioned the emphasis everywhere given to the vector nature of the qualities dealt with, the parallel treatment of graphical and analytical methods in statics, the admirable chapter on work and energy, and the satisfactory treatment of the subject of units.”—Science.
“As a sound and practical text-book for the use of students of engineering Professor Maurer’s book possesses high merit. The exposition is nearly always concise. The soundness of the logic is rarely open to question.” L. M. Hoskins.
+ + + =Science=, n.s. 21: 302. F. 24, ‘05. 1300w.
=Maxwell, Donald.= Log of the Griffin: the story of a cruise from the Alps to the Thames. **$2.50. Lane.
The adventures on land and sea of a strange craft built in the Alps, and carried by wagon to Lake Zurich. She sailed the Rhine, and the East Scheldt, and arrived at the mouth of the Thames on board a steamer. The log is illustrated by a hundred or more sketches of the unique cruise.
“An agreeable novelty in the well-worn ways of European travel.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 286. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
“Without being in any way a serious work, the narrative commends itself as well-told, veracious, original; while in its artistic aspect the book is beautiful.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 38: 89. F. 1, ‘05. 200w.
“The account of the evolution of the queer craft and of its adventures cannot fail to amuse, if it does not instruct.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 130w.
“Capital reading.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 78. Ja. 26, ‘05. 340w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 16. Ja. 7, ‘05. 370w. (Condensed narrative.)
=Maxwell, Joseph.= Metapsychical phenomena, tr. by J. I. Finch. $3.50. Putnam.
The method and observation of “physical” manifestations are given chiefly, such as “table-turning,” “rapping,” and “levitation.” There is a preface by Charles Richet, and also an introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge. An additional chapter gives a complex case by Professor Richet, and an account of some recently observed phenomena by the translator.
“One leaves Dr. Maxwell’s book with a perfect conviction of his honesty, some hesitation about his logic, and entire certainty that his records will have no weight with sceptics; but then he does not seem to expect to produce any effect on them.” Andrew Lang.
+ — =Acad.= 68: 898. S. 2, ‘05. 1210w.
— =Ath.= 1905, 1: 693. Je. 3. 1570w.
“It should be said that, in spite of its size, Dr. Maxwell’s book is eminently readable, although the translator has admitted a good many disfiguring gallicisms.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 285. O. 5, ‘05. 780w.
“Modern in its research. It has a well-balanced scientific skill.” Pendennis.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 429. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1200w.
“Interesting as is his book, it cannot well be deemed a weighty addition to the literature on this fascinating but elusive subject.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 694. Jl. 15, ‘05. 210w.
“The effect produced on the mind is mainly cumulative, but by reason of the manifest sincerity of the author and his competency and experience as an observer, its importance as a contribution towards the study of this neglected Cinderella among sciences is unquestionably very high.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 249. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1220w.
— =Spec.= 95: 496. O. 7, ‘05. 2230w.
=Maxwell, W. B.= Ragged messenger. **$1.20. Putnam.
“A sensational novel, in which the hero, a minister of the church, for the sake of his conviction, gives up his parish and preaches on the street and in the slums of London. A large fortune comes to him, all of which he gives to the poor. He is unrewarded for his sacrifices. The heroine, a beautiful woman, is an adventuress”.—Bookm.
“The book is carefully written, both in matter of style and development of the plot. The idea of the story is original, and the book as a whole is unusually vigorous and impressive.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 189. F. ‘05. 80w.
“The reader gets the impression that he is listening to a man talking to himself.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 786. Ap. 6, ‘05. 300w.
“As a study in modern phases this story must be considered something more than remarkable. The phases themselves are more than remarkable, the motive almost fantastic in spite of the realistic modern London setting. The yeast of fate brews and works in the whole, and makes of these elements a climax so melodramatic as to seem almost inspired. But it is melodrama pathologically inevitable. One may read the books and ponder on the meaning of faith, science, and common sense, or one may think chiefly of the story—one of humanity probed pretty deep—one somewhat daringly planned, but one which shows strength and a seeing eye.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 70. F. 4, ‘05. 520w.
“A powerful story.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
=Maxwell, W. B.= Vivien. †$1.50. Appleton.
“The story is told entirely from the point of view of the heroine.... The hero of the book is a cheerfully profligate earl (the villain being gloomily profligate), who is awakened to the seriousness of life when the heroine repels his advances, and he succeeds to a dukedom.... At the end of five hundred and fifty closely printed pages the duke repents of his sin and marries the heroine, who is discovered to possess ‘the golden current, the divine fire,’ which can apparently only be derived from ancestors whose names are in the peerage.”—Spec.
“Mr. Maxwell has other admirable qualities, notably a keen instinct for character, a sense of humour, and many craftsmanlike devices for rendering that humour effective.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 856. Ag. 19, ‘05. 890w.
“The first half of the story is better than the last, for in the last we approach very close to sentimental melodrama. It rings feminine.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 267. Ag. 26. 640w.
“In general, Mr. Maxwell seems to miss the finer point of characterization. For all that, there are passages in his book, even in the fairy tale part of it, which stir the feelings. He has humour; he is master of his words, and he can retain his reader’s attention through a very long and unevenly handled story.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 262. Ag. 18, ‘05. 340w.
“Another story almost as extraordinary and possibly even more intense in its holding power [than ‘The ragged messenger.’]” H. I. Brock.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 760. N. 11, ‘05. 1160w.
“A novel of more than usual interest and strength.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 684. N. 18, ‘05. 90w.
“It is the product, not of a philosopher, but of a clever reporter, an emotional wordy piece of work owing its success to cheap sentiment, a fine journalistic style, highly coloured and verbose, effective characterisation, and detailed and no doubt accurate accounts of life.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 100: 378. S. 16, ‘05. 410w.
“The book is fluently written, and judged by its own standard, is clever.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 323. S. 2, ‘05. 330w.
=Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth (Chandler).= Mrs. Maybrick’s own story. **$1.20. Funk.
The author tells the story of her life from the time of her arrest for the murder of her husband, through the course of her trial, and the fifteen years imprisonment which terminated December, 1903. The recital is womanly and pathetic without a trace of bitterness. A legal digest of the case is appended.
“Such a tale cannot help being morbid, but in the main it rings true. To those who have an interest in prison life it will not fail to be of value, yet for the ordinary reader it would be a book worth while avoiding.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
=Nation.= 80: 32. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w.
+ + =New England Magazine,= n.s. 31: 622. Ja. ‘05. 5830w. (Condensed narrative of book.)
“There is no bitterness in the book, but it is a strong indictment of British justice, and points out the crying need for a British court of appeals in criminal cases.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 220w.
=Meeker, Royal.= History of shipping subsidies. *$1. Published for the American economic association by the Macmillan co.
Part one deals with shipping subsidies historically under the sub-divisions: Great Britain; France; Germany; Italy; Austro-Hungary; Japan; Other countries; and United States. Part two concerns the Theory of subsidies and is divided into: Theoretical arguments; Popular arguments for subsidy; Political arguments for subsidy; and Ethical considerations. There is also a bibliography and an index.
=Meigs, William Montgomery.= Life of Thomas H. Benton. **$2. Lippincott.
A life of a distinguished statesman of the middle period by one who has made a thoro study of his career. The biography contains accounts of the many historical events with which the great Missourian was connected, such as the admission of his state into the Union, and the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency. His service as United States senator, his love of the Union, and his personal influence upon the Democrats of his state are dwelt upon.
“A readable account of the Missourian’s career.”
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 947. Jl. ‘05. 20w.
“Meigs appeals to the student by a more judicial and critical attitude. There is hardly an overstatement or a serious error to be found.” W. H. Mace.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 176. O. ‘05. 650w.
“This must be reckoned the most complete and authoritative biography of Benton.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“The author has consulted most of the available authorities on Benton, and has gathered much material from hitherto unknown sources. The work is the best life of Benton yet produced.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 239. Ap. 1, ‘05. 600w.
“It is a highly praiseworthy study of the great Missourian, sincere, thorough and judicial.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 214. Jl. 27, ‘05. 170w.
“Lacking in dramatic arrangement and wanting in painstaking accuracy of statement.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“Mr. Meigs’s narrative is diffuse but vivacious, and abounds in anecdote and illustration. It gives an unusually clear and comprehensive survey of a signally useful and pure-minded man.”
+ + — =Lit. D.= 21: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 640w.
“There was distinctly room for a one-volume biography of Senator Benton. [Mr. Roosevelt’s biography in the American statesmen series] gives a picture of Benton superior to any which can be found in Mr. Meigs’s book. The greatest praise that we can award the latter is to say that it is the result of painstaking and laborious investigation and it will be of considerable value to students of history. The material, unfortunately, is put together with very little literary skill, and the style is certainly not such as to attract the general reading public. It is highly regrettable that Mr. Meigs cannot make us take the interest in the character of his picturesque subject which he tells he himself feels.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 67. F. 4, ‘05. 1080w.
“More ambitious in scope than successful in accomplishment. Altogether, we have read the work with distinct feelings of disappointment, the disappointment being heightened by the reflection that the author has undoubtedly grasped Benton’s historical importance, and that had he but bestowed on the execution of his task the care evident in gathering of materials, he would have given us a biography well worth while.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 400. F. 11, ‘05. 400w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 150w.
=Meili, Frederick.= International civil and commercial law as founded upon theory, legislation and practice, tr. by A. R. Kuhn. **$3. Macmillan.
“The author was a delegate from Switzerland to the Hague international conferences, and this very thorough discussion was at least in part suggested by those conferences. The book of course deals with international private law as distinguished from international public law, and is in the main concerned with the continental views of this branch of jurisprudence.” (Outlook). “Mr. Kuhn has not only translated the work, but has supplemented it with additions from American and English law. Very useful lists, annotations, and bibliographies complete the work.” (R. of Rs.)
“It is a convenient, if not very skilfully planned survey of the whole field. The information which it furnishes as to bibliography is not the least recommendation of the book. But the omissions are far from few.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 270. Ag. 25, ‘05. 340w.
“Its exactness of method and thoroughness of research evidently make it a work of lasting value to the jurist accustomed to deal with large legal topics in a scientific manner.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
“Professor Meili has written a very useful book for students of comparative politics, as well as for lawyers.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 351. S. 9, ‘05. 500w.
“A very handy and valuable legal work.”
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
=Mellor, J. W.= Crystallization of iron and steel: an introduction to the study of metallography. *$1.60. Longmans.
“It is certainly a convenience to possess such a book.... In six short and lucid chapters—originally lectures delivered in 1904 to the engineering students of the Staffordshire county technical classes of the Newcastle high school—we are taken from a well-put statement of what is known respecting the solidification and cooling of alloys in general to the consideration of the phenomena recognized in iron and steel in particular, and, lastly, to practical directions for the due preparations of specimens for microscopic examination.”—Ath.
“It must be regarded as an ‘ad interim’ report only. Looking at Dr. Mellor’s little volume in this light, we have nothing but praise to award it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 310. S. 2. 540w.
* “This second chapter is the only unsatisfactory one of the book. Confining himself to limited space, the writer has sacrificed conciseness to mere brevity. The two predominant features of the book as a whole are the great concentration of information into a small space, and the interesting manner in which it is presented, which latter never fails to attract. This clouding of the main issue by the introduction of data not absolutely necessary is one of the principal weaknesses of the book. When all has been said, this book is the best popular introduction to the study of metallography that we have.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 54: 528. N. 16, ‘05. 1690w.
“The presentation is without bias, and each theory and method is described and examined as clearly and fairly as the author’s evident lack of practical acquaintance with the subject as a whole will permit.” A. McWilliam.
— + =Nature.= 72: 532. S. 28, ‘05. 610w.
=Melville, Lewis.= Thackeray country. $2. Macmillan.
A volume in the “Pilgrimage series.” “Mr. Melville treats of those localities which are of primary interest to those who are acquainted with the life and writings of the great novelist. He deals with Thackeray’s London homes and the features and associations of their neighborhood; his homes in Paris, and other places on the European continent, and in America. Special attention is paid to those places that form a background of the scenes of Thackeray’s novels. Biographical information is also supplied connected with the novelist’s residences from his arrival in England from India at the age of six until his death in 1863. The volume contains fifty full-page illustrations mostly from original photographs by C. W. Barnes Ward.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The author has not tackled his task in the right spirit or performed it in the right way; all that he has given us is a rather disconnected short life of Thackeray. There are many distinct mistakes. A large portion of the book has not anything to do with its supposed subject. It is a poor production.”
— — =Acad.= 68: 84. Ja. 28, ‘05. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 105. F. 18, ‘05. 370w.
“He has written an interesting book, which will please the reader the more, the better he knows the author.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 223. F. 11, ‘05. 190w.
=Menpes, Dorothy.= Brittany. *$6. Macmillan.
“The latest of the ‘Menpes books’ is devoted to ‘Brittany.’ Mr. Mortimer Menpes has made a specialty of traveling with a water-color box and a literary daughter, and the results of these travels appear each year in time for the holiday trade.” (Nation.) There are some seventy-five illustrations, and they show different parts of Northern France—peasants, scenes in the markets, street scenes, etc.
“Her best descriptions, her brightest sketches, are spoilt for the reader by unnecessary blots of sloppiness.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 312. S. 2. 160w.
“Text and illustrations have a common facility and a common lack of seriousness which is welcome, or the reverse, according to one’s point of view.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 279. O. ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 501. Jl. 29, ‘05. 260w.
=Meredith, Katharine Mary Cheever (Johanna Staats).= Wing of love. †$1. McClure.
“A charming child in this book, and a nice young journalist chap, her staunch friend from the day she and her mother find their way to the top floor of the New York lodging house where he and two other bachelors have their abode. This friendship is quite disinterested, the mother receiving only courteous attentions from him, his heart being in another’s keeping—facts concerning which subsequently develop very prettily to connect them with his romance.”—Outlook.
“The chief fault in its development lies in the fact that, instead of making it a short story, she has padded her little tale until it has lost much of its charm.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380 Je. 10. ‘05. 310w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 144. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
=Merington, Marguerite.= Cranford: a play. $1.25. Fox.
A comedy in three acts made from Mrs. Gaskell’s well-known story of the same name. The full charm of the story is retained in the dramatization.
* “Written with Miss Merington’s usual sprightliness.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 40w.
“A not unskillful dramatization for amateur theatricals of Mrs. Gaskell’s ever fresh and delightful tale.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 333. O. 7, ‘05. 15w.
=Merriman, Charles Eustace.= Self-made man’s wife: her letters to her son: being the woman’s view of certain famous correspondence. †$1.50. Putnam.
“In her letters the mother advises her son on the treatment of his wife, on the retention of his ideals, on the writing of books and on the reading of them, on quarreling and making up, on the fallacy and folly of aphorisms, adages, and other epigrammatic usages, on economy in households, and a number of other living topics, and aptly illustrates her points by instances taken from her own domestic experiences or observations of the experiences of her neighbors.”—N. Y. Times.
“Upon the whole these letters are tedious and disappointing.”
— =Acad.= 68: 473. Ap. 29, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 591. My. 13. 300w.
“A cup of cambric tea is this book.”
— =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 90w.
“If they are not as entertaining as those of her husband it is only perhaps because the reader has already consumed two volumes of his epistolary lore and is perhaps a trifle satiated.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 300. My. 6, ‘05. 530w.
“The number of old jokes and the weary waste of platitudes in this book are positively depressing.”
— =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 50w.
“The letters have a masculine ring. They exhibit a terse expression, a worldly acumen, a sense of humor, and an anecdotal wealth, that strongly resemble the style of the self-made man.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 118. Je. ‘05. 440w.
=Merriman, Mansfield.= Mechanics of materials. $5. Wiley.
A tenth edition, re-written and enlarged, of this text-book which “deals with the elastic and, to a limited extent, with the plastic properties of materials of construction and the application of the laws of strength of materials to the simple machine parts and structures. The treatment is essentially theoretical.”—Nature.
* “The present book is in some respects an excellent treatise. The first point which strikes a reader is the great looseness of terminology. The author has an aggravating way of describing a thing at first very crudely and inaccurately, but without any reservations, giving a revised statement much later on and a further revision later still, and this in the case of quite simple matters.”
+ + — =Nature.= 73: 25. N. 9, ‘05. 1180w.
=Merriman, Mansfield, and Jacoby, Henry Sylvester.= Text-book on roof and bridges, pt. 1, Stresses in simple trusses. $2.50. Wiley.
“Those ... who are familiar with the first edition of this book, published in 1888, will hardly recognize the present volume as being a revision of the same book.... We now have the dead load stresses, the live load stresses and the stresses due to wind and other causes treated in separate chapters for the common forms of simple trusses. The fifth chapter takes up the consideration of long-span bridges.... Chapter VI. discusses portal bracing, sway and lateral bracing and plate girder design. Chapter VII. treats of deflections.... The final chapter takes up cranes, bents, towers, viaducts, and other miscellaneous structures. A notable feature of the new edition is the extensive use of illustrations, including half-tone views of notable truss bridges, folding plates and numerous text drawings.”—Engin. N.
=Engin. N.= 53: 184. F. 16, ‘05. 230w.
* =Mertins, Gustave F.= Storm signal. $1.50. Bobbs.
Two intertwined love stories provide the romantic interest in this story of the South and the negro. The conditions in the South after the Civil war are vividly presented, the good old negro type is well drawn, but the real story is that of the negro uprising, when black fiends, driven to desperation by the recital of their wrongs in their secret meetings, attack and are repulsed. There are strong dramatic scenes and characters which, tho unpleasing, are strikingly portrayed.
* =Merwin, Samuel.= Road builders. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“To make an achievement in railroad building dramatic and exciting and to hold the reader’s interest in suspense from beginning to end is a feat in fiction writing which few men would attempt.... The young engineer who with bulldog determination and ever-ready invention puts his engineering feat through on time, in the face of cunning enemies, natural obstacles, and stupid and criminal employees, is a type, but he is also a rousing good fellow.”—Outlook.
* “There is no lack of well contrived incident, and on the whole the book is true to life.”
+ + =Engin. N.= 54: 534. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
* “The tale is clear-cut, terse and thrilling. Altogether the book is an industrial romance bristling with human interest.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 150w.
* “More important than the adventures and incidents of the feat that is finally accomplished, is the evidence Mr. Merwin gives of his own growth in character delineation. Each man is different from every other, and all are real, whether good or bad.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 601. N. 4, ‘05. 260w.
=Metcalf, Maynard Mayo.= Outline of the theory of organic evolution. *$2.50. Macmillan.
A series of lectures given by Professor Metcalf before the Woman’s college of Baltimore, expanded and put in book form. It is not a technical biological book, but it is an introductory survey of the biological theory of evolution and is intended for the general reader. It gives well established facts in their general outlines, and deals with some of the most striking phenomena of anatomy.
“It is a treatise so clear, simple and fascinating withal, that the subject can not only be readily grasped by the most slow-thinking reader, but few who peruse the opening pages will be content to lay it aside. This book is precisely the work that general readers need. It is a volume that should be read by every young man and woman in America.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 335. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
“Presents in a clear and simple style the fundamental principles of organic evolution in a form very well adapted to the needs of the general reader and to those who wish an outline of the theory of Darwinism. Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is the wealth of clear and very well selected illustrations.”
+ + + =Bot. G.= 39: 301. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
“Two features of the book are especially praiseworthy: first, the clearness and distinctness with which essentials are presented; second, the wealth of illustration. It is safe to say that no previous popular treatise on evolution has been so completely and so well illustrated as this. The chief criticism to be made regarding the book as a whole is its failure to give any adequate account of the important results of many of the recent investigations in the field of evolution.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 92. F. 1, ‘05. 540w.
“The volume under consideration will find its own place, because it is far better than the least technical books on evolution previously published. It will form an excellent introduction to the classical books on evolution. The author has very successfully attempted to write in a non-technical and popular style. No other book in the same field is so lavishly illustrated. Without hesitation the reviewer recommends the book to those who want information about the theory in its non-technical bearings.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 323. F. 9, ‘05. 520w.
“This is one of the best popular accounts of the theory of evolution that have come under our notice. An excellent feature of the book is its wealth of pictorial illustration. A few points call for criticism.”
+ + — =Nature.= 71: 509. Mr. 30, ‘05. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 256. F. ‘05. 70w.
* =Metchnikoff, Elie.= Immunity in infective diseases; tr. from the French by Francis G. Binnie. *$5.25. Macmillan.
Metchnikoff’s theory “is familiar enough now to the reading public with its protective forces in the body; leucocytes ready to mass together to repulse the assault of germ organisms as well as their toxic products; but the work is not primarily on macrophages and microphages, but on the great question of immunity from infection. This extends through immunity of protozoans, metazoans (multicellular plants), and finally of animals—immunity either natural or acquired. The ramifications of the work extend over a vast area of experimentation and citation of contemporaneous work, but the immunity always is attributed, in one way or another, to the protective activity of the leucocytes. This makes the work a very agreeably unified one, and clearly drawn colored illustrations of the leucocytic activity do much to enhance the value of the treatise.”—Pub. Opin.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 54: 646. D. 14, ‘05. 600w.
* “The present book, however, justifies itself adequately from a purely practical point of view.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 600w.
* “While the work is primarily for scientific use, there is no reason why an intelligent layman should not acquire from its reading a very clear and comprehensive idea of immunity in its varied forms.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 603. N. 4, ‘05. 330w.
=Meyer, Rev. F: Brotherton.= Epistle to the Philippians; a devotional commentary. *$1. Union press.
The author has not attempted mere criticism, but has “endeavored honestly to ascertain the meaning of the epistle, and to beat out but pure and unalloyed gold.” Each chapter covers a few verses, the commentary is full and clear and the verses covered are noted in the margin of each page.
* =Meyer, Hugo Richard.= Government regulation of railway rates; a study of the experience of the United States, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“Professor Meyer, in his preface, declares that he ‘has become firmly convinced of the unwisdom of government regulation of railways or their rates’; and he has hurried into print with this book lest Congress ‘may be led to enact ill-considered laws granting dangerously enlarged powers to the Interstate commerce commission.’ Part I. of the book describes Prof. Meyer’s studies of the state-owned and operated railways in Europe and Australia.... In part II. Prof. Meyer takes up conditions in the United States.”—Engin. N.
* + — =Engin. N.= 54: 533. N. 16, ‘05. 520w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 936. D. 16, ‘05. 330w.
* “Apart from the matter of personal opinion on this subject, however, Professor Meyer’s book contains much valuable material, which is summarized in a way which cannot fail to interest all students of the railroad question, whatever may be their views as to the expediency of federal legislation.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 637. N. ‘05. 200w.
* =Meyrick, Rev. Frederick.= Memories of life at Oxford and experiences in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere. *$3.50. Dutton.
“The most noticeable feature of this book is in the sidelights it throws on the ‘Tractarian movement’ at Oxford, in 1833-41, as well as on the ‘Old Catholic reform movement’ on the continent, and incidentally on this history of the Church of England during the last fifty years or so.... Aside from this, the book contains a considerable fraction of entertaining matter connected with university social life at Oxford.”—Critic.
* “We recommend a revision of the index: for several names and incidents demanding mention the reviewer has been compelled to hunt laboriously through the pages of the book.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 741. Je. 17. 1920w.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 90w.
* “We cannot rate his book very high, even in the class to which it belongs, for it is neither very interesting nor very good-natured.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 225. Jl. 14, ‘05. 500w.
* “The real value of the book lies not so much in the impressions, the appreciations or depreciations, which are given of Newman and Pusey, of Keble and Gladstone, and other well-known and great figures, as in the incidental vignettes of persons of less note whose portraits are more seldom drawn.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 469. S. 30, ‘05. 1120w.
=Miall, Louis C.= House, garden and field. $2. Longmans.
This collection of short nature studies by Professor Miall of the University of Leeds covers a multitude of subjects and gives a wealth of useful and interesting information upon fresh air, the dog, the cat, birds, bookworms, flies, trees, and whatever chances to attract his attention at the moment. The book seems to open our eyes to an interested observation of the things around us.
“It is packed with scientific facts, with clear and practical suggestions for class room and study club, and with eye-opening and thought-stimulating questions. No arrangement or lack of arrangement can destroy the value of the good sense and clarity with which these and all the other subjects are treated.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 386. Je. 1, ‘05. 220w.
“There is no attempt to be consecutive, and he writes concerning whatever for the moment strikes his attention. The object in view is to teach teachers rather than pupils.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 37. Ja. 21, ‘05. 1360w. (Survey of contents.)
=Michael Angelo Buonarroti.= Sonnets; now first tr. into rhymed English by J. Addington Symonds. 2d ed. *$1.25. Scribner.
The second edition of J. A. Symonds’ translation of Buonarroti’s sonnets, with the Italian in alternating pages. The notes following the text explain the circumstances, as far as known, in which the sonnets were written, and make note of the various manuscript versions over which Buonarroti worked.
— =Nation.= 81: 103. Ag. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“Such as they are, [the translations] are ingenious word renderings, which, while not entirely devoid of fine lines, for the most part lack color and lightness of rhythm.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 199. Ap. 1, ‘05. 270w.
“The volume in which they are placed represents both dignity and taste.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 761. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Michael, Oscar Stewart.= Sunday-school in the development of the American church. *$1.50. Young ch.
“The ‘American church’ of the title is the church of which the author is a minister—the Protestant Episcopal.... The book will be of interest to persons engaged in Sunday-school outside as well as within the Episcopal church. It brings especially emphatic testimony to the value of Sunday-schools as propagators of churches.”—Outlook.
“He gives an adequate and interesting account of the Sunday-school work of a great church which has always espoused warmly the cause of Christian nurture.” William Byron Forbush.
+ =Bib. World.= 26: 394. N. ‘05. 140w.
=Outlook.= 79: 145. Ja. 14, ‘05. 200w.
=Michaelis Karin (Katharina Marie Bech Brondum=). Andrea, the tribulations of a child; tr. by John Nilsen Laurvik. $1. McClure.
The famous Danish author has written the story of a young girl whose father and mother are unhappily estranged. The little heroine devotes her life to bringing them together and her tribulations and soul struggles as revealed in her diary finally accomplish this end, when her parents read the pitiful little book together after her untimely death.
“The book has been rendered into ungrammatical American. This story, though quite short, contains proof that Karin Michaelis is an artist.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 128. F. 11, ‘05. 280w.
“The story is a classic.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 327. F. 9, ‘05. 450w.
=Michelson, Miriam.= Madigans. †$1.50. Century.
Six high-spirited, clever, mischievous youngsters, whose very names—among them Split, Sissy, Bep and Fom—suggest the hostile brevity that often characterizes the sisterly relations, riot in the foreground of this family stage, while a father deep in too-much-for-me perplexity, and an irresponsible aunt figure in the rear. Tho there are slights, digs and taunts, deep down in the heart of each is an untrained affection for the other, and staunch loyalty. It is a lively story for young readers, many of whom will discover a fellow feeling for some Madigan. Mr. Orson Lowell’s illustrations are happily in keeping with the author’s portrayal.
“Their escapades are brightly told and they are very human.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 93. Ja. ‘05. 30w.
“Miss Michelson’s humor has rare freshness and charm.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 120. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
* =Mifflin, Lloyd.= Collected sonnets of Lloyd Mifflin; revised by the author. *$2.60. Oxford.
Over 200 selections of verse are included in this volume which contains, in addition to work which has previously appeared in the author’s various books of poetry, several new sonnets which appear for the first time in this collection.
* “A little of Mr. Lodge’s sincerity of passion would have helped Mr. Mifflin’s book. Yet no recent collection of verse has been more instinct with poetic love of beauty or has shown more ability at communicating it in verse.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 390w.
* “In spite of inevitable lapses from the simplicity and strength of the best examples there is a remarkable uniformity of excellence in both the technical achievement and the dignity and interest of the phases of feeling expressed.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 863. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
* “Written on any conceivable subject, they rarely rise above the platitudinous, and at their best are sonorous without being in any way impressive.”
— =Spec.= 95: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.
=Mifflin, Lloyd.= Fleeing nymph and other verse. **$1. Small.
A group of about fifty poems whose themes include life, love and nature. “None of the shorter pieces in Mr. Mifflin’s volume is very notable. All have the grace that comes from the sparing, delicate use of words, many are picturesque and pleasing in conception; but there is a certain softness of tone in them that is not wholly a pleasant softness.” (Nation.)
+ — =Critic.= 47: 384. O. ‘05. 170w.
“There is much delicate art in these songs, and they are freighted with a rich burden of thought.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 67. Ag. 1. ‘05. 130w.
“Mr. Mifflin’s poetry is distinguished by its admirable technical qualities.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 458. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w.
“On occasions he is out in his scansion and in his grammar. But this is to show Mr. Mifflin at his worst. His best, though never quite free from the intrusion of the second-best word, shows a power of sympathetic description, usually sad, that leaves its mood behind it.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 224. Jl. 14, ‘05. 300w.
“If there is a lack of pith and fibre in Mr. Mifflin’s lyrics that makes against the permanence of the impression left by them, his narrative poetry ... is, after all, admirable.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6, ‘05. 360w.
“‘The fleeing nymph, and other poems,’ by Lloyd Mifflin, have the light and graceful touch characteristic of their author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 585. S. 9, ‘05. 210w.
=Mighels, Philip Verrill.= Ultimate passion: a novel. †$1.50. Harper.
An honest young politician with high ideals accepts the support of a corrupt political ring in his race for the presidency in order that he may learn their methods and thus combat them. Three women come into his life, the foolish daughter of the “boss”, an adventuress, and a real woman who arouses the “ultimate passion” which survives when his political campaign fails.
“If you want a good example of the book which overreaches itself by deliberate exaggeration, you will find it in ‘The ultimate passion.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
— =Bookm.= 21: 602. Ag. ‘05. 420w.
“Mr. Mighels has the meagrest equipment as a novelist, and his performance as a whole is so crude that it is scarcely worth while to consider its details.”
— =Critic.= 47: 285. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Has style (of a sort), an interesting framework, and characterizations of no mean order of merit. This is a very vigorous book, inspired by genuine passion, and making a skilful progress to its logical conclusion.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 39: 115. S. 1, ‘05. 240w.
“Mr. Mighels’s work seems to us faulty in conception as well as execution, and to serve no particular purpose.”
— =Ind.= 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 320. My. 13, ‘05. 150w.
“A hysterical novel of political corruption.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 542. Je. 24, ‘05. 6w.
“Is a masterpiece among political novels.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 180w.
=Miles, Eustace Hamilton.= Boy’s control of self expression. *$2. Dutton.
“The introductory chapters are written chiefly for those who have the care of boys.... These are followed by chapters on ‘Physical and external helps’ toward self-control, mental helps; and the book closes with some general remarks, the ‘opinion of a mother,’ a letter to a boy, ‘A defense of Latin—rightly taught,’ and ‘A theory about excessive blood pressure.’ The volume has illustrations and diagrams.”—N. Y. Times.
+ — =Nation.= 80: 436. Je. 1, ‘05. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 297. My. 6, ‘05. 230w.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 376. Je. 10, ‘05. 290w.
“There are valuable ideas and suggestions in this book on the training of boys, but the author attempts to cover so much ground, and does it in so haphazard a way, that it is almost impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 40w.
+ — =Spec.= 94: 788. My. 27, ‘05. 280w.
=Millar, A. H.= Mary, Queen of Scots. *$1. Scribner.
In establishing the reasons for difficulty in understanding Queen Mary’s character, the author says: “Any natural determination toward tolerance which Mary’s character may have originally possessed was warped and distorted by her early education; and her disposition, once gentle and confiding, may have been changed by her experience of the faithlessness of mankind into that form of stolid distrust which suspects the truest friend and questions the least interested motives.” His biography is based on this view of things. “Mr. Millar believes and most readers will believe, that the errors committed by Mary Stuart were more of the heart than of the head.” (Outlook.)
“Mr. Millar’s book is a careful presentation of facts, with a due regard for the bearing of the political questions of the time. It is, in truth, a well-written piece of history. He is not her partisan through thick and thin.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 633. S. 30, ‘05. 1140w.
“Well written volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Beauty of kindness. **30c. Crowell.
This volume in the “What is worth while series,” sets forth the beauty of kindness, “the small coin of love.” It is a plea for the unselfish service, for simple kindness in daily life and in little things.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= Inner life. *50c. Crowell.
In this new volume in the “Chiswick series,” Dr. Miller shows that if the heart be given to Christ, if the inner life be made beautiful, this beauty will show in the deeds of our outer life and the world for us will be re-created.
=Miller, Rev. James Russell.= When the song begins. **65c. Crowell.
Another of Dr. Miller’s devotional books. Its object is to help people in learning how to live more beautifully, more victoriously, more usefully. It contains twenty chapters upon, The mystery of suffering, The joy of the cross, Friendship with Christ, Courage to live nobly, Under the All-seeing Eye, and other similar subjects.
=Outlook.= 81: 580. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* =Miller, Olive Thorne, pseud. (Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller).= Kristy’s surprise party. †$1.25. Houghton.
“On her birthday Kristy’s uncles and aunts, and some adult friends besides, call in a body, and each in turn relates a story, which Kristy enjoys very much, and which other little girls may enjoy also.” (Outlook.) “In one is a stirring picture of a girl in the Chicago fire, another describes a western blizzard and a young girl’s rescue of a schoolmate. A good Indian story and sundry others of domestic adventure.” (Nation.) The volume is well illustrated by Ethel N. Farnsworth.
* =Ind.= 59: 1388. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “A group well written, full of interest, and suited to middle youth.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 140w.
* “The stories are clean, bright, and of considerable variety.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 629. N. 11, ‘05. 50w.
=Miller, Peyton Farrell.= Group of great lawyers of Columbia county, New York. Priv. ptd. De Vinne press.
Mr. Miller, a lawyer of Hudson, has filled a volume with “interesting reminiscences and gossipy personal sketches of such men as Martin Van Buren, Samuel J. Tilden, Robert Livingston, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, Edward Livingston, and others. It also contains a brief account of the Anti-rent war.” (Am. Hist. R.)
=Am. Hist. R.= 10: 722. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
“An entertaining series of personal sketches. Members of the bar of New York state will find Mr. Miller’s pages crowded with interesting reminiscences of the great lawyers of the past.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 249. F. ‘05. 110w.
=Mills, Edmund James.= Secret of Petrarch. *$3. Dutton.
“The volume is the work of a literary scholar of analytic type who has turned his lenses upon certain disputed points in the lives of the lovers and has brought forward various proofs to attest his own theories.” (Dial.) “A series of prose studies supplemented by some translations and some original verse interpretative of the life and genius of Petrarch. The prose consists of small but rather discursive chapters touching various points in connection with Laura, her identity, her birthplace, her character, and incidents in her relations with Petrarch.” (Outlook.)
“The reader can hardly accept all the author’s conclusions.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 239. Ap. 1, ‘05. 340w.
“To one acquainted with ... ‘My secret’ ... Mr. Mills’s book is a sad disappointment. We suspect that the critical discussions were only designed to introduce the drama.”
+ — — =Nation.= 80: 180. Mr. 2, ‘05. 460w.
“Has quite unconsciously given false values to internal evidence. He found in Petrarch’s verse what he wished to find there, and where twist, quibble, and distortion fail him he sets down his theory as a self-evident truth. Candor forces us to praise Mr. Mills’ ingeniousness rather than his scholarship. We can freely applaud his poetry, however, which gives a far stronger illusion of reality than do Landor’s Conversations between the same persons.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 38. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w.
“The volume lacks coherence.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 190w.
=Mills, Edmund Mead.= Only a profession and other sermons. (Methodist pulpit. 2d ser.) *50c. Meth. bk.
Eight sermons including, besides the title sermon, How to know, The all-conquering Christ, The nation’s memorial, As he thinketh in his heart, What makes a nation great? Unconscious deterioration, and A withered hand.
* =Mills, Weyman Jay.= Caroline of Courtlandt street. **$2. Harper.
“A highly idealized story of New York life when the eighteenth century was young. Caroline of Courtlandt street, the daughter of an actress, yearns for her mother’s profession and by way of proving her right to enter it plays a pretty little comedy in which her father’s aristocratic and snobbish relatives take unconscious but highly important parts. The stage fails to gain her in the end, but in the meanwhile she has furnished us with a diverting little drama.”—Pub. Opin.
* “A slight but spirited novelette.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 388. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* “An elaborately decorated romance, both as to the narrative and setting. The style is flowery.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2. ‘05. 120w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 733. D. 2, ‘05. 60w.
=Milyoukov, Paul.= Russia and its crisis. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
In interpreting the Russian present by the Russian past, the author produces the results of long years of study. Professor Milyoukov is a representative of the branch of the liberal party known as the “Intellectuals,” and his work for freedom has already brought him calumny, imprisonment and exile. The aim of his discussion is to reveal the internal crisis in Russia as an outgrowth of the historical circumstances under which Russian civilization has developed. The author has explained the permanent and lasting elements in the political, social and religious life of a great world-power.
“Our pleasure at the thought and learning displayed in the lectures of which this volume is composed is marred by the extraordinary fancies of its author on the transliteration of names.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 810w.
“With ample knowledge, training, and evident fairness, he is the best available guide to a knowledge of present conditions in Russia from the historical point of view.” Charles H. Cooper.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 268. N. 1, ‘05. 760w.
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 309. S. 29, ‘05. 1040w.
“A strong book—one that will not appeal to the general reader, but will reach rather the serious and thoughtful.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 556. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1430w.
“A masterly portrayal of the factors which have determined the present constitution of the Russian state, as well as the elements of leaven and fermentation at present working in that state.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 446. S. 30, ‘05. 200w.
* “A very valuable addition to the literature on the subject of Russian conditions.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 636. N. ‘05. 200w.
=Minor, Benjamin Blake.= Southern literary messenger, 1834 to 1864 by Benjamin Blake Minor, editor and proprietor from 1843 to 1847. *$2. Neale.
“A history of a magazine which for so many years held the chief place in the periodical literature of the South and an honorable one in that of the country, written by the gentleman who was its editor and proprietor from 1843 to 1847, and who now at the good old age of eighty-six, is perhaps the only survivor of those who were personally connected with its fortunes. It will have a special interest for cultivated people in the South, and incidentally for all students of American literary history.”—Critic.
+ =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 90w.
“In spite of obvious faults (and partly because of them) Dr. Minor’s book has both permanent value and contemporary interest.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 494. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1350w.
=Mitchell, Charles Bayard.= Noblest quest, and other sermons preached in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Cleveland, O. *50c. Meth. bk.
Eight stirring sermons including, besides the title sermon, The Supreme Master, A shameless Jew, The dignity of labor, Remember thy Creator, A deserted grave, Life’s Jerusalem, and The impartial God.
=Mitchell, S. Weir.= Constance Trescot. $1.50. Century.
The tragic story of a young northern wife who goes with her husband to St. Ann, Missouri, where he is agent for a large estate. He becomes involved in a law suit, and is the prey of the prejudices and misconceptions so common to the reconstruction period. After his murder, Constance lives only to avenge herself upon his slayer, and the story becomes a strong psychological study of the charming woman’s selfish cruelty. It is a masterly book, unusual, and real, both in theme and characters.
“It is told in a masterly fashion.” Richard W. Kemp.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 386. Je. ‘05. 1640w.
“A novel of dignity and importance out of material that if treated less intelligently would be simply sensational.” C. A. Pratt.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 185. Ag. ‘05. 470w.
“It is a great triumph, thus out of commonplace materials, and by the use of strictly legitimate methods, to produce a work of such singular power, and Dr. Mitchell deserves the warmest congratulations upon his success.” Wm. Morton Payne.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 42. Jl. 16, ‘05. 490w.
“The second section of the book is, in fact, open to this dilemma. If Constance is in her right mind, the story of her revenge is inexplicable and impossible. If she is not, her madness removes it out of the range of subjects capable of being made to appeal to the imagination of the reader by means of the art of the novelist.” Herbert W. Horwill.
— — + =Forum.= 37: 104. Jl. ‘05. 1000w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 441. Je. 1, ‘05. 600w.
“This is a good story.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1011. My. 4, ‘05. 630w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 299. My. 6, ‘05. 540w.
“It is a tale wherein the psychological element, however, does overcloud the romantic interest.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w.
“The motif ... is an extremely unpleasant one, and in hands less skilled than those of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell the story would be too painful. The story is a study of character of a very unusual kind, full of insight, experience and skill.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 180w.
“It is undeniably powerful. The workmanship is of a high order.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 713. My. 6, ‘05. 140w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 239. Jl. ‘05. 390w.
“Impressive as the book is, one wonders inevitably whether Constance was, after all, worth this expenditure of literary power on the part of Dr. Mitchell.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 200w.
=Mitchell, Silas Weir.= Youth of Washington: told in the form of an autobiography. †$1.50. Century.
To think the thoughts of Washington as he thought them, to express them as he might have expressed them, in a word, to command a view of men and things as this general and statesman of Mount Vernon looked upon them, has been a unique task, to say nothing of the daring implied. But Dr. Mitchell has only reversed the great process of dramatization. Instead of fitting an actor to the mold of some great writer’s conception, as the stage continually does, he starts with the man and suits his thoughts and speech to the individual. Years of study, fresh enthusiasm, and keen insight into human nature have been brought to bear on his unusual task.
“Dr. Weir Mitchell has added another to the melancholy examples of Washingtonion dullness. It is sedate, detailed, conscientious and very dull.”
— =Acad.= 68: 63. Ja. 21, ‘05. 320w.
“May be judged as history or as fiction, according to the taste of the reader, and possesses high merit in either aspect. It would be possible to criticize some of Dr. Mitchell’s statements, and the conception of Washington’s mother is too harsh and even contradictory in detail to be either true or pleasing.” Worthington Chauncey Ford.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 444. Ja. ‘05. 430w.
“Only a Weir Mitchell or his equal could have accomplished successfully the daring feat of personating George Washington. But in this book the great George has proven a worthy son of himself, and it is hard to realize that the quaint, formal phraseology is not indeed his own. His criticisms of his family and himself are frank and delightful.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 283. Mr. ‘05. 240w.
=Mitton, G. E.= The dog. $2. Macmillan.
The autobiography of Scamp, a dog of the streets, who finds a good home and a loving mistress and is trained into a first-class retriever. He is caught in a trap while hunting, comes into the hands of poachers and counterfeiters, sojourns in the London streets and the dog pound, and eventually finds his way back to his former mistress to end his days in luxury.
“The book on the dog deals too much with one particular dog and his fortunes, and might almost pass as an entirely fictional tale.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 35. Ja. 14, ‘05. 250w.
“Attractive for the children for whom it was written. Scamp was just a dog. The author has not attempted to endow him with human or supernatural attributes.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 43. Ja. 21, ‘05. 610w.
“Cleverly written story. It is a story that will delight boys and girls, touching older hearts as well.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* =Mitton, G. E.= Jane Austen and her times. *$2.75. Putnam.
Not only Jane Austen herself but the society that she drew so skillfully is pictured in this volume. Miss Mitton considers Jane Austen “more wonderful as a product of her times than considered as an isolated figure.” She has therefore aimed “to sketch the men and women to whom she was accustomed, the habits and manners of her class, and the England with which she was familiar.”
* “In short, it is a richly human book, for which we owe all the praise (except what is due to the reproductions from Reynolds, Morland, Hoppner, Bunbury, Romney, and others), and little of the blame, to the author.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1170. N. 11, ‘05. 980w.
* “Is the next best thing to reading one of Miss Austen’s own stories.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “A prose and pedestrian piece of book-making, which nevertheless has something of the interest that attaches to an interesting subject.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 150w.
* =Mitton, G. E.= Normandy: painted by Nico Jungman. *$3. Macmillan.
“Miss Mitton begins with a chapter ‘In general,’ and proceeds to tell the stories of the Norman Dukes and the ‘mighty William.’ Then we have a full description of Rouen, and chapters on Caen, Falaise, Bayeux and the smaller towns, and then a chapter of the greatest interest on the famous tapestry, Mont St. Michel, The Cotentin, Dieppe and the coast, and a journey up the Seine from Honfleur to Vernon.”—Acad.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 728. O. 28, ‘05. 270w.
=Mitton, G. E.= Scenery of London. *$6. Macmillan.
“Miss G. E. Mitton, an expert in London lore, furnishes the text, while the pictures are reproductions of paintings by Herbert Marshall.... There are seventy-five in all capitally reproduced in colors.”—N. Y. Times.
“As illustrations to a book, to be looked at closely and not over long, Mr. Marshall’s pictures are excellent, because they come from a fine artist, and yet present a variety of moods and likings which are entirely suited to such books as these. She has aimed high and done some interesting and some pleasing work, and made a readable book.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 779. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1000w.
“Both artist and author have succeeded in producing what is a real addition to the literature of London.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 363. S. 16. 900w.
=Lond. Times.= 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 530w.
“Of the many recent books about London the best to look at is that called ‘The scenery of London.’ Miss Mitton discourses agreeably as is her wont.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 608. S. 16, ‘05. 280w.
=Monroe, Paul.= Text-book in the history of education. *$1.90. Macmillan.
“The framework upon which Dr. Monroe has built his well-written work is clear and hardly to be improved upon. Each chapter is headed in the table of contents with a phrase expressing the psychological tendency of the time or movement which it represents, and these are divided and subdivided in an unusually able manner. Facts are made additionally easy of location by the index by Miss Scott. Dr. Monroe’s ‘Text-book’ is hardly what its name implies, but rather a foundation work for those who desire to ‘work up’ from it, as the references indicate.”—Pub. Opin.
“A very solid book on the history of education.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 725. O. 28, ‘05. 630w.
* “It is diligent in research, copious in information, clear in analysis, philosophic in trend, and sound in deduction; and, although there are passages in it that are somewhat hard reading, occasional grammatical lapses, and a needless and sometimes wearisome repetition of certain scientific terms ... it is distinguished throughout for purity, precision, and force of diction. The treatment of its theme is the most exhaustive yet essayed by an American author.” Charles Elliott Fitch.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 909. D. 23, ‘05. 2510w.
“This must be rated as a work of the first rank in its class.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 431. O. 21, ‘05. 410w.
“A finished, well-unified and arranged work.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 574. O. 28, ‘05. 350w.
* “The work is broad in range, and provides an immense accumulation of data.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 120w.
=Monroe, Paul.= Thomas Platter and the educational renaissance of the 16th century. **$1.20. Appleton.
This sketch which gives the life of an educator just at the turning point in educational history between the mediæval and the modern, is important because “The autobiography furnishes such concrete information in regard to two phases of the education of the sixteenth century: first, the life of the wandering scholar; and, second, the spread of the humanistic ideas until they dominate the educational activities of the times.”
“Is a valuable volume which throws a great deal of light on a critical and seldom dealt with period of the history of education.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 136. Ja. 12, ‘05. 130w.
* =Montague, Margaret Prescott.= Poet, Miss Kate and I. **$1.50. Baker.
Miss Kate is a small chestnut mare, I am Miss Dorothy, and the poet is David Selwyn, successful and thirty-two, whom his doctor has given but twelve months more of life. He determines to spend that twelve months bravely, and rents a house in the Alleghanies so that he may “write, write, write until the finale,” unhampered by his old New York surroundings. Here he meets Dorothy and enjoys his last summer until he finds that his growing love for her makes the thought of death more bitter; then he runs away. But of course the author does not let him die, and the reader feels thruout the pretty, cheery little story that all is to be well with him.
* “The plot is slight, but the nature sketches, the character study, and a very piquant way of putting things, give the book a decided charm.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 140w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=Montgomery, David Henry.= Elementary American history, *75c. Ginn.
This textbook, the latest of the “Montgomery series,” has been prepared to meet the demand for a short continuous narrative history of our country, suited to the wants of elementary pupils.
“Compared with other textbooks of its kind, it has merit. The language is simple, and there are many illustrations and maps. This is only another example of a book constructed on the college plan, with shorter paragraphs and more simple language.” H. O. Gillett.
+ — =El. Sch. T.= 5: 518. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
=Montgomery, David H.= Student’s American history. $1.40. Ginn.
For this latest edition the work has been thoroly revised and many facts have been rewritten, including questions of political and constitutional history, the opening of the West and its influence on the division of the nation. References have been made more complete, and some new maps added.
“It has all the teaching apparatus of the best type of the modern high-school book, and may be cordially recommended.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 60w.
* “In attractiveness of presentation and clearness of diction it compares favorably with such manuals as McMaster’s and Channing’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 758. N. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Moody, William Vaughan, and Lovett, Robert Morrs.= First view of English literature. *$1. Scribner.
“This adaptation of the author’s more advanced ‘History of English literature,’ based on the suggestions of many high school and academy teachers, is a class-room manual of practical value. Features that especially commend the volume are the historical introductions to each epoch, dwelling on political and social conditions, important for their effect on literature, and the full review outlines given in the form of simple and illuminating questions.”—Outlook.
“The book is a highly finished work, and we commend it.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 396. Je. 17, ‘05. 420w.
“The book is lucid and concise, noticeably so in its discussion of the Renaissance and of Romanticism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 591. Jl. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“There is much valuable geographical, descriptive, and annotative matter.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
* =More, Charles Herbert.= Character of renaissance architecture. **$3. Macmillan.
“Prof. Moore has reduced the mere descriptions of buildings to a minimum, having provided many illustrations—twelve photogravure plates and 139 drawings and photographs—to make the discussions clear. He writes in his introduction about the character of the fine arts of the renaissance, the mixed influences actuating the artist of the time—the painter’s habits of design, etc. This followed by chapters on the dome of Florence, St. Peter’s dome, Renaissance architecture in the erection of churches and palaces in Rome and Florence and the North of Italy, carving, and architecture of the renaissance in France and England.”—N. Y. Times.
* “It is a book of strong convictions and solid thought.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 34. D. ‘05. 360w.
* “He is a man of profound and strongly held convictions, and hardly allows a page or a half-dozen pages to pass from under his hand without a reassertion of the most important of them.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 385. N. 9, ‘05. 980w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 713. O. 21, ‘05. 270w.
* “In the ‘Character of renaissance architecture’ we have the same creative and scholarly qualities of artist and investigator which characterized ‘Development and character of Gothic architecture.’ But where the latter was synthetical the former is analytical almost to the verge of iconoclasm.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 781. N. 18, ‘05. 850w.
* “This volume is admirably adapted to be a text-book for advanced classes in our universities and a reference book for readers generally. We are glad to note that the index to the volume is specially copious and exhaustive.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 628. N. 11, ‘05. 290w.
=Moore, Frank Frankfort.= Love alone is lord. †$1.50. Putnam.
Another novel of which Lord Byron is the hero. It concerns his early love for his cousin, Mary Chaworth and, altho many chapters are devoted to his affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, the book gives him a semblance of constancy by making him return to his first love and their tragic parting the climax, and end of the book. Madame de Stäel, Sheridan, Moore, and other well known people of Byron’s time enter into the story.
* “Mr. Moore has increased our dislike to positive hatred; all the worst qualities of this pernicious breed of book are accentuated in his present novel.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1032. O. 7, ‘05. 310w.
* “Mr. Moore’s is one of the books worth reading.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 380w.
* + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 315. S. 29, ‘05. 540w.
“Somehow the book leaves us cold.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 290w.
“As a novel the book has vigor and interest; as a presentation of Byron the poet it is a failure.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 120w.
“Mr. Moore has written an interesting story, but it has nothing to do with the hero and heroine, Lord Byron and Mary Ann Chaworth.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 573. O. 28, ‘05. 160w.
* “Byron’s character is sketched sans prudishness by an author whose every book guarantees a few hours’ lively entertainment.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 762. D. ‘05. 110w.
* “We do not blame Mr. Moore for his failure, but for the impudence of his attempt.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 529. O. 21, ‘05. 160w.
* =Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Children of other days. †$1.50. Stokes.
The notable pictures of children of various countries and times after paintings of great masters are accompanied by little sketches intended to interest the child reader in the portrait. The book is an art book of real value to little people.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 535. D. 2, ‘05. 160w.
=Moore, Mrs. N. Hudson.= Lace book. **$5. Stokes.
The author “tells us in ‘The lace book’ in a concise form, all that is interesting in the history of the evolution and production of lace in the countries which have given the world the finest examples of this delicate fabric. This handsome volume is illustrated with engravings from famous pictures of distinguished personages, showing how lace was employed in costume at different times; well-chosen, full-size examples are also given of the various kinds of lace; and an index endows the collector and connoisseur with a book of reference.”—Nation.
“A very handsome and interesting book.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 70w.
* “A more engaging example of the combination of the useful with the agreeable could not easily be found than is provided by this volume.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 380. N. 10, ‘05. 1100w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 158. F. 23, ‘05. 1530w.
* “A most interesting and readable account of lace from the earliest days.”
+ =Spec.= 95: sup. 797. N. 18, ‘05. 230w.
=Moore, T. Sturge.= Albert Dürer. *$2. Scribner.
An original study rather than a conventional biography. The artist’s paintings, drawings, metal engravings, and wood cuts, are critically considered, the philosophy of his art is discussed, and the details of his life are given. The book is illustrated with half-tones and four copper-plates.
“A very stimulating essay, with sufficient fact, date, and specific criticism attached, as is helpful to that study, but no more. As an illustrated record of Dürer’s work, the book is a welcome supplement to the little volume by Lina Eckenstein, ... though it will not replace that as an admirable and business-like summary of the artist’s life and work. It must be admitted, first and foremost, that the volume is concerned with Mr. T. Sturge Moore’s outlook on life and the arts; the author has not lost himself in his subject.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 173. F. 25, ‘05. 1100w.
“The style is vigorous and picturesque, and, on the whole dignified. There seems, further, a lack of cohesion between the various parts of the book.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 247. F. 25. 1680w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 475 My. ‘05. 130w.
“An excellent book marred by an involved and slipshod style.”
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 358. My. 16, ‘05. 590w.
“His book is worthy of its place in the series by reason of his sympathetic interpretation of Dürer’s work.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1364. Je. 15, ‘05. 190w.
“Its writing and point of view make it a model of what an art book, written for lay readers, should be.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 150w.
“A singularly illusive book. While all the words in it are intelligible, the exact thing that was intended to be expressed somehow escapes one.”
— + =Nation.= 80: 354. My. 4, ‘05. 590w.
“What Prof. Thausing, Allihn, Zahn, and Scott never suspected we find brought forth with the pride of discovery and illuminated in the language of a poet by Dürer’s latest and youngest biographer. In the history of biographical writing, of art criticism, and connoisseurship, ‘Albert Dürer,’ by T. Sturge Moore, is an epoch-making work. Its form and execution present a new model for study and imitation. He lays bare the mind, the soul of the artist, and shows the inevitableness of what Dürer achieved.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 205. Ap. 1, ‘05. 580w.
“Mr. Moore is always interesting, and perhaps never more interesting than when he is least convincing. His work is certainly a stimulating addition to the series in which it finds place.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 230w.
=Moorehead, William Gallogly.= Outline studies in the New Testament, Philippians to Hebrews. **$1.20. Revell.
“These studies will be deemed scholarly and sound by such Christians as are unreconciled to the scientific and critical doctrines now dominant, and disposed to stand by the verbal inerrancy of the Scriptures.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 30w.
=More, E. Anson.= Captain of men. †$1.50. Page.
Merodach, the Assyrian, is the hero of this story of Tyre in the days when David was outlawed. Miriam, a slave in the household of the richest merchant of Tyre, who is engaged in the tin trade, is the heroine. The action is involved, there are many characters and there is much cruelty.
* “It is fairly well written and fairly exciting, but nothing more.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 607. N. 4. 200w.
“Has some effective scenes, with long wastes of dullness.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 403. Je. 17, ‘05. 440w.
=More, Paul Elmer.= Shelburne essays. 3 ser. ea. **$1.25. Putnam.
The author, an ex-professor of Sanskrit, received his call to the work of literary criticism during the course of two years in which he lived a life of solitary meditation. In Series one, of his essays the hermit of Shelburne devotes himself to the problems of the soul, he treats of Hawthorne, Emerson, Carlyle, Symons, Tolstoy and others, and discusses the religious and literary movements of to-day. Series two contains papers on English sonnets, Lafcadio Hearn, Hazlitt, Lamb, Kipling and FitzGerald. Crabbe, Meredith, Hawthorne, Delphi and Greek literature, and Nemesis. The third series treats of Cowper’s correspondence, Whittier the poet, Sainte-Beuve, Scotch novels and Scotch history, Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, Brownings’ popularity, Byron’s Don Juan, Laurence Sterne and Mr. Whitehouse.
+ =Acad.= 68: 847. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1410w. (Review of second series.)
=Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 50w. (Review of second series.)
* “Mr. More is a critic of many merits, and his ‘Shelburne essays’ reveal a penetrating and cultivated intellect. But it is obvious that he is less comfortable in the æsthetic environment of the sixteenth century than in that of the eighteenth.” Edward Fuller.
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 567. D. ‘05. 800w. (Review of second and third series.)
“Is a collection of literary, psychological, and ethical studies, of unusual seriousness and power. Our essayist may be thought at times to take himself and his hermit experience, and his ‘long course of wayward reading,’ a little too seriously. He has certainly read widely and wisely, and his essays are unquestionably full of meat.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 18. Ja. 1, ‘05. 670w. (Review of first series.)
“Both in his fine classical scholarship and in his carefully wrought sentences, Mr. More calls to mind the lamented Walter Pater, although the Oxford scholar’s reading and literary sympathies, wide as they were, strike one as less comprehensive than Mr. More’s.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 17. Jl. 1, ‘05. 490w. (Review of second series.)
+ + =Dial.= 39: 277. N. 1, ‘05. 410w. (Review of third series.)
“The second series of Mr. Paul Elmer More’s ‘Shelburne essays’ is likely to win the favor of book lovers in no less degree than its predecessor. Mr. More’s freedom from provincialism is manifest even in his style.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 37: 252. O. ‘05. 1320w. (Review of second series.)
“If Mr. More is able to realize his ideal of the high calling of the critic he will eventually be able to exert an influence on American literature like that of Brunetiere on French.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1112. N. 9, ‘05. 460w. (Review of third series.)
* “The Lafcadio Hearn and the Sainte-Beuve [essays] are, perhaps, the most remarkable for the depth and penetration of their analysis.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1163. N. 16, ‘05. 60w. (Review of second and third series.)
“His is the criticism that takes infinite pains, dissects out every nerve.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 104. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1110w. (Review of second series.)
“Are marked by charm and insight. They are not unduly discursive.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 496. Jl. 29, ‘05. 820w. (Review of second series.)
“He is sound and sane, and he can penetrate sympathetically to inner realities of the works and the men he is studying. He is independent and he thinks for himself.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 730. O. 28, ‘05. 700w. (Review of third series.)
“Mr. More has the instincts of the scholar and the tastes of the man of culture; but his feet are on the ground. And he has a generous endowment of that common sense which is the conservator of art, as genius is its inspiration.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 678. N. 18, ‘05. 1550w. (Review of first-third series.)
“Whatever his subject, the stamp of leisurely scholarship, of well-backed, first-hand knowledge, of that indescribable something called ‘style’ attests the writer’s kinship with the best of the old-school essayists.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 942. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. (Review of second series.)
=Morgan, Lewis Henry.= League of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois; ed. by Herbert M. Lloyd. **$5. Dodd.
This new edition contains not only an accurate re-print of the edition of 1851, but also copious editorial notes, and introduction, personal reminiscences of Morgan by Charles T. Porter, a brief biography of Morgan with a bibliography of his writings, a sketch of the lives of Ely S. Parker and Charles T. Porter, an excellent index, and many illustrations.
“One-volume reprint of the two-volume original lacks nothing desirable in the way of critical apparatus.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 381. Ap. ‘05. 180w.
“Still remains the best and most authoritative work on the subject. For his editorial notes Mr. Lloyd has drawn upon every source of information, and they reveal his wide and discriminating reading of literature on the Iroquois. Not only a work of prime importance to all students of Indian life and character, but a book that one reads with genuine enjoyment for its own sake.” L. J. Burpee.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 119. F. 16, ‘05. 2300w.
=Morris, William O’Connor.= Wellington, soldier and statesman, and the revival of the military power of England. **$1.35; hf. lea. **$1.60. Putnam.
“This is the most recent volume of the “Heroes of the nations” series.... The book is in no sense a biography of Wellington, but almost entirely a military history. The Peninsular war forms, as it were, the kernel.... But Wellington’s early career is not neglected. The promise of his youth ... is well indicated in the first chapter, and in the second, the seven years spent in India are ... treated.... The ninth chapter deals with the campaign of 1815.... The remainder of the book, on the duke’s political life, is not so detailed.... There are 16 portraits of the principal personages, and 16 maps and plans.”—Nation.
“This is a hopelessly mediocre book. The book has not even ... a correct, agreeable, and lucid style. It cannot be recommended even for the instruction of the general public and school-boys.” R. M. Johnston.
— — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 692. Ap. ‘05. 260w.
Reviewed by Edward Fuller.
=Bookm.= 21: 527. Jl. ‘05. 250w.
“This seems to us the first really satisfactory account of his career and his influence on the military power of England that has been given in compact and popular form.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
“Mr. Davis remarks in the concluding sentence that ‘the judge’s conclusions, although they have been challenged by some high authorities, deserve the attention due to acute independent study of the original sources of information’; a statement which will probably be indorsed by most readers of the book.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 93. F. 1, ‘05. 290w.
“But on the whole, those who like a résumé of a period will find in this book more than a good example of its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 76. Ja. 26, ‘05. 1050w.
=Morrison, Arthur.= Green diamond. †$1.50. Page.
The pursuit of a lost diamond, which is stolen from the Rajah of Goona and sent to England in a magnum of Tokay wine; an American buys the wine, and not suspecting its value, sells it. Adventures thrilling and blood-curdling follow thick and fast until at last the breathless author and reader give up the chase.
“Arthur Morrison is entitled to rank among the better writers of mystery or detective-stories of the present time. ‘The green diamond’ is, we think, the best of Mr. Morrison’s mystery-stories. It is one of the best mystery tales of the present year.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 342. Mr. ‘05. 450w.
+ =Reader.= 5: 501. Mr. ‘05. 180w.
* =Mortimer, Alfred Garnett.= It ringeth to evensong. *$1.25. Whittaker.
The trials and blessings of old age are discussed helpfully here for people of advancing years. The same optimism of the book commends it to the healthy minded no less than to the mortal who looks out drearily upon old age.
=Mother Goose.= Only true Mother Goose; ed. by Edward Everett Hale. †60c. Lothrop.
A facsimile reprint of “The only true Mother Goose” as published in Boston in 1833, including the odd-looking woodcuts. Dr. Hale has furnished an introduction to the book “which setting aside the Goose fable, is really a valuable collection of political squibs and old songs, any where from a century and a half to three centuries old.” (N. Y. Times.)
* =Ind.= 59: 1386. D. 14, ‘05. 40w.
=Nation.= 81: 257. S. 28, ‘05. 320w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 80w.
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 281. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.
* “A quaint little volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 640. N. ‘05. 60w.
Mother-Light: a novel. †$1.50. Appleton.
“This book places in the suburbs of Trenton, New Jersey, the headquarters of an extraordinary religious cult, something after the Theosophical order. Three hundred pages are devoted to describing its mummeries and the emotions and experiences of a young woman from Ida Grove, Iowa, its chosen high priestess, or ‘Mother-Light’.”—Outlook.
* =Ath.= 1905, 2: 267. Ag. 26. 290w.
=Outlook.= 79: 653. Mr. 11, ‘05. 90w.
=Mott, Frederick Blount.= Before the crisis. †$1.50. Lane.
A book dealing with America before the outbreak of the Civil war, and during the campaign of John Brown and his sons. “The book is full of graphically told adventures; but though these are exciting reading, the picture of slavery is even more interesting. The slaves depicted are under good masters, yet in spite of this the author shows conclusively how the characters of both owners and slaves were corroded by an institution which involved the absolute dependence of one human being on the caprice of another.” (Spec.)
“Mr. Mott’s romance is a moderately deft piece of workmanship on familiar, melodramatic lines.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 336. Mr. 25, ‘05. 180w.
“It is a thrilling story, however, and well enough told for those readers living too far North to detect the author’s egregious errors in representing negro character and negro dialect.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 156. Jl. 20, ‘05. 200w.
+ =Spec.= 94: 372. Mr. 11, ‘05. 140w.
=Mott, Lawrence.= Jules of the great heart, “free” trapper and outlaw in the Hudson bay region in the early days. †$1.50. Century.
Jules Verbaux, a gaunt French-Canadian trapper, outlawed by the Hudson Bay company, which has put a price upon his head, lives the life of the hunted, cleverly avoiding capture. He flits like a shadow over the frozen north and thru the fury of its storms, trapping where he can, but wherever he rears his lone hut some relentless enemy reduces it to ashes. A prey to brute passions in a cruel world with all hands against him, the great heart of the man still beats warm beneath the “petite” cap of his “enfant” who is dead, which he carries constantly with him, the sole reminder of the wife whom he believes has deserted him. Again and again it prompts him to noble action while his whole being calls for vengeance. In the end he is given a bleak sort of happiness—but it suffices, and his great heart sighs, “Je suis content.”
* “The book offers interesting reading for boys, and even older readers may enjoy the vivid descriptions of the hard life of the trapper.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 448. N. 30, ‘05. 220w.
* “It is not too much to say that this book is splendid: it might not be too much to say that it is great.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 749. N. 4, ‘05. 450w.
* “It is a strong story, happily free from much of the brutality and dreariness that have marked so many stories of the frozen north.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 710. N. 25, ‘05. 170w.
* “They are strong stories of strong men who lived full-blooded lives and died in whatever way ‘le bon Dieu willed.’”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 180w.
=Moule, Rt. Rev. Handley C. G.= Second epistle to Timothy: short devotional studies on the dying letter of St. Paul. *$1. Union press.
The bishop of Durham “has taken up this heart-moving Epistle with the single intention of expounding it after the manner of a Bible reading, not for literary criticism or enquiry but in quest of divine messages for heart and life.” As the verses are treated in the commentary, they are noted in the margin of each page. A poem upon “The martyrdom of St. Paul,” written in 1876, is appended.
=Moyer, James Ambrose.= Descriptive geometry for students of engineering. $2. Wiley.
This is the second edition of this book. “It is far more than a slight revision.... The text has been more than doubled, and the number of diagrams increased from 33 to 77.... The text is placed on the left-hand pages, and the diagrams, instead of being massed at the end of the volume, as in the former edition, are placed on the right hand pages, the space not thus used being available for notes by the student.” (Engin. N.)
“As a whole, the book is well adapted to the needs of engineering colleges, and in a number of important features is the most satisfactory one now available.” Henry S. Jacoby.
+ + + =Engin. N.= 53: 535. My. 18, ‘05. 510w.
“We believe that the interests of both theory and practice would be better served if the instruction offered by Mr. Moyer were combined with such a course as that afforded by Professor Emch’s book.” Cassius J. Keyser.
+ + — =Science=, n.s. 22: 115. Jl. 28, ‘05. 160w.
=Muirhead, Rev. Lewis A.= Eschatology of Jesus; or, The kingdom come and coming: a brief study of our Lord’s apocalyptic language in the synoptic Gospels. $1.75. Armstrong.
“The volume is composed of lectures given on the Bruce foundation, and is subject to the limitations of its origin. The first lecture considers the pre-suppositions of the study; the second, the relation of the Jewish apocalypses to Jesus; the third, the actual teaching of Jesus concerning the consummation of the Kingdom; and the fourth, inclusively, the Son of man.”—Am. J. of Theol.
“The treatment, as a whole, however, can hardly be called more than sketchy. Taken altogether, the book, though stimulating, suffers from the fault which besets all exegetical studies dominated by pre-suppositions. Mr. Muirhead has said some very sensible things, but his volume presumes an attitude of mind ... that one may go the length of literary criticism and yet refrain from dogmatic or historical changes.” Shailer Mathews.
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 343. Ap. ‘05. 710w.
Reviewed by H. B. Sharman.
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 233. Mr. ‘05. 970w.
“Mr. Muirhead submits this view to careful investigation, in excellent spirit, cautious yet receptive, and his work is one of the most valuable of recent contributions to the understanding of the synoptic gospels.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 130w.
=Muirhead, Lewis A.= Times of Christ. *60c. Scribner.
“The author of this handy volume is favorably known by his scholarly and fruitful work on ‘The eschatology of Jesus.’ To meet the needs of junior students he has here expanded and simplified a former edition of this manual, which some older students may value as an inexpensive and convenient substitute for Schürer’s voluminous work on ‘The Jewish people in the time of Christ.’”—Outlook.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 60w.
=Mulets, Lenore Elizabeth.= Stories of little fishes. †$1. Page.
This sixth volume in the series of “Phyllis’ field friends” opens with the statement that one who goes a-fishing with Phyllis may expect to catch strange things, and that under the general title of fishes the reader may chance upon an eel, a turtle, or a frog. Then follows a mixture of fact and fiction which will delight the young, altho the combination of scientific truth and fairy story is rather daring.
* “They are entertainingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 40w.
=Mulock, Miss, pseud.= See =Craik, Dinah Maria.=
=Mumford, Ethel Watts.= Joke book note book. **75c. Elder.
This note book for jokes is a clever little conceit, cleverly carried out. It is in pocket size with pages left blank for the instant jotting down of the illusive joke. An illustrated thumb index makes reference to the different divisions easy, while the head pieces, which are real heads, the tail-pieces, which are real feet, and the general make up, are jocose enough to fit whatever may be recorded.
* + =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Mumford, Ethel Watts; Herford, Oliver, and Mizner, Addison.= Complete cynic’s calendar of revised wisdom for 1906. **75c. Elder.
The same cynicisms applied to a new calendar. The book is made as attractive as its predecessor, with marginal drawings done in red ink.
* “This 1906 edition is better as a whole than any of its predecessors. The cream of the old ‘twister’ proverbs has been retained, and the new ones are equal to the best of the old.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* =Munk, Joseph Amasa.= Arizona sketches. **$2. Grafton press.
Dr. Munk “describes not only the Grand cañon of the Colorado, with which we are all more or less familiar from former accounts, but also such little-known phenomena as the Meteorite mountain and the oddities of desert vegetation.... There are also interesting chapters on the structures of the cliff dwellers, and entertaining accounts of the habits and customs of the snake dancers, the modern Moquis. The book is profusely illustrated from photographs.”—R. of Rs.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 824. D. 2, ‘05. 140w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 754. D. ‘05. 120w.
=Munro, Dana Carleton, and Sellery, George Clarke=, eds. and trs. Medieval civilization: selected studies from European authors. *$1.25. Century.
“The compilers of this volume designed it as an aid to instructors and students in mediaeval history. The book includes samples of many authorities bearing on the points on which the student of mediaeval history will be likely to need special illumination.”—N. Y. Times.
“The volume is especially adapted to institutions where the libraries are limited in scope.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 384. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
“Prepared with praiseworthy care and good judgment.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 445. Je. 1, ‘05. 690w.
“Each student may use it as an auxiliary. The volume will be practically serviceable for the purpose for which it is intended. Even readers with fairly correct general conceptions of the period will find much that is new to them.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 410w. (Survey of contents.)
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 136. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 509. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
* =Munro, Hugh Andrew Johnstone.= Criticism and elucidations of Catullus; also Ætna revised, amended and explained. *$4. Stechert.
A reprint of a volume which “first appeared in 1878, and has for some time been a rare book, not easily procured. Mr. J. D. Duff contributes a prefatory note to the effect that three short papers, printed by Munro in ‘The journal of philology’ after the publication of his book, have been added, a few misprints have been corrected, and a few fresh notes by Munro himself included. Reference has also been made occasionally to discussion of points since Munro’s day. But the book, as at present printed, is only two pages longer than in the old form. This masterpiece of Munro, with all its liveliness of style, knowledge of Latin, and feeling of poetry, ought to be known to every classical scholar.”—Ath.
* “Our best thanks are due to those who have made it available for the present generation.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 190w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 402. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Americans; tr. by Edwin B. Holt. **$2.50. McClure.
“A translation of Professor Munsterberg’s ‘Die Amerikäner,’ recently published in Germany. It aims to be a general explanation of the American people—their history, their customs and their political and social life. He discusses the methods used by the Americans in meeting such vital problems as the silver question, trusts, the negro question, divorce, huge fortunes, displays of wealth, etc.”—Bookm.
“The work, in spite of its undoubted merits, lacks the keen incisiveness that distinguished the ‘American traits.’ At times the style is rather diffuse, and in place of brilliant generalizations one gets somewhat barren generalities.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 389. Ap. 8, ‘05. 3090w.
“We regard the work as one of the most subtly dangerous books, if one is not on the alert to detect its fallacies, that has appeared in years. Apparently liberal, it is in fact ultra-reactionary in so far as its attitude toward true democracy is concerned. The author’s desire to make the Americans appear to the best advantage to the aristocratic and cultured of monarchial Germany leads him at times to indulge in the same sophistical special-pleadings that mark his treatment of democracy and the genius of free government which we have dwelt upon in our editorial.” Amy C. Rich.
— — + =Arena.= 33: 333. Mr. ‘05. 1700w.
“Excellently translated. His work deserves to find an honourable place in all libraries as a supplement to the more solid volumes of Mr. Bryce.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 76. Jl. 15. 490w.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 191. F. ‘05. 150w.
“By plan, selections of topics, and perspective of presentation, the work seems measurably suited to its objective purpose. The self-assertive American cannot refrain from expressing with regret but with conviction, his inability to endorse the judicial pronouncements or the philosophic standpoint of ‘The Americans.’ It is possible that we lack the gift to see ourselves as others see us; but we cannot candidly laud the lifelikeness of the portrait when we are introduced into its presence.” Joseph Jastrow.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 145. Mr. 1, ‘05. 3900w.
“The translation is ... written in a fluent style and betraying little of the awkwardness which attaches to so many translations and at once betrays them as such, a cursory examination of passages taken at random reveals not a few infidelities, inaccuracies and inaptitudes.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 12. Ja. 5, ‘05. 450w.
“The tone of the work is essentially optimistic. Of the two [’American traits’ and ‘Americans’] the latter is by far the most pretentious. It is comparable rather with such a work as Emile Boutmy’s ‘The English people.’ To defect of method must be added blemishes of misstatement and even errors of prejudice. There can be no doubt that it renders a distinct service to the readers of both countries. Seldom have we seen such a complete record of American achievement, individual and national, as is embodied in the pages dealing with the concrete facts of our development.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 79: 446. F. 18, ‘05. 970w.
“One of the most thoughtful, valuable dissections of American national character by a foreigner is ‘The Americans.’”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 210w.
“The book is a typical specimen of the best German method. The whole book is an admirable defence of what is best in American life, but at the same time there is a wholesome suggestion of that other side.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 894. Je. 17, ‘05. 1660w.
=Munsterberg, Hugo.= Eternal life. **85c. Houghton.
“Two friends are sitting at the hearth after a funeral, and one gives the other his thoughts on immortality, as recorded here in an imagined monologue. There is an Oversoul, whose will-attitudes are the norms of the good, the beautiful, and the true. These are eternal. These will-attitudes we may make ours, yet they become ours ‘only in so far as our consciousness, is the over-individual consciousness, the Oversoul.’”—Outlook.
“His interpretation of life in terms of will is done with extraordinary skill and perspicuity, considering the small space allotted to the problem in his paper. But his application of the theory of will-values to individual immortality appears to us unsatisfactory and weak.”
+ — =Cath. World.= 81: 537. Jl. ‘05. 690w.
“It is a spiritual structure built upon the sands of speculation.” Edward Fuller.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 245. S. ‘05. 200w.
“It is written in a charming manner, and is really a description of the author’s philosophy. The fault I find with Professor Munsterberg’s philosophy is really this: that it pretends to get rid of time and space in considering personality, and yet does not do so, and cannot, in the nature of things.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 415. Je. 16, ‘05. 1290w.
=Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 150w.
=Murfree, Mary Noailles.= See =Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud.=
=Murray, A. H. Hallam; Nevinson, H. W.; and Carmichael, Montgomery.= Sketches on the old road through France to Florence. *$5. Dutton.
Mr. Murray has pictured his journey thru Normandy, central and southern France, and Italy in a series of sketches which the equally artistic descriptive work of Mr. Nevinson on France, and Mr. Carmichael on Italy rounds into a volume pleasing and instructive to both the mind and the eye.
“His book is beyond doubt the best colour-book yet issued.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905. 2: 216. Ag. 12, 370w.
“The illustrations by A. H. Hallam-Murray are full of the romance and charm of the places he has pictured.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 210w.
=Murray, Grace Peckham.= Fountain of youth. **$1.60. Stokes.
The relation of personal hygiene to health and longevity, all along the way from the commonplace in looks to genuine attractiveness is set forth clearly and professionally in this very fully illustrated handbook.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 659. O. 7, ‘05. 230w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 691. Jl. 15, ‘05. 70w.
=Mustard, Wilfred Pirt.= Classical echoes in Tennyson. **$1.25. Macmillan.
Volume III in the “Columbia university studies in English series.” A book which sets forth the classical influence in Tennyson’s writings by showing the kinship between many of his passages and those of the old Greek and Latin authors. There are many explanatory and reference notes, including the texts of the passages quoted both in English and the original.
“This attractive little volume, it should be understood, is something very much better than the mere digging out of such verses of Tennyson as show resemblance to lines in Greek or Latin literature. The erudition of the compiler is accompanied everywhere by an exact and critical scholarship. Here and there he corrects errors of Tennysonian editors and biographers—once a misquotation from memory by Tennyson himself. For this and other reasons this book cannot safely be missed by any student of Tennyson’s work in general, whether or not he happens to be especially interested in its particular subject.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 36: 401. Ja. ‘05. 840w.
“The author is often prone to seek for origins in specific things which for centuries have been generalities in thought and language. Prof. Mustard writes without prejudice and with a wholesome perception of the idiosyncracies of the poet’s mind, of his knowledge, and his imagination.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 670w.
=Muther, Richard.= Jean François Millet. *$1. Scribner.
Although but a brief monograph, this addition to the “Langham series,” gives a fair and concise study of Millet’s work. The volume is pleasing in size, shape, and illustrations.
“Is especially notable for the justice of its point of view.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 347. O. 26, ‘05. 860w.
“If the account somewhat lacks the picturesque phraseology which we find in Mrs. Ady’s biography, it has a greater note of authority.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 130w.
My garden in the city of gardens. See =Cuthell, E. H.=
=Myers, A. Wallis=, ed. Sportsman’s year book for 1905. *$1.25. imp. Scribner.
“There are chapters by different writers on the horse racing during the year, cricket, football, rugby, motor racing, motor boating, polo, lawn tennis, croquet, hockey, lacrosse, amateur athletics, rowing, coursing, cycle racing, and yacht racing. These are followed by biographies of well-known English sportsmen and sportswomen. The illustrations, in black-and-white, include photographic reproductions of portraits of English champions, boats, horses, dogs, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
=Nation.= 80: 289. Ap. 13, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 168. Mr. 18, ‘05. 240w.
=Myers, Albert Cook=, ed. Hannah Logan’s courtship: a true narrative; the wooing of the daughter of James Logan, colonial governor of Pennsylvania, and divers other matters, as related in the diary of her lover, John Smith, esq., 1746-1752. $2.50; ¾ lev. $4. Ferris.
In the diary of John Smith of Philadelphia, Quaker and business man, is recorded the story of his quiet life and of his courtship of Hannah Logan, whom he married in 1748. The book is illustrated by facsimiles, autographs, silhouettes, and portraits, which aid the diary in giving an interesting view of colonial Philadelphia.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 723. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“The extreme frankness and naïveté of the diary, which was intended for no eyes but those of Smith himself, add to the pleasantness of the book, for which we are grateful to Mr. Myers.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1, 393. Ap. 1. 530w.
+ + =Critic.= 47: 95. Jl. ‘05. 160w.
“A volume exceedingly attractive to students of our colonial history, and not unattractive to the general reader.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 273. Ap. 16, ‘05. 270w.
“The diary is not only a charming and perfectly un-self-conscious record of a courtship of those days; it is worth much as a picture of the manners and daily life of the Quakers of ‘the Province’.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 271. Ap. 6, ‘05. 640w.
“As the medium of presenting an excellent picture of colonial home life the book also has value.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 397. Je. 17, ‘05. 580w.
“The plan of the book is original and it will interest many readers.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 604. Mr. 4, ‘05. 70w.
=Myers, Frederick William Henry.= Fragments of prose and poetry. *$2.50. Longmans.
A volume edited by the wife of this high minded scholar, poet and leader in the work of “Psychical research” three years after his death. There is an autobiographical sketch which sets forth his struggle with doubt and faith, followed by tributes to Ruskin, Gladstone, Watts, Stevenson and other friends who passed before him into the unknown. The last section of the volume contains sixty of his poems. The whole is well illustrated.
+ + =Arena.= 33: 339. Mr. ‘05. 540w.
“But here is less an argument than a ‘document,’ the inner life of a poet and thinker. His poems which fill nearly half the book, ... are so good they should be better; but his congenital sin, perhaps, of rhetoric— ... too often gets the best of them.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 438. F. 23, ‘05. 870w.
* =Myrick, Herbert.= Cache la Poudre: the romance of a tenderfoot in the days of Custer. $1.50. Judd.
On the slender thread of the story of a young New Yorker who in unmerited disgrace disappears from his home, reappears as a western tenderfoot, serves under Custer, and wins reputation and a bride, are strung pictures of the crude life and thrilling scenes found in northern Colorado, Wyoming and Montana in the early seventies. The book altho both novel and historical, is not a typical historical novel. The numerous illustrations from paintings by Charles Schreyvogel, Edward W. Deming, and Henry Fangel, with many photographs not only supplement the author’s descriptions but overshadow the text. The fact that they represent real people about whom the appendix provides further facts, gives the book an added value. There are portraits of Custer, Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-face and other characters, and pictures of various scenes from cow-boy life.
N
=Nansen, Fridtjof.= Norway and the union with Sweden. 70c. Macmillan.
A resumé given temperately and concisely from the Norwegian point of view of the events leading up to the present crisis. These events cover about a hundred years; the real strife beginning when in 1895 a change in the Swedish constitution practically took the administration of foreign affairs out of the hand of the king and placed them under the power of parliament.
“A sound little book on the Norwegian side of the dispute, by the Norwegian who is most competent to write upon it.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 13. Jl. 1. 160w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 210. Je. 30, ‘05. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 468. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w.
* “Thus the book is one to be read before attacking Otté’s larger and more exhaustive work.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 882. D. 9, ‘05. 1540w.
“Nansen’s book, admirable in restraint, will certainly do nothing to embitter feeling in either country.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 400w.
“Dr. Nansen states the Norwegian case in a lucid and forcible way.”
+ + =Spec.= 95: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 140w.
=Nares, Robert.= Glossary of words, phrases, names, and allusions in the works of English authors, particularly Shakespeare and his contemporaries; ed. by J. O. Halliwell and Thomas Wright. *$3. Dutton.
This work was originally published in 1822, and the present edition follows the original text, but includes many new words, phrases, and expressions which have been found since the publication of the first edition or were overlooked by the author.
=Nation.= 80: 69. Ja. 26, ‘05. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 202. Ap. 1, ‘05. 390w.
=Nason, Frank Lewis.= Vision of Elijah Berl. †$1.50. Little.
This story of California is the story of Elijah Berl, a dreamer and fanatic, who undertook the great work of making a barren wilderness “blossom as the rose,” and, blinded by the light of his glowing vision, sought base methods to attain his noble end. His partner who applies the “moral straight-edge,” the girl who helps, and the weak wife who hinders are strongly drawn. The company’s affairs, the orange industry, the building of the irrigation dam, and the feverish land boom just before its collapse give the typical atmosphere of the early West.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 367. Je. ‘05. 440w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Ind.= 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 260w.
“Mr. Nason has drawn the character of Elijah with excellent precision and clearness.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 311. My. 13, ‘05. 290w.
“The author evidently knows conditions in California, and is wide awake in his study of human character.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 27. Jl. 1, ‘05. 170w.
National documents: state papers so arranged as to illustrate the growth of our country from 1606 to the present day. *72c; lea. *92c; pa. *42c. Bell, H. W.
“A valuable little volume containing important state papers, from the charter of Virginia, given in 1606 to the Panama ship canal treaty of 1904.”—Arena.
Reviewed by Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 451. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
=Naylor, E. W.= Elizabethan virginal book. *$2. Dutton.
“In his ‘critical essay’ on the contents of the Virginal book in the Fitzwilliam museum at Cambridge, ... [the author] gives a careful study of nearly 300 pieces of the Tudor period which are almost entirely unknown.” (N. Y. Times.) These pieces of Elizabethan music include 130 dances, 17 organ pieces, 46 arrangements of forty different songs, and certain madrigals, and fantasias, etc.
=Acad.= 68: 562. My. 27, ‘05. 600w.
“But the volume as a whole is interesting and instructive; moreover, it is the first book on the subject, and therefore welcome. It contains many musical illustrations, and there is a capital index.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 251. Ag. 19. 510w.
* “It is a careful and scholarly work.” W. J. Henderson.
+ =Atlan.= 96: 854. D. ‘05. 60w.
“It is a valuable work of reference, for it embodies all that can be required by one who is desirous of gaining a clear idea of the music of this interesting period.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 245. O. 16, ‘05. 270w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 695. S. 21, ‘05. 200w.
“It must be admitted that he makes out a good case for his thesis.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 305. O. 12, ‘05. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 355. Je. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“It certainly is a stimulating and graphic method of studying musical history that he has embodied in the book.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 604. S. 16, ‘05. 630w.
* + + =Spec.= 95: sup. 908. D. 2, ‘05. 770w.
=Needler, George Henry,= tr. See Nibelungenlied.
=Neidig, William Jonathan.= First wardens. **$1. Macmillan.
Thirty-seven poems upon such themes as Alvah and Azubah, The adoration of the Magi, Wine of laurel, and Lex mundi. There is also a series of sonnets called A woman’s ring.
+ =Critic.= 46: 566. Je. ‘05. 130w.
“Much of Mr. Neidig’s verse, for all its originality and unquestionably poetic diction, makes too hard reading to fulfill the proper function of poetry.” Wm. M. Payne.
— + =Dial.= 39: 65. Ag. 1, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6. ‘05. 250w.
* =Nesbit, Wilbur Dick.= Alphabet of history. **75c. Elder.
“A thin little book done in brown tones and with a flexible cover.... It is printed in old art style and bound in Rhinos boards.... Taking history alphabetically, the book goes from Alexander to Zenobia, and includes such prominent people as Lucullus, Raleigh, William Tell, and James Watt.... The illustrations show without overmuch seriousness the eminent individuals whose life stories are told.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Twenty-six historical personages ... are portrayed with accuracy, completeness, and much cleverness.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 384. D. 1, ‘05. 70w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 776. N. 18, ‘05. 90w.
=Neville, James J.= Letters of a self-made president. $1. Ogilvie.
The apparent object of these letters is to ridicule Roosevelt, his friends, and his official and unofficial acts. Altho names are transposed and facts perverted, there is no real attempt to disguise the identity of the executive who entertains Booker at dinner for the sake of the negro vote, and assembles the navy at Clam bay for the edification of a few visiting friends.
“Now and then the malice has a spice of wit, but generally speaking the letters of a self-made president are rather heavy.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 543. Ag. 19, ‘05. 220w.
=Nevinson, Henry W.= Books and personalities. *$1.50. Lane.
“The reviews and criticisms of which this book is composed deal with a varied company of literary personalities. The net is spread very wide. Great and small—Mr. Belloc and Browning, Goethe and Aubrey Beardsley, Æschylus and Mr. Yeats, Dolling and De Wet, Carlyle, Heine, and Mr. Le Gallienne, and many others—are gathered in. And in dealing with them all Mr. Nevinson either has his point of view, or manages to reflect, brightly enough, the general tendency of educated opinion.”—Ath.
“Readable and stimulating these short studies undoubtedly are.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 557. My. 6. 730w.
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton.
* + =Atlan.= 96: 848. D. ‘05. 390w.
“Mr. Nevinson has a charming and lucid style that cannot but give interest to his restrained thoughts.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 100w.
“He writes in a brisk, self-confident, effective way, with no lack of plausible generalizations (not based on painfully exhaustive collection of particulars) and a ready supply of apt illustrations. As short essays in criticism of the lighter sort, these chapters, despite a slight tendency to the dogmatic in their tone are excellent reading.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 91. Ag. 16, ‘05. 320w.
“We have read them all with interest—seldom, indeed, have met with a book of the kind which we were so unwilling to lay down—and many with much pleasure.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 924. Je. 24, ‘05. 260w.
=New, Edmund H.= Evesham. *50c. Dutton.
“Americans rarely see Evesham and the beautiful, broad vale in which it lies, although they are near it when they make, as all good Americans do, their Shakespeare pilgrimage. This little book, one of the ‘Temple topographies,’ is, with its line drawings and pleasant narrative, an introduction and an incentive to visit a charming countryside.”—Outlook.
“In this volume thorough justice is done to the buildings of a charming little Worcestershire town.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 247. Mr. 30, ‘05. 140w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 349. F. 4, ‘05. 50w.
=Newberry, Percy Edward, and Garstang, John.= Short history of ancient Egypt. **$1.20. Estes.
A small volume which gives a comprehensive sketch of the Egyptian monarchy from its founding to its disintegration, three thousand years later. The story is told in the light of the many important discoveries which have been made within the last decade. It is a book that will arouse the student’s interest in the subject and lead to the study of larger works.
“There is a painful lack of proper proportion. The presentation in the little book of the new results from the archaic age deserves consideration as a serious contribution. The American edition has some serious misprints.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 843. Jl. ‘05. 510w.
“They have written with exactness and clearness, and their product should offer the reader an attractive synopsis of the latest discoveries.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 70w.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 240. Ap. 1, ‘05. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Newell, William Wells.= Words for music: symphonic series. *$3. Small.
A little volume of brief lyrics of nature and life.
“The most noticeable fault of the pieces is found in the frequent omission of articles and other small words necessary to the construction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 66. Ag. 1, ‘05. 120w.
“In ‘Words for music,’ ... a mild and rather wordy mysticism sometimes bears poetic fruit in verse of a pleasing, gossamer-like tenuity.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 17. Jl. 6. ‘05. 190w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Musical studies: essays. *$1.50. Lane.
Mr. Newman’s fearless attitude toward music and composers results in an iconoclastic treatment of some of the old masters and a proportionately exalted consideration of others of more modern schools. In the latter class is Strauss to whom “Mr. Newman attributes ... pretty nearly everything except the creation of the world.... The essay on programme music is unquestionably the most lucid, original, and convincing discussion of that question ever printed.” (Nation.)
“Our author is a clever and thoughtful writer, and even those who differ from him will respect his frankly expressed opinions.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 251. Ag. 19. 280w.
* “His scholarship is good and his point of view established favorably for perspective. He writes frankly of old and new masters, and his comments are stimulating to the mind of the reader.” W. J. Henderson.
+ + =Atlan.= 96: 854. D. ‘05. 170w.
“Mr. Newman takes his work with vast seriousness and digs very deep. The subjects warrant such treatment, but as a result the reader must look for matter rather than manner.”
+ + — =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 100w.
“Mr. Newman also ventures to fly in the face of public opinion with a few pages of very depreciative remarks on Gounod’s ‘Faust.’ Here he is decidedly in error. In the other essays of this volume we find our author much more sane and satisfactory, and less self-contradictory.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 284. O. 5, ‘05. 1500w.
=Newman, Ernest.= Wagner. (Music of the masters ser.) $1. Brentano’s.
The average lover of music will find Wagner made comprehensible in Mr. Newman’s monograph; “not the whole Wagner,” but the “essential Wagner” as a musician and a dramatist is the author’s province. Following a chapter on Wagner’s development, each of his operas is studied in turn, and the really essential motives are given. A chronological table and bibliography are included.
“A refreshing independence of judgment.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 463. Je. 8, ‘05. 340w.
“It is stimulating and refreshing to come upon so strong and original and drastic a piece of criticism as he has delivered in this little book.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 308. My. 13, ‘05. 660w.
“Mr. Newman always has something to say that is worth saying, and he says it without indirection, uninfluenced by partisanship.” Richard Aldrich.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 448. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1190w.
=Newman, Eugene William. (Savoyard, pseud.).= Essays on men, things, and events, historical, personal, political. $2. Neale.
The sub-title includes the following list of men, who with associated events, “historical, personal, political,” are considered in this volume: Roscoe Conklin, Thaddeus Stevens, Matthew H. Carpenter, Andrew Johnson, John J. Ingalls, Seargent S. Prentiss, Oliver P. Morton, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Samuel J. Tilden. The family of Field, Marcus A. Hanna, Thomas B. Reed, Benjamin H. Hill, George F. Hoar, Frank Wolford, Stephen A. Douglass and Thomas C. Platt.
“The form on the other hand is very old-fashioned, with much embroidery of classical and Biblical allusion and a generous supply of adjectives of heroic size. Altogether people interested in men and politics, whatever their individual bias, can hardly fail to derive entertainment from Mr. Newman’s essays.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 19. Ja. 14, ‘05. 750w.
Nibelungenlied; tr. into rhymed English verse in the meter of the original by G. H. Needler. *$1.75. Holt.
The first metrical translation of this great epic into the English language will appeal to students and readers alike. The historical background of the work has been supplied in a full two-part introduction: the first of which treats of the Nibelungen saga, its history, development and forms; and the second, of the Nibelungenlied, and the various editions thru which it has passed.
“Mr. Needler does not show a very keen sense of rhythm nor a great command of language. His translation lacks case, and indulges in uncomfortable inversions.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 143. Jl. 29. 380w.
“The book is an interesting work of reference, the value of which is enhanced by a scholarly introduction.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 192. Ag. ‘05. 100w.
“What distinguishes this translation of the great German epic from all previous attempts is, in the first place, the faithful and happy reproduction of its metrical form. Professor Needler has added a succinct but adequate introduction ... altogether the best summary of the whole subject to be found in English.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 94. F. 2, ‘05. 500w.
“The author of this book says that his apology for presenting it is that none of the preceding translations reproduces the metrical form of the original. His book certainly justifies itself, and stands in no need of any apology. The scholarly introduction deserves unqualified praise, and is, indeed, quite a model of what such a work ought to be. At first sight the versification is not attractive, but the liking for it will be found to grow with increasing familiarity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 86. F. 11, ‘05. 510w.
“A very satisfactory piece of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 96. Ja. 7, ‘05. 50w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 250. F. ‘05. 80w.
=Nicholl, Edith M. (Mrs. Bowyer).= Human touch: a tale of the great Southwest. †$1.50. Lothrop.
This strenuous story tells of cattle feuds, train robberies, and kidnappers, and of David Kingdon unhappily married to a woman who leaves him and spends her life in travel. While she is on the continent David meets Sylvia and “the human touch” draws them together. The wife is reported lost at sea, Sylvia and David marry and live happily on the great cattle ranch until the first wife reappears. Heartbreaking scenes follow, the wife is selfish, but Sylvia and David are brave and at last are reunited thru the medium of the divorce court.
* — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 467. O. 7, 320w.
“In fact, it is a story of unusual excitement, and will hold the reader enthralled just so far as his taste may run in this kind of shotgun literature.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 307. My. 13, ‘05. 410w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w.
=Nicholson, Joseph Shield.= History of the English corn laws. $1. Scribner.
A volume which “emphasizes particularly the connection of the corn laws with British social legislation in general, and warns against the danger of appealing to historical precedents without taking into account all the circumstances of the case.... He makes it clear that, though the corn laws did not produce constant high prices, the fluctuations in price which they did produce were an evil both to the farmer and to the consumer.”—Nation.
“This volume, though avowedly prepared to meet the present discontents, is entirely free from partisanship.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 437. Je. 1, ‘05. 410w.
“The book is a useful treatment, in popular form, of a subject always of historical interest, and now closely connected with a topic of the day.”
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 229. Ag. ‘05. 220w.
* =Nicholson, Meredith.= House of a thousand candles. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The story of a young man whose grandfather has willed him the house of a thousand candles, which includes an Indiana estate, upon the condition that he live in the house a year, otherwise the estate goes to Marian. There is a villain, and there are secret passages, and other mysterious things, there is shooting and slugging, until the reader is prepared for anything, and cheerfully accepts the fact that Olivia, whom the heir loves, is really Marian, and is quite prepared at the end to greet the grandfather, who, it appears, is not dead after all.
* “A story bristling with adventure.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 905. D. 16, ‘05. 380w.
* “The story is told with spirit and the people in it are alive—in one case, even though dead.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 50w.
* =Nicoll, Rev. William Robertson (Claudius Clear, pseud.)= Garden of nuts; mystical expositions with an essay on Christian mysticism. $1.25. Armstrong.
“A brief series of articles dealing in detail with some texts in the Old Testament. The method of Dr. Nicoll’s interpretation is to allow Scripture to be the commentary on Scripture. Without deprecating modern criticism, he claims that his exposition moves in a region which criticism does not touch: ‘The great passages in the Word of God are timeless.’”—Ath.
* “These pages should commend themselves to many who have been struck by the sterility of much of the historical handling of the Bible which is now in vogue.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 722. N. 25. 90w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 888. D. 9, ‘05. 240w.
=Niemann, August.= The conquest of England; tr. by J. H. Freese. $1.50. Putnam.
A translation of “Der weltkrieg-deutsch traume,” which is graphically based upon the supposition of war between Germany and England. “For the dreams of the German, in the view of this author, are of overthrowing the English power, and of an imperial army taking triumphant possession of London.... The story, considered as a historical romance, is of a type familiar enough.... Throughout it is taken for granted that England is the arch-enemy of civilization, that its foreign policy is a complex network of rapacity and hypocrisy, and that it is deaf to the voice of the higher idealism.” (Dial). “Is related in a workmanlike manner. It is a fairly good story, and is curiously interesting from the way in which it represents, upon every possible occasion, the point of view of the German anglophobe.” W. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 127. F. 16, ‘05. 470w.
=Nitobe, Inazo.= Bushido: the soul of Japan. *$1.25. Putnam.
Nine editions of this book have appeared in Japan. Bushido is the Japanese feudal equivalent for chivalry, and signifies “the code of moral principles which the knights were required or instructed to observe.” “It embodies the maxims of educational training brought to bear on the Samurai, or warrior class of Japan, the class that throughout the feudal age, which ended only fifty years ago, set the standard to the whole people in manners, ideals of character, and mental and moral codes of obligation.”
“Is a misleading piece of special pleading. He makes out his case by partial statement and wholesale suppression.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 229. Ag. 19. 1510w.
“Professor Nitobe’s work is not exhaustive. It is the only work, however, on the subject given in a language of the West.” Adachi Kinnosuke.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 388. Ag. 17, ‘05. 430w.
* + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 573. S. 2, ‘05. 370w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 159. Jl. 29, ‘05. 180w.
“A delightfully written exposition of Japanese philosophic and social thought.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 120w.
+ + =Spec.= 95: 248. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1790w.
=Noble, Edward.= Edge of circumstance. †$1.50. Dodd.
“A sea story in which an English captain and a Scottish engineer contend against every ill-hap that could befall a cranky, theoretically-built steamship, owned by men who hypocritically profess to make her a co-operative enterprise embodying every new patent and labor-saving device, while they really mean to save money at the expense of the crew’s comfort and safety.”—Outlook.
“‘The edge of circumstance’ is a striking book, one to be read. Mr. Noble attracts immediate attention yet does not shout; he gives us exciting situations, yet leaves something to the imagination. Mr. Noble is too much of an artist to overload his picture.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 63. Ja. 21, ‘05. 230w.
* “In ‘The edge of circumstance’ Mr. Noble has created a book with the qualities of a masterpiece. The portrait of the derelict alone will go down as a wonder of sincere portrayal. The poetry of the things is here plain, founded on a knowledge sharper than fancy.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 754. N. 18, ‘05. 750w.
“It is a rarely good—even a great—book in some respects, and it seems destined to take high rank in the sea literature of its class.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 670. O. 14. ‘05. 990w.
“The author’s method is much like that of Joseph Conrad, but we miss Conrad’s glow of imagination.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 381. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* “A sea-story quite exceptional in vivid strength and well worth perusing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 763. D. ‘05. 30w.
“It is impossible to render full justice to Mr. Edward Noble’s striking story in this column.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 57. Ja. 14, ‘05. 710w.
=Noble, Esther Gideon.= Macbeth, a warning against superstition. $1. Badger, R: G.
Dwelling upon the strong negative lesson conveyed thruout the tragedy of Macbeth, viz., the warning against superstition, Macbeth himself is viewed in the light of one steeped in superstition, and the Weird sisters, whose material existence is denied, as doing no more “than ‘harp’ his fear aright.” “Shakespeare made Macbeth distinctly a man of thought, calculation, and caution. It is the abuse, the misdirection of this great power for thought which makes the tragedy,” so maintains the author of this monograph.
* + — =Critic.= 47: 187. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
=Noble, Rev. Franklin.= (comp.) Thoughts for the occasion: fraternal and benevolent; reference manual of historical data and facts; helpful in suggesting themes and in outlining addresses for the observance of timely or special occasions of the various orders. $2. Treat.
The book is divided into four parts which cover—Social and benevolent brotherhoods, Beneficiary and fraternal orders, Religious fraternities, and various orders and societies, and includes nearly all the fraternal organizations in America.
=Noldin, Hieronymus.= Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, intended especially for priests and candidates for priesthood; trans. from the Germ. by Rev. W. H. Kent. *$1.25. Benziger.
“A history of the cultus and observations upon its theological and ascetical importance.”—Cath. World.
“The historical sketch is brief but valuable. We think, however, that this curious evasion of the twelfth promise question will be the sole objection which devout clients of the League will make to this book.”
+ + — =Cath. World.= 81: 396. Je. ‘05. 590w.
* =Nordau, Max. Simon (Südfeld).= Dwarf’s spectacles and other fairy tales, tr. from the German by Mary J. Safford. †$1.50. Macmillan.
“The stories were told to Maxa, Mr. Nordau’s little daughter, from her fourth to her seventh birthday, and are translated for the benefit of other little ladies by Mary J. Safford. There are twenty stories in all, and they are about everything from beetles to fairies and from rosebushes to white mice. For instance ... there is a tragic account of a last year’s fly, which shows how sad it is to outlive one’s generation; there is a story of an ungrateful mouse; and a doll that was excessively haughty—in fact, there are stories about everything.... Young people—and even older ones—will read with breathless interest. The book is illustrated with a number of line drawings.”—N. Y. Times.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1385. D. 14, ‘05. 50w.
* “Is worthy to be read and loved by many other children for its originality, its pleasant style, and its gentle lessons with touches of deeper meaning.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 503. D. 21, ‘05. 40w.
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 270w.
* “The grown-up reader is as pleased as the child—with everything but the pictures.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
=Nordenskjöld, Nils Otto Gustav, and Andersson, Dr. Johan Gunnar.= Antarctica; or, Two years amongst the ice of the South pole. *$5. Macmillan.
“It will be remembered that the Nordenskjöld expedition, in the vessel Antarctic, left Europe in the summer of 1901, and spent the following Antarctic winter in the South polar regions.... The Antarctic was caught in the ice, ‘nipped’ and sunk, and it took two relief parties to finally rescue Dr. Nordenskjöld and his followers. Notwithstanding the loss of the vessel, with many of the scientific notes, much of the geographical and other scientific results were saved.... This volume is Dr. Nordenskjöld’s own story (prepared in collaboration with Dr. Andersson and Captain Larsen, of the Antarctic).”—R. of Rs.
“In the rapidly increasing literature of Polar enterprise Dr. Nordenskjöld’s volume will take a high place. The translator, who has preferred to be anonymous, has performed his task with success.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 466. Ap. 15. 2250w.
“It is mainly as a narrative that the book must be judged, for it contains little of scientific interest.” Albert White Vorse.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 171. O. ‘05. 1300w.
“Their story is told in a sufficiently attractive fashion, tho it lacks somewhat of the personal touch that ordinarily vivifies narratives of polar exploration.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 455. Ag. 24, ‘05. 920w.
“To the general reader, the book’s main interest will lie in ... its story of romantic adventure. It is as fascinating reading as Robinson Crusoe. Antarctic scenery and natural phenomena are vividly portrayed.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 31: 427. S. 23, ‘05. 720w.
“The story is vividly told, and the quaint English of the translator rather adds to than detracts from the reader’s enjoyment and interest. The illustration of the work is excellent; the index and maps are all that could be asked.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 39. Jl. 13, ‘05. 1500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 345. My. 27, ‘05. 330w.
“A simple but effective account.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 690. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 124. Jl. ‘05. 310w.
+ + + =Sat. R.= 99: 708. My. 27, ‘05. 1340w.
=Norris, H. L.= Rice papers; stories and sketches of life in China. †$1.50. Longmans.
In order to while away the leisure hours of a three years’ service in China, the author wrote these nine stories of the Chinese as he saw them, placid and cruel, childlike and shrewd. He has created Hong, the gate-keeper, who spins marvelous yarns to a youthful audience of two, and other characters, which might be real, but are not.
+ =Acad.= 68: 241. Mr. 11, ‘05. 250w.
“He has turned out capital stories, witty, satirical, yet seemingly jumping with facts, even though he says the stories are not true. They are better than true; they are well-found. Nine stories ... all good, all worth reading and re-reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 410w.
“But Mr. Norris as a critic is perhaps too irresponsible to carry much weight. His attitude is primarily that of the amused onlooker, and his aim is plainly to entertain rather than to instruct. In this he is almost uniformly successful.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 556. Ap. 15, ‘05. 660w.
=Norris, William Edward.= Barham of Beltana. †$1.50. Longmans.
Barham of Beltana is a prominent Australian and the love story centers about his son and daughter and the son and daughter of Mr. March, an Englishman. The book is full of complications, obstacles and surprises, into which eccentric old Lady Warden and her secret, two huge mastiffs, and a ghost enter.
“The scenes are pleasantly varied, the situations quietly effective, and the characters consistent though not vital. The story is readable because it runs smoothly from start to finish, and the interest is allowed to accumulate cleverly.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 240. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.
“The story is not particularly well-written.”
— + =Arena.= 34: 335. S. ‘05. 170w.
* “There seems almost as little to say against ‘Barham of Beltana’ as in its favour.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 524. Ap. 29. 200w.
“Is fresh, vigorous, interesting; original in its situations, unusually clever in its dialogue. A thoroughly enjoyable book.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 204. Ap. 1, ‘05. 710w.
“This author always writes pleasantly, and entirely in unexceptionable English, but the humor and story-interest which his early books had are here reflected only in a faint and feeble light.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 855. Ap. 1, ‘05. 40w.
“Mr. Norris is always readable. The present novel contrives to avoid the sameness from which some of Mr. Norris’s recent books have suffered.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 444. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Norris, William Edward.= Embarrassing orphan; il. by Steeple Davis. $1. Winston.
A South American millionaire leaves his daughter to her uncle, Sir Edward Denne, with instruction that she and every one else are to be kept in ignorance of the fact that she is wealthy until she is happily engaged. His object is to save her from fortune hunters, but as it happens, this provision leads her into refusing the right man. All ends well, however, through the efforts of her uncle.
“The story is ingeniously complicated and amusing, though after all somewhat monotonous.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 378. Je. 10, ‘05. 350w.
“There are a few dry passages that detract somewhat from the cleverness of the balance.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 93. Jl. 15, ‘05. 90w.
=North, Sidney H.= Oil fuel; its supply, composition and application. *$1.75. Lippincott.
“A concise and valuable record of the developments in the use of liquid fuel for the generation of power ... he deals with the distribution and sources of supply of petroleum ... the economic aspect of liquid fuel ... the absolute economy as a fuel ... the chemical composition of fuel oils ... conditions of combustion in oil furnaces.... Turning from consideration of the oil itself to the methods of burning it, the author gives a very useful historical summary of the early experiments down to the year 1883.... A chapter is then devoted to modern burners and methods.... [There are chapters upon] the use of oil fuel for marine and naval purposes, [and] oil fuel in locomotives.”—Nature.
“The whole work compares very favorably indeed with the far more pretentious treatise on the subject which until now has been the only book of reference.”
+ + + =Nature.= 71: 531. Ap. 6, ‘05. 760w.
* =North, Simon Newton Dexter.= “Old Greek,” an old-time professor in an old-fashioned college; a memoir of Edward North, with selections from his lectures. **$3.50. McClure.
“‘Old Greek’ was the nickname, or, more correctly speaking, the pet name, by which Edward North, the professor of Greek [for fifty-eight years] was known to the students and alumni of Hamilton college. This volume, the primary object of which is a biography of Professor North, will certainly serve as an illuminating document to explain the genesis of the old-fashioned college in the United States, and the reasons for its growth and persistence.”—Nation.
* + =Nation.= 81: 427. N. 23, ‘05. 2020w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 674. O. 14, ‘05. 690w.
=Noussanne, Henri de.= The kaiser as he is; or, The real William II.; tr. from the French by Walter Littlefield. **$1.25. Putnam.
From the point of view of one “who does not like the Germans and hardly seeks to conceal his contempt for distinctive German qualities,” we have an intimate, graphic, much biased, and at times sarcastic sketch of the German emperor, including domestic, social, political, national and international relations. There are chapters dealing with Germany at the accession of William II.; with the manner in which “this young man” rid himself of Bismarck; the imperial treatment of the Poles; William II. and socialism; William II. as a family man, as guest and landlord, at home and on his travels, as head of the army, as bandmaster, painter, patron, etc.
“It is sensational journalism in all its horror. In the less objectionable portions of the book there is a mixture of readable gossip, more or less well founded, with mere padding.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 398. Ap. 1. 140w.
“The translator has, in general, done his work acceptably, though numerous misprints and mistakes in capitalization are to be noted, and there are many minor errors of statement that might well have been corrected in the English version. The chief objection to the book is, however, the prejudice of the author.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 274. Ap. 16. ‘05. 230w.
“Pity it is that M. de Noussanne did not use a finer satirical pen and a less spiteful, even tho he has given evidence as to the healing of the Sedan wound.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 725. Mr. 30, ‘05. 180w.
“There is obvious malice, obvious Gallic animus, obvious indulgence of a spirit of levity and mockery, obvious hospitality to anecdotes in which the kaiser is a figure of comic opera. Mr. Littlefield, whose translation is at many points very happy and who has caught the spirit of the whole excellently, regards the more serious parts of the book with perhaps a little too much favor.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 100. F. 18, ‘05. 1570w.
“As a tirade, an example of skilful satire of the boulevard type, it is a masterpiece; as sober biography or character analysis, it is worth nothing.”
— =Pub. Opin.= 39: 26. Jl. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“A very witty and keen arraignment of Kaiser William.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 10: 512. Ap. ‘05. 110w.
“M. de Noussanne shows us the man behind the monarch, but spares the relation of court tattle and backstairs scandal.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 475. S. ‘05. 170w.
=Noyes, Ella.= Story of Ferrara. $2; lea. $2.50. Macmillan.
“The city that was the birthplace of Savonarola, the home of Ariosto, and the refuge of Tasso, will never be wholly forgotten.... The author devotes about two-thirds of her book to the history of the city.... The whole account centres about the ruling family of Este.... In the last third of the book we are given a descriptive view of the city, its palaces, pictures, streets, churches, and abbeys. In forming an idea of what remains of Ferrara’s greatness, the reader is aided by a number of interesting illustrations drawn by Miss Dora Noyes.”—Dial.
“A readable book and a faithful guide to the city’s antiquities, but not a history, in the large sense, admitting us to the council of the fates.” Ferdinand Schwill.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 138. O. ‘05. 710w.
“The work is written in easy, dignified English, the narrative is interesting, and the historian displays good taste and judgment both in her choice and her rejection of materials.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 157. Mr. 1, ‘05. 360w.
“So comprehensive is the writer’s grasp of her subject that her little volume might well be called a microcosm of the renaissance. It is hard to do justice to Miss Noyes’s exquisite style and to the penetration which comprehends the significance of the motley manifestations of the vivid, passionate life of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 899. Ap. 20, ‘05. 290w.
“The style is somewhat spiritless. At best, it will prove an authoritative guide for the student tourist who has much time to spend in Ferrara.” Walter Littlefield.
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 588. S. 9, ‘05. 500w.
=Noyes, Walter Chadwick.= American railroad rates. **$1.50. Little.
The author deals with the subject of freight rates rather than passenger fares, showing how rates are made, and how they should be made, examines the questions of classification and discrimination, considers the effect of free competition on the one hand and consolidation on the other, shows the movement of rates for the last forty years, and compares American rates with those of foreign countries.
O
=“O,” pseud.= See Yellow war.
=O., E. G.= Egomet. *$1.25. Lane.
A collection of fifty-three essays which “are simply the book-talk of a book-lover, that and nothing more.” In them E. G. O. frankly states his likes and dislikes, but allows his readers to agree or disagree with him, just as they choose.
“They have the double merit of being sincere in themselves and of being simply and naturally set down.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 79. Ja. 14. 320w.
“The author makes no attempt to be profound, but he succeeds in interesting even where he does not carry conviction with the statement of his opinions. He is delightfully frank, and does not hesitate to put forth various literary heresies.”
+ =Boston Evening Transcript.= :7. F. 10, ‘05. 120w.
“His manifest sincerity in all his literary judgments, and his abounding enthusiasm for a wide range of good books make his chapters delightful reading.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 156. Mr. 1, ‘05. 480w.
=Oates, William C.= War between the Union and the Confederacy, and its lost opportunities. *$3. Neale.
“This is chiefly of interest to military students of the Civil war as a criticism of the action of President Davis of the Confederacy, the Confederate congress, and Confederate general officers in the field, with the object of showing that under other management the South might have won.”—Outlook.
“Rambling and careless in style, frequently in error as to events, sometimes grotesque in opinions and occasionally prejudiced against individuals. In one sense is worthless and in another is of the highest importance as a revelation of men.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 264. S. 28, ‘05. 2710w.
“Much matter which the future historian will be glad of. The General himself speaks frankly as a partisan.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 332. My. 20, ‘05. 530w.
=Outlook.= 79: 654. Mr. 11, ‘05. 60w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Hernando Cortés, conqueror of Mexico. **$1. Harper.
“Despite its title. Mr. Ober’s book comes under the category of history rather than biography, for by far the greater portion is devoted to the three years’ campaigning which ended in the Spanish conquest of Mexico.... It may be commended to those desirous of obtaining a brief, readable account of the conquest and an impartial idea of the leading figure therein. An especially interesting feature is the identification by its author (who has traveled widely in Latin-American countries) of scenes and relics associated with the New World exploits of Cortés.”—Outlook.
* “Readable it certainly is, to one who is not fastidious regarding the historical accuracy of the book he is reading.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 313. N. 16, ‘05. 220w.
* “However the telling is well enough, and the facts seem sufficient for the purpose in hand. Except for that purpose the book strikes one as distinctly superfluous.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 785. N. 18, ‘05. 250w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 120w.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= Our West Indian neighbors. **$2.50; ¾ lev. **$5. Pott.
The author, who has visited and studied the islands in 1879-1880, who was commissioner to the world’s fair of 1891 from the West Indies, and who has furthered his knowledge of them in late years, gives an account of the islands of the Caribbean sea, “America’s Mediterranean,” their picturesque features, fascinating history, and attractions for the traveler, nature-lover, and pleasure-seeker.
“Many quaint and little known facts are recorded, but the total result is very unsatisfactory. The account is rambling and superficial.”
— =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 134. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
“A timely and good account of the islands of the Caribbean sea.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 191. F. ‘05. 90w.
“One of the most complete and authoritative of recent books.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 100w.
=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson.= Abraham Lincoln. **$1.25. Jacobs.
A full account in compact form of the development of a great man and the circumstances which favored this development. The chief battles which mark the course of the Civil war are treated rather summarily. The book deals essentially with the man, his motives, and personality, and the nation’s struggle forms an impressionistic back-ground.
“This double sectionalism and these standards of elegance are fatal to the usefulness of a book which does not pretend to a ‘vast amount of research into sources not before used,’ and which presents few new ideas. Nor is the execution faultless.” Carl Russell Fish.
+ — — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 901. Jl. ‘05. 630w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 188. F. ‘05. 30w.
“The author has produced a well-balanced, readable, compact book, that gives the important facts of Lincoln’s life. He has brought to his work historical training and a practised hand.”
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 95. F. 1, ‘05. 230w.
“Dr. Oberholtzer writes clearly and forcibly for the most part, but with an occasional verbal arrangement that makes his meaning hard to understand. The ‘Bibliography’ of this volume is remarkable for its inadequacy. Dr. Oberholtzer’s predilection is for such memoirs as serve the more sordid and vulgarizing conception of Lincoln’s character.”
— — + =Nation.= 80: 17. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1090w.
“No man, whichever his side of the fence can fail to find much pleasure and satisfaction in contemplating Mr. Lincoln in the angle of view in which Mr. Oberholtzer has chosen to look at him. The author manages as a rule to be astonishingly fair to both sides and to get, in most cases, very close to the truth. There are lapses of course. Times, too, when in his eagerness to make bold generalizations the author misses things he should have considered.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 36. Ja. 21, ‘05. 640w.
* =O’Brien, William.= Recollections. **$3.50. Macmillan.
“William O’Brien, the energetic Irish member of the British Parliament ... reveals a most interesting and complex personality in this work. Many of this vigorous fighter’s recollections concern the fierce, endless warfare over Ireland’s rights and wrongs. But he was a poet in his youth. He has strong sympathies with the Gaelic revival, he was an ardent theatregoer in his young manhood, and is still, it seems, in the intervals when the Irish contingent in the House of Commons is not active, a dreamer of brave dreams.”—N. Y. Times.
* “Mr. O’Brien writes as a rule in scholarly fashion; but there are some passages which fail conspicuously when so considered.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 795. D. 9 690w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “Although written from a standpoint differing somewhat from that of Mr. McCarthy’s reminiscences, they recall the latter, not simply in subject matter, but in tone and treatment. They are pervaded by the same geniality, quiet dignity, pathos, tenderness, humor, and unfailing optimism.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 16, ‘05. 300w.
=O’Connor, Mary Hamilton.= Vanishing Swede. $1.25. Cooke.
“The story has to do with the discovery of a long-lost silver mine, the ‘Vanishing Swede,’ the finding of which was preceded by many adventures, hairbreadth escapes from death by the wild beasts of the forests, and leads up to the happiness of the young brother and sister, who are the principal characters in the story, and of another couple. The mysterious character is the Leather hermit, who turns out to be the man who had discovered the silver mine.”—N. Y. Times.
“The humor of the ‘Vanishing Swede’ is of the primitive sort that springs only from youth and health; it is not humor, indeed, so much as animal spirits.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 382. O. ‘05. 150w.
“Interesting story of pluck and adventure in the forests of Oregon.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 299. My 6, ‘05. 150w.
=Oertel, Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm (W. D. Von Horn, pseud.).= Maria Theresa; tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
“Masculinity of intellect, together with a strength and wisdom, a firmness yet kindliness of disposition which but few men have manifested” are gifts which enabled Maria Theresa to take her place among the famous queens of the world. How she benefited her realm by strengthening its laws and bringing about wise reforms is sketched in a manner to interest young readers. The volume belongs to “Life stories for young people.”
=O’Higgins, Harvey Jerrold.= Smoke-eaters. $1.50. Century.
Thru his experience on a New York newspaper, the author learned to know and admire the men of the fire department, and in the “Smoke-eaters” he has written an epic of the city firemen, a story of danger and excitement. He follows the fortunes of a certain hook-and-ladder crew and thru the smoke and flame their actual characters reveal themselves, real and elemental. Captain Meaghan, who earns his pension by thirty-five years of gallant service, Lieutenant Gallagher, who wins a reputation and his chief’s adopted daughter, and Sergeant Pim, whose grim humor relieves many a tense moment, are as vivid as their flaming background.
“They are told with extraordinary simplicity, with no glow of rhetoric or splash of color, but they carry complete conviction.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 478. My. ‘05. 90w.
“At last the American fireman has had something like justice done him in our literature.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 293. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.
“This is a good book for boys, altho not designed especially for young readers. It contains much healthful excitement, a mass of information, and many lessons in manliness, but no false bravado.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 224. Ag. 12. ‘05. 820w.
“It is not too much to say that he has written the epic of the New York firemen, and not only are they the best sort of stories about firemen, but some of them would stand as models of all that any short stories should be—so compact, so restrained, and yet possessed of a vigor and force that keep expectation keyed to the highest tension.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 770w.
“The stories are full of action, fine character-drawing, and humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 704. Mr. 18, ‘05. 60w.
+ =Reader.= 6: 592. O. ‘05. 210w.
=Okakura-Kakuzo.= Awakening of Japan. *$1.20. Century.
Assuming that the West has as much to unlearn about the East as the East has to learn about the West, the author frames his evolutionary study for general enlightenment. He answers the question “From what sources are drawn the intellectual and moral qualities which have enabled the present generation of statesmen, citizens, soldiers and sailors, under an able emperor, to enter suddenly, as a first class liberal power, into the company of nations?” The sketch touches the conditioning factors of Japanese development from the period of isolation during the dark Night of Asia, to the present period which the author characterizes as the “dusk of humanity.” He shows Japan in her chrysalis state when the shogunate exercised the powers of government, in her rallying state when the power of the shoguns was overthrown, and in her state of a developing national conscience which made ready the way for Commodore Perry and the western aid in the restoration. The author’s virility, enthusiasm and conscience are stamped upon every page.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 176. F. 25, ‘05. 290w.
“He is a poet, a philosopher and a historian, and he possesses in no small degree an intimate knowledge of Occidental history and the trend of our civilization, while his knowledge of our language enables him to write of The awakening of Japan with the skill of a master of English. For these reasons this work is a volume that no Occidental student of the Orient can afford to slight.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 100. Ja. ‘05. 4950w.
“With Mr. Kakuzo’s views on the older civilization of Japan we entirely disagree. Even his chronology is wrong by a thousand years.”
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 396. Ap. 1. 870w.
“The present work is simpler and more concrete than ‘The ideals of the East;’ in its purely literary qualities it would do credit to an author writing his own tongue. Now that Lafcadio Hearn is dead, Mr. Okakura may be regarded as the foremost interpreter of his people to the western world; an interpreter not less subtle, and obviously more authoritative.” R. B.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 282. Mr. ‘05. 530w.
“‘The awakening of Japan’ is marked by the same epigrammatic style and forceful utterance that characterize ‘The ideals of the East.’” Frederick W. Gookin.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 40. Ja. 16, ‘05. 810w.
“It is a story of the new Nippon after the brilliant and unscholarly fashion of Carlyle.” Adachi Kinnosuké.
+ =Ind.= 59: 388. Ag. 17, ‘05. 500w.
“One of the best volumes, in brief compass, on Japanese historical development, and answering the question, What has enabled the Japanese people to escape the fate of the other Asiatic nations when in contact with the West? is ‘The awakening of Japan.’ He writes in English with a broad culture.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 124. Ja. ‘05. 170w.
“No more fascinating book on Japan, or one bearing more distinctly the character of a multum in parvo, has been produced than this.”
+ + + =Spec.= 94: 619. Ap. 29, ‘05. 280w.
=Okakura-Yoshisaburo.= Japanese spirit; with an introd. by George Meredith. **$1. Pott.
“The volume consists of reproductions of lectures delivered by Mr. Okakura at the University of London. The essays take up and discuss most of the peculiarly characteristic national traits of the Japanese people.”—R. of Rs.
=Acad.= 68: 599. Je. 3, ‘05. 420w.
“They are illuminating and instructive, but lack the literary quality of the two books by the author’s brother.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 380. O. ‘05. 60w.
“This book is not so strong or original as ‘The awakening of Japan,’ but it seems to do more justice to the work and influence of Buddhism as the mother and nurse of Japanese civilization.” Wm. Elliot Griffis.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 63. Ag. 1, ‘05. 600w.
“His little volume has the distinctive characteristics of breadth, lucidity, and felicity of expression which gained for the ‘Ideals’ such a wide and appreciative audience in this country.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 31: 625. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 408. Je. 17, ‘05. 240w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 60w.
“To philosophic capacity he adds those of criticism and of logical arrangement of his materials, all of which combined have enabled him to produce a clear, succinct and well-expressed essay on his subject.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 151. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1050w.
“Really valuable analysis.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 915. Je. 24, ‘05. 2450w.
=Okey, Thomas.= Story of Venice. $2. Macmillan.
A volume in the “Mediaeval towns” series. The history of Venice as an independent state, covering a period of more than a thousand years, and including an account of Venetian art. The second part of the volume describes the Venice of to-day, dividing it into twenty sections and making the description a practical one for the use of travellers. There are illustrations by Nelly Erickson.
“Will be acceptable both to travellers and students.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 271. Mr. 18, ‘05. 330w.
“This little work is a model of clear and concise narrative. The author knows how to make the most of his subject and tells his tale in a very attractive way.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 192. Je. 16, ‘05. 850w.
“The story is told compactly, but with sufficient fullness.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 909. Ap. 8, ‘05. 130w.
“Such a book is a boon to many men, who will find it concise but not perfunctory, learned but never dull.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 346. S. 9, ‘05. 320w.
“He has had no easy task in compressing into the limits of even the larger volumes of this series so great a mass of material; and he has performed it with skill and success.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 333. Mr. 4, ‘05. 330w.
=Older, Mrs. Fremont.= Giants. †$1.50. Appleton.
“One giant is an oil trust magnate; the other a young man who opposes him. Scenes are laid in ‘Oilville,’ California, and New York, where the young man has carried a reform campaign and become district attorney. The book falls in with a popular tone of antagonism to trusts as throttling competition.”—Outlook.
* “The whole narration is pitched in the highest key of sensationalism, and the figures that take part in it have but slight resemblance to real human beings.” Wm. M. Payne.
— =Dial.= 39: 308. N. 16, ‘05. 370w.
“Some readers will consider it rabid, sensational trash; others a blow on the right side.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 382. O. 14, ‘05. 60w.
=Olmsted, Frederick Law.= A journey in the seaboard slave states. 2v. *$5. Putnam.
A series of letters written for the New York Times during a three months’ trip in 1852-3. These letters were revised and published in 1856, and are now issued again in a two-volume edition. They contain an account of the author’s impressions of the southern people, black and white, of their institutions, and their social, political, and industrial economy.
“They are like faithful daguerreotypes of the worst features of southern civilization. The author’s spirit was so fiercely prejudiced against the South....”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 382. F. 16, ‘05. 1150w.
“Occasionally one finds evidence of partisan feeling, but in the main the story reads well, giving a distinct impression of a fair-minded observer anxious to see just how things are, and equally anxious to make a record of actual conditions.” Francis W. Shepardson.
+ + — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 610. S. ‘05. 520w.
=Oman, Charles (William) Chadwick.= Seven Roman statesmen of the later Republic. *$1.60. Longmans.
“The seven statesmen are the two Gracchi, Sulla, Crassus, the younger Cato, Pompey, and Caesar. Their lives ... completely cover the last century of Rome’s ancien régime; or, more precisely, they cover the course of the Roman revolution.... Each of Mr. Oman’s seven statesmen, with the exception of Cato, ... represented the monarchial principle, each more distinctly than his predecessor. Thus the true meaning of the whole process, ... may be brought out by concentrating attention upon the personal element.”—Am. Hist. R.
“Although the cardinal facts of the story are common property and allow of no radically new explanation, yet they are invested with new interest by Mr. Oman’s literary skill, his graphic and often colloquial style, his genial and pungent wit—as of the Oxford common-room, his thoroughly individual appreciation of each of the leading figures, and his presentation of the whole movement in modern and realistic terms.” Henry A. Sill.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 622. Ap. ‘05. 1800w.
One hundred best American poems, selected by John R. Howard. 35c. Crowell.
These poems are selected from the works of sixty-four American poets. All living authors have been excluded and the editor does not claim that he has chosen the one hundred best poems, but one hundred from among the best. The selections are given in chronological order, beginning with Philip Freneau (1752-1832) and closing with Richard Hovey, who died in 1900. An index of authors and another of first lines gives easy access to any poem.
* — =Nation.= 81: 484. D. 14, ‘05. 70w.
* “The selection, as a whole, is very satisfactory.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 630. N. 11, ‘05. 340w.
* “One may quarrel with some of the selections ... but it can hardly be said that they do not all deserve praise and preservation.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 732. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
Opal. $1.25. Houghton.
An unusual story of a living opal, a woman of wondrous beauty, who feels “everything a little, but nothing much,” and who is a clever reflection of each personality with whom she comes in contact, “a thousand women in one.” Then there is the “one woman in a thousand,” strong and homely, whose “character and features are at constant warfare.” And there is the man in whom lay the possibilities which might make of him either “a leader of men or a follower of women.” This is the important material. Boston and the other characters are mere background. The real woman loves the man, but gives him the opal because she fancies it will make him happy. It is the usual story of the unlucky stone which brings misfortune to the donor and possessor; and the iridescent girl, with no more evil intent than the gem itself, wrecks the lives of all who come in intimate contact with her. In the end, when what she has done is legally undone, the finer qualities of the real woman’s character keep her from her heart’s desire.
* “Written with such marked individuality of style.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 270. My. ‘05. 320w.
+ — =Critic.= 47: 94. Jl. ‘05. 140w.
“The argument is unusual, and it is strikingly presented. It seems, however, to be a theme too extensive for treatment so brief, and there are other evidences, slight but convincing, of lack of craftsmanship.”
+ — =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1. ‘05. 200w.
“Such a flat, foolish and unconvincing creature has, therefore, no reason for existence, at least not in a novel.”
— =Ind.= 58: 1009. My. 4, ‘05. 200w.
“Of unusual interest and originality. The women are admirably drawn, both of them, but the character of ‘the opal’ is a bit of portraiture quite unique.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 140. Mr. 4. ‘05. 380w.
“Most of the story is made up of conversation, which is entertaining. The action is rapid.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“The development of the story is skilfully managed, the conversations as a rule are very entertaining, and the whole book has the touch of a bright, keen, thoroughly trained woman, not by nature a novelist, but able to turn her hand to the writing of fiction with unusual adroitness both of judgment and skill.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 120w.
“Is unusually witty and readable.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 772. Ap. 1, ‘05. 110w.
“The treatment meets the theme but half way. It ought to be a masterpiece and it is not.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 243. Jl. ‘05. 200w.
=Oppenheim, E. Phillips.= Master mummer. †$1.50. Little.
A plotting archduchess hides her orphaned niece, direct heir to the family’s millions, away in a convent, and substitutes her own daughter’s claim to the fortune. By merest chance a young author living a struggling bohemian life becomes the protector of the unfortunate girl as she emerges into the world for a brief moment. His efforts are strongly seconded by the “master mummer” a great actor, who had loved the girl’s mother. Together they foil every attempt of the arch-plotters, and bring about well-merited happiness.
“It has an ingenious plot, and a steady stream of romantic and dramatic incident; he writes well, too, without exaggeration, and with pretty touches of sentiment. In construction, management, style, and variety of incident, we can recommend ‘The master mummer’ as one of the best stories of its kind that has appeared for some time.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 420. Ap. 15, ‘05. 200w.
“The book has the exciting and the dramatic elements that will render it popular with a large class of readers who are less critical about the form, presentation and probability of a tale than they are about its absorbing interest.”
+ — =Arena.= 34: 217. Ag. ‘05. 840w.
— + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 492. Ap. 15. 240w.
“Not that there is anything extraordinary or remarkable or great or strong or wise or literary about it—it’s just a good story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 470w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 140w.
“The story is frank melodrama, but is readable in its own particular line.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 754. My. 20, ‘05. 180w.
=Oppenheim, Edward Phillips.= Mysterious Mr. Sabin. $1.50. Little.
Mr. Oppenheim’s former books, “A prince of sinners,” and “Anna, the adventuress,” as well as the present story, make an incognito personage the central figure. The mystery in each case is the sort to be dealt with non-professionally. The mysterious Mr. Sabin is an unscrupulous French royalist who aids the German government in a conspiracy of war against England. His part in the plot is that of securing valuable papers recording the coast defenses of England, for which services he demands Germany’s conquest of France, and the restoration of the monarchy in the person of Prince Henri and his cousin, Helene of Bourbon. The coveted papers are the guarded possession of an English admiral “partly crazed by the tragic destruction of the Victoria, but still so profoundly wise on naval matters and coast defenses that the spies of rival empires lay siege to a study in which he works at plans to save his country.” Princess Helene figures in a pretty romance which in spite of threatening intrigue keeps free from politics and diplomatic complications.
“It is one of the most clever mystery tales of recent years, abounding in highly dramatic situations, with a strong and well-sustained love interest. In the present story there are many situations and happenings that are highly improbable, and in some instances practically impossible. Barring this grave fault, however, the story is almost all that the lover of romantic fiction could desire.”
+ + — =Arena.= 33: 564. My. ‘05. 520w.
“We have the impression that the tale is, in fact, not a new one; however, it is not bad of its kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 102. F. 18, ‘05. 480w.
“The book has more thrills and less probability to the square inch of text than can be found anywhere outside the pages of a dime novel.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 256. F. 18, ‘05. 280w.
“Skilful in plot.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 619. Ap. ‘05. 500w.
“It is all glaringly impossible, yet not without power or real fascination.”
+ — =R. of Rs.= 31: 757. Je. ‘05. 110w.
=Oppenheim, Lassa.= International law. *$6.50. Longmans.
This, the first of a two-volume treatise, deals with international law in time of peace. An introduction discussing the foundation and development of the law of nations is followed by four parts: States as subjects of the laws of nations; State territory, the open sea, and individuals as the objects of the laws of nations; Diplomatic envoys, and the like, as agents of states in their international relations; and International transactions. The work aims to be an elementary text.
“Taken all in all, Mr. Oppenheim has given us the best treatment of the Law of Peace that we have as yet had.” Leo S. Rowe.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 610. S. ‘05. 280w.
“The merit of the volume is that it presents a fair, well-balanced summary of accepted results, and that it puts the reader in touch with the best modern literature of the subject.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 158. My. 19, ‘05. 450w.
=Orcutt, William Dana.= Flower of destiny: an episode of the second empire; with il. by Charlotte Weber. †$1.25. McClurg.
A charmingly told story of the romance of Napoleon III. and Mlle. Eugénie de Montijo which ends with the crown of violets in the forest of Compiégne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 293. Je. 1, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 295. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
“Altogether makes a pretty little gift to carry with one on a summer vacation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
“A pretty romance.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 30w.
“But great names of themselves do not make a story, and in ‘The flower of destiny’ we have little else to look to.”
— =Reader.= 6: 478. S. ‘05. 110w.
=Orczy, Baroness.= Scarlet pimpernel. †$1.50. Putnam.
“The Scarlet pimpernel is the leader of a little band of titled young Englishmen who make it their business—and pleasure—during the reign of terror to assist condemned or suspected emigrés to escape to England. An interesting complication arises when the young Frenchwoman married to the lazy, careless English lord finds that in putting the French agent on the trail of the scarlet pimpernel to save her brother’s life she has in reality condemned her husband to death. Of course, he doesn’t die, and of course they all, or most of all, lived happily ever after.”—Pub. Opin.
“A thrilling story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 671. O. 14, ‘05. 300w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 506. O. 14, ‘05. 200w.
* “A melodramatic but picturesque and well told tale.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 315. S. 2, ‘05. 80w.
=Osborn, Frank C.= Osborn’s tables of moments of inertia and squares of radii gyration, to which have been added tables of the working strengths of steel columns, the working strengths of timber beams and columns, standard loads and unit stresses and constants for determining stresses in swing bridges. $3. Osborn eng. co., Cleveland, O.
A thoroly modernized edition based upon the work of fifteen years ago.
“Though it does not meet all the needs of the structural designer in its specific field, it promises to be a useful desk companion and to regain much of its former prestige.”
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 638. Je. 15, ‘05. 440w.
=Osborn, Hartwell, and others.= Trials and triumphs: the record of the Fifty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. *$2.50. McClurg.
“The Fifty-fifth Ohio was recruited in Huron county (of which Norwalk is the county-seat), after the reverses at Bull Run had stirred the North to greater efforts; it had its full share of the campaigns in Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia, and of the terrible work at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. This is related with clearness and graphic power by Captain Osborn; and, besides the narrative, the book is unusually complete in regimental statistics, sketches of officers and citizens, and personal notes and recollections of soldiers. Photographs, both ‘wartime’ and modern, have been reproduced in profusion.”—Dial.
“The work is in every way a real contribution to the literature of the great struggle.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 157. Mr. 1, ‘05. 210w.
“Its record presents a good picture of the most stirring events of the war. East and West.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 112. F. 9. ‘05. 390w.
“It is a book of incomparable interest to the veterans of the old command, of considerable value to historians, and not without interest also for the general reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 467. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1200w.
* =Osbourne, Lloyd.= Baby Bullet, the bubble of destiny. †$1.50. Appleton.
“Baby Bullet is a motor car, a fifteenth hand ‘crock’ of early French design, joyfully presented to two American ladies, a girl and a schoolmarm, who are discovered by the roadside wearily enjoying a tramp in England. The donor ... runs away lest his gift should be thrust back upon him. Baby is in a state of sulks, and the two Americans climb into her, and hire a carter to tow them behind a furniture van. At cross-roads they meet another car, a gigantic and glorious machine, with the power of sixty horses, unfortunately unavailable because her mécanicien has forgotten the gasolene.... The American owner of the big car borrows petrol from the American owners of the little, and tows them in exchange. The result is a week of wild romance and a thoroughly amusing book.”—Acad.
* “The light dexterous writing of the book pleases us like clever juggling.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 1231. N. 25, ‘05. 360w.
* “The narrative is ingeniously contrived and ought to appeal to a large public.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 60w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 380. O. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* “The story abounds in slang and is neither exciting nor amusing.”
— =Sat. R.= 100: 689. N. 25, ‘05. 50w.
* “The narrative moves at a speed suitable to the subject, and the pitch of high-spirited comedy is never lowered.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 985. D. 9, ‘05. 200w.
=Osbourne, Lloyd.= Motormaniacs. †75c. Bobbs.
This little pocket-book contains four short love stories, in each of which an automobile is chief matchmaker. In the “Motormaniacs,” a break down brings the right man into the story opportunely, and in “The great bubble syndicate,” “Coal oil Johnny” and “Jones,” a Fearless, a Despereaux, and a Porchar-Mufflin car play important roles.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 210w.
“Lively, ingenious, and amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 393. Je. 10, ‘05. 4w.
=Osgood, Herbert Levi.= American colonies in the 17th century. 2v. **$5. Macmillan.
“The first [volume] is given over to the abortive experiments of Gilbert and Raleigh in founding settlements in the New world, to the first proprietary province, Virginia, and to the corporate colonies of New England; the second, to the later proprietary provinces and to a systematic survey of the colonies as a whole, at the close of the period under discussion.”—Outlook.
“In the main, however, the difficulties of the book are of a kind almost inevitable from the nature of the topic chosen, and the serious reader will find it not only instructive, but full of interest. For the student of our institutional beginnings, Professor Osgood has provided one of the few treatises which are really indispensable.” Evarts B. Greene.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 149. Ja. ‘05. 1530w.
“Method of presentation and clarity of statement are other commendatory traits.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 754. Mr. 25, ‘05. 2380w.
=O’Shea, Michael Vincent.= Education as adjustment: educational theory viewed in the light of contemporary thought. *$1.50. Longmans.
“This new work, which is centered around the idea of adjustment, is divided into three parts. In Part I. the present status of education as a science is faithfully described.... The last chapter of Part I. treats of the data for a science of education, discussing the respective values of the various classes of facts contributed by the study of biographies, autobiographies, and the survival of the fittest in education, as well as by the experimentation and research advocated by sane leaders in the child-study movement. Especially valuable is the section which explains the evolutionary point of view.... Part II. examines the meaning and aim of education.... Chapters VI., VII., and VIII. of Part II. deal respectively with the implications of adjustment as the end in education, with adjustment as affected by social organization, and with the general effect of adjustment upon teaching.... The method of obtaining adjustment is treated in Part III.... Chapters XIII. and XIV. are devoted to the doctrine of formal discipline.”—Educ. R.
“Looked at as a whole, ‘Education as adjustment’ does not reveal marked originality; but it is a luminous and vigorous presentation of the best educational thought of the present day. It is, furthermore, refreshing in that it betrays neither superficiality nor dogmatism. His work, tho written in untechnical, popular language, is, nevertheless, neither inane nor inaccurate. It is worthy of occupying a valued place among the text-books used in normal schools and college schools of education.” W. S. Sutton.
+ + + =Educ. R.= 29: 191. F. ‘05. 1610w.
=Osler, William.= Aequanimitas, and other addresses to medical students, nurses, practitioners. *$2. Blakiston.
A collection of 18 addresses and essays all pertaining to medicine. The title gives the keynote to the volume, the successful nurse or doctor must be imperturbable. Dr. Osler gives a review of medical science in the nineteenth century, and his thoughts on education, investigation, ethics, religion, and the conduct of life. He gives advice to young physicians, suggestions as to their relations to both patients and nurses, and tells them that the master-word of progress is “Work.”
“Dr. Osler’s extensive sympathy, his elevation of thought, his insistence on worthy ideals, his wide reading are all strikingly exhibited in the volume before us.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 546. Jl. ‘05. 1060w.
“The style of Dr. Osler is most felicitous; and those who think they care but little for the professional aspect of this volume, will be charmed by its graceful expressions, its acute suggestions, its thorough good sense.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 193. Mr. 9, ‘05. 1600w.
=Osler, William.= Science and immortality. **85c. Houghton.
The frankly agnostic spirit of modern “intellectuals” dealt with in this volume is best summed up by quotations from the text itself: “Though his philosophy find nothing to support it, ... the scientific student should be ready to acknowledge the value of a belief in the hereafter as an asset in human life.... He cannot be dogmatic and deny the possibility of a future state, ... he will ask to be left, reserving his judgment, but still inquiring.... Science is organized knowledge, and knowledge is of things we see. Now the things that are seen are temporal: of the things that are unseen science knows nothing, and has at present no means of knowing anything.”
“The simple and charming style of the writer, as well as his apt quotations from the masters, makes this book a delight to read.”
+ — =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 400. Ap. ‘05. 200w.
Reviewed by E. T. B.
+ =Atlan.= 95: 138. Ja. ‘05. 320w.
Reviewed by H. B. Alexander.
=Bookm.= 21: 521. Jl. ‘05. 960w.
“The importance of this little book is quite out of proportion to its size. He writes with evident honesty. It is a crystallized statement of much that had been in solution, as it were, heretofore; it makes us know where the majority of modern scientists stand with regard to the only matters that they themselves consider more important than science itself.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 80: 816. Mr. ‘05. 1450w.
“The argument is not of the strenuous sort; the words flow gently and naturally, as they expose the mellowed thought of a mature and reverent mind.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ =Dial.= 38: 87. F. 1, ‘05. 380w.
“The brief pages of this lecture are of delightful literary charm and of great interest as indicating the trend of present thought on the subject of the future life.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1072. My. 11, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Reader.= 5: 786. My. ‘05. 210w.
=Osterhout, Winthrop John Van Leuven.= Experiments with plants; with a preface by L. H. Bailey. *$1.25. Macmillan.
In this convenient handbook “Professor Osterhout of the University of California has given us hints for the experimental study of living-plants by means of the very simplest apparatus ... and suggests innumerable contrivances which are to be made off-hand in any house, and with which the plant can be severely cross-examined.... It is one of the most helpful laboratory handbooks, and it deserves wide employment in all classes of plant-laboratories.” (Nation.)
“On the whole we may commend it as one of the very best of its class, and in some respects in advance of any similar book known to us. An excellent index adds to its value.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 84. Jl. 15. 500w.
“The book on the whole will be most valuable for teachers of botany in high schools.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 270. Ag. 3, ‘05. 110w.
“The text is, for the greater part, extremely clear and interesting, and needed only rather better illustrations to come into the very first rank of attractive text-books.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 414. My. 25, ‘05. 240w.
“In spite of some faults, the book will be found of value to anyone compelled to give a course of physiological botany under conditions which preclude the use of ordinary laboratory fittings.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 364. Ag. 17, ‘05. 460w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 538. Ag. 19, ‘05. 230w.
=Ottley, Rev. Robert Lawrence.= Religion of Israel: a historical sketch. *$1. Macmillan.
“The main strength of Canon Ottley’s contribution to the now voluminous literature on the subject lies in his able and earnest effort to harmonize modern theory with church tradition.... The chapters ... likely to be read with some special eagerness are those on ‘The primitive religion of the Semites,’ ‘The contact of Judaism with Hellenism,’ and ‘The final stage in pre-Christian Judaism.’”—Ath.
“Those belonging to the author’s school of thought—and their number is very considerable—will, however, maintain that the good points of the book far outweigh its drawbacks. We are ourselves able to commend it as an earnest and serious contribution to a perplexing and deeply interesting problem.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 239. Ag. 19. 430w.
“There is no work in English which tells in such brief compass the story of Israel’s faith from Moses to the Pharisees with such painstaking loyalty to establish fact.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 876. O. 12, ‘05. 310w.
* “A compact, semi-popular account of the development of Hebrew religion, as understood by a cautious and moderate critic.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
“It is well drawn and puts much into a small volume in clear as well as concise form.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 886. Ag. 5, ‘05. 130w.
“The compiling is well done, and for a popular sketch of Old Testament theology we do not know of anything better.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 150w.
“His exposition is in fact an admirable specimen of the higher criticism, exercised with discretion by one who is neither fettered by traditional beliefs, nor bent, as some of the critical school seem to be, on breaking with them altogether. We are not always in agreement with the conclusions reached.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 900. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
=Ottman, Rev. Ford C.= Unfolding of the ages in the Revelation of John. **$2. Baker.
Written in an expository style, conciliatory rather than controversial, this work upon Revelation throws a new light upon the symbolism of the book. The author accepts and advocates the theory that “everything from the fourth chapter to the end of the book is still future and will follow the removal of the church from the earth at the appearing of our Lord.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 395. Je. 10, ‘05. 310w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 130w.
* Our best society. †$1.50. Putnam.
“This story narrates the adventures among the rich, vain, and reasonably well-cultivated of New York of a young writer and his nice wife, and contains vivid and veracious pictures of the dinner party, the coaching party, the theatre party, and many other ‘social functions,’ glimpses of literary, artistic, and dramatic ‘sets,’ with a study of the manners of a mannerless age, and a hint or two of its morals.”—N. Y. Times.
* “This is not a great novel, nor even a good one, but it counts because the author has caught the real levity of mannerism in that filmy world.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1151. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.
* “Another book in which the comedy of contemporary American society is adroitly set forth and in a unhackneyed way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 656. O. 7, ‘05. 180w.
* “A certain skill and comprehension of the situation is evidently possessed by the anonymous author.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 100w.
Our holidays; their meaning and spirit. *65c. Century.
This group of stories belongs to the “Historical stories” retold from St. Nicholas. Beginning with All-hallow-eve, each holiday is taken up in turn, with both its historical and present day significance emphasized.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 761. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.
* =Outram, James.= In the heart of the Canadian Rockies. **$3. Macmillan.
“Mr. Outram has the remarkable record of nineteen ‘first ascents’ of peaks among the Canadian Rockies, including the highest mountain in Canada yet conquered by the mountaineer. He describes his experiences among these majestic peaks with the enthusiasm that might be expected of so experienced a mountain-climber.”—Outlook.
* “Mr. Outram certainly has had some unusual adventures amid the Selkirks and Rockies, which he described with animation and a genuine command of professional terminology.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 485. D. 14, ‘05. 550w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 753. N. 4, ‘05. 220w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 941. D. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=Overton, Gwendolen.= Captains of the world. †$1.50. Macmillan.
The relations of labor and capital form the basis of this story in which appear “The young mechanic who becomes a leader of trades-unions; the lovely daughter of the plutocrat mill-owner, who cannot marry the Italian prince and fortune-hunter because the remembrance of the mechanic haunts her; the contrasted pictures of boundless wealth and the misery of the poor strikers and their families on the brink of starvation.” (Critic.)
“There is nothing in this book that can be called original in matter or effective in manner.”
— =Critic.= 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“This underworld of labor among the iron furnaces, this moneyed aristocracy, so resentful of its origin, so tenacious of its position, are etched in with keenness and delicacy. Such books as this, with their sympathetic comprehension, absence of rancor or partisan bias, make for a better understanding and ultimate peace.”
+ + =Reader.= 5: 624. Ap. ‘05. 520w.
* =Oxley, James MacDonald.= Family on wheels; adapted from the French by J. M. Oxley. †75c. Crowell.
Four interesting French children left orphans, with a mountebank’s wagon, an old horse, a trick dog and a remarkably clever elephant as their sole possessions, bravely continue the business of their father, and give little performances in one little provincial town after another to earn a scant living. They meet with many adventures and suffer many hardships, but in the end the happiness of all seems assured. The children are plucky little things thruout, the dog and the elephant are heroic, and the hearts of both young and old readers will go out to them all.
* “An odd and attractive story.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 450. N. 30, ‘05. 90w.
* “A readable story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 895. D. 16, ‘05. 100w.
* “A story, tender, humorous, pathetic, carrying the charm of the French from which it is adapted, and appealing to any child or adult interested in animals.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 60w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 765. D. ‘05. 60w.
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=Page, Curtis Hidden=, ed. British poets of the nineteenth century. $2. Sanborn.
Selections from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Landor, Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, and Swinburne. There are also classified “reference lists” indicating for each poet the various editions of his works, and all biographies and important essays.
* + =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 100w.
“The selections are very full and for the most part complete poems. They are designed to give the best of each poet’s work and to give some representation of each important period and class of his work. Selected such poems as would be prescribed for a college student.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 11. Ja. 7, ‘05. 330w.
* =Page, Curtis Hidden,= ed. Chief American poets: selected poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Whitman, and Lanier. *$1.75. Houghton.
“This volume, Mr. Page tells us, is in no sense an anthology ... it ‘attempts to give, for each one of the authors included, all the material needed to show his development and achievement, and to give a first knowledge of him as man and poet.’ The selection therefore, has been made very full, and includes many poems of considerable length.... The poems of each author are arranged in chronological order and dated. Brief biographical sketches present a summary of each author’s life, and there are notes and reference lists.”—Outlook.
* “A book to be heartily commended for small home libraries.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 764. N. 11, ‘05. 150w.
* “The whole work done with thorough intelligence and good taste.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 120w.
=Page, Curtis Hidden=, ed. =See Rabelais, Francois.=
=Page, Thomas Nelson.= Negro: the southerner’s problem. **$1.25. Scribner.
“Mr. Page believes that there are only two possible ways to solve the negro question in the South—either the negro must be removed, or he must be elevated. Granted that the former method is out of the question, it only remains to improve him by education.... The old idea of educating the negro just as a white man is educated ... has been found to be fallacious. The kind of education that Mr. Page advocates for the negro is, in brief, just the kind that is given by such institutions as Tuskegee and Hampton.”—R. of Rs.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 343. Mr. ‘05. 240w.
“A book the central interest of which is psychological rather than scientific.” W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.
+ — =Dial.= 38: 315. My. 1, ‘03. 1850w.
“The book shows neither depth of thought nor thoroughness of research, but is chiefly notable as the portrayal of the well-known views of the less liberal leaders of the South with high authority and great literary skill.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 556. Mr. 9, ‘05. 860w.
“We do not doubt his wish to deal candidly with his subject, but we are forced to the conclusion that he lacks the unbiased mind which would enable him to do so. His statements are too sweeping, and are not supported in all cases by the actual facts, as has, we believe, been shown.” Isabel Eaton.
— =Int. J. Ethics.= 15 :518. Jl. ‘05. 2130w.
“Mr. Page’s book is honest, kindly, and, barring a few extravagances, moderate.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 280. O. 5, ‘05. 1320w.
“A temperate discussion of the race question from a southerner’s point of view.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
=Paget, Violet.= See =Lee, Vernon, pseud.=
* =Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Little garden calendar for boys and girls. $1. Altemus.
“A chatty and truthful account of many of the most interesting phases of plant-life. The subject of dispersal and its advantages, of movements, and of pollination and the like, are briefly and well-treated. The account of the servants which work for the flower is admirably presented.” (Nation.) “The book is arranged according to the calendar, and the illustrations are from photographs especially made for each chapter.” (Critic.)
* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 40w.
* =Dial.= 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 40w.
* + =Nation.= 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 190w.
=Paine, Albert Bigelow.= Thomas Nast. $5. Macmillan.
This account of the life and times of “The father of the American cartoon,” illustrated with hundreds of his drawings, is virtually a political history of our country during the Civil war, and for twenty years after.
“It is a story full of striking incident and human interest, skilfully unrolling the picturesque career of a genius who had within him the potentialities of an American Hogarth.” Chas. H. Levermore.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 907. Jl. ‘05. 740w.
“In this life of Nast, Mr. Paine has evinced excellent judgment and wise discrimination; yet the work is characterized by that genuine sympathy that is one of the requisites of a good biography. It is a valuable work.”
+ + =Arena.= 33: 335. Mr. ‘05. 850w.
“Mr. Paine’s book is an exceptionally good piece of work. He has not attempted a minute personal biography; he has given a series of striking pictures, which enable one to look over Nast’s shoulder, so to speak, and to study at close range some of the most stirring periods in the history of the nation and of New York city.” A. B. Maurice.
+ =Bookm.= 20: 458. Ja. ‘05. 2850w.
“Paine has told of his life and described his struggles in a manner worthy of the subject.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 130w.
“It covers the artist’s life in a thorough and interesting way, and is adequately illustrated.” Ingram A. Pyle.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 318. My. 1, ‘05. 1930w.
“The author is an enthusiast, and must be followed in the light of his enthusiasm. In narrating the history of the caricaturist, he follows that of his own times, and in this way has made, for anyone who desires to understand the United States from 1860 to 1896, not only a very entertaining, but a very useful volume.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 141. F. 16, ‘05. 810w.
“There is more history than biography in the attractive volume.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 248. F. ‘05. 130w.
=Palmer, A. Emerson.= New York public school. *$1. Macmillan.
A history of free education in the city of New York, authorized by the board of education and written by its secretary. The book celebrates the centenary of the founding of the New York free school system and the proceeds are to go to the public school teachers’ retirement fund. The history of the free school society and of the public school society which succeeded it in 1826 are given, also an account of other schools, all of which were finally merged into the existing system. The story of the establishment and success of school libraries is told in detail. There are portraits, illustrations, and an introduction by Seth Low.
“The book meets a distinct need.” Henry Davidson Sheldon.
+ =Dial.= 38: 270. Ap. 16, ‘05. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 148. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1730w. (Abstract of contents.)
=R. of Rs.= 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 80w.
=Palmer, Frederick.= With Kuroki in Manchuria. **$1.50. Scribner.
The author, a newspaper correspondent of experience in Eastern campaigns, writes an account of his five months in the field. The book is dedicated to the Japanese infantry and their skill and readiness, and contrasted with the Russian war methods. The volume is illustrated by numerous photographs.
“His entire book is vividly written, and will be found as informing as it is interesting in its accounts of the actual fighting.” W. Rice.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 9. Ja. 1, ‘05. 460w.
“It is fascinating, this collection of field letters. This truthful and vivid portrayal is delightful.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 14. Ja. 5, ‘05. 1630w.
=Palmer, William T.= English lakes. *$6. Macmillan.
Fifteen English lakes “ranging from the lordly Windermere and Ullswater, ten and a half and nine miles long, respectively, to Loweswater and Rydalmere, which hardly exceed the larger tarns in area” are reproduced here. The seventy-five illustrations in color produce a panorama effect which is heightened by the descriptive matter of the text.
* + =Acad.= 68: 911. S. 2, ‘05. 170w.
“Mr. Palmer has written with taste and with commendable reserve in distinguishing between poetic feeling and sentimentalism.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 278. S. 30, ‘05. 150w.
* “One finds a good deal of pleasure of a certain kind in turning over his pages, if also some irritation.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 759. N. 11, ‘05. 1260w.
=Paret, Jahlal Parmly.= Lawn tennis. **$2. Macmillan.
This article, by the foremost American authority on the game, contains a history of tennis itself and of the leading players here and abroad. It gives technical instruction, from the first rudiments to the most advanced theories, and treats of the care of courts and management of tournaments. There is a chapter on lacrosse by William H. Madden. The volume is copiously illustrated.
“This is one of the best-written and most scientific treatises on lawn-tennis that we have yet had, and forms a suitable companion to similar works by Mr. Eustace Miles, Mr. H. W. Wilberforce, and Mr. W. Baddeley.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 272. Ag. 26. 1050w.
“Will be valuable to every player of the game.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1253. Je. 1, ‘05. 30w.
“A treatise which will be heartily welcomed by all lovers of this healthy game.”
+ + =Nature.= 71: 436. Mr. 9, ‘05. 280w.
“Knows the conditions of play in this country and abroad equally well. While Mr. Paret’s statement that lawn tennis may be taught nearly as well by written instruction as by personal direction may be seriously questioned, his remarks on the strategy of the game and the physical training for big matches are full of common sense and instruction that apply equally well to other forms of exercise.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 84. F. 11, ‘05. 1110w. (Survey of contents.)
“Mr. Paret who is an authority on tennis, treats of the past, present, and future of the sport.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 31: 255. F. ‘05. 70w.
* =Parker, Edward Harper.= China and religion. **$3.50. Dutton.
“This history of religion in China has the merit of being both critical and impartial.... The story of the imported religions—Christianity in various forms, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Judaism—is sketched in successive chapters, and lastly Shintoism ... which the Japanese are now endeavoring to introduce.... Towards missionaries, of whom Americans now constitute the majority if only Protestants are counted, Professor Parker’s attitude is both respectful and critical, but full value is assigned to their medical, charitable, and educational work.”—Outlook.
* “Prof. Parker’s book is a storehouse of learning; it is free from bigotry, and contains a fair and honest statement of what the relations of the Chinese have been and are towards foreign religions.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 603. N. 4, 920w.
* “As the fruit of scholarly research pursued in a sympathetic spirit, this history, most timely for the present interest in the now beginning renaissance of China, should command the attention of those who would understand the past which it builds upon.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 680. N. 18, ‘05. 200w.
=Parmele, Mary Platt.= Short history of Russia. *$1. Scribner.
A new edition of this history of a great power which brings the account down to June, 1904 and the siege of Port Arthur. It contains a good index and a list of the princes of Russia from Rurik to Nicholas II.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
* =Parrish, Randall.= Historic Illinois: the romance of the earlier days. **$2. McClurg.
Mr. Parrish’s hope has been to provide a readable, interesting history of Illinois, emphasizing the picturesque phases that would appeal to the reader in a popular sense. He has related the adventures of such men as La Salle, Henri de Tonty and George Rogers Clarke, depicted the struggles with the Indians, traced the history of old landmarks, and brought his narrative down to the coming of the railroad, concluding with a chapter on “Historic spots as they appear to-day.”
=Parrish, Randall.= Sword of the old frontier: a tale of Fort Chartres and Detroit. †$1.50. McClurg.
A “plain account of sundry adventures befalling Chevalier Raoul de Coubert, one time captain in the Hussars of Languedoc, during the year 1763,” in which he gallantly draws his sword for France and his English lady-love in the stirring times of Pontiac’s conspiracy. Meeting with treachery from both white men and red, he takes desperate chances, escapes from his enemies and wins honor, wealth, and love.
* + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 20w.
=Parsons, Ellen C.= Christus liberator. **30c. Macmillan.
There have been four preceding volumes in this missionary text book series. “In this course an Introduction to the Study of Missions and Outline Studies of India, China and Japan have already been issued and studied.” This volume is an outline study of Africa. “Sir Harry Johnston furnishes an introductory sketch of the geography, races, and history of the Dark Continent, while the body of the book is devoted to an account of the rise and progress of Protestant missions in the several countries.”
“Concise, well written and readable book.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 875. O. 12, ‘05. 450w.
“It is necessarily cursory, but it is certainly comprehensive. The good example of the book remains even when the English student has noted such occasional lapses.”
+ + — =Lond. Times.= 4: 325. O. 6, ‘05. 410w.
“A useful handbook, containing much information in a compact and readable form.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 219. S. 14, ‘05. 130w.
“We recommend these volumes as especially valuable for the members of Christian Endeavor societies, and for pastoral use by ministers endeavoring to awaken in their churches an intelligent interest in Christian missions.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 789. Jl. 22, ‘05. 220w.
+ =Spec.= 95: 435. S. 23, ‘05. 220w.
=Paston, George, pseud.= See =Symonds, E. M.=
=Pattee, Fred Lewis.= House of the black ring. $1.50. Holt.
A story centred around a mysterious log cabin in a valley among the Seven mountains. The valley is owned by a tyrant squire and farmed by sturdy Pennsylvania Dutchmen. The squire’s daughter, the first to thwart her father’s will, falls in love with the son of a new-comer to the valley, whose business enterprise threatens the squire’s undisputed sway. There is hard feeling, and there is murder, but all is made clear by the discovery of a cave under the cabin, and in the happiness of the squire’s daughter the traditional curse of “the house of the black ring” is lifted.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 600. Ag. ‘05. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 210w.
“It is not from the literary side an artistic book, but it at least may be described as both readable and amusing.”
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 90w.
=Patterson, Charles Brodie.= Measure of a man. $1.20. Funk.
An optimistic message of good will to all men, basing its cheer upon the supposition that in the great economy of the universe nothing is lost. Mr. Patterson discusses, in part 1, the “natural,” the “rational,” the “psychic,” and the “spiritual” man. In part II, he considers the Son of man “as man,” “as idealist,” “as teacher,” and “as healer,” in the last division giving the philosophy and therapy of mental healing.
“It may be said to represent his ripest thought and to epitomize in a remarkably clear and comprehensible manner the philosophy, ethics and therapy contained in his preceding books.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 108. Jl. ‘05. 1320w.
=Paul, Herbert Woodfield.= History of modern England. 5v. ea. **$2.50. Macmillan.
This is a political history of England and its relations with the rest of the world, beginning with the last Whig government of 1846. Volumes 1 and 2 bring the story down to the death of Lord Palmerston, Oct. 18, 1865. Volume 3 deals with the eleven years following, covering important administrations of Gladstone and Disraeli, and closing on the eve of the crisis in the East, 1876.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 463. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1240w. (Review of Vol. III.)
“It is clear, vigorous, and direct. Its movement is rapid, its interest seldom lags. It is preëminently readable, and, as a natural corollary, highly entertaining. His opinions and especially his estimates of character are often improbable, not infrequently absurd. This, as has been said, will probably remain the most serious criticism of a book in most other ways excellent. Such work as that of Mr. Paul may not be judged by the standards of final and definitive statement.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 430. Ja. ‘05. 1810w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“On the whole, matters become of importance to the author when they rise above the political horizon, and too often not till then. Mr. Paul’s vigor seems unimpaired thus far ... his courage seems tempered somewhat more by discretion, and his politics diluted with somewhat more of those matters which find little place in Parliamentary debate or Times editorial.” Wilbur C. Abbott.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 161. O. ‘05. 860w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Though written with the ability and impartiality of its predecessors, it is not so well proportioned.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 10. Jl. 1. 1050w. (Review of v. 3.)
“There is no reason to suppose that Mr. Paul could not have done better work, had he chosen.” Edward Fuller.
— — =Bookm.= 21: 608. Ag. ‘05. 840w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Here, much more than in the earlier volumes, he offers valuable characterizations of activities and of men not wholly concerned with the purely political field.” E. D. Adams.
+ + + =Dial.= 39: 90. Ag. 16, ‘05. 890w. (Review of v. 3.)
“Generally speaking, he has impartiality and insight, and his survey of a group of historic facts, more especially of a social or religious movement, is often just and penetrating.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 39. Jl. 6, ‘05. 680w. (Review of v. 1-3.)
“A most charming style. His book is exceedingly good reading.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 291. My. 6, ‘05. 900w. (Review of v. 3.)
* + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 883. D. 9, ‘05. 290w. (Review of v. 4.)
“The third volume now at hand, exhibits the characteristics of its predecessors. The charmingly incisive, direct, easy, and epigrammatic style, the vivid informativeness, the detachment, the liberality of judgment which distinguished them are apparent. The treatment, too, remains the same, with all its virtues and its defects.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 880. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1980w. (Review of v. 3.)
“On the whole, it is an invaluable political history of the past sixty years.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 509. O. ‘05. 120w. (Review of v. 3.)
“We do not know where else to find so good a narrative of domestic politics from 1865 to 1876. If it is rarely deep, it is never dull; if it is occasionally bitter, it is almost always impartial.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 674. My. 6, ‘05. 1630w. (Review of v. 3.)
=Payne, William Morton,= ed. American literary criticism. See Wampum library of American literature. v. 2.
Peace congress. Official report of the thirteenth universal peace congress, held at Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A., Oct. 3 to 8, 1904; reported by W: edited by the secretary of the congress. pa. n.p. Peace congress committee (B. F. Trueblood, sec’y), Boston.
A stenographic report of the proceedings of the Universal peace congress, Oct. 3-8, 1904, including the addresses given in Boston and a brief résumé of the numerous successful and influential meetings held after its close in several cities. An account of the preceding peace congresses, not only of those held in the modern series beginning 1889, but also of the remarkable series of conferences held from 1843 to 1853 is prefixed.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 100w.
=Peake, Elmore Elliott.= House of Hawley. †$1.50. Appleton.
The story of a family in southern Illinois which had remained true to the Union, but was southern in all its traditions. The heroine has to contend against the whole connection and their prejudices in order to marry a young Republican lawyer. Her grandfather, Major Elias, head of the family, his quiet wife, and their lazy son are lifelike, their southern ways are well pictured; and descriptions of such things as a chase with blood hounds after a negro house-breaker, a negro barn dance, and an electioneering expedition with Chicago politicians, add greatly to the interest and the atmosphere of the book.
“A careful picture of average life in a small town in southern Illinois, drawn with a loving accuracy of minor detail, and pleasantly aglow with local color, both physical and social. A skillful touch. There is a wholesome womanliness about Mr. Peake’s heroines that makes them seem very convincing. Most of the men, however, impress one as rather poor specimens of humanity.”
+ =Bookm.= 21: 181. Ap. ‘05. 410w.
“The book fails of greatness because the plot is too slight and does not trouble the deep places that exist in the life of every town, however isolated; nor does it ruffle the soul of the reader.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 392. Ag. 17, ‘05. 250w.
“The interest of the book lies not in the story, but in descriptive passages. The story, if it shows no particular art or invention, it remains true that it is about the sort of thing which would have been likely to happen in the place where the author has chosen to plant it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 141. Mr. 4, ‘05. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 503. F. 25, ‘05. 110w.
=Pease, Edward R.= Case for municipal drink trade. P. S. King & son.
“The argument for the municipalization of the liquor traffic is here set forth as follows: The system of licensing does not stand the tests of efficiency, consequently some drastic reform is called for; high license is incomplete and politically impracticable; local veto is wrong in principle and likely to be futile in practice; municipalization is the only other method suggested.”—J. Pol. Econ.
Reviewed by I. W. Howerth.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 137. D. ‘04. 140w. (States argument of book.)
=Pease, George William.= Outline of a Bible-school curriculum. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“Those who are interested in raising the standard of biblical instruction in this country will find ... many valuable suggestions. In this book there are outlines for reading and study courses for the kindergarten and primary grades, as well as for the junior, intermediate and senior departments.”—R. of Rs.
“The most exhaustive study of this subject that has yet appeared. Predominantly from the psychological point of view, but with careful study also of the biblical side.”
+ + + =Bib. World.= 25: 160. F. ‘05. 30w.
“This book will prove of great practical service to many Sunday-school teachers because it is specific, and should be suggestive to students of religious education because of its scope and detail. It is too timely not to be read now.” Richard Morse Hodge.
+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 376. My. ‘05. 880w.
“Any one desirous of pursuing independent lessons with a class of any grade would find help in these outlines.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1012. My. 4, ‘05. 70w.
“Its value lies rather in its application of an intelligent educational philosophy to a concrete and apparently practical scheme.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 144. Ja. 14, ‘05. 340w.
“The book is fully in line with the principles and methods advocated by the Religious education association.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 254. F. ‘05. 80w.
“The minute topical references will be of great help to any serious Sunday school teacher.”
+ + =School R.= 13: 653. O. ‘05. 60w.
* =Peck, Ellen Brainerd.= Songs by the sedges. $1. Badger, R: G.
A little volume of verse which sings of old-fashioned gardens and fields, of rosemary and bitter-sweet, and of the minuet and the spinet. There is a time-long-ago atmosphere to many of the poems.
=Peck, Harry Thurston.= William Hickling Prescott. **75c. Macmillan.
This study of Prescott gives an account of the historian’s life and personality and a criticism of his works. An opening chapter treats of “The New England historians,” then follow biographical chapters based largely upon the letters and memoranda contained in Ticknor’s “Life of Prescott,” and a discussion of Prescott’s work and its merits.
“A volume seemingly of no distinctive merit.”
+ — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 935. Jl. ‘05. 50w.
“With the exception of his introductory chapter, Professor Peck has produced, it seems to me, an excellent biographical and critical account of ... the accomplished author of ‘The conquest of Mexico.’ Here and there a careless sentence may be found as well as a trivial error or two.” W. P. Trent.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 382. Je. ‘05. 1260w.
“It is of real interest for its discussion of the historical accuracy and permanent value of his works.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 283. S. ‘05. 90w.
“Professor Peck writes of Prescott pleasantly and in his usual popular vein.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1128. My. 18, ‘05. 130w.
“His view of Prescott strictly as a writer ... is concise, clear, and judicious. The introductory chapter, on the literary history of the country, is to say the least, eccentric.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 489. Je. 15, ‘05. 450w.
“For the most part his narrative is plain pedestrian ‘copy’ quite lacking in the distinction which the author praises in the historian, equally lacking in ‘fire’ and the ‘intimate touch.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 322. My. 20, ‘05. 1420w.
“Now and again Dr Peck allows an excess of enthusiasm to overpower his judgment, but, as a rule, he is discriminating.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 80: 248. My. 27, ‘05. 260w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 94. Jl. 15, ‘05. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 766. Je. ‘05. 150w.
=Peck, Theodora.= Hester of the Grants: a romance of Old Bennington. †$1.50. Fox.
Revolutionary times in the Green mountain state when it was a part of the so-called Hampshire Grants furnish the setting of this story whose incidents center mainly about Bennington. A real flesh and blood girl patriot, quite as daring as the usual historical novel heroine but a bit more winsome is the leading spirit, while a turn coat father, two despicable soldier lovers and one gallant one, General Stark, and Ethan and Ira Allen figure prominently.
“A panorama of the times which deserves careful reading and much commendation.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 392. Je. 1, ‘05. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.
“We are persuaded that she has it in her to write a book well worth the reading, which, despite its merits, ‘Hester of the Grants’ is not.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 300w.
“On the whole is a very good story of its kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 90w.
“The author has opened one of the most dramatic pages in American history, and adorned it with a picture worthy of the text.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 359. Ag. ‘05. 310w.
=Peckham, George Williams, and Peckham, Elizabeth Gifford.= Wasps, social and solitary; with an introd. by John Burroughs. **$1.50. Houghton.
Mr. Peckham and his wife have made a close study of the lives, habits, intelligence, and individuality of wasps, and they tell about their investigations in a way that is none the less instructive because it is interesting.
“The book has good and vivid illustrations, but it would have been better if the actual size of the insects had been indicated in every case.”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 743. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 150. Jl. 29. 720w.
“There is ‘a hidden wealth of thought and of austerity’ which makes the book a worthy contribution to science and a monument of patient and skillful research in a difficult field.” E. T. Brewster.
+ + + =Atlan.= 96: 687. N. ‘05. 600w.
“While exceedingly pleasant reading, the book is in no sense ‘written down’ to its audience, nor popularized in the sense of being diluted to superficiality.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 170w.
“The book is written so untechnically that a reader who does not know a wasp from a bee can understand and enjoy it.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 387. Je. 1, ‘05. 590w.
“The charm of the book is in the directness with which the story is told, and in the obvious sympathy manifested by the authors with the struggles and aims of the active little nest-makers. While the book is engagingly written, it is also scientifically accurate.”
+ + + =Nation= 80: 444. Je. 1, ‘05. 680w.
“Important work on the manners and customs of North American wasps.” W. F. K.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 395. Ag. 24, ‘05. 160w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 219. Ap. 8, ‘05. 840w. (Abstract of book.)
“An outdoor book as entertaining as it is instructive.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 196. My. 20, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05. 140w.
“This book reminds one of Fabre’s work. It is not so well written, but its information is quite as curious and close as Fabre’s, and we should say as trustworthy.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: sup. 10. O. 14, ‘05. 150w.
“There is much detail which, however valuable in itself from the scientific point of view, overwhelms the ‘general reader.’ This individual may be forgiven for wishing that the authors would sometimes give him more generalization or summaries of their observations.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ‘05. 310w.
=Peel, George.= Friends of England. *$3.50. Dutton.
Mr. Peel establishes, elucidates, and illustrates two large propositions in this companion volume to his “Enemies of England”: first, that England built up her empire beyond the seas thru the necessity of defence, and not by accident nor by deliberate motives of expansion; second, the same European pressure from without is the chief cause of the maintenance of the empire.
“Mr. Peel is no pedant, no formalist, no Dryasdust. Intensely interested in his subject, he writes of it with animation; eager to convince, though not with the sophist’s eagerness, he is precise whether right or wrong and at all times clear.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 270. Mr. 18, ‘05. 1420w.
“The subjects with which Mr. Peel deals are of the deepest interest, and he shows wide reading on every page.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 335. Mr. 18. 660w.
“There is enough truth and enough originality in his interpretation of the Empire to have made his book an extraordinary one, if only he had not allowed this enthusiasm to get the better of his judgment. It brings out a phase of imperial politics too much neglected by past writers.” Frederic Austin Ogg.
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 88. Ag. 16, ‘05. 1930w.
“The whole book is worth reading as a sober and well-informed discussion of the great questions of world politics with which it deals.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 328. My. 20, ‘05. 670w.
“A well-written work, Mr. Peel’s book is of value as developing a theory which, if acceptable only with obvious limitations, will assist to a clearer appreciation of some broad historical movements than has generally obtained.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 275. S. 30, ‘05. 1930w.
“The tale told is fragmentary and unconvincing, and has been better told before.”
— — + =Sat. R.= 100: 21. Jl. 1, ‘05. 1510w.
“Mr. Peel has the sense of organic movement without which history is merely a dull chronicle of accidents; and he has also the gift of wide perspective. Our only criticism is that in his endeavour to be perfectly clear he sometimes is a little prolix, and that now and then he is carried by rhetoric into a slight overstatement. The matter is on the whole admirably arranged and attractively presented.”
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 439. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1780w.
=Peet, Louis Harman.= Trees and shrubs of Central park. $2. Manhattan press.
Mr. Peet says: “The purpose of this book is to put within the reach of the non-technical city nature lover a handy means of identifying trees and shrubs which he meets in his park rambles.” On sixteen maps covering the park, two thousand trees and shrubs have been plotted; a table accompanying the maps gives both the common and botanical names. There is also an index to the common names, wherein the number of the page, chapter, map and location is placed for quick reference.
* + + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 90w.
=Nation.= 80: 132. F. 16, ‘05. 60w.
“We cannot too much commend the fullness and accuracy of the lists which Mr. Peet here gives us.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 381. My. 11, ‘05. 430w.
“It is not only a description of the trees, but is a real guide and companion, pointing out that which it describes in a manner that is wholly comprehensible to the reader. The text is lucid and readable.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 212. Ap. 8, ‘05. 420w.
* “In every particular it is a handy and useful little volume.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 860. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Pemberton, Max.= Hundred days. †$1.50. Appleton.
Napoleon’s hundred days between Elba and Waterloo form the setting of this historical novel which exploits the adventures of a young Englishman and a French maid in the secret service of Napoleon. “Mr. Pemberton has borrowed the very lady who appears in Mr. Bernard Shaw’s ‘Man of destiny’—Mr. Shaw himself borrowed the lady from more or less authentic history—and provided her with adventures enough to fill the usual number of pages which, outwardly, at least, constitute a novel.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is a stirring tale, and the characterization is skillful. Occasionally the author’s style fails him.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 432. S. 30. 290w.
“The story offers the conventional blend of fact and romantic fiction, is narrated in somewhat indistinct fashion, and proves but moderately exciting.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 208. O. 1, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 250w.
“The story is stirring and the tale is picturesquely told; the plot is hackneyed.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 279. S. 30, ‘05. 60w.
=Pepys, Sir William Weller.= Later Pepys; ed. with introd., by Alice C. C. Gaussen. 2v. *$7.50. Lane.
“The letters included in these two handsomely bound and finely illustrated volumes have been selected from the correspondence of Sir William Pepys between the years 1758 and 1825. Sir William Pepys was a descendant of the elder branch of the family to which Samuel Pepys belonged, and was generally well-known in the latter part of the eighteenth century as a friend, and in some cases the intimate, of distinguished literary characters of the period. His letters are therefore primarily of literary interest, very little reference being made in them to ordinary political or social conditions of the times, even the stirring events of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars receiving but scant notice.”—Am. Hist. R.
“The only direct historical interest is in the occasional references to contemporary historical writers and criticisms upon them. They frequently do present some striking incident, or some intimate characterization of figures in the field of contemporaneous literature. In this connection alone are they valuable for the student of history.” E. D. Adams.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 688. Ap. ‘05. 210w.
“Sir William’s letters, though sometimes dull and prosy, often catch something of the vivacity of his correspondents, and those to his son in school and college are delightful.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 92. Ja. ‘05. 150w.
=Perkin, Frederick Mollwo.= Practical methods of electrochemistry. *$1.60. Longmans.
“After a general account of electrical magnitudes and units, measuring instruments, and electrolytic apparatus, the author gives practical instructions for electrochemical analysis.... The last and longest section of the book deals with preparative electrochemistry.... The references to original papers are numerous, and a convenient table of five-figure logarithms, with instructions for its use, is contained in an appendix.”—Nature.
“The practical instructions are on the whole adequate and accurate, so that the student could acquire with little assistance a sufficient acquaintance with the working methods of electrochemistry. Whilst the book is satisfactory in this the most important feature, it shows in other respects many signs of hasty composition, which greatly detract from its value.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 5. My. 4, ‘05. 530w.
=Perrin, Raymond St. James.= Evolution of knowledge. *$1.50. Baker.
In his review of philosophy the author compares the chief systems of ancient and modern thought, “the object being to measure the approach of each system to the goal of philosophy which is the demonstration of the unity of all things ... to demonstrate the fact that knowledge can be unified by co-ordinating the sciences.” Pt. I. deals with the pre-evolution period of Greece, England, Scotland, Germany and France; pt. II. discusses the evolutionary philosophy of Spencer and Lewes. The keynote of the treatment is that religious devotion and intelligence must develop together.
=Ath.= 1905, 2: 269. Ag. 26. 80w.
=Outlook.= 79: 1059. Ap. 29, ‘05. 140w.
“In the demonstration of his thesis the author enters such a labyrinth of the metaphysical and mystical that we altogether refuse his lead.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 60. Jl. 8, ‘05. 160w.
* “Interesting, if not quite fascinating.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 697. N. 4, ‘05. 320w.
=Perris, George Herbert.= Russia in revolution. **$3. Brentano’s.
“Mr. Perris’s volume on ‘Russia in revolution’ is a sketch of the Russian revolutionary movement from about 1870 down to the present time. It consists chiefly of a series of short biographies of the principal leaders of the Liberal movement, together with a few chapters on the Russian government, and on the financial and economic conditions of the country.... The subject, however, is an interesting one, and the personal sketches and life stories of Stepniak, Volkhovsky, Dr. Soskice, Mark Broido, Mme. Kovalsky, and numbers of other revolutionists, often recounted in their own words, are significant and thrilling.”—Lond. Times.
“Is lively and interesting, but somewhat open to the charge that he fails to name a good many of his sources and some of his equally interesting rivals. Mr. Perris takes pains and knows his subject.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 590. My. 13. 180w.
“It cannot be said that the author has anything very new to tell us, and most of his information has been obtained at second-hand. He sees Russia only from the point of view of the extremists.”
— + =Lond. Times.= 4: 176. Je. 9, ‘05. 520w.
“These quotations will serve to show M. Perris’s sincere effort to be fair and impartial, but the same paragraph furnishes two other quotations which equally well illustrate his defective vision in consequence of his prejudice against nearly everything in Russia in its present form.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 504. Je. 22, ‘05. 1740w.
“The chief value of this book, however, lies in the personal (and frequently pitiful) records and brief autobiographies of the martyrs in the cause of Russian political liberty, and also in the miscellaneous data on topics which are not contained in Russian government reports.” Wolf von Schierbrand.
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 386. Je. 17, ‘05. 940w.
“No doubt the book is put together in an easy, entertaining fashion. Although from a non-revolutionary standpoint most of its deductions are untenable, the chapters touching upon the economic and political condition of the country are not without value and interest.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 121. Jl. 22, ‘05. 520w.
“In arrangement it is not free from defects, particularly from a tendency to retraverse the same or similar ground; but this drawback is connected with what is perhaps Mr. Perris’s most distinctive claim on the attention of his readers,—his extensive and intimate acquaintance with Russian revolutionists, over a long period.”
+ — =Spec.= 95: 321. S. 2, ‘05. 1880w.
=Perry, Bliss.= Amateur spirit. **$1.25. Houghton.
Six essays in which the author commends “combining the professional’s skill with the zest and enthusiasm of the amateur.” There are two chapters on the college professor, and one entitled “Hawthorne at North Adams.”
“There is a flavour of this conscious condescension in these essays, and it takes away from the charm which they possess in spite of it, charm both of phrase and anecdote. The ideas are not very subtle; nor have they any marked freshness; but to the main idea we heartily respond. Mr. Perry is not precise enough; he does not know that different things in life should be approached in a different spirit.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 332. Mr. 25, ‘05. 670w.
“In spite of what we have just said, the quality of the best of the contemporary American essayists is rare; and outside Mr. Howells and Mr. Alden we know no one who possesses greater gifts of taste and style than Mr. Bliss Perry.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 558. My. 6. 720w.
* “No one wants to hear the crack of a whip in these leisurely papers, but there might be a little more mental activity without any sign of the strain.” F. M. Colby.
+ — =Bookm.= 20: 473. Ja. ‘05. 880w.
“To apply to him words of his own, he is one of the ‘speculative, amused, undeluded children of this world.’ Sanity, balance, kindliness, unite with insight and imagination to give his pages their peculiar charm.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 93. F. 1, ‘05. 310w.
“The curious thing about Mr. Perry’s plea for The amateur spirit is that it should seem to slight so glaringly the virtue of the mean.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 383. F. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“All the six essays in the volume have some reference to the working of the amateur spirit in the world.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 138. F. 16, ‘05. 940w. (Survey of contents.)
“The six essays in this volume are very pleasing examples of what American writers can do in this branch of literature.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 925. Je. 24, ‘05. 290w.
=Peters, John Punnett.= Early Hebrew story: its historical background. **$1.25. Putnam.
“The substance of the book was delivered as lectures on the Bond foundation at Bangor theological seminary in November, 1903.... In chap. 1, ‘Introductory: literary and archæological,’ the author gives a simple, yet clear, sketch of his conception of the literary origin of the early books of the Bible, and a general view of the history of Palestine before the Israelitish occupation.... In chap. 2, ‘The formation of Israel: The origin of the twelve tribes,’ the view that a group of Aramean tribes settled among and absorbed tribes already resident in Canaan is worked out with considerable detail. In chap. 3, ‘The patriarchs and the shrines of Israel,’ it is pointed out that the stories of the patriarchs cluster about certain shrines.... In chap. 4, ‘Survivals—legendary and mythical.’ Dr. Peters gathers together a considerable residuum of material, which remains after one has subtracted from the patriarchal stories the elements representing tribal movements and sanctuary traditions, and in which survivals of myths or legends are probably to be found. Chap. 5, ‘Cosmogony and primeval history,’ deals with Gen., chaps. 1-11, which is analyzed into its various elements.... Chap. 6, ‘The moral value of early Hebrew story,’ forms a fitting climax to the whole.”—Bib. World.
“The book is written for the ordinary reader of the Bible, is unencumbered by erudite notes, is written in a clear and attractive style, and can be strongly recommended to the untechnical reader, who desires to learn how critical study affects the early books of the Bible. The book throughout bears evidence of wide reading. The marvel is that in such a work, where evidence is often scanty and much has to be supplied from analogies often remote, one finds so little from which to dissent. The work merits high praise and deserves a wide recognition.” George A. Barton.
+ + =Bib. World.= 25: 313. Ap. ‘05. 790w.
“The book is uncommonly readable.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 191. Ag. ‘05. 90w.
“We can very heartily recommend the book. It is thoroughly readable, pre-eminently scholarly and entirely trustworthy; it is replete with valuable archæological knowledge; it has all the marks of an accomplished exegete, and its conclusions are in harmony with those of many able scholars of the present day.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 841. Ap. 13, ‘05. 760w.
* “Wealth of archaeological information lends special value to Dr. Peters’ scholarly ‘Early Hebrew story.’”
+ =Ind.= 50: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 20w.
* =Peters, Madison Clinton.= Jews in America: a short story of their part in the building of the republic; commemorating the 250th anniversary of their settlement. $1. Winston.
The author has prepared this volume for popular use and states in his preface: “It is a book of facts rather than opinions.... The book is written with the hope that it may modify the views which the Gentile world holds with regard to the position of the Jew, and the author’s fervent prayer is that its facts may lead Christians to grant to the possession of the Jew the mental, moral, social and spiritual qualifications which history affirms.” To this end he has set forth facts culled from various sources showing the part which the Jew played in the discovery of America, in pre-revolutionary settlements, in the wars of the republic, American politics, finance, arts and sciences. There are also chapters upon The number of Jews in the United States, Characteristics of the Jews, and Anti-Semitism in America. The volume is illustrated with photographs of Jews prominent in various professions.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 330w.
* =Peters, Madison Clinton.= Will the coming man marry? and other studies on the problem of home and marriage. $1. Winston.
Under such titles as: How to be happy though married; Why so many divorces? The ideal wife; The duties of a husband; Money and matrimony; The culture of the child; The home and the higher education of women; Woman’s rights; and Good mothers the makers of great nations, Dr. Peters emphasizes the serious side of matrimony, gives good advice to both husband and wife, and discusses education, deplores modern extravagance, and makes many suggestions, which, if followed, will help to make daily life easier and more worth while to both the married and the unmarried.
=Peterson, Maude Gridley.= How to know wild fruits: a guide to plants when not in flower, by means of fruit and leaf; il. by Mary Elizabeth Herbert. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“We have examined every one of the 80 woodcuts in this volume, and must pronounce them correct and helpful ... while descriptions of three hundred fruit-bearing plants are careful and scientific enough, and a key will send the botanist to the order and species, the plants are arranged for the use of the casual student by the color of their fruits.”—Ind.
* “This study opens to amateurs a new and comparatively unfamiliar field and one in which the writers of botanical handbooks have heretofore made few contributions.”
+ =Country Cal.= 1: 492. S. ‘05. 70w.
“It meets a want, and we are glad to recommend it as a useful guide.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1256. Je. 1, ‘05. 150w.
“As a help to the beginner and a means of stimulating observation it may be commended. It is well got up, remarkably free from misprints, appropriately illustrated, and provided with an index of vernacular names and one of the Latin designations of the plants described.”
+ + =Nature.= 72: 428. Ag. 31, ‘05. 450w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 220w.
=Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 20w.
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 127. Jl. ‘05. 110w.
=Spec.= 94: 948. Je. 24, ‘05. 120w.
=Petrie, William Matthew Flinders.= History of Egypt from the XIXth to the XXXth dynasties. (History of Egypt, v. 3.) *$2.25. Scribner.
“This is not a work on manners and customs or religion, but is purely history, very largely original and representing the author’s own researches and conclusions.... The period covered in this volume extends from the beginning of the nineteenth dynasty, about 1300 B. C., the most brilliant period in Egyptian history, to 342 B. C., when the last native king of the thirtieth dynasty lost the throne, and the rule passed over to the Persian Ochus. This period is illustrated by 161 pictures of monuments, mainly halftones, with all the known cartouches.... When we remember that the period treated covers the entire relation of Israel to Egypt, from Abraham to Jeremiah, the value of the volume to biblical students is obvious.”—Ind.
“His English is still slipshod. The lists of the monuments of every king, with provenance and abiding place, that he gives will be extremely useful to students; and for the care and pains that he has bestowed on their compilation all Egyptologists should be grateful.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 434. S. 30. 760w.
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 933. O. 19, ‘05. 220w.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 654. O. 7, ‘05. 720w.
+ + + =Outlook.= 81: 334. O. 7, ‘05. 120w.
“We may not always assent to his conclusions and combinations, but the archæological facts on which they are founded are stated without omission or bias, and the conclusions themselves are often brilliant, usually ingenious and always stimulating.”
+ + + =Sat. R.= 100: 343. S. 9, ‘05. 1100w.
=Pettit, Henry.= Twentieth-century idealist. †$1.50. Grafton press.
“The heroine, who ‘loves and seeks the truth for its own sake,’ is a young and charming girl. She has her own ideas of the ‘true’ faith, and tells them to those who argue with her. Adele Cultus, her parents, and her friend, join two gentlemen in a trip to the Orient. Paul Warder falls in love with the heroine. Together they visit the many interesting places, and finally come to understand each other very well.”—N. Y. Times.
“This novel ... is probably an attempt to write biography in the form of fiction. It is an introspective, retrospective, meditative, idealistic tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 317. My. 13, ‘05. 240w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 120w.
=Peyton, William Wynne.= Three greatest forces in the world, and the making of Western civilization, pt. I, The incarnation. *$1.40. Macmillan.
“This trinity of forces is constituted, says the author, by the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.... In the present volume, limited to the first of the triad, he insists at length on the extension of virgin generation from the lower creation, as in bees, to the higher creation, as in the virgin birth of Christ.”—Outlook.
“While the author is a man of considerable originality and independence of thought he is too much lacking in critical judgment and too fond of large sounding generalities to make his work of value.”
— + =Ind.= 59: 152. Jl. 20, ‘05. 80w.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 346. Je. 3, ‘05. 160w.
=Pfleiderer, Otto.= Early Christian conception of Christ; its significance and value in the history of religion. *$1.25. Putnam.
“An expansion of a lecture delivered by the author before the International theological congress at Amsterdam, in September, 1903.... The book has been divided into five chapters—‘Christ as son of God,’ ‘Christ as conqueror of Satan,’ ‘Christ as a wonder-worker,’ ‘Christ as the conqueror of death and the life-giver,’ ‘Christ as the king of kings and lord of lords.’”—N. Y. Times.
* =Am. J. Theol.= 9: 773. O. ‘05. 620w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 182. Mr. 25, ‘05. 320w.
=Spec.= 94: 750. My. 20, ‘05. 410w.
* =Phelps, Albert.= Louisiana; a record of expansion. **$1.10. Houghton.
“It has been Mr. Phelps’s effort in this latest addition to the ‘American commonwealths’ series to give a broad survey setting forth Louisiana and its place in the development of the United States.” (Outlook). “The fortunes of Louisiana under French and Spanish rule are described in the first half of the volume, and its history as part of the United States forms the second half of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
* “While the specialist may not find much that is new in this work, it has for the general reader the advantage of being based upon the sources, and is not a mere compilation.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 760. N. 11, ‘05. 350w.
* “From the narrative standpoint little fault is to be found, the style being graceful and flowing and the interest unfailingly sustained.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 682. N. 18, ‘05. 170w.
=Phelps, Charles Edward Davis.= Accolade. †$1.50. Lippincott.
In this story of the fourteenth century “the hero, son of a worthy Englishman, being kidnapped into France by a ship’s captain, betakes himself to Italy, wins a knighthood through gallantry, and returns to his native England with wealth and honor just in time to prevent his sweetheart from entering a convent for lack of him. The poets are reverenced in the persons of Chaucer and Petrarch, and it is from a careful study of the writings of the former that the rather difficult and multifarious dialects of Mr. Phelps’s book are constructed.... The rudeness of the England of the period and the refinement of Italy serve as foils, each for the other, and the whole tale is in the nature of a treasure house for the student of customs.” (Dial.)
“The book shows the most careful study and great painstaking, and abounds in varied adventure.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 393. Je. 1, ‘05. 160w.
“It cannot be said that the mantle of the old storyteller has descended upon the modern.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 356. Je. 3, ‘05. 320w.
“At times the Chaucerian English in the sprightly conversations daunts even the conqueror of polyglot dialect, but the real interest of the tale carries him safely through to the satisfactory final scenes.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 90w.
* =Philippi, Adolf.= Florence; tr. from the German by P. G. Konody. *$1.50. Scribner.
“In commendably brief space the author gives us a comprehensive survey of Florentine history, the part played by all its leading citizens both in politics, literature, and art, the origin of all its important buildings, with extensive architectural notes about them and excellent illustrations of its churches, palaces, groups of sculpture, altar-pieces, frescoes, and noteworthy details.” (Nation.) There are 170 illustrations. The lives of the Florentine painters and descriptions of their principal works are also given making the volume a good supplementary guide book for the artistic traveler.
* “The book suffers from being crudely translated from the German.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 430. N. 23, ‘05. 510w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 130w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 30w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Deluge. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The hero of Mr. Graham’s story is as intrepid in love as in battling against Wall street magnates. Simply stated, he is a man who won’t be downed,—in the world of finance when a power rises against him he hunts for a tiger to fight the bull, and in the battle with giants, makes his escape; as for his romance, he quietly determines to marry a girl in a social world above him, carries his point, and then proceeds to win her love.
* “As usual, he has written a readable story, but its extravagance deprives it of any claim to be taken seriously.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 90w.
“If the author, as one must infer, intended that we should admire Blacklock, he is likely to be disappointed.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 260w.
* — =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05, 60w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Plum tree. $1.50. Bobbs.
A story of the tree of political plums. A young country lawyer is driven by poverty to accept an assemblyman’s salary from the hands of a “boss,” and when his conscience forces him to vote against a bad bill he is thrown out of office. He becomes a reform county prosecutor, but fails in re-election and accepts a position as lawyer for the power company which he had been actively fighting. He makes a rich but loveless marriage, becomes a United States senator, and in the end, looking back upon the seething furnace of corruption thru which he has passed, finds comfort in the love of the girl he had renounced in his days of poverty.
“It is in our judgment far and away the most important novel of recent years, because it unmasks present political conditions in a manner so graphic, so convincing and so compelling that it cannot fail to arouse the thoughtful to the deadly peril which confronts our people.”
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 663. Je. ‘05. 6180w.
“This novel is definitely better than its predecessors, even though its author has not even yet progressed very far in the art of portraying women.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 294. My. 6, ‘05. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 389. Je. 17, ‘05. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 858. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 676. Ap. 29, ‘05. 320w.
* =Phillips, David Graham.= Reign of gilt. **$1. Pott.
“This work consists of a series of brilliant essays dealing with the overshadowing questions of the hour—Plutocracy and Democracy. The first half of the volume deals with plutocracy.... Such subjects as Plutocracy at home, Youth among the money-maniacs, Caste-compellers, Pauper-making, The made-over White house, and Europe laughs, are discussed.... The second half of the volume is entitled ‘Democracy.’ In this division Mr. Phillips considers such subjects as The compeller of equality, Democracy’s dynamo, A nation of dreamers, Not generosity, but justice, The inevitable ideal, Our allies from abroad, The real American woman, and The man of to-day and to-morrow.”—Arena.
* “Therefore, we say that he who loves the republic should buy, read and circulate ‘The reign of gilt.’ The more such books are circulated, the more certainly and swiftly will come the democratic reaction for which we are all striving.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 661. D. ‘05. 1610w.
* “It is a most vital subject, and one upon which Mr. Phillips speaks earnestly and with an iteration almost Rooseveltian.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 832. D. 2, ‘05. 150w.
=Phillips, David Graham.= Social secretary. †$1.50. Bobbs.
The delightful story of the daughter of an old Washington family, who undertakes to carry a western senator’s wife to the top of the official-social wave, and succeeds. Incidentally she is rewarded for her service by a large salary and—something more. The various types of people found in the struggle for social and political supremacy at the national capital are well and amusingly drawn.
* “It is not up to the level Mr. Phillips has maintained in his latest works.”
+ =Arena.= 34: 664. D. ‘05. 740w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1482. D. 21, ‘05. 160w.
“Mr. Phillips’s airy tale is a fascinating one, and, perhaps, if one looks closely, he may find beneath the daintily flavored meringue some food for thought.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 270w.
* “Besides the froth there is some really admirable character drawing in the story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 130w.
“The story is distinctly clever and humorous.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 529. O. 28, ‘05. 150w.
=Phillips, E. C.= See =Looker, Mrs. Horace B.=
=Phillips, Henry Wallace.= Plain Mary Smith: a romance of Red Saunders. †$1.50. Century.
Red Saunders’ first appearance as the principal figure in a long story will delight readers who have known his sturdy traits and original humor in short story fiction. Not being able to stand up under the indignities heaped upon him by a father who “felt some scornful toward the Almighty for such a weak and frivolous institution as Heaven,” the lad when eighteen runs away to sea; and on board the Matilda bound for Panama, he meets Plain Mary Smith—plain only in name. How he enters into her romance only as the champion of the real lover, and how he fights Panamans at the close of a lively revolution with quart cans of tomatoes are phases of a humorously interesting tale.
“Adventures follow one another swiftly, and Red Saunders relates them all with wit and vigorous bad grammar.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 429. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.
“In the relation of the narrative there is much of the humorous whimsicality of subject and style which has distinguished Mr. Phillips’s shorter stories. Yet there is also a regrettable thinness.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 250w.
=Phillips, Stephen.= Sin of David. **$1.25. Macmillan.
This three act drama, is not biblical, altho it is founded on an action analogous to that of David to Uriah, the Hittite. The play opens in the army of Cromwell and proceeds during the course of the English civil war. It is the story of the love of Sir Hubert Lisle for the wife of a Puritan captain, the crime which made their marriage possible, and their punishment.
“It is, however, creditable accomplishment, and up to the level of Mr. Phillips’s previous work.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 155. F. 4. 840w.
“‘The sin of David’ is even cleverer than ‘Herod’ and ‘Ulysses’ in its superficial dramatic quality, its superficial poetry. But the true dramatic fire is not in it.” Ferris Greenslet.
+ + — =Atlan.= 96: 422. S. ‘05. 140w.
“To one who has read all four plays of Mr. Phillips it appears unhappily evident that The sin of David is inferior in movement to Ulysses, even as this must rank below Herod, nor is it equal in pathos to Paolo and Francesca. There are passages in the play which would drag in presentation.” Louis H. Gray.
+ + — =Bookm.= 20: 554. F. ‘05. 970w.
“Has the fine literary qualities we associate with the name of the author. But as an acting play it can have at best a success of esteem, for while there are some strong and moving scenes in it, the general air is of the closet rather than the stage.” J. B. G.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 91. Ja. ‘05. 710w.
“The verse is dignified and filled with a haunting melodious charm.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 47. Ja. 16, ‘05. 440w.
* + — =Ind.= 59: 1162. N. 16, ‘05. 110w.
“A play better calculated to ‘place’ him critically than any of its predecessors. The chief impression made by it is that it is the product of a moderate poetic faculty guided by an industrious and self-poised intelligence.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 72. Ja. 26, ‘05. 590w.
“As a play it ranks lowest in the four plays Mr. Phillips has written; this position it maintains as a poem. The work is deftly knitted together; it has beauty of form, if not many beauties of line; but it has no great situations.”
+ — =Reader.= 5: 382. F. ‘05. 560w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 40w.
=Phillips, Thomas W.= Church of Christ, by a layman. *$1. Funk.
This volume is the result of a layman’s investigation of religious truth from heathen, Jewish and Christian standpoints. Under two general divisions, The history of pardon, and Evidence of pardon and the church as an organization, it makes a plea for unity, sets forth the original phases of Christianity, reviews all cases of pardon in the New Testament, and compares Jesus with other religious teachers.
* “The author sketches the history of Christianity with all the assurance of ignorance and then with equal assurance expounds his own theological views.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1259. D. 2, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 836. Jl. 29, ‘05. 250w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 512. O. ‘05. 80w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= The farm of the dagger. $1.50. Dodd.
A story of a family feud in Dartmoor, early in the nineteenth century. The hero is an English gentleman, and a captured American plays an important role in the exciting tale, which ends in the sacrifice of the parents and the happy union of the lovers.
Reviewed by W. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Knock at a venture. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Sketches of Dartmoor men and women told largely in dialect. There is grim humor and homely tragedy, there are three cornered love affairs and affairs with more corners, there are old men and young, but all are real. The stories include, The mound by the way, The crossways; Corban; A pickaxe and a spade; and Benjamin’s mess.
=Acad.= 68: 906. S. 2, ‘05. 310w.
“Mr. Phillpotts writes always picturesquely, and often with surprising vividness.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 370w.
“Written in a light vein for the most part, yet laden also with a certain quaint and primitive philosophy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 22: 234. N. ‘05. 470w.
“He knows his people and presents them to us with truth and vigour. There are no false notes. The last touch is wanting, the spell that can send a glow of life and beauty over every page; and they remain readable stories, lively and convincing, but not very new.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 400w.
“Dartmoor sketches in sombre shades, and excellent of their kind. There is a suggestion of Hardy, too, without Mr. Hardy’s later morbidness.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 606. S. 16, ‘05. 510w.
“Taken as a whole, the volume leaves a delightful impression of quaint character, soft dialect, and exuberant but not grotesque fancy.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 280. S. 30, ‘05. 110w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 712. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Pub. Opin.= 39: 477. O. 7, ‘05. 200w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Secret woman. $1.50. Macmillan.
This is another story of Dartmoor, and the Dartmoor peasants the author knows so well. After twenty years of married life, Anthony Redvers, the father of the two grown sons, finds relief from the temperamental coldness of his wife, in an intrigue with an unknown woman. The discovery, the revenge of the wife and the beautiful devotion of the younger son fill out the plot.
“It is a remarkable novel, a living, breathing piece of work.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 83. Ja. 28, ‘05. 260w.
“Is constructed on what is almost a Sophoclean scale. Mr. Phillpotts moves simply among primitive emotions, and moves with great natural insight. He has psychological subtlety, and he has great tenderness. He has a sense of the dramatic which materially assists him. Too much praise cannot be given to the author for his handling of this big theme. The characterization is always good, and sometimes more than good.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 105. Ja. 28, 610w.
+ — =Cath. World.= 81: 550. Jl. ‘05. 130w.
“Those who care to read literature and not mere books will find what they want in this great novel.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ + + =Critic.= 46: 378. Ap. ‘05. 830w.
“A study that rivals ‘The scarlet letter’ in earnestness and psychological penetration.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 389. Je. 1, ‘05. 280w.
“The psychology of a weak man and a strong woman is etched with the hand of a master.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 559. Mr. 9, ‘05. 290w.
* “‘The secret woman’ is a great story of the wrong kind.”
+ — =Ind.= 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 80w.
“Mr. Phillpotts’s strongest story. A tragedy as grim and inexorable as any ever told by ancient Greek. He knows his Devon peasants, and it is with humility that we enter one or two protests against his portrayal. One may wish the theme less painful, our keen joy in the perfection of literary workmanship less marred by the continual constriction of heart to which the author compels us. It is not only its author’s masterpiece, but it is far in advance of anything he has yet written—and that is to give it higher praise than almost any other comparison with contemporary fiction could afford.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 83. F. 11, ‘05. 700w.
“A book of unusual power and passion—by far the best work in fiction that Mr. Phillpotts has put forth within the past two or three years. There are at least four characters in this book that are original in conception, carefully consistent throughout, and subtle in their psychological development. Altogether the situation is as strange as it is compelling in its force, and it is handled with skill and vigor. In all, this is a grim but forceful romance.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 350. F. 4, ‘05. 240w.
“It is a story of terrible frankness, dealing without evasion with the elemental forces of the human tragedy, but without morbid interest or curiosity, and binding the penalty to the sin.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 773. Ap. 1, ‘05. 100w.
“Assuredly the best novel of Mr. Eden Phillpotts.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 756. Je. ‘05. 230w.
“His themes are simple, but they are far too heavily orchestrated. Thus his style, though marked by fine descriptive passages, threatens to become laboured and ornate, and is occasionally disfigured by recondite epithets and literary preciosities. He seems to us to err by the artificial and deliberate invention of incidents designed to enhance the tragic quality of the narrative, by a piling up of the agony which defeats its own aim, and suggests the element of gratuitousness where all should march inevitably to the crowning catastrophe.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 331. Mr. 4, ‘05. 1130w.
=Picard, George H.= Bishop’s niece, †$1.25. Turner, H. B.
“Although the comic element is the last that one expects in a story of ‘mixed marriages,’ that is to say of matrimonial alliances between Catholic and Protestant, it is really very droll, thanks to the demure eccentricity of his pacific Lordship, the Bishop of Isle Madame, and the contrasted orthodoxy of his brother, a domineering layman.”—N. Y. Times.
“A neat piece of literary workmanship.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 301. My. 6, ‘05. 90w.
“The little story shows ingenuity, a quaint humor, and some pretty fancies.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 379. Je. 10, ‘05. 260w.
“Is a well-balanced little conceit with delicate and simple humor.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 230w.
=Pidgin, Charles Felton.= Little Burr: the Warwick of America. $1.50. Robinson-Luce.
A book which deals with the youth of Aaron Burr, and his career in the Revolutionary war. It tells of his marriage, chronicles the birth of his daughter Theodosia, and thruout contradicts all accepted ideas of his character by presenting him as a noble gentleman, true to his ideals and the victim of unmerited social and political ostracism.
“Is not very coherent as fiction.”
— =N. Y. Times.= 10: 261. Ap. 22, ‘05. 480w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Ancient grudge. †$1.50. Houghton.
“‘The ancient grudge’ is the irksome sense of obligation felt by one young man to another who has saved his life as a boy, and in the main the novel is a study of the divergent temperaments of these two men. They are students at Harvard together, live in the same town, love the same girl, and in the end the mercurial, sanguine, visionary Stewart dies heroically and dramatically, while the heroism of Keith (who as a boy has saved his friend’s life) takes the form of steady persistence and strength of mind and purpose. To some extent the story deals with labor questions, but, while it presents some phases of the problem in an interesting way, it does not go very deeply into the subject.”—Outlook.
“In thus making a ‘problem novel’ out of what had better have remained a story of private interest, Mr. Pier proves rather disappointing.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ — =Dial.= 39: 309. N. 16, ‘05. 200w.
“It is wholesome in tone, high in its ideals. The author has made a decided advance in his art since the publication of ‘The triumph,’ handling his material more firmly, and making a stronger human appeal.”
+ + — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 650. O. 7, ‘05. 660w.
“Few, if any, novels of the season show more thoughtful and solid work in character-study than this book, which is, moreover distinctly well written. The weakest point is construction.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 523. O. 28, ‘05. 170w.
=Pigou, Arthur Cecil.= Principles and methods of industrial peace. *$1.10. Macmillan.
“In this work the author considers the question of not what have arbitration and conciliation done, but rather what ought they to do, and how they ought to do it.” (R. of Rs.) “The first part of the book is historical and descriptive; the second treats of ‘The principles of industrial peace.’ The table of contents contains a summary of the book, and in appendices problems of wages and industry are treated of diametrically.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book would have provided easier reading and commanded more attention if Mr. Pigou had been more willing to ‘take sides.’”
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 705. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 339. My. 27, ‘05. 150w.
“His spirit appears to us throughout fair, his understanding and appreciation of the point of view of both parties to the industrial conflict remarkable, and his advice generally to be both based on sound principles and practical of application.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 133. S. 16, ‘05. 440w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“Our one criticism of the book is that the author hesitates a little between two different intentions. Some of the preliminaries would be in place in a large organon, but in a popular handbook they read like platitudes, and might well be taken for granted.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 290. Ag. 26, ‘05. 1730w.
“His general judgment is keen and vigorous, and he has remarkable powers of exposition, among which a good literary style is not the least. Thus far, at least, I have been unable to see that the economic reasoner extracts from his careful labor on curves and diagrams an iota of truth which he had not assumed or put in, at the beginning.” N. P. Gilman.
+ + — =Yale R.= 14: 224. Ag. ‘05. 640w.
=Pike, Godfrey Holden.= John Wesley: the man and his mission. *$1. Union press.
Illustrated and written in a quaint old-fashioned style, this brief account of the life of John Wesley, “one of the greatest evangelists who ever carried the Gospel to the people,” seems to breathe the simple Christian spirit of the man. It is a book which is well adapted to children, altho not written for them.
=Pitkin, Helen.= Angel by brevet. $1.50. Lippincott.
This is the first book of a young New Orleans newspaper writer. The story deals with French Creoles of the old regime, and the voodouism of the negroes. The heroine invokes the charms of a sorcerer to aid her in securing the affections of the man with whom she fancies herself in love, and in the course of the complications which follow discovers that she is really in love with a clergyman who has long been her admirer.
“The testimony of those in a position to know is that Miss Pitkin has not transcended facts. Her development of this fruitful theme is, however, most unequal. The entire book, indeed, is full of affectations, not only in choice of words but in their collocation.”
+ — =Ind.= 58: 844. Ap. 13, ‘05. 280w.
“The style is precious and exotic to the extreme limit of license and beyond. Miss Pitkin’s command of unfamiliar words is marvelous; her use of familiar words more marvelous still.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 54. Ja. 28, ‘05. 410w. (Outline of plot.)
“Miss Pitkin handles her material with much strength; but her hand lacks the sure and discriminating touch which comes from practice. Her details of plot do not always avoid confusion, and the movement is sometimes labored.” J. R. Ormond.
+ — =The South Atlantic Quarterly.= 4: 97. Ja. ‘05. 100w.
=Plato.= Myths of Plato; text and translation; with introductory and other observations by J. A. Stewart. *$4.50. Macmillan.
“It was a very happy thought to bring together the myths of Plato and examine the lesson of each. We are grateful, moreover, to Professor Stewart for giving us the Greek in every case on the page opposite to the English rendering.... The excellent account of the Cambridge Platonists, More, Cudworth, Clarke, and Smith, will be to some not the least interesting part of a work full of thought and learning.”—Acad.
“Jowett’s translation is so good that it seems churlish to say that the present rendering is even more perfect, and reads even more like an original composition in English.”
+ + + =Acad.= 68: 325. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1300w.
“It may be said in conclusion, that Prof. Stewart’s book—dealing, as it does, with a side of Platonism which has been too much neglected—is the finest contribution to the knowledge of Plato’s thought which has been made in this country of late years.”
+ + + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 429. Ap. 8. 1390w.
“One cannot read Professor Stewart’s discussion without being moved to wonder again and again at the felicitous phrase by which he conveys impalpable emotions, by the fineness with which his perception is pitched to detect frail sympathies.”
+ + + =Lond. Times.= 4: 255. Ag. 11, ‘05. 3150w.
+ + =Nation.= 81: 106. Ag. 3, ‘05. 1090w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 155. Mr. 11, ‘05. 300w.
“Though in detail interesting and exegetic, the book does not draw very much to a point, and is perhaps rather overweighted. Mr. Stewart’s translation, it must be said is not as good a representation of the original as Jowett’s.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 742. Je. 3, ‘05. 1320w.
+ + — =Spec.= 94: 895. Je. 17, ‘05. 1660w.
=Platt, Isaac Hull.= Walt Whitman. **75c. Small.
Mr. Platt’s biography is the outgrowth of partisan beliefs and fancies rather than a development from so-called legitimate biographical material including clews to Whitman’s inner life. The volume is the latest issue in the “Beacon biographies.”
“It is frankly the statement of a partisan; it contains little or no new material; it follows closely the phraseology of previous writers and quotes rather too liberally from them; but it is clear, compact, sensible summary of the facts of Whitman’s life, so far as they are known, and as such deserves commendation.” G. R. Carpenter.
+ + — =Bookm.= 21: 64. Mr. ‘05. 670w.
“A concise and highly eulogistic account of Whitman and his works.”
+ + =Critic.= 46: 380. Ap. ‘05. 20w.
“A believer to the fullest extent in the greatness of his work. And yet he does not spare criticism.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 127. Ja. ‘05. 80w.
=Plummer, Rev. Alfred.= English church history: four lectures from the death of Archbishop Parker to the death of King Charles I. *$1. Scribner.
“Dr. Plummer aims to be judicially fair in his estimate of men and measures in the momentous period in English history from 1575 to 1649, but on every page he makes it patent that he is an ardent adherent of the church by law established. Elizabeth’s character was far from worthy, but it was good of her to fight the Romanists and the Puritans, and to preserve the Anglican church intact. James I, the wise fool, reached ‘the lowest depths of unpopularity with his subjects,’ but, ‘by solid conviction, during the whole of his reign he was neither Romanist nor Puritan, but an Anglican.’ Five or six particulars are specified in which he served the Church of England a good turn. Charles I, the impersonation of ‘incurable duplicity and intrigue,’ carried despotism to its utmost limit, and through his ‘criminal wrongheadedness and perfidy’ brought about the overthrow of both episcopacy and monarchy. Dr. Plummer does not venture to enumerate the particulars in which his reign was helpful to the Anglican cause.”—Bib. World.
=Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 376. Ap. ‘05. 150w.
Reviewed by E. B. Hulbert.
+ — =Bib. World.= 25: 317. Ap. ‘05. 160w.
=Plunkett, Horace.= Ireland in the new century. 60c. Dutton.
A popular priced edition of this now famous book which “begins with a chapter on ‘The English misunderstanding,’ and traces the whole question of politics, religion, economics, and education to the final chapter, which is on ‘Government with the consent of the governed.’” (R. of Rs.)
“It is dull, labored in style, pedantic, and egotistical.”
+ — — =Nation.= 81: 62. Jl. 20, ‘05. 790w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 360. Je. 3, ‘05. 730w.
“Unquestionably a sane and a healthful contribution to the settlement of the ever-difficult Irish question.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 444. Je. 17, ‘05. 250w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 767. Je. ‘05. 280w.
=Plympton, Almira George.= School-house in the woods. †$1.50. Little.
In her story for young readers Miss Plympton portrays the sweet influence of a child who comes to live with her guardians, two bachelor uncles,—a child whose “realization of the relationship between human beings, so keen as to make her oblivious to the distinction made by rank, race, education or even morals” fosters a democratic spirit among her school friends. Her sympathy and affection for a little colored girl form the larger part of the story.
* “It is a book which would do best service in being read aloud by a judicious editor, who should cull the flowers and skip the thorns.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 406. N. 16, ‘05. 190w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 868. D. 2, ‘05. 120w.
=Pocock, Roger.= Curly, a tale of the Arizona desert. †$1.00. Little.
A feud, which began in the Irish land league troubles, is transplanted and finished in Arizona where, among Indians, outlaws, and cowboys, young Lord Balshannon finds a wife in the plucky daughter of a robber chief. The story is real and stirring and the author has lived the things of which he writes.
“The real enjoyment of the book is ... due to the breezy dialect in which the book is written, the picturesque vernacular of the ranch.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 519. Jl. ‘05. 150w.
“The style in which the cowboy tells the stirring tale is crisp, vivid, vigorous and only occasionally marred by coarseness; the offense is in expression alone—the thought is not coarse.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 694. S. 21, ‘05. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 392. Je. 17, ‘05. 110w.
“Seems to us quite the best cowboy story since Owen Wister’s ‘The Virginian.’”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 391. Je. 10, ‘05. 40w.
“There are several obscure statements and situations in the story.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 868. Je. 3, ‘05. 180w.
“Among current books of adventure, ‘Curly’ is especially good.”
+ + =Reader.= 6: 361. Ag. ‘05. 170w.
* Poems every child should know; a selection of all times for young people; ed. by Mary E. Burt. *$1.25. Doubleday.
The poems contained in this volume are those which children actually love and with but a few exceptions they are brief enough to be committed to memory. They have been divided into five groups each of which appeals to a different stage of childhood. The division headings: The budding moment; The little child; The day’s at the morn; Lad and lassie; On and on; and Grow old along with me, strike the key notes of their contents. Nearly all the old favorites and some new ones are to be found here. The volume is bound in soft green suede and is decorated with drawings by Blanche Ostertag.
=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Thomas Cranmer and the English reformation, 1489-1556. **$1.35. Putnam.
An addition to the “Heroes of the Reformation series.” An attempt to clear up some of the mysteries surrounding Cranmer, which, the author says, are mysteries of the atmosphere he breathed, rather than of character. His great work in the compilation of the Book of common prayer, and his translations of the Collects is set over against his weakness in failing to stand by his convictions against Tudor tyranny.
“The author has a competent knowledge of what was then going on throughout Europe and is safe-guarded against the insularity or provincialism which marks the authors of the volumes in Stephens and Hunt’s ‘History of the Church of England.’ Its impartiality and lack of partisan writing is also to be commended.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 440. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1210w.
“No one could be better qualified for the task. The book can rightly claim to be the first considerable biography of Cranmer which has been written according to the canons of modern scientific historical work. It is clear, and for the most part consistent and convincing; and though it contains nothing that is startlingly new, it arranges in useful and readable form a vast amount of hitherto scattered and not always trustworthy information. Mr. Pollard’s treatment of the archbishop’s career under Henry VIII seems to us ... much less satisfactory.” R. B. Merriman.
+ + — =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 861. Jl. ‘05. 920w.
“This book is an inspiring work, both as a fine biography of a most admirable man and as an addition to the conscience literature that is so needed to stimulate the moral energies of our age.”
+ + =Arena.= 34: 110. Jl. ‘05. 460w.
“The present work reaches, we think, the high-water mark of his achievement. It will form, and rightly form the standard life of Cranmer for some time to come. Mr. Pollard in this book is certainly not without a bias.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 200. Ag. 12. 1530w.
“Mr. Pollard offers as good a plea for him as can be offered, and offers it in a temperate spirit. His volume is almost a model of what such a biography should be.” Edward Fuller.
+ + =Critic.= 46: 279. Mr. ‘05. 330w.
“The character and ability of Cranmer are skilfully portrayed, and the work may be counted as a real contribution to popular knowledge on this important period.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 46. Jl. 16, ‘05. 150w.
“Mr. Pollard has done the Archbishop something like justice, and has done it in a way that maintains the interest of the reader to the last.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 170. My. 26, ‘05. 510w.
“Mr. Pollard writes pleasantly, with a clear arrangement of his subject, and a fair sense of proportion.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 36. Jl. 13, ‘05. 2190w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 382. Mr. ‘05. 110w.
“Very able and interesting volume. We are grateful to Mr. Pollard for his fine vindication of a man who was not without elements of true greatness.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 58. Jl. 8, ‘05. 1720w.
=Pollock, Walter Herries, and Pollock, Guy C.= Hay fever. $1.25. Longmans.
“Mr. Henry Tempest, stockbroker, is suffering from a severe attack of the malady which gives the book its title; to cure it he takes an overdose of an Egyptian remedy, recommended by a friend with a careless turn for archaeology. The effects of this overdose are amazing and mischievous. The stockbroker is transformed from a staid and benevolent man of middle-age into a boy of pranks.... He has one frantic day of irresponsible delight, and his adventures ... carry one on from peal to peal of laughter.”—Acad.
“It is an excellent farce.”
+ =Acad.= 68: 495. My. 6, ‘05. 260w.
“The book has all the freshness of a humorous idea worked out and finished in the heat of the moment.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 1: 620. My. 20. 150w.
“It’s all rather pleasant and funny after its fashion.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 365. Je. 3, ‘05. 380w.
“A farce with only one defect—it is not funny.”
— =Outlook.= 80: 392. Je. 10, ‘05. 10w.
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 39: 158. Jl. 29, ‘05. 110w.
+ =Sat. R.= 99: 674. My. 20, ‘05. 130w.
=Pool, Bettie Freshwater.= Eyrie and other southern stories. $1. Broadway pub.
Seven short stories, some of which are in the negro dialect, a dozen simple poems on various subjects and a concluding story. The monstrosity, by Gaston Pool, complete this volume.
=Porter, Frank Chamberlain.= Messages of the apocalyptic writers, the books of Daniel and Revelation and some uncanonical apocalypses; with historical introductions and a free rendering in paraphrase. **$1.25. Scribner.
“These mysterious writings, most of them not in our canonical Scriptures, are our chief source for later Jewish eschatology, and for the momentous matter of Messianic dogmatics.... [The author] gives a summary view of their nature and subject-matter, and analyzes, at considerable length, the books of Daniel and Revelations. In smaller space he studies the apocalypses of Enoch, Ezra and Baruch.”—Cath. World.
“A very useful and convenient manual of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic from the historical point of view.”
+ + =Bib. World.= 26: 79. Jl. ‘05. 20w.
“An excellent manual. Professor Porter’s introduction to the study of these writings is done in a clear, systematic, and erudite manner. His tone throughout is scholarly and objective.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 81: 248. My. ‘05. 490w.
“A little book thoroughly to be recommended.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, ‘05. 70w.
* “Is perhaps, the best introduction to the study of Daniel and Revelation available.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 40w.
“In ample introductions and notes Professor Porter has given a confessedly obscure subject the lucid treatment it requires.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 857. Ap. 1, ‘05. 140w.
=Porter, Mary (Mrs. Horace Porter).= Secret of a great influence. *$1. Macmillan.
In these “Notes on Bishop Westcott’s teachings, the reader ... has set before him considerations as to the bishop’s ethical and dogmatic teaching.... He then passes to the subject of ‘Bible study.’ ... The fifth section treats of Bishop Westcott’s teaching on ‘The Christian church’ and ‘The Christian creed’; the sixth is devoted to ‘Worship,’ public and private; ‘Foreign missions’ and a variety of other subjects are also mentioned; and finally we have a paper on Bishop Westcott’s ‘Commentaries,’ by Rev. A. Westcott.”—Spec.
=Spec.= 94: 444. Mr. 25, ‘05. 280w.
=Post, Emily (Mrs. Edwyn Main Post).= Purple and fine linen. †$1.50. Appleton.
Fashionable New York forms the background for this story of the development of Camilla from a child into a woman. Young, thoughtless, fresh from school, she marries Anthony Stuart, who is rich and handsome, but who makes of her a plaything not a part of his life. Another man comes to cheer her lonely existence, and she awakens on the brink of marital shipwreck.
“The author’s manner of handling her subject is the excuse for the book’s existence.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 724. O. 28, ‘05. 290w.
“There is some clever characterization of modern society, and several individuals stand out clearly as real people.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 578. N. 4, ‘05. 110w.
=Pott, Francis L. Hawks.= Sketch of Chinese history. **$1.80. Wessels.
This volume was written to meet the need of a short history of China, it is intended primarily for teachers, and is a brief survey of a large field. It contains three divisions, The conquest of China by the Chinese (B. C. 2852-206), The first struggle with the Tartars (B. C. 206-A. D. 589), The second struggle with the Tartars (A. D. 589-1644), and includes a chapter on The war with Japan, and Recent events in China. There are five maps.
=Pottenger, Milton Alberto.= Symbolism. $2.50. Robertson.
A treatise on the soul of things, which demonstrates that the natural world is but a symbol of the real world, explains why there are but ten digits in our mathematical system, and shows the pack of playing cards, or book of 52, to be an ancient Masonic Bible, each card a symbol of universal law. It reveals new things about many Masonic symbols and Biblical expressions and declares that the United States is a Masonic nation whose duty and history are to be read in these ancient sacred symbols. There are charts and drawings.
=Potter, Mrs. Frances B. (Squire).= Ballingtons. †$1.50. Little.
Mrs. Potter’s first book is a study of the principles that underlie the misery resulting from two unhappy marriages. The main action sympathetically follows the awakening of Agnes Sidney from the condition of care-free girlhood to the state of restricted wifehood with Ferdinand Ballington lording the right of financial despotism over her. The author has drawn a spiritually minded woman whose great love and keen sense of duty buoy her up when the discovery of pettiness and low aims would tend to submerge her. In contrast to the tyranny of withholding is portrayed in the sub-action the tyranny of giving, in which a wealthy girl, mistress of her own fortune, marries a quiet, refined bank clerk. Here a man’s sensitive longing for independence is opposed by the dominant freeheartedness and worldliness of his wife.
* “A distinctive book not soon forgotten like the average novel.”
+ + =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 120w.
“Here and there the workmanship is a bit crude; here and there the book would have gained by compression and excision, but, take it all in all, it is the most remarkable novel that has come to our desk for many a long day. It takes its rare and high place because, as we read we say again and again, not ‘This is lifelike,’ but ‘This is life.’”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 672. O. 14, ‘05. 810w.
* “It is conspicuously lacking in finish of style in places, and is not at all points well put together; but it is a real piece of work, full of true feeling, genuine insight, and a sincere and sound ethical judgment.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 709. N. 25, ‘05. 170w.
=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Drink problem in modern life. **30c. Crowell.
A frank exposition of the drink problem as Bishop Potter views it. He believes that the secret of mastery over the great evil of intemperance lies not in “legal enactment,” but in “the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” He says, “The world waits, we say, for better laws—or for better men to administer the laws! No, my brother, it waits for love—the vigilance of love, the service of love, the sacrifice of love.”
“... Loose texture and somewhat irrelevant quality of much contained in his pamphlet.”
+ — — =Reader.= 5: 788. My. ‘05. 230w.
=Potter, Margaret.= Fire of spring. $1.50. Appleton.
A mother, regardless of the sleeping fires of youth, marries her young daughter to a millionaire plow manufacturer of Chicago. The girl, excited by the whirl of preparations, gives little thought to her fiance and when she realizes at their first tête-à-tête dinner, that this bald, red-faced man audibly eating soup, is her husband, she loathes him. A cousin, handsome and worldly, appears and intrigue, suspicion, quarrels, and other unpleasant things follow. In the end the cousin meets a death of the husband’s planning, and the ill-assorted pair, less lovable than when they first met, forgive, and come to care for each other.
“The story has the fault so frequently found when women handle sex problems; as though fearful of not being understood, it insists upon unsavoury details with unnecessary and repellant frankness. The book is irritatingly uneven.”
+ — =Bookm.= 21: 182. Ap. ‘05. 680w.
“Miss Potter has evidently aimed at writing a ‘strong’ novel, and has certainly succeeded in producing something very rank.”
— — — =Critic.= 46: 564. Je. ‘05. 80w.
“No one could call this story dull or badly written; but, recognizing what will inevitably be called its strength, one must regret the novelist’s use of her real power in the working out of such obnoxious phases of life—if it is life—in Chicago.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 173. Mr. 18, ‘05. 860w.
“‘The fire of spring’ belongs to the very best in the season’s American fiction.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 759. Je. ‘05. 160w.
* =Potter, Mary Knight.= Art of the Venice academy, containing a brief history of the building and its collection of paintings as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists. **$2. Page.
In this volume the author has treated each room in the Royal gallery of fine arts in Venice separately, and in her own chosen order. The greater pictures she has given in detail while some of the lesser ones she has merely outlined, reserving as much space as possible for comments upon the artists themselves. The book is well illustrated.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 110w.
* =Int. Studio.= 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “This particular volume is well enough for its class.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 509. D. 21, ‘05. 150w.
* “Evidently designed as much to decorate ‘the center table’ as to illuminate the mind.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 705. N. 25, ‘05. 120w.
* “The author shows care and discrimination in her criticism and suggestions.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 667. N. 18, ‘05. 60w.
* =Pottinger, Sir Henry.= Flood, fell and forest; a book of sport in Norway. 2v. $8.40. Longmans.
“Sir Henry’s volumes deal with many phases of sport, from elk hunting, in which he is a veteran and an adept, to the successful pursuit of trout and salmon, from sport with Norwegian red deer to pleasant days with ryper and other game birds. The author was one of the earliest sportsmen to wet a line on the famous Tana river. This was nearly fifty years ago, but the narrative of the expedition and its results is so fresh and so vigorous that it is certain to capture the reader’s attention.” (Acad.) The volumes are illustrated.
* “To our thinking, although some of the matter is by no means entirely new, these are two of the pleasantest sporting volumes that we have encountered during the last three or four years.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1253. D. 2, ‘05. 1280w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 762. N. 11, ‘05. 190w.
* “We like the temper of the book and a good part of its contents; but think it might, with distinct advantage from a literary point of view, have been compressed into one volume of moderate length.”
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 728. D. 2, ‘05. 180w.
=Poulsson, Anne Emilie.= Runaway donkey, and other rhymes for children. †$1.50. Lothrop.
Printed in large type upon heavy paper and abundantly illustrated, these rhymes, the majority of which are about animals, will appeal to all imaginative little folks.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 15w.
* “Miss Poulsson’s book should be a welcome addition to every child’s library.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 32: 712. D. ‘05. 70w.
=Powell, Edward Payson.= Country home. **$1.50. McClure.
The author, a fruit-farmer of New York state, deals with the problem of successful country home making under such headings as: Selecting the homestead, Growing a house, Water supply, Lawns, Orchard, Flowers, The insects, The animals, The beautiful and the useful.
“Is one of the most valuable and practical works of recent months. With the witchery of the poet’s art he leads us from page to page, until all too soon the end of the volume is reached.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 449. Ap. ‘05. 800w.
“For practical information, Mr. Powell’s is the best book on this general theme of a home in the country that has appeared—in America at least—for many a day.”
+ + + =Country Calendar.= 1: 9f. My. ‘05. 240w.
+ =Critic.= 46: 480. My. ‘05. 90w.
“The charm of Mr. Powell’s book is that it urges simplicity of living and practical and successful ways of doing things, along with full enjoyment of all that is beautiful and healthful in rural life.” Priscilla Leonard.
+ + =Current Literature.= 38: 337. Ap. ‘05. 3890w. (Abstract of book.)
“All lovers of rural life will appreciate it. It is full of common sense, practical advice, a commendation rarely to be bestowed on books of this class; and besides the advice it is excellently good reading. The book greatly needs a subject index, for it is good enough to be in frequent use as a reference work. It is so completely and so simply what it starts out to be—a practical account of a life in the country. ‘The country home’ should be put into every country library, and also into every school library, for from there it would reach a class of people who need just its suggestions and ideas.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 96. Ja. 12, ‘05. 700w.
=Powell, Edward Payson.= Orchard and fruit garden. **$1.50. McClure.
“The greater part of this book is taken up by advice as to the best varieties of fruit to plant, ranging from apples to small fruits and including some little-grown fruits and some nut-trees. The usual order is reversed here, for after this long dissertation on kinds of fruit, there follow a few chapters on culture, training, packing, and marketing.”—Dial.
“It is a good book for the seeker after country living.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 480. N. ‘05. 130w.
“Our chief criticism on Mr. Powell’s book would be that in these last sections he gives ear to too many other advisers. He is at once conservative and progressive, and has given us a book valuable to have at hand. A serious defect, however, is the lack of an index.” Edith Granger.
+ + — =Dial.= 38: 381. Je. 1, ‘05. 350w.
“The illustrations are for the most part good and are well chosen, and the practical directions are generally judicious.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 374. My. 11, ‘05. 150w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 281. Ap. 29, ‘05. 180w.
“His book has the value of accurate, scientific knowledge.”
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 70w.
+ =Pub. Opin.= 38: 867. Je. 3, ‘05. 170w.
=Powers, Caleb.= My own story. **$1.50. Bobbs.
“An account of the conditions in Kentucky leading to the assassination of William Goebel, who was declared governor of the state, and my indictment and conviction on the charge of complicity in his murder.” It is also the story of Powers’s life, and of his early days, his brief romance, his political career, and the five years of trial and imprisonment. The book is written in confinement and is, of course, a complete vindication of the author. It is illustrated with photographs.
“On the whole it is done temperately, even complacently, in spite of the tragic nature of the circumstances for the author.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 363. Je. 3, ‘05. 650w.
=Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 20w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. Dutton.
“This volume has been written for traders as well as the general reader to show them the actual position of British railways with regard to the complaints advanced from time to time on the subjects of rates and charges, and the origin, operation, and circumstances of the railways of Britain as compared with those abroad.”—N. Y. Times.
“We find it hard to believe the average railway is so immaculate as Mr. Pratt makes out. On the other hand, the book brings out clearly the strong points of English railways, their safety, and the superior accommodation they give to both passengers and goods.”
+ — =Acad.= 68: 635. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 575. S. 2, ‘05. 350w.
=Sat. R.= 100: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 270w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.= Trade unionism and British industry. *$1.50. Dutton.
These articles appeared in the London Times in the fall of 1901 under the title of “The crisis in British industry.” They comprise a study of the industrial conditions in England. The trade-union situation in twenty of the leading British industries is fully treated, and a rather severe judgment on trade-union policy and practice is given.
“Seemingly intimate bearing upon the fiscal controversy. The book, taken as a whole, is a severe indictment of what is called the ‘new unionism’—the militant unionism. Hostility to trade-unionism is written large on every page from cover to cover, and the author’s very evident bias makes one question rather than accept his conclusions. The book is interesting and informational. The impression grows upon one as he reads that the investigation was not a colorless seeking after truth, but an attempt to find facts which would bear out a theory already formed, and that the trade-unionist was really judged without notice and without a hearing.” Edith Abbott.
+ — — =J. Pol. Econ.= 13: 129. D. ‘04. 1140w.
=Prentys, E. P. and Kametaro Sesamoto.= Japanese for daily use. 75c. Jenkins.
“A booklet which will fit the pocket and help the traveller. It is full of real talk, brief, to the point, and wholly free from that exaggeration of honorifics heard on the stage and overworked by novelists and Japanophiles.... Numbers, money, postal rates, and helps to pronunciation have not been forgotten in this capital manual.”—Nation.
“We have failed to find a misprint in its sixty-three pages.”
+ + + =Nation.= 81: 13. Jl. 6, ‘05. 80w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 40w.
=Prindiville, Kate Gertrude.= Two of the guests. †$1.25. Pott.
Letters to their friends by the various guests at a house party comprise this volume. They are very masculine and very feminine and tell the love story of Margaret Exeter, whom the men called an angel and the women considered a “bold creature,” and Arnold Gresham, a Sir Galahad.
“The letters are cleverly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 244. Ap. 15, ‘05. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“A pretty love story.”
+ =Outlook.= 79: 910. Ap. 8, ‘05. 60w.
=Prothero, Rowland Edmund.= Psalms in human life. *$2. Dutton.
A new edition of this book which cites numerous incidents showing the influence of the psalms in historical crises and in critical moments in the lives of prominent men and women.
“With skill, sympathy, and infinite patience he has traced the influence of this great hymnary upon successive generations, from Origin to our day.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 375. My. 11, ‘05. 490w.
=Prouty, Charles A. and others.= President Roosevelt’s railroad policy. 50c. Ginn.
A report of a discussion before the economic club of Boston, March 9, 1905, in which President Roosevelt’s railroad policy is reviewed by four men of varying interest in the great question.
=Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor).= Reminiscences of peace and war. **$2. Macmillan.
For this new edition of her popular book the author has prepared new chapters, one of which describes the origin and first celebration of Decoration day in this country; she has also added a number of illustrations. The volume gives a pleasing picture of social life in the South, beginning with the Washington of President Pierce’s administration and ending with the conclusion of the civil war.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 482. Ja. ‘05. 490w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 280w.
+ =Outlook.= 81: 335. O. 7, ‘05. 60w.
* “This is one of the best and most readable books of its class.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 756. D. ‘05. 50w.
Publisher’s confession. **60c. Doubleday.
“All persons who have written a book not yet published or who hope to write and publish a book in the future will be interested in this.... The anonymous author defends the publishers against the charges ... brought against them by unsuccessful authors. It explains fully the way a book is selected, printed, advertised, and sold, and discusses the relations between author and publisher as they are and as they ought to be.”—Ind.
“The writing is generally clear, and, apart from some repetitions, effective. Of the ‘literary’ class the publisher has a poor opinion.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 134. Jl. 29. 2270w.
“It may perhaps be shop-talk, but it is so well done, there is in it so much sense and sincerity that it will entertain and impress you, no matter how far remote you are from books and their makers. Frankly, the book is a brief for the publisher.” Beverly Stark.
+ + =Bookm.= 21: 384. Je. ‘05. 1200w.
=Ind.= 58: 903. Ap. 20, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 264. Ap. 22, ‘05. 720w.
“We commend the book to writers (to the experienced publisher it will hardly contain any novelty). There are some hints, however, which may be useful.”
+ =Spec.= 95: 396. S. 16, ‘05. 310w.
=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.
Eight papers upon—Criticism and aesthetics, The nature of beauty, The æsthetic repose, The beauty of fine art, The beauty of music, The beauty of literature, The nature of dramatic emotion, and The beauty of ideas.
“Miss Puffer’s method of treatment is precise and logical without being over-technical.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 93. Ag. 16, ‘05. 260w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 251. Ap. 15, ‘05. 200w.
+ + =Outlook.= 80: 394. Je. 10, ‘05. 330w.
“A careful and closely woven study.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 50w.
=Pullan, Rev. Leighton.= Church of the fathers; being an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 98 to A. D. 461. *$1.50. Macmillan.
Volume II. but the first in date of issue, of an eight volume series which will deal with the “Church universal.” This volume contains an outline of the history of the church from A. D. 98 to A. D. 461. It begins with the death of St. John’s last apostle and ends with a consideration of the work of St. Leo and St. Patrick.
“Conscientious and scholarly labor with which Mr. Pullan has brought so much valuable information into comparatively brief compass.” A. G.
+ + — =Eng. Hist. R.= 20: 822. O. ‘05. 170w.
“This is a well-arranged and lucidly wrought introduction to the study of the important period it covers.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 245. My. 27, ‘05. 80w.
“Altogether it is a book which students, and especially those already on Mr. Pullan’s side, will find valuable for reference and information; but we doubt whether it will prove an introduction or a stimulus to further study.”
+ =Sat. R.= 100: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 210w.
=Purchas, Samuel.= Hakluytus posthumous; or Purchas his pilgrimes. *$3.25. Macmillan.
“The work will be complete in twenty volumes. It is a continuation and enlargement of Hakluyt’s ‘Voyages.’ It is made up of unpublished manuscripts of voyages, left by Hakluyt after his death, which came into the hands of Samuel Purchas. The latter added to them his own accounts of the many travels and voyages of Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese explorers and English travelers, besides including numerous translations from early books of travel which were then becoming scarce.... The text of the present edition is a reprint of that of 1625, with the exception that errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected and contracted forms of letters extended. Among the contents are the accounts of the early expeditions fitted out by the East India company, of the adventures of Capt. John Smith in Turkey and Virginia, the Arctic discoveries of Barents, Baffin, and Henry Hudson, and translations from Acosta, Oviedo, Las Casas, and others. All the maps and illustrations of the original edition have been included in this reprint, and there is also a facsimile of the original engraved title page.”—N. Y. Times.
“Their real claim to consideration lies in their style, their pungency, their wit, their unexpected turns of expression, their irresistible quaintness. There is an equal quality about the book regarded as a whole.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 234. Mr. 11, ‘05. 1480w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Acad.= 68: 575. My. 27, ‘05. 240w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
* “The volumes with increasing force and power speak for themselves.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 1095. O. 21, ‘05. 1250w. (Review of v. 5-8.)
=Nation.= 81: 55. Jl. 20, ‘05. 410w.
=Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 130w. (Review of v. 3 and 4.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 171. Mr. 18, ‘05. 380w.
“Too much respect cannot be given to the work of Samuel Purchas. With Hakluyt, it shows the advances made by civilization. It is one of the foundations on which modern geographical study rests.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 196. Ap. 1, ‘05. 150w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 466. Jl. 15, ‘05. 380w. (Review of v. 4 and 5.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 561. Ag. 26, ‘05. 440w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
“It is because Purchas helps Hakluyt in making us understand all this that he is worth reprinting and rereading.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 19. Jl. 1, ‘05. 2380w. (Review of v. 1-4.)
+ + =Sat. R.= 100: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 500w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
+ + =Spec.= 94: 440. Mr. 25, ‘05. 1620w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
+ + =Spec.= 95: 199. Ag. 5, ‘05. 70w. (Review of v. 5 and 6.)
=Purves, Rev. David.= Life everlasting: studies in the subject of the future. *$1.50. imp. Scribner.
“The subjects treated in this volume by a Presbyterian clergyman of Belfast, Ireland are: The life everlasting, The resurrection (of Jesus and believers), The future life, and Immortality in literature.”—Outlook.
=Outlook.= 79: 760. Mr. 25, ‘05. 120w.
=Putnam, M. Louise.= Children’s life of Lincoln. $1.25. McClurg.
A new and thoroughly revised edition of a book designed not for children’s amusement, but for pure instruction.
=Pyle, Edmund.= Memoirs of a royal chaplain. *$4. Lane.
Edmund Pyle, chaplain in ordinary to George I., Archdeacon of York, and Prebend of Winchester, “represents the Church of England, so far as the clergy constitute the Church sunk in coveteousness and sloth.” (London Times.) “The letters are valuable for the display not of a specially elevated or attractive clerical character, but of the facts and feelings of that age from the point of view of a minor ecclesiastical politician.” (Nation.)
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 743. Je. 17. 1930w.
* “He makes an unusual revelation of the scheming and jobbery in church preferment.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 476. N. ‘05. 70w.
“Mr. Hartshorne’s labors have at least furnished a useful source-book for historians of the period, however lacking it may be in the continuous absorbing interest.”
+ + — =Dial.= 39: 118. S. 1, ‘05. 330w.
“If there is nothing in this volume to excite admiration or enthusiasm, there are some curious facts, and one or two amusing incidents. Notes should be brief, accurate, and germane to the matter. Mr. Hartshorne’s are none of the three.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 200. Je. 23, ‘05. 2280w.
“He writes with no waste of words, with great frankness, and with pretty full and accurate information, as to a large range of externals.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 142. Ag. 17, ‘05. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 399. Je. 17, ‘05. 260w.
“Whatever Pyle says is worth reading. It is only when Mr. Hartshorne intervenes that we are sorry.”
+ — =Spec.= 94: 945. Je. 24, ‘05. 1470w.
=Pyle, Howard.= Story of champions of the round table. **$2.50. Scribner.
“A companion volume to Mr. Pyle’s ‘Story of King Arthur and his knights,’ illustrated as that was with wood cuts admirably suited in manner and tone to the pseudo-antique style of narrative in which the deeds of Sir Launcelot and his fellow-knights are retold.... To boys not too young and of the right imaginative cast of mind the book should have the fascination which Malory’s tales still have for a like class of elder readers.”
* + =Critic.= 47: 576. D. ‘05. 50w.
* + =Ind.= 59: 1387. D. 14, ‘05. 80w.
* “It is evident that this writer brings to his task wide knowledge and great enthusiasm; we could wish that he did not in large measure spoil the good effects of both by diffuseness, affectation of style, and prosy sermonizings.”
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 210w.
“Mr. Pyle succeeds unusually well in preserving the legendary and chivalrous atmosphere of his subject without dulling the interest by over-indulgence in archaic language.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 90w.
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=Quarles, Francis.= Sions sonets sung by Solomon the king. *$4. Houghton.
A reprint of this poetical paraphrase of the song of Solomon which combines the merits of the editions of 1625 and 1680.
+ + =Dial.= 38: 424. Je. 16, ‘05. 180w.
+ + =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 60w.
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=Rabelais, Francois.= Selections; ed. by Curtis Hidden Page. *$2. Putnam.
A volume in the series of “French classics for English readers.” In the selections the aim of the editor has been to “keep all the essential parts of the story, and all the scenes which had most literary value and human interest; to retain all the best of the historical satire; and to include other parts which have some special interest, such as the chapters on education.”
“Mr. Page has done his task as well as it could be done.”
+ + + =Critic.= 47: 286. S. ‘05. 70w.
+ =Dial.= 38: 326. My. 1, ‘05. 120w.
=Ind.= 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.
+ =Outlook.= 79: 504. F. 25, ‘05. 140w.
“The edition is very well got up and generally attractive.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 521. Ap. 8, ‘05. 80w.
“Dr. Page’s introduction is an interesting and scholarly study of his author.”
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 230. Ag. ‘05. 110w.
* =Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital: being a complete reprint of the New principles of political economy, 1834; ed. with biographical sketch and notes by Charles Whitney Mixter. *$4. Macmillan.
“Rae’s book is a refutation of Smith’s system, and in the course of chapter after chapter he carefully takes the author of the ‘Wealth of nations’ to pieces. The result is that he arrives at a defense of protection as opposed to free trade and of legislative interference as opposed to the laissez-faire policy. Professor Mixter in his recrudescence of Rae has split the book in the middle, giving the first and last parts in an appendix.”—Pub. Opin.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 150w.
* “A readable book where only the dismal science existed before.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 763. D. 9, ‘05. 180w.
* “He has not been content with making a mere reprint, but has carefully scrutinized and rearranged the original work so as to make it of distinct use for modern readers and valuable as a text-book in advanced courses.” I. F.
+ + =Yale R.= 14: 330. N. ‘05. 1250w.
=Ragster, Olga.= Chats on violins. *$1.25. Lippincott.
In these “chats” the history of the violin, historical and biographical sketches of Italian and German makers, and anecdotes of great players are given, followed by chapters on the manner of preserving and playing the violin and an appendix upon the life of Paganini. The illustrations present a series of types of the violin from the ninth century to the present day.
“Miss Ragster’s treatment is clear and concise, and not of such a technical nature as to burden the ordinary reader.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 245. O. 16, ‘05. 210w.
+ =Nation.= 81: 305. O. 12, ‘05. 90w.
“Miss Ragster’s English style is frequently vivacious, but often unfinished, and she is imperfectly informed as to the spelling of many foreign proper names and other words.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 722. O. 28, ‘05. 580w.
* “While the book is not technical in any sense, it should be of considerable value to all students of the violin.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 700. N. 25, ‘05. 100w.
=Rambaud, Alfred Nicholas; Simkovitch, Vladimir; and others.= Case of Russia: a composite view. **$1.25. Fox.
“A presentation of certain phases of Russian life and history by five writers who have a first-hand knowledge of the subjects they discuss. It comprises: an outline sketch of the successive steps in the expansion of Russia; a brief psychological study of the Russian people; an interpretation of the Russian autocratic system; an inquiry into the progress and possibilities of the Slav; and a survey of the religious situation in Russia.”—Outlook.
=Critic.= 47: 411. N. ‘05. 320w.
“The proof-reading is inadequate, and the translation is not always quite what it should be.”
+ — =Nation.= 80: 462. Je. 8, ‘05. 21??w.
“Most of the matter, however, is somewhat vitiated by having been written some time ago.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 310. My. 13, ‘05. 220w.
“As with all ‘composite views,’ the effect is in some respects elusive, in others bewildering. But, on the whole, the symposium is distinctly helpful, and especially in the direction of assisting to a clearer understanding of the dominant traits and qualities of the inhabitants of the unhappy land.”
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 244. My. 27, ‘05. 220w.
“There is a good deal of psychological interest in the essays, particularly in that of Mr. Novicow.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 126. Jl. ‘05. 80w.
=Ramsay, William Mitchell.= Letters to the seven churches of Asia and their place in the plan of the Apocalypse. *$3. Armstrong.
“A prophet of Christianity, and one who for many years has devoted his best efforts to the study of a solution of the problem that confronts the religious world upon the meeting of the Asiatic and the European, when the barriers of the lofty mountains and arid plains of East and West are no more, believes that the great issue is with Christianity, and he has written this book to set forth a number of convincing proofs of the world-evangelizing principles that have won and are winning triumphs for the Christian faith.”—Boston Evening Transcript.
+ + =Acad.= 68: 81. Ja. 28, ‘05. 640w.
“Ramsay’s fresh and rich book adds much to our knowledge of the Roman province of Asia in the first century A. D., and the influence of Christianity therein. The book combines the merits of scientific and popular history-writing. In three special ways this volume is valuable: (1) as a contribution to the understanding of the apostolic age; (2) as an aid to the interpretation of the New Testament Apocalypse; (3) as a practical study in comparative religion.” C W. Votaw.
+ + + =Am. J. of Theol.= 9: 552. Jl. ‘05. 1180w.
“His archaeological and historical skill makes [it] of peculiar interest.”
+ =Bib. World.= 25: 158. F. ‘05. 20w.
“The first half of the book is worth more than the last half. The style is diffuse; repetitions are frequent; and there are long-expanded commonplaces. The book will be welcomed chiefly because it contains many items of interesting information and throws much light upon the environment of the early Asia Minor Christians.” D. A. Hayes.
+ + — =Bib. World.= 26: 71. Jl. ‘05. 980w.
“In scholarly detail, the story of the seven cities and their various symbols is related, and the usages and customs of the early Christian era are succinctly set forth.”
+ + =Boston Evening Transcript.= F. 8, ‘05. 400w.
“His interpretation of particular passages is open to question, but his historical, geographical and archæological material on the churches addressed in these letters is very full and valuable.”
+ + — =Ind.= 58: 1131. My. 18, 05. 130w.
* “Some of his interpretations may be questioned, but the wealth of information and fact makes his book valuable for reference.”
+ + — =Ind.= 59: 1160. N. 16, ‘05. 60w.
+ + — =Nation.= 81: 81. Jl. 27, ‘05. 1690w.
“Is rather an introduction than a commentary, and it has much value as an introduction to the whole of the New Testament.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 80: 980. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1180w.
“Requires careful study, which it will amply repay.”
+ + =Spec.= 94: 368. Mr. 11, ‘05. 470w.
* =Ranck, George Washington.= Bivouac of the dead, and its author. **$1. Grafton press.
The well-known martial elegy. The bivouac of the dead, and a lyric called The old pioneer, penned at the grave of Daniel Boone, by the same author, are included in this little volume with a story of the poems and a brief biography of Theodore O’Hara prepared with the full cooperation of his family. The whole forms a fitting tribute to the Kentucky soldier-poet.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 898. D. 16, ‘05. 240w.
=Ranke, Leopold von.= History of the reformation in Germany; tr. by Sarah Austin; ed. by Rob. A. Johnson. $2. Dutton.
This new low-priced edition of Ranke’s great work is “a reproduction of Mrs. Austin’s translation which only included the first six of the ten books into which Ranke divided his complete work. It includes the history of the German reformation down to the year 1534.” (Acad.)
=Acad.= 68: 440. Ap. 22, ‘05. 1290w.
“We have only a fragmentary translation, and ‘editing’ worthy of the publisher’s office-boy.”
— — =Nation.= 81: 12. Jl. 6, ‘05. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 176. Mr. 18, ‘05. 380w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 301. My. 6, ‘05. 280w.
=Ransom, Caroline Louise.= Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans. *$4.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
“A rather laborious piece of archæological work in a small field has been well performed by Miss Ransom.... Her investigation, in so far as it is original, depends upon an examination of monumental sources; from the literary she draws little, and that out of the usual handbooks, “the volume, a fine quarto, is beautifully illustrated by many full-page plates and cuts.””—Nation.
“It is a slightly expanded college thesis, and a scholarly contribution to the archæology of furniture. No phase of the subject is overlooked. The results are presented in a manner which, though not entertaining to the general reader, will prove highly instructive to the student of archæology.”
+ =Dial.= 38: 275. Ap. 16. ‘05. 180w.
“The plates and other illustrations in the text are many and well chosen, and the references and discussions in the notes show careful research and sound scholarship.”
+ + =Ind.= 59: 99. Jl. 13, ‘05. 130w.
=Int Studio.= 25: sup. 64. My. ‘05. 170w.
“The text shows evidence of a scholarly study of them, and, what is almost better, the application of much common sense.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 250. Mr. 30, ‘05. 590w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 547. Ag. 19, ‘05. 400w.
“A work of scholarly research in a limited special field.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 606. Mr. 4, ‘05. 10w.
=Rashdall, Rev. Hastings.= Christus in ecclesia. *$1.50. Scribner.
“Dr. Rashdall is an efficient representative of the Broad church group in the Anglican establishment. In this volume of discourses he addresses himself especially to educated men and women. He is concerned lest religion be crowded out of life, either by revolt against narrow ecclesiasticism or by the pressure of other concerns.... To explain some Christian institutions, ideas, and practices to educated hearers, with a view to promote an interest in the Church and its ordinances at once rational and reverent, is therefore the main object of these discourses. Starting from a review of the Oxford movement as having restored the idea of the Church to its due prominence in Christian thought. Dr. Rashdall discusses in considerable detail the institutional side of Christianity.”—Outlook.
“His outlook is historical. These discourses serve at any rate for a temperate and eminently clear expression of what many educated but not professional readers will recognize as an intelligible common-sense view on points of current controversy.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 84. Ja. 28, ‘05. 140w.
“Characterized by transparent lucidity and an unadorned simplicity of diction.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 652. My. 27. 710w.
+ + =Ind.= 59: 330. Ag. 10, ‘05. 120w.
“The breadth and thoroughness of the discussion make the volume a helpful contribution to the reconstructive work now going on in religious thought. The general aim is practical. There is a note of reality, and of an intentness on reality, running through all these discourses.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 758. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w.
“In literary quality, too, as well as in the matter and tone, these sermons commend themselves to the discerning and sympathetic reader.” H. N. Gardiner.
+ + =Philos. R.= 16: 735. N. ‘05. 280w.
“He is able, earnest, and learned, constructive, occasionally conservative, as well as critical.”
+ — =Sat. R.= 99: 640. My. 13, ‘05. 300w.
=Rateau, A.= Experimental researches on the flow of steam through nozzles and orifices, to which is added a note on the flow of hot water; authorized tr. by H. Boyd Brydon. *$1.50. Van Nostrand.
“This little book on the flow of steam is an expansion of” Prof Rateau’s “report to the congress of applied mechanics in 1890.... The object of the investigation was to determine the conditions governing the discharge from large conoidal convergent nozzles and an orifice in a thin plate, both above and below the ratio p equals 0.58 P.”—Engin. N.
“His work is painstaking in the extreme. One or two obvious typographical errors are noted. It is an interesting addition to the literature on the flow of steam through nozzles.” Strickland L. Kneass.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 533. My. 18, ‘05. 650w.
“The translation is clear. It is, however, a defect, for English readers, that the principal formulæ are left as given by the author in foreign units.”
+ + — =Nature.= 72: 101. Je. 1, ‘05. 210w.
=Rathbone, Eleanor F.= William Rathbone: a memoir. $3. Macmillan.
In this memoir of her father, a Liverpool merchant, the author gives his life, his well-known work in parliament and in various philanthropic movements.
“Very capably written biography.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 368. Ap. 1, ‘05. 350w.
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 718. Je. 10. 730w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 218. Ap. 8, ‘05. 350w.
+ + + =Spec.= 95: 258. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1870w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.).= By the good Sainte Anne: a story of modern Quebec. †$1.50. Little.
A new edition of this story of a typical Englishman, a Canadian of English descent, and a young French-Canadian, all of whom pay court to bright, vivacious Nancy Howard, who with her father, a New York physician, drop in among the guests at the Maple Leaf. The scenes and points of interest in and about Quebec furnish a setting for the bright conversations in which the story abounds.
+ — =Outlook.= 80: 137. My. 13, ‘05. 80w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin (Sidney Howard, pseud.), and Fuller, Hamilton Brock.= On the firing line: a romance of South Africa. †$1.50. Little.
Africa during the Boer war furnishes the setting of Miss Ray’s story of love and combat. The hero, a stalwart Canadian, follows an impulse to enter the fray as a private and in his narrow field demonstrates broad soldierly ability which operates for its full value, not only with the girl he loves, but with his rival, the young captain of his troop.
“There is movement and life on every page.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 1421. Je. 22, ‘05. 140w.
“In spite of its conventional plot, holds a lively interest for the reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 357. Je. 3, ‘05. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w.
“The collaboration in this novel is very successful. A well-constructed, entertaining, bright story, permeated by the spirit that recognizes and appreciates high ideals.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 194. My. 20, ‘05. 100w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Sidney: her summer on the St. Lawrence. †$1.50. Little.
In this new book for boys and girls, Sidney Stayres and her little brother Bungay spend an eventful summer with their cousins and their friends on the St. Lawrence. There are picnics, and general good times, there are accidents and anxious hours, but these doings of the true hearted little heroine and those who loved her will prove wholesome and entertaining reading for all young folks.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 708. O. 21, ‘05. 150w.
“The characters seemed posed and artificial.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 40w.
=Raymond, Edward Brackett.= Alternating current engineering, practically treated. *$2.50. Van Nostrand.
“This book is written by a member of the staff of the testing department of the General electric company; it consists of two parts; the first part contains the general theory of electricity and magnetism and a special theory of alternating currents; the second part treats of transformers, alternating current motors and alternators.... There is a great need for such a book, a book in which a young man just starting in practical electrical engineering work after college or any other school could find a clear, concise exposition of what he needs, what is done in practice, and why it is done so and not otherwise.”—Phys. R.
“In summing up it seems that notwithstanding some defects the book can be well recommended to young electrical engineers and to those who would like to refresh their memory on the subject of alternating currents. It is to be regretted that Mr. Raymond did not write his book in coöperation with somebody more familiar with the theoretical part of the subject and particularly with the approved methods of presenting them in a simple, lucid way. Then the wide practical experience of Mr. Raymond would find its right place in the book and make it one of the most valuable additions to our engineering literature.” V. K.
+ + — =Phys. R.= 20: 190. Mr. ‘05. 1380w.
=Raymont, T.= Principles of education. *$1.40. Longmans.
The author’s object in writing this book was “to present a brief but comprehensive treatment of the problems of education as they have shaped themselves in my mind during several years of experience in teaching.... It is for the younger members of that profession that my book is primarily intended.”
“Readable and suggestive.”
+ + =Acad.= 68: 51. Ja. 14, ‘05. 290w.
“An interesting and comprehensive treatise on education.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 2: 12. Jl. 1. 690w.
“The main quality of his book we should describe as common-sense.” J. Welton.
+ + — =Int. J. Ethics.= 16: 113. O. ‘05. 800w.
=Rea, Hope.= Tuscan and Venetian artists, their thought and work. *$1.50. Dutton.
A new and enlarged edition of these essays which treat of the broader aspects of Italian art, using individual artists and their work as illustrations. In “Builders and goldsmiths,” the influence of these arts upon painting is shown thru Botticelli, while Angelico, the idealist, and Signorelli, the realist, are contrasted to show the relation between imagination and reality in art, and the fusion of the two is illustrated by Raphael and the Venetians. Giotto, Duccio, Carpaccio, and Raphael are treated under artists story tellers. There is also a chapter on Della Robbia ware. There are thirty-eight tinted half-tones.
“The author writes intelligently, if with no great originality of thought, and in a pleasing if not over-exact style.”
+ =Nation.= 80: 194. Mr. 9, ‘05. 170w.
“It is particularly valuable as a study of the causes which lead to the transference of an emotion from the individual to the canvas or marble.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 470w.
“The book may be recommended to those whose sympathy has not yet been aroused as it should be for the art of Tuscany and Venetia. Such a little book of criticism as this is always needed, not only for the unthinking tourist or student, but sometimes also for the thinking.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 248. Ja. 28, ‘05. 230w.
=Read, Carveth.= Metaphysics of nature. *$2.75. Macmillan.
“By metaphysics Professor Read means the ‘study of the validity and adequacy of knowledge and belief’ ... the addition ‘of Nature’ is intended to rule out ideals, the matter of ethics, politics, religion, and art. Within these limits he claims that his work is conciliatory and constructive.”—Ath.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 803. Ag. 5, ‘05. 760w.
“Signs are not wanting that he approaches his subject as a man of science rather than a philosopher, that is, in a spirit of vindication rather than unbiased inquiry.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 47. Jl. 8. 640w.
“Professor Carveth Read’s ‘Metaphysics of nature’ is a book that must take rank at once for importance with Mr. Bradley’s ‘Appearance and reality’ and Professor Ward’s ‘Naturalism and agnosticism.’” T. Whittaker.
+ + =Hibbert. J.= 4: 205. O. ‘05. 1990w.
“One of the best parts of the volume is the general discussion of the test of truth.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 600w.
+ + — =Sat. R.= 100: 527. O. 21, ‘05. 1620w.
=Read, Opie.= American in New York, a novel of to-day. $1.25. Thompson & Thomas.
Short sketches are welded together to form this book. There is a gallant Kentucky millionaire; “there is a very lovely widow who talks to him in the tea room, and to whom he tells quaint tales of the West; there is a young man, the millionaire’s adopted son, and a young woman, the widow’s niece.... To add to the zest of it too, the Colonel—so the millionaire is called—is very fond of playing Haroun Al Rashid. There is a villain also.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Really, the present volume furnishes some very good reading.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 558. Ag. 26, ‘05. 220w.
“Tells some humorous stories and moralizes more or less shrewdly at times. There is too much, however, of his political and social dogmatism, and the personal story involved is of the weakest.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 43. S. 2, ‘05. 90w.
=Redgrave, Gilbert R., and Spackman, Charles.= Calcareous cements: their nature, manufacture, and uses, with some observations upon cement testing. *$4.50. Lippincott.
“In its present edition this book is noteworthy for its discussion of cement manufacture. Over one-third of the space is devoted to this subject. The next largest space is given to composition, chemical analysis and constitution. In these sections and in its historical notes on the development and early manufacture of hydraulic cements the book is superior to any other treatise of which we have knowledge.”—Engin N.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 645. Je. 15, ‘05. 360w.
=Rée, P. J.= Nuremburg and its art to the end of the 18th century; from the German by G. H. Palmer. *$1.50. Scribner.
“The librarian of the Bavarian museum at Nuremburg has written a careful survey of the art treasures in that city. He scarcely touches the history of the place ... but traces the development of German art, as illustrated by the buildings and in the museums of Nuremburg, in painstaking and elaborate fashion. His treatment of the artists and craftsmen who succeeded Dürer will be found especially valuable by English tourists who wish to learn something more of designers and artist-craftsmen.... This volume of the “Art cities” series is abundantly illustrated by one hundred and twenty-three photographs.”—Ath.
“In spite of its merits, we fear that English readers will find it hard to digest. The translation of the book looks as if it had been ‘made in Germany.’”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 121. Jl. 22. 650w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 645. S. 30, ‘05. 230w.
=Reed, Helen Leah.= Amy in Acadia. †$1.50. Little.
This is the first volume of a second series of the “Brenda” books; it is a story for girls and tells of the experiences encountered by Amy, her mother, and her girl friends among the descendants of the exiled Acadians. These experiences acquire a peculiar interest thru their romantic setting and their historical background.
“The author manages, with indifferent skill, to convey much information for the benefit of young readers—that is, if they do not rebel at Amy.”
+ — =Outlook.= 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 40w.
=Reed, John Calvin.= Brothers’ war. **$2. Little.
Optimistic in tone, looking forward to a glorious and peaceful future for a United States truly united, this book, altho written by a Southerner, and, to a certain extent, a plea for the South, makes for a better understanding between North and South by giving an account of the causes which led up to the Civil war in a fair-minded manner which admits of the statement that “the brothers on each side were true patriots and morally right.” It is an interesting volume and it discusses political parties, the great men upon each side, slavery, the race question and the Ku-Klux Klan, in a spirit so generous toward the North that it will not alienate even a reader in whom strong partisan feeling still remains.
=Reed, Myrtle.= At the sign of the Jack-o’-Lantern. **$1.50. Putnam.
A New York newspaper man and his bride begin their honeymoon in their heirloom house which was set on a hill and known as the Jack-o’-Lantern, because its arrangement of doors and windows made hideous resemblance to a human face. The eccentric donor had added wing after wing to the main portion of the house, the reason for which becomes apparent when relations, singly and in groups, swoop down on the pair to make their annual visit—“to sponge on a dead man as they did when he was alive.” In this pandemonium Howard Carr tries to write his first book.
“The author gives us a commonplace farce, all bustle, noise and confusion, with scenes and characters that have long ago lost all novelty.”
— =Acad.= 68: 1009. S. 30, ‘05. 450w.
“It is a disconcerting, but not displeasing blend of folly and shrewdness. Some readers will think the book a mere tissue of nonsense, others may take a fleeting pleasure in its very absurdity.”
+ — =Ath.= 1905, 2: 433. S. 30. 260w.
* “Miss Reed has certainly provided us in this instance with an original form of entertainment, and the story should prove popular.”—Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 39: 308. N. 16, ‘05. 360w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 576. S. 7, ‘05. 140w.
* “Myrtle Reed is possessed of a quick sense of humor, is a keen observer of life, and an exceptionally alert and alluring judge of human nature.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 966. D. 23, ‘05. 420w.
“Miss Reed is mistress of a delicacy of thought and style which lends itself gracefully to the light and airy exaggeration of human foibles.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 674. O. 14, ‘05. 710w.
“We do not find this tale altogether successful in its alternating attempts at sprightliness and sentiment. The characters neither act reasonably nor talk naturally.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 134. S. 16, ‘05. 50w.
=Reeves, Jesse Siddall.= Napoleonic exiles in America: a study in American diplomatic history, 1815-1819. pa. 50c. Hopkins.
This pamphlet is uniform with the “Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.” The study centers about the unfortunate colonial enterprise called Champ d’Asile on the banks of the Trinity river in Texas.
=Reid, G. Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications. *$3.50. Dutton.
“While possessing large and varied interest for the general reader, this work is specially addressed to medical men.... What is new in the work is mainly drawn from evidence, hitherto largely unused, concerning heredity, that he has found in the study of disease, especially of the zymotic kinds, and also of narcotics. This is held to establish conclusively that parental acquirements are never transmitted to offspring and that the great mass of variation has another origin than that of the action of the environment of the germ-cells.”—Outlook.
“What he has written is evidently the result of wide reading and serious logical thinking with regard to the many intricate questions involved. At the same time his work is seldom technical, and will be nearly always readily intelligible even by those who are not familiar with the strictly biological terminology of the subject.”
+ =Ind.= 59: 1110. N. 9, ‘05. 760w.
“He covers too much ground, and appears to have put together matter written at different times and in pursuance of different trains of thought.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 184. Je. 9, ‘05. 1340w.
* “We have one fault to find; in a work on the principles of heredity one would have expected a fuller discussion than is actually given of biometric and Mendelian methods of dealing with that phenomenon.” A. D. D.
+ + — =Nature.= 73: 121. D. 7, ‘05. 1330w.
“He writes with a warmth of conviction that is stimulating to thought, and with a mastery of his subject which commands attention.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 89. S. 9, ‘05. 350w.
=Reinach, Salomon.= The story of art throughout the ages; tr. by Florence Simmonds. **$2. Scribner.
“A general outline of art from its origin to the present age. It includes art in the polished stone and bronze ages; in Egypt, Chaldea, and Persia; Aegean, Minoan, and Mycenæan art; Greek art before Phidias; Phidias and the Parthenon; Praxiteles, Scopas, and Lysippus; Greek art after Alexander the Great; the minor arts of Greece; Etruscan and Roman art; Christian art in the East and in the West; Romanesque and Gothic architecture; Romanesque and Gothic sculpture; the architecture of the renaissance and modern architecture; the renaissance of Siena and Florence; Venetian painting; Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael—the Milanese Umbrian and Roman schools; Michelangelo and Correggio; the renaissance in Germany; the Italian decadence and the Spanish school; art in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century; the art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France; and art in the nineteenth century. There are nearly six hundred illustrations in the book.”—Bookm.
“Is a clever and valuable rapid sketch written by an authority.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 10: 706. Ap. ‘05. 60w.
“The translation is fluent and adequate as a whole, though it is occasionally clumsy.”
+ + — =Ath.= 1905, 1: 343. Mr. 18. 490w.
“The translation before us, in the main, reads well, and the book, as a whole, appears in a very acceptable form. Much may be said in praise of the work and very little against it. The reader immediately becomes fascinated by the style, the independence of thought and judgments by the illuminating touches on periods and individual artists. Taken in its ensemble, it is possibly the best short history of art, or rather the history of the filiation of art schools ever written.” Hugo P. Thieme.
+ + + =Baltimore Sun.= : 8. Mr. 8, ‘05. 490w.
“Excellent as is the treatment of ancient art, it is surpassed by the clear and scholarly exposition of art in the Christian era, so that we have no hesitation in saying that this book is an indispensable work for every library, whether large or small, throughout the land. It is a matter of sincere congratulation for the author to find so much knowledge in so small a space. The setting given to the text is of the same high order as the text itself.”
+ + + =Boston Evening Transcript.= Feb. 8, ‘05. 1140w.
“A book both critical and fascinating. The translation, by Miss Florence Simmonds, is admirably done.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 202. Mr. 16, ‘05. 220w.
“Well translated and copiously illustrated.”
+ + — =Int. Studio.= 25: 84. Mr. ‘05. 60w.
“The book is a little masterpiece. His taste and judgment are as sure as his knowledge is exact. It is assuredly the best brief general history of art, if not the best such history of any length, that has yet appeared. It deserved a better and more faithful translation than has been given it by Florence Simmonds. One is never certain whether he is getting the opinions of M. Reinach or those of Miss Simmonds.”
+ + — =Nation.= 80: 58. Ja. 19, ‘05. 1590w.
“The translation is unusually careful and successful, and the reader of it loses nothing of the practical utility of the work. The distinguishing trait of M. Reinach is his combination of poise and alertness. He is not a partisan.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 398. Je. 17, ‘05. 910w.
“In the style there are surprising vivacity and individuality. The individual common sense, the happy and sometimes sharply incisive phrases, and the broadly critical spirit of the book are traits rare in an outline of this sort.”
+ + =Outlook.= 79: 197. Ja. 21, ‘05. 260w.
“Has given us a work of exceptional educational value in his splendidly condensed ‘Story of art throughout the ages.’ It serves the double purpose of reference book and of introductory work to the art of any period. Readable narrative. All that a well-equipped special library on art should contain is given in condensed and miniature form in this one volume.”
+ + + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 297. F. 25, ‘05. 140w.
“The rendering into English is clear and satisfactory.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 251. F. ‘05. 90w.
* =Reinsch, Paul Samuel.= Colonial administration. *$1.25. Macmillan.
This volume in “The citizen’s library of economics, politics, and sociology,” “is rather a statement of the various problems confronting colonial governments, and an indication of the main lines of solution that have been attempted than a complete and conclusive discussion of the principles involved. The book gives in small compass a broad survey of the most important activities of modern colonial governments, and deals with the facts of colonial administration rather than with the underlying philosophy. Such topics as education; finance; commerce; currency, banking, and credit; agriculture; the land policy; and the labor question, are tersely and instructively discussed.”—R. of Rs.
* “The temper and language of Prof. Reinsch’s introductory chapter could scarcely be improved. He has for the most part made good use of the numerous books cited in his notes.”
+ =Ath.= 1905, 2: 684. N. 18. 580w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 631. S. 23, ‘05. 240w.
* + =R. of Rs.= 32: 638. N. ‘05. 110w.
=Remensnyder, Junius Benjamin.= Atonement and modern thought; with an introd. by B: B. Warfield. $1. Lutheran pub. soc.
“Dr. Remensnyder makes a vigorous presentation of the Lutheran conception of the Atonement in its antagonism to the characteristic tendencies of modern thought. As thus conceived it was an objective transaction in which Christ as the sinner’s substitute bore the punishment due to sin. The Atonement thus viewed is presented as the central truth of Christianity.”—Outlook.
+ — =Outlook.= 79: 757. Mr. 25, ‘05. 160w.
=Renan, Joseph Ernest.= Life of Jesus. 68c. Bell, H. W.
A reprint in popular form of the scholarly “Life” written by the great French Liberal “from the view-point of one who saw in him a great prophet, but a son of the Infinite only in the sense that the noblest and purest of earth can be termed the sons of God.” (Arena.)
“Is a volume that should be found in the libraries of all broad-minded people. This work will ever remain the loving and masterful labor of one of the bravest, ablest and most honest thinkers and scholars of the nineteenth century.” Amy C. Rich.
+ + + =Arena.= 33: 451. Ap. ‘05. 610w.
=Repplier, Agnes.= Compromises. **$1.10. Houghton.
A group of entertaining essays with pure literary merit. The subjects which Miss Repplier treats are: Luxury of conversation; The gayety of life; The point of view; Marriage in fiction; Our belief in books; The beggar’s pouch; The pilgrim’s staff; A Quaker diary; French love-songs; The spinster; The tourist; The headsman; Consecrated to crime; Allegra.
“She has always a point of view; she writes in an agreeable style; and she is well informed and has taste.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 78. Ja. 21. 320w.
“They are not meant for the frivolous, but for those who can appreciate good literature. She has her own ideas on the subject about which she writes, and states them without hesitation or qualification.”
+ =Cath. World.= 80: 689. F. ‘05. 220w.
“The subjects of her essays vary pleasantly and they are all written in a purely literary style. Her vivacity is not nervous, but intellectual, and the thread of her thought is so interwoven with the golden warp of older writers like Johnson, Montaigne and others that for once we have the tone of time upon the fresh tapestry of modern life. Her reflections shade back into old philosophies. All are seasoned with that pleasant gossip which a good-tempered intelligent woman has acquired from a wide knowledge of and close friendship with the best writers of the last four hundred years.”
+ + =Ind.= 58: 154. Ja. 19, ‘05. 450w.
* =Repplier, Agnes.= In our convent days. **$1.10. Houghton.
Charming personal reminiscences of the author’s childhood in a French-American convent school. The stories are real, they are true to human nature, true, so those who know declare, to the atmosphere of the school itself, and certainly true in that many of the little girls who lived and had adventures and murmured profound confidences inside those convent walls are prominent women to-day.
* =Critic.= 47: 574. D. ‘05. 60w.
* “Is in Miss Agnes Repplier’s happiest style.”
+ + =Nation.= 81: 485. D. 14, ‘05. 370w.
* “She has never been more delightful than in this little volume.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 440w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 834. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
* “Delightful studies of girl nature told with humor and literary grace.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 681. N. 18, ‘05. 40w.
Representative essays on the theory of style, chosen and edited by William Tenney Brewster. *$1.10. Macmillan.
These essays have been selected with the object of supplementing the technical works on methods and forms. The volume includes Literature, by John Henry Newman; Style, by Thomas de Quincey; The philosophy of style, by Herbert Spencer; The principles of success in literature, by George Henry Lewis; Style in literature—its technical elements, by Robert Louis Stevenson; Style, by Walter Pater; and Our English prose, by Frederic Harrison. Professor Brewster has included an introduction, notes and questions, and an index.
“Has performed a useful service for teachers of literature.”
+ + =Dial.= 39: 279. N. 1, ‘05. 50w.
“A volume likely to be of good service to academic students of literature and composition.”
+ =Nation.= 81: 382. N. 9, ‘05. 90w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 648. S. 30, ‘05. 270w.
“The introduction ... makes skilful use of the material which the editor has carefully selected for the body of the volume.”
+ + =Outlook.= 81: 430. O. 21, ‘05. 90w.
“A very welcome work.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 575. O. 28, ‘05. 220w.
Revival; a symposium, ed. by Rev. J. H. MacDonald. *75c. Meth. bk.
Seven addresses which were first delivered before the Chicago Preachers’ meeting. They are designed to awaken a more general interest in revival work and include sermons by Bishop McDowell, Rev. E. B. Crawford, Rev. Chas. Little, Rev. John Thompson, Rev. W. E. Tilroe, and Rev. P. H. Swift.
* “They are excellent as far as they go, but the collection as a whole lacks completeness and proportion.”
+ =Outlook.= 81: 282. S. 30, ‘05. 80w.
=Reybaud, Henrietta Etiennette Fanny (Arnaud) (Mme. Charles Reybaud).= La belle paysanne; tr. from the French by Remus F. Foster. $1. Neale.
A young French student falls in love with the pastel of a beautiful woman which he finds in his uncle’s house, and he hears her story from an old lover of hers and a priest, and learns how, as a young girl, she broke her troth to the marquis and married a handsome peasant, whom she afterwards murdered. In the end he finds in his uncle’s repulsive old housekeeper the original of his fancy.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 157. Mr. 11, ‘05. 210w.
=Reynolds, Cuyler=, comp. Classified quotations: compiled for general reference and also as aids in making up lists of toasts and in the preparation of the after dinner speech and occasional address; with suggestions concerning the menu and other details connected with the proper ordering of a banquet; being a reissue of “The banquet book.” **$2.50. Putnam.
“The book is a collection of quotations on all sorts of subjects, intended to help persons preparing menus for dinners. It evidently fills the place for which it was intended, for this appearance is the fifth.”—N. Y. Times.
* “The collection is a good one; more general, besides than the needs of the banquet. The index is rather meagre.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 240. S. 21, ‘05. 120w.
* “Mr. Reynolds has the capacity for taking infinite pains, as all his work shows, and this collection is remarkably complete.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 636. S. 30, ‘05. 140w.
=Reynolds, George F.= Some principles of Elizabethan staging. 50c. Univ. of Chicago press.
This study is only a part of a more comprehensive one now in preparation, discussing not only Elizabethan plays but also the actual construction of the stage itself and the properties which furnished it.
=Rhoades, Cornelia Harsen (Nina Rhoades).= That Preston girl. †$1.50. Wilde.
A story which depicts the loneliness and suffering of a girl who is ostracized because of her father’s dishonest means of attaining wealth. She is a refined, unselfish, loyal type of girlhood, a helpful acquaintance for any young reader.
=Rhodes, James Ford.= History of the United States from the compromise of 1850. Vol. 5. **$2.50. Macmillan.
“Confidence has grown with each succeeding volume that the great history of the Civil war is being written.” (Ind.) This fifth volume covers the years 1864-66. “In the beginning of this volume, Mr. Rhodes gives a brief recapitulation of the salient events of the Civil war, and follows this with a detailed account of Sherman’s Georgia campaign. Grant’s Appomattox campaign, Lee’s surrender, and the assassination of Lincoln are all treated within the limits of a single chapter. A long chapter is devoted to an account of society at the North during the war, and a similar chapter to society at the South. Another chapter is assigned to the treatment of prisoners of war. The volume closes with a fair and impartial account of reconstruction.” (R. of Rs.)
“But it would be unfair to regard Dr. Rhodes’s slips in military matters as impairing the value of his work. The present volume is a perfect storehouse of valuable facts and records. If anything, it is too full of material and not sufficiently ordered.” A. R. Ropes.
+ + — =Acad.= 68: 80. Ja. 28, ‘05. 640w.
“I cannot think of another historian who so constantly produces the effect of complete candor, who is so indefatigably minded to tell all that can be reckoned of consequence, and to display unreservedly the sources of his knowledge and the grounds of his opinions.” W. G. Brown.
+ + + =Am. Hist. R.= 11: 181. O. ‘05. 2800w.
“As a whole it comes up fully to the high standard set in the preceding volumes. In the treatment of the controversial questions of the time Mr. Rhodes shows the same spirit of impartiality and breadth of view which has won for him the admiration of students.” James Wilford Garner.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 25: 352. Mr. ‘05. 920w.
“To the specialist, the work will appeal as authoritative until more evidence is forthcoming. The author has performed a distinct service in showing that a non-partisan account of our great Civil war need not be colorless.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + + =Dial.= 38: 230. Ap. 1, ‘05. 1020w.
“It is hardly possible that the theme will ever be treated with fuller detail, more skilfully wrought into a dramatic story. Concerning this, as concerning the whole work, it must be said that it will be most authoritative among those who are most familiar with the sources of information. The general reader may grow to believe fully in the author’s conclusions, but the specialist will be convinced by the unquestionable force of the testimony offered.”
+ + + =Ind.= 58: 151. Ja. 19, ‘05. 680w.
* “This masterful accomplishment entitles Mr. Rhodes to the first place among American historians.”
+ + + =Ind.= 59: 1156. N. 16, ‘05. 120w.
“The writer’s method and his even narration make pleasant reading. There is the same painstaking examination of authorities, the same skilful arrangement of facts, the same balanced (sometimes hesitating) judgment, and the same desire to be eminently fair to all parties in a controversy.”
+ + + =Nation.= 80: 177. Mr. 2, ‘05. 1800w.
“Mr. Rhodes’s treatment of the war itself, and of the issues growing out of the war, is that of an unbiased historian, and will meet, we think, with the cordial approbation of southern as well as northern participants in that great struggle.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 31: 247. F. ‘05. 180w.
“A considerable part of this volume is given to a chapter describing the conditions of society in the northern states during the war, and another chapter to society in the southern states. These are among the most important and interesting contributions to our historical literature. They are hardly entitled to be called brilliant, but they are full of good sense, of sound judgments, and of well-proportioned groupings of facts. They are likely to be read as long as any historical writings of our time. His style is not brilliant, but it is a good working style, with the fundamental merits of clearness and dignity; and his judgments are the judgments of a man of great common sense. All preceding books have at best been materials for such a history. Mr. Rhodes’s work is the best narrative of this stirring time.”
+ + + =World’s Work.= 9: 5982. Mr. ‘05. 700w.
=Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell Hegan (Mrs. Cale Young Rice).= Sandy. †$1. Century.
In turning away from Mrs. Wiggs and Lovey Mary, Mrs. Rice has chosen to import the irresponsible, hot-headed, impulsive Irish boy, Sandy. All the way from stowaway on an American liner to the successful college graduate, and the hero of an ambitious romance, he runs a curious round of chance which claims him for a boot-black, newsboy, peddler, and finally drops him into the keeping of a kind-hearted old judge, who starts him along the road to fortune.
“The story is a good deal more than readable.”
+ + =Ath.= 1905, 1: 684. Je. 3, 210w.
+ =Ind.= 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w.
“The book possesses much of the wholesome sweetness of her two earlier volumes. There is no denying Mrs. Rice’s pleasant manner of telling a story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 316. My. 13, ‘05. 630w.
“It possesses much of the wholesome sweetness of the philosophy of the Cabbage patch.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 190w.
“A simple, lifelike story full of quiet humor, pathos, and charm.”
+ =Outlook.= 80: 195. My. 20, ‘05. 80w.
“An interesting study of the stuff that Americans are made of, and of a variety of cleverly drawn Kentucky types.”
+ + =Pub. Opin.= 38: 872. Je. 3, ‘05. 190w.
“Mrs. Rice’s reputation will receive a fine impetus from this delightful little story.”
+ =Reader.= 6: 95. Je. ‘05. 140w.
“Mrs. Rice has given too much attention to the outsiders in ‘Sandy,’ and the boy and the girl who are the chief actors suffer. The story is sketchily drawn; too sketchily, the average reader will think.”
+ + — =Reader.= 6: 243. Jl. ‘05. 300w.
“Nothing but the dreariest herbage of sentimental commonplace.”
— =Sat. R.= 99: 601. My. 6, ‘05. 290w.
=Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow (Mrs. R. H. Richards).= Art of right living. *50c. Whitcomb & B.
This small volume proffers much commonsense advice on the limitations of food, the need of air, exercise, amusement and work.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 299. My. 6, ‘05. 70w.
=Outlook.= 79: 398. F. 11. ‘05. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 31: 511. Ap. ‘05. 50w.
=Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe. Mrs.= Tree’s will. †75c. Estes.
“The reader of Mrs. Richard’s series beginning with ‘Captain January’ will meet old acquaintances here. Mrs. Tree herself, though dead, seems more alive than anybody through her will, its effects, and the anecdotes her survivors narrate.”—Outlook.
* “The book is a gem in its own way.”
+ =Critic.= 47: 579. D. ‘05. 80w.
* “Is a worthy successor to ‘Mrs. Tree’ in affording quiet amusement for an idle hour. Mrs. Richards writes brightly, humorously, and with excellent taste.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 350w.
“There are certain touches of pleasant humor here and there in the book that almost give it a reason for existence.”
— + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 621. S. 23, ‘05. 310w.
“The picturing of village life, though amusing and touching at times, lacks strength and body, seems trivial and fantastic.”
— =Outlook.= 81: 383. O. 14. ‘05. 60w.
=Richardson, Clifford.= Modern asphalt pavement. $3. Wiley.
This book successfully covers a field hitherto but inadequately dealt with. It is “the first authoritative presentation of the subject by a representative of the asphalt paving companies, thus making public the results of long and patient investigation by them, not heretofore accessible to the municipal engineer.... Structurally, Mr. Richardson divides an asphalt pavement into three parts or courses; the base, the intermediate course and the surface course.” (Engin. N.) He treats his subject exhaustively from the selection of materials to the proper execution of the work.
“In conclusion it not too much to say that Mr. Richardson’s book should be classed with those which appear too infrequently, but whose appearance marks epochs in the industry to which they relate. Even if the dictums of the authors are not always accepted or vindicated, they set people to thinking and mark out new paths for future progress.” S. Whinery.
+ + — =Engin. N.= 53: 633. Je. 15, ‘05. 4240w.
“The book is likely to prove of great value to municipal authorities.” T. H. B.
+ + + =Nature.= 72: 316. Ag. 3, ‘05. 600w.
=Richardson, Dorothy.= Long day: a true story of a New York working girl as told by herself. *$1.20. Century.
A country bred girl tells of her experiences in New York city. She came friendless and unskilled with but a few dollars in her pocket, she sought honest work, and found short jobs as a box maker, a sweat-shop worker, a liner of jewel-boxes, a “shaker” in a steam laundry and at various other occupations all equally unpleasant and equally underpaid. The pictures she draws of the working girls’ home are painfully sad and realistic.
* “The book deserves a reading.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 749. N. ‘05. 170w.
* “Written with so much understanding and insight.”
+ =Lit. D.= 31: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 890w.
“The woman who tells her own story is terribly in earnest about it all.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 672. O. 14, ‘05. 330w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 663. N. 18, ‘05. 150w.
* “A story that is nothing less than fascinating.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 32: 757. D. ‘05. 180w.
=Richardson, Norval.= Heart of hope. †$1.50. Dodd.
“This story of the Civil war offers drama and romance in about the usual proportions, but the former of a quality quite unusual—the siege of Vicksburg being pictured with cycloramic realism.”—Outlook.
+ =Outlook.= 80: 139. My. 13, ‘05. 30w.
“This is an uncommonly interesting story of the Civil war. The sentimental motive is skilfully woven into the account of the siege.”
+ — =Reader.= 6: 475. S. ‘05. 240w.
=Richey, Harry Grant.= Handbook for superintendents of construction, architects, builders, and building inspectors. $4. Wiley.
“The subjects which receive particularly thorough and careful treatment are: excavating, laying out foundations, testing and analysis of stone, stone and bricklaying (which is especially well illustrated), testing of soil, piling, timber specifications, steel sheet piling, building stones, etc.... A fair amount of space is devoted to cement and concrete.”—Engin. N.
“In general, the book is meritorious and well presented, almost all of the matter being of value to building inspectors or superintendents. The book compares very well with other books of its kind.” Wm. W. Ewing.
+ + =Engin. N.= 53: 642. Je. 15, ‘05. 560w.
=Richman, Irving Berdine.= Rhode Island; a study in separatism. **$1.10. Houghton.
A volume in the “American commonwealths” series. “There can be no doubt that the distinctive characteristic of Rhode Island as a political entity has been its separatist tendencies. Founded as a protest, it has clearly demonstrated its innate individualism in every crisis of its history.... There is reason for Mr. Richman’s assertion that even to-day the influence of the old-time thought is making itself keenly felt in the political life of the state.... Mr. Richman writes with enthusiasm [and gives] concise retrospective summaries.”—Outlook.
* “Mr. Richman has made one of the most instructive and readable contributions to the ‘American commonwealths’ series.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 904. D. 16, ‘05. 580w.
* “His conclusions, on the whole, show discrimination, and his treatment is adequate, developing the social and economic as well as the political and constitutional history of the state. The most serious defect—and it is serious—is an occasional obscuration of salient facts in a mass of detail.”
+ + — =Outlook.= 81: 833. D. 2, ‘05. 100w.
* + =Pub. Opin.= 39: 728. D. 2, ‘05. 280w.
=Richmond, Grace S.= Indifference of Juliet. †$1.50. Doubleday.
An “account of Juliet’s repeated refusals of a nice, tall, broad-shouldered young man named Anthony. Anthony had been rich, but unfortunately lost all his money. Nevertheless he continued to love Juliet.... At last, goaded to desperation, he worked out a pretty little plan of arousing the lady’s jealousy, which was quite successful. With Juliet’s aid he fitted and furnished a dear little box of a house in the country, ostensibly for a lovely California girl.... After it was all ready for its new mistress Juliet permitted herself the luxury of going over it all alone one evening and crying. And there Anthony found her. But this is not the end of the story. In fact it is only the beginning, and several other romances crop up before it is finished.”—N. Y. Times.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 245. Ap. 15, ‘05. 380w.
“A pleasant little love story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 10: 391. Je. 17. ‘05. 220w.
=Rickert, Edith.= Reaper. †$1.50. Houghton.
A story of the primitive life of the Shetland islands where the sea is “the great fact of life.” The hero reaps his harvest of content after years spent in patient service to a widowed mother, whose fondness for drink he strives by eternal vigilance to hide from others. The call of the sea is forever in his ears, but in the end, when he is free to go, he finds that the desire is conquered and his real happiness lies at home in the love of a woman and a little child.
“The dialect is not particularly unintelligible, but there is a good deal of it.”
+ =Critic.= 46: 94. Ja. ‘05. 50w.
“It is worth reading for itself, and those who love the sea, especially, will like it because it is full of the atmosphere of the sea, of the simplicity and the mysticism and primitiveness of true sea-dwelling people.”
+ =Ind.= 58: 503. Mr. 2, ‘05. 290w.
“A new field, and a new strong writer in that field. There is much quiet power in the story.”
+ =Reader.= 5: 256. Ja. ‘05. 280w.
“As to its intrinsic interest and picturesqueness there can be no doubt whatever.”
+ =Spec.= 94: 717. My. 13, ‘05. 670w.
* =Ridgeway, William.= Origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse. *$3.75. Macmillan.
“Treats not only of all the chief breeds of British domestic horses known in historical times, but also takes a survey of all the other living equidae, as well as of the ancestors of the genus. He has made an attempt to treat historically the origin of the various colors found in English horses; at the same time indicating the influence exercised on the history of the chief nations of the ancient, mediaeval, and modern world by the possession of horses.... Besides all this he has ‘also tried to point out the lessons of supreme importance to the breeder.’ ... A supplementary chapter has been included considering ‘The development of equitation.’ There are also addenda and a full index, besides numerous illustrations.”—N. Y. Times.
* “He marshals evidence for you as a special pleader, and hammers it in as a violent partisan. But at the same time he does not carry his audience away. There are too many slips of fact, too many circular proofs, too many violations of logic. At the end you are interested, stimulated, but not won.”
+ — =Lond. Times.= 4: 313. S. 29, ‘05. 1710w.
* “Prof. Ridgeway on the other hand, has primarily attacked the problem from the point of view of the historian and the archaeologist, and it must be acknowledged that naturalists owe him a large debt of gratitude for bringing into prominence lines of evidence with which, from the very nature of the case, they are unfamiliar.” R. L.
+ + =Nature.= 73: 126. D. 7, ‘05. 1950w.
* =N. Y. Times.= 10: 731. O. 28, ‘05. 240w.
* =Outlook.= 81: 942. D. 36, ‘05. 100w.
* “It is also an encyclopedia of information on the history of the ‘Equidae’, collected from every source, from post-Pliocene deposits to modern sporting newspapers. Professor Ridgeway, when merely setting down information, is apt to flit among countries and ages with a dexterity which perplexes the reader.”
+ + — =Spec.= 95: 655. O. 28, ‘05. 1540w.
=Ridley, Alice, Lady.= Daughter of Jael. $1.50. Longmans.
With the spirit of a Brutus, Frances Cary, the heroine of this story, kills her niggardly and cruel grandfather in order to free her brother, the lawful heir, from a rule of terrible bondage. The act was inevitable to her philosophy of youth. The book goes on to show that retribution will not be restrained by the mitigating circumstance of unselfishness in actuating a crime. One has his fill of deep problems.
“This story deals with the shadow of a very dark deed involving a question of casuistry in morals. The book is interesting in a dismal way. The odor of chloroform pervades it and hangs heavy on every page.”
+ — =N. Y. Times.= 10: 21. Ja. 14, ‘05. 490w.
“It fairly bristles with problems. In spite of the undercurrent of gloom the story is light and even gay in some of its passages.”
+ — =Pub. Opin.= 38: 26. Ja. 5. ‘05. 250w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Riley songs o’ cheer. $1.25. Bobbs.
Over fifty of Mr. Riley’s happiest verses have been collected into this volume which is profusely illustrated by Will Vawter. The all-golden; A Christmas carol; The first bluebird; Mister hop-toad; A passing hail; The twins; A song of the road; and While the heart beats young, are included among other old favorites.
* + + =Arena.= 34: 660. D. ‘05. 480w.
* “There is a good deal of commonplace work in the book, but there are also bits here and there of Mr. Riley at his best.”
+ =Dial.= 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 90w.
* “It is a great pity that Mr. James Whitcomb Riley’s publishers should persist in vulgarizing verse so fine as his by cheap and silly illustrations.”
+ — =Nation.= 81: 508. D. 21, ‘05. 150w.
* + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 835. D. 2, ‘05. 170w.
* + =Outlook.= 81: 631. N. 11, ‘05. 60w.
* “Wholesome verse, it is, and tinged with a sentiment that is genuine though often commonplace.”
+ =Pub. Opin.= 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 70w.
=Riley, Theodore Myers.= A memorial biography of the Very Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoffman. $5. Priv. ptd. at the Marion press, Jamaica, Queensborough, N. Y.
A biography which covers fully the facts of a life upon which the author comments as follows: “He was never primarily a theologian, or indeed primarily anything but an admirably well-balanced man, in whom the note of our common nature was always predominant.... He wrote no great books; he ventilated no schemes of sociological or of theological improvement to the world; he offered no advice to the public for the reconstitution of human society. He simply abode in the path of achievement marked out for him by his office as a priest, and by his gifts of constitution and rule.... And so he became great, because he was faithful, humble, wise, modest.”
“It is appreciative, orderly, and so full that its 795 pages of noble type leave nothing to be desired except an index.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 154. F. 23, ‘05. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 57. Ja. 28, ‘05. 170w. (Statement of contents.)
=N. Y. Times.= 10: 139. Mr. 4, ‘05. 580w. (Abstract of contents.)
=Riley, Thomas James.= Higher life of Chicago. *75c. Univ. of Chicago press.
A study of the culture interests of Chicago has resulted in the exposition of some of the agencies that are working for the betterment of the city, including the schools, libraries and the press, civic associations and women’s clubs, social settlements, charities, etc.
“To many who think of Chicago as a great commercial centre merely, this account of the higher life will be a revelation.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 26: 594. S. ‘05. 100w.
“It is a book of much value both for reference and for the further stimulation of cultural and altruistic endeavor.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 327. My. 1, ‘05. 80w.
=Ringwalt, Ralph Curtis.= Briefs on public questions, with selected lists of references. *$1.20. Longmans.
A book which “is sure of favor with the young debating community, but is also well calculated to enlarge the understanding and settle the convictions of journalists and legislators. Its themes are logically ordered under three heads, Politics, Economics, and Sociology.” (Nation.) Twenty-five individual topics are treated, among them Naturalization, Woman suffrage, Negro suffrage, Restriction of immigration, Reciprocity with Canada, Government ownership of railways, single tax, etc.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 56: 594. S. ‘05. 170w.
“Great judgment and fairness have been displayed by the author, who has been able to sink personal considerations to a marked degree in his effort to impartially present a brief outline of the principal arguments on each subject discussed.”
+ + + =Arena.= 34: 329. S. ‘05. 250w.
“High-school and college students will give this book a warm welcome.”
+ + =Dial.= 38: 423. Je. 16, ‘05. 50w.
“The scheme and the execution are to be commended, and Mr. Ringwalt has had in mind in his bibliography the resources of ordinary public libraries.”
+ + =Nation.= 80: 481. Je. 15, ‘05. 150w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 10: 361. Je. 3, ‘05. 1160w.