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The Cumulative Book Review Digest subscriptions will be taken for the volume only, the volume ending with the December number which is a full cumulation for the year. The Digest will be sent to subscribers until an order to discontinue is received with remittance for amount due.

Combined rate for The Cumulative Book Index, The Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature and The Cumulative Book Review Digest: One page $25; one-half page, $12.50; one-inch, $2. Special rates on yearly contracts for a full page or more.

SETS OF MAGAZINES FOR SALE.

We have purchased two large stocks of miscellaneous magazines which we are classifying and collecting into sets, especially for years 1900 to date. We shall not be able to print a list of these for several weeks but shall be glad to quote prices for any sets, volumes or odd numbers.

The Need.

The Readers’ Guide To Periodical Literature, 1900-1904, and the current numbers open up a rich field to the investigator, but disappointment often results owing to the library’s not having the articles and if the articles are in the files, they are usually bound and do not circulate and the student can not use the material as advantageously as though it were in single article form.

How We Propose to Meet the Need.

We have already purchased large quantities of magazines and we propose to arrange articles cut from all magazines we index and many others in strict accordance with the subject classification of the Readers’ Guide. We shall be able to fill orders for certain articles or all articles on a subject. When requested, we shall be able to include much that is not indexed. Every article will be neatly stitched in a cover.

The Cost.

For the first article in each order the charge will be ten cents and for each additional article five cents. Articles may be retained two weeks not including time in transit.

Ready January 1st, 1906.

We shall be glad to receive a trial order any time after January first.

Incidentally.

We shall collect many duplicate magazines and we propose to make up sets of magazines, especially for the five years covered by the Readers’ Guide To Periodical Literature, 1900-1904. We hope to be able to supply odd numbers, volumes, or sets and shall be glad to receive lists of wants and also lists of duplicates which libraries may wish to dispose of.

Lists of duplicates for sale should be accompanied by lists of wants since we can pay more in exchange than in cash.

Announcements

The University of Chicago Press announces the addition to its list of publications of two new journals, to be devoted to the interests of the Ancient Classics; viz. Classical Philology, published for the University of Chicago, and the Classical Journal, published for the newly formed Classical Association of the Middle West and South. The former will contain scientific articles and critical reviews; the latter, articles and reviews of a more general nature, with special reference to the needs of teachers.

As usual, The Outlook’s illustrated Magazine Number for December is also its Annual Book Number, and this is in fact the seventeenth year of the appearance of such a yearly survey of the books of the season. In addition to a large number of pages devoted to a classified review of recent literature in its more important departments, there are special features dealing with notable literary personalities, and an article dealing with the American publisher and including a dozen or more portraits of the heads of the most famous American publishing houses. Half a dozen or more authors of note have been chosen as the subjects of personal articles, accompanied in each case with a portrait.

“Russia under the Great Shadow,” by Luigi Villari, is not only one of the most readable of the recent books on the realm of the Czar, but decidedly valuable. In Mr. Villari’s handsome and generously illustrated volume the reader will find a most interesting and temperate account of existing conditions in Russia, based on the author’s recent journey throughout the empire. It is comprehensive, impartial, well-reasoned and trustworthy, and will undoubtedly attract wide attention.

In the December issue of the “Political Science Quarterly” (Ginn & Company) Professor George H. Haynes of Worcester, Mass., discusses the tendency toward popular control of senatorial elections, and the methods taken in the various commonwealths for limiting the choice of the legislature in the selection of United States senators. Professor Frank Haigh Dixon of Dartmouth College describes recent attempts on the part of the states to regulate railways; and Mr. Royal Meeker analyzes the arguments advanced by supporters of the pending shipping subsidy bill. Other leading articles in the December Quarterly are “The Municipal Code of Indiana,” by Professor Fairlie of the University of Michigan; “Communistic Societies in the United States,” by Professor Bushe of Clark College; “Berlin’s Tax Problem,” by Professor Brooks of Swarthmore College; and “Private Property in Maritime War” by Giulio Marchetti Ferrante, Secretary of the Italian Legation at Berne, Switzerland.

List of Publications from which Digests of Reviews are Made

• Acad.—Academy, London.
• Am. Hist. R.—American Historical Review, 66 Fifth Ave., N. Y.
• Am. J. Soc.—American Journal of Sociology. $2. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
• Am. J. Theol.—American Journal of Theology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
• Ann. Am. Acad.—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. $6. Philadelphia.
• Arena.—Arena. $2.50. Albert Brandt, Trenton, N. J.
• Astrophys. J.—Astrophysical Journal. $4. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
• Ath.—Athenæum. $4.25. London, England.
• Atlan.—Atlantic Monthly. $4. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 4 Park St., Boston, Mass.
• Bib. World.—Biblical World. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Bookm.—Bookman. $2. Dodd, Mead & Co., 372 5th Ave., N. Y.
• Bot. Gaz.—Botanical Gazette. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Cath. World.—Catholic World. $3. 120-122 W. 60th St., New York.
• Critic.—Critic. $2. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New Rochelle, N. Y.
• Dial.—Dial. $2. Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.
• Educ. R.—Educational Review. $3. Educational Review Pub. Co., Columbia University, N. Y.
• El. Sch. T.—Elementary School Teacher. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Eng. Hist. R.—English Historical Review.
• Engin. N.—Engineering News. 220 Broadway, N. Y.
• Forum.—Forum. $2. Forum Publishing Co., 123 E. 23d St., N. Y.
• Hibbert J.—Hibbert Journal. Williams & Norgate, London, England.
• Ind.—Independent. $2. 130 Fulton St., N. Y.
• Int. J. Ethics.—International Journal of Ethics, 1415 Locust St., Philadelphia.
• Int. Studio.—International Studio. $5. John Lane, 67 5th Av., N. Y.
• J. Geol.—Journal of Geology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
• J. Pol. Econ.—Journal of Political Economy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
• Lit. D.—Literary Digest. $3. 44-60 East 23d Street, New York.
• Lond. Times.—London Times (literary supplement to weekly edition), London, England.
• Mod. Philol.—Modern Philology. $3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
• Nation.—Nation. $3. P. O. Box 794, New York.
• Nature.—Nature, 66 Fifth Ave., N. Y.
• N. Y. Times.—New York Times Saturday Review. New York.
• Outlook.—Outlook. $3. Outlook Co., 287 4th Ave., New York.
• Philos. R.—Philosophical Review, Cornell University, Ithaca. N, Y.
• Phys. R.—Physical Review, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
• Pol. Sci. Q.—Political Science Quarterly. $3. Ginn & Co., 29 Beacon St., Boston.
• Psychol. Bull.—Psychological Bulletin. Princeton, New Jersey.
• Pub. Opin.—Public Opinion, 44-60 East 23d St., New York.
• Reader.—Reader Magazine. $3. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
• R. of Rs.—Review of Reviews. $2.50. Review of Reviews Co., 13 Astor Place, New York.
• Sat. R.—Saturday Review (London).
• School R.—School Review. $1.50. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill.
• Science, n.s.—Science (new series). $5. Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y.
• Spec.—Spectator (London).
• Yale R.—Yale Review, New Haven, Conn.

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:

Abbreviations of Publishers’ Names will be found in the Publishers’ Directory at the end of The Cumulative Book Index.

An Asterisk (*) before the price indicates those books sold at a limited discount and commonly known as net books. Books subject to the rules of the American Publishers’ Association are marked by a double asterisk (**) when the bookseller is required to maintain the list price; by a dagger (†) when the maximum discount is fixed at 20 and 10 per cent, as is allowable in the case of fiction.

The plus and minus signs preceding the names of the magazines indicate the degree of favor or disfavor of the entire review.

In the reference to a magazine, the first number refers to the volume, the next to the page and the letters to the date.

In cumulated numbers, the new entries for that number are indicated by an asterisk (*).

The publications, named above, undoubtedly represent the leading reviews of the English-speaking world. Few libraries are able to subscribe for all and the smaller libraries are supplied with comparatively few of the periodicals from which the digests are to be culled. For this reason the digest will be of greater value to the small libraries, since it places at their disposal, in most convenient form, a vast amount of valuable information about books, which would not otherwise be available.

We shall endeavor to make the descriptive notes so comprehensive, and the digests so full and accurate, that librarians who do not have access to the reviews themselves, will be able to arrive at substantially correct appreciations of the value of the books reviewed.

This is particularly true in regard to the English periodicals, which are practically out of the reach of the ordinary library; we shall endeavor to make the digest of these reviews so complete that there will be little occasion to refer to the original publications.

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Abbey, Henry. Poems. 4th ed. *$1.15. Appleton.

“The content-matter consists for the most part of simple ballads, lyrics and poems for special occasions. In the present edition the author has brought together all his verse that he cares to preserve from previous editions and to these poems he has added a number of new compositions.”—Arena.

“The charm of his work lies rather in the pleasing lines that appeal rather to those who love the simple and quiet lays. Many of them are delightfully-told legends and ballads that will linger in the memory.”

Abbot, Henry L. Problems of the Panama canal. $1.50. Macmillan.

Dating this discussion from the failure of the De Lesseps company, Gen. Abbot who is consulting engineer of the new Panama company, makes a technical study of the whole problem. He includes a “summary comparison of the routes of the old and new companies, a description of the physical conditions existing on the isthmus, the Chagres river problem, the disposal of rainfall in the basin of the stream, and the last chapter explains the plans proposed for the canal by the French company and by the former Isthmian canal commission, and the construction of a sea-level canal.” (N. Y. Times). Everything relating to the best possible canal construction is covered, and to aid in clearness, there are added a number of tables, maps, diagrams, &c.

“It would be difficult to find anywhere one better qualified to discuss the Panama problems than General Abbot.”

“Gen. Abbot has made a valuable contribution to the technical literature of the Panama canal.”

Abbott, Jacob. Rollo books. 14v. ea. 50c. Crowell.

An attractive, new popular priced edition which retains the original “Rollo” illustrations and includes Rollo learning to talk; Rollo learning to read; Rollo at work; Rollo at play; Rollo at school; Rollo’s vacation; Rollo’s experiments; Rollo’s museum; Rollo’s travels; Rollo’s correspondence; Rollo’s philosophy—Water; Air; Fire; Sky.

Abbott, Lyman. Christian ministry. **$1.50. Houghton.

This new book of essays is based on two courses of lectures given by Dr. Abbott before the Yale and Pacific Theological seminaries. It answers the question, Why do people go to church?

“Dr. Abbott writes with vision, power, tact, and rare literary felicity.”

“It is a liberal view of the ministry and of the church, arising from a profound faith in Christianity, not merely as a form of teaching but as a power derived from a Person.”

“The book is pervaded by that newer and higher conception of religion that is becoming more and more prevalent, viz.: that religion is not ecclesiastical or dogmatic, but a living power in the heart of every individual.”

Abbott, Lyman. Industrial problem. **$1. Jacobs.

The William Levi Bull lectures for 1905. “The first lecture endeavors to define the industrial problem: the other three propose as the political solution, regulation; as the economic solution, reorganization; and as the ethical solution, regeneration.” (Outlook.)

Abbott, Lyman. Personality of God. **30c. Crowell.

A widely discussed sermon preached before the Harvard students, in which Dr. Abbott gives his definition of God. He aims to show the honest, sincere and rational man who is confused by the difference of opinion between a certain school of theologians and a certain school of scientists, that a belief in the Fatherhood of God is consistent with an acceptance of a thoroly modern scientific conception of the universe. The binding is uniform with the “What is worth while series.”

“The combined simplicity and the power of this address are great. It is interpretative to a rare degree. One breathes ‘an ampler ether, a diviner air’ while reading it.”

* Abraham, Rev. W. H. Church and state in England. *$1.40. Longmans.

This history of the relation of church and state is written to aid the student of their present relations. The period preceding the conquest is first treated and the chapters which follow cover the Norman period, the troubles with the papacy from Henry II to Richard II, the beginning of constitutional church government, the growth of abuses, the beginning of reform, the subjection of the church to the state and later temporarily to the papacy, the Elizabethan settlement, the Puritans, Latitudinarian troubles, and the growth of Erastian ideas. In a final chapter entitled, The next step, Dr. Abraham makes suggestions for the future.

* “On the whole we cannot commend this book; it ministers to prejudice rather than to tolerance, and its author cannot be said to be inspired by the spirit of true historical investigation.”

* “There is a little fault to be found with Dr. Abraham’s narrative of the past. The point at which we should part company with Dr. Abraham is to be found in his proposals for the future.”

2Acworth, William Mitchell. Elements of railway economics. *70c. Oxford.

A preface states that this book is but a fragment of a complete work which the author has in mind, and is issued to meet the present need of an English text-book in railway economics. It deals with railways and railway business from an economic point of view and considers railway capital, expenditure, income, charges and rates, closing with a chapter upon the interference of parliament. Altho English experience furnishes the illustrations the discussion is applicable to all railways however owned or managed.

“The ordinary reader, if he will take the trouble really to master the figures here tabulated and the close reasoning to which they lead, will find the admirable little book now at his disposal make him quite sufficiently conversant with the subject.”

Adam, Juliette Lamber (Mme. Edmond). My literary life, **$2.50. Appleton.

There is a fascination about Madam Adam’s intense, vivacious interpretation of the meanings of things that is not easily resisted. Her literary career, outlined here from the time of her unfortunate marriage to the founding of her salon, is linked with the life of France during the stormy days of the second empire, and reflects the temper of French society, thought and politics of the day. She rambles on delightfully about the personal qualities of George Sand, Daniel Stern, Edmond About, Gustave Flaubert, Madam Viardot, Jules Simon, and hosts of other notables, revealing ever and anon her own radical notions and violent tendencies. There are a number of full-page pictures of men and women of the times.

“Altogether this is a most delightful, inspiring and informative book, worth all the recent volumes of memoirs put together; the translation is quite excellent; in fact, it does not read like a translation at all.” Frank Schloesser.

“Chief defect (or excellence) is its haphazard garrulity. Reminiscences give the book its value, apart from our interest in the very communicative lady who writes it.”

“A very readable book. In parts jerky and incoherent.”

Adams, Andy. The outlet. †$1.50. Houghton.

The author, who saw the beginning of the custom of wintering Texan cattle in the Northwest, the measure which brought the extermination of the bison and the confinement of the Indians to their reservations, and who had some experience with railway companies and their methods of caring for cattle, and their prices with contractors, and with the Congressional lobbyist has woven all these things into his story.

“The book needs a glossary if it is to be thoroughly understood by English readers.”

“Not the least effective part of the book consists of the dialogue. The success of this book is the more notable from the entire absence of anything resembling a love story.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“He tells of the dangers of the great drive, from stampedes, from alkali water, from drought, from flood and from men, in a straightforward and convincing way.”

“It is an out-door book, with no pretense to style or philosophy—a plain story that takes you into the herd and its daily happenings. The book is admirable of its kind.”

“A genuine American story. There is no fiction in ‘The outlet,’ but a true, well-defined and entertainingly written narrative.”

“It is a fine picture of life on the plains, the relations of the men towards each other, episodes of treachery and sharp practices, and the fights against these evils.”

“This is a striking foot-note to the study of conditions in the far West.”

“‘The outlet’ is first and foremost, a capital story; after that, it is a genuine contribution to the history of a typical American industry.”

* “The story is somewhat colourless and lacking in breadth of interest.”

Adams, Frederick Upham. John Henry Smith, a humorous romance of outdoor life. †$1.50. Doubleday.

John Henry Smith tells his own story in diary form and also the story of other members of the golf club and their play, among them the heroine’s millionaire father, who becomes a golf enthusiast and partner with Smith in a Wall street operation, and farmer Bishop’s remarkable hired man who wins an heiress. There are various adventures, in one an automobile gets the better of a mad bull and in another it outraces a tornado.

“An effective antidote to insomnia.”

“Mr. Adams has other qualities besides humour and characterization.”

“The story, told in Mr. John Henry Smith’s delightful and hearty style, is particularly suitable for summer reading.”

Adams, Oscar Fay. Dictionary of American authors. $3.50. Houghton.

An outgrowth of the writer’s “Handbook of American authors,” published in 1884. This fifth edition contains over eight thousand five hundred names of recognized contributors to American literature, nearly three thousand more names than the first edition and over one thousand more than the fourth. The work is intended for critics, editors, and publishers, who have to do with contemporary literature, as well as for students of American literature and librarians.

Adams, Samuel. Writings of Samuel Adams; ed. by H. A. Cushing. *$5. Putnam.

“The editor of this volume properly says in the preface that the writings of no one of the leaders of the American revolution form a more complete expression of the causes and justification of that movement than do the writings of Samuel Adams. Such a collection has long been needed.... The present volume covers the period from 1765 to 1769, inclusive.... Nearly all the papers are of a distinctly public character.... Brought together from many places, from the manuscript collections of the Earl of Dartmouth, the collections in the Lenox library, the Massachusetts state papers, the Life by Wells, the Prior documents and other printed sources.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Everything included here is so desirable for an understanding of the Revolutionary movement that the reviewer has not the courage to advise the omission of papers the authenticity of which is in doubt, but he does express the desire that succeeding volumes will make plain 3the basis of inclusion and that work of such importance as this should not be subjected to so serious a criticism.”

Adams, Thomas Sewall, and Sumner, Helen L. Labor problems: a text book; ed. by Prof. R. T. Ely. *$1.60. Macmillan.

The following extract from the preface of this work shows the author’s purpose: “The principal aim of this book is to furnish a convenient collection of facts that will facilitate the study and the teaching of the American labor problem.... Where it was necessary we have sacrificed both interest and general social philosophy in order to present concrete facts. We believe that the gravest differences of opinion about the labor problem and the most dangerous misapprehensions are caused by the failure to view the problem broadly, to consider its many phases and ramifications. The labor problem is greater than the problem of industrial peace. Impelled by this conviction, we have preferred to cover a broad field imperfectly rather than a narrow field in detail.”

“It is written in a broad and sympathetic way, with every effort to state the facts fairly and clearly.”

“It is professionally designed for undergraduates and teachers, but the general public may find in it also a range of subject-matter and a felicity of treatment which should make it popular.”

* “Is comprehensive in scope and thoro in treatment, and will be found indispensable to all students of industrial questions.”

“This last chapter ... is probably the one which is most open to the charge of providing students with ready-made opinions, though a similar charge may also be made in connection with Dr. Adams’s treatment of trade-unionism. It is, however, impossible to expect a treatise like this to be exhaustive, and nothing but praise can be given for the painstaking accuracy and wide research of the authors.”

“Text-book on labor problems, whose existence is its own justification. The discussion is sane and necessarily inconclusive.”

“Contains much valuable information.”

Adamson, Rev. Robert M. Christian doctrine of the Lord’s supper. *$1.50. Scribner.

“This volume is historical, not dogmatic. It is written in a historical but not an indifferent spirit; it traces the history of the Lord’s supper, as a symbol of faith, in all the various changes through which it has passed—Primitive, Roman, Greek, Lutheran, Zwinglian, Anglican, Puritan, Quaker.”—Outlook.

“In general the author’s historical treatment appears to be always fair and generally adequate. Without agreeing with all that the author says ... we recall no monograph on the subject so generally satisfactory.”

Addison, Daniel D. Episcopalians. **$1. Baker.

Uniform with “The story of the churches” series, this presentation of the Episcopalians is offered by a fair-minded student of the denomination’s history, in which are set forth the best elements of the religious life and character of the denomination.

“Is written with more than average literary power. The essential facts relative to the origin and growth of the body are to be found in this volume in an interesting narrative.”

Addison, Joseph. Selections from the writings of; ed. by Barrett Wendell and Chester Noyes Greenough. *80c. Ginn.

Representative selections from Addison’s most characteristic works in prose and verse for use in the schools, for advanced students, or for the general reader. The text is that of Tickell’s edition of 1721 except for the correction of misprints. An introduction, full notes, and a bibliography are provided.

* Addison, Mrs. Julia de Wolf. Art of the National gallery: a critical survey of the schools and painters as represented in the British collection. **$2. Page.

“A plan of the gallery, showing the location of the different schools, follows the index. The pictures are discussed in the text as they are hung,—that is according to schools in their historic order ... the limitation in space and particularly in number of illustrations precludes this manual’s being a complete history of any school. It is rather a guide to the treasures of the gallery, almost every picture being at least briefly mentioned.” (Dial.) The author’s method is descriptive rather than technically critical. The volume contains nearly fifty illustrations in duo-gravure.

* “A book that will be particularly welcome to those who are contemplating a visit to London’s art treasures, but one that has also plenty to offer the general reader.”

* Adler, Cyrus, and Szold, Henrietta. American Jewish year-book (1905-1906). *75c. Jewish pub.

“This is the seventh annual issue of this work, and its regular appearance is henceforth assured. The special feature of the present issue is a sort of ‘who’s who’ compilation of biographical sketches of Jewish communal workers in the United States. The review of the past year, by Mr. Max L. Margolis, is a record of melancholy interest.”—Dial.

Adler, Elkin Nathan. Jews in many lands. $1.25. Jewish pub.

The author has made a study of his coreligionists in many countries, at first visiting them professionally as an agent of the Holy Land relief fund, later to investigate their conditions for personal reasons. He went to Egypt in 1888, and later to Persia, the Holy Land, Russia and Argentina, where he studied the Hirsch colonies. He gives a full account of his people as he found them.

“The author has made extensive travels and tells his story well, though omitting many details which would give greater value to his account.”

“The work of a trained observer, and rich in curious interest for both Jews and Gentiles.”

“Mr. Adler’s book has much interest to others besides Jews.”

“Is both interesting and enlightening.”

“He has the journalist’s instinct, and knows how to describe what he has seen.”

4Adler, Felix. Essentials of spirituality. **$1. Pott.

Dr. Adler says: “In the region of mental activity, which is called the spiritual life, vagueness is apt to prevail, the outlines of thought are apt to be blurred, the feelings aroused are apt to be indistinct and transitory. The word ‘spiritual’ becomes a synonym of muddy thought and misty emotionalism.” So its purpose is first to show the twentieth century need for the development of the spiritual sense, and to define clearly with illustrations drawn from Savonarola, Washington, John Howard and others the meaning of “spiritual.” (N. Y. Times.)

“We commend the volume as one of very practical and very genuine spiritual value.”

Adler, Felix. Marriage and divorce. **50c. McClure.

Two lectures delivered before the Society for ethical culture of New York city. They set forth Dr. Adler’s views upon the obligations of marriage and his strong opposition to divorce.

“The subjects have been carefully considered, and are treated judicially and temperately.”

“Dr. Adler holds higher ground than is taken even in the churches.”

Adler, Felix. Religion of duty. **$1.20. McClure.

A preface states that in response to a growing demand for a book setting forth the results of Prof. Adler’s work along ethical and religious lines, some of his lectures and papers have been gathered into this volume. They deal with such subjects as: First steps toward religion; Changes in the conception of God; Teachings of Jesus in the modern world; Standards of conduct, based on the religion of duty; The ethical attitude towards others; Pleasure; Suffering, and The essential differences between ethical societies and the churches.

“An occasional good thing appears amid the long stretches of very ordinary paragraphs, and the general trend of the whole is toward noble and unselfish modes of thinking and living.”

“Dr. Adler speaks in clear voice and gives satisfactory answers in clear and concise language, that pulsates with the fire of a soul in earnest.”

“Some of Dr. Adler’s most characteristic and vital lectures.”

“Stimulating and delightful book.”

Adventures of King James the Second of England, by the author of “A life of Sir Kenelm Digby,” “Rochester,” etc. *$4.80. Longmans.

An informal history which takes for granted the reader’s knowledge of the political events of the time, and presents in a wealth of anecdotes a characterization of the unfortunate James. His early military career on the continent under Condé and Turenne, his service to the English navy, his genuine religious convictions, are set forth, and he is shown to have been “a straightforward English gentleman, a courageous soldier, a skilful admiral, and an excellent man of business.” This may go far toward mitigating the world’s judgment of him, based on his three years of disastrous kingship. There are several beautiful portraits.

“While it keeps James’s best side uppermost, and while it exhibits frankly Roman Catholic sympathies, the facts, except here and there where Restoration politics come in, are presented accurately and fairly. A book which, if not strikingly interesting, is nevertheless useful for bringing out features of James’s character which are not in general adequately recognized.”

“We laid the book down with the conviction established that it is one of the most fascinating and withal instructive, historical works that have appeared for the past few years. For, notwithstanding its somewhat flippant title, it is a piece of serious work, though not precisely history. The narrative runs on, from first to last, in a brisk and lucid flow, upon the surface of which bubbles up from time to time a flash of the humor and good-natured sarcasm that we should expect from the pen that has given us the ‘Life of a prig.’ A fine introduction by Dom Gasquet adds another charm to the book.”

“The work is slightly tinged with a Catholic bias, but is on the whole very fair in its statement of events and impartial, if sometimes original, in its judgment of men.”

“A pleasantly written life of King James, intended for the general reader and possessing no historical value.” C. H. F.

“Uncommonly interesting throughout but unconvincing.”

“While less convincing than Dr. Airy’s life of Charles II. this volume has the merits which are represented by a fulness of information and incisive writing.”

* Aesop. Fables. *$2. Moffat.

Miss Elizabeth Luther Cary furnishes a pleasing introduction to this new holiday edition of Æsop’s fables for which J. M. Condé has made many drawings, both in color and black and white.

* “On the whole we find the spirit of the artist too burlesque, especially for an edition in which the moral is carefully preserved and printed in boldface type.”

Aflalo, Moussa. Truth about Morocco; an indictment of the British foreign office; with introd by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. *$1.50. Lane.

This book “is in the main, an attack upon Lord Lansdowne’s policy in respect to Morocco and England’s commercial interests there, and devotes itself to showing how great the loss will be when France has assumed control, and how thoroughly everything done to raise British prestige through a long series of years has been overturned by a scratch of the pen.”—Dial.

“The book presents a thorough statement of the attitude of Morocco toward the outer world, by one in possession of the facts.” Wallace Rice.

Ainger, Alfred. Gospel and human life: sermons. $2. Macmillan.

“The dominant note of Canon Ainger’s posthumous book is sadness.... As we lay the book down we feel that in the eyes of the author the times are religiously out of joint. For while he cannot be said to dogmatise, he deplores deeply the ever-increasing disregard for dogma and what he calls ‘the decay of worship.’”—Spec.

5“These sermons are distinctly better than the average.”

“There is much which is beautiful in these sermons, both from a literary and a religious point of view, much which must add warmth to the affectionate memory cherished by so many of this scholar and man of God.”

Akers, Charles Edmond. History of South America, 1854-1904. *$6. Dutton.

The author, who has lived in South America for fourteen years and has had wide experience on the continent as a journalist, gives an account of the South American republics and their troubled history. He shows us the men who have made the politics of these states for the last fifty years and the general movements and tendencies which have been felt in the entire continent. Aside from his own observations he has drawn upon Spanish and Portuguese chroniclers for earlier history. There are interesting illustrations.

“Thirty-four pages of historical introduction, in which the uninformed reader will be dismayed at the array of names and dates and misled by the generalizations. In fact the chief value of the book is that it can be used as a trustworthy contemporary history. It has the defects that the account of an eye-witness must have, even when he has been able to get the perspective of a few years and to hear the other side. But it has the advantage of being written by a writer trained to see clearly. The most welcome feature of the book is the comprehensive treatment of important events. Yet scarcely less valuable are the comments on existing conditions. Rarely does one find a book at once so useful to the specialist and so interesting to the tyro.” Hiram Bingham.

“The author tells his story clearly and with spirit, and adds some well condensed information about the present state of these countries.” E. M. Ll.

“There is nothing extant on this subject either so comprehensive or so reliable.”

“A useful and comprehensive volume. This is the first comprehensive history in English of the last half-century of the South American states—since they attained independence from Spanish control.”

“A most readable, impartial, clear-sighted appreciation of political leaders and their motives.”

Alcott, Louisa M. Jack and Jill. $2. Little.

This new volume in the “Little women” series, is quite as attractive as its predecessors and contains eight full-page illustrations by Harriet Roosevelt Richards which show us Jack and Jill just as Miss Alcott must have wished us to see them.

Alcott, Louisa M. Under the lilacs. $2. Little.

Uniform with the other volumes of this new and elaborate edition of Miss Alcott’s famous stories, the “Little women” series, “Under the lilacs” contains eight full-page pictures by Alice Barber Stephens, which make Sancho and his friends seem, if possible, more real than ever before.

* Alden, Isabella Macdonald (Mrs. George R.) (Pansy, pseud.). David Ransom’s watch. †$1.50. Lothrop.

“When Ben Ransom, David’s younger brother, left the old farm, he took $700 ... and he took his father’s old silver watch as well. David could ill spare the money. He had to wait another year before he could get married. And he was particularly sorry to part with the watch.... Ben’s life thereafter was full of ups and downs. His restlessness and fickleness were his ruin.... David and the old watch both figured conspicuously in his later misadventures.... Two threads of self-sacrifice run through the tale to meet at last, making ideal happiness for the group, from which all the unpleasant folk have been eliminated by chances which the unregenerate reader will call blessed.”—N. Y. Times.

* “It has the best plot that she has ever devised.”

* “Is a well-told, pleasing story of commonplace, likable people, with plenty of wholesome sentiment flavored with the humor of the soil. It is a good book for old and young alike.”

Alden, William Livingston. Jimmy Brown trying to find Europe. 60c. Harper.

“This new book of Jimmy’s adventures ... deals with the travels of James and his friend Mike ... from West Thompsonville, somewhere in New York state, to Paris, by way of the fields and country roads, the railroad, the canal, a steamboat, and finally a freighter from Montreal to Havre. Jimmy is in search of his father and mother, whose address, he knows, is ‘Grand Hotel, Europe.’”—N. Y. Times.

“Jimmy does not age or grow tiresome.”

“Jimmy Brown’s fortunes and the manner of telling, while quite frothy, are excellent vacation reading.”

* Aldrich, Richard. Guide to The ring of the Nibelung. $1.25. Ditson.

A trustworthy guide to Wagner’s trilogy for the student and music lover. Part I. touches upon Wagner, the man and composer, and the circumstances leading to the composition; also gives a resume of the legendary sources from which material was drawn; Part II. is an authoritative essay upon Wagner’s musico-dramatic system; Part III. presents a careful analysis of the three dramas of the trilogy.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. Judith of Bethulia; a tragedy. $1. Houghton.

A drama in four acts, written for Nance O’Neil, whose photograph appears as the frontispiece. Mr. Aldrich builds the drama from his poem, “Judith,” in which the heroine, a strong, just, refined woman, is impelled by her religion and patriotism to a deed of unwonted daring. He introduces here and there new portions which “show no decline of the power to evoke pictorial images and touch deep sources of feeling by which the early work of Mr. Aldrich was distinguished.” (N. Y. Times).

“In its compact dramatic action, set forth in verse of a firm yet delicate beauty, it has the perennial significance that attaches to sincere and masterly workmanship.” Ferris Greenslet.

“As a play, ‘Judith of Bethulia’ fails to hold the interest, and as a poem it fails to reach inspired heights. But it is well worth reading in a quiet hour, because of its simplicity, its chasteness and its serenity.” Clayton Hamilton.

6“A book that is dignified and impressive throughout, a book not unworthy of the trained artistic hand which brings it to us as a gift.”

“Mr. Aldrich’s mastery of poetic atmosphere is so easy, his metrical gift so constant, that he accomplishes a feat difficult for most writers of modern poetic drama, and weaves his melody and color around speeches of mere theatric necessity, and even around broken lines of swift dialogue.”

“We are the richer for a truly poetic drama, not quite so felicitous in imagery and expression as the earlier version and without the swift dramatic movement of inevitable events that marks the perfectly successful play upon the theatrical side, but dignified and imaginative and with the author’s unfailing insight into the passionate emotions of human nature.”

Alexander, Lucia. Libro d’oro of those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life; tr. from the Italian by Mrs. Francis Alexander. *$2. Little.

A collection of a hundred and twenty-four miracle stories and sacred legends written by fathers of the church and published in Italy during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The four divisions are: I. Selections from the lives of the holy fathers together with the spiritual field; II. Selections from the lives of the saints and Beati of Tuscany; III. Selections from the wonders of God in His saints, Bologna, 1593; IV. Flowers of sanctity, Venice, 1726.

Alexander, Thomas, and Thomson, A. W. Graphic statics; a graduated series of problems and practical examples, with numerous diagrams, all drawn to scale. *50c. Macmillan.

“The authors first give a set of sixteen graduated problems on coplanar forces, solved by means of force and link polygons.... Then follows a set of seventeen examples showing application to roof trusses, girders, wall, and masonry arches.... The book is intended more particularly as an introduction to the author’s Elementary applied mechanics.”—Nature.

“The treatment is somewhat fragmentary and arbitrary, but, if supplemented by the teacher, the course would prepare a student for a systematic study of graphic statics.”

Alexander, William. Life insurance company. **$1.50. Appleton.

A book adapted “to the needs of the average business or professional man.... It is a simple, straightforward exposition of the principles on which all sound insurance is conducted, including a fair and impartial statement of those facts in the history and present management of the great American companies which every prospective policy-holder should know.”—R. of Rs.

“The book is certainly informing. It is not altogether solemn either. It has its humors, both intentional and unintentional.”

“A careful and informative treatise on the general subject of life insurance.”

Algue, Jose. Cyclones of the Far East. 2d (rev.) ed. Bureau of public printing, Manila, P. I.

This pamphlet issued from the Manila Central observatory, “is printed in both English and Spanish, and contains data for the month of July upon atmospheric pressure, rainfall, relative humidity, winds, magnetic disturbances, earthquakes (including microseismic movements), and crop-service reports from four districts and about twenty-five towns.” (Nation.)

“A valuable pamphlet.”

Allaben, Frank. Concerning genealogies. **50c. Grafton press.

Suggestions of value for all who are interested in tracing their family history. As stated in the preface, the book aims to cover every phase of the subject, the sources of information, the methods of research, the compiling, the printing, and the publishing of a genealogy.

“It is a volume of practical suggestions, pleasantly worded, and embodies the results of much experience in the work.”

“One finds little that is new or striking in these rather cleverly written pages.”

Allbutt, Thomas Clifford. Historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the 16th century: an address delivered at the St. Louis congress, 1904. *$1. Macmillan.

A plea for the “unity of medicine,” especially in England where medicine and surgery “have been so radically separated as to be regarded as two professions.”

“The address is well written and interesting.”

“The lectures are, of course, largely technical in their treatment ... but the general purport is clear enough.”

Allen, Charles Dexter. American bookplates. *$2.50. Macmillan.

A new and less expensive edition of a work which appeared ten years ago. It is hoped that its reappearance will revive and increase interest in book-plate collecting, which fashion has waned perceptibly. The book contains the bibliography of Eben Newell Hewins, and the rare and interesting book-plate, with few omissions, that appeared in the first edition.

“A work of permanent value for guidance and reference, and freely illustrated with examples.”

“The book is simply a reprint, with all the imperfections of the first edition reproduced.”

Allen, Frank Waller. Back to Arcady. †$1.25. Turner, H. B.

The Kentucky rose-garden which furnishes the setting for this June-time idyl is a fit place for the day dreams of a lonely man who had “gone softly” all his days. One day he welcomes to his garden his “Lady of Roses,” the daughter of the only woman he had ever loved. Here under the jacqueminots he guards with a fatherly eye the love-making of this fair Marcia and his neighbor Louis. The very summer sunshine and rose garden perfume pervade the story thruout.

* “It is a tender, graceful little love-story, quaintly told by a third person.”

* “A sentimental romance which depends for much of its effect upon annoying and artificial phrases.”

7Allen, Gardner W. Our navy and the Barbary corsairs. **$1.50. Houghton.

An account of this interesting period of American history written from original sources. The events which are scattered over a period of forty years (1778-1818) are brought together and tell the story of how the United States, in the first years of her national existence, rebelled at paying the tribute which all Europe paid to the Mohammedan states of north Africa. The story of the success of our little navy, the wars with Tripoli and Algiers, the deeds of Preble and Decatur, and the adventures of our seamen with the famous pirates is all the more romantic because it is true.

“A good example of a book that is scientific and at the same time popular. It is popular by reason of the dramatic quality of the information that it contains. Its interest lies in the intrinsic interest of its facts. The narrative is plain, simple and straightforward.” Charles Oscar Paullin.

“Dr. Allen has made his work thorough and authoritative, but betrays a needless distrust of his own descriptive powers, leaving the more dramatic events to be described almost entirely in the words of eye-witnesses.”

“Dr. Allen’s story is really as engrossing as a romance. It is safe to say that, for the history of the movement as a whole, Dr. Allen is not likely to have a successor.”

“It is also a historical treatise of no small value, colligating clearly and compactly the results of much original as well as secondary research, and embodying a survey of astonishingly wide range. The work is well written and well balanced throughout.”

Alston, Leonard. Modern constitutions in outline: an introductory study in political science. *90c. Longmans.

“Mr. Alston, who is Deputy professor of history in Elphinstone college at Bombay, has written a brief but lucid sketch of the constitutions of the chief political communities of the modern world. His little book was planned to meet the needs of university students; but it will have a wider field.... [It] consists of three opening chapters dealing respectively with Federalism, and the Two-chamber system, Party government, and the Demarcation of powers; and of a second part in which a special and more detailed account is given of the constitutions of the chief powers of the world.”—Spec.

“Mr. Alston has done a useful piece of work, which, in its brevity and clearness, is a model of the expository functions of a professor.”

Altsheler, Joseph A. The candidate. †$1.50. Harper.

In this political novel the hero, who is a presidential candidate, is accompanied by his niece on a speech-making tour through the West. A newspaper correspondent, also in attendance, loves the girl, and is largely responsible for the triumph of the candidate. The path of love is not smooth, however, for the girl is the betrothed of a distinguished politician, whose enmity her uncle has no wish to incur.

“Mr. Altsheler has given us a thoroughly readable story.” W: M. Payne.

“‘The candidate’ is by no means an unreadable book, but it is not in Mr. Altsheler’s previous best style, nor is it up to his usual level of interest. The various elements of plot somehow lack the cohesion necessary to weld them into a convincing whole.”

“From a literary point of view there is little to be said of the book, which merits attention chiefly through giving publicity to campaign methods from apparently authentic ‘inside’ information.”

“There are certain crudities of plot and language, but one readily pardons them because it is a good story and does not turn out in the last chapter to be a brief for political reform.”

“That story is told with an almost prodigal display of intelligence and power.”

Altsheler, Joseph A. Guthrie of the Times: a story of success. $1.50. Doubleday.

“Mr. Joseph A. Altsheler has deserted the field of warfare for that of present-day journalism and politics, and has given us in his ‘Guthrie of the Times,’ an interesting and straightforward story of modern life—‘a story of success,’ he calls it, and the description is true in more senses than one. The scene of the novel is a state unnamed, but easily identifiable as Kentucky; the hero is a newspaper writer of resource and high ideals; the heroine is a young woman who has to become re-Americanized after a life spent mainly abroad. How the hero defeats the attempt to impeach a public officer in the interests of a corrupt financial enterprise, how the heroine witnessing, admires, and how in the end he wins both her love and an unexpected nomination for congress, are the chief matters which enlist our interest.”—Dial.

“One cannot criticize this type of story, however. It is to be enjoyed or laid aside, according to taste and temperament. It is very American.”

“The whole story is told to direct and workmanlike effect.” W. M. Payne.

“Admirable story of southern life. The fresh sane optimism of the book is very appealing.”

Ames, Joseph Sweetman. Text-book of general physics, for high schools and colleges. *$3.50. Am. bk.

“The general plan of treatment appears to be a general popular enunciation of the matter of a section, followed by the more detailed discussion of the experiments, apparatus, etc., and ending with a historical review and bibliography. This excellent plan has, however, at times fallen into the natural mistake of making the popular introduction so full as to result in an unnecessary and rather confusing repetition of matter, often leaving the reader uncertain as to whether he has read all on a given topic or not.”—Educ. R.

“In spite of the shortcomings in many of the details, the book contains very much valuable matter and will prove a desirable addition to the library of every physicist.” William Hallock.

“The combination of simplicity with accuracy of statement is the essential feature of a practicable book for use with beginners in college, and it may justly be said of Professor Ames’ volume that it possesses this combination of qualities to an unusual degree.” E. L. N.

“A distinct defect in this otherwise excellent book is the complete absence of illustrative problems.” W. Le Conte Stevens.

8Ames, Oakes. Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family orchidaceae, issuing from the Ames botanical laboratory, North Easton, Mass. **$3. Houghton.

“This fascicle includes descriptions and plates of five new and fourteen old species, a descriptive list of orchids collected in the Philippine islands by the United States government botanists, a description and figure of a hitherto unrecorded orchid in the United States, and a paper entitled ‘Contributions toward a monograph of the American species of spiranthes.’”—Science.

“The volume is a valuable and interesting contribution to the knowledge of a part of one of the most attractive orders of flowering plants.”

“Taken all in all this work is one which must be very highly commended.” Charles E. Bessey.

Ames, V. B. Matrimonial primer; with a pictorial matrimonial mathematics and decorations by Gordon Ross. *75c. Paul Elder.

Humorous, epigrammatic bits of advice for husband and wife are found in this little volume. Its friendly shafts frequently strike home, and one may both laugh and profit by them.

* “The wit sometimes falls to commonplaceness but never to anything more objectionable.”

Amsden, Dora. Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the school of Japanese colour-print artists. **$1.50. Elder.

“This study treats of the whole school of Japanese color-print artists, and is appropriately illustrated with half-tone reproductions of famous paintings. The whole is printed on Japanese paper, and an appendix shows facsimiles of the most famous signatures of color-print artists, presented in this volume for the benefit of collectors.”—R. of Rs.

“The frequent occurrence of such misstatements as these mar what would otherwise be a very acceptable essay, readable, and giving in compact form much information useful to those who are becoming interested in Ukiyo-ye prints.”

Reviewed by Charles de Kay.

“A sympathetic, suggestive analysis of Japanese paintings.”

* Andersen, Hans Christian. Ugly duckling. *75c. Moffat.

This “centenary edition ... is a small quarto in boards, printed on a sort of buff paper, with the added distinction of illustrations by M. H. Squire, four colored plates and some pen-drawings.”—Nation.

Anderson, Edward L., and Collier, Price. Riding and driving. **$2. Macmillan.

“How to select, train and ride a saddle horse is clearly and practically explained by Mr. Edward L. Anderson by means of print and photography, and in the latter half of the same volume Mr. Price Collier not only tells how to drive single, double and four, but also gives a large amount of practical information on the care of horses in sickness and in health, shoeing, harnessing, feeding and stabling.”—Ind.

Anderson, Frank Maloy. Constitutions and other select documents, illustrative of the history of France, 1789-1901. *$2. Wilson, H. W.

Professor Anderson says: “The practice of studying documents in connection with the history courses given in American universities, colleges and high schools, has now become so general, and the results attained so satisfactory, that the method no longer requires any defense.” This document-book has been the outgrowth of personal need with classes in the University of Minnesota, when work has been hampered by the lack of a convenient collection of documents; also the suggestion of compiling such a work was stimulated by the fact that French documents are more attractive than any others, and that the period of the French Revolution “deserves a volume in English presenting as large a portion as possible of the important documents.” The book is well printed and strongly bound.

“The work of the teacher of modern French history will be rendered easier and more effective by the publication of Professor Anderson’s volume. Professor Anderson’s selection has been made with special reference to the requirements of practical work.” Henry E. Bourne.

Andrews, Rev. Samuel James. Man and the Incarnation; or, Man’s place in the universe as determined by his relations to the Incarnate Son. **$1.50. Putnam.

The author’s discussion of the creation of man, his fall, and his redemption through the Incarnate Son of God, is based upon “Premises and presupposition belonging to another age,” says the Independent, “an age which even saintly character and pathetic pleading cannot call back from its tomb.” The outlook for inharmonious man according to the author is nothing short of the “great tribulation” which marks the end of the world.

“He stands entirely outside of our modern way of looking at things.”

Angell, James Rowland. Psychology: an introductory study of the structure and function of human consciousness. *$1.50. Holt.

Professor Angell sets forth first of all in an elementary way the generally accepted facts and principles bearing upon the functional and genetic rather than the structural phases of psychology. “In the second place, since the real field of psychology is consciousness, the purpose of the author is to show how consciousness in cognitive, affective and volitional aspects originates and develops.... The third division takes up the elementary features of volition, and follows this general introduction with a treatment of the relation of volition to interest, effort and desire, character and the will, and finally the self.” (Pub. Opin.)

“The book under consideration is one which fills a very genuine and widely felt need in the psychological world. Its great merit can be stated in a word. It is a treatise sufficiently elementary to be used as a textbook for an introductory class, which succeeds in co-ordinating the outcome of the analysis of the content of consciousness with the functional interpretation of those contents which alone can give them rational organization and meaning. 9The influence of Dewey is most evident in the general standpoint, and that of James in many of the details of treatment. In comparison with James’s classic textbook, it has, however, two advantages—in its completeness and in its systematic unity. The affective processes, which James nowhere mentions, here receive due treatment, and many minor omissions in the older textbook are filled in. The unity of all conscious processes is made a central idea in the treatment of each one.” Helen Bradford Thompson.

“The book is essentially a text-book, and has been arranged so as to be flexible to emphasis laid on various desired portions.”

“The text is readable, the doctrine sound, the teaching effective.”

“One of the very best of elementary textbooks of the subject.” R. S. Woodworth.

“Numerous works on psychology have appeared in recent years, but this, in our opinion, is not only the latest but also the most satisfactory of them all. Every sentence in this volume shows the careful investigator, who has not only got results, but has also made himself so familiar with these results that apparently without effort he expresses them in words that are simple and in sentences that are clear. Technical readers will not object to this, and untechnical readers will especially appreciate it.”

“It is essentially a text-book, and is abundantly supplied with cross-references.”

“We feel the gratitude and satisfaction which are due to a thoroughly capable thinker who gives us a solid, careful and, so far as is desirable in a text for students, original book. There is no need to note in detail the many excellent features in content and form or the few cases of questionable facts and methods of presentation.” Edward L. Thorndike.

Angus, D. C. Japan: the eastern wonderland. $1. Cassell.

“Supposedly ‘Japan, the eastern wonderland,’ was written by a Japanese for the amusement and instruction of his friends in England where he had received the finishing touches of his education.” (N. Y. Times). The narrator, Kotaro, and his sister Hana furnish representative Japanese types, in the portrayal of whose lives from infancy up, the reader gains a clear idea of conditions, customs and methods of Japanese education. “The past of Japan and much of its history is dwelt upon in this volume. Wonderful have been the changes made during the second half of the last century. There has been the regeneration of Japan, feudalism has been abolished, the samurai have had their privileges curtailed.... There are no tortures for petty crimes. All religions are tolerated. The school children learn their lessons from Japanese translations of foreign text books. Native literature is not neglected, but it is no longer used as a guide.” (N. Y. Times).

Angus, Joseph. Cyclopedic handbook to the Bible: an introduction to the study of the Scriptures. *$2. Revell.

“Originally published in 1853, this has been an eminently useful book. In its present revised form much has been dropped from it, and much added from the gains acquired by a half-century of increasing knowledge, while the original plan, with some rearrangement, remains the same. Its two divisions, treating the Bible first as a book and next as a series of books taken separately, go into manifold details.”—Outlook.

“With some concessions to modern criticism, the general view maintained is strongly conservative. For practical uses the old book seems likely to remain for long a favorite.”

Annandale, Nelson. Faroes and Iceland. *$1.50. Oxford.

This book is “occupied chiefly with natural history and ethnology ... and ... may be regarded as a series of sociological studies of isolated and rather primitive though civilized communities. As such it has exceptional interest and value, especially since the communities selected for study are of ancient establishment, and have not, in recent years, been the subject of any analogous description.”—Nation.

“Instructive little volume on these islands of the Far North.”

“On the whole the book reaps an interesting harvest in a new field.”

“A most admirable little work,” R. L.

“The book is an admirable specimen of careful and intelligent observations.”

Annesley, Charles. Standard opera glass. $1.50. Brentano’s.

A new and revised edition of a useful book of reference. It contains sketches of the plots of 123 famous operas, with critical and biographical notes, dates of production, etc. There are indexes of titles and names, and 26 portraits of composers. The contributor of the preface, James Huneker, says: “‘The standard opera glass’ is much in miniature. It may be put in your pocket and read at home or abroad. The author does not burden you with superfluous comment and he tells his story neatly, rapidly and without undue emphasis. He reverences the classics, admires Wagner, and is liberal to the younger men. What more can one ask?”

“A useful book of reference.”

Anthony, Gardner C. Elements of mechanical drawing. *$1.50. Heath.

“‘Elements of mechanical drawing’ takes the pupil in hand before he has seen a single instrument, and in 152 pages teaches him to make full-sized sectional drawings of a complete commutator from a rough working sketch jotted down free hand. The author is professor of drawing in Tufts college and dean of the department of engineering; his textbook, first issued ten years ago as a strictly elemental work, is now revised and changed for use in evening drawing schools and technical colleges.”—N. Y. Times.

Antrim, Mrs. Minna Thomas (Titian, pseud.). Knocks—witty, wise and—. *75c. Jacobs.

Cynical observations and “dark glass” digs based upon men and women’s foibles and weaknesses.

Apperson, G. L. Bygone London life: pictures from a vanished past. *$1.50. Pott.

“An industrious collection of odds and ends illustrative of the life of London in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.... The restaurants and coffeehouses, and their frequenters, the swells and beaus and macaronies, are depicted by aid of the memoirs, letters, and society verse of that day. The effect is much like that of a visit to one of the quaint old museums described in chapter IV.”—Am. Hist. R.

“The especial value of Apperson’s treatment is the literary point of view.” Katharine Coman.

10Archbald, Anna, and Jones, Georgiana. Fusser’s book. 75c. Fox.

An enlarged edition of the “Fusser’s book” which gives advice to fussers or flirts in epigrammatic phrases. “Angle for a lady’s hobby, and when you’ve hooked it play her. If the lady in turn angles for yours, don’t jump at the bait.”

Aristotle. Politics; tr. by B. Jowett. *$1. Oxford.

In an introductory discussion, Aristotle’s relation to his “Politics” is clearly defined as that of the utilitarian philosopher, and student of human nature, with due emphasis on ethical values as he “treats of the state as one of the chief means thru which the individual obtains to happiness.” “The object of the ‘Politics’ is both practical and speculative; to explain the nature of the ideal city in which the end of happiness may be fully realized; to suggest some methods of making existent states more useful to the individual citizen than they were in Aristotle’s time, or had been in the past.”

“The analysis and the index are well done.”

“The reprint, which is in a small and convenient volume, will be found especially useful by students of political science who are not students of Greek.”

Armstrong, Sir Walter. Gainsborough and his place in English art. $3.50. Scribner.

A biography which furnishes in nine short chapters a well-ordered analysis of the work of perhaps the greatest painter technically. “Best of all parts of the book for public guidance is the introduction, in which much of the best modern thought on esthetics is presented in a concise and clear form. There is discussion of the idea that ‘art is the use for subjective expression of a power which displays itself objectively in what we call beauty,’ and we are reminded that ‘mere correctness of imitation holds no higher place in a picture than grammar does in a poem.’ ... An interesting chapter on the precursors of Gainsborough traces some characteristics of British art back through the seventeenth century to miniaturists of a time even before Holbein.... The landscapes and portraits are, properly, treated together, for Gainsborough’s art was always that of the impressionist who paints hotly under the stimulus of any vision fitted to appeal, whether in the shape of a lovely scene in nature or a beautiful woman.” (Ind.)

Armstrong, Sir Walter. Peel collection and the Dutch school. $2. Dutton.

As director of the National gallery of Ireland, the author knows well how to interpret and value the ideals and success of a school of painting. The artists represented in the Peel collection “give to him an opportunity of writing a monograph on Dutch painting which, we are glad to note, includes several Flemings directly affected by Holland.” (Outlook). He uses for illustration the works of Metsu, Terborch, Vermeer, Hooghe, Jan Steen, Ostade, Willem and Adrien van de Velde, Wouwerman, Hobbema, Ruisdael, Cuijp, Koninck, and Hals. The book is interesting in itself, and of value to those who wish a better understanding of Dutch art.

“An acute and valuable critical essay on the Dutch school.”

“A particularly important contribution to the better understanding of Dutch art.”

* Armstrong, Sir Walter. Sir Joshua Reynolds, first president of the Royal academy. *$3.50. Scribner.

“A popular reprint of a monumental work on the English portrait painter, first published five years ago, by the greatest living authority on the subject.... Particularly is Sir Walter Armstrong to be congratulated for his fine sense of selection, by which he has drawn what is truthful and distinctive from the early biographies; also for his critical estimates, which have stood the most searching and eager tests of five years of criticism.”—N. Y. Times.

* “Presents in conclusion to a thorough and interesting biography a sympathetic picture of an unsympathetic man, a guarded estimate of a deliberate artist.”

* “The public is to be congratulated on having so authoritative a work thus brought within reasonable reach while maintaining a high standard of manufacture.”

* Arnim, Mary Annette (Beauchamp) gräfin von. Princess Priscilla’s fortnight. †$1.50. Scribner.

The author of “Elizabeth and her German garden” has written of an experience in the life of her grand ducal highness, the Princess Priscilla. “Aided and accompanied by the good old ducal librarian, Priscilla, feeling her ‘soul starved’ in the dull little court, runs away and lives for two miserable weeks the life of a nobody-in-particular. Just what happened, what mischief she did, and how it all ended, the author tells with her own arch humor.... She pricks pretty effectually the cult and cant of ‘simple life,’ its natural collapse being ‘a by-product of the vivacious tale.’” (N. Y. Times.)

* “We may as well confess at once that Elizabeth has enchanted us again. Either she throws her spell over you, and then you follow with delight wherever she leads: or your temperament resists her spell, and then you take umbrage at her airs, and, in the present volume, at her ragged plot and occasional heaviness of phrase.”

* “This volume is highly characteristic of its writer. We get the usual epigrammatic humor, not without cynicism, the usual liveliness of narration and dialogue, and, it must be confessed, the usual absurdities and exaggerations. The characters, though overdrawn, are full of interest.”

* “Is well worth reading, not only for the genuine enjoyment it will give, but for its sensible and logical ‘conclusion of the whole matter.’”

* “The story, although slight and farcical, is very amusing and good reading for a leisure hour.”

Asakawa, Kanichi. Early institutional life of Japan. *$1.75. Scribner.

“The author devotes his first and longest chapter to a description of Japanese institutions as they existed about 500 A. D. Then follow two chapters, one on the events leading up to the reform, the other, a particularly good one, on the political doctrine of the Chinese by which the reformers were so strongly influenced. Next comes a long chapter on the new institutions introduced under Kotoku and his successor; and lastly a short chapter sketches the subsequent development.”—Nation.

“Next to Mr. Chamberlain’s translation of the ‘Kojiki’ with its invaluable introduction and notes, this volume by Dr. Asakawa is first in importance of works in English upon the 11period of which it treats.” George William Knox.

“It seems hardly too much to say that he has here laid the foundation stone for the critical study of early Japanese institutions. The author’s style is clear for the most part. The author is to be congratulated on having successfully accomplished a difficult piece of pioneer work.”

Asakawa, K. Russo-Japanese conflict: its causes and issues. **$2. Houghton.

Dr. Asakawa “has made a most illuminating and complete statement of the needs and aspirations of the Japanese people, which led them to take up arms against Russia.” (R. of Rs.) “He accepts tacitly the economic interpretation of history upon which Karl Marx and his followers insist, proving that the vast increase in the population of Japan requires an outlet on the Asiatic mainland, and setting forth the right and interests recently acquired by Japan in both Manchuria and Korea.... The book contains portraits of the statesmen who figure in its pages and may be taken as a valuable contribution to contemporary history from the end of the war with China through the diplomatic correspondence immediately following the outbreak of hostilities.” (Dial). The author is lecturer on the civilization and history of East Asia at Dartmouth college.

“No subject of a neutral power could have written a more impartial account of the long diplomatic engagement which preceded the outbreak of hostilities in the far East. The special and quite unusual virtue of this book is the elimination of moral standards and patriotic sentiment from the discussion of a present-day conflict.” Ferdinand Schwill.

“His whole statement is cool, temperate, and wonderfully free from heat or special pleading.”

“A clear and logical presentation of the cause of his native land, with an endeavor to make an unprejudiced statement of the side of its adversaries also. In the latter effort he is as successful as anyone could reasonably expect, his desire to quote from Russian authorities wherever they have spoken amounting to solicitude. Of the broad causes leading up to hostilities, Dr. Asakawa tells us little not already known. But in details and the marshalling of facts he is far fuller than anyone preceding him.” Wallace Rice.

“It is a statement ... remarkable for both its brevity and its restraint. The book is so dispassionately written that the nationality of the author if not disclosed would hardly have been guessed. It is one of the strong points of Dr. Asakawa’s argument that he does not take very high moral ground. His statement of causes leading to the war is rather political than moral.”

“Another thoughtful philosophical work.”

* “His book should be indispensable to all who study the outbreak of one of the greatest wars, in effect as well as extent, of which history tells us.”

“A real and permanent contribution to historical and political science, as well as an interesting and timely book. The map leaves much to be desired.” Amos S. Hershey.

Asbury, Francis. Heart of Asbury’s journal; ed. by Ezra Squier Tipple. *$1.50. Eaton.

“The memory of this main pioneer and organizer of American Methodism is now honored by substantial extracts, covering the forty-five years of his ministry in this country, in a revised and corrected text.... The author wrote by fits and starts, under all the difficulties of a laborious and constant itinerary, and the compiler has not improved his unpretentious jottings beyond recognition, but one may find items of antique or curious interest.”—Nation.

“Its chief interest is in connection with a history of early Methodism, with side-lights on manners and customs.”

“It is a fascinating ecclesiastical romance which all Christian folk will enjoy.”

“The best and almost the only record of the infancy of his church on this continent.”

Ascham, Roger. English works of Roger Ascham: ed. by William Aldis Wright. $1.50. Macmillan.

Included in the “Cambridge English classics,” this volume contains “Toxophilus,” “Report of the affaires and state of Germany,” and “The scholemaster,” all of which appear in the original spelling. “The scholemaster” has long been “one of the original documents” in educational literature, but the most popular portion of the volume is “Toxophilus,” a treatise on archery.

“No better edition of Ascham’s text is ever likely to be printed.”

“Mr. Wright’s task has been to ensure the purity of the text. The curious and readable part of this collection is in the teaching of bow shooting; the immortal part lies in the chapters on education.”

“The name on the title-page is sufficient guarantee of the care with which the text has been reproduced and of the editorial work done on the volume.”

“Edited by a true scholar.”

Ashe, Sydney Whitmore, and Keiley, J. D. Electric railways theoretically and practically treated. **$2.50. Van Nostrand.

The plan of this text-book is “to cover first a few essential principles of motor and car operation, including the testing of equipments. Next the component parts of the car equipment are treated in detail.” (Engin. N.) There are six folding plates and 172 text illustrations.

“A general criticism which may be made on all parts of the work is that every subject is treated too briefly, in fact, one might almost say hurriedly. The material is excellent, and it is well arranged for general reading and for reference. It is undoubtedly more complete than any other concise treatment of the subject.” Henry H. Norris.

Ashley, Percy. Modern tariff history: Germany, United States, France. *$3. Dutton.

The tariff histories of Germany, France, and the United States are offered in brief form “for the purpose of showing how these countries have met the problems of free trade and protection. It is the work of a politician and an economist, who felt the necessity of coming to a clear and unprejudiced understanding of the great problem.” (N. Y. Times). The tariff history of Germany is outlined from the formation of the Zollverein to the present time. The lesson which the author draws from his investigation of the experience of Germany is summarized as follows: “Changes in tariff policy 12have been only one, and commonly not the most important, among the many causes of her economic progress.” “Of the French tariff legislation,” says Mr. Ashley, “it can be said with some confidence that, whatever it may have done to maintain agriculture—and even there it is arguable that it has encouraged the continuance of old fashioned methods—it has wrought little good and in various ways much harm to industry and commerce.” The tariff legislation in the United States is traced from its beginning, and in conclusion he argues that while America has in the past benefited by a protective policy, the time has come when the abandonment promises greater results.

“Mr. Ashley’s style is remarkable for a certain freshness and vitality which makes his book easy reading in spite of the abstruseness of the subject. Taking it altogether the book is well worth while.” J. E. Conner.

“Derived almost wholly from secondary sources intelligently selected, they afford in short compass a good sketch of the history of the tariff during the past century in the three countries. It suffices to say that Mr. Ashley employs the historical method judiciously and effectively, with an evident knowledge of its limitations. Instructive as is this comparative tariff history in many other respects, it is peculiarly excellent as affording an insight into what is called neo-mercantilism, and its correlative—which might perhaps be called neo-libertarianism.”

“He has given an interesting history of the tariff in three great countries, but we cannot see how the results of his studies are going to enlighten his countrymen very much.”

Ashley, William James. Progress of the German working classes in the last quarter of a century. *60c. Longmans.

A good economic monograph written in a spirit of moderation and of especial value to those who are interested in the fiscal controversy.

“It is very readable.”

“In a small compass he has collected most of the facts bearing on the question, and he has handled his statistics with the skill and the fairness which are to be expected from him.”

Ashmore, Sidney Gillespie. Classics and modern training. **$1.25. Putnam.

“A series of addresses suggestive of the value of classical studies to education, published in the hope of interesting the general reader in a few matters connected with the study of Greek and Latin, and, if possible, to call attention to the value of the ancient language and literature to education.”—Bookm.

“Professor Ashmore’s plea for the classics in modern training is well considered and presented, but, naturally, does not contribute anything very novel to the discussion.”

“Taken together, the papers have more to do with Greek than with Latin.”

“Mr. Ashmore’s attitude is philosophic rather than polemic.”

At the sign of the fox, by the author of The garden of a commuter’s wife. †$1.50. Macmillan.

At the Sign of the fox a girl who has been an art student tries to retrieve her father’s shattered fortunes by serving tea to travelers passing in carriage or motor car. Two men enter into the story, an artist who had painted the heroine’s portrait unknown to her, and a silent sad man with a haunting past, a dog and a gun. There are other characters and other dogs, and much that is chatty and domestic.

“The author has a strong love of nature, and her sketches of outdoor life have atmosphere and charm.”

“The book is one of those that leave a pleasant taste behind them.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

“In short, a very feminine sentimental book, but not nearly so good reading as, say, the same author’s ‘Woman errant.’”

“But, apart from plot, there is much to admire and enjoy in this spirited and cleverly written book—notably its honest thrusts at social pretentiousness and humbug.”

“It is all very sweet and wholesome, though we find parts of it a heavy tax on credulity.”

“The story is eminently readable, although it has not, perhaps, quite the subtle charm which distinguished the first book by this author.”

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Frank Lin, pseud.). Bell in the fog, and other stories. †$1.25. Harper.

Ten stories which deal with both the natural and the supernatural. Besides the title story they include: ‘The striding place,’ ‘The dead and the countess,’ ‘The greatest good of the greatest number,’ ‘A monarch of a small survey,’ ‘The tragedy of a snob,’ ‘Crowned with one crest,’ ‘Death and the woman,’ ‘A prologue (to an unwritten play),’ ‘Talbot of Ursula.’

“The stories are not bad, considered as magazine stories. They show, most of them, something of Mrs. Atherton’s characteristic qualities—a certain rough power of presentation and an insight into character, especially feminine character. But there is no unifying thought running through all this miscellany. In some we are taken to that mysterious borderland, the ‘great pale world.’ But Mrs. Atherton’s art is not delicate enough for such a theme; neither, to speak plainly, is her mastery over the English language sufficient.”

“All are characterized by the sort of passionate virility, the picturesque materialism, with which Mrs. Atherton’s previous books have made us familiar. Its faults are want of balance, judgment and restraint.”

“The dominant note of the book is—uncanny. The stories, needless to say, are told by one who can tell them well, but they are the result of introspection rather than of observation.”

“The method is careless, there is no delicacy of touch, and the dialogue in almost all the stories is preposterous.”

“[The first is] a charming tale, having that touch of the occult always so fascinating—a faraway suggestion of Poe’s ‘Lady Ligeia.’ The other nine stories vary in everything save in the artistic manner of their handling.... Like Mr. Howells, Mrs. Atherton gives such imaginings the perfect touch by leaving everything vague and unexplained, and by placing them in a setting of real people and things 13thrown upon her canvas with her own surpassing skill.”

“If anyone can tell what they are all about or why they were written it is Mr. James, and professional ethics will probably seal his lips.”

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Frank Lin, pseud.). Travelling thirds. †$1.25. Harper.

Mr. Moulton, the reader for a publishing house, with his wife and two daughters, who have become accustomed to a literary atmosphere, and his niece, Catalina, a madcap California girl, decide to tour the continent. The story concerns the romances which they meet with and the grand passion which comes to Catalina, who finally quarrels with her relatives and is left the sole interest of the closing pages of the book. The story derives its name from the fact that the party traveled third class thru Spain.

* “The story as a story is of no importance. As an invitation to travel in Spain it is persuasive and alluring.”

* “Can scarcely be considered with its writer’s more serious work.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

Athlete’s garland. Rice, W., comp. **80c. McClurg.

The compiler has gathered together from many sources, verses relating exclusively to athletic sports. There are no restrictions as to authorship, and the volume includes translations from Homer, Pindar and Virgil, verses by Byron, Swinburne, Emerson, Stevenson, Kipling, Whitman and many others, and several anonymous selections.

“Good taste and judgment characterize this selection throughout.”

Atkins, James. Kingdom in the cradle. $1.25. Pub. house of M. E. church S.

After a preliminary discussion of the problems confronting the Christian world, the author shows that ultimate spiritual triumph will result only from proper “growth of the seed.” Chapters follow outlining the course of child development spiritually, including Christ’s doctrine of the child and the kingdom, The child as the subject of religious education, The church and the home, The child in the home and The Sunday school as a field of training.

Atkinson, Edward. Facts and figures: the basis of economic science. **$1.50. Houghton.

“In a volume published under the title ‘Facts and figures,’ Mr. Edward Atkinson has collected several essays on the protective tariff and the cost of war and warfare.”—R. of Rs.

Reviewed by Winthrop More Daniels.

“It may also be doubted whether the science of economics will be greatly advanced by papers which the author admits were sent to press without such complete revision and condensation as would have been suitable.” Arthur B. Woodford.

Atkinson, Fred Washington. Philippine islands. *$3. Ginn.

“The material for this book was gathered by the author when he was at the head of public education in the Philippine islands. Its information is of the encyclopaedic sort, conveyed clearly and pleasantly. About a quarter of the book is given to a brief summary of the geography and history of the islands. The rest of the book is devoted to an account of the people and the conditions under which they live. The author’s views of the character of the people and of the proper mode of government for them are in harmony with the present administration. The book is illustrated with half-tone reproductions of photographs.”—Outlook.

“It is a sort of popular presentation of the subject that the ordinary reader will find intelligible.”

* “Professor Willis and Doctor Atkinson complement each other’s work. Profit may be drawn from both books. More specifically, however, we are compelled to admit that Dr. Atkinson is too complaisant as to present administrative tendencies.”

* “Of recent publications on the Philippines, one of the most useful from the point of view of the general reader is the work by Fred W. Atkinson.”

Atkinson, George Francis. College textbook of botany. *$2. Holt.

In expanding his elementary botany of 1898 into a college text, Prof. Atkinson leaves many chapters on the physiological part practically untouched, while others are thoroughly revised especially on the subjects of nutrition and digestion. One subject elaborated for the purpose of bringing it abreast of the times is morphology of fertilization in the gymnosperms and angiosperms. Chapters on the classification of algæ and fungi, and on ecology have also been changed and added to. The treatment falls into five parts, Physiology, Morphology and life history of representative plants, Plant members in relation to environment, Vegetation in relation to environment, and Representative families of angiosperms.

“Professor Atkinson has covered the whole general field in a way that indicates an unusually wide familiarity with the various divisions of the subject.” J. M. C.

“It is certainly an excellent text-book for a general introductory course in college.”

Atkinson, Thomas D. English architecture. $1.25. Dutton.

The author aims to give the mere elements or grammar of the great subject of English architecture. There are chapters on Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance art, on churches, monasteries, and houses; each subject is treated historically. A conclusion deals with the French influence. There are 200 tiny illustrations.

“Succinct outline to the vast subject of English architecture, on its structural and what may be called its actual aspects.”

“This book is notably sensible in its historical and critical remarks.”

Auchincloss, W. S. Book of Daniel unlocked. *$1. Van Nostrand.

A new edition of this study of the book of Daniel which shows the sidereal year to be God’s own standard of time and thereby “vindicates the statements of Daniel and fixes on them the seal of truth.” The text of the book of Daniel is given, interspersed with comments in red.

“Is an interesting specimen of ingenious exegesis.”

14* Austin, Alfred (Lamia, pseud.). Garden that I love. *$2. Macmillan.

A new edition of the poet laureate’s sketches and poetical essays first published ten years ago. “This is an illustrated edition, the pictures being reproductions in colour of work by Mr. George S. Elgood, R. I. These are sixteen in number, and are for the most part what we may call ‘flower landscapes.’ ... But whatever their character, the pictures are most attractive.” (Spec.)

* “The binding is not wholly to our taste.”

* “The color designs of George S. Elgood, R. I., are quite out of the common—exquisite, indeed; and in the end the purchaser may prefer them to the touch-and-go discursiveness of the text.”

* “This edition is illustrated in color with drawings that are as delightful as the text.”

Austin, Alfred (Lamia, pseud.). Poet’s diary. $2. Macmillan.

“Italy and things Italian—a fertile theme—are the principal topics discussed; and well does the diarist know his Rome and Florence.... Changing one word of the poet’s warning to orators, we may say, ‘The gift of diary-writing, like the gift of writing mellifluous poetry, is a sorry and dangerous one unless inspired, sustained and restrained by ‘Reason in her most exalted moods.’’”—Dial.

“Dexterously spinning out sentence after sentence and paragraph after paragraph with a facile grace of composition, a deft interweaving of literary allusion and quotation, a ready succession of pleasing ideas, that cannot but excite our admiration. The diarist’s manner is winsome, and it seems ungracious to damn his book with faint praises; but not even the most gifted of us, not even a poet laureate, can always attain perfection.”

Austin, Martha Waddill. Tristam and Isoult. $1. Badger, R: G.

“Instead of the German legend which pictures the character of Mark as a mild, noble, benign old man,” Mrs. Austin uses the text of Mallory which views King Mark as a “base, crafty, false-hearted scheming coward,” and “tells how, wearied in the struggle against Mark’s unremitting treachery Sir Tristam after the vile betrayal and battle behind the chapel on the rocks, in which he came so near to losing his life, bore Queen Isoult into her Launcelot’s country, and there lived with her in the castle of Joyous Garde.”

Austin, Mary. Isidro. †$1.50. Houghton.

“A tale of love and spring in Old California,” and of Isidro, whose proud determined father had vowed his son to the church while still in his cradle. The boy on his way to begin his novitiate with the fathers of St. Francis, meets a shepherd lad who proves to be “the one woman in the world.” He suffers hardships thru a series of adventures into which a delightful old priest, a fugitive, and a halfbreed of wild passion and heroic spirit enter.

“The story is well imagined and told with a delightful swing in a style that is vigorous, though at times too mannered.”

“Mary Austin has achieved that admirable success, which is none too common, of telling a romantic tale with such vivid realism, a tale of bygone years with such graphic assurance of detail, as to make even the most melodramatic of her episodes seem quite within the range of credibility.” F. T. Cooper.

* “Is a masterpiece in the particulars of literary style, and time-old spirit.”

“That language has a character of its own and a fitness to the honorable service of the romance of old California. Mary Austin has the gift of the witchcraft of romance.”

“Not a great piece of fiction, but carefully written, and presenting interesting types of character well-drawn, and a charming background of landscape.”

“A novel that will have a permanent place, not as a masterpiece, but as a well-wrought story of another ‘phase of American existence that, within the touch of present time, has passed away.’”

“Aside from the considerable charm of the story, the account given of the relation existing between the missions and their converts, and of the breaking up of these religious settlements, is well worth while.”

“The story is pleasantly told with a wealth of local colour, and will please lovers of romantic adventure.”

Auto fun. **$1. Crowell.

A collection of drawings and skits, jibes and jests taken from “Life.” The artists contributing are Gibson, Kemble, Cushing, Bayard Jones, C. F. Taylor, and others. It is a novelty and sure to please the motor car devotees.

“The level of these caricatures is uncommonly high in respect of invention and artistic technique.”

Avery, Elroy McKendree. History of the United States and its people. In 12 vol. Vol. 1., $6.25. Burrows.

Mr. Avery aims to cover the entire ground of American history from the earliest records to the present time. It is intended as a popular history, but there is supplied an abundance of bibliographical data which all students and those who wish to pursue historical investigations will find particularly useful. The maps, also, are more satisfactory than those which commonly appear in American works of this character. The style is easy, flowing, sometimes conversational. Graphic anecdotes or storiettes enliven the serious matter. Among the features demanding special praise the technical make-up must not be forgotten. The size is convenient, the paper excellent, the type clear and large, and there is a broad margin with notes.

“Both in statement and conclusion, furthermore, the text is generally in accord with the best literature of the subjects treated. Some obscurities, errors, and other defects have escaped detection.” William R. Shepherd.

“While the style has a certain pleasing smoothness, the reluctance of the author to interrupt this compels him to fail, at crucial points, to state explicitly what he is talking about, and the result for the reader is perplexity. Our verdict regarding Dr. Avery’s bibliography must also be that it might be improved.” Edward S. Corwin.

“We incline to the belief that on the whole no treatment of the period of discovery has been more satisfactorily prepared. If the succeeding volumes equal in excellence the present book, this history will be the best complete 15history of our country yet written.” Amy C. Rich.

“In a general way Dr. Avery is fully abreast of modern scholarship. Of really serious errors in the book there are none. The great weakness of the book lies in the absence of page references. Dr. Avery’s style of writing is smooth and flowing. It is altogether too flowery either for a permanent classic or for a serious piece of historical work.” Anna Heloise Abel.

“The advance sheets have been submitted to special students on the subjects treated. But they could not, without rewriting his book, correct his point of view. Rarely takes the trouble to come to a conclusion of his own. On the whole the book is well and attractively written and is accurate as to fact.”

* “While accuracy of detail has been secured thru several revisions by specialists, the emphasis is bad and the literary style is often stilted.”

“Dr. Avery’s text stands well the test of critical examination. The narrative ... is systematically compressed, but it is well proportioned, and gives evidence throughout of careful use of authorities and of intelligent and restrained judgment. From a literary point of view, the history is eminently readable, though the style shows a tendency to ornateness.”

“Reasonably full, critical, and even iconoclastic in many respects. To judge then, from vol. I. this history bids fair to become popular in the best sense of the term. It is certainly not dry—parts of it reading like a stirring romance. Now and then he goes perhaps a trifle too far in his impartiality.”

“He is, then, accurate. He is also the possessor of a very agreeable style.”

Reviewed by H. Addington Bruce.

B

B., T. Upton letters. **$1.25. Putnam.

“To those of us who, with Stevenson, pray for the quiet mind, ‘The Upton letters’ by ‘T. B.’ are a help in that direction. Simple and natural, sane and human, these reflective utterances on literary, moral, and educational themes, and on the commonplaces of daily life, have the charm that belongs to the genuine expression of a good mind and heart. They are the letters of a master in an English public school to a friend (’Herbert’) sojourning in Madeira for his health; and they run through the year 1904, being brought to a close by the friend’s death.”—Dial.

“For all its timidity the book is a bugle-call.”

“The comments on certain aspects of modern life are always very readable, sometimes valuable; but the book is notable mainly for its poetical outlook and unfailing facility of expression.”

* “The book is delightful enough to stand on its own merits.” H. W. Boynton.

“It is an intimate narrative, but the intimacy is of a highly self-respecting sort, and the picture of the writer which the book leaves upon the reader’s mind is very winning.”

“The little volume will create no sensation (heaven forbid!), but it will greatly content a choice few among the readers of books.”

* “The letters are truly literature, and every page gives evidence of broad and careful scholarship, wide reading and a soul concerned with high and serious things. As a whole the volume is intensely satisfactory and is one that may be read and read again by those who care to think and know how to think.”

“‘The Upton letters’ makes excellent quiet reading for those to whom such a mind as the author’s is attractive.”

“These letters depend solely upon their intrinsic merit. This is unquestionably high. Without literary affectation, the style is that of a literary man.”

“Barring a slight stiffness and an occasional assumption of weariness and ennui, the letters are as good as anything of the kind that have appeared since Huxley’s were given to the world.”

Bacon, Benjamin Wisner. Story of St. Paul. **$1.50. Houghton.

This book is the outgrowth of a series of university extension lectures delivered at Providence, R. I., and New Haven, Conn. It is a comparison of the accounts of the life of St. Paul, as found in the acts and the epistles, and Professor Bacon’s object is to point out the differences in these two sources in order that the records may later be harmonized.

“Excellent book.”

“Although intended for popular reading, is less a life of the great apostle than a critical inquiry into the disputes and controversies connected with his life.”

* “Is the clearest and ablest presentation of this subject yet made by an American.”

“A misnomer. It should rather be called A study in St. Paul, for Dr. Bacon is a critic rather than a historian. Certainly his mind is analytical rather than dramatic. For the student who desires to get the latest information which a fearless and reverent scholarship has to give respecting our sources of information concerning Paul and his Epistles, we know of no book better than this volume of Dr. Bacon, but it is distinctly the work of a student, and requires for its appreciation a student’s thoughtfulness.”

“Although this is in the province of criticism, Professor Bacon’s treatment is of a popular nature. His book is, indeed, a union of constructive biography and scientific criticism.”

“Dr. Bacon observes carefully and writes well; but he seems to us to be constantly getting a little more out of the text than is warranted; while the amount and complication of the alterations made in the history by ‘Luke’ (as he is called, in inverted commas) form a very serious objection to his theory.”

“His book will make the student think, and so far will be of service; but he is not a safe guide.”

Bacon, Dolores M., ed. Diary of a musician. †$1.50. Holt.

A record of the experiences, hopes, and longings which lie all the way from the depths to the heights of a genius’ career. Short, terse sentences that sum up a heart full of joy or anguish, characterized all thru by Bohemian irresponsibility, 16are no more brief than were the moods of this interesting Hungarian. With all his musical power, he is human enough to say: “I adore my father; but who could keep faith with his father when such a woman smiles.... It is Marie Alexeievna. There is no superior allegiance.”

“A decidedly clever and piquant tour de force. In very few books is the note struck at the beginning successfully kept up to the end, as here. Of its not ambitious order, the book is admirable.”

Bacon, Edgar Mayhew. Narragansett bay; its historic and romantic associations and picturesque setting. **$3.50. Putnam.

This sumptuous volume is “illustrated by the author’s sketches and a few photographs, and is well indexed. As the title implies, it is a collection of superficial descriptions and colonial legends woven into readable form.” (Nation.)

“Is a worthy successor to the author’s attractive work in a similar style on the Hudson river.”

“The book is chiefly deficient in failing to show the powerful influence of the bay on the social and economic development of the state. The volume contains many egregious lapses from fact.”

Bacon, Gertrude. Balloons, airships and flying machines. *50c. Dodd.

“The plainest narrative of a balloon trip told strictly from the airman’s point of view, in perfect equanimity, never mounting into any purple clouds, never soaring above any reader’s head, but sticking to the terra firma of plain fact, makes a far stronger impression upon the imagination than in any other style it ever could.” (Nation.) Such a narrative is Miss Bacon’s.

“Is a little triumph, due to a bright fresh mind drawing from the headwaters of information ideas that sparkle with genuine interest in the subject, which is allowed to run on in its own natural babble.”

“Her story is well told, and, as technicalities are avoided, is interesting as well.”

Baddeley, St. Clair. Recent discoveries in the Forum. $1.25. Macmillan.

Books and pamphlets have appeared in great numbers furnishing technical details, measurements, etc., of the “revelations of pick and spade” about this historic site. “But the average English or American traveler has very much needed a smaller work, of equal accuracy but more popular and practicable, as a guide among these new-old stones and pillars and pavements. Such a book is now to be had in Mr. Baddeley’s ‘Recent discoveries.’ The author has been in close touch with all the work as it went on, and fortunately has seen fit to give us many incidents of the eventful days, and illustrations showing the scenes of transition.” (Dial).

“He is wanting in style and scholarship; almost every page is disfigured by odd mistakes in English or inaccuracies of reference.”

“The book is interesting beyond the rule of guide books.”

“The expression is so poor that one rarely reads so small a book with such great difficulty.”

Baedeker, Karl. London and its environs: a handbook for travellers. *$1.80. Scribner.

“The fourteenth edition, fortified with four maps and twenty-four plans, its list of the principal streets, public buildings, etc. The total bulk has been but slightly increased. It is almost a pity that these successive editions could not graphically record the chief changes in the general aspect of the metropolis, which of late have been as imposing as they are extensive.”—Nation.

Baedeker, Karl. Northern France: handbook for travellers. *$2.10. Scribner.

“A new edition (the fourth) of this well-known handbook, brought up to date with such revision regarding hotels, routes, and places of interest to travelers as has been made necessary by the changes of the last four or five years.”—Outlook.

Bagley, William Chandler. Educative process. *$1.25. Macmillan.

A lucid exposition of the basal principles of pedagogy with illustrative matter showing the limits and methods of the application. “Its fundamental theses are, that the function of the educative process is to secure the transmission to each generation of the experience of the race, and that its end in view is to secure the development of socially efficient individuals—an end inclusive, as here defined, of livelihood, knowledge, culture, harmonious development, and morality.” (Outlook.)

“His exposition of the responsibilities and duties of parents and teachers can be accepted with little or no reservation, but some of his illustrative statements and subsidiary generalizations are open to question.”

“All in all, it must be considered one of the best contributions of its kind to the literature of educational theory and should find an extensive use as a text-book in normal schools and colleges for covering the ground of general method.” Guy Montrose Whipple.

“While Dr. Bagley is mainly concerned to teach the principles of pedagogy he has not failed in adequately illustrating the limits and methods of their rational application.”

“In spite of these and some other less important mistakes and misplacements of emphasis, the book is a fresh, stimulating and generally correct organization of the principles of education.” Wilbur S. Jackman.

* Bagot, Richard. Italian lakes; painted by Ella Du Cane, described by Richard Bagot. *$6. Macmillan.

“In the pages of this beautiful book there have been gathered enough pictures of the Italian lakes ... to make those who read ... realize at least somewhat of the wonderful beauty of the lakes of Italy, even when they have not seen them.” (Ind.) “The lakes of Como, Lugano, Lecco, Maggiore, Orta, Isco, and others of northern Italy are described and painted.”—N. Y. Times.

* “The illustrator ... has given us a series of pictures which, though quite pretty, do not help the reader to realise the general character of the North Italian lakes. The material with which Mr. Bagot had to deal was far too extensive for the space at his disposal; and on the whole he has made a wise selection.”

17Bagot, Richard. Passport. †$1.50. Harper.

“Mr. Richard Bagot has written a stirring melodrama of love and intrigue. He has laid on his colours with a trowel. He gives us the lovely maiden wooed by the handsome lover whose suit is forbidden by the stern stepmother. He tells of wicked priests, cynical and scheming villains, faithful servants, secret hiding-places and sliding panels—all the stock-in-trade of regulation melodrama.... The scene of the book is laid in Rome and the ‘local colouring’ is admirable.”—Sat. R.

“It is a pleasure to read so well-conceived and well executed a tale as this. This is a book that will certainly bear reading twice.”

“Frankly, the story makes rather better reading than an epitome of it would warrant one to expect.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

* “A conscientious, elaborate and able narrative. Within certain limits, ‘The passport’ may be honestly commended.”

“The characters in ‘The passport’ stand out very well in the Italian ‘atmosphere’ which Mr. Bagot has the secret of portraying.”

“The book is one of much interest.”

“Is unusual in the strength of its plot and the artistic and continuous development of the story. Here, as in former books, Mr. Bagot occasionally offends the taste of his readers quite unnecessarily.”

“But he writes well and picturesquely and his characterization, although totally devoid of subtlety, abounds in cleverness.”

* Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin. Peter Newell Mother Goose. †$1.50. Holt.

A prose Mother Goose which contains some of the old rhymes as Debby, “a real little girl with gingham aprons and stubby shoes and sunbonnets,” hears them in her wanderings among the Gooselanders. She meets the same old people of Gooseland: Dame Trot; Wee Willie Winkie; Jack Horner; Bo Peep; Simple Simon; and all the rest, but they are modernized and made almost too commonplace for imaginative children. There are twenty-two illustrations by Peter Newell.

* “The text rings so true in spirit that one cannot tell which way first to look, at the printed pages or at the woodcuts. All in all the combination forms a most happy volume for children.”

* “Altogether a very excellent Peter Newell book with a good story to picture.”

Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Outlook to nature. **$1.25. Macmillan.

“The outlook to nature is, of course, the outlook to optimism, for nature is our governing condition and is beyond the power of man to modify or to correct.... The outlook to nature is the outlook to what is real and hearty and spontaneous.” The author applies the foregoing text to the four essays: The realm of the commonplace, Country and city, The school of the future, and Evolution: the quest of truth.

“They exhort to public-spirited endeavor in the cause of rural education and they tend to foster a wholesome love of the soil and to replace the restlessness and discouragement of the country-bred boy and girl with a reasonable contentment and an impulse to improve existing opportunities.”

“Some of the passages are delightful. Nor is it a one-sided view of life that is presented.”

* “If there is nothing altogether new in the book, there is nothing that is not sensible, and very little that is not also inspiring.”

“His exhortations ... are hearty, spontaneous, and optimistic, and full of the love of nature which he wants all the world to share.”

Bain, Alexander. Autobiography. *$5. Longmans.

“The autobiography, as Professor Bain left it, ended with an account of the events of the year 1890; a supplementary chapter, relating to the last thirteen years of his life, has been added by his literary executor, Prof. W. L. Davidson. The chief feature of interest in this volume is its clear and candid account of the stages in the writer’s mental growth, under the circumstances of the time.” (Int. J. Ethics). His early religious life was one of unrest and doubt, but coming under the influence of Comte’s teachings, he soon rejected all theology, and found himself a thorogoing empiricist. His greatest originality lies in the realm of analytic psychology, and his works on this subject are among the classics. In logic, he was a close follower of Mill, also his two volumes show some important advances on the Mill method. In ethics, too, he is consistently empirical and utilitarian, believing that “General happiness or welfare is a sufficient statement of the final end.”

“The plan is logically formed and elaborately carried out.”

“Will undoubtedly be a disappointment to the reader who is looking for literary charm or for any strong infusion of human interest. It is a dry, concise chronicle, in which first place is given to facts about the writer’s own scientific activity and published work—professedly a record of his intellectual history first of all.”

“Curious lights are also thrown on the past history of university education in Scotland. Specially attractive is the account given in the first two chapters of the way in which the difficulties of the author’s early education were overcome, and of the manner in which his native intellectual tendencies began to show themselves.” S. H. Mellone.

“The autobiography is much too long. What is really valuable in it is overlaid by a multitude of details which can interest but few.”

Bain, F. W. Digit of the moon, and other love stories from the Hindoo. $1.50. Putnam.

“A digit of the moon,” “A heifer of the dawn,” “The descent of the sun,” and “In the great God’s hair” are four stories found in this volume, translated and adapted from the Hindoo by one who professes to have received the manuscript from a Brahman. “They possess a somewhat greater refinement, according to Western notions, than one often finds in tales of Oriental life and love as told by Orientals.” (Outlook.)

“The fascination of the stories lies in their almost hypnotic slowness of movement, their lavish use of color, and the delicate mixture of wit and sentiment that animate them.”

“The native atmosphere has been rather cleverly caught, and the author has adopted several Hindu tricks of story-telling. Many persons will deem his stories charming. At any rate, they are touchingly sentimental and written in extra-florid English.”

18“The stories have an undeniable charm both of matter and of language.”

“Are characteristically Eastern in delicacy, tenderness, vividness, gorgeousness of imagination, and floridity of language.”

“Mr. Bain has made us all his debtors by presenting us with this book.”

Bain, Robert Nisbet. First Romanovs, 1613-1725. *$3.50. Dutton.

An account of “the rise of socialism in Russia in its early days, coming down to the end of the reign of Peter the Great. So far as we know, the book takes new ground in that it is less a history of war and political convulsions than of the underlying conditions—social, racial, and moral as well as political—which give shape and form to the Muscovite civilization. Dramatic episodes and incidents have large place in the narrative.... There are several portraits and maps.”—Outlook.

“Mr. Nisbet Bain is too faithful a chronicler. He tells his story in such detail that we miss the broad features and lack some perspective of Russia’s relationship to the rest of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”

“But is perhaps unfair to carp at these minor inaccuracies (as they seem to us), and it is a more congenial task to praise this interesting book for the many pictures of old Russian life with which it abounds.”

“It is seldom that a book combines in so high a degree the charm of imaginative writing with the graver interest of history.”

“‘The first Romanovs’ is a work which covers less ground than is traversed in the Scandinavian volume, and is marked not only by a greater fulness of detail, but by greater concentration of purpose. The present volume is in many respects the best he has given us.”

“It is a conscientious, well-balanced history of that remarkable century. The whole story is well and interestingly told in fluent and often pictorial English.” Wolf von Schierbrand.

“The work is essentially readable. Such a book as this is valuable as affording insight into what was really a formative period of European history.”

“Upon the reader’s acceptance or rejection of Peter’s role as a mighty regenerator will necessarily depend the value and interest of Mr. Bain’s work. At the same time we fail to find that he brings any really new light to bear upon the subject.”

Bain, Robert Nisbet. Scandinavia: a political history of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. $2. Macmillan.

The period from 1513 to 1900 is treated in this volume which deals with the rise, decline, and fall of Denmark, Norway and Sweden as powers.

“The most comprehensive that has yet been written.”

“In his conclusions he frequently differs from earlier writers, but, though his generalizations are often dangerously bold, his statements, as a rule, are well supported.” Laurence M. Larson.

“We have found Mr. Bain’s narrative clear and very readable. It is throughout a scholarly production.”

“Mr. Bain’s narrative, however, is usually vivid and sometimes even eloquent. Inaccuracy rather than obscurity is the fault of the book. As is natural when the scope of the work is so wide, many of the author’s views are open to question.” W. F. R.

“His epitome of Scandinavian annals is clear and well arranged giving about equal prominence to Denmark and Sweden.”

“Mistakes are rare, and those that may be found are too insignificant for exposure. And he tells a good story. This failure of Mr. Bain to enter into the spirit of the time is glaringly apparent in his treatment of Christian II. of Denmark. On the whole his judgments of present-day men and measures are correct and well balanced.” Edwin Bjorkman.

“Keen insight into causation is manifest; social as well as political movements are studied, not a little light being thrown on hitherto neglected phases of Scandinavian history; and the facts presented have been carefully verified. The style, without being impressive, is fluent and agreeable.”

“A very useful historical volume.”

“Mr. Bain’s story is, by force of circumstances, highly compressed, but he has succeeded in making it both clear and attractive.”

Baker, Cornelia. Queen’s page. †$1.25. Bobbs.

This story is all about Pedro and Petronilla, twins of Béarne, who at the start could not understand why when Aunt Catalina said that they had some blue blood in their veins should see only red blood start from a knife wound. They themselves thus remind the reader that they are very much flesh-and-blood little mortals. Their experiences at the court of Francis the First, and their travels and adventures are full of interest for the young reader. The illustrations are the clever work of Fanny Y. Cory.

“A pleasant way for any boy or girl to get acquainted with the sixteenth century is to read ‘The queen’s page.’”

Baker, George P. Forms of public address. **$1.12. Holt.

This little volume is offered by Mr. Baker as a needed supplement to the ordinary oratorical work done in colleges. It is designed for school use, and sets forth its purpose in an introduction addressed to teachers. The book consists of famous historical letters, both private and open, editorials, inaugural addresses, speeches of eulogy, commemoration, dedication, welcome and farewell, and after-dinner speeches. There are an appendix and explanatory notes.

“The selections presented as models give a value to the volume that the general reader, as well as instructors and students, will appreciate for their historical or personal as well as literary worth.”

Baker, Henry B. Relation of preventable disease to taxation. Michigan State board of health.

“We have here a valuable analytical study of local expenditures in Michigan during 1903 on account of indigent sufferers from dangerous communicable diseases: also computations of the money values of the lives apparently saved in 1903 through the lowered death rate from smallpox, typhoid fever, scarlet fever and 19consumption since the organization of the State board of health.”—Engin. N.

Baker, Louise R. Mrs. Pinner’s little girl $1. Jacobs.

A pretty story of a little orphan, Mary Daingerfield, who is separated from her sister and brothers and adopted by the rich and kind-hearted Pinners. Thru her sweet unselfishness she succeeds in bringing home to them their son, Dave, and also in reuniting her orphaned family—Kit, Buz, the baby, and their faithful old black Aunty.

Baker, Moses Nelson. Sewerage and sewage purification. 50c. Van Nostrand.

A second revised and enlarged edition of this valuable little volume which was first published in 1895.

Baker, Rev. P. Short instructions; or, Meditations on the Gospels for each day in Lent; ed. by Rev. W: T. Conklin. 75c. Christian press.

“These instructions were first published in 1834 ... [and] are based on the holy Gospels for every day in Lent. The Gospel for the day is given; then follows a short instruction on the same, concluding with a prayer.”—Cath. World.

Baker, William Henry. Cement-worker’s handbook. 50c. W. H. Baker, Wadsworth, O.

More than 50 most important subjects on cement and its uses in construction are covered in this volume, which is compiled to meet the requirements of the common workman.

“The description of the proper way to make cement walks is the best that we have seen in print.”

Baldwin, Charles Sears, ed. American short stories. See Wampum library of American literature, v. I.

Baldwin, Charles Sears. How to write, *50c. Macmillan.

Taking the English Bible as a model of style, the author has written a practical little book which tells “plain people” how to prepare essays, how to tell stories, and how to describe.

“The book will be very useful as a practical rhetoric.”

“The author has succeeded in making his directions practical and untechnical enough really to help the people for whom they are designed.”

* Baldwin, May. Girls of St. Gabriel’s. †$1.25. Lippincott.

“A sprightly story of the experiences of an English girl of fourteen, who spent two years at a convent school in the north of France, on the Belgian frontier.... The heroine’s interests were varied by the neighborhood of a French uncle with a haunted château.... There are illustrations and a good deal of minor detail of the life of a French country house.”—Nation.

* “The tale has incident enough to make it good reading for any girl under eighteen.”

* “The theme is a good one, and well worked out.”

Baldwin, Simeon Eben. American judiciary and judicial system. *$1.25. Century.

This is the sixth volume in the “American state series” whose object is to describe “comprehensively the manner in which the Governmental agencies of the American state are organized and administered.” The subject matter falls under two heads: Part 1. The nature and scope of the judicial power in the United States, and Part 2. The organization and practical working of American courts.

* “So far as description goes, it is here and there loosely written.”

“His work maintains the high standard set by the other published volumes of the ‘American state series.’” Robert Livingston Schuyler.

“Is characterized by thoroughness, accuracy, and readableness. Laymen and jurists alike will find this book interesting and helpful.”

“He has accomplished his difficult task admirably.”

Balmforth, Ramsden. Bible from the standpoint of higher criticism. 2v. ea. *$1.25. Dutton.

Two volumes devoted respectively to the Old and New Testament, which discuss in popular and non-technical form the results of the higher criticism. “The true basis of religious union is shown to be where Jesus put it, not in the speculative doctrines which divide men, but in the moral effect which unites them.” (Outlook.) Illustrations are drawn from the various classes of literature and periods of history.

“Its object is to show that, after all, the Bible is worth studying.”

“Some of the principal facts brought to light in recent study are presented fearlessly and with no little skill.”

“Mr. Balmforth’s discussions are bold, almost blunt, but they are reverent and well considered, and they will do good service in promoting familiarity with the achievements of Biblical scholarship in its most important field.”

“A lucid and popularly written account of the results of modern critical study.”

Bandelier, Fanny, tr. Journey of Cabeza de Vaca. **$1. Barnes.

A new volume in the “Trail-makers library” which narrates the experiences and adventures of the first white man to cross the continent. “His journey begun in Florida in 1528 ended on the Pacific in 1536. The translator and editor have had a valuable idea in extracting from the original confused and garrulous narrative what was essential and important.” (Outlook.)

“The work is edited by no less an authority than Ad. F. Bandelier, the foremost in this line, and the translation is by his wife, whose quick intelligence and absolute familiarity with the Spanish language has enabled her to fathom many intricacies of the vague and confused record.” F. S. Dellenbaugh.

20* Bangs, John Kendrick. Mrs. Raffles; being the adventures of an amateur cracks-woman narrated by Bunny. †$1.25. Harper.

“In his well-known humorous style Mr. Bangs has portrayed Mrs. Raffles, the widow of the famous cracksman, and her never-to-be-consoled admirer ‘Bunny.’ The yarns ... contain material for detective stories that quite surpass the plots invented for the original thief by Mr. Hornung.”—Critic.

* “The yarns one and all are amusing.”

* “A parody of Mr. Hornung’s stories of Raffles, the amateur cracksman, very badly done.”

Bangs, John Kendrick. Worsted man: a musical play for amateurs. †50c. Harper.

Eight lonely women at a summer hotel in New Hampshire attempt to get even with Fate for not sending a single youth their way. They construct a worsted man from an afghan, stuffing it with cotton. A certain famous spring-water brings this man of wool to life, and he becomes an unmanageable flirt.

Banks, Nancy Huston. Little hills. †$1.50. Macmillan.

Phoebe Rowan is widowed shortly after the ceremony which joins her in a loveless marriage with the village minister. It becomes a duty to her to call to her “wren’s nest” the destitute parents of her husband,—a father who is a cripple and a drunkard, and a step-mother “austere, ignorant, narrow-minded, with a faculty for ruling all around her with an iron will.” The story follows a thorny path with a triumphant turn out into the open.

“It is not given to her, as it is to Mr. Howells, to write an interesting story about nothing. The various characters to which Mrs. Banks introduces us are not convincing.”

“The score of characters who move through Mrs. Banks’s pages are quaint, charming, whimsical, by turns, but never exaggerated or burlesqued. The central thread of the story, which binds the whole together with a strength surprising in a plot of such fragile delicacy, is imbued with a simple pathos that at times evokes an almost painful sympathy.” F. T. Cooper.

“The author has a riotous sentimentality, no sense of humor, and an over-worked knack of detaching scenic bric-a-brac from the landscape.”

“The book is somewhat cumbered with description, and several of its characters have toppled over into caricatures, but it will be read with interest both because of a plot out of the ordinary and of the freshness and spontaneity of its treatment.”

“There are bits here which are gently provocative of a smile, and always the sentiment is sweet and gracious, but the total effect is rather faint.”

“Appears as a frank imitator of Miss Mary Wilkins, and the imitation is not very successful.”

Barbour, Ralph Henry (Richard Stillman Powers, pseud.). Orchard princess. †$2. Lippincott.

How Miles Fallon, bachelor, becomes a ready target for Cupid’s dart when April sunshine and the scent of apple blossoms lure him on to the orchard princess is lightly sketched in this love tale with a pastoral setting. The man is a novelist, and the girl is an artist, yet these two idealists are very human in the “little nothingnesses” that pave the way for their romance.

* “The heroine is a real girl, which cannot always be said of romantic heroines.”

Bard, Emile. Chinese life in town and country. **$1.20. Putnam.

Viewing China and the Chinese “with the eyes of a man of affairs,” and avoiding “exaggerated optimism”, the author has treated of Chinese traits, customs and character, of their religions, education, government, history and economic and social life. The book is concise and interesting, and contains over a dozen illustrations and a good index.

“Altogether this is a clever and readable book.”

“The book has no air of hasty generalization; the chapters, though brief, are full of information, set forth in the clearest possible manner.”

“The characteristic and chief value of the book is its freedom from bias. The little volume is singularly free from inaccuracies.”

“The translation, or rather adaptation, is one that takes away all stiffness and puts the reader at his ease. With index and illustrations, this makes one of the books on China most pleasant for reference and reading.”

“He is a kindly, though just, observer.”

“The translation seems well done.”

“He has come as near to an understanding of the Chinese character as is possible for an occidental.”

Barnes, James. Blockaders. 60c. Harper.

Thirteen short stories for girls as well as boys. The “Blockaders” is a tale of a Confederate blockade runner which is captured by the Federals and turned into a United States gunboat. Then there are stories of flying machines, cannibal kings, and adventures in Africa, where savages pursue the finders of certain diamonds. There is a story of an ice boat, where two boys carry a bag of money fifty miles to save a bank, and of harrowing experiences in an apparently inaccessible village of the cliff dwellers. There are many others equally varied.

“The stories are well written; the plots are worth writing about; the boys who figure in them are real flesh and blood boys; and the style is crisp, direct, and natural.”

“The sort of thing boys like to read.”

“They are of all sorts—adventurous, amusing, and pathetic—and all good.”

21Barr, Martin W. Mental defectives; their history, treatment, and training. *$4. Blakiston.

An interesting and practical treatment of the subject by one who has had long and successful experience in the training of the mentally deficient. The modern methods of sifting and classifying these children, are given in detail, and the work suitable for each class is described. It is an interesting book for everyone, but is intended primarily for teachers and parents. There are 152 illustrations.

“In his interesting study, Dr. Barr has spoken to an audience of teachers and parents, rather than to scientists.” Albert Warren Ferris.

“It is by all odds the most thorough and well written treatise upon the subject with which we are familiar, not excepting those of Ireland, Doun, or Seguin; besides it is modern.”

Barr, Robert. Speculations of John Steele. †$1.50. Stokes.

John Steele, the hero of this story, runs the entire gamut of financial adventure. He starts as station master in the “lone shanty” known as Hitchen’s Siding where his bravery in side-tracking a freight train without the dispatcher’s orders, thus averting a collision, was the beginning of a series of promotions. He becomes the owner of a railroad, dabbles in wheat, loses a fortune, wins it again with the woman he loves thru a coup de force.

Barrett, Mrs. Charlotte, ed. See Burney, Frances. Diary and letters of Madame D’Arblay.

Barrington, Mrs. Russell. Reminiscences of G. F. Watts. *$5. Macmillan.

Conversational reminiscences of the sculptor-artist jotted down by one who was his friend and neighbor. Many interesting details are given, which reveal his character and his attitude toward his own work and the work of other artists.

“An extremely readable story of her long and intimate friendship with Watts.”

“Comprehensive volume.”

“At times it must be admitted she rather overloads her pages with minor details. The book is written pleasantly, interestingly, tho without any great distinction of style—but it is only fair to add that there is no pretension to style.”

* “The most important book about that painter yet published.”

* “Mrs. Barrington combines in an unusual degree the literary and artistic gift.”

“We cannot help thinking that the author would have done better to hand over her notes to the biographer who, under the general direction of Mrs. Watts and with access to the painter’s private papers, is at work upon a complete biography.”

“Mrs. Barrington’s book, with all its enthusiastic fervor and intimate outpourings, adds practically little to what has already been published.”

“Mrs. Barrington’s is not a biography, but a personal work, which incidentally reveals a good deal of the writer’s personality.” Charles de Kay.

* “A noble biography of a noble man.”

* “This volume, while perhaps not exhaustive, is certainly accurate.”

Barritt, Leon. How to draw. **$2. Harper.

The author “here sets forth, in a simple and practical manner, the basic principles of illustration in pen and ink and pencil.” After describing fully the materials necessary, he outlines the steps of procedure. The first lesson is on a block letter alphabet. Next are rules for drawing the human head and features, the hands, feet, and the human figure. “How to measure an object by the eye” is followed by an explanation of how to draw from life, studies in expression, animal drawing, perspective, landscape drawing, spatter work, water studies, comics, cartoons, wash lampblack drawing, drawing on silver prints, distemper drawings, lettering, foliage study, and the reproduction of drawings. The last part of the book is devoted to the well-known American illustrators and cartoonists.

Barren, Leonard,, ed. Roses and how to grow them. **$1. Doubleday.

Omitting everything that does not bear directly upon the subject of practical rose growing, this manual teaches the American amateur all that is necessary for him to know “in order that he may intelligently make a rose garden, select his varieties and grow a harvest of bloom.” A number of half-tone illustrations accompany the text. The book belongs to the “Garden library.”

“The book is freely and attractively illustrated, most of the inscriptions being amply descriptive of the purpose of the pictures.” Edith Granger.

“To those who desire roses and know nothing about them this little volume will be an especial boon, so precise and unveiled by the drapery of unnecessary words are the instructions.” Mabel Osgood Wright.

Barry, Richard. Port Arthur: a monster heroism. *$1.50. Moffat.

Under such chapter headings as, The city of silence, A battle in a storm, Cost of taking Port Arthur, and A contemporary epic, are told the horrid things, pitiless and true, which the author saw in the East on the field and in the trenches where the little brown men fought so bravely.

“Barry knows how to tell a story in words and sentences that seem part of the war itself.” William Elliot Griffis.

“This book is that of an eye-witness profoundly and sympathetically impressed, still young enough to have every impression deep and clear, and old enough to set it down justly and vividly.” Wallace Rice.

“Not strictly a well-written book, this is nevertheless full of the vitality of the field, and the impression that it gives of a record made on the spot is heightened by the numerous illustrations from the author’s own camera.”

“The book is on the whole more to be commended for its material than the manner in which the material is used.”

“He gives a series of vivid pictures of Japanese methods of warfare, of life in the besieging trenches, of the characteristics of the Japanese soldier and his commanding officers.”

22Barry, William (Francis). Life of Ernest Renan. **$1. Scribner.

Beginning with a chapter which discusses the widely known scholar and writer as “The Breton peasant,” Mr. Barry traces the career of Renan, describing his youthful struggles to understand the Catholic faith, his giving up the priesthood, his lectures as a teacher of Hebrew, the influence of his sister, his travels and his work upon his “Life of Jesus,” and his other books.

“Is in many respects an excellent and most instructive biography, but he is somewhat too prone to argue with Renan’s opinions without trying to ‘place’ him amid the powerful influences of the nineteenth century.”

“It chiefly consists of translation or paraphrase of books within reach of every one, and the moment Dr. Barry essays to be original he falls into blunders.”

“This work is finely wrought as a piece of literature, is judicious, brave, and reverent.”

“From the able pen of a keen and sympathetic critic.”

“He has written a superficial book on a subject worthy of more intelligent treatment.”

“The thesis is cleverly maintained, and the book, in spite of its obvious dogmatic purpose, is interesting throughout.”

“Falls several points short of being satisfactory as an exposition of the reality behind the man who was an atheist, ‘devoutly and with a sort of unction.’”

“Interesting, well written, appreciatively critical.”

“It says much for the wealth and variety of Dr. Barry’s resources, both as a scholar and as a literary artist, that he has achieved this task with eminent success.”

Barton, George Aaron. Year’s wandering in Bible lands. *$2. Ferris.

This volume is made up of home letters written by the director of the American school of Oriental research, and it contains no dry archaeological detail, but is an account of the experiences of the author and his party, and a description of the localities visited, including Athens, Corinth, the churches of Asia, the Holy land, Alexandria, Italy, and the Alps. There are 145 illustrations in half-tone, from views taken during the trip.

Reviewed by Wallace Rice.

“Its fine and numerous illustrations give it special value as a pictorial companion book to the Bible.”

Barton, Samuel Marx. Elements of plane surveying. *$1.50. Heath.

To form a connecting link between the mathematical branches as taught in the secondary schools and the practical work of surveying is the author’s chief purpose in presenting this text. It is subdivided into the following chapters: (1) Instruments, their adjustments and uses; (2) Chain surveying; (3) Compass surveying; (4) Computation of areas; (5) Transit surveying; (6) Leveling; and (7) Tables. The last 111 pages are devoted to several useful and practical tables: a table of squares, cubes, square roots, and cube roots; of chords; stadia tables; six-place logarithms of numbers and of trigonometric functions; the natural functions to five places; and an auxiliary table for small angles. The author enters a plea against the insertion of six-place tables in texts on plane surveying as wasteful of time and labor.

“He has quite well met the needs of one class. The class whose interests seem to have been consulted, in the main, is that of the strong high-school, or early college, student of mathematics who feels he would like to know for what all these years of barren formalism are supposed to prepare one, at any rate. From a mathematical student’s point of view the book is a clear, simple, and educative treatment of the fundamental problems of surveying.” G. W. Myers.

Bashore, Harvey Brown. Sanitation of a country house. $1. Wiley.

“This little volume tells simply and clearly how to locate and build a country house to insure the most healthful conditions, how to provide a pure water supply, and how to dispose of the waste in an economical and sanitary manner.”—Outlook.

“The suggestions that he offers to the prospective builder of a country house are eminently practical, based on a scientific study of rural conditions.”

* Bassett, Mrs. Mary E. Stone. Little green door. †$1.50. Lothrop.

“A French romance of the time of Louis XIII. The scene is partly placed in a retired garden belonging to the King and entered by a ‘little green door.’ The book is not of the swashbuckling type, although there is an occasional clash of swords.”—Outlook.

* “The attempt is for quiet charm rather than for strenuous dramatic effect.”

Bate, Percy. English table glass. *$2.50. Scribner.

“The early pages tell of the author’s own proceedings as a collector and his growth as a connoisseur.... There are 254 separate glasses illustrated, all arranged upon the black backgrounds of sixty-seven half-tone plates.... There are many historical curiosities among these pieces, and of course Jacobitism in abundance.” (Nation.) 1586 is the date of the earliest glass shown.

“A book at once pleasing and packed with information, personal and yet of broadest application.”

“The author is very enthusiastic, and has much knowledge of his subject, and his guidebook will be a welcome help to the large body of students of an attractive subject. We rarely find Mr. Bate at fault.”

“As far as it goes, however, the book is a careful account, rather by way of classification than of historical or technical discussion, of English table glass up to 1800.”

“Full of the knowledge and the insight of the enthusiastic collector.”

23Bates, Oric. Madcap cruise. †$1.50. Houghton.

The story of a young Harvard man whose uncle refused to supply him with funds for a trip to Europe. As the girl he loves is already there, nothing can stop him, so he takes his chum with him, steals his uncle’s yacht, cruises from Maine to the Mediterranean, wins the girl and comes home to be forgiven. There are many amusing and stirring adventures, such as a race with an English yacht, smuggling art treasures out of Italy, and a storm at sea.

Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.

“Lively narrative and clearcut description, written for the most part in excellent English. A thoroughly wholesome and readable book.”

“It is light, but simple and pretty.”

“The story is cleverly told, remarkably so for the author’s first attempt, and is entertaining in spite of the superabundance of slang.”

“The author’s style is buoyant, and he rides blithely over choppy seas that have brought to grief many an older writer.”

Batten, Rev. Loring W. Hebrew prophet. $1.50. Macmillan.

“Dr. Batten seeks to realise the actual conditions under which the Jewish prophets lived and worked. He inquires how they gained a subsistence, what they did for their countrymen, what was thought and expected of them, and whether they wrote down their utterances in advance.... These and other questions are discussed with an open-mindedness and sobriety which are not always in evidence on either side of the ‘Higher criticism controversy.’”—Spec.

“An excellent handbook for the use of intelligent Bible students. The method of presentation is clear and simple, and the underlying principles are scholarly and safe.”

“The book is popular yet critical, neglecting neither the problems of scholars nor the practical applications of the history.”

“A very sensible and seasonable book.”

Battine, Cecil. Crisis of the confederacy: a history of Gettysburg and the Wilderness. $5. Longmans.

“This volume is substantially a history of the American civil war, though special attention is given to the Gettysburg campaign (June 27th-July 14th, 1863), and to Grant’s operations in the Wilderness in May and June, 1864.... The story of years of serious fighting is compressed into something less than four hundred pages. Then comes a chapter in which the lessons of the war are drawn in a very instructive way.” (Spec.) There are six maps in the book, and a colored frontispiece showing the battle flags of the confederacy.

“Captain Battine has done faithful and able work in his book, and it must remain a permanent contribution to the history of the crisis of the Confederacy.” J. P. S.

“If he has nothing very new to say on the subject, he has the gift of writing a clear narrative. Would be improved by a better index and by more references to authorities.”

“Capt. Battine tries to be fair, and is on the whole.”

“Excellently lucid narrative. Our readers can hardly find a more satisfactory narrative, with so much matter in so moderate a space.”

Battle of Maldon, and short poems from the Saxon chronicle, ed. by Walter John Sedgefield. 40c. Heath.

A volume in section I. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The text of The battle of Maldon has been collated with Hearne’s transcript of the lost Cotton MS. and the variants noted. Notes, bibliography and glossary are provided.

Bauer, G. Marine engines and boilers; their design and construction: a handbook for the use of students, engineers and naval constructors, based on the work, “Berechnung und konstruktion der schiffsmachinen und kessel.” *$9. Henley.

“The work as a whole is divided into eight parts.... Part 1. deals with the main engine.... Part 2. deals with pumps.... Part 3 takes up shafting, resistance of ships and propulsion.... Part 4. treats of piping and connections.... Part 5. deals with steam boilers.... Part 6. is occupied with measuring instruments.... Part 7. deals with various details.... Part 8. comprises a large collection of tables and tabular matter.... Illustrative material has also been most generously furnished.”—Engin. N.

“This work constitutes an addition of the highest value to the available literature on the subject.” W. F. Durand.

“The book has been excellently and competently translated. The general arrangement of the book is convenient.”

Baum, Lyman Frank. Queen Zixi of Ix. †$1.50. Century.

Printed in large type, which will attract child readers, and profusely illustrated in color by Frederick Richardson, this story of the magic cloak which gave to each of its wearers the fulfilment of one wish will delight all who read about the fairy-folk, the witch queen, Bud, the little boy who became king of Noland, his charming sister, the invading Roly-rogues, Aunt Rivette, who wished for wings and got them, and all the rest.

* “Is more of real fairy-tale than the ‘Wizard’ but just as delightful.”

“It bids fair to be a popular holiday book for children.”

* Bayliss, Sir Wyke. Seven angels of the renascence. **$3.50. Pott.

“The ‘Angels,’ or messengers, are: Cimabue, Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Titian, Raphael, Correggio and Claude. The author opens his book where his earlier volume, ‘Likeness of Christ Rex Regum,’ closed.... Each chapter has prefixed to it a portrait of the artist discussed, with a facsimile of his signature. The other illustrations (all are, by the way, in half-tone) are reproductions of some of the works of the masters.”—N. Y. Times.

* “It is also a pity that he clings to convention and regards Cimabue as ‘the first painter of the renaissance,’ when that honor rightly belongs to Giotto.”

24Bayly, Elizabeth Boyd. Under the she-oaks. †$1.25. Union press.

Opening with a bushman’s hut and ending with a heaven sent rain which delivers the parched country from the great drought, this love story of Australia tells of the hardships which the gently-bred English gallantly encounter in that new country, where the wind wails drearily thru the long spines of the she-oaks.

Beach, Rex Ellingwood. Pardners. †$1.50. McClure.

Ten stories of life in Alaska and the West, including besides the title story, The test, North of forty-three, The scourge, The shyness of Shorty, The thaw at Silsco’s and others.

“There is no faint-hearted mincing of words in them, the pictures they present are sometimes repulsive, but always virile.”

“Strenuous tales of the wild West and the frozen North, ranging from the grimly tragic to the grimly humorous.”

* Beach, Seth Curtis. Daughters of the Puritans. *$1.10. Am. Unitar.

The group of women whose biographies are sketched here includes Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Mary Lovell Ware, Lydia Maria Child, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Alcott.

* “In writing about them, therefore, the author assumes a frankly New England point of view, judges men, women, and things by New England standards, and takes all his saints seriously.”

Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, earl of. Endymion; with a critical introd. on his writings by Edmund Gosse. $1.50. Cambridge soc., 135 5th av., N. Y.

“In ‘Endymion’ ... the hand of the author has dealt with matters with which he was more than familiar, the political complications and developments of the thirties and forties of the last century. It is in reality an autobiography, and the figures which move through the varied scenes of the story are thinly disguised personages of high rank and great importance.”—Pub. Opin.

“Despite its priggish tone and frequent sneers, the book has a human quality which is likely to give it a life that even the great fame of its author could not have assured it had those qualities been wanting.”

Beale, Joseph Henry, jr. Law of foreign corporations and taxation of corporations both foreign and domestic. sh. *$6. W: J. Nagel, 6 Ashburton place, Boston.

“In this country alone of great modern commonwealths, every state jurisdiction is a ‘foreign’ jurisdiction in every other state; and every corporation chartered by one state is a foreign corporation in every other.... It is made more complicated still by the concurrent existence of still a third (federal) jurisdiction.... The subject of taxation is naturally involved.... The author has devoted considerable space to the statutory provisions of states and territories, as well as of Great Britain and Canada.”—Nation.

“There is, we believe, no other which covers the field explored by Mr. Beale, to the exclusion of other topics, and this fact alone would make the work professionally important.”

Beard, Lina, and Beard, Adelia. Indoor and outdoor handicraft and recreation for girls. **$1.60. Scribner.

“When the eye and hand can be trained, the mind informed, and the child at the same time entertained, a needed work is indeed being accomplished; and in ‘Handicraft and recreation for girls,’ the parents will find a valuable aid in accomplishing this triple task. The first half of the volume ... is devoted to the handicrafts. Here the most explicit directions are given for spinning, weaving, ... as well as for making complete miniature copies of a Japanese village, a Russian village, an Indian village and an old colonial kitchen.... Besides these there are numerous suggestions for the very tiny folk.... The second half ... contains many delightful suggestions for Easter and Hallowe’en games as well as for simple amusements for very small children.”—Arena.

“All the directions in the book are so detailed and simple, and the illustrations are so copious that the work is far more valuable than many similar volumes. One would search far to find a book of this kind so varied in its interests and so clear and explicit in its practical directions.” Amy C. Rich.

Beardsley, Aubrey. Last letters of Aubrey Beardsley: with an introductory note by the Rev. John Gray. *$1.50. Longmans.

“A series of notes and letters written by Aubrey Beardsley during the last three years of his life.”—N. Y. Times.

“In a sketchy way, these indicate something of the writer’s mind and tastes.”

“Altogether the book seems to throw some light on the artistic temperament in general, as well as upon the character and ways of thought of the young artist. For all that, it is quite impossible to see how the inclusion of many of the utterly trivial notes of thanks or regret adds to the light the book affords, and the trouble is that such idle conclusions are apt to make the reader scoff at the rest, much of which is not matter for scoffing.”

“These letters are interesting as throwing side-lights upon that remarkably sensitive, artistic soul.”

Becke, (George) Louis. Tom Gerrard. †$1.50. Lippincott.

A series of episodes in the life of an Australian stockman who, after many and varied misfortunes, finds happiness thru a lovely girl whom he has rescued from an alligator. The setting is Queensland, and there is much local color.

“His new manner, because of its inequality, is inferior to the old: here and there he climbs almost to the heights; a moment later he has fallen into the mud of the ridiculous.”

“If his people are stereotyped, the incidents of Mr. Becke’s tale are numerous, and mostly picturesque.”

“The story contains the usual Australian elements of interest.”

“But for the local colour, in fact, the novel would be entirely commonplace.”

Becke, Louis. Under tropic skies. †$1.50. Lippincott.

“Mr. Becke, like Mr. Kipling, Mr. Lafcadio Hearn, Mr. Norman Duncan, and some few other 25fortunate ones in this generation, discovered a new corner of the earth with which he had a special talent for making the rest of mankind acquainted.... His element is, without doubt, the throwing of just such flashlights upon the far Paumotos, the Carolines, Fiji, and other fascinating dots in the Pacific solitudes as fill the pages of the volume which is called ‘Under tropic skies.’”—N. Y. Times.

“Has returned to the writing of those delightful sketches of life in the remote islands of the South Pacific that first brought him into favorable notice. But one cannot read through to the end of this volume without coming to the conclusion that Mr. Becke still writes very good stories, that his store of incidents is simply enormous, and that he knows the South Sea Islands—natives, traders, and all their ways, past and present. He makes us know them too.”

Beebe, C. William. Two bird-lovers in Mexico. **$3. Houghton.

These two bird-lovers, the writer and his wife, spent a winter camping in the Mexican interior and here they found not only birds, but mammals, insects, flowers, and scenery worth observing. This record of the things they saw includes ornithological information, new material upon the food-habits of the Mexican species, and also incidents of travel and camp life and glimpses of the natives whom they met while “roughing it.”

* “His observations and his pictures will be of great value to the scientist as well as a pleasure to the untrained reader.” May Estelle Cook.

“He has aimed at an interesting running narrative and commentary, rather than an exhaustive study. He may justly be proud of the information gathered on the habits of birds.”

“The whole story is told with much good humor and with evident enthusiasm.”

Beecher, Willis Judson. Prophets and the promise. **$2. Crowell.

The substance of this theological text-book is that of the lectures delivered by the author 1902-03 on the L. P. Stone foundation in the Princeton theological seminary. It presents a scholarly study of the prophets of the Old Testament and their messages relating to the coming of the Messiah. The author has searched for the truth unhampered by considerations of the orthodoxy of the results; but he feels that the truth as he found it while it contains some new elements is “simply the old orthodoxy, to some extent transposed into the forms of modern thought.”

“The point of view is essentially conservative.”

“Among recent books adverse to the modern critical view of the Old Testament, Dr. Beecher’s work has the rare and distinctive merit of commanding the respect of the critics whom he opposes.”

* Beeson, Rebecca Katharine, comp. Child’s calendar beautiful. $1. Burt-Terry-Wilson co., La Fayette, Ind.

A collection of poems and prose selections to be memorized by children. The selections are arranged to cover the eight years of the grammar school course and each of these years is divided into months beginning with the first school month, September. This arrangement makes the book ideal for a teacher’s use. The selections are not only appropriate to the time of year but they include the thoughts of our best English writers upon subjects which appeal to the child’s patriotism, love of nature, human sympathy, and ideals.

Beldam, George W., and Fry, Charles B. Great batsmen: their methods at a glance. *$6.50. Macmillan.

A series of six hundred instantaneous photographs illustrating the stages by which the best cricket batsmen make their most characteristic strokes.

“It is the most scientific work and the most practical work on batting that has yet appeared, a combination of example and precept which could not be bettered.”

* “An intensely interesting book, and it will be found invaluable by all who are concerned with the higher philosophy of cricket.”

“The cricketers of the future, when the present giants of the game are but memories, may find in Mr. Beldam’s marvellous photographs and Mr. Fry’s concise and lucid descriptions much fascination.”

* “The book is full of a great variety of most interesting and instructive points.” C. G. K.

Beldam, George W., and Vaile, P. A. Great lawn-tennis players. *$4. Macmillan.

A book of action photographs illustrating the positions taken by players for particular strokes, with comments by Mr. Vaile, who calls attention to their good or bad points. There is a chapter on “advanced tactics of the single game,” by Mr. E. G. Meers, and one upon “The half-volley,” by Mr. C. A. Caridia.

“Mr. Vaile can play lawn-tennis and can talk about it, but he certainly cannot write. However, Mr. Beldam’s photographs make an excellent album.”

* “The book is in fact spoilt by the text.”

“Valuable contribution to the literature of lawn tennis. The lawn tennis reader will find, therefore, much to think over in these pages, and particular attention is drawn to the first chapter, in which the racket, per se, and the methods of holding it are discussed.”

Bell, Archie. Scarlet repentance. 50c. Broadway pub.

A beautiful Italian woman plays upon the weakness of a young American whom she meets in a sleeping car in the Rockies, “where the mountains cover their sins.” They spend one day at Banff together, a day in which the young man learns much, and, having eaten of this tree of good and evil, he returns to the East where, at the written command of the woman he has left, he confesses all to his innocent young fiancee, and receives her forgiveness and, incidentally, an Italian estate.

Bell, John Joy. Mr. Pennycook’s boy, and other stories, †$1.25. Harper.

A dozen short stories of Scottish child life. Wee Macgreegor himself reappears in this volume, and there are others as wee and canny as he.

“They are very good stories of their kind—informed by the appropriate sentiment and not too much obscured by dialect—humorous also in the sad Scottish fashion of humor.”

“The undercurrent of tenderness serves to bring out in higher relief the sometimes unconscious humor of the sketches.”

“It would be difficult to find a volume more refreshing than ‘Mr. Pennycook’s boy.’”

26Bell, Lilian Lida. At home with the Jardines. †$1.50. Page.

“In this volume the heroine of ... ‘Abroad with the Jimmies’ appears in the role of a young matron seeking to establish a home in New York city. The efforts of herself and her husband to secure ... peace and quiet amid the vicissitudes of flat-life in the great metropolis prove so futile that at last they conceive the idea of withdrawing to a beautiful little town on the Hudson, where they find a delightful old-fashioned house which they transform into an ideal country home.”—Arena.

“The book is written in a bright, breezy style and abounds in humorous situations. It is just the volume for an idle summer afternoon.” Amy C. Rich.

Bell, Malcolm. Sir Edward Burne-Jones. $1.25. Warne.

A volume in the “Newnes’ art library.” The book contains a tinted half-tone frontispiece and fifty-seven plates in black and white illustrating Burne-Jones’ work. There is an introductory essay by Malcolm Bell, who describes the pictures and tells of the artist’s struggles for public recognition.

“In his undoubtedly triumphant accomplishment of the difficult task of writing with freshness on a subject he has already treated exhaustively, the author ... assumes, perhaps, rather too much knowledge on the part of his readers. But for this small drawback, ... the brief account of the prolific artist must satisfy his most ardent admirers.”

“... Ten page preface, lightly but clearly, sketching his life and work.”

“As the text is the work of Mr. Malcolm Bell, however, it bears the marks of the same authority and illumination which we find in his other and larger volumes. The execution of the illustrations is of rather unequal merit, but they are well chosen and are deeply interesting.”

Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs Arthur Bell) (D’Anvers, pseud.). Paolo Veronese. $1.25. Warne.

An addition to the “Newnes’ art library.” The volume contains a sketch of Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, and his works, a list of his paintings and their present locations, and sixty-four illustrations in half-tone, reproduced from photographs.

“Here the introduction by Mrs. Bell is clear and direct. The half-tones do not average as well as in other volumes.”

“Is typical of that writer’s clear insight into the salient characteristics of the painter.”

“This text is much above the average of these publications, and gives some real idea of the range and force of Paolo’s genius, though Mrs. Bell seems entirely to have missed the humor of the artist’s defence of himself before the Inquisition, and to sympathize altogether with the inquisitors.”

“Interesting text. We could wish that the many illustrations in the present volume were more adequate in quality.”

Bell, Nancy R. E. Meugens (Mrs. Arthur Bell) (N. D’Anvers, pseud.) Tintoretto, bds. $1.25. Warne.

About sixty illustrations well reproduced, with an introductory essay on the painter and his work.

“In the introductory essay Mrs. Arthur Bell, from her extensive knowledge of Italian painting, throws much light on the surroundings of the painter, giving, by her interesting way of writing, a chapter which adds greatly to the value of the book.”

“The text is of no value.”

Belloc, Hilaire. Emmanuel Burden, †$1.50. Scribner.

The days of Butler and his memorial “Hudibras” are suggested thruout Mr. Belloc’s brilliant satire with its exaggerated gravity. It satirizes the speculative methods developed by the modern imperialistic movement in England. “No small part of the humor of his satire lies in its travesty of many contemporary biographies, in which the values of small incidents is greatly exaggerated, uninteresting details of family are furnished, and insignificant pedigrees traced back as if they led to royal sources.” (Outlook).

“Mr. Belloc has drawn his characters with a delicate irony.”

“No piece of social and political satire was ever more elaborately worked out in each incident, reference and detail, even to the titles of the amusing pencil sketches.”

“A brilliantly written satire. An Englishman would appreciate the satire much more than an American, because of more intimate knowledge of the conditions with which it deals; but the story is sufficiently distinct in its satirical outlines to make the purpose of the author clear to an American reader and to give the story, for an American, interest.”

Bennet, Robert Ames. For the white Christ; a story of the days of Charlemagne. $1.50. McClurg.

Oliver the northman, and his foster brother, Roland, are the heroes of this dramatic story, which is filled with stirring scenes and wartime adventures. The Danes, joining with the Franks in their cry of “Christ and the king,” repulse the Saracens; and Oliver, by his chivalrous daring, wins King Karl’s daughter, in spite of the beautiful and wicked Fastrada, who, by means of spells and poisons, succeeds in making herself a queen. It is a story true to those rough times in all details, and is an old time romance rather than an historical novel.

“The author has taken pains over his work, and should content readers who enjoy that kind of fare. The delineation of character is conventional. A defect ... is the tendency to force the heroic note too insistently.”

“All this portentous historical material, blended with much intrigue and passion, together with some of the gentler elements of romance, is skilfully brought into a tale of much action and dramatic vigor, couched in language that makes a fair pretense of archaism (of the conventional type, naturally), and brought to a satisfactory issue.” Wm. Morton Payne.

“This story is somewhat high-flown and super-romantic in style, but its intensity is not without dramatic force.”

“He has covered dry bones with rosy flesh.”

Benson, Allan L. Socialism made plain. Social Democratic publishing company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“A simple explanation of the principles of socialism as advocated by American socialists—a work suited for the busy man on the farm, in 27the shop, the factory and the store, who has little time to give to abstract treatises.... This work contains fifteen chapters” in which “the various phases of socialism are so elucidated as to be easily grasped by the individual.”—Arena.

“The treatment of the subject is so admirable that we take pleasure in recommending it to our readers.” Amy C. Rich.

Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.). Life of Edward FitzGerald. **75c. Macmillan.

A volume recently added to the “English men of letters” series. The life of the man known to the world mainly thru his “Omar Khayyám” is a “fair subject of public discussion, not only because he was a poet of special charm and fineness, but also because he was a peculiarly interesting specimen of human nature.” (Outlook.)

“Mr. Benson has analyzed the mind of FitzGerald with rare penetration.”

“Mr. Benson has perhaps made of the brief biography required by the scheme of this series all that could be made of it.”

“Mr. A. C. Benson was a capital choice for the writing of this book. Not only is he sympathetic with FitzGerald, but he is a delightful writer.” Jeanette L. Gilder.

“This new life of FitzGerald ... meets no crying need. The literary strictures, however just, seem not exactly called for in ‘Old Fitz’s’ case; and all else is a twice-told tale.”

“The biographical sketch and general characterization are excellent, the specific criticisms of FitzGerald’s writings sound and fair.”

“If he is not quite a satisfying biographer, he is certainly a satisfying editor, and often a very clever commentator upon FitzGerald’s literary achievements.”

“Mr. Benson’s book will be found to contain all that any reader needs to know about FitzGerald, and it is an excellent cheap substitute for those who cannot afford Mr. Wright’s massive illustrated volumes.”

“His treatment on the whole, scarcely touches us with quite that personal and affectionate feeling for FitzGerald that doubtless most of us have involuntarily formed.”

“A literary portrait simple and direct in its method of treatment, but full of expression and character.”

“Mr. Benson sets forth very clearly and succinctly the noteworthy facts in a career that was decidedly lacking in the spectacular, whatever may be said of its deeper notes.”

“We do not of course deny to Mr. Benson’s work such merits as may always be found in his biographical efforts—care in the weighing of facts, an educated taste, and a practised hand in the manipulation of phrases.”

“He has marshalled the facts which are already known with considerable skill; he has criticised FitzGerald’s few works with sound judgment and surprising moderation.”

Benson, Arthur Christopher (Christopher Carr, pseud.). Peace and other poems. *$1.50. Lane.

“Mr. Benson’s verse resembles Matthew Arnold’s not only in its culture, but in its gentle brooding over the dark and mysterious facts of life, and in the strong resolution which confronts the mischances of human experience.... Most of the poems in this volume [about forty in number] record Mr. Benson’s own reflections upon nature and life.”—Forum.

“The longer poems as a rule are the most successful, elegy and not epigram being Mr. Benson’s forte.”

“Tender, sincere, and refined, Mr. Benson’s verse appeals to our highest spiritual nature, and delivers its message with persuasive grace.” Wm. M. Payne.

“Mr. Benson’s verse resembles Matthew Arnold’s: there is in it a warmth of sympathy redeeming it from austerity and even imparting to it a tone of friendliness and geniality.” Herbert W. Horwill.

“Mr. Benson maintains a deliberately chosen level of good verse. He is always correct, always perfectly plain.”

“Maintains the even comfortable level of his earlier books.”

Benson, Edward Frederic. Act in a backwater. $1.50. Appleton.

“Mr. Benson has given us a slight but pleasing study of life in a small cathedral town. The brother and sister of a poor nobleman settle there, and introduce a novel element into the placid life of the place which gives many opportunities for comedy. The son of a canon, an artist, and therefore a rebel against the tyranny of the close, falls in love with the sister, and the progress of their romance is the main interest of the book.”—Spec.

“All this has the makings of a capital light comedy, which no one could have done better than Mr. Benson. But for some obscure reason he has seen fit to introduce episodes entirely out of all harmony that ruin his effect. They give the impression of heartlessness and, what is worse, are bad art.”

“A flat little story without construction or sustained interest.”

“As an example, not of Mr. Benson’s power, but of his wit, cleverness, and knowledge of human nature, ‘An act in a backwater’ is a delightful bit of work.”

“It has some pleasant bits of human nature and one or two lovable characters, but, considered as a novel, it is wretchedly constructed.”

“A novel which starts out admirably and ends in sheer vacuity.”

“It is a pleasant, wholesome story.”

Benson, Edward Frederic. Image in the sand. †$1.50. Lippincott.

A love story dealing with the occult. “It is in fact the old story of the struggle between the powers of light and darkness, the black magic and the white for the possession of a girl’s soul—a Faust legend in effect, or its parallel expressed in terms of ancient and modern occultism.” (Acad.)

“The climax, itself, however, the struggle of Ida’s friends and household with the demoniac, has a vivid force, and, if the tale is to stand by its power to conjure up horror, Mr. Benson must be credited with a considerable success in a difficult ‘genre.’ His detail is effective, his society sketches are admirable.”

“The story is carefully conceived and well written, and with excellent restraint. Mr. Benson 28wanted to ‘make our flesh creep,’ and he has not.”

“That he has failed ludicrously, pathetically, merely marks his limitations by proclaiming his total innocence of the one quality that would make success possible. The machinery of the story is clumsy, its progress slow, and its conclusion an absurd evasion of whatever problem might conceivably be raised. Whether from carelessness or sheer ignorance, the book is a storehouse of weak, awkward, slovenly writing.” Edward Clark Marsh.

“The reason why Mr. Benson has not succeeded better is that he lets us too much behind the scenes.”

“In the would-be serious parts the author carries no conviction, and in lighter passages he is far below his own best level.”

“The quiet, intense conviction of Mr. Benson’s pages cannot fail entirely of a certain impressiveness.”

“This tale is cleverly written, but disappointing.”

“His quick, vivacious talent is not well adapted for a tale of intangible mystery, which wants an atmosphere beyond Mr. Benson’s powers. The second part of the story would be convincing and powerful were the reader properly impressed by the first.”

Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh. By what authority? *$1.60. imp. Benziger.

“Mr. Benson, after making an effort at religious impartiality, abandons the attempt, and frankly turns his novel into a Roman Catholic historical pamphlet.... [He] takes for his subject the religious persecutions of the Roman Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth.... The greater part of the novel is occupied by theological discussions.... Mr. Benson has a gift of word-painting which enables him to give vividly lifelike pictures of the court of Elizabeth, and particularly of the queen herself.”—Spec.

“Is an unusually fine piece of work. In fact we regard it as one of the most excellent Catholic stories that we possess in English, and by far the best that has appeared for a long time.”

“On the whole, the book is well worth reading, though spoilt, if judged from the standpoint of a work of fiction, by the intrusion of too much theology.”

Benton, Josiah H. Notable libel case: the criminal prosecution of Theodore Lyman, jr., by Daniel Webster, in the Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, November term, 1828. **$3.50. Goodspeed.

“The trial here described was on an indictment alleging that Lyman had charged Webster with having conspired with other leading Federalists in 1807-‘08 to break up the union on account of the Embargo acts, and to re-annex the New England states to the mother country.” (Dial). The case was submitted to the grand jury in the supreme judicial court, and an indictment returned. It was then tried with the result that the jury disagreed, and when the solicitor-general proclaimed that every resource had been exhausted, the case was dropped. The trial, based as it was upon political rather than personal motives, did not disturb the relation of friendship between the two men.

“The history of the episode is well worked out by Mr. Benton, and the letters and other documentary materials are so skillfully employed in the text that the story almost tells itself from the records.”

Berenson, Bernard. Lorenzo Lotto: an essay on constructive art criticism. *$2.50. Macmillan.

A reprint of a book which was first published ten years ago. It catalogs and describes Lotto’s paintings and attempts to present the man, Lotto, altho there is little material available for his re-construction. There are a large number of full-page reproductions of Lotto’s works.

“A model of systematic investigation.”

Bernheimer, Charles Seligman, ed. Russian Jew in the United States: studies of social conditions in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, with a description of rural settlements. **$2. Winston.

A series of papers contributed by well-known Jewish writers who “present the rise and development of the Russian Jews who have come to the United States during the past twenty-odd years, to show the qualities they brought with them, to present the facts as to their adjustment to the conditions here, and to look a little into the future.”

“The manner of presentation of the papers is not uniformly happy, and for the whole we wish for a specific statement of dates. In spite of this, however, Dr. Bernheimer has undoubtedly done a service in bringing out this book. Considering its structure, he is to be congratulated on having it so free of injudicious statements and as complete as it is in the important matter on this serious subject of the assimilation of so alien a people.” Walter E. Kruesi.

“It is a splendid argument for the Jew.”

* “Naturally, the authors speak from the inside, and as each deals with conditions which have come within his own observation and experience, there is a variety of intimate information not easily obtainable by alien investigators.”

* Bernstein, Hermann. Contrite hearts. †$1.25. Wessels.

The life of a group of Russian Jews is here pictured in a fashion simple to the point of crudeness. The two daughters of the orthodox cantor, Isroel Lambert, follow their own hearts and become outcasts from both the faith and the home of their father. Later, contrite in heart and chastened in spirit, they are reunited with him in America. Thruout the book strict observance of Jewish rites seems to bring a happiness denied to those who merely love.

Berry, Charles William. Temperature-entropy diagram. $1.25. Wiley.

“Mr. Berry’s book ... presupposes a knowledge of thermodynamics, also of the working and behavior of the various kinds of heat engines, ... it ... is divided into twelve chapters. The first chapter treats of reversible processes and cycles, and in the following eleven chapters the T Phi diagram is applied to the following processes and engines: perfect gases, saturated steam, superheated vapors, the flow of fluids, hot-air engines, the liquefaction of gases, compressors and refrigeration, the actual steam-engine cycle as recorded by the indicator.”—Engin. N.

29“The book is very clearly written. The author has covered quite an extensive field, and on the whole he has done it very well.” Storm Bull.

Berton, Guy. Art thou the man? †$1.50. Dodd.

A Denver murderer who daintily strangles a trio of women and in each case leaves behind thirteen carnations as a clue is sought thruout this detective story. The adventures of a “cub reporter” who becomes involved in the search, the clearing of an innocent man by a skilful lawyer who holds a mob at bay to protect his client, and the influence of Elise, the wicked and beautiful woman of the French quarter, are vividly drawn.

“The gloom is not lightened by any gleam of humor, but the style has the force which comes from a lurid intensity of feeling.”

“Local color has been laid on here in great crimson splashes.”

“A rather clever detective story couched in somewhat overwrought language.”

“The tale is lacking in action, compactness, and sequence.”

“Lacks neither freshness nor power.”

Bertouch, Beatrice, Baroness de. Life of Father Ignatius, O. S. B. *$3. Dutton.

The life of this “devout but pugnacious Anglican monk” is interwoven with questions of church doctrine and church union so as to represent an episode in church history. His biographer reveals him as “a son of thunder,” “magnificently human,” and with an “oceanic personality.”

“Will be received with grains by those not of the fold.”

“The story of his life is a curious episode in the history of the modern church, an interesting study for the psychologist, and an instructive commentary on the worth of a formal sort of church union that is too much thought of.”

“A book which, so far as it is a narrative of facts and an exposition of opinions, has an unquestionable interest. It, too, answers in its way the question about the Anglican ideal. The author has a copious vocabulary of slang, but cannot write English.”

Besant, Walter. London in the time of the Tudors. *$7.50. Macmillan.

“The gravitating point in this great historical period lay principally in London.... As London was England to so large an extent, we are naturally curious to learn all that we can about the city at that interesting period. The late Sir Walter Besant’s quarto volume on ‘London in the time of the Tudors’ goes far towards gratifying our curiosity. It is in the same sumptuous form as the same author’s ‘London in the eighteenth century’.... The illustrations are for the most part reproductions of contemporary prints; chief among them is a panorama of the city, extending over three double pages of the book, originally drawn by Anthony Van den Wyngaerde, in 1543, well illustrating the map folded into the cover, embracing 12 pages, and being a reduced reproduction of Ralph Agas’s map of about 1560.”—Dial.

“Work is rightly called a survey. It is not a history; it is not a story. It is especially happy in its accounts of how people lived and dressed, what they ate and drank, what customs they pursued at their weddings and at the burial of their dead,—from the king and queen down to ‘prentice. The author has drawn largely upon contemporary authors.” Arthur Howard Noll.

Best, Kenelm Digby. Rosa mystica: the fifteen mysteries of the most holy rosary, and other joys, sorrows and glories of Mary. *$6. Herder.

A book written in honor of the Immaculate conception jubilee. It is illustrated with 46 full-page illustrations, copies of the rosary frescoes of Giovanni di San Giovanni and other artists.

“It contains nothing fresh, original, or thoughtful that we have discovered. Its occasional references to history are grotesquely false: its theology is often repulsively extravagant; and its general method and spirit make it impossible for intelligent people to read it with either profit or patience.”

Bevan, Edwyn Robert. Jerusalem under the high priests. $2.50. Longmans.

Five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament. “Into his attractive narrative of political events Mr. Bevan weaves a sketch of the development of Jewish thought, including therein notices of the Book of Daniel and of all the great Apocryphal works of the time except the Wisdom of Solomon.... One of the most noteworthy works of the period is Ben-Sira or Ecclesiasticus.... Mr. Bevan’s account of the book is full and interesting. He properly devotes much space to the invasion of Jewish society by Hellenism, including the attempt of Antiochus Epiphanes to Hellenize his realm.... Other important points forcibly brought out are: the character of Judas Maccabæus, the results of the Hasmonean rule, the conflicts between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the policy and character of Herod. The volume is provided with an index and tables of the Hasmoneans and the Seleucids.”—Am. Hist. R.

“Mr. Bevan’s picture of the period, while popular in style, is thorough and accurate in matter.” C. H. Toy.

“The style is clear and sympathetic, and occasionally even brilliant. The topics dealt with by Mr. Bevan are so successfully worked out that we should have liked to see the book enlarged so as to embrace other pertinent points as well.”

“It is not a comprehensive work; but a scholar who knows a period of history deeply and scientifically, can put a great deal of information into a small book. And beyond doubt, Mr. Bevan’s acquaintance with his subject is thorough and methodical. We only regret that he did not add a little bibliographical detail to his interesting pages.”

“The author has certainly succeeded in his purpose of giving ‘in a few strokes the general outline and colour’ of the period.” G. B. G.

Beveridge, Albert J. Young man and the world. **$1.50. Appleton.

“The young Indiana senator writes of young men from the point of view of a young man who has found success coming his way. These papers are collected from the periodical in which they first appeared.... Learn your limitations, and start out in the direction for which you are fitted, is his first suggestion. Also keep working, and working hard, and don’t worry. Read, and mingle with people, and cultivate nature. Take vacations. Courage, nerve, faith in one’s self are necessary. Mr. Beveridge has given a great deal of good advice that ... will stimulate and help to strengthen.”—N. Y. Times.

* “It is all on good, safe, and sound commonplace ground.”